A/N: In this chapter Lincoln will fight against an enemy that's trying to harm one of his sisters.
It's now been five months since Lincoln became Ace Savvy. Although things hadn't gone quite as he expected. He has a partner in Roulette Girl, the police are after him for being a vigilante and he faced his first supervillain just last month. Despite all these unforeseen occurrences Lincoln wouldn't trade it for the world. He felt more important as Ace Savvy, like what he does actually makes a difference. However, there were some drawbacks from his double life. He was missing out on more and more of his sisters' activities, much to their annoyance. In fact, it was starting to cause some tension.
We now transition inside of a convenient store as we see Ace Savvy and Roulette Girl fighting against some normal thugs. One thug tried punching Ace in the face, but it was blocked by Ace's nun-chucks, which he then uses to thwack the thug in his leg, then stomach and then the back of his head, knocking him out. As for Roulette Girl, she had ducked and dodged a couple of attacks before she took out her own Bo Staff and used to vaulted herself at the thug and hitting him with a flying kick, knocking him out.
"That's the last one." Roulette Girl tells Ace. "Good." Ace replies before checking the time. "Oh no." He muttered to himself before turning to Roulette Girl. "Uh hey, I gotta go. Think you can take care of the rest of patrol?" He asked her. "Yeah, I got it. Everything okay?" She asks, showing some concern. "Yeah, yeah. There's just something I need to do." He says dismissively before leaving the scene.
Twenty minutes later Lincoln had got back to the Ace Fortress. He quickly changed back into his regular clothes before sneakily walking inside the Loud House. He was hoping no one would see him but unfortunately, someone did. "There you are Lincoln, where have you been?!" Yelled an angry and upset Lola, who was flanked by Lynn and Luna. "Oh, hey Lola, what's up?" Lincoln said sheepishly. "Don't what's up me Lincoln, you missed my pageant, again, for the third time in the last two months!" Lola yelled, seemingly getting angrier.
"C'mon Lola that's not fair, I was busy." Lincoln said trying to defend himself. "You're always busy bro." Lynn said in a huff. "What's that supposed to mean?" Lincoln question, not liking what Lynn might be implying. "Oh, come on little brother. For the last five months you've been 'busier' than ever. Missing out on Lola's pageants, Lori's golf tournaments, Luan's comedy club, and my basketball matches. If you didn't want to go you could've just said so instead just making up excuses." Lynn said with a bitter tone.
"It's not even like that. I really am busy." Lincoln says. "Oh please, with what?" Lynn questioned, not believing a word Lincoln was saying. Lincoln didn't exactly know what to say, he couldn't tell them that he was one of Royal Woods vigilantes, but he also didn't want them to think that he didn't want to be around them. Luckily for him, Luna came to his rescue. "Guys, I'm sure Lincoln has his reasons." Luna said, leaving Lynn and Lola shocked. "B-But-" Lola began until Luna shushed her. Lola and Lynn then leave the kitchen while glaring at Lincoln.
Once Lynn and Lola leave the kitchen Lincoln breathes a sigh of relief. "Thanks Luna. I felt like they were going to skewering me alive." Lincoln jokes. "It's alright dude, but level with me, what is so important that you've been missing out of family stuff?" Luna asks. Lincoln thought for a moment before replying, "Well... You see... The thing is... There's this person I've been hanging out with lately." He worded carefully. Luna raised an eyebrow at Lincoln's statement. "What's so special about 'this person'." Luna said using air quotes. "Well, she's-" Lincoln began to say but stop when he saw the look on Luna's face when he said she.
"Luna, I know what you're thinking but it's not like that." He said trying not to blush. "But you want it to be like that don't ya." Luna said with a smug and knowing smile. "I-I don't know. She's cool and everything but, neither one of us know a lot about one another." Lincoln says, describing how he felt about Roulette Girl. "Aw, isn't that cute. My little bro has a crush." Luna says much to Lincoln's dismay. "Just... Don't tell the others, they might try and meddle." Lincoln says folding his arms and looking away sheepishly. "I got you bro, my lips are sealed." Luna said before continuing. "By the way, the school's music festival is tomorrow at five and I'm going to be preforming, so make sure to come." Luna tells him. "Got it." Lincoln says with a nod.
Lincoln then exits the kitchen and proceeds to go upstairs, but before he makes it to his room he is met by Lisa, and by the look on her face Lincoln knew what she wanted to talk about. "How much did you hear?" He asks her. "Pretty much all of it, those cameras I installed do have microphones in them." She states. "Look Lisa, I'm doing the best I can, but I can't be in two places at once." Lincoln says. "Do not worry elder brother, I'm not here to judge you on that front. But you should go to Luna's performance tomorrow if you wish to keep a better balance between your two lives." Lisa states. "Oh. Then what did you want to talk about?" Lincoln asks. "Simple, the lie you told Luna." Lisa answers. "Lincoln gulped, he didn't want to have this conversation, especially with his four-year-old sister.
