Full chapter finally here...sorta. See, originally this was gonna bet he final part of the Ja'Orre arc, but when I thought about it, I think its best if I split it into 3 parts to keep this one from being insanely long. I don't want another instance of a chapter being almost 20k words XD. But I like what I was able to do with this one and the next one I can't wait to do. So I hope you all enjoy.
"Oooooh! How's my wisp? Is my eye to big? Do I have ghost breath?" Ja'Orre asked anxiously as he followed Lincoln to the Loud boys best friend Clyde's house. Once agai Ja'Orre was wearing a disguise so no one that saw them would suspect Ja'Orre of being a ghost/alien. Best to not attract attention to themselves.
"Relax Ja'Orre, Clyde's my best pal." Lincoln reassured his ghostly friend in a calm tone. "You two will get along greatly, trust me."
"Alright Lincoln, I trust you." Ja'Orre said as he simply followed the white-haired 11-year-old through the neighborhood.
The two then approached the Mcbride household and walked up to the door with Lincoln ringing the doorbell. They didn't even have to wait a full minute before they saw Howard Mcbride answer the door and smile at Lincoln. "Ah! Lincoln, how are you doing today?" Howard asked in a kind tone.
Lincoln gave Howard his own kinda smile and said. "I'm doing just fine today Mr. Mrbride. I'm just here to see Clyde, and to introduce him to my new friend Ja'Orre!" Lincoln then stepped aside so Howard could see the disguised Ja'Orre.
"Hello their sir!" Ja'Orre said happily as he held his hand out to Howard. "It's very nice to meet you!"
"Nice to meet you as well Ja'Orre." Howard said as he shook Ja'Orre hand and shivered a bit. "Ooo, cold hands you got there."
"Sorry." Ja'Orre apologized as he pulled his hand back.
"No worries, we have mittens here if you need." Howard offered before stepping aside. "Anyway, any friend of Lincoln is a friend of ours. Clyde's in his room organizing his Ace Savvy collection."
"Thanks Mr. Mcbride!" Lincoln and Ja'Orre said in unison as Lincoln led Ja'Orre to where Clyde's room is.
Once in front of the door, Lincoln simply knocked on the door to the room. "Hello, who's there?" They heard Clyde's voice from inside the room.
"Clyde it's me!" Lincoln called out immediately in response
The two of them heard an excited gasp come from inside the room and followed by, "Lincoln! Come on it!" Not wanting to keep his best friend waiting, Lincoln opened the door and saw Clyde at his desk and smiling at him. "Linc! How's it going?" Clyde asked as he walked over to Lincoln and gave his best friend a hug.
"Doing just fine buddy." Lincoln reassured his best friend as they seperated. "Actually, I came her because I wanted to introduce you to a friend I just made." Lincoln then stepped aside and let Clyde get a clear sight of Ja'Orre. "Clyde, meet Ja'Orre. Ja'Orre, meet my best friend Clyde Mcbride."
Clyde looked over Ja'Orre for a moment before raising his eyebrow. "It's nice to meet you but...what's with the coat? It's the middle of summer?"
"Oh, right, uh hey Linc is it ok if I…" Ja'Orre quietly asked Lincoln, wanting to know if it was ok to show Clyde Ja'Orre's true appearnce.
"Go ahead. Clyde's cool." Lincoln reassured as he closed the door so no one would look in on them.
"What are you guys talking about?" Clyde asked in a confused tone. But just then he gasped as something came to his mind. "Wait...does he have anything to do with alien stuff."
"You could say that." Lincoln said with a smirk as he nodded at Ja'Orre.
"Alright, get ready for this Clyde!" Ja'Orre said as he grabbed his coat and hat and proceeded and throw them off and show his true appearance. "Ta-Da!"
Clyde's eyes widened as he looked over Ja'Orre's ghostly form. "A Gh-Gh-Gh-Gh-Ghost…" Clyde stuttered as he looked into Ja'Orre's orange eye.
