The rain in Founders city was letting up and the three boys, Bubbles and Wendy were sat inside her car drying themselves off.

"I'm sorry I didn't take the boys and myself home mom, I couldn't risk it. As we heard Blossom say she wanted the Founders police force out hunting us" Brick explained wiping his face with a towel.

"I know what you were trying to do honey, but it's okay, the police aren't looking for you. I called my father on the way here and explained everything to him. How you boys were falsely accused by Blossom, and were chased out of the city" their mother assured.

"Did he believe you?" asked Boomer.

"He said he wouldn't send any officers out to look for you, but he wanted to see some evidence just to be sure." The woman then turned to Bubbles. "Thanks for helping Bubbles, I'm extremely grateful, but I think the Professor's going to be very worried as of where you are. I think it's time you head back, and reconcile with your sisters."

The Powerpuff hesitated for a second. "But Blossom still thinks they're evil."

"The Professor knows that they aren't, and he's probably explained thoroughly to your sister by now, and when you get home perhaps you should too" suggested the scientist.

The unsure puff had a quick glance at Brick, who just nodded to her as to say 'I know you can do it'. She smiled back and gave one last hug to the three boys before heading out back to Townsville herself.

The leader ruff then asked his parent "So about chief Mccoy, should we go and see him?"

"Yes you'd better. Here," she handed them her phone. "This has the recording of your interrogation of Sofia Folla on it, about these other chemical X users. It'd be better and quicker if you three boys fly there."

"What about you?" asked Boomer curious.

"I'm heading back to the house to pick up some spare's, of the gadgets you three left back in Townsville. Come back home as soon as you're done ." She started her car. "I'm so glad you boys are safe" she turned giving them all one final embrace before they waved to her and she headed off back to the house.

And glancing at each other, each of the boys flew off to speak with their adoptive grandfather, the chief of police.

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Finally reaching the city limits of her home, Bubbles repeated the only thoughts that had been playing in her head for the whole journey, what was she going to say?

She knew the Professor would be very upset at her running off like that, and she wondered that perhaps her sisters were worried for her too. After what she said to Blossom she knew it would be tense and awkward meeting with her again. She just hoped what Wendy had suggested was right. Maybe by now the Professor had explained everything to Blossom and she had accepted. Hopefully.

As the puff got to the centre of the city, she came across a group of firefighters tackling a blaze on top a building. If there was a fire, that must've meant this was recent, and when she saw part of the building ripped off, this probably wasn't just some accidental fire. Did one of their villains attack, and Blossom and Buttercup headed out to face them? If they did, they've probably tackled it by now.

However, one of the firemen noticed her and called to her. "Bubbles! Bubbles down here!" She heard him and floated down to see what he wanted. "Bubbles, there you are. Are your sisters alright?"

"Alright? What do you mean alright?" wondered the puff becoming slightly anxious.

"Your sisters went to face some sort of enemy, and haven't been seen since. Was it those ruff boys?"

Now full fear took over the Powerpuff. Blossom and Buttercup gone? She had only been gone a few hours and now-, suddenly she saw a huge piece of rubble flying straight at them. "Look out!" she grabbed all the firefighters with her super speed flying them to another building before the rubble could hit them.

Both Bubbles and the firemen turned to see what had happened, and what they saw confirmed the blonde's worst fear. Three chemical X users, not the boys, but three other girls floated up towards them, which could only have been the other superpowered children the boys had warned them about. And, the ones who must've captured her sisters.

"Ian was right, she did show up" the girl that looked like Bubbles proclaimed looking back at the other girls and then at the puff again.

"I suppose you girls would like to fight her first before we take her?" the red headed girl that looked like Blossom assumed.

"Eh, won't be much of a challenge, there being only one of them this time" said the other that looked like Buttercup.

Bubbles was normally scared pretty easy; now she was understandably frightened than ever before. Not because of what these girls had said, but because she knew they had her sisters somewhere, and were now targeting her. However despite being the most frightened she's ever been, for some reason she didn't show it, and instead stood up to the other girls.

"Wha-, what have you done with Blossom and Buttercup?" she demanded in the sternest voice she could muster.

