May 20th, 2026

"You've been awfully quiet. Is this about him? It is, isn't it? Get out of your head, Luna. From what we've seen, you saved us all. I'm sorry you had no choice. But..."

Lynn jumped down, and made a clear brown crater upon impact. A couple of car alarms were triggered in the streets.

"Dang it! Anyways, this is what we should've all been doing. Its definitely what Lincoln would've done, you know."

Luna kept scratching the ground. "Pushed... I've been pushed..."

"Why are you still stressed? Lisa and him, they can't hurt us anymore. What's wrong, Luna? I thought you'd be happy. Luan's legs are saved. And Lincoln-"

"Got Leni killed. But let's not forget you- You, who kept us in the dark about this. You knew what was going to happen. You didn't tell us."

"Oh, come on. I wasn't, I couldn't. I see why now."

"Enlighten me."

"It was to protect you all."

"You're trying to feed me the same junk Lincoln does? Are you fucking serious? He wasn't even- Don't you get it? He acted alone, and kept us in the dark. And now, you're-"

"Luna, come on..."

"Look, Lori has no secrets, Lucy has no secrets, hell, even Lily has none! Lincoln crossed the lines a few times, and this might've been the last straw. All Lily wants to say her gratitude and Linka needs a father figure. Lori isn't Lincoln, so of course she won't feel its the same, plus, she's Lincoln, basically. We're trying to keep her out of his darkness. Its a miracle she's not gone like Lupa and Lacy. I know Liby and her have the darker memories of their originals, and yet... Then there's you, you-"

"I'm not Lincoln. I-"

"You sided with him! You both deserve each other..."

"Luna, please stop."

"Fucking Bollocks. Poor lass Linka is already breaking. He's nothing, but a monster, and so are you."

"FUCK YOU, LUNA!"

Lynn made a leap and formed a flying kick towards her. Luna was able to dodge it and punch her mid-air. Luna grabbed Lynn by her neck. "You will not endanger us again."

"LUNA!"

Lori, Lucy and Luan were feet away, with only Luan seeming concerned while Lori was ready ro break it up

"How hypocritical of you. Saying I'm the monster here, the next Lincoln. Look in the mirror. Look at what you're doing."

"Luna!" Linka appeared by Lori, biting her nails.

"Hey, I love Linka, too. How can you say I'm not worried for her well being?" Lynn laughed slowly ss Luna let go of her.

She angrily returned inside the house.

"What's the meaning of this?" Lori did not bother to get in her way.

"Leave me alone." She coldly said.

Luan followed Luna back inside. "Are... You okay?"

"No, bloody hell. We're broken again. This family truly is cursed."

Linka came to Lynn's aid. "Lynn?"

"I'm fine, Linka. She didn't hurt me. She can't."

Linka hugged Lynn regardless. "Did you fight, because of-"

Lynn and Lori exchanged glances. "Come on, Linka. We'll watch TV or something."

"When's he coming back?"

"I don't know, Linka. We've tried everything. He won't answer the sixteen messages I've left. I'm sorry."

She twirled around her orange shirt. "Whatever..."

Lynn was pulled by Lori into the kitchen. "Did you fucking hear her?"

"No worries, he'll... I'm sure he'll-"

"He already should have. He's not coming-" Lori went into a whisper. "He's not coming back."

"Don't be so dramatic. This is his house, after all. Then, there's the matter of her. Could he really leave her? He couldn't leave her, no. Not like this."

"LINCOLN AND YOU RAN FROM US, FOR FUCKS SAKE."

Lori slapped her as hard as she was able to.

"First her, now you!" Lynn grabbed a pan, and swung at Lori's head. It immediately dented out of shape.

"Haha-"

Lynn swung it upwards, striking her lower jaw. While Lori was brushing the pain off, Lynn wasted no time to grab her face and dropped her headfirst into the floor.

"Damn you for doing this, Lynn..."

"DAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME DO THIS!"

That's when the unexpected happened. Linka intervened, knocking Lynn off balance. "Linka?"

"Don't hurt each other! This has to stop. The thing I want more, from you, from all of you-"

The others gathered behind Linka. -"Is to be a family again. Guys, remember, I have the memories from before the fire. I want to go back to it, I always do. And, please, not just for me..." Linka pulled Lily by her. "Do it for her, the only innocent one there is left of us. And for Leni..."

Everyone's faces met the ground.

"Linka's right." Luan joined in, feeling a wave of confidence. "We're back again, so why's it hard? It shouldn't be..."

Lori coughed while Lynn looked away.

"Come on, its-"

"Not that simple, Luan. There's the 'he did, she did' thing going on. Welcome to the dark world." Lynn left the scenery.

"There's nothing to say, Luan. I admire that you want this to be solved easily, but its not math. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you."

Luan, visibly hurt, embraced herself onto Luna.

"You three, you have good hearts. Not the rest of us. We... We can't get out of this darkness."

Linka held Lily's hand. "Forget them. A game of tag?"

Lily smiled. "That'd be fun. Let's go outside!"

Lori, Lynn, and Luna sat at the couch, when Luan stood in front of them.

"Can we act like its perfect around them?!"

"Can't be done. Not if Luna here-"

"Fuck off, Lynn. You're just as bad."

"We've all done bad. Let it the fuck go!" Lori slapped both of their heads.

"Come on!"

"She started it!"