"No just the regular kind." Ja'Orre told the Mcbride son as he suddenly grabbed Clyde's hand with both of his and started to rapidly shake it. "Anyway, nice to meet ya! My name's Ja'Orre! I hope we can become great friends!"
"Ye-e-e-e-e-e-eah m-e-e-e-e-e-e t-t-t-t-t-to!" Clyde said as he was lifted up and down from Ja'Orre's hand shake.
"Glad to see you to getting along already." Lincoln said with an amused smirk as he watch Ja'Orre let go of a now busy Clyde.
It took a few minutes for Clyde to get back to his senses and once that was done, he readjusted his glasses and took another look at Ja'Orre. "Well, at least he's not trying to possess me or anything."
Suddenly Ja'Orre's pupil dilated as a nervous look appeared on him. "After Lucy...I don't wanna possess anything ever again." Ja'Orre said as he hugged himself and started shivering at the memory of possessing the 8-year-old Loud girl.
"...I don't even wanna know." Clyde said as he knew that anything that involved Lucy would most likely result in getting nightmares for days, if not weeks. Clyde then shook his head and smiled at the ghost alien. "Well, it's nice to meet you Ja'Orre. Especially since you're not the kind of ghost that's gonna take over my body and use it to do horrible things to me or others."
"Aw, shucks." Ja'Orre said with red...cheeks? Whatever they're called for him.
"Anyway, Ja'Orre is staying at my place for a while." Lincoln explained to his best friend. "He kinda crashed his ship here and now he doesn't have a way back home now."
"Oh, I'm really sorry about that Ja'Orre." Clyde said to the Ectonurite in an apologetic tone.
"Eh, what happens, happens." Ja'Orre said casually before looking to Lincoln. "At least I was lucky enough to run into Lincoln. Beatrix to."
"Beatrix?" Clyde asked in a confused tone. "Who's that?"
"Lot's happened while you were gone." Lincoln told Clyde and telling him that he'd tell him later. "Anyway, I wanted to introduce him to you so we can take him around the town together and get him used to things. You in?"
"Heck yeah!" Clyde said enthusiastically to the two. "It's been too long since we've had a 'night on the town' and now we got someone new to add to the group. I'm in!"
"Woohoo! Bring it in!" Ja'Orre said as he wrapped up Lincoln and Clyde in each arm. Both boys laughed as Ja'Orre said. "Super Best Friends Group Unite!"
"Unite!" Clyde and Lincoln said in unison as the three of them burst out laughing at their antics.
"So, where should we head first?" Clyde asked as he and Lincoln were released from Ja'Orre's grip.
"Why don't we just go out and see where the day takes us." Lincoln suggested as he thought the best way to experience Royal Woods was to simply go around town and stop by wherever they passed. No sense in making a schedule.
"Woohoo! Randomness!" Ja'Orre cheered as he put his disguise back on. "Come on guys, let's head out! Charge!" And with that, Ja'Orre went out of the room as fast as they can.
"Ja'Orre! Wait for us!" Clyde and Lincoln yelled as they chased after their ghost friend before he could end up getting into trouble or starting it.
"Hmmm, Gus's Game's and Grub?" Ja'Orre said as the first location was none other then Royal Woods pizzeria and arcade, Gus's Game and Grub. "Hmm, Gus sounds like a nice name, I like games, but grubs are kinda gross."
Clyde and Lincoln chuckled in unison as the former spoke up. "Ja'Orre, that's just another way to say food on earth." Clyde explained to the ectonurite as Ja'Orre moved his orange eye to the two humans. "Anyway, this place is the coolest place in town to hang out!"
"Yeah!" Lincoln added in with an enthusiastic smile. "They're pizza and garlic knots are to die for! And there's a lot of great arcade game here. Not to brag, but me and Clyde hold some of the high scores."
"Oooooooo! Sounds fun! Let's go in!" Ja'Orre said in an excited tone as he suddenly rushed inside of the restaurant. Lincoln and Clyde simply chuckled as they followed the enthusiastic ghost alien inside. Once they opened the doors inside, they were immediately met with the amazing smells of pizza and garlic nose flooded their noses and made them drool.
