Just a little warning.
I realized that the end of Legend of Dragon Domain was somewhat weak, so I decided to rewrite.
So, instead of four to five days, this story will be weekly, at least until I finish rewriting.
DATE: MARCH 15 2015, LOUD TOWER, 17H49M
Lincoln was almost in the bathroom when something unexpected happened.
The bracelet Lola gave him was making an electric current run through his body. Although it had been painful at first, he now felt his body tickling, the electricity making him more excited. He was always a careful kid, living with his super sisters had most of the motive, but no one in their right mind would want to electrocute himself either.
As soon as it had begun, the electric current ceased. He watched his wrist and understood the reason: the bracelet was burned. Although the goal was to knock him out with a low charge, apparently his body drained the energy of the hidden device.
It was then that he realized.
"Hugh!"
Now it all made sense. He only started to feel danger when Hugh was close to his sisters, and when he left them he could relax. But if his bracelet was electrified, it meant that his sisters bracelets were too.
"Assemble!" He activated his "Symbi-watch", with anger on his face. "You'll see! Nobody messes with my sisters with me around!"
Cautiously, Marvel Boy began to look for his enemy.
If Hugh dared to hurt his sisters, he would have no mercy.
LIVING ROOM
Except for Lori and Bobby, who were totally trapped in the strange paste cocoons, they were all handcuffed. But they were not ordinary handcuffs. Try as they might, none of the girls could use their powers.
"Do not waste your time, you little brats." Hugh was losing his temper. "My employer made these handcuffs based on the schematics of the handcuffs that SHIELD uses to trap super-criminals. You will stay still for a long time."
He drank a cup of tea, his helmet on the coffee table as he sat in Mr. Loud's armchair.
"Why are you doing this, Hugh?" Lola could not believe what was happening. "I thought you liked us!"
"Ha, how naive you are." Hugh now took pleasure in shattering the little girl's feelings. "As if someone would like one of you. You are so inconvenient that I am seriously thinking of throwing all of you out of the window. I was acting by the plan, but now I do not need to pretend anymore."
"What's that plan?" Lori tried to establish her position as leader, but she was so terrified that she could not use her powers.
"Actually, I owe no explanation to any of you." He intended to leave the situation as it was, but he had an idea. "But since you can not stop me, I think I can tell you. My employer hired me to get some parts of your father's computer, as well as copying some files from SHIELD using the access he has." He showed the computer on his forearm, scoring 89%. "As soon as it's over, I'm leaving, and I'll leave you to SHIELD. Now, if you annoy me, I will not hesitate to kill you."
"You'll never get away with this!" Lana was the only one who was confident.
"Oh, really?" Hugh slowly approached Lana, until he met her eyes. "And why do you think that?"
"Lincoln's friends will save us. I bet they're on their way!"
Hugh seemed to enjoy the situation. Even after all, she thought her brother would save them.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I came very well prepared. The tower is sealed, your precious brother is still stuck in the pool area, and even if he tried, no message can be sent while my equipment is active."
"I would not bet on it if I were you!"
As he turned, Hugh was shot by a energy blast. Everyone looked across the room, where a blond boy was standing.
"Marvel Boy!" They all shouted.
Seeing that they were not stuck, he planned what to do.
"Get down the emergency stairs, I'll take care of him."
"But what about them?" Luna pointed at Lori and Bobby.
"Do not worry about us, get out of here while you can!" Lori's tone showed that she meant it.
The girls went into the dining room, and then they entered the emergency exit, still worried about Lori.
"How did you get here? "The armor had suffered little damage, and Hugh was ready to fight again. "This place should be totally isolated."
"You have thought of conventional means of calling for help, but the Avengers have their means of helping their friends." Despite the situation, Marvel boy was confident.
Hugh clenched his fists and the guns of his armor began to shoot. Marvel Boy went to Bobby and put him in front of Lori, to protect her. The shots bouncing off his indestructible skin began to wake Bobby.
