"The Desire Grand Prix. A game where you have to fight for your ideal world. I've been playing for a long time now so I'm a bit of an expert on it. But unfortunately, my winning streak was over when my little brother won the game yesterday. I didn't even expect him to win. I don't know what he wrote on his Desire card but I do know that next round, I'll show him what it takes to be the champ!"
Lynn Loud Jr put down her phone after she finished recording her video journal. Inside the bedroom she shared with her sister Lucy, Lynn stared at the ceiling for a few minutes before she decided to head downstairs and watch some television. It was a very quiet day inside the Loud House. As Lynn made her way to the living room, she didn't see a single sign of Lincoln. Even his room was empty. Lynn just shook her head and turned on the television. A commercial came on and Lynn gasped. There in the commercial was Lincoln! "Behold!" The commercial said. "He is the Star of the Star of the Stars! Lincoln Loud!" Lynn had a feeling that she knew who did this. "Kaiba!" She growled.
Meanwhile, Lincoln was in town, enjoying his new fame. As he walked along the streets, people always smiled and waved to him. it wasn't like the life where he was the black sheep of his family. He waved to a few more of his new fans, smiling at them. Just then, Kaiba appeared. "I thought I would find you here." He said smiling at his recent champ. "Enjoying the celebrity lifestyle?" "I am." Lincoln said, putting his hand in his pockets. "In this world, everyone calls me the Star of the Star of the Stars. It's hardly like my old life at all. You wouldn't be trying to influence me, would you Mr Kaiba?" "Lincoln," Kaiba said in shock. "I am a humble businessman! And you won the Desire Grand Prix so you get your ideal world." He pulled out a card that Lincoln looked at. On the card were the following words written in Lincoln's handwriting,
A world where I am just as special as my sisters.
Lincoln handed Kaiba the card. To him, a world where he was a celebrity was a bit of overkill, but he was enjoying it. As long as his sisters didn't find out, He was happy. But as he turned to talk to Kaiba, he discovered that the CEO of Kaiba Corp was gone. Lincoln just shrugged as he continued walking. Unbeknownst to him, Lola was tailing him in her princess ride, determined to find out what was going on.
Op: Trust・Last by by Koda Kumi x Shonan no Kaze.
Back at the Loud house, all of Lincoln's sisters (apart from Lola who was tailing her brother and Lily, who was napping.) had gathered in Lori and Leni's room for a sibling meeting. Lynn was unsure what it was about, but she was sure Lola had tattletaled on her and Lincoln for destroying Miss Liza's Pageant Training Center. Whatever it was about, Lynn tried not to look guilty.
Lori banged her shoe on the dresser, bringing the meeting to order. The eldest Loud sister was dressed in a strapless light blue ball gown with matching gloves and her usual heels. "I think we all know why we're here." Lori said in a serious tone. "You all seen the TV ads?" She pulled out her phone and showed the commercial from earlier on it. "Behold!" The commercial said again. "He is the Star of the Star of the Stars! Lincoln Loud!" Lynn seethed in anger. If only I won that round, she thought.
"Hey, Linky! That boy in the commercial looks like you." Leni said absent mindlessly. She was wearing her usual sunglasses in the usual spot and a sea-foam green ball gown with white gloves and white heels with sea-foam green bows on them. "Leni, that IS Lincoln!" Lori snapped. The other siblings gasped in horror. "Yeah, I know. I'm just as shocked as you all." Lori said as she shook her head.
"But how? Our lil' bro would've told us about this!" Luna protested. She was wearing a purple ball gown with a white belt around her waist. "But... how did this happen?" Luan asked in concern. The comedian of the Loud family was wearing a yellow ball gown with yellow gloves and matching heels. On her left glove, one of her usual squirting flowers was placed on her wrist with a magenta ribbon. "This is so crazy, I can't even joke about this!" "But how did Lincoln even do this?!" Luna asked in concern. "I know how." Lynn muttered under her breath. "What was that, Lynn?" Lori asked. "Nothing." Lynn quickly replied. She couldn't let her sisters find out about the Desire Grand Prix or she would be eliminated.
