Brawl in the Family Redo was originally meant to be just a one-shot. But then one reviewer sent me a PM suggesting a rather interesting way I could continue it. And the way they suggested was actually similar to a way I had thought about, just in more detail.
As such, I would suggest reading my Brawl in the Family Redo before reading this.
Credit to endeavor-NeverEnding for the idea.
Lisa looked towards her door, where she and Lincoln had just heard Luan and Leni laughing about something Luan had said. More-than-likely it was meant to show Lincoln how much fun the girls were having without him. A little cruel, but Lincoln had screwed up big time, so Lisa understood the sisters were just messing with their brother.
Of course, this didn't mean it didn't hurt, as shown by Lincoln trying not to cry as he closed his eyes and clenched his…
Lisa's eyes went wide, before she remembered that this was the plan. Sure enough, after Lincoln clenched his fists, a jolt of electricity began surging through his body. His eyes snapped open in shock and his mouth opened as though to scream, though no sound came out.
After only a second, Lincoln collapsed, dropping the orb as he did so. As Lisa had anticipated, her brother had lost consciousness.
Lisa nodded as she turned back to her desk and got to work on the report that she had been working on before her brother's moping became too distracting.
A couple minutes passed before Luna entered, carrying Lily. The rocker placed her baby sister back into her crib before turning to address her genius sister…
Only to gasp in shock at seeing her brother laying on the floor, clearly unconscious.
"LINCOLN!" Luna cried in horror as she ran to her brother and knelt down, grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him, "Wake up, bro. Come on, this isn't funny!"
When her brother did nothing to respond to her, Luna turned to Lisa, eyes wide, "Lisa, what the heck happened?!"
"Huh?" Lisa asked dully, turning around in her chair, acting as if she just noticed Luna, "Oh, that. I was working on an experiment, and I needed a test subject. Luckily due to us avoiding him these past few days, Lincoln was more than willing to offer his assistance."
"Well, what happened to him?" Luna asked, trying not to lose her cool, "What was the experiment?"
"Oh, that would take far too long to explain to your feeble mind," Lisa said, dully looking over her siblings, "As for what happened, the device Lincoln was testing apparently gave him a massive shock and he lost consciousness. He should be fine in a couple hours, by dinner at the latest."
Luna frowned at her genius sibling. Mom and Dad had been explicitly clear about Lisa not using her siblings as her test subjects, yet the toddler never listened to them, stating that it was "for science" and all that jazz. Leni and Luan were her primary choices, but every once in a while the others, primarily Lincoln, could be enticed by her projects and either agree to or be tricked into being her test subjects.
"I can't believe you, Lis," Luna frowned, trying her hardest to keep from losing her cool, "Our bro is out cold because of one of your stupid gadgets!"
"Excuse me?" Lisa asked, eye twitching in annoyance, "I'll have you know that that "stupid gadget" as you call it is something that could change the world."
"That doesn't matter!" Luna cried, throwing her hands up in anger, "Look at Lincoln. I can barely tell he's breathing."
Lisa sighed in annoyance, "If you are truly worried about Lincoln, then place him on my bed, and I shall observe him to make sure everything in his body is functioning properly."
"Oh, no!" Luna snapped, "You've done more than enough! I'm taking Lincoln to my room!" At that, the rocker picked up her brother and carried him out the door.
Lisa smirked as she watched the two leave. She ignored the frown her baby sister and roommate was giving her as she turned back to her notes, glad she could go over her work without hearing a sad sigh every couple of minutes.
"Lincoln will be fine," She muttered, not the least bit concerned about what she had done to her brother.
As soon as Luna stepped out into the hallway, the rest of her sisters surrounded them.
"What the heck was all that shouting?" Lynn asked in confusion, before her eyes went wide as she noticed her brother unconscious in Luna's arms.
"Is Linky ok?" Leni asked, looking over Lincoln worriedly.
The other sisters all started asking questions, and Luna found it hard to concentrate.
"What happened, Luna?" Lori asked, taking charge as she stepped forward and held her arms out, silently offering to take Lincoln from her sister.
Luna shook her head and said, "Lisa got Lincoln to be her test subject for some weird device, and it gave him a huge shock. He's out cold, and Lisa couldn't care less!"
The sisters' eyes were wide with shock as they started voicing their concerns.
"Anyway," Luna continued, "I'm gonna put Lincoln in my room so I can keep an eye on him. Luan, ya mind if he uses your bed?"
"Sure," Luan nodded, surprisingly not cracking a pun.
Luna pushed her way past her sisters and exited her room, placing her unconscious brother on the bottom bunk of her bed. She made sure he was lying in a decent position so that he would be comfortable when he woke up. She lightly tussled his hair before kissing his forehead, muttering, "Please wake up, bro."
Sighing, she turned back to the door, where most of her sisters were standing, looking worriedly at their brother. Before any of them could say anything, they all heard the twins yelling…in Lisa's room.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?" Lola shouted, "HE COULD BE SERIOUSLY HURT!"
"DO YOU EVEN CARE?" Lana yelled, her voice almost sounding like it was getting ready to break.
Leaving the rest of the girls with Lincoln, Lori headed to Lisa's room. She entered, and all the girls stood crowded at Luna and Luan's room, glancing down the hall as they listened to Lori reprimand Lisa. However, only a minute later, Lori, holding Lily, and the twins were forced out of the scientist's room.
"He'll be fine!" Lisa snapped, slamming her door shut, "Now leave me be!"
