Hello there, here we go with yet another chapter of my Loud House, X-Men Xover.
This is where things get a little more interesting. Our group of mutants are finally heading for New York and, let's just say that someone...important, has plans for them. Well, some of them.
But enough of that, I don't want to spoil it, that'll ruin the fun.
So here we go.
Chapter 15: A Trip to New York, Part 1
Another day starts in Southern California.
Some of the office faculty at the local Middle School have just arrived for another day of work. They have a latter start to the summer than students with them posting final grades and last minute paperwork.
In the visitor's entrance, one of the school security guards had arrived to watch and record any visitor to the school. A few minutes after he arrived, Lori and Bobby came through the door, "Excuse me sir", Lori said, "We need to speak with the principle. We're trying to find our siblings."
The guard wasn't sure about these two but he saw that they were serious and desperate, "One second please", he then headed to the main office leaving Lori and Bobby waiting in the visitor's entrance area.
Soon the guard returned with the principal, "May I help you?"
"Y-yes ma'am, we're trying to find our siblings and their friends."
"We think they go to this school", Bobby added as he pulled out his phone and showed her the photo of the slime prank back in September, "These are them. They've been missing for over a year."
The principal looked closely at the photo, "They do look familiar. But i'm not a hundred percent sure."
"Okay look, their names are Ronnie Anne and Lincoln."
"Their around 12- years old", Lori said, "One of them has white hair and a chipped buck tooth."
That did remind the principal of a student she dose see all the time in class, "Well there is this one student. Lincoln Howlett."
Bobby wasn't sure if that was Lincoln, "Howlett?"
"That's what Lisa said our grandfather's last name is, he must have changed it", Lori explained before turning back to the principal, "What else do you know about him?"
"Well he's not a troublemaker, some of the students call him The Wolverine. He said he's part of a foster family. He's driven here sometimes with around eight others by their older sister Carol."
"Wait, did you say older sister Carol?", the principal nodded yes, "Blond hair, kind of looks like me?", Lori described her friend Carol and again, the principle nodded yes and then it finally hit her, "I know where they are!", she then ran out pulling her boyfriend's arm, "Thank you!"
"U-uh, y-your welcome", the principle replied confused.
Using her mutant speed, Lori brought her and Bobby back to the van in under a second.
"Come on, we need to get to the Hollywood Hills!", Lori exclaimed.
"Finally!", Lola shouted, "I've been meaning to speak to dear old Mr. Clooney."
"Lola! That's not why we're going there. Carol said that her family used to live out here when she was little and they literally still own the house."
"They live with George Clooney?!", Leni asked excitedly.
"No! Carol's family has their own house!"
"How do you know their there?", asked Bobby.
"Because Carol left with them."
"Are you sure?", asked Luan.
"It's literally all we got", even thought Lori herself wasn't a hundred percent certain that they'll all be there, but it was better than nothing. She buckled up and drove towards the hills.
The house in which Lincoln and his friends have been staying in has been pretty quiet this morning.
A delivery truck pulled up across the street and it's driver walked up to the front gate with two packages and rang the bell on the intercom, "Delivery."
There was no answer, he rang the bell again and still nothing. The deliver man then opened one of the boxes and pulled out what looked like some kind of two wheeled toy and through the bars, he placed it on the driveway. He then pulled out a remote control and drove the device towards the house.
Inside the 'delivery' van was Fowler, Stryker, and both Stankcos watching a surveillance video on one of the monitors. Apparently the supposed toy was actually a rolling camera, and it was showing video feed of the outside of the house.
"A car's here", Fowler said, "They should be home."
"I didn't come back to just sit around like a bum", Stan said getting impatient, "When do we go in?"
"Patience Stanley", Stryker tried to calm the eager Stankco.
As the camera got closer to the house, they noticed movement from inside, "Wait what is that?"
Fowler zoomed in and saw that the curtains in one of the front windows were moving slightly, as if someone was running their fingers across .
