Authors Note: Cheers to fifty chapters all! And once again, this fic is not near done yet, and thank you all again for the support. I apologize for any shortcomings on my part. Please enjoy!

The three guardians had fought for barely an hour. Lynn was tired, having had to spend most of her energy guarding to make sure she would not get run over when Xerain charged for her. Lori was dealing with an endless army of textoth. Meanwhile, Zeggfor and Lincoln fought alone, exchanging blows constantly.

"Where do they keep coming from?!" Lori's body was in pain from the multiple blows from sharp weapons. There was so much dust from the prior fallen textoth in the room that it almost blinded her, it was as if they were growing at more and more of a disadvantage each passing second. The vast number of textoth would not just end.

"Ah!" Lori got her arm cut by one of the jagged scimitars, which knocked her sword out of her hand, making it land nearby. Another textoth jumped onto her back, thrusting its dagger downward trying to impale her chest. The short blonde haired girl grabbed its arm to stop it, panting.

"…wait… that's it!" Lori realized upon being forced to look at the ceiling when trying to stop her heart from being stabbed. The oldest Loud forced herself backwards off her feet, pinning the textoth flat onto its back, and then stomping its skull head.

"At least I won't need any more anger management classes," Lori thought. This was really relieving her anger, the only louds taking those classes were her and Lola anyhow. She was ready to put the plan into action. She grabbed the next textoth that tried to attack her and grabbed its arm, and she made it drop its weapon as she forced its arm behind its back when spinning it around.

"Hope you don't mind being a shield," Lori laughed lightly, the textoth making pleading noises of mercy. Lori charged ahead. Any textoth that tried to attack her would only then hit their bony teammate. Once she got out of the mobbing, Lori threw the disintegrating skeleton aside before grabbing her sword.

"Scatter!" She slashed the air several times, sending multiple sharp blue waves of energy toward the ceiling, each hit cracking it. The textoth were frozen, thinking she had directed her attack at them, and they were surprised when it missed.

"Your turn," Lori pointed her sword at them, as the ceiling began to collapse, suddenly falling in from the hard attacks destroying the supports. The textoth were unable to react, all crushed underneath, kicking up a lot of dust from their comrades' remains.

"Whew…" Lori went on one knee and panted. She needed to regain her breath. Normally she would be freaking out over the tons of rats running around the factory floors, a few crawling over her legs occasionally, but Lori would gladly take rats over living skeletons any day of the week now. Though it did not stop her initial desire to scream her heart out, she was just too tired to be doing that right now.


"Charge!" Xerain roared while charging down the enclosed space of the container-filled area outside of the back area of the factories. Lynn groaned, getting her guard up again, taking the direct slam from the locomotive Xeran Elite as it began to shove her back a good distance.

"Get off!" Lynn kicked Xerain off her, the Xeran Elite being sent off path with his full speed crashing into one of the large containers, denting it with an echoing clang. The metal monster groaned, rubbing his head.

"What is with you humans and fighting with noise? It's very, very annoying!" Xerain stomped as more steam burst out from the sides of his wheel joints, the Xeran elite letting more smoke from his top.

"I'm just burning energy… I need to try an actually do something…" Lynn muttered while watching Xerain prepare his next charge.

"Try using his momentum against him! Your guardian knuckles should be able to withstand a hard enough blow and protect your arms," Lisa advised. It was hard to monitor two fights at once, trying to give advice while looking thoroughly for any weakness the Xeran monsters had, but the child prodigy managed.

"Really? So you're telling me to just punch a train as hard as I can, and I'll come out the winner? Well you're three times smarter than me, so I'll listen," Lynn replied concernedly. Never in her life did she think she would be fighting a living train. She mentally wished Xerain was friendly, just for the sake of making little Lana, who loved trains, happy.

"I'm technically five times smarter, but still… here he comes!" Lisa alerted Guardian Black as Xerain charged at full speed, destroying the concrete beneath him. Lynn punched her guardian knuckles together sending a few sparks flying off, taking a few steps back and winding up her right arm.

"Next stop… death!" Xerain shouted. Lynn threw her strongest punch forward as hard as she could, and a loud, metallic punch rung out. Guardian Black's fist hit the train monsters face. Her feet were dug into the ground hard and her entire upper body ached in pain, but she did not back down.

"Graaaaah!" Lynn delivered a second punch from her other guardian knuckle to finally break the engagement. Xerain fell back a short distance away, as the metal grill covering his lower face fell off, clattering to the ground.

"Oww ow ow ow ow! My mouth! Weren't you taught to respect your elders?!" Xerain cried while getting up, his metallic face damaged from the hard punch. It had actually weakened his defense. The insides of the Xeran Elite were now exposed, which seemed to be mainly a large mess of gears and wires.