"Well you'll see once you join them, right girls?" Berserk gave that as the signal for Brat and Brute to attack, and the blue Powerpuff just managed to dodge the charge the two punks had launched at her.

They turned and pursued her, whilst the leader of the Powerpunks sat back mid air watching the show. The firemen that Bubbles had rescued, and who had seen everything, had left by this point.

Berserk then heard a voice come from a building below. "Berserk!" she turned to see her 'boss' Ian.

"What?" she asked with some attitude.

"Where are the other two? And where's the blue puff?" he demanded.

"Don't worry, Brat and Brute are on blondy's tail right now" Berserk dismissed waving her hand.

"And what if she decides to call out for those ruff boys? They have super hearing too y'know" scolded her boss, pulling his baseball further over his eyes.

Berserk sighed, knowing he was right. "Fine, I'll lure her to you." She zoomed off in the other chemical X users direction.

Bubbles tried to out maneuver the two girls, knowing she wouldn't win head on one against two. However, with her head being in a mess from all the recent events, she wasn't thinking straight and nearly hit a few buildings at times. It wasn't long before they caught up with her.

The blue girl identical to her took a swing, but the puff remembered Butch's self defense technique, and pushed the forearm of the girl in the opposite direction, then used a palm strike on her, and kneed her in the stomach.

Brute tried to take a swing from behind, but Bubbles jerked her head out the way, grabbed Brute's arm and flipped her over mid air.

When Berserk arrived, she just looked at her sisters' performance and sighed, shaking her head. Quickly getting their attention, she pointed "Girls, Pigtails."

"Oh, right" Brat realised as she dashed behind Bubbles and grabbed the two pieces of blonde hair pulling them back, and while Bubbles was being pulled, it left her vulnerable for an attack by Brute who punched her knocking her back quite far and close to where Ian was standing in waiting on top the building.

Dazed from being hit through several office buildings, the puff was still determined not to let these other chemical X girls capture her, and immediately wanted to know where her sisters were. But however, she felt a small but sharp prick on her neck.

"Ow!" she pulled it out to see a dart, a tranquiliser dart, with the tip made of Duranium. She opened her mouth to gasp but nothing came out as she started to become lightheaded and dizzy. It wasn't long before she blacked out completely and began to fall, only to be caught by Berserk.

"That's all three of them" announced the walking corpse lowering his rifle. "Brat, Brute, here's some chloroform" he threw it to the two girls. "Go and grab the scientist in Founders." They nodded and sped off.

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Wendy had arrived back at her house by now, heading down to the lab to pick up some spare gadgets for her sons for when they came back, as knowing Brick, he'd probably want to go straight back out on patrol.

She'd advise against it of course. There was no doubt the media would run with the narrative that the boys attacked the girls in Townsville instead of vice versa and try to frame them, but that wouldn't stop him and his brothers from fighting crime tonight.

Grabbing what she needed and switching off the light, she walked up the stairs of the basement into her living room where-, that's strange, it was dark. She could've sworn she left the lights on in the living room before she went down to the- "Mmpphh!"

Something from behind slapped over Wendy's mouth with force holding some type of rag and causing her to drop all the stuff in her hands onto the floor. A struggle ensued, whoever was behind her was incredibly small, almost the same height as her sons. She smelt chloroform on the rag, and knocked over several objects on top of desks such as picture frames and flower pots. The struggling scientist heard two female voices.

"It's not working, she's not passing out" said the voice from behind her.

"You have to wait for the chloroform to take effect, keep holding her" said another whom Wendy couldn't see.

Desperately, since she couldn't call out to the boys, Wendy tried her best to grab the watch on her left wrist with her right hand, and only just managed to press the button, before finally becoming drowsy and passing out completely, falling to the floor.

"You could've just used a sleeper hold on her" Brat complained floating out of the shadows.

"Well you could've suggested that whilst she was struggling" Brute shot back, flying down to pick up the unconscious woman. "And you'd better help me carry her, this isn't like carrying one of those puffs."

