I got other projects I want to do including my Loud House and Archer crossover From Loud with Love (I do hope to get back to it soon) and my reboot on Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. I decided to give this crossover idea a shot and i might decide to continue it. My main inspiration is Shazam the Monster Society of Evil which is one my fave DC comics stories and one of my fave DC origin stories. I think that will be better reference for the future Shazam movie than the new 52 miniseries which I hated. I have said this before but I found little to like about that story apart from the nice scene with the tiger, Black Adam who is an awesome villain in the regular DC universe and in the New 52 (seriously his Villains Month issue of Justice a league of America is a million times more enjoyable than the Shazam miniseries), I think the hooded look is kind of cool and I liked the foster siblings including Darla.
Lincoln Loud was walking home late one afternoon after studying with his girlfriend Ronnie Anne of a history report they were assigned together, Lincoln enjoyed it not only as it allowed him to spend time with his girlfriend but he actually kind of liked the subject that they were assigned with.
They were assigned to do a report on Teth-Adam an ancient warrior in the country of Kahndaq who led a revolution that overthrew the tyrannical empire of Kahndaq which led to him becoming the new ruler. There were even folklore and stories that he accomplished this with magic powers given to him by the gods and it was not known how or when he actually died.
He whistled as he walked past the train station and stopped when he noticed something, "Probably just seeing things..." Lincoln muttered but then stopped when he saw some weird red train go by. He was in disbelief at the sight of it as he felt himself sucked through the door screaming.
The train went off at high speed with Lincoln thinking this was some nightmare, it stopped and he went through the door and was in some sort of dark tunnel. He saw seven large statues with names on their platforms. They had said pride, envy greed hatred, selfishness, laziness and injustice. He felt himself being covered by electricity.
"Okay this is some weird dream; Lynn must have given me some bad candy lately or something." Lincoln talked out but then he saw an old man with a long beard on a throne. He was about to make a joke asking if he was Dumbledore or Gandalf when the man spoke.
"I felt your electricity, you may home some laziness, greed and selfishness on you but you are filled mostly with good electricity. You might be a little rough around the edges but I believe you will do Lincoln." The old man told him and Lincoln gasped wondering how he knew his name.
"I can see your name and life in your mind Lincoln, I am the great wizard Shazam. For eons I have guarded the world while living in this plane out of time and space but I see great evil ahead. I can see your home life where you are happy to spend your time with your friends and your ten sisters. Your heart is in the right place and with some help I believe you will be worthy of the gift I must give you to fight the evil that will come forth." Shazam told him and Lincoln shook his head.
"Okay so a train led me to a wizard who says I was chosen to fight evil, what kind of dream is this?" Lincoln questioned.
"Yes and you like to narrate to an invisible audience, quite peculiar but no matter. You will be given the gifts of six gods whose names form my own name; Solomon's wisdom, Hercules's strength, Atlas's stamina, Zeus's power, Achilles's courage and Mercury's speed. Speak my name and you will be granted the gifts and transform into your new form, you will only need to speak my name again to transform. So Lincoln, please speak my name and take on your new role as the Earth's Mightiest Mortal!"
Lincoln laughed at how silly this dream was and decided to humour the man shouting "okay whatever you say Mr Wizard, I will probably wake up in a moment but...SHAZAM!"
Lincoln then felt himself being struck by lightning and saw that suddenly he seemed to have gotten much bigger, "What happened..." Lincoln asked only to pause when he heard how older his voice seemed now. Shazam then closed his eyes and Lincoln found himself outside back in the city, but up in the air...
"Wait so I can fly, this is my best dream ever!"Lincoln muttered excitedly as he flew down and looked at his reflection in the mirror. He was now a muscular adult with his white hair flat making him look like an old man kind of, he was wearing a red full body suit with a yellow lightning bolt insignia (making him think of the Flash the local hero of Central City), a golden belt, golden gauntlets on his arm, golden boots and a collar white cape which went to his legs and was lined with yellow.
"Okay so I look kind of like Superman now, wonder if I can get into a scary movie at the theatres now? No wait that is too irresponsible and immature of me to think of that when I should be using my power more wisely. Since when did I think of things like that?" Lincoln pondered the Wisdom of Solomon granted to him fuelling his thoughts now.
He looked and saw there was a robbery at a nearby bank, kind of clichéd for a story with superheroes as even Lincoln knew about that from the comics and TV shows he watched. "Oh well, if this is a dream I might as well see if I can be a superhero in it." Lincoln thought as he flew to the bank and the masked robbers looked in front of him.
"Is that guy supposed to be cosplaying as both Superman and the Flash? Well let's take care of this lunatic." Laughed the leader as they began firing at him, Lincoln was afraid only to notice the bullets bounced harmlessly off his chest. Lincoln took one of their guns and decided to try twisting it into a pretzel shape which terrified the robbers and immediately surrendered themselves to the police who were arriving.
There were people all around him muttering and taking pictures with their phones, they asked who he was and Lincoln grinned at the attention around him. Thinking of a superhero name for himself quick he told them "well I am... uh... Captain... Marvel!" he then flew away at once and flew down to an alleyway a short distance from his house.
"Okay so the wizard said I had to say the word again to be normal so... SHAZAM!" he said a lightning bolt striking him and he was a normal boy again. He walked home thinking that he should really tell Clyde about this dream the next time he saw them.
He said hello to his parents who were watching TV, they greeted him back as they watched an anti-terrorism speech by the United States Attorney General, Thaddeus Sivana. Lincoln went to his room and looked into his comic books to read before bed.
The next morning he went downstairs to see all of his sisters around the morning paper on the table all muttering excitedly, even Lisa was in disbelief of the newspaper article and Lincoln decided to take a look to see what was going on.
If he was drinking something he would have done a spit take on the photo and headline, the photo was him in his older form from his dream at the bank and the headline read "CAPTAIN MARVEL: ROYAL WOOD'S OWN SUPERHERO?"
"Isn't this cool bro, I mean you like superheroes yourself. I bet you are hoping to see if you can get a look at him yourself bro... bro?" Luna asked her brother but then grew concerned as Lincoln ran outside to clear his head.
Last night had only been a dream, he only dreamed he was giving the powers of six gods by a wizard to become an older superhero and stopped a bank robbery...
Right?
Deciding to make sure he ran to the same alleyway before and then spoke up saying "SHAZAM!"
I also liked the portrayal of Captain Marvel in the Young Justice cartoon where he acted like a big kid, I know it was used to a lesser extent in the Justice League Unlimited episode Clash but I think Young Justice did it better. Do you think Clyde and Ronnie should get their own hero identities at some point?
One more thing I plan on writing a LIncoln X Tabby story (Lincoln X Ronnie Anne is my fave ship for the show but I liked Tabby), what do you think about that?