Reversal of Fortune: Chapter 18: Sister Rage Protocol

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5; 3:15 PM
LOUD HOUSE
ROYAL WOODS, MICHIGAN

The first ever "Thermonuclear Sister Fight Protocol", as declared by Lisa after the events at the Tetherby Mansion, initially did not live up to the hype.

Immediately after returning home, the Loud family members went to their rooms in silence, slammed the doors shut, and cried into their pillows for the remainder of the afternoon in shock, horror, agony, and disbelief. The normal wars for food and TV time were completely abandoned as almost everyone felt so overwhelmed by their grief that they had to take a timeout just to process their emotions. Everyone except one Loud sibling.

Lisa, who had mostly already processed her grief regarding the loss of the Loud pets, felt nothing but rage at the rest of her family for contributing to their situation. While she had positively interacted with Marcus Quick, her interactions were merely to warn Marcus of the trials he would face after his playing career. That was nothing compared to the rest of the sisters' interactions with Marcus. Lola, Lana, and Lucy, played their standard childish games with him, which was enough to intrigue him into sticking around. Lynn Jr. had brought Marcus into the house and encouraged the rest of her sisters to hang out with him. Lisa's parents had cooked a nice meal for Marcus and welcomed him into their home like one of their own. Luan and Luna teamed up to host a combination concert and stand-up comedy show for the football megastar. And finally, Lori and Leni showed hospitality towards Marcus by having unprotected sexual intercourse with him multiple times. The images of Lori and Leni having sex with Marcus flashing across Lisa's mind made even her feel like vomiting.

However, Lisa also recognized that a rare opportunity had come up in the silence of the house. As bad as the Sister Fight Protocol appeared to be getting, it was abruptly interrupted when one of Marcus Quick's bodyguards shot at the family, forcing them off the property. Lisa knew that she was the only mentally lucid member of the house now, and upon recognizing this, decided to take full advantage of it. She felt just as angry and vengeful as the rest of her sisters at Marcus Quick. At the same time, she recognized that jumping blindly into a revenge plan against Marcus' armed and dangerous thugs was a bad idea, especially without any form of technology except her phone. She also knew that as tragic as the losses were, she had to logistically prepare the Louds for whatever came next. And she would spend the next couple of hours doing just that.

First, Lisa surveyed and searched her room for any pieces of technology and scientific equipment she still had, and took inventory of it all. While all of Lisa's technology had been stolen, all of Lisa's chemical equipment remained, including her beakers and the chemicals themselves. The robbers were smart to not risk the side effects that come with handling my chemicals, she thought. In seeing her stack of chemicals and substances fully intact, Lisa quickly realized that she may have not been as disadvantaged by the previous night's robbery as she initially thought. This would expedite any revenge plans she would make against Marcus Quick and his cronies.

Once Lisa finished counting the inventory in her room, she realized that with the sheer amount of extracurriculars that the family had, she would have to make numerous calls telling those people that the Louds wouldn't be present that day. She figured that Lynn Sr. and Rita had already called in to declare themselves absent from work, so they were taken care of. By virtue of having scholastic extracurricular activities, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr., and Lucy were also already taken care of by that assumption. That left Lola, Lana, and herself. As usual, Lisa decided to take care of herself first. She called every scientific and technological institute she worked with to let them know that she was taking an extended leave of absence due to bereavement from the loss of the pets. These institutions understood and let Lisa have her time off.

Once that was done, she opened a voice-changing app and changed the "Voice Output" setting to "Rita", presumably to make the calls declaring that Lola and Lana would be absent from that day's extracurricular activities. First, she called Cheryl Farrell's cellphone. When Cheryl picked up, she answered, "Hello?"

Lisa, sounding like Rita over the phone, told Cheryl, "Hello, this is Rita Loud speaking."

Cheryl chirped, "Ah, Mrs. Loud! How are you?"

Lisa sighed, "Not too good. You know that family emergency I called you about earlier?"

Cheryl replied, "Yes, what about that?"

Lisa informed Cheryl, "We found out that all of our pets died."

Cheryl gasped over the phone before saying, "Oh my, Rita. May I extend my deepest condolences to you and your family."

Lisa said, "Thanks. Now, can you let the people working the Miss Little Angel Pageant know that Lola won't be able to attend rehearsals tonight? She's grieving."

Cheryl put her hand to her mouth before stuttering out, "A-absolutely. Take as much time as you need. And tell Lola I said that, OK?"

Lisa responded, "Absolutely. Bye, Cheryl!"

Cheryl said "Goodbye" to Lisa before hanging up. As she did, Lisa thought to herself, one down, one to go. Lisa then searched for "Bluebell Scouts" on the phone, and after finding it, she called that number as well. Thanks to calling the Bluebell Scouts on the voice modulating app, Lisa's voice would sound like Rita on this call as well.

When the Bluebell Scouts Leader picked up the phone, she answered, "Hello, this is April, Bluebell Scouts Leader, speaking."

Lisa said into the phone, "Hi, April, it's Rita calling."

April answered happily, "Oh my, Rita? How are you?!"

Lisa explained, "Not too good. We just went to the veterinarian and all of our pets just died."

April gasped before stuttering, "Oh-oh wow, Rita. My sincerest condolences."

Lisa continued, "Thank you. Now, because of this, Lana will not be going to Bluebells for a while. At least until she feels better."

April paused for a second before answering, "Y-yes. That's understandable. You and your family, take as much time as you need. And we'll be sure to send a package of our finest Bluebell Scouts cookies, just for you guys."

Lisa replied, "Thank you, I appreciate it", before hanging up the phone. As she did, Lisa said to herself, "Time off and Bluebell Scouts cookies? You did good, Lisa. You did good."

Once she finished calling everyone to let them know that the Louds would be unable to meet their commitments that night, Lisa's face immediately took on a determined scowl, as she realized she would be able to focus on her main goal: revenge against Marcus Quick.

First, Lisa took her phone, scoured both the Visible and Invisible Web, and bought the latest versions of the technology that had been stolen from her for overnight delivery. With the technology being as expensive as it was, Lisa used the institutional credit cards she had been issued to make her purchases on the Visible Web go through. As for Lisa's purchases on the Invisible Web, Lisa was able to wire the cryptocurrency to the sellers very quickly.

Next, Lisa began to brainstorm ways to personally kill Marcus Quick and his cronies. She knew that she would have to do it in such a way that they wouldn't even see it coming. And while she also knew that she could tap into her connections with numerous national governments and scientific institutes to help her do the job, she felt like this was something that she needed to do on her own. She believed that even on her own, she could kill them without anything being traced back to her. But she needed the right supplies to do it. She wanted something that would not only kill them, but would cause great agony to them as he died. She wanted them to suffer in their last days, just as the Loud pets had apparently suffered in their final moments. Unfortunately, Lisa didn't have anything on hand at the moment that would do just that. But within seconds, an idea came to her based on a past experiment.

Lisa remembered that a couple of months earlier, she had injected polonium into the arm of a girl who had built an expansion to the capacity of the Loud family's cloud storage. Lisa had two reasons for doing this. The first one was that a couple of weeks beforehand, she had heard of the story of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who defected to the British, got injected with polonium by Russian spies, and died after spending 3 weeks in hospital. She found herself fascinated with this story, and wanted to see if she could inject polonium into a living host and have said person survive. She knew it was not likely, but that didn't matter now. The second reason was more practical: the girl had been bugging Lisa for days prior about paying her, but Lisa wanted to use that money on other experiments she had been working on. What was her name… Melissa Fletcher, was it? Whoever she was, her name was unimportant right now. What mattered was that Lisa had injected polonium into her arm to see the effects of it for herself. Sure, Lisa had managed to secure a slower-acting variant, but it was still polonium all the same.

