Reversal of Fortune: Chapter 26: The L-Files

(Time Skip: Sweetwater Manor, 7:00 PM)

As the co-conspirators walked downstairs to the home theater in the basement, Sam asked a tense Lincoln, "Are you feeling better now?"

Lincoln growled to a nervous Sam, "Those creatures are going to regret making my life miserable."

Becky sighed timidly, "We know, Lincoln. After everything we saw on that livestream…", before Lincoln interrupted her, "I want them tortured. Especially Luna, Luan, both Lynn's, Rita, and that four-eyed demon, Lisa. I'll personally take care of those six evil bitches."

Paige put a hand on Lincoln's shoulder and tried to comfort him, "Lincoln," only to receive an intense glare from him.

After the conspirators took their seats or stood facing the Sweetwaters' basement home theater, Melissa, who had just finished connecting her laptop to the screen, addressed the audience, "Everyone, thanks for coming. Thanks to the work I've done with the Sweetwaters, we've managed to capture highlights, or should I say, lowlights, of life at the Loud House. All of you are here because you have heard the stories of what goes on in that house. But hearsay is just that: hearsay. Today, many of you will see irrefutable video evidence of these stories for the first time. After watching these videos, I hope you understand why we're doing what we're doing."

As Melissa took her seat alongside the Sweetwater family, the lights dimmed as the screen came to life.

When the screen showed Lincoln excitedly dancing out of his room in his Ace Savvy costume, the audience cooed, "AWW!", with Becky even ruffling Lincoln's hair and kissing him on the cheek.

When the next clips showed Lincoln's sisters laughing at him and subsequently blaming him for clogging the toilet, everyone in the crowd immediately glared at the on-screen Louds. The next clip showed Lucy clogging the toilet in question with a Princess Pony book, stunning much of the audience. The next clip showed Lincoln taking the blame for Lucy clogging the toilet, only for Lori to promise to make fun of him for the rest of his life, Lola to tell Lynn Sr. that Lincoln clogged the toilet, and for Lynn Sr. to ground Lincoln. Just to drive the point home, the subsequent clip showed Lisa, Lynn Jr., and Luan chasing Lincoln with a beaker that they said would turn him into a girl named "Linka", with Luna calling him a "wussy baby faggot" as the rest of his sisters laughed at him and repeated Luna's insult.

As this clip played, Ronnie Anne yelled, "And they laugh at him like it's funny?!", while tightening her grip on her aluminum baseball bat.

The montage then cut to Lori threatening to turn Lincoln into a human pretzel before cutting to Lori threatening Lincoln with an end table. The clips that immediately followed depicted Lynn Jr. and the rest of the Loud sisters giving Lincoln throat hugs, purple nurples, wedgies, melvins, swirlies, and wet willies, among other beatings, physical humiliations, and pranks. While watching the beatings, Sam cried, "Oh my god! I fucking hate this family so much!", with Ronnie Anne even going so far as to call Lynn Sr. a "bitch-ass, pussy-ass motherfucker".

This was before a montage played of the Louds blaming Lincoln for everything that went wrong in the house. It started with their mean remarks toward him after the "trophy case" incident. Then, it cut to a clip of Lori saying about Lincoln, "When he's this pathetic, it takes all the joy out of making fun of him," to which Lincoln yelled, "I CAN HEAR YOU!", and the sisters replied, "WE KNOW!"

In response, many audience members shrieked, "PATHETIC?!", with Sadie scoffing, "The fact they're filming this is pathetic."

After that, another brief montage showed the worst of Luan's April Fools' Day pranks. In addition to Luan's pranks on the Loud & Fletcher households, Luan's pranks against many of the co-conspirators' houses, businesses, and the town itself, were shown, revealing them to be Luan's doing for the very first time. As the pranks continued to play, most of the audience gasped in realization before screaming at the screen in disgust and horror. They yelled of all the things that Luan had done to them.

Many girls screamed, "SHE MESSED UP MY HAIR!", and, "SHE MESSED UP MY CLOTHES!"

Many more kids screamed, "SHE DESTROYED MY LOCKER!"

The mothers and high school girls in the home theater yelled, "SHE LEAKED MY NUDES!", causing the enraged roaring to grow even louder.

Combinations of words including, "MONSTER!", "PSYCHO!", "SADIST!", "BITCH!", and "PREDATOR!" flowed freely throughout the basement.

The clip after that showed Lincoln mentioning that he was baking chocolate pie before the business project, which the fifth grade girls remembered as the time the "Girl Guru" incident. When Lincoln opened the refrigerator door to reveal that the chocolate wrappers were empty, which was followed by clips of the girls having eaten the chocolates, the fifth grade girls immediately growled angrily at the screen and got ready to charge the screen and outright destroy it. It got so bad that a few of the older siblings and parents had to physically restrain the present fifth grade girls.

As the next clip showed the girls laughing at Lincoln for his failed business idea, Girl Jordan cried, "I fucking hate all the Loud kids! Laughing at Lincoln for something HE DIDN'T MEAN TO DO!"

The next clip, which showed Lola, Lynn Jr., and Lucy beating Lincoln up during the Sister Fight Protocol before going back to calmly doing whatever they were doing before, made Mandee cry, "Look at them! No emotion! No feeling! No humanity whatsoever!"

