A/N: I just want to say two things before this chapter. First, I want to say this is probably the darkest chapter from the Far Cry 5 Series. In my own opinion, I believe we learned the darkest part of the Seed family from Jacob Seed's area from the game. Second thing, is I swap the genders of the baby from the game. Joseph Seed had a daughter, however for this story I'm going to have it so that Lincoln had a son.
Review Reply
Gamelover41592: Thanks.
OmegaDelta: Thanks, and I want to do a My Hero Academia chapter. I'm just looking for the right scene to do.
Guest99: I plan to do a Carol x Lincoln chapter soon actually.
Guest (01) 12-01-2024: That wasn't my intention. I finished this chapter before I even read It's (Not) My Fault.
volcasiron30: I never watched or read anything related to Astro Boy.
avatareyes755: I have considered doing something with that in the past, but I'm still unsure.
Skully13: That's a logical conclusion. However, I do plan to do a couple more chapters with him being in a relationship with a few other girls. Some that are part of the audience and some that aren't.
lucifer black: Chances of something like that happening are slim to none.
Octavio Constant: I'm slowly making my way through watching Arcane. I still want to do something with Resident Evil, I'm just not sure which one and what scene. As for Team Fortress 2, I don't know much about that game series. I have read other fanfiction about this Meet The Spy segment. I should probably see if I can find Meet The Pyro on YouTube. I plan to do a chapter pairing Lincoln with Haiku, Stella, and a few others. Although with Stella, I'm going to do one with a dark future and one with a more cheery one. I will do a more light-hearted chapter, but it will probably be the next chapter. I want to do something really dark, before going into something more light-hearted. As for Hotel Transylvania, it's a good enough idea and I like the movie, just don't exactly love it. I've seen the 28 Years Later trailer, the trailer was fine, but it doesn't give me much to work with.
Tombstone50: I have just finished watching all seven seasons of it and there are a few that I want to do in this story.
Tornado man: After reading your review, I tried to think of some sort of story to do with that couple. But right now I'm drawing blanks. I may still do a separate story with that couple, but there are no guarantees.
eduardo.bettin26: Glad you enjoyed it. I still want to do something with Pokemon, but I just don't know what. As for Halo, I never got into that game series.
lampe.andrew1: Hope you enjoyed it. I saw the Home Alone movies and I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of them. I'm still unsure if I'm going to do more Gravity Falls, but I'm leaning towards that I will in the future. I do want to do something with One Piece, I just don't know what. I was going to do something with Kim Possible a good number of chapters ago, but I didn't because I got sidetracked with something else. I never played Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, but I have seen the fight on YouTube many times.
ThanosGaming: I do want to do a Code Geass chapter. However, episode 1 is pretty slow, pacing wise. As for The Zero Requiem, It feels like the obvious episode to pick.
Guest (02) 12-02-2024: I do want to do a Spider-Man chapter. I'm just unsure which area, media, or source to use.
MujonaNemo: I probably won't do that because I'm too lazy to ask the author for permission to include a chapter of their story.
Alphared45667: Well this one is about Clyde, but it's not exactly a happy one. As for Adventure Time, I might have to rewatch the series. I don't really remember the episodes where Finn meets his father.
Pedro Alonso Buby Huayanay Zam: Hope you liked it. I would like to do a chapter like that, I just need to find the right material.
Daveguy: I know very little about Kamen Rider or Ultraman, so I would have to look into it at the very least. I thought about using some songs from Friday Night Funkin, but not so much about some aspects of the game itself.
Angeluszuko-z: I do want to do a scene from the Venom movie, I just don't know what yet. I haven't watched Dune yet. I didn't watch The Secret Saturdays a lot, but I remember catching a few episodes. It was a good show, but I would need a refresher about the whole plot of the series. As for Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, the series popped into my mind a few times, but it's been a while since I watched it. So I might have to refresh my memory of it.
Guest (03) 12-05-2024: That's not a bad suggestion. I've been having a hard time trying to find something to put Lisa in.
Guest (04) 12-12-2024: I'm aware of what Fortnite is. However, I don't play the game and I never actually watched any of their live events. Honestly speaking, I don't even know what those events actually were.
Guest (04) 12-23-2024: Honestly my knowledge of Warhammer is pretty much non-existent. So it would be a little difficult for me to do a chapter about it.
Chapter 19: Lynn The Herald
Disclaimer: I don't own The Loud House. I make no money or profit from this.
Everyone was happily chatting while eating more food. Things had calmed down now, they were feeling better now. The last two worlds shook them up a bit, but it wasn't as bad as some of the others they saw. Plus they did have something more cheerful to talk about.
When Luna pulled Sam into the washroom, she confessed her feelings to her. Sam was surprised by this, but did accept her feelings and told her she felt the same. Luna was over the moon with joy and happiness, she kissed her right there and then. They would've probably started making-out in there, if Luan wasn't sent to check-in on them. All three were embarrassed with Luan apologizing and quickly leaving. Both bandmates then remember where they were, and their faces became even redder. They then decided to face everyone and hope things go well. They were surprised when everyone congratulated them upon exiting the washroom. It turns out Luan had already told them what she saw.
Luna never actually told her family she was Bi before, so she was still nervous. But her family had no problems with her and was happy for her.
Everyone was congratulating them and expressing love and joy for both of them. Even Lori and Carol stopped their talk to congratulate the new couple. Now the Loud sisters were gushing over Luna's new relationship, while slightly teasing her. Sam was getting the same from Becky and Carol, after she finished her talk with Lori.
As for that talk with the two blondes. They come to realize they may have been projecting how they saw the other onto each other, without actually knowing what the other person was really like. After talking, Lori realized Carol wasn't as bad as she thought, while finding out she never really wanted to compete with her. Carol explains how she was envious of Lori's friends and siblings, and may have taken it out on her through competing against her. So now they agree to stop the bitter rivalry. They agreed that they weren't friends, but maybe could be down the road.
"I'm so happy for you Luna!" Luan said, giving her roommate a hug. She was one of the few who knew her crush for Sam.
"Thanks sis," Luna replied, returning the hug. "As weird as it sounds, I'm grateful for that last world and Cobalt. Both of them gave me the courage to confess."
"Okay, I can kinda get the last world," Becky started saying, confused. She was another who guessed Luna's feelings for her bandmate. "But how did Cobalt help?"
"It was what he said after it was over," Luna answered. "His little talk, along with Sam sticking by me through the whole thing, gave me the conviction to tell Sam my feelings."
Everyone thought back and remembered he did say something while seemingly looking at Luna while saying it. Ronnie Anne and one other were now thinking maybe they should tell a certain white hair boy how they feel. While two others started to think of the same boy, with their opinion of his starting to change. However, all of them decided to do nothing thinking they still had plenty of time.
