Back at the cabin Walter was currently cleaning himself up as Lincoln and Alistair were sitting at a table talking with Wulf laying nearby. "So are you going to tell me about my birth mother?" Lincoln asked.
"The story about your birth mother is mostly Walter's story to tell." Alistair said as he then asked. "How about I tell you about my organization instead while we wait for Walter?"
"Okay." Lincoln replied.
"I happen to run an off the books organization. It mostly handles problems that the law can't touch. I hand pick each member myself. Now some of them are military men like Walter while others are from other agencies like FBI and CIA. The one thing I make sure about each person I pick is that they have the same goal in common. To keep the world safe and protect the people we care about. After I choose someone I put them through an extreme training regimen where it pushes there body to the limit as well as building up their immunity to poisons. I also make them focus on a special skill set or strength they have such as strength, speed, trap making, or anything else that would help them on the field. I make sure that my men are at their best. At their prime. Basically at their elite. Which is what my organization is called: The Elites." Alistair then stared at Wulf and said "As for Wulf here. During a mission I happen to stumble across some hunters who had just killed Wulf's mother and were getting ready to capture him so they could sell him since he's a rare type of wolf. I knocked them out and handed them to the local authorities and buried Wulf's mother. As I tried to leave Wulf began to follow me. I told him that if he is going to follow me then I was going to train him. He just nodded and the rest is history."
"What about the government do they give you any trouble?" Lincoln asked.
"That's an interesting question Lincoln." Alistair said but before he could answer Walter walked into the room and answered for him.
"They can't give us any trouble because Alistair has enough dirt to bury them alive. He has dirt on almost every politician and world leader. They know better than to cross him. How he acquires the information is one of the biggest mysteries. It's something that I don't even want to know the answer to." He said.
Alistair just gave a smile. "Are you sure you don't want to know?" He asked.
"No I don't Alistair. I know the answer will give me a headache." Walter replied.
"Well seeing how you are all cleaned up how about you tell Lincoln about his birth mother?" Alistair asked.
"Okay." Walter said as he sat down and looked at Lincoln. "Your birth mother's name is Emily Granger." Walter then pulled out his wallet opened it and pulled out a photo. "Here's our graduation photo." The picture showed a young Walter and a young girl in graduation gowns smiling. Walter looked beat up and had his right arm in a sling. The young girl had long white hair and beautiful blue eyes. There was something about her smile that made Lincoln feel warm.
"Why do you looked so beat up?" Lincoln asked.
"Yeah that was around the time when I got shot in the shoulder and then Emily gave me a piece of mind when I told her I was going to enlist in the military." Walter said as he gave a small chuckle and smiled. "Anyway I better start from the beginning. Emily and me grew up in the same neighborhood. She lived with her father who you were named after. He was a good decent man. He died a little bit after Emily went to college. Sorry, back to the story we were basically friend until the end. I would always spend time together and always get into trouble. We would come up with a lot of plans hers would work without anything backfiring while mine would occasionally backfire. Our plans mostly involved helping people. You see your mother loved helping people especially does she cared about. There is one thing you should also know she had a mean right hook. We would occasionally get into an argument every now and then which would end with her smacking me behind the head. Heck there were times she smacked me behind the head for no apparent reason." Alistair just gave a small chuckle when Walter said that. "But the main thing you should know about her is that she was smart. I mean really smart. She was coming up with all sorts of new ideas that involved science, medicine, and technology. You could tell from these ideas that she was going to tell the world for the better."
"What happened?" Lincoln asked.
Walter just gave a frown as Alistair said "Lincoln safe all your questions for after Walter's done talking. Keep telling the story Walter."
Walter just sighed and gave a nod. "After high school she went to a great college while I enlisted in the military. We wrote each other letters while I was overseas and met up whenever I was in town. Then one day I was approached by Alistair he offered me a spot in The Elites and I took it. However one of the main requirements besides something you're not old enough to understand was we cut off contact with friends and family. It was for their safety. I mean we're allowed to contact them once a month however with Emily thought it would just be best to drop all contact for her safety so I wrote her a final letter saying that I was going on a secret assignment and that I may never be able to contact her again. With that done I thought I was never going to see her again boy was I wrong."
