Hello. Here's the next chapter of my Captain Underpants and Loud House crossover. Starting with this chapter, it's payback time against the Louds for their treatment toward Lincoln. And Lynn Jr. is going to be the first victim. For those who read the books, you'll find the pranks that George and Harold pull very familiar.
Chapter 7: The Big Game
George and Harold began making their plans to prank Lincoln's tormentors, which were to begin tomorrow. And they were going to start with a plan they called "Operation: Silencing the Louds Part 1- Skinning the Squirrels". But they weren't the only ones planning. Back at Piqua, Luan was telling Lisa what she planned to do tomorrow. "You want to sneak into the school tomorrow, when it's closed?" asked Lisa.
"Yes. That way, I can know the layout of the school. Where every room is and where would be the best place to put traps in," said Luan.
"I don't know. Doing that is kind of illegal," said Lisa.
"Hey, if I want to prove I'm the best prankster, I'll need to bend the rules a bit," said Luna. She let out a snicker.
The next day, it was time for another softball game. This time, the Royal Woods Squirrels were going to go up against the team of Hazeltucky Lions. The bleachers were filled with fans of both teams. Lincoln was once again forced to wear the stupid squirrel mascot suit. He and Lynn Jr.'s family were watching (except Lisa and Luan since they were out of town). The Squirrels' cheerleaders ran onto the field and shook their pom-poms over heads. A fine black dust drifted out of their pom-poms and settled all around them them. "Gimme an S!" shouted the cheerleaders.
"S!" repeated the fans.
"Gimme a Q!" shouted the cheerleaders.
"Q!" repeated the fans.
"Gimme a . . . a-ah-ah-A-CHOO!" sneezed the Cheerleaders.
"A-ah-ah-A-CHOO!" repeated the fans. The cheerleaders sneezed and sneezed and sneezed some more. They couldn't stop sneezing.
"Hey! Somebody sprinkled black pepper into the cheerleaders' pom-poms!" shouted a Squirrels fan in the bleachers.
"I wonder who did that?" asked another Squirrels fan. The fans of the Hazeltucky Lions found this rather amusing and laughed.
"It can't be Luan. Cause she's out of town," said Rita.
"Yeah. If isn't Luan, who is it?" asked Lynn Sr. as he bit his nails. The Squirrels' cheerleaders stumbled off the field sneezing and dripping with mucus, as cheerleaders for the Hazeltucky Lions took their places. They did their chant for the Lions and their fans with no trouble.
"You don't supposed the Lions are responsible for sprinkling the pepper?" asked Liam, one of Lynn's teammates.
"I don't know," said Margo.
"We can't be experiencing bad luck. Lincoln is wearing the suit. It's supposed to ward off all bad luck," said Lynn Jr. The marching band members took their places. But when the band began to play, steady streams of bubbles began blowing out of their instruments! Bubbles were everywhere! Up and down the field the marching band slipped and slid, leaving behind a thick trail of wet, bubbly foam. Some of them fell on their faces and backs. Instruments crashed and clanged loudly. And the Lions' fans continued to laugh their heads off.
"Hey! Somebody poured bubble bath into the marching bands' instruments!" shouted a Squirrels fan in the bleachers.
"I wonder who did that?" asked another Squirrels fan.
Meanwhile at Piqua, Lisa and Lori snuck into the closed Jerome Hortwiz Elementary School for Luan's prank scouting mission. The two girls scoured the hallways of the school. They were empty with no sign of anybody. Lynn opened up various lockers, trying to figure out how to booby trap them. They also checked the various classrooms, the cafeteria and other places. At one point, they got to the school library. But when they entered, Lisa was disturbed at what she saw. The library at Jerome Hortwiz Elementary School had once been a wonderful place of knowledge and learning. But a few years back, the librarian, Miss Singerbrains, had begun banning most of the books. Now the library was filled only with rows of empty bookshelves and posters that warned of the potential subversive dangers of reading. Lisa began reading the posters. "I want you to stop reading? Challenge books not minds? You'll ruin your eyes?! Only schnooks read books?! READING MIGHT OFFEND YOU . . . WHY TAKE A CHANCE?!" asked Lisa as her temper flared. She gnashed her teeth in anger. "Luan, I want to be in charge of pulling a prank on the librarian! As a girl who enjoys reading to get knowledge, I find what she did very insulting!" said Lisa.
