Chapter 5

We're gonna skip to Friday a.k.a the day Lincoln brings Jordan to their first date, at the Spellman estate Lincoln looks at himself in the mirror "This is it man, the day you've been waiting for, a date with your long time crush, I'm ready, so ready!" Lincoln says to himself then hears a knock on the door "Hey sport, you ready or what?" Neil asks then the door opens revealing Lincoln wearing something very fancy (from the story A Sparking Relationship) "Let' get it on!" Lincoln says "That's the spirit kiddo" Neil replies as they head out of the house and into Neil's car "You got this bro!" "Have fun Linky!" "Make her feel special!" "Poo-poo!" the rest of the family cheers for him as they take off.

On their way Neil looks at Lincoln from his rear view mirror "You look nervous kid" Neil says "First time jitters?" as Lincoln looks at him "Sort of" Lincoln responds "Hey no matter what happens, I do know one thing" Neil says "Neither of you are gonna give up on this relationship, you two are pretty much on the same level of being smitten with each other, I've seen how you two glance from afar, there's no way in hell that you two weren't meant to be, trust me" hearing this made Lincoln confident "Yeah, yeah your right!" Lincoln says "There's the fire in the eyes!" Neil says as they speed their way to the Rosato residence.

They eventually arrive at their destination, Lincoln gets out of the car and walks towards the house 'Go get her son' Neil says to himself as Lincoln takes a deep breath and rings the doorbell, it then opens revealing Richard Rosato "Oh Lincoln! You're just in time! Jordan honey! He's here!" he calls out and coming down the stairs was his princess in all her beauty Jordan! He just watches as she approaches him as if it were in slow motion "Hey" Jordan greets "Hey" Lincoln replies as they both blush red "Well we should get going" Lincoln says as he offers his hand to hers "What a gentleman" Jordan says as the two head towards Neil's car "Have fun you two" "Be safe" her parents call out as the Mercedes drives off "She's in good hands" they both say in unison.

On the drive Neil looks at the two kids looking away from each other but he does notice their hands still holding, Neil just smiles and focuses on getting them to their destination, in which they soon arrive at Bangers n' Mosh "I can't believe you chose this place" Neil says "It's the one place that doesn't remind me of you know" Lincoln looks to Neil, who then realizes what he means "Oh okay, I'll pick you guys up later" as he drives off.

The two enter and get into their reserved seats "This is nice" Jordan says "It's much nicer with you here" Lincoln says as Jordan blushes at his comment, eventually they pick out there order of fried chicken with some mashed potatoes on the side, after some good conversation and a few laughs after dinner the two begin to take their leave, though Jordan had no idea where he was taking her, they then arrive at their destination Ketchum park, but for some reason the gate was open, not too far Neil is parked watching them from afar while spinning the keys to the park "All according to plan" Neil says, then Lincoln brings Jordan to sit on the grass near the large pond, she questions why they were there "And now" Lincoln says as fireflies start to appear everywhere making the whole scenery beautiful "Wow this is… just….. How?" Jordan looks to Lincoln "I did my research and found out that this was time fireflies were coming out and at the same time this" as the clouds move away revealing the full moon creating a beautiful ambience throughout the park making her eyes sparkle at the sight, Lincoln just stares at her beauty which catches her attention, they slowly bring their faces closer until "I love you" they both mutter before they finally kiss, showing how they truly feel for each other, like back in the hospital, while Neil just watches "That's my boy" he whispers to himself enjoying the beautiful moment between the two young lovers.

Later they arrive at the Rosato residence "I had a great time" Jordan says "It was more than great from my perspective" Lincoln replies "Oh you" Jordan closes the gap and they kiss once more "See you around?" Jordan asks "You can call me" Lincoln says as Jordan giggles then heads back inside while Lincoln heads back to Neil's car "You did good son" Neil says to Lincoln "I know" was all he could say as he watches the Rosato's house disappear from view.

