Chains of Reality

by Exotos135

The world we see is not the first. After Lincoln discovers a mysterious dimension known as "The Original Reality," Lincoln, his sisters and several other allies must fight back against impostors of the sisters known as the "Proto-Sisters," and try to stop their enigmatic goals. Rebooted into "Chains of Reality: Divinity Reborn"

21. Comedic Reveangence

Last time, on Chains of Reality, among the many things that happened, Luan discovered Giggles was murdered, Maggie continued her rampage against Lucy and Haiku, and Lincoln, the twins, and Carol try their hardest to fight the chain breakers while Luna and Luan dealt with whatever was going on inside the house!

And finally, the revelation that Maggie was Giggles' killer, a new power surged within from Luan, and gave her a newfound power that could be the key to Maggie's defeat!

What will happen next?! Find out now, in Chains of Reality!

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Chapter 21: Luan's Furious Revengeance! A New Angel is Born?!

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Back where we left off, Luan-with an orange aura surrounding her yellow one-engaged directly in combat with Maggie, while Proto Lucy, the chain breakers Maggie and Haiku, and Luna-currently in her Dumah form-watched her fight. And for some reason, the prototype goth looked very interested in seeing what would follow.

First, Luan threw a punch straight at Maggie's face so hard, her nose was not only broken, but her bones could be heard cracking inside her body.

"You just needed to get the punchline!"

Then she created a vacuum cleaner out of energy, sucked the tip of Maggie's hair and started swinging the empowered emo around like a ragdoll, to the approval of Proto Lucy and the chain breakers, but the horror of everybody else.

"Or show us your sense of hoover!"

Next she pulled the teenager closer to her, and kneed her right in the gut before sending an electric shock around her body through her knee, which resulted in both of them getting electrocuted. Somehow, while Maggie was in complete pain-judging her agonized screams anyhow-Luan was completely unaffected.

"But in the scend,"

She kicked her up into the sky, teleported right in front of her, and turned the energy vacuum cleaner into a pair of energy gongs.

"I was gong about you!"

Just as Maggie recovered, Luan struck her with both energy gongs at once, not only briefly deafening the teenager but also sending a couple of sound waves across the sky. As if that wasn't enough, she created a freaking miniature scow boat out of the energy gongs and smacked Maggie with it hard enough to send her flying down.

"And scow you'll-"

She teleported back down, then flew up before clashing foreheads with Maggie. This managed to hurt the two, since Luan got a nosebleed... Although Maggie was basically vomiting blood at this point.

"-Face the consequences!"

Then the fight continued with the pair in silence while Proto Lucy and the chain breakers applauded the fight. Luna, however, just continued to look in shock at the brutality Luan was inflicting on Maggie. To see the usually cheerful Luan viciously beating up someone brought chills up her spine: Was Luan's anger at what Maggie did really that furious?

"Hmph, looks like Maggie will be occupied for a while," Proto Lucy mockingly remarked, catching Luna's attention. "Let's hope she doesn't get beaten before I get the chance to kill Luan, that would make her a very disappointing pet."

"H-Hey, you!" Luna shouted. "Y-You're the one who turned that girl Luan's beating up into... Whatever she is now, right? Why aren't you helping her?!"

Naturally, the proto-goth wasn't happy to have her fun potentially interrupted. So she turned her head, in a way that would probably snap the neck of any normal living person, and hissed "How many times do I have to tell you-"

However, once she saw the flabbergasted Luna, she calmed down and frowned, "Oh great, they're multiplying," then she turned her body on the opposite direction she turned her head. "Well, I guess I should introduce myself."

The prototype grabbed the ends of her dress and lifted it before bowing down... Just as a large array of sharp objects like knifes, swords, and so on, to drop out of her skirt and fall to the ground. Unsurprisingly, Luna was horrified by the sight.

"You may call me Lucy Loud," the proto-goth said, catching Luna's attention once more. "I can do many amazing things like fly, manipulate my own energy, and even speak with the dead!"

Somehow, the last part got Luna intrigued. "Oh really? How are you so sure you can do the last one?"

Proto Lucy flashed a sadistic, ear-to-ear smirk at Luna and proclaimed as her chain breaker allies got ready to attack:

"'Cause I'm speaking to a dead person right now!"

