And Then There Was Lincoln

Disclaimer: I wrote this because I always wonder how writing an xover of the Loud House and Ben 10 would be like, since there's only one story like this in English, so here it is. Also The Loud House and all characters associated with it belongs to Nickelodeon and Chris Savino and everything Ben 10 related belongs to CN and Man of Action. Now I'll using the elements from the classic Ben 10 shows, sorry to those who like the reboot, but I grew up with Ben 10 since the first series and I'm also not a fan of Cartoon Network's reboots of some of its greatest shows. No offense to the fans of the reboots, but some of them are just plain awful. I'm looking at you Teen Titans Go. If anything, they should have done what Samurai Jack did and get revived instead of rebooted.

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Outskirts Of Royal Woods

In the forest area of the quaint town of Royal Woods, it was the middle of the night all was quiet there wasn't a single sound. In the side of a road, a squirrel was scurrying to it's home, then an acorn caught his eyed and went after it, however it failed to notice a light that was closing in, it picked up the acorn but then saw the light, the source of the light came from a vehicle that passed by, luckily it went under the squirrel, sighing in relief, it help its fist and shaked it at the vehicle. The vehicle in question was a blue and white family wagon. Inside the driver was a middle aged man with brown hair; next to him was a woman the same age with blonde hair.

"Look at it honey, the pure night sky perfect for a family camping trip, right?" he asked his wife.

"It certainly is dear." the blonde woman responded. "Oh kids, aren't you all so excited?" asked to the rest of the passengers. In the back were 11 children. 5 of them were teenagers, 2 were pre-teens, 3 were toddlers, and 1 was a baby, 10 of them were mostly female, while only one of them was a boy, he was 11 years old who had white hair,had an orange polo shot on, blue pants and what shoes, he sat near a window and leaned on his hand; this was the protagonist of our story: Lincoln Loud.

"Like no offense dad, but you couldn't have chosen a worse time. Tonight me and Bobby were gonna celebrate our 10th week-aversary." His older sister Lori complained.

"Yeah, and Chunk got me and my band a sweet gig at the mall." his rock star sister Luna also put her two scents.

"Seriously guys, I'm all for family fun time as much as the next Loud, but not when it cuts in to anything we have planned." Lincoln told them, his sisters gave shouts of agreement.

"Now kids, I know this was last minute and all but this is our chance to get closer as a family." Mr. Loud explained.

"Your father's right kids; now come one let's all sing along to some show tunes." Rita Loud as she put a song on the radio it was one of those terrile traveling songs that no one likes, except for moms. The Loud kids all gave collective groans at this.

"Where's a car collision where you require one?"' Lisa muttered.

Little did the family or anyone else on the planet Earth high in the vast reaches of space a battle was taking place.

Past Earth's Atmosphere

Up in space, as far as anyone could tell there was nothing going on until a vortex of blue and white appeared, the objects that came out of it were to hi-tech alien ships, one was light blue and green and was trying to evade laser fire. The source was a massive ship; it was heavily armed with an array of weapons, it was chasing the smaller one giving it everything it could throw at it. Inside its cockpit humanoid robot drones were at the deck, one was next to its master who was sitting on his throne, he was 30 ft tall with broad shoulders, his skin was pale green, and was wearing red gladiator-esque armor; his most distinguishing feature was that he had tentacles coming out of his chin, making it look like he had a squid for a face.

"Master Vilgax, our scanners indicate that the enemy's shields are failing." the drone informed its lord.

"Excellent." The alien now known as Vilgax said in a deep raspy voice. "Soon the prize I seek will be mine. Fire all that we have on that ship, tear it apart if you have to! We will salvage whatever remains! Nothing will keep me from the Omnitrix!" he ordered.

"As you command." the drone bowed. The rest obeyed his orders and did as he asked without question. The target ship then suddenly shot a small pod out of its front, it was quickly falling towards the planet Earth, which did not go unnoticed.

"Master, the scanner has picked up the omni energy of the device it is inside the pod that the enemy just launched. It is heading towards the planet below." a drone told him.

"Destroy what's left of the ship, then send drones to that primitive planet to recover it." Before more could be said the target ship pulled one last effort of resistance and unveiled a large laser cannon that fired on the it's pursuer head on. An explosion knocked Vilgax's ship off course.

"Ugh! What happened!?" Vilgax demanded. "Why didn't the shields defend us!?"

"We don't know sir, somehow the shield generator has decreased in power." a drone explained.

"Impossible!" The enemy ship fired another blast, this time at full power. "Send the drones now!" Vilgax demanded, his ship quickly launched its own pod to Earth, right before the blast hit the ship it originated from.

"Agggh!" Vilgax shouted in agony as he was consumed by the explosion.

Campground

The Loud family was able to arrive at the campsite where they'll be spending the night.

"Well family here we are!" Lynn Sr declared. The campsite had a wide open space and was nearby a river. For some of the Loud siblings namely Lincoln they had to admit it seemed like a nice spot.

"Huh this place actually looks great. Were you here before dad?" inquired Lincoln.

The adult patted his son on the head. "Sure did son, back when I was about your age my dad took me here all the time, still as beautiful as I remember." he said with a look of nostalgia.

"It's also where your father and I had our first kiss." Rita Loud cut in. "Remember honey?"

"Oh how could I forget?" Mr. Loud said as he went over to his wife and proceeded to kiss her causing their kids to grimace, except for Leni.

"Aww!" Leni cooed.

"Gross." Lana muttered.

"Ugh there's like little zero phone signal her." Lori said. "Couldn't you have picked a spot near a phone tower?"

"Now Lori, this is supposed to be a family bonding experience." Mr. Loud admonished his eldest child. "No cellphones to distract us."

"Aghhh!" she scowled. "This is literally the worst."

"Alright then campers, let the bonding commemce!"

The family began to set up the tents, though Leni had some trouble with it since she tied herself with the rope. Lola was gonna bringing out the marshmallows, but saw that the bag was half-empty and saw her twin Lana eating most of them causing earning her a glare from her spoiled sister. Lincoln and Luna made the fire, and so the whole family was sitting in a circle around said campfire.

