Not a word was said from the Loud family, as they sat in the waiting room. They knew only bad new awaited them.

6 year old Lana tugged at the skirt of her older sister Luna.

"Luna?" Lana asked, her eyes sad and wide, like a lost puppy. "Is Linky going to be ok"

Luna looked at the sad eyes of her little sister. She knew what was happening. Lincoln had already been in the hospital a few weeks ago. They told him then he only had a few weeks to live. She was unsure why they bothered to bring him his time, he was dying, and there was nothing anyone could do to save him. Bringing him here was just prolonging the inevitable. But what are you supposed to do, when your 11 year old brother, or son has collapsed on the ground, crying in pain, as blood oozed from his mouth and he seemed to lose control of his body, as he wildly shook.

They couldn't just let him die on the living room floor.

Luna knew that Lincoln was going to die today, but how could she tell that to Lana. She looked up to him so much over the years, how could she break the little girl's heart.

"I... I don't know" Luna said in as calming, and soothing of a voice she could.

Just then the doctor came in. This was not the doctor who had originally diagnosed Lincoln. They had brought Lincoln into the emergency room, this must have been the first doctor that they had on staff.

Part of Luna was relieved, the doctor who had given Lincoln his original diagnosis, seemed a bit harsh, and unprofessional.

This man however, presented himself very well.

He was tall, with dark hair, bright blue eyes that seemed to stare into a person's soul. And he had a warm and sympathetic smile.

"Is this the family of Lincoln Loud" he said in a sad and soothing voice. His smile turned into a frown as he asked the question. He had a sad look in his eyes as well

"yes that's us" said Mrs. Loud.

"My name is Doctor Alex Maxwell" The Doctor introduced himself. "Lincoln is ready to see you now. But be careful, he is in a very fragile state."

Once the doctors gaze reached Luna, he seemed to get sadder, like something about her triggered something in him. Perhaps she reminded him of someone.

The family slowly walked into the room where Lincoln was being held. Their hearts dropped as the saw all the different tubes and machines hooked up to Lincoln, barely keeping him alive.

"Oh my god, no" Mrs. Loud whispered. Mr. Loud was quick to comfort his wife.

"I'm really sorry to tell you this" Said Doctor Maxwell, "but your son only have a few moments left, it's best that you say your goodbyes"

The doctor then walked over to Luna and put his hand on her shoulder, "What's your name, miss?" he asked her.

"L-Luna" she said with a mixture of sadness and awkwardness.

"He's your brother?" The Doctor asked.

"Yeah"

The Doctor took his hand away from Luna's shoulder. His face went blank for a moment. He seemed to be deep in thought, as if he was remembering something.

"I'm so sorry for your loss" he said in a calm soothing voice. "I'll be right back" he then left the room.

Luna then walked over to Lincoln.

His eyes were open, his heart rate monitors were still beeping.

"Oh man bro" Luna said. "I'm so sorry this happened to you" tears rolled down Luna's face. Lincoln looked at her with sad eyes. He seemed to be struggling to say something, but couldn't.

Luna could tell her brother was in pain.

The twins, Lola and Lana, had climbed on Lincoln's bed, and curled up by his feet like faithful and sad puppies.

"I really wish I had spent more time with you bro" Luna continued.

"Linc..." Luan started, "I really wish I could take back every prank I ever pulled on you"

"I'm sorry I was so rough with you" Lynn sobbed as she hugged Lincoln.

Mrs. Loud started to stroke Lincoln's snowy white hair. "it's ok to let go baby."

Just then the doctor came in with a syringe filled with an almost clear fluid, with a slight pink tint to it.

"This is just a sedative" Said the Doctor. "It'll ease his passing, make it less painful"

The only one who seemed to notice something was a little off, about the medicine was Lisa. The second youngest of the family, also the smartest.

He then injected the fluid into Lincoln's IV. As the fluid flowed into Lincoln's are he almost instantly calmed down.

"I'm so sorry Lincoln!" Lynn cried.

"You don't deserve this" Said Leni.

"It should have been me" Said Lynn.

"Guys" Lincoln managed to choke out. "It's... Ok... I..." he couldn't finish his sentence.

The family watched in horror as Lincoln let out one final breath.

