And here we have another chapter of Chains of Reality! If my calculations don't betray me, we should be only give chapters left before the big finale of this arc... whenever that comes. XD

Also, I think I'm gonna add an arc between this and the Proto-Lily arc. Let's just say things are going to change DRAMATICALLY after this arc for certain reasons, so if I don't bring up some of those changes, everybody's going to be confused.

Sure, I could just make an entire omake series based around it, but who reads omakes anyway? (Truth be told, I just don't want to force you guys to see a sidestory just to understand the main story, I'm not Kingdom hearts.)

Anyway, let's answer some reviews!:

1.) Nobody245: You're forgetting Proto-Lily, but that's okay. Everybody forgets Proto-Lily.

* Also, thank you so much for bringing up the fact Proto-Lisa's the only neutral proto-sister so far! I was gonna make a massive mistake later on having her turn out to be evil, but now I'll do something different.

2.) Mysterios Mr M: Well, if you wanna make a Steven Universe analogy, Proto-Lincoln would be Pink Diamond, the younger protosisters would be Yellow Diamond, the older protosisters would be Blue Diamond, and [REDACTED] would be White Diamond.

3.) Observant Guest:

* Lori will be anything BUT happy by the end of this arc.

* Yeah, Proto-Lisa embodies the well intentioned extremist trope: she has a plan, she wants to do right, but her methods to reach them are deplorable.

* Lincoln and Frieza sharing something in common was something I never noticed until you pointed it out, dang. XD And yeah, Stella has an idea, but lest you forget Murphy's Law. Or should I say, Lincoln's Law?

* I gave a listen to that music, and the heroic feel of the song definitely fits with how, relatively speaking, Stella is the nicer of the duo between her and Cristina.

* Could you tell me some of these hypothetical fights? I wanna see if I can save any of them for future arcs.

* At this rate we're gonna need a chaos emerald to control this chaos! XD

* I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Clincoln deserved to be a fusion. XD

And now, to the chapter!


Episode 57: The Ultimate Fusion is born! Clincoln McLoud Versus Sincoln!


The battlefield went quiet as everybody looked astonished at the fusion, the only sound heard being the fiery emanation coming from the fusion's aura.

"What's wrong, Sincoln? Cat got your tongue?" Clincoln asked with a smug tone. "Where's all the bravado from a second ago?"

Sincoln gritted his teeth as his arm was surrounded by orange crystals, claws, bones, and just an all-around clusterfuck of stuff which he threw at the fusion soon after.

Clincoln sidestepped the attack, and with a single elbow strike, the clusterfuck shattered to pieces. However, this didn't stop Sincoln for long, who took control of the resulting shards and launched them at Clincoon in a flurry of stuff...

A flurry that was just as ineffective.

"Both bravado and competence?" Clincoln huffed. "That's a very critical pair to lose in the middle of a fight!"

Sincoln gritted his teeth and Clincoln turned to Link. "Go take your siblings somewhere safe. If you can find a spaceship to escape, then head there and leave as fast as you can."

"What bullshit are you talking about now?" Sincoln smirked. "In case you haven't noticed, I got them under my control!"

Clincoln scoffed. "Are you sure about that?"

Clincoln snapped his fingers, and a brief flash of orange covered the planet before everything seemingly turned back to normal... Except Link was with his siblings, who were no longer trapped by the orange stuff.

A fact that quietly shook Proto-Lisa to her core.

Unbelievable, not only did that guy undo my hold on the lovechildren and Sincoln's enhancements, but he did both of them with a snap of his fingers!

Then, she grew curious.

But that guy has Lincoln as a component, so It's not too surprising. What's surprising, instead, is the fact Lincoln chose to fuse first before doing that. Why? Surely he knows he can do anything possible and impossible, he wouldn't need to fuse at all... Unless...

Proto-Lisa rubbed her forehead and contacted Lori telepathically.

Lori, I think I found out Something about Lincoln-


Yeah, I'm kinda busy right now!

