6:55 AM
It was the morning of ONC City. A large metropolitan city, a little bit bigger than NYC. It was a large city alright, more than eight districts of it.
In the Royal District, a house on 1216 Franklin Avenue, a very old house. Filled with absolutely no one but three residents. It starts in a medium linen closet, decked out with the appropriate amenities. There is a bed, dresser, and mirror. The closets clothes rack to hang are shorts and model spaceships. The room also has many comic books and movie action figures inside his room.
Laying on the bed was a boy, sixteen of age, wearing a orange tank top, and plaid pajama pants that were a bit too small for him, and white socks.
That boy was named Lincoln Loud.
Lincoln was sleeping in his bed, dreaming of something personal. When his alarm from his phone, it was a really loud annoying sound. It was so loud that Lincoln reaches it with his left hand, and presses the turn off button. He then stood up, still sitting on the bed, he checks the date on his phone.
'January, 25 2019
"Well at least today's Friday." Lincoln said to himself
Lincoln stood up from his bed and took off his pajama clothes and puts on his normal clothes, first wearing blue jeans, gray socks with blue and red stripes, and white sports shoes with red stripes, next was his upper area clothes, a white tank top, a red Ace Savvy tee-shirt, and a orange zip up jacket with the sleeves are black. His hair was messy due to bed head style, so he grabs a hairbrush and starts brushing it until it was straighten out with nothing pointing out but his iconic cowlick, Lincoln always liked the cowlick.
Lincoln was ready for the day, he takes a step out his room and sees the hallway completely deserted… He misses the noise he would always hear when he walks out the door. That was until All of his sister's left due to joining a team of good people. Lincoln was walking through the hall, takes a left turn and walks down the stairs, the stairs were creaking loudly as he walks down them. Lincoln reached the first floor and turns his head right to look at the living room. On the coffee table was two things that were for him… Literally as they have papers tied to them that says 'For Lincoln' on them.
One the first thing was his lunch bag, from his mother presumably. And the other was a briefcase with a note attached to it, Lincoln had a expression of belief, as he expected something like this. First off he opens the letter, however he was utterly dissatisfied and disappointed with what it had said.
'Dear Lincoln Loud,
We regret to inform you that we, unanimously, decline your offer to join our team, you are simply unqualified for the job.
However given your possible dissatisfaction, we decided to give you a gift instead, we hope that you are satisfied.
Sincerely, The Full House Gang'
Lincoln couldn't believe that they declined his offer, and he assumed what was inside the case was the gift? And not the case itself? Whatever. Lincoln refolded the letter and just throws it behind him and has his attention on the briefcase. Lincoln unlocks both things that kept the case locked and was kinda surprised that it opened itself after that, however he was until stunned on what it contained.
It was an authentic Ace Savvy suit. Lincoln was absolutely bewildered and amazed that they would give him his own suit. Although he did in fact made his own, it looked too unauthentic and not really good. Though this suit was really good. Lincoln took out the suit and inspected closely. From what he seen, it was a red, long-sleeved full-body armor made from what appears to be twaron and nylon, a black mask that covers everything except the hair area, and has mechanical lenses, it had black bracelets with a gold tint, black nylon gauntlets, black boots with blue soles, and a blue twaron cape with a blue hood attached to it, a gold utility belt, On his chest, he has a black spade with an "A" inside of it, which is his symbol. Lincoln looked back into the case and saw a couple of gadgets in there.
Although this made Lincoln be filled with glee, he looked at his phone again, the bus would come pretty soon so he has to move it. Lincoln just stuffs the suit in his backpack along with the gadgets, zips up the bag and just books it outta there, runs out the door and politely closes the door behind him in the process.
7:18 AM
Lincoln was sitting at the bus stop bench, his bag was sitting there besides him. Lincoln was listening to his music with his wireless headphones, he stares at his bag, thinking about what he was going to do after school today.
The bus came and there when the doors swung opened was the bus driver, who was a robot. "Get on kid." Said the bus driver. Lincoln complied.
Once inside, Lincoln saw the bus was full of either teens, robot teens, teens with white hair like him, or teens with deformities that no one will judge or else they would go to jail. Lincoln went to the very back of the bus, where his first, best, and only friend, Clyde McBride, who simply waved at him.At the back, both boys just do their secret handshake that kids these days do and Lincoln sits right beside him. "So how are you doing this morning Clyde?" Lincoln asked
"Good, how about you buddy?"
