Chapter 10: A Human's Payback!

Lincoln had a depressed look on his face as Zoe gave him a glass of water.

"My memories..." Lincoln said depressed. "All the bad stuff I did to my family, a-and my friends, all of that happened..." Lincoln said, downing his glass. "I guess I deserved to be smoothened." He then slammed his face down onto the counter. "Man, I wish Aquamarine was here so that she can comfort me."

"No you don't Lincoln." Chris said, patting his back to comfort him. "I have a very strange feeling about that test."

"Me too." Eclipsa said as she sat down next to Lincoln as she fed Meteora a bottle of Mewni milk. "I feel like Zing has rigged that test."

"Even so, what can we do?" Sara said as she downed her juice. "Escaping here is going to be difficult with the escape pods being guarded."

Hearing their words made Lincoln briefly come out of his depression and began to think about the test he failed.

"Wait yeah, now that you guys mentioned it, Zing was smiling really evilly during the test."

"Yeah, that is true? But what about the Majestic," Globgor cut in. "He only showed our bad memories."

"Yeah, he seemed to have did that to all of us." Bridgette said.

"Yeah, but why?" Martin asked, putting a hand to his chin.

The rest of the group put one of their hands to their chins as they thought of why the Majestic did such a thing when Lincoln got an idea based off this information from before.

"Wait a second, if I can get down to the Majestic, I can talk to him." Lincoln said as he got up from his stool. "I might be able to get some answers from him and we might be able to get off this ship."

"I'll go with you." Sinbad volunteered, standing up. "I know the way."

"I'll join you guys." Chris said, getting up from his stool too.

"And so will I." Milo said, also getting up from his stool as well.

"And I'll be there in case we need to fight." Leggy said, preparing to leave with them.

"Okay, the rest of you stay here. We'll be back." Milo instructed as Sinbad began to lead the group of five individuals out of the bar.

"You guys are crazy, that creature can kill all of you!" Zoe called out to them in worry.

As the group was walking out of the bar, they ran into Dan.

"Oh, hey Dan." Lincoln greeted.

"It's a good thing I found you Lincoln..." Dan quickly looked around to see if anyone was listening in on their conversation before turning back to the Loud boy as he then motioned for the five to follow him behind the shade of a large pillar as he then began to whisper in a quiet tone. "Listen Loud, before you do anything else. I need you to listen to me. It's very important and it's about Aquamarine!"

"Aquamarine!" Lincoln and the others whispered in surprise and shock.

"I don't like where this is going." Chris whispered in dread.

"What's going on?" Lincoln asked in a worried tone.

"Lincoln..." Dan began as he knelt down to his level as he whispered the words that rocked the group of five to their cores. "Aquamarine is cheating on you."

"What?" Lincoln asked in shock and disbelief as his eyes widen at what he just heard from the sociopathic man. "A-Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure." Dan whispered. "I saw her just now."

"Who's she seeing?" Leggy whispered, her anger slowly beginning to manifest in her body.

"A member of your squad." Dan whispered. "The one with the gem in her left eye."

Lincoln could only utter the only thing he could of in the moment of truth.

"I knew that it was too good to be true..."

"And that's not the worst part." Dan said quietly. "They were just pretending to go along with your orders this whole time and that little blue pain the butt was just pretending to like you and when the time is right, they're going to assassinate you and take your spot as the leader of Zing's prisoners."

For Lincoln, hearing the threat that the terrible duo was going to do nearly made him hyperventilate. Chris held his hand to keep him calm.

For Chris, Sinbad and Milo, they were horrified to hear Aquamarine and Eyeball were willing to go that far just to seize power from Lincoln. They each thought to themselves that Lincoln has to be protected from not just Zing now, but from Aquamarine and the "Eyeball" ruby as well.

Hearing this nearly made Leggy explode with rage if she didn't remember that she needed to keep silent so no one around would here them. "That... traitorous… Ruby!"

Sinbad put a hand on the tranquilly furious Ruby's head, causing her to look up at him briefly. He also put his other hand on Lincoln's head, causing the boy to look up at him as well. Upon looking into his eyes, they saw that he had a sympathetic look on his face.

