May 2nd, 2030

"You know..." Lana shared with her twin sister. "I don't get why we aren't... You know, going after those science guys, Lola. We know that they're doing bad, so what gives?"

Both her and Lola were looking over the great city of Manhattan, perched on a rooftop in the middle of the day. They only had a portable police scanner, eagerly waiting for some call to answer to. Usually, they would come about ten to fifteen minutes for them, but that was when they first began their heroine crusade. Nowadays, they'd take longer, and it didn't take a rocket scientist to tell them that they decreased the crime rate enough to have made a difference around.

The two women happened to be speedsters, a wish none of them asked for. This was all thanks to a Vial Corporation facility in Maine, which they had broken out of two years ago. Funny enough, none of those guys had done search parties or released info on the two runaways, and for that the twins were extremely lucky. Lola had figured that they would never be caught, no way they could be. But it was that they had been kidnapped that motivated Lola to be the crime fighter she was, and it was a package deal, which meant Lana had to throw in. And they had been at it for the past two years, establishing a reputation among the populace all around the New York area, ranging from New York City to down around Harlem.

"Because they're not a problem," Lola responded, not looking at her twin. "They know to back off, especially now that they know we're out here actively. Trust me, I am positive they know by now."

Lana moved her head down and scratched her head. In her mind, she felt she had an obligation to strike the heart of Vial Corporation facilities, to liberate all other poor souls trapped and damned. "But Lola-" Lana tried to appeal to her, but Lola was a different case.

"But nothing, Lana," she hissed. "I'm staying away from all of that, and so should you."

Lola had been hearing Lana try to persuade her time and time again to carry out, and in doing so, they'd save maybe up to hundreds. Instead, Lola chose to run around and punch and kick bank robbers and drug dealers and any other criminals to no end. The ones that got the real beatdowns were those who held people hostage, usually bank robbers, and Lola would be reminded of her own unbearable torture and lose control, which the police didn't take too kindly.

Even still, it seemed like they were loved by the community, who had come to know about them through captured footage of them, including photos, videos played at slower speeds, and the statements of witnesses around.

Lana and Lola, the two young blonde women in different colored attires. Lana was usually dressed in shorts and tank tops of a variety of colors, not to mention she also had a red cap she sported just like the old days. Today, she had a blue tank top and black shorts, while Lola, the diva of the two, had pink yoga pants and a pink sweater over a yellow shirt, on a steady day with light wind and low heat temperature. They never had issues running in their clothes, only that sometimes they'd overheat if the girls ran for an overextended amount of time, which Lola found out the hard way.

"I- I just wish..." Lana whimpered. Lola had explained that it could have proved to be dangerous to them should they have decided to break in. Lola had the fear that there was a counter to stop them that they'd get contained again, and there was no way Lola would allow it. All the power, maybe equal to that of a god, and still she had the fear of a broken little girl, and that she could not show to Lana, for the good of the speedster duo.

They had been given nicknames by the media, branded the moniker of Momentum and Velocity, which was weird for Lola. She didn't mind it, but it was overdoing it by a long shot, unlike Lana, who was quick to take Momentum for herself.

"Yeah," Lola agreed, knowing what Lana was trying to say. "I wish we could do more, and who knows? Maybe we will someday, Lana." She turned around and placed a hand on her sister's shoulder. "I have to say, I do admire the fact that you care so much about it."

Lana smiled, feeling somewhat proud of herself. "I do, Lola. I always do."

"Never change, girl," Lola urged, right before the scanner came alive.

"Dispatch, dispatch, we've got a two-eleven at the National Reserve Bank over on Fourth and Clarkson, over-"

"Two-eleven, what was that again?" Lana asked, forgetting the many codes.

"It's a robbery, let's go!" Lola raced from the rooftop, leaving Lana behind in a bid to be the first to fet to the robbery in progress.

