Luan was the first one to speak afterwards. "Are you trying to make fun of me? Again?" She asked.
Lincoln, to avoid anyone else seeing them seeing no better option, dragged the girl back to her bedroom, and closed the door, making sure Lori didn't spotted him as well. The last thing he needed was to cause trouble with more than one sibling. He would have to try to explain where did he came from.
"Okay, I think nobody saw us," Lincoln said. He took a quick glance over the room, and something felt wrong, like something was missing inside the room. Even fro him, who doesn't go in that room very frequently. He saw the bunk bed, a whole set of drums, a random pile of clothes in the corner, posters from rock bands. That didn't felt like Luna and Luan's room, but rather only Luna's. "Where is your stuff?" Lincoln asked
"Uhh, everything is here," Luan said, confused. "You've seen our room before, Lincoln, there is nothing different,"
"Are you sure?" Lincoln said. "I'm not seeing your joke books, your pranking gear, not even Mr. Coconuts," Lincoln said
"I'm sorry, who?" Luan asked, more confused than before. She had one or two joke books inside a chest under her bed, but those were very old, and what gear was he talking about? And who was that Mr. Coconuts?
"Your ventriloquist dummy," Lincoln said.
"What are you talking about? I don't do ventriloquy," Luan said, and she was beginning to get, yet again, annoyed by all of that.
"Of course you do, it's one of your great talents," Lincoln said, kind of surprised. "You are Luan Loud, the best comedian I've ever seen, even though some of your pranks were kind of dangerous," Lincoln added
"Yeah, of course, I'm the comedian of the family," Luan said, ironically. "All you do is laugh at me," Luan said
"Isn't that the intention?" Lincoln asked, confused
Luan got really angry. Her Intention was to make people laugh with her, not at her. She remember some of her attempts, and even she could agree they were pathetic.
"Get out of my room," Luan said
"What?" Lincoln said, surprised. "Why? What have I done?"
"You know what you did, now just leave," Luan said.
"Luan, what's wrong?" Lincoln asked. He had never seen his sister that aggressive. Okay, he had seen worse cases, but today wasn't April fools, and she was just regularly angry, not Joker levels of insanity. Something was different, and he couldn't understand what it was.
Luan reached for under her bed, and grabbed a flower, which had a tube coming from behind. There was a small bag and a button attached to it. "I'm warning you, Lincoln, it's not a good time to mess with me," Luan said. "You know how much lemon juice hurts your eyes," she added
"Luan, there is no need for this," Lincoln said, raising his hands, but still in place. "We can talk about this,"
"I've warned you," Luan said, as she pressed the button, and… nothing happened. "What? Why is it not working?" She said, pressing the button a few more times. She groaned, as she pointed the flower to herself, trying to find what was wrong with the device. She tried again, and, for a weird reason, the thing worked.
Luan screamed, as the acid liquid went right in her eyes. She dropped her device on the floor, and she tripped on the pile of clothes. She simply stood on the floor. Lincoln could see tears coming from her eyes, and due to the sobbing, he conclude those weren't because of the lemon juice, but rather she was crying. Or both. Yeah, probably both.
Luan was facing the wall, both hands on her face. Lincoln approached her from behind, and seated by her side. He would say something to comfort her, but he wasn't even understanding what was wrong with her.
"Why can't I be like you all?" Luan said. "You've all so talented, while I'm just a failure," she added.
Something awkward hit Lincoln's mind. Something on her last words, were quite revealing, but also, it sounded familiar. For some reason, Luan's complains were very similar to himself. Suddenly, reality struck him. This Luan wasn't like the Luan from his reality. She had her hobbies, but no talents. She tried, but mostly failed. Her efforts were overshadowed by the thing her siblings did. And she didn't had a person that knew how she felt.
That girl, just like Lincoln, was the least successful Loud of her reality.
Lincoln crouched by Luan's side. He knew how much lemon juice hurts the eyes. He could thank the Luan form his reality for that. He took Luan by her hand and took her to the bathroom, and closed the door. He used water to wash Luan's face. After a few minutes, she managed to hold her eyes open, even if they were still red.
"Thanks," she said. "I should know that wouldn't work. It never does," she said, sadly.
A few seconds of silence went away, before Luan broke the ice. "So, why were you asking all of those questions back in my room?" She asked
"Uh, how to explain?" Lincoln though. "So, I am Lincoln, but not your Lincoln. I'm from another reality, and there you're one of the best comedians around?"
