AN: Three things before I begin this story.
One, yes I know that No Such Luck stories have been done to death at this point. So I decided to do one myself due to my just total disgust and anger with this particular episode.
And two, this story will be like the No Such Luck fanfiction to end all No Such Luck fanfictions. Unless something even better than this comes up of course.
And three, this is an AU tale. Quite possibility my first one ever!
Now with all of that established, let's get started. Hope you all enjoy.
Chapter 1: Exiled from Home: Part 1!
Though the deepest and darkness reaches of outer space, lies a single a NASA rocket ship hailed from the planet known as Earth flying through the cosmos. On the rocket housed a group of individuals, one of which was beginning to wake up from up his slumber.
This individual was a little boy with a set of orange pajamas on his person, a strange set of white hair, a set of freckles on his cheeks and a chipped tooth.
He blinked a few times in order to get the sleep out of his eyes. Once he got adjusted, he looked and saw that he was in a room inside of a strange cage. He wasn't alone either, as across from was another person who was also imprisoned as well. It was a man but he couldn't make out who exactly it was due to him being a bit far for the young lad to see properly. He tried to move but for some reason he couldn't. Looking to his right arm to his horror and confusion, that his both of his arms and both of his legs were being held back by some weird blue energy constructs in the shape of chains and cuffs.
"What the-?!" The boy asked as he struggled to get his appendages free of his binds, but the grip on them was too strong for him to break free. So he tried the next best thing: Calling for help. But after several attempts of doing that, he eventually gave up. He only stopped when a glitching hologram of a group of 11 people appeared before him. It was one man, one woman and 9 girls, 3 brunette girls, 1 black haired girl, and 5 blonde girls respectively.
Those people were people that the boy was very familiar with...
...this group was his family. His consisting of his father, his mother, and nine of his ten sisters.
...After taking a few minutes to materialize properly, the man who was wearing a green shirt and brown pants and who was the boy's father spoke to him in a message.
"Hey son, listen, I am truly sorry that we've done this to you. But we had no choice. Your bad luck is going to inconvenience us and we can't risk that."
One of the blondes , one who was wearing a blue tank top and brown khaki shorts spoke. "Yeah twerp, your bad luck could literally cause my Boo-boo bear to break up with me again and if that happens because your bad luck, I will never forgive you, Lincoln. You know how important my relationship with Bobby is to me. It's sad how little you seem to care about it." She said in an angered tone.
One of the brunettes spoke. This little brunette was wearing a green sweater and dark pink pants and was wearing a pair of round glasses and spoke with a lisp. "We have picked your destination accurately to meet your desired requirements elder brother sibling."
Another blonde girl, the one in a light green dress, spoke excitedly. "Yeah, it'll totes have lots of plants and there will no one there to bother you!"
The girl with the black hair spoke unemotionally. "Don't worry Lincoln, you'll be completely fine on your own."
One of the other brunettes, this one dressed in a red and white jersey spoke, a bit arrogantly. "Plus, with you away for a while. I won't lose anymore games."
One the blondes, one who was wearing a pink dress, spoke a bit arrogantly. "And my pageant career won't be at risk due to your bad luck. If I lost a single pageant because of you being around. I would've destroy you for it!"
One of the other brunettes spoke, this one being dressed in a purple tank top and a purple skirt, with a saddened tone in her voice. "I really didn't want to do this to you bro, but it's for your own good. I hope you can stay cool wherever you end up. May your bad luck be diminished by the time you're there and while you're there."
The last of the brunettes, this one dressed in a white shirt and yellow skirt, spoke in an assuming manner. "Well, Lincoln, all I can say is... Good luck, you're gonna need it." The braced-faced comedian chuckled a little before finishing. "Get it?"
The comedian's joke was met with groans of annoyance from her sisters. Even the white haired boy groaned alongside the holographic forms of his sisters.
The last of the blonde girls, one who was wearing blue overalls and a red cap, spoke. "You'll survive wherever you are. You're the Man with the Plan after all. I'll miss you big bro."
Lincoln's mother, who was wearing a red shirt and brown pants spoke to him in a somber tone. "I know you'll probably hate us for this son, I won't blame you if you do. But you've always said that you wanted peace and quiet, or that you wanted some alone time... Well... I hope it was worth it. Just know that we love with all our hearts..."
The holographic form of Lincoln's family dissipated as Lincoln sat alone for a minute or so to collect his thoughts. When he did he spoke out in a whisper.
"So they just shipped me away to some country while I was asleep?" He said as tears of sadness began to well up in his eyes. "Why?... Why did they do this?... Don't they care about me?" He questioned as tears rolled down his face. His body then started to shake with rage as he began to yell out in a ranting fashion. "I can't believe this! I've helped them when they needed me, I take the fall for them, I've jumped through hoops and do some of the most grueling tasks just for them..." He ranted as he screamed out the last part. "AND THIS IS HOW THOSE UNGRATEFUL JERKS REPAY ME?!" Lincoln then closed his eyes and continued to sob as the seconds rolled by. "Although I guess I can say that I can blame them all I want, but even though they put me on this stupid ship, I have no one else to blame but myself..."
