An old friend returns...
Lincoln was smiling as he made his way through the streets of Royal Woods. He was on his way to meet up with his Japanese friend Wendy for an entire day of fun. Honestly it baffled him how much the two bonded over the short times she's been there, but now, he honestly can't imagine how his life would be without her now. Plus, whenever he was around her, he would feel nothing but good feelings. His heart would start beating uncontrollably, his face and body would heat up, sometimes he couldn't find the right words to come out of his mouth. And he would feel content in simply just sitting next to her all day, enjoying her company.
Lincoln quickly shook his head to get those thoughts out of his head, he couldn't let them distract him right now. He would have the whole day to spend with Wendy. Granted he would certainly start feeling these things around Wendy since he always did whenever they hung out, but that was fine. Right? It was normal to feel this way, right?
Granted he's never felt this way when dealing with any other girl, not even Ronnie Anne or Paige, but still. It was fine. Maybe some time he could introduce Wendy to the rest of his friend group. Rusty, Zach, Liam, Girl Jordan...Clyde...
It was then that Lincoln's mood dampened a bit. Clyde. His absolute best friend since meeting each other while in their Ace Savvy and One Eyed Jack costumes respectivly on Halloween. Gosh he missed him like heck. Clyde had to leave right at the beginning of summer. He and his two dads were going on a road trip all across America.
This were all right. I mean, he got the freaking Omnitrix so he certainly wasn't lacking any sort of excitement in his summer. And he was far from lonely. But still, Clyde's his best friend, he couldn't help but miss him. Especially since recently he begun to worry. Usually he and Clyde would still contact each other via video chat or cellphone or even a letter when Clyde wanted to send Lincoln a post card...until recently.
It was as if every bit of communication between the two stopped. Every time he tried to call Clyde either by phone or by video chat, it would never go through. And he hasn't sent any letter lately either and Lincoln himself couldn't really send any letters due to the whole constantly traveling thing.
He just hoped everything was fine and that he was just over thinking everything. Like earlier, he just had to push everything aside for now and focus on his day with Wendy.
"Alright now," Lincoln said as he pulled out a sheet of paper. "We got hanging out at the park, getting flippee's, browsing various stores at the mall, Gus's Games and Grub-"
"Excuse me."
Looking up from the paper, Lincoln saw a 17-year-old male that was a ginger like his friend Rusty. He had a black rolling suitcase and was wearing a green Zelda t-shirt. "Sorry, don't just wanna run ya over." He said in a joking manner.
Lincoln chuckled in response as he moved to the left. "It's fine, what with the luggage, running away?" Lincoln asked in a joking manner as well.
The ginger chuckled in response as he shook his head. "Nah, just heading back to my house since I'm no longer petting sitting for the Mcbride's anymore." He explained simply while pointing his thumb backwards.
Lincoln froze. Did he say...the Mcbride's? Clyde's family? "Um, sorry, could you repeat that please?" Lincoln asked in a quiet tone, loud enough for the ginger to hear at least.
The ginger rose a brow at this and answered his question. "Like I said, I'm done petting sitting for them. I'm Bryce Caudle, their pet sitter for their cats."
Lincoln was utterly confused. Summer was only half-way over and the Mcbrides would be travelling all summer, why would their pet sitter be leaving now? "But aren't the Mcbrides supposed to be gone all summer?"
"What you didn't hear? They came back early." Bryce explained, further shocking Lincoln and making his heart skip a beat. Right as Lincoln was about to ask why, Bryce seemed to be one step ahead and explained. "They said something about something happening that made them have to come back, I didn't pry into it too much."
Lincoln still had a bunch of question going on in his head, but knowing that Bryce probably didn't have the answers, he simply nodded his head. "Thanks, I didn't know that. I'll have to see it for myself."
Bryce nodded his head in response and gave a thumbs up. "No problem, they should be back by now actually, you have a good day dude." And with that, Bryce walked off leaving Lincoln alone.
Lincoln couldn't believe it. Just after thinking and worrying about Clyde...this is all dumped on him! The Mcbrides are back, but only because something happened apparently. This worried him. This might have something to do with Clyde no longer contacting him. He wanted to go and see things for himself but...Wendy...he'd promised he would hang out with her today.
Mentally debating which option to choose, he finally sighed as he came to a decision. Pulling out his phone, he texted Wendy.
Loud 10: Hey Wendy, I know we were supposed to hang out today, but something came up. It's not an alien or hero thing, but it is something I really do need to check. I promise I'll make it up to you later.
Hitting send, he hoped that Wendy would understand. He was sure she would, she was just that kind of girl, he still felt bad having to cancel on her.
However, it wasn't long before he got a response.
Wendy was currently looking over herself in the mirror. She wanted to make sure she looked good enough for her day with Lincoln. She knew her appearance wasn't really something neither Lincoln or even her cared about all that much, but still, didn't hurt to touch up a bit.
Just then, she heard knocking on her door and instantly responded with. "Come in!"
The door opened instantly afterwards and Karen stepped into the room with a smile on her face as she entered her daughters' room. "Hi sweetie." Karen greeted as she saw Wendy looking into the mirror. "What are you doing?"
"Getting ready for my day with Lincoln." Wendy said positively, which caused Karen's smile to fade a bit. "He's taking me out today."
Karen's eyes widened as she froze. "T-t-t-taking y-you out..." She stuttered. "L-l-l-like a-a-a d-date?"
It was now Wendy's turn to freeze as her cheeks turned red. "N-no mom..." She said in a quiet yet somewhat shy tone. "We're just hanging out today. It's nothing like that I swear."
Karen breathed a slight sigh of relief, but was still a little cautious. "So..." Karen began slowly, trying to think of a good way to say what she was thinking. "You've been spending a lot of time with this boy since we moved her, huh?"
"Yeah!" Wendy replied with her usual happy go lucky attitude again, but still with pink on her cheeks. "I know he's the first person I met coming her, but I don't think I could have run into anyone better."
Karen gulped; she noticed the ever-small change in Wendy's tone when she talked about Lincoln. "Wendy, tell me," Karen asked nervously. "Lincoln...how do you feel about him?"
"Huh, what do you mean?" Wendy asked as she looked to her mother with a curious expression and her head tilted. "He's my friend."
"I know, but that wasn't what I meant." Karen explained, further confusing Wendy. "What I mean is, how do you feel about him? Like, your feelings and emotions."
Wendy was caught off guard by the question, but a took a bit to think about it. How she felt about Lincoln. Honestly, she's never thought to much about it before yet...she already felt like she knew the answer. "Well...I feel...good around him." Wendy started to explain. "He's kind, selfless, heroic. Whenever I'm around him, I just feel all fuzzy you know. Like I could just spend all day around him doing nothing and it'd be a great time. My heart beats fast and all I can do is...smile."
