Now we witness a Cereal Offender
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Title card: Cereal Offender
"Sounds like the main theme here is cereal." said Sid.
At that, the memories suddenly occurred in Lincoln's head. He turned around and glared at his sisters and his mother hard, much to their confusion. Then they and everyone else were confused and surprised as Lincoln suddenly scooted away from them and sat amongst the Casagrandes, particularly in between Ronnie Anne and CJ.
"Lincoln, are you ok?" asked Girl Jordan. "Why did you move?"
Then, Clyde remembered what Lincoln had told them. He turned to the others and siad, "This is another one of their worst moments." he said.
Everyone frowned while the sisters looked nervous. And if Rita had remembered everything correctly, she would've been too.
[Lincoln is eating cereal and watching a commercial for a new one.]
Announcer: "Bored of the same old breakfast?"
Lincoln: [looks down at his cereal] "Yes..."
Announcer: "Then try Zombie Bran! The cereal that turns you into the walking fed!"
[A box of Zombie Bran appears on-screen and the kids in the commercial have turned into zombies from eating it.]
Zombie Girl: [zombie voice] "Braaaaan!"
Zombie Boy: [zombie voice] "Braaaaan! BRAAAAAN!"
"Ooh!" several kids said in awe.
"That cereal can turn you into a zombie?!" Carl asked excitedly.
"That would be quite the experience." said Haiku.
Lincoln: [filled with desire] "Must...have...Zombie Bran!" [runs to the kitchen!] "Mom! MOM!"
[In the kitchen, Rita is using a plunger to unclog the sink.]
Rita: "What on Earth is down here?"
Lincoln: "Mom! Mom! Can we please get Zombie Bran cereal? "[cutely pleading] "Please please please please please please?"
Rita: "Sorry, sweetie. We've got a very tight budget. And by the time I get everything on my grocery list, there's no money leftover for treats."
[The grocery list is shown to be very long.]
"You must be really on red to not have money for a cereal box." said Albert.
"We… did have some expenses at that moment." said Rita, rubbing her arm.
"Like fixing the house after April Fool's?" Albert asked, raising an eyebrow.
Rita nodded nervously.
"And the blue paint in the car wasn't easy to get off." Lynn Sr. added.
Luan cringed in guilt.
Lincoln: "Hmm..." [gets an idea] "What if I could get everything on here and still have enough money leftover for Zombie Bran?"
Rita: "You wanna do the shopping for me? I don't know, Lincoln. It's a big responsibility; I'm not sure you can handle it."
"Believe me Lincoln, when it comes to shopping for Abuela's recipes, it's both a challenge, and a good time." said Ronnie Anne.
"And shopping isn't usually hard." said Maria. "It's easy to learn as you go along and do it more often."
"As long as the products are satisfactory for your household," said Howard.
"Definitely, as long as they don't contain anything someone or everybody is allergic too." nodded Harold.
Lincoln: "I can, Mom! I promise! And think of what you could do with all that time to yourself."
[Rita suddenly imagines herself at a spa where she has gotten a facial with cucumber slices covering her eyes, getting a massage and a manicure and enjoying a smoothie.]
Rita: "Mmm...ah, yes..."
[She belches upon sipping her smoothie and sighs with relief; end fantasy.]
"You said that money is tight but yet you get yourself a message." said Albert, raising an eyebrow.
Rita gave a nervous laugh.
Rita: "Deal. But just this once, okay?"
Lincoln: "YES!" [acts like a zombie] "Braaaaan...BRAAAAAN!"
Everyone chuckled at Lincoln's imitation of a zombie.
[Rita finds the source of the clog in the sink, which is Luan's multiple handkerchief prop.]
Rita: "Oh, so that's it!" [pulls out all the handkerchiefs] "LUAN, NO MORE COMEDY PROPS IN THE SINK!"
Luan chuckled a little. "My bad." she said.
[Lincoln is checking the shopping supplies.]
Lincoln: "Reusable bags, calculator, more reusable bags..."
[Enter Lori]
Lori: "Lincoln! I'm going shopping with you! Bobby literally just got a job as a stock boy."
"I remember that job!" said Bobby.
[The rest of his sisters join in and wanna come along.]
Lincoln: "Sorry, guys. I'm a man on a mission and you'll just get in my way."
Lynn: "No we won't. Uh...we'll help you shop."
"Well that was nice of them.'' said Sid.
"Yeah, they were a big help." Lincoln said sarcastically and gave his sisters a glare.
"What's that supposed to mean Stinkoln?" Lynn asked, waiting for an explanation along with the other sisters.
Lincoln gave them a flat look, and said, "Oh really, what did you guys do?"
Bobby remembered what happened that day, and winces.
"Why do I have the feeling that won't happen?" groaned Ronnie Anne.
"You are gaining experience about Lincoln's life." said Clyde.
"And Lori just wants to go to see Bobby at the market so you can bet she won't pay attention to anything else." said Stella.