The Following morning Lincoln wakes up at 5:58 to find his dad looking through some of the things to cook for breakfast "Dad?" Neil turns "Oh hey sport, what are you doing up?" Neil asks "I could be asking you the same thing" Lincoln responds "Just an early bird I guess, you?" Lincoln opens the fridge to get some eggs "Couldn't sleep, was thinking about Jordan" as Neil smiles "Yup, your smitten, you wanna help me make breakfast before the family wakes up?" Neil asks "Sure, just let me change into something more descent" Lincoln says as he heads back to his room to take a shower and then help his dad make breakfast.

Later as the day goes on Leni is reading her work book in the library, Luna is in the backyard tuning her guitar while watching over Lily, Gwen is tending to the roses, Harv is doing the laundry, Neil is already passed out on the hammock also in the backyard and Lincoln is not in the house, earlier Lincoln asked his dad if her could take him to the mall so he can hang out with Jordan, in which he is there with Jordan picking out clothes, Jordan thinks they should go check out some comic nut he tells her that he has some at the house he hasn't finished yet and offered if she would like to come by later, which she kindly accepted then he texts his dad, at the Spellman estate Neil's phone goes off and he falls from the hammock "What? Hello?" "Oh okay then" "I'll be there soon" he then puts his phone away and gets to his car passing by Gwen "Off to pick up Lincoln and Jordan be right back!" as Gwen just waves as he drives off.

They eventually return home with Jordan she was truly amazed at the house "Whoa this place looks awesome" Jordan says "Welcome back Neil and Lincoln" Harv greets "Oh that must be Harv! It's good to actually hear from you since I can't really see you" Jordan says "why thank you Ms. Rosato" Harv replies "Please, just call me Jordan" she replies "Of course", soon the two kids go into Lincoln's room and they start reading the comics Lincoln has which makes them interested "Whoa this wonder woman, is pretty awesome I feel inspired by her" Jordan says "I feel like I've been down this guy's road" Lincoln says as he's reading Spider-man, soon Lunch rolls on by "Mr. Spellman this Macaroni and Cheese is amazing" Jordan compliments "Why thank you my dear" Neil replies to her "Told you he's a good cook" Lincoln says "More like amazing cook" Gwen says as she kisses her husband's cheek "It's good to finally meet you Jordan, even though you've seen me before, but still" Gwen greets to her "It's nice to see you Mrs. Spellman, and I have to say you look really pretty" Jordan says "Thank you Jordan" Gwen replies then looks at Lincoln "You got yourself a keeper there son" making Lincoln blush "Mom" Lincoln says to her as Neil laughs, after lunch they join Luna in her bedroom since Lily's taking her nap and they jam out together, luckily the rooms are all soundproof, Lincoln gets on the drums, Luna pulls out her axe, but what shocks them is that Jordan is actually good on the key board, alas all good things have to end and it was time for Jordan to head on home "I had a really great time here Linky" Jordan says to him "I had a great time too" Lincoln says as they share a kiss before Neil takes her home.

Eventually time rolls on under Lincoln's permission Neil has been toughening him up with the exercise gear in the basement, they do take early morning jogs on weekends he eventually gets strong enough to lift a dumb bell with one arm and is good at climbing whether it was rope or a tree and has taken up a liking in dodge ball crowning him as the dodge ball king along with Jordan as his queen, days eventually turn to weeks fast as Leni finishes her reeducating and was actually improving, she now understands sarcasm and is no longer the gullible, ditzy, air headed blonde everyone know, though she's not that intelligent, her knowledge is now that of a regular teenage girl with a true understanding about everything, as her final day arrives Gwen goes through her results while Leni sits on the couch nervous of what might happen "Well I can't exactly say much but, You passed!" Gwen says as Leni cheers "Thank you mom! For everything!" Leni hugs Gwen who returns the embrace "I knew you could do it sweetie" Gwen replies while Neil watches them "Leni?" Luna/Lincoln say as they came back from school "Guess what you guys?!" Leni goes towards them and smiles "You passed!" they then hug her "Not so fast there Leni" they stop to look at Neil "There's just one more thing" Neil says as he hands her a book "Read this tonight, and I'll be seeing you tomorrow eight am sharp" as Neil goes upstairs, Leni looks at the book and gasps.

