Chapter 278

(Lewis home.)

Now normally, we'd go and check out the Loud House. But, I think we should check out the next door neighbor and no I do not mean Mr. Grouse, he'll get mad at me.

Michelle opens her eyes to the sound of her annoying alarm clock. "Ugh! I hate mornings!" She sits up and looks around. "Well, time to get my day started." She gets out of bed and puts on her fluffy red slippers and she leaves her room and makes it to the bathroom and looks to her messed up hair.

Michelle chuckles. "Heh, and I thought getting stuck and messed up by mud was bad enough. This is way worse." She then starts up the shower and gets herself ready for the day. But then she looks to the foot collar and she recalls that it's also water proof

(Skip.)

After an hour for her to prepare herself, she looks around and she sees how nice her home is still. Michelle sighs and she drinks her coffee and eats her buttered toast. 'It's not gonna be easy for me to deal with this.' She then gets out her work day device (Yeah, that's what she calls It.) and she pushes the button and it starts to pick a name for the day.

Soon, she exits her house and looks around. The whole neighborhood is still asleep and the air is a bit chilly. 'So glad I'm wearing a jacket.' She then walks towards the Loud House and she knocks on the door and it opens to see Luna answered it. Luna is still in her sleep wear and yawns.

"Hey Michelle, come on in dude." Luna let's her into the house and she looks around the place. "So, whose name did it dial to this time?"

"Rita Loud, does she need any help?" asked Michelle.

Luna thinks. "I got no clue dude, you can go around and do some help around the place. It's still kinda early and everyone else is still either asleep or already in the kitchen to get ready for the day."

Luna then heads back upstairs to see if her brother is finally awake, while Michelle walks into the dining room, she does notice the large fish tank. 'Why do they have a sea water fish tank anyway? That thing is big.'

Michelle then enters the kitchen and she sees Lynn Sr serving breakfast to his family, which was waffles. "Good morning everyone."

The others also greet her, but most don't because they're too sleepy still. "Hey Michelle, so who are you helping out today?" asked Leni.

"Rita Loud" replied Michelle. 'So glad it's not Luan again, yesterday was messy.'

"Huh, well I don't know what you can do for me. Perhaps help me with the gardening, that could help you learn when you want to have a garden too" replied Rita as she feeds Lily.

"Okay then, I guess I should wait outside or something" said Michelle as she is about to head to the backyard.

"Nonsense, come on and sit down. I know you must've eaten breakfast, but at least have something to help you get some energy for the day." Lynn Sr hands her a plate of waffles.

"Oh no. I don't think I should, I don't wanna make things a bit too much with eating the food you guys have. I already ate and I don't think I should do this" said Michelle.

"Michelle. Eat" said Lori. "We insist you eat something if you wanna get through the whole day, chances you might have your hands full and you could be going through all of our daily needs and wants."

"Lori's right, though I don't think I'm gonna have anything for you to do for me today. I have work and I might be home late, there's a huge sale going on at the mall and Reiningers is set for anyone who is coming to shop, mostly tourists" replied Leni.

"Come on and sit, and there are no whoopee cushions this time. Lynn already got that one" replied Luan. Lynn Jr nods as she eats her waffles.

"Well, okay then." Michelle sits onto an extra chair and she eats the waffles, then they see Lincoln and Luna come into the kitchen.

"Good morning everyone" said Lincoln. "Oh, hey Michelle. You're here early."

"Yeah, I just wanted to know if anyone needed help and your mom is the first name that popped into the device." Michelle helps pull the chair for Lincoln and Luna and she gets two plates of waffles and hands it to them.

"Wow. You really didn't have to do that dude, plus it wasn't our turn for the day for you to help out" replied Luna as she and Lincoln eat.

Michelle sits back down. "Sorry, I guess I just wanna do what I can to make this community service thing work. Also, does this foot collar need a new battery?"

Lisa drinks her orange juice. "No it does not Michelle Lewis, the foot collar runs on its own energy source from the environment around you. Let it be heat, cold or other energies, so it will last longer.

