As morning came to the Loud House the first thing the girls did was assemble an emergency meeting. "Okay I think we all know why this emergency meeting was called but I'll just tell you if you don't know. It's about Lincoln and those agents that came to the house yesterday." Lori said as she slammed her heel on the desk. "Lisa has a theory to why the video of Lincoln was taken down and deleted. Now this is just a theory so until we have evidence to back it up this just speculation go ahead Lisa."

Lisa then stepped forward. "I have reason to believe that someone is trying to find Lincoln and government is trying to prevent them from finding him." She said as everyone in the room except Lori gasped. "I'll start with the first thing I noticed the video. I mean whoever took it down made sure no one could find out who did it. Now you made wonder why someone would take it down and I believe it was because someone is looking for Lincoln."

Lynn just gave a disappointed look as she knew this was her fault as Lola asked. "Why would someone be looking for Lincoln?"

"I believe it has to do with Lincoln's birth parents." Lisa answered as everyone except Lori gasped again. "Now I don't have any evidence to back this up but I believe that who ever is looking for Lincoln is after him because of his birth parents. However one thing I do know is that those agents are tied to Lincoln. Lincoln was at the park when the shooting happened and then the government shows up and takes over the scene. Why would they do that unless the shooting was connected to Lincoln. I think the people who were shot were there for Lincoln. Then there was those two agents that came to the house. I keep track of every agency that is operating in Royal Woods just in case they may be watching me and I never saw those two coming. To me that proves that they're professionals if even I couldn't see them coming. I have presented all of my theories now."

"We should tell Mom!" Lola yelled.

"And tell her what? We think the government has been watching Lincoln because someone may be after him? We need proof Lola!" Lana screamed.

"Lana is right we need proof before we tell Mom anything." Lori said.

"This is all my fault!" Lynn shouted as she started crying. "If only I didn't think about sports all the time then none of this would of happened!"

"But it did happen Lynn so the question is how are you going to make it up?" Lori asked.

"I don't know how I'm going to make it up to him but I promise you one thing. I'm not playing a single game until Lincoln is back home!" Lynn shouted out. She then looked at Lisa and asked "Do you have a plan to get some evidence?"

"I'm glad someone asked me that." Lisa said with a small smile. "Yes I do have a plan. I took the liberty of putting a small tracking device into the drink of that agent that asked for someone water. I now know their office is some where downtown. I'm already going over the building plans so we can figure out the easiest way in however I suggest we wait until I turn Lincoln's chip back on. I feel we could work a lot better if we knew where he was."

All the sisters just nodded and agreed. Just then the phone began to rang. The girls immediately ran down the stairs to the living room where their parents were. Rita grabbed the phone and looked at the kids. "Okay girls I'm going to put the phone on speaker." She said as she turned the phone on.

A man's voice could be heard. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Loud. I'm the agent who has your son. You can call me Lion" He said.

"Wait a minute your name is Lion? What kind of mother would name their son that? Are you part lion? Is that why you're called Lion?" Leni asked as everyone groaned and facepalmed themselves.

Lion just groaned. "I see you have you have your girls listening to this call with you and I assume that is Leni that asked that. Am I right?" He asked.

"You know who I am?" Leni asked.

"Yes I know who you are Leni. Lincoln told me all about his sisters. Anyway to answer your question Leni, Lion is not my real name. It's my code name." He said.

"Oh." Leni said.

"Anyway back to the reason I called. Lincoln is safe. I'm sorry he witnessed everything but I assure you I intend keep him safe no matter what." Lion said.

"How do we know you're not lion? Get it?" Luan asked while everyone except her dad groaned. "What? I had to get it out!"

"Ugh, I'm not lying Luan. I swear on my life that I will keep Lincoln safe no matter what. I give you my word. Anyway my agency is doing everything they can to shut down the organization we're after so hopefully I'll be able to bring him home soon." Lion said as he took a deep breath and began to speak again. "I'm going to let you talk to Lincoln but I need to say something first. Now Lincoln told me about everything that happened and he seems to be doing okay right now but I need to say something to you Mrs. Loud."

"What is it you need to say?" Rita asked.

"You probably think this rude of me to say but I suggest you get your house in order before Lincoln comes home. I mean you're the mother of the family and their usually in charge of the house. The way I see it all children fear their mothers so I suggest you use that fear to get them in line." He said.

Rita just froze after he said that. Everyone saw that she looked like she was in deep thought. "Mom are you okay?" Lori asked snapping her out of it.

"Yeah I'm fine Lori." She said. "Okay Mr. Lion I'll make sure to get my house in order."

"Okay now let me get Lincoln." He said as he then shouted out. "Hey kid get over here! You can talk to your family now!"

