It was a bright day at the Loud House, and Lincoln was practicing his Yo-Yo tricks inside. He leaps from his room to demonstrate his first trick. "Watch in awe as The Amazing Lincoln demonstrates his incredible Yo-Yo skills! I'm going to "walk the dog"!"
Charles enters the corridor, a leash in his mouth.
Lincoln shook his head. "Not you, Charles. I meant the Yo-Yo."
Charles whimpered, disappointed, and walked out of the corridor. Lincoln does his "walk the dog" trick once he leaves. He then gets ready to do his next trick.
"I shall now go "AROUND THE WORLD"!" declared Lincoln.
Charles enters the corridor, now carrying a suitcase.
"Sorry, still talking about the Yo-Yo," apologized Lincoln.
Charles whimpered again, disappointed, and walked away from Lincoln, carrying his suitcase. Lincoln tries the "around the world" trick, but the yo-yo flies off his finger, darts down the hallway, and crashes into Lisa and Lily's room.
Lincoln laughed nervously. "The Amazing Lincoln will now take a brief intermission."
Charles returns after hearing the crash. When Lincoln and Charles entered the room, they noticed that the bottles on Lisa's desk had been broken and their contents had spilled.
Laney heard the crash and went to confront Lisa. "Lisa, whatever experiment you're doing, you think you can keep it down a -."
Laney sees the mess in Lisa's room and gasps. "Lincoln! What have you done!?"
Lincoln laughed nervously. "Uh, I was doing a Yo-Yo trick, and it smashed right into Lisa and Lily's room! It was an accident, I swear!"
Laney folded her arms and glared at him. "Well, accident or not. You need to tell Lisa what happened."
Lincoln gaped at her. "Are you kidding me?! You know what she'll do if she ever finds out?!"
Laney dismisses this. "I'm sure it won't be that bad..."
Inside Lincoln's imagination, Lisa observes the damage in a dark, stylized environment.
With her teeth sharpened, Lisa turned red with anger and angrily yelled, "You've completely DESTROYED MY LIFE'S WORK! I DESPISE YOU, AND YOU NO LONGER EXIST TO ME!"
As his imagination ends, a wall of fire burns in the background behind her, along with a Satanic cultist choir.
"No!" shouted Lincoln desperately. "She mustn't know about this!"
Charles whimpered in agreement with him.
Lincoln rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on, Charles. When did you get a conscience? I've seen you poop on the couch!"
Laney tries to reason with him. "But Lincoln, you can't just walk away from something you've done! Not telling the truth can have dangerous consequences!"
Lincoln dismisses this. "You worry too much, Lanes. Besides, what's the worst that could happen if I walked away?"
Charles glances at the readers, and Lincoln takes the Yo-Yo from the damage, so Lisa doesn't notice what he did.
"I'll just remove the evidence, and they'll be none the wiser," said Lincoln confidently.
As Lincoln, Laney, and Charles exited the room, a drop of one of the chemicals landed in a puddle of another, causing an explosion that raised the roof.
J.D. was on his way to the Loud House when he noticed the explosion. "Whoa!" he gasped, stunned and amazed. He rushed into the Loud House, terrified by what had happened.
Lisa is in her room, inspecting the damage to her desk caused by the explosion a moment ago.
Laney entered the room and asked, "Is everything all right?"
"I'm not entirely sure," Lisa responded, perplexed. "I don't understand what went wrong."
Laney shrugged her shoulders. "I wouldn't know..."
"Once I saw the explosion, I knew something had happened," J.D. explained as he entered the room.
"Exactly," Laney nodded.
"Science is a fickle mistress," Lisa sighed.
Lori looks over at a hole in the wall caused by the explosion, which leads to the closet in Lori and Leni's room.
Leni pokes her head through the opening. "Hi Lori! Have we always had a window in our closet?"
Lori groaned. "Ugh, it's not a window. Lisa's experiment blew a hole in the wall."
She then notices a picture frame peeking out from the other side of the closet. "What's this?"
Lori noticed the frame contained a signed photo of Bobby. "'To my bodacious babe'? Leni, why is this picture of Bobby hidden on your side of the closet?"
After all this time, it surprised Leni that was where the picture was. "Oh, there it is! That was a surprise present from Bobby for your 88-day-anniversary. He asked me to hide it for him, but I forgot where I put it."
Lori was angry at her. "That anniversary was eight days ago, and Bobby gave me socks! I can't believe this! You're literally seeing Bobby behind my back! You are no longer my sister!"
Lincoln walked into the room with J.D. "Everything okay after that unexpected and totally random explosion that I know nothing about?"
Lori screamed angrily and marched out of the room, slamming the door. This caused a coat rack in the closet to fall onto Leni, knocking her out. A shelf also tipped over, causing several pairs of shoes to fall on her.
J.D. winced at this. "Ooh! Let's get her onto Lisa's bed."
