Chapter 20: Trouble in Captivity!

Zing, Foster, Eyeball and Aquamarine walked out of the rejuvenation room and saw that Roger had his eyes closed. Zing looked over to him and got suspicious.

"Is he?" Zing wondered what his prisoner before it immediately clicked what Roger was attempting to do.

"He's gotta be sire." Foster said to his commanding officer. "It is

"Oh I don't think so!" Zing declared as he ran over to his chained up prisoner and began to whack him repeatedly with his scepter.

"What are you doing, Zing?" Aquamarine asked in confusion.

"He's..."

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"attempting..."

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"to..."

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"use..."

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"one..."

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"of..."

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"my..."

"people's..."

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"powers..."

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"to..."

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"warn..."

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"them!"

"One of your kind's powers involves having your vison spheres closed?" Eyeball asked in confusion.

"Just shut up and help me, will ya?!" Zing snapped as he continued to beat the unresponsive Roger with his scepter before he turned to Foster. "You too, Foster!"

Aquamarine and Eyeball went over to the meditative Roger as the blue gem began to slap him repeatedly in the face and Eyeball summoned her knife and began to stab him to see if that woke him up.

All Roger could think of at the moment was...

"Come on, you bastards! One of you fall asleep already for God's sake!"

Meanwhile, Lincoln and Leggy were walking back to the crew as they held hands to signify their newly established relationship. When Eclipsa managed to spot them, she got a little confused.

"Wait, they're holding hands does that mean they're..."

She got her answer when Lincoln rested his head on his little soldier's shoulder.

"Aww." Eclipsa cooed.

"Congrats to both of them." Globgor said as he wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulder.

"Hope she doesn't mess it up for the little guy." Dan said, smiling a bit.

"Didn't you say the same thing when I married Elise?" Chris asked his best friend.

"That I did." Dan said, not taking his eyes on the newly recent couple.

Suddenly, Lincoln let out a yawn as his eyes began to show signs of fatigue.

Leggy noticed this and became a bit concerned.

"Lincoln, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I-I'm fine." Lincoln said as he then proceeded to yawn again. "Just tired that's all."

"Tired?" Leggy asked.

Lincoln then closed his eyes as he instantly fell asleep on his new girlfriend's shoulder, much to her concern.

"Lincoln?" Leggy asked the unresponsive boy.

There was no response.

"LINCOLN?!" Leggy screamed as she began to shake her boyfriend to get him to wake up.

Navy quickly ran over to her teammate and grabbed her shoulders.

"Ruby!" Navy yelled to her teammate. "Calm yourself, this is a human thing?"

Hearing this made Leggy stop her frantic shaking of the exiled "Man With A Plan" as she looked at Navy in confusion. "A human thing."

"Yeah, he's sleeping." Navy said, confusing her teammate even more.

"Sleeping?" The confused Leggy asked.

"It's a thing that humans do." Navy explained. "I learn about it from that Peridot that lives on Earth."

Hearing this calmed Leggy down a little, but she just had to ask. "So... is closing your eyes part of "sleeping" Ruby?" She asked.

"Yeah," Navy answered. "but when he's sleeping, he'll be completely vulnerable."

Looking down at the snoozing boy from Earth, Leggy smiled a bit as she made a vow in her head.

"If he's incapable of defending himself in this... "sleeping" state, then I'll use everything that I have to protect him until he wakes up."

Meanwhile, inside Lincoln's dreamscape...

Lincoln was inside a dark void, nothing but complete and utter darkness was surrounding.

"I wish I could know what my "former" family is doing right now back on Earth." Lincoln asked the mindscape.

A few seconds after he said that, the area around changed... he was inside his old house again...

"Wait, I'm... home?" He asked himself.

Suddenly, the door to his old place of residence opened up as some of the other Loud family members consisting of Lynn Sr., Lori, Rita, Lynn Jr, Lana, Leni, Luna and Lola entered the room with a multitude of bags in their hands and sour expressions on their faces.

