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Chapter 27: Howl in the Lake's City
In Ronnie Anne's room, she in her looking at her old photo, she remembered all the time she has with her father. Her father's name; is Roberto Alejandro Martinez-Millan Luis Santiago, and Bobby is a junior. He's a doctor and loves his mother, and son, including...he got a big promotion, but he has to work in a different country. So no choice but to leave his family, he promised to send emails, calls, and videos to them. Once in three months, he didn't...like he's vanished from their lives. Ever since that day, Maria was heartbroken, Bobby grew hatred for his father, and even Ronnie Anne sadness throughout her childhood.
'Why Papa...why?' Ronnie Anne thought as her door opened and quickly puts her photo underneath her pillow. "Yeah, mom?"
Maria Santiago is a Latina woman who has black hair and brown eyes. Wearing a light blue nurse outfit with white shoes. "Sweetie, I got something to tell you...How's it like to go to Great Lake City to see the family again?"
"Really? I don't know," Ronnie Anne said as she brings her knees to her face.
"Honey, I know that things have been rough over the past few weeks. Maybe a little outing from Royal Woods would help." Maria told her patting her daughter's shoulder.
Ronnie sighed as she looks at her mom, "I guess a little out of town would help."
"Great," Maria said as she hugs her daughter, "I'll let your brother know so we can all visit the family."
"Alright, Santiago, your shift's up!"
"Thanks, sir," Bobby said as he hangs his apron up. He clocks out his shift as he heads down outside of the pizzeria where he works at. He went to his bike and puts his helmet on, getting ready to go home. His cell phone buzzed as he looks at the notification, another missed text message from Lori.
He sighed, he hadn't checked those messages since the incident weeks ago with Lincoln. Bobby doesn't know how to respond to Lori now, but he doesn't know if he can be with her right now.
As he rides his bike heading home, he stopped at a traffic light for some cars to pass by. However, he heard a noise passing behind him. Making him turn around.
"What was that? A dog?" Bobby asked himself.
*BOOM*
Bobby sees a shadowy figure, it's twice as big and has dark yellow eyes. Bobby frightens at this as he drops off the bike. "Whoa!"
The shadowy figure sees Bobby makes Santiago scared. "Hijo, lo arrepentido!"
Bobby shakes his head. "W-What?"
"Find him!"
The shadow figure's neck glows static as its scream in pain, the figure runs away seeing a bunch of people dressed in gray suits while carrying weapon chasing after it.
Bobby is so confused right now. "Hijo?"
A car stops at the Game N'Grub, an arcade place that Lincoln likes to go to. Coming out are Sarah and Lincoln, and along with them is Belle who joins in.
"Thanks for taking me to the arcade, Sarah, and Belle," Lincoln said with a smile.
"It's no problem, Lincoln," Sarah responded rubbing Lincoln's head.
"Yeah, too bad my little sister can't come. She's not the arcade type." Belle states.
"Yeah, and I hope she's cool with the video I did," Lincoln replied scratching his head as he blush with embarrassment.
"Oh she's cool, she just always talked about you now since graduation. She even got interested in you when you start jogging-" Belle answered
"Belle, not until he has grown a little!" Sarah said as covered Lincoln's ears.
"Oh right, my bad," Belle replied opening the door.
Lincoln just goes entrance and sees the place makes him smile as Sarah and Belle look at the child, glad he's happy.
"L-Lincoln?"
Lincoln looks at the corner, only to see Lori with her Game N'Grub uniform. His heart pumps fast, and as his eyes get dull, he remembered what she did to him this past time.
"Lincoln...I-" Lori said as he runs out of the place. "Lincoln wait!"
Sarah glared at her. "I suppose that still keep your job."
Lori looks down in sadness. "It's the least I can do, my boss keeps my job until I graduate from high school."
"I heard a lot about you," Belle said with a glare. "You the one always threatening him, turning him into a human pretzel."
"This is none of your business, whoever you are!" Lori told her off as she and Belle glares.
"Come on, Belle." Sarah said patting her friend's shoulder, "She's not worth the trouble. Let's go to Lincoln."
"Fine," Belle said as she and Sarah go to find Lincoln at their car, leaving Lori alone.
"That nerve of them!" Lori growled tightening her fists. "I not always threatening him."
Lori begins to think about her time with Lincoln, they really have a great relationship with each other until she turns teenage. She always spent time on her phone and hanging out with her friends, she literally kicks him out of her room because he saw her there from time to time either wanna play with her or accident of his headset.
Lori drops some tears. 'I'm not a bad sister...I'm not."
Lincoln near the building, he breathed heavily at seeing Lori, he thought pretty hush but... he was not ready yet. 'I'm sorry Lori...I just can't.'
Sarah and Belle go to him as Sarah spoke. "You okay?"
"Yeah I'm alright-" Lincoln answered stop by phone ring, he answered. "Hey, Ronnie-Anne."
"Hey Lame-O, I just wanna say goodbye to you since I'm about to go to my family in Great Lake City." Ronnie Anne said
"Sure," Lincoln said as he look around and transform into Linkage. "I'll be there in a sec."