"I was also taught to put idiots in their place, last time I checked old people can be idiots too." Lynn retorted. Her shoulder twinged in pain, making her grit her teeth and halt temporarily by the surprise of it all.

"Oh dear… I was worried your muscles would be stressed, but I did not anticipate how much damage the momentum impact would cause to them," Lisa apologized. The math had been done in her head in less than two minutes to help her older sister. The plan worked, but she had been wrong in some regards.

"Lisa, you gave me a great advantage. Don't worry about it, I'll live… that's why I've got two arms and legs to fight with," Lynn grinned as Xerain started to get over his own pain. Guardian Black was ready to do the same thing once more, no matter how much her body protested.

"E-eh? Why won't my wheels turn?!" Xerain asked. His jointed wheels would release steam, but they refused to turn. Guardian Black was surprised to see iron rods jammed through the wheels, preventing them from turning at all, he could not reach for them to remove them either. Xerain screamed in pain as his back exploded with smoke and bursts of electricity.

"Sorry for being late," Lori stepped in between the Xeran Elite and her younger sister.

"Lori! Are you okay?!" Lynn worriedly asked, noticing the injuries on her.

"It appears she took away the monster's special ability, and you made the weakness. I heavily implore you to deal with this now so you can both go help Lincoln and get medical aid for Lori," Lisa insisted. Lynn understood the orders. She hoped her brotherly boyfriend was alright and able to hold out against Zeggfor.

"I'm the first of many improved Xeran Elite. I may die, but there's going to be far worse than me to come!" Xerain laughed. Lynn shook her head while getting her black rough edged star from the front of her suit, watching her black essence begin to pour into it from her arm, going all the way up to her star.

"Guardian finisher! Star Striker Engage!" Lynn threw the black star into the air, getting into her boxing stance as the star broke into four. She sent each part with a strong punch or kick, flying right for the locomotive monster.

"Scatter!" Lori decided to add onto it, slashing out a wave of sharp blue energy that engulfed the four star shards, each one piercing the Xeran Elite's opening in his metallic armor. As he began sparking and smoking violently, the two sisters stood, watching him fall to his knees.

"It… looks like I'm the big engine that couldn't..." Xerain fell face first and exploded into a cloud of black smoke and flames. Lynn morphed back to normal, she caught her black star as it flew back to her from the wreckage, and pocketed it. Lori had a bright smile. The Xeran Elite was dead, and their revenge was satisfied.

"Whew… That's him dealt with. Where's the army of textoth that was back there?" Lynn worriedly asked.

"I beat them all. But now, we need to go help Lincoln first," Lori insisted, aware that the sporty Loud wanted to get her medical treatment immediately, but the oldest Loud cared a lot more about their only brother.

"Alright, but you're letting me and him do the main part of the fighting… oh gosh," Lynn commented. She could not look at Lori without seeing all the blood on her shirt, pants and arm.

"Heh… you're not in any position to stop me from helping. I told you and Lincoln I'd make it up to you both," Lori retorted. Lynn was just in as bad a shape as her, just more internally than externally. Lynn did not have any response. The two had their breath back, so they went off to find Lincoln quickly. Behind them, though, they forgot to grab the essence sphere from Xerain's remains. The essence spheres insides spun with red essence, looking ready to explode with anger, like a small sun full of rage.


"Why don't you surrender your essence?! I'm far stronger than you!" Zeggfor demanded while holding Lincoln against a brick wall by his throat.

"You've asked me that so many times, it's getting old!" Lincoln kicked the grey horned monster in the stomach, making him let go. He slashed the Xeran generals face, causing an eruption of smoke and sparks. They both looked battle worn and drained.

"I believe he is suffering from some mental insanity… You both are out for revenge against each other, after all." Lisa pointed out. Both Lincoln and Zeggfor's thirst for vengeance was only one thing in common about them, they were both oblivious to the fact they shared another scary similarity. The desire to make the ones they 'worshiped' and were close to happy, in a sense they did have that with each other. Not that they could talk much right now, between the injuries and hard fighting.

"Thanks for that Lisa, but I don't think talking is worth much right now…" Lincoln panted. He had no hope of using his guardian finisher right now, he was far too tired to burn his essence into it. Revenge only gave anger so much to thrive from, and he certainly had burned it all away.

"I don't know why BelGaner toyed with you like he did, but I'm a much different type of wolf, who hates to toy with their prey," Zeggfor took both horns off his head and threw them at him, they both landed on both sides of Lincoln, and they both began sparking suddenly shocking him with a strong current of electricity.

