I don't own The Loud House, Loud House belongs to Nickelodeon.
On one Spring afternoon at the Loud house, Lynn Sr. is happily humming himself a tune as he moved the garbage cans to the curb for trash pickup tomorrow. Lynn felt rather chipper today as he had found a quarter on the ground which is rare in his house as his kids would've snatched it up first in a heartbeat. There is no line for the bathroom as his family is out for the day, meaning that he had the television for himself and a hold load of peace and quiet.
Placing his cans on the curb, Lynn continues to hum happily to himself, while moving up and down like some thirties cartoon character like Bendy or something like that. Looking happily over to his neighbor's house he spots Mr. Grouse attending to his garden by doing some weeding.
"Good morning Mr. Grouse! Isn't this a fine day." He happily greeted.
Pulling out another large weed, Grouse doesn't bother to face the father of the Loud family as he replied to him. "A real scorcher Loud. Not to mention these darn weeds are making me sweat a lot."
"Well I'm sure that a nice cool glass of lemonade will do you nicely." Lynn happily suggested.
"I don't got lemonade." Grouse replied as he wiped his forehead with his handkerchief.
"Oh, well what do you have?"
"Cool grape juice."
"That works to." Lynn then began to head towards his house as lemonade actually sounded pretty good at the moment. But upon looking at his front lawn, Lynn stopped as he couldn't help but see that it needed a good mowing.
Alright before going in for that lemonade, he'll mow the lawn and after that the lemonade will feel so much greater as it went down his throat. Of course there are a couple of things Lynn needed to do before mowing his lawn and that is: picking up all the toys that littered the ground as he didn't want to mow down his kids stuff, take out the mower, and finally make sure that it was well fueled as that is the most important part as an empty fueled lawnmower wouldn't do any good for him.
Moving around his house, Lynn picked up everything that's on the ground and safely places them on the front porch or the driveway. After picking up the last item, (which was Lynn junior's basketball), he opens up the garage door to bring out the mower, only to discover that his mower wasn't there. "What the?"
Maybe he put it somewhere different in the garage. He checks around every space in the garage for the mower, from Luna's amps to behind boxes, but it simply wasn't here. Where was his lawn mower? "Did Lisa take it to make a robot?"
The sound of Grouse pulling out another weed soon gave him the idea that maybe he had lend his mower to Mr. Grouse as Grouse's drivable mower had to get repaired due to the mower suddenly shorting out. Coming out of the garage, Lynn stepped on up to the fence to address Grouse who is busy trying to pull out a large weed that is really rooted into the ground. "Hey Grouse, I'm going to need my lawnmower back."
"What are you yapping about Loud?" Grouse grunted as he continued to pull on the stubborn weed.
"My lawnmower. I lend it to you." Lynn kindly reminded.
"I don't have your stinking mower." Grouse pulled more harder, he felt slight hope when he felt the weed give out a little.
"I'm pretty sure that you do." Lynn insisted with a slight chuckle.
"No, I don't." Grouse barked, he felt that the weed is going to give anytime now.
"You probably forgot that you have it. I'll go get it from your garage." Stepping around the fence Lynn walked right on over to Grouse's garage. Shocked about what he was doing, Grouse went wide eyed as he gave one last pull to the weed which came right out of the ground, making him step back a bit.
Reaching the garage Lynn reached to open up the door, but got jerked back by Grouse who grabbed him by the shoulder and forcefully pulled him back. "Hey you can't just go into my garage!"
Turning to face him, Lynn simply points over to the door. "My lawnmower is in there. I just simply want it back, you know since it belongs to me."
"I told you that I don't have your stupid lawnmower!" Grouse snapped.
"Oh no, I know that you have it." Lynn calmly said.
"What are you calling me a liar?" Grouse question in shock for how dare he come onto his yard, try to go into his garage, and then had the utter audacity to call him a liar.
Lynn sheepishly shrugged. "Well you aren't exactly a truther. So just give me back my lawnmower and I'll get out of your hair."
"Oh, you just crossed a line Loud. Calling me liar on my own property! Let me tell you this you numbskull, crybaby. I don't have your dum lawnmower!" Grouse shouted as he poked Lynn on the chest.