Both girls see Linkage runs as Belle leans toward Sarah. "Pretty cool he's a superhero."
"Say a gal who changing her clothes without locking the door...little boy bleeds out of his nose by seeing you." Sarah giggled
Belle blushes. "Oh shut it."
Linkage flew over to Santiago's place, and he flew in quickly to the bushes where no one saw him. He changes back to Lincoln, as he knocks on the door.
Opening it is Maria, who smiled at the white-haired boy "Lincoln, it's good to see you,"
"Hey, Mrs. Santiago, is Ronnie-Anne here? She called and said that you guys are gonna be out of town." Lincoln respond.
"Oh yes, she is here and we are almost ready to go," Maria replied as both walked into the house.
Ronnie came out with her to get bags, she put them on the ground and see her mother. "Hi, mom."
"Hi sweetie," Maria said as she hugged her daughter. "I wish I didn't have to leave you on your own so much."
"It's fine." Ronnie shrugs with a smile as she takes her mom's purse. "I mean, how many kids get to practice kickflips inside the-" However Ronnie Anne cut herself off as she realized what she just said while Maria gave her a suspicious look. "Uh, I'll get out bags."
"You packed for us?" Maria asked legitimately surprised. "How'd I get so lucky with you?" Ash asked again as Ronnie Anne came back holding her family luggage.
"Well, she is a great gal," Lincoln said with a smile.
Ronnie Anne playfully hit Lincoln's arm. "Don't push yourself Lame-O."
Lincoln then hears a bike peddling, and all turn to see Bobby quickly riding his bike back to the house. He ran down as he catches his breath.
"Hey...Lincoln," Bobby greets as he was sweating.
"Son, what is the matter?" Maria asked him.
"Yeah, why did you ride your bike so quickly?" Ronnie-Anne replied.
"I-I-I saw some kind of monster," Bobby said catching his breath completely, "I was riding my bike when suddenly some monster jumped in front of me. It was speaking Spanish and then some men were chasing after it!"
Three of them are surprised at this, and Bobby all fear is at a new level. Three of them think... he really needs this to leave Royal Woods for a while."
"Bobby, why do you get dressed back in civilian clothes and we go to see our family again," Maria said
"Okay, mom," Bobby replied as he walked to his room.
Ronnie Anne called out. "Don't worry bro...I put together a toy bag for you, and you know how bored you get in the car."
"You make me sound like a baby," Bobby said as he popped up from his room. "Did you pack my sticker book?"
"Yeah, I did." Ronnie Anne answered as turn to Lincoln. "I see you around, and try to stay alert on the crime." last one quiet
"I'll try," Lincoln said with a smirk.
"Good." She said as she also spoke, "Let me know if you saw that monster."
"I will," Lincoln replied with a nod, time to go to Scan's lab to find out about this monster Bobby said, it could possibly be a Metax.
In the last goodbye, Santiago begins to go to the car as hot in. Ronnie Anne sees Bobby having a sad look, and she gets irritated. "Bobby, I swear if you think-"
"Ok," Bobby says as he followed his sister and mother. Once they were in the car Bobby immediately opened up his toy bag and got out his sticker book. "So do you guys think we'll see Linkage while we're there?"
"I'm not sure Bobby," Maria answered as she started the car. "So far Linkage has only been spotted in Royal Woods, least Metaxes in this place anyway."
"Hope so, don't wanna get caught out of the city." Ronnie Anne said then thought. 'Plus, makes Lincoln less hero working.'
Unaware to them, something just watching from the top of a house...or someone who growling.
After about a 3-hour drive the Santiago's arrived in a large city. They parked in from of a large 4-story building which was primarily yellow and had multiple fires escapes along the walls. One corner of the building appeared to lead into a small store.
"We're here," Maria said as she parked the car in front of the store portion of the building.
"Ho-ho! The bodega's looking good!" Bobby said with his face covered in stickers.
"Are you ready to spend two wonderful days with your family?" Maria asked.
Inside the building, multiple people were walking around preparing for something all of them being Hispanic.
One was an elderly woman that was of medium height. She was wearing a dark blue dress with white frills on the sleeves along with a seafoam green apron. She had her hair in a bun with yellow earrings. This was Rosa Casagrande.
Another was an elderly man that was the same height as Rosa. He wore a moss vest with a lighter green undershirt and dark green pants. He had black bushy eyebrows with a gray mustache and his forehead was completely bald with gray hair on the back of his head and behind his ears. This was Hector Casagrande.
"Hector, you were supposed to put up all the decorations this morning!" Rosa scolds her husband as she walked across the hall carrying a crock pot.
Following Rosa was a child about 2 years old wearing a white shirt with red shorts. He also appeared to be mimicking every movement Rosa was making. This was Carlitos Casagrande.
"I was helping customers." Hector defended as he stepped out of the doorway.
"You were gossiping with the customers." Rosa retaliated knowing how much he likes to talk with his customers about things that have been happening around the city.
