A/N: Hello, everyone. I'm back from hiatus. Previously on It's The Loud Catscratch Casagrandes Pony, Mr. Blik was getting to know the Santiagos and the Casagrandes, having a sword fight with CJ and Carl, Pony and Annie were getting to know the Loud family that had the Loud boys, Pony went over to play with Carl, since he wanted to play pirates too, Lincoln 1 was learning wrestling and romantic advice from Alejandro Cuervo, and his history with Kimberly, Kimberly learned about Lincoln 1's dark secret that the boy told to Waffle, Levi Loud, Lisa 2, and 1 finished the multiverse teleportation machine, were shortly in the The Legend of Korra universe and had an encounter with canyon crawlers, the cat brothers went shopping at two different stores with Lincoln 1 and Bobby, to get groceries for a dinner feast the cats invited everyone from their respective universes to for tonight, and Lincoln was suddenly grabbed by kids and made unconscious by chloroform. Things are going to get darker. Believe it or not, nothing is meant to be horror in the following. On a side note, a previous night ago, I read a news story about the Netflix Loud House movie. It said that Kevin Sullivan said in a message chat that hopefully the movie will come out this April. The Netflix movie better be good, or at least mostly good, or any forms of positive, even if mostly. Speaking of which, the live-action Loud Christmas movie didn't premiere last December after all. That's positive news. Now, on with the story. I must warn you, there will be much violence here, gore and cussing too. And this will be the longest chapter.
Note: I do not own any of these properties.
1216 Franklin Avenue, Royal Woods, Michigan
The Loud sisters were older in their own respective ages, although Lily wasn't an adult yet. They were conversing with each other in the living room, their parents, much older now, were also present with them.
"Where is Lincoln?" Leni asked. "He should've been here 15 minutes ago."
"Oh, I'm sure he's only running late. We shouldn't hold it against him either." Lynn Sr. replied.
5 minutes after he said that, an adult Lincoln Loud came out of the door, although he looked like he was angry, with almost half-closed eyes, but he was suppressing it. His mouth was closed, and it was sporting a frown. He glared at most of his family members, and locked the door behind him. Everyone just looked blankly at him. Nobody had a bad feeling.
"Hiya, Linky. You're finally here. How was your month?" Leni casually asked.
Lincoln didn't answer it. He just glared at everyone for 7 minutes. "Lincoln?" Leni asked, during those minutes.
"Someone get Lily upstairs, in one of the rooms, away from here. Everyone else will stay here." Lincoln finally said.
Everyone was confused. But Lisa opted to take Lily upstairs, leaving her in their room that they were roommates with. Lisa came back downstairs shortly after, Lincoln looked at her as she rejoined everyone. Lincoln still glared at everyone. His face didn't change.
Lisa didn't take this seriously, although she was a little bit disturbed, she cleared her throat, "So, Lincoln? What's been happening in your life? Have you made any achievements, or have you been invited to any events that explore like, art or chess?"
The white-haired man, only silently glared at them for 3 minutes. Then, he put his right hand in and quickly pulled out a gun, causing everyone else to gasp, and they became frightened as he pointed it at them.
"Lincoln, dear, what are you doing?" Rita asked, in a nervous tone.
"I have been disrespected by you assholes one too many times in my life. The less said about them the better. You use me like I'm a rhino, and you're beyond obnoxious oxpeckers. I've drank your medicine long enough. It's time for you to taste yours!" The man calmly said. Lincoln quickly turned his gun to and shot Lynn Sr in the chest with a purple laser! Everyone screamed. Then, Lincoln clenched his teeth, and shot down Luan, and then Luna as she tried to run. The group scattered, but Lincoln blocked the door and shot down the stairs repeatedly, cutting off one of their chances of escape. Rita, Lola, and Lori made a run for the kitchen, but Lincoln quickly shot down all three of them, Lori was shot through the head, as she screamed. Lana tried to jump at Lincoln to pin him down, but Lincoln was quicker to catch her and shot her mid-air!
"No, nooooo. AAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!" Leni let out, shouting out, as she was shot down. Lincoln blocked Lisa and Lucy from running past him, shot Lisa down, grabbed Lucy by the neck, and choked her, raising her upwards, glaring at his sister with his eyes narrowed, his sister had a fearful face, she was choking as she looked at him, her face was basically her begging for mercy. But Lincoln wasn't moved, she was just as much as an asshole as mostly everyone else. And she was the one who got him grounded for her clogging the toilet, and she took advantage of his kindness and support at a certain convention. He shot her three times through the side of her head.
Finally, he turned to Lynn Jr. Lynn looked fearfully at him. Even though she was a sports girl, she was too scared to move all the time. By the time he was approaching her, Lynn took the option to head for the door. Unfortunately, Lincoln was quick to grab her, and threw her directly to the dining table, which part of it broke upon impact. Lynn tried to pull him down by the leg when he rushed to her, but the moment she grabbed his left leg, he was quick to stomp her in the stomach 8 times. Lynn held her stomach, just as she was grabbed by the neck and being choked, and looked at her brother's face. His pissed off face fueled her with fright, and she didn't suppress her expression.
"We changed the future. Martin Thomson doesn't run this country anymore. We all changed our ways. You said you'd-AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH!" Lynn pleaded, before she was immediately shot through the forehead!
"AAAAGH!" Lincoln Loud, his eleven year old self immediately woke up from his sleep as he screamed, his ex-sister's scream shortly echoing in his head before fading. What he didn't tell Waffle was that even though Martin taking over the US was changed (for now), in the following nights, starting with the night of the same day he met future Lynn, he had nightmares of himself as an adult, killing his family. Lily was the only person he didn't kill. And this fueled his fear that he could still turn evil. Every time he had these nightmares, he would wake up screaming. This did not go untold to the Louds, or even Ronnie Anne (he didn't dissuade her from telling her family this). He took some breaths as he did, only to discover that his mouth was covered, in other words, gagged, from what he was hearing and feeling. He looked to see a little bit of some sort of cloth. And as he looked around, there were other people around him, wrapped around in chains (although still in their night wear), several of them had a lock on the chains, hanging on hooks, with a loop, connected to their chains, and the loops were hanging on the hooks which were connected to their own chains, and they had cloths covering their mouths, these were the other Louds, along with the Santiagos and Casagrandes, on his left side, was Ronnie Anne, and on the right side was Annie Bramley, and he could even see Charles, and Lalo with their legs tied by chains, and they had muzzles on them, all of them were alseep, and he realized that he was hanging from the ceiling, upside down, after seeing 2 bipedal cats in armor, and saw Lily and Carlitos in a glass box on a table together that was locked, but it had small holes at the top, from how they were positioned from his point of view, and Hops, Geo (inside his ball), Walt, and Sergio (the parrot was chained together with the smaller bird, and the parrot's beak was taped, Hops was also covered in tape), in four other different glass boxes, designed like the babies' boxes, all of them were asleep. But the family cat, Cliff was absent. Where was he? The boy shook himself around, trying to get free of his restraints, grunting and groaning while muffled. He could hear some laughing and somebody spoke.
"Shake yourself around all you want, little boy. You're not getting free, any time soon." A male black bombay cat taunted to him in a light British accent. He was one of the guards
"And even if you could get free, it's a fall of 43 feet. You'd die the moment your body touches the floor." Taunted a female Sphynx cat, also speaking in a light British accent.
Lincoln just narrowed his eyes in anger. Although he did accept that fact that he could die if he tried to break free, from falling. He need to plan something better anyway. Not that he could plan much. There weren't a lot of objects. Where were they? Who were these cats? Why did they get brought here? All of a sudden, an adult white-haired man, in a bluish hue, walked up to him from behind one of the asleep people, on the ceiling, frowning at him. This was a vision of his future adult self as he first met him at Royal Woods Community College. Next to his fear and nightmares, Lincoln would also have visions of his future self, although only a few times. Lincoln frowned back at him. This was also told to the Louds and Ronnie Anne. In fact, all of the problems Lincoln was facing was mentioned to Albert as well.
"Well, you're stuck in quite a pickle. You're probably going to be in an even worse situation than when you were shunned for being bad luck, or almost had the characters of the Full Deck stolen from you and Clyde, legally you two owned them. Those judges almost stole them from you. But if you and everyone else do get out of this, it's time to end this scandal once and for all, don't you think?" The man said.
"Never. The Louds are simply imperfect, not demons. I'll find a way. More than once, I have." Lincoln said, his mouth muffled as it was.
"When you were in Royal Woods. But you're away from home. And 'far away' doesn't even begin to describe it. Even if you return there, as long as you live with them, there is no hope for you at all."
"I've been doing fine on my own for years, no matter the misery I've endured."
"Just listen to that bullshit. And what are you going to do when the Louds go back to disrespecting you?"
"It's not going to happen. Lynn Sr. and Rita gave me their word that they'd change themselves and how life at home is. They've carried out their changes for the girls. So far, there hasn't been any conflict between me or any of my sisters. Besides, none of the girls have attacked me or disrespected me in any way."
"They could all just be appealing to your better nature. The moment this all blows over, the girls are bound to go back to disrespecting you, same for their parents. How much longer do you think you can put up with all of this crap?"
"You're wrong. And more than once, things seem bad at first, but I manage to resolve it, more than once. They're just flawed people, just flawed people."
"Who cares anymore?! These urchins are not worth living with and caring about! The longer you live with them, the longer they'll make you lose your honor! The longer they'll be bad influences on you. The longer they'll be bad influences on Lily. It's no adequate place for your future brother. If you do make it home, like I said, the only honorable thing you should do is-"
"Silence." Lincoln said silently, but in an upset tone.
"No! I refuse to be living in that noisy household with these horrible scum of the Earth any longer!"
"What do you want me to do?" He asked, calmly, but upset.
"You I know what I want you to do. One call changes everything. The moment you cut your losses and expose them of the crime the adults committed, and the mistreatment they gave you that day, you'll be free from them forever. And especially, with your newly gained self-assertiveness, no one at home, at school, or even in public will ever disrespect you again."
Lincoln looked at future him with narrowed eyes. He could just call the police, but he was willing to let everyone in their family make it up to him at the beginning. He can't waste that.
Future Lincoln spoke again. "You know it's funny. One day, you're considered the best dang brother anywhere around for doing such selfless things for the girls so they can get money. Next day, (in a few years,) to a number of people who got angry about you stealing a cat so you could win a contest, but they are also hypocrites, you've still done more than a little bit of good things in the past, and they should realize and focus on the fact you were disrespected from initially having your characters stolen from you, which would result in copyright infringement (of which none of the girls did anything to help you so you'd win at first), you're NOTHING."
Lincoln simply glared at his future self.
The Cramdilly Mansion, Bakersfield, CA 7:19 am.
Waffle got up from his bed and yawned. He rubbed his eyes. He took a look and saw that Pony and Annie were absent. What happened was, Pony and Annie were staying in Waffle's room to sleep for the night. Not that Annie and Waffle did anything sexual in bed.
"Annie? Pony?" Waffle turned his head both ways, but they weren't in his room at all. "They're probably down in the dining room." Waffle then got the thought to ask one of his newts after he got out of bed. He walked over to the tank his newts were in. He opened a compartment in there, and grabbed Gomez.
"Hey, Gomez, have you seen Annie and Pony leaving? Did they tell you where they were going? Or did you overhear one of them telling the other where they were going? Or did any of the other newts do any of those?"
"Meep, meep, meep, meep, meep, meep. Meep, meep, meep, meep, meep, meep." Gomez then shook his head.
"Oh, okay, then. Thanks anyway, Gomez." Waffle put Gomez back in the tank. Apparently for him, Gomez has no information concerning Annie and Pony. But he probably shouldn't worry. They were probably in the dining room with his brothers.
Waffle made his way for and arrived at the dining room, Mr. Blik, Gordon, and Hovis were in the dining room, but not Annie and Pony. Waffle was starting to get a little bit concerned. Although, perhaps they were just at one of the bathrooms (they installed 3 more bathrooms in different places years ago).
"Aye. Good morning, Waffle/Good morning, Waffle/Good morning, Waffle." The cats and butler greeted Waffle. Waffle put his nervousness aside and went to sit down, and waited as Hovis got up from his chair, and served Waffle's breakfast, it was cereal for today. He cleared his mind. He and his brothers dined on their breakfast for a while, at the end of it, Waffle had not seen Annie or Pony, he had been taking a look for them to see if they came, 3 times, but they had not appeared at all.
"Hey, guys, something feels wrong."
"What's that, Waffle?" Asked Gordon.
"Annie and Pony are not here. They shouldn't be absent. And they're missing out on breakfast. That's the most important meal of the day."
"They probably went to eat somewhere else." Mr. Blik replied.
"Don't count on it, Mr. Blik. Annie and Pony would have asked me to provide them breakfast. I am a butler." Said Hovis.
"Also, they were gone when I woke up. Like they vanished into thin air. I asked Gomez about them and he gave me no indication that he or any of the other newts heard about where the duo were or where they were going."
"Hmm, that's strange." Gordon said.
"I know." Replied Waffle. "Now I wonder where they are?"
"Perhaps, they went to the Cuervo's house. Perhaps. Pony could've had an idea for them to go get to know them. Or they went to the Loud house with the Loud boys. And they could've had breakfast there." Gordon replied.
"Hmm. I hope so." Waffle felt uncertain but decided to put it aside. He soon left the kitchen, and then the house. He wanted to talk to Lincoln 1. Waffle walked past the giant ray gun. He saw the residences and walked up to one of the Loud houses. As soon as he walked up the staircase, he could see that the door was ajar. He raised a brow at this.
"Hello?" Waffle opened the door, but as soon as he looked inside, the living room was empty. Waffle walked to the dining room and the kitchen, but nobody was there. Waffle walked up the stairs, but one stair broke under him. He struggled and managed to get himself back up. He should tell the parents about this. He continued to walk up the stairs, until he reached the second floor. "Hello, Louds?" He asked out loud, but he received no answer. He could see that most of the doors were a little bit open. He looked both sides, before he went to the right, to the door at the end. "Lincoln?" Waffle opened the door, but could see no one. He looked around and from looking at the posters, the toys, and Ace Savvy comic books, and finally, Lincoln's stuffed animal which he previously told him about, Bun-Bun, Waffle realized that he was in Lincoln's room. He could see that the cover on Lincoln's bed was still on it, but it looked like it was walked over as he took a closer look. Where was he? Waffle looked in Lisa and Lily's rooms. He looked at Lisa's bed. Unlike Lincoln's bed, the cat could see that Lisa's cover on her bed was more disheveled. Waffle ran over to the twin's room, and saw that their covers were also more disheveled. Anxiety was slowly beginning to build up in him, his bottom eyelids rose up and he clenched his teeth in that feeling. He then quickly realized none of the pets were here. Waffle checked all of the other rooms one by one, the covers on their bed were disheveled, a few of them were hanging over the bed, and 2 looked like they were kicked back. In a few of the beds, he could see claw marks, and indications of rips. His anxiety grew each time he visited the room. Waffle finally ran over to the doors behind the couch, and saw that it was the bedroom for the parents. He could see that the cover was pushed back half-way. And Lisa's glasses were left behind on a night stand. No one was in here. Waffle turned and headed for the door, but a quick turn of his head made him pause. He saw what looked like a square shaped hole in the window behind the TV, he poked his head outside and saw the piece of the window standing against the wall and he gasped. He got off the furniture, turned around and saw what looked like a destroyed bird cage. He remembered that the family had a canary named Walt, and he had a bird 's only 1 thing that could've happened. Someone broke into the house. But thieves would take valuables, and TV's were certainly something valuable. Yet the TV was left behind. Why? But another thing certainly did happen: the Louds were kidnapped. But why? What for? Ransom? Waffle ran over to the boiler room, to see if the family was there, but he could see that they weren't there either. Waffle thought he should tell the other families and his brothers. He ran over to the apartment section, but he could see that the door there was ajar too. He opened it, ran all around the apartment looking for the people inside, but in all the bedrooms, he could see that the covers were disheveled in their own ways. He could even see feathers on the floor in Ronalda's room, as well as small patches of blood. He smelled it. He recognized it as them belonging to Sergio. And he could recognize a different scent on them even took a look at Lalo's dog bed. He saw what appeared to be claw marks, making rips, and small patches of blood on the dog bed. He saw these same claw marks in a few different rooms. And in one of the adult's rooms, Carlos' glasses were sitting on a nightstand too. He turned around and saw behind the TV that there was another square shaped hole, he poked his head outside and saw the glass piece was sitting against the wall as well. Waffle was feeling even more anxious. Could whatever have made these claw marks have abducted Pony and Annie? What was going on here? Waffle ran over to the Loud family 2's house. He tried to open the door, but could see that it was locked. He knocked on the door. Lincoln 2 opened the door.
"Good morning, Waffle. What brings you here?"
"Oh, thank goodness. You're here. Hi, Lincoln 2." Waffle said, becoming half-relieved, as he moved his hands around each other, speaking casually at the end. "Is your family in the house? And your pets too?" He asked nervously.
"Yes. They're all in the house, they're all just doing their own things. Have you come to visit us?"
"Actually, I came to check on you."
"Check on us? What do you mean?"
"I'll tell you later. I have to check the Regular house, report to my brothers, and we'll call you over. Bye, Lincoln 2."
Lincoln 2 became curious as Waffle ran off. The American Shorthair cat knocked on the door after walking up the staircase to the Regular house. Lynn Regular opened the door. "Good morning, Waffle? Here to visit?" The sports girl asked.
"Negative. Is your family in the house? Pets too?"
"Absolutely. We split up after breakfast. Would you like to come in?"
"Negative. But thanks for the offer. I must make my report. Good-bye, Lynn Regular." And with that, Waffle ran off. Lynn Regular was also left with curiosity. She quickly went back into the house, though. Lincoln 2 watched the whole thing, and went back inside. But he did wonder what Waffle needed to report.
Waffle ran all the way back to his mansion, he momentarily stopped and looked at one of the front windows, and saw the exact same thing: a square shaped hole in the window, and the piece was lying down on the ground, he got into the house, ran all the way back to his room, and grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil. He began to write down on a table the following report:
Abduction report:
Missing groups: 3 families and several pets, 1 nine year old girl and 1 pony.
The Loud family 1
The Santiago family
The Casagrande family
The Loud's pets: 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 canary, 1 hamster, and 1 frog.
The Casagrandes' pets: 1 parrot, 1 dog.
The Bramleys: Annie Bramley, Pony Bramley.
Details: Both residences have a hole in a window (perpetrators cut a hole into them, and left the pieces outside), both doors were left ajar, beds had disheveled covers in different ways, there was blood and feathers on the floor in Ronnie Anne's room, and blood on Lalo's bed. There were cat claw marks in several of the bed rooms, and rips too. The door to the mansion was not left ajar at all.
Cause of abduction: unknown.
Waffle took a look at his bed all around, and then all around his room there were no indications of claw marks. He went on to add "No claw marks anywhere on my bed or in my room" to his report. Finally, he took a look at the ceiling. The air vent was still in place, but Waffle couldn't help the feeling that whoever took these people and animals could've used the air vents. He wrote down "abductors may have used the air vents in my room." With that said, he took his handwritten report and rushed off to find his brothers and Hovis, and gather up the 2 remaining families. Waffle raced around the house, and he found Gordon and Hovis, in the kitchen. "Gordon, Hovis! Gordon, Hovis! Gordon, Hovis!"
"What is it, laddie? What's wrong?" Gordon responded.
"This had better be good." Hovis said, indifferently.
"Several people from their universes are missing!"
"What?!" Gordon and Hovis responded.
"Head to the living room! I need to find Mr. Blik and report my report!"
The duo did as he said and made their way. Waffle searched some more around the house, and found Mr. Blik in the bathroom brushing his teeth. He was finishing doing that when he turned, and he was grabbed on the arms by Waffle.
"Mr. Blik, you got to come with me! This is an emergency!" Waffle shouted. Mr. Blik covered his ears.
"Waffle, don't shout that highly. Can you repeat that?"
"There's an emergency. We have missing people and animals! Head to the living room!"
"Missing. Who's missing?"
"The Louds, Santiagos, Casagrandes, their pets, and Annie and Pony!"
"Huh?! How?"
"I'll explain later, but we need to head to the living room, and we need to bring over the Louds 2 and the Regulars."
Mr. Blik shortly hesitated, but headed down to the living room. Waffle grabbed a megaphone elsewhere, ran to the front yard, and shouted repeatedly for the families to come out, until all members of both families did so, and Waffle urged for them to follow him to the living room. Waffle led them to the living room where his brothers and butler were waiting. Waffle told everyone the whole story of the missing guests's disappearance, from Pony and Annie's absence, to the only clues he could find at the vacant residences. He even mentioned that someone cut a hole into one of their windows too. He showed them his report. Everyone was quite shocked.
"But why would they take those people except for us?" Lola 2 asked "It doesn't make sense."
"It's likely these kidnappers thought that they had enough people to use as part of their plan, whatever it is."
Mr. Blik listened, until he thought of something and had a realization.
"The security room. We installed security cameras and a room for them 4 years ago. Follow me." Mr. Blik announced.
Everyone gathered in the security room. There were cameras recording in different locations and angles. They looked at one of the footage recordings from many hours ago yesterday. 2 cameras placed on one of the walls showed that there were 2 RV's parked out of the , the doors in the two RV's opened, but instead of humans, several cats, dressed in some sort of armor, came out of them. Then they saw that groups of these cats were jumping onto and off of the walls. This came off as a surprise to everyone. The entire group watched some more different monitors revealing important footage (as Mr. Blik fast forwarded and rewinded) at variably different times, of armored cats spying from outside of the residences from the different universes, a group of cats leaving at some time after Lincoln 1 and Waffle had left, two other cats following Mr. Blik, CJ, and Carl from a distance, a few hours after Gordon and Ronnie Anne left, what looked like 3 cats in the distance spying on the 3 children working on the teleporter, and many hours later, a far bigger group of cats had entered the premises, and they had lots of chains, among the things they were bringing, approaching most of the residences, one of which was the mansion. From what the camera could show, one of the cats at the Loud house 1 doing something its arm at the window, grabbing a square shaped piece of glass with the paw, putting it down, got inside, the doorknob turned, and then the door opened, and then the cats got inside the house, the door to the Casagrandes' apartment opened too, and the cats entered in there as well. Of course. One of the cats would get inside, unlock the door, and then open it. Everyone gasped. Blik fast forwarded the tape, and everyone could see the groups of cats coming out, carrying away the families they had captured, they were asleep, and most of them were wrapped up in chains. The monitor that recorded the cats re-entering the RV's showed that they were not only taking the previous 3 families in the RV's, but also Annie, Pony, and even Kimberly Cuervo! The cats gasped at this.
"Great gopher! No! Not Kimberly!" Gordon exclaimed in shock.
"But how did they capture Pony and Annie without my interference?" Waffle asked.
Mr. Blik rewinded the cameras for the interior of the mansion. Waffle facepalmed himself as soon as he remembered his room had a camera. He previously forgot about it. As different monitors displayed, one cat had made a square shaped hole, rushed for the door, while standing on a cat stack ladder, got inside, rushed across the house in a few different areas, made it to the door, unlocked the door and opened it, and lots of cats made their way across the house, splitting up into groups, scouring the place, they ignored everyone else in their respective rooms, even Hovis, but a group of them came into Waffle's room, he and Annie were lying in his bed, and Pony was sleeping on the floor. A Manx cat knocked Waffle in the head with a wooden hammer. Of course, this would make Waffle unconscious. The three cats watching this winced at the sight of this. Then, groups of cats seized Annie and Pony, but as much as they tried to resist, they had napkins held to their mouths until they became unconscious, and they were wrapped up in chains. Blik paid attention to one of the cats on the furniture, holding the tank where the newts were. A cat took a remote, as it joined the others. This did not go unseen by everyone else and they gasped. That remote wasn't just any remote. It was the exact remote that controlled the universe teleporter. In fact, it was left into Waffle's care.