"And with Lincoln busy with the groceries this will be like letting chickens inside the kitchen." muttered Liam.
"Hey! We aren't that bad!" Lynn argued.
All of Lincoln's friends turned to her with a "Are you joking?" face, making her shut up.
"Who wants to bet she is the first one to do something?" asked Rusty.
All of the kids raised their hands.
[The others agree with Lynn; Lincoln takes a look at the long list.]
"Wow, that's a long list." mused Benny.
"House of 13 and many pets." said Luan.
Benny nodded.
Lincoln: "Okay, fine. I guess I could use a little help."
Sisters: "YAY!"
[Enter Lily playing with a pretend shopping cart, wanting to coming along, too.]
Sisters: "Aww..."
"Aww!" everyone cooed.
"That's so cute!" Frida exclaimed before bursting into tears.
"Does she always cry like that?" Sam whispered to Luna.
"According to Ronnie Anne and Bobby, yes." said Luna.
Lincoln: [picks her up] "Sorry, Lily. You're staying with Dad." [Lily whacks him with her purse.] "Ow!"
"Sowwy Linky." Lily apologized.
"Don't worry about it Lily." Lincoln smiled.
[The Loud's arrive at Super Mart.]
Rita: "Alright, Lincoln. Here's the list, and here's exactly $200." [gives him the list and money; excited] "I'll be back in an hour! I'm off to get my first pedicure in 17 years!"
"17 years?!" Carlota asked in shock.
"Mom, you know me and Leni can give you a pedicure." said Lori.
"So can Linky!" added Lola.
"I know, but it doesn't hurt having professionals do it." said Rita. "No offence girls."
"None taken Mom." Leni smiled.
[Lincoln enters the store, and there's a sign promoting Zombie Bran.]
Lincoln: "You will be mine." [his sisters enter] "Ready, guys?"
[Enter the manager]
Manager: "Whoa, whoa! What do you hooligans think you're doing?"
"And the loud family's reputation precedes us." Lincoln deadpanned.
"Come on bro i think the guy is just a jerk." said Luna.
"Knowing what will happen I can't help but wonder how many establishments have a 'Keep an eye on all time' sign with our picture on it." said Lincoln.
"Well if my calculations are correct… we have all the public pools in the city, the supermarket, the library, Dad's old job…" Lisa began.
Lori facepalmed.
"Literally Lisa, not the time…" she groaned.
Lincoln: "We're shopping for our mom, sir."
Lori: [notices Bobby and gasps] "Bobby Boo-Boo Bear!"
[Bobby is stocking paper towel rolls.]
Bobby: "Babe!"
[They hug]
Lori: "I love a man in uniform!"
Bobby: "It's okay, boss. I know them."
"Just as I thought." muttered Stella.
"Then again, wouldn't you be happy if you saw your love at a place you're going with or without realizing it?" asked Dante.
"Not if I knew they'd get in trouble because they're working." Stella replied.
Manager: [hostilely] "Very reassuring, Boo-Boo Bear."
Everyone couldn't help but snicker at that.
Lincoln: [checks their list] "Huh...eggs, milk...okay, okay. Looks legit." [threateningly] "But any monkey business, and you're all out on your keisters!" [leaves]
"Luna's right, he is a jerk." huffed CJ.
"I get that he doesn't want this store ruined, bt Chihuahua…" grunted Hector.
Lincoln: "Alright, guys, you heard him! You all have to be on your best behavior! Now, if we each take a section of Mom's list-"
[The girls run over him and go off into different sections of the store.]
Lincoln: "I should have known...I've been played..."
Rita looked angry. "And what happened to 'We will help you shop'?" she demanded.
The girls looked guilty at that.
"Knew it." groaned Ronnie Anne.
[The list reads for eggs that are not cracked, milk that's not spoiled, instant noodles, onions and potatoes.]
Lincoln: "I've got $200. I just need a way to save $4." [finds a dented can of tomato sauce.] "Ooh! 10 cents off the dented one! A couple more savings like this and I'll have enough for my Zombie Bran!"
"Good idea Lincoln." said Hector.
"Normally I don't like being cheap." said Rosa. "But since your family is big with only your parents working, I understand."
"I work at the mall and as Mayor Davis' intern." said Leni. "And Lori works at Dad's restaurant when she's home from college."
"She meant back then Leni." said Clyde.
"Oh!" Leni said in realization.
[Lynn is speeding on a shopping cart.]
Lynn: "Yippee-ki-yay, market shoppers! YAYAYAYAYAYA-WOO!" [runs into and picks up Lincoln.]
Lincoln: "Lynn!" [notices the manager polishing a chicken rotisserie and gasps.] "Eject! EJECT!"
[The cart goes wheeling by and the manager goes after it; Lynn has landed in the marshmallow bin.]
Lynn: "Ah, nice! Ha ha! Soft landing."
"Lynn Loud Jr!" Rita scolded.
"Who else saw this coming?" asked Rusty.