Karen felt her blood go cold. Her fears were confirmed. Her daughter was in love with Lincoln Loud. And she could tell this wasn't some playground crush or a simple feeling that could fade. Karen knew...this was true legitimate love and feelings. And some how she knew Lincoln probably felt the same.
This scared Karen. She was just a little older than Wendy when she met him and now...
She just didn't know how to go about this. Karen honestly thought Lincoln seemed like a good kid from a good, and very large, family. But still, she couldn't help but be scared. What if Wendy went through the same thing she went through? Karen couldn't stand to imagine her daughter going through what she did.
And then there's an even bigger thing going on. What he did to Wendy to make her like this and what could potentially happen to her in the future because of this.
But still, she had to think about Wendy's happiness. And if this made Wendy happy, maybe she should just cross her fingers and hope for the best.
"Wendy, I think-" However Karen was interrupted by a loud dinging sound coming from Wendy's pocket.
Wendy took out her phone and saw it was a text from Lincoln. When she read it her smile did falter a bit, but she shook it off and simply told her mother what it was about. "Lincoln said he had to cancel today, something important come up apparently."
Karen couldn't help but sigh silently in relief a bit, granted she did feel a little guilty about it, and told her daughter. "Well I'm sure that it must be really important for him to cancel like that."
"I know it is." Wendy said with confidence in her voice. "Besides, he said he'd make it up to me so I'm not too upset." Just then an idea came to Wendy as she looked at her mother. "Hey, why don't we have a day together."
Karen practically lit up at her daughters offer as she clapped her hands. "Oh, that sounds wonderful! There's a new ice cream place in town that I've been dying to take you to!"
It was Wendy's turn to light up as she clapped her hands rapidly. "That sounds wonderful!" She said enthusiastically.
Both mother and daughter then started to walk out to the car together, with Karen having a thought as she and her daughter stepped outside. 'Maybe I should explain to her what those feelings mean.'
Back with Lincoln, he was currently running as fast as he could towards the house of his best friend. He had to see this for himself. He had to see if his best friend was really back and more importantly, if he was ok.
Soon Lincoln saw the house he was heading towards in the distance and started going even faster to get their even quicker. After about a minute or two of running, Lincoln came to a halt as he saw the Mcbrides house. Sure enough, he that in their driveway was the Mcbrides car as well as the RV they've used for their road trip.
"They really are back." Lincoln muttered as he stared at the house for a bit. But then he surprisingly smiled and quickly ran to the house to meet up with the Mcbrides for the first time in over a month. Despite still being worried he couldn't help but get excited at the idea of seeing his best friend again and possibly being able to hang out with him for the rest of the summer. He wondered how he would get along with Wendy.
Finally, he made it to the front porch of the house and look up at the front door. Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, he gently knocked on the door. It was silence for a moment before he heard a "Just a second!" come from inside the house.
Lincoln recognized the voice and smiled, and he watched the door open a crack and an eye peak through. The eye spotted Lincoln and widened as it closed again, but Lincoln could hear more footsteps coming up to the door and the sound of a chain lock being undone and the door opening to show two men.
The first was a tall skinny fan with light skin, dark red hair, an oval shaped hair and pointy nose, along with bags around his eyes. He wore a red collared shirt with rolled up sleeves, brown slacks, and white sneakers.
The second man had dark skin and was round in shape and he had black hair that was thinning. He wore a teal sweater vest, a black bow tie, and a blue shirt underneath his sweat vest. He also had jean and wore brown loafer shoes.
This was Howard and Harold McBribe. Clydes dad.
"Lincoln!" Harold exclaimed happily with a smile. "It's so good to see you!"
"It's good to see you to Mr and Mr. Mcbride." Lincoln greeted with his own smile as he shook both of their hands. "I wasn't expecting to see you till summer ended."
"Yes well..." Howard started saying nervously as he fidgeted his hands. "Something...happened while we were on our trip and we thought it would be better to come home." Lincoln noticed Howard seem to be shaking when he was talking about it.
It was then that Harold put his hands on Howards shoulders to calm his husband down. Once Howard calmed down enough, Lincoln decided to speak up. "So, is Clyde around right now?"
Both Mcbride parents tensed up at the question and it was Harold that spoke up. "Well, yes he is." he said slowly.
"Is he ok?" Lincoln asked almost instantly. "He's ok right?" He was still worried sick about his best friend. What if the reason they had to go back was because something bad happened to Clyde.
"Yes, yes, he's just fine." Harold reassured, Lincoln felt relief for a bit, but then Harold continued. "However, something's going on with him that quite...unexpected."
Lincoln rose a brow and still had a bit of a worried expression on him. "Unexpected like that?"
"Well..." Howard began. "It's complicated. When it popped up we were all freaking out and we didn't know what do to do. We tried to handle it, but eventually we decided it would be easier to deal with it here and stop the road trip. This is clearly more important."
Lincoln nodded in understanding before asking. "So, what happened to Clyde, can I see him?"
Both Harold and Howard hummed, unsure what to say. They both huddled around each other and whispered to each other at volumes Lincoln couldn't hear. After a moment or two of talking, they both turned to Lincoln with Harold saying. "You can see Clyde...just, try not react to much if he shwos you thr problem. He's quite senstive about it at the moment."
"Trust Mr. Mcbride, the last thing I wanna do is hurt Clyde." Lincoln reassured them as if there was anything wrong with Clyde, he'd go through heck and back to help fix it.
"Thank you Lincoln." Howard said to the white-haired boy. "I knew we could trust you."
"Of course!" Lincoln said with a salute. "So, is he in his room?" Both of Clyde's parents nodded in confirmation as they allowed Lincoln inside their house. "Thanks Mr and Mr Mcbride." and with that, Lincoln head to the room of his best friend.
Lincoln knew by heart where is Best Friend's room was and he was in front of the door in less than a minute. Lincoln put his hand on the door knob and slowly started turning it so it wouldn't make any noise. Opening the door a crack, he peaked in and saw none other than Clyde sitting on his bed reading a book.
Clyde was an African American boy with a black afro, big circular glasses with black rims. He wore a blue and yellow striped shirt with an open white collar and black jeans. However, one odd thing that made Lincoln raise an eye brow was the fact that Clyde was wearing yellow rubber gloves for some reason. He wasn't even cleaning he was just reading.
Lincoln carefully slipped into the room and quietly closed the door. He smiled as he saw that Clyde still hasn't noticed him. Lincoln then cleared his throat, making Clyde's eyes widen as he looked to the direction where it came from and saw Lincoln when he said. "No time no see buddy."
Clyde was silent for a second, with the book falling out his hand glove cladded hands on onto the bed. Suddenly Clyde broke out in a huge smile and quickly jumped off the bed to tackle Lincoln in a hug. "LINCOLN!" Clyde yelled as Lincoln returned the hug to his best friend. "I've missed you so much buddy!"
"I've missed you to bud." Lincoln said as he patted his friends back before they both sepereated from the hug. So how was your road trip, I know it had to be ended early but how was it before what ever happened, happened?"