Feeling offended by those hurtful comments Grouse had said to him, Lynn felt the bumbling emotion of anger surge through him. "Oh yeah, like that paint you took from us and you used all of it."
"You had a half can of paint left. What were you expecting Loud? Besides it's not like your stuff is that good anyway." Grouse huffed.
"How dare you! I take good care of my things!"
"Like that dumb cowbell you play terribly!" Grouse snapped, earning a dramatic gasp to escape from Lynn. "How could you say that! I have you know that I play very good in my band! I'm surprised I can even practice with it, since you snore loudly like some tornado siren!"
"I snore at the appropriate level!"
"Yeah, like some train horn!"
Lynn and Grouse pressed their noses against each other, growling like territorial dogs. "You best get off my lawn, Loud."
"No problem Grouse. I'll get off of your ugly lawn." Stomping off in anger, Lynn returned to his property with a promise in his head that he was going to get his lawnmower back from that grumpy old man.
From inside his house; Lynn watched Grouse through the dining room window, waiting for Grouse to enter his own house, so that he can sneak on over to the garage and get his lawnmower back. So far Grouse had used wooden boards to reinforce the fence with a keep out sign posted on top of it. "Come on Grouse. You have to head back in some time today."
Grouse eventually did finally go into his house, most likely to get that drink he had boosted about earlier. This was Lynn's chance, putting down his binoculars he quickly heads out to the backyard and used a ladder to climb over the fence.
Once he was on the other side of the fence, Lynn tiptoed on over to the garage door where upon reaching it, he lets out a chuckle as that old geezer has no idea that the lawnmower will be rightfully his once more. Opening up the door Lynn absolutely wet himself as Grouse is standing inside the doorway with a shotgun pointed right at him. "Something I can do for you neighbor!?"
Lynn ran for his life to the fence, he practically jumped over it, then raced into the safety of his house. Grouse smirked in a evil way as in his hands wasn't a real gun, it was a prop that he had gotten from a garage sale. It definitely gave that bumbling Loud a message on trespassing into his lawn, maybe now he'll stay off it.
With his gardening now finished for the day. Grouse decided that now is a good time to set up his hammock and have a nice afternoon nap in the shade. Settling himself in, he places his arms behind his head and fell into a nice, deep sleep.
From Lincoln's room; Lynn spied down on the sleeping Grouse with a mischievous grin as he was really going to get him back for that lovely gun scare earlier. Pulling out a slingshot he borrowed from Lana's room, Lynn loads in a water balloon and takes aim. He raises the slingshot up a bit to have a better chance of hitting his acquired target. Lynn fires the balloon and makes a direct hit on Grouse's face.
Taken by surprised by the sudden splash of water hitting his face, Grouse spluttered himself awake and sat himself up, this sudden movement causes the hammock to move and eventually caused Grouse to fall off the hammock with a big oof. Laying there on the ground Grouse could hear the hard laughter of Lynn mocking him at his expense.
Narrowing his eyes Grouse muttered under his breath. "So that's how you wanna play Loud?"
Feeling quite good of himself over that balloon strike he gave to Grouse, Lynn decided that now is a good time to take a quick shower. Stepping into the tub with his favorite washcloth, Lynn turned on the water and felt totally relaxed with himself as the warm water rains down at him.
But unknown to him; right down in the crawlspace, Grouse had to find the main water pipe. "So you wanna hit me with a water balloon, huh Loud? Well I'll give you a shower you'll never forget."
Pulling out a wrench, Grouse unscrews the pipe and quickly replaces it with a tube. Crawling quickly back out of the crawlspace, Grouse went on over to a tank that is filled with wet manure. Turning on the pump, it took only a few seconds until the disgusted shouts of Lynn cried out of the house and to the smug Grouse which is like music to his ears.
Flies buzzed above the putrid, smelling father of eleven. Lynn sat on the tree in the front yard, spying on Grouse with his binoculars again. Seeing on how he was outside where Grouse can see him, Lynn disguised himself as part of the branch that he is on by placing leafs all over him. He is waiting patiently for Grouse to check in on his mail for he had left a little surprise for him, that Lynn was completely sure that he was going to love.
