"Grab the arm when your opponent strikes. Spin round and take out one of their legs, before flipping them over."

"Butch it's great in all that you're teaching Bubbles. But do you have to use me as a test dummy?" Boomer, who was face down in the grass, asked muffled.

"Well I can't use myself. Now Bubbles, any questions?"

Bubbles, who was sat cross legged on the grass, raised her hand. "Yeah, what if it's a giant monster that you're fighting?"

"You have super strength don't you?" Butch reminded cocking his eyebrow.

"Oh, right" the puff remembered.

"Just use that with this same technique and you'll be able to overpower the monster you're fighting" the tough Rowdyruff instructed.

"Well I suppose these moves will be a lot more useful while fighting crime" Bubbles stood up.

"Doesn't that annoying counterpart of mine teach you anything like this?" questioned the green boy.

"Actually no, she just tends to flail her fists around instead" answered Bubbles, doing an action to imitate her sister.

"Y'know I forgot Townsville had monster attacks" said Boomer getting up from the floor holding a baseball. "The crimes here are all done by people and not weird super villains. So, game of catch anyone?"

"Don't our games of catch normally involve flying? People will see Bubbles" Butch pointed out.

"Not if we go up to the clouds" the Powerpuff suggested. The two boys shrugged and all three of them shot up to the sky, where the game ensued.

That baseball must've been thrown several miles over the skies of Founders, barely missing airline flight paths, though it was easy for the children to catch, with their superspeed and all.

"Okay go long! Whoever catches this one I'll let them have that candy bar at the bottom of the fridge. I hate hazelnut anyway." Butch threw it several miles through the clouds.

Both Boomer and Bubbles at the same time yelled "I got it!" and flew in the baseball's direction. Neither of them saw the other darting through the white water vapour as they each made a grab for it, and in the process, bumped heads with each other. The ball fell into Boomer's hand as well as bits of cloud sticking to his face, making it look like he had a beard.

Bubbles rubbed her head and when she saw her counterpart she started giggling. And as Boomer saw it he began laughing too.

"Y'know, you look like Frankenstein's bride with the cloud on your head" he pointed to the amount the puff had herself on her, and she laughed upon realising.

"Well here" she took some of it in both her hands and placed two bits on the sides of the ruff's neck. "Now you can be Frankenstein."

"Ha ha, I wonder if it's scientifically possible to make cloud angels up here?" Boomer attempted to lie on his back mid air and do so, whilst Bubbles picked up a clump of cloud and formed a ball.

"Or a cloud ball fight?" she attempted to throw it but just stopped mid air. "Hm, maybe not."

"This would be a lot more fun if this stuff wasn't half dirt and dust" said Boomer shaking all the cloud off himself in a similar way a dog would. "Here" he threw the ball to her. "You can have the candy bar in the fridge."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I don't like hazelnut either."

That's when the green Rowdyruff caught up with them. "Took a long time didn't ya? I didn't throw that far, nor did I expect you two to be playing in winter wonderlands."

"How did you-"

"Super hearing remember?" Butch tapped the side of his head. "We'd better stop. Mom's probably got dinner ready by now anyway."

The three chemical X users flew back down to the house where Bubbles collected her homework and, after helping herself to the candy bar, said goodbye to the boys and zipped back home to Townsville, her sisters and the Professor oblivious to where she had just been.

The blonde Powerpuff was packing her homework away into her school bag when her 'older' sister floated in the room with the biggest smile on her face.

"Oh, Bubbles" she spotted her sibling. "Sorry about that earlier, you wanted my help with your homework?"

"No it's okay Blossom, I've done it now."

"Hm, let's see?"

Bubbles handed her the paper with her answers which Blossom expected to be wrong in some way but to her surprise was all correct. "Huh?" she raised an eyebrow. "Very good Bubbles but, did you do all this on your own?"

The blue puff faced her. "Uhhh, yeah." Was the only answer she gave with a nervous smile.

Blossom looked at her quizzically. "O-kay" she said slowly and unsure. But just decided to drop it giving her back the paper. "Well, we better see if dinner's ready now anyway. Oh, and tomorrow after school we'll be meeting up with the mayor and police chief at city hall."

"What for?" wondered Bubbles floating alongside her sister.

"Oh it's just that someinformation has come up regarding certain criminals, which we'll talk about what to do tomorrow" Blossom informed in a proud tone.

