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Chapter 26: Zero Becomes One
Loud Sibling Used: Lincoln
Copy Ability: Crystal Shard Gun
Boss: 2^0 (Two-Zero/(Zero-Two)) and Lynn
Game: Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000)
Lana returns back to the Loud House, having just finished fighting off the 21-faceted concentration of Dark Matter that almost corrupted everyone on the planet, let alone their hometown of Royal Woods, MI! Upon coming home, she marches to Leni's room and hands her the 74th Crystal Shard, the one you get from destroying Miracle Matter.
"A present, from Miracle Matter to you." Lana states confidently
"Great, so when do I get to meet him?"
Lana gives Leni a confused look.
"No, Leni. Miracle Matter is what Lisa's Kirby boss compendium calls that 21 si-eye-d creature that just almost controlled our entire planet!"
"Ok, but is he cute?" Leni questions
"No! He has a red eye on each of his facets! It looks like a 21-sided die with eyes on it!" Lana rebukes
"Oh ok, I got you…" Leni realizes…well, at least she realized eventually…
Lisa enters Leni's room and sees a massive pile of shards in her room.
"Great job on defeating Miracle Matter, Lana, but it's not over, there's still one more source of Dark Matter on Earth. We need to find and eliminate it." Lisa states
"Eliminate? Can't we just befriend the Dark Matter?" Leni asks
"Those things don't know what "emotion" is. Befriending someone like that…it won't end well. All we can do to save this planet is to fight and win." Lisa avers to her
"Speaking of which, how's our casualty?" Lana queries
"Lynn's doing fine. Sure, she's still missing her right eye when Zero tried to take over, but she's otherwise the sport-loving tomboy we know."
"AHH!"
"That came from the living room! We need to see if Lynn's okay!" Lisa utters
"IT HURTS SO BAD! MY EYE!"
All of the Loud siblings descend to the living room and see that Lynn's left eye has turned from black (it's really hard to tell since everyone has black irises in the show) to an ivory-white. The eye is rapidly convulsing, almost as if it has a seizure! It almost seems to be gouging itself away from Lynn's face, you can almost see her optic nerve being exposed to the violent contractions it's making! Eventually, the eye manages to tear itself away from her optic nerve with the sound of a wet rope tearing. Her optic nerve begins gushing blood everywhere! The eye is coated in Lynn's eye gore. It opens itself and makes a down thrusting, arms open and thinking "gesture". Its spiky, cactus-like tail emerges, its angelic wings form and its halo pops out and lights up! Lynn regains her original eyes to see…
"What is THAT?! KB compendium, tell us what Kirby boss that is!" Lisa pleads
"No data available, Kirby has never encountered this enemy before."
"What?!" Lisa questions, somewhat baffled at the ocular entity
"Needle!" Lana shouts, as she sends a barrage of needles into its pupil…the eye drips blood, but it seems like it hasn't taken any damage!
"…eye weakness… ai…" Lynn mumbles
"Lynn!" Lincoln shouts in concern for his sister
Leni runs off to her room to work on something, having realized what Lynn was trying to say, but how can the Louds fight off an enemy that not even Kirby himself has fought?
Lynn begins to speak… her appearance starts to look more demonic, in contrast to the eye's angelic form. The "1" on Lynn's shirt morphs into a trident and her outward appearance shows bloodstains on her body. She has a berserk look in her eyes.
"Greetings, I am the leader of the Dark Matter, I was 0^2, until that annoying pink puffball caused this scar!"
It flips over, showing a bandage on its "head". It flips back to its default position once the Louds are done looking at it.
"But now that this young lady has agreed to share with me, I am INVINCIBLE! NOTHING can hurt me as long as she's by my side! Oh, and…you, the kid with the white hair? She's telling me that she hates you, but repressed it so she wouldn't lose you, and that has nothing to do with me, but I'm going to use it to my advantage anyway. Now Lynn, lets tag-team these chumps!"
"You got it!" Lynn replies enthusiastically. A red aura emanates from Lynn's body… is this the repressed hate that she has for Lincoln, weaponized?
"I am 2^0!"
"And I am Lynn Loud!"
"And we are one!"
Leni arrives to see all the chaos and throws him a weapon. It's a gun…made from the 74 Crystal Shards that the Louds collect by defeating all of the Kirby 64 bosses!