"I do not gossip." Hector denied it while shaking his head. "By the way hear Vito Filliponio whitens his teeth?"
Rosa simply groaned in response and walked into the other just as an old-looking parrot came flying out into the hallway carrying a dog bone. The parrot let out a squawk almost as a laugh. "Too slow!" The bird says as it flew away with a large dog with blonde fur with brown ears came running after the bird barking while Carlitos copied the dog's movements.
"Sergio!" Rosa scolded the bird. "Give Lalo back his toy!"
Just then a teenage girl came out. She wore a light blue dress, pink socks, and dark red boots. She had orange beaded bracelets and yellow earing with red lipstick. Her hair was in a big bushy ponytail that looked rather…messed up. This was Carlota Casagrande.
"Carl!" Carlota yelled angrily. "Did you use all my hair products again?!"
Just then a young boy with his hair styled slid into the room. He wore a red hoodie with blue jeans. He had bushy eyebrows and a tooth missing. This was Carl Casagrande.
"This kind of handsome doesn't happen on its own." Carl retorted as he showed off his hair. Carlota simply rolled her eyes and picked up Carl and started rubbing his hair into hers. "STOP IT! YOU'RE SMOOSHING THE FLAIR!"
The two siblings' fighting was interrupted by a sudden camera flash. The flash came from a woman wearing a pink dress that had a greenish-blue pattern on the top part of the dress. She had a yellow beaded necklace with an orange charm and orange earrings. This was Frida Casagrande.
"I love seeing my babies playing so sweetly," Frida said before running off crying into the other room with Carlitos mimicking her actions. Carlota put Carl down afterward and both of them fixed their hair before walking off into the rooms opposite of each other while glaring at one another.
Just then a boy jumped from the room Carl went into. He had a yellow shirt with blue jeans along with a red cape. He had baggy eyes and a big smile that showed off his overbite. This was CJ Casagrande a kid with Down syndrome.
"I'm Super CJ!" He yells as he made whooshing noise and pretended to fly around as Carlitos mimicked him.
"Okay Super CJ, just watch where you're going." A man said as he walked carrying a book before he walks into a wall himself. "Oof! Huh, whoopsie."
The man wore a green sweater vest with a long-sleeved beige undershirt with an orange tie. He had brown jeans with a black belt with a yellow buckle. He also had square glasses and rectangular eyebrows. This was Carlos Casagrande.
Right after he ran into the wall Carlos readjusted his glasses and cleared his throat and looked into his book. "Ooh! Did you know that sea anemones glow when they're scared?" Carlos pointed out from his book.
"Dad it's the weekend. You're not supposed to be doing professor stuff." Carlota pointed out as she walked through the hallway carrying some folded clothes.
"Oh, this isn't for work. It's just for fun." Carlos pointed out as he started reading again.
"Nerd alert." Sergio mocks as he flies through the room.
"Carlos, put this on the table for me, please," Rosa asked as she put a casserole dish into Carlos's hand before going off into the other room. However, Carlos was too invested in his book allowing Lalo to eat up the casserole while Carlitos imitates the dog. Meanwhile, CJ was still playing a superhero in the background.
"Where should we put this?" Frida asks as she comes into the room while holding a curtain.
"No no no!"
"Right Here!"
"Why did we wait so long to do this?"
"They're gonna be here any second!"
Ronnie Anne spoke with a smile. "Uh, should we wait outside?"
Meanwhile at Royal Woods, at Scan's Lab, we see Linkage, Scan, and Sarah analyzing the monster as they manage to catch it from one of the city's cameras. Thanks to Scan's hacking skills, the footage was recovered after apparently being deleted.
"So that's the monster Bobby saw." Linkage said. "Looks like a really big werewolf."
The monster looks like a large wolf with a gray snout, green eyes, and large teeth. He appears to wear a ripped green shirt and blue jeans. He also has extended metal claws. The footage also shows the gray armored men chasing after him.
"Who are those guys?" Sarah asked.
"Hang on, they have a symbol on their uniforms." Scan replied as he got the cameras to give the gray armored soldiers a close-up of their symbol.
It's a symbol with some kind of dagger symbol in the backyard.
"It's a group called Seize, people who hunt down any escape from high security. Mostly hunting down any Metax animals who got infected." Scan reads
"So that would explain how we've rarely seen any Metax animals around here." Linkage states, "But if that's the case, why is that wolf Metax wearing clothes?"
"Could be someone gaining the ability to turn into a werewolf Metax," Sarah said as she looks confused, "With metal claws."
"Well looks like I know what to spend on the weekend," Linkage said. "Maybe that Seize group might need some help."
"I don't think it's possible Lincoln." Scan replied as two looked at him. "You know hunters are, they always get the job done even means put the animal down by any means necessary."
Linkage begins to fly up. "Well I go after some clues, then I gonna go after him."
In the living room, all the Casagrandes were getting things ready while Bobby starts getting food from the table that was set up.
As Bobby was getting food Rosa walked up to the teenage boy and gasped "Roberto! You're all bones as skin!" She then begins to scoop more food onto Bobby's plate. "Eat! Eat!"
