Author's Note: In this chapter, you shall learn a bit about Lisa's time in the mental institution. I would like to thank Wolvenstrom for beta reading this chapter for me, enjoy :)
Lincoln and Lisa had been walking around aimlessly for a good 15 minutes in silence. Finally Lincoln broke the silence "why did you do it Lisa?" he simply asked.
Having an idea what he was talking about, she replied "I...didn't truly know what right from wrong was back then." She sighed. It sounded like such a lame excuse, but it was the truth. "I was five Lincoln. I didn't realize at the time that just because I was smarter than most people my age back then, it didn't mean I was anymore mature than a normal five-year-old." She looked up at him. His face was neutral. At least he didn't roll his eyes like she thought he would.
"After I had erased and changed your memories, I started to realize that I should have just let it go or tell our…my parents instead of performing those experiments, but I rationalized that because you wouldn't remember everything would be fine"
"You wanted to test my pain levels, that sounds more psychopathic than anything else"
She winced "yes, I admit that part was mostly fuelled by the anger I had towards you at the time"
"You do realize that if Leni didn't have any spare organs, I would be dead right now"
"…yes…that's something that's haunted me for years"
"Lisa, if I had died while you were experimenting on me, what would you have done?" Lisa remained silent "Lisa, answer me"
"Knowing myself back then, I would have either made a clone of you or erased everyone's memories of you and gotten rid of every scrap of evidence that you'd ever existed"
That was something that shocked Lincoln to the core, in one swift motion, he grabbed Lisa by the front of her shirt, lifted her up, and pinned her up against a wall. Lisa was now visibly shaking. Lincoln's face was completely blank, but she could feel his eyes piercing what she was too intelligent to admit was her soul "have you ever done that to any of your family members?" She gulped. Even his tone was flat. She almost begged for him to sound angry!
"N-n-no I've n-n-never been in that type of s-s-situation" she stuttered out
"So if we get Leni to test everyone in the house, we won't find out that they're actually copies?"
She shook her head rapidly.
"You know if your lying. You'll wish you were back in that place right?" His voice quavered a little, he sounded angry sure, but it was the hurt in his voice that stung the most.
"Y-y-yes L-L-Lincoln" he then dropped her on her rear
"You would seriously do that in order to not get in trouble?" Lisa nodded "…do you actually have clones of us?"
"Yes I do, just in case, they're in a secret bunker to my bunker"
"Do you realise the ethical boundaries you've crossed to do such a thing?"
"yes, I have now" She didn't think she could hate the girl she used to be any more than she had, but here we are.
"Are they still alive?"
"They should still be in a form of suspended animation from 10 years ago"
"I'll get Leni to decide on what to do with them, knowing you you'd probably just have them killed" Lisa knew that that is what she would most likely do seeing as how she did it with the Lynn Sr and Rita clones when she decided that they would more useful to help her learn about human anatomy better than just floating in a tank. "Tell me Lisa, have you ever erased and replaced other people's memories to avoid getting into trouble?"
"…yes…I have"
"Who?" he asked in a cold tone
"Luna"
Lincoln's fist tightened "and what memories did you change?"
"She came to me asking what I did to you before you were sent to another dimension. I then knocked her out with sleeping gas and checked her memories and saw your interaction with her, I then simply erased that particular moment from her memories so that she would remember seeing you but wouldn't remember you telling her about me" Lisa explained before she felt a hot stinging sensation as Lincoln slapped her across the face. She bit back a tear knowing full well he's trying to not do worse "I fully deserved that, please feel free to work out any more anger you have towards me"
"No, that light slap was enough"
'That was a light slap?!' Lisa thought.
"Let's keep going" and they continued walking.
After a while Lisa broke the silence "Lincoln, is there anything I can do to make up for what I did to you?"