"NO LINCOLN! DON'T LEAVE US!!!!" Leni started to break down.

At that moment, that long, horrible high pitched beeeeeeeeeeeeeee... sound came from Lincoln's heart monitors, as his heart stopped beating.

Doctor Maxwell then came walked over to Lincoln's body. He put his ear up to Lincoln's mouth to see if he was breathing, then placed a finger on Lincoln's neck, checking for a pulse.

"He's gone" The Doctor said, "I'm sorry, I'll give you guys a minute." He then draped a sheet over Lincoln's now lifeless body.

Leni then dropped to her knees and screamed "Nnnnnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!"

...

The ride home in the broken down van dubbed vanzilla, was silent.

Aside from the father who was driving, and the mother who just stared blankly out the front window. The rest of the family just stared at the empty seat, that would otherwise have a happy white haired boy in it. Smiling and joking around with the rest of them.

Now it was just empty.

"Luan" said Mr. Loud "you got a joke or something, maybe brighten the mood"

"No" Said Luan in a sad voice.

"Oh, yeah... ok"

"You know" Luan started. "I always thought he'd die in a theater."

The family gasped. The siblings all stared at Luan, eyes wide open, and jaws dropped.

"LUAN!" her mother scolded her while glaring at her, angrily through the rear view mirror.

"I'm sorry" said Luan as her face turned red, and she hugged her knees. "That was in poor taste, I'm... I'm sorry" she sat in silence for a few moments. "Because his name's... Lincoln"

"Hey, maybe some music can cheer us up" Luna suggested "Mom, turn the radio on!"

Then Mrs. Loud turned on the car radio. First song that came on... Sound of Silence.

"Wow" said luna, "Talk about bad timing"

...

The funeral was a few days later.

The Louds stood in the church, in front of the coffin, containing there dead brother.

"He... he looks so peaceful" said Lori, "like as if he was just sleeping"

Lori then looked at Leni, expecting her to say something along the lines of "wait, he's just sleeping?" but to Lori's surprise, Leni remained silent.

Instead Leni just stood there for a few moments, then she started to tear up, her body started to shake from her crying.

Lori then wrapped her arms around her younger sister and held her close, "It's ok Leni, I'm here for you"

"He's on a stairway to heaven now" said Luna, patting Leni's back.

Leni couldn't say anything through her sobs.

Lana grabbed onto the edge of Lincoln's coffin and pulled her up to see his face.

"Bye Linky" Lana said with her eyes full of tears. "We'll miss you"

Lynn then walked up, and placed her hand on Lincoln's hand. It felt cold, and frail.

"Two for flinching" she said in a soft sad voice.

Luan was holding baby Lilly in her arms. "Hey guys" she said. "do you think Lilly will even remember him? She's just a baby."

"A better question is..." Said Lori. "should she? Should she really know what she lost?"

"Of course she should know" Said Mrs. Loud

"He was a great brother to her" Said Mr. Loud, "she deserves to know who he was"

"I have some home videos I can show her" Said Luan.

"Excuse me guys" came a sad voice from behind them.

They all turned around to see Ronnie Anne. She sadly walked past the group to see dead body of one of the best friends she ever had.

Her heart sank when she saw he was wearing the same outfit he wore when they first started dating, when he kissed her.

"You had to give him THAT outfit?" She said.

"Oh I'm sorry Ronnie Anne" Said Leni, placing a hand on Ronnie Anne's shoulder "he didn't have a lot of really nice clothing. Really this was all we had for him. I totally forgot about..."

"That's ok" said Ronnie Anne "he looks nice"

Ronnie Anne then leaned down to hug Lincoln's body, and started to cry.

Soon they all returned to their seats, and Lucy stepped up to the podium.

"friends, family" Lucy started, "we are all gathered here today, to say goodbye to our dearly beloved L..."

She paused for a moment, griping the edges of the podium so hard, her knuckles began to turn white. "Lincoln"

"Why did it have to be you" Lucy muttered under her breath. "Lincoln, you... oh gosh why... you were always there for the ones who loved you. You were the best brother a girl could ever ask for... I..." Lucy then broke down and started crying.

She fell to the floor, and curled up in a ball, as a puddle of tears formed around her.

Soon the priest walked up to Lucy.

