Lynn Wilson was the name she was given the moment she had been born, a nice, healthy daughter to the parents of Adrian and Marlene Wilson, and for approximately fifteen years, she had a steady life, well within protection of the dictatorship she had come to know as the Prime Federation. The truth was that her parents were somewhat brainiacs, intelligent enough to be useful to be technicians within the bases.
That gave Lynn the key to a better life, which was anything but better. She had already emerged from the black nothingness some scientists had subjected her to, as part of some experiment she didn't want to be part of.
At first, she totally didn't want to be, so it was forced. But the moment she had come out clean, with no mess of the weird gooey blue substance she had touched inside, she realized she had seen a real horrible truth; this world that she was living in was not real.
It wasn't, as she had a mental slideshow of multiple memories having broken into her brain, and these memories were not false, or that of a stranger's. She saw herself in them, alongside many people. Many members of the Loud family, in actuality, as well as many allies and old rivals as well. She then knew this was all true, because she remembered living through them. There was Lincoln, there was Linka, and there was-
She gasped when she realized who her parents really were; not these fakes parents she had been raised by all this time, but she had turned out to be the daughter of Lincoln Loud, one of the original freights, and Lynn Loud, a speedster, both of she had read in a few articles about much of that particular family tree. It couldn't be like that. It was impossible, it couldn't be like that.
Lynn Wilson, really Lynn Loud the Third, had rushed into a bathroom and stared herself as if she were a stranger. No, she was a stranger, with a stranger past who was living a lie, since the day she was born. This life was not even a real one, so then...
She tapped into that final memory she had seen in her mind; the one where a whole lot of them, ranging from Lincoln to Gloom, and so many others she couldn't name all at once were lying on the ground of a field, with a metallic being hovering before them. It was like one of those Silverheads she had also seen in the memories, but only, this one had a female voice. A female Silverhead.
The ones she had known as Lina, Leda, Laika, Lois and Gloom were picked up from the around, levitating freely into the air, defeated brutally by the Silverhead. "Behold, my omnipotence!"
"N-no!" Linka stumbled up from Bethany Chang's dying body, screaming to it. "Stop this! Stop it now!"
But the female Silverhead did not seem to accept Linka's request. "And I personally declare the rebirth of this universe!" In seconds, the five girls had then disappeared in the blink of an eye, followed by a clap from the evil Silverhead. Then, a bright light had emitted from the alien, which completely stunned everyone.
The memory ended there. Right there with the final sentence spoke by the female Silverhead. They said rebirth, rebirth of the universe. Not rebirth of the earth. What did that mean? Did- Did the Silverhead perhaps change more than one earth? Did it, or she, or whatever, shift the entirety of the universe? Maybe beyond that, maybe perhaps the whole-
Lynn gasped again, hands gripping the edge of the sink. Things really were different here than that place that no longer existed. Apart from the stunning revelation of her true parentage, other things fell into place. A sister. She had a younger sister, the second child of Lincoln and Lynn Loud. The child that inherited super speed, unlike her, but had disappeared somewhere while she continued to grow up. Lynnette. Her baby sister Lynnette had vanished from her real life somewhere while she grew up.
And it hurt. It hurt Lynn the Third so much more than she could ever imagine. She, a child born of incest, but not the only one. The child born into madness much worse than this, and with a heavy, harder set of relatives who were stone cold. A father who was stone cold, and a mother who followed him to the ends of the earth out of unholy affection for him. A sister who had a bit of both traits, but had never been around them enough. The mystery... The open mystery of where she was, that had never been closed. Never.
What could she do? What could she possibly do to revert it all? She wanted it, for some strange reason. She wanted it all the way it was. The way it was supposed to be. This Silverhead, she had no idea how or what this one's goals were, but one thing was definitely certain; the world was indeed reset. Lynn went on to search all the history surrounding the Loud family tree, discovierng that a fraction of all the dark ordeals had come to pass. Not only that, but the databanks of the Prime Federation had also revealed a redhead known as Lucky Loud, a teenager born of Lori Loud, not present in her overflowing memories. He didn't exist in the real timeline or earth, and neither did the Ventura family when she came across those files. And most certainly not the AI created by the dictator Lisa Loud.
Lynn the Third then gathered enough to make a theory; maybe the Silverhead had broken up that world where the memories belonged, and spread them out into various parts, sizeable to be placed all throughtout the multiverse? Yes, she had to believe it existed. Out of many things she learned about while going through the digital history, she found some bizarre events that helped her believe that it wasn't an impossibility at most. Yes, she was certain of it. Certain, because she had lived through some of those things, as suggested by these odd memories.
By the time she had a clearer head, she decided that she should go and inform those involved, sell the idea, and maybe see if there was a way she could sneak the remaining Louds into the impenetrable Prime Federation base, to expose them to whatever that black pit was. And off she went, running through the devasted mess of the town of Royal Woods. Hee clothes were clean and tidy, the dead giveaway that she wasn't from around here, where countless people in town had messy, ragged clothing, some being in nothing but rags or garbage bags even, a disgusting sight for her eyes. When some noticed her, she sprinted quickly away, fearful of what they might do to her if they decided to run and catch her.
Some tried, but Lynn, being a tiny person with a scrawny build, the ideal physical look for nerdy girls, was able to outrun them all. And she got to the old Loud place safe and sound, circling around the house. Coming to the garage, she saw a flash of blue light come from side, leading her to hide behind the garage. Out came Linka, who had already escaped the Prime Federation after she tried a mission to infiltrate and take over the Prime Federation main base.
And then, right there, despite the possibility she could have encountered her, Lynn Loud had appeared, doing the unthinkable. She grabbed Linka by the shoulders and the ran her right into the ground, managing to bury her deep within the dirt. And only after Lynn had left back inside, Lynn the Third jumped right in and began clawing away at the dirt in a desperate bid to save the first Lincoln clone.
Afterwards, she and Linka began talking, but Lynn the Third had opted for some intentional misinforstive facts. "It's hard to explain why I had to come and see you... I had to find you and you alone. Not Lynn, not Luan, and not Lily. You."
Linka stood in fronf of an auditorium's screen at the theaters, the place she was using to lay low while the shit all blew over. "You're looking for a fighter, it seems like. No can do-"
"You stubborn fool!" Lynn the Third sank back in her chair, but then moved up, going to the large screen. "I don't suppose you have anything on you I can use to write?"
She'd have to explain it to Linka how she believed it to be. She felt she needed to provide some images to help Linka understand and believe her. Would she, however?
"How do you even figure?" Linka searched for something, but found only a buck knife. "Will this due?"
Lynn the Third waved and shook the knife, taking it to the screen. "If it won't tear the screen up..." She went up to it and started carving up two circles with gentle ease. "I understand if this might be confusing, so I'll simplify it as easily as I can."
"Go on," Linka said.
"I know enough about you and the many perils you've faced with the other Louds. Question, do you believe in the theory of the multiverse?" Maybe Linka had indeed faced an ordeal or two involving others from neighboring worlds. Liberty Loud was a given, but nothing about someone by that name had made the articles. In the first circle, she marked the word "Us" in the center, then carved some wavy lines around that circle.
"Okay, I guess I do," Linka agreed.
"Now, I'm sure you're wondering why there is a second circle here," Lynn the Third pointed out.
"Not really."
"This is another earth, equal to this one, where things have happened in parallel, in terms of events. Like, all of our history is applied to there, save for a tiny change, or a few, for that matter. Now..." She marked the same wavy lines around the second circle. "That makes them a pair of parallel worlds, does it not?"
"Where are you going with this?" Linka asked with a headache.
"Twin earths, right? Things have happened here that I can't solve without bypassing the borders of science and reality. Ever heard of the Mandela Effect? It's just like that, but on a universal scale. For starters..." Actually, she was derailing only slightly, but remembered to return to the main point. She started to write something. Names.
Lina - Leda - Laika - Lois - Gloom
"These names here, do you recognize them?" Here was the test; if Linka had no idea who these five were, it meant for sure that this was not just the incorrect timeline, but another earth. This world was legitimately one of the scattered fragments sent hurling into the multiverse. She embraced the truth and took a deep breath.
Linka shook her head and laughed. "More L names, wow."
Now she knew for sure, having confirmed this was the case here, and it really was happening. Things just got ever more harder now. "Of course not... But they've existed before, Linka. They were all there at the start... And something happened."