And the sounds the various arcades in the other half of the establishment as well as all the people inside laughing and having fun either playing games or eating at the dining area. "This place…is…awesome!" Ja'Orre cheered as he started speeding around and checking out every inch of the arcade/pizzeria with complete fascination while also causing a few people to stare at him.
"We don't have anything like this back home!" Ja'Orre said as he took some time looking at the arcade machines. "There's so much sounds, smells, new stuff!"
Lincoln and Clyde simply smiled at Ja'Orre as he explored the establishment. "What should we do first? Get food! No, play games! No, food! No, Games! No-"
GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!
Ja'Orre went silent as he and Lincoln looked to a now embarrassingly blushing Clyde as he patted his stomach to calm it down. Clyde chuckled sheepishly as he said. "I think food would be a good start." The Mcbride child said with Lincoln nodding in agreement.
"Sounds good." Lincoln said as he walked over to the counter. "You guys find us all somewhere to seat and I'll place our order."
"You got it Linc." Clyde and Ja'Orre said in unison as the white head went off to get the two of them food.
It didn't take long for Ja'Orre and Clyde to find an empty booth to seat themselves at across from each other. Once seated the two of them simply looked at each other in silence for a few moments before Clyde decided to speak up. "So, Ja'Orre, I know your shipped crashed her, but any reason you were nearby earth in the first place?"
"Eh, not really." Ja'Orre answered with the shrug of his shoulders as he leaned back in his seat. "Just kinda cruising the cosmos. Chill style."
"Oh cool." Clyde said as he awkwardly looked around. He was trying to find more conversation topics…but finding stuff to talk about with an alien ghost creature was a lot harder than he originally thought.
"Now I get to ask you a question." Thankfully, Ja'Orre spoke up first so Clyde didn't have to think of anything for now. "How long have you and Lincoln been best buds for?"
Clyde smiled widely at this. Now this was a story he would be more then happy to tell. "Well that my friend is quite the heart-warming story." Clyde said as Ja'Orre starred in anticipation with his single eyes sparkling. "Back on Halloween day 6 years ago, I was in my One-Eyed Jack costume trick or treating around Royal Woods. Suddenly, a girl which I would later find out is Lynn's sister jumped past me and before I knew it, I ended running into someone my age wearing an Ace Savvy costume. The impact caused my nose to start bleeding, and the kid was kind enough to offer his cape to let me plug my nose with. We then spent the night trick or treating, and I found out his name was Lincoln Loud, and our friendship only grew after that as we bonded over our shared love of Ace Savvy, Sci-Fi, video games, and just having each other's back."
Clyde then smiled pridefully as he said. "And our friendship only grew over the years. Truly a friendship story for the ages." Clyde then looked to see Ja'Orre single eye was watery as the ectonurite used some napkins to wipe his eyes with.
"That's so beautiful!" Ja'Orre wailed as he somehow blew into the napkin despite not having a nose. Clyde put a hand to the ghost aliens' shoulder as Ja'Orre took a moment to calm down from the heart-warming smile. "It's especially beautiful when you consider that most Osmosian's are rather aggressive."
This caused Clyde's eyes to widen a bit as he asked Ja'Orre in a confused tone. "Osmo-what? What are those?"
Ja'Orre tilted his head in response as the ghost alien asked. "You mean you don't know?" Clyde shook his head in response as Ja'Orre continued. "Well you're half Os-"
"Foods here!" Interrupting Ja'Orre was Lincoln as he suddenly came up to the table holding a large pepperoni pizza and a basket of garlic knots with a container of marinara sauce inside the basket as well. Lincoln set the food down between the two of them and said. "Dig in!"
"Woohoo!" Both cheered as they rose their hands up in the sky. Lincoln sat himself down next to Clyde as Clyde happily filled his empty stomach with pizza and garlic knots covered in sauce, while also making sure never to double dip.
Ja'Orre didn't dig in right away, instead he picked up a slice of pizza and inspected it for a bit. Lincoln noticed this as he was eating his own slice and told Ja'Orre. "It's pizza. It's reeeeeeally good."
