Day 2: Part 2!
The caves of Zeenu...
Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Milo, Leggy, Chris, Clyde and Ronnie Anne were screaming as they feel down for what seem to be a few minutes as they held onto each other as they hoped that their combined weight would break their fall. Chris even transformed in his bear form to try and soften the impact.
Finally, after what seemed to be hours the group fell into water.
Rising up from the depths, Leni asked. "Is everyone okay?"
"I'm fine." Lucy said as she got the surface of the water.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Lana said after she made it to the surface.
"Same here." Ronnie Anne, Milo, Leggy and Chris said together.
"I'm okay." Chris as he rose from water as he transformed back into his human form.
The team looked around as they tried to figure out where they were.
"Where are we?" Milo asked.
"I think we're in some kind of cave." Lucy said.
Suddenly, the water below them began to bubble before several red tentacles burst up from the water causing the team to scream out in fear.
"What's happening?!" Clyde asked in fear.
Much to their surprise, the tentacles didn't attack them as they instead latched on to the stalagmites and stuck themselves into the ground outside the water. The group then felt their feet feel something as they were lifted out of the water.
To their shock, they were on the belly of something big, red and had really big eyes.
"Monster!" Leni screeched as she and Luan held Lucy and Lana closer to their bodies.
"Wait a minute?" Milo said as he squinted his eyes at the monster before his eyes widened in surprise. "Majestic?!"
"Milo?!" Majestic said in shock. "You're alright!"
"Milo, you know this creature?" Ronnie asked.
"Oh, my stars!" Leggy said. "You're alive."
"Yeah, he helped us a lot fighting on Zing's last ship." Milo said before he turned to the giant alien before he asked. "What happened to you?"
"Well, I was fighting Zing's guards on the ship when I was teleported into this cave." The Majestic revealed. "What about you?" He asked before asking again. "And who are these guys?"
"These are some people Lincoln knows." Leggy basically explained.
Taking a cautious step forward, Leni said. "I'm Leni." She then gestured to her sisters. "This is Luan, Lucy and Lana."
"Hi." Lucy said, a little scared.
"Hey there." Lana said as she clenched her arm in nervous.
"Hello." Luan said as she backed away a little from the beast in front of her.
Noticing their scared reactions, Majestic spoke in a gentle tone. "It's okay ladies. I'm not going to eat you or anything."
Clyde then took a step forward. "I'm Cl-Clyde." she then gestured to Ronnie Anne. "This is Ronnie Anee."
"Hello." was the tomboy's nervous response even after hearing the alien's gentle tone about not eating them.
"Is there a way out of this cave?" Leggy said.
The Majestic pointed one of its tentacles to the large exit.
"Hold on, everyone!" The Majestic said. "I'm going to try and get out of the water."
Using a great amount of strength, the Majestic shot his tentacles to the exit before he shot out of the water like a slingshot. Everyone screamed in fear as they felt like they were on a roller coaster.
Landing on the ground, the Majestic asked if they were okay, getting nods in response.
"Okay, now let's go find Lincoln." The Majestic said, confirming that he also heard Zing's message. "I just hope we can find him in time."
With that, the beast carried the team out of the cave.
On Earth, the Loud House...
Sapphire was walking through the town of Royal Woods when she saw to her surprise, a large mob has surrounded a particular house.
"I do wonder what this is about?" The future seeing gem said before walking towards the mob.
Inside the house, Rita answered her father's call. "Hello Dad."
"Rita." Albert said in a silently angry tone. "I'm going to say this once. What... happened?"
"Guess you heard about what happened, right?" Rita said before she told him the truth.
"Yes, I heard the news report. But I want to hear it from you." Pop-Pop said. "Please tell me the truth. Everything."
Rita sighed before she "Alright, it all started about a few weeks ago, we were going to Lynn's game. She lost that game and she blamed Lincoln for it."
"Okay, that part of the news report is true." The old man said to himself before spoke to his daughter and son-in-law once more. "Go on."
"After that, Lynn told us that Lincoln was bad luck and before we knew it, Lincoln was even jinxing ourselves so we decided that he shouldn't come with us to our family events." Lynn Sr. cut in. "To protect ourselves from his bad luck, we boarded up his room." Lynn could feel Albert tightly clenching his phone and this stirred fear into the patriarch as he decided to address the elephant in the room. "That was when we made a big mistake. Probably the biggest mistake we ever made!"
"What did you do?" Albert asked as he clenched the phone a bit.
"We locked him out of the house." Lynn said.
"And to make things worse, we shot him into space and Lisa made a clone of him." Rita said.
"Could you please repeat that that?" Albert said. "I want to make sure my hearing aid didn't falter."
"We locked Lincoln out and SHOT HIM INTO SPACE and Lisa MADE... A... CLONE... OF... HIM!" Rita tearfully shouted into the phone making her old man pull the phone away from his ear to avoid going deaf.
Upon hearing this answer, Albert was enraged as he shouted. "WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING?!"
Scoots put a hand on the enraged elder's shoulder. "Easy Al. You don't want to have a heart attack before you get answers."
