Chapter 2

Past in the Future

Okay. Really great response to the first chapter. So let's get moving. On to the reviews.

Gojirafan1954: Well, he's not the Doctor. He just has a TARDIS.

duskrider: That's actually a pretty cool idea.

Guest: Yeah. But holding grudges isn't in Lincoln's nature.

Gamelover41592: Glad you're enjoying it.

apserman1: Usual time travel rules apply.

Azure Sky Dance: Not a Time Lord.

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And now, friends. Alons-Y and... Let's kick it up!

Back in the basement of the Loud House, Lisa and Lua stood in confusion at the absence of the ship which had just been there.

"What the heck happened? It was right there!" Luan shouted.

"Perhaps Lincoln possess a way to recall the vessel to him if he has need of it." Lisa theorized, being right on the money with it.

"But why would he need it come to him. Maybe Lincoln, Lori, and Pop Pop are in more trouble than he thought." Luan said, just about to suggest that they go to Sunset Canyon to help when sudenly they both hear the wheezing of Lincoln's TARDIS.

"Okay! What is that noise!" The two of them heard before they looked to the top of the stairs where their father, Lynn Loud Sr looking in shock as TARDIS appeared. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" He shouted so loud the pipes of the basement were ringing.

"Man. I heard that from in there." Lincoln said after opening the TARDIS door.

"Lincoln? What? Huh?" Lynn Sr was trying to ask.

"Father, I think it might be a good Idea to bring the others down here for an explanation." Lisa suggested for the sake of keeping things from being forced to repeat.

"But what about the..." Lynn Sr began to ask before Lori, Al, and Myrtle came out of the TARDIS.

"Screw the fights. Leni can have the stupid dress and if the twins keep arguing, they answer to me." Lori said with finality.

"Uh. Okay." Lynn Sr said before he left the basement.

"Okay. While we're waiting..." Lincoln began before pulling out the Sonic Pen and pointing it at the arch which had pulled him all that time ago. Activating the device in his hand then caused Lisa's invention to be wrecked with multiple small explosions.

"What the actual heck, Lincoln!?" Lisa asked in rage at having her creation destroyed.

"It's a miracle that thing didn't kill me. I'm not taking that gamble with you or anyone else. You wanna time travel? Get in the TARDIS." Lincoln said with a stern yet protective voice. "Oh and here's everyone else is here." He said as the rest of the Loud family came down the stairs, shocked to see that Lincoln had aged.

"Lincoln? What? What happened to you?" Lincoln's mother, Rita asked as she put her hand to her son's face.

"That's a bit of a story." Lincoln said before he signaled for the others to sit down. "So, it all began to when I got pulled in to that time arch that Lisa had made." He said as the story began.

(Flashback)

Lincoln found himself in a state that felt as if he was falling, drowning, buried and burning at the same time as he was dragged through the Time Vortex, nothing protecting him as he was tossed on the walls of the phenomenon. After what felt like an eternity of the maddening experience, he ended up falling out of it and ending up in dark filled with broken pieces of machines. Had he landed anywhere else in all of reality, he would have died.

(Flashback interrupted)

"What do you mean by that?" Lisa asked, not understanding how a machine graveyard would be better to land than a civilized area.

"Because the energies of the Time Vortex aren't something any normal lifeform can withstand. I would would have died in an hour max no matter what if I hadn't landed where I did.

(Flashback continued)

It took every last bit of Lincoln's strength to even bring himself to his knees, every muscle in his body aching as he did so.

"Help me." Lincoln heard a voice say from inside his head.

"Wh-who's th-there?" Lincoln struggled to ask.

"Listen. You're dying. So am I. But we can both survive if you come to where I am." The voice which sounded like a young girl said.

"O...kay. Where... are you?" Lincoln said as he stood up, his body burning with the effort.

"Follow your mind." The voice said as Lincoln began walking, each step feeling as if he lifting a thousand pounds. But kept moving, fueled both by the desire to live and the one to help the voice of the girl.

Eventually, his walking led him to the edge of a hill where a single misstep caused him to fall. However this fall proved to be a good thing as he fell exactly to his destination. Lincoln then looked to what had been calling to him. A silver dome inside of an octagon.

"Hurry. You're almost out of time. Help me open." The voice said as Lincoln summoned what strength he still could and put his hands in to the seam of the dome, pushing with all of his might. The sides of the dome then began to come apart as an aura began to leave his body and go in to a star like crystal. The dome then began to open much easy then before, Lincoln being able to tell what was happening. The power that was killing him was what gave power to the crystal. Lincoln losing this aura was healing them both, the crystal even seeming to help him open the dome. Once the dome had fully been opened, the last of Time Vortex's energy going in to and fully restoring power to the Eye of Harmony.

(Flashback interrupted)

"Eye of Harmony? Lori asked, Lincoln scratching the back of his head for that moment of him forgetting they didn't know about it.

"The Eye of Harmony is a bit misnamed. It's more like a heart or a brain. The it's the core... of a TARDIS." Lincoln explained.

