The four clones were now frozen stiff when their captors had moved in a group towards an unknown sandy location. They were levitating above the heads of the silver beings, when Lily, Luan and Lucky were brought to them.

"Where are we?" Luan opened her eyes to find that they were in a different location. It wasn't just them, but Lincoln, Lynn and Luna were looking around, completely flabbergasted. "Guys! You're okay!"

"Wha- Who are these-" Luna sensed danger upon seeing the clones floating above. She whipped out her claws for a fight. "Let them go!"

And so they were, dropped lifelessly to the ground. "As you wish."

"Are we in Egypt? A desert? Why are we here?" The many entities the trio saw was too much for them to handle. Lynn felt a little helpless in this situation. "Who- What are you?"

"We are..." The silver beings formed a circle around them. "The Silver Legion, the galactic protectors of time and space."

"Time and... Did we just step into fucking Marvel?"

Lincoln disregarded Luan's comment, and simply walked up to one of them. "Aliens? Oh, I'm so fucking honored." He spat onto its face. "Of time and space? Why, what did we do?"

Lynn, Luna and Luan exchanged weird glances at each other, confused by the latter's answer.

"What do you mean, Lincoln? You altered the damn timeline," Luna hissed.

The white haired man entered the confusion, wondering what Luna meant by that. "What are you on about?"

"The events, and prior, in which he shifted have been erased from his memory bank. Those were our laws embedded with the human parts of our laws. The only ones who know are those whom he has told."

"What- When did-? Nothing of the sort happened!"

"Oh, but it did. It very much did happen. But, apart from the human Lincoln Loud, there was another." All fingers made each a shiny reflection when they pointed at Lynn.

"What? What did I do?" Lynn felt threatened all of a sudden.

"It is not what you've done, but rather what your future self has done. We've sensed a rip in the time-space continuum, but this is the second rip we've found. You, like him, have altered the timeline twice. The first time, the warning you sent to yourself was not heeded, and therefore, your older self acted to do things herself, resulting in this. Of course, we've already experienced the first time, and we remember that."

"Y-yeah, I remember that. And the flaw... Last time I saw her, I mean them, it seemed like we won... We beat Lisa. But..." Lynn pictured the horrified look on Older Lynn's face before she vanished, and then Older Luan's crying also came to mind. "No, something was wrong..."

"Because something had changed from her own timeline, which will now be carried out here. Something other than your little victory."

The silver member in front of Lincoln raised both of its arms. The missing twins magically appeared and hovered over them. "The first time, we delivered three punishments; one for the entire family, and the other two each for you."

"Lana! Lola! Are you okay?!" Luna got her response through their eyes that went up and down.

"Not for long. These two speedsters have the power to disrupt the timeline without the need of technology. Because of this..." The twins were finally released of their invisible chains. "You are to race each other, post haste."

"Huh? But we're equal in speed! And you can't make me!" Lola sassed.

"Make no mistake, humans. We will wipe out your kind if you do not comply. There have been far too many people who have bent the rules, and even numerous species before humanity have perished for trillions of years. We wiped the species you humans call dinosaurs, which was the recent species eliminated on Earth."

"Y-You're g-gonna-" Lynn and Luna were intimated fiercely. These guys weren't anything like they've encountered before. Alien law enforcement, if it could be simplified easily. A very strict one, too. "There are so many innocents-"

"Meaningless to us. It is your choice, race for humanity, or die with humanity. Just to show our seriousness..." The silver humanoid rose into the air and lifted a hand, aiming it behind.

"Wait, what are you-?!"

At first, there was nothing but endless sand over the horizon. "We will reign destruction and death on your inferior planet if you do not accept, however." They blinked, only to meet a horrifying sight; an actual city was now floating above the vast sandy hills. Luna waved her arms forward. "Now, wait just a second! You don't need to do this!"

Lana and Lola gulped fearfully. "We aren't obligated to do anything! Who are you to-"

The floating city then plummeted down in a dramatic angle. It was like something of a disaster movie, with the forming dust and the clear crumbling sound of the debris ringing off from there.

Luna and Lynn gasped heavily, while Luan cupped her mouth with both hands. "Oh, God..."

"You... Monsters!" Not only Lynn, but the others prayed that there were survivors in the ensuing chaos. Lynn was given the clear to attack the chrome aliens, and with Luna, charged right into the circle, hoping to break it away.

"Wait, stop!" Lincoln protested. The two sisters tumbled down unconsciously at the feet of the alien beings.

