Thank you towards my good pal "Marvelomac1010" for the idea and concept for the two parter on the arrival of Gretchen and Hope to this story, and as always, enjoy reading this everyone, trouble is also gonna be in this chapter.
Family of Two. Chapter 296: Hope and Gretchen Part 1.
(Ketcham Park.)
At the park, this is where a nice and peaceful picnic is going on for the Louds: Lincoln, Luna, Delilah and Michelle. Harriet couldn't join them, because she's at the house talking to a hooded man who goes by the name of, Gyro. "So, Sam couldn't come and join us?" asked Lincoln as he eats his sandwich.
Luna then drinks a soda. "Sorry, dudes. But she's having some bonding time with her two bros, Simon and Brian, but chances she'll have some time to hang out with us when tomorrow comes, or the day after tomorrow."
Delilah then takes a dumpling she made with her mom. "What about Jordan? And your pals?"
Lincoln then recalls. "As of right now, Jordan is busy at the mall with her friends and the rest of my friends have their own plans, especially Clyde since the big Royal Woods summer contest is coming this weekend before the 4th of July."
"Rusty on the other hand is grounded, after his parents caught him being addicted to one video game, and the character of that said video game. I don't know what the heck it's all about, but Trent told me that Rusty was being totally inappropriate through the whole video game and the same with others."
"I think the game I called, Resident Evil 8: Village, and I don't think I wanna get involved with that. Sounds too much to bear if it gets Rusty into trouble, but I am looking forward to the new game I'm playing, Iron Harvest."
Luna smiles hearing this and she kisses his forehead. "Just as long as nothing bad is going on with the stuff you do, and thank goodness you're not doing what Rusty got himself into."
Michelle feels like she should tell Lincoln and Luna what she and Delilah did the other day, but she chooses not to and wait for when the time is right, for now they should… Then she looks to the bushes. "That was weird."
They all look towards Michelle. "What?"
"I thought I saw…." then Michelle is struck down in the back of the head by a heavy duffle bag from above the tree, and then Delilah is wrapped around in a bola snare. Lincoln and Luna are shocked from this, but then Lincoln is hit by a net and pinned to the tree.
"No! Linc…" But Luna is tackled, and her right shoulder is in pain as she's pinned to the ground and her right arm is held down by Regina, while her casted arm is grabbed by Chastity. "No! Not you girls!"
Michelle gets back up, but then Karen tackles her and then kicks her in the back of the head. This angers Delilah. "No, mom!" But then she's hit in the back of the head by a long stick and sees who it is. "Leslie?!"
Leslie smirks and she has a long stick for a weapon. "I'm not here for you, though it would be nice to kill you where you stand and that skank you call a mom." They look to Karen whose holding a knife to the unconscious woman. This angers Delilah, but she can't break free.
"I'm here… for him." she looks towards Lincoln, and this makes him scared.
Regina and Chastity cheer at this, but Karen rolls her eyes at how annoying this is. 'For goodness sake, we'd better end this thing and then go back to what we're really here for.'
Luna struggles and is pissed off. "You stay away from my…" but then Regina stomps on her sore shoulder, and she screams in pain.
"Shut up, dumb rocker teen mom!" Regina then kicks her in the side. "Leslie Silver is talking, so show some respect to your future daughter in law!"
Leslie chuckles. "Oh, I have no intentions on that lady, all I want is Lincoln Loud."
Lincoln tries to struggle to break free, but he can't. "Please, I don't wanna be with you, I already have a girlfriend, and we're happy with what we do and who we are, and let my mom go now!" His courage is growing, and he's starting to get angry.
Leslie chuckles. "Oh Lincoln how naïve you are. That girl, she's nothing. She can't be the girl for you, when clearly I am here and I will make you someone special if we go together, so forget that Jordan Rosato, and stick with me…. I promise to let your mom go."
Lincoln looks towards Luna, she does what she can to break free, and her anger is building up, but then Chastity pulls on the cast and makes Luna put her arm behind her back and pins her, this makes her cringe in pain and have tears, her left arm is now feeling more pain.
Lincoln shakes his head in denial. Leslie smirks. "Well, I guess we'll make you see reason." she looks to Regina and nods.
Regina chuckles and she pulls out a belt and she ties it to the neck of Luna and begins to yank on the belt and this makes Luna suffocate and Lincoln yells at this to stop. "No! Stop this, mom! Let her go! Stop, please!"
