Okay. Again writing this right after I finished the last chapter, so… I've been reading a Phineas and Ferb story recently. It's called "All The Things That Can Change In A Hundred And Four Days." It's a story that ships Phineas and Candace. You guys should check it out if you're in to Phineas and Ferb.

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Timeline Ten

Lisa woke in an instant. Between one moment and the next. Her neural implant stimulating her nervous system, bringing her from restful sleep to alert wakefulness in the blink of an eye. Sitting up in her bed, she looked across her room to Lilys bed, to find it empty. She was already wake? Odd. Today was the day she started her part of the experiment. Lisa didn't envy her counterparts who would have had to stay up all night in order to make the final adjustments to their sisters and brother. That wasn't required of Lisa, herself, this version of her. She didn't have to sneak around in the dead of night for weeks on end, to make the needed changes to the mental states of her siblings. She simply needed to make those adjustments to herself, which she didn't need to hide from herself. The most problematic thing she'd run into was the realization that she hadn't started puberty yet. This was a problem. It also should have been obvious to her from the start, but she supposed she'd been too caught up in other aspects of the project to think it over. In order to stimulate romantic feelings in herself, she needed to be physically ready for procreation. She was unwilling to change herself too radically. If she did, it would become apparent to her siblings that something was wrong. They would try to investigate. Lisa couldn't have that. She also really didn't desire to change herself enormously. The thought left her… Unsettled.

In order for a romantic development to take place, she needed to be ready for it. While she couldn't just make herself ready for it, not without making the aforementioned radical changes, she could just start her own puberty. That's what she did. It wasn't visually obvious yet, due to her only doing it several weeks prior, but she could already feel the changes in her brain. Boys were becoming interesting as things other than test subjects or potential friends, and in accord with the specific guidance she'd placed over her own development, one boy in particular was becoming more interesting than all others. Lincoln. She couldn't rush into this however. She may have made him more open to the possibility of romantic relations with a relative, but she could still scare him away if she was too blunt. She would have to be delicate about this, or risk the her part of the experiment falling apart at the seams and crashing down around her ears.

Lisa gathered her daily garments and stepped out into the hall, to the curious sight of Lily shifting from foot to foot in front of the door.

"Greetings Lily." She addressed.

"Hi Lisa." Lily replied, squirming in place.

"Might I inquire as to what issue you are having?"

"I really gotta pee."

Hmm, amusing. Still, it explained why Lily was up earlier than her. Lisa didn't have a neural implant for nothing. It woke her up at exactly six AM every day. For anyone other than Luan, who woke up even earlier naturally, to be awake before her was unusual.

Several minutes later, Lola and Lana came to a stop just behind her.

"Are you almost done in there? I really need to pee!" Lily called through the door.

"Hold on a second, I gotta clean up. It's like there was a Potty in here. Ha ha, get it?" Luans voice was muffled..

"No…" Lily trailed off.

"Well never mind. Give me a second to dry off and I'll come out."

Two minutes later the portal opened, allowing Luan egress to the hall and Lily entry to the washroom. Lily hurried in, slamming and locking the door after her passage. Lisa found herself the first in line, facing the door. Okay, okay, okay. Normally she wasn't this nervous, but she'd never attempted something like this before. Maybe if she ran through her head what her other selves were going to be doing, she would be able to calm down. Going over notes to smooth over any misgivings. It was a method she was familiar with.

Let's see, the Lisa from the control timeline had the easiest job out of all of them. She didn't have to mess with anyones brain. All she had to do was maneuver things in such a way as to ensure that Lincoln and Ronnie Anne Santiago had as many positive experiences together as possible. I simple matter of manipulating events to make certain that they run into each other often enough. They had good enough chemistry with each other that Lisa was certain she wouldn't be forced to induce romance.

The Lisa from timeline two would have the comparatively much harder job of guiding a relationship between Lori and Lincoln into existence. She would have to be careful about that. Lori had experience with romantic relationships and the emotions they induced, from her previous failed relationship with Bobby Santiago. If Lisa wanted Lori to react well to her feelings for Lincoln, she would have to work on improving their relationship with each other first. Lori needed to think of Lincoln as her best friend, or she may try to run from her feelings once she became aware of them. There was still a chance that she wouldn't react well, but by then, it would be much harder for her to make the choice to leave.