"But Lisa. Pranking is my . . . ," said Luan. But Luan stopped when she saw the glare that Lisa was giving. It was a glare that promised pain and suffering if Luan didn't comply.
"Okay. The librarian's all yours," said Luan meekly.
"The prank I must pull on the librarian must be one that requires the knowledge of scientist such as myself. It must be done smartly!" said Lisa.
Back at Royal Woods, the softball teams had taken their places on the fields. It was Lynn Jr.'s turn to bat. The Lions' pitcher threw the ball toward Lynn Jr. When her bat hit the ball, SPLAT! The ball exploded into green goo that splattered all over her face. Lynn Jr.'s family and the Squirrels' fans gasped seeing this. The Lions' fans laughed at Lynn Jr., pointing at her. "Strike one!" said the Umpire. The pitcher threw another ball toward Lynn Jr. Lynn swung her bat at the incoming ball. But unfortunately, her bat was swapped with a very flimsy one made of rubber. So it bent down and she missed. The catcher caught the ball. "Strike two!" said the Umpire. Everybody who were fans of the Lions laughed at Lynn Jr. yet again. Lynn Jr. growled angrily seeing that her bat was swapped. She ripped the rubber bat into pieces in her fury. Once she got her real bat, the pitcher threw another ball at Lynn Jr. She swung the bat and it hit the ball.
"Gotcha!" said Lynn Jr. But people were still laughing.
"What's going on? Why are you still laughing at me?!" asked Lynn Jr. She turned and gasped. For the ball was stuck to the bat. She struggled to get the ball off the bat, but it was very sticky.
"Strike three! You're out!" said the Umpire.
"Hey! Somebody sabotaged me by replacing the balls or bats with rigged ones!" yelled Lynn Jr.
"We wonder who did that?" asked the fans of the Squirrels. But Lynn Jr.'s humiliation didn't make a difference because at the moment, the Squirrels were rolling around the field, scratching and itching like crazy. Even Lynn Jr. was starting to get very itchy and see scratched herself red like her teammates.
"Hey! Somebody replaced our Deep-Heating Muscle Rub Lotion with Mr. Prankster's Extra-Scratchy Itching Cream!" shouted the Coach.
"We wonder who did that?!" shouted the Squirrels fans in the bleachers. The Lions fans were having a ball (no pun intended), laughing their heads off at the Squirrels' expense. The Squirrels' torment didn't end there. The whole afternoon went on much the same way, with people shouting everything from "Hey, somebody put Sea-Monkeys in the lemonade!" to "Hey, all the Royal Wood Squirrel players are taking up all the bathrooms!" And the squirrels had a good reason to be in the bathrooms. For somebody put laxatives in their food and drinks and they had to take a number two, badly. Lynn Jr. tried to stop them from going, but her pleas and demands fell on deaf ears. And very soon, Lynn Jr. herself had to go take a dump as well. Not only that, the sign that read "Come and see the Royal Wood Squirrels Defeat the Hazeltucky Lions" was changed to "Royal Wood Squirrels Need Rabies Shots". It was one prank after another. Of course, the Lions weren't affected by the pranks. Because of how the Squirrels were getting pranked, they were off their game today. And eventually, the Lions managed to win the game. The Lions fans cheered.
"And the sign said that the Squirrels would defeat the Lions. Ha!" said one Lions fan.
"Don't put up signs like that unless you know you're going to win!" said another Lions fan. George and Harold had seen everything from a hiding place far from the field. But not too far so that they could see everything with binoculars. They were laughing their heads off.
"And that's how you discredit a superstitious sports maniac!" laughed Harold.
"But we better make sure that things go Lincoln's and hopefully he'll be out of that suit," said George. And they went to get closer to the field, but not get spotted. Lynn Jr.'s teammates left for home. The only ones present in the field now were the Louds and some fans of the Squirrels.
"I don't get it! I just don't get it! Stinkcoln has been wearing the squirrel suit all this time! We weren't supposed to experience bad luck in the game! I did all of the anti-bad luck rituals too! HOW COULD WE STILL LOSE?! WHY HAVE THE SOFTBALL GODS FORSAKEN ME?!" screamed Lynn as she pulled on her hair. Lincoln finally had enough and removed the mask of the suit.