Fortunately, (or unfortunately depending on how you slice it) his little rant session caught the attention of someone close by.
"Excuse me, are you okay kid?"
Lincoln became startled as he looked in front of him, to his horror, was a large bear with beige baggy cargo shorts, and a blue shirt, an orange over-shirt with a few holes in it.
Naturally, the white haired boy freaked out. He let out a scream of fear at the beast and closed his eyes instinctively, tears still flowing from his tear ducts. "P-Please Mr. Bear, don't eat me!" He pleaded through his sobs, his eyes still closed.
Hearing this made the bear freeze up, looking down at himself, he saw that his appearance was scaring the young boy. He quickly waved his hands, (which are now large claws) in a defensive manner. "No, no, no, it's okay kid. I-I'm not going to eat you. Look, I'll show you!" The young lad opened his eyes to see the bear step back a few feet before taking a deep breath and focusing his mind. The boy watched as the bear began to slowly transform from the furry creature into an human adult male with light brown hair the aforementioned clothes he had on them.
This amazed the boy and cheered him up a little. "Whoa, you're half bear? People can do that?" He asked. The man spoke. "Well only half Canadian people can and I'm 1/16 Canadian." He responded before asking. "By the way, I'm Chris, what's your name?"
"Oh, um, I'm L-Lincoln." He stuttered. "Lincoln L-Loud." He said before asking. "Hey, are you the one who's taking us to another country Mr. Chris?" He asked curiously. The large man chuckled. "Please just call me Chris, and no I'm not taking you to another country because we're not going to another country... because this isn't just any ship Lincoln."
The next thing he said shocked the boy.
"We're on a NASA rocket ship and it's heading to another planet!" He exclaimed to him.
"WHAT!" That was all Lincoln could say at the moment.
Chris nodded in confirmation. "Yeah, I was shocked too. I'm trying to find the navigational system to see if I can take all of us back to Earth." He then begins to walk away, much to the Loud boy's dismay.
"Wait Chris, are we the only ones on this ship?" He asked.
"No we're not, I'm trying to find my friend Dan." He explained to the young child. "I broke in here to try and get him off this thing before it launched from the Earth's atmosphere." He said, a bit angry at himself before taking a deep breath and continuing. "But it was too late by then. When it launched, I was sent flying into a far away wall and I got knocked out. When I came to, I decided to transform into my bear form just in case I needed to defend myself when I heard you shouting Lincoln." He said, finishing up his story. "Speaking of which, what are you doing here on this rocket anyways?"
The boy was going to answer but instead hung his head down, shaking to hide his tear ridden face as he spoke with a broken voice. "I-I'm sorry Chris but... it's not something I want to talk about right now..." He said as he sniffled a little. "Is it o-k-kay if I talk about it later?" He said before he quietly began to sob to himself, which very similar to how Chris found him just a few minutes.
Chris was going to ask him again about why Lincoln was there on the ship, but the Loud boy made it clear that he didn't want to talk about what got him here on this rocket that's currently drifting through space to an unknown destination. But as much as Chris wanted to get to the bottom of Lincoln's mystery, he decided not to pry into it at the moment. He'll tell Chris when he's ready.
Just then, the two of them heard a loud, angry voice echo throughout the ship.
"CHRRRIIISSS! Where the heck are you?!"
This yell caused the half bear human hybrid to jump in fright. "That must be Dan. Look I gotta go Lincoln."
He attempts to leave but Lincoln shouts out to him. "Wait, can you at least get me out of these chains?"
"I'll try." The adult said as he transformed back into his bear form and used his claws and his teeth to free the Loud boy from his binds, only for his attempts to end in pain and failure as his teeth and claws were not enough to free Lincoln from the energy constructed chains he was cuffed in.
"Man, Lincoln I'm sorry, but these chains just refuse to break." He said before he begun to think to himself. "Maybe I can find a button on this rocket that'll release you from these chains since they appear to be energy based. I'll be back Lincoln, so hang tight."
The now bear Chris then ran off, leaving Lincoln alone for the time being.
Chris began to run through the hallways of the ship, yelling out Dan's name and asking him where he is, only to for his friend's voice to get louder the closer he gets. After many twists and turns he finally found his best friend, who was rather short when it came to stature, and he has some rather unkempt hair and was wearing his typical blue jeans and black t-shirt that said the word 'JERK' on is also chained by his arms and legs like an animal, looking as justifiably confused and angry as he usually is.
"Dan, you're okay!" Chris said as he approached his friend with a smile on his face and open arms.
