July 20th, 2039

Lana had made two wooden stakes and placed them side-by-side, at the end of the backyard. She, Lily and Luan huddled around them, honoring both Luna and Linka. No time to set these up back in their old hometown, especially when they couldn't have Luna's body, and Linka's was in many pieces, crushed and twisted alike.

As they realized that death had come again, Luan and Lana found themselves to be afraid of Nnyl, and the unknown that the clone was bringing on the table. "I hope they catch her," Luan prayed.

"They will," Lana believed. "And when Lynn finishes healing up those legs of her, she's going to find and capture Nnyl."

"Didn't they say she'd be able to be back on her feet by today?" Lily recalled from the diagnosis of the med team.

"She should have had her bones recuperated already. Her healing factor must be slowing down, and it must be the same for me." Lana wiggled a leg back and forth. "Although I don't plan on assisting her, even if it calls for my help to be needed."

Luan and Lily gave each other concerned looks. Lana had indeed broken her silent vow to not use her speed again, and ended up saving her sisters for the greater good. Like then, now was certainly a good time to put it to use again. "Are you sure?"

"Lana, Lynn might not be-" Lily started.

"It's her and the Agency against one person! They have the tools to stop a pheno, and I believe in them! They don't need me, you two!"

Despite Lana having broken her own silent vow of never running, she was still being stubbornly persistent on trying anew. Anew for Lola.

"But, last time, Lana! Last time you did-"

"That was different! You were all in the face of danger! We're not as much here... We just have to go into hiding." Lana turned away from them and left them at the graves. "Believe in Lynn."

Back inside, Lynn was attending to their unexpected guest. She had trouble trying to serve the man any type of food or beverage, so she just offered him to get anything he craved from the kitchen, but all he was quenching for was water, and was chugging sips down from a water bottle.

She had sat across from him at the rectangular shaped table, with her crutches leaning diagonally against her lap. She was in an awkward stare-down with Christian, looking onto him wordlessly. Finally...

"So, umm..." She got the story already, and was still processing it. "You come here looking for the Louds, because you've met them once before, and now that you found us, what comes next?"

He shook his head, tapping his fingers on the surface. "Yeah, I tried to travel between dimensions- I'm sorry, but you say you don't remember me, right?"

Lynn shook her head. "No, sorry. I've never met a Christian before in my life."

Apparently his story was that he once woke up in Royal Woods, Michigan, almost suffering from hypothermia on a winter's day. Right in the Loud residence to be exact, and as he tried to get bsck home, Lisa had made the logical discovery that he was not in his own world. He stayed in with the rest of the family, until Lisa constructed a machine and sent him back home six months later.

From then on, he, who had kept the machine hidden away somehow only God knew, had decided to repay them a visit, using some instructions Lisa had handed to him before leaving. Only it seemed he fucked up and entered a different Loud earth. It had to be it.

Lynn was skeptical of all of this, but if she knew one thing, the idea of the multiverse existed, and he claimed to know much about her. She thought about testing him to make sure the story was authentic, but his eyes did not present a hostile look at all. He was more confused and lost, trying to break away from her eyes.

"Oh... Then I suppose I'm not in the right place. Quite a predicament..." He dashed his eyes around, before circling back to Lynn. To him, she didn't seem weirded out of lost when he explained the science behind it. "This isn't shocking for you?"

"No- Well, I can't say I wasn't expecting a civilian from another world to be dropping in... But no, I'm not that shocked at all."

"Oh... Then I guess that means you've must've seen your fair share of things, or maybe you just really keep an open mind."

Lynn laughed to herself. "Open mind... Right." She pointed to the backyard. "What happens now?"

"I replace the batteries and try to get back home, see what I did wrong."

"Batteries? What kind would those be?" Lynn asked.

"Three generators power the machine every time it's used once," he informed. "A waste of money on my end if I decide to travel many times."

"Gen-" Lynn scratched her head. "So... You really did meet versions of us, didn't you?"

"Yeah..." He began to recount some great times with the Louds when they were kids. He played with the younger faction around that time, and Lori and Leni were the ones who saw it it that they shift his dress code, and wound up taking him to the mall to get some new clothes. His credit card had declined due to him not at all existing on their earth, so Leni covered it with the goodness of her heart.

Leni was the one who he felt was the most selfless and thoughtful girl of the bunch. Sad to say he was bummed out when Lynn told him that not just Leni, but more than half of the Loud kids have been dead for some time now, and Lynn pointed out to the graves that Luna had joined the fallen.

