"OH MY GOD! A DEAD BODY!"

Colin slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw above him was a girl, a teenager with blond hair, a pair of circular sunglasses on her forehead, and a casual light blue sundress. He sat up, rubbing his head. He had taken a bump, that was for sure.

"W-what happened?" He asked, his words slurred. "Where am I? Who are you?"

"AHHHHHHH! THE BODY CAN TALK! HELP!" the girl screamed as she ran into a house on the corner. It took a moment for Colin to recognize the house was the same one on the TV screen.

"That girl is what I like to call, how do you say it... oh yeah, "ditzy," He thought.

He didn't have to wait long before the girl came back, this time with an older girl, probably her sister.

"See Lori, it's sitting up! IT'S A ZOMBIE!"

"Calm down, Leni, he's not a zombie and he isn't dead," the older girl named Lori said. She was wearing a tank top and short brown pants, with blond hair and a cell phone in her pocket. "Hey, sir? Are you OK? Sir?"

It took a second before he answered.

"Yyyyeah, I think so," he said as he took his hand off his head. But as he put his hand down, he realized that something was off. He looked at his hand to discover that instead of an actual human arm, his hand now resembled a drawing of some sort. He immediately felt sick as he feebly stood up.

"I need a mirror!"

"Look no further!" said Leni, handing him a small pocket mirror. "I always have one to do my makeup!"

He flipped open the mirror and glanced at his reflection.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Colin was still a human, but...at the same time, he WASN'T. His entire figure had changed. Instead of being a living, 3D figure, his whole body looked like something out of an old comic book, like someone had sketched him on a piece of paper.

"OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" he yelled as he began to panic. "WHERE AM I?!"

"Woah, calm down, buddy!" LTHE girl said, holding out her arms to protect herself. "You're in Royal Woods, Michigan, But you need to calm down right now. Do you have a name?"

He realized that panicking would be useless at that point. HE staggered over to the curb and sat down, putting his head into his palm.

"Y-yeah," he stammered. "It's C-c-colin. Colin Gomez."

"Alright, I've never heard of you before. You look really sick, sir."

"Stop calling me "sir." I'm 16," he mumbled to her. "Why do I look like this? Who are you?"

"Well, you look like this because you were born that way..." she sarcastically remarked. "And my name is Lori. Lori Loud. You probably already met Leni, my sister."

"I'm Leni. Or is it Lacey? Umm, or is it Laney? "

"She's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, is she?" Colin asked. If "Lori" I was gonna be sarcastic, then two could play at that game.

"Don't talk about my sister like that!" She said, threateningly. "Only I can say stuff about my sisters!"

"Oh, really?" He smiled. "And who died and made YOU the queen?"

"You're the sarcastic type, arent you? You must be a new student at our school."

"Your what?" He asked, before realizing he could get out of this mess.

"Oh yeah, the school!" He lied. "Definitely here to go to school!"

"Well, I'd assume so. You're getting here so late in the summer. Where's your house?"

He looked around, expecting to see Mama's apartment, but when he realized that he wasn't even in his own dimension anymore, he decided to lie some more.

"Oh, just down the street a little. We just got here today, and I was really tired from the car ride, so I just came to take a nap! Yep, that sounds about right!" He mumbled the last line to himself.

"In the middle of the road?" Lori said skeptically.

"Hey, don't question the genius of my mind, chica," he said, grabbing his I head again. "Well, I might as well go around and introduce myself to the neighbors..."

"Woah, woah, not so fast! Why don't you come and see our house first?"

"Um, ok? I don't see why not!" He replied, walking up to the house with the 2 girls. "What's the worst that could happen?"

2 Minutes Later...

"So what should I expect when I get into the house?" Colin asked, reaching for the doorknob.

"Uh...I think it's best if you just open the door."

"Hmph. Sounds good to me..."

As soon as he opened the door to the Louds House, Colin was BLASTED off his feet by a wave of sound. A brown haired girl holding a guitar peered out the door and looked down at him.

"Ey, we got ourselves a guest, gals! And he's not too bad looking, either!" She said in an almost perfect British accent. She was rocking the whole "punk rock" look, with a short hairdo and a edgy jacket and skirt combo.

"I'm Luna. Nice to meet you, mate!"

"Colin," he said, still dazed. Out of nowhere, though, a football whizzed by his head like a bullet.

