Spells and Louds
Chapter 217: My baby bro!
(Spellman Estate)
Neil's car arrives back home, he is looking very upset. He looks into the back and he could feel his passenger was not happy at all.
But Neil tries to sport a smile. "Hey there kiddo, how are you doing back there?"
He gets no response, but a sigh and some groaning. "I'll take it you're pissed off" replied Neil.
Neil gets out of the car and looks to the house. He sighs. "This is not going to be easy to tell the others."
Meanwhile in the backyard, Luna is tuning her guitar with Luna, both of them are coming up with another song, possibly something as an end to February thing.
Linka and Leni are in their room starting on Sirena Dimartino's dress.
Gwen is feeding Lily some cookies, and watching TV with her.
Courage heads to the basement and brings Washington and Victoria some new blankets and some food as well, Courage was happy to see the new parents in the house.
Timmy and Sunset are both playing Mortal Kombat.
Then something comes into Timmy's mind. "Hey sis, have you noticed how Scorpion sounds?"
Sunset also realizes it. "Yeah, he kinda does. Sounds like something we did, but I can't put my tongue on it."
I'll give you guys a hint: Get over here!
The rest of the Pokemon are in the dining room, they're all playing cards. Then Garchomp show them his cards, which means he wins, but Sylveon show them her cards and she beats all of them and claims all the Pokemon treats!
Luna and Sam look for the right tune as they strum their guitars.
"So, anything on your mind Sammy?" asked Luna.
"Not at the moment, but I am feeling happy that the Dazzles are going to be touring next week" said Sam.
"Really? Where to this time?" asked Luna.
"Arizona and then San Antonio" replied Sam. "Dad has some old friends there who owe him some favors."
Just then they see Neil come into the backyard, looking kinda nervous.
"Hey pops, what's hanging?" greeted Luna.
"You seem kind of nervous dude, what's going on?" asked Sam.
Neil sighs and looks to the house. "Harv, can you please tell the family to come out here. It's important, but not Washington and Victoria."
"As you wish sir" replied Harv.
Soon Gwen, Leni, Linka, Lily, Sunset, Timmy, Courage and their Pokemon come out.
Neil is about to say something but then he sees all the Pokemon have crumbs on their faces. "Okay, whatever you guys did, I don't wanna know."
"Dad, what's this all about? And where's Lincoln?" asked Sunset.
"Wasn't he with you at FutureTech? Something about weapons upgrade?" asked Linka.
"He was and it went pretty well, I like the new add-ons to his shredder blaster" said Neil, then he looked down nervously.
Gwen could tell something was wrong, and so did Luna.
Luna approaches her dad and she does not look happy. "Dad, where's my bro?"
Neil could see how protective she was getting, and he can see her hands forming some ice. "Luna, calm down. Please, this is not going to be easy to explain."
Luna understands and lowers down her frost powers. "Okay dad, so what happened?"
"Okay, well we finished testing out his new weapon upgrades, then we ate some donuts and asked about Victor's new weapon he made. Then all of a sudden we all heard this explosion and the building started to shake, when we checked outside there was this beam that bounced out of the hallway and went into the room we were in, we all took cover. Lincoln tried to use his weapon as a shield, but it overloaded its systems and he took a hit from his weapon blowing up."
Luna and the rest of the family were in shock and slight horror. Leni was close to the verge of tears and Luna was close to going ballistic.
"But! He's okay" said Neil.
They all sighed in relief. "Sort of" said Neil.
That was not what they wanted to hear. "What do you mean dad?" asked Timmy.
Neil then steps aside, and there right behind him this whole time.
They all look down and are in deep shock, Luna just has this emotionless look.
Lincoln Spellman, 4-years old! Exactly the same height as Lisa, still wearing his signature Freezer burn clothes and he looks annoyed. "Yeah, it's me. You're brother."
They all just stood there in complete shock and awe.
Leni is the first person to hug him. "Linky! You're okay, and really small."
She then puts him down. "Thanks Leni, I may be four years old but I still have the same mind as I was when I was twelve."
Gwen looks to Neil. "How did this happen?!"
Neil was ready to tell them.
(Flashback!)
The smoke clears, Neil, Penny and Jack Cyber look down in shock at what happened to Lincoln.