"No Lisa, what you did to me is unforgivable. If it had just been the sending me to another dimension, yes I would forgive you for that…honest mistake, but you harvested my organs, you didn't care that I was in agony and passed out from the pain multiple times, you were a heartless uncaring monster to me, just because I humiliated you a bit with that video" Lincoln went to continue walking only for Lisa to get in his way
"You're right Lincoln, what I did to you all of those years ago was unforgivable" she then got down on her knees in front of him "please Lincoln if there is anything, anything at all that I can do to make up for a fraction of what I did, just name it!" she begged
Lincoln was slightly taken aback by this, to see his ex-little sister on her knees with tears in her eyes, begging him to find a way for her to redeem herself to him, made him feel really uneasy, if he had one weakness, it would be crying girls. Giving a groan, he pinched the bridge of his nose "do you think you could re-establish some of your previous connections to get Leni the parts she needs to make a portal generator?" he asked
"I shall try my absolute hardest to"
"If you manage to make Leni's pursuit for the parts she needs even the slightest bit easier…then I'll count that as making up for what you did…but I'm still never going to forgive you or possibly ever trust you again" he then grabbed her by the back of her shirt and hauled her back onto her feet.
Lincoln looked Lisa up and down "you've gotten kinda chunky over the years"
"Well there were very inadequate gym facilities at the sanitorium, and the food there wasn't as healthy as it should have been, though I will say those chefs made the best brownies ever, they were always warm, chewy, and so chocolaty," she said and began drooling a bit
"Ha, still a chocoholic I see…Lisa?...Lisa?...come back to us, Lisa"
"So chocolaty," she said before coming to her senses "huh? You say something?"
"Come on droolerella, let's head back" and with that, they began heading back to the Loud residence. "So what was it like being in a nuthouse for a decade," Lincoln asked, breaking the silence
"It was an experience to say the least…"
Flashback
Lisa had just recently been sent to Raison Hills Sanitorium (a mental institution for geniuses) after being found guilty of vivisecting and murdering her brother for science, as well as performing unethical experiments on unwilling participants, all of which she fully pleaded guilty to. The Judge had found her to be an interesting case, on the one hand, she was a genius and had multiple Ph.D.'s along with inventing things that bordered on the line of science fiction, but on the other hand, she was only 6 and had still yet to know the true difference between right and wrong. So instead of sending her to a kid's prison, the Judge sentenced her to Raison Hills Sanitorium where she was to stay until she was deemed to no longer be a danger to anyone.
Lisa wasn't normally the type of person to show emotions, but when she first arrived at the sanitorium she was visibly scared at the fact that her absolute worst nightmare had come true, to be seen as a 'mad scientist'. After she had been taken to her room, which only consisted of a bed and a barred window, she lay down on her new bed and thought over everything she had done to wind up here, which sent her on a rollercoaster of emotions. Ultimately she just ended up crying while constantly apologizing for everything she had done to not just Lincoln, but also her family.
When dinner time rolled around, she got the chance to see who else she would be in this place with. She had been rather surprised to find a few kids were at the place, though she was still the youngest one there. However, due to most of the kids being on drugs that made them slow, they weren't really inclined to speak with her on the level of intellect she was hoping for, instead, they were more on the level of average kids their age…or a bit slower. She had also been rather surprised at not just the food they were serving but also the amount that they were given. She assumed that a sanitorium's food would basically be like the type of food served in school cafeterias (i.e dog food level), but instead what you'd get at an average priced restaurant. On her plat sat an inch thick chicken parma the size of an adult man's face along with chips and salad "I'm probably going to look like my larger counterpart when I get out of here" she mumbled before she began eating what she would describe as the best parma ever.
During her first group session, she found out just the kind of people she was with.
"Okay Hubert, why don't you tell us why you're here," the nurse said
"I was the most brilliant scientist at the genetic lab I worked at until they claimed I was mad and sent me here" Hubert explained
"And why did they call you mad?"
"Why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters! Atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood…out…of…" an orderly removed a needle from the now sedated Hubert's arm before taking him away.
