Chapter 163

(Royal Woods Elementary)

Lincoln is still in his cast, but he still tries his best to put on his smile and go through the day of school. By his side of course is Jordan, his girlfriend. Also Patriot and Valkyrie.

"So, you ready to see your pals after that day off of yours yesterday?" asked Jordan.

"Yup, I wanna know how they've been doing while I was gone" replied Lincoln.

They then pass by Principal Huggins. "Good to see you up and walking again Mr. Loud."

"Thank you sir, and it's good to be back in school" replied Lincoln.

Principal Huggins chuckles. "Lincoln, you were only gone for one day not a long time."

"Yeah, I know. But it feels good to be back in school to finish things up with any school work and hang out with my friends" replied Lincoln.

Principal Huggins smiles at the boy's ability to try and get through all of this. "Well, it is nice to see that can-do attitude of yours back Lincoln."

Principal Huggins then sees Sheryl go to him. "Principal Huggins, it appears there's a small problem in the cafeteria, we're gonna need you to come and have a look."

"I'm on it!" Principal Huggins heads for the cafeteria with Sheryl following behind.

"Lincoln!" he turns around and sees his friends. Stella, Simon, Liam, Tabby, Zach, Giggles, Rusty, Polly and Clyde.

"Hey guys, looks like I've been missed" replied Lincoln.

"Ya darn right you're been missed mate" said Tabby.

"You lookin' fine buddy?" asked Liam.

"I am Liam, nothing else is broken" replied Lincoln.

"I hope not dude, you've already been through a lot" said Stella.

"We're just glad you're doing fine" said Simon.

Lincoln chuckles. "Thanks for the concern you guys. So, what's new here while I was away?"

"Nothing much, except to that act Jordan annihilated everyone in dodge ball yesterday" replied Rusty.

Lincoln looks to Jordan. "Which is something I forgot to ask you."

Jordan whistles nervously.

Lincoln looks back to his friends. "So, can someone tell me exactly what happened at dodge ball yesterday?"

They then recall all the horrors they went through.

(Flashback)

Jordan comes out of the changing room and is now in her gym uniform, she's on the side with her friends and it seems Lincoln's pals are now on the rival's side.

Coach Pokawski looks to both sides and he is about to blow his whistle.

Something inside of Jordan was starting to flare up, it was almost like a memory of her boyfriend was soaring into her thoughts. That's when it hit her! Carol Pingrey! Oh hell no!

Jordan then changes her smile into a vicious frown, and just as Coach Pokawski blows his whistle.

Jordan then garbs a dodge ball and throws it at them, Simon and Stella move out of the way at the high speed ball.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" yelled Simon.

"What the heck?" Stella then sees Jordan's expression. "Umm, Jordan?"

All of them, even Jordan's team sees her expression. There is fire in her eyes, and it's not the good kind.

Seeing as this could end bad, Valkyrie does the smart move, and hides behind the school bleachers. "This is going to end badly!"

Jordan then starts tossing dodge balls at great speed, all the while she's dodging and grabbing dodge balls.

Everyone on the other team is getting hailed down by her ruthless onslaught.

"Run for it guys!" said Rusty, but he gets hit.

"Jordan! What are you doing?!" Polly gets hit.

"Yup, looks like what happened to Lincoln is giving her a heck of a spark" Zach is down for the count.

"I guess she's seeing red dodge balls, while we're seeing red pain" said Giggles. And she's hit!

Liam tries to dodge with all his strength, but it wasn't enough and he's down. "Dang it."

"This just got scary!" Tabby is also hit and lays next to Liam. "Maybe we should just stay like this until she calms down."

"Agreed" groans Liam.

"This is beyond Jordan's might! What is happening?!" Clyde gets hit and falls onto Rusty. "Ow."

Everyone else is trying to duck, dodge, push and shove their way past Jordan's assault.

Simon and Stella are faring better as they maneuver through her attacks.

Jordan's friends and teammates are just watching Jordan go ballistic, they don't know if they should even stop her or not. Even Coach Pokawski had no clue what to do.