"Uh ok then." He said "I believe, Luna Loud, has a song she would like to play for her brother"

"Yeah I do" said Luna, she picked up her guitar and walked to the front. "You ok Luc?"

"Y-yeah I'm fine" Lucy picked herself back up and walked back to her seat.

"Ok then" Said Luna tuning her guitar. "Well here's a song that uh..." she looked at Lincoln's body "here's a song that was written by a band that literally has your name on it bro..."

She cleared her throat, and started to play the tune of One More Light, by Linkin park. "Should have stayed, were the signs, I ignored. Cannot help you, not to hurt, anymore." She started in an angelic voice.

(I think many of you have heard One More Light by Linkin Park by now, if not you should look it up, it's amazing)

"Who cares if one more light goes out, in the sky of a million stars it flickers, flickers. Who cares if someone's time runs out. When a moment is all we are, or quicker, quicker. Who cares if one more light goes out, well I do"

She continued to play the hauntingly beautiful song. At the end her eyes were full of tears, and she walked back to her seat.

On her way back to her seat, she saw someone she couldn't recognize, sitting in one of the pews.

It was a woman, dressed in all black, which was not unusual for a funeral. She was wearing a hat, with a dark veil, covering her face.

At first she thought it may be Lincolns teacher, Mrs. Johnson, until Mrs. Jonson ran into her.

"That was a beautiful song Luna" Said Mrs. Johnson.

Luna looked back, and saw the mysterious woman standing over Lincoln's coffin. She then looked back at Mrs. Johnson.

"yeah thanks, it was uh..." Luna started, "It was written by Linkin Park, great band, terrible what happened to the lead singer"

"Oh" Said Mrs. Johnson, "Yeah that was a real tragedy."

Luna looked back at Lincoln's coffin, the strange lady was gone.

...

"Alex Mercer?" Lincoln said, confused.

He had just crawled out of his own grave. Now standing before him, was a tall menacing figure. The man had told him that his name was Alex Mercer, and that he had somehow brought Lincoln back to life.

"Yep" Said Alex, extending his hand for a handshake, "nice to meet you"

"Uh... I'm not supposed to talk to strangers" said Lincoln.

"Fair enough" said Alex.

The two stood there in awkward silence for a while.

"So uh..." Said Lincoln.

"You know you can go at any time." Said Alex. "You're in the Royal Wood cemetery I trust you can find your way home."

"well yeah but..." Lincoln said, looking toward the street.

He looked back at Alex, but in an instant, Alex Mercer was gone.

Lightning cracked causing Lincoln to jump. "Ok linc, you can do this" he said as he nervously walked to the street.

It was dark and raining, as Lincoln walked down the dark sidewalk.

He was cold and scared. "Uh Alex..." He said, wondering where the mysterious figure had gone, "Mr Mercer."

"Fine" he said to himself "just leave a small child alone, in the rain, to fend for himself. Yeah real nice guy you are Alex."

Lincoln then came to a crosswalk.

Shivering, and not paying attention, Lincoln decided to cross the street.

Suddenly a car came out of nowhere and struck Lincoln in the side, sending him flying a few feet. Blood smeared the ground as he hit the hard pavement of the road.

He was stunned from the pain, he just sat in the road, shivering, and struggling to breath.

Talk about a spawn kill He thought.

The teenagers in the car sat stunned for a moment.

"I think we hit something." Said the Ray, the driver, He nervously looked at his girlfriend Julie, then back at the other two passengers Barry, and Helen.

They all got out of the care, to see what it was they had hit.

They all expected it to be a deer, or some other animal. They had thought the worst case scenario would be a dog or a cat.

They were all horrified when they saw the small child, lying in a pool of blood. The kid couldn't have been more than 11 or 12 years old, he had an orange shirt, brown pants, dress shoes, and most strikingly of all, ghostly white hair.

"No no no no" Julie dropped to her knees, "that poor kid!"

"Oh fuck man!" Barry screamed. "We are going to be in so much trouble"

"Barry calm down" Said Ray "I was the driver, I'll take responsibility for this"

"We're murderers man!" Barry was starting to panic.

"I... I think he's still alive" Said Julie kneeling down to look at the young boy.