"Without that remote, we can't return any of our guests home." Waffle stated.
"This is getting more serious. Perhaps. Who knows how powerful these cats are?" Said Gordon.
Blik rewinded the tapes to his room, Gordon's room, and Hovis' room. He could see that a cat in all rooms had knocked him and the others out with a wooden hammer. These cats, whoever they were, didn't want interference. And yet they didn't bother destroying the cameras. It could be overconfidence on their part.
"Oh my." Hovis said in surprise.
"This is crazy." Linka said.
"Like where could these cats have taken them?" Loni asked.
;Suddenly, the phone inside the security room rang, breaking the everyone off from their focus. Gordon grabbed it, and put it next to his ear.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"Gordon! ¡Déjame entrar! Es una emergencia!" Alejandro's voice shouted.
"Alejandro. I'm coming over." Replied Gordon. He rushed over to the front yard, opened the gate, and Alejandro came in.
"Is this about Kimberly?"
"Yes, it is. She's missing. Last I saw, we were restrained-by cats." He spoke the last two words in a low tone. "And then I was hit on the head. The next morning, I woke up, I saw I was at home, I took a look, and thankfully, my daughters are in their room, but Kimberly's gone."
"I know. Follow me. Our guests too. I have footage related to this."
Gordon led Alejandro to the security room, while everyone else stayed in the living room. The cat showed his neighbor the tapes, including the one that showed the cats taking away his wife and the cat's guests.
"This is horrible."
"I know. It is horrible." Gordon said.
"What are these cats up to?"
"I don't know what it is. But whatever it is, it can't be good."
Alejandro and Gordon then headed back to the living room. There, Mr. Blik was having a phone call, with the police.
"Let me get this straight, you claim that an enormous group of cats kidnapped a neighbor of yours and several guests who were staying over in your front yard, in their own residences, and these guests are from different universes, and these cats also took a remote that can control a machine that can transport them to their own universes?" Asked a male voice through the phone.
"Yeah, that's right. You need to get the FBI on this. And probably the Army or the Navy."
Mr. Blik however heard the voice snicker shortly and quickly break into laughter. Obviously, his story wasn't believed. Blik half-closed his eyes and deadpanned.
1 revelation of evidence later
Police officers David Vernon and Marco Pierce came over to the Cramdilly mansion, on order of the chief, unlike them, he was taking this call seriously. The cats led them to the security room, and they saw all of the different footage, which provided footage. They were very surprised. They even saw footage hours ago of the residences, Annie, and Pony coming out from portals in the sky.
"Oh my." Said Officer Pierce.
"I think this is beyond crazy." Said Officer Vernon.
"So, are you going to find these people, now?" Blik asked.
"Only if you can answer the following two questions: Do you know these cats, and do you know their exact location?"
Mr. Blik looked blankly at that.
"No. Unfortunately, no. We don't know them, and we don't know their location."
"Hmm, well we'll see what we can do. With any luck, we can find these people and animals in perhaps 3 weeks at best. After all, their exact location is unknown" Officer Pierce said.
"And how long will it take at worst?" Lincoln 2 asked.
"Mmm, 3 or 5 years."
"But if it takes that long, we could be stuck here that long." Said Luan 2.
"And we're in a universe we weren't born in." Loni said.
"3 or 5 years? 3 or 5 years? My wife is missing. You can't just fail to find her! I do not want my daughters to grow up without her!" Alejandro said more seriously.
"I'm sorry, sir, but we can't provide enough help if we don't know the abductee's exact location. Who knows where they could really be? But for now, we'll inform the department about this, and then we'll call the FBI, and maybe also the Army or the Navy. You all have a good day." Officer Vernon said, before he and Officer Pierce left, walked to their car and drove off.
As everyone watched them leave, they all had worried looks on their faces. Lots of people had vanished, their whereabouts are anyone's guess, and there was also a stolen remote that can transport you anywhere in the multiverse. With that remote in the wrong hands, world domination could probably be happen on a bigger than a large scale. Although, that last part was what was going on in Waffle's mind. Getting back to the subject, if the authorities didn't find the kidnapped victims soon enough, they could be too late by the time they finally do. It was then that Waffle thought of an idea.
"Guys, I have an idea."
Everyone looked down at him.
"What are you thinking of here, Waffle? It better be useful." Hovis said, in a deadpan tone.
"I know someone who might give us useful information. I've been chatting with him for years, and he's told me interesting events in those years. Maybe he can provide us with essential facts."
A dog was chowing down on some pasta in an alley. He was lying down next to a pile of food, among it was meat, apples, and noodles. Suddenly, a large group of people and 3 cats approached him. The dog barked aggressively and growled defensively.
"Are you sure about this, Waffle? I feel uncomfortable right now." Lane Loud asked.
"You can count on me, we are friends with each other. Hi, Barkmeat!" Waffle waved to the dog. The dog looked at the cats and suddenly recognized them, including the gray cat. He promptly calmed down and approached the cat.
"Hello, Waffle. It's been months since I've seen you. Who are these people?"
"These are the Louds and the Regulars. At least the former family, is one from their own universe. More than one universe of the Loud House."
"What?" Barkmeat asked in confusion.
"Let's just say, I made a giant ray gun machine when I was meaning for it to duplicate a giant ice cuboid I made, but instead, it brought 5 families, 1 girl, and a pony from different universes."
"Oh, right, right. You have told me that you traveled to different universes."
"Anyway, we had 5 families stay over in our yards, until some daughters and a son of theirs could fix my machine, 2 of which are with us, right now. Throughout the day, the machine has been fixed, my brothers and I got to know our own portions of the people, later, we invited them all for a dinner feast, last night, then we all went to sleep. Then the next morning, I saw that two of our guests were gone, did some investigating, made some discoveries, one of them was that more of our guests were gone, I gathered them, my brothers, and Hovis, in the living room, told them everything I knew, we later watched in the security room, and we saw that they were abducted by cats. In armor. Not only that. But they stole the remote control to my universe teleporter ray. If they ever steal and use the machine (which they didn't steal the machine), who knows how much of the multiverse they might conquer."
Barkmeat hacked and coughed. "They were abducted by cats?"
"Mhm. In armor."
"What did the armor look like?"
"The cats were wearing gray reflective chest body covers, metal on their arms, and helmets that looked like they were rounded, with a rectangle that had curved sides, but the mouths weren't covered at all, and the openings of the helmets also allowed the ears to be pointing out."
"Hmmm. This is quite interesting. I think I've heard about this before. Let me think." Barkmeat walked away, lied down, and thought for 8 minutes, trying to remember what he probably knew. Once he was done, he approached Waffle.
"All right. I've heard about this from lots of different birds who have been flying back and forth, they received it from other birds, among the birds they received and that I received word of this from were gulls. Birds are the eyes in the sky. From what the birds tell me. There are rumors that there's a secret clan, a clan that harbors evil. They call themselves, the Hail of Doom clan, yes, yes. Frankly, I don't see it as a fitting name in the long run. From what I've heard, they're not comprised of humans, but of cats. Cats of different breeds in North America, and probably other continents as well. I've heard rumors that the cats that make up the clan come from stray cats, cats who were abandoned pets by abusive/neglectful owners, cats who were escaped or rescued from animal shelters and science labs, even bobcats. I hear rumors about cats having hunted different humans as trophies, or even capturing them, or even animals like dogs, rodents, and even equines. I've even heard rumors of captive big cats disappearing from some zoos and sanctuaries, not only in North America, but allegedly other continents. Another rumor I've heard is the cats from FDS torture and even eat the humans they capture and take over to their secret lair, whether they capture them dead or alive, from different states."
"Have any birds told you where these HOD cats live, exactly?" Asked Waffle.
"It's quite doubtful, but a few of the birds say the exact same place. They say the entrance to their lair is in the beach of Santa Monica, California, 25 miles away from the pier. But how? I don't know. Neither do they."
"Santa Monica? That's 1 hour, 50 minutes away from where we are, Bakersfield, by car." Levi Loud said.
"All that the birds here know is that gulls and pelicans have witnessed at times, cats, whether in duos or in variably sized groups, they're standing in the sand, then in the next couple of minutes, they're gone. I'm told that they sink through the sand. You know, Waffle, if I were you, I'd just stay at home. I hear rumors these cats are quite tough and powerful. A force to be reckoned with. I've sometimes heard that they were able to take on humans, even groups of humans, and emerge victorious. I heard a story that a nearly large group of them killed 2 St. Bernards. And they're capable of handling and using man-made weapons."
"Eh, thanks for the information, Barkmeat. We'll be seeing you, then." Waffle waved, and turned away, everyone joined him.
"Good-bye, Waffle. And everyone else, too." Said Barkmeat.
"Good-bye." Said Waffle's brothers.
While Waffle heard the information that Barkmeat was giving out, Lincoln 2 was recording all that they said with a voice recording app. He told the cats this, and so, Mr. Blik drove him the police station where he presented these new facts, the man they presented this to, Officer Pierce, as recommended by Lincoln 2, recorded the whole voice recording on his own phone that the latter played, so he could have a duplicate for the police department. Officer Pierce announced that they would contact the Santa Monica police department, contact the CIA, then the Army, and send their own detectives there, so they can join forces with Santa Monica's police detectives and the Army and the CIA. With that, the duo left and headed back to the mansion. However, mostly everyone didn't feel like sitting here and letting the authorities resolve this. Especially Gordon and Alejandro.
"So, exactly why didn't those cats in armor take our family and our cousins? Why only take those other families? And why didn't they take the machine? It was right out there in the open." Lola 2 asked.
"It's most likely that they thought they had enough people to capture. Also, the ray is too big to take. It's safe to assume they didn't expect a machine like that to be built." Loki said.
"I can't stay here and wait. The authorities could take too long." Gordon prepared himself and went somewhere else.
"Where are you going? Asked Blik.
"I'm heading to save Kimberly. I fear what the Hail of Doom clan could do to her."
"Gordon, you heard what Barkmeat said. He said these cats are powerful, they're trophy hunters on humans, they torture them, they've killed St. Bernards, and were even able to capture humans. I don't think you stand a chance. Besides, you're just one cat. You should just let the authorities handle this."
"Blik, she's been our friend for years, she's supported everyone of us, and vice versa. In fact, she saved you and me when we were getting sucked in outer space."
"He's right." Waffle added.
"So?" Replied Blik.
"I cannot stay and let her suffer whatever she could probably be. I must do my part. I've saved her from a bear when I tried to show her a unicorn. We've been in quite extreme situations ourselves. I took on the Kraken and defeated him, I've also taken on the three-headed Kraken and defeated him as well, with the same method, we saved our house from aliens on Halloween, I defeated a banshee in Scotland with nothing but me singing."
"I defeated the most evil mouse with just cat breath, and I saved us and Hovis during a dinner feast from zombies with my laser machine. Not to mention, I was talking to lobsters, and they called over a lot more lobsters, and they helped save you and Gordon from a volcano."
"And I managed to defeat an evil duck after years that I was frightened of him, and one of the biggest accomplishments you made, was saving an entire planet of alien slugs from an evil computer system in a UFO, even though you cheated on a simulator video game. If we survived all of those situations, so can we survive this one, surely. Kimberly's all grown up, she's married, and she's a mother now. We used to have our mother, Audrey. If she was alive now-she would probably encourage you to rescue the missing people. I do not want Kimberly's daughters to grow up without a mother. And our guests have lives and personalities of their own. Some of them are little kids, and babies. As for Lincoln Loud 1, I feel sorry for him. From all that I've heard from Ronnie Anne and at the dinner feast, he feels like a troubled lad. I'm going to save Kimberly and everyone else, you're welcome to join me or not."
"I'm joining you, Gordon." Waffle responded. Gordon smiled.
Mr. Blik thought to himself for 5 minutes. There was no denying all of those accomplishments Gordon stated in all of those quite life-threatening situations. He did even like many of their guests. Just not most of Lincoln 1's family. And Kimberly most of the time showed kindness to him before he changed.
"All right, Gordon. I'm with you."
Mr. Blik put out his hand, and it was joined by his brother's hands, and they broke the formation.
"I'm coming with you too." Alejandro announced.
"Huh?" Gordon asked.
"My wife is likely in danger. I must save her."
"No, Alejandro. With all due respect, you must stay here."
"No! I must help her!"
"Someone needs to take care of your daughters. Your siblings live too far away. And Kimberly's parents are living in Florida. And with all due respect to the Loud parents here, they've got enough on their hands. And Hovis has enough tasks to do as a butler."
Alejandro just looked at him with mixed feelings. He was determined to save the woman he loves, but he knew that his daughters needed to be taken care of. Gordon tapped his leg, Alejandro knelt down, and Gordon held his hand.
"Señor Cuervo, one way or another, we will save your wife. No puedo prometer eso, pero estoy seguro de ello. And if Kimberly returns but I don't, find a way to honor me. And you and your wife always talk about me sometimes, a tus hijas."
"I wish you and your brothers good fortune, Gordon." Alejandro stood up.
"I didn't know all of those things that Gordon said happened." Loni said.
"This is their universe, Loni. It's obviously a different one." Levi told him.
"Brothers, to the weapons room. Our rescue mission will be a stealth mission." Gordon proclaimed, as he and his brothers headed for it.
"Guys, wait." The cats stopped and turned when they heard Loki's voice.
"Let me, my first four brothers, and my first 5 cousins join you. I want us to help you out on the rescue mission."
"Absolutely not, you mean well, but we cannot let you join us. This could get dangerous, in case we get noticed."
"He is right, son. You heard what the dog out in the alley said about the . Your mom and I can't let you go with them." Lynn Sr. 2 said, putting a hand on Loki's shoulder.
"Dad, we can fight on our own, and as a group. Same with the Regulars. Not to mention, when it comes to us, or the Regulars, we join in variably sized forces, if our brother, Lincoln, and/or Linka, is ever being bullied. I don't think we should stay here. And remember, Lynn 2 and 3 are experienced in martial arts. We'll do our best to help these cats out, and be stealthy. We're generally good-mannered people, responsible and respectful too, but if there's anyone who gets on our bad side for a good reason or more, they end up regretting it. Me and Lori can deliver quite the human pretzel. We and the Regulars are a force to be reckoned with."
Loki turned to the cats.
"If you let us join you, and if we get noticed, we can at least help you, much more. Well, as much as we can, if we're not outnumbered or overwhelmed."
"Loki, are you sure about this? I don't think this is a good idea." Lori 2 asked.
"I'm sure, Lori. We need to do our part. We can't let these cats do this by themselves. And, hey, with the people we rescue, surely the Loud 1 girls can reinforce our numbers too. In our universe, we've supported each other, especially Lincoln 2, and Linka. We even helped out other people from time to time. Me and my first 3 cousins did well babysitting for others. Why shouldn't we do the same for the cats who let us stay in their front yard? Brothers, cousins, Dad, cat brothers, what do you say?"
Everyone applicable thought about it for a while. Lincoln 2 and Linka were thinking as well.
"Very well, then, son. You may join the cats." Lynn Sr. 2 said.
"We'll have your back, and the cat's back." Said Luke Loud.
"You can count on us." Said Lori 2. Her first four sisters, and four of the first five Loud brothers gave a thumb's up. Loki turned to the cats.
"All right, laddy. We'll let you, and some of your brothers and cousins, join us."
"Let me and Linka join you guys. We want to help as well." Lincoln 2 proclaimed.
"Yes. We are fairly intelligent. We can fight too, and with our intelligence, we can make good detectives in investigating the place." Linka added.
"No, son. Absolutely not. You and your cousin staying here." Rita 2 interjected.
"Come on, Mom. We want to join. We want to help." Lincoln 2 pleaded.
"Mom's right, Lincoln. This is a situation meant only for us and our associates. This could get dangerous. This isn't meant for 11 year olds. You two mean well, but you must stay here, where you'll be safe." Luke said.
With that, the Louds and Regulars turned to the cats.
Mr. Blik took a chance to speak. "Well, I guess we'll let you join. Honestly, yeah, we're going to need as much help as we can get on our own. But we need one of you to answer a question. Have you all handled a fake gun? Like in shooting games for example?"
"Hmmm, well, we do have fun with Lincoln at the arcade, playing shooting games, holding fake guns, when it counted." Lane answered.
"I had quite a lot of fun playing an alien shooting game. It was disgusting, but fun." Lexx answered. But he wasn't allowed to join them. He was too young.
"And we have water gun fights with each other in the summer. Like, that's got to count for something, don't you think?" Leni 2 added.
Gordon and Mr. Blik just deadpanned at the water gun statements. "Well, I guess it'll have to do. Follow us. We're going to teach you target practice for 20 minutes." And so, the cats led the Louds and the Regulars to the backyard, Hovis set up lots of targets on wooden boards, placed them 17 feet away from everyone else, and brought over, some guns. The cats gave each of their recruits variable handgun and shotgun models, they set them. To the new recruits' surprise, these guns didn't shoot bullets, but lasers. In their first 5 minutes, they were getting used to it, but they had to make good progress if they were going to qualify for when things were going to get violent. They focused on practicing on shooting the targets, to have some positive accuracy. They started not good at first, only hitting the outer edges, but gradually, they were getting more successful at hitting the centers or near to it. The cats watched and Gordon and Mr. Blik were getting impressed, while Waffle merely spaced out. The boys and girls shot at the holes they made in their targets, managing to do better as the minutes passed. More and more, their accuracy they had grew. Gordon and Mr. Blik surveyed the targets on the boards. They revealed that they've gotten almost two thirds beyond half-good, and Leni and Loni were only the least improved as them, but they were still one third past half-good, so that's something. And with that, Hovis prepared briefcases for the guns for the rescue group, and they packed up their guns, weapons, and other gadgets in them, while Waffle packed up amongst his gun, his bow and arrows that he had during the time his section of the house was called "Waffle World" when he and the brothers were claiming their own sections. The cats dressed up in camouflaged suits, pants, boots, and helmets, before meeting up with their recruits. The moment they saw them, the Loud boys were dressed up like superheroes, Luke had something that looked like a guitar, and a jetpack.
Mr. Blik cleared his throat. "Excuse me boys, but are we going to a secret lair or a convention?"
Loki spoke up "You don't exactly have camouflage suits and helmets for all of our sizes, and we happen to be dressed up as superheroes, that my little brother, Lincoln, and his best friend Clyde McBride, created. We are the first five members of the Full Deck! I am-"
"Ah, cut me the introductions! We don't have time for that. I got to get us three more recruits from somewhere else and rent us a bus. And fair enough on the lack of things like suits and helmets."
"Very well." Loki replied sternly, before he closed his eyes. "But Lincoln put a lot of thought and effort into making these fashion designs on paper. He's a fan of Ace Savvy, and even though we didn't get the appeal at first, unlike a certain someone's siblings, we always respected that he loved it." Loki opened his eyes. "To the point, that when they were being rejected by two horrible judges at an Ace Savvy convention who picked us to make an appearance, where there was a contest for the winner(s) to be in the Ace Savvy movie, I found them at a bench where they were sad, they told us their troubles, I was infuriated, and so were my other brothers when the boys told them this. The convention really opened our eyes to why they loved Ace Savvy. Anyway, we confronted the judges about this, brought up the fact that legally they own the rights to the Full Deck, and threatened to quit if the boys didn't get accepted, and BOOM! The boys were brought on board. Who knows? If that scenario didn't happen, what if Lincoln and Clyde tried to do something irrational? They're not perfect, but they're generally good boys. Too bad for us that the movie turned out to be terrible later on, but none of us held this misfortune against the boys."
"Interesting." Blik replied, a little bit interested. "Now get back to your houses. My brothers and I have just one more thing to do."
As they were leaving, Hovis came up to them and asked "If absolutely none of you three make it back, who will inherit the house?"
"Hovis, you snarky butler of a man, let's just say it's someone who absolutely managed to put up with us for years and deserves better. At least that individual's part of the answer. It doesn't mean it's the entire answer. But it's in our will." Blik said happily. As soon as he and his brothers left, Hovis sported a warm smile.
Mr. Blik knocked on the door of another house. He and his brothers were waiting outside. Katilda opened the door and gasped. "Oh, Mr. Blik, you've come! It's so delightful to see my wonderful husband!" Katilda proclaimed as she hugged Mr. Blik and spun him around.
"Th-that's great, honey, but can you let me go? You're squeezing me." Mr. Blik said, as he spoke, with a wheezy voice. Katilda obliged.
"Have you and your brothers joined the army?" Katilda asked.
"Not really. But we're on a rescue mission. And we need your help."
"Really? What's wrong? Oh, and I took a look at your invitation this morning. I'm sorry I didn't come yesterday. I took a bus ride away from here to Temblor range yesterday, I wanted to go mountain climbing. Who are these families, the Louds 1 & 2, the Regulars, Santiagos, and Casagrandes, and these two members of the Bramley family?"
"I forgive you, honey. And, those families are actually families who come from different universes?"
"Different universes? Really?"
"Really, really. It's a long story. I didn't even know that Waffle traveled across the multiverse yesterday. In fact, he made a machine that sucked all of those people from their own universes when he meant it to be for something else. We discovered this morning that three of these families, alongside Annie and Pony were kidnapped by cats, based on the security tapes recording it last night."
"Blik is telling the truth."
Katilda gasped.
"From what we could learn all day so far, they're rumored to live in a secret lair in Santa Monica. And they come from a clan that does thing like hunt humans for trophies. Not only that, but these cats also took Kimberly last night. We've gotten 10 recruits from two of the families who weren't kidnapped. They trained how to use guns. It's something positive. But we need your help too. You are an action girl. You know how to fight. But that's in case we end up having to do so. This mission is supposed to be a stealth mission. Will you join us?"
"Hmm, I'm always looking for an adventure. Count on it, husband." Katilda saluted and smiled confidently.
"Now let's get one more person. Then we need to get you dressed up."
Waffle knocked on the door of another house, surrounded by his brothers and Katilda. One of the Chumpy Chump brothers, Lunk, opened the door.
"Hi, Lunk."
"Hi, Waffle."
"We need your help. There are lots of kidnapped people, and we need your assistance. Bootsie's too. You two are pretty strong and tough. Will you join us?"
Lunk looked at them blankly, but smiled. "Okay. Let me write a note and get Bootsie."
"Why write a note? Aren't your brothers here?"
