A/N: Here I am with a crossover story. As the title shows, this will cross the underappreciated cartoon, Catscratch over with the other cartoons, The Loud House, The Casagrandes, and It's Pony. Now, for the Loud, Santiago, and Casagrande family being involved here, the time setting in their universe takes place a few days after my fanfiction version for The Loud House Movie. For anyone who hasn't read that, you should read that first. There'll be spoilers for that. Enjoy.
Note: I do not own any of these cartoons.
(The intro to Catscratch plays, but the Loud, Santiago, and Casagrande family, Pony, and Annie appear in 3 shots with the cats and other characters, and Pony appears in the next shot after the third shot (which he also appears in), and takes over the places and lines of one of the newts saying "Catscratch" those two times, and replaces the bear in the waterskiing shot and tries to stand on two legs, but the cats dangle on him, with Mr. Blik hanging onto his face, and Pony struggling to balance himself).
10:35 AM, The Cramdilly Mansion, Bakersfield, California. Jun 22, 2020.
Gordon and Mr. Blik were lounging at the swimming pool, wearing shades, while Hovis was reading a book. These 3 were having a calm time. The sun was shining, no mosquitoes were bothering anyone, luckily, the cats and their butler had mosquito repellent sprayed on them. Mr. Blik soon grinned.
"This is a great month, Gordon. We've traveled to Florida, we've been accepted by another club in this state, the three of us, we've went to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, we got to be design ideas for a fashionista who visited us 4 months ago, we've become gold plus members for the American Six Flags parks, and we've gotten our own pages on the online encyclopedia. Life is great!" Mr. Blik said.
"Aye. For me, I still remember when we started our own root beer company in 2010, it became successful in the long run and expanded later on too. Now we're more rich and successful. That's not to say we didn't become successful without the help of experienced business professionals."
"Yes, yes, Gordon. But at least, our life is still shining positively on us. We're richer, we're famous, we're praised for our talent to make root beer."
"And we became more responsible, well, Waffle was more or less this, he's still not as smart as us, though. But you became kinder and more selfless over time as well."
"Being selfless hasn't ever been any better!" Mr. Blik replied in excitement. "Not to mention, Hovis has been more respected."
"I've gotten a better bedroom too. And at least I've gotten more respect." Hovis added.
"Not to mention we've hired more staff. Well, only 10 housemaids, but still." Gordon said.
"This is the life, Gordon. Hmm, hmm, hmm." Replied Mr. Blik. "In the next month, one day after the fourth of July, we're going to have our 13th anniversary of the WGB Cramdilly root beer company! I'm already feeling excited about it! This is so great! A 13th anniversary of our successful soft drink company! Yeaaaaaahhh! For today, we'll relax. I feel like this day can get even better."
Meanwhile, Waffle was screwing in a few nuts and bolts, he took a step back, and looked at what he had made in the front yard: a giant ray gun on a body of four wheels.
"Perfect! My ice duplicator is now complete. Let me bring over the giant ice cuboid I left in the freezer. The more ice my ice duplicator makes, the more ice we can use without having to pay for ice. I also want to introduce iced root beer. Root beer with ice cubes in it. Splee!"
Waffle walked into and across his mega-mansion, being silent all along the way, watching a few of the housemaids do their cleaning in the house. He went right at a fork, before turning back, he realized in 2 minutes he went the wrong way. He walked across the house, making some turns for a while, before finally reaching the freezer. He walked across and found his giant ice cuboid on a large flat cart. He pushed the cart, even though the cuboid was bigger than him, thus it would otherwise weigh down the cart, but the moment he reached the door, it bounced back, he pushed it three more times, but it bounced back. He could see that his giant ice cuboid wouldn't fit through the doorway, since the cuboid was too big.
"Splee! We're ready!" exclaimed Waffle. He was back in the front yard, with his giant ray gun, some of his newts, even the giant ice cuboid was in the front yard too, placed next to the gun that was pointing at it.
Waffle looked at the buttons on the gun's control panel. His face became blank. There was a screen with a keyboard placed vertically, and there were 21 buttons on it at the bottom, and unfortunately, he didn't label them. Waffle put his finger and thumb at his chin, as he raised an eyebrow. Which button would make sure the ray gun duplicate his ice cuboid? Why were there so many buttons? Wasn't he supposed to put in one button? Or two?
"Hmm."
Waffle put his finger on top of one button, but didnt press it. He wasn't sure if this was the right button. He put his finger on another button. He darted his eyes around the buttons. This was so confusing. Which one was it? He put his finger on another button, then another one, then another one, then another one, this went on for a while. 7 minutes passed. Waffle took a look at his ice cuboid. He could see it was beginning to melt, since water was flowing down from the top. He became worried.
"I got to hurry. Or my ice cuboid will turn into water." He said as he put his hands on his cheeks. He whipped his head left and right. He could see on the left side that there was a red button that was two thirds bigger, next to the smaller 20 light blue buttons. He had put his finger on that a few times, but he didn't take it seriously before. He smiled. He thought that was the right button. It was a red button, the red button starts up the process of making more ice, right? He pressed the red button with a finger. The machine was whirring and beeping, and Waffle stood back. He raised his folded hands up to under his face in excitement, and his teeth were clenched. The ray gun was raised slowly, rising upwards, with four cylinders that had one of them come out from the other. The ray gun pointed at the ice cuboid and powered up, Waffle was getting really excited, the moment he's been waiting for was coming, he'd make more ice. The process of powering up went for 10 seconds, but then the ray gun pointed upwards away from the cuboid, and shot a purple laser beam into the sky, and then a large purple portal opened up, to Waffle's surprise, before re-adjusting its position 4 more times, and shot 4 more lasers, creating 4 more portals, every portal that was created were lined next to each other, the last one was positioned above Waffle's ice cuboid. Suddenly, out of the portals came 2 houses falling down, one of them had white walls and a black roof, another house was light orange with a dark violet roof, another house looked like the first house, and another object that fell looked like it was some large part of an apartment room that was ripped off from the building it was built into, what with pieces that were pointy still attached to it on the top and the bottom, and a platform and ladders still attached to one side, and the last two things that fell from one of the portals were actually a redhead girl, and a pony, screaming, as they fell into the ground, but the other 3 objects fell on the ground first, and the apartment room landed on Wafffle's ice cuboid, sending chunks and pieces flying all over the place.
"My ice cuboid!" The gray cat shouted, gripping the sides of his face, before he was hit in the head by a piece of ice, falling unconscious.
Waffle saw nothing but darkness, but soon he felt like he was awakening, slowly opening his eyelids, struggling as they would close twice. When he finally opened them, he could see his brothers, Hovis, lots of other people, and a pony surrounding him, as he was lying down in his bed. He gasped in surprise. Most of them were white American people, but a smaller portion of them were Mexican people.
"Waffle, how do you feel?" asked Mr. Blik.
"Whoooooaa." Waffle looked around at the sight before him. One of the kids among the people, a white-haired boy wearing a tan shirt and light beige pants came up to him.
"Hi?" The boy asked nervously, raising a hand.
Waffle looked blankly and silently at him.
