Hi readers, sorry for taking so long. Real life happens, with jobs and classes and other stuff.

I went back to edit parts in previous chapters that I felt were better for the story's narrative and progression, so check out the new changes if you want.

Chapter VI: Sea Change

"Did you hear what Lisa said? We could have superpowers! Isn't that awesome, Lola?" Lana was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet as she followed her younger twin up the stairs. The tomboy was giddy at the thought of wielding something straight out of a comic book. Lisa's revelations that there was a possibility that they would all receive powers, and Lori giving the example with her size ability, excited the tomboy. The rest of her family had already showed off their powers, so her turn to gain some sort of ability might just be around the corner. Her mind was brimming with every sort of power she could think of that might be the one she had buried inside of her, waiting to be let out. Considering what her siblings could do, like Lisa, Lori and even Lynn, it could be anything.

The currently powerless twins had very different moods. While Lana was ecstatic, Lola was indifferent. Almost uncaring, really. The pageant princess might be curious about the situation her family was currently in, but that was the extent of her interest. Truthfully she didn't care. If she even had a superpower in the case that Lisa was right, Lola doubted that she would want to become a superhero like some of her siblings wanted.

"Yeah, yeah. I heard her." Lola said with a flick of the wrist. She opened the door to their room and went straight to her bed to lie down and play with her dollies while Lana went over to her bookshelf, where lay a small, tattered ring notebook. She flipped open to a page that wasn't littered with drawings or feeding schedules and immediately began writing stuff down.

"Let's see here. Gotta find something that'll let me know if I've got powers or not. Maybe a couple tests to try and find out." Lana reasoned to herself. She scribbled her thoughts down as fast as they came to her. Surely there had to be a way to know. Lana wasn't going to wait to see if it happened. The tomboy was far too excited to let this opportunity slide. Lana had always been a creative and very curious girl, and now with this dilemma that her sisters and brother were facing, it was returning full-force. As she wrote things down, she noticed out of the corner of her eyes that Lola didn't share her excitement, which befuddled the young mechanic.

"Lola!"

"What?" She put down the doll in her hands to face her twin.

"Why aren't you excited? We could have powers! Real-life superhero stuff!" Lana said back. She couldn't understand why Lola was acting so dismissive.

"I know, and honestly I really don't care." Lola said, stunning Lana. At first the little tomboy was speechless. Lola was infamous for being a total gloryhound, so her being so calm and apathetic about their newfound family issue was both surprising and even a little angering. What kind of six-year-old didn't want superpowers? Apparently Lola was one such person. Lana mentally sucked in her annoyance, not wanting to get into another fight with her twin, but it was difficult.

"How can you not care? Superheroes get fame! Fortune! Don't you want any of that?" Lana asked, attempting to get Lola to see some light.

"Uh, because we probably won't get powers? Hello? Besides, didn't you hear what Lisa and Luna said? Even if we did, what could we do with them? You've seen those movies, right? Never ever turns out well for those guys, and I for one am sure that neither of us have one." Lola responded, not bothering to hide her posh tone. Her younger and older siblings had told Lola everything she needed to know down on this subject. For some odd reason if she was going to have some sort of power like her siblings, she'd never be able to live a normal life again. So really she was looking at it from a realistic point of view, though it only made Lana even more infuriated. Her twin just had to be a naysayer when it came to the cool stuff. And right now she was essentially telling her that her heroic dreams were pretty much impossible. But Lola decided to go on, this time getting a bit too into her own opinion.

"Besides, even if we did what kind of stupid superpower would you get, anyway?" She mockingly asked, to which Lana's head shot up. A scowl etched on the tomboy's face as she heard Lola essentially diss her.

"Hey, my powers would be totally awesome!" Lana argued back, getting defensive.

"Pft, yeah right they would," Lola waved off with a flick of her wrist, and went right back to testing Lana's patience, "I think my dear, deluded twin might be dreaming a little too hard. Might wanna tone it down a bit, sister."

