Author's Notes: I've already wanted to write something like this, from the viewpoint of someone else other than the Powerpuff Girls and what their actions would look like from another perspective.
Chapter 1
No Way Out
The city of Townsville... is under attack!
For everyone else, it was another day in the life. A fearsome monster attack for the town and a challenge as far as the Powerpuff Girls were concerned. For the beings who were buried underneath the remains of a ruined building however, it was the most terrifying thing they had ever experienced in their existence.
They were partially trapped, and partially hidden, stuck in the rubble of a decimated office building. If it weren't for their tiny bodies, they could've been much more badly injured. Probably even killed, ending their story prematurely. For now they were surrounded by darkness, having none of their sight and only a bit of their hearing.
From the sounds they could hear now, there was nothing less than sheer pandemonium going on outside. People screaming out in the streets. Monsters screeching over those shrieks. It was enough to blow anyone else's eardrums out. The intensity of those roars, the ground shaking with their every step. Buildings being crushed and destroyed along with pavement being ripped straight out of the ground. Some of that was causing their already precarious position of safety to start to further crumble apart around them. They could only hope that this structure held out instead of collapsing. Otherwise their chances of survival pretty much plummeted down to zero.
They just wanted all of this to be over. They just wanted to go home. Hopefully their mothers and fathers would be strong enough to survive all this and come back to them. They'd give anything just to be in the warm, safe embrace of their parents again.
"Don't try to move." A little boy whispered to another, covering the child's body with his own as he pressed him down into the floor. A floor that could weaken and fall through at any moment. The boy on the bottom felt himself tear up with fear. "And be very, very quiet."
This order became even more important to follow when they all heard another sound. A sharp movement through the air... an almost futuristic sound. If that was who they thought it was...
"Hold it right there, you horrible monsters!" The authoritative voice of Blossom cried out. "How dare you terrorize all these people and threaten the safety of our city and home?!"
Yes, it was them. The Powerpuff Girls.
"They sure are ugly!" The voice of Buttercup said. "Let's give all these freaks a good pounding!"
"Hey, I've seen all these kind before!" Bubbles giggled, the nostalgia giving her a wide smile.
The pterodactyl was here, the octopus, and the creature with the one horn and the arms ending in sharp pincers. There was also the scaly giant with the single eye in its chest and the large pink monster with bug eyes and tentacles. Yes, it was all the same as the monsters at level 12 in the Training Room back at home. Only this wasn't a simulation. This was all going on for real. Time to put those skills she'd spent so much time honing to the test!
"This is gonna be a piece of cake! Let's get 'em girls!"
A battle of epic proportions ensued, something that none of the terrified children held inside the pulverized office building could see. They could hear the sounds of it though. The sounds of casual, graphic slaughter. They huddled closer together and tried to block out the noises of murder, their ears being so sensitive that they could pick up every detail. The rest was left up to their imagination, but there were some things that came through clearer than others. The sounds of large, breaking bones, and absolutely colossal things being torn off of otherwise tough and impenetrable bodies. The sound of meat and blood alike being ripped apart like it was nothing and dying howls of those who had met a particularly grisly fate.
After a while they were jostled around a second time but the thud of bodies that had to at least weigh a ton crashing down into the Earth, nearly causing a force that was equivalent to a massive earthquake. They didn't know if it was better or worse when an eerie sort of tranquility followed.
No more sounds of superpowered punches or kicks, energy beams or attacks. There was also no more signs of life from monsters. There were no growls, snarls, screeches, or roars. There was absolutely nothing but a complete, devastating silence. The children didn't dare move, let alone breathe. They shook very fearfully, but otherwise gave no indication of their possible location.
"Man!" They heard the green Powerpuff Girl say. "That sure was a workout! Barely broke a sweat though. Easy as always."
"Yeah, I bet it's easy when you've got all of us backing you up!" Blossom teased. "I bet you wouldn't have all that courage if it was you vs. all of those monsters alone!"
"Puh-lease!" Buttercup boasted. "I could beat all their butts in my sleep!"
"At least we didn't get any yucky stuff all over us this time!" Bubbles said gratefully. "Other times things can get pretty messy."
