It begins with J.D., Varie, Woody, and Eddy arriving at the Loud House.

J.D. knocks on the door, and Lynn Sr. opens it. With a smile, he greets them. "Hello there, guys. Come on in."

"Thank you, Mr. Lynn," J.D. said.

Eddy smiled at him. "Hey, L Sr. What's up?"

"Not much, Eddy," Lynn Sr. said, but then he noticed two people were missing and asked, "Where's Ed and Double D?"

"Oh, they couldn't come today. They decided to spend time with their parents," Eddy explained.

Lynn Sr. nodded as if he understood. "Oh, that's all right."

They go up to Lincoln's room, where he is enjoying a glass of lemonade with a crazy straw.

"Hi Lincoln," J.D. said.

"Hey guys," Lincoln said, smiling.

"Whatcha doing?" Varie asked.

Lincoln began to explain. "Well, it's Friday night. You survived another week of school. Now it's time to kick back, forget your troubles, and crack open a brand new video game." He takes out a copy of Super Mega Brawlers Turbo Fighter and smells it. "Love that new game smell." He suddenly detects another scent, as do they.

J.D. frowns. "That doesn't smell like new video games to me."

"It smells like fresh flowers in the springtime," Varie said after taking a sniff.

"It smells really good," Woody exclaimed as he took another sniff.

Lincoln pauses for a moment. "Wait, a minute." He sniffs again, and this time he realizes what that smell is with horror. "Is that...Oh no!"

His sisters soon picked up on the scent as well.

"Sniff. Sniff," Lucy said.

Lincoln's eyes widened. "Mom's expensive perfume. Which can only mean one thing." He runs over and checks the calendar and finds out what tonight is... "Date night! Which can only mean one other thing!"

"Lori's in charge! Do as she says! Bye!" Rita yelled as she walked out of the house.

Lincoln screamed in horror. "NOOOOOOOOO! She gets a sick thrill from bossing us around! In this house, we call her the Queen of-"

"NO!" yelled Lori from upstairs. She unplugs Luna's amplifiers. "NO MUSIC!" She throws Lana's mud pie in the trash. "NO MUD PIES!" She walks up to Leni, who is on the phone. "NO-"

Leni said on the phone, "Way! That's totes cray cray!"

Lori hung up on Leni's phone call. "No phone calls." She took Laney's book. "No reading."

Laney yelled angrily, "Hey! You can't just-

Lori gave Laney a menacing look, making her shut up.

Laney let out a sigh at this. "Nevermind..."

Lori takes Lincoln's game away. "AND NO VIDEO GAMES!"

Lori dons a military uniform and blows a whistle, calling J.D., Varie, Eddy, Woody, and Lori's siblings, Bobby, Ronnie Anne, and the pets, to the front room. J.D. stands at attention and salutes her.

"At ease!" yelled Lori. Everyone is more relaxed now, and J.D. is still standing at attention. "JUST KIDDING! NOBODY IS TO BE AT EASE IN MY PRESENCE!" The others regain their forms. "As you know, Mom and Dad left me in charge. That means, you have to do as I say, whether you're tall, short, or covered in fur and can only understand the word "sit"."

Charles, Cliff, and Geo sit down on command, but Walt trips and knocks Geo's hamster ball to the side in his attempt.

Lori pulls out a schedule for tonight. "Now, here is our schedule for this evening. 6:00 to 7:00: Sitting on bed with arms folded. 7:00 to 7:30: Chow. 7:30 to 8:00: Thorough cleaning of mess hall. 8:00: Staring at wall until falling asleep. Everyone got that?"

J.D., Varie, Woody, Eddy, Bobby, Ronnie Anne, Lincoln, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Laney, Lola, Lisa, and Lily all yelled, "MA'AM, YES, MA'AM!"

"SIR, YES, SIR!" yelled Lana.

Lori glares at Lana for addressing her as "sir."

