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Can you guys tell I'm excited? Because I am! Me and Petrus have been planning this chapter for so long and it is easily our favorite chapter done so far. And speaking of Petrus, this guy is a freaking champ! He helped me correct lots of mistakes in this so it would be perfect for you guys! You rock man!
Well, I won't keep you here any longer, I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as we did.
Lincoln Loud was currently seen playing some games on his computer. Normally he had a special head set he wore when playing such games, but that was when he was playing online with his friends and currently today he was online by himself so there was no need. He was simply doing this to pass the time. Currently no magical break out or monster attack was going on so both he and Star were simply hanging out in their rooms doing whatever.
Ah well, not everyday can be filled with magical Hijinx. Sometimes it was nice to just have a normal day doing normal earth stuff. Like video games, comics, and just being lazy. Living the life.
And as Lincoln was playing, he heard knocking on his door. This made the Loud boy raise a brow and pause the game he was playing. "Come in!" Lincoln said to whoever was behind the door. He knew it wasn't Star since, even after that incident of him in his underwear, she would either open up the door without knocking or, more commonly, kick or blast it down. It was good she had a door repair spell, but it was still annoying to see her break his door nearly every single day.
When the door to his room opened, Lincoln saw that the one entering was his mother Rita wearing her dentist uniform. "Hi Lincoln, I was wondering if I could ask you a favor." Rita said as she came into her sons' room with Lincoln rotating his chair so that he could face her.
"Sure mom, what's up?" Lincoln asked as he looked up at his mother.
"Well, I got called into work today and I was planning on going grocery shopping today." Rita told Lincoln who nodded in response. He had a good feeling what she was about to ask him now. Lincoln was good at both reading people and realizing the situation. "So if its not to much trouble do you think you can walk over to the store and get everything we need."
"Yeah I can do that." Lincoln told his mother with his smile as he stood up from his chair and stretched out. "No problem."
"Now remember, just get everything on the list." Rita instructed as she pulled out a folded piece of paper and handed it to her son. "No fooling around and trying to squeeze something in Lincoln."
"Don't worry mom, I'm not the same kid I was three years ago." Lincoln reassured his mother, knowing she was referring to the time he tried to get a cereal known as Zombie Brand and due to bringing his sisters along for this trip, they all ended up getting into a fight and getting his family banded from that grocery store for about a year. "I promise, I'll get everything you listed down. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Thanks sweetie." Rita said to her son before giving him a kiss on the cheek. "You have a good day. And also try to make sure Star doesn't blast the house down."
"I'll try but no promises." Lincoln said in a joking tone that simply made Rita smile and sigh before walking out of her only son's room. "Oh, and I left the money you need on the kitchen counter, next to the pile of pots.
"Alright, thanks mom." Lincoln said before unfolding the list in his hand. What he didn't expected was the list to unfold all the way to his feet and then some. Letting out a long whistle, Lincoln commented. "Forgot how much more we can afford these days." Ever since his dad opened his restaurant, its only seem to increase with popularity over time and gaining more and more business, which in turn meant more money. And more money meant they could get more groceries.
Just then Lincoln realized what more groceries meant for him in this specific set of circumstances. As Lincoln walked out of his room and headed downstairs, he figured out that he had agreed to walk all the way to the grocery store, buy all the groceries, and then walk home while carrying all the groceries. "My arms are gonna be jello by the end of the day." Lincoln sighed out as he stepped into the dining room…and saw something a bit weird. "Uh, whats going on?"
Currently sitting on top of the table were his four main family pets, their dog Charles, their cat Cliff, Their canary Walt, and their Hamster Geo. But not just them, but also the little blue man himself Glossaryck. They were currently sitting in a circle all holding cards in their hand with a pile of chips of different flavors in the middle of their little circle. "Uh, what are you all doing?" Lincoln asked as Glossaryck and his pets kept their eyes on the cards they were holding.
"Trying to play poker." Glossaryck answered the white-haired boy. "Now could you please leave us to it, I got some sour cream and onion chips I refuse to lose."
"Um, alright. See ya." Lincoln waved to them as he stepped into the kitchen, letting Glossaryck and the animals just do their thing.
Once inside the kitchen, he looked next to the area where his dad kept his pots and sure enough found a pile of cash next to them that Lincoln could tell just from looking would be able to pay for all the groceries on the list. "Welp, might as well get this over with." Lincoln said as he stuffed the wad of cash into his pocket. "Just wish the grocery store was a little closer. Then it wouldn't be so bad."
Lincoln was then about to head out the door…but stopped himself. He took some time to think about what he said. The grocery store being closer. "Hmmmm…" Lincoln hummed in deep thought. He had an idea coming to him, he knew it. Maybe…maybe he didn't need to bring the store closer to him. Maybe he just needed a faster way of getting there. "THAT'S IT!" Lincoln then gained a wide smile as he rushed past the poker playing pets and Glossaryck and instead of heading out, head right upstairs.
Currently in Star's room, the Butterfly princess could be seen laying on her bed aiming her wand up. She was currently levitating a tennis ball above her and trying to shoot it down with random magic blast from her wand. "Pshew! Pshew! I'll get you, tennis ball. Pshew! Pshew!" Star said as she made a blasting sound with her mouth with every blast she made with her wand.
Just then Lincoln climbed up into her room with Star still only focusing on the floating sphere. "Hey Star, I was wondering if I could borrow your dimensional scissors." Lincoln asked the Butterfly princess as he stood next to her bed.
"Yeah, yeah, sure whatever." Star said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out her Dimensional Scissors, not giving the idea of handing them to Lincoln even a first thought as she just wanted to shoot this tennis ball down.
"Awesome! Thanks!" Lincoln thanked her as he quickly exited Star's room as Star went back to trying to hit the tennis ball.
Lincoln then returned to the kitchen with a smirk on his face as he gripped the dimension scissors tightly in his hand. "Grocery store here I come." Lincoln said as he started snipping the air with the scissors and creating a portal with them. "Haha! Alright!" Lincoln cheered as he stepped through the portal, not bothering to close it.
A half an hour later, Lincoln stepped back through the portal he opened, many bags filled to the brim with groceries that his mother listed for him to buy. "And just like that, all done." Lincoln said with a victorious tone and smirk as he set all the groceries on the counter of the kitchen for his sisters to put away. He did the shopping; only fair they do the putting away.
So, after sending a mass text to them, he closed up the portal again and looked at the scissors in his hand. "These things rule!" Lincoln laughed as he spun the scissors around a little bit. Lincoln then hummed in thought. He still had the scissors and Star didn't say when she wanted them back. Maybe he would use them a little more. He could give a quick hello to Ronnie Anne and her family along with Lori, give some of his friends a scare all Lucy style, even take a quick trip to anywhere in the world and get some exclusive stuff there. Heck, he could even go to other dimensions all together! The possibilities were endless.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Huh? Wonder who that is?" Lincoln asked himself as he put the dimensional Scissors in the pocket on the inside of his jacket and headed towards the front door. The knocking sounds rather aggressive due to how loud they were. Maybe it was their neighbor Mr. Grouse with his usual complaints. If it was, then Lincoln would have to prepare for a pretty long and boring rant from the old man.
