Chapter 32
Interlude 2
At AJ's gym,
Lincoln, misty brock, and samurai along with their Pokémon help Aj fix up his gym after cross trashed it.
" Thanks for helping me fix up my gym," Aj said.
"No problem, it's the least we can do," Lincoln said, still feeling incineroar's hit.
"You sure you should be moving, after getting hit," misty asked concerned.
"I'll be fine, believe it or not, my sister Lynn hits harder," Lincoln replied.
"Well, that guy Cross is really dangerous, Misty's sisters and i faced him and he won in only 5 seconds," brock said, surprising Lincoln.
"And my mom told me that he uses 2 Pokémon, no one has ever seen his other ones," misty added.
"A real mystery," Lincoln said, until he noticed firestorm in the corner feeling down.
"Firestorm, are you ok?" Lincoln asked.
"No, if I were stronger, you wouldn't have gotten hurt protecting me," firestorm replied on the verge of tears.
Lincoln hugs firestorm," its ok firestorm, I did it because protecting does dear to me are important, and I know you're strong and we'll work together to reach it," Lincoln said as firestorm cries in his chest," its ok let it out."
the scene was beautiful to see, as misty, brock, Aj, and samurai watched and were crying.
shell shocker on the other hand was seeing Lincoln as a caring person,' wow, maybe not all humans are bad after all, maybe I'll give him a chance,' he thought.
meanwhile, at the loud house in the wee hours of the morning,
Lynn was lying in her bed, trying her hardest to stay awake, despite how exhausted she was. her inability to sleep didn't come from anxiety or insomnia. rather, she was biding her time for the perfect opportunity to make her move on her plans for the night, 'just hang in there a little longer, Lynn. you can't afford to have anyone trying to stop you, especially with a chance like this,' she thought to herself. she then looked at the clock in her bedroom, watching the hands tick by, one right after the other. after hearing on one else in the hallways, she got out of bed, and grabbed a few things she had lying around- some planks of wood, a hammer, and a bucket of nails," i don't care if that witch of an ex-mother of mine says not to, and that ex-father of mine agreeing with her, I'm going to save this family from the curse stinkcoln placed on us! she vowed, as she slowly and quietly crept out of her room, only to find Lori and Lola, making their way to Lincoln's room with tools in their hands.
"I'm guessing you're here to seal up the room too?" Lynn asked.
"Well, its Lincoln's fault for leaving us to deal with his stupid bad luck. it cost me MY date with bobby, so i want to be done with this as soon as possible," Lori replied.
"And I can't keep wearing Lana's filthy clothes much longer. i want to feel like a princess again, and not some... pig farmer! so, if this is the only way for things to go back to normal, then so be it," Lola declared.
"So how should we do this? I doubt we can do this quietly." Lola asked.
"Well, Lisa recently soundproofed her room so lily can stay asleep, so I doubt we'll have any issue there," Lori mused thoughtfully," the only problems I can foresee getting in our way would be mom, dad, Leni, lucy, and Lana."
"You might want to add Luna and Luan to that too. they're still in bed," Lola replied, turning back to her older sister's bedroom," I guess they're still bummed out from thinking that we've been holding Lincoln back."
"Oh for the love of... they're STILL on that? their focus should on helping us out with this, not moping about stinkcoln and his bad luck!" Lynn snarled irritably.
"So, will Luna and Luan be the problem?" Lynn asked.
"I don't think so," Lola replied.
"As for Leni, lucy, and Lana, I'm sure we can keep them quiet," Lola said vindictively," we may have to rough 'em up a bit, but I'm certain we can keep them quiet."
"That just leaves mom and dad, and we all know how opposed they are to the very idea of this. we'll be dead meat if they catch us," Lori pointed out, causing Lola's wicked smirk to vanish into a look of dread. she may be willing to push around and manipulate her siblings, but her parents were a different story, especially with how irritable they've been lately.
"Who cares what they think? once they find that the bad luck is gone for good after we reseal that room, they'll be groveling at our feet, begging us to forgive them," Lynn replied.
"Yeah, that's wishful thinking at best," Lori retorted.