FLASHBACK
Walter, Nick, Samson, and Jerry had just got done with their first mission for The Elites and decided to celebrate by going to a bar. As soon as they got to a table Walter shouted "Bartender can we get four beers?"
Samson noticed that Jerry was currently looking around the bar for some reason. "Jerry why are you looking around the bar?" He asked.
"Oh I was just seeing which ladies would be good girlfriend candidates for Walter." Jerry replied.
Walter just groaned and said "Jerry for the last time I'm not interested in getting a girlfriend. In fact I never had a girlfriend before and I don't see the need to get one! I'm just not interested in dating. End of discussion." Walter then began to drink his beer.
"Well you know since they're always checking you out I thought that it might not be bad if you went out on a date." Jerry said.
Walter put down his mug and said. "Wait a minute. They're checking me out?" He then took around the bar to see if what Jerry said was true. "I don't see anyone checking me out." He said even though there were some ladies checking him out.
"I think I see why he's still single." Jerry whispered to Samson with Samson just nodding in return.
Seeing the need to change the topic Nick spoke up. "Does anyone know where Alistair is? He said he was going to meet us here to give us our next assignment."
"Oh he's over there in the back drinking tea." Jerry said as he pointed to a back table where Alistair was sitting drinking his tea and waved back to them. Jerry then turned to face Walter only to see something that made his eyes grow wide. "Walter you told us you never had a girlfriend before right?" He asked.
"Yes Jerry that's what I said." Walter replied.
"Well there's someone standing behind you and she looks like an angry ex-girlfriend." Jerry said.
"Jerry what are you talking about?" Walter asked as he got up and turned around. His eyes just grew wide. In front of him was a young lady in her early twenty's with long white hair and blues. She was also wearing a red dress suit. "Emily." Walter muttered out in fear.
"I take it you know her Walter?" Samson asked.
"She's my childhood friend." Walter said.
"Walter Burke! Do you have any idea how worried I was about you?! You told me you were going on a secret assignment but it looks to me that you're going bar hopping with your buddies!"Emily shouted.
Walter slowly approached Emily and said "Now Emily there's a good reason-"
Before Walter could finish Emily pushed him back knocking him onto the table and causing it to fall down. "Save your excuses until I'm done Walter!" She screamed.
Nick, Jerry, and Samson just watched as Emily grabbed Walter by his shirt and started shaking him. "Do you think we should get involved?" Nick asked.
"I know a losing battle when I see one." Samson replied.
"Don't worry guys I know exactly what we should do." Jerry said as he then shouted "Bartender get us some peanuts!"
As Emily was shaking Walter she started to cry. "Do you have any idea how upset I was? That I thought I was losing my best friend?" She asked.
"Emily I had to cut off contact." Walter said as she was still shaking him.
"Well who told you to do that?" She asked.
Then a voice appeared from behind her. "That would of been me Ms. Granger." It said.
Emily looked to see a man in a black suit wearing glasses. "And who are you?" She asked.
"My name is Alistair and I happen to be Agent Burke's boss. Now would you be kind enough to release him?"
Emily released her grip on Walter causing him to fall down. "Geez Emily! You're still strong as ever!" Walter shouted as he got back up.
Emily then turned to Alistair. "You better have a good reason for telling Walter to do that." She said.
"Well you see Walter qualified for my team and I insist they cut off constant contact with the people they care about for their protection." Alistair replied.
"I see." Emily said as she looked at Walter with an understanding look and he just gave a sigh of relief.
"However I do allow my men to contact them once a month if they want to." Alistair said.
"You what!?" Emily shouted as she turned to Walter only to see him run out the door. She then proceeded to run after him and screamed "WALTER GET BACK HERE!"
END OF FLASHBACK
"Yeah I managed to avoid her for the rest of the day but it didn't take her long to find the main base of our operation and it didn't take her long after that to figure out what we do." Walter said as he just gave a small laugh.
Alistair then began to speak. "Your mother began showing up almost everyday. She always made the day interesting. Everyone was fond of her even me. We started to consider her an Elite even though she wasn't but more importantly we thought of her as family."
