Not much to say this time. Mostly tired from work related stuff and having a hard time sleeping. Doesn't stop me from writing this though so enjoy.

Also for anyone who saw Room with a Fued, did you see the reference they made to Desert Storm? I'm surprised they actually did that even it was just a dessert show parody.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Loud House or any of it's properties.

Somewhere in a rocky region, a supply truck rumbled down a lonesome road. Inside sat two men, both of them military personal. They were laughing as the younger man sat in the passenger seat while the older one was driving.

"So then I say to the guy, you keep that up and you'll need a brace for that leg," young Reese said as Bobby continued to drive.

They both laughed as Reese finished his little story.

"Wow. That man was an ass," Bobby said as he wiped a tear from his eye.

Reese laughs died down and said, "Why do you think I removed the chair from under him?"

They laughed a little more, but they both began to calm down from the exchange and focused back on the road ahead of them. The was another truck ahead of them that had several armed men inside in case things got dicey while they were out. Even simple deliveries like this needed an armed escort in case of enemy activity, but so far none had been reported.

"So how about you?" Bobby asked.

Reese could only respond with a, "Huh?"

Bobby shrugged and said, "Well we've been working together for a couple of weeks now, but we haven't really talked about ourselves."

"I thought the Army discouraged stuff like that. Makes you too attached to someone," Reese replied.

"What can I say? I'm curious about the guy I work with. Why must we stick to the men in the rich suits have to say?" Reese said with a chuckle.

Reese smiled and looked back at the badlands outside.

"Why don't you start though? Where you from? You got any family?" Reese asked.

"I have my parents, my brother and his wife and their family and they're all in Virginia," Bobby answered.

"You're an uncle?"

Bobby nodded and said, "Just last year. They had a boy and now they have a girl on the way."

Reese laughed and said, "You lucky dog."

"You have family?"

Reese let out a really loud laugh this time and said, "Oh yeah, big time. All in Michigan except for me."

Bobby raised an eyebrow and asked, "Care to elaborate?"

Reese laughed a little more and said, "Well there's my dad, my big sis and her husband and their family as well."

Bobby laughed with him and said, "You an uncle too?"

Reese nodded and said, "Oh yeah. They have nine daughters and a son."

This time is was Bobby's turn to start laughing loudly as he took Reese's words in. He thought it was incredible just to have a niece and and a nephew. Reese here however had hit the jackpot and Bobby loved the mere thought of it.

"You're kidding me. That can't be real," Booby said as he tried to wipe the tears from his eyes.

"Swear on it. They just had another girl last year and they named her Lisa," Reese fired back.

"What about the rest of them?" Bobby asked.

Reese reached into his pocket and pulled out a photo. Bobby watched as Reese did so and constantly turned his attention back to the road as he did so. As Reese showed him the photo, Bobby was shocked by what he saw. The photo was taken in the family living room with Reese sitting on the couch with a grown man and woman sitting on either side of him with the woman clearly being pregnant. And surrounding them were a bunch of kids, mostly girls being wild. The one boy in the photo stood in front of them with an annoyed look on his face.

Bobby laughed and said, "Damn son! You weren't kidding."

Reese laughed and began pointing out and explaining each of the individual children whenever Bobby was able to spare a glance. Bobby was impressed by how different the kids were and how they still somehow managed to live together despite living in such a crowded household.

"Bet that makes going home such a treat?" Bobby stated.

"It really does," Reese answered and the two men shared a hearty laugh.

Reese muttered in his sleep as he lie in his bed in a white tank and sweat pants. The sun was already up and his alarm clock was already reading a quarter after seven in the morning. He snored and shifted in his bed as the basement door opened and two pairs of feet began descending the stairs.

Within seconds, both Lana and Lola were standing at the bottom of the stairs already clothed for the day and were wondering how they were going to handle a full apology to their uncle.

"So how are we going to do this?" Lola asked her twin.

Lana shrugged and said, "Well the first thing we HAVE to do is wake him up."

"But how? You know he sleeps like a rock. Just like Lynn does after winning three championships in a row... in a single day," Lola explained.

It's true, Reese was a heavy sleeper. But there were times where a sudden start was enough to jostle him from a sound sleep. Their mother explained how one time when she, Reese and Pop Pop had gone camping when Reese was just fifteen. He had slept in the back of their truck that night and wouldn't wake up the next morning. So Pop Pop had shaken the truck and screamed about a bear attacking the camp. That had been enough to wake him up and get him moving afterwards. The memory of this is what gave Lana an idea. An evil, awful idea.