"So, the young teenage girl opened the basement door, and in it was the HOCKEY PLAYER WHO WAS ALSO A PIRATE!" MR. Loud exclaimed after telling a scary story. His kids however were more bored by it than spooked.

"Sorry father, but your attempt in telling a tale that would instill fear and anxiety into our nervous systems was in vain." Lisa told him blankly.

"I got one, it's the story of an incredibly beautiful blonde girl who put on the same dress that she wore yesterday!" Leni explained, everyone just stared at her. "What?"

"Someone just cut my guitar strings now." Luna muttered. They all suddenly heard a wolf noise from afar, this prompted Lola to squeak a bit.

Lincoln noticed. "Lola, you alright?" he asked a bit concerened.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." she stammered.

Lana decided to tease her a bit. "She's just super scared of the monsters that dwell deep in the forest." she snickered.

"Now Lana that's enough, we're supposed to get closer not tease each other." Rita Loud proclaimed.

Leni noticed a ladybug oh her hand and shrieked. "Ahh." She jumped into Lincoln's arms. "There are way too many bugs here, I wanna go home." she wined.

"Personally I like it here." Lucy said in her usual emotionless tone. "It's so dark and mysterious you literally have no idea what to expect. Any minute now a bear or perhaps a mountain lion could suddenly jump out and maul us to pieces, just imagine it." Her parents and siblings were holding onto each other in fright.

"Well I'll have trouble going to sleep tonight." Lincoln remarked, he saw Lily trying to reach out to a firefly, giggling while doing so. "At least you're having fun Lily." she smiled.

"Well I'm not." grumbled Lynn she then got an idea. "Hey Linc, there's a mud pile over by the river, how 'bout some mud wrestling little bro?"

"Mud wrestle! Mud wrestle!" Lana chanted. Lincoln however wasn't all for it.

"Gee I'd love to Lynn but..." he then saw the fire. "...look the fire's going out." Indeed the fire was beginning to die out.

"You're right son, looks like someone better get some more firewood. Hey honey, who's turn is it this time?" Mr. Loud asked his wife.

"I believe it's Lincoln." she responded.

"Aww what?" he grumbled.

"Come on Lincoln, 'wood' you please. Ha ha ha." Luan quipped.

"Just go already." Lori grumbled.

Sighing to himself, he relented. "Alright, fine." He began to venture into the woods.

"Be careful out there bro!" Luna called.

Back in space, Vilgax's ship was heavily damaged, several drones were at work with the repairs. Inside a round room, there was a cylinder-shaped chamber filled with light-orange liquid, inside was the charred body of Vilgax himself, he was missing his right arm and leg, he had 3rd degree burns and was connected to tubes. A door opened automatically and a single drone entered.

"Lord Vilgax, we have confirmation that the drons were able to land successfully on Earth, from what we could gather they traced the device to forest-like area." the drone informed.

"Good, they have their orders, find the Omnitrix and if there are any obstacles; destroy them! he snarled.

Back with Lincoln, he was walking through the forest, he hadn't found any firewood for he was too busy with talking to himself.

"Aww man, if I knew it'd take this long to get some stupid firewood, I'd have taken Lynn up on mud wrestling." his musings was cut off from a faint sound from his pocket.

"McBride to Loud, I repeat; this is McBride to aloud." The sound of his best friend Clyde called. Lincoln saw that it was coming from his pocket, he remembered that he bought his walky talky along.

"This is Loud, what's up Clyde?"

"Dude, this new episode of 'ARRGH!' is awesome, right!?"

"I'd agree with you, if I was watching it." Lincoln told him with his head down.

"Wait, you're not? But you told me this morning that you were gonna watch it as soon as it premiered."

"I know, but dad decided to to bring all of us on a camping trip, completely undermining my plans for tonight."

"Oooh, bummer. You're really missing out, they're just about to enter the..."

"No! No spoilers man, I was lucky enough to record it for tomorrow."

"Right, sorry. Anyway, later Lincoln."

"See ya Clyde." Lincoln bid farewell as he turned off the walky talky and put it back in his pocket, once again Lincoln was alone. He then looked up at the clear night sky.

"At least he's having a good time, not that I don't enjoy spending time with my family or something, it's just it's too normal. Everyday is the same thing, trying to get through life with 10 sisters, getting into sticky situations, it's gotten old now. I just wish that I don't know something out of the ordinary would happen, not the kind of weird I'm used to but a different kind of weird."

Before he could continue, Lincoln saw a bright object flying through the sky. "Woah a shooting star, cool." He marveled, his look of awe then quickly changed into one of panic as the so-called shooting star actually changed its direction somehow, not only that it was heading straight towards him! Yelling, started to run as far away as possible, but the object crash landed, sending pushing him to the ground unconscious.

At the campsite where the rest of the Louds were, they were waiting for Lincoln to come back.

"Lincoln has been gone for a while guys." Leni said; concern evident in her tone.

"Yeah, I hope he's okay." Luna said equally worried.

"Don't worry, the little twerp probably got lost or something." Lori dismissed but inside she was also wondering if something happened to him, they may have not always get along, but Lincoln's still her little brother.

"Or maybe he made friends with a pelican that probably got kicked out of a restaurant a few miles from here, wanna know why? because he had a big bill! Huh, huh?" Luan joked , trying bring some levity.

Lisa would've said something, if a continuous beeping hadn't caught her attention, she looked around to find where it was coming from, and heard it in the tent. She went over and picked up her backpack and pulled out some hand held device, this was noticed by the twins, Lynn, and Lucy.

"Hey Lisa, what'cha got there?" Lynn inquired.

"A mobile tracking device I made when I was 2, it's designed to detect any anomalies within it's radius, I carry it wtihin my person at all times."

"Why's it blinking? asked Lana.

"It seems to have picked up a unique energy signature." she answered "Something not even I have ever seen before. Interesting."

