The story starts at the Loud House. The kids are having a sibling meeting in Lori and Leni's room.
"And finally, the motion to ration shampoo due to chronic shortages passed... by a hair!" Luan said and laughs as her siblings groan at her joke.
Lori stands at a sewing table, "So, the minutes from our last meeting are approved." She bangs shoe on Leni's sewing table like a gavel, "Any new business?" Lincoln raises his hand. "Anyone? Anyone? No one?"
Lincoln gets agitated, "Lori!"
Lori giggles, "I'm just messing with you. Lincoln has the floor."
Lincoln stood up, "As you all know, our annual trip to Scratchy Bottom Campgrounds is quickly approaching."
The girls groan.
"That place is the worst. Bears always steal our food." Lynn said and plays with Lily's arms.
Lily roars like a bear.
"And we have to sleep on the hard ground!" Leni complained.
"And poop in the woods!" Lola complained.
"I like pooping in the woods." Lana said happily.
"And the Dipterum Culicidae are the size of Mustelas Nivalis." Lisa said. The others look at her confused with crickets chirping. "The mosquitoes are the size of weasels."
Lincoln got scared, "And don't forget the scary hill people hiding in the trees!" He imagines the hill people.
Lori rolled her eyes, "There's no such thing as hill people, Lincoln."
Lincoln wave her off, "My point is, why can't we go someplace different like..." He holds up two brochures, "...Aloha Beach or Dairyland Amusement Park?"
The tagline for Dairyland is "So UDDER-ly fun, you'll spill your milk!"
Lori gave a deadpan look, "Because Mom and Dad will never go for it."
Lincoln looked confused, "How do we know? We've never asked."
The others seem to like the idea.
Lori rolled her eyes again, "Fine. All in favor of Lincoln wasting his time and asking Mom and Dad?"
Lincoln and the other girls raise their hands.
Lori sighs, "Motion passes." She bangs her shoe.
Lincoln has just asked his parents.
Rita smiles, "Fine with us, sweetie."
Lynn Sr. nodded in agreement, "Sure, son. I don't see why not."
Lincoln has told them the news and all except Lori are cheering.
Lori puts her hands on her hips, "So? Which is it? Aloha Beach or Dairyland?"
Lincoln looks at both brochures, "Oh. They didn't say. I guess it's up to us to decide. All in favor of Aloha Beach?" Lori, Leni, Lucy, Lola, and Lily raise their hands, "One, two, three, four, five..."
Luna is surprised Lucy voted for Aloha Beach, "You wanna go to the beach, Lucy?"
Lucy looked at Luna, "Two words: "Shark Attacks"."
"All in favor of Dairyland?" Lincoln asked. Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lana, and Lisa raise their hands, "One, two, three, four, five."
"It's five against five! We win!" Leni cheered.
Lynn fold her arms and annoyed, "It's a tie, Leni."
"Wait a minute. Lincoln didn't vote." Lola pointed out.
Lori leaned in, "Well, Lincoln, what's it gonna be?"
Lincoln looked at the both brochures again, "It's so hard to choose. I really like the beach." The beach sisters cheer while the Dairyland sisters complain, "But I love Dairyland." The Dairyland sisters cheer while the beach sisters complain, "I don't know. I can't decide. We need a fair way to come to a choice."
Jumps to the Velazquest House.
It was early on a Saturday morning, and the Velazquest siblings had been awake since just before five. They've been watching 90's cartoons. Leo was about to ask what they should watch next, but stopped when someone knocked on the door. Milton was the closes to the door therefore, had no choice but to answer. Not that he thought twice about it. Someone's knocking, what are you supposed to do, right?
Bad move.
As soon as he twisted the knob, the door was wrenched out of his hand and he was yanked over the threshold by ten angry sets of hands. The Loud girls, all talking over each other Lincoln was trying to calm down his sisters surrounded him like a group of flesh hungry zombies falling on some hapless heroes, and Milton cringed. Welp, it's been a good run.
"Quiet!" Delilah screamed, and a hush settled over them.
"What's going on?" Luis asked.
"We didn't do anything, we swear." Charlie plead. "At least I didn't, I dunno about Larry. What'd you do to them, Larry?"
He shoved Larry for possibly angering the Louds in some way, shape, or form, and Larry glared, then shoved him back. Charlie started to lunge for him, but Lori silenced him, "We need help! Half of us want to go Aloha Beach and the other half Dairyland." Lori rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, one hip cocked to the side, "Lincoln is the tie breaker, but he can't choose." Lori explained, "That's where you guys come in."
"Yeah!" Lynn said, "You guys can break our tie."
Leo gave a deadpan look, "We're not doing it. If we choose, we're going to have everyone who didn't get what they want out for our blood. That's not gonna happen."
"Oh, we won't do that." Lori said dismissively.
"Yes." Johnny said, "You will, and we're not into it. We're sitting this out and you guys can decide."
"Wait!" Frankie called, "Listen, I have an idea."
Everyone fell silent.
"I know how we can break the tie." Frankie said.
"How?" Leni asked.
Frankie looked at his siblings and grinned. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? he seemed to ask.
The others look at him before grinning too.
The Velazquest and Louds are now in the living room.
"Whenever we have a tie." Leo said.
"There's only one way to settle it dudes." Tommy said.
"You guys are gonna love it!" Larry cheered.
Frankie reveals he's got a raffle machine with ping-pong balls.
"Each ball is color coded, whoever colors comes out first gets their vote doubled." David said.
"OK, here we go." Milton said and turns it, "Round and round she goes. Who's which wins? Nobody knows." Milton stops turning and Frankie grabs the ball that drops out.
Frankie shows a purple ball, "Luna wins!"