The old man took a moment to calm himself before he continued. "Sorry, but what is the matter with you two?! How could you do something this stupid?!"
"We were not thinking, Dad!" Rita shouted. "It got so bad that Leni, Clyde, Bobby, his sister Ronnie Anne, Luan, Lucy and Lana told the whole town about what we did at one of Lynn's games and now there's a mob outside our house. That's how bad we screwed things up!"
"Yeah, she's right Al. Believe us when we deeply regret what we've done!" Lynn Sr. said as he wiped a tear from his right eye. "We exiled our son from our lives, and now the town is on our case over it and it's all our faults!"
Lynn then collapsed into tears over his family's biggest mistake as Rita laid his head on her shoulder as the sobbing man continued. "We took a stupid superstition over our own child's wellbeing! We didn't stop this craziness before it escalated! Lincoln's gone and not to mention that Leni, Luan, Lana and Lucy have suddenly disappeared along with Clyde, Bobby, and Ronnie Anne, and we don't know where they are!"
Albert heard his son-in-law's cries and decided to speak. "Rita, Lynn. I can tell that you guys deeply regret what you done but that doesn't mean that I'm not very disappointed in you two, not to mention the rest of my granddaughters! Do you guys how any idea what you done? Because you and the girls' superstitious beliefs and drastic actions, my grandson, your son and the girls' only brother is away from home, not to mention, Earth itself. Who knows what going to happen to him up there! To make things worse is that Lisa for whatever reason, made a clone of him!" Albert then pinched his nose in frustration. "I hope that wherever Leni, Lucy, Luan and Lana are, they're okay. I also hope that Clyde, Bobby and Ronnie Anne are alright too." He then asked another question. "Rita, Lynn, given everything that's happened, I need to ask. Are you guys unable to control your kids or something?"
"I guess not." Rita said, wiping her tears with her sleeve. "Given how crazy they can get at times."
"We're bad at this aren't we?" Lynn asked as he silently cried to himself. "Some parents we turned out to be."
"Well, I wouldn't say bad Lynn, you and Rita were just ignorant of everything that happened. You two just didn't know what would happen before all of this happened. I think that's worse than being a bad parent." Albert said on his end. "I'll tell you what you two, I'm coming over tomorrow. So be ready and be sure to gather the rest of the girls together. I want to hear their point of view on this too."
"Of course." Rita said, "We'll be ready when you get here."
"Thank you and one more thing before I hang up you two." Albert began.
"Yeah." said the two parents.
"You better pray to whatever gods' you guys are aware of that wherever your family sent Lincoln, he's alright. And that he and the rest of my grandbabies are able to come home from wherever they are with him!" Albert said in a determined tone. "See you guys tomorrow."
Albert then slammed the phone down on its receiver, luckily not breaking it due the force of the slam. "Sue, I'm going to the Loud House tomorrow. Don't try to stop me."
Sue knew better then to argue with Albert when he was like this. Albert usually was more cheerful despite his age so seeing him in an angered state of mind was troubling. Sue could only imagine how bad things were going for the Louds.
In Lisa's room, Lisa explained her plan. "We need to build a machine to strengthen the signal of Lincoln's tracking chip to find out where he is."
"You chipped him?" Lola asked.
"Not just him, but the rest of my siblings." Lisa said, shocking her siblings. "Aside from you and Lily."
As much as Lori and Lynn wanted to be angry for Lisa chipping them without consulting them about it first, they knew that Lisa must've done out of a place of caring. They also knew that now wasn't the time to start an argument. If they were going to rescue Lincoln from the situation that they put him in, they were going to need all of the help that they could get.
"Kids, can you all come down here?!" Lynn Sr shouted to the upstairs hallway.
"We need to talk to you!" Rita shouted in response.
Lori let out a sigh. "We'll be right back you guys. Mom and Dad need us for something."
"Can you guys get started without us?" Lisa asked Phineas.
"You got it guys." Phineas said in a cheerful tone.
With that, the remaining Loud girls left Lisa's room.
As soon as the girls left, Phineas turned to everyone. "Alright everyone, let's get started."
Downstairs, Lori and the others sat on the couch as their parents stood in front of them. Lynn Sr began to talk. "Girls, first of all, Pop-Pop is coming tomorrow."
"Does he know about our situation?" Lori asked.
"He does." Lynn Sr confirmed. "And boy, was he furious."
This scared the Loud girls as they were worried about how Pop-Pop's visit is going to go.
"Girls, I know that this whole situation is crazy, but I want to know how all of this started from your points of view." Rita said. "So please tell us what happened."
The girls didn't know what to say before Lynn Jr stood up. "I think it all started on the day of that softball game I had." She then began her tale. "I was getting ready for my game when I saw Lincoln going into his room. I asked if his wanted to come to my game, but he didn't want to because he wanted to read an Ace Savvy comic that I'm pretty he's had for a while now."
Lynn's eyes then widened in shock as that day played in her head. She knew what happened next, but she couldn't say it despite already confessing what she did.
"Lynn?" Her father asked noticing his daughter's stunning silence. "Are you okay?"