"Alright, what do you want Mr. Grou-what the?" However, when Lincoln opened the door, he didn't see Mr. Grouse at all. Instead he found what looked like a dimensional scissor portal. Only this one looked very different from the portal's he's seen. It looked like it was made of fire.
"What the…" Lincoln questioned as he leaned closer to the portal to examine it…
Only for a white hand to emerged, grab him by the shirt, and pulling him through.
"Bark! Bark!" Barking was heard from the dining room, coming from Charles of course.
"No Charles I didn't hear anything." Glossaryck's voice could be heard saying. "Stop trying to distract me. I have to get in the zone!"
Back with Lincoln, the Loud boy was currently on the ground of what looked like a barren wasteland. Cracked grounds, dead trees and bushes, and dry grass littered the area around them. "What the-" Lincoln questioned as he stood up and dusted himself off. Why was he here? What or who took him here?
"Alright snowball, where are they?" A female voice came to Lincoln's ears as he turned around and saw that the flaming portal was still there. But more importantly, there was someone standing on top of it, leering down on him. Looking up at the figure, Lincoln's eyes widened a bit as a small shade of pink came to his cheeks. Looking down at him with a fierce glare was a girl with white skin, about the same shade of his left side, spiked arms, and long red hair tied back with a spikey hair tie with bangs completely covering her left eye. She had orange eyes, visible fangs, pointed ears, and jagged yellow-orange horns. She wore a yellow-orange ballgown, brown high-heeled boots, and a black tiara. She also had an orange flame burning over her head.
"Uuuuuuh…" Lincoln let out as the women flipped clean off the portal she was on top of and landed right in front of Lincoln. But the white-haired boy stood his ground despite her fierce gaze and released cold mist from his right hand, getting ready for a potential fight.
"I said talk flesh wad." The woman said with a threatening edge to her voice she stepped closer to Lincoln. "I know you have my dimensional scissors on you. Better hand them over if you don't want any trouble."
"What?" Lincoln gasped out at what she said. Sneaking a peak inside his jacket, he saw the scissors he borrowed from Star still secured in the pocket he put them into before that girl dragged him through the portal. But she claimed the scissors to be hers. Lincoln remember Star telling him that Pony Head gave her the scissors before getting sent to Saint Olga's School for Wayward Princesses. Looking into the woman's glaring eyes for a brief second, he could see that she was serious in her words. And honestly, despite only meeting her once, if someone told him that Pony Head stole something from someone…he'd believe it.
However, he still needed more confirmation. So, taking the dimensional scissors and presenting them to the woman, he said. "Alright, so these may or may not be yours. But, I wanna ask some questions so I can make sure I'm not just being scammed here. Who are you exactly?"
"Pfft, you humans are so dumb." The woman muttered irritably before answering the Loud boy's question. "My names Hekapoo dumb-dumb. I'm the creator of all dimensional scissors." That…certainly made Lincoln do a double-take. The creator of dimensional scissors was right in front of him and he didn't know why, but something in him was telling him this was the truth. Hekapoo then pointed to the scissor's in Lincoln's hand and said. "And every pair of scissors is made specifically for the entity who earns them. And those you have in your hand, are mine! So you'd better hand them over if you know what's good for-"
"Alright then." Lincoln said, cutting Hekapoo off as he proceeded to toss the scissors towards Hekapoo. "Sorry about that."
"Wait…what…" Hekapoo let out in a stunned tone as she caught the scissors in her hands. Not even a little resistance of the matter. "You…You're just giving them back. No further questions?"
"Well…yeah. You said they're yours after all." Lincoln answered her with a shrug. "Me and Star didn't mean to steal em, we actually got them from someone else. So, we're sorry for using them without your permission."
"But…But…these are dimension scissors!" Hekapoo pointed out as she walked up in front of Lincoln, stopping him from going back through the portal. "You can go literally anywhere in the universe with these and you're just…giving them up without a fight?!"
Lincoln hummed in response. He's heard that tone before and seen the look on her face before. "I'm sensing your upset about something." Lincoln said as he, for whatever reason, thought that Hekapoo actually wanted him to put up a fight to keep the scissors. Something he just didn't get.
"What? Noooooo, I'm not upset, why would I be upset?" Hekapoo said, her voice practically leaking with sarcasm as she crossed her arms and looked away from Lincoln. "Why don't you just shut up and go back to living your boring human life in your boring human dimension!"
"Ok hey that's uncalled for." Lincoln soon grew annoyed at Hekapoo's words and insults towards his species and home. What right does she have to say that? He doubts she's even spent time on earth before. Can't judge something you never gave a chance.
"Tch, whatever. Just get outta here man." Hekapoo told him before she started to walk away, not giving Lincoln a second look.
But Lincoln couldn't just leave it there, not at all. He wasn't gonna let some random stranger get away with insulting both him, his species, and his home. And considering how she seemed to actually want him to try and put up a fight of any kind to keep those scissors, he had a bit of an idea. "Hey!" He yelled, causing Hekapoo to stop and turn her head slightly towards him and giving him a bored look with her visible eye. "So, you think humans are boring huh?"
"I think I made that pretty clear." Hekapoo stated, wanting this white-haired kid to just leave already.
"Alright then…how about a bet." Lincoln offered with a challenging tone. Narrowing his eyes at Hekapoo.
"…I'm listening." That seemed to get Hekapoo's attention as she turned around to look at Lincoln completely again.
"You're saying that humans and earth is lame. But I'm willing to bet you haven't even been there before. Have you?" Hekapoo awkwardly shifting her eyes around was the only answer Lincoln need. "Thought so. So how about this. I'll act as your personal tour guide for today. I'll show you around my home and show you how much fun you can have in Royal Woods alone. I win, you give me back those scissors. Do we have a deal?"
"…What if I win?" Hekapoo asked as she put her hands on her hips and walked up to Lincoln and looked up at him. "What if I end up bored and feeling like I wasted my time?"
"Then I guess you were right about humans and earth." Lincoln immediately told Hekapoo. "Humans really are a bunch of lame boring flesh wads. I'll even say it to you face so you get the full satisfaction."
"…Alright snowball." Hekapoo then gave Lincoln a smirk as she made the scissors in her hands disappear with a burst of fire from her palm. "You got yourself a deal. Prove to me that humans can actually be fun."
"Get ready to have the funnest day of your life H-Poo." Lincoln stated while pointing at said girl, only to receive a punch to the love handle from her. "Ow!"
"Don't call me H-Poo!" Hekapoo told him with an annoyed look. "And funnest, isn't even a word."
"Yeah, not with that attitude." Lincoln grumbled as he rubbed the spot where Hekapoo punched him. "Let's just go already."
"Lead the way snowball." Hekapoo said as she walked next to her portal that was still opened and gestured her arms towards it. Lincoln nodded as he started to walk towards the portal, but before he went through Hekapoo proceeded to heat up her hand and smack Lincoln the back of the head, but for some reason none of his hairs were singed off. "Huh…that's new."
"Are you done hitting me?" Lincoln asked in an irritated tone, now rubbing the back of his head. "Are you ready to explore earth or not."
