(A/N): I'm sorry that I haven't added Chapter 6 of my other fanfic, "Full Moon Fever." Don't worry, it's still ongoing, I have not abandoned it, and it will be updated as soon as I can. For now, I decided to write a shorter one to hold you guys over. (And because I felt like it.) Also, this was originally going to just be a one-shot, but the first part was getting kind of long by my usual chapter standards, so it'll actually end up being a two-parter. Anyway, enjoy!

Lana was doing what she loved doing the most - playing in a nice puddle of mud. After deciding she'd had enough romping in the mud for now, she walked back into the house, tracking mud on the carpet with each step she took. Surprisingly to her, the living room was empty. At first she figured that everyone would be in the hallway instead, except something seemed... off. The house was... what did other people call it again? Quiet? Yeah, and that was quite rare for the house that was known to live up to its name. And she couldn't recall seeing or hearing anybody leave the house that day, so what gives? "Okay, what's going on? It's not my birthday, and even if it was then Lola wouldn't be hiding too." No answer. She went upstairs, still tracking mud, and went into her and Lola's room. It was empty as well. The ball-capped girl simply shrugged and plopped on her bed, playing with a few of her many assorted pets.

The rest of the Loud kids were indeed home, but they were in Lori and Leni's room for a Sibling Meeting. One of the rare times the eldest sibling ever let anybody but her roommate, the second oldest sibling, into her room; the others avoided it as much as possible under the threat of being turned into a human pretzel. "Alright everyone, take your seats." she said, and they did exactly that - either on the two beds or on the floor. "Before we begin with our current meeting, may I read the minutes of our previous one?" Lisa asked, holding the list. "No." everyone replied. Lisa sighed and put the notes down. "Anyway, we are here today to discuss one of the chores that all 11, or well 10 since Lily's just a baby-" Lori started, only to be interrupted by the aforementioned infant to shout out an offended "Hey!" with as much force as a baby could manage. "Okay fine, that all 11 of us take part in. The chore in question is-" She paused dramatically.

"Getting Lana to take a bath."

Everyone else in the room gasped. Every week (or sometimes two weeks) on a random day (as to make sure Lana wouldn't expect it) the kids teamed up to get the lover of all filth to take a bath, which was something that didn't sit well with her. Sometimes it was somewhat easy if Lisa was stocked with tranquilizers that wear off in an hour, but most of the time they had to chase her around and deal with her hijinx. Even when they did manage to catch her, she often got away after either slipping from her captor's grasp, fighting back with all her might, or both. But hey, at least it was good exercise and gave them good teamwork skills. "So, before we begin, anyone got any suggestions for a plan?" Lori asked. "I could run experiments and alter her brain to make her more willing to take baths." Lisa suggested, holding up a few wires, a pair of tongs and some gloves. "No!" everyone shouted. "Eh, worth a shot." she shrugged. "I could just chase her down and carry her up to the bathroom." Lynn said. "Remember the last time you did that? When she was having lunch in a trashcan?" Linc asked. Lynn thought back to last week, when she had tried just that. The athlete had only been able to reach the first step of the stairs when she finally had to let her fellow tomboy go due to all the bites, scratches, punches and kicks she was receiving. Back to the present, Lynn had a distressed look on her face while clutching her left arm. "I'm surprised the bite on your left arm didn't get infected, with all the gross stuff Lana eats all the time!" Lola exclaimed. "Yeah, that one was particularly deep, dude." Luna added.

"What if we, like, ask really really nicely?" Leni asked. Everyone else shook their heads. "That little rascal doesn't listen to reasoning when it comes to baths." Lori replied with a sigh. Lily waved her arms and babbled some gibberish. Luan, who was sitting next to her, translated for the rest of them. "She says that maybe she could pelt her with dirty diapers until she agrees to take a bath." "Nah, that wouldn't work. Heck, she'd probably like it." Lincoln replied. "Wait, what about when we tried tranquilizers some time ago?" Lynn asked. "As a matter of fact, I did place an order for a set of darts containing the tranquilizer drug." Lisa stated. "But I thought drugs were bad?" Leni asked, tilting her head in confusion. "While yes, many drugs can be very harmful, not all of them are. A drug is really any substance that creates an effect in the body or mind. In fact, all medicines that you take are drugs." the prodigy clarified. "Huh, that's cool." Leni replied cheerfully. "What about laughter, the best medicine?" Luan asked, giggling a bit. "Ah yes, I suppose it can be." Luna said with a smile. "Well then, it's settled. We'll tranq her so that we won't have to be mauled by a six year old. No offense, Lola." "None taken." And with that, Lori banged a high heel on her desk.

They all walked out of the room, only to bump into the one person they had been hoping to catch off-guard later on. "Uh... what were you all doing in Lori and Leni's room? And why aren't you human pretzels for going in there?" she asked. They froze up for a few seconds, trying to find an answer. "Uh... we were, um..." Lucy trailed off, not able to think of anything. "We were talking about frilly sparkly things, like dresses and princesses and all that. Nothing you would be interested in." Lola said quickly. "Really? Even you, Lynn?" she asked while squinting her eyes. "Uh... yeah. Totally, heh heh." Lynn lied as beads of sweat dripped from her forehead and she tugged at the collar of her shirt. "Hmm... sounds pretty fishy. What were you guys really doing?" she inquired. She folded her arms and leaned forward. "W-what is this, an interrogation?" Her twin's nervousness was bright as day. "I guess so, yeah." The doorbell rang. Lana turned her head. "Who could that be?" Lori moved to the front of the crowd. "Well Lana, what we were really doing was... RUNNING TO THE FRONT DOOR!" she shouted and pointed, resulting in a stampede of 9 siblings running as fast as they could (while of course being careful on the stairs) with Luna now holding Lily. "What... why..." But regardless, she followed suit as fast as she could as well, although on all fours. The 10 others arrived slightly sooner, and Lisa opened the door to see a drone holding a package. "Take my money!" she frantically shouted and threw the payment at the drone, quickly snatching the package. She slammed the door shut. Lana stopped to see what was up. "Hey, who's it for? What is it? Can I see?" she asked.

"Sorry, but no. It's not for you." Lori replied. "Why? Is it Lynn's sports magazines or something? For some reason she doesn't want me to read those." Lynn put her arms tightly to her side as her cheeks turned red with embarrassment. "NO, it's not that at all!" she hastily replied. "Well then, what is it?" "Like she said, it ain't for you. Sorry, sis." To everyone else's surprise, Luna then opened the box, took out the tranquilizer gun and started pulling the trigger. Nothing happened. "Um... what are you doing...?" Lana asked, who had ducked as soon as she took it out. "Oh, right, forgot to load the thing." Luna sheepishly said. The others sans Lana (who was grateful) shot a glare at her. "Well, I figured we'd get it over with as quickly as possible." she replied while putting the tranquilizer darts into it. It was then that she knew what was going on, she recognized those from the last time they used them. "I'm not taking a bath!" she shouted and ran off as fast as she could. Luna fired all 5 shots in it, all of which hit the wall.

"Dang it!" everyone shouted. "And with that you just wasted a third of all the darts in the entire package." Lisa growled. "But we still have more, it's not like I used all of our ammo, dude." She reloaded the gun again. "Well then..." Lori stated.

"We've got a sister to catch." "This is going to be painful." Lynn added in. They nodded, and ran after the escaping mud-lover.