"Oh yeah? Well, just you wait Lola! I'm gonna find out what my superpower is, and you won't! You're gonna be wishing you had powers as cool as mine!" Lana pointed a finger at her twin, now completely tossing patience out the window. The tomboy was angry. Scratch that, she was pretty much incensed by this point. It wasn't hard for the twins to start fighting, even if it was over the concept of gaining powers.

Yet Lola remained utterly indifferent. Normally this would have devolved into a shouting match between them, but not today. Perhaps the strange events that were intermingling with the family had changed more than they thought.

"Oh yeah? I doubt it. Lynn and Luan have cool powers, but I think that there's always room for a dud. So go on, Lana. Go find out what silly power you'll have and then you can brag all you want. Just don't say I didn't warn you." Lola waved off her twin's words as she went back to pampering, which only fueled Lana's anger. The tomboy grit her teeth, feeling the steam billowing out of her ears. She couldn't take it anymore. The excitement she wanted to share with her twin was getting shot down before her eyes. If Lola was going to keep being a doubter, then she would do it herself.

"Fine then! I will!" Lana shouted, stomping out of the room and slamming the door behind her. Her twin could hear her little feet trudge across the carpet outside straight to the end of the hall. Once she was gone, however, Lola smiled at her reflection.

"She makes it so easy."

Meanwhile Lana had retreated to the bathroom, fuming as her sister's words rang over and over in her head. The notebook in her hands was nearly snapped in two as she entered the bathroom, slamming the door behind her and locking it for some sense of privacy. In her fit she tossed the notebook aside, no longer caring if it got damaged as it clattered on the ground along with the pencil it held in its rings. Lana then took a seat on the toilet, scowling at the floor below as if it had an answer she wanted. But what Lana really wanted was proof that she wasn't an outlier, or perhaps being cursed with a power she would hate, like Lola was talking about. Her sisters had powers, why didn't she?

Lola was saying nonsense. Of course I'll get a super cool power like my sisters. Lana mentally said, putting her head in her hands as she continued to mentally assure herself. I mean, look at Lori! She can grow into a giant now. And Lynn's got that fire-heat stuff. Who's to say I wont't have one?

But there was a small part of her mind that wondered if her twin was right. Dare she try to tempt it, and only be disappointed in the end? Lola could be foretelling the future after all, or maybe that we her power and she didn't know. Either way the sensation of doubt had the tomboy locked in a struggle. She walked over to the sink and wedged out the booster step so she could see herself in the mirror. Her reflection hardened as she steeled herself and her nerves, knowing what she was going to do. Now wasn't the time for doubting, it was the time for action!

"I'll find out what my powers are, and before mom and dad get back." She said, tucking in her fists in anticipation.

Lana would have gotten started on something, but a misstep down the booster caused her to slip and bruise her hand on the sink. Lana hissed in pain as a red welt swelled along her pointer finger, noticing that the tip had turned bright red. The little tomboy let out an exasperated sigh, not wanting to let this get to her. Unlike Lola. Luckily she knew how to deal with it. Lana hopped back up on the booster steps and turned the faucet on.

Only nothing came out, besides a tiny squeak from the pipe. She did it again, but got the same results. Now she was getting a little peeved.

"Oh for goodness sake's," Lana rolled her eyes and darted her vision to the underside of the sink, but found nothing wrong. No leaks or cracks. And there were definitely no clogs either. She'd checked this morning before the superpower thing became today's big deal. With this phantom problem along with her finger and her argument with Lola, Lana's temper finally blew over.

"Alright, cut the crud!" Lana poured some frustration and kicked the pipes with some force, hoping that some concussive maintenance would do the trick. "Stupid, lousy, no-good piece of shi-"

Before she could let a slur slip from her lips, Lana heard the pipes begin to rumble. At first she'd thought that her beating the pipes had gotten them to start working again, but something in her mind was telling her that this was another thing entirely. She took a couple steps back when the sink began to shake, slowly growing ever more violent. Lana could feel the pipes rattling from beneath her feet as well. As soon as it seemed like it was about to burst, it stopped, leaving Lana both confused and a little disappointed that it lead up to nothing.