"Alright, Mr. Sensitive." Hekapoo muttered as she rolled her eyes. "Lets just get this over with." Lincoln narrowed her eyes at Hekapoo before going through the portal with the white skinned girl following suite, the portal disappearing once Hekapoo stepped through.
"Alright snowball. Where are we starting?" Hekapoo asked as she crossed her arms and took in the surroundings of the area around them. At the very least she could say earth looked sorta nice. Blue and sunny skies, green and healthy grass and trees. A prettier sight then her home dimension.
"Hmmmmm…" Lincoln hummed in thought as he thought about where to take Hekapoo first. There were plenty of places around Royal Woods he could take her but the question was, where? He needed to show this woman the greatest Royal Woods experience he could give her. After about a few moments of thinking, something came to Lincoln. "You hungry?"
"Eh, I could eat." Hekapoo answered with a shrug.
"Follow me." Lincoln instructed her with a smirk as he started walking forward with Hekapoo following close behind, ready for this human to lose and say those words he'd promise he'd say to her face if he lost the bet.
"So are we gonna get there anytime soon snowball?" Hekapoo asked with an impatient tone and look as she continued following Lincoln. "Because I'm started to get bored. Ya hear that? Bored. Opposite of fun…I'm bored."
"Yeah, heard ya the first time." Lincoln sighed out in an annoyed tone before smirking and looking forward. "But don't worry, we're finally here now."
"About time." Hekapoo grumbled as she and Lincoln stopped walking with the later stepping aside and gesturing his arms forward for her to see where the human had taken her. Looking up, Hekapoo saw they were in front of some sort of establishment called 'Gus's Games and Grub.' Hekapoo looked inside the buidling and saw it seemed to be split in half with one half having a bunch of arcade machines and the whole half looking like a restaurant. "Ok I give, what is this place?"
"It's an arcade and pizzeria." Lincoln answered the red-haired woman as he opened the door for her. "One of the best hot spots of Royal Woods."
"This is an arcade?" Hekapoo questioned as she stepped inside. Looking around she saw a few other humans either playing games or eating some sort of triangle shaped food and bread that had some sort of stuff on it. "Its not even close to being as big as the Amethyst Arcade, and most of the games there are jack anyway. And what's that weird smell? And what's even a pizzeria?"
"Ok to answer all your questions, what you call small, I call quality over quantity, that smell is garlic, and do you seriously not know what a pizzeria is?" Lincoln was really puzzled at that last part. If she was the maker of dimensional scissors then shouldn't she have like…other dimension pizza at least at some point in her life. Hekapoo's only answer was a shrug that told Lincoln everything. "…Get in. We're fixing this now."
"Don't tell me what to-hey!" Hekapoo was actually caught off guard by Lincoln grabbing her wrist and dragging her inside. It wasn't that long of a drag since the counter of the restaurant part of the establishment wasn't that far away. But once they were there, Hekapoo yanked herself out of Lincoln's grip and warned the white-haired boy. "Don't ever do that again."
"Gus, you there man?" Lincoln called out as he leaned on the counter, not really giving Hekapoo's threat any mind as he looked into the kitchen of the pizzeria.
"Lincoln!" Almost immediately a man wearing a chef's hat and apron came up to the counter from the kitchen and smiled down at the boy. "My best customer. How are you today?"
"Pretty good, but we have a situation here." Lincoln told the restaurant owner as he pointed a thumb at Hekapoo. "See this girl right here. I kid you not, she's never had pizza before. Once."
"…" Gus was silent as Lincoln simply took out his wallet and pulled out the right amount of money he knew he would need for the food and drink. Gus quickly took it and stuffed it into the cash register without a second thought and said with determination in his voice. "This must be fixed at once!"
"You're the best Gus!" Lincoln complimented as the man went into the kitchen, determined to make one of his best pies for this occasion.
"Ok so I have no idea what's happening." Hekapoo told Lincoln with a bored look on her face. "Are we gonna have fun soon or can you just admit defeat already so I can leave?"
"In your dreams." Lincoln told the magical being with a smirk. "Now while Gus is working his magic in the kitchen why don't I show you some of the games here? Trust me, they're better then the ones at the Amethyst Arcade. What do you think? Rhythm, fighting, racing, shooters-"
"Shooters?" That seemed to get Hekapoo's attention as she said that particular genre.
"Ah, I think we got something." Lincoln said with a smirk as he started walking to the arcade half of the restaurant. "Follow me." Hekapoo did as Lincoln said as she crossed her arms and followed Lincoln towards a rather large machine that was connected to the wall. There was a platform meant for one person to stand along with a strange pair of goggles and a plastic gun attached to the machine with a large screen that took up most of the part of the wall it was attached to. The games name, 'VR Zombie Slayer'
"Ok, just stand here and put these on and hold the gun." Lincoln instructed as he grabbed Hekapoo's shoulders and guided her to the small platform of the console and handed her the VR goggles and the plastic gun.
Hekapoo rose an eyebrow at the goggles in her hands, but still put them over her eyes and soon frowned in annoyance as she only saw blackness when she put them over her eyes. "Whats the point of these stupid things? I can't even see anything!" Hekapoo complained as Lincoln rolled his eyes and inserted a dollar into the console.
"That's because the game hasn't started yet. Those are virtual reality goggles; they make it feel like you're actually in the game." Lincoln told her as he finished paying the playing fee. "Alright now press the trigger of the gun."
Hekapoo sighed in annoyance, so far really feeling good she would be winning Lincoln's bet and pressed the trigger of the plastic gun and suddenly the sound of a gunshot came through the game as the VR goggles Hekapoo was wearing turned on and suddenly, from her point of view, she found herself in an abandoned old west town. "Woah what's going on?" Hekapoo questioned in a bit of a surprised tone as she start looking around and due to the VR Goggles just found more of the old west town. "Did these things teleport me somewhere?"
"No, you're just seeing the game through a first-person perspective. That's the point of the goggles." Lincoln told her with a small laugh. "And I'd be on my toes if I were you."
"What's that supposed to-WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?" Suddenly, in the game, Hekapoo watched as some sort of decaying human limping towards her. As if on instinct Hekapoo aimed the plastic gun in her hands to where the creature would be and repeatedly pressed the trigger. "DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Lincoln nodded in approval as he watched from the screen as Hekapoo mercilessly killed the virtual zombie. Even sealing the deal by still shooting it after it was dead. "Well looks like you got the game all figured out." Lincoln told the scissor maker with a smirk.
"Wait? What?" Hekapoo questioned, facing her head towards the direction of Lincoln's face.
"That's the point of the game." Lincoln told her. "Zombies are gonna spawn in all over the place in front of ya and you gotta shoot em down before they get to ya or its game over."
"So wait…this game ENCOURAGES you to shoot stuff?" Hekapoo asked as an excited grin slowly game to her face as she start to let out a maniacal laugh. "OoOoOoh, this is gonna be-"
"Fuuuuuuun?" Lincoln finished with a teasing tone and grin, despite knowing Hekapoo couldn't see the former.
"…Enjoyable." Hekapoo stated in a stubborn tone. "Now get outta the way, I got whatever you called these things to mow down."
"Zombies." Lincoln corrected for Hekapoo.
"I don't care I got stuff to shoot." Hekapoo stated as she aimed the plastic gun at another virtual zombie in the game. "Time to kill, hehe."
