And here we have the second part of episode seven, the luckiest episode of them all... right?
Or is thirteen the lucky number? I'm afraid episode twelve will be the final one, so I guess we'll never know. XD
I'll take a little breather this week to work on the next few episode: I already have a cool idea for a confrontation in episode... I almost said too much.
Now, let's reply to some reviews:
1) animehero1000:
* Well, somebody has to get rid of the cores of darkness.
* Guilty and suspicious. Then again, Lucy has a way with those words, doesn't she?
* Uh huh, I think we already established things aren't as simple as that.
* The only ones who find out about Lincoln and Lisa's real identities were the sisters, Girl Jordan, the judgement trio, Clyde, and Mrs. Johnson. To everybody else, they could still appear as mascots and nobody would bat an eye. Plus, their mascot forms are the only ones that can create Lux and Umbra auras manually, their true forms can't do that.
2) Nobody245:
* To be fair, they have an easy way of telling them apart: Past Lincoln and Lisa are the siblings they grew up with, Present Lincoln and Lisa are the furry plushies who're behind everything.
* Well, think about it: If Clyde really is still Lincoln's best friend, then he'll react quite strongly to something bad happening to him. And after he was convinced to leave the family behind for some weird experiment, if Clyde being in danger won't change his mind, I don't think anything will.
* You mean Lux Auras, right?
3) ChernoMan:
* It's an impression that won't leave your mind anytime soon, so that's good with me.
* I now fear that the end is going to be nothing but a letdown for you. Should I be worried?
And now, to the chapter.
Just as Becky's sword got close to Girl Jordan and she swung it, Kat leaped forward, swung her hammer and clashed with the girl, with her hammer overpowering her fast enough to send her back a couple of feet, though she recovered fairly quickly.
"Mollie, take Girl Jordan to a hospital or a first aid kit, or whatever you can find that can heal wounds!" Kat barked at the winged Umbra Aura. "Joy and I will keep this crazy girl occupied!"
"Wait, me too!?" Joy exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yes, you too!" Kat snapped as she and Becky clashed weapons. "You don't expect me to be able to deal with a Lux Aura all by myself, do you!?"
This time, Becky overpowered Kat and sent her flying off into a wall, with Joy quickly stepping in with her staff to keep the teenager occupied while Mollie grabbed Girl Jordan and flew away to the nearest hospital.
At the sky, Mollie took a moment to look at Joy and Kat as they fought the redheaded swordswoman to a stand still, though just barely. She then regained her composure and continued the fly, with Girl Jordan continuing to look at them for her.
Meanwhile, back with Lily and Lucy...
The latter stopped for a second to catch her breath... While the former stood nearby, looking at her older sister with concern as she said:
"Lucy, you're not the most athletic of our sisters; Running away will only take you so far."
"I know... I know..." Lucy answered as she dusted herself. "But I'm sorry, I don't think I can give you an answer to your question right now."
"And you shouldn't stay for too long!"
The duo turned around and saw Lynn landing nearby, dusting herself as she explained:
"I spotted Girl Jordan and her group in a street filled with cores of darkness! We need to get Lily out of here-"
"Wait, Girl Jordan is here?" Lily asked, earning an exasperated look and nod from the jock Lux Aura. "Well, what is she doing?"
"I don't know, I stopped her and her gang before they did anything," Lynn waved her hand in a dismissive manner. "But that doesn't matter: As Umbra Auras, they're likely going to target you because of the power you hold inside you!"
"You mean that silver form she showed at the laboratory?" Lucy asked.
"Yes! They're probably going to try get rid of her so she doesn't achieve it again!" Lynn stated, before she turned to the aged-up toddler. "Lily, please, if you value your life, and I'm sure you do, you have to get out of here before they hurt you!"
However, the Lavender Lux Aura stood her ground, folded her arms and asked:
"And why should I believe you?"
Naturally, Lynn quickly grew angry. "Why are you asking me that-!?"