"Hello?" Lincoln said.

"LINCOLN!" The entire family said at the same time with joy.

"Are you okay? Are you eating alright?" Rita asked.

"Yeah Mom I'm fine." Lincoln said.

"I heard that you found out the truth. I'm sorry you had to find out the truth so soon I planned to tell you when you turned eighteen." Rita said.

"Mom it's fine. When I found out the truth I was devastated but then I ran into Lion and began to talk to him. He made me realize that you will always be my real family no matter what. We can talk more about this when I come back home." He said.

"Okay Sweetie." Rita said with a tear.

"Hey Linc." Lynn said.

"Hey Lynn."

"I just want to say that-" Before she could finish Lincoln interrupted her.

"Lynn I forgive you."

"But how could you after what I did to you?"

"Because your my sister and I love you. I know how you get when you play sports so I'm not going to hold it against you."

"But Lincoln-" Lynn said crying while Luna held her and as Lincoln interrupted her again.

"I need to go now. Lion's telling me it's time to go. Bye." With that said Lincoln hung up. The Louds just stood there for a bit and proceeded to go about their day.

MEANWHILE WITH LINCOLN AND WALTER A.K.A. LION

"Okay here's your phone back Lion." Lincoln said as he handed the phone back to Walter.

"You can go back to calling me Walter now. I only asked you to call me by my code name because I don't want your family to know my name." Walter said as he took the phone and immediately threw it to the ground breaking it and proceeded to stomp on it.

"What are you doing?!" Lincoln asked.

"I'm destroying the phone we can't take a chance of anyone trying to track us." Walter said as he stomped on it one more time and got into the car.

"Well how is anyone go to get a hold of us?" Lincoln asked as he got into the car as well.

"Don't worry I made sure we have a bunch of burner phones to bring with us." Walter said as he started the car.

"So how long is it going to be until we get there?"

"Luckily for you the safe house is in Royal Woods so it won't be too long."

The drive was quiet for the both of them. Lincoln didn't know what to say or ask and Walter was the same. Eventually they came onto a road leading into the woods. Lincoln recognized it and said "Hey I know this place it's private property. No one knows who owns it. The only thing people know about this place if you step foot on it then you'll immediately end up in jail."

"Yeah that's what will happen if you step foot on government property." Walter said.

"Wait are you telling me the government owns this area?"

"Yep." Walter said. After a few minutes the car came to a stop. "Okay we're here."

As Lincoln got out of the car he took a good look at the area. He was amazed. He saw that the safe house was a huge cabin. Not far from it was a lake. "Whoa I didn't know this place existed." He said.

"Not many people do, kid." Walter replied as he was bringing stuff into the cabin. "I got to put this stuff up so go ahead and take a look around the area. I call for you when I'm done and then we'll your training."

"Okay Walter." Lincoln said as he went towards the lake.

TWO DAYS LATER

Lincoln was currently sparring with Walter. For the past two days Walter has been teaching a variety of things from chopping wood to how to fight. Lincoln was learning everything he could from Walter and giving it everything he had when doing it. He had been learning it quickly that even Walter was impressed. Walter was surprised on how agile and smart Lincoln was as Lincoln told him he had to be agile and smart to live in a house with ten sisters.

"Okay that's enough sparring!" Walter shouted as Lincoln dropped the stance he was using. "I have to admit kid you are learning quickly. I'm almost running out of things to teach you."

"Yeah even I'm surprised by how quick I'm learning. I mean I'm a quick learner but I didn't think I be mastering what you taught me so quickly not to mention I'm starting to get some muscles." Lincoln said.

"Well you've been pushing yourself to your limit so it's only natural you get something other than knowledge out of it. Anyway I decide what you're going to learn next."

"What?"

"Survival training. In other words we're going camping."

"I don't think that's a good idea. I tried that once with my friend Clyde and we ended up lost in the woods with no food. I had to use what my sisters taught me to get us out of there."

"Let me take a wild guess on why you decided to do that. You thought you weren't man enough because of the things you do with your sisters so you probably saw some reality show of some moron taking on nature like an idiot and decided if he could do it so could you. Did I get it right?"

Lincoln was stunned. He didn't think Walter would guess it correctly." Yeah you're right." He said.

"Well it's not going to happen this time. You see you didn't have any proper training when it comes to camping like that but you don't have to worry I'll be teaching you everything you need to know okay?"

"Okay." Lincoln said with a smile.

"Great now go rest up. We'll be leaving tomorrow for some campgrounds that would be perfect for your survival training." Walter said as he pulled out his phone.

"Aren't you going to come in with me?"

"I'll come inside in a little bit Lincoln. I have to call my boss and let him know what I'm doing." Walter said.