"Well, I didn't lie per say. I just didn't tell her the whole truth." Lincoln said, carefully wording his response. "Oh, my apologizes. I didn't know that you become smitten with unknown ally of yours." Lisa said referring to Roulette Girl. "It's not like that, Lisa! It's more like admiration, yeah, I have admiration for her." Lincoln says feeling awkward describing his feelings. "Right." Lisa says rolling her eyes. "Anyhow, make sure to go to Luna's event tomorrow. I'll message you if there's an emergency." Lisa says as she walks off.
The Next Day
Lincoln's day had gone by normally so far. He got up, stretched, showered, got dressed, and went to school. And his school day was pretty normal as well, Chandler was being a jerk as usual, there was a math test which he passed, and he and his friends played some dodgeball during gym. After all that the school day ended. Of course, due to Luna performance today he stayed after school to help set up the festival.
And that's where we find Lincoln now as he's helping Luna set up a banner for the festival. "Thanks again Linc. This would've been a hassle without some help." Luna tells him as the two of them finish putting up the banner. "It's fine Luna. I had nothing else to do today." Lincoln replies. 'Well, I would've gone on patrol but Lisa's right. I do need to do a better job at balancing my life.' Lincoln thinks to himself as climbs down the ladder he was on. As he gets down, he just spots something out of the corner of his eye. He saw Ronnie Anne, along with her friend Sid, and with Bobby. With curiosity getting the better of him he happens to walk over to them.
"Hey Ronnie Anne, what are you doing here?" Lincoln asks. "Oh, it's you lame-o. Well, the only reason I'm here right now is because of these two." She responds gesturing at both Sid and Bobby. Lincoln turns to Sid first and gives her a genuine smile. "Hi there, I'm Lincoln Loud." He says extending his hand. "Sid Chang. Ronnie's told me about you." She greeted while shaking Lincoln's hand. "Hey Lincoln, don't I get a hello too?" Bobby says causing Lincoln to look his way. "Of course, what's up Bobby?" He says as the two fist-bump. "Nothing much little Loud, just getting ready to perform today." Bobby tells Lincoln. "Oh cool, what kind of song you're going to play?" Lincoln asks. "Not so fast little Loud. That one's a secret. Anyway, I got to prepare for the show. See you." He says as he then walks off. He then turns back to Ronnie Anne who had a look of dismay, as for Sid she wore a guilty smile on her face. Seeing this, Lincoln managed to piece it all together.
"Let me guess, you're only here cause Bobby and Sid made you." He deduced. "Pretty much." Ronnie Anne replied. "I regret nothing." Sid said in an exaggerated tone, making Lincoln laugh and Ronnie Anne roll her eyes. "Anyway Lincoln, we're going to find our seats for the show, see you." Ronnie Anne says as she grabs Sid by the arm and begins to walk off with her. "Wow bro, you got some slick moves." Luna says appearing behind Lincoln, much to his surprise. "Ah, Luna. How long have you been standing there?" He questions. "Long enough to see you flirting with Bobby's little sister." She said with a smug smile. "I told you, it's not like that." Lincoln said blushing furiously. "Sure little bro." Luna said while ruffling Lincoln's hair which gets Lincoln to chuckle a little.
After Luna stop ruffling his hair Lincoln happen to notice something. It was a boy he had never seen before. It was a boy with brown hair that wore a blue collared shirt and black pants. "Hey Luna, who's that guy? I've never seen him before." Lincoln notes as he sees the boy tune a violin. Luna looks to see who Lincoln was talking about before replying, "Oh, that's Dennis Prowell. He moved here about three months ago, dude's a quiet one but he's really good at playing the violin." Luna remarks. Lincoln nods before dropping the subject.
Soon enough the festival began. Multiple participants took turns performing for the large crowd. Bobby played his song called 'Greatest of All Time', which the crowd really enjoyed. Then that Dennis kid from earlier played a violin version of 'Over the Rainbow', which the crowd was very impressed by. But Luna stole the show when she played her song 'Play it Loud'. The crowd erupted as they loved every moment from her song. Once the festival ended, they announced the winner of the competition, which was obviously Luna. After the festival Lincoln, Bobby, Ronnie Anne and Sid went to congratulate Luna. "Way to go Luna, you won!" Lincoln cheered. "Yeah, your song was awesome." Bobby tells her. "Thanks dude. You weren't so bad yourself." Luna complements. "Ha, thanks." Bobby replies. "Anyway, we better get going. See ya, and tell Lori I said hi." Bobby says to Luna and Lincoln before leaving with Sid and Ronnie Anne.
