Hey everyone, here's chapter 11 of Assassin's Creed Awakening. I reuploaded this chapter due to it having one minor edit to it.
It was a new day in Royal Woods. Two weeks had passed. It was Friday, Lincoln's suspension and grounding having ended today. He knew he'd have to go back to school on Monday, but for now he was relaxing in his room.
"Welp, mom said my grounding is over. I guess now I can finally the new game I got a few weeks back" Lincoln said, twirling the case of his newest game between his fingers. He then removed the plastic, opened the case, sniffing the inside, "Ah… I love that new video game smell" he sniffed again, this time catching another scent, "Wait a minute, is that…" he sniffed the air again, "Oh, no…"
Lincoln then open his door, his siblings doing the same as he walked downstairs. He knew that smell. It was his mother's expensive perfume, which could only mean one thing.
"Date night" Lincoln said, glaring at the calendar on the fridge, "Which also means…" he looked over his shoulder with the same expression.
"Lori's in charge! Do what she says! Bye!" Rita said quickly before exiting the house.
Lincoln sighed. As Lori took away his sisters' various things, Lincoln headed upstairs.
"AND NO VIDEO GAMES!" Lori shouted, taking away Lincoln's video game, "Here we go, the Queen of No is starting her reign of tyranny" Lincoln thought with a deadpanned expression as Lori headed into her room, "But not if I can help it" he thought with a smirk.
Having heard a lecture from Lori in her military getup, Lincoln and his other sister were sent to their rooms. With his eyes closed and arms folded, Lincoln sat there, thinking. After a few minutes, his eyes opened, a serious expression to them. Hopping out of bed, he opened his door and stepped into the hall.
He then opened the door on his left, entering the room of his two youngest siblings. Approaching, Lisa's workstation he reached into one of the drawers, pulling out a white washcloth and a bottle of chloroform.
"May I ask what you are doing?" Lisa raised an eyebrow as her brother held the washcloth against the opening of the chloroform, pouring the liquid into the cloth.
Lincoln closed the bottle and placed it back into Lisa's drawer, "Get the others and meet me in Lori's room in about five minutes" Lincoln told her before exiting her room.
"Ok…?" Lisa said with a confused expression.
Lincoln walked down the hall to Lori and Leni's room. He could've just walked in there were it not for the keypad that Lori had installed last week. It was locked by code, this being for extra security measures so that no could get into their room. Sadly, the only ones that knew the code were Lori, Leni and, of course, their parents. But now Lincoln needed to know the code as well.
The white-haired boy then blinked. When he did, his pupils had that white light within them again. With his eagle vision activated, he looked at the keypad next to the door and saw fingerprints in red light on certain numbers on the door. The numbers that were touched were zero, five, two, one and six.
It was a six-digit passcode, so Lincoln typed in a random series of numbers. However, that code was wrong. He tried a second time, but that one was wrong, too. Third time's the charm. He typed in another series of numbers, these ones being the right ones. Apparently, the code was 050216. He then turned off his eagle vision. With the arm with the chloroform towel behind his back, Lincoln used his right arm to open the door. Poking his head into his eldest sisters' room, he held up a finger to his lips, silently telling Leni to be quiet, the ditzy blonde nodding in understanding.
"Lincoln? How'd you know the code on the door?" Lori asked, looking over her shoulder at her younger brother with confusion.
"I just guessed" Lincoln shrugged, half-lying, "Thank you, eagle vision" he said to himself in his head.
"Whatever" Lori rolled her eyes, know she'd have to change the code later, "What is it that you want, twerp?" she asked, turning back to her magazine. Lincoln approached his oldest sister.
"Nothing… just wanted to give my big sister a hug before dinner" Lincoln said, throwing his right arms around her, nuzzling his cheek against hers.
"Alright, fine. Make this quick, and then go back to—mmph!" Lori's eyes widened, her sentence cut of midway as her nose was covered by a towel.
The seventeen-year old's eyes grew heavy, and then closed, her body going limp as she passed out in Lincoln's arms. With his sister unconscious, Lincoln lied her down on her bed.
"What did you do?" Leni asked.
"Just made her unconscious. She should be out for a while" Lincoln told her.
It was in that moment that the other sisters came into Lori's room. Looking around, they saw Lori knocked out on her bed with Lincoln and Lori looking at her.