"Should we do something?" asked Kat.

"Sure, you wanna go and talk to her?" asked Mollie. They then look back to Jordan who was now yelling.

Kat then walks a few steps back. "You know what? Let's let her vent out all of this steam."

"That sure is a lot of steam" said Joy. A ball bounces off the wall and hits her.

"And this is where it gets worse" said Sadie, and she's hit by a stray ricocheting ball.

"Oh boy" Mollie is hit.

Pretty much both sides are running around and trying to avoid the dodge balls bouncing off the walls, Jordan has no clue her own team is taking hit's from her as well.

Coach Pokawski screams and tries to get to his office, but a dodge ball almost hits him, so he hides underneath the bleachers next to Valkyrie.

"This is insane! I feel bad for the middle school once she gets there" said Coach Pokawski. Valkyrie agrees.

"So true" said Haiku who is hiding there. This startles Coach Pokawski and Valkyrie.

Soon, the carnage is over and all that's left are Stella and Simon, both of them are exhausted and so was Jordan. But then she picks up a dodge ball and she squeezes it making a gun reload sound.

"Here comes the next round!" said Simon.

Both kids dodge every one of Jordan's attacks, all the while they hear Jordan yelling. "You think it was a good idea to let Lincoln see you like that?! Huh?!"

"Oh, so she's seeing Carol inside all of us. That's bad" said Stella, and she gets hit from a dodge ball.

Simon goes to her. "Are you okay?"

Stella coughs. "I-I'm fine Simon. J-Just took a hit, it's nothing." Stella then closes her eyes. (Fake death.)

Simon then yells out. "No!" And he's hit and lying next to Stella.

The two kids then open their eyes after their dramatic death scene. "That ended better than I thought" said Simon.

"What are the odds we can join the drama club in middle school?" asked Stella.

Jordan pants and looks around for moving targets. Let's see what she's seeing.

Jordan's vision looks like something of the terminator:

Tracking … Tracking … Tracking: No living targets found. All hostiles neutralized. Objective Pingrey vengeance still in motion. For Lincoln.

Jordan then stops panting and smiles. "Hey, great game guys." She then skips back to the changing room. While everyone else is left to groan in pain.

"What. Just. Happened?" asked Cookie.

"I think we all got ourselves a preview of what Jordan's going to do to Carol Pingrey" replied Tabby.

"When did they ever show that film anyway?" joked Giggles.

Coach Pokawski comes out of hiding, so does Haiku and Valkyrie. "Which side were you on again kid?"

"I was on Jordan's team, but I knew her anger would end up destroying everyone" replied Haiku.

"Okay then, so team Jordan wins" replied Coach Pokawski.

"Yeah" groaned Jordan's team.

"Be happy you kids are gonna be sent early today" said Coach Pokawski.

"Can someone call my dad's?" groaned Clyde.

"Someone call my memaw" said Liam.

"Someone call the funny doctor, because we're all in unfunny pain" said Giggles. They all groan from her pun.

Zach chuckles. "Good one."

Yeah, she's becoming the next Luan. Sort of.

(End flashback)

Lincoln looks to Jordan in shock.

Jordan is nervous after all of this. "Huh, I didn't know I was like that. All I recall is going into some kind of hunting-auto-pilot mode."

"Well, that auto-pilot was one flight none of us wanted to be part of" joked Giggles.

"You were like a machine out there!" said Polly.

"Like Terminator" said Simon.

"In a twelve year old form" said Stella.

Jordan chuckles. "Sorry guys, I was just angry I guess."

Lincoln then kisses her cheek. "What you did sounded kinda awesome. But it was also a bit too far."

Jordan looks down in sadness. "Yeah, I shouldn't have taken it all out on everybody like that. I was just so upset about what Carol showed you and what happened afterwards."

Rusty wanted to ask something about what Carol did, but he gets elbowed by Polly, so he stays quiet.

They then hear the bell ring. "Well, looks like first period is up. We should all get going" said Clyde.

