Hey everyone. It's your favorite procrastinator here. Sorry if this is a little late. School stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all the likes and comments. They mean a lot to me. But you didn't come her for all that sappy stuff. You came here for all the aliens and awesomeness. And who would I be to deny you of that? So let's begin. And since I didn't include this in the first chapter, I just want to say that I own neither of the franchises. I'm sorry for not saying that originally.
CHAPTER TWO: FLOWER POWER
It was an ordinary day at the construction site. People were either digging up dirt or clearing trees and grass.
"Hey Frank!" a man shouted to his foreman as he was grabbing a cup of coffee.
"Burnie," Frank replied as he took a sip of his coffee, "how are ya?"
"Eh, same old, same old. You?"
"Same here. Did ya see the news?"
As the two were talking, a single flower popped up. It was a simple daisy-like flower with purple and gold petals. Soon, an identical one came up. And another, and another, until the patch of earth looked like a flower bed.
"Made of diamonds? Really?"
"Yeah. Saved a bunch of people on a freewa...what are those?" Frank said turning his attention to the new growth. Burnie looked at what his foreman was referring to. "I don't know. It was probably planted their by those environmentalists nut cases."
Frank groaned in disgust. "Do they ever learn?" he said as he stomped over with a shovel. As he was about to dig them up, a loud scream filled the air. A group of workers were running for their lives as they were being chased by what looked like a cross between large cats and yellow flowers. "The heck are those?" the foreman said at that.
Burnie shrugged his shoulders. "Dandelions?" he joked.
Suddenly, the patch of daisies rumbled and shook until they changed into a what looked like a giant purple boa constrictor.
The flower snake roared at the two as the "dandelions" began to tear apart equipment and attacked workers. Burnie turned to Frank worriedly.
"Frank?"
"Yes Burnie?"
"I think now would be a good time to call in some sick days!"
At the Loud residence, Lincoln was laying on his bed reading comic books before turning his attention to the audience.
"In case you came in late, let me catch you up. Last night, my sisters and I were watching a meteor shower, when a satellite containing a watch fell. The watch attached itself to my wrist, where it was discovered that it could change me into aliens, three of them my sisters decided to call Heatblast, Blitzwolfer, and Diamondhead. Now I guess I'm a hero."
As he turned a page, a pounding sound was heard at his door. Opening it, a hand grabbed his arm and dragged him downstairs.
"Wa-WOAH!" he said as Leni dragged him to Vanzilla.
"Come on! You promised to show us the rest of the aliens!" the ditzy blonde said as she dragged him downstairs. "When did I say thaAAAHH!" he said as he was thrown into Vanzilla with nine other screaming siblings. Before he could protest, Lori hit the gas and sped off.
The commotion woke up their parents, who groaned as they got up. "Why can't they show this enthusiasm on school days?" Lynn Sr said rubbing his eyes. He turned to his wife. "You ok, dear?"
"Fine. Just need some coffee" Rita replied as she stumbled downstairs. As the coffee machine began to make its brew, Rita looked at her reflection in the pot, where she saw more than tiredness.
She saw a mix a fear and anxiety.
Vanzilla pulled up at an old scrap dump. There, the siblings got out with a very confused Lincoln in tow. As they got to an area filled with old cars, they gathered around him with eager looks. "Come on bro. Show us who else you have!" Luna shouted.
Shuffling through the options, Lincoln stopped on one. "This one looks cool" he said, slamming his palm on the watch. The green light enveloped him again as his body began to change. His body got bulkier as he grew. Yellow plates overlapped his body as well.
When the light faded, Lincoln was now a ten foot alien with yellow armor and a three foot grey tail. His arms where bulky with drill slots on his forearms and giant pistons on the elbow. His head now resembled a Roman helmet with grey ears popping out. He had five clawed hands, and the watch's symbol was on his chest.
The sisters stared at this one. "Cool form" Lana said. "So what can he do?" asked Lynn.