Leni opens her eyes in Lisa's room as she regains consciousness on Lisa's bed. J.D., Lincoln, Laney, and Lisa are all concerned about her.
Leni groaned. "What happened?"
"A shelf fell on your head," Lincoln explained.
"You got hit in the head with a lot of shoes," continued Laney.
"Are you all right, Leni?" J.D. asked, concerned.
"Of course!" Leni replied. "Everyone knows that an object falling at a velocity of 9.8 meters per second squared will result in a temporary loss of consciousness."
Laney is confused. "Why is Leni talking like Lisa?"
Lisa was also confused. "I knew that. The question is, how did you?"
"Hey, I saw this in a movie once," Lincoln said, excitedly. "I bet getting hit on the head altered Leni's brain and made her smart"
"I've seen that before, too," confirmed J.D.
Lisa dismisses Lincoln's idea. "Lincoln, you seem unable to distinguish between scientific fact and preposterous Hollywood schlock."
"I don't get it," responded Leni, who had a confused face.
Lisa was smug once she heard Leni say that. "See? Same old Leni. Can't even understand simple English."
Leni walked over to Lisa's chalkboard containing a complex equation. "No, I don't get why you multiplied your "Z" polynomials before solving your non-negative integer exponents."
Lisa went to the chalkboard, double-checked the equation, and gasped loudly as she realized Leni was right.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to disprove Newtonian physics," Leni explained, leaving the room. "Buh-bye!"
Lisa collapsed to the floor, crestfallen. " My world no longer makes sense."
"Lisa, it's not the end of the world for you," J.D. said as he comforted and patted her on the back. "You are a great scientist, and no matter what, you will always be a great scientist."
Lisa got up off the floor and smiled. "Thank you, J.D., for saying that. It means a lot to me."
Charles looked up and growled at Lincoln because it was his fault that this happened.
Lincoln looked at him and said, "Don't you have a couch to poop on?"
So Lincoln went into the living room to clean up Charles's mess on the couch. Lincoln glares at him while cleaning the mess. "Charles, that was a rhetorical question!"
Lynn walks into the house, screams, and pounds her fist against the wall; she hyperventilates as Lincoln approaches.
"Lynn, what's the matter?" asked J.D., concerned.
"What are you so upset about?" asked Lincoln, concerned as well.
"I just got kicked off all my sports teams because I'm failing school!" Lynn exclaimed angrily.
"What!" shouted J.D., shocked. "What happened?"
"How could you fail?" asked Lincoln, confused about why she was failing. "Doesn't Lisa tutor you?"
"She used to," Lynn explained, "until she dropped out and got a job as a gas station attendant at Flip's Food & Fuel."
"She WHAT?!" yelled both Laney and Lincoln, shocked at this.
"Why would she drop out like that?" J.D. asked her, confused.
"UGH, WITHOUT SPORTS, MY LIFE IS MEANINGLESS!" Lynn yelled angrily and kicked her soccer ball hard.
Lola walks down the stairs. "I present to you your new "Miss Cute and-." The ball hits her in the face, "OH, MY NOSE!"
Laney approached her, concerned/ "Lola!" Are you all right?"
Lola looked into a mirror and saw her nose was severely swollen. She gasped in horror at what she saw. "How can I be okay? I am a hideous...monster."
"It's not that bad, Lola," dismissed Lincoln.
"MY PAGEANT CAREER IS OVER!" yelled Lola as she ran up the stairs, only to trip and fall on her face at the top.
J.D. winced in sympathy. "Ooh! That must've hurt badly!"
"OH, MY TEETH!" she cried once she noticed some of her teeth had come out and continued running to her room.
Laney turned to Lincoln and said, "I told you there would be consequences for your actions! See how much trouble you have caused!"
Charles looks up at Lincoln, and he shakes his head in disapproval.
Lincoln groaned, seeing that she was right. "Fine, I'll fix it."
"What did Lincoln do?" asked J.D. since he never got to ask yet.
Lincoln groaned again. "I'll explain on the way."
Lincoln, Laney, and J.D. left to find Lisa. J.D. flew using his wings, and Lincoln & Laney rode their bikes to Flip's Food & Fuel. They saw Lisa wearing a gas station attendant's uniform.
Lincoln confronts her. "Lisa, why are you doing this?"
"Flip is the only guy who will hire four-year-olds with no experience," explained Lisa, as to why she was working there.
Lincoln shook his head and clarified what he meant to say, "No, I mean, why are you doing any of this? Come home. Lynn needs you!"
"Why don't you get Miss Smartypants to help her!" Lisa responded sarcastically as Leni drove up in a purple convertible. "Speak of the Devil. Regular or unleaded?"
Leni brandished a certificate to show everyone. "Oh, I don't need gas. I just won the Nobel Prize for inventing a car that runs on apple juice."
"Wow, that's impressive," said Laney, impressed.
"Of course you did," groaned Lisa.
"That is amazing!" J.D. said, also impressed.
Leni hands Lisa a juice box. "Fill 'er up, please."
