Here it is ladies an gentlemen. The finale to the Disagreements arc. I'm really proud of how this turned out and I think this might be one of my best chapters yet. I won't say anymore, just read and I hope you enjoy.
Currently, Lynn Jr was outside playing basketball by herself in the yard of the Loud House. "5 seconds left in the game…" She monologue as she held the basketball and looked with narrowed eyes at the hoop connected to the top of the garage. "Scores tied, and Lynn Loud has once chance to make the shot and win the game."
A moment of silence passed before Lynn threw the ball at the hoop. Time seemed to slow down for the athlete as she watched the ball fly towards the hoop. It bounced on the rim a bit making Lynn start to sweat from her forehead. She then watched in anticipation as it started to roll around the rim before coming to a stop.
Finally Lynn watched as the ball fell in the right direction and went through the rim before bouncing on the pavement. Lynn shot her arms up in the air before running around in circles in victory.
"She shoots! She scores!" She cheered before doing a victory dance. "Lynner Lynner Chicken Dinner!" After a minute or two of dancing, Lynn picked up her ball and headed inside out of the summer heat.
Taking a second to stop by the fridge, Lynn took out a canned root beer and then proceeded to head upstairs. Once she was up, she took a second to look out what used to be her and Lucy's room and sighed. Shaking her head to get rid of the thoughts, she headed to the room she traded with Lincoln. Hey, her own room, she can't complain much.
Opening the door to the linen closet turned room, she kicked the basketball under the bed as she took a look around. It wasn't bad. She could fit all her sports stuff under her bed or hang it on the wall as well as the few posters she had. And the drawer fit all her cloths. It's not much but hey, neither was the one she shared with Lucy so once again, nothing to complain too much about.
It was kinda lonely though, and quiet,
Deciding she's spent enough time in the room, Lynn closed the door and headed back downstairs while opening up the root beer and started to drink it. But as she was going down the stairs, she saw her Goth sister Lucy coming up the stairs.
Lynn knew things were…shaky between her little sister and brother to say the least right now. She still couldn't quite grip exactly why they were on edge with her. Yeah she may have just looked at Lucy trapped in Vilgax's ship and simply left without trying to do a thing…but what could she have done.
As strong as she admits to being, she can't exactly lift up metal. Granted, she probably could have told everyone what happened, but everything was happening so suddenly and so fast she just couldn't find proper words at the time and everything just simply…happened.
Deciding to take a chance at talking to her, Lynn raised a hand up and said. "Sup Luce."
Lucy continued walking up the stairs and said. "Hey Lynn."
Lynn couldn't help but smile. She actually talked back. No hateful glares, no sort of remark at her expense. Just a simple hi back. She was making progress. Maybe just give it a bit more time and she'd be home free. Just act like nothing has happened.
Going back down to the living room, Lynn looked around to see if anyone was around and saw that the TV was completely free. Her parents were having a date night and while Lori was in charge, as of recently she wasn't nearly as bossy as before. Granted she still had her rules but not nearly to the extent of military officer Lori, just enough to keep everyone in line without going overboard.
For Leni, Lynn remembers her laying down to take a nap. Luna was on a date with that Sam guy, Luan was in her and Luna's room, the twins were out with the bluebell scouts today and Lisa was currently ground from doing any sort of experiments after the incident 2 days ago so she's probably just reading or something and Lily was just doing baby things.
As for Lincoln, he was most likely either doing hero stuff, or hanging out with Wendy…or both.
Deciding just to kick back and relaxing, Lynn took another sip of her root beer and hopped onto the couch and quickly turned on the TV before kicking her feet up onto the table and relaxing.
Around an hour later, Lynn was still watching TV but turned to the door when she heard the knob turning. Turning to the door, she watched it open and saw Wendy coming in and giving a very familiar white haired boy a piggy back ride.
"Uuuuh, Wendy? What are you doing with Lincoln there?" Lynn asked as she watched Wendy close the door with her feet before turning to Lynn with her usual smile.
"Oh, he was just tired and I'm currently giving him a hand." She answered sweetly as Lincoln simply groaned, making the Japanese girl giggle. "He was rather busy with hero stuff today."
"Reeeest…" Lincoln managed to groan out as Wendy proceeded to hold him bridal style before walking over to the couch and sitting him down next to Lynn.'
"He had to take care of three incidents today almost simultaneously. It really took it out of him." Wendy explain as she patted his head as Lincoln sighed in content and sunk into the couches cushions.
"Just one day…" Lincoln groaned as he looked up at the ceiling. "Is it really all too demanding to ask for one day with no villains? No need to go hero? Just a simple normal summer day where I can just sit back, and relax with my friends like every other kid in the world?" Lincoln complained as Wendy saw next to him on the arm of the chair.
However what the two heard then was a scoff and they turned to see Lynn simply looking at the TV. "Dude, stop complaining, it was you who got into the hero business so come one, stop complaining and shape up like a champ!" She finished by standing on the couch and pumping up her muscles.
While Wendy simply stared awkwardly at her, Lincoln frowned and scoffed at her. "Like you could do any better."
Lynn rolled her eyes and laid back on the couch and crossed her arms behind her head and smiled confidently. "Come on, I could totally do better. I was learning how to fight way before you got that watch. I could take down bad guy's way faster than you."
Lincoln in turn rolled his eyes and didn't even bother looking at Lynn. "There's more to it than just beating up bad guys you know."
Lynn simply blew a raspberry and tilted her head towards Lincoln. "Like what?"
It was then that Lincoln sat up as Wendy decided to stand up and back away, leaving this discussion to them. "Um, how about saving people? Easing down the situation to keep things calm and people safe. There's plenty of times where being a hero isn't just beating up villains. It's very stressful and you gotta have the right mind for it."
"Pfft, how hard can it be?" Lynn said confidently.
It was then that Lincoln had enough and stood up and walked in front of the TV and glared at Lynn. "Lynn! Being a hero is very stressful. I hardly get any free time now-a-days, and I deal with plenty of intense stuff. Remember Vilgax and Lucy?"
Wendy rose an eyebrow at hearing this while Lynn glared back at her brother. Lincoln's told Wendy about Vilgax, but what happened to Lucy? He explained how she used to have bangs that covered her eyes and this Vilgax guy cut them off, but was their more to it than that?
"Well it's not like I could have done anything to save her!" Lynn yelled back as she stood up, while Lincoln remained unfazed. "Besides Mr. Hero, without that watch you wouldn't be anything!"
Lincoln narrowed his eyes at Lynn before speaking. "You really think that's all there is to it?" Lincoln asked in a quiet tone as Lynn crossed her arms and rose an eyebrow. "Being a hero isn't about the power you have, it's the how you go about it."
"And what are you trying to say?" Lynn asked through her teeth.
Lincoln decided to be as blunt as possible. "Lynn, you're competitive, egotistical, and sometimes even selfish. Those aren't good traits for a hero, you'd probably end up showing the world who you are just for try and gain fortune and fame."
"And what's so bad about fortune and fame?!" Lynn yelled back as she through her hands in the air. "I would be totally awesome yet you insist on going through more trouble to keep everything a secret when you could be the most famous person in the world."
"Two reasons." Lincoln stated while holding up two fingers. "1, heroes do things without expecting anything in return, saving and helping people is what truly matters. 2, If I were to become famous, everyone would also know about my family, including my enemies, meaning they could come after you. So excuse me for trying to keep you safe!"