Now, Lisa knew she wanted a fast-acting variant of polonium to strike back at Marcus as quickly as possible, and to send a message to any of his supporters that they could meet the same fate at her hands. She remembered a French scientist she had worked with that had since defected to the Russians. Born Jean Forte, but now named Yovan Gromkiy, he was an intelligence agent with questionable ethics that could quickly get things done, for the right price. Rumor had it that he had a large family at home himself, and as such, could relate to Lisa's struggles. After searching for his number, she opened an encryption app, and decided to give him a call.

The phone rung three times before Yovan picked up the phone and answered in a thick Slavic accent, "Hello, Yovan Gromsiky speaking."

Lisa spoke, "Good evening, this is Lisa Loud. I hope I'm not interrupting anything important."

Yovan laughed before reassuring Lisa, "You are not. So, what do you want to talk about?"

Lisa explained, "There's a crazed sports star in my neighborhood that killed all of my family's pets. Marcus Quick, I believe his name was."

Yovan pondered, "Hmm… Marcus Quick. Never heard of him. You and your Americans with your crazy sports. Tackleball… it's not even football, by the way, baseball, basketball."

Lisa continued, "His name doesn't matter. Do you have this call encrypted?"

Yovan, now in more of a serious mood, confirmed, "Yes, I do. Why, what do you want to do?"

Lisa told Yovan, "I want to take care of Marcus Quick. Though I will inform you that he is worth an estimated 100 million US dollars."

Yovan answered, "Ah… an oligarch. Those types are hard to take care of, but it can be done. Especially with someone of your intelligence."

Lisa blushed, "Oh, you are too kind. So, do you have anything I could use?"

Yovan confidently replied, "Yes, I do. What do you want? Do you want the good stuff?"

Lisa responded, "Yes. The US government gave me special permission to even contemplate synthesizing it, so you know I'm good for it."

Yovan asked, "How much?"

Lisa pondered aloud for a split-second before telling Yovan, "About 100 micrograms should do it."

Yovan, astounded at Lisa's reply, asked, "100 micrograms? Radio P is lethal at 1 microgram! You know that!"

Lisa explained, "True. But I have a lot of other pests I'm going to need to take care of."

Yovan sighed, "As you wish, Lisa. I just hope you know what you're doing."

Lisa assured Yovan, "I do."

Yovan then asked, "When do you want delivery?"

Lisa asked of Yovan, "How fast can you get it here?"

Yovan responded, "I don't know. Maybe… say… tomorrow at 2000 hours your time?"

Lisa, satisfied with Yovan's answer, told him, "Perfect. Tomorrow at 2000 hours Eastern Daylight Time."

Yovan then corroborated Lisa's request, "Okay", before asking, "Where are we meeting?"

Lisa explained, "Usual place. Unless there's a problem with that."

Yovan knew exactly what Lisa meant by "usual place", and assured her, "No, no. No problem with that place at all." Yovan then asked, "And as for payment?"

Lisa remembered, "Ah, yes. The payment. I will have the Nickcoin wired to you in a couple of hours."

Yovan was satisfied with Lisa's answer before naming his price, "8000 NCK."

Lisa nodded before assuring Yovan, "Mr. Gromskiy, you have yourself a deal."

Yovan smiled before replying, "Excellent. See you tomorrow."

Lisa responded, "Tomorrow", before hanging up the phone.

While all this was going on, Lily watched Lisa in fascination. As Lisa hung up the phone, Lily felt something come down her stomach, and yelled out to Lisa, "Poo-poo!"

As soon as Lily cried for Lisa's help, she pooped in her diaper. With the smell quickly overwhelming Lisa, she sighed and deadpanned, "Of course. Come here, Lily."

Lily then babbled happily as Lisa took Lily to her automated diaper-changing station.

As Lisa let the diaper-changing station assist Lily, she readied herself to work on further experiments before she heard Lori screaming from the other side of one of the house's walls, "MARCUS QUICK KILLED OUR PETS AFTER HE PROMISED ME I'D BE HIS GIRLFRIEND!", before breaking into hysterical crying. Judging from Lori's crying, Lisa quickly deduced that Lori was trying to explain to Bobby that she regretted hers and Leni's actions the previous night. Interested, she decided to put her ear to the wall to get a further glimpse of the conversation. While she couldn't hear anything on Bobby's end, she could hear the whole conversation on Lori's end. She heard Lori admit to Bobby that she had sex with Marcus Quick three times, but what really got to Lisa was the fact that she threatened to turn one of her siblings into a "human pretzel", as she would always say.

As soon as Lori uttered that threat, Lisa thought about the rest of her siblings. She knew that they would be distraught by the news of the Loud pets' brutal murder. Considering the Loud family's behavior around Marcus Quick the night he visited the Loud House, Lisa also anticipated that the resulting Sister Fight Protocol would be extremely intense if any of the sisters admitted what they did with Marcus Quick to each other. With that having already happened at the Loud pets' burial site, Lisa's predictions had been proven truer than she ever wanted to imagine. While Lisa wanted the Sister Fight Protocol to end so that she could band her sisters together to get revenge on Marcus, she was also livid at her sisters for keeping Marcus in the house long enough that such a tragedy could happen. She was looking for ways to punish her sisters when she remembered the chemicals she had stored away.

When she looked at them, she decided to use those chemicals, as well as a few others that she was planning on ordering from Yovan, to experiment on her siblings' pain response. That way, she could use the results for the inevitable revenge against Quick. Plus, it would be a very interesting scientific paper for her to publish, which would help her build connections in the military. While she wished Lincoln was there to help her, as he was usually her go-to choice for conducting these experiments, she recognized that with Lincoln out of the squirrel suit due to his hospitalization, it would be inconvenient for her to keep going in and out of the hospital to experiment on Lincoln. In addition, she also didn't want to jeopardize the relationships she had in the medical industry. Lisa Loud was highly esteemed and respected amongst the staff of Royal Woods General Hospital, and she knew that if she snuck into that hospital on a repeated basis to torture her brother, she would be eventually caught, arrested, and lose her medicine license. Testing out Lincoln's pain response just wasn't worth the trouble. In the end, she decided to stand back, observe the SFP, deduce its eventual loser, and experiment on her. By the end of the night, she would get her answer as to who that loser was.

(Scene Change: Lori and Leni's Room)

Meanwhile, the eldest two Loud sisters felt a deep sense of regret at what they had done. They had seduced Marcus and taken pictures of their night with him. They did this because a small part of them hoped that they could make Marcus their boyfriend. Sure, they knew they'd inevitably fight over him when it came time for Marcus to choose one of them, but they figured that was a bridge they'd cross when they got to it. They couldn't believe that they had let themselves fall for an animal abuser, and felt like they had compromised the family's sense of safety and security in the process. Of course, those feelings paled in comparison to the rage they felt at each other for coming up with different elements of their plan to seduce Marcus. They felt bad enough that they didn't even feel like responding to all the texts and social media notifications coming their way. They just laid in their beds face down and cried.

As if that wasn't enough, Lori was inconsolable after Bobby yelled at her and broke up with her for her actions with Marcus. It didn't even bother Lori that Bobby also broke up with her because Lisa implanted a tracking chip inside of him that had to be surgically removed that night. Nor did it bother her that rumors of her bullying her siblings were starting to spread, if what Bobby said was any indication. She just shrugged those accusations off as another day in the life of being an eldest sibling, and she would bear those crosses with a smile on her face if it meant she could get the pets back. In the span of about three hours, Lori's reckless actions had essentially cost her everything she ever loved. While she still had her friends, and her social media post dedicated to the memory of the Louds' fallen pets had blown up, she struggled to feel any sense of appreciation for her life due to her overwhelming grief.