Lori dodged as Mrs. Santiago, Ronnie Anne, and Chandler shot a barrage of attacks-mostly lighting bolts-at her. Mrs. Santiago brought some variety by constantly switching between the powers granted by the gauntlet, but it was still dwarfed by the lighting barrage.

Lori kept dodging until one of Mrs. Santiago's attacks hit her, stunning her long enough for the woman to grab one of the trees, rip it clean off, and use it as a club...

Which Lori grabbed as soon as she swung it.

"Trying to pull a Leni on me, are you?"

Lori lifted the tree.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but It's not going to work!"

Lori shot the tree with an energy blast, taking Mrs. Santiago with it. Once she was out of view, she turned back to Ronnie Anne and Chandler, who shot a pair of streams of lighting At her.

Lori simply extended her hand forward and took the strrams head-on. They eventually vanished, their electricity spreading across Lori as she flashed a confident smirk.

"Wait, Lori can absorb lighting?!" Ronnie Anne exclaimed.

"The electric creatures we met before, especially the beetle, were able to absorb an absurd amount of lighting," Chandler responded. "If they could absorb it, It's just logical to assume she could do the same too."

"But I saw Jo-... Lynn, being hit by one of her fireballs during the zombie out break!" Ronnie Anne pointed out. "If the gods can absorb their own attack types, why wouldn't Lynn do the same?"

"Because she's second only to Leni in terms of stupidity!"

Ronnie Anne flinched.

"Oh, don't act like that's a shocking revelstion or anything," Lori rolled her eyes. "From the start, it was made crystal clear that Lynn wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. And yet, the more she fought, the more she made it clear she could be even dumber than expected."

Ronnie Anne clutched the cloud tightly. "Stop..."

"I mean, first she twists her ankle by trying to kick open a crystal door, and needs a bunch of kindergarteners to take care of her."

She tightened her grip. "Stop it..."

"Then she decides to abandon everyone when the hydra attscked, to basically serve no purpose against the fight with Proto-Lana and Proto-Lola."

She gritted her teeth, and electricity began flowing through her. "I said... stop it..."

"And of course, who can forget her latest blunder? The zombie apocalypse-"

"SHUT UP!"

Ronnie Anne burst out of the cloud and headbutted Lori right in the gut, managing to send her flying a couple of feet away, clutching her stomach in pain.

However, Lori smirked once she saw Ronnie Anne's current form: she was flying in place, dark sclers accompanying a glowing light blue glare as electricity surged through her.

"Impressive, so you have accessed the overcharged form. But It's all about lighting, so I can just absorb everything you throw At me."

"How about a physical snd verbal beating, then!?" Ronnie Anne hissed. "Because I'm not going to let you get away with insulting Lynn like that!"

Lori scoffed. "You're welcomed to try."


"Fantastic, it seems Lori has decided to focus on family issues rather than the actual issue in front of her," Proto-Lisa sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I mean, I expected her to lose focus, but not during such an important event!"

Proto-Lisa leaned back on her throne, and folded her arms. "I guess that's all I'm going to see from her for now. But who do I look at now? Clincoln and Sincoln's fight will take a while to get interesting, I assume, so that would leave..."

Suddenly, the alarms blared, and Proto-Lisa snapped her fingers, summoning a screen from the walls that showed her something that struck her composed self for once.

The screen showed Lisa, Lola, Pacowski, and David surrounded by the trembling Lulus.

"The Lisa lover escaped!?"


A screen appeared from the ceiling of the room, showing Proto-Lisa's furious expression as she yelled:

"What the hell is David doing outside of his containment tube!?"

"Better question: Why was David in a containment tube?!" Lisa argued.

"Even better question: Who's David?!" Lola added.

Lisa and Pacowski pointed at the dark-haired boy, while a pair of arrows emerged from the nanomachine ground, pointing strictly at him.

"Oh."