The next clip showed Lincoln with bruises all over his face and body in his room, groaning in pain. Lola stood over him menacingly and growled, "What's the line?"

Lincoln stammered and sniffled, "I-I f-fell," before Lola yelled, "WHAT IS IT?"

Lincoln sniffled and cleared his throat before murmuring, "I fell down some stairs."

Lola spat, "You fell down some stairs. And don't you forget it!", before slamming the door shut on Lincoln.

Upon watching this, many in the audience yelled, "BULLSHIT!"

The next clip, showing Lynn Jr. threatening Lincoln to come to her baseball game, "Sure you won't consider?", made Polly Pain wonder out loud, "How the hell do people think the Louds ARE NOT abusive bullies?", to which the rest of the audience murmured in agreement.

The clips that immediately followed that one showed Lynn Jr. blaming Lincoln for her loss in said baseball game, and yelling at Leni that Lincoln was "bad luck." Watching this, much of the audience screamed, "That doesn't make sense!"

Things got worse when the next clip played, showing Lori saying, "There's no way we're letting Mom & Dad kick you out," right before Rita said, "Oh, we would never do that." The screen then showed a clip showing the Louds boarding up Lincoln's bedroom and forcing him to sleep outside, with Charles also kicking Lincoln out of his doghouse.

The clips of Lincoln being kicked out of his house caused much of the audience to gasp in shock and horror.

A horrified Tabby gasped, "Bloody hell. "This is way too much."

Cristina snarled, "Now I get it."

Margo whispered to Paula, "Next time we gather here, I'm telling everyone to wear Marcus Quick jerseys. Dude is a hero," to which Paula nodded in agreement.

As the next clip showed Lincoln waking up in a pile of leaves and trying to open the door, only to find that his family had locked him out all night, the audience clenched their fists in rage.

Mollie asked, "And NONE OF THEIR NEIGHBORS bothered to call CPS?"

Ronnie Anne growled, "Yup. Fuck it. Everyone on that BLOCK has to die." Mollie nodded in agreement.

When the next clip cut to Lola yelling, "You're bad luck, Lincoln! You! Can't! Come!", Lindsay sliced her finger across her throat. The next clip of Lincoln, showing him lowering his head in defeat with his cereal bowl in front of him, caused the eyes of pretty much everyone in the audience to moisten.

Paige screamed, "I feel like I'm about to cry!"

Carol groaned, "Do they even know the meanings of family and love?"

Dana deadpanned, "And these people are friggin' parents."

Jackie snarled, "People is being extremely generous to them."

When the next clip showed Lincoln saying, "I guess I brought this on myself," the entire audience yelled, "NO, YOU DIDN'T!"

When the family gathered around Lincoln to apologize, Rita said, "Sorry we sold all your furniture," causing the audience to gasp once more.

Much of the audience exclaimed in outrage, "They did WHAT?!"

Carol snapped, "What the fuck is wrong with this family?"

Becky huffed, "Everything. Except Lincoln, that is."

Melissa lamented, "I find this tough to watch, and I helped make it! This is honestly so sad."

When the next clip cut to Lola angrily telling Lincoln to put the squirrel mascot suit head back on, Linda whispered to Brian, "Lincoln's going to have so much therapy to go through after all this."

Brian whispered back, "Clyde told me Dr. Lopez is good. I don't know why Lincoln hasn't taken Clyde up on that offer yet," to which Linda nodded in agreement.

When the conspirators saw Leni buying & making new squirrel suits for Lincoln, they gasped, with Jennifer even crying, "HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE PLANNING TO DO?"

Angie grumbled, "I… I… I can't even with Leni at this point."

Just as Angie said that, the screen showed Luan saying, "Locking Lincoln out of the house over being bad luck? Comedy. Gold," before laughing into the camera.

Many audience members yelled, "COMEDY GOLD?!"

Zoe asked, "If this is a prank, then what was their game? What the fuck did they were going to accomplish out of this?"

Penny pointed out, "Wait, doesn't Luan have a YouClip channel or something with like, 50,000 subs?"

Zoe's eyes bulged as she said, "50 THOUSAND?" She then groaned, "Oh god," as Penny replied, "I know. The sick fucks. Chances are they've already posted some of this on YouClip."

Teri sighed, "Whether or not they did, I don't want to know, and I don't want to find out. This is sick shit."

When Luan then said, "I don't get why he ran away over that. I mean, just look at him! He looks adorable in that squirrel suit! He needs to learn to lighten up & laugh about it. Oh, he's so cute in that squirrel suit!", right before the screen faded to black, everyone's jaws remained agape in horror.

Kat whispered to Joy, "I heard Lisa filmed all this. If she did, so much for being a supergenius. It's like, do you want to go to jail?"

Joy responded, "Jail?! We're way past that now, honey."

Giggles murmured in agreement, "Yup. They gotta go. You saw Luan's pranks. That girl alone is way too dangerous for jail. And I would know."

Tabby then yelled, "And what the hell is wrong with Luna? I thought she was cool, but now… that bloody fucking wanker!"

As the conspirators' yelling became increasingly frenzied, an increasingly nervous Lincoln asked Lindsay, "What do we do?"

Lindsay replied, "Let them get it all out of their systems. Like Melissa said, this is the first time they're seeing this stuff."

Paige then fretted, "But what if they start getting violent?!"

