Timeline X, Chapter Six: His Daughter

"Hah!" Lincoln found the joke to be funny at most, wheezing amd guffawing at it. "That's not even believable, girly! You expect me to believe that you came from a time that hasn't happened yet-? And what, to save me from being killed?"

Alejandra waved her suit mask around. "You'll believe I went invisible but not that I jumped through time, right?"

"Far-fetched if you ask me!" He had his laughed, ceasing after over a minute of chuckling away. "I can believe you came to my rescue, but nothing beyond that. Now, you can stop the cover story to get me comfortable enough around you."

Lincoln grabbed hold of Alejandra's dark blue suit, glaring and studying it. "How can I get myself one of these?"

Alejandra jerked his grip away from her, putting her mask back over her head. "This is a prototype only, I've been instructed to take care of it as best as I could."

"Didn't answer my question," Lincoln grumbled.

"Not just where, dad. When- And if you have to know, it's created in a Prime Federation lab in 2059."

"Prime Fed-" Lincoln nearly gagged. "Now, you're just trying too hard to make me fall for it."

"Believe what you want, I didn't come here to convince you I speak the truth," Alejandra, in a zombified tone, spoke out. "You're stuck with me whether you like it or not, and that's final."

"Yeah?" Lincoln felt challenged, but it was the facts of today that made him realize that allies were essential. Lori and the other guys seemed to have been onboard with sticking around, as he had briefly seen it, and this chick, this Alejandra whatever-the-fuck proved to be a useful war tool to him. Well, rather it was the suit she wore- if it was of a larger size, Lincoln would have nkt hesitated to kill her and take it for himself. "Earn your place with me and sow your mouth shut."

"Whatever, you can call me Alex if you'd prefer, just so you don't forget or anything."

"So, protect me, huh?" Lincoln found the other joke. "Good luck with that."

"I know all about you," she vaguely let in on. "What you've done, what you will do- and who."

"Oh, do you?" Lincoln had his attention reeled in by the woman claiming to be his daughter. "What is it you think you know?"

"Well, for starters..." Alex raised a fist at his face. "You're a coward."

"I'm a coward?"

Lori and the rest of the Primer Prisoners came running to the pair, weapons clanking along with their movements. "Lincoln! And... Strange girl?"

Alex held out her hand and shook it with Lori's. "Name's Alex, it's nice to meet you."

Lori slowly nodded. "Flattered, you wanna tell me what you guys talked about?"

"Uh-"

"Nothing but a cheap joke," Lincoln replied to Lori, accepting it as nothing more than a fabricated wives' tale. "I'll show you a coward, girl..."

Dylan Blood placed a finger on his bottom lip, studying Alex's suit design. "So, this makes you invisible?"

"Yeah, as you've seen it."

"And what else can it do?" Dylan poked at the side of Alex's left arm. "I mean, apart from apparent teleportation."

"Well," Alex coughed, not trying to sound egotistical, "this suit is an anti-pheno strike suit with a variety of features. It can conceal my body heat, it can render me hidden in plain sight, it also spots enemies as far as two hundred yards away, as long as it's on surface level or above. Thing can't locate underground subjects as of yet, but the best part is, the primary function is to effectively counter the supers."

"Supers?"

"Phenos, don't you know?"

Lincoln shook his head. "I don't know what those are."

"You'll come to find out."

"So, wait," Lori had a question raised in her mind. "You found us how exactly?"

"Right!" Alex held out her left wrist and tapped on a tiny screen that popped out. A radio channel then played through. "I've caught the traffic chatter and assembled to this position after tracking. All secret radio channels are no issue for me to tap into."

"Well, color me impressed," Lori whistled. "Who sent you?"

"Well..." Alex merely looked up into the sky. "The ones who want to make sure the right people win. I've done my part and helped you out, but Lincoln is the key to victory."

"Why him and not us?" Lori didn't like the concept of her younger brother playing a role that might've been better suited for her to play. "What's that all about?"

"Nothing personal," Alex assured. "You wanna help? Then be of help-"

"I believe we all agreed on this," Dylan reminded the group. "If we're done with the bickering, we really have to get going. Girl, you've got a hiding place to go back to?"

"I do," Alex grinned widely. "All of you, touch my suit, we're going for a little ride."