Bobby licks his lips at all the food on his plate saw Sergio and dropped his plate in shock as he backs up in fear of the bird. "Sergio…you're still…alive." Sergio hisses at the Hispanic in response as Bobby frowns.
Ronnie Anne immediately begins pointing and laughing in response to her older sibling's fear of the parrot. "Looks like your little buddy missed you." However right after she mocked him Lalo came crashing down onto Ronnie Anne and starts rapidly licking her face. "Lalo get off of me!"
"Looks like your little buddy missed you too." Bobby laughed back at Ronnie Anne as Lalo continues his assault.
From the kitchen, Maria and Frida watched As Ronnie Anne pushed Lalo off of her while sporting a massive cow-like from all of Lalo's licking. "So have you told the kids yet?" Frida asked with an enthusiastic smile.
Maria quickly closed the kitchen shutters and signaled Frida to be quiet. "No, not yet." The Santiago mother answered. "And please keep it a secret."
"Ay, don't worry," Frida reassured. "I won't tell anyone."
However, as soon as Frida stopped talking Hector opened the shutters and whispered to them. "Are you talking about the secret?"
"I might have told Papa," Frida admitted.
"Hector! I said to be quiet about the secret!" Rosa silently scolds as she walked into the kitchen.
"And Mama."
"Are we talking about the secret?" CJ asked as he ran into the room.
"Okay, I told everyone," Frida admitted with a guilty chuckle.
"Guys, please don't say anything," Maria asked as she started petting CJ's head. "I haven't found the right moment to talk to Bobby and Ronnie Anne. It would be such a big change. I want to make sure they're on board." She finished explaining.
"Then we'll just have to convince them!" Frida said.
"I appreciated, but-"
"We'll all convince them!" they all said as they walk out of the kitchen, as Rosa held a special candle for the occasion.
Maria sighed, she knew the family means well but hopefully they won't go overboard.
Meanwhile, Linkage looks at the spot where Bobby saw the monster. He looks around, and he finds a strand of fur on the ground. He picks it up with tweezers and put it in a bag.
"Now to find out where Seize was-"
"Where are you, Bobby!?"
Linkage turns and spotted Lori placing flyers around town. Her mascara is running as she brawls her eyes out. "Bobby, where are you? Are you in trouble!?" she cries out while placing all the flyers.
Linkage just sigh, he wondered if Bobby and Lori broke up or were on break or whatever this is. He flew to Lori as he asks "Can I help you, ma'am?"
"It's Bobby Linkage!" Lori said facing the hero. "I went to stop by his house and realized that he was gone! I'm so worried!"
Linkage look at the reader's deadpan, then look at Lori. "Lori, you heard Bobby from my super hearing? I heard he and his family going to Great Lake City to visit his relatives for the weekend."
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"WAAAAHHHH!" Lori cries as she drops to the ground. "Two days away from Bobby, I can't go on...BOO BOO BEAR, WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?!"
'I don't have time for this,' Linkage thought in annoyance, but he goes to tell Lori "Look, Lori Loud, you have to learn to live without your boyfriend for a while."
"B-B-But me and Bobby are soul mates, we literally can't be apart for so long!" Lori cries out.
"It's just a visit, it's not like he'll be away forever." Linkage said.
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT TRUE LOVE!" Lori scream
"Look, I'm got something important to do...you need to think before you do something drastic." Linkage said as he took off flying.
Lori wipes off her tears. "He's right, Bobby just takes a quick stop and comes back home."
"You guys are going to love all the changes we've made to the bodega." Hector declares as he leads the males of the family and Ronnie Anne outside.
"As long as you still got those ice pops I like." Ronnie Anne says as she started to go downstairs. But before she could Carlota grabbed Ronnie Anne's arm and started to drag her away. "Woah!"
"Ronnie Anne, you don't wanna do to the boring bodega. Ugh." Carlota states as she drags Ronnie Anne into her room.
Back with the guys, Bobby was about to open the door but was quickly stopped by Hector who pushed Bobby out of the way and forced the door close. "No Bobby! There have been some vicious new street gangs in the neighborhood!" As Hector was explaining Lalo crawls to the corner of the room and starts whimpering. "Lalo is especially terrified of the one that usually comes over here."
Hector pulls out a tin of sardines from his pocket and opens it up. He then opens the door and cracks and throws the tin outside before shutting the door and peeking outside. Just then a large group of vicious black cats came and started rushing at the tin tearing it to shreds. The Casagrande males and Bobby take the opportunity to run outside and towards the bodega.
"So this gang has cats?" Bobby asked in confusion as he ran to the store.
"This gang is cats," Hector stated as everyone made it safely into the bodega.
Back in the main part of the building Carlota had taken Ronnie Anne into her room and began to look through her closet for outfits. She smiles as she found what she was looking for and took out two black blouses with yellow streaks. "Check it out! I found some really cute dresses at the thrift store for you."
