Liberty reverted her hair back to its natural state by the time they formed their battle plan.
"Some of them tried to do heroics, so let's test that. D?"
"On it," DEREK rose into the skylines above the city that never sleeps, and began to create Liberty's cruel diversion; blast after blast he sent raining down below like an eerie meteor shower. The storm of destruction caught many civilians down below in the blast radius.
Liberty was cracking up wildly, while Carol was looking at her differently. "Is this really necessary?" She asked, feeling a bit of dread and worry for the innocents down below. The two, plus Linka, had teleported to a random apartment bedroom, while Lori was on patrol, playing lookout for when the others showed up.
"They'll get angry, and when they're angry, they'll let their guards down. Of course its necessary."
"Hm, the way you put that..." She finished the rest in her mind, It's like you don't think we can beat them if they'll keep it together.
The multiple explosions shook the building enough to frighten the little girl. "What's going on? What are those? Where's Lori?"
"Quit asking question or I'll-" Carol screeched in pain when Liberty pulled her hair.
"Don't threaten our guest, blondie," Liberty growled. "I'm getting tired of you already..."
"Agh, no, please, I'm suhh... Sorry," Carol cried.
"That's right. Be sorry, idiot," the leader scolded before letting go of Carol. "Better get down there around Lori."
Carol disappeared into another blue oval, landing in a fire escape in an alley, awaiting their targets.
The three block radius had been evacuated as soon as the Louds showed up, courtesy of the twins. Lily and Luan were sitting this one out, for obvious reasons.
Among the fiery debris and burning bodies they came across, they saw the familiar android descending with arms open. "Welcome, Loud family! We've been expecting you!"
"Ah, see? I told you this was a setup!" Lynn exclaimed.
"No worries, dude! We can take that walking microwave!"
Carol teleported again, this time behind the Louds. Her hands fomed into the long swords again, amd impaled Luna from the back. "But can you take me?"
Luna tried to budge her way from Carol's dangerous hands. "Urk! Guh-!"
"D to Chain-Link, they are here!" DEREK notified through their comms.
"Finally! Lori, move in!" She barked. "As for you, Linka, stay put, okay?"
The little girl nervously shook her head, feeling a gust of wind the second after. She drew to the window, trying to see what was going on down below. She squeezed her face against the glass, as she was multiple stories high.
Liberty made herself known, shouting to them on top of a flipped car. "Well, well, well, look what the cat's dragged in! Looks like you've got my invitation. Now, we'll finish this!"
Lori was the last to rejoin the group, once Carol slid her arms off of Luna. She licked the rocker's blood seductively and darkly, giggling as cruel as Liberty. "If you can bleed, you're killable," she theorized. Her mouth was smeared with the blood, but she didn't care.
Liberty looked at the twins. "You two, I told-" She laughed, not able to contain herself. "Hehehe, you gotta stop running, I tell you." Then, her smile faded. She looked upon them again, and then looked up. "I wonder..."
Luna was healing already, but had dropped to her knees while doing so. "G-go, attack, you guys!"
The twins ignored Liberty's seemingly threats, moving forward to fight her. "You'll have to catch me first!" Liberty boasted.
Lynn and Luna took on the silver menace. Luna spawned her tail and latched it to one of his legs, flinging him off balance. Lynn jumped high enough for a diving strike. He rolled to the side, and Lynn punched the road instead, creating a hole. The android delivered an electrocution attack, which worked on setting Luna back.
The clones took on Carol, in which they were winning. She received invisible punched left and right, until Lori intervened, by tossing a dampener on Liby, who was fully open. Lacy was distracted by Lori enough to fall by Carol's hands, who began to choke her.
Lori put Liby down temporarily, now focused on Lupa.
"Why the fuck are you doing this?!" Lupa screamed at her.
Lori remained silent, riveting in her shame. Carol let go of Lacy once she was out. "I'm not sure if she's dead or unconscious," she joked.
Lupa lifted a car behind them, throwing it to the two. Lori ducked it while Carol took the impact, knocking her into a fire hydrant. "OW, FUCK! MY BACK!"
Liberty was still locked into the race, maintaining first place while the twins were both in second. "I give you points for trying, but like I said..." She came to a halt, stopping in the middle of an intersection. "If you wanna be the best, you gotta think beyond." She vibrated her way inside cars, throwing random people all over the place, with some cars crashing into others. "Necessity, or morality?"
The twins zigzagged around, catching the falling drivers that Liberty deemed as toys. They lost her, but ended up saving everyone whom she had her hands on. "Are you okay?"
They glared at them before some of them began to clap at them while the rest had begun to simply record the two.
Luna was down, while Lynn filled in for her. She kept fighting the robot intensely, taking a couple of bruises but returned substantial blows to him. "What are you even made of? And... What even are you?"
