"And if we should die tonight, then we should all die together, raise a glass of wine, for the last time" I See Fire, by Ed Sheeran from The Hobbit trilogy.

Ryan, was a bit of a mercenary, he was the guy you called in when shit has really hit the fan. And in the small town of Royal Woods, shit has truly hit the fan.

Ryan, a good looking man, with short brown hair, brown eyes, and a five-o-clock shadow, in his mid 30s was sitting in a private jet heading to area 51.

He looked out the plane window swirling his martini, deep in thought. Outside the window, he saw the vast beautiful deserts of Nevada, nothing but brown-yellow sand for miles.

When he landed and got out, he was greeted by a rather crabby looking general. The man was old, with a bushy white beard, his military haircut, a mixture of grays and whites. For a man as old as he was, he was extremely buff.

"Hey what up Steve?" Said Ryan, "What's this all about? I was in the middle of saving a bunch of innocent children... from a dragon"

The main looked at him, annoyed.

"Okay you got me" Said Ryan "I was playing Call of Duty"

"This is no time for games" Said General Steve.

"Hey" Said Ryan "Don't underestimate my kill/death ratio, it is fucking insane."

Steve ignored him. "What I am about to show you is classified beyond top secret."

"That's what your mom said last night" Said Ryan.

Steve brought his hand to his face "Ugh, come with me"

"Hmm, Spending the day in a dark top secret bunker in the middle of the desert, how romantic"

Back at The Loud House, Lori and Leni were in their rooms looking for some warmer cloths, before they ventured outside into the cold dark blizzard.

The house was incased in ice, trapping them inside. However their younger brother Lincoln had recently discovered a hole in the basement wall they could fit through to get outside. It was almost 2 in the morning, but they didn't want to spend one more second in that house. Not after seeing their younger sisters get torn to shreds by an unimaginable monster.

Plus, even though they thought they had killed it once and for all, even a tiniest drop of the Things blood could grow into a whole new creature. They thought it was dead twice already, but it came back each time.

Lori had put on the blue sweater Bobby had given her. Lori turned around to see Leni wearing Lori's purple and blue striped sweater.

"Uh Leni, that sweater's mine remember" Lori reminded her younger sister.

"but you said it looked way cuter on me" Leni said, "So I figured that meant I could have it"

Leni was right, at one point the loud children had over herd their parents talking and thought they wanted to get rid of them. So the kids had made every effort to stay as quiet as possible to win their parents favor. When Leni had stolen Lori's sweater, Lori wanted to fight her to get it back, but instead she just told her she looked cute in it, to avoid a struggle. Luckily it all turned out to be a misunderstanding about ties.

"Why do you always take my clothes?" Lori asked "Don't you have enough of you own?" Lori's words sounded meaner and angrier than she had meant them to. She wasn't really angry, she was actually curious.

"Sorry" Said Leni, backing away with a look of guilt on her face.

"What? Oh no no no, you don't have to"

"I just..." Leni continued "I don't have a lot of friends"

"Huh?"

"Most people just seem to like to mess with me, and make fun of my disabilities. And the ones that don't, only like me for my body" Leni nervously hugged herself as she continued to explain "No one really likes me, the real me. No one ever takes the time to get to know or to talk to me, I'm just a big joke to everyone, I'm just the dumb blond. But you guys don't think that, or at least you try to hide how dumb you think I am, and you help and support me even when I don't deserve it, that's more than anyone from school has ever done for me. During school I never get to talk to you, you're always talking to Bobby during lunch, and we don't have any of the same classes because I'm in special ed, and you have normal classes. I wear your cloths because then it feels like I still have part of you with me, I know it sounds really dumb."

"Oh, Leni" Lori walked over to hug Leni. She held her there for a few minutes. Lori ran her hands down Leni's back, feeling the softness of her sweater that had become warm from Leni's body heat. Lori held her tighter and closed her eyes. "No matter what happens, Leni you will always be my little sister, and I'll always be here for you."

Leni again cried into Lori's chest.

"And hey" Lori said "You do look adorable in that sweater"

Back in area 51, deep within the top secret bunker, in a dark room, a projection of a satellite image of Antarctica, was projected on the wall.

"We believe this creature crash landed hear millions of years ago" Said General Steve.

"And that's why you don't drink and fly a space ship" Said Ryan

"Anyway, the creature had gotten out of the craft, and froze in the harsh cold of Antarctica. It stayed in suspended animation for years, until a Swedish team of scientists picked it up. We believe the creature woke up and killed the scientists. It was then discovered by an American team of scientists. In both cases there are no known survivors."

"Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed."

"A rescue team brought back some remains from the cite"

"Yeah, because that's always a good idea"

"with the cargo on board, a helicopter crash landed in a small town known as Royal Woods." The general looked at Ryan for a moment "What no witty comment this time?"

"Trying to think of one sir" Said Ryan "Pretty sure the punch line involves me getting wood"

"Well, intell tells us the creature has survived the crash, and is spreading throughout the town. We can't be sure if this is true or not, but we cannot risk it spreading beyond the town. So we're gonna need to contain it, at dawn on Monday we will be dropping a nuclear device on Royal Woods, ensuring the creatures destruction."

"Whoa whoa whoa wait!" Said Ryan suddenly interested "Your gonna wipe hundreds of innocent lives away because of a rumor!?!?"

"Of course not Agent Ryan, we're not monsters!"

"But you said you're gonna fuckin nuke the place!"

"Ah, see that's where you come in. Your job is to gather as many civilians as possible, and get them to the rendezvous point. We will evacuate any civilians you find, and make sure they're taken care of"

"Yes sir"

"Now, Ryan this creature cannot be killed with ordinary weapons, it can regenerate at a cellular level in a matter of seconds"

"Oh kind of like Wolverine, or Deadpool" Ryan pointed out.

"I have no idea who either of those people are" The General responded.

"What have you been living under a fucking rock?" said Ryan.

"Point is, you're gonna need some special weapons to deal with this thing" General Steve escorted Agent Ryan to a firing range within the facility.

In the middle of the room, stood a skinny old man, wearing a lab coat and a red bow tie. Behind the man was a series of targets and test dummies, in front of him was a table full of futuristic looking weapons.

Some silvery metallic guns, some sort of futuristic looking canisters that appeared to be some sort of explosives, two shiny well crafted swords made out of some space age metal, and a grappling hook that would strap onto a man's wrist.

Ryan looked at the old man with a look of surprise on his face.

"Is that?" Ryan started "No it can't be..."

The old scientist walked over to Ryan and extended his hand.

"Hi" Said the old scientist "I'm Bill Nye the Science guy"

As he shook Bill Nye's hand, Ryan could have sworn he could hear the Bill Nye theme song playing in the background.

Bill walked back toward the table of weapons picked up one of the futuristic guns, pointed it at one of the test dummies and pulled the trigger.

Blue and white flames spewed out of the gun and turned the entire dummy to ash, almost instantly.

"Is that a fucking flamethrower?!?!"

"Better" Said the general, "It's a plasma launcher. I'll let Bill explain"

"Thanks General" Said Bill "See plasma is the fourth state of matter. So you got solid, liquid, and gas. But beyond gas you have plasma. Plasma is essentially a superheated gas. It's so hot that the electrons in the atoms have been stripped away. Plasma is the stuff that the sun is made of. As for the coloration of the flames, the hotter the flame the brighter the color. Most fires we see here on earth are a mix of yellow orange and red, but as you've seen this plasma launcher shoots blue and white flames because it's much hotter than any fire we see on earth, it's as hot as the center of the sun. Now that is really cool, huh actually, it's really hot"

"Guess this means we're going to be giving this thing a pretty warm welcome" Ryan joked.

"Haha, I guess this means you'll be having a pretty HOT adventure" Said Bill.

The scientist and special agent started to laugh, the General got an annoyed expression on his face. "You two bozos were made for each other"

"Hey what do these do?" Asked Ryan as he picked up one of the blue glowing canisters, it felt hot to the touch.

"Press the button on the end, and throw it at those dummies over there" Bill instructed.

Ryan pressed the button at the end of the strange glowing metal cylinder, it started to beep and he threw it toward a small group of test dummies. As the object hit the ground it exploded in a flash of white light and instantly turned the dummies into dust.

"HOLY FUCK!" Exclaimed Ryan.

"Plasma grenade!" Bill explained excitedly. "And wow, you really got a mouth on you!"

"Sorry, if the swearing bothers you I can tone it down"

"No that's fine, we're both adults here"

"So what's next?"

Bill handed Ryan one of the swords "Press the button on the sword's handle"

Ryan pressed the button, and the sword was engulfed in blue flames "Whoa!" He exclaimed, he walked over to one of the test dummies. He slashed at the flaming sword at the dummy, he cut through it like a hot knife through butter. The two halves of the dummy flew apart and burst into flames. Ryan looked back at Bill, grinning from ear to ear.