Lynn simply crossed her arms and let out a 'pfft' in response. "I can take care of myself just fine." It was then that Lynn gave a confident smirk as she leaned forward and looked Lincoln dead in the eyes. "How about we take this outside. No aliens. Just one on one. Then we'll see who's really the boss."
Lincoln was silent for a moment after hearing Lynn's challenge. Wendy got worried as he saw Lincoln close his eyes and look down, seemingly in thought. However, she watched as Lincoln looked back up at Lynn and gave a simple. "No."
Lynn's eyes widened as she then glared at her brother and growled a, "What?"
Lincoln then started to walk away, but kept on talking. "Lynn, over all the years you pushed me around with your superior strength, forcing me to go to your events like that baseball game early in the summer, or making me your punching bag, I learned on thing. Standing up for myself. And that's what I'm doing. No aliens, I won't fight you Lynn, I don't care what you do. And plus, beating you in a fight what prove anything."
"And why's that?!" Lynn yelled back.
It was then Lincoln stopped and turned his head to glare at Lynn right in the eye with a look that actually made the athlete flinch. "Because, you're not worth it. You never were."
And with that said, Lincoln walked up the stairs, out of the room. Wendy looked nervously between Lincoln and Lynn before giving the latter an awkward smile and following the former up the stairs.
After both white heads left, Lynn breathed heavily through her nose and tighten her fist to the point where the color was disappearing from them. "Not worth it…" She said quietly before…
"WHAT DOES HE MEAN NOT WORTH IT?!" She screamed in fury as her body practically turned red from anger as she started pacing back and forth angrily.
"WHAT DOES HE EVEN KNOW?!" She continued shouting in rage. "HE THINKS JUST BECAUSE HE HAS THAT STUPID THING ON HIS WRIST HE'S A BIG SHOT! WELL IF I HAD THAT WATCH, I COULD SHOW HIM HOW IT'S DONE AND WHO'S NOT WORTH IT!"
It was then that Lynn started to stomp up the stairs and headed to the room of the house's resident genius. Before going in, Lynn took a deep breath and put on her best façade in order to keep her rage hidden from Lisa.
Entering the room with an all too sweet smile, Lynn found Lisa reading War and Peace on her bed and cleared her throat to get her attention. "Yo Lis, what's up?"
Lisa looked up from her book and adjusted her glasses. "Well seeing as how I am forbidden from any kind of experimentation until further notice I am stimulating my mind through the act of classic literature." She explained.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah that's great." Lynn said quickly before looking around the room. "So hey, it just so happens I've been having trouble sleeping lately and I was wondering if you had anything to help with that?"
Lisa hummed for a bit before putting a book mark in the book and closing it and walking to her one of many older sister's. "It just so happens I do, wait here one second." Lisa then walked into her closest and after a while, she came back out holding a jar of substance that resembled salt.
"Here." The child genius said, giving the jar to Lynn. "Just sprinkle a bit on your food during dinner and you should be out like a light. Don't worry, it's tested and acts like salt so you're food should still be good."
"Great! Thanks Lis!" Lynn said as she quickly left the room with the jar in tow.
Later that night, Lynn peaked her head through the doorway that leads into the kitchen and saw her father finishing up making his LynnBurgers for his family. Stepping into the kitchen with the far of sleeping salt behind her back and coughed to get her father's attention.
Lynn Sr looked to his daughter and gave her a smile. "Hey there Jr." He greeted with the wave of the spatula he was holding. "Looking forward to tonight's dinner?"
"You bet dad!" She said rather enthusiastically before looking at all the plates set around the counter for her and her family for dinner. "Hey, I was thinking, why don't I help you set the table tonight?"
Lynn Sr raised an eyebrow at the request at first, but then gave the 13-year-old a smile. "Wow, that's really nice of you, thanks Jr."
"Hey, you know me dad, always helpful." Lynn explained while using one hand to hold two plates up while still keeping the sleeping salt hidden from her father.
Once she was in the dining room, the first thing she did was put the first plate on the table in front of the first chair she passed by. But with the second plate, she headed over to the chair Lincoln sat down at and set in front of his chair.
Taking on look into the kitchen, she saw her dad busy finishing the last burger and singing to himself. Smirking, Lynn then lifted the bun of Lincoln's burger and then proceeded to open up the jar of sleeping salt. Gently, she sprinkled a bit on the burger before quickly putting the bun back on and closing the jar.
Nodding at her handy work, she then hid the jar behind the potted plant in the corner of the dining room. She then went back into the kitchen to finish setting up everyone's food as to not seem suspicious in any kind of way.
Later everyone was sitting together for dinner. Lynn pretty much kept to herself the whole time and let everyone have their conversations. Just in the middle of dinner, a car honk was heard outside and Lucy proceeded to get up from her chair.
"I'll have to be excused, I'm going over Haiku's for a sleep over." Lucy told everyone as the rest of her family waved her goodbye.
"Of course," Rita reassured with a smile. "Have fun sweetie."
Lucy waved everyone goodbye as she stepped out the door to head out before Lynn Sr said something. "Don't forget to be ready at Noon tomorrow. Remember, you're all going to the swamp to watch the turtles hatch." He explained which made Lola groan and Lana raise her arms up and cheer.
Lucy nodded with a thumbs up before finally heading out the door to go hang out with her fellow Goth friend.
Meanwhile Lynn smirked as she watched her little sister left the house. Good, she overheard Lucy calling Haiku and agreeing to go over her house earlier, so this was completely perfect. All she had to do was wait for the sleeping salt to kick in on Lincoln's food.
About 15 minutes later, everyone was just about finished with their food, it was then that Lincoln let out a very audible yawn that made Lynn smirk as she drifted one eye to look over at her brother who was starting to look incredibly drowsy.
"You alright Lincoln?" Lori and Leni asked in unison as they saw and heard the yawn Lincoln let out.
"Yeah, yeah, just…feeling tired right now." Lincoln explained tiredly as he rubbed his eyes and yawned again.
"Well you have been working really hard with the hero stuff lately, maybe you just need a break." Rita suggested with a nod from Lynn Sr.
"Yeah sport, you gotta learn to take it easy every once in a while. Why don't you get some sleep and tomorrow we'll all have a good relaxing day at the swamp." His father suggested.
Lincoln nodded tiredly with a small smile. "Yeah, you're probably right." It was then that Lincoln got up from his chair and waved to everyone. "Good night everyone."
"Good night Lincoln." The rest of his family said as he groggily head upstairs to get some sleep and hopefully get rid of this sudden drowsiness.
Lynn smirked to herself as she watched her brother head upstairs. It was then that she did up and stretched while letting out a fake yawn. "Yeah, I'm feeling a little pooped to. See you all tomorrow." Lynn waved off and heading upstairs, not giving anyone a chance to speak.
THAT NIGHT
3 in the morning. It was at that time Lynn decided to go about her plan. Getting up from her bed, Lynn opened on of the top drawer's on the dresser and took out a screwdriver.
Opening the door a bit, she peeked out to make sure none of her sibling were still up. Sure enough, the coast was clear. Opening the door more, Lynn quickly tiptoed to Lincoln and Lucy's room. She then opened the door quietly and peaked in that room. She saw Lincoln sleeping heavily on his bed and looked to the other side to see Lucy's bed vacant, just as she thought.