"Huh, so that's what you were going through my draw for. You made our eldest sister go unconscious using trichloromethane. Street name, chloroform" Lisa explained as she adjusted her glasses.
"Dang, Linc, I didn't think you had it in you" Lynn commented.
"I know, I'd expect that from Lisa" Lana added.
Lincoln simply shrugged their comments off and turned to face them, "Lola, go get a chair and bring it here. Lana, go get your rope" he told the twins, the two girls doing as they were asked.
A minute later they came back with the items their brother had asked for. Lincoln grabbed Lori and picked her up bridal style. Despite his age, he was able to carry her with relative ease. He then put her unconscious body in the chair.
"Alright, Lana, tie her up" Lincoln told his tomboy younger sister, knowing she was good at that sort of thing.
The young girl took the rope and wrapped it around his older sister's body. Once behind her, Lana tied the rope, using the tightest knot that she knew of. Now all the siblings had to do was wait for the oldest sister to wake up.
After several minutes, Lori's began to stir awake, her eyes fluttering. When fully open, she saw her siblings.
"What's going on?" Lori asked furiously, narrowing her eyes.
"Your power trip is over! We're taking our Friday nights!" Lincoln told her.
"Power trip?" Lori asked.
"Admit it. You get a sick thrill out of bossing us around" Lincoln said, his other sisters agreeing with him.
"You think I enjoy this?" Lori raised an eyebrow, "Unfortunately, I'm the only one that can keep this house from ending up in a pile of rubble! It's not like any of you could do it"
"Yeah-huh. Lincoln could" Lana spoke.
Lincoln's eyes widened in surprise.
"WE'RE THINKIN' LINCOLN! WE'RE THINKIN' LINCOLN!" the other sisters chanted, Lori looking flabbergasted.
"Lincoln in charge? Ha! He couldn't lead Cliff to the litterbox" Lori said condescendingly.
Hearing a purr, Lincoln looked over his shoulder at the family cat. Cliff looked into the eyes of the white-haired boy, who clenched his fists and shot him a cold glare. Out of fear, Cliff hopped on top of the litterbox and did his business.
"You were saying?" Lincoln looked back at Lori with a smirk, the blonde girl looking back with disbelief.
Lori shook her, "You still don't have what it takes to be in charge" she told him.
"Oh yeah? Challenge accepted!" Lincoln snatched the whistle off her neck, "Take her away!" he told the rest of his sisters.
"You won't last five minutes!" Lori said, laughing maniacally as her sisters carried her away to her room.
Lincoln shut the door.
"Lola, guard this door. No one gets in, no one comes out" he told the pageant princess.
Lola nodded in agreement and came back wielding a golf club while dressed as a security guard.
"Say goodbye to the Queen of No…" Lincoln tossed the whistle to the floor, "…and hello to the King of Yes"
The sisters cheered, with Luna jamming on her guitar.
"Ah! Now I can finally play my game!" Lincoln said, sitting on the couch with his controller in hand after having said yes to the sisters' activities.
Just before he could play his game though, he heard scream. Running upstairs, he saw Leni screaming her head off as Luan chased her around with a toy spider.
"Have fun" Lincoln said before hearing Luna's amps at a high volume, "RAD SOUNDS! MAYBE NOT SO LOUD!" he shouted over the volume before turning it down.
He then heard an explosion from Lisa's room, the smoke alarm going off.
"What was that?" Lincoln raised an eyebrow, looking at the soot covered girl.
"It's science. You wouldn't understand" Lisa said before a tentacle came out of her room, the young girl screaming as she kicked it back into her room.
Lincoln sighed. He walked downstairs to try and play his game again. However, he caught a glimpse of Lily on top of the bookshelf, throwing books on to the floor.
"Well, I guess would be a good chance to practice my parkour skills" Lincoln thought to himself.
Lincoln ran and leapt towards the dining room table, using his foot to rebound off the edge of it. Gliding towards the top of the bookshelf, he grabbed Lily before she had a chance to walk off, holding the infant close to him. The white-haired boy leapt off and landed safely with his sister in his arms.
"Whoa! How'd you do that?" Lana asked with amazement, fishing rod in her hand as she fished in the fish tank.
"That's on a need to know basis," Lincoln said, "And don't fish in there! Those are pets!" he told her.
It was then that he saw Lynn walking backwards, pouring dirt on the floor.