"Uh." Ronnie Anne stutters as she looked around the room trying to find a way out of the situation. Finally, she spotted what appeared to be a picture taken out of a newspaper with lipstick marks on it. "Hey what's that?" Ronnie Anne quickly asked as she pointed to the photo.
Carlota raised a brow at first and turned to where Ronnie Anne was pointing. When she saw what she was pointing at she blushed a bit and gave a shy smile. "Oh, it's just a picture of a dreamy hero that has been showing up around Royal Wood sometimes."
Carlota took the picture of her wardrobe door and handed it to Ronnie Anne. When Ronnie Anne looked at the photo and saw it was a picture from a newspaper of...Green Star with Linkage who flying next to him. It has a big pink heart shape circle on the hero. "Oh, how I wish I get with him," Carlota says with hearts in her eyes.
"You mean Green Star?" Ronnie Anne's question spot a wolf tail.
"Yeah, saving the world, muscular, and always cheery smile," Carlota said
"Achoo!"
In the African rainforest, Gar seems to find someone in the forest, and rubs his nose. "Huh must be allergies."
"AHHH! NOT THE TIGERS AGAIN, GAR!"
Gar hearing nearby, he runs. "Coming Elena!"
"Really...like this?"
Ronnie Anne is living with her family, watching their favorite TV show; Dream Boat. Ronnie Anne really squeezes between the couch, no wonder Lincoln has trouble sitting with his sister.
"Ooh! Our shows are on! The Dream Boat! Carlota explains.
Bobby sits on the ground and thinks. 'This is Lori's favorite show-' another text from Lori makes the boy groan. 'Again...really Lori?'
"Next time on The Dream Boat, who will Karen send overboard tonight?" The announcer of the show explained as it showed three different men with completely different styles.
"Ugh. I hope it's Brock. He has no style." Carlota said clearly not liking that certain contestant.
This caused an argument from the whole family each stating which contestant they disliked and why they should be the one to go overboard. However, their arguing was stopped when they turned back to the TV which was suddenly switched to the news.
"We interrupt this current program for an important broadcast."
Everyone, except for Ronnie Anne, and CJ, groaned in response to the sudden announcement. What could be so important that it interrupted their show?
"In Royal woods Michigan, we have reports of another Howler sighting, Seize group!" All the Casagrandes, Bobby, and even Ronnie Anne gasped at the announcement and glued their eyes to the TV.
A screen shows Howler attacking Seize as claws down a tank. The family watch as the Howler slashes down the tank and knocks the soldiers off of him. He screams as his collar became charged with electricity.
"Yikes, that's one dangerous beast!" Carlota said with fright.
"Doggie!" CJ optimistically said.
"T-T-That's it! That's the monster I saw!" Bobby points at the television screen.
"Really? I bet if I saw him, I can trap him in a net." Carlino said with excitement.
"You certainly will not, I'll ground you if you did it," Frida said sternly.
"Fascinating, a wolf's claws can take down a tank," Carlos replied fixing his glasses.
"Hope not to be in this city," Hector said seriously.
"You just jinx this city," Rosa replied shaking her head.
"Well I hope that Howler locks up, I don't wanna Bobby to be scared of being out," Maria said crossing her arms.
While everyone chatting, Ronnie Anne was only bored of this until she caught up on Howler's world.
"Quiero...ver...a...hirjo...mi niña...Nie Nie!"
Ronnie Anne froze in place like she has a big shocking experience after what she said. So she walked to the bathroom without talking to her family, once she got in the room...she close the door.
"No one ever says it except Bobby and..." Ronnie Anne said as she drop to the ground. "Papa."
She knew what she had to do, she pulls up her phone as she gives a text to Lincoln.
Linkage follows and tracks down Seize as they seem to be heading out of Royal Woods. Thanks to his cloaking ability, he can follow them without ease. It was then he got a contact from Scan.
"Linkage, I've discovered something interesting about the Howler monster." Scan said.
"Lay it on me, doc." Linkage respond.
"After analysis, Howler is definitely once human." Scan states, "As it turns out, this innocent man isn't a Metax naturally, rather he gained the powers through forced experimentation."
"Forced experimentation?" Linkage asked in shock, as he hears buzzing on the phone as he reads a text. It was from Ronnie-Anne as Linkage reads the text while Scan explains some more.
"But the most shocking part, this person that was turned into Howler is-"
"Roberto Arturo Santiago Sr." Linkage said with his eyes widen.
"Yes, how did you know?" Scan asked.
"Because my friend just texted me saying that she has figured out due to the Howler speaking Spanish on tv. Now that I think about it, Bobby did say that Howler spoke Spanish." Linkage said.
"Then if Howler is Ronnie-Anne's father, that could mean he could be going to his family," Scan states.
"Which is where Seize is heading, to Great Lake City!" Linkage deducted, seeing the group heading towards the city as he also spotted a speeding van, "And great, Lori's going there as well."
"What? Why is she going to the city this soon?"
Linkage got a call from Lori as he spoke. "I think I gets an answer," he answered his phone as he spoke. "Hi Lor-"
"RONNIE ANNE AND BOBBY ARE MOVING!" Lori answered as the horned. "I GOT MY BLEAKER ON, YOU SON OF A BITCH!