"No. They're somewhere else. I'm in charge of the house. But I'll help you." With that, Lunk wrote a note so he could leave it on the door, explaining to his brothers why he and Bootsie aren't here, brought Bootsie out, and joined them. They made their way to the house, but Bootsie forced Mr. Blik to have some suits and pants made for him and Lunk when he learned they didn't have any of them for them, and get them some helmets too, Mr. Blik initially was going to drive to a store to get the suits, but instead, he assigned Leni 2 and Loni Loud to make camouflage suits and pants for the three of them, and even Katilda, while he drove out to buy helmets and boots. He went shopping, came back with boots and helmets, and occupied Bootsie and Lunk with and snacks watching the TV, but before then, the two fashion designers were summoned to measure the two of them, and Katilda up, and took the timely process in making suits and pants. They put in effort and care, into making sure that the suits would come out great. They sewed the different two green fabric together, they also partly used a sewing machine, the suit was going slowly into mixing two different green hues, to make it look like a camouflage suit. They put in effort and care at making and placing top left side pockets with a button on the suits, and zippers as well. 2 hours and 15 minutes had passed during the whole process, and the fashion designers informed the cats about the completion of their work, they were summoned over to the mansion, and Loni and Leni 2 personally dressed up Katilda, Lunk, and Bootsie in their own suits, while they would put on the pants privately, and then put on their boots. Hovis, presented them individually, their own guns, weapons, and gadgets in briefcases and backpacks. Now, they came out, fully dressed, holding their guns. Katilda held a shotgun, Bootsie held two handguns, and Lunk held a machine gun.
"We are ready, Mr. Blik. Ready to rescue." Katilda proclaimed calmly, but seriously.
"Rescue the families." Lunk said.
"We're rocking and rolling." Said Bootsie.
"Gordon, call over everyone, tell the Loud boys to pack their costumes, and have them and everyone else wait for me and Katilda in the living room. We're going to rent a bus. Hovis, please prepare for us, a lot of lunches." Mr. Blik proclaimed. After that, Mr. Blik and Katilda went out to a bus rental place, and managed to rent a bus, and they parked it in front of the gate leading to the mansion.
The 5 oldest Loud and Regular children were summoned to the house, their parents were summoned too. The Loud and Regular children and the three new recruits were all lined up next to each other, with their briefcases and backpacks, being placed one by one, next to each other. Lunk, Bootsie, and Katilda didn't need to practice how to use guns since Lunk and Bootsie had played shooting video games for years, sometimes Waffle joined them, and Katilda for half of the years to come, practiced at a gun shooting range for years too.
"Comrades, our time has come. We're about to go on with the rescue mission. May we be successful. Not only that, but we have to get back the control that the armored cats stole. If we can get it back, we'll be able to return you to your worlds. But we need to cooperate if we're going to succeed in rescuing and reclaiming. Louds, Regulars, if we succeed overall, may you all remember this day, that as with all of us, that you became heroes today. Not only for this world, but also some portion of the multiverse in the long run. Now, move out!"
Lynn Sr. 2 and Rita 2 took a moment to look at their children, with concerned faces. They were silent for 3 minutes.
"Be careful out there, my sons, nieces and nephews." Lynn Sr 2. said lowly.
"Be safe. Please come home all together." Rita said, worriedly.
The Louds and Regulars, carrying their own luggage surrounded them and softly gave them a group hug. They smiled comfortably at them, the adults gave two warm smiles. "I speak for all of us when I say, good-bye, Mom and Dad." Lane said. The cats, and their recruited group of rescue members grabbed their briefcases, Hovis opened the door, handing everyone out their lunches stacked next to him in plastic containers, as they passed by him one by one, as the cats said "Good-bye, Hovis," and they all walked out in a single file line, toward the bus.
"Let's go save Annie, Pony, the Louds, the Santiagos, and the Big Houses!" Waffle said.
Mr. Blik handed the bus keys over to Lunk, he was being given the position to drive. I fact, years ago, he learned from Waffle that Lunk took a test to get a bus driving license, he took a bus driving job, which only lasted for a year before he quit because he lost interest in driving most people in a bus, but he kept renewing his license. As Lunk unlocked and opened the door, and everyone was getting in, Loki said to the cats, "I just want you to know, guys, we're only rescuing Kimberly, and most of your guests for them, for you, and for us. But we're only rescuing most of Lincoln 1's family just for them, but only Lincoln 1 and Lily 1 for more than just them. Most of Lincoln 1's family doesn't appeal to us positively, but at least a number of them have positive and/or redeeming qualities."
"I understand, Loki." Replied Gordon.
"Yeah, me too, I understand." Blik said. After everyone had boarded the bus, the cats boarded the bus, but Alejandro came over and stopped Gordon before he could join them. "Gordon. My wife told me about Lincoln's secret she learned from Waffle when we went to bed last night." He said. Gordon just looked at him with a serious face. "She's my wife. We haven't kept anything secret from each other. She managed to convince me to let Lincoln give his family a chance to change. I say he's generous on one hand for that. I hope he has a great life as he gets older. Adiós, Gordon." "Adiós, Alejandro." Gordon said, and boarded the bus, and Alejandro went home. On the bus, Lunk put the directions for where they were going on a navigational app on his phone. Waffle previously told him where they needed to go hours ago. And so, Lunk drove the bus, and the Loud 2 parents watched as the bus drove off and disappeared from their view. They were quite worried. The younger Loud and Regular kids brought them inside, to comfort them. But where were Lincoln 2 and Linka? Meanwhile, in the bus, nobody was speaking to each other, several of them looked out the window, a few were playing a game on their phone or listening to music. In terms of feelings, although the house guests who had joined were willing to help out their providers, some of them were scared on the inside. What if they don't make it back? What if they get killed? But for now, they could only wait for the time for going through with the mission to come. Houses passed by as the bus made its way towards its destination.
Waffle looked blankly at everyone for a while and spoke up. "In case you should know, Mr. Blik and Katilda got to know each other more in 2007. Or was it 2006? Anyway, they got to know each other, became a couple, got married years later, and had 10 kittens. Now they're all grown up and at college. Their kids must be real dedicated. From what I've heard last month, three of them are in Uganda, Africa, as part of a program. Or are they in Brasilia?"
"Katilda told me first, Waffle. Two of our sons and one of our daughters are in that program in Brasilia. They're on a trip to Brasilia as part of a program they signed up for."
"While we're on the way, Mr. Blik, let me tell you what Lincoln 2 named the characters he based on us, and what abilities they have." Loki said.
Meanwhile,
Some previous hours ago, the rest of the kidnapped victims had woken up, and were shocked to discover their whereabouts. They were all shaking, trying to get free from their restraints, grunting and groaning, but to no avail. The guards down at the bottom laughed heavily at their efforts, to the point their stomachs ached. Lincoln 1 didn't try shaking himself. He knew it was useless. That's not to say he wouldn't repeat it. The black bombay cat looked up to them. "Oy, humans. We've got big plans for you. Let's just say they will be-delicious." The black cat said, grinning.
"They will make sure you are appropriate for our dinner feast tonight. You're all going to enjoy the main course. It'd be rude if you left too soon" The Sphynx cat added, and chuckled sinisterly.
The black cat walked under, looked at Lincoln 1, then at Lily, walked back to her box, and brought Lily out, grinning at her, much to her fear, as she started to babble fearfully. she shook her arms around, but the black cat, grabbed her arms in frustration, squeezed them a little beyond a little bit, and glared at her, and she was crying softly in pain. He walked under Lincoln 1.
"Oy. We took a look at your room. You admire Ace Savvy, huh? Well take a look, we have your sister. She's too small to join you for the main course. I'm sure she can enjoy dessert better. Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee." The cat grinned at Lily, and the baby was growing more frightened, and babbled more frequently. Lincoln couldn't stand the sight of it, he was partly angry and partly afraid for her. "You go around being Ace Savvy, pretending to be the protector of his city or town or whatever. Well, last night, you failed to protect anyone, Ace. You failed to protect this wee little baby. You're a failure. You might as well count the hours for when it's time to eat. Because when that time comes, someone will have had his last dress-up. Hee, hee. I wonder what this baby would love to eat." And then, the cat, slowly licked Lily's head, his eyes looking sinisterly at her. She sweated, the black cat slowly licked her head again as he looked at the boy hanging above him, Lincoln was growing angrier, but he let nothing out, the black cat slowly licked the baby's head again, the baby's eyes shrank, and he licked her again, and again. Finally, Lily screamed loudly from fear, she was terrified by whatever was going on, she shouldn't be here. And she cried. Her family and everone else she was with were in some sort of less than pleasant situation, so were the dogs, birds, and hamster here. And these cats were making her uncomfortable. The Sphynx cat covered her ears, clenching her teeth. Lincoln and the Louds shook wildly, once Lily cried out. They were not going to tolerate this vile cat fueling their member of the family with fear. But there was no point in shaking themselves. They were still chained beyond escape. The black cat sported a smile at this, while Lily bawled. He laughed once again. "My ears hurt, but this is half worth it. Ha, ha, ha, ha." The Louds thrashed around, some of them shouted, Lincoln, Lynn, Lana, and Luna were among those that shouted, with their mouths muffled, they wanted to help Lily, she needed to be saved and comforted. She didn't deserve to be mistreated like this. The black cat continued to laugh at them for 3 minutes, even though Lily kept crying. Having had his fun, the cat left the humans and headed back to the box and once he made it, he grabbed Lily with both paws on the throat, and choked her, making her gasp for air. Lincoln's eyes shrank when he saw this, so did the others, he shouted loudly, thrashing around. Now he really wanted to give this cat a piece of his mind. The cat choked Lily for 19 seconds, as the Sphynx cat unlocked the box before he put her back in, then slashed her left cheek with his claws, making her nearly scream, then he locked the box. "All of that is hurting my ears with our crying and screaming, you little brat! The sooner you keep quiet, the better for you." He said frustratedly. Lincoln was beyond shocked, his eyes shrank again, and continued to thrash, growling and shouting. The choking and slashing was too far. Kimberly (wearing a pink nightshirt, and light gray pajamas) looked at him from the far corner. She was calm, quiet, but she sympathized with Lincoln, breathed in, and let out a breath. The cats down below sported evil smiles at the pets that were with them for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, and struck fear into their hearts, and they shuddered and their eyes shrank.
"I wonder how good the frog will be. This is probably my first time I will have something from a frog." Said the black cat.
"Who knows, Cedric? You might have some." The Sphynx cat. The frog croaked in fear.
Carlitos approached Lily, and gave her a sympathetic, but comforting look (as best as he could), as she was regaining her breath. She sighed, and lightly sobbed, as she covered her part of the cheek where she was slashed.
There was a security camera on the left side and on the right side of the room. In another room, there were lots of monitors for different places, there were some 7 cats of variably different breeds, a few of them were a few of the same breed, but one of them watching the room where the kidnap victims were placed, was a male Maine Coon, with orange, black, and white fur. He had white fur making two lines above his eyes, covering his mouth and his stomach, with black fur next to his eyes, orange fur was between his eyes, and covered up much of his body, and blotches of black fur also partially covered the rest of his body. He was wearing a dark beige shirt which had a pocket on the right side with dark beige shorts. Standing next to him, was a bobcat, also wearing a navy blue shirt with half-dark blue checkered lines, which also had a right side pocket, with light gray shorts. The Maine Coon turned from his focus on the humans, to another monitor showing an equine standing up and slamming his hooves against a glass window, to no effect, no cracks were made on the door, as he shouted out in fear. It was part of a transparent plastic door for him, as he stood in a stable, with two stalls that have horses, bigger than him, sandwiching his stall. He turned again to another monitor that showed a cat in a kennel, resting on what looked like a hospital bed, shuddering in fear, having no idea where he was. That was Cliff. In another monitor was a shelf that had lots of objects. One of them was the control for the teleportation ray, locked in a tall shelf with a glass door. In several other monitors, there were groups of big cats sleeping in different rooms, like lions, tigers, jaguars, etc. Soon, the Maine Coon left, followed by the bobcat. He opened the door and they walked out into a hallway.
"Excuse me, Philip Brody. Sir, are you sure we should save that little girl's brain for later? It has lots of potential knowledge. And it is hard for us to make our army further intelligent as it is. What we make in numbers, we lack an three eighths in enough intelligence." Asked the bobcat.
"I'm sure of it, Ozzy Crane. We'll be fine. She's defenseless. Besides, dinner has been prioritized above intelligence."
"But what about the cats from Cramdilly Mansion? There were several security cameras in the estate. We were pretty fortunate that the families they didn't take in their hunt didn't rat them out last night. Not to mention, surely, the cats are bound to call the authorities, and they'll start a search-and-rescue."
"Their search will end up fruitless. Our lair is hidden pretty good. Our two entrances are hidden pretty good. Nobody's ever reported the lair for years. Anyone who did end up discovering our lair a few times has paid for it."
"On a side note, at least we're past the start, and it's great. Phase 2 isn't complete yet, but we keep up making our army smarter, once we finally get enough to reproduce the resource for it, we'll be more of a force to be reckoned with."
"Of course. Your confidence and logic are two of the reasons that you are my second-in-command."
"I would do anything for you. I am one of your best-trained students, Philip." Said Ozzy.
As they walked across the tall hallway, images of a city burning on fire played in his mind, followed by the raising of a statue of him, an army of cats marching forward, holding guns, statues of different breeds and species of felines, cats living the lives of humans, and finally, humans as slaves, being forced to build structures, as cat taskmasters watched them. And Philip started to have a flashback.
May 5, 1972, San Bernardino, CA.
Philip was living as a stray cat. He could walk bipedally and quadrupedally. He was born a stray. He and his family had been living as strays for years. His parents used to live with a couple, and two German Shepherds too, but when his mom was pregnant with a future litter of 10, their owners, who were lazy and stupid people, abandoned them out on the streets. Ever since then, the dogs and cats were living together on the streets, they had to be dealing with different sorts of dangers in the place. Angry people, humans working at restaurants, hobos who tried to take food from them, variably big stray dogs (especially in groups), carnivorous birds who'd take kittens, speeding vehicles, animal control, even rival cats, especially groups of them. Every day was a nightmare for them. There was almost hardly any moment of relief for them. As the years passed, one by one, his family members had passed. And he was the only one left. At some point, he hitched a ride on a pick-up truck, and was driven to San Francisco. He sniffed around for food, he caught the scent of food, and he made his way. He ran across a sidewalk, sniffing for the food, he ran past different people as he made his way, one man in a business suit tried to kick him, but he dodged the kick, and ran as he heard the man call him a stupid cat. He ran across and made a left turn and then he saw a large group of people walking towards him. But he was determined, and ran through the group as people gasped as he was running, and some of them threw things at him. He endured the abuse he endured, one man stomped on his tail. He yowled in pain, and slashed at the man's leg, and then jumped onto his face and slashed it repeatedly, before he continued following the scent. He made another left turn, then made a right turn, just as a traffic light turned green and vehicles were speeding into his way. He could see one car, coming his way. He jumped onto the hood, then the roof, and held on as the car turned left and right a little bit, only for it to be rammed by another car in surprise, and both cars turned around. A pick-up truck broke in front of them just as Philip jumped onto the other car and then the truck, the truck slowed down, but then was rammed by another car, which was followed by three more pick-up trucks, followed by several other cars, causing a disaster to happen. Philip jumped across from vehicle to vehicle, as vehicles crashed into the vehicles that collided, causing a jam in the road, making quick moves and dodging death from all around him as cars and trucks slammed into each other, turned some of them around, some cars were toppled over, and a few came so suddenly, one car was even sent flying, and Philip finally jumped onto a bus that came so suddenly, and turned, but was unable to stay straight and rolled over for a short while, but Philip quickly managed to move across the bus, jumped off, and made it across to the other side of the street, he ran straight, then made a right turn. This was a rare occasion he had to make such moves. Although, he'd have to keep practicing, if he wants to be very, very good at it. He ran straightforward, he quickly ran to the right as a German shepherd, being walked by a man, barked at him and tried to grab him, but he dodged the dog and continued to run. He ran across a crosswalk as he saw people were walking across it, knocking a 5 year old boy over at one point. He continued to run straight for a while, continuing to sniff. He made another right turn, ran for 5 miles, then made a right turn, and found a dumpster, and it was open. He jumped onto a trash bin, then into the dumpster, and found steak, whole chickens and chicken body parts, chicken strips and chicken patties, crab legs, tilapia, and catfish. The amount of as it was mixed with the other trash and other edible things like rice, was promising. He took a piece of steak, and happily chewed on it, and begun eating. He ate for a while, then moved onto a catfish when he was done with the steak. He took his time as he bit off pieces from the catfish. He slowly ate through the catfish as he savored the taste. However, as tasty as catfish in general was for him, it tasted less good compared to other meat like beef. Suddenly, three rats popped out from inside the dumpster. They tried to flee, but Philip managed to catch one of them with his mouth and thrashed it so intensly until its neck snapped. He ate and ate the rat as he ripped it piece by piece. Rats were his 7th favorite food. 20 more rats popped out from the bags, and tried to flee, but Philip chased after them and slashed 8 of them to the point blood rushed out. Then he grabbed the rats one by one, and snapped their necks, and grabbed all the rats that he had slain and headed back to the dumpster. He searched around in the dumpster, found a large empty plastic bag, and started to put steaks, chicken patties and chicken strips, and tilapia, in the bag, and prepared to be on his way, when suddenly, a worker came out from a door in front of the dumpster. He angrily shouted at him, demanding him to leave the bag, but the cat took his chance and fled with the worker chasing him, attempting to catch him, but the cat knocked over a large stack of paint cans, causing the boy to get pelted and fall, and the cat ran farther off with his bag. Later, that night, Philip was sitting down in another alley, eating on steak, ripped a piece off, chewed on it then swalled, ripped another piece off, and chewed and swallowed, then ripped another piece off, and was chewing on it, as he looked at the stars in the sky. The stars were so attractive, Philip smiled at such a beautiful sight, while he was chewed. But suddenly, he was caught in a net on a pole, as two men came over for him. Philip yowled in anger, and struggled to escape, the moment the net was rotated and he saw an opening, he jumped out and ran. He saw a white truck, and made a left turn, but he got caught by a catch pole. He was raised up, shook his arms around, put back in the net, and was placed into a kennel that was placed on the floor by a third man, he held onto the sides, trying to get himself out of the box, but he was pushed into it, by arms from three of his sides, he pushed back against them for a while, not wanting to be taken to wherever they intended for him, but he was pushed into the box and was quickly locked in.
*Cue ripple*
It was morning. Philip was in a cage, surrounded by many cages, many of them were filled with cats of different breeds. American Shorthairs, Siamese, Persians, Black bombay, Abyssinians, Sphynxes, etc. On the other side was another stack of built-in cages, many that were filled with cats. The place he was taken to, was a laboratory. He could hear some meowings of sorrow from different sides around himself. Previously, he was neutered before he was placed in his cage. He kept a serious face, though. Now, he was given canned cat food and water in two separate bowls from a man in a white suit and beige pants. He ate and drank from the bowls, until he emptied it. What he didn't realize was that there were two sleeping pills put in the bowl of food. Lots of minutes passed by, Philip was getting more and more sleepy. Finally, he became unconscious, and was taken from his cage. Philip was put on a table. A scientist in a white suit and beige pants, and wearing gloves, and planted a needle onto the cat's neck. Inside the cat's head, the brain was slowly starting to grow, and inside the brain, brain cells started to rapidly multiply. Later that day, Philip was in his kennel, with five other cats in kennels, on a cart as they were being transported somewhere else, momentarily, he could see another man, he was another scientist, come out of a room, and before the door closed, he could see dogs in kennels (in his days as a stray cat, there were times he and his kitten siblings made friends with a stray Pit bull's family, even his parents made friends with the puppy's parents). In fact, he and his family were individuals, they found the hostility between dogs and cats to be stupid. He and the other cats were placed in 5 different rooms, where there were desks for them. On their desks were 5 books on a stack. The first was science, the second was history, the third was history, the fourth was mathematics, and the fifth was geography. They were told that they were to read these books all the way through, individually, starting with science. And then, once they were done, they would take a handwritten test, if they passed, they would move on to more topics in books and take more handwritten tests, but if they failed on their first set of studies, they would have to read their first set of books and take the test all over again, until they achieved. The cats got to work, reading the science book. They read the book, until, lunch break, then mentally stimulated themselves with cat toys in another room, got back to reading their books until dinner, and then got put back in their cages in the room where the cats were kept. This process kept on repeating with their first book, and all their other books, as the months passed. Throughout these months, Philip had gotten to know the cats he was in the room of caged cats with. When the handwritten test day came, Philip and the other cats had either completely passed the test or mostly passed the test, Philip was one of the cats who passed completely. As time would pass, Philip and the other cats would continue getting to know each other. Philip learned several of the cats were abandoned or neglected pets. He and more cats would also get to learn more topics and take more tests. Throughout this time, he would learn about so many atrocities committed by the human race, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the two world wars, deforestation, pollution, and animal cruelty in more ways than one. This made him very hateful and enraged towards the human race. There were four different tests that he and some other cats were taking. The first one was concerning solving a math statistics problem, concerning how many cars would be sold to make the total of money received to be $12,332,582,378, another one being a maze, focusing on memory and timing, another one concerning making an architectural model of anything they decided and another one, concerning how to tell which bowl of food was healthy, and which bowl's food was poisoned. Throughout a lot of time Philip was spending in the lab, he was thinking of a plan to escape. And he had a far bigger plan after that. But neither of these plans were going to come into effect until completely all of the cats were as smart as he was. He shared that with the other cats. That wasn't without ripping off the cords to the security camera in the cat's room, so many times. The shot he received in his neck made him a lot smarter, same for the other cats. He heard this from two scientists chatting with each other, years ago. He also learned another night that the lab was making a restoration drug, to make people a lot smarter, after testing it out on the cats, if it was successful. He was also surprised to learn on a later afternoon, that the serum he received that made him smart, also froze his lifespan, but that was a side effect. A rather permanent side effect. Not only that, but it was reported that the older cats who got the injections reverted back to a younger age, and they were stronger and faster than how slow and weak they were. But the increased intelligence from the serum was also permanent. He'd practically be, biologically immortal and in the ranks of intelligence, he'd be as smart as a genius, forever. A lot of times that Philip was transported in a cart, he'd study as much of his surroundings as he could around him. He could memorize certain signs that led to different rooms that contained animals, the room where the intelligence serum was stored, and other rooms, like where different chemicals were stored. May 19, 1985. One scientist who volunteered to try out the serum had tried it years ago, and he was shown to have improved in intelligence. It was ready for humans to use. The serum was in enough large quantities to sell to the city. Announcement for delivery of it was scheduled for tomorrow. It was nighttime, 12:22 am. Absolutely all of the cats were now as smart as Philip. One Abyssinian cat poked her arm out, moved the lock holding her cage, opened the door to it, climbed to Philip's cage, and then unlocked his. Then they went on to unlock and free the other cats who would go on to free the rest. Then, they would go to another room, take some walkie-talkies, they would go on to split up in groups. Philip's group went on to free the room that had caged dogs, much to many cat's dissatisfaction, especially since lots of dogs initially barked at and wanted to catch the cats which managed to stay on high ground, before the dogs would leave. Another group freed rodents, and another group freed caged rabbits, an orange American Shorthair striped cat sabotaged the security room, so they wouldn't be exposed, another group of cats raided chemistry rooms, where they grabbed lots of canisters of different chemicals, including the intelligence serum, especially the latest handwritten notes for making the intelligence serum, and placed them in metal boxes and briefcases, put them on carts, and pushed them out of the laboratory. During all of this, groups of cats would scatter and kill the surveying night watchmen from the inside of the lab (the only scientist who took the serum was also killed, as he was staying here for the night, and he was studying the rabbits in their designated room). Once, the cats had gotten enough of the serums, they rolled them out, many other cats followed them, while Philip and 20 other cats poured gasoline around a lot of the facility. Once they were done and he was informed that the dogs, rodents, and rabbits already left the grounds, Philip led his group out of the building, took a look as cats loaded the last of the chemicals onto a semi-truck, with a radioactive material sign put on the container, there were four other semi-trucks with a radioactive material sign put on the same thing, he was signaled that the trucks were warmed up and ready to drive, and everyone's loaded onto it, he signaled for his group to get onto one of the trucks, he lit a match, threw it onto the gas, it set ablaze, he got onto one of the trucks, as the driver used wooden posts as taped stilts to handle the accelerator pedal and brake. The trucks moved onward, and they drove away, out of range, as the facility was getting even more on fire. 10 minutes passed before an explosion soon burst. The trucks were not impacted, as they drove far away enough from the building. Philip then reminded the cats he was with where the seats were, that the grand plan will be to overthrow humanity and take its place as the dominant species. Dogs would be spared and used as companions and then some, but applicable would be served as food or become a hunting trophy (they'd mainly take in puppies). In the years to come, the future Hail of Doom clan would grow in numbers, taking in stray cats or abused and neglected pets (they would even take in bobcats for their army), cats from animal shelters, and labs, murdering humans, making them food, or even making others into trophies. They would even go on to hunt animals like dogs, rodents, and birds. They've stolen guns from stores, and things like metal too, to make their own armor. They initially lived in the deepest parts of the Redwoods National Park, then at a later point, they moved to Santa Monica and were building their secret lair, over the years. Among the things they stole were construction machines and equipment (to help with the building of their lair), big cats living in captivity, and equines (however, donkeys ended up being used for breeding purposes with horses, thus producing mules), for there was to be a victory parade, using only horses and large ponies, to honor Philip Brody, those types of equines were essential, in the parade, following the successful conquest of the United States of America, the very first place that the Hail of Doom clan would conquer (equines would be used for more than just parades anyway, though). Horses, large ponies, and mules would also be used as draft equines.