Lincoln cried in pain as electrical smoke erupted from random parts of his guardian suit. He was trapped by the electrical horns. Zeggfor fired another bolt of lightning that hit the Loud boy in the face, blasting his helmet and visor apart, breaking it and exposing part of his face, the helmet pieces scattering all over the floor.

"I can't…bzzzt…Lincoln…bbzzz…your…sssszzz…system…zztttt…circuiting!" Lisa tried to say something, but the electricity that was damaging Lincoln's suit was making it so that she could no longer see through his perspective. His visor was destroyed and the communicator was being disrupted heavily.

"I want to see that look of hatred in your eye become one of terror… I want to see you rot," Zeggfor began to charge up his next attack. Lincoln didn't close his eyes or look away. He glared directly at the general of offense.

"Lay off him!"

The grey horned monster was drop kicked from behind and knocked into his own electrical trap, which in turn knocked Lincoln out of it. The teenage boy panted, relieved to be free, but his whole body was numb from the volts he had to absorb.

"Scatter!"

Zeggfor was hit by three blasts of the blue sharp waves. He began to burst violently with smoke and sparks.

"Lori! Lynn!" Lincoln saw Lynn and Lori in front of him, he went straight over to them, happily.

"Are you okay Lincoln?" Lynn asked, looking over his damaged guardian suit. It had been pushed far past its limits.

"Sorry for taking so long. We killed Xerain though," Lori announced, their little brother looked very happy at the news of that.

"Really?! That's great! Thanks for the save," Lincoln hugged them both. They all saw Zeggfor get out of his own trap, looking mortified at the news.

"Wh…what? He killed nearly hundreds! How could he die to just two weak females?!" The astonished general of offense put his horns back onto his head. He was more than able to recognize Lori, angered that she remained alive after their plans with her. It just made him regret not murdering her a while back, when she was under their control.

"We're the guardians," Lori replied, while wiping the side of her sword on her pant leg.

"The strongest warriors this dimension has to offer you!" Lynn grinned, glad to be able to say that without a doubt in her mind.

"You Xeran are going to be punished for all you've done to the no doubt millions of lives from the other dimensions. We aren't going to let you win here, either," Lincoln was determined to make sure the Xeran race lost this dimension's war, just like they had lost the war in the last dimension. Zeggfor looked infuriated to just be reminded of that. He had no choice but to either die or retreat.

"Enjoy your cockiness while it lasts! I'll strip the essence out of you with my own hands next time! But the Xeran still won this day, remember that guardians!" Zeggfor thrust a hand forward, firing a bolt of thunder and exploding the ground in front of them. By the time the explosion cleared and the three stepped forward, the general of offense was nowhere to be seen.

"Figures…" Lincoln huffed, letting his red curve-tipped star pop out of his guardian gauntlet. He morphed back to normal before pocketing it. Lisa would be annoyed that she would have to repair the suit's helmet, but there was nothing that he could have been done to prevent the damage. At least that was a minimal repair that would take a few hours at most.

"Well…" Lynn smiled to the other two, ignoring the insane generals ramblings. "…we won, right?"

"We did. Too bad we're large messes now," Lori retracted her sword and put it on her side. She had been stabbed, cut and bruised, so much so that she had no idea if makeup would cover half of her facial injuries. But in return, she managed to win the battle with her siblings and defeat over fifty textoth.

"It's nothing we're not used to… Consider them prizes for winning," Lincoln chuckled while rubbing his head. He had his right cheek on his face burnt and a lot of his body bruised, and was also missing a tooth that had been knocked out in the fight somewhere in one of the factories, which a rat had most likely taken by now.

"Too bad we can't put them in the trophy case," Lynn shrugged jokingly. She could easily pass off her injuries from Xerain as going too overboard in baseball practice, since it was mainly just horrible arm and shoulder pain.

"Wait… where's Xerain's essence sphere?" Lincoln wondered. They looked at one another, realizing they had forgotten about it.

"It should be by the containers out back… Unless rats made off with it," Lori said. She doubted the rats could carry it though. The three went off immediately to go gather the fallen Xeran Elite's heart. They needed it, to get any benefit against the Xeran race after all.


When the small drained group of three arrived out there, somewhat supporting each other with walking, what they stumbled upon was the essence sphere floating off the ground, spinning with red essence around it like a bug zapper attracting millions of red lightning bugs.

"What's happening to it?" Lincoln quirked, tilting his head.

"Did it absorb too much essence?" Lynn presumed.

"N…no way," Lori gasped, watching a small tornado of fire appear around Xerain's remains, and once it was gone, there stood the now fully healed train monster.

"I live… I live!" The resurrected Xeran Elite looked completely red and in rage now, like he had been soaked in magma. He opened his eyes, and they glowed yellow, focusing on the three terrified guardians.

"You all boarded the wrong train!"