"Wait. What?!" Linkage gasped in surprise at the news.
"Yeah! And I don't know what Bobby's thinking but I'm going to tell him what he should be thinking!" Lori explains rather loudly.
"Wait, why are you calling me?" Linkage asked legitimately confused.
"BECAUSE RONNIE ANNE'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND, SO I WANTED YOU TO COME TO THE CITY!" Lori's scream makes Linkage lift the phone away in a few inches.
Linkage rolled his eyes in annoyance as he spoke. "Why?"
"Lincoln, I literally don't want to talk to this...do you really have an argument RIGHT NOW!" Lori screams Linkage knows she having her bangs of teeth.
Linkage have enough of this as he spoke angrily. "Yes I do, I'm sick of this Lori! No wonder everyone hated you for one good reason; you always threatened me to do everything that you have problems with!"
"Lincoln, I-" Lori was about to speak, but Lincoln told her off.
"When I was five, you threatened to clean up your room so you can go to a party really soon. When I was seven, you threatened me to polish your shoes after you step on Charle's 'second pile.' And when I was nine you threatened to sell me to Cambodia if I don't help you by SNEAKING YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE TO GO SEE A CONCERT PASS CURFEW!"
"But Lincoln-"
"And the millions of times I keep hearing from you that anytime I come to your room, you'll turn me into a human pretzel! So tell me, Lori, why should I come with you after all the threats you've made toward me? And Ronnie-Anne is not my girlfriend, we're just friends. You really need to stop being so selfish over your love for Bobby!"
"But...you need to know that Bobby and I are-"
"I not gonna be your little slave Lori, I think it's best you need to step away from Bobby a little while-"
"No I won't, I not be reason with you twerp! I going to talk with Bobby without you, he will listen, I DON'T NEED HELP FOR YOU!"
Linkage got hung up by his sister, he muttered. "She's made a big mistake...need to get there."
Linkage sees they are about to step into Great Lake City, he gets serious..."I need to find Howler first before things get worst."
Meanwhile, outside of the apartment building, Ronnie-Anne and Bobby came out with their mom by the steps talking about moving here.
"I've been thinking about this for a long time; I hate that you guys have to be alone at home while I'm at work, and we have such a great family here. So I thought that maybe...with the new promotion of my job, I thought that maybe we can move here." Maria told them.
"I really loved her mom, been a long of seeing the family around. I love the bodega, really great having fun working here instead of working all the time in Royal Woods. My friends say, either way, they say that wanted me to be happy." Bobby said with a smile.
Ronnie Anne thinks about this, she's had a life in Royal Woods all her life. It's time to meet Lincoln, she used to bully him until both became friends with him and Clyde McBride. Once she realized Lincoln is Linkage, a whole new life for her, she helps him stop Metax, hang out in cool places, and life lessons.
"Mom...I just-" Ronnie Anne said as she look at the road. "Hey, it's that...Vanzilla?"
The three look and saw Vanzilla driving down their street. Coming out is Lori who cries out "BOO-BOO BEAR!"
Meanwhile, Howler jumps from rooftop to rooftop. He spotted a van driving down to an apartment, where he saw a blond girl coming out of it towards...them.
"Familia." Howler snarled as he rushes down there.
"Sir, we got a lock on Howler," the pilot said as the Chief sits next to him watching Howler going towards an apartment building.
"Good, now repair to capture Howler." Chief states as wearing a weaponize glove.
"But sir, there's a woman and the three young ones in there...how we get him?" The pilot question
The Chief checks out Howler's files. "It seems like Maria Santiago is Howler's wife, so let's have a little captive."
"Lori, did you drive all the way out here?" Bobby asks her.
"Yes, and I came here to say that you're making a big mistake in deciding to move here!" Lori cries out, as something jumped in front of her which spooked the family.
"Uh...Lori..." Bobby said in fright.
"How can you think of moving when we're still in love with each other?! I can't just let you be selfish over my needs!" Lori ranted as Howler breathed through his nose, leaving a smoke cloud behind her, "Would you mind?!" Lori turns around and looks pale to see the Howler.
"No le hables así a mi hijo, rubia!" Howler growled at her.
"AHHHH!" Lori screamed as she hide behind Bobby.
"Oh my, stay away from us-SWEETIE?!" Maria screams and sees Ronnie Anne goes to Howler.
Ronnie Anne and Howler look at each other, the werewolf leans down, and she reaches out to the werewolf, as the creature places his snout on her nose, and sees Ronnie Anne smiling while tearing up.
"Papi... ¿Eres Realmente tú?" Ronnie Anne asked as hugged the neck.
Howler even whimpered as hugged back. "Si, Nie Nie...Finalmente regreso."
"Huh, what's going on...Nie Nie?" Bobby asked
"He's a monster-" Maria said stopping by Ronnie Anne to look at them.
"He's not, don't you guys realize...Bobby, he called you Hijo! He says Nie Nie...it's Papi!" Ronnie Anne's shout shocked Santiago.
