Seeing their brother stowed away in a cart, Lori, Luna, Luna and Lynn catch up with him, leading them to the unauthorized area. And all of them are at awe of watch they see.
Back to the story, as we try to catch up with Lincoln, we enter a realm like never we seen before…an ice cream factory. The place is so amazing that is truly unbelievable that that was the place where the awesomest ice cream in the world is made. We don't know how the ice cream was made, but it's awesome. Though searching for Lincoln was not.
"I can believe we are actually at an ice cream factory," Luna remarks, to which Lynn takes a giggle out of.
"It looks a lot in my ice dreams. Hehehe. Get it?" Luan jokes.
But Lori remains speechless at what she is seeing. "Isn't it great that we are in an ice cream factory, Lori?" Luan shares to her sister, but Lori remains silent, "Lori? Lori?!"
"Uhmm what you literally say?" Lori asks, baffling Luan.
"Hey dudes! Isn't that the cart thingy where Lincoln was?" Luna inquires of them, as she points to the cart where Lincoln stowed away. They catch up to it, to discover Lincoln out of sight.
"Where could he be?" Luan asks.
Suddenly, a faint babyish giggle echo through the halls of the factory.
"Did Lynn just literally laughed at this matter?" Lori vehemently asks.
"Impossible, Lynn's just right behind me. I couldn't have heard her giggle," Luna comes to her sister's defense. Lynn then agrees in gibberish, giving Lori a glare to her.
And just right in front of my eyes, there he is…"Look Lori! There he is!" Luna alerts Lori, pointing at Lincoln inside a glass-cased conveyor belt, loading ice cream container molds for the popsicles. "We need to get in to get him!"
As for Lori, she sees a metal staircase, leading to a catwalk that directs to other rooms of the factory. She presumes, "No Luna, we need to literally get around to catch him on time."
"But what if he gets squished or something?"
"That's why we need to get around fast!"
"I say we go in!"
"I say we go around!"
"I say in!"
"I say it's better around!"
"In!"
"Around!"
"In!"
"Around!"
"Guys, can you stop fighting?" Luan pleads, "Lincoln is in trouble now. Can we set fighting aside?"
"Not if she apologizes to me for the milkshake earlier!" Luna berates.
"Fine. Take it your own way," Lori says resolutely, then heads to the stairs. "You literally coming, Luan?"
The sisters' dispersal leaves Luan in confusion as to who she should side on, but never fazes an infantile Lynn. Naturally, the latter just watches the feud go.
But for Luna, the only thing she wants to succeed is getting their baby brother back. As she sees Luan unable to decide, she says decisively, "Dude, go with her. I'll be fine."
And with a bit of hesitation, Luan catches up with Lori as they take the catwalk route. Meanwhile, Lynn is left behind, clueless as to what just happened. But without a doubt, Luna picks her up in a piggy back manner and enters a passage way going inside the conveyor belt.
There are many times that we sisters fight. But at that time, there I felt Lori's anger to me. It really bugs me. But no matter. The important thing to do is rescue Lincoln. And the rest of our journey is all about searching the factory without being seen.
Back at Lincoln, he is just constantly wowed at the sights he is seeing, even though he is seeing a generic ice cream factory. The belt thankfully slows down its passage. Yet baby Lincoln catches a glimpse of the ice cream filling machine, to his absolute delight.
There were the dusty floors. There were the factory parts. There were the high heights. And there were the sneaky workers that we need to stay away from. It was really hard.
Meanwhile, Luna and Lynn hurriedly crawl their way, following the conveyor belt's direction. Conveniently for them, there is a narrow passage way that separates the actual assembly line from the machines surrounding it. But they have to dodge gear parts and metal stands along their way.
"Just hang on to me Lynn!" Luna tells her sister before they stumble upon a machine blocking their way. Luna attempts to climb the mechanism and traverse through a constricted opening to the other side, with Lynn on her tail (while hitting her head accidentally in the process).
Unfortunately on the other side, two engineers are on guard. Instantly, Luna shields Lynn from their presence. But on a distance, she sees Lincoln about to pass through ice cream filling machine.