Quietly entering the room, Lynn then tiptoed over to her sleeping brother. Gripping the screwdriver tightly, Lynn gently took his wrist with the Omnitrix on it and proceeded to stick the screwdriver under the faceplate of the watch and wriggled it around.
"Come on, get off that stupid wrist already." Lynn mumbled as she kept wriggling the screwdriver underneath the faceplate.
However just then, Lynn watched as she managed to pry the faceplate completely off the Omnitrix and watched as it flipped into the air before landing out in the middle of the room.
Lynn started to sweat nervously as she watched both the face plate and Omnitrix emanated green electricity. She flinched as she watched Lincoln's face start to scrunch up as if he was about to wake up. However, she breathed a sigh of relief as Lincoln's face went back to breathing slowly in slumber.
Lynn quickly picked up the faceplate of the Omnitrix as she bit her nails. "Shit, shit, shit, shit!" She cursed silently as she looked around for something to attach it back together.
However then she saw the desk next to Lincoln's bed and saw some glue on it. "Gotta fix this, gotta fix this!" She muttered as she sped walked over to the desk and picked up the glue.
Turning the faceplate upside down, she then spread the glue around the rim of the detached part. Once the glue was applied, Lynn walked back over to where Lincoln's wrist was and quickly put the faceplate back where it belong. Lynn backed up a bit and breathed a sigh of relief as the face plate stuck, and Lincoln was still fast asleep.
"I gotta get outta here." Lynn whispered to herself as she left the room to go back to her own and falling asleep and pretend nothing just happened.
THE NEXT DAY
"Oh, this is gonna be so cool!" Lana said happily as she bounced up and down in her seat.
She's been looking forward to this all summer. Turtle day at the Royal Woods swamp. There would be all sorts of stuff there. Mud, fellow reptile lovers, games, themed food, and of course, getting to watch baby turtles hatch and take their first step into the water.
And currently her entire family and Wendy were only a few minutes away from their destination.
Meanwhile Lynn was nervously looking between the front of her and the Omnitrix on Lincoln's wrist. So far it still had the face plate on and Lincoln didn't report anything about the Omnitrix not working or working weird. So maybe it was just a dream? Yeah. A dream. Nothing actually happened and the Omnitrix wasn't going to have any problems with it.
"I've never been to a swamp before." Wendy said, which broke Lynn from her train of thought. "What's it like?"
"Ugh, it's muddy, wet and smells disgusting." Lola stated as she crossed her arms and frowned. If there was one person in the van who wasn't looking forward to this trip, it was her.
Lana scowled at her twin before stepping in. "Don't listen to her Wendy. Swamps are awesome. They have all sorts of cool animals and plants, and at Turtle-fest, there's gonna be a bunch of turtle themed stuff and we'll actually get to see baby snapping turtles hatch!" She explained happily.
Wendy put a finger to her chin in thought. "That does sound exciting." She said before looking forward with her usual smile. "I guess I'll see for myself."
"Swamps are alright." Lucy stated. "I enjoy the foggy environment."
"Baby turtles would be cute to see." Leni said with a slightly excited smile.
"Yeah, it sure sounds snappy, get it?" Luan punned, earning a groan from everyone but her dad.
"Alright gang, we're here!" Lynn Sr announced as he stopped the van.
"Let's get to it dudes." Luna said as she and everyone else left the van.
Once getting outside, most of the family were surprised to say the least. All around there were people wearing some form of turtle merchandise where it was a hat shaped like a turtle or a simple turtle t-shirt.
"Wow, there are literally more turtle fans then I thought there were." Lori said in surprise as Lana crossed her arms.
"Told ya." She said in a smug tone.
"Goo-goo!" Lily said from her mother's hands as a women with a turtle hat walked by them.
"It appears the Chelydra Serpentina's popularity is more than meets the eye." Lisa stated as she looked around at all the people that were at the swamp. "Although most appear to hillbillies."
"Well I gotta say I'm looking forward to a day full of fun." Lincoln stated as he stretched out and took a deep breath through his nose and sighed happily. "This is just what I need."
"That's the spirit Lincoln." Lana said enthusiastically before grabbing her brother's wrist. "Now come on, hurry up, we gotta hurry or we'll miss the turtle's hatching!"
Everyone simply chuckled as they walked after the two with Lola in the back crossing her arms and scowling. "Let's just get today over with." She mumbled.
After walking through turtle-fest, the Loud family and Wendy made it to the area where most of the people were crowded around and somehow managed to get to the front were some areas were marked by a wilderness protection group as 'Turtle Egg Area.'
"So, where are the eggs?" Lori asked as she looked around the area.
"Underground." Lana stated as she watched the area excitedly. "Turtles bury their eggs underground to keep them safe.
"Dudes, something's happening!" Luna pointed out as she the dirt start to move.
Lana and the rest of the crowd let out an excited gasp as they saw that, indeed, the ground around the area was started to shift. And just then, they saw baby snapping turtles emerge from the ground.
Everyone in the crowd aaww'd at the sight as they watched the babies start to waddles over towards the water to start their life.
"There so cute!" Lola squealed as she watched the babies emerge. Just then she heard someone next to her clear their throat and looked to see Lana looking at her smugly with her arms cross. Lola then adverted her gaze and crossed her arms herself. "I mean, their alright."
However just then the crowd's eyes widen as they actually saw some of the turtles that had headed into the water comeback and start to hide in the tall grass.
Wendy rose and eyebrow and turned to the Loud family. "Uuuuh, is that supposed to happen?" She asked with uncertainty.
"No. No somethings wrong." Lincoln said as he looked around cautiously.
"Something's scarring them!" Lana said angrily as she started looking around for who or whatever cause the babies to be scarred.
"Uh…dudes…" Luna said nervously making everyone turn to her. "I think they are running from that!"
Just then everyone in the crowd looked forward and saw the water started to rapidly ripple and something big starting to come out of it. Suddenly a giant mutated frog like creature croaked and jumped out of the water.
The crowd started to runaway screaming as the giant frog hopped around the area, creating small earthquakes. The Louds were watching with gaped mouths as Wendy turned to them. "What the heck is that thing?!" She screamed.
"I know that frog." Leni said as she glared as the giant amphibian.
"Yeah, that's Animo's frog!" Lincoln instantly realized.
"Great, that psycho dude got out of jail again." Luna pointed out.
"Well that sure has me feeling froggy! Hahaha, get it?" Luan punned.
"Not the time Luan." Rita pointed out.
Just then, the giant frog noticed the family and shot its tongue out at them, causing them to jump and dodge. "Kids! Come with me!" Rita yelled as she held onto Lily tightly with a majority of the family following the mother with Leni, Wendy, both Lynn Sr and Jr, and Lincoln staying behind.
But as Lincoln got up from rolling out of the way, he failed to notice the faceplate of the Omnitrix dethatching from the rest of the watch and falling onto the ground. As Lincoln back up from the giant frog to form a plan, he felt like someone was behind and turned around to face…
"Dr. Animo…" Lincoln growled as he glared at the green skinned evil scientist who was now wearing mechanical arms that resembled a gorilla's as well as his usual animal mutating and controlling machine.
