Meanwhile, at the roads...
Most of the older sisters rode straight for the hospital in the vanzilla, with Luan, Luna on the back seat while Lori and Leni were in the front seats: Lori steering the wheel, while Leni crossed her arms and looked at the window like a bratty angsty teen. Luan, Luna and were basically just... there, watching the duo arguing.
"Of all the nonsense you could have kept secret, did you really think Lincoln sharing a room with a psychopath was something you needed to hide?!" Lori snapped at Leni, who winced and felt a chill go up her spine. "I know you're an idiot in general, but come on Leni, this is ridiculous!"
But then, the fashionista retorted, "Oh, so when I hide something like that from you, then you get upset, but when you hide even more secrets to everybody else, we just put that under the rug and never talk about it again?"
The sisters immediately turned to look at Lori, who shouted "Shut up!" and continued to drive like nothing just happened.
Back at the Loud House...
Lana and Lola, the latter holding the former's hand as she nervously looked around, walked to their bedroom as Lana spoke, "I'm seriously starting to get sick of all this mess. Not in that I'm literally getting sick, but my patience is growing thin, you know what I'm saying?"
Lola's silence was all Lana needed. Not that she got to hear it for long, since the ambience was soon replaced by sobbing. So the twins headed for the source of the sobbing, and found Lisa crying in Lucy's arms, with the poet brushing her head in an attempt to comfort her.
"Lisa... what's wrong?" Lana inquired as she and her twin approached the scientis. "Why are you crying?"
And then, Lisa turned to her sisters-basically shedding rivers of tears from her eyes-and meekly answered, "I stabbed Lincoln. He's in the hospital because of me-"
"You did what!?" Lola exclaimed, her abrasive personality returning as she stomped forward and scared the little genius. "How?! Where?! Why?! When?!" and then she grabbed Lisa by the neck of her shirt, pulled her up close, and hissed, "Why?!"
Lana promptly separated the duo... and Lola's bracelet fell down. "Hey, look, the bracelet fell down!" Lana remarked, pointing at the fallen bracelet, which Lola promptly broke. "I completely forgot we were being controlled by these friendship bracelets."
"Who gives a flying feather about the bracelets right now?!" Lola shouted, pointing at the smart brunette. "Lisa stabbed Lincoln! He was able to survive all this madness without a single scratch on him, and then she came along and hurt him!"
Lisa continued to cry in Lucy's arms while Lana explained, "Lola, the truth is, she along with me, Lucy, Lynn and Lori were all brainwashed into attacking Lincoln and Ronnie Anne with knives. So really, any of us could have wound up stabbing Lincoln and sending him to the hospital. Tell me, would you have reacted the same way if I had been the one to stab Lincoln?"
Lola's meek personality returned, and she looked away and twiddled her fingers while nervously answering, "I... guess not..."
"Right, and Lisa here is clearly mortified about what happened," Lana added. "Don't you think that, seeing as everybody now has to deal with 3 traumatized sisters, we should at least try to help Lisa get some comfort?"
"Perhaps, but I don't think we should leave our guard down just yet," Lola answered, giving Lisa a glare. "Seeing how much Leni changed thanks to this whole situation, who knows how it changed Lisa beyond turning her into a crybaby."
Lana promptly slapped Lola. "Those kind of words are not something I'm going to allow, little missy," the tomboy stated. "Now apologize to Lisa for scaring her."
The pageant diva went forward, took a deep breath, then said, "I'm sorry."
"It's... okay," Lisa replied.
"Alright, so now we need to try and comfort Lisa," Lana said, pulling Lola back to her before she tried anything else. "Hey Lucy, what do you suggest we do?"
"I believe that leaving Lisa alone will not help her at all," Lucy answered, brushing Lisa's hair. "Instead, we should try to comfort her until she finds herself comfortable enough to let us dive deeper into her psyche. Only then, will we be able to deal with her problem once and for all."
"Hey, gotherella, if you knew how to deal with such an issue before, why didn't you tried to help me and Lana cope with our own issues?" Lola asked, arms folded.