The following morning exactly eight-o-clock sharp Leni leaves the house and sees her dad "You ready?" Neil asks as Leni nods. Then Lincoln calls out "Let's do this" they then see none other than Danny from Counting Cars "Let's do this kid" Danny says as he holds a check list and boards inside Neil's car along with Leni and they drive off to start her driving lesson, the family wave good bye "You worried she might crash your ride?" Gwen asks "Not worried at all" Neil smiles knowing that she will pass, later after one hour they spot the recedes coming back and still in one piece the window rolls down to reveal Leni in the driver's seat and then Danny comes out holding the list "Passed man" he says as the family cheers "Congratulations Leni!" "You did it!" "Yay Weni!" her siblings congratulate her "Thanks you guys" then Danny approaches her "This is yours kid" as she looks at her driver's license "I have my license!" Leni says cheerfully "And this!" Neil says getting their attention.

Neil and Danny nod and yell "Bring that beautiful baby out!" coming from their garage was a mist green Ford Edsel that was being controlled by Harv making Leni's eyes wide at the sight of the vehicle "This is yours Leni" Neil says and the rest of the family looks in shock "Neil found this thing at an auction, turns out there were some parts missing especially on the engine, we had to refurbish the whole shebang, with a couple of modifications to fit in with today's cars and a new paint job, it was pretty ugly when we saw it, but your dad saw some potential to make it into the beauty you drive now" Danny explains "I know it's not your birthday, I just thought you deserve this" Neil says as Leni hugs him tightly "Thank you so much dad! I love it!" "Okay Leni! Can you let me go before I pass out from the lack of oxygen?" Leni then releases her hug and Neil stampers back a bit "That looked suffocating" Danny jokes "We should celebrate! I'm driving!" Leni says as the family agrees and boards the car "You too Danny!" Leni calls to him "Oh no I couldn't possibly-""You helped me pass my driving test, you helped me get my license and helped my dad get this car, it's the least I can do!" Danny decides "What the heck let's go!" as he boards the car and they drive off to wherever they could celebrate.

On the following school day vanzilla drives for Royal Woods elementary till a green car passes them "Whoa what?" Lori says "What was that?" Lola says as they drive towards the school and then see the car in front of the school "whoa a Ford Edsel" Lana says "I didn't think those cars would still be in service" Lisa adds, then they see Lincoln getting off, Luna in the back and Leni in the driver's seat which causes eyes to go wide "Leni has a car?!" they all say and soon it drives off "Whoa your sister has a car now?" Jordan asks "Pretty much, I'll tell ya on the way" Lincoln says as the two lovers enter the school, at Royal Woods Elementary Carol and the others wait for the return of Leni Loud, they then spot a green car with Luna coming out and Leni from the driver's seat "Leni?" they all say "Hey guys! I'm back!" Leni says "You have a car now?" Jackie says still in shock, then Leni tells them how she got it while Luna heads off inside, soon her friends congratulate her on her reeducation, while Lori watches as her former sister has succeeded at what she couldn't teach her 'Congrats Leni' she smiles.

Soon Two months have passed and word has gone out that Luan Loud sentence is complete and is returning to Royal Woods, the louds prepare for her return, while on the outskirts of town multiple authority vehicles wait on the roadside along with Neil's car and then they spot the white van as it passes they all follow it into town, everyone who sees the convoy get nervous at what may happen.

At the loud house they finish cleaning Luan's room until they hear sirens" Kids she's coming" Pop-pop calls to them and they all race out the door and see multiple black suburban's and a white van between them leading the convoy was a black Mercedes, then from the back of the van they see Luan smiling at them as if she finally found her home again "Hey everyone" Luan greets as they race towards her in a group hug "We missed you Luan" they all say "I missed you guys too, it wasn't fun being there with a lot of strange people" Luan replies "And don't worry I'm no longer the Psychopathic April Fool's maniac as before I've learned my mistake and I'm ready to rejoin society" they all cheer "Though I might still make puns" as they all laugh (sort of) she looks around "Hey where's Leni, Luna, Lincoln and Lily?" Luan asks as the sisters look nervous then they see Neil get out of his car and look at them "Okay boys shows over" as the other vehicles scatter "You should tell her" Neil says as he drives off "Tell me what? What's going on?" Luan looks at them in confusion "It think it's best to tell you inside" Lori says as they all gather in the living room.

