(Welcome once again to my next installment. Hope you're ready to see Lincoln unlock the rest of the aliens in his watch and do some more good for his home town.)
The next morning, Lincoln was on the phone with Clyde, "Ok, Clyde, I'll catch you at the junkyard in a few. Bye." he hung up. He turned to his viewers and spoke, "I still haven't checked out every alien in the watch so far. So today Clyde and I are going to get through them all. And once I know what all my aliens are I'll know exactly which ones to use should ever a particular situation come up requiring their talents."
Lincoln was about to head out the door, until he heard Leni call out, "Lincoln!" Lincoln stopped in his tracks before turning around to see Leni coming down the stairs.
"Leni, what's up?" he asked nervously.
"Like we're all going to the mall right now. You wanna come?"
"Ooh, I'd love to, but I promised I'd meet Clyde today. Sorry." Lincoln answered sheepishly.
"Oh, well. We can do it next time. How about that?" Leni asked in excitement.
"Sounds good to me." Lincoln smiled nervously, and was about to head out the door, until Leni stopped him again.
"Hey, Lincoln. What's up with that watch?" she asked.
Lincoln tensed up and had to think fast before she alerted the rest of their siblings, "This thing? Oh it's something I won at the arcade. Needed a lot of tickets to win this thing."
"Well, I think it looks good on you." Leni patted his head.
"Thanks. Well, I gotta get going. Catch you later." Lincoln rushed outside.
Once Lincoln was outside he was about to grab his bike until he remembered something, "Right. I can get there faster now." he ducked around the side of the house where no one could see him. He activated the watch before turning the dial to XLR8 and pressed down on it. As XLR8, he spoke, "Time to run!" he zipped off with wind of the speed causing all the garbage cans to fall over.
Meanwhile, Clyde had arrived at the junkyard and saw Lincoln pacing around, "Hey, Lincoln!"
Lincoln spoke up, "About time. I was waiting forever."
"What're you talking about? I got here on normal time."
"Well, when you get here using super speed waiting for others is like forever." Lincoln replied.
"So we ready to find out what the other aliens are like in that watch?" Clyde asked.
"Oh, yeah. I can't wait to see what else I got in this baby." Lincoln held up the watch and selected one of the unused aliens, "Ok. Here we go!" he pressed down on the dial and transformed.
In a flash of green light Lincoln had become an insect creature. His body was black and white, had four insect-like flat legs with two arms with three clawed fingered hands, four small pedunculated eyes linked directly to the sides of his head that bore the watch symbol, insect-like wings, and a pointed tail.
"Lincoln, you're a bug!" Clyde gasped.
"Yeah. I guess I am," Lincoln agreed before sniffing the air, "Ew, what stinks?" he realized, "Oh, that's me."
"Stinks is right." Clyde gagged, while covering his nose.
Lincoln spoke, "And I thought Lily's loaded diapers were a stink bomb."
"So what do we call you?" Clyde wondered.
"Well, since we're on the topic of 'stink'. Why don't we go with Stinkfly?"
"Pretty accurate." Clyde admitted.
"And check me out, I have wings!" Stinkfly flapped his wings like bug and started flying around, "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"
"You're flying, Lincoln!" Clyde called from below.
"This is awesome!" Stinkfly cheered, and out of impulse for streams of green sticky gunk leaving puddles of it on the ground.
"Ok, that's sick." Clyde covered his mouth.
Stinkfly flew down and looked at the contents he spat up, "Lana would love this guy for sure," suddenly an idea came to mind, "Clyde, wanna go for a ride?"
"A ride?" Clyde asked, and Stinkfly not waiting for an answer scooped him up and put him on his back, "Lincoln, what're you..."
"Hold on tight. I don't have seat-belts on me." he started flapping his wings and flew off.
As he flew off Clyde was screaming in fright, before he realized he and Lincoln were flying across Royal Woods. Clyde started becoming less scared and more excited. He spread his arms out and cheered, "Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo!"
