Chapter 244
(The Loud House.)
The daytime shines once again onto the loud house and the snow has melted overnight, they have some odd weather in Michigan, but they are neighboring far to the north of America and are close to Canada. So that makes sense, I think.
All of the loud kids have finished taking a bath and are all eating breakfast, they all talk about what they're going to do today before the big surprise with whatever Jackie, Mandee and some of the teens have for next week.
Lori and Leni heard about a lake house party on Friday, but Lori has plans with Roy, Carol and Becky at golf while Leni is going to a sleep over at Fiona's on Friday with some of her friends.
Luan is going to have a sleep over of her own over by her friend Maggie's house and she's bringing some of her friends from the theater club, and so is Maggie. Let's hope they don't clash the Goth and the entertainment, otherwise it's gonna be a dark show! Ha! Get it? Anyone? Someone? Really?
Lynn Jr is also planning a sleep over at Paula's place, she said something about a sports show she got and Lucy is also having a sleep over at Haiku's on Friday, a little night time séance time.
Lisa has no plans on Friday night, but she was given permission by her parents that she may watch the late night discovery channel show on the explorations of space, that's about it.
Lana and Lola are both going to have a sleep over at one of their friend's house, and what are they planning later? Lana is going with Lola to her next commercial shoot for the Karate corner, she has to see if Lola needs some motivation when it comes to destroying some practice dummies with no mercy. Oh wow. This is gonna be a swell and normal day for them.
While they all continue to talk, Rita comes in with Lily in her hands and she sees all of her kids enjoying themselves, then she sees two of her kids aren't down yet and she knows why. "Okay kids, listen up."
They all stop talking and look to their mom, Lynn Sr knows what this is about. "Alright kids, I know a lot of you guys have plans for today. But before we go off and do our own thing we have to clear out the attic of all the old stuff you all got and something tells me that some of you will try and keep some of the old stuff, so that one is a no go. Okay kids?"
Some of them didn't like the idea of letting their old personal things go, but then they recalled what the note from Lincoln said yesterday after they saw Luna a crying mess:
"Guys, there was an accident in the attic involving Luna. We went there to see if there were any old memories we might like to look back at which was my idea and I hate myself for it. But the place is so packed and loaded that we have to get rid of some old things, before I left the attic I placed down some empty boxes next to the corner of the attic for you guys to put it all in there. And now for the real talk, you guys are probably wondering what the heck happened to Luna, she saw Lynn's old toy double barrel shotgun that she got from Pop-pop on her third birthday, I don't seem to mind but Luna was the one who fell into a mental breakdown. The very sight of that toy weapon is enough to send her spiraling into the dark memories of my near death, I hope you guys understand this. We have to clear out the attic of old things, I know you guys love some of those old things. But we have to let go, it's the right thing to do."
They all looked to each other and they all agree, they have to get rid of some old things. Luna is a mess, Lincoln has become the one to calm her down and everything is Jordan is not here anymore, she was sent home last night under Lincoln's request and she understands. Lincoln is fine, but not Luna.
"So, are we all in an agreement?" asked Rita.
They all sigh and nod. "We are mom, we'll get to work after breakfast" replied Lori. "Also, I was thinking last night we give some of our things away to some kids who might wanna use them, like how we give each other our hand-me-downs."
They smiled to that idea. "That is totes a good idea! I might hand down some old dresses I had to some girls who wanna do fashion too!" said Leni.
Lynn Sr stands next to his wife and smiles. "See kids, looks like we're all taking change in for the better, when your mom and I are done changing into our clothes we'll join you guys. I gotta find a VHS tape for some Karaoke Friday night with Kotaro and besides, I don't have that much old junk up in the attic anyway."
Rita coughs and looks to him sternly. "You're ties?" Even Lily crosses her arms. "Goo!"
Lynn Sr sighs. "Oh fine! But do I have to get rid of all of them?"
"Honey, you have new ones in the closet, I think it's about time you let go your old ties through donations" said Rita. "Also, I recall one of them looks like a Canadian patrol man with a shot gun."
Lynn Sr thinks, and pretends he doesn't know. "What are you talking about Rita? I don't know any Canadian patrol guy tie I have."
Rita looks to him with a glare. "Lynn!"
Lynn Sr sighs in defeat. "Alright, alright fine! I'll donate my old ties."
Just then they hear someone come down the stairs, it was Lincoln. Still in his pajamas and he goes over and Leni hands him the tray of food. "Thanks Leni, I'll see you guys later." Lincoln then heads back upstairs and into the room he shares with Luna.