"That, I would love to see," Lola said.
"Ok, fine! now that we got the situation with mom and dad settled, for whatever reason, can we PLEASE get back to resealing this door?" Lynn rudely pleaded. with that they started working on the door.
meanwhile, in Luna and Luan's room,
While their sisters were getting ready to reseal Lincoln's room again, Luna and Luan were laying in their beds, thoughts about their brother ran through their minds. thoughts not of joy, sorrow, anger, or any other type of emotion, but thoughts on how they were going to make it up to Lincoln after everything they've done to him - the bad luck fiasco and everything else in the past. that, and what Luna brought up made Luan think that she was right about them holding Lincoln back kept replaying in her head, and did nothing to support him even though he always supports them on their goals when he needed it. of course, there wasn't any malicious intent behind it Lincoln was always there helping them be prepared for their events while never tasting success himself.
That being said, it did nothing to ease the guilt Luna and Luan were feeling from knowing they had a hand in keeping Lincoln from succeeding,' tsk, some loving big sister I am. Lincoln's always been there for me and the others when we needed it, but when he needs it, we can't even be bothered to give a second thought to helping him. throw in the fact I went along with this whole 'bad luck' bullshit, and I don't even deserve to call myself that,' Luna bitterly thought to herself, as her thoughts went back to earlier in the day,' I need to take Sam's advice and try to find a way to patch things up.'
Earlier in the day,
it was a partly cloudy day in royal woods, and Luna was making her way through the streets to a single destination. it was a place she went to whenever she was feeling bummed out. it was a secluded spot on the outskirts of town that only she and a few of her friends knew about. she went there to help forget about her woes,' and with all the crap I've been dealing with back home, I need it,' she thought. after maybe half an hour, give or take, she finally arrived at her destination: a lone tree sitting on top of a hill. the location was nice and quiet, which was perfect because that's exactly what Luna wanted.
"Alright Luna, let's try to figure out..." she cut herself off when she heard the sound of an acoustic guitar," the bloody hell?" she went to investigate, then came upon a sight that made her heart skip a beat. it was her girlfriend, Sam Sharp, strumming away on a guitar," S-Sam."
"Normally Luna would be happy to see Sam sitting there, because not only would she have someone to talk to, but as she was right now, she was unable to have any sort of thoughts of joy, especially with all the thoughts running through her head. Sam then noticed Luna standing nearby," hey Lunes, come over and sit with me," Sam invited. Luna, having no intention of leaving now after just arriving, wordlessly complied with her girlfriend's request. Sam's eyes widened at the haggard state Luna was in," geez Luna, what happened to you?!"
Luna could only give Sam a tired look," had some trouble sleeping last night. just couldn't nod enough, you know?"
"Looks like there's more going on than just a lack of sleep," Sam replied, eyebrow raised," I'm here for you Luna, so please talk to me."
"Well, it's a bit...complicated. you know my brother, Lincoln, right?"
"Sure, white hair, chipped tooth, affinity for the color orange, kind of cute."
"Yeah, that's him. well, there's something that's been bugging me the past few days, and it's kind of making it hard for me to fall asleep."
"Well, you can tell me. maybe I can provide some advice?" Sam offered. Luna froze up. sure, she trusted Sam, but this kind of info could severely hinder their relationship. but then again, she could some advice.
"Alright, but what I'm about to tell you has to stay between us, ok?" Luna asked.
"I give you my word, Luna. so, tell me what's up," Sam replied. with that, Luna explained everything, about the bad luck mess, about Lincoln being shipped off to kanto and his newfound career as a Pokémon trainer, and about her recent thoughts about how she and the rest of the family had been holding Lincoln back from succeeding. Sam was shocked at all this info," dude, that's some heavy stuff. how could you go along with treating your brother like that?"
"I don't know, alright?!" Luna choked back a sob," it's just...everyone else was on board with the whole 'ban Lincoln from the house' thing, but now i just want to make things right with him."
"I see. in that case, the only bit of advice I can possibly give you is to try to talk things out with him and clear the air," Sam replied.