"Enough of this mushy stuff," Lynn Jr. said with a bit of annoyance. "We should talk about how awesome me and Venom are together!"
"I don't know LJ, Venom didn't seem all that different from Carnage," Margo said in a worried tone.
"Yeah, your girlfriend is right, Loud," Ronnie Anne said, while giving a teasing smile. "Oh! Sorry, I mean your ex-girlfriend,"
"You wanna go Santiago!?" Lynn snarled with a red face. Lori, Leni, Luna, Sam, and Becky were holding her back, while Margo was trying to hide with a red face.
"Bring it Loud!" Ronnie Anne shouted back. She was being held back by Bobby, Lincoln, Luan, and Tabby.
"Guys! You need to stop!" Lincoln shouted, holding onto one of Ronnie Anne's arms. "Cobalt already had enough of Lori and Carol fighting, I doubt he wants more of us fighting!"
Bringing up Cobalt's name had everyone freezing, before calming down. They have seen the android being fed up with them a couple of times now. They didn't want to see what happens when he gets furious.
"We'll settle this when we get back home Santiago," Lynn growled, sitting back down.
"Just name the time and place Loud," Ronnie shot back with a huff, sitting down.
Everyone let out a sigh, whether it was one of relief or exhaustion depended on the person. "I'm very proud of you remembering what I said Mr. Loud," Cobalt said, appearing behind him, hands behind his back. His sudden appearance scared everyone. "You're right, I don't want more fighting. Especially after I just ended one."
"Where's the orb?" Jordan asked, not seeing him have one.
"It's right here," he replied, moving his hands from his back. It was a white orb with a familiar black cross. Everyone, except the new guest, gained a fearful and terrified expression. "Yes, we're going back to Montana. To see Clyde take on the last of Lincoln's Herald." Now the new guests gained the same expressions, now knowing they were going to see.
"My creator has excellent timing," Cobalt said looking down at the orb. "Think of this as punishment for starting another fight after I ended one." The Loud sisters gave the two girls glares, blaming them for this. "So, does anyone want to do the honor?" He asked, holding the orb out.
"I will!" Lincoln said with conviction, surprising everyone. He then took the orb, threw it at the screen, and it came to life.
However, instead of sitting back in his usual spot, he moves to sit beside his sister Lynn.
"I won't need you," Lynn said in a whisper so only he heard.
"I know, this…this is for myself," Lincoln replied, looking at the screen.
She looked at him surprised, before her features returned to normal. She knew that was a lie so she could keep her tough appearance. She said nothing and looked back at the screen. But not before grabbing and holding one of his hands.
The scene opened up to Clyde driving an ATV down a dirt path in a wooded area. Suddenly he felt a small sharp pain in his neck. He stopped and put a hand to where he felt the pain, only to find there was a blow dart. He looked at it, before he started to feel a familiar dizziness and falling unconscious.
"He we go again," Luan said worryingly, seeing Clyde get captured again.
"How many times have they drugged him to capture him?" Carol asked, starting to worry about his health.
"Once is too many," Rita said, mentally preparing herself for what they were going to see.
"You would think he would be immune to Bliss by now," Sam said with a conflicted expression.
"Now normally we would see not too long after he's been captured," Cobalt started saying. "However, we're going to skip ahead a couple of days after he's been captured. I know this sounds confusing, but trust me it'll make more sense."
The scene then changed to Clyde waking up in a chair with his arms and legs strapped to it. Clyde had bloodshot eyes with dark bags under them. He was in what looked to be like some type of classroom. There were a few other people in the room strapped in the same type of chairs as him. All of them work pure green outfits, indicating they were from the Whitetail militia. In front of him was Staci Pratt, making sure that all the straps were secure.
"Clyde doesn't look so good," Lincoln said in a worried tone, as he saw his friend's counterpart.
"That's because he isn't," Cobalt replied. "Lynn has been starving him, giving him barely any water, and putting him through a hellish training. On top of that, she is also drugging him up with Bliss and doing some mental manipulation on him."
"So she is basically torturing him," Lisa said with a frown.
"But why is she doing this to him?" Stella asked their host, confused.
"Yeah, as much as I hate to say it, wouldn't it be easier just to kill him?" Becky commented.
"I assure you, she has a reason for doing all this to Clyde," the android replied. "Just wait and see." hearing this only made everyone worry even more.
"You shouldn't have come for me," Pratt whispered to Clyde. "You should have run."
"That's what you say to someone who came to save your life?!" Lynn Jr. shouted with a bit of anger.
"Calm down LJ, I'm pretty sure it's just because he's been brainwashed like the Marshal," Margo said, putting a comforting hand on Lynn's shoulder.
"I'm really not liking where this is going," Clyde said in a very terrified voice.
The projector then turned on and showed images to the front of the room. The images started to cycle between dead animals and vicious predators. "The world is weak, soft," Lynn's voice said throughout the room. "We have forgotten what it is to be strong."
Everyone held their breath for what was about to happen. They have seen enough of this world to know that when one of the Seed siblings starts talking, things are about to go bad.
Lynn then walked from behind Clyde to stand in front of the room and projector. She was wearing the same outfit that he saw her back at the church, when he tried to arrest Lincoln. "You know our heroes used to be Gods," Lynn started to monologue as she looked at all the captives. "And now our heroes are Godless. Weak. Feeble. Diseased."
"This Lynn seemed to be quite the philosopher," Lisa commented after hearing Lynn's monologue.
"She is very different from our Lynn," Luna said with a frown.
"Thank God for that," Lori commented. Which got around of nods from everyone, including Lynn herself.
Staci Pratt then stood to the front as well acting as Lynn's assistant. "We let the weak dictate to the powerful and then we are shocked to find ourselves a drift. But history knows the value of sacrifice. Of culling the herd, so that it stays strong. Over and over, the lives of the many have outweighed the lives of the few. This is how we survived. And we have forgotten. And now the bill has come due."
"What is she talking about?" Lana asked her parents, confused.
"It's complicated sweetie," Lynn Sr. replied in an unsure tone.
"She's basically saying we forgot our roots," Carol said. "She's saying that our ancestors were stronger because they got rid of everyone that was weaker. By doing this they made the group stronger by getting rid of the ones who were weaker."
"Quite right Carol," Lisa complimented the older teen.
Lynn then slowly walks towards Clyde. Clyde for his part is just too weak and slowly looks up to the woman. "Now the collapse is upon us," she says leaning down to look Clyde in the eyes. "And this time, the lives of the few outweigh the lives of the many. And when a nation that's never known hunger or desperation descends into madness. We will be ready."
"Okay, am I the only one who doesn't know what she's talking about?!" Lynn Jr. asks with confusion and annoyance.