"You're both being provoking! You need to forgive each other."

"No way."

"I'm not doing this. She needs to accept her actions. Newsflash, you don't need to do it again."

"Its not just that, its-" Luna joined Luan's side. "I still don't believe we need to break these types of rules. I know what I did, but I'm not accepting it. You both have. Maybe Lori hasn't killed anyone during her Freight days, but you hurt innocents."

"That's different! They lived, and Linka made me see life again!"

"But not Lincoln. He wasn't enough?"

"I..."

"Did he fail us, or did you fail him?"

"Luna, we were all lost sometime after. Hardest of times."

"I'll say... Luna, you left me alone. I forgive you, but I'll never forget it, the pain. You promised me... How much of a hypocrite can you be?"

"We all abandoned each other, and the price we paid for it was Leni's life."

"Leni was Lincoln's fault-"

"No, stop it. He didn't do anything."

"EXACTLY, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

"Lori?"

"Well, he saved Lily. Otherwise- Its unfair. If he saved her, it means he really was trying to prevent whatever it was he saw in... Ugh this is making my head spin."

"He could've sent one of us!"

"House brings back bad memories. Would we have agreed to go? We wouldn't have believed him if he never spilled about the timeline, which he wasn't at all planning to."

"But he tried to kill the clones. They have not acted hostile, apart from self-defense. They, too, were innocent."

"That idiot Lupa found Leni, but didn't tell us." Lynn crossed her arms. "Gotta wonder why she didn't. If anything, she led them to Leni, and didn't even know it."

"Doesn't mean she's working with them. I'd be scared too, if I found out my thought-dead sister was actually alive."

Lucy popped up from behind the couch. "Boo."

Luna and Luan leaped back in fear. "BLIMEY!"

"Well, its too late. She's gone, end of story..."

"Is Lincoln too hostile? I know he acts more peaceful around Linka, but in action, he's losing it. I'd be scared, if I didn't have this gift from Lisa."

"He saved us-" Lynn started.

"-But he doesn't just save. He also kills, and acts like a mindless soldier. Kill and kill. Its no wonder all four clones were made of his DNA mixed with theirs. We still need more insight of them all, however. We don't know enough of them."

"Now that I remember, he hasn't actually gone into detail about what he saw in the other timeline. You don't think he's -?"

"Now that you mention it..." Lynn's expression changed.

"And he left, that wasn't random. No, not at all. He went..."

"To do something? Heh. We'll probably hear it on the news or something."

"That's it! That's the joke! Its gonna circle back, like it did the decade ago!" Luan scratched an itch on her arm.

"Pfff, I wouldn't say that."

"Then, what do you think he is doing?"

"I don't know, but I know it can't be good. Its Lincoln..."

"Yeah, well..." Lori watched the two young girls outside running around. "We can survive without him."

"What about Lily? She's real eager to see him as well."

"Damn it, Lincoln. You heartless fuck."

"Is he truly heartless, Luna? There's this and that, he's done good right by us."

"But not all the time."

"Luna, I'm sorry I took his side. You know, when he tried to-"

"I think its too late for that now..."

"Luna, accept her apology."

"I'm not doing that. You'll have to show me you mean it. And then I'll apologize."

"It... I guess its a start."

"Guys, are we fine here?"

"Yeah, I'm fine now. Luna?"

"I'm still... Angry, but a lot less. Lori?"

"You broke the only frying pan here, Lynn."

"I guess not."

Lori sighed. "Go get a new one."

"Okay."

"And today, too."

"Okay! Luna, care to join?"

The rocker hesitated for a second. "I guess so."

"Don't fight on the way."

"Got it mother!"

The blonde woman had now arrived at her destination. The place was completely destroyed, but no one knew about the secret hatch. It was only ten feet away from where the door was, hidden underneath a cover of leaves and branches.

The hatch, dark mustard yellow, with a dirty window in the center, went open after the handle was turned. And the woman made her way inside. She slid down, rather than climbing down, for it saved her time. And time was not something she had.

She activated the lights, after momentarily being surrounded. Everything was wrecked. Mostly everything. She headed to a narrow room, not blocked off or destroyed completely, much to her delight. She entered it, and saw the familiar armory she had seen in times before.

Anti-Phenomenon Weaponry

The Louds will all die, and I'll make sure of it.

She then began to laugh, for the danger she appeared to be.

AN: Mmmmm, alrighty. Mixture of things. This is before the 30th chapter, just to clarify. I'll likely be moving it, to make it chronologically correct.

Alright, so, I'm actually having a bit of a block with doing the rest of the Decade One, but its not a too serious thing. Because its more of a longer thing, I did expect some sort of delay, but not at this magnitute.

Another thing, I've reread what I have, and I've now seen various errors of all sorts here and there. I may have rushed a couple of things, or, not establish some things as they were meant to. The whole Linka-Lincoln thing, I see it as a fast, rushed thing. That, and how soon it was to wrinkle that paper with "Clone War." Dang it, I'm unsatisfied, because it also now feels like I made everything on and off again. I didn't notice I've been recycling the same thing over again.

Mmmm, well, apart from that, this story, its now complete. I thought it was already, but I went ahead to further it a bit. And, now that I'm aiming to get better, there's no way it'll sink.

Still upset about all of these quick things and whatnot. Sorry, its taking longer with the Luna chapter, but heh, "bisexually."