Clyde seemed to get a litte nervous when Lincoln brought it up, but he managed to shake if off and explain how thing were for the first 3 quarters of the trip time. "It was awesome!" He told his best friend. "We got to visit around half the states and we saw so many different land marks. The Grand Canyon, the liberty bell, Fort Knox, and that's just the beginning. I got a whole scrap book I can show you later."
"That sounds awesome buddy!" Lincoln said enthusiastically as they both sat on the bed. "I've had my fair share of event happen this summer as well."
Lincoln then went on to explain a few things that have been going on over the summer at Royal Woods, while not telling Clyde about the alien stuff...yet. He explained how Leni made the new outfit he was wearing, how he's been spending more time with his family. He then went into detail about Ronnie Anne moving away, him spending time with Ronnie Anne's family. And then he told Clyde about Wendy and her mother moving into Ronnie Anne's old house and how much time he's been spending with the girl.
"Here's a picture of her." Lincoln said as he pulled out his phone. However, he failed to notice that Clyde put his hands behind his back when Lincoln pulled out the electronic device. Lincoln then pulled up a selfie he and Wendy took together.
"Wow, she's tall." Clyde commented as he quickly noticed the height difference between the girl in the picture and him and Lincoln. "Guessing she must have some sort of bone growth condition to make her grow like that.
"Maybe but I'm not sure, not even Wendy knows." Lincoln explained as he told Clyde about how Wendy doesn't seem to have any recorded condition that causes unordinary growth, at least according to her doctor.
"That is strange." Clyde agreed. Just then something came to Clyde's mind as he turned to Lincoln with an excited smile. "Hey, have you seen any of the alien heroes that have shown up around here lately?"
Lincoln's eyes widened a bit as he could help but give a bit of a smug smile and cross his arms behind his head. "Yep. And let me tell you they are pretty cool."
"Awesome." Clyde said in awe before going on. "Not gonna lie, I thought they were all just a bunch of rumors when the stories first popped up, but when I saw the actual news stories, I honestly couldn't wait to get back home and hopefully see one for myself!"
"Yeah, they're pretty cool." Lincoln said with the same tone and smile as before...until something Clyde said made him remember something. Finding out why Clyde came back in the first place.
Putting his hands on his lap, Lincoln took a deep breath as he was about to ask what could be a sensitive question. "So Clyde..." Lincoln began slowly as Clyde turned his head over to his best friend. "What exactly caused your trip to be cancel and made you come home?"
It was then that Clyde's mood took a 180% as he started shaking nervously. He looked to his gloved hands and tightened his fist. Lincoln quickly noticed this and pieced together the problem must stem from there. "Look, if you don't wanna talk about it we don't have to-"
"No, I should tell you." Clyde interrupted as he stood up and walked in front of Lincoln. "You're my best friend and I should be able to trust you with this."
Lincoln gave a small smile at what Clyde said. He was right. Friends, espicially best friends, should be able trust each other with everything...including a secret identity. He would wait until Clyde was finished though. "I'm guessing whatever it is has to do with your arms being covered?" Lincoln asked.
Clyde nodded his head in confirmation when he begun to explain. "It just...happened. It came out of nowhere. My dads were checking us into a fancy hotel for the night, and they gave me a bag of quarters to play at the arcade right next door for a bit. Naturally, I was excited and went over their immediately and looked through the various games. I then saw an Ace Savvy fight game and went over their first and started playing, after wiping down the controls with an anti-bacteria wipe of course."
"I choose One Eyed Jack of course and played through the story mode. I was doing pretty well, almost beating the high score actually...and then it happened. My hands started to feel tingly and the screen started flickering. I thought it was because it might have been an old system. But it didn't stop and at that point it felt like my hands were buzzing."
"When I looked, I was shocked to see my hands were somehow...pulsing with electricity. RIght as I noticed suddenly a big spark was created from my right hand that spread all over the machine and shut it down. I started hyper ventilating and back away into another machine. When I pressed my hand on it, once again electricity surged from my hands and shorted out the machine and caused all the quarters to come up."
"At that point I was completely freaking out. I ran out of the arcade as fast as I could. I was going to run to my dads to tell them about this, but on my way over, I tripped once I crossed the road. When I used a pole to support myself up, I found it was a pole that connected to traffic lights. My hands did it again and caused the traffic lights to constantly flicker and actually explode causing a traffic jam."
"Needless to say when I told my dads, things really got hectic. We were all freaking out and we had no idea what to do. Since it seems electricity was the problems, we got these gloves for my hands and they seemed to work, granted with some slip ups here and there. We tried to contact some doctors but not a single one had ever seen what's going on with me or what do to. So we then decided it would be better and safer to come up and hopefully figure something out."
Lincoln was completely silent through Clyde's story. It was certainly surprising to say the least. Kinda reminds him of when he got the Omnitrix, at first he and Leni were completely freaking out. However eventually he learned to get the hang of things and now he was at where he was now. It's amazing to think how he started with an arsenal of 10 aliens and now he has 15.
"So...these powers you developed." Lincoln said with a small smile, trying to make it sound like more of a good thing then a bad thing. "Did you ever try to get control over them."
"No, I was to freaked out." Clyde admitted as he and his dads were to scared of these developments to even try to get a handle on them. "We all thought it was best to try and contain them, I mean, I told you what happened when they first started appearing and that was just the first time. There were other incidents."
Lincoln simply got off the bed and put his arm around his friends shoulder and gave him a smile. "Clyde, you probably developed super powers. It's like something out of a comic book, think of the possibilities if you learned how to use them."
"Maybe, but this is real life Lincoln." Clyde stated with a sigh. "Who know what trying to use them would do to me or others. It's not like a comic book where I can become an instant super hero."
"Yeah, maybe..." Lincoln muttered before looking at his wrist. Clyde not only told him his secret, but he's his best friend. If anyone outside his family deserved to know, it was the boy who's been with him for all these years and would always go out of his way to help him no matter what. "Clyde I wanna show you something."
"What's that?" Clyde asked as Lincoln separated from him and lifted up his coat sleeve to show a big bulky black and gray watch that had a green hourglass symbol on the face plate.
"Just watch, remember when I told you about the alien heroes earlier?" Lincoln asked as Clyde nodded. "Well you're about to see a whole new side of them right now."
Just then Lincoln activated the Omnitrix causing the face plate to pop up. Right before Clyde could question what he was doing, Lincoln rotated the face plate before raising his hand and slamming it down on the core, before he knew it, Clyde was blinded by a bright green flash.
When the flash died down, Clyde looked around for Lincoln, but was shocked and slightly disgusted to see a pile of orange goo on the floor. Suddenly a UFO-like device came out of nowhere and started to hover around the pile, collecting the goo up into a ball. Suddenly the it lifted the goo ball up and made it form into a humanoid shape with green eyes.