"We're on top of the world, Clyde!" Stinkfly cheered.
"Hey, I can see my house from up here!" Clyde pointed out.
"Mine too!" Stinkfly added, until he heard the watch beeping, "Uh-oh. Going down!" he started flying back to the junkyard. Right when he was close to the ground, he changed back causing both him and Clyde to crash onto the ground and roll onto their backs.
"You hurt?" Lincoln asked Clyde, while looking over at him.
"I'm good. You?" he asked.
"Never better." Lincoln answered, as the two chuckled at what just happened.
After waiting for the watch to recharge it was time to test another alien. Lincoln turned the dial to another new alien and spoke, "Let's see what this one does." he pressed down and started changing.
After the transformation, Clyde saw Lincoln was gone, "Lincoln? Lincoln, where'd you go?"
"Down here, Clyde!" came a small voice.
Clyde looked down and saw standing close to his feet was a small grey skinned, bipedal frog-like alien with yellowish-green eyes that had rectangular pupils and horizontal eyelids. He wore a white jumpsuit with a thin vertical black stripe going down it and a larger version of the same stripe was on his head and in-between his eyes. The watch symbol was located on his back.
"Lincoln, you're so small." Clyde gasped.
"Four inches tall to be precise." Lincoln corrected him.
"No offense, Lincoln, but this alien doesn't look like it can hold a candle to any of the drones or a criminal." Clyde said.
"No kidding," Lincoln answered, and continued on, "Without a bigger size the only thing I could do if facing drones again is to climb inside and rewire their servos so that their primary function would be to attack each other instead of their designated target," he paused, "Did I just plan that with a straight face?"
"You did." Clyde blinked his eyes in surprise.
"Hey. That's actually the better plan. And I thought it up without struggling. Clyde, I think this alien is a super genius!"
"Really, try writing a complicated math formula."
Lincoln grabbed a stick and started writing a mathematical formula in the dirt. When he finished he showed it to Clyde, "What do you think?"
"It's complicated." Clyde admitted.
"Maybe to you, but I can understand it just fine. Wow. I wonder if this is how Lisa feels compared to me and the rest of my sisters."
"Man if this weren't summer we could use this alien to help with our homework." Clyde said.
"Forget homework, I could get a degree in the snap of a finger." Lincoln replied.
"Any idea what to name this guy? How about Braniac?" Clyde suggested.
"I think that's already taken. Besides I got a better name for this guy. Grey Matter!" Lincoln declared.
"Grey Matter? How do you get that?"
"Well, grey matter is the one of the components of the central nervous system. So it should be a logical choice." Grey Matter explained.
"If you think so." Clyde answered knowing not to question the genius.
Soon enough the watch timed out and after waiting for it to recharge Lincoln transformed again. Clyde saw his best friend had turned into a red, mollusk-like alien. His eyes were green, and had a non-moveable mouth. Behind his legs and on the top of his arms were small grey spikes. On his shoulders and legs, there were black spots. On his hands there were port holes. He had four fingers with claws on them and on each one of his feet was a grey spike. His lower torso was grey with two spikes on the side of them. The watch symbol was located on his torso.
Lincoln looked himself over, "Not a bad look. Just need to figure out what this guy can do."
"Hey what're those things in your hands?" Clyde asked.
Lincoln looked at the hold in his hands, "Maybe I can shoot some kind of energy out of them," he suggested while pointing them at a broken down truck. He concentrated but nothing came out, "Nothing's happening."
"Maybe you're not concentrating hard enough?" Clyde suggested.
"I am concentrating! Come on do something!" suddenly form the holes shot two blasts of water which hit the truck, "Whoa!" he gasped, before powering down. The two saw the water blasts left a big hole in the truck.
Clyde went over to the hole seeing the steam from the water residue dropping off it, "Yikes, too much hot water can be hazardous." Clyde feared.