"Luna was the one I fell in love with..." The man admitted with a depressing tone. "I'm sorry..."

Lynn found reason to laugh. "Don't be silly! This isn't the Luna you knew anyway, so don't be so down. We do have one generator in out basement, and as for the other two, there's a store that has those close by here."

For someone who had just lost a pair of family members, and was still semi-crippled, Lynn sure was feeling upbeat right now. Maybe she just simply forgot the status of the situation.

"Oh, that's cool! Uh, thank you for that!" Christian was still curious how it played out here, but he wasn't one to pry, purely out of not wanting to disrespect them. Besides, Lynn did say it; this was not at all the alternate earth he once found himself on all those yesrs ago. Maybe he could still get to the right one. Damned if he didn't try.

"No problem, I'll have Lana lead you to the store. And speak of the girl-" Lana had wandered in hust as Lynn mentioned her name.

"What's this about being a guide?" She questioned Lynn.

"The man here, Christian, needs two generators for his machine out there causing a disturbance in our yard. Could you just show him the way?" Lynn lifted herself from the seat and hoisted herself up on her crutches.

"Yeah, I guess I can," she agreed, escorting Christian to the front door.

Lynn went to the backyard again, hearing the faint sound of the door closing behind her. From the porch, she inspected the huge machinery that looked to be the equivalent size of a fitting room, for sure definitely bigger than a photo booth. "Wow..."

"This thing is pretty huge," Lily said in amazement, circling the ODT. "What is this, a time machine?"

"It's an omelet something... I don't know, big words still make my head spin," Lynn shamefully said.

"Try an Omni-Dimensional..." Lupa was floating down from the back window as if she were Mary Poppins. "I don't know what the T stands for, the hairy beast cut himself off."

Luan and Lily regrouped with Lynn at the porch, and Lupa just leaned on the side of the wall.

"Why did you come here?" Lynn dared asked, turning to her direction. "We were told you abandoned Linka when the Agency captured her. So, what happened in between then and now? Where were you?"

Lupa half-closed her eyes and set hands on her waist. "We clones have to stick together, same as you girls! I busted her out only to be ambushed by your goddamn clone!" She raised a hand, with Lynn believing she would attack further this time, causing her to stutter back. But Lupa lowered it back down, having no intention to waste her time. "Pathetic shit. If I were you I would have killed myself."

"L-Lupa!" Luan cried out. "That is way out of line!"

"Lupa, there's no need for harsh words," Lily added in. "Lynn shouldn't be responsible for her creation!"

"And she's not!" Lucky, who had finished a nice hot shower, right after Lupa, was already finished, and he had reset his attire to be one of a light-blue sweater with brown taking up at the top of it" followed by gray sweatpants. A style meant more for a cold winter's day, but not today. This was the best he could do. "I'm sorry for not coming back yesterday-"

"Which you still have explaining to do!" Lynn exclaimed.

"-But I had some good reason. Aunt Lynn, p-please forgive me, but-"

Lupa stepped in. "The Agency created Nnyl as part of a cover to exterminate all phenos. I guess everything that has been happening has been working in their favor, including the attack by those guys who came here. They needed to blame someone, and you guys are going to take the fall."

"Wh-what? What?! What nonsense are you saying now?!" Lynn threw one of her crutches at Lupa, but it only landed at the latter's feet.

"Aunt Lynn, we've come here to call and warn you. This is serious... We know where the pheno training base is, but the Agency plans to have them subjected to mind control."

Luan and Lily were giving off gasps as Lynn just shook her head in denial. "N-no, I know these guys, they'd never-"

"Shut up for one fucking second!" Lupa barked.

"Ummm..." Lucky cleared his throat. "I had it all. I had files I stole from the Agency before I went out 'for a walk'." He used air quotation marks for that.

"You... What?!" Lynn was triggered.

Lucky waved his hands around in front of him. "No, no, I mean yeah I did just that, but- Nnyl, she found me, I don't know h-how but-"

"She made him lead us into a fucking ambush!" Lupa jumped and soared towards them, now making the porch less vacant. "I can't... Sigh, I can't blame anyone for that, so..."

And Lucky and Lynn ended up getting slapped by Lupa.

"But long story short, the fuckers planned to unleash their mindless phenos in Royal Woods and cause a destruction just so they can go in themselves and kill all phenos, ending the super threat once and for all." Lupa looked to the yard, and then up to the blue sky. "If that isn't fucking enough..."