"Enough of this bull. Where did you even get the idea that-?"
She had to tell Linka what she knew about what she had seen. That meant the Silverhead who was in the ultimate power, the one who was now confirmed to have undone the one earth that housed them, and had created a new multiverse it seemed. The explanation was not at all easy. "I was... Subjected to one of the Federation's many experiments," she revealed. "Only, they examined me beforehand, categorized me into a special one not meant for just anyone. I guess it was my intelligence and understanding of some certain sciences that made me the only candidate. I was... I was everywhere, but I was nowhere at the same time! And that, that nasty stuff in my hands, it like, absorbed into my skin! I thought I was on an alien planet, but..."
"You do know how fictional this sounds like, right?"
"Hey, this happened, and it left me wondering something. Look, this- All of this- It's not supposed to be this way," Lynn the Third continued. And it was really unbelievable, fictional for her to have to explain it all. Silly, skeptical, you name it, and you'd be damn sure she had some sort of hold-back that fought her into going on to share. Again, she wondered if Linka was able to buy into it, for the sake of her being dragged into that pit and discovering the truth for herself. All that needed to happen was to convince Linka and have her infiltrate back in. Maybe she could go in disguised as her and break into the lab to see the truth herself. That was an option. Hopefully.
She then explained the whole past event, from when she was placed into the weird pit of infinite darkness, to the whole sea of memories that she couldn't handle. Of course, she could not share all that she had seen. Not all of it, at least. But she had dropped the final memory before finishing up her dialogue.
"So... What, someone reset the world?" Linka crossed her arms at this, sounding real skeptical.
"No, not just reset. All the history of the Louds' ordeal with the world still only partially come to pass, as I've come to know overtime. But, not everything happened like from what I've seen in those images, so it begs the question, what did the hit of the reset button really do? And for what reason?" She felt she had already knew by then, and with the missing five girls,
"Beats me, but I don't buy this-" Linka started, but was cut off by Lynn the Third.
"Well, how did I find you, huh?!" She meant to say why, not how, speaking too fast to think her words. "I found out the address of the house, which is actually classified intel in the Prime Federation. I still question why they added that to begin with, data wise."
"Hmmm..." Linka took it into account, trying to come up with a logical reason why this girl from the dictatorship would come to see her.
"And I'll admit, didn't think they'd try and kill you," Lynn the Third added, referring to her real mother's actions.
"Okay, but, why me?" Linka demanded with a higher voice.
"Because I saw you died once, but you were alive again," Lynn the Third answered. Linka was fought than the others, a valuable quality trait to have in this rotten world. "Alive to the end."
"Oh... Nice," Linka let out an arrogant smile.
"And maybe you are a very important piece to this, hence why I was able to save you this time," she figured, calling it a blessing that she was quick to save Linka in the nick of time.
"Okay, say I believe you. Say I believe that this is not the true world, then what is this?" Linka still needed to be given a simple explanation, simpler than how it had already been explained to her.
"Either..." Lynn the Third added question marks above the carved circles. "Either this is the reset earth or this isn't. I can't know for sure at this point."
She had reached another theory that contradicted what she had now believed; suppose the girls were moved, into another earth. And they didn't exist here, otherwise Linka would have known who they were. Those five girls were part of another fragment, but what were she and Linka in? Was this really another fragment? This reality, that had much of the history like she remembered? Or maybe she was led to believe it, to confuse her from differentiation. She didn't know. She had no real idea what this was, but all she knew was that she had to get Linka to follow her.
And she had been certain, so certain, up until now.
"What, uhh... What makes you think that? And how could you be able to tell?"
"Okay, so, this earth, much of the original earth's history has happened here, but not all. Perhaps this really is the one, but there would have to be more or most of the original folk whom we've come to know. That's these people here, whose names I've written." She pointed to the names.
"Uh-huh..." Linka nodded slowly.
"But I've looked into your history after having seen all of that. I compared, and found that you knew some people here who hadn't existed back then. There was no Lucky Loud, there was no Ventura family, there was no sentient machine named Derek, and there was no Antonucci and the Agency."
"Antonucci? Is that the damn director dude's name?" Linka hadn't known that one fact.
"Uh, yes. Did you not know?"
"They're the government. What do you think?" Linka sassed.
"I sense this is a rhetorical question..." Lynn the Third scratched her head, already using her head for a new realization.
"And you said you were smart," Linka sneered. "But go on."
"My own theory is that, if non-existent people were added to this world, then maybe it works the same way vice versa. What I mean by that is, what if the missing people ended up in other worlds? Maybe the missing portions that the pre-reset world sent the fragments of those missing pieces throughout the universe, forcing them to be part of a new reality. Do you understand?"
Linka almost drooled. "So you're saying the earth that underwent the change also had some of the inhabitants and... Uh, events split off into alternate universes?"
"That is the logical inference I perceive to be the truth. Like, for example, say a drug was created in the main earth. The reset could taken that out of its future equations, and moved it elsewhere for someone else to have created. Or maybe one event that happened before, like the death of someone happening just the same in two different worlds. And this did change the course of the multiverse, either by adding the fragments into already existing worlds, or the fragments are big enough to be their own world."
"So... Okay, I think I get it. So it's like a bag of popcorn that exploded among a table of plates..." Linka compared, almost understanding the theory of hers.
"Well, in simple terms, yes. Yes, that is exactly it!" Lynn the Third clapped with happiness. "Well said, Linka!"
Linka said nothing.
"Long story short, you've been living a semi-false life, and so have your family members, this world is either real or a fragment of the explosion that followed. Considering I didn't see myself, it is only able to be deduced that I'm not part of it." That was where she decided to lie, lie due to her fear of revealing her true heritage and relation to the Louds. Her only tell was when she tucked her hands in her pockets, dismissed by Linka at first glance. "I'm getting the chills now."
"You blame that... All of that, for why this is happening?" Linka abruptly asked, still having trouble believing this.
"Well, yes. This shouldn't be remotely occurring to begin with, but it is what it is. I want to take you back to the Prime Federation so that you can-" Bad choice of words.
"No fucking way!" Linka stood right back up, forming a deadly face enough to scare nerdy Lynn the Third into running, with Linka giving chase.
"Linka, no! I know how this sounds, but you have to believe me!" She raced around the seats.
"Stop running, then!" Linka yelled from behind.
And the it happened. The two holes, just like the entrance to the black abyss, had appeared right above them, making them stop to look up. "What?"
Then came zapping blue lightning that wrapped around the both of them, kidnapping them with ease. And then, right before they both took their exit, Lynn the Third was quick to make yet another discovery; these things were actually wormholes, ripped distortions in the actual time-space continuum. Ripples in the multiverse, if she simplified it. Ripples caused by something... Or maybe someone-
Lynn the Third let out her final screams. "THE DISTORTIONS! THESE ARE DISTORTIONS, LINKA! SOMEONE HAS MADE A HOLE IN THE-" And then she disappeared within the darkness, this time falling through it. Forever, it seemed, as she saw no end to it. And she had to hold onto her glasses.
Elsewhere, up in the rooftop of the old factory, Liena stood still, with an apple standing on top of her head. She had to remove her beanie for it to be flat on her head. She didn't like what her girlfriend was making her do; be a stand for a target. "You're gonna poke my eye out! And then I'll be really mad!"
Linda gripped a bow and arrow she had gotten from one of the dead uniforms tjey had fought with Laika, sporting a triumphant but cocky smile as she began to tug the arrow back with the bow, steadying it carefully. "Don't move for one second, or even breathe! Here goes!"
"Wait, have you practiced this with-?" Liena hoped that Linda had her archery skills joked while with Scythe. Really hoped so.
Linda fired the arrow before Liena finished the question, hitting the apple without breaking a sweat. The Apple and the arrow went flying from the roof that way. Liena yelped like the little girl she was, running her hands rapidly through her hair as if spiders had gotten on. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!"
Louise and Gloom had seen it from the exit, with Louise sighing hopelessly. "Dang it, I wanted to see some blood," she moaned.
"I'll show you some," Gloom hissed, revealing her sharp jaws to the psycho. "Come here!"
Louise went forward to gain distance from the vampire. "Get away from me, bloodsucker!"
"Gloom!" Linda shouted. "Take Liena's place! And Louise will shoot off an arrow with you!"