The children had a good idea of what all that "yucky stuff" could most likely consist of, and the gruesome mental image made them all whimper pitifully.
"So," Buttercup asked casually. "You think we got 'em all?"
"Probably." Blossom surmised. "But you can never be too careful. Sometimes there's something that can come out and surprise us at the last second."
There was another tense moment of silence before she spoke up and said, "Tell you what, girls. Why don't you guys go on and look for possible survivors while I stay here and start to clean up all this mess?"
Buttercup made an unseen salute. "Got it, leader girl."
"Sounds fine and dandy to me!" Bubbles likewise cheerily agreed.
The children in the darkness started to breathe a little harder, their hearts pumping loudly with their bodies shivering nearly out of control. They wondered how good those girls' senses were. Were their noses strong enough to detect the pheromones of their fear? Could they see the color of their body heat with those freakishly large eyes? Would they be able to hear how softly they were whimpering or even how hard their hearts were beating right about now?
Whatever you do, the children thought, just don't look inside of here. They had no way to move to a different location right now. No way to save their own skins. Then again, there were so many structures of similar damage. Perhaps this one wouldn't be of any particular interest? Just like trying to find a needle in a haystack, it wouldn't necessarily be easy to pick the one building they thought held more than rocks and rubble from the resulting destruction to the city.
So lost were they in these thoughts that they almost didn't hear the Powerpuff Girl leader Blossom Utonium hover dangerously close to their only lightly covered location. Sure, they were all being covered by giant slabs of steel reinforced concrete but what was something like that to the might of a Powerpuff Girl?
They heard her click her tongue. She let out a light laugh. "Thank goodness we've got folks like Mr. Anoush. He makes sure all these buildings in Townsville are insured against damage. Good thing all these people evacuated first too. If anybody were to get trapped down here I'd-"
Just then she heard what she thought was the faintest whimpering sound. It nearly sounded like a mewl from a kitten, it was so soft and weak. One of the children had let out a pitiful sound of distress at exactly the wrong moment, and even though a child nearby slapped an appendage over his mouth, the damage had already been done.
Blossom had just been about to leave too, until she heard that. It was so utterly soft, there was a good chance she may've simply been mistaken. But since there was always the possibility (however unfortunate) of people being trapped, she decided not to take the risk of being right.
She dropped down further into the abandoned, ruined office building and called out amongst the mangled remains of the building, "Excuse me! Is anyone still in here?!"
The children all desperately covered their mouths, subconsciously shook their heads no (for all the good that it would do) and did their best to press themselves even further against the ground.
Blossom put a hand to her ear, listening very closely, and then said, "I can hear you! I can hear you breathing, okay?"
She could hear them breathing? If her hearing was that good, then it truly was all over. Tears leaked out of very scared, very wide, multiple eyes.
"Don't worry!" She shouted reassuringly. "I can find you by following the sound of your breathing!"
Even though things looked bad, they prayed that she would at least get their exact location wrong. That it would be difficult for her to find them without them giving her any more verbal cues beyond them simply breathing.
Unfortunately the sound of jostling rock above them quickly dashed these hopes.
"Are you underneath these rocks?!" Blossom bellowed. "I can lift all this up in a jiffy!"
The sound of heightened crying answered her and she could figure that they were likely scared. Who wouldn't be in a situation like this? Trapped underneath all this rubble with no foreseeable way out? Luckily for them though, Blossom would soon have them all out. And if they were badly injured, she could get the other girls to alert the medical authorities. She'd done things like this before. Often the Powerpuff Girls as a team were even better than your standard search and rescue crew.
"I'm just gonna remove this giant chunk of rock from above you now, okay? Try to stay still while I do it! I don't want you all to get further hurt."
Blossom successfully lifted up the giant piece of reinforced steel concrete that had once been the side of a wall, and when she threw it to the side like it was nothing, she looked down into the tiny hole.
"There!" She said in triumph. "Everything's alright no..." Her sentence trailed off and every breath left her body. Her pupils contracted in size and her mouth hung open with horror. What she saw underneath the rubble were five tiny bodies, all of them huddled in fear, and none of them were anything human.