J.D. salutes her. "General Lori, Ma'am?"

"General Lori. I like the sound of that," Lori said thoughtfully. "What is it, soldier?"

"You'd make an excellent Army commanding officer, Ma'am!" J.D. continued to salute.

"THANK YOU!" exclaimed Lori. "Everyone but J.D., DISMISSED!" she exclaimed to everyone else.

Everyone except J.D. rushes back to their rooms while Geo hops up each step in his ball.

"Why did you call me General Lori, J.D.?" Lori asked him curiously.

J.D. had a sheepish expression on his face. "Sorry, Lori. It's a force of habit. Whenever I'm involved in a military-type scenario, I pretend to be a member of the military."

Lori nodded. "Oh, I see. That's all right. Thank you for the military rank. Do you think I'd make a good General?"

J.D. nodded. "You definitely have what it takes. My grandfathers fought in WWII, and I hold them close to my heart and in my memory."

Lori smiled at that. "That's very thoughtful. Anyway. DISMISSED!"

J.D. salutes and marches up to Lincoln's room.

In Lincoln's room, J.D., Varie, Woody and Lincoln are sitting on Lincoln's bed with our arms folded.

J.D. began to complain, "This sucks eggs. I thought we were going to have a good time tonight. I guess it's going to be a dull day."

Lincoln then became determined. "Not if I have to say anything about it!"

Lincoln opens his door and places a note in Geo's hamster ball. "Hey Geo, want a snack, boy?" He tosses the snack over to Lola and Lana's door.

Geo rolls over, opens his ball, gets the treat, and attracts the twins' attention; Lincoln does the same with his other sisters; the note instructs them to meet in Lincoln's room, and they sneak in; Luan and Eddy have camouflaged themselves with the wall and sneak in; Leni is the only one who hasn't snuck out of her room; she begins to sneak by her while wearing a scarf.

Lori was watching her and became suspicious. "Leni, what are you doing?"

Leni denied that it was her. "I'm not Leni. I'm wearing a scarf."

Lori was not fooled in the least. "You've got five minutes to do your business."

Leni leaves and sneaks over to Lincoln's room to join the others for a big meeting.

Lola had her arms crossed in front of her. "This had better be good. Do you know how much trouble we'll be in if Lori finds out we're not in our rooms?"

"Lincoln, I had no idea Lori was so strict about having everyone in their rooms when she babysits," Eddy frowned.

Lincoln stared at him in disbelief before launching into a rant. "Rooms? More like prison cells! Every time Lori's left in charge, she makes our lives miserable. Well, I say no more! It's time to take back our Friday nights! Luna, do you like it when Lori unplugs your amp mid-jam?"

"It's way harsh," Luna grumbled.

"And Lana, what about when Lori throws out your mud pies?" Lincoln asked.

"I work hard on those!" Lana exclaimed.

Then Lincoln asked Lily a question. "And Lily, what about when Lori won't let you read about fish or talk to your mermaid friends when they come to visit?"

"Those mermaids are like my sisters," Lily exclaimed irritably.

"Then let's do something about it!" exclaimed Lincoln.

J.D., Varie, Woody, Eddy, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily all agreed and yelled, "YEAH!"

"WAIT!" yelled Laney. They all turned to face her. "I know you guys have a problem with Lori's rules, but we shouldn't resort to breaking them."

Lana snorted. "Yeah right! As if we'll take advice from a suck-up!"

J.D. started scolding her for the name-calling. "Hey! Lana, that was completely uncalled for!"

"Yeah," Varie agreed. "We already have enough to deal with."

Laney was taken aback by this and asked, "Suck-up? What are you talking about?"

Lana began to explain. "You've never broken a rule in your life! Always putting on a goody-goody act for Lori."

Laney was offended. "Hey! I can be a rulebreaker to Lori."

Lana raised an eyebrow. "Then why can't you?"