Later Ryan had suited up in what looked like some sort of high tech ninja suit covered in a lightweight, yet very strong armor.

He looked at his suit "I think I would have preferred red, but at least it's not green, or animated".

As Ryan was on his way down the long hallway leading to the helipad, Bill Nye walked up to him. "Ryan" he said, "I have a bad feeling about this mission. I'll look into it, but something doesn't seem right."

"Don't worry dude" Said Ryan "I think I can handle myself."

Lincoln Loud had squeezed through the hole in his basement, and dug his way through the dirt and snow. Ever since that Thing had appeared a couple days ago, he and his sisters had been trapped in a living hell of blood, guts, and pain. He did not know what awaited him outside, but he could not stay in that house one more second. Even though he was sure he had beaten the beast, he had thought the same thing twice now, but it always found a way back. It had brutally murdered all but two of his sisters, well really all but three; he was forced to kill Lynn himself.

He kept digging and digging, but had he known what awaited him outside, he would have taken his chances in his house.

His hand burst through the snow, he crawled his way into the cold dark swirling winds outside and took a long cold breath. It may have been freezing cold, but it still felt nice to finally have some fresh air. The inside of his house had started to reek of blood, ashes, and death.

He was soon followed by his two surviving sisters Lori and Leni. The three kids started to shiver. Even though they had bundled up in warm coats, and sweaters, the cold of the blizzard still chilled them to the bone.

Mr. Grouse, the elderly next door neighbor of the Loud family was tending a fire in his fireplace. His house was mostly dark, the entire town was caught in a blizzard that cut the power off for the whole town.

He heard a knock on the door and was surprised to see Lori, Leni, and Lincoln Loud standing on his porch freezing cold. The three kids looked as though they hadn't slept in days, they had bags under their eyes, their hair was all messed up, and their faces were covered in dirt.

Like most of the neighborhood Mr. Grouse used to hate the Loud family. The Louds had 11 incredibly loud (no pun intended) and obnoxious children that would constantly keep the neighbors up all night. The Loud house had also greatly lowered the property value of every house for miles around. But ever since last Christmas when the Louds all pitched in to help Mr. Grouse visit his own large family, he had grown to like the family.

He had learned that the Louds were a misunderstood family, sure they were, well loud, but once you got to know them, they were a really nice group of people.

"Louds?" He asked "You look terrible, what happened to you"

"I know this is a lot to ask, but..." Lori started "And it's terrible timing but, can we stay here for the night? I... Please we just can't stay in that place any longer. Please we're tired, and cold, and scared"

"What's wrong" Said Mr. Grouse, concerned, "Trouble at home? Is someone trying to hurt you? It's not your parents is it?"

"No of course not" Said Lori "our parents would never hurt us. Actually their out of town, we only need a safe place to stay until they get back, and we didn't know where else to turn." Lori's eyes grew wider and more helpless as she begged for shelter for her and her younger siblings. Leni and Lincoln were holding each other tightly shivering in the cold.

"Well what is going on then?" Asked Mr. Grouse.

"Ok I KNOW this is going to sound absolutely insane but you gotta believe us, can we come in?"

Mr. Grouse motioned them to enter his house. Upon entering the house Leni and Lincoln immediately noticed something was off about the place. All the windows and doors have been boarded up as if to keep someone or something out.

"I'll take your coats" Said Mr. Grouse.

As they handed him their coats (except Lincoln who decided to keep his) Lori started to explain her situation "So yeah, this is going to sound INSANE but every word of it is true. This entire weekend, my siblings and I have been hunted by a umm a..."

"Shape-shifting monster" Mr. Grouse said in a low voice as he threw their coats on the ground.

"How... did you?" Lori asked, getting a bit confused.

Mr. Grouse inched toward her, the low light from his fire place creating dark shadows on his face. Lori had never really noticed how big and intimidating her neighbor was until now. She slowly backed away, fearing she had made a HUGE mistake.

"Relax" Said Mr. Grouse, "I ain't one of those things."

Lori breathed a sigh of relief.

"But did you think you were the only house that's been attacked by these creatures" Mr. Grouse explained. "All over town this has been happening! People have been getting sick and changing into bloodthirsty monsters. Tentacles, and teeth, it's terrifying really. I think it might be some sort of virus. But what's even more terrifying is the gangs of bandits that have started roaming the streets in all the chaos."

"Bandits?"