Becky, who overheard Lincoln, Lindsay, and Paige's conversation, assured them, "Don't worry… I've got a plan."

Lincoln, Lindsay, and Paige gasped before Lincoln whispered, "Luan's foghorn?"

Becky smirked, "Nice, isn't it, Lincolnovich? But Lindsay's right. As long as they don't get violent, let them vent."

The audience continued to furiously yell at the screen for the next 5 minutes. As the audience raged at the Louds, Lincoln opened the Scramble app on his phone and texted Brian, Linda, Becky, Lindsay, Paige, Melissa, Dana, Carol, Jackie, Margo, Haiku, Skippy, and Sam to "meet up in the dining room after everything's calmed down." While doing so, he also formed a groupchat with these people known as the "Silencers".

As Lincoln and the Sweetwater kids scooted away from the enraged crowd, Lincoln whispered to Paige, "And to think… they might have been this angry at me before they learned the truth."

Paige sighed, "Yeah, Lincoln, I know."

(Time Skip: 5 minutes later)

Once the crowd's yelling and screaming softened to become normal conversation, Lincoln walked up to the stage and tried to raise his voice to be heard, "Uh… guys?"

Unfortunately, he couldn't make himself heard amongst the chatter of the audience, so he walked up to Becky and asked her, "Foghorn, please."

Becky nodded and handed Lincoln the foghorn, which he then squeezed to get the crowd's attention, causing many of them to jump in alarm and cover their ears.

Haiku exclaimed, "What was that for?!"

Lincoln explained, "Whoever I texted… Mr. Sweetwater, Mrs. Sweetwater, Becky, Lindsay, Paige, Melissa, Dana, Carol, Jackie, Margo, Haiku, Skippy, Sam… come with me. As for the rest of you, do whatever you want, but stay out of the dining room."

Clyde asked, "But why?!"

Brian stepped to Lincoln's side in front of the crowd and explained, "Lincoln wants to have a private conversation about some of the stuff we've seen on screen." He then turned to the parents and asked them, "Leslie, Jay, Jessie, Walter, Amber, Fritz, Diane, Howard, and Harold, you guys watch the rest of the kids while we're gone."

The aforementioned parents murmured, "OK", at Brian's request before the Silencers went to the dining room. As they did, Lincoln informed them, "Uh… give me a second. I've got to get something from my room. I'll be right back."

Linda assured Lincoln, "OK, honey," as the rest of the family went to the dining room without him.

(Time Skip: Dining Room, Sweetwater Manor, 10 minutes later)

When Lincoln met up with the rest of the Silencers, he entered the room in a Dr. Evil-like gray suit.

Many of the Silencers gushed over Lincoln's suit, but Brian, who got what Lincoln was referencing, joked, "A wardrobe change? Wow, you're really taking this seriously, huh, Linc?"

Lincoln zinged back, "Hey, just trying to be like you, sir," to which the rest of the room laughed as Lincoln took his seat at the head of the table.

Once everyone stopped laughing, Lincoln started the conversation, "OK, so, back to more serious matters." He then turned to Sam and Linda, and encouraged them, "Sam, uh… Linda, tell us everything you saw inside the Loud House."

(Time Skip: 10 minutes later)

Sam finished recounting the story, "And we left… but not before Lisa threatened us, and I quote, 'if you alter the story in any way from what we have agreed to publish in the Gazette, you two, along with your entire families, will be subject to drinking extremely high concentrations of this substance. Unprotected inhalation of and/or contact with this chemical may result in respiratory irritation, and may also irritate or burn the skin and eyes. Do I make myself clear?' So we nodded and left."

The rest of the roundtable had their jaws dropped in shock and horror.

Carol uttered, "Wow."

Haiku asked, "Do you guys have any proof of this?"

Linda assured Haiku, "Yeah," before asking, "Melissa, send the video, please?"

Melissa nodded, "Got it," before going through her saved videos on her phone, finding the video showcasing the worst of Linda and Sam's visit to the Loud House that day, and sending it to the "Silencers" groupchat.

When the Silencers saw Lisa torturing Lucy with the laser beams, the entire table groaned in disgust. They clenched their fists and gritted their teeth in rage when they heard Lisa claim Lincoln "owed her pain studies for the next 7 years when he returned."

In response, Lincoln growled to the Silencers, "Someone's gonna get a pain study, alright."

The rest of the Silencers grumbled in agreement.

The various clips of the crazed Loud sisters disturbed the table, causing Lindsay to comment, "Wow. And I thought I was menacing."

When Lynn Sr. and Rita basically blamed Lincoln for the Sister Fight Protocol, cries of, "BULLSHIT!", rang throughout the room.

When the Louds laughed at Lucy for defending Lincoln's apparent interest in Princess Pony, many of the Silencers tightly squeezed the underside of their chairs to try to defuse their rage.

Linda whispered to Lincoln, "You're not actually interested in Princess Pony, are you?"

Lincoln yelled, "WHAT?! NO!"

Linda quickly reassured Lincoln, "Because it's perfectly OK if you are… just… I just want to know."

Lincoln took a deep breath before repeating himself, "No, Linda. I don't like Princess Pony."

Linda murmured, "Oh, OK."

When the next clip showed Linda reading the title of her planned article, "Let Problem Children Experience Natural Consequences", the entire table sans Linda yelled furiously, "PROBLEM CHILD?!"

