Sunday: Royal Woods Junkyard
Tire Tire Towers: 3:55 P.M.
While the group of sisters were furious at hearing Chandler's stunt to amass a viral following, Lincoln, however, remained completely oblivious, as he was busy working his routine, adding new steps to go along with the music. He applied some of the moves he had used when Lori threw a party and he crashed the event disguised as a "dancing Russian." The moves managed to fit the ending to the medley of songs for his dance perfectly; now all he had to do was practice the routine one last time and-
"WHO DO THOSE PUNKS THINK THEY ARE?!" a loud voice rang out, disrupting Lincoln's train of thought. Despite him being very far away from them, he instantly recognized it as the voice of his sporty sister, Lynn.
Curious as to why she was here, Lincoln turned around and his eyes immediately went wide in shock as he not only saw the back of Lynn, but also all of his sisters (minus Lily). Now being thrown into a state of fear and panic, Lincoln immediately gripped both sides of his head as a million thoughts kept swarming in his head at this sudden realization. Why are they here? How long have they been standing there? Did they see him practice his dance routine? And, most of all, do they know it is him?
Lincoln quickly shook his head, trying to rid himself of such thoughts plaguing his mind and focusing upon the situation taking place behind him: an infuriated Lynn was repeatedly pounding her fists together; each time her knuckles collided into each other produced a crack sound, gradually getting louder and louder, making the white-haired boy wince. Lori cracked her neck on both sides, Luna, Lola, Lana, and Luan's hands slowly balled into fists, whereas Lucy and Lisa remained completely still, but Lincoln assumed that they were mad, too. But, this did raise another question: Why are they getting angry?
Once again, Lincoln's thoughts were immediately brought to a halt as he saw Leni running into the tire circle, getting away from the scene about to unfold. Not wanting to get caught, he quickly unplugged his phone with the audio jack and hid himself behind a stack located slightly farther from his "practice area", but gave him a good view of his sisters. Luckily for him, Leni didn't see him, granting him the opportunity to catch his breath and wipe the droplets of sweat developing on his forehead. As he scanned the area, wanting to see what had provoked them into getting them riled up, Lincoln looked up and saw a boy with a familiar bowl of red hair next to a wagon containing what looked like an engine motor as well as another boy with brown hair, glasses and a purple slip-on shirt with a yellow shirt underneath, holding up his phone horizontally; Lincoln immediately recognized the redhead.
"Chandler...?" Lincoln said to himself. "What could he possibly be doing here?"
Sunday: Royal Woods Junkyard
Scrap Heap Hill: 3:56 P.M.
The boy with the phone pressed the "Record" button, ready to witness this chain reaction that can launch his companion to internet glory. Chandler cleared his throat before giving his introduction to the prank. "Hello, Internet!" the redhead began. "I hope everyone is ready to see this crazy and totally awesome prank about to go down, or, should I say, go 'down-hill'! HA!" He gestured to the weighted wagon, now with a rope tied around it and attached to broken oven nearby. "When I pull this rope, this wagon will go straight down this pile of scrap and into that circle of tires!" Chandler pointed to the tire towers. "There's this guy that's down there dancing like an idiot. When those tire towers go down, he'll be a total loser!"
The boy with the phone made the camera follow Chandler as he untied the rope attached to the oven. Now holding the weight of the wagon with all the strength he could muster, Chandler turned his attention back to the camera. "On the count of three! One...Two...THREE!" And with that, Chandler let go of the rope, the fibers grazed against the palms of his hands as he and the boy watched on as the wagon made its descent.
However, the boy who was recording managed to catch the Loud sisters blocking the entrance to the target tire tower.
"Uh, Chandler?" the boy began. "What about those girls blocking the path?" Chandler immediately snapped out of his thoughts at being a viral hit as he caught an eyeful of nine angry faces looking back at him, but, what concerned him the most was when he averted his gaze into the tire circle and saw that his victim wasn't there.
"Hey, where'd Larry go?"