"Goop!" The transformed alien announced while striking a pose.
Clyde's jaw was dropped as far as he could and his eyes widened so much that his glasses started to fall of his face and were hanging from the tip of his nose. It was an awkward minute of pure silence until...
"AA-"
"Don't freak out!" Goop interrupted before Clyde could start screaming and freaking out over the transformation.
"...aaaaaaaaah." Clyde yelled quietly, sounding more like wheeze then a panicked scream.
"You good?" Goop asked cautiously as he carefully readjusted Clyde's glasses.
"You...you just transformed..." Clyde managed to get out as he punched his chest to try and keep his heart from bursting out of his chest. "You just transformed into one of the aliens."
"Uh-huh." Goop said with a nod. "Pretty cool right buddy?"
"B-b-b-but how?!" Clyde yelled quietly, not wanting to alert his dad. "How is this even possible."
"That, my best friend, is a long story." Goop answered as he pointed to the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. "See this?" Clyde nodded in response. "It's called the Omnitrix, it's a device filled with the DNA of tons of different alien species across the galaxy."
Goop then went on to explain to Clyde all that's TRULY went down during the summer with the Omnitrix. Fighting aliens, monsters, common criminals, and of course all the different adventures such as meeting a lake monster, defeating an evil clown, Ra'ad being in his head, even talking about how Ronnie Anne gained a magic amulet and how Carlota now has an alien dog.
Once Goop was done, he was expecting Clyde to freak out more, but instead he saw Clyde smile widly and stand up with his hands in the air. "Dude! That's so cool! You really are like a comic book super hero!"
"You better believe it Clyde!" Goop said with his hands on his hips making a heroic pose. "Like you with your powers, I was confused and even a little freaked out at first. But eventually, I learned to get used to it and use all my powers and now look at me."
"You became a totally awesome hero!" Clyde cheered again. "Just like Ace Savvy!"
"Yep." Goop agreed with a nod before he spoke up again. "And what's Ace Savvy without One Eyed Jack?"
Clyde's eyes widened as he instantly realized what Lincoln was talking about. He looked at his hands and was still a little afraid of his powers going out of control again...but if Lincoln was around helping him, and his experience in dealing with this sort of thing. "So...you really need me on your team."
"I want you on my team." Goop said as he kneeled down and put a hang on Clyde's shoulder. "Clyde, you've been with me for so long. You've always helped me with everything no matter how stupid it ended up being. And I still want you, if we can get a handle on your powers, we can become an unstoppable duo, taking down every villain that threatens this world. Are you in?"
Clyde took a moment to ponder everything, think of the possibilites...and smiled. "Clyde Mcbride reporting for duty Lincoln Loud."
"Awesome!" Goop cheered as the Omnitrix flashed red and he changed back to Lincoln.
"So, where do we start?" Clyde asked with enthusiam in his voice, seemingly forgetting about his fear he had for his powers.
"Come by my house tomorrow, you just came back and you should have some time to settle back down." Lincoln told him as he walked towards the door. "Plus it'll give me time to think about how you could use your powers."
"Alright, thanks a bunch Linc. I can tell this is gonna be awesome!" Clyde said with excitement as he was already looking forward to actually being a super hero team with his best friend! How could you get any better than that?
"No problem." Lincoln then opened the door to his friends' room and was preparing to leave, but turned his head back to say one more thing. "Glad to have you back bud."
WITH WENDY AND KAREN
Back with Wendy and Karen, the mother and daughter were currently sitting together at the new ice cream shop in town. Karen had a peanut butter cup and vanilla ice cream cone and Wendy had a cookies and cream flurry.
"I'm glad we got to do this." Karen said with content as she took a lick from her ice cream. "I just love spending time with you sweetie, but I'm still sorry that Lincoln had something come up."
"It's ok mom!" Wendy replied with her usual bright smile as she put her spoon back in her flurry. "I know Lincoln has a good reason and I love spending time with you."
"Same here." Karen replied with a small smile. It was then that Karen remembered what she was going to talk about Wendy with, causing her smile to falter. Wendy's feeling towards Lincoln.
There was no avoiding it. And she would be a bad mother if she just tried to keep Wendy away from Lincoln. She refused to be one of those moms who pretty much keep their child away from the opposite gender. She was better than that.
Still, didn't make her feel any better.
But, better to just rip off the bandaid.
Clearing her throat, Karen spoke up. "Wendy, there is something I want to talk to you about." Wendy looked up from her flurry with an ice cream lip and tilted her head due to her mouth being full. "It's about those...feelings you said you had for Lincoln."
Wendy swallowed as her cheeks turned pink as she used a napkin to wipe her mouth. "What about them?" She asked in a semi-flustered tone.
"I think I know what they mean." The mother revealed making her daughter raise her head and her expression changed to a slight surprised one.
"Really?" The 11-year-old asked as Karen nodded.
"Yes." Karen then took another deep breath as she prepared to tell Wendy a short little story.
"I was about your age, maybe a year or two older, when I met a certain boy in school. I don't know why, but whenever I was around him, or talked to him, or even thought of him I would get like you said how you felt. Flustered, happy, fuzzy."
"Over time we got to know each other for, learn of our interest, our personalities and families. And over all the feeling never went away. In fact, it only grew. And then I finally found what I was feeling...love."
Wendy listened to ever word, and when her mom finished, she processed everything that was sad...and she began to rapidly breath as her face started turning red. If her mother was implying what she thought she was that means...
"I'm in love...with Lincoln?" Wendy asked quietly to no one in particular, but Karen heard and slowly nodded her head.
"Tell me this honey, those feelings you said you had when you even think about Lincoln, are they serious. Do they really feel like they are a true part of you that won't simply fade away?" Karen asked in a gentle but serious tone.
Wendy's face went red as she put down her flurry. She put her hands to her heart as all the memories she had with Lincoln came to her mind. Even if they were recent, they all felt the same to her. Happy. Flustered. Fuzzy.
Something she didn't want to end. Something that never went away and somehow...she knew they wouldn't. These feeling that Lincoln made for her, they were nothing short of true and undying.
Love.
"Yes." Wendy said as she suddenly grew a happy smile as her heartbeat increased. "I'm in love with him. I'm in love with Lincoln Loud."
Karen felt her heart skip a few beats at hearing that from her daughter, but still gave her daughter a small and supportive smile. "Tell him." She said at volume loud enough so that Wendy could still hear her.
"What?" Wendy lightly gasp as her face once again turned red.
"If this is how you truly feel. And your serious about this. I think you should tell him." Karen explained as Wendy was taken back by this. Before Wendy could question anything, Karen spoke up again. "If he can really make you happy, and you can make him happy. Do it as soon as you can so that if this is serious and turns into something that one of a kind in the future, you can have so much time to cherish the simple moments while your both young."
