A/N: After talking a bit with Leo, I decided to split chapter six into two parts. So here's the first part. As usual, I own nothing and everything belongs to their respective owners.
The Silent Sentinels HQ
Within the endless void that that was Silent Sentinels HQ it was anything but silent at the moment as a wail echoed through the void. In the meeting area of the sentinels Hush and Quell sat in their respective seats still covered by shadows, but by their body language they appeared to be a very annoyed with the continuing wailing. Mace was leaning on one of the seats eyes closed not really registering the wailing. Finally the source of the wailing was revealed, on one of the suspended seats sat a bawling Sulk. She was covered in bandages, her arm was in a sling, and her leg was in a cast. Her left eye was bandaged up, and her two front teeth were still missing. Sulk was in the seat and was currently crying her lungs out, tears rolling down her free eye and damping the bandages on the other.
"She's been at this for an hour now." Quell said getting annoyed.
"Sulk, we called you here for your report, I know this may be difficult for you right now but you need to-." Hush said only to be interrupted.
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Th-those apes were mean to me, a-and all I wanted to do was bring some c-class to their dreary town. And they came into my ship all rude, and they destroyed all my mooks, and took all the treasure my subjects gave me for being amazing. And that little pink witch punched my beautiful face, and she was picking on me, and she knocked out my teeth, AND IT HURT!" Sulk whined kicking her legs as she continued to cry.
After a few more seconds of Sulk crying, the two finally had enough.
"SULK, YOU WILL CEASE THIS IMMATURE BEHAVIOR, AND YOU WILL GIVE US YOUR REPORT IN A MANNER RESPECTIVE OF YOUR POSITION, RIGHT NOW!" Hush shouted authoritatively.
Sulk immediately stopped crying and looked at her sisters with tear filled eyes, she sucked in a sob and tried to wiped the tears from her eyes. "T-the mission to conquer s-sector US-13-RW of planet Chi-Q w-w-was a failure." Sulk said with a sob, shame filling her as she felt her sisters eyes on her.
"T-the marvelous that Suppress talked about arrived on the scene. They were immune to my mind control and-and-and-." Sulk said with a whimper.
"Oh please, Sulk, tell us exactly what happened." Suppress said as she appeared in another seat in a flash of green with a sly grin on her face. Sulk glared at Suppress, wanting to snap at her, but remembered that Hush and Quell were still watching her and were not up for any shenanigans.
"W-well there were more than before and-and they were stronger than me." Sulk said shamefully looking away as another tear rolled down her face. Hearing Sulk say that made Suppress giggle.
"So the Marvelous persist in their defiance of us." Hush said coldly.
"Is there anything useful you learned about their powers during your battle with them Sulk?" Quell asked.
"Allow me dear sisters. Before Sulk decided to so recklessly use all the ships power for the cannon causing it to overflow and detonate, I managed to save the ships logs. One being of interest is the visual logs from the ships main deck." Suppress said with a smile as she began to type away at a screen.
Sulk froze upon hearing that. "Y-you h-have the l-logs?" She stammered out.
"Yes, I hope you don't mind sisters, but I already reviewed the recordings with some of our other siblings to study the Marvelous." Suppress said still smiling.
"Y-you showed the others?" Sulk said sinking deeper into her seat face turning redder.
Then a video screen appeared in the middle of the room showing the battle between Sulk and the Marvelous.
"I'M GOING TO KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!" The recorded Sulk said crazed.
"Oh dear Sulk, that is a face so unbecoming of a queen." Suppress said with a stifled giggle making Sulk sinking further into her seat.
"Well sister's as you can see the Marvelous obviously outclassed Sulk in every regard speed-." Suppress said as an image of Lincoln slicing at Sulk's tentacles was shown.
"Strength-." An image of Lola punching Sulk in the face.
"And Intelligence." The gif of Sulk's head getting slammed onto the ceiling.
Finally, Suppress broke out into laughter as Sulk curled up into a ball a light sob coming from her.