Noticing that her daughter wasn't saying anything, Rita then got down on one knee and grabbed her sports loving daughter by her shoulders. "Lynn, if what happened began, we need to know what happened. Please? For Lincoln?"
With tears in her eyes, Lynn then blurted out. "I threatened him to come to my game!"
"You threatened him?" Lynn said in shock. "With what?!"
"I threatened him with a baseball bat!" Lynn confessed with tears in her eyes.
"Lynn, I know you love sports more than anything, but to threaten one of your siblings into coming to one of your games was wrong!" Rita said as she crossed her arms. "You should be ashamed of yourself!"
"I know, I know!" Lynn said as she sat down as tears continued to spill down her face. "I didn't want to threaten him, but my pride wouldn't allow me to just let my bro stay home that day! I just wanted him to come support me even though he told me that he spent a lot of the time supporting our other sisters!" The young jock then grabbed the sides of her head. "What did we do? Curse my luck-based obsession."
"And that's another thing, Lynn." Her father started. "Before this whole mess started, we've been hearing some complaints from some parents of the kids you play with and against that you've been doing dances before your games. Not to mention that you refused to let your teammates use the bathroom before that!" The others let out an "Ugh, gross!" in response to that information. "At first we didn't think much of it and thought that it was just a phase that was going to pass. But now we need to ask: What's that about?"
Lynn blushed in embarrassment. "Well, I thought that I would have a better chance of winning my games if I did those dances. As for the whole bathroom thing, I felt like it my team would increase our chances of winning since they needed to focus on winning rather than... well you know."
Her parents were disgusted at their daughter's behavior as Lynn Sr spoke. "Lynn, while I'm glad you want to win games as much as the next guy, you need to consider the feelings and wellbeing of your teammates. I mean, how would you feel if someone else was captain, and they forbade you from using the bathroom before a game."
Lynn couldn't even begin to imagine herself in that position, it would've been really embarrassing if she went #1 or 2 during a game in front of a crowd. She didn't think her reputation would ever recover from that.
Rita then spoke. "Okay, so after the game. You called the brother you threatened to come to come to your game bad luck..." She saw Lynn flinch a bit, but she needed to ask her daughter. "Why did you do it?"
"Because it was the first game in a while that Lincoln came to." Lynn said, wiping away a few tears. "I felt like we lost because he was there."
"That's preposterous, Lynn." Lisa spoke up.
"What do you mean?" Lynn said.
"Well eldest sibling, have you ever heard of the word "Karma"?" Her genius sister asked to which Lynn shook her head. "Well, karma is when you do something good, something good happens to you and if you do something bad, something bad happens to you."
"You mean to tell me that because I threatened Lincoln to come to my game, I lost that game as a result?" Lynn asked.
"Precisely." Lisa said sadly.
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" Lynn screeched before she fell off the couch in a ball of tears as Lori, Lola and Luna consulted her.
As much as it pained Lynn Sr and Rita to see one of their children in an emotional state of pain, they needed to continue this discussion to get all of information that they can get.
Rita spoke. "I'm sorry that this hurts you Lynn, but the bottom line here is we all messed up. Not just you guys but us too."
"Your mother's right kids." Lynn Sr spoke. "We didn't step in to stop this madness before it started and when we did, we went about it all wrong. Because of us, Lincoln's in space right now." He then sat on the couch with his remaining daughters and Luna helped Lynn Jr back on it with his wife joining him as well. "Not to mention, Leni, Luan, Lucy, and Lana have gone missing. Who knows where they are."
"I literally hope they're okay." Lori said sadly.
"So do we sweetie." Rita said. "Getting back on topic, it reminded me of what happened when Lincoln told us that he was faking being bad luck. I can't believe we didn't take him back in when we should've."
"Well, as usual, we only thought of ourselves." Lola said sadly.
"What do we do now?" Lynn Sr asked as the family sat in silence before Lisa spoke.
"Mother, father, I have something to confess." The genius began. "I knew Lincoln was faking his bad luck."
"You did?!" Rita said in shock as she turned to Lisa in anger. "Lisa, if you knew about this why didn't you say anything?!"
"Well, considering that my siblings seemed to disregard my feelings from time to time, I figured telling you two would also be pointless." Lisa revealed.
Lynn embraced his genius daughter. "Lisa, regardless of how much we may not understand you at times, your opinion does matter! Just as much as the rest of our kids."
He then released the toddler as Rita then spoke. "Your father's right Lisa. Your opinion does matter. We're sorry that you didn't feel like you couldn't come to us with this information."
"It's okay, given the size of our family, I cannot exactly blame you two for the unintentional neglect of my opinions." Lisa said as she wiped her glasses.
Lynn Sr let out a sigh. "I just wish we could find out how to get Lincoln and the girls back."
"So do I." Rita said as looked up. "I just hope she's alright."
"The little scientist said as she let out a sniffle. "Do you want to help us save Lincoln?"
"What?" The parents said in unison.
"Do you want to help us save Lincoln?" The young inventor repeated her question.
"Of course. But how?" Lynn said.
"Yeah Lisa. At this point, I'll try anything." Rita said getting a bit desperate.
