Author's Note: After being horrendously sick for a week (which included a trip to the hospital), I'm back with a new chapter. I would like to thank Wolvenstrom for beta reading this chapter for me.

It had been 2 weeks since Lincoln had stayed the night with Stella and during that time she had gone out on multiple dates with Lincoln as well as with the other girls in his harem due to her having to pass the tests. First, she had to look at a picture of Lincoln and tell the girls how she exactly felt about Lincoln, needles to say, she passed that test with both flying colors and a few tears of happiness while telling them.

Next came the eating test, the girls decided to cut her some slack with this one for obvious reasons. All Stella had to deal with 2 appetizers, 3 main meals, and 4 desserts into her stomach when she was out on her dates with the girls. It was quite the struggle, but she managed to succeed in that. And finally, she came to the third test which was put at the end of each date, this was the test Stella had problems with, the first girl she had to be with was Lucy. It was slow starting at first, with Lucy having to jump-start the interaction, but soon Stella started responding. At first, she was curious because this was the first time she had ever seen another girl fully naked, let alone a fat girl. She had started by exploring Lucy's body, which the pail-skinned girl enjoyed a lot before she started to get more into it.

Once they had finished, Stella had admitted that she had enjoyed that much more than she thought she would. By the time she came to her colossal breasted counterpart, she was into girls, just as much as boys…or at least she was into girls just as much as she was into Lincoln. Though both of them admitted at one point they were confused about whether this counted as sex or 'self-love'. After her time with her counterpart, the women and Lincoln welcomed Stella into their harem. Lincoln's sisters and extended family were all ecstatic that Lincoln now had another addition to his harem, the Loud's however weren't as happy though. Rita still had problems with the Lard's as well as her former son being in a harem instead of just having one girl. Lynn Sr. wasn't too thrilled at this news either, though not as much as his wife, but he accepted it. Lyle was happy for them and congratulated them all with a big hug each. Lily just found it a bit weird, but still, she was happy for them. Lisa was a bit iffy on the subject, but she knew that she was already on extremely thin ice with this family, so she wisely kept her mouth shut. And finally, Lynn had been the most vocal about it calling Lincoln a disgusting sex-crazed pervert who keeps racking in whore's to use to get off. The next thing Lynn knew, she was sulking in her room through two cheeks red and swollen and covered in handprints.

Over the past 2 weeks, Jordan had been sleeping over at Stella's place for the woman's safety, during that time there had been 3 attempts to break in, unfortunately, Jordan had been unable to catch them with them seemingly just disappearing. Jordan had managed to shoot at them once in the third encounter before they still managed to get away which she hoped would show them that she meant business and deter them from making any further attempts at breaking in.

Stella arrived home having been in a foul mood for almost the entire day. Jorden, having just gotten back to Stella's house a few minutes earlier, noticed the look on Stella's face "oooh looks like someone had a bad day" Jordan said

"That's putting it lightly, that scum heap Liam came into the store today" Stella stated, this put Jordan on alert

"Did he touch or do anything to you?"

"No, hell he wouldn't even look above my chest" Jordan's hands tightened into fists at that "I amazingly was able to keep a professional attitude around him, but every word that came out of his mouth made me want to punch them back in"

"What did he want?"

"He hadn't updated his phone in ages to the point where he could no longer use it, so I had to help him unlock it and update it"

"Did he say anything bad?"

"No, heck he hardly spoke at all"

"…did he even know it was you?" Stella was about to reply to that when she realized he hadn't even looked her in the eyes to see her face, so either he didn't know that it was her, or he had seen her before walking in but chose not to acknowledge that it was her. Either way, she was still not happy that he came within a thousand meters of her. "I'll make a report about that tomorrow, as far as I know, he's still under parole, though to me, and I'm not taking his side, it sounds like it was an accidental encounter rather than him purposely coming directly to you"

"Maybe, I'm still pissed off that he was so close to me"

"That's understandable, well we've both had tough days, what's say we order Chinese and watch a few movies" Stella smiled at this

"Sounds like a plan to me"

Meanwhile

An exhausted Liam trudged into his room. Ever since he had gotten out of Juvie, his dad had been working his day in and day out to the point where he's simply collapsed from exhaustion like he had earlier today. Stopping in the center of his room he gave an exhausted sigh before he heard his door close, turning around, his eyes widened as he saw a large figure now standing in front of the door "hello Liam, it's been a while" the figure removed their hood, revealing themselves to be Rusty

"Y-hmmph"

"Shhh, you want people to hear?" Rusty whispered as he had a hand on Liam's mouth and the back of his head, he then put an uncomfortable amount of pressure on Liam's head to indicate to him to be quiet.

When Rusty removed his hands Liam spoke in a quiet tone "what the hell are you doing here?"

"Just dropping in on an old friend who currently has a lot of problems going on in their life"

"Problems I wouldn't have if you hadn't have forced me to do something that stupid"

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway I'm here to make you an offer you can't refuse"

"Not interested, piss off"

"Now don't be too hasty. You heard what happened to Zach right?"

"Yeah, he…" Liam trailed off as he realized how bulky Rusty now was "y-y-you did that?"

"Yep, I don't like it when people don't let me talk Liam" Liam remembered hearing about it on the news

"What do you want?"

