Blossom and Brick have been out walking in the park ever since school let out, on a nice little date.
Brick stops and points to an ice cream stand beside an apple tree. "Has that always been there?" He asks, turning his face towards Blossom.
Blossom looks to where Brick is pointing and sees the ice cream stand, she then shakes her head. "I don't think so, I mean, I've never seen it before."
Brick smiles. "Well, do you wanna go get some ice cream? We can ask them when they put the stand up."
Blossom laughs. "Okay, you can get an ice cream, but I don't think I want one right now." She says, walking along with Brick towards the stand.
Brick stops and looks down at her questioningly. Then putting the back of his hand on her head. "Are you sick?" He asks. "No-one can turn down ice cream."
She smiles and pulls his hand from her head. "I think I just did, does that mean that I'm no-one then?" She says, faking a pouty face up at him.
He rolls his eyes and they both start walking towards the stand again so that Brick can get his ice cream.
Blossom doesn't want to worry Brick, but she's still trying to figure out where her mother and her father went.
Pulling her out of her thoughts, her phone is vibrating, she looks at the caller ID to see that it's Bubbles.
"Hello?" She answers, waiting for her younger sisters reply.
"Blossom." Bubbles voice comes in a rushed whisper. "There are some people here" She finishes.
"Who is it?" Blossom asks worried, earning a questioning glance from Brick as he pays for his vanilla ice cream.
"I don't know" Bubbles says "They said that they're drug dealers, and that mom and dad owe them money." She pauses and Blossom hears a sob. "They said if they don't get their money soon they're taking me, then they said if I tried to call the cops they'd still take me, but it would be worse on me then if I don't."
Blossom's eyes widen and she grabs Bricks arm.
"Bubbles" She says "I'll be there in a minute."
"Okay" The blondes voice comes, and Blossom hears another sob "please hurry!"
Blossom hangs up. So this is why their parents had disappeared, they knew this would happen so they left them here to pay the consequences.
She turns to Brick "We gotta go to my house." She says. "NOW! I'll explain later!" she says, grabbing his arm and making him run to his car with her, also making him drop his ice cream, but he doesn't think twice to following her since she seems upset.
She pulls out her phone to call Buttercup and inform her about the issues at their house, then she's going to tell Brick.
After hearing what Blossom said Buttercup grabbed Butch and ran into Boomer's room, grabbing him as well.
"COME WITH ME NOW BOTH OF YOU!" She yells, already out the door with both boys trailing close behind her.
Bubbles sits locked in the bathroom, tears streaming down her face. This was bad, but now it's just horrible. She's going to be taken captive in replacement of drug money.
She screams when she heard the loud beating on the door, done by the large thug-like drug dealers outside of the door.
"C'mon out girly!" She hears one of them call to her. "Or we're commin in, and ya don't want that!" He finishes, causing the other two men to laugh.
She curls up into a ball in the bath tub and the tears start flowing more quickly. "Please please" She whispers to herself "Please let someone come." She whispers still, hoping that Blossom will come with help.
She jumps a little when she hears the sound of the door cracking from the beating that the men are doing, she knows that it won't hold much longer.
"Please please" She keeps repeating to herself, her eyes closed and her whole body curled up into a tight ball.
Buttercup leads the boys through the woods and to her and her sisters house, they got here before blossom and Brick since they were closer, and then she leads them inside, stopping when she sees the three large men standing in front of the bathroom door.
She holds out her arms and puts her finger to her lips since they hadn't been noticed yet, they still have the element of surprise.
She signals for the boys to follow her but before she can take a step, Butch's arms wrap around her and stop her from moving.
She turns around and sees him scowling "what are you doing we have to go help Bubbles before those huge freaks break the door down!" she whispers. "I hear it cracking already!"
He shakes his head and whispers back to her "Let me and Boomer handle it, it's too dangerous for you, I don't want you to get her."
She scowls and shakes her head "Just follow me." she whispers, pulling away from him and walkig towards the three men.
Boomer and Butch follow her, Boomer with worry for Bubbles and Butch with worry for Buttercup.
Buttercup walks up behind one of the guys and crouches down before leaping through the air and landing on his back with her arms warped around his head, pulling him backwards.