Lincoln and Luna prepare to leave the festival when Lincoln sees the kid Dennis from earlier, and from the looks of it he was mad. In fact, he was seething mad. Lincoln didn't quite understand it, it was just a friendly music competition, why get so upset? Lincoln then shrugged it off and decided to leave it alone, leaving with Luna. Twenty-five minutes later Lincoln and Luna were back at the Loud House. However, Lincoln wasn't there for long. After quickly explaining what happened at the music festival to the rest of the family, Lincoln quickly changed into his Ace Savvy costume and went out on patrol.
Meanwhile
We transition to inside Dennis Prowell room where we see the young boy angrily looking at his violin. "Ugh, this is ridiculous! How could I have lost?!" Dennis yells. To say he was disappointed about not winning at the music festival would be an understatement to say the least. What made it even worse is the fact that he lost to Luna Loud. LUNA LOUD! She had been a thorn in his side for quite a while now, always showing him up with her rock music. He could understand how anyone could listen to it over classical music.
"That's it, I've been shown up by that no talent hack for the last time!" He angrily sneers. Just then he reaches under his bed and pulls out a box. He opens the box to reveal glowing green violin strings. "Great Grandfather Martin used these strings to become the one of the greatest musicians ever, and now I'll use them to do the same. As well as getting rid of that annoyance, Luna Loud. Bwahaha!" Dennis laughed evilly.
A week later
We now cut to a week later where we see Lincoln just getting back from patrolling. "Hmm, you're back earlier than usual big brother." Lisa says to Lincoln. "I know, but Luna invited me and my friends to her gig at the bowling alley." Lincoln tells Lisa. "I see you've taken my advice then. Good for you." Lisa comments. "Yeah, plus I've always like listening to Luna play." Lincoln states. "Alright then, I will stay in here for another hour or so in case of any trouble." Lisa says. "Thanks Lisa." Lincoln says as he goes to exit the bunker.
He then enters the Loud House to get ready to go to the bowling alley. Twenty-five minutes later Lincoln, Luna and Lori (who offered to drive them there) set off to the bowling alley. Along the way they picked up some of Lincoln's friends, including Clyde, Henry, Liam, Stella and Jordan. Soon enough they all reached the bowling alley and coincidentally Bobby, Ronnie Anne and Sid were there waiting on them. "Oh, hey guys. What are you doing here?" Lincoln asks them. "I invited them." Lori answered. "Yeah, me and Lori figured it was a good excuse to spend time together. Plus, your sister is such a good musician, I couldn't miss out on her performance." Bobby comments. "Thanks dude." Luna says accepting the complement.
They all the head inside the bowling alley. Seeing how there was still time before Luna had to perform the group started a game of bowling. The others did fine, but Lincoln and Ronnie Anne were on another level. Ronnie Anne scored 210 and Lincoln just edging her out with a score of 215. "Wow you two, you were great." Stella congratulates. "Thanks Stella." Lincoln replies. "Where you guys get those kind of bowling skills?" Henry asked, impressed by Lincoln's and Ronnie Anne's skills. "Oh, you know... Practice." Ronnie Anne says a bit dismissively.
"By the way Ronnie Anne, seeing how you and Sid know each other the best, can you tell us what you two like to do for fun?" Jordan asks. "Oh, we love fighting c-" Sid began to say before Ronnie Anne punches her in the arm, getting her to stop talking, which Lincoln finds odd. "What she means is that we love watching things like boxing and wrestling." Ronnie Anne corrects. "We also love Twelve Is Midnight." Sid says a bit giddy. "Wait, the boy band?" Clyde questions a bit confused. "Not gonna lie Ronnie Anne, it's surprising to hear you like a boy band." Lincoln comments. "Eh, don't knock it until you try it lame-o." She replies, not fazed by Lincoln's remark. "Are there any other interest you two have?" Stella asks. "Well, I'm very into robotics, I also love animals." Sid comments. "You get along with Lisa and Lana then." Lincoln remarks.
Soon enough it was time for Luna to perform, as everyone in the bowling alley took a seat, with Lincoln and the others sitting in the front row. "Hello dudes and dudettes of Royal Woods. Are you ready to rock out!?" Luna says with excitement. The crowd cheers in response. "That's what I like to hear! I call this little number Rock N' Roll Dream!" Luna tells the crowd. However, just before Luna could play a note a huge boom sound is heard as a wall gets blown away, surprising everyone. And out from wreckage stood a figure, he wore a black button shirt and grey khaki pants. His face was covered with visor glasses that had a music note on it. Lastly, he was holding a violin that had glowing green strings.