The door to the washroom swayed open, and Lily skipped out and down the hall. Lisa stepped through the door and shut it behind her. She cast her previous thoughts from her mind for the moment. It was time to take care of her morning ablutions. Unlike her siblings units, Lisa had a far superior method of cleaning herself. She didn't have a toothbrush, and she wondered if anyone noticed that detail, or if they just didn't care. Instead of the typical toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash, Lisa pulled a small vial from her pocket and popped the cap off. Emptying the contents into her mouth, she idly swished the liquid around. This was a personal favorite of hers among her inventions. The liquid was more than it appeared at first, second, or even third glance. It was one million microscopic machines suspended in an aqueous solution. The machines cleaned her teeth thoroughly without her having to do anything, and when they where done, the solution would heat up to let her know. She spat the liquid down into the sink once it was done, where it would travel down the pipes for a while, breaking down into its base components before it reached the sewer.

She took and step back from the sink and turned to face the tub. She could invent something to replace the shower as well, but she didn't want to. The shower was one of the most relaxing times of her day. She did create something to cut down on cleaning time, but only so she could spend more time just luxuriating in the heated water. Lisa rotated the handle exactly ninety degrees and initiated the removal of her dress. She unbuttoned her shirt and shrugged it off, bringing her hands down to her sweat pants, she hooked her thumbs around the waistband of her pants and undergarments and pulled them down her legs until they pooled on the floor. Stepping from the pool of fabric, she passed her hand through the rush of water to check if it had reached they optimum temperature. Once satisfied with the results of her test, she stepped into the flow. She reached for a bottle filled with her own creation. Designed to wash and condition both her hair and body, it had a safety lock on it to prevent children from getting in, and dissuading adults away from it and towards more easily opened bottles. She only needed to compress a dollop into the palm of one hand, and lather her hands together. Smoothing her hands over her form, she left a layer of oil and water soluble cleaner behind. Bringing her hands up to her head, she made certain her face and hair were both covered. Stepping into the direct spray, she could feel the grime and oils of the previous day sluicing off her body and hair. This was a singularly pleasurable experience, and Lisa cleared her mind to fully appreciate the sensation. Once she was completely clean, she reengaged her mind, turned off the flow, and stepped from the porcelain bowl. Digging around in her pajamas, she grasped a small object. It looked like a lightbulb on a platform, and had a switch. This was her Infrared Water Steamer. When turned on it would evaporate small amounts of water at an accelerated pace. It was essentially a very weak, non contained, microwave with a specific purpose in mind. Setting it down on the counter above the sink, she flipped the switch and made three full rotations of her body, before flipping the switch back into the off position and donning her chosen outfit for the day.

Opening the portal back out into the hall, she stepped passed Lola, and took measured steps down the hall and to the stairs, descending them with deliberate strides. She stepped around the archway, into the kitchen. Luan was standing to one side on the archway and Lily was masticating her way through a bowl of unhealthy, sucrose infused, maze spheres. Colloquially known as Sugar Snaps. Lisa had hoped, when she was younger and more naive that Lily would never get hooked on such mass marketed detritus. That she did was a lesson in disappointment. Lisa supposed she needed to experience it at some point. She strode purposefully to the cabinet under the counter and next to the fridge. Opening it, she found her preferred morning provisions. A variety of powders, ready to mix, for the most nutritious meal science could provide. Carrying them to the table, she made a return trip to the refrigerator and acquired her liquids. A bottle of water, and what she called super oil. It combined all the best traits about all the other oils into one oil… That was an exaggeration. It combined the traits of ten oils into one. It was healthy for your heart, it tasted good, it provided a healthy kind of fat, you could grease an engine with it… If you needed to replace the oil in your car and you only had super oil, it would work. Lisa had only ever tried that during testing, so she couldn't say how well it would work over a prolonged period. Placing all the materials on the table, she checked her watch for todays ratios. She was after all a growing girl and, in this timeline at least, she was going to be growing slightly faster than a normal girl. She had to make sure her proportions were optimal for her continued growth, every day.

Lola and Lana came side by side into the room, until Lola tripped her sister and they both tumbled to the ground and started wrestling across the floor. An unsurprising event. Watching them from her seat, they were only engaging in some light hair pulling. If this was a real fight, things would be broken by now. From her observations of them, she noted that the twins tended to act as a single unit. They had almost completely different behaviors, habits, and personality traits, but where one was found lacking, the other filled in. No doubt her counterparts, in the timelines where she was trying to pair one of the twins with their brother, would suffer complications when their romantic feelings fully manifested. Lola and Lana, respectively, would develop feelings of jealousy towards Lincoln, on the mistaken assumption that he was taking their twin away from them. Lisa hoped that didn't become too much of a problem.