"Yeah," Lincoln agreed until it dawned on him, "Yeah! Water Hazard! Good thinking, Clyde!"
"No problem. And you know with an alien like that we can cool off during a heatwave."
"Even better I can fill a whole pool with this guy." Water Hazard added in excitement.
And so Water Hazard began doing a little target practice by blasting countless pieces of garbage laying around the junkyard. Clyde was keeping track of his aim and spoke, "Twenty out of twenty. Looking good, man!"
"That's how I is." Water Hazard answered, before the watch timed out and he became Lincoln again.
"Well, Lincoln. Only two more aliens to try out. Getting excited?" Clyde nudged him.
"You know it. I wonder what my last two aliens can do?" Lincoln asked, while looking at the watch.
"Well, you've already got a fire based alien, a diamond based one, a muscle one, a speedster, a genius, a flyer, a tracker, and now a water based one." Clyde listed off.
"I know. I can't believe aliens like these guys are out there in the universe." Lincoln marveled while looking up at the sky.
"And if there's an alien race like Grey Matter, you think their home planet is years ahead of our time?"
"It's possible." Lincoln admitted.
"You think maybe they made video games that are so real you're actually in it?" Clyde asked.
"That would be so awesome," Lincoln's face scrunched up with excitement. Suddenly the watched reactivated, "All right number nine, let's see what you can do?" he pressed down on the dial and started changing.
His new alien had a white torso with the watch symbol on it, a black exterior with green stripes that resembled circuitry all over him. And a green circle on his head that appeared like an eye, "Wow check this guy out!" Lincoln spoke in his own voice that had a robotic sound affect to it. As he spoke his green eye flashed.
"Lincoln, you're voice hasn't changed." Clyde noted.
"So I see. This could be a problem if I talk to anybody who knows me while in his form."
"So try not to speak too much as this alien," Clyde suggested, "Now what can it do?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe if I..." Lincoln stopped as he could see through his eyeball a beat up car and looked as if he was analyzing it, "Wait a minute. Clyde, I think I'm about to do something totally cool." he jumped onto the car and covered it with his whole body like he was merging with it.
"Lincoln, what're you doing?" Clyde wondered.
The car suddenly became black with green circuitry lines on it and was functioning like it was fresh off the line. Lincoln made it drive around like it was race car, "Revved up and ready for anything!" Lincoln laughed.
"You just repaired this whole car with your body?" Clyde asked in disbelief.
"Not just repaired, Clyde," Lincoln answered, as the car suddenly transformed into a ten foot tall robot armed with laser cannons and all sorts of gadgets, "I've Upgraded it."
"Upgrade is right," Clyde agreed.
"I can use this guy to repair and upgrade Vanzilla so me and my sisters will never have to push it home again." Upgrade explained.
"Maybe even hack into Lori's emails." Clyde suggested.
"Tempting, but not just to find out if she talks about you." Upgrade replied, making Clyde pout. When the watch started beeping, Upgrade un-possessed the car turning back into scrap before becoming Lincoln again.
"How did it feel to merge with that car, Lincoln?" Clyde asked.
"It felt strange. I felt like myself, but I felt as if the car and I became one." he explained.
"Imagine all the other things you can merge with."
"Well, it'd have to be electronic." Lincoln reminded him.
"Maybe you can make our video game system even better." Clyde suggested.
"Hmm, that's worth keeping in mind." Lincoln said feeling interested.
"Now you only have one alien left, Lincoln."
"Yeah. Let's see what number ten is." Lincoln activated the watch.
Lincoln's final alien was a phantom/ghost-like alien with a gaseous appearance and claw like hands. He had grey skin with black lines running all over him. A single purple eye peeked out, and the watch symbol peeked out of his skin on his lower left chest, "Clyde, I'm a ghost!" he spoke in a faint whispering voice.
"Chilling." Clyde shuddered.