Lincoln was on the ground passed out for a few minutes, he then groggily opened his eyes, he rose up from the ground holding his head, which was aching a little, last thing he remembered was seeing a shooting star that somehow changed direction and...landed right near him. He looked ahead and saw a slightly big crater caused by the impact, Lincoln cautiously went over to the crater and saw what was in the middle of it. It was a circular like object with a protective shell.

"Kinda looks like a satellite or something.' he guessed, unexpectedly the edge he was standing on gave out causing him to slide over near the object "Woah!

He stood up and approached it, just as he was close enough, it suddenly opened up the contents within it was giving off a bright green glow. Looking inside he saw that it was some sort of wrist watch of unknown make, it had a white and green color scheme, the faceplate was black and shaped like a square with 2 green lines outlining what appeared to be an hourglass symbol.

"A watch?" he asked surprised. "What's a watch doing in outer space?" he wondered. Curiosity getting the better of him, he subconsciously lifted up his left arm and moved it towards it, just then the watch-like device actually jumped on his wrist, causing him to yelp in surprise.

"Ahh! G-get it off me! Get it off!" he shouted, Lincoln tried to pull it off but it was like it was glued to him, he climbed up from the crater and ran away. "Mom! Dad! Anyone!"

The Loud family were really starting to get worried, the fire was already burnt out and there was still no sign of Lincoln.

Lori was pacing for some time, Leni was looking at the woods, hoping Lincoln would come back, the twins were holding each other, Luan stopped making jokes and now actually started to be concerned, Lynn was biting her nails, even Lucy showed a little concern, Lisa as well and was still holding her device. Mrs. Loud was holding Lily who was starting to tear up with Mr. Loud at their side.

"Right, that's it." Luna said as she started to make her way to the forest.

"Where do you think you're going?" Lori asked grabbing Luna by the arm.

"What's it look like? I'm going to find our brother." Luna said yanking her arm away from Lori's grip.

"You don't even know where in the forest he might be." her older sister argued. "You might as well get lost yourself."

"So you want me to just leave him out there; not surprising." she scowled.

"Excuse me?" she demanded.

"You heard me, you're probably glad that he's gone, you've never exactly treat him well like all of us and why wouldn't you? One less annoyance for the Loud sib that was born first." The two sisters stared each other down.

"Lincoln and I may have our differences, but don't think for a moment that I've never loved him, you're not the only sister that cares you know." They started to yell at each other, Leni, Luan, and Lynn went over to break it up, Lana Lola, and Liliy started to cry, seeing this Mr. Loud rose up.

"Enough!" he exclaimed causing everyone to be silent their father rarely ever yells let alone at them. "Look I know you're all worried, I am too but arguing won't make this any better. Here's what we do, we'll wait for a few more minutes if Lincoln doesn't come back until then, we'll go out to look for him. Am I clear?" Everyone nodded their heads. "Good now let's sit and wait." They all complied.

"Honey are you sure we shouldn't go now? I'm worried about him." Rita Loud told her husband, while rocking Lily to sleep.

"Me too dear, but I'm sure Lincoln's fine, he is a Loud after all plus he always had a plan for everything. Heck he's probably on his way back right now." Mr. Loud claimed with confidence.

Mr. Loud however was very wrong in his claim, for Lincoln was having trouble removing the strange watch that is now stuck to his wrist, he tried to remove it by hitting a few rocks on it but it turned out to be very durable, he pulled continuously but it had a good grip, he even used his teeth but the watch just wouldn't budge. He now resorted to a simple stick to force it off but just like before it was futile, the stick instantly broke. Groaning, Lincoln tossed the stick aside and now focused on the his new wristwear. It didn't look like any watch he's ever seen, it can't even show the time; yet he wonders where it came from and what's it for exactly.

"Just what is this thing?" he asked mostly to himself, he placed two fingers on the faceplate making a holographic ring appear causing him to gasp. On the ring were strange icons that looked almost like monsters. Lincoln was a bit shocked before smiling. "Cool!" he looked at the icon that seemed to shine brightly, he tapped on it which caused the holo-wheel to disappear and the faceplate to slide to the side, revealing a core that popped out, it had the same hourglass symbol but the center was green, he wondered what might happen next so he pushed the core down. A blinding green flash of light enveloped him.

Some weird green form of energy began to course through his body changing his entire form. Dark red molten rocks formed and covered his arms, legs, torso, and head, and the rest of his body, fire then ignited inside the rocks. After the light faded Lincoln saw his new form. He now stood at 7 ft tall, his body is now a humanoid magma-based life form, inside was a bright magma body covered by dark red rocks his face was basically on fire covered by a rock-like mask. His feet were now oval shaped with two toes on each with and were also on fire, the symbol of the watch's core was now on plastered on his chest. There was ony one reaction. "Aughhhhh!" Lincoln yelled in shock with a deep voice.

"Ahh! I'm on fire! I'm on fire! Ahh!" Lincoln ran around in panic, until he noticed something. "Wait, I'm on fire...and I'm okay." Indeed, despite his whole body being in flames, it actually didn't hurt, it felt harmless, natural even. 'What happened to me?' he thought looking a this fiery oversized hands, he noticed the hourglass symbol on his chest, the same one from before. "The watch, did it do this?". He started to look at his body.

"Man check me out I am hot!" he chuckled before facepalming. "Great, Luan's rubbing off on me." He took a step over and stepped on something, looking down he saw that it was his walky talky, it must've slipped out when he fell. 'Should probably watch my step.' he thought. Lincoln looked ahead and saw a tree, gazing at his right arm, he got an idea. He thruster his finger upward, firing off fire from it which hit the tree, blasting it to bits. Lincoln looked on in shock before grinning excitedly.

"Awesome!" he exclaimed. He put both his hands together, forming a fireball. "This is so cool!" he said as he threw the fireball at some more trees, Lincoln was clearly enjoying his new powers u"ntil he saw that the blast quickly rose and began to cover more trees.

"Wait, stop. Stop!" he said panicking, in mere seconds a blazing forest fire was rising, he tried stomping the fire out on the ground but only succeeded in starting more fires. The entire forest was being consumed, Lincoln was not enjoying this.