While Wendy was still taken back by her mother's statements to confess feeling she just learned she had to Lincoln to said boy...she nodded. It made sense, it would honestly feel better to confess these feeling then let them bottle up anyway and if she and Lincoln were to get in a relationship...it might end up being one of the greatest thing she's ever and could ever experience in her life.
Making up her mind completely, she turned to her mom and asked her. "How should I do it?"
Karen simply gave Wendy a warm smile. "Just tell him."
"Huh?" Wendy hummed in question.
"Simply get a moment alone with him and tell him how you feel." Karen detailed more. "You don't need some sort of extravagant event or big show. Just simply look him in the eye, and tell him how you feel."
Wendy thought about her mother's advice for a moment, a smiled. "Yeah, you know what they say, less is more."
"Exactly." Karen comfirmed. "If he truly does like you that way as well, then a simple 'I love you' will be enough."
"Thanks mom." Wendy said with a completely genuine tone and small and sweet smile.
"Anytime sweetie." Karen replied as even though she was terrified of her daugther exploring these kinda of things due to what happened with her and him...she couldn't consider herself a good and loving mother she tried to keep Wendy from pursuing her happiness.
All she could do was simply hope for the best and pray Wendy would be happy and safe.
THE NEXT DAY
Wendy was approaching the Loud House as she constantly went over what she would say in her head. She had a simple plan, go to Lincoln's house, get Lincoln alone in his room, confess how she felt, and if Lincoln felt the same and get a new boyfriend.
Walking up the path to the front door, Wendy took a deep breath as she gave herself a pep talk. "Alright Wendy, just do what your mom told you. Just tell him how you feel once you and him are alone." She told herself before knocking on the door.
It was long before she heard footsteps approaching from inside and witnessed the door opening. The one opening the door happened to be Leni, who smiled as she saw it was Wendy at the door. "Oh Wendy, it's good to see you!" Leni greeted with her usual peppy tone as Wendy smiled toothily
"It's good to see you to Leni!" Wendy said as they both shared a hug. Wendy's also began to bond with other members of the Loud family, almost seeing them as he sisters as well. Especially since she's an only child. "Is Lincoln home?"
"Yeah, he's up in his room." Leni answered as she pointed her thumb to the stairs. However, Leni then noticed the tints of pink on Wendy's cheeks and gave the Japanese girl a sly smile. "How come? There something you wanna ask him?"
Wendy's cheeks went from pink to red as she tried to cover her face with her hair and avert her gaze. "M-maybe..." She said shyly.
Leni's eyes proceeded to widen as a big wide smile slowly started to appear on her face. "Are you planning on telling him you like him?"
"..." Wendy was silent as she used her hair to completely cover her now lava red face. It was complete silence for a moment before Wendy started to slowly nod her head.
Leni gasped before she started squeal like a fangirl at a very high pitch that made Wendy cover her ears. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! You're finally telling my baby brother how you feel!"
"I mean...yeah..." Wendy said in the same tone and with a shy smile now as she started to uncover her face.
"Wendy, I'm so proud of you" Leni encouraged as she gently took Wendy's hair and removed it from the girls face so she could look her in the eye. "I know Lincoln will say yes."
"Really?" Wendy said as she held her hands together as what Leni said started to fill her with reassurance and hope. "You think he will?"
"I know he will." Leni corrected with a supportive smile. "I've seen the way he acts around you and talks about you. I know for a fact he feels the same way."
Hearing this...Wendy felt stronger than ever about doing this. She just didn't like Lincoln, Lincoln liked her as well! This was probably the best scenario that could happen. Gaining a determined expression, Wendy looked Leni in the eyes and said. "Thanks Leni, now I got a boy to confess to."
Leni nodded as Wendy quickly went up the stairs. Sighing happily, Leni sat down on the couch before saying. "Those two are gonna be so cute together!"
Wendy quickly made her way to the door of Lincoln's room. She was aware of Lincoln moving back to his old room that used to be a linen closest ever since the incident at the swamp when Lynn broke the face plate off the Omnitrix.
Smiling happily, she raised her fist to knock on the door, but...
"So, you really think that would work?"
"If my calculations are correct. Besides, wouldn't hurt to try."
Wendy rose an eyebrow. She heard two voice coming from inside the room. Both male as one of them was squeaky and belonged to one of Lincoln's form, Gray Matter. The other however, she didn't recognize.
While she was upset someone was around, she knew there would be other moments where Lincoln would be by himself so she wasn't too worried. She simply knocked on the door and heard a 'Come in' and proceeded to do just that.
Unknown to her, Leni and Lori were peaking their heads from behind the wall that lead to the staircase. "So she's really gonna do it?" Lori asked, Leni having told her what Wendy was planning. Lori had gotten over the whole Lincoln and Ronnie Anne thing ever since she and Lincoln had their discussion not too long ago.
"Yep." Leni quietly sqeual with stars in her eyes. "This is gonna be amazing!" However, Leni soon realized something and face palmed. "Dang it!"
"What? What's wrong?" Lori asked immediately afterwards.
"I forgot Clydes in there with Lincoln." Leni explained since Wendy wanted to be alone while confessing to Lincoln.
Lori's eyes widened at the news as she turned to Leni. "Wait, he came back early? Summers only half way over though."
"Well apparently something happened that caused his family to end their road trip early so Clyde's back in town right now." Leni explained causing Lori to groan.
"Well there goes all my blue shoes." The eldest sibling complained remembering all the times that Clyde's nose bleeds around her caused most of her shoes to get ruined.
Once Wendy entered the room, her thoughts were proven right as she saw Gray Matter in the room doing something with a white board, but also another boy she didn't recognize sitting on the bed.
Gray Matter quickly looked to Wendy and smiled as he saw her come in and close the door behind her. "Ah! Wendy! I'm glad you're here." Gray Matter said as he climbed to the top of the white board while the other boy looked at her with a raised eye brow.
"You are?" Wendy asked quietly as pink came to her cheeks again.
"Yeah!" Gray Matter said as he gestured to the boy sitting on the bed. "I wanted you to meet my friend Clyde. He's back in town now and I wanted to introduce you too. Clyde, this is Wendy, the girl I told you about."
"Oh," The boy known as Clyde said as he stood up and held his hand out to her. "It's nice to meet you Wendy. My name is Clyde Mcbride."
"It's nice to meet you too Clyde!" Wendy said as he took his hand and shook it, only for abnormal strength to cause her to lift Clyde off the ground as she shook his hand.
"Ow..." Clyde groaned as he moved his arm around to make sure it was still intact after Wendy's greeting. "That's some arm you have."
"Thanks!" Wendy beamed with her usual bright smile. "I get that a lot." It was then that Wendy looked back to Gray Matter and tilted her head. "So, what'cha doin?"
"Ok, get this Wendy, Clyde has powers!" Gray Matter annouced as Clyde flinched and sheepishly smiled and laughed.
"Well, it's all a work in progress right now." Clyde explained as he adverted his gaze.