"yeah, bandits, people are going nuts. I tell ya kids, we are living in the end times" Said Mr. Grouse. "It's scary I know. First we got shape-shifting monsters, then a gang of bandits form led by a mad man."

"Mad man?"

"You kids would have been better off in your own house I'm afraid" Mr. Grouse went on "And I can assure you, I am not a monster, nor am I a bandit. But the real question is Lori Loud, if you really are Lori Loud. How do I know YOU'RE not one of the creatures?" He picked up a red hot fire poker from his fireplace and pointed it at Lori. "Why shouldn't I just pick you up and throw you in my fireplace just in case?"

"No please!" Lori begged falling to her knees "I'm human I promise! Please you don't have to do this!"

"In answer to your question Mr. Grouse" Lincoln interrupted, with a dark yet very calm voice "If you do try to kill my sister by throwing her into your fireplace, one of two things will happen. Either she IS the Thing and she fights back with tentacles coming out of her and ripping you to shreds. I've seen this thing in action, those tentacles can have a good 10 foot reach probably more, and it's faster than you would believe. Even with that fancy little fire poker, you wouldn't stand a chance. Or she's NOT the thing, and believe me I would know if she is by now, you throw her into the fireplace and she burns to death and you've just killed an innocent girl who just wanted help. Oh but that wouldn't just end with a guilt trip" Lincoln the pulled a switch blade out of his pocket "If you kill my sister, I WILL avenge her. Probably by cutting out your guts and hanging you with your own intestines. Either way this ends Mr. Grouse, you DIE painfully. Or you can let my sister go, we can bunk here for the night, and we all live happily ever after."

Mr. Grouse was stunned, his face was white as a ghost, and a urine stain formed on his pants. "Make yourself at home kids" Mr. Grouse said with a shaky voice "I'm gonna go change my pants" Mr. Grouse went upstairs to do exactly as he said.

"Lincoln that was amazing!" Said Lori getting up to hug him "You saved my life" She tightly squeezed her little brother.

"I'm sure you would have done the same for me" He said. "Plus I know you're not one of those things"

"Maybe I am" Lori said playfully pretending to bit Lincoln.

Lincoln giggled.

Leni came up from behind and tickled him.

Lori smiled, it felt like an eternity since the three of them had had any fun, or even felt happy.

Mr. Grouse came back downstairs to see that Lincoln and Leni had fallen asleep on his couch, cuddled together. Lori was sitting in his recliner staring into the flames of his fireplace.

"Hey Lori, I'm very sorry about earlier" He apologized.

"It's fine I get it." Said Lori "We're all scared"

Mr. Grouse sat in the chair across from hers. "Say, what's gotten into your brother, he seems different"

"Well for starters, you tried to burn me alive" Lori pointed out. "But he does seem a bit... Darker lately, I don't blame him, poor kid's been through a lot in the past couple of days. I doubt he'll ever be the same again."

They heard something big moving outside. Mr. Grouse motioned for Lori to keep quiet.

Whatever it was, its footsteps made the entire house shake.

Soon it was gone. "What was that?" Lori asked.

"It must be one of those things, those shape-shifting monsters"

"Jeeze, how big do these things get?"

"Who knows, I've never stuck around to get a good look at one"

Just then they heard a knock on the door.

"You stay here Loud, I'm gonna go check this out" Said Mr. Grouse.

He walked over to the door and opened it. On the other side of the door stood a group of men and women, who looked like they came straight out of a Mad Max movie. They were wearing a ton of leather jackets, spiked helmets, spiked boots, improvised armor such as shoulder pads from a football player's uniform. The man in the front had a huge purple Mohawk.

The man with the Mohawk pointed a sawed off shotgun in Mr. Grouse's face, and blew his head off.

The loud bang woke Lincoln and Leni, who screamed at what they saw. The group came into the house, they far outnumbered, and out gunned the Loud children, so they easily pinned the kids to the ground, hog tied them, and marched them out into the cold.

"Who are you people?" Asked Lori.

"What are you gonna do to us?" Asked Leni.

They got no response. The kids started to shiver, they had been yanked out of Mr. Grouse's house in a hurry, and didn't have their jackets on. Their sweaters kept them wormer than their ordinary blue tank-top or green dress would have, but they were still freezing. Lincoln still had his red winter jacket on, but the cold still cut through even that.

They were brought to a dark colored car. The Mad Max people opened the trunk, it was pitch black inside.