"Nah dude, I can't follow it either," Luna said. This got a few more members of the audience to start saying the same thing.
"Who would have guessed Lynn would have been the most philosophical out of all three of them," Lisa commented.
Lynn then stands straight back up and looks down at Clyde and pulls out a small wooden music box from her pocket. "We will cull the herd," she says as she starts to wind the music box. "We will do what needs to be done." She then opens the music box and it starts playing Only You by The Platters.
"A music box?" Luan asked, confused.
"I never pictured that Lynn as a doo-wop song kind of girl," Tabby question with a raised eyebrow.
"That music box does more than just play a tune," Cobalt said, grabbing everyone's attention. "Just keep watching and you'll find out." Now this gets everyone wondering why Cobalt felt the need to say that.
The second the music starts playing Clyde, as well as all the other people strapped down, bodies start to shake as if they were having seizures. They all start grunting and moaning as if they were in pain, desperately trying to free themselves from the restraints.
"What's happening to them?!" Jordan shouted in worry.
"You see, this is part of Lynn's mental manipulation," Cobalt started explaining. "Lynn will constantly play this song while they are drugged up and put through their hellish training. So whenever they hear the song, their body starts to act up and go into a certain state of mind."
"What is she doing all this for?!" Ronnie Anne asked, confused and scared.
"You're about to see in a few seconds," their host replied. "What you're about to see is a hallucination. A hallucination that Clyde has already gone through several times in the last couple of days."
The scene then changes slightly with the entire room looking red, with Lynn and Pratt disappearing from the room. Clyde breaks free from his restraints and sees a revolver in front of him on a table that wasn't there before. Clyde immediately runs to pick it up and then shoots the other people in the room, just as they break free from their chairs. However when they got shot they turned into smoke and just vanished.
"Cull the herd," Clyde could hear Lynn's voice say, but couldn't see her.
"What's going on?" Leni questioned in a terrified voice.
"Yeah! Why did Clyde instantly shoot those people?!" Lincoln asked their host, confused.
"This is the training Lynn has put Clyde through," Cobalt started to answer the questions. "By starving, dehydrating, and living in rough conditions, Lynn has basically turned Clyde into a savage animal anytime he hears that song."
"What do you mean by living in rough conditions?" Bobby asked the android in a worried tone.
"You'll see later on, for now just focus on the screen," Cobalt replied.
"At least this is all just a hallucination," Becky commented, not seeing Cobalt give her a slight look.
He then walked to a door to a small hallway and found an SMG on a table. He picked it up and continued to find himself in the dilapidated house. Upon entering it, he was spotted by more members of the Whitetail militia and they started to shoot at him. Clyde took cover and returned fire, killing all of them.
"Good, cull the herd," He heard Lynn's voice again.
"Why can we hear Lynn's voice?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"Because that is what Clyde is hearing," Cobalt answered. "As Clyde makes his way through her training, she will either compliment or encourage him by speaking to him over speakers."
He made it through the house into another hallway, where he found a shotgun on a table for him. He picked it up and dropped the revolver and SMG, then continued on. He then found himself in a strange hallway where he ran into more Whitetail militia. Just like the other rooms, he killed all them while finding the way out.
"Well done," he heard Lynn's voice say.
"Who are the people that Clyde is fighting," Sam asked Cobalt.
"They are all members of the Whitetail militia," he replied. "The Whitetail militia are basically a resistance group in the Whitetail Mountains of Hope County. They are led by a man named Eli Palmer."
"I'm guessing this Eli Palmer becomes an ally for Clyde, just like all the other people we saw?" Lisa asked the android.
"That would be correct," Cobalt replied.
Right before the door to get out the hallways, he found an assault rifle right beside the doorway. He then dropped the shotgun to pick up the assault rifle and made his way through. He then found himself in front of a place called St. Francis Veteran Center. As he got closer to the entrance, the Whitetail militia showed up and started to shoot at him again. Clyde used his new assault rifle to kill all the soldiers and proceeded inside.
"Yes, sacrifice the weak," he heard Lynn's voice say.
"Is this like Faith and the Bliss?" Clyde asked. Seeing some similarities to this and when his counterpart was in the Bliss with Faith.
"It's something along those lines," Cobalt replied. "Lucy was really the only one to not get any type of supernatural powers by using the Bliss."
"I'm fine with that," Lucy said, speaking up.
He found himself in another small hallway where he found a sniper rifle. He swapped out the guns again and proceeded further inside. Inside looks to be the main stairwell of the building, where more Whitetail militia was waiting for him. He made his way up the stairs, while killing any Whitetail militia he saw.
"Good," he heard Lynn's voice say.
"Why put him through all this?" Luan asked, confused.
"I agree, this makes no sense," Sam said, agreeing with the Loud comedian.
"I promise you, this all makes sense later on," Cobalt told them.
At the top of the stairs, he found a little hatch and jumped down it. As he made it to the bottom and everything went black.
The scene goes back to normal and then shows Clyde still strapped into the chair, with it now on the ground to its side. Soon two people come into the room, both wearing Whitetail militia outfits. It was Eli Palmer and Wheaty who found him. They then freed him and took him back to the Whitetail militia base.
"Well, at least he's safe," Lola commented.
"Yeah, for now," Lana said to her twin with an eye roll. "I don't know if you noticed this, but Clyde has a habit of getting kidnapped," This got Lola to glare at her.
"Girls, calm down," Rita told them in a stern voice.
"We will be jumping ahead to the next confrontation." Cobalt said to everyone.
The scene then shows Clyde walking away from a cleared out outpost. After getting far enough away, Clyde felt a familiar sharp pain in his neck. Putting his hand to it, he found another blow dart. Once again he felt dizzy, before he fell unconscious.
"You think Clyde would be more aware of his surroundings by now," Ronnie Anne said with an eye roll. Hearing this made Clyde feel embarrassed, both for himself and his counterpart.
The scene then changes to show Clyde in a very large cage sometime at night. Clyde looked very weak and very dehydrated. Someone else in the cage was trying to give him water that he was happy to take.
"Wait, where is he?!" Bobby asked in confusion and worry, seeing that he was in a large cage.
"That's what Lynn does to anyone she kidnaps," Cobalt started to reply. "She puts them in cages as if they were animals. Barely giving them any food or water, as well as no shelter from the elements of nature,"
"No wonder Clyde looked so bad when we saw him before," Luna said in a worried and saddened tone.
"Why does she literally do this?!" Lori asked the android with rage and confusion.
"It's to break them down," Cobalt answered. "Doing this, she can find out which of her captives are strong enough to survive and which ones will just roll over and die."
