Here's another chapter I've been looking forward to making. This chapter can be described in one work...foreshadowing. What do i mean by that? Well just read and find out.


It was currently night time in down town royal woods. Multiple fire trunks were parked next to a building which was currently on fire. Multiple firemen were checking on people they had gotten out of the building however some fire man were still trying to put out the fire as one family was still trapped in the building.

A woman and her son were currently backing away from some erupting fire in their apartment. They tried to escape through the fire escape but some wooden beams fell from the roof and blocked the way out. Right as some beams were about to come down and crush them the two closed their eyes and prepared for the worst…but it never came.

The woman and her son opened their eyes and saw what appeared to be a blue and black moth man holding up the beam. "Who are you?" The boy asked.

"Just your average super hero." Big Chill answered. Big Chill threw the wooden beams aside and held up his hands and shot out a freezing vapor from them. When the gas cleared all the fire in the room had been frozen over and put out. "Come with me." Big Chill said as he held his hand out.

The boy smiled at the moth creature and went up and took his hand. His mother, although a little skeptical, walked up to the alien and took his other hand. Big Chill picked up the two and made himself and the mother and son intangible and flew out of the building as the roof collapse upon the room.

When Big Chill got outside he landed next to one of the fire trucks and turned himself and the people he had solid again and put them on the ground. The firemen went up to the two and sat them down on the fire truck and made sure they were ok. Just then the woman got up and walked up to Big Chill. "Thank you so much for saving us." The woman said.

"No thanks required, just happy to see you and your son are safe." Big Chill said. Big Chill unfolded his cloak and spread his wings and took off into the sky. But as he did so he failed to see someone with a press hat take a picture of him.


THE NEXT DAY

An elderly man was currently in his room at a senior center reading a news paper labeled "MOTH MAN SAVES FAMILY FROM BURNING BUILDING!" On the front of the news paper was a picture of Big Chill flying away from the burning building.

The elderly man sighed and put the news paper on a stack with other newspapers that had headlines from "DIAMOND MAN SAVES CAMPGROUND!" and "SPEED CREATURE STOPS EXPIRMENTAL CAR!"

"Where are all these aliens coming from?" The elderly man whispered to himself. The old man had white hair, a gray mustache and eyebrows. He wore a white button up shirt, blue jeans, a black belt and orange suspenders. He also had a tattoo of an anchor on his right forearm. This was Albert, the Loud kids pop pop. "A Petrosapien, an Amperi, a Citrakayah and a Necrofriggian. Whats going on?"

As Albert held his temples in thought he took notice to the newspaper again and looked at the picture of Big Chill and narrowed his eyes on the creature's chest. On the middle of the moth alien's chest was an hour glass. Alberts eyes immediately widened as he saw the symbol. "It…it can't be." Albert continued to stare at the symbol deep in thought but shook his head and put the newspaper down and breathed in and out to calm himself down. "just calm down Albert. You got a fun day planned with your grandson today, now's not the time to worry about this."


Vanzilla and just pulled up to a place called "Sunset Canyon Retirement Home" when the car stopped Lincoln stepped out of the van as his mother waved at him. "Have fun with Pop-Pop honey. I'll see you at six." Rita said as she drove off.

Right as Lincoln was about to go into the building an old man carrying a box of stuff was being pushed out by a woman wearing a white nurses uniform. "But, but, but." The old man said as he was pushed off.

"If you would've had your butt back by curfew you'd still have a place to live!" The woman said as she pushed the old man away.

Lincoln, after seeing the event, awkwardly walked into the building. When he got in he stopped at the front desk and ringed the bell on the desk. After ringing the bell Lincoln felt a tap on his shoulder. Lincoln looked behind him and saw no one but when he turned his head back in front of him and saw…

"Pop-Pop!" Lincoln said as Albert pulled him into a hug and laughed. "Your new place is nice."

"Thanks kiddo. It took me months to get in here. I had to wait for three people to kick the bu-uh, move out. This place has got a pool, shuffleboard tournaments, and it's filled with all my old pals. I'm really loving it here." As Albert was talking he took notice of his grandson new attire. "Hey nice duds there, where'd you get em?"

"Oh, Leni made them for me. We've been spending a lot of time together this summer."

"Well that's great. Its nice to hear you and your sisters spending time together. So, what's on today's agenda?"