Lori and Leni started to cry, as they were each shoved into the trunk. Just before Lincoln was shoved in, he looked back in the dark snowy distance. He could make out something big in the distance. He couldn't tell what it was, it didn't seem to have much of a set shape, but it was massive, bigger than most of the houses. It was also moving, whatever it was it was alive.

Lincoln was shoved into the trunk, the hatch was closed, and everything went dark.

It was nearly silent, the only sound was his sisters sobbing.

"I'm ssssoooo sorry guys" Lori said through her tears, "I was put in charge, I was supposed to protect you and... and I failed. I am so sorry. Most of our family is dead, and now we're being dragged off to god knows wear. I... I think this the end. I am so sorry, I never wanted any of this to happen"

"It's not your fault Lori" Said Lincoln, "How could you have known we'd be attacked by a shape-shifting alien. That's not exactly an everyday thing."

"Are we going to die?" Leni asked in a scared voice.

"Leni I... I don't know" Said Lori.

"I'm scared" said Leni.

"L-Lincoln?" it was a new voice, "I-is that you?" It was a familiar voice, a female one. Whoever she was, she sounded like she was just waking up.

"Who is that?" Asked Lincoln.

"It's Christina, from school." Said the voice.

Christina. Lincoln used to have a huge crush on her, until it got out that he liked her, and she switched classes. Since then, he never really talked to her, sometimes he would see her in the hallways, but the rarely exchanged words, if that.

"Christina?" He asked again "W-what the hell is going on"

"Well I'm not sure why, but people have been turning into..."

"Shape-shifting monsters yeah, yeah I know that part, been dealing with those things all weekend" Lincoln explained "I mean who the fuck are these Mad Max wannabe's and where the bloody hell are they taking us?"

"Wow linc!" Christina was shocked at what he had just said "never knew you had such a uh, colorful vocabulary. But uh yeah, I have no clue who these guys are. They just showed up out of nowhere and kidnapped me."

"Christina, where are your parents?" Asked Lori.

They heard Christina start to cry.

"Oh" The three Louds replied in unison realizing what had happened to her.

"After those things got..." Christina tried to explain through her tears, "I... I was all alone, I was so scared, I didn't have anywhere to go. These guys found me, tied me up, and... now I'm here."

There was a moment of silence for a few minutes. Then they heard the little girls voice again "Lincoln, I'm sorry I switched classes when I found out you liked me" She said apologetically "I over reacted".

"That's okay Christina, you didn't hurt me" He said, "Not really" tears started to form in his eyes, and roll down his face.

"I..." Christina started again "you liked me, and I pushed you away. I know you say I didn't hurt you but, I can't help feeling like I did. You really are sweet, you're a good guy Lincoln and I feel really bad about what I did."

Lincoln was starting to sob now.

"I do like you Lincoln, but not in that way." She said, as Lincoln started to cry more, "Lincoln, if we survive this. You think? You think we could be friends?"

Lincoln wanted to wipe his tear away, but his hands were tied behind his back. So he just decided to wipe his tears on Leni's sweeter, which she didn't mind at all.

"yeah" He said "I would like that, Christina."

They all sat in silence, and darkness, for what felt like an hour.

Soon the trunk was opened; the four kids were dragged out of the trunk, and placed down on their knees, their hands were then tied to posts sticking out of the ground. They were in the middle of the woods somewhere. The people, who had kidnapped them, were all sitting around a fire.

"Who are you people?" Asked Leni.

"What' going on?" Asked Lincoln.

"Well, well, well" Came a voice from the group, "If it isn't stinkin' Lincoln Loud."

A young boy, about Lincoln's age, emerged from the group. He had thick red-brown hair, a leather jacket over a green t-shirt, and a smug look on his face.

"Ain't you gonna say hi to your old buddy Chandler?" Said the boy.

"Buddy?" Lincoln thought with anger and confusion. A lot of words can describe Chandler; manipulative, egotistical, selfish, uncaring, even evil. "Buddy" was NOT one of those words.

"What do you want Chandler?" He asked.

Before Lincoln saw Chandler for the little prick that he was, he admired him. Chandler was one of the most popular boys at school. Lincoln had worked his butt off to suck up to chandler, so he could be invited to Chandler's birthday party. It turned out Chandler was just using Lincoln to get free stuff from the local pizza joint that his sister Lori had gotten a job at (with Lincoln's help of course).