*Cue ripple*
The flashback in Philip's mind ended. Philip had made all of the cats into a family, gotten them to know each other, from when he was living in the lab, and after he escaped from the lab, and he taught them to treat each other with respect and have their backs for each other, even though there were times some cats wouldn't get along with each other. His army may have vastly grown in numbers, but they needed more chemicals to make the intelligence serum. It was quite difficult to produce some more, that proved to be a setback for his army, so groups of cats had to scour different labs across the country, and even smuggling themselves to other continents (same with taking in cats from different countries, same with captive big cats, in fact, among the wild felines that were taken in, only cats like caracals and servals were two of those species), to get chemicals, but it was difficult since the chemicals all across the world were different, and failures and explosions were unpredictable. A small minority of cats ended up dying after trying to reproduce the intelligence serum. As for big cats, the Hail of Doom clan could only use a third of their serum to make them smarter and more cooperative, and to have enough for the smaller ones, as such, the big cats weren't as smart as the Hail of Doom clan. There were, a little bit above hardly, successful reproductions of the serum. On the flipside of the coin, all the robberies of laboratories across the world had cats sabotaging the security rooms so that they wouldn't be discovered, and this kept countries occupied with each other. And with the revelation that there were different universes from a few of his spies, he became amazed and very intent. They'd spread their reign even further across the multiverse. But for now, they had to focus on dinner.
Meanwhile, later after that, the bus that the cats were using arrived in Santa Monica, but Mr. Blik insisted that the human members needed to go buy sandals, so they'd have less trouble walking on the sandy beach. They parked at a mall, went looking for a footwear department, found one, entered in and tried out different sandals, until they found sandals that would fit their sizes. The bus would then drive for a while until there was a parking lot that buses were able to park at, 3 miles away from the Santa Monica pier. The group was unloading their briefcases and, taking out their respective equipment, Lunk took out two unopened briefcases and put them on the ground. Katilda caught the scent of something, and then started sniffing around, crawling on the ground. Mr. Blik raised an eyebrow. "What do you smell, honey?"
"I smell something with us. Doesn't smell like weapons or food." Said Katilda.
Mr. Blik was just confused. This did not go unheard by Loki and Loni. The bombay cat and the two boys followed Katilda as she followed the scent, until she stopped at the briefcases that Lunk had taken out. She could smell two different scents from them. She pointed at them, as she looked seriously at Lunk. The Chump brother approached the briefcases, and opened them. What popped out of them were a young boy and young girl, both of them had white hair. They were Lincoln 2 and Linka. They were dressed in Ace Savvy costumes. Mostly everyone was surprised. "Aha!" Katilda proclaimed. "Great gopher!" Gordon exlcaimed.
"What are you two doing here?" Loki asked.
"Aye. You were explicitly told that this mission could get dangerous. How did we not even notice at the first second that you were smuggling yourselves, laddies?" Gordon scolded.
"Hey, we wanted to help. I didn't want to stay behind. Neither did Linka. We really did want to help mostly everyone else so they'd be free. We were determined. We can be useful on our own too. And, you didn't really recruit Lisa 2 or Levi to help you out. Besides, I've survived being in the forest with Clyde before, same for catching a ghost, and learning how to skateboard."
"Not to mention, on a side note, the potential of actually being heroes got to our heads, a little bit. Lincoln 2 was able to do a good job at detecting and determing what really happened to his dad's recipe one time for example. And at least I'm dressed appropriately for it." Linka 2 added. "We can do good at being stealthy. And I am pretty good at shooting games too. Obviously, so is Lincoln."
Mr. Blik sighed and facepalmed. "We should be taking you or sending you back to our house, but we've already gone this far, and those two things could take time we can't quite afford, especially getting you two a ticket. And we need to get you two some sandals, and lunch. All right, come aboard."
"Awesome!" Lincoln 2 and Linka proclaimed.
"But both of you stay close to us, when we infiltrate the lair, bro. We really may end up in danger, do not take this lightly. We'd be heartbroken if we lost you. And try not to do anything foolish after we find it." Luke added.
"We got it, Luke." Linka replied.
"Two new recruits on a rescue mission! Splee!" Waffle exclaimed
So, the group, with their two new recruits, drove around for a while, looking for a fast food restaurant, Lincoln 2 and Linka got their lunch at a Subway restaurant. Afterwards, they drove back to the mall, and got Lincoln 2 and Linka, sandals for the two of them. They drove back to the parking lot, and walked on the way to the Santa Monica beach. They walked through crowds of people, even as they were approaching the pier, they passed a few men with pythons resting around them. Lincoln made a statement about Leif and Lana wanting to see or touch the pythons if they were with them. They walked onto the pier, and split up into groups, and took a look around them on different sides. Lincoln 2 and Linka were with Loki, Luke, Luna 2, Mr. Blik, and Katilda, as they looked from the left side, turning their heads around. All they could see were people filling the sandy beach from above. Lots of people were enjoying themselves, minding their own business, unaware that there was a ruthless, evil clan hiding in their city. Gordon's group consisting of him, Loni, Luan 2, Lynn 2, and Lynn 3 went down onto the beach to the left, exploring across it, looking all around them. Nothing here, but people, and a few dogs. They walked across the sand for a while, they needed to look for the entrance, or at least anything indicating an entrance, from feeling with their feet. They walked for several more miles, looking around, and feeling, but they could find nothing. How could an army of cats be able to hide one of their entrances in a beach? They headed back to the dock, and Gordon called for the other groups to meet them at the roller coaster through his walkie talkie. Gordon and his group went to the roller coaster on the pier and waited for a few minutes, until the other groups met up with them.
"Has anyone found anything useful?" Gordon asked. He received nothing but mostly everyone shaking their heads.
"Aye. Neither did our group find anything useful or unsual." Gordon took a look from the right side of the pier. There were still lots of people. He returned to everyone else.
"There's too many people here. We're going to have to wait until there's not as many people as there used to be, or even any at all."
"So, like, what do we do until then?" Asked Loni.
"We'll split up in smaller groups, and search the city, for anything, that might point out to us as another entrance to the Hail of Doom clan's lair. Who knows? There may be another entrance, in the city. But for now. Let's have some fun here on the pier." Mr. Blik said. Everyone nodded.
Everyone occupied themselves on the pier, playing games, taking rides, especially on the roller coaster. 1 hour and 45 minutes passed by, before Mr. Blik called everyone over, and had them split up into smaller groups, and search different parts of the city. Mr. Blik was paired with Katilda and Loki Loud. The groups were searching left, and right, here and there, but their searching was continually ending up fruitless. Places were searched, department stores in malls, alleyways, around retailer stores, the exteriors of, and around: apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels, restaurants (chain, fast food, and non-chain and non-fast food restaurants), a park, even empty trash cans. No good results were found. The fruitless searching was becoming frustrating by the hour. Gordon, Luna 2, Luke Loud, Loki Loud, Lori 2, Lynn 2 and 3, and Bootsie were the most frustrated. There were 4 breaks taken during the searching. Lots of time had passed. These cats responsible for the abductions were really good at hiding themselves. How much longer must they keep looking? How much longer until whatever fate the kidnapped victims will suffer, occurs?
Santa Monica Beach, 2:45 pm.
*Cue Jurassic Park: Trespasser soundtrack, InGen Administration.*
The sun was some feet away from setting. Gordon, Luna 2, and Lane Loud were looking down at the beach with serious faces. There were absolutely no people there. Not even at the pier at the moment. Must be good fortune for them. They walked down, and walked across the beach, searching the sand underneath their feet. They split up and searched in different directions, trying to find whatever could be useful. The three of them dug into the sand for 5 minutes, but all they could find was more sand, before they climbed out. They rejoined each other and put a finger to their chins, as they went into thought.
"What did Barkmeat say? The cats sank into the sand, but how? And how far did he say the entrance was from the pier?" Gordon darted his eyes left and forth, as he thought, trying to think how far. It was a short while before he snapped his fingers. "Of course. 25 miles away from the pier. Let's head back where we came down from and try and measure our distancing."
Meanwhile, Waffle at the very beginning was chasing after a butterfly. He went through a lot of the city, trying to catch it, and he was chased by Loni and Luan 2, who were blocked continuously, Waffle chased that butterfly all day, trying again and again to catch it, but it kept escaping his grasp. He chased it far away from the city to the middle of the Santa Monica Mountains, but he was at the bottom, but the butterfly was quickly caught by a bird that promptly flew away.
"Awwww." Waffle expressed in defeat. He slouched in sadness. It was now that Loni and Luan 2, breathing heavily, caught up to him. They were quite exhausted.
"Waffle, what are you doing?" Luan 2 asked in frustration.
"I was chasing a butterfly. It attracted my attention."
"No offense, Waffle, but we're on a mission here. You need to get your priorities straight. And you just had us waste, lots of precious time." Loni said, in exhaustion.
"I'm sorry, comrades." The cat said.
"Now, let's go back, and look for anything helpful." Loni said, as he and Luan 2 walked off. As Waffle walked behind them, he crawled around on the ground, inspecting it. This became noticed by the other two, and they were annoyed. Waffle searched for a few minutes, before he screamed as he fell through a rectangular hole that appeared when two extra large doors, made to look like dirt, glued with stones, opened since it was loose. and he fell on a staircase.
"Waffle!" Luan 2 and Loni shouted in shock, and they rushed over. They rushed to the staircase.
"Hey, guys. Down here." Waffle called the others. They were surprised to see the staircase. They walked down it, as Waffle approached them. It was quite a long staircase.
"Like, I can't believe it." Loni said.
"I know. Whoever made this, forgot to lock the doors." Waffle said. Luan 2 just shook her head at that, with her eyes closed. But Waffle pointed to them two placed holders that looked like they were meant for a wooden barricade. And to the right side, was a rectangular hole. That must be where the barricade is held.
There were lights on the bottom of the walls on both sides of the stairs, and they came across a hallway, with ceiling lights. They walked across, looked around, they walked a long way, it was empty, and they came across a four way intersection, on the sides of each tunnel, were carved statues of variable big cats, each standing on their four legs, putting one of their front legs out in front of the others lowering their necks, and turning their heads to each other, but looking at the ground, and looking like they were roaring. They went to the right, and looked on the wall, and saw a sign of raining hail, and next to it were words that read "Hail of Doom Clan." Everyone's eyes shrank and their jaws dropped. They turned around, ran back to the stairs, and distanced themselves from the hole.
Luan 2 immediately grabbed her walkie talkie. "Hello? Who is this?" Mr. Blik answered.
"Mr. Blik, call everyone over here! We found an entrance to the cat's lair! We'll give you our location." Said the girl with the braces.
Luan 2 told Mr. Blik exactly where they were, he told Loni to get his group far away from the hole until they come over and they should signal them with flashlights, and lead them to the hole, Blik reported the hole to one of the groups and told that group to pass it on and tell them to pass it on, and let this continue on to the rest. The three members waited for a long time somewhere else, in the forest, the sun was almost near setting, a bus came over, they signaled it with their flashlights, the bus turned and parked out in front of them from the left side, and out came from the other side, the entire rescue group. They were led to the hole, and mostly everyone else was surprised.
"Everyone, inside. Whatever you do, stay silent. And let's stay close" Mr. Blik ordered, and put a finger on his lips. He motioned for them to follow him. They walked across the hallway, and reached the four way intersection. Everyone looked around when they were in the center. Which way should they go? Which tunnel was the right one? A few people approached three of the tunnels, but there weren't any signs at the entrances that would tell which way would lead them to whatever locations. They returned to the group.
"So far, we're lost." Lynn 2 said.
"How are we supposed to find the captives? This place is already like a maze. What if we get caught? And how do we stay out of sight?" Luna 2 asked.
Waffle looked around the intersection and explored it then went back further into the hallway that they came, until he saw an unusually large air conditioner vent cover placed above them nearly high, with a hinge at the top (it was a portion bigger and wider enough for Lunk to fit in, even with his backpack, and turn around, but crawling still had to be the only option of motion) on the wall to his right, although it was placed a little bit above half-high. He was followed all the way. Some of the members went "Ooooh" when they discovered this.
"Let's go into the vents." Waffle pointed at it, looking at the group.
"Are you sure about this, Waffle? We still got to be careful in the vents. We don't have a map of this place at all, we don't even have schematics of the air conditioning designs."
"This is a stealth mission, Mr. Blik. Besides, you got any better ideas? Ooh, Loud boys, go get your costumes!" Replied Waffle.
Mr. Blik shrugged. The Loud boys rushed off and everyone waited. Gordon took a small handheld buzzsaw out of his backpack, and was placed on a human ladder, as he did his work sawing onto the screws at the bottom. Gordon jumped up and climbed into the vent. He held open the cover and looked down at everyone.
"All right, I'll hold it for the next person and this will repeat for the people that follow each other. Get inside. Aye. And follow the person in front of you, as we move across the vents." Everyone else got their grappling hook guns, and one by one, they got in, and followed each other and waited in line. Lunk was the last one to get in (although he had to be pulled in by an arranged human chain), and he held the cover and watched as most of the Loud boys came in their Full Deck costumes (and Night Clubs' guitar and jetpack, that boy also had his face paint on). Lincoln 2 wasn't with them, since he already had his costume on, and he and Linka were already with everyone else. Lunk held the cover until Lynn 3 got himself pulled up using his grappling gun, and Lunk turned around and let Lynn 3 hold the cover, and this process went on until absolutely everyone was inside the vents.
"Is everyone inside?" Gordon whispered.
"You can count on that, Gordon. I'm the last one inside." replied Lane.
"Good. Now, on we go. Don't lag behind, laddies." Gordon replied, and he started crawling across the air vents, followed by everyone else crawling along the way. They walked across the vents, staying in line with each other. They had to be careful, and they had to be quiet. A few times, Gordon would look down through a few vent covers, but there was no sight of their missing guests. Lots of minutes passed as they explored across the vents. There were some different intersections along the way, that didn't help their navigation. Where were the others? Why must this be so difficult? At one point, a piece of the bottom underneath Lunk, Strong Suit, High Card, and Night Clubs, broke and gave way, and they immediately fell in a low drop, crashing into a room where there were four cats, (two of them were Calico cats, one was an Oriental Shorthair cat, and the other was a Domestic short-haired cat) sleeping on chairs, waking them up and shocking them. The cats tried to escape, but Lunk grabbed the two of them and knocked them against their heads, knocking them out, while Strong Suit punched out another cat twice, and the last cat, a female Calico cat, reached the door, but she was quickly grabbed by High Card only for him to get clawed at repeatedly, but Night Clubs tackled the cat, and headbutted her, knocking her unconscious.
'Guys, are you all right?" Linka asked from somewhere else.
"Yeah, we're fine, sis." Night Clubs said as he gave a thumb's up and brushed himself off. The people that fell down took a look in front of them and they were shocked to see, lots of screens, recording different areas and angles. "You all should come down. It's safe. You should look at this." Night Clubs called out. One by one, everyone came down from both sides, and they were surprised by the sight of so many screens in the center, the left, and right.
"This must be their security room." Said Lori 2.
"Yes. Indeed." Mr. Blik replied. "Check the monitors. One of them has to show where our missing guests are. The control too."
"High Card, Waffle, Luna 2, go keep watch outside the room." Gordon ordered those he appointed. They nodded and opened the doors in front of them, went out and closed them.
Everyone looked around, scanning the screens. There were lots of rooms, several of them had cats in them. One of the rooms being monitored was an huge kitchen. Underneath the security monitor screens were control panels, with different buttons, joysticks, and switches. There were two chef cats, one of them put a plate of 15 cooked salmon filets on a cart. In another room, was an expanded dining room with lots of long tables. Also in two different monitors, there were lots of beds and cribs, some of the cribs were filled with kittens, puppies too. Two more monitors showed the door that the rescue group came through, and what looked like a dead end, with something above.
"Gordon. Take a look at this." Said Leni 2 after she gasped. Gordon came over, along with Mr. Blik. They gasped at what she pointed over at: the missing guests, dangling in chains. Gordon could see Kimberly too. He could see the babies and family animals with the guards in another one of the monitors placed elsewhere too. The monitors had this room labeled as "Chain and box room."
Gordon blew in relief. "They're still alive, so far. But they're in trouble. But what kind of trouble?" Said the manx.
"I'm not sure if I want to find out." Blik replied.
"Guys, Lincoln 2 and I see the control to the multiverse." Linka announced. The two cats and some people took a look, Lincoln 2 pointed to where the control was. Gordon took a look and saw a label for where the control was that said, " Prototype Equipment Storage Room."
Gordon and Mr. Blik moved a little bit to the right, and went to the center, looked around, and saw Pony in his stall, his location was labeled "Stables 05." They looked at another monitor that showed Cliff in his carrier. That room was labeled "Hospital room 23"
"Well, now a good portion of us know where everyone is, and where the control is. But we're still lost. We don't know exactly where each location is." Said Gordon.
"That's not true anymore." Lincoln 2 said. He and Linka presented everyone in the center with 2 maps of the lair (they're equally the same), with 2 equal schematics of the air vents in the entire lair, and the white haired boy pointed out a copy machine standing on a small desk next to the left side control panel.
"Great job, little bro." Luke said.
"With the copy machine, we can make copies for everyone. Let's get to it." Said Linka.
The group copied the maps first, and then copied the air vent schematics.
"Loki, Waffle, Luna 2, come on in!" The door handles moved a little bit repeatedly, but the doors wouldn't open. "Uh, can someone open the door?" Waffle asked. Lunk came over and opened the door, the three of them came in.
"The door had a keypad. Neither of us knew the code." Loki said. "But most of us have been listening in about the maps and schematics."
Blik nodded in response to all of that.
"All right, people. We've got lots of captives to rescue. Let's split up into groups. Group 1 will be Lincoln 2, Linka, Lynn 3, Lori 2, Loki, Luan 2, and Luke, will go rescue the people and animals hanging in chains and locked in boxes. Group 2 will be Gordon, Waffle, Bootsie, and Lunk, you will go rescue Cliff the cat, Group 3 will be Luna 2, Leni 2, Loni, Lynn 2, and Lane Loud, you will go rescue Pony. Me and Katilda will go get the multiverse machine control. Once you rescue everyone, stick to using the air vents so you can try to get out, then navigate back towards the staircase." Said Mr. Blik.
"Got it." Mostly everyone said.
"I'm ready." Lunk added.
"Perfect."
"Hold on a minute." Gordon walked over to the security monitor screens on the right, where the staircase's monitor and the dead end monitor were. He scanned the control panel. He saw a button that was labeled "Open/close door." He pushed it and he and everyone else watched as a large, long metal rectangle bent down, and sand was pouring down. Some of the rescue group gasped. Gordon pushed the button again, and the rectangle closed. Then the words about the Hail of Doom clan cats sinking into the sand played through his mind.
"Of course. That's how the cats sink into the sand. I don't think I'd call it 'sinking' though." Whispered Gordon. The manx scanned the control panel again. There was another that said "Stairs/ramp." Gordon pushed the button and the monitor showed the stairs that Waffle, Luan 2, and Loni found, turning into a ramp. "Pop a wheelie." Gordon whispered. He pushed the button for the rectangular ramp at the Santa Monica beach and it lowered. "Let's destroy these monitors." Gordon said seriously. On the desk where the copy machine was, there was also a coffee maker. It was full. Loki took the coffee maker's glass container that had lots of coffee in it, and poured portions of coffee across the control panels, making the monitors electrocute and die out.
"All right, laddies. Let's split up and find our victims." Gordon said.
"While Katilda and I head our way, I'll call the police. I'll tell them to look for a hole 25 miles away from the Santa Monica beach, and for a rectangular hole at the bottom of the Santa Monica mountains, at the middle from the bottom." Mr. Blik replied. All respective groups, staying together, went into the air vents, one by one, and split their ways, going to the respective rooms they were appointed. Mr. Blik and Katilda were the last to go.
Later,
"I wish we had a root beer or something. I would've taken a shot every time those humans in variably any number thrashed around. Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Cedric laughed after saying that and his partner laughed alongside him. The babies and animals in the box were still scared of him and his partner. He walked under the humans and looked at Lincoln 1 with a smirk. The white haired boy in his superhero costume narrowed his eyes in hatefulness towards him. He walked back to his partner, the Sphynx cat smirked at Sergio. The parrot became fearful.
"Hey, Cedric."
"What's that, Gwen?"
"After the parrot's history, I want to use the feathers for decoration."
"That sounds interesting, mi'lady. I don't think there's anything you can't make pretty with bird feathers, especially from a parrot like this."
The parrot made a muffled squawk and shuddered. Gwen opened the box containing Sergio and Walt, and plucked a feather from Sergio, making him squawk in pain, while muffled. The Sphynx cat smirked and pulled another one, eliciting another squawk. Gwen pulled out 7 more feathers quickly, eliciting more squawking from the parrot. Gwen laughed heartily at this.
Lincoln 1 resigned himself and went to sleep. Little did he know that he would immediately be rescued.
A line was being made around a large air vent cover. This did not go unnoticed by Lincoln and some other people. As the cover and the piece of ceiling surrounding it fell off, it was suddenly grabbed by a hand, and then a rope, came down. The noise attracted the two cat guards, holding their shot guns, who cautiously approached the source of it, then stopped when the rope hit the floor. They slowly approached the rope, sporting cautious faces, aimed their guns, only to be surprised with 5 people sliding down in superhero costumes.
"Full Deck, shuffle 'em!" Lincoln 2 shouted, and he and his costumed siblings and Linka charged the cats, just as Lori 2 and Luan 2 slid down after them. The cats were about to shoot, but Lincoln 2 tackled Cedric, while Gwen got rammed in a headbutt by Lynn 3 who was costumed as Strong Suit. Gwen got sent flying and slammed into a wall, knocking her unconscious. Lincoln 2 and Cedric rolled around the floor, punching each other, until Lincoln 2 ended up on the floor and got slashed on the left cheek by Cedric, who tried to run, but he got grabbed by his right hind leg, pulled back, grabbed by the shoulders, turned over, punched in the nose, and headbutted by the boy, so he became unconscious too. So did Cedric.