"I was kinda bummed out a little bit ago but um…"
Lincoln made a 'come over here' hand gesture making Clyde slide closer to Lincoln in secret to making sure nobody sees them, Lincoln then opens his bag to reveal to Clyde his new equipment. Clyde, like Lincoln, was amazed on the new equipment, and new suit.
"They got me this," Lincoln whispered
"Woah that's awesome." Clyde also whispered
"I know right! I'm going to use it the second i get out of school." Lincoln continued to whispered
"Okay, good luck with your trip of that… After school of course… Because… We have… School currently…" Clyde tried to do humor
Lincoln was not amused.
"I ain't paying you to try to make jokes on a dead end bus Clyde! I'm the one who makes the quips around here."
2:55 PM
It was last period for everyone in ONC High. A place full of teens and… Well you get the point, it's just a normal high school.For Lincoln's last school period, it was a simple math class that he absolutely did not hate at all... But he had to rush through the whole thing as for the time he had to leave.
The last question was a simpletons simplest question yet:
'The probability that an electronic device produced by a company does not function properly is equal to 0.1. If 10 devices are bought, then the probability, to the nearest thousandth, that 7 devices function properly is?:' which had one of the letter answers from A to D. Lincoln chose to circle the letter A: 0.057' and set his mechanical pencil down and breathes in relief. He raises his phone and it was about thirty seconds till 3:00 PM, so Lincoln raises his hand. "May I go now?!" Lincoln politely asked
Lincoln goes outside the the schools front twin doors, he smugly walks as he slightly runs across the parking lot and the street where nobody would question a sixteen year old kid running across from the school. Lincoln just simply walks along the sidewalk as soon as he gets off the road to avoid suspicion because people would definitely question why he would go into the alley literally across the street. Lincoln had to be out of sight from the school and pedestrians.
As he walks he does a quick search around the area in hopes that nobody's around. Luckily enough, there wasn't... Barely though. So Lincoln just bolts it into the nearby alley, looks just like a typical alley would look like, sweaty, smelly, and shatty with trash cans and suspicious looking red liquid on old dumpsters. It took minutes for Lincoln to get out of his normal clothes and even more minutes to get into the whole uniform. It felt very uncomfortable at first but it's usually uncomfortable when trying on a Halloween costume or something similar so it'll take getting used to.Lincoln took one takes a long and dramatic time to put on his mask on. The Heads-Up Display looked... Very advanced, even for him, it mostly looked confusing for him. But anyway he grabs his grapple hook, looked very simple from the one he used before. Now's the time to go. Ace Savvy fires the grapple hook on top of the building and just zips on up from the ground and on the roof within a few seconds.
On the roof he leaps over a few narrow gaps, jumping from rooftop to rooftop every time, until he reaches a position affording good view of the street. Ace Savvy checks the time on his Heads-Up Display, '3:19 PM' It said. "Alright let's what this new uniform has in mind."
Ace Savvy then leaps off the building he was on, does a couple of flips before using his grapple to quickly pull him to a nearby building wall, grabs a window sill to hang on real quick, scans the area, then uses the grapple again to ascend to the top of a building in a quick. There he then again leaps from building to building. And there he sees a robbery of a store. "Oh great! Another store set-up with a couple of idiots. When will this trend end?!" Ace Savvy then jumps down to the ground and just simply walks inside the store, whistling a tune.
The clunks with masks and guns just simply turn their heads at the sight of him. "You know, when you rob stores and banks, don't dress up like your about to go skiing like a maniac or something." Ace Savvy quipped
"It's Ace Savvy!"
"*Gasp* Ace Savvy?! Where?! Where?! Oh I just get so flustered when I meet a celebrity." Ace Savvy quipped again
They simply point their guns at him. Ace Savvy wasn't the least bit fazed by this at all. He was calm, it was just a normal occurrence that was something that annoyed him. "Don't mind me, just something's I want for myself." Ace Savvy just walks over to the can aisle, still in sight of the the clunks.
"Don't you dare move again! Or I swear I will shoot you where you stand!" one of them warned
Ace Savvy just looks at him with annoyance.
