OMAKE CANCELLED.
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[Loop 3]
Dan Cahill was confused. He was 11 again for the third time, wearing the uncomfortable suit and tie, in the funeral where he'll learn that he was part of a larger influential family, and there were 39 clues that were ingredients for a serum, and a million dollars if they didn't accept the challenge to find said clues.
He wondered what he would do if he didn't accept the challenge. Nah, he couldn't have travelled the world and learn more secrets then.
Amy Cahill noticed her brother smiling unusually as they sat. I wonder what's going on with Dan today.
As they sat and waited for Mr. McIntyre to speak, Dan listed all clues on his head while waiting. After the lawyer arrived, Dan acted like what he did before until it was time for the first clue.
A few days later, Dan looked at her sister who was reading a piece of paper which he wrote about everything and waited for an answer.
"I can't tell if you made this up," Amy confessed, "or you really know what'll happen sooner or later."
"Do I look like I'm telling a lie right now?" Dan asked. Amy shook her head a few seconds later. "We should probably run this race like what exactly like what I remember, just for the sake of fun."
"Fun?" asked Amy.
"Except for the times the others tried to kill us," Dan replied, "yeah. Better than any collection!"
Amy smiled before a thought passed her head. "How about Nellie? We trust her on this, right?"
"Yes we do," answered Dan, "I told her about it. She took it well."
Nellie, who had just ordered herself some drinks, sat close and looked at Dan.
"So, what are we going to do next?" Nellie asked.
"Well, we could go around the world and physically get the clues..."
Next Loop
"Dan?" called Amy, "it's just me or... we're back here?"
Dan's eyes widened. "You remember too?"
Amy nodded. Dan sighed in relief which caused Amy to get suspicious. "Why? Can't let me?"
"No, no," Amy denied, "just... surprised you're taking this well."
"I don't know actually," Dan shot back, "I'm still trying to adjust. 2 years passed since clue hunting with Nellie and you, then back at Grace's funeral."
Amy thought of something. "So... let's try not to take the challenge. I'm sure Grace won't mind," she whispered.
Dan smiled. "I was waiting for that," he whispered back.
Fact of the Loops:
Awake - Act of a Looper being aware of the time loop.
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[Loop 23]
Dan looked at Amy who was thinking about their parents as they waited for the telegram while stuck in Cairo. He went closer and tapped Amy's shoulder causing her to jump.
"Why'd you that dweeb?" Amy asked, calming herself from a near-panic attack.
Dan made a fake thinking gesture. "Are you thinking about our parents' death?"
"How– Right, could I have forgotten." Amy facepalmed. "Does that mean you still have all clues in that photographic memory in your head?"
"May-be," Dan joked. "So, we have 39 clues, leading to something that makes the person who found all clues famous, putting the family together, and then there's those V-E-S-P-E-R-S wanting it."
Amy looked puzzled. "Why'd you always spell it out?"
"I don't know," Dan replied. "So, telegram will come, named to me, we will head towards airport, get disguised, head towards Russia of all places, meet the daughter of a Grand Duchess who I still suspect is a Madrigal, infiltrate a Lucian black circle, get our parents' passports, head around the world, and then I'll not tell the next towards you."
"Why?" Amy paused writing from a paper. "We might even defeat the others with our knowledge!"
"Last time repeat it was a hunt for 39 spices," he whispered, "I still taste that thing we cooked after we got all 39. It was terrible."
Amy wasn't amused. "Does that mean anything at all?"
"Well, one thing, not every repeat is the same. There was one where I was Ekat, you were a Lucian." Dan shrugged. "Madrigals were just V-word."
"Why are you not telling the whole word!?" Amy snapped, unknowingly waking up Nellie.
"Can you guys tone it down a little, please?" She called before going back to sleep.
The Cahill siblings looked at each other before a telegram came. As they opened it, he passed a small note which made Amy glared at him in reply.
Even though I'm still the younger, I feel like I'm the older, you know, he thought.
Fact of the Loops:
Anchor - Always Awake. In this fanfiction, it's Dan Cahill. Examples of other Anchors include Hiccup/Toothless (HTTYD), Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony), Leman Russ (Warhammer 4K), Frank Walker (Tomorrowland) and so on.