"Probably? Likely? And the fact you said you stopped them before they did anything," Lily shook her head and narrowed her eyes. "It sounds like you're assuming that Girl Jordan and her friends are evil, rather than look deeper for proof."
"Who needs proof?! They're Umbra Auras, we're Lux Auras! They help Shadows come to life, and we destroy them before they're even made!" Lynn snapped, stomping the ground. "It's as simple as that! There's nothing more to it!"
"We thought Gemini was a weird furry creature who gave us powers, and he turned out to be our brother," Lily replied sternly. "We thought Lincoln and Lisa went missing, and it turned out they had taken new forms, thanks to Leni."
Lynn gritted her teeth. Lily-"
"We thought there was no origin for Lux Auras, and Shadows, and it turned out Lincoln and Lisa created them!" the aged-up toddler snapped. "We can't take things at face value anymore, Lynn! There has to be something more to the fact Girl Jordan is there!"
Suddenly, Lynn grabbed Lily by the neck of her bodysuit, pulled her forward and hissed:
"Listen up, Lily, I'm not in the mood to be scolded by my youngest sister, who insists that the bad guys have some good in them! Now, stop defending that brat and get out of here!"
Lily slapped Lynn and exclaimed:
"If I'm going anywhere, it'll be with Girl Jordan, so I can rub how wrong you are in your face!"
And with that said, Lily jumped away, leaving Lynn to stomp the ground in frustration.
"What's wrong with that girl?!" the jock growled, clenching her fists. "After everything that's happened, how can she even humor the idea that Girl Jordan could be good!?"
"W-Well, she might look between us in age, but she still has the mind of a baby," Lucy remarked, getting her sister's attention. "Maybe she's just being stubborn about her belief that Girl Jordan is good?"
"The problem's not that she's stubborn, it's that her belief is just unbelievable!" Lynn folded her arms. "I can believe we have superpowers, that Lincoln and Lisa turned into evil plush toys, heck, I can even believe that we're fighting evil manifestations of darkness in skirts, but Lily still thinking Girl Jordan could be good?! It just can't be real!"
And then, she got an idea. "Maybe... Maybe it's not real?"
"Lynn?" Lucy blurted, growing concerned.
"That's it, Lucy! How didn't I see it before?! Lily's belief in Girl Jordan isn't real!" Lynn stated, putting her hands on her hips as she added, "Jordan must have shot her with a mind control arrow in order to make her think she's secretly good! Now it makes sense!"
"It... Does?" Lucy frowned.
"All I need to do is knock the mind control out of Lily with a pair of punches, and she'll turn back to normal!" Lynn frowned. "Of course, since none of our sisters would ever lay a finger on Lily, I guess it's up to me to break her out of her trance."
"Or maybe she knows more about Girl Jordan than we do?" Lucy suggested. "She probably saw her while she was doing something good, and thought that meant she could be good?"
"However, if I attack her now, with Girl Jordan in the area, she could appear out of nowhere and mind control her again," Lynn folded her arms. "I also need to prepare myself mentally to accept the fact I'm about to give a beating to my baby sister."
Lucy lowered her eyelids. "You're not listening to me, are you?"
As if to answer her question, Lynn jumped back home, leaving Lucy to groan and wonder:
"This mess just keeps getting worse and worse..."
Clyde Versus Leni...
The boy tried to stay as far away from Leni as possible, using his strings to grab and throw whatever objects he could at her: Lampposts, vending machines, and so on. However, Leni quickly caught and sliced them apart with her own strings.
Shortly after, she used those same strings to merge the pieces back together, but not into their original forms: Instead, they were merged into toy soldiers similar to nutcrackers, who began moving on their own once Leni latched her strings on their bodies.
"Wait, since when can your strings bring inanimate objects to life?!" Clyde exclaimed.
"Since when can there be mutiple Lux Beings with the same kind of weapon?!" Leni snapped in return. "Some questions just can't be answered no matter how hard you look for them, kid!"