As Chandler was using Lincoln, Lincoln in turn was using Lori to get the free stuff to please Chandler. He had almost cost his poor sister her job, and her chance to go to a dance she was really excited for. That dance was the whole reason Lori got a job in the first place, so she could afford to by a beautiful dress. Because of all the free hand outs Lori was giving Lincoln, who in turn gave to Chandler, poor Lori had to work the night of the dance to pay it off.

In the end Lincoln had skipped Chandler's party to fill in for Lori so she could go to her dance. Ever since then, two things happened, first he never forgave himself for what he did to Lori, secondly he HATED Chandler with every fiber of his being.

Clearly though, Chandler didn't get the memo.

"You look like you've seen some terrible shit, Lincoln" Chandler said.

He then looked at the other three kids trying to remember their names "Luna, and... Lara right?" he said pointing at Lori and Leni.

"Their names are Lori and Leni" Lincoln told him "Luna's dead and Lara is a character from a video game!"

"Oh, Luna was one of the other sisters wasn't she?" Chandler puzzled, "I'm deeply sorry for you loss Linc'" He said in a voice that didn't sound in the least bit sorry. "Oh and the lovely Christina" He walked over to Christina, who seemed a bit confused. One of the men untied Christina's hands. He gently took her hand and kissed it as if he was some sort of gentlemen. "Let's get you off of this cold hard ground" Christina started to awkwardly blush as Chandler picked her up on her feet. He walked her in front of the Loud children, and just beyond the fire. The two turned around to look at the Loud kids.

"You know Lincoln" Said Chandler, placing his arms around Christina. "This has been a very strange couple of days to say the least. People turning into monsters, and eating one another. Man sometimes you gotta do some pretty messed up things to stay alive." Chandler gave Christina a warm smile. "You guys wann know how I stayed alive this long?" He asked, gazing into Christina's eye lovingly.

Christina began to get a bit confused, "Uh, sure" She said.

Chandler calmly turned his head toward Lincoln, "You see Lincoln" He looked back at Christina with a half smile. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a switch blade. "I'm a fucking cannibal" He calmly said. Then he stabbed the blade into Christina's belly. "Guy's gotta do what he can to survive, right Lincoln". He ripped the blade across Christina's stomach, as she screamed in pain.

He reached into her stomach, pulled out her intestines and took a big bit out of them. She fell to her knees holding her intestines in her hands, her coat and sweeter drenched in her own blood, and a look of shock and pain on her face.

"L-Lincoln" She said, looking at Lincoln with tears purring from her eyes, and blood purring from her mouth.

Chandler gently grabbed Christina's chin, and moved her face toward his. "Sssshhhh, it'll be all over soon" He said. He then reached into her mouth and pulled out her tongue. She screamed as he slowly sawed her tongue off with his blade. Chandler took a bite out of Christina's tongue like it was a big juicy burger. The rest of the men and women in Chandler's group, dragged the squirming little girl to the fire. They then cut off her limbs. They had some sort of metal grate suspended over the fire, just big enough to place Christina on, to cook her.

Even though her guts were spilling out, and her arms and legs were cut off, she was somehow still alive, as the fire singed her flesh.

As the fire cooked her body, blood started to boil out of her mouth and eyes. She gave off a scent like barbecued ribs.

The cannibals started to pick pieces of flesh off of Christina and eat them as she drew her final breaths.

Chandler walked over to the Louds, who werestill tied up.

The Loud kids were absolutely stunned, with looks of shock and horror in their faces.

Leni started to cry "W-what's wrong with you" She said. "She didn't even do anything to you!"

"Hey survival of the fittest right?" Said Chandler, with bits of Christina's skin stuck in his teeth. "Oh don't worry, you guys are next. We'll probably have one of you for breakfast"

Leni started crying more.

"Lincoln, Leni," Lori started a speech through her tears; "before we die I just want you to know, that even though we fight sometimes, I always loved you. I'll still love you, in this life and the next. No matter what, I love you guys. These past years with you guys have been the best, and... and you guys made it that way"

"We love you too Lori" Leni said. She looked at Lincoln with tears in her eyes, "I love you Linky, I could have never asked for a better little brother. I'm so sorry you have to go through this with us. But at least we're together, and that's not nothing. We'll always be your family Linky. We love you"

Chandler knelt down to look Lincoln in the eye, and said in a low voice "Oh come on Lincoln don't you have some heartfelt speech. Come on Linky, you've always had a way with words. You're always so innocent, and naïve, makes me sick really. Tell us how much you love your sisters, how much they mean to you, before I cut their guts out in front of you. Come on Linky really tug at our heart strings."