"Cull the herd," Lisa said, speaking up. "This is what she means by that isn't it?" To which Cobalt is nodded in agreement.
"They want you to be strong," Pratt said from outside the cage. Clyde looked over to him, but said nothing. "One of you will be strong."
"Why don't you help him!?" Jordan shouted, glaring at Deputy Pratt.
"Yeah! Instead of just standing there looking at him!" Lynn Jr. shouted furious.
Everyone else just stared at the man with frowns or confused expressions.
"Not again!" The man who was in the cage with Clyde said in fear. Clyde slowly got up to his feet and got closer to the cage as he saw Lynn approaching.
"What is she going to say this time?" Lincoln said with a nervous voice. Lynn gave his hand a squeeze, trying to silently comfort him.
"Get out of here peaches," Lynn told Pratt in a dismissive tone. Pratt said nothing and then got out of the area. Following behind Lynn was Lincoln. Dressed in his white shirt, navy blue vest, black pants, and trademark sunglasses on. Lynn turned around to look at her brother, to which the two seemed to have a silent conversation. Lincoln rested his forehead against Lynn's, before he made his way over to the cage. Lincoln then grabbed a hold of a couple of the bars and looked Clyde in the eyes.
"So Lincoln is going to talk this time," Lucy commented fearfully. The audience were now more scared. To them, every time the white hair Cult Leader spoke, it made them feel more uneasy.
"I know you're in pain," Lincoln said in a sympathetic tone. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh. But you're not the only one to be tested. Did you know that I had a wife?" He then proceeded to lift up the sleeve of his right arm and show it to Clyde. On his forearm near the wrist was a tattoo of a woman with tan skin and black hair. It was a tattoo of his wife Stella Seed.
"He was married?!" Many of the audience members shouted in shock and disbelief.
"Who would be literally crazy enough to marry him?!" Lori screamed in a shocked voice. Then they saw who was tattooed on his arm, and everyone's eyes widened.
"Me!?" Stella shouted with a blush, but shocked expression.
"Correct," Cobalt said, getting everyone's attention. "He was married to Stella Zhau, well technically Stella Seed." This got everyone to look at Stella, embarrassing her even more. The ones who have or were starting to have feelings for the boy weren't jealous. They held no feelings for his Cult Leader counterpart, in fact they were kinda grateful it wasn't them.
"He said "had" past tense, not have and you used "was"," Lisa said, catching the words they were using. "That leads me to suspect something happened." Hearing this filled everyone with dread.
"You are correct, Ms. Loud," Cobalt complimented the little genius. "Keep watching, you're about to learn what happened."
Everyone turned back to the screen, trying to prepare themselves for what they were about to hear.
"So beautiful, isn't she," Lincoln said in a softer, kinder tone, as he gently caressed the tattoo with his other hand. Clyde looked at the tattoo confused, but then looked back up to Lincoln. "We were pregnant with our first child, and we were just babies ourselves really. And I was terrified. Becoming a father. Mostly about money. She wasn't worried. She had faith that things would work out. She always had faith."
"Wow, I wasn't expecting that," Jordan commented.
"It sounds like things were normal for them," Tabby added.
"He sounds like he was…normal," Luan said, confused.
"Then what happened to him?" Margo questioned.
"I have a feeling it wasn't good," Haiku replied.
"Please don't let it involve the baby," Carol pleaded.
"It sounds like they were still young when they were together," Rita said, hugging her husband.
"And then one day…she was going to visit a friend," His voice lost its softer, kinder tone. It was being replaced with an angry, sadder, but emotionless tone. "There was an accident…and the Lord taketh. And they rushed me to a hospital and put me in a room with this little blue bundle stuffed with tubes. And they said I had to be strong, because my little boy was going to live."
This got a round of gasps from everyone. While they suspected something bad, they weren't prepared to actually hear it.
"So I died in an accident?" Stella asked in a stunned and devastated voice, with tears in her eyes.
"At least the baby survived," Becky commented, wiping her own tears.
"Did he?" Lisa questioned, getting everyone to look at her. "This version of Lincoln has been running this cult for what looks to be at least a year. We have never seen this child, no one has even referenced him before now. With Lincoln as the leader, you would think his followers would mention him or even praise him."
"Maybe he's hidden away from everyone," Clyde suggested.
"Or he has only some of his followers looking at him," Bobby suggested.
"He might've even put him up for adoption," Lynn Sr. suggested.
"I hope one of you is right," Lisa said looking back at the screen. Everyone else did as well, but were scared for a whole new reason.
"God was looking out for our son," Lincoln said, looking Clyde directly in the eyes. His voice now cold and emotionless. "And they left me alone in a room with him. I just…stared…at my son. So helpless. So innocent. And all he had in the world was me. A nobody, from nowhere, with nothing, from a broken home. And in that moment…I knew that God was testing me."
"No," Lincoln whispered, so no one would hear him. He didn't know what his counterpart was thinking, but knew it couldn't be anything good. Lynn Jr. heard him and squeezed his hand, hoping it would comfort him.
"He was laying out a path before me and all I had to do was choose," his voice was starting to become shaky, but Clyde could hear both sadness and regret laced within his words. "So I put my hand on my little boy's head and I leaned in and…I could smell. And we prayed together. Prayed for wisdom. Prayed for strength. Then I knew I heard God's plan for me. And I took my fingers and I put them on that little plastic tube that was taped to his Angelic face, and I pinched it shut. After a little while his legs began to kick and kick…and then nothing. Stillness. Release."
The room was in absolute silence after hearing that. Tears were flowing from everyone's eyes after hearing that. Hearing what he did to his own son filled them with horror, disgust, and fury. Everyone was so overloaded with emotions, that none of them could make a sound. The silence was only broken when Lincoln started to hyperventilate at processing what his counterpart did.
"Linc?! Lincoln!" Lynn Jr. said in panic, seeing her brother having a panic attack. This got everyone to look at him and rush over to him.
"We need a paper bag!" Clyde shouts, looking around urgently. A paper bag suddenly appears beside him. He grabs it, not thinking where it came from, and gives it to his friend.
As Lincoln started breathing into the paper bag, Lynn Jr. marched over to Cobalt, a deadly glare on her face. "Stop this! Right now!" She demanded, grabbed him by his robe and pulled him down.
"I won't," Cobalt said calmly, not being fazed by her actions.
"You will!" Lynn snarled, throwing a punch towards him. However, Cobalt easily caught her fist.
"I think you forgot who is in charge here," Cobalt said as his eyes turned purple and with multiple voices. He then grabbed her by the front of her shirt and started to lift her up, as he stood straight back up. While Lynn was scared, she didn't show it and was ready to take on whatever happened to her.