Luna gave the devil horn, "Rocking! We're going to Dairyland!"
The Loud siblings perked up.
Delilah smiled and put her hands on her hips, "Well congrats! Have fun at Dairyland."
Lincoln jumped, "Wait! Since you guys help us why not come with us to Dairyland?"
The Velazquest siblings looked at each other before smiling and that's how the Louds ended the debate.
Dairyland was the best theme park ever! Roller coasters, and fluttering flags, Booths, kiddie rides, and other attractions flanked a wide, dusty midway crammed with people. Kids with ice cream smeared across their lips ran wild like animals released from the world's strangest zoo, women in light, summary clothes pushed red-faced toddlers in strollers, and a fat man devoured huge clumps of cotton candy from a stick. Dull-eyed carnies watched marks try (and fail) to beat rigged games.
Lynn Sr. pulled the van into the crowded parking lot and they all climbed out. As soon as they got through the main gate, Lynn, Rita, Jason and Elizabeth went to the new Sweetheart Land while the kids made their own group Lori grabbed Leo's arm, "We'll be on the new Dairyland links." She smiled, "Everyone knows the groups right?"
Leni fisted her hands to her chest in excitement and bounced up and down, "Tots! You and Leo, me and Davey, Luna and Tommy, Luan and Milton, Lynn and Johnny, Linky and Delilah, Lucy and Luis, Lola and Lana are with Charlie and Larry, and finally Lisa and Frankie."
Lola's face dropped into a deep glower, "You forgot about Lily and Sammy."
Leni pouted, "Dang it."
Lynn smiled, "Don't worry, Johnny and I will watch the pipsqueaks."
Johnny jumped, "We will?!"
Lynn pated Johnny's back hard, "Yeah we're so awesome! We can watch them and go on tons of rides."
Lucy slides up next to Luis and looked up at him. Her expression was blank and her eyes hidden behind her bangs, but he could sense her gaze anyway. "That's where we're going." Lucy pointed towards pass him, across the park, there was a haunted mansion attraction. It had a grove of dead trees like a rotting face. Its roof sagged in the middle as if underneath the weight of years and strips of faded paint peeled from its decaying walls like dead skin.
Luis smiled, "Wicked."
"I'm like a ghost in a cemetery. I'm so excited I could die." Lucy said.
Lynn leaned over to Lucy and mussed Lucy's hair, "I thought you were a loser."
"Get off of me." Lucy said. She twisted around and wiggled her fingers like a wizard shooting lightning at an enemy.
Lola threw her head back, "Lucy's hexing people again!"
Lisa sighed, "Lola, I've told you, there is no such thing as black magic. Or white magic, for that matter. Belief in such is fed by superstition and lack of education. Those two things, I might add, are what one should really concern themselves with."
Lincoln clapped, "Come on guys we're breaking daylight! Let's have fun!"
The two families cheered and split up.
The mini golf course was Lori and Leo's destination. Leo stood in line next to Lori and craned his neck to get a better look at the layout; he hadn't been mini golfing in awhile and had no idea what to expect from this course. A split rail fence edged the green, and beyond, a zigzagging maze of walls, lanes, windmills, tubes, and tunnels surrounded each hole. "I appreciate you guys helping us." Lori said as she hugged her boyfriend, "I've been dying to get out here ever since Carol told me they were building a mini golf course."
"No problem Queen of No." Leo said before smirking, "Mini golf is fun. Hope your ready to lose!"
"Oh are you literally saying you can beat me at golf?" Lori asked with a completive look in her eyes.
Leo gave her completive look back, "Yeah I'm monobrow.~"
Lori gasped Leo used the nickname, "Ooooh! It's on Leo Lion Lollipop!"
When they reached the booth, Lori paid and took two clubs and two balls. She handed one of each to Leo, and he turned the club over in his hands he hadn't held on since GTA 5.
"Ok how you want your butt kicking? Give your a chance or destroy you?" Leo said as they made their way toward the first hole.
"Yeah, I'm gonna be doing the destroying around here." Lori said walking by his side.
"So how's Carol been awhile since you brought her up?" Leo asked.
"Carol doing fine. We play a lot of golf together." She uttered an easy laugh, "Carol kicked my butt in a golf tournament awhile back, Leni was even cheering for me." Lori did a Leni impression, "Yay, Lori! You got way more points than Carol."
Leo laughs, "Guess you'll have to explain golf scoring again."
Lori giggled, "Ya now let's play."
The first hole of the day was also the easiest. Ten feet separated the tee from the cup.
Bending at the waist, she drew her club back and lightly tapped the ball. It rolled over the turf and sank into the hole.
"You're turn," she chirped.
Leo took her place. He drew the club back and let fly with all of his might: The ball shot through the air like a bullet, sailed over a low hedge, and disappeared into the water park. "MY Leg!" someone cried, and Leo winced. Whoops.
"Uh...why?" Lori asked, a patronizing hilt in her voice.
"Umm I guess I hit it to hard. Kind used to playing golf mostly in video games." Leo rubbed his head.
Lori pinched the bridge of her nose, "Leo..video game golf and real golf are literally different. How rusty are you?"
Leo blinked, "Very."
Leo wasn't kidding when he said he was rusty. Every putt he made overshot, undershot, or sideshot. Once, the ball even rolled over the hole but didn't go in. "Come on!" he cried and threw the club away. He kicked the air and threw a frustrated punch at the concept of golf itself. Lori crossed her arms and enjoyed the show with a bemused smile on her face. She kept track of their totals on a scorecard at first, then stopped when Leo losing went from inevitable to a foregone conclusion.