Lincoln didn't know why they were looking at him like that. "What's wrong? Did something happen to me?"
"Umm, yeah something did happen to you" replied Jack Cyber.
Lincoln turns to his right and sees the mirror, he looks closely and sees. "What the heck?! Why am I short?!"
Penny scans him. "It seems you have been reduced to the age of a four year old, but you still have the same twelve year old mind as you normally have. At least you aren't harmed."
Lincoln looks at them in anger. "This isn't even comforting to me anymore! I'm four years old! What the heck?!"
Neil then picks up Lincoln's blaster, which is severely damaged. "This could be a problem."
Jack Cyber takes it from him. "I can have this repaired and back to the way it was."
"That's good and all, but what about me?!" yelled Lincoln.
"Linc, calm down. Do not throw a tantrum okay?" said Neil.
Lincoln takes deep breathes and calms down. "Okay, okay. So, what the heck are we gonna do now?"
"First we must find out where the source of that blast came from, then we came take in on the how you became a four year old Lincoln" said Penny.
"Good enough, let's go" they watch as Lincoln leaves the room.
"So, your kid is now four" said Jack Cyber.
"This'll be hard to explain to the rest of the family" said Neil.
They all follow Lincoln, he uses his tactics and sees the burn marks the beam left behind, he follows each one and it leads him into a room where Martin, Victor and Boomer are.
The three men are using fire extinguishers to put out the now on fire laser weapon.
"What the hell man?!" yelled Boomer.
"This was not supposed to happen" said Victor.
"What the hell did happen?" asked Martin.
"That's what I want to know!" they turn around and then look down to see a four year old Lincoln.
They are left confused right now. "What the hell happened to you?" asked Victor.
Then Neil, Penny and Jack Cyber arrive.
Martin could tell they wanna know as well. "Someone tell me how did this happened to my son, now!" said Neil.
Martin and victor put the extinguishers down, Penny tells them of Lincoln's current age.
"Okay, so I think I figured it out" said Martin.
"Talk" said Lincoln, with his arms crossed. Though they can't take him seriously.
"Now, Victor and I were working on a new weapon attachment to enhance combat vehicles for the GDI, but then something went wrong and it malfunctioned, the whole thing blew up and I think a beam may have bounded off the laser and that's when it headed to the rom you guys were in."
Martin then takes the damaged Shredder blaster. "And since it hit your blaster, it must've overloaded the Kyber crystal, therefore creating some sort of strange anomaly class energy that resulted into you turning into a four year old."
Lincoln sighs. "So, how long am I gonna be like this, because if this is permanent, I am going to rip off both your legs and feed them to Victor!"
Even though he was four, he was still pretty intimidating.
"That was mean" said Boomer.
"Shut it" said Neil. He looks to Martin. "Run a scan and see how long."
Martin activates his glasses and they scan every energy that has been stored within the boy. "Okay, so some of the energy has been bottled up within, it'll take time to fully remove then he'll be back to his normal twelve year old self."
"How long?" asked Neil and Lincoln.
Martin then starts running numbers and he gets the results. "Somewhere at 24 hours."
Lincoln and Neil sigh in relief, but then Lincoln didn't feel happy anymore. "24 hours?! Seriously? Are you sure?"
Martin sighs. "Not at the moment, but we could rebuild the laser cannon and reprogram it with the kyber energy from your blaster to act as a reverse system."
"Why not get Gyro? He can use his magic to revers with what's happened to him" said Boomer.
"As great as that sounds, I find that to be less possible. If I can recall age distortion is not in Gyro's power, and even if he does possess age transition powers, he's currently busy aiding the alliance in trying to kill the old titan" said Neil.
Lincoln feels less easy about this. "As much as I would love Gyro to help, I don't wanna interrupt his mission. What he's doing is important, so I guess I'll stick with the machine idea you two idiots have in mind."
Victor looks to the badly crippled weapon. "We're gonna have to pull out all the stops if we're gonna rebuild this thing."
"I'll help you guys with it, and we could get some backup from our friends on Overwatch, if they're not busy" said Penny.
"I have to fix Lincoln's blaster, if we're gonna make this work we're gonna need this thing in good condition again" said Jack Cyber.
"You get to work on that, and we'll get to work on the machine" said Martin. Then he looks to Lincoln and Neil. "And you guys should probably tell the others about this."
