Inspired by one of my favourite novels,

I also have next to no knowledge about New york but I had to use it anyway so I'm not sure how this will play out...

Disclaimer: I do not own the Loud House or any of it's characters.

Here I was, shaking in disbelief of the so-called achievements of my somewhat ruined childhood.

After many not so nice occurrences into my transition from elementary school dragged and trampled on my glorious image of Middle School, I surrendered myself with my own thoughts and hardly any friends to keep me company but it wasn't their fault, everyone was trying to be somewhat caring despite the oppression that many freshmen like us would receive on a daily basis.

As time went by, my mind dwelled on the TV shows and comics I would have read featuring superheroes in a world full of crime. While Royal Woods was not a dangerous place, it still had a few problems occurring here and there behind the shadows and they hid it really damn well. In no time school became boring and repetitive and I struggled to bring up my grades due to the pressure I was stifling under. My home however was still as supporting and caring as ever, few of my sisters had seemed to score solid relationships and left less time for me, Not that I have anything against them since that is the outcome I would've wanted some time in the past. Talents? Nope, I was still the jack of all trades loser that I ever was even though I somehow played so remarkably in chess that I doubted it was my own ability. No, I wasn't going to develop chunibyo because things were getting rough for me but I did hope that some kind of event would happen to keep my life entertained at least. However, the grand explosion of a new world, princess from another dimension or aliens descending on the earth didn't occur, instead my 'ability' came in so plainly and left me utterly confused for that very reason... I managed to move a feather I had come across without touching it. To ensure I wasn't dreaming I reached out to lift a rock near the stop sign, no response, however the feather was moving just fine.

I became very excited at first, being someone who awakened a superpower! I wanted to rush home and relay the news to my siblings, however my intuition decided against it, thinking it was for the better that I avoided being hunted by the Government all my life which is fine by me. So after school, away from all prying eyes in the basement of our home (I wasn't afraid of my sisters catching wind since they were busier than usual these days) I began to train my superpower. Psychokinesis huh? I guess that means I'm an Esper now.

Even though psychokinesis was a no brainer ability to move objects by just mental effort alone, there seemed to be many restrictions and limits that could be nullified if I trained but that was the problem. The maximum weight I could actually withstand on day 1 of my ability was three milligrams at best, so if the feather was 1 milligram then the amount of weight I could lift would equate to three feathers at best! A rather useless trait if you ask me. So I toyed around with the feathers as much as possible and even tried to lift two at once, however It was difficult to do so because it felt as if my head was ripping apart and my ability had ceased after a few attempts. At first I thought that I had lost my powers but that certainly wasn't the case, I had apparently exhausted my mental energy, my physical movements were fine but I felt a small itching sensation in my head from time to time and when I rose up the next day. The pain I was feeling was mild and felt a little worse compared to yesterday but when I had activated my ability, I simply laid there in pain as I felt my brain screamed at me for my stupidity the pain gradually increased then but I sucked it up because missing one more day of school wasn't gonna look good on my record. Later that evening, the side effects were starting to fade away but it had hurt to think deeply about things which was probably something I should have seen coming.

On day 3 Wonderful things had happened to me, all my suffering had actually helped to strengthen my ability allowing me to lift a whooping weight of 15 milligrams! I know it's not a lot but at least now I knew that training them like muscles was very much possible just... a lot painful.

Days 5, 7 and 9 were the times that I was absolutely sure that I had worked my hardest in life to achieve something and the results were pleasing! 134 mg! I can lift a pebble now!

I thought back to my abilities and how depressing it felt to have such a slow growth speed. However, as my limiter for my psychokinesis grew, so did the it's usefulness, I was now able to fully lift 62 feathers in the air at once which meant that at least 50% or more of my strength can be spread to other objects to give rise, there was one issue however...

In the case of making the feathers act independently on their own was incredibly difficult, I could only do this with three at most. One feather would go left and the other right while the third refused to go up but followed suit with the others. Damn the pain was real! But it was a sure sign of progress, if my ability was really incapable of performing a certain task then I wouldn't feel any reactions at all.