Anger began to fill his body as Lori spoke first.

"That was literally the worst shopping trip ever!" The blonde exclaimed as she collapsed on the floor.

Lincoln giggled a bit at the little bit of... (what was it called? Karma right?) that his former abusers were getting.

"I don't know why you're complaining Lori!" Lana said as she sprawled out on the couch. "At least what you got was available there!"

"In the wrong color, Lana." Lori snapped as she reached into her bag and pulled out a hideous pink sweater. "I'm pretty sure Lola would like this garbage colored sweater!"

"Hey!" Lola exclaimed as she felt offended at the comment her older sister had made.

"I don't get it..." Lynn Sr. said. "We usually don't have such bad days at the mall..."

"Unless all our kids are agitated." Rita interrupted.

"Right, so why did we have such a bad day now." Lynn Sr. asked.

The family began to ponder on their family member's question as the room went silent.

After a few minutes, Leni spoke up. "Wait, you don't think that this had something to do with us shooting Lincoln into space does it?"

"Oh please, Leni." Lola said arrogantly. "That jinx not being here is the best thing that's ever happened to us."

"Yeah." Lana agreed. "Things would be a lot worse if he was here."

"But... he's family." Leni said with tears in her eyes. "I... thought that family was suppose to support each other."

Lynn Jr. obviously doesn't care about her older sister about to cry as she scoffed. "Don't cry sis. We are supporting him. He decided to be a jerk and not support us on his own free will, so he's now paying the price for it."

"Yeah!" Lori said smugly. "I mean, he doesn't care about my relationship with my Bobby Boo-Boo Bear just because he doesn't want to date Ronnie Anne, like a big baby, (I mean granted, they are friends now but still) so why should we care what happens to him up there? I mean, have you seen what the twerp did to my golf clubs... if he was still here, I whack him with one of them!"

The flicker of hurt and anger in Leni's eyes made Lori and Lynn know that they said the wrong thing. "Oh, I get it. So what you all are saying is that if one of us don't do as YOU say, we'll get either beat up or kicked out. Is that right?"

"Oh, stop it Leni." Luna pleaded as she tried to intervene. "You're talking nonsense."

Leni turned her head to her rocker sister in a fierce glare, which instantly made her regret what she said as she then decided to keep her mouth shut. "You're not one to talk about nonsense Luna, so can it!"

"Knock it off, girls." Rita demanded.

Rita was ignored as Leni, Lori, and the other girls continued to argue about their decision to kick the Loud boy from their home and essentially, their lives as well.

"I'm with Luna." Lori agreed. "You're just putting words in my mouth!"

"It's better then what your precious "Boo-Boo Bear" will put in their soon, if you like, catch my drift." Leni argued.

Lori's eyes widened as she began to turn red with rage as the room grow silent once more. There are only two ways to get under her skin and get her angry: disrespect her privacy or herself in general or disrespecting her relationship with the Santiago boy. And Leni just did both of those things. Instinctively, she fired back at her dumb sister. "Oh, you did NOT just call my Boo-Boo Bear what I think you just called him!"

"Like, maybe I did!" Leni egged on her older sister. "What you gonna do about it?!"

"Leni?" Lincoln asked disbelief as he witnessed one of his "sisters" stand up for him.

"Ohhhhhh, burn!" Lynn couldn't but say that out loud.

"Shut... up... Lynn!" Lori demanded, barely being able to conceal her anger.

""Now Lori." Rita said as she tried to calmed her oldest daughter by placing her hands on her shoulders. "Beating Leni up won't help."

But Lori wasn't going to hear it as she batted her mother's hands off of her shoulders as she was about to tackle her young sister to the ground.

But before she had a chance to, a laser blast was suddenly heard from upstairs as the eight members of the family instantly jumped back as the laser burned the carpet briefly before there was a small ash burn mark in its place.

Looking up, they saw that it was Lisa who was holding a small laser gun.

