Lyrics to Failure by Breaking Benjamin
Life will come our way
It has only just begun
The world will die alone
The frail will fall below
Time will take our place
We return it back to one
The calm before the cold
The long and lonely road
Drive the cloud away
We will fall from last to none
The dark before the dawn
The war will carry on
Look for the light that leads me home
Tired of feeling lost
Tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down
Tear the whole world down
Failure
We bury the sunlight
Failure
Prologue
Lincoln Loud never looked better, albeit older. Much older. Right back to square one except for the simple little face that he took the present Lincoln out of the equation. This was insane to say the least, consequences not yet known but Timeline X Lincoln had kidnapped and held Main Lincoln the night he and Darcy Holmandollar went to raid a Vial Corporation facility in 2026 to gain the superhuman serum. They didn't get it, he cut them off at an ambush point and took it himself. Of course the unchained Lincoln knew what to expect; he did it before and knew where and how to get to the cryogenic chambers that housed the serums. Marvelous, he had the very same one he had himself. Things haven't been this clear; he was meant to sorely replace the Lincoln Loud meant to live it, meant to be captured by the Patriot Agency, fight with his sister's, try and kill the clones. The same old story sung for years. Wasn't ever personal, this timeline just had to be perfect- better than the last one.
"Sorry, old friend..." Main Lincoln had been trapped into a tiny room Timeline X Lincoln had spent time and money on making. The place came with a toilet, some years of MRE meals, and a filter where cold air would be dispensed. This little room was just buried in a nowhere land just near a river. The older Lincoln left his counterpart trapped down there. "I'll let you out when I've taken care of the problem, I know more than you do."
He'd get guns, he'd learn to fight the super freaks of tomorrow, in just four years from now, and things would not be so bleak, so dark. "Well... Here goes nothing."
July 27th, 2030 - Near Los Angeles
Lynnette Laude came attacking the convoy that transported Lincoln and Lynn Loud. She ran around the side of the vehicles, employing her claws to scratch out the tires. The big armored vehicles swerved and swayed out of control before they came to an abrupt stop. The armed men were quick to switch off the lights and sport their night goggles. "Check your perimeters!"
"Tight formation! Secure the vehicle!"
Lynnette raced back and forth across the street, grabbing and slaughtering one guard at a time. They would drop their weapon and let out a cry of fear before Lynnette bit, clawed and devoured a piece of them with her beastly teeth inherited by a third party that was not Lynn nor Lincoln. However, unlike the first time-
The second assailant was sniping at them from afar, thinking the same way they were. Lemuel Porter was nestled upon some rocks away from the convoy, taking firm headshots only. Realistically, he needed to take time to get it right- and his partner Lynnette was having herself most of the kills. "Damn greedy bitch!"
It ended in a little over three minutes, and Lynnette waved to Lemuel's location before she opened the convoy trucks. Lincoln was there in prison threads and a pair of suppression cuffs that took away his power. "Boy..."
That brat again, he had a partner now? Last I saw him was in that battle he brought out onto the streets of a neighborhood. Turned the tides on him, beat him on his own game, left him for the cops. I guess it doesn't pay to be so merciful...
Lemuel cracked his knuckles, the long sniper rifle dangling by the strap behind his back. "We've got you now, Loud."
"I see you've gotten yourself a girlfriend," he said, looking at Lynnette. "Sorry, who are you? And what's with the jumpsuit on you?"
"Doesn't matter, I'm here to-"
"Why do you sound like my sister?" Lincoln eyed carefully.
Lynnette tensed up and she panicked on the inside. "S-sorry, what?"
"Get him out of there, green," Lemuel urged the tall blonde.
Lynnette stepped into the vehicle and tugged Lincoln out, pushing him into the ground. "I know you want to kill him as much as I do so I propose we do it together! Take aim, Lem."
"Right!" Little boy yoinked big gun in his hands and aimed at him point blank. "Any last words?"
