Cheap Flip with Cheapest Dark Secret
"And done, finally cleaned that whole bathroom. Maybe Flip will finally give me that 5% raise!" One gas station employee excitedly who is working late at night.
But then he heard what sounds like a growling which spooked him a bit.
"That's weird…" The young male employee wondered what that could be.
The soft growling sound happen again, but this time it sounded a little louder like something is coming closer to the young employee which causes him to be scared some more.
"Okay, I know it's usual the raccoons that goes through the garbage whenever they want, but I'm pretty sure they do NOT make that kind of noise." The employee shivered in fear.
The young employee gulps some of the fear down his throat while sweating a bit as he tries to ready himself to go around the back, even though ever inch of his body is telling him that he should just call it the night and run back home.
"I can do this! It probably just some kids staying pass their bedtime." The employee believed.
The young employee walks around the little gas station/convenience store all the way to the back where the garbage dumpster is and some other things that have been thrown out.
"Man, I still don't understand how Flip could have so much garbage at once, it's enough to stink up this whole street." The young employee commented.
Unknown to him, there is something dark that is seeing things almost red except for the human.
"Okay, you little raccoons, you better leave now or else I will call the animal control!" The young employee warned as he pulled out his phone.
"Don't think I won't do it; the animal control is a 24-hour working place with workers who are waiting to take you all into cages right this second!" The young employee stated.
(Animal Control)
Three Animal Control employees are currently keeping themselves busy since they haven't gotten any calls in the past few days since their last one.
One is doing some jumping rope to keep herself in shape. The second one is reading a manga about once normal village boy going onto a forbidden castle and suddenly becomes a demon lord of the valley and getting a harem. And the third one is watching a tv show about two teenage boys working at a secret superhero hospital on his phone.
"Any calls yet?" The manga guy asked.
"Nope." The phone guy answered.
"Cool, I still to mental recover from that giant lizard job we did." The jump rope girl said before she stops because of her spine shivering.
(Back at Flip's Food & Fuel)
"So, you better leave now or else!" The young employee threatened.
The unknown creature continues to look at the young employee with its growling becomes louder for him to hear clearly and moved one foot toward him.
"I'm warning you!" The young employee shouted.
But that was about the only thing the young employee can do because the mysterious creature jumps onto the boy as he screams very loud with some bloody gushing sounds.
(The Next Day)
Lincoln is seen jumping through the rooftops of some buildings as he is doing some city patrolling investigation on anything that could be demon related, he stops at one building and looks around.
"Everything appears to be normal around here too." Lincoln said.
"And I don't sense any demonic energy coming off from the people here too which is good." Lincoln believed, feeling relief from this.
"Still though, can't be too careful with how it happened with Cinnamon." Lincoln remembered how the mutant rat got turned into a demon.
Thanks to Lana being able to understand animals, Cinnamon told him and the other Louds about how there was this weird man approaching him during the night when the mutant rat was up late to get some cheese and ham then gave him an injection shot that slowly made him into what almost killed Lincoln and the others.
This tells the Loud family that there is someone out there turning innocent lives like rats or other humans into demons against their will.
Lincoln heard his phone ringing and he takes it out to see that it's Lola calling him.
"Hey Lola, how's the patrolling on your end?" Lincoln answered the call.
"A little boring, there were a few demon flies swarming around the dumpster of a Chinese restaurant, but Lana and I took care of them easy." Lola informed.
"That's great to hear, were they innocent bugs that were turned into demons?" Lincoln asked.
"No, those were definitely demons and they tasted like shit too, worse than the stuff I find in garbage." Lana said.
"Of course, you'd try to eat them." Lincoln sighed, wondering how his messy-adorable little sister can be like this even before they discovered their demon powers.
"Well, at least there isn't anything dangerous going on right now, but I sure wish we could find the guy who turned Cinnamon into a demon." Lincoln said.
"Me too! That guy makes me so angry to give him a piece of my mind and let Lola give him a painful lesson with her ways!" Lana stated angrily.
"You bet I will!" Lola agreed, even though she doesn't really like rats or anything gross.
"Well, everything is okay for now. So, I say it's a good time to take a break." Lincoln suggested seeing as this search isn't going anywhere.
"Good idea, we're just on our way to Flip's since it's the closest to our current location. You can meet us there." Lana mentioned.
"Alright, I'll see you two there." Lincoln agreed and hung up his phone.
Lincoln runs on the edge of the rooftop and grabs onto a really tall pole to slide himself down to the sidewalk and ran through to make his way to that certain little cheap gas station.
