Dinner in the Loud House is a sight to behold. With ten girls it can get crazy, but there's always that idea of restraint holding them back. With ten boys however…
Things are more liable to breakage and chaos.
"Who was that guy? Why was he in dimension C-137? Why did he call me an anomaly?" Linka worriedly thought while she nervously pushed the food of her plate around. "I have the strangest feeling that my sisters are in danger… But what can I do? I'm stuck in another reality with no way home!"
"So kids!" Lynn Sr. joyfully shouts, "Why don't you tell us what you did today?!"
Loki takes a mouthful of food and shoves it into his mouth, before saying, "I entered this contest and won a motorcycle!"
"Oh really honey?" Rita responds, "What was that contest?"
He goes red, "I'd rather not say."
"Come on son, what could you have possibly done to win a motorcycle that could be so bad?" Lynn Sr. asks, turning his commanding gaze towards his eldest son.
Loki looks away in shame, before declaring, "I had to run through the school in nothing but a pretty pink dress, princess shoes and a princess hat for the longest time." Then he turns to Linka, "I now know how you felt wearing that dress a few days ago."
The lone girl doesn't respond, and instead continues her nervous gesture.
"Hey Linka?" Rita worriedly calls.
Immediately, she flinches, "Huh, what?"
"You've barely touched your dinner sweetie. Is something wrong?" Rita continues, her worried voice gaining its usual motherly tone.
"Is there anything you'd like to talk about?" Lynn Sr. continues.
Lane then responds, "Yeah sis, you're probably just ovary-acting about it!"
Loni then speaks up, "Ovary acting? What's that?"
"It's a type of song genre Loni." Luke and answers, before elbowing Lane, "Isn't that right Lane?"
"Come on guys." Lynn Jr. responds, "It's not like we can keep Loni in the dark forever, even though he is the most innocent of us!"
Linka then glares at Lane.
Immediately the comedian throws his hand up defensively, "Whoa, sorry Linka. I guess I went a bit too far." He nervously rubs the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Ya think bro?" Loki goes, before turning to Linka, "So what's buggin' ya sis? You're usually more talkative at the table."
"Nothing Loki." Linka quickly responds, "Everything's just fine." She puts on a sheepish smile, "Yeah, just some random man is coming after us and stuff. It could be worse!"
"I know!" Lynn Jr. declares, "She's probably still thinking of the lemonade stand she made yesterday!"
"How did that go?" Rita asks, and Luke responds, "I saw Linka kiss the boy she was competing with, haha!"
Lane laughs, "Haha! I guess true love can be made from lemon-ades!"
"Aww, that means she's got a boyfriend!" Loni declares, "So cute!" Causing Linka to blush and shout, "He's not my boyfriend!"
The boys go, "D'aww." In unison.
*Groan* "Well, at least they don't suspect the real reason."Linka then forces herself to eat some of the food on her plate, before standing up and declaring, "I guess I'll be in my room if you need me."
And with that, she walks into the kitchen, passed the kiddie table and over to the sink without greeting her younger siblings. Without another word she walks up to her room.
"I wonder what's up with Linka." Leif says, "She's usually more cheery."
"I'm not sure." Lexx responds, "Though… maybe I can go and try to cheer her up! After all, she did help me get my girl, so it's the least I can do!"
"You? Cheer up Linka?" Leif laughs, "You couldn't even cheer up a star girl with a magic fish hat!"
Lexx begins to steam, "Oh yeah! I'll prove it!"
Leif jumps out of his seat, "Not if I can prove it first!"
And with that, the twins run passed everyone else and up the stairs.
A Few Minutes Later…
Linka lies on the bed, unsure of what to do next, "Maybe I could use the dimensional goggles again."
Then, she leans up and sighs, "To be honest, I haven't taken a break in days…" She glances at the dimensional watch resting on her table next to the oversized textbook, "I wonder if I can modify that…"
"I want to play with her first!" Lexx shouts and he and Leif roll into the young girl's room.
"No! Me first!" by the time the twins stop rolling, they're right in the middle of the closet, with the young girl sitting right next to them, while they fight over a weird box."
"Umm, guys?" Linka quizzically goes, "What are you fighting over now?"
"We want to play a game with you Linka!" Lexx declares.
"Yeah!" Leif continues, "It's called duel monsters, and it's sure to cheer you up in one way or another!"
Lexx then snatches the box from Leif, "So what do ya say sis?"
Leif then rubs the back of his head, "We know you've said you'd never play it, ever, but why don't you give it a chance! What's the worst that can happen?"
"Duel monsters huh? I remember wanting to play this back home… but none of my sisters would play with me."
So with a sigh, Linka answers, "Sure you two. I'll play."
The young boys both smile and cheer, "Awesome Linka!"
"So how do I play?" She asks, "I know how to play, there was an entire network dedicated to playing this game before Komoney decided to pull the plug."
Ten Minutes Later…
"So you get all that, Linka?" Leif asks, both his and Lexx's excitement beams in their smiling expressions.
The young girl nods, "Yeah, so wanna play now?" While she thinks, "Actually I didn't. I just already knew all that stuff."
Then, Lexx turns to Leif, "Wanna show her the ARC System? And play on that?"
"Yeah, it's the most fun way to play!"
"ARC system?" Linka tilts her head in confusion, while the two boys get off her bed. They motion for her to follow them, and she complies. A few steps later and the trio are standing in Levi's room as he fiddles with some odd devices.
"Guys, I thought we were going to play a game?"
"We are!" Lexx answers, "But we need to grab some gear first!"
"What gear?" Linka asks, "And what's the ARC System?"