"Back off, Suppress!" A voice said from the void. Just then a dark blue light shined onto one of the empty chairs as a female figure showed herself. She was slightly taller than Sulk she had grey skin and black hair. Only her hair was done in two downward pigtails, she wore a black, sleeveless muscle shirt, black baggy jeans, and combat boots.
"I'm just returning what she so happily dished out to me during my attempt, Shush." Suppress hissed.
"And here I was thinking you would be the bigger girl, and let it go." Shush replied as she looked at the curled up Sulk.
"Either way, thank you Suppress, we will take this information and add it to the dossier on the Marvelous." Quell explained and Suppress gave a small bow.
"Sulk while you were being treated, your gem was nowhere on your person. Where is it?" Hush said seriously making Sulk freeze up with everybody looking at her.
"I-I used it to transform, but I-I ended up coughing it out. T-the M-marvelous threw me off the ship b-before I could g-get it b-back." Sulk stammered out shaking a bit, Suppress and Sulk let out a gasp as the atmosphere turned deadly serious.
"You lost your gem?" Hush said anger clearly rising.
"I-it wasn't my fault, it-." Sulk tried to explain.
"Do you realize how important your gem, all our gems, is to our plan!" Hush said voice rising. Sulk sunk into her seat nodding, terrified.
"We need the gems so we can properly judge the planet for habitability, along with the Towers!" Quell shouted in restrained rage.
"We need the gems so that we can know if this planet is the one we've been looking for!" Hush yelled.
"WE NEED THE GEMS SO WE CAN PUT OUR PLAN IN ITS FINAL STAGES! WITHOUT EVEN ONE, OUR PLAN IS NOTHING!" The two eldest shouted so loudly and angrily that is resonated throughout the space. Sulk looked like she was on the verge of tears until Shush chimed in.
"Wait, I can look for it while I'm in the RW sector, I can get it back for her." Shush said quickly.
"What, w-why are you going to the RW sector?" Sulk asked confused.
"After your failure in taking control of the sector, it has been decided that Shush will now inherit it and complete her task." Quell chimed in.
Sulk looked at Shush betrayed while Shush gave Sulk a sympathetic look. "It's my mission to save resources, and things are going smoothly in the northern sector. So I thought I could lend you a hand." Shush said sheepishly.
"Your taking this from me?" Sulk said betrayed.
"N-no I'm not, I just-." Shush tried to explain.
"You can't give her this, she already has a sector. This is mine, you can't give her this." Sulk complained.
"The sector was originally Suppresses, and seeing has how we gave it to you after she failed it only seems fair. Shush has a higher success rate in her missions, and has more battle experience. Something, after viewing your performance, that will be needed for them." Hush hissed out.
"B-b-but she's just gonna take a bunch of stupid trees and we all know she's gonna take the local animals for her stupid Zoo." Sulk continued making Shush frown.
"What she does with her spare time is none of our concern as long as she completes her task, and we have more reason to trust her than you right now. So, you will relinquish control to your twin, and Suppress you will supply her with whatever she needs." Hush continued.
"Shush we know you will succeed where your sister failed." Quell said as she received a bow from Shush. And with that the Hush and Quell were gone in a flash leaving Suppress, Sulk, Shush, and Mace.
"S-Sulk I-." Shush said trying to explain.
"Who do you think you are. You can't take this from me." Sulk whispered.
"Sulk, please." Shush whispered.
"You knew that brother would be impressed by what I did, so you took this from me! You were always jealous of our connection!" Sulk yelled as she stood up on her chair pointing accusingly at Shush.
"Oh please, like there was anything special about you two compared to the rest of us. We all want to impress brother." Suppress replied blandly.
"SHUT UP, OUR CONNECTION WAS SPECIAL, MORE SPECIAL THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S. HE WAS MY KNIGHT AND YOUR ALL JUST JEALOUS!" Sulk shouted.
"Sulk, I wasn't trying to get between you and brother, I just wanted to help." Shush said.