Lynn skirted the corner and entered the kitchen, pausing momentarily to take in the scene, before continuing in and to one of the cabinets above the counter. She reached in and grabbed two protein bars. Chocolate flavor from the looks of it. The version of Lisa from the timeline labeled six, would have an easier time pairing Lynn with Lincoln than most other iterations of herself would have with their own respective pairings. While Lynn would doubtless have feelings of guilt associated with starting a romantic relationship with her brother, she wasn't the type to think things through. She would, in all likelihood, discard her feelings of guilt once it became apparent to her that she wasn't going to stop feeling that way about him. On Lincolns side, Lynn was the sister closest to Ronnie Anne Santiago in personality. Lincoln had already proven himself to be attracted to that personality type, the only issue would be getting him to accept his feelings.

The twins stopped fighting and marched to the freezer, pulling out a box of french toast sticks. Leni prevented them from closing the door, grabbing bags of frozen fruit from within. She moved to the fridge and collected various liquids. Drinking from her glass, Lisa watched Leni set up her smoothie station, Luan sidling up soon after.

"Do you take requests. I would find a banana smoothie Appealing. Haha, get it?" Luan chuckled.

Lenis head tilted slightly in way Lisa identified as a position of thought, "Like because a banana has a peel?" Lisa had studied Leni, and from that study she knew that Leni wasn't as dull as one might assume at first glance. She had a plethora of learning differences, and she was very gullible, but she was not what Lisa would classify as stupid. Stupid was the inability or unwillingness to make use of what information one possessed. Leni could use the information she had, she simply had trouble learning and retaining new information. As for her gullibility. Gullibility wasn't stupidity, it was the characteristic of someone who placed too much trust in the words of others. Beyond that, she was much better now than she used to be. The fact that she'd recognized and was working on her deficiencies, told Lisa that Leni was actually smarter than most other people.

"Hey, yeah, good job." Luan congratulated her.

Leni turned back to the blender and picked up a bag of mangos, stopping when Luan waved to get her attention again.

"I wasn't just telling a joke, I actually do want a banana smoothie."

"Oh", Leni set the bag of Mangos back down and lifted the frozen bananas and the yogurt. She scooped a few large spoonfuls of yogurt into the blender, she put in an entire frozen banana and a caps worth of vanilla extract. She poured a little milk. She put on the lid and turned on the blender. There was a short struggle as the blades fought to liquefy an entire frozen banana, but things smoothed out soon enough and Leni tipped the smoothie into a glass.

Luan gave a thumbs up in thanks, and walked away. She couldn't say anything because she was drawing a mouthful of smoothie from the glass. She returned to her position near the entrance of the kitchen. The twins pulled their french toast sticks from the toaster oven and placed the plate on the table, moving over the fridge to pull out jam, butter, and syrup, as Lynn made her presence and silent request for smoothie known to Leni. Lisa saw a flash of white from the corner of her vision and turned to see Lincoln standing in the archway. She accidentally inhaled her drink, descending into a coughing fit, that had Lincoln crossing the distance between them and rubbing her back in an effort to help her out.

Oh God, this was awful. She made the final adjustment the previous night, but she hadn't known her symptoms would be so strong. Did her hair look okay? Did her clothes? Coughing white goo all over the table was probably the least attractive thing she could have done. No wait… He didn't see her as an object of romantic interest yet. Everything's fine. Calm down.

Lisa pounded her chest and took a deep breath. Looking up to see Lincolns concerned face hovering over her, and the worried expressions on their sisters faces passed him. She felt her face heat up at how close he was, luckily she could easily pass that off as the result of her coughing fit.

"Are you okay Lise?" He queried softly.

Taking another deep breath, she answered, "I'm quite all right. Thank you brother."

"Alright. Let me know if you need anything." He turned away to grab a smoothie from Leni, only to have his glass snagged by Lori who returned to business as usual once she knew Lisa was okay.

Lori walked from the house and Lisa could hear her car pull from the driveway.

Lincoln simply grabbed another glass and he, Lynn, and Leni split the remaining smoothie three ways.

"So son, you planning anything today?" Their dad asked, as he came into the room.

"Well." The president in name began, everyones attentions drawn to him by their fathers question, "I still have school today, which is okay I suppose. I've been working on a picture in art class that I was hoping to get done today. After that I suppose I'll hang out with Clyde for an hour or two. Then I guess I'll come home and spend time with my sisters."

