Anyone recall Andrew? Well from the previous chapter, he wants to get Jordan and we all know this from my other story "A Sparking Relationship." So, let's put him into this one and see what happens next. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Family of Two.
Chapter 54: Revenge strikes.
(Royal Woods Grade school.)
Lincoln and his pals are now walking down the hallways once more, classes are over and they are now talking about something important.
"Alright guys, it's October and I know we should be focusing on the talent show, but Halloween is inbound and we need some plans for when it's time to go Trick or Treating" replied Lincoln.
They all smiled hearing this, the man-with-the-plan is back and he is back on track with what they wanted to talk about yesterday. "And all it took was the words from your mom right?" asked Jordan.
"Ya darn right it was her my love and this time we got this all wrapped up and know what to do" replied Lincoln. "But, if we're gonna make this plan at Huntington Oaks happen, we have to go to the park and meet with my mom there. She's gonna wanna be part of this."
"And me right?" They see Simon going to them with a smile on his face, he's excited.
Lincoln chuckles. "And Simon of course, my mom talked to Sam and she said it's cool if we have a little Junior Trick or Treater be part of this as well."
Simon cheers for this. "Yes! Full sized Candy Bars, here I come!" They all chuckle hearing this.
"But the issue we also have, is that some of us aren't gonna be part of Trick or Treating" replied Zach. "Well, mostly Jenny, Lance, Trent, Artie, Joy, Kat, Cookie, Mollie, Sadie, Christina, Richie and Flat Tire."
"Let them be guys, they wanna do their own thing and we wanna do ours" replied Lincoln. "We all have our own way of having fun for the big night right?"
"Lincoln's right, let them have their fun while we have our own and…. Two guys came to me after school yesterday and they wanna talk about this as well" said Clyde.
They're all confused by this. "Really who?" asked Lincoln.
"Us." They all see Dennis and Patrick go to them. "Hey guys, we know about the whole Trick or Treat plan thing, and we wanna know if we can be part of it" replied Dennis.
"If you guys don't want us to be part of it, it' cool with us. We can chill at the Costume Party instead" replied Patrick. "But the reason why we wanna be part of this, is because chances someone from out of town might come and ruin the fun."
Lincoln thinks about this. "You guys will have to come with us to the park, so we can talk about this to my mom and Sam and then we can see what we can all do."
They all smile and head out of the school, with Lincoln leading them. They all head out and get onto their bikes and they ride off to Ketcham Park.
Andrew comes out from the bushes and grits his teeth in anger. "Alright Mr. Talk of the town, time for me to get my revenge!" He then goes onto his bike and he rides after them, but not too close so he won't be seen.
(Ketcham Park.)
Lincoln and the gang are now at the park and they let their bikes onto the parking spaces and make sure they have chains on them. "There, now to find my mom and Sam, because the car's here."
They all see the Purple Ferrari parked and they all head into the park and look for the two teens.
Andrew soon makes it and he parks his bike someplace else so he won't be seen and he sneaks into the park and has his notebook ready. "Okay, so I got my plan setup and all I have to do now is get Linc into so much pain and trouble that Jordan will have to go for me instead! Let's see whose lips will be locked onto Jordan's now when I'm done with you Loud." He then sneaks into some bushes and uses it as his disguise.
Soon, Lincoln and the others see the two teens at the benches waving at them. They go over and they enjoy the food Luna brought, straight from Burpin' Burger.
"Okay, so now that we're all here. Let's get this whole thing into discussion, the whole Trick or Treating plan you guys got" replied Sam.
"Okay, so we let Jordan speak that one first" replied Stella.
Jordan speaks up. "So, we know the neighborhoods will have tons of little kids going around and getting some candy to enjoy and that won't make it easy for any of us. So, we're going to Huntington Oaks. Lincoln and Clyde had a plan to go there with whatever it is they were gonna do."
"We were gonna disguise ourselves as two boys who are fancy and almost look like us" replied Clyde.
They then see Luna looking to Clyde upset and her arms crossed and she looks to her son. "Is this true?"