"I don't care if it was intentional or an accident, but the boy has to go back to his containment before Cristina or one of her messed up followers comes to snatch him!" Proto-Lisa snapped, before she turned to the Lulus. "Or if that's not possible, then one of you need to assimilate with him so Cristina will see him as not worth kidnapping!"

The Lulus flinched and hid behind Lisa, shivering and whimpering like scolded puppies.

"Who even is Cristina?" Lisa brushed one of the Lulus. "And what does she have to do with anything that's going on?"

Proto-Lisa looked stunned for a moment, almost as if the question was something she never expected. "She's Lincoln's first girlfriend, and she's one to butt her nose into everyone's business, especially when it comes to those deemed love interests!"

Lisa kept her eyebrow raised. "What?"

"Long story short, she's an enemy, and she's going to be a bigger problem if you keep David defenseless like that!"

"Yeah, I don't trust you."

Everybody turned to face the one who said that: Lola, who put her normal and crystal arm on her hips as she looked sternly at the screen.

"L-Lola, what are you doing?" Pacowski asked fearfully.

"Lana once told off her counterpart for trying to demoralize Carol, and she got her goddess form from it," Lola explained, maintaining her posture as she narrowed her eyes. "Granted, this isn't really the same thing-"

"And by the logic you're using, I should be the one telling off my counterpart in order to get my Goddess form!" Lisa pointed out, pausing to ponder about what she just said for a moment. "B-Besides, this doesn't really have anything to do with you, Lola."

The image of Lindsey Sweetwater flashed in Lola's mind, and the ex-diva's composure grew more determined.

"No, Lisa, this has something to do with me. Because the jerk on the screen is the reason I'm here!"

Proto-Lisa raised an eyebrow.

"You caused several people, including potentially my friend Lindsey Sweetwater, to become mutants by merging Lulus with them! Not only that, but as I saw on the trip here, you've been kidnapping people in order to force your twisted idea of evolution unto them! Well, guess what? I'm not going to stand still and let you just do whatever you want!"

Lola pointed at the prototype, whose eyes were hidden behind shadows at this point.

"So hear me clearly, Proto-Lisa! Even if the antidote to cure Lindsey is to rip off the Lulu inside of her, you're going to be beaten! And once we do that, we'll drag you back to Earth so you cure Lindsey personally! Understand!?"

Proto-Lisa remained silent, motionless even, for a couple of minutes before she finally spoke:

"I guess it's only fitting that someone with a big head would have a big mouth."

Before Lola could complain about insult, tentacles sprouted from the ground and grabbed her by her wrists, before more tentacles burst and trapped Lisa, David, and Pacowski in place.

"You know, Lola Loud? I've been a very patient girl ever since you and your group literally crash-landed into my planet. That I could forgive, since I basically asked for it myself. But then, to have you tell me such insulting things to my face, to accuse me of corrupting your friend even when it's so clear that you were tricked by Mrs. Santiago."

Lola winced. "How do you know it was Mrs. Santiago who gave me the idea Lindsey could become a mutant?"

Proto-Lisa sighed in defeat. "Because I was the one who told her to do it."

Lola's eyes widened, clenching her fists as the prototype added:

"In fact, there's some truth to your accusations: Yes, I was part of something that involved Lindsey Sweetwater. However, her non-existent mutation wasn't the thing. It was, in fact, something I had to do with my "sister," Proto-Lola."

Lola's eyes widened further, remembering the moment Lindsey told her about: of how she saw Lola and Lisa talking about the plan. And as soon as she made the connection, she growled.

Proto-Lisa smirked. "Did you figure it out yet? Or do you need another hint?"

Lisa winced at the statement, while Lola finally snapped: she froze the tentacles, shattered them by exerting some force, then leapt towards the screen with her crystal arm extended forward, clenched into a fist.

Proto-Lisa kept smiling as the screen glitched, then morphed back into nanomachines, right before a figure burst from them and met Lola's crystal punch with a buster blast strong enough to send her right back to Lisa.

The figure then dropped to the ground, revealing themselves to be none other than the Green Champion, buster on one hand, laser sword on the other.

