Chapter 574.

"The lone Silver Strikes part 2."
- In collaboration with Vasmasdas1. He came through, and this is a good idea, and concept. Thanks man.

Word about the whole ordeal has gone out, and now Royal Woods is on high alert for an assailant who is the exact age of any preteen in Middle School and the cops along with the FutureTech outpost are on the hunt, and checking key locations on any hideout.

(Royal Woods General Hospital.)

Luna, Lincoln, Jordan, Ryan and Hope walk into the room and they see their friends, Gretchen still resting and watching the news, she then turns off the TV and looks to her friends. "Hey, guys."

They all go over and check on how she's doing. "How're you feeling Gretch?" asked Ryan, he does kiss her cheek and hold her hand.

Gretchen smiles and she intertwines her fingers with his. "Feeling better with some good company now here, and my head still feels sore and whenever I wake up, I always get a migraine, but that's also the side effects of the medicine they gave me to help heal a bit faster."

Jordan then goes over to the other side of the bed. "Gretchen, this might be sudden but can you…"

"Guys, the answer is that I still don't know" replied Gretchen. "Everything is still kinda fuzzy in the head, and I don't recall the person who attacked me and tried to do more harm, and I have this feeling that the one who struck is not some random case of a mugging."

"We kinda thought the same thing too" said Lincoln. "But we have yet to figure out what to do to find out who did this. So, everyone in the allied outpost and the cops are trying to sort this out. Just get some rest, and heal up. We'll come along every now and then to talk to you."

Gretchen nods, and then they continue to talk about anything else that has gone about with Gretchen not around. Hope then thinks of something.

'The real truth lies within the place from where the attack had started. Perhaps I should go and check it out, and then I'll see if there's anything that the others may have missed, because no one messes with one of my friends!'

But none of them know that someone is seeing this from the bushes outside of the hospital, and that someone is Leslie Silver. She smirks and then recalls her plan. 'I already got Gretchen hurt, and no one even knows who did the attack, and that means I still have the upper hand.'

'Now, to say hello to an old bestie of mine.' She then goes back into the bushes, and she gets ready for her next attack.

(Ketcham Park.)

We now see Hope Pertland, and she's walking towards the scene of the crime and she takes a good look around the place where it all happened. 'What the heck even made this attack possibly? Who the heck would even attack Gretchen? She has no…. Wait, unless….'

Then something hits her in the back of the head and everything goes dark.

(At an abandoned Clock factory.)

Soon, Hope slowly opens her eyes, and then she looks around. "What the heck?" She can feel her head in pain, and then she notices that she's chained to a chair and she looks around. "Clocks?"

"Hello, bestie." Hope sees someone she did not expect, or did she? Leslie Silver. "So glad we could be together back again, because I do so love reunions, and seeing my bestie who betrayed me just makes things a whole lot better."

Hope growls seeing her. "Leslie Silver! I knew I smelled a filthy stinking rich rat around here! I knew that you were the one who attacked Gretchen, because you're the only annoyance from our dumb and mean past!"

But then she's punched in the face by Leslie. "So annoying, this new you is so incompetent and pathetic, and I have no uses for someone who would betray me and show such weakness. Which only means, that today is the day you learn how much I felt when you hurt me… Inside!"

She then kicks Hope and she falls over, then Leslie grabs Hope and she is wearing brass knuckles and rubber gloves. "What happens next, is going to be all on you. Not my fault!" She then punches Hope repeatedly, and then continues her beat down onto her former best friend.

Hope doesn't even know how Leslie Silver is even doing this, but then Leslie grabs her baseball bat. "Time to make sure that my plan goes into motion, and to make that work you'll need some brain fixes, and it's the same one I landed onto Gretchen."

Hope spits out some blood. "You are a delusional and crazy bastard of a girl!"

Leslie smirks. "You're right, because I am a delusional, and crazy bastard rich girl." She then hits Hope and everything turns dark.

(Somewhere in the town.)

Lincoln and Jordan are both walking down the streets. Both of the talking about what went down. "So, we still have to figure out who the heck would've wanted Gretchen badly hurt" said Jordan. "Still no leads. What about Lisa? She is helping, right?"

Lincoln nods. "Yeah, and even she's having a hard time trying to sort out on who would've done this, but some part of me has an idea on who could've made that attack, but then I got some second thoughts."

Jordan knows who he means. "Leslie Silver, but that couldn't have been possible, she is unfit to even harm anyone, and would rather have others do her work, and she's not the only person who hates Gretchen. We also have Chastity, Regina and…. And Karen."

Lincoln goes through this in his head. "That all make sense, but we have to ask if…." Then he stops and sees something. "No! Hope!"

Jordan notices this and she goes over and is shocked to see their friend, Hope Pertland. Bruises, with some cuts, a black eye and her right arm looks badly injured, or dislocated. "We need an ambulance down here, fast!" said Lincoln.

Jordan makes the call for an ambulance, and then she helps Lincoln carry Hope out of the alley, and they try and get her to wake up, but she's barely responsive and just coughs. "What?" Then she passes out.

The folks around the town see this, and they all go over and see what's going on. Unknown to all of them, Leslie smirks from the shadows of the alley and she sneaks off.

Lincoln looks to the alley, and he feels like someone was there and watching them. Then a dropship arrives and they all board the medivac dropship and send Hope Pertland to the hospital, and they should also phone her parents about what has happened.

But unknown to everyone, something else is there at the alley and saw everything and then it scurries off elsewhere.

(The Abandoned Clock factory.)

Leslie goes to the stuff she has and she gets it all packed up, and then she looks to her attire. "Well, time to make a change, and If Hope does awaken and knows the attire I wore, then chances others will look for some girl dressed in a light orange hoodie and light blue skirt."

But first she grabs an energy drink and takes a moment to relax. "Dang, Hope sure is heavy and that was not an easy drag. Glad no one even noticed me when I snuck into that alley and left her body to rot their like garbage."

Leslie then grabs her bag with clothing. "Right, now I also need to get ready for the next plan. Because I am coming for you, Jordan Rosato, and when I am done with you, Lincoln Loud will be mine!"

To be continued…

A/N: That is the second strike and Leslie Silver is ready to unleash her final attack, and that would be onto the gal who is with the white-haired boy, Jordan Rosato, and thanks again to "Vasmasdas1" this is so much fun to make, man. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.

Date made: 4/27/21 – 4/28/21.