Lincoln chuckles nervously. "Yeah, but that was before and now I know it could get us into trouble for trespassing and faking who we are."
Luna then calms down. "Well, at least you're not doing it now. I do not wanna have to bail you out of something like this, again."
"Okay, so back to the plan. We go to Huntington Oaks, because they have large candy and at times something fancy and foreign, I know the place because my family once lived there and the folks know me and they know Lincoln too since he went there to do some yard work" replied Jordan.
That one was a memory Lincoln and Luna didn't wanna recall, it was when Luna was angry with her son for going somewhere without her knowing, but it was for a good reason.
"So, we go trick or treating there and get the candy and make the biggest score of our awesome Halloween lives, and possibly our last trick or treating since we plan on going to the Middle School costume party" replied Rusty.
"That is, if you guys pass Grade School" replied Sam. "Now, for the part where you guys need supervision, because even though some of you… And I mean some of you, are responsible to keep an eye on Simon, there is no freaking way am I gonna let him go there alone."
"She's right and the same goes with me" replied Luna. "This is Linc's first Halloween without the full family and I don't want him to go out there alone and get into some trouble, even though the folks at Huntington Oaks aren't mean rich snobs like that Tetherby dork."
They all look to each other and then to Luna and Sam. "We're okay with it."
"We know trouble will come and Dennis and Patrick has provided us with some very valuable Intel" replied Zach. "Mind telling us guys?"
"Certainly. We have noticed that from time to time, since we have been doing our own trick or treating, we notice that some boys from Hazeltucky come by and always try and look for some neighborhood to prey on" replied Dennis.
"They prey on some little neighborhood with little to know patrols or parental guidance and they go after kids with candy and take them, then they vandalize the whole neighborhood. From Teepee on the houses and trees, eggs on the windows and worse of all, ruining every jack-o-lantern in plain sight, and this makes Halloween miserable for everyone" replied Patrick.
They're all shocked to hear this and puts some fear into Simon, Sam does her best to keep him from crying.
"We don't know who these two guys are, but they have big dumb laughs when we nearly went face-to-face with em" replied Dennis. "And we believe they're Middle Schoolers, and part of the Hazeltucky Hawkers."
Lincoln thinks about this. 'Hazeltucky Hawkers? Where have I heard that one before?'
"So, we need some way to keep all the neighborhoods safe and secure from them should they come back. We're not the same bad kids from Chandler and we don't want other neighborhoods to be ruined, it kinda happened at our neighborhood and we had so much damage to our houses" replied Patrick.
"And it was almost brutal!" said Dennis. "Five kids were badly hurt from the whole thing."
And that raises some alarms to Luna. "Okay, okay. I think we heard enough. Everyone, let me handle that part, I'll talk to the Detectives into getting some patrols around every neighborhood, I'm gonna need you two to tell me which neighborhoods they have hit and then we can see what to do and how to take them down before they strike, again."
Luna has a map on her phone and Dennis and Patrick pin point the locations of which neighborhoods were hit, they found 5 and there are 5 more neighborhoods that haven't been hit and Huntington Oaks is one of them.
"We have the layout done and I'll make sure the cops see this and do something about it" said Luna.
They all sigh in relief from this, the whole thing was secured and sound. "Wow. This was supposed to be a meeting about Trick or Treating, and now we're becoming agents for taking down some big time bad guys" said Tabby.
"Like the movie Triple X, I think" replied Polly.
"Well, now that that's all said and done. Let's all enjoy this day at the park, since we have all things covered" replied Lincoln.
Then Luna asks. "But, there is one thing I forgot to mention, it's about Lucy and the thing she wants to do."
Lincoln realizes this. "Oh right, she wants to have her own haunted maze, which is something she's been looking forward to for some time, and… We're not family anymore, sorta."
"That's okay." They all get startled from Lucy's sudden appearance and she wasn't alone, with her is her big sister Maggie, her boyfriend Benny and Haiku as well. "Sorry, and we heard about what you guys said, and its okay Lincoln."