With incredible agility for someone in a armor, Hugh threw himself on the ground and managed to get his helmet.
"Very well, kid. Let's see if you can handle a fight with the Beetle!"
He fired rockets into his boots and threw himself at the boy, who had no time to divert. The two of them then went through the window and took the fight to the outside.
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As the explosions and flashes of light were happening outside the building, Bobby was beginning to become lucid. As soon as he could focus his vision, he could see a desolate Lori in despair.
"Babe! What happened? Where is everybody?"
"Bobby!" Lori was immediately filled with hope. "Hugh does not work for SHIELD, he came here to steal the tower."
"Sure, now I remember. He knocked me out. How did we get here? Where are your siblings?"
"Marvel Boy appeared. Lincoln said he had a device to call his team, and I think he did. He sent the others down the emergency exit stairs, and left us here."
"Okay, let's see what I can do about this."
Bobby tried to gather all his strength, and after much effort, he was able to break the cocoon. Then, with a little more effort, she managed to free Lori.
"Thank you, Boo-boo Bear." Lori was determined. "Come on, we have to find my sisters!"
Bobby then followed her, and they went to the emergency exit.
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Lincoln was not doing very well. For all his bravery, he was not really taking care of the situation.
Even with his training, he was not really prepared to face a mercenary who could pose as a SHIELD agent. No matter how he tried to approach, there was another compartment with a coupled gun ready to fire. Although he had never asked to Ant-Man, he already imagined that his costume was not bullet-proof.
"So, boy?" Hugh was obviously smiling under his helmet. "Were not you going to fight me? So far you have not been able to put a finger on me."
It was hard to say what was more frustrating, not being able to get close to him or the mockery.
Even so, Lincoln had to admit that this Beetle armor was fantastic. He had weapons everywhere and still managed to fly with mastery. If he did not think of something soon, he would surely lose.
However, he did not even have to think about something.
"Well, boy, I ended up here." He picked up a grenade and released, letting gravity do his job. "What do you think? Civilians down there or wasting time with me?"
Though he was furious, Lincoln dived toward the grenade. How could this guy be so vile?
As soon as he took the grenade, he threw it with all his strength, but was surprised to see a huge flash, blinding the people around. The mask shielded his eyes, but even so he saw no trace of the Beetle.
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The girls had gone down the stairs, but they ended up finding an obstacle on the 82nd floor.
To separate the particular area from the rest of the building, even the emergency exit of that floor had a special door, which was inoperative.
The entire 82nd floor was a minigolf course with synthetic grass, so the girls started barricading in front of the bathroom, at great cost because of the handcuffs.
"What are you doing?"
They were frightened, but they calmed down to realize it was Lori.
"Lori! Bobby! You escaped!" Leni tried to hug her sister without much success.
"Calm down, Bobby woke up and freed us." She grabbed his hand, flirting with her eyes. "It's good to have a strong man around."
Bobby blushed instantly. He then noticed the handcuffs.
"Wow, where the guy got this?"
"Do you know about these things?" Lola was eager to let go.
"They can only be opened with a special key for each batch or precise application of energy in the lock, or then releases a powerful electric discharge to knock down the prisoner."
The girls were discouraged. If the Beetle had worn these handcuffs, then the key should be with him.
Suddenly they heard a noise in the window, and slowly turned away, afraid of what they would find.
Fortunately, it was Marvel Boy.
He signaled them to move away, and then blasted the window.
"Sorry for the glass, but your security measures is not helping."
"Did you beat the evil guy who looks like Hugh?" Leni was excited, though confused.
"Leni, that WAS Hugh." Lori tried to explain. "But anyway, thanks Marvel Boy."
"I would not be grateful yet." He said, a little embarrassed. "He threw a grenade to distract me and ran away. I can not imagine where he went."
Everyone seemed at once relieved and depressed. How could a day that started so well could have ended like this?
"Hey, where's Lincoln?" Lana, looking around, realized something was wrong. "He disappeared a long time ago."