"You just don't get it, do you!" said Lincoln.
"Hey! He's taken off the mask!" cried Luna.
"Put that mask back on! Your bad luck is going to spread on us!" cried Leni.
"Bad luck this! Bad luck that! I'm sick and tired of hearing all about bad luck! Today just proved that this suit is not a good luck charm! It's just a suit!" yelled Lincoln.
"Shut up, Stinkoln!" said Lynn Jr.
"No, you shut up and listen! All of you! AND MY NAME IS LINCOLN!" said Lincoln. The people who were still at the stadium were watching all this happen. "I wanted to sit home and spend time to myself the day you accused me of being bad luck! But you, Lynn Jr. had to threatened to hit me with your bat! If you had just let me have my own fun time, this whole mess wouldn't have happened! Ever since Lynn Jr.'s accused me of bad luck, you stopped treating me like a person who has feelings! Yes I lied about being bad luck to get free time for myself, but you idiots were the ones who kept it all going!" said Lincoln as he began to undress from the squirrel suit. George and Harold were watching.
"Looks like Lincoln's finally standing up for himself," whispered George.
"Let's hope they listen," said Harold.
"You had the gall to sell all my stuff cause you thought it was tainted with bad luck! And then you locked out of my own room and kicked me out of the house! You used the money from selling my stuff for a beach trip! And even though I was on that trip, I was forced to wear this suit! I almost got heat stroke for heaven's sake! Well no more! No more of wearing this stupid rat suit!" said Lincoln. He snatched a box of matches from a nearby fan. He took out a match and prepared to light it. His family tried to stop him, but the crowd held them back. After lighting the match, Lincoln set the squirrel suit on fire. The Louds screamed seeing what was happening. George and Harold snickered. Lori burst free and she grabbed a fire extinguisher. She sprayed it at the burning suit. But unfortunately, it was already too late. The damage had been done. The squirrel mascot suit was burned to the point it could never be worn ever again. The Louds screamed seeing what had just happened.
"Oh no!" cried Lucy.
"Without the suit, nothing will be able to contain Lincoln's bad luck!" cried Lana.
"Maybe we can reassembled it enough so it could be worn again!" cried Lori. The Louds tried to put the suit back together, but it was all in vain. For all their efforts, they were causing the suit to be even more damaged. Finally, it fell apart, crumbling in their hands. Lincoln snickered at their futile efforts. George and Harold did too. The Louds glared at Lincoln.
"You! How could you?!" asked Rita.
"Do you realize what you have done?!" asked Lynn Sr.
"I got rid of the one thing that's preventing me from enjoying myself and being part of this family! In order to truly prove I'm not bad luck, I must stop wearing that suit! And it seems destroying it was the only way to do it! So there! Now let's just go home and put this whole bad luck thing behind us!" said Lincoln. Then, Lynn Sr. got mad.
"You're not going home," said Lynn Sr.
"What?" asked Lincoln.
"You heard him, you're not going home!" said Rita.
"By destroying the suit, you disobeyed us!" said Lori.
"That suit was the only thing that contained your bad luck!" said Leni.
"And you destroyed it!" said Lucy.
"By refusing to keep your bad luck contained, you've officially made yourself unwelcome to this family!" said Leni.
"What?!" asked Lincoln.
"As of now, you're no longer our brother!" said Luna.
"From now on, this will be an all daughter family!" said Lana.
"No boys are allowed in this family anymore!" said Lola.
"Especially a wimpy, annoying, useless, pathetic, bad luck carrying jinx!" yelled Lynn Jr. George and Harold were horrified seeing Lincoln getting disowned by his family. Tears began to well up in Lincoln's eyes. And then, he got angry.
"I HATE YOU ALL!" yelled Lincoln. He grabbed a nearby metal baseball bat. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, LYNNDIOT!" screamed Lincoln. Before Lynn Jr. could retort, BAM! Lincoln hit her with the bat. After that, he ran off crying. Lynn Jr. recovered and felt her mouth. She lost some of her teeth and her nose was bleeding. The Louds turned around and saw everybody else glaring at them.
"What?! Stinkoln's the bad guy, not us!" said Lynn Jr.
"You heartless idiots!" yelled one person.
