(Welcome back to the next chapter. Hope you're ready to see Lincoln try to escape Vilgax and Singe's wrath, while his family has to try and find a way to get him out of the Null Void.)
At first it thought it like it was a good idea. Lincoln wanted to stop Vilgax and Singe, but hadn't realized before it was too late that Albert already had a plan to get rid of the two. Charging head first thinking he was going to defeat the two villains, he ended up running straight through a portal opened by Albert's Null Void Projector.
XLR8 and his two enemies landed on a rocky surface with the speedy alien groaning, "Ok, that was a bad idea," he got up and looked around seeing he was in dimension composed of floating rocks with no apparent surface below them, "Whoa! What is this place?"
Vilgax had gotten up, and answered, "The Null Void; an alternate dimension where the galaxies worst of the worst are banished too."
XLR8 got up and spoke to the two villains, "A fitting place for the two of you to be trapped in."
"You're trapped here too." Singe noted.
"Even so, at least you're here and my family is safe." XLR8 replied.
"Quiet!" Vilgax shouted, "Listen."
The three listened, and suddenly saw flying right for them was a flock of gray bat-like creatures that looked like Wildmutts with tentacles instead of legs, "Null Guardians!" Singe gasped, as he readied his sword.
As the Guardians attacked Vilgax and Singe, XLR8 took this time to retreat and ran for it. He ran across the floating rock before coming to an edge, "Time to jump!" XLR8 shifted into Fourarms and made a long jump onto the next floating rock, "I got get away from these jokers." he changed into Stinkfly and flew off.
As Vilgax and Singe fought the Null Guardians, the warlord climbed atop one and sunk his digits into its neck making it screech which caused the others to stand down, "What'd you do?" Singe asked.
"Repsect. I command it even here." Vilgax explained.
"Yeah. Respect is good and all, but what do we do about Lincoln?" the hunter inquired.
"His family will no doubt attempt to rescue him," Vilgax explained, "We must find the boy and extract the Omnitrix from him before that. Otherwise we'll be trapped in here forever."
"Then let's go find our prey." Singe said, as he mounted a Null Guardian.
Back on earth, the Loud sisters were waiting outside the Beast looking worried, until Albert came out armed with blasters and gadgets, "Whoa, Pop-Pop. Love the hardware." Lana marveled.
"I'm going in after Lincoln." Albert explained, as he opened a portal to the Null Void.
"What?!" the girls gasped.
"Pop-pop, you can't!" Luan pleaded.
"No go!" Lily cried.
"I have to. There are more dangers in the Null Void than Lincoln is used to." Albert explained.
"No, what I mean is you're the only that knows how to work all this equipment. No offense, Lisa." Luan apologized to the genius.
"None taken."
"Luan's right," Lori agreed, "Leni, Luna, Lynn, Luan, and I should go."
"And me," Lucy added, while her sisters gave her a confused look, "What? I have powers you know?"
"So what we're being singled out?" Lana asked.
"I'm ok with it." Lola answered, as she took Lily.
"I can't let you do that, girls. It's too dangerous." Albert denied.
"It's our best chance, Pop-pop." Luna pleaded.
"And we have no time for arguing." Leni added.
Lori nodded, "The longer Lincoln's in the Null Void the more vulnerable he is to Vilgax and Singe." Albert thought about this and knew they were right. He knew how to work all his Plumber tech better, and despite how spry he still is, he didn't wanna risk throwing his back out or worse.
Meanwhile in the Null Void, Heatblast was rocketing through the Null Void, as Vilgax and Singe riding Null Guardians along with a few more chased him, "You can't escape us, Loud!" Singe called.
"Watch me." Heatblast answered, as he dropped down and changed into Cannonbolt, before curling up and landed on the ground. He shifted into XLR8 and ran across the ground before reaching the edge. He jumped and changed into Wildvine and extended his vine fingers to grab onto another platform and pulled himself up.
He looked up seeing the Guardians diving right for him, "Whoa! Aerial attack!" he changed into Shocksquatch and tried to attack only for Vilgax's Null Guardian to catch him in his mouth and began flying away with the others in tow.
"Why prolong the inevitable defeat, Loud?" Vilgax inquired.