"Ah man, I am so gonna get grounded for this."

The Louds were now beyond concerned, it's been 2 hours now and still he only son of their family has not been seen, timew as almost up, by then they'll all will go out looking for him. Leni then saw something from a distance.

"Hey guys I think someone's doing a bonfire." she pointed. Her family looked to where she was pointing, and saw a trail of smoke.

"That looks too big to be a bonfire." Lynn pointed out.

"Yeah." Lori agreed. "It...actually looks more like a..."

"Forest fire!" Mr. Loud finished, with a panicked look.

"Lincoln's still out there!" Rita exclaimed. The sisters also went into instant panic mode.

"Oh no!" Luna shouted.

"He's gonna get burned alive!" the twins shouted.

"Lori, Leni, there are fire extinguishers in the van, get them now." Mr. Loud ordered with urgency. They followed his lead and quickly went and came back with the fire extinguishers, Mr. Loud handed out one for each of them. "Split up into groups, put out as many fires as you can, Honey stay here with Lily." Rita nodded. "And above all else, find Lincoln!" Mr. Loud along with the rest of the sisters went into the forest, to find their missing boy.

Back with said, boy he was not having a good time, still in his fire creature form, Lincoln tried to think of a way to stop the raging flames around him that he caused by accident, which was easier said than done.

"Think Lincoln, think. There's gotta be something I can do, but as long as I'm stuck like this, I'll only make things even worse." he failed to notice that not far from him Leni was, using her fire extinguisher, as she backed up, she bumped into something hard and burning, turning around she saw that it was Lincoln in his new form, she stared at it for a moment, with him staring right back.

"Uh...hey" he said awkwardly, instead of greeting back, Leni gave a bloodcurdling scream making him back up, she then used her extinguisher to shoot foam on him.

"Calm down! I'm gonna save you! Stop drop and roll!" she shouted thinking it was some random guy who was on fire.

"Hey stop that!" he protested. "I'm okay!" seeing that he wasn't hurt, Leni relented.

"Wait, you're not hurt?" she asked. Before they could say anything else, Lori's voice called out.

"Leni! Where did you go?" Lori called from close by.

"Oh boy." Lincoln grimaced. It wasn't long until Lori along with the rest of his sisters (minus Lily) arrived "Is everything oka-" Lori cut herself off as she gazed at the fire-like being, she along with her sisters looked at it with shock before they screamed the same way as Leni.

Lincoln covered his ears. 'What is it with my family and screaming?'

"Wha-What are you?" Lori asked in fright.

"Uh well..." he started. 'I can't tell them I'm their brother, they might not believe me, and even if they do, they might be afraid of me.' He was cut off by Lisa inspecting him through her magnifying glass.

"Fascinating, you're entire being is comprised of molten lava and fire, would you mind if I conduct an experimentation on you?" she inquired.

"Actually I do kinda mind."

"Wow, you look so cool!" Lana said in awe.

"Yeah, you're looking hot. Get it?" Luan quipped.

"Did that joke already." he told her. "Not as funny as you might think."

"Wait a minute." Luna began. "You're the one who started this fire!" she declared.

"What, no. Well actually I kinda did but..."

"He probably did something to Lincoln!" Lola accused. The sisters then aimed their extinguishers at him.

"Woah hold on..." he held his hands up in defense.

"Okay listen up fire monster-thing, what did you do with our brother?" demanded Lori, despite her fear, she wasn't gonna let some creature get in the way of them and their brother.

Before the fire being could explain, he looked to his right and saw a tree was close to falling right on top of his sisters.

"Look out!" He pushed them out of the way just in time, as the flaming tree fell, he caught and miraculously lifted it up, showing his great strength, he tossed it aside and looked at the girls with concern. "Are you all okay?"

"Yeah we-we're fine." Lori responded wide-eyed.

"You saved us." Lynn said, stunned.

"Thank you!" Leni cheerfully said.

"Anytime. Look, I know I look weird and all but I'm not the bad guy; sure I kinda did start the forest fire, but it was completely by accident I mean I'm made of fire, cut me some slack. Also I didn't do anything to your brother, in fact I saw him moments ago."

"Really?" they listened to the fire creature intently.

"Yeah, as soon as he saw the fire, he ran off probably to the wherever you all came from."

The girls weren't completely sure if they could trust the fire creature, but from the tone of its voice, it seemed to be sincere.

"Okay, but how are we gonna stop all this?" Lana asked.

Lisa rubbed her chin for a moment before coming up with an idea."Backfrire." she said.

"Excuse me?" Lola asked.

"Start a new fire and let it burn into the old fire; they'll snuff each other out." Lisa explained. "Given your fire based form, it shouldn't be a problem for you." she told him.

"Shooting flames, I can definitely do." he said with a smirk. "In the meantime you all should go back.

"But Lincoln-" Lucy objected.

"I may not know the kid as well as you, but something tells me he wouldn't want all you hurt, especially if it's because of him." he stated.

Seeing that the fire was beginning to worsen, Lori saw that he was right.

"Okay, fine. Come on everyone." They all ran back to the campsite.

Sighing in relief that his sisters were out of harm's way, Lincoln proceeded to blast more fire, starting a new fire just as Lisa instructed. Seeing the fires beginning to collide with each other, he smiled in satisfaction.

1 hour later

A jeep pulled over, the driver was a park ranger. Exiting from his vehicle, he was welcomed to the sight of charred trees made from a fire that had just burn out, he observed it with a confused expression.

Rita was sitting at the campsite holding Lily, waiting for her family. Hearing a rustle nearby, she turned and saw her husband.

"Dear! Where are the girls? Did you find Lincoln?" she asked frantically.

"I think they're still on their way back, it was weird; one minute the fire continued to rage, but then it started to burn out." he told her. "Also I'm sorry honey, but I couldn't find him-" he was cut off by his daughters' yell.

"Mom! Dad!" The Loud parents, plus Lily, turned and saw the sisters running towards them.

"Girls!" they went over and hugged them tightly.

"Are you alright?"