She let out a sigh and walked back over to the sink.

"So much for that." Lana said and turned the faucet back on.

The thing that Lana wasn't expecting was for it to suddenly pop off like a bottle cork and unleash a torrential geyser of cold water, drenching her and the bathroom under a heavy spray. The surprise of the event was strong enough to send Lana onto her back, watching as the broken faucet spewed gallons all over the room.

"What the heck?!" Lana cried out, standing up to try and find the faucet cap and stop the bathroom from becoming more flooded.

And then something else happened; the water followed her.

The tomboy could only watch in utter fascination and shock as a swirling vortex surrounded her small body, quickly accumulating more and more of the water than was still cascading from the broken sink. Speaking of which, it was no longer spraying all over the room but rather changed its form to a floating stream that curved downwards to the floor from the pipe itself, forming a circular puddle that swirled around the young Loud girl in an ever-growing spout.

It quickly formed around her waist as it gained more volume, creating a sheen of water that steadily grew faster and faster, until it started to lift her upwards towards the ceiling like a rising pedestal. The howling wind of the water blew Lana's trusty hat off her head onto the floor, but right now the tomboy was too occupied to care. As she began to rise up being carried by the water spout that had formed around her, Lana realized just what was happening to her, why the water was acting like this. She reached out instinctively and snatched a handful, and saw that the droplets she held were hanging in the air inside her palm. It didn't take her long to put it together. This was what she had been searching for, what she was looking for: she'd found her power.

She couldn't stop herself from making a big, bright smile.

"I... I have powers! I HAVE POWERS!" Lana cheered, putting her fists in the air in pure celebration! "I KNEW IT! HA HA! Take that, Lola! I knew I had one!"

BANG BANG BANG!

"Lana, are you done in there? I have to tinkle!" That was Lola banging on the door, and Lana realized that she was still hovering in the air thanks to the spout she'd inadvertently created. With her powers. The one that Lola said she'd never have or totally hate.

Perfect.

"Oh yes, I'm quite done my dearest twin!" Lana replied ever so sweetly to her twin, "Just hold a second, just gotta unlock the door."

"Well, hurry up! You've been in there long enough!" Lola yelled. "And what's that gushing sound? Don't tell me you clogged the toilet again!"

"Nope!" Lana replied as the spout lowered her to the doorknob and unlocked it, and then immediately rose back up. "Come on in!"

The tomboy couldn't help but nearly squeal in excitement. Proving her sister wrong was going to be so sweet!

From outside, Lola couldn't help but narrow her eyes and wonder what her twin wanted. Sure, she and Lana got into another argument over the whole superpower thing that was taking over their family, but Lana was never one to act suspicious. The pageant princess knew that there was something going on with her sisters and brother. Could Lana be affected as well? She certainly hoped not as she opened the door to the bathroom. Yet there was a part of her that did wonder if Lana would join her sisters in having powers, thinking about her words from earlier and ponder if she had been a bit too harsh.

"Okay Lana, if you're going to make me feel bad for making fun of you earlier for saying you don't have a superpower, you better have something to prove it..." Lola started out strong, but sputtered down when she saw her twin hovering above the ground in a miniature storm. The wind and moisture hit her first, and then the scene of Lana standing atop a water spout. Lola's mouth hung open in disbelief that Lana had, in fact, proved it.

"See Lola! I told you that I had a power!" Lana bragged and pointed at her sister, but in her excitement she had unknowingly sent a control to her spout to follow her finger, causing it to start spinning erratically and lurch around the room like an out-of-control fire hose with Lana at the mouth. Lola covered her face from getting sprayed and watched as Lana was swept up in her own storm.

"What the heck is happening!" Lana cried out as she was flung back and forth in the spout to her sister's horror.

