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Restored Image: A tale retold

Chapter eighteen: Besting a bully

Lincoln Loud was eating his breakfast, a simple bowl of cereal (with milk, naturally), one morning in his ex-family's house in Royal Woods, Michigan. As the white-haired boy ate his breakfast, his younger sister Lola was talking to his younger ex-sisters Lana, Lucy and Lisa, while Lincoln's ex-mother Rita was feeding his baby sister Lily.

"Come on, Lisa," Lana said as she was trying to bargain with her brainy younger sister, "Lola and Lucy already agreed to go to the park! If you agree to come as well, then the four of us can play four square or something else like that!"

"I'm afraid that I have various experiments that require my attention," Lisa replied in her usual dry monotone, "One of which I intend to start up sometime later today. I don't really have the time, or desire if I'm to be completely honest, to play such games."

"Also Lana," Lucy remarked as she turned to face her tomboyish younger sister, "I feel the need to point out that I only agreed to go to the park because I was planning on writing in my journal while sitting under one of the trees at the park. It's a rather pleasant day today, and I could do with getting some fresh air."

"There's also the fact that our mother will most likely be unwilling to let us go to the park at all," Lisa added, "Unless one of our older sibling units can be persuaded to come along in order to keep an eye on the four of us."

Rita, having heard the conversation going on between her children, looked up from feeding Lily. "Your little sister has a point, Lana," the Loud matriarch pointed out in a mildly firm tone, "However, you girls can go to the park if you manage to get one of your older siblings to go along as well to keep an eye on the four of you."

The tomboyish loud twin nodded once in understanding to her mother before turning her attention to look at Lincoln. "Hey Lincoln," Lana began, a bit of hopefulness in her tone, "Can you come with me, Lola, Lucy and Lisa to the park today?"

"I'm sorry, Lana," the white-haired boy said in an apologetic tone, "But my friend Rusty asked me and our other friends to come by and help him with something." The excuse that Lincoln had given Lana is partly true; Rusty really did call a for a meeting between himself, Lincoln, Clyde, Liam and Zach, as the older Spokes brother needed help with a venture of some sort.

However, the excuse was only part of why Lincoln was unable to help; the other part being that, with the exception of Lola and Lily, Lincoln was still upset with all of the younger half of the Loud girls. As it currently stands, the white-haired boy would rather not have to be forced, for any reason, to stay in the company of Lana, Lisa and/or Lucy, if he could help it.

Looking down into her lap, Lana said in a disappointed pout, "Aww." As the tomboyish Loud twin sulked, Leni came walking into the dining room area. Right before she reached the doorway leading into the kitchen, Leni noticed that one of her younger sisters was sulking.

"Hey Lana, are you, like, okay?" Leni asked in a concerned tone.

"Me, Lola, Lucy and Lisa can't go to the park because mom says we need an older sibling to go along to watch us," Lana explained in a disappointed tone.

"Hey, I have time today," Leni said, "I can, like, totes go along with all of you!"

Instantly, seemingly as if Christmas had arrived early, Lana perked right back up. "Really?!" Lana said excitedly, the excitement in her tone clear.

"Well if mom is okay with it, then I don't see why not," Leni replied in her usual chirpy tone.

Rita, upon hearing her fashionable daughter volunteer to go with the youngest of the Loud girls to the park was at first a bit hesitant; Rita had nothing against her second-oldest, but Leni did have a history of letting her attention wander. Still, Leni was available and willing, and the youngest of the Loud girls, Lana in particular, were eager to go to the park. …Well, Lana, Lola and Lucy were eager to go to the park; Lisa wanted to stay home, although the Loud matriarch felt that her second-youngest could do with some fresh air.

"Well…alright, Leni," Rita said after relenting a bit, "But remember that you have to keep an eye on Lucy, the twins and Lisa, okay?"

Upon hearing Rita say her name among the girls who wanted to go to the park, Lisa began to object. "Uhh, mother," Lisa remarked, "I said that I had no desire to go to the park, remember? Lucy, Lola and Lana can go to the park without me."

"Lisa, sweetie, you could do with some time outside," Rita countered, her firm but gently and motherly tone making it clear that Lisa was going to go to the park with the other sisters that wanted to go, whether she (Lisa) personally wanted to go or not. Seeing that she was not going to be getting out of this one, the brainy Loud sister sighed in a resigned tone before draining the last of her cup of milk.

"Very well, mother," Lisa replied, "I'll just need to go throw on a clean shirt first."