"Then why not just add that to our phones so we don't bother charging?" asked Lori.

"A phone is small and cannot fit the double 1 battery size of the source to the foot collar, also it might overload from constant use. The foot collar on Michelle Lewis isn't used much but only for tracking and keeping a log on what she is doing" said Lisa. "But fear not, I am planning on trying to improve my new self-sustaining battery source for our devices and household needs."

"The Allied Outpost has a self-sustaining power core and the FutureTech dudes made phones that don't need to charge too" replied Luna as she eats.

Lisa is shocked. She has no words to say anymore, someone beat her to it. The others are also shocked to know this, better yet. Why weren't they even told about this? Or the Mayor?

Michelle chuckles. "I got a feeling this day is about to get a whole lot more than just this for me."

Lincoln also chuckles. "Believe me, chances it's gonna get a whole lot Loud and chaotic for you." The others also agree.

(Community Service Montage!)

Rita: Helping with the gardening. From flowers, weeds, dandelions, mowing the lawn, nasty insects attacking the place and replanting some new flowers, and also tending to the roses.

Lynn Sr: Go to the restaurant and help tend to the services as a waitress there, as well as cleaning around the floors, windows, kitchen and dishes, and also peeling some of the vegetables and fruits.

Lori: Mostly just assisting in her daily chores of washing laundry and cleaning around the house.

Leni: She's at work, so there's no need for that. But Michelle does do her a favor and tidy's up her side of the room and sorts out all of the fabrics that have been unused.

Luan (again?): Cleaning the clown shoes, polishing Mr. Coconuts, feeding Gary, sorting out her calls and schedules and refilling her whoopee cushions.

Lynn Jr: Putting more air into Lynn's balls, polishing her trophy and also all the other trophy's, cleaning her room and since she doesn't do good luck stuff, she wants her sports clothing to be nice and clean and smelling nice and she has a lot from the many practices she has done and she has an incoming soft ball game to go to soon.

Lucy (Oh boy!): Reorganizing her books and poetry journals and tending to the bats in the bat sanctuary. (Now that is scary and also gross.)

Lola (Here we go!): bringing her to her photo shoot and carrying what she needs. But Lola soon sees just how great of a friend Michelle is. She managed to make Lola pretty and hand her the right dress and help her calm down whe she was getting angry, Michelle does know how to handle clothing and makeup. Michelle was also given a book from Lincoln, on how to manage Lola and her photo shoots and pageantry.

Lana: Helping feed her pets and tend to El Diablo and his shedding skin, tuning up Vanzilla and checking on the other rides and also helping fix Lola's car and of course, use the hose and help make a mud pit for Lana and Hops to play in.

Lisa: Cleaning beakers and checking on anything she may have missed on her daily schedule and meetings with other scientific officials and also see if Darcy has called. Lisa has been told not to make Michelle her lab rat or experiment or there will be a hell of a grounding to go through!

Lily: Just keeping an eye on her, playing and changing her diaper. This is Michelle's first time doing it and she gets it right.

Jordan: Michelle had to go to her house and help out with anything that needs help. Cleaning the indoors and outdoors, tending to her dog Ajax who kinda sort of hates her and helping with the laundry. But what seemed kinda unexpected was that she has to help clean Jordan's room, including the many pictures of herself and Lincoln on their many romantic moment, that was a lot of romantic pics and they all seemed so sweet to look at.

Sharp Family: Michelle also has to go to their house and help with the cleaning, that was about it. Though she did question where Sam was, Simon only told her she went to visit Luna.

(End Montage.)

Michelle now heads to the room of Lincoln and Luna and she knocks. "It's Michelle can I come in Luna?"

She then hears 4 voices. "Sure." Wait, 4 voices? Michelle comes into the room and sees Lincoln, Luna, Sam and Jordan on the beanbag chairs and tuning some instruments. "I finished with the rest of the family and the device was set to Luna next. Anything I can do in here?"

"Have a seat dude and help us restring and tune these axes" replied Luna as she hands her two guitars.