"Lucy would definitely love this guy." Lincoln said, and started pondering, "Since I'm a ghost alien, I must have all the standard abilities of a ghost," he flew through a mountain of junk, "Intangibility, check." he suddenly vanished into thin air.
Clyde spoke, "Invisibility, check!"
"Now for the best power." Lincoln said mischievously while looking at Clyde.
"Lincoln, please don't look at me that way." Clyde said nervously. He screamed as the ghost alien flew right at him and into his body.
Clyde's eyes suddenly turned purple and sclera turned black with black lines appearing around his eyes. Suddenly Clyde started speaking in the ghost alien's voice, "Hi, I'm Clyde McBride. Don't let the glasses and dorky personality fool you. I'm a stud!" he laughed, before the ghost alien flew out of his body making Clyde shiver.
"Lincoln, please don't do that to me again it freaks me out!" Clyde said feeling violated.
"Freak?" Lincoln asked, "Well, then you should call me Ghostfreak!"
"And that makes ten named alien superheroes." Clyde called it.
"And now that I know what each of these aliens can do, I can use their abilities for some real good." Ghostfreak said before the watch beeped and Lincoln changed back to human, "All this transforming has made me thirsty. Why don't we grab a milkshake?"
"You read my mind." Clyde agreed, as the two headed off.
As they walked, Lincoln had told Clyde about how Leni noticed the watch and how he tricked her into thinking it was ordinary, "You're lucky Leni isn't the brightest sister."
"No kidding. If it were any of my other sisters I'd be in trouble." Lincoln added.
As they walked past a TV store, all the TVs on display in the window had the same breaking news segment on, "We're live outside Royal Woods Mall, where a group of armed crooks have taken several shoppers hostage and held up inside. Authorities are discussing how to handle it without any harm coming to the patrons inside." A reporter explained.
"The mall?" Clyde asked.
"Oh no," Lincoln gasped in shock,"Clyde, my sisters are there!"
"What?" he gasped.
"I got to help them!" Lincoln said, as he ran for the mall.
"Lincoln, be careful. And make sure Lori's safe..." he realized how he worded his claim, "I mean Lori and the rest of your sisters!"
Lincoln finally reached Royal Woods Mall and panted, "Maybe I should've gone XLR8," he looked over seeing the entrance roped off with police guarding every entrance or exit, "I got to get in there somehow." he crept around making sure the cops didn't spot him before coming up onto an air vent, "Yes." he climbed up into it and crawled through the duct.
As Lincoln crawled, he peeked down through a duct seeing five armed criminals holding various shoppers hostage. He suddenly spotted his sisters outside a clothing store huddling together in fear while Lily was crying, "Girls," he gasped, before he opened the hatch and slipped out while hiding behind a pillar, "I need to pick a good one." he turned the dial and slammed down on it.
Meanwhile over by the Loud sisters, the crook who was holding them hostage spoke, "Keep that brat quiet!"
"She's a baby and she's being held hostage. How else is she supposed to respond?" Lisa asked rhetorically.
"You watch your mouth too, kid." the crook warned her.
"You will be hearing from my pageant supporters!" Lola warned him.
"Shut up!" he shouted, "If any one of you makes another sound, lead is going through your guts!" he threatened them.
"Hey!" a voice shouted, and the crook looked over only to get blasted by water knocking him into a pillar. The girls and the crook looked and saw Water Hazard standing off to the side having just blasted the crook with water, "Threaten girls, and you get soaked."
"Whoa!" Lana gasped.
"Awesome!" Luna added.
"You girls ok?" the alien asked.
"Yes, thank you." Lori answered.
"Get someplace safe, I got this." Water Hazard said, as the girls took cover inside one of the stores.
The crook who got soaked spoke into a walkie talkie, "Get down here I need back up!"
And so the remaining four crooks arrived and surrounded Water Hazard, "What the hell are we dealing with?" one asked.
