Once upon a time, there was a dorky and white haired dude named Lincoln Loud who loved to play video games. As soon as he got home from school, he threw his backpack off, raced up the stairs, and dropped in front of the TV in his little bedroom. There he would stay for hours, playing everything from Call of Honor to Fluffy Animal Town. He considered himself an urbane and widely-played chap whose diversity of taste was second to none. He played everything because video games were life.

Then something changed and his life got better.

He got himself a girlfriend and she was awesome.

Every free moment he had went to her: They hung out at the park, stopped in at Gus's Grubs and Games, sat on the curb outside Flip's and slurped Flipeez's until their brains ached, and talked and texted constantly. Delilah was so cool. She is the resident artist of the Velazquest family and loves to do art of any kind from take pictures, Painting, sewing she sew her own cosplay outfits. She was the author and artist of four published comic books. Played sports, comic book collecting, she was even trying to get into animation.

One of his favorite things to do was play videogames with her.

He was gonna invite her to come over to play Super Mega Brawlers Turbo Fighter tonight.

Sigh. Life was good.

Lincoln is in his room, enjoying a nice glass of lemonade with a crazy straw.

Lincoln smiled, "Ah, Friday night. You survived another week of school. Now it's time to kick back, forget your troubles, and crack open a brand new video game." Lincoln grabs his copy of Super Mega Brawlers Turbo Fighter and smells it, "Love that new game smell." Suddenly picks up another scent; one that worries him. "Wait a minute." He sniffs again, "Is that...Oh no!"

Soon, his sisters start picking up the scent as well.

"Sniff. Sniff." Lucy said.

Lincoln looked worried, "Mom's expensive perfume. Which can only mean one thing." He checks the calendar and finds out what tonight is... "Date night! Which can only mean one other thing!"

"Lori's in charge! Do as she says! Bye!" Rita yelled before leaving.

Lincoln fell to knees, "NOOOOOOOOO! She gets a sick thrill from bossing us around! In this house, we call her the Queen of-"

Lori yelled from upstairs, "NO!" She unplugs Luna's amplifiers, "NO MUSIC!" She tosses Lana's mud pie in the trash, "NO MUD PIES!" She approaches Leni who's talking on the phone, "NO-"

"Way! That's totes cray cray!" Leni said in excitement.

Lori hangs up Leni's call, "No phone calls." She takes away Lincoln's game, "AND NO VIDEO GAMES!"

Lori dresses up in a military uniform that conseted of Aviator sunglasses with dark lenses and a green coat. She even held a riding crop. She blows a whistle that summons her siblings and the pets to the front room.

"At ease!" Lori yelled.

Everyone feels calmer now.

"JUST KIDDING! NOBODY IS TO BE AT EASE IN MY PRESENCE!" Lori yelled.

The others regain their forms.

"As you know, Mom and Dad left me in charge. That means you have to do as I say, whether you're tall, short, or covered in fur and can only understand the word "sit"!"

The pets sit down on command, but Walt tips over in his attempt and knocks Geo's hamster ball to the side.

Lori busts out a chart of tonight's schedule, "Now, here is our schedule for this evening. 6:00 to 7:00: Sitting on bed with arms folded. 7:00 to 7:30: Chow. 7:30 to 8:00: Thorough cleaning of mess hall. 8:00: Staring at wall until falling asleep. Everyone got that?"

Lori's Siblings except Lana, "MA'AM, YES, MA'AM!"

Lana salutes, "SIR, YES, SIR!"

Lori glares at Lana for calling her "sir". Lana covers her mouth, aghast.

"DISMISSED!" Lori yelled.

Everyone rushes back upstairs while Geo hops in his ball up each step.

Lori was about to head upstairs to paint her toenails like in Sixteen 1/2 Magazine, but she hears a knock at the door she goes to answer it and gets greeted by the Velazquest family, "Oh Leo Lion Lollipop, everyone! What are you doing here?"

Leo walked in and let his siblings enter, "Our folks went on double date with your folks sooo they said take my sibs over here for some double babysitting."

Lori frowned, "Sorry Leo, but I'm in charge and no guest are allowed."