The teenager snapped her fingers and pointed at Clyde as the soldiers ran after him, only for a spear to hit the ground and trap the soldiers in a barrier, before the barrier unleashed a strong load of lighting on its inside, frying the soldiers as the one who threw the spear arrived.
It was Lori, who held a stern expression as she held her hand forward and called the spear back to her.
"Lori!" Clyde remarked with relief.
"I'm glad I could make it in time," Lori said as she brushed the boy's hair. "You can go take a rest, Clyde."
The barrier vanished, revealing Leni looking sternly at Lori from the other side as the oldest sister remarked:
"I'll take it from here."
"So, you decided to shove your nose where it's not called, huh, Lori?" Leni growled, clenching her fists. "Where was this attitude, like, back when Lincoln and Lisa were missing?"
"That's besides the point now!" Lori stated, swinging her spear to her side. "I'm going to do what it takes to take you down right here, right now!"
"Really ? Is that totes the reason you're here?" Leni raised an eyebrow and folded her arms. "Because I feel like the only reason you're here right now, is because Clyde over there was in danger."
Lori's eyes widened as she took a step back.
"Oh, how I, like, wonder; Would you even be here if Clyde wasn't the one dumb enough to challenge me?" Leni smirked and shook her head. "Would you have come here to beat me, even if Clyde wasn't involved at all?"
Suddenly, a rock was thrown at the girl, who was barely fazed as it hit her in the back of her head.
"Maybe she wouldn't."
Leni slowly turned around to face the one who said that, sporting yellow glowing eyes as she saw none other than Mrs. Johnson standing nearby, cracking her knuckles as she added:
"But I would."
"Mrs. Johnson!" Lori and Clyde exclaimed in uníson.
"Mrs. Loud, take Mr. McBride out of this place," Mrs. Johnson ordered, focusing solely on Leni. "I know you said you'd be the one to take care of your sister, but please, let me be the one to take care of her!"
"I literally got no problem with that!" Lori chirped as she grabbed and lifted Clyde. "Come on, let's get outta here!"
The duo jumped away, with Leni looking at them leave with a stern look before she asked:
"Another one shoves her nose in someone else's business, huh?"
Then she turned back to Mrs. Johnson, who got her arms and legs tied up as soon as Leni summoned her strings.
However, the woman only had to put the barest mínimum of effort to break free from the strings' hold, shocking Leni as she saw her strings dissipate into light.
"I can't believe it, you're the first Lux Aura who's been capable of breaking free from my strings..."
Naturally, this angered the teenager.
"How did you get this much power?!"
"Power, or experience?" Mrs. Johnson replied as she rubbed one of her wrists. "I'm a Lux Aura made from an adult woman who's just a few years away from leaving prime physical form. Don't you think that makes me stronger than the average Lux Aura?"
"Lincoln, you stupid idiot, you were, like, supposed to record if she was different than other Lux Auras!" Leni muttered through her teeth, before calming down. "But oh well. Desperate, like, times-"
A sphere of turquoise energy, with the word "like" inside it, appeared on Leni's left palm.
"Require totes desperate measures!"
Another similar sphere appeared on her right palm, but with the word "totes" in them. At this point, Mrs. Johnson looked shocked as Leni explained:
"I know this may sound utterly idiotic, but hear me out: An Aura, whether Lux or Umbra, have their power limited by certain limiters depending on the person. In my case, it's my verbal tics of " like" and "totes," and by getting rid of them..."
Leni dropped the orbs, not only causing them to drop like rocks, but leave small craters once they hit the ground.
"My powers increase exponentially!"
Leni's eyes glew as she was surrounded by a turquoise aura, from which her Inner Demon Arachne emerged, just as she pulled a pose and Mrs. Johnson asked;
"You realize that I could tell the Louds about this once this fight is over, right?"
"How cute, do you really think you're going to come out of this fight unscathed, now that I'm at my full power?" Leni responded, raising an eyebrow. "I also got my inner demon out, so there's no way I'm at a disadvantage here!"