"Drapes are moving...", Stryker said.
The Sentinel leader then jumped to conclusion, "Someone's there."
With that said, Fowler ordered was all they needed as Stan jumped out of the van in a bullet proof vest and the rest of the soldiers undercover dressed as other people such as random passers by, as bushes or plants, and even cross-dressing starting to storm the house.
Helicopters were now over the house as SWAT teams were lowered from choppers, and clime over the fences. They broke open the fence and swarmed the driveway with Stan at the helm with Fowler, Steak, and Stryker following last.
With the rest of the were now in position to take the house and were just waiting for Fowler's approval.
The Sentinel leader then banged his fist on the door with a gun in his hands, "LINCOLN LOUD! SENTINEL SERVICES! OPEN UP!"
"COME OUT LOUD!", Stryker shouted.
There was no response.
"ARE YOU GONNA COME OUT ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO COME IN UNDIES?!", Stan yelled.
Still, no one inside replied.
"LAST CHANCE LINCOLN!", the Sentinel leader shouted again.
Again, no one answered. Fowler then gave Stan a look and a small nod, in which the brute took a step back and then charged at full speed and rammed the front door in. The impact caused the door break open like a draw bridge and made Stan do a cartwheel inside the house as the rest of Sentinel solders then swarmed the house, entering from every window of every room.
The soldiers then searched all over the house to find any trace of the boy or any of his acquaintances as Fowler and Stryker entered the house last. But all they found inside were empty beds and furniture, other than that, the house looked completely deserted.
"Clear", one of the soldiers shouted, noting that he didn't find anything.
"Sir", one of the soldiers came up to Fowler, "There's no one here."
It turns out that what was causing the curtains to move was a robotic vacuum cleaner, which was enhanced by Lisa and Sid from an idea by Zach that doubles as a home security device. They first noticed it when it stopped and detected Stan, who was standing right in front of it.
"Threat detected", the vacuum started to charge up to shock the intruder but Stan quickly smashed it to pieces with his foot out of annoyance and frustration.
With the house empty and all their belongings gone, one explanation came to Fowler's head, "They knew", he said to himself before explaining to the rest of his men, "They knew the president called off my search and left before we could get to them."
"Who knows where they are", said one soldier.
"There's only one place where they can go", Stryker said, "But it's not gonna be easy to get into."
"You really think that bald-headed physic is gonna take them in?", Stan asked.
"Why wouldn't he Stanley?", Stryker said, "When ever a mutant comes knocking on his door, Xavier always answers. Given that some are related to Wolverine, he won't say no."
Both the Stankcos were pissed, "Great! I come out of damn retirement, only to find undies and his group of misfit freaks are already heading to Xaviers!", a frustrated Stan then punched a hole into a nearby wall while.
Seeing his old friend explode in a fit of rage, an old idea came to Fowler's mind, "Colonel, remember that old experimental mutant plan you had around the time of the Weapon X project?"
Stryker knew what he was talking about, "How could I forget."
"I think I might know how to kill several mutants with two stones."
Coming up on the hill, Lori and Bobby drove up the Hollywood hills, they were almost a block away from Carol's family home but saw the large commotion of police cars near the house.
"Hey, what's happening?", Leni asked.
Not wanting to attract any unwanted attention to her or her group, Lori slowly backs up the van and parks it a few blocks down.
"Alright guys, stay in the car. Bobby and I are gonna go check this out. Carlota, your in charge if anything happens."
"Got it", Carlota replied as her cousin and his girlfriend stepped out.
Using her mutant speed, Lori moved herself and Bobby to the Carol's house in little under three seconds. There the two mutant teens hid in a nearby bush where they saw police and Sentinels all around the house.
Catching Lori's eye was the same Sentinel man from when he first came to her house a year ago who was after her brother, along with an older man, a familiar hulking-looking man with a beard and mohawk and a stocky boy with a similar mohawk around Lincoln's age. They were talking but she couldn't hear what they were saying. In a flash, she and Bobby quickly moved to a closer bush to them so they could hear what they were saying.