Lincoln looked Chandler dead in the eyes, and in the most dark and serious voice he could, he told him "I will kill you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I'm gonna kill you"

Chandler was blown back at first, but then he stared to laugh "DAMN! Look who's grown some balls!"

Lincoln narrowed his eyes, "Then I think I'm gonna take your jacket, it looks nice. Is that real leather?"

Chandler once again laughed, "Linky my boy! I don't think you're in the position to be making such threats. And yes it is real leather"

While Lincoln was in the trunk of the car he had found a small, sharp piece of scrap metal. He had hid it under his jacket sleeve. Ever since they got out, Lincoln had been discreetly using that piece of metal to cut through the ropes binding his wrists.

Once he got himself free, he threw a right hook into the side of Chandlers head knocking him down.

Lincoln got up as his sisters started to cheer him on. Chandler also got back up and remarked "Impressive"

Chandler swiped at Lincoln with his switch blade, Lincoln blocked him with his left arm. Lincoln attempted to jab the small piece of scrap metal into Chandler's stomach, but Chandler grabbed his arm, and kicked him in the shin.

The Cannibal with the Mohawk came and grabbed Lincoln. Chandler walked over to Leni, and put a knife to her throat.

"Oh Lincoln, you white haired little freak" he said. "You should not have done that. Now you're gonna have to watch my slice up poor Loni"

"It's Leni"

"You're gonna have to watch me slice up poor LENI to a million bit sized pieces, Slowly and intimately"

Just then, a large bony spike burst through the Mohawk guys chest, just missing Lincolns head. He dropped Lincoln, as fleshy red tendrils wrapped around the man's body and pulled him up into the trees. The Tentacle that had pierced the man was attached to a large creature that resembled a pterodactyl. Its skin was blood red, and its mouth was full of razor sharp teeth. It was perched on a large tree branch, its huge leathery wings almost looked like those of a bat's. The tentacle had shot out of its mouth to skewer the cannibal, and was now dragging him up into the creature's beak, down its throat, and into its gullet to be digested alive.

Chandler's jaw dropped, and he dropped his knife. The Thing let out a loud birdlike screech as it raised its massive wings in the air. More tentacles shot out of the creature's chest, each tentacle grabbed one of the cannibals and hoisted them into its chest. Once the cannibals were pinned to the Things chest, acid started to seep from its body. The cannibals screamed in agony as the skin and flesh started to dissolve from their bones and be absorbed by the massive extraterrestrial beast.

Large hairless, red, wolf like Things emerged from the woods. They started to tackle the cannibals and rip them to shreds. The cannibals tried to fight back with what weapons they had, but the creatures could heal from nearly any injury.

"Oh you beautiful, extraterrestrial bastard!" Lincoln cried "Never in a million years would I have ever thought I'd be happy to see you!"

Lincoln went over to untie his sisters. "Come on" He said to them "We've gotta get the hell out of here!"

The three ran away from the chaos and carnage as fast as they could. They didn't even notice Chandler fallowing them close behind.

The group of cannibals heard a loud thumping noise as another massive beast came out of the woods. This Thing resembles a cross between a gorilla, and a tyrannosaurus Rex. It had huge strong ape like arms, a long reptilian tail, and a large dinosaur like snout full of sharp teeth the size of steak knives. The creature had red skin, and huge tentacles as thick as trees growing out of its back. The creature took a deep breath, opened its mouth, and spewed out a title wave of acid. The camp fire was put out by the acid, leaving the cannibal in darkness. They all screamed in agony as their skin and flesh fell from their bones and became puddles on the ground. Red tendrils covered the forest floor to seep up the now liquefied cannibals.

The Louds, and Chandler frantically ran and ran, trying to find their way out of the woods.

They finally got to the edge of the woods.

Once the four got back into town, they found nothing but chaos. The streets were full of burning buildings and car. The citizens were being ripped to pieces by the dog-like creatures, and creatures that resembled tall faceless men, with long sharp fingers that they used to rip their victims apart as well as tentacles coming out of their backs. The fleshy red substance of The Thing grew on the side of the buildings like some sort of fungus, and large tentacles grew out of the walls and grabbed people running past, then crushed them and absorbed their body fluids.

The four kids stood at the edge of their home town stunned.

Lincoln looked at Chandler, "I see you made it out." He said, with rage in his voice.

"Lincoln I..." Chandler started, "I'm sorry about what happened back there" This time he showed honest and sincere remorse in his voice.