"Hmmm. Let's see." Putting his hands to the ground, the pistons went to work, rapidly going back and forth, causing his hands to work like jackhammers as they ripped into the dirt, digging a giant hole in no time at all. Amazed, Lincoln began to dig back up and popped out. "Awesome" he said. He then turned to an abandoned pickup truck. "What are you looking at?" he said dramatically as he threw it up. He then had the pistons spin instead of pound, causing his hands to become drills as he ripped the truck to shreds on its way down.
The family cheered at the display Lincoln preformed. "Power tools and playing in the dirt? This is the best one you have!" Lana said eagerly. "Thanks Lana. Now about the name?"
The two stopped and thought about it for a few seconds until the cap wearing sister sparked up. "I got it! You can dig fast and you kind of look like an armadillo, so how about 'Armodrillo?'"
"Armodrillo? Yeah. I like it!" Armodrillo exclaimed. After digging a few more holes and smashing a few more cars, Armodrillo turned back into Lincoln. Getting into the same excitement his sisters were feeling, he shuffled through until he stopped on a bipedal alien with a shell. Selecting it, Lincoln began to change again.
He began to change again. Now he was now a mollusk like alien, a little taller then Lori, with a red shell and shell-like hood. There were two holes on each arm and a hole on each hand with the watch's symbol on his back.
"I dunno about this one," Luan said, "he looks pretty shellfish if you ask me. Heh-heh."
Luan's pun was answered with a blast of water to the face, courtesy of Lincoln. "Jeez. Looks like he's crabby to."
Lincoln looked at his hands. "I can shoot water from my hands," he said, hosing down a car, "and also absorb moisture from the air" he said, drawing water vapor from it, causing it to crumble a little. "How about we call it H2O-No" Luan suggested while wringing out her ponytail.
Lincoln shook his head at the name.
"Overflow?"
"No. That sounds like something a bad reboot would come up with."
"Splash-Down!"
"You get one more chance."
"Fine," Luan said annoyed now. After a few seconds, the brace-faced comedian said "I got it! Water Hazard!"
"There we go" Lincoln said. As he changed back. Now getting in the groove, Lincoln selected one without even looking and slammed his palm down.
Nothing happened.
Snapping back to reality, the white haired boy looked down. The holoscreen was now red instead of green.
"Wow," said Leni, "that alien looks a lot like Lincoln." "That is Lincoln" Lynn said, heading over to the confused boy. Grabbing his arm, she stared at it, trying to make out what was wrong. "Maybe it needs to be recharged" Lucy said. "But how? I only used it twice today, and it's been nearly eight hours since last night" Lincoln said exasperated.
Lisa awkwardly tugged her shirt collar as she got up and headed back to the car. "It's a mystery," she said, "let's head back and wait for it to recharge."
On the ride back the group decided to stop at Burpin' Burger for lunch. After placing orders, Lincoln sat at a booth and looked at the watch. Still red, he thought. He was so deep in thought, he didn't notice a black haired girl with a purple streak in her hair plopping down next to him.
"Hey, snowball!"
Swinging around startled, Lincoln recognized her almost immediately. "Oh, hi Tabby" he said to her. The young rocker was one of four girls his sister's set him up with for a dance after he lied that he didn't have anyone to go with. Fortunately, he managed to set things right by pairing up his friends with them, avoiding looking like he was cheating on them, but it still was an awkward moment nonetheless. "Haven't seen you in a long time. How are you?" he asked.
"Eh, can't complain. Liam is ok to" she replied. "He's really nice. Although, whenever I come to his place, I learn more about farming then I want to. Did you know that most wild pigs are a result of domesticated pigs breaking lose and going feral?"
Lincoln laughed. "I may have heard that from him once, or twice, or thirty times" he responded. "Hey, where's the kid with glasses?" Tabby asked.