"I got our whole day planned: arcade, carnival, maybe laser tag? 'And hopefully it won't be ruined by some cyborg and mad scientist trying to kill me."

"Wowsers!" a female voice said from behind the two white heads. When they looked at the source they saw the women that was just pushing the old man out of the retirement home. This was Sue. "That sounds like oodles of fun…if you wanna end up in the ER. I think your grandfather will be happier spending the day here at Sunset Canyon. Right, Albert?"

"Oh, of course. Good call Sue." Albert said in a sadden tone.

"But Pop-Pop-" Lincoln was saying but stopped when Albert put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay, Lincoln. Sue here take real good care of us. She knows best.

Just then Scoots came driving by on her scooter as Sue pulled velocity speed gun. "Scoots! You're going 5 miles over the speed limit! Someone just lost her pudding privileges." Sue said as she ran off after the elderly women. "Get back here!"

"Hey how about a swim." Lincoln suggested.


Albert was currently waiting in the locker room of the swimming pool area wearing red swim trunks. He was currently waiting for Lincoln to put on his trunks. "You almost finished their kiddo?" Albert asked.

"Yep just done." Lincoln came out of the changing room wearing orange swim trunks. However, when he left Albert took notice of Lincolns left wrist. On it appeared to be a bulky wrist watch looking device that was primarily black and gray. But what stop out to Albert the most was the face plate which had a green hour glass symbol.

Alberts eyes widen when he saw the face plate and immediately remembered the same symbol being on the moth creature's chest. "Woah…cool watch kiddo. Where'd you get it?"

"Oh, um this thing? I got it at the arcade. I kinda forgot it was on my wrist."

"Ah, I see…well shouldn't you take it off since we're heading to the pool?"

"Um, actually its uh, water proof, yeah, so no need."


Albert looked at Lincoln for a second with squinted eyes but quickly gained back his happy expression back. "Well ok then. Come on, last one to the pools a rotten egg." Albert said as he ran off with Lincoln following behind.

The two quickly found themselves running towards the pool with big smiles one there faces. "CANNON BALL!" Lincoln yelled as ran towards the pool. However, they were quickly stopped by the sound of a whistle.

The two looked up and saw Sue sitting on the life guard chair holding a whistle. "Cannon ball? Well that sounds like a hoot…if you wanna break a hip! Do you wanna break a hip Albert?" Sue said as Albert shook his head in fear. "Then why don't you grab a seat on the helper chair." Sue gestured her hands towards a helper chair which was moving slowly into the pool with a line of other seniors behind it.

"Good call Sue." Albert said sadly as he headed to the helper chair.

"And speaking of pool safety I have something for you young man." Sue said to Lincoln as she smiled evilly.

Lincoln found himself floating in the pool wearing a bulky life vest and water nose plugs looking rather unhappy. "Where's a cyborg or mad scientist when you need one." Lincoln deadpanned.

"Okay Lincoln splash fight in 3,2-" Albert was saying as the helper chaired lowered him but was interrupted by Sue's whistle again.

"Everybody out! Time to reapply sunblock." Sue announced

"Aww." Albert said in disappointment as the helper chair lifted him back up.

"But were indoors." Lincoln said as he looked at Sue confused.

"Now Lincoln, Sue knows best."

Lincoln simply gained a disappointed look and swam away. It was currently taking most of the Loud boys self-control to keep him from using the Omnitrix to turn into AmpFibian and shock Sue a new one.

As Lincoln swam off Seymour swam by on a pool noodle. "But Sue I-I just got the hang of this noddle and I-" Seymour was saying but was interrupted by Sue.

"Okay, Seymour, you can stay in the water. If you want your skin to flake off like a burnt potato!" Sue scolded the old man.

"Oh…good call Sue." Seymour said as he paddled backwards.


Lincoln and Albert were now in a different room in Sunset Canyon playing twister. Lincoln spinned the wheel and it landed on…

"Left foot red!" Lincoln called out as the arrow stopped spinning.

Albert lifted up his foot and struggled a bit but managed to but his foot on the space as he blew a raspberry at Lincoln. 'Man, if I could go Goop I could destroy at this game.' Lincoln thought to himself as he spun the wheel again. However, as the wheel was spinning Sue stomped her foot on the arrow stopping it.