The nurse put a line through yet another group of five other lines next to a box labeled 'they called me mad' "…okay then, Lisa why don't you tell us why you're here"
"Well, I vivisected and killed my brother for science and revenge for embarrassing me" the sound of a clipboard dropping caught Lisa's attention, looking she saw the nurse was now looking at her in horror while the other patients all got out of their seats and moved away.
"You killed and dissected your brother?!" one of the patients questioned
"No, I vivisected my brother without anesthesia so I could register his pain levels as I harvested his organs, which I would later use to study. He then, unfortunately, died from the process." She paused "I 'was' able to revive him by replacing all his organs with superior synthetic ones, then erased his memory of the whole affair."
"…do you regret what you did?" the nurse asked
"No, I obtained the information and data I needed." Lisa said, honestly not caring anymore "I've also used my family as unknowing Guinea Pigs many times in the past to help further my research. I've also placed tracking chips in them without their consent so I would know their location, and taken hair and blood samples from them while they slept" she finished. The ones in the circle had varying degrees of madness, but most of them were here for attempted cartoonish supervillainy. This was...well, more than one chair made horrible scraping sounds as they backed away from the little girl.
When she wasn't being observed by doctors or having group sessions, she, along with the other kids at the sanitorium, continued their education. Along with their normal school education, she as well as a few other kids were educated on the morals of their previous actions prior to coming to the sanitorium. Lisa 'was' still a genius so despite her initial instance that emotion had no place in science it didn't take her long for it to finally sunk into Lisa just how bad what she did to her family was.
This led to a severe form of depression, which led her to something she never thought she'd have.
A freakout.
Lisa was not emotionless. She'd cried before, and gotten giddy and angry, but she'd been in control of herself enough that she could choose when to feel those emotions when it suited her. This time, this time she couldn't keep a lid on it and she'd started crying. She'd started crying harder and longer and louder than she'd ever cried before. She got angry. She threw herself around her small room crashing into the walls trying to hurt herself. The orderly's had to rush in and restrain her after they saw her running against the wall as hard as she could turning her face into one big bruise, whacking her head against the walls until they had to put her in a soft room in a special jacket.
"Why do you even have this?" She'd asked "They stopped using these decades ago! Why do you have a straightjacket for a child!?"
They'd answered. "Do you think you don't need it?"
The fight left her.
It wouldn't be the last time with the young genius attempting to take her own life as a way to atone for what she did, multiple times. She had also started to regret her vast intellect. Retreating into herself as a result. As the days passed she began refusing to work or even study, fearing that more knowledge will just make her more dangerous to those around her. Realising that quite a few of the kids were medicated, for various reasons, Lisa had begun trying to get the staff to start medicating her as well. When asked why she wanted to be medicated like some of the other patients, she told them so that wanted to not feel anything emotionally or even just to make her dumber so that she could no longer be a threat or danger to anyone. When they heard her reasoning behind wanting to be medicated, they simply refused her request. When her request was refused, she began thinking of a way to get the medication she so desired…
After a week of observing the doctors and nurses, Lisa knew what times the medical storage room would be essentially unguarded as well as what times the security cameras would be positioned so that she wouldn't get caught entering and stealing medication. Timing everything perfectly, she went for it, being as fast and quiet as she could. Finding the door thankfully unlocked, once she entered, she quickly and quietly closed the door. Looking up she saw that there were no security camera's in the room "well this makes things easier" she said quietly to herself before she began her search. She quickly found what she was looking for and stuffed her pockets to the max with the pills that would decrease her intelligence. Opening the door a fraction, she saw the camera slowly turning away from her. Once it was far enough she quickly and silently slipped out of the medical storage room, before heading to her room, thankfully for her, she hadn't been spotted.
Once back in the safety and privacy of her room, she slipped under her bed and pulled up the carpet in one of the corners, revealing a hole in the floor. She had discovered it earlier that month when she had been trying to locate the source of an odd smell in her room, only to find the hole filled with "magic mushrooms" that the room's previous occupant had stashed away. Placing the pills in a plastic bag, she took out two pills and dry swallowed them before putting the rest of the pills in the hole and placing the carpet back over the top. After about 15 minutes, the drugs finally kicked in. Going over previous school work, she found that she had quite a bit of difficulty trying to solve the problem whereas before it would have only taken her a second to come up with the answer.