Make sure the twins make a sacrifice, Lynn recalled from long ago before blacking out.

Lana and Lola looked for an opening to escape, but it wasn't there for them. Not this time, even if they could phase through the enforcers. After that, it'd be a hunt. "Lola, I'm scared..." Lana whimpered.

Lincoln played defense, moving to protect his twin sisters. "Not them. They'll never do such a thing!"

"And we're making sure. They race, and regardless of who's the fastest..." They knew about the rare illness that the twins had caught through constantly shifting their body temperatures in nanoseconds. It had gotten bad for them already, that racing each other as the Legion demanded was likely to be the death of them- And that was exactly the reason for the death race was. The twins didn't want to risk it anymore, having gone more than enough concerned. "Their powers shall be stripped away."

"You can just strip it away now! I don't underst-" Lincoln then thought of something. "Wait, what- What happens to the loser?"

"You'll see..." The way it sounded to Lincoln sounded dread. Dread and serious.

"This is feeling like a punishment, so... Why won't you punish me?!"

"Oh, this is a punishment. But it's not yours." The beings faced the twins. "Race around the world, this is start and finish line. Get to it, or die with your brethren."

Lynn was the first to recover from her doze. "Lana, Lola, you have to do it! You have to race!"

"Lynn, don't encourage this!"

The eerie, dark warnings that the older version of herself was latching onto her, compelling her to fulfill a written destiny that had to be. "No, they can destroy us all! Twins, you have to-" Lincoln didn't hesitate to ram his foot onto her back.

"I'm not losing more sisters!"

"I know how it looks Linc, but- Lola, Lana, you'd be responsible for millions!"

"I- No, we- They're giving us a choice-"

"THAT WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE IF YOU DON'T RACE!"

The dramatic scene made Lincoln understand know. "It's her, isn't it... This is Lynn's punishment?"

"We- Whatever we did, we didn't mean to break these rules! I just wanted... My family back..." Lynn looked back at her siblings, and the clones. "Surely there must be something else..."

"No, the two speedsters run. And then..."

Lincoln now moved to act against them, feeling antsy about all of this. "You're not gonna-" Lynn then grabbed and tilted his legs forward, bringing him down.

"Lana, Lola, just run! RUN!"

"What about the-"

"No survivors detected," the Legion informed Lynn in unison. They made an opening wide enough for the twins to start the death race as Lincoln picked himself up. "No, no! LYNN- TWINS!"

"Let's hope they don't die along the way," one of the beings teased.

"Wait, what?! What do you mean?!" Lincoln yelled, helplessly seeing the twins zooming away. "NO!"

"Lincoln, please calm down!" It was either the lives of the twins, or, as the Legion had already demonstrated, the entire mankind as Lynn knew it. No, it wasn't an easy call to make, so she let Lincoln try to persuade the scared twins to go forward with it. Maybe to him, Lori was the last straw. No longer did the overprotective brother wish to live to see his remaining sisters die to unbeatable foes and whatnot, but this was different now, different enough to make Lynn take initiative this one time. Hopefully.

"No! We've lost enough, Lynn! Why them?!"

"We have given a perfect insight on the matter, Lincoln Loud. And yes, you're half right. This is not your punishment, but this is for all of you. We have something special for the both of you as soon as the race is over."

Luan yelped at this, and moved with her nephew closer to Lynn and Lincoln. "What's gonna happen?"

"I don't know..." Lincoln honestly answered. His streak of rage against Lynn ended already. Maybe death was really fated for more of them, and what could he really do but watch it happen? Who next? Lily? Maybe Linka? No... It shouldn't have been that way. They've all suffered enough. When was it ever going to end?

Lana and Lola were running side to side. "Tell me you have a plan!" Lana was secretly hoping that nothing bad would play out while they ran for the longest distance in their career as speedsters. Nothing in her body was shaking as of yet.

"I do!" The duo passed the desert biome, entering into the sea. "We're just gonna have to finish at the same time! That's the plan, okay?"

Lana nodded, with a smiling forming back to her face in rising confidence. "Should we take our time or-?"

"We'll speed it up, just this one time! We'll tell the others we can no longer run like this after this ends!" Lola didn't think anything could, and would, happen to them, unlike the other twin.

Lynn used her cuddling charms to further ease her brother down. "I'm sorry, Linc..."

"Don't apologize to me," he barked. "Damn it, twins..."