"Ahem." said a voice gaining everyone's attention. Looking at the stairs. they saw Phineas standing on the steps. "Am I interrupting?"
"Phineas?" Rita said in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Lisa contacted me and Ferb and she and Luna told us what happened." Phineas said as he crossed his arms. "Needless to say, I'm especially disappointed in you two the most Mr. and Mrs. Loud."
"I'm pretty sure there's a club of many members of the disappointment department." Lynn Sr joked a bit as he couldn't face Phineas' glare of disappointment.
"But despite that, I can tell that you guys regret what you did." The triangle headed boy continued. "So, if you want to help us save Lincoln, please follow me to Lisa's room, she and I will explain the rest there."
Phineas quickly felt the stairs shake as the group quickly ran up the stairs, carrying him up there as well.
Zeenuian Outskirts...
Dan, Elise and Eclipsa charged in to assist the Giant who was on the losing side against the Xenomorph Queen but given the size of the creature, this was going to be rather difficult considering the fact that there were a lot of alien soldiers surrounding them causing to have fight their way to their ally.
Jasper punched one of Drek's soldiers sending him flying into and knocking down five of them before she was literally dogpiled by at least fifteen of them, though this only served as a minor inconvenience to the quartz soldier mangled to spin dash them all of her coating her form with their blood before she found herself surrounded by a large of force of them.
"C'mon, you novices, I'm about show you just how pointless fighting me is!" Jasper taunted as she cracked her knuckles as they all charged at her.
Elise roundhouse kicked a soldier in the face, knocking him out before she quickly rolled to the side in order to avoid getting her head blasted off her shoulders by an alien armed with a blaster.
Before the alien could fire again, he was shot in the head by an opposing laser, killing him instantly.
"You're welcome." said Dan as he then transformed his laser hand into an axe. "Let's get crazy!"
Eclipsa transformed the tip of her parasol into a medieval mace as she bashed and batted as soldiers got close to her. For people trying to snipe her from a distance, she quickly summoned her wings and flew into the air before shouting. "Fog of Unconsciousness!" as a fog blasted out of her parasol, knocking a majority of them out cold.
Dan was chopping and blasting away at whatever alien soldier he was coming across before he got socked in the face, knocking him to the ground.
"Long live Chairmen Drek!" shouted the soldier before aiming his blaster at Dan.
Before the soldier could fire, he found himself getting karate chopped in the back of the head, knocking him out. Who was standing over surprised Dan. It was Elise.
"You're welcome!" Elise said she offered her hand to him.
Dan was about to take it, when he saw that a soldier trying to sneak up behind Elise. "Move, quick!" before he pointed his laser hand at her.
Elise quickly jumped out of the way as Dan fired his laser at the soldier, hitting him in the forehead and killing him in an instant.
"Thanks." Elise said as she helped her frenemy up.
Suddenly, the two found themselves surrounded by a large group of them.
Eclipsa was blasting away at the soldiers on the ground when she saw the Xenomorph Queen pin the Iron Giant to the ground. The beast was clawing away at the metal skin as Eclipsa was going to intervene before something happened.
A hatch in the chest of the giant robot had opened up as a big laser cannon revealed itself.
The Xenomorph Queen could only screech it's last as the laser fired straight through its chest as it was blasted off the robot and into the sky as it was enveloped into a massive explosion, causing everyone to look into air in surprise.
"Woah." Zing said as he dropped the drink in his hand.
The giant fell on its back as it was exhausted as acid rained down. Thankfully, it was away from the battle, so it didn't rain on anyone.
"Are you alright?" Eclipsa asked the colossal robot.
The giant gave an exhausted thumbs up.
"Why don't you leave the rest to us while you recuperate?" She asked the giant gave a somewhat nod.
Eclipsa flew back to the others as the giant watched them take down the rest of Drek's army.
Meanwhile in the caves of Zeenu...
The Majestic carried the group through the cave as he was traveling at a high speed through the cave.
They needed to find Lincoln as fast as they could. The day was winding down and tomorrow was the last day.
Suddenly, Leni and her crew could hear a group of voices up ahead. "Majestic, can you slow down? I hear voices."
The Majestic chose to heed Leni's orders and slowed down a little as the voices became a bit clearer and more somewhat familiar.
"Is Lincoln, okay?" said a female voice.
"He is okay." said a male voice. "Physically anyway."
"He's got to be okay." said another male voice. "We're running out of time."
"Wait, is that Sinbad?" Milo asked.
"Sounds like him." Clyde said. "Full speed ahead."
As the alien sped up, Leni shouted. "Sinbad!"
"Wait, Leni! Was that you?!" said the comedian.
"Sinbad, wait where you are!" Clyde shouted. "We're coming to you!"
The gang continued to shout out to Sinbad's group and after a few moments, the two groups joined up as the group jumped off the Majestic's belly.
"Sinbad, how you found Lincoln?" Luan asked in a pleading tone.
"No, but this ape does." Sinbad said, introducing the ape. "He was leading us to him."
"Greetings all." Began Nesmith. "My name is Nesmith."
"Woah, you can talk." Clyde said as his eyes turned into stars.