Lincoln chuckled bitterly, "I mean, I get that I'm not perfect, but goddamn."

Linda urged the table, "Keep listening."

When Linda explained the "Sweet Spot" incident, many of the Silencers asked Lincoln if what they were hearing was true. Lincoln defended himself, "I just wanted a good seat in the van. I also wanted to make sure that each of my ex-housemates sat beside people they could actually get along with."

The rest of the Silencers' faces softened in understanding before they heard the "chores" story. When the Silencers sans the Sweetwaters, Melissa, and Sam gave Lincoln disapproving looks, he ranted, "Oh, come on! My ex-housemates were barely doing ANY work! The dishes? THREE siblings were cleaning ONE dish! THREE! The laundry? Lori was on her phone the whole fuckin' time! Mud ENJOYED cleaning the dung of her pets! Leni LITERALLY just plucked hairs out of a bathroom sink! Luna dusts, and puts said dust in my trash bag! Lisa pays bills! And Lola does NOTHING! NOTHING! I have to take the trash of THIRTEEN FUCKING PEOPLE OUT EVERY DAY!"

When the rest of the Silencers continued to deadpan at Lincoln, he sighed, "You know what, maybe we should watch that video while we're here."

Linda told Lincoln, "That can be arranged."

Many of the co-conspirators gasped at the story of the Sister Fight Protocol, as featured in the next clip.

Skippy asked, "Lincoln… is all that true?"

Carol added, "Yeah, if your sisters are fighting, why would you say that they said mean things about each other?"

Lincoln huffed, "You know what, I think that one's gonna need a special viewing, too. But some of the clips of my ex-housemates beating both me up & each other? Yeah, those were from the Sister Fight Protocol."

Margo grumbled, "If anything, that's a failure on the parents' part," to which the entire room nodded in agreement.

When Linda read a segment where the Loud parents claimed Lincoln being beaten up by his football teammates was an "appropriate punishment" for him, and when Lynn Jr. said it "served that jinx right," more cries of, "BULLSHIT!" rang across the room before the Sweetwater girls quickly enveloped Lincoln in a group hug.

Lincoln assured the Sweetwater girls, "Guys, I'm fine."

Becky sighed, "We know. It's just… wow."

When Linda's on-screen counterpart read the story of Lincoln convincing Lisa to be average and his family crumbling because of it, Dana asked, "So, let me get this straight. Your family relies on a 4-year-old to get through their daily chores?"

Lincoln deadpanned, "Yup," causing murmurs of "pathetic" to be tossed freely around the room by the Silencers.

When Linda's on-screen counterpart read Rita's take on the "Girl Guru" incident, the rest of the Silencers yelled in horror, "Drive-by pieing?"

Lincoln deadpanned, "Yup," as Haiku mentioned, "Oh yeah… I remember that."

Haiku then walked up to Lincoln and told him, "Lincoln… whatever happened back there, whatever I might have said when you were the 'Girl Guru'… I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry."

Lincoln asked Haiku, "Wait, what did you say?"

As Haiku sensed the room staring at her, she admitted, "I may have fueled the backlash against you by telling the girls in your class about the Sadie Hawkins Dance thing where your ex-sisters set you up with me and those three other girls. I told you were a player."

Lincoln gasped, "Wait, you said that?"

Haiku murmured, "Yes. And I deeply regret it."

Lincoln sighed, "Thanks for telling me, Haiku. But there's something you need to know about that."

Haiku assured Lincoln, "No worries. Paige told me everything."

Lincoln asked in surprise, "She did?!"

Haiku and the rest of the Silencers nodded in the affirmative.

After that, Linda gulped as her on-screen counterpart recounted the story of the "luck incident."

After Linda mentioned that the family voted to lock Lincoln outside because Lincoln worried his bad luck would spread to them through "bad luck germ contact," many of the Silencers grumbled, "You can't be serious."

Carol gasped, "Lincoln, is that true?"

Lincoln defended himself, "What?! NO! Lola came up with that bullshit idea, and I wasn't even included in that vote!"

The rest of the Silencers grumbled, "Of course," in response.

When the Louds yelled that the story was "PERFECT!", many growls of disapproval rang across the room.

Paige huffed, "Perfect for them."

Becky added, "Of course those monsters would make themselves look as good as possible."

Lincoln then started stroking Bun-Bun's hair while growling, "That's why we're fighting the Louds the way we are. Physically destroying them is not enough, and knowing them, it'll backfire, big time. We have to make sure that their reputations are destroyed to the point where other people do the work for us. That way, we can torture them and make them suffer the way they've made me suffer for the LAST 11 YEARS!"

However, as the teenage girls in the room watched Lincoln, they gushed, "AWW!"

Dana walked up to Lincoln and giggled, "Who's my cute little supervillain?"

Becky then bopped Lincoln on the nose and teased, "It's you!", before she and the other girls in the room showered Lincoln with kisses on his cheeks and forehead. When they were done, a madly blushing Lincoln robotically said, "System overload. Does not. Compute. System. Overload. Whee-ew, whee-ew," before falling out of his chair, causing uproarious laughter amongst the remainder of the Silencers.

Brian joked, "Girls, I think you broke him," causing even louder laughter to ring throughout the room.

