Ch 14: A Loud Too Many
Outside at the park, Lincoln and his friends were searching for something.
"One, two, three." Liam had picked up a clover and counted three leaves on it. He tossed it aside.
"Three. Three." Lincoln counted. "It's gotta be four. A four leaved clover means good luck. And luck means we'll be able to talk people into anything."
"With good luck, getting rid of clothes stains would be easier." Clyde commented.
"Guys, I've found something." Rusty said. He showed a rare flower.
"What's with the weed?" Zach asked.
"Actually, it's a very rare flower." Clyde explained.
"Yeah, that's cute but we need a four leaved clover." Lincoln said.
Rusty tossed the flower away but Clyde leaped and grabbed it. "Please be gentle."
"Is a four leaved clover too much to ask for?" Lincoln said. Then he found one. "Bingo! Feel the magic, boys!"
Then there was a loud and long growling sound. Rusty freaked out. "Lincoln!" He jumped into Lincoln's arms.
"You're giving me a hernia, Rusty!"
"It sounds like the howl of the werewolf from the belly of Hades!"
Lincoln dropped him. "Rusty, that's your belly."
Rusty saw his stomach rumbling. "Oh. I'm hungry."
"Let's go to my place and make some pizza!" Lincoln suggested.
"I'll make the sauce." Clyde said.
"I'll add the meat." Liam said.
"I'll help with the dough." Zach said.
"I'll try not to make a big mess." Rusty said.
Somewhere in the neighborhood, Lola and her friend Winston were jump roping outside.
"Pretty impressive Lola." Winston complimented. Suddenly, Rusty, Lincoln, Liam, and Zach ran past Winston and Lola. They made Winston fall and get tangled in his rope.
"A little help here." Winston said.
"Lincoln, you blockhead!" Lola yelled.
Lola went to help Winston. Clyde was walking by.
"Look what my stupid brother and your friends did!" Lola scolded.
"Excuse me."
Winston and Lola noticed the flower Clyde was holding.
"Is that a Baby Blue Gym Sock?" Winston asked. They sniffed the flower. "It's beautiful."
"Come on, Clyde!" Lincoln called.
Clyde handed the flower to Lola. "Here. You keep it."
Lola took it and sniffed it. Clyde left.
"Ah, Clyde and me were meant to be." Lola said dreamily. She went after him, completely forgetting about Winston who was still tangled in the rope.
"Lola?"
At the Loud House, the boys are preparing the pizza. Lincoln and Zach are making the dough, Clyde is making sauce, Rusty is adding cheese, and Liam is adding meat.
"I've blanched the tomatoes, and now for a dash of oregano." Clyde said and added the ingredient. "Careful…"
Lincoln cracked eggs in a bowl. "And one egg, and five eggs!"
He crushed five eggs and the yolk spilled into the bowl. Clyde got startled.
"Lincoln please, I'm trying to concentrate."
"What?" Lincoln and Zach had eggs in their mouths, making them look like teeth.
"Don't you understand how easily tomato sauce bruises?" Clyde said while stirring the sauce.
"How much yeast, Clyde?" Zach asked.
"Just one tablespoon, Zach."
"Yeah right." Zach poured a bunch of yeast into the bowl. The bowl started shaking and bubbling.
"Rusty, quit eating all the cheese!" Lincoln said.
Rusty had munched on a wheel of cheese. "Cheese, Swiss."
"Pepperoni, Italian." Liam said and handed him some meat and a slicer.
Rusty began cutting meat. "Slicer, aluminum."
The pizza dough expands into a big ball of dough. Lincoln and Zach are kneading it. The dough keeps growing.
"Maybe I shouldn't have added so much yeast." Zach stated.
"Guys, we could use some hands over here!" Lincoln said.
Rusty and Liam joined in kneading the dough. Actually, they jumped on the dough like it was a trampoline. Just then, Lola entered the kitchen.
"Hi Clyde." She greeted him nicely.
"Oh, hey Lola." Clyde greeted.
"What are you making?"
"Pizza."
"Belly flop!" Rusty belly flopped onto the dough, flattening it.