Lisa opened the fuel tank and squirted the box's contents into it.
"And then we'll all get in Leni's juice mobile, go home, and forget all this nonsense," Lincoln told them, since he wanted everyone to be together again.
Leni waved him off. "Can't! I'm off to Harvard! Au revoir, adios, auf Wiedersehen, and aloha!"
"A-HA! "Aloha" means "Hello"!" yelled Lisa triumphantly, since she finally knew something that Leni didn't.
"It also means "Goodbye"!" explained Leni as she drove off in her car.
"Dang it. I used to know that," groaned Lisa in disappointment.
Flip, the owner of the station, opened a window and called out to Lisa, "Hey, Chatty Cathy, BACK TO WORK!"
J.D. angrily yelled back again. "No Flip, you Cheapskate! She's coming home with us, and we're going to get everything on track again!"
"She belongs to me!" Flip shouted back. "She will work until I tell her to stop making me money!"
"We'll see about that!" yelled J.D. determined. "As of right now, Lisa's quitting!"
At that moment, the station's payphone rings, Lincoln answers, and he hears barking on the other end. "Hello? Charles? She's WHAT?! Alright, I'm on my way!"
"Who was that?" Laney asked.
"That was Charles!" Lincoln replied. "Lola's trying to move out!"
"WHAT?!" yelled Laney, shocked.
"WHAT?!" yelled J.D., also shocked.
Laney asks the all-important question, "How can a dog use a phone?"
But her question went unanswered as they ran back to the Loud House, concerned about Lola. Lincoln ran into Lola's room holding an ice pack, hoping that would stop her from leaving.
"Look who it is, Miss Soon-to-heal," said Lincoln sarcastically.
Lola, who is stuffing clothes into a suitcase, turns to Lincoln; her nose is still swollen, and all but one of her teeth are missing. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
Lincoln jumps in shock and screams in fright. "AAAAAHHH!"
"Jumping Knife Blades!" yelled J.D., his eyes wide open in horror and shock.
Lincoln quickly recovered. "I mean, you're looking better!"
"Oh, nice try, Lincoln, but I am out of here!" Lola responded with a lisp in her voice,
"Lola, you're making a big mistake!" said Laney, trying to reason with her.
"The only mistake I'll ever make is staying here where I'm constantly reminded of my former self!" responded Lola sadly as she looked up at old photos of herself. "My beautiful, beautiful self."
"But...But..." stammered Lincoln in horror.
As Lola struggles to pull her stuffed suitcase, the handle snaps, causing her to fall on her face and blackout her eyes.
"I'll send for this!" exclaimed Lola as she grabbed the ice pack, placed it over her eyes, and walked out into the corridor.
"Lola, wait!" yelled Lincoln as he tried to run after her. However, he collides with a plastic bubble containing Lana.
Laney facepalmed. "Do I have to ask?"
"Careful guys," Lana warned them. "You could get seriously injured!"
"Lana?" asked J.D., confused. "What are you doing in a plastic bubble?"
"Yeah, Lana, what are you doing in there?" Lincoln asked.
"I saw what happened to Lola," Lana replied. "Life is a fragile thing. I don't want to take any risks."
"But I thought you enjoyed taking risks," Laney said, confused.
Lana shook her head in response. "Not anymore. From now on, I'll stay here, where it's safe! You know what I'm talkin' about, huh, Geo?"
Geo rolled by in his hamster ball, not responding or stopping.
"Lana, you can't be serious!" said Lincoln in disbelief as Lana rolled past him, not saying a word. "Lana?!"
They suddenly heard Luna singing in her room, "Things have gotten drastic / Now, my sister lives in plastic / Where did it all go wrong?"
"Luna?" Lincoln asked as he entered the room.
Luna showed Lincoln her laptop. "Check it, bro. I uploaded a song I wrote about our family going down the Highway to-HELLO! I just got fifty more hits!"
"That's rockin' dudette!" smiled J.D., happy for her.
The ceiling collapses, and Mick Swagger descends, clinging to a rope ladder hung from a helicopter.
"Mick Swagger?!" exclaimed Luna, surprised to see her idol.
"Mick Swagger!" yelled J.D. "Awesome!
"Your singing is amazing!" Mick said as he was holding Luna's hand." "You gotta join my tour"!
Laney was hugging Luna tight. "Please don't go! This family is falling apart!"
"Sorry, sis, Luna is IN!" apologized Luna and the rope went up through the hole in the ceiling, carrying both Mick and Luna away.
"NO!" screamed Laney, falling to her knees in sadness and shock at seeing her leave.
"SORRY, DUDE!" yelled Luna from the helicopter as it flew away.
J.D. shook his head in disappointment. "This is awful. This is getting out of hand fast!"
"Everyone of my sisters is going away..." said Laney sadly, as tears flowed from her eyes.
"Laney? Are you-" asked Lincoln, concerned, but stopped as he saw her looking at him in anger.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" LANEY yelled angrily and ran off.