"Just two little things. Stella with my last name And 2. And Lincoln's head over my fireplace *raises his hand* yes Lincoln is alive, I first saw him at the park a few weeks ago, and as far as I can tell he has gotten with Stella" Liam's stomach churned a bit at this

"And if I refuse" He didn't like how his old friend had his hand still on his shoulder

"D'aawww. It's funny you think you have a choice. You've turned into a regular comedian. Maybe we should take this act downstairs for your family to see. Maybe have a word with your daddy about your cousin's mystery kid" Liam paled at the thought of that secret coming out.

Despite being a pariah among everybody else in his family Liam had at least two confidants on his side. His little sister Emma, and his cousin Becca. The two believed him when nobody else did and felt for him, especially when he told them that Rusty had forced him and Zach to do what they did. After he had gotten out they had been both shocked and angry at his dad for making Liam start doing the work of 10 men all by himself. Emma was nice for a sympathetic ear sure, but she was too young to really help him. Becca on the other hand was always there to lend a hand whether his pa liked it or not. Staring the man dead in the eye as she helped her cousin work as if daring him to tell her off. Supporting him when nobody else could or would. Letting him feel human from time to time and...well...as much as he'd been ashamed to admit, he had noticed that she'd grown into a gorgeous and heavily curved woman a pair of daisy dukes and pigtails away from looking like a textbook farmers daughter stereotype. Liam really wished at times the one girl his age that'd talk to him wasn't his cousin or that she wasn't so...her. Fighting against himself for years until one day their father headed out of town for the weekend to do some business. Depression and attempted comfort combined with more liqueur hidden about the house than their father remembered he'd hidden from their ma and...well at least in this regard they were glad they were totally blackout drunk. 9 months later Olivia came into the world. The two knew the origin of Olivia, but they wisely chose to keep it a secret alongside Emma. They made up a story that she got curious about a boy she was hanging out with. Liam managed to do his fair share of helping raise Olivia, having just recently turned 2, when he had the energy to do so.

"You're fucking cousin?" He said with more amusement than disgust "You're one sick Deliverance hillbilly stereotype bastard." He chuckled as Liam raised his hands to just above his hairline with his nails digging into his skin like he was prepared to rip off his face "your cousin. Your damn cousin. It's a miracle that kid came out with only two eyes."

"We didn't mean it!" He snapped.

"And I didn't mean to mistake Zach for a Stretch Armstrong, but it happened. And it can't unhappen."

"…what do I get out of this?"

"You help me, and I'll have my friend send you to somewhere they won't even know your name. A clean slate. Your pa won't ever bother with you again. Hell if you want you can take your cousin-wife and your little bastard with you. Maybe your sister to. Nobody has to find out anything So what do you say?"

Liam was stuck between a rock and a hard place, on the one hand, he could help his former friend do something horrible and end up living a better life. But on the other hand, if he chose to do the right thing and not help Rusty, he'll be dead in the next minute. Closing his eyes, he stuck his hand out "fine, I'll help you"

"Good, you won't regret this"

'I already am' Liam thought

"Come to this address tomorrow at 11 am, and don't worry, I'm sure your pa won't mind," Rusty said as he gave Liam a piece of paper before he twisted a ring on his finger and vanished in front of Liam

"Oookaaay, I'm just gonna lie down in my bed now," he said to himself before he did say action.

He didn't fall asleep for hours

After waking up and finding the piece of paper Rusty had given him, confirming that what happened last night wasn't a horrible dream, Liam did his back-breaking, soul-crushing work until it hit 10 am o'clock where his pa said he could have the rest of the day off…in an unnerving monotone. As he walked to the location Rusty wanted to meet him at, his pick-up truck on the fritz again, he turned a corner and bumped into someone. The two locked eyes and Liam's heart stopped. It may have been over a decade since they last saw each other, but there was no mistaking who the person standing in front of him was the snow-white hair and chipped tooth being a dead giveaway. He almost started crying at how much he had to crane his neck to look up at him. This wasn't fair. Why was 'everybody' who wanted to kick his ass twice his size?

Lincoln's eyes widened before they narrowed as a scowl came to his face "Liam, it's been a while" Lincoln said in a low tone

"Y-yeah it has"

"I know what you did all those years ago, you piece of scum"

"What did he do?" the innocent voice of Lyle rang out, Lincoln turned his head a bit to look at his little brother, the two had been on their way to the park when they bumped into Liam

"You know the Stella that just became my girlfriend?"

"Yeah?"

"Well 10 years ago, this scum bag and his friends touched her in a very very bad way"

"He hit her?!"

"Uh something like that" Lincoln then turned his attention back to Liam before he picked him up by the straps of his overalls "you know what Hunnicutt, I think I'll fulfill a ten-year-old promise," he said, but Liam didn't even resist

"Nuttin' you do can be any worse than the whuppin's a got in the joint every day. Or the tannin' ma granny gave ma back hyde when a got home or all the extra work pa's makin' me do. Far as he's concerned they didn't send me home, they sent me to a labor camp till he decides I'm not a work mule. A got ache n bruises on aches n bruises. All you'll be doing is beatin' a dead horse" Lincoln glared at Liam before dropping him, he just wasn't worth it "A get a few hours a day off-farm. And a worker to report into to keep me out a trouble"

"Then why did you go to see Stella yesterday?"