"Lincoln Loud." Animo growled back. "My most hated adversary."
"Got out of jail again I see." Lincoln retorted as the two started circling each other. "Keeping up with your hobby of freaking-a-fying animals."
"Mock me now, but I promise this will be the day I defeat you!" Animo retorted as he tried to punch Lincoln, but the 11-year-old was able to dodge to the side.
"Ok, 1, way to cliché, 2, if I had a nickel for every time a bad guy said that, I'd be the richest man on earth." Lioncoln quipped while dodging another punch.
"I will not be denied my place in history!" Animo yelled before turning to his giant frog. "Destroy him!"
The frog immediately followed its master orders and hopped over to Lincoln, causing the white haired boy to start running from it. Lincoln then turned to the others that stayed while avoiding the frog. "I'll handle the frog! You guys get Animo!"
"Right!" Wendy and Leni responded as Lynn Sr nodded and Lynn Jr just watched everyone thing happen while standing next to her dad. Suddenly Wendy reached into her pocket and pulled out a familiar metal rod. Pressing a button on the rod, it then shifted into the metal hammer Wendy took from the Forever Knights.
"You brought that with you?" Lynn Sr asked with his brow raised.
"Never know when you might need it with this family?" Wendy said with a playful smile to which everyone nodded.
"True." Lynn Jr agreed.
Wendy then charged at Animo while getting her hammer ready to swing. When she reached the mad scientist, she swung her hammer with power and speed and although Animo, thanks to his gear, was able to catch it, he found himself struggling with the 11-year-old girls surprising strength.
"What the?!" He struggled as he and Wendy both applied force to their respective side as they tried to one-up each other. However Animo soon found a rock thrown at his face, disorienting him and giving Wendy the advantage.
The rock was thrown by Leni and she was quick to pick up another and was ready to throw that one. "You're, like, so going down!" She yelled as she threw the rock at Animo's torso. This gave Wendy the opportunity to pull her hammer back and swing it at Animo's face and send the scientist flying a few feet.
Back with Lincoln, he managed to back flipped away as the frog shot its tongue at Lincoln. Lincoln, having enough of just dodging, activated the Omnitrix without looking down at it. "Alright froggy, time to send you back to the pond." Lincoln said as he slammed down on the Omnitrix and was covered in a green flash.
The others heard the flash and turn to Lincoln was he finished transforming…only to have their faces turn to one of confusion.
"Uh…Lincoln…" Leni said unsurely at the sight in front of her.
"You're…You're…" Lynn Sr tried to make out.
"NR…Fibian?" Wendy said with a tilted head.
Sure enough, Lincoln had turned into what looked like what would happen if AmpFibian had put on an NRG suit as the body shape resembled AmpFibian with having the main body with tentacles attached the bottom segment, only for every part of the body to be covered in dark teal-green armor.
Meanwhile, Lynn Jr looked to the Omnitrix symbol, and her body froze when she noticed one detail. No Faceplate. "Oh no…oh no, oh no, oh no." Lynn Jr mutter extremely nervously.
Meanwhile Lincoln, or Nr-Fibian, looked over himself with extremely confusion. "What the heck is this? Some weird fusion thing?" He question as he looked over his armored covered tentacles. "Ra'ad, you know what this is?"
…
No response.
"Hello? Lincoln to Ra'ad?"
…
Still no response.
"Oooook, not responding to me for some reason." Nr-Fibian couldn't help but feel a little…weird. Not just because of the strange transformation, but also because of Ra'ad not talking to him. He's gotten kinda used to having the Amperi talk to him from his head and it felt kinda…loney without him.
Shaking his head, the alien fusion got his bearing at stared down the giant frog in front of him. "Ok, worry about that later, time to see what this…thing can do." NR-Fibian told himself as he got ready for action and charged at the mutant frog...at a kinda slow speed.
The frog was easily able to jump outta the way of the alien fusion and land on top of said alien making the hero groan. "Ok…" NR-Fibian said with his voiced muffled. "Not fast…so let's try this!"
Suddenly orange electricity sparked out from under the frog making it croak in pain as it was sent flying into the air and landed on its back away from NR-Fibian.
However the fusion wasn't doing too well itself as he screamed in pain as it released electricity before finally stopping with his body smoking. "Ok…using electricity while covered in metal armor…not the smartest idea."
Meanwhile Animo groaned as he started to get up. As he rubbed his head, he felt a glow next to him and saw none other than the face plate of the Omnitrix radiating with green energy. Animo watched as a tiny crab crawled onto the faceplate, only to sudden be covered with the green energy and grow wings similar to Big Chill and eyes of said alien as well.
Grinning like a mad man, Animo picked up the face plate and inspected it. "Fascinating." The mad scientist muttered before putting it in his pocket.
Meanwhile NR-Fibian was struggling to fight the giant frog. He was having a hard time dodging its attacks due to his slow movement speed, and every time he tried to attack it with his electricity, he would get zapped as well.
As NR-Fibian was panting, he suddenly heard a whistle and everyone looked to see it was Animo. The frog stopped its assault and hopped in front of his master as Animo jumped on. "Let's go!" Animo said while pointing.
Everyone then watched as the frog with Animo in tow hopped into the swamp. NR-Fibian didn't have a chance to attempt a chase as in a flash of red light, he turned back to human.
Everyone quickly called out his name as they ran up to him. "Linky?! Are yo alright?!" Leni asked with worry as she helped him and up and inspected his body for injuries.
Meanwhile Lynn Jr hid behind her father as she tried to be as invisible as possible at that moment.
Meanwhile Wendy turned her hammer back into the small rod and put it in her pocket as she looked to Lincoln with concerned eyes. "You alright?" She asked.
Lincoln gave a thumbs up and a nod. "I think so, glad it's over though." He said with everyone nodding in agreement.
"So son, why the heck did you turn into a weird alien fusion thing?" Lynn Sr asked as he tried to think of the right words to call what he just saw.
Before Lincoln could give an answer, they heard the sounds of footsteps and saw the rest of the family coming up to them.
"How did it go?" Lola asked.
"Did you take care of Animo?" Lana followed.
"Well, he kinda just ran." Leni said in a confused tone, remembering that Animo suddenly just left while he was actually kinda winning.
"What?" Rita asked in worried tone.
"Why would he just up and run?" Luna wondered.
However it was then that Luan looked to Lincoln's wrist and noticed something peculiar. "Hey Linc, what's wrong with the watch?" The comedian said as she pointed to it.
Lynn Jr froze like a statue.
Lincoln rose an eyebrow at first but looked to the Omnitrix and gasp. The faceplate was gone and the main part was radiating green energy. "What the heck happen to the Omnitrix?!"
After a second of silence, everyone suddenly glared at Lisa and crossed their arms. The child genius caught onto this and waved her hands and shook her head in denial. "It wasn't me!" She quickly said. "I haven't performed any sort of experiment, Omnitrix or not, since the last time. Honest."
Everyone believed her. It was VERY obvious to tell when Lisa was lying and she wasn't talking like she usually did when she was so, they were back to square one in figuring things out.
It was then that Lynn Jr couldn't take it anymore. The guilt. The pressure. Her own stupid conscious. It just made her break as she yelled…
"IT WAS ME!"