"You're hiding something." Lucy said giving Lynn a jump scare. The 8-year-old goth girl was wearing a black ball gown with matching gloves. "I heard you muttering in our room." Lynn grimaced at her little sister. I really got to find a way to seal her in her coffin! She thought in anger. "What? I'm not the superstitious one in the family." Lynn said in mock horror. "No." Lucy said in her usual monotone voice. "You're up to something. I know you are." Lana had been quiet the whole time, fiddling with her gown. She was wearing the gown from yesterday and her usual red cap. "Lucy, what are you getting at?" Lori asked in concern. "It's nothing!" Lynn snapped. "She's probably been watching too much Vampires of Melancholia." "Sigh." Said Lucy, knowing that if she kept pressing Lynn, she'd never get anywhere.
"So, how did you know about this Lori?" Lynn asked. "How could I not know about this?" Lori said. "It's all over the TV networks and Bobby says it's happening in Great Lakes City too." "So it's happening all over the city, right?" Luna clarified. "Affirmative." Lisa said looking up from her computer. The 4-year-old professor was dressed up in a green ball gown with a blue broach on the top of the gown and green gloves. "But I still can't believe that our brother has become a celebrity overnight like this." "Speaking of Lincoln," Luan said looking around the room. "Where is he?" "I don't know." Lori said, shaking her head. "I sent Lola out to find him." "Well, at least she's calmed down." Lana said after hearing her twin's name. "Yesterday I had worried that she was going to be depressed because of the... accident." "Yeah, I know." Lori said. "Mum reassured her yesterday that she would get another chance at the Little Miss dream princess pageant. That helped her to calm down. She was so upset last night." "Try not to let it bother you." Lynn said, shaking her head. "Looks like we're not gonna be able to do anything about Lincoln until the thing with Miss Liza's Pageant Training Center blows over." Lucy said shaking her head. Lori looked at her sister and realised that she was right. "Uh, right." She said reluctantly. "Anywho, uh, meeting adjourned." She banged her shoe on the dresser to close the meeting.
Meanwhile Lincoln had arrived at his destination. He had to dodge a few fangirls but arrived at Cafe Nascita, a newly opened restaurant in Royal Woods. He was just about to go in when he heard the sound of an engine coming from behind him. "I thought I told Lynn not to follow me." He grumbled but as he turned around, he was surprised to find out that Lola was behind him. The pageant princess climbed out of her princess car. "Relax, I just want to talk to you." She said calmly. "Forget it." Lincoln snapped at his sister. "I'm not telling you anything!" Lola was still wearing the same ball gown from yesterday as her signature light pink gloves and her usual tiara. The gown's bell-like shape was still intact somehow allowing Lincoln to see her heels. "Linky, please!" Lola said as her brother turned away from her. "I just want to help!" "No!" Lincoln yelled in frustration. "You're gonna have sad eyes. You know I can't deal with sad eyes!" Lola just seemed that trying to talk to her brother wasn't going to work. "Listen Lols, forget about me. You should get outta here while you can." Lincoln said, back still turned. Lola approached him from behind and hugged him, surprising her brother. "Please Linky! You saved me yesterday and you're always there for us!" Lola pleaded, trying to hold back tears. "Look, I'm sorry for how I treated you all this time! I just want to be close to you!" Lincoln was surprised to hear that coming from Lola. He turned around (well as best as he could with Lola holding his waist.) to face his little sister. "You really want to be close to me?" He asked in confusion. But before Lola could reply, three suction cup arrows had stuck themselves onto Lincoln's head. "Whoa! Triple bull." Lola said in surprise. Lincoln angrily pulled the arrows off and tossed them into a nearby trash bin. "Look, just go back home Lola." He said turning around to face the restaurant. "No can do, Linky." Lola said in a worried tone. "Why not?" Lincoln groaned. "Because we're surrounded!" Lola screamed. Lincoln turned around to see that shadows were coming down both sides of the street. "Oh." He said in realisation.