"Laney, wait!" Lincoln yelled, trying to run after her. "Oh, no!"
Lincoln and J.D. entered Lincoln's room, and Lincoln used his walkie-talkie to contact Clyde. "Clyde, this is Lincoln! Come in! I've got a Code Blue!"
"Code Blue?!" Clyde answered, worried. " You did something wrong and lied about it, and now everything is all messed up?!"
"Affirmative!" Lincoln confirmed. "Can you come over?!"
Clyde responded: "Negative. I've got a Code Green!"
"You showed up at school in your underwear?" said Lincoln, confused.
"No, that's Code Orange?" replied Clyde. "Hang on."
In reality, Clyde is skydiving with Lori, and he takes a photo of them with his camera phone; Lincoln receives the photo via text message on his phone, and he jumps up in surprise.
"SWEET MOTHER OF...What are you doing with Lori?!" responded Lincoln, shocked.
"I've been trying to tell you!" responded Clyde excitedly. "A Code Green; Lori broke up with Bobby and I'm the rebound guy!"
"Happy eight-minute-iversary, Snookie-Booboo-Sugarbear," said Lori to Clyde lovingly.
When Clyde leaned in for a kiss, Lori deployed her parachute, causing Clyde to kiss a flying bird instead.
Lincoln gagged in response and threw away the walkie-talkie. "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY FAMILY?!"
"It's being destroyed, that's what," J.D. answered.
Luan, solemn and depressed, knocks on Lincoln's door. "Knock-knock."
"Who's there?" responded Lincoln, not in the mood for jokes.
Luan shakes her head seriously. "This is not a joke, Lincoln. Do you know what's going on in the world? Here, take Mr. Coconuts. He just reminds me of all the trees being cut down in the rainforest."
"Wait, Luan, what brought this on?" exclaimed Lincoln, shocked that she would give up comedy.
Luan explains herself. "Well, ever since Luna left, I've had no one to try my jokes out on. So, I've been watching a lot of cable news, and what I've seen is horrific. So, I've decided to become... an ACTIVIST!"
"Luan, that's crazy!" yelled J.D., in shock that she would do such a thing.
"Don't be ridiculous!" insisted Lincoln as he tried to get her to snap out of it. "You're a comedian!" He takes out a pie and throws it into his face. "See? Funny, right?"
A horde of wild animals stampedes past Lincoln.
"What the heck was that?!" shouted Lincoln, surprised.
"They're just Lana's pets," Luan explained. "I liberated them. And now I'm off to heal this ticking time bomb we call Earth."
"Wait, Luan, you can't be serious!" exclaimed Lincoln, stunned. A monkey appears, startling Lincoln, and takes Mr. Coconuts.
The monkey and an enormous snake are in the living room, and Lincoln is chasing Izzy, hiding under the couch.
"Izzy, get back here!" yelled Lincoln as he chased the snake. The snake hisses at him before hiding behind the couch.
"Izzy, come to Uncle Lincoln!" yelled Lincom.
"And uncle J.D.," added J.D.
On TV, a news reporter was making his report. "And now, for tonight's top stories. Former rising star Luna Loud was kicked off the Mick Swagger tour for destroying a hotel room."
The news cut to footage of Luna screaming amidst the wreckage of her hotel room.
"ALL I WANTED WAS A BLEEDING PILLOW MINT!" Luna angrily yelled in a British accent.
Lincoln stared at the TV in disbelief. "Luna?"
""It's like what happened with the band "The Who," explained J.D.
"What happened, J.D.?" Lincoln asked.
"In 1967, the Who trashed their entire Holiday Inn hotel room and were banned from it for life," J.D. explained.
"That sounds very similar," admitted Lincoln.
Back on the TV, the reporter was continuing the news. "In a related story, former comedian turned activist Luan Loud has chained herself to a giant redwood tree."
The news cuts to Luan chained to a massive redwood tree while onlookers record her with their phones.
"Hey-hey, ho-ho! Keep your hands off. Let it grow!"
"That is suicide!" shouted J.D. in shock and horror.
"Luan?!" yelled Lincoln in shock.
Izzy, the snake, and the monkey joined them in viewing the news on the couch.
"I'm being told we have breaking news," said the reporter.
"Please don't be one of my sisters!" begged Lincoln while crossing his fingers.
A reporter on the scene at Flip's Food & Fuel is shown, with Lisa drinking a "Flippee" ice drink right next to her.
"Tucker, I'm here at Flip's Food & Fuel, where two unknown bandits have just made off with a carload of beef jerky and a cotton candy machine!" said another news reporter.
"They're not unknown," explained Lisa as she sipped her Flippee. "They're my sisters. Their betrayal hurts more than this brain freeze."
"I'm getting word that the bandits are currently leading police on a slow-speed chase!" continued the reporter.