Ja'Orre looked back at his slice and shrugged. "Well, down the hatched." Ja'Orre then phased the slice through the part of his body where one would suspect a mouth would be a surprising a chewing sound was heard as Ja'Orre pull the slice out. The bite was interesting looking as it looks like the bite mark of something with incredibly sharp teeth.
Ja'orre hummed a bit as he chewed on the pizza, but then he froze as his single eye widened. Just then the two boys looked as Ja'Orre stuffed the entire slice in his mouth at once as his eye sparkled. "This is amazing!" Ja'Orre said with his mouth full as he chewed up and swallowed the pizza supposedly in a mouth he had somewhere.
He then eagerly took another slice and ate that one up quickly as well making the two boys chuckle. Lincoln then pushed forward the basket of garlic knots towards Ja'Orre. "Here, try these." The white-head told the ectonurite.
"And don't forget the sauce." Clyde added as he pushed the container of marinara sauce towards Ja'Orre and next to the garlic knots. "The sauce really brings out the flavor."
Ja'Orre swallowed the food in his probably mouth and rubbed his hands together as he looked at the garlic knots and sauce. "Don't mind if I do!" Ja'Orre said excitedly as he grabbed a knot and dipped it in the sauce for a second before eating it up. Once again Ja'Orre completely brightened up once he tasted it. "Is all earth food this amazing?" The ectonurite said in bliss.
"Well, depends on what your taste is." Lincoln answered as there was plenty of foods he liked and didn't like, and he was sure it would be the same for his ghostly friend. However, when he thought that, something clicked in his head that made him wonder. "Hey, wait, do you even need to eat?"
Clyde's eyes widened a bit when Lincoln said that and the questioned went through his head as well as he looked to Ja'Orre with a raised eyebrow. "Hey yeah, do ghost even need to eat? Er, well, ghost aliens."
Ja'Orre hummed in thought for a bit, before shrugging his shoulders and saying. "Well, I don't really need to eat but that doesn't mean I can't and even don't want to." Ja'Orre explained as he happily ate some more food. Clyde and Lincoln looked to each other and shrugged before eating more of the food themselves.
A little later, the three of them gave sighs of satisfactions as they patted their stomachs with all the food on the table gone and eaten. Lincoln let out a burp and said. "Good as ever."
"Got that right." Clyde said in agreement.
Ja'Orre let out his own burp and chuckled before asking the two in front of him. "So, what now? Are we play some of those games?"
"Sure! Why not?" Lincoln said as the three of them got up from the booth. The three of them walked over to the arcade portion of the restaurant as Lincoln put a hand to his chin. "Now what should you play first? We should probably avoid shooters since your depth perception probably isn't the best."
"…It's true." Ja'Orre said with a lowered head as Clyde patted his back.
"And you don't have any legs so racing games and dance games are also out of the question." Lincoln muttered as he tried to think of a game that would be perfect for Ja'Orre. Just then Lincoln snapped his fingers as an idea came to him. "I got it!"
The group was now standing in front of…
"THE ACE SAVVY FIGHTING GAME!" Lincoln and Clyde said in unison as they brought Ja'Orre to one of their absolute favorite games.
"Oooooo! Cardy!" Ja'Orre said as he looked over the same console and couldn't help but admire all the playing card theme the entire machine and the heroes and villains had on it. "So how do you play?"
"Simple. You choose a character, and you fight to get the others health down to 0 and when you do, you win." Clyde summarized for the ghost alien.
"Interesting…" Ja'Orre commented as he went in front of one half of the console labeled 'Player 2' and looked at the control. "So, these are the controls."
"Yep!" Lincoln said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a couple of quarters. "Here, it'll be better to show you then to just explain." Lincoln then inserted a quarter into each side of the machine and started up the game for himself and Ja'Orre.
A character selection screen came up and Lincoln was quick to choose Ace Savvy. "Now just pick you character." Lincoln instructed as Ja'Orre took ahold of the controls and looked at each character for a moment before deciding to choose Wild Card Willie.
