Chapter 12: Campfire Origins: Part 1: The White Haired Man With the Plan From Royal Woods!

As the guards escorted most of the slaves to their rooms into for them to get some sleep (and so the construction workers can get to work on repairing the bar because it was utterly wrecked from Lincoln and Jasper's "little" showdown (aside from the other damage that it caused as some floors had a huge hole starting from the stadium to the bar and finally to the throne room). Sigh went back to the rocket as the exiles were being escorted to different rooms since it was a group of them and their just wasn't enough rooms for all of them to fit in just one room.

Globgor, Eclipsa and Meteora were shoved into one room.

The Murphy family were going into another room right next to theirs.

Dan and Chris were pushed into another room together, the room was in between Eclipsa and the Murphy family.

And finally, Lincoln was pushed into his own room by his lonesome right by Eclipsa's room and Dan and Chris' room.

Being in the room all alone gave the man with the plan some well deserved time and space to think about everything that's transpired:

One day he was on Earth, having been banished from his home by his own family all because of one bad day for one of his sisters that he decided to make worse for his own benefit.

Now the very next day, not only has he been exiled from his home and his family, but from the very planet he was born on...

Having woken up on a rocket ship that's been launched and forced to work with people that he's never met before and tried to get back home, only to be nearly killed by one of them and become cosmically empowered in the process and come out on top against his attacker...

Only to then be captured and forced to work for a bastard, hypocritical, alien emperor who despised love and has it out for one of their own and captured him upon him getting recognized for something he did.

Next, he and his fire forged comrades were forced into combat for amusement of the emperor's bloodthirsty people and managed to survive because of some gems very reluctant assistance.

Speaking the gems, two of them, Aquamarine and Eyeball Ruby were in a relationship. A very touchy romantic relationship. It hurt Lincoln because he had developed feelings for the blue gem. With the emperor's help, he managed to give the dirty minerals a good dose of comeuppance.

Afterwards, he found out that Sigh has constructed a hopefully fully functional body for herself and after going to seek the aid of one of his fellow exiles, he was forced to fight her... only barely managing to win the fight against her by the sheer amount of luck and the skin of his teeth.

And now, he was apparently the leader of an army of righteous, forced into slavery prisoners that he was going to lead into a fight with the Emperor once he had all the in and outs of his plan and when the time was right.

…And make a backup plan just in case the first one failed.

Now that he thought about it, he brought all of this on himself. Sure, his family shoot him into space but he was the one who instigated this as well.

His eyes began to water as he sunk to his knees and let out a loud scream as he began to let out his emotions with his tears representing how he felt about this whole situation. Steaming from confusion and nervousness to rage and sadness as he fell flat on his face, the floor muffling his crying fit.

He wasn't the only that was thinking this either as the other Exiles heard his cries...

Over in the Murphy family's room, Milo was also discussing the situation at hand.

"Anyone have any ideas of how we can escape?" Milo asked his fam.

"We could try to sneak away to the escape pods." His dad suggested.

"That's going to be difficult considering that they're being guarded by... well... the guards 24/7." Sara replied.

"We should try to gather the others and discuss this-" Milo began before he was cut off by a loud scream followed by some muffled crying.

"Is that..." Sara said, but was cut off by her mother.

"I'll go check." Bridgette said as she walked out of the room.

Dan was discussing with his best friend about their current situation as well as plans of what to do now.

"I'm telling you Chris. We should just throw caution to the wind and just fight our way to the escape pods." Dan said.

"Dan, you know as well as I do that dumb strategy is going to get all of us either captured or killed." Chris deadpanned.

Dan let out a sigh of annoyance. "Okay, then what do you suggest?" the sociopath from LA, California asked, annoyed that his idea was shut down.

"We sneak to the escape pods, the guards have a break every now and then." Chris explained.

"Not now since Zing gave his new order to them." Dan pointed out.

The two paced around the room in silence for a few minutes... the only sound they could hear was Lincoln's muffled crying.

Speaking of whom...

Back in Lincoln's room, the young boy was still crying eyes out faced down on the floor and not moving his spot. He was so caught up in his depression that he didn't hear his door slid open as Mrs. Murphy walked in.