They then explain to Luan what has happened after she was taken away "So they're not coming back?" Luan asks "I don't think they'll be coming back here for a long time" Lisa says "Oh" was the only thing Luan could say "I'm gonna be upstairs" Luan says as she heads to her room, she's surprised how less crowded it was without Luna, she sees all of her comedy props are still there, her funny business phone looks like it hasn't had any calls then there was Mr. coconuts sitting by the mirror eyes closed and he looks like he was cleaned recently, Luan heads to her lower bunk and cries herself to sleep, while apologizing for all she's done, the sisters and pop-pop hear this and feel pity for her "Let's give her some space girls" their grandfather says as they walk back to their rooms.

Neil makes it back home and sees the family in the living room "Luan's back? "Lincoln asks "Yes" Neil replies "Figures, looks like I'll be seeing her at school tomorrow huh?" Luna asks while tuning her axe "Pretty much" Neil replies "I'm gonna go bake cookies" Neil says "I'll help you dad" Leni offers as they both head to the kitchen, the following day Luan and Lori arrive at Royal woods high school and all the students look towards them, mostly at the returning clown and they start whispering, but the one who looked at her with a glare was Luna while Leni looked at her with pity, Luan tries avoid eye contact with Luna as she passes by 'This is gonna be harder on everyone than I thought' Lori says to herself.

The following week Neil leaves his room and gets ready to leave and then sees his kids and thinks to himself "Hey kids" Neil greets "Hey dad/Pops" they greet back "Headed to work?" Lincoln asks "Well more like meeting up with a colleague, though I was thinking, how would you guys like to tag along?" they look to him in confusion "What?" "Really?" "Where you're going?" they all ask "Yeah, I think it's about time you got to see my work place, what do you say?" Neil says "Yeah!" they all cheer.

Later the family drives straight for Washington DC, Neil, Gwen with Lily in the Mercedes and Leni, Luna and Lincoln in the Edsel, they park their vehicles near a large building with the a large sign that says FutureTech "You guys are gonna love this" Neil says as they enter through the doors, they see holograms of different inventions from across the centuries fly by them "Whoa dude!" "This is so cool" "It's like walking through history" "Ooooh!" the kids say as they follow their parents.

They enter a warehouse sized room with multiple inventions and machines being sorted and inspection "Spellman" they see Martin McKenzie "Martin, good to see you" Neil greets and shakes his hand "I see you brought the kids" Martin sees them "Hey Mr. McKenzie" they greet "Hey there kiddo's" martin replies "come on let me show you around" as they follow him "Here at FutureTech we take great pride at what we do, our science here is the balance between innovation and imagination, we work in with both weapons departments and social services to people's everyday lives" he explains as they see all of their stuff "All of this technology makes Lisa's work look like child's play" Leni says "Thank you Leni and it's good to hear you sound a little smart for once" they pass by so many things mostly weapons from Robot looking tanks, a tank that changed into a tree and dog collars that increase their bark, then Luna spots something odd and almost touches it "Whoa there Lunes, careful, those are Cryo containers" martin says "What are they used for?" Luna asks "Well we send them straight to one of our FutureTech space stations to rearm the Cryogeddon beam" martin explains "Cryogeddon?" Luna looks at the containers "The Cryogeddon is a massive ice blast from the sky, once it makes contact with the surface it will freeze anything in a one hundred mile radius, people will still be alive just frozen but if they get hurt by maybe a bullet then they will shatter like a broken puzzle" martin explains making Lincoln stunned "That sounds scary" Neil puts his hand on his shoulder "Then lucky it's on our side" they then walk off to follow martin, Luna looks at the containers feeling like she's drawn to them 'Why does this feel kinda familiar? Like I've been through this before!' she then shrugs it off and follows the others not noticing the containers glass slowly forms a snowflake like image.

