Chapter 3 - How To Not Catch A Kwami; Trouble Double!
Here's the next chapter, enjoy.
Lincoln was walking out to take the trash out, meanwhile, Luan and Lucy snuck past their brother with butterfly nets. "Okay, Operation; Catch Sparx is on!" Luan whispered.
"At least that wasn't as long as Lincoln's normal plan names," Lucy muttered.
Only to be hit with a thousand volts of electricity upon touching the doorknob. On the inside of the room, Sparx was sitting on the doorknob. "That was pretty shocking, wasn't it?" Sparx joked to no one.
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Later Luan and Lucy were crawling through the vents while Lincoln was helping Lynn Sr. and Lana clean the new van. Sparx heard the two thumping in the vents and then phased through the walls. The lightning then floated up to the thermostat and proceeded to supercharge the AC.
Luan then asked, "So we turn left at that rotting turtle shell, and we'll be in Lincoln's room?"
"No, we go past that and turn right at a pile of Reptile skin sheddings," Lucy replied, then the two felt a cool breeze which quickly turned into a cold breeze than into a freezing breeze.
Then the two were consumed by a cloud of literal snow and ice. The two were then frozen in a solid block of ice and spat out of the vents in Luna's and Luan's room. "I have to say, that was pretty COLD of me to do!" Sparx joked before heading back to Lincoln's room.
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An hour or two later, Luan and Lucy were now in the basement, waiting behind a turned-over folding table. Watching a can of soda around an elaborate trap, but the moment the two blinked, the soda can had been snatched away. Luan looked around for the Kwami, but only to get a can thrown into her face.
The next time, Luan was watching the soda can while Lucy would drop eyedrops into her sister's eyes so she didn't need to blink. Suddenly, Luan's phone got a text and it went into a Text-To-Speech mode.
"{Imagine if you walked into a bar and there was a long line of people waiting to take a swing at you. That's the punch line.}" Luan immediately let out a light snort from the obvious Dad joke. "{Why is it a bad idea to iron your four-leaf clover? Cause you shouldn't press your luck.}" Luan let out a few more snorts and Lucy scrambled to turn the phone off, but the power seemed to stay on no matter what.
"{I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.}" Luan was struggling to contain herself now, Lucy took the battery out but the phone continued to work. "{I can't take my dog to the pond anymore because the ducks keep attacking him. That's what I get for buying a pure bread dog.}"
Luan began to giggle but was just barely able to choke it down and Lucy noticed that the messages were coming from her phone, but she didn't have her phone on her. "{My wife said I was immature. So I told her to get out of my fort.}" Luan's giggles squeaked out one at a time while Lucy looked for her phone. "{I spent a lot of time, money, and effort childproofing my house... but the kids still get in.}"
Luan finally broke into a laughing fit and when Lucy tried to keep the soda can in view, the can was gone. Lucy was then hit by a now empty can of soda and her phone.
After another few hours, Luan and Lucy were giving the trap one last go, third times the charm. This time taking turns to blink. But this didn't last long as when the two had both their eyes closed for a Picosecond (One trillionth of a second), Sparx had taken the can. What followed was the two getting hit with a series of cans to the rhythm of the "Shave And A Haircut, Two Bits" knock. And the two gave up on the idea.
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Luan and Lucy were now trying to chase Sparx, who was slipping just out of their view every time they turned a corner. Sparx lead them outside and flew into the treehouse, but when Luan and Lucy climbed up after him. They did not see Sparx but rather a figurative town's worth of Squirrels, all of which were sleeping.
"Luce, don't move a muscle. These are American Black Squirrels. Entirely unsociable, highly territorial, and aggressive. They will not tolerate their other squirrel or any species in their territories." Luan stated as she began to back up.
"Shouldn't this be the other way around?" Lucy asked.
"If there was one, but with this many? You'd have better luck fighting a rabid lion." Luan replied.
The two sisters turned around to see the door had been shut on them, and that someone had put in a door. Sparx then came through a hole in the roof of the treehouse with an Air Horn while the two were facing away. The lightning Kwami then blew the air horn before quickly retreating, the sound awaking, alerting, and angering the sleeping squirrels.
Luan let out a nervous chuckle, "N-nice, Squirrels. . N-No need to go nuts over it! Heh heh! Get it?" The squirrels were only made madder by Luan's joke.
The two sisters screamed as they were attacked and partially mauled by the squirrels. Sparx was sitting on the roof watching through the hole in the roof, "Man, this is really starting to get Nutty!" He joked. A squirrel came up to him but before it could do anything, Sparx hit it with a lightning bolt.
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Finally, Luan and Lucy were in Lori and Leni's room for a Sister Meeting as Lincoln was busy cleaning his room. The two were covered in bandages from every attempt to catch Sparx failing and them just getting injured as a result. "Ok, the first order of business is that we need to find Lincoln new friends, since Chandler scared all of his away and some have moved, we're going to have pitched in to help Lincoln make some new ones," Lori explained.
"That's gonna be hard, cause we don't know many people with the same interests as Lincoln. Remember when we forced four dates on him for the Sadie Hawkins dance?" Luna replied.