Mrs. Johnson didn't even bother to give the girl an answer; Instead, she took a battle stance, and did the "come at me" gesture, earning a little smile from Leni.
Royal Woods Hospital...
Girl Jordan and Mollie landed outside the hospital, where the former rested on the ground while the latter spoke with the woman on the counter, who was reading a magazine.
"Hello, Miss?!" Mollie said. "I came here with an injured-"
"Let me guess, one of your Lux Aura friends got hurt during a mission and you want us to heal her?" the woman replied, focusing solely on her magazine. "Well, I'm sorry to tell this to you, but I'm afraid we're a hospital for normal people, not superheroes-"
"But-"
"Superheroes protect the people, they don't need to be protected. In fact, you can probably heal your friend on your own and you just haven't tried," the woman answered. "So go out and deal with that yourself, let the normal people get the treatment superheroes don't need."
Exasperated with the woman's words, Mollie stomped out of the hospital, finding Lily with Girl Jordan outside.
"H-Hey, leave her alone!" Mollie exclaimed, getting between the pair.
"Calm down, Mollie, she's a friend," Girl Jordan said.
"What were you guys really doing with those cores?" Lily inquired. "My sister told me you were trying to make them grow into Shadows, but she didn't give me any proof or evidence about it."
"We were trying to resume the job we had as Lux Auras, that is to destroy the cores of darkness," Mollie explained. "But then a red Lux Aura appeared out of nowhere and fought Girl Jordan while we destroyed the cores."
"So, you were trying to help the Lux Aura cause?" Lily asked, gaining a little smile.
"Well, you said it yourself," Girl Jordan returned the smile. "Just because we were created to be evil, doesn't mean we have to."
Lily and Girl Jordan exchanged smiles, seeing the latter finally exercise what the former told her long ago.
And then Mollie exclaimed, "Anyway, do you have any healing items she could use to create a healing arrow?!"
Lily reached for her back, and took out a bandage.
"A bandage?" Mollie asked in disbelief. "She has a couple of broken bones at least, and you think a bandage is going to help her with that?"
"It's okay, Mollie, it's okay," Girl Jordan remarked. "I need the bandage in order to create an arrow, remember?"
"Oh, right," Mollie raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure a single bandage is going to be enough, though?"
Girl Jordan took the bandage, closed both of her hands on it, and yellow energy glew from within before the girl revealed the healing arrow, which was green.
"Does that answer your question?" Girl Jordan handed the arrow and her bow to Mollie. "Now please, help Lily shoot me with it."
Lily blinked twice. "I'm sorry, what?"
"My arrows only work when they've been shot or otherwise thrown, they don't work otherwise," Girl Jordan explained as Mollie handed the equipment to Lily. "And besides, I can't exactly shoot myself from this position, can I?"
Lily frowned. "B-But..."
"Look, don't see this as you attacking Girl Jordan, see this as you in the process of healing her," Mollie said as she went back Lily and helped her adjust the bow and arrow. "Now come on, the faster we can get her back into the battle, the better.
With that said, Lily turned back to Girl Jordan, who weakly nodded with a smile. Then, the Lavender Lux Aura took a deep breath and aimed the arrow...
Leni Versus Mrs. Johnson Aftermath...
An unexpected turn of events had transpired: The redheaded teacher, looking barely bruised, dusted herself as Leni, sporting a black eye and several bruised spots on her person, stood up, her strings flowing across her body as she growled:
"How?"
Mrs. Johnson turned to Leni and raised an eyebrow.
"How can you be this strong, when you don't even have a weapon!?" Leni snapped as her strings wrapped themselves around her body. "I have a weapon, I have an inner demon, I probably have some other stupid ace up my sleeve, and yet I lost to you!?"
"Do you really think using all of your power at once would make me drop dead?" Mrs. Johnson asked, folding her arms. "All you did was make it easier for you to get tired."
