A/N: Previously on It's The Loud Catscratch Casagrandes Pony, Waffle built a giant ray gun machine, intending to duplicate a giant ice cuboid, but instead, 4 families, and a young girl and a pony were brought in, from 5 different portals, they were 3 different counterparts of the Louds, the Santiagos, Casagrandes, and Pony and Annie, from 3 different universes. For now, all of these people will stay with the cats until Waffle's machine can be repaired. And Waffle took Lincoln on a walk and learned about his bad luck misfortunes, and they were being spied on by two cats, unbeknownst to them. So, what's going on with everyone else? Let's take a look.

Note: I do not own any of these properties.

During the exact time that Waffle had taken Lincoln out on a walk, the families went back to their residences, while Pony and Annie were at the swimming pool with Gordon and Mr. Blik. Pony was floating on a pool float ring, half his body was exposed outside of the water, but the cats and Annie were lying down on lounge chairs. Hovis was just sitting down reading a book.

"This is fun. I wish you could join me, Annie." Pony said.

"I wish I could, but I don't have any swimwear." Said the girl. She was sucked out of her universe, with no swimwear, and she only has one set of clothing that she's wearing. What do you expect?

"So, Annie, what's life like for you and Pony in your universe?" Asked Gordon.

"It's pretty good. We live in a farm, in our apartment, it's our way of having a farm in the city we live in."

"You have a farm in an apartment?" Mr. Blik asked, removing his shades as he raised an eyebrow. Even Gordon raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, we have a farm in our apartment."

"No offense, Annie, but that's just weird."

"It's all right, Mr. Blik. Anyway, life with Pony can get hectic at times. But he's a good well-meaning friend. He's family too."

"Really, Annie?" Asked Gordon.

"Really. He can get us into problems at times, but he has a big heart, and he means well Why he was willing to take care of a chicken when she was all alone, and he was willing to distract a group of tourists at the museum until I could help out a friend of mine. I was even trying to help him get over his fear of plants, until he finally did. He even saved me from a giant carnivorous plant."

"A fear of plants? That's just ridiculous." Replied Mr. Blik.

"It is. But I went out of my way to help him, regardless. And although it didn't work, a serious situation did. He's family, and my best friend."

"So, Annie, what's Pony like, outside of what you said?" Asked Gordon.

"He's selfless. And he's kind, supportive, nice. He can be nosy, but one time his state of being nosy actually helped to bring in customers."

"Must be nice. You live in a world where a nosy horse can actually help business." Mr. Blik said.

"He's not a horse, Mr. Blik. He's a pony. It's in his name. Learn your mammals." Gordon replied.

"Speaking of Pony, he was willing to go into the sewers, so we could find a lost turtle and get our landlord to let Pony stay in the apartment when pets were initially banned. The turtle was the landlord's pet. That same day, Pony thought he was just a pet, it was a sad day for him. But I talked him out of thinking that. Part of Pony's personality is that he's optimistic and enthusiastic."

"Annie, you live a happy life with an animal like Pony, in spite of anything. You sure know how to put up with Pony's antics. Eh, what's your personality like?" Gordon asked.

"I'm a nice girl. I love my parents, even though my Dad doesn't respect Pony much. I've got friends at school. My life is good. I can be supportive, and willing to help."

"Hmm, you sound like you were raised by the right people. Aye."

"Mhm. I was. And like I said, Pony's got a big heart."

"Indeed I do. I want to support my friend Annie, and her family. Although, I should find something that makes myself useful. I could've been thrown out by her dad at one point." Pony added.

"Uh huh." Mr. Blik said.

"Perhaps you could charge people to take rides on you? Children love that." Hovis casually suggested.

"Hovis, I can't take that kind of suggestion." Annie responded, only for Pony to butt in by exclaiming "I'd love to try that!" Annie facepalmed in response, while Pony looked at her, raising a brow. "What? Kids love pony rides. It's more affordable than my last idea, elephant rides."

"You can do better than that, Pony. Surely, one of these days, you'll find something that makes you useful." Gordon said. He, Mr. Blik, and Annie continued lounging, basking in the sun, while Pony push himself on his float through the water, playfully splashing around lightly. Hovis shortly looked at this, then rolled his eyes before getting up and leaving.

Everyone on the loungers were lying down, as 15 minutes passed. For that amount of time, Gordon had his eyes closed, taking a nap, but he was tossing and turning, thinking about the Louds, Regulars, Santiagos, and Casagrandes. He thought he should get to know them. Maybe learn about this time travel adventure. They sounded like interesting people, particularly the Louds that Lincoln 1 came with. And if not from Lincoln 1, maybe he could learn about this time travel adventure from someone else. The story of time travel was sounding interesting to him. Trying to prevent Lincoln 1's future, from an accident that happened-in 2027? And what do they know about Martin Thomson that he doesn't know. But on the other hand, in terms of getting to know someone, then again, these were a lot of people, so-he could just pick one. But which family? Well, he could either think about it on the way, or he could think about it when he gets there. With that, Gordon got up and made his way towards the family residences.


Gordon walked across the house, at one point, he was passing Hovis who came with balls, he said they were for Pony at the swimming pool, anyway, Gordon was now thinking about the different types of people he could think about. Along the way, he thought of the different people he could get to know: Lori 1, Linka Loud, Bobby, Lana 2, Luke Loud, Lynn Sr. 2, Carlino, Rita 2, Maria, Lincoln 2, Frida, and finally Ronnie Anne. Ronnie Anne started to sound interesting to him, he thought she could be a nice individual, and she seems to have a history with Lincoln 1. Gordon went to the front yard, approaching Lisa 1, Lisa 2 and Levi, working on the ray gun as he was passing.

"Good afternoon, kids." Gordon said, waving, passing over.

"Hi, Gordon." The kids said, waving back. Once Gordon looked at the Casagrande apartment room, the kids went back to work, Lisa 1 said "I still can't believe talking cats exist in this universe."

"You're telling me." Levi replied.

Gordon went around the room until he reached the door. He looked blankly at the door for 3 minutes, before clearing his throat and knocking on the door. The manx looked around, and tapped his foot for 5 minutes, until someone opened the door, that was Carlos. He looked around in confusion, but was attracted and looked down from hearing Gordon say "I'm down here."

