74. X marks the spot part 1

Zachlor16: Hey guys Zachlor16 here. Now this is gonna be a two-parter which gonna revolve around the mysterious Dr. X. This was also requested a while back by the Mysterious Mr. M. So let's get it on.

Tetherby stood in awe at the man standing before him who had just introduced himself as Dr. X. However the awe factor didn't last as his face hardened. "Dr. X? I've never heard of you." He said coolly before turning to Stuart. "Have you?" Stuart shakes his head.

"No I haven't." He admitted. "And I know everyone in the science community."

"Allow me to explain. I was How you say, living off the grid for years." Dr. X explained.

"I don't have time for this." Tetherby said. "Xander, please escort Dr. X out of here please."

"With pleasure." Xander replied before walking up to the scientist and grabbing his arm.

"I suggest you release me." Dr. X threatens causing Xander to chuckle.

"Or what?" He challenged. Suddenly Dr. X grabs Xander by the arm and judo throws him to the ground. Xander let's out a growl and starts to get back up. "Why you little."

"Hold Xander." Tetherby said getting in between the two. "He has my attention now. Tell me why you're here?"

"You see, I noticed that you've been trying to take down the L-Crew and I came to help." said Dr.X.

"How did you find out about my plans to kill those brats?" Tetherby asked.

"Long story short, I've been dealing with my own set of headaches." X replied. "But I can assure you that I can assist you with Project V."

"Assist us?" Tetherby asked. "Why would you want to help us?"

"Well I know the pieces you need to complete your weapon." X said.

"Pieces we don't have?" Stuart questioned. "And how do you know all this?"

"You can say I'm an expert in genetics." X said. "Allow me to go get the supplies and I can assure you that Project V's growth will increase."

"Very well." Tetherby said. "Take some Tbots with you. Just in case some friends show up."

In the city sky, Firecracker and Surge are flying through the air. "So why do I have to fly with you?" Surge asked.

"Because Jenny soon to be Tetherby is still showing footage of Irate burning the city." said Firecracker. "Even those it's been months since the rampage happens."

"Gotcha." Surge said.

"Plus Lori says Prodigy and I gotta show you and Armor the ropes to be proper heroes." Firecracker said.

"I guess that makes sense." Surge said.

"Yeah and maybe some lessons to beat down some villains." Firecracker said.

They hear a sound of a motorcycle and they look down to see Armor on his motorcycle that Lana dubbed the L-Cycle with Prodigy on the back.

"Armor I told you go a different direction than Surge and Firecracker." Prodigy scolded. "We won't cover enough ground if we all go the same way."

"It's bad enough I have to deal with Carl telling how to run the Bodega, now I have a four year old bossing me around." Armor thought.

"You forgot that I can read your thoughts." Prodigy pointed out as Armor scolded.

"Forgot about that." Armor muttered. "So what do we do?"

"We're suppose to keep an eye out for any criminal activity and such." Prodigy said.

"I know that." Armor groaned. "But how do you guys usually find it?"

"Usually whoever's at the base lets us know if something is up." Firecracker answered. "Speaking of which. Hey Lori, you got anything? Maybe something simple for the rookies."

"Well nothing's going on so far." Lori said as she looked at the computer screen. "So far all I found was some guy littering."

"That's not as worst when Clyde and I got the code for someone not picking up after their dog." Firecracker groaned.

"Wait hold on. The silent alarm went off at the University of Royal Woods." Lori said.

"We must hurry!" Prodigy said. "The University recently received a shipment of Uranium from across the country as well as several other experimental items."

"Then let's get moving!" Armor said before speeding off.

At the University, Dr. X had just finished gathered the last scientist as the Tbots grabbed the items he needed.

"Careful with the Uranium." X ordered. "It is vital for Project V."

Two Tbots were carrying the Uranium out of the building, until the Tbot in front of them got blown up by a energy blast.

"I'm gonna ask you to put the science stuff back or else." Surge said as she floated next to Firecracker as Prodigy and Armor were on the ground.

"Ahh the L-Crew. I never excepted you to show up." X said.

"Well who were you expecting?" Firecracker asked. "The Avengers?" As soon as he spoke, Dr. X stiffened.

"That voice." He muttered. He turned his attention to Firecracker and studied his features. "The teeth, the freckles and turkey tail. It is him. So there's one here too. Why am I not surprised?"