"Lynn, what're you doing?" Lincoln asked.
"Can't ride a dirt bike without dirt" Lynn replied.
Lincoln facepalmed and sighed, "You can't be serious…" he thought to himself. Suddenly, he was hit in the back of the head with a waffle, knocking him down, "What the hell?" Lincoln rubbed the back of the head, looking up to see Lucy and Lana having a food fight.
Dodging the barrage of food, he went into the kitchen and came back with a cookie sheet. He used the item as a shield to protect himself from incoming waffles. He gave an impressed look when he saw the art the food had indirectly created. Lynn came in spraying the floor with a water hose, when she got hit in the head by a gourd, causing the hose to spray wildly.
"Hi, exterminator guy! Do you do spiders?" Leni asked, on the phone as Luan still chased her with the plastic spider before dodging the hose, "Ew! What about water snakes?"
Lincoln ran into the dining room, leaping over the telephone cord. He then saw Lucy held up in fort made of diapers.
"Lucy! what're you doing with all those diapers?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
Lana screamed at the top of her lungs, firing meatballs like a turret.
"Incoming" Lucy warned before taking cover behind the diaper fort.
Lincoln rolled out of the way, the diaper fort having taken damage from the meatballs. Lana the tossed a cupcake. Lucy grabbed Lily and plugged the hole up with the baby's butt, Lily giggling as the dessert made an impact with her rear. Lincoln then walked out of the dining room and into the living room.
"FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK!" Luna shouted. Lincoln turned and saw her crank her amp to supermax, a pile of fireworks behind her as if setting up for a finale.
"Oh, god damn it…" Lincoln muttered. Luna then strummed her guitar, causing a noise so loud it sent Lincoln flying into a wall.
Lincoln the saw Cliff about to defecate in the fireplace. The boy growled, staring down the cat with the same cold glare from before. Just like earlier, Cliff hopped on to the litterbox and did his business once again. Lincoln face grew red with anger.
"Alright that's it!" he said. "No guitar playing!" he unplugged Luna's amp, "No food fights!" he took away the food from Lana, "No dirt bikes!" he took the hose from Lynn, "And no science experiments!" he took away Lisa's beakers and tossed them, causing an explosion behind him.
"Who do you think you are? Lori?" Lynn said mockingly, she and the other sisters laughing at Lincoln.
Lincoln furrowed his brows, "No, I'm not…" he glared, look of his eyes making the girls go silent, "I'm more dangerous. Now, cooperate or I'm going to have to get serious" he said in a threatening tone, the girls gulping in fear before nodding in agreement, "Good. Mom and Dad are going to be home in 10 minutes, I'd suggest we get this place cleaned up"
It was a lie, but the girls nodded and began cleaning the messes they made. The white-haired boy then climbed up the stairs. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught Cliff about to use the bathroom again. Shooting him a glare, Lincoln had spooked the cat into hopping on to the litterbox, making him do his business for the third time that night. Lincoln then proceeded his walked upstairs. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a small device, a switchblade. He remembered when he had received the small weapon. He had just finished his second session in the animus…
[Flashback]
Having finished his second time in the animus, was heading to the elevator. He had to make it home before his parents, otherwise he'd be in even more trouble for blowing of his grounding.
"Hey, Lincoln, wait up!" Connor said, running after the boy.
"Huh?" Lincoln looked over his shoulder at his mentor with a raised eyebrow, "Can you make it quick? I've got to hurry" he said.
"It won't take long. I just want to give you this" Conner said, handing him a small item. Lincoln took the item in question.
"A switchblade?" Lincoln looked at it questionably.
"Yeah, you never know when you might need to defend yourself" Connor said, "Plus, it'll be good practice for when you get a hidden blade of your own" he added with a wink.
Lincoln smiled with gratitude.
[End of Flashback]
"I thought I would've used this thing to stab someone in self-defense, but I guess using it to cut Lori free works, too" Lincoln thought to himself with a smirk.
He then approached Lori's room.
"Hey!" Lola held up her hand, making Lincoln stop in his tracks, "No one gets in, no one comes out! Boss' orders!"
"Those were my orders. Stand aside" Lincoln told her.
"I'm going to have to ask you to stand back, sir!" Lola said, smacking the golf club into her hand.
There was a short pause between the brother and sister.