"Think you can slash me and run for it? Think again. Bad kitty." Lincoln 2 helped himself up, and carried Cedric over, and placed him against the wall, next to Gwen. Lincoln was approached by everyone else in the group he was part of. "Let's try and find anything to lower the captives hanging from the ceiling, then undo their chains."
"You got it, Ace." Night Clubs replied. They split up and looked around, but Linka was the first person to find a control panel with buttons. One part of it had a section that was meant to control all hooks, that button said "Lower hooks." Linka pushed the button, and the hooks holding the captives lowered down a little. She looked at the button, pushed it and held it, and the hooks lowered the chains all the way down.
"Perfect." Lincoln 2 gave a thumbs up.
"Nice job, cousin." Said Luke to Linka. "Thanks, Luke."
Everyone rushed over to the chained captives, removed them from the hooks, then one by one, removed their locks using metal files, and then, they undid their chains, one person at a time for each of them, and they removed their gags too. Then they did their work, removing the restraints for the animals in the boxes before taking them out, and freed the babies too. After much time and effort, everyone was free. Underdressed for mostly everyone, but free. Lincoln 1 embraced Lily as she babbled happily and nuzzled her head against his shoulder, while Lincoln 1 rubbed her back. Then he gave her to Rita.
"I can't believe you came for us." Lori 1 said in surpise.
"Let me stop you right there." Lori 2 said putting a hand up. "We're only here to rescue your brother, and Lily 1, for more than just them, same for the other two families here, but it does not apply the rest of you Louds. Most of you are undeserving of respect from us. We think you are bad influences on them."
The Loud family 1 felt guilt from hearing that. Lincoln 1 could only watch in seriousness, and not say a word.
"Where are the others? I don't think you came here by yourselves." Asked Lincoln 1.
"Mr. Blik recruited a few more individuals previously. The others are in different places in this underground lair. We've split up into different groups. They've gone to get Pony, Cliff, and the control for the multiverse machine." Answered Luan 2.
"They stole the control?" Lincoln 1 asked in shock.
"Of course they did. These cats probably want to rule this country, and I'm sure they also now want to rule the multiverse. Mr. Blik and his wife, Katilda, who he didn't mention before, went on their way to retrieve the control." Replied Lincoln 2.
"As for all of you, we won't need to explore the hallways. We have schematics of the air vents. But we also have a map of the underground lair, in case of an emergency. We must be stealthy. Follow us." Luke motioned for everyone to follow him. "Up the rope." Luke climbed up the rope, only for it to snap from the top as he started to climb up, leaving the grappling hook at the air vent, much to his surprise. Lynn 3, Lori 2, Luan 2, and Loki walked over, spun their grappling hooks after grabbing them out of their backpacks, and threw their grappling hooks to the left side of the vent, and motioned them for everyone to follow them, but the moment these people climbed up, the ropes snapped from the top, leaving them at the bottom too. They were shocked. Loki sighed in defeat.
"Well, looks like we're leaving the hard way. We're about to explore the hallways of the lair of the clan of cats who kidnapped you called, the Hail of Doom Clan. Stay close to us, it'd be easy for you to get lost without us, we'll lead you out, be quiet, and whatever you do, don't be seen. Let me call Mr. Blik first and tell him to spread the information."
After Loki informed Mr. Blik, Lincoln 1 took a look at Gwen and Cedric. He could see they were starting to wake up and shaking their heads. Clenching his teeth, and becoming angry, he rushed them, grabbed Gwen and headbutted her in the head, then grabbed Cedric, angrily shouted, and punched him 7 times in the face, before slamming him against the wall, the cat was bruised in the face and groaned in pain and lost consciousness. Everyone who watched this became shocked, Lincoln 1's ex-family became frightened. But Kimberly was unstirred, she only looked at him seriously.
Lincoln 1 looked angrily at the unconscious cat, breathing heavily, calming down. "That's for disrespecting Lily. Ruthless, sadistic asshole." Lincoln spoke lowly. Kimberly put a hand on his left shoulder, and he turned his head to her.
"Don't let your anger get the best of you, Lincoln. Do not fight in anger in general. Chain the two guards up and hang them from the ceiling." The woman told him and then everyone else. The two cats were immediately chained up, with locks that were next to Lily and Carlitos' box. Then, they were raised up into the ceiling, and there they hung, upside down. Kimberly walked towards the door, it was a metal door, and she saw a red button next to it, she pushed it, and the door slid upwards. She walked out, followed by everyone else in a row. Once everyone was out, the door slid downwards.
"Sliding door. Cool." Leni 1 said.
"All right, follow us, everyone. Stick together." Loki ordered, and he and his group led everyone else away, as he looked into his map. Of course, Lisa and Carlos had to be pulled along, since they didn't have their glasses (and absolutely no one brought their glasses.)
Mr. Blik, Katilda, and groups 2 and 3 were crawling across the vents, they were still together, they were going straight across the vents. Now, they had go up a short uphill climb. They continued going straight for a short while, until they reached a t-intersection. But suddenly, the vent broke and gave way underneat them, and they fell down screaming. Fortunately for them, there were objects underneath them that broke their fall from 55 feet. Mr. Blik groaned. He looked around himself and saw everyone was slowly getting up, even Katilda was fine. How they all survived a fall that high, confused him. He got up and walked off, rubbing his head, he groaned from the pain his head had gotten, not paying attention, to what looked like a rottweiler standing on a pedestal in front of him. The moment he looked directly at it, he was frightened. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!" He ran behind what looked like a human, but it wasn't alive, Blik got scared but didn't scream, then Mr. Blik looked around him, and he saw lots of humans and animals around. Mr. Blik's eyes shrank, he got more frightened, but didn't scream. He came out from the human and rapidly breathed in and out, trying to calm himself down, as Katilda put her hands on his shoulders. Mr. Blik looked at the dog again. It looked like it underwent taxidermy. Mr. Blik decided to explore this large room of humans and animals who went through taxidermy. They looked around them. There were dogs, deer (and other wild animals), rodents, rabbits, birds, different humans, like animal control officers, little children, teenagers, scientists, people in hazmat suits, police officers. "What is this place?" Leni 2 asked. "It looks like some kind of trophy collection room. Look around. There are different sections here separated by stanchion posts with red cords, and there are boxes with plaques that read different names for the cats here. Looks like Barkmeat wasn't kidding when he said these cats have been hunting." Mr. Blik answered. Mr. Blik discovered a section whose box that said "Philip Brody." He became curious and went in to take a look, followed by everyone else. He looked around at the trophies in Philip's section, until he stopped and gasped, so did his brothers and almost everyone else. Standing in front of them, was a grizzly bear, standing in a roaring pose. But this was not just any grizzly bear. Everyone looked at the podium the bear was standing on with a plaque that said "Burpo's root beer bear mascot." "This is the bear that attacked us for more than just one time whenever he'd come to our house." Whispered Blik. "He hasn't come back for years. No wonder why. Now that we know." Gordon whispered. Waffle walked ahead of them, and found something. "Guys. Come over here." Waffle whispered from a few feet. Everyone came over and found Waffle. He pointed to them another trophy, another surprise for them. His brothers gasped. Standing on a pedestal, was a mouse, in a smiling pose with his arms on his sides, with a plaque that read "Squeakus, the most evil mouse." "Squeakus? This Philip Brody slew the most evil mouse that virtually no other cat could?" Asked Blik. "We didn't ever see Squeakus again after he captured you and Gordon. I saw him once when we were leaving for the mouse hunt ball, but I scared him away. From the looks of it, Squeakus doesn't look like cat breath was used on him. This Philip Brody and his clan really sound like a real threat now." Waffle added. "Let's get out of here. Back to the vents, everyone." Mr. Blik ordered. The rescue groups headed back to the vents, unfortunately, their grappling hook ropes weren't long enough to reach the vent. The ceiling was too high. "Looks like we're going the hard way. We'll just have to look for another AC cover alongside the hallways. Follow me." Blik announced. Everyone headed for the door, it was a large, wide one, Mr. Blik pushed a button, and the door slid upwards, they walked through and the door slid down. They went to the left, a few looked at their maps, and it wasn't long before they found an AC cover nearly high above them. Another human ladder was made, Mr. Blik sawed the screws out, everyone climbed in, Lunk was pulled up, and they made a right turn that would appear the moment they would come in and once again traveled across the vents. They went straight for some miles, made a left turn, went straight for 10 miles, finally, the three of them reached a two-way intersection. Which way should they go? After a few of them looked at their copies of schematics, Mr. Blik and Katilda went right, group 2 went left, and group 3 followed Mr. Blik and Katilda. The two cats followed by group 3 went on, still going straight for a while. They made a left turn for a few miles, then went right, went on straight for 28 miles, then reached another t-intersection, after everyone looked again at the schematics, they split up, Mr. Blik and Katilda went left, while group 3 went straight. Meanwhile, group 2 were crawling straight, no sign of a turn or intersection so far. There were times they saw hospital beds, but no animal kennel. There was hope sparking in them that they could find Cliff, if they could find him soon enough. Gordon could hear some faint meowing 9 miles away. He crawled a little bit faster, followed by everyone else. They crawled and crawled, until Gordon stopped at the source of the sound, a few minutes after the meowing stopped, and looked through an AC cover. From what he could make out, he could see an animal kennel. It didn't have bars at the top, though. "Yes, we found Cliff." Cliff, the cat belonging to the Loud family, was asleep, but not deeply, until he was awakened by the sound of a saw buzzing and cutting through something, until the noise ended. Then in a few minutes, a rope came down on the bed, and Gordon and Bootsie slid down onto the bed. "Don't worry Cliff. We're getting you out of here, laddie." Gordon unlocked the cage and Cliff. "Come with us. We have to go." As soon as he said that, Bootsie grabbed Cliff, hung him over his right shoulder, and they climbed back up the rope into the air vent and moved on.
Pony was lying down, looking at the floor, sadly. Annie was nowhere to be seen, she hadn't come all day. Where was his best friend who he loved dearly? Where was he at all? At least the equines surrounding his stall were friendly. He learned a lot about exactly where he was from them and the inhabitants, too. Other than them, and hearing a few horses, two donkeys, and two mules, all he could see were cats in armor, who didn't feel friendly to him. He was half-motivated to eat, but at least he had his breakfast and lunch. It sure saved him his hunger. But he wasn't taken out of his stall all day, if it was even day or night, he couldn't tell. There were no windows. Just as he was closing his eyes, he could hear the sound of an object hitting the floor far away, then he could hear the sound of rapid footsteps, and looked to his left. A group of humans had appeared and rushed. They were some of the guests he was sucked into this universe with. His jaw dropped and he knocked hard against the plastic, wanting to be freed. A small group of cats attempted to shoot at them, and the humans ran back, but a grenade was thrown in their group, and blew up into a gas cloud. Coughing was heard, followed by the sounds of bodies hitting the ground. When the cloud cleared up, the cats were lying down unconscious. The humans came back. Pony could see who they were.
"Get me out of here!" He cried out.
"Stand back." Lynn 2 said. Luna 2 took out a blowtorch, and set it at a low amount, and burned up the hinges holding the plastic door to Pony's stall. The door fell backwards, but Pony kept a good distance. Now, he got out.
"Thank goodness you came to rescue me. Where's Annie?"
"She's been rescued by another group, Pony. We'll reunite with them, Mr. Blik, his wife, Katilda, and the other groups later, but right now, we got to take the air vents, so we won't get caught. Follow us." Said Lynn 2. "I didn't know Mr. Blik has a wife. Why didn't he tell me?" Pony asked as he followed the group.
Group 3 returned to the ropes where they came down from. Pony, and some of the others began to climb up the grappling ropes, but as Loni attempted to dissuade Pony from climbing up, the ropes snapped at the top. Everyone else took out their grappling rope hooks, threw them at the hole in the air vent, but as they started to climb, those ropes snapped at the top too.
"Are you kidding me?" Leni 2 whispered in frustration. "I got to report this to Mr. Blik."
"Shouldn't we cover the cats somewhere? I think we should, and then hide them somewhere no one can find them, so they won't tell anyone." Pony said.
Leni 2 reported the setback that they came upon, and Mr. Blik became frustrated. How weak could these ropes be? Well, at least Gordon and his group hadn't faced further problems. He and Katilda continued on, looking for the room where the control was kept.
Meanwhile, Waffle cut a hole in the air vents in another room, it looked like a small kitchen, and he grabbed the cover before it would hit the floor. He poked his head through the hole. He jumped onto the floor, it was a short height. Gordon poked his head through, as Waffle headed elsewhere.
"Waffle? Where are you going, laddie?"
"I feel like I should find some information somewhere. Plus I'm curious." Waffle then ran off.
"Waffle, no. Curiosity killed the cat. Bootsie, Lunk, stay here. Watch over Cliff. Get a rope ready for us, too." "Got it." Bootsie and Lunk said simultaneously. Gordon jumped into the kitchen and followed Waffle, who had already disappeared. He passed through a living room and saw two doors after passing a doorway, one of them was open, the other was not. Gordon went through the door. He found Waffle sitting on a chair behind a desk, in what looked like an office. He looked like he was reading something. He rushed for Waffle.
"Waffle, get back here. We got to go."
"Gordon, take a look at this."
The manx looked at what his brother was pointing too. There were sheets of paper explaining the Hail of Doom's clan. Several sheets showed pictures and words, explaining intelligence serum for cats, transferring intelligence from human brains into cat brains, using chemistry (as an additional option), and pictures of different people said to be intelligent, including a picture of Carlos Casagrande, and another one of Lisa 1, Lisa, 2, and Levi, were put on there, three individual phases for conquest, the conquest of the USA was phase one, building an empire in the USA, and the conquest of Canada and South America was phase 2, and the conquest of the rest of world phase 3, and part of phase 1 were also several sheets of plans to clone extinct big cats. The Smilodon, the American lion, the Homotherium, the Ngandong tiger, Panthera onca augustina, etc. The last thing he saw was a schedule for dinner: 8:00 PM. On the list of food for the main course was "Captive humans, 1 parrot, and 2 dogs" and on the list of things to eat for dessert was "2 human babies, 1 canary, 1 hamster and 1 frog."
Gordon gasped from looking at all of this. He grabbed something that he saw, it was a plaque, and after turning it around, he read the name, "Philip Brody." "Gasp. This must be their leader. Waffle, let's get out of here." Proclaimed Gordon. The two cats hightailed it out of the office, headed back to the kitchen, and they climbed up the rope.
Meanwhile, Mr. Blik sawed open another air vent cover. He was climbing down on a rope that Katilda had dropped through. He took a look at a shelf in front of him, and after scanning the shelf from the top to the middle, he could see the multiverse ray control. He smiled with his mouth open. Then he looked around himself. No guards were here so far. "Okay, honey. Swing me over. I can see the control."
"Okay, but hurry up. I don't know how long we can go unnoticed."
Mr. Blik nodded and gave a thumb's up. Katilda swung his rope, and Mr. Blik helped by kicking forward and backward. 3 swings, and Mr. Blik latched onto the wall with his left hand's claws and his feet's claws. He retracted most of his claws on his hand, and made a large circle in the glass in front of the control with it. He pushed the circle black, put his hand in, moved the glass away, and grabbed the control. But the moment he pulled it out of the shelf, the alarm sounded with a blaring and a male intercom voice that spoke through an installed ceiling speaker, repeatedly said "Object stolen! Intruder alert!" To his shock!
"Let's get out of here!" He shouted to Katilda! He unlatched himself from the glass, climbed up the rope into the vents, and it was pulled up.
Group 1, with the captives they rescued, could hear the alarm sounding in the hallway.
"Let's find an air vent." Luke proclaimed. He took out his map, and ran off, followed by everyone else.
Group 3 could also hear the noise elsewhere. They quickly ran off. Soon, the alarm stopped sounding.
Meanwhile, Philip watched from a balcony as groups of armed cats with guns ran off in two different direction. No one was escaping. Not tonight. He had a feeling that the captive humans and animals for dinner also escaped.
Group 2 was crawling half faster in the vents, at least they were safe. All of a sudden, a cloud of gas suddenly quickly surrounded them from both sides, the front side showed some small holes spraying out that exact gas cloud. Gordon smelled it and reeked in disgust.
"AAAAAAAGHHH! I smell citrus, mixed with mustard and lots and lots of rotten cheese! AAAAAAAAAGGHHH!" He exclaimed. He and his group were very repulsed by the mixed smells. And with that, they crawled across the vents much faster, trying to endure the horrible smell they were.
Meanwhile, Mr. Blik and Katilda were crawling across the vents very quickly, when they too were quickly surrounded by the gas cloud.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH! My nose. It's AWFUL!" The bombay cat exclaimed.
"It's too powerful! These cats were sure prepared with the air vents! Look for the nearest air vent cover!" Katilda added. She and her husband crawled across very quickly. They crawled for 5 minutes, until an AC vent cover opened loose underneath them, sending them falling 50 feet, but a large decorated tres leches cake sitting on a plate, broke their fall, in the kitchen, though it got destroyed in the process. As the two cats were getting up, they were shocked to see some cats dressed like chefs and cooks, standing in front of them, there were several armored cats with guns too, and another cat was standing in front of them, he was a male white Persian cat, these cats here were all shocked too. The rescue cat duo shrank their eyes and made "o" shapes with their mouths. There was silence for 5 minutes.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" The baker cat cupped his face and closed his eyes. "My CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" The baker kneeled down and cried, while Mr. Blik and Katilda wasted no time in trying to hightail it out of there. The guard cats aimed their guns and repeatedly shot blue lasers at them, but the duo was quick to avoid them, and managed to reach the door, Katilda pushed a button and the door slid upwards, and they ran out!
A lot later, somewhere else, a dark grey female American Shorthair cat was in one of the hallways, reaching a four-way intersection, she was coming from the left side, standing after running to find the thief. Her ears caught the sound of something from 47 feet above. She looked above her, she saw an air vent. She could hear movement from inside it. She smiled with her teeth bared.
"You can't hide from me!" She shot repeatedly, with blue lasers to the near far left, and then to the near far right side of the vent, until the portion of vent fell from the ceiling, as screaming was heard inside of it. The air vent crashed as it hit the ground, and came apart, revealing Gordon, Bootsie, Lunk, Waffle, and Cliff.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? Intruders? And you're stealing the cat we're planning to make part of our army?" The female cat said. She grabbed her walkie talkie and was about to call someone, but Waffle shouted "Hi-yah", flip kicked her in the jaw, then delivered a karate chop from his left hand to his face, then his right hand, knocking her unconscious. It was at this point, they could hear, running from behind them, and to their right. By now, groups 1 and 3 caught up to their face.
"Annie!" Pony shouted out of joy, once he saw Annie at the front of her group!
"Pony!" Annie responded. Pony rushed for her and hugged her in excitement, squeezing her uncomfortably. He could see that she was showing discomfort and let her go. Soon, they could hear running from their right, and saw Mr. Blik and Katilda running towards them.
"We have the control! Run, everyone! Hurry!" Katilda yelled. Pretty soon, 2 large groups of cats rushed towards them from behind and to their left, and stopped momentarily in shock. Mostly everyone escaping from them gasped and looked in shock. The cats were also shocked to see the captives free. But they quickly became serious, aimed their guns, and started charging towards them. Some of them shot at some group members, but in the process, they cut off Lincoln 1, Lincoln 2, Ronnie Anne, Mr. Blik, Katilda, Gordon, Waffle, and Kimberly Cuervo off from everyone else, when they ran ahead of the others, before being followed by a group of 24 cats cutting off from their group.
"Lincoln!" Lynn Loud Sr. yelled. "We'll try and meet back with you again! Run away and keep safe!" Lincoln 1 shouted as his voice was decreasing as he ran off. The other group didn't need to be told twice, as they ran off and were being threatened with lots of lasers being shot at them.
Lincoln 1 and Ronnie Anne's group were chased for 10 miles. How long could they keep running? They were starting to get tired in this expanded place. Lincoln 2 saw an open doorway (the door was damaged and needed to be repaired) coming up on his left, and dashed in there, followed by everyone else. The cat swarm followed them inside. Lincoln 1's group went into the first part of a laboratory. The people ran across and around the laboratory, throwing and knocking over science equipment and containers with chemicals across the floor, and at the cats too. Yet, they were still dodging several lasers, they even had near misses with several lasers shot at them. Ace Savvy saw two lasers flying at both of his sides, he turned sideways, and dodged before continuing to run away. Katilda and Mr. Blik threw and knocked several more objects at the cats, some objects got blasted, a few others hit or tripped some cats, and some only managed to block the rest of the cats, all while dodging lasers flying past them, one even barely flying above Mr. Blik's head. Gordon, Ace Savvy 2, Ronnie Anne, and Kimberly were throwing or knocking over objects with the same variable results as Katilda and Blik, but they still had to deal with avoiding lasers flying past them, Ace Savvy 2 barely dodged 3 lasers coming to him the moment he saw them heading straight for him each time. The group then ran up a staircase leading up to a solid metal walkway, the cats were repeatedly trying to shoot them down, but every time they shot at them, they kept blasting the stairs, damaging them at the top, causing them to lose access to follow them further higher, the group made it to the walkway, they ran straight for a short while, then made a left turn, but the cats from down blow shot at a section, in front of them, but the gap was nearly medium, but easy enough, that they jumped across. The cats shot at another section of walkway above them, but the gap wasn't difficult for them to jump across either. The cats then shot at another section of walkway. Most of the group had made it past the way, but the section of walkway broke and gave way, with Ace Savvy 1 and Kimberly still on it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!" Ace Savvy 1 and Kimberly screamed, as they fell into two huge chemical vats, Ace fell into a vat of red chemicals, while Kimberly fell into a vat of orange chemicals, the vat of red chemicals was labeled "SP transformation serum", and the vat of orange chemicals was called "NAJ transformation serum" right before the walkway section fell onto the two vats!
"Lincoln/Kimberly!" Ronnie Anne and Gordon shouted in shock, reaching out to them as they fell. The cats who shot at them looked at the vats, were shocked and gasped, and their eyes grew big.
"NOOOO! Those serums weren't ready!" A male Siamese cat yelled in shock, cupping his face. Suddenly, the vats towed over in front of them, and they ran off, as the vats fell off pouring the chemicals, as the cats ran off to avoid getting doused by them. Kimberly and Ace Savvy 1 were swept out with the chemicals onto the floor, and they got up, groaning. Their group ran down onto another staircase, and rushed out to them, helping them up.
"Lincoln! Are you all right?" Ronnie Anne asked, worriedly.
"Kimberly. Speak to me. How do you feel?" Gordon asked. Kimberly coughed in response.
"Estoy bien, Gordon." She said.
"I feel fine, everyone. But I accidentally drank some amount of those chemicals. They tasted nasty. UGGGGHH!"
"I accidentally drank them too, hijo." Replied Kimberly.
"Let's go! Come on!" Mr. Blik demanded. And with that, they ran out of the laboratory, only to be confronted by the same group of angry cats that aimed their guns at them, the group ran, dodging more lasers that were repeatedly shot at them, trying quickly to avoid getting shot, having several near misses. As most of the cats followed them, a male Maine Coon was called by Phil Brody on a walkie talkie who ordered him this: "Remember. Herd them all together. Kill any of them if you must, but keep the pony alive. Don't make a mistake." "Got it, sir." The cat soon facepalmed himself. His leader was going to be quite pissed when he'd learn the laboratory was damaged.