Lincoln's vision was starting to become clear, and he was starting to come too.

"Little boy?" Said Julie. "Are you alright? What's your name?"

"Muh... wha..." Lincoln muttered. "My name's... uh... my name's Lincoln"

As Lincoln started to get up, Barry came in holding a large rock, and smashed it into Lincoln's head.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Screamed Julie.

"That's just a kid!" Screamed Helen.

"He saw our faces" Said Barry, "He knows who we are! I have three DUIs I can NOT get into any more trouble!" He then continued slamming the rock into Lincoln's head, turning it into a bloody pulp.

He then got up, and dropped the blood soaked rock to the ground.

"What the hell dude!" Screamed Ray, "that was an innocent child, why would you do that?!?!"

"We have to make a pact" Said Barry "we take this to our graves"

"Uh Barry..." Said Helen nervously.

"what?"

"The kid's still alive"

Barry looked behind him to see Lincoln starting to move once again.

"Well" Said Barry, "looks like I gotta put him out of his misery now"

Berry picked the rock up one more time, and swung it down toward Lincoln.

But before the rock could hit him, Lincoln reached up his hand and caught the rock, causing it to shatter into a million pieces.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" screamed Barry.

Lincoln then got up onto his feet.

The left side of his face was completely smashed in. his left eyeball was hanging by the optic nerve, and bit of brain matter fell to the ground.

However within moments, the damaged side of his head, started to repair itself.

First, his skull reformed. Then blood flowed over the bone. Then muscle tissue started to grow in his face. then skin grew over the muscles. Then his hair started to grow back. Then he grabbed his dislodged eyeball, and popped it back into place.

Within less than a minute, you couldn't even tell anything had happened to him.

Lincoln stared at the four teenagers with wide eyes. Then his innocent wide eyed look, turned into a look of pure rage.

Her ran at the group, and leapt onto Berry, pinning him to the ground. Lincoln then punched Berry in the face, over and over again, at lightning speed. All while letting out a scream of rage.

Then tentacles erupted from Lincoln back, and wrapped around Barry. The tentacles dug into Barry's flesh, seeping acid into him, liquefying his body, as Lincoln started to absorb his victim.

As the man's entire being absorbed into Lincoln, he started to see the man's memories.

Not too long ago, Lincoln's own life had been flashing before his eyes, as he lay dying in a hospital bed.

Now however, this asshole's life was flashing before Lincoln's eyes as he took it. For a few seconds this terrified Lincoln, but then, he felt a rush of adrenaline, whatever was happening Lincoln loved it.

Lincoln looked up to the sky, and gave out a psychotic giggle as he absorbed the last bits of his victim.

He got back up and looked at the remaining teenagers. He had a twisted grin on his face, and his eyes were glowing red.

The others just stared, frozen in fear.

Soon Lincoln came down from his high. His evil smile faded, he blinked a couple of times, and his eyes returned to their normal color.

"I uh..." Lincoln looked around, feeling a bit confused. What just happened?

Then he heard something big land behind him. He turned around to see Alex Mercer towering behind him.

Alex swiftly walked past Lincoln and toward the group of terrified teens. He grabbed Ray by the throat and lifted him high above his head.

"ALEX!" Lincoln yelled. "let them go. They don't mean any harm! It was just that other guy, and I uh... took care of him"

Alex then threw the teenager to the ground. The teenager then promptly wet his pants out of sheer terror.

"Get the fuck outta hear" Alex yelled.

The three teenagers then piled in their car and drove off.

"What the heck just happened?" Lincoln asked.

"You consumed him." Alex replied.

"What?"

"Haven't you ever wondered how I brought you back?" Alex started, "I gave you the Mercer virus. It mutated you, changed you. It became you!"

"A virus?" Lincoln asked, "I'm... I'm just a virus?"

"No Lincoln, not just a virus, THE virus!" Alex answered. "Every living thing you consume makes you stronger. Soon you will be more powerful then you can imagine. You will be a god!"

"But I don't want to be a god!" Lincoln said, "I just want to be me! I just want to see my family again, and live a normal life"

"That's precisely why I chose you Lincoln!" Said Alex Mercer.

"Chose me?"

Alex Mercer turned away from Lincoln. He thoughtfully looked into the distance, as his black leather jacket flowed in the breeze.