"Ruby, I understand that you're really pissed off at your teammate," The comedian from Earth then looked at the heartbroken boy as he continued to speak. "And Lincoln, I get that Aquamarine seeing that "Eyeball" ruby while she was seeing you was a massively emotional low blow for her to do to a flawed yet good kid like you but that's something that we can deal with later."

"Y-You're right. Thanks, Mr. Sinbad." Lincoln said as he wiped away some of his newly fresh tears. "Right now we need to get to the Majestic."

"That memory probing space freak? Why are you going to him?" Dan asked quietly.

Lincoln quickly and quietly explained his plan to Dan, who then nodded.

"I see. I like your planning skills Lincoln." Dan said quietly. "I've decided to go with with you to see how it plays out."

"Alright, let's go." Sinbad said as the group of now six individuals went to the Majestic's chamber.

Sneaking past the many guards that were patrolling the ship as they did their rounds around the multiple levels from the floor where the Emperor's throne was on the top to the bottom floor where the stadium was at.

When the group of six finally got to where the Majestic was being kept in, they saw that it was being guarded from top to bottom by at least 30 guards.

"Jesus, the Emperor must want to keep the Majestic from getting out." Dan commented.

"Or for anyone to see when's on break." Milo commented.

"Okay, here's the plan my friends." Sindbad said to the others. "I'll distract the guards and lead them away for the container. You guys stay here for a bit. And when the time is right. Pull that lever over there." He pointed to the tall lever over to the left of the Majestic's container.

He then out of his hiding spot and out into the open where the guards could see him and he started to do an awesome dance.

"Yo dudes, take a break from your duty and come look at my awesome dance moves!" Sinbad shouted, waving his arms and beginning to dance.

"I don't know." One guard said to everyone else. "This sounds like a distraction."

"Even if it is, why should I care?" Another guard said, with most of his friends nodding in silent agreement.

"Yeah, I'm tired of guarding this stupid space squid!' Another guard said in annoyance.

"Me too!" Most of them yelled out in unison.

With that, all 30 guards began to follow Sinbad as he began to lead them away.

"Now's our chance." Dan said as he, Chris, Leggy, Lincoln and Milo ran towards the lever as quickly as they could.

Upon reaching it, Chris pulled the lever a bit as the chamber began to slowly open up.

"Okay, it's opening. Let's go." Leggy said as the soldier then grabbed Dan and the others and stacked them on top of each other as she then jumped all the way up to the Majestic's chamber before putting them back down.

"Alright. Is everyone ready?" Milo said as he prepared to jump down.

"Yeah!" Dan and Leggy shouted in unison.

"But how?" Lincoln asked.

"I know." Chris said as he transformed into his bear. "All of you hopped on my back and I'll lower us down using my claws."

With no hesitation, Dan jumped onto his best friend's back. Milo then jumped onto Dan's back, then Leggy jumped on Milo's back and Lincoln jumped onto her back at last.

Chris then leaped down into the opened container where the Majestic was in and immediately stuck one his claws into a wall and carefully began to slide down.

But Chris forgot about one important detail as he was doing this.

As his claws were slowing his descent, it also produced a sound that was similar to when fingernails scratch a chalkboard. The pain was too much for Lincoln's ears to handle, so he instantly covered them... but in the process, it caused him to let go of Leggy's neck and fall off her back and down into the darkness of the Majestic's chamber. He let out a scream as he continued to fall.

"Lincoln!" Leggy screamed.

Hearing the Ruby scream out his fellow human's name made Chris detach his claw as he fell after the boy.

"Everyone, grab onto each other's hands! Quick!" Chris commanded.

Realizing what his plan was, Dan grabbed onto one of his friend's claws. Milo grabbed onto Dan's other hand and Leggy grabbed onto Milo's other hand.

"Lincoln, if you can hear me and stop screaming for a second, grab onto Leggy's hand!" Chris shouted as he then reeled his arm back and with all his strength, threw the individuals like a rope as Leggy managed to grab onto Lincoln's pajama shirt and Chris then pulled his arm back and group and embraced all four of them as they began rapidly descend towards the bottom.