"Oh. Hello, Gordon Quid."

"Hello, Mr. Casagrande." Gordon half closed his eyes and his mouth became a straight line. "Coming from me, I still don't understand using that for a last name. A name like that is just crap. No offense. Listen, do you mind if I come inside? I need to ask for someone."

"Oh no. Come on in." Carlos motioned for Gordon to come in. Gordon took a look for himself in the living room of the apartment room. Frida, Bobby, Rosa, and Hector were in the living room. Unfortunately for them, since their apartment room was ripped off literally from their building, they couldn't use the TV.

"Hi, Gordon/Hola, Gordon." They said.

"This apartment room interior sure is something." Said Gordon. "It ain't crap. No offense."

"None taken." Replied Carlos. "Be free to explore if you want."

"Ooh thanks for the offer, Mr. Casagrande, but I rather wanted to talk with that person, in my room. It's just to get to know that person, I want to learn something deep, has to do with-eh, time travel, but I also want to know that person. Don't worry. Nothing so frowned upon will happen. Trust me."

Carlos looked blankly at him, blinking 3 times. So did everyone else look blankly at him.

"Exactly who did you want to bring to your cuarto, Señor Gordon?" Asked Rosa.

Gordon became nervous as he shook his fingers against each other with his hands close to each other. "Heh, heh, if no one sees in any harm in it, can I bring over Ronnie Anne to my room? I want to get to know her. Eh hmm, at least that's one thing I want to do."

The room was silent as Gordon looked around.

"Right. Let me just ask Maria and Bobby. You're free to join me, if you want." Rosa got up , joined by Bobby, and was followed by Gordon, as they went into Maria's room. Maria learned Gordon wanted to speak with her daughter, for one of his own reasons, the other he kept classified. The three people talked it over, and agreed to let Gordon speak with Ronalda. Maria brought her daughter over, Gordon was allowed to be with her for 3 hours, and Ronnie Anne and Gordon walked away back to the mansion. Unbeknownst to them, ever since they left the house, they were being watched by a male cream American shorthair cat, and a female cameo colored Persian cat, looking ominously at them. The two cats returned to the residences, the persian cat waved her arm over, and a group of different cat breeds ran over to spy on the inhabitants of the other residences from the outside, joined by the two cats. A female white American shorthair cat looked at Sergio sitting on a perch, turned away from her through the window, she licked her lips and smiled sinisterly.


Gordon and Ronnie Anne were quiet the whole way, as the girl looked around in the mansion while being led to Gordon's room. When they finally reached Gordon's room, Gordon patted next to him for Ronnie Anne to sit on his bed when he got on, and she did.

"So, Ronnie Anne. What's your personality like? Were you always this nice or not? Did you always live in Great Lakes City? How did you meet Lincoln?"

Ronnie Anne looked away from him for a short while. She was quiet for that time, her eyes darted around a few times.

"I am a nice, supportive person. I'm tough too. But I'm nice. But I wasn't always nice in public."

"How so?"

"To answer that, and another question, I didn't always live in Great Lakes City. I used to live in the same town that Lincoln lived in, Royal Woods. I used to bully him back then." Gordon gasped from hearing those last words.

"But I wanted to attract his attention. I liked him. At one point, he wanted us to meet at his house. I was on my way to meet him there, and suddenly, he kissed me on the lips." Gordon gasped in surprise, not because he was a shipper, but because that type of action would be frowned upon in this century. Although, he can give Lincoln the benefit of the doubt, on the likelihood that he simply didn't know any better. Ronnie Anne looked at him half-lidded. The Latina girl then continued. "He kissed me on the lips, and I, on impulse, punched him in the face." She looked down at the floor in shame. "I'm not proud that I did that. I consider it one of the worst things, if not the absolute worst thing, that I ever did to him. But, I sent him an apology note, with a steak for the black eye he had gotten. Fortunately, the window I threw it across was open. Later, I learned that he kissed me because his sisters told him I was bullying him because I liked him." She chortled. "If the situation was different, they would've been dead wrong. But I did like him."

"Say on, Ronalda." Responded Gordon.

"Anyway, I used to be a bully. I was a tough girl in my school. No one would dare to mess with me. But I had a kind spot, I just kept it hidden. But that really wasn't a good idea, when I did it in front of Lincoln. What's even worse, if you could call it that, I still pranked him in school, even though we became friends, it got to a point where he insulted me in the school cafeteria, when being made fun of by some students there. Then it led to my brother, Bobby going overboard and breaking up with Lori 1. As a result, Lincoln 1 and I ended up going on a double date with our respective siblings, at a French-Mexican were actually going good there. Lincoln 1 and I connected with each other, on account of things relating to our siblings, like their selfies. Those selfies are so stupid."

"I never wanted to buy a smartphone. I stuck to using fliphones."

"Anyway, those same students from the school showed up at the restaurant the four of us were at. Lincoln tried to leave so they wouldn't see him, but they did. As a result, Lincoln ended up insulting me again, and Bobby broke up with Lori again. I was hurt, twice in the same day. But, Lincoln was quick to make up for his mistakes, he told me I was really cool and funny. Those are such kind words from him. You know the last thing we did together at the restaurant. I jumped onto where he was standing, I grabbed his hand he offered, and we kissed each other."

"Ohhhhh." Responded Gordon, his eyes growing half bigger.