"Using your birthday to hang out with ten girls at once? That's Smoothie Linc" Luan said, holding up her almost finished drink, "Haha, Get it?"

Her joke was met with a chorus of groans.

"Seriously though, you shouldn't feel obligated to spend your birthday with us." Luan remarked.

"I don't feel obligated. You think I don't like spending time with you? Outside of Clyde and maybe Ronnie Anne, you guys are some of my best friends." Lincoln earnestly responded.

There was a wave of Awww's and other noises of appreciation from his sisters. Lisas heart skipped a beat, even though she already knew this from observing his behavior. Knowing it and him directly saying it, were two different things.

"That's sweet dude." Luna sighed, "Luckily for you I don't have any classes at the college today. So I'll see you in the afternoon."

"You don't have any classes today?" Lynn looked almost affronted, "I have." She paused "Math class…" she finished with a hiss.

"Come now. Numbers are hardly as onerous as you're making them out to be. Calculations are simple matters of logic." Lisa commented from her place at the table. Lisa suspected that Lynn had a learning difference of her own, when it came to math specifically.

"That's easy for you to say Miss four college masteries." Lisas sporty sister retorted.

"I have five, but I suspect I shouldn't be too hard on you if you're really as bad with simple equations as you profess." Lisa jabbed. Suspicions of learning differences didn't prevent her was ribbing her sisters a bit every now and then. Maybe she would stop if she managed to prove that Lynn had a math based learning difference.

"Hey!"

"Don't fight. It's Linky's birthday, and think about what he just told us. My feelings go all fuzzy just thinking about it." Leni reprimanded her two fighting sisters.

"Well, I'll see you guys after school." Lincoln abruptly stated, bringing attention back to him. Capillaries in his cheeks filled with blood, turning his face pink with what Lisa concluded was embarrassment. He ascended the stairs, Lucy coming into the kitchen just after he left. He came back down with his backpack slung over his shoulder and left the house, waving to them over his shoulder.

Hmm… It actually was about time to clean up, and while Lisa didn't have any classes to teach that day, she still had some experiments to run. Luckily, her food was easy to clean up. Unluckily, she'd sprayed health drink and spit all over the table earlier. She got up to go get a washcloth.

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In her bunker lab in the back yard, Lisa did her work in front of a bank of monitors. Several of them switching between the various cameras in Luans network. Why set up your own network when you can hack into someone else's? Another few monitors showed the front door and the side walk on either side, leading up to the house. Lisa wanted to be informed when Lincoln came back. In the mean time, she had an various experiments on artificial intelligence running at once. On a computer, she had a paint program running that she'd designed to be able to get bored. Nothing super complicated. It had a count down that was only visible in the code and to the program itself, that would get down to zero if the program didn't do anything. The paint program was designed to not want the countdown to reach zero and was given various means to stave it off. Aimlessly drawing doodles would slow the counter down. Drawing a picture would add time on the amount remaining. Drawing the same picture over and over again would give diminishing returns. Maybe that wasn't exactly boredom, but it was the closest she could get at the moment, without more fully understanding the emotion. There were new studies that suggested that boredom was a low form of disgust.

One might ask her what she thought she was doing messing around with the minds and emotions of her siblings if she still didn't fully understand the nature of emotions herself. She would answer that it was one thing to induce a particular emotion in something that already had the ability to feel that emotion. It was another to create an emotion from scratch, in isolation of any other emotion, in something that couldn't already feel emotions. The latter was several orders of magnitude harder than the former. She understood well enough how minds worked as a complete unit that she could safely make minor changes like she did. If she couldn't make the changes safely, she wouldn't have even tried.

Aside from her experimentation into the nature of artificial intelligence, she occupied her time by writing out her predictions for how she believed the other timelines would go. It wasn't strictly necessary, but it was interesting to think about.

In the third timeline, Lisa predicted that her counterpart would actually have a pretty easy time getting Leni and Lincoln together. If Lisas notes on Leni were correct, Leni held family above all else in her life, and her love for Lincoln was already different than her love for any other family member was. It would be easy to influence her, and add romantic love for him on top of her familial love. She most likely wouldn't even have any problems with the addition. Lincoln might be harder to sway, given his instincts to protect her. If he could move past that however, those instincts would only enhance his love for her.

The same things that would work in Lenis favor, would also work in Lilys favor. While the relationship would take longer to form, due to their age difference. Lincoln would no doubt be as protective of Lily as he was of Leni.