As he did, something really strange happened...

Suddenly, two massive blue, birdlike wings sprouted out of Chris' back and began to flap rapidly to slow their descent until they touch down on the Majestic's inner sanctum.

When they reached the ground, Chris let go his friends.

"Huh?" Dan said, as he looked around.

"We're alive?" Milo asked in disbelief.

"We're ALIVE!" Lincoln and Leggy shouted as they embraced each other with Lincoln spinning Leggy in joy.

As the two were spinning their emotions out as tears of happiness ran down their faces, Dan and Milo were checking out Chris' new power.

"Whoa, Chris buddy. Check you out." Dan said as he circled his best friend.

"Yeah man, you have wings now." Milo said as he reached out to feel them.

When he did however, the wings suddenly disappeared.

As the group was looking around, they saw that they were on the red, squishy belly of the Majestic as they then heard an "Ahem" as they saw that the squid-like alien was looking down at the five with a look of curiosity in its four eyes.

The group let out a collective scream as they got into a fighting stance in case they needed to defend themselves, their powers manifesting as a result of their on edged selves.

But the creature wasn't attacking as it spoke in a echoed, curious voice. "I wasn't expecting visitors. Also, you don't have to worry. I don't really want to fight."

"Really?" Milo asked as he charged the power of Murphy's Law into his fists.

"Of course Milo, my race is quite a peaceful one." The beast replied.

Hearing the creature confirming that he wasn't out to hurt them made the group calm themselves as they deactivated their powers.

"Are you the Majestic?" Leggy asked.

"Of course am I Ruby." The Majestic confirmed.

"What the hell squid face!" Dan yelled. "You showed our bad memories."

"Yeah!" Chris said. "I mean Dan I get cause his life is pretty much one bad memory after another." Chris said.

"Hey!" Dan said in annoyance.

"But," Chris continued, despite his angry friend's interruption. "why the rest of us?"

"Do you guys hate? You must hate me!" Majestic said in a sadden tone. "But it's not like I have any other choice Chris! If I showed the good ones, Emperor Zing is gonna blast me into space! Oh, what you must think of me!" He revealed as he began to sob a bit.

Hearing this made Dan's anger towards the beast fade away almost completely.

"It's okay, Majestic." Lincoln said to the beast. "We've seen what Zing can be like at we forgive you."

Majestic then wiped away a few of his tears with his tentacles before he spoke again. "He wasn't a bad guy. You know... before."

"Before?" Dan said.

"Why, before the heartbreak." Majestic clarified.

"WHAT?!" The group said unison.

"That gray bastard was in love?!" Dan asked out of shock.

"That's right everyone. Zing thought that he had met "the one"." Majestic began to explain. "But then he got dumped, and it devastated him so completely he vowed to never love again. But the pain still remained. So he started shopping... Compulsively."

"That's why this ship's a mall." Chris said.

"That's exactly right Chris." Majestic said as he continued to reveal what he knows. "And when buying stuff didn't cure what ailed him, he decided to wage a war..."

"Against what?" Lincoln asked.

"Against the universe?" Milo asked.

"Against us and the prisoners?" Leggy asked.

"Against love!" Majestic confirmed. "And that's why he won't let me any good memories."

"Majestic, thanks for this crucial info. Once the word is out about this, it's sure to spark a rebellion." Lincoln said as he stepped forward.

"Oh my god, we're really gonna do it." Majestic said with a smile on his face. "What a quick turn for me, but I love it!"

"Awesome, now is there away out of here?" The boy asked before he and the others were then scooped up in the creatures tentacles before the Majestic then threw them back up the hole that they came from.

After a minute of screaming, the group were out of the Majestic's chamber as it closed back up... and they landed on their faces. When they managed to regain their bearings, the group of five found themselves completely surrounded by the guards. To make matters worse, they saw that Sinbad was also captured too.

"Stand down now or your friend here gets it!" One of the guards demanded as he held the sharp, glowing end of the spear to his throat, threatening to slit it if the five didn't comply with their demands.

