14. Fire and Lightning

Luna sat in the High school cafeteria strumming her guitar while also trying to keep her powers from causing another power outage.

"Keep your cool Luna." She said to herself.

"Yo Luna."

Luna turned around and sees Sam sitting next to her.

"Hey Sam." Luna greets. "What's up?"

"Not much." Sam answers. "What have you been up to?"

Luna then has flashbacks of her missions as Amplifier. After a few seconds, the flashbacks ends.

"Not much. Just hanging out with my sibs." Luna answers.

"That's nice." Sam replied. "I think that's sweet of you hanging with your siblings."

"Thanks." Luna said while blushing. "Do you got any siblings?"

"I got two older brothers and a little sister." said Sam.

"Cool. What are your brothers like?" Luna asks.

"Well my older brother Jay is in college wants to study dinosaurs." said Sam.

"Cool. What about your other brother?" Luna asks.

"Well my other older brother, Jack is in his senior year." Sam says. "He wants to get into journalism."

"Cool." Luna says. "Wish my brother knew what his passion was. What about your sister?"

"My little sister Ashley is about 11 years old, loves Lego the kind that boys but, rock music and sometimes Disney movies. She wants to work there when she grows up." Sam explained.

"Wow." Luna said in shock. "My brother is the same age as your sister and he still is struggling to find his passion."

"Just give him time." Sam says. "So is your brother your only sibling?"

"Um no I have two older siblings and seven little siblings." said Luna. "And one little brother."

"So you got nine sisters!?" Sam exclaimed.

"Yep." Luna answers.

"Man I feel bad for your brother." Sam comments.

"Yeah I know. Same here." said Luna.

"He must have it rough." Sam comments.

"Yeah." Luna agrees. Her brother did have it rough. Especially with the sister fight protocol and bad luck incidents.

"Has he ever talked to you about how he feels?" Sam asks.

"Well sometimes to either us or his best friend Clyde. Sometimes his girlfriend too." Luna said.

"Well, maybe you should try talking to him one-on-one." Sam suggested. "He might be more willing to talk to one of you than to ten of you."

"Yeah. I'll try that." Luna says.

"Good." Sam said. "So, what do you think of the L-Crew?"

"The L-crew?" Luna's eyes widened at the team name.

"Yeah. Let me hear your thoughts on it." Sam said

"They're pretty rad." Luna answers nervously. "What do you think of them?"

"They are awesome!" Sam answers excitedly. "My siblings love them! My brother Jay went nuts when he first saw Wildgirl turn into that mammoth when they fought that hairy monster. My brother Jack wouldn't stop talking about the fight between Firecracker and that water villian. Heck, Ashley idolizes Speed Queen."

"That's cool." said Luna.

"But I only have one favourite in the L-crew who's awesome!" Sam said

"Really? Who?" Luna asked.

"Guess." Sam told her.

"Firecracker?" Luna guessed.

"Nope." Sam replied.

"Ms. Appear?" Luna guessed again.

"Nope. Try again." Sam replied.

"The Crystal Princess." Luna said.

"Nope."

"Multiple Girl."

"Yeah right. But nope." Sam said.

"Greenthumb?" Luna asked.

"She's cute and adorable, but no." Sam answered.

"Wildgirl?" Luna asked.

"No!" Sam said.

"Ampflier?" Luna asked

"Finally!" Sam exclaimed. "I thought you'd never guess."

"You like Ampfier?" Luna questioned

"Heck yeah." Sam answered. "She's so cool. She once was thrown through the window of the music store i work at. She even stayed behind and explained everything to my boss. I still can't believe i got to talk to her."

"That's really awesome Sam." said Luna.

"Yeah. So do you think Wildgirl can turn into a T-rex?" Sam asked.

Luna suddenly had a flashback of Lana's rampage when she first went T-rex.

"Maybe." Luna answered. The two then sat in awkward silence not knowing what else to say.

"So." Luna said.

"So." Sam said.

"So I'll see you later." said Luna.

"Yeah." Sam said. The two walk in different directions. As soon as the were out of earshot, they facepalmed.

"Seriously Luna? It was going so well!" Luna scolded herself.

"Dang it Sam. It was going so well." Sam scolded herself.

After school let out, Luna, in her Amplifier costume, made her way to the base. As she flew, she thought about two things: Sam and her little brother.

"Maybe Sam is right." Luna said to herself. "Maybe Lincoln would feel more comfortable talking to us one-on-one. But I could of told Sam how I feel but no." said Luna. "But I'll talk to Lincoln first."

When Luna got to the base, she noticed that the air was extremely hot and humid.