"There is a great evil coming to this town, Lincoln Loud." Alex curled his right hand into a fist, and stared at his hand as glowing red tentacles wrapped around his fist "And I can't stop it alone."

He then turned back to Lincoln. " I needed to find someone worthy of my powers. Someone who would use them for good. And can help me stop this monster that threatens all of existence"

"What monster?" asked Lincoln

"All in good time" Said Alex.

"Am I a monster?" Lincoln asked, tears forming in his face.

"You're only a monster, if you act like one"

"M...my family... I can't see them now... what if I hurt them?"

"That's why you need to control your powers"

"What powers, to murder people and absorb them. That's not a super power, that a nightmare"

"You will develop many more abilities as time goes on"

"A virus?" Lincoln repeated, "that's all I've ever been isn't it? Just a disease, a piece of trash that always gets in the way. My family's probably better off without me."

At that, within a blink of an eye, Alex Mercer had closed in on Lincoln, grabbed him by the color of his shirt, and lifted him up to look him square in the eyes. Mercer's blue eyes had turned red, and glowing.

"DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT ABOUT YOURSELF?" Mercer screamed.

Lincoln's face turned as white as his hair. Mercer then let Lincoln drop to the ground.

"get outta here" Mercer commanded Lincoln.

Lincoln turned and ran away as quick as he could.

As he was running, he noticed he was running much faster than he ever could. He looked at everything speeding past him, and realized he wasn't even getting tired.

How fast am I going? He thought.

...

The Loud House, was ironically quiet, for the few days after the funeral of 11 year old Lincoln Loud.

Leni Loud, who ordinarily wore very fashionable cloths, usually a pretty, green dress, was now wearing a baggy grey sweatshirt, and blue jeans.

She sat in the room of her now dead brother.

She was sitting on Lincoln's bed, holding the stuffed bunny rabbit Lincoln had named "Bun Bun."

Leni held the Rabbit close to her chest as she quietly sobbed.

"Hey Leni" Lori said in a sweet soothing voice as she poked her head through the door.

Lori quietly sat on the bed next to Leni.

"Every time I see this room." Leni started "I expect to see him here. Playing on the computer, reading comics in his underwear, or talking to Clyde on his radio about some mission with a ridiculously long name."

"There there" said Lori as she rubbed Leni's back.

"or talking to himself as if he was talking to a live studio audience" Leni added. "What was up with that?"

"I don't know," Said Lori.

"I miss those things." Said Leni, "It's weird how you miss the most bizarre stuff like that."

"Yeah" Said Lori. "and you can't forget about his smile, or his laugh. Or how kind and selfless he was"

Leni then wrapped her arms around Lori, and cried into her shoulder.

Back downstairs Lola was walking through the living room, and she tripped over something on the floor. She sat up, and when she saw what had tripped her, she immediately started to ball.

Hearing her little sisters cry, Luna rushed over to comfort Lola.

"aww what's wrong little dudet?" Luna asked, "did you get a boo boo"

"N...n...no" Lola cried. The she pointed to the object that had tripped her; an Ace Savvy comic book, one of Lincoln's favorites.

"Oh" Said Luna, she then looked back at Lola, who stared back at her with big sad eyes, and tears running down her face. "oh come here sis" then Luna picked Lola up in her arms. She held her close to her chest, and carried her around the house for a bit.

"W...why did he have to leave us?" Lola cried.

"Sometimes these things just happen." Said Luna "Nobody lives forever sis"

Lola the looked Luna in the eye "are... are you gonna die?"

"Well... someday yeah. But that won't be for a long time sis." Luna assured her.

Lola buried her head into Luna's neck "Please don't die Luna!"

"Don't worry sis" Luna said, "I'm not going anywhere."

A few moments later, Leni walked downstairs. On any other occasion, Leni would have greeted the rest of her family with a big happy smile, and love in her heart. Now however, she just starred at the ground without saying a word. She just slumped down on the couch, and sat there motionless, looking at her hands in her lap.

Luna carried Lola to the window, they both looked outside as the storm raged on. It was dark and gloomy outside, and in.

Suddenly Leni got a call on her cell phone, Luna continued to look out the window as Leni talked on her phone.

