Happy Halloween, guys! We're finally giving you all the Loud House '23 halloween special...an hour before halloween ends!...yeah, this would've been out sooner had we'd not been rammed up the snootwhacker but it's here now! also OFB has been updated so feel free to give that a look see when you guys can!
"Oooh Nice outfit, Lincoln." Luan smiled, making him blush a little as she ran a hand through his gray hair. 'Dang, it even got on his eyebrows!' She thought. "Come on, Benny's parents will be here in a few minutes." She told him as she grabbed her bag and headed downstairs as Lincoln followed her.
Unaware that two of their children had been preparing to leave for the day, Rita and Lynn Sr. had already left the house 30 minutes before them to go grocery shopping.
"Lynn? What're we going to do about Lincoln?" Rita sighed as she started loading grocery bags into Vanzilla while her husband handed them to her. "I don't know, dear. But this whole nonsense with him is getting out of hand." He sighed as he closed the back hatch and dusted off his hands….only to see a crowd of angry people slowly approaching them.
"Uhhhh, Rita?...we may have some visitors on our hands." He said uncomfortably while checking his pockets in a panic for the keys as Rita had already gotten into the passenger seat.
"LOUD! YOUR SON HAS BEEN A MENACE ALL THROUGHOUT TOWN!" A large, burly, bluish gray skinned man shouted, grabbing him by the top of his head. "Uhhhh….What are you talking about, Mr. Gross?" Lynn questioned nervously as the crowd started to scream their grievances at the parents. "Your boy sanded down my tires and made me wreck on Main Street!"
"He drove away all my customers by disgusting them with live roaches he put in my kitchen!" Flip shouted as two guys in biker outfits walked up holding burnt bags. "Yeah, then he charred our burgers and fries!" One of them even pulled out a charred large soda cup. "He burnt my shake!" The bald one of the two sid as a heavily pregnant woman stumbled up to the van, crying heavily. "H-He made me experience the miracle of birth! Again and again and again!" She wailed
"Yeah, birth!" One guy said as the entire crowd started to clamor as Mr. Gross dropped Lynn and cracked his knuckles. "Listen here, Loud, if you don't control that boy of yours, then WE will, got it!?" He growled while getting all up in Lynn's face as Rita slid into the drivers seat, grabbed her husband by the collar and pulled him in before starting the van, quickly driving off.
"Lynn, that doesn't make any sense! How could he have done all that, he was in the shower when we left!" Rita exclaimed, not once stopping as it felt like all of Royal Woods had their eyes on them. "I-I don't know, honey. But we need to find out, maybe he used something from Lisa's room?" Lynn Sr. suggested as they pulled into their driveway as his wife looked at him. "It doesn't matter, right now, we need to start being more stern with him and the girls, cause this is getting too out of hand." She said with a hefty sigh as they both exited the vehicle and started grabbing grocery bags.
Rita and Lynn Sr. had called most of their daughters for a meeting in the living room save for Luan, who was gone, Leni, who was still at the hospital, and Lana, who was playing with Hops in the backyard.
"Alright, what's the big deal?" Lynn Jr. groaned while spinning a basketball on her finger, wanting to leave so she could practice her shots.
"...Girls…we need to talk about your brother." Rita sighed as Luna rolled her eyes. "Oh great, what did the little turd do THIS time?" She grumbled while Jr. shot her a glare when Lola let out a groan of her own. "Seriously? We were dragged down here because of that screw up?!" She exclaimed. "I have a pageant next week and I need all the time to train for it that I can get!"
"Big deal, you can live without one stupid pageant." Jr. scoffed.
"What did you say, you smelly ape!?" Lola growledd. "Hey, better an ape than a howler monkey." She shot back at the 7 year old.
"Why you!" Lola growled as Lori grabbed her. "ENOUGH!...Mom…dad… continue." She said as Lola struggled in Lori's grasp, only stopping in fear that her dress would tear.
"Thank you, Lori, now then…we need to discuss what we're going to do about Lincoln. He's caused all kinds of trouble across town due to this whole 'Professor Proofus' nonsense that started in Sweetsopolis." Rita sighed as Luna gave a smirk. "I say we kick him out, for real this time, not just lock him out for a night to teach him a lesson." She exclaimed, punching her palm.
"WHAT!?" Lynn Jr., Lisa and Lori all shouted.
"Luna! That's literally too harsh!" Lori said as Luna rolled her eyes. "Please, the 'man with the plan' can handle it, so I suggest not only do we kick him out, we send his ass to military school."
"Ahem." Lisa cleared her throat. "As much as you've probably seen that done in the media, being sent to military school is an honor and privilege, NOT a punishment. Besides, neither of our parental units would even be able to afford the cost of military school, nor would any militaristic academy accept taking him for such a profoundly stupid reason." She said with her arms crossed as Luna glared at her. "And since you brought that previous incident up, Lincoln is already aware that what we did, which in hindsight was BEYOND idiotic and pretty darn evil, is extremely illegal. So do you really think providing him with a chance to go to the police and get us arrested and sent to prison and a juvenile detention center is the smartest idea?" Lisa added, with a rather sarcastic edge to her tone. "That little punk deserves to be kicked out after all the crap he's caused us!"
"Pfft. Oh please, do you really mean that? Or are you just still being a salty, stuck up bitch cause your crush wasn't into chicks?" Lynn Jr. scoffed, surprising her parents with her sudden vulgar language. "Junior!" Their father exclaimed as Luna shot towards her younger sister, only for Lori to step in front of her. "Get outta my-"
"No! Her words were…rough…but Lynn's literally right. You've been treating him like complete crap ever since the mall. And for what? Cause the girl you like already had a boyfriend? Big freaking deal! Get over it and move on!" She snapped as Luna balled her fists tightly, a sight which made Jr. stop spinning her ball and sit up with a serious look. "Go on, swing first. Give me a reason." She threatened Luna, who glared at her and then back at Lori.
"Screw you." She spat out before angrily storming back upstairs, the sight of which made Rita sigh and pinch the bridge of her nose. "Did you really need to egg her on, girls?"
"Don't try to defend her, mom. She deserved it, she's been treating Lincoln like crap for the past 4 months!" Lynn Jr. exclaimed. "Or have you already forgotten she broke his teeth?"
"Junior, we're not defending her, we're ju-"
"Then what ARE you doing?! Ganging up on Lincoln AGAIN? I'll admit, we suck ass at being sisters when it comes to treating him right. But you two are just as bad as us, heck, you're probably worse than us!" She said, pointing at the two adults, who suddenly looked flabbergasted at having the topic now be directed at them. "Wh-What? Junior, we are not bad parents!"
"…The 'luck' incident would beg to differ…" They heard Lucy mutter quietly, trying to not have things turn to her.
"What?" Lynn Sr. said as Lucy sighed and repeated what she said. "I said the 'Luck' incident would beg to differ…or did you forget you approved it and actively participated in it with us?"
Rita and Lynn Sr. were speechless as they wracked their minds for something to say but realized they had nothing to say.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Lucy grumbled.