Liam began freaking at this "Stella! Where!"

"The girl you talked to in the apple store. The Filipina with the large chest you were staring at while she was talking to you"

"I was too busy thinkin' to pay attention to much a anything yesterday. I honestly didn't notice any of that. Not her being a Filipina. Not her chest. I don't even look at girls anymore except...I'll have to report that to my parole officer, just in case it gets back to him first"

Lincoln frowned "is there anything you want to say to me?" Liam sighed

"There's a lot of stuff I could say, but it wouldn't make what me Rusty and Zach did not happen, so the best thing I can do is avoid everyone like the plague"

"Just keep your nose clean, or else. Come on Lyle" and the two left, Liam breathed a sigh of relief. Getting back to his feet he continued heading to the location Rusty wanted to meet him at.

He finally arrived at the old bottling factory that had been shut down for 7 years now. Finding the front gate open he walked in and entered the building finding Rusty and another man standing with him "Ah perfect timing Liam" Rusty said

"Yeah, so how is this plan to get Stella to be yours going to work?"

"That's where my friend here comes in, Liam, this is Ryan Shervis, Clyde's cousin"

"…You do know Clyde's a cop now"

"Don't care. Anyway, Ryan here is an absolute genius, he's made a special gas that once inhaled by a female, will brainwash them and make them loyal to you forever"

"Well, technically it takes time for it to work. And it's not so much brainwashing as it is Pavlovian condition..." Ryan paused as he realized who he was talking to. "It will, with the right outside stimulus cause the brain to associate things you want it to with pain or pleasure. With my gas you can train Ms. Zhau into feeling pleasure in obeying you and pain in disobeying you. In other words, you can make it hurt for her to not love you." Ryan explained.

Liam felt sick hearing this "and where do I come into this?"

"How do you think?" He rapped the side of his head with his knuckles as a pit opened in Liam's stomach just like it did all those years ago "However before we do that you're going to help me lure Lincoln here while using Stella as bait, and help me kill him"

"Uh no offense Rusty, but I don't think I have the strength to take on Lincoln, let alone kill him"

Ryan waved it off "I happen to know that Lincoln's strength and muscle mass is a mostly direct result of a strength-enhancing serum he's taken," Ryan said

"Like the stuff you gave me?" Rusty asked while flexing a bit

"I suppose, in the same way a BB-gun and a cracker and dynamite are both explosives." He turned to Liam "Rusty tells me about the predicament you're in, as well as the consequences you're sure to receive should he tell your secret"

"Yes" Liam muttered

"Well if you help us kill Lincoln, I could send you, your cousin, and your daughter to my dimension where incest is perfectly legal, and you two can start a new life there"

"Another dimension?"

"Yes, that's where the Lincoln of this dimension has been for the past decade"

"And what exactly do you get out of all of this?"

"Well, I have my reasons for Lincoln's demise, plus this also gives me a chance to see how my Super-Roids, or as I'm going to try and market them as Hercul-oids affect a person when they're under a lot of stress"

"Okay then, so when do we start this thing?"

"Tonight, I'll pick you up later, just be ready," Rusty said

"Okay…by the way, how did ya get my pa to let me off the farm?"

"It's amazing how soft a hard-ass becomes when you keep putting bricks of money in front of them until they nod" Liam frowned a bit at that. His pa might have been a hardass, but at the very least he'd thought the man had integrity. It was part of the reason he'd felt such shame at disappointing him. Finding out he'd taken a bribe suddenly made Liam's decision a lot easier.

"Okay then, so is that it?"

"Yeah, for now. I'll pick you up at 6 tonight"

"Okay, but you'd better keep your word about sending me Becca and Olivia and Emma to another dimension"

"Oh don't worry, I'm a man of my word" Ryan stated, and with that Liam left

"Are you going to send him to another dimension?" Rusty asked

"Of course…he'll just have nothing for himself there and will have to start from the bottom and work his way up"

"Kind and cruel…I love it"

Later

After another tiring day at work, both Stella and Jordan were slumped on the couch, lazily watching the news. Suddenly there was a knock on the door "I'll get it" Jordan said as she got up. not even thinking that it could be trouble, Jordan opened the front door only to be blasted in the face with smoke. She coughed a few times before she fell to the ground unconscious

"Jordan!" Stella shouted before a can broke through the window and landed in front of her before smoke burst out of it, causing Stella to quickly join Jordan in the land of unconsciousness.

Stella groggily opened her eyes. Looking around, she saw that she was currently in a large factory, the next thing she noticed was that she was restrained to a chair with a familiar person tying her right leg to the leg of the chair. "Liam!" she spat venomously, which woke up Jordan, who found herself in the same situation as Stella

"Hunnicutt, do you realize how much trouble that you're now in?!" Jordan spat as well

"Yes, I do, but I'm fucked either way. And the only way out of it is to help Rusty with this awful plan of his" Liam said, Jordan frowned at this

'So Rusty is the ring leader in this thing' Jordan thought before she spoke "so did Rusty force you to do this?"