"You have got to be kidding, right?" Luan asked, a bit annoyed. "Why you think I'd believe that?"
"Both of us live with Lisa," Lincoln said. Luan took a moment to analyze the situation.
"Okay, you might have a point. But why the white hair?" Luan was curious.
"It's my natural hair color," he said. "Just like yours, I suppose,"
"Yeah, mine is also natural," Luan said. "Being called snowflake almost all my life reinforces that,"
"Heh, nice nickname," Lincoln said
"So, what are you doing here? I mean, in our dimension, or reality, or whatever you call it," Luan asked
"You see, I was delivering some research my Lisa did to another version of herself," Lincoln explained. "But something went wrong, and I ended up here. I'm just waiting for Lisa to recharge the device, and I'll be on my way,"
"Ah, I see," Luan said, and they both fell silent for a few seconds. "So, how I am back in your reality?"
"Well…" Lincoln rubbed the back of his head. "You're very addicted to jokes and pranks. Most of the time is fine, except for April Fools day."
"What happens in April Fools?" Luan asked.
"Believe me, you don't wanna know." Lincoln said. "I suppose you don't prank your family in this reality?"
"I tried, but the only one who ends up falling to my pranks it's myself." Luan sighed. "I mean, everyone here is so talented. There's this trophy stand downstairs, I'm the one with the least of them."
"Story of my life." Lincoln said.
"Wait, what you mean?"
"Well, I'm the one with no special traits on my version of the family. Apart from the hair color, and being the only boy."
"It kind of sucks. I mean, sure, I'm happy my siblings have all of their accomplishments and stuff, but… I don't know. They just don't know how it feels to be the overshadowed person."
"Well, I mean, I have an idea…" Lincoln said. "Though, I never thought someone else in the family would have the same feeling."
Luan than thought for a short while. "You think there might be others? Like, maybe somewhere, there is a version like us, of our other siblings?"
Before Lincoln could answer, the door in the bathroom opened, and Lisa was revealed on the other side. "Counterpart of our brother unit, the device is fully char… Oh, I see you've met him, older sister unit."
"Yeah, we did." Luan said.
"Oh, the device is ready. Good." Lincoln said, as both of them stood up and headed to Lisa's room, and Lisa placed the device back into Lincoln's wrist. After a few seconds, a new portal arrived.
"Also," Lisa said, before he stepped into the portal. "I shall inform you, I've made some changes on the device, which allows it to recharge itself without having to remove and connect it to an energy source. It takes longer, but in extreme situations, it might be helpful."
"Thanks, Lisa." He said, waving goodbye to the two counterparts of his family, as himself and the portal vanished.
"Well, that was certainly an interesting experience." Lisa said. "I even managed to recreate the device that allowed him to travel to our dimension."
"That's nice." Luan said, still thinking about her question that was left unanswered. She was going to ask Lisa, when she noticed a small object on the floor. "Hey, Lis, is this flash drive yours?"
"I'd never leave something capable of holding information scattered around." Lisa said. "This may be property of our traveler."
"What do we do with it?" Luan asked.
Lisa rubbed her chin. "Older sibling, would you have the next minutes of your day available? If so, how about a little trip?"
Lincoln soon appeared back to his own reality, where Lisa was waiting for him.
"I see you made your way safe and sound." Lisa said. "Tell me, how is my genderbent counterpart doing?"
"Uh…" Lincoln rubbed the back of his head. "I've actually ended in the wrong reality. So I didn't managed to deliver the drive."
"Well, that's unfortunate." Lisa said. "In any case, would you kindly retrieve me the drive? There are some information I've somehow forgot to add into it."
"Sure thing, Lis." He reached for his pocket, only to find it empty. "What?" He checked all of his pockets, but no flash drive to be found. "Dang it, I think I lost it, sorry sis."
"No need to worry, older brother sibling, I have a backup of all of the files inside my computer. It only will take some time for all of the information to be transferred." She said. "In any case, I shall take the transportation device, for it to be charged."
"Actually, the other Lisa said it now can charge by its own." Lincoln said.
"That's… quite interesting." Lisa said. "You may keep it for now, to avoid any interference with my other equipment, to see how effective this autonum charge actually is."
"Okay then, sure." Lincoln said.
