2030

Three FBI agents down, Lynn Loud was the last one standing, having made it to the end of the tour guide. She wished that she came back to the present with all four of them, and unharmed as well, but these wishes were not ever to be granted by her gods, and it killed her most definitely.

She landed onto the rooftop of a small building, somewhere in New York, alone and powerless.

Not powerless, the extraterrestrial essence of the alien known as Lulu had already been taking its toll on her, changing her skin tone from its regular orange to a decomposing green, meanwhile her stomach began to turn the opposite, negative way. She felt queasy, one breath away from vomiting like crazy- What exactly had the alien being done to her body?

Lynn hadn't noticed that her landing created a sizeable crater upon the concrete, suggesting a form of superhuman capabilities at her disposal- perfected only when she pushed through her physical sickness, the deadly side effects of the alien essence. She was on one knee, raising up her left hand and bringing it down like a sledgehammer, deliberately punching away to alleviate the incurable pain. "AGHHHHH! URGGHHHH-"

As she reeled in the discomfort of her agonizing pain, an airship had come flying over the city at eight hundred feet, swooshing over Lynn's own head. The aircraft itself, bearing strong resemblance to a V-22 Osprey- Maybe it was one- had its rear opened up, and coming right out of the cargo hold were five individuals with no parachute to save them from the freefall.

Miraculously, it seemed, the five of them landed in a circling position, strapping Lynn to be right in their center. The five mysterious strangers, from clockwise position in Lynn's point of view, Allison "Allie" Taggart, an intermediate fighter with plenty of weapons and combat training under her belt; Chad McCann, a pheno with the ability to shapeshift into another person; Darcy Holmandollar, an ex-Freight graduated to superhuman; Meli Ramos, the telekinetic girl of the team; and last but not least was Dana Hall, the oldest one of the lot associated with ninja aesthetics.

"This one don't look so tough," Allie giggled, brushing Lynn off like nothing.

"Maintain distance," Darcy warned. "We don't know what kind this one is."

"Take a look at her skin," Chad pointed out, "she looks infected-"

Lynn ended up barfing in front of Meli, now succumbing away from the alien disease. Her knees became so wobbly that they grew weak, unable to support her. "Grrrmmmmm...-"

"Ew!" Meli flinched, backing one step from Lynn. "The woman's sick!"

Dana drew out her blades, enabling Allie to show off her customized Colts from the holsters she carried at hip level. "Meli, contain!"

"Right!" The young Mexican girl levitated her hands out, forcing Lynn to stand upright, and kept her in place. "Darcy, all yours!"

Darcy did the simpler task and slammed a dampener on the back of Lynn's neck. "There, that's that, Meli, now we can take her back-"

Lynn swung around, throwing a backwards elbow strike to Darcy's face, dropping her right on her back. "Who are you people?!"

Meli sharply gasped in amazement; how could this woman have rendered the dampener useless? "Guys, stay sharp!"

Dana rushed in, waving her katanas in front of her. "Now I'll cut you up like a sardine roll!"

Lynn followed Dana's lead, meeting her halfway and throwing a hard punch right into the ninja girl's stomach as one of the blades met and sliced the left side of her neck. Right away, Lynn began bleeding dark-green blood that acted and moved like ooze, dripping down slowly. This went noticed by the other three. Chad kept his ground, sure that he was no match for this freak that just bested Darcy and now Dana.

"What's up with that blood, girly?" Allie fired her rounds, aiming her sights on Lynn's pair of legs. "What new virus have they been cooking up this time?"

Lynn tumbled back down again, it didn't help that she was already weak as it was. "F-Fuck you-"

Allie ran around Lynn in an attempt to lock her in a chokehold. "Darcy, get up! Meli!"

Darcy and Dana were still downed, and Meli was rather nervous- possibly even shy or scared to make a move. "I- I tried-"

Allie made a leap on Lynn, wrapping up both arms around the infected woman's throat. "IF I GET INFECTED, YOU ALL BETTER FIND ME THAT CURE!"