5 Years had passed since I began my intense training as the world's best esper. Lily was up and about energetic as ever, Lisa's fame had been growing steadily in the university where she lectured at, it would seem that the world would expect a updated solar panel that was far parallel to the previous invention from this young genius. The twins are just as noisy and bicker almost everyday for the silliest of things but their talents of the past are only growing stronger than ever so it seems that their career was pretty much decided a long time ago, Lucy become quite the poet for her age, she doesn't need me for inspirations or anything to assist her and yet she finds herself at my door every once in a while. Lynn has... well a bright future painted with invitations from many sports teams offering her a free scholarship to win her over to their side (No surprise there though). Luan was already a born successive comedian along with her boyfriend Benny, though comedy may be stalled for a while since their relationship is starting to ascend faster upon the steps of life. My love life? It's fine as much as I'm concerned, it's not like Ronnie and I can remain friends forever right? Whatever, Luna has been really making a name for herself, they had a few collaborations with her idol, Mick Swagger, Girl's living the best of her life now. Lori has already shown signs of her dream job coming through and Leni seems to be involved in it somehow. Our parents have pulled through with their dreams as well with Lynn expanding his restaurant with his hard earned cash and mom got bestsellers for a few of her novels! (Though I swore they just give those things out for free).

It was a strange feeling, but ever since I began training my abilities it would seem as though the world has quietly passed by me as I struggled through school over and over. The pressure hasn't exactly been as easy at all, with the three eldest siblings out of the house, it would seem as though our happy family is starting to reduce little by little although it made things easy for us at some point. Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that I can flatten mount Everest below sea level without breaking a sweat (The hard part was bringing it back up) I'm sure no one will notice the difference right?

The ability to effectively use my Esper abilities increases by breaking my limits. After I thought I had reached the point when everything on earth was lightweight, I learned how to lift bodies of water! Amazing isn't it? It took me 4 years to figure that out. I can also fly! Cool isn't it? Well it's somewhat similar to flying. In addition to my monstrous mental strength, I can move about 200 boulders at once! Each with their own unique direction! Who said it was impossible to draw a circle and a square at the same time? I can do hundreds of them! It takes an unusually long time to reach my limit these days and it seems that my Psychokinesis replenishes faster than I can deplete it. I spent a lot of time training these powers but if this world actually contained superheroes then they must be powerful! In order not to fall behind, I went ahead to train my combat ability as well.

Firstly I tried to make a shield using the energy of the Psychokinesis alone, well, it seemed to work at least but it was so fragile and feint, when I tried to cover a rock with the shield, the energy quickly dissipated, meaning that I needed to train this ability as well.

My highschool life quickly flew by and I graduated without much awards not that it really mattered because I was going to become a superhero, (Also a artist if possible) I watched as our siblings left home with tears of joy and sorrow and soon enough it was also my turn, so I left at the tender age of 18.

At the age of 22 I had relinquished my dream of becoming an artist (even though it was still very possible) because I had heard rumors of famous Espers living in various parts of the world. So without thinking twice, I visited these frauds hoping that I could find someone like myself, only to be faced with the harsh reality that I really was the only one of my kind. My life, my training, all of it was a complete waste. All of those times that I thought someone would come to take me on an adventure to another world or capture bad guys hiding behind strong organisations and there really was no such existence.

All through my wild fantasies I had drifted so far away from my home and found myself in Bronx City, naturally I still maintained contact with my family. The apartment that I resided in and called home was a large building and I am merely one of the many residents living in it. The best feature about this building is that it was close to my 'work' place. A simple cafe nearly 15 mins walk to that destination.

I bought this blindy thinking that it could make a great place for gathering masters and strong superheroes like myself (which obviously didn't exist) but I couldn't sell the place since money didn't come easy for me who struggled through high school and didn't even go to college.