The last hole was the hardest. You had to hit the ball through a windmill, whereupon the track sloped up, then bent almost 180 degrees, then back down again before filtering out in the green. Lori went first. Leo watched the ball make its way to the cup, and a petty, spiteful part of him hoped she missed.
She didn't.
"Your turn." She smirked.
He sighed. Alright, one shot...please, make one shot.
Taking a deep breath, he putted. The ball rolled toward the opening of the windmill, then, impossibly, curved left and came back, bumping against his foot and coming to rest like a proud dog who had just completed an arduous task for its master. Here's that loss you wanted. He slumped his shoulders, hung his head, and took a deep, calming breath. Oh well. You can't win them all.
Lori laughed and gave his back a consoling pat. "You did good for being rusty." She offered.
Leo pouted.
Lori smirked, "D'aww, now isn't that such a adorable face...you know Leo Lion Lollipop, you always look so cute when you don't get your way.~"
"There!" Leni cried in David's ear. He winced and narrowed his eyes. She pointed and jumped excitedly up and down. Her face positively glowed and David found it impossible to be upset with her, even though she had dragged him from one side of the park to the other and back again in search of the go-kart track. The best part was: It wasn't hiding. All you had to do was face north-northwest and you'd see it. Leni, however, kept missing it, and no matter how much he tried to help her, she threw up her hand and insisted on doing it herself, "I can find it," she said resolutely, "So it's up to me."
"But, Leni," he started, "it's right -"
She fixed him with a withering gaze. "Up. To. Me." She pronounced each word slowly so he got her gist.
Sigh.
Okay.
"Let's go," she said now. She grabbed him around the wrist with surprising strength and pulled him toward the metal barriers defining the track. Beyond, the pavement twisted, turned, and flowed over lumpy, wave-like hills. Go-karts painted happy colors zipped by and Leni's grip tightened. "I can't wait to let 'er rip." A mad smile spread across her face and David excitedly wetted his lips. Leni was sweet, kind and...well...cute, but she wasn't exactly the most, uh, trustable person when it came to handling potentially dangerous equipment. He flashed back to the Great Buzzsaw Calamity and shuddered. Never forget, the Louds vowed, never again.
"Uh, Leni, are -"
"Hush, Davey." She said, "I, like, need to get in the zone."
Leni took a series of deep breaths and swept her hands up and down in front of her (wah-lah) like she was trying to sniff the air.
When they reached the front of the line, Leni handed the man hers and David's ticket and took two helmets. "Thank you, Mr. Drivey Man," she said.
Another man, this one in a blue polo with PIT CREW across the left breast in white, strapped him and Leni into their own go-karts, gave their safety harnesses a sharp jerk to make sure they were secure, then checked their helmets. Leni gripped the wheel and trembled like a high tension wire, her teeth bared in a big, giddy smile that was wholesome and appealing at the same time it was disconcerting.
"You looked excited." David said kinda liking this Leni.
She hummed. "I have, like, a need for speed. Going fast is fun." She bent over the wheel and turned it left and right. "The wind in my face, the roar of the engine thingie, the smell of burning up tires…"
"I wasn't aware I was dating Speed Racer." David joked.
Her head bobbed up and down. "Oh, yeah, I'm a huge racist."
David blinked, "Uh...you mean race enthusiast?"
"Yep," she said, "I'm a proud racist."
A Hispanic man in the cart next to Leni's turned to look at her, his features pinched in disapproval.
"No, Leni, you're not a racist." David explained.
Leni gasped. "Yes I am, and when they say go, I'm going to prove it."
"No, I mean -"
The gate blocking the track from pit road opened, and the light beside it turned green. Before David could even register what was happening, Leni stomped on the gas and her car rocketed forward. "Eat my dust, Davey!" She cried over her shoulder. She shot through the gate and turned right, the other drivers falling in behind. For a second, he sat there, stunned, then gunned the engine. The car surged out of pit road, and he spun the wheel to keep from losing control, the back tires slipping and screeching on the blacktop. He'd show her how to eat dust...and not by eating it himself!
Weaving in and out of traffic, he caught up to Leni quickly. When he tried to pass him, she swerved and tried to him him. His heart jumped into his throat and he jerked the wheel to the right, his front end narrowly missing Leni's. She let out a high, insane cackle and pulled ahead. "I'm FAST!" she yelled.
David narrowed his eyes to devious slits and pressed the gas pedal to the floor. She might be fast, but she wasn't fast enough.
He drew alongside her, and she whipped her head around. Giggling madly, she tried to hit him again, but he tapped the brakes and fell back, then hit the gas again and blasted forward. When his front end was even with her back end, he jerked the wheel left and crashed into her. Her cart started to spin and she held onto the wheel for dear life. "AHHHH, NO!" David looked back just as another driver slammed into her. Another hit the first, and soon, the track was littered with crashed cars and prone bodies. Leni sat dazedly among the wreckage and rubbed her forehead. "I think I went too fast."
After they were inevitably thrown out, they made their way toward the concession stands, David laughed, "That was crazy! You went Mad Max on that track!"
"OMGosh! I know right?" Leni said, "That was totes fun. You were fast." She hugged David and he returned it.
Well, at least she was happy.
In a forest of game cabinets crowded the dimly lit space. Skee ball tables lined one concrete wall and kids packed close to the most popular games three and four deep, their faces flushed from the heat. Luna and Tommy were on two adjacent DDR platforms. Each held a plastic guitar connected by a long cord to the Guitar Hero cabinet next door.
"Ok, dude ready to rock?" Luna asked.
Tommy's eyes darted from the guitar to the flashing arrow pads beneath his feet, "I'm ready Luna Eclipse, but what are we doing?"
"DDR Hero," Luna said. "I made it up myself. You play the guitar and dance. It's epic hard."