Lynn lowered herself right to the ground, letting Allie feel like she was winning that fight- only for Lynn to push herself right off, throwing herself backwards to beat Allie. The fall ended up injuring Allie's skull, causing a fracture that left her out cold for the rest of the fight, not that Lynn didn't care.

"Meli, now's not the time to get cold feet!" Chad moved around Lynn, dragging Darcy away from her. "Hey, come to! We need you-!"

Lynn rammed right into him like a bull, sending him flying right out of the rooftop. Meli finally sprang into action and raced to the edge, catching Chad before he became street pizza- and in turn, Lynn grabbed and tossed her off the side without hesitation or remorse. Luckily for Meli, she was able to break her own fall in such a predicament. Down below, she met Chad again, relieved to have saved him. "I'm sorry!"

"We'll talk about this later!" Chad was shaken up by this unorthodox battle. "Why didn't the dampener work? Is she not a fucking pheno?!"

Meli looked up- and then moved right out of the way when she made out Lynn coming down on them. "Hey-"

Chad, however, didn't follow her eyes in time, and his fate was sealed when Lynn landed right on him, breaking him in half to spill his blood and guts all over the sidewalk and curb. Both girls, a d a couple of the passersby, were stained with the fallen pheno's essence. Lynn was the most covered in the teen's blood and flesh, but she didn't stop for one second to try and wipe herself clean. Meli's breath shivered away, the nasty scene of pure gore being too extreme to endure it with her eyes, and so it was that she, along with the other civilians, ran away from Lynn, too scared to fight her off, too eager to live.

But Lynn gave chase and ended up running after her, viciously set on beating this attacker who came out of the sky.

Timeline X, Chapter Three: Adrenaline

Lynn pulled Meli off balance by both of her legs and swung her right into a parked car with no effort at all, when she imagined it would have. The strength was there, a hidden boost that made her far powerful, far stronger than a regular human, and a pheno now that she had seen herself in action. By then, when she took the five youngsters down, the churning feeling in her system died down, and the bullets that were stuck into her legs were pushed back out, courtesy of her adapting body, a gift from the alien disease that still lingered into her bloodstream.

Back to the present, but welcomed as if she was a hostile by thaf mysterious party she didn't know. It put her at unease, even when she had already taken care of it. Obviously someone had sent them, and someone was definitely interested in Lynn Loud, but if that were the case, she could not return to the Feds. No contact from Director Mathers, her superior, and that sucked all the way around. No friends, really, but family members...

Aunt Rinn Reagan, the twins and sweet little Lily were the ones she left behind to get here, to get where she was, and by a godly miracle had Lynn achieved it. She was proud- as short as the dream was, proud and grateful of what became of this tough life. The time to come home might have been now- It could have been, but then...

Lynn ran from the scene, leaving Meli behind to recover from her defeat. She should have been more careful and smart about everything, but the fight had happened too quick and not in her favor, not when they had that telekinetic around. They surely detected her sudden return to the present, that was a given, but what was their plan? Who wanted her captured and for what reason? What enemies had she just made?

Christ... Lynn was physically bombarded by that same sharp pain again, knees wobbling when she was just passing through a small bridge, and on the opposite end of the bridge, a patrol of armored vehicles rolled in, acting as a blockade as the engines died out. Lynn fell against the railing of the bridge, taking on the parasitic disease that persisted to rupture her body worse by the second. Armed men lined up around Lynn, surrounding her with their tactical weaponry fixated on either her head or chest; this was a kill directive if she didn't stand down.

And she didn't stand down, choosing freedom by jumping overboard before they got too close for comfort. This caused a tiny show of bullets to fill the air, but Lynn was lucky that no round struck her as she fell, fell into the river below. She splashed hard against the nasty greenish waters, holding her breath at the last second. Thank fuck she had learned to swim in her early years.

Swimming around from view, Lynn moved into the underpass, avoiding the hail of bullets fired into the river below. These guys now really wanted her dead. As she swam away to safety, the poor Loud woman couldn't help but wonder- The other me- The older me gave me a serum she said would work! Why hasn't that kicked in yet?! She said it w-would be-

She couldn't hold her breath down there forever, meaning she had to resurface for another load of fresh air, and then some. About a minute had passed before she did so, and as luck would then have it, a barge had come sailing her way, the perfect opportunity to get away by boarding it. Lynn quickly worked her magic and leaped into it before it exited the underpass- finding the barge was one of those trash transport ones. The smell could have never been any worse than this, but Lynn carried on and concealed herself around the nasty debris and trash.