Now having their attention, the little genius spoke, albeit bluntly.

"If you all are done assaulting my eardrums with your senseless bickering. I have all the ingredients for my... "project for the public" so if you will all come to my room, you can assist me in getting started."

Lori, Lynn Sr., Luna, Rita, Lynn Jr, and Lola began to go up the stairs. However, Rita noticed that Leni wasn't joining them.

"Aren't you coming, Leni?" she asked.

"No..." Leni began to say as she was cut off but the others walking up the stairs, thinking that she was done.

Before they reached the final step, they heard Leni say one more thing:

"I'm calling the police."

Upon hearing this made the group stop dead in their tracks as they turn around and saw Leni about to pick up the phone.

"NO!" Lola shouted as she jumped down the stairs and tackled Leni to the floor, causing her to drop the phone in the process.

Lola managed to pin the fashion designer's arms behind her back before the downed girl spoke.

"Get off me!" The sixteen year old demanded.

"You're NOT calling the police, Leni!" The six year old declared.

"Oh really," Leni said as she looked up at her young sister. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't!"

"Haven't you seen any movies where crime is the focus?" Lola asked. Leni shook her head, making Lola let out a sigh. "From the movies I've watched, I know what the police will do to us if you get them involved in our business you idiot!

"Like what?" Leni fired back. "What's the worst they'll do?"

Unbeknownst to anyone else, Leni and Lola's arguing alerted the other members of the family as they all got out there rooms to see what was happening downstairs and they were shocked by what was going on.

Before Lola could answer, Lisa spoke up.

"I to would reframe from calling law enforcement my second oldest female sibling. It will have major repercussions if you do."

"Like what, tell me?" Leni asked angrily.

Upon hearing the words, "major repercussions" made Lynn Sr. and Rita blood turn cold and their skin pale.

"We could get thrown in jail!" Lori shouted. "I'm not going to the big house because of something this minor."

"Our lives could be ruined," Lynn Sr. exclaimed. "Potentially forever."

"Yeah, and we could get separated from each other!" Lola said. "And I am NOT going to have my pageant career destroyed all because of that uncouth, ungrateful loser and my dumb, naïve, big sister who wants to gets the cops involved in OUR business!

"So you'd rather have him stay in space?!" Leni asked as tears ran down her face. "At this point, I'd rather go to jail then let Linky rot in space."

"That bad luck bringer can rot up there for all I care." Lynn said, getting tired of hearing the boy's name. "Whether he dies up there, it's not our problem."

"I hate to say it but Lynn has a point." Rita said now that she really thought about it. "We're going to get in a lot of trouble if the police get involved."

"If we go down, then so will you Leni." Luan interjected.

"No one calls the police. Ends of story." Lynn Sr. declared.

"Okay, but what about Clyde, or Ronnie Anne or Bobby or any of our other friends." Leni said as she pushed Lola off of her. "What would we do if one of them show up and we have to explain Lincoln's disappearance to them? They're going to figure out that something's up sooner or later."

The house grew silent once more as the Louds struggled to come up with a response for their actions as they tried for a few minutes, but were unable to. Unbeknownst to them, Leni and Lori and Lola's arguing got Luna, Luan and Lana thinking...

Maybe they did go too far with blasting Lincoln into space...

Luckily, Lisa came to their rescue.

"If you all will come to my room, we can come up with an answer."

Lisa then led them to her and Lily's room where the baby was awoken by the noise downstairs as she uttered her exiled brother's name, which broke their hearts a bit.

Inside of Lisa's room was what appears to be a new machine of some sort as it was rather large in size as the top of the machine was accessible for whatever ingredients Lisa was talking about to go in as there were two electric rods sticking out from sides of the top as the family saw that their was a crank on the right side of the machine, a viewing glass container in the center and a long tunnel pipe for the result to come out of was sticking out of the left.

"What is this thing?" Lynn asked.