The news report cuts to an army of police cars chasing Lola's kiddie car through the desert. Lola is driving, her face is now bandaged, and Lynn is in the passenger seat, eating cotton candy.
Lincoln and the animals stare in disbelief; Izzy, Lincoln, and the monkey strike the iconic "wise monkey" pose.
"WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG?!" Lincoln shouted in shock.
"This is like the 1991 movie "Thelma & Louise"!" explained J.D. in shock.
"What's that about?" Lincoln asked.
J.D. elaborated, "It's about two best friends who go on a cross-country robbery spree. They committed heinous crimes, and when the police cornered them, they realized they'd be imprisoned for the rest of their lives, so they drove off the Grand Canyon's edge and killed themselves."
Lincoln was shocked at what J.D. told him. "WHAT!?"
"One has to wonder, where did it all go wrong for these girls?" asked the reporter. "And why is a four-year-old working at a gas station?"
Flip took hold of the camera. "Interview over! Wait, don't forget to come down to Flip's Food & Fuel, home of the Flippee! Now the interview's over." He then puts his hand over the camera, signifying that the interview is over.
"What a cheapskate and a selfish skinflint!" J.D. yelled, enraged. "That's why I'm going to report him to the Michigan Better Business Bureau."
Lincoln turns off the TV, and Lucy suddenly appears next to them.
"I was watching that," said Lucy, looking at the TV.
Lincoln screams and jumps up in terror. "Lucy! At least you're still normal!"
Lucy turns to face Lincoln, widening her smile to reveal a pair of vampiric fangs as she hisses.
Lincoln jumps in shock and terror. "D'AAH! NOT NORMAL!"
"VAMPIRE!" yelled J.D. in shock at what he was seeing.
"I was bitten by Lana's liberated vampire bat! Greatest! Day! EVER!" exclaimed Lucy excitedly as she turned into a bat and flew away.
"Lucy's dream is to become a vampire," said J.D. to himself in confusion.
They looked around for Lucy, and they noticed Laney on the couch.
Lincoln was relieved that she didn't leave. "Laney! Oh, thank goodness you're okay!" Suddenly, Laney floats up in the air, and Lincoln stares and says, "Not okay!"
"Whoa!" said J.D. in disbelief and awe as he stared at her.
"What happened?" asked Lincoln, wondering how she did that.
"Well, I ran into Lisa's room to see if Lily was okay," Laney explained, "then I slipped on some of Lisa's chemicals, and the next thing I knew, I got superpowers!"
"That is awesome!" yelled J.D. in excitement.
"Definitely. So, what kind of superpowers?" Lincoln asked.
"Mostly flight..." explained Laney as she lifted the couch with no problems.
J.D. was awestruck. "Whoa!"
"And Super Strength," added Laney as she put the couch back down.
"Incredible!" added J.D.
"How is this possible?!" asks Lincoln, bewildered.
"You're asking me?" Laney asked in disbelief at him asking such a ridiculous question. " After your little accident, made all this possible?"
"Laney, you'd better stay with us so we can help you," J.D. suggested. "I would be happy to train you to use your powers."
Laney smiled. "Thank you, J.D. I'd like that. And yes, I'll stay here with you guys."
"Thank you, Laney, and I'm so sorry," apologized Lincoln.
"I know Lincoln," smiled Laney softly, and they hugged it out as all was forgiven.
Lincoln realized not all was lost. "Nine sisters lost, but there's still one I can save!"
"Let's go," said J.D. in determination.
J.D. Lincoln and Laney entered Lisa and Lily's room and Lincoln looked into Lily's crib. He finds she is not in it.
"Lily?" asked Lincoln as he looked around the room.
"Where is she?" asked J.D. in confusion.
The roof is lifted from outside by Lily, who has grown to an enormous size. She looks down at Lincoln and giggles.
"LILY!" shouted Lincoln in shock at seeing her this big.
HOLY SAUSAGE LINKS! SHE'S HUGE!" yelled J.D., also in shock.
Lincoln notices a chemical trail leading from Lisa's desk to the crib.
"Oh no, Lisa's chemicals! What have I done?!" shouted Lincoln in shock and horror at what he'd done to his little sister.
"Mmmm... yum yum!" said Lily in a booming voice while licking her lips.
Lily reaches down for Lincoln as he tries to flee. He is apprehended, and Lily opens her mouth.
"DON'T EAT ME, LILY!" screamed Lincoln.
Lincoln screams as Lily lifts him to her mouth, his open mouth filling the page and turning it black. But then, just as she was about to eat him, she stopped yipping in pain. She then dropped Lincoln and shrank dramatically. Lincoln landed on Lisa's bed, relieved but perplexed by what had just occurred. He just lay there for a moment, gathering his thoughts, when Lisa, still dressed in her gas station attendant's uniform, entered, carrying Lily, who had returned to her normal size. Lincoln sits up when he notices them.
"Lisa!" grinned Lincoln. You're back!"