"Oh no, Lincoln's on trouble," Luna utters, "We gotta do something." With that, Luna tries to think of a plan in a snap. And after a while, she spots a ladder just right beside their spot. "Hey Lynn, do you think can reach that?" she asks her baby sister. Lynn answers with an enthusiastic nod. "Good, now I want you to quietly climb the ladder, okay? I will get to you at the top."
With that, Luna reaches Lynn to the first step of the ladder, and Lynn climbs her way to the top in time, amazing for her age. As for Luna, she attempts to distract the two engineers by using her left sock to sling a bolt nut towards the conveyor belt. Surely enough, she strikes it to the gears, which catches the attention of the engineer and gives her a clean getaway. She catches up to Lynn, who is halfway in the ladder, and together, they climb their way to the top. They eventually stumble in the topmost catwalk, where they get a bird's eye view of the factory.
"Wow, never knew we got so far to the top," Luna remarks at awe. And as she looks below, the then-4 year old witnesses her baby brother getting such to the ice cream filling machine. "Lincoln!"
Suddenly, a safety inspector passes by, prompting Luna and Lynn to hide at some boxes. While hiding, Luna spots a lifting hook near a boiler room at their direction. And out of that, she has thought of their next move. "I have a plan! Grab on to me Lynn!"
"Yeah!" Lynn utters, holding on to Luna's back. They then sprint to a room adjacent to the hook and enter it without being detected. But just as they calm down from their strenuous wondering, they both hear commotion from a darker part of the room. Out of self-defense, Luna grabs a nearby broomstick, pointing it to the source of the commotion. With fear trembling underneath the skins of the two, out of the shadows comes Leni, who is still searching for "lost".
"Leni, what are you doing here?" Luna asks.
"Oh, I just followed some guys here who I heard they say 'lost'," Leni says, "Then I got myself in this magical place. I heard they call it an 'ice cream factory'."
"Just because it is, Leni," Luna explains.
"I know. I keep hearing them say 'lost'. I don't know why. But they seemed looking for it like. 'Company lost' they say," Leni adds to her story, which raises some eyebrows for Luna and Lynn.
"Well, glad we have you back. Now, we have to rescue our brother Lincoln."
"Oh no! What happened to Linky?"
"I don't know. He seemed to slip away from us when we had our milkshake dare. We have to rescue him!"
"But I haven't got 'lost' yet."
"Leni, 'lost' is not a real thing. Lori made it up!"
"Lost is not real?"
"Yes, and all this time, you were tricked by evil princess Lori because she thinks you're…" But before she finishes, Luna sees Leni about to shed some tears from realizing that after the effort of optimistically searching for 'lost', she searched for nothing. In empathy, Luna stops chastising her, then eventually thinks of another way to sway her, "Wait, Leni. I think I know who lost is."
"Lost is a who?" Leni asks.
"Yes, it's Lincoln, our brother. Lost is Lori's other way of calling Lincoln. Get it?"
"Oh, I didn't know Lincoln is lost."
"He is. Now, if we can just rescue him from being caught, you got 'Lost'."
"Oh. That's a good plan!"
"Good, now we just need a way to that hook right there. How about that window?"
"Let's check it out."
With that, Luna, Leni and Lynn climb to the sill and budge the window to open. However, it remains stuck tight. Despite that, Leni keeps pushing harder, which eventually opens the window.
"Good job Leni," Luna compliments her sister, with Lynn doing the same, only in baby gibberish.
"Thanks," Leni replies.
For their next step, the three stand by the slightly steep sill, grab on to the rusty lifting hook and swing themselves across the factory. It is like a swing for them, only in an unnoticeable vertigo-draining height. Conveniently, a platform that is hooked to a crane and loading bags of sugar happens to pass by their direction, and the trio jump at it to safety.
"That was awesome!" Luna utters.
"I know right! We are like monkeys!" Leni follows, so does Lynn, even though she never understands her words.
"Uhmm except the monkey part," Luna replies, giving Leni a little shrug.