"This is our best bet", Fowler said, "It's risky for all of us, but it could finally show the world to take the mutant threat seriously. We'll put the captured mutants on the carrier and just wait till Xavier and our 'friends' are onboard, they'll be done and mutants will be kept in their place."
Neither of them knew what they were talking about, but they knew one thing for sure, they were up to no good.
Bobby then started to feel something strange on his hand. He looked down and saw a spider was crawling across the back of his hand. He let out a small yelp in fear before Lori quickly covered his mouth and flung the creepy crawly away.
Unfortunately, Bobby's small fear peep was heard by some near by Sentinels. They slowly approached the bush and pointed their weapons at it. They got close and jumped the bush, "Gotcha!", but they looked through the leaves and found nothing and then simply shrugged it off as a false alarm.
Lori and Bobby dashed out of there and back to the van in a matter of seconds. Everyone in the van saw them looking on edge as they jumped back in.
"What happened?", asked Carlota.
"Sentinels took over their house", Bobby replied.
Everyone gasped, "Did they take them?", asked CJ.
"I don't think so buddy."
"Their up to something, they were talking about something about captive mutants and some kind of carrier", Lori said.
"If they aren't there, then where could they be?", asked Luan.
Lori tried to think where they might have gone now. Then she remembered what Lisa said about their grandfather, "Logan."
"Who's Logan?", asked CJ.
"He's our grandfather. Lisa said that he's living in New York with this Xavier guy and his team of mutants."
"Wait, so now we have to go to New York?", asked Leni.
"Looks like", Lori started up the car again but then looked in the rearview mirror and saw someone was missing, "Wait, where's Lola?"
Lola was a few blocks away, ringing the intercom at the front gates at a nearby mansion.
Somebody answered on the other side, "Yes, can I help you?"
"Mr. Clooney. If your looking for a beautiful young lady to star along side you in one of your next big movies, then your wait is over."
Lori then arrived and picked up Lola in her arm, "I'm literally so sorry Mr. Clooney. Big fan", Lori with Lola under her arm walked away.
While unbeknownst to them that their hideout home was being seized by Sentinels, the group of mutants were already onboard their flight bound for New York.
The seventeen mutants along with Wade were settling into for the five and a half hour journey. Well, at least trying to.
Zach didn't like the idea of flying on a plane while knowing he's friends with what Sentinel Services described as a dangerous mutant and him being a mutant himself. Being so involved with all his conspiracies, he was worried the whole time that the government would shoot down their plane to kill the mutants onboard at the cost of hundreds of innocent lives, like what happened with that plane that exploded off the coast of Long Island back in the 90's.
Clyde and Sid were sitting together in the row right behind Lincoln and Ronnie Anne. While he wasn't afraid of flying or prone to motion sickness, Clyde wasn't very comfortable. His fear of heights never really went away since he left home. Sitting in the aisle seat, he took a small glance through the plane window next to Sid who was watching an inflight movie. Even though he was looking at the clouds, the thought of being over ten thousand feet in the sky then got to him.
The boy then started to feel nauseous and saw his seat had no airsickness bag and quickly got up and ran to the lavatory and threw up in the toilet. Once it was out of his system, he looked up and saw that there was actually a guy sitting on the toilet, now with his shirt covered in Clyde's vomit. "Oh. Sorry about that."
"Mother...", Clyde quickly shut the lavatory door before the man could shout at him or get up and went quickly sat back low in his seat.
"What did you do?", asked Sid.
"I don't wanna talk about it", Clyde replied.
Lincoln and Ronnie Anne were sitting together. Ronnie Anne was enjoying herself, getting comfortable onboard when she turned to her left and noticed Lincoln wasn't. He was just looking out the window, simply watching the endless sea of clouds below pass by. Completely lost in thought.