"That's what I was thinking and all, but after the last call he made, I doubt he'll even be willing to call again," Luna replied.
"I'm sure he will once he's had time to clear his head," Sam replied.
"Maybe you're right about that. but what about the other problem I told you about? the one about how the rest of us are holding him back?" Luna asked. Sam leaned back against the tree, crossing her arms.
"Well, what makes you think that?"
"Because from all the progress reports we got from the professor, Lincoln's been doing exceptionally well for himself, having caught several rare Pokémon in only a few short weeks. he's never been able to do able to do anything like that when living with us," Luna replied.
"Are things really that bad?" Sam asked with her eyebrow raised.
"We have a trophy case back home with little cubbies dedicated to each of us. Lincoln's the only one who doesn't have an actual trophy. sure, he has the one we made for him after he posted that embarrassing video compilation of us, but that's only a pity trophy at best. the only other things inside his space are a few dust bunnies and cobwebs," Luna explained.
"Ouch, that's kind of rough," Sam winced.
"More than you realize. but now that he's in kanto, he's winning gym badges, kicking ass with those Pokémon I mentioned before, and he even help his new friend get two girlfriends," Luna replied. lowering her head," he's always been there to support us, but when he needed our help, we couldn't even be bothered to lift a finger to help him. if anything, he's actually suffered more at our hands than we realized."
"Damn, that's some pretty heavy stuff, Luna. and your genuinely bothered by this?"
"Without question. having thoughts like that racing through my head, along with the guilt about what we did, I don't know how much longer i can deal with this," Luna replied. Sam then rubbed her chin thoughtfully.
"Well, you already know what I have to say about this whole 'bad luck' mess Luna. As for this other problem of yours, I have one idea that might work."
"Well, tell me!" Luna pleaded.
"This trainer thing your brother's doing, is there some kind of goal he's going for?"
"Now that I think about it, the professor did mention some kind of tournament Lincoln can enter once he has eight of those badges," Luna replied.
"Then my advice is for you to support him in his endeavor to make it to that tournament. after all, as you said, he's been there for you, now it's your turn to be there for him," Sam stated.
Luna took a moment to lull over what Sam had just told her," You're right Sam. thanks for the little pep talk. I definitely needed it."
"Anytime, Luna, anytime," Sam replied.
"Though I have to admit, you took it all in rather well. I thought you were going to think of me as some kind of loon from what I told you," Luna commented.
"Lunes, this is your family we're talking about here. weirdness is what I've come to expect from you guys," Sam said with a laugh.
"What do you mean by that?" Luna asked, eyebrow raised.
"Well, considering how your four-year-old sister has a power reactor in her room, and how another one sleeps with animals, and how Luan acts on April 1st, that's pretty much the definition of weird," Sam clarified.
"touché.",' maybe I'll tell her about Lori's statement on same gender relationships later,' Luna thought.
Realtime,
Luna turned to face her window, 'it's high time for me to support you, bro, just like how you've always supported me,' she thought, letting out a yawn, before looking at her alarm clock," 2 in the morning...gotta try to get some sleep." she said, turning over in her bed,' I need to try and convince Lisa to let me talk things over with Lincoln. maybe in the morning,' she thought, as she fell sound asleep.
Luan on the other hand was still thing about her talk with benny when she went to his house for advice.
flashback, at a house,
Luan has walked up to a house and ringed the doorbell, the person who answered was a boy with curly hair, his name was Benny, he's Luan's boyfriend, who share her love for comedy.
"Luan! what happened to you, did one of your pranks backfire again," Benny asked as he walks Luan inside.
"No, I got hit in the face with the attic door, but I need your advice on something," Luan replied, as she sat on her boyfriend's couch, pulling out her video camera.
"What do mean?" Benny asked sitting next to her.
"Do you remember my brother Lincoln?" Luan asked.
"Little kid, white-hair, wears orange polo, chipped tooth, yeah I know him," Benny replied," why do you asked?" he asked.
"Well, you see," Luan said as she hesitated until she decided to tell him everything, about the bad luck mess, being sent to kanto, the sister fight protocol, and mostly April fools (the footages are from April fools' rules and pranksters paradise). she even showed him the footage of her April fools' pranks and her childhood promise.