Everyone was silent for a brief moment before Lincoln glared at Lynn and said slowly. "What…"
"I said it was me ok!" She yelled again as everyone but Lincoln gasp. "I got jealous and tried to use a screwdriver to take it off but I ended up taking the stupid faceplate off and then this happen! Happy now!" She finished explaining.
Lincoln tightened his fist as he took a long breath through his nose, taking all of his self-restraint to not explode on Lynn right then and there. "Lynn…" He said through his incredibly clenched teeth. "Of all the stupid, selfish things for you to do…this has got to be, the worst." He scolded as he was visibly trying to hold in his anger. Lynn didn't respond and simply let the boy vent. "Seriously, and right after Lisa tried to do the exact same thing! And for what? Just to use it for yourself to boost your own already inflated ego. You know, it's moments like these that really justify me sabotaging that baseball game!"
Lynn's eyes widen. Sabotaging her baseball game? He didn't mean…
"What was that?" Lynn growled as she started to piece things together.
"You heard me." Lincoln stated with an unfazed expression. "That Baseball game that would have gotten you into the playoffs. The one you banned me from after you blamed me for being bad luck when you forced me to come to it in the first place! That night you all made me camp outside, I unlocked Ghostfreak and I'm sure you noticed rather strange paranormal things going on in that game."
It was then Lynn pounced on Lincoln full of fury as she tried to punch him but Lincoln managing to dodge every time. "YOU STUPID BAD LUCK JERK!" The athlete yelled as she continued to try and punched her brother but to no success. "THAT WAS THE LAST GAME BEFORE THE PLAYOFFS AND YOU RUINED IT! YOU SCOLDED ME FOR NOT BEING HEROIC WHEN YOU USED YOUR POWERS TO RUIN MY GAME YOU SON A-"
SMACK!
Suddenly, stopping Lynn in her tracks was a strong and audible slap across her face. However the slap didn't come from Lincoln, it was from a very angry Lucy. Lynn brought her hand up to the visible red hand mark on her cheek as Lincoln got up from the ground. "Luce…" Lynn said slowy but flinched when seeing the Goth's expression.
"You. Have. No. Right on saying what a hero is after just leaving me on Vilgax's ship!" The 8-year-old yelled as the rest of the family and Wendy gasped.
"Hold on, what?" Leni asked as the rest of the family watched quietly.
"When I was ended up being trapped on Vilgax's ship, stuck under metal, Lynn just watched me struggle before leaving with everyone else." Lucy explained making all the Loud sisters gasp loudly and glare at Lynn.
"Dude, how could you?" Luna asked, not believing that Lynn could leave her own sister and roommate like that.
"Well what was I supposed to do?!" Lynn yelled back. "I can't exactly lift metal!"
"That's not the point!" Lucy yelled making Lynn flinch. "The way you looked at me. The way you just turned your back and left…" It was then that everyone notice that tears were flowing down Lucy's eyes. "It made me feel like I wasn't even worth saving."
Sniffling, Lucy added one more thing. "You didn't even tell anyone I was left behind."
"I-I-I…I was…I was scared and…didn't know what to say…" Lynn said quietly with her head down.
However Lucy didn't speed and simply buried her head into Lincoln's chest and quietly cried as Lincoln held her close as Lynn simply looked down as guilt started to replace all her anger.
Seeing the tense situation, Wendy spoke up. "Look, everyone." She said, getting everyone's attention. "Clearly, everyone has something to talk about and work out. So, why don't we get the faceplate of Lincoln's watch back, try to fix it, and then we can take care of all this."
"Agreed." Rita instantly agreed. Wanting to end this moment for her family and work things out more peacefully and in a better place than a swamp. "Did anyone see where it went?"
Everyone muttered before looking around for where it could have landed. As Leni was looking in a particular spot, she suddenly remembering Animo's sudden retreating and her eyes widened in horror at what she pieces together.
"Guys…" Leni said getting everyone's attention. "I think I know where…or who has it…"
DEEPER IN THE SWAMP
Currently, most of the Loud family and Wendy were now on a swamp boat, looking for where Animo is hiding. The only ones not there were Lynn Sr and Lily since Rita decided it was too dangerous to bring her along and Lynn Sr offered to take Lily back home and come back to get everyone when they took care of everything.
"You see anything Lana?" Luna asked while looking through the left area with binoculars.
"Nope." The tomboy answered while looking through the right area. Lana then took her binoculars off and turned to Lisa, who was looking at her phone. "Lisa are you sure we are heading the right way."
"Positive." Lisa answered. "During the 60's astronomers build an observatory her to observe the stars due to the clear skies that this area usually has. But it was shut down in the 80's for unknown reasons. If Animo is anywhere in this swamp, it's there and if I entered these coordinates right, we should be there in no time."
"Good, because I've spent more time in the swamp then I've wanted to today." Lola said as sat down next to Lori who was eyeing the back of the boat just in case anything tried to ambush them.
"Yeah, and if a guy like Animo is able to use that piece to access all that alien DNA…I don't even wanna think what could happen." Leni said, horrified of the many things the mad scientist could do with even a fraction of the watches power.
"Let's not focus on that." Wendy said, trying to lift everyone morals. "Let's just focus on getting the piece back."
Everyone nodding in agreement to that. It was then that Lynn looked to Lucy and saw that she was still giving her the cold shoulder. Sighing, Lynn simply looked out the boat.
SCREEEEEEECH!
Everyone flinched at the loud high pitched noise. "You all hear that?" Rita said nervously as everyone else nodded slowly.
Looking into the sky, everyone saw a silhouette of a large creature through the fog. It then started to get bigger as it got closer until it was close enough that everyone saw what it was. It was a giant bat-like creature covered in red-coals that were constantly on fire. It was like Heat blast had mixed with a bat.
"It's Heat-bat!" Luan screamed as the Heat-Bat screeched at them again.
"Really Luan?!" Lori yelled. "Literally not the time!"
"I actually wasn't trying to make a pun, but yeah that was a wasted opportunity." Luan realized while ducking for cover."
"Everyone hold on!" Rita yelled as she pulled the lever on the boat and sped it up with the Heat-Bat chasing after them.
It was then that the bat shot a stream of fire out of its mouth making everyone duck to dodge it. "I guess this answers the question of Animo being able to unlock the power of the watch!" Leni yelled as he avoided being fried.
"Everyone hold on!" Rita yelled as she continued to make sharp turns with the boat to dodge the Heat-Bats fire blast.
It was then Lincoln sat up and glared at the Heat-Bat and activated the Omnitrix. "I've had enough of this stupid bat!" He growled as everyone turned to him.
"Uh Lincoln, maybe the best idea." Lori said in a concerned tone.
"Yeah, who knows what you'll turn into." Wendy added.
However then the Heat-Bat shot out a stream of fire right above the boat making everyone duck for cover. "Uuuh, I don't think we got a lot of options dude." Luna said with everyone gulping and hesitantly nodding.
Lincoln then rose his hand up, ready to slam it down. "Give me something good." He begged as he slammed it down and was covered in a green flash.
When the flash died down, everyone looked to see an alien that looked like Pesky Dust, but with Big Chill wings that were half the size of the actual Big Chill, as well as Big Chill eyes and antenna and ice chunks covering his arms and legs.
"Huh, snow fairy." Luna pointed out before holding her chin in thought. "That sounds like a good idea for a song."
