"And that's basically who's after your girls. My boys are here right now trying to find them, and hopefully with some assistance, they will." Wendy had just finished explaining everything to the Professor at the Utonium household. She had arrived not too long ago after her sons had set out by themselves into the city.

"And you're sure this, Ian, person is in Townsville?" John Utonium asked, really wanting to be sure. And also really hoping the answer was no.

"Yes, I'll show you the evidence now if you want" she pulled out her phone, about to play the recording of Brick's interrogation of Folla.

"Wait wait wait a second. Are you saying you let the Rowdyruff boys into Townsville?" Blossom who, with her sisters, were in the same room as the two adults.

"Don't worry Blossom, I know you still have your doubts but believe me, you can trust them. They're out there right now looking for these other superpowered kids in order to protect you" Wendy tried to assure. She knew it was a risky move to bring her boys into this town. Not just because of Blossom and Buttercup but all the citizens here who still didn't exactly trust them either.

She and Bubbles shared a quick glance, as if Wendy was asking the blonde girl 'could you keep them calm?'.

And the blonde gave a look back as to say 'I'll try'.

The two adults then headed downstairs to look over the evidence in John's lab, leaving the three Powerpuffs to talk in the living room.

"I don't like that" the pink leader announced. "The boys are back in this city, unattended, who knows what they might do?"

"We gotta go out, we gotta see what they're up to" proclaimed Buttercup.

"N-now hold on girls, remember what Mrs Innlost said, the boys are only trying to help us by hunting down these other superpowered kids who are hiding in this city" Bubbles did her best to seem as innocent as possible.

"Oh please, you don't actually believe that sob story do ya? That's probably just a cover, and a very bad one, for those crimes such as the bank robbery all that while ago" Buttercup dismissed straight away.

"But Mrs Innlost even said this was true. How could they fool someone as smart as her?" the blonde puff said this in a tone that made her sound naive, as to avoid making it seem that she was deliberately defending the boys. Nethertheless, her argument was a good one, and even Blossom had to think about that.

"Hm, true" she said. "Though it still is possible they're intimidating Mrs Innlost into saying this. As well as the police force in Founders city, to fabricate reports of them being somewhere else at the time of the robbery."

Bubbles resisted the urge to smack her forehead as the frustration built up inside her. Even with all the evidence suggesting otherwise, her sister still refused to believe that the Rowdyruff boys may actually not be the bad guys anymore.

"I'm going to talk to Mrs Innlost seriously, one to one" Blossom continued. "And ask her honestly if the boys are truly threatening her-"

Just then their special phone line beeped, and seeming as if she already knew what this was about, the pink Powerpuff leader flew over and answered. "Yes mayor?"

"Blossom, you need to come quick! The police chief's just been attacked, and vials of that antidote X have been stolen! We need you to help us catch whoever did this."

"Of course mayor. Where's the chief?" replied Blossom.

"Down at the station, he says it was too fast to see what attacked him."

"We're on it mayor." She put the phone down and turned to her sisters. "Girls, we're heading to the police station, c'mon." She gestured for them to follow her. Buttercup, and a slightly worried Bubbles, flew behind.

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Arriving at the police station, the girls entered and soon met up with Townsville's chief of police, who had a black eye and cuts all over. He was sat down by a desk, after a medic had just checked him over.

"Chief what happened?" Blossom asked concerned.

"Who attacked you?" Buttercup questioned further.

"Girls, you're here." The chief rubbed his head. "I don't quite know what happened. I was putting away the antidote X vials in the storage room, when from behind these flashes of light came, and I think I blacked out. When I woke up the vials were gone. All the security cameras picked up were these streaks of light."

"Streaks of light huh?" Blossom put a hand to her chin. "What, colours were they?"

"They were going too fast to tell exactly, but I think they were blue green, and I'm not sure but either pink or red. Blossom, do you think-"

"Possibly, and if it is, they now have antidote X, which is dangerous for us." The Powerpuff leader had a look in her eyes, and it was a look that her blue sister recognised as the 'I knew I was right' sort of look.