The other two men lunge forward to attempt to pry Buttercup off of their companion, but they fail when Butch pushes one of them into the other.
Butch takes the two men, keeping them away from his girlfriend as she punches, kicks, and scratches at the guy that she's fighting.
Boomer goes for the door and starts turning the door handle to find it locked. he puts his face to the door and starts to talk. "Bubbles! Bubbles! Open the door, it's me Boomer!"
Nothing, she probably couldn't hear him over the sound of the fighting in the back ground from her sister and his brother.
"What's going on?" Boomer hears and he turns around to see Brick and Blossom looking at him.
Boomer points to the fighting. "Buttercup and Butch are handling those guys." He says, then he points to the bathroom door with cracks and lots of dents in it. "And I think Bubbles is in here because they were trying to break it down."
They hear a loud crash and turn to see the man Buttercup was fighting holding her against the wall by her neck.
She's clawing at his hands and gasping for air as he puts on more pressure, attempting to either choke her or break her neck.
Butch growls and runs to the guy, grabbing his arm and pulling it away from his girlfriend so she can breath.
The two guys that he was fighting stand up and one of them goes for Butch while the others go towards Blossom, Brick, and Boomer.
Brick takes a position in front of Blossom and stops the guy from coming near her by tackling him when he comes close.
Blossom turns and goes to help Buttercup get out of the way, since she's still having trouble catching her breath.
Boomer reaches into his pocket and digs around until he finds a tooth pick, suddenly thankful that he couldn't find anywhere to throw it away earlier.
He bends forward slightly and sticks the sharpest end of the tooth pick into the hole in the center of the door knob, wiggling it until he finds the small button, then pushing down and twisting the knob. Smiling in success when he manages to get the door open.
He steps inside and sees Bubbles hunched into a ball, sobs coming from her mouth along with hiccups.
He sits on his knees and leans into the bathtub, grabbing her shoulders and hoisting her up against his his chest and caressing her hair.
"Shh" He whispers to her gently. "It's okay Bubbles, I'm here and I'm not going to let them touch you."
She sobs into his shirt and and pulls him close frantically wrapping her arms around him for some stability.
"B-B-Boomer!" She says between sobs, looking up into his eyes, more tears coming from hers. "I-I was s-" She hiccups "so s-scared." She sobs "I-I thought" once more she hiccups "I-was g-g-gonna die!"
Boomer continues to stroke her hair until he feels someone behind him punch the back of his head.
He turns around, not releasing Bubbles, to see one of the three thugs, blood running from various cuts and slashes from his face.
"You and your friends are gonna be sorry you got involved with these girls. We had a deal with their parents that if they couldn't pay us we were takin one of their kids. But now we're gonna take all of 'em."
Boomer looks back to Bubbles and gently sets her against the wall of the tub. Her eyes wide at the man threatening to take her and her sisters away.
"I'll be right back Bubbles," He says gently to her "Don't worry." Then he stands up and faces the man, well, almost faces the man since he's taller than Boomer is.
"You" Boomer says sternly. "Are NOT taking her, or either of her sisters. Me and my brothers won't let you."
The man smirks and slings back his arm, punching Boomer in the face and knocking him out instantly.
When Boomer opens his eyes he's tied to his brothers siting on the ground of the girl's house. In front of them Bubbles and Blossom are tied up as well.
"Brick! Butch!" Boomer yell-whispers elbowing his brothers as hard as he can while tied up to them.
Brick and Butch open their eyes slowly and see Blossom and Bubbles tied up before realizing that they are in the same situation.
"WHERE'S MY BUTTERCUP!?" Butch yells angrily when he realizes that Buttercup isn't tied up with her sisters.
In response there's a loud crash followed by Buttercup yelling angrily "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
Moments later Buttercup crashes into the living room in front of the boys, her whole body scratched up.
The sound of one of the men grunting angrily is heard next before his voice. "GET BACK HERE AND LET ME TIE YOU UP SO WE CAN GO!" He yells, following her into the room holding a rope.
Butch growls and tried to break free of the ropes to help his girlfriend who is now being chased by the large man, but the ropes are strong and they won't break.