"But he's so obviously going crazy! He accused a sweet candy maker of being a super criminal and made US into public enemy number one!" Lola cried as Lori sighed.
"That shouldn't matter, the point is we've let Lincoln down before too many times in the past and now…all we did was just make things worse for him AND ourselves…like we always do…" She trailed off, starting to reflect and cringe internally at all the times she tried to 'persuade' him into dating her boyfriends little sister. '…In hindsight, I literally should've realized it'd be weird for my brother to date his future sister-in-law.' She thought with a shudder
"Wel….but…we….." Lynn Sr. stammered as he gave a sigh, all while neither he nor Rita had anything to say about the situation.
Lana was in the backyard playing in a mud puddle she had made with the hose with Hops sitting on her head.
"Alright! This mud pie's gonna be great, right Hops?" Lana said with a smile, looking at her frog who croaked happily…only to let out a deep growling croak much to Lana's confusion as she saw what or rather who he was growling at which was Lincoln, who was making his way inside the house.
"What's wrong, Hops? It's just Lincoln." She said as a small rumble of thunder was heard.
"Oooh! Rain! We can make more mud!" Lana smiled as it started to rain, only for it to be shortly followed by small flecks of hail, but Lana just ignored them in favor of her mud when she heard a loud splash from the front yard
"Huh?" Lana picked Hops up and walked over to the gate on the side of the house, noticing that it was starting to get dark as she opened the gate and walked into the front yard, looking around but not seeing anything that could've made the splash.
Hops gave a deep croak as if he was trying to warn Lana, but she paid him no mind as Lana saw a small girl around her age standing in the road, aimlessly stomping barefoot in deep puddles as the rain grew thicker.
"Hey, get out of the road!" Lana called out as the girl giggled without a care in the world as Lana saw a massive semi-truck barreling towards her.
"HEY!" Lana shouted as she ran forward into the road and tried to grab her, only for the girl to vanish and the truck to just barely miss her, instead scraping the brim of her hat and sending it flying away. Lana screamed falling backwards as she was splashed with rain water feeling her heart pounding like a steam engine as her entire body was violently shaking as Hops gave another croak in concern.
"I….I…..I….I'm…o…okay buddy." She stammered as she slowly stood up and nearly lost her balance as another truck roared past and vanished into the thick rain as Lana looked around desperately for her hat, realizing she was now on the other side of the street.
"W…what the heck?" She muttered as she quickly made her way back across the street and into her backyard before another truck could come when she suddenly heard a loud scream coming from the backdoor. "L-Lola?!" She cried out before sprinting to the back door, which was evidently locked as it refused to turn when she grabbed it. Looking down, Lana set Hops down and got on her knees before forcing her head through the doggy door.
"Mom?...Dad?" Lana called out as she made her way into the kitchen and saw that the whole area was dark and she could hear the sounds of wet dripping coming from her footsteps as, off in the distance, she could see the silhouette of her twin illuminated by the TV static. Pulling Hops inside through the doggy door, she set him on the kitchen counter. "Stay here." She whispered to her froggy friend as she very slowly walked to the dining room, the light from the TV showing a splatter stain across the table that sent chills down her spine as she peeked around the corner and saw her twin standing in front of the TV.
"...L….Lola?...is…is that you?" Lana asked softly with a gulp as Lola slowly turned her head around, making Lana pale as she saw her twin, drenched in blood.
"...You're next, Lana." She spoke in an eerie low tone that seemed to echo off the walls as she started to slowly walk towards Lana, brandishing a bloody knife.
Lana was frozen in fear, however, as Lola found herself being hit by Hops' tongue as he let out a loud screech trying to protect Lana, Lola scowled and threw the knife at the bullfrog, only for Lana to grab her little friend and take off running
"No use in running, Lana…I'll find you." She said, pulling the knife out of the wall and following her.
The front door opening drew the attention of everyone inside as they saw Lincoln coming in, a storm starting to form outside as he closed the door behind him.
"Lincoln! Young man, where have you been!?" Rita frowned, crossing her arms as Lincoln acted like none of them even existed as he walked upstairs, not once acknowledging any of them.
"Lincoln, get back here!" Rita shouted as Lynn Sr. frowned. "Lincoln, don't ignore your mother, get back down here, young man!" He exclaimed as Lori sighed. "I got this, I'll go and see what his deal is." She said, following Lincoln upstairs and seeing him close the door to his room. "Lincoln, you literally can't just ignore our parents when they're talking to you." She said, shaking her head as she grabbed the handle and opened the door.
What she expected was to see Lincoln on his bed… what she got was the desiccated and rotting body of her boyfriend Bobby Santiago.
"AHHHHHH!" Lori screamed, stumbling back as Bobby grabbed her ankle. "...L…..L….Lori….h….help….meeeeeee…" He groaned as he started to melt into a puddle of black liquid that started to slowly engulf Lori who fell to the floor as it slowly spread up her body as the door slammed shut.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS STUFF!?" She screamed as she tried to rip it off her body.
"Lori…." the ooze groaned in Bobby's voice.
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
"Lori"
It droned over and over as she covered her ears.
"STOP IT!" She yelled as she kicked Lincoln's door down and saw Lincoln…making out with Ronnie-Anne, whose skin was pale and bore a thick cut across her throat.
"Hey! A little privacy here?!" He snapped as she paled and threw up in digust at the sight she was seeing before realizing she was still sinking into the ground
"AHHH NO, SOMEONE HELP ME!" She shouted as Lincoln walked over and slammed his foot into her hand causing her to sink into the floor as Lori fell for what felt like hours into a dark abyss and landed in a deep pool of water. Panicking, she frantically swam up and gasped for air, looking around to see nothing but darkness
"Hello?"...Anyone!?" She shouted as her voice echoed throughout the area.
"YOU STUPID LITTLE TWERP!" Lori heard as she looked around for the source of the yelling.
"I always thought she was raised by trolls." Another voice spoke out as Lori gasped recognizing the voice.
"Li-Lincoln?" She questioned, trying to stay afloat as her brothers voice echoed out around her.
"YOU RUINED MY LIFE, YOU LITTLE BASTARD! BECAUSE OF YOU, BOBBY BROKE UP WITH ME!" Her voice echoed as Lori started to feel guilty as she remembered that she almost broke a table over Lincoln's head, all because Bobby dumped her for him insulting his little sister. 'She…she really was a bit harsh on him…and so was I…' She thought with a frown before Lori could say anything she felt a hand dragging her beneath the water.
Lucy and Lynn were worried, Lori had been upstairs for awhile and she had yet to come back down.
"...Lynn…I…I don't know why, but…I'm worried about Lincoln…I can't help but feel like…like something horrible will happen to him in the near future." Lucy hesitantly said, rubbing her shoulder.
"Relax sis, i'm sure everything's fine. Lincoln's just having an off day is all" Lynn said as she patted Lucy's other shoulder.
"...Lucy?..." They heard Lincoln speak. "I need to talk to you, it's…important…" He said as Lynn Sr. frowned. "Now wait just a minute, young man! Come down here now!" He said sternly, only to get no response from his son. Getting angry, the patriarch of the family took a step towards the stairs when Lucy let out a loud exaggerated sigh as she got up from the couch. "It's fine, dad." She said as Lucy made her way to the stairs and climbed up them. "Lincoln?"