"Um, hello?" Firecracker said. "Earth to bad guy. You still with us?"

"Of course I am," Dr. X said. "Lincoln Loud."

"What the heck are you talking about?" Firecracker lied. "I never heard of Lincoln Loud."

"Don't play dumb with me kid. I recognized you the second you came in." X explained.

"But how?" Firecracker questioned. "I don't even know who you are."

"Well you might not, but another you does." X told him.

"A-another me?" Firecracker repeated. "I don't understand."

"As much I love to explain about how I know you I have business to attend to." X said.

"Yeah in the Dungeon!" Surge said and flew towards X only to have a Tbot fly up to Surge and tackles her.

Armor and Prodigy run in to join the fight but Firecracker is frozen in place, processing everything he was just told. "Another me? How can there be another me? I'm the only me around. Right?" He looks up and sees Dr. X start to walk away. "Hey! Get back here! I want answers you jerk!"

Firecracker flies towards Dr. X and two fireballs in front of Dr. X and creates a firewall around Dr. X. "I want answers damn it! What do you mean by another me?" Firecracker asked.

"Two words: Parallel Universes." X said. "You think this Earth is the only one in existence? You think your Universe is alone? Wrong! There are other universes that run parallel to this one!"

"So alternate dimensions?" Firecracker asked.

"Correct." said X. "There are countless universes and each of them have you."

While Firecracker was processing the information, Dr. X took the chance to jump over the flames and land in front Firecracker before kicking him. Firecracker recovers and throws a fireball at X's face causing him to recoil in pain with his hands on his face. "How many of me can do that?" He said with a smile. X then removes his hand Firecracker's eyes widen at what he saw. Skinned burned off to reveal snake scales on half of his face. "Holy crap."

"I guess fake skin isn't fire proof." X said as he peeled the rest of the fake skin to show that his whole face was covered in scales.

"What the hell are you?" Firecracker asked.

"I'm complicated." said X.

"You're a monster." Firecracker said.

"No no no no no." X said. "I'm a genius. Now hate to run but I must be off. And if I were you, I'd go help your team. So what's it gonna be? Stop me or help the people you care about?" He pauses. "You know, I gave the you of my Earth the same choice. Let's see if your choice matches his."

Firecracker looks behind him and sees that Prodigy, Surge and Armor are struggling to battle against the Tbots. Even a Tbot pins Surge to the ground. "Dang it." He muttered under his breath and flew towards the gang and threw a fireball at the Tbot pinning Surge down.

"And what do you know he made the same choice." said X and ran away.

Surge looks up and sees Firecracker offering her a hand which she accepts. "Thanks." She says as he pulls her up. "Now let's smash these tin cans!"

Firecracker and Surge both began to attack the Tbots. Surge shot two energy beams at two Tbots and their heads blew up. Firecracker throws two fireballs at a Tbot and destroys two more Tbots.

Armor gets back up and absorbs the metal from a destroyed Tbot. Armor forms a hammer on his right hand and smashes some Tbots.

"These robots are tougher than they look." Armor said.

"Agreed." Prodigy said as she smashed several of the Tbots together. "I would like to study these bots after this is done."

"We'll try and save you some parts!" Surge said and fired a energy blast at a Tbot.

"I make no promises." Firecracker said as he blasted a Tbot with a fire blast. "I need to work off some steam."

"Noted." Prodigy said.

Armor smashes a Tbot's head and flattened it. "You think these robots were made by that guy?" Armor asked.

"Hardly." Prodigy said as she destroyed the final robot. "This looks like Professor Stuart's handiwork." She finds a Tbot that wasn't too badly destroyed and picks it up with her telekinesis. "Ah yes. This one will do." She turns to her brother. "So, what did you learn about um, uh. Did we ever learn his name?"

"Um, I don't think so." Surge said while rubbing the back of her head. "We were kinda distracted by him knowing who Lame-o was."

"I did find out some other things about that guy." Firecracker said. "He has snake scales that looked like Ronnie Anne before she became Ronzilla."

"Oh ha ha." Surge replied sarcastically.

"But get this he was from another universe." Firecracker said.

"Hmm, I believe we should discuss this at base." Prodigy said.

"Fair enough." Firecracker said. "Let's untie everyone and get out of here."

Everyone is at the base and Lincoln told them everyone about the man they encountered. "So you're telling us that this guy has snake scales on his face?" Sam asked.