The gaping slice on her neck had already healed as she felt it when she recalled the ninja chick having made a successful cut on it. It was rather weird to consider, she hasn't understood the pro factors of the alien Lulu's exact properties. No matter, all of that had to be put on hold, today was the test of survival, lasting throughout the day without being caught, and, thinking of it now, Lynn realized that she had no place to go. Reagan's place? Not without endangering them all, so no way.

Hours Later

She was down to a tank top and shorts, and would have been looking rather sexy if not for the condition her skin took on, insisting to keep decaying as it did, making her some sort of freak as it was- her temperature had kept elevating to a burning degree, she feared that not even her own skin would maintain conformity of itself real fast real soon. "Nrghhhh..."

She needed colder temperatures, so she settled around the shores when the barge had gone off to see, and since then, Lynn had taken her leave.

A pair of scuba divers scouting for sea goods had encountered a distraught Lynn floating around the bottom of the sea around the shorelines without a plan, wandering around like a lost sea mammal at most. Neither dared question it but had given Lynn enough attention that she swam away from them, diving back up for air.

She later sat on the rocks, knees up to her face and arms wrapped around them. The waves splashed against the rocks, redirecting upwards to give Lynn a layer of cooling water to combat her rising heat temperatures. At this point, her tank top was see-through, her boobs able to be seen if she faced anyone the right way, not that she cared right now. Whomever saw her beautiful breasts were damn lucky, one true rare and legendary occasion of the century.

She cared not, she was alone.

"Hey, little dudette," Luna greeted with warmth. Lynn only half-turned, seeing Luna dressed in that old attire she used to wear in the golden age, the very same one that defined who she was. "It's been a long time."

"Oh..." Lynn was at a loss for words. "Hm, yeah, it really has."

Luna sat herself, adjacent to Lynn. "How've you been, Lynn? Are you doing good?"

Lynn snickered. "You kidding me? Look at me, Lunes, I'm completely transformed, and it hurts. It just hurts so much."

Luna placed a gentle hand on Lynn's shoulder, smiling away to relieve some of Lynn's emotional and physical pain. "Lynn, you've survived through worse, like that fire-"

Lynn exhaled sharply, head bobbing down. "The fire- That goddamn fire destroyed our family, Luna."

The punk rocker nodded slowly. "Yeah, it did. It did, Lynn, but that was just the beginning."

"Wh-Why are you even here?" Lynn broke her hands away from her knees. "Last I remember, we left off things badly, and if you haven't forgotten, you hurt Luan pretty bad. You left her hospitalized-"

"Did you know that I went to visit her?" Luna revealed. "Lynn, I've felt so much guilt and it just-" Luna stopped, sighing with heartache. "I couldn't have forgiven myself if my carelessness damaged her to some... Serious degree. I waited for her to come back to me, I waited for her to wake up-"

Lynn stood up. "You... You were there-?"

"Of course!" Luna confirmed. "Luan was my sister, too! It broke me, Lynn! It broke me so much when one day- That one day, they told me that she just went missing. She... Woke up and just escaped, snd I couldn't believe it, I just-"

"You put her there in the first place, Luna!" Lynn blamed. "If it's as you say it is, then you really fucked up! You really did, and..." Lynn grew too weak, too emotionally hurt by it all that she found herself breaking down, crying as the sea continued to throw its waves at both of them. "Luna's out there- I want to believe that she's alive, Luna! I want to believe that my sister, that same girl who loved comedy, who practiced her skits with that dummy-" She paused.

Luna had fallen quiet.

Then, Lynn brought out her confession. "I'm with the FBI, Luna, did you know that? All so I can get leads on her, I want to bring her home, only her."