Brick starts to struggle, getting his brothers attention. "I have a pocket knife" He explains, pulling it out and silently working on the ropes.
"Wait a minute." Boomer says looking around the room, getting their attention. "I see one guy, but where are the other two?"
"I don't know" Brick says, once more starting to work on the ropes. "And i don't care, we just need to get out of these ropes, take down that one man, untie the girls, and get out of here."
Butch agrees, still trying to break the ropes with his bare hands, getting farther now that Brick is weakening them.
Once the ropes are broken Butch tackles the man, who was at that point on top of Buttercup holding her down against the ground.
"GET OFF MY FREAKIN GIRLFRIEND YOU STUPID THUG!" He yells, twisting the guys arm behind his back and using the rope to tie him up, then going to Buttercup to see if she was okay.
"Buttercup? Are you okay? Buttercup?" He picks her up and looks at her bloody and bruised face.
"Buttercup" he says again "Can you hear me? Are you okay?!" He says, more worried since she still hasn't answered him from the first time he asked.
Buttercup looks at him and smiles. "Yea, I'm o-okay Butch. I'm a fighter. I've been" she stopped to cough enough to clear her throat. "Been fighting since they knocked you and your brothers out"
While Butch takes care of Buttercup Boomer and Brick untie Blossom and Bubbles and lift them onto their shoulders.
"Let's get them back to our house" Brick says looking at Boomer, who has Bubbles gently placed over his left shoulder, then to Butch who is holding Buttercup bridal style in his arms. "Then we need to call the police once the girls are safely away from here."
Both boys nod and that all make their way to Bricks car where they gently place the girls in the backseat, Brick gets in the driver's seat, Boomer get's shot gun, and Butch sits beside Buttercup in the back.
Once the boys get the girls to their house and into the bed where they can rest they call the police and inform them of what had just happened, and the police informed them that they would be here in only a moment.
Brick sits beside the place where Blossom's laying on the bed, his hand gently stroking her hair ad he uses the other to run a wet wash cloth across her face, removing some of the dried blood.
He feels so bad that he couldn't protect her, he looked away from her for 5 seconds to hit one of the guys and when he turned back to check on her she was lying on the floor with blood pouring from a fresh wounds on her face. Moments later he was on the ground beside her unconscious.
Butch and Buttercup both dress each others wounds, Butch wrapping bandages around Buttercups arm and she wraps bandages around his leg.
They work together, using each other movements to help their own work. They work in perfect time together, like two bodies with one mind.
Bubbles had woken up moments after the boys had called the police, and now she was helping Boomer with his injuries since they had already fixed hers.
"Thank you for coming to help me Boomer." bubbles says, upset with herself for being mad at him when all he was doing was trying to protect her.
He looks up at her, surprised at what she just said, and he reaches out to grab her chin, making her look at him.
"Bubbles." he says, looking deep into her eyes. "I will always come to help you, no matter what it's about, I'll come to your rescue. You're my princess and I want to be your knight." he kisses her forehead and when he pulls away he sees tears running down her face.
"What's wrong Bubbles?" He asks, wiping away a tear from her left cheek and looking her over to see if he had accidentally touched one of her wounds.
She smiles and shakes her head, looking back into his dark blue eyes. "Boomer, I am so sorry that i got upset about the Dexter thing, I don't believe in violence but I know that you were only trying to help. I shouldn't have over reacted."
Boomer smiles and takes her hand. "Bubbles, I forgive you, but you don't need to apologize. I did over react, but he hurt you, and I just don't want anyone to hurt you. I should apologize to you though, for what happened at your house, I promised you that I was going to keep you safe, and I nearly failed."
She laughs a little. "But Boomer, that's the key word. You NEARLY failed, but you didn't. I for one, never doubted you would be able to keep your promise." She kisses him on the cheek and smiles at him. "And you did, now we should get finished with bandaging your boo-boo's so they don't get infected."
Boomer nods and they both get back to dressing his wounds. They do it in silence, but a comfortable silence with smiles on their faces.
(A/N so, I tried to make this chapter as long as I could. I tied up a bunch of the lose ends, where the girls parents are, Boomer and Bubbles fight, etc. but don't worry, it's not the end, there shall be more soon. Byeas friends!)