"I'm in here." She heard him speak and raised a hidden eyebrow. 'Why is he in my bedroom?' She thought as she turned the doorknob and started to enter when she tripped on something and fell forward into the room, smacking her forehead on the floor as she curled up and groaned in pain, holding her head tightly as she suddenly felt the temperature around her drastically drop and reached out to push herself up, only to jerk her arm back as it made contact not with the floor, but with snow.
"Huh?" Lucy looked confused as she lifted her head, only to find herself in a seemingly endless field of snow, a thick blizzard obscuring her vision. "Wh-What the heck?" She said, taken aback by the sudden shift in her surroundings. "Hello?"
She called out, her voice muffled by the surrounding storm as she shielded her face from the snow.
Lowering them for a moment, Lucy made out a faint orange blur in the distance. "Lincoln?!" She called out, her voice drowned out as snow and wind screamed past her.
Lucy struggled as she forced her way to the blur, the snow around her reaching up to below her knees and rising as the blur got closer in her vision and took on her brother's familiar outline. "Lincoln! What's going-"
Suddenly, she was cut off as her brother turned around and hugged her tightly. "-on?"
"Lucy…" He spoke, but his voice sounded…off to her, like there was an echo. "Ever so loyal, until it inconveniences you or you join in from group mentality."
Suddenly, Lucy's head rang out in pain as images of past memories shot through her head, ranging from the sweet spot incident to the toilet clogging.
"Truthfully, I want to be completely mad at you for siding with them when they were against me…"
Pain shot through Lucy's back as she felt a force strike her back, like a blade cutting it open. She tried to scream but Lincoln merely held her head and pressed it into his shoulder, muffling any cries she released. Her eyes darted around frantically as she saw what appeared to be several of their sisters gathering around them, each one holding an object in their hands, with one appearing to be holding a 2x4 with a broken jagged end tipped in red. "But now I understand what things would've happened if you did…"
Pain wracked through Lucy's body once more, like slivers of glass carving trails across her skin and hot coals being raked across those same pathways., as she felt something warm start seeping from all over her body. "And now, I need to help you understand." He said softly, yet with a cold edge as Lucy suddenly felt a large amount of force strike the back of her neck, causing her to fall and convulse violently while Lincoln stood over her, watching calmly with a smile. "You need to understand…I need you to learn…" He said in a cold tone as Lucy found herself being buried under layers of snow and ice. Each snowflake that fell on her body felt like a thousand blades of razors slicing at her veins one by one, staining the snow crimson.
Lynn sat on the couch, her body a bit stiff ever since Lucy had gone upstairs. 'Something's not right. She should've been back down by now…and so should Lori.' She thought as another thing was gnawing in her mind, though she couldn't quite figure out what it was.
"I'm, uh, gonna use the bathroom." She said before jumping up and rushing up the stairs before either of her parents could say a word. "Alright, now I gotta find them…qu…ick?" Lynn said, looking around before sounding confused as she looked at the door to her room and seeing snow build up along the bottom crack. "What the hell?" She said before turning the knob and pushing, only for it to not budge. "What the hell?" She repeated, slamming her shoulder against the door. Getting angry, she rushed to the twins room and pulled out a tool belt from under Lana's bed. Grabbing a crowbar, she rushed back to her door and jimmied it between the door and frame.
"Lucy!" She exclaimed as she broke the door open…and found herself amongst a scorching hot desert. "What. The fuck?" She said as sand got into her eyes and she saw a mirage of herself bludgeoning Lincoln with her hockey stick. 'What is…wait…' She thought as the mirage Lynn raised the hockey stick again. She tried to grab it, only for her hand to phase through it as it struck Lincoln again, making him yelp in pain.
"Does it hurt, Lynn?" A voice whispered in the wind as hot sand filled her shoes and got caught in her clothes as it kicked up a sandstorm.
"What the hell is going on!?" She exclaimed as the sand cut into her skin.
"You will all die by my hands, each and every one of you." The voice said, echoing through the sandstorm as Lynn shielded her eyes. 'That voice…it's tone is higher, but…it sounds…like…oh, no…' She thought as a look of horror formed on her face.
"You can't stop me from killing them all, Lynn. Not this time, not ever again!"
The sandstorm grew more violent as Lynn saw a tornado forming above her, and much to her horror the tornado was in the shape of Lincoln's face as she was sucked into his mouth. Lynn screamed as she spun around in the twister of sand, choking on the grains as they forcefully entered her throat when she was suddenly thrown out of the tornado straight into the sky. "Shit shit shit shit SHIT!" Lynn screamed repeatedly as her ascension slowed down before she began rapidly descending. Fear filled her heart as she closed her eyes and braced herself for the upcoming impact when a scream tore through the high velocity winds. "Lucy?!" She exclaimed as she was suddenly flung to her side by what felt and sounded like an explosion as she slightly opened her eyes and saw a bright blue wave of energy wash over the desert and sky, transforming the area into a pitch black field of snow as Lynn crashed into a small mound.
Picking herself up, Lynn spat out some snow and saw a trail of small footsteps. "Shit! I'm coming, Lucy!" Lynn screamed as she marched through the thick layers of snow, following the trail of steps until she stopped, her heart dropping as she saw, amongst the endless field of white, a singular mound of snow colored in red.
"LUCY!" She screamed as she scrambled for the mound and started clawing away at it, staining both her hands and clothes in blood as saw a small bit of black and white stripes. "I got you, sis!" Lynn cried as she grabbed the stripes and pulled Lucy out by her arm, her heart dropping once more as she took in her sisters bloodied and battered form. Large portions of her dress had been shredded away, revealing a plethora of dark purple bruises, massive gashes and charred cuts, with most of her body bearing freshly healed scars that seem to have been made by sharpened blades. One of her shoes were missing and both stockings were torn, showing her legs had suffered a similar fate to the rest of her, with a ring shaped scar completely around her right knee and both thighs seemed to have been violently sliced by a razor blade. "Holy shit. Nonononono. Lucy, can you hear me? I'm here!" Lynn panicked, trying to get Lucy's attention when her heart dropped once more as she looked at her younger sisters neck and saw a dark black bruise along the right side of her neck. "No. Nononononononono…" Lynn muttered, horrified as she unconsciously reached out and gently touched the wound. Suddenly, Lucy violently shook in her arms, screaming and flailing her head around trying to break free. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
"LUCY! LUCY, IT'S ME, LYNN!" The sporty girl screamed as the snow shot up into pillars, melting back into water and refreezing as ice towers that were already starting to crack. "Shit! Sorry about this." Lynn told her still struggling sister as she raised her right arm and smacked Lucy's left cheek as hard as she could, the force of which sent Lucy on her side as the ice towers started rapidly melting, along with the snow, until both sisters were in a black empty void, until thin cracks started forming in the space around them as the sound of glass shattering filled Lynn's ears and she found herself and Lucy back in their room. "It's over…thank fuck, it's…" Lynn sighed in relief before turning back to the floor "Lucy!" She exclaimed as her younger sister slowly picked herself up off the ground. "Ugh…L-Lynn…" She groaned weakly as she looked up, her hair a complete knotted mess as she looked at her sister with half open eyes. "It's ok, Lucy…I'm right here." Lynn said shakily, wrapping her arms around her as she gently fixed her bangs, covering both eyes once more. "Lynn…ev…everything…hurts…" Lucy said slowly, her voice raspy and tired. "I know, sis. It'll be alright…I need to find Lori. She's probably going through the same thing we just did…are you ok with staying here for a bit, or do you want to come with me to save her?" She asked as her little sister suddenly held her hand tightly. "I-I don't want to be alone right now."