Meanwhile Pesky Chill let out an irritated purring sound as he stood up. "Great, I'm and ice cold Tinker Bell."
Just then the Heat-Bat screeched again and charge down at the boat and used its feet to grab Pesky Chill by his shoulders making everyone yell out his name in worry.
Meanwhile Pesky Chill was struggling to break free from its grip as he tried to focus on any kind of power this fusion could have. "Come on, come on, please do something." Just then icy blue power powder came out of his wings and started to attach the Heat-Bat.
The Heat-Bat screeched in pain as dust attached to it and started to cool down its flames and slowly covered its body in thin frost. And when some of the dust reached its face, its vision got disoriented as the feeling of drowsiness got to it.
This caused it to drop Lincoln who screamed as he fell down before trying to flap his wings to at least slow his descent. Big wings on a tiny body wasn't the best combination. But thankfully the boat his family was in came under him and Wendy managed to reach up and catch the falling alien fusion.
"Phew, I owe you own, pprrr, Wendy." Pesky Chill said in relief as Wendy gave him a small smile.
"Don't sweat it." She reassured before the Heat-Bats screeching got everyone's attention.
It got over the feeling of drowsiness Pesky Chill gave him before and flared its flames to get rid of the frost its body was covered with.
However Rita narrowed her eyes at the bat as she took the opportunity to sharply turn the boat to the side and slammed the brakes. This cause a large splash of water to cover the Heat-Bat making it screech in pain as its flame were putting out.
With its flames doused, the Heat-Bat retreated as Pesky Chill flashed red and turned back into Lincoln. "It's gotta be retreating to Animo!" Lincoln called out as he turned to his mom. "Follow that bat!"
"Aye aye, son!" Rita said as she drove the boat at full speed after the mutated bat.
After a while of following, the group finally found what they were looking for. A large abandoned observatory that age certainly wasn't kind to as holes were found all over the structure and plenty of swamp flora covering the building.
"Geez, like something outta a slasher flick." Luna pointed as chills went up her spine.
"I know, isn't it beautiful." Lucy pointed out with her usual monotone voice, making everyone stare at her uncomfortably.
After boating around the area for a bit, Rita found a good place to stop the boat and enter the observatory at. Once inside, everyone looked to see a giant device resembling a giant telescope suited up to become a ray gun. "Look like freak-a-mo's been busy." Lana commented.
Just then, the ground started to shake and everyone looked to the intently rippling water below. Suddenly Animo's giant mutant frog jumped out aiming to squish the Louds and Wendy. Luckily everyone was able to react quickly enough and dodge to the side.
"Rude, to come in without knocking, isn't it?" A familiar voice asked as everyone got up.
Everyone looked up to see Dr. Animo himself sitting on the seat of the large device and madly grinning at everyone. Lincoln was quickly to get up and glare at the doctor. "Enough with the crap Animo!" Lincoln yelled. "You have something that belongs to me and I want it back!"
"Ah yes, a very interesting piece of technology." Animo commented, not really bothering with Lincoln's demands. "Its power it potentially limitless. I will utilize its alien DNA to good use."
"And what do you mean by that?" Lori asked as she crossed her arms and shot the doctor her own glare.
"With this telescope, I will be able to transmit by transmodulator signal off a satellite and blanket the planet with its power." Animo explained as everyone has a growing feeling of dread. "And with that, I will have created an entirely new, much more interesting world order!"
"As fascinated as I am with the power of that device." Lisa admitted as she glared at the doctor. "We can't allow you to change the very structure of the world. Everything would go to chaos!"
"Aaaaw," Animo mocked. "But chaos so much more fun than ordinary life."
It was then that Animo turned to the front of his device and entered his arms into the arm holes of the giant mutant ray. "In fact, why don't you all be the first to feel the privilege of this new life and be my first human test subjects."
As Animo started to laugh evilly as the device started to glow green with energy from the Omnitrix part as the mad scientist aimed the ray at the louds. Specifically…Lucy.
Lucy's eyes widened as she saw the beam come directly at her, time seem to slow down for the goth as the beam came closer and closer to her…and then…
"LUCY LOOK OUT!"
Suddenly Lucy was pushed out of the way by none other than Lynn Loud. Lucy turned to see Lynn looking at her with a concern expression right before she was hit with the ray. Everyone looked in horror as Lynn screamed in pain as her body started to morph from the effects of the ray.
When the ray deactivated, everyone gasp as they saw Lynn and become some sort of Big Chill beetle like creature that could only hiss, flap her wings around a little bit, and release audible breaths.
"LYNN!" Leni screamed in horror while the twins held onto each other for any kind of comfort.
"Oh my goodness…" Rita gasped out as she covered her mouth with both of her hands.
"I think I'm gonna be sick dudes…" Luna said as she started to go green.
"Same. I can't even make a joke about this." Luan said in horror while holding her stomach.
Meanwhile Lucy could only stare at the creature Animo turned into. That could have been her. But Lynn…she…she…"She saved me..." Lucy said quietly as her breathing intensified.
Lincoln simply looked on. Eyes widened in horror at the sight of one of his sisters being turned into some mindless mutated alien monster.
However he then heard Animo muttered something about making sure that the test was truly a success. This made Lincoln grit his teeth in rage as he quickly reached for the Omnitrix and activated it.
"You're going alien again?" Wendy questioned as she watched Lincoln hover his hand over the core.
"Yeah, I have to." Lincoln simply said as he slammed down the core.
When the green flash died down, everyone looked to see a being that resembled Ghostfreak. It had Ghost aliens pale orangish-white skin, and chains and shackles over his body and one single green eye with a black pupil. However the difference being that the body was big and bully, even having legs and feet. But one distinguished feature was that it had a beard of long, constantly squirming, black and white tentacles for a beard.
"What the heck is that a combo of?" Lola asked, feeling a little disturbed by the transformation.
"Yeah, I see Ghostfreak but what else?" Lisa asked with curiosity.
However Lucy looked to the fusion and seemed to know what the fusion was. 'Ghostfreak and Loud-Gax.'
Ghost-Gax took a second to look at his palm before clenching it into a fist and looking at everyone. "We don't have time to worry about that!" He yelled at everyone. "We have to stop Animo before he turns the whole world into what he turned Lynn into."
The rest of the group looked to each other before nodding and looking to Lincoln. "So what's the plan?" Lori asked as Ghost-Gax nodded.
"Mom, you and Lucy stay and watch after Lynn." Ghost-Gax instructed to which both Loud girls in question nodded and gather next to the mutated athlete.
"Wendy, think you can handle Batty?" Ghost-Gax asked the Japanese girl.
Wendy then proceeded to pull out the metal rod and shift it into her hammer before nodding. "Consider it done."
"Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lana, Lola, and Lisa. Can I count on you all to handle Froggy?" Ghost-gax asked the group of his sisters.
While Lola flinched a bit at the idea of facing the giant frog, everyone else saluted with determined expression.
Ghost-Gax nodding in approval before glaring at Animo and growling. "Animo's all mine."
Just then Animo shot the ray again, making everyone dodge. Just then the giant frog jump to the left of the group while Heat-Bat flew down to the right. While the frog croaked at everyone, the bat screeched, but was then halted by Wendy swing her hammer full force at the mutated bats face.