"AND HOW LONG ARE YOU JUST GOING TO STAND THERE!?" Sulk yelled pointing at Mace who was still leaning on a chair eyes closed.
From behind her mask, Mace finally opened her eyes, seeing that Hush and Quell were gone, and that three of the sister's were staring at her. Mace then moved the locks of white hair covering her ears and then pulled out two small ear plugs blasting some pop song.
"Did she finally stop whining, what'd I miss?" Mace said oblivious to what was happening.
"Y-y-YOUR ALL JERKS!" Sulk shouted.
"Come on sis, I'm just doing my part for the mission." Shush said.
"You, your always trying to butt in on me and brother when were together, you never let me have anything to myself!" Sulk said.
"Hey, so do you guys like have tech for this, or is that permanent?" Mace asked pointing to her teeth, referring to Sulk's, and making her pout.
"Well it's not that bad, we can get some replacements. There's this nice mineral I just found that you would love." Shush tried to soften the blow.
Sulk let out a whimper until she finally disappeared into a pink flash, making Shush sigh in defeat.
"Why are you so nice to her? She never treats you with any kindness." Suppress said.
"She's my sister, and she does, but you know she gets like this sometimes. Were all in this together we should at least try to get along." Shush said.
"Whatever, this family is not worth it. Your troops are ready and so is your ship, I followed the specifications for the newest section of your Zoo." Suppress said simply.
"The fact you even said that shows that there is a problem here." Shush said sadly as she disappeared in a flash of dark blue leaving Suppress and Mace.
"I know Hush and Quell sent you after the Marvelous, what did you learn?" Suppress said.
"I went of my own choice, and there's nothing I know about them that you don't already." Mace said.
"Is that so? Then why don't I believe you?" Suppress asked.
"I don't care what you believe, I'm here for me and my team, not your family or your little invasion. So why don't you step off, and let me do what I need to do, and maybe I may end up helping you guys out along the way. Also tell that little witch of yours to stop following me, or next time I might end up stepping on her shadow." Mace said sinisterly as she disappeared in a flash of Orange.
After a few minutes of silence Suppress was left alone. "How in the infinite universe did she know?" Suppress hissed.
Just then within the shadows of one of the seats someone emerged, she stayed in the shadows staying out of sight.
"Mace is a lot more perceptive than I originally thought, and her team is just as good as she is. I can't keep following her Suppress, she'll catch me, and when she does she won't be kind." The shadowy figure said.
"I know she's up to something, she's hiding something from us. And once I figure it out, we'll put her and her little team in their place. Either way your job is done, but I have a new assignment for you." Suppress said.
"I see my fate is not entwined with these Marvelous. You wish for me not to spy on them, but to find where their strength originates." The shadow said surprising Suppress.
"You were listening in on me again weren't you?" Suppress replied.
"No, the stars informed me of this fate. It is my destiny to face the Marvelous, defeat them, and take their power in the name of our cause." The shadow continued.
"You face the Marvelous. You think Shush will fail?" Suppress said with a smirk.
"The fact that you are asking me to complete this task shows your doubt in her abilities. She is powerful and her abilities are unmatched, but she is fated to lose this battle. Although the stars also say that she will achieve something after that." The shadow said.
"Whatever, I've been tracking the Marvelous energy signature seeing if I can find it anywhere else in the world. I haven't been able to nail it down, but I have found weird traces coming from what the humans call the Atlantic. I need you and your troops to find where this is coming from and then bring me back any valuable information regarding their powers and tech." Suppress said as she pulled out a small tablet with a map on it.
She then dropped the tablet into the shadow made by her chair, it fell but it made no sound. Until it appeared in the shadowy figures hand who stood across from Suppress reading it.
"Easy enough, I will update you on my progress as I go." The shadow said.
"Good. Also, if Shush does fail, what makes you think you can defeat them?" Suppress said.
"My victory is mandated by forces beyond us. Not only that, but how can they fight something that they can't even see." The shadow said as it stepped away disappearing without a sound.