"Lincoln?!" Bridgette asked in concern.

When she didn't get a response from the sobbing boy, she ran to him and gently took him in her arms as she embraced him. Lincoln didn't stop crying though as he immediately wrapped his arms around the mother Murphy while continued to cry.

When she touched him with her hands, something strange happened.

The atmosphere changed into a different location.

The location was the inside of Lincoln's house back on Earth as it was in chaos as silent versions of its occupants were going crazy around the second floor where all their rooms were, Lincoln included.

After two minutes of nonstop weeping, Lincoln's crying began to slow down to sniffles of depression before he finally opened his red, dried out eyes.

"M-Mrs. Murphy?" Lincoln asked.

"Yes. I came when I heard you crying." She said as she pulled back and gently wiped some of his tears.

It was only then that they noticed the room change.

"Woah..." They both said at the same time.

"So I guess we now know what your power is?" Lincoln said in a genuinely embarrassed manner as he rubbed the back of his head in a sheepish manner.

Bridgette giggled a bit before she asked him. "Probably. and I can guess that this is your home back on Earth."

"Y-Yeah..." Lincoln said in shame as he looked away.

Bridgette saw the shame as well as the emotional pain and sheer regret in his eyes.

But regardless, she needed to ask him the question that needed to be asked.

"Lincoln," Bridgette said gently. "I know that you don't want to talk about whatever it is that's happened to you. But you have to understand that if you continue to hide and repress your feelings about it, you could have a meltdown at the worst possible time. So you have to talk to someone about it cause I can just tell with the the way you looked away that it's hurting you on the inside. So... do you want to talk about what happened to you?"

Lincoln thought about it for a bit. In the back of his mind, he knew that Mrs. Murphy was right on the ball with what she was saying. If he continued to repress his feelings, he could break down at the worst possible time and it was unhealthy for him to do this. Looking up at the mother Murphy with a look of worry and distress, he gave his answer.

"O-Okay." He said quietly. "Sure, but can we get the others first? I also want to know the stories behind you guys getting exiled from Earth or wherever Eclipsa, Globgor and Meteora are from in exchange for telling my side of the story."

"Of course, sweetie. It only seems fair." Bridgette said, causing him to blush at the compliment as she let him go as she set him back on the ground gently.

When she did, the holographic version of the inside of the exiled Loud child's house vanished around the two.

When Lincoln and Bridgette walked towards the former's door, they received a heartwarming surprise...

The rest of the Murphy's were there.

It wasn't just them either as Eclipsa, Globgor, and Meteora were with them.

Chris was there as well... including Dan, which surprised the two greatly.

"We... overheard you two." Globgor said sheepishly.

"Really?" Lincoln asked.

"Yes, apparently the walls must be really thin for all of us to hear your conversation rooms away." Eclipsa said as she looked away a bit.

"Well in that case, we're going to have to whisper so that the emperor doesn't know about all of us having this conversation." Chris said as the group then walked into the room.

Once they were in the darkened room, they all sat down in a circle.

"Wait is it just me or is it dark in here?" Sara commented.

"Yeah, and I thought Eclipsa was dark!" Dan sneered... only to be flicked in the head by the queen of darkness' husband.

"Ow! Who did that?!" Dan demanded.

"I did, so you better watch it Dan." Globgor warned him.

"Very funny Dan!" Eclipsa said in annoyance as she then used her magic to light up the room a bit. "Okay, I suggest you all take a step back cause I am about to cast a spell and it may damage the room in the process."

Not wanting to get caught in the blast of whatever spell Eclipsa was going to cast, everyone instantly ran to a corner of the room... with Dan using Chris as a human shield.

"Dark, Hidden, Campfire Set-Up!" Eclipsa shouted as out of nowhere, a pile of sticks that were lit ablaze and four big logs for the group manifested in the room. "Okay everyone, all clear now." She whispered as everyone sat down on the logs.

The room was silent for a minute.

"So Lincoln..." Dan whispered as he looked over at the boy in question. "Aren't you going to fess up?"