The prototype snapped her fingers and the chain breakers immediately charged at Luna, who quickly managed to regain her sense and block the incoming attacks, even when the prototype goth joined in the attacks.

Back on the ground, however, almost everybody seemed to focus on other stuff. Clyde and haiku were trying to help Lucy calm down and stay cool, despite the agonizing pain from her broken arms driving her to the brink of tears. She was also breathing in a rather heavy way.

"Don't worry, Lucy, it's all going to be fine in the end," Clyde told the poet, while Haiku brushed Lucy's hair. "We just... We just need to calm down and think of what to do next."

"Clyde... Haiku... Please..." Lucy blurted, earning the duo's wholehearted attention. "Rip off my arms."

"We can't do that!" Haiku stated. "Yes, it may put an end to the pain you're getting, but even if we rip them clean off and without trouble, what good will it be to leave you armless?"

Lucy's response was rather blunt:

"It won't hurt anymore!"

Even so, Haiku and Clyde refused to do as Lucy requested. And on the other side of the problem, Lincoln was healing the twins, who sat in place and caught their breath as the boy successfully closed the end from where their arms were ripped off, leaving behind a stump. Nevertheless, the twins did seem disappointed this is all he did, Lola in particular.

"Seriously? Those jerks ripped off our arms and all you could do about it was leave behind stumps!?" the pageant diva whined before slapping Lincoln. Hey, she had to put her remaining arm to use. "What kind of healing powers did you use, Lincoln?!"

"I'm not very comfortable using powers I didn't knew I had until a while ago!" the boy growled in return. "Besides, I started feeling dizzy from using them!"

And as the pair continued to argue, Lana got up and looked at the fight between Luan and Maggie, before the sight of Carol also watching the fight caught her attention. So the kid plumber ran to Carol as the teenager landed on the ground and looked at the fight as firmly as possible.

"This doesn't make any sense," Carol thought as she watched the fight, putting particular focus on Luan's orange aura. "That aura requires either extreme concentration or extreme anger, but there's no way she could just Access it like it was nothing! She would need some prior knowledge of it to-"

"C-Carol?"

The teenager snapped back to reality and saw Lana grabbing her leg with her healthy arm. "Do you, by any chance, know what happened to Luan?"

Carol hesitated, then forced a smile. "No, I don't."

Then she turned to look back at the fight. "I can't tell them anything about it yet, it's still too early."

Suddenly, the sounds of a vehicle were heard and everybody turned around to see the news truck parking nearby, with the news crew-and specially the newswoman from before-coming out and getting ready to report the scene.

Everybody who was still paying attention were surprised by the arrival, except for Carol, who was annoyed. "Oh great, these morons again," the teenager muttered, clenching her teeth. "Clyde, Haiku, Lincoln, continue helping Lucy and the twins while I go see if I can deal with these pests."

And as Carol headed for the newswoman, the reporter looked firmly at the camera and begun:

"Hello, people of Royal Woods! This is Catherine Butterfly, bringing you another slightly-weirder-than-usual news report," the newswoman moved to the side and pointed at the mutated house. "As you can see behind me, it seems that this house, which is reported to have once house Mi-"

"Hey!"

The newswoman flinched and turned around to see Carol standing nearby, arms folded. Needless to say, she was surprised to see the teenager again.

"Oh, well, I did have a feeling we would meet witnesses sooner or later," then the newswoman leaned the microphone closer to the angered Carol's mouth. "What can you tell us about this mysterious house-morphing event?"

"I can tell you that you need to stop butting into business that doesn't concern you, and that you should stop transmitting this to the general populace of the city!" Carol hissed, giving the reporter a furious glare. "Do you want to cause a major panic!?"

However, the newswoman simply smiled and chuckled to herself before answering in a... Suggestive tone.

"This isn't being transmitted to the average citizens of Royal Woods, lady. I mean, super powered girls? Mutating houses? The main station would never let me transmit stuff like this on normal television!"

Naturally, Carol was confused.

"But, if you're not transmitting this to them, then who are you transmitting this to?"

The news reporter opened her mouth, leaned the microphone towards herself... Then turned back to the camera crew.

"As you can see, faithful viewers, everybody will certainly be willing to interrupt important news broadcasts to appear on tv, which, honestly speaking, shouldn't be a surprise. We'll give you more of this news, at 5."