"As long as you do the mission, I don't care what philosophical trash you spew Quash, so long as brother is happy." Suppress said as she disappeared in a green flash.
(Royal Woods; Hours after Sulk's attack; Late at night.)
The clicking and clacking of keys were all that were present in Lisa's office, bar the girl herself. As she got to work on writing a series of programs and algorithms specifically tailored to scanning and analyzing the pink gem that her brother, sisters, and (largely) possible sister-in-law, retrieved for her from the battle at the Grandstay Hotel. Of course, she had to work in small increments due to her mother setting a curfew for her work; unless it was work necessitating her prolonged consciousness past midnight. Sighing in exhaustion, the four year old halted her typing to take a sip of water from her water bottle.
"Just one final line of code for tonight, and then I'll head to my sleeping quarters for suspended consciousness." She said setting her bottle down, screwing the cap back on, and continuing her work.
After a few minutes of moonlight bathing, and clicking and clacking, the young prodigy saved her work; safely shut down her laptop; and exited her office. Making headway to the elevator, and using the voice command operated buttons, the bespectacled toddler took residence of the lift and waited to be taken to the residential floor. As she patiently awaited for her descent to the 13th floor to end, the young prodigy's subconscious brought her down onto memory lane.
(About a year ago; Research facility in the _ _; Afternoon.)
Lisa walked down the halls of her research facility, glossing over and occasionally tapping a tablet as she trekked. Occasionally uttering a greeting to her fellow scientist at the facility as they passed her by, the girl multitasked her attention between the screen before her and the hall in front of her very being. Eventually she reached a large, open doorway and turned to enter.
Only to see that someone was already inside.
Quickly hiding behind the wall, she made sure to keep herself as quiet and scarce as possible from the person inside the room. While she had believed that something like fear was beneath her, she could not deny that everyone in the facility - herself included - felt an intense, deep, and gargantuan amount of the primal emotion when in the mere presence of the entity in the room. Unfortunately, he had been a crucial and integral part of this research excursion, so they all had to deal with it. Letting out a quiet exhale of air, the girl peeked out from behind the wall to see what the person was doing.
Within the confines of the room was a tall, slim, and lean man wearing an all white suit with slicked back, spiky blue hair that jutted upward. His hands and fingers danced and pranced about some holographic screens as he let out the occasional moan or noise of either intriguement ot dissatisfaction. In front of the man was a massive pan of glass that allowed anyone to gaze into the room beyond and see its contents. The screens surrounding him showcased said contents, but focused on two things in particular: two colossal prisms with red light and orange light inside of them.
Before Lisa could begin to work up the courage, or rage, to enter the room and demand answers from the man who was seemingly tampering with her research. The man himself spoke up, seemingly unaware of Lisa'a presence.
"Red," he said as he looked at the screen on the right that depicted the red colored prism, "the color of the one whom I despise so passionately and obsessively." Lisa raised an eyebrow in confusion as he turned to the screen with the orange prism adorning it.
"Orange," he continued, "the color of the brother of that pest; the color that allowed him to endure and resist fear, and confront unflattering and unnerving situations and circumstance with confidence." He turned away from the screen and looked directly into the room beyond.
"So why," he asked, "are the roles of these colors reversed, here?" Lisa raised her tablet and started recording the man. "Why is it that red makes one feel overwhelming courage, but also incredible pride and arrogance?" He turned to the screen with the red prism, but raised his hand to the one with the orange prism and began to rake his gloved hand on it; paradoxically creating a silent, yet somehow noticeable, screeching sound making Lisa flinch.
"Why is it that your color holds what your brother had, and that your brother's color has what makes me hate you so, James?" If Lisa was confused before, then she was downright befuddled now. "Why is it that Orange, instead of embodying Courage like it always did and being weaker than Red, is the incarnation of Determination?" He removed his hand from the screen, closed them all, and turned around to leave.