"Wow Luan, I can't believe you did that to your family mostly your brother, and seeing the footage those weren't pranks, they're more traps inspired by the home alone movies," Benny said.
"I know, after really looking at them I realized that I'm a psychopath, I broke my promise to Lincoln, I even helped kick him out of the house and sold his furniture, I'm the worst and I don't deserve to be his sister anymore," Luan said as she begins to cry in Benny's chest.
Benny holds and pats on Luan's head," Luan, you're not a psychopath, you just love April fools, a little too much, and if Lincoln lied about being bad luck just to have a break from your events and helping you and your sisters get ready for them, shouldn't he have some time to himself," Benny asked.
"Well, I guess so, I mean he's always been supporting us and yet we haven't been doing any of that for him," Luan replied.
"Not only that Luan feels the same about what Luna said about holding him back, since he's doing well being a Pokémon trainer," Mr. coconuts said.
"Mr. C," Luan said surprised.
After a lot of thinking Benny knew what to say," Luan, do you really feel like you're holding him back?" Benny asked.
"Maybe," Luan replied.
"Do you regret everything you did to your family," he asked.
"Yes," she replied.
"But what should I do?" Luan asked.
"Well, for starters, you should apologize for the stuff you did and make things right with your brother," Benny replied.
after thinking about it, Luan knew what to do, "you're right, I'll make thing right with Lincoln and I'll stop pranking for good," Luan said.
"Whoa hold on Luan, I don't think Lincoln wouldn't want you to give up pranking, maybe take it easy on them, by making them less painful," Benny said.
"And you should be supporting him on his goal as this Pokémon trainer," Benny said.
"you're right, I mean Lincoln has been supporting us, yet we've never done that for him," Luan said.
"Exactly, and I know you're a good person, so does your brother, I may not know well enough but if you make amends to him, I'm sure he'll forgive you," Benny said, as Luan wiped her tears.
"Thanks Benny, I vow to be a better sister and not go crazy on April fool's day, and make amends to brother," Luan declared.
"Don't worry Benny boy, I'll keep an eye on her on April fool's day," Mr. Coconuts said as he and Benny fist bump.
Realtime,
Luan was back in her bed looking at Luna's top bunk bed exciting her flashback talk with benny," in the morning, 'I'll talk to Lisa to see if I can talk to Lincoln to make amends with him,' she thought as she falls asleep.
Back in the hallway,
while Lola acted as a lookout at the top of the stairs, Lori pointed to the pile of boards," alright, I'll hold up the first board, while you hammer it in," she said, going to get a board. however, she failed to notice that the board she was grabbing was positioned right under her sister, or more accurately under her butt. she stepped on the board, which caused the board to shoot up at high speed, nailing Lynn in the butt. Lynn clenched her butt and mouth to not scream in pain. (un)fortunately for her, she didn't suffer long, because Lori mistakenly swung the board behind her, nailing her sister in the head.
Lori then placed a board up to Lincoln's bedroom door. Lola came back and grabbed some nails, getting ready to nail up the board. Lynn got back up and grabbed a hammer, Lynn decided to get payback on Lori for the board to the face, by smashing the hammer against Lori's hand. Lori yelped in pain, causing her to drop the board on hers, Lynn's and Lola's feet, causing the three of them to cry out in pain.
"The hell, Lori?! weren't you supposed to hold the board?!" Lola snapped.
"Well, excuse me, I wouldn't have dropped it if Lynn learned to focus on where to aim the hammer," Lori snapped back.
"Think of it as payback for the board to the face!" Lynn snapped at Lori.
"Guys focus! we need to get this done before any unwanted attention falls our way," Lola ordered. Lori once again held up the board, this time making her hands clear of the line of fire. Lynn once more proceeded to try and hammer in the nails, key word being "try. upon making contact with the nail, not only did it not get driven in, but the hammer bounced back and smacked Lola right in the face, knocking her out.