"What happened? Where's your brother?"

"We were looking for him but then we saw a fire crea-" Leni was cut off by Lori.

"Creeping! There was a lot of fire creeping, so we ran way. Right everyone." she told her sisters, most of them knew where she was going with this.

"Oh yeah, that's it." said Lynn

"Affirmative." Lisa nodded.

"That's exactly what happened." Luna said.

"What?" Leni asked in confusion. "Don't you remember? We ran into a fire monster."

"Ha Ha, no we didn't Leni." Lola said through clenched. For what seemed like forever, Leni was clueless until she finally got the idea

"Oh. Oh! Yeah that's right." she said.

"Did you at least find Lincoln?" Their mother asked. The sisters shook their heads.

"Sigh. It saddens me to say that we have not." Lucy said.

"We can only assume that our sole male sibling got to a safe distance from the blazing area." Lisa concluded.

Little did they know, the missing boy was closer than they think, he was hiding in nearby bushes because he was still a fire creature.

"Oh man, what do I do?" he asked himself. "Should I tell them that I actually am their brother and son, and even if they do believe me how will they react? More importantly how do I turn back to normal? I don't wanna be fire dude forever." he thought about the name. "Hmm fire dude...not a creative name. Also how am I gonna read comics without burning them to ashes along with everything else." His musings were cut off as heard a beeping sound, looking at his chest he saw the Omnitrix symbol blinking red, then a bright red flash enveloped him; once it died down, he saw that he was back to normal.

"I'm me again!" he exclaimed in surprise.

"Hey, who's there?" his dad called. They must have seen the flash of red.

"Guys guys, take it easy it's me." he went out of the bushes and approached his family.

"Lincoln!" they said surprised.

"Is everyone ok-" he was cut off as his family all gave him a group hug.

"Bro, where were you!?" Luna shouted.

"You were gone for like forever." Lynn said.

"We missed you!" the twins yelled.

"Woah woah, take it easy, I'm fine; saw some fire starting out there and made a break for it." he said.

"Just don't scare us like that again, you idiot." Lori told him as the family let go.

"So what now? Do we go home or something?" he asked.

"Oh no, a fire isn't gonna ruin this, but just to be safe there's a public area near here, lets pack everything and go there." Mr. Loud said. His family complied and began to gather their belongings.

Lincoln was with his sisters, ready to go.

"So I take it you guys went out to look for me." he guessed.

"Indeed." Lisa nodded.

"But Lincoln, you'll never believe what we saw." Lana said excitedly. "It was the coolest thing ever!"

"What was it?" he asked playing along.

"It was a guy who was completely made of fire!"

Lincoln feigned a skeptical expression. "Really?"

"We're not joshing bro!" Luna assured. "Every inch of the dude was up in flames."

"The unknown specimen was also comprised of molten rock as well." Lisa added.

"He must have a rocky relationship with his wife." Luan quipped. "Ha ha."

"If his fire was black, then he'd resemble the fire demon I sometimes dream about." Lucy said.

"He started the fire, but it was entirely on accident." Lynn explained.

"Hey since it can't be hurt by fire, that means we can't be hurt by it too." Leni stated.

"Just because he can doesn't mean the same for us Leni." Lola muttered.

Lincoln turned to Lori hoping she can explain what really happened since she's the oldest.

"Look little brother, I now you like think we sound totally demented; I honestly don't blame you." she said. "But it's true, that thing actually helped stop the fire."'she told him with honest sincerity.

"Well if you say so." he said. "So what is he exactly? You don't see a guy made of fire who doesn't scream in agony everyday."

"The answer to your query is unknown at the moment." Lisa answered. "Such a species has never been recorded, so there is no clear statement of what manner of creature it is."

"At least he stopped the fire in time or I would've become roasted." he then looked apologetic. "Look guys, I'm sorry for not coming back sooner I didn't mean to worry you or mom and dad."

"Hey it's cool bro." Luna waved off ruffling his hair.

"Just don't scare us like that again twerp." Lori playfully teased as she and the rest of his sisters hugged him.

"Kids! Almost time to go!" their father called out. The siblings gathered all of their remaining stuff and went to the car except for Lincoln who lingered for a bit.

He looked to the alien watch-like device that transformed him, reaching to take it off he saw that it was still attached to his wrist.

"What kind of watch is this?" he asked himself. He never would've imagined finding this device and transformed him into a fire alien since it came from space, he put his finger on the face-plate again and like before a green holo-wheel appeared only this time an exclamation point was on it instead of icons.

"Is it broken?" he wondered.

There were many questions going through his mind all regarding the nature of the device.

Where did it come from? Who made it? What else could it do? At the moment he could only think of one thing.

'Should I tell the others?'

"Hey Linc come on!" Lynn called.

"Coming!" he replied deciding to think about it later.

At the site where Lincoln found the Omnitrix, all was quiet; the pod where the device was stored was still in its place in the crater completely empty. Up in the sky another object from space was descending only this one was bigger, very bigger. It lande spot just near the pod, the object was a towering figure and colored orange it stood still until four robotic legs extended from the bottom along with arms and its hea.

The being was a robot mechanism and looked around its surroundings, its scanners were searching for the device its master was seeking, it saw the pod but found that its contents was missing so it blasted it to bits with its laser arm. Seeing that its objective was not in the area it launched two disc like objects from its shoulders and a face extended from the top while lasers, claws, and other weapons extended from the bottom.

Their orders from their lord were clear, find the Omnitrix no matter the cost.

Even if the planet's inhabitants get in the way.

Lily Loud, the youngest of the Loud Family was with her mother who was putting the last of their supplies insider their van, while Rita was busy, the infant noticed a squirrel nearby. Giggling she waddled over to it, seeing her the squirrel scurried off with Lily following it.

This didn't go unnoticed by her only brother.

"Lily?" he saw her waddle into the forest.

"Hey where's Lily?" Lori asked.

"Just saw her go off there." he pointed. "I'll go get her."

"Hold it little bro, you stay here I'll go get her." Lori told him grabbing Lincoln by the shoulder.