Coming out of his house, Lynn could hardly contain himself as he watched him approach the mailbox, Grouse opened up the mailbox, reached in and after a snap screamed in pain as he pulled his hand out that now had a nice mousetrap attached to it.
Lynn laughed hard as he watched Grouse run back into his house, while waving his trapped hand around like crazy. He was laughing so hard that he leaned himself back while holding onto his stomach, however Lynn went too far back and falls off the branch with a loud thump after impacting the ground.
"Ouchie"
After his recovery from his fall from the tree, Lynn is in his bedroom shorting through his fun, but full of personality ties. He is currently trying to figure out on where his easter and disco tie should go, it's a difficult choice as when it comes down to it, when he needs to pick up a tie quickly, Lynn needed to make sure that he could quickly grab it from the rack.
"Hmm, let's see Easter is in two weeks, but then again you'll never know when a sudden disco party will suddenly erupt." Thinking hard Lynn continued to look at each tie, but suddenly got interrupted by a tapping sound from the window. "Huh?" Getting up from his knees, Lynn walked on over to the window for was someone throwing pebbles at his window?
Peering out to the backyard Lynn doesn't see anything amiss, everything seems normal as the squirrels are running on the garage roof, birds are picking for worms. With a roar a large gorilla suddenly rose up right in Lynn's face, roaring loudly as its hairy arms are raised above its head. Lynn screamed loudly at the sudden appearance of the large ape, before promptly fainting. The gorilla soon reached for its head and removed it, revealing that it was a mask. Grouse pointed at the fainted Loud with a hard laughter, he is laughing so hard that he almost fell onto his back to roll around.
After that gorilla scare; Lynn and Mr. Grouse continue to escalate by giving each other blows from: Lynn using Luan's leftover banana peel to make Grouse slip on his front pathway.
Grouse placing a large tarantula, (that he got from the pet store), on Lynn's back when he was setting up a camera.
Lynn throwing a pie at his face.
Grouse knocking on his door and dumping ice cold water on Lynn when he opened up the door.
Lynn putting hot sauce in Grouse's drink when he wasn't looking.
And Grouse giving Lynn an atomic wedgie that he had learned from his old bully from high school.
With all these back and forth blows they gave to each other. The feud between Lynn and Grouse only escalated more and more, up to the point where bard wires covered the top of the fence along with a ditch they both dug out at their ends. They also converted their houses into forts that's complete with cameras and boarded up windows. As for Lynn and Grouse they both stand on platforms that they had constructed on their roofs, on their heads they wear military hats as they watched each other, waiting for one another to make the first move.
"Look at him. Watching me." Lynn muttered. He soon hunkered down to address his troops, which were all of Lisa's robots that he had activated in order to help him with this fight. "Listen up troops! That no good neighbor of mine is going to try to bring us down. We can't let that happen, so we must strike him first."
"Question" Todd spoke up with a raise of his mechanical arm.
"Yes, what is it private Todd?" Lynn question.
"Why exactly are we doing this again? I'm not fully computing this."
"It's because I lend him my lawnmower and he isn't giving it back." Lynn answered as it was that simple to why this feud had come to this. Making their own houses into fortresses, while acting all military like.
"I told you that I don't have your lawnmower, you stubborn fool!" Grouse called out. Lynn immediately turned to face his enemy as he raises his fist up. "I know that you have it Grouse!"
"But isn't this blowing it up out of proportions? After all it's just a lawnmower." Todd pointed out.
"It's the principal of the thing Todd. If some lousy neighbor takes your stuff without returning it. It's only natural that you do anything to get it back, even if it means going to war with your neighbor for it." Lynn explained.
"I still don't get it." Todd replied.
"I guess you have to be human to understand it." Lynn shrugged, he then let's out a cough to draw back on his original sentence. "Anyway, you all must keep an eye on the enemy for the moment he makes a single move. You will engage him."