She and Tommy began playing. Tommy was good at both games, but he was overwhelmed by doing them at once and wound up tripping and falling off the platform with a breathless off. Luna stomped left, then right, cut a sick cord, then spun around and did some kind of cha-cha-slide. Tommy jumped up to his feet and grabbed his guitar.
"Just don't think about it," Luna said. "Let the rhythm flow through you and just...vibe."
Just vibe.
Right.
The music started and the display screen lit up. Arrows scrolled past, slow at first, then faster. He stepped right, left, back, his fingers flying across the fretboard to keep up with the song. "You're doing great!" Luna called. His heart was racing, his lungs throbbing, sweat trickling down the back of his neck. The arrows were getting faster, faster. Tommy's eyes focused on both screens eyes. The entire background goes purple blue sans Luna and Tommy, who outlines are shown as vivid colors, "Focus on the tunes and listen as you jam!"
After the song ended both rockers let out breath.
"Wow that was wild." Tommy panted.
"I know bro, wanna play some Mortal Kombat dude?" Luna asked.
Tommy smiled, "That sounds rocking!"
Luan and Milton were looking for games to play.
"Your turn to pick a game Milton." Luan said out while looking away around.
Milton started to consider what game he was going to pick bringing his hand up to his chin to think. He suddenly snaps his fingers and states, "I know what game to play Luan, follow me." Milton then darts off with her following behind.
Milton and Luan made it to the Chocolate Milk Dunk Tank. Once there Milton got three balls off of the employee.
"What's this, you can't hope to dunk me in." Tippy said sitting above in the chocolate milk dunk tank.
Milton misses his first shot. His second shot goes the same as the first much to the man's amusement.
"You throw as well as your girlfriend does stand up." The man taunts causing Milton to narrow his eyes in anger. Taking a deep breath, Milton winds up his shot and sends it flying hitting the target dead on sending the cow on the seat plunging into the water.
Luan and Milton burst into cheers as Luan hugs her boyfriend, "You showed him Milton." Luan congratulated Milton as she squeezed him. "What a 'wave' to make him eat his words." Luan jokes with a pun causing Milton to give a little chuckle.
Luan decided she was going to try this game and step up to get the balls. It took Milton by surprise when she hit the target every time, she didn't even break a sweat. "That was a piece of pie'." Luan says turning to Milton surprised expression. Seeing him Luan just shrugs her shoulders and says "What? I throw pies in people's faces all the time, I need to have good aim to hit them directly."
Johnny jumped onto the bench then leapt over the side. He hit the ground, and took off pushing himself faster. Ahead, Lynn ducked in and out of the crowd thronging the breezeway. People jumped back and yelled, but she didn't stop, didn't even slow.
They were on running around the park making their way to all of the stuff Lynn wanted to do. When Lynn suggested watching Lily and Sammy, Johnny arched his brow, Lynn wasn't the kind of girl who liked babysitting, but hey, maybe she wanted to be more mature.
Nope.
She wanted brownie points on looking mature.
Ahead, spun around an old woman supporting herself with a walker, and jumped onto a hotdog cart. An Tippy ran over, yelling and waving his arms, and Lynn sprang off, knees bending as she sailed over the floor. She landed and kept going. Johnny's kept up easily, thanks to playing with Lynn he was quite fit.
Lynn stopped right outside of a rollercoaster, "Finally, Whipped Scream, here we come!"
Johnny stopped by his girlfriend and looked up.
Lynn pulled out her phone, "I can't wait to ride Whipped Scream Margo told me about." She shows a video of said roller coaster, "I watched this like a million times." She turns to the rollercoaster, "Aren't you pumped for this Johnny?"
Fear whimpers softly as he looks at the huge ride.
Lynn looks excited, while Johnny stands still showing a nervous look, "Yup, or you have fun on Whipped Scream and I go have fun on the the bumper cars."
Johnny tries to walk away, but Lynn grabs his hand, "Wait, aren't you coming with me?"
Johnny chuckled, "Okay, I am just gonna be honest with you Lynn, rollercoasters scare me." Johnny inhales deeply, "I don't want to go on Whipped Scream."
Lynn starts laughing her butts off. She then points at Johnny, "What a total wimp! Man I thought I dated a tough boyfriend? Boy was I wrong?"
Sadness teared up, "Wimp?"
Anger throws a chair, "You think we're a wimp ponytail? I'll show you who's a wimpy!"
Johnny grew angry, "I'm no wimp!"
Lynn starts doing a chicken dance, "Yeah you are, you're a wimpy chicken!" She clucks to get her point across.
Anger's head is igniting, "WHAT!?"
Johnny's fists turned white do to his grip.
"Well Johnny I can't date a chicken like you, so we gotta break up. I'm gonna hit the big kid ride. Johnny, you can go ride the Li'l Skimmer." Lynn said before pointing towards a toddler boy riding on a moving Milk Carton that just rocks back and forth while his bored mom looks at her phone.
"Yay!" The Toddler cheered.
Anger snapped, "THAT'S IT!"
Johnny had fire in his eyes, "Excuse me? Are you talking at me? Did you cluck at me? Did you ask me to help you? Did you bring me here? And you're walking out on me? I don't think so. Not right now. You're wanna go on a roller-coaster you got your wish we're going on every ride, SO SIT DOWN!"
Johnny grabbed Lynn's arm and dragged her to Whipped Scream unknown to Johnny, Lynn was smirking and blushing.
Inside Whipped Scream, a large group of passengers are on the platform waiting. The tracks clatter as the cars arrive and stop. The passengers swap places. A buzzer honks and the cars leave. Meanwhile, Lynn and Johnny are waiting.