"Anyway whenever I was in town Emily would always drag me to important events that she was going to. It was at one of them I met the man who changed all of our lives." Walter said.
Alistair then opened up the briefcase he brought with him and pulled out a folder. He opened it and pulled out a picture. It showed a man in his early forty's. He had brown hair and dark brown eyes. "This is the most recent photo we got of him. His name Simon Grant and he's the main reason Emily is dead." Alistair said and then noticed that Lincoln was about to asked something. "Lincoln there's more to the story so please hold your questions until we're done."
Lincoln just nodded again as Walter began talking again. "During a mission I ended up getting captured and about a day later I was released. When I got back I found out Emily got married to Grant." He said.
Alistair then started talking. "We found out later that Grant had arranged for Walter to get captured in order to force Emily into a deal. Walter's freedom for Emily's hand in marriage and help with his research. Grant valued Emily's intelligence and wanted her help on something illegal he was working on. He knew Walter was her weakness. Marrying her was just something he did just to stick it to Walter. I was getting ready to rescue Walter when Emily got a hold of me and told me what she did. I was shocked by the fact that Grant found a way to trap one of my men but that also meant one thing: there was a leak. Now it wasn't one of my men but someone from the government. I managed to find the leak and plug it up for good. I also made sure the government never allow another leak to happen to my organization. Anyway I told her to contact me if she ever need any help and she did about two months later. Grant was working on a way to create the perfect super soldier and in order to complete it he needed Emily's help. And Emily helped him achieve it but also found out what he was really trying to do. He was trying to turn himself into a god. In order for it to work he needed a baby to be born with the formula that was made and then he would watch and test it as it grew. When those tests are complete he would start experimenting on it so he can turn the child's body into his. But in order to do this he would need a woman to carry a child after she had been injected with the formula he made. The formula would go into one of her embryos while that child was developing it would also increase the child's brain activity and abilities. The only downside was that the formula would kill the mother when the child was born. He wanted the child to be his and for the woman to be smart. In other words Emily." Lincoln just gasped as Alistair continued. "She got a hold of me and told me what was going on. She also gave me enough information to take Grant down once and for all. It took a few days to get everything together for my team to rescue her and shut down Grant. We manage to get her out of their while Emily unleashed a program she made that destroyed Grant's research so he could never use it again. However when we got to Grant he managed to escape."
"We didn't count on his fascination with escape hatches and tunnels." Walter said. "The fact that Grant got away was something we didn't see coming but with his research destroyed we knew we wouldn't be hearing from him for a while. But the main thing that was important was what to do with Emily now that she was pregnant with a child that would kill her. I made my own suggestions but Emily had her own plan. She would give birth to you and make sure you would go to a loving family but in order to make it work she needed my help and I agreed as well as promising to protect you and keep you safe from a distance. Emily suggested we should go to a small town because we were raised in a small town and she wanted you to be raised in one as well. That town Royal Woods. Emily had several plans thought up by the time we got to town. One of them was to give you a normal life without the formula interfering but she had to get some other plans set up just in case Grant ever found you. While she was doing that I was getting my shop set up since it would be our main base of operations. When she got done with her plans she went onto her next step finding you a loving family but before she would do that she wanted to do something first. She wanted to get you toy so you would always have a piece of her. When she went to the mall to get you something she got help from a mother who happened to be there with her youngest daughter. After she helped Emily and they talked for a while Emily found the family she was looking for."
"You mean?" Lincoln asked.
"Yes Lincoln, your mother Rita Loud. Emily knew instantly you would be happy with them. With finding you a family out of the way she told us all of her plans and gave us a shot to give you when you were born to help give you a normal life. You see the shot contained a special type of nanites that she made that would help keep the formula in check. The nanites have two stages the first would allow you to learn faster and remember things quicker as well as increase your natural abilities like speed, strength, and reflexes while the second stage unlocks everything. The first stage can only be unlocked by a program she gave to us but you in a short distance of it and once it's been activated it cannot be shut off. The second stage can only be unlocked in a facility Emily made and it can be turned off. Pretty soon after that she gave birth to you and died. We gave you the shot and got you to the Louds and been watching you ever since."