"That was one of the best days of my life. The next day at school, I faked breaking up with Lincoln in front of the students making fun of this positive status between us, and gave him a note explaining it was fake. Although, I still didn't do right by him. I would still prank him, even though, I would also do it to keep up appearances. But my tough behavior against him didn't give him good reason to put some trust into me. Now, I don't blame him." The Latina girl looked shamefully down at the floor again. "One time, in 2017, the same year he was blamed as being bad luck, I was assigned as a partner with him to take care of an egg. I should've been more calm and considerate in reasoning with him, for me to take care of the egg. It's my fault that I haven't shown him my kind side enough. Later, he came over to my house to take a look at the egg. He would see how helpful I was to Bobby. Then, he saw my mom acting loving towards me, and I was not tolerant of that, but I wasn't violent. I shouldn't have acted like that. Anyway, Lincoln got into an accident, and we saw the egg was bouncing around. Then we saw this other egg fall into the ground and break, I realized that was the real egg. I learned Lincoln was trying to replace the egg with a fake egg so it wouldn't break, only he gave me the real egg, and he tried to come to get it back, and switch it. He didn't trust me. Given the way I treated him and acted around him, I don't blame him. I was upset with him at the moment. The next day, he came over to my house, said he asked our teacher to give us another chance at this. That was kind and selfless of him. And what do I go and do? One of the things I did was go and prank him with the fake egg. But I invited him to come over for waffles. I know how to make food, in my own right. Later, I was visiting my relatives in Great Lakes City. At least, I thought I was at first, but then it turned out, my mom was planning for us to move there. Her reason? She thought we were lonely. But we had friends in Royal Woods!"

"Really? Then her reason is just so stupid, no offense to anyone."

"That's all right. I was against the move, I told Lincoln about this, but, for some reason, he encouraged that I should move. It was a contradiction of an appropriate reaction to this. Lori and I partnered up so we could try to prevent this move, but then she accepted this move happening as well. I managed to talk my mom into not having us move, but then I saw that my relatives had made my own room out in what used to be a closet, and made it appeal to me in their own ways, like having skateboard merchandise for example, Carl did that. I told Mom I changed my mind and we can move here. Later, me and my family moved in with our relatives. Don't get me wrong. I still perceive the reason we'd move there as stupid. I kept it secret from Mom for a long time, at least until a later point. It was during that time travel adventure. Anyway, I've been missing Lincoln ever since. He missed me too. Lincoln is such a nice person, you'd ever wish to meet. He's often nice, supportive, selfless, is talented at art, I heard he and Clyde bake delicious cookies of their own, I was told he has talents in playing the bass and chess. He makes bad choices at times, but he's still often nice. We both know he's not a saint."

"You two are close friends, aye?"

"Yeah, we have been becoming close."

"Now, I don't know how Lincoln had put up with my bad behavior before, even thoug he didn't bother to try and talk me out of it or toning it dfown. But living in Great Lakes City has changed me. I'm not a bully anymore, I value everyone I live in the same apartment room with, even though I can make some bad choices at times. But I don't know how Lincoln had put up with my bad behavior against it. At least, we were still friends for all the time that lasted, to now. *Sigh* He feels like the right person for me." At this point, Ronnie Anne silently thought of her and Lincoln having fun with each other, riding a roller coaster, listening to a rock and roll band, walking Lalo, having ice cream together, and the two of them as 18 year olds, looking at each other sweetly and then kissing at the costume party she was present at.

Gordon was moved. From the way Ronalda looked, he thought she was in love with Lincoln, and he could remember, comically, how he was in love with Kimberly. But he felt like now, that he had to ask Ronnie Anne, something deep. It needed to be asked.

"Listen, Ronalda. I must ask you something deep." Ronalda was turned her head to him in anxiousness.

"The thought of you and everyone else from specifically your universe stayed in my mind and refused to go away. I need to know. Exactly what happened there?"

The Latina turned her head both sides. "Are you sure about this?" Gordon nodded his head, answering her question. "Well, you should know this will be-a long story. It was Jun 18, 2020. Me, my family and our relatives, and the Louds, with Lincoln's grandpa, we went to Aloha Beach for a traditional barbecue between all of us. We had fun. Lincoln and I had fun in the water, with the waves, and our boogie boards. We were conversing with each other. Lincoln was talking about his sisters, like how they're nice in their own rights at times, and at other times, they can act like jerks, there was even mention of times they would gang up on him, and be all take and no give. Even the supposedly nicer sisters. He said he's been having some thoughts some weeks ago, they were, why should he put up with his sisters for so long, if they're not going to be worth his time? Another thing he said was that he's also been thinking he should just leave them, forget about most of them, and restart his life when he's older. But another part of him says he should still accept how they can be and still love him. Among the things I said in response, I told him he should just be more self-assertive. In fact, I've been teaching him to be more self-assertive, in the time to come before June 18. He said he didn't know what he'd do without me. But he's the man with a plan, as I've been told. He's come up with plans for himself." The Latina then became sad. "Too bad his plans don't work out a number of times." She was silent for a few seconds. "At some previous point before this barbecue, I've been having some strange feeling for him, I couldn't understand what. And, who knows, maybe Lincoln has it too. It's some sort of feeling that goes beyond friendship." Gordon was thinking of something certain at the mention of that, and he showed a deep grin at Ronalda, he also squinted his eyes, not that Ronalda noticed, before she continued, Gordon quickly changed his face, avoiding being caught. "Anyway, I had that feeling, at the moment, Lincoln may have too, then we saw this purple portal open up in the sky. But this was a time travel portal." Gordon would listen as Ronnie Anne talked about the entire story of their adventure through time travel, from the revelation that Lincoln was corrupted in the far future, and he'd have a brother at some point in the future, to her, Lincoln, and Future Bobby witnessing 2027 Lincoln defending 2027 Ronnie Anne (who was girlfriend in that time), to learning about different types of misfortunes Lincoln had been through, courtesy of his sisters, as well as the time he took the blame for Lucy over the clogged toilet, he also heard about the changes Lincoln's former sister and father said they'd make, and work hard to earn things like his forgiveness, with the battle in the castle's power room. Gordon had different reactions throughout the story, some of them were shock, heart warmth, anger, and sadness. He understood even more by now why Lincoln hated his sisters. He thought most of the sisters were just as bad as Mr. Blik was when he was a jerk, mostly Lori, Lynn (although to him, she was even worse than Blik during 2017), and Lola. By now, Ronalda was finishing her story.

"After we hugged and I left with everyone else, I realized in my mind, that I'm in love with Lincoln. I love him. That was the strange feeling I had all along. But I don't know how to tell him. I don't know if he feels the same way."

"Well, Ronnie Anne, I can't say I'm not disappointed in you for your acts of bullying and pranking, because I am, but now, I am proud that you have changed and now treat Lincoln better than you used to. And from the looks of it, I say you two deserve each other. You sound like a great couple in the future. And you sure are the type of person to teach Lincoln things like-" Gordon counted his fingers "-standing up for himself, and skateboarding. You deserve a boy like him. But you have to be brave, suck it up, and just confess your feelings."