"Well, doesn't this look like a great way to end up in traction? Why don't you help scoot with her cat puzzle?" However, as Sue finished talking all three looked and saw Scoots eating pudding right from the dispenser. "I EXPRESSLY SAID NO PUDDING!"

"You'll never catch me, SHREW!" Scoots said as she rode off on her scooter laughing as Sue chased her down blowing on her whistle.


Lincoln and Albert were now in Alberts room with Albert laying in his bed. Lincoln meanwhile had an annoyed look on his face. "Pop-Pop, do you really need a nap?" Lincoln asked.

"Those are Sue's rules and Sue knows best."

"Can't you Sue's done to you? She convinced you you're old and frail. But you're not. The last time we hung out, you crushed those Navy SEAL's in paintball. How did you do that anyway, its like they were nothing to you?"

"Haha, I guess you could say I've dealt with far worse then them, but that was years ago Lincoln."

"It was last month. Pop-Pop, I think we should go out on the town like we used to."

"Okay, you sold me. Let's blow this popsicle stand!"

Lincoln and Albert quickly made their way to the lobby of the retirement home and were attempting to sneak out the front door. However, right as they were about to exit the building Sue came up in a patrol cart and spotted the two white heads. "Where are you two Peppy Pete's off to? Albert, shouldn't you be in bed?" Sue said as he grinned evilly at the two.

"He's not tired." Lincoln retaliated.

"Oh, I didn't realize we had a geriatric expert on the premises." Sue said sarcastically

"And you are? We're just going out to have some fun."

"We'll that sounds like a good way to miss out 6:00 PM curfew. And you know what happens if you miss curfew…YOU'll BE OUT ON YOUR PROVERBIAL KEISTER!"

"Uh…come on Lincoln. Race you to the shuffleboard court." Albert said nervously.

"Pop-Pop, no. We're gonna have a great time, I promise we'll be back by 6:00 o'clock curfew."

"Hm, okay, kiddo. Lead the way."

As they were about to Leave Sue cleared her throat and Lincoln looked back and saw Sue pointed at her watch. Lincoln glared back at Shrew and he rolled down his jacket sleeve and showed off the Omnitrix before leaving the building.


Lincoln and Albert found themselves at a 50's styled dinner with Lincoln sitting next to the register ordering their food. "Two cheeseburgers, two fries, and two chocolate shakes." Lincoln told the lady at the counter as she typed in the orders into the register.

"Oh, not for me. I'll just have the cottage cheese and melon slices." Albert said as Lincoln gave him a confused look. "Sue says I should stick to food that's a little easier to digest."

"This coming from the guy who cleaned out an entire Chinese buffet?" Lincoln said as he remembered the time Albert eating everything at a Chinese buffet causing it to close up for the day.

"Hehe, I sure took it to 'em. Ah, what the heck? I'll have what he's havin. And put chili on everything?"

Albert and Lincoln quickly got their lunch and chowed down. After they finished Albert let out a fart. "Who stepped on a frog?" Albert joked as they shared a laugh. "That was great Lincoln…but I wanna ask you something."

"What is it Pop-Pop."

"I just wanted to know if you've heard anything about the recent…alien sightings lately."

Lincoln immediately tensed up and started to sweat nervously. "Um, I've heard a few things, why?"

"Oh, no reason. I just thought it would be something you were interested in. Funniest thing though, I've heard rumors that all the aliens have an hour glass symbol somewhere on their body, pretty interesting huh?"

Lincoln grew more nervous, was Pop-Pop on to him. Before Lincoln could speak up a waitress's voice could be heard from some intercoms saying "Hey, hit cats and kittens! It's time to do the twist!"

50's styled music started to play in the restaurant as a waiter came up to Albert and offered her hand to dance. "Uh, thank you, but I really shouldn't. Sue says dancing is a great way to slip a disk." Albert told the waitress.

"But, Pop-Pop, you love to dance." Lincoln said while being thankful there was a change in subjects.

"They did call me 'jitterbug' in the plu-uh, I mean the army." Albert immediately took the waitress hand and started to dance with the waitress as she laughed gleefully. Lincoln however raised a brow at Albert, what was he about to say before he corrected himself?


The rest of the day went exactly as Lincoln plan. The two went to go play laser tag with Albert shoot Lincoln and a little girl shooting Albert. After that they went to the carnival and rode the bumped cars and as they collided with each other Albert's dentures flew out of his mouth and hit Lincoln in the head and the two laughed about it. They then went over to flips food n fuel and chugged down flippees to see who can finish theirs first, Lincoln ended up getting a brain freeze while Pop-Pop ended up winning. After that they went mountain climbing and managed to reach the top and high fived each other as they admired the view.