All the kids raised their hands.
"Was that the reason you wanted to go? To try to ride one of the shopping carts?!" Rita demanded.
Lynn chuckled nervously. "Hehehe well I thought would make shopping faster?" she said sheepishly.
Rita looks angrier, as did Lynn Sr.
"Hey well… at least I...ummm...got Lincoln some fruit?" Lynn stammered.
"Not in the list of the day." Lincoln muttered.
[Lincoln has landed in the pineapple box.]
Lincoln: "Ugh. Maybe for you."
[A kid who looks eerily identical to Lincoln with bleach blonde hair, an orange shirt, blue jeans and a white beanie notices him and laughs at his painful landing.]
Carol's eyes widened at that.
"Oh no…" she whispered to herself in annoyance.
"Wait..Lincoln has a twin? Why i wasn't told?!" Leni exclaimed.
"He doesn't have one… its just...someone that looks like him?" Lori said with confused look.
"Huh, thought you were the only kid with white hair in town." said Stella.
"Technically, his benasie is white, though his blonde hair has a bit of a white tint in it like Leni and Lily." said Lisa.
"Actually, Clyde and I found a family with white hair. Probably will come in the future when…" Lincoln stopped talking when he realized what could be shown in that episode. "Uh-oh."
"What?" Stella asked.
"I think my parents could get in trouble with the government in the near future." Lincoln replied.
Stella looked confused.
[Lincoln continues shopping and finds out he still has a pineapple on the seat of his pants and pulls it out, leaving some painful aftershocks.]
Lincoln: "YEOWCH!" [tosses pineapple away and checks the list.] "Okay. Where were we? Milk."
[In the dairy section, Luan is juggling eggs.]
Luan: "Step right up, folks, to see some eggs-cellent juggling!" [laughs] "Get it?" [drops the eggs on a passing customer.] "Whoops! Oh, looks like the yolk's on you! [laughs again]
"Good pun!" chuckled Giggles. Even Benny laughed at that one.
"Luan! What have we told you about juggling food?!" Rita demanded.
"Hehehe never do it in the store?" Luan replied, sweating nervously.
Lynn Sr laugh at Luan's puns only to be fulminated by Rita's glare
"And that's the reason you wanted to go with Lincoln?" RIta asked sternly.
Luan nodded in guilt.
Lincoln: "Luan! Cut it out!" [notices the manager checking inventory.]
[Now Luan is balancing eggs on her head.]
Luan: "Whoa! How's this for a balanced breakfast?" [laughs some more]
[Lincoln grabs her and the manager slips on the egg yolks and lands on the pineapple Lincoln disposed of.]
Manager: "YEOWCH! WHO DID THIS?!" [looks around] "We've got a hooligan in our midst..."
[Lincoln and Luan are hiding under the shopping cart.]
Luan: "Ah, he's no fun. I was on an egg roll! Get it?" [laughs as Lincoln groans]
"That's not funny." Stella said with a frown. "Lincoln is literally trying to keep you out of trouble and you only joke about it?"
Luan looked away.
[Lincoln has just gotten more of the shopping done.]
Lincoln: "Okay, that's another 50 cents saved for old lettuce."
"Way to go man!" praised Zach.
"Yeah, you're really good at this!" added Ronnie Anne.
Lincoln smiled at that.
[The intercom comes on]
Manager: [on the intercom] "Attention, shoppers! We have a 2 for 1 sale on waffles!"
Lincoln: "Ooh! A sale!" [heads over to the frozen food section and picks up two boxes of frozen waffles.] "2 for 1!" [calculates] "That puts me another buck closer to Zombie Bran!"
"Now that's good luck!" mused Paula.
"Shame my luck won't last." Lincoln muttered.
Woman: "AAAHH! THERE'S A CHILD IN THE FROZEN PEAS! AAAHH!" [runs away]
"Say what now?" asked Casey.
[Lincoln finds that it's Lisa.]
Lincoln: "Lisa! What are you doing?"
Lisa: "Research for my cryogenic freezer. The future needs my brain."
Lincoln: "I don't believe this."
Everyone was both shocked and confused.
"I… I can't… How?... Why?!" Rita stammered.
"I didn't have the funds to buy a lab freezer, so when Lincoln mentioned going to the mall I thought was a good chance to test those since they are cheaper." Lisa rpeleid.
"That is just weird." said Sameer.
[The manager is coming and Lincoln has gotten Lisa out right before he could check.]
Manager: "Doh! Where did that hooligan go?"
[Lincoln and Lisa escape via the snowman display for the frozen foods, and Lincoln moves onto the seafood aisle.]
"Now that is clever." said Mollie.
Lincoln: "Okay, tilapia." [notices Leni tying balloons to the lobsters and setting them free.]
Leni: "Be free! The ocean's that way. Or is it that way?"
Lincoln: "Leni! What are you doing?"
Leni: "Can you believe people were going to eat these poor, helpless creatures?" [lets another one go]
Lincoln: "Leni! No!"