Levi grabs a nearby screwdriver and answers; "ARC System is shorthand for The Augmented Reality Combat System." Then, he secures a screen to the new device, "It creates hard-light projections of whatever card is put in play, allowing users to actually feel the creatures attacking them."
"Isn't that a bit dangerous?"
Lexx waves her off, "Nah, it's really fun! Plus, the ARC system creates a cushion of hard light so you don't get hurt that badly!"
Leif finishes, "So while you may find the occasional burn mark, everything is fine overall!"
Levi then screws in the final part, before declaring, "And with that, your duel disk is complete." He then hands her the pink device, "With it, you'll be able to use the ARC system to duel."
Though Linka hesitates for a moment, she eventually does strap the watch-pad-like device to her wrist and shoves her newly-made deck in its open slot. "Ok, so where can we go to play?"
"Outside. The ARC System is too dangerous to use indoors." Levi answers, before walking over to his closet and revealing a console, "I'll be running everything from up here, have fun out there!
"Ok then." Linka responds, before Leif and Lexx lead her into the backyard.
She calmly walks over to one end, while the twins walk over to the other.
"Augmented Reality Combat System Engaged!"GLaDOS declares, "Preparing to illuminate arena!" Immediately, the dark night around the trio lights up and gains a bluish hue to it. Hard-light boxes appear above them, as if designed to be jumped on top of, "Life point counters check, Neural Link engaged! Duel Disks Engaged!"
Immediately, Linka's new device turns on. Its screen gains a light blue hue, before a bent, black hard-light panel with an orange boarder appears in front of it.
The same thing happens to Leif's device, while Lexx stands by, his own on, but with no blade.
*Yawn* "What's going on?" Loki asks as he steps out into the backyard.
Luke follows behind, "It looks like Linka's dueling Leif and Lexx."
"Didn't she say she'd never play that game in like a million years?" Lane jokingly says, "Well she's going dual her night away!"
"Bad pun is bad Lane." Loki responds.
Then the brothers focus their attention of the three dueling.
"Ok, let's go!" Linka shouts and together, they declare, "Let's duel!"
"Ladies first!" Leif and Lexx declare, and Linka nods, "Ok then, I'll start off by playing Pre-preparation of rites!" she then shoves the spell card into her disk's bottom slot, "With it, I can add two cards to my hand, a ritual monster and spell!"
The wrist dealer spits out two cards, which Linka grabs as she continues, "And I'm going to use the spell I just added! Prediction Ritual!"
"What does it do Linka?" Leif nervously asks, as not expecting his sister to do something like that first turn.
"By tributing the pot of taboos in my hand, it'll let me ritual summon!" immediately, a massive circular stone tablet appears on the field between the duo, as nine flames appear around them, each flame flies over to an empty lamp, before a massive burst of energy flashes into the sky.
"I ritual summon, Prediction Princess Tarotrei!" immediately, the massive creature descends from the column of light, with a large blue dress covering its bony body; long blue hair and a purple scarf that reaches the end of her dress.
"And with that, I'll set two cards and end my turn." Linka declares, while she thinks, "I have to hold back, I have to hold back."
"Interesting first move sis, not bad for a beginner!" Lexx quips, while Leif declares, "I draw!" Then, he places his new card in hand, before pulling two others out, "And I'll start off by playing the spell Twin twister!" he shoves the spell in his disk's bottom slot, before placing another in his top, while Lexx declares, "By discarding Zefraxa, Flame Beast of the Nekroz, I can destroy your two face-down cards!"
Immediately, two massive tornadoes engulf the field, destroying Linka's defensive cards, much to her dismay.
"Dangit!" She shouts, as she stands before them defiantly
"And without any chance for retaliation, we'll set the pendulum scale."
"Pendulum scale?" Linka quizzically asks.
Lexx answers, "This is the fusion between spells and monsters!"
Leif continues, "With two monsters we can set the pendulum scale and perform a pendulum summon!"
"A pendulum summon?!"
"That's right1" The twins declare. "With scale one Shaddoll Zefranaga and Scale seven Ritual Beast Tamer Zefrawendi, we set the pendulum scale!" Leif then places the two monsters at opposing ends of his duel disk, causing the ARC System to project two pillars of light.
Then, the two chosen monsters rise up from the ground and float in mid air, on their right is a black-clad warrior with gold armor around his chest and angel wings, with a number one below him.
On their left is a pink-clad girl with blonde hair carrying a majestic staff with a green orb in it, while she rides a winged, pink dolphin wearing light-blue armor and another green orb connected to its headdress. The number seven is below her.
"With that, we can summon monsters with levels two through six all at the same time!"
"Doesn't that seem a bit broken?" Linka nervously questions, only for Lexx to respond, "Yes, yes it is!"
Then he sets one card, before declaring, "Now I'll play card of sanctity, it'll let us draw until we both have six cards in hand!"
Linka nods, before pulling the cards while Leif does the same. Then Lexx continues, "Next we play Oracle of Zefra, which lets us add a Zefra monster card to our hand! And we choose this!"
The wrist dealer spits out the chosen card while a massive obelisk appears behind him, built with ten massive orbs arranged in a weird, connection-like set-up.
Then, a small light appears above them, floating in a circular motion, "Our monsters are ready to swing into action!" Immediately, the light swings faster, and faster gaining more and more momentum before a light-pink portal opens up, and four lights burst forth from it. "We pendulum summon! Stellarknight Zefrathuban! Satellarknight Zefrathuban! ZefraSaber, Swordmaster of the Nekroz! And Zefraxi, Treasure of the Yang Zing!"