Bubbles, being as naive as she was, first just assumed Blossom was talking about someone like Mojo or Sedusa, but then remembered what her sister was researching and doing on the computer before she left. How she was going through news article upon news article defaming the boys, calling them all sorts of things.

Bubbles deep inside really hoped it wasn't anything to do with the Rowdyruffs.

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The next day after school however, the light blue Powerpuff's fears were confirmed, when she and her sisters met up with the mayor and Townsville's police chief who had a laptop set up with the restored CCTV footage of the night of the bank robbery. Time displayed and everything.

It revealed three unidentifiable figures about the same height as the girls and with the exact same powers, breaking into the bank and stealing notes. The coloured streaks they left behind were roughly red, blue and green.

"Ha! I knew it! They're still up to their old tricks after all!" exclaimed Buttercup.

"So now that it's been confirmed, what are you going to do chief?" inquired the Powerpuff leader.

"Well it isn't confirmed that it is the Rowdyruff boys. But they could be arrested on suspicion of robbery" proposed the chief.

"Oh c'mon, who else could've done that?" Buttercup argued.

"You're gonna need help if you're planning to arrest them. I know you caught them before on your own, but I don't think it'll be that easy this time. Let us help you" Blossom offered.

"I can't arrest them anyway Blossom since they're not in my jurisdiction, but once we send chief Mccoy of Founders this footage with a warrant for the boys, he'll have to arrest them for us" explained the chief of Townsville as he got out some papers on the desk.

Meanwhile Bubbles just stared at the screen. There was no way these culprits were the boys who she played up in the clouds with. Who now lived in a suburban neighbourhood with their adoptive mother, and who dedicated their nightly hours to fighting and solving crime in a crime infested city. An impossible task in itself.

There had to be an explanation. It couldn't be them, could it? Blossom couldn't have been right this whole time could she? No, that went against everything Bubbles had seen. The boys must be incredible actors if that was the case. But there was the other problem, the Rowdyruffs were now suspected of robbery. If they are arrested then it'll ruin the fragile reputation that they're still trying to build up. She had to warn them somehow.

The three girls eventually arrived home after the meeting where Blossom went over the plan with them.

"Okay, so when chief Mccoy of Founders city is sent the footage, our chief of police will also send him a warrant for the boys' arrest, and ask him if he requires our help or not."

"Why even ask? He's gonna need our help apprehending them" said Buttercup.

"I'm just glad that soon poor Mrs Innlost will be free of those little liars as well as society. They'll be sent straight back to that offshore prison like before" the pink leader proclaimed.

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"This is strange," Brick remarked, while observing the computer screen with the rest of his family in the science lab. "Unexpected fire at that offshore prison we were sentenced to."

Boomer and Butch shuddered slightly at the memory of that place.

"Hm, all evidence collected shows that it wasn't started by any of the inmates, but an outside source" Wendy read the information on the screen.

"I wouldn't put past the scumbags who beat us to near death in there to try and escape" Butch commented folding his arms.

"It was just lucky that none of them managed to do that. Every inmate has been moved to another mainland prison which is just as secure, well, except without all the duranium" Brick told them pressing a few more buttons on the keyboard. "Meanwhile the offshore prison has been shut down and it has yet to be decided what's going to happen to it."

Just then a ringing sound then came from the screen. "A skype call? Did we give this computer's number to anyone?" Boomer asked.

"Only one person," Brick said as he brought up the call and the four Innlosts were met with a worried Bubbles on screen.

"Bubbles? Are you okay?" Wendy asked concerned.

"I'm fine Mrs Innlost, but I need to tell you all about something" the Powerpuff explained with urgency.

"What is it? Where are your sisters?" asked Brick.

"They're downstairs. I'm using the computer we share in our room, I doubt Blossom or Buttercup will be using their super hearing or x-ray vision on me."

"What do you need to tell us?"

"Last weekend there was a bank robbery in Townsville and the police have only just managed to restore the broken CCTV footage. And, well, it seems that the people who did it were three figures. Our height with chemical X powers!"

"They were what!" all three Rowdyruffs said at the same time.

"I'm emailing you the footage now" the Powerpuff sent it over and they played it on the screen.

All four of them saw what she was talking about. How those three figures smashed the vault doors and stole millions of banknotes.

"And the chief of Townsville's police is going to call your father Mrs Innlost, and ask him to arrest the boys!" Bubbles exclaimed as quietly as she could.