Lisa ducked back behind the wall, hoping that the architectural design choice of this particular hall would provide enough cover. The man exited the room, and took a turn to the left, seemingly missing Lisa completely. Before the four year old scientist could exhale in relief, she heard the man say one more thing.
"These 'Marvelous Suits', or whatever they're called, at least seem to be worth this aggravation."
(Present day)
The ding of the elevator awoke Lisa from hre retrospect down memory lane, shocking her out of her rigid state and allowing the world to greet her with the sight of opening doors. Exhaling in an attempt to relieve herself from the sensation of shock, the genius exited the elevator, and came face to face with a hallway that held two sets of thirteen doors at either side of a table smack in front of the elevator doors. Heading down the right side of the hall she passed the color coded doors of her family. From the red and green door of her father and mother, and the blue and seafoam doors of Lori and Leni, to the orange and purple doors of her only brother and his significant other.
Eventually, she reached the green and lavender door of herself and Lily, and entered the sleeping quarters with little trouble. Despite the odd barrenness of the room - compared to the one back in the Loud House - the girl quickly found solace in her soft mattress, removed her glasses, and swiftly placed herself on the pillow and under the covers. Before she lost consciousness completely, a single thought ran through her head.
"It still baffles me how Darcy isn't scared of Dr. Lightning."
(Camp Scratchy Bottom Campgrounds)
The moon hung high over the lonely road, it being the only light source to illuminate the way. The road was empty and silent only the sounds of small insects and birds filled the air, there was nothing on the dark road not a single car or individual. Well, there was one, one lone figure walking down the road towards the campground. The figure was female but wore a long coat to cover her body and a hood to cover her face. She walked along the grass next to the road hands in her coat pockets and walking in silence.
She continued to walk until she heard a light rustling from the bushes next to her. The figure stopped and slowly turned to face the bushes, not taking any defensive stance, just waiting to see what came out. After a few seconds a small doe emerged from the bushes sniffing the ground not noticing the figure standing before her. The doe then lifted its head up and looked at the figure being a little startled, while the figure simply stood before it not doing anything threatening. The doe prepared to go back into the bushes, until the figure slowly knelt down and held out her hand; in it was grass. The doe, noticing this, slowly made its way to the figure's hand and sniffed the grass. Believing it to be safe the doe began to nibble away at the grass, a smile could be seen under the figures hood as it watched the doe eat. The figure then slowly lifted her other hand and began to pet the doe. The doe didn't mind, in fact it looked like it enjoyed it.
The doe licked the last remnants of grass from her hand while the figure gave it one last pet before moving back and letting it go on its way. The figure watched as the doe made its way to the road, wanting to cross it. As it did so, the figure began to walk down the road again. But then a horrible screech filled the air making the figure and the does ears perk up. The figure turned to see a car careening down the road, it's headlights bright as they were aimed at the doe. The doe stood in the middle of the road frozen and eyes wide as the car came closer and closer. The figure simply glared at the car, her fist clenching as she watched it come closer to hurting the creature. Then suddenly the asphalt in front of the doe abruptly shot up, forming a ramp, and causing the car to fly off it and soar over the doe. The car flipped in the air and landed on its hood, skidding down the road before coming to a halt.
"Your planet has gifted you with such wonderful plants and wildlife, you should treat it with more respect." The figure said as her eyes glowed dark blue and she lifted her hood, revealing herself to be Shush.
Shush continued to walk down the road until she came to what looked like a an entrance with a huge gate with a sign atop it. "Welcome to The Scratchy Bottom Campgrounds."
"Weird name, but okay." Shush said with a giggle.
Shush saw that there was a security box with a guard inside, though she appeared to be reading a magazine. The guard took a moment to look up from her magazine and saw Shush's figure in the shadows.
"Hey, who are you?" The guard asked putting down the magazine and picking up a flashlight
This startled Shush and she quickly hid behind a tree.
"Don't you start running now!" The guard said as she exited the security box and ran to where Shush was. She quickly reached the tree and flash her flashlight onto it, but found no one there.
"What, but they were right here." The guard said as she continued to search the area, not noticing the light shuffling sound behind her.