With no other option, the group held their hands up. Even Dan, despite knowing that he really didn't want to, knew that he had no choice. If they tried anything, Sinbad's death would be on their heads because of it.

As they were being escorted to Zing, the group began to whisper to one another so quietly so that the guards won't hear them.

"So what do think that Zing is gonna do to us?" Leggy whispered in a scared tone.

"You think he's going to kill us?" Chris whispered.

"I doubt it, Chris." Dan whispered. "If he wants to give us the axe, he would announce it to his citizens."

"Maybe if we make our case, he could let us off with a warning." Milo whispered.

"Boy, if I had your optimism." Dan whispered as he rolled his eyes.

As the guards shoved the group and Sinbad and slammed the doors behind them, about ten of them then piled out of the the room as the rest stood in front of the door from the outside of the throne room.

Zing then spoke. "What were you guys hoping to accomplish by sneaking down to Majestic's chamber?!"

"Getting our answers?" Dan said, taking a step forward. "Got a problem with that."

"To what questions?" Zing said.

"We know everything, Zing!" Chris said, which made Zing widen his eyes in shock.

"EVERYTHING?!" Zing screeched.

"Yes Zing, everything." Milo said as he to stepped forward.

The emperor of Roger's people was hyperventilating as he then got down onto his knees and began to plead. "Oh please don't tell anyone, I beg you! If my people found out, I can kiss my Emperor status goodbye!"

"Then let us leave. That's all we ask." Lincoln said.

"I can't do that!" Zing shouted.

"You can't, what the hell kind of response is that?!" Dan shouted at him. "You're the goddamn Emperor!"

"In terms of this empire, yes. But in terms of finical backing then no." Zing said. "If I started letting you guys go, me and my people will lose our ship and everything else."

"Who's backing you?" Chris said.

"I can't say." Zing said shamefully.

Lincoln and the other five huddle up and began to whisper to themselves on what to do. Dan and Sinbad wanted to out the Emperor now so that they can escape during the ensuing chaos, while Chris and Milo didn't want to ruin the pathetic emperors already sad life while Leggy was processing this new information that the group was given as Lincoln was trying to find a compromise that'll please both sides of the issue. After two minutes, the group came to a decision as Lincoln turned back to emperor.

"Okay, moving on..." Lincoln spoke up. "Here's what will do. We'll won't say what we know from the Majestic to everyone else and we'll let you keep your credibility to your people. But you'll need to help me with something."

"Oh thank you, Lincoln!" Zing said as he got off his knees. "I just have to do this one thing and you won't say anything?"

"Of course." Lincoln said with a smile.

"What do you need me to do?" Zing said.

Lincoln smiled maliciously as he explained his plan to the emperor.

One week later...

Lincoln wrapped his arms around Aquamarine and Eyeball's shoulders as they walked around a darken ship.

He then spoke. "I'm so glad that we've finally spending some time together."

"So am I." Eyeball said in a nervous tone.

"I-I'm glad you found the time to spend time with u-us Lincoln." Aquamarine stuttered.

"So I am." Lincoln said in a convincing tone. "In fact, I have a special song just for you two."

"A song?" Aquamarine and her soldier asked in unison and disbelief.

Lincoln smiled as he then called out. "Okay Chris, hit the lights!"

Suddenly, the lights were turned on to as the three were were surrounded by the aliens that looked like Roger including the emperor and his guards, the other slaves including a few of the other gems like the Topaz fusion, the other Rubies, and blue Zircon. Then the room was began to be filled up with rock music.

"Uh Lincoln... w-what song is this?!" Eyeball said as she gritted her teeth.

'Just listen Gemini." Lincoln said with a smug smirk. "I think you and Aqua will hate it."

With that, Lincoln jumped onto a platform as he began to sing his feelings of his broken heart with most of the little blue runt's "boyfriends" dancing in the background.

You had it all

The day you told me, told me you want me

I had it all

But let you fool me, fool me completely

The audience was loving Aquamarine's immediate reaction. Embarrassment began to show on her face as Eyeball began to seethe in anger at her girlfriend's humiliation.

