Lincoln sat on a bench outside of the mall, where he had agreed to meet his fellow guardian sisters. He looked down at his red curve-tipped star, smiling. He hated to have to go about things the way they were right now, but he could not let his personal guilt murder him internally. He just had to find a way to move on from each incident and not dwell in the past. He would move on from this large tragedy as well after he got revenge for the deceased.

"Nobody is going to be happy to hear that I left against doctor's advice," Lincoln chuckled. He expected most of his family to give him a harsh scolding later for leaving instead of getting help. He would probably wind up forced back into the hospital for a checkup afterwards. It was just a matter of time before the Loud family did learn of his actions, his phone would be flooded with calls when that happened.

"Huh?" The teenage boy heard his cellphone ringing. He pulled it out of his pocket, recognizing the ringtone. He hit answer and put it to his ear.

"Hey, Lisa. Everything okay?" Lincoln answered, happy to hear from his second youngest sister.

"Lincoln! You don't know how alleviating it is to hear your voice…" Lisa responded. He really wished she would do the layman's terms of speech more often. Then again the child prodigy had been acting different toward him lately as well. Lincoln presumed it was because of their role as the world's main line of defense against the Xeran, that she was being stressed. But there was just something different about how she was treating him, he could not put his finger on why.

"Thanks Lisa. It's good to hear you're fine, too," Lincoln replied, "Did anything happen while I was out?"

"I repaired Lori's sword, but her guardian suit will be usable tomorrow… at the earliest in prototype terms… Otherwise, I believe I've made a breakthrough with the hollow essence sphere," Lisa explained. That sounded like music to the red guardian's ears. Soon there would be a third Guardian. However he wondered what the breakthrough was.

"Really?! Lisa, what did you find out? Please tell me we have some sort of Xeran radar now. I'd really like that a lot, way more than just relying on illegally spying on 911 calls and searching through hundreds of internet messages," Lincoln asked, hoping that this essence sphere was now a compass that could point them in the direction of the Xeran, if they were to ever appear. He hated breaking the law this much. Vigilante justice was one thing, but eavesdropping on personal calls meant to be kept between operator and emergency caller was a big offense.

"No, unfortunately I'm still working on developing that… The hollow essence sphere, as I was able to determine, is unable to hold any essence in it, but it can transfer essence between two entities. I developed a system to allow you to regenerate essence moderately faster with the help of Lynn and Lori. If you're low on your specific type of essence, one of you can donate some of your own to the other," Lisa elaborated on what she had discovered and worked hard to create. Lincoln loved the sound of not having to worry about being burnt out from morphing and using his finisher too often.

"That's awesome, Lisa! You're the best scientist in the world! That means me and Lynn can use dragon mode as much as we want! Is that right?" Lincoln asked. It would be great to be able to rampage freely without having to worry about drying themselves of their internal strength and anger that the dragon mode form siphoned off of.

"I'm sorry, but you can't… I'm afraid I discovered a problem with using dragon mode too often," the child prodigy apologized aware that it would have been a grand advantage to have, but it would leave one guardian defenseless. It was risky in some situations and only to be used as needed.

"A problem? Please tell me it's one you can fix," Lincoln begged. His super genius sister could handle nearly anything nowadays, being one of the smartest people alive as of the Guardian Project's creation.

"Unfortunately, I can't repair it without crippling the suit's power. As stated prior, I never implemented a combination system into the guardian suits. This is purely a glitch, one that was not detectable by any means until it was accidentally triggered by Lynn inserting both stars into her morphing device. After running computer simulations, I believe if you combine two stars three times in a row, it will result in a massive explosion," Lisa explained the issue behind the glitch. If overused in such short time, there would be nothing but horrible outcomes and consequences.

"Well that's good to know… I don't think we'll be in any situations where we'll need more than one combination morph…" Lincoln suddenly jolted up with a thought, "Hey, when Lori's guardian suit is done, maybe we can combine all three stars and…"

"No! If you even try to do anything that risky, I will take away control of the locking mechanisms from you all!" Lisa shouted, "Two stars already trigger the surge protector twice! Three would no doubt break the suits and gravely injure you!"