"If only it were that easy." Ronnie Anne replied.

Gordon looked at the clock on his wall. He had 2 hours and lots of minutes left in his time with Ronnie Anne. He rubbed his chin as he thought to himself. How can he help her confess his feelings, or at least make sure that the feelings that Ronnie Anne has are mutual with Lincoln. He thought for 10 minutes, until he got something. He smiled and raised a finger in the air. "Ronnie Anne, come with me!" With that, Gordon grabbed Ronalda by the arm and pulled her along with him as they ran out of the room and into the hallways. Ronalda was confused and she raised an eyebrow. She wanted to know something.

"Where are we going?"

"I know someone who I'm sure can help you out with your problem? We're going to see my neighbor, Kimberly! She's married to Alejandro Cuervo!"

"Why?"

At this point, the two of them stopped in the hallways. Gordon turned around.

"Here's the thing. Ever since she was 9 years old, before either of us met Alejandro, I had a crush on Kimberly, and I called her, 'Human Kimberly.' But I couldn't confess my feelings for her." Ronnie Anne dropped her jaw and her eyes shrank. Gordon expected this.

"Yes, yes, it's pretty shocking. Disgusting even. And I am older than her in human years. Anyway, just follow me, and I'll tell you all about the history between me, Kimberly, and Alejandro, laddy." Gordon walked on, followed by Ronnie Anne.


"What were the changes that your former parents made in the morning after you were done time traveling?" Waffle asked. He and Lincoln were walking to Kimberly Cuervo's house.

"Lori was made to only use her phone for 4 hours, she was banned from text messaging so frequently, and she had her driving privileges taken away, except for shopping for necessities, like groceries, Leni was absolutely forbidden to go shopping for clothes ever again, Luna was forbidden to ever set her speakers so loud, and she was absolutely forbidden to play the guitar in the house or in the yards, but not in public, Luan was forbidden from ever playing pranks of every kind in the house, repeatedly saying puns and jokes in the house, she was even forbidden to ever use Mr. Coconuts, she had to take the flower off of her shirt, Lynn was forbidden from playing sports inside the house, or in the front and backyard, she's forbidden to turn anything that isn't a sport into a sport, she's also supposed to change her clothes (it's yet to happen) Lucy had her poetry book taken away, also, she had all of her objects for magic rituals, fortune telling cards, and magic stuff taken away from her, (so was Luan's magic and my magic stuff taken, I shouldn't have been going into magic anyway), and all of that stuff was burned up (it wasn't easy for the parents to do the first thing I mentioned and most of us trying to keep that a secret from Lucy), and the parents have gotten us an appointment for the next day by some religious people to have us all rehabiliated or something from using magic, even all applicable animals in our house (and Lynn Sr. got rid of his horoscope)." Waffle laughed nervously, he and his brothers have gotten involved with magic before, although Lincoln didn't notice his face. He thought he should talk to his brothers about getting themselves rehabilitated. "Anyway, continuing the changes I mentioned, Lana was strongly forbidden from ever eating trash, coming into the house muddy, or even playing in the mud, and bringing any wild animals into the house, most of her animals she had were given to either animal shelters or the zoo, but at least she was allowed to keep Hops, she's also forbidden to keep acting like a dog (same with Lynn), Lola was forbidden to be in beauty pageants now and was forbidden to wear her gowns and tiaras (her head not having a tiara is another way you can distinguish her from Lola 2), now she wears normal clothes, and Lisa's chemicals and variable science stuff was taken away from her and sent away. Lots of the girl's possessions were put in boxes and put in the garage. That's not to say I was entirely satisfied. I saw that my parents were being serious, they were finally putting their foot down a lot more, I was surprised, then satisfied, yet, the girls being made to change in different ways, I felt sorry for them, by two ninths, but the rest of the ninths, I still hate most of them. Call me selfish or whatever you may. But I have been suffering a lot because of them, even though I'm not an angel. And I learned later that same day that Lisa was going to look for any specific information to have the principal and headmaster removed from working at the Royal Woods Community College, the ones from 2027. I feel that's more than noble of her, I'm debating it, but I feel like I should forgive her. Perhaps, I could forgive her if she succeeds. You know, I hate most of my family, but in spite of all of the times I've been wronged, and how bad things looks, I want to be proven wrong. Proven wrong that they don't love me. As for me, I was forbidden to make any applicable plans that one could perceive as selfish or immoral. But why should I even bother with making plans? My plans hardly work. I'm always missing one detail, and my plans fall apart. I'm just done making them. Why bother? If any one of us disobeyed the changes, we'd end up being spanked by the belt, but I feel that this was a tough choice for them to make. In the days to come, I felt like wearing a shirt and pants of a different color, so I settled for wearing tan shirts and light beige pants. Lily received no punishment. She was just a baby. Another change the parents made was that everyone was absolutely free to have their chore changed, they just needed to ask either one of them. It's safe to say I won't have to be in charge of taking out the trash anymore, or at least, I often won't be. Listen, Waffle, about me asking if there was someone placing animals here in your state, like I said, Martin and the ACAO have been moving animals of different kinds into different parts of my country. But from the looks of things, over the past years, I think it's gotten worse."

"How so, Lincoln 1?"

"Lately today in my universe, as the days passed, I've read news stories of sightings of variably non-native animals that go back to 2017, like bush pigs, for example, living in some states of the US. Martin said nothing about bush pigs before. As for your universe, if you think about it, don't you think someone may be moving different animals into your country, if I'm not wrong there, don't you think it's odd that a grizzly bear would be living in California, when those bears shouldn't be living in California anymore? Who knows what other re-introduced or foreign animals have been put here? Don't you watch the news?"