"Dan..." Chris whispered as a warning.

"Oh stop defending him, Chris!" Dan whispered harshly. "Ever since we met on the rocket, he's been holding out on us! It's time he fess up to what's he done like the little criminal he is!"

"But he's not a-"Chris attempted but was cut off.

"It's okay, Chris." Lincoln whispered, making the two childhood friends look at him in surprise. "I suppose that it's I give you all an explanation on everything that caused me to be the situation we're all in. Kinda wished that Jasper and Roger so I won't have to repeat myself but whatever, this will do."

With that, Lincoln began his tale of how he got exiled...

"When I was on Earth in Michigan, I was the 1 brother of 10 talented former sisters." Lincoln began but was interrupted.

"Wait, did I hear you right Lincoln?" Milo whispered.

"Did you just say-" Globgor whispered.

"10!" The others in the room exclaimed in unison.

"Yeah..." Lincoln whispered in a embarrassed manner as a blush spread across his cheeks before clearing his throat to start over. "Anyways, as I saying...

"When I was on Earth in my home of home of the town of Royal Woods, the state of Michigan, I was the 1 brother of 10 talented, but incredibly selfish, former sisters." Lincoln began once more hoping not get interrupted this time.

"There was the oldest one, the phone maniac Lori, who just loooooves to talk on her stupid phone and her cool but stupid boyfriend, Bobby Santiago... and make everyone do what she wants no questions asked just because she the oldest! He silently growled before deeply sighing to calm himself.

"Then there's the dimwitted, naïve, Leni, and she is a fashion designing in that department but in not much else." He chuckled dryly before continuing.

"Then there's the loudest of my former sisters Luna, she just loves talking in a fake British accent and she's a instrument master, she may be sweet and caring, but she along with the rest of my bratty, stupid, former sisters were the reason I'm here now so please keep that in mind." He whispered to the group as they nodded.

"Getting back to my ex sisters, there's Luan, my unfunny, prank loving sisters who, as I just mentioned, loves to pull dangerous, or humiliating pranks on all of us, just for her own enjoyment and the rest of our misery and suffering... Especially on April Fools Day! So my advice to you all is that when we get back home. Don't come to my place on April 1st cause she spares no one of her prank-ocolypse!" He quietly warned them to which they nodded.

"Then there's the catalyst to how I woke up on that rocket..." His tranquil fury was reaching his peak when he began to speak about the ones who exiled him from home, but the next sister made him his voice rise up. "Lynn. Loud. JR!" He exclaimed, pounding his fist into the log causing it to splinter upon his punch's impact and causing everyone to widen their eyes in shock and surprise, even Dan was a little surprised at the boy's anger at mentioning the jock's name. Whatever happened to him started with his ex older sister. Hopefully, Lincoln would explained what happened to him soon or they wouldn't get the answers they were looking for.

Lincoln took a moment to calm himself down before he exploded at everyone in the room. "She's the reason why I'm here now." He gave a angered sigh. "There's a lot I can say about that disgusting, obnoxious, sport obsessed, bully for a familial relation! But I'm going focus on explaining everyone of my ex sisters before I go further into detail about what happened. So please be patient."

Everyone nodded as Lincoln continued. "Then there's miss gloom and doom, Lucy, she likes dark things, corpses, dark magic, and vampires. Loves to wear black, the total goth thing. She also has this really annoying thing where she appears out of nowhere from where you least expect it and scares the daylights out of you. I think that I distrust her more than anyone else in my former family."

"Next there's Lana, who loves to eat out of the garbage, play in the mud and just loves to bring home germ ridden animals!" Lincoln whispered with literal disgust in his voice. "Next is Lola, the brattiest of the bunch. She's nothing but a winning obsessed, manipulative, blackmailing little jerk who always puts herself first. I think I don't like her the most out of all my ex sisters! Those two really love fight and argue with each other." He whispered as he continued to breakdown the people he lived with... or considering the situation he was in right now, USED to live with.