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[Loop 31]
Dan and Amy checked their memories and looked at each other in response.
"So, Nellie's our au pair/sister," he started. "Are we going to go through like a regular hunt?"
"Yes," Amy replied, "but we need to keep the secret of Nellie being a Cahill."
Dan nodded as the first clue is given. He quickly realized it was another hunt for something else, namelymetals for a supermetal. Dan groaned as it was the fourth time he's experiencing this, and the second time Amy experienced this. They headed towards the library.
"What's with the repeats lately?" Amy muttered, "the last time I was in this situation it was a hunt for 39 kinds of special doughnut fillings."
"I don't know either, but the last time it was something close to this it was a hunt for 39 spices," he muttered back.
"Spices for what?" Amy could only think.
"Well, it left my taste for anything disappear for a whole repeat..." He scratched his hair in embarrassment.
Amy connected the dots. "Our cooking was that bad, wasn't it." He nodded. "We should probably learn more after this. Hey, look! It's like the actual clue hunt! Only more metals. This should be fun."
Dan smiled. At least he wasn't going to visit a museum for this. Not until he learned there was a museum for metals!
Fact of the Loops:
Looper - Can Awaken. The current Looper is Amy Cahill. Planned to Loop are Irina Spasky(Yes, I know she died.), Nellie Gomez and Alistair Oh.
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[Loop 50]
Fiftieth repeat/Loop. Fifty times Two years of pure random strategies of clue hunting and random collections. Less than fifty times of convincing Nellie and the others they weren't crazy. First Loop for Dan and Amy Cahill to be siblings of Irina Sparky who were kept in secret until Grace Cahill died. Also the first Loop where Amy had a daughter who started the contest. First Loop where Dan wasn't a Cahill.
And Alistair Oh was Dan's cousin, and Amy was adopted.
"That's something for a fiftieth repeat," Dan concluded.
Amy nodded. "And to think that that was Grace starting up the clue hunt..."
"Hush." Dan wrote a small note and passed it to Amy. Amy read it, looked around, and proceeded to facepalm.
Fact of the Loops:
Subspace Pocket - Fifth dimension space connected to a Looper's soul.
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[Loop 69]
"Tell none of this to anyone who remembers this time repeats," Amy muttered.
Dan nodded as Ian called her for a small dinner. After they left, Dan laughed. Ian was really into her this Loop after the clue hunt even though he had attempted to kill Amy a lot of times. Dan could approve of this.
Fact of the Loops:
Baseline - Main flows of events. Currently, only series 1 (The Clue Hunt) plus pre-series 2 is baseline. The other series (Cahills Vs. Vespers, Unstoppable, and Doublecross) are to be added sooner. Date set, 2008-2010 just before first book of Cahills vs. Vespers.
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[Loop 70]
Among the things Amy didn't like was being on a burning house with no help. As she shouted for help, she felt the smoke rise faster, and she could only try to find an exit. She successfully finds one, but it was blocked so she tried to unblock it. As the room loses its oxygen, Amy knocked in the door if someone finds her...
Only to wake up beside Dan and Alistair Oh. She sighed and went back to sleep. It was only just a dream. She would have to face her fears sooner, for she knew that in this time loop madness, she'd encounter her fears every time. That said, wasn't Isabel supposed to burn their place right now?
Irina smiled as she managed to save the Cahill kids as well as Alistair Oh by managing to trick Isabel Kabra that they were still in Australia. Knowing that she would've died then, she decided to fake her death and see what would've happen.
Facts of the Loops:
Stealth Looper - Irina Spasky in this fanfiction, is an act of a Looper where she doesn't show signs of Looping.
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[Loop 73]
Dan stared at the slightly ruined pamphlet of something and passed it to her sister. Amy read it, and gave it back to his brother.
"This pamphlet is about something about time loops," Amy noticed. "And there's no Cahill trace on it."
"How come?" Dan looked at it. "It's certainly a mystery we'll need to solve. Besides, who leaves something like this in our path?"
"Maybe someone," Amy replied. "Let's keep it, and try to remember most of it. We can't salvage a few parts of it however, so we'll have to improvise."
"Hey, you know the man who can do a quick remembering, right? Oh, that's me." Dan looked at the handwriting. "Although that writing is something I've never encountered."