"What? But you only had one apple," Gloom pointed out. "What are you going to put on me?!"
Liena skipped over to the carnivorous bloodsucker and guided her to where she had been standing. "Stand here, okay?" Lina returned to Linda as she was showed Louise the basics of a bow and arrow.
"Um, what are you planning?" Gloom asked with worry. "G-girls-"
Linda hideously snorted, moving away from Louise once the Luan-obsessed fanatic knew how to pull and let go of the arrow. "Okay, crazy! Pull it and let it go like you mean it! Aim above her head, too!"
"Whoop-dee-doo!" Louise closed her eyes and pulled the arrow back, and let go without knowing where she aimed. "Let's fucking go!"
"HEY-!" Gloom shouted before the he arrow struck her forehead, causing her head to jerk back. "LOUISE!"
The Luan fanatic opened her eyes, witnessing how glorious her skills seemed to be. Maybe She was more skilled with other weapons apart from a knife. "LOOK AT THAT! YOU LOOK AT THAT, LINDA!" She threw her arms up in the air, claiming victory over Linda's archery skills. "YOU CAN BOW BEFORE ME!"
"Lucky shot," Linda excused. "No way you could do that again."
Gloom removed the arrow, allowing herself to bleed from her forehead. "This isn't funny, you guys! I'm immortal, but not invulnerable to brain damage! Remember that!"
"You guys are pretty rad, you know that?" Liena placed at them when Gloom and Louiae rejoined them.
Gloom then realized what Louise had cracked. "Wait, was that pun?! It was, wasn't it?! Louise!"
"Yeah! Man, I must have done a number on you if you're too slow to think!" Louise giggled.
Just then, the black portal that had borrowed Lynn the Third had finally stopped at its destination, throwing her out into the roof in front of them. They stopped what they were doing and focused onto her. Gloom readied her teeth, Louise brought her knife out, Linda raised her fists, and Liena hid behind the three.
Lynn the Third's glasses had fallen off, but she found them before getting up. "O-oh, d-dear-"
Putting them on, she looked up to see the four girls, all of which were from the missing set of girls. The ones who weren't from the earth she had just come from, and that meant-
"Oh, my God, yes! It's you! It's you guys! I- I know who you are!" Lynn the Third had jumped right up and began the greeting. "Hi, I'm Lynn Loud the Third! I'm... Related to the Loud family! And I know you guys!"
The four girls gave each other weird looks. "I'm sorry?" Louise asked.
"Gloom! Lois! Leda! Lina!" Lynn the Third pressed her hands to her cheeks, amazed at how ironic and coincidental this meant to her. And this also meant that she was in another one of the fragment-worlds. "I have so much to tell you! Really, I do!"
"I think you have the wrong people, except Gloom here," Linda sassed. "Our names are Linda, Liena and Louise."
Lynn the Third waa confused. "What? No, I'm sure I have the right people... Is that- Are you sure those are your names?"
"This girl is crazy! Can I stab her?"
"W-wait, I know!" Lynn the Third studied her clothes. "I know that what I'm saying might be impossible, but we've come another earth! I know you! I know all of you!" She spewed it out because these girls seemed more dangerous than what Linka posed. "A vampire, a Luan fangirl, and the clones of Lincoln and Luna Loud!"
If they were considering to kill her, then they surely had stopped and reconsidered it. She was telling the truth somehow. And then, Gloom asked, "What was that black thing that we just saw?"
Linda put Louise's arm down. "Speak," she told Third.
"Well, it was- It was like a wormhole, it sent me here, from like, another earth. I'm from another..." Ahe lost Linda that way.
"What?" Liena thought she misheard. "You're from-?"
"It's as I said," Third continued. "It's complicated, but I'll explain it."
Minutes Later
Lynn the Third was not accounting for Laika to be there either, but she should have known she was, as Laika was the fifth one who had gone missing, moved by the Silverhead. Once they had all assembled down to the first floor, Lynn the Third began to explain it slowly and thoroughly. She told them what she told Linka, and in the very same way, too. This world was all fake, and these five had to be the real ones from that earth that was no more. That someone had tampered with nature to this magnitude, and what was more, was that she had gained an all-new, all-different clue; the Silverhead behind this was watching her. How coincidental was it to be moved to another earth just as you'd go to try and warn someone involved of what was happening? Yes, it had to be. It had to be them who were watching Lynn the Third closely.
Meaning... Lynn the Third had scared the Silverhead, meaning she was more of a threat than she realized. And that had then further implied that there was a chance to beat the villain and set the worlds back to one, however many worlds there were.
"Okay, so let me get this straight," Linda had already been debriefed of it all, including their real names, hers being Leda, and not at all Linda, and that also applied to Liena and Louise, taking in the true names of Lina and Lois. "So, you're saying that this... Is just like, what, an illusion? We're living fake lives that we're forced to live thanks to this alien being?"
Third clapped her hands cheerfully. "Yes, you've got it!"
Leda turned away. "Well, I'm not buying it. You've been reading too much comic books, haven't you?"
"What? Wait, but I knew Gloom's and Laika's names! How-?"
"Might've done research prior to coming here," Leda countered. "Who are you linked with?"
Liena, now Lina, put her beanie back on, staring at Third with some puzzling, curious eyes. She didn't have the pair of gazers like a liar or a deceiver, but there was a glimmer of something being hidden that she could not unravel through the girl's sparkling hazel eyes. "I don't know, Linda- Err, Leda, but what if she's telling the truth?"
Lois was laughing after Lina put in her thoughts. "Hey, it doesn't seem real to me, but then again, what do we have? A vampire, a psychopath, two clones, and a Russian guerrilla soldier! Why shouldn't this be a convoluted story this weirdo is trying to sell to us? It might just be true, and who are we to deny it?"
"Okay, that's enough out of you," Gloom cut in, silencing her.
"What, don't tell you believe this, Lina?" Leda sought to know.
"I'm not partnered with anyone, if that's what you mean," Third answered. "But, please, I'm not lying! I come from the year twenty thirty-nine, I was just there moments ago, and-"
"Wait, that year? The year all the Louds were killed by Nnyl?"
Lynn the Third gasped. "Y-you know about Nnyl?" Nnyl, the alter ego of the person she learned was her younger sister, roaming around freely in the main earth. Nnyl, who didn't exist in the other earth she had come from. Then, things were different based on events. "W-wait-"
"Most of us know that, didn't you?" Leda pondered, curious about where Lynn the Third had holed herself up in.
She shook her head, beginning to recount her own timeline history. "Where I came from, Nnyl didn't exist, but we had someone named Lyra. Lyra had the same powers as Nnyl, but wasn't a villain. No, but... The Louds- They-" She stopped to catch her breath and think her words clearly. "I'm sorry, I mean to say that where I come from, Lisa Loud had claimed victory to the entire United States. She established her own rules, her own laws, a system, you name it!"
"A... Dictatorship?" Lina asked.
"Everything's screwed back there. Lisa Loud herself is a superpower, in control of the biggest army in the world. Half the states are in turmoil, turned into deadened slums. The entire eastern side of the U.S. is just endless barren wastelands, but the northwest side, all states over California, Arizona and New Mexico are where the rich live, who could afford to live in peace there. The homeless, the poor, the classes lower than that were driven out, moved to the crappy places. But from there, the resistance had risen with the goal to take back the nation from her, to correct the mistakes. And..."
She did get them all, as she had spoken her words slowly and dramatically. And this was no act, no lie, nothing of the sort. It was part of the life she had lived, but only seen from a higher, safer place.
"Linka Loud was one of the many resistance fighters still active, and I had just saved her like half an hour ago. Linka, the first clone before little Lina here. And... You named yourself Lina, without the letter K. And that was because unlike her, you don't kill."
Lina's eyes only widened a little, but enough to let Third know she believed her. And this also made Leda start to believe these idiotic claims.
"I..." Lina let it sink. "Oh..."
"Now you peaked my interest. If this is all real, then what are you coming to tell us for? You were the one exposed to whatever that goo was, not us."
Lynn the Third cleared her throat. "I think that there could be a way to defeat them and revert it all back. Look, I found Linka to try and get her to expose herself into that pit, but then I was moved by that wormhole you've seen. And so was she, which leads me to believe that I hold some threat level to them. For some reason, I feel like... I feel like I know that there is more to this particular Silverhead than I've seen. Something about them..."