"Ooh, that reminds me," Lola began, her memory sparked by what her younger sister had just said, "I need to go put on a clean dress! It simply wouldn't do if I went to the park in a dirty dress." As Lana proceeded to taunt Lola over her obsessive need to be presentable at all times which resulted in Lola getting into an argument with her twin sister, Lincoln chuckled to himself a bit in an amused manner; this was just the twins being themselves, as per usual.

Mornings like these were one of the things that the white-haired boy missed while he lived as a runaway in Great Lakes City.

Later that morning over at the park, the twins and Lisa were playing around on the playground while Lucy sat in the shade under a tree as she wrote in her journal. "Hey girls," Lisa began in a mildly apprehensive tone, getting the twins' attention in the process, "I…I don't suppose that either of you knows how our older brother unit is doing as of late, do you?"

"Well Lincoln did win that sword fighting tournament recently," Lola pointed out, "And he does seem like his mood's a lot better than it was when he first came back home."

"Good, good," Lisa said, "That's good to hear." As the three younger Loud sisters continued to play around, they heard some of the other young kids on the playground scream and otherwise make noise that clearly conveyed feelings of fright. This confused Lisa and the twins, as well as alarm them to a degree, until Lola and Lana spotted a specific someone stalking around on the playground as if he owned the place.

"Oh no," Lola said in a hushed whisper of fear, "It's Biff Bizowski! What's he doing here?" Lola and her twin watched apprehensively as they saw the third-grade bully go about the park, coming across an area where two kids were playing; before he even got close, the two kids saw him coming up and promptly ran away before the frightening bully had even gotten close to them. Lola turned to face her sisters that were playing with her. "Girls, the three of us need to go right over to where Leni is and stay right next to her until Biff leaves," Lola said to Lana and Lisa in a serious tone, "There's no way that meanie will bother us if we're close to a high schooler."

"What about Lucy?" Lana asked her twin in a mildly frightened tone, "She's somewhere in the park under a tree! She has no idea that Biff just entered the park!"

The pageant-winning Loud sister's eyes immediately widened out of shocked realization. "Oh geez, you're right, Lana!" Lola said in a worried tone, "Biff might find her for all we know!"

Lisa, for her part, could not see why her older sisters were panicking, and as such sighed in a bit of exasperation. "Lola, Lana, the two of you are both overreacting," Lisa remarked, her usual dry monotone sounding relaxed and casual, "There's no way that Biff fellow will be bother anyone here at the park. Not with so many-"

"Hey!" Lisa and the twins heard Biff's voice shout from somewhere in the park, cutting Lisa off in the process. Looking over, the girls saw to their extreme worry (mild in Lisa's case) that Biff was staring down at Lucy as she sat under a tree, towering over the gothic Loud girl. "What do you think you're doing, sitting under my tree?!" Biff snapped as he pointed an accusing finger at the gothic Loud sister, "The hell do you think you are, huh?!"

"…Yeah, allow me, my sibling units," Lisa said in an unamused tone as she got up and went over to where Biff was harassing Lucy. Despite how frightened they both were, both Lola and Lana got up and went after their brainy younger sister. Within short order, Lisa and the twins arrived where Biff was bothering Lucy.

The brainy Loud sister, upon getting close enough, cleared her throat to get Biff's attention, making him turn to see who it was. "Excuse me," Lisa began in a relaxed, casual manner, "But I cannot help but notice that you seem to have taken umbrage with one of my older sisters."

"And what the hell do you intend to do about it, you little snot?" Biff demanded as he looked down at Lisa, cracking his knuckles as he glared at the genius four-year-old.

"Oh geez, he's cracking his knuckles," Lola said in a hushed, worried tone to Lana, who could only nod in agreement.

"If you do indeed have a legitimate problem with my older sister Lucy," Lisa began to say, "Then why not inform your parents about it so that they can talk to out parents about it, and then we can hopefully reach an agreeable compromise? There is certainly no need to let our emotions get the best of us and lead us to do things that we'll end up regretting."

Giving the brainy Loud sister a look that was a generous mix of confused and angry, Biff said in a sneering tone, "Do you think that you're smarter than me, twerp?"

"…Well," Lisa began, "Seeing as how I don't act threateningly towards girls half my age and a third my size, I have at least one point above you that-" The brainy Loud sister found herself cut off midsentence when Biff punched her on the left side of her face, sending her tumbling back a bit and her glasses flying. The glasses landed on the ground near Biff's feet. Seeing them, Biff walked over and stomped down on Lisa's glasses, crushing them without mercy.