The two then went to park and Lincoln got them each a hot dog. When he walked up to Albert Lincoln saw he was talking to a biker. "Lincoln, my new friend T-bone here was just telling e about a mechanical bull riding competition."

"We should be heading back. It's almost 6:00 and Sue said-" Lincoln was saying but was interrupted by Albert.

"Aw, nuts to Sue! You were right about her! She got me thinking I'm an old geezer but I still got some pep in my step." Albert said as showed off some dance moves. "Huh? Huh?"

"Yeah, but Sue said if we miss curfew, you'll be out on your proverbial keister."

"You let me deal with Sue. Now, you ready to saddle up?" Albert asked as he finished his hot dog.

"Pop-Pop, we can't."

"Okay, worrywart, then I'm outta here. Let's ride, T-Bone!" Albert then got onto T-Bones motorcycle and the two drove off leaving Lincoln in the dust.

"Pop-Pop, wait! What have I done." Lincoln looked behind him and saw a tree and went behind it. "Luckily I can catch him in no time." Lincoln activated the Omnitrix and selected the silhouette he wanted and slammed it down. Lincoln found his body become sleeker.

"Fasttrack!" Immediately after transforming Fasttrack took off like a bullet after Albert.

Fasttrack quickly made his way to a bar and saw T-Bones motorcycle parked next to it and entered it and found T-Bone at the one of the tables. "Woah! What the heck are you?" T-Bone said in surprised as Fasttrack came to a stop in front of him.

"Not important. Have you seen an old man here with white hair and orange overalls?" Fasttrack asked.

"Oh, you mean Cowboy Al? Haven't seen him since he won the competition." T-Bone pulled out his phone and showed Fasttrack a video of Albert riding on the mechanical bull.

"Well if he isn't here where is he?"

Fasttrack soon got his answer when he turned to a TV which had a baseball game on. "Martinez goes for the catch, and…what in blazes? There's an old man on the field, in his boxers! And there goes the boxers." The sportscaster announced as it showed footage of Albert running around the baseball field while Fasttrack covered his eyes upon hearing the last part.

"To the ball…park…hey wait a second how did he get here, win the bull riding competition and then to the ball park before I even got here as Fasttrack…eh, probably just plot convince." Fasttrack told himself as he ran out of the bar.


When Fasttrack got to the baseball stadium he saw a crowd storming out carrying Albert away. Albert was now skateboard on a ramp doing tricks every time he got into the air. Right as Fasttrack got to the skateboard ramp Albert jumped skated off the ramp and landed on a piece of cardboard on the street and did some break dancing moves. Just then a van labeled The Heavy Metal Band Horns on Rabbit pulled up next to Albert and someone pulled him inside. Albert was now performing a sax on stage as Fasttrack managed to catch up. As Fasttrack was back stage the Omnitrix started to beep red and Fasttrack turned back to normal. After Lincoln changed back Albert stage dived into the crowd and surfed through the crowd while still playing the sax.

Lincoln quickly made it outside and looked around for Albert. "Pop-Pop's curfew is in 30 minutes." Lincoln panicked. Lincoln then heard a plane and looked up in the sky and saw Albert riding in a plane while the plane used its exhaust to spell out Pop-Pop rules in the sky. Lincoln grabbed a guys glasses to get a better look and saw Albert in wearing a parachute.

"LOOK OUT, WORLD! ALBERT'S ABOUT TO TAKE IT TO YA!" Albert shouted as he jumped out of the plane. "YAHOO-AH!"

Lincoln let out a yelp and started running where Albert was about to fall. Lincoln soon found himself in the woods and heard some branches rustling. Lincoln ran through the woods a bit more and saw Albert dangling on a tree by his parachute, Albert then let out a fart.

"Pop-Pop!" Lincoln said.

"Whoops! Guess I had too much chili. Sorry kiddo. I think I overdid it a little today."

"That's okay Pop-Pop. If we hurry we can still get you back in time. Hold on." Lincoln said as he got Albert down.