The bat looked up and it actually seemed too flinched when it saw Wendy's eyes go from blue to red. "Try picking on someone your own size!" She yelled before swing her hammer at the bats torso, launching it to the upper level of the observatory.
With the frog, Ghost-Gax glared at it as put his hands under the mutant amphibian's body and lifted it up and managed to throw it to the bottom level where the shallow water was. "Keep Froggy busy while I kick Animo's butt!" Ghost-Gax ordered with the group of sisters going down the stairs to keep the frog at bay.
Animo growled as he saw Ghost-Gax narrow his eyes at him. "You're mine Animo! You better change my sister back!" Ghost-Gax yelled as he leaped at Animo.
However, Ghost-Gax found himself jumping a little bit too high then intended and ended up jumping just over Animo and he seemed to take a little while falling down, as if gravity had a lesser effect on him.
"Was that supposed to be a warning shot?" Animo mocked as he turned his ray over to Ghost-Gax.
"Maybe!" Ghost-Gax yelled back as realization of what happened struck him. 'Damn it! Too heavy to fly like this. And it seems I float down instead of slamming, this could be a problem.'
"Well you should have done the job while you could have!" Animo yelled as he fired his ray at Ghost-Gax.
Ghost-Gax put his arms into a defensive position for any kind of shielding from the ray…only for nothing to happen. When the ray hit him, he was unaffected. "Hey, nothing happened." Ghost-Gax said with relief.
"You'll altered state seems to make you immune to the effects of my ray." Animo quickly realized before grinning. "No matter, it's only a matter of time before you change back."
"Not if I stop you first!" Ghost-Gax said as he tried to charge at Animo again, only for Animo to rotate his ray at high speeds and use it to slam Ghost-Gax into the wall. As he got up, the alien fusion rubbed his head before glaring at Animo. "This might be harder than I thought."
With the group of Loud sisters against the frog, they just reached the bottom area as the Frog got up and roared a loud croaking as it looked at the group of girls.
"So, does anyone literally have any ideas?" Lori asked as she saw the Frog get ready to attack.
Lisa hummed as she cupped her chin. "Perhaps if we can render it immobile or disorient it, we can keep it at bay." Lisa suggested as everyone hummed in thought.
It was then that Leni looked at the creatures four giant red eyes. "Girls, I have the perfect plan." She announced as everyone turned to her and saw Leni pull out her phone. "If we use the camera flash on our phones to blind it, we can, like, keeping it from seeing us at all."
"Leni that's…a really good idea." Lola complimented, making Leni smile brightly.
"Yeah, what a bright idea! Get it?" Luan punned, making everyone groan.
"Ok, you all distract it. When it's standing still, just leave everyone to me. Mutant or not, I know how frogs work." Lana told everyone, with them nodding.
"Alright dudes, let's show this froggy dude who's boss!" Luna screamed out, with the others following suite.
The frog croaked loudly as it shot out its tongue at the group leaving them all to run away in different directions.
As the frog tried to eye the spread out girls and attempt to attack, suddenly Luna walked to its side with her phone ready. "Say cheese dude!" She said right before taking a picture with the flash on right at it's face.
The frog roared as the sudden bright light made it instintivly hop out of Luna's reach. While it did hop towards Leni, the cloths maker managed to jump out of the way before aiming her phone at it. "Let me get your good side!" She said before flashing it, making the frog roar again and change direction.
The frog just so happened to land next to Luan who was already ready for it. "Hope you aren't feeling to froggy for a picture! Hahahaha!" She punned right before taking a picture making the frog once again change directions.
It was then that Lola and Lisa got to both side of the frog and proceeded to flash all four of its eyes at once. This caused the loudest roar croak of all as the frog leaped so far ahead, it ended up slamming its head into the wall causing some rubble of wood and stone to fall from above onto its head making it croak in pain.
"Alright! It's my turn!" Lana said as she ran up to the mutant frog and climbed up his back. Before the mutant frog had a chance to recover from the constant flashes and the head injury, it felt its skin around its neck being rubbed rapidly.
This caused it to raise its head up and slammed its hind leg up and down like a dog. Lana simply smirked and kept at it. "Oh, you like that, don't you? Don't you?" She said in a puppy dog voice.
Just then Lana slide down its neck and started scratching its chin. This did it for the frog as it proceeded to roll on its back and go limp.
As Lana dusted her hands off, she turned to her sisters who were watching in amazement.
Except Lola who simply had a deadpanned expression and simply said. "And Lana tamed the giant monster frog because of course she did."
However just then the Heat-Bat came flying down from the ceiling and slammed into the body of the giant frog, leaving both of them unconscious. Just then Wendy jumped up from the body of the knocked out Heat-Bat and smiled at everyone has she held her hammer over her shoulder.
"Woah, how did you handle that thing Wendy?" Luan asked as everyone saw that the Japanese girl was covered head to toe in soot.
"Oh, it was easy. He started listening to me after a few slams to the head." She said casually making everyone wide eyed.
Meanwhile with Lucy, Rita, and the mutated Lynn were staying close together as the fight was going on. Ghost-Gax was having a hard time fighting Animo as his jumps were also off due to his floatiness and weight and the random intangibility wasn't helping much either.
As Lucy simply watched everything go down, she eyed the ray and noticed a hatch on it that was labeled 'Caution' and it seemed to be the right size for her to fit into.
Putting on a determined expression, Lucy got up and started to run to a position where she could jump for it. "Lucy where are you going?!" Rita yelled as she watched her 8-year-old daughter run off.
Still running, Lucy turned her head back to look her mother in the eye and say, "I'm going to save my sister!"
With Animo, he noticed on his computer that the satellite he was aiming at was coming into position. "Ah yes, who says one man can't change the world!" He grinned as he got ready.
Meanwhile Ghost-Gax had to take a knee and started panting. "Geez…this form…has a lot less…stamina then I thought it would…" He said in between breathes.
"Get ready planet earth! Dr Animo is about to make history!" Animo praised himself as he got his machine ready.
"NOOOO!" Ghost-Gax suddenly yelled. Just then his tentacle beard stretched out towards Animo and the scientist found himself being smack across the face with the black and white tentacle beard.
Ghost-Gax eyes widened as his tentacle beard retracted and went back to normal size. However his eyes quickly narrowed as an idea came to his head. "Oh, you are so in trouble now!"
Streching out his beard again, Ghost-Gax used it to start constantly smacking Animo across the face over again. He then used them to restricted Animo while one single tentacle went to Animo's arm and made it move to where Animo started smacking himself in the face. "Why you hitting yourself? Why you hitting yourself? Why you hitting yourself?" the fusion mocked as he then lifted Animo out of his chair to face him.
"Not much you can do with your ray now huh?!" Ghost-Gax roared point blank at Animo.
However he got the unexpected response of Animo of laughing evilly. "What's so funny?!" Ghost-Gax demanded to know.
"I already set it to automatically fire, as soon as the satellite is in place!" He revealed making Ghost-Gax eyes widen. "And there's nothing you can do to stop it!"
Just then the room started shaking and the ray started to raised up and aim up towards the sky as everyone could only watch. "Behold! The start of a new age of evolution!" Animo cackled widely as the ray charged up.
But then…it stopped.
Animo stopped cackling as he watched the ray stop glowing and go back down. "What? My ray! What happened?!"
