Chapter Synopsis: It's April 1st, and we all know what that means...


It's nighttime, and we see a thin shadow blend in with the darkness. It watches Lincoln sleep…it continues to gaze at him until something startles it.

"Hey Luan, what are you doing?"

"Watching Lincoln sleep, doesn't he look adorable?"

"Yes, but how long have you been staring at him?"

"About 44 minutes."

"It's late, go back to sleep, Luan."

"Sure Leni, I'll be there soon."

Leni leaves to go back to sleep. Luan approaches him…

"Goodnight Lincoln, I can't wait for us to play together tomorrow."

Luan goes back to her room and reviews some footage. Soon, it will be time for her greatest prank ever! She smiles contently and heads to sleep.


The next day the Loud siblings' alarms go off, releasing a DEFCON-like wail! It's a day of dread for them. It's April 1st, which means that the psychotic prankster has been released yet again! Luckily, she only comes out to play on April Fool's day. Everyone is preparing for the prank storm by wearing makeshift body armor and trying to cower in fear. Fools, they have no idea that Luan can prank anyone, anytime and anywhere!

Luan heads to the kitchen, while the rest of her family shudder in anticipation.

"What do you think she's doing?"

"I don't know…but let's make a run for it!"

"Are you crazy, she's rigged this place with all sorts of pranks! You don't want to accidently set one off!"

"We can't prank her, that will only make her EVEN MORE LIKELY to prank us!"

"I say we sacrifice dad! She wants to prank him the most after he betrayed her!"

"No, we aren't sacrificing anyone!"

A delicious smell wafts from the kitchen. Lola recognizes the aroma.

"Ooh, dessert! Gimme!"

Lola books it to the dining room while the rest of the family tries to stop her. Lola gasps in amazement as she sees 13 lemon meringue pies sitting on the table. Luan is standing in between the entrance to the kitchen and dining room.

"A present from your sweet sister. Enjoy." Luan chimes


It seems Luan has made pies for everyone. She is a master pastry chef after all. She's had practice from making pies to splat people in the face with, as well as watching Operation: Dessert Storm with her siblings on the Yum! Network.

Lola cuts into one of the pies and tries to eat it. Lola puts the fork in her mouth before Lincoln slaps it out of her hand!

"Lola, no! Don't eat that! It's one of Luan's pranks!" Lincoln shouts

"What are talking about, Linc? Don't you want to sample these pies made by the greatest pastry chef in the world?"

"Oh please." Lisa scoffs "You are definitely NOT the greatest pastry chef in the world. Just because you can make pie, doesn't mean you're an expert of all desserts!"

"You're right, I'm just excited for you to sample my creation. I'll admit it, I'm not the best, but if you like it, it's good enough for me." Luan says "Look, just to prove it to you that this isn't a prank, I'll eat one."

Luan eats one of the pies, nothing happened.

"See, these pies have a brandished flavor of both sweet and savory, mixed with tasty burnt meringue!"

Everyone eats the pies, they taste great! The only one who held out was Lincoln. He looks like he's suffering from some sort of video game caused PTSD. Luan questions what's wrong.

"Lincoln, you haven't tried the pie yet? It's good!" Luan assures him

"Stay away from me, you psycho!" Lincoln shouts at her


Luan looks visibly heartbroken hearing Lincoln's words.

"Linc, why did you say that…?" Luan said pensively, tears starting to stream down her face

"You're pretending to be nice to lure us into a false sense of security, then, when our guard is lowered, that's when you'll prank us!" Lincoln reasons

"You…don't think…I'm being nice…on purpose?"

"Just leave us alone and stop pranking us!" Lincoln yells at her

Luan bursts into tears and runs away, the rest of the Loud family gives an icy glare at Lincoln…

"What, you all should be thanking me! She won't prank us ever again!"

"Dude, that was way harsh, even for you, little bro!" Luna admonished "I'd better go check on her."

Luna goes to their room and sees Luan wailing over a whole bunch of videotapes. Luna watches one. It's a recording of Luan and Lincoln having fun together.


"He doesn't love me anymore! Well, Lincoln. Don't worry, I'll grant your wish…"

Luan ties one of those endless rope trick ropes into a noose.

"I won't prank you, or our family, ever again."

Luan hangs the rope on the light fixture on the ceiling, she sidles off of Luna's bunk. The rope tightens around her neck.

"Luna…tell Lincoln… I love him."

"LUAN, NO!"

Luna hastily tries to undo the noose. The knot is fastened extremely tight…Luna manages to undo half of the knot, before Luan's face starts to turn blue.

"Please…just let me die. I…don't want to…live knowing that… our brother hates me…" Luan pleads

"No, Luan. I won't let you die! I'm your sister, and I love you!" Luna responds, as she undid more of the knot.

Luna did it. She undid the entire knot! She supports Luan's unconscious body into her bed. And not a moment too soon! Luan was close to blacking out, a few moments after that, and her brain would've been permanently damaged from the oxygen deprivation!


Luna angrily marches to Lincoln's room. He's playing Gyakuten Kenji 2 on his DS to calm down after his violent outburst. Luna yanks him away from his game and it clatters on the floor. He was playing case 3 of that game…The Inherited Turnabout. He's at the point where Miles Edgeworth is using logic chess to extract information from Yutaka Kazami, a contestant on the dessert cooking show Dansweets, 18 years ago. Edgeworth figures he might know some information about the IS-7 incident. It landed on the exact screen where Yutaka said: ええ・・・私の目標は単なるタイトルの世界で最も偉大なパティシエの! Unfortunately, Lincoln had the fan translation on his copy, so it said: Yes...my goal was more than just the title of the World's Greatest Pastry Chef! Luna puts 2 and 2 together.