"Of course I'm okay, why I wouldn't I be?!" Dan said in a sarcastic and angry tone. "So where is this ship taking us anyway?" He asked, or rather demanded to his bear "minion", to which he responded.
"Well I don't know Dan. But what I do know is that it's taking you, me, Lincoln, and who knows how others that are on this thing to another planet." Chris said, much to Dan's shock.
"Wait, we're in SPACE?!" Dan yelled out in surprise before calming down and asking his bear friend in curiosity. "Wait Chris, you mentioned someone named Lincoln, who's that?"
"Well Dan, he's a little boy who is also on this rocket with us." He responded.
"What! A boy? Please tell me you're joking buddy? I mean seriously, what's a kid, of all people, doing in outer space with us?!"
"That's what I don't know Dan. I asked him but he didn't want to say anything right now."
"Well, to be honest with you Chris, I can't' say I blame the kid. He must've done something pretty bad to get shipped to wherever this rocket's taking us." Dan said, collecting his thoughts on the boy. Before immediately demanding his "minion" to releasing him from his shackles... only for Chris to tell him that he already tried that with Lincoln's shackles earlier and his bear claws did nothing to them so he's not going to try to do it again, much to his friend's chagrin.
"What? You're not going to help me? You coward!" Dan said, ticked off at his friend's refusal.
"Calm down "Mr. Angry" I-" Chris said, only to be interrupted by Dan.
"Angry! If I wasn't chained up like this, I'd show you angry!" He said, struggling to reach out to strangle Chris... only to fail miserably.
Chris gave Dan a deadpan look before continuing. "As I was saying, I'm going to try to find something to release you... and given how big this ship is, it might take a while." He explained.
Dan gave an agitated sigh to calm himself before speaking to his bear friend. "Well don't take too long buddy. My legs might fall asleep of you do."
"I'll try Dan, hang tight." Chris said as began to walk away from his imprisoned friend as he continues to journey through the ship. With every room he checks, he doesn't find anything to help him and his fellow prisoners into getting back to Earth sadly.
But rather some of its inhabitants.
And some of them were pretty interesting to say the least...
Speaking of which...
As Lincoln was waiting for Chris to turn off his energy shackles, the young Loud boy was rummaging through his thoughts at this recent development. One moment he was on Earth, forced outside of his own house by his superstitious family consisting of his two cowardly parents and his 10 well meaning (at times), but rather extreme (emphasis on the extreme) sisters, all because of a simple, seemingly harmless, little white lie.
At least for the time...
Meanwhile in another cell, the one right across from Lincoln's in fact, had another pair of eyes opened up. "Huh, w-where am I?" A different sort of teen like voice said tiredly and out loud, gaining Lincoln's attention. The confused teen looked down and saw his backpack on the ground at his feet. Taking his chances, he spoke to the confused teen in question.
"Hello mister. W-What's your name?" He called out to him.
The teenage boy looked towards the direction of the young voice and finally locked eyes with the young boy for the first time.
"Oh hello there. I'm M-" But before the teen could finish introducing himself, the light above him suddenly shined to life, make the teen instinctively close his eyes to avoid the potential blindness of the light. Lincoln knew what this was, so he decided to wait until the holographic message finishes so that he can talk to the teen.
It only took a few seconds for the light to finally dim down a bit. When it did, the boy was shocked to see to two holographic projections of two very familiar people.
The first one was a slightly brown skinned young man who has a prominent chin, a auburn mullet, and a large, pointed nose. For his attire, he was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses alongside a yellow safety vest, a light blue button up shirt, a pair of black jeans and a pair of gray sneakers.
The other was a white skinned teenage boy with black hair with bangs that parted on one of his sides. He is wearing nearly rimless glasses, a gray shirt with two pockets on the front, a pair of dark gray jeans and shoes of the same colors. The most noticeable thing was that his right arm was a brown plant vine.
"I'm not apologizing for doing to you in general Murphy. I'm just sorry that we didn't do this to you and the rest of your family sooner Murphy." Said the holographic sunglasses wearer.
"My family is on this ship too?" The Murphy thought to himself as the message continued.
"To be honest Milo, I was always jealous of you. Jealous of your "Murphy's Law" getting you all of the attention!" The glasses wearing nerd revealed. "Without you around, Danville and essentially the rest of the world will be safe from you and your family, Milo. I wonder how long your optimism about your exile will last."
The crossing guard finished. "Let's see how outer space deal with your Murphy's Law for a change."
With that the two people vanished as the light producing them turned off. Milo looked at the ground and thought about what was just told to him. He thought that Elliot, the crossing guard and Bradley, his fellow schoolmate were friends. Clearly that wasn't the case. Now that he really took the time to think about it, Elliot has always had it out for him and his family because of "Murphy's Law" running through his and his family's veins. But he ignored them as best he could. And Bradley has often told Milo how it was to his face or behind his back on occasion, but the Murphy teen thought he didn't mean those things. Apparently he did.
