(Good to see you all again. Hope you're ready for this new chapter and are prepared for some laughs and surprises.)

Out in Royal Woods one afternoon, XLR8 was speeding around before the scene froze and XLR8 stopped and spoke to the audience, "Hi. I suppose you're wondering where I'm off to in such a hurry? Well, I just learned Dr. Splice broke out of jail and is causing trouble in Royal Woods. You remember Dr. Splice, right? If not, then I'll remind you."

A flashback of Lincoln's first encounter with Dr. Splice played in the form of a home movie, as XLR8 narrated, "Dr. Martin Splice was a scientist who studied animal DNA and tried to animalize all of the earth by launching his animal formula into space so it would spread over the planet. Naturally my family and I stopped him, turned his mutant henchmen back into ordinary teens, and he was sent to jail."

The flashback ended, as XLR8 continued, "But like most bad guys he busted out and is looking for revenge and conducting a new scheme. A scheme of which I must stop being the only alien hero on this planet. So I better pick up the pace." he zipped off as the scene unfroze and resumed.


The speedster alien pulled to a halt in town and saw, several mutant birds flying around and swooping down trying to catch any humans they could, "If I were in the Bird Watching club, this would be a very successful find," he told himself, before getting to work. He zipped all around town grabbing whatever strong rope he could and hog tied all the birds before looking around, "Splice has to be here somewhere." he told himself.

"I knew you would come." Came the Doc's voice, as he walked out from an alley way.

"Dr. Splice." XLR8 squinted his eyes.

"I'm glad you had fun with my pets. And now that you're here I'm gonna have my own kind of fun with you." Splice promised.

"I'm not your play toy," The fast alien answered, "And I still have to pay you back for turning me into a dog boy."

"I'll do more than that to you." he pulled out a ray gun and started shooting at XLR8, but the fast alien kept dodging.

"Nice try, Doc. But you can touch XLR8!" he mocked, while zipping all around, "I'm Faster than Fast! Swifter than Swift!" XLR8 was so caught up in his gloating, he had ended up slipping on a puddle of grease and landed on the ground, "Oh, come on! How does grease end up here of all places?!" He eyed who else but Flip who was wheeling a fryer around before he began whistling innocently.

"How about Clutzier than Clutz?" Splice called, as he aimed the ray at XLR8 and shot at him, "Hope you enjoy being a mutant."

When the ray beam hit the Omnitrix symbol on XLR8, the symbol began sparking with green electricity, much to the alien's shock, "What?! What's happening to me?!" he cried, and began running around out of control before he ran at Splice. The green electricity ended up sparking his ray and shorted it out.

"No! You've shorted out my DNA Ray! Now I have to make repairs!" he grumbled, while XLR8 zipped away before ducking into the remains of a demolished building.

"Why... am... I?" XLR8 didn't even finish his sentence as he began glowing and screamed.


Lincoln suddenly blacked out and for awhile saw nothing but blackness, until he heard a voice, "Lincoln. Hey, Lincoln."

"What is..." Lincoln groaned, before opening his eyes and saw he was looking up at the ceiling of the demolished building, "Oh, I really must've had way too many sodas." he looked ahead and to his surprise saw Grey Matter standing on his stomach.

"Oh, finally you're awake." the smart alien said in relief.

Lincoln looked at the alien on his stomach before screaming in fright, and swatted Grey Matter off him. He backed away, before coming to his senses and saw who he was screaming at, "Grey Matter?"

Grey Matter rubbed his head, before standing up, "Who did you expect?"

"What-but-how are... You can't be here!"

"But I am," he noted, "And it's not just me." Grey Matter motioned Lincoln to look around.

Lincoln did so, and to his shock saw lying all around were the rest of his alien entourage from Heatblast, Diamondhead, Wildmutt, Fourarms, XLR8, Water Hazard, Upgrade, Stinkfly, Cannonbolt, Shocksquatch, and Gax, "No way!" Lincoln gasped, as they each started waking up.

"What happened?" Heatblast groaned.

"What's going on?" Fourarms asked, as Wildmutt groaned.

Diamondhead looked around, before spotting Lincoln, "Whoa!"

The aliens got up and started approaching him. Lincoln started getting frightened fearing it was Ghostfreak all over again, "No! Please don't hurt me!" he curled into the fetal position and braced himself.