"Are you saying that you got that from a GAME?!" Luna shrieks at him

"Sure, this is the best game in the entire series, too bad it's a Japanese exclusive. I had to import a copy from over there!"

"It's because of you that Luan tried to kill herself!"

Lincoln's color drains out of him when he heard that.

"Once Luan wakes up, you're going to apologize!"

Lincoln agrees, still in disbelief that she'd do something like this. Lincoln goes over to Luan's room. She just recovered from her unconscious state.


"Luan?"

"Linc?"

"Why did you try to commit suicide? I just wanted you to stop pranking us."

"It was because I thought you didn't love me anymore."

"Don't be silly! Of course, I love you! Nothing I say will ever change that."

Lincoln embraces Luan…it feels so warm and comforting, to both of them.

"I was so afraid that we'd lose you."

"Luan, I love you. Do you still love me?"

"Of course, Linc! I'll never stop loving you!"

They let of go each other. Luan gestures Lincoln to come over to where she is. Both of them are at the closet, glancing at Luan's VHS collection.

"I've been chronicling your life through all my recordings. I wanted to preserve every second to memory. I even recorded you naked in the bathroom, and while you were in the shower. Though, I thought you would do something funny…"

"Wait, you did what now?!"

"The point is…I can't live without you! Making you and our sisters happy is my entire reason for living!"

"I want you to be happy, too. Maybe you should do things for yourself, rather than for my sake."

"I just wanted you to enjoy something I made for you."

"Luan, I'm sorry about accusing you for pranking us. It's just that you always prank us on April Fool's day."

"I would've accused me, too."

"Really?"

"Yeah, Lincoln. I promise to stop pranking you and our family, forever."

"Thanks, Luan. Now I know there's a famous comedian in town. Want to go watch him? My treat…"

"Sure, Linc…"

Lincoln leaves the room to prepare.

"I'll do anything to protect you, Linc. I love you, after all. You are the best brother ever…"


Author's Note: Well that got dark fast. Even I was surprised at how this chapter went, and I'm the one who WROTE it! For those who are wondering what Luan's grand prank was...it was to do nothing for this April Fool's day. Think about it, she's been pranking her family so hard for the past 14 years, so they're expecting wherever they go to be laced with pranks set up by Luan. Especially after April Fool's Rules and Fool's Paradise! But no, she's not pranking anyone this year. Her family will be too busy looking for pranks that aren't even there that they'd waste the day away! She was even nice today since her family sees her as someone who will stop at nothing to prank anyone! The trope on TV Tropes that Luan is taking advantage of is called the "paranoia gambit". When Luna says they should sacrifice their dad to Luan's pranks, she's referring to the end of the episode "Fool's Paradise", where the siblings prank Luan back with Lynn Sr being an inside man turned double agent! Sadly, it didn't work, it just made Luan even more determined to prank everyone, especially Lynn Sr for betraying her! Lincoln was right that this was a prank, but he was wrong because the ENTIRE SETUP was the prank, whereas he thought Luan was going to prank them when she lowered the Loud family's guard with the pies. Lincoln was kind of cautious when Luan mentioned she was the greatest pastry chef in the world (jokingly, of course, I mean, this is Luan Loud we are talking about here) but he experienced his video game PTSD when Luan made the subtle illusion of brandished flavor in her lemon meringue pies. For those who don't get it, Brandished Flavor is Yutaka Kazami's theme in Gyakuten Kenji 2. Who is Yutaka Kazami? He is the self-proclaimed world's greatest pastry chef! The reason why Lincoln is experiencing war-like flashbacks is because he's played The Inherited Turnabout, Gyakuten Kenji 2's 3rd case, which deals with the IS-7 incident. Because he's completed the game multiple times before, he knows Yutaka Kazami is the one who killed Paul Holic (although he kind of deserved it for being an even greedier douchebag than EUGENE H KRABS, by price gouging his sculptures' viewing fee, just as Krabs does with the Krabby Patty. I mean seriously, $1.25 to $101 dollars for a sandwich, just because a king is visiting?!). Lincoln knows that Yutaka killed out of pride (and because Holic was blackmailing him by threatening to tell everyone about his ageusia), so when Luan wanted his opinion of her dessert, Lincoln feared that if he didn't lavish her work with praise, she would kill him and a 2nd IS-7 incident will happen, only this time, in real life! Lincoln knows that Luan could kill him if she wanted to, if her prank storms are to be any indication. But that's just Lincoln's paranoia taking over, as Luan would NEVER hurt her family...intentionally, especially Lincoln, who she cherishes so much! Luan is probably one of the nicest sisters, but she's kind of unstable. 3 people are holding her together, those being Lana, Lincoln and Luna. Lana's dead, so she can't rely on her to keep her in check. Lincoln can sway her easily, as she holds his opinion higher than anyone else's, because of scarcity. He is the only boy in the family, after all. And Luna is there to slightly guide her. If both Lincoln and Lana were dead, however, Luan's psyche will continue to slowly fracture and suicide attempts will happen very frequently! Thankfully, that won't happen! Lincoln and Luan need each other, more than they'll ever know. Anyways, that was the final conflict of the story. It should be smooth sailing from here on out! This is the final character vignette, the only thing left to do now is to tie up a few loose ends.