Chapter 6 pizza delivery

It was evening at Gus' Games Grub. Leni has recently got a job there to work with Lori and earn cash. Her job was to clean the tables and wash cups and dishes. Once in a while, the siblings got free pizza and Leni loved working here. Right now, it was time to leave and Leni was cleaning one more table.

"Man, another great day at Gus' Games and Grub." Leni said as she wiped a table.

"Hurry up with those tables, Leni!" Lori shouted out. "It's after closing and I'd like to go home."

Just then, the phone in the restaurant rings.

"I've got it! I've got it!" Leni yelled as leapt for the phone but Lori beat her too it. Leni fell on the floor.

"Hello? Sorry sir, we're closed-" Lori said but the manager snatched the phone from here.

"Gus' Games and Grub. How may we help you?

The customer gives his order over the phone.

"Pizza? Duh. Of course we have pizza." The manager replied. "Our delivery gal will bring it right over."

The manager hung up.

"But sir, we don't deliver." Lori mentioned.

"We don't deliver but you do." The guy replied, giving Lori a pizza box.

"Can't you just get Leni to do it?" Lori asked.

"Good idea. Bring her with you."

Leni came up to her sister with a big smile.

"That's not what I had in mind!" Lori responded as the manager left.

Now the two oldest sisters were outside the pizzeria. Leni was doing a vehicle inspection on Vanzilla.

"Front end. Check." Leni said checking the front of the van. She went to the back.

"Bumper. Check. Bumper sticker. Check."

The bumper sticker was designed by Leni herself. On it, it said "Loud and Proud." Leni went to check the tires.

"Tire pressure. Check." Leni said and went into Vanzilla with Lori waiting inside.

"Vehicle inspection is complete." Leni told her. "We're really making history now, Lori. That lucky customer is gonna get their first pizza delivered to their house."

"Good. Then you drive." Lori said.

"I can't. I'm still a lousy driver." Leni mentioned.

"Come on. It's just around the corner. Just do what I do."

"Well, uh, ok." Leni said nervously. "Wait, don't tell me."

"Back it up." Lori told her.

"Huh?"

"Back it up."

"Uhhh…"

"Back it up!"

"Ok! Ok!"

"Shift it to reverse, Leni!"

"Oh yeah. Reverse." Leni looked at the shifting gears and the words translated into Korean language.

"Back it up!" Lori yelled.

"Backing up! Backing up!" Leni yelled out as she shifted gears. The van drove backwards.

"No Leni! Gimme the wheel! Gimme the wheel!" Lori yelled as she tried to take the wheel from Leni. The van drove on some bumpy rocks and spun out of control. Soon, they ended up far away from the town. The van was still backing up as Leni kept saying backing up.

"Backing up. Backing up. Backing up. Backing up."

The van finally stopped.

"Well, you backed up." Lori said flatly. "And you know what? We're out of gas." Lori got out of the van. "And you know what else? We're in the middle of nowhere!"

Leni got out of the van with the pizza. "And you know what else else? I think the pizza's getting cold."

"And the pizza's getting cold?!" Lori said dramatically. "No! The pizza's cold! Not the pizza! How could things literally get any worse?!"

Lori goes to the back of Vanzilla and kicks it, causing the gas to go from empty and full and Vanzilla to drive off without them. Lori and Leni stare it as until it's out of sight.

"Well, we can still deliver it on foot." Leni suggested.

With no other option, the girls decide to walk to the customer's house. Leni sings a song while Lori is in pain from too much walking.

"Gus' Games and Grub pizza is the pizza for you and me! Gus' Games and Grub pizza is the pizza-"

"And my feet are killin' me." Lori added.

Lori trips over Leni who is lying on the ground for some reason. Lori gets back up.

"Leni, what are you doing?"

"It's an old pioneer trick. I learned it in history class." Leni replied, feeling the dirt.

"Leni, this is no time for-"

"Shh! I think it's working."

"What is it?"

Leni pulled Lori over and pointed at something. "Truck! Sixteen wheels!"

A truck was nearby on the road coming their way. Leni gave Lori the pizza box.