"Now, if you excuse me, I must head to our back yard. One of my experiments is lacking a portion of organic compounds, which are abundant in our surroundings." Lisa said. "Also, as and update, our sibling units known as Luna, Lynn, Lucy and Lola have already made their way home."
"Okay, thanks sis." Lincoln said, as they both left the room, Lisa going downstairs, and Lincoln to his bedroom. One thing they didn't noticed, but Lily did, was that, suddenly, someone else has appeared right inside the room.
Luna was in her bedroom, enjoying the best choices of songs that her headphones could provide her. Even if she loved playing, sometimes you just have to enjoy other people's arts. Suddenly, she noticed her bedroom door opened. She hold one side of her headphones out of her ear, to greet the visitor.
"Hey there…" Luna looked at the person below her, and removed her headphones. "Luan, why is your hair white?" Luna asked.
Luan just looked at her a bit shocked, without an answer.
"Look sis, no offense, but if you're trying to look like Lincoln, you need to do better than just dye your hair." Luna said. "You'd need his clothes, maybe a face mask, and work on the hairstyle, or find a wig."
"Oh, thanks for the tips, notes taken." Luan said.
"No problem, sis." Luna said.
Then, a voice came from outside.
"Hey Luna, have you seen…" Lincoln stood in front of the room, facing Luan directly. Both Luna and Luan noticed it.
"Yeah dude, I know. I already told ya she doesn't look like you. Still need to work more on the general appearance to look like a doppelganger. SO, what were you saying?"
"Actually, I was just looking for Luan." Lincoln said. "Can you come with me?"
Before Luan could answer, Lincoln dragged the other dimension Luan into his bedroom, and closed the door.
"What are you doing here?" Lincoln asked, a bit angry.
"Two things." Luan answered. "First, you forgot this." She handed him the flash drive, with a device on her wrist very similar to the one on his own. Lincoln showed he was a bit embarrassed for losing it when he took it back.
"Oh, yeah, right." He said. "But why did you went into Luna's room?"
"I wanted to see a bit of it. And I have to say, your sister has a lot of stuff."
"And that's because you didn't saw her pranking gear. She keeps that locked up away, so nobody would see it."
"I still wanted to see it, though." Luan confessed. "I'm sure that it's better that anything I've ever done."
"Well, uh, thanks for the drive anyways." Lincoln said. "Wait, you said you were here for two things. What is the second?"
"You didn't answer my last question." Luan said.
"Is that really that important?" Lincoln asked. "I mean, there might be a similar version of us for every sibling, but why does it matter so much?"
"Lincoln, if we are in similar situations, have you never felt bad for not being part of the talented ones? Did you never wished you had someone to understand you?"
"Well, yes, but why exactly is that so-"
Lincoln was interrupted when his bedroom door opened, revealing Luna and his version of Luan.
"Lincoln, didn't you saw Luan was with white ha-" Luna saw the white haired Luan. And while both Luan's kept staring at each other, Luna was quickly looking at the two of them, and the two girls outside the bedroom were confused.
"Wow, sis, this time I'm impressed. Who is dressed like that?"
Both Luan's remained quiet for a few more seconds, as they approach each other. Only when they were almost touching each other, the brown haired Luan spoke. "I have nothing to do with this. Lincoln, who is that?"
Before Lincoln could reply, he saw the white haired Luan typing something on her device, and soon another portal was opened. "I'm kind of like you, Luan. Just from another dimension."
"Really?" Luan asked. "I thought I was prettier."
"Hey!" The white haired Luan screamed, as she pushed Luan away."
"Wow, another reality hit me hard." Luan said, earning a groan from Lincoln and Luna, but a giggle from her counterpart.
"Not bad. Wished I was as good. as you" The white hair counterpart said. She then approached Lincoln and held his arm, and faced the other two girls. "Now, I'm sorry to cut the chat short, but I gotta go. Don't worry, I'll take care of Lincoln." She said, and before anyone could react, she went into the portal, dragging Lincoln inside with her. And Luna and Luan witnessed the portal simply disappearing, leaving no tracks of neither of them. The two faced each other.
"Lisa!" They screamed.
It took a few moments until the travelling ended, and when it did, Lincoln noticed that he and the white haired counterpart of Luan were in the middle of...nothing. It was only a bunch of darkness, with a few white dots spread around. They weren't even standing on a ground, but rather just… floating.
Lincoln then faced his only company. "Luan?
She faced him, a bit nervous. "Y-yeah?"
"Where are we?" Lincoln asked.