"The next one is Lisa, who I'm not kidding when I say this, is a genius. A really smart 4 year old genius! I'm talking about inventing robots and chemical mixing kind of genius." Lincoln whispered, shocking everyone. "She uses whatever or whoever she can get her hands on to experiment on regardless of the consequences and anything else that gets in her way." He whispered in annoyance before moving onto his last ex sister. "The last of my ex sisters is Lily, she's the literal baby of their group and there's nothing too wrong with her that I don't like about her that I can mention except that she really loves to walk around without her diaper on." He then, to the surprise of everyone in the room, began to chuckle before he exploded into full on genuine laughter for a whole minute before he finally stopped. "If this situation made me learn anything, it's that I know for a fact that I consider Lily my only real family, cause she couldn't make her own decisions because she's still just a baby. The other family I also consider to be real to me is my Pop Pop Albert and my Aunt Ruth and the latter is saying a lot consider I hate going to her place."

"Why?" Sara asked, as she couldn't help but interrupt.

"It's because every time they go to visit her, she forces us to watch her cats, makes us eat her old moldy pudding that she offers, and makes us (except for Lily) massage her feet." The boy stated with a shudder.

"Okay, but what about your parents?" Chris asked.

Hearing that question made Lincoln nearly explode with rage but he managed to hold his anger back with a breath of focus. "Oh am I glad you freaking asked, Chris." He whispered in silent fury at what he was about to say about his old man and his old woman. "If there's anything I've learned about my former parents, is that they'll always, and I mean always side with Lori and the rest of my former sisters! Cause in almost every argument or fight that my sisters have, which about almost anything, trivial or otherwise, even if I wasn't involved, I end up taking the heat as their little scapegoat and end getting in trouble because of their antics."

"Oh c'mon Lincoln, don't you think you're overexaggerating a little bit?" Globgor asked quietly in concern.

"Yeah." Milo interjected quietly. "I mean, your former parents don't side with your sisters, I mean ex sisters, in every confrontation."

"Well maybe I am, but it's true Globgor and I wish I could believe that Milo, but you guys don't know them like I do." Lincoln growled, his anger beginning to rise again. "My "dad" is a good cook but spineless coward at the same time, I think that's why they let the girls get away with whatever they want when they get short tempered and just plain aggressive. My "mom's" just as cowardly as her husband is. There was this one time where Lori and Leni were fighting over a dress and the next day, all of my former sisters got caught up in it when they made this stupid thing called the Sister Fight Protocol."

"Oh, I don't where this is going." Martin thought to himself. "What's the Sister Fight Protocol?"

"I don't freaking know!" Lincoln exclaimed loudly, shocking the group a bit before he quickly regained his silent, whispery, composure. "Sorry, but I don't know what that stupid protocol was, from my first ever experience with it is that my sisters know about it, my former parents know about it and they allowed it to happen, heck, even Bobby knows about it!" He silently ranted. "When that protocol was active, the kitchen and the bathroom was blocked off, my room was taken from me and whenever I tried to asked them about what the protocol was, they told me to stay out of it and that it was a girl thing so I wouldn't understand."

"They took your room?!" Chris asked in disbelief to the boy, to which he nodded.

"Didn't your parents-" Eclipsa began before correcting herself. "Excuse me, didn't your former parents step in and stop them?" Eclipsa asked, to which the kiddo shook his head.

"No..." He silently growled, much to the group's concern. "No, they god dang did not. They just hid in their room like the cowards they were while I was forced to play their role in making sure my ex sisters don't destroy the house! Eventually, I had no choice but to leave the house and spent the rest of the day at my best friend Clyde's house and when I came back the next day, they said that I helped stopped the fighting by leaving! What kind of stupid advice is that?"

Lincoln stopped for a moment to catch his breath, allowing his newfound friends to process what he told them so far.

"But that's not why your here now right Lincoln?" Milo asked.

"Yeah, you said it had something to do with... um..." Chris began to ask, but Lincoln cut him off.

"Lynn..." Lincoln growled as he gently massaged his temples to calm himself down to avoid screaming his heart out. "She's the reason why I'm here now just as much as the rest of my ex family is and even myself now that I look back on it."