Lori groaned in annoyance at the memory being brought back, "Don't remind me, that was a travesty in the making. So anyone else has something to put on the table?"
Luan raised her hand and Lori pointed her shoe at her, "I'd like to point out the fact that Lincoln is Lightning Flash!!"
"And what proof do you have to make this true?" Lori asked.
Luna agreed, "Seriously dude, we saw LF yesterday, he's way older than Lincoln is, maybe a year older than Lori."
Lisa then replied, "Honestly, if you're going to make wild accusations, at least have the proof to back it up."
"So we'll believe and follow Lynn when she calls Lincoln bad luck, but this is something that we'll just drop?" Luan asked.
Lynn quickly snapped, "Hey! I thought we agreed to never talk about that!"
Lucy just retorted, "We didn't, you just said that and we just pretended that it never happened. We also pretend that the 3 weeks of him ignoring us didn't happen."
"Shut Up!"
"What? Don't like it when your shortcomings are brought to light? Or is it the fact you don't like it when your role as the Worst Sister is pointed out so clearly?" Luan taunted.
"THAT'S IT!!" Lynn roared before tackling Luan with Lucy joining in, Lori separated the three and pushed Luan and Lucy out of the room.
"Okay, you two totally need to just cool down for a bit. I know you two got hurt from your stunts around the house, but taking that out on others isn't gonna fly. Now when you two want to join in with something actually true, you can come back to this meeting," Lori declared before shutting the door in their face.
Luan stormed off with Lucy following her, then, as if to add insult to injury, the two saw Sparx, silently dooring a cocky dance as if to taunt them. At the same time, Tannis was getting ready for an important meeting when Koru floated up to her. "Miss Tannis, there's a corruption opportunity going on," Koru explained.
"As much as I would love to cause havoc for Royal Woods and Lightning Flash, I have a company to run. I'm going to have a children's hospital and an orphanage taken down and replaced by a Tetherby Ultra Convenience Store," Tannis explained with a maniacal laugh at how horrible the things in that sentence were.
"Well, there is something we can do to make this snappy due to a special circumstance of this one,"
"Alright, fine. But make it quick."
Koru smiled and began, "This is very simple, as Madam Corruption, we can make contracts with others and they have an item that gives them their power, however, sometimes when certain criteria are met. We can send out a contract to that person or persons from a very far distance, with some differences from the normal contracts."
"Alright then, Koru, Full Corruption!" Tannis stated once she was turned into Madam Corruption. With a wave of her hand over a blank sheet of paper, black fire consumed it and turned it into a full contract. She then changed back into Tannis, and let it fly out the window as she left for the meeting.
Back with Luan and Lucy, Luan was kicking the wall of the garage while Lucy watched. "This stinks! Not only does no one believe us! That little gremlin made fools out of us! And he played us like fiddles in a folk music festival! I'd bet Linc was in on it for laughs too!" Luan furiously roared as she continued kicking the wall.
Suddenly, the contract Madam Corruption had created flew into the garage. The two stopped to look at it and they picked it up. Luan read it out loud, "Two souls wanting the truth of another to be brought to light, but none believe them as they lack real evidence. To this, I offer this contract, to grant you the power and arsenal to force this truth to show itself."
Then before the two could react, their own handwriting appeared on the contract and the two were covered in black fire. When it cleared with a massive blast that blew away the garage, Luan and Lucy looked completely different.
Just then, the other members of the Loud family came outside, "What's going on out here?!" Lynn Sr. questioned.
'Luan' begins as the light somehow dims and a stage light from the sky shines down on her, "Prepare for double the trouble!"
'Lucy' then continues as the same thing happens to her, "And make that trouble double!"
'Luan' followed up, "To destroy the world with mystical devastation!"
"To divide the people within every nation!"
"You don't want to mess with us! Armed with Explosive Rockets of Doom and Powers that defy Scientific Law!"
"To uncover all of the truth and lies!"
"It's Trouble!" Trouble (Luan) was a woman in her mid-20s with long brown hair with silver streaks and green eyes. She wears a white dress with a yellow diamond badge on it, black and white leggings, and boots of the same color, with green soles. Her boots have a medium-height yellow heel to them.
"And Double!" Double (Lucy) is a medium-height and slim young woman, with a black kiddy bob hair cut with a fringe. Her outfit consists of a hoodie that has a black circle that stands between her black horns. She wears a red short-sleeved shirt. She also has a grey skirt with a black line, some red leg warmers, and black shoes, as well as red bracers with black gloves.
"We are Trouble Double! Here we come, blasting at you at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"
Lynn then laughed, "You two look stupid, when Dad got turned into a villain he at least looked cool!"
Double then pulled out a rocket launcher and Lori replied to Lynn's comment, "Lynn, from now on, keep your mouth shut."
"EVERYONE IN THE VAN!!" Lynn Sr. yelled, pulling out his car keys and opening the doors with just a button while also starting the new family van.
The family quickly climbed in and sped off, Lincoln didn't have a chance to sneak away to transform. Trouble Double somehow pulled a massive flying mech to chase after and Sparx was able to sneak on board.