"Yeah, we already asked our parents and they said it would be fun to like, have this haunted maze by our front yard" replied Maggie.
"And we're helping as well" replied Haiku. "We understand this is something Lucy has wanted from before and as her friends we are going to help her make the best haunted corn maze that will bring in the spooks, screams and also laughs."
"Yes, we have discussed about this and we're all in good terms in showing our best to be as scary as anything, but not too scary" replied the leader of the Young Morticians Club, Bartholomew.
"Wow. Okay, and what about Benny?" asked Lincoln.
"Well of course I'm helping" replied Benny. "I mean, Mags and I are a thing and sure as heck I wanna show how I can be scary too, I am going to be one wicked scary Doctor Frankenstein, and with my monster by my side too!"
He shows his puppet Mrs. Appleblossom. "Monster? Well I do say, this will be one thing I am looking forward too, but monster is not what I would call myself. I prefer the term, role playing within the maze of all things haunting and daunting."
They all look to Benny's puppet and are freaked out. "Dude that is scary as heck and also creepy" replied Stella. "Did you bring her with you all the time?"
"We think she's great, besides spooky and creepy dolls and marionettes are what makes things all the more worthwhile for the maze, plus we got another person helping as well" replied Lucy.
Lincoln chuckles. "Well, I hope you guys have a blast with the corn maze, and I know a lot of kids are gonna love it. Well, love screaming and running and laughing from it all, Halloween is not about causing trouble, it's about having fun with everyone enjoying the scares."
"Spoken like a true Holiday loving kid!" Jordan kisses his cheek and they all smile to seeing this and yes the Young Mortician's Club also finds this sweet.
"Not gonna be true and loving anymore!" yelled someone, Andrew comes out of the bushes and he has a pellet gun armed at them. "This is for taking Jordan from me Loud!"
Luna, Sam, Maggie and Benny see this and with protective instincts online, they grab two picnic benches and flip them over as barricades and everyone takes cover as Andrew starts to shoot at all of them with his toy gun.
As they all take cover, Luna and Sam do a head count to see if everyone is there. "Okay, we're all here. We have to get this kid to stop and take him down, he's messing up a lot of things here" said Sam.
Luna checks on Lincoln. "Mom, I'm fine, really nothing hurt on me."
Luna sighs and she hugs him as they take cover. "Just as long as you're alright. That kid is messed up, who the heck is he?"
"Andrew Hopkins." They all responded, except for Lucy. "I don't know who he is."
"Andrew is one of the normal and wants to be well-known kinda kids in school" replied Zach.
"And he's also the kid who has a crush on me and it got messed up real fast with the whole Girl Guru incident" replied Jordan, they all see Lincoln looking kinda upset. "Oh, sorry about that Linc." she kisses his cheek. "But you do know, even without the advice you gave him long ago, I wouldn't date him. I like you, since we were kindergarteners."
Lincoln smiles but he still feels upset. "I know, I know. But, it's still kinda my fault he's like this and want to take you as his own and take me down. He's almost as messed up as Boy Jordan and Chandler."
"As much nice it is to be sentimental and emotional, can we please focus on taking down the delusional kid with the toy gun?" asked Emma.
"I am not delusional!" yelled Andrew. "Now, show yourself Loud and face me!" He continues to shoot his toy gun, which apparently is large.
Rusty takes a peek and then takes cover. "Dudes, what kind of toy gun is that and why are the pellets so fast?"
Dennis and Patrick take a look and then take cover, they recognized it. "Dude how the heck did he get his hands on that thing? That toy is expensive and not easy to get by."
"Can you boys please tell us what the heck he is carrying?" asked Chloe.
"Oh right, sorry. Well, that is the Deluxe DG-CX MG42 Pellet gun, and it can be armed with more than 500 pellets per belt or per ammo box" replied Patrick.
"We saw those from the toy store and from some game stores for sports, but we have never seen them in action, that thing is wicked awesome but right now it's just scary and I don't think I want one anymore" replied Dennis.