"Oh, just that? Well, I have done that before." Michelle gets the two axes and she helps restring and tune them.

"Yeah, we know." said Sam. "Ever since you started your singing career at the age of 22."

Michelle stops and sees their concerned looks. "So, I guess you guys know about that one. Yeah, I did do some singing back in my early twenties and I was doing so great and ….. Having fun doing it, the came financial issues and other problems."

"And then you met Doug Rockwell?" asked Jordan.

Michelle restrings another guitar. "Yeah, yeah I did and he helped me become someone else better and we hit it off with stardom at that point and then he wanted me to tag team with him in talent hunting."

"But what about singing?" asked Luna. "You were a great singer with the bubblegum pop song Best Day ever!"

Michelle chuckles. "That was actually my last song, before I became the host of America's Next Hitmaker. I was caught into greed, fame and fortune and we kept the rhythm going and we kept deceiving so many talents and used their stardom for our own fame and fortune until they had no use for Doug and I and we did the whole show again, sorry you were part of it Luna."

Luna sighs. "Michelle, when you were trying to get revenge on me for what I did as not being Lulu, what were you feeling inside?"

Michelle tries to recall. "Aggressive, ruthless, mean, greedy, vengeful, angry and heartless. Luna I am so sorry I was like that, Doug was the one who always influenced me to be like him and also help him get what we want, but mostly what he wants."

"He was always around me, he helped me and I owe him so much for fixing my issues when I started singing and truth be told, he was never even a good friend or even my manager. I found out months after we were locked up again that he was actually some low life scum bag who happened to find me. I found an old colleague of his in the women's jail, and she was also talented till her singing voice was used up and she went into a life of crime and Doug was her associate."

They were shocked to know this. "Wow. So, he was just some man who gambles and cheats and pretends to be a bit hot shot Hollywood man and then he ditches those who aren't useful anymore?" asked Jordan. "Wow. He is such a big time jerk!"

Sam scoffs. "Every day typical cheating and lying managers, they don't know how to fully manage or even understand their clients or talent. Though, Mick's manager is alright with us."

Lincoln looks to Michelle who finished restringing and tuning the guitars. "Wow. That was fast."

"Like is said, I did this long, long ago" replied Michelle. She then thinks, they deserve to know something else. "Another reason why I had to side with Doug, was because he was also blackmailing me."

"We kinda already know that one, but what the heck did he blackmail you with?" asked Luna.

Michelle looks to Lincoln and Jordan. "How old are you two?"

Lincoln and Jordan look to each other confused and then they look to Michelle. "We're 12, why?"

Michelle sighs. She then opens the door to the bedroom and sees no one else is there and then she goes to the vent and listens and there was no sign of Lucy and then she closes the door, closes the window sheets and sits back down. "I wanna know if you guys can keep this a secret. Can you?"

They look to each other and then back to Michelle. "Sure, you can trust us dude. Why? Is it that bad?" asked Sam. They all put their instruments down to listen.

Michelle sighs. "Porn."

They all remain silent and Lincoln and Jordan's eyes go wide. "What?"

Michelle sighs. "During my ….. My senior high school years, I did some stupid stuff and a lot of guys always liked me and …. They made me into someone I wasn't and ….. They made me into a porn star."

"No freaking way" said Luna and Sam. Lincoln and Jordan turn red hearing this, yeah, they know what that means.

"I never really understood why I did all of that years ago and what the hell was I even thinking, but I gave up on it after two months of it and when I was being shoved into a dark hole of near suicide" replied Michelle, this shocks them. "I just …. I got tired of it and I didn't wanna be part of it anymore."

"So, I left the boys and girls who twisted me and with my parents we moved out of town and I went to a different school and graduated and I decided not to go to college and just go to do my own thing, alone and just be a singer for someplace in Boulevard and it was the best of my young adult life."

"And I don't know how Doug found out about me doing porn in the past, but he somehow managed to get his hands on it. But with him now locked up and badly damaged he won't be able to blackmail me anymore, so I guess now you guys know about that dark secret."