"Lincoln!" exclaimed Waffle, who quickly hugged him. Lincoln was surprised by this. But he quickly hugged him back.
"Um, yeah. Okay. You're excited to see me. But, how do you know who I am?"
Waffle didn't listen as he looked over and saw the pony and the redhead girl together, looking confusedly at him and Lincoln.
"*Gasp* Pony!" Waffle soon rushed over to Pony and hugged him around the legs.
"H-hi, Waffle." Pony said nervously, but soon put one of his hooves around Waffle in trying to hug him.
"I can't believe I get to meet you and Lincoln Loud. I always wanted to be friends with you two."
Pony, his best friend Annie Bramley, Lincoln, and mostly everyone else raised an eyebrow.
"Be friends with us, what are you talking about?" Pony asked confusedly.
"Ooh, before I can answer that, did anyone see a giant ray gun I made?"
"We all did, Waffle. What was that all about?" the 11 year old Latina girl asked. Waffle turned to look at her as she said that.
"Ronnie Anne! Wait, right, I can tell you all about that. I was trying to duplicate ice."
*Cue Tympup A*
"Ice? You expect me to believe you were trying to make ice?" Mr. Blik asked.
"No. I was trying to duplicate ice. There's a difference. Didn't you see all the pieces of ice someone's apartment destroyed? It took me 5 hours or more to make that ice. I was going to use my giant ray gun to duplicate the ice so I could save us money in buying ice, I would've used it to introduce iced root beer. Now all my 5 hours of making that giant ice cuboid has gone to waste" Waffle sadly concluded at the end of the statement.
"Iced root beer? I'm not sure how good that would taste." Lincoln added.
"It'd taste sweet. Splee!" replied Waffle.
"Actually yeah, Gordon and I did see pieces of ice spread around the ground. Your ice duplicating does explain the ice." said Mr. Blik.
Gordon cleared his throat.
"You weren't awake to see this, Waffle, but while you were unconscious, Blik and I got ourselves introduced to our 'visitors', and we got to learn their names, even their pets, eh, not counting the pony, and everything vice versa. We learned from each other both sides of this story. Let me first introduce you to these two."
He showed his hand to Annie and Pony.
"The redhead girl is Annie Bramley, this is her pony friend, eh, Pony. Next you have the Loud family, lots of blondes and brunettes in here. I'll go from oldest to youngest. This is Lynn Sr. Loud, Rita Loud, Lori Loud, Leni Loud, Luna Loud, Luan Loud, Lynn Loud Jr., Lincoln Loud (quite unexpected he has white hair), Lucy Loud, Lana Loud, Lola Loud (she and Lana are twins), Lisa Loud, and the baby Lily Loud. They have more than a few pets, but I'll name four of them. They have a dog named Charles, a cat named Cliff, a canary named Walt, and a hamster named Geo. And Lana has a frog named Hops. Who names a frog, Hops?"
"Who names a cat, Waffle?" Lana added.
"Fair enough. Meet the two Mexican American families the Santiagos and the Casagrandes (what kind of last name is that and Loud anyway?). This is Maria Santiago, she's divorced, this is her son, Roberto Santiago, Bobby for short, Ronalda Anne Santiago, aka Ronnie Anne. Next you've got the Casagrandes. Here's Hector Casagrande, Rosa Casagrande, Carlos Casagrande, Frida Casagrande, Carlota Casagrande, CJ Casagrande (short for Carlos Junior), Carlino or Carl for short Casagrande, and Carlitos. They have a dog and a parrot, the dog's name is Lalo, the bird's name is Sergio. Here's another loud family, although they live in a different place you could say. They look like male versions of the Loud girls. Their parents look the same as the other Loud family parents, outside of the clothes. Here you have Loki Loud, Loni Loud, Luke Loud, Lane Loud, Lynn Jr. (it's the same name apparently), another Lincoln Loud in this family (he wears an orange shirt and blue pants, but the other Lincoln wears a tan shirt and light beige pants), Lars Loud, Leif Loud, Lexx Loud, Levi Loud, and the baby, Leon Loud. Last but not least, the last family, most of them look exactly like the Loud girls, but these have a different last name, and one of them looks like a female version of Lincoln. I'll just say that girl's name and her family's name. The white haired girl here is Linka Regular. Her family's last name is Regular. They're the Regular Family. Unfortunately, their parents weren't present with them. What is it with using words like Loud, Casagrande, and Regular for last names? It doesn't make sense"
'Wow. Thanks for the introduction. That's a lot of people." Waffle soon thought of something. "Hey, if you put Regular and Loud together as a last name, you get a family named The Regular Loud family."
Mostly nobody laughed except for the male Loud kids (including Lincoln with the orange shirt), Luan Regular, Lincoln Loud with the tan shirt, and Ronnie Anne.
"That's what I said earlier. Completely everyone laughed the first time." Luan Regular added.
"So, how do I tell the difference between the Loud family and the Regular family, the former is the family with 10 girls and one boy. I don't think saying full names would be helpful enough."
Lincoln Loud with the tan shirt cleared his throat.
"Mm, that's where I came up with something. Believe it or not, I thought of it quickly. I thought for the other me and the Regular family, to distinguish between us, we would add numbers to our first names when we're addressing each other. For example, I'm called Lincoln 1, and the other me is called Lincoln 2. My ex-sister Lori is called Lori 1, the other Lori is called Lori 2. My other ex-sister, Lynn is Lynn 1, Linka's sister, Lynn is Lynn 2, and as for Lincoln 2's brother, Lynn is called Lynn 3. One more thing, in helping to tell the difference, Lola 1 is wearing a pink casual shirt, with darker pink sleeves, and blue pants, while Lola 2 is wearing her usual gown and tiara. Do you understand, Waffle?"
Waffle blinked his eyes 3 times.
"I got it, Lincoln 1. And what did you say to that, Lincoln 2?
"I said it sounded good enough. My family, Lincoln 1's ex-sisters, and the Regulars agreed to it. By the way, Lincoln 1, why do you not consider the girls and their parents as your family? It struck me off as odd that you didn't the first time you said it like that when you suggested something for distinguishing." Lincoln 2 said.
"Uh, let's just say it happened during a time traveling adventure, to undo my corruption by an evil man named Martin Thomson, it involved trying to get my 18 year old self into college."
"Really? Huh. That sounds interesting."
"You were corrupted in the future, Lincoln 1?" asked Waffle.
"Yeah, initially. But we stopped it from happening. Of course, I disowned most of the girls and Rita and Lynn Sr. except for Lily 1 as my family" Lincoln 1 said, then turning to Lincoln 2. "Oh, there's more to it than that. And here's the thing: before, Martin spoke so many negative things about the girls and their parents when I first met him. But I don't feel comfortable talking about it. I don't think the others would too."
Lincoln 2 turned to Waffle. "Hmm, Waffle, I have to tell you something. About me, unlike Lincoln 1, Lori Regular and her sisters are my cousins."
"They're your cousins?!" Waffle asked, gripping the sides of his face in surprise.
"Yeah, they're my cousins. Now, you were going to tell us about this ray gun."