"Lincoln, that gun weaponizes love, just like the weapon I made to fight Zero! It's the only thing that will hurt 0^2!" Leni explains to him
"2^0! The Dark Matter's suffocating stranglehold on our planet WILL END, here and NOW!" Lincoln boasts as he shoots 2^0 right in the iris! It starts spewing droplets of sanguine… it still looks like it hasn't taken damage!
("It's not working! Not even the Crystal Shard Gun can damage it!")
Lincoln glances at Lynn who begins to charge him. He effortlessly dodges her charges and shoots her in the shoulder to keep the pressure off of him. 2^0 seems to react to Lynn's pain.
("Maybe…I have to sever Lynn's connection to 2^0…and there's only one way to do that!")
Lincoln turns the gun from 2^0 to Lynn, he fires 7 rounds into her, incapacitating her! Judging from 2^0's angry reaction, the connection between it and Lynn has waned to the point where Lincoln can damage it!
Lincoln begins targeting the iris, 2^0 begins shedding streams of blood profusely. Eventually, it begins spasms uncontrollably due to the concentrated attacks to the eye.
Lincoln now begins to shoot the wings off of 2^0 so that it can't dodge the assault anymore. You might start to feel pity for it now, but remember, this entity has taken over several planets and corrupted many people. He also used Lynn as a puppet, but compared to planetwide corruption, that's nothing. Lincoln succeeds and 2^0 is now immobilized! It recovers from spasming and begins to bombard Lincoln with cluster energy bombs, which he dodges!
"Looks like our brother made a one-winged angel." Luan comments once Lincoln takes out one of the wings
"Lincoln has just clipped an angel's wings." Luan boasts once Lincoln destroys both wings
With 2^0 crippled, Lincoln shoots the iris again, 2^0 begins spasming again, but this time, Lincoln targets its halo, which protects its weak point! He disables the halo and 2^0 exposes its tail. Lincoln unloads on the tail while 2^0 retaliates by sending out green gas from its tail at him. Lincoln does get hit by the noxious gas and takes 1 damage, but Lincoln manages to deplete half of his health on the first cycle. Since he immobilized 2^0 by destroying its wings, Lincoln targets the halo directly, knocks down its bio-organic shield, and unloads on the tail again. 2^0 is 1 HP away from being defeated…
"This is for possessing my sister!" Lincoln shouts at it before shooting its tail, execution style. 2^0 is surrounded in a white aura with beams of light cracking from it, it explodes in a fantastic burst of light! Thankfully, none of the Louds went blind from staring at the explosion or that the explosion didn't damage anything In the Loud household.
"Ah, it's finally over…" Lincoln sighs exasperatedly
"Indeed, Elder Brother, the Dark Matter will plague the multiverse no more. Everyone can rest easy now…" Lisa surmises
Lynn recovers from her incapacitation and tries to kill Lincoln, due to the repressed hatred aura. As 2^0 said, it didn't cause the malice, all it did was bring it to the surface.
"Lynn calm down! It's over! The Dark Matter threat is gone!"
Lynn is still in a livid fury! Lincoln tries dodging until Lynn gets tired. He does so, but as soon as Lynn recovers her energy, she tries to kill him. Sadly, Lucy doesn't have any aura dispelling spells…Lincoln knows what he has to do…
Lincoln takes the Crystal Shard Gun and aims it at Lynn…
"THUNK!"
"Sorry, Lynn… maybe now the aura won't affect you anymore and you can be my sister again…I didn't want it to end this way…" Lincoln avows solemnly
Lincoln shot Lynn once in the heart. One shot, one kill. She didn't suffer any pain.
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"Sorry you had to do that Lincoln." Lisa tries to console him over his loss
"I blame 2^0 for this."
"20? You have to fight 19 more 0^2s? That will take forever!" Leni exclaims
"No, my sweet, but stupid older sister. This boss is 2^0, or "Two Zero". Though to be grammatically correct, it would be "two to the power of zero", which would be one, but I guess naming yourself "One" would be kind of lame and pretentious." Lisa reasons
"I guess we should tell our parents about this…" Lincoln said while wincing. Understandable, how is Lincoln going to explain all the craziness that just went on in that battle? How is he going to justify killing Lynn to their parents, even if she WAS going to kill him?
Unfortunately, they saw the entire 2^0 and Lynn fight. So, they know that Lincoln was acting in self-defense, but this necessary action, euthanizing their sister, still hurts everyone. The Louds had her funeral 7 days later. This threat may be dealt with, but those dimensional stars are still sending Kirby bosses. The Loud siblings need to be on their guard from now on…
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