""Okay, then tell us already! What is it we must do?" Leda, always the impatient of the group. Of any group.
Lynn the Third brought a hand to her chin, scratching slowly. "I haven't gotten there yet, but I'm concerned that I might just be moved again. I mean, it can't be a coincidence that I get moved to another earth when I realize the truth, can it? Linka and I were moved, but she didn't follow me, as you can see. So clearly, she ended up elsewhere, but...-"
"My head, goddamnit!" Leda curled her head down and covered it. "Motherfucker."
"Oh, I'm sorry-"
Leda screamed.
"Uhhh..."
"I'm sorry, I'm still confused,"
"Kidding. See, I can go in circles, too!" Leda laughed it off.
"Well, what part are you having trouble understanding? Or is it the whole accepting of what this is? Would it help if we spoke hypothetically?"
"What?" Leda asked, clueless. "Speak English."
"Umm..." Lynn the Third sighed. "Okay, so you've got the splitting part down, right?"
"Uh-huh."
"And you understood that this split you into this world, because I saw the five of you being moved, and you didn't exist on the fragment earth I was on, right?"
"Yeah..."
"And I was moved here, because the Silverhead, one of those aliens in silver, metallic skin, had sensed a threat in me and moved me."
"Okay, yeah," Leda confirmed.
"So, now I'm here telling you what I told Linka."
The clock ticked, until Leda pieced it together. "Oh, y-you're-"
"Yes!"
"Endangering us if this is indeed real!"
"Wait, what?" Third was lost.
"If Linka was more, then it might mean that who you go to and blab will fucking-!" Leda stopped. She looked down and calculated the complex equation mentally.
"I know... I know how it sounds, but I need your help. I wish to go back to that pit, and maybe I could get you to remember your own true memories, all of you. I simply can't share it all, but that isn't important right now anyway."
Third went and took a seat at a couch that wasn't completely brand new. Not fit for her clean clothes, but she sat in it anyway, feeling free from being in the world of cleanliness while she knew people have suffered.
Truth about her was that she was a selfless teenager, with dreams that rivaled Lisa Loud's agendas. She wished for world peace, the end of poverty and world hunger. All good things that could never be, and that ended up killing her, just knowing that she was unable to change it. One in a million, what difference could she possibly make?
But this, this thing that had presented to her, it was bigger than her, way beyond by tenfold. If there was a chance that she could prevent damage caused on this multiversal scale, she would take it. She could, because that would be one win. Just one damn win on her part. One.
She remembered a crucial fact about the Silverheads; they saw speedsters as potential threats. Then, could it be possible that speedsters were also going to be targeted next by this lone Silverhead? There was always that chance.
"I don't know, you guys, I don't know how to fix it..." It made her feel down. Try as she might, she wasn't advanced to come up with a viable solution. "I have to fix it."
"And how would you go on about that? You're not some kind of divine entity to do such shit-"
"Divine?" Lynn the Third felt a wave of dizziness hit her hard, right before seeing an image of someone. Lola. She saw Lola when she blacked out all of a sudden. Lola Loud, in a pink tank top and gray leggings, surrounded by Lana, Lyra, Lynn and Nnyl. It went too fast, but something happened. It was a standoff between her and the other prominent speedsters. Lola disappeared in seconds, replaced by one of the Silverheads in her place. Only, it wasn't like that. It was Lola. Lola was the person behind the reset. Lynn the Third's mind returned to her, making her focus back into play.
And it waa this fact that made her believe that Lola was going to target speedsters, assuming she didn't already. "Oh, my God."
And then the additional theory that Lola could very well be planning another move to silence her.
"What distortion?" Laika was completely lost, up until Lois decided to play explainer to her.
Gloom followed them, all three of them leaving the floor.
"Which one of you are linked to the government?" Third asked the two clones.
"Uhhh, I am, why?" Lina asked.
Think. The earth, the main one, maybe it didn't break after all. Maybe...
All based on assumptions, but maybe she might have been wrong after all. "That earth, maybe it's not gone after all! Maybe-"
And all six of them got a real reaction out of that; Laika, Gloom and Lois came back running down, screaming. "Hole! There's that black hole again!"
"What?!" Leda croaked.
"I tell you, there's a new-!" Before Gloom could finish, a second one opened up in front of them, and Lynn the Third was caught in the middle.
"Oh, no! Not again!" Third didn't try to move, but Laika did it for her, and pushed her out of the way.
"You fix! Trust you for this! Kill you if no!" Those we're her last words she said before disappearing within the distortion wormhole.
"Yo, what? What just-?"
"She's fucking gone!" Lois yelled!
"You, Lina! I need you to fetch me some certain things! I have a plan!"
Later
"Thing would've been heavy to carry," Gloom thought, staring at an elevator-shaped huge contraption The Domicile had dubbed Omni-Directional Teleporter, or ODT for short. Despite it being a simple prototype, what this did was it was able to move through any and all alternate dimension. Problem with that, Third had to know what designated earth she needed to go. The thing had already come with instructions on where to to, and despite knowing where they needed to to, Third hadn't an idea where it was. Or... Maybe she did.
It had to be dialed a number. A number that meant something to them, maybe that was how she could find out. But... What number? What number could she possibly-? "Oh!"
She believed she had it, but couldn't be certain as of yet.
"Yeah, its fucking huge. Well, we'd better use it fast if this is going to happen."
"Actually..." The plan was for one of them to become a speedster using the formula that Lina had taken as well, a blue concoction that would be used to help attract the Lola-Silverhead out from hiding, an inevitable fight to come. That meant one of them would be going back to undo it. Not all of them. "It has to be just one person."
"What about the Rusian girl? There a chance we see her again?"
"Honestly, I don't know," Third painfully admitted. "It was aimed for me, so who knows where I was to be sent to.
Her secret fear here was that she who was sent to the main earth could be knocked back, but the more there were of them, the more dangerous it might be, while they traveled through the inexplicable space-time continuum. Especially now that they were all under watch.
That was the point of taking the suit of the long-dead Nnyl, for whoever would take the power was to use this particular suit. Lynn the Third needed to know if someone from a fragment earth could cross over to another without having to be moved by the controller of the board. One of three possible outcomes were expected; it would succeed, and she who was dispatched to the main earth would land in to confront Lola; it didn't succeed, and there would be an only rebound, or it would happen, only for the rebound to instead be another shift for the person, rendering them lost like Laika. Damn, it was all on the line.
"So, which one of us will actually go?" Leda grabbed the serum and handled it with caution. "I was the best girl to be leader here, therefore I should get the honors. What do you say?"
Gloom and Lois agreed.
"Of course, I also want Lina here to take charge for a change. Lina..." Leda handed the serum to her. "I want you to do it instead of me."
"Wh-what? Me, really?" Lina gasped.
"Hey, listen, there's no reason, and I mean absolutely no reason for you to be afraid, okay? We can make this work, Lina. This can work."
Before Lina could object to this, Leda gave her a nice, wet kiss straight on her lips.
"Oh, my!" Lynn the Third blinked wildly.
"I love you, and I believe in you, so you've got this, okay?" Leda hugged her. "Now go put on the suit."
"A-are you sure? That green suit did look kinda big-"
"It can be modified to match the size of the wearer, which was always the secret Lynn had kept for mostly everyone. Lest you forget, Lynn's suit belonged to Lana before."
"How do you know that about Lynn?" Leda wondered suspiciously.
"Uhhh..." Before she could answer, a hole opened up, this time right outside the old factory. Third took notice, seeing someone emerge from it. "Hide, holy crap! Hide!"
Gloom took Lois and pulled her into the stairway, as did Leda with Lina. "What the fuck? Who the fuck?" Leda rushed from her lips.
"Oh- Oh, my God... No freaking way."
"What? Why are you-? Do you know who that is?"
"It's the girl destined to become Nnyl!" Third answered Leda.
"What?!"
Lynnette, some other version of Lynn the Third's older sister, had come inside, soaking with sticky liquid from the clothes she had come in, and she was pretty much cold. The two met face-to-face just at the stairwell, and Lynn the Third had to bring out false act for all of them. "Oh, and who might you be?"
It was harder for her to talk to her sister as if they were absolute strangers. It hurt her heart that much, but she was able to keep a straight face all the way. She wanted Lynnette to join her, to join them, and that might've been considered, up until Lynn the Third was forming another idea. A more, sinister, but better idea.