"Aunt Lynn, Nnyl knows about this now. She wants to take control over the phenos and carry their plan on her own way. It could be today, it could be tomorrow, but it will be soon. W-we're all in danger-" He gagged, feeling anxious and shuddering at the thought of losing, dying to someone he didn't know about weeks ago. The boy was shaking away.

Lynn was letting it sink in. "N-no, I'm one of the best! I'm one of their best soldiers-"

"And that's probably why they did it in the first place," Lupa stated bluntly. "You're just too good in their eyes. Maybe everyone who knew about Lynn Loud working with close officials has put the fear of God into them. Don't forget that the world thinks bad of phenos."

Lynn gulped, with the audience just looking on without a word. "It c-can't be like that! Y-you're lying, they would never-" But she did think about it, and it began to shift into that truth. That's why they weren't trusting of her, why she hadn't much clearance and access to certain confidentials within the Agency; she would be the only one who would rebel and stand against them, what with her own speed power being a thorn on their side when she defected. And she would have for sure.

"Wouldn't they?"

Nnyl's growth rate, it was an inexplicable side effect Lynn had been told was not anticipated. Or, so she thought, seeing that Nnyl would die eventually meant they didn't have anything to worry about. "If what you're saying is true, then Nnyl- Lynnette was created just to kill all the phenos we didn't have captured. They programmed her, and those flaws... This monster she is, it's what they wanted her to be."

"No..." Lupa corrected. "She was just like you, but they got into her head, Lynn. They molded her into a murderer, and one who wants to kill us all. And she will, as well as the Agency now that she knows."

"Oh, my God..." Lynn went down on her knees.

Lucky tended to her. "Auny Lynn, don't stress... We have thought of a counterattack ourselves-"

"Yourselves?!" Luan protested. "Oh, no! No way I'm going to have my nephew go out and risk his life fighting this... This evil clone!"

"Luan is right," Lily defended. "Lucky, there's no reason you need to throw yourself out there! It's dangerous to be even saying such things! Think about it, what would Luna want for you?"

"B-but..." Lucky pointed away at them, and then behind at Lupa.

"Lynn isn't going to be able to act on her own without raising eyebrows back at the Agency," Lupa put in. "Just by Lucky being here, is it already that risky. I'm going to Royal Woods, and Lucky will supply me with the technology that I'll need to fight off the phenos from within the Agency. Look, I'm gonna need one of your phones." Lupa raised an arm and waved her fingers in and out.

"Aunties, please trust us-"

Luan shook her head in disbelief. "No! I can't allow you to join Lupa, even if this is really going to happen like you say it will! I don't want you to jump into the battlefield!"

"And he won't be, he'll be helping me from the sidelines."

Lynn sighed, both annoyed and vulnerable to the core. "This isn't your fight! Lupa, Lucky, you two should not have to be the ones to try and take upon the army of phenos by yourself! Okay, suppose you do, then what? Don't forget the Agency and Nnyl are still going to be around! Are you strong enough to take on the likes on her?! Are you smart enough to take them all on?!"

They met face-to-face even more closer than before now. Lupa was daring to defy Lynn the same way just as Linka had been defying Luna. Their faces were made of stone, locked into a death glaze. Lily and Luan turned away from not being able to handle the intensity of the heat emitted from their auras.

"I knew the risks, same as you," the clone shared. "I'd give my life for the boy I've gotta protect."

"That boy with the headband, right?" Lynn faintly remembered Lemy. "I know what she did to you, so spare me the recap, but that does not make her your responsibility! She's been mine and mine alone! You and Linka-"

"Pity your sob story! I have more than a bone to pick with that blonde in an ugly green suit!"

"Lupa-!"

"Your mission has changed, Lynn! You're going to have to kill Nnyl if you want to see this through to the end! But you can't, because..." Lupa began laughing. "They've got eyes and a leash on you. You can't make a move on your own, and when they decide to deploy you to Royal Woods, it'll be too late for you to even prevent shit."

Lynn listened.

"They'll just send you in so you can be killed, and these sisters here," Lupa faced Luan and Lily, "They'll get the guillotine."

"I can't- I can't leave you in charge of this!" Lynn was reluctant to leave everything to Lupa, considering the enormity of the new situation. "It's too much! You can't do it all by yourself-"

"It may be a suicide mission, and I've accepted I might just die, but I'll die trying to save you guys, save my Lemy, and avenge my town by killing Nnyl! That's what I really care about, and you won't stop me from getting close to her!"

Lynn broke her composure and was awed by Lupa's resolve. "Y-you're really persistent to go, aren't you?"

