Hey Yo! NerdRyuu here for the chapter 17 of The Last Loud!
Last chapter a lot happened, so go read it to know what happened!
Just kidding, last chapter, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lola and Lana god kidnapped and abused!
I didn't received any question this week so let's straight to the chapter!
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own The Loud House
The lights kept approaching. Loud looked at the fire pit. That thing was a giant beacon announcing their position. With Ripley not working, they only had the option to fight the unknown foreigner.
They couldn't do anything now, the light was approaching fast. The Loud cocked the shotgun.
As the light approached they started to identify what it was. It was a RV, a off white RV with black tinted windows. It was a little rusty, but was in a pretty good shape. The doors opened.
Slowly, the occupants of the RV descended. Maria and Loud raised their weapons.
Four people had got out the RV. Two men, two women.
The first man was a towering 6 foot 7 Afro-American man with hulking muscles. He was bald with a neatly shaved beard. He had a shirt two sizes too small for his size. He was holding a freaking mini gun
The second man had grayish brown curly hair that looked unkept, he was very skinny and was wearing overalls stained with grease. On his eyes, a pair of high tech googles with several green lenses. He was wearing what could be described as a exosuit, with big metal gauntlets and boots.
The first woman was a young Asian lady with long black hair, loosely tied back by a single scrunchy. She using a type of white poncho. She held a modified precision rifle, used in the past by elite snipers.
The last woman was exactly like the other one, they probably were twins, but the last was a amputee, and had two prosthetic legs, she was wearing a one piece black jumpsuit with pads on the shoulders, sides, thighs and chest. Her hair was tightly tied up in a ponytail. And she was holding a Katana.
The Last Loud started them, ready to start attacking at the faintest aggressive motion. Cassie and Maria were waiting for Loud's cue.
The four strangers also stared back at the trio. A silent stand off had started with the two groups.
"Were 's the whereabouts of your masters!?" The woman with the katana spoke, with a heavy accent. Cassie threw her head back confused, then looked to her mother, who looked equally confused.
"Masters?" Maria said. The twins traded looks and then they looked at the smaller man who looked to the trio and back to the twins, then to the big man than back to the trio.
The big man and the Loud didn't took their eyes of the other.
"Huh… Who are your masters?" The woman with the rifle said, also with a heavy accent.
"Who are our masters?" Cassie said confused. "What'd you expect us to say? Jesus Christ?"
"Cassie, quiet." Maria spoke.
"Wait, wait, wait." The smaller man spoke, walking up between the bigger man and Loud, to prevent anything to happen. "Obviously there's a misunderstanding here." He said with a gentle smile. "You aren't slavers." The man presumed, removing the goggles and putting on their forehead, revealing bright green eyes behind thick circular glasses.
"No." Both Cassie and Maria said.
"And aren't part of the Renaissance Cult." Cassie and Maria traded confused looks. They were about to ask what that was but Loud finally spoke up.
"We are not." They said with a serious tone, still without taking their attention off the bigger man.
"Oh. hehe, huh…" The man scratched the back of his head. "We made a mistake." He said looking back at his companions. The bigger man finally took his eyes off and lifted his eyebrows.
"Yes Tower it's fine I huh…" he looked back at the trio and returned his attention to the man he called Tower. "Don't think they're a menace to us."
"We, a menace to you?" Cassie said indignant. "You were the ones following us, you showed up to our camp with guns ablaze and we aren't a menace?"
"He he, sorry." The man said. "We though you were slavers or made part the Renaissance Cult. And we need to capture one of them."
"Why do you want to capture a slaver?" Cassie asked.
"What is the Renaissance Cult?" Maria asked.
"The Renaissance Cult is a fanatic religious group that think that Day Zero was a blessing from the gods. They worshipped their god, a freak radiation mutation that considered himself a god among the few survivors of Day Zero." Loud explained.
"Said everything gentleperson." The man said with a nod.
"Not everything." The Loud said. "The Slavers work for them." The man and his allies nodded, but Cassie and Maria looked surprised.
"Wait, I thought Slavers were just a bunch of shitheads without a leader or objectives." Cassie said.
"They are." Loud confirmed. "But the cult needed someone to do their dirty work, and those shitheads wanted a excuse to murder, pillage and rape. The Slavers aren't even part of the cult. Just literal thugs for the cult."
"Holy." Maria said "But anyway, who are you guys?" the woman with the katana snorted cynically.
"We can ask the same to you." She said.
"We." The man spoke up. "Are… well, actually we don't have a name. Not a group name I mean. We, huh, never thought that we would need to name ourselves and-"
"To the point Linc." The woman with the rifle interrupted him.
"We are just a group of… friends, can I call us friends, right?" The man looked to his allies as he asked, the women nodded and the other man made a single nod. "We're a group of friends that just want to, huh, survive."
"What a coincidence." Maria said. "We also just want to survive."
"Great!" The man said. "Oh, those are the twins, Haro and Himiko Hanamachi." Respectively, the woman with the katana and the woman with the rifle raised their hands as a greeting. "They are respectively our tracker and markswoman."
"He." The man pointed to the large man. "Is Tower." Tower also raised a hand to greet, leaving just one hand holding the minigun. "He's our cook." Tower nodded, smiling with just his lips, his eyes kept the same serious look.
"He makes one hell of omelet." Haro said looking at the friend. Her twin and the other man nodded and agreed.
"And I am Lincoln. Lincoln Tesla." The Loud finally broke eye contact from Tower to look at the man. Well, man wasn't exactly how someone would describe him. Looking closely, they could see how young he was, a boy or a lad should be the right way to describe him. His big green eyes behind of those glasses, accompanied by his light acne and freckles told Loud that the boy was young, not much older than Cassie.
"You are?" Cassie said, expecting his function on the team.
"I'm just the mechanic, nothing special." Lincoln said humbly.
"Oh come on Link-cable." Himiko said. "You are a genius!" Lincoln laughed shyly.
"I wouldn't say genius…" He said, trying to downplay what she said. "So, huh, who… who are you guys?"
"I'm Cassie!" The young girl said enthusiastically. "This is my mom Maria and this is our leader of sorts, Loud, we don't know their name, gender or even face!"
"Cassie!" Maria reprehended her daughter.
"Oh… Huh… do you… wanna make some trades?" He said pointing to the RV. "We may have something the other wants!"
I don't know… Loud?" Maria said, looking at the Loud. The Loud said nothing for a few seconds.
"We may have a look." They said finally.
N/A: As I said Last chapter, This one was entirely on the future, this chapter was just a big conversation, without much happening, the biggest thing here is the introduction of 4 new characters for the future cast!
Tower, a gentle giant that I imagine being played by Terry Crews, he is also a silent man, commucating with only his expressions
The surname of the Twins Haro and Himiko, Hanamachi, means city of flowers in Japanese, I choose this name because it is one of the titles of my hometown
And there's Lincoln Tesla, the character that I'm having the most fun writing, his personality is so interesting!
Next chapter will again be entirely on the past, and I'll tell ya, things are going to go bad.
I think that was everything! I thank everyone who read all the way to here, and I'll work very hard to continue with the good work!
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