The Loud kids then murmured in confusion as they cme out of their rooms and the power was out in their house. The Weather twins soon joined them in the hall.
"All right, everyone, calm down!" Lori called orders since she was the oldest.
Every one of them soon calmed down.
"Guys! I can't see anything!" Leni cried out. "I think I've gone blind!"
"That's because the power has gone out." Zoe said.
"Hercules was just plugging in the old TV for Lucy and Zoe and it must've made the lights go out." Lincoln replied.
"Of course it's your friends' fault, Lincoln." Lori glared.
"Hey!" Hercules glared back. "How was it my fault?!"
"Hey, I know why the lights went out, 'cuz they liked each other!" Luan laughed.
This caused everyone else in there to groan.
"Anyway, it's not Lincoln's fault." Hercules scolded Lori.
"That's right." Zoe said.
"Luan's joke was so good, it deserved a cookie." Lisa said as she gave her joking sister a treat.
"Oh, thanks," Luan smiled as she then ate the cookie and something changed about her. "So anyway, what did one light bulb say to the other?"
"Luan, you're glowing." Hercules said once he noticed her glowing.
"Hey, wow!" Luan smiled.
"Everyone back away from Luan," Lori warned before scolding. "Lisa, Mom and Dad said you're not allowed to use your siblings as experimental guinea pigs anymore!"
"Anymore?" Zoe asked. "You mean this isn't the first time she's experimented on you guys?"
"Last time she made my face swell up." Leni replied.
"Yikes!" The Weather twins winced.
Yeah..." Lori nodded before glaring to Lisa.
"Well, at least we can see her." Zoe said.
"All I did was infuse the bioluminescent DNA of the Aequorea victoria jellyfish into a cookie," Lisa nodded. "I call them Gloweos."
"Lori, may I suggest that we all stay close to Luan now?" Hercules asked.
"I couldn't agree more, you guys heard Hercules." Lori agreed.
They all soon huddled together around Luan.
"I always knew I was the light of your life." Luan giggled.
"Oh, brother." Zoe groaned.
"Okay, so how about we get the power back on?" Lincoln suggested.
"Hey, when Mom and Dad are out, I'm in charge," Lori glared. "So first, we need a head count to make sure we're all here."
Hercules soon did a head count.
"Okay, eleven of you and me and Zoe make thirteen, we're all here." Hercules replied.
"You forgot me." Lucy came up behind him.
"Oh, right, plus Lucy makes fourteen." Hercules said.
"Can I go flip the circuit breaker and get the lights back on before Lucy gives Hercules a heart attack?" Lincoln asked.
"Again, in charge," Lori glared. "I'll do it. Where's the circuit breaker thingy?"
"In the basement." Lincoln replied.
"I'll do it." Hercules volunteered.
"No, no, Lori's in charge, she should do it." Zoe smirked.
Lori seemed too afraid of the dark to agree that she should go into the basement.
"Here, Lori, I'll go for you." Hercules offered.
"Oh, uh, you don't have to do that, but if you really want to." Lori smiled nervously.
"That's one of the brightest ideas you've had for a while!" Luan laughed to Hercules.
Hercules soon went ahead before they noticed Luan no longer glowing. "Um, Luan, you're no longer glowing." He then said.
"Oooh, I thought I was staying in tonight, but I guess I'm going out." Luan replied.
"Let's just get down into the basement." Hercules said as he made his way down the stairs.
"Got any more cookies?" Zoe asked Lisa.
"Yeah, we won't tell." Lori added in with a promise.
"Negative. That was the only one," Lisa replied. "Prototype."
"Oh, great." Hercules said.
There was then a wooden creak heard in the basement.
"What was that?" Hercules wondered, trying not to freak out.
"Probably nothing." Zoe said.
"THERE'S A GHOST IN THE BASEMENT!" Lola and Lana cried out.
"I'm pretty sure it isn't a ghost." Hercules said.
"You need some help, Hercules, and it's gonna be me so we can protect our sisters," Lincoln put his hands on his hips firmly. "For I am Cadet Lincoln! Highly trained student of the Academy of Really Good Ghost Hunters! Or...ARRGH!"
"You better have Clyde come with." Zoe said.
"Bingo," Lincoln agreed as he took out his walkie-talkie. "Cadet Clyde, this is Cadet Lincoln, forget the plan, I'm gonna need back-up."
"I wonder when he'll get here?" Zoe said.
Clyde wasted no time and came right over to the Loud house.
"Now." Hercules smirked to his twin sister.
"If there's a ghost, I hope it eats you first." Zoe replied.
"Sure you do." Hercules smirked.
"Cadet Clyde, reporting for duty!" Clyde saluted, but then saw the eldest Loud sister. "L-L-Lori!?"