"So, your last name is actually Murphy? "Like Murphy's Law? Like b-bad luck?" Lincoln's nervous voice brought the Murphy teen out of his thoughts.
Milo looked down at the eggshell colored haired boy and smiled a bit. "Oh um, yeah. Milo Murphy." He confirmed. "And who might you be?"
"I'm Lincoln Loud." He greeted happily. He then got a little nervous before he spoke again. "Can I ask you something Mr. Milo? It's a bit p-personal."
Milo sensed the kid's nervousness and gently reassured him. "No need to be nervous Lincoln. No need to call me mister. Just ask me what's on your mind, I won't be offended."
Listening to the teen, he took a deep, calming breath and asked his question. "I-Is Murphy's Law real?"
"Yup. It is. It's been in my family's bloodline since 1875 from the original bearer of it." The teen answered obliviously.
"Who was it Milo?" Lincoln asked.
"My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather Sheriff Murphy." Milo answered.
"If that's the case, aren't you scared that your Murphy's Law might hurt someone?" The white haired boy asked.
"Well sometimes Lincoln, but I often my Murphy's Law as an adventure. Unlike others who justifiably see Murphy's Law as a curse." The jinxed boy explained.
"An adventure huh? That's... cool I guess?" Lincoln began to say before trailing off, justifiably confused of the prospect of bad luck being seen as in adventure when in his and everyone else's case when bad luck was often used as a curse or something to place blame on when the person refuses to take responsibility for his or her actions.
Milo couldn't help but giggle a little. "Don't worry Lincoln. You'll see it in action soon enough. Just wait..." He happily assured the Loud boy.
"That makes me feel nervous." Lincoln said nervously.
"First time in space?" Milo asked.
"Yeah, obviously Milo." The elven year old boy said before asking the thirteen year old boy something. "This isn't yours?"
"Yeah, I've been abducted from Earth at least twice by the same alien race." Milo explained nonchalantly, much to Lincoln's shock and surprise.
"Wait! Aliens are real?!" He asked to which Milo nodded.
"Yes, I was surprised and admittedly terrified myself when I first met the Octalian aliens. But they weren't so bad once you get to know them." He explained to him.
"Ha! I knew it! I knew aliens were real!" Lincoln cheered. "Man, this is so cool! I can't wait to rub this knowledge in everyone's faces when I get back home!" Lincoln gloated before quickly losing his smile and looking down at the ground in realization before he muttered to himself in a sadden tone. "That is, if I get back home..."
Milo sensed the child's doubt, he felt sympathy for his young, white haired, newfound friend. "I'm sure we'll make it home Lincoln. We just have to stay positive."
Just as Milo finished saying that however, the rocket's engine shut down as the lights were turned off throughout the ship's now darken hallways. The shackles that held the prisoners within their cells dissipated and the cell's doors also dissipated.
Putting on a headlamp and turning on the flashlight attached to it, Milo turned it on. He used the light of said headlamp to get a good look at the surrounding darkness before spotting Lincoln in the dark. Stumbling around for his backpack, he picked it up, reached into it, and pulled out another headband flashlight contraption before handing it to Lincoln.
"Here you go Lincoln, these will help you see in the dark." Milo said as he and Lincoln then left their cells and began to explore the ship. Unaware of what awaits in the dark, quiet, halls of their turned off transportation vehicle now drifting threw the infinite cosmos because unforeseen circumstances of a single teenager.
As the two were trying to find their way to the ship's control room, a series of different thoughts ranging from scared to empowering to determined went through the two's heads as they journeyed on.
…Though that kind of thought process was mostly coming from Lincoln. Milo's thoughts were those of confidence in Murphy's Law.
"Gee, I hope I can survive until I can get back home..."
"If I get back home that is..."
"Wait a second, what am I thinking?"
"I'm Lincoln Loud!"
The Man-with-the-plan!"
I will survive!"
"I must survive this so I can get back home!"
"I will get back if it's the last thing I do!"
Shaking his head to clear it of his thoughts, Lincoln then asked Milo a question. "Um Milo, is it okay if I hold your hand? I want to know that I'm not touching an alien's hand by mistake." He explained with a small chuckle before looking down a bit embarrassed. "I'm also a little scared..." He whispered, even though Milo heard what he said
Milo looked down at his comrade with a look of sympathy. "Sure." He then grasped the white haired Loud boy's hand. "And don't worry about a thing Lincoln, whatever's here, I'll protect you."
Lincoln looked up at the Murphy boy a grateful smile, a smile which Milo returned with a equally grateful smile as the two jailed boys continued their exploration of the still dark and quiet ship.
To be continued...
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