"Because back then, getting close to Lana would be suicidal since you were close to her, and I was brainwashed alongside some of our sisters," Lucy answered, before flashing a smile. "Besides, I don't like you two."
"Hey!" the twins whined in unison.
Okay, let's go back to the hospital...
Cristina and Lincoln continued to watch the Blarney Rangers show while Carol and Dr. Archer talked about something. And from the looks of it-with them looking pretty serious overall-it was either related to Cristina or something even worse.
"You were very good at the Blarney Rangers show at Dairyland Amoosement Park."
Lincoln turned around and saw Cristina beaming a smile. And not a creepy ear-to-ear or terrified or mournful smile either, the redhead looked legitimately happy as she reached for her back, took out a pen and paper, and promptly threw it to Lincoln. "Could I have your autograph?" she requested.
Seeing as Happy Cristina was the only Cristina Lincoln wanted to be with at the moment, he wrote his name in the paper, threw it back alongside the pen and watched as Cristina saved the paper with a smile.
"Cristina, if I can ask you something, why do you think all of this is necessary?" the boy inquired, earning a confused look from the redhead. "I mean, surely there must be another way to deal with the people who made... those things on the internet."
The redhead frowned, took a deep breath, and then spoke, "They won't understand in any other way. If they don't receive a piece of their own medicine, they will continue to write and draw the things I've seen. So much pain, so much agony, so much... defilement, I'm actually kinda glad you never wound up seeing any of the things I did."
"What did you see?" Lincoln asked.
After pausing for a while, Cristina answered: "Pain. Suffering. You being stuck in the middle of unfavorable situations, your sisters turning into psychopaths in love with you, forbidden unions... you name it, I saw it. And that's when I realized: nobody has done anything about it. People just allowed this to happen. They let this mysterious strangers torture us, manipulate us... rape us. They let all of that stuff happen."
"You do realize that's just fiction, right?" Lincoln pointed out.
Suddenly, Cristina leaped for Lincoln's bed and got on top of him, her once genuine smile having turned into a menacing, crazied one. "And how do you know it's not fiction based on a true story?" she inquired, leaning closer to Lincoln's face. "Leni could be smarter than she is, Luna could know more than she lets on, Luan would kill anybody to be with you, Lucy could have a crush on you, maybe all of your sisters want to steal. Your. Virginity."
"D-Don't be ridiculous!" Lincoln snapped, but Cristina didn't even flinch. "My sisters would never do something like that!"
"They'll find a way, you know? I've seen countless ways they can take away your innocence, countless ways they can break you," the redhead leaned even closer, almost to the point she and Lincoln were about to kiss. "Mouth gagged with panties, limbs bounded to a bed, you watching helplessly as the sisters force you to enjoy what's happening."
And then... she started to cry, her voice breaking as her tone... faltered. "And no matter how much you plead... no matter how much you ask them to stop... they take it away. Your virginity. Your personal space. Your dignity." and then, she hugged Lincoln and whispered to his ear, "To them, you are no longer their brother. You are just a fuckboy. A man to be used as a living sex toy, and they're more than willing to destroy everything you love, even each other, just to get you all to themselves."
Lincoln himself started to cry, but mostly out of fear. After all, Cristina was an unpredictable girl, and seeing her go from happy, to dangerous, to heartbroken, it made him wonder how she would react next. And unfortunately, he got his answer soon enough: she kissed him in the lips, then chuckled as the two separated.
"But I can fix it! I can fix everything!" Cristina exclaimed. "Your sisters, your dignity, everything! All I need to do... is get rid of them."
Lincoln winced. "I learned from those pictures the kind of things they could do to you, and I figured they should get their just desserts. Lynn the molester! Lana the molested! Lola the traumatized! Lori the submissive! Lucy the lunatic! And so many more! I changed them to show you how they could act, how they will act, if nothing is done. But I won't do the same mistake "they" did. I will do something."
Then, she grabbed Lincoln's neck.