"Wait! Cobalt! Stop!" Lincoln suddenly shouted, getting to his feet. "I'm good now, so can you put Lynn down?"
Cobalt looked between the two siblings, before looking back at Lincoln. "Very well, but only because you're the only one who remembered my words." He then looks back at Lynn. "Take this as your last warning," Cobalt said to her, before dropping her and returning to normal. "Since young Mr. Loud seemed to be feeling better, I suggest everyone take their seats and we continue the viewing." Cobalt then moved to the side, just to put some distance between him and everyone else.
"Lynn! Are you all right?!" Lincoln said, rushing over to his sister.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Lynn grumbled in an annoyed tone, getting back to her feet. "What about you? Are you okay now?" Her voice became more worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine thanks to Clyde," Lincoln replied, before looking over at Cobalt. "I think it's best if we get back to our seats."
Lynn shot Cobalt a glare, before nodding and following him back to their spots. Lincoln sat back beside his sister, with her pulling him into a one arm hug. Everyone hesitantly went back to the seats, although they were now fearful of the android. They were also glancing at the Loud boy with worry. Seeing him in such a state hurt all of them deep within their hearts.
Clyde could only stare at the man in shock at what he was just told. Even if he had the strength to say anything, there was nothing he could say at the hearing that.
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh," Lincoln said to Clyde with the tone of conviction. "Pain. Sacrifice." Lincoln then grabs a hold of Clyde's shirt, lifting him up and pulling him closer to the gaps in the cage. "These are all part of his tests. Only to prove that we can serve God, no matter what he asks." Lincoln then lets him go and starts to walk away.
"How can he act like him killing his own child was a test from God?!" Carol asked out loud in a disgusted tone.
"We already knew he was a fanatic, but we did not know he would go this far," Luan replied in an equally disgusted tone.
"This Lincoln might be as evil as the Radio Demon," Lucy commented, which had many nodding their heads and agreement.
"You done well," Lincoln said to Lynn as he rested a hand on her shoulder, before leaving. Lynn simply nods to him, but says nothing.
Lynn then walks in front of Clyde and doesn't say anything. She just pulls out the same music box from her pocket and opens it up. Clyde starts to hyperventilate as his body begins to shake. He grabs at his chest and his head before he slips into darkness.
The screen then goes red and shows Clyde being strapped back into the chair from before. He breaks free and starts to do the whole thing all over again. Just like the last time, he picked up every gun and killed every Whitetail militia he came across. All the while he would hear Lynn's voice every now and then, either praising him or making comments. However when he made it to the top of the stairs and jumped down the hatch, things were different this time. He found himself in the Whitetail militia's base and in front of him was an LMG. He then swapped the sniper rifle for the LMG and proceeded further inside the base. As he did he came across more Whitetail militia and started to kill them.
"Excellent," he heard Lynn's voice say.
"Hold on! This is different from last time," Lincoln said, noticing that Clyde went further than last time.
"Also, why did he start strapped into a chair in the classroom again?" Tabby asked, confused.
"He started in a chair again, because that's how he starts every time he goes through the training," Cobalt starts to reply. "What you're seeing him go through now is the Whitetail militia's base."
"The base?! But how does Lynn know what it looks like?" Ronnie Anne asked him in a slightly fearful tone.
"Clyde told her," their host replied. "Remember, he is still being affected by the Bliss drug. It would be easy for her to get information out of him when he's in that state."
Reaching the furthest part of the base, he then found one Whitetail militia that was different from the others. It was using a bow and arrow, but it had no face or hair. It looked like it was some kind of mannequin. However, Clyde paid that no mind as he shot the Whitetail militia.
"Perfect," he heard Lynn say before everything turned to black.
"Why did that last one look like that?" Jordan asked out loud, confused.
"Yeah all the others were using guns, but that one was using a bow and arrow," Stella commented.
"It also had no face or hair, like it was a mannequin," Becky added.
"You will find out soon enough, just keep watching," Cobalt told all of them.
When Clyde came to, he found that he wasn't in the cage anymore, he was back in the Whitetail Mountains. Not sure what was happening, he slowly pulled himself together and started to walk off to try to regain his bearings.
"Wait! How did Clyde get out of the cage?!" Bobby asked, puzzled.
"Yeah! And where the heck is he?" Sam added.
"While I'm not completely sure, one of two things probably happened," Cobalt started to reply. "The first is that he could have somehow escaped while he was still in that mental state. The second is that Lynn let him go on purpose."
"Why would she do that?" Leni asked him confused.
"There is always a reason behind what Lynn does," he replied cryptically. "You'll see what I mean soon. For now, we're going to skip ahead to the next confrontation." Hearing this only filled the audience with more worry, with Lynn and Lincoln huddling closer together in their hug.
The scene changed to Clyde walking down the road carrying his assault rifle. He had just finished clearing out another Outpost, and was on his way to see who else he could help. However once again he felt another sharp pain in his neck and he instantly knew what this was. He didn't bother trying to see what it was and just let the dizziness and darkness take over, as he fell unconscious again.
"How many more times am I going to see myself be drugged?" Clyde asked, feeling embarrassed for him and his counterpart.
"I don't think you'll see this happen much more Clyde," Ronnie Anne replied to him.
"It looks like at this point he just accepted that he's going to be constantly drugged," Haiku commented.
"Let's see what's going to happen this time," Lucy added.
The scene changed to Clyde waking back up into the cage, weak and dehydrated again. There was a dead body in the cage with him and beside them in the next cage was a wolf growling. Clyde then saw Lynn with Pratt in front of the cage. Lynn was sitting in a fold-up chair, while Pratt was carefully placing a dog bowl with some food inside the cage for Clyde. Clyde, seeing the food, quickly crawled over to it and started to eat it with no restraint.
Everyone winced when they saw the older Clyde. It was a mix of between seeing him in such a bad state or him devouring the food as if he was a starving animal.
"Seven days. Aw, you must be hungry," Lynn said to Clyde as he quickly devoured the food. "Yeah. Did you know it takes ten days for civilization to collapse?" Lynn asked him as Pratt started to use a hunting knife to trim some of Lynn's hair. "Yep. You take away a man's basic needs and he'll revert to his primordial instincts in just ten days. It's a difficult thing to understand unless you lived it."
"What is he doing?!" Carol screamed at the screen. "Not only is he free, but he has a weapon right now and can arrest her!"
"Yeah or he could kill Lynn and free everyone there right now!" Luna shouted, before putting on a sheepish grin. "Oops, sorry dude. It sounded a lot better in my head," She apologized to her sporty sister. However Lincoln and Lynn didn't pay them any mind and continued to watch the screen.