Waffle shook his head. "I don't watch the news at all. I don't even read newspapers. Absolutely nobody I knew told me anything about any foreign animals or re-introduced animals living elsewhere." Lincoln sighed. He thought of something to himself, he felt unsure if he should say what he was thinking about to Waffle. He had only met him today, but Waffle was a nice cat, from how it looked so far. He darted his eyes back and forth, he was debating if he should. He let out a deep breath. "Here's another thing, Waffle. Only the Louds and everyone else I've been involved in from 2020 know about this after we prevented my 2017 counterpart from being kidnapped, but, in the days to come, I've been telling the Louds that I have fear that I could still end up becoming evil, serving Martin Thomson at his side. And before then, the night we came back to our respective month and year, I said I don't think that's the last we'll see of Martin Thomson. Some have agreed with me. Others have not. Some of the people who agreed were my grandpa who I call Pop-Pop, Ronnie Anne, and Bobby."

"Ah, quit worrying, Lincoln. Surely it won't go from bad to worse. On a different note, I think it's great you're willing to give most of your sisters a chance to show you they've changed. I think everyone deserves forgiveness. Surely, they all have a heart of gold. Even the worst of them. Surely, they all still really do love you, no matter how bad they all behave. Besides, your future is only made by the choices you make. Did you say that or did older you say that?"

Lincoln rolled his eyes at that question.

"If only you were living in my shoes."

"How can I live in your shoes? They're so small, and I'm too big to fit inside a shoe." Lincoln raised an eyebrow. But he quickly dropped it. He's lived with Leni, and she's an idiot.

"Come on, Lincoln. Kimberly Cuervo's house is this way." Waffle said, as he waved his arm over for Lincoln to follow 3 times.

"I'm sure that things will all work out good for you and your family in the end, my brothers and I are different, but we love each other. Why, I remember the time Mr. Blik saved Gordon when he was choking because he had a lobster in his mouth. From that point on, Gordon was willing to do things for Mr. Blik, until Mr. Blik wanted it to stop, because he was being inconvenienced. Mr. Blik planned to stage a boulder rolling down so he'd save Gordon and Gordon would stop doing things for him. That ended up backfiring, and he and Gordon really were in danger, they were surrounded by lava. But I helped save my brothers with the help of two lobsters I saved, they were named Klaus and Rhonda and they brought over lots of lobsters, they made a lobster chain and bridge, and in the end, Gordon and Blik had to do things for the lobsters."

"You saved your brothers with the help of lobsters?" Lincoln's jaw hung and he was baffled.

"Mmm hmm. I speak lobster, I'm friends to most animals, and I love animals, especially newts."

Lincoln looked at him blankly, then his eyes moved away from Waffle, as he looked elswhere.

"Then again, I did get involved in catching a ghost, that is more beyond reality than lobsters saving your brothers, although I didn't know that ghost was real at first."

"What were you catching a ghost for?"

"It wasn't for honest reasons before I learned the ghost was real, but-" However, Waffle was looking away from Lincoln for a second, and saw a rainbow in an operating sprinkler, in a front yard where the sprinklers were operating. He smiled.

"Rainbow!" Waffle pointed and ran over. Waffle quickly ran over, wanting to be close to the rainbow. Lincoln followed after him.

"Waffle, no! The sprinklers!" Waffle didn't listen to Lincoln shouting to him, he ran for the sprinkler where the rainbow was, but the rainbow quickly disappeared as he got there.

"Where's the rainbow?" Waffle turned and saw another rainbow, in another sprinkler. "Another rainbow!" Waffle ran to another, laughing innocently, only for the rainbow to disppear. He became sad, then looked around and saw three rainbows, in three of the sprinklers.

"Three rainbows!" He ran off again, but those rainbows disappeared too, only to see another rainbow. This process would repeat for 5 more minutes. Lincoln just looked blankly, sighed, and rolled his head in annoyance, putting a hand to his face. Yup, Waffle was the idiot in his family, different cat breeds as they were, from what Gordon told him while Waffle was unconscious. Maybe they were adopted. The white haired boy didn't realize it, but in just 5 seconds, Gordon and Ronnie Anne were walking right behind him, they could see Waffle was running around, aimlessly it looked to the Latina girl, but the Manx cat knew the American Shorthair was chasing after a rainbow-literally.

Gordon cleared his throat, attracting Lincoln's attention, who turned and was surprised to see them.

"Hello, Lincoln/Hi, Lincoln." The duo said.

"Hiya, Gordon." Lincoln waved his hand. "Hi, Ronnie Anne. I wasn't expecting to see you here." He jokingly stated. "Neither were we." Ronnie Anne nervously replied. She quickly covered it up. Gordon tried to take over.

"So, Lincoln, what are you doing here?"

"Waffle wanted to bring me over to meet Kimberly Cuervo."

"Really, heh, heh. I wanted to introduce Ronnie Anne to Kimberly too, laddie."

"I wonder why?" The boy internally thought. "What for?" He asked. As Gordon stuttered to come up with an answer, Lincoln turned around, looking at Waffle.

Waffle was still chasing rainbows, even though he was soaked very much, until the sprinklers turned off.

"There goes all my effort." He said in defeat. Soon, a Mexican-American woman walked up next to him, and he looked up. She was wearing black shorts, and a dark green shirt with dark blue vertical stripes with light green stalks and purple flowers all over her shirt. Her hair was in a pony tail hairstyle.

"Waffle, que estas haciendo aqui?"

"Hola Kimberly." The cat waved. "Estaba persiguiendo arcoíris. Los vi en los aspersores." Kimberly openly laughed, with her left hand pointing at her mouth.

"Waffle, te dije eso no es un bueno idea. Mírate. Estas muy mojado." Kimberly picked up Waffle. "But then again, I shouldn't be turning on the sprinklers so late. It'd be so bright. The foliage wouldn't get enough water." Kimberly turned around and was surprised by the two people she saw. "Hola, Gordon." "Hola, Kimberly." Gordon replied.

"Gordon, Waffle, who are your two friends? I didn't ever see them before." Kimberly asked.

"You're Gordon's Human Kimberly, huh?" Lincoln cleared his throat. "Allow me to introduce ourselves. Hi. I am Lincoln Loud, and this is my-eh, friend, Ronnie Anne Santiago. Ronnie's short for Ronalda."

"Nice to meet you two. Are you new?"

"You could say that. We didn't move here by car, though." Said Ronnie Anne.