Leo's eyes flickered to the riding crop in her hand.

The Velazquest siblings all had the same thought, 'Uh-oh. Lori was babysitting again.'

The oldest of the Loud brood, Lori had always been put in charge of her siblings when her parents left the house. She responded by becoming a totalitarian strongwoman who'd sooner disappear you than look at you. Her sibs called her Queen of No behind her back and dreaded being left with her, because the moment their parents were gone, Lori shut everything down. Her rules were as follows:

No TV.

No music.

No snacking.

No moving.

No talking.

And, most importantly of all, no fun

Dang it.

Faster than you can say put on ice, The Velazquest siblings sat together on the couch and faced straight ahead like statues, David, Tommy, Milton, Johnny, Delilah, Luis, Larry, Charlie, Frankie, and Sammy, biggest to littlest like a line of Russian nesting dolls with their hands on their laps.

"Come on, Queen of No," Leo said. "You can't just-"

Lori crossed her arms and fixed him with a glare

"No," Lori said.

"But -"

"No, Leo," Lori said more firmly. "I'm in charge and when I'm in charge, Now, my family follows my schedule Sitting on bed with arms folded, Chow, cleaning of mess hall, Staring at wall until falling asleep. You guys are gonna sit on the couch, stare into space, and then go to bed."

The Velazquest siblings all let out a group, "Ugh!"

"You're so boring." Delilah said.

So quick Delilah almost missed it, Lori slapped the riding crop against the table with a whip-crack report that made everyone jump. "Boring is a good thing, Delilah," she said, "Boring doesn't destroy the house."

"You guys don't destroy the house." Tommy argued.

Lori cocked her eyebrow at him.

"Okay...one time." Tommy said.

"Yeah, but we can help like your sibs not go crazy this time." David said.

Milton spoke up next, "J-Just give us a chance."

"We promise we won't let them destroy the house." Charlie swore.

Everyone else voiced their agreement, even Sammy, who slapped his feet and let out an impassioned "Lemme at 'em!". Lori stood up straight and crossed her arms, her lips pursing incredulously. "Eldest Loud Sister." Frankie said. "All of your siblings are older now. Sure, Your fourth youngest sibling plays football in the domicile sometimes, and Your third youngest sibling might prank the place into the stone age here and over yonder, but believe me I'm sure we can all keep them under control. Right, everyone?"

"Yeah!" The Velazquest siblings said in unison.

Luis looked at Lori, "You don't have to do the dictator routine anymore. Everyone knows you go hard. Give them a chance and if they act a fool, we'll not just throw the book at them, but the whole library."

Larry nodded, "Leo helped us and we got less crazy."

Johnny looked up at Lori and spread his hands. "There you have it."

The oldest Loud girl scrunched her lips from side to side in contemplation and drummed her fingers on her arm. Suspense hung thick in the air, and everyone leaned forward in anticipation of her reply. "Every time I pull back," she said, "these psychopaths go completely nuts and literally ruin the house. That reflects poorly on me. I don't want to be a dictator, but they leave me no choice."

"When's the last time you pulled back?" Johnny asked.

Lori opened her mouth to respond, then closed it again. "Hmmm. A year or two, I think."

"W-Well, there you go," Milton said. "It's been a w-while. T-Things have changed."

Leo rested a hand on Lori's head, "Just give it a shot. I know you don't like doing this. I know you'd much rather be doing whatever you want instead. All you have to do is have a little faith in your sibs."

Lori tapped her chin with her index finger.

"Just a little faith."

She let out a pent up breath. "Fine. I'll pull back."

Everyone erupted into cheers. Delilah excitedly fisted her hands, Larry and Charlie high fived, David jumped to her feet and thrusted his hips back and forth in an end zone victory dance, and Sammy slapped his feet and "Booya"

"But if you so much as spill one drink or leave one crumb," Lori cautioned, "I will come down on you like Judgement Day."

"We won't." Johnny said.

"Promise." Larry added.

For a moment, Lori glared at them to drive her point home, then tossed the riding crop over her shoulder and started upstairs. "Alright. Wait here, I'll get my sibs."