"You sure you can handle the ride champ?" Lynn asked smirking.
Johnny smirked back, "I can handle it ponytail."
The cars arrive and Lynn and Johnny get in a buzzer goes off an the cars take off. Both Lynn and Johnny look forward in excitement when they get to the top, it stops for a moment. "Bring it." Johnny said.
The coaster starts again as Lynn and Johnny start to scream, dropping and taking tight turns and doing a loop and going upside down and on it's side. Lynn and Johnny are yelling. When the coaster drops at a 90° angle, Lynn and Johnny's clothes fly through the air while their bodies go down with the coaster. Their clothes fly at them as they go up out of the water, but when they sit up, they have the other one's clothes. Lynn and Johnny start to yowl. The coaster drops into the ground, causing an explosion. When the ride is over, Lynn & Johnny are shaking.
Johnny was the first to speak, "Woohoo! Lynn, that was incredible! Thanks to you, I love roller-coasters!"
Lynn Laughed, "I knew I could get you on one! Let's go on more rides!"
Lynn and Johnny cheer and run to go on more rides.
Cut to the entrance of Log Tose Intolerant, then to Lincoln and Delilah on the ride.
Ride Operator looked dull, "Welcome to Log Tose Intolerant, the water-based flume ride for the log tose intolerant." He slurps his drink, "Please keep all hooves, bells, and udders inside the log at all times. Moo."
The operator then strap them in and then the operator pushes a button, starting the ride. As the milk-bottle log makes its way to the top of the lifthill, Lincoln looks amazing at the view before they take the drop down.
Lincoln and Delilah excitedly let out a, "YEAH!"
The log makes a splash, transitioning to Lincoln and Delilah photo displayed on a screen. With all of them drenched, Lincoln was about to to pick up that said photo.
Delilah stopped him and pulled out her phone and took a picture of the phone.
Lincoln grabs Delilah's hand "Let's go to next ride." Lincoln dragged Delilah off.
Now they're at the Cheese Wheel. They take their seats and get strapped via the same operator from earlier. The ride begins. They're raised up, and then it starts spinning.
Lincoln starts getting dizzy, "Delilah, I'm getting dizzy!"
Delilah laughed, "I know it's epic right?" She looks to the operator, "Can we go faster?!"
The operator shrugs and makes the ride go faster.
Delilah laughs like a mad woman, "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!"
Unfortunately Lincoln didn't feel the same way. Lincoln tries yelling over the speed, "CAN... WE... STOP... GOING... FASTER?!"
The Ride Operator misheard his plea, "You want it faster? Well, OK."
He makes the ride even faster than ever. Now they are at Dunk a Cookie. Lincoln shoots the milk gun directly at the target, being a cookie, and knocks it down. The bell dings, and he and Delilah laugh victoriously. Lincoln points to his prize, which is a Tippy plush The same operator takes it down from the shelf and hands it to him.
Delilah looked towards their map, "Ok Love Bug is the chocolate milk shaker."
Later, at the chocolate milk shaker the Ride Announcer gets ready to start the ride, "Please keep all hooves, bells, and udders inside the log at all times. Moo." The operator then strap them in and then the operator pushes a button, starting the ride, "Let's get shaking."
Lincoln and Delilah start getting shaken by the ride. Later they are all walking along.
Lincoln laughed, "This has been great! We've been on so many rides and I wouldn't be here If you guys didn't help thanks Delilah."
Delilah giggled, "Maybe you guys should come to us for more help I got a free trip out of this."
Lincoln liked that idea more time with Delilah was always great. He then decided to man up and hold her hand for the first time...today.
Luis grew thirsty after eating so many Dairyland cheeses he made a B-line for the concession stands, throat parched he bought a Dairy-ana Grande Iced Cheese-uccino, Lucy popped up in front of him, and he continued drinking. "Luis," she said in that flat monotone, "Can we go to the haunted mansion now?"
Luis was following Lucy towards haunted mansion they passed a tumbledown chain link fence enclosing the overgrown yard. The mansion loomed over them like a hungry monster, its windows broken and its porch deeply bowed. Lucy slipped through the grass like a small, self-assured mammal and Luis casted a look over to the door noticing the closed down sign, "Weird wasn't this haunted mansion just build?" He asked Lucy.
Lucy shook her head, "They must have closed it after a person was killed. We're gonna see a ghost for sure." Lucy said. The planks creaked under her feet and the hinges shrieked when she opened the back door. Inside, perpetual gloom held sway, broken only by shafts of faint sunlight falling through ruined portions of the ceiling. The floor had turned soft and spongy in places from decades of rainfall, and the nauseating stench of mold and earth plugged Luis's nose. Rats thumped unseen in the walls and water dripped somewhere in the darkness, lending the parlor a subterranean air. "If you were a ghost, where would you hang out?" Lucy asked.
"The Basement." Lucy and Luis said as one. Lucy's lips turned up in a tiny grin. Lucy looked for the basement.
Luis was about to follow, but thought he heard something. He noticed Lucy was already heading to the basement and choose to ignore the nagging feeling he got.
Downstairs, the blackness was total, disorienting. A stale draft blew over them and the concrete floor scraped beneath their shoes. They walked in circles, Lucy occasionally calling out, "Spirits...to me!" Before long, she deflated and sat against the wall, her knees drawn to her chest, "There aren't any spirits here." She said glumly. "I'm starting to think there aren't spirits anywhere."
"Oh, don't be like that." Luis said, "Not every creepy looking house is going to be haunted. You just gotta keep on looking. You'll find a ghost eventually."
She sighed, "I guess." She turned in a rustle of clothes and Luis could feel her gaze hot on his face, "On the bright side, we can practice kissing while we're down here."