"Seriously?" Lynn asked sarcastically. "He literally says that this guy is from another universe and your concern is he has scales on his face?"

"I mean yeah that's shocking but the snake scales just sound cool." Sam said.

"Is that even possible?" Charles asked. "Coming from another universe?" Everyone proceeds to look at Lisa.

"Well multiverse travel is usually something in science fiction, but there are some theories suggesting our universe is one but many." Lisa stated. "Similar to the Spider-Verse. But with different things about the people in the other universes."

"So that begs the question, what universe is this snake guy from?" Lana asked.

"Who knows?" Bobby replied. "All we know is that this guy really hates Little Loud here."

"Which means that in the Universe that snake face is from, Lincoln is a hero of some sort." Cliff said.

"But dudes, there's one think that we aren't addressing here." Luna pointed out. "How did he get here? We've detected no abnormalities in the city. So how did he get here under our radar?"

"Magic?" Lucy suggested before turning to Soothsayer. "Could magic work like that?"

"Yes, magic is possible. I myself have heard of mages, wizards and sorts but some of them are at a higher level and take years of studying this type of magic." Soothsayer explained. "Those who travelled never retuned.

"I doubt he used magic." Lincoln said.

"Why's that Linc?" Luan asked.

"This guy claims to be a scientist." Lincoln replied. "Guys that smart don't believe in magic. But the question is what do we do about him?"

"We track him down." Lori replied. "I'm gonna send a small team to track him. Lincoln, Lynn, Lana, Luan, Lucy, Lisa and Sam you seven will go look for him. The rest of us will act as backup."

"I'm on the lead team?" Sam asked. "But I just started learning to use my powers."

"I feel the best way to learn is on the job." Lori replied. "You can't learn everything by just hanging out here. But that's literally where it stands. Let's get to it."

Back at Terherby Industries, Dr. X was looking over the technology that Tetherby had. "Your technology is amazing Andrew." He said. "Just as good as the technology I had in my universe."

"Thank you." Andrew said. "I must say that I'm surprised that you're from another universe. But not to worry, that doesn't effect our agreement. Now do you have everything you need?"

"No." X said. "I need something better to contain the uranium. The university didn't have the containment system I needed. However there is a lab that has what I need. All I ask is that I can borrow Xander as extra muscle. As well as some thugs over the Tbots. Are we agreed?"

"Very well." Tetherby said. "As long as you get to work on Project V, I'm ok with that."

"I also would like to work on Project V in a different location." X said. "Don't want the L-Crew to find you would we?"

"Very well." Tetherby said. "I have an old facility that you can use. I'll get it ready for you. You get what you need to get."

Ms. Appear's team is looking for X and a far they found nothing. Parkour and Prodigy are on Parkour's ATV and looking around. "How hard is it to find a guy with snake scales?" Parkour asked.

"He could be wearing a mask or bandages to hide his appearance." Prodigy said.

"Whatever." Parkour groaned and pressed her watch to call the others. "Hey you guys found anything?"

"So far we got no reports of break ins." Lori said. "But is there anything this scientist guy would need for the uranium?"

"Well the uranium would no doubt be unstable if not kept in proper containment." Genarocker said. "So if I were a betting girl, I'd say that they would be looking for something to contain the uranium." Everyone stops what they're doing and stares at Genarocker. "What? Science is easy."

"Wait. There's a lab not far from here with a container that could contain the uranium." Prodigy said.

"Then let's get to it." Ms. Appear said. "Wildgirl, keep those hawk ears open for anything that sounds suspicious."

"You got it!" Wildgirl replied as the team head straight to the lab where the container is.

In the lab, Xander knocked down another guard as they made their way to area that had the Uranium container. "How much further?" Xander asked Dr. X.

"We're almost there Xander." X replied.

"Good." Xander said as they approached a door. "Allow me mate." He kicks the door open and grabs a nearby scientist. "Alright listen up. You nerds are gonna give the doctor what he wants."

"Alright! Don't hurt me, I have a family." The scientist cried out.

"You're going to give me the container that holds uranium and I will let you all love." X said.

"Ok we'll give it to you." The scientist said.

"Good." Xander said before snapping his fingers which summons several thugs into the room. "Get the containment device." Xander throws the scientist to the thugs. "After he leads you to the container, do whatever you want with him." The thugs nod and two of them drag the scientist away. "As for everyone else here, just kill them." The thugs pull out guns and are about to fire when the wall suddenly crashes down. Everyone looks to see the L-Crew.