"Bwahaha, hello Royal Woods. Instead of listening to the atrocious music of Luna Loud you now have the pleasure of listening to the musical wonder known as The Conductor." He tells the crowd. "Hey dude! I don't care who you are but have no right to bust in here in the middle of my gig!" Luna chastises him with an angry expression. This causes Conductor to look at Luna with twisted smile. "Please, your rock music is nothing but a mockery of true music. Allow me to demonstrate." He says as he uses the violin bow to play his violin, and when he does it unleashes a soundwave that was heading towards Luna. Luckily, Lincoln acted quickly enough and pushes Luna out of the way as the soundwave hits the back wall, blowing it away.
"Ha, that was only a taste of my musical prowess." Conductor boastfully states. "Now for the full brigade." He says evilly as he prepares to make another soundwave. "Everyone, take cover!" Lincoln screams to everyone inside the bowling alley. Everyone does take cover as The Conductor fires a barrage of sound attacks. Amiss the chaos, both Lincoln and Ronnie Anne sneak off to the bathroom and change into their costumes.
Meanwhile, Conductor was still rampaging as he blasted everything in sight. "Bwahaha, nothing can stop me now!" He cackled. But just as he said that he was drop kicked from behind, causing him to drop his violin. Angrily, he picks himself up to see both Ace Savvy and Roulette Girl. "You must be those vigilantes I heard about." Conductor sneered. "You bet we are. Now, are you gonna make it easy on yourself and give up. Or are we gonna have to make you." Roulette Girl threatened. "You can't stop me, no one can. My musical powers are unrivaled." He brags as he picks up violin. "We'll see about that." Savvy says. He quickly throws four ninja stars at Conductor. However, Conductor countered by playing a certain note on his violin which created a sonic barrier around him, shielding him from Ace's attack.
"What!? Ace says in shock. "As you can see, your puny weapons are nothing in the face of my talent." Conductor says. "Oh yeah, then let's see how you handle this." Roulette Girl says as she fires her grappling gun. Surprisingly, the grapple had missed Conductor. "Haha, you missed." Conductor taunted. "Did I?" Roulette Girl said sarcastically as she then pulls on the grapple line, Conductor turns to see a table that was connected to Roulette Girl's grapple as he manages to shield himself just in time. "Did you really think that would-"
*POW* *BAM*
Conductor's sentence was cut off because as he turned around, he was decked in both his face and stomach by Roulette Girl and Ace Savvy, which sent him flying backwards. "You two are really starting to annoy me." Conductor scowled. "We're only getting started." Roulette Girl says to Conductor. However, before either of them could make the next move the police had arrived on the scene. "Police! Nobody move!" One officer shouts as he and his fellow officers held up their guns. Conductor smiled evilly as he saw his out. "Well, as much as I love an adoring audience it seems like it's time for my exit. But don't worry, I'll have my encore soon enough." He takes his violin and plays a certain note on it and in an instant, he vanishes in a gust of wind.
"I think we better follow his lead." Ace whispers to Roulette as he glances at the police. She nods and the two throw down their smoke bomb down, clouding the remnants of the bowling alley in smoke, and once it clears, they were gone.
In the aftermath of Conductor's attack, the compatriots inside the bowling alley were questioned by the police, some were checked for injuries by the paramedics also there including Lincoln's and Ronnie Anne's friends and families, who were wondering where they were. "Oh, I see them! Here they come!" Sid exclaims as she spots Lincoln and Ronnie Anne walking steadily towards them. "Lincoln, where were you?!" Lori questions with a mix of worry and anger. "Sorry Lori, I went to hide in the bathroom." Lincoln lied. "Me too, as soon as the chaos started, I went to hide in the bathroom." Ronnie Anne said, lying as well.
"Well, we're just glad you're okay." Stella says to both of them. "Yeah bro, that was crazy." Luna adds. "Are you alright Luna, it seemed like that Conductor guy had a grudge against you." Lincoln says being inquisitive about the situation. "Shoot brah, I don't why that dude was attacking me dude, or why he was hating on my music." Luna said a bit ticked off by some of Conductor's comments. "First that crazy ruby lady and now some evil musician, what is going on in this town?!" Lori questions, showing some frustration over it. "Luckily those vigilantes came and stopped him from hurting anyone else." Bobby said with thankfulness in his voice, which made both Lincoln and Ronnie Anne smile. "Well, how do we know it isn't their fault these freaks are showing up?" Lori said with a resentful tone, which immediately erased Lincoln's and Ronnie Anne's smile. "Let's just go home." Lincoln says.