And there it was, the unearthing of all her ideas, what she originally believed to have justified and rationalized her reason to being a part of the Feds. The self-test that would prove her worth of herself, to be a survivor to make it to the end of the fated journey- or as long as she was able to before she could ever know what true defeat was.

And right now, right when the stakes were happened, the roster of foes changed, only here when Lynn had seen the worst of the worst, she had already known defeat- Lynn had fallen into the darkness to begin with, the accepted fate to throw herself into the world of danger as easy as she did. She had already given up long before she began, the realization had just been years-long to finally understand it.

"My life..." Lynn let out softly. "My life is just full of failure."

In her mind, Lynn had still yet to live up to the minimal expectation, having all of her successes cut down to zero, to mean absolute horseshit when it was clear she was unable to help the other three women of her unit. Whether or not it was on her simply for not having the right tools and methods for such a predicament, she should have done more to give it past the full hundred percent. Even then, even before this-

"I wasn't quick to stop you, Luna!" Lynn admitted from deep within. "It's not- It's not just you I blame, but me as well. I was there with the others, and you were acting crazy. You grabbed the beer bottle and I didn't see it coming! I didn't think you'd-" She wiped away at her eyes, sniffing away messily. "You did, though- And I pulled you away too late-"

"Dude..." Luna sensed that Lynn had appointed the blame onto herself just as much as she did on Luna. "I- I don't know what to say."

"You can start by just- J-just going away, Luna!"

Seagulls soared around them, landing right on the rocks, keeping them company. The waves kept forming about, soaking Lynn more wet by the minute. Her hair had gotten moist enough. Her body was nice and cool, but the rocky foundation beneath her feet had gotten slippery, entrails of seaweed dangling around.

"I can't ever apologize enough for putting you through all that," Luna confessed, "but just know that I am, and I would do anything to make it right with all of you."

"You... Make it right? MAKE IT RIGHT?!" Lynn shot a leg in front of Luna's own, and then pulled her right over to trip and push her in the water without mercy. Right away, Luna clung back top with her claws, revealing her nastier, deadlier side to Lynn, her tail curling around both of the infected agent's legs. "Surprise!"

Lynn gasped, and then barfed up her rotten innards again, spilling right into the sea. The excruciating pain returned in that moment. "What- gurghhhh- What are you?!"

Luna thought about yanking Lynn off-balance, but pulled her tail back. "It's a long story, what's up with you? Your skin looks like its rotting, and you're looking like you've got diarrhea!"

"L-long story-" Lynn started contemplating in telling Luna- this monstrous Luna- what it was that she had experienced into the distant future. Luna might or might not have believed it, and in today's world, the impossible had proven to become less and less of its own category. The phenos existed, a sanctioned team of literal "heroes" right out of comics operated in response to everyday incidents, and now this, time traveling and fighting a new class of enemy. And still, Lynn Loud did not understand all of it. "Holy shit, Luna- Y-you're some sort of... Super beast."

"I don't like it anymore than it looks," Luna snorted. "The tail rips right through the fabric, so I have to keep my skirt at a certain angle."

"So you say," Lynn snickered. "Things really did change, didn't they?"

"You have no idea-" Luna cut out, revealing the needle full of the special Medi-Sin formula, poking it right onto Lynn's neck, injecting the liquid into her. "Don't fight it-"

Lynn, being gravely startled, raised a leg and kicked at Luna, knocking her back into the water. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" She removed the needle off of her neck, throwing it into the ocean. The very second it flowed into her bloodstream, the pain had stopped, her rabid queasy feeling being neutralized. Whatever chemical agent this was, it was helping Lynn- and it proved itself by changing the color of her skin back to base form. "Oh, God-!"

Luna climbed back up to the rocks. "You know I can't swim, right?!"

"What did- What was-?"

"That will fix your problems, as I was told," Luna filled in. "It's an enhancer, will boost your powers- It works on beings like us."

"L-like us?"

Luna held her hand out, offering Lynn a place by her side. "Come with me, Lynn. You and I, working together among the Alliance Association."

AN: New timeline, new origins. At this point, its like a reboot, which I can't officially describe it as. You do you, label it as you see it.