Waffle was silent for 5 seconds.
"Right. Follow me." Waffle led everyone who came out of the purple portals to the front yard where his ray gun was, only for him to be shocked to see that his ray gun was in pieces, and he screamed and gripped the sides of his head.
"Not my ray gun! How did this happen?!"
"Well, when me and my family came out and saw you lying unconscious, in 3 seconds, your giant ray gun fell into pieces." Levi Loud answered.
"NOOOOO! I spent 5 months building that! And I was using it to duplicate ice!" Waffle cried out in despair.
"5 months? Are we going to be trapped here, waiting another 5 months for a giant ray gun to be built, before returning us to where we came from?"
"Oh don't worry, Lincoln 1. I'm here, so are Lisa Loud, and Lisa Regular. We just have to make the plans, and it shouldn't take more than a 3 or 4 hours, hopefully. And from the looks of Ronalda's apartment, it's in good shape. I was told even the ceiling stayed with it." Levi Loud answered."
"I sure hope no one was still standing on the room above ours." Ronnie Anne said.
"Gee, all that we heard was very encouraging." Lucy 1 replied, in her usual depressed voice.
"I wouldn't doubt my sister if I were you. Surely, Lisa Regular can make this quickly while doing her part." said Lucy 2.
"I don't see how she can. I don't see how all of them can" Lincoln 1 said. "Now, Waffle, can you please explain how you know me and Pony?"
Waffle looked at him. "I'm answering your question with a question, but have you been told about the multiverse, by Lisa 1,2, or Levi Loud? And why do you guys look so different? You looked different in your universe."
Lincoln 1's eyes shortly became half-lidded in annoyance.
"Actually, we have been told about it, from what those 2 girls and 1 boy theorized, but I can agree that we do look different. None of us expected how we look in this universe."
"Well then, let me explain myself. 5 years ago, I invented a round machine after 3 months, I was intending to make it a more effective vacuum cleaner, it has a blue button at the top, unfortunately, it didn't work as I expected, instead, I discovered it took me to another universe. I tried it lots of times after having a misadventure in the first universe I went to, until I finally was able to return to this universe. Let me prepare some videos, a picture, a map I drew, the projector, and then follow me."
Waffle uploaded a picture he took, prepared videos he recorded with a video camera, his map, then the projector, called everyone over to the theater room in the mansion. They would watch footage of Waffle going through so many different universes. Mr. Blik and Gordon were confused as to why Waffle didn't tell them, and raised an eyebrow. Finally, a picture of Waffle's map showed on the screen.
"After my first misadventure across some of the multiverse, I've made a map of the different universes I've been to. Some of the first universes I've been to didn't like talking cats or were scared of them or something, so I had to resort to walking on four legs, and not talking at all. And I had to hide my round circle universe teleporter machine somewhere secret every time. I'll call it the teleporter. In the years following that, I've often been traveling to different universes. Sometimes, I would witness certain events, while staying in the background. After discovering a universe, I would draw them and write them down in this map of what I call, the multiverse, I'd even draw their names in different portrayals. I just think up random words, and to me, that's what they're called." Waffle would then point at the different universes he On this map are lots of universes. On here are Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold, The Wild Thornberrys, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (there's more than one of those), Avatar: The Last Airbender (haven't visited that in a long time), Jimmy Neutron, and two of my big-time favorites, Danny Phantom & Glitch Techs! I wonder if there's a universe with a talking sponge and starfish." Waffle put a finger to his chin as he said that, before he looked back at the map. "Look there." Waffle pointed with his finger to two labeled universes put together.
"That is your universe. The Loud House/The Casagrandes. Ever since 2016, I'd sometimes watch as events in your families take place. And now I get to meet you, and some Louds from another universe. All right! I hope someone makes a TV show based on Ace Savvy and the Full Deck. Ooh, better yet, I hope there is a universe where Ace Savvy and the Full Deck are real." Waffle then pointed to another one that was labeled "Catscratch." "Look over there. That's the universe you guys arrived at. The Catscratch universe."
"Hey, is that my universe, and Annie's?" Pony pointed to one white dot. Waffle looked at the one Pony pointed to, it was labeled "It's pony."
"Yes. That's your universe, Pony."
One portion of the people present became unsettled at the mention of Waffle witnessing some events in the Loud House/Casagrandes universe.
"You didn't see any event concerning me calling Lincoln bad luck, right?" Lynn 1 asked.
"No. Why?" Waffle asked innocently.
"Oh, uh, that's not important."
"I've already become attracted to this story, laddie. What are you talking about, with bad luck?" asked Gordon.
"Uh, let's just say I once blamed Lincoln for being bad luck. I was wrong on that end, and Lincoln got shunned for much time, by not just me, but then my whole family. Even if he lied about it. In fact, that was one of those things Martin Thomson told Lincoln about."
"I'm sorry. What? None of my brothers or cousins ever accused me of being bad luck. And Lincoln 1, what did you lie about being bad luck for?" Lincoln 2 added. Lincoln 1's ex-family members looked away in shame or awkwardness. Lincoln 1, the Santiagos and Casagrandes just looked upset, from remembering that fact, that was spoken without further detail.
"The bad luck incident's only a little bit of detail for the first part. It's more severe. And that was one of those things that led to me disowning most of them, from that night we met Martin Thomson. Only Lily's my sister, but I'm willing to give everyone a chance to make up and earn my forgiveness, and show me they changed too. As for me lying, I only did it to get free time. It's hard to get that when you live in a big family. You should know, you're pretty much me."
"Huh, I see. I'm starting to see why you disowned most of your family, Lincoln 1."
"Huh, speaking of luck, you know Lincoln, I remember that time I had a lucky claw, it would've helped me win a trip to China, but Mr. Blik, flushed it down the toilet, we had to escape a number of bad luck events, and we all ended up in China anyway, but Mr. Blik got taken by an alien monster." Gordon added. Lincoln 1 and Lynn 1 became surprised at this.
"Lincoln 1, I applaud you for giving your family a chance. The families me and my cousin were raised in were taught to not be so spiteful or anything like that. And I don't know enough of your story, but I'd say one way or another, they will open your eyes to forgiveness." Lynn 2 said supportively.
"Nothing's happened yet. But my ex-parents are currently looking for therapy for most of us. Also, Bobby from our universe broke up with Lori 1. He and his family and relatives were involved with us on the time travel adventure, and he learned about the bad luck incident, among other bad things that happened to me."
"Oh, that's too unfortunate. Lori 1, I wish you the best that you and Bobby can get back with each other, or you can move on from him."
"Mmm, thanks for that, Lori 2. But it's not happening now. And I can't blame him." Lori 1 looked at Bobby, only for him to turn his head away from her, he was upset. Lori looked in sadness, and looked down in shame. At this point, everyone walked back to the front yard, and Waffle rushed off, and quickly came back again, with the teleporter.
"Here. You just have to press this button, and you'll be back to your universe in no time. Just enter your universe name on the keyboard, place your feet on it, and you'll be teleported away. I'm not sure the teleporter can teleport your residences to your universe as well." Waffle said.