"Yeah, it was either help him with this, or I'd end up like Zach"

Stella was slightly intrigued by this "what happened to Zach?" she asked

"He was found dead with a broken neck," Jordan said casually, before realizing "wait, Rusty did that?!"

"Yeah, and he would have done it to me as well if I hadn't agreed to this" both Stella and Jordan now knew the position Liam was in and couldn't help but feel a fraction of sympathy for him "Stella, I know you probably think I'm dirtier tan a skunk in a sewage plant, and I know I could say this a million time and it still wouldn't be enough, but, I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry for what I did to you all of those years ago" he apologized. His eyes wet as he was visibly trying desperately not to devolve into a sobbing wreck

Stella and Jordan honestly didn't know how to respond to this, they had honestly never seen a man look so broken. As much as Stella hated Liam for what he did to her, there was something in the back of her mind that was telling her to forgive him. "Liam" Stella started making Liam look at her "why did you do it?" she asked while looking away, it took a bit for Liam to collect himself to be able to talk properly

"Rusty got a hold of his dad's gun and forced me and Zach to do what he said or else he'd shoot us" He bit his lip "We thought he wus kiddin', that it t'wasn't even loaded...we were wrong both times. He had it on him the entire time ta make sure we wouldn't get 'cold feet'" that surprised the two women, they had both just assumed that he, Rusty, and Zach had all been in it together, not that Rusty had forced them to do it. "It wasn't just your life that got ruined that day."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"We did! We told them exactly that! Nobody cared! Didn't matter the police knew Rusty had made us. The public already reached a conclusion without knowin' the full story and decided there weren't more to it than that." He sighed "Doesn't excuse that we still did it but...*sigh*" He looked defeated. "N'now it's just gonna repeat."

Jordan ran her tongue over the back of her teeth "Look, Liam, I'm good friends with a lot of high-up people in the law sector. If you untie us now, I'll deny that you were ever involved with this kidnapping" Jordan said, Liam paused at this, the two women could see that he was strongly considering it

"I-I-I'm sorry, but I can't. If I do, then Rusty will either kill me or blab my secret to my pa and he'll kill me"

"And what's the secret?" Jordan asked

"The little bastard had a littler bastard with his cousin a few years back," Ryan said as he stepped forward

Of the two, only Jordan visibly winced at the implications "why is it the concept of incest disgusts me less since I've become reacquainted with Lincoln?" Stella questioned

"Because you're now with a guy who sleeps with his sister plus 4 other women and now you" Jordan replied

"That's probably it"

"And if my pa found that out, he'd pin me to the ground with steaks and then run me over with the thresher." everyone cringed at that image. Liam then looked at Ryan "okay, I've held up my end of the deal, now you have to hold up your end of yours" Liam said

"Ah, ah, ah you need to 1. Be the lookout to make sure Lincoln doesn't come with anyone else, and 2. You need to help Rusty break Stella's mind, remember?" Liam scowled at this "do that and I'll give you this" and he pulled a ray gun out of his lab coat pocket

"What's that?" Liam asked as he moved towards Ryan

"This is a dimensional portal gun I made, it's permanently linked between this dimension and the one I'll send you and your cousin too"

"How do you use it?"

"Oh, you simply aim it straight ahead pull the trigger" Ryan then performed said actions and a portal appeared in front of him.

"Cool," Liam said before he punched Ryan in the face, grabbed the portal gun, and ran through the portal with it closing behind him. Though not before throwing up the bird.

Both women couldn't help but burst out in laughter "betcha didn't see that one coming" Jordan said as Ryan started to recover from the blow.

Getting back up, he adjusted his glasses and frowned "well the joke is on him, he'll have nothing but what he can carry over there"

"I don't know, Lincoln and the other's seem to be doing okay here," Stella said casually,

Ryan turned on his heel "in an hour or so, Lincoln won't have to worry about going back to his home dimension, once that ginger loser is done with him" and walked away, leaving the two women by themselves.

Meanwhile

At the Loud residence, after dinner and dessert, the Loud and Lard families settled down to watch Desert Storm. Which to Loud's surprise was 'not' a typo. As to what has become normal now, Sid was taking up the whole couch with people either sitting on or around her. As soon as an ad break came on there was a smash and Sid's vision went black. The Louds looked at Sid with frozen horror, while the Lard's gave her unsure looks, as there was now a brick now lodged halfway into her head "uh babe, you okay?" Lincoln asked before she pulled the brick out of her head with it popping back out in a cartoon-like fashion

She leaned back and gave thanks "I love being rubber so, so much" she then saw Lincoln's name written on a piece of paper tied around the brick "message for you sir" removing the note he read it and scowled he then looked to Lily

"Lily could you call Lucy for me and tell her to bring Justin over here, immediately, I have a major feeling I'll need his help"

15 minutes later

Lucy stopped her van a block away from the location of the factory and the 2 men hopped out "I'll give you a call when we're done, babe" Justin said

"Sure thing stud," Lucy said in a dreamy tone before Justin closed the door and the two men walked off.