"You're as stupid as you are brave!" Lincoln grabbed the barrel and connected it to his cuffs, then brought the gun down as Lemuel fired in a panic. The shot was way too close that it hurt Lincoln's ear drums. He lost his hearing briefly but the shot had cleanly broken. He was back in business, gaining back his super strength. "There we go!"
"Fuck-!" Lemuel went flying over the armored vehicle courtesy of Lincoln. "FUCK YOU!"
"NO, YOU DON'T!" Lynnette advanced- and he stuck one end of the broken metal cuffs into her abdomen. "Agh, J-Jesus-"
And he took it out and then raced it against her throat to slit it, punched her good in the face, then grabbed her head and brought it down so that he could have his knee kiss her face. Lynnette became bloody and mildly disoriented, and he pushed her head to the side which helped bring her down faster. "You're all inexperienced vermin, this is no life for little boys and girls."
Lemuel stumbled back to Lincoln. "B-bastard, you goddamn scum-"
"Stand down, child," Lincoln warned. "Why go through all this trouble for a pheno like me?"
"I've said it before!" Lemuel groaned. "You're unworthy of it, abd I'll be the one to take you down."
Lynnette was the only one of the pair who didn't get up. Her throat had already started regenerating on its own. "Lemy- Lemy, he just beat us..."
"Nyla!" Lemuel stopped and observed the downed girl. "We have him here! We can beat him!"
Lincoln walked over to Lynnette and brought his foot down over her chest hard. She screamed, and Lemuel growled, albeit weakened enough to know that Lynnette was right. "Stand the fuck down or you'll both die."
"Bastard!" Lemy took a step back. "Alright! Alright, you've proved your point! Stop hurting Nyla there."
"Nyla, huh?" Lincoln looked down at Lynnette. "Why, you've got a ponytail, a voice and the same type of suit Lynn Loud uses. That is too coincidental to be of one... Is there something I need to know?,
"Oh, I'm a big Lynn Loud the Zoomer fan!" Lynnette grinned cruelly. "I love her, but not you. I hate you. Like a lot "
"I don't care," was his response. "Today's your lucky day, girlie."
Lemuel raised his hands up. "I'm complying, don't hurt her! Go- Go on-"
Lynnette whipped her tail out carefully, and close enough to his legs, she wrapped around his feet and yanked him off balance. "Gotcha!"
"Damn you!" Lincoln fell down, his chin striking the pavement hard. He bounced to get up, but Lemuel came and kicked him right in the face, causing his head to jerk the opposite way. Lynnette played along and kicked back when she stood back up in a literal second, her strike greater in force than his. Her speed was key, even like this. "Gahhh!"
"We're gonna win this!" Lemy triumphed as the two teenagers kicked Lincoln repeatedly. "You son of a bitch, you hear me?! You're gonna-"
Lincoln kicked his leg up and struck Lemy in the balls. He ducked down to cup then, baited into the second kick that went into his face. "Stupid boy."
"That's enough of the child abuse!" Lynnette shoved her hands onto Lincoln's legs. "Don't make this harder! Lem, get one of those guns or find cuffs!"
"MY GONADS!"
"LEMY!" Lynnette jumped over Lincoln, dragging him by his prison uniform and tossed him against the side of the vehicle. "HURRY!"
Lincoln brushed off the impact, but his back had begun to ache. Can't take much more of this! Shit!
Lemy scavenged the dead guards, swiping one of the special rifles loaded with anti-pheno rounds. "Hang- hang on! I'm coming!"
Lincoln pounced right into Lynnette, trying to grab her face. "COME HERE!"
Lemy came and fired two immobilizing shots at Lincoln's legs. He slipped out, losing grip on Lynnette. "Got him!"
The zoomer raced around Lemy and took the rifle. "You're too slow!" She ran it against Lincoln's head to knock him out. "Gotosleepalready!"
"Grhhhh!" Lincoln was battered in by his daughter enough times for it to knock him out. Enough meaning over ten. He dropped on his side, no longer moving.
"There! Was that so hard?!"