Leni gritted her teeth as her strings tightened, then dissipated, revealing her body had fully healed.
"So your strings can even heal you, huh?" Mrs. Johnson cracked her knuckles. "I wonder if they can do it multiple times-"
Suddenly, purple winds blew as a familiar figure materialized next to Leni: Divisu, who looked straight at Mrs. Johnson as she said:
"That's enough for the experiment."
"Experiment?" Mrs. Johnson raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
"Lincoln and I decided to create Lux and Umbra beings out of teenagers and children. Mostly children, and their performance wasn't as great as we've expected,," Divisu explained. "Now, adult Lux and Umbra beings were ideas that didn't occur to us until later, so we decided to have Leni here test your power."
The creature tilted their head. "And our hypothesis was confirmed: An adult Lux Aura is stronger than a teenage one, which are themselves stronger than children ones. And if this is true for a Lux Aura..."
Divisu's frown slowly contorted into a smile. "Who says the same won't be true for an Umbra Aura?"
With that said, a dark purple hurricane materialized in the spot, teleportinf Leni and Divisu away. With them gone, and with new information at her disposal, Mrs. Johnson searched for the Louds.
"I must tell this to them as fast as I can!"
Kat and Joy Versus Becky...
Joy extended her staff towards Becky, who simply sliced it apart as she ran straight for the girl. Once she was getting close, however, Kat jumped in and swung her hammer right at her face, though this only stopped Becky for a moment before she sliced it in two and sent the pair off to a wall with a kick.
"Well, there goes our weapons," Joy remarked as she slid down. "And there's no sign of Mollie or Girl Jordan coming here."
Becky's shadow loomed over the duo.
"Before I get rid of your cubes, tell me: What did you do with the cores of darkness?"
"We destroyed them," Kat sternly answered. "We worked together, and eliminated every single trace of them."
"Don't lie to me!" Becky yelled. "You exist to empower the cores of darkness! Why would you even have the ability to destroy them?! Surely you did something else with them!"
"We did exactly like we told you: We destroyed them, no ifs or buts," Kat retorted. "It's your problem if you decide to act like we're lying!"
So, with that statement made clear, Becky raised her sword and got ready to strike down the duo: After all, even if they were the bad guys, surely Girl Jordan would come to her lackeys aid if they were about to die, right?
Surely enough, Becky was proven right when an arrow was shot at her, which she narrowly dodged before it exploded.
Shortly after that, the trio of Lily, Mollie, and Girl Jordan appeared, with the latter getting the attention of the redhead.
"So, you finally came back," Becky growled, tightening her grip. "And you came with another lackey..."
Then, she realized something. "Wait a minute, you're Luna's sister, aren't you? I remember you from the dance at the square..."
Becky narrowed her eyes. "Are you with them?"
"Well, we're friends, if that's what you're talking about," Lily shrugged. "But, we're not really one the same side of this crazy conflict: I'm a Lux Aura."
"That's impossible: How could a Lux Aura be friends with an Umbra Aura? The slayer of the shadows be friends with the empowerer of the shadows?" Becky questioned out loud. "That's like a mouse becoming friends with a cat; They're supposed to be enemies!"
"And what if we don't want to be enemies?" Lily inquired. "What if, just for a moment, we want to be friendly with each other, instead of trying to kill one another?"
Becky's eyes widened for a moment, almost as if she was considering the girl's words... but then she narrowed them and gripped her sword.
"Then you're in the process of turning into an Umbra Aura, and I'm going to make sure the transformation is never completed!"
The redhead lunged straight towards the girls, but just as she swung her sword, Luna got in the middle of the way and clashed her axe with Becky's sword, causing the duo to back away after the clash.
"Luna?!" Becky exclaimed. "What the heck are you doing here?!"
"You're this close to hurting, or lord forbid kill my sister, and you wonder what I'm doing here?!" Luna replied.