"Phs, yeah, sure you are"

Just then they heard huge footsteps from behind them, as the large tentacled ape/ T-Rex creature closed in on them.

"We don't have time for this" Said Lori.

"Well where do we go now?" Said Leni.

"The school might be safe" Suggested Chandler. He ran off into the Chaos of the town toward the school, and the others fallowed him.

"Can we really trust this guy" Lori asked Lincoln as they ran.

"He almost cut me into tiny pieces" Leni pointed out, "And we can't forget what he did to poor Christina"

"Well the school is the only option we have right now" Lincoln pointed out. "Like he said, guy's gottta do what he can to survive."

They ran through the streets dodging the tree trunk sized tentacles as they swiped at them. As they reached the school, Lori, Leni and Lincoln had gotten in front of Chandler. Lori reached the front doors first, then Leni, then Lincoln who closed and locked the door behind him, locking Chandler out.

Chandler fumbled with the door to try and get it open. "Hey uh Lincoln buddy," He said with confusion, "I think the door's stuck"

Lincoln didn't say anything, he just starred at Chandler.

"Dude the door won't budge you gotta help me get this thing open" Chandler was starting to get a little worried as he tried to get the door open to get inside. "Wait, dude... did you lock it?" He could hear the nightmarouse creatures closing in on him. "Come on dude, quit playing around. This isn't funny let me in!"

"I made you a promise, Chandler" Said Lincoln in a calm voice.

"What?!?!" Chandler's eyes widened as he realized what was happening. "No no no no, you can't do this Lincoln. Come on I know you, you're not a murderer!"

Lincoln remained motionless.

Chandler looked down and saw red tendrils wrapping around his feet and slithering up his leg.

"No no no, please you can't do this PLEASE!" He pleaded "LINCOLN LOUD OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!!!" He was screaming at the top of his lungs now.

The tendrils wrapped around Chandler's waist. One of them dug into his kidney, and sliced across his stomach spilling his intestines.

More tentacles climbed up Chandler's leg and into the hole in his stomach. The tentacles made their way into his intestines, up through his stomach and out his mouth. They then proceeded to go up into his nose and out his eye sockets, popping his eyes out of his head to hang by the optic nerves. The Tentacles wrapped around his head and body and started to ooze acid. Chandler dropped to his knees as his face started to melt, and his guts became liquid and purred out of him.

The Thing dissolved all his flesh, and crushed his bones to dust. The only thing that remained of Chandler was some ripped up blood soaked genes, green t-shirt, and leather jacket.

Lincoln watched the tentacles slither away. He unlocked the door and slowly crept out. Very carefully he picked up the leather jacket and shook off any acid that may have been on it. He then put the jacket on, and smiled. Not only did it look better than his warn out red winter jacket, but it was much warmer too.

As he turned to go back into the school, he heard a grown from behind him. He turned to see one of the huge fleshy hairless dogs moving toward him.

He gulped and closed his eyes waiting for the pain to start. However just then an arrow shot into the creature, knocking it to the ground and pinning it there.

Lincoln turned back toward the school to see Ronne Anne holding a cross bow.

"That thing is just going to heal and get up, you better hurry" She said.

Lincoln ran into the school and they closed the door.

Ryan's helicopter had reached Royal Woods. Ryan looked down to see the town covered in clouds. Through the clouds he could see the fires and explosions. The town had become complete mayhem.

General Steve was sitting across from Ryan. "Man" Said the general, "Everywhere that thing goes, nothing but death and destruction fallow".

Ryan continued looking at what seemed to be some sort of living Hell. "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, I looked and behold a pale hose, the name it said on him was death, and Hell fallowed with him"

"Didn't know you were a religious man Ryan," Said the General "Quoting the Bible?"

Ryan looked at his commanding officer "What? Oh no, I was actually quoting Johnny Cash" He replied "You ever see the movie Logan? Oh wait that's right of course you haven't, you're boring" He then strapped on his parachute, placed two of Bill Nye's futuristic swords on his back, strapped on a belt full of plasma grenades, and picked up two plasma launchers.

"Remember" Said the general "You have till the break of dawn on Monday, then we turn this place into a parking lot"

"Yes sir" Said Ryan putting on a pair of high tech goggles. "Let's kill the fucking thing". 

Well, we are getting close to the end. But it's not over quite yet. 

What did you think of the Bill Nye The Science guy cameo? and also the new character, Ryan? 

Let me know what you thought, and I'll see you in the next chapter.