The cameraman turned off his camera as Carol checked the reporter's wristwatch. "Did you mean 5 pm?" she asked, somehow not scaring the newswoman in the process. "'Cause according to your watch, that's in about a half hour-"

"How much do you know about what's really happening in this situation?" the newswoman flatly, almost bluntly, inquired.

Carol stood stupefied for a moment: Did a mere news reporter really just ask her that? Right in front of both her students and their friends? And she didn't ask this earlier when the chain breakers struck first?

Nevertheless, the teenager knew probably outright telling her what she knew wouldn't be of use, and wouldn't be approved by Lori and Leni, so she tried to bluff her way out. "What?! Are you implying I know something about this?"

The newswoman was blunt in her response. "Well, you were the one who dealt with the masked girls before through scolding them as if you were their mother, and now that we meet again, a house has been transformed into some bizarre tower, the masked girls returned, and a second pair of mutant superhuman freaks are fighting against the super powered teenager from before, alongside someone I'm assuming in her friend."

Hopefully Lincoln, his sisters and their friends didn't hear that part. "You may think I'm just another stupid news reporter who's just trying to do her job, but this isn't the first, and it certainly won't be the last, bizarre thing that has happened in Royal Woods, and no matter what you have to say about it, I will report this no matter what!"

The reporter smacked Carol with her hair and returned to the cameraman, while Carol went back to the kids. "Well, that didn't go as well as I had hoped," she remarked, rubbing her smacked cheek. "How is the fight going?"

"Luna's dealing with the fake Lucy and the masked Maggie and Haiku, while Luan continues to fight the emo teenager," Clyde explained as everybody looked at the sky. "It looks like they could use your help, though."

Carol prepared to leap. "Roger!"

"My name's Clyde!"

"No, as in-Tsk, I don't have time for this!"

The teenager leaped as high as she could, and promptly kicked the chain breaker Maggie and Haiku away just as they attacked Luna. "Thanks, they were starting to become a problem," Luna said with a grateful tone.

However, Carol just ignored the thanking and barked, "Listen up, Luan may be powerful right now, but the instant her power up ends, she'll be unable to move a muscle," and then Prototype Lucy and the chain breakers regrouped. "You must go and help her defeat Maggie before the time runs out in 10 minutes! Don't question anything, just go!"

The rock star and headed to aid Luan, while the proto-goth and chain breakers looked at Carol... And the masked girls left through a portal opened, and then closed, by Not-Lucy. "You sent them home?!" Carol exclaimed as the proto-goth flashed a smirk. "Why?! You know you can't defeat me alone!"

"I would be unable to beat you even with their help," the prototype goth shrugged and shook her head. "They need to be alive for the judgement of Royal Woods, and if they fight you, they'll be anything but alive by the end of it."

Then she revealed her melting arm, which was now halfway melted. "Besides, thanks to forgetting about my body's condition, it won't be long before my time in this world is over. So I want to at least try to fight someone who is neither immortal, nor easy to kill. And what a surprise..."

She flashed an ear-to-ear smile.

"You fit both of those conditions."

Carol remained silent, while the kids in the ground were... Not in the most hopeful of moods. Lucy, despite no longer being able to see, still could feel the atmosphere was getting both dreary and hopeless. Haiku and Clyde, despite trying to mask their worry to Lucy, were still notably scared of what would come. Lincoln and Lola exchanged looks and could only hope for the best.

And last but not least, Lana glanced between Carol, who she could feel had doubts about whether she should fight the prototype goth, and Prototype Lucy, who put her hands on her hips and chuckled to herself, with nary a care in the world. Of course, she was immortal, so even if Carol did manage to defeat her, it would only be a matter of time before it became completely pointless.

But even with those odds, Lana's faith was firmly with Carol.

"Don't let her get on your nerves, Carol!" the kid plumber exclaimed, gaining the attention of everybody around her, and specially the teenager herself. Impostor-Lucy just cleaned her ear and ignored her, though. "She can say whatever she wants, and mock you or mock us too, but in the end, I know you'll beat some sense into her, and payback what she and her minions or whatever did to us!"

Needless to say, Carol was flattered by her words. "Lana..."