"Al-alright, Lisa, I'm sorry… sheesh, what's the matter? You're a lot more emotional today," Lincoln knew that if she was that upset about matters, then it was really dangerous. The child prodigy normally kept a straight face and a monotone attitude, but at the moment it was a lot different.

"I… I missed you Lincoln…" Lisa confessed, "I was terrified to face the world without you in our lives. I can't sleep at night when I worry that you might cease to be…"

"Don't worry, Lisa. Remember what I told you last night? You're all my world, remember?" Lincoln reassured her. He soon saw Lori and Lynn approaching, having finally reached him after the long walk to the mall.

"I'm glad you're my brother Lincoln…" Lisa smiled, "Apologies if I never have shown that gratitude much."

"Don't worry about it, Lis-ack!" Lincoln was given a tight hug by both Lori and Lynn.

"Thank goodness, Lincoln! You had us terrified last night…" Lori expressed her glee to see him standing before them perfectly fine.

"I didn't believe those doctors for one second when they said you might have tried to commit suicide," Lynn claimed. Lincoln had no trouble believing them, though he had no plans on telling his girlfriend about the rough fight that he had with his ex-girlfriend.

"I don't blame you for decking that doctor," Lincoln smiled, happy to be reunited with them, complimenting whichever one of the two hit the doctor, though Ronnie Anne had told him it may have been Lori. However, their reunion was interrupted by Lisa chiming up.

"Guys! We have a Xeran related crisis going on!" Lisa shouted loud enough for them to hear, glad that to be in a very loud home at times like this, it made her not have to worry about how loud she sometimes needed to talk to be heard on the phone.

"Oh… uh, sorry, Lisa… What's going on?" Lincoln put the phone on speaker mode, wondering what the Xeran elite made to murder so many last night was doing now. They were informed that it was a train based monster, and that it seemed a lot tougher than the other Xeran elites they had fought before.

"There have been several reports that a small group of factory plants in the north-western part of Royal Woods have been attacked by monsters. Judging by the descriptions, it's Zeggfor and the elite," Lisa explained what she had gathered from the 911 reports. This locomotive monster could be mistaken for one of the majesty's generals, though the guardians had never seen the generals' full power. To their knowledge, the majesty's generals had been holding back due to underestimating the guardians.

"Zeggfor, huh? I haven't met this general before," Lynn commented. She had not yet met the general of offense or the general of emotions, whilst Lori had the unfortunate luck to meet all of the generals. The only one she liked was BelGaner, because he seemed to have a grasp on his sanity.

"I did. He's the first general I met, and he really doesn't like me," Lincoln claimed, before they focused their attention back on the 911 reports, "Is anybody hurt, Lisa?"

"Fortunately not. The factories are having immense rat epidemics, so they were closed until the situation is dealt with. The 911 calls came from several passersby's who supposedly saw the monsters roaming around like they were hunting for something," Lisa answered. It sounded worse that the Xeran were not doing anything at all. Whatever they were looking for, it was either important to them or it was someone specific. The guardians had no clue.

"We'll get on it. Thanks, Lisa," Lori thanked their little sister. It was going to take some time to get to the factorial area, a half hour to forty minutes at most.

"Good luck to you three," Lisa ended the phone call there. Guardian Red pocketed his phone.

"We better get going. Lori, you should stay back since you don't have your guardian mode suit yet," Lincoln said, but his oldest sister shook her head.

"I've got a sword and I know how to swing it right. I'm coming with you," Lori ended it there. Lincoln looked to his sisterly girlfriend for advice.

"She was able to fight off an elite textoth that came from nowhere for no reason. She'll be fine," Lynn reassured that Lori could hold her own in a fight. The lone Loud boy internally shrugged, just glad to have help.

"Alright you two, let's go show those Xeran they shouldn't have raised a single hand toward anybody!" Lincoln agreed to bring their oldest sister. He still found it weird that she was good with a sword. It would take a lot more time to get used to. Lynn was just amazed that Lori still had the weird scatter ability Teronzata had taught her.

"Saving the world is going to become common in my life now, isn't it?" Lincoln asked himself as the trio readied themselves, Lori and Lynn nodding in acceptance at this fact.

"Boy… Bobby won't believe a word of this if I tell him."