"Maybe this game wasn't such a good idea…" Lincoln told himself as he backed away from the incredibly violent magic women and simply watched her play the game.
And that's what he did for the next twenty minutes. Lincoln simply watched as Hekapoo completely dominated at the game as over the twenty-minute time period Hekapoo slowly gained a giant grin on her face as she shot virtual zombie after virtual zombie. "AHAHAHAHAH! DIE ZOMBIE DIE!" Hekapoo laughed like a mad woman as the zombie hoards were starting to get insane but the magic women refused to give in and kept up the fight.
"Wow…" Lincoln let out in an impressed tone. He's never seen anyone last this long in the game. Heck, checking he saw that she had earned the high score…quite a while ago. He wasn't sure how she was lasting thing long. Perhaps actual combat experience with weapons? Either way, looks liked he earned some fun points.
"Yes! Yes! Burn you freaks of-wait no! No! No! No" But it could only last for so long as finally, a zombie had reached Hekapoo, causing blood to splat in her point of view followed by the words 'Game Over' cause the magical being to growl as she angrily took off the VR goggles. "Dang it!"
"Hey, don't be upset. You last pretty long in that game." Lincoln complimented her as he stood next to her. "Look, even got a new highscore."
Hekapoo looked to the big screen in front of her and saw that she had earned a score of 1,712,891 points. Beating the previous high score of 1,294,378. "Huh, well would ya look at that." Hekapoo said with a smug look and tone as she put her hands to her hips. "Then again, if only humans played this before, not that surprised."
"Ok Miss Modesty you still got put your name." Lincoln said with sarcasm as he pointed at the game still waiting for Hekapoo to insert her name. "You only get three letters though."
"Three digits huh?" Hekapoo questioned with a smirk before aiming the plastic gun at the screen. "That's all I need." Lincoln rose a brow as he watched Hekapoo put down the three letters she would use for her name on the scoreboard.
A
S
S
"Haha!" Hekapoo laughed as she hit confirm, forever putting down her score and name on the machine.
"Classy." Lincoln commented with an eyeroll before smiling at Hekapoo. "But I'll say you looked really good playing that game. Really got into it. You got some nice moves Hekapoo."
Suddenly a glint appeared in Hekapoo's eye as a smirk came to her face. Her mischievous mind using what Lincoln said to get some fun of her own with this human. "So, think I look good huh~" Hekapoo asked Lincoln in a flirty tone as she tightly bumped him with her legs. Lincoln's face quickly went red in response as Hekapoo kept up her teasing. "And you were simply staring at me when I couldn't notice it eh? You humans are such pervs~"
"N-N-N-No! That's what I meant!" Lincoln stuttered in a panic with his cheek a bright red. "I-I didn't mean t-to say you looked good!"
"So you're saying I'm ugly?" Hekapoo asked again with a pouty face and misty eyes.
"NO! I NEVER SAID THAT!" Lincoln yelled, getting the attention of some of the people in the restaurant. "I don't think you're ugly! You're really pretty! N-No wait! I m-mean, I-I don't t-think you're not pretty b-b-b-but I don't t-think you-you're ugly! Uh, I mean-"
"Pfft, HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hekapoo couldn't hold it in anymore. Lincoln watched as the scissors maker held her stomach and let out loud bouts of laughter to the point of have to wipe a tear of laughter from her eyes. "Oh man the look on you face!"
"…You did that on purpose…" It was at that point that Lincoln realized…he'd been had.
"Got that right. You were way to easy, hahaha!" Hekapoo continued laughing as Lincoln lightly growled at Hekapoo with pink cheeks of embarrassment on his face. "Boop!" Hekapoo only made it worse as she booped his cheek.
"…Let's just go get our food." Lincoln grumbled as he walked away slumping down with Hekapoo following with a satisfied smirk on her face. Also while Hekapoo was playing, Lincoln picked up the food and drinks and set them down on a table for them.
So once they reached the table, Lincoln and Hekapoo sat on opposite sides of the table. On the table itself was what Lincoln was so excited for Hekapoo to try was Gus's Games and Grubs signature pizza. "Welp, time to dig in." Lincoln said with a smile returning to his face as he took a slice.
Hekapoo did the same, but looked at the earthly food item with an unsure look. "I'm not so sure. Its all gooey." Hekapoo said as she poked the slice in her hand. "Is it supposed to be like that?"
"Yeah, its just the cheese." Lincoln told the scissors maker, not taking a bite of his slice till she eats. "Just try it Hekapoo. You never know unless you try."
"Ugh, fine." Hekapoo gave in as she held the pizza close to her mouth. "But if I end up getting sick you are going to wish you weren't born." Hekapoo then looked down at the slice and very hesitantly opened her mouth and bit down on some of the slice of the pizza. But once it was in her mouth, Hekapoo slowly chewed…and then her eyes started to widen.
"So…is it good?" Lincoln asked with anticipation.
He watched as Hekapoo swallowed the pizza she already has in her mouth and close her eyes. And when she opened them up…stars filled them. Before Lincoln could question Hekapoo further, he watched as the scissors maker eagerly stuffed the rest of the slice into her mouth and quickly chew that one down and grabbing another one to start eating once she swallowed.
"So I take it you like pizza." Lincoln asked with a smirk as he started eating his own slice at a much more normal pace.
"So good…" Hekapoo let out with a full mouth as she was already chowing down on her second slice, quickly eating that up as well.
"Hahaha." Lincoln laughed as he finished up his slice. He then grabbed a second slice as Hekapoo finished off her second slice.
Hekapoo's eyes focused on the slice in Lincoln's hand and decided to both get another slice and have a bit of fun. "Hey, what's that?" Hekapoo asked as she pointed out the large glass window the side.
"What's what?" Lincoln asked as he looked to where Hekapoo was pointing…only for Hekapoo to steal the slice away from his hands. "Hey!"
Before he could do anything, he watched as Hekapoo quickly licked the slice. "Its gots my germs so its mine now!" Hekapoo said with a teasing smirk.
"Ugh, can't believe I fell for that." Lincoln grumbled. However, the Loud's boy eyes came into contact with his black ice hand and then he looked to see Hekapoo about to eat the slice she took from him and grinned as he got his own mischievous idea. "Zap, zap." Lincoln whispered as he fired a small beam of ice energy out of his right index finger at Hekapoo's slice right as she bit down.
"Ah! What the heck!" When Hekapoo bit down, she found the slice both cold and incredibly hard to the point that her teeth tingled for a bit. When she looked at Lincoln to ask about this, her eyes widened as she saw cold mist coming out of his right with him smirking at her. "What the…"
"You're not the only one with a bag of tricks." Lincoln told the scissors maker as he rose up his left hand and created a small flame over it. "I got some stuff to."
"But…how?" Hekapoo asked with a confused tone. "You're human right?"
"Yep, and you can thank Star Butterfly for this." Lincoln answered her while holding up his discolored hands for emphasize. "Little incident with her wand caused my arms to go whack with fire and ice. But I got used to it and now I essentially have super powers. Fire out of my left, ice from my right, and I'm immune to both of them as well."