Lincoln took a few minutes to digest this. He couldn't believe everything he had just heard. "I can't believe it my birth father is a monster who just sees me as an experiment not to mention My existence is the reason my birth mother is dead." Lincoln said as he then looked at Walter and said "I don't blame you if you hate me Walter after all I'm the son of the man who's responsible for the death of your best friend."
Walter just put both of his hands on Lincoln's shoulders and looked him in the eyes to say. "Lincoln I don't hate you. It's true that I wasn't happy that Emily was going to give up her life for you but I knew once she made up her mind it was final so I went a long. I thought you would turn out to be something like Grant but Emily just told me that you were her child and not one bit of Grant will be in you she guaranteed it. Now to be honest I thought I would see a bit Grant in you when you were born but I was there when Emily gave birth to you and during her last final moments she knew she couldn't hold you but she at least wanted to see you so she had me hold you so I could show you to her. When you were put into my arms all I could see was a piece of Emily not once of Grant. So Lincoln if you ask me you're Emily's son and nothing more than that and as for Grant he doesn't matter." Walter then turned to Alistair. "Alistair give Lincoln the file of Emily." He said.
Alistair just smiled and opened his briefcase and pulled out a folder. "Here's everything we got about Emily. There's pictures in there as well as some of the things she accomplish." He said as he handed Lincoln the folder. He then looked at Walter. "Walter I need to talk to you for a bit."
Walter just got up and followed Alistair outside. "Okay Alistair what is it?" He asked.
"Walter I think it's time for Plan B." Alistair said.
"Plan B? No Alistair! That's out of the question!" Walter yelled.
"Walter we don't have much of a choice plus I can't just spend all my time with you since I have other teams to keep track of. Emily made Plan B just in case Plan A didn't work and let's face it we'll have a better chance of getting Grant if we go with Plan B."
"No! If we did do it then we would to-"
"I know Walter but we don't have a choice."
"Okay! Fine but only if we run it by Lincoln first and he agrees to it."
"Very well Walter but we both know what Lincoln's answer is going to be." Alistair said as he walked back into the cabin.
"I know what his answer is." Walter said to himself as he then walked into the cabin.
Lincoln was going through the folder Alistair gave him looking at the stuff about his birth mother. He was amazed by what was in it. From childhood photos to news articles it listed her great accomplishments. As he was going through it he heard Alistair's voice. "Lincoln, Walter and me need to talk to you about something."
Lincoln looked at Alistair and Walter who was standing behind him giving an upset and frustrated look. "What do you guys need to talk about?" Lincoln asked.
"Well Lincoln we like to ask you something that we hope you would consider doing." Alistair said.
"Long story short we want to use you as bait to draw Grant out and get him out of the picture once and for all." Walter bluntly said earning himself an annoyed look from Alistair. "What? Subtlety is not my strong suit." He said to Alistair as he turned back to Lincoln. "Listen Lincoln the sooner we can get rid of Grant the sooner you can go home to your family but we want you to decide if you want to do it."
Lincoln just looked at the both of them and said "I'll do it. I want to get back home to my family as soon as possible."
Walter just gave a sigh as Alistair said "Very well then." He then pulled out his phone and made a call "Nick, we're setting Plan B into motion so I need you to get Bun Bun."
"Yes, sir." Nick replied as he then hung up.
"Well I'll take my leave. See you tomorrow Walter. You do know where right?"
"Yes Alistair I do." Walter replied.
"Good. Wulf come I have a mission for you." Alistair said as he walked out of the cabin with Wulf following him.
Lincoln just looked at Walter and asked "What's Plan B and why do you need Bun Bun?"
Walter just sighed and said "Plan B is basically unlocking the second stage of the nanites. In order to do that we have to go to a facility Emily made but we need Bun Bun to get in. You see Emily made a key to get in but instead of giving it to us she decided to keep it safe by putting it in Bun Bun. She sort of knew you would never let go of him."
"Wait a minute! What about unlocking the first stage?" Lincoln asked.
"I already unlocked the first stage." Walter said.
"What?! When then you do that?"
"On the day we met. Remember at the motel when I sent my boss an email on my laptop and you started to feel dizzy and fell down? Well the reason that happened is because I activated the first stage."
Lincoln just gave Walter an annoyed look. "You're a jerk." He said.