"Alright." Lynn nodded as she helped Lucy stand, her bloody legs trembling. "I'm gonna find Lori, you go see if anyone downstairs is going through the same thing. If something happens, scream. I'll come right to you." She told Lucy as she nervously nodded and both walked through the empty doorframe.
Luna slammed her door shut behind her, pissed off from Lynn's confrontation and Lori backing her up. "No good backstabbing fucks. That little shit doesn't deserve to be part of this family after all he's done to us." Luna growled as she sat down in her beanbag…..only to fall backwards into a field of dried dead grass.
"Ugh…..what the hell?" She muttered as she saw she was now in a massive empty field save for a Lone tree off in the distance. Going closer to the tree Luna saw a little girl with messy red hair sitting under the tree crying as Luna wanted to say something until she heard the voice of someone….familiar from behind her as Luna turned around and saw it was a younger version of her.
"Are you okay?" The child Luna asked the girl walking through the older one, as if she were a ghost., sending chills through her body. "Wh-What the hell is this?" She shuddered as the younger version of her crouched down to the crying redheads level. Luna could see that she had a black eye and was holding a bruised shoulder.
"Was someone picking on you?" The younger Luna asked, her voice echoing as the redhead raised her head to look at her, her blue eyes red and stained with tears. Looking closer, Luna could see a rather expensive looking flute in her hand that appeared to have taken quite a beating, given its heavily dented appearance. "I…I just wanted to play some music…" The girl whimpered with a small shudder as she watched the younger her sit next to the crying child. "I'm sorry. No one should pick on someone for playing music." Her echoey voice rang out as she gently laid a hand on top of the other girls. "I'm Luna." She introduced as the older Luna started to feel a heavy weight start forming in her chest. 'Is…Is this…' She thought as the redhead wiped one of her eyes and gave a weak attempt at a smile. "A-Amber…Amber-Lynn." The redhead introduced as the scene dissolved into sand. A gush of wind suddenly kicked up the dead grass, sending it spiraling around Luna like a hurricane until each blade vanished, revealing her surroundings had changed to the middle school.
"What the hell is this?" Luna said, shuddering as another chill ran down her spine, more intense than the previous one.
"Do you remember her?"
A voice rang through her head like a migraine as she fell to her knees, clutching the sides of her skull.
"She was your first friend, and you hers."
"Luna!"
Another voice cut off the one in her head, causing the pain to briefly cease as she turned around and saw a young teen with pale skin peppered with freckles, wearing a white short sleeved shirt and a frilly black skirt with blue sneakers. But what caught her attention the most was her hair, now died red and tied into pigtails. "Hey, A.L.!" Luna heard herself speak as another spectral version of herself walked through her, this one only a head shorter than the real one and wearing a pair of black shorts and her current shirt, oversized on her shorter stature and before she cut the long sleeves off. She also noticed the very fresh red bandages around her ear lobes. 'Was this when…'
"Luna, I had…what did you do to your ears?" Amber-Lynn asked as Luna leaned against her locker and scoffed it off, trying to look cool. "Oh, it's nothing. Just a little accident is all."
"On both ears?" Amber-Lynn questioned with a smirk and a raised eyebrow as the younger Luna looked at her blankly. "…Ok, I MAAAAY have met this girl Mazzy and…kinda took her up on an offer to…pierce my ears?" She said uneasily. "Luna, for real?! Do your parents know about this?!"
"…I MAAAAY have also just finished getting the holes done a few minutes ago?" She said with an innocent smile as Amber-Lynn facepalmed. "What am I gonna do with you?" She said with a sigh. "Nevermind that. I had an idea last night." She said before pulling out a notebook with a logo that was all too familiar to the older Luna.
"'Moon Goats'? This some of that wiccan crap I heard about?"
"No, dummy. It's a band name. I was thinking…maybe we could start one, you and I." Amber-Lynn said sheepishly, trying to hide a blush that went unnoticed by the younger Luna, but very much was by the older one.
"Hmm…we'd need more than just two people to start a band…" The younger Luna muttered. "Hey…I think that Mazzy girl said she practiced with drums while she was doing my ears!" She said, her face lighting up. "I think the band thing could take us places, A.L.! Nice thinkin'!" She said, patting Amber-Lynn on the shoulder as her blush deepened, almost matching the red color of her hair. "Th-Thanks, Luna…" She said with a nervous smile as the younger Luna pulled away. "I'm gonna go and ask her if she's up for it! I'll see you in class!" She said before turning and running off through the older Luna back the way she came. "…Sigh God, she's so cute." Luna stiffened as she heard Amber-Lynn's voice. 'Wh-What did she say?' She thought as she saw the redhead dissolve into sand
"And when you fulfilled her idea…"
The building suddenly shifted around her as she found herself in the gym of her old middle school, surrounded by shadowy figures standing in front of a stage, containing Mazzy, Sully and herself rocking out for the crowd, which was shouting in excitement. Luna squinted and could make out Amber-Lynn behind a stage curtain, holding a journal to her chest with a smile and blush on her face.
"…you wanted more…and more…"
A hole suddenly formed beneath Luna as she fell into a classroom. Groaning, she picked herself up and realized she was in her first classroom from high school. Hearing some rustling she turned her head and saw her now 15 year old self rummaging through a backpack before pulling out Amber-Lynn's journal and quickly pulling out her phone, frantically flipping pages and snapping photos of each one.
"You abused her trust and stole from her."
"N-no! I-I just needed to practice some songs we went over!" Luna denied as her younger self suddenly froze and turned her head to the older one, her eye sockets black and empty. "LIAR!" She screamed, her voice seeming to overlap with another. "You stole her songs and passed them off as your own! Then you gaslit her with her own metal issues to make her think that she did!" She roared, standing up and marching towards the older Luna as the desks shook and slid across the floor to the walls as she marched towards her. "No! I-I just needed to get in some more pract-"
"Stop LYING!" The younger Luna screamed, punching her older self and sending her into the wall behind her. "Lincoln was right to treat you like shit." The other Luna snapped, cutting her off and shocking her. "You act like some guardian angel who does anything to protect the one the love, but you're really just some spoiled little bitch who throws a fit and makes it everyones problem when you can't get your way. Clearly you're where Lola got it from."
