Chapter Synopsis: Lori, Luna, Luan and Lola find out what REALLY happened on April 26
"So, Lola, why have you called us here?" Lori questions
"Well, ever since Operation Twinsanity was enacted, I stopped all Trinity of Violence plans. So, how come our sisters are saying that the TOV is responsible?" Lola enquires
"Yeah, that might have been my fault." Lynn Jr answers
"What, why?"
"I enacted an operation behind your back. If you weren't going to restore balance, I would!"
"We want the family dynamic the same! If Lana is dead, then there's a massive shift in the balance! That's just like pulling out the bottom card in a house of cards! Take out the support and it all comes crashing down!" Lori rebuffs Lynn angrily
"Easy, Lori… Lynn… what was the operation?"
"I wanted to scare her, to stop her from helping Lincoln, so I got some firecrackers and forced Lisa to make a detonator that would set ALL OF THEM off at once! That will surely frighten Lana away! I lured her out to where those noisemakers are and set them off! Only…Lana wasn't running away…" Lynn explains
Both Lola and Lori are left speechless, their mouths are agape with shock. They spend a few minutes processing what Lynn just told them. Lola recovers, and gives Lynn the verbal thrashing of a lifetime!
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Lola shrieks at her "This is why you come to Lori first, to make sure no one gets hurt!"
"But we're the Trinity of Violence! Violence is in our name!"
"We catch, but do not kill!" Lori counters "We only resort to beating people up if it's absolutely necessary!"
"As of this point, the Trinity of Violence is permanently disbanded!" Lola declares "Lynn, your membership has been revoked!"
"What?! You can't do that!"
"As the one who formed the group…" Lola started to say
"And as the leader of the Trinity of Violence…" Lori continues
"We hereby decree... the total destruction of this organization!" Both of them exclaim
It's official! The Trinity of Violence is NO MORE! Lola and Lori leave, leaving Lynn to take in what just happened. Meanwhile, Lisa has just finished showing both of the tapes to Luna and Luan.
"Wow, Lana told me about this…" Luna says "No wonder she temporarily instated me as leader of Covalence for a month."
Luan seemingly doesn't react. She just heads out of Lisa and Lily's room. Luna follows her.
"What are you planning to do, sis?" Luna questions her
"I'm going to give her a piece of my mind." Luan responds
Lincoln heads out of his room and sees that Luan is heading toward Lynn and Lucy's room, with a concerned Luna behind her. He goes over to them to investigate.
Luan goes up to Lynn and says this…
"YOU"
"BLITHE"
"IDIOT!"
"Why did you take Lisa hostage?! Why did you beat up Lana?!"
Lynn doesn't respond…
"Did you detonate the firecrackers?!"
"It's just a prank, sis!"
"It's just a prank." How could ANYONE say that about a failed plan that resulted in a person DYING?! The fact that Lynn said that it was just a prank and in a callous and noncaring tone is enough to send Luan over the edge!
"People might say my pranks are "too dangerous", but they don't KILL the victim! This wasn't a prank, it was a TRAP, wasn't it?! How could you do this to OUR little sister?! Didn't you care about her?!"
"She was helping Lincoln and disrupting our family dynamic…"
"Don't give me that excuse, it won't work…It's because of you we won't be able to create any more memories with Lana. You're the one who took her life away. I WILL help Lana, I'll carry out her wishes, to protect Lincoln, and anyone else, from people like you."
There are no words to describe how angry Luan is. I mean, the word "livid" is the closest word to it, but being livid is TAME compared to the sheer frustration Luan has right now. If Luna and Lincoln weren't there to calm her down in case anything happened, she would go absolutely ballistic on Lynn!
Luan storms off to her room and Luna follows her. Lincoln just heads back to his room in stunned silence. Lynn is the who killed Lana (by accident, but it WAS still her fault). Lucy eventually enters Lincoln's room and begins to speak.
"I wanted to apologize to you, but I never found the right time to do so. Our sisters told me what happened. At the funeral…I called you bad luck." Lucy began to say "They told me I was being insensitive to you because Lana dedicated her life to proving you were our brother and not a lucky charm. Lincoln, I didn't know I hurt you…I'm sorry for what I said. I just hope you can forgive me…" Lucy explains
"I forgive you."
"You'll always be my big brother, Linc."
With that, Lucy leaves. But notices Lynn heading downstairs with a baseball bat. Lola is seen in the background, trying to recruit Luan, Luna and Lisa into her group.
"Hey, dad suspended you from sports! You can't just sneak off and play baseball!" Lucy yells at her
"I'm not going to play baseball, I'm going somewhere to clear my mind!" Lynn yells back
Lynn always beats up Lincoln when she's angry about something. It's like he's a living stress ball. But ever since Lana died, Lynn has been attacking Lincoln more and more frequently, and each time with the violence escalating further and further!
Lucy shakes her head and heads back to her room. Lynn heads to the places where she'll clear her mind. We see a montage of Lynn training. Her dad may have banned her from playing sports, but he never banned her from TRAINING for sports. The montage song is "Take Me Out to The Ball Game". After her training, she heads back to the house and just does whatever she normally does until it's bedtime. Once it's bedtime, everyone drifts off to sleep…except her…
She makes sure everyone's asleep. It's about 2 AM on the 2nd day of Lincoln's suspension. Lynn Jr stealthily sneaks out of bed and grabs a metal baseball bat, she slinks over to Lincoln's room, she opens the door. Lincoln doesn't hear her coming because he's already asleep! She approaches his bed and raises the baseball bat over her head, a lightning strike from a passing thunderstorm that day illuminated a sinister shadow getting ready to strike. Lynn says what she's wanted to say ever since the accident.
"This is for Lana."
*CRACK!
Author's Note: The title of this chapter, Dissolution of TOV, was supposed to be a reference to both the complete destruction of the Trinity of Violence and the Hebrew phrase "mazel tov". I thought mazel meant "good" and tov meant "luck", but the opposite is true. It still fits, though, as even though the TOV is permanently eradicated, there are still two major threats to the Loud family. In the original version of this chapter, Lynn was supposed to attack Luan and she was supposed to utterly destroy her, it was cut because we already know that Luan is awesome! Also, when Luan shouts "you blithe idiot" at Lynn; Lincoln was supposed to say that in chapter 15, but I moved it here because that phrase was too good to waste. When she says that, she's livid that Lynn has chosen not to accept responsibility for the accident, she thinks that Lynn is being insensitively naïve...but that's not naivete, it's callousness. Anyway, things are about to come to a head...