"Wh-what's going on?! How did I get here?!" The sticky-wet Lynnette asked her.
"Ah, fresh off the boat, eh? You've seen the black pit?" Third was just stalling for time as she did the mental calculations here and now. The group had not just one serum, but also another one, a red one that was a last resort if the speed serum wasn't enough. This one was a booster, under the title of Medi-Sin Mark II, untested and locked away until Lina swiped it in secret.
"Black pit? I, uhh..." Lynnette scratched her head, sorely confused. "Who are you?"
"I need you to come with us," Third said, ignoring her questions. Right now, that red serum was held by her, and Third began moving up the stairs.
"Us?" Lynnette met the other four girls, all of whom were looking down at her with hostility. "Um..."
"These are my new friends, no need to worry about them!" Third pressed a hand to her chest and introduced herself. "My name is not important, but it is a familiar one to you, I do believe. It's Lynn, but I'm not directly related to the Loud family tree."
And it was a lie, of course. She hadn't shared the truth yet, and didn't plan on it. What would they think if they found out her sister was a murderer? Or her father, who had done not so decent acts himself? Her father, an old Freight. And it made her a child born of incest, a huge scary secret.
"Oh, heavens no," Third continued. "But most of these young girls are. I have Lina, Leda, Lois, and Gloom with me here tonight."
Lina's kindness played at her to make a proper introduction, even as she knew Nnyl was bad news. "Hiyah, it's-"
Leda was there to stop her, and whispered gently. "No, bad. Can't be wanting their autographs."
"Y-you know who I am?" Lynnette had heard her, and then speculated they all knew her. "You with the Agency?"
"We know... Enough," Leda replied. "But no, we're not with them."
The group went to the second floor, where Lynnette was looking around, minding her own business while she dripped sticky subtance onto the floor.
"What the hell? This is the same girl who killed a whole fucking town!" Leda hissed at Third. "What the fuck are you doing?"
"Easy! Look, I have an idea! We can use her as well!"
"Oh, stop it!" But Leda's shoulders were tightly frisked by her, and Third stared deeply into the soul of the Luna/Sam clone.
"Listen, you need to give me this now! Only I know the severity of what I'm dealing with here! You need to trust me or not at all!"
Leda was challenged more than fairly, and found herself nervous when staring at Third. "F-fie, j-just don't fuck up."
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Third gave the order. "Hold her down, now!"
"Huh?!" Lynnette had gotten sidetracked, already having labeled these strange girls as allies. She had questions but she had only thought of getting warm. Too late now. "Hey!"
Gloom and Leda grabbed each of her arms, preventing her from escape, with Lois trying to punch her hard. Lymnete kicked her away, but Lois was laughing with pride. Lynnette's focused on Leda and centered her strength into the arm and tossed her into the air. Gloom let go of Lynnette and not deep into the latter's chest, sending her down. Lois returned to stick her kitchen knife into her chest as well, adding it to Gloom's pain tab.
Third found her cue and went for a syringe to insert the Medi-Sin Mark II formula into Lynnette. "I do this with a heavy heart, Lynnette. We all do, but-"
"I- I can't believe we're doing this! We're creating Nnyl ourselves!" Gloom had released her mouth from the speedster's chest, as did Lois with her knife. "Creating and sending her back!"
"I know, but this is a speedster targeted by the distortions! Hurry, change her into the green suit!"
Leda and Lina left the room, only to come back with the suit that future Nnyl would one day embrace as her true suit. "Then what?!"
"If even one of the moved people make it back, the rest of then are likely to return to their original pre-reset domain! This is like pushing back dominoes when they're getting knocked down!"
"I still don't know why we don't all just go-" Gloom circled again.
"But you said this was only a theory! You're not certain this could truly work!" Lina added. "What if this only furthers the multiversal damage?!"
"I'm aware of that! But once Lynnette goes back, we'll know the outcome! If she comes back, we'll have failed! If one of us is sent back with her, we have a higher chance of success because whoever goes back would upset the initial wave of distortions! Think of these distortions like a design! One unaccounted flaw will wreck the design! And that flaw will have to be one of you!"
Lynnette had begun her primary transitioning into Nnyl.
"You told us that the main world's history says she killed people!" Gloom informed. "Is this really worth the price of returning?! We can prevent a tragedy from the world she's come from! I- I didn't sign up to push murderers to their destiny!"
Gloom didn't fully understand what was what yet, but Third was done explain it it.
"Hypocritical of you to say, considering you ate people!" Lois pointed out with a flirty tone of voice. She wanted that Gloom pussy still. "Actual people!"
"If we all return to that main earth, we can revert everything to how it was supposed to be! That means those she'll kill, and every other dead person killed in the crossfires of the Louds' battles will live again, just like the dead Louds themselves! That is what we can accomplish! Nnyl's terror can and will be prevented, even when we really started it! I just know it, so believe in me!" Even then, she didn't feel it was all certain to be, but she did hope for the best.
"Nnyl will be able to grow inside of her chamber, right?! From there, she'll turn into the Nnyl you're so familiar with?"
Lina and Leda had changed Lynnette into the green suit that her dead counterpart had worn here, under different origin circumstances. The two carried her into the ODM, a long way down that would have been easier, should she have been lighter.
"Yes, she'll be sure to become the Nnyl I'm aware of," Third shared.
"Will she remember us?" Lois asked, hoping to not be killed by Nnyl anytime soon.
"It shouldn't be possible, but it may be that she does remember her transformation in bits and pieces! Hurry!"
"Wait, so who's-?" Lina was too innocent and ditzy for her own good.
"Lina, get in the thing!" Leda boomed.
"S-so-"
"And you'd better save that formula too," Leda went on. "You might just end up needing it after all!"
"O-okay. Lynn, what do I press here? How do I-?"
Third went to the dial-pad and clicked on four numbers; 1216. "This has to be it. Now listen, you're going to put Nnyl back, and I want you to find whichever Louds exist where you'll end up, and you'll recruit them."
"L-Lind- Leda, I'm sc-"
"Nothing to worry about, Lina. I'll be right behind you! We'll be right behind you!"
Third activated the ODM, and stood back with the others. "Remember, you can do it, Lina! You've done braver things before!"
"I- I have?"
"Bet!" Lois joked, but was punched by Leda.
"See you soon, babe," Leda said with an eased tone, smiling at her cute girlfriend.
The ODM closed automatically, followed by a great whirring and hissing. It was like a diesel engine times ten, making a hell of a sound that could wake a neighborhood. In seconds, the noise was gone, and so was the machine. Lina and Nnyl were gone.
"Jesus," Gloom dropped. "I mean, I wouldn't trust me with myself, but... What if there's some sort of screw-up?"
Third didn't want to think about it. "Let's look at the positives, shall we?"
"Postives?" Leda sarcastically repeated. "There is nothing positive about that! I just sent my girl off with that evil chick! What could possibly be a good outcome from that, huh?"
"I..." She couldn't answer it.
"Yeah, you know nothing about this! All this has been was only just theories and thoughts, but I know that you don't know jack shit, and for all we know, Lina and Laika are dead, killed by that... That thing you said had targeted you and Linka!"
"That's not true! I know this can work, I'm a hundred percent-"
"You say that, but I haven't seen visual proof of anything! And I can't truly trust you for that!"
Lynn the Third glanced with a hard face at her, holding it and gritting her teeth at her. She was quite angry that someone was denying her her own theories and ideas, but then she changed her expression. Leda might have not been wrong. What did she truly know, apart from what she so carefully deduced? Maybe it was all wrong, and she damned herself into keeping up with the mess-making. Maybe Lynnette dropping by was planned for her by Lola to be a real warning, a warning that she was meant to take advantage of and use for her own gains. She let her sister go, without even deciding to spill to her who she was to her, and to the family Loud.
That... That was one of the real hardest choices Lynn the Third had to push herself to do. Amazingly, she held down her crying.
And even now, when this was a moment she should have been, she didn't. And Leda saw her pain, honoring her as stronger than she seemed to be. "Hmm! Yeah, I don't want to be that person, but maybe you fucked up, and now my Lina might be lost forever!"
"Linda... Or Leda, whatever- Cut her some slack," Gloom urged.