"Yes, I can." Nesmith quickly began to lead the group down another cave. "You see, 40 years ago my capsule crashed. I believe the planet's atmospheric pressure caused in acceleration of brain cell which given me my advanced intelligence and ability to speak."
"Cool." Lana said.
"You have no idea what I have just said, do you?" Nesmith deadpanned at the crew.
"Not really. Sorry, Mr. Nesmith." Leni said confused. "You remind me of my sister Lisa. She uses big words like that and confuses us sometimes with her science talk too."
"Let's just get to Lincoln." Nesmith said as he rolled his eyes as he continued to lead the group through the cave network.
A few turns later, and Nesmith has led the group to another cave entrance with two blue colored alien guards in front of it.
"Halt!" said one of the guards. "State your business being down here."
"Let me handle this." Nesmith said. "Gentleman, my name is Nesmith. I'm the one that brought that human child here." He gestured to the ones behind him. "These are friends of him. Please let us through."
"How do we know that they're good people?" asked the second guard. "We might be letting in evil ones."
Leni, then stepped forward. "Look, we did some bad things to Lincoln but we're not bad people." She began to shed tears as she continued. "If we were, we wouldn't have gone through a lot just to get him back."
"Explain off-worlder." demanded the first guard. "Explain your tale and you might be considered worthy of entry."
Leni then explained what happened on Earth, she may have forgotten a few details, but she told the two all that she remembered. From the bad luck incident with Lincoln from her perspective to kicking their only brother out of the house for their own safety, to the airheaded sister chewing her family over their callousness over the incident, to the girls' regret over what they did, to telling their whole town what they did and finally getting to Zeenu and them getting drafted into the conflict with Zing as he gave Zeenu his ultimatum.
"So, I beg of you guys to please let us through so that we can bring Lincoln back home and right our wrongs with him!" Leni begged as she fell to her knees in tears.
The two guards looked at each other as they thought over what Leni told them. While they were disgusted at how Leni and her sisters treated one of their own, they could tell that they regretted it immensely and want to make things right with their brother. If they didn't, they wouldn't be 1,000 miles from their home planet, having gone through their Zeenu's harsh environments just to save one of their own.
"You have proven your worth." Said the first guard. "You may enter."
Without a second thought, Nesmith led Leni and the gang into the cave.
After a mile, they all stopped when they saw something surprising.
Down below, there was a whole village filled with blue colored aliens that were either armed with weapons or were just peaceful villagers.
"Wow..." was the group collective response as Nesmith led them through this newly discovered place.
"Aseefa!" Nesmith called out as he continued to walk through the village. "Where are you?!"
Suddenly, a voice called out to him. "Coming Nesmith, please wait where you are!"
After a few minutes of waiting, someone landed in front of them before standing up. "Hi, I am Aseefa of the Glimorians."
Leni then shook hands with the blue alien. "Hi, I'm Leni of the Loud family." She then gestured to her sisters. "This is my little sisters, Lucy, Luan, and Lana."
"Hello." said Lucy.
"Hey there." Luan said.
"Sup." Lana said.
"I'm Clyde, resident friend of the Loud family." Clyde introduced himself.
"Ronnie Anne Santiago. Nice to meet you." The young tomboy introduced herself.
"Milo of the Murphy family." The jinxed teen introduced himself.
"I'm the comedian Sinbad." the comedian said before gesturing to Zoe and Leggy, "This is Zoe and Leggy the Ruby."
"Hello." Zoe said.
"Nice to meet you." Leggy said. "Where's Lincoln."
"Lincoln?" Assefa said in confusion.
"Our brother!" Leni said with tears in her eyes.
"He's the child I brought here." Nesmith specified.
"He's in one of our medical tents." Aseefa said, before she gestured the group to follow her. "Follow me. I'll show you."
Back on Earth, the Loud House, afternoon...
Stan approached the mob and tap's one of Clyde's dads' shoulders. "Excuse me sir. I'm new here. My name is Stan Smith. Can you please tell me what's going on?"
Howard told the CIA agent about what was currently going on. It took a few minutes to explain everything. Stan was shocked to say the least.
"That family is in the same position that my family is in." Stan thought to himself. "Aside from the whole cloning thing."
Mrs. Santiago was thinking about where Bobby and Ronnie Anne were. She was scared out of her wits and standing out here was the only thing that she could think of. She was pretty sure that the Louds knew what happened to her children and she wasn't going to leave until she got some answers.
"Excuse me?" said a voice.
This spooked the nurse a bit as she looked down and saw Sapphire. "Yes?"
"My name is Sapphire and I wish to know what's happening here." The gem said.
Mrs. Santiago did her best to explain what happened from her perspective. She remembered that Bobby told her that he and Ronnie Anne were going to one of Lynn's baseball games and they haven't returned from it since to what happened at Lynn's game to what Leni told everyone and this happening.
"This is unfortunate." Sapphire said as he gazed up at the setting sun.
"It is." Mrs. Santiago said as she began to shed tears. "I just wish to know if they're safe."
"They are safe." The blue gem said.
"How do you know?" The nurse said.