(Scene Change: Family Room)

As Clyde & Mollie finished up a race in Need for Speed: Turbo, Mollie noticed her phone vibrate in her pocket. When she checked her texts, she saw a text from Chandler: "Handing out invites to bday jam Fri 7 PM sewage plant. Tell di gyaldem to reach styll".

Mollie groaned, prompting Clyde to ask, "Yo, wagwan?"

Mollie explained while sighing, "Chandler's trying to get me to reach his birthday party." When Mollie noticed Clyde about to respond, she interrupted while lidding her eyes, "You know what? Maybe you should do something about it, cool guy."

Clyde asked, "What are you saying?"

Mollie clarified, "Show this… uh… waste boy, who's boss."

Clyde chuckled at Mollie's insult to Chandler and patted her on the shoulder, assuring her, "You're getting there," to which Mollie giggled, "Glad to know that," before kissing Clyde on the cheek.

Clyde quickly texted his cousins in his family groupchat, "Yo Im dealin wit this fuckin waste yute tryna swerve on my tings and tellin em to fawad to his jam".

Mark texted back, "Is it a live ting?"

Clyde texted back, "Nah fam mans tryna pull tings to a jam in a fuckin sewage plant".

Mark texted back vomit emojis before Harvey added, "fuckin dutty yute".

Desmond then texted the groupchat, "Yo hit him with this", before sending Clyde the link to a song. When Clyde opened the link, he was immediately captivated when he heard the bass drum and its kick mix with the two horns and violin. As he heard the introductory dialogue to the song, he laughed, knowing that his cousins had given him what he needed to upstage Chandler.

(Scene Change: Dining Room)

As Lincoln woke up, now seated back in his chair, Becky giggled, "Welcome back to the world, cutie."

Lincoln murmured dazedly, "Ngh… what happened?"

The rest of the girls laughed at Lincoln before Linda scolded them through her own chuckles, "Alright, alright. You girls make an innocent little boy practically faint, and you think it's the biggest accomplishment in the world. I worry about you girls sometimes."

Lincoln then resumed the conversation, "Alright, so, now that I'm back, let's keep talking. Margo, what's the move for, ugh, Lynn?"

Margo informed the group, "I've been talking with Paula and Cassy. We've decided to use Lynn's superstitions against her in her game on Friday."

Lincoln asked Margo, "How are we going to do that?"

Margo started, "For the superstitious rituals Lynn does, they usually give out penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct. I don't know why they haven't been called on Lynn, but in football, penalties usually mean that the team of the guy who committed the penalty will lose yards. And the penalties compound on top of each other. Which means that if Lynn gets enough of those penalties, she'll send her team back into their own endzone."

Lincoln questioned, "Does that mean she scores points for the other team?"

Margo answered, "Yeah. It's called a safety, and it's worth 2 points. And when a team scores a safety, they're also forced to kick the ball back to the other team."

Lincoln exclaimed, "Wait, doesn't red know this? She knows every sport in the world, plus sports that we probably don't know exist! She's going to either not do her rituals or do shorter versions that don't get penalties! And even then, she's got such a big ego that if her rituals were to lose a game, she'd just double down and do even more ridiculous, longer-lasting rituals!"

Margo smirked, "That's the point, Lincoln! If Lynn does a ritual that gets her a penalty early in the game, she's gonna double down and do even longer, more ridiculous rituals! Those rituals often take so long that she might get 'delay of game' penalties as well!"

Lincoln gasped, "There's penalties for delaying a game?"

Margo grinned, "Yeah, Linky! She's gonna end up get so many penalties that she costs her team the game in her first, and hopefully only, high school football game ever! Right in front of everyone! And that's gonna get the team so pissed off that they're probably gonna beat her up for us!"

Lincoln asked, "How would we even set this up?"

Margo wondered aloud, "Hmm…", before asking, "To those of you in high school: who announces your football games?"

Carol informed the group, "The RWTV kids."

Margo cheered, "Perfect! Just infiltrate them and tell them what's going on! Once you do that, make sure Junior keeps dancing throughout the game!"

The high school girls in the room assured Margo through laughs, "We will!"

Lincoln gave in, "OK, fine, I guess we can do that for red. I just wish there was something else we could do that would really crush red's ego, because I don't think this is going to do it. Knowing red, this'll just motivate her to try harder."

The rest of the co-conspirators murmured amongst themselves, "Yeah," and, "He's got a point."

In response, Lindsay encouraged the group, "You know, getting back at the Louds was meant to be a continuous effort until L-Day. Even if this plan doesn't work, keep your eyes and ears open for further opportunities to turn the Louds against each other and incite town-wide hatred against them."

Lincoln nodded, "You know what, for now, fair enough," before asking, "Does anyone have anything else in progress?"

The rest of the room remained silent.

Lincoln replied, "Good. Now, onto the future. Who should we deal with next?"

The rest of the room simultaneously replied, "Lisa."

Lincoln admitted, "Fine by me. That girl's scary," to which the rest of the Silencers murmured in agreement.

Skippy cried, "But how are we going to get back at Lisa? She's super-smart, and anything we do, she'll figure out!"