But then Lincoln felt something a little off during his run and quickly stop to look around trying to sense where he felt that odd feeling, but nothing came up as he tries to look around to see if there is anything out of the ordinary like demons or demons trying to hide, but again nothing.
"Okay, that was weird." Lincoln said.
"Maybe I've been thinking about the guy who demonized Cinnamon too much that is making my head feel weird." Lincoln believed.
Lincoln went back to his running and hope that his two little twin sisters don't do anything there yet.
Unknown to him, a white high heel shoe steps on the edge of a rooftop and a pair of blue and dangerous eyes looking down at the white hair boy.
(Flip's Food & Fuel)
Lincoln arrives at the little gas station almost the same time as Lola ana Lana arrives in the former's little and fast car.
"Hey guys, is it just me or does it feel like it's been forever since we visited this place?" Lana asked, looking at the place.
"I think you're right; it has been a long while since we've last seen Flip." Lincoln believed.
"To be honest, I really didn't care about that old guy considering he's the cheapest bastard in the world." Lola glared at the small gas station.
"I think you're being too hard on him." Lincoln said.
"Oh really, would you say that same if you remember how he con us like the time we thought we sold Lily's purple blanket and he sold us matching things claiming he got it, or the time he gave us a stupid weak boat that didn't have oars nor a working engine and we ended up stranded on an island, or how about the time he forced Lana to give up her winning wrapper to meet Bobbie Fletcher." Lola listed the things Flip has done to them.
"Yeah, I'm still a bit mad at him for that." Lana admitted.
"Okay, okay, so Flip can be a bit extreme when it comes to being cheap." Lincoln understood where Lola is going with this.
"But Flip has done some good too, like when he let us hang out at his store for that Thanksgiving and became jolly on that Christmas morning." Lincoln reminded them of the good Flip has done.
"Maybe so, but I'm still mad that he tricked us into letting him stay at our house longer than he should have." Lola crossed her arms.
"If it makes you feel any better, we can get that new glittering paint that can stick on tires for your car later." Lana offered.
"Hmm, okay." Lola took the deal.
The three Loud kids went inside the convenience store of the gas station seeing the place is still the same after many years, except for one arcade game and a turning shelf with little devices like phone charger cables and adapters on sell.
"Yo Flip, are you here?" Lincoln called out then heard a crashing noise.
"Huh, if you're the health inspector then I'm afraid Flip isn't here at the moment. He's gone to Canada for a fishing trip." An old man said while trying to talk in a funny accent.
"Oh, it's just you Louds." The middle-aged man said in his regular voice.
"Nice to see you're trying to avoid the authorities again, Phillip Phillipini." Lincoln chuckled.
"Hey now, you know you an always call me Flip." Flip stated with a grin.
Flip is a middle-aged man of short stature. He has gray hair, and a bald spot on the top of his head. He also has a gray mustache and eyebrows as well. He wears brown pants, black shoes, and a t-shirt that is red.
"Is that an arcade game?" Lana asked.
"Oh yeah, got this baby on sell from a place in Virginia that was shutting down for something I was part of nor have anything to do with rats running around when I thought they just want to stretch their legs." Flip explained.
"Yeah, all that doesn't sound convincing." Lola rolled her eyes.
"This piece looks brand-new and not in the cheapest way like having duct tape on." Lincoln looked at the arcade machine.
"Huh, the Sonic Prime Rush. Sounds cool." Lincoln interested in the game.
"What can I say? When I put my mind to it, old Flip can do anything that doesn't get himself arrested." Flip bragged with a smile.
"Except getting the nacho cheese machine to stop squirting out cheese like a volcano." Lola pointed at the nacho cheese machine bubbling up.
"Dang it, I had that guy I hired last week fix it already!" Flip cursed the handyman.
"You actually hired someone?" Lana asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Okay, I tried fixing the thing myself, but I can't seem to find the problem with it and tried going deep inside but the cheese is making it really had to look inside." Flip admitted.
"I can take a look; I've dealt with cheesy situations before." Lana offered to help.
"Just make sure you don't let Flip scam you." Lola warned.
"Hey! That's fair." Flip shrugged.
"Hey Flip, you're out of toilet papers in the girl's bathroom." Leni entered the little store surprising her siblings.
"Leni, what are you doing here? I thought you were going to hang out with your friends?" Lincoln asked.
"I did, but Miguel had to hurry back hone because he got an alert from his boyfriend who was dog sitting his dog has been feeling sick and was taken to the vet." Leni explained.
"Maybe the dog is pregnant." Lana guessed.
"Or it could be something gross it ate from off the floor like what happened with Lana a few times." Lola stated while looking at herself in the hand mirror.
"Are you ever going to let that go?" Lana asked.