"So do you think that you'll need me?" Justin asked

"Not entirely sure, but better to be safe than sorry" Lincoln replied

"Good point" the two walked until they reached a chain-linked fence, inside was the bottling factory

"Okay I'll go in first, when you see me disappear inside, quietly try to find another way in," Lincoln said getting a nod from Justin. Finding the open gate, which had a small sign on it saying 'Lincoln', Lincoln entered it and walked up to the building. Entering through an open roller door, Lincoln saw both Stella and Jordan tied to chairs "girls!" he exclaimed, he had only taken 3 steps before the roller doors closed with an almost deafening crash "well, I think I just lost 50% of my hearing" he then turned back to the girls to see Rusty now standing between him and the girls.

He wouldn't say he looked exactly the same after ten years, but just like Lincoln it was impossible not to recognize him in a lineup, and if he was completely honest. He looked exactly like he imagined he would dress if somebody like Rusty had money. The Hawaiian uncle shirt was loud enough to act as a beacon to land planes at night with even without the heavy gold chain hanging over what he'd insist was his chest hair and multiple thick gold rings adorning his fingers. They could smell the cologne from here and he at least had the decency to take off his sunglasses at night to look at them. It was as if he'd seen the textbook page for a Casanova wannabe and decided it was a guide not a warning.

"Hey, Lincoln. Linkmeister. Lincarino, it's been far too long, how have you been?" He said happily greeting his old friend.

"What's this all about Rusty?"

"Oh, you know. Heard you were back from the dead. Thought I'd catch up. Trade life stories. Fucking kill you. You know, stuff like that." He said chipperly and looked between the two girls "When you went missing all of those years ago I thought that I'd finally have a chance to shine, to be the top dog, and the ladies man, get the girl of my dreams" He said wistfully as he put a hand on Stella's shoulder. A little too tightly from her expression "God just look at you. I knew you were gonna be hotter than ten years ago guaranteed. But damn if you didn't blow me out of the water." He rubbed her cheek "Your a total goddess now. The moment I saw you after all this time, it was like falling in love all over again." He whispered 'lovingly' to her then turned back to Lincoln "As I was saying. Without you to hold me back I could finally get the girl of my dreams."

"And that worked?" Lincoln snarked

"If I had been able to go all the way with her, then yes it would have" Stella went a bit green at this "and after tonight, it'll be how it should be."

"Yeah, I don't see that happening even in your dreams" Rusty frowned, and inhaled.

The sound of fabric tearing warned Lincoln that for the first time in a long time he wasn't the biggest guy in the room, As with one flex the redhead exploded out of his ugly shirt.

He had to admit. Rusty was almost 'too' jacked. He had everything Lincoln had, only more or it. Bigger arms. Bigger pecs. Harder abs. It was like someone had taken the Loud, stuck a bicycle pump in his muscles, and went nuts...and it didn't look natural. Lincoln would be the first to admit he probably wouldn't look like this without Leni's help, but that drug he took years ago had only amplified the effect of work he put in. Even if you took it away Lincoln would undoubtedly still be in really good shape because he took care of himself. Rusty on the other hand looked like as soon as he'd got his money had used it to get as big as possible as fast as possible with as little effort as possible and didn't care about the consequences as long as he got the results. Veins bulged unnaturally beneath his skin, skin that had some of the worst below the neck acne Lincoln had ever seen in the few areas that weren't covered in almost painfully cliche tough-guy tattoos. Speaking of tattoos, he was covered in them like he was an imitation yakuza. A tonne of the most cliche tough guy tattoos possible. Like naked women. Barbed wire. Skulls with snakes slithering through the eyes. A stomach tat that saying 'the king'. Phoenix's, dragons. Demons. Playing card. The works. If a criminal would stereotypically have it. He had it.

"When you're in the joint you either get ripped or whipped, I think you can guess which option I took," Rusty said proudly

"Seriously? There is no way all of those muscles are natural"

"Well, some of it is. They don't have video games inside after all. A while after I won my millions I was approached by a guy who said he could help make me bigger so there would be no one who could whip me again, naturally, I accepted and he gave me a special pill that let me gain without the pain. On top of a few other things."

"Interesting, also, who the hell needs that many tattoos?" Lincoln questioned.

Rusty responded to this by flexing his muscles "the ladies love it" he said, not realizing that the only two ladies present were averting their eyes in pure disgust.

"Oh yeah? how much do they charge to love it?" Lincoln asked, not realizing how accurate that was. The only women that have ever 'loved' Rusty are because he pays them to. Even his girlfriend he'd heard about, Bambi, was obviously only with him because he has money. Rusty went red in the face at this. Snarled like an animal and charged at Lincoln before going berserk on him. Rusty may have been bigger than Lincoln, as well as possibly stronger (not that Lincoln was going to test that one out), but due to his increased muscle mass, he was slower, which allowed Lincoln to dodge most of Rusty's attacks and land blow after blow on him. Though Lincoln quickly noticed another problem, any hit he made on Rusty the redhead shrugged it off.

Lincoln gave Rusty a windmill kick to the face, but he didn't even flinch, he did however grab Lincoln by his leg before swinging him around like a ragdoll and throwing him into one of the old machines. "okay, that hurt a bit" Lincoln underplayed as he got back up only to dodge Rusty's fist which dented into the machine. Lincoln then kicked Rusty hard in the side of the leg, still doing little to no damage to the roided out hulk. Whatever he was doped up on must be letting him ignore the pain.

