The night after the mob wedding in Founders city. The police, whose cars were disguised as normal cars, were all parked outside the office building they tracked Sofia Folla to, which wasn't hard to find given her power and status she could practically sit in the heart of the city and no one would touch her, until now anyway.
Chief Mccoy sat in the driver's seat of his disguised squad car on the radio to his officers. "Okay we all know the plan. Whoever opens fire on a police officer inside must be arrested. Folla is the priority target, and our main job is to arrest her, and provide cover."
"Cover for who chief?" the officer on the radio asked.
"Only send your men up when I say Chief" a voice from a pair of floating red eyes said from behind Mccoy. "If it's Folla you're after, there'll be blood."
"She certainly won't let us arrest her that easily. Just do what you have to do and I'll coordinate my men as best I can to help you" the chief replied.
The pair of eyes nodded, and zoomed out of the window leaving a red streak to meet up with his brothers beside the building. "So what have we got?" he asked.
"Just reception and staff on the lower floors. All the armed mobsters are on the upper floors. You know, the ones in suits with the handguns" Boomer explained using his x-ray vision.
"Folla's on the top floor in her office. Y'know, I don't understand why we can't just fly up to her office, burst in and take her, handing her to the police?" Butch wondered.
"Because it's not just her who is going to be arrested, all the mobsters who are working for her have to be taken too." explained Brick, turning towards the ventilation shaft entrance of the building. "Now, follow me quietly."
Inside the dimly lit office room, there were only two mobsters walking around, though neither saw the ruffs sneak up and knock them out from behind. Both fell to the floor unconscious.
"Try to be as silent as possible. The more thugs we take out the less blood there'll be for the police" Brick whispered to the other two. "Boomer, you take this floor and check for any mobsters that might be below this one. Butch, you help me with the upper floors" the red Rowdyruff ordered and the three split off.
Keeping out of sight of the security cameras, Brick and Butch floated discreetly through the shadows, picking off mobsters one by one.
Of course this did not go unnoticed, the other mobster thugs heard strange noises from their colleagues.
"Markey? Markey you there?" one mobster drew a handgun from his suit as another followed behind him. "Jack get the other guys, somethin' fishy's going on 'ere."
Just then two flashes of green and red zipped past them and the mobsters found that their handguns had disappeared. "What the hell-?" they both turned just in time to see the two boys fly towards them and then going all black.
"It came from in 'ere!"
Brick and Butch heard a voice and both darted out of sight, when the doors to the room burst open and a gang of the mobster henchman stepped inside, guns all drawn. "What happened to these guys?"
"You don't think it's them, Rowdy, boys or whatever?" another unsure mobster asked.
"If it is they ain't gettin' outta here alive. Spread out" the head one ordered. There was slight panic in their tones.
The ruff brothers remained watching in the shadows. "Damn, there's too many in the same place to pick off one at a time" Butch whispered quietly enough at a level for Brick only with his super hearing to hear.
The red brother thought for a second. "I'll knock the firearms out their hands, you can take care of them from there." He then aimed his arm, and with that new power they had firing balls of energy out their hands, he fired several shots at the handguns, destroying them all.
Before the gangsters could react, Butch dropped down right in the middle of them, proceeding to engage all of them in hand to hand combat. He won the scrap of course in no time and was joined again by his leader. Both again heard something from behind in the corridor. This time they recognised the voice.
"What's going on here? Why aren't those guys answering?" Sofia Folla was walking behind more of her thugs with weapons and all of them saw the two boys over the unconscious goons.
"That's why boss!"
"It's them! Shoot them! Shoot them now! Or stall them at least." Folla ran back down the corridor as the thugs opened fire on the boys. The bullets bounced off them like rubber, and the ruffs were quick to take their opponents out.
Brick got onto a comm he had in his belt. "Chief, Folla knows we're here. You have to breach now." He turned to Butch. "The police are going to need a lot of help, go down and help Boomer."
Butch nodded and obeyed, speeding down to the lower levels. Brick decided to pursue Folla, using his x-ray vision to see that she was heading to her office on the top floor. Working his way through groups of thugs on the upper levels, he finally made it to Folla's office. Just before he opened the door however, he stopped and the red screen from the bill of his hat dropped down in front of his eyes.
Through the screen he could see the door was rigged to detonate a small explosion if opened.
'Right, gotta be careful.' He pulled a tiny blade from his belt. 'Just remember, like the wires disabling security cameras.'
Tearing up the carpet, he was met with a choice of red yellow and orange wire. For all the criminology he studied, how to disable a bomb was not one of those things. 'Ok. Yellow ones used to be cameras. Orange was electricity. So, red?'
It worked. Thank goodness. The door creaked open and he floated inside to see the mob boss loading a small lightweight pistol in her hand.