"Really?" Wendy asked while holding her hands together. "What are they?"
"Well..." Gray Matter then jumped on the white board causing it to turn around and reveal all the drawings Gray Matter made on them. It seemed to be a bunch of calculation for energy release and absorption. "From what I've calculated, it seems Clyde has gained some sort of ability that lets him release and even absorb energy from various sources."
"And currently I can't seem to control them." Clyde said in a saddened tone as he lowered his head.
Wendy patted him on the back to cheer him up, until an idea came to her head. "Why don't you treat your body like a light bulb?"
Both Clyde and Gray Matter looked to Wendy with a raised eye brow and confused expression as they asked in unison. "What?"
"Well think about it, when you turn a light switch one, you're essentially sending a signal to the lightbulb to begin absorbing energy from the wires it's connected to so it can light up." The Japanese girl explained as the two boys nodded in understanding. "Well maybe treat your body the same way. Find out what makes your energy powers tick and use that to send signals to your body to signal it to either absorb or release energy or just not do anything at all."
"That could work Wendy you're a genius!" Gray Matter compliment as Wendy smiled shyly with her cheeks lightly turning red. "Clyde, what does it feel like when you absorb or release energy?"
Clyde put a hand to his chin as he tried to find a way to explain the feeling he got when his powers activated. "Well, my hands kinda tense up and then start to get tingly. Is that something to work with?"
Wendy hummed for a bit before smiling and nodded. "Yeah. When you want to absorb or release energy, try to get that feeling again. When you don't, try relaxing and don't stress to much about trying to keep it in, just let it happen."
"Huh, I never thought of that before." Clyde admitted sheepishly. "I was too busy freaking out over this to try and relax."
Wendy giggled in response as she went further in depth. "Well that's probably what's wrong. If you freak out your mind can't focus and it leads to things getting out of hand."
Clyde couldn't but be impressed by Wendy's explination and how she talked to him. It reminded him of talking to his therapist Dr. Lopez. "Thanks for that Wendy, you really know how to talk to people."
"Well, I learned from the best." Wendy said while glancing at Gray Matter and giving the tiny brainiac a wink, causing his grey cheeks to turn a light red.
Before Clyde could speak up again, the police radio on Lincoln's drawer started up and an annoucment came through. "Attention all units, attention all units, we have a 32-65 happening at the corner of Flint City."
Gray Matter and Wendy groaned in unison as Clyde rose an eye brow. "What? What's wrong?" He asked in a confused and concerned tone.
Both simply shook their heads in response as Gray Matter spoke up. "No, 32-65 is a special code give to the biggest group of idiots you've ever seen. The red and blue gang."
"Red and blue gang?" Clyde said fearfully as he started shaking, even with the way his best friend described them he couldn't help but be afraid at the idea of a street gang being in town.
"Don't worry Clyde, trust us." Wendy reassured while putting a hand on Clyde's shoulder. "You could just stand in place and you'd win against them. They're that incompetent."
"You know, that's a good point." Gray Matter said as he scratched his chin. "This might just be the perfect opportunity for you Clyde?"
"Wh-what do you mean?" Clyde stuttered in response.
"Well these guys are the biggest idiots in the galaxy, and since you're just getting your powers and learning how to use them, this might be a great way to practice with them." Gray Matter explained as Clyde went wide eyed and Wendy smiled and nodded in agreement.
"H-h-hold on a second!" Clyde protested. "You w-want me to go out and face an entire street gang alone?!" It was then that Clyde took out the paper bag he always had in his pockets and started breathing rapidly into it.
Wendy couldn't help but giggle in response as she put a hand on Clyde's shoulder to calm him down. "Not by yourself Clyde, me and Lincoln will be here to help you."
"Yeah Clyde." Gray Matter reassured. "We're a team, and a team sticks together and helps each other out every step of the way."
Clyde took a few more breathes from his bag before processing Wendy and Gray Matter's words. "You two really think I can help?"
"Absolutely!" They both said in unison.
Clyde hummed for a bit, still unsure. But eventually he faced both of them and nodded. "Alright! If you guys are so sure on this, I'll tag along."
"Alright! Welcome to the team Clyde!" Gray Matter said as he hopped from the white board to the bed.
"This is gonna be so exciting!" Wendy cheered.
Clyde chuckled nervously and held his arm with his oppisite hand. "I'm still a little worried about all this."
"Don't worry, like Lincoln said, we'll both me looking out for you." Wendy assured him as she opened the door.
"Yeah, now why don't you guys wait outside while I time out, even if we are facing a buncha jokers Gray Matters not exactly a good fighter." Gray Matter asked as Wendy nodded and happily skipped out and Clyde saluted and marched out like he usually does whenever he and Clyde make plans together.
And when the tiny alien was alone...
'Hey, I got something I need to tell ya.'
"What is it Ra'ad?" Gray Matter responded, now starting to realized that Ra'ad hadn't spoken when he reunited with Clyde or when he was discussing things about Clyde's powers.
'That Clyde kids powers...it's giving me a sense of déjà vu, and not the good kind.'
"What do you mean?" Gray Matter asked with confusion in his voice. "Clyde's awesome, he's my best friend."
'Yeah, I've seen your memories of him and he's seems like a nice kid...a dorky sometimes sad kid, but a nice kid. But what I'm talking about are these 'powers' he's somehow developed. I feel like I've seen them before and I don't like it.'
"So...his powers could be bad?" Gray Matter asked again with a concerned tone this time.
'I don't know. What I'm saying is that if your keen on training him to use them, be cautious because who knows what could happen.'
"Don't worry Ra'ad, we will." The tiny genius reassured.
'...I hope so.'
And with that, the Omnitrix symbol on Gray Matters back started to beep red and in a red flash, Gray Matter turned back to normal.
Taking a moment to think about that Ra'ad said, Lincoln got off the bed and started to head outside. "Don't wanna keep them waiting." He said to himself quietly.
The group of 3 kids quickly made their way to where the radio said the crime was taking place. They saw police cars parked outside what seemed to be an old way into a subway that wasn't used anymore. When Clyde saw the scene, he gulped and spoke up.
"Now what? They'll never let us through." The african-american boy asked with worry and unsureness.
"Easy Clyde." Wendy said as she gestured the boys to follow her. They did and they saw she led them to a vent. Clyde watched as Wendy suddenly slipped her fingers though the grates and tore it off from the wall easily making Clyde's eye widen.
"That grate had to be screwed on, how did you do that?!" He quietly yelled as Wendy gently set the grate down next to the now open vent.
"Trust me Clyde, Wendy's tough as nails. Metamorically and literally." Lincoln explained as Wendy blushed from the compliment.
"Thanks Lincoln." She said sweetly making it Lincoln's turn to blush as Clyde rose an eyebrow at the ordeal. Wendy then faced forward and started to crawl in the vent. "Now come on team! Let's go."