Tearing his arm free he snarled at Lincoln "it was always about you! All the girls liked you! Everybody called our little group 'Lincoln's crew'! Lincoln's victories! Lincoln this and Lincoln that. WHAT ABOUT RUSTY SPOKES!? I shouldn't have to feel like a secondary character in my own fucking life!"

"I haven't been in your life in years!" Lincoln snapped back while dodging a haymaker "I don't get it. You have everything you want. Money. Power. A beautiful girlfriend"

"Bambi? She's a bimbo. A plastic pair of tits with legs. I don't love her. Not like Stella" he then grabbed Lincoln by the arm and swung his free hand straight at Lincoln's face, Lincoln managed to catch Rusty's fist and slowed it down significantly, though he couldn't stop it, causing his hand to hit him in the face, cushioning the blow. Lincoln then kicked Rusty in the stomach which thankfully separated them

'Justin, I need your help!' Lincoln screamed in his head.

Justin however, had been forced to find another way in, due to the entrance Lincoln had now being closed shut. Breaking a door down, thankfully not alerting anyone. He began to quickly make his way around, the large factory. He soon found Lincoln fighting against someone who looked like Carrot Top was fused with the Incredible Hulk. He was about to join in when he spotted Stella and Jordan tied to chairs "better free them first" he said to himself. Quietly making his way around he soon reached the two women. He first untied Jordan, who removed her gag and immediately voiced her appreciation "Justin! Oh thank god you're here!"

"Yeah, Lincoln thought that he would need back up, seems like he was right," Justin said before he went to untie Stella. As soon as she was free she removed her gag and thanked him "no problem, now I'll show you two girls-hmmph" he was cut off as Jordan threw her arms around him and pressed her lips to his before shoving her tongue into his mouth. Justin gave an internal shrug, knowing Lincoln could last a few seconds more, and returned the kiss while wrapping his arms around her waist. Knowing that they might be too busy, Stella decided to leave and go get help. Following the way Justin came from, Stella soon found the broken door and her way outside. Sprinting across the yard while praying to all the gods that there was no one watching her, she made it over to the gate the two men had entered through. Before she disappeared around a solid brick wall she took one last look and saw a figure come around the corner of the factory. In the moonlight, she saw that it was Jordan. Jumping up and down while waving, she quickly caught sight of Stella and sprinted over to her.

"Good, I thought that you were going to be lip-locked with Justin for a lot longer"

"I wish it could have lasted an eternity" Jordan replied in a dreamy tone before Stella snapped her out of it by shaking her a bit.

"Not the time to sound like a schoolgirl with a huge crush"

"Oh sorry, Justin said that Lucy is in a white van a block away, let's find her and call for help"

"Right" and the two ran off to find Lucy.

Back in the factory

Rusty landed another blow to Lincoln, knocking the white-haired man to the ground. Lincoln had taken a severe beating from Rusty, but in saying that Lincoln had managed to deal even more damage, the only problem being Rusty was still ignoring his injuries. As Rusty was about to stomp on Lincoln's chest he was struck by something hard in the back of the head, which hurt. Turning around he was hit in the face causing him to stumble back. Lincoln got to his feet and saw Justin attacking Rusty with a large metal pipe. As Justin kept skilfully striking Rusty over and over again, Rusty was starting to feel more and more pain, not just from the blows of the pipe, but also from all of the damage Lincoln had inflicted upon him before. Finally, he managed to grab the pipe and yanked it out of Justin's grip before tossing it away. This gave Justin an opening and he began delivering multiple swifts yet powerful strikes to all of Rusty's weak spots. Lincoln whipped him around and allowed Justin to hold his arms back letting Lincoln deliver a heavy straight right hook to Rusty's stomach. With Justin stopping him from rolling with the blow the martial artist finished up by tossing the hulking berserker over his back sending him tumbling away "nice hit" Justin said

"Thanks, I was wondering when you were going to join me"

"Sorry, I was busy freeing the girls"

"that's good" the two then looked at Rusty

"So two on one huh? Well looks like I'll have to even the playing field" Rusty then reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle, removing the cap he then proceeded to pour the contents, which were multicolored crystals, into his mouth and began eating them.

"You fool! you're not supposed to eat them like blasted candy! They're supposed to be taken one at a time!" Rusty heard Ryan say through an earpiece, but Rusty ignored him "spit them out now you idiot!" Rusty then removed the earpiece and crushed it before he swallowed the contents of the bottle in two gulps. Ryan pinched the bridge of his nose as he watched the events transpire from the security room "Well, I know how this is going to go" he muttered to himself before he started packing up in a hurry.

Lincoln and Justin were curious and slightly unnerved at what Rusty just ate "do you think we should leave?" Justin questioned

"Oh the only way you're leaving here is in a body bag," Rusty said as he stood back up, all pain from his injuries now gone "Oh yeah. Fuck milk. THAT's what does a body good!" the two watched as Rusty's muscles exploded out. His veins bulged, threatening to tear out of his skin. His skin turning an almost painful sunburn red. And his pupils dilated. He let out a deep, mad laugh and started to beat his chest like a gorilla with both hands. First, slow then faster as he started hooting/laughing like mad.

