After losing Christina, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne rode atop the truck till they leaped off it as soon as they exited. Luckily they landed on a soft bush, the two stood up and smoothed out their clothes. "I swear, I don't know how I keep ending up in these situations. What is it about me that attracts the crazies?" Lincoln questioned the universe.

"I don't know, but when this is over I just want to be away from any and all conflict." Ronnie Anne exclaimed, "I can't take another second of this madness!"

Lincoln then carefully held Ronnie Anne's left arm, the one that was snapped by Christina during their bus-top brawl. "Does your arm still hurt?" Lincoln carefully moved her arm, the joints a little stiff and her bicep muscle was strained from where the break in her bone happened.

"Just a little, as long as I don't overexert it for a while. Honestly if I hadn't gotten bullshit main character powers, it could have been a lot worse. But just be glad she hesitated, otherwise we'd be a human sheesh kabob." Ronnie Anne said, "Let's just worry about finding a way to save Sid, knowing her she'd go right back to Stella even after all the pain she's been put through." she then looked down, "What's she's put herself through, because of me."

Lincoln can sense the guilt building up in his lover, so he pulled her in for a big hug "Ronnie, all that stuff is behind you. You don't have to be scared anymore, I'm here now." he whispered into her ear as he held her close. Ronnie Anne quickly returned the embrace, wanting to keep him in her arms for all eternity. She finally has him after so long, and no dirty rotten R.A. wannabe will take that away from her. "We'll save Sid, defeat Stella, and live the lives we want.

The two let go of their embrace, " Thanks, Lincoln." Ronnie Anne said with a tear in her eye.

"Come on, we got to save Sid. But we can't just run in all guns-a-blazing, we need a plan." Lincoln said seriously.

"Okay, so what do you got Man with the Plan?" Ronnie Anne asked with intensity.

"...… I don't know." this caused Ronnie Anne to fall over comedically.

(with the villains)

Stella stomped around her throne room angrily while Paige was trying to reconstruct her controller, just then one of Stella's goons came in with the three red heads she sent to abduct Sid. They still had some scuffs from the 4 chapter long duel, the goon tossed them towards the seat of the throne as Stella took a seat.

The three looked up to their mistress worriedly, "My apologies Miss Stella, but the Changs were more slippery than a greased pig on roller blades." Liam said.

"Punish us as you see fit." Zach bowed along with Liam and Rusty.

"Just no more whipping, I still have welts from the last time." Rusty begged with eyes dripping tears.

Stella inhaled a puff of breath before exhaling, "Alright, here's what I'll do." the three red heads prepared for why she'll have them subjected too. "Liam, since you dealt the most damage in the duel, you're excused." she said with a smile.

"I am?" Liam was confused.

"WHAT!?" the others exclaimed.

"Yes, go spend some time with your family. They'll be most pleased to spend some time with you." Stella waved him off, which he happily obliged with a grateful bow before leaving. Her smile then turned into a frown for the remaining two red heads, "As for you two." they gulped under the dark tone she had used. "Rusty since you squandered your most powerful monsters and didn't deal one point of damage, your punishment is..."

"Please no whipping, please no whipping, please no whipping~" he silently prayed.

"Cleaning all the bathrooms."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he screamed as he was given a plunger and got dragged out of the room.

"Especially Lynn's bathroom, she's been hitting the extra spicy subs again." she called out before facing the smallest of the red heads. "Zach."

"Yes, Mistress." Zach gulped.

"For you, I've got something else in mind." Stella pressed a button, which made him fall down a trapdoor. He landed on a chair which strapped him down, he then saw a big silver screen.

"A horror movie, please I've seen them all." Zach snarked.

Just then a holographic image of Stella played next to him, "Presenting, Cats." Zach went wide eyed as the opening credits played for the 2019 adaptation to the Broadway musical.

Back with Stella, she just received a video call from Christina. "Well?"

"They got away." the brunette sulked as she held her injured shoulder.

Stella groaned, "Just take it easy, CJ and Carl will take care of things until you're healed."

"Do we have too?" Carl complained when he appeared onscreen.

"Don't worry Mistress Stella, they won't be gone for long. Mi familia still have that tracking chip they used to know my brother's location." CJ said as he pulled out a tracker, "I kept it incase I wanted to patch things up with our prima."

Stella sighed 'At least someone is useful', "Don't lose them, bring them to me." she ordered.

"You won't hurt Ronnie Anne right?" CJ wondered, "She may have said some hurtful things, but she's still familia."

"Yeah, I'm sure she's calmed down after blowing her shot at going pro." Carl added.

Stella rolled her eyes, "Yeah sure, whatever. Now go!" The Casagrande brothers saluted before cutting off transmission. She saw the look from Paige, "Don't look at me like that."