"I bloody agree with that," Lois added. "She's not as crazy as we think she is, unless I hallucinated Lina and Russian vanishing like that, and also this girl's appearance."
Leda didn't want to hear it. "My point is-"
And no one was expecting the next wormhole to pop up right in the center of the floor. And this one came to be bigger than the previous ones. The lightning came in four different rods, all of them each taking hold of each of the girls.
"Ah! No, get it-" Gloom yelped, squirming around.
"Stop! Stop, don't fight it!" Lynn the Third gasped. "It's- It's-!"
"What the hell?! What is this?! You idiot-!" Leda was the first to be snatched into the dark portal, followed by the screaming Gloom, and then the laughing Lois. Lynn the Third willingly jumped into it, taking a deep breath before entering. Whatever happened, and whatever the outcome would be, she was prepared to pay whatever it was, however painful.
Earth 1216
Lina and Laika took it upon themselves to aid Linka and Lupa from the distance, having no other option than to give the the proper aid and support to take Nnyl down, as well as her many slaves in the process. Lina surrendered her speed formula to Linka while she and Laika were avoiding the heat around them.
Ultimately, Lina had hijacked into a satellite and had it come crashing down onto Nnyl without a promblem, and that was after directing the fine people of Royal Woods to help Linka and Lupa win this time. Not gonna be like what they remembered it to be, based on the data files.
They parted ways with the other two, leaving them dangling with all sorts of questions. And they went away from the devasted town, relocating at Grand Venture State Park. "Is it done? Did we succeed in our mission?"" Lina asked her with hope.
"Lucky has dead, and victory for Louds, my friend," Laika updated. "The time abominations are all dead." When she said abominations, she meant the distortions, and only said that because she truly believed they were over.
"It should have worked by now. I dropped Nnyl back to the Agency but the ODT and I got separated into different places thanks to the damn distortions. Didn't think I'd get dropped to her shitshow, nor come across you." Lina bumped her hand on Laika's shoulder, laughing a little.
"Is this real earth?" Laika was in no mood to think.
"It is if-" Lina began, only to be greeted by the dark hole that brought the other four into the main world. Lina was happy to see Leda alive and back around. "Holy shit! Babe!"
"Lina!" Leda swooshed to her lover and embraced her hard, kissing her deeply. "Oh, my God!"
"You and your overprotective nature," Lina girules, letting herself get all the Leda love.
"Did anyone put the moves on you? They'll have to answer to me!" Leda held up her fists and punched the air. "Let me at em!"
"Easy, I've been here for hours only, but Laika was here for weeks she says," Lina told them.
"Oh, my. It appears that my theory is correct! We can set the world back to its original state!" And she was happy. She was indeed happy as she looked around the sights of a better world. The park was a damn beautiful site for sure eyes. She raised her hands and took in such fresh breath.
"And I thought you were just crazy," Lois laughed maniacally. "A crazy girl with crazy ideas. Who would have thought?"
"Wait, this place is gonna-!" Lina was too late to warn them about the surprise welcome she got when she arrived, just like Laika had.
Gloom, Lois and Leda then heard such an unbearable high-pitched noise that came from inside of their heads, rendering them all to fall onto their knees. Leda ans Gloom cried with the utmost pain, while Lois was laughing as if she was enjoying it. She might've been for all they knew.
"Give them a minute!" Third eased. "This really is the home earth we belong in! Their true memories are coming back!"
"Make it s-stop!" Leda cried out. "I remember! I remember-"
"Booyah, hehe!" Lois bit her lip in excitement.
"L-LEMY! LYLE! I CAN'T DECIDE! WAIT, DID I-?!" Gloom was frantically shaking around.
"Lynn Three, what do from here?" Laika didn't know the next step. "Where go?"
"We find the Louds, of course! The more, the merrier! We can solve this with them, and Linka! We can-" Third noticed the black smoke that came from town. "What... Where in the timeline are we?"
"This is the thirty-nine, and Nnyl just cause a massacre," Laika explained. "Me and Lincoln clone fight with Linka and Lupa."
"Are you kidding me? That could complicate-" She stopped. "Well, I don't know for sure if this counts to summon the Silver Legion, but... If so..." Then, by this, it meant Lina and Laika had regrouped and helped the Louds stop Nnyl. Then, maybe... They were in the future of this earth? How could she know for sure? Damn, this was all actually confusing.
Lina gulped. "Either way, we'd have to face them according to you. And especially if... If this person who reset the multiverse could be in control of them!"
"Too early to tell, plus I could be wrong. But... You're right. Prepare for the worst, that's all I can say." Lola, was she really in control of them, or did she alone have the power to dictate it all herself?
Leda, Lois and Gloom rose back up, recovering from the brain throbbing, now staring ominously at Lynn the Third.
"Okay, boss Three! Lead the way!" Laika yelled again, addressing Third as the name she had come to know her as.
"Alright, buckaroos! Let's continue our quest to reinstate the original timeline!" Lynn the Third looked over the horizon, ready to proceed with their toughest mission up to date. She pointed outwards, winking into the sunlight. "HUZZAH!"
"Hold on, you! What about the elephant in the room?" Leda addressed, mainly referring to Lynn the Third's relation to Nnyl. "You hid that from us for some reason! Why's that?"
Lina locked a hand with Leda's own. "Please don't-"
"Hey, Nnyl is your sister, so why did you hide that? What are you running from?"
Third had lost her confidence and pride with each of Leda's remarks, rendered silent with depressing pain. "Stop..."
"Ally Leda, stop," Laika pleaded gently. "Explain no need."
"Not all of us met her back then, Leda, but... I know what she's been through!"
Lynn the Third cried alone while her mother, the one and only Lynn Loud, had gone away to search for the second child she had with Lincoln. Lynnette had gone missing to God knows where, and maybe it was a kidnapping situation that didn't go Lynnette's way. Whatever happened, Lynn the Third was concerned that she'd never see her again. She cried alone, in the lonely room that she and Lynnette shared.
Lina, an older girl at the time, had come by to see the girl. They were related, in a sorta sense, so she wanted to check up on her. Not like Linka was going to stop by. "Hey, little one."
Lynn the Third was far younger than her. Younger and a whole lot less broken than the rest of the players. "M-my sister," she wailed to her. "Sh-she's missing."
Lina stared at her with some mutual sadness. That particular feeling wasn't a strange one to her. "Don't worry, we'll find her... We'll find her."
"She had to ignore it, Leda. Lynnette went missing, but think how appalled Lynn Three would be when she discovered the evil Nnyl and Lynnette were one and the same?"
All eyes went on Leda- Especially after Lynn the Third finally found it suitable for her to cry. "I'm- I'm sorry..."
Leda turned away. "Oh, fuck me."
Lina started the hug-fest, joined in by Gloom and Lois. All four stayed in a hug for about a minute, and Leda was blowing off steam for being an idiot who didn't know jack shit. Laika saw to it that it wasn't her fault, delivering a firm pat on her shoulder. "It okay, Three hid avoid for no feel," she said unto Leda.
"I had no idea they were the same back then... Now I do."
"We know not all."
"And you still don't know all!" Lola, in a lovely pink dress, had emerged out of thin air, greeting them with hostile intentions. "I've come this far to claim all the power and to keep it! I have it all! I have the complete control of the Silverheads, and I can kill you all without lifting a finger!"
The gang of six formed a defensive line, with Lina and Lynn the Third having turned stomachs, not eager to fight Lola, if Lola was really an all-powerful being now.
"Oh, God, oh my God!"
"She looks delicious!" Gloom stated. The five all stared blankly at her. "What? She does!"
"Good enough to stab her-" Lois came charging at Lola with the knife, but stopped abruptyl, rising into the air. "Hey! What are you-?"
Lois exploded before the gang, being blown into chunks and splattered blood. Her head came flying flying over them, plopping and rolling in the grass, away from the gruesome scene.
"Oh, my God!" Lina shrieked.
Lola stumbled on a knee, feeling weaker than she had been just moments ago. "Ugh, you'll pay for your transgressions against me!"
"She's not strong," Third pointed out. "She's not strong! Go, get her! Get her now!"
Laika, Gloom and Leda rushed in all at once, managing to down the evil diva chick. Whatever waa happening to Lola, it kept her paralyzed enough for them to all land their own blows onto her. Lina and Third had no time to mourn the brutal death of Lois, moving past the mess of her remains. "Damn..."