Meanwhile, Leni just felt pure terror and anguish at the loss of the pets. She wondered to herself how someone could do such a horrible thing to the animals, especially someone with the looks, money, and celebrity status of Marcus Quick. Her mind briefly drifted back to how amazing the sex she had with Marcus was before she remembered that Lisa told her that Marcus Quick hurt the Loud pets so badly that she'd never see, hear from, or play with them again. She also worried for how Lana, the closest sister of the bunch to the pets, was feeling. She was also angry at Lori for coming up with the plan to seduce Marcus, and convincing her to go along with it. To Leni, sleeping with Marcus was justified because at least she was single. Lori, on the other hand, had a loving boyfriend who she betrayed. And Leni believed that cheating on your boyfriend, regardless of the circumstances, was wrong.

So, Leni took it upon herself to confront Lori on her actions, scolding her, "You know, we wouldn't be in this situation if you didn't go through with your 'special surprise' for Marcus."

Lori yelled through tears, "SHUT UP, LENI! God, you're such a fucking idiot! I literally just need some time, Leni. I just need some time."

Leni asked Lori, "Really? Did you need some time when you made the decision to choose Marcus Quick over a boyfriend that loved, respected, and cared about you?"

Lori retorted, "That doesn't matter now! Bobby literally broke up with me! And besides, he's a loser anyway… what does he have? A million dead-end jobs that he literally won't get out of, anyway."

Leni gasped at Lori's harsh words about Bobby before glaring at her. She yelled at Lori, "You don't really care about anybody, do you? OUR PETS ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!"

Lori defended herself, "HEY, IT WASN'T MY FAULT! LYNN LITERALLY BROUGHT HER IN THE HOUSE!"

Leni retorted, "Oh yeah? Who brought him into our room for some alone time? WHO wanted him to come to our room last? WE DID! You know… this wouldn't have happened if you just admitted that I bought that dress first."

Lori gasped before deadpanning, "You're literally bringing that up again?"

Leni scoffed, "I'm not as dumb as you think. I told Dana about our agreement, and she told me EVERY day of the week ends in the letter 'Y'. So I'd never wear that dress. Was that your plan?"

On most other days, Lori would just admit that she was wrong and apologize to Leni. But today, Lori was just overwhelmed by stress and grief from what she had been through, and couldn't handle Leni attempting to push her over the edge. So instead, Lori just smirked before evilly telling her sister, "Yeah. Yeah, it was. And I'd literally do it again."

Leni gasped before huffing and walking to her shared closet with Lori. As she opened it, she pulled out all of her clothes, bags, dresses, and furniture, including the blue dress that she and Lori fought over the previous summer.

When Lori saw Leni packing her suitcase with all of the clothes, she looked on in horror. Lori couldn't believe that Leni was taking some of her clothes with her. The nerve of that girl, she thought. When Lori saw Leni pull out the one-of-a-kind blue dress that she found at the mall, she gasped before growling at Leni in anger, "Where are you going?!"

Leni snapped back, "Away from here! And away from you!"

Lori roared, "AND YOU'RE LITERALLY TAKING MY DRESS!"

Leni sneered at Lori, "The way you acted last night, you don't deserve that dress!"

Lori immediately charged at Leni, resulting in a physical fight between the two sisters. Much slapping, punching, kicking, and hair-pulling ensued before the two engaged in a tug-of-war over the dress that ended up ripping it to shreds.

Lori and Leni gasped at the sight of the ripped dress before Lori yelled, "LOOK WHAT YOU DID! YOU LITERALLY RIPPED MY DRESS!"

Leni fired back, "YOUR DRESS?! Really, Lori? That dress was TOTES mine! Besides, we have another one… oh wait! It doesn't fit you, Miss 'I Have to Take Nutrition, Fitness, and Weight Management class!'"

Lori gasped before snarling at Leni, "You literally did not just go there."

Leni icily huffed, "Yeah. I did. And you know what? I'm taking that dress, too! And I'm wearing it every day of the week that ends in 'Y'!"

When Lori saw Leni stuffing the dress in her suitcase, she blocked the door and derided Leni, "You're not going anywhere."

Leni protested, "Watch me", and attempted to shoulder-check Lori out of the way.

However, Lori held firm and mocked Leni, "If you think you can get anywhere without me, you're wrong. You are so dumb you need special classes to get through high school, and even with Lisa's help, you're barely passing those. When I asked you to make my bed, you literally built me a new one from scratch. That's not what making a bed is! If you can't figure out those simple things, there's literally no way you can survive in your own room."

Leni looked down at the floor, dropped her suitcase, and said to Lori, "You're right", causing Lori to haughtily cross her arms and smirk smugly at Leni in triumph. For a split-second, it appeared that things would go back to normal. However, all that changed when Leni lifted her bed up, stunning Lori. When Leni lifted her bed up, she narrowed her eyebrows at Lori, glared at her, and told her, "Watch me."

Lori, suddenly having newfound respect for Leni for standing up to her like that, decided to hold the door open for Leni as she carried her bed and her belongings out of her room and into her new bedroom, wherever that would be. However, Lori took one last opportunity to mock Leni as she left by saying, "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out! And may I add, the attic is literally the best place to sleep!"

Leni yelled back, "Fine! I'll sleep there!", before pulling down the folding ladder to the attic in the middle of the kids' hallway and climbing it with her bed and suitcase somehow completely intact. Leni figured out that she could move the bed up the ladder faster if she simply pushed it up, and managed to set up her new bedroom surprisingly quickly.

Unfortunately for Leni, after she found a place for her bed and her suitcase in the attic, she found that she didn't have any extra place to put her extensive wardrobe, makeup collection, or any of the other supplies she used to stay pretty. As a matter of fact, she didn't really have a whole lot of space to move around. She wanted to talk to the rest of the family to move the rest of their stuff out of the attic. But then she remembered that the Sister Fight Protocol policy was to not disrupt the other sisters until they had cooled off And after the fight she had with Lori, she knew that there was no way she would be able to convince her to move her stuff from her room to the attic. Leni knew that an angry Lori could be so stubborn that she would be willing to put herself in danger if it meant getting her way. That much was evident with how she convinced Leni to seduce Marcus Quick. So, Leni began to ask herself who in the Loud House used the attic the most. She thought to herself, everyone in our house has been here before, and the attic was totes scary… that's it! Lucy! When Leni realized she had found the perfect sister to help her clean out the attic, she immediately took the folding ladder back downstairs, walked up to Lucy's room, knocked on the door, and said, "Lucy, get your stuff out of the attic. I'm sleeping there until Lori learns to respect me."

(Scene Change: Lynn Jr. & Lucy's Room)

Lynn Jr. had spent the afternoon in disbelief. Her idol and role model since first grade in Marcus Quick had turned out to be a pet-killing monster who also robbed the house of her sisters' favorite things. Sure, the passions of Lynn Jr.'s sisters got on the sporty girl's nerves at times, but more often than not, she enjoyed seeing her sisters happy with what they did with their lives. And while she wouldn't admit it to anyone else, she even found a weird sort of enjoyment in Luan's lame puns, Luna's loud music, Lori and Leni's incessant chatter about boys, Lucy's pop-ups, Lola's princess attitude, Lana's muddy and animal-friendly adventures, Lisa's experiments, and Lily's constant utterance of the word, "poo-poo." She couldn't believe that Marcus Quick, the best football player in the world and a millionaire over 100 times over, would do such a thing to the Louds. She didn't believe Marcus Quick was capable of such atrocities. She believed that Marcus may have been influenced by "Stinkoln's" lingering bad luck.

That's why when Lynn Jr. heard Leni ask Lucy to get her stuff out of the attic, Lynn Jr. couldn't help but see a perfect opportunity to get rid of the last source of bad luck she could think of in the house. That spooky girl, Lucy, had convinced her to keep the photo album of Lincoln because of some weird goth nonsense about bad luck being good luck for her, and vice versa. Lynn Jr. only gave into Lucy because in truth, she didn't want the bad luck to infect her. But now, with Marcus Quick, her idol, turning out to be an absolute monster that ripped the Loud family apart at the seams, Lynn Jr. wasn't convinced that she was safe even with Lincoln himself out of the house. No, she decided. Any trace of that jinx HAS to go. And if anyone in that house chooses to keep evidence of any trace of his existence… anyone… they have to go, too. We are not getting jinxed again. And if we do, maybe Marcus will heal the pets and they'll come back to life. Come back to us. Worst-case scenario, even if the pets are still dead, Marcus was innocent and his buddies and my stupid idiot sisters and Jinx-oln set him up. And oh… I'm gonna get them for that.