"Clyde? He's off on a vacation with his dads. But hopefully, he'll be back soon. I have something cool to show him."
After a few minutes of conversation, a faint rumbling was heard. "Hey, did you hear that?" Tabby asked. Lincoln went quiet. There it was. It was like a bunch of tanks were rolling up on the burger joint with unbelievable speed. It almost sounded like a…
"STAMPEDE!"
With a crash of glass and brick, a group of what appeared to be combinations of plants and animals came busting in, tearing apart booths and overturning tables. Lincoln and Tabby dove underneath their table to avoid having a chair thrown at them.
"The heck are those things?" the young rocker said in bewilderment. Lincoln looked down at his watch and smiled. It was green now. Taking advantage of the chaos, he snuck away from where he was hiding and dove behind the counter, where the staff were to busy panicking to notice. Shuffling through, he hit the watch with his palm and turned into Diamondhead.
"Alright," he said, turning one of his hands into a blade and cutting a snake-like plant in half, "it's harvesting time!"
Drawing attention to himself, the planimals ran towards him. Diamondhead shot a series of crystals at them, cutting them to shreds. A large lion like flower attempted to to leap on his back, just to get impaled on his back crystals. A scream caught his attention. Quickly turning his head, he saw a group of elephant like trees cornering Lana and Lola.
"This is unfair," Lana said, "I never ate my vegetables, so why do they want to eat me?"
Before anything could happen to them, a wall of sharp crystals skewered the plants. "You ok?" Diamondhead asked his twin siblings. Lana and Lola nodded. "We're fine" Lana said. "But your friend is about to become plant food!" screamed Lola.
Quickly turning his head, he saw Tabby getting constricted by a giant snake weed that resembled a giant snake. Grabbing it by the head, Diamondhead grunted and pulled the constrictor off before throwing it at a tiger like plant. "Hey! I know you!" Tabby said as soon as she was breathing.
Lincoln gulped at that. "Uhh, you do?" he asked panicky.
"Yeah," she said as she got up, "your that diamond guy from the freeway."
Diamondhead almost fainted with relief. "Oh yeah. That was me" he said. "What are you doing here?" the raven haired rocker asked. Going through all the possible excuses in his head of what an alien made of diamonds would be doing in a fast food joint, the best response he could come up with was "I was...getting a burger."
Before anything else could be said, a tendril slammed Diamondhead into a wall. As he tried to pull himself out, he found that he was trapped to the wall by the crystals on his back. He turned to the fourth wall to say "don't laugh." Tabby ran over to help her crystal savor pry himself out of the wall, when a voice came in.
"Typical. You care nothing about the plants that clean our air and give us oxygen, but for the useless supposedly 'precious material.'"
All heads turned to the speaker. Standing their was an odd woman with bright green skin and amber colored eyes. She was wearing a tattered green dress and a teal shawl. Her face was misshapen with crooked teeth and several scars, and her hair was the color and texture of seaweed.
"Who...what are you?" Diamondhead asked the person before him. The woman laughed sinisterly. "I am the messenger of Gia herself, Salda. And I am here to reclaim the Earth to its rightful owners. Plants predate animals by millions of years, and now it's time for us to inherit the world!"
Oh great, Diamondhead thought as he finally got off the wall, a complete fruit cake. Firing diamonds at her, a wall of vines sprung up to protect Salda. With a wave of her hand, the monster plants charged at the crystalline alien. Seeing the mob of plants charging at him, he turned his hands into blades and ran forwards. "Time for Burpin' Burgers to get a salad bar" he cried.
While he was fighting, the rest of the siblings ran from the ruined establishment, along with Tabby. "That woman is literally crazy!" Lori said. "Salda. Where have I heard that name" Lisa wondered. As they were running, a large bird like thing swooped down at them. "Look out!" screamed Lynn as they ducked.
Unfortunately, one member of the group wasn't fast enough.