Melissa countered, "Not if she doesn't have the tools to figure things out. Remember what Lincoln said: this is about destroying the Louds' reputation. If we can take care of Lisa, who can manipulate anything to serve her and her family's needs, it makes things that much easier. As it is, Mrs. Sweetwater, you and Sam should consider it a miracle you made it out of that house alive and in one piece

Lindsay replied, "Doesn't have the tools? Wait, Didn't we rob her already?"

Brian explained, "Not completely. Remember, we didn't have Quick & his boys steal the chemicals because they might have gotten hurt if they did that."

Lindsay remembered, "Oh yeah."

Paige pointed out, "Lisa, with her smarts and connections, can rebuild her lab just like that. She can always encrypt her stuff so that we can't get in anymore. On top of that, we didn't steal their phones because we, and I quote, 'needed to maintain communication with them for our plan to work.' So what did we really do by robbing the house the first time?"

Becky countered, "Paige, do you see all this evidence of the Loud House that we got from the raid? Yeah, Marcus killed the Loud pets during the raid, but still! Did you see how everyone else in this house reacted when we showed them the lowlights reel? None of that would've been possible with the raid! All we would've had to rely on was hearsay, which Lisa could've easily fabricated disproof for!"

Paige sighed, "Fair enough."

Melissa groaned, "That's not what we're talking about. Think, guys, think! How can Lisa even get her supplies in the first place?"

Lincoln recalled, "She buys or builds them."

Melissa hinted, "And how would she build them?"

Lincoln answered, "She buys…", before realizing what Melissa was trying to tell him and saying, "Oh."

Melissa smirked, "What? What's that 'oh' for, Linky?"

Lincoln exclaimed, "If Lisa's not allowed to buy what she needs, then that means she can't build tech that can beat us!"

Melissa giggled, "Bingo. Now, how are we going to do that?"

Becky theorized, "Besides the incriminating footage we have of Lisa? I don't know… we're going to have to go with something a little more 'publicly available,' if you catch my drift. She'll suspect something if she sees that footage of her home life at the Loud House leaked."

Becky then gasped, "Melissa, do you still have that L.I.S.A. footage?"

Melissa said, "Yes," before asking Brian, "Mr. Sweetwater, is it OK if we use your office for this one?"

Brian assured Melissa, "Why, sure! Follow me, guys!"

With that, the Silencers left the dining room for Brian's office before Brian locked that door. When they arrived, Melissa logged into Brian's computer, and after a few keystrokes, found the video file that she was looking for, and played it.

(Time Skip: 15 minutes later)

While Melissa, Lincoln, and the Sweetwaters remained unmoved by the video, the rest of the Silencers' jaws dropped in astonishment and horror.

Carol was the first to speak, "That right there. That's our smoking gun."

Melissa nodded, "Precisely."

Haiku pointed out, "But we can't let them know we leaked it. We're going to have to find a way to make sure the post can't be tracked."

Brian added, "And that includes not being able to track the post by IP address, or tracking cookies, or any of that stuff." He then remembered, "Wait a minute. As a Michigan alumnus, I can probably convince the boys at CSE to wipe all the evidence that we posted this. Given the security implications, I think they'll understand."

Lincoln asked, "CSE? What's CSE?"

Brian explained, "The Computer Science and Engineering division at the University of Michigan. Got my degree from there."

Lincoln replied, "Oh. Makes sense."

Melissa pondered, "Hmm… collusion between a super-intelligent colleague and a potential hostile foreign agent, I think that's enough reason for them to wipe that evidence," to which the rest of the Silencers nodded in agreement. Melissa then addressed the room, "Alright, so Brian and I will get in on that. If we focus, we could probably have something ready by tomorrow morning. But that leaves the rest of you… what are you guys going to do?"

Jackie started, "Speaking of intelligence, Leni. What do we do about her? I mean, everyone sees her as being too sweet for her own good. Anything we do, someone else is going to get blamed for, and that blame could easily be placed on us."

Becky sighed, "You know, if this were an isolated incident, I would have tried to explain to her that what she and her family are doing to Lincoln is totes wrong. But after everything my family and I have seen, I don't know if Leni's truly is the 'sweet girl' everyone has come to know and love, or if she's just another monster like the rest of them."

Lincoln snarked, "Well, we'll have to find out, won't we?", before growling, "You know what, don't. Being a 'nicer' sister didn't stop any of them from locking me out because of bad luck. They all need to be exposed for who they are."

The rest of the room murmured in agreement.

Melissa pondered aloud to herself, "Leni, exposed, hmm…", before gasping, "Oh, I've got it! Dana, Googol 'Hugo Boss 1930's fashion'! Trust me."

Dana smiled, "Ooh, retro. You know what, sis? I'll do that right now."

When Dana typed "hugo boss 1930s fashion" into Googol's search bar, what she saw floored her and the rest of the co-conspirators.

Jackie asked, "What?", before she saw the images under "hugo boss 1930s fashion" and started giggling herself.

When Carol saw the images, she snarked, "You know, I think Lori deserved this humiliation more than the Colon Storm one I actually gave her."

Lindsay mocked, "What about Lola? Dang it, I should've made her wear these clothes at the angel pageant."

Becky giggled, "Yeah. But can you imagine the irony of this? The 'sweetest, kindest' girl in school dressed like a… a…", before she and the rest of the high school-aged Silencers started hysterically laughing.

Paige suddenly jumped out of her seat and fretted, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Won't she get expelled for something like this?"