"Perfect. Now on top of that, he's crazy," Lincoln said before Rusty charged at the two. He grabbed the two unguarded men by the fronts of their shirts and hurled them in different directions, Lincoln went crashing into a machine while Justin slammed against a wall

"Ugh, well then, let's dance" and Justin charged at Rusty, dodging a swing Justin delivered several rapid punches to Rusty's kidneys, before dodging another swing, which was grabbed by Lincoln who used Rusty's momentum to flip him over and slam on his head.

Rusty quickly got back up and rushed at his opponents, who began to perfectly mimic each as they dodged a hit, punched him one on the stomach, stopping him, they then kneed him in the kidneys and elbowed him in the back, knocking him to the ground before they moved back to get some distance. As the two tried to recover, they watched as Rusty got back up "okay, that's sucks. If somethings is not broken it's about to be. You?"

"I wish I could say better." He groaned "He's bulked up enough that his muscles are basically a suit of armour. It's literally like fighting you on steroids."

"Okay. New plan. We beat him down, then we keep beating him until he can't get back up" Lincoln said

"I love that plan. I'm excited to be a part of it" the two men then rushed at the roid raging behemoth from opposite sides Justin reached Rusty first and punched him square in the jaw making his brain bounce around his skull like a pinball. Causing him to stumble back where he was punched by Lincoln in the same spot. The two men ping-ponged Rusty back and forth while trying to make their blows as powerful as they could to try and bring him down. Rusty grabbed Justin's arm and was about to try and snap it like a twig when Lincoln jumped on his back and got Rusty in a headlock, pulling him back and forcing him to bend backward while he tried to put him in a sleeper hold. Rusty, not having any of that, reached over his shoulder and grabbed Lincoln by the neck before swinging him over and slamming him to the hard ground. "You know I always wondered what that human pretzel thing your sister mentioned looked like!" He was about to crush Lincoln's neck when he was kicked right in the face making him let go and straighten back up. Ignoring Lincoln for the moment Rusty kept trying to hit or at least grab Justin "all of those big muscles of yours are slowing you down, pizza face...or pizza everything in your case" Justin mocked as he dodged hits and struck when he got an opening unfortunately for Justin, this wasn't to last as Rusty managed to grab him by the front of his shirt and he struck the martial artist across the face, stunning him. Rusty, not letting up, began pounding Justin with one powerful blow after another. Justin tried defending until he had a chance to get some distance, but Rusty's attacks simply broke through any defense he put up, much like Lincoln had.

After Rusty had let him go, Lincoln had got back up, but instead of straight-up trying to help Justin, he looked around to see if there was anything that could help beat Rusty, he quickly found an old rusty knife that had been left behind when the factory shut down "better than nothing" he said and he raced back over to the two fighting men where Justin was now being pummelled.

Lincoln charged at Rusty who was now holding Justin up by his neck "you die now" Rusty grunted out before Lincoln plunged the knife into Rusty's back and swung his arm, leaving a large deep gash…but Rusty didn't even flinch. "Seriously?" As Rusty's hand began to close on Justin's neck, the latter punching and kicking the former friend as best he could, but to no avail, he was suddenly gotten into another headlock before Lincoln plunged the knife into his right eye, twisted it, then pulled out.

This time Rusty felt that and he let go of Justin before roaring in pain. Justin took this opportunity to move away from Rusty, with Lincoln doing the same. The two men then regrouped "thanks for that man"

"No problem, you okay?"

"I'm in a lot of pain, but I'll live, what about you?"

"Same"

"I'LL! KILL! YOU!" Rusty screamed in a pitch that should have been impossible after his nuts dropped. Ripping the knife out and snarling. Looking more like an animal than a man.

"Heh. I'm used to wailing on giant meatheads, just not ones who keep getting back up" Justin said

"I don't think he wants to hear about your dating life Jus"

"Cute. Can we just beat this guy now please?"

"Sure" Rusty turned to the two men with blood pouring down the side of his face from his right eye, he growled like a tiger at them "You know I'm conflicted about hitting you anymore Rust. Note that because we used to be friends or anything. I'm just wondering where I can hit that it won't be an improvement. It's like you entered the awkward phase and never left" Rusty gave a roar of rage and once again charged at the two.

Lincoln and Justin groaned and pulled themselves back up getting ready to fight again.

10 feet.

8 feet.

6 feet.

They reeled back their fists.

4 feet.

Rusty curled his fingers ready to tear their heads off their necks.

2 feet.

Their arms launched forward. Their entire weight behind them two fists collided with Rusty's chest.

Rusty skidded back another 8 feet. Rubbed his chest. Grinned smugly. Bellowed/laughed loud enough that it reverberated throughout the factory and thumped his chest like a posturing gorilla...then exploded.

a dozen throbbing veins crisscrossing his skin burst like backed-up pipes spraying blood like a fire hydrant all around him. He barely managed to double over before he gagged and coughed up even more of the stuff. His skin is already tighter than a drum skin split in multiple places while he tried in vain to stay upright while falling apart. He made it exactly two steps before he fell over. A red puddle slowly forming beneath him. The factory went dead silent as the two men stayed in place. Finally, Justin cautiously made his way over to the downed redhead and put two fingers to his neck "Oh you've got to be kidding me" He groaned and turned to Lincoln "He's alive. Barely, but he's alive."