Lisa kept taking the pills that lowered her intelligence and brought her down to the level of most of the kids there, as such, she was able to also make friends, which really helped her cope in her current situation. Every few months she'd stock up on more pills while the staff was none the wiser. Sure they had noticed that their pill supply was diminishing faster than normal, but they were clueless as to where they were going. Lisa had also started upping her dosage which made her dumber and dumber with each increased dose, this would, unfortunately, cause her to slip up big time.
Once she was almost out of pills, she decided to just go get more without making sure the coast was clear so that she wouldn't get caught. First she was caught on the security cameras while fumbling with the door, then she was caught entering the room by the head doctor. As she fumbled around trying to find the right drug, she was grabbed by the shoulder and spun around "hi Dr. Johnson" she droned out
"What are you doing in here?" he asked
"Oh, I was running low on the…uh…drugs I need"
"Wait, you're the one who's been taking drugs from here?"
"Yep, but don't tell it's…uh…um…a secret" getting behind Lisa, Dr. Johnson guided her out of the room and too the medical bay to be examined. After finding out that she was okay, she was locked up in one of the padded rooms again to stay until the drugs finally wore off.
Due to how much she had in her system, it took a whole 24 hours for the effects of the drug to wear off, bringing her back to her normal self. During that time, the staff had found out where she had kept the drugs despite numerous contraband checks done on her room in the past. Once she was back to normal, she was taken to Dr. Johnson's office "okay Lisa, calmly tell me why you've been stealing drugs?" he asked calmly
"I didn't want to be smart anymore" she replied, which surprised the doctor "I want to be dumber than Leni."
The doctor knew enough about her sisters to know how bad things must be for her to say that "and why don't you want to be smart anymore?"
"Because being a genius makes me too much of a danger. I asked and begged for drugs to make me dumber, but when I was refused, I decided to steal them. while I was on those drugs, I was happy, I was able to have friends, and not a single scientific question or curiosity came into my head. Please put me back on them, being dumb was the happiest I've been since..." The girl looked to the side and whispered "I don't think I've ever 'been' happier."
The doctor looked thoughtful "I'll have you start having therapy sessions for a while, then we'll see what to do from there"
"Okay then" Lisa replied as she got up and was guided out of the office by the orderly present.
After having numerous therapy sessions, it was decided that Lisa shouldn't be put on drugs and that she would have to learn to make and keep friends on her own, a task which proved exceedingly difficult for the young genius. As the years rolled by Lisa had come to see the sanitorium as a place that would keep the world and more importantly, her family, safe from her and her ever increasing genius.
It was a normal boring lunch for Lisa as she was eating fish and chips when Big Jim, a 6'4 tall man that was built like a fridge, sat down next to her. Normally he was well medicated and was basically kept in a docile state throughout the whole time he had been there. He had been a geneticist who began experimenting on himself to increase both his strength and durability. While his experiments had been a major success, the downside was that his patience was basically reduced to nothing, and had been prone to going berserk over the littlest thing. After crippling several of his colleagues in a particular incident, he had been sent there for his and everyone else's safety. As previously stated, normally he was well medicated, but today his medication got mixed up, and he was now a ticking time bomb as the previous dosage rapidly wore off.
Lisa, wanting to distance herself from him scooted to the side. Big mistake. Big Jim shot a glare at Lisa "what?! Is something wrong with me?!" he roared, Lisa, taken aback by this outburst, was about to reply when the man's giant hand clamped onto the back of her head and smashed her face into the table, breaking her glasses and her nose before throwing her to the side where she crashed into the wall. Using the wall as support, Lisa got back onto her feet only to be given a right hook to the face, knocking her back down to the ground. Big Jim then grabbed her by her ankle and swung her over him before he slammed her to the ground, making her cry out in pain. Orderlies tried to restrain him as well as try to sedate him, but he simply threw the orderlies off of him, and despite now having 15 needles sticking out of him, he was completely unaffected. Big Jim then stomped on Lisa several times, breaking her ribs and sternum as well as making her vomit, before grabbing her face, picking up her limp body, and hurling her into the cutlery station, which broke on impact.