"Okay, just find the Contract Item, tell Lincoln, and go back to binge-watching those Japanese cartoons while eating Peeza," Sparx said to himself. Lincoln then felt the sudden need to strangle Sparx.
When he got into the cockpit, he saw that Trouble Double was firing missile after missile at the new family van. Sparx looked around but didn't see any item on the two that stuck him as an important item until he spotted a contract sheet framed on a wall. After getting close enough to read it, Sparx phased through the walls of the mech and into the family van.
"So what's the deal, Sparx?" Lincoln whispered to his Kwami partner that hid in his coat.
"Good and bad news. The good news, I know what the Contract item is. Bad news, it's not like the other two that we've done." Sparx whispered back.
"How so?" Lincoln asked.
"It's a Corruption Contract, unlike a Contract Item, it can be destroyed, but only when removed when they complete a certain task. On the plus side, their main powers are completely dependent on the Contract, if the contract's task is fulfilled, they'll lose their powers. I'm not completely sure on how this works but I do know there are very specific things that Koru needs to use this ability." Sparx explained.
"Okay, so what's the task they gotta fulfill?" Lincoln asked.
"Reveal the identity of Lightning Flash to the Loud family," Sparx replied.
Lincoln was about to shout in shock until Trouble Double had hit the van from the side with a laser cannon. The new family van was flipped onto its side, the mech then created a barrier around the van and the mech. Lincoln couldn't see any way to sneak off, he couldn't even see through the barrier. Trouble Double then came out of the mech and aimed rocket launchers at the van. "HA! Nowhere to run! Just give it up Lightning Flash! And maybe, we'll spare the family... Nah, I'm kidding, we're still going to blast all of you to nothing!" Trouble yelled.
"Ugh, all this over them thinking Lincoln is Lightning Flash!? This is the worst day ever!" Lori groaned.
Lincoln then suddenly stepped out of the van. Rita shouted, "Lincoln! Get back here! Don't let their threats get to you! You're not Lightning Flash!"
"That's where you're wrong, mom. Come on Sparx." Lincoln replied, and Sparx came out of hiding.
"WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT THING?!?!?!" Lori screamed, thinking she was looking at a flying rat.
"You sure you wanna do this?" Sparx asked, completely ignoring Lori's question.
"Don't really have much of a choice, it's either this or my family gets blown to kingdom come. Now, Sparx, Shock On!!" Lincoln answered.
"Eh, fair point," Sparx replied before he merged with the ring as it turned blue, giving it a glowing blue crossed lightning bolt symbol on the top. Lincoln was then engulfed in electricity, then a young man about 18 years old burst from within the electricity. He had blue eyes, medium-length white hair, fair skin tone, and an athletic lean physique. Wearing the larger versions of Lincoln's clothes, like a long sleeve orange shirt and baggy pants.
He then held up a hand to his face and a raging fire appeared before the young man closed his hand and made the electricity disperse. Revealing a black eye mask with a blue lightning pattern at the ends. Then the young man dug his fingers into his hair and electricity caused it to become an anime-ish spiky mess.
Then a small ball of lightning appeared at the ring before crawling along the young man's body but not going past the neck, leaving behind a black suit with blue electricity-styled parts, like a glowing electric blue zig-zag line across his sides, a blue lightning styled belt, and a running shoes attached to the suit. The Louds were left slack-jawed at the sight of the lightning hero.
"HA HA HA! We were right! Now time to-" Trouble stopped mid-sentence when Lightning Flash vanished in a flash of electricity and slugged her in the stomach.
"Sorry sis, but I'm gonna have to cut the chatter here. I'm gonna be explaining a lot to mom and dad. Thunder Fist." Lightning Flash stated, before hitting Trouble with a thousand volts of electricity.
Double tried to fire a rocket at Lightning Flash, but the lightning hero fired a lightning bolt into the rocket launcher's barrel. Causing it to explode in the launcher. Lightning Flash then leaped onto the mech and fired a concentrated lightning blast through the glass to destroy the Corruption Contract. "Wow, they lasted 3 seconds longer than Team Rocket normally does." Lightning Flash stated as everything reverted to normal.
In another time and universe, Team Rocket all collectively sneezed at once. "Does anyone else feel that we were just insulted by... A boy in tights?" James asked, getting a nod from his comrades.
Back in the Story's universe. Lightning Flash and the Louds were back in the Loud House, Lightning Flash had just finished explaining the situation. Lana then exclaimed in excitement, "My brother is a superhero?! AWESOME!!"
Lynn then growled in anger, "You were the one who made me look like a fool!" Lightning Flash then picked Lynn up and placed her on a coat hook by her shirt's collar.
As Lynn struggled to get down from the coat hook, Rita turned her son to her and stayed, "Son, I know I can't just stop you from being a hero. Because you'd probably do it behind my back and because of the person turning people into Super-Villains. Just promise me you'll stay safe."
"I can only promise that I'll try." Lightning Flash replied, suddenly he changed back to Lincoln.
With Tannis, she was rewatching the destruction of a children's hospital. Koru floated up to her and queried, "How are you taking a 3-time losing streak so well?"
"Because I've found out everything about your abilities. So now, I can stop playing around." Tannis replied.
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