"Uh oh. Lincoln's mad." Luna said with fear. She walked into the base and saw her sisters, Ronnie Anne and Clyde trying to keep cool. She looked around and noticed her brother wasn't in the base. "Sup dudes. What's going on? And where's Lincoln?"

"Outside." Lori answered. "But I wouldn't go out there if I was you."

"Yeah, he's in a bad mood." Ronnie Anne added.

"What happened?" Luna asked.

"Linc had a bad day." Luan told her.

"Yeah. First he got into an altercation with the football team." Lynn explained.

"Then, his homework was ruined after he dropped it in a puddle this morning." Lana listed.

"And he got detention for something that the football team did." Lucy finished.

"Maybe we should go talk to him one on one?" Luna suggested.

"I tried. He threw a fireball at me." Lori said.

"I'm not going to get toasted!" Ronnie Anne said.

"Fine, I'll talk to him!" Luna said and grabbed a fire extinguisher. She walks outside and sees him sitting on a train car with his whole body on fire. "Hey little bro." Luna greeted.

"Go away Luna!" Lincoln shouted

"I just want to talk." Luna told him.

"Well, I want you to go away!" Lincoln shouted.

"Look bro I know you had a bad day and I just want you to be happy." said Luna.

"Luna, you have five seconds to walk away before i do something I regret." Lincoln threatened.

"Look I just want to help if you want to be a big baby about fine!" Luna shouted and walked away.

Out of nowhere, a fireball flies by her head. She turns around and sees that Lincoln is now standing. And he was mad.

"What did you call me?" Lincoln growled.

"A big baby!" Luna shouted as her hair stood up and the electronics began to go on the fritz. "I was trying to be a good big sister and help! But no! You want to cry like Teary McGuire from Spider-man!"

"At least I can tell the person I like how I feel!" Lincoln shouted. "You can barely have a conversation with her without choking. Face it. Your a coward!"

Luna shot a stream of purple lightning at Lincoln, but he dodges it.

Lincoln then flies towards Luna and tackles her. After he has her on the ground, Lincoln tries to throw a punch but Luna discharges some electricity, throwing Lincoln off her. Luna then rushes towards Lincoln. Lincoln turns around and grabs Luna's arm and throws her through one of the windows of the base.

"All you had to do is leave me alone!" Lincoln shouted. "To BUTT out! But you can't leave good enough alone can you?"

"I was just trying to help!" Luna protested as she slowly stood up. The rest of the team looked on with shock as the two argued.

"Oh great they're fighting." Lola groaned.

"I know. And this fight needs to stop." Lori says.

Luna and Lincoln are flying towards each other, when suddenly the lights go out.

"What the heck?!" Ronnie Anne shouted.

"I'm blind!" Leni cried out

"Your not blind Leni. The lights went out." Lisa told her. "The back-up generator should start up soon."

"Alright. Lincoln, could you stop punching Luna for a few minutes and give us some light?" Lori asked.

"Whatever." Lincoln mutters. Lincoln then sets his hand on fire, lighting up the warehouse.

"Much better, now let's find the generator." said Lori.

"Good the sooner the better." said Lincoln.

"Lincoln, go with Lisa." Lori ordered. "Luna, I want a word with you." Lincoln followed Lisa to go look for the generator, while Luna approached Lori.

"What sis?" Luna asked bitterly.

"What the heck Luna?" Lori yelled quietly. "You were supposed to talk to him, not get into a brawl!"

"I tried to get him to open up. But he acts like a toddler!" Luna said. "No offense Lola and Lana."

"None taken!" The twins said.

"Luna, we both know that it wasn't him talking." Lori told her. "We told you to let him cool off. But you took the risk. You knew what you were getting yourself into."

"Well Sam told me that we should talk to him one on one." Luna replied.

"I get that." Lori told her. "But, calling him a baby and a toddler isn't going to make things better."

"Your right Lori." Luna sighed. "I just wanted to help him."

"I know. But, let him calm down a little and then talk to him." Lori says. "But I also expect you to apologize to him. Ok?"

"I will." Luna replied.

"Good." Lori said.

A few minutes later, the power came back on.

"Man. That was weird." Lynn said.

"Yeah. Why did the lights go out?" Lola asks.

"I liked it." Lucy said as she popped out of nowhere, scaring the everyone and causing Lana to turn into a great dane and jump into Leni's arms.

"Like, where have I seen this before?" Leni asks.

"Scooby-doo?" Ronnie Anne shrugged.

"Now the base has power happy?" Lincoln groaned.

"Lose the attitude Lincoln." Lori tells him. She then turned to Lisa. "So what happened Lisa?"