Yeah, I was so stupid

To give you all my attention

'Cause the way you played me

Exposed your true intentions

Aquamarine tried to fly away only for an angry Phil to fly up, intercept her and slammed her down on the ground in a face first. She slowly began to get up as Chris and Milo grabbed her by the arms and held her in place as Lincoln continued to sing.

And one day

I'll have you begging on your knees for me

Yeah, one day

I'll have you crawling like a centipede

You messed with me

And messed with us

So karma will come back to bite in the butt

Yeah, one day

You'll be begging on your knees for me

Eyeball kicked the two in the shins and they were forced to let the little brat go and she immediately grabbed her superior/girlfriend and tried to jumped down to Slave City... only for the emperor to press the shock button for their collars and electrocute the two, causing to fall onto Lincoln's platform as he walked up to them and continued singing.

So watch your back

'Cause you don't know when or where I could get you

Dan then jumped onto Lincoln's platform and reared his leg back and kicked Aquamarine so hard in her face that she was sent flying into Eyeball, and the two flew straight into Eclipsa's and Globgor's arms, wrapping them around the two as they forced the two misbehaved gems to listen to Lincoln's and his friend's payback song as Meteora (who was on her mother's back) was giggling at the two's misfortune.

I've set the trap

And when I'm done, then you'll know what I've been through

Aquamarine and Eyeball managed to break free of the husband and wife's grip on them and they attempted to fly off once more... only for the rest of the Rubies to dogpile onto the jerkish duo and forced their eyes opened as they looked at Lincoln and Aquamarine's past "lovers" as the song continued.

So, tell me, Aquamarine, do you feel like the gem now?

Lincoln, knowing that Aquamarine and Eyeball were looking straight at him, made a 'come at get me' motion with his arms as he continued.

And I bet you're nervous

'Cause this song makes you freak out

And one day

I'll have you begging on your knees for me

Yeah, one day

I'll have you crawling like a centipede

You messed with me (yeah)

And messed with us (yeah)

And karma will come back to bite you in the butt (yeah)

Yeah, one day

You'll be begging on your knees for me

I know I'm being bitter

But I'mma drag you under

'Cause you just don't, don't deserve happy ever after

For what you did to me

After you told me you'd never felt that way

It was only just a game

Sinbad and the rest of Milo's family cheered as everyone in the room (sans Aquamarine and Eyeball) began to dance wildly to the song's beat as the instrumentals briefly kicked in for a minute. When the instrumentals began to quiet down, Lincoln and the background dancers began to sing the last few lyrics of this well deserved revenge song.

And one day

And one day

I'll have you begging on your knees for me (begging on your knees)

Yeah, one day (for me)

I'll have you crawling like a centipede (crawling like a)

(Centipede) You messed with me (yeah)

And messed with us (yeah)

And karma will come back to bite you in the butt (yeah)

Yeah, one day

You'll be begging on your knees for me

As the song came to a close, the five platforms all linked together as Lincoln, the Topazes, Phil, the blue Zircon and the rest of the rest of Eyeball's squad looked at the humiliated duo with a smug look that combined a "you got served" look and a "do you feel humiliated" look.

The crowd cheered at the spectacular performance that just happened as Dan summed up Aquamarine as well as Eyeball's humiliation in one word.

"Damn." He said, smirking down the two emotionally manipulating brats, satisfied that the two jerks got their comeuppance.

Angry beyond belief, Aquamarine pushed the other Rubies off of her and her soldier and flew right in front of Lincoln's face. "I can't believe you humiliated me like this you white haired brat!" The blue gem shouted in embarrassment. "I thought you loved me!"

"Well, I thought you loved me too Aqua." Lincoln stated in a calmly angered voice. "But Dan told me that you were just using me and the time was right, you and your aggressive red square here were going to kill me and take my place!" He stated, shocking the two gems.

"Yes but-" Aquamarine attempted to say but Lincoln cut her off.

"But nothing, you blue ball of sadism!" Lincoln said he grabbed her uniform and forced her to look at betrayal filled, tear streaming eyes as he continued.