"Looks good and flat." Lincoln said. "Get the sauce Clyde." He sees Lola with Clyde. "Lola? We're kinda busy here. What are you doing with Clyde?"
Clyde is walking backwards as Lola is towards him. "Do I have something in my teeth?"
Winston looks through the window and sees Lola. "Lola?" He falls down.
Clyde was now in one of the kitchen cabinets.
"Come out of there, silly." Lola said.
"I'm quite comfortable in here. Thank you."
"Lola, don't you think you should play outside?" Zach asked.
"BACK OFF, GEEK!" Lola yelled in his ear. She went over to Clyde and started tugging on his arm. "Come and play with me, Clyde."
"Hey squirt, Mom's calling you!" Lincoln picked up Lola and went to throw her outside but instead she threw him outside. She blew her tongue out at him and closed the door. Then she managed to toss Rusty, Liam, and Zach out of the house.
"Wow, your sister's tougher than she looks." Liam commented.
"Come on guys." Lincoln ran back inside and the boys followed him. They went back to the kitchen.
"Lincoln, help me!" Clyde was on top of the fridge as Lola was jumping up to grab him.
"Come down Clyde." She noticed letter magnets on the fridge and arranged them to spell something. Lincoln pushed her away.
"What's this? Lola and Clyde?" He read. "My sister's got a crush on Clyde!"
"Well, better him than me." Rusty said.
"Crush?" Clyde said, surprised.
"You're my boyfriend." Lola was now on top of the fridge with Clyde.
"Let's go Romeo." Lincoln pulled his friend down.
"Gimme back my boyfriend!" Lola demanded.
Meanwhile at Winston's place, Winston is in his living room looking at a picture of him and Lola on his phone. The picture has Lola and Winston taking a selfie together. He sighed in depression. "I'm so lonely."
One of his butlers came up to him. "Winston, your dessert is ready."
"Oh boy. Lunch!" He ran to the kitchen and was served some kind of chocolate pastry. "Yum. Light and fluffy." Then it melted. "Darn egg whites."
The boys popped their heads out of a bush. They were hiding from Lola.
"I think I'm sitting on a twig." Clyde said.
"Looks like we lost her." Lincoln said. "Let's go."
They came out of the bush. Clyde had something caught on his leg. "Pesky twig."
Clyde pulls his leg out. It's shown that Lola was hanging onto his leg.
"Come and see my dollies, boyfriend."
"Oh come on!" Lincoln said frustrated.
Lola was hugging Clyde. Lincoln grabbed him.
"Quit fooling around, Clyde!"
He pulled him away from Lola. The boys ran off but Lola appeared in front of Clyde.
"Where are we going now, boyfriend?"
The boys noticed Lola started playing around Clyde.
"Ring around the boyfriend! Ring around the boyfriend!" She jumped on his back. "Piggyback ride!"
"We've had enough, Lola!" Lincoln yelled.
"Mind your own business, bub!" Lola yelled back.
"Sweat. I'm starting to sweat." Clyde mentioned.
"Your sister's out of control." Rusty said.
Lola hugged Clyde some more. Lincoln got an idea. "Oh Lola, Clyde wrote you a poem."
Lincoln handed her a paper. She took it. "For me?" She read. "Get lost. Aw, that's so...Hey!"
She then realized the boys got away with Clyde in their arms.
Winston was driving down the sidewalk in his toy go kart, feeling depressed. He spots a rare looking flower like the one Clyde had earlier. He goes to smell it.
"If only Lola hadn't fallen for Clyde-" He then gets angry at the mention of Clyde, since Clyde drove Lola away from him. "Clyde. Stupid flower!" He steps on it. "I'm a lone wolf looking for trouble!"
He starts foaming at the mouth and rips the flower to pieces with his mouth. His friend Skippy comes over.
"Hey Winston." He sees what he's doing, noticing the foam in his mouth. "Um...did you get bitten by a werewolf?"
Winston goes to sock him, but since he is weak he misses him and spins around.
"Are we playing tag? Tag! You're it!" Skippy tags him and runs away. Winston turns red with anger.
At Clyde's place, Lincoln opened the garage door and looked around before going back inside and closing it. "Well, no sign of my sister. Looks like we finally got rid of her. Now how's it coming?"