The robots looked at Lynn with expressionless faces, which he can only guess that they did understood his orders. With that in mind Lynn looked back to Grouse and went into an intense stare down, waiting for one another to make the first move. It could go anyway between the two of them, all that mattered is that neither would turn out as the loser of this war.
On the sidewalk; a nine year old kid who is completely oblivious to the fortitude houses cracks opens a soda, the crack from that simple soda is what all too paranoid men needed to interpret it as the first shot. "We're under attack! Fire the turret!" Lynn ordered.
FriendBot nods and raises up a homemade turret made out of wood and junk, then fired a barrage of water balloons. Under the fire of the said balloons, Grouse returns fire with stink bombs that exploded into mushroom clouds with each impact. Lynn covered his nose from the putrid smell and orders Todd to fire the pile of dirty dippers, which smelled up Grouse's side just as much as he did to Lynn's side with the stink bombs
"You give up Loud!"
"Never you lawnmower stealer!"
"Alright then!" Pulling out a plate and fork, Grouse uses these tools to make a horrible scratching sound that hurt Lynn's ears.
Luckily Lynn had the perfect counter attack. One of Grouse's greatest weaknesses: new age music! Pulling out a radio, Lynn puts on a country song making Grouse to drop the plate and fork to cover up his ears. "Ah! It's torture!"
"Ha! Ha! Take that Grouse!" Lynn gleefully exclaimed.
Continuing to hold his ears from that awful racket that Lynn continued to blare out at him, Grouse lets out a growl. "That's it!" Reaching down Grouse suddenly pulled out his old high school football and with careful aiming, throws it at Lynn which knocked the radio out of his hands and to the ground where it crashed into pieces, ending that horrible racket.
"No my radio! My dad gave me that!" Lynn cried out.
"Serves you right!" Grouse shouted while shaking his fists. This in turn angers Lynn greatly for how dare he disrespect his dad's gift, swiftly he turns to Todd. "Quick! fire the leftover food that's been in the back of fridge for two months. Todd nodded and throws the turn bad leftover that arched through the air with grace, Grouse only had a second to look up and register the incoming projectile before it hits him on the chest and spilled all it's smelly content all over him.
"That's for the manure shower!" Lynn declared.
Recovering himself from the impact and the shock from the bad leftovers, Grouse suddenly went down into his house, Lynn stood there waiting for whatever Grouse is planning for him, but he wasn't prepared for Grouse to come out of his house, pick up rocks, and throw them at his house. "Eat rocks!"
"Hey cut it out! Your going to break a window!" Lynn shouted down, yet it had fallen on deaf ears as Grouse continued to pelt Lynn's house with the rocks.
Outraged by this Lynn went into his house and quickly made his way downstairs to the backyard, where he grabs hold of Lana's axe and rushed all the way to Grouse's driveway and proceeds to smash the axe against Grouse's car.
From the roof; Lisa's robots watched the two men vandalize each other's property with Lynn destroying the hood of the car and Grouse breaking a window with a large rock. "So uncivilized." FriendBot commented.
After so much of hacking and throwing, the two neighbors soon looked at each other, then rushed to each other head on, throwing each other punches and kicks. Lynn bites on Grouse's arm like a dog, while Grouse pulled his hair, a punch to the nose is delivered, followed by a purple nurple, then they both grabbed each other's throats and strangle each other.
The Louds had a pretty good day: they had either spend time with their friends, went shopping at a clearance sale at the mall, shredded awesome jams, attempted to contact a spirit, got some new books, and overall had a very good time. They just couldn't wait to come back home and relax themselves after such a good day.
"Oh my gosh! Like, I can't wait to try on these outfits." Leni happily exclaimed.
"Yeah, these outfits are literally going to look good on us." Lori added.
"I just can't wait to sit and watch that new episode of Desert Storm." Lincoln spoke up.
"Oh yeah, I heard it's going to big one." Lynn said.
"Isn't tonight show supposed to have that chef from Italy face off against the french chef?" Lola asked.
"That's what Clyde informed me." Lincoln replied.
"Well it sounds like that this episode is going to be a piece of cake." Luan joked before going into her trademark laugh.