"I got it!" said another girl with longer brown hair and wearing a sports jersey. She caught the ball, and as she came back in, she seemed to notice Colins presence.

"Who's the new guy? Aw, does it matter? I'm Lynn!"

"Coli-" was all he could say until he was interrupted by two girls going at it. The one girl looked like she came straight out of a beauty pagent, while the other looked like she just got out of some sort of sewer diving class. Both had blond hair and two front teeth missing.

"Who's that?" they both said in unison.

"Hey, I asked first, Lana!" Said the beauty pageant girl.

"No, I asked first, Lola!"

Soon, they were going at it again, saying "I want to tell him MY name!" and "I want to tell him FIRST!"

"I'M COLIN!" He yelled out confused to the two as a shorter girl with a beaker of chemicals came through.

"WATCH OUT! THESE ARE SOME DANGEROUS CHEMICALS WERE DEALING WITH!" She yelled before she ran upstairs, which was followed by a loud "BOOM!"

Colin didn't even bother saying his name that time, because pretty soon ANOTHER girl came through, holding a baby in her arms. She had long brown hair held back by a hairband, while her teeth had braces on them. She wore a plaid skirt a a yellowish jacket.

"And then the cow said to the rabbit, "That was a HARE-RAISING tale! Ha ha ha, get it Lily?" She said to the baby she held in her hands.

"Poo Poo!" Was the girls only response.

"Who's this? -gasp- Hey, you must be new! I'm Luan! And I gotta say, it's ICE to meet you!" she said as she suddenly pulled the collar of his shirt and threw an ice cube in it. She laughed as Colin flailed around, trying to get it out of his shirt.

"I was gonna wait for Lincoln to come down, but I saw you and thought you needed to CHILL! Ha ha ha, get it?"

Colin got up and began to chuckle. He had pulled that joke a few times before.

"Lincoln? There's a guy in this house?" he asked, turning back to Lori.

"Yep. the only one, in fact. Lincoln? Get down here! We have a guest!"

Pretty soon, the same boy Colin had seen through the portal in the nebula was walking down the stairs.

"What do you want now, Lori?! Oh, hey," he said calmly, almost like he was expecting him to come in. "You must be new here. I'm Lincoln. You're probably wondering why there are so many girls here right now."

"Yeah," he said, taking a breath. "Believe me, it's nice to see another guy here."

"Well, I guess we covered everyon-"

"You forgot me," Said a monotone voice behind Colin.

"HOLY-" he said, holding his tounge around the smaller kids. Soon, he managed to stutter of a feeble response.

"And who are you?"

"I'm Lucy. I wrote a poem about people forgetting about me. Here it is. Forgotten. Alone. Sadness, Misery overtakes my soul-"

Now, instead of feeling confused, Colin was now scared, dumbfounded, and a little bit akward. He did NOT want to be around these people anymore. So, he thought fast.

"Wonderful! I may come back and listen to the rest later, but I JUST realized that my, uh, parents wanted me home by 7! So, bye!" He yelled as he ran out the door.

"I'M COLIN, BY THE WAY!"

He walked outside, but pretty soon he was stopped by Lincoln.

"You're not a new student at the school, are you?"

Colin was tired of lying at this point. He turned back to Lincoln, defeated.

"Look, kid, I'm still wondering where the hell I am right now. What is this place? How did you know I'm not a student?

"First off, my name is Lincoln. Second, if you don't know where you are right now, I doubt you even know where the school is. Third, there were no new houses for sale on our block. Fourth, you said you had to be home by 7, but it's 11 in the morning. I can see through any lie you spin."

"Not ominous at all... -sigh- Fine, I'm not a new student. The truth is…"

He stopped. Even if he told these kids the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, what are the odds they would believe in him? He already lied to the sisters, so he figured he wasn't trustworthy to them.

And so, seeing there was no other choice, he lied again.

"I'm homeless," he said, trying to spin a tale even Lincoln would believe. "I was kicked out of my house, hitchhiked here from upstate, and I'm trying to find a place to stay until I have enough money to go home. Are you happy now, Chico?"

"Very. But I just have one question for you. Why did you decide to come to Royal Woods?"

"Uhhh..."

Colin thought about the answer, the feeling he got when he was in the nebula, when he first noticed the world...

He turned to Lincoln, and told the truth.

"I don't know. It was just luck, I guess."