"What do you mean?" Kimberly asked the girl. "Hmm mm, why don't we go to your house, Kimberly. Waffle and I will explain everything to you. It's quite a really long story. We'll have to tell Alejandro about this too. If the two of us have the same side of the story, aye." Gordon told her, looking at Waffle. Kimberly put a finger to her chin, thinking. She thought for a short while and said. "Okay. But we need to get you dried up, first Waffle. I'll let you two explore the house, but try to be on your best behavior. Try not to make a mess. I have a husband who has the week off right now, and I have two daughters. They're 2 years old, and they need their sleep when they are asleep."

"Got it." The kids said.

"Then follow me." Kimberly carried Waffle, followed by everyone else as they went to her house. It wasn't far. They got inside. Outside, the black bombay cat and the Abyssinian cat, walked up to Kimberly's door. They kept serious faces, they ran off to the beginning of the driveway, and motioned for another group of cats to come over, some of the cats part of the group were bobcats. The cats scattered around to do some spying.


"You kids go wait in the living room. I'll bring over some snacks, cups, and soda."

The kids went into Kimberly's living room and sat on the sofa. They had not spoken, and it was quiet. Soon, Lincoln cleared his throat. "Hey Ronnie Anne, it's nice to see you again." Lincoln smiled nervously. "Nice to see you again too, Lincoln."

"So, what's Gordon like? Is he nice?"

"He's definitely nice. I was told he can sing, and he's also talented in cooking. At first, he would only cook Scottish food, but now he went on to learn to cook food from different countries, Ethiopian food is one of them."

"Really? What's Ethiopian food? What does it look like?"

"I don't know, but the name of it does sound interesting. Gordon is selfless too, I've been told, in the few things about himself that he said. Can you believe we were told earlier that he and his brothers started a root beer company? That's pretty great for them." "Well, yeah, great. They must be successful." "Hmm, pretty much. They were rich before, but this helps them continue to be rich. And, from what I've heard, they've got a talent in root beer too. I've heard Mr. Blik used to be a jerk to his brothers much, but over time, he's changed." "Really? I wonder if Lincoln 2 and Linka's siblings are jerks." "You should get to know them. I can do that too. If we still have the time." There was silence between them for a minute. Pretty soon, Kimberly came over with things meant for them and set them on the coffee table. "Here you go, kids. I have ruffles, Hot cheetos, Doritos, sandwich cookies, and for drinks, I have a carton of orange juice, Crush, Pepsi, Sprite, and root beer. I got to go. Waffle still needs to get dried up. Sorry I didn't ask this sooner, but do you two like any of these things?" Said the woman.

The two kids looked at their choices.

"I like most of the drinks. I haven't drank root beer though. All of the snacks, are pretty good though. Thanks for most of this, Mrs. Cuervo." Lincoln answered.

"I like every snack option, and mostly every drink option too, but thanks for these choices, Mrs. Cuervo." Ronnie Anne said.

"Bien. Let me bring some plates and cups over. She headed over to the kitchen, and brought back plates and plastic cups, and set their plates, cups, and stacks of both on the table. "Here you go kids, I give you permission to use the TV, but don't try to damage it, and once again, please don't make a mess."

"We got it. Thanks for all that you're providing us, Mrs. Cuervo." Said Ronnie Anne. "Yeah, what she said." Said Lincoln. Kimberly then left again.

There was silence between the the two kids again, as they prepared snacks and soda onto their plates and cups. They ate their snacks, thinking about each other as they looked away from each other. It was a short while before they looked at each other silently for 4 minutes. Finally, Lincoln spoke up first.

"So, Ronnie Anne, how was everyone else before you came here, before you and Gordon came here?"

"They were fine. I saw you at the front yard with Waffle. What were you with him for? And what's his personality?"

"Hmm, Waffle is-actually, a nice guy. He's the dumb one in his family, but he's nice, he loves newts, among animals. He was rather nice to me all the way that we've interacted with each other. In fact, I learned he hadn't caught a mouse at all, and he could't join his brothers to the mouse hunt ball. I feel like that part about him reminds me of myself. I seemingly had no talent at all at first. But in time I would come to see, I have more than I thought. Waffle did manage to get himself into the ball, by defeating an evil mouse with bad cat breath."

"Really? He did?"

"That's what he told me. But it's a long story."

"Did you tell him anything personal?"

Lincoln looked at nothing, he was silent and spaced out for 3 minutes. He looked at Ronalda nervously, before speaking up. "He annoyed me into telling him about the bad luck incident. Another thing I told him about was the time we were traveling together. I also told him about that thing I told you, about-my fear. In the future." Ronnie Anne put her head on his shoulder, putting her arm around his shoulder, while he looked at the floor, worriedly.

"I am here, Lincoln. You're safe. You still have me." Lincoln held onto her hand, smiling warmly, but didn't look at her. Ronnie Anne warmly smiled at seeing him hold her hand.

"I don't think that's the last we've seen of Martin, but coming from me, you are destined for greatness. You shouldn't be held back by things like doubt or lack of self-confidence. I know you can have success." Said Ronnie Anne.

"Uh, Ronnie Anne, what were you and Gordon talking about before you came here?" Ronnie Anne removed her hand after Lincoln asked that.

"He brought me over to talk, because, one thing was he wanted to know about the time traveling, before then, I told him a portion about our history together. Among the things I told him about concerning time traveling, I told him about the misfortunes Martin showed us at the college that you suffered."

"Hmm. How did he react?"

"He had more than one reaction throughout the long story. Anger and shock were two of them. He was disappointed in me when he learned I used to be a bully, but he was proud of me that I was no longer one. And he could understand even more why you hate most of your former sisters. Hey, Gordon's a nice cat. On the way here, he told me about how he used to have a crush on Kimberly, but he moved on from her and would support her in her relationship with Alejandro Cuervo when they were a lot younger than now."

"Waffle told me about that too."

"Really?"

"Mm hmm, he told me that Gordon was at first jealous, but he couldn't bring himself to sabotage their relationship. That just shows how good he is. More than me." Lincoln shortly frowned. "But as Waffle said, Gordon accepted it over time."

"Well, that's good for him."