"Now I can show you how the pioneers hitchhiked." Leni said. She put on a pioneer hat and started performing a weird dance. Lori even assisted her by playing a wooden spoon. The guy in the truck honked his horn.

"Crashin' frashin' break dancers!"

"He's stopping!" Lori yelled out but then realized he wasn't stopping. She quickly moved Leni out of the road and the truck passed by. Luckily, they weren't harmed but ended getting a little dirty. Lori narrowed her eyes at Leni who was smiling.

The two siblings continue with their delivery. It has now become very windy. Leni sings her pizza song again. A branch hits Lori in the face and a bug lands in her mouth. She spits it out.

"Gus' Games and Grub pizza is the pizza for you! Gus' Games and Grub is the pizza! Very t-asty!"

The wind proves to be strong for Leni when she gets dragged by it, still holding onto the pizza.

"Will you let go of that stupid pizza already?!" Lori snapped.

"I can't! It's for the customer!" Leni replied, still being dragged around.

"Who cares about the customer?"

"I do!"

"Well I don't!"

Leni gasps as the wind suddenly stops. "Lori!" She said angrily. The wind resumes carrying Leni.

"Let go of the pizza!"

"No!"

The wind causes Leni to run over Lori.

"Ow." Lori groaned. She grabbed onto her sister's legs. Now the wind was dragging both sisters.

"Leni, let go of the pizza!"

"No! It's for the customer!"

"Leni!"

Suddenly, there was a tornado nearby and they were headed towards it!

"Let go of the pizza!

"No!"

"Leni-" Lori looks down and sees they're far off the ground. "Hang on to the pizza!"

The tornado sucks them in from the bottom and they come out from the top. They fall down from the sky. Luckily, there was a mattress on the ground but only one of them landed on it, which was Leni. Lori landed hard on the ground.

"Hey, what's a mattress doing out there?" Lori asked.

"I don't know. But it broke my fall." Leni replied.

Lori looked around. "Hey, where's the road?"

The road was nowhere to be seen. Just lots of dirt and also a tumbleweed.

"Where's the road? Ah! We're doomed! How are we gonna get home? Which way is the road?!"

Lori was panicking as Leni remained calm. Leni walks over to a mossy rock.

"Land's this way." She told Lori, pointing to her left.

"Don't tell me, Jethro. The pioneers?" Lori assumed.

"Yep. Moss always points to civilization." Leni replied, pointing at the rock.

"That way? That way there?" Lori asked, pointing to her left. Leni nods.

"So let me get this straight. You want us to go that way?"

Leni nods again.

"Well, then I'm going this way." Lori said, going in the opposite direction.

"Huh? Lori, wait! I don't think-"

"Trust me, Leni. I know where I'm going." Lori assured her.

So the two siblings went the other direction but it turns there was another city located in opposite direction. Leni continued to sing her pizza song once again.

"Gus' Games and Grub pizza is the pizza absolutivally!"

Leni did some beatbox noises and butt shaking while walking backwards. Now Leni sang in a low voice.

"Krusty krab pizza is the pizza, yeah yeah, for you and (falsetto) ME!"

Soon, the two sisters were getting tired. Leni's singing began to fade. They eventually stopped walking and laid on the ground exhausted. Lori lifted herself up.

"Leni, we literally gotta eat something." Lori said.

Leni lifted herself up and pulled out a wood stump.

"Like, I heard in times of hardship, the pioneers would eat wood."

Lori snatched the wood from Leni and chews it.

"No, Maybe it wasn't wood."

Lori spits out the wood.

"Maybe it was sand or mud."

"Give me the pizza!" Lori snapped.

"Wait, I remember now! It was wood!" Leni replied, holding the pizza close to her.

"Give it to me!"

"No! It's for the customer."

"You're right. It's for the customer." Lori said soothingly.

"Yeah."

"Maybe we better check on it to make sure it's ok."

"Well-"

"Just a peek." Lori opened the box up a little.

"Ok, it's fine!" Leni said, shutting the box quickly.

"No, wait. I think I saw something." Lori said, opening the box. "Nope. I was wrong. It looks great. Sure is a fine looking pizza."

"Yeah."

"What is that? Is that the cheese?"

"Yeah!"

"And the pepperoni?"

"Yeah!" Leni was now getting hungry as she slurped.