"Besides, she said it herself: Even with help, she has no hope of beating you!" she added as everybody else gave Carol hopeful looks, minus Lola, who looked away and frowned. "So, beat her up, alright! We're counting on you!"

"Where is this Lana whenever she comes to any of my pageants?" Lola thought, narrowing her eyes.

Luckily, the diva's thoughts were drowned by the sounds of everybody cheering for Carol, all while the prototype hoped the good part would begin soon. And it did, for Carol folded her arms, flew straight to the prototype and kneed her... Or would've, had the prototype not blocked the knee with her elbow, with the collision somehow releasing shock waves. With that done, the girls stared at each other for a moment before Other Lucy teleported behind Carol and kicked her... Only for Carol to teleport at the last moment and send her flying upwards with another kick.

Back with Luan and Maggie, the emo teen-now forcibly put in a monkey costume-continued to withstand and receive beating after beating from the furious, empowered Luan, who was currently spanking Maggie as hard as she could. Or in other words, she was spanking the monkey.

"All I wanted to do, heck all Giggles and I wanted to do, was bring some smiles to your face and make you happy!" the comedian growled as she started spanking faster and harder. "But instead, after everything we did, you killed her and now joined forces with the person that brought you so much pain, just to get rid of us!"

Upon hearing that, Maggie regained enough composure to smack Luan with her booty and escape her clutches. "You're the one to blame for that!" the emo stated as she begun pounding Luan's face. "Maybe if you had left me alone, instead of messaging me constantly and acting like I was your friend, I wouldn't see you as nothing more than a clingy clown!"

However, it wasn't long before Luan returned the pounding. "And if you had opened up to us, I wouldn't see you as an immature brat!"

And so, the duo continued to insult each other as the pounding became faster and more intense:

"Desperate attention-grabber!"

"Whiny edgelord!"

"Rainbow-vomit mime!"

"Boring buzzkill!"

"Cringy punsucker!"

"Obnoxious angsthole!"

With the last exchange came a clash between their fists so volatile, it separated the pair and set them flying a couple feet away, which gave Maggie both the chance to get rid of the monkey costume and shot the most painful comeback Luan had ever heard:

"Laughingstock!"

The instant she heard that, the comedian was left paralyzed as the sounds of mocking laughter filled her head, alongside people singing "Laughingstock" in a jingle-like tone, even after she covered her ears to try and block the sound. And once she realized Maggie's laughter was among the mocking chuckles, the orange aura surrounding Luan grew three sizes bigger as the comedian yelled at the skies...

Which was somehow heard from the original reality. First by the proto-twins, who silently wondered what the hell they were hearing, then by Proto-Lynn who smirked in delight. It was heard by everybody else too, but they mostly ignored it.

However, once the screaming reached Proto-Luan, the prototype comedian shed a single tear and lifted her staff, whose gemstone begun glowing yellow. "Thou who have felt the pain and misery I've lived through before!" she exclaimed as thunderclouds formed above her. "Allow me to give you the chance to do what I never could, and silence the sinful laughter!"

With that said, the prototype shot a lighting beam at the thunderclouds, which somehow transported it to the new reality and struck Luan, who felt an insane surge in power as her hair went up and turned spiky, yet it didn't turn yellow for some reason. Alongside this, the comedian had electricity moving around her body, and her eyes had become completely blank.

And not only was Maggie actually terrified of what she saw, but Luna was caught completely off-guard by her sister's appearance when she finally arrived to help. "What in the world happened to her?" she thought as she felt Luan's aura had become a hybrid of normal and archaic energy.

"My holy sister has empowered her."

Luna turned around to find the voice that sounded surprisingly, almost disturbingly, like her own. "Don't be afraid, I'm not your enemy... Not yet. But what you need to know right now, is that your sister won't be able to turn back to normal until the emo has been punished."

"Wait, what?!" the rocker exclaimed.

Maggie turned to see the rock star just before Luan literally aimed her fingers at the emo like a gun and shot some electricity at her, paralyzing her and giving her the chance to punch Maggie in the gut, then send her plummeting to the ground with another strike.

Then, as the emo fell, Luan raised one of her arms and grinned as she charged a yellow, electrically-charged energy ball.

"By the way, if her attack manages to hit the teenager, she'll be pulverized," the voice blurted, no doubt scaring the rocker. "If you want to stop that from happening, and save your sister from becoming a murderer, you must shot an energy blast at her own blast once she shoots it."