"It's my cloning machine." Lisa answered her jock sister.

"CLONING MACHINE?!" Leni and Lincoln asked in shock.

"Yes, I have the ingredients to make a perfect clone of Lincoln, that way no one will notice that he's not the real one or that the real Lincoln is missing."

"Cool." Lucy said.

"Yeah, no jail time for us!" Lola said smugly.

"See Leni," Lori said as she placed a hand on her sister's shoulder. "no one will know what will happened to the twerp as long as the clone is around. Everyone wins."

Leni slapped her hand off her shoulder as she glared at Lori with anger in her eyes. "We'll know!" She then stomped out of the room on that note. "What happened to our morals you guys?!"

The family circled the machine in silence as they pondered over the airhead's words.

Lisa broke the silence. "Alright, let's see if we have everything for this."

Lisa wondered as she review the ingredients she have in a small, brown, burlap sack.

"A lock of Lincoln's hair,"

She held up a lock of the young boy's hair before dropping it into the machine.

"Lincoln's orange polo shirt,"

She held up one of the boy's orange shirts before it too was then dropped into the machine.

"And finally, the chipped piece of Lincoln's tooth." She said as she held up a broken off piece of the boy's tooth that she somehow received before she then dropped it into the machine before then began to crank it as electricity sparked up the rods as they powered up the machine as the center of it was glowing green in color.

"It's working, it's functioning properly!" Lisa said before she began to cackle manically.

Suddenly, everything in the dream froze in place, much to the exiled planner's confusion. "Huh? What's happening n..."

Before Lincoln could finish, Roger suddenly popped up in front of him.

"Lincoln!" He said urgently.

"Ahh!" Lincoln screamed in surprise as he fell backwards onto the floor as a result of the alien's jump scare. "Roger? What are you doing in my dream?!"

"Lincoln, listen to me." Roger said as he grabbed the boy by his shoulders. "I don't have much time cause Zing will soon find out that I'm doing this and try to enter your dreams in order to come after me here to kill both of us, so I'll get straight to the point!" The alien said urgently causing the boy to nod.

"Well don't just stand there hurry and tell me what you found out." The boy demanded.

"Zing has a healing chamber and he's restored Aquamarine to full strength!" Roger informed him.

"What!" Lincoln said in shock.

"Yeah, and now she and Eyeball and Zing are now working together to take you guys down!" The alien explained.

"Great, so not only is that little blue brat healed but now she's working with the guy who has history with you!" Lincoln ranted but then let out a sigh before he then asked the gray spaceman. "I know we're running out of time but I just have to ask: Why the emperor hate you so much, given everything that he's done to you?"

Before Roger could answer, a sinister and rather familiar laughter rang out behind the two, causing them to turn around.

They saw that Zing was standing right behind them, smiling smugly.

"Now Roger, why spoil the surprise?" The extra-terrestrial emperor said in a condensing voice before he then looked to the human child. "Now Lincoln, this can go one of three ways: You can tell us your plans and we'll pretend that they'll work, tell us your plans and we'll let just you go back to Earth instead, or you stop whatever plan you're going to do and continue to work for us. You do that and none of your friends gets hurt or killed." He then held out his his hand. "What do ya say, Loud?"

Lincoln became appalled by this sadistic deal he's been given before then got extremely angry as he smack the Emperor's hand away as he then glared at him. "You really think I'm that stupid?! Here's what I think of your offer Zing: You can take that offer and shove it up your butt! There's no way in the god dang universe I'm selling my friends out just to save my own hide. We're ALL going home Zing and that includes Roger..." He then leaned until he was all up in the emperor's grill. "And if you try to stop us then you'll lose everything that you have and end up hurting YOURSELF in the process!" Lincoln yelled as his voice ranged out in his dreamscape as the two alien's were trying to process their shock at Lincoln's defiance.