"Let me guess...you only wanted to go to the store to free those creatures?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"They looked so sad and i saw in tv that they live in the ocean...and i hear dad said something about trying a recipe for lobsters and when I asked what he will cook for them, Lisa said it wasn't for them but he would cook them." Leni replied as her eyes watered. "Who would want to eat a helpless creature like them?!"
Everyone that found lobsters delicious whistled innocently while looking away.
[One of the lobsters pops its balloon with its claw and lands on Lincoln's back and snaps his leg]
Lincoln: "YEOWCH! OW OW OW OW!" [hides Leni behind the lobster tank just as the manager arrives.]
"Ooh!" everyone winced.
"It is just not your day today is it?" Zach muttered.
"You have no idea Zach." grumbled Lincoln.
Manager: "What the? Who did this?" [notices Lincoln's hair and laughs viciously.] "I gotcha now." [one of the lobsters pinches his ankle.] "YEOWCH! OW OW OW OW OW OW OW!" [crashes off-screen]
"That was close." said Morpheus.
Lincoln: [pushing Leni] "Go go go go! What is wrong with you guys? I told you I was on a mission, and you're all-" [The intercom comes on again] "Ooh! Another sale!"
[However, it's really Luna on it.]
Luna: [jamming on the intercom] "For those about to shop, I salute you!"
Lincoln: [exasperated] "Dang it..." [catches her during her jam session and puts her in the cart.]
"Oh Luna you didn't!" groaned Sam.
Luna chuckled nervously while avoiding Lynn Sr. and Rita's glares.
Luna: "GOODNIGHT, GROCERY STORE!"
[The manager comes by and hangs up the intercom.]
Manager: [determined] "I'll get you yet..."
"Did you girls even think about what your antics would cause?" asked Principal Huggins.
"The fun they're having against Lincoln's actual shopping tells me that they didn't." said Norm.
[The toiletry aisle]
Lincoln: "Let's see...value pack...family pack...ah, here we go! Village pack!" [puts a giant pack of three ply toilet paper into the cart and checks it off the list.] "Check! Yes! That was the last item. And now for the moment of truth." [takes a deep breath and calculates the total.] "And the grand total is...$196, which leaves...4 bucks for Zombie Bran! YES!"
Everyone was impressed.
"That's amazing Lincoln!" exclaimed Ronnie Anne.
"You really are good at this!" added Clyde.
"And you used your math skills to good use!" added Mrs. Johnson.
Lincoln blushed at the praise.
Lincoln: [heads over to the cereal aisle and finds one box of Zombie Bran left.] "Phew. Last box. I can't believe it's really-"
[That bratty kid who is Lincoln's Doppelganger snatches the box.]
Bratty Kid: "Mine!"
Lincoln: "Hey, you can't do that! I had it first!"
Bratty Kid: "And I have it now, Pineapple Boy!" [runs off laughing with the box.]
"That jerk!" hissed Sid.
"Pineapple boy? Why did he call you that?" asked CJ.
"You got me there." said Lincoln.
"How dare he do that!" snarled Lynn. "He should be lucky that he's kicked out of here, otherwise, I'll beat him to hospital!
"Not before I ring him to a human pretzel!" growled Lori.
"Did you encounter that brat again after this incident?" asked Girl Jordan.
"I did see him when I was assisting Luan at one kid's party, and turns out that he was the birthday kid's friend's sibling. He tried to get his revenge on me by trying to ruin our performance, but he was stopped before the party turned worse and he got what he deserved." Lincoln replied.
"Why couldn't he behave himself just once?!" groaned Carol.
Everyone turned to Carol in shock.
"Wait you know that kid!?" Lori asked in surprise.
"He's my little brother, Connor Pingrey, and he said he got kicked out for no reason, but apparently he was being a brat. Again!" Carol replied, annoyed with her brother's antics.
"You never mentioned you had a brother." said Roger.
"Well you never asked." said Carol. "I have a sister too, the one Lincoln mentioned."
"Huh, now that I look at him, he kinda does look a bit like you." said Clyde. "You could actually be brothers."
"Well me and Lori look alike so it makes sense." said Carol.
Everyone nodded.
Lincoln: [very determined] "Oh, you are going down..." [gives chase]
[The manager notices him.]
Manager: "Oh, you are going down..." [gives chase as well]
"This is gonna be good!" Carl said in excitement.
"And bad at the same time." added Carlota.
[While Lincoln chases after his doppelganger, the twins are squirting each other with produce hoses.]
Lincoln: "Guys, please stop! You're gonna get us kicked out!"
"Why would you even do that in the store?!" Lynn Sr. exclaimed.
"Sorry Dad." the twins said in unison.
"I'm really amazed at how really stupidly oblivious you all are, not counting Leni as she's just a special sweetheart." grunted Lincoln.
"Aww! Thanks Linky!" Leni smiled.