"Sexists!" yelled another person.
"You, Lynn Sr., are a traitor to your own gender!" yelled a third person.
"Come on. He did something bad. He had to be made an example of," stuttered Lynn Sr. But the people didn't listen. They continued to throw insults at the remaining Louds. And then, they began to throw stuff at them, from rotten food, empty drink cups and baseballs. The Louds began to make a run for Vanzilla. Lily cried as the Louds ran. George and Harold were still in disbelief seeing what happened.
"Oh no. This wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to get over the bad luck mess," said Harold.
"Have we made things worse?" asked George.
George and Harold went to Clyde McBride's house. George knocked on the door and Harold McBride answered the door.
"Yes?" asked Mr. McBride.
"Hello. We met your son, Clyde yesterday. Is he and Lincoln home?" asked George.
"Why, yes," said McBride. The two found Lincoln in Clyde's room, with Clyde doing his best to comfort him. They knocked on Clyde's door.
"Come in," said Clyde. George and Harold entered.
"Lincoln," said George.
"We see what happened at the game," said Harold.
"It's not fair! My family raised and took care of me ever since I was born! I've helped my sisters with some of their events, and this is how they repay me! And now, they've disowned me all because they still think I'm bad luck! I didn't even cause all that bad stuff that was happening during the game!" said Lincoln.
"Of course you didn't pull those pranks on the Squirrels," said Harold.
"We did," said George.
"You?" asked Clyde.
"Why?" asked Lincoln.
"We watched the game from yesterday and saw how Lynn Jr. was treating you and how the rest of your family was. We were angry at how they treated you and viewed you as bad luck unless you put on the squirrel suit," said George.
"We thought that if we pulled those pranks on the squirrels while you were still in the suit, it would discredit your family's belief that you're bad luck and show that bad things can still happen even when you were in the suit," said Harold.
"But it looks we like in a way, we made things worse. And we're sorry," said George.
"We're all sorry," said a voice outside Clyde's window. Lincoln and Clyde looked out and saw Lynn's teammates.
"What do you mean you're sorry too?" asked Lincoln.
"The truth is, George and Harold contacted us and told us about how your sister is treating you badly," said Margo.
"So we agreed to let ourselves be pranked in order to help them prove you weren't bad luck," said Liam.
"But unfortunately, it seems Lynn Jr. still won't let it go," said Maddie.
"We intend to make it up to you," said Paula.
"How?" asked Lincoln.
"The truth is, we recorded a video of you telling off your family and them disowning you," said Paula.
"And we're gonna put it to good use," said Liam.
"Let me guess, you're gonna post it on the internet?" asked Clyde.
"Let's save it for a time if your family end up in so much trouble they'll be in court," said Margo.
"The witnesses at the game will probably spread the word about your family did around. Everybody's going to see your family for the monsters that they are," said Liam.
"They'll probably be made into pariahs just like how they did it to you," said George.
"It may be a bit extreme, but getting a taste of their own medicine will finally make them understand how you felt," said Harold.
"Not only that, we're gonna pull more pranks on them and your other tormentors so that people'll stop mistreating," said George.
"Why not stay with George and I for a while?" asked Harold.
"We promise you, we're going to make it up to you," said George.
"Thank you. I was beginning to think nobody would take me in after the way my family disowned me," said Lincoln.
"Your welcome," said George.
"We promise that somehow or someway, your family will get justice dropped on them," said Harold.
I hope you enjoyed seeing Lynn Jr. being made a fool of at the game. I changed the ball prank since baseballs can't really be filled with helium. Now, regarding Lincoln being disowned. I know this seems out of character for the Loud family. But at this point in this story, they let their superstitious fear overcome their common sense to the point that they'll do anything to ensure that the so called bad luck doesn't infect them. But rest assured, as Harold said, justice will be served. Next chapter, will be both George & Harold and Luan and Lisa's first day at the opposite schools. So Luan is going to start her reign of terror in Piqua, while George and Harold start to do payback against more of Lincoln's bullies, includng his family. As you read, Lisa is now going to hold a vendetta against the librarian, Miss Singerbrains for banning books from the library. I always found it funny how Dav Pilkey did that as payback toward people who try to get the Captain Underpants books banned in Bionic Booger Boy Part 2.