Ok here's chap 2 please review. ….that wasn't supposed to rhyme

Disclaimer: me with ownership of the powerpuff girls or PPGD, that's a scary thought. But I DO OWN THE ROWDYRUFF GIRLS. THEIR MINE GOT IT? MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

Chapter 2: surprises

Blast and Burn were awestruck, to say the least.

Those researchers had always told them New York City was big, but, given their confinement, it was hard for them to understand such a vague concept as "Big".

Well they sure as hell understood now, New York City was BIG, and they felt incredibly small, buildings stretched to the sky and people scurried about, cars honked at each other in the streets and the noise was near unbearable.

Burn was utterly stunned, "How are going to find our Brothers? I'm having a hard time remembering which way is up!"

Blast looked thoughtful, "First we've got to find our way out of this city. If I remember correctly the researchers said our brothers were somewhere in the western half of the country, and were on the east coast, so we have to figure out which way is west! To bad the sun set already, otherwise it would have been a synch since the sun sets in the west."

Blast sighed, thought a moment, well, thought as well as she could with all the noise, then for no reason at all, a memory of 2 researchers discussing cars as they worked. And for the first time since waking up, remembered that, whatever sort of drug or insanity possessed him to, that part of the training Brisbane made them go through was learning how to handle motor vehicles.

Blast smirked, " I have an idea." Then she took Burns hand, pulled her into a nearby alley and rose into the air with a mischievous air about her.

-1 hour later-

Blast was now crawling around on the floor of a car in a random parking lot of a completely blacked out apartment building, attempting to hotwire the car, but she wasn't having much luck.

Outside the care, Burn kept watch and was nervous, " Nee-Chan, are you sure we should be doing this, I mean…!" Burn whispered

Blast paused from her work and whispered back, " Burn, I will say it again, were not stealing, were BORROWING."

"Right," Burn said halfheartedly.

Blast continued to try and hotwire the compact car but still no luck. Finally she just said, " Oh, screw it," and snapped her fingers, electricity surged through the wires and the car roared to life. She turned to a startled Burn and said " Hop in and lets see how far we can go before we have to stop for gas."

-somewhere-

A certain man who could only be defined as the definition of a mad scientist stared at the monitor with interest, its glow glinted off his small glasses, making them glow like demonic eyes.

"What a surprise, it seems the children have woken up from their nap, I guess that means it playtime," he sipped some overpriced wine from a fancy glass, " Let the games begin."

-somewhere else-

I.M. Weasel stared at the monitor on his computer shook his head and put one paw on his forehead, and said to himself, "Why didn't I tell them about this last month."

He sighed, time for a little trip to Megaville.

-the next day, Megaville elementary-

The bell rung and Brick breathed a sigh of relief, another school day was over, and it was Friday, that meant 2 days of no teachers, no homework and no annoying classmates.

As he gathered up his books, he contemplated how just plain WEIRD his life had been in the past month, he'd discovered that the guy that brought him and his brothers back to life was a manipulative madman, and they'd escaped intent on revenge against the Powerpuffs, only to have Boomer admit to being in love with his counterpart, Bubbles (and it turned out she liked him too) , starting some major drama among the Rowdyruffs and Powerpuffs alike. But then Brisbane found them, and attacked without remorse, the teams stood and faced him TOGETHER, and in fighting side by side with the Powerpuffs, the Ruffs realized that its better to have them as friends, and made a truce.

Needless to say Boomer had been ecstatic.

And now they'd been living with them, going to school and fighting off attacks from Brisbane and the Darkstar council for nearly a month. And life was good, they'd made countless new friends and were actually allowed to act like normal kids for once.

Yes, life was good.

Brick slung his red backpack over his shoulders and ran out of the classroom, down the hall and out the door to the bike racks, where his still shiny and new red mountain bike waited. He unchained it, got on and peddled out of the school yard like the hounds of hell were on his tail, today had been relatively calm and he had minimal homework. Now if he could just get home before…

"HEY BRICK! BRO! WAIT UP!" Brick made a 'oh not again' face and prayed for some miracle to make him disappear as his green-garbed sibling rode up beside him on a skate board. Brick already knew what he was going to say, "Hey Brick do you want to-"

"NO! I do NOT want to go to stake park!" Brick snapped, this had happened every FREAKING DAY since Butch had first been to the skate park, and Brick was getting sick of it. It had been pretty cool the first few times, but he didn't want to go EVERY DAY!!

"Why not?" Butch asked. That was Bricks cue to come up with a believable excuse.

He quickly said, "because unlike you, Butch, I actually intend on DOING my homework."

Butch made a confused face, " But you barely HAVE any homework, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?"

"NO!" Brick snapped. He sped up but Butch did too, and they argued all the way home.

"For the Ten-Billionth time, NO!!" Brick screamed as he dismounted his bike, putting the kickstand down, he'd take it in after he cooled off, Butch was being particularly annoying today.

"COME OOOOOOOOOON. PLEEEEEEEEEEASE?" Butch downright whined.

He ignored Butch's continued begging and went inside with a roll of his eyes. Boomer, who had a weird habit of getting home before everyone else, was sitting on the couch in the living room, flipping through TV channels and trying to find something decent on. Brick plopped down next to him with an exasperated sigh.

"Butch annoying you half way to Hell again?" Boomer asked.

"Is it ever anything else?" Brick sighed.