Lupa stepped back from smelling Lynn's breath. "I'm the only one who can go in undetected. Nnyl thinks me and Lucky are dead, and the Agency guys don't know where I am, and it's gonna stay that way, right?" She squinted away at Lynn, who in turn just tilted her head down to the side and exhaled.

"I guess I have no say in this... As much as I don't like it-" Lynn lifted a foot of hers an inch off the ground and wobbled it. "What can I do? I'm just as useful as my legs allow me to be."

"That's easy. You just stay put at the Agency up until they inform you about Royal Woods. They might've not even expected Nnyl to take over their operation by force." Lupa scratched her head. "I want to go to the training base but I'm going to be met with too much security over there, especially with Nnyl having attacked-"

Lynn was not at all one with the highest IQ. "D-does that mean that it was them who released her? Was it them behind her whole change?!"

Lupa raised her shoulders. "Don't know, don't care."

"Th-those evil fiends..." Lynn thrusted her hands on the planks beneath her. "If only I was fast enough... I don't like this one bit..."

"L-Lupa, is it possible you can win? That you can stop Nnyl and the phenos in her control? That is to say that she succeeds in that too, will you stop them?" Luan had developed a sparkling glaze of deadening concern for the safety of the family, as well as the countless innocents who were bound to become tangled up in the malevolent agendas that were anything but in the eyes of the rest of the world. "Y-you will, right?"

Lupa crossed her arms and bobbed her head down. "Royal Woods is going to turn into a war zone, and that's because I'm not going to try and rescue them at all. There's... There's going to be death, and I'm not a rescue party..."

It only worked to petrify the girls, and Lucky scraped his shoes against the ground.

"Lupa..." Luan found a hidden silver of courage to speak from deep within her mind. "You are going to succeed!"

This took Lynn by surprise. "Huh?"

"I may not always like having you around-"

"Tch!" Lupa cried out.

"-But if you can carry out this counterattack-"

"L-Luan!" Lily was appalled that Luan was reluctantly supporting Lupa's strategy. "No, dang it!"

Luan winced with a hint of anger, facing Lily. "No, I know, Lily! I hate this just as much as you do, but someone has to do something!"

Lynn shook her head in disbelief. Someone indeed had to, but it wasn't going to be her by the sound of things. Not with the invisible leash she had around her neck. "You stubborn fool..."

It was three against two as of yet.

"You're going to get yourselves killed! Is that what you want?!" Worrying for Lupa at a time like this; what a day this turned out to be. "Why do you think it's okay for you to be the one to do this?!"

Lupa just looked away, ready for the lecture of burdens again.

"Well?" Lynn raised up and pressed a crutch to Lupa's chest.

"You should know why," the clone coldly answered, knocking the long object from her boobs. "It's in my blood."

Of course, it was to be expected from Lupa. Lynn found it amusing. "You're a real stubborn fool alright."

"Does that mean you'll allow me to finish this for you?" Lupa smirked with content.

"Yes... Sadly. I bet you need a portal to Royal Woods, right?"

"Damn right I do," she let out with high confidence. "I'll be sure to save some scraps for you."

"Just lay off on the bloodshed, got it?"

Lupa just raised her hands, as if she was mostly innocent at the scene. "Me? I'd never!"

Everyone coughed, suggesting otherwise.

"No guarantees, okay?" Lupa then kicked herself off the ground. "I'll remain here and wait for the portal. It's a one-way ticket so I don't need more than one."

The looks on their faces worried them dreadfully.

"You know, just in case..."

Lana popped up from the corner of the house and greeted them. "Hey, Lupa? Need your help with making the generators lighter, if you don't mind."

"Uhh, sure thing," she accepted, being led away to the front of the house by Lana.

"Lucky... D-do you believe in Lupa?" Lynn asked deeply.

The roles changed. Less than an hour ago, it was Lynn whom the sisters believed would be the one to stop the calamitous foe that was of her own blood. It changed so dramatically, but that wasn't to say they lost their faith in Lynn. It just had to be rerouted to be of Lupa's own, mostly. Lupa was going to do it, while Lynn had to be a spectator lying in wait for the call. No way she would act on their own until the guarantee that her family was safe would come to light.

She'd have to wait.

"I do, and I'm on board with her plan, because if anything..." He had their attention, a nice change-up for once. No longer was he just a lousy teenager who was lazy and lost. "I owe it to Linka."


AN: The plan is now known by the whole lot. Lupa better be getting to Royal Woods fast, while the gang return to the Agency. The big battle approaches, and before you know it, the day will come.