"Lynn?" Lincoln activated the communication feature. "You there?"
"Oh, don't tell me you changed your mind, already? Well, better late than never, right?"
"I guess so." Lincoln switched off.
The likely kidnappers were Lisa and Vince. Only Lincoln knew where two of the Black Network bases were. There was no other likely suspect. Lola appeared. "I hate you, you know." She took his hand.
"Whatever." He told her. He held his breath in, and shut his eyes.
"Okay, Linc. We're here." He averted them. He found himself in a small room. Lynn, Luan and the twins were seated around. "Sit down, Linc."
Luan?! Why is she here?
"Down to business. I'm the acting leader here, and I'll explain it again." Lynn set down a yellow fokder down, and opened it up. Various pictures of Lisa and Vince were spread around. "These two, they're doing something when not around Vial. There's not enough evidence to support anything, but there's speculation that this man is handling the sells of the illegal weapons Vial Corp has been covertly manufacturing. These rumors first began when a few ex-employees came to the public and tried to tell the world this was happening. They died in various accidents." She pulled pics of mangled, shredded and burnt corpses. "You can turn away, twins. Now, this can be simply be that its been true, and such. Its the type of thing conspiracy theorists eat up."
"We didn't look in that direction, until recent articles surfaced, about possible aliens appearing around the world. We pinpointed the sightings, which happened to be near Vial Corp facilities. Then, these two here-" She pointed at the twins. "They have been kidnapped and used as guinea pigs. So maybe, those former employees weren't so crazy after all."
Lynn pointed to a photograph of a similar facility they fought Luna in. "This is Lisa's main center facility. We take it, and we can possibly get some insight on everything she's doing. Its the five of us, working to dismantle whatever it is she's actually doing. "This is where we strike. The faster the better."
Lincoln had the complete advantage here. He was desperate to get his daughter back, and knowing enough about Lisa and her secret networks, played a huge odd in his favor. "We have not much time. If we move, it has to be now. Gear up."
Their vehicle was a V-22 Osprey this time. "Pilot's flying us over, and we parachute down there. Land vehicles are useless." Lincoln detached from his seatbelt. "You may be scared, but you have to jump. I'll jump last if I have to." Lincoln placed on his parachute. "Fifteen seconds!" The hatch opened up. "Feet ready!" Lincoln stood first in line. He turned back to the twins. "It'll be fine! Just follow me!"
In the darkness, Lincoln dove through the skies. The air was rushing into his air, so much that he might as well be drinking water in the freefall. Below him, was complete darkness, except for several lights arranged in a rectangular outline. Lynn's voice rang through his military grade watch.
"Pull chutes, pull chutes now! Aim for the middle of the lights!"
Lincoln pulled his chute. His falling had slowled down, now floating down. He steered the chute. Up above, the twins were screaming.
Lincoln made it first, after awhile of floating around. Lana and Lola, who were both held by Luan, made it safely below. The comedienne was having a giggle fit. "Oh, hohoho, what fun!"
"Move back! Move back!"
Luan pulled the twins back. Lynn did not pull her chute, as Lincoln realized. Lynn dove headfirst through the roof and inside the facility. "Oh, my-! That's... I can't think of a pun. Fuck it." Luan looked into the hole Lynn created. Lynn stood to her feet, holding her arms out. "I'll catch you, hurry up." Lola went first. "You little brat." Lynn set the diva down. "Suck my ass, Lynn."
Luan laughed. "Come on guys, let that go." Lana jumped after.
"Let what go? What happened?" Luan covered up her laughter.
"You don't wanna fucking know, hahaha." Luan jumped in.
Lynn was met with a cheek kiss. "My heroine!"
"You're getting annoying..." Luan pushed herself off. Lincoln made his own landing.
There's going to be nothing here. This is... pointless. Unless we can capture Lisa. I'll have to fake it completely about the other two secret bases.