"That's enough." Ms. Appear said. Xander lets out a growl but suddenly smiles when he sees someone.

"Wildgirl." He says with a smile. "So the hunted has come to the hunter. Kinda surprised by that luv but not disappointed."

"Xander?! You're working for Snakeface?" Wildgirl asked shocked.

"My name is not Snakeface!" X shouted.

Well you never told us what your name was." Genarocker pointed out.

"I didn't?" X questioned before turning to his thugs who shake their heads. "Huh. Oh well. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. X."

"Enough talk mate." Xander growled. "Wildgirl is mine!" He then charged forward with his machete. Wildgirl braces herself as she is tackled into the hallway and pushed all the way to the exit to the outside. "Now you have plenty of room to transform."

"How generous." Wildgirl said rhetorically before going rhino.

Wildgirl charges towards Xander, but he dodges the charging rhino, he then takes out a hunting knife. "Looks like I get my trophy and X gets his container." Xander smirked.

"The only thing you're getting is a butt kicking!" Wildgirl retorted. She goes velociraptor and hisses at Xander before jumping on him. Inside the lab, the rest of the L-Crew were facing off with Dr. X.

"So what do we do?" Genarocker asked causing everyone to look at her.

"She's new." Prodigy explained to the thugs.

"Oooh." The thugs say in unison.

"Genarocker, go help Wildgirl." Ms. Appear ordered. "Xander has gadgets to counter our powers but he shouldn't have anything for you."

"Right." Genarocker said before running outside.

"Let's take these fools down!" Parkour said.

The remaining the L-Crew get ready to face off against the thugs and they charged to face off against them. Black Ice formed two ice hammers in her hands and smacked two thugs. Parkour tackles another thug down, as Ms. Appear gives a forcefield uppercut to the face.

Prodigy lifts up several thugs and throws them around. Firecracker scans the area and sees Dr. X walking away from the fight. "Oh no you don't!" Firecracker shouts before flying after him.

"Firecracker wait!" Ms. Appear shouts but Firecracker ignored her. "Damn it."

Firecracker is flying towards Dr. X with a hateful glare in his eyes. "I'm not letting you get away from me again!" He growled as he tackled the doctor to the ground.

"I was hoping you'd follow me." X said before elbowing Firecracker in the face forcing him off. "Now I can destroy you. You might not be my Lincoln Loud, but you're still just as annoying."

"You're not the first one to add me to your hit list." said Firecracker said as he ignited his fists.

"But I'll be the last." Dr. X said. "Bring it on."

Firecracker charges towards X and punches X in the face with a fiery fist. Then X recovers from the attack and elbows Firecracker in the face, then he takes out a gun and aims it at Firecracker.

"Big mistake." Firecracker said and snapped his fingers and the gun exploded.

"Impressive Loud." X said. "I must say that I'm impressed. You're just as creative but so naive. You can fight me all you want but what will that accomplish? Like I said I know you. I know your weakness. And that weakness is currently trying to fight Xander."

"Wildgirl." Firecracker gasped. "What did you do?"

"Let's just say, Xander has new toy to play with." X said. "So what will you do? Try to stop me or save your sister? Show me that all Lincoln Louds are the same. What is your choice?"

Firecracker thinks about and it groans. "Dang it." Firecracker said and flew off to save Wildgirl.

"They all look different but think the same." X chuckled and ran off.

Outside Wildgirl lands hard on the ground before Xander places his foot on her chest. "Give up yet luv?" He mocked. He hears someone coming behind him and sees Genarocker with her two mechanical fists but Xander grabs her and judo throws her. "How cute. You children think that sending someone I don't know will turn the tide? Wrong." He reached behind him and pulled out a gauntlet and places it on his hand. "Now let's try out my new toy shall we?"

"What's it do?" Wildgirl asked defiantly.

"Not sure." Xander replied. "But Dr. X gave it to me as a gift. I'm ready to test it out." Suddenly a blade pops out of the gauntlet. "Don't worry luv. The pain will be quick."

Before the hunter can deliver the final blow the gauntlet explodes. "What the bloody hell?!" Xander shouted and he looked and sees Firecracker.

"Aw did I break your new toy?" Firecracker mocked.