"The Green Champion!" Lisa exclaimed in shock, only for it to quickly turn casual. "To be honest, of all the things we would've seen in our trip here, the champion was the one thing that I never thought of."

"Ugh, of course there'd be a champion here," Lola groaned as she stood up and dusted herself. "There were champions when we fought my, Lana, and Lucy's prototypes, why wouldn't there be a champion when fighting yours?"

"Proto-Lisa, let us go!" David exclaimed, trying in vain to break free from the imprisonment. "I'll go back to my containment tube willingly, heck I'll even merge with one of the Lulus, just let Lisa and her sister go!"

"Oh?" Proto-Lisa's screen returned. "So I can keep Pacowski, then?"

David flinched. "N-No, let him go too!"

"Then, every other people that's been kidnapped can stay?"

"Ugh, it's pointless!" David turned to Lisa. "She'll just keep finding loopholes and loopholes no matter how carefully I word my pleads!"

"Then don't plead for anything!" Lisa replied, trying to break free as well. "Just try to escape!"

The Lulus watched sadly as Lisa and the boys' attempt at escaping constantly failed, Proto-Lisa chuckling before giving them further bad news:

"Sorry, but the nanomachines that make up the planet are of a special breed that only Lisas can control. And since Neo-Lisa here has no idea how to control nanomachines, that leaves me as the only one capable of freeing you. And after Lola's little comments..."

Proto-Lisa narrowed her glowing eyes.

"I don't think I'm so keen on letting you go."

The restraints tightened, and the Lulus took a step back before one narrowed her eyes, and leaped to Lisa's side, both of them glowing green as their forms slowly combined into one.

"What?!"

Once the light vanished, Lisa looked mostly the same, but with one interesting detail: she had a long tail ending on a spike, and the restraints didn't feel as tough as before. She still couldn't break through them, but they felt slightly... weaker?

Another Lulu jumped and seemingly merged with her, followed by another, and another, and so on until only one Lulu remained, who sat next to Lola as the duo looked at the end result:

Lisa hadn't physically changed in the slightest, but as soon as she tried to break free from the restraints, she did so without any trouble whatsoever. Not only that, once she hit the ground, Lisa smiled and aimed her hands at the restraints around David and Pacowski, undoing them slowly but surely until the guys were free.

"Lisa, you can control the nanomachines now?!" Lola exclaimed, a wide smile plastered across her face.

"Apparently so!" Lisa looked at her hands. "It seems that by symbioting with the Lulus, rather than turning into a mutant monster like the others, I can grow stronger to the point my control over the nanomachines is comparable to my counterpart!"

"That sounds stupidly contrived and convenient, and we could've used it much earlier!" Lola chirped, her smile unfazed.

"This shouldn't even be happening!"

The sisters turned back to Proto-Lisa, who was practically fuming as she breathed heavily.

"Guess that's quite a wrench in your plans, huh, Proto-Lisa?" Lola cracked her knuckles. "Now you're going to have to deal with me and a stronger Lisa now!"

The prototype scientist took a deep breath and calmed down, before letting out a simple chuckle. "No, I don't think so. Wanna know why?"

Suddenly, a hole opened beneath Lola and Pacowski.

"Because I can just do this."

Lola and Pacowski screamed as they fell in the holes, which closed soon afterwards.

"As for you two, Lisa and David, I'm very certain my champion will be more than happy to deal with you. Meanwhile, I got better things to do, ciao."

The screen turned off and vanished, leaving Lisa and David to deal with the champion as it brandished its laser sword.


"Phew, that was a rollercoaster of emotions," Proto-Lisa chuckled. "Who knew the Loud family would bring such strong emotions so much time later?"

After some more chuckling, she snapped her fingers and summoned another screen. "Now, let's see how Carol's doing."


Carol kicked the monster with a Savinoken-empowered kick, sending it flying into a wall and causing cracks to spread once it hit it, then slide down as it made sounds oddly similar to whimpering.