[The bratty doppelganger knocks over the watermelons, and Lincoln reaches for a fruit scale to dodge them and continues the chase. The manager gets bombarded by the melons. Leni has let all the grilled chickens out of the rotisserie.]
Leni: "Go, chickens! Be free!"
Lincoln: "Please, stop! You're gonna get us kicked out!" [continues chase]
"The chickens are grilled, Leni. They can't move even if you told them to." said Becky.
"That would explain a lot." murmured Leni.
[The bratty kid pours a ton of coffee beans out of the dispenser. Lincoln uses sausage links to swing right over the beans and lands next to a free sample table.]
Sample Lady: "Sample, dear?"
Lincoln: "Oh, thank you." [takes a sample and eats it up before resuming.]
"Well that was nice of you Lincoln." said Rosa.
"Who am I to deny a free sample?" Lincoln replied. "Unless I'm allergic."
"Do you have a specific food allergy?" asked Laird.
"Not that I'm aware of." Lincoln replied.
"Either way, nice sausage swing!" said Polly.
"Yeah, you really know how to make use of objects around you!" added Grant.
Lincoln chuckled.
[The manager tries swinging on the sausage links like Lincoln did only to slip and fall toward the sample table.]
Sample Lady: "Oh dear!"
[The manager crashes onto the table off-screen and Lincoln is running through the bakery where the bratty lookalike squeezes out liquid butter all over the floor to literally give Lincoln the slip. But Lincoln grabs a shopping basket and uses it to slide right over the butter and notices Lucy mashing cakes together to look like a monster devouring the bride and groom at the top of a wedding cake.]
Lincoln: "Please, stop!"
Lucy: "Sigh..."
"Lucy I get you like horrific art, but not if it means getting kicked out of a public supermarket!" exclaimed Rita.
"Sigh." Lucy said in guilt.
[The manager sees the tip of Lincoln's white hair in the reflecting glass and slips on the butter right into Lucy's cake sculpture. Back at the frozen food section, Lincoln notices the snowman display wearing that kid's shoes.]
Lincoln: "Game over, cereal stealer!" [tackles the display and finds nothing.] "Dang it..." [notices the lookalike escape out of the frozen peas.] "Hey!" [slips on a pea package.]
"That sneaky little sneak." grumbled Paula.
[The boy gets away, but the lobsters on the balloons, the bag of peas, and the snowman's corn cob pipe give Lincoln an idea. He loads the pipe up with peas and shoots them at the balloons, dropping one of the lobsters on the doppelganger's back and snapping him in his rear and turning him down the bakery. The manager sees the bleach blonde of the bratty kid's hair and uncovers him under the cart.]
Manager: "Gotcha, hooligan!"
"While I don't approve, that is nothing compared to what he's been doing to you." said Rita.
"Nice job Lincoln!" praised Lynn.
Lincoln smiled at that.
"Someone has to teach that kid a lesson." said Lynn Sr.
"Mom took care of that." said Carol.
[The lookalike's mother furiously drags him by his ear toward the exit.]
Bratty Kid's Mom: [furious] "I can't believe you got us kicked out of here!"
Bratty Kid: "Can I just get my cereal?"
Bratty Kid's Mom: [takes it and tosses it aside] "NO!"
[Lincoln catches it in slow motion.]
Bratty Kid: "But-but-but...my Zombie Bran!"
[Lincoln victoriously waves it at him.]
Lincoln: [triumphant] "YES! And now to get out before we're kicked out."
"Sorry about that Carol." said Lincoln.
Carol smiled reassuringly. "That's okay Linc he kinda had it coming" she said, ruffling Lincoln's hair. "And even though you got off on the wrong foot I think You and Connor could be friends."
"Maybe." Lincoln shrugged.
[Lincoln is shoving his sisters to the checkout counter.]
Lincoln: "Come on, people! Let's go! Move it!"
Bobby: "Check it out, babe!"
[He has stocked the paper towels to show Lori's image.]
Lori: [infatuated] "Oh, Boo-Boo Bear...you're such an amazing artist."
Bobby: "Nah, babe. You're just an amazing muse."
[Lori takes a photo with her phone to remember it by.]
Ronnie Anne facepalmed. "Yeah I knew it." she groaned.
"And again you call yourself the big sister?" Stella said with a frown.
Rita looked disappointed and angry. "Your sisters literally were tearing down the store and you were distracted by toilet paper?!" she snapped.
Lori winced in guilt, realizing that she and shirked her big sister responsibilities again.
"Honestly Lincoln is acting more like a big brother than you at this point." Girl Jordan muttered.
"You can say that again." said Mollie.
Lincoln: [grabs his oldest sister] "Let's go!"
[The girls are complaining about Lincoln's rush.]
Lola: "Why are you pushing us?"
Lincoln: "Because I'm this close to getting my cereal, and I don't want you guys to ruin it."
[The girls come to a screeching halt]
Lori: "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What do you mean your cereal?"