"Yep, that mechanic is literally broken." Loki declares, "Linka is probably screwed isn't she?"
"Yeah probably." Luke responds
Leif continues, "Next we'll use Zefraxi's effect! Since I pendulum summoned it, I can treat another Zefra monster as a tuner!"
Linka grits her teeth more, "A tuner monster?!"
"Yep, Zefraxi gives Zefrasaber the ability to modify a monster's frequency! And I'll use it to tune my Zefraxi!" Immediately, the sword master jumps up and splits apart into four rings, engulfing the rocky dragon, turning it into three stars.
"We Synchro summon, Clear Wing Synchro dragon!" a massive white dragon with six translucent wings takes the field. It has a white body with black stripes, as well as blue armor around its hands, head and chest.
"Next, by using my two tellarknights, we can build the overlay network!"
"What's that?" Linka questions, raising her disk up, as if hoping to protect herself.
"The overlay network is how you Xyz summon!" Lexx answers.
Immediately, the two monsters begin to glow with golden light, before turning into orbs and flying into a starry vortex in front of the twins, "I Xyz summon, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!"
A massive, black dragon with a metallic body and several purple energy orbs takes the field, with two purple orbs orbiting its body.
"But we're not done yet! I activate my set spell, polymerization! Allowing us to fusion summon!"
Linka can only watch as the two monsters in Leif's hand rise up and become two orbs in a massive blue and orange vortex, "I fusion summon, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon!"
A third dragon, with massive, plant-like appendages takes to the field.
Linka grits her teeth, "I think I've held back too much!"Before she shouts, "I activate Tarotrei's effect! I can flip one of your monsters facedown!"
Yet, Leif counters, "Nope, that won't work, we activate Clear Wing's effect, Negating and destroying Tarotrei!"
The resulting gust of wind almost knocks Linka down.
"Oh, and by the way." Lexx continues, "Clear Wing gains her attack power!" Then the young boys point at their sister, her field empty, "Go! Venom Rebellion Blight!" And with that, the three dragons attack, bringing Linka's life points to zero and sending her back a few feet.
Linka pants for a moment, "Wow, my sisters would've never played like that."
"Linka!" The brothers shout, before running over to their defeated sister.
"You ok sis?!" Lynn desperately asks. Loki continues, "Do you need water or something?"
"Maybe Leon can help!" Loni declares, before Leif and Lexx step over with, "Not bad for a beginner Linka."
Loki glares at the twins, before punching their shoulders, "But did you guys seriously have to go all-out on our sister?!"
"What! It's what she wanted!" Leif responds defensively.
The young girl stands up and dusts herself off, "That was fun!" Linka declares, "I wanna go again!" Then, she continues in a more excited tone, "But first, I need to make my own deck, that pendulum thing was cool!"
The brothers immediately turn to each other in surprise, "Sure Linka, we'll hit the card shop tomorrow then." Loki responds, before yawning. "Let's hit the hey, it's time for bed.
A few minutes later and the eleven children are back in their rooms, preparing to go to sleep.
"Heh, that was fun." Linka whispers, before falling onto her soft bed in exhaustion, "Just playing one of my favorite games with my new siblings. Who knew they could be so cool?"
She tucks herself in and gazes up into the moonlit sky, "And no problems yet… I wonder if that weird man will come around though.
Then she chuckles, "Heh, nah, it'll probably be fine."
Then her gaze falls upon her desk, almost completely undisturbed since her arrival. "Now that I think about it, if I have to act more like Linka, I may need to do some research on her or something like that."
Then she gets out of her bed and steps over, "Linka should have a diary or something, after all, all of my sisters have diaries!"
It takes her a few minutes to search the desk, but she eventually does find a small pink book, titled "Linka's Diary", with "Do not read" written in bold letters, everywhere it could possibly fit.
"Jackpot."Linka whispers, before opening the book and starting to read through its contents.
Meanwhile…
A blue and red portal opens up in the center of Royal Woods Park, before a tall man steps through. His military uniform and stature breathes of a strong professionalism. He moves the shield-like device on his arm closer to his mouth, before declaring, "Anomalies secured in dimension C-137. Hunter-VG has moved to dimension codenamed 63i apostrophe backslash to continue the mission."
"Copy, loud and clear Hunter-VG. Prepare to report back to base after completing mission. Your orders are to capture all anomalies present. Anyone who gets in the way is cleared for sealing. Is that clear?"
The hunter nods, "Mission directives are clear. Will report back after mission completion.
"Understood, proceed with mission."
The man then taps his device, causing it to project a small map of the town, "It seems that there are more anomalies than first expected. I cannot take out the main source yet." He then closes the map, before turning around and facing a little white bunny.
He wordlessly taps the blue orb on his device, and with a flash of purple light the creature is gone, and the hunter is holding a new metal card, this one decorated with image of a white bunny, "Heh, another anomaly sealed." And with that, he adds the new card to his deck.
"I will not let this dimension fall apart. These pesky anomalies will not escape my grasp."
The next day…
"Come on Linka! There's some fun to be done!" Loki declares, before turning to Levi, "You sure these upgraded disks will work independently of the ARC system?"
The young scientist nods, "Yes, I have even upgraded them so that they can support non-augmented disks as well."
Luke squats down to Levi's height, "Thanks for doing this, Linka seems to be feeling much better now."
"No problem. Anything to make our sister feel better is worth the effort." Levi responds, "Though, I wonder why she has been feeling so. First strange behavior, and then after she uses the goggles, she suddenly feels horrible? I wonder what's really going on with her… if she even is our so-called sister"
"Anyways, we've got cards to get and a tourney to win, you sure you guys don't wanna come?" Loni asks, his overjoyed tone cutting through the usual loudness.