Luis smiled nervously, "W-Well I guess we could do that."
Luis leaned towards Lucy and she did the same their lips touched and they held them for a few moments.
Luis grabbed Lucy and was about to deepen the kiss, but heard something and pulled away.
"Aw, man, why you stop?" Lucy said bummed.
Luis got to his feet, "Who's dare?"
Suddenly three teenagers walked into the room, "Man, would you look at this? We gotta bunch of babies in our hang out."
Lucy got up and hid behind Luis.
"Hey," the leader said indignantly and shoved Luis, "You found out we made it look like this place is closed and made it our spot kid?"
"Say, boss," one of the others said, "This kid looks like he wants to get a beating."
Luis glared, "You don't wanna do this."
"Ohhh you think you're tough." the third one said, "Maybe we should take you out for lunch? I'm thinking of knuckle sandwiches."
The three teens stood around Luis and Lucy, "We can do this the hard way or the easy way." the boss said.
Luis brought Lucy closer, "What's the easy way?" Lucy asked.
"You hand us every you got and then walk away." the boss said.
The second guy poked Luis in the chest, "And you don't rat us out."
"What's the hard way?" Luis asked.
A slick, sickly smile spread across the boss's lips. "We beat the stuffing out of you, take what we want by force, and take your girlfriend."
The third guy punched his hand and grinned at Luis.
Sigh.
Luis was caught between a rock and a hard place here. On the one hand, he was a very proud guy who didn't like the thought of just rolling over and letting himself be victimized. He had his pride and self worth to think about here. On the other hand, he didn't particularly like the idea of Lucy being put in danger. He stopped, stroked his chin, and pursed his lips in thought. "Hmmm," Lucy said. " Sigh I guess we have to go with the easy way."
"You made the right call kid." the boss said, "Empty your pockets."
Luis emptied his pockets and Lucy did the same.
The three teenagers looked at the stuff.
The third guy cracked his knuckles, "I think their holding out on us. We should shake them down." he said.
Luis brought his fists up, "That's not what you said."
"Good idea, Sheldon," the boss. "Lionel, twist this guy's arm behind his back so I can work him over a little."
Grinning devilishly, the men all fell on Luis.
Luis looked to Lucy, "Get back I'll take care of this."
Luis ran to the pile of Luis and Lucy's stuff and grabbed his skateboard, "You ever watch extreme?" He hopped on and skated to a table. He jumped onto the side of the table and grind on it. He pulled a kickflip and sailed through the air.
He came down right on Sheldon's head.
Sheldon crumpled to the ground and lay there, wounded. "Hey!" Lionel yelled and jumped back. Luis jumped into the air, did a handstand, and caught his board on his feet. He spun around on his head like a top and kicked his feet. The board flew off his feet and smashed Lionel in the face. His head whipped to one side and blood spurted from his nose. The boss ran at Luis. Luis skated up to him and kicked the back of his board. It flipped up and caught The boss under his chin. His eyes rolled back into his head and he slumped limply over like a sack full of dirty diapers. Sheldon got up and tried to lunge at Luis, but he sidestepped him and stuck out his leg, tripping him. He crashed headfirst into the ground and groaned.
Luis stood over him, picked up his board, and brought it down across his back. He cried out and jerked like he'd just been shot. He got to his feet, staggered over to his friends, and helped them up. They cast a terrified look over their shoulders and ran away. "That's right." Luis called, "Come back whenever you want some more."
From the looks of pure horror on their faces, Lucy doubted they'd ever be back.
Luis walked up to Lucy and dusted his hands off, "We should let the staff know the place was taken over."
Lucy nodded before heading upstairs with Luis following her, "That was impressive, where did you learn that?" Lucy asked.
Luis shrugged, "YouTube video don't tell my family they'll freak."
She smiled at him, "Deal, don't my family about us getting jumped they'll freak." Together, they went upstairs and outside into the afternoon sunshine. Her hand kept brushing Luis's, and when her pinkie entwined with his finger he smiled.
The Loud twins and Velazquest twins were stopping outside one of the game stalls, they looked for a game to play. The game they tried first was quite simple, knockdown three milk bottles that are stacked in a pyramid shape and win a prize.
Both pair of twins run-up to the game.
"Lana, I want that tiara and I want it now!" Lola yelled at her twin pointing towards a tiara that was the prize for knocking down the tower of milk bottles three times.
"Chill Lols, all you have to do is knock down the tower, it will be easy!" Lana said while planting the appropriate fee onto the counter. The burly man running it smiles to himself and snaps up the money with more speed than he should have and exchanges it for 5 balls.
Lana picks one up and throws it missing far to the right. Lola, Charlie and Larry watch as each ball is thrown with all of them failing to knock the tower over once.
"Sorry kids, looks like you didn't win." The man behind the counter said with a contrasting smile on his face. Charlie and Larry could see tears fill both of the eyes of the twins.
The look on their faces is breaking their hearts and before the girls wanted to leave. Charlie find himself slamming down money on the counter.
"Don't worry girls, I've got this." Charlie say as the man behind the counter pops down 5 balls in front of him while mumbling something about stupid kids.
Charlie could feel Larry and the twin's eyes on my back as he pick up the first ball, feeling the weight along with the texture of it. With all his time doing magic tricks, he picked up a thing or two on how to beat games like this. The trick to beating this is quite simple actually, most people who play aim for the middle of the pyramid stack which only knocks down the top bottle, what you want to do is aim for the two bottles on the bottom.
Taking his own advice he throw the first ball and watch as it goes just wide. Well, that could have gone better he think as he hear three groans come from behind him.
The second ball he throw hits dead on and the tower comes down, perfect, one down two to go.