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"So this is your 'conversation' with Folla? Shame I missed it when you fought her right before I arrested her" Police chief Mccoy sat back down in his office chair after listening to the recording on the phone Wendy gave them. "I'll call up Townsville, and see if there's anymore evidence about these 'other' girls."

He wiped his face with his handkerchief. So much had happened in these past few months.

The boys were relieved to know that he believed them. "Thanks chief" said Brick on behalf of the three of them. "In the meantime me and the boys will continue to-"

Wendy's phone then started to beep, and flash a red screen. "What's it doing?" Mccoy sat up alarmed.

"That's the emergency signal" all three boys' eyes widened.

"What does that mean?" inquired Mccoy.

"It means mom's in trouble, she only built that in to warn us when she needed immediate help. We've gotta head home" Brick announced heading to the window.

"My girl is in trouble? No it-, I'm sending squad cars to the house" the chief immediately got on the phone and began frantically dialing.

"Wait chief" Brick suddenly spoke up. "If you send your forces there, they'll only think we're the culprits."

"But I can't just-"

"Trust us chief, she can be more helped by us than your squads. Send them after we've dealt with it."

Mccoy knew this was true, the superpowered boys had a much better chance of helping Wendy than the amatuer officers. "Inform me what's happened as soon as you get there" he requested.

"What are we still doing here? Mom's in trouble c'mon!" Butch urged impatiently, and the three zipped out straight for their home.

When they got there, they saw the front door was open with their mother's keys still in it. "Whoever got in here used mom's keys to get out" observed Boomer as they all floated inside.

"But there was no sign of a break in" the red ruff looked around with his x-ray vision, only to see the mess on the living room floor as did his brothers.

"But they're signs of a scuffle" Butch stated.

"All the gadgets she had for us" Boomer looked them over, scattered on the carpet. He then spotted something else, a rag. He picked it up and both his brothers, like him, just stared at it.

Brick recognised it by the smell. "Chloroform." Floating over to the chimney, as before he couldn't help but notice soot markings from the fireplace, as if something came down it. "Whoever broke in and took mom was obviously small enough to fit through the chimney. About our height."

"You don't think-" implied Boomer, to which no one answered.

"Let's inform chief Mccoy on the computer down in the lab" Brick suggested as he led his brothers down and switched the lights on, logging on to tell the chief about their findings.

"Chief, our mom's gone." Explained the red ruff to Mccoy who was listening on skype on his computer in his office. "We believe she's been kidnapped."

"By someone our height" added Boomer.

"Kidnapped? Oh god, well listen boys, something's just come through after I called up Townsville. They sent me CCTV footage of around the rooftops of their city and this is what it revealed."

Mccoy brought up the footage on the computer for the boys to see, and what it played out was the events from just an hour ago. Blossom and Buttercup both locked in battle with what appeared to be three other children like them. Chemical X users, who managed to overpower both puffs and drag them off somewhere.

"We were right! There are other chemical X kids!" Butch proclaimed.

"And look!" Boomer pointed when the footage was fast forwarded. "They've got Bubbles too!"

"They're probably the ones who also kidnapped mom, but what do they want with her? And the girls?" Butch questioned.

"Ian" Brick remembered. "Given how he's sort of a chemical X being, and how mom is the co-creator of it, my guess is he wants her for information, or least something to do with the substance that brought him back to life. But what does he want with the girls?"

"And where did those other girls helping him come from?" questioned Butch again.

"Chief, keep your men on the lookout for any signs of these girls in Founders city, we'll do our best to track down mom and the Powerpuffs" advised Brick.

The worried but professional police chief followed this and said to update him if there's any news. Logging off of skype, the leader Rowdyruff pulled something out from under his red cap. A small little evidence bag of something.

"What's that?" eyed is green brother.

"This is a small little compound that I scraped up from where those girls had attacked in the police station, remember?"

"I thought you left that back there, when the police made us drop everything?"

"I hid it just before." The red ruff placed it in the evidence analyser to determine what material this was. "Okay" he began. "The computer is saying that this is something found on rocks, near coastline. Not the sort of thing you'll find in a police station."

"So these girls are located near a beach?" suggested the blond ruff.