"Looks like the boys are out in our city, finally putting that long plan of theirs into action," Blossom briefly glanced at the police chief with a determined expression.

Bubbles however brought up the argument "But why would they steal the antidote X without at least smashing the cameras?"

"Probably just too stupid and forgot" Buttercup waved her hand.

"But you two just said they had a long clever plan that they-"

"We need to act quickly" Blossom interrupted the blonde girl. "Buttercup I want you to head over to Mojo's, and spy on him. See if he is truly working with the boys or not. Bubbles, go and tell the Professor and Mrs Innlost about what's just happened. I'll head over to city hall, and talk to the mayor about putting the police on high alert for the ruffs."

The girls followed her orders, although Bubbles did reluctantly, and all three of them split up to do their tasks. Bubbles was now extremely worried. This was the exact opposite of what she wanted to happen. There was no way the boys would have attacked the chief, she had known them for long enough now to know that their non-evil lives were genuine. Plus the boys knew that doing something like that would be suicide for their credibility.

It had to be those 'other' superpowered girls Mrs Innlost told them about. If she was saying it, then it must've been true. Knowing that her sisters were too busy in their tasks to listen to this, Bubbles stopped above the city and whispered quietly "Boys, where are you?"

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On top of the same building they had previously talked on, the three ruffs met up with each other once again, neither with anything to report. "Did you find anything?" Brick asked them.

"Nothing Brick. All those old hideouts are abandoned, with no real distinctive clues or anything" told Boomer.

"I didn't get any real answers either" admitted Butch. "I did do some interrogating, but I don't have quite the knack for it as you do bro."

Brick shook his head. "I had similar results. Maybe if we try…"

While he was talking, Boomer with his super hearing heard a faint voice that seemed to be calling them. "Guys listen, do you hear that?" he interrupted them, and they all listened out.

After a few seconds, Boomer recognised it. "It's Bubbles. She's looking for us." In a similar tone of voice, the blond boy called out "Bubbles, it's Boomer, we're on the roof of the supermarket office building."

Within five seconds, the Powerpuff zipped right to them and briefly her excitement overcame her.

"Boys you're here!" she flew down and hugged her counterpart. "Boys you're in trouble" she let go of Boomer. "The Townsville police chief was just attacked, and he said he saw three streaks of coloured light, blue green, and possibly red or pink."

"Damn, and we can't listen out for their flying noises, since we all make that same noise when we fly" Brick realised.

"Boys I have to know. This, was the other chemical X kids wasn't it? It wasn't, you was it?" Bubbles really wanted for once for Blossom to be wrong.

"Bubbles of course not" Boomer said in a very sincere tone. "We're only just starting to gain the trust of the people, why would we do something to ruin it now?"

"This is what I mean Brick" Butch turned to his leader brother. "We're trying to help them, and they're only going to accuse us of, whatever."

"To be fair, they've only just heard of these other superpowered kids, so they might not believe it at first." The red ruff put a hand on his forehead. "Though this is going to be a problem, if Blossom thinks it's us who attacked the chief, she's going to try to apprehend us and interfere with our investigation."

"But they'll never believe us if we just straight up tell them. The only probable way we can prove we're right is if we capture those other chemical X girls" Boomer figured.

"Not necessarily 'capture' them per say, but if we can just somehow draw them out in the open, they'll see we're telling the truth" Brick planned out.

"And how do we do that if we don't know where they are?" Butch questioned.

"It'll be risky but the only place to check for clues is the police station. We'll have to sneak in, and turn off their cameras so they don't see us. Boomer, fly high above the city and keep a lookout for Blossom and Buttercup, warn us if anything happens" Brick instructed.

"I wanna go with him too!" Bubbles spoke up.

"Good idea. Bubbles, if necessary, could you stall your sisters?" Brick asked.

"I'll try if I have to" she responded.

"Butch, you come with me." The four children then split off and the red and green brothers soon arrived at the roof of the station, opening a power box.