"But-"

"Sorry Linc, but I literally don't want you to nearly get hurt again." she reasoned. "Don't worry I won't take long."

Lincoln saw Lori run off to find Lily. He understands that Lori doesn't want him to get hurt, but that doesn't mean he wants to sse her or Lily hurt as well, he thought about what he should do until he thought of something.

Gazing at the watch, he wondered if it would work this time. Placing his fingers on the face plate the holo-wheel popped up again this time the icons were present, the white haired preteen went behind some bushes to hide. Scrolling through the wheel, Lincoln figured he should probably use a different form, he stopped at one that had fangs but no eyes. Wondering how useful it could be Lincoln seleted that icon.

The hourglass core popped up once more, Lincoln went behind a tree so that no one could see him, he pushed the core down and was once again enveloped in a blinding green flash.

His body was beginning to change this time into something different. His skeleton regressed into a more primate shape, his muscles began to grow as orange fur started to grow from all parts of his body including his eyes and grew claws and big fangs.

Lincoln was now a large orange furred creature walking on all fours that seemed like a dog with an ape-like posture with no eyes or ears but it did have six gills knots neck. On its left shoulder was a black brace with a green hourglass symbol on it.

In his new form Lincoln snarled like a savage beast it appears he can't speak in this form, but the gills on his neck opened up allowing him to "see". It looked like he was looking at a thermograph of the place. He could pick up two scents that were his two sisters and leaped on to a tree.

He jumped from tree to tree at an inhuman rate determined to get to his sisters.

Meanwhile, Lisa was nearby and was about to climb onto the van until her device started beeping.

"My detector." she said in surprise. It pinpointed the same unknown energy from before, it was close by and moving. The scientist in her was curious as to what it was which was enough motivation." She went into the forest without anyone noticing.

Lily had lost sight of the squirrel and was now crawling on the grass looking for any sign of her family. The little baby girl was beginning to get scared until she heard a voice from behind she saw that it was her big sister.

"There you are Lily." Lori sighed in relief, she picked Lily up with her arms. "Don't go wandering off, we had enough trouble with Lincoln getting lost." she chided.

"Gah buh bah." Lily giggled.

Lori shook her head. "Let's just go." She began to head back carrying Lily in her arms.

However, unbeknownst to the two they were being observed by one of the drones that was sent to search for the Omnitrix it followed a faint energy signal and was closing in until you it saw the two humans.

Knowing they may prove to be a complication the most logical course of action was simple; eliminate complication. It slowly followed afterthem.

As she was in Lori's arms Lily heard something in the darkness.

"Gah! Gah!" she babbled trying to warn Lori.

"What is it?" Lori asked, her baby sister pointed to the trees and the leaves were rustling eerily. "Hello? Anyone there?" Her answer was a red laser blast that barely hit them where they stood. "What the?!" she exclaimed she saw the shooter as the drone.

"Wahhhhh!" Lily cried.

"Oh my god!" Lori shouted. Realizing the obvious danger, the teen ran to get her and her baby sister to safety. The drone gave chase to the earthlings, focused on eliminating them.

As Lori kept running making sure to keep Lily out of its shooting range, as she ran her mind was racing. First a fire monster now a killer robot? Today was really starting to get strange. She was running so fast she accidentally bumped into someone,

"Hey I am in motion here. Get your globular organs checked." a young voice snapped.

Lori knew that intellectual tone and using big words anywhere, looking down she saw that it was Lisa.

"Lisa?" What are you doing out here?!" she asked frantically.

"Calm yourself older sibling. I was merely investigating a-" she cut herself off as she saw the drone approaching. "What in Edison's light bulb is going on?!"

"Oh you know, just a killer robot that's about to kill us if we don't get out of here!" she shouted as she dragged her away.

Lisa however protested. "But this is a chance of lifetime. That mechanism is made of technology even I never seen before.

"Really?" Lori demanded. "That thing's trying to kill us and you wanna play doctor with it."

"I don't expect your short-sighted mind to comprehend but-" she was cut off by a second drone appearing and shot lasers as well. "On second thought, perhaps making a hasty retreat would be a sound suggestion." she admitted with actual fear in her force.

Unfortunately the two drones had the three Louds cornered, even the slightest movement would result in the robots firing them. But just when it seemed like the end, their attention was grabbed by a loud inhuman roar.

"Raaaaagh!" a savage orange beast tackled one of the drones and ripped it to shreds with its claws and teeth.

"An orange dog-thing, can today literally get any more crazy?!" Lori asked.

Lisa noticed. "Wait a minute, Lori look at the brace located on its scapula." the genius toddler pointed. "The symbol on it is the same as the one on the fire creature we encountered previously."

"So?" Lori asked.

"So you can acquire a photograph of it to show to the others." her younger yet smarter sister said which she did with her phone.

The other drone scanned the best, especially on the hourglass symbol, there was no doubt about it, it had the Omnitrix. Intent on completing its mission the drone fired lasers at the beast. But with its incredible agility, the creature easily dodged them, he leaped at the drone and like the lest tore it to shreds with its sharp teeth. With both threats to his sisters gone, he turned to them.

"U-Uh easy boy." Lori soothed nervously.

"Calm yourself Lori, since it bears the same emblem as the fire creature perhaps they are allies of some kind." Lisa suggested.

"Or maybe its his pet and when he's not here, he attacks anything that moves." Lori argued.

As the orange creature approached them, he looked at Lily and moved closer to her, the baby stared it for a moment before giggling and touched its muzzle.

"Hee hee, doggy!" she squeeled.

The creature smiled fondly and allowed her to continue petting him until he heard a beeping noise and looked at his shoulder and saw the symbol beeping red. It backed away and leaped back up to the trees.

Lori and her sisters simply stared in silence.

"Well..." Lori said breaking it. "...that happened."

Lisa looked at her device and saw that the signal was coming from the orange creature.

'It was the source.' she thought. "I believe, now is the time to return to the others before they begin to panic."

"Y-Yeah." Lori agreed. And so, they went back to the site.