Later

Dana's corpse was taken away, placed in a black bodybag, escorted out the base. Luna and Lynn silently watched the rest of the bodies get hauled away, up until Lynn broke and turned, fuming away, kicking the wall in anger. "Those- Those were just people!" she raged. "Men with wives and kids, how didn't we prevent this- This massacre?!"

Luna only followed Lynn with her eyes, not moving, not speaking. None lf this was of the younger sister's fault, so why was she punishing herself for this? In any case, Luna let the girl vent off rather than talk her down; Lynn had proven to be a tougher girl than meets the eye, she dared not provoke that malicious beast.

Allie, Chad, Darcy and Meli awaited further orders from the visiting Jordan Leak, the man who had come in to witness the carnage that had taken place awhile ago. "Unacceptable," he berated, tearing them each a new one. "The disgraceful amount of incompetence you all have displayed this very day has shown me that I was wrong, you are not yet ready to fight in the name of freedom and justice-"

Peter McMahon himself entered the scene. "With all due respect, my friend, you forget that these X-Elites are not war veterans, which would have been my preferred choice for the team. I've trusted your judgment and let you band together these phenos-"

"Errr-" Leak swallowed his tongue. "I had such high hopes for them-"

"And that is misplaced," McMahon thought. "Still... They proved to barely be effective. As it so happens, I have a pair of contingencies that have yet to be unveiled. Bring these X-Elites- these failures- to the Black Network. Loud and Shepherd will be informed and show you to our secret weapons."

"What- Secret?" Leak stuttered. "You've been keeping stuff under your nose?"

"Have been," the man of a bushy moustache corrected. "It's time to undo that."

"Well..." Jordan Leak formed a fantastic smile. "I love the sound of that."

McMahon waved a hand to the team. "Allie? Come along now."

"Y-yes, uncle!" Allie complied, scurrying away from the group, to his side- and she locked both of her arms with his right one the way a girl would with her boyfriend. Chad made a disgusted facial expression unbeknownst to them both.

Later - The White House

The shades were pulled down, separating the main office from the outside world. Peter McMahon had been seated the entire ride his young teenage niece performed on him, starting off with a firm hand job. Allie had such small and gentle hands, but she didn't hesitate to be rough when it counted. She jacked him off, her eyes locked on his penis- and this was the beginning, right before she licked the shaft, then played around to tesse him by putting it in her mouth and then taking it out. "You want this, uncle?"

He wound up getting most of a boner, his slow age working against him to almost not form it. "Allie- Allie, you are an angel of all sorts-"

"B-but uncle-" She stroked his dick carefully, running her fingers up and down. "I can be a bad girl, too," she teased seductively, winking at him.

"S-sure- Sure, you can, princess-"

Without warning, Allie retracted her hands and removed her blue jeans, followed by the thing underneath. For him, she showed her vagina and ass, rubbing the front of her clit ever so sexually, biting her lip to add to the arousal. "I'm your bad girl, uncle-"

This gave him a flowing sensation inside; he wanted it, he yearned for it, and he welcomed it. The very next second, Allie sat right on him and his hard penis, her soft hands set onto his shoulders. Then, she begun to ride him passionately, making him moan out as she did as well. Her walls, visited by the special guest- Allie continued to ride him, waiting to feel his load burst inside. "D-don't worry, uncle," she assured him, "I'm on the birth control pill."

"Good, honey, that's good-"

Alex Santiago made her presence known by removing her head mask, rendering visible onto McMahon's sight range the floating head of a strange woman, an image that worked best in a darker, supernatural environment. He stood up and then fell backwards with Allie still mounted on him. Like him, the young niece slipped off and plummeted hard. "Uncle, what the fuck?"

"Al- Allie-" he stuttered, raising his pointed fingers to where Alex stood. "G-guhhhh-"

"You old fast-" Allie, guided by his finger, saw Alex's floating head look grimly upon them. "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Alex delivered a kick to Allie's face, sending her to the side as easy as pie. The poor girl was out cold again, leaving Alex alone with the president. "Don't you dare make a move," she strictly warned, placing a foot on his hip. "I want to find Leak, maggot."

"Leak-?" He laughed at her like she told a humorous joke. "Why would I know where he is?"

"Don't play coy with me!" She dared stomp on his penis, making him scream severely. "You, him, Lisa Loud and James Shepherd are the only four connected to the planned global genocide and cloning, at no doubt I can find them as fast as possible-"

"What?!" It stunned him. "Impossible, you speak heresy-"

"I know about the Black Network being not too far from of of your bases around Long Island-"

"Girl-!" McMahon weakly swung an arm out, only for Alex to kick away. "Invisible girl!"