Before arriving to the ground, Luna, Leni and Lynn jump to a pile of boxes, which happens to be placed beside the endmost station of the conveyor belt, which is the final packaging station. To avoid being spotted, the trio crawl underneath the operational belt and towards Lincoln's whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Lori and Luan take the safer but riskier route by the catwalk. Safer, since they are taking a less life-threatening direction. Riskier, since their route is a common passage way for the factory workers.
Realizing this, Lori coordinates with Luan. "We need to be stealthy, Luan. But how?"
"I don't know sis, but I don't think ice cream is stealthy. Hehehe. Get it?" Luan jokingly answer her, giving Lori more annoyance to bear.
"I am literally serious, Luan. We need to find away to sneak in without anybody seeing us."
"But how Lori? We are two little girls. How can we let anybody not see us?"
Just as Luan lays her concern, Lori glances upon an employees' locker room and spots a hazmat suit that selected factory workers are required to wear. And with that, Lori formulates an idea: use the said hazmat suit as a disguise.
Now, with Lori at the bottom, Luan at the top and a hazmat suit covering them (complete with visor vision), they pass by the catwalk in a wobbly way. But some are nonchalant at their walking.
"Okay, Luan. You tell me which way to go. I can't literally see through here. Got it?" Lori persuades.
"Don't worry Lori. Let me lead the way. This will definitely suit us. Hehe!" Luan responds with a joke.
"And no puns, okay?"
"Why not?"
"I am literally serious, Luan."
"Fine."
However, one worker approaches them and calls them, "Hey! MacFarlane!"
Luan then glances on the blue uniform, to which the name MacFarlane was stitched. "Me?"
"Yes, you," the worker, who turns out to be the supervisor, says, "You are assigned under sanitation duty, right?"
Since Luan cannot speak to avoid being compromised, she just nods to give the impression to the supervisor.
"Good. Head now to the conveyor belt and clean the ice cream filling unit after we halt the assembly line. Then you proceed instantly," the supervisor orders them, "Do I make myself clear on this?"
But Luan cannot utter a word, to avoid being detected.
"I can't hear you, MacFarlane," the supervisor calls out to her again.
Without any choice, Luan utters in a failed manly voice, "Yes sir!" This causes Lori to pinch her sister. "Hey!"
"Good, good. Good to hear you do a girly voice. But we have no time for impressions. Go now!"
And with that, the two head to their area of duty, in a wobbly manner obviously. None catches their attention, until a burly guy with a nose ring calls them from behind, "Yo MacFarlane! You says you gonna pay now for the lunch you took from me yesterday!"
"What should we do Lori?" Luan whispers to her sisters.
But Lori only trembles in fear.
"MacFarlane, I know that's you. I know you are a family guy. But if you owe something, you owe something," the burly guys intimidates as he approaches them.
And with sheer hesitance, Lori rushes themselves away from the guy. Disregarding Luan's direction, Lori just mindlessly wanders in every way.
"Lori, slow down!" Luan coaxes her. She then suddenly sees a dead end at their direction, prompting her to alert her frantic sister. "Lori, look out!" But Lori ignores her. Luan also failed to see a low-hanging metal bar on her direction, which removes her from the suit and lets Lori loose. Unfortunately for the latter sister, she trips from a catwalk railing that removes her from the hazmat suit and falls to the popsicle conveyor belt. She lands at her knee but has her jammed at the belt. She tries to get herself out, especially as she sees an upcoming station nearby, to no avail.
Fortunately, Lynn jumps from below and gnaws the piece of Loir's shirt for her to be free. "Lynn?" Lori suddenly, Luna and Leni carry her and bring her down.
"Are you okay, Lori?" Leni asks.
"Fine, just had a cut," Lori says heeding from her pain and strenuousness.
"Don't worry. I can fix that," Luna says as she peels of the part of Lori's shirt that got jammed to the conveyor belt and pours it with alcohol she had in her pocket to be placed on her knee wound. Lori twitches from the intense reaction to the alcohol-soaked cloth, but Luna is able to tend to the wound, ending with a bandage.
At times, I will feel hard for Lori. Not this time. Sure, she may had tormented me earlier. Sorry for the harsh words. But I know she's still a good sister. That's why it's better to do some good for her.