That made them all worried. They had not even noticed that Lincoln was not there.
"Do not worry, he's fine." Marvel Boy looked calm, but he was panicking inside. "He activated the pen we gave him, and was teleported to our helicarrier, where he told us what was going on."
Though they found the story a little strange, the girls calmed down. Marvel Boy then noticed the handcuffs.
"Any of you know how to take of these things?"
"Bobby said there's no way, dude." Luna said, defeated. "Without the key, these things will electrocute us if we try to break them."
He remembered moments ago when the electric bracelet was activated and he drained all the energy from the trap.
"If you trust me, I think I can take off the handcuffs." He smiled, assuring he knew what to do.
For some reason, his smile gave a sense of security, and they trusted him.
Lana was the first to reach out to him.
"Do not worry, it'll be all right!" He smiled again, making Lana blush.
As he placed a finger on the lock, with his other hand he held the bottom of the centerpiece. He energized his finger and the handcuff responded by triggering the electric charge, which was absorbed by the other hand. As the handcuff began to release the charge, he closed both hands on the mechanism and began draining all the energy the handcuff had. As soon as he realized there was nothing more to absorb, he broke the cuffs, freeing Lana.
Everyone was ecstatic with what they saw. Although they did not know it was the first time he did it, it was amazing to see someone so young do something so accurate.
Then he released Lola, who immediately hugged her twin. The next one was Luan, who was too shaken to even think of a joke. Leni did not even understand what happened when her handcuffs were removed.
So it was Lynn's turn.
In an instant, Marvel Boy was about to take the handcuff away, but when Lynn approached, he got tense and pushed Lynn away.
Everyone was perplexed, but then they noticed a hole in the back and another in the chest of the boy, a bullet fallen to within a few centimeters of where he pushed Lynn. He gasped, blood coming out of his mouth as he slowly dropped to the floor.
The girls quickly rushed over to him to help him. Leni placed her hands on Marvel Boy's chest and began to heal him. Bobby went to look through the hole in the windowpane when he was hit by another shot of bazooka and flung across the mini golf course.
Horrified, the girls stared again at the Beetle.
"Thanks for the distraction." He boasted. "This kid was very nimble, so I had to wait for him to get distracted."
"Why did you do that?" Despite her fear, Lori was furious. "Did not you have what you wanted?"
"If it's to be part of the main league, I have to show how far I'm willing to go." He now locks up all his guns at the girls. "For example, I do not like having to use more than half of my ammunition to kill just one person, then, to ease the tension, I regret to say that you also have to be part of the body count."
The girls closed their eyes, waiting for an end that never came.
As they looked at the mercenary, he was squirming, as if something were in his arms.
They looked closely, and saw that his armor, just as the ground, was full of ants.
"You should be ashamed, young man!" A stern voice was heard. "How dare you point guns to children?"
A man dressed in red suddenly appears, and punches the Beetle's helmet with a powerful blow. Although not strong enough to knock him out, it's enough to make him fall.
The arrival of the strange adult inspired the girls to react.
Taking advantage of the distraction, Lori levitated the objects that formed the barricade and launched them as soon as he got up.
He spend his ammunition trying to destroy the objects, when he realized that the man in red had disappeared.
When he looked around, he left an opening for another crescent punch.
As he looked down, Luan was coming toward him, and she phased through his armor, causing a system failure.
Lola, now more enraged than scared, took the chance and went to the Beetle. She used her hands to grab him by the legs and began to hit him in the mini golf course objects as if she were cleaning a rug.
In the end, the armor was in a bad state, and its user was not much better.
As soon as the adrenaline rush past, everyone looked at Leni, still healing Marvel Boy. He was still, but as soon as he coughed, they realized he was fine.
The girls then turned to the man in red, who was handcuffing the unconscious Beetle and removing what was left of the helmet.
"So, you're the Cricket-Man?" Lola asked, a little suspicious.