"By the way, with Mrs., Johnson still checking in on her mom at the hospital. Who's the substitute teacher today?" asked Lincoln.

"Ms. Dimartino" replied Stella.

This made some of the boys turn red. Lincoln and Jordan see this. "Oh no."

Patriot and Valkyrie know this isn't gonna go well.

(Skip, Cafeteria)

All of them are enjoying lunch, well the girls are a bit upset with their boyfriends for staring at Dimartino through the whole class. They got some slaps after class.

Lincoln and Jordan look at the sad faces on Simon, Zach, Rusty and Liam.

"Well, that class ended in a way we did not expect" said Jordan.

"You guys okay?" asked Lincoln.

Simon sighs and looks down. "No" he then sees Stella glaring at him. "Stella, I'm so sorry. I didn't know what I was thinking."

Stella could see how regretful he was for just staring at a woman older than him. "Okay, but I don't wanna have to go through this one more time. It kinda hurts to see you look at a woman who you think is prettier than me."

Simon looks down in sadness.

Lincoln and Jordan could see this in all the boy's faces.

"Come on guys, give them a break. They didn't know what they were getting into" said Jordan.

"Yeah, a lot of guy at other schools do the same" said Mollie.

The girls all understood. "Fine" said Polly.

"We were just upset about it" said Tabby.

"Not the kind of audience or applause some of us wanted" said Giggles.

"Believe me, it will take some time for them to stray away from Sirena's beauty again. Just give it time and be there for them to make them snap out of it" replied Lincoln.

"He's got a point there" said Jordan.

They all nodded.

"It's gonna be a long time for every boy to get over Dimartino" said Sadie.

"She's like a magnet for boys, no matter what age" said Kat.

"Well, now the rest of you girls know how I feel when Carol made Lincoln go into shock" said Jordan.

Polly, Stella, Giggles and Tabby then recall Jordan's dodge ball happy hour yesterday. "Oh."

Then Clyde shows up. "Hey guys, I saw what happened and thought it was both inappropriate and awkward. I have no clue why I'm not going gaga over Dimartino."

"Maybe coz you got your head straightened to normal and focusin' on somethin' else now" said Liam.

Clyde chuckles. "I guess you're right" he then looks to Lincoln. "So Lincoln, when do you take the cast off?"

"Tomorrow, I'm gonna be visited by someone to have it removed since this is no ordinary cast molding they put on me" said Lincoln.

"Is that cast made from something of the otherworld?" asked Rusty.

"Probably is" replied Zach. "Also, does hero Linc have any alien friends?"

Lincoln chuckles. "That's something I can't tell you."

"Dang it" said Zach. The others chuckle at this.

"Don't sweat it Zachary, no one is planning to get alienated in this table anytime soon" joked Giggles. Zach does chuckle at that pun.

Just then Lincoln gets a text, he checks it and sees it was from Sam. "LUNA HAD A BREAKDOWN IN SCHOOL! SHE'S BEING SENT HOME!"

Lincoln's face was now filled with worry. Jordan and the others also see his expression. "Lincoln, is something wrong?"

Lincoln gets up. "I gotta go!" He grabs his crutches and leaves the cafeteria with Patriot and Valkyrie. This worries Jordan and she goes after him, so do the rest of their friends.

Lola, Lana, Lucy and Lisa also see this and follow. Along with Darcy, Meli, Haiku, Rocky and the rest of the Morticians Club.

Lincoln then spots Principal Huggins. "Principal Huggins! Principal Huggins!"

The Principal turns around and sees Lincoln in panic, followed by his friends. "Loud? What's wrong?"

Lincoln then shows him the text from Sam Sharp. Huggins knew something would happen, and to be honest he thought Lincoln would be the one to have a breakdown. I guess Lincoln does have thick skin, sort of.

"Alright loud, you can go and tend to your sister. But whatever school work you have has to be delivered to you understand?" said Principal Huggins.

"Thank you sir, thank you!" replied Lincoln. He then looks to the others. "Guys, I gotta go and check on my sister!"

