Chapter 635.
"The Science Lady who seeks a deal."
(July 27, the Loud House.)
Just another regular day for everyone in the loud house, and right now Lincoln is going to his bike, so he can see how the eagle eggs are doin, but he still has some other stuff going on within his mind and one of them was the hard talk they had about rusty and how he ended up in serious trouble.
He then recalls another thing he has to do, soon. 'Right, I need to speak with Rocky and see what he has to say. Rusty wants me to talk to him.' Then he spots someone who is good friends, and a crush for Rocky, Lucy Loud.
The Goth girl is underneath the shade of the tree and Bernardo the Black Panther is asleep on the tree branch, above her. Lincoln goes to his little sister who is writing a poem. "Hey, Luce. Can we talk?"
Lucy puts her book down. "Sigh, does this have anything to do with Rocky?"
Lincoln nods. "Yeah, it does. Rusty wants me to talk to him, since Rocky won't listen to his own big brother and he won't even talk to his dad anymore. He needs some talking too."
Lucy then looks to her own cellphone. "Yeah, that's not gonna be an easy thing. For the past three weeks, I haven't gotten a single message from him. He hasn't even attended the summer meetings of the Young Morticians Club, this kinda worries us, but he seems alright."
Lincoln is confused. "What do you mean, Luce?" Patriot then lands on his shoulder.
Lucy puts her phone away. "Well, he hasn't made contact with us, but that doesn't mean we're looking out for him. The others have spotted him being all depressed and stuff, at the local Parks of Ketcham and Tall Timbers, and they even spotted him at the Burpin' Burger acting the same as he normally does."
"I wanna talk to him, but I don't want him to think that I'm meddling with whatever it is he has issues with. I think he wants some alone time to think about everything that's gone down with his brother, but we wanna help him get through this and find some piece of mind and calm his nerves."
Lincoln sighs. "Yeah, alright. Thanks for the information Luce. See you when I get back, and if Rocky does call or text, make sure to tell him that I wanna talk to him tomorrow, anywhere he wishes to meet me." Lucy nods and she watches as Lincoln rides off with Patriot and Valkyrie flying in the sky.
Lucy then looks towards her phone and she sees no other messages from Rocky, and so she thinks to herself about all of this. 'Rocky Spokes, I hope he's doing alright. He's been through a lot since his brother became a joke, and I fear for when he…'
'Wait! That's why he's super miffed out. Because when school is back, then a lot of kids are gonna start laughing at him because of his brother and what he did! Dang it, I have to talk with him, and I don't care what he might say. He has to listen to me and…'
Then she sees she has a message, and it's from rocky. "Wait what?"
Rocky. Luce, I know it's been a long while since we last spoke and seen each other, and you may have known why I haven't bothered to see or talk to you or the others. But, I wanna speak with your brother soon, he's kinda like a surrogate big brother to me.
Lucy smiles seeing this text. "Well, looks like Lincoln is gonna have that talk after all."
(Rosato Mansion.)
Lincoln soon arrives to the Rosato Mansion, but then he sees something parked not too far, and it's a black van and then he sees Jordan, Ryan, Gretchen, Hope and Rick Rosato looking at the van. Then Lincoln goes closer to them.
"Guys, what the heck is going on?"
"That is what's been going on." Ryan points to the black van. "Lincoln, that thing has been parked there all night, and we don't even know what the heck does that thing want or what it stands for."
Jordan then shows Lincoln the tablet. "The cameras also caught this." they see the black van parked at night and a periscope pops up and then goes back in. "That thing has been doing that for the whole night, every 30 minutes, and it's gotten us very concerned."
"I'm planning to call the cops, and even the Allied Outpost about this thing" said Rick. "We're concerned and we fear on what it wants, well multiple reasons on what it wants. Let it be someone whose out for revenge, or someone who wants them."
They look to the eagle sanctuary and spot Harrier and Nora with their eggs. "That makes more sense" said Gretchen. "But might still be someone out for revenge…." They then spot the black van moving. "Oh boy, get ready!"
Lincoln then has his spiked baseball bat, Lucifer, and then Jordan has her weapon, Queen Ready and even the eagles are ready for a fight. They watch as the van gets closer and they all stand back. The door opens and coming out is the woman they never thought they would see back in Royal Woods again.
"Dr. Caroline Linnaeus?!"
The woman looks to all of them and she has a clipboard, and then she adjusts her glasses. "Hello, everyone. You may know who I am."
Jordan scoffs. "Yeah, we know who you are lady. The very same lady who came to our town to take some Pokémon, when clearly they're here to be under protection because they wanna make a home amongst the good folks of Royal Woods."