Waffle set down the machine, pressed a button, and the machine immediately exploded with a blast of smoke. Waffle coughed swiping the dust away. "Well, there goes that idea."
"So, that's it, that's it, we're going to be trapped here for a long time?"
"Don't worry, Lincoln 1. Our time will be short one way or another. We've got 3 geniuses, Lisa 1 & 2, and Levi. They can make this machine shorter than how Waffle did. We'll return to our universes faster than 5 months." Pony replied.
"I wouldn't be too short about that. Excuse me, Waffle, can you show us the plans?" Lisa 2 asked.
"Plans, what plans? The plans for the universe ray gun? Oh, sorry, I burned those up. I didn't think I needed to make another one."
Lisa 2's eyes shrank. She sighed in frustration and facepalmed herself. "Looks like we'll just have to start from-" She looked over at the debris in front of her "-we can rebuild it from the debris. At least from what I've heard it didn't blow up, unlike the teleporter."
"So, what now for all of us? We ended up here, and we can't get back to our respective universes." Bobby asked.
"Ooh, Casagrandes, Santiagos, how did your apartment building get sucked into the portal? I didn't hear that part." asked Waffle.
"Well, we were all in our apartment, minding our own business, when suddenly, we heard a large noise outside, me and my sister, CJ and Carl took a look through the window, we saw a purple portal swirling in the sky, then a large beam shot down from it, into our apartment room, and suddenly it ripped it off from the building and we were pulled into the portal. As for Lincoln and the Louds from my universe, and Annie and Pony, we were told the portals simply appeared above them and sucked them all in."
"Ooh. Interesting And how do you look so different, same for the Louds? When I've been to your universe, it looked like it came out of a newspaper comic strip. So did I. Every universe I've been to has a different appearance, and it would affect mine too, as I would see on things that showed my reflection. It took me a while to get used to how differently I looked when I came across the first other universes. Here, you all look so different, even Annie and Pony."
Everyone looked at Waffle blankly. Lisa 1 cleared her throat.
"Well, you said it yourself, Waffle. In fact, me and my other counterparts came to the conclusion. Depending on the universe, wherever we go, if it's not a universe that doesn't look like ours at all in appearance, our appearance is altered as well, I find that a scientific mystery. Well. We might as well get to work on this contraption." Lisa 1 said, then walked towards it, joined by Lisa 2 and Levi, gathering pieces. "We're going to need a truck to carry this." She then looked at Lisa 2. "While we're at it, from my universe, our cousins, the Regulars look nothing like you, Lisa 2." Lisa said to her other female counterpart.
"I'd say it's because of we're living in different universes."
Gordon cleared his throat, and spoke to all of the people here.
"Eh, Lincoln Loud 1, how would you, the other families, and Annie and Pony like to stay here?"
Everyone became surprised.
"You mean it? You want us to stay here?" Asked Lincoln 1.
"Aye. Just until the machine is repaired, and you all can go home. For now, you and everyone else can stay in your respective homes in the front yard, they're all still intact. And we can provide you food. But Pony and Annie can stay in our house."
Lincoln 1 was speechless. "I, I don't know what to say. Thanks, Gordon."
"I'm happy for you to stay here momentarily. I'd love to get to know all of you more." Waffle said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold your horses! Gordon, can I have a word with you in the house?" said Mr. Blik. He and Gordon headed back to their mansion.
"Are you crazy, Gordon? We have 49 people, not counting the variable pets and the pony. They can't just stay here. No offense to them. If it does hypothetically take 5 months for those 3 little kids to build Waffle's giant ray, they'd be eating us out of our money. We can't just keep them here. Not to mention I don't want those residence places to be staying on our front yard. We should destroy them.""
"But Mr. Blik, these people have nowhere to go. You can't just force them out. You can't just destroy their residence shelters either. They're victims of circumstance, by accident, courtesy of our dear brother, Waffle, he didn't mean to, though. Plus, we're rich. We've got lots of money. We even have our root beer business to make us money. We don't know if the adults in the respective families can get a job here. We don't even know what some of them work as."
"So what? Surely, it wouldn't be so difficult for them to get a job. How hard can it be? I don't want these people here."
"But Annie and Pony don't have any parents with them, or shelter. You can't tell me you'd be willing to let them starve out in the streets."
"They could stay with either of those families we met. Besides, whatever talents they have, they can use them to gain money for themselves."
Gordon folded his arms and looked on at Mr. Blik, his eyes were half-lidded, his face was serious.
"Blik, Waffle accidentally got them here. It's up to us to help out everyone who were brought to our universe. Besides, you've become more selfless over time. Occasionally, you'd give some portions of money to an orphanage, or a hospital, and a little bit more often, to poor, homeless people. You were willing to donate during December in the years, and you'd volunteer at the soup kitchen. And we've given Hovis more respect. We got to do our part, we have to provide for them. They need to stay with us."
Mr. Blik put his finger and thumb to his chin, and thought about it. There was no denying all of those selfless things Gordon had brought up. But this was still their house. They don't just go letting random strangers stay here for a long time, especially if it was for 5 months hypothetically. But these people couldn't just be thrown and out and suffer in their own right, and they were sucked out of their respective universe. Four of the families had a baby. Mr. Blik suddenly started to feel shocked. As bad as he used to be before, there was no way he could just let babies suffer from starvation. Those babies were cute too. Then there was Lincoln 1. He'd heard Lincoln 1 used to be accused of being bad luck, and he disowned his own family. Now, Mr. Blik couldn't exactly relate to Lincoln in terms of bad luck, what with their own two different stories. But to ban him and have him go through tribulation out in the streets, have his house destroyed too? It didn't feel fair. He remembered Mitchell the mammoth who was brought over to their house, and he initially didn't want him, but later grew to accept him as his own figurative child. Hopefully, Mitchell was doing fine on his own, wherever he was. He hadn't seen him for years, and neither did the news, on TV or on the Internet ever show a news story talk about mammoth sightings. But if the families stayed in the front yard, they can be fed well enough and provided shelter, as long as their residences stayed intact. Same for Annie and Pony (of course they can stay in their house). Well, of course, the adults can cook for them so that was taken care of, but groceries for them can be bought too, courtesy of the cat's finances. And they'd be given a large amount of entertainment, again, courtesy of the cat's finances. Well, Mr. Blik figures he can invite them over, they can't just show up to his house whenever they want, his brothers can invite them too.
"All right, Gordon. We'll let them stay. Absolutely no matter how long it takes. Annie and Pony can stay in our house too. But, any of the Loud, Santiago, or Casagrande family members can only come over, if either, or two of us invite them, or all of us as a whole. Regardless, we'll provide for them as long as they stay here. And if they stay here even after summer vacation ends, we can try to look for good schools for the kids, huh?"
"Great job, Blik. You're doing the right thing."
"Splee!" Waffle jumped out of nowhere and hugged Mr. Blik tightly. "If they stay here for a long time, I can spend time with Pony, Lincoln, Annie, Bobby, anyone for a long time!"
Mr. Blik quickly got Waffle off of him.
"Uh, listen Waffle. You say you've been traveling across the multiverse for years. Why didn't you ever tell us about this?" Asked Gordon.