"It would appear that there was a blackout and by the looks of it the whole town is in darkness." Lisa explained.

"Hmm. Is there a reason?" Lori asked.

"Possibly a problem at the power plant." Lisa told her. "But right now there seems to be a problem."

"What is it?" Lola asked.

"Probably not good." Leni said.

"Due to the power outage, the city is in chaos and people are trapped in elevators, were injured in car crashes and are starting to loot." Lisa said.

"We need to spring into action team! Clyde get on the computer." said Lori.

"Sure thing." said Clyde with a little nosebleed.

"Ronnie Anne, just do whatever you do when we're not around." Lori said.

"On it!" Ronnie Anne says.

"Luna and Lincoln, head to the power plant and see what the issue is." Lori ordered.

"You got it sis." Luna says.

"Whatever." Lincoln groans.

The L-crew all ran out to do their jobs.

Firecracker and Amplifer were flying to the power plant and Amplifer broke the silence. "Look Linc, I'm sorry for calling you a big baby I was just trying to make my little bro feel better." Amplifer explained.

Firecracker doesn't say anything anything and Amplifier sadly sighs. "Look, I know your probably still mad at me and I completely understand. But please say something." Firecracker stops flying and glares at his sister.

"There is nothing to talk about." Firecracker told her. "All I asked was that you leave me alone and again my word means nothing. Why can't you guys mind your own business?" With that Firecracker continues flying towards the power plant, leaving Amplifier speechless.

Meanwhile, the rest of the L-Crew were in the city, trying to keep order.

"Everyone please remain calm!" Speed Queen shouts. "We are here to help!"

"I don't think they're listening sis." Parkour sighed.

"Figures." Speed Queen groans. She then turns to her siblings. "Ok, we're going to split up. Wildgirl and Parkour, you go around and stop any looters. Ms. Appear and Crystal Princess, you go and rescue people from the buildings. Multiple Girl, Black Ice and Greenthumb, you go tend to the wounded. Prodigy and I are going to get some supplies. Everyone got it?"

"Yep." the L-Crew say in unison. The L-Crew then split up into their groups and go do their assigned jobs. When they were gone, Prodigy turns her attention to Speed Queen.

"I assume that you partnered with me for another reason." Prodigy says. "Not just for assistance in carrying supplies."

"Yeah. Prodigy, I want to ask you something." Speed Queen tells her. "Is Firecracker unstable?"

Prodigy sighs at her sister's question. "Well I have been doing some calculations on his training time." Prodigy said.

"Just give me the short answer." Speed Queen replied.

"Ok. Our brother is indeed unstable." Prodigy explains. "However, he isn't completely unstable. The only time he's truly unstable is when he is angered. That is why I advised you all to try to keep him calm."

"That's impossible! He threw a fireball at me when I tried to calm him down." Speed Queen said.

"True, but he was in a state where he can't be reasoned with." Prodigy pointed out.

"Yeah I figured that." Speed Queen sighed.

"But it gets worse. I fear one day Lincoln will lose it and go supernova, ending not only the city but his own life in the process." Prodigy said.

"No! We can't let that happen!" Speed Queen shouts. "Isn't there anything you can do!?"

"Sadly, no." Prodigy answers. "But there is something we can do. And think Luna is already trying to do it."

A few blocks away, Wildgirl and Parkour are chasing after looters.

"Get back here!" Parkour shouts. She tackles two of them while Wildgirl turns into a cheetah and pounces on the last one.

"So, should we be concerned abour our brother?" Wildgirl asks. "His anger us starting to scare me."

"I'm worried about him to Wildgirl." Parkour replied.

"What can we do?" Wildgirl asks.

"I wish I knew." Parkour answered

"HELP!" Parkour and Wildgirl turned there attention to the cry and saw a little girl trapped behind some rubble.

"Hang on little girl." Parkour said.

Wildgirl turns into an elephant and the two start pushing the rubble.

"Thank you." The girl said.

"It's no problem." Parkour tells her. "Lets get you to the medics." The two then climb on top of Wildgirl and make their way to the area where the civilians were getting treated. When they arrive, they see some strange people there.

"Who are they?" Wildgirl asks.

"That's the Tetherby Industries disaster team." A man answers. "They show up during natural disaster or just disasters period."

"Since when has that happened?" Wildgirl asked.

"Don't know, but we were handling it first." Parkour said

"Yeah. Lets go find this girl's mother." Wildgirl says. Unknown to them, they were being watched.

Amplifier and Firecracker arrived at the Power Plant and Firecracker was still not talking to Amplifier.

"Alright let's take care of this problem and fix it." said Amplifier.