"Sigh, I don't like that game much. It takes too much time away from writing." Lars immediately answers. "I remember my author friend online spent an entire summer playing the game to the point where he only ended up finishing one story and barely updating his one-shot collections."
Leif then continues, "Lexx and I want some more practice before we go to an official tourney again."
Lexx nods in agreement, "Yeah, so we'll be using the ARC system in the backyard."
Then, both twins shiver at the thought of what happened at their first competition.
"And I have no use for petty games." Levi adjusts his glasses; "Also, our youngest sibling needs a babysitter until you return. So I will be spending time in my lab working with the remaining liquid Divinium and Pizzazium. I might be able to find a new use for them."
Loki nods, and Linka finally slides down the railing, "I'm ready guys! Let's go!"
Luke strums away at his guitar, "Let's go have some gaming fun!"
And with that, the six siblings step out of the house and over to the car, luckily not all of them were going, or else there would be space for Loki's new motorcycle in the trunk!" And with another goodbye wave, the siblings wave their younger ones off, before driving away.
Mere moments after that, the hunter steps onto the Loud House Property. "Well, well." He whispers as he opens his map, "It seems as if the majority of the anomalies are focused in that house, but the prime anomaly is not present." He turns his map off, before walking towards the house. "No matter, I have a mission to complete. These pesky anomalies will continue to pile up if I do not seal them away."
He easily enters the house, almost as if he were a specter, before making his way up the stairs and quietly entering Linka's room.
"Dimensional viewing goggles, and crude ones at that." He mutters, "Sealing." And with that, another purple light flashes by and the goggles become another silver card.
Then he turns and quietly opens the door to the scientist's room.
"Well, well, what have we here."
Levi turns around in surprise, "What the?!" Levi steps back in fear, "Who are you, and how did you get into our home?!"
"I am a hunter." The man declares. "And I have come to seal you anomalies away."
"Lexx, Leif, help!" Levi frantically shouts, before another flash of purple engulfs his body.
"Worthless child." He whispers, before turning to the crib nearby, "Even this baby is exuding anomalies." For a moment, the man hesitates, as if unsure of whether to continue, "No matter my own feelings, I must continue my mission." Another flash, and Leon is added to the man's collection.
Immediately, Leif and Lexx run into the scientist's room and shout. "Levi what's wrong?!"
Their sight ends up fixed upon the hunter's demonic mask, and immediately the twins respond by raising their duel disks.
"Where's our brother?!" Lexx angrily asks, while Leif continues, "Tell us or we'll blown you away!"
"Duel monsters huh? It's been quite a few dimensions since I have been asked to play this." Then he raises his device, and immediately, a hard-light, sword-shaped blade with a blue boarder appears. "If you win, I'll tell you where he is."
"Ok then, I'll go first!" Leif responds.
A few moments later…
"Two more anomalies sealed." Trevor declares, as he adds the two new cards to his deck.
"What's going on here?!" Lars shouts.
"Well, well, another anomaly, this must be my lucky day." Before the Goth can react, the hunter taps his device again, "Anomaly sealed. Time to collect the remaining anomalies, before it is too late for this and other dimensions."
Later…
"Haha! That was awesome!" Linka declares as she walks out of the card shop, newly won trophy and cards in hand.
"Yeah, those guys were all scrubs!" Luke declares, "They were so easy to beat."
Lane continues, "Yeah, that was too easy!"
"Haha, now come on, let's-"
"Hello there anomalies." The hunter steps forward, before another flash of light goes off. When it dies down, Loni is a silver card in his hand. "Too easy."
"Loni!" the siblings shout. "What did you do to our brother?!"
"The same thing I will do to you and all anomalies, sealed him away." Then, he aims the device and hits the same button again.
Lane immediately reacts by jumping in front of Linka, causing him to end up sealed in the card.
"Loki, Linka, get out of here, we'll hold him off!" Lynn declares, while Luke comes to his side, both activating their duel disks.
"Pathetic, two more of you wish to fight?" The man taunts, "So be it."
"Got it." Loki declares, before pulling the motorcycle from the card trunk, grabbing Linka and riding off.
When the shock wears off, Linka shouts, "Do you think they'll be ok Loki?!"
"Don't worry, they're skilled, and with the ARC system, their attacks will easily knock him down a few notches. Then we'll be able to find out what happened to Loni and Lane!" Loki responds as he swerves to dodge the incoming traffic.
Immediately, the figure speeds passed the duo in a motorbike of his own, it's simple, almost like a police bike, save for the lack of lights and its black coat.
"That was too easy. Two more anomalies sealed." The hunter declares, before riding up to them, "Now would you kindly cease and desist so I can seal you away?"
"Never! We want our siblings back!" Loki answers.
"Pathetic." The man responds, before another flash of light.
Loki immediately reacts to shield Linka from the light, but ends up in the man's hand as a card.
"You're all that's left, now will you come quietly, or do I have to fight you as well?" The hunter taunts. As Linka grabs hold of the bike's handles, "I won't surrender, I want my siblings back!"
"Heh, then you'll have to fight me for them." He declares, "So what challenge do you have for me, I am a member of the Dimensional Anomaly and Time Paradox Enforcement Squadron. I have encountered countless tests similar to anything you can throw at me. And with the guardian of fate and money by my side, nothing can defeat me! I can screw the rules all I want!"
Linka holds on to the bike tightly, before declaring, " I'll duel you in a game of duel monsters!" Immediately, she connects her disk to the receiving port built into the bike's computer. "If I win, you must release my siblings and tell me what's going on!