It was then that Carol's Savinoken ran out, and she got on her knees, exhausted.

"Well, I ate the time limit of Savinoken, but the monster's still standing," she told herself before she looked back. "At least Lemy and the girls have hopefully left by now."

The monster whimpered some more as it tried to crawl away, only to stop when a turquoise lighting bolt nearly hit it. The bolt, as the monster discovered, came from Carol, who had steam come out of her index finger while making a finger gun.

"Not so fast, monster! I may not be able to use the Savinoken, or have much energy left, but I still got tricks up my sleeves!"

"Tricks you should save rather than waste on this individual."

A screen sprouted from the wall, and a calm Proto-Lisa loomed over the duo.

"Ugh, you again," Carol weakly stood up. "What do you want, Proto-Lisa?"

"I just came from a very unpleasant time with Lisa and Lola, and I was hoping you could cheer me up, if only slightly," Proto-Lisa eyed the monster. "And indeed, it seems you've had some fun with the poor creature here."

Carol raised an eyebrow. "Poor creature? Since when do you care about the creatures under your command?"

"I don't, Carol: as a Lisa, the ultimate pinnacle of science, I have to see everything and everyone, including myself, as a potential subject in order to better the universe. That should be the first sign that this monster isn't like the rest. That this monster is special."

Carol blinked twice, confused at this statement. Exasperated, Proto-Lisa snapped her fingers, and the monster roared as it was covered in light, with several smaller pieces of itself detaching and standing by its side.

Only they weren't smaller pieces, but Lulus, who all stared at Carol as she looked back at the monster... to the most shocking sight she'd ever seen.

It was another Carol, only her clothing was purple.

"What the..." was all Carol could muster.

"Surprised? You should be." Proto-Lisa smiled. "It was tough keeping this one alive when Lori handed her to me."

Carol flinched. "What?!"

"Yeah, Lori handed me this Carol, Neo-Carol, in quite a horrific state. malformed, malnourished, and the only reason she was even in that state in the first place, was because the world itself wanted her to die by giving her the weakest body available. And what crime did she commit to suffer such horrible fate?"

Proto-Lisa turned to Carol. "Lincoln wasn't her father. In fact, technically speaking, she doesn't have so much a "father" as she has "mothers," those being... Lori and Leni themselves."

Carol took a couple steps back, the second step causing her to give in and stumble to the ground. "B-But-"

"How is that possible, you may be asking. Well I'm glad you asked, I say in response," Proto-Lisa rolled her eyes. "You see, Carol, Lori and Leni once had an ambitious idea: Maybe, Lincoln wasn't absolutely necessary to create life. After all, he was just the god of, oh I don't know, fertility, mortality, life, death, birth, and so many other irrelevant things. Clearly, him being the father of everything was just because he felt like getting the title, not because he literally gave birth to everything in the universe."

Carol turned back to the other Carol, Neo-Carol, who grabbed her arm as she took heavy breaths.

"So, they tried to create life themselves. Neo-Carol was the result, but she wasn't born quite right, as I've told you already. So, after millions of arguments, Lori took Neo-Carol to me so I could tend to her wounds, while Leni took the job of finding another Carol to train and replace her."

"B-But... if t-that Carol is Neo-Carol..." Carol clutched her chest. "Who... Who am I?"

"Her predecessor. Her base. Her muse. The one that came before her," Proto-Lisa smiled maliciously. "Simply put, you're not a neophilim as you thought you were, Carol. You're not from the new reality."

The screen moved down, and faced Carol face-to-face.

"You're from the original reality. A prototype. A progenitor."

With those words spoken, the screen turned off and vanished, leaving the Carols and Lulus alone.


"Ohohoho, that definitely made me feel better after the disaster that were Lisa and Lola!" Proto-Lisa sighed. "Of course, it's sad that I had to hurt Carol so much, but she had to learn the truth eventually, and Lori and Leni would certainly not tell her jack."

Then, she remembered something. "Speaking of Lori, I wonder if Ronnie Anne has kicked her butt."