I her timeline, the tenth, Lisa predicted that a relationship would form faster and more easily than in half of the other timelines. Lisa herself knew what was happening, ad could pull Lincoln along into a meaningful romantic relationship. He would be reluctant of course, but she was his younger sister. Whatever protective instincts he had towards Leni and Lily, would no doubt also extend towards her. She was emotionally ready for him and she could already feel herself falling for him. She wasn't sure if she was physically ready to have sexual intercourse yet, but she knew she would be in only a few months. Not that she believed they would be having sex in just a few months. Lincoln was more of a gentleman than that, and Lisa wanted to make absolutely sure she was definitely ready before she tried anything. There would be no point to the experiment if he or she were scared away from the other after a disastrous first attempt at breeding.

She looked up at the monitor, to see Lincoln leaving the house with Lynn… Wait. Leaving the house? How long had she been down here? Lisa put away all her projects, pressed in the seventeen digit code to leave, and climbed up the ladder. The trap door shut behind her with an audible hiss of hydraulics. Sprinting to the sidewalk, she could just see Lynn and Lincoln in the distance… Dang it. Now what was she supposed to do?

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Unfortunately, Lynn and her love interest did not return home until it was time for dinner. The parental units of the Loud house, gathered everyone in the front hall to wait for those that were missing, and when they turned up, they were all shepherd to the two cars in the driveway. Vanzilla the second, and Loris car. Lisa made sure to acquire a seat adjacent to Lincolns and they made it to the buffet in record time. The ride was noticeably more comfortable with everyone spread out over two cars.

The Loud parental units paid for everyone, and they gathered around two contiguous tables. They got up to get enough food to eat that night, and enough for them to eat for the next several nights. It was amusing to Lisa that the family still lived and acted as though they were poor, even though they had many more sources of income these days. She made certain to snag a seat next to Lincoln again, and almost regretted it. He was eating a peanut butter and sauerkraut sandwich, an unholy concoction, that made Lisa question his sanity occasionally. She didn't actually regret sitting next to him though. Her feelings were doubtless the result of her own tampering, but that didn't change how good they felt, or how real they felt. She scooted as close as she dared to him, and started talking to him about her day. Leaving out the certain parts, like her predictions of the other timelines, she told him what she did in her lab, and her experimentation with artificial intelligence. He listened and nodded his head. That was something that Lisa liked about him. Even if he wasn't as knowledgeable in science as she was, he was still intelligent enough to make helpful suggestions. Like the idea to make a robot with the ability to feel. She could make it like soft touches, and hate harder touches, but not give it any direction and just see how it starts to act over the course of several days. Other people might have spoken to her or Lincoln, but she couldn't didn't know. She wasn't paying attention. Lincoln filled her world at the moment, and he was enough.

All too soon, dinner was over, and it was time to go. Ensuring her seat beside Lincoln on the car ride home, Lisa couldn't help but be glad she started this experiment.

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Chapter notes:

I hope you realize by this point that I am essentially writing eleven different intertwining stories here. If I complete this, it'll be an epic of grand proportions, easily on par with the likes of the Odyssey or Beowulf… If the Odyssey and Beowulf were non canonical stories about children's cartoon shows.

Lisa can open portals to other dimensions, and the entire premise of this story is that she split the timeline into eleven. I think the gadgets she's shown so far are pretty tame compared to that.

Huh, Lisas feeling it bad too. Who would have thought?

Someone left a review of the last chapter asking when the twins timelines were going to diverge from each other. I can't send them a PM because they weren't logged in, but I'll do my best to answer that here. Basically the twins have a closer relationship to each other than every other siblings. It's not going to be a sudden shift. It's going to be a gradual thing. The twins in their respective timelines are going to grow closer and closer to Lincoln. The closer they grow, the more they'll prioritize spending time with him over spending time with their twin. Not to say that their feelings for Lincoln will ever overpower their feelings for their twin. I'm just saying that as they start to really fall for him, they'll start wanting to spend time with him alone, and they'll be more willing to separate from their twin in order to do it.

Something came up. I'm going to be gone for a day or two, starting tomorrow. Expect the last chapter in the set to be a little late. Believe me, the wait will not be worth it. Giving a warning here. I have only the vaguest idea of how to write from the perspective of a seven year old, so the eleventh chapter in the set is a bit of a shambles. When writing about Lilys timeline in the future, I'm going to try to avoid writing from her perspective, but I kind of needed to in this specific case.