Lori makes her way upstairs. Lori is about to blow her whistle, but before she does she sees Lily playing Luna's guitar and babbling while on one of Luna's speaker, much to her confusion, "Lily?" Lori walks over to her, "What are you-"

Just then, there are some creaks in the floorboards, causing Lily to give a smug look, and Lori notices that the others are right behind her; they tackle her, making her scream in fright.

The Velazquest family hears Lori scream and they run upstairs they see an angry Lincoln, who is staring daggers at Lori, along with the others (save for Lily); just then, it's revealed that they tied her up to a chair.

Delilah was shocked upon seeing this, "Hey! What is going on?"

-Flashback to earlier-

After Lori sent everyone to their rooms. Lincoln opens his door and glares with furious expression on his face, indicating that he had enough of Lori's bossiness. He puts a note in Geo's hamster ball, "Hey, Geo. Want a snack, boy?" He tosses the snack over to Lola and Lana's door.

Geo rolls over, opens his ball, gets the treat, and gets the twins' attention; Lincoln does this with his other sisters; the note tells them to meet in Lincoln's room and they sneak over to Lincoln's room; Luan has camouflaged herself with the wall and sneaks in; Leni was lucky to sneak out of her room since she shares her room with Lori. She begins to sneak off while wearing a scarf. Leni goes out and sneaks over to Lincoln's room to join the others for a big meeting.

Lola looked worried, "This better be good. You know how much trouble we'll be in if Lori finds out we're not in our rooms?"

Lincoln stood in front of his sisters, "Rooms? More like prison cells! Every time Lori's left in charge, she makes our lives miserable. Well, I say no more! It's time to take back our Friday nights! Luna, do you like it when Lori unplugs your amp mid-jam?"

Luna glare and blared her teeth, "It's way harsh."

Lincoln looked towards Lana, "And Lana, how about when Lori throws out your mud pies?"

Lana crossed her arms, "I work hard on those!"

Lincoln kneed down towards Lily, "And Lily, what about when Lori won't let you run around naked?"

Lily takes off her diaper and blows a raspberry in protest.

Lincoln excitedly fisted his hands, "Then let's do something about it!"

Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily cheered, "YEAH!"

-Back to the Present-

Lori was furious about this, "Untie me right now!"

Lincoln glared, "Your power trip is over! We're taking back our Friday nights!"

Lori looked confused, "Power trip?"

Lincoln poked Lori in the chest, "Just admit it. You get a sick thrill out of bossing us around."

The other sisters concur.

"You think I enjoy this? Unfortunately, I'm the only one who can keep this house from ending up in a pile of rubble! See this is exactly what I meant about my siblings being psychopaths." Lori said.

"Hey!" The Loud siblings in question said.

Leo stood in front of his sibs, "Guys we're going to convince Lori to give you a chance and you guys do this?"

"Not cool dudes we gave you the benefit of the doubt and you make us look like bad." Tommy said.

"You guys are gonna untie Lori right now or we're going to make you into human pretzels!" Delilah threated.

Before Delilah can make good on her threat Lisa throws a odd ball at the Velazquest family and it releases gas.

Charlie coughs, "What's this stuff.. why do I feel sleepy?"

Lisa adjusted her glasses, "That Is my experimental sleep gas I designed it for people who had Insomnia, but giving the circumstances it be best to use it in this situation. "

The Velazquest family started to get drowsy eventually they falls asleep. After the Loud siblings throw Lori and Velazquest siblings into the Lori and Leni's room.

Lincoln takes charge he shuts the door, "Lola, guard this door. No one goes in, no one comes out."

Lola nods in agreement and gets a Golf club to guard the door while dressing up as a security guard.

Lincoln smiles, "Say goodbye to the Queen of No..." tosses whistle on the floor "...and hello to the King of Yes!"

The sisters cheer in victory; Luna is finally jamming out.

Lincoln goes in her room, "Yes to music!" he cranks the tunes and puts a happy face on Lana's mud pie, "Yes to mud!"

Leni was on the phone, "Seriously?"

Lincoln grabs her phone, "Yes to phone calls! And yes to video games!" He turns his game on.