Her fear of Biff temporarily forgotten upon seeing what the third-grade bully had just done to her younger sister, Lola snapped at Biff, "Hey, what do you think you're doing to my little sister, you big meanie?!"

"The same that I'll do to you if you don't zip your lip and show me the respect that you ought to show me, you little brat!" Biff growled angrily as he shook a fist at the pageant winning Loud sibling, making her and Lana back off out of sheer fright. Satisfied that he had clearly reminded the smaller kids that he was their superior, Biff turned back around to face Lisa, who was slowly picking herself back up off of the ground.

"…I believe I can also add 'beating up much smaller girls' to the list I was talking about before you so rudely cut me off," Lisa said dryly, glaring at the third-grade bully as well as she could, given that her glasses were now broken. "Seriously. Do you know how much trouble that you'll get into for-" Lisa was cut off again when Biff punched the left side of her face again, making her fall over onto her back. While Lisa was prone, Biff jumped onto her and started to punch her repeatedly. It was a terrifying display that had the twins and Lucy too afraid to even move.

Growling in self-assured superiority, Biff snapped, "Alright, you little turd, I've had it up to hear with your backtalk." Raising up a fist for one final punch, Biff said, "You got any last words before I rearrange your face?!"

Lisa looked up at Biff with a cool yet neutral glare, ever defying the bully and denying him as much satisfaction from him beating her up as she could. "…The Aristocrats," the brainy Loud sister remarked in her usual dry monotone.

"…" Regarding the brainy Loud sibling with a confused look, Biff said as his expression resumed showing anger, "I have no idea what the hell you're even talk-"

"Hey!" Leni's voice called out, prompting everyone to turn their attention, seeing a clearly angry Leni come running right over to them. "What do you think you're doing to my little sisters?!" the fashionable Loud sister scolded as she made her way over.

"Aww crap," Biff muttered to himself as he got up and proceeded to run away. By the time that Leni had reached her younger sisters, the third-grade bully already had enough of a head start in getting away. Leni wanted to go after the little bully and give him a talking to for being mean to her little sisters, but her little sisters themselves were right there with her, and the four of them were all frightened. …Well, Lucy and the twins were clearly frightened. Lisa, ever the stoic girl, didn't even look shaken by the beating she had received.

"Lisa!" Leni said in a concerned tone as she knelt over to help her brainy little sister up, "Are you, like, going to be okay?"

Dusting herself off a bit, Lisa replied, "There is no need for any alarm. Other than the fact that a low-brained Neanderthal thought it would be a good idea to use me as a punching bag, nothing serious had taken place."

"I don't think that we can come to this park anymore," Lana said in a worried and frightened tone, "There's no telling when Biff will come back to assert his dominance again."

"…You're seriously going to let some cowardly brute like that Biff fellow terrorize not just you, but everyone else here at the park?" Lisa asked as she regarded Lana, surprised by what the tomboyish Loud twin was saying, "Lana, you beat up three fifth-graders on your own a few weeks ago. I'm surprised that you of all people would be afraid of just one lone bully who, need I point out, is younger than the three aforementioned fifth graders."

"Those three fifth graders were nothing," Lana explained to her genius younger sister with a dismissive wave of her hand, "This is Biff Bizowski that we're talking about here! I mean, just look at the number that he did to you, Lisa!"

Wiping away a bit of blood that was oozing out from her nose, Lisa remarked, "…I've been on the receiving end of Lynn letting the rush of winning some big game get the better of her. I think that I'll recover."

"Girls," Leni began as she spoke to her younger sisters in an apologetic tone, "I'm, like, totes sorry, but I'm going to have to take you all home right now." Luckily for the ditzy sixteen-year-old, the twins and Lucy were all too happy to leave the park as soon as they could. Lisa also wanted to go home, although that was because she had some experiments to work on; she never even wanted to come to the park in the first place.

She wouldn't have been pounded by a Neanderthal if she had stayed home like she wanted to.

When the Loud sisters that had gone to the park made their way back to their family's home, the first thing that caught Rita's attention was the sorry state that her second-youngest daughter was in. "WHAT HAPPENED TO LISA?!" Rita exclaimed as she ran right over to her daughters and immediately began fretting over Lisa. Rita noticed the various bruises on her second-youngest's face, the slightly bleeding nose (that also had a bit of bruising), and the fact that the frame of Lisa's glasses was broken into a few pieces; the lenses of the glasses couldn't have been saved, unfortunately enough.

Lisa, calmly and without any hint of being upset over what had happened to her, began explain to Rita, "Some brute from the playground thought that it would be a good idea to use me as a punching bag. Also mother, I believe that I shall be needing my back-up pair of glasses."