Sunday: Royal Woods Junkyard
Tire Tire Towers: 3:57 P.M.
"The wagon's moving fast, dudes...!" Luna said, worriedly. "What do we do?!"
"According to my calculations, based on Newton's first law of motion and the velocity of the wagon, I would say that the best course of action to prevent the wagon from setting off a chain reaction that could potentially send our brother under the care of medical personnel is to form a human barrier. Our combined weight would be enough to bring the wagon to a halt," Lisa stated.
The wagon was now approaching the girls at an alarming rate. With no time to lose, the girls quickly scrambled themselves into a tight formation, ready to catch the wagon. Sure enough, Lisa's proposal was proven to be very effective, as the girls were able to block the wagon successfully. As they absorbed the impact, the soles of their shoes slid across the dirt, pushing them all back to the tire tower behind them. As the Loud sisters recovered from the ordeal, they heard a loud rumbling coming from the tire tower about to fall. As they turned around, they saw the tires at the very top begin to tumble and make their descent. What this a sight to be taken in for the sisters, they realized that Lincoln must still be in the circle about to get crushed.
"Hang on, I'll get him!" Lynn yelled as she rushed inside the circle. The rumbling sounds grew louder as she scanned the inside of the circle for any sign of the white-haired boy, but couldn't find him. Instead, when she turned back to escape, she saw something much worse about to unfold...
...she saw Leni hiding behind the crumbling tire tower about to get crushed.
"LYNN! LENI! LOOK OUT!" the sisters screamed as they all proceeded to rush in.
However, before Lynn could react, she suddenly found herself next to Leni being pushed out of the circle, now with the stack of tires having completely fallen in the middle, destroying Lincoln's boom box in the process. As Leni fell to the ground, Lynn managed to catch herself in time, planting her right hand in the dirt, and, at the same time, placing her right lower leg in the ground.
"Wh-what..." Lynn began. "What just happened...? How did we..?" The athlete's question was answered as she turned her head back to the wreckage, only to catch an eyeful of her brother, who was standing behind the two of them, both hands on his knees, catching his breath. The other Loud sisters were in a group freeze position with their heads turned to face the three of them with bewildered expressions on their faces. "Lin-Lincoln?" Lynn managed to say as she stood up.
"Are you two okay?" Lincoln asked as he helped Leni get back up on her feet.
"Y-yeah, bro," Lynn replied while dusting herself off.
As Leni adjusted her sunglasses and wiped the dirt that got on her sundress, she quickly hugged Lincoln tightly, lifting him off the ground in the process. "LINKY! YOU SAVED US! YOU'RE A HERO!"
"O-okay, Leni! I-I can't b-breathe!" were the only words Lincoln could muster while receiving his sister's loving affection.
"Oh! Sorry, Lincoln!" Leni responded as she set Lincoln back down on the ground, giving him a moment to breathe.
"Lincoln, what are you doing here?" Lynn asked as the Loud sisters walked over to them.
"I was uh-" Lincoln stammered, his plan now in jeopardy. It was at this moment that he had to come up with a quick lie to not arouse any suspicion. The last thing he needed was to be caught by his sisters, being forced to tell the truth, and have all the effort he put into this surprise be all for nothing. However, being the "man-with-a-plan", Lincoln had a believable statement form in his mind, and it involved something that he remembered he had in his pants pocket. "I was just taking a stroll through the junkyard, looking for my earphones that accidentally got thrown in the trash, before I saw you and Leni about to get crushed," Lincoln replied as he pulled them out of his pocket before remembering something else that was in the pocket of his hoodie. "I also managed to find this glowing thing in one of the junk piles," he said as he took it out, making Lisa's eyes go wide and a smile to form on her face.
"Great Caesar's Ghost!" Lisa exclaimed as she rushed over to Lincoln and taking the object of her brother's hand. "It's the missing component for my invention! Thank you so much, elder sibling unit!"
"Uh...no problem, Lisa," Lincoln said, confused while wondering what was so important about a glowing rod placed in a container. He then turned his attention back to his other sisters. "So, what are you guys doing here?"