"You know, if you're gonna shoot someone, you might as well shoot the one on the left, since he's the one with the empty threats." Ace Savvy said to someone seemingly behind the two robbers
The two looked right behind them, there was no one there at all. Then suddenly the one with the gun was hit directly in the head with a can of peanuts. He fell to the floor, knocked out cold. "Ha! He fell for it I can't believe it!" Ace Savvy laughed
Ace Savvy broken down laughing as how could that guy be so stupid enough to fall for the 'look behind you!' gag. The other robber was still standing as Ace did not hit him with a can of peanuts, so he reached for the gun. "Woah woah woah whatcha doin?!" then the gun was sliced in half by a sharp shuriken in shape of an Ace. "Don't you try to pick up that gun while I'm too distracted laughing up a visual joke innit? Now back away from the unconscious fat guy before I break your arms."
The guy heed his warning and slowly moved backwards, what he didn't know was the can of peanuts was still on the floor, so he slipped on the floor from the can, and fell on his head, knocking him out cold. "Dang, that can is a deadly one." Ace Savvy noted
Ace Savvy then grabs a few ideas from his personal shopping list, a loaf of sliced bread, creamy peanut butter, and a can of sauerkraut. He brings the items to the register area. "Mind if I pay for these?" he takes out some of his allowance and sets it on the counter. "Keep the change." Ace Savvy then takes his items and just walks out the store.
3:39 PM
"Sooo where was the house again?" said a voice
There that walks was a familiar female robot that is 6.6 feet tall and weighs roughly 600 lbs. She has blue "pigtails" with bolts connecting them to her head that can act as rocket boosters, blue "bangs", white skin, blue "clothes" (a crop top, a miniskirt and boots), a belly-bolt (a bolt that simulates a belly button) which doubles as a linchpin. Her name is Jenny Wakeman. "Do you really don't remember where the house is?" asked her mother
"No I'm just messing with you, I know where it is."
She would carry a lavender backpack as she was walking down a street, heading towards Tremortion district. As Jenny walks, she heard from the way one of her 'pigtails' turned into a mini satellite dish. All she heard were cries for help from a woman nearby.
"Mom, where's the nearest alley?" Jenny asked
"Please don't I got a family!" The woman pleaded
"Just hand over the money lady!"
They had guns that were filled with lasers instead of bullets, but were still deadly as regular ones. They were at a parking spot, just outside her car. "You know, there are much better ways earn money than to just rob some innocent lady." Said a voice modulated… voice
The muggers looked right behind them to find a person wearing a full body uniform that takes form of close-fitting black-white-lavender armor.
"Oh no, it's XJ-9!" One of them shouted
"You are correct! I am XJ-9, I'm here, get used to it."
"Hm! It's probably just some lame cosplayer. Beat it kid! Or you'll get yourself in a place where you won't like."
"Excuse me? 'Some cosplayer'? You've got no idea, how wrong you are!"XJ-9 the suddenly had every weapon materialized from ready to um deal with them, they were absolutely terrified at the sight of those weapons. "Now leave now, or meet my friend Mr Tesla Cannons here." with that, the robbers just shat their pants and just drop the laser guns and just walk backwards till they were very much out of sight. At that moment, XJ-9 just dematerializes the weaponry she had. She turned her attention to the woman.
"Word of advice, don't go out in the middle of the day like this, it's not really safe out here, but with me around... And others. These streets will be safer, just remember that okay?"
The woman nodded.
"Okay, see you later."
XJ-9 materializes wings and then starts to fly off with her rocket boots and thrusters on her back.
4:08 PM
On a rooftop, Ace Savvy was sitting on a ledge of a building, eating what he bought, a peanut butter and sauerkraut sandwich, his favorite sandwich. "Man this new suit is awesome!" He says as he activates a blade emitted from the back of his hand. "Sure beats my old one. Well as much as I like taking breaks, I better get back to work." Ace Savvy stoods up takes a good look at the district he was in... which wasn't Royal District... It was Tremortion district. How far did he go from Royal District exactly?What's worst, Ace then hears a frightening elephant sounding growl just few feet behind him, he puts his head back and groans in annoyance, he slowly and dramatically turns around to face the culprit. "You know, when you named yourself 'Blackjack' I wouldn't expect you to sound like an frickin hippopotamus everytime you make an entrance. And something's different about you, did you get a new haircut?"
The appearance of this person was like almost the exact same appearance like Lincoln's new suit, save for the fact that he has a menacing cape, and the red and blue is replaced by black and white, mostly black. He was silent and that was his character. "Then have it your way Blackjack." Ace Savvy raises his fists, then swiftly moves towards him, so did the villain himself.
4:12 PM
"Okay is there anything to do at home Mom?" XJ-9 asked.