"I can see many possible futures." Sapphire explained. "In a few of them shows that your children are safe on that planet."
"Planet?!" Mrs. Santiago's eyes were filled with dread. "You mean that-"
"That's right." Sapphire said. "But like I said before, they're safe along with everyone else that's with them."
Desperate and with tears in her eyes, Mrs. Santiago collapsed to her knees and grabbed the gem by her shoulders. "Sapphire, please tell me that Bobby and Ronnie Anne are going to find a way to get home?"
"They will." Sapphire said with confidence. "As will those they're with."
Despite crying, Mrs. Santiago said. "Thank you." as she then embraced the small future seer.
"Glad I can help." The small gem said as she embraced the motherly doctor while looking up at the sky.
Meanwhile, on the Gem Homeworld...
A beam of light shot itself towards a planet that broken apart yet still had life on it.
It was known to Gem kind as Homeworld.
That's where Ruby, Pearl and Lapis were currently headed.
Their mission: to tell Steven everything.
In the Diamond's Palace, Steven was currently with the other Diamonds, Yellow, Blue and White, as he was currently having a conversation with the three rulers of Homeworld as their former Pearls were standing in the four.
"So, what do you all think about this?" Steven asked the three titans. "Shall we get started on changing this society?"
"Sounds amazing Steven!" Blue Diamond said as she clapped her hands together.
"I agree." Yellow Diamond said. "We'll get to as soon as we get everything in order."
"So do I, my Diamond." Yellow Pearl agreed, despite no longer serving her.
"I too agree with this notion." Blue Diamond's Pearl said. "I always wanted to see things change around here."
"I'll help in any way I can." Pink Diamond's original Pearl said.
"You're going to go back to Earth, Steven, right?" White Diamond asked.
"Of course. I do have a life there." Steven asked. "I just hope things go well here while I'm gone."
Suddenly, the sound of a warp pad sounded off behind the hybrid. Turning around, he saw Ruby, Pearl and Lapis with worried expressions on their faces.
"Ruby, Pearl, Lapis?" Steven said as he immediately noticed their glum expressions. "What's wrong?"
"Steven..." Lapis began nervously. "We have something to tell you."
"Yes, and I'm pretty sure you're not going to like it." Ruby said in a guilty tone.
Steven spoke up. "Well, whatever it is, I won't be upset. Remember when you said no more secrets."
Yellow Diamond spoke up as she asked Steven. "Do you want us to leave?"
"No Yellow, I want you guys to stay. This could be important." Steven said kindly.
Pearl then let out a sigh. "Alright, it all started like this."
Over the next three minutes, the three guilty gems explained everything to Steven, the Diamonds, and their former Pearls. While the Pearls were shocked that the so-called protectors of Earth would stab one of their own in the back even if that gem was an enemy of theirs. Blue was appalled despite Jasper not being in her disbanded court. As for Yellow, while she was disappointed in the three and Sapphire for not just talking to Steven about Sapphire's prediction, she could understand at least why they did it to an extent. White on the other hand, just didn't know what to say, as she was at a loss for words.
"And that's what happened." Pearl said as she finished her tale. "Steven, we're sorry that we didn't tell you."
"We'll understand if you're upset." Ruby said.
Steven took a moment to think of what he was going to say before saying it. "I'm not upset, just... disappointed." He said to three as he continued. "Look, I get that Jasper is, well, unreasonable at best and unstable at worst. But the fact of the matter is that you didn't even consider just talking to me about this just proves how little you guys trust me."
"Steven, of course we trust you." Pearl said her voice cracking a little. "We were just..."
"Just scared of Jasper." Steven interrupted. "I can understand that." He then thought of something. "What about the other Gems, did you tell them?"
"No." Ruby said before she placed a hand under her chin to think. "But I feel that Bismuth, Peridot and Amethyst might have caught on by now."
Steven then sighed before saying. "You guys doing this just gave Jasper more of a reason to hate us. I just can't believe you guys, it's supposed to be a new beginning for everyone, why would you guys do this and not consult anyone else?"
"Cause most of you guys wouldn't have agreed to it." Lapis said bluntly. "Yourself included Steven."
"It's because it's a crazy idea!" Steven snapped as he took a breath to calm himself. "But I can see what you're getting at."
It was silent before the hybrid spoke again. "Thanks for telling me. I just hope that Bismuth, Amethyst and Peridot are okay. Jasper too."
Back on Zeenu...
The remaining soldiers were dealt with as they laid across the desert sands in their own blood. The team of four were a little worse for wear but they were still standing.
"That's takes care of these scumbags." Dan said as he breathed a little heavily.
"Now for who's in the ship." Elise said as she glared up at the spaceship floating above her into her and the rest of the team.
"Alright, Zing..." Dan shouted up to the former alien emperor. "If you're done being a coward, how about you fight us yourself? Unless you're scared!"
'Afraid of them, not really." Zing said to himself before he turned to Drek. "Take the ship to the capital city when I'm finished with these four." He then began to leave the ship as he then said to himself. "This won't take long."
The ship then beamed down the dethroned emperor as he walked towards Jasper, Eclipsa, Dan and Elise, a calm face to hide the anger he was currently feeling.