"Anyway, we decided to call it a day and split up, but then my stomach started to feel weird when I realize that I must've eaten something hard on the inside and hurried over to the nearest place with a bathroom which is Flip's." Leni finished her explanation.
"Did you also notice any demonic activities lately?" Lincoln asked.
"Oh, you mean about what happened to Cinnamon? No, nothing." Leni informed.
"Right, guess we'll have to do the search tomorrow." Lincoln said.
"Search? What search are you kids doing and why did he say something about demonic activities because it sounds like you kids just got yourselves involved in a heist?" Flip asked curiously and looking at the Loud siblings suspiciously.
"Let just say we gotten ourselves something more exciting than the time we found out about our royal Scottland ancestors and dragons are real." Lincoln smirked.
"Wait, what are you guys doing here?" Leni asked.
"We just came here to get some quick snacks and this place was the closest to us." Lana answered the question.
"Oh, sweet! Let me pay for whatever you guys want, on me." Leni offered which her younger siblings cheered.
"I always knew you were too good for your own good, a She-Devil who is sweet as an angel." Lincoln smirked flirting to her older sister.
"Oh, Linky! You're such a charmer." Leni giggled with her cheeks blushing.
"Oh, that actually reminds me of something." Leni realized something.
"While I was in the bathroom, I did notice something dark and eerie very close like it was… coming from around the back at the dumpster." Leni mentioned which causes Flip to widen in shock.
"I wasn't sure if it was a demon, but the feeling was definitely something bad." Leni said, and Flip becomes really worried looking.
"Flip, are you feeling okay?" Lola asked.
"O-Of course, I'm feeling okay. Okay as I'll ever be!" Flip proclaimed with a fake smile.
"Really, when I'm sure you won't mind if we go see the dumpster for ourselves?" Lola asked again, seeing right through the old man knowing he is hiding something.
"What? No, no, no, no, you shouldn't go there because is… gotten stinky and worse with the… garbage mixing together and doing some weird things." Flip tried to make up an excuse to have these Loud kids leave so they wouldn't search his dumpster.
"I don't know, I really think something bad is going on over there and we should check it out." Leni stated.
"What would you know? You're a dumb blonde bimbo bitch!" Flip insulted which hurt Leni's feelings.
Suddenly Flip got punch in the face by Lincoln who became angry for the way he just insulted his older sister like that.
"Let's go check out that dumpster." Lincoln said and the Loud siblings leave to go outside.
"No, wait!" Flip begged them to stop.
The four Loud siblings went over to the back and saw the dumpster as nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary, that is until they felt something off going on though it's too small to tell anything except for that dark feeling Leni mentioned.
"Something is definitely here, but I can't tell where." Lincoln looked around.
"Maybe whatever it is, is hiding." Lana guessed.
"Of course, it would be hiding right when we're on the trail of something that involves the supernatural. Not like it's gonna come out if it knows we're the descendant of Sparda and his sons." Lola said.
But suddenly something burst from the bottom of the dumpster causing it to be thrown over the fence and it reveals itself to be a giant demon worm with some orange-yellowish goo coming out of those little holes and it squirted those gooey things at the Loud siblings as they quickly move back to avoid it.
"Ew! What the fuck is that?" Leni gasped.
"Weird, the smell from those gooey things smell exactly like nacho cheese." Lana sniffed the scent of those orange gooey things.
"NO! My nacho cheese making monster!" Flip screamed.
"What?!" The four Louds gasped and quickly move out of the way when the worm monster tries to slam its body on top of them.
"Explanation now!" Lincoln demanded as he pins Flip to a wall.
"Okay, okay, two years ago my nacho machine stopped working and I couldn't get it to work anymore. So, I tried to use melted cheese cooked in an oven to make it look like nacho cheese until I found that thing under the dumpster and saw it can make its own nacho cheese! So, I used it without having to waste my money on getting a new machine." Flip explained which grossed out Leni and Lola.
"That explains the demonic taste now that I think about it." Lana said.
"Well, that's unfortunate for you because we're going to kill it!" Lincoln stated.
Right after Lincoln said it, something sharp came right through the worm monster as it screams one last time before it fell into a few sliced pieces surprising everyone as none of them did anything just yet.
"Hope you don't mind if I steal your kill, just thought it was a way to get your attention." A woman walked up to them.
"Who are you?" Lincoln asked.
"You can call me… Gloria." Gloria revealed her name.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Looks like Flip has showed that him being a cheapskate has gotten even lower when he was hiding a demon worm to make nacho cheese, but now that has been killed by a mysterious woman named Gloria and I will tell you one thing. She is not Trish like in the Devil May Cry 4.
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