One morning before work, I was thinking about how I could earn money through my superpowers since reality knocked me down hard. Strangely enough, someone was knocking at my door. I thought that it might have been a prank from those rascals living on the 5th floor. I never knew anyone from this city and it was at least 13 hours from home by car so it couldn't have been any of my relatives right?

Curious to see who had arrived at my lodging, I slowly opened the door to be greeted by quite the unexpected and I mean it... REALLY UNEXPECTED SIGHT!

"Good morning brother!"

Dear Lincoln did not expect his youngest sibling to suddenly show up on her own at his doorstep and quickly took her in to begin the investigation.

"Huh!? What!? Lily!? How did you get here!?" He asked while using his Psychokinesis to clean up his room and other facilities as fast as possible.

"What was that noise? Is someone else here?"

"Lily! Focus!"

"Um, I came here, with mom and dad, they wanted me to stay here for a while." Lincoln was not very good at lying but that didn't mean that he wasn't able to see through the lies of others either, especially his sisters.

"Lily, tell the truth."

"Lincoln, I'm sorry! Please don't kick me out! Mom and Dad already want to punish me!" At her words, Lincoln frowned at her response while he drowned in confusion.

"Punish you for what? Did you do something really bad? I hope drugs weren't involved in this or there's nothing that I can do."

"No you don't understand, my friend is a very shy girl who gets bullied all the time so I had to stand up for her at least once but I never thought that it would start a fight!"

"But that's fine right? You didn't start it, you merely defended her."

"Well yeah but it was more of a one sided beatdown and she didn't get to land any hits on me so the teachers are convinced that I started it."

"So you sneaked away from your parents nearly 800 miles from home to avoid a light punishment? How did you even get here?"

"Well, Big sis Lola taught me how to use 'effective methods' to get better outcomes so I kinda asked Bobby to bring me here..."

"What? Did you blackmail him or something?"

"Err no? Okay maybe I did but it had to be done."

"Aw man, Mom and Dad must be worried sick about you right now?"

Just then, the phone rang...

...

My heart seemed to stop as the phone rang, it was definitely them, they were looking for her, they wouldn't know that she was here and she hoped to God that it would stay that way for now.

"Yes Mom, She's with me, I collected her because I believed she could relieve her stress."

That was it, now they knew she was with Lincoln, her older brother had given away her position betraying her trust and image she once held of him. At least, he was doing what most people would call the 'right thing to do'. She just hoped that this day couldn't get any worse.

"As you know, it was quite an exhausting trip for both of us, fighting in school it was? Right?" Lily had already known that the principal would never let that one slide if the perpetrators had weaker backings. 2 weeks of suspension was considered too much but not in royal woods middle school for sure, of course Lincoln knew this better than her since he would've gone through middle school as well.

"Yes I'm aware of that, No one would know him better than us Mom, I'd say 2 weeks of suspension the least just because he wants to. It will be hard on Lily for her to be idling around town during that phase... Of course I can take care of her, Love you Mom."

Just as quickly as he hung up the phone, he let out a deep breath and looked me in the eyes.

"Well, this is your new home for 13 days."

"Wow, what an unlucky number."

"How are you feeling? Tired?"

"Maybe a little..."

"That's too bad, we're going to work today anyway so try not to sleep on the job, for deceiving your parents and almost me, I'll work you to death in return."

"What!? What have you done with my kind and loving older brother!?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Now leave your luggage in my room, we're leaving in 10 minutes."

My older brother was now colder to me... What has happened all this time since he left?

30 minutes later

I had almost no idea that my brother was working in this small and cozy cafe in the city. There were many better places to reside since the Bronx was once portrayed as the slums but maybe he had a valid reason for it. Nevertheless the city isn't all that bad, the people were very lively compared to what the rumors said, business was slow and I liked it that way because Lincoln was kidding about what he said earlier, I was the one delivering their respective orders to customers after Lincoln would have finished (And he really works fast! It was almost like magic).