"People keep telling me that." Walter replied with a smug smile.
"So the reason I mastered everything so quickly is because you unlocked the first stage of the nanites?"
"Actually you shouldn't have master everything so fast with the first stage activated."
"Then do you know why I mastered everything so quickly?"
"I have a theory. You live in a house with ten girls and we all know how chaotic it is in that house. You basically had to increase your wits, reflexes, speed, and strength in order to survive in that house. You had to come with a plan quickly in order to get out of a problem. I believe you reached your limit even with the nanites suppressing it and when I unlocked the first stage it enhanced your abilities making it easier for you to learn quickly."
"Okay then but I have another question. What will stage two unlock?"
"Stage two will basically make you immune to poison and diseases as well as immune to pain. It will increase your senses to that of an animal and slow down the aging process that you could basically live for a long time. It's something that humans shouldn't even have if you ask me."
"Do we really need to unlock it?"
"To be honest if there was a way to take out Grant without activating it I would take it but I do know one thing. Emily really thinks it through when it comes to her plans. You just got to trust her. She basically knows what's best."
"If you say so Walter." Lincoln said.
MEANWHILE AT THE LOUD HOUSE
The girls had called an emergency sibling meeting to discuss what Lisa has found out from looking at Lincoln's blood samples. "Okay we called this emergency meeting to discuss what Lisa has found out. Now if you have something to say you'll have to wait until Lisa is done speaking. Lisa go ahead and tell us what you found out." Lori said.
Lisa however noticed Lola raising her hand and said "It seems Lola has something important to say I think I'll let her go first."
Lola stood up and said "Something's been bugging me since we raided that building those agents were at."
"And what was that Lola?" Lori asked.
"It was something that one agent said about the other one being afraid of me."
"Yeah I was there with you. He said something about his partner entering a beauty pageant when he was a kid and winning it." Luan said.
"Get to the main point Lola." Lori said.
"Well remember the Little Miss Cutie Pie Pageant and that Lincoln entered it?" Lola asked
Her sisters just nodded and all said "Yeah."
"Well when I asked Lincoln why he entered it he said he got the idea from some guy who claimed he entered a pageant when he was a kid and won. And when I really think about it I remember the judges were really considering to vote for Lincoln and then something happened. They got a text on their phones and looked really nervous. I really didn't think much of it until now and I also remember hearing something about Lindsey Sweetwater getting ready to ambush Lincoln if he won with other contestants helping her."
The girls just looked at Lola finding what she just said a little hard to believe but considering everything that's going on they knew it was true. Lisa just adjusted her glasses and asked "Lola would that winner of the contest get some sort of media attention?"
"Well yeah. I mean they would be on the news and have their face in the paper." Lola replied.
"Well then that means Lincoln would of won the Pageant originally but those agents could not let his face be on the news or anything related to the media." Lisa said.
"So Lincoln really was robbed." Lola said.
"It appears so." Lisa replied.
"Okay now that Lola has said what she had to say It's time for Lisa to tell us what she has found out." Lori said.
Lisa was about to speak until she noticed something. "Wait a minute! Lucy's not here. I won't say anything until she's here." She said.
"Yeah Lucy told me she wasn't coming to the meeting." Lynn said.
"And why not?!" Lisa asked.
"I think it's because she got a new book and she's really into it. I can tell by the nose bleeds she's been having." Lynn replied.
"What is it with her and those stupid books?!" Lisa shouted.
"You know I asked her about that once and she told me that she reads them because she loves the forbidden relationships in them like humans and vampires, humans and werewolves, or the rare vampire and werewolf romance. I don't know what it is but there's something about forbidden relationships that Lucy just loves." Lynn said as she stood up and looked at Lisa. "Now quit stalling Lisa and tell us what you found out!" She shouted.
Lisa knowing that she couldn't stall anymore just sighed. "I couldn't find anything." She said.
"WHAT?!" Her sisters cried out.
"I looked over his blood samples over a hundred times! I know something is there but I just can't find it!"
"Maybe something is stopping you from finding it." Leni said.
"Leni that doesn't even make any sense." Lori said as Lisa facepalmed herself.