The Black Network originally housed the clones and the Wolverines... Here, the Wolverines are taken out of the equation, and if that's the case... Do the Project Link clones exist? Alex studied him for a bit, then asked, "Project Link, did you achieve that?"

"P-Project Link?"

"Familiar?"

"H-how can it be possible? Who are you and why do you possess-?" Then, McMahon had stopped to do the mental calculations. "No- No, it can't be-"

Alex's mouth opened slightly.

"T-time travel-" McMahon made a frantic leap and jumped to Allie. "NIECE!"

Alex quickly grabbed the president, trying to pull him back only for him to send an elbow blow right in her face, knocking her away for a good few seconds. McMahon went for his phone and dialed for Leak, already theorizing the time travel theory had worked, discovered by the Alliance Association. "No!"

"I don't know how you got here, but it had to have been us! We were the first! And we'll deny-"

Alex pulled the president by his feet and send him flying into the wall with the insane boosted strength the suit possessed. "Sorry, but the Alliance Association has no place in the future."

Allie returned to earth and came tackling Alex from behind, grabbing hold. "YOU AGAIN! LET'S GO!"

Alex spun around and slammed Allie against the table repeatedly. "Rematch isn't looking too good in your favor!"

Allie lost her grip, falling onto her knees. "Agh, my back-"

Alex grabbed the mustard-green haired girl and heaved her out the window, taking her exit that way. Neither foe linked to the Alliance Association were lucky to have died, it wasn't Alex's objective to massacre the latter, but to protect the albino man who would eventually father a girl, a girl who would then become this Alex.

Her mission was to make sure Lynnette and Lyra Laude did not kill him, and if anyone else has also set their sights on him, then she'd have the right jurisdiction to intervene as long as Lincoln stayed alive. Lynnette and Lyra, two zoomers the likes of whom she hadn't seen yet- two half-sisters of hers, if we got technical about it.

"This is a warning for you all!" Alex declared. "Stay out of his way or perish!"

With her business having concluded, Alex took her exit.

Black Network

Lincoln and the designated Primer Prisoners stayed in place, looking down upon the hatch that led to the Black Network when Alex arrived, teleporting back to their location. "Hey, peeps! I'm back!"

"That delays McMahon's end, but what of the other guys?"

Alex waved a finger downwards. "They're all in here- Oh!" She neglected to keep her whole suit on. "Silly me!"

"So, we storm this base and we deal a big blow to them?" Lincoln repeated again.

"Yeah, this and we raid all Vial Corp buildings and free all phenos!" Alex opened the hatch and climbed down the ladder. "Ready for a fight?"

Right now, Lincoln wished he was still the superhuman he turned himself into with Darcy four years ago. "We sure are."

"We're only human..." Lori moaned. "Chances of dying aren't so slim anymore."

"Isn't there anything you can do that gives us am advantage?" Lincoln asked the Mexican woman.

"Nothing apart from taking everyone on!'

Lincoln rolled his eyes at her. "Save us some at least!"

Right after Alex, the Primer Prisoners followed into the tunnel, with Lincoln leading them further down. Whether or not Alex was there waiting for them was unknown- maybe she had already gone ahead and dealt with all the opposition that lied in wait behind the thick metal doors that blocked them from getting in. Lincoln knocked to figure out the density, noting it was hard to simply pry open. "Shit, any ideas?"

"How did she get in?" Lori wondered.

"Did she even?" Lincoln felt around at the air, sending that Alex hadn't gone through. "Hey, girly-"

The secret compartment door on the side of the tunnel propped open for them, courtesy of Alex. "Primers, in here," she instructed, stepping to the side for them to pass on. "I've scoped it out, but shit went down inside here."

"What? What kind of-?" Lincoln and company made it to the front of the base, finding the entire floor to be filled with multiple bodies and limbs all around. His first thought was, "Did you do this?"

"No, I found it like this," Alex addressed. "Something isn't right here... Who would strike these guys?"

"Unsure," Lori thought, "but my guess is they have enemies other than us."

Lincoln scouted the corpses, checking the dropped guns. "Hey, none of these are fired- Not a single one."

"Then-" Lori made the connection, as did the others. "The attackers were an inside force of their own empire."