"Great, now Lola's out!" Lynn bitterly said, as she cleared the wannabe princess out of the way. she then picked up the hammer to continue boarding up Lincoln's room.
"Try to keep the nail actually goes in Lynn," Lori demanded irritably.
"Then why don't you do it then miss web-foot," Lynn retorted. Lori got upset and stomped her foot, she didn't notice the nail on the floor, pointing upwards, and positioned under her foot, she felt a pain unlike that of the one in her hand. she lifted her foot to find the nail had been driven into her shoe, causing her to hold her foot in pain, which caused her to fall on top of Lynn, pinning her down/
"Get your fat butt off me, Lori! Lynn demanded, trying to force the older teen off her, only to fail. Lori kept screaming her head off, still agonizing over the nail in her foot, as Lola gets back up seeing what's going on.
"Lola, hold Lori's leg down, would you? I got to get that nail out," Lynn demanded. wanting this to get done faster, Lola complied, as she walked over, and wrapped her arms around Lori's leg, holding it in place. Lynn grabbed the hammer and pulled out the nail from Lori's foot, which caused Lori to scream in even more agony.
Just then butterfree wakes up and flies outside of Lana and Lola's room in the hall to find the ruckus. seeing Lori, Lynn, and Lola was the cause of the noise.
"What are you looking at you stupid bug," Lynn asked.
butterfree decided to use sleep powder on the sisters, putting them to sleep," that'll knock off that noise," butterfree said, as he flies back in Lana and Lola's room to sleep.
later that morning,
Rita and Lynn sr. were making their way up the stairs to take a shower before they had to go to work. however, upon reaching the top of the stairs, they were met with a most baffling sight. Lori, Lynn, and Lola were all scattered across the floor asleep and looking worse for worse. they took note of several tools, boards, and nails on the floor as well, all in the vicinity of Lincoln's bedroom door. Leni, Luna, Luan, lucy, Lana, and Lisa were all looking at the group as well with amused smirks on their faces," what happened up here?!"
"If I had to guess, I'd say that they were attempting to reseal Lincoln's door," Lisa deduced.
"That explains why my toolbox was missing," Lana said.
"Nice of them to check to see if anyone was in there," lucy commented. her parents and sisters could tell she was being sarcastic.
"Well, at least their attempt failed miserably," Lisa pointed out. Rita groaned in annoyance.
"I told them what you said Rita about resealing his room, then they go and try to do it anyway! Lynn sr. grumbled. though he and Rita couldn't bring themselves to be too angry with them, given the state they were in, geez, looks more like they were fighting with each other and that it looks like butterfree put them to sleep.
"Looks like... you know, 'it' strikes again," Luna commented, causing her mother to look questioningly at her.
"What are you talking about Luna?" Rita asked.
"I don't really want to use the actual term, given what you old Lynn the other day," Luna replied.
"Does this have to do with bad luck?" Lynn sr. asked. Luna nodded," alright, we'll allow the use of that term for the sake of conversation."
"Ok, well, I don't know if you've noticed, mom and dad, but we've been getting pretty hammered with bad luck lately, and I mean getting hit really hard," Luan explained, pointing to Lynn," Lynn seems to think that the cause is coming from Lincoln's room. she thinks that because it was unsealed, the bad luck was leaking out messing thing up for the rest of us. and it looks like Lori and Lola agree with her. that being said, Luna and I had nothing to do with this whole operation."
"Given how you two aren't in pain, we believe you," Rita commented.
"Quite the irony, wouldn't you say? Lynn goes on and on about Lincoln being a jinx, only for her luck and the other's luck to turn even worse with him gone," Lisa commented.
"So, he really was faking it, huh?" Luna asked, causing her parents and sisters to look at her," Luan and I kind of figured it while you all were listening to the last progress report."
"Well, now you know. Lincoln told us all about it when your father and I talked to him last time. guess you two found out too, huh?" Rita asked.
"Yeah. but that's not the only thing that's bothering us," Luna replied.
"Well, would you two like to share your thoughts?" Lynn sr. asked.
"Yeah, I will. the truth is, Luna and I believe that we've been holding Lincoln back while he's lived with us in royal woods," Luan replied. Rita, Lynn sr. and the others were very surprised.