It was the other way around, really.

Ronnie Anne shot lighting bolts at Lori, who yawned as she easily deflected them back at her. Ronnie Anne dodged a few, but this simply left her open long enough for Lori to fly right next to her and smack her with a hammer made of lighting, sending her crashing right into a nanotree.

Ronnie Anne didn't stay down for long, however, as she burst from the tree with full force and tried to punch Lori in the face, only for the lighting goddess to sidestep the attack and elbow Ronnie Anne back into the ground again.

"Earth to Ronnie Anne: None of your attacks can hurt me!" Lori scoffed as the tomboy tried to stand up. "If you really want to hurt me, you're gonna have to bring some variety!"

And variety was what Lori got, as a fireball was shot right at her, scorching her arm and making her flinch. The burn mark vanished soon after, however, and it didn't take long before she found the one responsible for the attack: Mrs. Santiago, holding the gauntlet in front of her, the red gem glowing.

"Using Lynn's abilities? How cute," Lori scoffed. "What exactly made you think such a puny attack would do much against me? I'm the strongest of the Louds, you need to bring your a-game if you want to make an actual scratch-"

"Would you shut up already..."

Lori turned around, and Ronnie Anne slowly flew back up, clutching her arm as she breathed heavily.

"That's a rather rude statement coming from you, Ronnie Anne," Lori eyed the arm. "Especially considering you're in no condition to backup your claim. Heck, I'd even go as far as say you're being nearly as reckless as Lynn-"

"How dare you talk about your own sister like that!? Lynn didn't die to be insulted like this, by you, of all people!"

Lori narrowed her eyes. "And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Simple; you claim that Lynn was an idiot, but there's one thing you're ignoring, and it's that she always had her siblings' back!" Ronnie Anne narrowed her eyes. "Something you haven't done at all!"

Lori gritted her teeth. "Fighting at the frontlines and supporting at the sidelines are two different things! In case you've forgotten, Leni and I had to keep the reality of the universe a secret to you for years!"

"Well yeah, but what have you done after that? What have you done after the true reality became common knowledge? You did nothing! Not when the pageant happened, not when Atlantis rose, and certainly not when the zombie apocalypse happened! While the rest of us, including Lynn, have battled for our lives during these events, you stood by the sidelines and watched us suffer!"

"This isn't my fight to fight, Ronnie Anne!" Lori folded her arms. "Leni and I are just meant to be mentors!"

"Mentors? The most you've taught us, hell the most you've taught me, is just how lazy and unhelpful you can really be!" Ronnie Anne swung her arm, despite the pain. "Carol and Leni have been better teachers to us in one lesson than you have been in your entire career!"

Suddenly, Lori generated a lighting sphere. "Take that back."

"Oh, now you react. You do nothing when I remind you of the pain and suffering me and your sisters have gone through, but when your stupid little pride is insulted, suddenly you have to stand up and do something!"

The lighting sphere intensified. "I mean it, Ronnie Anne!"

"Do you really?" Ronnie Anne narrowed her eyes. "Because while I'm not strong enough to backup my claim that I'll beat you, I don't think you're strong enough to backup your own claims either. After all..."

Ronnie Anne smirked.

"Why would you make Carol our teacher if you could teach us yourself?"

Finally, Lori snapped, and the lighting spear transformed into a spear.

"That's it! I don't care if you have any idea what you're talking about, or if you even mean it! I'm going to punish you, and this time, I'm not going to miss!"

Mrs. Santiago tried to stand up, but part of the ground morphed to prevent her from moving, even after activating the green gem on her gauntlet. Undeterred, Lori threw the lighting spear at Ronnie Anne, who flinched as she waited for the inevitable...

And it hit... it just didn't hit Ronnie Anne.

Lori and Ronnie Anne stood stunned as Chandler slowly fell, the lighting spear ludged right into his chest, and remaining there as he hit the ground with loud *thud*

Lori blinked twice while Ronnie Anne immediately flew down to Chandler's side, the boy forming a little smile upon seeing her. "Chandler!"