After dropping everyone off the three Loud siblings returned home. When they entered the Loud House, they were greeted by the rest of their siblings. "Hey guys, how did the concert go?" Leni asked with her typical cheerful voice. "Yeah, did you Rock N' Roll the crowd Luna?" Luan joked. However, the look on Lori's, Luna's and Lincoln's faces basically told everyone that it wasn't the time for jokes. "Uh guys? What's with the gloomy face? Did something happen?" Lana asked.
Lincoln, Lori and Luna then spent the next ten minutes explaining what had happen at the bowling alley to the rest of their siblings and their parents as well. "Wow you three, sounds like you guys really went through it." Lynn Sr says with concern. "I'm just glad you guys are okay." Rita says. "But what was with that Conductor guy?" Lynn questions. "Yeah, he sure seemed like a sour note, haha get it?" Luan joked. which made her siblings groan. "Hmm, you said that he was after Luna, correct?" Lisa inquires. "Yeah, don't you find that a little weird." Lola points out.
"Don't know what to tell you dudes. I never even meet the dude; I don't know why he would be after me." Luna says feeling bummed. "Well don't worry sweety, we'll make sure that bad guy won't get you." Rita assures. "Lisa, you think you can forficate the house?" Lynn Sr asks. "With some help from Lana, it will be a piece of cake." Lisa states. And so, Lisa and Lana spent the next hour fortifying the Loud House in case of some unwanted visitors.
After that the Loud's continued on for the rest of their day. Later that evening Lincoln immediately went to Lisa's and Lily's room. "Evening older brother. I assume you're here to ask for my assistance." Lisa speculated. "You mean in order to find a supervillain, then yes." Lincoln said with some sarcasm in his voice. "Then let's get to it." Lisa says as she walks over to a corner in the room and pulls a lever. Suddenly, the floor underneath herself and Lincoln disappeared, causing them to fall into a chute which eventually dropped them inside of the bunker.
"Uh Lisa, when did you install that?" Lincoln questioned, perplexed. "Oh, about a month ago. Although, this is the first time I've gotten to use it." Lisa explains. "Anyway, I believe we have work to do." Lisa says. "Yeah. If we find out who this Conductor guy is, we'll probably know why he was after Luna." Lincoln hypothesizes. "In the meantime, Luna should be safe with the fortifications me and Lana made to the house." Lisa states. "Now then, were there any discernable features about this Conductor that might clue us in on who he is?" Lisa asks Lincoln.
Lincoln thought back to his fight with Conductor, trying to remember any key details. "Let's see, he had a violin that gave him multiple abilities." Lincoln points out. "Ah, so an avid lover of classical music. I'm more of west coast rap myself." Lisa admits with a bit of humor to her voice. "Now that you mention it, he seemed to have quite a dislike for Luna's style of music." Lincoln says. And then he remembered one more key detail, "And he... Had black hair." Lincoln said coming to a realization. Lincoln then quickly went over to the display case and grabbed his suit out of it, greatly confusing Lisa. "Lincoln, why are you grabbing your suit?" Lisa questions.
"No time to explain Lisa, Let's just say I'm acting on a hunch." Lincoln says as he gets on the Ace-Cycle and rides out of the bunker.
Meanwhile with Ronnie Anne, she and Sid were sitting in her room going over what had happened in the last few hours. "It still doesn't make sense to me Sid. How could someone have music superpowers?" Ronnie Anne says to her best friend. "I know, this is even weirder than that Ruby villain you fought last month." Sid notes. "What's even weirder is that he was after Lincoln's and Lori's sister." Ronnie Anne said with some concern. "I hope they aren't freaking out over this. I know I'd be paranoid if someone attacked me like that." Sid says shivering at the thought.
"Don't worry, if I know that lame-o then he isn't worried. And neither is his family for that matter." Ronnie Anne assures. "My only question is who was that Conductor guy really is?" Ronnie Anne mused. "And why does he use a violin, personally I'd prefer a keyboard." Sid says, which made Ronnie Anne give her a 'really' look. "Hehe, sorry." Sid says sheepishly. But then, something clicked in Ronnie Anne's mind. "Wait? Violin! That's it! Sid, you're a genius!" Ronnie Anne exclaimed as she reaches under her bed. "I am? Wait, what did you figure out?" Sid asked, confused on what Ronnie Anne meant.
"No time to explain. I'm gonna check out on a hunch of mine. Don't wait up." Ronnie Anne said as she takes out her Roulette Girl suit from underneath her bead. "Oh fine. Just make sure to say hi to that superhero boyfriend of yours." Sid teases. Ronnie Anne immediately turned at Sid and began glaring daggers at Sid. "Kidding, kidding. Good luck." Sid says sheepishly. Ronnie Anne huffed, then changed into her suit and then left out the window.