Dan took a piece of paper, rewrote everything on it, and dropped the original as they both headed towards an impatient Nellie.
"I honestly think this isn't just a regular hub, don't you think Ike?" Prof. Quadwrangle asked to the currently-cat Ike. He meowed in reply. "Maybe we're currently in a Fused Loop and the local Loopers are new. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, researching for this 'clues!' Now where is the nearest library..."
If only he knew where he was at all.
Facts of the Loops:
Fused Loop - When a Looper loops into baselines not his own, it's called a Fused Loop. Loop 73 is a Fused Loop with Quantum Conundrum.
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[Loop 78]
Dan and Amy are at an café in Egypt.
"I think the pamphlet explained most of it," Amy confessed after reading Dan's copy of what they picked up a few repeats earlier. "It also means we're not alone."
"Not alone by the other teams might remember," Dan clarified, "or not alone like aliens from outer space?"
"Both," Amy responded. "Did you know that the creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a Janus?"
Dan nodded. "Where does that come in the equation?"
"Well..." Amy made a quick copy and encircled a name. "One character in said show wrote this, apparently."
Dan took Amy's copy. "'Twilight Sparkle?'"
"Pretty sure you've heard of her, right?" Amy asked.
"...Nope," Dan admitted. "Never heard of it. Although in the last few Loops I did see some instances of it..."
"Speaking of Loops, what did you do for the last Loops?" asked Amy, "improvise wacky ninja strategies for the contest?"
"There was one time where I was a Tomas and an actual ninja..." Dan drifted off.
Amy rolled her eyes at the antics of his brother who seemed to be having more fun in this repeats than her.
Next Loop
Nellie wasn't sure if she should've believed in what the Cahill siblings were talking about. After a few packing of bags, she headed outside and waited for Dan and Amy while playing on her iPod. After an hour or so, Amy came inside, noticing the bags are already packed.
"Huh," Amy called his brother. His brother, wearing a skintight clothing that covered everything except his eyes, appeared behind Nellie. "You're remembering the past, right?"
"Well, you did say that I'm full of surprises," Nellie replied.
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[Loop 83]
"Let me get this straight," Irina answered to a private call, "I'm not alone in this time loops?"
"Yes," replied Dan in a fake gentleman accent, "you're not alone."
"Are they Cahills?" Irina asked.
Dan chuckled. "Most of the time repeats."
Irina then sensed something suspicious about the caller, then Dan's name immediately came to her mind. "Dan Cahill?"
The line was silent.
"How did she found that out? My awesome carefully trained publicly tested and approved gentleman accent was impenetrable!" Dan complained as he muted the call.
"I have no idea," Amy replied, still trying to track the call. "We should've called Alistair for this, you know, because he's an Ekat."
"We still can't trust him, because he's not Loopy," Dan reminded. "And I've been looking at Irina for sometime. How could she gather intel and clues about us that fast until we get the next clue, Water?"
Dan has a point, Amy told herself.
"It's odd how you three are trying to track me," Irina told over the phone, "since me and Alistair Oh have tracked you back."
Oh dear.
"Well," Alistair pointed out, "they're on a run."
"Let them run," Irina told him. "They won't run for long. I'm sure for that."
"But they're running towards us," Alistair pointed out.
Oh dear.
Facts of the Loops:
Admin(Administrator God) - As it says on the tin, are deities that look over the Looping universes. This universe's Admin is a Philippine/Tagalog deity named Bathala. Don't ask why.
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[Loop 86] (based on a funny trend with Code MENT)
For some reason Amy wasn't at their house, so Dan decided to call her.
"Hello?" Any replied.
"Where are you?" Dan asked.
"I'm buying clothes," she replied.
"Then hurry up and come over here," he replied back.
"I can't," she proclaimed.
Dan was confused. "What do you mean you can't?"
"I can't find clothes," Amy responded, "it's all soup!"
"What do you mean it's all soup!?" Dan nearly shouted.
"There's only soup!"
"Then get out of the soup aisle!" Dan shouted, causing Nellie and Irina who were both in the same house as he was look at him.
"Okay, okay, don't shout." Amy walked towards the next aisle only to find more soup. "There's still soup."
"What do you mean there's more soup?" Dan asked.