Lincoln: "I made a deal with Mom. If I had enough money left after getting all the groceries, I could get my Zombie Bran."
Lana: "Well, if you get a treat, I want a treat!"
Lola: "Yeah! I want little princess pies!"
Lucy: "I want blood pudding."
Lisa: "I could re-up on my sodium bicarbonate."
Lana: "And I want dog biscuits!" [Lola glances at her awkwardly] "They're for Charles! I swear! Even though they are great for my teeth, and my coat..."
Lincoln: "No way! There's no money left!"
Luna: [grabs the cereal box] "Well, there will be if we put this back!"
Lincoln: "Give me that! I worked my butt off to get it!"
Everyone was shocked at the girls' behavior.
Rita looked at her girls. "No one but Lincoln offered to go to the store or made a deal to get ONE treat with me. Then after messing with the store, which your brother had to keep you out of trouble, you think you had the RIGHT to deny him what he rightfully WON?!" she snapped furiously.
"Lincoln worked hard to get that stuff for your Mom and earn that cereal." said Ronnie Anne.
"And not only did you lie to Lincoln about helping him shop, but you messed around the whole store." added Clyde.
"And you think that after the lies and trouble you caused any of you deserve something like that?" Sid asked with a hard glare.
The girls flinched and looked down at their mother's anger and everyone else's furious glares.
[The kids start fighting over the fate of the Zombie Bran and the checkout clerk calls the manager over. Lincoln is blasted out of the fight cloud right toward Bobby's Lori display.]
Bobby: "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
[Lincoln crashes right into the display and the manager shows up and sees Lincoln.]
Manager: "I thought I already got rid of you, hooligan! Now I want you out of my store! And take your sisters with you!"
"Now you've gone and done it." snarled Haiku.
[This breaks up the girls' fight and the girls leave with looks of regret on their faces.]
Manager: [grabbing the Zombie Bran box] "I'll take that!"
Lincoln: [fighting for it] "But...but..." [loses it to the manager; forlorn] "My Zombie Bran..."
Manager: "Boo-Boo Bear! Push broom!"
[Bobby hands his boss the push broom and he pushes Lincoln out of the store.]
Lori looked at Bobby with her puppy dog eyes and said, "How could you sweep your true love out of the store like that, Boo-Boo Bear?"
Lynn snarked before Bobby could answer, "Really? So, just because you're his girl and he worked at the store, that should give you a free pass of the consequences? Maybe I should start dating the coach of a football team just so I can take one of the players' spots and be exempt from all the rules, according to that."
Everyone looked surprised to see that Lynn had a sound point.
Lori ignored her and continued staring at Bobby like that, and he said, shrugging in an apologetic manner, "Lori, believe me, I didn't wanna kick you guys out of the store, but uh... well, with what just happened on screen, and considering I didn't want to potentially lose my job, I kind of had to do what the boss said. Besides, didn't I apologize for doing that, babe?"
Lori blushed a bit and said, "Y-yeah, you did."
Unsurprisingly, everyone rolled their eyes at that. Everyone except Lincoln. He did NOT look happy, to say the least. He was about as mad as the incident where he usurped power from Lori, but he was seething on the inside about it, waiting to vent it out.
Leni noticed Lincoln's seething anger and said, "Lincoln? Are you okay?"
Lincoln only turned around to the sisters and said, "...Yes. Nothing's wrong. It's not like I'm furious or anything... promise!" he said, smiling with rage and crossing his fingers.
Everyone traded nervous glances.
[On the ride home, Rita is not happy with Lincoln.]
Rita: [very upset] "Well, isn't this wonderful. I guess I'll be shopping in the next town over for a while."
Lincoln: "I'm sorry, Mom. But it's not all my fault."
Rita: [silences him with her hand wave.] "Mmm-I don't wanna hear about it. You told me you could handle the grocery shopping, but clearly you cannot."
Lincoln: "But Zombie Bran!"
Rita: "You can forget about that cereal, Lincoln."
Lincoln: "But-"
Rita: "End of discussion!"
[The girls all look at each other, full of guilt over Lincoln not getting his cereal.]
Everyone stared in shock and disbelief at what they had just seen. They then glared at Rita and the sisters, who gulped very nervously, then at Lincoln with sympathetic looks.
"Lincoln? You okay?" asked Stella.
Lincoln stood up, and walked away from the group. Everyone watched him in concern. Lincoln's face turned red and screamed in rage so loud that everyone jumped, even the pets hid behind Lalo.
"I've never seen Lincoln that mad before, have you?" Sid asked scaredly.
All of Lincoln's friends shook their heads.
Lincoln suddenly began to break down and cry, remembering how all of his hard work ended up going to waste once more due to his sisters' selfishness. Before either of his family could get up, Clyde held up his hand.
"You lot have done enough making all of his hard work go to waste again." he said coldly, startling them.
Clyde, Ronnie Anne, Rusty, Liam, Zach, and Stella went over to Lincoln.