"YOU'RE THE ZOOMER HERE!" Lemuel yelled. "LOAD HIM IN, NOW!"
"What?! No, let's kill him here and now!" Lynnette suggested.
"I promised Allie I would give her a shot!" Lemuel told the zoomer. "Load Loud into the whip, we're getting out of here! Provide me overwatch, wouldja?"
"You're gonna waste time just so some chick has her turn in killing him?" Lynnette blatantly shook her head. "I didn't agree to team up with you for this! I'd rather just-"
Elsewhere
Thank God for her speed powers; Lynnette wasn't big on wasting time, so she ran them back to the safe house Lemy and Allie had hunkered down on. She dropped him right in the room, waking the sleeping Allie after the thud. Lemuel fell on his hard, crying out. "OW! NYLA, YOU WITCH!"
She left, then came back with the knocked-out Lincoln minutes later. By then, Allie was sitting upside, wiping her lap and pretending that she hasn't been masturbating the past hour. "Don't you idiots think of calling? I'm barely scarce."
"Good morning to you too, Allie," Lemuel sarcastically rolled his eyes.
"Fuck off, I needed my beauty sleep."
Lynnette tied Lincoln up to the desk chair. "Are you ladies going to have that argument like you're married?"
"Shit, is that...?" Allie jumped to her feet to see Lincoln Loud for the first time. "You guys really did it..." Uncle won't be happy... This little stunt will blow a gasket even when we're gonna kill him. Damn you, Lemy and Nyla.
"The one and only..." Lemuel cracked his knuckles again. "Got the dampeners ready? Put them on him."
Lynnette applied a pair of small round dampeners on either side of Lincoln's arms, sticking to him like cheap glue. "Job well done, Lem. Job well done." Lyra... See me now, see that I'm worthy...
"No bullets, just regular stabbing!" Lemy told the girls. "Allie, give Nyla here a knife."
"Come here, angel face," Allie motioned, winking at Lynnette. She pulled two buck knives from the top drawer of the desk. "Here-"
"I've got my claws," Lynnette turned down, revealing her sharpened hands. "You two can use those."
"Fine by me," Lemy agreed. "Allie?"
"Here ya go, hon," she grinned, giving him one. "You three ready?"
They arranged into a line" standing side by side in front of Lincoln. Lemy slapped Lincoln upside the head. "Hey, wake up! Wake up, Loud! Your time is up, and we wanna make sure that you're awake to see it! Awake to feel it!"
Lincoln blinked, tilting his head up. "Jesus fuck-"
"Welcome back, old timer!" Lemy saluted with knife at hand. "We all have grievances to pick with you. The first time around, you've bested me somehow. I thought I was prepared, but it seems I was wrong. Ran into green here and she had the same goal. As for Allie-"
Lincoln had scanned his eyes at the three youngsters, and he found that Allie was no stranger to him. Way back when, in that other shithole timeline, she was an enemy with links to Peter McMahon. His blue eyes widened in realization, mouth slightly ajar. "You're Allison Taggart."
"Huh-?" Allie's vicious grin flipped on itself, her knife lowering down to her side. "What- How-?"
Lemy dropped the knife and cupped his hand on Lincoln's face. "And just how did you know that? How do you know of her name?"
'"You're an enemy of mine, girl," Lincoln labeled. "You, working for your senator of an uncle."
Allie jerked her body upwards. "What the fuck-"
"S-senator?" Lemy moved his eyes back and forth to each of his. "What are you talking about?"
"I've done my research, I've been waiting in the shadows, I've allowed the Freights to live this time-" He laughed, the concept was so insane. The choices he had to make that were different from the first time were all but choices. He laughed, because if anything, Lincoln (this timeline's Lincoln) had gone missing right after the fast raid on Vial Corporation. Darcy probably labeled him dead, and Lori had lost her brother, that one which had been planning to leave after destroying the Freights. Today, Lori was still one of them. One of the many things that would ultimately change.
"What are you on about?!" Lemy shrieked in earshot. "Stop speaking gibberish!"