Lisa returned Lily to her crib. She then gave Lily a band-aid and a lollypop, which made her happy. She then displayed a homemade syringe gun.
"What made you come back?" J.D. asks her.
"I ran over to see what was going on after hearing the commotion from Flips," Lisa explained. "When I noticed Lily had grown to the size of a titan, I assumed it was because of my chemicals and quickly concocted an antidote out of whatever I could find in the garbage."
"You arrived just in time, Lisa," Laney sighed, relieved to see her.
Lincoln then ran up to her and hugged her. "I couldn't be more grateful."
Lisa let out a sigh. "I know. I can't believe I'd forgotten how talented I am in science. I should not have let Leni's sudden intelligence get to me. Just because she pointed out a single error I made in a formula doesn't make her smarter than me. I mean, I could build an apple juice car if I wanted to."
"So you're back to your old self?" Lincoln inquired, wanting to be certain.
"That's what I liked best," Lisa answered. "Working for Flip was a nightmare."
"I agree," J.D. nodded. "That jerk is a cheapskate who only cares about himself."
"Also, at your age, you don't need a job," Lincoln added.
"Yeah," Laney agreed.
Lisa nodded slightly. "That is also true. Of course, I'll keep my uniform. It's surprisingly resistant to corrosive substances, which could come in handy."
J.D., Laney, Lisa, and Lincoln later cleaned up the chemical spill on and around her desk.
Lincoln wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Done and done. Not sure what we'll do about the ripped roof."
"I think we can hire someone to fix it," Lisa suggested. "If only my experiment hadn't exploded for some unknown reason," she sighed.
Lincoln felt guilty and noticed Charles shaking his head in the doorway.
"Lincoln, I believe you should come clean," J.D. pointed out.
"Yeah," Lincoln sighed. "I've got to tell you, Lisa, I was the cause."
"What?" exclaimed Lisa.
"I was playing with my Yo-Yo, and it got out of control, and it ruined your experiment, and I'm so sorry!" Lincoln explained as he apologized.
"Well, you should have told me in the first place!" Lisa exclaimed, folding her arms in disappointment.
Lincoln sighed. "I know. I didn't expect it to spark such a chain of events that would sever our family."
"To be honest, I wouldn't have been mad at you," Lisa admitted. "I would have even hugged you in joy."
"Huh?" said Lincoln, perplexed.
J.D. was also perplexed. "What?"
"You would have proven my theory," Lisa elaborated. "Your recklessness would be the missing variable in my ridged-controlled experiment."
This shocked Lincoln. "Are you serious? That means I had nothing to worry about if I told the truth in the first place! I could have avoided the breakup of my family."
Guilt overcame Lincoln and collapsed to his knees, tears streaming down his cheeks. Lisa approached him and wiped his tears.
"It's not your fault, Lincoln," J.D. reassured him.
Laney comforted him with a hug by silently saying it was okay.
Lisa attempted to explain to him, "It's all right, Lincoln. Nobody could have predicted all of this. Our actions can sometimes have unanticipated consequences that no one can predict. We can only learn from them and move forward."
Lincoln cried, "But... how can I live with the guilt that our sisters are...?"
Lana screamed as her bubble collided with a wall in the room. She then puked in her ball. "Oh, man! Hey! Can you guys help me with getting out of this stupid ball?"
J.D., Lincoln, and Lisa then helped open the plastic bubble, and Lana jumped out, wiping the puke off her overalls.
"Lana! Are you alright? Boy, you're a mess," asked J.D. in concern.
"I'm guessing the bubble didn't work out the way you planned," Lincoln told her.
Lana replied with a shake of her head, "No way! It was actually boring in there when I wasn't rolling uncontrollably and getting nauseous. I guess I didn't take enough risks in my life. It makes no difference to me if I end up like Lola. I won't let an ugly mug stop me from doing what I love. In that case, I should gather my animals and then work on the roof."
Lana bolts from the room and goes to her room.
"Well, I guess we found someone to do that," Lisa explained to the group.
"We certainly did," Laney agreed.
Then they heard the front door open.
"Hello? Is anyone still here?"
J.D., Lincoln, Laney, Lana, and Lisa rushed downstairs to find Leni carrying her suitcase. When she saw them, she smiled.
Lincoln was thrilled to see her. "Leni, you've returned! What about Harvard, though?"
"The funny thing is, I got hit on the head again by a falling tree branch, and suddenly I wasn't smart anymore, like it just vanished," Leni responded.
Her reply irritated Lisa. "That makes even less sense!"
Leni smiled at her. "I know, right? Fortunately, I'm not back to being a complete idiot. I have at least average intelligence. Being a genius was also very boring. I'd rather stick to fashion."
She then knelt in front of Lisa and said, "But Lisa, I just wanted to apologize. I didn't mean to make fun of you for possibly being smarter than you. It was because I remembered how you used to make fun of me for being an idiot and wanted to get you back. It was wrong to make fun of my sister for any reason."