"Twins, take out the hostiles under, they should be al-" The alarm was triggered. "They know were here!" Lincoln remembered where Luna and Luan said they found Lisa the first time. "Twins, Luan, go. Buy us time while we search. Lynn began her search, heading to the bottom level. "Linc, search this one."
Perfect...
"What's going on? Who has breached?!" Lisa rose from her chair when Lincoln entered. "What... What do you want?" Lincoln grabbed Lisa by her labcoat, and began to slam her into the wall. "Where is she?" The side of her head was bleeding. "Who? Where is who?" He dropped her. Lisa's glasses flew from her face. She tried to reach for them, crawling. Lincoln stepped on her hand. Lisa let out a painful, but quiet cry of pain fly.
"Where's Linka?"
Lisa stopped moving. "I don't know who that is..." Lincoln crushed her glasses underneath his foot. "NO! I NEED THOSE!"
"DON'T FUCK WITH ME! WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER?!" He picked her by the stomped hand. "I- I don't have anyone- I didn't take anyone-" Lincoln grabbed her by her face.
"ENOUGH LIES, WOMAN." Lincoln was about to end her, when Lynn's hands pulled him back.
"What the fuck are you doing?! We have Lisa! We need her alive!" Lincoln let go of her.
"Wrong. You need her alive. Because you don't know shit. There's a facility hidden in Maine. Another in Forks, Washington. I just extracted the criticals from this..." He stepped on her foot. "This monster." Lynn pushed him away.
"That's enough violence, Linc. You need to walk it off."
Lisa was speechless, literally. Lincoln had found them, somehow, which eluded her logical reasoning. This can't be... Vince!
"You'll be arrested, and placed in a very special prison." Lynn handled her. "But, wow, Lincoln really is a scary person." Lisa was limping, so Lynn had to carry her.
The twins and Luan showed up in the blink of an eye. "We took them all down. But we had to stop Luan from killing them." Luan was completely bloody and giggling wildly. Lincoln pictured the five corpses Luan has claimed when he found her. This Luan was that mentally unhinged Luan, not cured.
"She's unstable, Lynn. Why did you bring her into this team?"
Lynn ignored him, not wanting to hear that argument again. "Luan, we don't need to stab everyone we fight!" Luan only laughed.
"She says she lost Lily one day, and she became... that. She may be dangerous, but she's with us. Otherwise, she'd be placed in some institution. Or worse. She's not sick, she's just been pushed over the edge..."
Lynn grabbed Luan. "Maggie? Are you in there?" Luan's laughter stopped. The smile flipped upside down.
"Who the hell is Maggie?" Lana turned Lincoln to her.
"Luan developed something called DID."
Dissociative identity disorder? Luan? How didn't I know about this the first time?
"Maggie's the repeller inside Luan. Found out during evaluations about all this."
Luan went tranquil again. "She's this sick. I only wish..." Lincoln realized something. The first time, everything was wiped off. But all the technology was still here. That means-
"...that she was okay." Lincoln pinned Lisa to the wall.
"Lincoln!"
He pulled his gun on Lisa. "There's something here. Something we can use. Take me to it." Lisa laughed.
"You can't shoot me. You're still-" He pulled her left ear and fired, making a hole where the earlobe was.
"Damn it, Lincoln!"
He pointed it up Lisa's neck. "Next one's the kill shot. Even if you don't tell us a faster way to get to the Maine one, we'll find it. We actually don't need your help. So I can just kill you. But you can save yourself. What's it going to be?"
Lynn was unable to do anything. She had her hands out, signaling the twins to not make a move.
Finally, Lisa gave her answer. "There's a teleporting platform. And we can all-"
Lincoln then looked at the twins. Suddenly, he won the award for Idiot of the Year. "Oh, right. We can just..."
Later
"This is it." Lincoln remembered Linka, the first one, taking him to the exit. He looked to where she was crying for Lori's life. Lincoln quickly turned away. "This is it. I... Can feel it." Lynn took charge. "We're not going loud yet." Luan snickered at the unintentional pun.
Lynn let out an annoyed sigh. "There you go again with that bullshit..."