We now transition to a rooftop just across the street from Prowell house. That's where we see Ace Savvy scoping out the situation. "Are you sure about this Lincoln, you could be wrong." Lisa tells him over the headset. "Oh, I'm sure alright. Right now, this is only lead I-" Ace stopped mid-sentence as he felt someone was behind him, he immediately turns around to try and punch whoever was behind him, but it was caught by Roulette Girl. "Oh, it's you." Savvy says with a bit of surprise in his voice. "Nice to see you too." Roulette Girl said wittily. "What are you doing here?" Ace asks. "Following up on a hunch, what about you?" Roulette Girl questions. "Same." Ace replies.
Roulette Girl then looked at the Prowell's house that Ace was scoping out before turning back to him and saying, "So, what exactly is the plan?" Roulette Girl asked. "Well, I don't know if anyone is home but there's a window on the side of the house we can enter through." Savvy responds. "Then let's get started." Roulette Girl said eagerly as she grapples towards the house. Ace sighs before grappling towards the house himself. The two then picked the lock on the window and then entered the house.
"Hmm, looks like no one's home." Savvy says. "Good, then we can search the house no problem." Roulette Girl adds. The two then began to search the house, looking for any clues. But so far, they haven't found anything. That was until they entered a certain room. "This must be Dennis's room." Ace concluded as he and Roulette Girl searched the room. At first, they didn't find anything but when they looked under the bed, they found an interesting box. "This looks promising." Ace says as he grabs the box. He and Roulette Girl look inside the box to see regular violin strings and a note.
Ace takes the note and starts to read from it. "Hello to my descendants, if you are reading this it means you have found my heirloom, the Sonic Strings. When I was a boy, I found these strings in a strange looking container when I was walking along one night. When I applied them to my violin it greatly improved the quality of my music, but it also gave my violin strange abilities as well, including being able to produce powerful sonic blast. That's when I was sure these strings were something not of this world, and that they held great power. I only hope that if you use these strings, that you use them for good and for the musical enjoyment of others." Ace read. "Wow, some story." Roulette Girl said taken aback by the story. "And unfortunately, it wasn't a story that was listen to." Ace says with some disappointment. "Anyway, this confirms that Dennis is the Conductor, now we just need to find him." Ace says getting back on subject.
"That might be difficult, if he's not here then where would he be?" Roulette Girl question. Just then the two heard someone coming through the front door of the house, quickly our two heroes exit the house through Dennis's bedroom window without being seen. "Phew, that was close." Roulette Girl commented. "You're telling me." Savvy responded. "Lincoln, do you read me?" Lisa asked over his headset with some urgency. "Yeah, I'm here Card Counter, what's up?" Ace said, trying not to call Lisa by her name with Roulette Girl standing right next to him. "I thought I said not to call me that insidious nickname." Lisa says dryly. "Whatever. What's the problem?" Ace asks.
"I'm sending you a video on your phone, take a look." Lisa says she starts to send the video. Ace takes out his phone to see the link to the video that Lisa had sent. He clicks play and he and Roulette Girl begin to watch. "Hello Royal Woods. I am the Conductor. You may be wondering why I'm on your TV screen am, well simply put, I want to be the greatest musician in the world. And right now, there's only one roadblock in my way, Luna Loud!" He says venomously before continuing. "That is why I challenge Luna Loud to a music competition here at Royal Woods Coliseum. If she wins, I'll turn myself in. But if I win then this city will suffer my musical wrath." He laughed evilly. "Oh, and a few things before I go, if Ms. Loud refuses my challenge, then these lovely people will suffer the consequences." He announces as the camera pans over to three people tied up, and it turned out to be the judges from the music festival last week. "And one more thing, if those vigilantes Ace Savvy and Roulette Girl show up, then I won't show any mercy." He says darkly before the video cuts off.
"That's not good." Roulette Girl says worried. "No, it really isn't." Ace states, feeling a bit distraught by the situation. "So, what exactly is the plan brother?" Lisa asks over the headset. Ace thought for a moment feeling completely stumped. How could he and Roulette save those people and stop Conductor. "Ugh, I can't think of anything." Ace says frustrated. "Me either, he has us backed into a corner." Roulette Girl lamented. Then Ace got an idea, it was risky, but it was the only he had. "I do have one idea." Ace says. "What is it?" Roulette Girl says. "We give Conductor what he wants." Ace declares. "What?!" Roulette Girl and even Lisa over the headset. "You can't be serious; you can't give him that girl! We don't even know what he'll do to her!" Roulette Girl argued. "I agree with her brother, this is our sister he's after and you're willing to hand her over to him?!" Lisa questions in disbelief.