"Huh, well that explains why I couldn't burn your hair off earlier." Hekapoo muttered in slight disappointment that she couldn't leave what she liked to call 'the mark of Hekapoo' on the back of his hand. And by mark she meant a bald spot.
"You were trying to burn my hair?" Lincoln asked as he finally got started on eating another slice. "Not cool!"
"Eh, sorry not sorry." Hekapoo told him with a teasing smirk. She then reached for a drink that was on her side of the table and took a sip before looking down on it. "Hey this is pretty good. What do ya call it?"
"Root beer." Lincoln answered as he drank some himself to go along with his pizza. "So, I take it you had fun?"
"Mmmmmm, this was pretty good I'll admit." Hekapoo stated as she grabbed another slice for herself. "But its gonna take more then a cool game and some really good food to win this."
"I figured. Just seeing if I earned any points is all." Lincoln said with a small smile on his face. "After we eat, I've got a special place in mind to take you next so better prepare yourself."
"Oooo, is it make out point~" Hekapoo asked with her flirty voice while shifting her eyebrows around.
"W-W-What?!" Lincoln stuttered as his face went lava red for the second time in less than thirty minutes.
"Hahaha, wow. You really are to easy." Hekapoo laughed before eating some more pizza, getting an annoyed look from Lincoln in response.
And so the rest of the time spent at Gus's Games and Grub was spent eating the rest of the pizza Lincoln ordered as well as drinking root beer. Once their bellies were full, Lincoln once again led the way to the next location of the Royal Woods experience.
The park.
Lincoln took her to the park.
"What's so special about this place." Hekapoo asked with a bored look as she took a look around their surroundings. Yes, it was nice, but not something all that fun. "I've been to pretty much every dimension and I've seen some more impressive scenery then this."
"Its not really the park itself I wanna show you." Lincoln told the magical being as he led her along a path. "Its more so something in the park itself. Something that means a lot to me." Hekapoo simply sighed, but went along with it. The pizzeria/arcade did turn out to be a pretty good start so she agreed to keep up this earth tour.
"Alright, here it is." Lincoln stepped aside to let Hekapoo look forward and what she saw…interested her a bit. There were many humans gathered around what looked like a circular plaza. There were carts for stuff like hot dogs and ice cream and other stuff. Some simply sitting on benches relaxing. But there were certain humans that were doing stuff she would say was interesting.
She saw them preforming.
Various humans were doing stuff from playing instruments, to juggling, cheap fake magic tricks, and some actually pretty impressive stuff like swallowing swords, and even one human that should have broken all their bones from the way they were bending parts of their body. Heck, Hekapoo saw other humans giving the preforming humans money. "Pretty cool huh?" Lincoln asked Hekapoo as he stood next to her. "I found this place last year while I was…going through some stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Hekapoo casually asked as she took a look around the plaza.
However, this caused Lincoln to visibly flinch with Hekapoo noticing and raising an eyebrow at. "I…I don't wanna talk about it." Lincoln quickly said before shaking the feeling away and continuing. "Just know, I was going through a rough patch in my life and I wandered here during a walk. Saw all these people doing all this weird and cool stuff and at first it made me feel worse but then I ended up talking to someone here and he helped me get my head on straight. He should be here actually, I'll take ya to him."
Hekapoo simply shrugged and followed Lincoln as he started to lead her again. She watched as they approached a man playing an acoustic guitar extremely well and skillfully to the point where Hekapoo ended up lightly bobbing her head up in down in rhythm with the music. A few other humans were gather around listening and as they came closer, Hekapoo could see the man was wearing sunglasses, a tan fedora, a black shirt over a brown sleeveless vest, black pants and brown cowboy boots. He also seemed to have a large stick next to his feet.
Thankfully the crowd around the man was small so they didn't need to struggle or push past anyone to come up to the man as Lincoln said. "Hey Terry, how's it been." At the sound of Lincoln's voice, the man known as Terry stopped playing as he turned his head to Lincoln's direction and smiled.
"Well if it isn't Lincoln Loud. How've you been doing lately?" The man greeted with a smile with Lincoln smiling back. "Haven't heard you around here recently. You've been doin ok?"
"Yeah, sorry Terry just been busy lately." Lincoln answered as he walked up to the man. "Things have been getting pretty crazy in my life. But in the good and fun way."
"Hahahaha, well that's good to hear." Terry said as he looked up at Lincoln. "I've heard about some weird things going on in Royal Woods lately and I had a strong gut feeling you were somehow involved."
"Guilty as charged." Lincoln answered as they both shared a hearty laugh.
"So, gonna introduce me or…" Hekapoo asked with an annoyed tone at being ignored currently.
"Ooooooh. Is that a lady I hear?" Terry asked as a smirk came to his face. "Lincoln you sly dog, finally scored yourself a girl ay?
"N-No! Its not like that?" Lincoln told Terry with pink cheeks. "We're just hanging out today."
"Aw, but don't you love me baby~" Hekapoo asked Lincoln with her teasing flirty voice. Lincoln took a deep breath, not letting Hekapoo's teasing get to him, but still ended up with red cheeks. "Hehehe."
"Aw relax Loud, I'm just teasing." Terry told the white-haired boy with a hearty chuckle. Just then Terry proceeded to grabbed his guitar by the neck of it and handed it over to Lincoln. "So, I have a good feeling you're here to play?"
"Heh, you know me well Terry." Lincoln said as he accepted the guitar Terry was letting him borrow and held it in the right playing position before strumming a few strings.
"You play?" Hekapoo asked with some interest in her voice. While she wasn't one of those girls that fell head over heels over a guy that so much as touched an instrument, she still did like music and guitar was one of her favorite instruments.
"Not as good as Terry or my sister Luna, but they helped showed me some stuff and I'm pretty decent. I like to think so at least." Lincoln said before he started playing some with Hekapoo choosing to watch and listen as Lincoln begun to play.
'Huh, he's pretty good.' Hekapoo thought as she had to admit, Lincoln had some skills on the guitar as he proceeded a calming and gentle tune from it. But it didn't stop there, causing Hekapoo's eyes to widened in interest and for more people around the back to gather around the spot…Lincoln started singing…
Lincoln:
I don't need you to respect me, I respect me
I don't need you to love me, I love me
But I want you to know you could know me
If you change your mind
If you change your mind
If you change your mind
I don't need you to help me, I'll help me.
I don't want you to say that you're sorry.
But I want you to see you could see me.
If you change your mind.
If you change your mind.
So get to know me for who I really am.
And I think we could be the best of friends.
But before you speak a word, I would recommend
You change your mind.
Change your mind!
Yeee-e-e-e-eah!
Change your miiiiiiiiiiiiind!
Change your mind!
Oooooooooh!
Ooo-o-o-o-o-oh!
If you change your mind…
If you change your mind…
If you change your mind.
Once he was done, Hekapoo ended up finding herself awestruck at the performance. The other humans nearby clapped as Lincoln sheepishly waved to the crowd before Lincoln handed Terry back his guitar with the blind man nodding in approval. "Excellent as always Mr. Loud." Terry complimented the white-haired Loud.
"Thanks Terry." Lincoln accepted the compliment with a smile. "Well, we better get going. Only so many hours in the day after all."