Lisa had forgiven her. "That's alright, Leni. I was wrong to mock you for being an ignoramus as well."
Leni smiled and hugged Lisa, who returned the hug.
Leni gushed at this, "Awww! You're sweet!" She then lets Lisa go and stands up.
"Good for both of you," Lincoln said with a smile.
Leni smiled back at him. "Thanks, Linky!"
"Welcome back, Leni," J.D. said, delighted to see her.
Leni expressed gratitude to him. "Thank you very much, J.D. Fortunately, I could sell the rights to my apple juice car for a large sum of money, so it wasn't a total loss!"
Laney whistled. "Wow!"
"Way to go, Leni," J.D. said.
"How much did you sell it for?" asked Lincoln curiously.
Just then, Lynn and Lola walked in. Lola's face was still heavily bandaged.
"Enough to pay our bail for starters!" Lynn yelled angrily.
Lincoln hugged Lynn and Lola because he was relieved to see them. But then he let go, realizing something. "Wait, didn't you just steal some snacks? That does not appear to be an arrestable offense."
"It's also because we resisted arrest and assaulted some of the cops with baseball bats," Lynn admitted. "We had nothing to lose at that point, after all."
"You still had us," Lincoln pointed out.
"I'm sorry," Lynn apologized. "We completely forgot about it at the time. We fled our problems when we should have stayed with our loving family. We're free now, and Leni has enough money left over to get Lola surgery to restore her face to its former glory."
"Let me fix that for you, Lola," J.D. suggested. He shot a burst of water from his hand, enveloping Lola in a water ball and completely healing her.
"What happened?" Lola inquired, perplexed. J.D. created a water mirror, and Lola was taken aback.
"I'M BEAUTIFUL AGAIN!" exclaimed Lola joyfully.
"Thank you, J.D.," Lola said as she hugged him.
J.D. shrugged it off as if it were no big deal. "No problem, Lola. I'm glad to see you both back."
Lincoln was taken aback. "That was... AWESOME! J.D. I had no idea you had water powers."
"It's one of my many abilities," J.D. explained.
"Lynn," Lisa began. "Please accept my apologies for abandoning you during your time of need. I can immediately resume tutoring you and, hopefully, get you back on your sports teams."
Lynn grinned upon hearing this and hugged Lisa tightly."You will?! Oh, thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Lisa!"
"You're...crushing my epidermis!" Lisa shouted, in pain from the hug.
"Lynn, I'll talk to the police about it and get you a fresh start," J.D. suggested.
Then they noticed Vanzilla pulling in and out came Lori, Luna, and Luan. Lincoln and the others were overjoyed to see them.
"Guys, you're back too!" Lincoln exclaimed happily.
J.D. was relieved to see them. "Luna, Lori, and Luan! Thank heavens."
Laney exclaims cheerfully. "Big sisters!"
Lincoln and Laney hugged them tightly as the three of them approached.
"So Lori, are you still... with Clyde?" Lincoln inquired cautiously, not wanting to know the answer.
Lori shook her head. "No way! I was dating him solely to make Bobby envious. It completely worked! I let Clyde down gently, and he no longer faints or does the robot thing to me. The nosebleeds are still an issue. I'm also sorry for getting angry at you, Leni. Bobby was the one who should have been upset because he didn't remind you to give me my gift."
Leni smiled and nodded, as if to say everything was fine.
"I'm glad you're back, Lori," J.D. said.
"Thank you, J.D.," Lori said.
"Hey, Luna!" Lincoln said, "sorry, it didn't work out with Swagger,"
Luna looked down. "Yeah, it was my fault for forgetting you're not supposed to wreck the hotel room until you're a big star and can afford to pay for the damage. The irony is that the pillow mint I was ranting about had already fallen off the pillow before I noticed it."
Everyone in the room burst out laughing at what she had just said.
"Oops!" laughed J.D.
"Man, I missed hearing you guys laugh," Luan said with a slight smile.
"I missed hearing you laugh, Luan," J.D. said.
"Thank you, J.D.," Luan said.
"What happened to being an activist, Luan?" Lincoln inquired, curious about what had happened.
Luan sighed. "Oh... I did not know what I was doing. I did not know how to alleviate the world's suffering. The redwood tree I had chained myself to was not in danger. It was in a forest preserve, and I was made a laughingstock. Not in the way I was accustomed to. I think I'll go back to purposefully making people laugh because it's more fun and leave the world's problems to those who know what they're doing."
"Good for you, Luan," J.D. nodded.
"You'll need this then," Lincoln said as he handed her Mr. Coconuts.
Luan was overjoyed when she finally got him back. "Great! Mr. Coconuts, it's great to see you again!" As Mr. Coconuts said, "Don't give that horseradish to me! You are never to abandon me with Lincoln again! His room stinks of old socks!"
Her joke made everyone laugh. Lincoln then realized what Mr. Coconuts had just said, "Hey!"