"Goddamit, Ronnie Anne," he chuckled. "You still have a knack for pissing off the wrong people, I see."

"Why did you do it?!" Ronnie Anne asked, sitting next to the redhead as she glanced at the glowing spear. "Even if you had resistance to lighting, there's no way you would've been able to survive an attack from Lori!"

Ronnie Anne frowned and sniffed. "Just... why?"

Chandler grabbed Ronnie Anne's hand, and the girl turned to see the boy's reassuring smile. "Because ever since we first met, I've made it my mission to protect you. To help you. Even if it costs my life."

Ronnie Anne shed a tear. "I can just feel it, Ronnie Anne: you're going to make a lot of great things for this reality, with or without Lincoln and Clyde by your side. I couldn't just let you today."

"She wouldn't have died!"

The duo turned around and saw Lori looking with disapproval at them, hands on her hips. "Ronnie Anne has more than enough strength to survive one of my attacks. Admit it, the only reason you even took the attack for her was to be the center of attention all over again."

Chandler smirked. "Still pessismistic as ever, I see."

"The first time we met was the only we met, Chandler," Lori narrowed her eyes. "From what I know, you never changed from the abusive little brat you introduced yourself as!"

"Hmph, you're one to talk."

Lori summoned another spear. "Maybe a spear to the head will shut you up for good!"

Suddenly, another fireball was thrown at Lori, this one disintegrating the spear as well. She turned around, and once again, Mrs. Santiago was responsible.

"On second thought..."

Lori created yet another spear and launched it at the woman, whose eyes widened as the spear came towards her at incredible speed... but it never hit her.

Ronnie Anne was in front of her Mom, holding the spear as if it wasn't a literal bolt of lighting shaped into a weapon.

"Ha! See?! She can grab it like it was nothing!" Lori glared at Chandler. "Your little "sacrifice" really was just an attention-grabbing move in the end!"

Chandler, however, simply smiled, which angered Lori in the few seconds before something else caught her attention: Ronnie Anne, her eyes shadowed, snapping the spear out of existence.

"It's one thing to mortally wound Chandler..." she said in a shaky voice. "But... I will never..."

Ronnie Anne lifted her head, revealing her eyes were a shade of sky blue with butterfly-shaped pupils.

"Let you touch my Mom!"

Energy was expelled from Ronnie Anne before a pillar of sky blue light emerged from her spot, shaking the planet and forcing Lori to cover her eyes from the intense light.

"What the hell is going on!?" she exclaimed. "If you're going to transform, then you should be turning into a Raijin or Thunderbird or some kind of transformation from my caste! Just what are you doing!?"

"Can't you figure it out on your own, Lori?" Ronnie Anne's voice spoke, with an audible reverb. "Does everything need to be pointed out to you?"

Lori raised an eyebrow as the light died down, allowing her to uncover her eyes as Ronnie Anne spoke:

"You've insulted your own sister, you've hurt one of my old friends without showing remorse, you refused to help with the progenitors, and you threatened my Mom. And these are just the things I'm aware of, who knows what other horrible things you've done!"

The light surrounding Ronnie Anne slowly disspated, revealing her new form: she had strange markings on her face, with notable circles around her eyes, and behind her back-or maybe her ponytail, it was hard to tell-she had vibrant butterfly-shaped wings of energy, all bathing in a sky blue aura.

"What... even are you right now?"

"I can tell you what I'm not," Ronnie Anne cracked her knuckles. "I'm not part of your caste."

Lori narrowed her eyes and got ready to throw the first attack.

"Not anymore, and never again."


"Well, that certainly seems interesting," Proto-Lisa remarked, scratching her chin with an intrigued look. "Perhaps I should focus on this a little bit longer-"

Suddenly, the entire planet shook once more as the alarms blared once again. This time, without Proto-Lisa prompting it, a screen appeared to show the gadget room, where the divine weapons Gloom and Lupe built were being absorbed into the ground.