"Now, let's see how fast a learner you are!" Lincoln said as the fight on the game started with Clyde watching in anticipation.
SUNSET CANYON RETIREMENT HOME
Currently at Royal Woods retirement home, Albert Baxter was currently enjoying a drink of punch while relaxing at the pool of his retirement home. Ever since Ghostfreak have Sue quiet the scare, Sue really let up on the rules in fear of spirits coming to get her…as well as buying a lot of anti-ghost and spirit things. But hey, that was Albert's problems.
All it meant was that he had a lot less to worry about and could actually enjoy living in the retirement home with his best buds and his girlfriend Myrtle.
But speaking of the devil herself, Sue came into the pool looking right at Albert and said. "Albert, you have a visitor."
Albert smiled in response as he looked to Sue and said. "Ah, my family here to surprise me?"
"No actually." Sue responded with making Alberts eyes widened a bit. "He says he's an old friend of yours. He's waiting in the lobby." Before Albert could ask anything, Sue walked away and out of the pool room.
Albert was confused. Who could be visiting him that wasn't any of his family? All of his friends lived here aside from Hector Casagrande and he knew that he'd give him a call before coming to see him. So, who could it possibly be?
Deciding to find out, Albert went into the locker room of the pool area and dried off along with putting his cloths on and walked out into the lobby of his retirement home and looked around for the person that was supposedly there.
But he scratched his head as he failed to find anyone out there waiting for him.
And then…
"Well, well, well. It sure has been awhile hasn't it Albert."
Alberts eyes widened as he froze. "Is that…no way…" Albert quickly turned around and saw an old man a little younger than him and wearing some casual cloths which included simple jeans, brown boots, and a white t-shirt with a black jacket. He had wrinkles on his faces and lines under his eyes his hair was dark gray at the top and lighter on the sides.
When Albert saw him, a giant smile come to the elderly mans face as he said. "Phil!"
"Hey there Albert." Phil greeted casually with a relaxed smile as the two walked up to each other and both gave the other a strong handshake. "Never thought I'd see you living in a room." Phil said with a chuckle.
Albert laughed and rolled his eyes in response as he said. "Well have to settle down sometimes I guess." Albert then strongly patted Phil's shoulder and chuckled. "But enough about me, what have you been up to these past few years ya old bum?"
Phil smirked and looked around the lobby a bit before whispering into Albert's ear. "Let's talk about that in private." Albert nodded almost instantly; he knew this must have been dealing with plumber business if Phil wanted to speak about it in private.
Albert led Phil into his room in the retirement home and locked the door as Phil took a look around the room and gave a long whistle. "Not gonna lie, this is a nice place." Phil commented as he took a look at the 24-inch flat screen in the room. "Hell, I might retire here."
"Well, it would certainly make the place livelier." Albert said in a joking tone making Phil playfully punch his shoulder. "So, I'm guessing you haven't exactly been playing shuffleboard the past couple decades?"
"Not exactly." Phil said as he and Albert sat down on the bed in the room. "I've actually been…kind of a traveling the country and dealing with alien problems."
Albert chuckled and started shaking his head and said. "You just can't seem to retire huh Phil?"
"Can't help it." Phil stated as he crossed his arms behind his head. "You know I never could be happy with the simple life. I'm all about action, adventure, get the ladies~"
In response, Albert lightly shoved Phil making him chuckle. "Yeah, and all the injuries, danger's, and slaps to the face that's gotten you." Albert stated as Phil simply shrugged.
"Gotta take the bad with the good." Phil said casually as he stood up. "Anyway, I was just in the area and just figured I'd stop by an say hi."
"Well I'm glad you did." Albert said sincerely. "It's been far too long since I've seen my best friend."
"Heh, sorry about that. Been busy." Phil answered as he put a hand to Alberts shoulder. "Hey, have you heard anything from Hector lately?"
"He called me not to long ago." Hector answered as he remembered the call Hector sent him when his grandson was visiting him in Great Lakes City. "You should stop by the city and see him to."