Laney tried to come up with an explanation. "Ummm. Maybe it's because there are some rules..."

"Or maybe you're afraid of her!" Lana retorted.

Lincoln, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lisa, and Lily all exclaimed, "Ooooh!"

Laney became furious. "THAT'S IT! COUNT ME IN!"

"All right, here's the plan," Lincoln said.

Back in Lori's room, Lori is trying to paint her toenails like in Sixteen 1/2 Magazine, but she doesn't seem to have gotten it down; suddenly, Luna's jam is back on, which Lori does not like because it goes against her orders.

Lori sees Lily playing and asks, "Lily? What are you-"

There are some creaks, and Lori notices that they are right behind her; they tackle her, and she screams for help; it is then revealed that they have tied her to a chair.

Lori became furious. "Hey! What is going on?"

Lincoln yelled, "Your power trip is over! We're taking back our Friday nights!"

Lori raised an eyebrow, confused. "Power trip?"

"Just admit it. You get a sick thrill out of bossing us around," Lincoln pointed out.

J.D., Varie, Woody, Eddy and the other sisters agreed.

Lori was taken aback. "You think I enjoy this?

J.D. nodded. "Well yeah. What else could we think?"

Lori raised an eyebrow. "Well, unfortunately, I'm the only one who can keep this house from ending up in a pile of rubble! It's not like any of you could do it."

Lana nodded. "Yuh-huh. Lincoln could."

Lincoln was surprised by that. "I could?"

Laney believed Lincoln was capable of doing it. "Yeah! He's twice as good as you at babysitting! We're thinkin' Lincoln!"

"You can do it, buddy," J.D. said confidently.

J.D., Varie, Woody, Eddy, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily yelled, "WE'RE THINKIN' LINCOLN! WE'RE THINKIN' LINCOLN!"

Lincoln and Lori are taken aback by this.

Lori said condescendingly, "Lincoln in charge? Ha! He couldn't lead Cliff to the litter box."

Cliff is next to his little box and suddenly goes on the carpet.

Varie gave her a stern look. "We only have three words for you: BRING IT ON!"

Lincoln made a smirking motion with his lips. "Challenge accepted!" He took the whistle from her. "Take her away!"

She is carried to her room by her sisters.

"You won't last five minutes!" yelled Lori. She laughs maniacally. "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

J.D. shuts the door. "Lola, guard this door. No one goes in, no one comes out."

Lola agrees and gets a golf club to guard the door while dressed as a security guard.

Lincoln smirked. "Say goodbye to the Queen of No..." He threw the whistle to the ground. "...and hello to the King of Yes!"

J.D., Varie, Woody, Eddy and the sisters cheer in victory; Luna is finally jamming out.

"Yes, to music!" Lincoln exclaimed. He cranks up the music and smiles at Lana's mud pie. "I'm all for mud!"

Leni was talking on the phone. "Seriously?"

"Yes to phone calls!" He hands Laney her book. "Yes, to reading! And yes to video games!" He switches on his game.

SUPER MEGA BRAWLERS TURBO FIGHTER XXIV

"Round 1: Fight!" yelled the game announcer.

But just as J.D., Woody, Eddy, and Lincoln are about to begin playing, Leni screams, and Lincoln pauses the game to investigate; it turns out that Luan is chasing Leni around with a rubber spider.

Lincoln blinked. "Uh...okay. Have fun. Just don't get too crazy."

Eddy laughs. "Luan, you are always so funny! That's why I love you!"

Luan is chasing Leni. "Thanks Eddy, my Joker King."

Luna's amps are now blasting at full volume.

"RAD SOUNDS! MAYBE NOT SO LOUD!" Lincoln turns it down a little, which Luna doesn't understand.

J.D. Woody, Eddy, and Lincoln try to return to their game, but there's an explosion, and the smoke alarm goes off, so they go check it out; Lisa emerges from her room.

Lincoln was concerned. "What was that?!"