"Papi/Arturo?!" Maria and Bobby ask in shock, while Lori hid behind Bobby.
"It's true," spoke Linkage as he flew down, "This man was forced to turn into a werewolf, and that shock collar is preventing him from changing back."
"I can't believe this...I just can't believe it." Bobby said shunning his head realizing he was wrong.
"I never know, Arturo...mi amor?" Maria question
"Sí, mi amor, lamento haber cumplido tu promesa de estar contigo y con los niños ... Me gustaría poder devolverlo." Howler replied in full sadness.
'This beyond me of understanding.' Lori thought confused.
"WHOA!"
The whole of Santiago came out of the front door, realizing they had been eavesdropping on them.
"Huh...everyone for dessert?" Carlino asked with a nervous smile.
Suddenly out of surprise, Howler's collar came on as static him. "AHHHHH!"
Ronnie Anne, Bobby, and Maria were horrified. "Papi/ Arturo!"
Linkage's eyes flash blue, meaning they are here. "Everybody, get in the house now!"
Everyone gets inside, except for Ronnie-Anne who looks shocked and worried for her dad. She then saw Seize coming towards her father with guns and nets.
"I knew I'd find you, monster." spoke the Chief.
"Stop this, this is an innocent man you're hurting!" Linkage told him.
"Don't care, someone pays good money to retrieve him, and Seize will take him in." The Chief said as he held his gun up at Linkage "Get out of the way, boy. Let the adults handle this."
"Then you'll have to go through me." Linkage said as he creates dozens of clones of himself, as his real self blasts the collar off of Howler, thus preventing him from more shocks.
"No!" The Chief shouts as he calls out "Open fire!"
"But sir, there's a young girl over there!" the lieutenant states pointing at Ronnie-Anne, which Howler went to defend her.
"Don't care, casualties always happened," the Chief said as he turns to glare at Linkage "Now, fire!"
BANG!
The Chief coughs out blood, seeing that his chest now has a hole as he falls down. The lieutenant held the gun up, and all were shocked by his actions.
"Sorry, sir. But I draw the line in harming children." the lieutenant states.
Just that the Seize knows they don't know what to do, even sees a group of Linkage glaring at them with their hands full of energy. So the Seize just retreat with them as the clones disappeared.
Linkage goes to Ronnie Anne and Howler who seem hugging each other.
"Papi ... Sé que vuelves algún día, Sabía que nunca me y Bobby abandonaste ... Siempre dices..." Ronnie Anne said
"La familia es lo primero. Lo siento, Nie Nie, no estar allí para ti y Bobby." Howler replied tears up.
"Ahora estás aquí y esos tipos no te perseguirán en algún momento y, por favor, puedes volver a cambiar ... Quería ver tu verdadero ser. " Ronnie Anne respond
Howler looks at her and sees Linkage lifted up the collar means it's off of him. Howler closes his eyes as green energy mists around Howler, as goes disappeared showing a grown man.
This grown man is Latino with smooth hair a huge beard, and brown eyes. Wearing only a ripped green shirt and black pants on him. Arturo Santiago.
"Let's go to see family," Arturo said
Everyone is near the stairs, having worried Looks on their faces until they see the door open to see a happy Ronnie Anne, Linkage, and Arturo.
"Arturo/Papi/ Mi armor!" Everyone shouted hugging Arturo even Ronnie Anne.
"I miss you all, I'm so sorry I leave you guys!" Arturo shouts hugging each of them tightly.
"Never mind that you look skinny! Time for you a big buffet even you Linkage." Rosa said to check their tummies.
"No sorry, I have to go-" Linkage said stopping by CJ and Carlino pulling him.
"Yeah, I wanna hear stories about your adventures!" Carlino shout
"Yeah, a play superhero!" CJ shouts in excitedly.
Carlota goes near them. "Know Green Star number by any chance."
Bobby called them out. "You guys go ahead, I gotta talk to Lori."
Once now the stairs only Bobby and Lori as she spoke. "Wow, never know you're father is a big bad wolf?"
"Lori, are you outta your mind?" Bobby question angrily
Lori is confused. "Huh, what?"
"You come in the middle of the night, without a message notifying me! Heck, your parents might be worried sick about you right about now!" Bobby shout
"I have no choice, you going to move here, far away from Royal Woods, far away from me! I can't stand not seeing you every day other than texting!" Lori replied
"So you're idea is to come all the way out here just gonna reason me back to come back Royal Woods. Listen, Lori, I like Royal Woods...but I love it here, I got my family, and I finally got father back. All these years I was angry at him for leaving us, but now I realize he's only been trapped by some mess of a group who experiment on him, turning him into a monster. I think...I need to spend more with my family, especially my father who needs his family, his wife, Ronnie Anne, and even me." Bobby respond
"But what about me?" Lori asks him, as Bobby just sighs.
"Lori, I think...we should...see other people," Bobby told her, as Lori looks stunned, "I don't think this can work out for both of us, Lori."
