MINISODE - HELP WANTED

The matriarch of the Loud family tried to keep herself from having road rage on the packed highway as she slowly drove home from work. "Sigh...another day, another hour and half commute. Maybe I should follow Lynn's example and find work closer to the new house..."

Just then, an odd metallic rectangle appeared in the sky within Rita Loud's line of sight, and flew right at her. This rectangle crashed through the windshield and hovered in front of Rita's face. The mother of eleven slowly lowered her arms, previously shielding her face from the impact. The floating rectangle's metallic body opened and produced a screen that displayed a bespectacled man wearing a lab coat that obscured most of his face.

"Hello there lucky viewer! This is a recruitment drone, sent to search for the best and brightest this world has to offer! If you're watching this now, this means you're eligible to work for me! Professor Membrane! This drone will contain the coordinates to Membrane labs! Come at your earliest convenience!"

The screen then changed it's display to map coordinates with easy-to-follow directions. Mrs. Loud couldn't believe her eyes. Her brow furrowed and she grit her teeth, "I'm gonna sue the lab coat off of that maniac!"

Rita glared at the non-moving traffic, turned off the car, and threw open the driver's door. She stepped out and started to climb on top of the hood before she stopped herself, "Oh wait." Rita leaned back into the car and pushed a button below the steering wheel that was marked "Auto Pilot" which turned the car back on, and an inflatable Rita replaced her in the driver's seat. "Thank you Lisa and Lana for the auto pilot...and Luan for your sense of humor."

...

Professor Membrane hummed as he scribbled notes on a clipboard as he watched his employees try to disarm a knife-wielding tentacle coming out of a metal box. He stopped for a brief moment and tapped his pen on the side of the clipboard, "Perhaps I shouldn't have put the OFF switch inside the box..."

The professor's musings was interrupted by his comm-link beeping, "Professor, an angry lady just entered the labs wanting to speak to you."

Membrane promptly responded, "I am very busy at the moment, tell her to make an appointment."

"Professor, she just walked past the desk and is heading for your location."

"I see. Send in the security drones."

Professor Membrane turned off the comm-link, not wanting to be interrupted again as he collected valuable data from the experiment currently in-progress.

Just then, a banging came from the door which quickly broke open and a disc-shaped drone was tossed onto the floor by a furious Rita Loud. The drone fizzled for a moment, and a small explosion came from the device.

Membrane raised an eyebrow at the destroyed drone, "I knew they needed better materials..."

Rita took a deep breath, "Excuse me, are you Professor Membrane?"

"Yes I am. No, I do not have time for an autograph. I need to get SOMEONE to shut off this device!"

"What device?" Soon after asking, the mother of eleven and the professor were alerted by the tentacle slicing at the floor in-between them.

Membrane shook his fist at the tentacle, "Those fools! They only managed to push it closer!"

Rita looked at the tentacle box then glared at the scientist, "You made one of those things? Why?"

The professor raised his arms up, "FOR SCIENCE OF COURSE!"

Rita rolled her eyes, "Fair enough, don't you have any disposal equipment?"

"Of course I do! They're right over there." Membrane pointed at a wall full of weapons ranging from an atomic katana to a Zapmatic 3000.

"...how come your employees aren't using those?"

Membrane shook his head. "It's so hard to find any good technicians these days..."

Rita ran over to the wall of weapons and grabbed a rifle with a glowing green barrel, then aimed it at the tentacle, "Go away!" Mrs. Loud pulled the trigger and a bright green light shot out of the barrel and struck the tentacle, vaporizing it into a green goo.

"Hmm, plasma. Well done Ms...er, who are you again?" The professor tapped his pen on the clipboard again.

Mrs. Loud put the rifle back on the wall, then turned around his her fists on her hips. "Rita Loud! I need to speak to you."

"Oh! Now I remember! You're the Rita Loud who moved in a month ago! Did you get that recruitment drone I sent you?"

"Yes, it crashed into the windshield of my car!"

"Excellent! I'm so happy you've come to accept my job offer-"

"I don't want a job! I want to take you to court for wrecking my windshield! I could've been hurt!"

"Court? I don't have time for that!" Membrane quickly took out his checkbook and wrote out a check. Then he ripped the check out and handed it over, "Here, how about this for compensation instead?"

Rita snatched the check, and looked it over, "Like I would ever risk my integrity for...whoa. That is a lot of zeroes..."

"Sorry if it's not enough, I honestly forget how much car repairs cost."

"Uh, no, this is fine..." Rita carefully put the check away, "If you're not busy, may we discuss the job offer you had?"

...

Meanwhile at the Loud's new house, Leni was trying to talk to her mother who just pulled into the driveway. "Is that plastic mom? I can't believe you got plastic surgery after telling me that I couldn't!"