"How am I supposed to do that?" the rocker rather justifiably asked.

"Just concentrate some of your energy into a ball and then throw it when I tell you."

Not seeing any other alternatives, plus not having any time to waste, Luna raised one of her arms and concentrated her energy into a purple energy ball. This, naturally, left Luna mesmerized at what she just did.

Or it would have, had Luan not shot a charged energy blast in that moment.

"Shoot it now!"

Caught off-guard, Luna shot a purple energy blast right at Luan's charged blast, causing them to merge upon collision: Now the blast was purple-yellow stripped, with electricity surging across it.

And once Maggie hit the ground and was subsequently hit by the blast, a purple-yellow mushroom cloud appeared as Luan returned to her previous form, with the mushroom cloud vanishing soon afterwards.

Miraculously enough, Maggie was still alive. Unconscious, badly bruised and in the middle of a giant crater, but still very much alive.

"Luan, are you okay?!" the angelic musician inquired as she flew to her sister's side.

"I guess..." the comedian answered, grabbing her head and groaning in pain. Then she saw the aftermath of her attack, and the questions forming in her head didn't help her head pains at all. "Luna, what happened?"

"Hmm, how do I say this?" the rocker hummed to herself, then said in the most blunt, serious tone possible, "According to a voice in my head, your counterpart "empowered you", whatever that means, you charged an energy blast that would've killed Maggie, and then shot it straight at her."

The comedian gasped. "Oh gosh, did I actually kill her?! "

The rocker shook her head and put a hand in her sister's shoulder. "No, I shot a blast at your blast, causing them to merge, and the resulting attack only badly hurt and knocked her instead of outright killing her."

Luan pinched the bridge of her nose. "Dang it!"

And then Carol and Not-Lucy's fists clashing sent the two flying away. And even when they recovered and flew to help, Prototype Lucy basically multi tasked and smacked away the pair while also fighting Carol, who eventually sent the prototype flying away with a sonic scream before turning to the duo:

"Listen up, you two, this fight doesn't concern you!" and as she continued to speak, Luna felt both Carol and Other Lucy's auras. For some reason, she could feel exhaustion and fatigue in Carol's, but nothing of the sort in the prototype's. "I can deal with her just fine on my own, and besides, you already dealt with Maggie, so go back to the others and let me handle this!"

"No way, Love!" Luna replied.

"Yeah! We're powerful in our own right!" Luan added as the prototype slowly flew back to the trio. "I bet that if we work together, we'll definitely defeat her!"

Then, without warning, the prototype teleported behind the duo and split her arms into four gong-like appendages. She then struck Luna and Luan with her gongs and tried to send them plummeting to the ground with another attack, only for Carol to grab and rip off them before it was too late. Not that it mattered, since she regenerated them soon afterwards.

"Listen to the lady, copycats!" Proto Lucy hissed at the pair. "This has nothing to do with you, so scram!"

"Hah, how funny, you're speaking to us as if you actually had any authority over us!" Luan scoffed with a smug smile. "Why's that? Are you so afraid that you'll be beaten if we work together that you'd rather face her alone?"

The prototype wasn't happy with the response.

"Tsk, fine, if you want to be stubborn, then there's only one way to deal with you!"

Proto Lucy teleported right in front of Luan, who could barely register what happened before the proto-goth punched her right in the heart.

"Spades Series: Heartbreaker!"

Suddenly, Luan felt a sharp pain in her gut for a moment before her heart abruptly stopped, cancelling both her orange aura and powered form. And unfortunately, due to what Carol said earlier, the expiration of the orange aura rendered her unable to move at all.

"I... I can't move..." the comedian promptly tried to catch her breath. "...I can't breath!"

The gothic prototype took out her fist and waved goodbye as Luan fell and crash landed into the ground. And then she tried to do the same with Luna, and the angelic rocker was sent plummeting next to Luan with a kick, and it was at this point that Carol decided to stop joking around and get serious: She bum rushed the prototype and smacked her repeatedly with a rapid barrage of punches and kicks before sending her to the ground with a kick so hard, the impact left a large crater.

Unfortunately, once the prototype got out of the crater, her demented laughter implied she was enjoying herself.