"The only thing inevitable here is you two losing!" Shocksquatch grabbed the face of the Guardian and shocked it before he switched into Grey Mater and jumped up above Vilgax. The tiny alien changed into Gax who jumped down hard on the warlord sending him and his Guardian falling. Gax seeing Singe on his Guardian was flying for him, quickly shifted into Water Hazard and used his water guns to propel himself at Singe before turning into Grey Matter again.
Grey Matter jumped off Singe's head and ran across the Guardian's tentacle before reaching the end. When he jumped he shifted into Wildmutt and ran across the Guardian behind it before jumping again and shifted into Shocksquatch who fired electrical blasts at several Guardians. He changed into Stinkfly and flew away only for a Guardian to pop up before him. Stinkfly quickly sprayed it with his goo and changed into Heatblast to throw a fireball at the goo causing an explosion and the Guardian crashed.
Heatblast used his fire to rocket around again, while thinking, 'Guys, I hope you have a plan to get me out of here.'
The Loud sisters minus the twins, Lisa, and Lily were suited up in Plumbers uniforms their size, "Like, this gray is so not my style." Leni sighed.
"Style isn't important right now, Leni." Luna reminded her.
"We're going on a mission, remember?" Lori added.
"I know."
Lynn strapped a watch on her wrist, as Albert spoke, "That watch is a homing beacon. As soon as you girls find Lincoln, you can use it to lead yourselves back to the portal."
"How long do we have?" Luan asked.
"We can only keep the portal open for ten minutes or so before it overloads." Lisa explained.
Albert motioned to a gauge on Lynn's watch, "When this gauge hits the red zone, you have to get yourselves back through the portal. No matter what." he handed them each a blaster.
"What're these for?" Leni asked.
"Anything that isn't your brother." Albert answered.
The girls nodded, as they stepped through the portal. When they came onto the other side they began falling before their rocket packs activated and they flew around, "Dudes, check it out." Luna gasped, as they looked around the Null Void.
"It's so big and empty." Leni gasped.
"I know. It's glorious." Lucy marveled.
"Someone should really call a decorator." Luan joked.
Lori spoke into a communicator to talk to Albert, "This place looks like it goes on forever."
"It does," Albert's voice came back, "Be extremely careful now. You never know what you may find there."
Lynn looked and gasped, "I think something just found us." the girls looked and saw multiple little blue beasts with circular mouths full of sharp teeth.
The creatures jumped onto the girls who screamed in fright, "Girls, what's happening?" Albert asked.
"We're under attack by things that're small, fast, and really annoying!" Leni cried. The girls began shooting at the creatures.
"Havok beasts!" Albert gasped, "Keep them away from your rocket packs. They'll chew right through them!"
The girls saw the creatures already started chewing at their packs, "Too late for that!" Lori cried.
"Hold still!" Lucy ordered, as she muttered an incantation, and the creatures suddenly became petrified and fell right off the girls.
"Good one, Luce!" Lynn cheered her on.
"Let's go find our brother." Lucy said, as the girls flew off.
As Albert and Lisa were keeping an eye on the portal, the projector started sparking which made the portal glitch, "What's going on?" Lola asked in concern.
"The projector's going haywire!" Lisa tried to keep it stable.
Albert spoke to the girls, "Girls, we don't know how long we can keep the portal open. You have get out of there now!"
"No chance, Pop-pop." Lynn answered.
"Yeah. We're not leaving without Lincoln!" Luna added.
Leni sniffed the air, "Lori? Are you starting to wear aftershave?"
"Excuse me?" Lori asked while feeling insulted.
"It's just something smells." Leni said.
"Well, it's not me." Lori assured.
"Wait a minute, that smell reminds me of..." Luan was cut off, as the girls were snatched up by something.
The girls looked and saw they were in the arms of Stinkfly, "Girls? I'm so glad to see you!" he held them close.
"Good to see you too, bro." Luna answered, as they hugged the bug.
"The portal!" Lynn gasped, "We have to get back to it before it closes."
"Hang on!" Stinkfly called.
"To what?" Leni asked, as Stinkfly flew them back the way they came before seeing something bright up ahead.