"The paper machete is ready Lincoln." Clyde said, stirring the material.
Rusty has his hands in the mixture. "So let me get this straight, we're making a sculpture of a spaceship for our history class assignment."
"That's correct." Clyde said. "Also, you shouldn't be touching that stuff with your bare hands."
"Why not?" The muck quickly dries and hardens on Rusty's hands.
"That's why." Clyde pointed out.
"This idea has got to get us an A+." Lincoln said. He went up to the giant spaceship sculpture which wasn't quite done yet. "This is our greatest group project yet. Maybe we can get the top part of the ship done today."
"And I can act like Neil Armstrong." Zach stated. He says a famous line from the astronaut. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
"We need more top support, Lincoln." Clyde said as he studied the plans.
Suddenly, Lola showed up.
"Boyfriend, this is stupid. A spaceship." Lola took the plans and made paper cut outs of her and Clyde dancing. "Can you ballroom dance?"
"Lincoln!" Clyde called.
Lincoln was on a ladder. "What is it?" He saw Lola with Clyde. "Lola! Leave Clyde alone!"
"Keep out of this!" Lola yelled.
Clyde ran in front of Rusty who was holding the ladder. "Hide me!"
Lola jumped on Rusty. Clyde ran away. "You're fun, boyfriend!"
The ladder was moving off balance. "Whoa! Steady down there!" Lincoln said. He bumped into a shelf full of paint buckets. The shelf broke and the buckets dropped. Rusty grabbed the ladder. He slipped on a bucket, causing the ladder to twist around. Lincoln was now at the bottom, holding the ladder with Rusty at the top. Lincoln couldn't hold the ladder steady but he fell and Rusty came down. The ladder flung Lincoln backwards and he broke through the spaceship sculpture and a piece of it hit the paper machete mixture causing it to fly through the air and pour onto Clyde, who was running away from Lola. The mixture hardened and Clyde was frozen in place.
"Hello trapped boyfriend." Lola said.
"Lincoln, look at this!" Liam said.
Lincoln looked and saw his sister painting hearts on a trapped Clyde.
"That's pathetic." Lincoln said.
"Lola's weird when she's not hanging out with her friend." Rusty said.
"That's it!" Lincoln realized. "We need to find Winston! Come on guys!"
"But what about Clyde?" Zach asked.
"He's not going anywhere." Lincoln and his friends left the garage.
Lola added a necklace around Clyde.
"Uh, guys?"
Lincoln and the others ran to the park. Lincoln spotted Winston on a teeter totter.
"Hey Winston."
Winston turned around. "What are you looking at, dork?"
"Dork?"
"Looking for trouble? Cause I'll flip you like a pancake!" Winston attempted to hit Lincoln but failed as he spun around and got dizzy.
"Hey, take it easy Tarzan." Lincoln said. "You want my sister Lola back, right? So you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours."
He kicked Lincoln a couple times. "Where's Lola? I want Lola! Give her back!"
Lincoln just looked annoyed. "Ok, let's get this over with."
The boys lead Winston to Lola. Lincoln had put a blindfold on Winston and he dragged him.
"I can't see."
"Relax."
Clyde was leading Lola over to Winston. She also had a blindfold on. "I like surprises."
Lincoln and Clyde put the little kids in front of each other. They took off their blindfolds.
"Lola?"
"Winston!"
They hugged.
"Wanna come over and have some tea?"
"Sure."
The two kids ran off. The five boys sighed in relief.
"Well, it's better to have loved than lost." Clyde stated.
"Then lost then found." Zach said.
"You said it!" Lincoln said bitterly. "What a rotten day! So much for good luck."
Lincoln tossed away the four-leaf clover. Skippy walked by and found the clover. "Wow, a four leaved clover!" He then found a twenty dollar bill on the ground. "Wow, a twenty dollar bill!" He walked off.
Lincoln saw this and was surprised. "But…that's our luck."
"I guess good luck charms don't work for everyone." Clyde stated.
Then the boys heard a loud growling. Rusty looked at his stomach and it was rumbling again. "I'm hungry."