"Grieve later, we got her!" Leda exclaimed.
Lola bled silver blood rather than the red color brand. "Stop it! Stop it now!"
Third broke Gloom and Leda away, moving in front of Lola. "Why? Why did you do it?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Lola made an evil smiley face at her, flashing some silver pupils. "Oh, I'll humor you! I did it, yeah! I split it all up with a single thought, just so I can avoid all threats that were able to touch me enough to hurt! Oh, and the kicker was that I faked my role back then! I pretended to be killed by the Silverheads back then, but really, it was me in control! I made Lincoln start the fire that destroyed the whole family! I led us here, and you were all born from this!"
"What...?" Leda formed shock on her face, backing up. "Y-you caused this? N-not-"
"Did I fucking stutter? Yes, I made Lincoln do it so that he and the others would be rendered neutral! I didn't need anyone to wise up to my plans! Not them, and not you!"
"Her blood! Her blood is of fused Silverhead essence!" Third pointed out.
Laika kept punching her for more blood until Gloom bit into her arm and removed a nice amount of chunk from her, making Lola scream in anguish.
"Here, I got a piece!" Gloom retched it out and shoved it into Third's dress.
"Wait, what are you planning?!" Leda inquired forcibly.
"My last resort is this! I need to make a serum that can grant me the same powers as Lola's!" Third revealed, then turning to Lina. "Get your board out!"
"What? How did-?!"
"You weren't to first to use it!" Third cried. "Now come on!"
"What about-?" Leda halted.
"Hold her steady! Buy us time! Buy us some... Fucking time!"
Lola pushed the girls off of her, already beginning to regain her strength. "The more and more I use this power, it weakens me! That's why I was not able to kill you yet! That's why I made my moves the second someone tried to cross over to another earth with his own ODM! The opening of the multiverse made it easier for me to conserve my power, and I moved plenty of people that way! Not just you guys, but several others from this world!"
Lynn the Third jumped on Lina's board once she brought it out. "You... Moved...?"
"And it's an embarrassment to know that you mere weaklings were able to-" She tossed Laika, Leda, and Gloom down with a wave of her arm. "-Revert it all back to how it was! And I'm not talking about going back to where I pit everyone in, but here! Here in the center-holder of the entire Loud multiverse!"
Lina took off with Lynn the Third holding tightly onto her.
"I'll get you yet! I'll get all of you!"
"Hey, be careful! Stay alive! Stay alive, damn it!" Lynn the Third yelled before she and Lina fled the scene.
"Oh, my God!" Lina shivered.
"The Agency! Do you know where it is?"
"Y-yes, why? Is th-that where we're going?!"
"Yes, we're going to make it, and fast!"
"What about the others?! We can't just leave them there!"
"We have to! And even if they do die, it will take only one of us to bring the world back into its proper setting! But we need to link up with some of the other Louds!"
August 2nd, 2039
Lynn the Third and Lina had taken refuge in the cabin, after several long days had passed. The serum was created and left in the care of Lina. They didn't dare use it yet, for they were worried about the same likely issue; they might not have been compatible with it. The blood had some dangerous properties to it, and they wanted to find someone who would be likely to take the full force.
"Go, go find Linka," Third suggested. "Linka and Lupa if you can."
"Will you stay here?" Lina asked.
"But of course! Can't risk to go out while Lola is after us! Ugh..." She felt worried again about the others, and could still see Lois exploding into millions of pieces. She'd hate to think what could have happened to them. Maybe they have already been killed by Lola.
"I won't be long!" Lina promised, taking off into the night.
Lynn the Third was left all alone in a matter of seconds, with nothing to do or no one else to talk to. She left the cabin door open, despite it being dark and scary enough for her taste. She didn't bother to close it until she felt the cold coming in. And then she wished she was in a warmer dress, along with a proper bathroom with a bathtub.
When she went to close it, Lola appeared from above, coming down to ground level to meet Lynn the Third again. "It wasn't easy to find you, but I did!"
"Oh d-dear-" Third pushed past Lola, breaking into a frantic run. Lola began to glow into a white glow, not like the metallic form she could take on at will. "No, no, no, no, no!"
"Yes! Prepare to be erased!"
Third tried her best to flee on foot, but Lola was quick to catch her with no time wasted. "LINA!"
Later
It didn't take long for Lina to come with Linka, but when she dropped her off, she saw that Lynn the Third was not there, going away to look for her. Or maybe something happened that had driven her away. Either way, she went into the trees and scouted for her. And she saw a light, alright. And that light...
...Was only a trap set by Lola, leading Lina to both her and Third, who was silenced by Lola's illuminating hands. "Mmm mmm hmmmm!"
"Oh, my God-!" Lina was too late to turn back now, having been caught by her without being even touched. "Hey!"
"Just you wait, I'll get you, and then-" Lola was met by a rock to her face. "Who-?!"
"Comrades, I here!" Laika, bloodied and bruised, came running from within the tree, revealing herself to be armed with a gun. "Take this, Lola!"
"NO, YOU DON'T!" Lola formed a fist and then opened it to reveal a small black sphere. "TIME TO END THIS!"
What she created had turned out to be one of those dark portals that the gang had been through. It grew in Lola's hand, getting big enough to suck them in forcefully.
"Not again!" Lina yelled.
"Ally!" Laika made a grip for Third, holding onto her tight. "Hold on!"
"How do you figure?!"
2044
They both emerged into the light of day, just below the path that led to the cabin, getting up quickly to see Lola was gone. Lynn the Third pointed to the cabin and ran, now realizing that one of them would have to inject the serum, as soon as Lina appeared. Damn, why didn't Lynn the Third hold it herself? "Quickly!"
"No run!"
"We're buying time! Where's Lina?!"
"I- I don't know! Get the door!"
Laika kicked in the wooden door, alerting Linka from inside. "WHAT NOW?!"
"Comrade Linka, is you!" Laika was not expecting this. Only, Linka was missing an arm since the last time they met. "Oh."
"Hey, what-?" Linka gripped a shard of glass at them. "What are you two-?"
Lynn the Third heard an incoming figure, turning around to see Lola in her illuminated form hold a hand and then swung it at her. "HEY, DUCK!"
She hit the floor, and Laika did the same. In one fell swoop, Lola knocked the roof right off of the cabin. Linka took cover under the dusty table. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Linka, it's not us, it's-! It's the one who did this to us all!" Third made her way back up, crouching slowly. Laika brushed herself off as she did the same.
Linka looked outside and saw Lola advancing forward. "What is that?! What the fuck did you bring to the cabin?!"
"THE ONE IN CONTROL OF THE SILVERHEADS! I AM NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH YOU, WOMAN!" Anymore higher and Third would sprain her voice.
Laika used her gun on Lola, firing until she got blanks. "Running out of bullets!"
"Hold on, Laika! The formula is coming!" Third used Linka's dishes as weapons and threw them at Lola.
"You no have it?!" Laika was outraged.
"What the fuck- What the fuck is that thing?!" Linka boomed.
"Acch! C-comrade-!" Laika went down with a punch while she tried to reload.
Lina had arrived through a blue portal behind them, returning from a tiny adventure of her own. "THIS IS IT! THIS IS OUR ONLY TICKET OUT!"
"Lina!" Third grabbed the syringe, finally deciding who she wanted to take the serum. "It has to be me!"
"NO!" Lola tried to go for Lynn the Third, finding blockades in Lina and Laika. "YOU WILL NOT STRIP ME OF MY POWER!"
"Hurry, take it! I can't keep-" Lina had activated her fire booster and let the flames burn away at Lola's illuminated skin, up until Lola caught her board and snagged it from her, causing her to fall right into Lola's grasp.
"You're nothing but a little abomination!" Lola screeched victoriously.
"Let go! Let go of-!" Lina did her best to break free, but faded into nothing, disappearing as she out one final scream. "LEDAAAA!"
"Ah, no! Ally Lina!" And just like that, the fourth girl was killed by Lola. "Come on, you!"
Laika thought she could get lucky and fight off Lola flawlessly again. But she was wrong, as Lola had wrapped a hand around her neck. "Perish," Lola commanded .
"Third, y-you fix..." Laika gasped, turning to her right before she was given the Decimation treatment.