"Okay here's an idea. We jump onto the bed and wake him up the hard way," Lana said with an evil grin.

"Ooh, I like that one," Lola said in agreement as she grinned evily herself.

They both high fived each other and Lana finished by saying, "I love it when we agree on stuff."

Lola nodded in agreement and they both quietly approached the bed. Reese muttered a little more in his sleep and they paused as he shifted in bed again. As he resumed his snores, they continued advancing on him. When they were just an arms reach away, they suddenly pounced on the bed and began jumping on it. In no time at all, Reese was startled awake and with a scream he fell out of the bed and landed on the floor.

As he fell off the bed, Lana and Lola stopped jumping on the bed and looked back down at Reese.

The twins cast looks of guilt with each other and Lola said, "We did it again didn't we?"

Reese lifted his head off the ground and said, "Is everyone going to just come down here and give me a rude awakening? How many times do I have to hit the floor?"

He turned his head to Lola and Lana, still standing on the bed. He put two and two together and turned his frown into a smile.

"You two just want to make me miserable don't you?" Reese asked jokingly.

Both Lola and Lana chuckled nervously with squinted eyes and nervous grins. They already knew Reese wasn't mad, but that didn't stop them from thinking they may have just screwed up again. But as Reese pulled himself back onto the bed and had them sit with him that things began to calm down a little with Lola on his left and Lana on the right.

"So what brings you two little troublemakers down here?" he asked.

The girls didn't quite know where to begin. They were there to give him a proper apology, but that was something they had rarely done in the past. They didn't know if they should start with the fight they had, the spilling of the soup, and now they had waking him up like this to add to the list.

Reese however could sense their tension and asked, "This is about the soup incident last night isn't it?"

The girls nodded and Reese chuckled and said, "Girls I told you last night, I'm fine. I just didn't want you kids to see me getting mad is all."

"We still feel bad about it Uncle Reese," Lana replied.

"I do too and I rarely feel bad about anything," Lola said as well.

That was true. Lola did plenty of bad things all the time, which included destroying her siblings property in acts of petty revenge. And possibly killing one of Lana's frogs purely because the frog disgusted her. Lana still had no proof of that though despite her many attempts at investigating it.

Reese wrapped his arms around the two of them and pulled them closer to him.

"Girls, it's fine. I got over it and I calmed down. If anything, I should be apologizing to you guys for scaring you so bad. I forget that after being away for so long that I really need to watch my attitude and emotions. Even if this house is practically a madhouse itself, it's still no excuse for me to snap like the way I did," Reese said as he held them close.

The girls smiled and gave him a hug. They were happy to know that he was alright and not too mad at them. But they figured that they should be a little more careful around him as they didn't want to see him snapping again like that.

"So is there anything else the two of you need?" he asked.

Lola looked up at him and saw the metal tags that he wore and couldn't help but stare at them. They were shiny and the glow was practically eminating in her eyes. She reached up and touched them.

"What are these?" she asked as she looked at them.

Reese looked down at what she was looking at and saw them.

"Oh these? These are just my Dog Tags," he answered.

"Like what Charles wears?" Lana asked.

Reese patted her head and said, "Something like that. Like the kind that Charles wears, they're used to identify who am I if something were to happen to me. Much like when a dog runs away, these tags are used to return their owners home."

"But why would that happen? Couldn't you just tell them who you are?" Lola asked not fully getting what Reese was actually talking about.

Lana groaned and said, "Lola that's not what he means. He means is if he were unable to tell them, ever again. Like with our old goldfish."

Lola's eyes went wide as the realization hit her. She shrank away and tried to scoot away from Reese a bit, but he just pulled her back over.

"Don't worry sweetie, you were curious. There's nothing wrong with that," he said patted her the top of her head.

"So were there any cool bugs out there in the desert?" Lana asked.

Lola gagged, stood and said, "Oh come on. That's all you care about? Some disgusting bu-"

"There actually were," Reese answered before Lola could finish.

Lola's demeener dropped as she frowned and sat herself back down on the bed. Lana's however had brightened.

Her eyes lit up and said, "Ooh tell me about them."

Reese could see the enthusiasm in her and said, "Oh there were all kids of bugs. Beetles and scorpions mainly. But then there were the camel spiders. Oh those things gave me chills. Still do."

"Ooh tell me more. What were they like?" Lana said more excitedly while Lola just sighed and crossed her arms.

"Oh they were big and ugly. You've seen how ugly regular spiders are right? These things were uglier and could deliver a terrible bit. Glad I was never bitten by them," Reese said dramatically.