"Kill him already!" Allie barked. "Stab the crazy bastard!"
"You are a fool, boy," Lincoln mocked. "If you weren't made aware of her affiliations, she's with the bad guys here! She's Peter McMahon's niece, and they're not exactly good folks!"
"Y-You're- She-?" Lemy turned to Allie. "Is this true?"
"Hey, hey, hey," Lincoln addressed to Allie. "You had friends, right? You're not alone here, I know you've got some buddies."
"I- I don't know what he's talking about..."
"I do," Lincoln bravely told them. "This is some clean-up crew because your powerful uncle surely sees me as a big-time threat. Me and my pheno pack of sisters. Boy, you'd vest free me to get the truth now-"
Allie jammed her knife into Lincoln's shoulder with no remorse- and Lemy then opted to push Allie away. "Stop! I have to know-"
This made sweat drip down from Allie's forehead. She grit her teeth in a challenged manner. "G-get out of my way..."
"Allie, don't tell me-"
Lynnette pushed the both of them out of the way, raising one clawed hand at Lincoln. "You're both being played by him! Now's the time for killing!"
Lincoln raised his feet and kicked off of Lynnette, shoving himself down with the chair, breaking it. He then rolled himself towards the other two kids and tripped them, proceeding to mount himself over Allie first. His thought process was to target her only, and with the rope that had restrained him to the chair, he wrapped it around her neck and pulled back tightly with both hands. "NOW'S THE TIME FOR KILLING!"
Lemuel pounced up and tried to pry Lincoln's hands free from the rope. "STOP, SHE'S ONLY A KID!"
"I'M WITHIN MY RIGHTS TO DEFEND MYSELF, AND THAT IS WHAT I'M DOING!" Lincoln roared.
Allie tried desperately to pull back on the rope, her face flaring up as it went red. "Lehhh-!"
"NYLA, A LITTLE HELP HERE!"
"You nitwits can't even handle a depowered pheno, good fucking Lord," Lynnette facepalmed. "If I have to step in-"
Lincoln elbowed Lemuel's face in, then pulled Allie's hair after letting go of the rope, lifted her face up from the ground and then rammed it back down to earth, breaking her nose severely and leaving her disoriented from the impact. He then tugged at the dampeners on him and dropped them down upon Lynnette's feet before she could step in. He had them beaten like this, evening the impossible odds. "Come here, blondie!"
"Shit-!" Lynnette fell back hard when Lincoln had lifted her legs off the feet. WHAT FUCKING TRAINING DID HE GO THROUGH?!
Lincoln crammed a knee into her ribcage, mounting her roughly. His face read fury, his hands, usually tickled fancy to get grip of men, knew what it mean to be lesbian in nature. They locked onto Lynnette's head and he brought it up and down, going for human brain soup without thinking. Just a dumb pheno with some sort of eager death wish to him. Her, and the other two who didn't seem to behold any such powers. Quick kills after her. "You're a parody character."
WAIT, WHY DOES HE GET TO BREAK THE FOURTH WALL?!
-Linka
Blood seeped from her head through the back. She lost consciousness in no time flat, her eyes struggling to keep awake. "L-Lyra... Lyra..."
Lemy went for the downed buck knife he had dropped in all this calamity, turning to Lincoln- and Lincoln grabbed and tossed the wavy-haired boy through the door which then broke in two with Lemy rolling out into the hall.
Allie coughed violently, breathing heavily to be steady. Lincoln stepped in front of her and ran a hand across her face to slap some literal sense into her. "Enough of these games! I want to get in touch with your uncle, you little shit."
"F-f-f-fuck yourself with a cactus!" she wheezed back, one hand now at her cheek. "Fucking psycho!"
He bitch-slapped her again. "You're in need of some discipline! By God, it is rather disgusting... You're coming with me!" He lifted her up by her purple shirt with a green alien head on it, and dropped her so she could feel what would be if she did not cooperate- and it wasn't the worse thing he could threaten her with. "I don't have any hesitation about hurting little girls. Just so you know, I hit this goth girl with a sledgehammer to her face."