Lisa dismissed his concern. "It's science. You wouldn't understand." Suddenly, a tentacle grabs Lisa and drags her back inside. "AAH!" The door shuts.

"That was awesome," J.D. said with a grin.

Eddy's eyes widened in astonishment. "Geez Louise!"

"As Ed would say, "cool," J.D. said.

"Just keep it on a leash!" Lincoln glared at the door.

Just as they are about to resume their game, Lana casts a fishing rod right into the fish tank.

Lincoln yelled, "Lana! You can't fish in there! Those are pets."

Lynn walks in with a bucket of dirt and dumps it on the floor.

Varie widened her eyes. "Lynn! What are you doing?"

"Can't ride a dirt bike without dirt," Lynn responded.

Laney appeared perplexed. "Dirt bike? You can't ride a dirt bike in the house!"

"What are you going to do? Tell Lori?" Lynn laughs.

Lincoln glared at her. "Give me that bucket!"

Laney was irritated by the thought of herself as a rule-following suckup, so she went to the fridge, grabbed some leftover pizza, and went to the dining room. She crept beneath the table and spotted Lana.

"Hey Lana! Would a suck-up do this?"

She then throws a slice of pizza, but Lana dodges it, and it lands on Lucy instead. For a brief moment, there was silence. Lucy then held some waffles in her hands.

Lucy narrowed her eyes. "Game on."

They all smiled and began a food fight.

Suddenly, J.D., Varie, Eddy, Woody, and Lincoln are caught in a hail of pizza slices and waffles thrown by Lana, Laney, and Lucy during a food fight; he shields himself with a cookie sheet, and the pizza and waffles plaster all over it, creating a rather beautiful painting that impresses him.

Varie was taken aback by the painting. "Ooh. That's a colorful work of food art."

Meanwhile, at the messed-up table, Laney couldn't help but laugh at how much fun this was.

Laney smiled widely. "That. Was. GREAT!"

Lana smirked at her. "I knew you'd come around."

Laney had a wild expression on her face. "Why should we stop here? We got the whole night to ourselves! What do you say we get reeeeeeeeally crazy!?"

Lana grinned. "Now you're talking!"

Lynn is pouring water from the hose all over the carpet when she is pegged by an incoming gourd; the hose then goes wild; Leni is on the phone while Luan is still chasing her with her rubber spider.

"Hi, exterminator guy! Do you do spiders?" She sees the hose. "Ew! What about water snakes?"

The hose squirts Luan, but she continues chasing Leni; Lincoln trips over the telephone wire and lands in the mud, where he notices Lucy has built a fort out of Lily's spare diapers. J.D., Varie, Eddy, Lily, and Woody are all with her.

Lincoln widened his eyes. "Lucy! What are you doing with all those diapers?"

Lana screams like a madman and fires a barrage of meatballs.

"Incoming." Lucy gets down.

Lincoln takes cover with her, only for their fort wall to be damaged. "Diaper wall breach!"

J.D. fires a ketchup squirt bottle gun at Lana as she fires a cupcake at them, but Lucy stops him by plugging the hole with a bunch of extra diapers.

Eddy pulls out a gun he, Ed, and Double D built at the Junkyard in Peach Creek while living in Ed's favorite movie "Robot Rebel Ranch" and fires mustard at Lana, drenching her.

"Nice shot, Eddy," Lilly said, impressed.

"Thank you, Lily," Eddy said with a smile.

"FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK!" Luna cranks up the amps to "Super Max" and prepares fireworks for a grand finale.

J.D. widens his eyes in horror. "Duck and cover!"

"LUNA!" Lincoln yelled in slow motion. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

Too late, Luna plays a chord, and the resulting noise blasts Lincoln into the wall, leaving a dent of unsightly residue; just then, Lori's taunting words echo in his mind.

"Lincoln in charge? Ha! He couldn't lead Cliff to the litter box."