"But … What about your family?" asked Jordan.

Michelle looks to all of them. "My parents passed away years ago and I'm an only child and I also never got a chance to see my grandparents, also I don't have any uncles or aunties and I don't even know if I even have any distant relatives. I never knew if I even had ones."

Lincoln then feels bad for her. "We'll keep the secret safe, you have our word. Just the five of us know what Doug did and the truth about your past. We understand that you didn't want his blackmailing be the reason why you can't be able to do your singing career anymore, we're on your side Michelle."

Michelle wipes some tears away. "Thanks, thanks guys. I never knew having such good friends would be so nice, all I had was Doug and he was such an ass. Sorry about that."

"Hey, just as long as you don't curse often then it's alright with us" replied Sam. "And thanks for coming here and telling us this, another step to opening up to trust and forgiveness and I think I speak for all of us here that we trust you fully."

Michelle looks around and sees the smiles on their faces, she can trust them and she knows they're all good friends, even to those who aren't family or to those who were once enemies. "Thank you. I don't know where I would be if I hadn't been given this shot with the whole community service thing."

"All in good times dude and before you even came in here, we were all thinking. Since we have this gig and our band we thought it would be nice if you could also serve as, sorta our manager for our gigs here in town" said Luna.

Michelle is stunned to hear that. "What? Are you sure? Me as the manager of the Luna-Tics?"

Luna and Sam nod. "You know how to manage gigs and organize things and technically you're in community service to us and not to the others, so even if you're being asked to do something you have to assist us with what we need. Rehearsals, venues, schedules, gear and songs. So, what do you say?"

Michelle sees they are all serious, they want her, Michelle Lewis to be their manager as part of her community service to them and also at times continue with helping the loud family and also Jordan.

Michelle sheds a tear and doesn't know what to say or even think. "Wow. This is ….. Wow. This is so unexpected guys."

Luna chuckles. "So, what do you say dude?"

Michelle looks to them in determination. "I'll do it! I'll be your manager, and I'll be my own kind of manager and not the old me, not the me that was mean, greedy and manipulating. I am going to do my best and help you and your band with the gigs!"

They all smiled hearing this. "Well, you can start later in the afternoon" replied Luna. "Also you should see whose next for some help. Because this was all I needed you to do, restring what's left of the axes and have this nice talk."

"Oh okay then!" Michelle then hits the button and the name is on Lincoln. "Huh, so I guess it's just you and me kid. What should I do to help you out?"

Lincoln and Jordan get up. "Follow us, we got some eagles to tend to."

Michelle goes wide eyed. "What?"

Things are turning out good for Michelle Lewis, even if it means she has to check on some eagles who don't trust her, much.

(San Llorona Psychiatric Hospital. Albuquerque, New Mexico.)

The whole place is spiraling into chaos! All the crazed patients are on the loose and the staff have to keep them contained, but it is not easy. Bad news: 10 patients are dead and 8 staff members as well.

The whole place is also starting to smoke and then two figures bust through the doors and toss the guard away who lands onto a car. Then a man on a wheel chair is tossed from the roof and lands onto another car.

The two figures walk out covered in some blood and looking angry. "Okay kiddo! This is it, our first smell of freedom!" said Stan Stankco. Still missing a left arm.

"Heck yeah! And it felt good bashing some guards and other lunatic people in there!" said Steak Stankco. Using crutches since he has no right leg.

Anyone recall what Lincoln did to these two dorks? Anyone?

Stand and Steak then walk away from the place as an explosion is made on the right side of the building, they then see the car of the man who runs this place, and they both get in and drive off.

"Time for some payback!" said Stan.

"And we're coming for you Loud!" said Steak.

"Here come the Stankcos!" They both laugh as they drive off to find a way to Royal Woods.

A/N: Michelle's Community service has just begun with a new way to improve and it seems some old enemies are coming in hot and they could be murderous. Thank you to avenger44 for the enemy come back idea and to legend Vasmasdas1 for the whole concept. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.

Date made: 7/7/20 – 7/8/20.