A silverhead lifted Lincoln from the ground, knocking Lynn back. "What gives?!" It drew him nearer to it, close enough to have his head face-attacked by its arm. Upon contact, all dead memories were beginning to return. Lucy's predated death, Timeline X, and last of all, Liberty Loud and her maniacal antics. "I... You... No, I-" Lincoln was breathing heavily, sweat already forming around his forehead.

"Do you understand now?"

"She warned me about you. No, I didn't believe it completely. Girl was crazy..."

"Liberty Loud was indeed sent here as it was her sentence, and Lynn's actions had broken her free from her containment. It is also true we guaranteed a chance for survival on her part, which meant the demise of Lincoln Loud primarily. In a way, she was a living warning, an omen of our arrival here on Earth."

"What? You mean that female Lincoln lookalike?"

"It seems she is no longer a menace, however. Hopefully, she has learned her lesson about tampering with things she doesn't understand. Like some people..."

Lincoln felt the back of his hair stand firm and tall. He didn't want to portray direct and clear fear on his face. These beings of unimaginable, unlimited power- What was is that they planned to do with him and Lynn?

"Not long now until the speedsters finish."

At halfway around the world, the twins were currently speeding away through some foreign city that was clearly the victim of poverty. "I'd never seen such... These people aren't..." Lana began to slow down to get steady images of the hell she had only seen and heard through media. Lola shifted her velocity to the tomboy's level.

The twins had never really entered any populated areas outside of the U.S. whenever they ran for fun in the easier times. "There's too many problems we can't fix, Lana. Running isn't everything. Pick up the pace, we're closer now..."

What would happen to the loser? Something cruel was definitely implied for the holder of 2nd place. Lana was already lagging from her concerns, forcing Lola to keep slowing down. "LANA!"

Young Lola Loud was interrupted while she applied eyeliner by one of Lana's frogs. It croaked loudly, almost sounding like a burp. This made Lola twitch enough to scrape the eyeliner onto her forehead, vreating an ugly, long line that looked like a unibrow from a certain distance.

"Aww, you're a burpy derpy today!" Lana exclaimed happily. "Isn't he the cutest?"

Rather than Lola simply shouting, she laughed with evil intent. "Soooo cute!"

It was way later that her cruel self acted to bash Seymour the frog to death with the shovel from the garage. "Disgusting!" The slime caught onto the shovel, but once she dug a hole and buried the amphibian, the dirt concealed the gooey substance from the shovel.

Yes, Lana saw Lola take the shovel back to the garage, after a search for the frog.

"He must've run away," Lola answered with her shoulders raised. "Don't worry, Lana. You have more pets anyway."

Right now, Lola was feeling like a complete bitch. Who could have blamed her? Apart from that time, there were more countless events in which she did more harm than help. "Lana..."

The diva complex who loved to look good, but be evil. Daddy's spoiled little girl, before daddy was talen away from her. No, mostly everything was. Everything but Lana.

"Oh, they are near now." The silverheads all turned to their right at the same time.

"Please..." Luan silently prayed.

"Let my brother go!" Lynn tried to tug Lincoln down to the ground. "Please!"

"Once it's over, Lynn Loud Jr."

Luan was frantically biting her fingernails at this point. Lynn fell on her ass after her fifth attempt st trying to pull Lincoln down. She crawled to Luna, who was still knocked up. "Wake up!" She had to lightly slap her, as she had more than excessive force to actually kill her if she didn't hold back.

Luna gasped awake. "What happened?! Where are they?!"

"Lynn urged them to race..." Lincoln filled in. "We've gotta wait until-"

The twins finally reached the finish line, seeing the silver reflections the sun was hitting off of. "At the same time, Lana!"

"Okay!"

"Go faster, Lana!" Lola egged on. Oh, yes, their plan at first was to finish together. That was risky by itself, meaning possible death for the both of them. Then again, they were in danger the minute they sped away. Lola was ecstatic and relieved that they were seemingly safe. But now came the hardest challenge she reconsidered near the end.

The gang of silverheads formed into two lines, width parallel to a road. Lana was laughing as she met up again with her many siblings. "We win! Told you we're in equal speed!" However, nobody was smiling or cheering for them. "Guys? What's wrong? Lola, what's-"

But Lola wasn't next to her at all. No, the teenage diva had slowed down once she saw Lana increase her velocity up a notch. When she finally got there, all she whispered was, "Aw, I lost..."

They then closed in on her.

"No. No, no, no! Lola!" Lana was already developing tears through Lynn's screams. "LOLA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"