"I feel ya brother. Have a great day." Terry told the Loud boy before he went back to playing on his guitar. With that, Lincoln began to walk away with Hekapoo snapping out of her little daze as she started following the Loud boy.
"So hey, uh…" Hekapoo let out, getting Lincoln's attention, despite knowing what she was about to say would drive Lincoln more towards the winning side of the bet. "You played really well back there."
"Oh, thanks. I just dabble every now and then." Lincoln told the magical being modestly. "But if you wanna hear some playing, then you should hear my sister Luna play. She's got the real skills."
"Cool. Cool." Hekapoo simply said with a nod. Another questioned then popped into Hekapoo's head as she asked Lincoln. "So that song you sang, what's it about?"
"Hmm, well…" Lincoln had to think about that. Honestly, he forgot where he heard that song. It was just something that stuck with him for whatever reason. It always brought a smile to his face. "Well, a lot of things really. But if you're asking me, I think it's about how you can't just look at things with a black and white view. How every little thing has so much more to it then you first thought. How you can see it if you just change your mind."
"Wow…that's really corny." Hekapoo said to Lincoln with a teasing smirk causing Lincoln to deadpan at her. "Sweet admittedly, but still really corny."
"Hehe, yeah I guess it is pretty corny." Lincoln admitted as he started laughing with Hekapoo joining in soon after.
"Hehe, look at you. Laughing at yourself." Hekapoo teased as she booped his nose.
"Well, growing up with 10 sisters helped give me a spine. So I can tolerate others teasing me more then most other people." Lincoln explained to Hekapoo who was a bit surprised to hear that Lincoln had so many siblings, but wasn't as surprised as most others would be who had just found out. She's been through tons of worlds and that was far from the biggest family she's heard or even seen for herself. But still, by human standards, pretty big.
But when Lincoln said he could resist teasing more then others, in Hekapoo's mind, that meant one thing.
Challenge accepted.
"Ya know, when you were playing, I saw you take a peek at me a few times." Hekapoo said with a grin on her face causing Lincoln's eyes to widen. "Any other messages in that song you aren't telling me~"
"Ok! Onto the next place!" Lincoln quickly said with his cheeks already going red causing Hekapoo to snicker. "So, the next thing I wanna show you is a bit far away to walk. So…if its ok do you think we can use dimensional scissor to get there?"
This quickly caused Hekapoo to stop laugh and start lightly glaring at Lincoln. "You aren't planning anything are you?" Hekapoo asked, seeing if Lincoln was getting the ideas of possibly trying to take the scissors and run. She's been having some fun yes, but not dimension scissors earning levels of fun.
"I promise you I'm not. Its just more convenient to portal there." Lincoln reassured her, looking right into Hekapoo's visible eye to show he wasn't lying. "And hey, if we portal there we won't have to pay to get in."
…Ok that did it.
"Alright. Fine." Hekapoo finally gave in to the request and held her hand out and, with a burst of flames, spawned the scissors Lincoln gave back to Hekapoo with the magical being tossing them to the Loud boy. "If you try to cut and run I swear-"
"I'm not gonna cut and run." Lincoln told Hekapoo as he took the scissors in his left hand and offered his right hand to Hekapoo. "Look if it'll reassure you more you can take my hand so I can't try and get away, alright?"
Hekapoo narrowed her eyes at Lincoln…before smirking and wriggling her fingers around. "Wanting to hold my hand huh?" Hekapoo said in her signature teasing voice. "You really wanna rush things don't you~"
"S-Shut up…" Lincoln stuttered as he looked away with Hekapoo giggling and taking his hand, which only further increased the temperature of his cheeks.
"Hahahaha! Wow, just from holding my hand. You are seriously way to easy man." Hekapoo teased with a giant smirk as she was already thinking of further ways of teasing the white-haired boy.
Lincoln simply let out a long sigh as he shook his head. "Let's just go…" Lincoln muttered before opening up a portal with the scissors. Once the portal was open, he gave the scissors back to Hekapoo and quickly let go off her hand in a what he knew was a fruitless effort to get her to stop teasing him.
And so the two stepped through the portal together.
Back at the Loud House, Star could be seen looking all around Lincoln's room from under his bed, to behind the curtains, and even his dresser. However, no matter how hard and where she looked, she just couldn't seem to find Lincoln. Even talking to his sisters, they all said they haven't seen him recently.
"Alright Star, think." Star said to herself with narrowed eyes. "If I were a white-haired pony tailed teenage boy where would I be…" Star then exited the Loud boy's room and headed downstairs. Looking around there for a bit, she eventually came into the dinning room and found Glossaryck and the pets still playing poker. "Glossaryck, have you seen Lincoln anywhere?"
"No Star haven't seen him today." Glossaryck quickly answered while keeping his eyes on his cards. "Now if you excuse me, I need to concentrate. I swear that cat is reading my mind."
"Meow." Cliff let out as Glossaryck narrowed his eyes at him.
"Ok fine. Rude." Star said to the little blue man before continuing her search for Lincoln else ware.
"What…is this place?" Hekapoo asked as she looked all around the area they were in with confusion etched on her face. From what she was seeing, there were people walking or running all over laughing. There were tons of booths all over the place selling either food or looking like they had games of some sort along with plush toys hanging from the tops of the booth. There also seemed to be all sorts of what Hekapoo would assume to be vehicles of some sort attached to rails that seemed to go in all crazy directions only to end up back where they started.
She also saw some dude in a cow costume.
"This, is the most fun place in all of Royal Woods." Lincoln explained to Hekapoo with a wide smile on his face as he gestured to pretty much all around them. "This is Dairy Land!"
"Dairy Land?" Hekapoo questioned with a slightly weirded out look. "So…you humans build landmarks to honor cows?"
"What? No." Lincoln said before looking around and shrugging. "Ok this one, sort of. But that doesn't change what I just said. This is the highlight of the tour right here." Lincoln told Hekapoo who, while still unsure, simply nodded. So far Lincoln was two to two with the fun times here and one more big win…well…looks like she would be losing a bet.
"Alright snowball, what does this place have to offer?" Hekapoo asked as Lincoln immediately pointed to a short line of people getting onto one of the weird looking carts with a sign above it saying 'Milk Shaker'
"That is gonna be first. A roller coaster." Lincoln told Hekapoo who rose an eyebrow in response.
"A roller what?" The scissor maker questioned. She's never heard of anything called that before.
Lincoln just couldn't believe this. No pizza and no amusement parks ever in your life. "And you call humans the boring ones." Lincoln joked to her, actually taking her off guard a bit judging from her widening eye. However, Hekapoo ending up narrowing her eyes at Lincoln soon after.
"Alright snowball, let's see if this 'roller coaster' and this whole place is as good as you say it is." The scissors maker said as Lincoln simply smirked and started running towards the ride. Hekapoo didn't expect the Loud boy to take off running towards the ride and took off after him.
Lincoln was laughing as he ran towards the Milk Shaker, looking forward to see Hekapoo's reaction to being on the roller coaster. But just then Lincoln felt a strong slap to the back of his head knocking him down to the ground. "Hahahaha-ah dang it." Hekapoo cut her laughter off, after using her super speed to easily catch up to Lincoln and slap the back of his head, as she saw that she still didn't even singe Lincoln's hair. "Well, worth a try."