Zing then backed away as he then massaged his face a bit before he lost his composure. "You know, this could have been sooo easy, but just have to do things the hard and fun way." Zing explained. "Fine, then let the consequences for this defiance rain down on you and your friends in the oncoming days, boy!" Zing then tackled the boy to the ground before he then restrained his arms behind his back. "Since you won't tell me you're plans I'll extract them from your mind!" Zing said as he attempted to put his hand on the boy's back before descending down the boy's shirt... only to be blown off when Lincoln summoned a giant ribcage around himself.

Roger, knowing what Zing was planning to do, got in between the two as he then shouted to Lincoln. "Wake up Lincoln! Zing's trying to butt probe you! He's going to know your memories and plans if he does!"

Lincoln then closed his eyes as Roger was then tackled to the ground by the enraged emperor as the dreamscape disintegrated around the three of them!...

"AAAAHHHHH!" Lincoln screamed as he then woke up in a frighten manner.

"Lincoln, are okay?" Leggy said as she embraced him. "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here."

"Leggy?" Lincoln asked as he then embraced her back.

They stayed like for a few moments before they broke apart, Lincoln wiped the tears from his eyes before he then spoke frantically.

"Leggy, where are we? Where are the others? I have something very important to tell them like right now!"

Milo and the others (sans Jasper, who chose to stay outside) immediately ran to the boy's bed.

"Lincoln, it's okay!" Sara said as she immediately placed his hands on the boy's shoulders in an effort to calm him down. "We're here!"

"We're not going anyway." Bridgette said.

Hearing the two's calming and gentle words help calm the boy down, he took a few deep breaths for a few times before he finally relaxed.

"Okay, okay, I'm calm now." Lincoln said gently as he looked at the group surrounding him.

"You must've had quite a nightmare there, champ." Martin said as he knelt down to the boy's bedside.

"It wasn't just a nightmare you guys..." Lincoln said in a freaked out tone. "It was a warning."

"A warning?" Globgor asked. "From who?"

"It was a warning from Roger!" Lincoln admitted.

"Roger," Dan asked. "But how?"

"I think Lincoln should explain what happened in his dream from the beginning." Eclipsa suggested.

"Okay, okay," Lincoln said as he calmed his nerves. "I dreamed that I was back in my old home when my former parents, Lori, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Lola, Lana came in, complaining about a bad day they apparently had at the mall."

"Good that some karma got to them." Dan said as then let the boy continue.

"Yeah, a little bit." Lincoln responded. "Anyways, things went sideways when Leni started to argue with everyone about their decision to do what they did to me. It got to the point where Leni tried to do what any of them should have done by now when they shot me into space from the beginning."

"What was that?" Chris asked.

"Call the police." The boy answered.

"Well, why didn't she?" Milo asked.

"She didn't get the chance to, as Lola tackled her to the floor and believe me when I say that although Lola is small, she is surprisingly strong." Lincoln said as he then continued explaining his dream warning. "The arguing between the family continued as the rest didn't want the police to get involved as they would either go to jail, get separated from each other, have their careers ruined or all three of those things."

"All three of those would most likely happen." Globgor said.

"Probably, I'll have to read up on the justice system on and its ins and outs when I get the chance." Lincoln said before he then continued explaining his dream. "Before things could get physical, Lisa intervened as she decided a unveil a new..." The anger began to rise inside the young boy. 'project..."

"A project?" Chris asked as he didn't like where this was going one bit.

"They were attempting to clone me!" Lincoln yelled out in his rage.

"What?!" was the other Exiles only response.

"S-Surely, you're exaggerating Linc." Milo suggested, clearly at a loss for words.

"Y-Yeah," Eclipsa said, sweating a bit nervously. "I mean, there's no way they would go that far."

Dan noticed Eclipsa sweating and instantly knew something was up. He wanted to call that into question right then and there, but decided to do it later as now wasn't the best time for that.

No only that but Globgor, Bridgette, and Milo also noticed too.

"It felt so real that I wouldn't put it pass Lisa to do something like that," Lincoln said as he calmed down. "like I said she's willing to do anything to pursuit science."