"Hello" Leni said in sad but sweet voice. "Who is this?"

"Is this some kind of fucking joke" Leni snapped. The entire family gasped.

"Lincoln Loud is FUCKING DEAD! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Leni screamed into her phone, then she started to cry. "do... do you think this is fucking funny!" Leni screamed into her phone some more. The family stared at her as their jaws dropped. She cried for a few moments.

Luna looked at Lola in her arms, "Lola, how about you and I go have one of your famous tea parties" Luna said to Lola with a smile.

Luna took Lola upstairs as Leni continued her rant to whoever was on the other side of the phone.

"I just lost my FUCKING brother! Is this funny to you, whoever you are, to play on a young girls misery like that? Did I ever do anything to you huh? Did Lincoln ever do anything to you? Go fuck yourself!"

Lani's father walked up to her "Leni, what's with the language?"

"I'm... I'm sorry Daddy!" Leni said, and she broke down crying.

Mr. loud sat beside his daughter on the couch, and put his arm around her to comfort her. "Sweetie, who... who was that?"

"Some JERK!" Leni snapped. "He tried to convince me he was Lincoln."

"What?"

"I know he's gone" Leni said, "did he really think I was stupid enough not to know what happened to my own brother? I was at the funeral! I was there for him in the hospital when he... I WATCHED HIM DIE!!!!"

"OH sweetie" Said Mr. Loud as Leni hugged him and cried into his sweater.

...

Luna had carried Lola to her room, were they sat at the pink plastic table Lola had set up with all her stuffed animals. As they sat down in the tiny chairs, Luna noticed that Lola looked terrified.

"Hey, you gonna be ok sis?" Luna asked Lola.

"W-what's going on with Leni? Lola asked, her eyes big and full of tears, "She never acts like that EVER!"

"I dunno dude" Said Luna, "It's just, she's been taking Lincoln's death really hard."

At that Lola started to cry some more.

"And I miss him too." Luna continued.

"Hey guys" Lynn walked into the room looking unusually tired. She sat down at one of the small chairs.

"Lynn are you ok" Luna asked, "You look... not yourself."

"yeah I'm... I'm fine" Lynn said, "but why you worried about me?" she then looked at the ground, closed her eyes, and a tear rolled down her face. "I'm not the one who died."

"Uh ok..." said Luna.

"Hey Luna" Lisa said as she walked in, "can I talk to you for a sec."

"Pull up a chair sis" Luna suggested, and Lisa did exactly that.

"Luna" Lisa started. "On the night of Lincoln's death" as soon as Lisa said the word death, Lola started to ball, but Lisa ignored her and continued. "did you notice anything strange about what occurred?"

"What do you mean" Asked Luna, as Lynn got up and went over to comfort Lola.

"Something about that doctor seemed a bit strange didn't it?" Lisa said.

"Uh no" Luna said with her arms crossed "he seemed pretty normal to me dude. In fact he seemed pretty nice. He really cared about people's feelings, something YOU could use a little work on" Luna said pointing at Lola crying as Lynn tried to calm her down.

"Yes he seemed to take a shining to YOU specifically." Lisa pointed out.

"Me?"

"yes, it's almost as if he recognized you. And what was that stuff he put in Lincoln?"

"Doc said it was a sedative"

"And I did a little digging on our 'Doctor Alex Maxwell' and..."

Luna was starting to get a little irritated "LINCOLN'S GONE DUDE! DEAL WITH IT!"

Lisa froze, "I uh... I know he's gone I... I... I JUST WANT HIM BACK!!!!" Lisa then burst into tears, she put her head on the table and started to weep.

Luna looked around the room. Lola and Lynn were holding each other while crying their eyes out, and Lisa was now crying too. She wanted to help, but it seems like Luna may have made things worse.

Luna's lips started to quiver, and she too started to cry.

"I'm I'm so sorry" Luna cried.

...

Back downstairs Mr. Loud was still trying to comfort a crying Leni.

"there there" he said. "Lincoln's In a better place now, it'll be ok."

Leni kept crying

"He'll always be in our hearts sweetie. And if it makes you feel any better, I miss him too. Why it hardly even feels real. I keep thinking that any minute now, our sweet little Lincoln is going to walk through the front door."