"Me and Lisa were looking for that thing to power up her latest invention," Lana stated.
"And we were looking for Lori's turquoise dress that Leni accidentally threw away, mistaking for garbage," Lola added.
"Where did the wagon come from?" Lincoln asked, pointing to the wagon, somehow containing the engine motor and the trash bag with the dress inside.
"Some guys thought it would be funny to pull off a stunt by stealing and sending our wagon down that hill into the tire towers. We tried to stop the wagon in order to protect-" Luna stopped herself during her explanation, with the sudden realization that she was going to say Lincoln's name. Instead, she had to fabricate a lie, to make sure the sisters' cover wasn't blown. "We were trying to protect Leni from getting hurt, but the wagon's force was too much that we could handle that it was strong enough to push the tire tower behind us," she finally said, as she pointed to the fallen tire tower.
"But weren't we trying to protect Linc-" Leni began, only to have her mouth covered by Lori's hand.
"YEAH! We were trying to protect you from getting hurt Leni! Right?" Lori said loudly with a forced smile. Leni shot Lori a baffled glance, the latter catching the former's expression out of the corner of her eye, causing her to make Leni's nod, as if she agreed.
Lincoln tilted his head in confusion before shrugging, now feeling awkward, knowing that his sisters were lying as well; the feeling being shared with the other siblings.
"Well uh..." Lincoln began, breaking the silence. "This is pretty awkward, so I'll just be-"
"Hey! Where'd they go?!" Lola yelled, directing everyone's attention to the top of the hill of scrap; the boys now having vanished from the top.
"Looks like they got away, dudes..." Luna said.
"We can worry about them later," Lori reassured the two. "What's important is that both Leni and Lynn are okay."
"And we know who to thank for that!" Luan said happily.
As the girls turned their attention back to Lincoln, he was gone.
"Strange. Where did our male sibling disappear to?" Lisa asked.
"Looks like he picked up your habit of teleporting, huh, Luce?" Lynn joked, nudging her elbow into the goth's left shoulder.
"Sigh. Another family member that possesses the same ability that I do," Lucy said in her usual monotone, albeit a slight happiness present in her voice.
"Well, what should we do now?" Lana asked.
'What we totally do is be, like, thankful that Linky didn't catch us!" Leni said.
"Yeah, while I am glad that our bro didn't catch us, I still feel a little guilty about lying to him," Luna said, sadly.
"Relax, girls," Lori said to all of them. "Leni's right. We should literally be thankful that Lincoln bought our lie. Besides, as long as he doesn't find out about us recording him, we're good to go. Right, Luan?"
"Right, sis," the comedienne replied. "I would never post this without Lincoln's permission."
"What I do recommend we do now is head back to our abode," Lisa suggested. "It's getting close to dinner time, and I believe that both Lynn and Leni require a shower after that little ordeal. Plus, I need to store this component in a safe place. Exposure to an outside environment for a prolonged period of time may cause it to explode. Even if I don't know how long it's been there, it's better to be on the safe side. Surprised that it's still intact."
With that being said, the Loud sisters began their walk home, wagon in tow, ready to learn some of Lincoln's moves, while still pondering how long they can keep up their chain of lies, with Lincoln feeling the same way. However, one of the sisters stayed behind.
Luna Loud examined the site where the tire tower fell. "Looks like the boom box that I gave him got destroyed in the process. Those dudes are gonna pay for this," she said as she balled her hands into fists for a few moments before opening them again and letting out a sigh. "I think I have enough money in my piggy bank to get another one, but..." she trailed off, looking at the backs of her sisters now growing farther and farther in the distance.
"...I think I could surprise him with one!" Luna said to herself as she ran after the girls.
A/N: Well, looks like things are starting to build up! Chandler's plan may have failed, but this isn't the last we'll see of him. I thank you guys so much for all of your support on this story. Your comments and favorites mean everything to me, and this story began as a simple request, too!
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