The Loud boy's group kept on running for a while, dodging lasers along the way, having lots and lots of near misses. Several lasers have been shot past everyone again and again. However, several cats were shot down by lasers by most of the Loud boys and Lunk, and there were grenades thrown and blown up occasionally, the cat's targets they were chasing weren't quite defenseless. Shots were made back and forth, back and forth between the people with guns, and cats with guns, Lunk was running backwards and zig-zagging shooting with his machine gun, shooting down a lot of more cats. The group continued to run, Luke stayed behind, took off and threw his backpack away from him for a short distance, flew up into the air, aimed his shot gun and shot at the cats, making them back off, they shot at him repeatedly, but while he had near misses, he managed to dodge them, repeatedly shooting at them, and he was managing to shoot down some. The cats shot at him again, but he shot more times at them, had several misses, but he shot down some more cats. One cat shot at him with a machine gun, but Night Clubs, dodged the lasers, as difficult as it was, what with the near misses, shot down the cat with the machine gun after trying to shoot him repeatedly but either missing or shooting down other cats, and he continued to shoot down a couple more cats, while dodging 10 more lasers shot at him, but unaware to him, one black Manx ran past him, and shot at him, but Night Clubs barely noticed the cat, turned off his jetpack, turned it on again past half-way down, then turned it off again, he saw he was surrounded by guns pointing at him, threw his jetpack between the cats that were aiming at him, he ran as cats shot at him, but two lasers hit the jetpack, causing it to explode and knocking some of them down. Luke got up, grabbed a grenade from his pocket and continued to run, as the cats continued to chase after him, trying to shoot him down. But he removed the hook and threw it, and what followed was an explosion killing some cats. And fortunately for him, his suit had his map, which he took out and took a look at it. It was a short while, before he caught up with his group, just as they caught up with the cat brother's group in another four-way intersection, from one of the paths they were coming out of, but just as Pony, Annie, Carl, and Waffle (riding on Pony, Waffle jumped to ride on Pony), Rita, Lily (being held by Rita), Lisa (being pulled by her mother), Frida, Hector, Carlos, Carlitos (being held by Frida), Sergio, Cliff, Walt, and Geo had gotten ahead of them, two more swarms of cats come out of the tunnels in an upcoming four-way intersection, had surrounded most of the group here, while the rest ran ahead of them, as the women and Waffle looked back.
"Go, everyone! Get out of here! Don't worry about us! That's an order!" Mr. Blik yelled.
Hesitantly, they continued on, Waffle was the most hesitant and his eyes became big and watery as he frowned, still looking back, before turning his head, and taking out his map. A group of 50 cats chased after them, while all of the other cats stayed behind, and looked at the group that they surrounded them, beyond escape, backing 5 feet away from them. The group of mostly humans looked at the cats. There were hundreds of them, pointing their guns at them. Among the people they were with, Gordon, Katilda, Mr. Blik, Bootsie, Lunk, Kimberly, Ace Savvy 1 and 2, and Ronnie Anne, showed no signs of fear however. Everyone was silent for 5 minutes. Then, the cats started laughing for 10 minutes. Lynn Loud Sr. and some of the Loud girls from families 1 and 2 and some of the Loud boys were fearful, but Gordon and the others mentioned after him showed no fear at all. Then the cats stopped laughing. Soon, one male Burmese cat spoke up in an American accent. "You people and animals sure gave us quite a challenge. Well, rather you gave us quite a chase. Sure tired several of us. Now, we could just shoot you down and save us a lot of trouble. But no, we'll take you on in a partly easier fight. We'll fight you, without our weapons, just our claws-and our teeth." After he said that, the Burmese cat dropped his gun, grinned showng his teeth, and let out his claws, and raised his hands upwards, and the rest of the cats dropped their weapons, raised their arms and let out their claws. "And in return, you fight us, with just your fists, and your feet." "And what if we don't fight your way?" Mr. Blik shouted out loud in response. "Then you're all history." A female Balinese cat answered him, in a light Balinese accent. In 2 minutes, Lincoln 1 spoke up. "Hail of Doom clan, we can save ourselves a lot of trouble and pain, if you just let us go. There's no need for violence here. We have our own lives. In this world, and in others. We'll be in no trouble with each other, nor will we have to be confronting each other. You let us go, peacefully, and we'll bring no harm to you. This does not need to get violent, nor deadly." 3 minutes of silence passed. "Little boy, you're a fool to speak to the Hail of Doom clan. The human race is scum, and we're hungry. Either you and all of the other humans, with the new ones, head back to the place you're held on hooks, and you'll be our dinner and dessert, or you'll die already." A bobcat said in response. Pony gasped at the statement that humans would be dinner for these cats. Mr. Blik kept a serious face. He, Gordon, and Katilda huddled up and whispered amongst themselves. Ace Savvy 1,2, Ronnie Anne, and Kimberly were unstirred however from what the Hail of Doom clan wanted to do with them. Mr. Blik, Gordon, and Katilda then broke up. "So, be it, Hail of Doom clan. We will fight you, without any weapons." The cats smiled with bared teeth and narrowed eyes in response. Most of the rescue group took off their backpacks (as in all of those who actually did have them), put up serious faces against them, dropped their weapons, and raised their fists. Ace Savvy 1,2, Kimberly, Lunk, Bootsie, Gordon, and Ronnie Anne were particularly ready against them, they held glares on their faces. There was nothing but silence among everyone. Both respective groups looked at each other without any word. Ace Savvy 1 and Gordon darted their eyes back and forth, looking around, having their fists raised. Who knows? Maybe they can take them on and emerge victorious. And the HOD cats just had their mouths closed, still smiling with narrowed eyes. 4 minutes had passed as both groups looked at each other. A droplet of sweat then dropped from Ace Savvy 1, and hit the floor. And now, the cats surrounding their targets immediately rushed them, screeching at the highest volume! Lunk rushed away from the group as he jumped into the air, and landed into a large group of cats, the cats quickly ran and dodged him as he landed, slamming his feet on the ground. Gordon, Bootsie, and Kimberly (with Ace Savvy 1,2, and Ronnie Anne on top of her) jumped over them, they ran on Lunk as he bent down, and they jumped onto and from him.
"HWAAAAAAAH!" Kimberly shouted, just as they landed, in different positions, in front of a small group of cats charging them, with Ace Savvy 1,2, and Ronnie Anne quickly getting off, those cats quickly got thrown over them, and they ended up crashing onto the floor. Gordon puched a male black Bombay cat to the left, Ace Savvy 1 punched a male Calico cat back, Ace Savvy 2 was charged from behind by a female Bengal cat, but he quickly noticed and turned, punched her back, Bootsie was charged by two Maine Coons, but he kicked them down by their two legs that were close to each other and got out of the way, then he got onto them, and slammed their two heads together, then a female orange American shorthair tabby cat jumped onto him, but she got grabbed by the neck, slammed onto the ground, and puched in the face. Then, Bootise got charged by a white American Wirehair cat, but he grabbed her by the sides, and threw her over and far from him as she screamed, before crashing onto the ground, as Mr. Blik and Katilda ran out of her way and jumped, locking two hands with each other, and spun. Mr. Blik jumped on a gray American shorthair cat's face, they spun around, Katilda jumped on a Himalayan cat's face, they went in the air again, and Mr. Blik slammed his foot against a bobcat's face and they jumped again (in fact, Katilda had been teaching Mr. Blik how to fight for years). Kimberly was getting swarmed by a group of cats, punching and kicking away some of them, but some of them were jumping onto her and latching with their claws, slashing and biting onto different parts of her. Kimberly grabbed a white Persian cat from her right shoulder, then a black striped, gray and white European Shorthair cat from her left leg and slammed their heads together, then grabbed a female Abyssinian cat from her right leg and threw her across, just as she was getting swarmed by more cats.
"In the name of the Highland Quid clan, feel my stiiiiiiing!" Gordon exclaimed, as he kicked a female serval in the jaw and kicked her away from Kimberly's right leg in the midsection, punched away a gray Manx with black stripes twice in the face, and jumped onto a male bobcat latching on Kimberly's stomach, he scratched onto the bobcat repeatedly, making the bobcat yowl in pain, as he fell off, leaving bloody scratch marks on Kimberly, tearing her nightshirt. The bobcat swung twice at Gordon, but he dodged the two swings, the bobcat swung at Gordon again, only for his punch to get blocked by Gordon using his two arms, he quickly got punched by Gordon in the nose, then kicked away, by Kimberly, still having cats on her, leaving claw marks on her. Gordon punched a male caracal latching onto Kimberly's right arm in the nose repeatedly, making him let go, then he got kicked down by Gordon who jumped up to him. Gordon then jumped at a male dark grey European Shorthair cat and a female brown and white European Shorthair cat with black stripes, biting down and latching onto Kimberly's left arm, punched them on the heads twice with their helmets, making them yell in pain, let go, and Kimberly yelled in pain from the flesh that was torn off, then Gordon kicked them in the midsections individually, then he kicked them away by the faces. He then went over to help Kimberly with four cats, two of them were biting onto Kimberly's legs. Ace Savvy 1 wasn't doing any better. He was currently confronted by 7 cats, and his costume was getting continually torn as he went on. He grabbed a female bobcat that lunged for him, used her in a body slam, then grabbed a male British Shorthair cat by the arm, threw him over while holding onto him, and he slammed down together with her on the floor, he got up, punched an orange Persian cat 7 times in the face, before he kicked it away against the midsection, he got jumped on from behind by a male brown Exotic Shorthair cat with black stripes, who bit down on his neck, making scream in pain, and tried to pry him off, but to no avail, he could see a male black bombay cat, a male Indian leopard cat, and a female Russian Blue cat charging at him in front, with smiles and their claws ready. The leopard cat rushed him first and jumped at him, but he got grabbed, slammed, and punched three times in the face, only for the Russian Blue cat to grab and bite onto Ace Savvy 1's right arm, and the bombay cat to grab and bite the boy's left leg, the boy screamed in pain again. Ace Savvy 1 jumped over and slammed the Exotic Shorthair onto the ground, making him unconscious, then he pulled the leopard cat off of his arm with some effort, tearing off flesh and he screamed, there was blood coming out (there was blood coming out in different parts of him too), he headbutted the leopard cat and threw him aside, then he grabbed onto the Russian Blue cat, trying to pry her off for 2 minutes, until he finally did, put her in a camel clutch for 10 seconds, before the cat escaped, tried to engage him again, but then she was put in a headscissors. Ace Savvy 1 then gave her another body slam. Suddenly, a male Maine Coon came from behind him and wrapped his cape around his face, punching him 5 times, the fifth time had him hit the floor and slide and then shortly across it. The Maine Coon then punched him 3 more times across the face. Ronnie Anne witnessed her friend's turmoil a few times and wanted to help, but she was too preoccupied with other cats trying to bring her down. The Maine Coon then slashed the very repeatedly, tearing much of it into pieces and then slashed at Ace Savvy's face and on his nose several times, causing it to bleed nearly severely, but Ace Savvy grabbed the cat's paws slammed him over, quickly came over and put the cat in a chicken wing hold for 7 seconds, before the cat broke free, jumped up and spun around, kicking the boy down. Ace Savvy 1 was quick to react though, he quickly got up and punched the Maine Coon who rushed him, but the boy punched him in the face 10 times, until the cat was punched away by the tenth punch. A blue American Shorthair cat rushed him, screeching, only for him to be grabbed by the head by Charles, who thrashed him around 20 times until his head broke with an explicit crunch. The pit bull looked at the boy, as he held the dead cat in his mouth, as blood came slowly pouring out of his victim's head, until the cat was dropped. Charles was also shown to have blood across his body. Apparently he was being given a hard time by the cats. Ace Savvy smiled at the dog and gave him a thumb's up. He rushed another male Maine Coon who rushed him too, but the boy grabbed the cat first, put him in a bear hug, but the cat was quick to repeatedly slash his back, tearing up more of his costume. Ace Savvy was getting angry now. In fact, he was already getting angry previously, and it was growing. Ace Savvy then quickly put the cat in a fireman's carry, holding him tightly, as much as the cat squirmed, as heavy as he was, he raised him up and slammed him against his back twice, but that didn't work. Of course. He had armor, so Ace Savvy threw the cat down to the floor, then put him in a gutwrench, but the cat was still resistant, scratching at his arms, causing more flesh to open. Lincoln's eyes watered in pain, but he kept his grip. Then he put the cat in a gorilla press, threw him down again, grabbed him by the arm, then flipped him over in another body slam. A female serval rushed him, but the boy was quicker, and put him in a guillotine choke for 7 seconds. He could quickly see a small group of cats rushing him, but he grabbed the serval and quickly threw her into the group, crashing into them. A female Maine Coon rushed him next, but Ace Savvy 1 was quick to turn the tables on her by putting an octopus hold on her, before flipping her over, and then rolling around on her, letting go, and then punched her face 3 times. He blew in tiredness and satisfaction, these moves he was learning from Alejandro Cuervo sure were paying off, as long as he used the right ones. Two more cats jumped at him from both sides but they were quickly caught by the heads by Charles and Lalo who thrashed them around almost a lot until their heads broke with the sounds of crunching of bone. The dogs dropped their dead bodies, with blood in their mouths. Ace Savvy then went on to help Ronnie Anne. She had a lot of slashes on herself, her nightwear was getting torn pretty badly (but not entirely), the same was with Ace Savvy 2 next to her. Currently, the Latina girl was dealing with a female Maine Coon biting down on her neck as she pinned her down, while Ace Savvy 2 was getting slashed in the chest and the face repeatedly by a blue American Shorthair cat, while being restrained by 6 cats behind him. Ace Savvy 1 punched the Maine Coon twice, and punched her again, then kicked her down by the legs, helped Ronnie Anne up, and they rushed the 7 cats giving Ace Savvy 2 a hard time, Ace Savvy 1 punched away the Shorthair cat, Ronnie Anne punched 3 of the other cats, Ace Savvy 1 then slammed two of the other cat's heads together, and rammed the last cat in a headbutt. Lunk was punching away lots of cats, he got grabbed onto and bitten by other cats, but with his strength, he was able to pull them off of him, he even slammed some cat's heads against each other, and he even threw others away or at groups of cats rushing him. During his fighting, he killed a few cats. Gordon and Kimberly were punching different cats coming at them, as much as they wre overwhelming them, to the point some were either grabbing or holding onto them. Kimberly, while dealing with three other cats holding onto her, got jumped and bitten on the neck, by a female Calico cat, but she pried her off and threw her against a group of cats, then grabbed another cat, headbutted it, she grabbed a tuxedo cat, choked it for a few seconds, as she growled, threw it away, upwards. She grabbed a white cat, put it in a front facelock, spun around, and threw it away. More cats rushed her and Gordon. Gordon punched and kicked some cats, only to get restrained on the arms by a Maine Coon, but Kimberly quickly grabbed it and flipped it over in a body slam (Kimberly was no slouch, in fact, she learned wrestling from Alejandro ever since they were in elementary school), five more cats jumped on her again, but she jumped over and slammed two of them on the floor, she jumped over again, facing her front side, and slammed those cats as well. She punched 5 more cats that rushed at her from different sides at different times. She kicked a Balinese cat that jumped at her from behind. At this point, she was getting angrier than she previously was as she breathed heavily, at this point, she was covered in lots of scars and scratch marks. Ronnie Anne and Ace Savvy 1 punched and kicked different cats coming at them, as the two kids had their backs placed with each other, Ace Savvy 2 was on their right side punching and kicking other cats. All 3 kids locked elbows with each other, then spun around, punching cats that were coming at them from other sides for a 10 seconds. But their tiredness was growing. So was Ace Savvy 1's anger. His anger was noticed by the other kids. A tuxedo cat jumped at Ace Savvy 1, clawing at his chest, tearing his suit up more, but Ace grabbed the cat, put her in a chin hold, and Ronnie Anne punched the cat 5 times, then she was jumped by a Siamese cat and a Himalayan cat from the backside, as they sank their claws and bit onto her right arm and back, drawing blood, making her yell out painfully. Ace 1 pulled out the Himalayan on the girl's back, threw it away, removed the Siamese from the girl's arm, as flesh was pulled off, threw it to Ronnie Anne, she body slammed the cat, then punched it in the face, she was jumped on by a white European Shorthair cat, and knocked down, the cat was slashing her face as it snarled, but Ronnie Anne grabbed the cat, put it in a bear hug, jumped up, and slammed down on it, and then punched the cat 3 times, she was rushed by a brown European Shorthair cat with black stripes, but Ace 2 blinded the cat with his cape, which he promptly wrapped around it, then Ronnie Anne took the opportunity, took the cat out, put it in a gorilla press, then slammed it, only for her to be rushed by 7 more cats. Ace 1 and 2 joined her, and took on the cats. Ace 2 threw one of the cats over him, and punched another one away by the jaw, Ronnie Anne kicked one cat away, and put another one in a chicken wing, making it react in pain, then quickly rotated it over, and slammed it head on the ground, Ace 1 kicked one cat in the jaw, and got mounted by the last two cats, one on his chest (it was a bobcat), and one on his back, the one on his chest lowered and bit his stomach, while the other one bit his back, and he yelled in pain again. His suit, his pants, and his footwear (that were also getting continuously torn as the entire fight against the army went on, although his pants and footwear got torn less then his suit) were slashed at repeatedly, but Ronnie Anne grabbed the bobcat (as it tore off more of the suit and slashed more skin), put it in a front facelock, rolled around for 3 seconds, put it and held it over her back, pressing down on its neck, then jumped over, hit the ground, and punched the bobcat, while Ace 1 grabbed the last cat, punched it, it got grabbed by Ace 2 who put it in a chicken wing hold, while Ace 1 growled in anger and punched it 10 times in the face. Meanwhile, Bobby, High Card, Linka, Lori 2 and 1, were punching and kicking around several cats coming at them, getting their clothes torn off and their skin slashed as they went (Lori 1 suffered the worst, since she and her sisters from their universe were wearing nightwear, but at least they had undershirts, same with Ronnie Anne and the female members in her family), Bobby grabbed a Maine Coon from off his chest, getting slashed as the cat tried to hold on, and threw it against another cat, holding onto Lori 2, causing them to fall, and get stomped on by Linka and High. Night Clubs, Luna 2 and 1 were also kicking and punching, although they and the other groups were mounted on by some cats at times that counted. One Maine Coone jumped at Night Club but the cat was grabbed and headbutted. Luna 2 kicked two cats away, then punched away another one jumping at her, but Luna 1 was jumped on by 7 cats on different places in her body.
Waffle's group were still chased by the cats chasing after them in the hallways, especially through the turns and staircases, as Waffle read the map, and lasers were shot at them and everyone tried to avoid. Pony spotted a stake side flatbed truck from 15 miles.
"I see a truck! Let's use that!" He proclaimed.
Suddenly, a group of small cats came out of a left side tunnel and blocked the group (apparently they had previous broke off from the cats chasing after this group and went ahead), pointing their guns at them, however, they were disrupted from being pelted by arrows that Waffle was shooting. "Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew!" Waffle said. Waffle shot at them continuously making them break the barricade. One black bombay cat, however, stayed behind, his eyes were closed, he couldn't handle the arrows, and just as he opened his eyes, he saw Pony's hooves 1 second before he was kicked out of the way, tumbling across the floor. "Sorry!" Pony shouted back at him. Waffle jumped off and shot at the cats pursuing them with his gun, while backing off, trying to hold them off, and trying to avoid lasers shot at him. He did manage to shoot down some of them. When the cats were starting to get too close, he rushed for the truck. Before then, Rita found the keys conveniently found in the place to start up the vehicle, and with that she made off, just as Waffle jumped on and held onto it. He was pulled up by Hector and Annie.
A bobcat was punched away by Lynn 1, in a group with Lynn 2, Strong Suit, and Rosa. "Who is next?" Lynn 1 said, putting up her fist. Suddenly, a large swarm of cats circled them and covered them up as they huddled, only for them to be broken up and sent flying. 1 bobcat slid across the floor, then got grabbed on the hind legs by Rosa, spinning it around hitting several cats in front of her, swatting them away or sending a few others flying, one of which was another male bobcat, who was sent flying into a wall, next to a ladder, before he fell. Then, it's shown that Philip Brody and Ozzy Crane were watching from atop a rectangular structure. For Philip, honestly, he was impressed that the humans and cats here were fighting off his army with close to great performance, even with their clothing being torn off a lot as the fighting went on, and all the wounds they received, especially Strong Suit, Lynn 2 and 1, Rosa, Kimberly, Mr. Blik, and Katilda, but he was most impressed from seeing Lincoln 1 (he was the boy who had his suit, and his cape entirely torn off at this point, but much of his pants remained intact, even though they had slash marks) while Lincoln 2's suit was only half torn off, he could feel it in his heart) from how he was fighting. But he also knew that the group was getting even more tired. There were still hundreds of cats in the hallway, they were overwhelming them.
"They fight with much determination. Allow me to direct my squadron, so we can crush them by the portions." Ozzy said.
"No. Let our comrades have their fun. It's only a matter of time before these enemies are brought down." Pretty soon, Philip could hear some noises coming from the tunnels. He smiled at that, as he continued to watch the fight.
Lunk and Bootsie, continued punching, throwing, and kicking cats around, Lunk punched two cats by the faces away, but suddenly, far more many cats surrounded them and as they tried to fight them off, they were quickly overwhelmed, and brought down.
Linka's group kept on fighting the cats, but they were getting too tired. But suddenly, they were swarmed on and brought down as well. Even Night Club's group were too tired, and they were overwhelmed. However, Night Club, High Card, and Lori 2 were brought down by cougars, leopards, and a Siberian tiger.
Lynn Loud Sr. 1, Maria, Carlota, CJ, Lane, Luan 2, 1, and the younger girls were either brought down by cats, or dogs of different breeds, like German Shepherds and pit bulls, or cougars and jaguars.
Rosa, Strong Suit, Lynn Jr. 2, and 1 threw some cats across, but suddenly they were kicked or punched by the cheeks across the floor, by cats in large robotic suits, and Rosa was grabbed and restrained by two more, while the three Lynn counterparts were piled on and grabbed by pit bulls, German Shepherds, or lions.
Gordon, Mr. Blik, and Katilda tried to help Kimberly as she fought off cats rushing her from two different sides, but they ended up being piled on without a lot of trouble. Charles and Lalo fought the armored cats, but they were also overwhelmed by swarming armored cats, brought down, chained by the legs, and muzzled.
Rita drove the truck, and she could see the afternoon sky in a hole. She had a hopeful look in her face. Some people could see it from the sides too. Pony could see it too, as they got ever closer. Pony said "I hope we're going to make it. I think we're going to make it. We're going to make i-" Suddenly, Rita stopped as the truck turned around! To everyone's shock as they gasped, a large group of armored cats, cats in huge robotic suits holding leashed dogs that were barking, and variable big cats held by chains were blocking the ramp (the thing with the ramp, like the doors leading to the laboratory, all the doors were supposed to lock themselves in case there was an intruder, same with the ramp on the beach, but those 2 aformentioned doors and this ramp were defective and needed maintenance). Sergio and Walt tried to fly out of the way, but they were quickly shot at with chains, caught in them, and fell to the ground. The armored cats then surrounded the truck, as one of them carried the birds, while holding a long chain that was not connected with the rest, aiming their guns at the truck.