"It's the portal!" Lori cheered.
"We're gonna make it!" Luan cheered.
Before they could get there, Singe swooped in on his Null Guardian and snatched the sisters from Stinkfly, "Dang it!" Stinkfly cursed.
"Not going without your sisters, are you?" Singe asked, as he grabbed the blasters from the girls and crushed them.
Stinkfly growled, before changing into Diamondhead and landed on a floating rock, "Let them go, Singe! Or I'll..."
"Or you'll what?" Came Vilgax's voice, as Lincoln saw Vilgax arrive on his Guardian, "You are in no position to make threats to any of us, Loud."
Diamondhead looked up at his sisters and his enemies, before coming to a decision. He changed back into Lincoln and spoke, "Let my sisters go, and you can have the stupid Omnitrix!"
"Lincoln, don't!" Luna called.
"That's just what he wants!" Lucy warned him.
"I'm making you a deal, Vilgax. My sisters for the watch!" Lincoln called out.
The two villains touched down on the platform, and approached Lincoln. Each one was unaware, he was doing something with the Omnitrix behind his back. When Vilgax and Singe stood before Lincoln, Vilgax took his arm with his claw, while Singe tossed the girls aside. The hunter pinned Lincoln down and stuck the containment unit device over the watch. The device activated and tried pulling the Omnitrix off. The watch emitted feedback which pushed Singe back, but he used the containment unit on Lincoln again.
The silhouette's of all Lincoln's aliens kept switching in the dial, as Lincoln screamed in pain. The Omnitrix slowly peeled off his wrist before being contained in an orb on the device, "Ok, that felt more painful than pulling off a hundred band-aids all at once." Lincoln groaned.
Singe took the orb and brought it to Vilgax, as Lincoln called out in a smug tone, "Ha! I already zeroed it out. Good luck trying to figure out the master control code."
"Hacking the control combination is child's play to a master of the Omnitrix." Vilgax retorted.
"Oh. I didn't think about that." Lincoln said sheepishly.
"Whoever said you were going to use it?" Singe asked Vilgax before hopping onto his Guardian and flew off.
"No!" Vilgax mounted his Guardian and went after him, "What're you doing? We had an arrangement!"
"I figured what better fate than to have you and Loud stuck here for life, while I use the power of the Omnitrix to become the greatest hunter in the universe." Singe called to him.
"You dare betray me, Singe?!" Vilgax bellowed.
"I've always been two faced." the hunter laughed.
Lincoln watched helplessly, as the two villains left. Suddenly his sisters flew by on their rockets, "Lincoln, grab on!" Luna offered her hand.
Lincoln grabbed onto Luna's hand, as the siblings flew for the portal behind Vilgax and Singe, "We can't let them go through the portal." Lynn ordered.
Lisa and Albert continued to try and stabilize the portal, but it looked ready to collapse, "Girls, get out of there now!" Albert ordered.
Vilgax made a jump from his Guardian and tackled Singe off his. The two grappled, as Vilgax spoke, "No one betrays Vilgax. Nobody!"
Lori swooped in and snatched the orb containing the watch, "Got it!"
"Let's go!" Lincoln called, as they headed for the portal, only to once again be blocked off by Vilgax and Singe on the Guardians.
"Go where?" Vilgax asked, "Back to your miserable dimension? First give me the Omnitrix." he extended his hand.
"Lori, give it to him." Lincoln ordered.
"But your powers." Lori noted.
"They're nowhere near as important as us getting home. Do it!"
Lori nodded and called to the villain, "You want it? Go get it!" she chucked the orb into the void, as Vilgax flew after it.
Singe on the other hand still wanted a piece of Lincoln, and Lincoln knew this too well. He let go of Luna's hand and landed on a surface, "Lincoln, what're you doing?" the rocker asked in confusion.
"You girls go on ahead, I'll be right behind you!"
"Lincoln." Leni said in worry.
"I know what I'm doing. Go!" The girls reluctantly flew past Singe and went through the portal. Lincoln called to Singe, "You want me? Come and get me!" Singe flew forward and tried to grab Lincoln, but the man with the plan jumped over Singe and climbed onto another surface before jumping through the portal that closed before Singe could grab him.