"You know, did anyone ever tell you that Kimberly saw the best in each of the cats, even Blik? I don't know how for him, but somehow she did. I was told she didn't hold anything against them, not even Mr. Blik, she didn't even hold anything against Gordon who lied to her one time about seeing a unicorn. Wow, she's just that nice. And from what I hear, at least Gordon took responsibility for that time, as for Blik, he either gets same consequences or learns a lesson following whatever bad choices he makes. From the looks of it, either Gordon, or Waffle, or both of them, may be the nicest cats in their family."

"Hmm. Do you think these cats were adopted? I was told by Gordon, who had a picture of his late mom, Audrey, that they all came from the same mother, when we were getting to know each other before Waffle woke up, but when you compare them to each other, they don't all look like the same cat breed, Tio Carlos definitely said so himself, in his specific descriptions, but Gordon and Audrey do have the same orange patch over their eye."

"Hmm, well I'd say it is possible, Ronnie Anne. But Blik and Gordon considered themselves brothers nevertheless. And you know what, that's actually very considerate of them, more than that, that's commitment. That's strong valuing of them for each other. I don't know how Gordon and Waffle put up with Mr. Blik's behavior before he changed for the better, nor Gordon and Mr. Blik with Waffle's stupidity, but they they sure do love each other as brothers."

"Mhmm."

"So, Ronnie Anne, what do you think we should do together?" Lincoln asked, smiling nervously.

"Mmm, I don't know. Maybe play some music together?" Ronnie Anne chuckled nervously as she looked away.


In the couple's bedroom, during the entire talk between Lincoln and Ronnie Anne. Kimberly and Alejandro Cuervo (he has black hair, a wavy comb hairstyle, has a black mustache, is wearing a light blue shirt with buttons and a left pocket pouch, black pants, and black shoes) were listening to Gordon and Waffle's whole story, from Waffle making his giant ray gun, sucking in everyone from their respective universes, everyone meeting and being introduced to each other, to the newcomers being told about the multiverse, Waffle drawing the multiverse and labeling them as he drew, while talking about his travels throughout the multiverse. Right now, the couple were learning about Gordon and Waffle conversing with the two kids they were talking to, separately.

"So, what were you two talking about with the kids?" Kimberly asked.

"Well, for one thing, I was learning about what Ronalda used to be, even when she first met Lincoln. Let's just say she used to be a bully to Lincoln, but on the day he first kissed her (from being misguided), that opened the floodgates for their relationship with each other to become positive."

"It's true." Waffle spoke out, raising a finger. "Lincoln 1 said Ronnie Anne threw a rock through his window with an apology note. There was also a later time where Lincoln and Ronnie Anne were partners on an egg project. Too bad the egg didn't hatch. Anyway, Lincoln had some bad perception of Ronalda, until he later learned, from taking care of the wrong egg, he was going to switch the real one with a fake one, he went over to her house and he learned she's actually kind. I was also told she can cook. I learned she was cooking something for her mom. That's so sweet." Waffle said affectionately.

"And, they're staying here with you, until Lisa 1,2, and Levi repair the machine?" Asked Alejandro.

Waffle nodded his head. "In fact, they are, but Lincoln 1 hates most of his family. It's thanks to once being called bad luck, among other-" Gordon quickly covered Waffle's mouth, clenching his teeth in anxiousness, sweating as he looked at the couple.

"Bad luck? When did Lincoln 1's family think he was bad luck?" Asked Alejandro.

Gordon frowned at Waffle, squinting his eyes, he soon looked at Alejandro and Kimberly. "Uh, it was only in 2017, which I was told by Ronnie Anne. Buuuut, changing the subject, Ronnie Anne and Lincoln have been getting along with each other more and more as time went on, even though Ronnie Anne moved away in that same year. Throughout time, she changed positively. She's a kinder girl than she used to be. And, from circumstances, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne realized they love each other. They just haven't confessed."

"Really? That's interesting." Said Alejandro. "And you brought them over to our house, because?"

"Because we want them to confess their feelings to each other. They shouldn't be scared to. If they do have sentimental feelings for each other, they should really just say it." Gordon answered. "And we brought them over to you. You two can help them confess. You've been down this road before. Granted, you were reluctant to confess at first, but still."

The couple put a finger to their chins, as they thought. "Well, while you think it over, we'll be in the kitchen or somewhere else in the house." Gordon said, as he pulled Waffle out. Soon, the two people discussed with each other on whether they should help. Gordon brought Waffle over to the kitchen.

"Waffle, what were you thinking, laddie? Trying to tell them about Lincoln's bad time with being seen as bad luck?" Gordon scolded.

"It didn't seem like a bad idea to tell them. And if you ask me, they should actually-"

"Waffle, these people don't know the Louds very well. The moment they learn the whole story, they'd rat them out to the police."

"Ohhhhh. But then again-don't you think they should suffer the consequences?"

"Ronnie Anne told me that Lincoln's willing to let his family work to earn his forgiveness, that's one of three things. Did Lincoln tell you that himself?"

Waffle looked him at him silently for three seconds. "Actually, he did."

"Then we should just let it be like that, aye. It wouldn't do Lincoln good to just be separated from everyone else. I was told he was close to some of his sisters before this time travel adventure started."

"Hmm, he did say he was close to some of his sisters. And, there were some kind moments he said that to me, they feel to kind to have been staged attempts. But, what if Kimberly and Alejandro asked what happened in 2017, anyway? What the Louds did in 2017 feels worse than anything that Mr. Blik did."

"Yes, yes, I know. And even though I called out Blik for bringing bad luck during that time I had me lucky claw, I don't think I'd lock him out if he did become bad luck. Maybe. Anyway, let's not worry about the Cuervos asking about that for now, but you do have a point."

Soon, Ronnie Anne and Lincoln came into the kitchen.

"Hiya, guys. What are you doing?" Lincoln asked innocently.

"Oh, uh, we were letting the Cuervos discuss to themselves on something while we'd be somewhere else. They're yet to say anything. Hey, Lincoln, you say you've been teaching yourself how to wrestle?"

Lincoln nodded. "That is correct. I told this to Ronnie Anne every day. I've been doing this for most of the past days. I'm a pacifist, but it was time I've been more self-assertive and started getting stronger and defending myself."