"Heh, a card game on motorcycles, sounds dangerous. You've peaked my interest. But if I win, I get to seal you away."
Linka nods in agreement. "I am not an anomaly, my name is Linka Loud of dimension 63i apostrophe backslash!"
"Yeah, and I'm Trevor Mcfield, of dimension CX-135."
"Duel Mode detected, autopilot engaged." GLaDOS declares, "Augmented Reality Combat System engaged!"
The disk fields take shape, and the two motorcycles turn and speed down a nearby street.
"Let's duel!" The two shout, before Trevor declares, "I will complete my mission! You will be sealed!"
Linka grimaces, "Why are you doing this?! Why are you after us?!"
"You are an anomaly. The universe is under enormous strain with your continued existence." Then he pulls out a silver card decorated with the goggles, "And with your continued attempts to peer into alternate universes, you have been spreading corruption everywhere!"
"No…" Linka whispers, "That can't be me! I'm just a person trying to get home!"
"You are an anomaly that must be snuffed out!"
"What do you mean, I am not an anomaly!" Linka frantically responds.
Trevor answers, "You do not belong in this dimension! You must be removed and sealed away in order to keep this dimension stable! I will go first!" Then Trevor reveal a monster card, "I will start this duel off by playing DD Swirlal Slime in my hand, and using it and the DD Berfomet in my hand to fusion summon!"
"Oh come on! A fusion summon already?!" Linka goes with an annoyed tone, "No problem, I can handle that."
The blue and green slime ball and beast with two different sized wings appear above Trevor. Before glowing with red and blue light and mixing in a blue and orange vortex. Trevor's voice gains a strong passion as he shouts, "Slime of the dimensions and beast of unusual wings, come together as one in a whirlpool of light! Become one and give birth to a new king! Come forth, Different Dimension Demon Flame King Genghis!"
A massive, fiery warrior appears, its shield and blade soaked red, presumably with the blood of its victims.
"I'm not done yet!" Trevor declares, much to Linka's dismay, "Oh come on!"
"Next I normal summon DD Night Howling!" A weird, mouth-like creature takes to the field, "And I will use it to revive my DD Berfomet!" Immediately, the creature glows with dark energy, before a black portal opens next to it, reviving the unusual beast. "Now I tune my level four Berformet with my level three Night Howling!"
The mouth-like creature jumps up and splits apart into three rings, which engulf the beast.
His voice regains solemnity, "Howls that tear through the night, with the swiftness of a gale, give birth to a new king! I Synchro Summon! Be born, DDD Gale King Alexander!"
With a burst of energy and light, a massive man in white armor appears, his body surrounded by winds.
"Oh no…" Linka whispers, before putting on a determined face and declaring, "No problem! I can still win this!"
"Oh really now? Because I summoned my gale king I can use my flame king to revive a monster! And I choose to revive Berfomet!" The flame king's sword gain a purple hue as the unusual creature returns to the field.
"What's going on?! Where did that come from?!" Linka frantically shouts.
"Finally, I activate Swirlal Slime's graveyard effect. I can banish it to summon a DD monster from my hand, and I choose DD Cerberus!"
The slimeball appears on the field once more, before taking the shape of a warrior-like creature with multiple dog-like heads. "And with Berfomet and cerberous, I build the overlay network!" Trevor declares as the two creatures glow with purple light, before flying into a nearby galaxy-like vortex.
"In order to cleanse this world of all that corrupts it! I Xyz Summon! Descend now, DDD Wave king Caesar!" A small man in jet-black armor carrying a massive blade takes the field next. Two blue orbs fly around his body as if he were the core of an atom.
"And finally, I'll activate the Dark Contract with the Hell Gate, allowing me to add DD Savant Galilei to my hand. And I'll end my turn. Your move anomaly." He coldly declares. "I have been sent to cleanse this world of anomalies, and I will succeed."
"I draw!" Linka declares before sticking her tounge out at trevor, "With scale one Star Gazer Magician and Scale Eight Time Gazer magician I set the pendulum scale!"
Two pillars of light appear next to Linka's motorcycle, with a white-clad magician carrying a rod and shield-like device and the number one under him on her right and a black and brown-clad man with a duel-disk-like device attached to his arm and the number eight under him on her left.
"With this, I pendulum summon! Come forth, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Linka shouts, as a massive, red dragon with massive horns on its sides and red and green eyes lands on the field.
"Is that the best you've got?" Trevor taunts, "You're the first person I've seen use that, and to be honest, I'm not impressed. I've seen countless anomalies do much better. And I managed to seal them away with ease."
Linka grits her teeth and orders, "Odd-Eyes, attack Flame King Genghis!" And the monster responds by bathing the monster in flames.
"Pathetic!" Trevor declares, "By using one of Caesar's overlay units, I can revive Genghis!" Immediately after the attack is complete, the flame king returns to the field. "Though I will take one thousand damage my next turn."
Linka grits her teeth, "I set one monster, and one card face-down and end my turn."
"You're nothing but a worthless mistake. I have come to prevent the destruction of this and other worlds!" Trevor declares, "I draw! And you will fall this turn!"
"More showing, less telling jerk!"
"I pay the cost for my contracts first!" Trevor declares, before his active spell and wave king burn him for two thousand life points total, bringing his counter down to 5500.
"Next I'll activate my hell gate once more! To add DD Savant Kepler to hand! Next I'll activate pot of greed, letting me draw two cards!" The man glances at the new additions to his supply. "And since I drew another pot, I'll activate it and draw two more cards!" He does so and grins, "Then I play Dark Contract with the swamp king!" He rushes forward, "With this I can fusion summon!"