"Y-you... WHAT THE FUCK?! YOU'RE LYING!"
"Her name was Heather."
Allie shivered in fear. "A- a sledge-" She gulped. Is- Is he lying?! Who in their right mind would-?!
"Come quietly or die like trash." He picked up the other buck knife Allie had dropped with one hand, and slammed Allie's right hand onto the floor. He stabbed her palm without remorse, having a sick pleasure in watching Allie holler in pain, squirm in reflex. "I will not say this again!"
"OKAY, OKAY!" Allie agreed, profusely nodding and crying. "I'll- I'll go! P-please don't hurt me!"
I don't go this far- May be I haven't yet, but this girl had it coming. She gave me some grievances back then with her own team she led against me and the allies I've made. Good to see this debt being repaid. I'll have my fun with her, slap and toss her around. Next stop, McMahon.
She had her eyes closed, and he slapped her a thirx time without warning, merely for shits and giggles. He was enjoying it. "OW!"
He lifted her into his arms and carried her. "Ugh, you're so dirty I feel the need to shower."
"I- I'm not a whore-"
"Did I say you could speak?"
Allie shut her trap, scared shitless of him.
"You'll do as I say, you'll move as I move, you'll do nothing else. You won't eat, you won't shit, and you won't even breathe unless I allow it, do you understand me? Blink once if you understand-"
She blinked at him.
"Now shut your eyes-" Once he exited the building, he screamed upon the citizens he saw walking around, "Hey, where is the nearest hospital?! My granddaughter has been hurt! Can someone- Can you help me?!"
"Sir, what happened?!"
"Phenos!" Lincoln yelled with fake concern in his tone. "Phenos attacked us, they're still in there! Call the police! I- I have to-"
You smart son of a bitch, I gotta give you more credit that I had been... Allie kept her eyes closed.
Lemy and Lynnette looked out the window to see Lincoln site up noise outside. "Shit... This place is compromised! Time to leave!" Lemuel went into the closet and took out a pound of remote-detonated C4. Lynnette went down on her knees and offered herself to give him a piggyback ride. "I can't believe it-"
"Oof!" Lynnette only wished Lemuel hadn't one pound too many on him. "What did we do wrong?"
"I don't know..." He held his breath and held onto her tightly. "Take us away!"
Lynnette ran out of the room, then the building, and then the town. Three blocks away was when the explosive was activated, blowing up the safe house as intended. The last resort to cover tracks. "We'll have another chance, Lem! Count on it!"
"You said you had a sister, right?" Lemuel pondered. "Same as you?"
"Maybe you can help me convince her to help us!" Lynnette hoped. "She's got cold feet."
"Then let's pay her a visit!" Lemuel insisted, feeling confident again. Confident... And curious as to what Allie's real goal was, and if Lincoln had indeed been spilling the beans on her. For one, he did know her full name. Even the middle name, which Lemy hadn't known yet. Allison Valeria Taggart, worth searching about.
Act VI: Renaissance, Chapter I: The Fast And The Furious
Significant changes have already happened that differ from the first batch of act, and some are still on the verge of changing. New ground, new games, and the unwritten futures closing in. Some chapters in this fic are no longer canon to this timeline. They happened, yeah, but this is A2, as Dylan Blood had explained it to Alex. This is an alternate timeline, it had already become splitting away from that one you've been following for the first forty chapters before Timeline X. Forget Timeline X now.
Act VI chapters;
1. It's right up there haha
2. Linka Loud Back At It Again With Them White Vans (Yes, this is the chapter name)
3. (Locked for spoilers)
4. What She'll Be Missing
5. (Locked for spoilers)
6. (Locked for spoilers)
7. Lincoln Loud's War Diary
8. Alienated
9. (Locked for spoilers)
10. Bloodbath
11. Dark Before Dawn Act VI Special
And soon, one such act will skip through the chapter titles. Huge callback from the 2039 fic will be present and have more of a role to play here. Time to get evil.