"Oh, looks good, doesn't it?" Lori said devilishly.

Then Leni came to her senses. "Wait a second. I know what you're trying to do, Lori!" She closes the box. "I'm not letting you eat this pizza!"

"Give me the pizza!" Lori yelled.

"No!"

"Don't make me take it away from you, Leni!"

"Get away!" Leni ran off the pizza box. Lori chased after her. "Get back here, Leni!"

"No!"

"Leni!"

"No!"

Leni!"

"No!"

Lori got tired of running. Leni kept running into she bumped into her sister and fell on the ground.

"I want that pizza and you're gonna give it to me one way or another!" Lori yelled.

"Look, we're saved!" Leni said, looking in a direction.

"Yeah, we're saved. Now gimme some pizza!"

"No, really Lori. We're saved! We're saved! We're saved!" Leni yelled happily, jumping up and down.

"Will you cut that out?"

Leni sang a little song about them being saved and did a dance with cartwheels and front flips. Leni was so happy because she saw a boulder.

"That's just a stupid boulder." Lori said.

"It's not just a boulder." Leni said. "It's a rock! (sniffs and cries) A beautiful old rock! Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles! And it's in great shape!"

Leni has climbed on top of it.

"Leni, will you forget about the stupid pioneers?!" Lori yelled angrily. "Have you ever noticed that there are literally none of them left? That's because they were lousy hitchhikers, ate coral, and took directions from algae! And now you're telling me that they could drive-"

Leni suddenly runs over her with the boulder.

"Rocks?" Lori gets back up and runs after her ditzy sister. "Hold on there, Jethro!"

Soon, they arrive at the customer's house.

"I can't wait to see the look on the customer's face when we deliver the pizza."

Leni jumps down with the pizza and goes up to the door and rings the doorbell. She gives Lori a thumbs up. A teenage girl, about the same age as Lori, opens the door.

"Yes?" She answered.

"Good evening ma'am." Leni greeted her. "Your Gus' Games and Grub pizza is here!"

Leni hands the teenager the box and she takes it.

"Wow. Thanks. I've been dying for one of these." The girl replied. "Wait, where's my drink?"

"What drink?" Leni asked.

"My drink! My Diet Doctor Cola! Don't tell me you forgot my drink!"

Leni looked in a notepad for an order of Diet Doctor Cola.

"But you didn't order any-"

"How am I supposed to eat this pizza without my drink?" The teenager snapped and threw the pizza box in poor Leni's face. "Didn't you ever once think of the customer? You call yourself a delivery girl! Why I ain't buyin!"

The angry customer slams the door. Lori had just witnessed the whole thing. Leni comes back with the pizza, looking like she's about to cry. Lori jumps down and tries to comfort her sister.

"Leni, it's ok. Leni?"

Leni falls to the floor and begins crying her eyes out. Lori felt bad for her. Especially after all the crap they went through. She got angry and decided to deliver the pizza. She angrily pounded on the customer's door. The girl answered it.

"Another one?" The girl complained. "Look, I told your little partner I ain't paying for that."

"Well, this one's on the house!" Lori yelled. She shoved the pizza box in the teenager's face, knocking her out. Lori walked back to Leni, who was still sad.

"Did she change her mind?" Leni asked.

"Yep, are the whole thing in one bite." Lori said smugly.

"No drink?"

"Nah. Now take me home."

Leni cheered up and got on the boulder along with Lori.

"Are you kidding?" Leni said. "We enough time to make it back to work."

Leni drove the boulder and it instantly got to Gus' Games and Grub.

"Work?" Lori questioned. "Oh, my aching legs."

Meanwhile, at the Loud House, Bobby arrived at the house and knocked on the door. Rita answered it. Lynn Sr. also showed up to see who was there.

"Hi Bobby." Rita greeted. "Lori's not here right now. She's at her job working with Leni."

"I know." Bobby replied. "But I saw Vanzilla driving by itself until it ran out of gas. I decided to fill it up and bring it back to you guys."

He shows them the van.

"Might wanna put the thing on a leash. Well, you folks have a good night."

Bobby left in a tow truck. Mr. and Mrs. Loud looked at each other in confusion.