SUPER MEGA BRAWLERS TURBO FIGHTER XXIV

Game announcer: "Round 1: Fight!"

He could play video games now.

Sweet.

-Time Skip-

After awhile we see the Velazquest siblings tied up like they tied Lori up.

Lori sighed, "Great the twerp and the others are gonna turn our house into a pile of rubble and there's nothing I can do."

Suddenly the vent to Lori and Leni's room open and Luis popped his head out.

"Lori are you ok?" Luis asked.

Lori was shocked, "Luis?! You got away! How?"

Luis enters Lori's room, "I managed to sneak into the vents before Lisa sleep gas took effect."

Lori was surprised, "You went into the vents?"

Luis pulled out a swiss army knife and started to cut Lori free, "Lucy told me she goes in them to think. She actually wrote a new poem called "Ventilate".

Inside the wall

I choose to be alone

If I ever get stuck

Please listen for my moan.

Lori stood up after getting free, "Well that's concerning remind me to talk to Lucy about that also thanks for help."

Luis then walked up to Leo, "No problem now let's throw the library."

Luis shakes Leo and Leo starts waking up.

"Luis? Lori? What happened?" Leo asked.

After Lori explained what happened the Velazquest family were furious.

Charlie was shaking in anger, "Those guys are dead!"

Johnny cracked his knuckles, "Lori, you gonna be a only child in a bit."

The other siblings agreed.

Lori tried to calm them down, "Guys before you blow your top we need to get pass Lola first she's guarding the door."

Charlie nodded, "I got this." He grabs Lori's military shades and puts on them on. "Let's roll!"

They open the door with Lola still standing guard.

Charlie holds up a pile of glitter, and blows it in Lola's direction.

Lola sees the glitter and get giddily before chases after the sparkly cloud, "GLITTER!"

Lori impressed, "Glitter. Nice."

Tommy runs ahead, "Let's go see how the others are doing."

Leni screams and it turns out that Luan is chasing Leni around with a rubber spider.

Leni screams, "SPIDER!"

David grabbed Leni and stopped her from running around.

Milton took one of Johnny's pies and slammed it into Luan's face.

Leni teared up and hugs David.

David felt bad for Leni, he knew she was scared of spiders.

Just then, Luna's amps are at a really high volume.

Tommy runs into Luna & Luan's room turns it down a little which Luna doesn't understand and turns it back on. Tommy then got angry ripped the cord out of Luna's amp, then chewed it madly between his teeth.

Suddenly their was a explosion and the smoke alarm goes off; Lisa comes out of her room.

Frankie concerned, "Lisa, what was that?!"

Lisa coughed, "I've been working on new experiment and it has sadly gone out of control." Just then, a tentacle grabs Lisa and drags her back in, "AAH!"

Frankie wheeled into Lisa & Lily's after her in front of him he saw a tentacle monster holding Lisa.

Frankie noticed a test tube on Lisa's table it was corrosive liquid. He pressed a button on his chair and a robot arm went to grab it, he then threw it at the monster its contents dissolved the monster. Frankie grabbed Lisa with the robot arm.

Lisa rubbed her chin, "It wasn't supposed to be that corrosive." Lisa said.

They rest head downstairs.

At the bottom step, Lori froze.

"OH MY GOD!"

How were the others doing? Heh, not good. Mud, crumbs, and spilled drinks littered the floor. The couch and coffee table were both overturned, the TV lay on its side, sticky splatters of god only knows what spackled the walls, and heaps of toys, books, and dirty clothes were piled here and there like rubble.

Lincoln was playing his game in his own little world.

Lily drew on the walls naked, stopping to admire her work.

Suddenly, they find them sleeves in a crossfire of pizza slices and waffles tossed by Lana and Lucy who are having a food fight; Delilah shields himself with a cookie sheet and the pizza and waffles plaster all over it and make a rather gorgeous painting which impresses her.

Johnny saw Lynn riding a dirt bike with the floor covered in mud with no helmet. Quick as lightning, he took off. He snatched Lynn off the dirt bike and shoved her into the wall.

Luis notices Lucy built a fort of diapers, "Lucy? What are you doing with all those diapers?"