"Yes, this is exactly what I've been waiting for!" the prototype goth exclaimed as she gave the incoming teenager a satisfied grin. "Not a one-sided beating like what Lynn gave me!"

Then she easily dodged Carol's punch, only for her to open two portals and send kicks at them. "Not an effortless waste of time like babysitting Lily!" the proto-goth exclaimed as two more portals opened to her left and right.

Then Carol's kicks came out of the other portals and hit her right in the stomach, which while bringing tons of pain to her, also brought her delight, judging by her smile as she said, "An actual fight where I must put some effort!"

The proto-goth then kicked Carol's kicks right back at her, before opening her mouth and swinging a pair of tentacle-swords right at the teen girl, who successfully blocked them with her bare hands. And as the battled continued, everybody at the sidelines couldn't help but be confused about a particular aspect of the fight.

"Why isn't she scared?" Haiku pondered, firmly looking at Pseudo-Lucy. "Carol's kicking her butt, and yet she's acting like this is some kind of game. But why?"

"'Cause It's just a matter of time before she turns the tables."

Everybody turned to look at Lucy, who had managed to calm down enough to stop crying and only occasionally breath heavily. However, the same couldn't be said for everybody else when she explained what she meant:

"Back inside the house, my counterpart boasted about the fact that she's basically immortal: Any damage I could do to her, she would regenerate instantly. Even destroying her head did absolutely nothing!"

"And I don't know why," Luna blurted while she tried to heal Luan, with the attention now going to her. "But while I can feel Carol's energy and stamina depleting, althought really dang slowly, Other Lucy isn't even coming close to getting tired. In fact, she isn't losing energy at all!"

Naturally, everyone was horrified at the revelation, specially because once they turned back to the fight, they saw Carol was sweating and catching her breath as she tried to hit Proto Lucy, who constantly teleported out of her reach.

"So that means that Carol..." Lana uttered, covering her mouth in horror.

Then, Carol shot an electric energy blast at the prototype, who deflected it towards Luan. Fortunately, this made her heart beat again, giving Luna the chance to fly back to help Carol. Unfortunately, everybody could still feel that even with Luna's help, the fight was pretty much impossible to win.

But amongst the despair and disbelief of the team, there was hope: Lincoln himself. "I'm gonna go see if I can convince Other Lucy to stop fighting," the boy proclaimed, shocking everyone, but specially her sisters. "After all, I can't just stay here and watch Carol fight a losing battle after what you just told me!"

Then, just before he took off, Lucy got on her feet and ran to Lincoln, only to tumble on her way there. Luckily, the boy managed to grab a hold of her before she hit the ground.

"But Lincoln, if you do go there, my counterpart's going to kick your butt, or worse!" the goth clung closer to her brother's chest as he brushed her hair. "Haiku, Clyde, Luna, Luan, everybody has been hurt so badly by her up to this point. I don't want you to get hurt too!"

Though he could see the goth's point, there was no other choice: If he stood behind, Carol would eventually lose, and then Proto-Lucy would do horrors to her. So the boy kissed Lucy's forehead, gently put her on the ground and brushed her hair one last time before giving his response:

"It's okay, Lucy, I'm used to being in harm's way."

With that said, the boy leaped off to help Carol as Lucy shed a single tear and said "Lincoln" in hopeful worry. And back with the fight, Carol breath heavily as her arms, now too overexert to move, stood limp while the prototype goth flew nearby, arms folded behind her back and with a smug smile.

"Wow, your turn went on for a quite long time, didn't it? And it looks like your arms have gone limp from overexertion," the proto-goth smugly remarked, while Carol continued to glare at her in defiance. "It was about time I got to beat you up in return!"

Proto Lucy formed a fist and flew straight for Carol, who narrowed her eyes and clenched her teeth right before Lincoln appeared in the way and spread his arms. However, the prototype stopped just before she hit Lincoln.

"Lincoln?" Carol asked, partially surprised, but mostly scared.

"I'll take it from here, Carol, go back with the others and rest up," the boy answered, firmly focusing on the prototype goth.

"The lord and savior has given you an order," Proto Lucy hissed at Carol as she lowered her arm and backed away. "So it would be wise of you to obey him."