"How big were they?" Lana asked out very quickly as her excitement grew.

Reese shrugged and said, "The biggest that I can recall was roughly the size of my arm."

He extended his arm out to show them and said, "A lot like this."

It was here that the basement door open and a familiar lisp was heard coming from the top of the stairs.

"I can hear your foolishness from the vent. The species in Solifugae don't get any longer than six inches. Camel spiders rarely get any bigger than a pack of cigarettes," came Lisa's voice in her usual matter-of-fact tone.

Reese sighed and hollered back, "Thank you for ruining the fun Lisa."

"Spreading false narratives is not fun. It makes the misunderstood creatures even more so," she responded and slammed the basement door shut.

Lana crossed her arms in anger and said, "Lisa. Why does she have to ruin everyone's fun?"

Lola crossed arms as well and added, "I know. Just like that snow day incident."

"Snow day incident? What happened?" Reese asked.

Lola and Lana had forgotten that Reese wasn't home at the time when Lisa had threatened to end their snow day fun due to her not understanding why they loved snow days. They went on in detail about them showing her why they found it fun and then about her discovering the fun of snowball fights. They also made sure to include the strings she pulled with NASA and how they all eventually agreed to end the snow days for a bit.

"She actually got NASA to do all that? No wonder our monthly budget got slashed last winter," Reese said while perplexed about the whole affair.

"Crazy isn't it?" asked Lana.

Reese let out a quick chuckle and said, "If she could do that much as a civilian, I shudder to think what she could do if she was military."

Lola and Lana quickly shushed him and Lana said, "Don't say that out loud."

"You may give her ideas if she hears you. She has ears everywhere," Lola added.

Reese cringed and looked around the room. Could Lisa hear them now or could she simply be watching. Reese knew the girl was smart with her PhD and jr. Nobel Prize. But the thought that she could be spying on the rest of the family made him wonder what other kind of sketchy stuff she could be doing. He figured it would be best to go upstairs now and worry about the rest later.

"Why don't you girls go on upstairs and I'll be up in a little bit? Tell them to save me some coffee up there," he instructed them and they ran off.

He stood up from the bed and let out a yawn as he walked over to the closest basement window to try to greet the day. The window looked out into the backyard and he could see Lynn was already out back, practicing her soccer drills. He couldn't expect anything less than that from her.

Reese stifled a laugh and said, "That girls is determined I'll tell you that. I think you'd like her, Bobby."

Reese paused as he mentioned his buddy's name. Why had he said that out loud? It didn't matter though as he shook his head to get it out of his mind. After changing clothes, Reese made his way upstairs. In the meantime, Leni, Lori, and Luna were already in the kitchen with cups of coffee. They were talking about their parts of the plan, when they could hear the sound of Reese beginning to come up the stairs.

"Alright, act natural. Don't let Uncle Reese know what's going," Lori instructed as Luna and Leni nodded in approval.

The basement door open and Reese stepped through. He saw the three eldest Loud girls standing about with Lori texting on her phone with Luna stirring her coffee and Leni putting some sugar in hers.

"Luna would you like a little sugar in your coffee?" Leni asked.

Luna let out a laugh and said, "A little? Pour Some Sugar on Me dude."

Leni shrugged and poured a generous amount of sugar into Luna's cup who then drank it with incredible vigour. It wasn't until Reese was walking past them that they finally acknowledged him.

"Hey Uncle Reese," all three of them said at the same time.

Reese gave them a little wave and said, "Morning girls."

Reese could smell the coffee in Luna's mug and asked, "Is there any of that coffee left?"

Lori nodded and said, "Just brewed a fresh pot, but there aren't any clean cups."

"I could totally clean a few real quick," Leni offered, but Reese shook his head.

"That won't be necessary," he said and grabbed the coffee pot.

To the shock and amazement of the the eldest girls, they watched as their uncle lifted the pot of coffee to his lips and actually began to gulp it down despite it being really hot. It wasn't until he was half done with the pot that he then noticed the stares that the girls were giving him with their mouths hanging open.

He looked right back at them in confusion and said, "What?"

Not one of my better chapters, but I really wanted to make a scene with Reese and the twins. And knowing Lana, she'll want to know about the creatures that Reese has seen. And leave it to Lisa to ruin the moment.

Luna's song reference this time is the song Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard. I'm honestly surprised the show hasn't already made the reference. I mean come on, it practically writes itself.

Next chapter Reese is going to go... shopping. Yeah he's going to be dragged shopping with a few of the girls. Let's see what kind of antics the group can get in to.