Waffle looked blankly at them for 3 seconds. "I didn't think it was very important to talk about."
Gordon and Mr. Blik became surprised at this, but shrugged it off after 3 seconds.
"Let's just go tell our guests."
The cat brothers gathered everyone who was brought here to the living room for the announcement that they'd stay. Some of the people were openly happy at having to stay over (at least in the front yard), and everyone assured the cats they'd be on their best behavior, especially Lynn Sr. 1 and Rita 1 in terms of keeping their daughters under control, as they looked at them sternly.
"Well then, I guess we can just carry on with our day. Everyone, go have fun, at your residences, or in the city, or whatever." Said Mr. Blik. As everyone was leaving, Annie and Pony went somewhere else in the house, and Lincoln 1 was giving his ex-family, a disapproving look, they looked at him in sadness. Lynn 1 couldn't blame him for how he felt. This didn't go unnoticed by the cats.
"You know, I can't help but feel we should know this - eh, time travel story between Lincoln and his family. He doesn't look happy to be with them, ay." Said Gordon.
"Eh, he didn't feel like talking about it. And we should just respect his choice." Replied Mr. Blik, as he walked back to the swimming pool. Gordon walked alongside him.
"We did hear him say he was willing to give most of them a chance to earn his forgiveness. Plus, I feel we should learn about this story of him lying about being bad luck and what his family did to him during that."
"Hey, I'm sure none of them want to talk about it. It's probably too uncomfortable for them to talk about. Besides, we have bigger fish to fry, and that is, taking care of them until the ray machine gets fixed."
Speaking of which, as his brothers walked away, Waffle took the idea of discussing the time travel and luck story to heart, and rushed off.
The families were still walking across the house when Waffle came up to them.
"Lincoln 1, Lincoln 1!" Waffle shouted as he caught up. Lincoln 1 looked at him. "Can we walk together, a little casual time with each other? You could try to get your mind off whatever."
Lincoln 1 darted his eyes left and right, he was unsure about this. Of course, from the looks of it, Waffle did look like a nice cat, that was more than he could say about how sisters were at times. He did want to be away from them for the moment before he was sucked into that portal.
"Well, let me ask the girl's parents. Rita 1, Lynn Sr. 1 Can I go on a walk with Waffle?"
The two parents looked over at their ex-son, and then at Waffle, smiling innocently, but blankly. They were hesitant about this. They thought about this. Why have Lincoln walk with a stranger. But what do they need to be worried about? Martin Thomson wasn't going to give them trouble in this universe. At least, they don't think so. And, it's not like Lincoln can just talk to them all the time as it is. He hates them and their daughters. He needs some alone time. And Waffle is a cat, and he is one of the cats allowing them to stay.
"All right, we'll let you go on a walk with Waffle. But you must be back in 3 hours have passed. Otherwise, we'll have to ground you." Answered Lynn Sr..
"Yes, then. I'll be back in 3 hours or less. What do I have to lose? I always had to take responsibility for my mistakes. Unlike the girls, lots of times I had to take responsiblity for them. Good-bye, then. Good-bye, girls." Lincoln 1 turned and walked with Waffle as they walked outside of the house. Lincoln 1's ex-family looked on sadly, while the other families looked on at him in sympathy, especially Ronnie Anne. Waffle and Lincoln 1 walked out of the house, and then out through the gates, as Waffle opened it, and then closed it once they were out. They started their walk together.
"So, what was your life, before you disowned most of your family? Was it good?"
"Well, I was loved by my siblings and my parents. For example, Lori 1 would feed me ice cream when I was a baby, Luna would play music to make me fall asleep, I had a fun time on a mechanical horse with Luan and Luna when she was a baby. But at some point in my life, before I turned 11, it became less good than before. For a long time, my sisters would act like jerks at times, Lori would threaten to turn me into a human pretzel just for being in her room whenever that happened, she's a phoneaholic, Lola would threaten me and get angry at me, she'd resort to blackmail too, Lynn would spar with me at times when I wasn't interested, to my displeasure, Lisa had used her own siblings as part of experiments at times, I'd get ganged up on by my sisters as a whole at times, Luan would be so extreme with her setting up high scale pranks on April Fools Day, until she finally stopped that in 2018."
"Sounds terrible." Stated Waffle casually.
"There are different misfortunes I've faced thanks to the girls. I've been forced to go on a double date after insulting a friend of mine, I didn't realize I made my friend, cry. That was Ronnie Anne, for your information. She was a bully to me at first, but that changed later on. And her brother, Bobby broke up with Lori as a result. Speaking of Ronnie Anne, I was forced to hang out with four friends of my sisters at a school dance, and they didn't consider that this would destroy something I had between me and Ronnie Anne. I was also banned from a grocery store, because my sisters were causing damage, they chased away my math tutor after gushing over him, they took away my chance to have the sweet spot in our initial van we had years ago, before it was destroyed in 2020, they stole my chance to be in an Ace Savvy movie and didn't help me out and Clyde initially, they got me kicked out of my room and the kitchen and the living room, due to a flawed protocol to prevent fights between the girls, in this case between Lori and Leni over a dress with no consideration for me, and I didn't know about this protocol before at all. My parents didn't do anything about it at all. They just hid in their rooms. That was foolish of them. Lola, being the jerk that she is, she had all of her sisters prank me into doing things for them, when I had earplugs put in my ears, and all I wanted was to read my comic book! I've done so many good things for them, yet they don't remember how kind I've been for them, lots of times they would just treat me like dirt, and take me for granted!" As he was talking, Lincoln was increasingly getting angry about all those bad moments that he was talking about.
"Yeesh. Your sisters sound like-jerks." Replied Waffle. But Lincoln was starting to calm down.
"In spite of everything, at first, I had believed in spite of the chaos the girls bring in the house and how they cause trouble for me, I believed they still loved me. I believed they were still good. But on that time travel adventure to the past, my point of view has changed about them. Even their parents."
"What happened? What happened that you had to go to the future?"
"Let's just say that I learned a man named Martin Thomson intended to corrupt me and have me serve him. He was a future tyrant of lots of the United States, before we changed the future. I learned he had secretly spied on me or have spies do that at times in my life."
"Did he bring up this bad luck incident you say you were involved in?"
Lincoln stopped in his tracks. He was thinking to himself, his eyes were shrunken. He stood silently for 7 minutes.
"Lincoln?" Waffle asked him. Lincoln made no response. Waffle snapped his fingers in front of him 3 times.
"Liiincoooln." Waffle waved his hand in front of him.
"You know what? I've spoken enough. I don't need to be talking about the past. Besides, you didn't witness the bad luck event. But yes, he did bring it up. That was one of those events that were recorded in his attempt to turn me against the Louds." Lincoln walked past Waffle, who caught up with him.
"Come on, Lincoln. You can always tell me about it. I can tell my brothers to keep it a secret."
"Why should I tell you? Only the Santiagos and Casagrandes should know the full details about it. Besides, you're someone new that I met." Lincoln said, in a cynical tone.
"Lincoln, I'm not going to stop asking. And from the looks of it, you look like you need help, you need to be cheered up. You need to get some positive enlightenment in your life."