"Dismount. Even from the pony. Now." One male Canadian lynx ordered calmly. Waffle poked his head out, and turned on a laser pen, moving a red dot across the floor. However, absolutely none of the animals blocking them were getting distracted, they only glared at them. Then Waffle took out a water gun and shot water at the lynx. But the lynx was nothing but annoyed. "That's strange. Most cats usually hate water and they'd play with laser pens." "Our leader has hardened us to get used to laser pens and water. Those tricks will not work. Now get off, everyone." The lynx replied. Everyone simply did as they were told, left the truck and most of them held their arms up.
"Now I have to warn you, if any of you try to run, or we are insulted, you will pay the consequences." The lynx said. "Let's go." The lynx pointed his gun at Rita.
Kimberly, Ace Savvy 1, 2, and Ronnie Anne were the last ones in a group, fighting off the armored cats. Ace 1 was restrained by a male Maine Coon, but he ducked his head as the cat restraining him was punched away by another male Maine Coon, and he and the other kids punched him away as well. Suddenly, a white tiger jumped over them. Then, the tiger turned around and slashed Ronnie Anne across the face, making her cry out in pain and roll over.
"Ronnie Anne!" Ace 1 yelled out. He helped her up, but they were piled on by another group of cats, so were the other people. Ace 2 was unable to break free, but most of the others had broken free from the others as well, they were punching, throwing, kicking at, and slamming several cats that charged at them, and using. Now, Kimberly and Lincoln 1 were getting even angrier than before, but Lincoln 1 would be more expressive. All the while, the cats would continue slashing and biting at them on their skin!
"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Lincoln yelled out. He fought hard against so many cats surrounded him. During this, Lincoln had flashbacks to several bad things happening to him: Lori threatening him for being in his room, having to disarm Luan's prank traps, Lola revealing him doing favors for his ex-sisters was a prank, getting grounded for his sisters making a mess at the grocery store, getting made fun of for portraying Ace Savvy, taking the blame for Lucy clogging the toilet, having to do the polar bear experiment and those asshole boys coming over to his house, his classmates making fun of him for their perceived status of him with Ronnie Anne, him being accused of being bad luck, getting locked out of the house, wearing the squirrel suit, failing every time at the Ace Savvy convention, initially getting disqualified, and him and his ex-sisters suffering the anger of the crowd at the disastrous premiere of the Ace Savvy movie.
*Cue six panels of him, with two rows of three panels.*
"AAAAAGHH!/AAAAAAGHH!/ AAAAGHH!/AAAAGHH!/AAAAAGHHH!/AAAAAAAGGHHH!" Lincoln continued to fight the cats, with Ronnie Anne and Kimberly in a group. But the cats continued to take them on, tiring them as it went on. His anger was frightening to his ex-family members who were present, and most of the others too. Lincoln wasn't always angry.
Lynn 1 could see a Maine Coon about to jump Lincoln 1 from behind.
"Gasp. Lin-" Lynn 1's mouth was strongly covered by a lioness's paw to prevent her from warning him. Lincoln 1 couldn't hear her, but out of instinct, he turned around, and punched the Maine Coon away, only to be jumped on by a Sphynx cat who bit his right ear, and he pulled it and threw it away as well.
"DAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" He yelled. He fought alongside his two comrades hard as they continued to fight around the cats that were rushing them, punching, kicking, throwing, slamming. He grabbed a male black bombay cat that jumped at him, and slammed it onto the floor, choking him for 8 seconds, angrily glaring at him, before throwing him away to the other side. By now, he and everyone else were breathing heavily, with clenched fists. These people were covered in lots of scratch marks and open bite wounds yet they were still alive.
"WHO ELSE WANTS SOOOOOOOOOOOOME?!" Lincoln 1 shouted furiously into the air as he looked upwards and raised his fists. The way he said it, by much, tingled the spines of the cats he was fighting against, Ronnie Anne, and most of his group members who were brought down, and Kimberly was just scared a little bit. Even Philip Brody was frightened by this, a little bit, but he quickly kept his cool. Lincoln 1 breathed heavily as he looked at the cats around him.
"Lincoln 1, if you're the exact one we brought in." Philip announced from above, speaking through a megaphone, making the boy turn to look at him, concerning the cat's feeling about him.
"You're an interesting boy. Before my soldiers had you hung in chains, we've taken a look at you and your other ex-family member's memories, same with the other captives, not counting the pony and other animals, with the use of machinery and technology. You always try so hard, and lots of times, fail so miserably." Philip extended an arm at the end of that sentence. "This time will be no exception." Philip said, moving his finger at the end.
Lincoln 1 looked on at him in fury, breathing furiously, with clenched fists. Suddenly, the three of them were piled on by swarms of cats, clawing at them repeatedly. Now, the anger in him and Kimberly were getting even higher, as they got clawed at and bitten repeatedly, suddenly, their bodies were slowly changing, the remnants of their clothes and footwear were disappearing, their skin were becoming full of fur, and their teeth and bodies' anatomies were changing. Suddenly, Lincoln 1 and Kimberly burst out of the cat piles, and swatted away the remaining cats, piled on Ronnie Anne, but Lincoln 1 was now transformed into a Smilodon populator, with white fur, dark and light red stripes (half light red at the bottom, half dark red at the top) with outlines that were half black at the top, half blue at the bottom, and Kimberly was now a North American jaguar, with tan and grey fur, and pink rosettes (with black outlines and dots surrounding and inside the rosettes), and the two big cats roared loudly! The sight was very shocking to mostly everyone, even Philip was shocked. Not only that, but Lincoln and Kimberly's wounds were all gone. He thought momentarily, and concluded that they gained the ability to shapeshift into these forms, because they fell into two vats of chemicals that weren't ready, that they would've accidentally drank, mixed with their clothes on them too.
Lincoln roared furiously at the cats, joined by Kimberly! No cats dared to swarm them, they only looked at them with shrunken eyes, several had lowered jaws, as they backed off. But this wasn't enough for them. They jumped into a large group of cats and started swiping away as many of them as they could, in fury! They were quickly swarmed upon by the cats, but these big cats weren't going down easily. They swiped the cats away again and again, as they were rushed, even mounted upon, but when they were jumped on, they rolled over the ground, managing to get these cats off of them. Lincoln, however, could see that Ronnie Anne was getting piled on again. He jumped over to her, joined by Kimberly, and they swiped the cats sitting on her away, Lincoln and Kimberly each grabbed the last two cats with their mouths, and shook them around before throwing them away. Ronnie Anne climbed onto Lincoln as two more cats charged them. Lincoln charged them, swung them, and swatted the two of them away, and they slammed and tumbled against the floor. Kimberly heard behind them, and she and Lincoln turned around, and they could see that cats, along with German Shepherds of different colors, Doberman Pinschers, pit bulls, American bulldogs, and Rottweilers, all of the dogs of which were barking, surrounded them. Lincoln growled lowly at some of them as he looked at them. The dogs and cats rushed them, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne were easily able to swat away, grab and throw several of them away, even shake some cats and dogs that latched onto them, but pit bulls were the most difficult foes, what with their bite force, but nevertheless, it was nothing that powerful swipes, swats, and partially rolls couldn't handle, though still had pieces of flesh. Ronnie Anne was jumped on by two pit bulls. Lincoln noticed this, roared at them, and swiped one away, and grabbed the other one by the neck, thrashed it and threw it, but he did not kill it. A Doberman jumped at him, but he swiped it away. Some more cats and dogs rushed them, but the two cats weren't scared and clenched their teeth, with angry faces.
*Cue four moving stills, of Kimberly and Lincoln, with Ronnie Anne riding the latter, fighting off cats and dogs in different ways, either swiping, punching (in Ronnie Anne's case), the cats holding or shaking anything in their mouths, on a side note, jumping, and roaring.*
It was obvious that these two humans in their feline forms were too much for them to handle. Philip looked over at Lincoln. Two Doberman Pinschers jumped by Lincoln and grabbed Ronnie Anne. Lincoln was about to defend her, but then he was jumped on by a Siberian tiger, and they rolled over shortly. The tiger was about to grab the neck, but Lincoln slashed the tiger repeatedly on the face, swiped it away, and grabbed its neck as well, but then he was jumped on by a lion. clutching onto his front leg with his claws. Kimberly was going to jump on the lion, but was jumped on by another jaguar, roaring in defiance. She was then bitten on the near end of her right side by another jaguar that joined in as they attempted to restrain her. Lincoln stubbornly refused to give in to the lion, he slashed his legs severly, causing blood to gush out and the lion to roar in pain, and he swiped the lion away. Then he became surrounded by some big cats, and several lionesses too, as they all growled at him, and he growled back. He was outnumbered, but he wasn't scared. "STOP!" Lincoln heard a voice. Then, Philip came out from one side of the group of big cats, and Lincoln turned his head to see him. "You...are mine. Dead or alive." The cat said. The Smilodon narrowed his eyes and growled. Philip pulled out a sword from its scabbard, and a whip too, they came with a belt he was wearing. The big cats backed off some considerable amount, letting the captives see. Lynn 1 gasped, bit the lioness's paw, and exclaimed "Hey, you can't fight him with a sword and whip! That's not fair!"
"Well, I wouldn't call fighting a Smilodon with only your claws and teeth if you're smaller than him, fair, little girl." A British Shorthair cat replied to her, in a light British accent.
Philip and Lincoln 1 circled each other slowly. They glared at each other with narrowed eyes. They growled at each other shortly. The captives were filled with nervousness. Ronnie Anne, and Gordon had uncertainty inside them. Philip growled again, Lincoln growled back one last time. And Philip made the first move. Philip jumped up into the air, Lincoln jumped after him, Philip yowled and pulled his sword back, and was about to move it forward, but Lincoln swatted him out of the way with his paw, and Philip crashed to the ground, but he tightly gripped his sword, the saber-toothed cat landed, and charged the Maine Coon, but Philip quickly got up, dodged out of the way, and turned. Lincoln quickly stopped, he turned his head to face Philip, roared at him, then charged him again, but Philip moved to the side, quickly jumped onto him, and slashed his back repeatedly, while latched onto him, Lincoln shook desperately to get the cat off, after 13 seconds, he shook the cat off, but Philip was quick to plant the sword into the floor, held tightly onto the handle, the sword leaned over as he landed on his hind feet. Lincoln lunged for Philip and swatted him away from the sword. Philip crashed and slid across the floor, but he was quick to get up, he saw the saber-toothed cat rush for him, he quickly turned around, jumped onto the bigger cat's back, and pulled back on the ears. The saber-toothed cat roared, and attempted to shake him off, but the cat held onto his neck tightly. The saber-toothed cat rocked back and forth trying to shake him off, then he got onto his hind legs and leaned over in an attempt to slam Philip, but the cat, jumped off, leaving the cat to fall down. Philip turned to face his enemy again. Lincoln rushed the Maine Coon again, but this time, Philip stayed long enough and jumped at him, barely avoiding Lincoln's paw coming out to swipe him, latched onto Lincoln's face's top, quickly got onto the neck, and scratched Lincoln's face repeatedly drawing blood, but the Smilodon roared in pain and defiance and quickly and violently shook off the cat to the right side. The cat prepared himself, though, and landed on his hands and feet, he turned to face Lincoln again. Lincoln rushed at him, but Philip pulled out his whip and struck Lincoln in the face, making him stop in his tracks Philip lashed Lincoln again with his lips twice on his left leg, then on the face again, Philip ran to his foe's right side and lashed with his whip at one of Lincoln's bite marks 7 times. Lincoln roared in pain all every time. This could not be happening. There was no way he could lose to a cat like this. Philip attempted to lash Lincoln again, but the saber-toothed cat dodged it, then when Philip lashed at him again, Lincoln quickly backed off. Philip and Lincoln slowly circled each other again, for 5 minutes. Philip ran to Lincoln's left side and attempted to lash Lincoln again on one of his bite mark under his left shoulder, but Lincoln backed off, *cue short slow motion* but the whip struck underneath his left eye instead. Lincoln shortly covered his face's left side. Lincoln roared at Philip again, and he panted, as he slowly walked in a short curvy direction to the right, from his point of view. Philip lashed his whip again, but Lincoln dodged it again, quickly grabbed it with his mouth, began to spin around, dragging Philip along with the whip, he spun around for a 5 seconds before the whip snapped, and Philip was sent flying into the ceiling, and Lincoln jumped up after him and struck him in the backside with his right paw, sending him slamming down. Then Lincoln slashed Philip on the back (although he didn't make a deep slash), and Philip screeched painfully. But Philip was fueled by determination to go on, however, he was pinned down by Lincoln's left paw. Just as Lincoln was about to grab him with his mouth, Philip rolled over, slashed Lincoln's paw repeatedly, rolled over again, and repeatedly slashed another of Lincoln's bite wounds on his midsection's left side, then he dashed for his sword, which he grabbed and barely dodged being grabbed by Lincoln who lunged at him. Philip thrust his floor on the ground, used it as jumping point, jumped over the saber-toothed cat, holding his sword, then slashed across three of Lincoln's bite wounds, as well as slash across the cat's right side of his face, but Lincoln was quick to try to dodge it as he closed his eyes, and all he got for it, was a scar that went across his closed eyelids, but his eye wasn't gouged out, thankfully. Lincoln panted, faced Philip, charged him and roared, but Philip dodged to the right. He got knocked down by a quick swipe from Lincoln's paw, and his claws were also unleashed, so they slashed him up left across his face, but he still had his sword, turned over and just as Lincoln was about to deliver a lethal bite, Philip lodged his sword horizontally between him and Lincoln, keeping his mouth pried open. The two struggled with each other on who would get the upper hand for 4 minutes. Both were really determined to beat the other. Lincoln was about to swat Philip away again, but the Maine Coon quickly pulled on his whiskers, making the Smilodon roar in pain and release the sword and take a few steps back. Philip darted to the left, slashed at Lincoln's right canine, breaking it, then slashed a short horizontal gash from Lincoln's front leg to the middle of his midsection, and a small stream of blood poured out, then *cue short slow motion*, just as Lincoln was quickly starting to turn around, Philip quickly kept his position in movement, pulled his sword back by a little bit of a medium amount while holding it with both hands, than thrust it, nearly partway into the Smilodon's body, between the ribcage, the right thigh. and the spinal cord, and the Smilodon roared in pain!
"Lincoln!" Gordon, Ronnie Anne, and most of the Loud family 1 members shouted out! Philip pulled out his sword, and part of it was covered in blood. He panted out of tiredness, and looked in contempt as the Smilodon roared while his wound was pouring out almost a medium amount of blood, and he collapsed to the ground. Kimberly squirmed and snarled and roared in anger as she tried to break free from her jaguar captors, but it was no use. Lincoln was panting, as he lied down. Then he looked at Philip as he was walking away. No, not now. Not now. There was no way he was dying in vain. He had to take him on, and win, whether that cat ends up dead or alive. In anger and determination, he got up after momentarily struggling, and charged roaring after the Maine Coon, turning back with an unstirred face, Philip drew out his sword again, but just as Lincoln got really close to him he was jumped on grabbed on the neck, by a lion, got pinned to the ground, Lincoln quickly got up and tried to break free, but his legs were quickly grabbed on by two Bengal tigers, a jaguar and a lioness, keeping their grips tight on him, as he struggled to break free, roaring too. Philip looked at him with a glare. Then he looked away momentarily as he darted his eyes back and forth. He debated on whether he should order the big cats to release him and let him finish off the Smilodon, or to just end it here. He glared at him for 2 seconds, and walked away. At this point, Lincoln was now too tired to fight anymore. He was panting. So was Kimberly. They were getting calmer. After 13 seconds, they both instantly reverted to their original forms, the remnants of their clothes and footwear reappared, and all of their wounds disappeared, and Lincoln's legs were released by two of the big cats. Even Lincoln's teeth were back to normal (aside from that chip Lincoln got in his universe). They and the other captives and most of the other cats were surprised by this. But not Philip. Neither of these two people felt weakened any more from blood loss either.
Philip watched as the cats brought over their restrained captives one by one, whether by cats using or not using robot suits, big cats, or dogs, and Lalo and Charles were brought over by two Maine Coones for each dog, and they dragged them with catchpoles. Philip and the other cat's attention was attracted by the sound of a truck coming, with more cats and dogs of different kinds coming over, with cats in robot suits (the thing with those suits, there weren't enough made for absolutely every cat in the Hail of Doom clan), and the group of captives that ran off came out of the truck (the lynx quickly decided to have the captives be driven in the truck anyway). They were soon surrounded by cats pointing guns at them, while Pony was separated from the rest by another group of cats. These captives were shocked to see that most of their comrades were covered in scars, slashes, and bite marks. Lincoln 1,2, Ronnie Anne, and Kimberly were brought to the front, struggling, before they were dropped and pinned down by their captors.
"Did you think your pathetic resistance could actually stand a chance against what I have created? And you didn't even have a proper plan, little boy." Said Philip. And with that. He walked over to Lincoln 1, placing his partly blood coated sword under his face, and raised his face up, looking at him with a smirk. "Once a failure, always a failure. You gave me a challenge as a Smilodon, though. I'll give you that." Then he looked at the cats with their captives.
"Take most of the humans and most of their pets back to the room where our initial captives were held on hooks. Have the cats who tried to rescue them imprisoned. And have the cat, Cliff, taken back to the hospital. Have the humans shot down, and then take them to the kitchen."
Pony gasped from hearing that.
"Take the pony back to the stalls. But this white-haired boy. The one in front of me now." Philip said, looking down at Lincoln, raising the boy's head with his sword. "Leave him hanging with the hooks. I wonder if I should have him served as part of a meal for another time, or have him as a taxidermied fighting trophy in his normal form." He said as he grinned at him. Lincoln only showed a little bit of fear.
"As for Lisa Loud and Carlos Casagrande, after they're dead, take out their brains, then extract their brain cells and put them in one or two of the big cats." The two people he mentioned gasped at that. Then, Philip thought to himself. "Then again, extract the brain cells from most of the humans here. Except for the babies. They can help making some amount of the big cats even smarter. Of course, from now on, we won't just extract brain cells from applicably intelligent humans."
"May you people all remember how your last minutes were. Ended by the Hail of Doom clan, as declared by me, the leader, Philip Brody! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Humans are the most wasteful species on the planet. And the most destructive too. Cutting down and burning up trees, removing several species from existence, polluting the oceans, being neglectful and/or abusive towards domestic animals, and wild ones, hunting animals like rhinos for their horns, and sharks for their fins. If this whole fight happened in a public place, the public would be quick to call you abusive for all the violence you brought against my soldiers. Especially with how sensitive society is." Philip then mockingly put his hands against his right side. "Oh, those poor cats. They've gotten very hurt. Those people hitting, throwing, punching, slamming them, are monsters. Boo hoo hoo." He said mockingly. "May you all rest in Hell, bastards." Lincoln 1 growled at him and shortly got up, but he got pinned down by the lion's paw. He looked at him angrily, but he couldn't exactly deny that the Maine Coon was telling the truth as he sorted his words in his mind. He looked down at the floor and sighed. He became ashamed and guilty.
Ozzy went into the backpacks, grabbed the multiverse machine control, then came over, presented it to Philip, and also handed Philip a bottle of root beer, and the cat drank from it. Mr. Blik growled as he looked at him, then he took a good look at his bottle from a small distance, in seconds, he could make out that the cover on it, had the WGB root beer logo on it. His eyes shrank and he made an "o" shape in his mouth. He darted his eyes around and then quickly thought of an idea.
"Wait!" Almost everyone looked at him after he shouted. "Do you know what you're drinking there, Philip?"
"What's it to you?" Philip asked dismissively.
"That root beer comes from me and my brother's root beer company. That belongs to the WGB root beer company."
Waffle and Gordon took a look at the root beer bottle. They became surprised.
"Hey, he's right. That is WGB root beer!" Waffle shouted and pointed.
Philip just looked half-lidded at Mr. Blik. "We have so much root beer from your company, because it tastes great. So what?"
"Me and my brothers could have you locked up for stealing root beer, whenever that was, among other things."
"Well that's not going to happen. You will be imprisoned" Philip said smugly.
"I challenge you to a duel between one of our group members, Philip."
"I'm not interested." Philip turned and walked away.
"What's the matter? Are you too scared?"
Philip froze in place, he was surprised. He turned around, looking with an offended face.
"What"
"What? Is a Maine Coon, a seasoned warrior like you, leader of a powerful army of cats, a fighter capable of bringing down a grizzly bear, the most evil, most cunning mouse in the world, and a Smilodon, a lethal prehistoric big cat, too scared to take on the next challenger?"
"Take it back." Philip said, with a tone of anger, and he was growling.
"I guess, you're too unmotivated, for a ruthless future dictator, to take on one more challenger, that you want to just end these humans, and get it over with. Or more likely, you're just a big chicken on the inside."
"WHAT?!" Philip clenched his teeth.
"You heard me. I think you are a chicken! A coward behind a mask! Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck. Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck."
Philip was starting to get angry. Mr. Blik was mocking him as he made chicken sounds for 20 seconds.
"Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck-aw! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
"SIIIIILEEEEEENCE!" Philip shouted. Mr. Blik immediately stopped. Philip came over to him, and looked down at him with a furious face.
"I accept your challenge, you impudent fuck. We'll do it in only a gunfight, to make it easier. Our limits will be two guns."
"Great. Ooh, you'll be happy to know, that I'm willing to put you up against. Uh, let's see." Mr. Blik darted his eyes around and he was stuttering. He was trying to think. "Right. You'll be happy to know that I'm willing to put you up against either, Gordon, Katilda, Lunk, Bootsie, or one of the 3 Lynn counterparts to fight against."
"Absolutely not!" Philip retorted. "I want to to take you on." Mr. Blik became shocked.
"Bu-bu-but those characters I mentioned are greater fighters than me. Trust me, you'd be more satisfied with a more challenging fighter."
"And I deny it. You insulted me, greatly. No one insults me that much and gets away with it."
"Really? Well, I'm sorry that I did. Surely, you'll reconsider."
"No. You're not sorry. Only you and I will fight each other. I'm willing to honor all conditions you put up. Now, you will fight me, ooooor-"
"Or what?" Blik asked worriedly. He was starting to sweat.
"I will have most of the humans and their pets slain for today as I mentioned, your brothers and this Katilda imprisoned, but as for you, I will have you tortured to death, slowly."
Blik dropped his jaw a little bit. He darted his eyes back and forth nervously. He was sweating a little bit more. This was sure quite a predicament. Take on Philip in a duel and possibly lose, or simply let him take care of everyone in all the different ways he mentioned, while he gets tortured? He looked at Philip again, he was expecting an answer.
"All right. We'll proceed with the duel your way. But I have a few conditions."
"Go ahead. Speak out."
"If I win, whether you end up dead or alive, you will let all of us go freely, you will give us back the control that'll help transport them across the multiverse. And you will have you and your army turn yourselves in to the authorities, let them give you your punisments. And if you win, you may do with all of us as you please."
Virtually everyone was bewildered at the third condition that Mr. Blik proposed.
Philip thought for 5 minutes, looking up to the ceiling. He looked back at Mr. Blik.
"Very well, then. I accept your conditions. Fortunately for you, I am a cat of honor. Onto the preparation rooms and the combat practice arenas, everyone, let our captives watch the fight too." Philip ordered. Mr. Blik was surprised that the former absolutely agreed to all of his conditions, though.