Thinking about that, Lynn Jr. smugly and angrily told Lucy, "You heard Leni. You gotta go."

Lucy weakly muttered, "W-what?"

Lynn Jr. explained, "First reason: do you know how much junk we have in that attic? I can't have that here! I'll trip over it when I do my pregame rituals! I need ALL the space I can get! I'm planning on mastering this new Lewis Ray dance!"

Lucy sarcastically quipped, "Good. I hope you fall and crack your skull while doing those dances, you traitor."

Lynn Jr. growled at Leni before snapping at her, "THAT'S MY SECOND POINT! You're always cursing everybody, always bringing around bad luck, always sneaking up on people and creeping them out. You're so depressing and negative… always bringing me down."

Lucy countered, "Sigh… the darkness comforts me. Learn to embrace it. It will help you with your pain."

Lynn Jr. yelled back, "Hey, no pain, no gain! And third thing… I bet you still have that creepy book hidden somewhere! You lied to me! You told me that goths have that weird 'luck reversal' thing where bad luck is good luck, and NOW look what happened to us! Our pets are dead, and everyone is telling me that Marcus Quick did it, even though he clearly would never do such a thing!"

Lynn Jr. then gasped, her face darkened, and she narrowed her eyebrows at Lucy as she scolded, "You know what, Duchess of Darkness? I think you might be bad luck."

Lucy weakly replied, "What?"

Lynn Jr. continued, "You heard me. You're the one cursing us. You're the reason Marcus Quick had sex with our sisters, possibly got them pregnant, and then killed the pets and robbed everybody's stuff. You probably teamed up with Stinkoln to put a voodoo hex on this house that is causing everything to go wrong! And I think you lied about that whole 'good luck being bad luck' thing just so you could keep your creepy photo album! I missed a football practice because of you!"

Lucy deadpanned, "No, you didn't. You missed a football practice because our parents called in telling the coach you couldn't make it."

Lynn Jr. seethed, "You really expect me to believe that? Get out of this house, now, or I'll make you."

Lucy gasped at Lynn Jr.'s threat before desperately begging, "No… no! You're not throwing me out of this house! We're sisters! You have to let me stay!"

Lynn Jr. scoffed, "Sisters? SISTERS? That went out the window when you started siding with Lincoln instead of this family. Or did you forget what Lori said: this family supports each other."

Lucy pled, "Sigh. I do support this family. Why can't I stay? I come to all your games. I've never cursed you."

Lynn Jr. countered, "By keeping that book around with all of Stinkoln's pictures? You definitely have cursed me. He's bad luck without that squirrel suit on! And how do you think most of those pictures were taken? WITHOUT HIS SQUIRREL SUIT ON! Do you like us being cursed? Oh wait… let me answer that… you do! Because you love cursed things! Ugh… until I can get Lisa to photoshop these pictures or something, YOU ARE OUT OF HERE! And get your furniture out, too! I'm gonna go to the attic and get the rest of the stuff!"

Lucy fired back at Lynn Jr., "I'm. Not. Leaving. And if you make me cry, I will actually hex you."

Lynn Jr. threatened, "That's fine with me. Because remember what you said? Your bad luck is my good luck. So yeah, Spooky… Adios."

As Lucy grew incensed at Lynn Jr. for her new attitude, she decided internally, Lynn Jr. will probably be too busy getting everybody's stuff out of the attic to notice me. I'll just occupy Lynn

Jr.'s bed until she comes to her senses. If she fights me for the bed, she fights me for it. I may get a black eye & get completely dominated, but at least I went down swinging.

Within an hour, Lynn Jr. had removed all of Lucy's stuff, including all of the stuff in the attic, from her room and had thrown it outside the room. The rest of the family got out of their beds for the first time in hours to investigate the commotion.

Lynn Sr. and Rita, for their part, took the opportunity to get out of their catatonic grief state, with Lynn Sr. even suggesting, "H-honey… sounds like the kids are up and moving again. I'll go get dinner for them."

Rita asked, "Really? Are you sure we can go around and spend time with 10 different children individually?"

Lynn Sr. sighed, "What choice do we have? If we try to call them down to dinner, they'll either refuse to eat or completely destroy this house with one of their food fights! You know how wild they get!"

Rita responded by sighing in despair before confessing, "You know what, you're right. I'll help you prepare, and maybe we can call the kids down and convince them to eat. What's today's meal?"

Lynn Sr. perked up a little at that before proclaiming, "It's Wienerschnitzel Wednesday. So yeah… gonna get started on those schnitzels."

Rita chuckled, "You do that. Hopefully, it'll take our minds off all this", before kissing her husband on the cheek as he got ready to cook. Immediately afterwards, however, Rita retreated to her bedroom, only to continue to hear the noise of furniture being shuffled from the roof above her. From what she was hearing, she assumed that one or more of her daughters were settling their differences by choosing to sleep in another room for the night, a typical resolution for a Sister Fight Protocol. So she decided to ignore it, pick up her latest book, War and Peace, and continue to read it where she had left off. As she tried to read, however, the commotion continued to disturb her, and she also heard footsteps shuffling up the hall. Great, she figured, the other kids are eavesdropping on what's going on, too. However, she decided to stay in her room as Lynn Sr. cooked dinner, hoping that a well-cooked meal could ease the tension.

By the time Lynn Sr. had finished cooking dinner for the family, the noise from the roof above had become extremely loud, with loud "thunk" noises repeatedly heard above the ground floor. An annoyed Lynn Sr. thought to himself, you know what… I'm going to let the kids resolve this. He then approached Rita in their bedroom and told her, "Honey, dinner's ready. Let's go call the kids."

Rita sighed, "Alright," before the two parents walked upstairs to call their kids downstairs to grab dinner. What they saw completely floored them. It was all ten of their daughters gathered around Lucy and Lynn Jr.'s room, with both boxes from the attic and Lucy's furniture surrounding them.

Rita and Lynn Sr. traded glances, as if to ask each other, who should ask them? In the end, they mutually decided that Rita would be the one to investigate what was going on, as Lynn Sr. was extremely scared of spiders, let alone confrontations with his daughters in "Sister Fight Protocol" mode.

Meanwhile, Lucy was seen comforting a distraught Lana. After she found the Loud pets dead at the hands of Marcus Quick, she was easily the most distraught of her siblings. Lola egging her on certainly didn't help, but Lana would have probably tried to fight at least Lori, Leni, and Lynn Jr. even without Lola's prodding. After getting home, Lana collapsed on her bed and cried loudly and inconsolably for hours. While Lola also shed tears over the deaths of the pets, she was able to get over her tears relatively quickly. Lola realized that the lack of pets in Lana's room would mean that no animals would be around to mess with her tea parties, pageant prep, homework, or just the general fancy vibe that she wanted in her room. With that in mind, she knew she had a much greater chance of getting Lana to become a fancy pageant princess just like her. This would be especially true if she could get her parents on her side to pass a rule forbidding animals from being brought into the Loud House as pets, which she had planned on doing either tonight or tomorrow. While trying to focus on her homework through Lana's crying, Lola got annoyed and said, "Ugh… I'm doing my homework in the kitchen! That way, I don't have to see you or your stupid face!"