"Okay." Lincoln replied as he went into the cabin.

THE NEXT DAY

AT THE LOUD HOUSE

The girls were currently waiting for Lisa to turn Lincoln's tracking chip back on. "Come on Lisa how long is it going to take you to turn it back on?" Lynn asked.

"I've did everything that was required to turn it back on unfortunately we're going to have to wait for it to turn back on now." Lisa said.

"Well I hope it turns back on soon. I promised Bobby I would let him know what we find out about Lincoln." Lori said.

"How did Bobby find out?" Luan asked.

"Clyde called Ronnie Anne and told her what happened. She then told Bobby and he isn't very happy about it." Lori said as Lynn looked down.

"Yeah I promised Clyde I let him know what we find out." Luna said.

"Well I suggest that when you tell them you do it in person. We don't know if anyone is watching but it's better to be safe than sorry I say." Lisa said as Lori and Luna just nodded.

Lucy then spoke up. "I was wondering if any of you remember the first time you saw Lincoln?" She asked.

"You know I would like to here about that too." Lisa said as the twins just agreed with her.

"I remember the day clearly." Lori said with a smile.

FLASHBACK

"I'll get it Mom!" A six year old Lori said as she ran to the front door. As she opened it she saw a man holding a baby. He had light brown hair and violet eyes. He looked like he was in his forty's and was wearing a black suit and round eyeglasses. She then noticed the baby he was holding and there were some bags next to him. It was a boy with white hair and he looked like he was only a few days old.

The man looked at Lori and smiled. "Excuse me little girl but is your mother home?" He asked.

"Mom there's some strange man with a baby at the door!" She cried out.

"What do you mean there's a man with a baby at the door Lori?"Rita asked as she made her way to the door. She then saw the man Lori was talking about. "Who are you?" She asked.

"Hello Mrs. Loud. My name is John Alistair I'm with Social Services. Now you're probably wondering why I'm here." He said.

"It probably has something to do with that baby you're holding." Lori said.

Alistair just smiled. "Yes that's right little girl." He said.

Rita didn't know what this man wanted but she knew it was important. "Lori why don't you go play." She said.

"Aw but Mom I want to stay and listen to why he's here!" Lori whined.

"Lori go play." Rita said in a stern voice.

"Okay fine." Lori said as she ran off but not to far. She wanted to know why that man was there and she would eavesdrop if she has to.

"Please come in Mr. Alistair." Rita said.

"Okay give me second. My assistant had a family emergency and this is sort of the first time handling a baby." He said as he tried picked up the bags on the ground as he was do this the baby started to wake up and cry. Alistair just gave a confused look not knowing what to do.

Rita just rolled her eyes. "If this is your first time with a baby then you're not going to last by the end of the day. I'll take him." She said as she took the baby boy from Alistair and held him. He immediately stopped crying and let out a giggle. She made her way to the living room with Alistair following her.

As they both got seated Alistair began to talk. "Mrs. Loud the reason why I'm here has to do with this little boy."

"Yeah I pretty much figure that out. What's his name?"

"His name is Lincoln."

Rita just looked at Lincoln and smiled. "Hi there Lincoln are you hungry?" She asked in a sweet voice. Lincoln just started babbling happily. Rita looked at Alistair " Do you have a bottle?"

"Yeah it's around here somewhere." He said as he dug through the bags looking for it. "Found it!" He said as he handed the bottle to her.

"This is your first day on the job isn't it?" Rita asked as she started bottle feeding Lincoln.

"That obvious huh? Yeah it's my first day and I'm on my own. I better get to why I'm here."

"That would be nice."

"Mrs. Loud do you remember a young pregnant woman you met about two weeks ago?" Alistair asked.

"Why yes I do. I met her at the mall. She was looking for something to give her child when it was born and she asked for my opinion. I had my youngest daughter Lynn with me at the time so I sort of had my hands full but she was patient. After I helped her we talked for a bit. She told me she was going to have a boy and-" Rita then stopped as she took a look at Lincoln. "Did she-"

"Yes ma'am she died giving birth to him. As to why I'm here when she was about to give birth the doctors told her she wasn't going to survive and if their was any family they could contact. Unfortunately she didn't have any and the father was out of the picture. He died overseas protecting our country. The father didn't have any either. So the doctors had to contact my office. She told us that she wanted her son to go to you and your family. She said that she wanted her son to be raised in a loving home and you would be perfect. Now it was an odd request but it's very hard to say no to a dying mother's wish so here I am. They could have someone with experience be here but no they decided to give this case to the new guy!"