Mr. Blik and Philip were in separate preparation rooms, they had to pick which suits of armor to wear, and which guns to use. Philip demanded that they both pick their options by themselves. Philip picked a steel suit of armor, and the helmet was shaped like a jaguar's head with an open mouth, and the suit of armor was painted with rosettes too. Meanwhile, Mr. Blik dressed himself in a suit of armor that was painted with tiger stripes, and the helmet was shaped like a tiger too. Philip chose two handguns, and Mr. Blik chose two handguns as well. Mr. Blik blew in nervousness. May good fortune be on his side. With their final decisions made, both competitors made their way to the place where they would fight.
Mr. Blik slowly walked through a hallway for a short while, he could see a hole of light appearing in the distance. He gulped. He slowly walked towards it. The hole of light was growing ever bigger. When Mr. Blik came out of the tunnel, he was met with the sounds of lots of booing from the crowds of cats that sat in seats overlooking the arena he entered in. The arena was basically one long extended oval, with lots of variably tall and short metal cuboid columns with rope ladders on one side of the tall ones. This went on for 10 seconds. He looked around himself and then he saw the group of captives along with the rescue group he was part of watching him, as Lunk, Linka and Waffle pointed towards him, surrounded by cats who were guarding them. Then the crowd went from booing to cheering for their leader, coming from the other end of the arena from another tunnel. Mr. Blik could see him from the distance, partly through the columns that were blocking his view.
Then the same male computer voice for the alarm, on a speaker hanging from the ceiling spoke. "The fight between our two competitors will begin in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1." Mr. Blik took out his handguns, and put on a serious face, as did Philip. They approached each other, going around some of the columns that were blocking them. Finally, they met each other a small distance away from each other. They stared at each other. They were making low growls between each other, and it slowly grew. They growled at each other for 3 minutes. Finally, they quickly reached for their guns. Philip drew out his guns faster and shot at Mr. Blik, but the latter was quick to run away from them, as Philip chased after him. Mr. Blik zig-zagged around the columns, avoiding the lasers shot at him. Philip went on to chase after him, then he got met with a laser coming from his top left side, which he quickly dodged. Mr. Blik shot at him twice, but the cat ran from them too. Philip shot at him 3 times, but Blik ran away from them into the columns. Philip readed his guns and clenched his teeth. Mr. Blik sped, in a small distance from Philip, running past columns, as Philip shot past him, but the columns proved to be useful cover for Blik, then as Philip began to gave chase while keeping his distance, Blik shot at him four times, but he missed again. Mr. Blik climbed the ladder of one of the columns, and looked around him. It wasn't hard for him to spot Philip running into his direction. Mr. Blik jumped onto several tall columns, jumping along from one to the next as he went, but he had to be careful and stay unnoticed. He was fortunate that Philip ordered his subordinates to not warn him of his presence. He let Philip run ahead of him, as he jumped across more columns. Phil jumped across five more columns. But the moment he landed on the fifth column, he slipped a little bit, drawing Philip's attention, Mr. Blik quickly shot at him, but Philip ran off, and shot at the column repeatedly, that Mr. Blik was standing on, until it was weak enough to break and fall, but Mr. Blik jumped onto another column and shot 7 times at Philip, who still dodged them. Mr. Blik jumped across more columns, chasing after him, then stopped at one more, shot 3 times at Philip, but the Maine Coon still dodged those lasers. Philip ran off for a short while, then climbed the ladder of another tall column. When he reached the top, he stared at Mr. Blik from a distance. They both drew their guns again, shot two lasers at each other, but both quickly dodged the lasers. They jumped across tall columns, trying to stay one step ahead of each other. Philip ended up, managing to get ahead of Mr. Blik, and shot at him 5 times, but Mr. Blik jumped off, Philip jumped off after. Philip jumped off, and rushed for him, keeping his guns ready. He ran across the columns, zig-zagging. He turned around, and saw Mr. Blik shoot at him again from a distance, and hid behind a column. Mr. Blik hid behind another column and shot 3 times at him from the left side when he saw him poke out on the left, then to the right when Philip poked out the right, and so Mr. Blik set his guns to endlessly fire lasers on both sides, raising his arms up and down. There were sprays of lasers covering both sides, and Philip was sandwiched in. He had to get out of there somehow. His eyes darted back and forth. He threw his helmet to the left, from Blik's point of view, and Mr. Blik shot it, came out, and ran forwards just as he saw Philip run away. He ran after him, while keeping his distance, and shot at several columns above Philip. Mr. Blik climbed another ladder, and he looked around him. Philip pointed his gun above the top of another column that he climbed the ladder of, and shot at Mr. Blik twice. But Mr. Blik jumped onto another column. He shot repeatedly far at the column, destroying enough of the column, causing it to fall off, but Philip jumped off as it fell off. Mr. Blik shot repeatedly at the columns surrounding the Maine Coon, then shot repeatedly in front of Philip, but he was still quick to dodge the lasers. Mr. Blik turned to the left, the same direction Philip was running, and Mr. Blik shot repeatedly at several columns behind Philip, columns were falling off, but none of them were stopping him or even slowing him down. Having had enough, Mr. Blik jumped off, and ran towards him. He had his guns ready, he shouted and shot repeatedly in all positions, Philip ran to the left but a part of his tail, and his armor was struck, and he yelled in pain. The crowd of spectator cats gasped. Mr. Blik chased after him turned left, stopped, faced Philip and pointed his guns, but was punched across the floor, but he rolled over when Philip was about go grab him by the neck, Mr. Blik shot twice at him, but Philip dodged, and Mr. Blik ran away to some debris that were some of the columns he destroyed. Philip came after him, and shot at him, but Mr. Blik dodged the two lasers, took off his helmet as he ran, dodged two more helmets then quickly threw it at Philip's left foot. The Maine Coon screeched from the amount of pressure that the helmet inflicted, threw it shortly from him, shot at it, then turned and was met with another flurry of lasers, he dodged it, Mr. Blik chased after him, shooting another flurry of him, but Philip equaled the playing field by shooting 7 lasers back at him too, which the black Bombay cat dodged, risky as it was. Mr. Blik ran back into the columns that were standing zig-zagging along the way, being chased by Philip. Philip raised his guns at him and shot again. Mr. Blik dodged again, and kept running. He thought to himself, maybe he could somehow trick Philip into destroying his own chest armor or he could destroy it with a plan of his own thinking. He pulled off his armor as he ran, he held it on his side, then he threw it at Philip's face, just as he was about to shoot at him again. The crowd booed at the sight of this. Waffle, Gordon, Lincoln 1,2, Ronnie Anne, Katilda, and Kimberly were growing more worried. How much longer could Blik last against the leader of the Hail of Doom clan? Philip growled, after removing the armor for the chest and back, as he could hear lots of lasers being shot. He could see that Mr. Blik was gone. He yelled loudly and shot the armor 7 times. Then, he smiled. With his armor and helmet gone, Mr. Blik stood less of a chance against him. He went on after Mr. Blik. Then he used his nose and sniffed for Mr. Blik. Cats don't have a strong sense of smell for nothing. He ran for Mr. Blik. He could hear more lasers being shot. He ran to the source of the noise, even though his left foot was damaged, a little bit above a little bit. He stopped when he saw a small curvy row of columns that had been shot at the bottom from one variable side. He followed the row, slowly, and cautiously looked around him as he went. He went looking at 5 damaged columns, and when he looked ahead of the fifth column, there were no more damaged columns. He searched around the pillar for Mr. Blik, but couldn't find him and stopped and turned around with the pillar right behind, and sniffed for his opponent. But the moment he caught a whiff of him, Mr. Blik shot upwards from behind the column at the top, causing it to quickly fall on him. Mr. Blik turned to Philip's column. He was surprised to see that Philip's chest and back armor was holding the column above him. But he could hear the cracking on it. Philip quickly slipped out of the armor and rolled out, just before the column would completely crush the armor. The crowd had variable reactions during the whole fight. Philip clenched his teeth and narrowed his eyes at Mr. Blik and pointed his guns at them, and shot at Mr. Blik again, but Mr. Blik ran away into the columns again. However, Philip shot left past Mr. Blik, and the laser flew past him, destroying a part of his armor, and barely grazing a patch of fur, to Mr. Blik's shock. Philip went in running after him. He looked around him, sniffing for Mr. Blik, keeping them raised. He could smell Blik close by, and followed the scent. He looked entirely around a column, then he began to look around again, then he was surprised by Blik shouting at him as he jumped towards him and shot. However, Philip ducked his head. He quickly grabbed Mr. Blik and threw him away, and Blik hit the floor. Mr. Blik raised his gun, but a laser flying past him hit most of one of his guns, his eyes shrank and he dropped his jaw from this near death experience. Philip smirked at the sight, but was caught off-guard by most of one of his guns immediately getting shot and destroyed by Mr. Blik's other gun, as he recoiled his hand back. Mr. Blik immediately aimed his gun at Philip and shot again, but Philip dodged again and ran to the right. Mr. Blik followed him, and could see him climbing another column's ladder. He reached the ladder, but then he was shot at repeatedly by Philip from above. Mr. Blik zig-zagged, dodging the lasers, he tried shooting at Philip a few times, but for a big target, he kept missing. Philip shot at Mr. Blik 3 more times, but Mr. Blik dodged again, shot two more times, but as Philip tried to dodge it, one laser destroyed his remaining gun and grazed past his side, and another destroyed part of his ear. Blik dropped his jaw in satsifaction at destroying the last gun. But Philip wasn't giving up so easily. He jumped from column to column as Mr. Blik chased after him from below. Mr. Blik climbed up to another tall column, and shot repeatedly after Philip, but for his size, he was quick, he dodged the lasers, jumping to different columns. He was shot in front, but he stopped in time. He then jumped off again. Mr. Blik scanned the area around for Philip. He could see no one down there. He slowly circled around the area for 7 minutes. Then he looked down around his column for 3 minutes, Philip wasn't here. He looked confused for a short while. He facepalmed himself for not using his sense of smell. He smelled around for Philip immediately, only to be grabbed and pushed by surprise by Philip jumping onto him, and Mr. Blik slashed him in the face repeatedly, and Philip slammed onto the floor, but he grabbed Mr. Blik and threw him across and the latter got slammed against a short column. Blik's wife and her group gasped at the sight. Mr. Blik groaned, but before he could act quick, he got grabbed and punched again across the floor. Mr. Blik got up, but he got rushed and punched left and right 9 times by Philip, and he got a black eye as a result. Mr. Blik punched Philip 10 times in the face, but he was punched in the face and in the stomach 10 times, and then punched into another tall column, by now, he was too unconscious to move, at the moment. Philip put Mr. Blik in a gorilla press, and slammed once again on the floor. Then, Philip grabbed him, held him as he walked for a small distance, and he walked past Mr. Blik's gun, which his victim took notice of, but was too weak to react, then Philip turned left towards and climbed up another close tall column, held him upwards, then, threw him downwards and dove down, immediately making contact with Mr. Blik and slamming down on the floor! Katilda and her group gasped, and Philip arose, Mr. Blik groaned and became unconscious, Philip was breathing in exhaustion, with a blood covered face, and raised his fists, and the crowd cheered for him. Katilda's group looked out for him. Lincoln 1 closed his eyes, covered his face, and sighed through his nose. It appeared that their fates were sealed for the worse. Mr. Blik slowly opened his eyes, he could see his gun a few meters away from him, and he turned and saw that Philip had his back turned, and, with enough strength that he could muster, he rolled over, he crawled for his gun, then just as some of the spectators were quickly changing their voice's tones and his brother's group became surprised, and Philip turned over, Mr. Blik became motivated by determination, and was strong enough to shoot Philip! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH!" Philip screamed as his chest and legs were shot repeatedly, and he fell down to the floor. Blik got up and ran towards him, pointing his gun at him with clenched teeth and serious eyes, as Philip breathed in tiredness. "You're out of motion, leader of the Hail of Doom. Surrender or die."
Philip was too tired by now, and glared at him for 3 minutes. "I surrender." He whispered. Mr. Blik's face slowly changed. "You WIIIIIIINN!" His army gasped in shock. Gordon, Waffle, Katilda, and most of their group gasped. And then they cheered in celebration. Lincoln 1 and Ronnie Anne hugged each other, before looking at each other awkwardly, blushing, breaking it up, and blushing themselves off. Gordon smirked at that with a grin. Suddenly, the arena became surrounded with police officers, CIA agents, and US Army soldiers who swarmed in, the rest were outside of the room. "Freeze! Put your hands where we can see them!" One of them shouted. The Hail of Doom clan simply put their paws up.
"Can't we just kill them?" A Himalayan cat asked.
"No!" Philip responded. "I am a cat of honor. Mr. Blik, one of the cats in charge of the WGB root beer company has beaten me in combat. I cannot go back on my word. Unlike so many people." With that said, he looked toward Mr. Blik. "You...were a worthy opponent." Mr. Blik looked at him seriously, without any words. Then, Philip nodded to Ozzy, who was watching from the crowd, and he nodded back. He quickly pulled out a small handheld partly round device with a button from his shorts, flicked off the cover with his thumb, and pressed it. Soon, a faint explosion was heard. Mr. Blik glared at him with clenched teeth. "What did you do, you bastard?!"
"I only blew up the entire science laboratory, my office and living quarters, the prototype room, and the weapons room. There were explosives buried underneath them, in case our lair was discovered and compromised. Further reason is none of your concern.
The Hail of Doom cats were being loaded up into prison trucks, while the big cats and dogs were being taken in cages, and loaded into bigger trucks. Blik watched all of this go on. He was going to join his rescue group, and the rescued captives at a hospital and a vet's clinic (the latter in Blik's case) later, where most of them would be treated for their wounds and injuries. Philip was resting on a hospital carrier bed, as he passed Blik. "Wait. I wish to ask Mr. Blik something." "What is it, Philip?" "What's going to happen to the kittens and the puppies in the lair, and the cubs to the big cats? They're still in the lair" Mr. Blik raised his brows. He thought momentarily. "I'll give out a few copies to a variable amount of groups, so they can find all of these baby or older young animals, they'll also use the security room to guide some groups, and I'll see to it myself that the kittens and puppies will be taken to no-kill animal shelters, and that the feline cubs will be taken to proper zoos, sanctuaries, and animal reserves, that'll let them live like wild cats. Same for the smaller wild cats." Philip nodded and felt assured.
Later, after the captives and rescue group got their medical treatment, Mr. Blik paid a helicopter pilot to have some helicopters fly them back home, (although, Lunk stayed behind to drive the bus back. Bootsie made his choice to stay with him on the bus too). Also, the cats intended to arrange a scientist to make a cure to relieve Kimberly Cuervo of her shapeshifting. But for now, she had to learn to control it. As for Lincoln 1, Lisa 1 was a scientist, and her parents permitted her to work to make an antidote to restore Lincoln entirely to normal. Also, with Lisa's work on them, she announced that the chemicals in Lincoln and Kimberly weren't contagious because of them.
And so, it was still afternoon back at the mansion. Everyone (the loud boys were back in their casual wear, Carlos and Lisa 1 had glasses on again, and the captives were back in their casual clothing) was at the mansion, with Hovis, Kimberly, Alejandro, and their two daughters. Lisa 1, 2, and Levi had the control with them, and Lisa 2 turned on the machine, and it turned on. Levi Loud directed the movement of the ray gun, pointed it straightly horizontal. Lisa 1 asked Waffle "What universe does Lisa 2 and Levi come from, if you've been there?"
"I've been there indeed. I've been to several Loud House universes. Lisa Regular and Levi Loud's universe is Loud House universe 101,716."
"Got it." Lisa 1 asked.
"You know, Waffle, I should make a cell phone for us to talk across the multiverse." Levi said.
"I second that. I'll join you there. One of us should make a cell phone for that purpose for the cats and for Lincoln 1, too. Hey, where is Lincoln 1?" Asked Lisa 2.
Waffle, Lincoln 2 (with a new set of clothes), Kimberly, and Alejandro turned back, and they could see Lincoln 1, turned around, looking at something he was holding.
*Cue the instrumental tune of Bryan Adams' Brothers Under The Sun.*
Lincoln 1 (also in a new set of clothes), looked sadly at one of the remnants of his Ace Savvy costume that he got back, on the way out of the lair, the Ace with an A inside it, with some red surrounding it. It was torn off and had claw marks sliced diagonally to the right across it, but not enough to make it fall completely apart. A tear rolled from down his left eye. Failure had prevailed against him, as Ace Savvy, once again. The wind blew past him, as he looked to the sky. He raised his arm, holding the Ace. Failure had prevailed against him once again. He let the Ace Savvy symbol blow away in the wind and watched as it got smaller and smaller, until it disappeared. He did not change his expression. Perhaps, he should stay here. But what about Pop-Pop? What about Clyde? He felt a hand on his shoulder and when he turned his head around in both directions, he could see he was surrounded by Lincoln 2, Ronnie Anne, Kimberly, Alejandro, and Waffle. Kimberly gave him a comforting hug, surprising him, but he hugged back with a smile. Waffle smiled at him too. He was guided back to the group, joined by the others. He could do this. He could do this. Who would've thought? At one point, he got on the bad side of a black cat, and then he was saved, by another black cat? After he joined the group, they pushed the ray gun machine, and turned it around, and positioned it next to the residences, while pointing away from them. Lincoln 1 watched as the Loud 2 family and the Regular family stopped in front of their houses, they waved good-bye to mostly everyone, and got the same response. When Lincoln 1's family waved back at them, they stopped waving and frowned at most of them and this caused the most of the others to stop and become upset. And with that, Lisa 2 entered the name and number for her universe. Then, the ray pointed shot a laser beam and it turned into a portal, that opened up into revealing the exact place where Lincoln 2's house used to be. The Loud 2 and Regular family returned to their houses. Waffle directed the ray, pushed a button, and it shot out a laser beam which captured the Loud family 2's house in a bubble, the beam shortened and moved it around, and then extended and slowly placed it through the portal and properly into its exact location. Kimberly pushed another button, and then it showed the exact place where the Regular family house used to be. Waffle proceeded to have the house be grabbed, and it was moved into that exact locaton too. Lisa 1 pushed a button and the portal closed.
"What universe do we come from?"
"It's Pony universe 11,820." Waffle said to Pony.
"How many universes in general could there be in the multiverse?"
Waffle looked at him blankly. "Probably infinity multiverses. I didn't count them overall, but it feels mysterious." He answered. Lisa 1 pushed a button repeatedly, adjusted the ray's pointing, entered the number, and the ray fired again and opened another portal, smaller than the last one, revealing the entrance to Annie and Pony's apartment. The particular duo could figure it out for themselves the moment they saw it. They walked and stopped in front of the group, turned around, and waved good-bye to everyone as they all waved back. Then they turned, walked across the portal, and watched after turning around, as the portal closed. Now, it was time for the last remaining Loud family, and the Santiago and Casagrande family to return home. Lincoln and Ronnie Anne approached each other, and hugged each other, before holding each other's arms. "Well, Ronnie Anne. This is good-bye, once again. So long to you and everyone else. Well, be seeing you then." "Good-bye. I wish you the best." Waffle pushed one of the buttons repeatedly, adjusted the ray's pointing, and entered the universe's name, and number - 5,216. The families waved good-bye to the cats and their neighbors, who waved back, ad they got into their residences. The ray pointed horizontally straight, shot another laser, and the portal opened (it was the bigger portal from the first time), revealing the location for the Loud family 1's house. Waffle pushed another button, and the portal changed, showing the building for the Casagrandes' residence, with the hole that was shown to be missing a large portion of it. Waffle rotated the ray, had it grab the apartment portion, lift it up, turn it around, lower it, then slowly move it across the portal, and back into its original place. Finally, he made the portal change back to where it previously was, and did the same for the Loud family 1's house, putting it through the portal and exactly back into the place it had stood. Waffle pushed a button, and the portal closed, then he and his brothers faced Kimberly and Alejandro.
"Gracias por rescando a mi, Gordon, Waffle, y Señor Blik." Kimberly said.
"Si, gracias." Said Alejandro.
"I speak for the three of us when I say that you're both welcome." Gordon replied.
"You're welcome/Yeah, what he said. You're welcome." His two brothers added.
They looked at each other silently for 3 minutes. "Bueno, see you tomorrow." Kimberly said, as she and her husband walked off, while she waved, and the cats waved back to her. As they were gone from view, the cats turned around, and Mr. Blik asked "Hey Waffle, are you up to repairing that small round teleporter?" Waffle sported a smile.
*Cue The Beach Boys, I Get Around.*
In a black background, a series of photos (each one covering up a portion of the preceding one) show up of the cats being in different cartoon universes.
The first showed them, with Katilda, having a selfie, in the Jimmy Neutron universe, the second showed them making poses in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) universe, with the turtles posing behind, the third showed them being chased by a ghost, who was being chased by Danny Phantom, the fourth showed them taking a picture in the center, with Ren on the left and Stimpy on the right, the fifth showed them in the center taking a picture with Rocko on the left, Spunky also in the center, and Heffer on the right, the sixth showed them posing in Republic City in the universe of The Legend of Korra, the seventh one showed them in the Glitch Techs universe, under attack from two video game enemies, just as Miko riding on Ally, and Five riding on Alpha, were coming in to save them, the eighth one showed them in the Invader Zim universe, Waffle and Katilda smiled with Zim smiling next to them, as they posed for a picture, while Mr. Blik and Gordon looked at the alien nervously, the ninth one showed them in the It's Pony universe, smiling for a photo, with Annie and Pony behind them, and the last one showed them in the SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron universe, posing for a photo, in front of T-Bone and Razor, who were also posing.
A/N: I know that SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron universe isn't a Nickelodeon show. Anyway, this story has come to an end. Stay tuned for my next story. On a side note, yes, Lincoln and Clyde did something irrational later in Kings of the Con, but really, they were stolen from, they created the Full Deck, and they became victims of copyright infringement. There's not a lot you can say to that. The fact that absolutely nobody in Lincoln's group, nor those horrible judges for the latter part, brought that up and/or used it as an advantage, or took it into consideration, makes it a plot hole. And, Lincoln's been living with his sisters for years. There are applicable times they've been acting less than nice to him. And those actual times they were mean and acting like jerks to him are bound to influence him, badly, into making the wrong choices. So really, it just serves as fuel for the opinion (whether or not I share and/or support it) that Lincoln is just better off without most of his sisters! Nobody flame me for anything. Also, there are applicable cartoon characters who've done worse things than absolutely anything Lincoln has ever done in the show's run. For example, Mutilor from the SWAT Kats episode, "When Strikes Mutilor." Spoiler alert for all of those who haven't seen the show or the episode: he stole a peaceful crew's spaceship, drained the Earth of all of its water so he could sell it, and tried to destroy the ship's anti-gravity drive, and send it dropping down to the Earth like a huge asteroid, when his initial plan failed. Anyway, it's up to you to envision the first 5 male counterparts for the applicable Full Deck members. I give a shout-out to one of my watchers, 1049. In my eyes, in my opinon, you've mostly done a better story than That Engineer with chapter 5 of Two Reflections, One Mirror. Keep the flame that is your story alive. Make more chapters for it. I give credit to Ultimate STH for the mention of making a cell phone to talk across the multiverse. And I have a problem. The last website I used to watch cartoons online for free is no longer accessible, so if anyone can tell me of a website that has absolutely all seasons and up-to-date episodes of the following cartoons: Primal (season 1 & the future season 2), The Loud House, The Casagrandes, Craig of the Creek, the Ren and Stimpy show, and Rocko's Modern Life (the last 3 cartoons of which I haven't watched full episodes of), thank you.
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