Normally, Lana would have fought Lola, but at this point, Lana was so overwhelmed with grief that Lola's insult just made her cry even harder than she already would have. However, she stopped crying when she heard furniture being shuffled around the house. She was worried that her sisters might have been taking down the doghouse, so she quickly started running to get outside and prevent the doghouse from being demolished. However, as Lana sprinted out into the hall, she saw, right in front of her, a bunch of Lucy's furniture being thrown out alongside furniture from the attic. When Lana saw Lynn Jr., however, she began to feel vengeful rage to a level that she had never felt before. Lana was already a stark defender of animals, but recent events had motivated her to take an even more hardline stance on people who harmed them. The red outfit Lynn Jr. was wearing was fitting because when Lana saw Lynn Jr., all she saw was red. She saw a monster who welcomed home the people who killed her beloved animals, and decided, they need to pay. As Lynn Jr. walked past Lana, Lana shot her a death glare and muttered under her breath, "I'm gonna kill you, you bitch."

Lynn Jr. turned to the source of the noise, startled, and asked, "What? Who was that?"

However, Lana mimed a lips zipping motion, causing Lynn Jr. to immediately disregard the noise and go back to throwing Lucy's stuff and the stuff from the attic outside. From there, Lana began to madly mumble, "Oh… kill Marcus Quick, kidnap him, torture him, beat him up, hurt him everywhere, throw him in jail, kill Marcus Quick, kidnap him, torture him, beat him up, hurt him everywhere, throw him in jail". She repeated this sequence of phrases several more times before Lucy popped up out of nowhere and asked, "What's wrong, Lana?"

Lana glared at Lucy, deadpanning, "You know what's wrong. You saw it. And one of your pets was involved. Fangs, was it."

Lucy tried to comfort Lana by patting her on the shoulder and attempting to pull her into a hug. However, Lana didn't want to be hugged. To Lana, hugs reminded her of all the wonderful times she shared with her pets… times that were now gone partially thanks to her sisters. However, Lucy nearly triggered her by saying, "Death is a natural part of life. It is what it is."

Lana glared madly at Lucy through tears and yelled at her, "REALLY?! IS PETS BEING KILLED BY A BIG SPORTS STAR WHO WE INVITED IN NATURAL?! THOSE PETS WERE MURDERED! They didn't die of natural causes! THEY WERE MURDERED, LUCY! MURDERED! And if you don't get that through your thick, gloomy head, I'm gonna make sure YOU JOIN THEM! You, Marcus Quick, and EVERYONE WHO WORKED WITH HIM! You played with Marcus, didn't you? Didn't you take Marcus into your room? What did you do with him? TELL ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL THROW YOU DOWN THOSE STAIRS!"

Lucy sighed, "I told Marcus to be careful. I knew stupidity would be his downfall."

Lana gasped before venomously whispering, "You knew?" Lana now sported a crazed scowl on her face. The pupils on her eyes were basically nonexistent, and Lana was redder than a tomato. If Lucy said one wrong word, she was as good as kicked down the stairs.

Lucy said, "I did. Because what's going to happen to him now is far, far worse."

That immediately piqued Lana's interest and made her calm down, as she wanted nothing more than grotesque payback against Marcus and the rest of his cronies. Lana asked, "What'll happen to them that's worse?"

Lucy said, "I saw a vision in my crystal ball. I saw them being shamed on the news, beaten up, and dragged through town."

Lana began to smile evilly at that, "Uh-huh."

Lucy continued her story, "Then I saw them tortured, chained to a tree, and eaten by a pack of wolves… their legs and arms ripped from their bodies as they slowly bled out and while the town cheered the wolves on."

Lana screamed in ecstasy, "YES! YES! YES!"

Lucy concluded, "And finally… I saw Marcus and his buddies paraded through town in a 'parade of shame'".

Lana curiously asked, "A parade of shame? What does that mean?"

Lucy explained, "People pissed and pooped on their bodies. Since no one wanted to bury them, their bodies instead had to be cremated, or burned. And the people who killed them… they pooped inside the urns, too. And to top it all off… the ashes were tossed around like footballs before being ultimately spiked into the lake. Not thrown… spiked. The ashes and the urns that came with them. I suggest when we find them, we do that to them."

Lana flashed a toothy, sadistic grin at Lucy as soon as Lucy explained to her the full details of the ashes party she supposedly saw in the crystal ball. Lana quickly began to fantasize about the Loud sisters doing something like that to Marcus Quick, but with animals urinating and defecating on his body.

After daydreaming about that for a few seconds, Lana ran towards Lucy, gave her a big hug, and cheered in sadistic glee, "Thanks, Luce! I knew I could count on you!"

While Lucy held no love for Quick, she was still horrified by what she told Lana, thinking that was going too far. Feeling awful, she tried to talk her Lana out of it, saying, "Even Quick doesn't deserve such a humiliating fate. Only true monsters deserve such disturbed rest..."

Lana, meanwhile, wasn't listening, and continued to dance off into the hallway, singing, "Poop on Marcus Quick's ashes! Poop on Marcus Quick's ashes! Yeah! YEAH!"

Lucy started to warn Lana, "Marcus is not an ordinary," before trailing off when she realized Lana wasn't listening to her. When Lucy saw Lana slam the door shut to her room, she deadpanned, "Sigh. No one ever listens to me."

Meanwhile, in Lola and Lana's room, Lana was doing a victory dance that looked like a shuffling heel toe while singing, "Marcus Quick is done for! Marcus Quick is done for!"

Lola looked on the scene in annoyance. She had just finished her homework, and was checking herself in the mirror on the room's vanity for imperfections and places where she could better apply makeup. Lana's excited singing, however, broke her concentration, causing her to snap, "WHAT DO YOU WANT, LANA?"

Lana ran up to Lola with a huge, bestial grin on her face and proclaimed, "SIS! WE'RE GETTING REVENGE ON MARCUS QUICK FOR GETTING RID OF OUR PETS! Lucy's got the setup, we just have to find Marcus Quick and everyone else who helped him rob our house, kill them all, tear them apart limb from limb, burn them into ashes, and then pee and poop on them!"

Lola's eyes briefly twitched at the audacity of Lana's plan. While she was impressed by Lana's ambition to plan something that heinous and vindictive, she also still didn't care much for the Loud pets, who disrupted her beauty sleep every night. So, she blankly asked, "Well, you know what I say to that?"

An excited Lana asked, "What?", while practically bouncing on her heels.

Lola then screamed, "I say GOOD RIDDANCE! TO YOU AND YOUR PETS!"

When Lana heard this, her eye twitched and she gritted her teeth for a split second. When the twins found out about the pets being dead, Lola took the time to both insinuate that the deaths of the pets were a good thing for her and insult the rest of her family. For Lana, it made her suspicious that Lola might have convinced Marcus Quick to murder her pets. And when that thought came to Lana's mind, all bets were off.

Lana growled at Lola and yelled at her, "YOU BITCH!", before tackling her to the ground. Lola sensed Lana's intensity and matched it by literally scratching and biting her back. The two would spend the next couple of minutes in an all-out brawl with each other that went largely unnoticed due to the tensions between the other Loud sisters. When it was all said and done, Lana had sustained scuffed clothes, a few scratch marks, a bite mark on her arm, and a few bruises on her face. Lola, for her part, had her second baby tooth knocked out by Lana, and a torn dress. As Lola lay on the ground in pain, she seethed at Lana, who glared at Lola before getting off her, walking away, and beginning to put her things in bags, as if to signal that she was moving out of the room she shared with her twin sister.

Lola noticed this and decided to get in one last word edgewise before Lana left the room. As Lana struggled to push her bed out of the twins' shared room, Lola spat out, "Y-y-your p-p-pets a-annoyed e-everybody."

Lana did not face Lola, and looked as if she was ignoring her, but inside, she was fuming. However, knowing that she was going to be leaving the room anyways, she decided to let Lola say what she needed to say.

Meanwhile, Lola continued, "Your pets spread diseases. Could have made everybody sick. And so did you. I heard your plan to kill Marcus Quick and his buddies. You're absolutely crazy. And I'd love it if you got out of this room. And out of my life."