"Hey don't worry man, we got ya." said Rusty.
"Your real bros are here for ya." added Zach.
"Just let out those tears Linc." soothed Ronnie Anne.
Lincoln cried into Ronnie Anne's shoulder as his friends patted him.
As this went on, everyone looked at Rita with displeased looks. If Rita wasn't feeling ashamed of herself for tuning her own son out without hearing the whole story back then, you better believe she was feeling it now and at full force, no less.
Even Lynn Sr. was just staring at her in anger and disappointment, shaking his head "no".
"Y'know, I never thought I'd be the one to say this, Loud, but that was awfully cold of you." Mr. Grouse frowned. "You know how those little rapscallions are, and you didn't even let the boy defend himself? You're his mother, if anyone should be willing to listen to the boy, it should be his own parents."
Lola snapped back, about the "rapscallions" remark, "Excuse me?!"
Lana tapped her shoulder and said, "Not the time, Lola." and pointed to everyone looking at them and the other sisters with the same anger. They both looked away in shame.
Rita felt awful about the whole thing, just downright awful. She then turned to her daughters and said in this cold voice, "And this whole time, I believed it was all Lincoln's fault. I feel like an absolute fool, I went back on my word because I thought he broke it first... No one had the courage to confess?"
All of the sisters had nothing to say in response, feeling guilty about the whole mess all over again, all but confirming it for Rita.
"At least you had the decency to feel guilty." snarled Girl Jordan.
"Unlike the Princess Pony incident, Lincoln took all of the blame for nothing." growled Carlota.
"And I just can't believe you would assume that he would be the one to cause the whole mess in the first place without hearing him out Rita!" Albert said furiously.
"And did that manager even check the security footage and show it to you?!" Howard asked. "You should've asked for actual proof instead of assumptions!"
"Everyone's voice deserves to be heard!" added Harold.
"And that's also hypocritical to call your husband out on not hearing the whole story like that Rita." Maria added sternly.
"The only reason I did that was because of Lincoln's history with clogging the can before, which I now know was really wrong." said Lynn Sr. He frowned at Rita. "But this is nothing compared to that. We were banned from a whole store and you assumed the one who made an actual promise to you for something he wanted intentionally caused trouble."
After calming down Lincoln glared at his siblings. "When this episode is over, we need another chat just like I did with Lori in charge and my school project. Got it?!" he snapped.
"Rita, I'll be doing the same with you." Albert said sternly.
Rita and the Girl nod sadly.
[Back home, a new Zombie Bran commercial is playing.]
Announcer: "Bored of the same old breakfast?"
[Lincoln sighs over his same old breakfast that he's now stuck with while Lily eats her mushy baby food.]
Announcer: "Then try Zombie Bran! The cereal that turns you into the walking fed!"
Zombie Boy: [zombie voice] "Braaaaan! BRAAAAAN!"
Announcer: "Now in new Raisin the Dead flavor!"
"Now it looks like even the TV is against him." said Rocky.
[A new box with the aforementioned flavor appears next to the original flavor box. Lincoln turns the TV off and sighs depressed and goes back to eating his boring cereal. Just then, his sisters come in acting like zombies for some reason.]
Sisters: [zombie voice] "BRAAAAN!"
Everyone was confused.
"What the heck happened to you?" asked Joey.
"You'll see." said Lori.
Lincoln: [despondent] "Very funny, guys. I'm not in the mood." [Lynn jumps on the sofa while still acting like a zombie.] "Whoa! Hey!"
Lynn: [zombie voice] "BRAAAAAN!"
Sisters: [zombie voice] "BRAAAAN!"
[Lori presents to him a box of Zombie Bran.]
Lincoln: [gasps thankfully] "You got me my cereal?!"
Lori: [pours him a bowl] "It's the least we could do. The only reason you didn't get this was because of us."
"Well at least you made it up to him in some way." murmured Mollie.
Lincoln: "I only have one thing to say to you all." [splatters the cereal all over his face and starts acting like a zombie.] "OOH...BRAAAAAN!"
[The kids start having a Zombie Bran fight which Lily watches.]
Lily: [zombie voice to the viewers] "BRAAAAAN!"
Everyone couldn't help but coo at Lily being a zombie.
Lincoln then snapped out of it and glared at his sisters. "Girls. Front. Now." he hissed.
"You too Rita." Albert said sternly.
Gluping, the ladies of the Loud family, barring Lily, walked up.
Albert started first. "Rita, your mother and I taught you that everyone has the right to speak and you should also know the full story!" he said sternly. "Lincoln promised you that he could handle it and yet when your entire family was banned, you only assumed that he was the cause of it all?! Why would he break a promise to you like that, especially if it meant getting something he wanted in return?! I get that you were mad at being banned, but you should've looked into it more instead of jumping to conclusions and ignoring him entirely!"
Rita looked down at her feet, ashamed.