"Well, while you kids are enjoying yourselves. I'm going out back to read that new book I gotten." Rita said as the book she had picked out looked really interesting. She soon turns Vanzilla down a street that would lead up to their house, as they began their approach a funny smell came through, Luna sniffed it for a second before swiftly covering her mouth. "Ugh! What's that smell dudes?"
Picking up the smell themselves, the others scrunched up their faces, besides Lana who gave it a hard smell. "Hmm, smells like stink bombs, a batch of dirty diapers, with a hint of forgotten leftover food that's been left in a fridge."
"Alright, so where is it coming from?" Lucy question.
"And why does it look like our home along with our neighbor units home areas look to be in a aftermath of some prank war?" Lisa further question.
Looking out the window, the family couldn't believe their eyes for what they are seeing. Theirs and Mr. Grouse's yard is littered by the stuff they've been firing at each other, the side of their house is pelted with a broken window, Grouse's car is damaged, and the most shocking of them all is that their dad/husband is fighting with Mr. Grouse. Coming out of Vanzilla, the family ran towards the fighting men. "What in the world is going on around here?!" Rita shouted, getting both of their attention just as they both gotten themselves into a headlock.
"Dad why are you fighting Mr. Grouse? And why does this place look like it's been in a war?" Lincoln asked.
"Well family." Lynn began. "Our two timing neighbor right here isn't giving back my lawnmower. After I lent it to him." Crossing his arms, Lynn turns away from Grouse who had his hands on his hips. "For the one million time! I don't have your lawnmower! Get it through your thick skull already?"
"Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!" Lynn shouted as he swiftly turned to Grouse and pointed at him.
"Uh, actually dad. Grouse is right. He doesn't have your lawnmower." Lana spoke up.
A record seemed to have stopped itself in Lynn's head as he turned to look at his daughter. "Say again?"
"Grouse gave it back to you last month. You lend it to someone else last week." Lana replied.
"To who?" Lynn question for who else could have his lawnmower? "Yo, Lynn boy!" A voice suddenly addressed. Turning towards the sidewalk, he sees Flip coming up with his lawnmower.
"Here's your lawnmower that you lend me last week. Sorry for not returning it sooner, but you know how it is running a convenient store." Flip wheels the lawnmower in front of the driveway and without asking any questions heads back towards his Food and Fuel, leaving Lynn there to smile nervously as both Grouse and his family gave him a hard glare.
"Well, heh, look at that. Looks like you didn't have my lawnmower after all." The smile shook as he scratched the back of his head with embarrassment over starting this whole feud thing over nothing.
"I told you, ya big nincompoop!" Grouse snapped.
"Honey, don't you think that you owe Mr. Grouse something?" Rita firmly asked with her arms crossed.
"Oh yes, of course." Turning to Grouse while also trying to avoid eye contact with him. "Um, I'm very sorry for the mess that I have caused and uh, accusing you of hoarding my lawnmower. I suppose that I may have jumped to conclusions." Lynn said in guilt as this turned out to be very embarrassing for him.
"You darn tooting that you should be sorry! The mousetrap in my mailbox! Banana peel on my front pathway! Wrecking my car! Oh, you turned into a bad neighbor Loud and your going to pay for it! Although, I suppose that I should be apologizing to, since I went overboard myself." Grouse admitted.
"Does this mean we're good?" Lynn hopefully asked.
Grouse shrugged. "I suppose so Loud. But you're still going to pay for starting this mess."
Walking behind his lawnmower, Lynn pushes his lawnmower through Grouse's backyard, while Grouse is busy cleaning out the bad smell that polluted their area. What they were both doing is fixing up the mess they have both caused to each other's houses, as well as paying each other for damages to the side of Lynn's house and Grouse's car.
"I suppose that this is a lesson learned. When it comes to feuding with your neighbors, you'll both loose and take out a huge part of your checkbook." Lynn huffed as this is exhausting doing Grouse's yard as well as his. Yet, at least they stopped feuding with each other before bystanders got in the way of their little disagreement." Ah! What's this stuff coming out of the shower!" Lori's voice suddenly rang out.
"Oh yeah. I thought, I forgot about something important." Grouse said while scratching his head.