Meanwhile, back with Lincoln, Diamondhead was throw through a counter, where he hit a deep fryer. Thinking fast, he ripped it out and dumped the contents on group of leafy foes, causing them to scream in pain as hot oil washed over them. One of them hit an appliance while writhing in pain, causing it to spark out of control. Seeing this, Salda grabbed the appliance and ripped out a gas main. "Here," she said as the other planimals ran away, "catch."
As Diamondhead caught the equipment, he started to smell the gas and panicked. "Uh-oh!" he said as Salda burrowed down and dug her way out.
Burpin' Burgers exploded in a giant ball of fire. Lincoln's sisters ran back in fear for their brother. "Lincoln!" shouted Luna with relief as she saw Diamondhead, who was covered in soot but was otherwise unharmed by the explosion. With a few beeps, the watch timed out, letting Diamondhead turn back into Lincoln. "Guys!" he said happily. He ran over to them, embracing them in a group hug.
"Are you all alright?" he asked as he pulled away from them. "We're good" Leni said. "But we have some bad news" Lucy said.
Lincoln gulped. "What's that?" he asked.
"Tabby's been kidnaped."
"Dr Alice Salda. She was once a brilliant botanist before a horrible accident broke out in the lab she was in and she mysteriously vanished" Lisa said as she looked up from her computer.
"Botanist? Does that mean she works with robots?" asked Leni. Lisa rolled her eyes. "No. They study plants" she said in a matter-of-fact tone.
The group were now back in Vanzilla. Lincoln was more than a little worried about what Tabby was going through. "Ok, so we know who she is. The question is why would she attack a burger joint?"
Lisa quickly scanned through the computer. "According to records," she began, "Burpin' Burgers was built on what was once a greenhouse. And she didn't just attack their. She also attacked two yogurt stores, a yoga studio, and a construction site, all of which were built where something involving plants were."
"So that's why my hot yoga sessions have been cancelled" Lori said, somewhat angrily.
"Lisa. Do you think you can find where she's hiding?" Lincoln said anxiously. Lisa typed into the computer again. After a few minutes, a ding was heard. "Good news. It appears that our flora wielding friend's army has been seen heading northeast from us."
"You heard her Lori! We've got to stop her before she turns Royal Oaks into a jungle!"
"I'm literally stepping in it" the eldest daughter said as she slammed her heel into the gas. With a screech of tires, Vanzilla headed off.
After a good thirty minutes of driving, the Louds pulled up to a large building covered in ivy. "Think this is the place?" asked Leni. "Has to be" replied Luna before turning to her white haired brother. "So what's the plan bro?"
"Well, she uses plants, so maybe Heatblast could be useful here" he responded. Slamming his palm on the screen, Lincoln changed again. He began to grow taller as his skin turned green. His feet turned into root-like appendages as several green and red petals grew on his arms and six odd holes opened on his sides. A series of red and yellow petals also grew on his face, looking like a flame. When it was over, he was now a plant like creature standing six feet tall and the watch's symbol on his chest.
"What the heck?" Lincoln said looking over at himself. Lola gagged at something. "Bleh! What's that smell?" she screamed. The other siblings joined in on the oder in disgust. "Lincoln, is that you?" asked Lori. Lincoln lifted one of his arms and sniffed his armpit. "Yeah" he said embarrassed.
"That doesn't look like Heatblast. He looks like a real stinker" Luan joked before giggling. "Stinky" said Lily.
Lisa looked at the new alien. "The smell is similar to that of methane and that of the rafflesia, which attracts flies to pollinate them" she said.
Lincoln looked at her confused. "So what, I'm some kind of plant alien now?" Lisa nodded.
"Swampfire!" Lily said, hugging his leg.
Rolling his eyes, Swampfire stood up after Lisa managed to get the baby off of his leg. He then ran towards the building, preparing himself for whatever came next.