"I am Lisa's first ever creation, thrown away because I was rendered obsolete in her eyes. And who do I have to give my kind gratitude for that act? You all, of course!"
He performed a sweep on her legs, and she jumped, but he kicked again before she set herself back. Lynn fell chin first onto his leg, feeling some serious pain than she had since her injection.
"My body is made of Compound C, a metal not in the periodic table. Over ten times stronger than titanium."
"Well see about that, tin man!" She lunged up, striking his helmet shaped head. She only turned his head, and nothing more. "I-Impossible!"
"Not at all!"
He kicked her away, having enough of toying around with her.
Carol and Lori had the three clones subdued, and focused back on Lynn and Luna, who was getting up, still up for the fight. "Wait a sec-" Lori ducked at the sound of a sniper rifle going on. Carol took a hit on one of her hands before taking cover.
"Aw, what the- Who the fuck is that?!" Carol poked at the hole that cut through her wrist. "My fucking hand!"
Lynn dragged herself away from DEREK as he was getting shot at by Lincoln, who was perched two rooftops away. "Finally!"
Liberty followed the gunshots, and swiped the sniper rifle from his hands. "Hey, again."
Her hair color only further aroused his curiosity. "So, you gonna tell me who you are, and why you want Linka so badly?"
She laughed in her evil tone, "I could tell you anything. I could tell you, I'm her clone from the future. Or her daughter. Or, yours, you know? Would it really matter, though? I know how you think. I have do die, right? Me, him, and her. What about Lori? What will you do if-?" She paused, seemingly drifting somewhere else. "Actually, I'm not sure if I should be intervening. I just want the girl, and you all can suffer a more hideously destined fate. But it doesn't matter, we're all dead anyway..."
"What the fuck are you on about?"
"We both fucked our families, Lincoln. I paid the price, and... Maybe killing you all will be better..." She giggled again. "Oh, god, I'm sorry. I'm truly being indecisive. I don't even know if-"
She pointed to the building where Linka was. "Your clone's over there, eight story. Let's make this fair, Lincoln." She threw him off the rooftop, and ran along the side of the building. A parked car broke his fall, but left him aching in pain.
Lori and Carol dragged the weakened ones into a cluster. Lynn's leg was pinned by the android, who went on to slam her face into the concrete of the sidewalk until she passed out. "Now, where the fuck are the twins?"
They came in zooming, but were alarmed to see that most of them had fallen again, even Lincoln. Carol was studying the brother of the family, the only one whom neither she or DEREK had seen up until now. "Hey," Carol whispered to DEREK. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"Yes, she is of Loud blood as well."
"Wait, what? Are you-" Carol grew closer to Liberty, who had thrown Lincoln into the group. Yes, they bore an uncanny resemblance that she couldn't dismiss. "Who the fuck are you?"
"I'm a female, of course," Liberty sassed, taking out two round dampeners from her shirt pocket. She flanked the twins, who didn't see her coming, and placed the devices onto them. She then picked them up for a short ride.
Dang it! Lola thought.
So this is what it feels like, Lana realized.
"This is it! This is where we win!" Liberty exclaimed victoriously, holding the twins tightly. "Bring the others, take two each."
DEREK took Liby and Lacy, Carol led the growling Lynn and Lincoln away, and Lori was pushing Lupa and Luna towards them. Liberty opened another portal, commanding her lackeys to head inside.
"Where are we going?" Carol asked.
"You demanded we finally kill them, and so it shall be! We'll execute them, one by one!"
"About time!" Carol plotted. "And then it's Lisa Loud!"
"Lisa? Lisa is dead."
Carol turned to her partner. "Wait, what?"
"I took care of her while she was imprisoned. Did you-" DEREK caught Liberty in the act.
"You- But you said-" Carol felt betrayed at having been promised a lie. "No, I've been promised-"
The genderbent Lincoln had intentionally lied to the Pingrey girl with this, just to be ensured with her assistance with her plans. The only way to keep her lackeys in line was through fear, by any means necessary.
"There's two of them they left behind, so go fetch! Now, Carol!" Liberty instructed, overpowering her rising hatred with the fear of her words.
"What is this-" Luna growled. "Lori, why?!"
The oldest Loud ignored her pleas, flashing back to her encounters with her son.
"You wanna know why? I'll be sure to run it bi you, hahaha!"
"What have we ever done to you, bitch?! Why are you doing this?!" Luna was met with a metal fist of unknown pain, delivered by none other than the living A.I.
"Keep moving!" Liberty stared at Lincoln, who was looking coldly back at her. "Ooooh... Angry, huh? I admire your need for answers, so, I'll give them to you. But for now... I'm afraid the chapter ends here!" Liberty cackled again, while the captured siblings were shoved into the blue portal.
AN: So, uh... Piecing this together proved to be more of a challenge. Thought about this since the third arc, wondered how this was gonna be.