"No I'm not! And he has no right acting like he's the one who's been wronged after-"
"There you go again. Blaming everyone else for your own shit! So what if he got you kicked out of a candy factory? You all got your family banned from every store in the town! You used to be so close to him, so why the hell did you start treating him like your personal punching bag like the rest of them?!" The younger Luna snapped as images flashed in the older one's head, starting with the image of a 7 year old Lincoln with a scraped cheek and a bloody knee, with an 11 year old version of herself bandaging him up with a sweet smile. It was then followed by an image of 4 year old Lincoln clinging to the back of a large lizard with wings flying in the air with an 8 year old Luna and a 6 year old Lynn clinging onto its tail with looks of fear. Finally, a third image took over her mind, this time of her, aged 6, giving a sleeping 2 year old Lincoln a small stuffed bunny.
"All you've done since the mall is throw a temper tantrum and take it out on him. You're a disgusting excuse of a person, and an even worse excuse of a sister!" She roared as Luna flinched from her tone.
"And you wonder why no one likes you. All you do is blame others, you NEVER admit when you screw up!" She yelled, trails of black and red rolling down from her tear ducts.
"No, I-"
"We need to talk about Luna." She suddenly heard behind her as she found herself outside Flip's Food & Fuel, where she saw Mazzy, Sully and Sam all conversing with food around them. "I don't know 'bout you two, but…screw it. I can't freakin' stand her anymore!" Sully snapped, making the other two girls stare at him quietly. "Ever since her bro had that episode, her attitude's taken a massive drop, even for her standards. I even heard she tried beating up the little dude 'cause of what happened!"
"…I gotta agree…" Mazzy spoke up, hesitating a bit to say it as Sam looked at her. "Sam, I know you haven't been part of the band long enough to fully know her, but Luna's been a bit…let's say 'fame hungry'…ever since our third gig. Don't tell anyone yet cause nothing's fully official…but give her attitude the past few years…and how Sully said she's been treating her little bro…we think it might be best if she…parts ways with the Moon Goats." Mazzy said, making Luna freeze up and gasp as the younger Luna walked around her, a cold, smug look on her face. "Even your own friends can't stand you. You're so toxic, you just drove everyone who cares about you away."
"Th…They can't…" Luna whispered with tears trailing down her cheeks as Sam looked down at her drink with a somber expression. "…Maybe you guys are right…" She muttered, shattering what already fragile bonds had been holding Luna's heart together. "We're gonna need to replace her, too." Sully added. "A new guitar player should be easy, but a new singer is the problem since Luna did all that, too, even if she sucked at it."
"Wh-What?" Luna then turned her head to the sole male member of the band, as did the other two girls. "Look, I'm sorry, but it HAD to be said. The girl sounds like she smokes a pack a day and her voice COULD work, if we were a freakin' death metal band." He said, raising his arms up defensively. "…Well, he's not entirely wrong about that…hey, how about that friend of hers… Am-something." Mazzy said, snapping her fingers as Luna noticed Sam stiffen.
"Amber-Lynn. And…I kinda like that, she's down to Earth, got a nice voice,…and given who her uncle is, she'd be bound to bring us attention." Sully said, leaning back while taking a bite out of a chili dog. "She might not be all that into it, though, given she's got a fee mental issues… and is a bit head over heels for the chick." She said casually as Luna felt a chill down her spine. 'Head over…'
"You noticed that, too?"
Sully then let out a chuckle. "Maz, that girl's followed Luna around like a lost puppy since third grade, I'd have to be mental not to see that she loves her!" He laughed as Luna replayed the previous moments in her head. "Amber…loves me?" She questioned as the younger Luna let out a giggle with a sarcastic giggle. "Don't get your hopes up, bitch. Keep watching."
"Guys…I don't think that's gonna be possible…" Sam interrupted as Sully wiped his mouth. "Oh, come on! Surely you've met the girl, she'd be great!"
"No…it's not that…" Sam muttered as she reached into her bag and pulled out a page of paper that made Luna's already broken heart drop and fracture further. It was filled with text on the lower half, a picture of Amber-Lynn square in the center…and the word 'MISSING' in bold at the top.
"She's been missing for a few weeks…" Sam said, her voice starting to echo as her skin started turning into sand. "No one's seen her and her parents are freaking out…" She said before dissolving completely, leaving behind only the missing persons poster, which Luna hesitantly grabbed with a shaky hand. "Mi…Missing?"
"Oh, don't look so shocked, Luna. After all, you should've expected this after what you did to her." The younger Luna said as the scenery shifted once more. "Oh, that reminds me… that leads right into your biggest sin." She said gleefully as the dust settled and Luna found herself…at the mall? Looking around, she saw herself, Lori and Luan sorting at a table in the food court, with Lori texting on her phone, Luan looking tired and rubbing her ears, and Luna herself looking mildly annoyed. "I can't believe the little dude did that to us, we're friggin' pariahs all over town."
"Tell me about it." Lori said with an eyeroll. "I'm literally considering asking mom and dad if I can do online schooling for the rest of the year."
"Doesn't that *Yawn* mean less time with your 'boo-boo bear'?" Luan teased tiredly as Lori rolled her eyes again. "Please, it means more time for me to facetime him while he's going to classes. By the way, you doing ok, you look a little pale?"
"…No…I'm gonna go to the bathroom in case I throw up." Luan said as she picked herself up and walked off.
"…Hey, Luna, isn't that the blonde girl in your band?" Lori said, looking past Luna as she turned around and saw Sam walking out of the food court with her phone up to her ear.
"You should literally go and ask her out." Lori encouraged as Luna turned back around and blushed. "I-I dunno, man. What if she says no? What if she's already heard about what went down at Sweetsopolis?" She asked nervously
"Then you try again after everything's cooled down. We're Loud's, Luna, and Loud women never back down!"
"…You…You're right."
"Naturally." Lori said smugly as Luna got out of the chair and speed walked down the path that she had seen Sam walk down as the actual Luna saw a dull orange head of hair turn and follow her as the floor beneath her started to move, pulling her along behind her past self as she came to a stop behind a corner where she saw Sam still talking on the phone. "You can do this, Lunes. Just walk up to her an-"
"Luna?"
Her past self stopped talking and looked up to see Amber-Lynn, her bright orange hair now flowing to her waist as she wore a blue dress with a black hoodie, with a pair of dress shoes and a pair of glasses with a thick frame. "Amber? What're you doing here?" The past Luna said, questioning her as Amber-Lynn nervously walked up to her. As a spectator, the real Luna could now see she was holding a note behind her back, along with a tulip…her favorite flower. "I-I was hoping we could talk…you we-weren't at school, but I saw you…you and your sister on the livestream for the Phantom Knight auditions…" She admitted, her face flustered. "A.L., could it…possibly wait a few, I'm trying to do something here." Past Luna said before taking a deep breath and beginning to turn the corner when Amber-Lynn suddenly grabbed her wrist.
"And so it begins, your greatest sin." The voice of the young Luna said, laughing in her head as past Luna tried to pull her arm out. "Please, it's important!"
"Let go, Amber! It can wait!" She said, her already grouchy mood rising as her struggling began to increase.