The third ball he throw has the same effect as the second, he hear a couple of cheers behind him as the tower comes down again.
Charlie start lining up the fourth ball and just as he let it fly the burly man slams his hand down on top of the counter he was standing beside. This caused me to throw the ball wide and miss the tower entirely.
Looking at him with a scowl, he just smiles and says, "Oops, my bad." holding up his arms in a surrender position.
Taking his last ball, he block out his surrounds, drowning out the smells and the noise of the carnival. With extreme focus and care, he toss the ball as hard as he can and watch as it flies through the air, hitting dead on.
A couple of whoops sound off behind me.
The burly man behind the counter scowls, "Fine, pick a prize kid and be quick about it." he says while leaning on the counter. There were a lot of cool things to pick from, but Charlie was doing this for a reason. Charlie point towards the tiara that was hanging up high.
Taking it out of the man's hand, Charlie turn around and hand it to Lola, the twin in the pink dress, "Here you go." He say with a smile.
"Thanks, Chip, that was totally awesome!" Lana says while jumping up and down.
"It was pretty amazing, not anyone could have done it." Charlie bragged trying to make a big deal out of it. Lola was just about to add something when Larry points to something else in the distance.
"Whoa, look at that!" Larry yelled he runs off.
Charlie jumped, "Larry, seriously? It's just the petting zoo. Come on."
Larry jumps on top of the gate outside the petting zoo, while the other three join her standing behind the gate.
The Animal Handler noticed them, "Hi, there. Wanna meet Ursula, the angriest cow in Michigan?"
"Heck, yeah, we do!" Lana yelled.
She gripped the railing and jumped up and down to see into the cow enclosure but couldn't quite get it. Larry helped his girlfriend Lana get on top of the gate to join him.
Ursula kicks her legs in rage and bellows. She spins around and crouches down, snorting and growling at the group.
"Whoa, she's so cool!" Lana cried.
The pair of twins look around the petting zoo. The animal smell of, well, animal wafted through the air. Lana ran excitedly from place to place, her eyes all big and shimmery, and the three did their best to keep up. As Lola and the boys were petting animals Lana however hears a bellow and a snort from Ursula in the distance.
"Ursula." Lana said. Lana runs towards Ursula with Ursula running around in her pen. Lana looks at Ursula she frowns, "Maybe she's angry cause no one pets her?" She unlocks the gate and looks around. She then opens the gate. Ursula walks out and bellows loudly, snorts and starts running. Lana jumps in shocked, "Hey wait?!"
In the heart of Dairyland, Tippy comes in the intercom Tippy, "Hey, hey, Dairylanders, it's your old pal, Tippy." The passengers stop and listen to the loudspeaker up high in the center. "No need to panic, but there's a wild, rampaging cow loose in the park."
The guests scream and run through the Dairyland turnstiles, including the Louds and Velazquests.
Larry stops as soon as he sees his family and friends again, "Guys! Are you ok?!"
Elizabeth hugged Larry, "It's ok sweet. We all managed to escape unharmed."
Everyone grew calmer, until.
Lola looked around worried, "Hey wait where's Lana?!"
Everyone grew worried.
Larry jumped away from his mother, "Oh no! Lana's in there with Ursula! We have to help her!" Larry tried to run off, but Lincoln went over, gripped his hips from behind, and lifted him off his feet. "Hold on," he warned, "We don't need another kid missing in danger."
Larry twisted around to look at him, his brow furrowing. "What?"
"I know you care about Lana, trust me we all love her, but we don't you to go running around getting hurt. We should wait til the staff gets the cow back in her pen. Everything will be ok Larry, I promise you." Lincoln said trying to comfort him.
Larry looks at Lincoln even tho he was trying to make him feel better he can see the sadness in his eyes, then hears a bellowing noise in the distance.
Larry gives a serious face, "Linc, I'll be right back, I promise."
Larry escapes Lincoln's grasp and he runs off and sees black cow footprints, leading to the entrance of the Seas of Cheese which is broken in. Larry runs inside. The whole place has been vandalized. The cow continues grunting while she holds a toy cow's head.
Larry glares at the cow, "Ursula, there you are. Let's put down the cow head and head back to your pen now."
Ursula crunches up the cow's head, bellows, and charges at Larry, who gasps and dodges. Ursula hits the wall. She turns her head, and then her legs to Larry again and charges. Larry sees a flag above him He pulls out his lassos and throws it at the flagpole and pulls himself up before the cow attacks. He jumps off the flagpole and lands on Ursula's back. He grabs her horns and starts riding. The cow runs about fiercely outside the building trying to shake him off.
"Whoa, girl!" Larry laughs as Ursula destroys a stand, "Nice move! But you can't knock off this cowboy!"
Ursula keeps trying to throw Larry off her back. Larry sees Ursula's pen right ahead and sees Lana looking around worried. Ursula growls and charges at Lana. Larry sees what Ursula is trying to do and gets ready to save Lana. Ursula gets closer to Lana, Larry pulls Ursula horns hard and Ursula slides right past Lana and back into her pen. With the cow inside, Larry quickly closes and locks the gate successfully just before the cow charges at him, but just hits her head on the gate. Tippy and the guests around Dairyland cheer and celebrate
Tippy patted the boy, "That was amazing!"
Larry sighs, "You're welcome. Now you can reopen the park."
Tippy nodded, "Oh, thanks, kid."
Lana walks up to Larry staring down at her feet like a naughty girl caught with her hand in the cookie jar, "Sorry I-I cause this." Lana's bottom lip began to quiver, "I let Ursula out please don't be mad." Lana said.
Larry looked to Lana and hugged her close, "It's ok. I'm just glad your ok."