"You know it's funny when I met her I could tell instantly she was going to be a great mother. She had so much love to give yet I could see something in her eyes like she knew she may not survive giving birth. I understand why your here and I would love to but I would need to talk to my husband first. Mr. Alistair you have to understand we have five girls and if we take in Lincoln we would have to adjust our budget."

"I understand ma'am. I'm going to make some calls and see if I can find somewhere to put Lincoln." Alistair said as searched for his phone in one of the bags and pulled out some papers and put them on the coffee table in front of Rita.

"What are those papers?" Rita asked.

"Adoption papers ma'am just in case you decide to keep him."

"Can I ask where are you going to take him?"

"That I don't know. My assistant was suppose to make some arrangement but didn't get the chance to."

"So you don't know where you're going to take him?"

"No I don't."

"Leave him here for the night." Rita said.

Alistair just look at Rita with surprise."What?" He asked.

"Look you're obviously not prepared to handle a baby and you don't know where to put him. If you leave him here for the night I can talk to my husband about Lincoln. I'll even show him the adoption papers. We have enough baby supplies plus the ones you brought and we're experts so he's in good hands. Now I can't make any promises but I try to get my husband to consider adopting Lincoln."

Alistair just stood up and reached into his pocket to pull out a card and hand it to her. "Here's my card. Give me a call in the morning to tell me what you decide."

"I'll do that." Rita said as she took his card. "Let me walk you out."

As Rita walked Alistair out Lori came out and took a look at Lincoln who was just sleeping. "Hi there Lincoln. I'm your big sister Lori well I'm the oldest big sister. I can't wait for the others to meet you. They're definitely going to love you."

END OF FLASHBACK

"Then what happened?" Leni asked.

Lori just groaned and said "Leni you were there so you know what happened."

"Oh right." Leni said.

"Well do you mind telling us?" Lola asked.

"Oh sure." Lori said. "Anyway Mom told Dad what happened when he came home with Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lynn. He didn't know what to say but it didn't help matters any when Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lynn saw Lincoln for the first time. We all instantly fell in love with him and wanted to keep him. Dad was very hesitant at first but during the time we spent with Lincoln that night he fell in love with him too. The next Mom gave that man a call and told him we were keeping him. The rest is history."

As the younger sibling and Leni gave their wows Lisa was quietly thinking when her computer went off. "I go his location!" She shouted. As she took a look at Lincoln's location she gave a stunned and confused look. "Lori could you come here?" She asked.

As Lori took a look she realize what Lisa wanted her to see. "Is that-"

"Yes it is." Lisa said answering Lori before she could answer her question. She then whispered into Lori's ear and Lori just nodded.

"Okay guys. Lisa and me have some things to discuss as well as the plan to get the proof we need so everyone leave the room until we call for you." Lori said as the sister's just left the room grumbling. After they left Lori asked. "Okay what's the plan?"

"I'll tell you the plan but first I have to say something." Lisa said.

"What do you have to say?"

"I think Lincoln's birth mother chose us to take care of Lincoln."

Lori just gasped. She then thought back to the day Lincoln was brought into their home. What her mother said to Mr. Alistair about Lincoln's birth mother. She knew Lisa may be right. "Why would she do that?" Lori asked.

Lisa just gave a small smirk and replied "Lori what is the one thing mothers want for their children?"

"To be loved and happy." Lori said as she realized the answer to her question. "She knew Lincoln would be loved and happy here."

"That's what I assume." Lisa said as she then changed the topic. "Okay then let's come up with a plan to get the proof we need and discuss what to do about Lincoln while we're at it."

"Agreed."

THIRTY MINUTES LATER

All the girls except Leni showed up in Lisa and Lily's room. Lori and Lisa were standing next to each other. "Okay thank you all for joining us. We're here to discuss the plan to get the proof we need to show Mom." Lori said.

Lola then raised her hand. "I have a question. Where's Leni?" She asked.

"I have Leni busy trying to figure out what fashions will be in five years from now. You see Leni has a very important part in our plan and it will work better if she doesn't know what it is." Lori answered with the rest of the girls nodding in agreement. "Now before we discuss our parts we need to tell you where Lincoln is. Lisa go ahead."

"We found out Lincoln is in the same building where those agents are." Lisa said as the girls besides Lori gasped.

"So are we going to get him out of there as well?" Lynn asked.

"Lisa and me discussed it and even though I want Lincoln back home I have to agree with Lisa that Lincoln should stay with them until it's safe for him to come home." Lori said.

Lisa then began to speak. "But that doesn't mean that we're going to ignore him. We are going to slip him an untraceable cell phone so we can talk to him." The girls just smiled knowing that they have a chance to talk to him. Lisa then said "Now I believe it's time we go over the plan."

TO BE CONTINUED