"Okay, flick this switch, it'll temporarily disable their cameras" said Brick as his brother did so.

"Alright, let's sneak in through the vents."

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Blossom was flying back from city hall, after talking to the mayor who put the Townsville police on high alert, and she hadn't heard from Buttercup yet. Deciding to check on her she flew to Mojo's, where she found her green sister still spying on the primate.

"Did anything happen?" she asked her.

"Nothing. No Rowdyruff boys or anything! This monkey's just been vacuuming his place while mumbling to himself. Ah screw it! I'm just gonna ask him!"

"Wait Buttercup!" Blossom tried to stop her as the puff flew into the lair startling the poor ape.

"Mojo!"

"Ah! What in-, that's twice now one of you insolent Powerpuffs have stormed in unannounced!" the villain shook his fist and looked down at his broken vacuum. "What do you three have against my property anyway?"

"Save it! I wanna know if the Rowdyruff boys are really working with you or not?" Buttercup demanded as Blossom flew up beside her.

"Didn't I already tell you this?" Mojo looked at the puff leader.

Like Buttercup, Blossom cut straight to the point. "I dunno, it's just that the boys are back in town and I figured you might not have been telling the truth the last time."

"So they're finally back huh? Well if you're trying to find them, you're in the wrong place" he dismissed.

"How can we trust you?" Blossom eyed him.

Mojo sighed. "Look, I can hack into CCTV cameras all around Townsville with my computer. If you find the boys with it, will you please stop breaking my things?"

"You can hack into cameras?" Blossom said in a stern accusing tone.

"Do you want to find them or not?" a fed up Mojo Jojo exclaimed before muttering and walking to his computer. Pressing a few buttons, he had most of Townsville in view, and the girls watched behind. "Okay, so there's nothing by the mall, nothing by the banks, nothing by-, hold on, that's strange."

"Yes, it is" the pink puff observed. "The cameras inside the police station have been switched off, when the police should be on high alert right now."

"I can switch them back on from here" Mojo pressed a button, and on the screen the three of them saw Brick and Butch inside the corridors of the police station.

"Welp, looks like we know where we're heading" Buttercup zipped off in that direction.

"Thanks Mojo, and don't hack into anymore cameras," Blossom warned before following her sister.

The primate swung back on his chair. "Eh, I might as well enjoy the show while it's here" he grabbed some popcorn whilst still staring at the screens.

"You think we should call Bubbs?" asked Buttercup as she flew alongside Blossom.

"There's only two of them there, we can handle it" Blossom proclaimed as they approached the station. She knew it, Blossom knew it. After months of investigation and fifty percent of people telling her she was wrong, she was finally about to be proven right.

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"Hm" the Rowdyruff leader observed some sort of compound he scraped up with his stubbed hand. "You can stop keeping a lookout Butch, I have what I need to examine." He put the compound in a tiny evidence bag and in his belt.

"Finally! I don't like being in a building full of people that are hunting us" Butch flew through the vents and back outside with his brother up into the air.

"Alright, just examine the evidence and let's find these punks and get out of here" Butch wiped his brow. "I don't like being-"

"Well, criminals always return to the scene of the crime don't they Buttercup?"

Both brothers heard the voice and turned to see the last thing they needed right now. Blossom and Buttercup were both floating there only a few feet away from them. They feared this would happen, but neither knew quite what to do if it did.

"I knew I was right all along! There was just no absolute way you ruffs could ever be anything more than evil criminal thugs with meat for brains." Blossom pointed. "Alright, you may have tricked someone as smart as Mrs Innlost, and deceived half of Founders city, I'll give you that. But you couldn't pull the wool over my eyes, I knew what you were up to."

The two Rowdyruffs floated there watching them. "Brick what do we do?" Butch whispered, sounding not intimidated but indeed unsure.

"Perhaps we can reason with them" was the only option Brick could think of right now. He knew if they fought the girls, it would only make it seem that Blossom was right.