"Lana, what are you doing?!" Lola shrieked, ducking under a stream that hit the carpet behind her. "Control your stupid power! You're getting water all over the bathroom! Mommy and daddy are gonna kill you!"

"I-I'm trying to stop it from spraying everywhere!" Lana tried to balance herself, wiggling her arms back and forth as she tried to regain some control, but to no avail. It only served to further fuel the watery deluge, covering the walls, floor and ceiling. Lola watched as it suddenly morphed into a literal wave and careened straight towards her like a missile. Lola stood there and watched as the watery wall of pain prepared to drown her in her own house of all places, rearing up like a fist ready to strike. There was no time to evade at all.

"Look out, Lola!" Lana yelled as she was being helplessly carried with the wave.

In that moment, Lola instinctively shot her hands out to protect herself, crying out as she did. It was here that something came to Lola's rescue. For a few seconds, as if in slow motion, Lana saw what looked like a soft blue-white glow coming out from her sister's palms. And then...

KKKRRRSSSSHHHKK!

Silence.

No splash, no roaring water, not even a drop.

Lola stood still, bracing herself. After a few moments of heart-pounding terror, she realized that nothing had come. Her eyes were still clenched shut when she felt something land on the tip of her nose. It was small and cold. Very cold. She opened her eyes and plucked off whatever it was, and to her amazement it was none other than a tiny, intricate snowflake about the size of her fingernail.

"H-Hey L-Lola?"

She turned back after hearing her sister's strangely stammering voice, only to let out a sharp gasp at what had happened.

The water that had once threatened to pound her had been frozen solid. The wave had turned into an icy shelf with the very tip of its icicle cusp pointed right at her, and that wasn't all. A small shower of snowflakes like the one in her fingers fluttered down from the ceiling above in the bathroom, coating the room in a thin layer of snow. Lana, stuck in the frozen wave, was practically turning blue with her hair, clothes and lips smothered in ice.

"C-C-Could y-y-you m-mind g-getting m-m-m-me o-out?" She asked between her chattering teeth.

Lola balked. Surely she didn't do this, right? Yet when she went to reach out to help her twin out of the ice, Lola saw to her shock that her arms were emanating a faint icy glow from beneath her gloves, along with a bitter chill coming from inside her body. She barely got a word out before she heard someone stomping up the stairs.

"Alright, could someone tell me-?" The sound of Lori's voice yelling from the staircase sounded off, and the twins turned to see their eldest standing there mouth agape at the frozen bathroom, a mound of ice, and a pair of newly-powered sisters looking at her like they were caught. Lori couldn't help but let out a groan and slap her forehead in disbelief.

"Oh my god, really?"

...

"So what's the diagnosis, Lisa?" Lincoln asked.

It didn't take long for the house to get the news that Lola and Lana had newfound powers. When everyone came to see what happened, their reactions were varied. Lincoln, of course, was ecstatic. They all wanted to know what was going on with the twins but only after they helped out Lana from freezing to death. Lynn had been most helpful and used her heat to melt Lana out of her icy prison. Speaking of the two, Lana was currently huddled in a blanket on Lynn's lap, with the older sister using her powers to help Lana warm up after nearly getting turned into a human Popsicle. Lola sat next to them, silent as can be. The little princess hadn't said a word since what happened, though it didn't help that there was a thermometer in her mouth.

Lisa was currently investigating a piece of ice that Lola had created. Using her own powers, Lisa was able to get a complete scan of the fragment, peering into the crystalline formation to see if there was any signs with a series of lime-green laser lights moving back and forth from her glasses. After a while, Lisa stepped off her stool and faced her siblings.

"It appears that our sisters have gained their superhuman abilities like most of us in this house, though more rudimentary than others. Lana has the powers of hydrokinesis, or the ability to manipulate the liquid form of H2O. Quite an interesting power, though very destructive if used wrong." Lisa explained.

"Yeah, if the bathroom had anything to say about it." Lynn added, standing up after putting Lana down on the bench.