"What happened dear?" Eclipsa asked.

Lincoln let out a sigh of tranquil fury before he began the tale of his banishment. "It all started on a normal sunny day in Royal Woods and I forget to mention this before but because my sisters have a lot of things to do, we all have to go to their events in order to support them, just to let you all know. Anyway, because of that, I hardly get get time to myself. So on that day, I tried to hide from them so that they didn't notice."

"Sorry to interrupt, but why didn't you just ask them that you needed some alone time." Sara asked.

"I'm getting to that now," Lincoln whispered. "As I was saying, I was hiding from them but I forgot about Lynn. She wanted me to come to her softball game but I didn't want to because I wanted to read my new Ace Savvy comic."

"What did Lynn do?" Globgor asked, interrupting the boy and already not liking where this was going.

"She threaten me with her baseball bat to make me attend her stupid game!" He whispered harshly.

Hearing made everyone gasp as Lincoln continued.

"But that's not the worst part." Lincoln whispered.

"There's more?" Martin asked in disbelief.

"Oh yeah, much more!" The boy whispered in rising anger. "When her team lost and I gave her my condolences she calls me, bad LUCK!" He exclaimed, making the group shift away from boy a bit. "At first, I wanted to tell her that I wasn't bad luck and that she was preaching nothing but sore loser nonsense."

"Did you?" Dan asked.

The boy let out a tired sigh as he answered. "No, I didn't. I saw Lynn blaming me of jinxing her game as a ticket to get out of my former sister's activities. So like a freaking idiot that I was, I supported my stupid ex sister's belief by breaking Lori's golf clubs and telling my ex sisters what would happen if they brought me to their events. Just... little white lies here and there." Lincoln then saw that Chris was about interrupt through his tears so he spoke up before he got the chance. "And before anyone says it, I know okay. I know that it was really selfish of me to do something as dumb as that and that families are suppose to support each other, but I really to have some alone time. That's when it came back to bite me in the butt."

"How?" Eclipsa whispered in concern.

"My lie got to the point everyone, including my cowardly former "parents"..." His anger reaching its peak. "They banned from their activities and then... and then they..."

"And they what?" Dan whispered, impatiently. "C'mon Loud, spit out!"

"Dan!" Chris whispered in warning.

"THEY BOARDED UP MY ROOM FROM BOTH SIDES AND LOCKED ME OUT OF THE HOUSE!" Lincoln shouted, shocking everyone as newly fresh tears produced from his eyes before they ran down his face. "I had to spend the night outside in the backyard. The next day, I told them the truth but they still refused to believe me because Lynn won two because she banned me." Tears began to well up in his eyes. "That was my last day the planet as I spent the night out there and when I woke up, I was already on that stupid rocket!" He stated in a broken tone as he began to sob to himself, no longer caring that the walls were thin.

The group let out a gasp of shock as they digested the new info Lincoln told them. They couldn't believe that this sweet boy's family. The one he was born to no less, had exiled him all because of a simple, innocent, white lie. And even after he told them the truth, they still had the balls to not believe his pleas. To say that it was inexcusable of them to do that to one of their own would be a massive understatement.

The forbidden couple from Mewni would never in a million years even think about kicking Meteora into another dimension if they thought she was bad luck, even if that meant that they were going to get kicked out there in the multiverse alongside their baby girl.

The Murphy family was appalled by what the Loud family did to him and considering that Martin and Milo were bestowed with bad luck since it was on there side of their family tree, this just made them even more disgusted with what they have in their bloodline if these were the consequences of having it... which considering where they currently are at this point in time. The consequences weren't to far off for them.

Dan and Chris were shocked and appalled by the boy's story. Dan especially was fuming at what was done to the poor lad, despite him lying about faking about being bad luck, he certainly didn't deserve to be jettisoned into the cosmos for his tiny, white fib. Chris, on the other end of the spectrum, closed his eyes and clenched his fists. He may not have been a father himself, but he knew that Lincoln was a flawed yet sweet boy, he was still human, and a kid, at the end of the day behind all his newly acquired superpowers.