As they keep looking around martin then brings them to another room and they see a large machine "And this is the heart of FutureTech's greatness" as they stare in awe "I present to you the Chronosphere Device!" seeing the large dome like machine "This baby was the last of Einstein's greatest inventions" Martin says "What does it do?" asks Leni "I'm glad you asked, with this machine we have the ability to instantly transport our front line forces anywhere on the planet and assault the enemy without them even knowing what the hell is going on" as Lincoln realizes "A teleportation device!" martin smiles "Quick understanding there Lincoln, it can carry a large group to a distant location, though there were some flaws when we found this thing" "What kind of flaws?" asked Luna "When we first tried this, it turns out it could only transport none organic materials, if a human or animal goes through they would be killed instantly, but I was able to fix the problem and now we can teleport just about anything through without any mishaps" Martin smiles "Awesome" Lincoln replies "Though I'm still trying to reconfigure it, to see if I can be able to open portals to other dimensions!" making them look at him with shock "Really?" Leni says "Well I'm trying, I still have a lot of work to go through, and well I guess that about wraps things up here, let's get something to eat from the cafeteria" they all follow.

As they follow martin Lincoln spots something under a white sheet "Lincoln?" Neil looks to see Lincoln getting everyone's attention, Lincoln approaches the strange object and removes the sheet revealing a strange looking bike it had a long front where the engine would be, the battery is already attached, the eats weren't added yet, it has pedals on each side and two large turbines on the rear, but what caught Lincoln's attention, it was hovering off the ground "What is this?" Lincoln asks "That my dear boy is one of our prototype tactical assault vehicles, we call it the Vulture Bike" Martin explains "How come I've never heard of it? And why isn't it complete?" Neil asks "Well we had a few complications with the other vulture marks, overheating compartments, the cold fusion rods could freeze the exhausts or how I would put it in terms become a living missile" martin says "Yikes! That sounds scary man!" Luna replies "so what mark is this?" Lincoln asks touching the bikes frame "Well let's see…. Mark one blew up…. Two was on fire….. Three fell into the sea and four? I don't know it flew somewhere into the atmosphere, Mark five! Though we decided to discontinue because we had other projects to deal with" martin says, Neil sees the way Lincoln looks at it "How much?" Neil asks Martin and the family look at him as well in confusion "What?" they all say even Lincoln "I said how much?" Neil asked again then martin looks at Lincoln then back to Neil "Are you sure chief?" martin asks with worry as Neil just glares at him "I'll have the blueprints go with it" as Martin heads into his office "Neil, explain" Gwen asks him in a serious tone along with the others "I'd like to think of it as a project, that me and my son can do together" Lincoln looks at Neil "Really?" Neil nods at him "But you heard what he said about the other ones1" Leni says in worry "Actually the others blew up I didn't say this one was marked as a failure" martin says returning with the schematics "Which means this wasn't finished, so nothing bad has happened" Lincoln adds "Yet" Martin clarifies and hands Neil the papers, Luna looks to Lincoln and goes down to his level "Are you sure about this Lincoln?" Lincoln looks her in the eyes "I feel like I'm drawn to it, so yes I'm sure and I will try to be careful" Lincoln replies as Luna smiles "I trust him guys, let's let him have this" Leni and Gwen look at each other and smile knowing they can trust Lincoln "I guess I'm on board" "Me too" "Poo-poo" Lincoln hugs them "Thanks guys" then martin intervenes "If you're going to finish this machine, you're gonna need supplies, I'll send someone to drop off the materials you need tomorrow" Lincoln looks to his dad "Thanks martin" he shakes hands with him "Now let's get back to lunch!" as they follow martin to the cafeteria Lincoln looks back at the bike and smiles feeling excited for what's in store for him.

While they head to the cafeteria Luna still can't shake the feeling of when she encountered the Cryo containers, Neil notices this and gets curious at her expression 'She's been acting like this since she saw those…. Cryo containers!' Neil thinks to himself and tries to shrug it off but has a bad feeling about all of this.

To be continued…

A lot of stuff being put into this chapter, I don't know what to think but I guess you guys can figure out what it may all mean, especially Luna, leave a review.