At that comment Butch came up behind the couch and slapped Brick upside the head "OW! What'd you do that for?" Brick snapped, Butch just scowled at him, then walked into the kitchen to get a soda.

Boomer rolled his eyes and continued flipping through channels, and stopped at the news, which was odd because he hated it, it made every little insignifgent crime and problem sound like the end of the freaking world. But today, low and behold there was actually something interesting happening.

" HEY EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!" the blue ruff yelled and with that, butch re-emerged from the kitchen, chugging a coca-cola and the power puffs came down the stairs.

"What is it now, Blue Boy?" Buttercup said, mildly displeased.

"Yeah, what's up Boomer?" Blossom asked.

Bubbles just stared at her boyfriend with a cute curious tilt to her head and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Just watch." Boomer stated and he turned the volume on the TV up.

On the screen a female reporter was standing in front of the charred remains of some building, an annoying news jingle played and she began to speak, " Last night a government research facility on the outskirts of New York city burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances. At first, many suspected it to be a simple electrical fire. However the facility, operated by dr. John Brisbane…"

"Brisbane…" all 6 X-beings whispered intently, slightly surprised and frightened. That man had given them WAY more trouble than he was worth. And if he was in charge of a facility that "mysteriously burned down" it couldn't be good.

The woman on the screen continued, " Had been shut down a month ago when the project it contained was suspended for unknown reasons. Therefore many are suspecting the fire to be arson, however no matches or traces of gasoline or lighter fluid were found, there were also no traces of explosives, so it remains a mystery as to just how the lab caught fire. The police are looking into it as we speak, we'll be back with more on this story after the break."

With that a commercial for some dumb shampoo started and the 6 kids look at each other, their expressions were a mix of confusion, worry, fear and curiosity. The mood was incredibly tense, until Butch decided to break it.

" We just going to stare at each other all day or are we actually going to have a conversation?"

This statement was punctuated by a slap in the head from Buttercup.

Brick stifled a laugh as his brother and Buttercup began a glare match then put one hand over his face and sighed, " This can NOT be good."

"No duh," Boomer stated, " Is anything that involves Brisbane EVER good?"

"I don't think this is anytime for jokes Boomer." Blossom said good naturedly.

"I wonder who or what burned that lab down," Bubbles chirped up.

Buttercup disengaged her glare match with Butch to speak up, "My guess is that it was whatever the hell he had locked up in there, that that I have any idea what it is."

"Thank you miss Point-out-the-obvious-a-lot," Butch sneered, restarting the glare match.

"What the hell do you think Brisbane had in there?" Brick asked, leaving everyone staring at him with a 'how do you expect us to know?' look.

Boomer sighed and said, " I don't have a clue, maybe we should call Weasel. I'm sure he'll know."

"No need." A familiar voice coming from the direction of the door startled all of them. They all turned to see a certain super-intelligent rodent standing there. Weasel laughed slightly at their expressions and said, " Sorry if I startled you, the door was open so I let myself in."

"You almost gave me a freaking heart attack dude!!" Butch yelled, only to get slapped in the head by Buttercup again.

" Weasel…. how long have you been standing there?" Blossom inquired.

"Since the beginning of the news broadcast sooooooo… about 5 minuets," Weasel said sheepishly. The kids exchanged a "he was there the whole time and we didn't notice?" look.

"Ummmm… anyway, back to the subject," Brick said, " So Weasel, what can you tell us about this facility that burned down?"

Weasel sighed, "I can tell you a lot Brick, most of which I should have told you a while ago." That comment made all the kids give him a look that clearly said 'what the hell are you talking about dude?'. Weasel took a deep breath, here went nothing.

"Sit down kids, this is going to take some explaining." Weasel requested, the X-beings complied, the girls claimed the couch, thus forcing the boys to flop down on the huge beanbag chairs in front of the TV, the beanbags were so huge all 3 boys could fit on 1, but they each claimed their own just for the heck of it.

"So, what's the deal rodent?" Butch asked, hanging his head upside down off the side of the beanbag.

Weasel cleared his throat, it was now or never, and unfortunately, never wasn't an option.

" That facility," he began, "was the operating center for another project Brisbane financed, and last night the subjects of that project broke free of the imprisonment Brisbane forced on them, destroyed the lab, and escaped."

" what kind of freaky project was Brisbane doing in there?" Buttercup asked.

Weasel took a deep breath and squeezed his eyes shut, here came the moment of truth, "That facility housed a side project to Project Rowdy. It was called, Project RRG. Brisbane used your DNA to create… a second string of X-beings… FEMALE X-beings, the Rowdyruff GIRLS. Brisbane planned to do to them the same thing he planned to do to you, but when you betrayed him, he imprisoned them with in the lab. Last night, they broke free through sheer force of will and escaped, no doubt the fire in the lab was their doing. I also have no doubt in my mind that they're on their was here. And before you ask, no this is not a joke I am 100 serious." The words fell from Weasel's mouth in a calm but somewhat panicky tone, he kept his eyes shut for a few seconds, hearing no stunned responses, he slowly cracked one open.

All 6 of the X-beings before him were wearing obvious expressions of surprise. The power puffs were giving him stunned stares, as was the Boys. Boomer's jaw had dropped half way to the floor. In about another 5 seconds, Butch had passed out on the floor.

'That,' Weasel thought, "actually went better than I expected it to.'

A/N: and after a long and hard battle with my short attention span, it is FINNALLY done!! Please review, chapter 3 is on the way!