I'll fucking rampage if Linka's not here or in the next one. Damn it, I hope you're okay, Linka...
Lincoln remembered his way around by now. "I don't feel good about this." A couple of doors opened at the same time, feet away. Men in fully black clothing came out, aiming guns. Lisa howled with dark laughter. Lynn gave the order. "Twins, go!" Lincoln began to let the bullets fly. Lynn made an exit from the hallway. She threw Lisa in the room. Luan ran inside, being grazed by a bullet on her shoulder. "OW!" Lincoln's marksmanship earned him a few headshots.
Lynn pushed forward while he took cover behind her. The twins were knocking as many as they could. Lynn was ripping several of them apart. "I thought you said no killing!" She nodded.
"Those guards might've been just employees, too. These guys are dressed like terrorists, in a secret facility. Of couse I'm gonna kill them!" Lynn's punches were like taking 250-lb of mass to someone's body. Unless she held back, then it might've felt like less. Lynn was leaving a bloody mess that seemed to arouse, yet frighten Lincoln.
The shooting stopped. Luan peeked out sideways, top half of her head visible. "Did we win?"
Lynn looked at her iron fist. "I need to stop caging these."
Lincoln scoffed. "Yeah, you're a real devil."
"God, I kinda want you inside me..."
Deja Vu... This time its Lynn.
Luan was dragging Lisa by the back of her coat. "Come on, Jeffrey." Lisa struggled her feet. "You're ruining my pants. And who's Jeffrey?" Luan let out another giggle fit.
"Oh, right. We're not supposed to acknowledge moments from our neighbor cartoons. Heh..."
The twins rushed back. "We found something. There's this big, gold chamber, that reads 'Link-N'. But... Its been opened." Lisa began to laugh.
"Oh, you're all in trouble now..."
This isn't right. There should be four. Something isn't right here...
Two pairs of running footsteps were quickly approaching the group. "What's this Link-N?" Lincoln held up his gun. "Not what. Who?" Vince appeared at the other end.
"Interesting. I thought we were a secret. Glad to know I didn't fuck up this time." Vince made way for the other person arriving.
A young blonde boy, in a white jumpsuit, made his debut. "Lincoln, meet Link-N. Your-" Lincoln let his rounds fly into the boy, instantly dropping the boy.
"That's a clone. Try harder next time." Lincoln set his sights on Vince. "Say goodbye, chin hair."
Link-N, still alive, tackled Lincoln. "Did I mention the healing factor he has? Kid, un-killable. He is a better you." Lynn pointed to Vince.
"Lana, get him!" Lynn pulled Link-N away. The boy came back with a kick to her face.
Vince was stopped by Lana, and taken down quickly. "Ugh, you can't win. Link-N is equal to Lynn's strength! We made our own god! WE MADE OUR OWN GOD!" Lana rendered him unconscious.
Lola spun around Link-N, levitating him into the air. She stopped and punched him. "Ow, he's like a rock!" Link-N returned the favor. Luan kept her eyes on Lisa while watching.
Lincoln and Lynn pulled the boy by his arms. Lynn performed a kick. Lincoln did the same. Lola and Lana both sped away, and returned for a duo punch. Lynn and Lincoln let go right beforehand. Link-N slid feet away.
"I think we got him." Luan walked over to the boy. "We did. I mean, you did." She turned her back to him. A fatal mistake. "Luan! Look out!"
"Don't worry, Lisa's still there, and-"
Link-N's hand burst through her chest. "Hnnnng..." Blood formed on her shirt. "Oh... ugh." Link-N removed his hand from her. "Luan!"
She dropped to her knees. "That... fucking... writer..." Luan tipped over, dead.
AN: Boom! Link-N is the brat from Cereal Offender! THANK SAVINO FOR HELPING ME MAKE THIS WORK SO PERFECTLY. Sure, it might feel like some form of reboot from previous arcs, but its not.
Oh, and also, yes Luan can break the fourth wall. But she won't be the only one...