"I was in Iraq during the first Gulf War," Lynn continued, as Pratt finished trimming her hair. "Eighty-second, airborne, All-American, Hoo-rah. One night, there was a, an ambush." Pratt then started to pour water onto Lynn's hands as she washed them clean. All the while Clyde was focusing on the water. "Me and this guy named Miller got separated from the unit. No food. No radio. The nearest base was two hundred clicks south, so we just started walking."
"So it appears that Lynn really was in the Army," Lisa commented. "I can only imagine what horror she saw out there."
"I wonder how she and this Miller guy survived?" Stella asked out loud.
"I have a feeling we're not going to like the answer," Becky replied.
"Well by the third day, I knew we were lost," Lynn continued on as Pratt handed her the water canteen. "Day six…ran out of water. You know what that's like, dontcha? Difficult to swallow." She then proceeds to take a drink from the canteen and hands it back to Pratt. "On the seventh day, Miller's legs started going all wonky. Did you know the brain starts to eat your muscles in order to survive? That's why you're so goddamn skinny. And by the eighth day, the wolves were closing in. And I looked at Miller and I could tell we're as good as dead. And I accepted that. And in that acceptance…came clarity."
Hearing Lynn's tale only made everyone feel even more uncomfortable. Lynn and Lincoln huddled closer together subconsciously, fearing what she was about to say next.
"You see, I wasn't just looking at Miller, I was looking at an opportunity," Lynn then grabbed ahold of Clyde through the cage and lifted him up. "It wasn't something I wanted. It was something I had to do. It was…it was my test. Now you see…" Lynn said as she let go of him and looked at Pratt. Pratt then handed her the wooden music box, which Clyde noticed. He immediately started to walk back further in the cage, knowing what was going to happen.
"…Miller's sacrifice wasn't about me walking out of that desert. It was about bringing me here. The weak have their purpose," Lynn said to him as she started to wind the music box. "You'll understand that soon enough." She then opened the music box as Clyde felt the familiar sensation start to take over him.
Everyone looked at this screen with wide-eyed, horrified, expressions.
"Is-Is that Lynn implying that she-" Sam couldn't finish. She felt like she was going to throw up just thinking about it.
"I don't know and I don't want to know!" Margo said with a green looking face.
Carol, Becky, Lori, Bobby, Leni, Luna, and the Loud parents all rushed to the washroom, feeling like they were going to throw up. All the kids and remaining teens felt nauseous, but kept it together. When the others came back, everyone sat down and tried to prepare themselves for whatever happens next.
The screen then went red and showed Clyde going through the same process again. He went through all the buildings, killed all the Whitetail militia. However this time after he finished, he found himself being woken up by someone while in the cage.
"Wake up, wake up," Clyde could vaguely hear someone saying to him. Clyde slowly opens his eyes and sees that it was Pratt who woke him up. He slowly gets to his feet and walks closer to his fellow Deputy.
"I'm going to get you out of here," Pratt said as he held up the key. "Okay? We're going to get you out of here. Okay, only you. Only you." Someone from another cage asked what about him, to which Pratt angrily replied he wasn't strong enough.
"I'm glad that he decided to help, but why didn't he do this sooner?" Ronnie Anne asked with a frown.
"Yeah, and why can't he free the other people?" Stella asked with a confused frown. "He has the keys, he can let them all go!"
"You have to get out of here…before it starts again," Pratt said to Clyde as he opened the cage. "Follow me." Clyde does so silently, as Pratt leads them into the second floor of a building. Pratt looks around the office before turning to Clyde.
"She knows you're ready to do it," Pratt said to Clyde in a nervous voice. "Look! Look! Trials! See!" He said as he showed Clyde something on the desks in the room. It was a picture of Eli with what looked to be a blueprint of the Whitetail militia base. He then led Clyde to a map on the wall. The map had notes, pictures, and string tied all across it.
"She got it all planned out!" Pratt told Clyde in a hysterical tone. "One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three then she got you. It becomes second nature. Routine. She gets in your head…and you don't even realize it!" Clyde just stared at him, unsure what he was talking about or what he was trying to tell him.
"Does anyone know what he's talking about?" Tabby asked the others.
"Not really, it sounds like he's just rambling," Jordan replied.
"What's the point of showing Clyde all that stuff?" Lana asked, confused.
"I think I might know the answer," Lisa replied. "The first thing Mr. Pratt showed Clyde was blueprints of, what I believed to be, the Whitetail's base. Going on by what he was saying, and what we have seen in Clyde hallucinations, I theorized that Lynn is trying to make it so that Clyde will attack the Whitetail's base."
"You are correct," Cobalt said from the side of the group. "What Lynn is trying to do is have Clyde do a routine so many times, that it will be like an instinct for him. As you might remember, the last part of that little obstacle course he does is the Whitetail's militia base."
"So Lynn is just using Clyde as a weapon?" Lincoln asked him with a frown.
"Correct, think of Clyde as a robot," Cobalt started to answer. "Lynn is slowly programming him on what she wants him to do."
"You can't ever go back, you understand!" Pratt told Clyde in a serious voice. "You can't ever go back! Come on," Pratt then said as he started to lead Clyde to a balcony. Along the way he gave Clyde a bag that had his weapons. "Truck…that truck's got to be there. Gotta get on that truck. It's almost time. I studied the route for weeks. It's the only way out."
Once they made it to the balcony, Pratt then pointed to a white truck that was outside the building below them. "You'll be safe if you don't-" was all he got to say, before the two Deputy started to hear shouting.
"No, no, no, not yet! Not yet!" Pratt started saying in a panic tone. Soon an alarm started going off and the whole place was becoming hectic. "Fuck! Fuck! No! No!" Pratt said as he saw the truck was starting to leave, while "Only You" started to play through the speakers. Clyde started to feel that familiar sensation starting to take over again, while Pratt was starting to panic.
"Oh no! This isn't good!" Clyde said in a worried tone.
"Not only did they find out that Clyde escaped, but they're also playing that song through the speakers!" Bobby added nervously.
"What are they going to do now?!" Margo questions with slight fear.
"I'm sorry," Pratt said as he shoved Clyde over the balcony and landed on the truck that was leaving. The last thing Clyde saw was Pratt looking down at him with a sorrowful expression.
The scene then changed to Clyde coming to, on top of the white truck. The truck was parked somewhere in the Whitetail Mountains. There was no sign of the driver or anyone else in the area. He got off the truck and just started to walk in a random direction.
"Well at least it looks like he didn't go into that weird mental state again," Carol said, trying to be optimistic.
"We will be skipping ahead to the final confrontation now," Cobalt told them. Many of them took a deep breath and prepared themselves for whatever was going to happen with this final confrontation. Everyone was starting to huddle together, hoping to have comfort for whatever they were about to see.