"Luna, please, just five mi-"
"I said LET GO!" Luna snapped as she rather forcefully slammed her open palm into Amber-Lynn's chest, pushing her back a few inches as she let go of her wrist and fell back on the floor, coughing violently. "Just leave me alone! All you ever do is follow the band and stalk me! You haven't even tried to make any other friends since we were kids!" She snapped angrily as the real Luna saw black stained tears starting to stream down Amber-Lynn's cheeks. "The only thing your mental ass has been good for is songwriting and even then it's barely good enough for the Moon Goats to get gigs, all you're doing is dragging us down!"
"Bu-But I try as hard as I can to write songs, I helped make the Moon Goats, so I have to he-"
"I made the Moon Goats! I'M the one everyone recognizes from the band, no one even knows who you are!" Past Luna snapped, jabbing a finger in her direction.
"No, I…I didn't mean that, I…I was just…so angry…" The real Luna said softly, tears starting to form in her eyes as she watched herself tear into her childhood friend.
"But you said it. Oh, and look at that, we're getting to the best part!" The voice of young Luna said as she watched her past self take a deep breath and glare at Amber-Lynn. "No one would even remember you if you disappeared, so why don't you get lost and put yourself in a psych ward like that monster uncle of yours!"
*CRACK*
Pain shot through the real Luna's cheek and head as she saw Amber-Lynn smack her past self so hard her head hit the wall. She could see the trails of mascara running down her face as she ran off crying, the tulip lying on the floor forgotten, crushed by her fall.
Luna watched as her past self took a deep breath and rubbed her cheek before making up her mind and turning the corner, dissolving into sand as Luna stared at the crushed flower. "And we both know what happened next, don't we?" Her younger self said smugly. "I…I made her run away…" Luna said, now crying herself when her younger self started laughing hysterically. "Ru-Run away?! OH-HO NOPE! You thought THAT was your sin?! That was just the buildup!" She yelled as a door formed in front of Luna, who hesitantly opened it and saw it was just a women's restroom, the sound of crying echoing throughout the room as she hesitantly followed it to a locked stall when the door itself went transparent, revealing Amber-Lynn crying her heart out, clutching the paper in her fist tightly as her blackened tears stained it. "I gave my everything for you! I poured my heart out for you…an-and you turned out just like the rest of them!" She cried, her voice growing hoarse as she occasionally coughed. Luna felt her heart practically dissolve into nothingness as she felt the hand of her younger self gripping onto her shoulder. "You broke her. You broke her in ways one should never be broken. Out of all the sisters, you're definitely the worst." She told the real Luna, a sickeningly sweet smile formed on her face as Amber-Lynn's coughing became more frequent. "I'm serious. Lori, Lynn and Lola are narccicistic control freaks, Lisa and Luan are sociopaths, Lucy's a coward with a spine so weak she'll go along with anything as long as she doesn't get hurt, Lana's a pig who's probably gonna die from food poisoning. But you, you're the worst of them all! You're a narccistic sociopath who only cares about yourself and what others can do for you!" Younger Luna snapped, her yells covering up the frequent coughing. "Ooh, we're here!"
"Here?" The real Luna questioned before coughing and seeing that the bathroom had filled with thick smoke and that Amber-Lynn was now wheezing, struggling to open the stall door. "No…not that…" Luna said with fear as the ceiling started to crack and fall apart as Amber-Lynn threw the stall door open and scrambled for the exit through the smoke…only for her foot to catch on a fall piece of the ceiling and trip. Landing on her stomach, Luna watched in horror as what looked like a large machine of metal and glass tore through the ceiling and crashed down to possibly a sub-level, but not before impaling Amber-Lynn in the stomach with a metal pipe and several long shards of glass. "No. NononononononoNONONO!" Luna screamed repeatedly as she fell to her knees beside Amber-Lynn, watching as she vomited blood as weakly grabbed at one of the glass shards inside of her stomach before her arm went limp. "Lu…" Her final words were silenced as her once bright eyes turned dull and empty as flaming pieces of rubble fell around her, igniting parts of her dress as younger Luna appeared before them. "THIS is you sin, Luna. YOU killed her. I doubt anyone would've loved you as much as her, and you threw it away, all for a girl you didn't know was straight!"
Luna said nothing, instead crying. "You're nothing but a monster, Luna Loud. And you deserve to feel like one." The younger Luna said coldly as she shoved her spectral hand in her chest, and she suddenly felt a massive weight around her heart. "You deserve to feel their pain for the rest of your life." She whispered as Luna suddenly started seizing up as pain wracked every nerve of her body.
Lynn Sr. tapped his foot on the carpet as he stared at his watch wondering where his daughters went. "Rita, this is getting us nowhere! Seriously, how hard is it to talk to someone!?" He exclaimed as he looked up…and saw he was now in a dark void.
"...Rita?" He called out his voice echoing in the darkness. "Okay…this…this is freaky." He gulped as, before he even took a step, he felt a quick and sharp pain going through his body, forcing him to keel over and grab his stomach when he noticed his entire midsection was bleeding out.
"WHAT THE HE-" Lynn Sr. was cut off by a sharp force slashing him across the face, causing him to tumble backwards as he coughed up blood and it dripped from his mouth.
"W…..what's going?" He groaned in pain.
"Lynn?" He heard as he gasped, turning his head. "Rita!?…Rita, where are you!?" He called out as he stumbled forward and bumped into Rita who appeared in front of him.
"Lynn!" She cried as he noticed his wife was covered in the same bruises and cuts as him.
"Rita…what happened to you!?" He asked as Rita nearly fell forward.
"I…I don't know…Lynn, I'm scared." She said as the two of them heard some dark laughter.
"You will die….both of you will die." The voice said as Lynn Sr. stood in front of his wife. "Get behind me, Rita…" He said as the two of them started to hear heavy footsteps approaching them. Clenching his fist, Lynn Sr. gave a loud scream as he ran forward fist drawn back ready to fight until a bright light and the sound of a wet explosion encompassed them, forcing both Rita and Lynn Sr. to cover their eyes.
The Loud parents both opened their eyes slowly as their vision started to clear.
"I…is it over?" Rita asked as she and Lynn noticed that a water pipe in the wall next to them had burst open… but also that a group of creatures with darkish red skin that looked like it was patched and stitched up with cloth with razor sharp teeth and bladed hands that resembled rusty machetes were also present, and in the middle of these creatures was Lincoln, staring dead at his parents with cold black eyes.
"KILL THEM!" Lincoln ordered pointing at them as the creatures gave a roar and ran towards them. Time seemed to slow down as one of the creatures jumped at Lynn Sr., claws drawn out and ready to end his life. However, what nobody expected was for Lynn Sr. to scowl and grab the long floor lamp and use it to stab the creature dead, the sight of which made Lincoln raise an eyebrow. "So…this incel has some fight to him?" He said in a cold unamused tone as he watched another of the creatures jumping on Lynn Sr.'s back, only for Rita to smash its head using Lori's golf club.
Lynn Sr. tossed the corpse away as Rita tossed him Lynn Jr's baseball bat.