"What the hell is going on?!"

Proto-Lisa snapped her fingers, and the box of chocolates was absorbed by the ground, before emerging right into the side of her throne. She grabbed it, and opened it to see the chocolates still inside.

"Phew, at least I got this before it was too late," Proto-Lisa turned back to the screen befuddled. "But who could be taking the divine weapons and why?"

It was then she remembered a forgotten duet.

"Clincoln and Sincoln!"


The embodiment of Lincoln's repressed negativity summoned a pair of divine weapons from the ground, while Clincoln, smug smile still glued on his face, took out the remaining weapons. Sincoln grabbed the weapons, while Clincoln saved his hands on his pockets as the weapons levitated on their own.

The divine evil lunged forward and swung his weapons, which clashed with Clincoln's levitating weapons as the fusion yawned before overwhelming the divine evil with the weapons, slashing and hacking him everywhere.

The divine evil simply regenerated each and every single hit after a few minutes, then pushed the weapons away.

"As we thought, it seems not even the divine weapons can do permanent damage to you."

Sincoln cackled.

"What's so funny?"

"Let me tell you something, Junior: what's the point of someone being ominpotent if they need someone's help to achieve their goals? In fact, wouldn't that be detrimental, like it is right now?"

"What are you talking about?" Clincoln folded his arms. "As far as we know, you're the one losing this fight."

"We're both losers, Junior: I can't defeat you, but you can't defeat me," Sincoln folded his arms. "Sure, right now, you can do everything that you could do on your own, but just as how power ups and transformations don't work the same for you as for other people, the same goes for fusion."

Clincoln narrowed his eyes. "Which means-"

"Right now, "Clincoln McLoud" is weaker than you, Junior, at full power. No matter how much power the fusion unleashes, it'll be nothing compared to your individual powers, and it will also never be enough to truly put me down."

Sincoln smirked. "Simply put, the only one that can actually destroy me for good, is you Junior, on your own."

Clincoln remained silent for a moment, then snickered before he laughed out loud.

"What's so funny?"

"So, that's it! That's why we had a feeling this battle was going nowhere!" Clincoln kept laughing as he scratched the back of his head. "Phew, good to know."

Clincolns glasses shined. "Now we don't need to hold back anymore."

The fusion reeled back and put their hands close to each other, startling the divine evil. "W-What are you doing?"

"If only Lincoln can truly destroy you, Sincoln, then there's only one thing to do!" Clincoln smiled as a sphere of rainbow energy was generated between his palms. "Send you so far away, that when you inevitably return, Lincoln will be waiting, ready to exterminate you! Ka... Me..."

Sincoln tried to keep his composure. "You really think that's going to solve everything? How do you know I won't return earlier?"

"Ha... Me..."

Sincoln took a step back. "H-Hey, are you even listening to me?"

"Ha..."

Sincoln gritted his teeth and lunged at the fusion, ready to transform his arm into the clusterfuck of stuff he used earlier. However, just as he got ready to unleash it, the rainbow sphere appeared right in his face, extended by Clincoln.

"Rem!"

A titanic stream of rainbow energy burst from the sphere, hitting Sincoln head-on and sending him flying off into space, until the beam exploded into a twinkling star, followed by a planet-sized explosion, and what looked to be a crack in space itself.

"Oops."

Clincoln snapped his fingers, and the crack vanished.

"There, good as new."

Clincoln became surrounded by light, and he burst back into Lincoln and Clyde, the former still in Savinoken mode, while the latter had left the Lincoln Buster mode. As soon as they hit the ground, they exchanged looks, then smiled and high-fived each other.

"Whoa, that was... really overwhelming..." Lincoln said as he looked at his hands. "Could that... be how I'll be when I get a control of my powers?"

"We can think about that later," Clyde said as he reached for and grabbed two divine weapons: a pair of swords. "For now, there's one thing we need to take care of."

Clyde and Lincoln shared an understanding nod, and they promptly flew towards their next objective: the castle.