"Consider this whole thing as me dumping your little, blue behind!" Lincoln said as he then headbutted Aquamarine square in the gem, causing a little crack to appear on it and then threw her into her Eyeball's arms.

Eyeball then looked at the Loud boy with rage in eyes for what he did to her Aqua, as what Lincoln just did was in act of war in her eyes. She gently placed her girlfriend behind and with a war cry, lunged at the white haired boy... only to be tackled to the ground by Army and Navy.

"Unhand me, you disgraceful traitors!" She yelled in her blind rage as she tried to break free of their grasp.

"If anyone's the disgraceful traitor here "Ruby", it's you!" Leggy said as she knelt down to her now former teammate's level with a look of betrayal in he eyes.

"Ruby's right, you traitorous clod!" Doc said as she crossed her arms at her former "subordinate" with disgust in her eyes. "You knew you were seeing Aquamarine behind Lincoln's back and didn't tell us, if you did!"

"You're siding with HIM?!" Eyeball screeched.

I know I am!" Leggy confirmed.

"I may not know much about him, but I can tell that he's not as manipulative and traitorous as you." Navy said, placing a hand on the boy's shoulder.

Eyeball then narrowed her only eye at her now former teammates. "So I always knew you guys would turn your backs on me. Just under different circumstances."

"Maybe, but you've brought this on yourself." Army said, with disgust in her voice, pounding her fists together.

With that, Leggy and Navy released their backstabbing comrades as they went with Lincoln and others to the bar as Zing went back to his throne room as everyone dispersed, leaving the two completely alone together.

For Aquamarine, she never felt more humiliated in in her entire life. Not only did Topaz abandoned her and joined up with the humans, she and her partner in crime were utterly humiliated in the entire crew on Zing's ship because of Lincoln's song and to matters worse for her, her gem was cracked and her physical form was glitching out because of Lincoln's anger towards her. But in the back of her mind, she knew that she deserved it.

For Eyeball, she never felt more rage in her whole life. Not only did find out the truth about one of her former leaders from her idol, but the one who also hated Era 3 just as much as she did and began a romantic relationship with just five weeks ago was utterly humiliated in public by a human of all pathetic lifeforms and she got her gem cracked because of the cause and effect of her Aquamarine's selfishness. She made a mental note she as soon as Lincoln's guard was down, she'll wiped him out and make his friends watch in helplessness as payback for this.

With no one in the room other than each other, the glitching Aquamarine and Eyeball just... embraced each other. It was the only thing that they could do at the moment.

Meanwhile as all of this was happening, the Exile's rocket was still just sitting there...

"Maybe I can try something." said SIGH as she began to concentrate..

Suddenly the rocket began to shake as it seemingly began to tear itself apart from a certain point of view. When in actuality, it seemed to be mashing some of it parts together into something.

Something crazy.

As the wires and the machinery of the rocket began to mash together in horrid manifestation, it created limbs... human eques limbs.

"Alright, that seems to be good enough... now to download myself into it." The AI said.

After taking a few minutes to fully download herself. Sigh, in her first ever body began to inspect herself.

'Hmm, so this is what it's like to have a body for the first time?" The fully bodied AI said as she clenched her new hand before squeezing her wired together shoulder.

Sigh took a few minutes to move her newly machinery wired body, wanting get all the kinks out before she began to make sure that she was up to date before she could leave the ship.

Afterwards, she stepped out of the non inside functional rocket with intent in her programming.

"Don't worry my fellow Exiles! I am on my way!"

Wow! Not only did Lincoln and his friends meet the Majestic, but they also learn about Zing's crusade against love? And not only that, but they also got captured by Zing and his guards. They also found that Zing has a finical backer for his empire. Working with him, they managed to deliver some well deserved payback on the cheating Aquamarine and her traitorous ruby soldier.

Speaking of those two, it looks like Lincoln is going to have some enemies aside from Zing and his army.

Will Lincoln and friends be able to be avoid their smoothening fate?

How will Lincoln and his friends react to their new "member"?

Will The Exiles ever make it back their homes?

Find out next time on The Exiles!