Jordan kisses him. "Go. Luna needs her little brother, now." Lincoln smiles and he heads off with Patriot and Valkyrie.

They all watch as Lincoln heads out of the school.

Just then Lola gets an idea and goes to Principal Huggins. "Umm, can we also go home and check on our sister?"

Principal Huggins crosses his arms and looks to Lola sternly. "Nice try Loud, not gonna happen."

"Dang it" scowled Lola. She's then dragged away by Lucy. "Come on you."

"It was a nice try though" said Lana.

"Simpletons" replied Lisa.

"What's the simpleton?" asked Darcy.

Jordan sighs and looks to the doors where Lincoln left through. 'Please be okay Luna.'

(Outside)

Lincoln waits by the roadside for Vanzilla to come, but instead he sees Chunk's van coming. 'I guess Lori, Leni and Luan are still in school.'

Chunk's van stops, the back is kicked open and Luna comes out. "Easy on the van there luv" said Chunk.

"Luna!" yelled Sam as she also gets out of the van.

Luna ignores them and looks around, she then sees Lincoln and rushes to him. "Lincoln!"

"Luna! What's wrong?!" asked Lincoln. But before he can say anything else, he's hugged by his third eldest sister.

He could hear her crying, so he hugs her back and tries to calm her down. "Hey, it's okay Luna. What happened?"

Luna just sobs onto her brother and strokes his hair. "I-I-I thought … I thought s-someone came a-and took you a-away from me!"

Lincoln then looks to Sam. "Sam, what happened?"

"She had a break down in the girl's bathroom. She went into the toilet stall and started to cry and freak out. She kept yelling at something and saying to let you go, I think she had some kind of nightmare, while day dreaming" said Sam.

"Also, Sam told me she called Lori, Leni and Luan and the rest of the band to come and help out Luna, they kept Sully away from the restroom" said Chunk.

"Lori knew what was going on and told Leni to get Principal Rivers. After calming down Luna, Principal Rivers decided to let her go home, she wanted me to bring her there. Lori was gonna drive us but I told her that Chunk can do it" said Sam.

"Right as rain there Sam. The rest of your sisters still have school, so I came to the high school as fast as I could. Your parents were told about all of this, and we told them we got it all covered" said Chunk.

"The first thing I thought was to get Luna to you" said Sam. "And don't worry, Sully and Mazzy said they'll give us our schoolwork later on."

Lincoln nods and looks to Luna who was still crying and hugging him. Patriot and Valkyrie are also concerned by this.

"We should go home now" said Lincoln.

"That's a good idea kid, hop in" said Chunk. Patriot and Valkyrie take to the skies

Lincoln then looks to Luna. "Luna, let's go home."

Luna then stands up and while still hugging Lincoln and she walks into Chunk's van still hugging him. Her eyes are still closed and she just walked into Chunk's van all while hugging Lincoln. This was new to Lincoln, Sam and Chunk.

Sam picks up Lincoln's crutches and follows into the van and they drive off with Patriot and Valkyrie following.

(The Loud House)

Chunk's van stops. Sam opens the back and like before Luna gets out, eyes closed and still hugging Lincoln and walks into the loud house.

Sam and Chunk were now concerned over this. Patriot flies down and gets the key in the rose bushes and unlocks the door, Luna steps inside the house, and Lincoln is feeling very worried and awkward about this. He's being hugged/carried by Luna.

Patriot and Valkyrie fly into the house.

Sam follows soon after with Lincoln's crutches. "Chunk, you can head on home. I got this."

Chunk gets out of his van. "You kids need some adult supervision, so I'll be here to see if there's anything else I can do."

They both head into the house. They see Luna head upstairs and into her and her little brother's room.

She then lays onto a bean bag chair while still hugging Lincoln.

Sam and Chunk, with Patriot and Valkyrie peek through the door. Lincoln notices them and motions to them that he's got this.

Sam, Chunk and the two eagles nod and give them some alone time.

Lincoln then looks to his sister still hugging and starting to cry once again. "Luna. Can you tell me what happened?"