(Flashback continued)

A now fully healthy Lincoln stood there as the Eye of Harmony closed as he heard the sound of the machine giggling.

"Thank you so much! I was stuck here on the verge of death for the last four centuries." The TARDIS said to Lincoln.

"Hey don't worry about it. I was on the edge of death until you pulled that stuff out of me." Lincoln said before sitting down. "So, I don't need to be rude. But where are we and what are you?" He asked.

The machine then began to explain to him that she was a TARDIS, the vehicle of an alien species known as 'Time Lords' and that she and many others like her and been lured to the planet they were on by the entity that had once lived within it to feast the energy from them until he was stopped by the final Time Lord to come to the planet. After that, she had been stuck there for years, barely clinging to life until that time fissure opened and spit out Lincoln.

"So what will you do now that you're healed?" Lincoln asked.

"I'm getting healed and then I'm getting the both of us off this planet." The TARDIS replied as the Eye of Harmony began glowing

Over the next week or so, the TARDIS formed what she could staring with a bedroom and a food replicator for Lincoln. From there she built a new skeleton for her inside as well as her outer. Still, Lincoln's TARDIS was young for her kind so a complete repair from where she had been would have taken hundreds of years to attempt. This was what made it necessary for her to pull in parts from the other fallen TARDISes, explaining the patchwork look to the console room.

Soon enough, the TARDIS was complete enough to be able to take off, giving Lincoln instructions on how to fly her and from there they took off in to time and space..

(End flashback)

"And that's it. From there, I spent most of my time, no pun intended, traveling all over the place because we were having trouble with the navigation system. Though I would end up on Earth a few times. Just never the right one." Lincoln explained, noticing guilty looks from Lori and the second oldest of the Loud sisters, the green clad Leni. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Linky. You almost died." Leni said, her heart breaking at the very thought.

"You almost died because we fought over a dress and then spent what look like three years (?) lost in space." Lori said, her guilt heavier due to it being by her hand that the accident happened.

"Uh. Yeah. Cards on the table. Add... two zeros to that." Lincoln said, the words causing every single other person in the room to freeze in shock.

"I'm sorry. I must've misheard that. It sounded like you said..." Rita began to say before Lincoln nodded.

"I did. I am one hundred and eleven years old." Lincoln confirmed, the other having honestly know idea how to respond to that.

"So... are you... immortal?" The gothicaly dressed Lucy asked.

"Well, for obvious reasons, I've never tested the whole "Can I be killed?" thing. But near as I can tell, I just age one year for every hundred and I heal abnormally fast." Lincoln explained.

"Okay. Getting away that bombshell for a second. You have a time machine. Did you ever think about stopping the accident from happening in the first place?" Luan asked, Lisa taking that one.

"That has the potential of creating a paradox. If he never got pulled in to the temporal portal. He wouldn't have the vehicle and it would still have happened and so on." Lisa explained, most of them getting the point.

"Not only that. But crossing your own timeline for any reason is extremely dangerous. Almost as bad as changing a fixed point." Lincoln said, gaining confused looks from the others. "Right. It's like this. Time can be rewritten up till it's been read. Once that happens, it's done." He explained.

"So, you couldn't just go back and choke out John Wilkes Booth before he got to the theater." The girl in purple punk attire, Luna asked, getting a chuckle from Lincoln.

"Figures that's the one you'd bring up. But no. I couldn't save Abe Lincoln." Lincoln confirmed. "And with that, we pretty much have all the important parts. Any questions left." He asked.

"Just one for me." Rita said, glancing at the TARDIS. "Are you... staying?" She asked.

"I'll admit, I've addicted to the traveling and I'm probably not gonna give it up any time soon. But now that I have this place set up as a base point for the TARDIS, I can just go traveling for the day and come home for dinner." Lincoln said, to the relief of the others.

"Speaking of which. It's been a long few days or... centuries for you. So I'm gonna something good on to eat." Lynn Sr said before wordlessly asking for Luan's help before they both went up stairs.

"Alright. Call me when it's ready. I'll be working on a side project in the TARDIS." Lincoln said before opening the doors to said ship. Once inside, he went to the console and began typing on a keyboard with triangular buttons to bring up a picture of a statue with him standing next to a girl. He then zoomed in the statue's wrist where a watch with strange markings on in.

(Elsewhere)

A young Hispanic girl clad in purple skating through the streets of Great Lakes city before coming to an apartment building connected to a bodega.

"Sorry I'm late." The girl called as she walked in to her apartment.

"It's okay, Ronnie Anne. I'm just you're home safe. Can you help your tia Frida set the table?" An elderly Hispanic woman asked as the girl went to grab a set of dishes, a small orange and purple misty glow coming from the watch on her wrist.

Well there you go guys. Sorry if this was more of just an exposition dump. But I hope you liked the chapter anyway. That said, I hope every has a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, a happy Kwanza, and a Festivus for the rest of us. Until next time and as always... Keep on keeping in.