Melissa sneered, "That's exactly what we're counting on."

Paige asked, "Why? Won't Leni getting expelled tip the Louds off that something's not right?"

Melissa argued, "Think about it, Paige. Tensions are already high enough in that house. You've seen it. We all have! And remember, Luan's in that house. Luan! You know Luan would be dying to pull a prank like this on Leni! And if this goes wrong, we can always blame her!"

Lincoln added, "You know what, that's a good point. And speaking from experience, I don't even think you need psycho comedian to pull this off. I think all of the older girls would be down to prank the dumb blonde like this, anyway! We should just blame it on all of the girls that go to that high school! That way, they'll turn on each other and blame each other for pranking Leni, creating even more tension and instability!"

Melissa ruffled Lincoln's hair before giggling, "Alright, alright. All in favor of the 'Nazi Leni' prank, say I!"

The rest of the room raised their hands and yelled, "I!"

Melissa giggled, "Alright, then," before Becky offered, "Dana, Jackie, wanna use my laptop for this project?"

Dana and Jackie beamed, "Sure!"

After that, Linda offered, "And while you guys are working on that, I'll make sure to publish Rita's Sister Fight Protocol story for the parenting column and get all the footage I taped today onto the cloud so we can copy it to all our computers."

Melissa beamed, "Excellent!"

Lincoln asked, "Alright, so that's settled. Anything else?"

The rest of the Silencers assured Lincoln, "Nah, we're good," to which Lincoln replied, "Then, this meeting is adjourned."

Becky gushed, "Aww, such cute big words from such a cute little man!"

Lincoln blushed, "Come on, I'm not that cute."

The Sweetwater girls mockingly gasped before Linda chirped, "Did you hear that, girls?"

Becky then put her hand to her ear, leaned in and smirked, "What was that, Linky? Did I hear you wanted to be kissed?"

Lincoln whined, "Becky!", causing Becky to giggle, "I think I heard yes!" Becky then asked her sisters, "Did you hear that Lincoln wanted to be kissed?"

Paige, Lindsay, and Linda exclaimed, "YES!", in response.

Becky laughed, "What's that, Lincoln? You want to be kissed?"

Becky then moved Lincoln's head up and down as if to signify him nodding. Becky followed this up by giggling, "OK, you asked for it!"

The next moment, the Sweetwater sisters and Linda started to kiss Lincoln's cheeks relentlessly, causing Lincoln to laugh, "Guys… jeez!"

The rest of the room giggled as they watched the Sweetwater girls caress Lincoln, with Brian even joking, "Look at you, Mr. Popular with the Ladies!", causing Lincoln to blush even harder as everyone else started laughing loudly.

Lincoln blushed at Brian, "Come on, I'm not a ladies' man," causing Brian to laugh, "Oh, Lincoln! Do you see all these girls? They're here for you! And only you! God, I wish I had that kind of attention from girls I was your age!"

Linda broke from the hug to smack Brian lightly and playfully upside the head while exclaiming, "Oh, stop it!"

Brian smirked, "I'm just saying," before kissing Linda on the cheek.

After about a minute, Becky, Paige, and Lindsay concluded their barrage of kisses on Lincoln by giving him one big kiss each. Becky kissed Lincoln's forehead, Paige kissed Lincoln's right cheek, and Lindsay kissed Lincoln's left cheek before Becky outright put Lincoln back in his seat and tucked it in for him. The look of ecstasy on Lincoln's face sent the rest of the room into hysterical laughter.

A few moments later, the vibration of Lincoln's phone shook him out of his trance. When Lincoln pulled out his phone, he read a text from Clyde, "YO! BEST SONG EVER!"

Lincoln chuckled to himself at the text before Becky offered, "Come on, Lincoln! We've got an Ultra Brawlers Turbo Fighter tourney going on in the living room! We'd love it if you joined!"

Lincoln gasped before cheering, "You had me at Ultra Brawlers Turbo Fighter! I'm in!"

(Scene Change: Royal Woods Hospital)

As Lori walked out of Bobby's hospital room, she checked her voicemail. As she did, the answering machine asked, "Who's calling please? Enter your access code, then press pound."

As soon as Lori heard that, she dialed in the last 4 digits of her phone number. The answering machine then said, "You have 131 new messages. To listen, press 1. To modify your voice messaging service, press…", before Lori cut it off by pressing 1. The answering machine then told Lori, "First new message," before playing back a message of Rita yelling at Lori, "Lori, you've been gone all day. After you promised me you'd run errands! When you get home, we're going to have a serious chat, young lady!" Lori scoffed, and pressed "7" to delete that message, as well as the next hundred or so that played back either Rita, Lynn Sr., or one of her sisters saying something along similar lines.

(Scene Change: Study, Sweetwater Manor)

After Linda logged into her computer, she opened her encrypted email app, ProtoMail, and wrote a "New Email" to her boss, Caitlin Ketchum, and the Chief Human Resources Officer at the Royal Woods Gazette, Jessie Rosato. She attached a digital version of the article she had written alongside the Louds, along with the "No Such Luck", lowlights reel, and Sister Fight Protocol video files. As she attached the file containing the video footage she captured of the Sister Fight Protocol, she remembered that Brian wanted to send the video file to Lisa's colleagues. So, Linda opened a new email, attached the Sister Fight Protocol video file to it, and addressed it to Brian.