"Not really mate." Xander said. "You see the gauntlet was more of a diversion. Dr. X knew you'd come out here and try to save Wildgirl. So you know what this means right?"

"He outsmarted me." Firecracker said with realization.

"That's right." Xander said. "So while you're pitying yourself, I'll get my trophy." Before he can do anything, he his suddenly hit by a giant ball made of rocks and dirt. Xander sits up and sees Genarocker with her cannon.

"I love this thing." Genarocker said. "Now I suggest you surrender." Xander growled and then smiles before putting his hands up. A few seconds later, two Tbots fly down and grab him.

"Farewell Wildgirl." Xander called. "Our hunt shall continue next time."

"He got away!" Wildgirl shouted. She then turned to her brother who seemed to be lost in his thoughts. "Um, are you ok Firecracker?"

"He got into my head." Firecracker said. "He knew that if one of my sisters was in danger I'd let him go to save them. He's tricked me twice! Who is this guy!?"

"Someone who knows you as well as we do." Ms. Appear said as she approached with the rest of the team. "They got the uranium containment device. But all the scientists are still alive and the thugs were caught. But sadly, Dr. X outsmarted you again. We're not dealing with some run of the mill villain. We're dealing with a maniac who knows how to outsmart us. And I don't know how we can beat him."

"This guy can get into our heads without any powers." Parkour said. "Oh great." She said in a sarcastic tone.

"Firecracker you need to remember you could of let me handle Xander. He didn't know anything about me." Genarocker pointed out. "Well until now, I know you were trying to do the right thing, but it ended up losing X.

"I'm sorry guys." Firecracker said. "But I'm gonna say this, next time I see him he will not get away! And that's a promise."

"But there's one thing that's bothering me. What does Dr. X need that uranium and the case for?" Parkour asked.

"That is a good question Parkour." Prodigy said as she rubbed her chin.

"Whatever it's for, it can't be good." Black Ice said.

At an abandoned facility, Dr. X was hooking up the uranium container with the uranium inside up the tube containing Project V while Tetherby looked on. "So what will the uranium do?" He asked.

"To simply put, the uranium should speed up Project V's growth." X explained. "While I can't give an exact time table, I estimate that it will increase by forty-five percent."

"As long Project V's progress is sped up is fine with me." Tetherby stated.

"Good." X said as he went back to his work.

"I've been meaning to ask, what happened to your face?" Tetherby asked. "Why is it covered in scales?"

"Well incased you asked, I'll tell you why I look like this. Back in my universe I used to be a scientist in the university of Royal Woods, I was working on a mutagen like liquid, it was a prototype and it was unstable. But I was determine to make it stable." X explained. "The mutagen exploded and I was caught in the explosion, my skin was covered in purple scales, and I was fired from the university. I tried to cure myself, but everything failed and it drove me mad."

"Fascinating." Tetherby said. "I take it you've had run ins with your version of the Louds?"

"One in particular." X said. "The reason I'm in this universe is so I can escape him. He constantly ruins everything and I had enough! So I created a wormhole generator that would allow me to travel to different universes. But he showed up and damn near ruined it. However he couldn't stop me and I escaped to this Earth. But I realized that this Earth was almost just as bad as my original one. That is why I chose to seek you out. A powerful ally would make sure that I wouldn't be caught. So I thank you for your hospitality."

"Well I'm glad you found me, and in return for speeding up the process on Project V, I can give you anything you need to take down your Universe's own version of one of the Louds." Tetherby said.

"It sounds like a plan." X said as the two shook hands. "And with us teaming up, no universe is safe."

To be continued

Zachlor16: Hey guys. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Dr. X is quite the manipulator isn't he? Well next chapter will be part 2 of this little arc which will lead into a whole new thing. Now this season is slowly winding down and Project V will be revealed soon. How soon? Soon. But if I were to give you guys an estimated guess, I'd say roughly five chapters. So follow and fav to find out what happens. Also for all you people that like to make theories, here's one for you. What do think Dr. X's universe is like? Let us know your theories. Anyways see you next time.

Smoke: Hey guys, Smoke here. For the people who love to make Omakes, I have an omake challenge for you. Since the Casagrandes are coming up I have this to ask. What powers do you think the Casagrande kids will have? But to and answer your question no we're not giving the Casagrandes powers in the main story. Sorry y'all. Anyway don't forget to read and review.