Throwing her arms around Larry's back, Lana began to cry into Larry's chest.
Larry rubbed her, "It's ok Lana, let it out."
She cried harder.
The only way to calm Lana down was to carry her around. Larry bought her an ice cream bar shaped like Scooby-Doo, then gave her a piggyback ride til them made it back to their families. By the time they got back to the others, the families let them have it for making them worry.
After that the families went back to having fun. Lisa and Frankie were currently explore the rest of the park.
Frankie leads them to a game that requires you to bring a hammer down onto a point as hard as you can, a game called high striker.
"You can't be serious Frankie, a strength test, you know we are intelligent not athletic." Lisa complains with a look that screamed unimpressed.
"Fear not Lisa. I assure you I know what I'm doing." Frankie said.
"Fine, but I'm going first," Luna says while handing the employee in charge of the game some money.
She walks up to the designated area that you had to stand at and lines up her swing. The hammer comes down with a surprising amount of force and strikes the target head-on. We watch as the ball flies up the machine and stops around the sixteen mark, around four off hitting the bell. Lisa lets out a girlish cheer before calming herself before taking a bow.
"Wow Lisa, That was quite impressive," Frankie can't help find himself saying as he clapped. Lisa smiled and hands the hammer back to the employee.
Frankie wheels up for his turn and the hammer. He pays the employed some money. He started analyzing the game, this game is not about strength but about accuracy.
Frankie hold the mallet as far down the handle as he can and judge how far away he was from the stand, this gives him the best chance to hit the target dead-on.
Happy with his position he lift up the hammer and bring it down just where he wanted it. The hit had the desired effect as the ball soars up the machine and hits the bell letting out a loud ring as it hits it.
Smiling to himself he turn to see Lisa shocked face, "Great Einstein's ghost?! How did you do that?" Lisa asked while gesturing to the machine behind me.
"It's all about the accuracy, not at all about how hard you hit it," Frankie explain as he come back with his prize. Not knowing what to pick he just settled on a cool looking mask that had intricate designs on it, he believe it might be a Lucha Libre mask.
Once he reach where Lisa was standing, he noticed Lisa Looking at the prize he picked out with something akin to curiosity on her face.
Frankie gave a confused look, "Is something the matter?"
Lisa rubbed her chin, "No, but I find your prize interesting. If my fifth eldest sibling was here she would wish to claim such a prize."
"Your correct Lisa, why don't you have this, you can give this to your sport loving sibling. You did invite me here after all" Frankie says to her while offering the mask to her. A red blush explodes across her face as she accepts the gift and gets out a meek thank you while taking a step back and sees a firework show planned for a bit later.
"Frankie, would you like to watch the fireworks?" Lisa asked while looking away.
Frankie wondered why she asked that, but quickly dismissed it, "I would love too."
We jump to Lily and Sammy with their parents. Since they were babies they couldn't go on the big kid rides however they were allowed to go on ones that were safe.
Currently the two babies were front and center in front of a stage for a puppet show. Fifteen minutes later, Lily and Sammy saw two man crouched behind a wooden booth that look cobbled together. Nail heads stuck out at precarious angles and the whole thing leaned heavily to one side. The man lifted his hand over the stage and on it was a puppet of Tippy, "Hello I'm Tippy!" he said.
The other man did the same, "And I'm Heidi Heifer!"
"And together we are Tippy and Heidi Heifer!"
The Heidi Heifer puppet bumped into Tippy one, and the other man pushed it away. "Stop touching me."
"No, you stop touching me."
"Dude, stop, we're trying to put on a puppet show here," The man said soberly. He didn't want to fired cause his partner screw ups. The man pushed his hand, and the other retaliated. "Knock it off."
When the guy did it a third time, the first guy responded by balling his puppet hand and crashing it into the Heidi Heifer puppet. In a flash, they were locked up in a tangle of floppy limbs and frozen smiles. The other man wrenched the first hand to the side, and the first yelped. The babies clapped and laughed, Lilly pounding the grass and Sammy rolling back and forth on his back. They thought it was part of the show, but it wasn't; Both men were really fighting.
"Let go!" One of them hissed through his teeth.
"You're not ruining this for me!" The first man said.
The first man lunged at the other with a wavering scream. They fell into the booth, and it came apart in a shower of wood and nails. The first man got on top of the other and grabbed his puppet, but stopped when thunderous applause filled the night. Lily shrieked laughter and Sammy chanted, "Two men enter, one man leave! Two men enter, one man leave! Two men enter, one man leave!"
They got up, held hands, and bowed.
Jumping back to Lisa and Frankie. The destination soon became apparent as we arrive at the fire work show. The group got a text to meet up at the fireworks spot. As everyone regrouped Frankie felt Lisa touched his leg as they sat.
"Frankie?" Lisa said as she sat next to him with her hands resting in her lap.
"Yes?" Frankie asked his girlfriend.
"The fireworks should be starting momentarily." Lisa said.
A few minutes later, she nudged his arm. "There."
High above, a pinprick of brilliant lights flew across the sky, followed by another, and another still. Frankie craned his neck to see better and watched in wonder as multiple fireworks exploded across the heavens. "Wow!" Frankie breathed, "That's beautiful."
"I know," Lisa said, a hint of animation creeping into her voice. "Science is endlessly fascinating." She scooted next to him and her knee pressed into his. "And, I dare say, somewhat...romantic."
Frankie leaned into her, "I 100% agree." Frankie blushed as Lisa leaned into him as well.
They left Dairy Land just after full night had fallen. Stars twinkled in the sky like diamond flecks on black velvet and the lights up and down the street cast pools of murky illumination. The 22 children were all silent as the slowly fell asleep during the ride home.
THE END.