By this time, the cafe was empty, this happened once in a while between the hours before a group of friends or seniors came in to get their daily beverages. In this period of time I would go into my backpack to read my favourite manga that I had found under Lincoln's bed when I moved into his room. I guess none of my siblings were really into that stuff and though Lincoln appeared very lazy, he was a very dedicated and hard worker, no really knew what was going on in that brilliant mind of his, anyway, it's mine now.

I continued to enjoy this prized art that was unofficially passed down to me from my older brother, it was about a boy who trained in the ordinary world for the sake of beating his high school bullies, eventually he had enough strength to over power them but was quickly done away with by the stronger backing behind them, swollen with the taste of unfair defeat, he was taken in by a unknown old man who had weird super abilities and he promised to teach them to him if he walked the right path, how exciting! This was definitely on my 'goodreads' list, one of my favourites that I really enjoyed was about a male protagonists in a fantasy world using only Taekwondo! How exhilarating! Martial arts was not so much of a my favourite but for someone to be so daring! If only I could have become someone like him!

...

It was only about 3 hours into work and the cafe was deserted already. I had already expected an event like this to occur and Lily, who had begun to see the pattern, had already buried herself in comics and manga... It really makes me disheartened, to be reminded of my younger days when I would be reading comics and dreaming of some sort of change to happen to the world. Wait, Awakening? Wasn't that manga once mine? Lily had probably found it when she moved into my room... Good thing I got rid of the more 'vulgar' ones.

My gaze once again fell upon my little sister who bore some resemblance to my younger days. I thought about what it would feel like if she dared to tread on the same path I was walking on but never found her way out? It would hurt to see her fall because the world relented against us.

And that is when I decided...

"Lily, could you please take this bag to the garbage behind the building?"

"Okay."

As Lily left to complete the task I had asked her to do, I sensed my own ability and created a dome of 1 mile radius around me so that I would be able to see were Lily was with it, of course I could cover way more space than this but for now, I needed to focus on one thing. Using my ability like a sixth sense, I improved my eyesight and gained surveillance over everything inside my circle, so I focused on Lily or specifically, the pile of rocks near the dumpster. Using my improved handling, I pieced together the rocks to take the ability of a four legged humanoid monster (My craftsmanship was extremely crude since I never used my ability for this so it's appearance was extremely poor) my creation had barely finished sticking itself together before Lily took notice and fell back in fear. Poor Lily, I never wanted to scare her this way but if my plan was to work, I needed her to come running for help. My plan did not go how I expected it to be but the outcome wasn't much of a bad change either.

Much to my amusement, my dear little sister who could reach my side in mere moments, chose to defend herself with a baseball bat lying by, I couldn't remember how that had gotten there but I guess she was being resourceful! What a brave girl, she would definitely fit my criteria now. The rock dog or ape's movements were sluggish and incomparable to the capabilities of a human (For dear Lily's sake), after a few moments of shaking and self doubt, she charged towards the 'monster' and swung a full blow at it's head. She dropped the weapon due to the recoil shocking her hand and fell into tears. I have to say... I wanted to make it look believable but she really doesn't have any physical strength to even accomplish that task, strange, probably because she missed out on all the fights my siblings had.

I wanted to get there as fast as possible since the guilt had started to build up inside my heart but instead I took my time until I had reached the back alley.

"Lily is everything alright? You took so long that I was worried."

"L-Lincoln! Help! There is a monster over there!"

"Monster..."

My physical strength was nothing to joke about but I soon too realised that these weren't ordinary rocks... I may have messed up.

Though the movement was incredibly awkward, I made the monster appear as if the hit from earlier had scared it off as it began to dive down the open manhole near its location, ehh it would probably smash to pieces in a while from that fall.

"Lily quick! there's no time to lose!"

I grabbed her hand and led her back to the cafe, of course people stared at us with very concerned gazes.

Wanting to avoid further questions I dimmed the lights and flipped the sign, announcing that the building was now closed.

"How strange..."

"W-What!? That's all you have to say!? What was that thing!?"

I took a deep breath and gazed at her coldly for dramatic effect. After all, if she really was gonna eat up what I was about to say, I needed to set the right atmosphere.