The aliens stopped, before Heatblast spoke, "Relax, Lincoln, no need to get worked up."

Lincoln opened his eyes and looked up at them, "Huh?"

"You're acting like we were gonna hurt you or something." Fourarms noted.

"Well, I kinda figured you would... I mean with Ghostfreak and all..."

"Ghostfreak was more himself than he was you." Water Hazard said.

"We on the other hand are more you than we are the aliens we were scanned from." Grey Matter explained.

Lincoln curiously looked up at Gax, and asked, "So you're more me than you are Vilgax?"

"Precisely," he confirmed, "Think of all of us as extensions of yourself."

"Well, that's a relief," Lincoln said while wiping his forehead of sweat, before asking the bigger question, "But hold on, how're all of you here, when you're supposed to be in the watch?" he asked, as he looked at the Omnitrix seeing the screen was pure white. He started turning the dial seeing none of the silhouette's of his aliens in it, "You're gone. Or rather right here but not in the Omnitrix."

"We can only deduce it was the work of Splice's ray," Grey Matter began, "Instead of mutating you like before, it ended up affecting the Omnitrix and separated all of us that're available in the Omnitrix from it."

"This is unbelievable." Lincoln gasped.

"You're telling us." Upgrade agreed.

"So how am I going to get you guys back in the watch?" the boy asked the aliens, as they all looked like they had no answer, until Grey Matter spoke.

"Might I suggest we go see Lisa about this?" he suggested.

"Good thinking," Lincoln agreed, "Uh, you all know the location of my house do you?" he asked his aliens.

"We have your memories, so duh." Shocksquatch reminded him.

"Right. Well, let's all rendezvous back there." Lincoln instructed, as he picked Grey Matter up and put him on his shoulder, only to be picked by by XLR8 and put on his back.

"Then let's go!" XLR8 took off with Lincoln and Grey Matter, as the rest of the aliens took off on their own for Lincoln's house.


XLR8 being the fast one arrived at Lincoln's place with Lincoln and Grey Matter wide eyed from moving so fast, "So that's what it's like riding on you." Lincoln told XLR8.

Grey Matter started spitting up, "I think I got a fly in my mouth."

Soon enough the rest of the aliens arrived, "Come on. To my backyard," Lincoln told them, as they went around back, "All of you stay here, I'll be right out." he went through the back door.

Lincoln walked to the living room where his family was, "Uh, hey, guys." he greeted.

"Hey, Lincoln. How'd busting up Dr. Splice go?" Lynn asked.

"Well, things got complicated and something happened." he began sheepishly.

"What something?" Lori asked.

"I think it's best if you see it for yourselves," the white haired boy explained, as the family curiously got off the couch and followed Lincoln to the backyard .When they walked outside, to their shock, they saw all of Lincoln's aliens standing or sitting around waiting, "Guys, you know my aliens. And I'm sure you guys know the family."

"Hey." Heatblast waved.

"Lincoln, what's going on?" Rita asked in worry.

"Long story." Lincoln cringed.

Soon Lincoln was telling his family what happened, all while some of the sisters were having fun with the aliens, like Lily and Lana riding on top of Wildmutt, Water Hazard was shooting water into the air and it rained down in drops with Lynn catching some on her tongue, and Luan was riding on Stinkfly who was flying above the family in circles, "And that's the gist of it." Lincoln finished telling the story.

"That sounded too close, bro." Luna said in shock.

"How do you feel?" Leni asked.

"I feel fine."

"And what about your aliens?" Lynn Sr asked.

Lincoln looked around seeing they were as lively as they were when Lincoln himself was in control, "They seem to be all right."

"That may be, but we have no idea what separating them from the Omnitrix could have." Lisa stated.

"Agreed, which is why we need to do some tests." Grey Matter suggested.

Lori was checking her phone until she got an alert, "Hey, listen to this. A robbery's in progress in town."

"A robbery?" Lincoln gasped, "Looks like it's hero time!" Lincoln was about to activate the Omnitrix, until he remembered his aliens weren't in the watch, "Dang it."

"Why don't you leave this one to us, Lincoln?" Diamondhead suggested.

"Yeah. We totally got this." Stinkfly added.

"Come on, guys!" Heatblast ordered, as the aliens took off for town, while Grey Matter stayed behind.

"So much for running tests." Grey Matter sighed.

"I know." Lisa sighed.