This was probably the first time the ruff had met her in person. The raven haired woman wearing a pink suit dress finished loading her weapon. "Damn, how'd you see that explosive? Oh right, superpowers or whatever it is."
"Folla, you're coming with me" the Rowdyruff cut straight to the point.
Folla gave a small chuckle. "On what grounds do you have to arrest me boy?"
"We have a ledger containing your deals, laundering, and racketeering, the police have a warrant for your arrest."
"You're no cop boy, you can't arrest me."
"No, but I can leave you for the police who can."
"Hm, we'll see." Folla pointed her pistol at the ruff and fired.
Brick flew to the right slightly but the bullet just grazed his left hand, and surprisingly it cut him. He was bleeding.
He realised. That was a duranium bullet! How did she get that? Thank goodness for the duranium proof lined armour in his shirt.
She tried at him again, and some of the bullets managed to hit him but thanks to the armour they bounced off. With a fling of his arm a ball of energy flew and hit the pistol out of Folla's hand.
"Ah!" she held her hand and glared at the Rowdyruff, before reaching for something underneath her desk that turned out to be a grenade. "I think I'll be leaving now." She pulled out the key and threw in the middle of the room, running to the door on the side.
Acting very quickly, Brick flew up, grabbed the grenade and threw it at the balcony door. It exploded and the shock knocked over Folla before she could reach the door. Coughing and trying to get up, she was suddenly grabbed by her shirt and pulled over to the damaged balcony, being held in the air by Brick.
"The police are going to arrest you Folla, but first I want you to tell me, who are those people you're selling the medical equipment to? I saw a deal between your mob and a group of thugs, whom I interrogated, and they revealed there were people just like me and my brothers."
"Why should I tell you anything?" Folla demanded but Brick just shook her as he dangled her over the edge.
"I assume you want to live right? Well I'm looking for answers, how's that for a deal?" The red ruff said in a low calm but threatening voice.
Folla swallowed her fear and saved face. "There were three kids like you, but they were girls. Not those puffs or whatever from Townsville, they were different ones. Pink blue and green as well. The pink one had a large ribbon in her hair, and the green one had spiked bracelets on her wrists."
Brick had no idea who this was. He decided to ask about the 'boss' of these girls, whom he heard her mention when Wendy talked to her. "Was there anyone else?"
Folla held onto Brick's arm, which took up her entire hand. "There was, this guy. The one I was dealing with. Looked like a freakin' corpse. And I think, I think he had the same powers as you and those girls."
"He what? How?"
"Well he lifted several boxes of the 'merchandise' by himself, which was surprising because he didn't exactly look like the bodybuilder type. Plus he had heat vision."
The Rowdyruff then heard the police coming up and to the office. He just had one more question to ask. "What did they want with all of that?"
"They once said-" Folla grunted. "That, they had a surprise in store for the Powerpuff girls. They're in Townsville right now, planning, with all that equipment." Folla couldn't help but give a sly evil laugh, which wasn't a good idea since she was still being dangled over the edge by the ruff.
Brick had heard enough. He pulled the mob boss back inside the building and instead punched her down to the floor, handcuffing one of her hands to the wreckage of the wall.
The cops burst in at that moment as did chief Mccoy, seeing what that explosion was they heard downstairs. "Good god, what happened in here?"
"Just take Folla into custody, I'm going to speak to my brothers. Are they okay?" The ruff asked as he floated past the chief.
"Yeah yeah they're fine, they did a pretty good job at covering us" Mccoy replied. Brick gave a small smile before floating outside as the officers arrested Folla.
Floating past several cops arresting thugs, some of whom were unconscious, the ruff leader saw his two brothers helping some officers. They spotted him. "Brick we did it! We got her! Well, you got her." Boomer flew to him clearly very elated and proud of what he did.
"We heard from the cop's radio you managed to apprehend the wench, nice going buddy" Butch patted his back.
"Well I couldn't have done without you two. Truly couldn't have asked for better. Why don't you help the officers 'escort' these mobsters to the squad cars."
"Well done boys! I'm proud of you all." Their mother's voice came on the comm. "We've apprehended the city's biggest crime lord. But Brick," Wendy sounded serious, and worried. "What Folla said to you when you interrogated her, about those she was dealing with. We heard it on the comm."
"We heard it too bro." said Butch.
"What did she mean by that guy she was dealing with having chemical X powers?" wondered Boomer, his delighted tone changing.
The red Rowdyruff paused. "Just help the officers for now, we'll figure it out later." He floated past his brothers and further down the corridor.
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Floating on top of the building where the fight had just taken place, Brick stared out at the beautiful Founders city skyline that was all lit up like a christmas tree. Though his mind was on something else, trying to piece together the information he had gotten out of Folla. She sounded genuine when she told him, I mean he was dangling her over a balcony. So it probably wasn't a lie.