They all feel sad that Lincoln wants to do this on his own, but they understand that Luna is mentally scarred with the near loss of her brother and the only person who is capable of comforting her at this time of her vulnerability is Lincoln himself.
"Poor Luna, I wish we could do something" said Leni.
"The only thing we can all do is to make sure Luna has no reclamation of the incident on her tour with her idol, Lincoln will handle that part while we handle doing the right thing and that is to give away our old belongings, we have no use of them anymore" said Lisa. "Like what mom says, it is the right thing to do. Also I think I should dispose of all of my fecal specimens, the ones I had when I was a year old."
They all stopped eating and looked to Lisa sternly. "Really, your mentioning that now?" asked Lola.
"I'm cool with it." Lana scooches closer to Lisa. "Tell me more. Were they lumpy and slimy?"
Lori pinches the bridge of her nose. "This is gonna be a long day, a really long day for us."
Lincoln heads up the stairs and into the halls, he then opens the door with his foot and he sees still asleep on his bunk is his big sister Luna, clinging to one of his pillows. Lincoln sighs and enters the room, he then places the tray of food onto the table and he sits next to his sleeping sister.
Lincoln then looks to his sleeping legal guardian and he strokes her hair and he kisses her cheek. "Luna. Luna, wake up. Come on, it's time to get up sis." Luna doesn't even budge, but she does open her eyes and sees her brother looking at her. "Come on Luna, it's to get- Ouf!"
Lincoln is pulled back onto the bed with Luna hugging him tightly. "Luna, let go! We have to get up sis."
Luna groans and just hugs her brother. "I don't wanna get up, I don't wanna lose you Lincoln, please."
Lincoln sighs and he frees himself off of Luna's vice like hug and he looks to his sister who is now sitting up and looking miserable. "Luna, I know that your hut inside and also mentally scarred. Some part of me is, but only a little. It's you who has it worse, and if you say you don't have any problems than that means you're just denying it."
Luna sighs and she sits by the edge of the bed next to her brother. "You're not wrong baby bro. I thought you were going to have some possible mental issues, but I guess I was wrong and I let all my worries about losing you get to me. I …. I am a mess and I don't know what else to do anymore, that day it happened, the day you … You." Luna then starts to cry.
Lincoln sees this and he goes over and hugs her. "This is all my fault sis, it was my idea to go to the attic and now look at you sis." Lincoln sheds his own tears. "You're ….. You're an even bigger mess than me, I'm so sorry sis. I'm so sorry Luna, so, so sorry mom."
Luna then feels even worse, Lincoln is blaming himself. "Linc, this is both our faults." They break the hug and look to each other. "You were bored and I let you stay in the house, I should've let you go outside and have fun but I didn't and that resulted in your idea to go to the attic. We're both to blame, for each other."
Luna wipes his tears and kisses his forehead and she pulls him into another hug. "No tears now my wayward son, no more tears now Lincoln. We're both in deep with issues here, so let's just try and get this whole thing pulled together and remain calm."
They both stay like this, but they have no clue that someone is watching them from the door. Jordan walks in ready to assist and she sits next to them and hugs them both. Lincoln and Luna notice this and they also hug her, then another pair of arms joins in and they see it was Sam. Looks like they got some support with them for the day.
All while the rest of the family sees this and feels bad, but are also happy that Lincoln and Luna are both getting some support from their lovers, Lori takes a picture and she posts it, so everyone who are fans of what they did on tour can see that they are healing. Healing from the pain they went through. The louds then clear out and they open the attic door, they got some work to do.
They soon break the hug and they get to eat some breakfast, they even share it with Sam and Jordan even though they already ate. Sam then smiles and recalls. "When you're feeling like it Lunes, I gotta surprise for you in your garage and I think you'll love it."
Luna smiles. "Can't wait to see it babe." They all get back to eating, they had a big day ahead of them.
(Hours later.)
All of the louds (except for Lincoln and Luna) are moving all of the things out of the attic, but they got some help. Help in the form of Liam, Tabby, Jenny, Haiku, Sully, Mazzy, Chunk, Simon, Stella, Rick, Jesse, Kotaro and Peter Harris. They got a lot of help and outside keeping an eye on their boxes is good old Mr. Grouse, well that's nice of him to do. He is also looking through their stuff as well.
Lincoln, Jordan, Sam and Luna are in the room tuning their guitars and chatting, Lincoln and Jordan on one bean bag chair and Luna and Sam on two separate bean bag chairs. "So, anything to plan for when Lori and Leni's friends begin with whatever they have planned for next week?" asked Sam.
"We know it's gonna be on a back, chances it could be aloha beach resort again" said Jordan.