"Inner conflict, but why for?" Lincoln moved through the base to get clues. "Hey, Alejandra, think you can track for heat signatures here?"

"Huh..." Alex scoffed at herself. "All of this dead made me assume there couldn't be any survivors, but..." She pressed upon the side of her head, looking clockwise, but then stopped before she reached full circle. "Five heat signatures- This way!"

"Five...?"

"It must be those kids we've seen, gotta be!'

"I can beat them again," Alex believed, taking charge, leading the brigade to their location. She stopped them outside of the room the five were in. "Cover here, I'll go in first..."

"Give us a signal," Lincoln advised.

Alex deactivated her heat sensor, entering the room to find not the X-Elites, but the core subjects of Project Link. There was A, the girl; B, the Luan one; C, modeled after the zoomer Lynn Loud; D, the other albino; and N, the one closest to the original Lincoln design. She studied them, but her attention belonged to Link-A, the carrier of the SCX superchip. This one was the one Alex needed solely for the device implanted in the clone's head.

"I love-" Link-A giggled, ripping the fabric of her suit to touch her vagina; she jammed two fingers in and began to rub her clit. "Oh, it feels so good to masturbate! Lacy, Liby, and Lupa, look away!"

"Who is that girl t-talking about?" Liby pressed a hand to her throat and swallowed. "Why do I sound like this?"

Lupa peeked her head back inside her own chamber, trying to make sense of everything. It didn't help that Linka and Leven were moist with the blood of the Black Network faculty. "Where am I ans why did I just...?" She wasn't Lupa, but Lucy in her mind, puzzled and completely off-guard. "What-?"

Alex broke through the scene and pulled Linka down on her back, surprising the clones.

"OUCHIE!" Linka was pinned to the floor, punched upside the head by Alex. "YO, SOMEONE'S WATCHED THE INVISIBLE MAN, M'DUDES!"

Leven went to help Linka up- and bumped into Alex in the process, getting spooked for a second. "Hey-!" He figured it out fairly quickly and tugged Alex away from Linka. "What is that-?"

Liby and Lacy hid behind Lupa, quivering in fear.

The five clones constructed in the Black Network... Alex had never the honor of dancing with them all at once. She deactived her cloaking to reveal herself, showing off her battle suit. "Hello, nice to meet you! I just want the little girl there."

"Not a chance," Leven declared, putting Linka behind him. "Who the hell are you and what is this place?"

Alex still had to play along. "I'm not part of this, if that's what you're assuming. This place... This place is your birthplace, that goes for all of you- As for who started the carnage..." She noticed the blood on Linka's cheeks, head tilting sideways.

"Guilty..." Linka giggled innocently. "Everyone was too bossy, so I- I mean, we both-" She giggled again, harder this time. "All of them, strangers with guns! Strangers with ideals incompatible with my own!"

These ones think they are the ones they've been cloned from... Alex stepped back into the doorway. "Now!"

The Primer Prisoners came running adjacent to Alex, lining up for the fight. Lincoln had to get his eyes checked, or there really were three albinos in front of them, and the only male one- Leven- bore similar resemblance to Lincoln. Leven himself locked eyes with the cell father, face twitching visibly.

No, not like this... Alex prayed for a lid to place on this if there was a high chance in hell of this going sideways; the fight between them and clones had to be on their side. This youngest clone here, the first clone, was the one she had to take down to retrieve the device in her brain.

"Who the hell-?"

Lori noticed the similarities she saw within Liby and Lacy. "L-Luan? Lynn?"

They reacted to her, but had not recognized her as Lori. "Yeah, sorry, who are you?" Liby asked.

"That can't be them..." Lincoln motioned towards the clones and swung his fists into Leven without thinking first. "Take them down!"

"Wait!" Lori warned.

Linka jumped up and ran head first into Alex, leading her out into the hall for a one-on-one fight. Alex could only guess that the two parties were fighting inside. Liby and Lacy screamed out in scared tones, only telling Alex that they weren't properly built for this. She headbutted Linka down below, breaking her nose. Linka herself was wildly laughing, running her hands on Alex's suit. "Can we have sex now?"

The Mexican warrior applied her entire arm upon the clone's throat. "Sorry, sweetheart, but I'm afraid you have to die for the cause."

"Give me a break!" Linka pleaded. "I just came out of my chamber! Where's my mercy?"