"Look, I get it. This normally wouldn't be my first choice, but we have to do something to help those people Conductor has hostage." Ace says with an assertive tone. Roulette Girl sighs before asking, "So, how exactly you want to play this?" "I want you to scope out the coliseum, try to spot any weaknesses in Conductor's defense. I'll try to convince the Loud girl to come." Ace tells Roulette Girl. "Okay, I can do that." Roulette replies with a huff. "Here, take this." Ace says as he hands her an earpiece. "You can call me using that." Ace tells her, Roulette nods before heading off.
Back at the Loud House the Loud family was visibly panicking after seeing Conductor's threat on TV. "What are we gonna do?!" Lola says in a panic. "We don't have to do anything." Lynn tells her. "But you heard what he said, if Luna doesn't show up, he's going to hurt people." Luan says with visible concern. "This is so bogus brah, first this Conductor attacks me at the bowling alley and now he's going to hurt people because of me." Luna says with guilt. "I know this a difficult situation honey but there's nothing you can do." Lynn Sr says trying to comfort his daughter.
Just then a knock came to the door. "Uh guys, are you expecting anyone?" Leni asks getting a bit scared. Everyone shook their head no and immediately everyone got even more nervous. They were unsure of what to do. That was until Lisa comes from downstairs and into the room and begin to walk towards the door. "Lisa, what are you doing?" Lynn Sr asks, thinking Lisa was about to something reckless. "Do not worry father, I do not believe it is something nefarious at our doorstep." Lisa says as she opens the door.
And to everyone's surprise (except Lisa's) Ace Savvy stood at the door. "I'm here for Luna Loud." Ace says to the Louds'. This only made the Louds' look even more shocked than they already did. Then Lori stood up and said, "No way, you're not getting anywhere near my sister you freak." She shouts. "Chill Lori, he did save us at the bowling alley." Luna tells her. "I don't care, he's probably the reason that freak Conductor is after you." Lori says glaring at Ace. Frankly Ace had expected that kind of reaction from Lori, she definitely wasn't one of Ace Savvy's biggest fans. "Lori, I understand how you feel but let's at least here him out." Rita tells her. Lori huffs but decides to listen to her mother.
"Thank you Ms Loud. I know this is weird, but I have a plan to stop Conductor, but I need your daughter Luna's help." Ace conveys. "So you want to put our sister in danger?" Lori questions with skepticism. "It wouldn't be my first option but, if she can keep him distracted long enough then I can take him down before he notices what's happening." Ace informs them. "Well gee, I don't know. It's just hard to trust you'll actually be able to keep her safe." Lynn Sr says showing great concern. "Father if I may say, this decision isn't ours. It's Luna's." Lisa says while adjusting her glasses. "Well Luna, what do you think?" Luan asks her roommate. Everyone then looks at Luna who was contemplating the decision. "I don't want anyone to get hurt because of me, so... I'll help." Luna says as she stands up determined. Ace nods and the two head towards the door but stopped when Lori began to speak. "If anything happens to Luna, I will personally turn you into a human pretzel." She threatens. Ace nods before he and Luna exits the Loud House.
"Thank you for doing this, you're really brave." Ace tells Luna. "Thanks bruh, and sorry 'bout my sis Lori. She's just really protective." Luna apologizes. "It's okay. I understand how important family is and there isn't anything I wouldn't do for mine." Ace tells her. This causes Luna to giggle. "Sorry, it's just you remind me of my little brother. He also would do anything for us." Luna says, which gets Ace to smirk. The two get on the Ace-Cycle and begin to ride towards the coliseum. On the way Ace received a call from Roulette Girl.
"Any good news?" Ace asks. "Yeah, I found a nice place to scope out the place. It provides a nice view of Conductor and the hostages." Roulette Girl informs him. "Good. I've taken care of the other part of the plan. Be there soon." Ace says. "Oh, is it that girl that was with you at the bowling alley?" Luna asks. "Yeah, her name is Roulette Girl." Ace tells her. "So... Are you two a couple or something?" Luna asks. This causes Ace to blush before replying, "Let's just focus on stopping Conductor." He says changing the subject.
Soon enough Ace and Luna arrived at Royal Woods Coliseum. When they got there, they were met by Roulette Girl. "Glad to see you finally made it." Roulette Girl says to them. "What's the situation?" Ace questions. "Conductor's getting more impatient. He is getting close to hurting those hostages." She informs them. "Not gonna happen dude." Luna says determined. "Just be careful, from the look of it, he might have a trick or two up his sleeve." Roulette Girl warns. "Remember, just keep him distracted and we'll be able to take him down." Ace tells her. Luna nods before heading towards the entrance while Ace and Roulette grapple up the upper levels at the of the coliseum.