"The only issue is that Simon and Stella already went there, so we don't know if they'll even tag along" said Lincoln, he places his acoustic back to its case and relaxes next to Jordan.
"True, true. But chances they'll wanna tag along for another round, also as a bonus our mom and dad are going to have their anniversary next week and same goes with Stella's parents, so we can have some fun with Simon and Stella if it is Aloha Beach Resort" said Sam.
"But what about Stella's granny? Where's she gonna go?" asked Jordan, she then puts her keytar down,
"Stella said that her granny is going to be staying over at a friend's house over at Beaverton" said Sam. "I did not know they had some relatives there."
Lincoln chuckles. "Looks like we all have our days set and ready for whatever comes next week, though I wonder what Hero Linc and his team are up to. I think we could use some hang out time with them."
"Have you tried calling him?" asked Jordan.
Lincoln sees the radio communicator and he grabs it. He sees that Freezer Burn is active and he sets it to text message mode and he sends Hero Linc a text.
"Hey hero me, how's it going? I was wondering if you're planning on hanging out with us next time. Could be fun to catch up on things and tell you what we did."
Lincoln then gets a response. "Sup normal me, listen I am kinda busy and I won't be able to hang out with you. For the next three days starting tomorrow I'm going on an interdimensional trip with the whole team and family someplace, I could only guess it's a summer beach thing and it was all planned by our Mandee, Jackie, Fiona, Teri and Miguel. Who knew? We can chill somewhere on July and I'll see if my Leni, Lori and Luna wanna hang out as well, and maybe some of the other team mates."
Lincoln smiles and texts back. "Sounds cool with me, next week our Jackie, Mandee, Teri, Whitney, Miguel, Dana and Becky are planning a surprise and we could only guess it involves the beach as well, probably Aloha Beach Resort, I guess we both have some same things within our worlds, did they say they planned it after Lori's graduation?"
He gets a response. "Heh, yes, yes they did. I guess two worlds think alike, well I gotta go and continue playing with my sister and the others, Minecraft awaits. Talk to you soon Lincoln Loud." Lincoln then places the radio communicator away.
"So, what did he say?" asked Jordan. "Do they wanna hang out with us?"
Lincoln smiles. "Well, they got their own summer beach thing to do, like us and yes it was planned by Lori and Leni's gal pals, so I guess two worlds think alike." They all chuckle at that. But then Lincoln notices Luna just looking at her axe and then placing it back into its case. "You okay sis?" Jordan and Sam also look to Luna with concern.
Luna sighs. "When are they gonna be done with the moving thing? I really gotta go and use it."
Lincoln was about to say something, but then the door opens and Luan comes in. "Hey guys, the attic has less things to weight it down, so you guys can come out now. Just don't go to the front yard, that's where we're giving away all of our stuff, also here's your things."
Luan pushes the two large boxes of Lincoln and Luna's old things into the room. "If you guys are ever in the mood to give stuff away, then you guys can do it later or when you two feel like it."
Lincoln nods. "Got it Lunes, and it looks like you found Mr. Snuggles."
Luan looks to her hand puppet rabbit. "Yup, but right now I think it's about time he helps another kid entertain the masses, right Mr. Snuggles?"
"The Attic was a mess, I just hope the crowd won't get messy with my jokes!" Luan chuckles and leaves the room with her puppet rabbit.
Luna then gets up. "Well, time for me to go and use it. I'll be back guys." Luna walks out of the bedroom and heads for the bathroom, but she fails to see something about to drop from the still open attic door.
Jordan and Sam go through the boxes of Lincoln and Luna's thing from when they were really young.
"Oh wow! This is just …. Umm, cute?" Jordan sees the bib, hat and small shirts that all say. "Number one Baby Boy!"
"Yeah, that was during my troublesome days and they were not a pretty sight for the others to deal with" said Lincoln. "But if I can recall, Luna was the one who was able to stop me from becoming troublesome."
Jordan chuckles. "Looks like Luna still watches over you whether in the past, present or future." She then sees more of Lincoln's old clothes and sees an old photo of when Lincoln attended Jordan's birthday party in kindergarten. 'Our soon to be future that is.'
Sam looks through Luna's things and she sees so many things that Luna had with her that reached all the way to seventh grade. "Wow. Luna has a lot of things in here. Mick Swagger puppet, an old violin, a broken guitar, some toy instruments and an album with leaves taped in them and what looks like pictures of birds and trees?" Sam is confused by the stuff within. "Can someone tell me what the heck this is? This doesn't seem like Luna's things."
