Now here is a chapter based on the episode: Gone. I got some help with the plot and boy, this chapter is a dark one. Probably the darkest one yet, but it is still a kid-friendly chapter. Hope you enjoy this one, but if you don't, there are a few chapters left before I end The Sponge House.
The chapter starts at the Loud house where Lola is sleeping, and her digital alarm clock wakes her up. She struggles to turn it off, yawns, takes off her blindfold, and then gets out of bed. Due to her grogginess, she doesn't seem to notice her twin sister not in her own bed, or any sign that she slept in it. Lola then walks into the bathroom to wash her hair, only to see no massive line of siblings, so maybe she's just lucky.
One rinse later, Lola gets dressed and comes down to the kitchen for breakfast, but this is when she realizes something is up. No Lynn Sr. to offer her a stack of pancakes, no Rita with today's news, no nothing.
Lola: Guys? Mom? Dad? Huh, did I set my clock wrong and today is daylight savings time? That means... I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL! WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME?!
Quickly, she gets her backpack from her room, stuffs a single slice of toasted bread in her mouth, and rushes to the school bus stop. However, no matter how much she impatiently waits, the transport vehicle never arrives, not even other cars that normally make the roads quite bustling. In fact, the town seems completely empty. Continuing to be in denial, Lola figures today's a slow day and she shouldn't be stopped by it, so she runs to Royal Woods Elementary instead. Much time later, she appears at the front door of her school with her feet now killing her, but Lola figures it's worth it as she heads to her homeroom, only to see no one there. Sighing, she sits at her desk and rests her head on it in shame.
Lola: Way to go, Lola. You set your time wrong, you barely had any breakfast, and now you're late for both class and maybe a school field trip, hence why no one's here. Boy, your perfect grades will be irreparably knocked down for sure. I'll just sit here and wait.
By the time day turns to night, nothing changed aside from the new heavy bags under Lola due to her trying so hard staying awake and meet someone, anyone from the class to assure her everything will be fine. She even skipped lunch time to see if they'll at least come around to drop their bags here. When that didn't happen, she now knows for sure something's wrong. She tries calling for somebody in the school, no one answers. She tries pulling the fire alarm, and while it certainly gets noisy, there's no students rushing out in a panic or staff coming by to scold her for doing that. Lola even attempts calling her friends or family using her phone, only to get static on the other side. Panicking, she rushes home trying to get some kind of help on the matter.
Lola: Guys, guys! Lana, Lynn, Leni, Mom, Dad! Please, please come out! If this is a late April Fools Prank, I'm not laughing! Come on, this is enough spooks for the day!
With not even the pets coming around to comfort her, Lola decides to widen her search. She threw a brick at Mr. Grouse's home, and no old angry neighbor came around as a result. She rushed over to the pageantry area and perhaps find her rivals there, but it was empty too. After spending the entire night searching all of Royal Woods, she only has one thing to say.
Lola: Where did everybody GO?!
Her voice echoes through the empty streets, even when she's perched on a cliffside trying to say it again and again in case somebody hears it. When nothing changes, Lola's eyes well up with tears as she finally comes to the grueling conclusion.
Lola: Everybody's gone. But I swear, their memory will carry on, by me living out their lives for them.
Cut to the next day, where the pageant girl has borrowed Lincoln's dress-up chess (from Cover Girls) to roleplay as each of her siblings as well as the parents. She then comes out dressed as Lana.
Lola: [imitating Lana] Hey Lola, I'm digging for gold. But not the kind that's valuable. [picks her nose]
Lola: [switches to herself] Eww, do that somewhere else, Lana!
Cut to Lola as herself in Lincoln's room.
Lola: Hey Linky, could you do me a favor and polish my shoes? [switches to Lincoln] Right after I finish up this David Steele comic. [switches to herself and throws the comic away] There. You're finished.
Cut to Lola as Lucy and she is lying in Lucy's coffin.
Lola: [as Lucy] Sigh. I may be alive, but I feel dead inside.
Cut to Lola in Lisa's room dressed as Lisa, doing a science experiment, but it explodes in her face.
Lola: [as Lisa] Curses.
Cut to Lola as Lynn Sr., finishing a large sundae and taking it to the dining room.
Lola: [imitating Lynn Sr.] Here you go, honey. A large, Neapolitan sundae with caramel, gummy bears, and sprinkles.
Lola: [as herself] Why, thank you Daddy. You know how to treat a princess.
Lola: [as Luan] More like the Dairy Queen. [laughs, then brings out Mr. Coconuts and voices him] Or the Ice Scream Queen! [laughs]
Lola: [as Lynn Sr., laughing] Good one, guys!
Lola: [as herself, groans in annoyance]
Cut to Lola in Luna and Luan's room, dressed as Luna and singing.
Luna: [as Luna] Play it loud! Play it loud! I've got no time for turning it down!
Cut to Lola in her parent's bedroom, performing an old pageant act, cane twirling, and then ends her performance.
Lola: [as Rita, clapping] What a lovely performance, Lola.
Lola: [as herself] Why, thank you, Mom…[sadly]…Mom…Mom…Mommy! [starts to cry] This is pointless! A BEAUTY QUEEN LIKE ME IS NOTHING WITHOUT A CROWD! I can't replace everyone! I'll never be happy again! [she sadly goes to the garage where her princess car is] I might as well just drive my princess car out onto the road, since there's no one to stop me from doing so. [she then realizes this and smiles] Hey, with no one around, no one can tell me what to do.