They all knew one thing: Lincoln's former family was a bunch of monsters. God only knows if they kicked out another one of their own by now.

Lincoln sniffled, brining everyone's attention back to him. "It's my fault. If I've just stopped Lynn from calling bad luck, if I had not been so STUPID, this wouldn't have happened. And I'm scared. What if you guys betray me too like my ex family did?" He then sunk his face into his arms, muffling what he said next. If I'm being honest, I'm really scared now, I'm now going to planning a fight against Zing. For the love of God, I can't help lead a rebellion, I'm just a kid. I don't need this kind of pressure!" He then let out a sigh. "I guess Jasper was right after all, I deserved to be out here all because of my utter selfishness."

"LIKE HECK YOU DO!" Dan yelled, surprising Lincoln and everyone else in the room as he then got up from the log he was sitting on before marching over the depressed boy.

"Dan, wait!" Chris said as he attempted to reach out to his friend before he did something reckless... only to fall on his face.

When Dan got Lincoln, the frighten boy instantly put his arms up in anticipation for what Dan was going to do to him. Seeing how scared the crying boy was at the moment, Dan let out a deep sigh as he got down on a knee and placed his hands on the boy's hands as he (surprising everyone in the room) gently pulled them away making him stare in the adult's green eyes as he then spoke in a gentle (as Dan can be anyway) but firm tone. "Listen to me, Lincoln. What your stupid former family did was messed up on so many levels. That much has been established."

"But I-" Lincoln attempted to say but Dan cut him off.

"But nothing!" Dan said as he grabbed the boy's shoulders tightly. "I'm not going to stand here and listen to you defend the actions of your clear and obvious abusers! Regardless of whether they were you family or otherwise."

"Abusers?" Lincoln questioned the man through his tears.

"You don't know about abuse?" Dan asked curiously, to which the man with the plan nodded, making him sigh. "Figures, you are a kid after all. No one should go through that." Dan then explained what the alien word meant. "Abuse is basically when you treat someone or something you can about cruelly. And based on what you've told you us about them, its pretty clear that your family were abusers in those times. And kicking you out of the house was their choice, regardless of your part in it. Yes, you lying to them wasn't cool but they're the ones who took things too far with what they've done as a response. Besides, what Jasper told you was big load of nonsensical garbage!"

He then noticed that the boy was still crying and gently wiped away his tears with his thumbs. "And it's time for you to stop crying like this. There's no time for tears right now Lincoln. You bawling your eyes out is certainly is helping anyone, especially you! If you want to get back to Earth like the rest of us do, you'll need to be tough and not be pushover 24/7! Do you understand me?"

Lincoln silently nodded as his tear ducts began to run dry. "Y-Yeah. Thank you D-Dan." He then embraced the man, which Dan wasn't expecting. Instead of pushing him off, he gently wrapped his arms around the boy as he began to calm down.

Once he was calmed down, Eclipsa spoke up. "Lincoln, you're not the only one who's scared. I'm scared too. All of us are."

"Yeah, believe me man, I'm terrified to go up against Zing again." Milo said, pulling the boy into a side hug. "Especially with that technology of his."

"And you're not alone Lincoln," Martin said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "And we're not going to betray you, especially not now."

"And we'll help you plan out the rebellion as well." Globgor declared. "It's not just you're life on the line after all."

Lincoln looked up and saw the smiling faces of his comrades... no, his new family backing him up.

"Thanks everyone." Lincoln said as he embraced the two Murphy men as Globgor, Eclipsa, Meteora, and the two Murphy women.

When Lincoln broke the hug, he turned to Dan. "Hey Dan... thanks for that pep talk."

"No need kid, I could tell that you really needed it." Dan said waving his hand dismissively, though he couldn't help but grin.

"Well, Dan, if you don't mind me asking..." The boy hesitated for a few seconds before asking his question. "We're you ever... abused by your family."

"Of course. I can relate to what you went through because I know a thing or two about getting abused by family." He said, sitting back down on the log. "Gather around ladies and gents because I think it's about time that I tell you all my story of how and why I was exiled from Earth."

To be continued...

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