Act I: Enter The Dawn, Chapter V: Velocity And Momentum

The twins arrived before any traces of the police, having more than enough time to take care of the criminals inside the large bank. Lola looked to Lana and gave her a firm nod, giving her the cue that she was going in first, and for Lana to follow close behind.

Lola then sped her way inside and moved swiftly past both the hostages and the captors, relocating behind the teller booths and making her way up the staircase on the employees side of the bank. She shot her eyes around the area and made out the number of bad guys she had to take down. The thing was, she had no actual fighting experience, and neither did Lana. They depended solely on the force of their movements and attacks, and also hoped that they dealt with those below strong-arm types, and made sure they didn't go about it too hard.

Six guys in masks, body armor, and well armed had taken siege to it, three of them with duffel bags, already away the vault. Fourth and fifth guy kept a double watch on the hostages, and the sixth was at the entrance, only seeing the door magically go open without warning. "Hey, guys-"

Lana came in through the entrance and plowed right into the watch guard of the heist crew, sending both him and his tactical shotgun hurdling in the air, screaming wildly. He hit the bulletproof glass just as the two guys on the main lobby drew their carbine rifles to where Lana was at, and fired only seconds too late at her direction. The tomboy put her head down to not lose her comfy hat, running around the left side of the lobby, flanking the two.

Lola went to work on the vault, in which two of the looters had come out, expecting regular opposition. "What the fuck-?!"

Lola punched one and pushed the other right back into the vault, putting them out of commission in the meantime as Lana had taken care of her own. The final bank robber had been holding the manager, an elderly brunette, hostage to do their biding, and now he had the advantage by keeping his weapon at her head.

"Don't move, you-" The criminal beckoned menacingly, before he studied the diva in person. "Y-you're-"

"I get that alot," Lola casually shared before Lana intervened, shoving the rifle from the manager's head and easily subdued the last guy.

"You're safe now, ma'am," Lana assured the manager, escorting her back out.

"Th-th-thank you- Thank you for s-saving my life-" The shaken bank manager was bursting into tears as the twins exited the vault.

"Hey, sis, let's bolt it," Lola suggested, pointing a thumb to the exit behind her.

"Hey, it's them!" A rescued hostage pointed at the two heroines and identified them as the fast-paced crime fighters. "Velocity and Momentum!"

An uproar of cheers and claps followed after, with only a few of them actually crying away from them. Lana took notice and wished she had words to say that could pick up their rescued bunch of citizens. "I'm just glad that you are all-" Lana was pulled out of the bank by Lola, who carried her away just as cop cars and a few armored vans had pulled just outside the bank.

"We're not celebrities, Lana!" Lola yelled as she ran at full throttle, away from scene. She finally stopped right at a warehouse near a pier, leaning against it while letting go of Lana. "Dear God, I need some fuel..."

"I'm hungry, too," Lana admitted, gripping her hands to her stomach. "All this running leaves me too tired as well."

Lola merely crossed her arms and sighed. "At least... At least we're healthy, right?"

Lana made her way to the edge of the pier and sat down on it, having her feet hover just over the water she barely avoided making contact with. "Healthy?" The tomboy repeated, feeling challenged. "I don't think I can say that about myself."

Lola lifted her head back up, looking right at Lana who had her back to the diva. "Hm... Lana..."

"Is this really what you consider healthy?" Lana looked at the vast ocean in front of her. The sunlight glittered over the endless blue, making it sparkle in such a beautiful spectacle. The sound of the water flowing with the many waves made it peacefully tranquil, and not to mention some seagulls flying around, gawking away while they went about their business, uncaring for the two young women below. "As much as I do like this..."

Lola advanced slowly to her twin, feeling the same atmosphere they had never seemed to escape of these past few years. The world changed for the pair when they weren't asking for it, forcing them to adapt to survive. It was what they left behind that always proved to kill Lana, even as far as they had come, surviving together while further walking a long way from home. Far from their place of safety, and their comfort zone. It didn't take a therapist to know what it was that Lana missed heavily, and Lola only wished that she was able to do more for Lana, to heal her from her emotional scars, and to promise her that her dreams would one day come true.