Naturally needing a rest, Carol nodded and gave Lincoln a grateful smile before she flew back to the ground, leaving Lincoln and Proto Lucy behind to engage in the most intense fight they had ever been: A stare fight. The instant she revealed her-or more specifically, Lucy's-eyes, however, the boy spoke:

"Other Lucy, if you really think I'm some sort of god, and you won't defy me when I give you an order," Lincoln gave the proto-goth the pointer finger and ordered, "Then I demand that you give me back Lucy's eyes!"

The prototypical goth remained silent and motionless for a moment, with everybody else-specially Lincoln-hoping she would give an answer soon enough. After a couple more seconds in silence, the prototype smiled, parted her hair to reveal Lucy's blue eyes and then promptly ripped them off, with viscera and everything.

"Okay, that was disgusting, but at least you did what I told you to do," the boy remarked, wincing from the sight. "Now-"

Without warning, Proto Lucy crushed the eyes with her palms before throwing the remains at Lincoln, who, of course, dodged them. "Why did you do that!?" the boy hissed in disgust and anger.

"You said you wanted me to give you back Lucy's eyes," the prototype smirked. "You didn't say you wanted them intact!"

"Alright, that's it!" the boy formed a pair of fists and flew to the girl. "I gave you the chance to redeem yourself, but now I see you're beyond redemption! Take this!"

Lincoln sent a pair of punches at Proto Lucy, who effortlessly dodged them and shot a stern look at Lincoln... And did nothing, even thought she had more tan enough to punch, kick, do something to the boy. And yet, she refrained from doing so.

"Why aren't you attacking?" Lincoln eventually asked, narrowing his eyes. "I'm not complaining, but it doesn't make any sense."

"It does: As a practitioner of Lincolnism, you're the lord and savior of this reality, as well as my one and true god," the goth explained before getting on her knees and bowing down. Yes, she did this mid-air. "To hurt you, and thus tarnish your pure and perfect image, would be to sentence me to one of the holy punishments, to be carried out by sisters Lori, Leni, and Luna."

With this new information revealed, nearly everybody flinched and gasped in shock, but specially Luna, who believed she would somehow carry said punishment, whatever it was. Lincoln, meanwhile, had no idea what she was talking about, and was more confused than anything.

"Dang, punish you just for hurting Lincoln?" the angelic rocker remarked, unaware that the more she spoke, the angrier the proto-goth became. "Listen, I'd be more than happy to hurt you after all you did, but-"

Then, the goth snapped.

"Not you, you noisy copy-cunt!"

She then flew to Luna and smacked her right in the area where her heart would be.

"The original Luna!"

Then, she did... Something to said heart, which caused Luna to spit out blood, revert back to her base form and fall down to the ground.

"The true Luna."

Once the rocker hit the ground, Carol wasted no time to go to her and try to get her heart up and running again with electricity. And as Lincoln continued to attack Prototype Lucy-who dodged every single thing he threw at her-Lucy got up and looked at the fight while Clyde and Haiku backed away. Then, without warning, a dark grey aura surrounded the girl and her arms flailed as she started to hiss.

"First Haiku... Then Giggles... Then Clyde... Then my sisters..."

Haiku and Clyde exchanged worried looks as Lucy's arms bulged and contorted, with an L-shaped symbol appearing on her left arm.

"She has hurt everyone I care about..."

What was more surprising, however, was that after convulsing for a while, Lucy's arm soon healed back to full health. Almost as if they were never broken in the first place.

"Ever since I summoned her, all she's done is bring me and everybody pain and misery!"

Then she turned to the dark-skinned geek and the poet, revealing she was not only crying, but her eyes had become grey with black sclera.

"Haiku, Clyde... Forgive me. I was foolish to think that I could just summon a demon and not have it bite me in the butt later. But now..."

She turned back to the Lincoln and her counterpart, and stopped their fighting to look at the girl. Notably, while Lincoln was obviously surprised and worried, the copycat goth was more along the likes of unimpressed.

"Now I know she's a mistake I need to fix!"

The aura engulfed the goth, and her shadowy figure soon contorted into that of an equine creature that neighed in apparent pain and agony as bony structure came out of their forehead and sides, the former in the form of a horn, and the latter in the form of bat-like wings.

"What's going on with Lucy?!" Lincoln asked, grabbing his head.