There was a brief pause before Brick figured "I suppose that you and your sisters are going to be sent over from Townsville to quote unquote 'deal with us'?"

"So far, that's the plan" the puff shamefully admitted.

"But it wasn't you three. This robbery happened last Sunday night, but I stayed in contact with you over the comm the entire time. I have done since you started fighting" Wendy reminded, clearly worried for her children's security.

"We were fighting thugs and stopping robbers at liquor stores that night! Weren't we Brick!" Boomer looked over to his brother, almost as if he needed confirmation.

The red ruff looked over the footage for just a few seconds before saying "It's obviously not us. Here's something the Townsville police overlooked." He zoomed in on the figures. "One, those haircuts the figures have don't belong to us, it would be very hard to change them just like that" he gestured.

"Two, if you look at the shape of the figures, specifically the skeletal shape. They're female, not male. And also, thanks to Mom's technology, I can enhance the footage a bit further and if you look at that 'red' streak of light," the footage was now less blurred, and the others could see what it was.

"It's not red, it's, pink?" observed Butch slightly confused.

No one knew quite what to say, even Bubbles. "Just like, my sisters and I. But, we certainly didn't do it" she stated.

"We'll worry about who or what it was later, for now we have to focus on your innocence" Wendy told her boys. Just then the phone rang and she went to answer it. "That's most probably my father now. He's probably seen that footage and is wondering what the heck is going on."

"If it is him, tell him to get witness statements from all the officers who saw us on that night apprehending criminals. And also the CCTV footage of that liquor store we saved" Brick requested.

"I'll ask him, hopefully it'll clear your names before they're even tarred." Their mother headed upstairs, as Bubbles heard a noise behind her.

"Oh no, that's my sisters, I've gotta go! Good luck you guys" she ended the call.

The three two other ruffs floated up to the keyboard next to their brother. "So who are those figures?" Boomer wondered.

"Like mom said, we'll worry about that later. I think the mob is more important right now" Brick answered.

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The next day in Townsville, the Powerpuff girls were once again meeting up with the police chief of Townsville in the mayor's office, awaiting on the news from Founders, and whether they'd be needed. Bubbles tried her absolute best not to appear worried or nervous.

"So chief, what's the latest?" asked Buttercup.

"Are we going to take action! And assist the Founders police force?" Blossom inquired in a way as if she already assumed the answer.

The chief paused. "Actually girls, I'm here to tell you that something has come up which has caused the investigation of the boys to be put on hold."

Blossom and Buttercup were surprised to hear this, and Bubbles opened her mouth to smile and let out a squeal of joy but stopped herself just in time.

"Hold? What could put it on hold?" Blossom questioned irritated.

"Well, a few hours after I phoned chief Mccoy he rang back and sent CCTV footage of the Rowdyruff boys stopping a robbery at a liquor store." The Townsville chief brought up the laptop and played the footage.

And indeed there were the boys stopping a robbery at the exact same time and date as the bank heist in Townsville. The pink and green puff were dumbfounded. Why would they do this? Who were those other figures?

"Bare in mind I don't know how reliable this store's CCTV is, the time could be wrong, but with the witness statements from officers who saw them, it's unlikely" the chief sighed.

"It, it must be wrong, I mean, who else has powers like we do?" Blossom stammered.

"I don't like it anymore than you girls, I don't believe they've changed either" expressed the chief. "But there's nothing more we can do for now."

The three girls left, Bubbles feeling very elated and happier, knowing the boys were safe partly thanks to herself.

"It had to be them, it just had to. As far as we know, Mojo hasn't stolen any chemical X from the Professor, so he couldn't have made more versions of us" Blossom tried to reason. "Besides if they were, we would've known about it by now."

"They must've altered that footage at the liquor store" Buttercup suggested. "Somehow."

"Possibly, that's the best theory on who's behind this" Blossom replied.

Bubbles didn't say anything but instead mentally sighed. It was gonna take a lot more to convince her sisters that the boys have indeed changed.

Sorry if this chapter is a bit shorter than most, I did originally plan to write a lot more but I wanted to get this updated, as I'm going away for a few days, not too long, and wanted to get this up beforehand. I'll try to make the next one longer, I promise. But anyway, thanks to John and Ekka for reviewing.

To guest: I'm not planning to do a timeskip really as this story focuses on them as kids, but thanks for reviewing anyway.

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