Back at the Loud House, Lynn was looking at her many sports trophies in the trophy cabinet when her phone buzzed. She picked it up and looked at the message on the screen. The message was from Kaiba Corp. two simple words were on her phone screen.
GATHER ROUND
It was just then that Lynn remembered that she was two siblings short. Oh no! She thought as she walked away from the trophy cabinet. What has Stinkoln got himself into now?
Back outside Cafe Nascita, Lincoln had managed to keep Lola out of harm's way but the shadows kept on swarming them. Now he and Lola were backed up into a nearby alley behind the restaurant. It was a narrow one with no way forward or back either. The shadows swarmed the alleyway leaving them completely trapped "Great!" Lincoln groaned, looking for a chance to escape. "No way out!" "Any ideas?" Lola asked. Lincoln pulled the Desire Driver out of his pocket. He didn't want to do this but ... "Only one." He said turning to Lola. "But can you keep it a secret?" Lola nodded. Lincoln grinned as he placed the Desire Driver on his waist. He pulled out the Magnum buckle and slotted it onto the left side of the Driver.
SET!
"What are you doing?" Lola asked in confusion. Lincoln didn't answer as he struck a heroic pose and snapped his fingers. SNAP! "Henshin!" Lincoln said as he spun the barrel and pulled the trigger on the device. Once again, Lincoln transformed into his Ace Savvy outfit and the white armour from yesterday attaching it to his upper body.
MAGNUM! READY? FIGHT!
Lola stared at her brother, who cocked the Magnum Shooter 40x in his hand. "Now for the highlight!" He said as he rushed forward before his sister can react.
Insert song: Be The Winners by Takayoshi Tanimoto
Lincoln shot a few shadows to keep them at bay. But no matter how many he shot, they just swarmed the alley. "Well, no sense being subtle now!" Lincoln said pulling out the Boost buckle. He inserted the boost buckle into the right side and revved the handle.
DUAL ON! GET READY FOR BOOST AND MAGNUM! READY? FIGHT!
This time Lincoln's armour looked like a reverse of what it looked like yesterday. This time he had the magnum armour on top and the boost armour on his legs. Lincoln looked at the armour with a thoughtful look. "Not bad, but I can do better than this."He said as he spun the Desire Driver around 180 degrees.
REVOLVE ON!
Before Lola could blink, the armour burst off of Lincoln, leaving him in his Ace Savvy costume. The armour pieces hit a few of the shadows that swarmed forward before reassembling onto Lincoln in the style that he used the boost and magnum buckles yesterday. Lincoln held his hands up as fired some blasts of energy at the shadows. And it looked like the shadows didn't stand a chance against them because they were dropping in packs. Lola sighed in relief as the last shadow fell, but Lincoln was still in a defensive position. "It's too easy!" He said in a cautious tone. Just as he said that a monster with a twisted peach visor and red armour emerged from the shadows.
DEN-O!
"Like I said, too easy!" Lincoln said readying himself to make a move. But before he could even start his attack, the monster threw Lincoln into a nearby dumpster! Lola cringed as the dumpster's lid fell. "OUCH!" Lincoln yelled, his voice muffled from the inside. Lola groaned as she opened it up. Luckily, to her relief, there wasn't any garbage in there. But Lincoln was looking like he just took one of Lisa's chemical concoctions. "Are you okay?" Lola asked as she pulled her brother out of the dumpster. "Good thing this suit can survive any impact." Lincoln said, brushing himself off. The monster roared in anger as Lola flinched in fear. This is bad, Lincoln thought to himself, If I don't stop that thing soon, Lola's gonna get hurt! Just then a box similar to the one that he got his Desire Driver in appeared at his feet. Lincoln opened it to find a red and blue buckle inside. Lola looked at the buckle in confusion. "How's that thing gonna help us?" She asked. "I don't know, but I'm going to find out!" Lincoln said as he removed Boost and Magnum from his Desire Driver and plugged in the new buckle.