"Luna, your sister isn't well: She's being friendly with an Umbra Aura, that must mean she's in the process of turning into one!" Becky replied, getting ready to attack once again. "We need to do something about it before the bad guys get another ally!"
"Look, I agree that it's weird that Lily's being so friendly with an Umbra Aura, and yeah, maybe I can humor the idea that she might be turning into one," Luna replied, tightening her grip on her axe. "But she's still my sister, and I'm not going to let you lay a finger on her."
Lily and Girl Jordan smiled as Luna added:
"In fact, why don't you bug off and let me deal with my sister on my own?"
"Well said, Luna Loud."
Everybody turned around and saw Gemini suddenly standing on top of a piece of rubble. Now where did the rubble come from, nobody knew.
"Well said."
"Gemini!" Luna growled. "What the heck are you doing here?!"
"Calm down, Luna, we're not here for you, or Girl Jordan, or the other Lux or Umbra Auras in this area right now," the creature answered before they slowly turned to face Becky. "We're here for the one called Becky."
The redhead gripped her sword. "W-What do you want with me?!"
"We're here to test to see if your inclusion as a Lux Aura was the right thing to do, or if it was a mistake." Gemini spoke. "And after watching your recent actions, we're leaning more to you Being a failure."
"Wait a minute, so you saw her beating up these girls," Luna narrowed her eyes. "And you did nothing to help!?"
Gemini jumped off the rubble. "The Umbra Auras are beyond our jurisdiction. And besides, you came in, and talked things with her until she calmed down. With that in mind, our intervention would've been meaningless."
Luna gritted her teeth.
"Regardless, we inevitably would've come out anyway, especially since there's a question we need to ask," Gemini replied, before they turned to the redhead. "A question for this Becky."
"Well you better be careful with your question, you little rodent!" Becky hissed, getting ready to slice the beast apart. "I'm not in a good mood, and I'm not afraid to get rid of you if possible!"
"Hmph, but you're afraid to recognize your friend's coma is your fault?"
Becky flinched and took a step back, just as the creature explained:
"On the day the one named Dana turned into an Eclipsa, Becky over here talked with Girl Jordan, and what she said convinced her to have a bit of a conversation with the insecure girl."
The archer lowered her head with shame.
"Girl Jordan went on to tear Dana a new one when she scolded her for believing being a Lux Aura was fun, even though it was a difficult and time-consuming task if not managed properly."
Gemini slowly walked towards Becky, who started to back away.
"After all, a Lux Aura protects Royal Woods, has a cheerful disposition, and is strictly on the side of good, with no blood on their hands. And yet, with this in mind, the illusion only lasts so long until the Lux Aura begins to crack under pressure, and do things they weren't supposed to do."
Eventually, Becky hit a wall, and tried to back away even more as the creature finished:
"Something you nearly did, and would've done regardless, as long as it meant getting your friend back and destroying every evidence that you were responsible for it."
Tired of hearing the creature talk, Becky raised her sword and swung it down, slicing Gemini in half and causing some red liquid to come out of him, which splashed the girl as the creature's halves backed away, then merged back into them.
With that done, Becky looked at her bloodied hands, then turned back to the creature.
"You... you little rat, you're not going to trick me like you tricked her!" Becky snapped, pointing at Girl Jordan. "She was the one who cracked Dana's confidence by snapping at her!"
"But it was your own careless revelation of her insecurities that enraged Girl Jordan in the first place," Gemini bluntly answered. "And now, you're trying to get rid of her in order to get rid of the evidence that you were in the wrong."
Becky gritted her teeth. "No! I'm trying to get rid of her so I can get Dana to wake up!"
"And what insane, inhuman sense of logic brought you to that conclusion?" the creature asked. "How is killing someone going to bring back your friend? How is Girl Jordan's life expiring right now going to make Dana wake up from her coma?"
"Stop trying to break my mind! What do I have to do in order to shut you up!?" Becky yelled, only to realize something. "It's the white cube, isn't it?"
Gemini tilted his head as Becky took off the white cube.