We transition inside the coliseum to see Luna now coming face to face with the Conductor. "Ah, Luna Loud. So glad you could join us, I was beginning to think you weren't coming." Conductor says. "Well, I'm here now dude, now let those people go!" She demanded. "Sorry, can't do that. Who else will judge our contest?" He says with sarcasm. "Now, as for the rules. We each have two show off our talent at playing our particular instrument and then the judges will decide the winner. And if you win, I'll surrender but if I win, you and this town are history." Conductor threaten maniacally
Luna eyes dart slightly to the right to spot Ace Savvy and Roulette Girl who were in position. Luna just needed to keep Conductor talking. "Why are you doing this Conductor? What have I ever done to you dude?" Luna questions. "I guess I might as well indulge you before I defeat you." He replies before taking of his visor/mask showing his face. And it turned out to be Dennis Prowell (as Ace and Roulette Girl suspected). "D-Dennis? You're behind all this!?" Luna says in disbelief. "Surprising, isn't it?" He says rhetorically. "But why dude?" Luna asks. "Simple, I'm tired of being second fiddle to you! People love you and your music, even though it takes no real talent to do. Meanwhile, no matter how hard I work it's never recognized!" He angrily snarls.
"You're doing this over jealousy?! That's crazy! Music is meant to unite people, not for competition, and not for revenge either!" Luna says, angry that someone would use music for such petty reasons. "Well, it doesn't matter. Now take your guitar and get ready." He says as he summons his violin to his hand. And this was just the opening Ace and Roulette were looking for. They leapt from they're hiding spot and throw multiple ninja stars at Dennis. He happens to spot them just in time and uses his Violin to create a sonic barrier to shield. "Ace Savvy and Roulette Girl. I see you didn't heed my warning." Dennis says displeased. "Now these people will pay the price." He says as he looks towards the hostages. Just as he goes to play a note on his violin Ace quickly shoots his grappling gun, which hooks on to the violin. Ace (with help from Roulette Girl) start to get into a tug of war for the violin with Dennis, eventually this leads to violin being flung into the air. Landing next to Luna.
"Luna, hurry up and destroy that violin!" Ace ordered. "No! My power!" Dennis says as he rushes towards Luna. Luna, acting fast picks up the violin and smashes it against the ground, ruining the violin. "NOOOO!" Dennis screams as he tackles Luna to the ground. "You took away my power, my music! So now I'll get rid of you!" He says as he ready to strike Luna, but no such strike ever came as Dennis's arm is grabbed by Ace who punches him in his stomach making him recoil back. Then Roulette Girl gave him a left hook to the jaw making him stagger even more and lastly the duo double uppercut him, knocking him out.
"Phew, it's finally over." Roulette Girl says in relief. Ace then walks over to Luna and helps her up. "Are you alright?" He asks her. "Yeah dude, thanks for the save." Luna says gratefully. "You handle yourself pretty well, you didn't even show any fear." Ace comments. "Hey, what can I say, when it comes to music, I'm fearless." Luna says with a bit of pride. Ace smiles, then turns to see Roulette Girl tying up Dennis, then turns the other way to see the hostages still tied up. "Well, seeing how me and Roulette Girl's work here is done we better get going. Use this to get the hostages free from those ropes." He says as he hands Luna a combat knife. "Gotcha dude. And by the way, you're alright in my book brah." Luna tells him. "Thanks." Ace says before turning and walking away from Luna. And then he and Roulette then leave the coliseum before the police could arrive on the scene.
After taking care of the Conductor, Ace and Roulette Girl went their separate ways. After that Ace rode back to the Ace Fortress, where Lisa was waiting on him. "Welcome home dear brother." Lisa says in pleasant mood. "Is Luna home?" He asks. "Indeed. She told us about her adventure with you. She seems very fond of your alter ego, much to Lori's dismay." Lisa informs him. "Well, all that matters is that she's safe and Conductor is in prison." Lincoln says as he removes his mask. "Indeed, but might I ask, what would you have done if Luna refused to help you?" Lisa questions. "I would've found another way then. Lisa, I would never you or the others' lives if I wasn't sure I'd be able to protect you." He says earnestly and honestly. "I know big brother." Lisa says. The two then hug before calling it a night.
A/N: And that's it for chapter 4. Wow, this was a long one. Anyway, tell me what you think about this one and comment what you think will happen next time.