"Lincoln! You're grounded!" Lynn Sr. growled as Lincoln rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers as more of the creatures appeared before them.
Lynn Sr. gave a roar of defiance as he charged the creatures and swung the bat, breaking the jaw of one and knocking the head off of another as one tried to jump on his back, when Rita used the golf club to knock it away as one bit the end off the club, only for Rita to stab it in its throat, causing it to gush out blood as she pulled out the broken golf club and used it to slice the throats of two of the monsters.
A larger monster with a long pointy nose used its claws to slash Lynn Sr. across his back only for the father of 11 to turn around and kill the beast, decapitating it with a swing of the bat.
"You're only delaying the inevitable." Lincoln smirked as he watched Lynn Sr. get dogpiled by the creatures as they started to slice and cut into his body. "Soon you and your family will die." He spoke in a cold tone, the sound of which made Lynn Sr. see red as the pile of creatures started to shake.
"NO! I WON'T LET YOU KILL MY FAMILY!" The patriarch roared as he burst out of the pile and smashed the bat over the head of another monster, breaking it as one of the monster's tried to slice off Lynn Sr.'s head, only for the Loud father to see it coming and delivered a nasty punch directly into the monster's chest and through its heart, his hand covered in it's oozing black blood as he was now shown wearing a pair of silver brass knuckles.
"ANYONE ELSE WANT A PIECE!?" He shouted as he and Rita slaughtered more and more of the creatures that came at them determined to protect their children by any means necessary.
Lucy and Lynn Jr. made their way to Lori's room and saw her lying on the floor in the hallway with her grasping at her throat choking herself.
"Lori!" Lynn shouted as she rushed over and grabbed her hands and slapped her face hard in order to wake her as Lori gave a loud gasp and quickly sat up.
"Lynn!?...Lucy!?...w….what happened!?" She asked as they heard the sound of glass breaking downstairs and demonic screeching. The three of them ran over to the stairs and gasped as they saw their parents fighting off an army of monsters.
Lynn was about to say something, only for Lori to cover her mouth and look her sisters dead in the eyes.
"I'm gonna go help mom and dad, you two find the others and get to the basement." Lori ordered as Lynn wanted to protest but knew this was no time.
"...Alright. C'mon Lucy, let's go." Lynn said, grabbing Lucy's hand as they watched Lori jump from the top of the stairs and tackle one of the monsters and used a piece of broken glass nearby to stab it in its eye. As she did this, Lucy and Lynn quickly ran downstairs trying to find the others.
"Lori!?" Rita gasped as she threw a golf club into the eye socket of one of the monsters.
"Care to explain the fuck is going on!?" Lori asked, dodging a claw swipe and yanking the club out of the monster's eye and using it to kill it.
"No time to explain, honey!" Lynn Sr. shouted as he punched the heads off three more monsters back to back as Lori noticed Lincoln watching with a sadistic glee.
'That CAN'T be Lincoln!...did….did that Pester guy do this?' Lori thought as one of the monster's tried to slice off her head, only for Lori to duck and weave out of the way as another tried to attack. Using her golf club, she managed to crush both of their heads as she kicked them towards Rita, who stabbed them with the broken club. Lori stepped on the corpse of one and ripped off its arm and used it as a weapon, all while Lynn Sr. punched the heads off more and more creatures.
Lynn Jr. and Lucy were in the kitchen where they saw Lana unconscious on the floor. Lucy ran over and picked her up as Lynn started to scan the walls for something. "Lucy, which one of these activates Lisa's secret elevator?" She asked as Lucy started to think.
"The cardamom." Lucy said as Lynn pulled the bottle and caused the wall to open up.
"C'mon sis, let's get to Lisa's room, stat!" Lynn said as Lucy carried Lana into the elevator as Lynn pulled the lever as it went up.
The living room of the Loud House looked more like a war zone as Rita, Lynn Sr. and Lori all were battered and bruised and more importantly tired.
"That's all you got!?" Lori growled as Lincoln snapped his fingers and summoned more creatures. "No, but it was nice of you to ask." He smirked as Lynn Sr. growled as he ran forward and fought them using whatever else he could grab.
"LORI!" Lori heard Lynn Jr. shout from the stairs as she gave her big sister a thumbs up.
"LORI, YOU AND YOUR SISTERS GET DOWN TO THE BASEMENT, YOUR FATHER AND I CAN DEAL WITH THE REST OF THEM!" Rita exclaimed as Lori gave a horrified look.
"Mom! There's no way you and dad can-" Lori tried to say as Rita gave her daughter an angry look. "I SAID NOW, LORELI!"
Lori wanted to keep helping but she knew she had no choice. Lori gave her mother a nod as he watched as her parents, although dead tired, fought off more and more of the monsters that Lincoln kept summoning.
"Everyone in the basement now!" Lori said as Lynn Jr. and Lucy carried their unconscious sisters into the basement with Lori trailing close behind them.
Lori, Lucy and Lynn placed Lisa, Lily, Lana and Lola all onto the old couch as Lola slowly opened her eyes and let out a horrified scream.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH NO NO STOP PLEASE! GET IT OFF ME!" Lola screamed in pure fear as they watched her rip off her dress and threw her tiara away tiara and scrambled into Lynn's arms shaking like a leaf. "Shhh shhh it's okay sis it's okay…it's all over." Lynn said, comforting Lola who started to catch her breath and calm down. "Better?"
"Y….yeah…a…a little…" Lola stammered as Lori heard the sound of more things being broken and scowled.
"Lynn? Stay here with the others. I'm gonna go back for mom and dad." Lori said as Lucy looked around the basement. "Wait…where's Luna?" She asked as she and Lynn gasped. "Shit, I forgot her!"
"I'll go back for Luna after I make sure mom and dad are still alive, just stay down here, okay?" Lori said as she ran back up the stairs and saw Lynn Sr. kill the last of the monsters and a pickle jar rolled by her feet.
"Well now…time to make my exit." Lincoln smirked as he took a step backwards towards the front door as Lori scowled and picked up the pickle jar and threw it but just as she did, the front door opened and he faded away, the jar instead crashing into the face of another Lincoln, this one with gray hair and a flannel, sending him to the floor as Luan screamed at her.
"And well…you know the rest." Lori said, finishing her explanation of what happened to her and what she went through, followed by her rescue and the events after. Luan stared at her blankly, her eyes like saucers as she stared at her sister. "Lori, Lincoln was with me that whole time. He-He couldn't have done all that. Hell, he CAN'T have done that! Lincoln can be petty, sure…but that…the dragon at Loch Loud was one thing, you and I saw it with our own eyes, but that…Lincoln's not capable of being that…evil…" She muttered, her gaze drifting to Luna, who was now curled in Luan's lower bunk with tears staining her puffy cheeks.
"I don't know what the fuck happened or what did that shit to us, but it looked like Lincoln, felt like Lincoln and sounded…sounded…now that I think of it, his voice WAS a bit higher pitched than Lincoln's…nevermind that. The point is, everyone downstairs aside from Lynn and Lisa probably think Lincoln is some eldritch horror and decided to get payback on us!" Lori exclaimed as she plopped herself into Luna's beanbag chair with a sigh. "…So…What did Lincoln mean by dad's 'other son'?"