"Right here!" another voice responded, snagging Alex away from prioritizing Linka. A white sneaker came plunging right into her face, repelling her back from the current goal. Not this again, not another delay. "Hey, it's good to see you again! And I see you wasted no time in establishing your own allies in the Site Prime captives! That's smart, Alex."

"You again..." Alex knew quarrel with the person behind the voice more often than not, and this time was one of those. "Damn you..."

Liberty, a woman of long white hair still in a frizzled state, pulled Linka away from Alex. "This one is mine, Alex, let's be honest."

"Hey- Y-You give her the fuck back, I need the chip and you know it!"

"Well..." Liberty, dressed in a gray sweater and dark green shorts, pulled out a large survival knife and force-inserted it into Linka's head. "You can have her after I'm done with the surgery!"

Linka screamed painfully and to the top of her lungs. It was the cry that forced Leven out of the room, barely holding his own with Lincoln. Emerging out into the hall, he saw Liberty dig through Linka's head after breaking apart the outer skull's skeleton. Linka short-circuited out until she stopped moving, her arms and legs fidgeting about less until she passed. In Liberty's bloodied fingers was the superchip, there in sight range for Alex to know and feel what defeat was.

"HEY!" Leven shouted at the girls, leaving himself open for Lincoln to come back, punching him square in the face.

Liberty laughed it off and broke into a run, scampering off to the other end of the hall. Alex picked herself up to give chase. "NO, THE CHIP BELONGS TO ME!"

"Catch me if you can!" Liberty teased, holding her hand high with the chip. "Hee hee hee!"

"LIBERTY, YOU GET BACK HERE WITH MY PRIZE!"

"NEVER!" Liberty persisted to take her exit, but Alex was there to do her best to deny her. "TELL ME, HOW IS THE PRIMER ALPHA-ZERO SUIT LIKE?"

"YOU WILL NEVER KNOW!" Alex activated her cloaking and stopped running, turning the tables on Liberty.

"What- Oh, shit-" Liberty continued to run. "NOT FAIR, YOU HAVE ADVANTAGES!"

Liberty found her way to the top, running further from the base. She grew faintly weary that she had to stop running, but stumbled across shadows nearby, the X-Elites consisting of Chad, Meli and Darcy, the three of which wore metal helmets that covered their heads- they were put under her control with the mind-control helmets. "There you are! Gear up, my slaves! We've got incoming!"

Alex found them, having tracked the group, surprised to see Liberty having acquired her own team- and not of their voluntary choice, it seemed. "We both think so much alike, don't we?" Alex quickly changed her portions, tiptoing around Liberty's area.

"It shouldn't be truly surprising, Alex!" Liberty commented. "I came here to make allies out of the clones, and to kill Link-A for the SCX, but it seems you've denied me!"

"Secondary objective pushed by the primary..." Alex quickly relocated again.

"Be that as it may, I've won! I've gotten this baby, and I will bring the pride back to the Prime Federation. With this, the Domicile will be wiped and Dylan Blood will reign all the superior force of mankind!"

"No... Not on my watch!" Alex revealed her location and slammed a fist across the albino's face, then flipped her right on her back. The chip slipped out of her hands, right into Alex's grip. "Got it!"

"You three! Attack the invisible woman and get back the chip!" Liberty commanded to her slaves. "Window is closing fast!"

Liby, Lacy and Lupa had begun running right out behind both parties, stopping only right when they saw Liberty on the ground surrounded by her minions. "Go, go that way!" Lupa redirected the two to their right, running deep into the woods. This was then followed by Lincoln, Lori and Dylan only.

"No..." Liberty tapped out. "D-damn it! New order, distract those guys while I escape!"

Alex let go of Liberty the second it sounded like she was retreating. "You've lost, Liberty!"

"Fuck you, faaaaaaaaaaag!" Liberty insulted childishly, covering her face and leaning forwards as she took her leave. "You fucking Mexican! Beanerschnitzel! Wetback bitch! I'll get that chip back, and I'll deliver it to my master! Fuck you and goodbye!"

Alex returned to the remainder of the Primer Prisoners, joining them in the next fight. Lincoln, Lori and Dylan, up against the enslaved phenos.

In the next second, all seven of them were exposed to a large flash of blinding light.

AN: Six chapters down, four left. Liberty Loud exists. The dark storms are forming. Long live.