Lincoln then speaks. "A crazy science lady who'd rather break the law to get what she wants and would care little for the well-being and the life to those she plans to experiment on. At least my little sister, Lisa is not like you anymore."
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus is unamused by their words. "Well, at least you all recall who I am, but I assure you that I am not here under illegal comprehensions. I am here to make a deal with all of you, so please listen to everything that I have to…"
"Not gonna hear it, lady" said Ryan. "We know what you're all about, and no. No deal, lady."
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus didn't like where this is going. "Everyone let me explain what I am here for, and then we can come to an understanding. Now, you know of the eagle mates of the Bald Eagle and North American Golden Eagle, and that they…."
"You're not taking the eggs, lady" said Hope. Yamper and Rockruff bark at her.
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus was now seeing that her deal was not working and so she asks again. "Now, now. You all do not see the true understanding of how fascinating this discovery is. Those two will have a hybrid of two kinds of eagles and I must take them so they can be…"
"You're not studying them or dissecting them you heartless inhuman freak of nature" said Gretchen.
"That's it. I'm making the call." Rick Rosato uses his phone to call Peter Harris, and this was not going well for Dr. Caroline Linnaeus.
She then tries to reason with them again. "Listen to me! What you are all basking into is the next generation of the greatest discovery in all of biological research and I must be the one to study and know on how they managed to create such a creature! You all cannot see the bigger picture here!"
"Oh, we see clearly." Lincoln walks up to her. "We see someone who doesn't give a damn about life, who doesn't know what it's like to have a family and doesn't even understand the whole purpose of us making sure they stay healthy and alive."
"All you care about is your heartless and dark science that would end up benefiting you and bringing ruin to others. You don't see people and others as living beings, all you see are experiments. You don't care if others get hurt or killed when you begin doing stuff to them, you just act heartless with no soul."
"And that reminds me, how are you even a top notch scientist, when your lab was shut down? Because it seems to me, you're looking for some way to bring Incognito Labs back into action, after FutureTech shut down the whole facility after last year's stunt when you tried to snatch some Pokémon."
"Well, this is suddenly sounding like a sick, twisted and demented villain thing" said Jordan.
Hope looks into the van. "Do you live here?" She sees a bed, chair, TV, some device and left over food.
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus turns red from being embarrassed. "What?! No, this is my scouting quarters! I do not live here, I certainly do not need to be at one place to do my job, and the lab is not shut down!"
Ryan looks through social media. "Sure looks that way. Says here the place has been rebuilt into a shuttle launch site for FutureTech and N.A.S.A, along with some other advanced space exploration company. So, you are homeless and ruined."
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus is now losing her patience. "You are going to hand over those eagle eggs and I will regain what I have lost! This is all your fault why I was shut down! All because you and you're caring for living things!"
"Which is why you're gonna be locked up, for good." The woman turns around and she's surrounded by Peacekeeper's, and then police cars show up, and helicopters with news crews who see the woman from last year. Peter Harris steps forward. "You are in a heap of trouble, lady."
Dr. Caroline Linnaeus then rushes to her black van and she drives off. "I will be back!"
Peter Harris looks to his troops. "Alright, people. Let's take her down!" They go into their vehicles and they give chase, and the news choppers also follow them to see how this goes.
They all sigh in relief after what happened. "That was too close" said Lincoln. They all look towards Harrier and Nora and the duo are checking on their eggs and smile, they're five eggs who are bound to become something more soon.
"Well, we should go and check how they're doing." Jordan and the others go towards the eagle sanctuary, while Rick Rosato goes into his car and also follows the troops to see how the whole thing goes when they catch Dr. Caroline Linnaeus.
But Lincoln is now concerned. 'They better catch that lady, if she does escape… Then she'll be after the eagle eggs, and that's gonna be bad. We have to make sure she doesn't slip away, she's evil science reincarnated. I hope we can counter her if she comes back.'
Then he has an idea. 'Wait, Martin McKenzie, the head of FutureTech was the one who shut down Incognito Labs. Perhaps he can help us, but we're gonna have to wait for when he does respond. I hope he's gonna be available.'
To be continued in the next chapter.
A/N: Well, the science lady from the shutdown facility is being chased down, and let's hope they do catch her before she does anything else dangerous. But for now, they should be ready for what comes next and that's for Lincoln to speak with Rocky Spokes. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Also, Martin McKenzie is not going to be available, because he's gonna be busy with something else, and that something else involves parallel dimensional search and possibly a fight.
Date made: 6/21/21 – 6/22/21.
