One last tightening of the screws, and Lisa's newest invention was complete. She smiles, as she sets down the screwdriver and takes a rag to polish off her newest creation. It looked simple- it appeared to just be a simple, metal square frame with some different colored buttons on either side of it, but in actuality, this device could potentially break time.. It was no easy feat, but she had successfully created a portal device to walk through to different universes! Not many (if anyone) could say that they managed to do such a thing. Ever since she figured out how to time travel at her time in the institute, she had always tried to figure out what would be needed to walk through different universes and dimensions safely.
Now, she just needed to demonstrate her new device before she could bring it out to the science world. To be completely honest, she wasn't entirely sure how this would work out- with an experiment with little research done to it, the good and bad potential outcomes were numerous. However, she was mostly certain that she had eliminated all of the catastrophic outcomes. Thankfully, she had a good amount of people (not so, most of the time) willing to help- her siblings. The benefit of being part of such a large family is that she always had a practice audience to display her scientific findings for, and a team to help her out in the event something goes horribly wrong. She places the now dirtied rag down on her desk, gets off her chair, and walks into the hallway.
"Siblings! I have something important to show you! I've completed my newest invention!" Lisa proudly declared, as her siblings emerged from various parts of the home. The other Loud children slowly trickled into the room, curiously admiring their sister's new invention.
"So, what exactly is this, Lisa?" Lincoln asks.
"Well, this is a portal generating device that will allow the user to walk through other dimensions." Lisa explained, while gesturing to the device. She was met with gasps of amazement and some whispers.
"Lise, are you sure that's… you know, safe? Like it's not gonna cause some sort of weird black hole or the universe to end or something?" Lynn asked, a little concerned.
"Erm… well, no, you can never be 100 percent positive with anything in science. While I'm mostly positive I have eliminated any potentially catastrophic devastating effects, I cannot be fully certain. I'm going to test it for the first time with you all here, in the event something goes wrong. All you have to do, is push the red button," she pointed to a button on the side of the device, "it will turn the device off, and spit me back out." Lisa explained rather calmly. The other siblings exchanged looks with each other. While they trusted their sister, a interdimensional portal device that hadn't been fully tested didn't exactly seem like the best idea… they all knew what could probably go wrong.
"Well… if you're sure that it's safe… then, let's see it." Lincoln said, as all the other siblings got excited now. They all took a step back, as a safety precaution. Lisa grins, as she popped in a stick of plutonium, and pressed the green button to power on the device. The center of the device began to generate a vortex, a light blue in color, swirling, glowing and expanding to fill in the void between the walls of the frame. Lisa turned towards it, and slowly stepped into the opening, unknown of what universe she was being taken to. Unfortunately, though, the portal remained open, and… seemed to be growing even larger, extending out of the frame by this point..
"Uh… dudes, I don't think that portal should be growing…" Luna pointed out, as Leni walked towards the machine.
"I think Lisa said to push this button…" Leni said, as she pushed the green button once again. Doing this only caused the force of gravity towards the portal to grow more intense. The rest of the siblings were now being slowly drawn towards it.
"Leni, you pushed the wrong button! Lisa literally said the red one!" Lori yelled, as she was the next sibling to fall victim to the force of the portal, because she tried to walk forward and stop it herself. The other siblings were trying to hold on, but they were slowly losing their grip.
"I guess she wasn't red-y! Don't you a-green?" Luan jokes, being able to at least annoy her siblings once before she was sucked in, because she lost her focus on trying to hang on. Her laughter echoed momentarily.
After a moment of shock, the remaining siblings stared at each other. "What are we going to do?!" Lola asked, as she looked at Lincoln.
"Well, turn it off, of course!" Leni replied, as she tried to walk to the otherside of the device to access the other button… unfortunately, she didn't think to walk around from behind, so she fell victim to the swirling vortex. Lola facepalmed.
"...Anyone else have a better idea?" Lola asked.
"Well, how about we use one of Lynn's hockey sticks? That should be long enough to reach it." Lincoln asks.
"Oh yeah! Good idea, Linc." Lynn said, as she runs off to go grab one of her hockey sticks. She soon returns, and tosses it to Lincoln. "Give it a shot."
Lincoln walked towards the device, leaning forward to try and reach the button… unfortunately, he was just a bit out of reach. He tried leaning forward more to extend his reach, which caused him to fall face first, and drop the hockey stick, which ended up getting sucked into the portal.
"Aw come on! That was my lucky stick! You owe me big time for that " Lynn complained, as she sulked. In the time that, Lincoln tried to get up, but soon found himself getting sucked towards the portal. "Uh… guys? A little help?" He asked, as he looks around, hoping for at least a little help.
The remaining sister scrambled to grab Lincoln to pull him up, however, the closer they got, the stronger the gravitational force.
"Is it just me, or did the force just get stronger?" Lincoln asked, now sounding slightly more panicked. Luna held onto his ankles, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola and Lily were all doing their part, and trying to pull. It was almost like playing tug of war with gravity… and currently, the Louds were in a stalemate.
"...Do you think that maybe the portal will only close itself if we all go in?" Lincoln then asked, trying to help his sisters out by pushing himself back.
"What? No way! That's ridiculous." Lola said.
"Yeah! And besides, if Mom and Dad find out that Lisa, Lori, Leni and Luan are gone, they're not gonna be happy… and they're gonna lose it when they find out that they're in another universe." Lynn said.
"So you're saying that we should all let go and get sucked in, too?" Lana asks.
"Yep, looks like we don't have a choice, dudes." Luna said.
"...You do know Lisa is going to be very upset when she sees all of us in another universe with her, right?" Lucy piped up.
"Yeah, probably, but what's she gonna do?" Lynn asked.
"Can we not talk about this right now? We need to go, and now. I'm going to loosen my grip so hold on tight! 1...2...3!" And Lincoln stopped fighting the force. Within seconds, the remaining seven kids were all sucked into the swirling blue vortex. Lincoln looked back, seeing the opening of the portal close behind them. "See, I told you we all needed to go!" Lincoln said, with a satisfied smirk. His sisters soon let go of him, and look back.
"Huh… you were actually right for once." Lynn commented with a snarky smirk. Luna was holding onto Lily, at least for the duration of their journey through this tunnel… the swirling blue walls surrounding them almost giving the journey a psychedelic vibe. Lana looked down.
Hey look! I see the end! But… wait. There's more than one ending."
"Wait, what?" Lola looked down as well. "Oh no, Lincoln! We have to stay together! What happens if those endings send us to other places?!"
"Relax Lola, just hold on to each other, and we should be fine…" Lucy replied, as she reached a hand to her little sister. Lola held onto hers and Lana's hands, holding them tightly. Soon, the rest of them joined hands.
"I guess Lori, Leni, Lisa and Luan all got to… wherever, before we did. Hopefully we can meet up and find a way back." Lynn said, as they started to fall faster towards the end. As they were reaching the end of the journey, however...there was suddenly a force that split them all apart. Even Lily got seperated. The last thing they all could hear were the panicked and chaotic screams of the others. The Loud kids have finally reached a new place… one that was vastly varied, depending on where they have ended up in. This may not be so bad after all…