Lola's words to Lana were all the incentive Lana needed to spend the next few minutes gathering her things before throwing them out of Lola's room. After all that, a silently furious Lana dragged her bed out of Lola's room, signifying the end of the twins' time rooming together. When Lana finally pushed her bed out of Lola's room, she exchanged one last glare with Lola before slamming the bedroom door shut as hard as she could. As she did, a thunderous sound echoed across the hallway, shocking all those who heard and/or saw Lana slam the door on Lola. The rest of the Loud sisters gasped in shock at this. To them, Lola and Lana, despite their constant fighting, had always been practically inseparable. Lola and Lana used to even brag about having a "special connection" due to being twins. So their relationship ending like this as a result of the Sister Fight Protocol was heartbreaking. Or at least it would have been had the rest of the sisters not been embroiled in their own heated conflicts with each other.

Speaking of the rest of the sisters, they were watching, or in some cases assisting, Lynn Jr. throw all of Lucy's stuff out of Lynn Jr. and Lucy's shared room. When Lynn Jr. threw out the last piece of Lucy's furniture, her coffin bed, she dusted off her hands and satisfiedly smirked, "Aaah…. That ought to do it."

Lucy, now increasingly worried, asked, "Lynn, what are you doing?"

Lynn Jr. scoffed, "Is wax clogging up your ears or something? You're cursed, so GET! OUT!", while shoving Lucy closer to the stairs with each word.

The rest of the sisters except Lola, who was in her room, yelled in unison, "Yeah!"

The unified yell of the Loud sisters urging Lucy to get out scared the Loud parents. They didn't want to see any of their daughters getting kicked out of the house because of the Sister Fight Protocol, but at the same time, they were still scared of one of their children being bad luck. Now that the Loud parents thought about it, they began to wonder why they hadn't kicked out Lucy instead of Lincoln. Lucy was always doing those dark rituals, and was always into curses, voodoo magic, and other dark magic. Given the prodigious prowess of the other Loud sisters at their own talents, they feared that maybe Lucy had acquired a gift for bringing bad luck onto the Loud family that they had mistakenly attributed to Lincoln. However, at the same time, Lynn Sr. and Rita were aware that getting in between a Sister Fight Protocol-level situation was dangerous to their physical health, due to the sheer number and ferocity of their daughters. In addition, if they tried to get in between their daughters, they feared that several of their daughters would frame them for "child abuse" and have them taken away by Child Protective Services.

Stuck in between a rock and a hard place, Lynn Sr. thusly stammered, "Uh… uh… you should do what your sister says!"

Rita added, "Yeah, honey! Find another place to sleep until this all blows over!"

Lori suggested, "Yeah! Sister Fight Protocols literally tend to be resolved when everybody stays away from each other!"

The rest of the Loud sisters cheered in agreement, "Yeah!"

Lucy was somewhat angered at her sisters for threatening to kick her out this quickly into the Sister Fight Protocol. For a split-second, it made her think of how easily Lincoln had been kicked out by the Loud sisters for being "bad luck", and the first pangs of regret flashed through her mind. Desperate to stay inside the house, Lucy asked Lynn Jr., "What can I do to stay? I'll do anything!"

Lynn Jr. put her finger to her chin, as if deep in thought, before she evilly smirked and told Lynn Jr., "You see that book you're holding, over there?"

Lucy held the book guardedly with both hands and asked, "Yeah, what about it?"

Lynn Jr. softly said, "Burn it."

Lucy's eyes grew wide, asking, "W-what?"

Lynn Jr. repeated herself, "You heard me. Burn it."

Lucy looked around at the rest of her angered siblings, unsure what to do next. She then looked to her parents.

Lynn Sr. said, "C-come on, s-sweetie. It's just a book. How much harm can burning it do?"

Rita said, "Yeah… we'll get you a replacement! They're like $10 at the store!"

For a split-second, Lucy considered yelling at her family that the book was full of priceless, irreplaceable pictures of Lincoln. Then she remembered that Lisa had mentioned that all of Lincoln's photos had been backed up onto the cloud, anyways. Chances were good that even with the recent robbery, there was no way the criminals could have taken Lincoln's photos from there. The robbery, for all intents and purposes, seemed to be a physical one instead of a technological one.

However, when Lucy saw the glares on her sisters' faces, she worried that if she went against her sisters and her parents, her sisters would beat her up very badly. The mood of the house had been extremely tense all day, and Lucy knew from past experience that one sibling turning against the rest usually spelled their doom. In the end, Lucy's self-preservation overruled any concern she had for Lincoln, and she sighed in defeat, "OK, I'll do it."

A pleased Lynn Jr. gave Lucy a throat hug while telling her, "Glad you understand. Come on, let's go burn that book!"

The rest of the Loud sisters and parents cheered at this before following Lucy downstairs to the fireplace to burn Lincoln's photo album.

As Lynn Jr. put her hand to the light switch that would turn the fireplace on, she proclaimed, "Today, we get rid of the last bits of bad luck cursing this house! May good fortune fall on the House of Loud from now on!"

At that, cheers rung throughout the Loud House before Lynn Jr. turned on the fireplace light, approached Lucy, and told her, "Luce… you know what to do."

Lucy sighed once more before tossing Lincoln's photo album into the fireplace to burn. As soon as the book made contact with the firewood, the family dispersed into their respective rooms, except for Lynn Jr., Lucy, and Lana.

Lynn Jr. gave Lucy an affectionate noogie and told her, "Congratulations! Looks like you support this family after all!"

Lucy sarcastically responded, "Thanks."

Lynn Jr. then released Lucy from her noogie before telling her, "You know, I was thinking about stuff. And I'm feeling nice today. And I know that I can't stop you from being your spooky self. So how about this: we'll get Lana to de-board Lincoln's old room, and you can sleep there!"

Both Lucy and Lana simultaneously asked in shock, "What?!"

Lucy then asked, "Lincoln's room? Why me?"

Lynn Jr. explained, "Because… you said it yourself, spooky. Bad luck is good luck for you, and vice versa. And we know that room is tainted with bad luck. Therefore, you can be good luck in there, meaning the whole family is bad luck. You can do your rituals, you can do whatever. Just as long as you leave the rest of your family alone."

Both Lucy and Lana gasped in shock at Lynn Jr.'s offer. Lucy, despite the fact that she was kicked out of the room she used to sleep in, was excited at the prospect of getting her own room, especially one that fit her dark sensibilities. Even if Lincoln's old room was a closet, at least it would be her own space away from her obnoxious, sporty sister. Lucy had heard Lincoln say in the shower that his room was nice for blocking out the noise of the rest of the sisters. And with Leni taking the attic for herself, Lucy figured she needed the extra space to store her stuff.

So, Lucy smiled and went along with it, "OK, Lynn. But you mind helping me move my stuff in? It's kind of heavy."

Lynn Jr. laughed at Lucy before rejecting her, "No. You've got to learn how to get strong like me. Then we'll reconsider."

Lucy blankly sighed in response, "Sigh. Fine."

Lynn Jr. smiled satisfiedly at Lucy, "Glad you see it my way. Now, get moving!"

At that, Lucy began to fill Lincoln's room up with her own stuff. She started with her own bed, and then moved onto her furniture.

Meanwhile, Lana watched the whole interaction and was absolutely furious at Lynn Jr. She had always suspected that Lucy was Lynn Jr.'s favorite sister, but the fact that she had given Lucy a room that had actually been used as a bedroom before practically confirmed it. And this was after numerous talks from their parents where they told their daughters to love each other equally, because "all they had was each other." While every sister had their own favorite sister before the thermonuclear SFP erupted, many of these relationships had since been significantly fractured. This was proven by each of the sisters looking for their own places to sleep instead of choosing to continue associating with their former roommates. As a matter of fact, Lana had been eyeing Lincoln's room as soon as she saw that Lola had gotten over her grief about the pets, and thought that the room was as good as hers as soon as she left Lola's room. While the prospect of Lincoln's room being bad luck scared her, she was willing to overlook that if it meant she got away from Lola for a while.