"Still nervous?", she asked.
Lincoln didn't reply, he just let lowered his head a bid and softly sighed.
"Come on Linc, you've been waiting for a year. He's a part of a superhero team, in a school for mutant kids. How bad can he be?"
"He's fought in over a hundred years worth of wars, been through god knows how much pain, and was shot by firing squad. What's the odds he'll even like a kid like me who's only making other mutants like him look bad."
"Your not a bad person, they just pushed you over your limit. Your not the only one who attacked someone with your gifts. I attacked a gang of robbers in mercado, remember."
"You were defending Bobby and Sid."
"And you were defending your sisters. You used your gifts to keep your family safe, heck we both did it together for each other", Ronnie Anne let out a small chuckle with Lincoln doing the same.
"Point is, your a great guy Lincoln, once he gets to know you, I'm sure he'll accept you."
"And if he doesn't?"
"If he doesn't, then you know you'll still have us", Ronnie Anne smiled before speaking softly, "You'll still have me."
Lincoln heard what Ronnie Anne, including the second thing she added and he let out a small smile, even if he wasn't sure if his grandfather would accept him, he'll always have his friends and family. But even with Ronnie Anne's reassurance, he still wanted to at least have a relationship with his mutant grandfather. Lincoln's love of superheroes and the fact that Logan was like one and that they share the same abilities would mean so much to Lincoln and maybe things could finally go better with him and finally move on from the nightmares and feelings of guilt from the past.
Lincoln's been through so much in the last year since he found out he's a mutant, being ran out of town just because an accident and his new found gifts and have to leave home and start a new life to stay out of mutant jail. He thinks he's just always getting the short end of the stick most of the time and this has to be one of the worst, having powers of a hero and being feared and hated for it, he doesn't really know what to think about himself. Logan probably doesn't even know what it feels to be in his grandson's shoes, and that though just makes Lincoln even more nervous to meet him.
At that moment, one of the flight attendants came over to their row and handed Lincoln a can of his favorite soda, "Here you go", she said as she paced it on his try table.
Lincoln was confused by this as he didn't order a beverage yet, that was until he saw the 'flight attendant's' eyes flash yellow and her scent was all to familiar, "Thanks mom", Lincoln replied disconsolately.
His mother in disguise was worried about her son's upset mood. She disguised herself as a flight attendant so she could sneak onboard without paying but still had to keep playing the part so no one would arose suspicion, but she still kept an eye on her kids the rest of the flight.
Lori and Bobby and their families just arrived back at LAX and returned their van and just got past security after buying more tickets for a flight heading for Newark since it was the cheapest they could get.
They were sitting at the gate waiting for their plane to arrive. Lori was still wondering what the Sentinel man was talking about back at the house, "Put them in their place?"
"Babe, I don't like this", Bobby was getting worried, "The president called off the search for them, why are they still after them?"
"I don't know, Boo Boo Bear, but we literally need to get to New York before they do."
"This Xavier guy better be worth it if it means we have to fly across the country again, and the amount of jet lag I'm getting!", Lola was getting annoyed.
"Who's this Xavier guy again?", asked Carlota.
"He's like the headmaster of this special school for mutants", Lori explained, "He's got this team our grandpa's a part of, X-Men."
"X-Men?"
"I know, I don't get it either."
As they all waited for their plane to arrive, Lily was still holding on to Bun-Bun. Her older sisters made sure to have Lily remember her big brother along with the rest of her missing sisters. After a year, Lily was two and she still remembers her brother. She looked at Bun-Bun, "Lincoln."
At around six o'clock that afternoon, their plane landed at JFK International Airport. While they deplaned, the Loud kids were separated from their mother who was still in a flight attendant form as she couldn't leave until flight attendants are allowed to leave.