"It seems that time is already happening..."

"Wha? What? Why are you so serious all of a sudden?"

"Lily... Our world is not as simple as it seems... There lurks many evil presences in the shadows, in the form of strange monsters that have a strong desire to consume ability and destroy humanity in order to ascend into higher beings."

"But? How long has this been happening? Why didn't anyone say anything about this?"

"As I said, consume ability. There is a mysterious energy that resides in the body that grants superpowers to ordinary beings like us, however humanity is unable to use this energy which is why our world is not in ruin, no ability means no monsters."

"Does that mean... I have an ability!? Wait... Is this a prank? Please tell me this isn't a prank Lincoln!"

I shook my head in reassurance and proceeded to use my ability to make the objects around her float and sure enough, she totally freaked out at it.

"Calm down, I'm only doing this much and you're surprised?" I was probably pushing it right now but I needed to set the mood first. "Your ability has been unintentionally awakened, which is why monsters are now starting to show up around you, I may be the cause of that however..." A lot of what I said was utter bullshit, except for that last part, I had definitely caused that and that wasn't the end of it.

"I- This is just- SO AWESOME!" I was utterly confused at her outburst, wasn't she crying just a few moments ago? "How do I use it!?" Well...

"Hold on you will have to train that ability for a very long time to even show evidence of it; however, there is also a 99% chance of it not developing at all but this could change with my special powers. If you join my organisation, we can fight back against these monsters of the world and bring other ability users under our wings before evil can get to them."

"OMG! This is all I ever wanted! My dreams are finally coming true!"

Yup, if I hadn't done this there was no telling what kind of path she was heading to one of these days.

"Everyone in the manga club is gonna be soooo jealous when they hear about this!" What? Manga club? Why wasn't there a manga club when I was in middle school?

"Hold on Lily, Our organisation has some strict ground rules if you are to utilize your ability to save the world. Knowledge of everything concerning the abnormal never leaves our group at any point in time, it will not go to any other civilian who has no ability or does not wish to use their ability to fight for the better of the world. No one can learn of your real identity if you are to continue blending in with society, using your ability for your own benefits is strictly forbidden." That last rule should have been applied to me but who can condemn me? Myself?

"But what if they don't want to join our organisation and possess an ability?"

"If by then, abilities are exposed to the entire world then there is nothing that we can do, besides that, I will rip it out of them myself!"

"A-Ah...Okay..." The girl shivered at the thought of my words, maybe I shouldn't have said that but I meant it, the only way a person would be currently able to use superpowers would be through me and if they still were to reject my offer then it was best for them to become ordinary as they once were. Speaking of which, I think she gets the jest of things, so it shouldn't hurt to see if this really works or not.

Ever since I got my Psychokinesis, it felt as though a tiny dot of energy was created inside my body and everytime I learned how to develop its effectiveness, it continued to grow as well. Naturally I would assume that this was my ability bank, an energy that would be depleted and created again or something like that, I never really understood the principle behind it but there was some truth to what I thought was happening, whenever I depleted my ability from overuse, I would feel mentally tired as well as if there was a hole in my chest. And whenever my ability began to rejuvenate, the energy would somehow enter through my spine and travel towards the 'ability bank'. The Telekinetic part of ability was like using invisible hands, their length, size, and strength were all based upon a single thought, so naturally I wondered what would happen if it came into contact with my mental based energy, on second thought, we'll call it ESP energy, it felt like a soft but strong cloud, when I tried to rip it off, it hurt like hell! But I succeeded though. The cloud of ESP energy within my mental grasp did not fade or lose its shape but over time, it gradually magnetised itself unto me and rejoined the bank as if it never left.

On several attempts after ripping myself apart to stick my ability to others, the pain of each impact had gradually reduced but it would never stick to another living being because it slid right off, though I swore I was getting better at it just never succeeded.

"Right, I will proceed with the re-awakening process so please close your eyes and try not to think too much about what's happening or the experi- I mean special technique could fail." It didn't sit right with me to say I was experimenting on my sister, even though I was, I didn't want to admit it since Lisa would be so damn proud.