"You're not going to leave me alone until this dang thing has been destroyed, will you? As long as I'm a Lux Aura, you're going to keep pestering me about it!?"
"B-Becky," Luna said, her eyes widening with concern. "W-What are you planning to do?"
"The thing I should've done as soon as I lost Dana," the redhead answered as she threw the cube up high. "I'm quitting this Lux Aura business, and making sure this rat doesn't bother me anymore!"
The redhead gripped her sword, and swung it at the right time to slice the cube in half, turning her back into her normal form as Gemini watched without a reaction whatsoever, saying:
"Congratulations, Becky, you have given us a reason to explain the purpose of the White Cube."
Becky's vision started getting blurry as the creature explained:
"The white cube used to transform into a Lux Aura also works as a limiter for both the pain and extreme tension all across your body during your adventures as a Lux Aura. Essentially, it works as the container of all the exhaustion and pain your body goes through in your mission."
The redhead began losing her balance as her eyes slowly lost their shine...
"If destroyed, all the pain and exhaustion you've accumulated in your career will immediately return to your body all at once, potentially causing you excruciating pain. Or, as it seems to be the case right now..."
The redhead fell to her knees and dropped the sword, which dissipated into light.
"You'll fall unconscious."
The girl promptly did that, falling face-first on the ground as, what a coincidence, Luan arrived to witness the scene.
"What happened here?!" the comedian asked.
"It's a long story, Luan," Luna said. "Just, please grab Becky and take her to the same hospital Dana's at!"
Seeing Luna's intention, luan smiled and nodded before she obliged: She grabbed the redhead's unconscious body, carried it in a bridal style, and jumped away, leaving Gemini to casually remark:
"Oh well, looks like Becky wasn't fit for the job after all."
"Is that seriously all you have to say?"
Gemini turned his attention towards Luna.
"You just saw a girl slice apart her white cube and driving herself unconscious..."
Luna grabbed her axe with both hands and threw it at the creature asbshe shouted:
"And you don't even bother to sound more shocked!?"
The axe struck Gemini and split him in half, only for both halves to melt, slide away from the weapon, then merge back into the creature as he said:
"To be honest, we saw that coming: After she spent so much time being ignorsnt and oblivious to her friend's discomforr, and after choosing to blame Girl Jordan rather than admit she was at fault, she would do everything to avoid having to take responsibility for her actions."
Gemini tilted their head. "Sounds familiar to you?"
With those words said, Gemini was surrounded by an orange spiral of energy which consumed him before it teleported him out of the area, leaving the team alone.
"Does it sound familiar?" Luna repeated, lowering her head as she dissipated her weapon. "Is... is there an element of grudge in all of this?"
And then she turned to Lily and said, "Lily, we should better go back home before anything else happens."
"Luna..." Lily folded her arms and frowned. "You don't believe I'm turning evil, right?"
"Lily, those kinds of questions need proper thought before an answer can be given," the rockstar answered before she extended her hand forward. "Let's just, head back home and try to recover from what we just saw, okay?"
The aged-up toddler took a deep breath, and grabbed the hand. "Okay."
And so, the girls jumped back home, with Girl Jordan and her group watching them go away, Girl Jordan looking particularly worried.
Meanwhile, at the Loud House...
The Loud Parents sat on the table at the backyard, waiting for the rest of the girls to return for lunch. But while Rita looked somewhat calm, Lynn Sr. spoke:
"So, what should we do now? We no longer have Gemini or Divisu on our side, besides of the fact that they're our missing son and daughter, who may not be returning home anytime soon."
"Well, I guess the only "I mean, it's not like a clue on what to do next is going to come out of the sky."
As if on cue, Mrs. Johnson landed on the rooftop, then promptly jumped down and ran up to the couple.
"Mrs. Johnson?!" Lynn Sr. exclaimed. "What are you doing here?!"
Mrs. Johnson sat down and caught her breath before she said:
"I'm here because there's something I need to tell you!"