Lana screams like a madman and fires a barrage of meatballs.

Lucy jumps, "Incoming." She gets down.

Luis takes cover with her. Larry jumps in front and eats the barrage of meatballs aimed at the fort wall to be damaged.

Lana fires a cupcake at him, but Charlie throws Sammy at Larry and Larry has Sammy eats the cupcake. Sammy giggles.

Lana pulls out a Super Soaker filled with apple juice and it aimed at Larry, but Delilah shows up behind her. She grabbed Lana's Super Soaker and broke it over her knee, making Lana wince. She grabbed Lana by the back of her shirt and spun, then let go - Lana flew into the dining room, screaming at the top of her lungs.

Sammy waddled up to Lily plucked the crayon from Lily's hand and snapped it.

Suddenly the TV was turned off and Lincoln was confused rubbing his eyes, Lincoln looked up and saw at Lori. She stood over Lincoln, huffing and puffing like Sandy when Patrick and Spongebob woke her up from hibernation. Her face was red and clenched, one eye twitching and her shoulders rising and falling with the rhythmic flare of her nostrils. Her hands balled into fists and she began to shake like a tea kettle on a hot stove.

Uh-oh.

Lincoln shook in terror.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Lori yelled.

"NO!" Lincoln cried in terror.

"NOW YOU'RE GOING TO PAY." Lori yelled.

Five minutes later, she handed Lincoln cleaning supplies. "Clean everything," she commanded.

"What about the people who actually made the mess?" Lincoln asked.

"I'll deal with them." Lori said crossing her arms.

The kitchen was caked with food and littered with trash. Lincoln scrubbed the sink, counters, and walls then picked up the trash, swept, did the dishes, and mopped. Next, he joined the Loud girls and Velazquest siblings in picking up the living room. They all worked in grim sillence while Lori kept watch from the sidelines, her arms crossed over her chest. When they were finished, she sent Lincoln to clean the upstairs bathroom "just because."

UGH.

Leo hears his phone ringing and answers it, "Hello? Uh-huh. Sure. Okay. Bye." He hangs up.

Lori rose a brow, "Who was that?"

Leo looked nervous, "Our folks. THEY'RE ARE GONNA BE HOME IN 10 MINUTES!"

The kids panicking, "WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!"

The 22 kids hurried and get to cleaning up the mess the Louds made.

Done, everyone was downstairs tired. The Loud siblings expect Lori were bunched on the couch like the Velazquest had been earlier, only the Louds they were wrapped in duct tape, a strip covering each one's mouth. Lori glowered at them. "You have proven to me tonight that you can't handle me pulling back, so if you thought I was bad before, just wait: You'll be begging for the old Lori back."

All of her sisters shot the Velazquest siblings dirty looks.

"We're not the bozos who tore down the house." Delilah said.

"We know how to act like we have some sense." Johnny said.

Lori turned to the Velazquest siblings, and smiled, "Thanks for the help guys, maybe one days these psychopaths will learn one to behave and I can trust them."

Leo walked up and placed his hands on Lori shoulder, "Sorry we couldn't get your sibs to behave queen of No, but hopefully the day they do is soon."

"Yeah Lori if you need help we'll come running anytime anyplace Delilah said punching her chest.

The other siblings agreed.

Lori smiled at her friends, "Thanks I'll keep that in mind."

The Loud sibs go back to their rooms after a crazy Friday night and the Velazquest sibs head home; their parents are approaching and Lori sees the painting from the food fight and puts it right on the wall the parents enter.

Lynn Sr. looks around, "Wow! I can't believe the house is still standing!"

Lori smiled, "What'd you expect? I was in charge and I got some help from Leo and his sibs."

Rita smiled, "Aw that's great you should baby sit together more often."

Lori chuckled, "You know that's a great idea I'll run it with them tomorrow."

Rita looked at the painting, "Oh, and look at this lovely piece of food art the kids made."

All seems well and Lori begin to play some Super Mega Brawlers Turbo Fighter XXIV. Lori then thought to what her mother said should let the Velazquest family help her out they didn't keep her sibs under control but they did clean up Lincoln's mess. That had to count for something right?

The End.