"Not quite" Brick put his stubbed hand to his chin. "Ian managed to supply Duranium to Sofia Folla. Wherever they are, there must be an abundance of it."

"Not to mention that if they were located by the shore of the city, they would've been spotted by the coastguard or a pedestrian by now" Butch spoke up.

Glancing around at the desk of previous case files by Brick, one in particular caught the ruff's eye. The fire of that old offshore prison they were once incarcerated in, which he suspected was started on purpose. The electrical wires seemed to have been zapped with something. Heat vision, of course!

Brick grabbed the paper with the case file. "This is where they are."

"The offshore prison?" Butch looked over the file. "What are they doing there?"

"That place was set ablaze deliberately so they could use it as a hideout. It's filled to the brim with Duranium that was installed to keep us in when we were inmates!"

"How do you know for sure?"

"It's the most likely place for them to be."

"That prison where we were beaten, and left in the cold and isolated?" Boomer said blatantly with sadness in his voice at the memories. "And now mom and the girls are being held hostage there. Let's go!" he suddenly and determinedly proclaimed.

"Let's at least inspect it first" advised the leader. However before either of them could leave, the green Rowdyruff still had some final words of protest in him.

"Whoa whoa, wait a minute, are we actually going to rescue these girls? The puffs I mean. Bubbles I understand but as with the other two, especially Blossom, why on earth should they even get an ounce of our help?"

"Butch I know what you're trying to say, but that doesn't matter right now" Brick tried to reason.

"We're talking about the girls who fought us, defeated us, spied on us, and then refused to believe us when we were actually trying to help them! Right before casting us out of Townsville and forcing us to flee, rallying an entire hate mob against us, as well as trying to turn the Founders police against us! Don't you realise that?" Butch ranted.

There was a pause, and the red leader calmly replied "Yes, and those same girls who fought us, defeated us, spied on us, and refused to believe us when we were trying to help them right before casting us out of Townsville forcing us to flee, rallying a hate mob against us and trying to turn the Founders police on us, are now in danger, and it's our job to save them, because that's what we do now Butch. You can stay here if you want, but going up against foes like this, I admit, I'm going to need you. You and your skills. And we both know you don't want to see either mom or Bubbles hurt, do you?"

Butch turned away, not saying anything and still looking cross. He finally answered with "I'm going to help you rescue them, for mom and for Bubbles, and perhaps maybe Buttercup as well for believing us right at the end, but I am definitely not doing it for Blossom or because I like the puffs, understand?"

"Of course, now grab your gadgets you two, our first stop is Townsville, then the island" Brick instructed.

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Bubbles began to regain consciousness and opened her eyes slowly. Her head was spinning and she felt hard ground underneath her. Pushing herself up she seemed to be in some sort of cage, next to the wall in quite a large room. The last thing she remembered was fighting these other super powered girls who she knew had taken her sisters, before feeling a prick in the neck and blacking out. She still felt slightly weak, and had no idea where she was. Her heart leapt a bit however when she heard a familiar voice.

"Bubbles! You're awake!"

The blonde turned and saw her pink sister fly to her side. It turned out Blossom and Buttercup were in the same cage as she was.

"Blossom? Buttercup? You're here!" The two sisters embraced each other, forgetting for a moment all the conflict that had happened between them.

"So they did get you, those other girls. When was I brought here?" asked Bubbles ending the hug.

"Those punk girls brought you in here unconscious just a while ago. We were going to use that as an opportunity to escape but we still felt too drowsy to do it" Buttercup explained floating towards her.

"Punk girls?" repeated Bubbles.

"That's what they're calling themselves, the Powerpunk girls. We fought them and they managed to tranquilise us a while after you ran away. We woke up here in a cage with solid Duranium bars" Blossom explained with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Thing is, it wasn't those girls who shot me" Buttercup remembered. "I heard a voice just before I passed out. It was-"

A door suddenly swung open at one end of the large room, and in floated the three girls that almost looked identical to them, floating up to the cage.

"Oh you're all awake. We only came in here to check on you all, and it seems even now fully conscious, you still can't break out these Duranium bars" Berserk observed.