Lincoln stopped and raised a brow.
"Waffle, do you know what 'enlighten' means?"
"Enlighten: one of its definitions is give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation. Enlighten. Wait, that's not the right word."
Lincoln thought to himself in silence, with Waffle waving his hand in front of him for 5 minutes. Lincoln paid no attention. Then he looked at Waffle and asked "Hmm?"
"Lincoln, I'm a nice cat. I am willing to help my brothers out, depending. I've been willing to help Gordon fight an evil duck, I was willing to help a dog escape from a pound when I once was living like a dog, and I was willing to help Gordon try to fool a friend of his when he thought he lost a bunny. I was even willing to help reunite Hovis with his two old band members and celebrate his birthday. Surely, I can help you somehow with your problem."
Lincoln looked blankly at him.
"Okay, I don't think you can help me with my problem. You haven't seen it for yourself anyway. You don't know the whole thing. No offense, but I don't think you'd understand my ex-family, years later after this event."
Waffle looked blankly at him.
"Lincoln, I'm not going anywhere until you tell me your luck story"
Lincoln simply walked on, with Waffle quickly running as he was left behind and then walked alongside afte catching up to him.
"Come on, Lincoln, come on, Lincoln, come on, Lincoln, come on, Lincoln." Waffle would repeat this, hopping along the way.
"Stop." Lincoln raised a hand in front of Waffle's face.
"It's obvious you want to hear this, all right, I'll tell you. But let's go somewhere private. I don't want people to overhear what I'm about to tell you." Said Lincoln calmly.
Waffle nodded and smiled in response.
"While we're looking for a private place, let's discuss other things? What's your life like?" Asked Lincoln.
"I'm a rich cat, I live in a really big mansion, my life is a happy one, although crazy things happen, we have a butler, I have newts, I can make friends with many animals, I have one of three neighbor brothers, and an adult woman who used to be a little girl as my friend, I defeated an evil mouse with cat breath." Waffle said as the two walked together.
Lincoln and Waffle were walking together for a while, looking for a private place in to speak, with no success so far, although Lincoln had to stop the gray cat from talking at one point, as he had been talking about things like his brothers and past events for a long time. Waffle then thought of something.
"I got an idea. Why don't we go to the forest? That's quiet and private."
"Cue Tympup A"
"Follow me." Waffle motioned his hand for it, while rushing off to the forest.
"You couldn't have brought up the forest earlier?" Lincoln asked, slightly frustrated as he ran after him.
They ran for a while, until they reached the forest. They walked across it for a short while. "There are no bears here, right?"
"Nope. There are bears here. Well, just one as far as I know. This bear would come to my house and try to eat my brothers at times. Although he stopped coming to our house 5 years ago. I don't know why. I don't think grizzly bears even live in California."
Lincoln became surprised. Pretty soon, Martin Thomson came to his mind.
"Waffle?" Lincoln asked nervously. Waffle looked at the white haired boy with a tan shirt.
"Yes, Lincoln?"
"Have you watched or read any news stories about, animals like bears or wolves being spotted in California or states they no longer live in?"
"No. Why?
"Here's the thing. I learned that Martin Thomson, the man who corrupted my 18 year old self, I learned he was also releasing other animals like grizzly bears, into different states, I only learned much-"
"Someone's moving formerly native animals into my country?!" Waffle exclaimed in surprise, putting his hands to the sides of his face.
"No, Waffle. Calm down. I'm talking about in my universe."
"Oooh. Well, you can talk about wild animals when you're 18, 20, or 25, Lincoln. I wanted to hear about your bad luck story. How does it go? Does it involve dragons, banshees, root beer, aliens, or krakens?"
Lincoln became very confused at Waffle for his last question. Soon he shook his head. "No Waffle. None of those things were involved. It all started like this. I was hiding from my siblings on March 13, 2017. Because I was living in a big family, I had to attend their events. But I wanted to read my comic book on Ace Savvy, he's one of my role models. I managed to avoid most of them, but I didn't account for Lynn, my sister at the time. She wanted me to attend her softball game, but I refused. Then, she threatened to beat me with a bat, if I didn't." Waffle's eyes shrank and he dropped his jaw. "Anyway, I was at her game, and she lost. Usually, Lynn won in her different sports games she attended, she's a sports player, she's an athlete too. I was giving her comfort, until she, irrationally claimed I was bad luck. I didn't want to come, she forced me to, and she has the nerve to call me bad luck. Who does she think she is? She banned me from coming to any of her games after that. Later, Leni asked me if I could come to her fashion show, Lynn came in and said I was bad luck so I shouldn't come. I should've just denied that, but what do I do? I go ahead with Lynn's claim. I lie that I was bad luck. This thing went on, I lied about being bad luck. You may think it was selfish of me and dishonest, and I don't blame you. But the thing was, I wanted free time for myself. You, you have 3 brothers, and I don't know how many events they have that you have to join."
"There's no events. My brothers didn't have jobs. Now these days, we started a business, years ago. Of course, Mr. Blik and Gordon mainly run it. Me, I've got lots of free time."
"Hmm. Good for you. Like I was saying, I lied about being bad luck. It was good at first, I was free from having to go to my sister's events. But then it got worse. I wasn't allowed to join my family to go to the movie theater, and I didn't feel happy afterwards. Later, my room was boarded up, and then later, I was locked out of the house, because everyone thought I was bad luck."
"Wait, what?!" Waffle was shocked.
"Yeah, I know. So, I was sleeping in the backyard, and the next morning, I was served cereal in a bowl through the doggy door. No one wanted me inside, due to the belief I was bad luck. After that, I confessed the truth to the others, that I lied about being bad luck, but absolutely no one believed me. Not even any of the sisters I was closer to, Leni, Luna, Lucy, and Lana. It didn't help that I was told that without my presence, Lynn had won her next two games. Afterwards, I went to the baseball game Lynn was currently having. I hid myself in a squirrel suit, trying to prove I wasn't bad luck. Lynn won her game, I revealed myself out of the suit, everyone realized I wasn't bad luck. But when everyone reconciled with me, I learned my furniture and stuff were sold."
Waffle gasped at the mention of that.
"Yeah. That's an appropriate reaction. We all went on a beach trip afterwards, but it turned out, the family doesn't believe I'm bad luck if I'm in the squirrel suit. I was in that suit at the beach for almost 3 hours, before everyone realized I really wasn't bad luck, at all, even if I don't have the suit, even Lynn. They all apologized for how they acted all the way, and I apologized for me lying about it. It took time, but my family got me my stuff and furniture back."
Waffle sniffling and was building up small tears later in hearing Lincoln's story. "Wow, Lincoln. Your family sounds horrible. And you stayed with them for-" Waffle put a finger to his chin. "-10 years?" Lincoln dropped his jaw and raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"No, Waffle. I stayed with them for 3 more years. Everyone wanted to forget the bad luck incident ever happened. Although there was times the memory of that incident would be refreshed in my mind. As it was in the time before, there were times I was treated well by my former family, and there were times I was treated badly. I've been fooling myself before and after that there was nothing wrong with them in spite of anything. Now, I don't view most of them positively. Although, I'm not perfect. In some of the past events I mentioned, I had my own portion of responsibility for something bad happening, depending. I was also partially responsible for the bad luck incident."