All Lola had to offer were the same words in the same lines she told Lana on permanent repeat; these lines being pure consolation words on how it was going to get better for them, and how their dead loved ones were with them in heart and spirit, proud of the twins. It isn't what the fragile tomboy needed to hear, but it was also what she herself needed to believe by mentally telling herself as well. It had to get better, it just had to... Or Lola would be left with nothing, and their little crusade, what was it all for?

"I want to go home, Lola..." Lana broke, still facing the vast ocean.

Lana was the one who would drift back into the past and wished that there was a way to go back to how it was. Sitting there at the table, awaiting patiently for Aunt Rinn's famous apple pie that she made quite well. Lana, Lola, and their dear sister Lily, all three of them licking their lips at the ready, would exchange smiles at one another as upbeat music played on their aunt's portable radio.

Lana could still taste the filling of the pie in her mouth, the grand illusion her brain tricked of her, which made her feel empty when she remembered that Aunt Rinn Reagan was dead. Dead, and their home turned into a place of dreaded agony, such a place that they could never face coming back to. Whatever happened to Lily-

Lana started crying helplessly, injured in the heart greatly. For her, that was the reason she was quick to accept the path the ex-pageant participant walked down. With her speed, she had the power to make some sort of difference, regardless of the size. If she could save and spare innocents from falling into this type of emotional darkness or worse, the world would turn the right way one gear at a time, and she would be pleased with preventing what never must have been in the first place.

After all this time, the realization that it could have amounted to nothing in the end, due to the non-stop amount of crime that still spiked around the area. Was Lana wrong all this time? Did both of their noble actions mean nothing? Then... Why was she doing this? What was it that she was really doing, if not trying to prevent another case like their own.

"I know you do," Lola consoled the twin. "I do, too."

"I still have questions I need to know, Lola. I still have to know what-"

"Happened to Lily?" Lola cut off.

Lily was the one of the three remaining Loud kids living at Aunt Rinn's place who had managed to escape the house while Rinn herself was doing her best to push away the intruders. The older blonde woman was screaming at Lola and Lana, telling them to escape from the window of their room right before one of the masked assailants pulled out a gun with a silencer and let Rinn have one onto her head. And they freaked out, weakened and emotionally crippled, forgetting to flee from the scene. In a matter of seconds, they were surrounded by the scary bad men.

"I still worry about her, sis," Lana gripped. "She's out there somewhere all alone, and we should have been l-looking for her-"

The mystery still lingered onto her mind, as did the worry and desperation to find answers in this big, strange world, which stuck into her soul, embedding slowly into it. It wasn't just Lily that Lana concern for, but several others of the large family. There was Luan, who went missing after a little accident sent her to the hospital. There was Luna, the only sister who was kicked out by their aunt for irresponsibility. Lori had dropped out of school to play a motherly figure, and was responsible... For a short time. Lisa and Lincoln were the same case of runaways, them being the longest ones who were out there in this horrid world. Lynn was the only one who had seemingly made it to the proper exit, transitioning to college, so there was no way she was suffering at all, even if the darkness plagued her just like it did the others.

And that was Lana under the assumption that they were still alive. For all she knew, some of them might have been dead, and that thought alone was one she had to avoid. No way they be dead. Not now. Not yet.

Lola sighed and let her feet kick around in the waters below, moving her hands around the crying Lana and embracing her with all the love that their bond kept intact. For all that it counted, the two had each other, and it had always been like that even before the fire. The tears of the young woman added to the sea as they felt each other's warmth through their embrace.

Even as Lola recycled her words yet again, she was always able to reach out to Lana and touch her feelings like this so that Lana could always maintain her stance in their shared life. And it worked as long as Lola appealed to Lana with positivity and sympathy. It would work as long as they were both reminded that not all was lost, and that gave them hope for a chance of a better tomorrow.