"Should I report this? Yeah, with nothing to show for it; great nothing interesting happens at this place." The guard said defeated as she walked back to the security box. However, hiding behind it, Shush was letting out a sigh of relief as she quickly ran into the woods.
"That was too close, don't want to raise the alarm just yet. I have a mission. Recon and return." Shush said to herself as she silently moved along the trees.
Shush then came to a campsite, there was two tents, a table, and a campfire. The people seemed to be asleep in their tents.
"Hm, seems some humans like to leave the city sometimes and enjoy their world." Shush said as she walked around the camp.
Shush then looked at the table and saw a map for the campgrounds.
"I'll just borrow this." Shush said with a small smile as she took the map and then leapt up into the trees.
Shush sat on a branch as she scanned through the map looking at the various areas at the campground and even beyond. She examine the map until her watch started to beep, this startled her almost making her fall off the branch.
"Geez, this is Shush. You need to turn down the volume on this thing." Shush said regaining her seating.
"It's the only way I can get any of you to listen. Anyway I got the sample you sent me from the site." Suppress said annoyed.
"And what'd you find?" Shush said excitement in her voice.
"Nothing, it the same as you'd find on the other end of the planet. This ecosystem has nothing of value to our movement." Suppress explained.
"What, really?! There's gotta be something?" Shush said disappointed.
"Nope, nothing, you know that means you gotta pull back." Suppress explained.
"Oh come on, Suppress, can't you pull some strings? There are so many interesting creatures here, I need to get them onto the Zoo before we-." Shush begged before Suppress interrupted.
"You know the rules, if the area is viable then you have to pull back. And you can only take the creatures in the area you begin farming for resources. Trees and water are not enough to begin, so either you find something useful or come back." Suppress ordered.
"Okay, okay, there is one place in the sector I haven't checked yet. Here's a map of the area I'm heading there." Shush said as she began to let the watch scan her map, she then leapt of the tree and headed north.
"The Scratchy Bottom Mines?" Suppress asked confused.
"Yeah, I'm sending you another sample." Shush said as she landed in front of a large cave.
Shush walked 3 feet into the cave and touched the stone walls of it. She then pulled out a small drill like device and stabbed it into the wall, once inside the device began to drill into the stone.
As the device did its job, Shush stood by and waited to complete its task. After a brief moment, she began bobbing her head from side to side whistling a tune.* When the tune was finished, the device beeped signalling the completion of its task. Removing it from the wall, Shush held a hand out in front of the drill as it split open and deposited bits of rock, dirt, and mineral into her hand.
"Alright, Press, last samples comin' your way." She said as she held up her watch to the earthen material and scanned them.
"It's Suppress, and much appreciated." Suppress replied. "Stand by for a moment, please." Shush nodded, having nothing better to do, and placed the samples back into the device. Not a moment later, Supress's voice came back through the watch.
"I have just finished scanning the samples you sent me." She said.
"And?" Shush asked in an anxious tone.
"And," Suppress began, "In addition to what we were hoping for, I have also acquired some interesting data from them. If my theory is correct, and what we can gather from the Towers matches up, then we may have found what we've been looking for."
"So?" Shush said.
"So, Shush, this means that you have found an area that is desirable to us; since it has both resources that we can collect, and valuable data." Suppress begrudgingly informed.
"Then that means." Shush said excited.
"Yes, that means that the order will be finalized. You may start the gathering process, and you may take any creatures into your Zoo." Suppress said defeated.
"YES, ALRIGHT!" Shush said excited jumping into the air.
"I feel I should warn you that the cave is…" Suppress said.
"I know, I'll be careful little sis." Shush said kindly making Suppress blush.
"You know the Marvelous will probably arrive once you start. Quash thinks you're gonna lose." Suppress said.
"Heh, another one of her predictions. I kinda always wanted to prove her wrong once. But as for the Marvelous, I think I'll attempt talking to them first, try to make them see the good we're doing." Shush said.