"And as for you boneheads," Lincoln hissed, making his sisters flinch. "I promised Mom I'd do all the shopping and save enough money to get my cereal, which she said I could get if I did! I worked my ass off trying, not to just get everything from the store, but to also keep you all from destroying it! As well as to the facts, you lied to me saying you'd help me shop and you didn't! And yet you idiots thought you deserved a treat yourselves even though you were reckless, carless, and stupid! And to top it all off, your selfishness got us banned and you didn't even tell Mom the truth and I ended up with all the blame! All of my hard work and putting up with that kid ended up benign for nothing! Buying me the cereal was a nice gesture, but that doesn't fully make up for your idiocy! What do you reckless idiots have to say for yourselves?!"
The girls all looked ashamed for their actions.
"You're right Lincoln." said Leni. "We were being reckless."
"We promised that we'd help you and we just lied so we could run wild in the store." Lynn sighed.
"I only said I'd come and I just paid attention to Bobby and neglected my responsibilities again." Lori said shamefully.
"You tried to keep us out of trouble and we ended up getting banned anyway." sighed Lucy.
"And you were right, we were being selfish too." Lana said in guilt. "You actually acted responsibly whole having to put up with all of us and that kid."
"We thought we deserved something too when we didn't." Luan said shamefully.
"And I shouldn't have tried to take away what you rightfully earned bro." Luna said in shame. "That was a bogus-no, a real bitchy move I made."
Everyone, even Lincoln, couldn't help but flinch at that part.
"And we let you take the blame and didn't even try to tell Mom the truth." Lola said sadly.
"In the end, we are so sorry for everything Lincoln." sighed Lisa. "We were selfish, reckless, and we let you take the heat for us."
"And I'm so sorry too, Lincoln. I should've listened to you, but instead I just shut you up like you were nothing." Rita said sadly as knelt down to Lincoln's level. "I should've known that you wouldn't have broken your promise like that and I should've suspected that the girls might be a handful. I should've told them to actually behave for you and help you otherwise they'd be in trouble. I shouldn't have let my anger get me frustrated enough to ignore you."
Lincoln sighed and smiled. "That's all I wanted to hear after all this time." he said.
Rita and the girls smiled at that. Albert smiled approvingly at Lincoln's maturity.
"I'm glad you all seriously learned your lesson about recklessness, lies, and letting other people tell you the full story." said Lincoln. "Plus, I enjoyed that Zombie Bran you got me."
"We're glad you did bro." smield Luna.
"And the next time we all have to go shopping for groceries or any other stuff we need when Mommy and Daddy are busy, we promise we'll help you. For real." said Lola.
"I'd like that." said Lincoln. "And hey, with Mom and Dad's new jobs plus Leni's job and internship, Lisa's grant money, and whenever Lori comes back from college to work at Dad's restaurant, I think we will have enough money for treats for all of us."
The girls smiled at that.
"And I know you'll be able to handle it by yourself if the girls we're all unavailable." said Rita.
"Thanks Mom." smiled Lincoln.
Everyone tretruiened to the audience.
"So everything good?" asked Ronnie Anne.
"We're all good." smield Lincoln.
"There's one thign I don't get." said Stella. "Did you guys stay banned? 'Cause I thought you still went to the same store recently."
"The ban actually lasted for a few days." said Lincoln.
"Yeah." said Bobby. "The manager, Leonard Miller, was fired by the senior manager after the complaints from parents, as well being watched from the security office."
"Yeah thanks for mentioning about our ban being lifted, Bobby." said Rita.
"Of course Mrs. Loud." mild Bobby.
"Our family was also unbanned too." added Carol. "And Connor did eventually get that Zombie Bran as well, though, after he was ungrounded."
"Wait, I thought Bobby worked as a security guard at the mall." said Sam, confused.
"Hey yeah, how did he go from that to working at the supermarket?" asked Benny.
"Before I started working at the Mercado in the city, which is spanish for Bodega, I had a lot of jobs in Royal Woods." said Bobby.
"With Mom and Dad divorced, money was sometimes tight." said Ronnie Anne. "Although Dad did sometimes send us money if we ever needed it, and for child support."
"It was one of the reasons why I usually worked extra shifts at the hospital." said Maria. "So after Bobby turned 16, he started getting various jobs to help pay for everything at home."
Everyone was amazed.
"Wow, you worked so many jobs?" asked Sid.
"Yep. But now that we live in the city, I run the Mercado when Abuelo is busy and it helps pay for both apartments in addition to Mom, Abuela, Tio Carlos, and Tia Frida's jobs, all money's good."
"That sounds cool." said Chaz. "Anyway, what's next?"
"Let's find out." said Leni as they all faced the screen again.
To be continued…
Finally done with this one! And boy was it hard!
Rate, review, PM suggestions and Lucy's eye color, and I'll see you soon!
The manager's name, Leonard Miller, is based on the same name given to him in the FanFiction story Loud Heroes by Smoking Wrecker and Zachlor16.
Up next, oh god… Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru...
Special dialogue thanks to:
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