Lincoln returned to the camp site still as an orange creature, once he landed on the ground a red light flashed again and he was back to normal.

"Okay that was crazy." he said. "What was up with those alien robots? At least Lori, Lisa, and Lily are safe."

Leni and Luna walked up to him.

"Hey Lincoln, have you seen Lori, Lily, and Lisa?" Leni asked.

"Yeah bro, we're about to leave." Luna told him.

"They're um..." he said nervously until he saw them emerge from some bushes. "Over there!" he pointed.

The three looked a bit exhausted.

"Hey you guys, you alright?" Leni asked.

"We're fine." Lori swered. "Just a little winded."

'What happened out here?" Luna asked.

Before she could answer, their father called out to them.

"Kids come on! W'ere leaving."

"I'll tell you in the car." Lori said. She and her siblings went in vanzilla along wit the rest of thier family and drove off.

While they were in the van, Lori made sure that their parents were too busy looking at the road to pay attention to them.

"Are our parental units' attention away from us?" Lisa asked.

"Yeah they are." Lori nodded "Now they can't listen in on us."

"Why?" Lola asked.

"Because, Lori, Lily, and I; well Lori and I wish to tell you about an experience we encountered out in the woods." Lisa explained. "Even though Lily was there, she wouldn't be able to properly explain the event since she lacks the ability to make coherent sentences presently."

To prove her point, Lily was giggling at the mobile attacked to her seat.

"Okay you guys, look at this." Lori pulled out her phone and showed them her photos.

"Bobby dressed as a matador?" Lincoln asked confused like the rest.

"What?" Lori looked at her phone and saw that it indeed was her boyfriend posing dramatically as a bull fighter. "Oh h-how did that get in there? Let me take care of that heh." she nervously said with a blush. "Okay here we go."

Everyone could now see the pic of the orange beast.

"Eww, what is that thing?" Lana asked disgusted by the ghastly creature.

Her twin however gushed. "Aw look at it." Lana said. "It's so cute with its huge claws and teeth ripping apart that robot thing."

"Is that a dog?" Leni asked.

"What happened?" Luna asked as well.

"Lily crawled off into the woods and I went to get her until these killer robots started attacking us, I ran away with Lily until we crashed into Lisa." Lori told them.

"Oh my gosh! Did they hurt you?"' Leni asked in concern along with the rest.

"Had it not for the intervention of the unknown orange specimen, then we most certainly would have." Lisa replied. "Though if you were to focus on the black brace, you might see something familiar.

They did so and took notice of the green hourglass symbol.

"Woah, dudes that fire guy we ran into had the same thing on his chest." Luna recalled.

"Precisely, this gives us the assumption that perhaps both creatures must have a connection." Lisa surmised. "Pity, that the advanced autonomous robots are no longer functional, I would have loved to study them."

"At least now they can rust in peace." Luan quipped. "Get it?"

Everyone merely groaned.

Except for Lincoln.

'Oh man, I was too busy tearing those rustbuckets to pieces I didn't notice Lori snapping a pic.' he thought. He had a slight look of panic.

"Y-You know guys maybe we should leave this alone. I mean this was supposed to be a camping trip, now this whole thing with monsters and robots, we should probably forget about it." he tried to reason.

"Are you kidding?" Lynn asked incredulously. "This is the single coolest thing that could ever happen to us!"

"Yeah, Lincoln!" Lana agreed. "Heck we can find that dog and get mom and dad to adopt it!"

"No, Lincoln's right." Lori countered. "I for one literally did not ask for monsters of robots let's just forget about it and move on."

Things were quiet for the rest of the ride, after about 10 minutes the Louds made to a public area where there were RVs and a park ranger.

"All right everyone here we are." Mr. Loud told them.

One by one they each exited from vanzilla with their bags. They all gathered at the center.

"Alright, now we can spend the rest of this trip without any further..."

He was cut off by a sudden rumbling sound that sounded like footsteps, they turned and saw a towering shadowy figure make its way to them. Once it came to light they saw it as a giant robot that looked similar to the drones. It looked down at them with a menacing aura.

Them including all the other humans nearby looked up in both shock and terror.

"...Aaaaand I spoke too soon." Lori said with a fearful tone.

"So this is how it ends." Lucy said. "Kinda expected it to be a zombie. Ah well, beggars can't be choosers."

The giant robot raised its arm and fired a shot at an RV which exploded on impact, thankfully no one was inside but that didn't stop the panic.

"Let's get out of here!" a man yelled.

Everyone didn't need to be told twice, for they instantly ran away all around trying to escape.

"Kids, honey back to the van!" Mr. Loud ordered. They did so until said van was blown to pieces. "Aw come on!" he exclaimed. "I just fixed it back together!"

The giant drone looked over the Loud Family, in response they ran away as far from it unfortunately they got lost in the overflowing crowd. As a result Lincoln got separated from them.

"Guys!" he yelled.

"Lincoln!" Rita yelled back. "Everyone stick together!"

"Easier said than done!" Luna responded.

Pretty soon the entire family were separated, Lincoln got behind an RV and saw as the drone unleashed chaos onto everything in it's path. It was all horrifying to him, he wondered what could be done to stop this madness.

That's when it him; it hit like the time Lynn accidentally struck him with her bowling ball...don't ask how she threw it. He glanced at the watch and thought how used two super powered alien forms to save the lives of his siblings, maybe he can use it to save the lives of all these people. He activated it like before and scrolled through to find his next choice and stopped at the image of an icon that looked pretty sharped.

"Alright, here we go!" Lincoln declared as he pressed the core down and all you could see was a green flash. His skin began to be covered by what looked like a crystal like substance. It wasn't long until it covered his entire being and four crystal shards sprouted from his back. Once the transformation was complete he took in his new appearance, he had a strong physique and he looked like he was made of pale green crystals. This new form also came with body-wear as he was wearing a black bodysuit with white on one side and black on the other, his eyes were also now yellow. The Omnitrix symbol was on the right side of his chest.

Lincoln looked over his newest form, looks like it might be more durable. "Don't know what that this guy can do." he noted looking at his now diamond hand. "But I bet its gonna be cool." he clenched it in anticipation.