"Ew!" Lola gagged while standing close to the garage, "Wildmutt left an enormous poop in the yard!"

Lisa perked up, "Extraterrestrial feces! This is the discovery of a lifetime!" she cheered, as she hurried to get a sample.


Later on the Loud's were in their living room watching the news where the newsman was speaking, "Today's been busier than ever and much safer thanks to the bravery of our beloved alien heroes who seem to be showing up even faster than ever."

They saw news footage play featuring Lincolns' aliens performing various heroic acts for town and further. Water Hazard was seen putting out fire in a burning building, Gax and Fourarms were lifting a truck to safety before it could go over a bridge, Shocksquatch was giving some extra juice to one of the power plants, Stinkfly was saving a construction worker who lost his footing and almost fell from the building he was working on, Upgrade was repairing a broken down senior citizen tour bus with his body and got the seniors home, and Heatblast and the others were busy catching one crooks after another.

"I can't believe they're accomplishing more than I could when I was them." Lincoln said in disbelief.

"Don't take it so hard, Lincoln." Lana said.

"Yeah. The Omnitrix has a limiter so you can't stay alien forever." Luna reminded him.

"I know, but I'm wondering if I'm needed at all anymore."

"Don't tell yourself that, Lincoln," Grey Matter warned him, "Even if they're all acting like they're as fit as a fiddle, that ray Splice used to separate us had to have side affects to us as well."

"If only they stayed behind so we could study them." Lisa crossed her arms.

"Well, they have to come home some time." Lincoln said.

As nighttime rolled in, Lincoln was sitting in the backyard porch with Grey Matter, until the aliens returned looking exhausted, "Whoo, who would've thought there'd be so many things to do." Heatblast asked the others.

"I know." Cannonbolt agreed.

"Welcome back." Lincoln said.

"We all could tell you guys were busy." Grey Matter crossed his arms.

"Well, we would've been back sooner, but you wouldn't believe how much kept coming up." Upgrade explained.

"Clearly." Lincoln replied with a sigh.

"What's up, Lincoln?" Diamondhead asked.

"I'm glad you guys were protecting Royal Woods and all, but I felt left out in all of it. You guys may have part of my mind, but I personally wasn't there to experience the thrill and all."

The aliens looked concerned, as Stinkfly spoke, "Oh, Linc, we didn't mean to make ya feel obsolete or anything."

"Yeah. Remember if not for you there wouldn't even be an 'us'." XLR8 added.

"Tell ya what, tomorrow first thing in the morning we get right to work on figuring out how to get back in the Omnitrix?" Fourarms suggested.

"You mean it?" Lincoln asked.

"We promise." Gax agreed.

"Good."

Lana came out in her pajamas, "All right, you're back! I want Wildmutt to sleep in my room tonight."

Lola who was also in her pajamas poked her head out, "We are not having Wildmutt sleep in our room." the twins began squabbling, until Lincoln started leading his aliens into the garage.

"You guys will have to stay in here until morning." he told them.

"Not very big." Gax said, as he crouched down to fit inside.

"Sorry for the inconvenience, but we had no idea this was going to happen today," Lincoln said, "Now all of you get some sleep and no fighting!" he face palmed, "Wow, I'm starting to sound like a parent. Goodnight, you guys."

"Goodnight, Lincoln." the aliens said, as Lincoln closed the garage door.

Wildmutt curled up and got comfy, Stinkfly flew up to the ceiling and hung from it, Grey Matter took a spot on a work desk while using a clean rag as a blanket, as the other aliens rested against the walls. Heatblast made sure not to lean up against anything, "If I set this garage on fire they'll never forgive me." he told himself before falling asleep like the others.


The very next morning, Lincoln got dressed and headed out back to check on his aliens. He opened the garage door and spoke, "Rise and shine... guys..." he trailed off, as he looked inside and saw each of his aliens looked sickly with their bodies looking paler, their eyes bleary, even Heatblast's flames were looking extinguished.

"Lincoln..." Cannontbolt said weakly.

"Something's wrong..." Gax said in an equally weak voice. Lincoln could only look at his aliens in horror knowing something really was wrong with them.

(What a turn of events. Lincoln's aliens were separated from the watch and went on a hero spree, but now it looks like something's going wrong with them. Will Lincoln find a way to help them before they get worse? Tune in next time.)