"No!" Singe bellowed.
Back in the real world, Lincoln came out of the portal before it collapsed. He found himself embraced by Albert and his sisters, "Lincoln! Girls! I was so worried about all of you."
"We thought you weren't coming back." Lola said in worry.
"It's good to see you're all right." Lisa said in relief.
"Well, not completely all right." Lincoln showed them his wrist.
"Lincoln, where's the Omnitrix?" Lana asked in confusion.
Lincoln sighed, "In the Null Void with Vilgax."
"Oh Linky. It's okay." Leni comforted him.
"We know how much the Omnitrix meant to you." Lori admitted.
Lincoln spoke, "That watch made me feel... I don't know. Special. I just wanted to protect Royal Woods. Be a Hero. But now that's all gone."
"Lincoln, it wasn't the Omnitrix that made you special. It was you." Luan comforted him.
"Yeah. Even if you're not as strong or competitive as me..." Lynn added, as Luna nudged her shoulder.
"That's not helping, dude!"
"Oh, right. The point is, you are special with or without the Omnitrix."
Lucy nodded, "She's right, Lincoln. You are special."
Lincoln smiled at his sisters, "Thanks, girls. I really appreciate it."
"But if you're still feeling incomplete without the Omnitrix, then here. An early birthday present." Lori held out a familiar pod.
Lincoln's eyes widened like saucers, "No way! But I saw you throw it away."
"You think we would literally throw the Omnitrix away?" Lori asked rhetorically.
"No, bro. That watch is rockin!" Luna answered.
"So what did you throw away?" Lincoln asked in confusion.
Back in the Null Void, Vilgax had finally caught the pod, "The Omnitrix is mine!" he suddenly heard a beeping sound coming from the pod. He looked at it and gasped, "A bomb!" the explosive exploded in Vilgax's face leaving him covered in scratches and burns, "NO!" he shouted, as Singe came down on his Guardian.
"Nice one, Squid head! You screwed this up for both of us!" suddenly a roaring sound was heard, and the two looked down seeing a giant alien worm coming up looking ready to eat them.
The two made it out of its way before getting separated. Singe landed on another surface, "Well, at least things can't get any worse," he suddenly saw a huge shadow cast over him. He looked up seeing a giant rock coming right down at him, "Why me!" he cried, before getting crushed under the big rock.
Meanwhile Vilgax had landed on another surface, before pulling out a communicator, "Psyphon! Psyphon, do you copy?"
Psyphon appeared in the communicator's screen but looked glitched, "Psyphon here, my lord. Something's interfering with the signal. Where are you?"
"I have been imprisoned in the Null Void." Vilgax explained bitterly.
"The Null Void?" Psyphon gasped, "My lord, I am terribly sorry about this. If there's anything I can do to help..."
"Silence, you fool!" Vilgax shouted, "Do whatever it takes to get me out of here!"
"Yes, my lord. I will begin searching for a way immediately." Psyphon answered, as he ended the transmission.
Vilgax looked out into the distance of the endless void growling, "One day, Lincoln Loud. I will have your head for this!" he declared.
Back with the Louds, Lincoln opened the orb to reveal the Omnitrix that came down and reconnected with his wrist and unlocked all the aliens he had available, "Oh, yeah! I'm back in business!" he cheered.
"We're still sorry you lost Master Control, Lincoln." Leni apologized.
"Yeah. With that control you could do so much damage." Lynn added.
"Thanks, guys. But I got so caught up in what the Master Control enabled me to do I started losing sight of myself," Lincoln turned to Albert, "You were right, Pop-pop. There was a dangerous consequence to it."
"And yet you still used that ability to the best of its power." Albert replied proudly.
Lincoln looked at the Omnitrix, "Well, I cracked the code once. Maybe one day I'll get it right again. Until that day. I'm just gonna do what I do best. Kicking bad guy butt." he pumped his Omnitrix covered fist up, as his sisters stood proud of him.
(And there you go. Lincoln may have lost the Master Control code, but at least he made it out of the Null Void and trapped Vilgax and Singe there. Though are those two completely gone forever? Only time will tell. See you all later.)