A few minutes as Lincoln gave them time to digest this new information. They just couldn't believe the words that came out of youngling's face hole. I mean to do something so foolish as to try and play god and clone something... or in this case, someone was something that should never be attempted or the consequences would be dire for not just the people who did it but for other innocent bystanders as well in case something went wrong.

Finally, Lincoln broke the silence once more. "Anyway, my dream froze and Roger suddenly popped up in front of me. He told me that Aquamarine was now healed, how she and Eyeball teamed up with him and that Zing has a healing chamber that her used to heal that blue jerk."

"Wow, that's quite the warning." Chris said.

"But that's not all..." Lincoln grimaced.

"It isn't Sara asked, not liking where the boy is heading with that line.

"Yes, apparently Zing somehow got into my dreams too." The boy said.

"How is that possible?" Dan asked.

Globgor answered for the boy. "I guess it's probably one of Roger's species' powers."

"Probably." Lincoln said. "Anyway, Zing told me: You can tell us your plans and we'll pretend that they'll work, tell us your plans and we'll let just you go back to Earth instead, or you stop whatever plan you're going to do and continue to work for us. You do that and none of your friends gets hurt or killed." He then held out his his hand. "What do ya say, Loud?"

"I can already guess what your answer was." Martin said, snidely.

"You'd be right." Lincoln said. "After I obviously refused, he tried to as Roger told me... "butt probe" me, whatever the heck that means, and tried to scan my mind for plans" The others cringed at what Zing nearly did to him, to which the boy noticed. "Anyways, that's what happened." He concluded.

"Well, we're about to enter a fight with this gray bowling pin..." Eclipsa began.

"Yeah, especially now that he can enter just Lincoln's dream but if possible, ours as well."

"Eclipsa..." Chris drew the queen's attention to him as the others watched for what the 1/16th Canadian was going to say. "Since you have magic, do you know any spells that will protect us from Zing's... dream invading abilities?"

"Hmm..." The parasol user thought on that for a moment. "I do believe that there is one though there's a ritual involved."

"Okay, what do we have to do?" Globgor asked.

"My memory's a bit fuzzy on exactly what to do so give me a minute to try and remember." Eclipsa said as she then closed her eyes and she began to pace around the room for a bit as she tried to dig up her memories of the mind protecting ritual.

"Come on Eclipsa, think!" The queen demanded herself s she tried her damnedest to try and remember how it went.

Until, finally it sparked into her head!

"I got it! I remember it now!" Eclipsa said as she turned back to the group. "For one person, they have to place their hand on the tip of my parasol. For multiple people, it's the same thing but others have get behind him or her place their hands on their shoulders and the same goes for them and so until everyone is connected. All I have to do is say the words of that spell."

"Okay, let's go." Lincoln said as he walked over the queen and placing a hand on her magic infused parasol.

With Milo holding onto his left shoulder...

Chris holding his right one...

Sara's holding onto Milo's left shoulder...

Dan holding onto Chris' right shoulder...

Martin holding onto Dan's right shoulder and his daughter's left shoulder...

His Bridgette holding onto both of her husband's shoulders...

And finally Globgor put one of his hands on top of the human Murphy's woman's head...

With that the ritual began...

"I call from the deepest parts of the mind, I wish to correct my sinful errors, so with the power of Mewni's magic within this parasol of mine. Give those on the other end a mental protective barrier!" Eclipsa shouted as seconds later, the purple, mist-like magic from the wand tip of the queen's parasol swirled into the air before forming knightly helmets around the heads of those on the other side of the magical artifact for a few moments before vanishing within their minds.

"It is done." The queen declared.

Everyone took their hands off of each other's shoulders as Lincoln spoke up.

"That's good, now I might be able to sleep peacefully tonight." Lincoln said. "Thank you Eclipsa." He then turned to everyone else. "And thanks for coming when I screamed."