"Let's just get this over with." Firecracker muttered. As he starts to enter, Amplifier stops him. "What now?"

"That ain't problem I'm talking about, bro." Amplifier says. "I'm talking about the problem between us. We are going to fix this right here, right now."

"Can it wait?" Firecracker groaned.

"No it can't bro." Amplifier tells him. "Look, I get that you are angry because you had a bad day. I get it. But all of this anger isn't good for you. Look, I think that you just need someone to talk to one-on-one. Now, start talking." Firecracker doesn't respond. Amplifier sighs and takes off her glasses. "Bro, look at me." Firecracker looks at her and sees that she took her glasses off. "I'm not talking to you as Amplifier. I'm talking to you as Luna. So, please talk to me. I just want to help."

"Ok. I'll talk." Firecracker sighed.

"Good." Amplifier says. "So, what's on your mind."

"Well, today didn't really go well today." Firecracker started. "The football team wouldn't stop bothering me today. I got into a fight with the quarterback and the rest of the team destroyed my homework. Then they spray painted the side of the school and blamed me."

"How did they blame you?" Amplifier asked.

"They wrote 'Lincoln Loud was here." Firecracker tells her.

"Dude. But why did you get in a fight in the first place?" Amplifier asks.

"They were talking bad about you guys." Firecracker reveals. "I couldn't ignore it."

"That's so sweet bro." Amplifier said. "But I didn't want to fight."

"Me neither." Firecracker says remorsefully. "I'm sorry i mocked you for not telling Sam how you feel. The more i thought about it, the more i realized that it must be harder for you to tell her how you feel because your not sure if she likes girls. So I'm sorry about that."

"It's cool bro." Amplifier says. "And remember, if you ever need to talk, just come to one of us. Ok?"

"Ok. Thanks Luna." Firecracker says.

"No problem dude." Amplifier says. The two then hug it out. After a few seconds they seperate. "So, lets fix what we came here to fix."

The two heroes walked through the plant, looking around for anything out of place. So far, they saw nothing.

"Ok so far it's boring." said Firecracker.

"Yeah. It's pretty dark in here." Amplifier commented. As they kept walking, they heard growling.

"Please tell me that was you stomach." Firecracker said fearfully.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Amplifier says with fear. They hear the growling again. "How about some light?"

"On it." Firecracker then lights up his hand where it's revealed that there is monster made entirely of electricity standing behind them.

"What is that thing?" Amplifier asked.

"I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the reasin for the blackout." Firecracker says.

"E...lec...tron." the creature growled. "El..ec..tron feed."

"Maybe recommend something spicy." Firecracker stated.

"Want elec...tricity." the creature growled. "Electron need electricity."

"So I guess this thing is called Electron." Amplifier says nervously.

"How about fire?" Firecracker smirked and threw fireballs at Electron.

The fireballs hit and Electron doesn't seem to be affected. Electron fires back with a stream of electricity which hits Firecracker.

"Firecracker!" Amplifier cried out.

Firecracker slowly gets up and glares at the electric monster. "Your gonna regret that." Firecracker shouts. He then flies forward and tries to punch him but is swatted away.

"Stay down bro. I got this." Amplifier tells him. She then fires a lightning stream at Electron. The attack hits and to Amplifier's surprise, Electron got bigger.

"Electricity good." Electron says. "Want more."

"Oh crud." Amplifier said

"I feed on you." Electron growls. Electron launches himself at Amplifier. Amplifier covers her fists with electricity and flies towards the electric monster.

"Amplifer, noooooo!" Firecracker shouted.

Electron grabs Amplifier and throws her down and fires an electric blast at her. Amplifier gets up and fires a blast of her own creating a beam struggle.

"Come on!" Amplifier said as she stood her Ground.

Suddenly a blast of fire joins the struggle. Amplifier looks over and sees Firecracker next to her.

"This guy is tough." Firecracker comments.

"Yeah." Amplifier grunts. Electron then shoots at the ground. Electrocuting the two siblings.

The two siblings scream in pain.

Electron then goes into the circuits of the power plant. After the siblings have recovered, they look around and see Electron is no where in sight.

"Where did it go?" Amplifier questions.

"No clue. But, i feel like it's still here." Firecracker says while looking around.

"We need to find this thing and fast." said Ampfier.

Suddenly electricity fires from all around them.

"What the heck!" Firecracker shouts.

"Fly bro!" Amplifier orders.

Firecracker flew off the ground. "Come on sis!"

The two take off, flying around trying to avoid the electricity being blasted at them from all angles.