"Yeah, that sounds nice." Phil answered as his head directed to the shelf on the side of the room. A shelf that had plenty of photo's on top of it. "Hey, what are all these?"
Phil looked at the photos and a few of them were just random ones of Albert. Some when he was a kid, showing remarkable resemblance to Lincoln including have white hair even when younger, photos of Albert at various place including one of him on the beach shirtless, Phil didn't need to see that, but it was the last two photos that caught his interest.
"Woah, is this your family?" Phil asked as he picked up a large photo of Albert with his daughter, son-in-law, and all 11 of his grandkids. "Geez, ya think one of them would be part Necrofriggian with how much kids they've had."
"Hehe, yeah its quite the family." Albert said with pride as he stood next to Phil as they looked at the photo of the Loud family. "But I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Now don't be getting sappy on me ya old coot." Phil said in a joking tone causing Albert to playfully push Phil with his shoulder.
"Who ya callin old ya geezer." Albert said as they both laughed for a moment.
Phil then calmed down as he put down the photo of Alberts family and picked up a photo of Albert with a woman about his age with brown hair that was done in a very tall due. "Hey, who's the lady."
"Taken." Albert said sternly before calming down almost instantly. "Actually, that's Myrtle. My, uh, my girlfriend."
Phil's eyes widened as he turned to Albert with quite the surprised expression on his face. "Your…girlfriend? Really?" Phil asked quietly as Albert slowly nodded his head. Phil put a hand to the back of his head as his eyes shifted around awkwardly. "Wow, I, um, didn't think you'd get back in the game after…Racheal."
"Well…we all gotta move on sometime." Albert said with a sad smile as he looked at the picture of himself and Myrtle. "Besides, she would want me to be happy. If our roles were reversed, I'd want her to do the same."
"Heh, well you deserve to be happy. You put in a lot of work back in the day." Phil said as he patted Alberts shoulder. "You more than earned some R&R."
"Thanks Phil. It really is great to see you again." Albert said genuinely as he set the photo down back on the shelf. Just then a lightbulb went off in Alberts head as he turned to Phil and said. "Hey, if you aren't to busy, how would you like to meet my family Phil?"
"Really?" Phil asked with his usual small smile on his face. "You sure they'd be ok with that?"
"Haha, they'd love to meet ya!" Albert said enthusiastically. "I can call up my daughter and ask if we can come over for dinner. And my grandkids would love to hear some old work stories."
"Ah yeah, nothing more exciting then unclogging toilets huh?" Phil said in a joking tone followed by a wink.
However, Albert shook his head in response making Phil raise an eyebrow as Albert explained the true situation. "Actually, they know what the plumbers really are Phil, I told them."
"Really?" Phil asked, not with an angered tone but with a curious one. "Why's note?"
"Uuuuh, well…I guess I thought it was time to quit lying to everyone ya know." Albert stated which, all things considered, wasn't technically a lie. "But don't worry, they've been keeping it a secret pretty well so far. I trust them."
After hearing that, Phil gave his best friend a small smile and nodded. "Well if its alright with you its alright with me." Phil said supportively before nodding his head. "Well, if that's the case I would love to come to dinner with your family Albert. It would be fun sharing some actual plumber stories with your grandkids."
"Great!" Albert said as he pulled out his pocket and began texting. "Just let me tell Rita we're coming."
"Hey, maybe I can show up in my plumber uniform." Phil said as he put his hands to his hips and puffed his chest out. "I brought it with me."
"Ya old coot." Albert said while shaking his head and chuckling. "If you wanna wear it, I won't stop ya."
Just then Alberts phone dinged as the old Baxter looked at it and smiled. "Hey, Rita says were good to come!"
"Nice." Phil responded with. "Just hope her cooking is better than yours. I'm not dying today."
Albert pushed Phil harshly causing Phil to laugh loudly as Albert grumbled. "My cookings not that bad." Before looking at Phil and saying. "Besides, her husbands the cook of the family."
"Well anything's better than yours." Phil laughed out as Albert rolled his eyes and looked away from his friend but couldn't help but smile.