Leaping into action, he ran past a few campers and who stopped to stare at him in shock, he ignored him and looked up at the giant robot, he looked to his right and saw an abandoned car and smirked.

The robot blasted a few RVs, scanning for its objective, it's focus was bought by a yell.

"Hey rustbucket!"

It turns and reacted too late to a car hitting its head, when the smoke cleared, it was looked at its attacker; the diamond headed alien. "You want someone to pick on? Try me." it dared. The robot scanned it over and focused on the hourglass symbol; he found the Omnitrix, it raised its claw and fired a laser that blasted Lincoln into an RV, another shot was fired resulting in its destruction, the drone moved forward to inspect of the device survived, but saw a big diamond shard cut open a piece of wreckage, it revealed Lincoln to still be alive.

He took a second to observe his appendage. "Cool." Getting back into action, he went back to attacking the alien machine, the swung at it with his sword hand but the robot jumped. In mid-air it spun its legs and dived down, landing on top of Lincoln, pinning him down.

"Oh boy. This is not going as well as I hoped." he said in distress.

Lori and Luna who was carrying Lily tried to fin where the others were, especially their brother. "Lisa! Lincoln! Where are you?!" Luna called out. Her elder sister was looking to see any trace of the rest of the Loud clan, but then saw the robot and of course, the diamond alien it was fighting. "You have GOT to be literally kidding me!" she exclaimed. "Lori look!"

The blonde chronic phone user did so and saw the alien. "Wha-How many monsters are in these woods?!"

Back with Diamondhead, he was picked up and thrown right into a Hummer and carefully dodged each laser blast that was shot at him. One struck a tree and with wide eyes, he saw Leni, Lola, and Lana right in its path with fearful expressions. Before they could be hit, he got right in front of them and extended a back shard to cut the tree in half.

"You three okay?" he asked in concern.

His sisters stared at him with jaws open wide. Until Leni and Lola squealed and approached the diamond creature that just saved their lives. "OMG! You're so shiny!" she felt his crystal hard skin.

"Tell me you come in pink!" Lola begged with sparkling eyes.

Before Diamondhead could reply, he saw the robot reaching for him, he pushed his sisters away so that they couldn't be caught with him. "Uh-Oh." the robot raised him up and started pulling on his left arm. Grunting in response to the strain, Diamondhead formed several shards on his arm to destroy the hand that was pulling on it. In response, the robot shot him right into a shed that exploded on impact. Getting out of the rubble, the robot aimed another shot at him but Diamond head formed shard sword hands that once were fired at by a concentrated beam, the beam was reflected off him and into the robot's torso, damaging it a little. Diamondhead looked at his swords and observed his reflection.

He hummed in thought as a plan was starting to form in his mind. He ran straight at it and yelled to get its attention. "Hey tin man! Why don't you blast one right here?!" he challenged, pointing to his chest. The robot accepted this as he sent an even stronger blast, but Diamondhead raised his hands to contain the blast, it was physically straining on his part, but he had to work through it to stop this menace. "What goes around comes around!" he mused. "Let's see how you like it, you techno freak!" the blast reflected from his hands and completely obliterated the robot to pieces, ending it once and for all. "Alright!" Diamondhead pumped his fist at his victory. Then he noticed the incredulous and amazed stares from the campers who were still around. "Um, I'll just go." he summoned up a wall of crystal that once it went down, he was gone.

The diamond alien his behind a trailer and saw the symbol began to beep and once again he was back to human. "Man, I could get used to this." Lincoln smiled. He poked his head and saw Lynn and Lucy with a few of the others, namely his mother and Luan. "Guys! Are you okay?" he asked.

"Lincoln!" his mother gasped in relief as she hugged him. "Oh honey, thank god you're okay."

"Have you seen the others?" Lynn asked.

"Was kind of hoping you would tell me." Lincoln replied somberly.

"Guys look!" Luan pointed to the rest of their family who were all okay for the most part.

The husband and wife hugged each other out of relief and the siblings also were glad that none of them were injured during this whole period of danger. "Okay guys." Lynn Sr. addressed. "I think we've had enough of camping for one night. Let's head on home."

Above Earth's Atmosphere

Vilgax's ship was still being repaired by the drones, while the war mongering tyrant himself was still recovering. He had just been informed of the drones' failure in procuring the Omnitrix, and he was far from being pleased. "Failure! Unbelievable!" he rasped with a furious scowl. "Whoever the puny Earthling that took my prize, the Ominitrix, from me is...his head will hang from my trophy wall!" he swore.

As next morning soon arrived Lincoln considered what to do with this new device he had just discovered. It completely amazed him that this watch could actually transform him into alien forms, each with their own powers. He considered if e should tell any of the others, but was still afraid if they would react negatively. So, he knew of only one other person he could turn to.

Clyde McBride was waiting patiently in his room, he got a call from Lincoln that he had big news for him to share. Then from outside, he swore he heard a loud sonic boom. Looking out his window, he saw a black and blue blur that in just a blink of an eye, it was inside his room.

"Ah!" Clyde jumped as he saw the creature. It looked as if it were some kind of semi-armed velociraptor, it had black wheels on his feet and was wearing some kind of black helmet with a visor that once it slid back, it revealed the blue skin with black marks and green eyes. It also had a tail with five blue stripes. A beeping was heard from the symbol on his chest and in a red flash, he was turned into his own best friend.

"L-Lincoln?!" the nerdy boy sputtered in shock.

"Clyde. Do I have a story for you." Lincoln told him as he held up his left arm to show him the Omnitrix.

Albert though that today was gonna be normal, his friends playing some bridge and poker, and Sue nagging at them like she usually does, but then he saw the news and bore witness to the amateur videos taken there.

The sight of the Diamond alien made him stand up in alarm and excuse himself from the game. Going into his room, he pulled a drawer and took out a round, disk like device. One that had the same hourglass symbol as the alien.

"Patelliday. It's me." he spoke into it. "I need a little update old friend."

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