"That part won't be easy" said Neil.
The something occurs into Lincoln's thoughts. "Wait a minute, isn't Lisa in here?!"
Penny checks FutureTech's surveillance systems. "They're still redesigning Tadashi's invention, how in the world did they not hear or feel the explosion?"
Then she sees Lisa and Tadashi wearing head phones and Voltorb exploded from sneezing making them black from the blast, the same time Voltorb blew up is the same time the erosion was felt in the building.
"Well we can't let Lisa know about this, who knows what will happen if she tells the Louds about me being four years old, it could make Lori break down and want to see me, same goes for Luan and Lynn, and the parents" said Lincoln.
"He's right. Things could go from bad to worse at that point. No one else has to know about this" said Neil.
"Alright then, we'll make sure that does not happen, but you gotta tell your family" said Jack Cyber.
Neil and Lincoln leave the base and head into his car. Luckily, Lincoln did not take his vulture bike today.
Neil makes sure Lincoln is buckled in, but it was annoying to Lincoln. "Dad, I can do this on my own."
Neil sighs. "Sorry, it's just I don't want you getting hurt son."
Lincoln was touched at how much he was caring, but annoyed to the fact he's four years old.
They then drive off to Spellman Estate and one thing was on Lincoln's mind. 'What's Luna gonna think of this?'
(End Flashback!)
"And so now your all caught up, we have to wait for Martin and Victor to fix the machine, or time things and see if I will turn back after twenty four hours" said Lincoln.
They all understood, though some of them will have a hard time now that Lincoln was four.
"Guys, even though he's four years old, we have to treat him as if he's still the twelve year old kid in the family. Got it?" said Neil.
"We'll try our best dear" said Gwen.
Courage nods and so do the Pokemon.
"This will be hard to manage, but we'll try sir" said Absol.
"Even though he looks adorable, I can still see our Minecraft buddy in there" said Sunset.
"I still see him as my big bro" said Timmy. "Also, let's not inform Duchess about this, she might go black swan on Martin and Victor."
"Good point, and I won't tell anyone else about this" said Sam.
"This is so weird, we're twins and now you're 7 years younger than me" said Linka. "I guess I can try."
Lily is confused by all of this, but she smiles.
Luna then approaches Lincoln, she kneels down to his level and hugs him.
She then stands up and keeps holding onto him with a smile on her face and her eyes closed.
Lincoln could tell, to Luna this was a shot at her lost bond redemption, sort of.
Lincoln sees Leni looking very uneasy. "Leni, you can join in the hug."
Leni wipes away a tear and hugs Luna and Lincoln. "Even though your mind is twelve, you're still our baby brother Linky!"
Luna doesn't respond, instead she just continues to hug him and rubs his back.
Lincoln chuckles a bit and returns the hug from his big sisters.
The others thought this was sweet of them.
Then Linka's eyes were now filled with worry. "Lincoln, what about Jordan?"
Lincoln, Luna and Leni's eyes shoot wide open. "Oh no!"
Neil is also in panic. "We cannot let he know about this!"
"She probably won't be happy to see Lincoln as a four year old" said Timmy.
"And she might tear Martin and Victor's heads off" said Linka.
"That doesn't sound so wrong to me" said Gwen.
Then they see Courage pointing at something. They all look to what he's pointing at, and there near the side of the house is Jordan Rosato, in utter shock and confusion.
Luna puts Lincoln down and he slowly approaches her. "H-How long were you standing there?"
"The whole freaking flashback" replied Jordan.
"And how much of all that did you hear?" asked Neil.
"All of it, and I guess I am a bit upset" Jordan walks to the four year old Lincoln and kneels don to him, she then kisses his forehead. "But, I am not going to do anything harsh. And I guess I'll be keeping this all a secret."
Lincoln smiles and he kisses her cheek. "Thank you my love, I know I can always count on you."
Jordan blushes. "You know, you sound kinda adorable with your four year old voice."
Lincoln chuckles and also blushes. "Well, I am younger than I was, but I still have the same mind of the boy you all know and love. And we do have one more problem, school."
"Don't worry, I have that all sorted out. I'll tell the school you're sick" said Neil.
"I can bring all your school work home" said Linka.