"Your sister's achieving her true "angel" form," Lucy's counterpart answered, with a notable hint of mocking satisfaction. "Unfortunately, to do this, she'll first become a mindless abomination that'll be unable to recognize friend from foe. She'll be a danger to everyone."

She turned to Lincoln and flashed a smirk.

"Including you."

The boy narrowed his eyes before he flew down and landed in front of the transforming beast, who looked firmly at him with a look of both agonizing worry. They then tried to make him go away by making the aura stronger. It worked for Haiku, Clyde, the other sisters and Carol, but Lincoln stood his ground despite the intensity.

"Lucy, listen to me!" the boy exclaimed while the beast stood still and listened. "You're going to turn into a mindless monster if you keep this up! I know you're probably upset because you summoned that imposter of yours-"

"Um, excuse me, no offense my lord, but I'm the original!" the prototype goth complained. "Get it right!"

The boy just ignored her and continued speaking. "But the point is, turning into a monster won't help anybody! Listen, there's probably another way we can deal with her, you just need to be a bit more patient!"

Then, he extended his hand towards the beast. "So please, turn back to normal!"

The beast just continued to stare.

"Please, Lucy..."

Lincoln shed a single tear.

"I don't want to lose you..."

After a couple more seconds in silence, the beast lifted one of its front leg and grabbed Lincoln's hand, before shedding a single tear and stated:

"Lin... Coln..."

Soon enough, the beast' body was covered by light, and the aura grew smaller as the beast started to morph from its current form to that of Lucy, but with the wings and the horn remaining. Upon seeing this, Pseudo-Lucy tried to fly after the pair, but she was stopped by Luna, Luan, and Carol, who fought the prototype evenly as Lucy's aura vanished and revealed her renewed form.

She was basically herself, but with the spot where her eyes would be glowing white, and behind her back were a pair of bat-like wings, while in her forehead was a short, stubby black horn.

Then, Lucy hugged her brother as he soon returned the favor, and brushed the back of her head. "Thanks, Lincoln," she whispered to his ear.

"Anytime, Lucy," the guy tightened the hug. "Anytime."

And then Proto-Lucy was sent crashing into the ground, with Luna, Luan and Carol landing nearby and giving the duo a wink as the prototype got back up. And much to her horror, the newly transformed Lucy separated from Lincoln and got ready to attack her.

"This should be impossible!" the prototype goth stomped her ground while Lucy cracked her knuckles. "There's no way you could just-"

"Silence!"

Lucy's counterpart closed her mouth, and whatever smug superiority she had before was replaced by a solemn, honest fear of what Lucy would do next. A sight that brought delight everyone, but specially Lucy, or should I say Lucyfer, who flashed a satisfactory smile before declaring, with a confident tone:

"I'm no longer the Lucy Loud that you blinded before, other me! Or should I say, Vine?"

Proto Lucy flinched and backed away, while everybody else raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Now, I'm the angel of light, Lucyfer!"

Then, she gave her the pointer finger, causing the prototype goth to back away frightened, while Lucyfer proclaimed:

"And with the light I control once more, I shall seal you right back into the distorted dimension corpse you came from!"

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Everybody that wasn't Lucyfer or Proto Lucy currently stood at the sidelines, with Carol, Lincoln, Haiku, Clyde and most of the sisters cheering on their Lucy. Lola, however, wasn't afraid to complain about it, and the news reported was more concerned about delivering the news rather than getting to somewhere safe, but neither of those things were anything new.

"You know, I'm kind of upset about the fact that after everything that's happened, It's up to Lucy to deal with that gothic copycat," the diva complained, rolling her eyes. "I mean, we had our freaking arms ripped off by her minions, and now it's up to Lucy, or Lucyfer, or whatever we're supposed to call her now, to beat up that impostor of hers?"

"Lucy was the one who summoned her counterpart in the first place," Lincoln argued, and giving her angelic sister a confident look, he stated, "She caused this whole problem by her hand, so It's only fair she seals her back herself."

"Well, if that's so true, then let me ask you one thing," Lola narrowed her eyes, "If Lucy's responsible for all of this, and it's only fair that she seals her counterpart herself, then why did we even need to be here in the first place?!"

Lincoln refused to answer. Either that, or he couldn't of how to answer in the first place.