"I will kill them," Cristina revealed, licking her lips. "I will break them mentally, then physically, until they're nothing more than corpses. And before you ask, of corpse I'm going to go for all of them. Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa. I will spare nobody. I will make sure they suffer before they make you suffer. I'll make sure they die disgraceful, pathetic deaths! And if that fails..."
Suddenly, she started strangling Lincoln.
"I can always kill you instead."
Even more suddenly, Carol slapped Cristina in the back of her head hard enough to knock her out, followed by throwing her back to her bed as Lincoln rubbed his neck and caught his breath, looking firmly at the unconscious redhead all the while.
"Don't worry, whatever Cristina told you, she won't be able to do it to you," Dr. Archer reassured the boy. "As long as nothing happens, we'll stay at your side at all times."
Suddenly, the megaphone in the celing spoke. "Attention all doctors and nurses."
"You just had to talk, didn't you?" Carol said.
"It's time to begin Rounds. Please perform your Rounds immediately," said the megaphone. "Repeat, it's time to begin Rounds. Please perform your Rounds immediately."
"Wait, you're going to leave us alone?!" Lincoln exclaimed.
"Don't worry, as long as we do it immediately, we should be back soon," Carol said as she put her hand in Lincoln's shoulder. "In the meantime, just stay strong, and make sure to keep your eyes on Cristina."
The doctor and nurse promptly left the room and Lincoln went on to stare at Cristina, hoping she would remain unconscious until Archer and Carol return. Then the lights turned off... and when they turned back on, Cristina opened her eyes and stared at Lincoln. Then, the lights turned off again... and when they turned back on...
Cristina was nowhere to be seen.
And then, Lincoln's sisters barged into the room and caught Lincoln's attention. The boy almost jumped startled too, but his knife injury reminded him not to do that. He did clutch his stomach, though, and swallowed his fear as Lori got up and approached him. Though, perhaps she approached him a bit too close.
"Lincoln, are you okay?!" Lori exclaimed. "Did that bitch Cristina hurt you?!"
"No, she didn't do anything to me... at first, that is," Linc answered. "After a while, she revealed her motives... and what she would do to us... while strangling me. At the very least, though, the good news is-"
"Cristina has escaped!" Carol exclaimed as she barged into the room.
Everybody turned to Carol as Lincoln slapped himself and shouted, "Of course, I just had to open my mouth, didn't I?"
And just as Carol walked to Lincoln, she noticed Lori and gave her a surprised look, with the teenager flinching and backing away in return. This, in turn, caught the sisters' attention, as they glanced between their sister and the nurse as the duo exchanged looks.
"What do you mean Cristina escaped?" Leni asked, catching the nurse's attention.
"It's exactly as I said: while everybody was trying to stop you from just barging into the hospital like it was nothing, Cristina stole some electrical equipment, jumped out the window and ran away as fast as she could," Carol explained, crossing her arms."Who knows where she could be right now?"
"Then what are you waiting for?! Chase after her!" Lori snapped, pointing at the window. "You can't just stay here and let that psychopath go away!"
"First of all, it would be best if you refrained from talking as if you had some authority over me," Carol replied, giving Lori a smack in the head. "Second of all, even if I could chase after Cristina, I have absolutely no idea where she's going. And besides, I no longer work for her, and I prefer to stay as far away from that girl as possible."
"You no longer work for her?" Luan repeated. "What do you mean?"
Carol looked surprised at the question, though her look changed from surprised to amused as she turned to Lori, who shivered as the woman approached her. "You told them nothing, did you, Junior?" the nurse remarked, brushing Lori's hair. "I'm surprised you managed to keep your trap shut for this long."
"Now that you mention it, maybe it's time you tell everybody the truth, Lori," Leni stated, crossing her arms. "We're all ears."
The teenager looked around and saw not only her sisters-and Lincoln-looking at her in wonder, or in Lincoln's case anger, but Carol wrapped her arm around her and tightly held her, preventing escape. So, seeing she had no way to get out of the mess, she caved in:
"I work for Cristina as one of her four henchmen, the four lovers."