The scene showed Clyde walking down the road, after clearing out the last Outpost in the Whitetail Mountains. Once again he felt another sharp paint in his neck. Knowing what was about to happen, he just let out a sigh and fell unconscious.
"Even that Clyde looks like he's done with the whole drugging and kidnapping thing," Becky said with a chuckle.
The scene then changed to Clyde waking up back in the cage at night. As he started to look around, he saw Lynn's music box was just outside of the cage. He quickly reached his hands through the bars to try to reach it. Just as it looked like his hand was about to reach the music box, a foot suddenly came and stepped on his hand. He let out a cry of pain and looked up to see who the foot belonged to. His eyes widened in fear as he saw it was Lynn.
"Don't worry, you'll be out of here soon enough," She said to him in a cold tone as she got off his hand. "Did you really think you were free?" She asked, leaning down to pick up the music box.
Everyone stared at the screen with anticipation, wondering what was going to happen next. Meanwhile Lynn and Lincoln were glaring at the older Lynn.
"Your little buddy went through a whole lot of trouble for nothing," she continued as she started to wind the music box. Clyde just looked up at her with a glare. "That's okay. He knows better now. I told you. You're not a hero, you are a tool," she said that she looked down at him. Clyde's eyes widened at what she was about to do and started to move further back in the cage. "Now you know your purpose. You've known it from the beginning." Lynn then opened up the music box. Clyde started to feel the familiar sensation again as his vision started to go red.
"Here we go," Lincoln said in a whisper, with Lynn nodding beside him.
Just like the last three times, Clyde found himself in the familiar red room, strapped to the same chair. Just like the time before, he grabbed every gun and shot every Whitetail militia he came across. However, this time when he jumped down the hatch and made it to the base, there was something that he didn't notice. Every time he shot a Whitetail militia in the base, their bodies didn't disappear into smoke.
"Wait! The bodies haven't disappeared into smoke like the other times!" Lincoln shouted in shock, noticing that small detail.
"You're right!" Lynn Jr. shouted, noticing what he pointed out.
"Then does that mean…" Luan started to say in a fearful tone
"…That this time he is in the actual base, shooting actual people?" Luna finished for her sister.
As he made his way through the base and continued to shoot people, he made it to the deepest part in the base again. Only this time, instead of fighting a blank face militia, It was actually Eli Palmer.
"Oh no," Stella said, seeing that it wasn't a faceless mannequin, but Eli Palmer.
"He is in the actual base this time," Tabby said in a scare tone.
"Rook?!" Eli Palmer said in shock, before Clyde shot him with the LMG. As he did, time seemed to suddenly stop and freeze. Clyde, now coming down from his adrenaline high, realized what he had just done. As he stared at the now frozen form of Eli, he suddenly heard Lynn's voice.
"Only you~ Can make this world seem light~" Lynn started to sing as she appeared from behind Clyde. "Only you~ Can make the darkness bright~ Only you~." She then let out a chuckle as she lowered Clyde's gun. She then went to stand behind the motionless form of Eli.
"How did she make a song seem so terrifying?" Tabby asked in fear.
"I don't know, but I don't like it," Sam replied with a frown.
"Hey, only you could have gotten this close," Lynn said in an arrogant tone from behind Eli. "Only you could have earned his trust. It was always only ever you." She then moved from behind Eli and got closer to Clyde. "Good work. You did it. You passed your test. You made your sacrifice."
"But now, you're all alone," Lynn then said, looking Clyde directly into the eyes. "And you're weak. And we know what happens to the weak. I cull the herd, that's what I do," she said, getting directly into Clyde's face. "I'll be outside waiting for you." She then turned around and walked away before vanishing into smoke. Suddenly everything went back to normal and Eli's body fell to the ground.
"So she has powers like Faith?" Lola asked their host in a terrified voice.
"Yes but only a small portion," Cobalt replied. "Just enough for her to help her mentally manipulate her captives."
"What the fuck did you do!" Wheaty shouted as he pointed a gun in Clyde's face, while Tammy Barnes rushed to Eli's body. "You fucking killed him! You fucking piece of shit!"
"It wasn't his fault!" Jordan shouted at the screen.
"Yeah! He was essentially brainwashed and manipulated to shoot him!" Carol shouted, trying to defend him.
"Wheaty!" Tammy shouted running to the young man.
"He trusted you! I trusted you!" Wheaty continued to shout as he pointed the gun towards Clyde.
"Wait! Wheaty! It was Lynn!" Tammy said, trying to calm the boy down. "Listen to me! It was Lynn! We've seen this before. Ronnie…Parker. This is what she does!" She continued as she held onto the gun in Wheaty's hands. "And we let him right in."
"Ronnie!?" Bobby said in a panic.
"That's someone else, not your little sister," Cobalt told the panicking boy. He along with several others let out a sigh of relief at hearing that.
Wheatley had finally calmed down and Tammy got the gun away from him. She then turned around and grabbed the hold of Clyde by the front of his shirt. "You find that mother fucker!" She told Clyde as she glared at him in the eyes. "You find Lynn and you kill her! Or the next time I see you, so help me God…" she then harshly shoved Clyde. "…I'll kill you myself." Clyde took one last look at Eli's body with a look of regret, before it switched to one of anger and he left the base.
"I don't want to see this," Leni said as she covered her face and curled up beside Becky. Lynn and Lincoln continued to stare at the screen, both with narrowed eyes.
As Clyde left the base, he could hear "Only You" being played loudly throughout the area. The sky was red with some trees being on fire. "Ah, about time you came out," He heard Lynn's voice say. "I thought I would have to come and get ya, I was worried you turned soft on me." Clyde looked around and he could see several speaker towers that someone had set up, that was playing the music. "But you're a soldier. You do as you're told."
Clyde then proceeded to go to the closest one of those speaker towers to shut off the music. As he did, Whitetail militia and wolves would show up. To which he would have to fight. As he killed any of them, they would vanish into smoke. All the while he could hear Lynn's voice. He destroyed the first speaker tower and started to make his way to the next one.
"Don't cry about Eli," he heard Lynn's voice say. "He was weak and selfish. I gave him a chance to prove himself. All he had to do was hand over his Whitetails…could have saved us all this trouble."
Both Lynn Jr. and Lincoln were grinding their teeth, while glaring at the screen. They both hated how the older Lynn was insulting the deceased Eli.
Clyde paid no attention to any of this and continued to seek out the other speaker towers. Along the way, more militia and wolves showed up and he had to kill more. He successfully destroyed a speaker tower and started to make his way to another. "Don't fight it," He once again heard Lynn's voice. "Just let go. You served your purpose. You're meat,"
He made his way to another speaker and destroyed it. "Let's say you get out of this, what's next?" He heard Lynn's voice. "You go back to running errands for a teenager and a housewife? The Whitetails are nothing without Eli! You are nothing without Eli!"