Having super hearing, both girls heard too what the red ruff said. "Reason?" they repeated at the same time. "Ha, have they become too cowardly to actually go head to head with us?" Buttercup mocked.

Ignoring their comments, the Rowdyruff leader floated forward slightly, and took in a deep breath. "Blossom, I heard that the police chief here was attacked."

"Yeah, he was, and don't you play innocent with me Mr Brick Jojo! I know you're the one who attacked him, and stole those vials of antidote X!" Blossom continued to accuse.

"Antidote X?" Brick repeated. "Oh that's bad."

"Careful Buttercup" Blossom warned looking around. "The other one could be around here, preparing to attack with those vials."

Upon hearing that, Brick had an idea. Discreetly, he switched on his comm, so that both Bubbles and Boomer up in the clouds could listen to it. "Blossom" he began. "Boomer isn't around here, and we did not steal those vials of antidote X."

And as Brick figured, the blues could hear everything. "Blossom?" they both looked at each other worriedly.

The puffs and ruffs continued their confrontation. "The chief himself said you did, and the cameras picked you up. In fact that's probably what you're trying to do now isn't it? Erase the footage" the Powerpuff leader glared at them.

"Look, let me explain-" Brick tried to reason with her, but was again interrupted by his counterpart.

"There's nothing to explain, we caught you red handed. The courts will once again find you guilty no doubt, and you'll have another nice long stay at a maximum security prison. Now if you'll be so kind as to come with us. We'll find Boomer later." Both Powerpuff girls took a fighting stance, preparing for what they expected to be a long grueling battle.

Not wanting to get himself or his brother in anything of the sort, Brick put his hand on the green ruff's arm "Butch, with me, right now." He shot off pulling his brother with him, leaving the two girls slightly stunned for a second.

"Wha-, don't let them get away!" Blossom ordered as she and her sister followed in pursuit.

"Why are we running?" Butch managed to say after having just been dragged by his leader brother, and now flying at a same pace with him.

"Because if everyone sees us in a fight with them, they're immediately going to assume we're guilty" Brick explained mid flight. Another idea then came to the Rowdyruff leader. "Split up, try to lose them and meet back on top the Townsville hospital."

Butch nodded and the ruffs flew in different directions.

Speeding behind, the two girls saw this. "Buttercup, go after Butch, I'll handle Brick." Each girl pursued their counterpart.

Getting onto the comm, the red ruff asked the blues "Did you hear all that?"

"Yeah we did bro, what should we do?"

"Boomer I want you to help Butch get away from Buttercup without fighting her. Bubbles, you still there?"

"Yeah?"

"I have Blossom on my tail, could you possibly distract her? We're meeting on the Townsville hospital afterwards."

The blues accepted and left the cloud they were standing on to help the two boys.

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Buttercup wasn't that far behind Butch now, despite him zig zagging inbetween buildings in an effort to lose her. It was a bit difficult since he hadn't been in this city for two years so he had lost some familiarity with it. Unfortunately he wasn't having very much luck.

"Come back and face me you coward!" she called out.

"As much as I'd love to, I don't really fancy being blamed for something I didn't do" he called back.

"Oh c'mon there's no point playing innocent now" she responded while still chasing him.

The Rowdyruff was becoming annoyed. "Do you honestly think that we, we, could trick Wendy for this long? That she wouldn't in all that time have suspected anything?"

"If you put on the helpless orphan act you could've!" the puff shot back.

"Why did Brick try to front up reason with you, if we were guilty?"

"You-, he, I dunno! But I'm still gonna bring you in!"

Just then a flag pole that looked like it had been torn from a building, fell down and barely missed Buttercup, hitting an unoccupied area below. Of course it wasn't meant to hit Buttercup, and using this brief distraction Butch shot off as far as he could, his blue brother, who was on top the nearby building, followed suite.

"Wha-, where? Oooooohh." The Powerpuff furrowed realising she'd lost him.