Frowning, Lori and the twins headed to the rest of the sisters. Due to their parents being at work, Lori knew it was up to her to take charge in this upsetting situation.
"Alright, listen up," She sighed, before looking at her siblings with a glare of determination, "Luna, you watch Lincoln and let us know when he's awake. Everyone else, there's not much we can do, so just go about your usual business." Despite not liking the sound of that, the others nodded, heading to their rooms, casting one last glance at their brother as they did so.
Finally, it was just Luan and Luna in their room. Luan looked at Lincoln worriedly, "I hope he'll be ok."
"I'm sure he will be," Luna said, getting up and pulling her sister in for a hug, "Just give him a little bit, and he'll wake up."
Luan nodded, and, pausing to plant a kiss on her brother's forehead, exited the room and headed downstairs. Thus, Luna was left alone with her unconscious brother. She sat on the stage by the closet where she and Luan performed their acts in their spare time. She pulled out one of her guitars and started tuning it, watching her brother all the while.
Lisa smiled as she worked on a couple of her experiments. It was actually quiet in the house, quite unusual for a Saturday. She figured the others were busy fretting over Lincoln, which meant her plan had been a success.
"Just like that whole snow day nonsense," The mad scientist chuckled to herself, "When he wakes up, Lincoln will likely have the sisters fighting over who gets to spend time with him first. It shall be like that dress debacle never happened." Despite having made the sister fight protocol, Lisa knew very well it was ridiculous and unneeded; who cared if two sisters/best friends bought the same dress? They could wear it together, and make it the new fashion statement (that is, if one cared about such trivial nonsense; personally, Lisa had been trying to get the President to enact a nationwide school dress code, under the assumption that if students didn't care what they and their classmates wore, then they would focus entirely on their school work).
Lisa sighed in content as she continued to experiment; science was her video games, her rock music, her fashion, it was her life! She would rather experiment by herself than spend time with her siblings.
Before Lisa knew it, she heard Vanzilla pull into the driveway, meaning her parents were home. She briefly wondered if any of her siblings would "tattle" on her for what she did to Lincoln, but dismissed that thought. After all, despite the many MANY times the Loud siblings were at each other's throats, they were always there for each other, especially against their parents.
Lisa continued experimenting as she heard her siblings all run downstairs. She heard them all trying to talk to their parents at once, before Lori quieted them down and explained to their parents what had happened. Afterwards, she could hear her parents running up the stairs at a rather alarming speed, followed by her sisters. There was a lot of chatter from Luna and Luan's room, before she heard someone stomping down the hall.
Lisa dully looked up as her door was thrown open, revealing her parents, both of them glaring at her.
"LISA LOUD!" They yelled in unison, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
Keeping a neutral expression, Lisa sighed, "Well, I was thinking that maybe we should look into having some work done on the house, considering how thin our walls are. I can barely get anything done due to being able to hear literally everything my siblings are doing and saying."
"That's not what we meant!" Dad snapped, "Your brother is unconscious because of you!"
"What have we told you about using your siblings as test subjects?" Mom demanded, throwing her arms up in anger.
Sighing, Lisa explained, "I just needed a test subject, and with what's been going on these past few days, Lincoln was more than willing to volunteer."
Mom and Dad's looks of anger were replaced by looks of confusion. They looked at each other in concern, before turning to their second-youngest daughter.
"What do you mean?" Dad asked, uneasiness in his voice.
"What's been happening these past few days?" Mom asked, somewhat nervous about what Lisa was getting ready to tell her.
Not tattling, just uninterested explanation, Lisa told her parents how the sisters had been excluding Lincoln from their activities ever since the dress incident, which had led to Lincoln growing depressed and lonely. Thus, he was actually happy when Lisa had asked him to test out her invention.
By the time she was done, her parents' eyes were wide in shock. They looked at each other, then back to Lisa, before finally snapping out of their shock.
"GIRLS!" Rita yelled, "FAMILY MEETING, HALLWAY, NOW!"
Lisa sighed as she followed her parents out of her room, where all of her sisters, sans Luna, were standing, looking somewhat nervous.
"Girls, is it true that you've been giving your brother the old shoulder these past few days?" Dad asked, eye twitching in annoyance.
The girls all looked at each other in worry, but before they could say anything, Luna burst out of her room, "LINCOLN'S NOT BREATHING!"
The family's eyes went wide with fright, before they all turned to Lisa. Not glaring, but pleading. Sure enough, the genius Loud rushed into her room, before running back out with her medical supplies. She entered Luna and Luan's room, where she paused upon seeing her brother lying completely still, not even a slight rise of his chest to show he was breathing.
Luna entered behind her, "I checked his pulse on both his neck and wrist, and just listened to his chest, but I couldn't find any sort of heartbeat."
Lisa's eyes widened even further in worry. She rushed to her brother, using her stethoscope to check him, before turning to her rocker sister, "Call an ambulance."
She said it in such a calm, yet unnerving tone, that Luna's heart nearly skipped a beat as she stumbled out into the hallway, sharing a look of dread with her family. Having heard Lisa, Lori was already on the phone with 911, demanding an ambulance.
As the sisters started getting riled up and Mom and Dad struggled to calm them, Lisa looked at her brother in sorrow and muttered, "What did I do to you, Lincoln?"
First off, gotta confess that the new chapter of Burning Secret is taking a little longer than I had hoped. I'm working on it, and hopefully it'll be up within a week.
Second, this is sort of an "extended ending" to Brawl in the Family Redo, hence why it will be its own story and not continuing on to that story doc.
R&R