"Hmm. Well, that's good, laddie. Listen, uh-" Gordon was interrupted when they heard a door open, and expected someone to come in, as Gordon and Waffle made their way to the front. It wasn't long until Alejandro and Kimberly came over. They turned their heads and saw the group in the kitchen.

Alejandro shrank his eyes a little bit. "Huh. They weren't kidding. The boy really does have white hair?" Most of the others looked at him blankly. Alejandro bent over. "So, you two are Lincoln and Ronnie Anne Santiago, eh?" The two kids looked at each other before Lincoln answered, saying "Yes. We are."

"Hmm." Alejandro lowered his head to the cats. "Well, Gordon, Waffle, mi esposa y jo have talked it over, and yes, we'll do our part."

"Do their part in what?" Asked Lincoln.

"Oh, you'll find out soon enough." Answered Gordon.

"In fact, we'll be sure to make our time with each other worthwhile." Kimberly added, putting a hand over Ronalda's shoulder. "Let's get going. Before we do, let's show you what our daughters look like?"

Everyone was in the room with the babies, where they were still asleep. They were peacefully asleep, in two different cribs. It was adorable. Waffle sniffled and a tear came out of his face.

"They look so peaceful. I just want to hold them." Waffle stretched out his arms to climb over and grab one of them, but he was pulled back by Gordon, shaking his head disapprovingly at the former.

"Our baby on the left crib is Elena. She's the oldest. And the baby in the left crib is Rosita. She was born 2 years after Elena. For now, they're such innocent beings, peaceful. But may they grow up to be kind, humble, selfless, sweet, women. Just like I know you kids will be." Alejandro said to the two 11 year olds with them.

Lincoln wasn't sure about that. There was an evil man on the loose in his universe, at large, wanting to take him in, and he believed his fear of serving Martin was inevitable. Not to mention, he suffered having a hard time more than once in his life, at school and at home. Not even his group of friends was safe from this, not even Clyde. Refusing to do one's magic act, just because you didn't want to look at antiques? Just, what? As a result of suffering such hardships, he wasn't always nice. A few acts of him acting negative shortly began to haunt him. He was interrupted from his train of thought when felt someone grab his hand, when he looked, he saw it was Ronnie Anne. He looked at her, then smiled warmly at her, who smiled back.

"Lincoln, come with me. Kimberly, you get going, Gordon, tu quédate aquí y quida de las niñas." Alejandro said.

"You got it, Señor Cuervo." Gordon saluted.

"Ronalda, Waffle, come with me." Said Kimberly. She put her arm over Ronalda's back, taking her with her, who looked back at the others remaining in the room as they were leaving.

Once they were gone, Gordon and Alejandro turned to Lincoln, taking him back to the kitchen.

"I hear you can't confess some feelings of yours to Ronalda, eh?" Asked Alejandro.

"Huh, is that what-"

"Don't you worry, hijo. I can tell you a good amount of the history between me and Kimberly, and teach you how to confess, or at least get some courage in the future. While we're at it, let me teach you how to fight." Alejandro took Lincoln out of the kitchen and would take him out of the house, out to the back yard. Unaware, that they were being watched by a small group of ominous behind one side of the roof, who were spying on them and everyone else through the kitchen window earlier, before they went to see the babies.


Meanwhile, Lisa 1,2, and Levi had fixed half of the giant ray machine.

"Phew. While we're repairing this machine, we should modify the screen to show which universe would be our specific correct universes. We can only know how many there are." Said Lisa 2.

"That's a good idea. Said Levi. "While we're at it, we should modify this ray to make a portal stay open, then get it to hold the structures individually, while attempting to move them back into their proper places, before we enter them ourselves."

"Interesting." Replied Lisa 1. Soon, Mr. Blik, Annie, and Pony were approaching them.

"Hiya, Levi, Lisa, and 2." Blik and Pony said simultaneously. "Jinx! You owe me a root beer!" Pony said excitedly. Blik grumbled at this.

"I'll get you your root beer, when we get back." Mr. Blik said in irritation.

"May I ask where you three are going?" Levi asked.

"We're going to those residences next to the ray gun. I've felt like wanting to at least get to know a good amount of these people, if not all of them. Annie's only here by choice. She had gotten some interest. I wonder what these families are like?" Pony said.

"Believe it or not, I felt like getting to know the families too. It started out small inside me, but I wasn't interested and I didn't care, but it kept getting bigger as time went on, so I decided to give it a go." Mr. Blik added.

"Well, let me tell you one thing about my family. We're imperfect, but unlike someone else I know, we don't go around frequently acting like jerks to Lincoln 2, we don't take him for granted, but in spite of all of that, we love each other." Levi replied.

"Same thing for me and my family." Lisa 2 added.

"My family, is-more problematic than these other two, I've apparently learned. We were getting to know each other as we were working on the machine" Lisa 1 said, sadness being expressed in her tone almost midway.

"I can really see why your brother hates most of you. You feel so contemptuous." Levi scolded.

Mr. Blik, Pony, and Annie just looked at this blankly.

"Well, I hope things get better between your family and Lincoln 1, Lisa 1. We got to get going." Annie said. Soon, she and her other two affiliates got going to the house. The cats who had been spying on the residents in their respective residences had managed to keep themselves from the 3 children scientists who were working on the ray gun machine. They had stayed in the backsides, and managed to keep themselves hidden well for all the time that passed. 3 inidividual cats looked from behind the residences as they saw 3 visitors approaching, and quickly hid themselves.

"Hey Mr. Blik, what is your first name? In all the time we've been here, not once have Annie or I learned your first name." Pony asked Blik.

A/N: Seriously, what is Mr. Blik's first name? I have not heard it mentioned on Catscratch, not even after rewatching most of the episodes somewhere online. There's something these other cats are up to. Anyway, Lincoln 1 will be learning history, and wrestling from Alejandro Cuervo. And the trio at the end will be visiting the residences from their side of this story. I give credit to That Engineer for most of the punishments most of the girls received in Syngenesophobia, the girls putting their belongings in boxes, and the belt threat. Something I don't like about Lincoln and Lucy, is them practicing their own types of magic. What did you think of this chapter? Leave reviews, favorites, follows, suggestions, and private messages.