Suddenly, a pit tore open in Luan's chest as she started to cry into her palms loudly, startling her. "Luan?! What's wrong?!"
"BENNY'S OUR HALF BROTHER, THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG!" She screamed, tears she had thought she had already shed now freely falling. "MY BOYFRIEND IS MY HALF BROTHER! I HAD SEX WITH MY FUCKING HALF BROTHER! THAT'S WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG!" She screamed again before collapsing to her knees bawling her eyes out as Lori looked at her in horror. She could only stare at her sister and hesitantly reached out to hug her, only for Luan to cling to her and sob into her shoulder. "I feel like a sick freak." She whimpered as Lori patted her back. "I…It'll be alright, Luan…let's…let's leave Luna to rest and go back downstairs. I'm sure mom is literally tearing dad a new one right about now." She said, helping her younger sister up as they walked into the hallway where they could hear yelling. "Why didn't you two say anything?…If you believe Lincoln now, why not speak up?" She heard Luan mutter weakly and sighed sadly. "After what we just went through, convincing them is probably a near impossibility." Lori said sadly as Luan unfortunately couldn't do much but agree as they heard their father suddenly scream.
"I DID NOT CHEAT!"
"Hoo boy." Lori sighed.
"Then how, Lynn?! How the hell could you have another son if you didn't cheat on me?!" Rita snapped angrily as Lynn Sr. nervously looked away and muttered under his breath.
"What was that?!"
"…I may or may not have…donated sperm for cash a few times throughout the years…" He said in embarrassment as his wife and kids all stared at him with stupefied looks. "And you didn't think to tell us?!" Lynn shouted at her dad, who just looked away with a red face. "Hey, it's not exactly something a parent just talks to their kid about out of the blue."
"Forget that. Why the hell didn't you tell ME? Your WIFE?!" Rita snapped as he looked down at the ground. "I…thought you'd think less of me as a man for not being able to afford all of this…eleven kids takes a toll on a man's bank account and credit score…" He said shamefully as Rita glared at him for a few more moments before sighing. "Look, the point is. You should have told me. 'Cause if you did, we could've avoided THAT!" She said, pointing at Luan and Lori, who had just turned the corner. "Ooh…you heard that, didn't you?"
"Yes, I did, and Luan, we will be having a talk some time later about SAFE sex!"
"Please don't talk about it…I don't want to think about it for a long time…" Luan said, already starting to gag a bit.
"I…I think we should all get some rest…it's been a long day for all of us, and we're all running on empty." Lori said with a sigh as Lola whimpered and clung to Rita's leg tightly, making her sigh. "Alright, girls. You're all sleeping in Lori's room tonight." She said as Lori, too tired to argue over it, simply nodded and led her siblings upstairs. "And YOU mister are sleeping down here tonight." She said sternly to her husband before marching to their room and slamming the door behind her, making him sigh sadly as he sat on the couch.
"*Yawn* Hey, Luan." Lincoln said, fully dressed in the same outfit as the day before as he kissed her cheek, making her smile a little bit. As he grabbed a slice of bread he took in the disturbed figures of his sisters, save for Leni, who was at the hospital, and Luna, who hadn't come downstairs. Lucy was almost completely covered in gauze wrapping, Lola was wearing black sweats and had no tiara nor makeup, Lana was trying to keep her distance from her twin, Lisa was eerily silent and so was Lily, Lori looked traumatized and Lynn looked…disturbed…like she had seen a ghost.
Taking a sigh, Lincoln bit into his bread and walked out of the kitchen. "Where do you think you're going, young man?" He heard his mother say as he balled his other hand in his pocket.
"…I'm going to my friends, Rita." He said coldly before slamming the door shut behind him, making them all flinch as a few pictures fell from the wall.
"…Kids…about last night-"
"Please don't bring up that we have god knows how many half siblings out there…my stomach can't handle any more dry heaving…" Luan whimpered. "No, it's not that. It's for the younger ones, about the other thing he said…that 'dragon' thing…he wasn't making that up, girls." Their father said nervously as the daughters younger than Jr. all looked at each other with uncertainty. "How come we don't remember that, then?"
"I concur…we would've most definitely remembered something such as that occurring."
"Well, girls…that's because none of you were born yet. Except Lucy, of course, but she was barely one when it happened." Rita said uneasily. "I know what we all just went through was…rough…but, we think that the trip to Lake Eddy could help everyone take their minds off of it." Rita said uneasily as she heard Lori scoff. "You seriously think taking a vacation is a good idea?"
"Lori-"
"NO, mom!" She cut her off, glaring angrily at her mother. "A vacation isn't going to just FIX this little fucked up family or its problems!" She snapped, her mind racing. Ever since yesterday's revelation concerning their father, Lincoln being correct and Lynn calling their mom and dad out, Lori couldn't help but focus on just how many times her parents had chosen to side with them over their own son, or when they had chosen to just let them walk over each other to 'work out' their own issues by themselves. She couldn't help but let whatever ounce of respect she had for her parents start swirling away like it had been flushed down the toilet.
"*Sigh* We know, Lori." Lynn Sr. spoke up with a sigh. "After he brought up the Loch incident, your mother and I agreed that we should've at least given him the benefit of the doubt with what he was saying."
"Took you long enough." They heard Jr. mutter under her breath.
"But we also think that this vacation could be good for ALL of us. All of you, plus us, need a chance to get away and recover mentally from yesterday, and Lincoln…and possibly Luan…likely need some time away from us all given all that's happened." He said as Lori crossed her arms and glared at him. "It'll only be for the weekend, Lori. I promise, it'll be fine.
Dib yawned as he munched on his cereal when he heard a knock at the door. "I'm coming!" He said loudly with a tired groan as he dragged himself to the front door. Sliding it open, he immediately found himself being tightly hugged by Lincoln. "Dude! What the…heck?" He said, annoyed at first before realizing he was crying. "I…I can't…" He heard him mutter in between sobs as Dib hesitantly hugged his friend back. "It's okay Lincoln, it's… C'mon you can tell me about it over breakfast, I'll get Foodio to make you something." Dib spoke, patting his back as he led Lincoln inside the house.
Poor Lincoln has reached his limit, and he's all but given up hope, and the Loud's have seen through some pure hell. As for what happened to Lisa, Lily and Lola? Well...if Lola was being put through something that made her get rid of her pageant stuff, imagine what Lisa and Lily went through! But anyways, Luna's redemption arc is officially underway and we've also planted the seeds for what Lucy's future will have, any guesses? But yeah, Lori has lost respect for her parents and Lincoln?...well you saw how he took it.
Next Time On Loud House'23:
For whom the Stock-mans!:
In order to cheer up his friend, Dib decides to take Lincoln to his father's inventor investors meeting and it's here they run into not only Lincoln's friend Stella, but also the mad scientist Baxter Stockman! While this is going on, the Loud's start preparing for their Lake Eddy vacation as Lori and Luan struggle to help Luna.