"Hey, I have an idea," Lola began, getting her sisters that were present (other than Lisa, who Rita was still fretting over) to turn their attention to her, "We should get Lincoln to beat Biff up!"

"Hey, yeah!" Lana remarked, sounding like she found her twin sister's idea to be very much agreeable, "I bet that Lincoln can totally beat up Biff!"

"Also, Aggro has been totes training Linky in sword fighting," Leni said, "Linky can take that wooden sword that Aggro gave him and-"

Before Leni, or any of the Loud girls for that matter, could go on, Rita interjected, cutting her second-oldest off in the process. "Girls," Rita began in a stern tone, "You are not going to have your brother beat up a playground bully."

"Our mother unit has a point," Lisa pointed out, "All we have to do is let responsible adults deal with that Biff fellow."

"Yeah, Lisa," Lana remarked in a knowing tone, "Like doing that will work. Biff will just keep to himself until the heat dies down, then he'll be back to business as usual." Looking down to the ground, Lana said, "Let's just face it. Kids like Biff won't ever stop for real. If he's stopped in one area, he'll just pick up and resume his ways somewhere else. It's pointless."

"Now Lana, there's no need to get like that," Rita said in a gentle and reassuring tone, "I'll have a talk with this Biff kid's parents about what their son has been doing, then we'll work from there." After that, the Loud matriarch left her daughters where they were at as she went to go get Lisa's back-up glasses. After Rita had left, Lisa turned to face her older siblings.

"When mother returns with my back-up pair of glasses, I'm going to be heading straight up to my room," Lisa stated, "I've got some work to do."

"Yeah, I think that we should have left you here in the first place, Lisa," Lola said to her younger sister in an apologetic tone, "Sorry that you got dragged into having to deal with Biff."

Without any resentment towards her older sisters, Lisa merely held up a hand in a gesture to cut off further argument. "It is a non-factor, Lola," the brainy Loud sister remarked, "Like I had said, I'll recover."

Later that night, after everyone else in the Loud family had finally gone to sleep, Lisa was still up, sitting at her worktable while her baby sister Lily snoozed away in her crib, blissfully unaware of what her brainy older sister was up to. Lisa checked some handwritten notes of hers before taking a vial containing some sort of purple liquid and pouring it into a beaker that contained some sort of blue liquid. When a small wisp of red smoke came out of the beaker as a result, Lisa smiled.

"…Yes," the genius four-year-old said to herself, quietly so as to not wake up the sleeping Lily, "That will do nicely."

Lisa then poured the contents of the beaker that she was holding into a tray of some sort, then she carefully took that tray and put it into one of her various science machines. After she had done that, Lisa changed into her sleep outfit and went to bed, given that she had nothing else to do at the moment. Later, when Lisa woke up in the morning, she went to the machine that she put the tray into, opened it, and took the tray back out. Poking the now jellied form of the liquid that she had poured into the tray before having gone to bed, Lisa smiled once again.

"…Yes," Lisa said quietly to herself one again, a (mildly devilish) look of amusement on her face, "That will do nicely."

Over at the local park later in the morning, Lisa was sitting in the sandbox with Lola and Lana, both of which looked like they felt as if the boogeyman was going to jump out at them at any given moment. Lucy was sitting under a different tree than the one from the previous day. Once again, Leni was the older sibling that went to the park in order to keep an eye on the youngest Loud siblings.

"Lisa, I'm surprised that you actually wanted to come to the park again," Lana remarked, "Not only did you not want to come to the park yesterday, but when you did come to the park, Biff totally throttled you! You have got to be the bravest out of all eleven of us, because I'm pretty sure that you aren't the dumbest out of all eleven of us."

Lisa, with a hint of amusement in her otherwise dry tone, casually replied, "Thank you for the vote of confidence in my intelligence, Lana. And while we're on the subject, I just want to say that you trust me when I say that after today, there should be no-"

"What the hell are you doing back here, you creepy little snot?!" Lisa and the twins heard Biff's voice shout from somewhere in the park, cutting Lisa off midsentence. Looking over, Lisa and the twins saw Biff standing in an intimidating manner as he loomed over Lucy, who was still sitting on the ground. Casually getting up, Lisa removed a sandwich-sized Ziploc bag of what looked like jellied candies from her right pants pocket before she began to make her way over to where Biff was threatening Lucy.

"Lisa, wait!" Lola said in a worried tone, "Biff will take your candy if you walk up to him while holding it! Also, where did you get that candy from?"