"Looking for this!"
Everyone looked up to see Lucy holding onto the top of the ray and in her left hand was none other the face plate of the Omnitrix.
"Lucy! You got the piece!" Ghost-Gax said in joy and relief and Lucy gave a small smile and nodded.
"No...No! NOOOOOOO!" Animo yelled as his planned was foiled yet again. Just then Animo heard Ghost-Gax clear his throat and when he turned to face the alien fusion, he was quickly met with a punch to the face that knocked him out cold.
Once Ghost-Gax dropped the mad scientist on the floor, Lucy spoke up again. "So what do we do now? We have to fix Lynn."
Ghost-Gax hummed to himself as he looked to the device Animo was wearing. "I think I have an idea.
A few minutes later, the Loud family, aside from Lincoln and Lucy, and Wendy were group around Lynn as Ghost-Gax was now wearing the machine Animo had over his arms and Lucy was still on the way holding the face plate.
"Alright Lucy, remember, put it on backwards." Ghost-Gax instructed to which Lucy nodded and proceeded to do as she was told.
"Lincoln, are you sure this will work?" Rita asked with intense nervous and worry for her already mutated daughter.
"Can it literally be any worse then what she is now?" Lori asked with a raised brow.
Rita looked to Lynn before taking a deep breath and nodding while saying, "Do it."
"Alright, everyone stand back!" Ghost-Gax told everyone. Just then he charged the ray up and proceeded to fire the beam at Lynn.
Everyone turned away from the bright light, but when it died down, they looked to see Lynn, in her normal human state. "Ugh, my head." Lynn groaned as she stood up. "What happened?"
"LYNN!" Everyone yelled as they put her in a group hug
"Oh, my baby's back to normal!" Rita said with relief.
"Good to see you back dude!" Luna added on.
"Uuuuh, what's going on?" Lynn asked with confusion. Just then her eyes widened as she remembered. She took the mutant beam for Lucy.
Speaking of which, hearing that it worked, Lucy crawled out of the ray again with the faceplate and couldn't help but give a warm smile at seeing her older sister back to normal. It was then she frowned as she turned to Ghost-Gax. "To bad we can't fix you like that."
However, suddenlt the Omnitrix start beeping red and Ghost-Gax quickly thought of something. "Maybe we can! Quick! Toss me the piece."
Lucy didn't know what he was planning, but threw it at him anyway. Ghost-Gax caught and quickly put it over the Omnitrix symbol just as he changed back.
When Lincoln appeared from the red flash, he looked to the Omnitrix and smiled when seeing that the faceplate was securely on. "Alright! It worked!" Lincoln announced making everyone brighten up even more.
However it was then that Lynn got out of the group hug and turned to Lincoln as he and Lucy got up from the ray and looked to everyone. "Look, Lincoln, I can't tell you how sorry I am for pretty much causing all of this. You were right, I'm just an ego maniac who cares only about herself most of the time. And leaving Lucy behind like that, and not even telling the others…that was just cowardly and pathetic. I understand if you hate me."
It was Lynn lowered her head and was waiting for Lincoln to confirm everything she just said. However, much to her surprise, she found a pair of arms wrapping around her and pulling her in for a close hug.
Lynn opened her eyes and saw Lincoln holding her in a tight embrace which she slowly and hesitantly returned.
"Lynn Loud Junior you listen to me right now." Lincoln said firmly but softly. "You're my sister. My family. I will never hate you." He said making Lynn start to tear up and bury her head in his shoulders as he patted her back. "Look, yes, sometimes, you let your ego and anger get the better of you. But that's just who you are. You're competitive, strong, and determined. You just take it too far somethings, you just gotta learn how to keep it under control, alright."
"Yeah. I will." Lynn said with a broken voice as tears fell from her eyes.
"I will never stop loving you. Never forget that." He reassured her to which she nodded.
It was then that Lincoln pulled away a bit to look Lynn right in the eye. "But Lynn, trust, is something else entirely. And something you need to earn back. Understood?"
"Yeah. I do." Lynn said quietly as she rubbed the tears from her eyes.
It was then that Lynn pulled away from Lincoln to walk up to Lucy. "Look, Luce, I am so sorry I made you feel like that back on Vilgax's ship. I didn't tell anyone because I was scared…and the thought of anything bad happening you or worse, I-I-I don't even think I could live with myself if that happened." She told Lucy, was listening intently.
"And I miss having you as a roommate." She kept going. "I miss seeing you write your poems. I miss hearing you sighing throughout the day, and I just feel lonely without you there every one morning when I wake up. I understand if you say no, but please, let me move back in."
All was silent for a minute before Lucy spoke up. "Lynn, what you did really hurt me." The Goth spoke. "I'm used to people just forgetting that I'm there. For people to just forget about me. I know I usually talk about death and all that stuff, but to actually be in a position where I wasn't only just die, but be killed, and to have someone know I was around for once but do nothing, it felt like I wasn't worth anything."
Lynn lowered her head in shame and guilt. What Lucy was saying was true. Lucy was practically a ghost with people unaware of her presence until she announced herself in the form of scarring whoever is in the room, it was just her life. But in the position of Vilgax ready to kill them all with a snap…it was horrific to say the complete least.
"But…" Lucy continued talking, making Lynn raise her head a bit. "When you willingly took that blast me…I just remembered all the times you were there for me. Supported me, protected me, it reminded me you really do care."
"I agree with what Lincoln said. It will honestly be a while before I can completely trust you again…but yes…I would love to move back in."
Lynn practically threw herself onto Lucy as she held her tightly and cried into her shoulder. "Thank you Lucy."
Lucy put on a small smile and patted Lynn's back and held her close. "Your welcome…sis."
Everyone smiled warmly at the scene before Rita spoke up. "Come on kids, let's go home."
Everyone nodded as they proceeded to follow their mother back to the swamp boat, ready to leave the swamp.
There it is everyone. The end of an Arc I had so much fun writing. Character development is something I love writing more then anything and not meaning to toot my own horn but I think I nailed it.
I wanna make one thing clear to everyone. I don't hate any of the Loud sisters. At most, I think they can boring and annoying, but I don't hate them. They all have their strong and short comings and yes they do go a little to far sometimes such as Lynn in NSL and Luan during April Fools day to name a few. But one thing we can all agree on is that when it comes to people knowing us, we would rather people know us for the good things, rather then the mistakes we make.
We all make mistakes, but we don't only those to define us. Yes, the Loud sisters can screw up. But so does Lincoln, a lot. Just as much of his sisters in fact. Heck, even in this fic. Do you think Lincoln spooking his sisters during the Loud, Loud, Loud House chapter was all to Heroic? No, but it isn't what truly define us. Honestly I and along with a lot of other people can probably relate to Lynn in having anger issues. We just simply learn to just take a deep breathe and try to think rationally.
So to sum it all that, I don't hate Lynn at all, just like Lincoln and the rest of her family with her and each other.
Lilo and Stitch put it best.
"Ohana means family. And family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."
With all that said, there two people I wanna give thanks to.
First is tomahawkESP for giving me the idea for Pesky Chill
Second is yellowpikmin88 for giving me the idea for Ghost-Gax.
Thank you both for those idea's, you guys rock.
Now, stay tuned for the next chapter of Loud 10
"House Music"