"What makes you two think that?" Leni asked.
"Well, think about it for a moment, Leni. Lincoln has never once had a chance to taste success like we all have while he's supported us at our events, but now that Lincoln's away from us, he's currently making a name for himself in kanto. he's never been able to do that while living with us. Luan and I haven't been able to get that thought out of our heads," Luna explained.
"Hmm, well, I'd say the best way to get closure about those thoughts of yours is to actually hear what Lincoln has to say. why don't you two join us the next time he calls and try to work things out with him?" Lisa offered. Luna and Luan perked up.
"you'd let us do that?" Luan asked.
"of course. you two have just as much a right to try and apologize to Lincoln as the others do. you're just exercising said right, unlike them," Lisa replied, casting a disapproving look at her three unconscious siblings.
"Speaking of which, are you still going through with punishing them mom and dad?" Leni asked. Rita and Lynn sr. took a look at them, before shaking their heads.
"No, they've had enough for one day," Rita replied.
"Well, I bring bad news," Lisa said.
"What bad news," Lynn sr. asked.
"Today is the last day for Lincoln's Pokémon being here so I have to return them to professor oak," Lisa replied.
"Aw man, it's been a week already," Lana groaned.
"I'm afraid so, Lisa replied.
Lana gathers Lincoln's Pokémon into their pokeballs, she put them all on the transporter as Lisa activates the machine sending the Pokémon away, Lana was feeling down seeing the Pokémon go.
"Don't worry sweety, we'll see them again and Lincoln will send another six for you to get to know," Lynn sr. said cheering her up.
That's chapter 32, how'd you like the double flash back with Luna and Luan?
can firestorm get over his Trama after the battle with Cross.
or will it consume him forever,
has shell shocker finally learned to open up lets see.
Lincoln's team
Pikachu (male)
moves: thunderbolt, iron tail, quick attack, electroball.
Fearow (female)
moves: drill peck, wing attack, gust, brave bird.
poliwhirl (male) at loud house
moves: hypnosis, water sport, and water gun.
pidgeotto (female)
Moves: gust, whirlwind, sand attack, tackle, brave bird, steel wing, and quick attack.
butterfree (male) at loud house
moves: sleep powder, stun spore, confusion, quick attack, and psybeam.
beedrill (shiny) (male) at loud house
poison sting, string shot, bug bite, harden, pin missile, poison jab, and whirlwind.
riolu (male)
moves: quick attack, endure, counter, metal claw, and egg move vacuum wave
Kirila (male)
moves: confusion, double team, thunder punch, disarming voice, teleport, and egg move misty terrain.
Flapple (male)
moves: dragon rage, grassnot, razor leaf, and whirlwind.
Appletun (female)
moves: dragon rage, grassnot, razor leaf, and energyball.
zubat (male) at the louds
moves: absorb, supersonic, bite, wing attack, astonish, and giga drain.
paras (male) at the louds
moves: scratch, stun spore, poison powder, absorb, and fell stinger.
sandshrew (female) (Andrea)
moves: poison sting, defence curl, rapid spin, fury cutter, magnitude, and metal claw
clefable (male)
moves: metronome, minimize, double slap, disarming voice, sing, and wake up slap.
steenee (female)
moves: sweet scent, razor leaf, rapid spin, splash, play nice, and grass whistle.
rockruff (male) at the louds
moves: rock throw, crunch, sand attack, roar, dig, stone edge, and counter.
goomy (female)
moves: tackle, bubble, bubble beam, absorb, bide, protect, dragon breath, and poison tail.
Bulbasaur (male) (bruteroot)
moves: vine whip, tackle, sleep powder leech seed, and razor leaf.
Charmelon (male) (firestorm)
moves: flamethrower, cratch, sand attack metal claw, and ember.
Squirtle (male) (shell shocker)
moves: tackle, bite, withdraw, water gun, rapid spin and aqua jet.
krabby (male)
moves: water gun, harden, leer, metal claw, mud shot, protect, and the egg move ancient power.