"And if they (most likely) refuse?" Suppress asked.
"I would like to avoid it, but if come to that I won't kill them. But maybe I can imprison them and bring them back to be held until we're done." Shush said.
"You seem confident." Suppress said.
"I'm nervous, but I need to give it my all for the cause, for brother." Shush said as she clenched her fist and the inside of the cave began to shake and rumble.
"Yes," Suppress said, "for brother."
(The next morning.)
The clicking of forks and spoons connecting with plates and bowls resonated throughout the dining room as the Loud family, plus Ronnie Anne, ate their breakfast. From simple eggs, bacon, and toast; to various assortments of cereal doused in milk. The residents of Loud Labs had more than enough to nourish themselves in the morning.
"So kids," Lynn Sr. asked as he fed Lily her breakfast, "what are you planning for today? Anything special?" He spooned what little baby food was spilling out of the toddlers maw back in as he turned to look at his ten other kids, and friend.
After taking a sip of her orange juice, Lisa said. "I will be continuing work on researching the jewel Lincoln recovered from Sulk's ship."
"Leni, Luna, Luan and I were planning on going to the mall today," Lori said as she took a bite out of her french toast, "apparently an alien attack is the perfect excuse to have sales and not seem desperate."
"I was planning on going to the park with Lana, maybe play some football or something." Lynn said before belching.
"Excuse you, Lynn." Lola grimaced before proceeding to state her plans; rather pompously may I add. "I on the other hand am going to go to the mall with Lori and the others to take a look at the new toy store." She blanched, ignoring Leni's asking of you are. "You know, the new one that I was GOING to go to yesterday, before that xenomorph ripoff attacked?"
"The one with that looked like the color pink came to life and barfed all over it?" Lana asked.
"Yes." Lola said, restraining her annoyance, as her eye twitched.
"Oh, good then, I dodged a bullet." Lana said while smugly smiling as Lola stuck her tongue out at her.
"What about you, Lucy?" Rita asked as she finished her meal.
"I'll be going with Lincoln and Ronnie Anne to the comic store." Lucy said with, shock of all shocks, excitement. Causing almost all of the patrons at the table to look at her in bewilderment.
"What?" She asked looking at everyone with equal bewilderment from behind her bangs.
"Dude, no offense, but you just sounded excited about going to a comic store of all places." Said Luna, who proceeded to look sheepishly at her brother after an indignant shout.
"And?" Lucy asked.
"What our elder, musically inclined, female sibling means to say my death and mystic enthralled elder sibling, is that you sound interested in something that is not to your preference, but Lincoln's." Lisa clarified with an eyebrow raised.
Lucy simply shrugged and said, "Lincoln got me a horror comic last week and I got interested. So I want to go to the store and get more, simple as that."
"Is there a problem with that?" Lincoln asked with narrowed eyes, prompting everyone - bar Ronnie Anne and Lucy - to quickly say no. "Good."
"Mic," Lily giggled clapping her hands, "Ka-mic." Lincoln smiled at his youngest sister.
"I'll be sure to get one for you too Lily," he said, "just be sure not to drool all over it or rip it. Okay?" Lily giggled and nodded her head in understanding.
"Great," Lori quietly groaned, "he really DID manage to mold her into him."
"What was that?" Lincoln asked turning to Lori.
"Nothing." Lori blandly responded before finishing her drink, and leaving to put her dishes in the sink.
(Later; at the front of Loud Labs)
"Alright, everyone ready to go do what they've got planned today?" Lori asked as she started Vanzilla.
"Yup." Lincoln, Ronnie, and Lucy replied in unison.
"Ready." Said Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lola.
"And Lynn and Lana already left for the park," Lori said as she buckled in, "so I guess that means we're out of each others hair for the day." She turned to the two preteens and eight year old and blandly groused with a deadpan expression, "Don't do anything stupid." And drove off.
"Love you too!" Lincoln shouted as the van speed off down the street. Turning to the two girls he said, "Alright, let's roll."
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