"Alright, you asked for it, Lola" Lincoln narrowed his eyes at her.
Lincoln charged at the six-year-old with a war cry. Lola attempted to whack him with the club, but he caught it mid-swing. Walking in a quarter circle, Lincoln tossed the club aside. Lola growled and charged at him with a tackle. However, Lincoln dodged it with a side step, causing Lola to faceplant into Luna and Luan's door. The little girl then slid to the floor, having fallen unconscious.
"You really should've listened to me" Lincoln said to his unconscious sister.
Walking up to Lori's door, he typed in the code from before. Entering his eldest sister's room, he once again pulled out his switchblade, unsheathing it as he walked up behind his tied-up sister.
"I knew you couldn't last five minutes" Lori said, as her brother began cutting the rope.
"Shut up!" Lincoln said, "You'll be surprised to find that I've got everything under control. The girls are cleaning the house as we speak" he told her.
"I'll see for myself before I believe you" Lori said, the rope dropping the floor. Lincoln quickly retracted the knife and put it back into his pocket. Lori followed her brother out of her room, "What happened to her?" she asked, noticing Lola's unconscious body on the floor of the hall.
"She'll be fine, don't worry" Lincoln said reassuringly, avoiding the question.
When they reached the base of the stairs, they say the girls finishing up their cleaning.
"Wow, you weren't kidding. You literally had this under control" Lori said, a both a little shocked and a little amazed.
"I told you" Lincoln replied.
It was in that moment that Lori's phone went off, "Hello?" Lori answered her phone, "Uh-huh. Sure. Ok. Bye" Lori hung up her phone.
"Who was that?" Lincoln asked.
"Mom and Dad. They'll be home in ten minutes" Lori told him.
"Huh. I just said that to get the girls to clean up" Lincoln said.
"Hey, Lincoln, we just finished cleaning. We'll be in our rooms if you need us" Lana said as she and the rest of the girls headed upstairs.
The other girls went into their rooms, with Lana carrying Lola into their room after finding her unconscious body. This left Lincoln and Lori by themselves in a living room. Looking at the wall behind him, Lincoln saw the imprint he made earlier. He grabbed the food painting and hung it on the wall, covering up the damage.
"We've got ten minutes to spare before Mom and Dad get home. What do you want do until then?" Lincoln asked as he plopped on to the couch.
"How about a video game?" Lori offered, sitting next to him and taking a controller in her hands, handing him the second one.
"Seriously?" Lincoln eyed the controller.
"Yeah. I can't say 'no' all the time" Lori said, smiling. Lincoln nodded and took the controller from her.
After ten minutes of playing Lincoln's newest game, he and Lori saw a light emanating through the window. The two took that as their parents coming home. The door then opened.
"Wow! I can't believe this house is still standing!" Lynn Sr. said with amazement.
"What'd you expect? Lori's in charge" Lincoln lied as he smiled at his sister, Lori smiling back as they continued to play the game.
"So, what're you guys up to?" Rita asked, Lynn Sr. heading into the master bedroom behind the couch.
"Just playing a video game" Lori replied as they started a new level in the game they were playing.
Rita smiled, "Heh. That brings back memories" she said under her breath, lightly shaking her head nostalgically, having memories of doing similar things with her own brother.
Rita then walked past her kids, glancing at the food painting at the wall as she entered the master bedroom. Meanwhile, sitting on the steps was Luna, eyeing her siblings on the couch. More specifically, her brother. Lincoln had been acting differently lately. Defending Leni, she could understand since any one of them would've done the same thing. But lately, he'd been doing things she'd have never expect from him.
Threatening the bully that picked on her and her band. Somehow managing to beat her home despite her using her usual shortcut. Using chloroform to knock Lori out. Glaring at Cliff that made him use the litterbox. Using the same glare on them which, if she were being honest, worked. And this all happened after he joined that gaming club.
"Something's going on with you, bro… and I'm going to find out what" Luna thought to herself, narrowing her eyes.
And here's the end of chapter 11. This chapter was a rewrite of the episode "No Guts, No Glori". I'm sure I've said this before, but I plan to change the events and timeline of certain episodes from the show, this one being one of them. If I haven't said it before then I have now. I'm not sure what I'll do for the next chapter, but I'll think of something.
I thank Moon5555, Gamelover41592 and WTBB501 for helping me out with this chapter.
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