Leslie smirks. "The best way for you to see what we see, is for you to understand what I want, and what I want is no one else to cause anything to what I seek, and the rest of your family, they're all obstacles. I am all you need, and no one else."
Lincoln is crying, and begging for this to end, and then he sees Leslie make her approach to Delilah, and she has a syringe in hand, and something is boiling within. Lincoln begins to gain some strength to break free.
But then someone tackles Leslie and she drops the weapon and this person begins to beat her up, then someone tackles Karen and punches her repeatedly and they know who they are. "Hope?! Gretchen?!"
Delilah is more surprised to see her former friends. "No, it can't be."
Gretchen grabs Leslie by the hair and she punches the back of her head and then slams her face first onto the tree stump and then she pulls her leg and dislocates it.
Hope on the other hand fights for the knife that Karen has, and this nearly hurts Hope, but she counters and Karen screams in pain as the knife is stabbed to her left arm, and then Hope does one last punch and Karen is knocked out.
Regina and Chastity see this happening, and are about to help their friends, but then Lincoln breaks free and has gone into berserk mode. "No one hurts my mom again!"
Lincoln tackles Chastity and he punches her several times to her face, then he stomps on her gut and he throws her towards Regina. Luna then regains her air and then she kicks Regina and Chastity away, and Lincoln grabs both girls and he throws them towards Hope.
Hope does a clothesline and then she does a double elbow drop onto both of them, then she sees Lincoln grab Chastity who struggles to run away. "Please! We're sorry!"
"No! You hurt my mom!" Lincoln then twists her leg, and then he grabs her hair and begins to pull it off. Gretchen stops attacking Leslie and the two girls watch as Lincoln goes on a full raged onslaught. Hope stops and Delilah breaks free and sees this, they didn't think he could do this.
Lincoln then pulls off the jacket of Chasity and he slams his knee on her back and then he grabs her by the ear and throws her to the tree, he then begins to punch her several times all over her body and face and kicks her in the groin, and this makes them gasp and cringe in pain.
Lincoln then grabs the now bruised, bleeding and double black eyed Chastity. "I had to watch my mom almost get fucking killed! I am not losing her again!" He does one last punch and Chastity Higgins, is K.O!
Regina sees this and is now afraid and she tries to cower away, and go behind Hope, but Lincoln sees her. "You!" Then Luna grabs her son with her right arm still alright.
"Linc, stop." She makes him turn around. "Linc, look at me. I'm fine now, it's okay. The whole thing is over, we're alright."
Lincoln then stops his anger, and he begins to cry and hug her, and so she returns the hug. Hope then looks to Regina in anger and she kicks her in the face and she's knocked out.
Cops soon arrive, and Regina grabs Leslie and pins her next to the downed Karen, and Hope places the unconscious Regina and Chastity next to them. Leslie looks onward to the nearly heartbroken Lincoln Loud, and the way this all went down. 'What the heck just happened?'
"You!" Jordan Rosato charges in, and Gretchen backs off, and she lets Jordan do a Curb Stomp onto Leslie Silver, and she is knocked out cold. "Stay away from my boyfriend!" She then sees the two other girls. "Gretchen Warwick? Hope Pertland?"
The two girls wave to her, and then Delilah goes over and checks on her mom. She then looks to Hope and Gretchen and she has this look of betrayal and this makes Hope and Gretchen upset. "We' should go now. We're glad you guys are alright" said Gretchen.
Delilah doesn't say anything and just helps her mom wake up, and then Jordan goes over and checks on Lincoln and Luna.
Hope feels upset that Delilah doesn't wanna speak with them, and Gretchen holds her hand. "Tomorrow, we'll talk to them." They then go over to the cops and tell them what happened.
Paramedic's arrive to check on the downed escapees, and check on Luna and her condition, then comes a racecar and coming out are Leni, Luan and Kurt Logann. Then more folks arrive and the park is filled with folks who all see the footage from someone who saw everything.
Stella Zhau was at the park, and she wanted to help, but seeing how Hope and Gretchen handled it seemed like this should be recorded, but seeing Lincoln angry…. Now that scares her, and so she posts the footage for everyone else on social media to see.
A/N: You guys did not see that kind of action from Lincoln Loud, but I guess after what Katie Crest tried to do to Luna at the tour, was enough to make the boy protective over his mom. Tomorrow, we're gonna see a talk between the family and Gretchen and Hope. Leave a review and tell me what you all think. Date made: 5/30/21.