"I said I was sorry!" Lana cried out, still feeling a little guilty after her powers nearly wrecked the bathroom.

"Moving on from there," Lisa continued, "While Lana has the powers to control water in its liquid state, Lola has manipulation over ice. Meaning, her ability to freeze and control the solid from of H2O, known as cryokinesis. Once again, I thank you for lending me your expansive comic library, Lincoln. Makes the terminology for said powers far easier." Lisa said, gesturing towards the pile of comic books at the foot of her desk.

"No problem. So Lana has water and Lola has ice?" Lincoln wondered with a thought. "Kinda cool that they're both water-related."

"Literally, in terms for Lola!" Luan popped in, half her body protruding through a yellow portal in the wall, "Check it out! I've been testing to see what I can do with my power and it turns out I can pop into places all over the house! Neat, huh? Anyway, how's our most recent additions to the superpower club?"

"Still kinda cold," Lana said, still in her blanket but no longer in Lynn's lap. The tomboy had walked out moments ago. "But I'll be okay."

Lola merely shrugged.

"After you two, this means that it only leaves Lincoln, Luna and potentially Lily to receive their powers, as utterly insane as that sounds. The absurd circumstances never ceases to stop on this day." Lisa said, plucking the thermometer from Lola's mouth, "I'll continue my research with this ice piece. Meanwhile I suggest you follow our sibling's methods and contain yourselves as best as you can and learn to control your newfound abilities."

Both of the twins nodded, following Lincoln as they left their sister's room. Lincoln eagerly went back to his own, excitedly running past his sisters so he can drown himself in more comic literature. He seemed to get even more chipper as the day went on, or seeing his sisters develop more and more powers. Lola and Lana however went back to their room without saying a word, the pageant princess leading the two of them. Lana closed the door behind her and saw her sister plop herself on her bed, staring into the floor. Lana, still feeling a little giddy, scooched over right next to her.

"Well?" The tomboy asked, which got Lola's attention.

"Well what?" Lola responded.

"What do you say?" Lana wiggled her eyebrows to her twin. It didn't take Lola that long to realize what the tomboy was hinting at. With a short, suppressed groan and a pinch to her brow, Lola answered her sister.

"Okay, fine. I'm sorry that I said you wouldn't get powers."

"And?" Lana said, obviously enjoying the spectacle of having Lola apologizing to her, a rare occasion indeed. A big, dopey smile was on her face as Lola kept talking.

"And for making fun of you."

"Go on." Lana playfully fluttered her eyelashes, and Lola for the time being kept her temper in check just to appease her sister.

"And that I was wrong for saying those things earlier and nearly turning you into an icicle. There, you happy now?" Lola huffed out, only to be surprised when Lana hugged her. It certainly caught the princess off-guard. She hadn't expected her twin to embrace her for whatever reason, but Lola swiftly found it welcoming to this day. She probably needed it after what happened.

"See? I told you we'd both get powers." Lana said, letting go of her twin.

"Yep. That you did." Lola replied plainly, but with a hint of good humor.

"Oh don't you give me that 'tude from earlier, Lols. I know for a fact you like your power." Lana playfully argued, pointing a finger at her twin. There was no way Lola was keeping up that mood. At first Lola didn't bother responding all while murmuring to herself, but she couldn't help but crack a grin as she thought it over.

"Yeah, I guess it is pretty cool."

"Hey, don't let Luan hear you. She'll warp in here and start making more ice jokes." Lana laughed, and Lola joined her soon after. The twins had quite a long day, but this little moment between the two of them allowed a moment of comfort, knowing deep down that they were still the same even with their powers.

"Thank you, Lana. I needed that." Lola said.

"No problem. Say, you wanna watch the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie I got downstairs?" Lana asked, hopping off the bed. "It's on Blu-Ray. We can watch on Lori's Xbox."

"Eh, why not?" Lola replied, and followed her twin out the door.