But three superpowered girls who weren't the Powerpuffs? And someone leading them who had those powers as well? Was it possible Mojo had created three new chemical X kids to help him? No because the person leading them was a human. Someone who looked like a corpse.
This was strange, no villain from Townsville fitted this situation. Apart from HIM maybe who could've disguised himself, but why would he disguise himself to look like a decaying person?
Plus he would most likely want revenge on both Brick and his brothers, and the girls. But this man and the superpowered children were only after the Powerpuffs for some reason.
This, chemical X corpse or whatever-, wait, a corpse with chemical X. Brick's eyes widened. The chemical was originally meant to revive life. He remembered what Wendy had said not too long ago.
"He spent years working to create it. Down in that very lab. When someone who tragically died and donated his body, Ian, I believe the person's name was, Mark used it to test the chemical on. It didn't work of course, and the body is still frozen up in a capsule at the Founders research lab."
"As you can see there's nothing. The closest thing Mark ever did with using the chemical on life was experimenting on that donated dead body, a deceased man called Ian, trying to see if it could revive people. Though it never worked, and he stored Ian's body away in the Founders research labs."
The red Rowdyruff wasted no time, he darted across the sky towards the research labs. Luckily he remembered from a previous conversation with Wendy which lab and capsule it was. He arrived and snuck in through a vent, floating towards a storage room.
Once inside the room, he looked around and located the certain capsule he was looking for, and the door to it, was torn off its hinges, with what seemed to be with almost superhuman strength.
The body was gone. A revived man and three superpowered girls were after the Powerpuffs.
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Down in the lab of the Innlost house, Boomer Butch and Wendy were going the police reports of the night, as well as discussing what Folla had revealed.
"Who else could have chemical X other than us and the Powerpuffs?" asked Boomer.
"Whoever it is, they now have a large stash of medical equipment-" Wendy was saying when suddenly Brick came through the door and floated down the stairs.
"I know who it is" he said floating straight to the computer.
"What? Really? Who?" inquired Butch.
"Mom, do you remember how you told me that Mark experimented on a donated dead body? And how the chemical was originally meant to revive life?" the leader Rowdyruff turned to her.
"Well yes I-, wait Brick are you saying-?"
"I checked the capsule just now, the body's gone" Brick explained as he brought up this 'Ian's' files on the computer.
"Wait, who's this?" Butch questioned, as him and Boomer were both confused.
Brick proceeded to explain everything to them, and the two started to get it. "And this guy's in Townsville right now?" Butch inquired.
"Mom, you said that sort of medical equipment was illegal because it was used to experiment on people?" Brick remembered.
"Yes, that type of equipment. And this Ian is after the girls with it. Oh dear lord!" Wendy realised, panicked slightly.
"We gotta skype Bubbles quick!" said Boomer.
"At this time of night? They'll be asleep. Besides how do we know it'll be Bubbles who'll answer?" Butch reminded.
"I'll call John and tell him everything. I doubt Ian will go after the girls tonight, but we'd better head to Townsville tomorrow morning and try to find him." Wendy rushed to the door upstairs. "I hope John hasn't gone to sleep yet either."
"Does this mean we've gotta search around Townsville for these 'other' superpowered girls, and this Ian guy?" Boomer inquired.
"We haven't gotta act as bodyguards for the puffs now have we?" Butch moaned.
"They can take care of themselves. Only if they're really in danger will we intervene" Brick proclaimed.
"Y'know, pinky and green aren't gonna like us three going back to Townsville" reminded the green ruff.
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Floating on top of a building in their city of origin, the boys looked over the rooftops that they had not seen in years. It was a strange feeling to the seven year olds, and one that made them feel slightly scared even. They all knew they would not be welcomed by anybody here, and would have to keep out of sight during their search. Which will be difficult.
"I still can't believe we're here actually doing something to save those girls. Bubbles maybe, but the other two? Why should we even care what happens to our so called 'old enemies' who probably hate our guts?" Butch whined but no one responded to him.
"Mom's gone ahead to the Utonium household to explain things in more detail. But for now, we search the city for the suspects" ordered the leader.
"Where do we even start?" the blue ruff wondered.
"We've been round a few hideouts in this town, I don't know if they've changed in the time we've been gone but it's a good start." Brick turned to the other two. "Try not to let anyone see you, and we'll meet up back here if we don't find anything."
The brothers nodded, and all split up to go into the city they knew would not treat them kindly.
Hello everyone, next chapter for you all. I particularly enjoyed writing this one, especially the confrontation between Brick and Folla, I know you guys have been waiting to find out who's behind it all. And next chapter we'll finally see a face to face confrontation between all three puffs and three ruffs. It's gonna be interesting.
Thanks to Vip189, John, and RedHood001 for reviewing, and Peanutball369, your review made my day.
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