With all that in mind, Lana glared at Lynn Jr. and said angrily, "I WAS GOING TO TAKE THE ROOM, YOU DUMBASS!"

Lynn Jr. simply said in response, "I've made my decision. That's Lucy's room, and that's final!"

Lana challenged, "Oh yeah? Who made you queen of this house?"

Lynn Jr. tensed up at Lana's words, and warned her as she clenched her fists, "Don't push it."

Against her better judgment, Lana shoved Lynn Jr., and sarcastically told her, "There's your push."

It was then when Lynn Jr. tackled Lana and savagely beat her. Lana fought valiantly against Lynn Jr., but ended up being no match for the sporty sister due to Lynn Jr.'s size and strength advantages. Lynn Jr. left Lana with a black eye, a bloodied lip, bruises all over her face, & soreness in her body. Lana was in so much pain that she struggled to get up from the floor after being beaten up by Lynn Jr. The Loud parents, terrified of getting beaten up themselves if they got in between their quarreling daughters, stood back and watched in horror as this fight took place. The Loud parents figured that since letting their kids resolve their problems on their own had worked for this long, why stop now?

When Lynn Jr. and Lana finally wore themselves out, Rita told them, "Alright, kids. Walk it off, go to your rooms."

When Rita said that, Lynn Jr. stormed off into her own room before slamming the door. Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. and Rita turned to the massive pile of stuff outside Lana's room, and looked at their sulking daughter. They traded glances before Rita asked her, "Lana, what happened?"

Lana looked up at Rita and huffed, "I can't sleep with Lola anymore. That girl said our pets were a nuisance."

At that moment, Lynn Sr. and Rita understood exactly what happened between their twin daughters. In seeing Lana's stuff outside her room, the Loud parents also understood that they had a rare opportunity to help de-escalate the Sister Fight Protocol. When they realized this, they grinned widely at Lana, arousing her suspicion.

Lana quickly saw her parents' toothy grins and asked, "What?"

Lynn Sr. hurriedly said, "Oh, nothing! I'll tell you what… how about Mom & I help you get set up in the basement?"

Lana sniffled before smiling at her parents' offer, asking, "Really?"

When the Loud parents nodded in response, she ran up to them, gave them a big hug, and cheered, "Aww, thanks, guys! You're the best!"

At that, Lynn Sr. ruffled Lana's hair and promised, "Don't mention it, sport! Now, Mom & I will carry your bed while you can carry…"

As Lynn Sr. explained how the trio would move Lana's stuff to the basement, Luna slammed her bedroom door open and started taking her stuff out of her room, startling Lynn Sr., Rita, and Lana.

Rita saw Luna angrily stomp between her room and the hallway while literally throwing her stuff out of her room, and concernedly asked, "Honey, are you OK?"

Luna stalked over to her parents and sarcastically asked, "What do you think, dudes? I can't stand that psycho of a roommate anymore!"

Lynn Sr. nervously asked in response, "What, you mean, Luan?"

Luna yelled, "Yeah! She's blaming me for saying Marcus should sleep with Lori & Leni, & blaming me for setting up that comedy & music show we did for him! It's bogus, dudes!"

Lynn Sr. and Rita glowered at Luna, with Lynn Sr. asking, "Well, did you?"

Luna defended herself, "No! I didn't tell Lori & Leni to do anything with Marcus Quick! And Luan & I set that comedy show up as a joint effort! We didn't know it was going to happen, I swear!"

Luna then looked at all of Lana's things and her bed scattered across the Loud House's hallway. Getting an idea, she looked back towards her room, saw the bunk bed, and desperately asked, "Uh… you guys got a spare bed? Kind of an awkward situation here, heh heh."

Rita asked, "What do you mean?", before remembering that Luna and Luan shared a bunk bed. This meant that if Luna were to throw her bed out of the room, she would also be leaving Luan without a bed. When Rita realized this, she said, "Oh, that."

Lynn Sr. jumped in promising, "Well, how about this? I think Bed 'n Bath is still open, so I'll run over there to get a new bed for you!"

Luna lit up at Lynn Sr.'s promise, and ran over to hug her parents, telling them, "Thanks, dudes! I promise you, you won't regret it!"

Lynn Sr. and Rita responded simultaneously, "You're welcome, honey!"

When Luna broke the hug, she proclaimed to the house, "I'm taking the basement! And anyone who wants to challenge me for it can fight me!", as she started dragging the rest of her stuff downstairs.

As Luna began dragging her stuff downstairs to the basement, Lynn Sr., Rita, and Lana looked on in absolute astonishment. Lana thought for a split-second about pushing Luna down the stairs in rage. But when she realized that her parents were there, she pleadingly looked to them for answers.

Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. and Rita found themselves in a no-win situation, especially with the tension in the house following the Marcus Quick incident. They knew that Luna claiming the basement for herself after they promised Lana could escalate the Sister Fight Protocol between the two sisters. This would force them to hide in their bedroom and use Ol' Slushie even longer than they wanted to. On the other hand, they knew that there were other rooms in the house that Lana could have slept in. Wanting to avoid offending the rest of their daughters, Lynn Sr. and Rita mentally ran through the list of other possible rooms Lana could sleep in.

Lynn Sr. first suggested, "Well, the attic! Attic's good, right?"

Lana quickly shut down Lynn Sr.'s idea by making a buzzer noise with a thumbs-down gesture before explaining, "Leni's claimed that room."

Desperate for a solution, and not wanting Lana to sleep outside, Lynn Sr. and Rita traded a glance as they inwardly debated letting Lana sleep in the only room that was available at this point: the garage. While it did seem a little demeaning to let their daughter sleep in the garage, Lynn Sr. and Rita also saw an opportunity for Lana. Since Lana liked mechanical work, they thought that Lana would love the opportunity to be able to partake in her favorite hobbies without ever having to leave her room. Both Loud parents would have killed for an opportunity like that. After thinking it over, they nonverbally agreed, this might be Lana's only choice. Let's try it out.

With that in mind, Rita nervously cleared her throat before suggesting, "H-how about the garage, honey?"

Lana asked, "The garage?"

Lynn Sr. smiled, trying to sell the concept to Lana, "Yeah! You'll be able to do all your little handiwork and stuff, and you won't even have to leave your room to do it!"

Lana smiled at that, imagining all the repairs she could do without ever having to leave the comfort of her own room. To her, this was the best of both worlds: she could cool down from the Sister Fight Protocol and do her favorite activities.

With this in mind, she cheered, "Oh-ho-ho! Alright!", before running over to her parents, hugging them, and telling them, "Thank you! Thank you so much!"

Lynn Sr., unsure as to whether to take credit for the idea, apprehensively assured Lana, "Umm… yeah! Sure thing!"

Rita then jumped in, "Why don't you get your things set up in the garage while we go get Luna's new bed, and then we'll join you?"

Lana fist-pumped and cheered, "Yes!", in response as Lynn Sr. and Rita lifted her bed and took it downstairs. Once Lana was done celebrating, she began to take the rest of her stuff down to the garage, eagerly anticipating the future projects she would be able to complete.

As Lana took the rest of her stuff downstairs and rearranged her bed, Lynn Sr. and Rita gave her a friendly "goodbye" wave from Vanzilla, which Lana returned.

As Lana returned upstairs to take more of her stuff downstairs, she saw Lisa walking to Lincoln's old room and knocking on the door.

Normally, Lana would have ignored Lisa and continued to take her stuff downstairs. However, Lana found herself curious as to what Lisa was asking of Lucy. She knew that Lisa was making plans to get back at Marcus Quick for robbing the house and killing the pets. From there, Lana inferred that Lisa was probably asking for Lucy's help with the plan. However, not wanting to jump to conclusions, Lana decided to stay hidden and listen to what her sister would ask next.