Cliff is next to his litter box, but J.D. grabs him and places him in the litter box.

"From now on, Cliff, you go in the litter box," J.D. said.

Cliff meows and J.D. strokes him.

"Thanks, J.D.," Lincoln said before seeing the destruction and becoming enraged and unplugged Luna's amps. "No guitar playing..." He snatches Lana's food. "...no food brawls..." "...no dirt bikes, and no science experiments!" he says as he stops Lynn from riding her bike inside the house. He takes Lisa's beakers and throws them away, resulting in an explosion.

The others aren't thrilled with Lincoln's sudden change of heart.

"Who do you think you are? Lori?" Lynn asked mockingly.

His sisters, minus Laney and Lily, begin laughing at him and return to their Friday night activities.

"No. I'm not." Lincoln realized something. "Lori! J.D., Varie, Eddy, Woody, Laney, Lily! Come on! We got to get Lori!"

"We're right behind you," J.D. assured him.

"I've had enough fun for one night," Varie concluded.

Laney nodded. "Me too."

"Same here," Lily replied.

Woody nodded in agreement. "Yeah."

Eddy shrugged. "Sure. Why not. Luan?"

"Yes, Eddy?" Luan asked.

"I've had enough fun for tonight," Eddy said.

"Me too," Luan agreed. "I'll go with you."

J.D., Varie, Eddy, Woody, Luan, Laney, and Lily make their way to Lori's room, only to be stopped by yelling at them. "Hey! No one goes in, no one comes out! Boss's orders!"

J.D. glared at her. "Those were my orders! Let me in!"

Lola had a golf club in her hand. "I'm gonna need you to step back. All of you.""I'm sorry about this, Lola." Lincoln apologized before charging at Lola with a war cry. Lola is about to whack him with the golf club when J.D. uses the Force to pull it out of her hands, and he grabs it.

"Sorry about that, Lola. But Mr. Lynn would be furious if we ruined his golf club," J.D. explained to her.

Luan nodded. "Yeah. This wouldn't amount to a good slice!" She laughs at her own joke.

"Get it?"

J.D., Varie and Eddy all laughed.

"Good one, Luan!" J.D. told her.

"That's funny," Varie said.

"That was a good one," Eddy commented.

Meanwhile, Lori has managed to free herself from her rope binds. She is filing her nails when the door opens, and in walk J.D., Varie, Lincoln, Eddy, Woody, Laney, and Lily. "Lori! Lori!" yelled Lincoln.

"Ha! I knew you wouldn't last five minutes," Lori said smugly.

"It's only been five minutes?" Lincoln lamented.

"Actually, Lori, it's been more than 5 minutes," Laney pointed out.

Lincoln gets it together. "It's a mad house down there! You've got to help me!"

Lori folded her arms. "Nah. I'm thinkin' Lincoln. You handle it."

Lincoln was distraught. "I can't! You're the only one who can keep this house from ending up in a pile of rubble." Then Luna's fireworks started going off. "Or ashes."

"And?" Lori pressed, raising an eyebrow.

Lincoln let out a sigh. "I couldn't lead Cliff to the litter box."

"Actually, I did, and he knows where to go from now on," J.D. explained.

Lori blinked. "Oh. Well, good work J.D. And?"

Lincoln apologized. "I'm sorry."

J.D., Varie, Laney, Lily, Eddy, and Luan apologized.

"That's all I needed to hear," Lori said before donning military shades. "Let's roll!"

J.D. salutes her. "General Lori, I'm with you!"

When they open the door, Lola is still standing guard.

Lincoln became nervous. "I don't know how to get past her. She's an animal."

Lori covers her mouth, holds up a pile of glitter, and blows it in Lola's direction.

Lola is giddy as she chases after the sparkly cloud. "GLITTER!"

"Very clever," J.D. remarked.

Lincoln was impressed. "Glitter. Nice."