"B-But Boo Boo Bear!" Lori said
"Listen, Lori, you are just so confused and angry about me because I leaving. You need to know you can't plan your future correctly, I have my future too you know. I wanted to follow my own path of being who I am. And you need to find yours, sorry Lori...it's over." Bobby said placing his hands on Lori's shoulder. "But I will be there for you, we can still text each other, I am always there for you as a close friend...remember that Lori." He kisses her forehead.
And that was it, Lori stood there in shock. Bobby had to leave her alone as he went to join his family. Lori looks down as she looks down in shame, as she went to New Vanzilla and closes it. She immediately brawls up into tears as she cries in the car.
Linkage saw the scene and sigh, 'I've warned her that this would happen, but she has to learn this the hard way.' he thought as he saw the Casegrandes and Santiegos taking care of Arturo. 'Gonna leave him a card to Scan's Labs later, Scan might help him.'
"Guess this is it."
Linkage sees Ronnie Anne open her newest room, he flew to her. "What you talking Ronnie Anne?"
"What do you think? I in this city, won't help you with your Metax problems."
"No...actually kinda needed you here." Linkage said looking at her.
"Really?" Ronnie Anne asked
Linkage looks at the city. "This city is close to Royal Woods, Ronnie Anne, I need someone to look after it. I think you are the one."
Ronnie Anne was surprised. "I...don't what to say..."
Linkage simply takes off his tech earpiece and changes the color scheme to purple. "Welcome to the team, Sarah likely will you sends a big presentation gift next week. I see you soon okay?"
Ronnie Anne smiles, looking at him. "Fine, see you soon, but I wanna give you something."
Linkage goes to her. "What is it?"
Ronnie Anne hugged Linkage who was caught in surprise, then really something that shocked him; a peck of a kiss on his face. Both of them get red faces, Ronnie Anne slowly closes the window while saying 'stupid' meanwhile Linkage gets red face until hearing honking. He sees Lori cry down even hearing honking by hitting the wheel, so Linkage goes to Vanzilla, lifted in the air, bringing Lori back to Royal Woods, back to the Louds.
Meanwhile at a base.
"So Lincoln, you've finally dealt with Howler and Seize," spoke the figure who reveals himself from the shadows, as it turns out to be John all the time. "This little distraction helped perfectly,"
"Yeah, having to release Howler out after you took him in from the Weapon-X base was genius!" Robo-Geek states in excitement.
"And all of this to get the final part against Linkage from Axion Labs," said Trunks.
"So to get enough parts to put in our specialize gear, or known as a new look." High Burn replied
John look at the screen of Sarah and Scan, as he spoke. "No more hiding, by tomorrow...we finally strike down the Boy of Tomorrow."
Top of the roof is Ronnie Anne who holding a delivery box holding up a letter and reading it.
"R.A...welcome to the Team, in the box it can help to stop any top situation...be sure to train yourself, the more train yourself, the more the suit get used to it. The suit helps your physical strength, speed, stamina, agility, dexterity, reflexes and reactions, coordination, balance, and endurance be enhanced to slightly superhuman levels, and even the claws are important...they are part is vibranium."
Ronnie Anne opened up the box, pulling out a brown belt with a cat-like shape belt buckle with purple lining and eyes. She puts it on, then felt a click of violet flash appear... the smoke stops she now wearing a purple and black leather suit with a body-like spandex showing her body. She has a dark purple long belt that hangs out like a cat's tail, purple gloves with silver claws on the fingertips, and boots. He has black cat ears and a black and purple sharp mask covering part of her face. Her eyes, including the sclera, are green and look cat-like, and her hair is now wild going down her back.
"Whoa..." Ronnie Anne commented looking at herself, feeling the suit like a second skin, go to her hips. "Wish is baggy, why show my body?"
Ronnie Anne take a deep breath, a do a big jump which does a big leap, she scream until landed on another roof building. She begins jumping from roof to roof while smiling, she thought something.
'What's my name?"
Ronnie Anne grabbed the wall, and thanks to her claws holding her, she begin to climb until reached the top.
"Black Leo...no too creepy."
Ronnie Anne jumps wall to wall on the building and then jumped onto a construction site.
"Purple tigress...I think someone got it already."
Some workers saw her, saw a superhero running through the top.
"A Metax here?"
"Cat one?"
"Yeah but it's a lion type, lioness one."
Ronnie Anne wides and gets a smile while reaching the top. "Lioness...yeah,"
Ronnie Anne makes a big jump to the top of the city building and does a lioness-style stance while smirking. "I am...Purple Lioness!"
Purple Lioness jumped off while making a huge lion roar.
A new hero born in Great Lake City, surely you need to know Ronnie Anne is the girl on the hero job be sure to give her the love she needed.
And yes guys, Bobby breaks up with Lori...I say this, Lori...just so much control over this relationship to me, I mean who goes out to travel to another city just for a so-called 'love'...that to me, is obsessed and is not good for someone.
And Arturo got the idea of Wulf from Danny Phantom and Movie Coco, lost his life and his humanity and his family thought he left them.
Tune in three series finale.
The Fall Part 1