The stern woman looked upon her daughter with a smirk, "Well normally you would just sit around all day, reading teen magazines and listen to My Chemical Romance."
Jenny sighs, but smiles slightly, "Fair point, there's really nothing to do at home. Guess there's some crimes left to clean up."
As XJ-9 perfectly lands on a rooftop near a ledge, she is able to see the sun about two more hours till setting, seeing the good people of the district going on their daily lives. Even she wore a built-in helmet with a expression visors that resembles something of a sci-fi armor helmet, she had a smile on her face.
What would this district do without her?
Let other heroes like Ace Savvy, El Tigre, Kid Danger take care of it? Well maybe but she never met them…Yet. So this district is hers and her mother's like the other heroes have their own district.
Then she felt a blast from behind, causing her to crashing down a nearby alley, landing in a garbage full of unrecognizable shat and stinky stuff.
Luckily she was wearing a protective helmet so the unbearable smell couldn't penetrate through it. Though she did cough as a result from a few tiny dust particles managing to get in her mouth somehow.
"Jenny watch out, there's are energy readings indicating that someone is emitting an energy blast at you."
Jenny sighs as she looks upon her mother on her digital screen, "Uh, yeah, little late on that Mom."
XJ-9 just simply stood up, with some slight difficulty as she felt some pain getting up.
"So this is the so-called 'XJ-9' I've been hearing about?" XJ-9 looked up at her attacker. It was a woman, should be in her thirties, wearing a stereotypical sorceress with a short poncho-like cloak except without any cleavage. XJ-9 immediately knew who she was from her voice.
"Your that Cow Contrary from the Royal District
"It's 'Card Countess' to you miss! And yes I am from the Royal District."
XJ-9 looks around, before looking at the Count confused, "So... Why are you here?"
The Count just rolls her eye as if it was obvious, "For the five years, I recently grown tired of fighting the same hero over, and over again. I came to challenge a new hero," she then sneers at the robot hero, "and yet... You don't look much better."
"What are you talking about?! I'm more than a match than you clank!" XJ-9 exclaims.
The Count laughs arrogantly, "You think your better?! Oh I'd like to see you try to fight me then!"
XJ-9 then brought out the big guns, literally. Materializing her cannons, missiles, a shiva sword on her right arm and a buzzsaw on her left.
Count just shakes her head, "You think those will scare me?! There's a reason why I have a 'countess' in my name girl."
XJ-9 then brings up her wings and just floats to the same height as the sorceress. "Bring it then!"
Blackjack was running through the streets while Ace Savvy was chasing him, the cars were coming and going and were obstacles, getting in the way of both of them. A taxi appeared and Ace Savvy climbs over the back of the cab and jumps off a side of another taxi, in the air he uses his grapple to swing across the lane of cars that were around, a fast way to get to the villain.
Meanwhile XJ-9 was continuing flying after the Card Countess, dodging some debris the countess would use her magic to throw at her.
Eventually, both parties were near each other by a building away.
Blackjack uses the magnetic boots he had to run up the metal side of the building, Ace Savvy followed by pulling himself up by using the grapple. With Card Countess moving out of the way of XJ-9's view and so did Blackjack once he reached the roof.
The result was the result of a teenage robot with a secret identity, crashing into an actual teenager with a secret identity, twas not quite pleasant as first meetings go..
"Hey watch it!" Both of them said without seeing the one of the other. Then they did, Ace Savvy and XJ-9 meeting face to face at last.
"Oh hey XJ-9, it's so nice to finally meet you. I've seen your acts in the news, newspaper, and talks around school. I've always wanted to meet you but I couldn't have the time to do so." Ace Savvy said, just politely fanboying over her, trying his best not to blush.
XJ-9 smiles softly and nods,"Well I could say the same thing to you Ace but only just a smidge bit but, the pleasures all mine."
Both Ace Savvy and XJ-9 then turn around as heard a shout, bringing them back in the present.
"Why'd you come here?!"
Both heroes looked, seeing Card Countess was scolding Blackjack, her personal right hand, for bringing he who shall not be named to them to her location.
Blackjack could only respond in sign language, saying that he did not know she was there, and was just giving Ace the old fashioned chase scene he's giving him sometimes.
Both heroes then give each other a look, then giving each other nods..
As the two villains argued, Card Countess's felt a tap on her shoulder.
She turned around, only to then get smacked in the face by XJ-9's metallic fist, knocking her down.