"A freak, that's what." another answered.
"Hey, I'll have you know I'm an Alien and not a Freak."
"Two different words same meaning." the third said, as they started shooting at Water Hazard.
The alien's hard body made it so he didn't feel a thing, "That tickles," Water Hazard laughed, before speaking seriously, "My turn!" he started blasting each crook with blasts of water making them fly backwards and crashing onto the floor.
Water Hazard turned to the last one who was wide eyed as the blasts of water were shot at him. The crook screamed high pitched as the water blasts sent him flying off his feet and into the mall's wishing fountain. The sisters who had been watching were amazed at their saviors abilities, until Luan spoke, "Looks like those guys are all 'washed up'!" she laughed, while her sibs groaned.
Water Hazard picked all the crooks up and bound them together, "That should hold them." he was about to leave, until the girls stopped him.
"Wait," Lori began, "Thank you so much for saving us."
"Yeah Water-Dude, you rocked." Luna added.
"We are totes grateful to you." Leni put in.
"But who are you?" Lynn asked.
"Call me Water Hazard, and I'm just glad to see you nor anyone else was hurt," he explained, "Well, time for me to go." he ran off.
"I wish he could've come back with us so I could study him." Lisa said with a sigh.
"Lisa, he just saved our lives and you want to repay him back by experimenting on him?" Lola asked in outrage.
"Just for research purposes." Lisa replied.
Lori noticed Leni was puzzled as if she was trying to think, "What's with you, Leni?"
"Did you guys notice the symbol on his chest?" Leni asked.
"Yeah, why?" Lynn asked.
"It looks so familiar." Leni said.
"Why? Did you see it somewhere?" Luna asked.
"I can't remember," Leni continued to ponder before shrugging, "Oh, well." her sisters sighed.
Outside the mall, Water Hazard became Lincoln and saw the cops escort the crooks away, "And that takes care of that." he kissed the watch.
That night at the Loud House, Lincoln was in his room talking to Clyde on their walkie talkies, "I'm telling you, Clyde, it was perfectly executed."
"Well, I'm glad you saved your sisters and everyone else." Clyde replied.
"Me too."
"And they still don't suspect you?"
"Not a bit." Lincoln answered.
"Yo, bro!" Luna called from downstairs, "Come on it's starting!"
"Got to go, Clyde. They're showing the coverage at the mall now." he put his walkie talkie down and hurried downstairs.
He took a seat on the couch with his sibs, as the news started showing recorded footage of Water Hazard fighting the crooks. The reporter spoke, "First a red four armed creature saving a bus filled with girls, and now a red water shooting creature saves shoppers from armed crooks. We're here live at Royal Woods Mall, with the ten girls this creature saved." the camera focused on the Loud Girls who were each giving their opinion on what happened.
"We were all scared for our lives, until he showed up and saved us." Lori said.
"He was so great and heroic." Leni added.
"That Water-Dude was awesome." Luna put in.
"He left those guys all wet!" Luan joked and laughed.
"He just he'd out his hands and sploosh! They got blasted with water." Lynn explained.
"What happened here got my heart pounding, and that never happens." Lucy gave her two cents.
"Water Hazard was his name, and I found him to be very kind and heroic." Lola said pleasantly.
"And cool. I hope more of him and that Four armed guy are out there." Lana added.
"I find him to be very fascinating, and I wish to learn more about this creature and anything else associated with him." Lisa stated.
"Poo-Poo!" Lily giggled.
The girls cheered at how their interview went, while Lincoln smiled knowing his sisters were safe. He glanced down at the alien watch and thought, 'Be it my sisters, my friends, even people I don't know. Royal Woods will be protected by me. No matter what may be out there.'
(And there you go. Lincoln has discovered what all ten of his aliens is capable of, and now is more than ready to take on any kind of threat. I substituted Ripjaws for water Hazard because he's a better water alien, and doesn't need water just to live. See you all around.)