"Of course! That's why I couldn't find anything!" Lisa shouted getting the attention of her sisters.
"Lisa tell us what you figured out." Lori said.
"I think Leni is right. There might be something stopping me from finding the answers we're looking for. It might take a couple days but I think I can finally get the answers we need."
"Okay Lisa. This meeting is now adjourned." Lori said as she slammed her heel on her desk.
MEANWHILE WITH NICK
Nick was currently outside the Loud House with several agents. They were all dressed as repair men. "Alright men. Your job is to fix anything the family points to. Under no circumstances are you to interact with them. Got it?"
"Yes, sir." The other agents replied as Nick then went to the door and knocked on it only for Lynn Loud Sr. to answer it.
"Can I help you?" Lynn Sr. asked.
Nick just smiled and said "Hello there Mr. Loud. I'm with the Better Homes For Loving Families Foundation. We're a charity group that goes around fixing up houses for huge loving families that can't afford it. Anyway we pulled out your name and that's why we're here but we'll only do it if you're alright with it."
Lynn Sr. just looked at Nick and said "Hold on a minute. I need to talk to my wife about this." He then shut the door leaving Nick and the others standing out there for a few minutes. When he came back he said "Okay I cleared it with my wife and she agreed. I show you what needs to be fixed."
"Okay guys let's get to work!" Nick shouted as the rest of the men went into the house to start fixing stuff. As the Louds were distracted Nick quietly made his way to Lincoln's room making sure no one was watching him. When he got there he quickly grabbed Bun Bun and stashed him in his clothes. He then went outside gave Bun Bun to Samson who was waiting nearby. "Here's Bun Bun. Alistair should be waiting at the store give it to him." He said.
"Got it." Samson said as he then took off.
THE NEXT DAY
Lincoln and Walter were currently on their way to the facility. As Walter was driving Lincoln took the time to ask him question. "So what's at this facility?" He asked.
"I really don't know. I haven't been there before. I know my team had a hand in building it but they did it under Emily's orders." Walter replied.
"Okay then I have another question. What are the hill people?"
"I think the better question is who are they."
"Huh?"
"The hill people are people Grant abducted and experimented on. We don't know much about what he did to them but they had one goal planted in their heads and that was to find you."
"So I'm the reason they became that way." Lincoln said with a sad expression.
Walter just pulled the car over to the side of the road and turned the car off. He just looked at Lincoln and said "Lincoln don't you dare blame yourself for what happened to them. It's not your fault Grant is insane."
"But it was my fault they were taken from their families." Lincoln said as he started crying.
"Lincoln you have two choices right now. You can either blame yourself for what happened to them and let Grant continue doing what he's doing or you can help me stop him once and for all and get justice for them in the process. Now I want you to pick a choice now."
Lincoln saw what Walter was doing making him realize that crying and feeling sad wasn't going to solve anything. He just wiped his tears off and said "I want to stop him."
"Okay then." Walter said with a smile. As he started the car again and continued driving. When they got there they saw that the facility was a huge building surrounded by three other buildings. They also saw that Alistair was there as well. "Hey there Alistair. How long have you been waiting?" Walter asked as Lincoln and him got out of the car.
"Oh not that long." Alistair said as he pulled out Bun Bun and tossed him to Walter.
"Say Alistair do you know what exactly is here?" Walter asked as he removed a few stitches from Bun Bun and pulled out a small chip and handed it to Alistair.
"Not really. Emily said that she made an A.I. program to help us if we had to use this place." Alistair replied as he inserted the chip in a small slot by the entrance. As soon as it was in the sound of power could be heard starting up as the door open automatically for them after a few seconds. "Well then let's go in." Alistair replied as he walked into the building followed by Walter and Lincoln.
As they got in they saw a woman appear right in front of them. She had long white hair and beautiful blue eyes. She was wearing a yellow dress and also had on a lab coat. "Hello Walter. Alistair." She said as she then looked at Lincoln and smiled. "Hello Lincoln it makes me very happy to meet you. I wish you could meet the real me but you're going to have to settle for a hologram instead."
Before Lincoln could say anything Walter just walked up to her with a stunned look and said. "I don't believe it. Emily?"
TO BE CONTINUED