BUILD DRIVER!
Lincoln pressed the middle of the buckle. Lola watched as Lincoln's Magnum and Boost armour turned into a red and blue armour with what looked like two bottles on his shoulders. To her mind he looked ridiculous.
BEST MATCH! BUILD! READY? FIGHT!
Lincoln moved his to finger up one side of his head and flicked his tuft of hair. "The laws of victory is set!" He said triumphantly as he pulled out a drill-like weapon and rushed forward at the monster. Lola just groaned in disbelief. Why me? She thought to herself.
Insert song: Be the one by PANDORA and Beverly
Lincoln seemed to be making a better efforts at the monster now that he had a costume change. He pierced the back of of its armour with the drill weapon making it roar in pain. "What's your problem?! Probably something stupid like the DNA splicing replicator copying a fragmented animo acid sequence." Lincoln said before blinking in confusion. "So this is what it's like to be Lisa!" The monster charged at Lincoln who dodged causing it to fall into the dumpster! "Not so nice when you fall into the municipal solid waste, huh?" Lincoln said before groaning. "uh...sure wish I knew what I was talking about." He pressed the buckle on the Desire Driver, ready to finish the fight.
VOLTECH! STRIKE!
What looked like equations flew through the sky as a white energy chart appeared with the dotted line securing the monster in place. Lincoln jumped onto the chart and delivered a powerful kick to the monster, making it explode. But once again he didn't notice the golden gear that flew out of the place where it had been. Fortunately Kaiba saw it and picked it up. He looked at it closely. On the gear was a picture of a hero with a peach visor and the year 2007. Not bad Loud, Kaiba thought as he walked away. Not bad at all.
Lola was stunned by all that had happened in the last few minutes. Lincoln had somehow changed back into his orange pinstripe suit and was walked over to her. "Are you okay?" He asked, looking at his little sister. Lola nodded, looking at her brother. "Linky, I really don't give you enough credit!" She said with a smile. But unknown to her and Lincoln, Mokuba was out and about delivering boxes just like the one like the Desire Driver was in to the Loud sisters. And he had already delivered a box to Lori who was at Fairway University getting a few things, Leni who was working at Royal Woods mall, Luan who was doing a birthday party, Lucy who was attending the Junior Morticians' Death Match, Luna who was doing a gig with the Moon Goats, Lana who was working at the animal shelter, Lisa who was at a science fair and Lily who was at preschool! Each of the Loud siblings had been given a Desire Driver.
Lola happily hugged her brother, grateful for him saving her. "Linky, you really are my hero!" She exclaimed in relief. "I'm glad you're ok, Lola!" Lincoln said, stroking her hair. "Now come on, we need to go if you want to make it to your recital on time." "You know, how about something to eat first?" Lola asked, pointing to Cafe Nascita. "I'll buy you some lunch." "Well thanks Lola!" Lincoln said, surprised. "I've been pretty hungry after that." Just then, Mokuba appeared carrying another box. Before Lincoln could even react, Mokuba handed the box over to Lola. "Congratulations." He said with a smile. "After rigorous examination, you have qualified. You have been chosen by Kaiba Corp to participate." Lola looked confused, but opened up the box. Inside the box was a Desire Driver and a pink ID Core, which made Lincoln gasp. "Mokuba, why would you-" he started to argue. "Seto's orders." Mokuba interrupted him. "I'll see you at the games." He said, walking off. Lincoln looked at Lola, who was looking at the Desire Driver in shock. Why would Kaiba include Lola?! He thought in horror.
Those who survive to the end will be able to make their ideal world come true. However, there are exceptions to everything.