"Just shut up already!" The sporty Loud shouted, tired of hearing her talk.
Clyde continued to ignore her in push on. After more fighting, he destroyed another speaker tower. "The wolves are all around you," Lynn's voice taunted from all around him. "We know what happens to the weak."
Clyde made it to and destroyed another speaker tower. "Don't you find it ironic that everyone you try to help, winds up worse off?" Lynn's voice asked. "Eli, Pratt, tragedy just follows you. If you really wanted to keep people safe, be a hero, you should just off yourself! Safer for everyone that way."
This stunned everyone at how the former soldier said that so easily, with a few gasping.
Clyde continued to push forward and finally made it to the last speaker tower. "We're on the brink," Lynn's voice said before he destroyed the last speaker tower. Once he did everything returned to normal.
"We are going to be skipping ahead a couple of minutes," Cobalt said. "What you're missing is just Clyde shooting cultists, while trying to avoid Lynn taking sniper shots at him." Everyone nodded, not caring if they missed that.
The scene then changed to one of Lynn leaning against a large boulder, with a bunch of fresh bullet wounds. Her clothes were starting to become stained red, as she started to cough out some blood.
Everyone looked uncomfortable at the sight, with a couple the Loud members and Margo looking away. Lincoln and Lynn Jr. subconsciously hugged each other while frowning at the screen.
"My brother saw all this coming," Lynn said as she saw Clyde walking closer towards her. "I don't know if he talks to God. That doesn't matter. He was right. Humanity is once again in crisis."
Lynn then coughed up some more blood, but looked back up at the Deputy. "It doesn't matter what we build or achieve. We will always find a way to break it down. Babylon, Rome, empire's rise, empire's fall. America…we're no different." Clyde moves closer, seeing Lynn is no longer a threat. Only for Lynn to suddenly grab him by the shirt and pull him closer.
Everyone that was watching gasped in fear, thinking Clyde was in danger.
"We think we're indestructible," Lynn continued, staring Clyde in the eyes. "World War Two, War on "Terror". We survived it, but it only brought us closer to the edge. And this is where we are." Lynn's breaths were getting shorter as she knew her time was coming closer. "Right here on schedule. Just waiting for someone to push us. And oh boy, have you pushed us." She then gave the deputy a little smirk.
"You did everything he said you would do. And you didn't even know it." She then gave him a shove as she let go of his shirt. "You had no fucking clue." She took a few more breaths, before her head started to droop. After a while, her breathing stopped and she was dead. Clyde then reached around her neck and grabbed the bunker key.
The audience were now crying, seeing another of the Loud counterparts die. Even Lynn Jr. and Lincoln were crying while hugging, still glaring at the screen. "Just like before, there's one more thing to see before we end this," Cobalt said. This got a growl from the glaring and hugging siblings, knowing what they were going to see.
The scene then opened up to a familiar scene of Lincoln sitting shirtless in a dark room. However there were two things different this time. The first was that he was not wearing his trademark sunglasses. He also had tears coming down his eyes as he rocks back and forth in his seat.
"Is he…crying?" Lincoln asked, confused, with his expression matching. This question got everyone to look at the screen and be surprised and confused.
"But he never cried for the others," Luna said with a puzzled expression.
"He's also not wearing his sunglasses," Leni pointed out.
"Impossible!" Lisa said in a whisper. "Based on everything we've seen, he shouldn't be acting like this!"
"A seal has been opened," Lincoln said. Although his voice was shaky and filled with pain and sorrow. "My sister Lynn was a fighter. She always has been, ever since we saw our sister Lori die at the hands of a mugger when we were kids."
This shocked everyone at hearing this. Especially Lincoln, Lynn Jr., Lori, and their parents.
"She fought our parents. She fought the government. She fought me. But mostly, she fought herself. The demons that she brought home from the war consumed her. She thought she was a weapon without a purpose. That she was a warrior without a legacy. But look around you. You are her legacy. All of you willing to protect our family from the collapse. To purge the sinful from our home and you will my children. You will purge the sinners from our home. Lynn's death will not be in vain."
"She was suffering," Stella said, feeling some sympathy for the veteran soldier.
"Unfortunately, that happens to a lot of our Veterans after they come back from war," Lisa informed everyone.
He then looked up at the audience, before letting out a cry of anguish and pain.
"MY FAMILY!" He shouted in a voice filled with anger and agony. "MY SISTERS! THEY'VE ALL BEEN TAKEN FROM ME! BY A SNAKE IN OUR GARDEN!"
Snot was coming from his nose and he just wiped it on his arm. He started to moan in pain before looking up to the sky.
Everyone grimaced at seeing him wipe his nose on his arm. "He actually did care for them?" Luan asked, with disgust and confusion.
"But he didn't show any of this after Lucy or Leni died," Becky said, with a grossed out expression.
"I did tell you that he does care for his sisters," Cobalt said, speaking up. "He saw his sister Lori die when he was a kid. He saw his parents abuse him and his sisters. He lost his wife in an accident, before hearing God. From there he was doing what he was told. As a result, he lost his son and six more sisters. This was just him reaching his breaking point."
"Are you trying to make us feel sorry for him?!" Sam asked, agitated.
"No, I'm not," Cobalt replied. "I'm just telling you some of the biggest tragedies that he's been through. After all that, would any of you keep that cool and calm demeanor you have seen from him before, if it was you?" Everyone looked at each other, but couldn't say anything. "This is him at his breaking point, that's why he didn't react like this with the others. One person had basically single-handedly tore down everything he built."
"I thought I knew God's plan," He said in a sadden voice, lowering his head to not look at the audience. "But I was wrong. I was blind." He then looked up and glared at the audience. "But now I see. You took my family from me, so that I can have yours." He said, his voice becoming calmer, but was laced with anger and venom. "We will welcome them with open arms. Just as we will welcome you. We will be waiting for you…where it all began."
The screen went black and Cobalt moved in front of it. "That's it for this one, so any thoughts?"
"There's only one more, right?" Lincoln asked him with a conflicted expression.
"Yes," Cobalt replied. "To my knowledge, all that's left is the confrontation between Clyde and Lincoln. Any more questions?" He saw many of the audience members were crying, looking uncomfortable, or had conflicted expressions.
"Well if that's it, then I'm going to wait for the next orb," the android said, as he snapped some more medicine for the group. "Oh! One more thing," he said looking back at them. "No more fighting," he said as his eyes glowed purple and he had multiple voices. He then walked off.
The audience were now crying, heartbroken, uncomfortable, and now scared. They all tried to comfort each other, while trying to calm down from the horrifying world they just watched.