At this point, Lori realizes how much Luna cares for her, despite their differences on each other. With that, she wishes to express her gratitude, "Uhmmm Luna, I didn't know you literally can care for wounds. I just thought all this time, since we are always fighting that…"But Luna interrupts her along the way, "Lori, it's okay. We're sisters. We help each other, even though we fight each other. No worries, sis."
Lori just feels grateful she had compassionate sisters like Luna. It is hard for her to appreciate her sisters' differences. But with love, it all runs in the family. Feeling just the amount of emotion, Lori embraces Luna. Though the latter is bewildered at this, she nonetheless accepts her sister's embrace.
"Oh yeah, by the way, how did you literally found Leni?" Lori asks randomly.
"Awww, isn't that cute? Lori is sharing Love to Luna," Leni remarks cutely. "Take it easy, Leni," Lori responds.
"Guys by the way, aren't we supposed to be looking for lost?"
"Oh yeah, lost!" Luna says, when she suddenly remembers their agenda.
"Leni, let me literally clear myself, there's no such thing as loss," Lori reminds.
But Luna corrects her, "Yes there is Lori. We gotta rescue him!" She then drags her sisters to the area where Lincoln is last spotted. After passing through the narrow passage ways alongside the conveyor belt, they stumble upon the ice cream filling machine, where a flavor of ice cream (which in this case is rocky road) is being poured to popsicle molds and being transported to a cooling station for freezing before packaging.
Luna latches on to Lincoln's diaper. However, the conveyor belt's uniform motion keeps dragging Lincoln away from her hand. With that, Leni, Lori and Lynn assist in picking up Lincoln. After a while, they officially retrieve their baby brother, who is covered with rocky road ice cream, mixed in with the nuts, chocolate bits and marshmallows.
"Lincoln!" they utter in relief and hug their brother, while covering themselves with ice cream.
"Well, this literally end well," Lori says.
"Awww, poor Linky has turned to a chocolate boy," Leni comments as she tries to lift Lincoln to her hands. The infant can only giggle in joy after he bathed in ice cream and saw his sisters once again.
"You're a real troublemaker now Lincoln," Lori warns her brother.
"Yeah, troublemaker," Lynn reiterates teasingly to what Lori said. She then pats her brother on the head, "Awww Linky."
"Great to have you, little bro," Luna utters as she wraps her in his blanket, "Now, let's get out of here."
But Lori halts her. "Wait, Luna. I think I just remember something. I forgot Luan."
"Where did she went?" Luna asks hastily.
"I think I literally left her by the ledge where I fell from," Lori recalls, "Oh no. We got to find her!"
Then abruptly, the burly man that Lori and Luan encountered earlier shows up in front of them, holding Luan and the hazmat suit they stole. "Is this who you're looking for?"
"Ooops," Leni reacts.
"Look, mister, I'm really sorry about this," Lori pleads.
But the man remains stone-hearted. "Sneaking inside factory premises unauthorized. That is juvenile delinquency material. You're all going to jail!"
Out of this threat, Lori steps up for her sisters, "Wait, mister. Don't. It's my fault. I literally dragged my sisters and brother to this mess. I am sorry."
However, Luna joins Lori in defending for them, to the surprise of the latter. "It's my fault too. If I weren't that angry, none of this would have happened. "No Luna. I will handle this. It's my fault. I made you angry," Lori says pleadingly.
"But we are sisters. We're in this together." Luna then holds Lori and Leni by the hand, asking for their support. With that, Lori endearingly accepts Luna's hand. "We were just trying to save our dear baby brother." She then points out to baby Lincoln, who is doing watery eyes to the man under a coat of chocolate.
Suddenly, when the man glances on Lincoln, he recalls a child of his when he was an infant, much like Lincoln. He and his wife cared for him and nurtured him to the fullest. That is until the mother and the son got involved in a car accident that eventually killed them. As of now, the man is ailing from the death of his beloved ones that he cherished the most. Empathizing on their ordeal, the man lets go off Luan's hand (prompting her to go to their side) and comes to his decision.
"We're just trying to save our brother. We don't anyone else hurt or bothered. We just want our brother safe," Luna says as she nearly sheds a tear.