"Don't mention it." Sara said as she hugged Lincoln.

"Yeah kiddo," Martin said as he ruffled the boy's hair. "We're just glad that you're safe."

"I think I'm going to go to sleep now cause I'm sooo tired." Lincoln said as he then took a cover and laid it over himself. "Night guys."

"Night Lincoln." Eclipsa said as they all began to leave the boy's room, leaving the boy in question to rest himself after an very exhausting day of trying to stay alive and Leggy standing in a defensive position as she stared at the door in case anyone who tried to off her boyfriend came in.

Outside of Lincoln's room, Dan called out to Eclipsa.

"Hey Eclipsa, I need to talk to you."

"So do I." Milo interjected.

"And I." Bridgette said.

Hearing this, caused Eclipsa and everyone else in the group to stop and look at the three.

"Okay..." Eclipsa said nervously.

"I'll cut to the chase," Dan began. "When Lincoln mentioned the cloning thing, I noticed that you got rather nervous."

"You noticed that too, Dan." Milo asked. "I noticed that too."

"So did I." Bridgette said.

"I noticed that too." Globgor said as he looked down at his wife. "Do you know something more than you're letting on, dear?"

Eclipsa looked a bit ashamed but decided to answer them by telling the truth. "Yes."

"Care to explain how and more importantly why you didn't tell Lincoln?" Bridgette said as she glared at the once removed Butterfly.

"Alright," She said before turning to Dan. "Dan, remember that spell I used to watch Lincoln and Jasper's fight?"

"That all seeing eye spell?" Dan said as he remembered what happened. "Yeah."

"Well, while Lincoln was sleeping, I decided to take a look at his former family using that spell and..."

"And?" Globgor asked.

Eclipsa's face was all the answer they got.

"No..." Milo denied.

"They didn't..." Bridgette said.

"They did." Eclipsa confirmed. "Lincoln's dream... or in this case nightmare came true."

The outside of the room became silent as even Jasper was at a loss for words. They couldn't believe that those immoral, backstabbing hypocrites actually did it.

Dan spoke his piece.

"Those... hypocritical... God playing... backstabbing... bratty... around the world revolving... Motherf-"

Before Dan could let that swear slip from his voice box, Chris immediately slap a hand over his friend's mouth as he looked at him in a scolding manner.

"Dan, I understand you're upset and believe me, we all are, but Meteora is right there." He said, pointing at the baby in question, looking so innocent. "Don't use those words around her, okay?"

Dan then breathed in through his nose in order to calm him down before he went too far with his vulgar language. "You're right buddy, I just can't believe that they actually cloned the boy."

"They can't away with this." Milo demanded.

"Eclipsa, you have to tell Lincoln." Bridgette suggested.

"Don't worry Bridgette, I will." Eclipsa assured her. "As soon as he gets up from sleeping."

"They won't." Jasper said, drawing everyone's attention to her. "When we get out of here, we're going to alert that town's authorities of their crime."

"That's reasonable." Martin said in surprise.

"Where is this coming from Jasper?" Globgor said as he was surprised by the Quartz's... surprising sense of justice.

"I agree, that's unexpected coming from you." Sara said as she too was surprised by Jasper's wisdom.

"Yeah, well when you've been lied to and manipulated by the people you care about, you have to learn to keep your morals in check and not go all revenge pursuer and despite what I've done and said to you lot and others, I still have some of my morals intact. If justice fails, that's when you take the law into your own hands and do what you think is necessary, the consequence of life in prison be thrown out the window."

As everyone pondered the Quartz's words, the room fell silent.

To be continued...

So the countdown to war between the Zing empire and the Exiles has begun...

On one side we have an empire who's looking to control everyone they can get their hands on... by force if necessary!

On the other, we have a group of potential who just want to go home even if there reluctant to use force but will if it's necessary!

Ready your minds, prepre your eyeballs for action and root for your sides...

Cause it's war, next time on "The Exiles!"