Luna continues to sob and hug Lincoln, he decides to wait for her to finish her crying. What amazes Lincoln, is that his leg hasn't been hit as they were headed home.

It took five minutes for Luna to finally calm down, she then releases her hug from Lincoln and looks at his concerned face, Lincoln could see her mascara all messed up from her crying. Lincoln kisses her cheek and Luna kisses his forehead.

Lincoln then sits next to Luna.

Luna sighs. "I'm sorry bro, I guess …I guess I broke down."

Lincoln hands her a tissue and she blows her nose, and also wipes away her ruined mascara.

"Luna, what happened? What made you break down like that?" asked Lincoln.

Luna sighs and looks down with some sadness.

Lincoln could tell that whatever happened to her to make her break down like that really riled her up. "Luna, I understand if you don't wanna tell me, I know it must've been too much to remember."

Luna shakes her head. "No, no. It's okay, I should tell you."

Lincoln was glad she was opening to him about this.

"Okay, so it started when we were having our history class. It was about the British history which is something I was always interested in. Then I found out it wasn't about music, but I still had to take notes. Then the teach mentioned the history of when kids were used for hard labor, which was so not cool. Then he showed us some slides of the rich ….. The rich" Luna starts to choke up from her words.

Lincoln then realized what she meant. He also recalls a game from Simon. Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and it showed some kids being abused to work …. By the rich, well the Templars, but you guys get the idea.

"Was it the rich people using kids for manual labor and not letting them have a chance to freedom?" asked Lincoln.

Luna sheds some tears and nods. "Then ….. When class was over, Sam and I went ….. We went to use the restrooms. Sam noticed ….. She noticed how troubled I was looking, but I told her I was f-fine ….. Then w-when I went to one of t-the stalls that's when I saw something!"

Lincoln then holds his sister's hand to try and keep her calm.

"I-I saw …. You" Luna starts to cry once more. "Y-You were b-being forced t-to work! Fo-Forced to be abused by …. B-By some greedy rich …. Bastard!"

Lincoln then hugs Luna, she hugs him tightly. "A-And I couldn't d-do anything to s-save you! You w-were being hurt! Th-They kept beating you up!"

Lincoln didn't like where this was going. "They killed you." was what Luna whispered.

Lincoln's eyes were now wide and he too was starting to shed some tears, but then some part of him was rethinking something else.

He then wipes away his tears and looks to Luna. "Luna, what you saw was something that wil never happen to me, ever."

Luna breaks the hug and looks to Lincoln. "B-But, it looked s-so real."

"To you it was. But it's not real, those days are gone and sure as heck no one does that anymore. It's completely illegal, and we're not in Britain and I'm safe" said Lincoln.

Luna was a bit motivated by Lincoln's words that it is alright, but she was still feeling sad. "Still, I just couldn't let that happen to you again. The kidnapping, you getting hurt and almost killed. That was harsh and heart breaking, I'm your legal guardian. I'm supposed to look after you bro, and for some reason I ain't doing a good job at it."

Lincoln hugs Luna once more. "Luna, you saved me from almost getting killed. You risked so much to make me happy, you were always there for me when I was feeling lonely and you are the reason why I have my talent today. I say you're doing a great job of being my guardian and my best big sister."

Luna smiles and sheds some tears, but these are tears of joy and she returns the hug. "I love you little bro."

"I love you too sis" replied Lincoln. The two of them stay like this for a while, they needed to be with each other's sibling company.

Unbeknownst to them, Sam and Chunk are seeing this and smile.

Sam was glad Luna was finally calm, though she was also upset at what made Luna break down like this. 'She has a long way to get past all of this horrible stuff, but I know that with Lincoln she can get through it.'

Then Sam gets an idea. 'If Luna and I actually become a thing as adults, maybe it's best if Lincoln lived close by. The one thing I wouldn't want to do is to break this sibling bond they have, kinda like Simon and myself.'

A/N: And things got a bit sad for a moment there, but they will heal, in time. And also coming will be Lincoln finally getting rid of his cast. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.