"Where did you three even come from?" questioned Blossom, who was still getting over the fact that these three even existed.

"It's complicated. Long story short we came from another dimension. Through an old mirror. It sounds ridiculous I know but Ian was the first one who found us."

"Ian? Wait, you mean he's real too? Everything that Mrs Innlost told us was true?" Blossom inquired surprised.

"Everything that the boys were trying to tell us was true!" Bubbles even now still could not believe her sister's ignorance.

"I think it's best to leave you three to talk amongst yourselves for now" Berserk figured.

"Before the experimenting begins anyway" added Brute, before realising maybe she shouldn't have said that.

"Experimenting? Wha-, what do you mean?" Buttercup wondered.

The Powerpunk leader sighed and glared at her sister for a second. "Eh, there's no point keeping it a secret now. Ian in the other room there, has tons of medical equipment that he's been secretly dealing for over the past few months. I assume you've been told he's practically a walking corpse? That's because he is. The chemical X brought him back to life, after being experimented on himself with it by Innlost and her husband. Now he wants to discover the secrets of that chemical."

"What do you three get out of it?" questioned Bubbles, now acting the toughest of the three.

"What don't we get out of it?" Brat mocked. "Ian promised to enhance our powers as soon as he unlocked the secrets of chemical X. Oh just think how powerful we'll be!"

"And the only way to capture chemical X users, was with chemical X users. So he recruited us, not only to subdue you but to sabotage this prison and rob that bank in Townsville to pay for all that equipment" explained Berserk.

"Prison?" said Buttercup.

"That's where you are. An offshore prison. Oh, and don't bother calling for the boys because if you do we'll hurt poor old Mrs Innlost in there."

"You have her too!" exclaimed Bubbles grabbing the bars of the cage.

Using her X-ray vision, Blossom could see Wendy unconscious in a cell in the next room, along with an abundance of medical equipment outside of it. "They're not kidding" her voice was frail and full of fear.

"Anytime you refuse to cooperate, a bone of hers breaks" Berserk and the punks left with that threat, heading out to keep a lookout for anything approaching the island.

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Mrs Innlost finally regained consciousness, waking in a completely different environment to her house. She was in some sort of cell, and as she struggled to stand, she had handcuffs on. Feeling slightly afraid, but refusing to let it show and keeping her cool, the scientist approached the bars and examined what was on the other side.

There were tables scattered with medical tools that she recognised as ones used for human experimentation. This made her fear grow even more, and hoped this wasn't meant for her. Then again, she'd rather have it be her than anyone else.

Looking over to the left, she saw a man at a computer with his back to her, wearing a blue jacket and cap. The odd thing was, though she couldn't get a clear view of it from here, his skin looked oddly, blueish. He suddenly turned his head towards her direction, making her jump back a bit.

He stopped working at the computer and approached her cell. Now more close, Wendy could get a better view of this man, and his skin was indeed turning blue, and not only that, but it was rotting, peeling and decaying. The sight was almost enough to make her feel sick, but nethertheless, she still recognised him.

"Ian? It's, you? How?"

The man didn't say anything for a second, but then answered "Chemical X was how, Wendy. Didn't Mark originally intend it to bring back the dead?" His jaw moved in an awkward way when he spoke.

"Yes but, how do you even know this? You were dead. How are you even here? How do you even know who Mark and I are?" asked Wendy baffled, shaking her head.

"Well after you and your husband left me in that capsule without giving me a proper burial or anything,"

Wendy looked away slightly. Guilt filled her as she only just realised that she and Mark kinda just left Ian's body to be forgotten after they were done experimenting with it. And when Mark died she forgot about it almost completely.

"Oh don't worry I'm glad you didn't" Ian saw her expression. "Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to be here now. However it wasn't exactly a walk in the park, after I woke up either."

"So the chemical did work, it did bring you back from the dead" stated Wendy.

"Only after several years, of my body decaying and rotting away. I broke out of the capsule only to see myself in a mirror. I look like a zombie!" Ian woed. "What could I do at that point? Go out in broad daylight? Start a new life from there, I'm officially dead! If I had known I would end up in the hands of you and your cutting and dissecting spouse, I would never have donated my body for research!" he turned his back to her.