"Clyde, you okay?" Zoe asked.
"Must abort mission!" Clyde suddenly left.
"Told ya it would get awkward." Lincoln said to Hercules.
"And you were right." Hercules said.
"We will now descend into the scariest place in the house: the basement," Lincoln narrated. "But fear not, with my official ARRGH! branded night vision goggles, I can see in the dark."
"Same with me." Hercules said as he brought out his own night vision goggles.
Lincoln then came down the stairs, but accidentally slipped and fell.
"You okay?" Zoe winced.
"The bad news is, my goggles are just a toy, and do not really see in the dark!" Lincoln replied. "The good news is, they cushioned my face! From the hard basement floor!"
"Oh, great." Zoe groaned.
"Hey! I think my video camera has a night vision setting." Luan offered.
"That's great!" Hercules smiled.
Lincoln decided to use the camera so it would be like on his TV Show. Zoe joined them, she cracked a stick and it glowed, revealing it was a glow stick.
"Alright, into the basement we go." Zoe said.
The Weather twins and Lincoln then ventured into the basement to bring the power back on.
"Okay, Luan, no jokes while we are down here." Zoe said.
"Aw, but I like dark humor!" Luan replied.
"Fine." Zoe groaned.
"Is someone touching my hand?" Leni asked.
"You're touching your own hand, but mine feels warm and sweaty now." Lynn replied.
"Lynn, that's my hand!" Hercules told her.
"Oops, sorry, dude." Lynn said blushing a bit for some reason.
"I hate basements." Lori groaned.
"They can be creepy." Zoe said.
There was then an eerie sound heard which made nearly all of the girls scream.
"Don't freak out," Lincoln told them. "It's just the pipe settling."
"Whew." Zoe sighed.
Another creepy sound was then heard.
"Don't be scared, it's just your cat." Hercules told them.
"Are we getting closer?" Zoe asked.
"I think so." Hercules replied as he helped her out.
"Thank goodness." Zoe sighed.
They kept wandering around in the dark. 'Zoe held out her glow stick as close as she could get.
"Now, it should be close by." Hercules said.
"Lincoln... LINCOLN!" a voice called.
"IT'S THE GHOST AND IT KNOWS MY NAME!" Lincoln panicked.
"That voice seems familiar." Hercules said.
"It's the ghost." Zoe smirked.
Lincoln then screamed from her and where he had ended up in a laundry pile. Hercules narrowed his eyes.
"Hercules, I can feel your cold stare." Zoe replied.
Hercules soon found the circuit breaker and turned on the power.
"Lincoln, do you read me?" Clyde's voice came from the walkie-talkie.
"Clyde?" Lincoln picked up.
"I was just calling to say sorry for not being such a good ARRGH! cadet," Clyde replied. "And... Is your sister ready to date younger men?"
"Would you care to tell him the answer?" Zoe smirked at Lori.
"Never gonna happen!" Lori called back.
"And he reacts in 3, 2, 1." Hercules said.
Clyde flipped out once he heard Lori's voice and acted up again.
"Now to the TV!" Hercules called out.
"We can still get there first!" Lincoln raced with Hercules.
The Loud sisters began to try to get to the couch first. Hercules picked up Lincoln and ran as fast as he could and did a baseball home run slide on the family couch.
"We made it!" Lincoln cheered.
"Quick, turn it on!" Hercules told him.
Lincoln turned on the TV to their show.
'WOW! That was by far the best episode of ARRGH! ever! I'd hate to be you if you missed it!' Hunter Spector narrated as the show had ended as soon as the power came back on.
"Uh-oh, you girls might wanna take cover." Zoe said as she hid.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Lincoln cried out and looked miserable. "I can't believe I missed my show..." He soon saw Hercules about to lose it.
Zoe hid away with the Loud sisters as Hercules lost his temper and where he was like a raging bull.
"This could take a while..." Zoe sighed.
"Um, sorry you missed your show, guys." Lori said as she handed them popcorn.
"But you just lived it, check it out!" Luan took out her camera and put it on the TV to show what they filmed during their basement adventure when they thought they were haunted.
Hercules soon stopped in the middle of his rampage. "This is actually better." he then smiled to the TV.
"Whew." The Loud siblings sighed out of relief.
"You know, I may have missed my show. But sometimes, it's not about being there first. Sometimes, It's about being there together. All of us." Lincoln concluded.
"You forgot us." Lucy said as she stood with Zoe which made the others scream out.
"How is it that we forgot them?" Hercules asked.
Lucy and Zoe sighed and rolled their eyes.
"Anyway, let's watch." Hercules said.
They all then watched the video as this ended better than any of them could hope and where nothing could beat it.