"Sorry, Lincoln," J.D. apologized. "It's great to have Luan back, and her jokes never fail to make us laugh."
"Hey Luan, why are Tree Huggers bad at playing cards?" he joked to Luan.
"I don't know, J.D.," Luan replied.
"They like to avoid the flush," J.D. remarked, followed by a rimshot that made everyone laugh.
"Good one, J.D," Luan laughed.
"That was a good one," Lincoln said, laughing.
"It's great that the family is back together," Laney exclaimed happily.
That night, they all gathered in the dining room and ate pizza. Then Lincoln drew everyone's attention to himself. "Let me just say that I'm glad to have you all back and that I'm sorry for causing all this crazy stuff to happen. I was so afraid of Lisa getting angry that I tried to hide it, and the situation deteriorated over time. If it meant keeping my family together, I'd go back in time and tell Lisa the truth about what happened to her experiment."
"Awww!" exclaimed all of his sisters.
"We forgive you, Lincoln," Lori said.
"Fear has a nasty way of causing people to do strange things," J.D. explained.
"Yeah," Laney agreed.
"Plus, in the end, it wasn't all bad. Even though I'm no longer with Mick Swagger, I've been noticed by the public, and my Eyetube channel is growing in popularity. I'll keep writing songs on there and hope to become a bigger star that way, "Luna addressed everyone.
"Congratulations, Luna," J.D. said, smiling. "Aside from that, you were rockin' today." He made a Rock On Hand sign.
"I know I'll get back to my sports eventually," Lynn admitted.
"And I'm not stupid!" Leni added. "Oh... And I'm rich!"
"Lola, I'm sorry for kicking my soccer ball right into your face," Lynn apologized.
"It's okay, Lynn," Lola said as she apologized. "But don't do it again, or I'll make sure you never play sports again!"
"Hopefully, when I'm done with the roof," Lana added, "we'll be able to put the bad stuff behind us."
"Definitely," J.D. agreed.
"And now I have these awesome superpowers, and who knows what else I can do," Laney questioned herself.
"Chemical accidents are one of the most prominent causes of people gaining superpowers in comic books," J.D. explained.
"That's interesting," Laney remarked.
"For sure," J.D. agreed. "So everything is fine with you all?" Everyone nodded in agreement. "That's good to hear."
Just then, a bat landed next to Lincoln and transformed into Lucy.
"You forgot about me!" exclaimed Lucy as everyone except J.D. screamed and jumped in terror as a pipe organ played.
"Oh, right!" Lincoln realized. "Lucy is still a vampire."
"Yep," J.D. agreed.
"Seriously?" Lori exclaimed, stunned.
"Yes," Lucy explained, "thanks to Lana's vampire bat biting me."
"That actually worked?" Luan was taken aback and in disbelief.
"I was surprised myself," J.D. admitted.
Lola was disgusted. "Ew! That is extremely creepy."
"After today's events," Lisa said, "nothing surprises me anymore."
"So... How's it going for you, Lucy?" Lincoln asked.
"Awesome!" Lucy exclaimed. "Even better now that you're back."
"How does it feel to be a vampire, Lucy?" J.D. asked.
'It's fantastic!" Lucy exclaimed.
"No offense, Lucy, but how do we know you won't try to suck our blood while we sleep?" Lynn asked, not wanting to offend her.
"That's what worries me," Laney admitted.
"You don't have to be concerned because I would never do such a thing to my loving family," Lucy reassured everyone. "Also, I've heard that drinking blood from relatives turns them into mindless ghouls. I'll find ways to satisfy my need for blood. Of course, explaining it to our parents when they return home will be awkward."
"Also, Lucy, we'll find a way to help you avoid getting burned in the sun, and we'll minimize the garlic intake around you," J.D. added.
"Thank you, J.D," Lucy replied.
Lincoln wrapped his arm around Lucy's shoulder. "Don't worry, Lucy. We have your back."
"Yeah," J.D. agreed.
"Thanks, guys," Lucy said with a grateful smile.
"Also, Lucy, I'm going to stop by a local blood bank from time to time and get you some fresh blood," J.D. added.
"Thank you, J.D.," Lucy said once more.
"I can't believe all of this happened," Lincoln exclaimed, stunned.
"Yeah, have you all heard of the Butterfly Effect?" J.D. asked.
Everyone except Lisa was shaking their heads. "The Butterfly Effect" is a name for The Chaos Theory. When a butterfly flaps its wings in China, a tornado destroys a portion of Kansas."
"The Butterfly Effect is dangerous," Lisa agreed. "It has the potential to devastate a region of the world."
"That's exactly what happened today," Laney explained. "We experienced the Butterfly Effect."
"And my hiding the truth nearly caused my entire family to fall apart," Lincoln added.
"Yeah," J.D. agreed. "But perhaps we've all learned something from this."
So J.D., Lincoln, and the sisters ate pizza that night. Charles sat in the doorway to the living room, nodding his head, relieved that everything had worked out.
THE END.