"I don't think I even want a toy like that, it almost looks way too illegal" replied Zach.
"That's because it's only for war games with elite adults who play with such weapons" replied Maggie. "Our dad has one too, but it's not like that gun."
"From the way that thing shoots, we'd get hurt real bad" replied Benny. "We'd lose more than just skin if we get hit." Hearing this was not what Luna wants to hear, and this angers and concerns her.
"How the heck did he get the money for that thing?" asked Liam.
Andrew snickers and he reloads with another belt of 500 pellet rounds. "Easy, my dad knows what to give me on my birthday and he knows what I want from magazines and TV! Now come out Loud and take it!"
Luna didn't like this and she sees Sam calling someone to come and assist. Luna then gets an idea. "Guys, help me with this!" Luna then uses her arms to slowly lift the bench table with the connected bench chair, Sam, Benny and Maggie figure out what the plan is and they do the same.
They grab onto the connected bench chair to the table to avoid getting hit and they hover the table a few inches from the ground and they advance forward. Dennis, Patrick, Stella, Rusty, Lincoln and Jordan see this and they do the same with the other table and advance.
Andrew sees what's going on. "What the? No!" He continues to shoot, but he doesn't know which table is where Lincoln is. "Where are you Loud?! Show yourself and take this pain! I want you out of the picture and I want Jordan!"
As they advance, Dennis and Patrick are counting. They know they're counting on the many rounds he's wasting and they have a new plan. As they continue to advance, then they hear Andrew stop and he grabs the ammo box and attaches it, but then someone comes out from behind the bench table and tackles him to the ground and repeatedly punches him.
They all come out of hiding and see it was Jordan beating the crap out of Andrew. "This is for trying to hurt Lincoln, this is for trying to hurt Luna, this is for tryin to hurt my friends and this is for having your stupid creepy crush over me you idiot!"
Lincoln goes over and he grabs Jordan and drags her away. "Jordan! Jordan! He's down, it's over!"
Jordan calms down and sees Andrew all beaten up badly with so many bruises to his face and two black eyes. Then Officer Tristen arrives and sees the condition of half the park. "What the heck happened here?" He then sees the downed kid, the angry Jordan and half scared kids and the toy MG42. "Okay, this looks like World War 3 came to Royal Woods."
Then a man who runs a hotdog stand arrives and tells him what happened, his cart took hits from that deranged kid, and then Carol arrives who shows him the footage and that she was just reading a book by the fountain and took cover, now this was making Officer Tristen D. Pingrey angry, no one hurts his family.
He then grabs Andrew and puts cuffs on him. "Kid, you're in a heap of trouble from this, lucky that no one got hurt, or you'd end up someplace for a long, long time." He then picks up the boy and takes him to his squad car and soon some more cop cars arrive from the commotion.
Everyone else in the park tell them what happened and it's all the same thing, Luna then goes to Lincoln and hugs him. "Thank goodness that was over, and thank goodness we're all safe and sound."
Lincoln hugs her back. "That was….. That was kinda scary."
They then go over and hug Jordan and she hugs them as well. "Jordan, what you did was brave and tough and also scary, thanks for taking him down" replied Luna.
Jordan smiles. "I wasn't gonna let some idiot harm you or the kid I love, oh and our friends too."
Lincoln kisses Jordan and hugs her. "You truly are the toughest and beautiful girl I have ever met."
Jordan giggles and she hugs and kisses Lincoln.
Every one of their friends were kinda scared from the shootout, but they were more scared of Jordan and her ruthless beat down onto Andrew. "Well, she's tough in fighting than she is in dodge ball, I am now scared of her" replied Polly. "And also impressed."
"So, if Lynn Jr does get out, you guys wanna place bets on who wins in a fight?" asked Rusty.
Some of them agreed, some of them don't. They just hope that this won't happen again.
A/N: They have the plan for Halloween, and they took down Andrew on his first attack, but there might be more to come. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 9/13/20 – 9/14/20.