"…Lets just go before it starts…" Lincoln groaned in response.
After getting up and patting all the dirt off himself, Lincoln and Hekapoo headed off towards the ride. Thankfully they didn't have to wait in a line and caught a lucky break with no one else wanting on the ride at the moment and two more seats being open. "Go ahead." The man operating the ride told Lincoln, allowing the Loud boy onto the ride.
But when Hekapoo came up, he put a hand down in front of her, preventing her from going forward. "Sorry, you're too short." The man said, pointing to a sigh that showed how tall you had to be to get one the ride with Hekapoo not meeting the limit. However, Hekapoo's entire body erupted with flames as her head flame burn bright with her eyes glowing orange and glaring right at the man. "…Ya know what I'm sure you'll be fine go ahead."
"That's what I thought." Hekapoo said as the flames around her body disappeared and the magical being proceeded to sit next to Lincoln on the ride. Once all the seats of the ride were filled, the man went over to the console that control the ride and started it up.
At first, like all roller coasters, it started off slow. Simply going forward and eventually reaching an extremely steep incline that went on for about 100 feet. "Oh yeah…so exciting…" Hekapoo said sarcastically, not really enjoying the slow pace at all and thinking the rest of the ride is gonna be like this.
Lincoln smirked as the roller coaster finally reached the peak. "Give it a moment." The Loud boy said as he held on tight to the handle bar.
"Whatever man, I doubt its gonna-"
And then they started going down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Hekapoo quickly began screaming as the ride took them all the way down at about 80 miles an hour. The wind hit Hekapoo's face hard, blowing her hair back, but somehow not the bang covering her eye, as the ride then took them through a series of loop-de-loops.
"SEE? WHAT'D I TELL YOU?" Lincoln yelled to Hekapoo as he smiled widely and threw his hands in the air, enjoying the ride.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hekapoo then began laughing loudly as she threw her hands in the air as well and gained a smile similar to Lincoln as the ride took them upside down.
"I TAKE IT YOU ENJOY IT?" Lincoln asked as a smirk came to his face as he looked at Hekapoo.
"FASTER! FASTER!" Hekapoo chanted, wanting the rush this ride was giving her to grow and grow.
And grew it did as the roller coaster only took them threw more twist and turns, keeping up the same speed or even listening to Hekapoo and only increasing in speed. Unfortunately, the ride had to come to a stop eventually and they found themselves back where they started, the bars securing them opening up and the operator man telling them it was ok to leave.
"You ok Hekapoo?" Lincoln asked the woman next to him.
Hekapoo currently had a wide grin on her face, her hair was blown back and all frizzy, her body practically vibrating from adrenaline as she took deep breathes. "That…was…awesome…"
"See! Told ya it was awesome!" Lincoln said to Hekapoo as he ended up helping her out of her seat, Hekapoo nearly falling down due to her legs feeling a bit like jelly right now, but eventually she was able to stand and walk on her own.
"Please…tell me…every ride here…is as great as that?!" Hekapoo asked, already wanting to get onto another ride.
"Oh you better believe it!" Lincoln told her with a wide grin. "Well except for the rides meant for little kids but we can just ignore them. But don't worry, almost all the rides here are custom made to make you sick!"
"Yes! I wanna be sick!" Hekapoo cheered while raising her arms up in the air as she and Lincoln walked through the amusement park, heading towards the next ride. But, as they walked, Hekapoo ended up turning her head towards one of the game booths. "Lincoln…" She said as she stopped, grabbed Lincoln's wrist and made him stop to, and pointed in the direction she was looking. "What is that?"
Lincoln rose a brow as he looked to where Hekapoo was pointing and saw one of those games where you had to throw a baseball to knock down a pile of bottles, and in his experience the bottles were always glued down. But Hekapoo was more specifically pointing at the plush toys that were being given out as prizes. "It looks like…a freak of nature." The plushies in question resembled a light purple bear-like creature, with darker purple spots around its eyes and round ears like a panda, blue arms with sharp claws, a duck-like bill and webbed feet, and a blue bit of fuzz on top of its head.
"…I want one." Hekapoo told Lincoln with stars in her eyes.
Lincoln use his left index finger, about to say how those games were rigged so no one could win…but then looked over his left hand. His fire hand. Something he could use to throw things much stronger and faster than a normal person. Smirking, Lincoln said to Hekapoo. "Alright. I'm gonna win you one."
"Really?" Hekapoo asked as she snapped her head towards Lincoln.
Lincoln simply smirked at the scissor maker before cracking his knuckles and walking over to the booth with Hekapoo following close behind. "Excuse me good sir, one ball please." Lincoln said to the man running the booth while handing him a dollar bill.
"Only one?" The man asked as he took the dollar. Lincoln could tell he was trying to scam him out of more of his money with balls that wouldn't knock down the bottles. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'm sure." Lincoln told the man firmly.
"Welp, your loss." The man said as he tossed Lincoln a ball with Lincoln catching it in his left hand. "Take your best shot."
"Oh you know I will." Lincoln said as he took a deep breath and reared his arm back. The man smirk, thinking this boy would end up getting frustrated and buy more balls. But just then, he watched with widened eyes and a dropped jaw as the ball suddenly caught fire in his hand. "Super flame fist ball!" The man quickly ducked as Lincoln threw the now flame powered ball at high speeds at the bottles. Even with the glue, it wasn't nearly enough to hold up against the flaming projectile as the bottles were not only knocked over, but obliterated.
"Bu-Bu-Bu-Bu…" The man let out with a completely shocked face as Lincoln grabbed one of the plushies hanging from the top.
"Thank you very much!" Lincoln said with a wide grin as he handed the plushie to Hekapoo who held onto it tightly with a giant grin on her face as the two walked away.
"Hahahaha! Oh man the look on his face!" Hekapoo let out with loud laughter as she wiped a laughter tear from her eye. "That was awesome! And hey, thanks for the plush."
"No problem, I was more then happy to." Lincoln told Hekapoo with a thumbs up. "Now, ready to go on more rides?"
"I thought you would never ask!" Hekapoo said before taking off running past Lincoln, causing him to step back from the back lash.
"Oh no you don't!" Lincoln yelled with an amused grin on his face.
The sun was now just beginning to set on Royal Woods. Lincoln and Hekapoo had spent so much time going around Dairy Land together riding every single ride the amusement part had to offer. Except for the lame kiddie rides of course. And by the end of it, both were simply laughing and smiling together, just having a great day together.
But it wasn't over.
There was one last thing Lincoln needed to show Hekapoo to seal the deal.
"A dirty old gas station?" Hekapoo asked with a slightly disgusted tone, plushie of a creature of indeterminable species still in her arms as she looked at the place known as Flips Food and Fuel…which hasn't changed much in the last three years.
"Yeah, pretty much." Lincoln said with a chuckle. "But trust me, there's one thing in this gas station that truly makes Royal Woods special."
"Well…" Hekapoo let out as she looked at the plush she was carrying. "I guess you haven't been wrong yet."
"Then let's head in…just uh, breath through your mouth." Hekapoo made a slightly disgusted face in response to Lincoln's words, but nodded. Stepping inside flips, it looked like any regular gas station both on earth and in other dimension. Right down to the smell.