Just then they heard the door bell ring, and everyone froze.

"I'll get it" Said Mr. Loud as he stood up to answer the door.

He walked over to the door and opened it....

Standing on the other side of the door, looking up at Mr. Loud with a big smile, as lightning cracked in the background, was Lincoln Loud.

"Hi Dad!" Lincoln said cheerfully.

Mr. Loud's jaw dropped, his eyes rolled in the back of his head, and he fell backward.

"Huh." Said Lincoln, "That went well".

...

Lincoln stood in the living room in front of the family that, just moments before, thought he was dead.

Most of his sisters and mother were just staring at him, jaws hanging to the floor. His dad was unconscious, and Leni had rushed over to try to revive him.

Mr Loud slowly got back up "L-Lincoln, is that really you?"

"It's really me Dad" Lincoln said with a smile.

"Lincoln!" Leni exclaimed, "If you're alive then, that really was you on the phone!"

"Uh yeah." Lincoln said awkwardly.

Leni rushed over to give Lincoln the biggest warmest hug she had ever given in her life, "Oh Lincoln, I'm so sorry I yelled at you. I... I didn't know it was you!"

"That's ok" Said Lincoln as he hugged her back, "I wouldn't have believed it either"

Just then, Luna, Lisa, Lynn, and Lola walked down the stairs. They stopped as soon as they saw Lincoln. All four girls rushed to hug their long lost brother.

"Lincoln your back" Said Lynn.

"how?" Lisa asked.

"You know." Said Lincoln, "I have no idea" Lincoln thought it wasn't the right time to tell them about Alex Mercer, or how he came back, or his powers. He barely understood it himself.

He'd soon find out, that there's a lot he has yet to understand.

"Wow Lincoln, you must have seen a pretty girl" Said Luan, "because you got a big resurrection! Ha ha get it?"

Lincoln started to giggle "that's uh... kind of gross, but funny".

The rest of the family then came over to hug Lincoln. All except for Lucy, who just stood back, not saying a word.

"Now" Lincoln said, "if you'll excuse me, I'd like to get some dry cloths on" he pointed to his cloths which were now soaked from the rain. Luckily for Lincoln, the rain washed away the blood, so he wouldn't need to explain that.

Lincoln joyfully walked upstairs, into his room. He shut the door and looked at his room for a bit.

He found his stuffed rabbit on the ground, and picked it up. "hey Bun Bun, did you miss me?" he then gave the rabbit a big hug. "Man this has been one confusing day"

He took off his wet shirt and dropped it on the ground, it landed with a plop.

As he reached to grab a dry shirt from his closet he felt a buzzing in his pocket. He reached in his soaking wet pocket, and pulled out his phone to see who was calling him.

The only ones, who knew he was alive, were his family, and Alex Mercer. So who could be calling him.

He looked at his phone, the ID said; "Unknown name, unknown number".

He answered it. "H-hello" He said with a nervous tone in his voice.

"So, you're Mercer's newest pet" Said the voice on the other line. It was deep, yet soothing, and had a bit of a southern accent.

"Who is this" Lincoln asked.

"Well that depends" Said the voice, "Who is this?"

"Me?" Lincoln asked.

"Yeah you, what's your name" said the voice.

"M-my name is Lincoln Loud" Lincoln said, not sure if he should have gave this man his real name.

"hahaha, how cute" Said the voice, "You think you're Lincoln Loud"

"I am Lincoln Loud" Said Lincoln.

"You're not Lincoln" Said the voice sounding smug, "you ain't even human"

"for the last time," said Lincoln, getting angry now. "Who the heck is this?"

"Huh... you want a name" Said the voice.

"Yes, I want to know your name!" Said Lincoln.

"I'm sorry but I can't give you my name" Said the voice.

"Why not" said Lincoln.

"because I don't have a name..." said the voice, "or at least not a normal name, lake James, or Alex, or Lincoln. All I have is a code name."
"ugh, then what's your code name?" Lincoln asked.

"Pariah" Said the voice.

"Piranha?" Lincoln asked, confused.

"No, Pariah... like outcast"

"well that's an... unfortunate name" Said Lincoln.

"My name is Pariah" Said Pariah, "and AlexMercer... has been lying to you"