"How?! How we're you so good!?" Lincoln yelled as he Clyde, and Ja'Orre were walking through the streets of Royal Woods. Lincoln and Clyde were a little more then upset due to, to put it bluntly, Ja'Orre completely kicked their ass at the game.
"I dunno." Ja'Orre answered with a shrug. "I just did what seemed right and didn't think about it to much."
"It's completely ridiculous." Clyde said in frustration. "Its like you figured out all the combos, exploits, and exact frame rate and movements."
"Everything just seems fast to me." Ja'Orre answered with another shrug as the two humans looked to him. "It's not an Ectonurite thing its just a me thing. It's weird but eh, what about me isn't?"
"Well welcome to the weird club." Lincoln and Clyde said with a chuckle as they knew they had plenty of weird things about them. Lincoln had 10 sisters, white hair and an alien watch. And Clyde had strange energy absorbing powers and more allergies then any human should normally have.
"Well, time to show Ja'Orre a Royal Woods hotspot!" Lincoln cheered as he and Clyde led Ja'Orre to another part of Royal Woods the two best friends loved to go to.
A gas station. A gas station called Flip's Food and Fuel.
When they went inside, they saw the man himself, Flip, sleeping behind the counter like he usually does and saw that the gas station also doubled as a convenient store. It smelled funny, a few of the lights flickered, and the place looked like it was breaking various health code violations.
"It reminds me of home." Ja'Orre stated as he looked around the store.
"The store isn't all to noteworthy, but there is one thing about this place that makes it a Royal Woods must see!" Clyde said as he and Lincoln took Ja'Orre to the one place that put Flips on the Royal Woods map.
The Flippee machine.
"What's a…flippee?" Ja'Orre asked as he tilted his head. "Oh! Is it anything like the bird?"
"No!" Lincoln and Clyde said in unison.
Lincoln laughed a bit before walking in front of the machine. "Here, let me just show you." Lincoln then took a large cup and put it under the nozzle that had the blue flavor of flippee above it. Lincoln then flipped the switch.
Ja'Orre watched a blue slushie substance came out of the nuzzle and quickly filled up the cup. Lincoln then put a lid and straw into the flippee and handed it to Ja'Orre. "Her, take a drink and see for yourself how great these are."
Ja'Orre took the flippee and looked at the straw for a moment for phasing it through where Lincoln and Clyde assumed Ja'Orre's mouth was. They watched as Ja'Orre took a small drink of the frozen beverage. Ja'Orre's single eye widened as the ghost-alien floated frozen.
Clyde and Lincoln were about to ask if Ja'Orre was alright, but they watched as Ja'Orre started to drink up the entire Flippee in one gulp. Lincoln and Clyde's eyes widened in worry as they shouted to Ja'Orre. "STOP!"
However, Ja'Orre didn't seem to hear them as he finished up the Flippee in 6 seconds flat. Ja'Orre sighed in satisfaction, until…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Ja'Orre shouted in pain as he clutched in head in agony as the biggest headache, he's ever gotten came to him as he started to squirm around the ground.
Lincoln and Clyde rushed to Ja'Orre sides to try and calm the ghost aliens' side to try and calm him down. "Ok, ok, Ja'Orre, you're fine. You're just having a brain freeze." Clyde explained as he patted Ja'Orre back.
"Yeah, we need to learn to sip." Lincoln said with a small chuckle as Ja'Orre started to calm down and take heavy breathes.
"Ok…Ok…I think…I think I'm good." Ja'Orre said as he steadily floated back up with his vision a little blurry. "Ok…next time…drink slowly."
"Yup." Lincoln said with Clyde nodding. Just then Lincoln felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and took it out and saw that his mom has sent him a text. Lincoln looked at it and smiled widely at what he saw. "Hey! My pop-pops coming to dinner tonight!" Lincoln said as Ja'Orre and Clyde looked at Lincoln.
"Oh cool! I haven't seen him in a while. Even before I went on that road trip." Clyde said as he hasn't interacted with Albert all too much now that he thought about it.
"Who's Pop-pop?" Ja'Orre asked curiously.
