As the family gathered, all the attention confused the suddenly young Lynn she was getting. "W-wha going on Lulu?" She asked, her voice timid as she hid behind her punk sister. "Don't worry little dude. Everything's okay." Luna assured, soothing the younger girl while she held her. "How is this even possible?! Yesterday she was normal, and now she's a TODDLER!" Lori said in disbelief. The commotion grew as more sisters entered the room and wild theories were tossed around. Amidst the anarchy, Luna came across something in Lynn's hair. "What is going on in their squirt?" Luna asked as her hand came out covered in face cream and chemicals.
"Uh, guys? I think I know what happened," Luna said, showing her siblings the concoction she had come across. "What is that?" Lenny asked, poking it. Lisa took a swab and analyzed it. "By my calculations, this is 20% skin cream, 15% hydrochloric acid, 5% mud, 30% spirit smoke, and 40% unknown compound." "What does any of that mean?" Lori asked. "It means that all the different chemicals must have created some kind of regressive reaction!" The child genius proclaimed to crickets. "Speak English genius!" Lonna yelled.
"Ugh. All that stuff we put on Lynn's face mixed together an made her a kid!" Lisa explained. "Oh. Wait what?! How is that possible!" Lincoln asked incredulously. "I don't know! But if there's any hope of getting Lynn back to normal, I'm going to have to reverse engineer the mixture and see if it can counteract the effects." "Okay. Then if Lisa is going to be working on that, we all have to work together to keep Lynn from getting seen? Okay?" Lori commanded. The siblings all agreed to keep their new little sister concealed. "Now let's-where did she go?" Lori said. Panic swept through the room as the kids sprinted around checking every nook and cranny.
Little did they know that Lynn, in her reverted form, was doing what she normally did in the morning. "Lulu!" Luna turned to see her sister standing on the bannister of the stairs. "Stair slides!" Lynn shouted. "What?! No Lynn, don't do that!" The bite-sized athlete ignored her sister and went down full speed. "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Lynn squealed as she went sliding down the banister. "STAGE DIVE!" Luna yelled as she dove from the top of the stairs straight down, catching Lynn just as she was about to go flying off the stairs.
The two came crashing down in a heap. "Yay! Again again!" Lynn yelled excitedly as Luna got up. "No Lynn! No stair slides today!" Luna said as she grabbed her sister. "Awwwww! Buh stair slides!" Lynn complained. "I know kid, but you have to be careful!" Luna chastised her as she brought Lynn back to the others. "Oh thank god you found her! What was she doing?" Lincoln asked. "It was weird. She was sliding down the stairs like she used to when we were kids." Luna explained. "Really? Then this goes deeper than I thought. Somehow the mixture on her face has convinced her mind that she's been 6 the whole time!" Lisa said. "So wait, Lynn thinks that she's actually back to when she was a little kid? That's so weird!" Lincoln said.
"Yes. But this is very fragile territory. We have to play along that we're back to when she was little. If we tell her that it's a different time than what she thinks, it could permanently fracture her mind!" Lisa elaborated. "But wait, if Lynn thinks it's a different time, why does she still know who we are?" Luna asked. "I don't know. I need to conduct a test!" Lisa said, grabbing Lynn and taking her to her room.
Lisa stuck a few electrodes to Lynn and went to her computer. "Okay Lynn, I'm just gonna show you some pictures, and you tell me if you know who's in them. Okay? "Lisa asked, receiving a nod from her sister. "Okay, here we go." Lisa began showing the young redhead pictures of her family and their adventures. To her surprise, Lynn could rattle off the names and places of things that, in her current mental state, wouldn't happen for years. "Okay I think I figured it out. Lynn's brain thinks it's back to her as a little kid. But her memory center is tucked far enough back in her head that the chemicals did not affect it. So, she knows everything that regular Lynn would know, but she's just…smaller." Lisa explained. "No way! Lynn, who am I?" Lonna asked. "Lonna!" Lynn giggled. "And who's that?" Lonna asked, gesturing to her twin. "Lola!" The athlete said.
This revelation amazed the rest of the family. Lynn grinned, feeling very smart and proud of herself. "Okay, so what should we do? We can't just leave her at home." Lincoln said. "She could come to school with us." Lonna suggested to the surprise of her sisters. "What? She is our age. We could just say she's our cousin or something." The mechanic elaborated. "That could actually work. Let's do it!" Lori agreed. The siblings quickly got ready themselves before taking on the task of dressing Lynn. After a few tries the managed to get her dressed in her old clothes. Red t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a baseball cap and Lynn was basically ready. Finally, the family got to school and the twins lead Lynn to their classroom. "So how does this work?" Lola asked. "Easy. Lynn's gonna sit in the back and do what she would normally do. If anyone asks, she's our cousin." Lonna explained. "But what do we call her? If we call her Lynn someone's gonna put 2 and 2 together!" Lola pointed out. "Good point. Lynn, pick a new name!" Lola said. The young athlete thought for a moment. "Layla!" She decided. "There ya go! If anyone asks, this is our cousin Layla!" Lonna declared. Lola rolled her eyes at Lynn's confused look. "That's you sweetie." "Oh. Got it!" Lynn giggled. "Let's go." Lola said as the three entered.