"Yes! My mind will be as empty as the void of this world!"

Oh no, she had already been diagnosed with 8th grader syndrome!? This will only worsen it!

I carefully removed a piece of my ESP energy and tried to attach it onto her back. I never tried this spot before but thinking back to how my abilities work, this was probably the most sensible thing to do. It had stuck to her... Then fell off exactly 3 seconds after, there was no harm in trying again but this time I tried to keep in place and with more mental effort as if I was trying to create something in her body. It was a tiring task, like I was operating a 12 hour long surgery without sleeping the night before, another ability I can train I guess.

After what felt like 5 long wasteful minutes, I managed to keep the cloud of energy to stay in one place and gradually instead of coming back to me, it seemed to accept it's new user. A Success! After many long and fruitless attempts! The earth was about to receive 2 ability users.

"Congratulations, the awakening was a success."

"Wow! So fast! OMG! I'm an ability user! This is the best day ever!"

Wow, the government might find out at this rate and probably has no interest in us if they don't show up by next week.

"Huh? I can't use my ability?"

"Of course it's not going to work now, take some time for the ESP energy to sink in."

"The what?"

It seems that I have quite the explanation to do, so I pulled a chair nearby and started to fill her in on basic terms and words I used to describe abilities and their functions since it might soon become part of the organisation's secret language.

"So how are you feeling?"

"Um, I think I can feel the ESP energy but it's so faint."

"Worry not, practice makes perfect. Do you know how to activate your ability?"

"Well i'm not sure how it works but I can move it around my body, though weak, it feels more comfortable at my fingertips." She was telling the truth, I could see the energy move around her body when I enhanced my vision using my own capabilities, it had some troubles moving around at first but it gathered at her fingers without much trouble, my ability once behaved in a similar manner at the beginning, with using my hands to direct my flow of telekinesis, my ability worked at 1/3 of its power.

"Keep circulating your energy around your body until you get tired, it will help to improve your control and release speed." I was probably the most knowledgeable being when it come to 'Ability Usage For Starters 101' even though I knew next to nothing about my little sister's new power, now that I thought about it, an army of ability users that possesses strong telekinetic properties and ability sharing did sound dangerous, it would only be a matter of time before they found out about my gimmick.

"I think we had enough for one day, let's go home."

"Okay."

Seeing as though she won't be able to focus anymore, I decided that it was time to hit the hay, even though we had yet to eat lunch.

We arrived home faster than usual, it might be because Lily was still hesitant about going outside after all that she had been through, she seemed to calm down after we entered the building but we still had to go up to the 5th floor to get there, during that period I had to keep Lily from walking into the walls because she was actively trying to enhance her ability.

I began preparing lunch, and kept my eye on Lily to see how her progress was going. It had been over half an hour and her speed had definitely tripled, how was she not tired?

"Lily, are you feeling alright?"

"Yes, this is actually pretty easy now."

"Is that so?" Perhaps because the ESP energy never left her body in the first place, training it brought no side effects when she circulated it around her system. The amount didn't increase either... "Try gathering the energy to your fingertips."

"This again? Okay."

"... How does it feel?"

"Like... My fingers are full of something."

It enhanced my sight to focus on the structure of her ability, the energy that was close to leaving her fingertips were bright and unstable, they moved across the surface of her skin rarely but at a moment's notice. I vaguely had an idea of what ability she had and I was ready to bet on it. I handed her a metal spoon and she accepted it albeit confused, and I was right, I felt a tingling sensation running through my body at that moment.

"Lightning, I knew it."

"Huh!? That's my ability!? How do you know!?"

"Well, although I barely felt it, you zapped me, you can forcefully push the electricity out of your body until your energy runs out, the next day you'll feel sore but it strengthens your ability for sure."

It would be fun to train my little sister all while having a secret organisation in the dark but she needed to return to Royal Woods after some time.

Seems like I was going to make plans for home...

And that's that.

See you next time.