Lincoln nodded as he crawled in the vent after Wendy. Clyde still felt unsure about everything, especially since they were essentially breaking in, but nonetheless started crawling after the two white heads.
Inside the abandoned subway station, sure enough, the red and blue gang were there. All of them but one sitting on an old bench while the one not sitting was Commander. He was currently marching back and forth in front of everyone as he spoke.
"This is UNACCEPTABLE men!" Commander yelled as he stopped marching and looked down at all of his sitting teammates. "When we formed this team, we set out to make easy money, get our names out there, and get respected among the criminal organization. So, can any of you explain why we keep failing?"
"Cause we're a band of idiot losers that suck balls." Chapple said in a deadpanned tone.
"Every one of your plans is God awful." Gruff stated bluntly.
"We keep running into that kid that can turn into superpowered aliens." Bucker pointed out as he remembered every single painful experience dealing with that white-haired kid.
"All the above." Simon added.
"That was a rhetorical question!" Commander yelled back.
"Well we gave you rhetorical answers, so there." Engine said back with his usual happy-go-idiot tone.
"Would you shut up." Chapple scolded as he smacked the back of Engines head.
"Listen men, enough is enough!" Commander said as he resumed his marching. "We've been humilated, beaten senseless, and had memes made about us."
"There was one of me saying 'One does not simply get their ass kicked this easily." Simon said with a lowered head and a depressed tone.
"Oh man I love that one." Gruff said in the opposite tone as Simon.
"Anyway!" Commander yelled, getting the topic back on track. "Today, I saw we've had enough. Enough losing. Enough humiliation, and most of all, enough losing to that snot nose little albino brat and his freak of nature transformation. I mean seriously, they've got to me the ugliest darn things I've ever seen. I mean, if that moth formed of his walked into a bar with a pope and an ostrich he could-"
However, Commander stopped talking as he saw all of his teammates stand up and start to slowly walk away. Commander quickly pieced together why and said. "He's right behind me isn't he."
Everyone slowly nodded as Commander turned around to see Lincoln crossing his arms and tapping his foot with narrowed eyes, Wendy with her hammer deployed and Clyde hiding behind Lincoln. "So, what could I do again?" Lincoln asked in an irritated tone.
"Uh...nothing." Commander said with a quiet tone.
"Hi there" Bagel said with his usual happy tone. "Sorry it's such a mess here, we didn't have the time to tidy up."
"Oh trust me..." Lincoln said as he activated the Omnitrix and slamming it down. A green flash was created as coals started to cover Lincoln's body.
"Heatblast!" The fire alien announced as he glared at the group. "Things are about to heat up!"
"...Oh I get it because he turned into a fire alien." Simon stated as we slowly started to back off.
"Um...mercy?" Bagel asked only for a fire ball to be thrown at his face causing him to fly to the wall and fall face down.
"I'm gonna assume that's a no." Bucker squeaked out as he started backing up.
"I just don't get how you guys keep breaking out of jail." Wendy said with a sigh as she shook her head.
"Oh that would be me this time." Gruff stated as he took a step forward. "See, during the whole incident with Mick Swagger, when I saw the kid taking us down, I played dead and crawled away when the cost was clear. Broke everyone out once I figured out why I cared."
"And it had nothing to do with the fact that the author forgot to write in Gruff being beaten up." Engine said with his idiotic tone.
"What was that?" Chapple asked in confusion.
"I like pancakes!" Engine responded, making Chapple groan.
"Enough chit chat, let's get started already!" Heatblast announced as he bumped his fist into an open palm. "Ready Wendy, Clyde?"
"Totally!" Wendy said as she slammed her hammer down.
"U-u-uh, ye-yeah t-totally." Clyde stuttered while raising his fist and putting on a forced smile.
It was then that the fight started, and it went down as usual.
Commander would try to make smart remarks while trying, and failing, to attack. Chapple would shoot from a distance and miss every shot. Engine would spout random nonsense and run around firing blindly. Simon would cower and try to work up the courage to pull the trigger...right before getting knock out by a hammer swing by Wendy. Bagel would scream and shoot blindly as well. And Gruff was hiding, not out of fear because of laziness.
But Gruff wasn't the only one hiding. Clyde was also hiding due to fear. He watched from behind a pillar in the room with his gloves now off. He did peek his head out to watch and he couldn't deny what Wendy and Lincoln said, this group was a bunch of idiots.
But he still couldn't help but be afraid for multiple reasons. What if the enemy actually manage to corner him? What if his powers went hay wire again and he ended up being a danger to his friends rather than a help? All these thoughts couldn't help but fill his head and make him unsure of himself.
But when he peeked his head out again to watch, his eyes widened.
He saw Gruff emerge from his hiding spot with a rocket launcher aimed right at Heatblast. Suddenly Clyde's instincts took control of him as he suddenly found himself running towards Heatblast right as Gruff was pulling the trigger. "LINCOLN LOOK OUT!"
Before Heatblast could respond, he ended up being pushed by his best friend to the floor as a missile grazed them and ended up blasting the back wall to smithereins.
"Woah." Heatblast said as he looked up and smirked at Clyde. "Nice save buddy."
Clyde couldn't help but chuckle and smile back at the fire alien. "No problem Linc-" But before Clyde could finish, he was interupting by the sound of sparking. Clyde's eyes widened as he felt that tingly feeling in his hands.
When both Clyde and Heatblast looked at the source, they saw Clyde's hand on the Omnitrix symbol. Before either of them could say anything, energy started to surged from the Omnitrix to Clyde and spread throughout him. The glasses wearing boy screamed in what seem liked pain as suddenly his body was thrown back into the wall and creating a dust cloud.
"Clyde!" Heatblast yelled in concern as he stood right up. "Clyde are you alright?!"
"Uuuugh." A groan emerged from the dust cloud. "I...I think so but..."
"But what?" Wendy asked in concern as suddenly a bright light emerged from the cloud.
When the light caused the dust cleared, everyone in the room watched with a stunned expression was Clyde stood there...but change. Clyde's head, upper body, and right armed now looked excatly like Heatblast.
Clyde took a moment to look over himself, he was almost completely speechless and let out a, "Woah..."
"Ok seriously, what the hell?" Chapple suddenly said from the opposite end of the room.
"Since when can you do that?!" Heatblast yelled with confusion but also some excitement. "You look awesome!"
"Are you feeling ok?" Wendy asked as she was still feeling concerned about the whole thing.
Clyde was silent for a moment as he continued to look over himself and then finally spoke. "Yeah...I think...I think I feel good."
Clyde then looked up at Chapple, and suddenly his eyes narrowed as he felt new instincts take over him as he raised his right hand up and threw a fireball at Chapple, knocking him out before the criminal to respond.
"Hehehe...HAHAHAH!" Clyde suddenly laughed. "I don't just feel good! This feels awesome!" Once again, before anyone could respond, Clyde suddenly began to throw a barrage of fire balls across the room at the various criminals and knocking them out.