"That sure SPARKLED," Luan joked. She then laughs. "Get it?"

Eddy laughs at her pun. "Good one, Luan!"

They proceed downstairs, where Lincoln shows Lori the mayhem caused by their sisters' antics.

Lincoln was scared. "See what I mean?!"

"Observe," Lori said before pulling out her whistle and blowing it to get their attention. "MOM AND DAD ARE GONNA BE HOME IN 10 MINUTES!"

The other sisters rush to clean up the mess they've made.

Lincoln was in awe. "Brilliant."

"Yeah, you learn a few tricks as you get older," Lori said.

"I misjudged you, Lori," J.D. said, impressed. "You really know what you're doing."

"Thank you," Lori said gratefully, and then her phone rang, and she answered it. "Hello? Uh-huh. Sure. Okay. Bye." She then hangs up.

"Who was that?" Lincoln asked.

"Mom and Dad. They're going to be home in 10 minutes," Lori explained.

J.D.'s eyes widened in concern. "UH OH!"

Lincoln began to panic. "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!"

"I've got this," Lori assured him. "Luna. A little clean up music?"

Luna gave her a thumbs up. "You got it, sis!"

Luna took out her guitar and yelled, "1, 2, 3!"

Lori blows her whistle, and everyone does what they can to clean the house; Lana returns the fish to the tank, Lisa scrubs up the living room with a soap cannon and with the help of her tentacle friend, Leni and Luan untangle the phone wire. Lynn cleans the kitchen and then takes it outside, Lola ties up some trash, and Lynn yanks it up on her dirt bike; they do the finishing touches and carry everything else away as if the house was the same as it was when their parents left.

"GOODNIGHT, LOUD HOUSE!" yelled Luna.

After a wild Friday night, the other sisters return to their rooms; their parents are approaching, and just when everything appears to be fine, there's still a dent in the wall from Lincoln's impact caused by Luna's power chord.

Lincoln let out a gasp. "The wall!" He noticed the painting from the food fight. "Lori! Catch!" He tosses it to Lori.

Lori catches it and places it directly over the dent; their parents walk in.

Lynn Sr. was taken aback. "Wow! I can't believe the house is still standing!"

Lincoln shrugged. "What'd you expect? Lori's in charge."

J.D. agreed with a nod. "Mm-hmm! General Lori knows how to handle things."

"General Lori," Lynn Sr. pondered. "I think that's a good title for her."

"So, what are you guys up to?" Rita asked.

"Oh, we were about to play a video game," Lori explained before turning to Lincoln. "You can't say "no" all the time."

"Oh, and look at this lovely piece of food art the kids made," Rita said, pointing to the picture on the wall.

J.D., Varie, Laney, and Luan read books while Lori, Lily, Eddy, and Lincoln started playing Super Mega Brawlers Turbo Fighter XXIV.

Lana appears with a guilty expression on her face. "Laney?"

"What's wrong, Lana?" Laney asked, seeing the expression on her face.

"I'm sorry I called you a suck-up," Lana apologized. "It was so wrong of me to call you that."

"Apology accepted, Lana," Laney said with a smile.

Laney and Lana exchanged hugs.

"Eddy, J.D., I saw those cool sauce blasters you had," Lana said. "Did you make those yourself?"

"Double D taught me how to make stuff out of everyday objects and junk," J.D. proudly stated. "I invented a ketchup squirt gun that shoots ketchup like a pistol."

"Ed gave me his old junkyard blaster from when we were living out one of Lumpy's science fiction movies," Eddy explained. "I turned it into a mustard blaster."

"That's cool," Lana said. "Double D should teach me how to do that someday."

J.D. smiled at her. "I'm sure he'd be happy to."

"You've got to admit, this was one crazy night," Woody said.

"It sure was Woody," Varie agreed.

"Well. It was, however, a lot of fun," J.D. stated

Woody lets out his signature laugh.

THE END.