"Come on girls. Follow me," the man says, giving them a way out of the factor premises. Though they are hesitant initially, the Loud siblings follow the man, who shows them a way back to the diner. "There girls. You can forget what happened, or not. But promise never to meddle in a factory ever again. Promise?"
"Yes sir," the sisters reply.
"And just to know we are in agreement, here," the man then offers a rocky road popsicle for every, much to their joy. "Thank you sir!" the sisters reply, then skip back to their seats. But Luna who is carrying Lincoln leaves behind.
"I do not know what to say, sir," Luna says to the burly man.
"Just thank the Lord that your baby brother reminds me of my son," the man implies, "Now, I have to go back to work and find the dude who owes me big time."
"Wait, I didn't catch your name."
"Greg. Greg U." With that, the man closes the doors to the factory, leaving Luna stunned and happy. Lincoln then mutters cutely at the course of events that happened. Feeling relieved on hearing his voice, Luna goes back to their seat.
Afterwards, the girls toast on the popsicle, which is huge in proportions, in a way people do to wine.
"Now guys, this is to a wonderful at the ice cream factory," Lori pronounces, "Let's toast!"
"Yeah!" the sisters bellow, then they gorge to the sweet-filled delectable, which fills up their stomach in a minute.
"That was the life, eyy Luna?" Lori reaches out to her sister.
"You said it, sis," Luna replies. "You awesome back there."
"No, you are the one literally awesome."
"No, no dude. We are awesome. All of us."
Suddenly, Lynn Sr. shows up to the girls with the rest of the milkshake in his hands. "Sorry girls it took so long. I have to debate with the manager to why milk has to be used for chocolate instead of real chocolate." He then notices the girls full and leaning by the seats. "I guess one glass of milkshake is enough for you all."
Luan suddenly burps and utters, "And it's choco…late for a refund. Hehehe. Get it?"
"Well Luan, if you can milk one joke, I guess we can shake it all off. Hehe. Get it?" Lynn Sr. replies.
"That's a good one, dad."
And just at that moment, Rita shows up, tired and fumbled.
"Ooh, honey, what happened?" Lynn Sr. asks.
"You don't wanna know what happened in the organic store," Rita berates, "I have to endure thirty minutes of my life with listening to vegan enthusiasts talking passionately about why I should buy organic food. And I got tired of listening. Not that I was fed up, I just had enough."
"Oh, so we can settle on burgers then?"
"Just leave them to go. I want us to hit the road."
"Well, at least you know your miss-steak…""Lynn Sr, no."
And finally, the sisters suddenly laugh at their father's joke, even the still chocolate-coated baby Lincoln.
Those were the times at that diner/ice cream factory. There was a milkshake drinking contest. There was the rescue mission. There was the journey to the ice cream factory. There was that touching man whom we never met before. And there were those moments as sisters, bonding, fighting and loving. Such fun times.
"Well, that's the end of my story," Luna wraps up storytelling. She then witness her siblings (with some having ice cream in their mouths) stunned at her tale, which makes them applaud for her.
"That was some tale, Luna," Lincoln praises her.
"Thanks bro," Luna replies, then embraces her brother.
After that tender moment, Lori approaches Luna. "Hey, not bad for a story. Thanks Luna!"
Without a word, Luna embraces Lori in an act of sisterly love.
"That's so sweet," Lola reacts.
"Yeah I wish we were like that," Lana adds.
"We were like that, Lana!"
"But you were the one who keeps going nasty and hating."
"Awww that's how I show my love." Lola then clings onto Lana, to which the latter finds sweet.
Afterwards, Lincoln keeps the whole storytelling going, "Okay, who's next?"
Lucy then appears behind him, with a certain suggestion in mind, "Might if we call Lynn upfront and share to us her story?"
"Lucy!" Lynn complains.
"Then, it's settled," Lincoln proclaims, "Alright, Lynn. Show us what you got."
Out of her reluctance, Lynn starts off her story, "Okay, here we go. Dad told about this, on what happened in Lincoln's 1st birthday. It went all bonkers. Here's how it goes…"