It was then that Commander was the last one standing. As Clyde slowly approached him. He tried to grip his shot gun but Clyde responded faster and fired a stream of fire at Commanders chest causing the red dressed criminal to howl in pain from the heat.
"Yeah! How do you like Clyde Mcbride now!" Clyde yelled in triumph, but he suddenly stopped his attack when he felt a strong hand on his shoulder.
"Clyde! That's enough!" Heatblast yelled Clyde ceased his attack. Suddenly Clyde looked at his hands and back at Commander and his smoking chest.
It didn't seem like it would cause permeant damage, but it would require treatment. "I-I'm sorry." Clyde said as his face turned to a frown. "I didn't mean to take it that far."
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, relax it's alright." Heatblast reassured his best friend. "You just got a little too into it is all, just gotta learn how to control yourself. A little self-restraint is all."
"Yeah Clyde, you were great! That was pretty cool!" Wendy complimented causing Clyde to scratch the back of his head.
"Well I was only trying to keep up with you gu-UGH!" Clyde suddenly surged with energy again as he was forced to take a knee. Heatblast and Wendy looked concerned at first but then witnesses as Clyde's Heatblast parts slowly started to change back to normal.
"Ah...my head." Clyde groaned but soon noticed he was back to normal. "Wow..."
"It must be temporary, like the Omnitrix." Heatblast deduced with his hand on his chin. "So, how was day one in the field?"
"It...was...AWESOME!" Clyde said in excitement causing Heatblast and Wendy to chuckle and nod. "I mean, at first it was terrifying, but then I saved my best friend from a missle, and then I somehow absorbed power from your watch and transformed and actually defeated some bad guys!"
"Yeah, really gets the blood pumping huh?" Wendy asked with a smile as she retracted her hammer.
"Totally, I gotta go home and write this in my diary!" Before the other two could say anything else, Clyde suddenly ran to the open vent and started crawling out.
"Well, he seems eager now." Wendy stated with a chuckle.
"Yep, you better go one ahead, I doubt I could squeeze in that vent like this." Heatblast said in a joking tone as he gestured to his whole body.
Wendy laughed a little in response. "Ok, cool." She responded. However, she then remembered what she was going to do today and turned to Lincoln after taking a deep breath. "Hey Lincoln," She begun saying as Heatblast turned to her and listened. "I was wondering at 7 tonight, if you could meet me at the parking lot of Gus's Game's and Grub. I can't say why but it's important."
While Heatblast was confused as to why Wendy couldn't tell him what was up right now, he wouldn't pry into it and simply accepted her request. "Yeah sure, I can make it."
"Great!" She said enthusiastically before clearing her throat. "I'll see you there." And that was the last thing Wendy said before she crawled in the vent to leave.
"Huh, wonder what she wants to talk about?" Heatblast asked himself.
'Hey, you gotta listen to me.'
"What is it Ra'ad?" Heatblast asked as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, simply waiting to turn back.
'Lincoln, this kids giving me a lot of bad vibes.'
"Is this about Clyde again?" Heatblast asked with some annoyance in his voice.
'Just listen to me alright. This kids powers aren't right. You saw how he somehow transformed after absorbing the Omnitrix's energy. Who know's the potential side effects that could have if done to much. And did you notice his eyes?'
"What about his eyes?" Heatblast asked in confusion.
'They gained black marks around them. They were just like Aggregor's!'
"What, you mean that guy who kidnapped you?" Heatblast asked as he remembered the name from when Ra'ad explained why he was in the Omnitrix in the first place.
'Yes! Look, I'm not trying to make Clyde sound like a bad guy, but I'm really thinking you should be careful and see how he acts.'
Heatblast in response frowned and sighed. "Alright, maybe you got a point. I'll keep an eye on him but I promise you, Clyde's nothing like this Aggregor guy."
'I'm sure he's not, I'm just looking out for both of ya kid.'
"Thanks Ra'ad," And with that said, the Omnitrix symbol beeped red and in a flash of red, he turned back to Lincoln.
Lincoln sighed again as he rubbed his head before going through the vent and leaving the premises.
7 O, CLOCK PM
Lincoln walked toward the location Wendy told him to meet him at. The parking lot of Gus's Game's and Grub. A place he, his friends, and on an occasion his sisters. He always enjoyed coming her and didn't question it. But this time he did.
For the rest of the day he couldn't help but wonder why Wendy wanted to meet him here. She even texted him and asked him to come alone. He also noticed Wendy seemed to act differently around him today. She seemed both peppier and also shyer. Often blushing or averting her gaze whenever he said something nice about her.
Then again, he did the same sometimes.
He finally reached his destination and almost instantly found Wendy standing under a street light. Walking up to her, she heard his footsteps and turned to face him. "So," Lincoln said as he put his hands in his coat pockets.
This was it. No turning back. Wendy took a deep breath and spoke. "Lincoln...there's something I wanna tell you..." She said quietly, but Lincoln could hear it.
The boy in question rose an eyebrow and asked. "What is it?"
Wendy then started walking towards Lincoln and, catching the Omnitrix wielder off guard, softly grabbed his hands causing both to blush. "Lincoln...when I first got to Royal Woods, I was excited...but also scarred. I've never really socalized with others before and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to make any friend. But then I meant you and I've had the time of my life."
Lincoln felt his cheeks heat up even more as he started to take deeper breaths. "Well...I'm glad I could be your friend. It's been awesome hanging out with you this summer."
Wendy smiled sweetly and her cheeks turned a deeper shade of red as she continued. "There's more than that. When I first met you, I felt some things that I couldn't explain. At first, I thought it was just happiness from making a friend. But over time, they never went away. They just got stronger. And when I talked to my mom about it the other day...I think I know what it is."
Lincoln made an audible gulp as he tried to keep himself together. "And what would that be?"
It was then that Wendy said it...
"Lincoln Loud...I'm in love with you."
Lincolns whole face went red. He felt his heartbeat increase tremendously. Before he could even think of anything to respond with, Wendy suddenly pulled him closer...and connected their lips. While Wendy closed her eyes to treasure the moment, Lincoln's eyes widen as much as they could. However, after a few seconds he started to relax and lean into the kiss...enjoying every second of it.
As they two continued their loving lip lock, unknown to them, a certain African American boy had saw and heard everything. And once he saw the two kiss, he lowered his head and walked away, seemingly saddened.
However, Lincoln and Wendy didn't even notice. As they simply kissed and savored the sacred moment.
Next time on Loud 10...
Lincoln: So, what does this make us now?
Luna: Dude, we're so proud of you two!
Lincoln: Everything ok buddy?
Clyde: Why do we always have to follow YOUR lead.
Ra'ad: This is exactly what I was warning you about!
Four-Arms: You need to calm down!
Lori: What's happening to him?!
Wendy: That's...my...LINCOOOOOOOOLN!