"You know, I'm surprised that you four are confronting me and not have an army." The alien said rather calmly. "And here I was thinking that you guys would've cowered in Zeenu's capital by now."
"I don't know about these ones, but I don't run from cowards like you." Jasper taunted. "This'll be easy."
This made the alien chuckle for a bit before he responded. "You underestimate me Jasper, I am far more powerful than anyone realizes. I just never felt a reason to show it... until now. So, consider this a rare sight to behold!"
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky above them turned black above them. Before anyone could react, lightning struck down from the clouds and struck the alien as he began to laugh manically. His body began to grow in size as his muscles grew in size.
It took a few seconds until the storm finally passed and the clouds went away.
Jasper and the others were in shock at Zing's transformation as they readied themselves for what was about to happen.
First, he was now not only more muscular but now he was a bit taller than Jasper by an inch. Next, his abs were now a six pack. Finally, his teeth became razor sharp, and the pupils in his eyes were now a devilish icy blue as the irises have turned to dark as the pits of the underworld black.
"My stars!" Jasper said as she instantly summoned her helmet.
"This... is going to be a problem." Dan said as he stepped back a bit before he quickly regained his composure and transformed his hands into metal boxing gloves with the knuckles having added spikes on them.
"Get ready everyone!" Elise rallied. "It's four on one."
"She's right." Eclipsa said as she readied her parasol despite her fear was visible by the way her arm was shaking. "If we work together, we can take this guy down."
The newly transformed Zing smiled at the fear ever so present on their faces. This was a great feeling to have. To have those who cross him be afraid to oppose him. Zing has never used his powers like this before and since he considered himself to be the most powerful of his race due to his former status as emperor and considering this was the first time he's transformed and considering the fact that this was the first time he actually fought in a battle in quite some time; it was going to take a bit to get used to this transformed state. Beating the tar out these four would be great exercise for him.
"Now then..." Zing began as a red colored, electrical aura appeared around his body. "I'm going to give you guys one chance to tell me where Lincoln and Roger are, or else I'm going to have to beat the information out of you."
"Well, sorry to disappoint you, Zing, but we don't know." Dan said sarcastically as he got into a fighting stance.
"Yeah, and even if we did. Would we really tell you just like that?!" Jasper said as she cracked her knuckles.
The bulked-up alien let out a sigh. "Guess we're doing this the hard way."
Without another word, the alien emperor who's lost all but his sanity charged at his foes.
Back in the caves...
Aseefa led the big group through the Glamorian village that was hidden underground.
"Your home is underground?" Milo asked.
"Yes." Aseefa confirmed. "We are a race of warriors, so we only leave our village in case of emergencies or when our planet celebrates something."
This surprised the group. Did they not know about their situation? Granted they probably couldn't have been able to due to the soundproof layer of the planet's cave system.
"Wait so you don't know about what's happening on the surface?" Leni asked.
This caused Aseefa to stop and raise an eyebrow. "No. The only emergency is us me and Nesmith bringing Lincoln here after seeing the state he was in." Aseefa than asked. "Is there anything happening on the surface that we should get ready for?"
Leni looked towards the group in surprise. They didn't know about Zing or about what he was going to do to Earth when the 3 days were up.
Clyde then spoke up. "Well, I don't know if this concerns your race Aseefa, but I feel like you should know what's happening to us."
From there the group took turns explaining to the Glamorian warrior all that was happening on the surface. That an alien emperor named Zing had coming to their planet, that he was looking for Lincoln and another member of his race named Roger, how they came to Zeenu to bring them back to their home planet called Earth and what Zing gave the Zeeniuans 3 days to turn over the two or he'll destroy Earth.
"Wow, that is a lot." Aseefa said in surprise.
"So do you think you and the Galmorians can help us?" Lana asked.
Aseefa began to think about this before she responded. "Well, I'll do my best to help but I don't know about some of my fellow Galmorians."
"Why?" Milo asked. "Because they would feel that this is not their problem?"
"Well yes." Aseefa said as she began to go into detail. "Our race are warriors first and citizens second so they can be rather stubborn sometimes, so if they don't feel like helping out in a situation like this, you'll have to convince them to help out."
"Well, let's hope that they have a change of heart when we tell them." Nesmith said as the group finally made it to the tent.
Stopping in front of the tent, Aseefa turned to the group. "Wait, everyone. Before you go in there, I just want you guys to know that there are others in there with Lincoln."
"Others?" Clyde asked in alarm.
"Yes, but don't worry, I can tell that they're worried about your friend too." Aseefa said, calming the unofficial Loud house member down. "As for Lincoln, well I think it's better that you would see for yourselves."
With that, Aseefa led the group inside the tent.
Inside the tent, the group were shocked.
Lincoln was in a comatose state as he was laid on a table with various medical equipment. or least the alien version of medical equipment with wires inserted into the boy's arms and legs as an oxygen mask was placed over his mouth.
Not only that but he wasn't alone in the surprisingly spacious room as Bobby, Hayley and Bismuth were watching over him with concerned looks.
"Bobby?!" shouted Ronnie Ane.