"Yay." Lincoln said dryly

"Must have been an overdose"

"Yeah…moron" He sighed "I 'know' we used to read who knows how many stories in comics about bad guys losing like this. And movies. And tv. And books."

"Eh. Doesn't stop regular roid heads from overdosing. Don't see why it would be different for turbo-charged ones."

"Oh well, it was either him or us"

"True, just wish we had beaten him first"

"Honestly, I don't think my body could have taken much more damage"

"…Yeah I agree with you" the two men then winced as they realized how much their bodies ached.

"Kind of feels anti-climatic. I kinda feel cheated now?" Justin admitted.

"You wanted to keep fighting the psycho rage monster?"

"No, but I'm not used to the guys I beat dropping from a Darwin Award nomination." They leaned back and were rewarded with some very loud popping of their bones "Come on. Let's head back home and get patched up."

Before they could leave however the police stormed in "freeze!" the head officer said

"Little late for that, he ain't getting up any time soon," Justin said while forcing a smile to his face.

Soon Rusty was taken away in an ambulance hooked up to machines with a weak but steady beat, while Lincoln and Justin were looked over by paramedics. From what they could tell the two men didn't have any broken bones, only some missing teeth, had many cuts, bumps, and bruises, and a lot of swelling in the face, but otherwise, they would be fine, much to the relief of Stella, Lucy, and Jordan. The police had also done a thorough sweep of the factory and had been unable to find so much as a trace of Ryan, though they did find out that he had been watching the whole thing through the security cameras. The two men, as well as Stella, were told to come to the police station tomorrow to give reports on what happened to which they agreed "come on girls, let's get our heroes home" Stella said with Lucy and Jordan agreeing. As the group walked to Lucy's van, Stella looked at Jordan "so where do you think Liam went?"

"Probably went to gather his sister and daughter and move to that other dimension"

"Wait, Liam was a part of this?" Lincoln questioned angrily

"More like he was forced to be a part of this by Rusty" having met this dimension's Liam earlier, and having just fought Rusty, Lincoln figured that it was either help him or die. Choosing to forget that Liam was a part of this, he decided to just focus on getting home and resting in a big tub of ice.

Meanwhile

When Liam had gone through the portal, he had found himself in the same factory, only this one was fully operational. After exiting the factory and the factory yard, amazingly being unnoticed, he found himself in what looked like a more advanced and much bigger Royal Woods. As he walked around, noting that the streets were mostly empty, he couldn't help but notice that there were a lot of food places around, most of them being closed at this time. He also noticed that some things were different whereas others were in the same spot where they'd be in his Royal Woods. As he neared where his farm was located, he opened another portal and walked through it, finding himself back on his family's farm. Sneaking up to the house he peered through one of the windows and saw his pa sleeping in his chair. He found his cousin in the guest room she'd been staying in since her folks kicked her out and explained everything to her. She was mad for a moment before pulling him into a bone-crushing hug. He told her they were leaving with Olivia and Emma. She agreed without a fight and started packing everything they needed. He was briefly tempted to leave Emma here but the girl's assistance (and a well-placed nutshot) convinced him to take her as well. They all grabbed as many clothes as they could along with whatever they needed before Liam opened a portal and the two walked through with it closing behind them, however, as soon as they exited they found themselves face to face with a beefier looking Liam "uh hi" was all Liam could say.

Back in the Loud-verse

Justin was now lying on Lucy's couch trying to move as little as possible, he had multiple ice packs on his body and had taken quite a few painkiller's, but still, his whole body ached "I think I'll give training and work a pass for a few days" he groaned to himself.

In the kitchen, however, Lucy was discussing with Jordan "so you want to have the same thing with me and Justin that Lincoln has?"

"Yes, I do" Lucy was unsure about this, she knew how the dynamic worked, mainly for Lincoln's case, she honestly didn't find girls sexually attractive, but if she expected this to be serious then she couldn't just expect him to split time between them. If she wanted this to work then she at least needed to try, didn't she? Jordan, being more bolder, could see Lucy's unsureness "why don't we go to your room and experiment a bit, and see what happens?" Jordan suggested

"…Okay then" and the two went upstairs, neither knowing if the outcome would be positive or not.

At the Loud residence

Lincoln was in the same position and state as Justin was only he had his girlfriends cooing over him. They had all been horrified when Lincoln had returned to his beaten and battered state. Thankfully though, they weren't smothering him like his sister's would have, if they had they would probably just bring him more pain, particularly if Sid got too much involved. Lily, who had stayed up, came up to Lincoln holding her phone "hey Lincoln"

"Yeah Lil?" he groaned out

"I know you're in a lot of pain right now"

"That's an understatement"

"But I got a text and picture from the Sid of this world"

"Why would she send you a text and picture?"

"Because she couldn't get your number"

"Fair enough, what's the picture of?" Lily then turned her phone to show him. There on Lily's screen was a selfie of Sid, grinning from ear to ear while holding up six pregnancy tests between each finger, all positive

"…You could have picked a better time" he muttered

Author's Note: and there we have it, Let me know what you thought of the chapter, and Leave your own thoughts and suggestions in the reviews. Until my next chapter, peace :)