Lola opens the garage and drives out in her car. She starts driving it around Royal Woods, racing all over the empty roads and then driving through places like Flip's Food n Fuel, where she gets a free Flippee and Reiningers', coming out with some new clothing. She eventually drives back home when it is nighttime. She is now in her room with her princess car beside her, who she has named "Carna".
Lola: [in bed] Good night, Carna.
Cut to Lola having nightmares and talking in her sleep.
Lola: No. No! [wakes up and screams] No! [pants] Oh, Lana, I had a nightmare that everyone was gone! And I -[sees Lana is not in her bed and notices that Carna is right next to her in bed] So it was true! I... guess it's just you and me now, Carna.
Cut to a montage of the sole Loud girl and her princess car taking a bath, then eating cereal, then crashing out of the house riding it, then at the beach, then playing a game of tennis, and then on the seesaw. Then they arrive back home and Lola notices the car is running low on gas so she goes to Lisa's workshop to modify it so it can drive miles without needing to stop. Months past by, it is now wintertime, and Lola has been driving around town, scavenging every inch of Royal Woods for food.
Lola: Well, Carna, it's been months and it's getting harder to find food. [stomach growls] My poor tummy. [then she notices a store she hasn't been to yet, called "Junkies"] Hey, I've never noticed that store before. [she drives to the store and enters it, it's a mini mart and she spots all kinds of snacks and beverages] Snacks, candy, drinks! I'm saved!
After stealing some groceries, she heads back home with Carna, leaving her in the garage. As she goes into the house, Carna rumbles at her.
Lola: Oh, no Carna. You can stay here. [Carna rumbles again] No, Carna! I need some alone time. I'll see you later. [goes inside and heads to the kitchen with her groceries] That princess car is getting too clingy. I feel like she follows me everywhere now.
Cut to Lola in her room, and the pageant girl is crazily taking to her stuffed animals, dressed as her missing family members. She even looks less like herself, with her hair messy, her pupils have turned white, and the makeup on her face is unkempt. (like in Undie Pressure) She speaks for her toy bunny, who is wearing Lincoln's clothes.
Lola: [as bunny] You're awfully chummy with that guy for someone who has it out for you.
Lola: Who, Carna? [giggles] Oh no. She's... Really?
Lola: [as a teddy bear, who is wearing Lana's clothes] We can't talk now. She's watching us.
Lola: Wait, guys! Don't go! [notices Carna is staring at her] Huh? Nothing! Carna! I... I'm just going to bed.
She pushes Carna out of the room and closes the door, then sighs in relief. Suddenly, she hears another voice laughing and it sounds like her own. It turns out the voice is coming from her own mirror and in there she doesn't see her current self, but a clean Mirror Lola smirking at her.
Lola: [shocked] My reflection has a mind of its own?
Mirror Lola: That's right! And I'm the real Lola. Everyone in Royal Woods has left because of your rudeness!
Lola: That's not true!
Mirror Lola: Oh yeah? Then why don't we ask them ourselves?
Sure enough, hallucinations of the siblings appear all taunting Lola.
Lana: We totally left you because you're a spoiled brat, Lola!
Lily: [agreeing] Poo-poo!
Rita: What a rotten child I've raised.
Lynn Sr: Thank goodness she's not ours anymore.
Leni: I never thought I'd say this, but I won't miss you at all!
The family taunts the pageant girl even more, making Lola so angry that she takes Lynn's baseball bat (she has picked up on some of Lynn's sports) and swings at the mirror and every reflective surface around the house to shut them up, practically wrecking everything in sight. However, the voices multiply and begin to overwhelm her senses. She runs outside in the streets curled into a ball crying, dripping snot, hyperventilating, holding her ears in pain, and begging for the voices to stop.
Lola: STOP! PLEASE STOP!
That is when she finds herself not outside anymore but in Lisa and Lily's room wearing a VR helmet, sweating profusely. It turns out in exchange for Lisa cleaning up her stained dressed, Lola participated in a game called "Loneliness Simulator" and the results from that experience were certainly illuminating. Lola takes off the helmet, staring in extreme shock.
Lisa: Quite a traumatizing game, isn't it, Lola? But as promised, I removed the troublesome stain from your dress. [holds out Lola's dress for her]
However, the pageant girl doesn't say thanks or even do anything but stares in a PTSD shell shocked like manner as she stoically takes the dress and leaves the room. It is an early morning and Lola heads back to her and Lana's room, then looks in the mirror and does not feel like this is her life or her own body considering the passage of time, or at least what felt like that. She wakes up her twin Lana.
Lola: Lana?
Lana: [groans] What? What is it, Lola? I was sleepin' here.
Lola: [starts crying in Lana's arms as the tomboy twin looks puzzled] I'm so sorry, Lana! I'm sorry for every mean thing I said or did to you!
Lana, who is surprised by this, takes it all in and comforts her sister at Lola's mentally worst time ever.
Lana: It's ok, Lola. You may not be the nicest sister, but you're my closest sister.
Lola: [sniffles] Oh, t-thank you, Lana. You're the best sister ever