Lincoln and Albert got back to Sunset Canyon and tried to sneak through the front door but saw Sue on her patrol car. The two hid in a bush as Sue walked up to the door and looked at her watch and saw that it was a few minutes for 6:00. "Ah, close enough." Sue said as she closed the door.

"Dang it." Lincoln said.

"Attention, residents! Time for room check!" they heard Sue's voice say from a voice box.

"Double dang it" Albert said.

Lincoln lowered his head and let out a sigh and leaned against the wall. "I'm so sorry Pop-Pop. I never should have made you leave and now your gonna get kicked out."

"Ah don't sweat it kiddo, I was the run who got carried away. Besides did you see that day we just had? I don't wanna be livin in a place that makes me feel like an old geezer anyway." Albert said which made Lincoln gain a smile.

Lincoln looked back down at the ground trying to think of a way to fix things. An idea soon came to his head as his eyes widened. "Pop-Pop…I think I know a way to get you in without Sue seeing you but…can you keep a secret?"

"Of course, kiddo but what is it?"

Lincoln let out a deep breath. "Just…try not to freak out." Lincoln rolled up his jacket sleeves and activated the Omnitrix. Alberts eyes immediately widen as he saw Lincoln turning the face plate. Lincoln was able to find the silhouette he wanted and slammed the face plate down and was engulfed in a green light.


"Albert?! Albert?!" Sue yelled as she pounded on Alberts door. An evil grin came onto her face as she heard nothing. "Well, well, well. Looks like that little brat wasn't able to pull it off after all." Sue pulled a key out of her pocket and unlocked Alberts door expecting him to not be there. However, her grin turned into a shocked expression when she saw Albert on his bed reading a newspaper.

"Oh, hey Sue just catching up on the local news. Have you heard about all those alien heroes that have been popping up?" Albert said in a smug tone.

"But how did you…when did you?"

"I got my ways Sue. So heres how things are gonna go from now on you're gonna stop treating me and everyone here like babies, we can take care of ourselves and we deserve respect." Albert demanded.

Sue's shocked expression changed to an angry grin. "Oh yeah? And who's gonna make me give it to you?"

"How about me." A whispery voice said.

Suddenly from behind Albert Ghostfreak appeared which cause Sue to gained a shocked and scared expression as she stepped backwards as she dropped her pen and clip board.

"A-a-a-a-a." Sue stuttered as she looked at the chained phantom.

"What's wrong? You've look like you've seen a ghost…FREAK!" Ghostfreak said which caused Sue to fall on her butt on the ground. "Now, I think you should listen to the old timer there or else this will haunt your dreams…forever." Ghostfreaked reached into his abdomen and pulled his skin apart releasing a volley of horrendous tentacles. Sue faced turned pure white as she let out a high-pitched scream and ran out of the room. "HAHAHAHA THAT WAS GREAT!" Ghostfreak said as he laughed hysterically.

Albert chuckled a bit as he stepped up to Ghostfreak. "You sure showed shrew there." However, Albert lowered his head and let out a sigh as he lowered his head. "Alright kiddo, whats going on?"

The Omnitrix symbol on Ghostfreak beeped red as Ghostfreak turned back to Lincoln. Lincoln then went on to explain him getting the Omnitrix, whats he's been doing with it, and who knows about. "And that's pretty much everything." Lincoln finished explaining. Albert had his eyes closed and his head lowered and he processed everyone. "so, what do you think?"

"What do I think?" Albert said. Suddenly Albert gained a giant smile as he heartedly laughed. "Lincoln, I couldn't be more proud of you. Look at everything you've done, you're a butt kicking super hero following in your grandpa's footsteps. Way to go kiddo."

"Wow, really? So you're not gonna tell anyone?"

"Don't worry kiddo your secrets safe with me."

"Thanks Pop-Pop." Lincoln said as he hugged Albert which he gladly returned. "Well I should get going. Mom's gonna be here soon."

"Yep, I'll see you soon Kiddo keep on doing the right thing."

"I will, bye Pop-Pop." Lincoln waved goodbye as he stepped out of Alberts room.

As soon as Lincoln left Alberts expression became a serious one as he picked up a newspaper of AmpFibian saving people at the mall. 'So…it does exist. And Lincolns wrist of all places. Should I get involved…nah, he seems to be handling things well enough on his own. Besides…so long as he's not here there shouldn't be to much of a problem.'


Now how was that. Pretty proud of it if i say so myself. Anyway join me next time for "Side Effects"