"You will be eliminated!" Electron growls from inside the mainframe. "I will consume your electricity."

"That thing wants you Amplifer!" Firecracker shouted.

"I don't want to die from a monster!" Amplifer shouted. "I wanted to die and be remembered in the rock and roll hall of fame."

"I know. We have to try something!" Firecracker shouts. "But nothing we throw at it works."

"There had to be a weakness." Amplifier began to think.

Suddenly, Firecracker got an idea. "Remember that old superhero show that we watched together? You know the Teen Titans?"

"Yeah. What about it?" Amplifier inquired.

"Remember that one episode where they fought that one electric monster and nothing they tried worked until they shot water at it and it actually damaged him." Firecracker explained.

"That will work. Just don't get hit." said Amplifier.

"I'll get a hose, you draw him out." Firecracker says.

"You got it bro." Amplifier says.

Firecracker flew off to get the hose. "Hey sparky!" Amplifier shouted. "Come and eat me up!"

"You have sealed your fate." Electron growls. He then comes out of the circuits and stands in front of Amplifier.

"Here goes nothing!" Ampfier said

"Your power is mine!" Electron yells.

"Not on my watch. NOW BRO!" Amplifier calls. She then teleports away and it shows Firecracker was standing behind her holding a hose.

Firecracker turned on the water and the water is hurting Electron.

"No! This can't be!" Electron shouts. Amplifier then teleports next to Firecracker.

"And a little something extra!" Amplifier yells. She then shoots a electric stream into the water.

"No! No!" Electron yells as he is fizzes out into nothing.

"Time for you to black out!" Amplifier shouted.

"Yeah it's pretty shocking." said Firecracker.

The two laughed despite the bad pun. After they stopped laughing, the two turned to the main generator.

"So you think you can generate enough power to get this thing up and running?" Firecracker asks.

"I can try my best little bro!" Amplifer said and got ready. She takes a deep breath and fired her electricity at the generator.

"Come on sis you can do it!" Firecracker cheered.

Amplifier then added a little extra juice to her stream and after a few minutes, the generator started up and the lights came on.

"It worked!" Firecracker exclaimed.

"Rocking!" Amplifier said and collapsed to the ground.

"Amplifer are you ok?" Firecracker asked and ran to his big sister's side.

"I'm fine, just need to recharge."'Amplifier said.

"That's a relief." Firecracker says with a smile. He then gets an idea. "You know, I think I have a way for you to get some major points with Sam."

"Really? How?" Amplifier asks. Firecracker then whispers something in her ear and a smile forms on her face. "Are you sure that'll work?"

"Oh yeah. I use it all the time." Firecracker answers.

"Ok I'll try it out." said Amplifier.

The next day, Luna sat in the cafeteria nervously waiting for Sam to show up.

"Ok Luna. Relax. Just remember what your baby bro told you to do." Luna told herself.

"Hey Luna." Sam greeted and sat next to Luna. "Did you hear there was a blackout yesterday."

"Yeah I know and I was listening to some tunes." Luna replied.

"Man it was insane." Sam said. "So how did your siblings respond?"

"Most did fine." Luna answered. She then remembered Lincoln told her say. "My brother ran into my room terrified of the dark. He was so scared that he wouldn't let of me. But i didn't mind. I hung on to him until the power came back on."

"That's so sweet of you being their for your brother." Sam replied blushing

"Thanks." Luna said blushing while silently thanking her brother. "Hey, if your not busy later, would you like to jam after school?"

"I got nothing else plan, so sure." said Sam.

"Rockin. I'll see you after school." Luna said.

"See ya then." Sam says.

The two stand and go their seperate ways. When they were out of earshot, they celebrated.

"Yes! She wants to hang!" Luna celebrates.

"Yes! She asked me to hang!" Sam cheers.

"Best day ever!" They say at the same time.

Andrew Tetherby sat in his office watching the news and shows people cleaning up the damages done to the building. Suddenly, a man in a lab coat pops on the screen.

"Report." Andrew orders.

"Sir, we went to the power plant and saw no trace of Electron. We believe he was destroyed." The scientist reports. "I guess he was a failure."

"Not necessarily." Andrew tells him. "Electron did his job and caused the blackout. It allowed my relief team to hit the scene and help the people. While I am disappointed that he was destroyed, he succeeded in his mission. The people now believe that Tetherby Industries is there to help."

"But what about the L-crew sir?" The scientist asked.

"Them?" Andrew asked. "Well I have plans to get them out of the picture soon." He pulls up a picture of a seventeen year old blonde girl and a eighteen year old boy with a buzz cut. "Keep an eye on the targets. And when the moment is right, we strike."