"Hey Flip." Lincoln greeted to the owner of the station himself who was reading a magazine behind the counter.
"Eh what do you want? Can't you see I'm trying to read?!" Flip yelled in an annoyed tone.
"Just two flippee's please." Lincoln simply said as he put the money down on the counter for flip to take.
"Fine. Just keep it down." Flip said as he took the money and handed Lincoln two flippee cups.
"Will do Flip." Lincoln reassured the gas station owner as both he and Hekapoo walked away from him, Hekapoo following Lincoln as she looked at Flip with disgust for a moment.
"Well that guys a creep." Hekapoo said as Lincoln handed Hekapoo one of the cups.
"Yeah but he has a soft side believe it or not." Lincoln told the scissors maker as he remembered the few times, he's seen Flip actually care for others. Like the first thanksgiving the Louds and Casagrande's spent together. "Alright…behold…the flippee."
Hekapoo looked up and saw a machine that had some sort of slushie substance in it. One red and one blue. "Is it…some sort of drink?" Hekapoo asked in a confused tone.
"Yep! Look!" Lincoln then put his cup under the nozzle for the red container and pushed the lever, letting the flippee flow into the cup. Once it was full, Lincoln put a lid and straw inside and started happily drinking it. "Ah yeah, that's the good stuff." Lincoln sighed happily before gesturing to the machine. "Pick your flavor. Cherry or blue raspberry."
"Earth has blue raspberry's?" Hekapoo asked as she looked at the container with the blue raspberry flippee. "This I gotta try." Hekapoo then copied what Lincoln did, putting the cop under the nozzle and flipping the lever and letting the blue slushy liquid flow into the cup. Once it was full, Hekapoo put a lid and straw into the drink and took down at it. "Ok, let's give this a try." Hekapoo placed her mouth on the straw…and took a drink.
"…" Hekapoo was silent as she drank from the flippee.
"So…" Lincoln asked with anticipation.
"…you win." Hekapoo said after taking another drink.
"Wait? What?" Lincoln asked in a surprised tone.
"I said you win dude." Hekapoo repeated as she looked up at Lincoln. "The pizza, your music, roller coasters, this amazing plush. And finally…this." Hekapoo held up her flippee. "This…is the most…amazing thing I have ever drank in my life! And I've lived for tens of thousands of years."
"Excuse me?" Lincoln's eyes widened a bit at the last part.
"So I guess…I was wrong." Hekapoo admitted with a sigh and a small smile. "You humans are actually pretty fun. At least…one of them is." Lincoln then gave Hekapoo a nice and soft smile and ending up laughing a bit as Hekapoo booped him on the cheek. "Boop."
"Well, if it means anything to you, I had a lot of fun hanging out with you today." Lincoln told the scissor maker with a grin. "You're really cool Hekapoo."
"Not so bad yourself snowball." Hekapoo complimented the Loud boy as they bumped flippee's together and happily drank from them.
Back at home, Star could be seen laying on the couch, staring at the ceiling and following the fan blades with her eyes. She had failed to find Lincoln which meant she didn't get her dimensional scissors back. Not that those were the things she really cared about. He didn't even answer any calls or text she sent him.
"Lincoln…where are you…" Star quietly asked as her eyes continued spinning with the fan blades.
Just then the princess ended up getting startled as a fiery portal opening up right in front of her. Just then she watched as the person she's been looking for all day stepped through the portal. "Hey Star, what's up?" Lincoln asked as suddenly Star jumped onto him with a hug.
"Lincoln! You're back!" Star happily said as she squeezed him tightly. "How come you never answered my calls or text?"
"Oh, hehe, sorry about that." Lincoln apologized as he scratched the back of his head. "I was hanging out with a friend today."
"A friend?" Star asked with the tilt of her head. "Who?"
"Me." Star's eyes widened at the familiar voice as she and Lincoln watched as Hekapoo stepped through the portal. "Hello princess."
"HEKAPOO?!" Star yelled in massive surprise.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Lincoln asked with a raised brow.
"Well, yeah!" Star said as if it was obvious. "She's on the magic high commission with my mom. They basically control everything!" Lincoln's eyes widened as he looked down at Hekapoo.
"Surprise." Hekapoo said with a teasing grin before conjuring up the scissors she originally came to take back. "Catch." The scissor maker then tossed the portal opening tools towards the princess who caught them. "And Lincoln…wait here." Both teenagers watched as Hekapoo took out another pair of scissors and opened another portal and stepped through it.
"…So what do you think she's-" Before Star could finished, Hekapoo stepped back through the portal, something in her hands and the plushie no longer with her. She did still have her flippee though. "That was fast."
"Eh, you'd be surprised." Hekapoo said with a grin, knowing how long that really took before holding her hand out to Lincoln. "Here, these are for you."
"Woah…" Lincoln looked to Hekapoo's hand to see a pair of dimensional scissors' with orange handles and white highlights.
"So you both have your own pair." Hekapoo told the Loud boy as Lincoln took them in his own hands.
"Hekapoo…thank you so much." Lincoln said to his new friend with a smile.
"Eh, it's the least I can do." Hekapoo shrugged before turning around, her head still turned towards Lincoln. "Well, see ya next time."
"I'm sorry what?" Lincoln asked with a confused look.
"What?" Hekapoo questioned with a smirk and hand on her hip. "Gonna show me all this cool stuff and expect this to be a one-time thing? Expect to see me pop back in every now and then snowball."
"Hehe, alright then. See ya Hekapoo." Lincoln waved her goodbye with a smile. Hekapoo simply smiled and waved back before going through the portal again.
Both Star and Lincoln watched as the portal disappeared once Hekapoo stepped inside with Star giving Lincoln a cheeky smile and saying. "Aaw, you made a new friend." Star said to the white-haired boy who chuckled in response.
"I guess I did." Lincoln chuckled as he thought back to the day he just had. "She was pretty cool."
"Ooooo, she was pretty cool eh?" Star asked as she wriggled her eyebrows around. "Got something going on Lincoln~"
"Oh no! Star, we are just friends!" Lincoln quickly told Star with a quick glare, knowing where this was going. "Don't get any ideas!"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh, that's what they all say~" Star said with a sing-song voice.
"Ugh, whatever. I'm tired." Lincoln groaned as he started to go up the stairs. "I'm gonna take a nap."
"Ok! Have a good rest!" Star told him as she watched her best friend go up the stairs. Once he was gone, she used her wand to create a notebook and pen and with it, wrote, "Operation…Lincapoo."
Back with Hekapoo, she stepped out of a portal that led to a room that resembled one where humans would have meetings, complete with a very long table. As she still sipped on her flippee, she was confronted by three figures with one of them asking, "You're late Hekapoo. Where were you?"
"Eh, you know." Hekapoo shrugged as she stopped sipping her frosty drink and looked at it with a smile. "Just had some fun."
Hekapoo bitches! My second favorite character in the series and you better believe she's gonna make a lot more appearances in the future and that I won't ruin her character like season 4 did. Me and Petrus have TONS of moments with her planned that we get all giddy thinking about them so all of you looking forward to that!
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