(Scene Change: Royal Woods Hospital)

After deleting around 100 messages from her voicemail, Lori got ready to press "7" again when she heard, "Hello, Ms. Loud, this is Coach Niblick from Fairway University speaking." Lori gasped and stopped in place as the voice message continued to play, "I talked to Principal Rivers, after your… erm… incident in the hallway. She told me that you had a stomach flu, and I must say, I am deeply sorry that I caught you at such an inopportune time. We're still interested in recruiting you to Fairway University. After talking to Coach Hutch, I've agreed to come to your tournament on Wednesday, October 19 to watch you play. Now, remember, this could be the start of a very bright future, so do your best!"

Lori squealed before re-entering Bobby's hospital room and jumping up and down while cheering, "I'm getting a second chance from Fairway! I'm getting a second chance from Fairway!" She then hugged the unconscious Bobby while fawning, "This is literally going to be the start of something amazing!"

(Scene Change: Home Office, Sweetwater Manor)

As Brian clicked on the Start bar in his computer to look for an Internet browser, Melissa urged him, "Use Garouter for this one."

Brian replied, "Was already planning on it, but OK." He then opened Garouter, and waited a few seconds for it to load. When Garouter finished loading, with all of its anti-encryption extensions installed, Brian used it to access his old Wolverine student account. Once he was in, he clicked on the "Communications" tab, which opened Brian's encrypted university email program. Once the program opened, Brian typed in the email address of the department's dean and attached the videos of "L.I.S.A", "No Such Luck", and Melissa's lowlights reel to the email. However, before Brian started to type his email to the dean, he received an email from Linda with the subject line, "Loud House Sister Fight Protocol Footage 8Oct16". When he opened Linda's email, he saw that it contained the video that he, Linda, and the rest of the "co-conspirators" had just seen showcasing the most horrifying parts of Linda's visit to the Loud House. Brian chuckled to himself as he also attached Linda's video file to his email to the dean. After doing so, he opened up two separate emails and attached Linda's video file to each of those emails. On one email thread, he copied all of his colleagues on his company's executive team. Brian addressed the other email thread to Aloha Comrade's "Contact Us" email address.

(Scene Change: Lana & Lisa's Room, Loud House)

As Lisa experimented with various chemicals, Lana could be seen on the other side of the room bolting a sink down after moving Lisa's toddler toilet near said sink. She sang to herself, "With a bang-bang here and a screw-screw there, here a whack, there a whack, everywhere a whack-whack, Marcus Quick is going down, E-I-E-I-O!"

(Scene Change: Home Office, Sweetwater Manor)

Brian said to himself, "And… send!", as he sent his final email to Dr. Carol Linnaeus of Incognito Labs.

Melissa asked, "Are you sure this is going to work?"

Brian replied, "I sure hope so. And hey, even if it doesn't, at least we did everything we could to keep ourselves anonymous."

Melissa admitted, "True."

(Time Skip: 10:30 PM, Lincoln's Room, Sweetwater Manor)

As the song Lincoln listened to faded into the distance, he loudly chuckled before double-texting Clyde:
"Just listened to the song," and,
"U can definitely do this lol".

Clyde replied with a double-text of his own:
"Ya dunnoe", followed by,
"Chandler finna be irrelevant styll".

Lincoln chuckled to himself in agreement before putting his phone down and falling asleep.

(Scene Change: Lucy's Room)

Lucy gazed into her crystal ball in a meditative state. After a few minutes, the crystal ball showed Lucy a low-quality reflection of a crowded church with everyone dressed in black suits, and a coffin with a smiling picture of Melissa right above it, shocking Lucy. The next vision, which was a little clearer, showed Lincoln, Melissa's presumed immediate family, and some of Lori's friends carrying the girl's coffin out of the church as the remainder of the crowd looked on in mourning.

As the reflection faded away, Lucy wistfully said, "Sigh. I should tell Lori about this. But she's been gone all day, and even if she was here, I don't know if she'd listen to me. No one does."

Closing A/N: Looks like things just got a lot more tense… and interesting! Also, big shoutout to everybody for getting me to over 130 favs & 140 follows!

A/N 2: Walter and Amber are the Wetta parents (Whitney & Winston).

A/N 3: Fritz & Diane are the Fletcher parents (Melissa, Dana, & Skippy).

A/N 4: Just Google "1930s Hugo Boss fashion" to see the idea I have in mind for Leni's humiliation.

A/N 5: Heh heh… 131 new messages. Representing the number of favs I had at the time of this chapter's publication.

A/N 6: "Caitlin Ketchum" was Kat's mom's name in the fanfic, "Lincoln and Kat: A Year in the Life". Decided to reuse it here.

A/N 7: I wanted to keep some suspense going forward, which is why I'm not going to disclose the song Desmond sent until Clyde & Lincoln rehearse it.

A/N 8 (April 17, 2023): Added "You fell down some stairs" from Lola as a shoutout to Saccharine Melody's picture on DeviantArt (he didn't draw it himself, just found it).

Anyway, what do the Sweetwaters have in store for Lisa & Rita? Will the Sweetwaters' lowlights reels ever go public? What is Lana building for Lisa? And what do Clyde & Lincoln have planned for Chandler? Favorite, follow, & stay tuned to find out the answers to all these questions and more!