Lisa groaned in pain before Big Jim clamped his hand around her neck and began trying to crush it. Panicking, Lisa grabbed the first thing she could, which happened to be a knife, and she stabbed him in the arm, making him howl in pain and let go of her. Taking in a deep breath of air, Lisa got to her feet and only to feel a horrific pain in her leg, making her fall into a kneeling position. Big Jim then raised both hands up and laced his fingers together before giving Lisa a sledgehammer to the head, while at the same time, in a last-ditch effort to save herself, Lisa extended the knife out at Big Jim, only for him to impale himself on it. Lisa had been rendered unconscious from the blow while Big Jim looked at half of the knife handle sticking out of his chest, the blade had pierced his chest. If he had been in the right state of mind he would have stopped and sought help but instead he spent his last moments of life beating the living snot out of Lisa's unconscious form.
Stop Flashback
"So what happened after that?" Lincoln asked
"I was charged with manslaughter, but seeing how badly hurt I was and the events that transpired, the court saw it as self-defense, so I didn't receive any time in jail or prison"
"Did you go to the hospital?"
"No, the sanitorium I went to had surprisingly advanced medical facilities…while I was in the medical ward was the only time I ever saw the whole family while I was there."
"You know I just realized that you're not wearing your glasses"
"If you may recall, years ago when I was temporarily bumped up to grade 5 with you, I surgically corrected my eyes so I no longer needed glasses"
"…then why did you still wear glasses?"
"I enjoyed wearing glasses, so I just wore fake ones. When they broke that day, I just didn't care about them enough anymore to get some new fake ones"
"Fair enough" Lisa was about to continue when they both stopped as they heard a siren, turning around they saw a police car had pulled up.
The doors then opened up and two officers got out, one a man and the other a woman, both of whom looked familiar to Lincoln "may we help you, officers?" Lisa asked
"Yes we got a report of an old man assaulting a young girl" the female officer said sternly, not at all intimidated by his size.
Lincoln looked at the male officers badge and saw the word 'McBride' "are you Clyde McBride?" Lincoln asked
"Yes I…oh my god Lincoln!"
"Lincoln?!" the female officer questioned
"God it's been years! How yah doing buddy?!" Clyde asked as he and Lincoln shook hands before pulling each other forward and patting each other on the back
"Not too bad actually, yourself?" Lincoln replied
"Couldn't be better" He blew a puff of air out as he realized just how much more of Lincoln there was now. "Someones have been eating their wheaties." He chuckled "And everybody else's wheaties from the looks of it."
Lincoln smiled and shrugged.
"So I see you got into law enforcement" He smiled "I'll be honest thats not what I expected from you."
"Yeah, after I left high school, I knew I wanted to be a police officer so I went into a police academy and 6 weeks later I emerged at top of the class"
"Nice, and who is this lovely lady?"
"This would be my long time partner Jordan"
"Jordan?" He looked at her "Girl Jordan?"
The officer groaned "I thought I ditched that nickname years ago."
Yep. That was Girl Jordan "I thought you looked familiar, how have you been?"
"Wait, I thought you were dead?" Jordan questioned
"Ever heard the phrase, 'reality is stranger than fiction'?"
"Yes"
"Well, believe it or not, *jabs his thumb at Lisa* shorty here accidentally sent me to another dimension by mistake, where I was adopted by a different version of this family, I was there for a year before they finally found me, but by that time I didn't want to leave and was an official Lard family member"
Jordan and Clyde snorted a bit "your last name is Lard?" Jordan asked
"Yes, is that a problem?" The very large man asked the officer.