Meanwhile, with Cristina...
The girl finished setting up her new outfit, which was basically a red-and-black version of her blouse-skirt and shoes combo, wrapped with a large amount of shocking equipment. In particular, she had a pair of joy buzzers in each hand, though these were different from the joy buzzers that pranksters commonly used. And she finished just in time too.
She started to get shortness of breath as she felt her body feeling internally... different. But most importantly, she was starting to feel incredibly weak.
Then she slammed her arms into the ground, activating the joy buzzers and electrocuting herself in process. That was seemingly all it took for her body to return to functioning like normal, at least for now. As she caught her breath desperately, she gave a look at the joy buzzers.
Her method of keeping herself stable wouldn't always work, but it was the only thing she could do at the moment. And so, with her body stabilized at the moment, she decided to focus on the next most important thing at the moment. She got up, cracked her knuckles, then walked back to Royal Woods.
She and Ronnie Anne had some... unfinished business, to take care of. And she couldn't wait to get some sweet payback agains the tomboy.
Back at the hospital...
Lori argued with Dr. Archer about Lincoln, and by arguing, she was basically grabbing him by the neck and pulling him closer to her as she barked at him. "What do you mean we can't take Lincoln back home with us?!" she shouted right at Dr. Archer's face. "He would be far safer there than here with that crimson lunatic!"
"The hospital policy prevents any patients from leaving the facility until they have fully recovered," the doctor replied. "If you take him back with you right now, his condition could potentially worsen."
"Oh geez, we never took that into account," Luna remarked.
"You, shut up, and help me convince this guy to release Lincoln!" Lori ordered.
But the other sisters refused to listen. "Junior, your sisters now know your involvement with Cristina's plan," Carol stated, making the teenager freeze in place. "I don't think acting like your aggressive self won't help with anything. Besides, there's still one thing we have left to do: we need to tell something to Cristina's mother."
"Mrs. Johnson?" Leni blurted. "Well, have you called her? When is she coming?"
And then Mrs. Johnson entered the room... and stopped right on her tracks when she saw what was currently happening. "Am I interrupting something?" she inquired, glancing at the people.
Then, as Dr. Archer was released by Lori, Carol walked to the redhead and said, "Okay, so I'll admit I should have informed you about your daughter's condition earlier, but-"
"Just tell us what's wrong with her already, please," Lincoln said, arms folded.
Carol beamed a glare at Linc before promptly explaining: "Cristina was suffering an episode of emotional distress shortly before being electrocuted. The emotional distress, combined with the intense shock from the electrocution, caused Cristina's internal organs to speed up until they had a messed up rhytm. Now, unless she's regularly shocked, her organs will start to slow down before speeding up again, then slowing down before repeating the process."
"That... doesn't make any sense," Lisa remarked.
"It's the best thing my boss could tell me about her condition, every other doctor that's tried to give her an analysis has been left utter baffled as to what's wrong with her," Carol replied, crossing her arms. "Anyway, the short story is that Cristina's organs don't work the same way as they did before or even in a way that would let her live for long, and she has to be shocked in order to prevent her organs from slowly short circuit."
"Short circuit?" Mrs. Johnson asked.
Carol promptly explained:
"As in, the more her organs start to act differently without being corrected, the more likely she'll wind up dying in the process."
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"I'm no longer part of your mess of a plan, Cristina!" Ronnie spat. "Go ahead! Just replace me like you replaced the other Lovers, it's not like they mean a damn thing to you anyway!"
Once Cristina returned to Ronnie, however, she wasn't mad, or even angry. In fact, the best way to describe her would be disappointed.
"You're mostly right, Ronnie. I didn't care about your brother, Carol, and most definitely not Tetherby. But I actually had a soft spot for you. I needed you to get together with Lincoln, so you would save him from his sisters and anybody else. But alas, we both know how that went down. And now here we are, with you by my heels, still defying my righteous will."
Then she grabbed Ronnie's chin and made her look at her.
"But I will fix that. I will fix you."