Third had indeed paused in the moment, right before Lola was there at arm's length to grab her and take away their chance to do what must be done. She paused, by refocused, and injected the hybrid serum into her. "I can do this... I can do this..."
Linka had entered the fight before she could see what Lynn the Third was doing just standing around, delivering some harder blows to Lola, but she didn't inflict any damage. "Damn it! You girl, what are you doing?!" Linka turned around after backing up, and gasped.
Third transitioned into the cosmic form, but had felt nothing painful or dangerous as of yet. "Move, Linka! Move!"
"What the hell is-?"
"Stop it now!" Lola pleaded. "You can't undo what I've set in motion!"
"Oh, but I can!" Third countered. "And I will! Time to undo your new form, and return to the one true timeline of our earth!" She then clapped, which was followed by a white light.
But the worse thing, the very worse thing that she realized, somewhere in the white light, was that it would circle back. It would lead to Lola ending up back with the power, however she got ahold of it. Because it was the end that this earth had gotten, a premature death to this world, or rather, the timeline of this world. So... If that were the case, was it all pointless in the end? Was it all an endless loop? Some sort of a paradox?
Maybe... Maybe it was a fucked up joke, with a fucked up pun that didn't need to be heard or known. Maybe not even said, at most. Yeah, just nothing but a joke.
And while she fixed everything, Lynn the Third ended up seeing what the other worlds were, and they were all composed of equivalent dark events such as the ones they had witnessed at any point in their young lives. A killer Lynn, a victimized Lori, a rage-driven Ronnie Anne, what have you? All those many alternate realities had been wiped.
She could not know for sure if it would all circle back, but if it did, she could try to fight Lola again. And she had come to know of the way to do it, so maybe this wasn't all meaningless in the end. Still going through the endless land of white light, she closed her eyes and finished away.
The one thing she knew was that there would be already their proper counterparts of that world, meaning... Erasure was imminent. She took a deep breath before it all reverted.
Earth 1216-Prime
Lynn the Third landed in a hotel room along with Linka, who was laying in the nice comfortable bed. "Linka!"
The other four had gotten it easier, having been defeated by Lola, and Third was not one to wonder what they were thinking when it happened. It all went down in such a God-awful way that she shouldn't even have been trying to recall the images of the evil Lola exhibiting such power.
"Shit!" Linka opened her eyes and bounced up. "What on...-"
"Well, hello to you, too!" Third greeted.
"Hey, what- What happened? Where's-?" Linka discovered her left hand was back in its place, where the stump had been. "H-how is this possible?"
"It's over, Linka. All those tragedies... Liberty, Nnyl, Lisa- All the events that you know are no longer in existence." Third sat down next to her and kept going. "Everything that happened in the timespan of two decades aren't exactly gone, but... This is the better outcome."
"Better outcome?" Linka wanted clarification on that. "What do you mean?"
"When I did that thing, you know, the clapping-" Third made a clap gesture to signify it. "I had the power of the Silverheads, you see, and that enabled me to make only one move, and that move was putting back all the fragments that broke off into their proper places. I saw all of them when I arranged it back. No more orphaned kids. No more estrangement from the Louds and their kids, and no more deadly obsessions. No more innocent girls with demons causing all sorts of damage. No more misery. No more death. Not in any other earth. Not anymore. This, Linka. This is where it all belonged, where they all belonged."
"I... I think I get what you're saying... So this... Is fixed?"
"Yes, Linka. The.. " She had come up with a proper name for it. "...Loudiverse is no more. There is only...-" She looked down to her body, already beginning to go transparent.
"Hey, what... What are you doing? Is this you doing this?!" Linka was wholeheartedly spooked.
"Linka... You and I already have counterparts here... We will cease to exist. We never exactly belonged here..."
"B-b-but you said that we are p-parts of the real earth! Wh-why is-?" She took a look at her hand again, this time seeing it begin to fade. "N-no... Not me, I- I just got my arm b-back..." She cried softly. "I don't want to go... I- I don't want to go..."
Third took off her glasses, and set them on the nightstand in the room, next to a Sprite. "I know... It's not been for nothing, Linka. It was for something, I swear it on my life."
And she meant that with the bottom of her heart, and hoped it was for something in the end. Who could ever truly know if they had stopped Lola's power campaign, or just returned to the real timeline of this earth just so Lola would acquire it again. Third truly hoped it wasn't like this. But, if so, then maybe she was simply just never meant to solve a single problem in her life. Hated it, she did dearly.
Linka was the first of the two to completely vanish, doing so after she had cried slowly. No telling what her pain was, but Third knew it wasn't pretty. As for her, she exhaled and moved to the window of the hotel room. Reaching it, she smiled when seeing the view. The moon, which was gone on her world, was here to emit its white light at her, making her feel more safe and at peace. It was all over, the lives of her and her allies, and those who were wiped in the false timelines of this earth. "Goodbye, mom... Goodbye, dad..."
Whatever was going to happen here, she was no longer a variable in play. And she'd never be again.
AN: Sweet Jesus fucking Christ, was this ever so goddamn exhausting to make?! Oh, yeah, I did it all baby! From Lina to Lynn the Third, I think I did justice on all six of them, but it falls on you, my readers, to say otherwise on what wasn't good. There might be plot holes or something that I overlooked for this final chapter, so... My bad.
And, oh, I'm aware that silver is a werewolf's weakness, not a vampire's. So that bit where Leda hurts Gloom with silver that caused a burn, that was a brain fart on my end. My mistake, lol. I won't make that mistake again.
All six of these characters need more fic time rather than in those they call greentexts, so I wanted to establish them. And you know, this fic came to be because of a picture I saw, featuring some of these OCs in the fic. Why, that's the best thing I can do with them, apart from going around and ending them right after giving them emotional scenes!
Lina, owned by Javizumbaya or something.
Leda, owned by Vale the DCEU Fanboy.
Laika, owned by Pattycakes102.
Lois, owned by PepeMay or PepeMey.
Gloom, owned by Mini Wheats.
And Lynn the Third, owned by good old Forly Hope.
They (most of them) granted me the proper permission to do this, along others who have given me permission. I just got the co-shared rights to Alex Loud, created by Flagg1991. Oh, his server is fucking phenomenal, I tells ya! Now that I arrived at the darkest place in the fandom, expect a ton of collabs with me and various others! Anyways, yeah, Alex Loud, a new Clyde kid named Connor created by Zak as he's known by, and uhhh... This other creation from OddCombo, the same one behind the Lita Loud story, which I can't unveil just yet. That guy can't contain his baseballs. No sirree Bob.
Dang, this is also my longest chapter yet, in general. Shit, hahahaha! Well, with the new year having taken over, and with this having ended, I think it's fair to say I can take a break from the writing. Meanwhile, I will begin to work more on The A, which I've given a few hints at;
Lynnette/Nnyl and Lynn the Third are indeed related, and the whole revelation that Lynnette goes missing will come to occur on The A, while the Nnyl version will be active around the time.
On 2039, the snippet with Lyra and Nnyl is confirmed as a real scene for that. I guess I made the mistake and put it there rather than here, which I now see works better to be here. Oh well.
The A, will be about this new timeline. It will be the fourth of the series, bigger and better than 2026, especially with the new meat coming in. Oh, I'll have to put so much time and effort, why, it's exhilarating! Man, I've come so far with this.
With that in mind, I can finally establish my true versions of them, molded with my own HCs and stuff. All my other fics are irrelevant, rendered meaningless, even as some of them are still ongoing. Now you know what the Loudiverse really was, I hope. A multiverse created by Lola, after so many fics, after so many chapters. Lola was behind 2026, 2039, and this fic.
It's up to you to decide whether Lola is still a cosmic threat or has been properly defeated. The answers will not come for awhile.
Now, about 2039, that's over for good, as I've said before. Live wondering what happened to them all before the clap. Oh, right. I Thanos'd it, but in reverse, I guess. Oh, that poor Linka. Thinking about it, it's fucking funny that The A is the fourth fic. A4. Come on, I might as well admit to actually advertising Avengers 4 in secrecy, but only I'm not, and this is all just mere, beautiful coincidences.
Anyways, I've done my share of author notes. Let it be known that I dropped this on January 1st of 2019, or bust! Well, in the EST time zone, yeah. First fic of the year, but the last one to be written in 2018.
With that all having been said, I wish you monkeys a not-so-shitty year! So long! I'll see you again February.