"Actually, it's Ant-Man," he corrected, not looking offended. "I have to admit, we did a good teamwork. Is this your first time fighting a villain?"
The girls turned red with the comment.
"Guys, he woke up!" Leni called.
Slowly, Marvel Boy stood up, still feeling some pain, but without even a scar. Everyone looked at him with relief, while Leni seemed a little more lost than usual.
"Thank you very much, miss." He said, smiling. "You saved my life."
Leni continued to stare at him strangely, as if trying to see through the mask.
"Look, I think your friend needs help too." The Ant-Man was pointing to the newly-unconscious Bobby.
"Do not worry, he's indestructible." Lynn said, as if it were nothing. "Look, I do not want to be annoying, but can you take this thing of me?"
Before the boy could go help, the Ant-man stopped him.
"Marvel Boy, why do not you go to the Watcher to see how the repairs I've done while I've settled things here?"
"But I..."
"Do not worry, you've done enough. And do not worry, I brought our friend Lincoln with me, he's in his ROOM right now, waiting for the confusion to stop."
Marvel Boy was confused for a moment, but then he understood what his teammate wanted to say.
"Okay, I'll be right there. Say "You're welcome" to Lincoln for me."
He then said goodbye and flew out the window.
"Hey, how are we going to get these things out without him?" Lynn was irritated.
"Do not worry." The Ant-Man took a small metal cylinder, the size of a pen. "I just need this."
He inserted the end of the cylinder into the lock, and it seemed to melt inside the mechanism, as if it were molding itself in the shape of the lock.
"This is my master key, made of nanorobots. There's nothing this can not open."
It took a while, but he was able to trick the lock. As soon as Lynn was released from the handcuffs, he released Luna and then Lucy. Now that they were all free, there remained one question.
"What do we do with him?" Lana pointed to the Beetle.
"I sent a SHIELD priority alert to the helicarrier, so it should not be long before they get him out of here." Ant-Man was looking around, analysing the damage. "Well, I think your father can handle that when he comes back from his meeting with the old man. I think I can reconnect your security system before I leave, but after that, you're on your own."
"You can not stay?" Leni and the twins spoke together, with puppie eyes.
"Sorry, but when SHIELD takes our Beetle, I'm going to have to ask Director Santiago to let me ask him some questions."
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The Loud sisters, Bobby and the Ant-Man stayed with the Beetle for about an hour, until SHIELD arrived. As soon as the Ant-Man and the SHIELD left, Bobby and the girls finally went into the living room. As soon as they arrived, they saw that most of the mess was tidied up in the corner, and they smelled food in the kitchen.
"Hey, I'm glad you arrived!" Lincoln said, stepping out of the kitchen. "I saw you were taking too long, and I cleaned what I could. I'm about to finish dinner, I made spaghetti with meatballs."
After the day they had, a nice portion of food made by Lincoln was pretty much the only option to end the day well. Each of the girls went to her room to take a shower and prepare for dinner, while Bobby took an extra uniform in his suitcase and went to the bathroom of one of the guest rooms.
But one of the sisters decided to go to the kitchen.
"Lincoln, you, like, have a minute?" Leni asked, looking at her brother with concern.
He was about to take the large platter of spaghetti into the dining room, but left it where it was. He did not know what to expect from his sister.
"Sure, Leni. What's it?"
She was silent, and walked over to him. She looked him in the eye, then put a finger in his chest.
"Is it still hurting?"
"W-what do you mean Leni?" He was nervous. A thought passed in his head, but he ignored it. It was not possible. "What are you talking about?"
"The shot you took earlier, you silly. When you was wearing your Marvel Boy outfit."
Lincoln stiffened like a wall, his eyes wide. How did Leni, his foolish sister Leni, discovered his secret?
"Leni, please let me explain..."
She put a finger in her brother's lips, silencing him.
"Do not worry, Linky. I will not tell anyone." She then looked at him maliciously. "With a condition."
"W-what condition?"
"I want to join your team!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
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