"I love you, Lana. Stay strong, okay? Stay strong for me."

And Lana had always been grateful for it. She cried harder, but had her reasons to cry in joy over the usual painful ones. She had her arms around Lola for the duo's finishing touch. "I love you too, Lola."

"Nothing, and I mean nothing-"

Far From Now

Lola screamed frantically, falling onto her knees in the empty grassy field, surrounded by friends and foes around. Lana moved closer to her, but a familiar face with white hair and a muscly build had stopped her short. "Wait."

"Lola...?" Lana hoped that she was okay after what she had just seen, and from the look of it, Lola seemed to be as strong as Lana had believed. Maybe it worked out. "Hey-"

Lola was hyperventilating drastically, still succumbing to the effects of the silver serum that flowed through her body. Her blue eyes moved up to both Lincoln and Lana, a few seconds before they turned light gray. "I- I did it, Lans... I have it now."

Now

"-Will ever break us apart, Lana. That's the promise I will keep until the end of time."

As they kept lock of each other, a man appeared behind them and called out for them. "If I may..."

May 27th, 2030

"I don't know about this," Lana complained, standing with Lola inside an upgraded trailer, set up with surveillance monitors and technology, manned by the stranger with long black hair and some sort of weird padded suit unlike they've ever seen before.

So far, the man, whose name was Alexander Elmont, had come out of the shadows and threw them the bone Lana wanted, and the one Lola was quick to turn down. Yet they were here for one reason and one reason only; it was Lisa Loud who was behind all of this, from Rinn's tragic death to Mama's troubling trauma. Of course Lola wanted some sort of payback for this, and now that it was clear there was an advantage on their side should they fight against those formidable forces of Vial...

"Hey, remember our words, Lana," Lola eased. "Plus, isn't this what you wanted?"

Lana was quick to nod, but it was the fact that they had to assemble a team with enough members to be able to make a difference. From the whole get-go, Elmont was in charge to establish an actual superhero team that would work and function under the so-called Patriot Division, a secret agency based on an underground facility around the Long Island area. The Division was formed to bring Vial Corporation to justice when it came to light that they were a big connection in league with various criminal sources, and that was before the human experimentation angle dropped at their feet.

Whether or not they were the first two to escape a Vial Corp facility, one thing was for sure; they were the first actual superheroines, and their MO made them qualified candidates to be a part of the Patriot Division's little freaky team, which was needed in case of the inevitable threat that would come in the form of any rogue science experiments. Better to be safe than sorry.

Elmont had picked up an interesting thing just now; surveillance had caught a woman falling out of the sky, and upon landing, she left something short of a crater while she was able to walk it off, and ran from the scene. The twins were to investigate this and see if this woman was one such super.

Lola took her sister by the hand, showing and promising her it would work out. "Come on, Lana. We have an advantage."

Lana grasped her twin's hand, and soon they were running on the streets, off to join the fight between Lynn and Lincoln, a very unexpected reunion soon to come.

AN: I've kinda been on the fence about the size of the chapters, til I saw that it didn't matter how long they are as long as I do good with the characters this time, and more feels around them. So far it's been pretty cool to have redesigned mostly everything from the trilogy's lore, and what's more, elements and concepts from the other stories of mine will be incorporated here, the main source of all past ground work.

I hoped to have finished this on the anniversary, but better late than never I suppose.

Meanwhile, I'm already going the extra mile, having already hinted at a scene that has significance to the original trilogy, specifically the last and shortest one of the three. This is for feels, a rather dose of pain, merely a sample of what is to come, and make no mistake- it will come.

Last chapter, I did say I'd have a tease for the next act, and I can accommodate briefly and vaguely;

Linka, Liby, Lacy, Lupa, and the fifth clone, a completely new OC at that. The crazy project Link, but new characterizations for the lot, they won't be the same ones you've seen before. That, and the intro of another revised Sin Kid. That is all.