Lincoln Loud!

"I... won? Ha, ha, I won! Yeah, who's worthless now Brainiac! This is what happens when you mess with Lincoln Loud!"

[Looks at the screen]

"Oh, hey there everyone, it's been a while since I last talked to you guys, hasn't it? Well, I suppose you all are wondering what I'm doing on an alien spaceship, with Lily with me and just now, having kicked the mechanical butt of an alien and more importantly why my sisters were here too?"

"Well, I'll start from the beginning..."

"Well, I was being driven home by Lori after our trip to Great Lakes. It was a normal day for our family. Yes, the rest of our sisters came with us as they never seen Great Lakes before. So when spring came and Lori came home, we all decided to celebrate by going to Great Lakes for the break."

As we were almost to Royal Woods, that was when Brainiac's skull ship showed up above the sky and started to "collect" it, to our horror.

It's a good thing that Lori stopped Vanzilla before were collected too.

And what made it worse... Royal Woods wasn't the only city that monster collected.

That's right, he collected Great Lakes too just as we were a few miles away.

After that, Brainiac then appeared on a hologram, announcing this ultimatum to us: Deliver the Kyptonian or he'll annihilate the entire planet."

"Of course, we knew how powerful Superman was now that he wasn't holding back ever again after the Metropolis incident due to the jester of genocide himself, the Joker. if Brainiac got his hands on him or his cousin he now had known as Supergirl, no one would be able to stop him.

Luckily, I had some Ace Savvy comics with me during the trip and I managed to use my knowledge of them to figure what kind villain this "Brainiac" guy was. After a few minutes of searching, I figured it out."

"He was those type of villains who issue a do or die ultimatum and after getting what they want, they'll have that person killed afterwards. Yeah, Brainiac was that type of villain."

"We chose not just sit back and let Brainiac get away with taking our home, we were going to stop him, regardless of how dangerous he was."

"Getting into his ship was no easy task, facing his drones were just as difficult.

"And before any of you ask, yeah, we had to bring our younger sisters along for this too as they were quite insistent on stopping that dirtbag too."

As they surrounded and captured us, that crazy alien had his drones take away my sisters by dragging them away kicking and screaming until it only me and Lily now face to face with the knowledge seeker himself.

He told his drones that the two of us were irrelevant and told those tin cans to kill us both as he left to dissect Supergirl.

I shielded Lily with my body, waiting for the finishing blow to come...

But it never did...

Cause that's when Superman and Batman arrived at the last second...

After I told them why me and Lily were there, Batman wanted to me and Lily to leave as Brainiac was someone we couldn't handle while Superman argued that me and Lily needed to save our sisters and that having them here might help.

Ultimately, I decided to stay and fight that monster as no one takes away from family, nearly kills me and my sister, collects my city and gets away with it.

And to be honest, I made the right decision as Brainiac still saw me and my sisters as nothing more than ants. That proved to be a fatal mistake on his part as working together with the world's finest, we managed to knock Brainiac out and rescue my sisters and Supergirl.

When we reunited, my sisters were all like:

"Yay, you won Linky!"

"Good job, Linc."

"Wicked cool, Lincoln."

"Totally rockin' bro!"

"Yeah, you totally showed him you're the man!"

"Literally, about time you saved us!"

"I must give my congratulations, dear brother."

"Inky ero!"

"Guess Brainiac wasn't the only one with 12th level intellect after all, ha, ha, ha, ha, Get it?"

"Thanks for saving us, Linc."

Unfortunately, after we beat Brainiac, that was when we learned something horrible.

When Superman control Brainiac's ship, some of the cities were wiped from the ship's memory.

That's means Metropolis, Coast City, and yes even Royal Woods and Great Lakes City were gone forever.

As much as it pained me and my sisters to lose all of our friends as well as our parents, that was nothing compared to what happened next.

Superman and Batman and the other heroes joining them were beginning argue about what to do with Brainiac... and my sisters began to take sides with either of them.

Lori, Lynn, Lola and Lana sided with Superman as they wanted Brainiac to die so that something like this wouldn't happen again while Lucy, Lisa, Luan and Luna sided with Batman as they think Brainiac was needed to restore the other cities he stole.

I understood both of their reasons. I was going to speak up, but by then it was too late cause both sides didn't back down as a fight soon broke out between them.

As for me, Leni and Lily, we chose to bail as we knew that trying to talk our sisters out of it would be pointless as they chose their sides...

So for now, it was just me, Leni and Lily against the world. And we knew that to survive in this world, we need to step up. But since it was just me and Leni having to work and support Lily, it was a hard struggle for us to find jobs and get money needed to support the three of us.

Then 4 years later, we were approached by the last of the Teen Titans, Starfire, Batman's former, hotheaded, now resurrected after being killed by the Joker and murderous sidekick, Jason Todd otherwise known as the Red Hood, his sidekick Scarlet, and this Australian hero who led a civilian protest against Superman when he lost his mind and got crippled for it by Flash, Wonder Woman and the Man of Steel himself, Galaxor, they told us that they were starting a group called "The Outlaws" and since they notice our financial struggles asked us to join them as they saw potential in us.

When Jason looked at us, all he saw that we were just struggling to get by just like he once did, and I knew that Red Hood was murderous anti hero so I was about to refuse the offer when I looked at Lily and Leni's pleading faces.

Knowing that we weren't going to survive on the streets much longer, I decided to accept Jason's offer on the grounds that he wasn't going to make us kill anyone and that wasn't going to corrupt Lily into becoming another him while we were working with him. He agreed to my terms as they took us to their hideout to begin our training...

And by training we mean in survival training, hand to hand combat, weapons training, etc.

And yes, even Lily was trained in those ways too. Much to me and Leni's surprise at how fast she picked on things. Speaking of Leni, she and Starfire became instant BFFs.

As for Lily, Scarlet was telling her his experiences of being a hero, keeping the murderous parts out... Hey, Lily was just a kid, after all. Why traumatize her even more of what happened to our splintered family and the lost of our hometown.

As for me, I still didn't trust Jason due to his less then heroic tendencies and unnecessary brutality, I did trust Galaxor, he was cool and sorta became kind of like my big brother in a way. Under his teachings, and with Leni's help, the three of us got our own hero suits and were capable of fighting whatever came our way respectively... Though Lily had to stay behind in the base while me and Leni went out on missions as some of them were rather too dangerous for her.

We couldn't save the rest of our family but we can still save the rest of the world...

Maybe the future is bright after all.