Linka grits her teeth as Trevor continues, "By banishing the DD Cerberous and Night howler in my grave, I can summon an even greater warrior!"
"Warrior of hell and voice of darkness, come together and be reborn as a true queen! I Fusion Summon! Come forth, ruler who carries the glory of God! DDD, Oracle King D'arc!"
A massive white knight appears on the field, her silver armor glowing in the afternoon light, while her wings are as blue as the night with an inner red, almost like a cape.
"Finally, with scale one DD Savant Galilie and Scale ten DD Savant Kepler, I set the pendulum scale!" Two mechanical pillars arise in columns of light at Trevor's sides, "Appear, supreme deity that passes judgment upon the twilight of the gods! I pendulum summon! DDD Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok!"
A massive king-like monster appears, his body covered in stained gold armor while dark aura flows around him and the chair he sits in.
"It is over, you will take too much damage to continue!" Trevor declares.
"But I'll have Life-points left!" Linka desperately cries.
"No matter, you will be too injured to continue, and I will be able to seal you away once and for all!"
Linka grits her teeth once more.
"I attack! Oracle King D'arc, destroy Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!"
Immediately, the warrior lady flies up and impales the mighty dragon, causing it to explode in a cloud of fire. Causing Linka's counter to decrease to 7700.
"Genghis, destroy the face down!" He declares, and the fiery warrior jumps up and impales the face down, destroying the poor monster.
Finally, he points at Linka, "Wave king and gale king, attack her directly!"
With two stabs, Linka's counter falls to 2800. "She holds her now bleeding arm while ignoring the cut on her cheek.
"Now go my oblivion king! Finish this anomaly off! So I may seal her away with the rest of her worthless siblings!"
A massive orb of light appears under the massive monster, before it fires a stream of light at the young girl, "Who can only grit her teeth as she waits for impact.
"No!" Familiar voices shout.
"You're not going to hurt our sister!"
"Over our dead bodies!"
"He's our brother!"
"And our sister!"
Immediately, all of the siblings, both male and female appear by Linka's sides, before shouting in unison, "And we will never let her be harmed!"
And with that, the monster's attack hits the figures and dissipates.
"What's happening?!" Trevor shouts as he watches Linka's counter fall to 600, yet the girl is still riding strong, "H-how is this possible?! You should be a burning wreck that I can seal! What's going on?!"
Linka gains a defiant look in her eyes as she declares, "My siblings protected me! Both here and back home!"
"Grr, no matter! I play pot of greed again!" Trevor quickly declares, "I draw two cards, then play twin twister! By discarding the card I just drew I can destroy your pendulum scales!" The twin twisters rise up and destroy the two magicians, leaving Linka's field almost completely empty.
"You may be a hunter, but I am no anomaly!" Linka declares, her body begins to glow with blue and pink light.
"Yes you are! You pathetic little creature should not exist in this universe!"
Linka's face gains a determination only shown by anime protagonists, "I will not give up, not now, not ever! For my family, for my home, I will defeat you!"
Trevor grits his teeth, "I hate you."
"My name is Lincoln Loud of dimension C-137! Even if I'm not in my own dimension and not in my own body, I will not abandon my siblings!"
Thousands of memories fill the young girl's mind, of the great times she had had with her true sisters, while her heart fills with the hope of adventure she is sure to have with her new brothers. "I will find my way home one day! But right now, fate has brought me to this dimension for a reason! And I will not disappoint!"
Linka's next card glows with golden energy, as if the spirits of all of her siblings and dimensional counterparts are focusing their power through it.
"For my siblings, I will defeat you! I am not an anomaly! I am Lincoln Loud! I draw!"
Immediately the glowing card materializes, revealing a green card decorated with two men dancing in a rain of coins. "I play, Card Of Sanctity! With it we both draw until we have six cards in hand!"
Trevor smiles, "You've gone mad, giving me so many resources to work with!"
"It won't matter." Linka declares, "Because I'll defeat you this turn!" Her heart races faster as she turns the motorcycle down a nearby road and rushes down it, Trevor's motorcycle is barely able to keep up!
"Next I play the spell Pendulum Call!" Linka declares, before shoving the green card in her disk, "By sending Noble Dragon Magician in my hand to the grave, I can add two pendulum monsters from my hand!" Linka's expression turns fierce for a moment, "And I choose Chronograph Magician and Astrograph Magician!"
Immediately, the deck spits out the two cards, and Linka continues, "And now with scale eight Chronograph Magician and scale one Astrograph Magician, I set the pendulum scale!"
Linka quickly places the two cards at opposing ends of the hard light disk and the ARC system responds by projecting two pillars of light, in which the two magicians rise.
On Linka's let is a starry blue magician, his body is made of energy and outlined with hardlight. He wields an energy rod with an energy shield attached. The number one is below him.
On her right is a warrior-like man, with a golden, double-edged sword that has two energy rings at the end. He wears black arm and radiates with dark power. The number eight is below him.
Between them, a blue crystal held up by a single string appears, with a small ball of energy appearing at its pointed end.
The young girl holds on tightly, before hardening her expression, "My monsters are ready, and together we'll defeat you and free my siblings! Oh power of the dimensions, of light and darkness, reveal the truth to me! I pendulum summon!"
The massive pendulum gains momentum, before swinging faster and faster in a circular motion, opening a portal from which four lights fly through. "I summon Wisdom-Eyes Magician, Xiangsheng Magician!" The sorcerer and sorceress take to the field, the man holding a pendulum-like rod and the woman carrying a bow and arrow.