"Sis?!" Bobby said as he got up and ran to his sister.
"You're okay!" They both said at the same time.
Leni, Leggy and the others all crowded Lincoln's bed all worried sick for him.
"Oh goodness." Clyde said as he gazed upon his best friend's injured body.
"What happened to him?" Lucy asked in a guilt-ridden tone.
"He crashed the rocket that you guys sent him to space in into the core of Zing's ship. That's how we ended up here." Leggy said as she clenched her fist as she gazed upon the comatose body of her lover.
Ronnie looked upon Lincoln's body and asked. "Is he going to be alright?"
"Can he come out of this?" Lana asked.
"We are unsure." Nesmith said in a sadden tone. "We're lucky that we found him when we did."
"Nesmith's right." Aseefa said as she stepped up and placed a hand on Leni's shoulder. "We were able to stabilize him, but we have noticed something strange within him."
"What do you mean?" Bismuth asked.
Milo then stepped in. "When me, Lincoln and some others were drifting through space, we ended going through a cosmic storm, and because of it, we were essentially given superpowers."
"Superpowers, huh?" Ronnie said with a chuckle as she wiped a tear from her right eye. "That guy never ceases to amaze me."
Leni approached her brother and placed a hand on his face. "L-Linky."
Seeing her brother in this state caused the airheaded Loud sister to begin crying. "Oh, Linky. You shouldn't have been in a state like this!" She then placed her hands on her crying eyes. "Please don't leave us!"
"Leni's right!" Clyde pleaded as he held his best friend's hand. "Come on, buddy! Please wake up! We're Clincoln McCloud for life!"
Ronnie Anne began to shed tears as she spoke. "Come on, Lincoln! You have to pull through this! Earth is depending on you!"
"Come on Lincoln!" Leggy begged as she collapsed to her knees by his bedside. "You can't leave us! We love you! I love you!"
Suddenly, it as if he could hear the various praises and pleads, the boy let out a weak but audible groan.
Milo let out a gasp of relief. "Lincoln?"
Slowly, the white-haired child began to open his eyes.
"Huh?" he asked as he began to look around.
"LINCOLN!" Leggy, Ronnie Anne and Clyde cried out as they embraced him.
"LINKY!" Leni, Luan and Lana cried as they also embraced him.
"Thank the stars you're okay!" Leggy said as peppered her boyfriend's cheek with kisses.
"Uh... thank you?" Lincoln said in a confused tone. "But... who are you guys?"
This confused the group. How could Lincoln not know who they are? Could Zing's ship have... Oh no.
"Linky? You don't recognize us?" Lana asked in a concerned tone. "You don't recognize any of us?"
"No." Lincoln said as he shook his head. "I don't think so. I'm sorry."
"Oh no." Chris said in surprise. "This isn't good."
"Yeah, and now of all time." Sinbad said as he facepalmed.
Lincoln looked around and saw the concerned looked of everyone in the room as he wondered what was going on and why they were all looking at him in a strange way.
Back at the desert...
It was a horrible feeling that Jasper was feeling right now as she huffed and puffed as she struggled to get up as she saw the transformed Zing stomped on Dan's stomach causing him to scream in pain as the dethroned emperor then kicked Dan in the chin sending him flying back towards the gem as he was knocked out.
As for Elise and Eclipsa, when the fight began, the human spy was quickly buried into the ground as the Mewman royal was quickly disarmed of her magic parasol before she was then received an electric shock to the chest that render her unconscious.
With Dan down for the count, it was only Jasper left. Zing underestimated her, thinking that since Lincoln beat her on his ship, she would be easy pickings. Clearly that was a mistake as she was not only equal in strength to him but was faster than him.
"It's time I end this." Zing said as he cupped his hands together as electricity surged through him before he fired an electrical beam towards the strong gem.
"You said it!" Jasper said as she rolled up into a ball before she launched towards her opponent. "I've just about had it with you!"
Jasper was hit with the beam as while it hurt, the stubborn gem refused to fall as she slammed into her foe with all the strength she had left, hitting him in the chest and sent him back almost 30 feet as the quartz finally retreated into her gem due to the sudden overexertion of her power.
Taking a moment to catch his breath, Zing slowly began to get back up. "Well, that took a bit longer than I thought. But I'll admit this was quite the workout."
He then picked up Jasper's gem as he looked over at Dan, Eclipsa and Elise's unconscious bodies.
"You four will be proven quite useful." Zing said as picked up the three and headed back to the Drek's ship. "Tomorrow be ready Earth, cause your time is almost up."
To be continued...
Lincoln has been found but it seems that he can't remember what is going on.
As for Jasper, Dan, Elise and Eclipsa, they were defeated by Zing, but the emperor has spared them for something "useful".
What will Earth fate be as day 3 begins?
Next time on "The Exiles"!
Hey everyone, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a Happy New Year. Let's hope 2023 is good. I apologize for not publishing sooner because I wanted to get this chapter out sooner, but I didn't know what to write next. So, I hope you guys can forgive me for leaving you guys in the dark for a while.
This is the Reality Shredder and I'll see you all next time.