In the bunker, Lincoln was helping make chicken soup for his friends in their hazmat suits. "We are sure as heck glad yer here, Lincoln." said Liam. "It's as crazy as a cat covered in cactus spines all over."
"You guys sounded overwhelmed." Lincoln pointed.
"Ugh, we were." Stella groaned. "It almost looked like a zombie pandemic was erupting out of nowhere." She then put carrots in the chicken soup. "We know you were doing something important, but your family walking to us like they are zombies? No offense Lincoln, but it's a little creepy."
"It's ok, Stella." Lincoln remarked, putting in the tomato pieces into the soup. "Not a lot of people can handle my family." Then he put in the herbs I got the pot. "At least they are not the Fox quintuplets... maybe except for Lynn."
"Oh no." said Zach. "That family's a madhouse. And those kids are pure torture in human form."
"At least your parents are not like that." said Rusty.
"Please." said Zach. "When i was a baby my mom and dad tried to get me lobotomized a few times."
"What?" said the others in surprise.
"Yeah, they thought that it would be safer for me to get a lobotomy to prevent any aliens from getting into my brain."
"Aliens, of course." Liam rolled his eyes. "Yer folks and their fascination with the unknown depths of outer space."
"Why are they so fascinated with aliens anyway?" Asked Stella.
"No idea." Zach admitted.
"So Lincoln, what were you doing?" asked Clyde. The white-haired boy made a nervous look on his face.
He tried to think of a way to lie to his friends so that the secrecy of Hell wouldn't be at risk. He then remembered that Verosika was also popular on Earth, and she can also turn into a human like Loona can. "Nothing." said Lincoln. "I was hanging out with Verosika Mayday, that's all."
"Verosika mayday?" Said his friends.
"Oh my gosh!" said Stella. "I love Verosika Mayday."
"She is smoking hot." said Rusty. "I would love to get a kiss from her."
"Keep dreaming, Rusty." said Liam
"How do you know her?" Asked Clyde
"Well, I don't know her, I just met her." Lincoln admitted. "Stolas knew her and decided to make me hang out with her as a punishment for hiding Octavia at Clyde's place."
"So where did you meet?" Stella asked
"Ummm... at the mall. Yeah, I was picking something up for my mom and I ran into her. She said I was the cutest boy she had ever seen and wanted to hang out with me."
"So that is your punishment?" Clyde said. "That doesn't sound like a punishment."
"Yeah, that sounds like you're the luckiest guy in the world hanging out with someone like Verosika Mayday." said Rusty. "Why couldn't it have been me?"
At last, the soup was done, and Lincoln was the one carrying the pot. "Can you guys keep this a secret though? She's famous and I want to protect her privacy."
"Our lips are sealed, buddy." Clyde zipped his lips. Lincoln's poor sick family was sitting on the couch and waiting for their soup, and there were sneezes from them here and there.
"Thank goodness we are wearing these suits." said Zach.
Liam and Rusty got out bowls and a ladle to put scoops of the chicken soup in, and instead of using their spoons or forks, the family just chowed in their food like pigs with a trough in their sty.
Lincoln and his friends looked on in disgust as the family was sticking their faces in their soup and looking like animals eating.
"I'm not cleaning this up." said Rusty.
"Thank you, Lincoln." Lori said after gulping a few sips of her soup.
"Don't mention it, guys. Anything else you need?"
"Can you turn the TV on for us please?" Asked Rita before she let out a mighty sneeze. "Sorry."
The kid did just that and Dream Boat was on, one of the family's favorite programs. They all smiled as they watched the TV. Over the course of two hours, Lincoln and his friends took care of other small things in the house like mowing the lawn, pick up Charles' feces, taking out the garbages and other normal things the other family members would do.
Alas, the whole Loud family, minus Lincoln of course, were too sick to do anything, and they all need the rest and take it easy until their cold blows over.
The non-sick humans in this house also started to clean the attic and the basement over the next hour. It looked like everything was looking spick and span in this house and the whole family wouldn't have to deal with cleaning or anything else for a little while.
"Thanks for... hack! Hack!- taking care of those things, sport." said Lynn Sr. "That's a lot less problems to worry about. Achoo!"
"Yeah, at least my guitar looks cool." said Luna.
"You're welcome guys." Lincoln smiled.
"So why don't you go back to what you were doing before?" asked Leni
"Whatever it was." Luan said.
"No joke this time, Luan?" asked Lucy
"Well I'm too sick to even come up with the most simple puns."
"Thank god." Lynn said before she sneezed.
"Say it, don't spray it." Lana pointed.
The kids immediately walked out of the house and knew they were going to have to wash their hands, even if they were wearing hazmat suits the entire time. Better safe than sorry.
"So can we join you with Verosika?" said Stella. "I would love an autograph from her."
"No!" Lincon blurted, making everyone rather shocked at that outburst. "Oh, I mean, I want to protect her privacy. "She likes to keep to herself. Besides, try to put yourself in her shoes when she is surrounded by crazy paparazzi trying to get pictures of you and not giving you personal space."
"Aww, but she sounds so cool. Who wouldn't want to hang out with a hot lady like her?" said Rusty.
"He does have a point." said Liam, "you're lucky to have met and get to spend time with a gal like Verosika."
"Look, maybe it is for the best that we don't come, guys." said Clyde. "We don't want her to be harassed by crazy fans or paparazzis wanting to get scoops on her."
"Thanks, Clyde." said Lincoln. "Besides, she hasn't met you guys."
"We understand." said Stella. "I need to help my parents with cleaning the rain gutters again." The kids went their separate ways and Lincoln picked up his phone.
"Hey Loona, I'm done helping my family, can you open the portal for me?"
"Huh, it's already been three hours." said the female hellhound. "Ok, so go someplace where no one will see you, and I'll open the portal for you."
"Ok, Loona." He went into the garage and told the female hellhound it was good to do so, and the portal was open, and hopped back into Hell where Loona was waiting for him.
"You ok?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"Well you were taking care of your sick family. " Loona pointed. "They didn't sneeze or cough on you, did they?"
"Don't worry, I had my hazmat suit on me."
"Who said I was worried?" said Loona. "Do I look worried? I wasn't worried about you at all."
"Ah, there you are, Lincoln." said Verosika, walking up to him and giving him a hug like he was her own teddy bear. "Back already? I knew you would come back."
"It was only for a couple of hours." said Lincoln before he felt Verosika putting him down. "Thank god for my hazmat suit."
"Hazmat suit?" said Verosika
"Yeah if there are a lot of sick people in your family, it's easier for a bug to spread."
"True. So, I forgot to ask you before, are you a singer?"
"Well people said I have the most beautiful singing voice." Lincoln admitted. "It made some people cry in my choir class."
"Really?" said Loona. "Can you show me your talent?"
"Yeah, please?" said Vortex. "I'm curious too."
Lincoln took a deep breath, he began singing the melody of the Elegy of Emptiness with his arms in front of him. His voice was so amazing and so pitch-perfect that Loona, Tex, and Verosika all looked like they were about to cry from Lincoln's angelic singing voice.
It was almost like he was a lost angel from heaven. "Oh my Satan." said Loona. "Shit, how do you sound so good, Linc?"
"I'm lucky I guess." Lincoln said.
"Talented, funny, and honest?" said Verosika. "I wish all men were like you."
"You must be one of the luckiest people in the world if you have that good of a singing voice." Tex said, gently patting Lincoln's back.