Waffle nodded. "Mmm. Did you have your last straw with them on the time travel adventure?"
"Waffle please don't-" Lincoln didn't want to tell him, but then he thought Waffle would annoy him until he did so. He decided to just tell him and it would save him the trouble.
"Okay fine. Me, the Louds, the Santiagos, and the Casagrandes were hanging out together at Aloha Beach. My grandpa, Pop-Pop as I call him, was with us, so was Ronnie Anne's dad. We were having fun in our own way, until we saw a purple portal appear. It wasn't a universe portal. It was a time travel portal. A jet came out of it and crashed and slid on the beach. The pilot's cockpit glass opened, and the pilot came out. It turned out, it was Lynn from the far future. 2045, to be exact. We learned she came to warn her family in March 2017, unfortunately, she came at the wrong time. We learned that the future had become bad, more than bad. Martin Thomson had been secretly abducting abused and neglected children for years (I would later learn he would also take in adults), so he could make them into his own army. And I was one of those children, he had trained to serve him, he corrupted me to become a bad person, to become a ruthless killer. Martin used to be a gang member, like his father, Steven Thomson (who was an abused child himself, ran away from home, and believed that the world had it in for lots of abused children), and Martin at some point started his own organization in his dad's own criminal society called the ACAO, the Anti-Child Abuse Organization, later it would be called, the United States Peace Enforcement, or USPE for short at some point, of which Martin was the leader. The ACAO would over years at one point before the 2040's would conquer and enslave lots of the US. We learned that Lynn had caused some accident that got me and her banned from college. At some point after that, my 18 year old self was told that Lynn caused that to spite me. I was going to that college to join Ronnie Anne."
"Ooh." Waffle replied.
"So, on a day that my future self was upset, Martin took me over to the arcade for some pizza and games. He told me about Lynn causing that accident on purpose. In fact, we learned that Martin mostly had free time to spend with me. We would spend time with each other in things like working on art for example. He had been telling my future self, in all the days of his high school life, negative things about who I considered as my family back then, and over time, he would come to believe them. This day after the college accident, 18 year old me finally believed Martin. And so he joined Martin, and he also took Lily, and his future brother, Lionel with him."
Waffle gasped. "You have a brother?! When will he be born?!" Lincoln covered his ears from how loud Waffle shouted.
"None of us know, we weren't told at all. At some point, there was a successful rebellion in South Dakota, and that rebellion would grow over time, so were rebel armies across the country. At some point when Martin was a tyrant over lots of the US, there was a castle being built, that would have laser guns. 5 break-in attempts in different years were made to destroy it, none of them worked, 2045 Lynn was part of the 5th attempt and ultimately, she came to 2020. Among the things she gave us, two of them were a letter (for 2020 Lynn), and another one of them was an old iPhone which she used to record lots of Martin's works, before she died, and before that, I was told I strangled 2045 Lola to death on one of those break-in attempts. Later in the night of that same day, we flew into that specific time using time travel, with the jet that 2045 Lynn used, which can shapeshift itself. We went to the mountain where the Hollywood sign was, we let time pass, the future rebels came through portals, there were future counterparts of most of my former sisters. We learned that with 2045 Lynn dead, the plan would change. We had to try to prevent the college incident now. We time traveled to the year 2027, we landed somewhere in the forest away from Royal Woods, slept there, the next day, me, Lynn, and the other younger kids were sent with a portion of rebel soldiers to find my 18 year old self and Lynn's 13 year old self, to warn them about Martin's true colors and the dark future, while the adults and most of the teenagers would undergo military training. Me, Ronnie Anne, and 2045 Bobby found my 18 year old self at the mall, at a costume party, and I saw my 18 year old self defend 18 year old Ronnie Anne at a costume party. It was an awesome sight. For years, I should've been self-assertive and stood up for myself often. I was a doormat."
"How are you a doormat? You don't just lie down on the floor and let people sweep their feet on you, and you're not flat and shaped like a rectangle." Waffle asked, out of stupidity. Lincoln didn't bother to answer.
"So, the three of us warned 18 year old me, who was joined by 18 year old Ronnie Anne, and speaking of which, before then, I learned me and Ronnie Anne became a couple almost in the middle of our middle school years. How unexpected. Later, we learned that 2027 Lynn was warned, afterwards, we joined most of the other Louds from both different years and Pop-Pop, as we went to our house, which unexpectedly, changed as shown in 2027, and we got a new van. We warned the Louds in 2027 about the college accident, Martin's involvement, and the horrible future that would follow. A lot later, it was night time, I was learning how to skateboard, and use laser guns, two models of them, me and Ronnie Anne were both learning the laser guns, actually. During that, we were bonding. We spoke to each other a lot during a break. Although before that, even before all of this, with all the different things we were doing with each other for years, I had some strange feeling for her that I couldn't figure out, even at different times before and when we were in 2027. At the costumed party, it felt positive to see 2027 me and Ronnie Anne kiss each other, and to see that they were a couple. That's one example. At one point, 2020 Ronnie Anne put her head on my shoulder, while we were on a motorcyle, it was sudden at first, but I quickly got used it. Anyway, on our break, Ronnie Anne put her head next to mine, I put my arm around her body. But then, we were suddenly abducted by one of Martin's loyalists. A crazy man named Michael Pesto.
"Haha, Pesto!"
"We were taken to the community college, where me and Ronnie Anne would've went to when we were older. We were stuffed into and locked in a trunk for a while, we tried to get out, until we were released by Ronnie Anne's mom and Dad and Pop-Pop. After that, the two of us were involved in some gunfight against USPE soldiers. We ran for lots of miles in different directions, trying to stop 2027 Lynn riding a bull in the building. She didn't listen to the warnings she was given. Then there was an explosion that we heard. We ran to the source, but 2045 Luan, Lucy, and Lisa were shot down. And it was there we met not only my 2045 counterpart, but also 2045 Lily, Lionel, and Martin himself. Martin had 2020 Lynn read the letter out loud, under the threat of shooting me, about me being banned, Lynn being banned, and result of my other remaining sisters being banned from this college. Not only that, but I was also told that I was banned from all colleges and universities in Royal Woods, and I ended up being accepted into a college in Great Lakes City. Martin then mentioned several past instances in which I got the short end of the stick."
Waffle looked blankly most of the time at Lincoln, but the last words of what he was saying confused him. Lincoln saw this for himself before continuing.