"We thought the experiment failed Ian" Wendy protested. "Mark thought chemical X wasn't strong enough. We had no idea that the remainder of it inside you would bring you back to life! How do you even find out it was us anyway?"

"I hacked into the computers and databases of the storage room where I was kept. Hiding in there for years I managed to learn a few things." He turned to face her again. "I also learnt that it was the Innlosts who experimented on me. Funny, this is technically our real first meeting isn't it? Found all the information on you and your research files that I could. What the chemical was, what it was originally intended to be for, how it created those Powerpuff girls, and how Mark died from cancer not too long ago as a result from radiation exposure. I assume, he did that whilst working on the chemical?"

Wendy didn't say anything, but just turned away sadly.

"Hm, Ironic. Well I guess we're similar, Mark and I. He's dead, and I can't live a life like this" Ian referred to his decaying skin.

"There still may be hope for you Ian-"

"What like this?" the corpse man held up his hands, shouting suddenly. "I had to hide in isolation for ages. Only going out at night! Having to hide my face every time I did so! There's no way to 'un-decay' me!"

"If you've accepted you can't go back, what are you doing with all of this?" Wendy referred to all the equipment.

"Because I want to know how this chemical works. If this chemical can bring me back from the dead over time, just think what I can do once I know how to properly use it. Once I perfect it" he turned his back to her again. "I could bring people back instantly! And not only that," he turned to her again shaking his finger. "But if it gave those girls in there powers, I could probably unlock the secrets of that too!"

"Girls in there? What do you mean?" inquired Wendy becoming worried again, hoping he was talking about those other chemical X girls that worked for him.

That's when Brat flew into the room, whom the scientist woman concluded must've been part of the girls that kidnapped her.

"Ian, the puffs are secure, Berserk and Brute are guarding the island like you ordered" informed the Bubbles counterpart.

"Puff girls? No!" Wendy exclaimed, confirming her fears.

"Well done Brat, go and guard them. They're going to be my lab rats Wendy" he said turning back to the woman. "The mirror where I first looked at myself after 'waking', turned out to be a portal, to somewhere you wouldn't believe. And I met the Powerpunk girls, and struck a deal with them to capture the puffs. Of course at the time I had never even heard of your 'ruff sons' and was very surprised to find that they existed too. That's why I didn't plan on capturing them, though they won't find us here, I assure you."

"What do you want me for?" Wendy questioned.

Ian just simply pulled out a ring of keys and unlocked Wendy's handcuffs, as well as the cell she was in. He pushed the bars to the side and simply stated "You're going to help me experiment on the Powerpuffs."

Taken aback a bit how he just set her free like that, the scientist simply folded her arms and disgustedly said "I'll never do such a thing."

"Even if it means bringing people back from the dead?"

"Never" she persisted.

"Think about it though Wendy. With this, we could bring your dear departed husband back."

Now at this, the scientist woman was at a complete loss for words, only looking up and managing to say "What?" with a hint of curiosity.

"My girls told me what your house looked like when they kidnapped you. How you still have his clothes carefully preserved in a wardrobe, how it still looked as if you slept on your side of the bed. I bet you still even wash his clothes don't you?"

Wendy didn't say a word, but looked very, very conflicted.

"The offer is yours. You could have the love of your life back again, and I'll leave you and your sons alone afterwards. You could be an actual proper family, and Mark won't be a decaying corpse like me. All you have to do is assist me in this" Ian propositioned, to the very tempted looking scientist.

So uh, hey everyone. I know I've been away for so long, and haven't updated in almost three weeks, but here's the latest chapter where we see both Bubbles and Wendy now too captured by the Powerpunks, and the boys figuring out where they are. I loved writing the Ian part though as it was quite interesting, and next chapter we'll see Blossom fully come to terms with what she's done and how remorseful she is, as well as the rescue attempt by the boys. Have a very happy Halloween everyone too! And sorry again for being so late.

Thanks to Narya Anima, Vip189, and John for reviewing and sorry for the wait Saladfisher265.

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