Lincoln goes over. "This stuff, this was when Luna didn't know who she was. The stuff in the very bottom were when she had no clue who she is and who she wants to be, the stuff above are what came after her first Mick Swagger concert. Below is her past and above is who she is now, but deep down she'll always be the same old caring sister that I know and love, always." Jordan and Sam are touched by this and they hug Lincoln. Lincoln just looks to the box of Luna's past and smiles.
Later, Luna leave the bathroom and is about to go back into her room. But then something falls out of the open attic and lands in front of her. IT was the toy shot gun that they forgot to toss out.
Luna suddenly feels stress and sadness looking at it, but then she calms down and she looks to it. Luna slowly inches to grab it and she can feel fear confusing her and she closes her eyes, but she tries to fight it back and then she opens her eyes and she sees she was now holding the toy.
Luna looks to the toy and sees this thing can shoot our pellets. 'Pop-pop handed this down to Lynn, thinking she would play with it. But she never played with it after three days from her birthday.' Luna then smiles and feels the smoothness of the toy and then she recalls something.
'Lincoln has Lucifer, and he uses it for emergencies.' She looks back to the toy in her hand, she sees the pellet packet and she loads it and she shoots it and the pellets reach all the way to Luan's room which the door was open and it hits the wall and falls into the trash bin.
'Still has good range and is kinda useful.' Luna then goes back into the room and she sees Lincoln, Jordan and Sam sorting through Luna's old stuff and they chuckle looking through some of her old pics of when she was little and would play with Lincoln and her siblings.
"Hey guys." They all look to Luna and are shocked at what she is holding.
Lincoln gets up and goes to Luna. "Luna, put the gun down and remain calm." Lincoln goes over to take the gun away from her, but Luna doesn't let go. He then sees the comforting smile on her face.
"It's all cool bro, I'm not in stress anymore, and that ain't no lie either. I promise, I'm standing up to what could've scarred me for years and I think this should be more than a fear" said Luna as she looks to the gun. "You know what they say guys, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and stand a little higher."
Lincoln looks to Luna's eyes and he sees that she was telling the truth. Lincoln then hugs Luna. "Welcome back sis, you're okay again!" Jordan and Sam also go over and hug Luna, she was back and no longer a mess.
Luna smirks and hugs them back. "Good to be back dudes, good to be back."
They then break the hug and they look to the toy shotgun. "So, what are you gonna do with that?" asked Jordan. "I mean, you're no longer stressed or even scarred."
Luna thinks about it. "Maybe I should have Peter Harris look at this and I know he's here helping out with giving the stuff away. So why don't we take this old junk and give them all away too."
They all smile and nod to that idea, they go over and pick up the boxes and head out of the room and head downstairs.
(Front yard.)
All the loud kids are busy giving away all the things they had. Luan hands her rabbit puppet Mr. Snuggles and her card board puppet theater to a little boy, Leni hands in her dresses to some little girls and her fashion alert game to a girl who likes fashion too, Lori hands her toy phone to a toddler from Lisa' class, Lynn Jr gives her old basketball play set away to another girl who is a fan of Lynn and her team, Lucy gives her toy shovel away to a little Goth kid and the twins hand over some of their old things to some kids younger than them, though Lana and Lola are planning to give their frog musical VHS tape to someone who they know in school. Even Lily gives away some old toys she used to play with, but for most of the toys they're just garbage, literally.
As for Lisa, Peter Harris called in a dump truck to pick up all the fecal specimens she had. "Why in the hell do you have this rancid stuff in your attic?!"
"I was a year old and focused on science" replied Lisa. She then gives away her old chemistry set to some kids who could use it for some projects when they get to school.
Lynn Sr and Kotaro put all the boxes of Lynn's old ties into the van and they calm down Lynn who didn't like to hand them way, on the plus side he found the VHS tape he and Kotaro an use for Karaoke night on Friday. Though, Mr. Grouse seemed interested in the ties and got ten of them.
Patriot and Valkyrie are there to provide some autographs to their fans in case they wanna keep occupied while looking for things, and do not worry their chicks are taking a nap and they take one long nap.
Just then the doors open and coming out are Lincoln, Luna, Jordan and Sam with the boxes. "You guys look like you all could use some backup and here we are now, let's entertain them!" said Luna.
They all smiled, Luna is back and she is ready to rock and roll like the Luna Loud they all know and love and they get to giving away the old things Lincoln and Luna used to own.
(Later in the day.)
The yard is cleared out and Lola and Lily with Rita and Lori are already off to some photo-shoot, and of course Lana tags along as well and Lynn Sr and Kotaro have to drop off the ties to be donated at a thrift store.
Everyone else cleans up the mess of empty boxes. "We could use these for when we have more old things to give away" said Leni. "This has been such a good day for all of us."