Having made her way over to where Biff was once again trying to torment Lucy, Lisa said, "Hey, you leave my big sister alone!" Turning around, Biff spotted Lisa standing there, and gave a smug sneer to the four-year-old girl.

"I see that you got another pair of those nerdy glasses," Biff sneered as he taunted the brainy Loud sister, "And why should I leave your creep of a big sister alone? She's a creep, and as such she has what I'm going to do to her coming!"

"She doesn't deserve to have anything bad happen to her," Lisa said, sounding as if she were a frightened little girl (that 'frightened little girl' bit is only about half right), "Lucy is the nicest big sister in the world!" Holding up the bag of jellied candies she had, Lisa said, "Lucy was even nice enough to make this candy for me!" Before either Lisa or Lucy could act, Biff snatched the bag of candies from the brainy Loud sibling.

"Well it's my candy now, you little twerp!" Biff gloated as he took a piece of the candy from the bag and ate it. After chewing the piece of candy, contemplating its flavor and then swallowing, Biff said, "…Meh, I've had better candy than this." Pointing in a demanding manner towards Lisa, Biff said, "You better bring me some better candy tomorrow or else I will-" Biff stopped short as he dropped the candy bag he stole from Lisa so he could hold his arms over his stomach, which was making some sort of growling noises that were not the sounds of hunger.

"Ow, my stomach," the third-grade bully said, sounding as if he wasn't feeling all that well, "Something's wrong with my-" Biff stopped short as a panicked expression appeared across his face. Suddenly, a certain loud and disgusting toilet-related sound came from the third-grade bully, making him go wide-eyed with shock and worry.

As swift as a coursing river and with all the force of a great typhoon, Biff had defecated in his shorts, the liquid number two trailing down out of his shorts down the back of both of his legs. "…Oh no…" Biff said, his tone clearly conveying embarrassment as kids from around the park began to gather to see what had happened, and out of wonder about just what that smell was.

"Hey, look!" one random boy (he was around the twins' age) at the park shouted as he pointed at the third-grade bully, "Biff Bizowski just pooped himself!"

"Eww! That's super gross!" a random girl exclaimed as she and a number of other kids at the park began to point and laugh at the humiliated Biff, who proceeded to turn around and run away, crying out of embarrassment. After the humiliated bully was gone and the gathered kids began to disperse, Lucy got up and, while carefully avoiding the area where Biff had just soiled himself, walked over to her younger siblings.

Giving her brainy younger sister a curious look, Lucy said, "I never made you any candy, Lisa."

"I know," Lisa replied casually, "That was just a lie on my part. It was part of a gambit that I had pulled off in my plan in order to teach that oafish Neanderthal some much-needed humility."

"So, wait a minute there," Lana said with a confused look on her face, "Your plan was to trick Biff into eating candy that made him poop himself really, really bad?" With an amused chuckle, Lana said, "Wow Lisa. That was actually pretty funny."

Lola, with a disgusted look on her face, remarked, "It was pretty gross."

"What are you going to do with the rest of that candy?" Lucy began as she pointed to where the bag of candies laid. To any amount of luck, the bag of candies had landed a good foot or so away from Biff's accident. With a mildly apprehensive hint in her tone, the Gothic Loud sister said, "I mean, if anyone else were to-"

"I'm going to be keeping the rest of it," Lisa stated as she went over to retrieve the rest of the candies, "I'm still working on the laxative candy, and it would never do if I left a prototype out where it could potentially cause trouble."

"Well alright," Lana said as she pumped a fist into the air, "Biff's been humiliated, so now he's not going to want to show his face around the park anytime soon!"

Taking out a vial that was closed off with a cork, along with a thin wooden tongue depressor that could fit in the vial, Lisa said as she approached where Biff had his accident, "Yes, yes. Anyway, I need to gather a sample, as I need to study the effects of someone having eaten a piece of the laxative candy as it currently is right now."

"EWWWWW!" Lola exclaimed in disgust.

END, RESTORED IMAGE: A TALE RETOLD CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Author's note:

~He should not have eaten that candy, and you'd think he'd get a clue, but it's good…Biff did not have…too much poo~

…In all seriousness, due to the nature of this redone story, a number of things that originally happened, such as Lincoln confronting Biff at the elementary school, do not take place here (a number of things that did not originally happen do happen here, but that's not the point I'm trying to make). Even so, I was able to resolve this chapter's plot well enough. But enough of that. Anyway, the next chapter will be seeing more progress in Lincoln trying to reconcile with the members of the Loud family that he is still upset with. Heh, I bet that none of you will be able to predict what is going to be taking place.