"I was told by Martin about several bad moments I've been through, and later that the Loud's kindness towards me was a facade, just an act to appeal to my better nature, he also showed a clip show of different bad moments I was having, he had been secretly recording them using time travel and robot fly cameras. I was also told he and spies he had had been secretly spying on my life. Before he would show me the clip show, I refused to believe that the Louds were bad people. I also learned his organization had a secret project that would re-introduce animals that used to live in variable states, like grizzly bears, me and my best friend Clyde had 2 encounters with a grizzly bear, but I didn't realize those bears no longer live in Michigan. Also, part of his project is introducing new animals into the country like, American alligators, away from their usual range, although he wasn't specific enough about that in terms of the whole list of species. Then, he got to me, by saying that they didn't ever love me. Then he tried to shoot Lynn, but future me unexpectedly blocked it, and was blasted instead. We were threatened with death as Martin said to have most of us killed, but we escaped, and our pursuers were killed, but I was angry at Lynn and her family for all the crap I've went through, including the bad luck incident. It was at that moment, I disowned most of them as my family, except for people like Lily and Pop-Pop. Then I was angry at Ronnie Anne, Martin had been speaking bad things about her too, I called her out on her former bullying and pranking, and when I pushed her, I was slapped for that by my future self, who told me things like to give my family a chance to make up for their mistakes, and that Ronnie Anne and him would support each other no matter what, in spite of anything, in his own words. Speaking of which, before all of this, I learned Ronnie Anne would move back to Royal Woods, this October. I apologized to Ronnie Anne for how I was behaving to her earlier and for pushing her, 2045 me and Ronnie Anne had a touching moment and kissed, before he died. Now, we time traveled to 2017, Lynn and 2045 Lori would join us later, me, Lisa, and Carlos had to make maps and think of a battle plan, there was going to be another attempt to destroy the castle, by blowing up its battery. Later, me and Ronnie Anne smuggled ourselves in a box of weapons, we snuck out and ran into the castle hallways after the aircraft our different family members (mostly former in my case) were in, landed in the castle. We made it to the power room where the battery was, joined by Lynn, 2045 Lori, and the group we smuggled ourselves with, although only the family members remained. Lynn was apologizing, so did Lynn Sr. and they went into their own statements about saying they would change and me giving them a chance to make up. After that, we were dealing with, Martin Thomson, Future Lily, Michael, a spiked up haired man, and Lionel, while the metal catwalk, with others, were separating us as they were rotating in words and were elevating up and down. In the end, all of those people were killed, although, I was the one who-killed 2045 Lily." Waffle gasped, Lincoln quickly remembered the moment he had shot 2045 Lily himself, as she went to kill 2045 Luna, tears were slowly flowing down his face, soon, he sniffled and sobbed, and he wrapped his arms around his legs. He loved his youngest sister, and even though he only did it for the right reason (not to mention his older self had brought her and his brother over), it was traumatic for him, his teeth were clenched, even though that action was undone, what with Martin's work being stopped in the past, murdering someone was something he didn't want to ever have to do. In spite of the fact she couldn't be reasoned with, Lincoln wasn't proud of it, even if 2020 Lily was still alive. Waffle wrapped his arms around Lincoln, trying to comfort him. Lincoln sobbed for 5 minutes, then just sniffled for 3 minutes. He didn't want anyone's blood on his hands any time soon. He didn't want to have to kill anyone, or anything. Lincoln smiled at Waffle's kindness, from looking at him.
"Thanks, Waffle. Can you let me go now?" Waffle obliged, and Lincoln continued.
"Lynn inserted a bomb into the battery, we all escaped the castle and flew away before it blew up. Afterwards, we slept and let the morning come, 2045 Lori would go to the police station and turn in the iPhone herself, originally, it would've been turned in, in 2027, but that was changed later, so his works could be stopped sooner. But, I don't think that's the last we'll see of him. I'm sure he'll come back one day. In the end, I was willing to let the Louds earn my love, trust, and forgiveness, and show me they have changed, the Santiagos and Casagrandes left, but not before Ronnie Anne and I bid each other good-bye, and hugged each other."
"Awwww."
"Yeah. You can say that. I realized, I was in love with her. But, I don't know how to tell her that. And, what if, in spite of anything, she doesn't feel the same way. I don't even know if she's had that strange feeling I did. Changing the subject, 2 nights ago, I was watching a news story with the family, and we learned there was a murder in 3 different days, one of them was today, in 3 different states, Iowa, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, in June on 7 families, sharing the same name, Archer. There was very little evidence left behind, without proper conclusion, but I know that the ACAO killed them, so they could stop the rebellion from happening, since I was told on when we first landed in the forest away from Royal Woods in 2027 by 2045 Lori, that a man happened to have started and organized that first rebellion in South Dakota, his name was Kenneth Archer."
"Hmm." Waffle put a finger to his chin. "Well I can't help you on Archer, but as for you being in love, you could probably ask Kimberly."
"Who's Kimberly?"
"She's our neighbor. When she was a little girl, Gordon had a crush on her, but couldn't ever confess his feelings for her."
Lincoln's eyes shrank in hearing that and his jaw dropped.
"Yeah. I know. Shocking. Later in elementary school, Kimberly fell in love with a boy in her school, at first Gordon was jealous of him, but no matter what, he couldn't bring himself to sabotage the love they had for each other. Gordon decided to just be happy for Kimberly, over time, Gordon got over his obsession with Kimberly as a girlfriend and got to know the boy, what was his name?" Waffle put his finger to his chin. "Alejandro. Right. He was also Mexican American. Gordon got to know Alejandro, he and Kimberly went through all those school grades, fell in love with each other, they became a couple at the end of middle school, I would hear stories about them from Gordon, Mr. Blik would hear them too, now, they're married and they're parents, and they have two daughters. As the years passed, Kimberly would always see the good in us ever since she was 9 years old, although she had a mixed opinion about Blik at some point before he would change his ways. Alejandro got to like us too as the years passed. Gordon's always been trusted as the babysitter for their two daughters, Rosita and Elena."
"Are their daughters their only children?" Lincoln asked.
"Yup." Waffle nodded. "You should meet them. Oh, they are so cute. And they're 2 years old. Wait a minute, if I bring you to Kimberly, so she can give you advice on how to confess your feelings to a girl, and if you see her babies,-*gasp*-it's a double bonus gift! Splee! Follow me, Lincoln! Next stop, Kimberly's house!" Waffle grabbed Lincoln's arm as he pulled him over.
Unbeknownst to them, there were two cats watching them from behind two pine trees 5 feet away. One of them was a black bombay cat, it wasn't Mr. Blik, and another one was an Abyssinian cat. They were wearing armor, and helmets, and were watching sinisterly for a long time, they soon followed after the two.
A/N: What are these cats up to? How are the other families enjoying themselves? How are the other two cat brothers doing? Before those will be answered in the future, visually, the characters from the other cartoons would appear in the same art style as the characters in Catscratch, like that Fairly odd parents and Jimmy Neutron crossover, even though I didn't watch it. I give credit to UltimateSTH for the element of Lincoln 2 and his 10 brothers being cousins with Linka Regular and her 10 sisters from his story, Phone cAUlls (although regular wasn't part of that story, and there was no usage of numbers for distinguishing in that story, at least not used for distinguishing characters). For those who don't know, Kimberly from Catscratch and Leni are both voiced by the same actress. And yeah, it would be great if there was a superhero action cartoon centering on Ace Savvy, One Eyed Jack, and the Full Deck. What did you guys think of this chapter? Leave reviews, favorites, follows, and private messages.