Then, her voice gains a powerful solemnity, "And come forth, dragons with beautiful and wondrous dichromatic eyes! I summon Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" And with that the two dragons take to the field.
The saber dragon spreads out is silvery armor before roaring with the pendulum dragon.
Trevor grimaces, "No matter how many monsters you summon, none will be able to defeat me! I have five monsters and they are all able to withstand whatever you throw at me!"
Yet, Linka's determined expression does not waver. "I activate Noble Dragon magician's effect! By lowering Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon's level by three, I can summon it!" The small magician appears by the much larger dragon, "And I'll use her to tune my Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Immediately, the small magician splits apart into three rings, which engulf the dragon, turning it into four stars.
"Spread those wondrous and beautiful wings and strike down our enemies at the speed of light! I Synchro summon Clear Wing Synchro dragon!" the second dragon takes to the field, its four translucent wings bathing the battlefield in light.
Trevor grimaces, "Oh come on! That's not fair!"
"Fair?" Linka angrily mutters, "You sealed my siblings in cards! Even the ones that could not fight back!"
"Next, I use Wisdom-Eye Magician and Xiangsheng Magician to build the overlay network!" The two magicians glow bright yellow, before the resulting orbs fly into a mini-black hole, which proceeds to burst forth. "Cloaked in shadows and relentless in its objective, rise up against your foolish oppressors! Descend now! I Xyz summon, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!"
"Impossible! No anomaly has managed to summon him before!" Trevor nervously shouts.
"That's because I am no anomaly! Also, he's not Exodia you idiot! Now I use the polymerization I set earlier to fuse the two monsters in my hand!" Linka declares, before revealing the spell. Immediately, the two monsters appear above Linka, before they become orbs and spin in a vortex, "Beautiful flowers that tempt insects with your enchanting fragrance, become one now and let the hell locked within your petals give birth to a new menace! I fusion summon, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon!"
And with that, the forth dimensional dragon descends to the field.
"Pathetic!" Trevor taunts, "Even with all of those moves, none are able to overcome my monsters!"
Yet, Linka responds, "I still have one card face-down! And I activate it!" she reveals the final card, "I play card of demise! With it I can draw until I have 5 cards in hand, however I must discard them at the end of my turn and I cannot draw anymore cards!"
She draws her five cards with fear and determination flowing through her veins. And with a single glance, she smiles.
"I'll continue by playing tuning magician! If I have two cards in my pendulum scales, I can spell summon them to the field! Come forth my magician!" The young girl with a tuning fork appears on the field, "I take four hundred damage when she is summoned however!" Linka's counter falls to 200. "And now, by using her and Clear Wing, I can Synchro summon again! I tune my level seven Clear Wing Synchro Dragon and level one Tuning magician!"
The female magician jumps up and splits into a single ring, which engulfs the beautiful dragon, turning it into seven stars.
Linka holds onto the motorcycle tightly as she declares, "Bathe in holy light and make your wings shine! Destroy your enemies with your burning radiance! I Synchro Summon, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon!" A majestic dragon with arrow-shaped glass-like wings takes to the field in Clear Wing's place.
"Next I activate Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon's effect! By using two overlay units I can halve your monster's attack points! And I choose, your Gust King Alexander!" The monster's wings fill with electricity, before it uses its electric grip to overpower Trevor's monster and weaken it, lowering its attack to 1250.
"No! Impossible! This should not be happening!" Trevor tries to speed up, passed Linka in desperate bid to leave; yet the four dragons surround him.
"Next I'll activate The Phantom Knight's Rank-Up-Magic Launch!" A shadowy mist engulfs the dark dragon, causing it to crystalize for a moment.
"From the depths of purgatory, sing the song of rebellion dedicated to the souls of the restless! Let it echo as you appear! Rank-up Xyz Evolution! For the souls of my siblings and for everyone you have sealed away, I play this requiem, a requiem for the louds! Come forth, Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon!"
A massive black dragon with beautiful, stained-glass-like wings appears in dark rebellion's place. Its body gains bone-like armor and metallic claws, while its wings become massive, accommodating their beautiful patterns.
Trevor sits in awe of the majestic dragon's beautiful wings, "No, I will not let myself be distracted! You must fail! The guardian of fate wills my victory!"
"Hmph" Link responds, her voice gaining even more momentum, "Then did he will this?! I play a second Polymerization, fusing my Starve Venom Fusion Dragon with the pedaplant in my hand! The plant-like dragon flies over and the dark weed appear above Linka, before they both enter another blue and orange vortex, as she shouts, "Poisonous dragon with venomous fangs, and sweet smelling flowers that invite the abyss! Become one and indulge on whatever pleases you! I fusion summon, Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon!"
Another massive dragon appears, its green body pulses with blue lights while multiple red and yellow orbs attach themselves to its body. Its wings become more plant-like and set ablaze as it descends to the field."
Trevor pauses for a moment, before chuckling, "Pathetic, even with all of that moxie and work, you still have nothing to stop me!"
"Oh yeah?! That's what you think! I activate my monster's effects!"
"Why do I have the feeling that I'm about to have a bad time?"
"First, I use Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon's effect! By using an overlay unit I can zero out one of you monster's attack power and it gains the same amount!" The majestic, dark dragon uses its Stained-glass-like wings to engulf Wave King Caesar, zeroing out its attack, while its attack counter rises to 5400."
Trevor just holds on tighter as Linka continues.
"Next, Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon Will do the same thing to Oracle King D'arc! Zeroing out hero attack and negating her effects, though without an attack gain!"
"No… This can't be?!"
Linka's final card in hand glows with power. "After I summon the upgraded versions of the dimensional dragons and use at least two of their effects, I can summon this card!"