"There's more soup."
"Then go to the next aisle!"
Amy headed towards the next aisle to see more soup. "There's still soup!"
"Where are you right now!?" Dan's question caused all of the Cahill household to look at him.
"I'm at Soup!" Amy shouted back.
"What do you MEAN YOU'RE at Soup?!" Dan asked.
"I mean I'm at Soup!" Amy repeated.
"What store are you in!?" Dan finally snapped.
"I'm at the soup store!" Amy shouted back.
Dan's confusion was mixed with anger. "WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE!?"
"[REDACTED] you!" Amy shouted before hanging up.
"What's with them today?" Irina asked to Nellie.
Nellie just chuckled. "They must've been very bored because both of them seem to be inside a Groundhog Day-like time loop."
"That movie?" Irina pointed out before realizing she had watched it in this timeline. "You three are craziest of the bunch."
Nellie looked at Irina. "The irony of it is that you're also with it. Right?"
Damn. "You got me alright," Irina congratulated. "Only for this Loop."
"Yeah, you tell me how random," Nellie deadpanned.
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[Adminspace]
Bathala noted the facts that Dan Cahill and the other Loopers know limited knowledge about the Loops as a whole. He also knew that they kept missing certain fused Loops so that they could be introduced properly and not be surprised when they have a Fused Loop somewhere like in Equestria or maybe even in – shudder – Eiken after a horrible Crash.
As he waited for the supervisor to pass by so that he could send message to the other Admins, especially the debugger which name escaped his memory for some reason – Was it Skulk? – so that he could get something to introduce them to the Multiverse, an idea went over his head, causing the Ancient Tagalog deity to smile. So what if he's alone in the floor admining a Loop and the supervisor checks at him every 100 hours? He could just message through his terminal. So he did, starting with a small message to Sleipnir.
It then came to his mind. Was Bathala that stupid not to think about that?
After sending the message, he waited. While Bathala waited, he sent a small message to his Anchor through an encrypted text. He would then use some methods he picked up from other Admins used to communicate with their Loopers.
[Loop 100]
Daniel Arthur Cahill Woke up and immediately sent a secret message towards her sister, who in turn passed a message towards Irina Spasky, who also passed a message towards Alistair Oh who nearly got a heart attack since it was just his third time in the Loops. He then did the next step by texting Dan and Amy's au pair/future legal guardian Nellie Gomez. The Looping Clue Hunters then faced each other and each face had its own smile, with Irina's being the creepiest and Amy's being the most gentle. The other invited guests looked at them for a few seconds before everyone broke sight to face Mr. Mcintyre as he began telling them Grace's will.
After Mr. Mcintyre and Grace's video finished and the Teams had burned their money checks, Dan, Amy, Alistair Oh, and Irina Spasky met in the library as Amy suggested and which Dan approved, much to his hate of museums, libraries, and classical plays. After a few seconds, Dan popped up the security question to tell that they were Awake.
"Who is Madeline Cahill?" he asked as he created a sound distraction.
They all replied in a choir-like pattern, "the founder of the fifth branch which is not to be said until..."
A text message from Alistair Oh interrupted the answer. He pulled out his phone, and stared at the message. The others looked as well before Irina left, which was normal for them.
do u think u five r the only loopers
head to nell
"What does that last line mean?" Amy asked. "Who, or where is 'Nell'?"
"Maybe the texter wanted us to head towards someone with 'Nell' on their name?" Alistair suggested.
"Or maybe that's Nellie." Dan pointed out. Amy looked at him before Alistair Oh received another text.
forget what i said and listen
Listen? Listen to what? The three wondered what to listen until they heard something... music? Wasn't that Nellie's music they were hearing? Does that mean—
Amy began to smell smoke. "Uh... house on fire?"
"Fire?" Dan went closer towards the window to find the manor on flames. "Oh, no. Not this again for the hundredth time." He faced towards Amy and Alistair who were quickly taking books and items they needed for the clue hunt. "Probably a good idea as well."
After they have escaped, all Loopers went baseline.