Before Blackjack could do anything, he felt something grabbing his chest, his skin, he looked down and saw a grapple hook clamping down on his chest, not evening giving him time to register the pain, as he then was pulled away in a swift motion.
Blackjack felt next though, was the hook letting go of his skin, but the pain was formed already was added more after to Ace Savvy's punch. Blackjack felt himself sliding and stopped as soon as he hit Card Countess's near unconscious body.
Ace Savvy then grabs the hook part, pulling the rope part of the grapple out, and hands the hook to XJ-9's hand. With that, they tie the two villains together by circling them around like ring around rosy.
Afterwards, they were tied up tighter than a person who has a bondage fetish, both heroes just do a simple fist bump to each other's fists in... Pretty much an easy victory.
"What? You think this was pretty easy for you two?! Think again! You may have won this round, but you've have not won the game. I promise you that I will get my revenge on you! And when that day comes, you'll wish you've never been born!" Card Countess spoken at length in anger.
"And how can that happen? You and your little boyfriend are bound. And there's no way you could escape." XJ-9 declared.
"Clearly you do not know whom I possess the power of." Card Countess said in weird Shakespearean-esque style.
Then to XJ-9's surprised, Card Countess pretty much broke the grapple rope with ease and Blackjack finally came to as well, executing their escape by throwing a smoke bomb to the floor.
During the smoke filled air mayhem, Countess uses her own magic to make her and Blackjack to disappear in a instant. XJ-9 could not see anything, even with any of her enhanced visions due to the smoke being made of some substance that she can't see through, obviously when it cleared out they were gone.
"Dang it! We should've gone after them!"
"Don't worry, we'll get them some day." Ace Savvy attempted in hopes of comfort.
"How?! They are out there and making empty threats to us, they're clearly a nuisance!" XJ-9 exclaims as she lifts her arms in frustration.
Ace puts his fingers on his temple with a sigh, "Okay, okay, how about this? Form a temporary alliance?" Ace Savvy suggested, putting his hand out towards her.
XJ-9 just simply looks at the hand, clearly making a decision in her head, conflicted.
She could do this alone... Probably.
Then again she could use some help, especially since she doesn't know what the new villains are even capable of, and he did seem to know a thing about them. Eventually she made a decision.
She grabbed the hand and shook it.
"I'm in." she firmly said.
Then both let go of each other's hands.
Ace then sighs and rubs the back of his neck awkwardly, "Alright then. Uh...this might be a bit fast-paced and weird but...can we exchange identities?"
XJ-9 looks at the boy as if he grew a second head, "What? Why?"
"Because, I need socializing with someone else other than my best friend, one that is the only one to know me truly, both as Ace and my counter part. " He then looks away in shame, "I-I don't know, i just don't have any guts to make more friends. I don't know why, it's really simple to make friends, but to me it really isn't."
"Oh... Wait, do you have restricted interests too?" XJ-9 asked.
"... I guess."
"And do you have a repetitive behavior?"
"Maybe... I think."
"Okay show you my identity for your sake."
XJ-9 then dematerializes her helmet visor, having her blue pigtails and face revealed to him, his response was an amazed face, pretty much what she'd expect from him.
She chuckles, "I know, I'm beautiful, breath it in."
Ace felt his cheeks heat up, as he shakes his head shocked, "No not that! You're Jenny Wakeman!"
Jenny frowns confused, "You...you know my name?"
Ace nods with a huge smile on his face, "Yeah! I-I mean I know you, because I knew an old relative of yours. And they showed me the model plans of you. Never thought I'd meet you face to face."
Jenny gasps, "Wait, you knew an old relative? Who's that?"
Ace just ignored her question and inspects her, though not in a perverted way as he was a sweet gentleman, leaving Jenny to speak as he did so, "Okay I showed you mine, let's see who you are." Jenny requested.
Ace nods and stands in front of the robot, simply pulling off his mask to show his signature snow colored hair.
"Hey, aren't you that one kid from some of my classes, that always sat at the table where no one sat?" Jenny exclaims.
Lincoln rubs the back of his neck again and nods, "Yep that's me. I'm Lincoln Loud by the way."
Jenny smiles softly and nods, "Pleasure to meet you Lincoln." She then frowns getting back on task, "So... About that relative you knew."
"Well I knew about like three years about him then he disappeared."
They discussed this for an hour.
Credit goes to Fanfictionranger for beta reading this.