Linka's voice gains a powerful solemnity as all twenty of her siblings appear, and raise their voices in unison, "Power of light and the bonds of my siblings. Rise up from obscurity, and become a beacon of true hope." Then, determination fills her eyes, "Come forth and become the light home! Come forth, Shining Hope Pendulum Dragon!"
The Loud child glow with golden light, before combining into a single majestic dragon. Its two golden wings glow like stained glass, while its body is covered in golden armor. It has a strong, silvery gaze and massive iron-like horns around its body. It has a powerful orb of energy embedded in its chest plate, fueling its armor and giving it blue lines of energy. Around the dragon are massive sword-like spike floating in mid-air, as if in orbit around the dragon."Whoa…" Trevor whispers, before saying aloud, "No matter! There is nothing you can do to-"
"Would you can the taunts?!" Linka declares, "After Shining hope is summoned, you cannot use cards or effects for the rest of the turn and it gains attack equal to your current life points!" The new dragon's attack rises to 5500 points.
"Crap…" Trevor's once radiant expression turns sullen, as Linka turns and drifts her motorcycle along, "Prepare to attack! Go my five dragons!"
The five monsters fly up, readying for the command.
"For my youngest siblings, whom you sealed in cards for no reason! For Levi and Leon! For Lisa and Lily! Go, Spiral Saber Flame Strike!" Linka commands, and Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon complies by firing a massive burst of flames from its mouth. Bathing the Oblivion King with golden flames. "And when it destroys a monster, it can destroy another! And I choose your flame king!" Saber dragon responds by charging and destroying the Flame King Genghis.
Trevor's counter falls to 4900.
"Grr." he groans as he desperately spins his bike around, trying to regain control.
"Next for my twin siblings, whom you sealed in cards because they tried to save them! For Leif and Lexx! For Lana and Lola! Crystallos Edge of Gale!" Immediately, Crystal Wing roars, before flying up, engulfing itself in light and flying down, piercing his the gale king monster. "And when it attacks a level five or higher monster, it gains its attack!"
"Oh no…" Trevor whispers as his monster is destroyed, and his counter falls to 1900.
Then, she points at Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon, "For my middle siblings, with whom you sealed in cards for trying to protect me and for no reason! For Lynn and Lucy, for Lynn and Lars! Feel their wrath! Go, Beautiful Flower Hellfire!" And with that, Greedy Venom's orbs of powers glow, before bathing the Oracle King in flames, just as the saint she is based after was.
Trevor's counter falls to zero, but his motorcycle doesn't stop, and Linka continues, "This is my requiem for my family, in this and in my true dimension! I will never abandon them and they will never abandon me! For Luke and Lane and Luna and Luan! Requiem Salvation Strike! Sing the requiem for the louds!" Immediately, the dragon's hard-light wings take shape once more and fill with energy, creating a beautiful stained glass effect. And with that, the dragon dives and charges, destroying the wave king monster and almost causing him to crash.
Yet, the duel is still not over.
"Finally, Shining Hope, take hold of your power over time and space, over reality!" The dragon glows with a mystical aura in response, "For my eldest siblings, whom guided and loved me, no matter what dimension I was in, for them, and for all of my siblings, I defeat you! For Loki and Loni! For Lori and Leni! Dimensional Gear Breaker!" And with that, the dragon charges absorbs power from parts unknown, before dealing the finishing blow on the hunter, causing his motorcycle to explode, sending him crashing.
Linka pants in exhaustion as she drives over to the now defeated hunter.
"I win, now release my family." She demands.
Trevor stands up, "I- I lost… to an anomaly… the guardian of fate has forsaken me." He growls in response, before talking into his device. "Unit has failed, unsealing captured anomalies." Then he drops hundreds of random cards on the ground, before continuing, "Unit has failed mission. Preparing for termination…"
"Wait… What?!" Linka shouts in fear.
"Anomalies released, mission is a failure. Dispatch units to the following dimensions, C-137, EVL-234, XD-119, YZ-85, 46 apostrophe backslash and 63i apostrophe backslash."
"We copy, units being sent."
"This is not over, you anomalies." He coldly declares, before he turns his device towards himself, "Wait!" Linka desperately shouts, but it is too late.
Trevor's card falls into her hands. "I needed answers… I want to go home…" All that is left behind is the weird device.
After a few seconds, the hundreds of the cards start to float, before flying off and disappearing, leaving the only ten behind, "Those must've been from the other dimensions…" Linka whispers.
After that, the remaining cards disperse, revealing Linka's ten brothers.
"Ugh what happened?" Loki groans.
"Quick, think fast Lincoln!" Linka then answers, "You guys had some crazy fun duels! Leon the others came by too! You all ended up passed out!"
"Now let's go home!" She shouts, before the brothers even have a chance to think about what she was saying.
So they shrug, as if oddly ok with the idea, before walking back home with her.
Later the night…
Linka sits before the open journal, it took her a few minutes to get caught up once and for all, but she cannot help but shake how familiar her life felt to his. Though, given that they were counterparts, it couldn't help but be expected. She looks upon her dimensional goggles and watch, as well as Trevor's weird device, the only items that could possibly connect her to her home dimension, and sighs.
"No comics, few friends, so many rules… It's like Mom and Dad are worried that Linka is going to be masculine…" The young girl whispers, "I wonder why that is…"
Then, she turns to a blank page. For a moment, she hesitates, unsure of what to do.
Then, she grabs a pen and begins journaling.
"My name is Lincoln Loud… And from now on, I will be writing in this journal…"
We all know, things just became more complicated.