The Cahill Loopers reunited in Egypt at Excelsior Hotel after they teamed up and tied Bae Oh and the other henchmen and replaced the guards with personal guards. Alistair looked at the showcased achievements before pulling out a silk cloth and hung it at the door. After doing so, Alistair headed towards the group where they were struggling to keep Saladin from scratching each other as she screeched. He pulled out a can of red snapper, opened it, and placed it at the floor and walked towards Dan as Saladin happily went towards her snack.
"So," Alistair began.
"So what?" Dan asked.
"We haven't got any message from that mysterious texter," Amy pointed out.
"I..." Nellie looked around and turned a disruptor device on to prevent anyone from hearing whatever they said before continuing. "The mysterious texter isn't a Madrigal though. Maybe it's one of those 'Admins' the pamphlet you guys found."
"An Administrator God?" Irina asked as she frequently looked at the window, still not believing that through these Loops, she had found ways on how to survive and one time she was in the Gauntlet with the 8 winners where she should've died back in Southeast Asia. She was also the Loop's Stealth Looper, which meant she can't be easily spotted if she was Awake or not. By asking this she just answered this question.
Alistair received another text and Amy took his phone and read it aloud.
welcome to the multiverse
"What does that even mean?" Dan began. "'Welcome to the Multiverse?' Who really is that guy?"
dont panic and stay calm
watch out for the bird
Nellie immediately captured a carrier pigeon which contained a small note in which she read.
"'Hello Cahills, my name is Bathala.' That's a nice way to start," Nellie joked before she continued. "'And Welcome to the Multiverse…'"
"That makes sense," Amy concluded as Nellie finished reading what seemed to be an essay or someone's introduction. She looked at Dan who was dreaming of something which might be the new locations told, or probably the whole thing about being the Anchor.
That's why you have a different count, Amy thought as he looked at her. Because you Awaken more than all of us.
"Does that mean…" Dan took his phone and texted the same number and he got a response.
no u aint time travel to past due to loops
but you might loop as Gideon and not my problem since world tree likey
"What!? Me as Gideon Cahill!?" Dan jerked his phone off. "No way!"
"Where did you get that foolish idea?" Irina asked as she knocked Bae Oh unconscious as he was about to wake up.
"Um… I was curious if we could use this Loops to see what happened to Gideon…?" Dan excused.
Almost everyone in the room facepalmed at Dan's excuse before an Ekat guard spotted all of them and all hell went loose. Literally.
[Adminspace]
Bathala sighed in relief as the Cahills continued their Clue Hunt and finished with a small celebration. The message wasn't important now, or so he thought as the debugger came to his cubicle.
"Need some help?" the debugger –her name was Skuld!– asked.
"Nope," Bathala flat out. "I was just very nervous and slightly worried that my Loopers miss out their second chance to be introduced, since they nearly crashed one Loop…"
"Oh, I see." Skuld checked the terminal.
Branch: The 39 Clues
Status: Looping
Anchor: Daniel Arthur Cahill
Loopers: Amy Hope Cahill, Alistair Oh, Irina Nikolaievna Spaskaya, Nellie Gomez
Stability: 51.3%
Note: Clue Hunt only part of Looping Baseline.
"Huh." Skuld looked at Bathala and back at the terminal. "Where did you find this?"
"I was searching the world tree for anything to salvage since we were slightly… jealous," Bathala confessed. "Saw this Branch, noticed a few things like it was constantly trying to Loop…"
"And so the low stability of the branch," Skuld finished.
He would then tolerate a long lecture, if she was to give one.
39 Clues by Scholastic
A HUGE crossover to the other multiverses.
Quantum Conundrum by Square Enix
And you know the rest.
(Huzzah!)
1: Dan and Amy Cahill Awaken.
2: I was reading the 4th book when I wrote this.
3: Variants, Annoyance, Siblings.
4: Awkward way for Loop 50. Where are the other Loops anyway?
5: Amian. Amy and Ian. Shippers, start planning. Yes, I know there's a new one!
6: Irina joins the Cahill Loopers! Because she's a L— *bricked*
7: A failed attempt for a Welcome to the Multiverse Speech. Prof. Quadwrangle of the Quantum Conundrum.
8: Nellie joins the Cahill Loopers.
9: Foiled Stealth Looper is best Looper.
10: SOUPERB.
11: Bathala. Yggdrassil. Cahill Loopers get introduced now. For some reason made this Chapter BIG.