They headed down to baggage claim and collected their bags and just as they were heading to get train tickets to take them upstate and wait for their mother to catch up, they were approached by a man with very short hair in his early 30's, "Excuse me", he said in a British accent, "You must be the Howletts."
The group were a bit suspicious of the man, "How can we help you?" asked Wade, "Besides luring children into a panel van?"
The man just looked annoyed at Wade, "Another talker", he then looked back at the Loud kids, "I'm Ajax. I'm your personal escort to Xavier's institute."
"Oh so your our Chauffeur", Wade responded, "Great. I think I speak for everyone as we're really excited about our first day of superhero camp!"
"Wade!", Carol elbowed and whispered to her boyfriend, "Shut up!" She then turned to Ajax, "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you Mr...uh...Ajax."
"It's a pleasure to meet you too Miss Pingrey", while she didn't really know Ajax, there was something inside her saying that something wasn't right with him but didn't show it, "Please follow me, I have a line of limos that can accommodate all of you."
Some of them didn't trust Ajax but they still followed him to the limos as they were not going to split up, especially now.
They headed outside to find the line of limos Ajax had to supposedly take them to Xavier's School. Standing nearby was a women with black hair, who was actually the same women who was watching them back in California. She stood by as she greeted Ajax as she saw the group of mutants as the drivers put their bags in the trunks as everyone but the Loud kids were getting inside the limos.
"Just relax and enjoy the ride", Ajax said, "It's gonna be a while."
"Thanks Jax", Wade sassed as he put his luggage in the trunk in his limo, "P.S., you have something in your teeth. Right in the middle there, just uh nugget of...romain lettuce or something. It's been bothering me for a long time", Ajax didn't really look like he cared but then as he walked towards the limo in front of him, he looked at his reflection in the window to see if he did have something. Wade laughed as he fell for it, "Made you look. Hey is Ajax your real name? Cuz it sounds suspiciously made up. What is it really? Kevin? Bruce? Scott? Mitch? Rickster? Is it Basil Fawlty?" he said in a mocking British accent.
"Shut the fuck up", the women snapped back as the merc with the mouth just smiled and hoped in the back of the limo with Ajax in the same limo with just the Loud Kids only as the they drove off.
"So what's a pair of mutants like you doing in here in New York?", Ajax asked.
"We're here to meet our parental grandfather", Lisa said in a suspicious tone, "And might I ask, what do you know of Logan?"
"Other than the fact that the man is one of the best known mutant experiments I've ever known. And four of you, are just like him. Almost."
Hearing that their grandfather was part of some mutant experiment, and the fact that Ajax was already very shady, they realized that he wasn't taking them to Xavier's school and he's not what he seems, they walked right into a trap. The siblings minus Lisa popped their claws and pointed them at him with Ajax himself not even flinching.
"What do you want with us?!", Luna growled.
"A deal."
"What deal?", asked Lynn.
"You four are the grandchildren of one of the most deadly mutants ever known. A killing machine. And you have potential."
"What potential?", Lincoln asked.
"I have a workshop, that turns ordinary people into ones of, extraordinary abilities. And those already with those abilities, make them even better. I was a normal person long ago, treatment effects everyone differently. It made my friend Angel inhumanly strong. In my case, it enhanced my reflexes and scorched my nerve endings so I no longer feel pain. And in fact, I no longer feel anything. With my help, I can make you better. Give you the tools that made the Wolverine what he is. Become superheroes."
Once he heard that last part, Lincoln slowly retracted his claws, "What are you saying?"
Ajax smirked, "I can make you just like him. I want you to go through the adamantium procedure."
And BOOM! Bombshell hit!
I'm sure your all familiar with Ajax, What's his name? If you do, then you know what's coming next.
Looks like Fowler, Stryker and the Stankcos were just a little short of catching Lincoln and his friends and family, same goes for Lori and Bobby. And it looks like Fowler's up to something else, what is it? Tell me what you think it is in the comments.
Stay tuned for Part 2, coming out sometime next month.
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See you next time.