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Brick still had Blossom pursuing him. It didn't help that he left a streak of light behind him. Bubbles wasn't here yet, so he had to think of something. But what else could he do other than talk to her? She wouldn't listen to him whilst chasing him. So very cleverly, he performed a maneuver that he learnt from old spitfire planes from watching documentaries about world war 2.

Blossom was surprised when her target suddenly dived and appeared behind her. She looked round to see him floating there, not taking the chance he had to attack her at all.

Instead he just said "Blossom, I'm going to try one more time. You're in danger. You and your sisters."

"Oh I know, that's why I'm eliminating the problem right now. All three of them." She still would not budge.

"There are three other superpowered girls out there to get you, don't you understand?" Brick reasoned a little frustrated.

"That's your alibi is it? There just happens to be three other chemical X users like us, who have been behind it all the whole time?" Blossom mocked. When she put it like that, it did sound completely absurd. "As well as a corpse who's come back to life, and is in charge of them?"

"Did you listen to the evidence that our mom provided?" he questioned her.

"At this point I don't think it'll make much of a difference" she refuted folding her arms.

"So you didn't listen to it then?" Brick shook his head. "Don't you get it? You could seriously be in trouble."

"I could say the same to you. You thought you could trick everyone by pretending to be the people of Founders saviour. And once you have them all tricked, you betray them, take over both cities, and destroy me and my sisters!"

"It seems to me you're the only one who's been deceived Blossom, by yourself that is."

The Powerpuff, although fully in the belief that he was still evil, did have to admit, this Brick was far different than the one she last talked to being led down the steps of the courthouse. It had only been two years, and yet he seemed more, calm, more, dare she say, mature? He definitely was speaking a lot differently to how he used to.

"I think running away from us is a good sign that you are definitely guilty, and…"

While Blossom was going on, Brick noticed out of the corner of his eye a small light blue figure waving at him in the distance. Slowly moving away, the Rowdyruff zoomed off in a direction too fast for his counterpart to process what just happened.

"What-? You get back here-"

"Hi Blossom!" Bubbles suddenly appeared out of nowhere, acting as innocent as she could, pretending not to have seen Brick.

"Bubbles?"

"I told the Professor and Mrs Innlost about what just happened like you said."

"Bubbles you got in my way, I almost had Brick just now."

"Brick? He was here just now?" The blonde pretended to look around.

"Yes. Now c'mon, I think he went in this direction. Stay close to me."

Bubbles, wanting to rejoin with the boys, pretended to follow her sister for a while, and then quietly, discreetly, floated away and headed to the hospital.

"Okay Bubbs stay on alert, because these ruffs are-," The pink puff looked behind to see her sister was not there, but instead saw her light blue streak in the distance heading in a completely different direction. "What is she doing?" she whispered to herself, and went after her sister.

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Meeting up on the hospital roof, the three boys and one puff all caught their breath. Relieved at last they got away. "Phew, that was a little worrying" Boomer wiped his forehead.

"Yeah, thanks for the assist back there buddy" Butch thanked while still breathing.

"And thanks as well Bubbles" Brick began.

Meanwhile Blossom was following her sister's light streak, and was just about to see the thing that would give her one of the biggest shocks of her life.

"Doesn't she know that if she doesn't stay by me she'll-" she stopped just a couple yards away from the hospital rooftop, and let out a gasp. Mouth agape, she watched her very own sister, Bubbles, talk and converse with the very enemy themselves.

"No problem Brick" the blue puff replied to him. "Just as long as you three are safe from my sisters, and carry on your investigation, it's fine by me."

"Bubbles?"

All four of them then turned and saw a completely speechless Blossom floating there. Bubbles gasped too. "Blossom!"

"You're, with them?"

Yeah so uh, ended on a little cliffhanger there. I gotta be honest, I wasn't really sure how to write the reunion between the ruffs and the puffs. I've read a few fanfictions where they meet up again but I wasn't sure how this one would go down. I hope it was interesting enough.

Thanks to Vip189, John, and Diana. And to Ana, another review that made my day, thank you.

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