She waved him off. "No, no, it's just an odd name"
"Well Lincoln isn't a normal name for this day and age, but I'm still proud of it"
"Fair enough"
"So what brings you here?" Clyde asked, Lincoln then gave him and Jordan a quick run down one how/why he was here. When he finished, the two had been left rather surprised by the predicament he and most of his family were in. "so you basically have to start from the bottom and work your way up"
"Kinda, but that applies mostly to Leni"
"A smart Leni, I honestly can't picture that"
"But you can about a universe where everybody's really really fat?"
"This 'is' America."
"Touche."
"Wait you said girlfriend's, so you have more than one?" Jordan questioned
"Yep, four" he said
"FOUR!" they exclaimed in union
"Whoooah that sounds like a lotta sex" Clyde said. His partner gave him a look "What? It does"
"He's not wrong" Lincoln he smiled before pounding his old bros fist for the first time in years
"Boys." She groaned "So who are they? anyone we'd know?" Jordan asked
"Yup. Lucy, Ronnie Anne, Sid, and Stella"
Clyde and Jordan were surprised by this "wow, so you got together with Stella" Jordan said
"Yeah, only what happened to her here didn't happen to her in my dimension, I swear if I ever see those pigs again I'm going to punch all of their teeth out"
"Whatever you do Linc, we didn't see it," Jordan said, both her and Clyde having a great disdain for the three boys.
"Hold up Linc, you said Lucy, you mean YOUR Lucy?"
"If you mean the Lucy from here, no. If you mean the Lucy from my new dimension, then yes"
The two now looked horrified and quite disgusted "Lincoln, you're in a relationship with your sister?!"
"Yes," Lincoln confirmed and then gave a brief explanation about how it worked out, and the reasons why it wasn't as bad as it sounded.
Jordan looked at Clyde "uh Clyde, what should we do in this situation?" Jordan asked, she knew that incest was illegal but at the same time, the Lucy he was with was more or less his adoptive sister from another dimension.
"I have no idea…eh who cares, they're not breaking any laws in their dimension so it shouldn't be a problem," Clyde said while Jordan just shrugged
"Well now that that little problem is sorted, how about you two, anyone special in your lives?" Lincoln asked, Clyde, went first
"Well do you remember Haiku by any chance?"
"Yeah I know her, nice girl"
"Well we've been together since High School"
"Really?! that's great to hear man!" and he shook Clyde's hand before turning to Jordan "how about you Jordan, anyone special"
Jordan gave a sad sigh "no, unfortunately, no one wants to be with me because I'm a cop. Guys act like I'll arrest or shoot them if they say or do the wrong thing around me" before giving another sad sigh.
Lincoln then walked up to her and pulled her into a one-armed hug "hey don't worry, there's someone out there for everyone, even cops. Plenty of guys out there like strong women" he said as Jordan basically melted into his embrace. She knew this was improper what with her in uniform in public...but he was so...If she closed her eyes this was the closest she'd ever be to a hug from The Rock. Clyde suppressed a laugh as he saw the pleased look on Jordan's face, which disappeared as Lincoln let go of her.
"You know it's surprising Lincoln, most people don't stay with their high school sweethearts, nevermind their elementary and middle-school ones. But here you come back provin' otherwise times four" Clyde said
"You've known Haiku since 5th grade" Lincoln responded
"I knew 'of' her. I talked to her at the Sadie Hawkins and then not again until we were starting grade 10. We bumped into each other at an new antique store, and we hit it off and...well" He rubbed the back of his head
Lincoln's eyebrows raised "Haiku...McBride?"
"The name on the paper is Mary Ingrid McBride. Haiku's her goth name, but don't tell her I told you"
"My lips are sealed"
"Thanks, you two want a lift?"
"Sure," both Lincoln and Lisa said in union. The 4 of them then hopped into the squad car before Clyde drove them back to the Loud residence.
Author's Note: There you go, not only did you learn a bit about Lisa's time in the mental institution but also what became of this universes Clyde and Jordan. Let me know if you caught the reference in this chapter, and don't forget to tell me what you thought. So until the next chapter, peace :D