"You can stay home and help tend to Washington and Victoria" said Leni.
"You're' also going to need help with that, so I'll be here if you need me" said Gwen.
Lincoln was glad that the rest of his family were there to support him. Then Luna goes to Lincoln, picks him up and hugs him again.
They know Luna is now her normal self again, but seeing Lincoln like this was just Luna being her guardian self, they just hope she doesn't break down again.
(Time skip)
For the whole day they all try and get back to their normal stuff. Lincoln doesn't want them to keep stressing out over him.
Sam and Jordan head back home, they won't tell anyone else about what happened to Lincoln.
Leon, Sergei and Loona are also unaware of the situation, the Super Kirov is now on the other side of town.
Susnet does her best to still see Lincoln as he gaming bro next to Timmy, it kinda felt awkward being beaten in a video game by a kid who was younger than them.
Leni and Linka still had to finish their work on the wedding dress, Leni decided to speed this up a bit with her plant powers and Roselia's help.
Linka is still feeling uneasy to the fact her twin is younger than her, she has to make sure the Aegis and its crew do not find out about this.
All of the Pokemon had to keep an eye on Lincoln, he may have his same old mind, but he was smaller and might hurt himself.
Courage informs Washington and Victoria about what has happened to Lincoln. At first they thought this was a joke, but then Lincoln comes down to the basement to check up on them, which made Washington faint.
Neil is now calm and is going back to work on some papers from Ever After High.
Gwen is having trouble dealing with all of this to the fact her son is now four and she wants to spend some time with him, motherly instincts are kicking in.
Leni does tend to hug and kiss Lincoln whenever she runs into him and she does her best to help him get some things that he can't do anymore.
But Luna on the other hand, she's the one who is the most around Lincoln.
Luna tends to follow Lincoln around and like Leni he helps him when he can't reach things. She even wanted to help give Lincoln a bath, even though Lincoln said he can handle that part himself, they all agreed since he's four they don't want him to hurt himself in the bathroom.
Lincoln is outnumbered by that vote and Luna gives him his bath, for Lincoln it was embarrassing, but he did like the company of his sister/roommate with him. It got awkward when she joined him in the bath tub. But for some reason Lincoln didn't mind that she joined him, it brought back some good memories of when they were very young together.
Luna even helps dress him into some new clothes, they were still confused as to how did his hero attire turn into his size, Neil came up with a theory/pun "Maybe they shrunk in the blast?" and he gets hit in the face by a tomato.
Leni was able to make some four year old clothing for Lincoln to wear, magenta PJ's that looked almost similar to his stuffed rabbit Bun-Bun.
It was now night time, Lincoln is now fully dressed and he is about to get into bed. Then Luna comes out of the closet now in her sleep attire.
She sees Lincoln in his bed and then has an idea.
She goes into the bed with him and turns off the lights.
"Luna, you don't have to do this" said Lincoln. Luna then turns to her brother and hugs him and gently rubs his hair.
"Sorry bro, the Guardian might not be here to help you change back, but this guardian is here to keep you safe, loved and company. Also I'm not getting emotional from this, it just feels nice to be with the baby bro I used to keep an eye on" replied Luna.
Lincoln smiles at what she was doing and hugs her back. "Goodnight mom, I love you sis."
Luna continues to rub his hair and kiss his forehead. "Goodnight little bro, Luna loves you too." Luna closes her eyes and they both fall asleep.
But then Absol and Loudred go to the desk and they see Lincoln's notebook that says "Plans for Hugh's Bachelor party."
Absol and Loudred are shocked and they look to Lincoln and Luna who are asleep. "This is not good, I hope they can change him back or this is not gonna end well."
Loudred also nods in agreement.
Meanwhile, Neil is in his office and he puts some of his papers away into his bag.
Then he looks at some notes about the Ever After High Library, then he gets an idea. 'Maybe, just maybe. I can get the answers I need from Ever After High. A way to help Lincoln turn back to normal!'
Neil places the notes into his bag and heads to his bedroom to join Gwen, come tomorrow he was ready to keep searching for a solution to all of this.
To be continued …..
And now we know what happened to Lincoln, it's not gonna be easy for him. But they have to manage and find a way to help him, let's just hope he turns back before the Bachelor party with Hugh. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.