"He's my grandfather, Albert Baxter. But my family calls him Pop-pop." Lincoln explained as he put his phone back in his pocket. "My mom just texted me and told him and he and a friend of his is coming to dinner tonight."
"Huh, to bad we kinda already ate." Clyde said with a sheepish smile as he patted his stomach.
"Yeah, but hey, not gonna pass up the opportunity to hang out with Pop-pop," Lincoln stated as he'd take anything if it meant spending some time with Albert…even his family being abducted by a galactic warlord. Just then Lincoln turned to his two friends and said. "Hey, you two wanna come? I'm sure Pop-pop would like to see you Clyde and meet you Ja'Orre."
"I'd love to!" Clyde said before realizing something and pulling out his phone. "Just let me tell my dad's first."
"Well I'm always up for making new friends!" Ja'Orre said in his usual happy tone.
"Alright then! Let's go!" Lincoln said as he quickly rushed out of the store in excitement to see his Pop-pop and this friend of his. Ja'Orre and Clyde looked to see that Flip was still somehow asleep. The two of them simply looked to each other and shrugged and exited the store.
Once at the Loud House, Lincoln, Ja'Orre and Clyde walked up to the door. Once inside, Lincoln found himself being pulled into a choke hold by none other then his Pop-pop as the retired plumber chuckled and started giving Lincoln and ruff nookie. "Hey! How'd my little man doin?" Albert asked as Lincoln laughed and tried to escape his grasp.
"Haha! I'd be doing better if I could move around." Lincoln said as he flailed his legs around to try and escape.
"Huh, good point." Albert chuckled as he released Lincoln. "Alright, I'll show ya mercy. For now."
"Watch yourself old man." Lincoln said in a joking tone as he straightened up his jacket. "Next time I might need to go hero on you."
"Go ahead and try kiddo." Albert challenged while making a 'come on' gesture with his finger. "I've faced plenty of aliens in my day."
Just then the two heard the clearing of a throat and looked behind them to see Clyde and Ja'Orre still at the door. Clyde was the one who cleared his throat and then walked up to Albert and held his hand out. "Hello there Mr. Baxter, it's nice to see you again."
However, instead of shaking Clyde's hand, Albert did to Clyde what he just did to Lincoln and pulled him in a much light hold and ruffled Clyde's afro. "Ah, no need for formalities Clyde. You're my grandson's best friend. Just call me Pop-pop."
"Uh, ok Pop-pop." Clyde said with surprise tone.
Just then Ja'Orre floated up to Albert and held his hand out. "Hello there! My names Ja'orre! It's great to meet you Albert!"
"Heh, great to meet ya to." Albert greeted as he actually took Ja'Orre hand and gave it a friendly shake. After a moment of that, Albert looked at them all and said. "Now before we go any further, there's someone I want you to meet. Hey Phil! Come in here!"
Lincoln, Clyde, and Ja'Orre were confused at first, but watched as Alberts old Plumber partner and friend Phil stepped in from the other room. "Hey there." Phil greeted as he took a look a the three in front of him. But when his gaze shifted to Ja'Orre a small, barely noticeable smirk came across his face as he looked at the disguised Ectonurite. "It's nice to meet all of you, I'm an old friend of Alberts. Names Phil…"
"It's really nice to meet all of you."
And that's the end of part 2! I've brought in a pretty anticipated character and I have the next part planned so stay tuned to that.
Now, I would like to response to guest review proposing an idea about Zed. You're idea was really cool, don't get me wrong but I'm sorry to say I won't be doing it. Me and my friend Qazse have already decided on things for Zed and I don't wanna change it. Once again, you're idea was really cool, I've just already decided on something.
And to say this again, for those of you who don't know, I've created a crossover story of Loud 10 and My Little Pony. I've been a fan for a few months and I'm really proud of it. And hey, for MLP is good since the series just ended with a rather...lack luster final episode. At least in my opinion but I won't get into that here. Just check it out if you have time.
And with all that said, remember to follow, fav, and review and stay tuned for part 3.