Tabby woke to a throbbing headache. She tried to rub her head, just to find that she couldn't move her arms. Snapping back to reality, she found herself heavily restrained in what appeared to be a thick vine. She struggled to no avail. After a few seconds, when it was apparent that she couldn't escape, she turned to Salda with a glare.
"Oi!" she shouted, catching the former scientist's attention. She turned to the young girl with a look commonly reserved for squashed cockroaches. "Oh, it's awake," she said with a voice full of disgust, "What do you want?" "Why are you doing this? What do you have to gain from this?" Tabby shouted. With a wave of her hand, Salda had the vines tighten, causing a squeal of pain from the rocker.
"What do I have to gain!? A world where there's no more pathetic, useless, wasteful humans!" she shouted as dots danced around Tabby's eyes and he face turned blue. "But don't worry. There's use for you yet. As fertilizer!"
The vines tightened like an anaconda around her. Before she could black out though, a strange gas poured through the room, causing the vines to loosen and let the black haired girl down. As she gasped for breath, she saw her savor.
Or rather, smelled him.
Turning her head towards the horrible stench, Swampfire came over and picked her up. "You all right?" the plant-like alien asked in a tough, yet slightly high, voice. Tabby nodded.
Smiling, Swampfire turned his attention to Salda. "Well now. Perhaps it's time to remove some weeds" Swampfire said. Salda grit her teeth. "I couldn't agree with you more" she responded.
With a wave of her hand, an elephant plant charged at Swampfire, ripping off one of his arms. The arm flopped on the ground, where a vine shot out of it and pulled itself back on Lincoln's shoulder. "Ok" he said surprised at that. The elephant charged again, just to get hit with a stream of fire from Swampfire.
Salda stared in terror as her pet stumbled in flames before sending more planimals at the alien. Swampfire just smiled and spray his gas at them. The planimals now turned on their former master, lunging at her. "No!" Salda said in horror as the monsters attacked her. "This isn't right! I'm the messenger of Gia! And you're nothing but an overgrown weed! A traitorous vegetabMMMMLPH!"
A wad of sticky mud splattered over her mouth, shutting her up. Meanwhile, the flaming elephant collapsed, causing the fire to spread. Seeing this, Swampfire grabbed Tabby and Salda and ran out of the building. After getting out, Swampfire set down the young rocker and picked up Salda by the collar.
"Say good night, skunk weed."
He then punched her, knocking the former scientist out. The sound of sirens from police trucks and ambulances soon filled the air. Before leaving, Tabby grabbed his arm. "Thanks love. Say, what do I call you?"
"Swampfire" he responded as he vanished into the area. Tabby smiled. Thank you she thought before collapsing.
The watch timed out as Lincoln came back to the van. "So what was the new guys powers?" asked Lola. "He can shoot fire and mud, control plants, and regenerate from bad wounds" Lincoln said as he buckled in.
"Well, I'm glad this fiasco is over. I was literally scared to death" Lori said. "And Tabby?" asked Luna.
"A little shaken, but alright."
After a long drive, they Loud crew finally made it back home, where they were immediately greeted by their father. "You guys were out for a while. Where were you?" he asked. "Oh just summer stuff" Lincoln replied. "Ok. Say, are any of you interested in helping me garden tomorrow?"
"NO!" the siblings shouted before stomping upstairs and slamming the doors to their rooms, leaving a very confused Lynn Sr standing there.
"Was it something I said?" he asked his wife. Rita just shrugged.
Yes it was Lynn Sr. Yes it was. Well, chapter two is out and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. And now the alien count is up to six, with Heatblast, Blitzwolfer, Diamondhead, Armodrillo, Water Hazard, and Swampfire. And also, no, I am not doing a harem for Lincoln. I feel that that plot is overused in LH fanfics. Next time though, Lincoln realizes what a foot to big really means. Also, how would you feel about original aliens later on in the story? Leave your opinions in the comments, and have a nice day.