Lisa then asked Lucy, "Spooky, I request your assistance with an experiment."

When Lucy heard Lisa, she slammed the door open and venomously yelled at Lisa, "I'm not doing anything to help you", before slamming the door in Lisa's face.

Immediately after Lucy slammed her bedroom door on Lisa, Lana ran towards Lisa and begged, "Aww… please please please let me do one of your experiments! Especially if it's a way to torture Marcus Quick! Ooh… I'll get that bastard if it's the last thing I do!"

Lisa smirked evilly at Lana's promise and assured her, "Oh… I'll keep that in mind."

Lynn Jr., having listened to the whole argument, then slammed her bedroom door open and stalked over to Lisa, warning her, "You will do no such thing!"

Lisa challenged, "And why is that, sporty?"

Lynn Jr. countered, "Lana is 6 years old! You can't put her through stuff like that! Why don't we get Stinkoln to do it?"

Lisa and Lana exasperatedly sighed as they reminded Lynn Jr. simultaneously, "Because he's gone, and we don't know where he is!"

Lynn Jr. nervously laughed before saying, "Oh, yeah, right. But when you do find him… I want to beat him up before you do anything to him! I need him alive to feel the pain!"

In response, Lisa claimed, "Oh… what I'm going to do to him will put him in far greater pain than anything you can do!"

Lynn Jr. scoffed, "Puh-lease! Wanna put a bet on it?"

Lisa offered in response, "62 cents?"

Lynn Jr. smirked, "Oh, you're on!", before slamming the door shut on Lisa.

While all this was going on, Lana shuffled away from the commotion, took her stuff, and started walking downstairs, trying her best to ignore her quarreling sisters. Luckily for Lana, her sisters didn't seem to mind the inordinate amount of trips Lana was taking up & down the stairs, so Lana was able to decorate her room relatively undisturbed.

(Time Skip: 11:00 PM, Loud House Garage)

After a few hours, Lynn Sr., Rita, and Lana had finished setting up both Luna and Lana's new bedrooms. The trio had also cooperated on setting up an ensuite bathroom for Lana, with Lynn Sr. even joking during the construction process, "Hey sport… mind letting us have a turn in it?"

Lana growled at Lynn Sr.'s joke, causing him to nervously back off, "OK, honey! OK! This is your room… you can do whatever you want with it."

Meanwhile, as Rita put the last of Lana's wall decorations on the garage wall, she said to herself in satisfaction, "There!" She then turned to Lana and asked, "How's that, honey?"

Lana jumped on her bed and cheered to her parents, "Oh, this is perfect! I love this! Thanks, guys!"

Lynn Sr. assured Lana, "No problem, sweetie! Any time!"

Rita then complimented Lana, "And you were a big help, too, sweetie!"

Lana scoffed, "For the chance to get my own room away from the princess? Why wouldn't I be?"

Lynn Sr. and Rita laughed at that before Rita told Lana, "Now, call us if you need anything, honey!"

Lana said happily, "Ok!"

At that, Lynn Sr. and Rita chuckled before walking out of the garage. As they did, Rita wished Lana, "Now, have fun!"

As the Loud parents left Lana alone in the garage, Lana called back, "Oh, I will!", before waving to her departing parents, "Bye, guys!"

Lynn Sr. and Rita waved goodbye back at Lana before shutting the door to Lana's room, leaving her alone with her thoughts.

As they did, Lana excitedly said to herself, "Alright, let's get this party started!"

(Scene Change: Lola's Room)

It was Lola's first night sleeping alone in her life. She believed that the antics of Lana and her pets would disrupt her beauty sleep. She had claimed countless times that she needed said beauty sleep to look her best for her beauty pageants. So, when Lola put her head down on her bed, she thought to herself: Best sleep ever, here I come. I'm so going to slay at Friday night's beauty pageant.

However, as the night went on, Lola began to notice that she had a harder time sleeping than usual. Whenever she heard the floor squeak or pounding from across the walls, she gasped in fear. She also noticed that her room felt unusually quiet due to the absence of both Lana and the Loud pets, but decided to pay it no mind, as that was exactly what she thought she wanted all along. Lola also knew that it was best for her to not ask her parents to sleep in their bedroom during the Sister Fight Protocol. She knew that doing so would raise the jealous ire of the other sisters. So, Lola shrugged her startled reactions off, and chalked up her difficulties falling asleep to the tension in the house following the Sister Fight Protocol. She figured she'd feel better in the morning. She had to.

(Scene Change: Lucy's Room)

As Lucy walked back from the bathroom into her room, she found something in the corner of the room that startled her. It was Lincoln's photo album, completely unharmed. Lucy, despite being a self-proclaimed "creature of the darkness", decided to take her room light on and investigate. As she picked up the book and examined it, she observed that not only had the album maintained its original condition; the album seemed to be in perfect condition.

Lucy asked herself, How could this be? We burned the book? Books normally don't survive burning. Unless… this is a sign. But I'm too tired to investigate. Sigh.

Lucy ultimately decided to throw Lincoln's photo album off to the side and try to go back to sleep. As she did, she bitterly thought to herself, Thanks for the room, Linc.

Meanwhile, up in the spirit realm, Great-Grandma Harriet grimly shook her head in disgust.

Closing A/N: It's the first night of the ultimate Sister Fight Protocol, and each of the Loud sisters have their own rooms! Some in less ideal circumstances than others, but still! And at least one Loud is planning to strike back against Marcus Quick and his co-conspirators! Things are going to get spicy!

A/N 2: The name "April" for the Bluebell Scouts Leader comes from April Stewart, the voice actor for the Bluebell Scouts in Season 2, when NSL takes place.

A/N 3: Come on, Nickcoin? With someone like Lisa? I loved that idea.

A/N 4: Lori taking a "Nutrition, Fitness, and Weight Management" class? I found that the class was something that was actually offered at the real-life Royal Oak High School, and I thought that for Lori, the opportunity was too good to pass up, just for the comedic value.

A/N 5: The Lewis Ray dance… I love it, I love it!

A/N 6: The "62 cents" line? Not only could I not miss out on the SpongeBob reference, but I feel like Lynn Jr. would be petty enough to make such a bet.

A/N 7: Lana moving into the garage: I figured the "Garage Banned" plot had to be reused somewhere. Why not with Lana? Who, by the way, makes much more sense rooming in the garage than Lori, especially with her hobbies.

A/N 8: I can't believe this story is getting foreign-language reviews now! I have to go into Google Translate for some of this stuff, and man, I like what I'm hearing! Thanks for the support, and keep reading, my international fans!

A/N 9: BIG round of applause for LucyDean2004. He figured out my "Marcus Quick" character. CONGRATULATIONS, buddy. Dear NFL, ESPN, whatever… please don't sue me! But I didn't just give "Marcus Quick" his name because of that stuff! I also gave him that name because as you've seen, Marcus Quick's playing style matches that of his real-life counterpart. The name was just too perfect.

A/N 10: 120 follows! W00T!

And now, for the reviews:

- Saccharine Melody: How about everything?

- jeremiahkelley93, wollyworld, simm36: Thanks!

- Omegahatchiyak12, Weewoozesty, Alfa Prime: Like you wouldn't believe!

- viruet820, Zerobeat3030, LynnLoudMustDie, Goldenrayne: Stay tuned!

- bzflatsman: I see.

- Guest: Lisa knows where Maria lives because Maria is Bobby's MOTHER. And Bobby was dating Lori. And remember… tracking chips.

- Mr. Freeman, & Omnios: Regarding "Marcus Quick": xD

- DJ Sprouts: LOL! Glad you love the story!

Anyway, how will the Louds adjust to the new conditions in their house? And what do the fates have in store for them? Stay tuned to find out!