"I know right, seeing people smile was way better than keeping this old stuff" said Luan. "I know some of those kids will be quite happy making some memories with the things they got, and I think you made the right choice telling me to give away Col. Crackers, and good job fixing him too."
Lincoln chuckles. "He needed someone who is more pro at ventriloquism than me." Lincoln then goes over to Luna who is stacking up the boxes and passing them to Lynn Jr who hauls them back into the attic.
Lincoln sees the toy shotgun strapped to Luna's back. "So, what are you going to do with that sis?"
Luna ruffles her brother's hair and she grabs the gun and goes over to Peter Harris who is about to leave with the tenth dump truck of Lisa's old diapers that she stored in the attic. Gross!
Luna then talks to Peter Harris and shows him the double barrel shotgun toy and she whispers to him some words, he smiles and nods. "I'll see what I can do and have it back to you first thing in the morning or probably the day after tomorrow." He then gets onto the truck and he drives off.
Luna waves good bye and goes over to Lincoln, Jordan and Sam. "So, whats this thing you wanted to show us babe?"
Sam then recalls what she wanted to show them. "Oh right, come on!" Sam along with Sully, Mazzy, Chunk and Tabby, Liam, Simon and Stella with Lincoln, Jordan and Luna following her head for the garage of the loud house.
Sam then opens the garage door and what they see shocks Luna. "Ta-da!" they all say, Lincoln, Luna and Jordan are shocked.
"What the heck?!" It was a Mick Swagger Pinball machine!
Luna is jaw dropped seeing this and then she smiles, goes over and hugs Sam. "Thank you, thank you thank you so much babe!" She then gives Sam a barrage of kisses to her face which makes them fall over.
Lincoln goes over to the pinball machine. "Where the heck did you guys find this thing anyway?"
"When we were driving to help your fam with hauling the junk out of the attic, we passed by a sign that said free stuff and we found this beauty, she was not easy to haul into me van" said Chunk.
"We knew that Luna would love it, we thought it would also cheer her up when we heard how broken up she was" said Sully.
"But now she doesn't look so broken down and I guess you can still keep it" said Mazzy. "Consider it as an early birthday gift from the rest of us to you Lunes."
Luna gets up and also helps Sam up, Sam is covered in kisses and is in a drunken daze. "You okay baby girl?" asked Luna as she chuckles at Sam's look.
"Y-Yeah, that was groovy baby." Sam then snaps out of it. "But, this won't be my gift to you yet babe, this is just a gift from Sully, Mazzy, Chunk and Tabby, and possibly Liam, Simon and Stella too. What I got is a surprise you'll truly love babe."
Luna giggles and pulls Sam in for a passionate kiss, this makes then all smile. Then Simon looks to the pinball machine. "Okay, so how do we get this to your room?"
They all stop and realize, how the heck do they get this inside? Looks like they're gonna have one big thing to haul.
Lincoln still wants to know what Luna had plan for the old toy shotgun and why she gave it to Jordan's Godfather and he said he will have it back to her tomorrow. Lincoln is curious, but he decides not to push it, something tells him it's going to be a surprise.
(Fort Justice, Lincoln city, Nebraska.)
Within the juvenile cell of the fort is a kid with red hair who is trying to pick the lock to his cell using his tooth brush. He then sees a guard coming and he hides and pretends to be asleep.
The guard walks by and he continues to pick his lock and success, his lock is loose, but he keeps it closed so they won't get suspicious. 'Soon, soon I'll be out of here and then I'm coming for you Larry and Girl Jordan. Revenge will be mine, my stupid cousin Arnold failed, but I won'!' He then looks to three other cells not too far from him. 'And my crew is here to help me finish the job!'
The other cells had, Patrick, Dennis and Jordan Kirsch (Boy Jordan.) The one who is planning is none other than Chandler McCann, he then looks to the poster of a rockstar on the wall and sees it moving slowly, like he kept something behind there hidden.
Chandler smiles and lies down onto his bed and relaxes with a smile on his face. 'I'll be coming for your friends, you're family and then I'm coming for you Loud and Rosato and no one is going to stop me. Not even you're stupid legal guardian!'
A/N: Luna is no longer a mess anymore and the louds have gotten over their old things and are ready for the new, but it looks like the new will have to wait because we got trouble incoming and let's hope whatever Luna plans is done and ready for the return of some old enemies. Leave a review and tell e what you all think.
Thank you avenger44 for the idea and to Vasmasdas1 for the concept on the return of Chandler and his goons and Boy Jordan, you guys rock!
Date made: 6/14/20.