"Do you believe in ghosts? Join me, Hunter Spector, spectre hunter, leader of the Academy of Really Good Ghost Hunters, or ARGGH! As I descend into the scariest place in any home, the basement! Sunday night at 8 PM! Don't miss it, or you'll be left in the dark! ARGGH!"

As Lincoln Loud remembered the advertisement for his favourite TV show, the white haired eleven year old marked an X on his calender counting down the days.

"It's finally here! The live season finale of the greatest show ever!" Lincoln exclaimed before turning towards the audience. "All right, I know you're probably saying to yourself 'Lincoln, with ten sisters, there's no way you're going to get to watch your favorite show.' And, you'd be right. Every Sunday at 8, it's the same thing. All my sisters end up fighting over the remote, trying to watch their shows. But tonight, I have a plan." Lincoln picked up a walkie talkie from his pocket. "Cadet Lincoln calling Cadet Clyde, do you read me?" Lincoln asked.

"This is Cadet Clyde, I read you loud and clear!" Lincoln's best friend answered. "I'm so excited! We finally get to watch ARGGH together. And by together, I mean you at your house, and me at mine, right?"

Lincoln turned back to the audience. "For such a landmark event, we decided that it'd be best for us if we watched it separately. Clyde's got a huge crush on my sister Lori. It gets awkward." Lincoln explained as coincidentally, the bespectacled, African-American boy was staring dreamily at a drawing of Lori.

"Hubba hubba." muttered Clyde.

"Clyde? Clyde? Do you read me?" Lincoln asked.

Snapping out of it, Clyde replied "Uh, you better hurry, Lincoln. It's almost 8:00!"

"It's time to put Operation Distract My Sisters So That I Can Get to the TV First and Watch the Special Live Season Finale of ARGGH and Think of Shorter Name For This Operation into action." Lincoln proclaimed as he heard the door of his younger sisters opening.

"Cartoons! Cartoons! Cartoons! Cartoons!" Lincoln's younger twin sisters, Lana and Lola chanted as they marched out their room.

Lincoln ran out of his room and towards theirs before they could go any further. "Did someone say tea party?" Lincoln asked as he revealed a tea pot and a box of cookies.

Lola, being a pageant star and going so far as to wear princess attire, couldn't help but squeal. "Eeeee! Thank you, Lincoln!" She grinned, showing her two missing front teeth as she took the items and headed back into her room.

Lana on the other hand, wasn't as impressed as she was the exact opposite of her twin, being more into exotic pets and repairing things. Despite their similar appearance, even down to having the same tooth gap, she wore a backwards red baseball cap and blue overalls. "Hey, I don't want to be part of some dumb old tea party, I want to watch TV!"

"Not even if these guys are invited?" Lincoln asked as he pulled out two frogs from behind him.

"Eeeee! Thanks, Lincoln!" Lana squealed as she took the frogs and headed back into her room with her sister.

Lincoln then noticed his comedic, older sister Luan about to head down the stairs. "Hey Luan!" Lincoln called out to her.

"Oh, hey Lincoln," The buck toothed girl replied. "I was just heading downstairs to watch TV."

"You might want to grab your video camera instead. The twins are at it again." Lincoln said as he pointed her to the twins' room. Looking in, Luan could see the twins fighting each other over some petty dispute.

Luan grinned, showing off the braces covering her teeth. "This is totally gonna go viral!" Luan exclaimed as she ran back to her room to go grab a video camera. "Thanks Linc!"

Lincoln then noticed his youngest sisters, Lisa and Lily, exit their room. Before his baby sister, Lily, could wonder off, Lincoln picked her up. "Hey, Lisa. I saved you a trip downstairs and got that stuff you needed." Lincoln told Lisa.

"The lactose, triticum protein, sodium chloride crystals, sucrose, and gallus gallus ovum?" Lisa asked, speaking with a lisp. She had a deadpan expression behind her glasses.

"Uh, you mean milk, flour, salt, sugar and eggs?" Lincoln asked in slight confusion as he held out the ingredients. He often couldn't understand what Lisa talked about as she was much smarter than other four year olds her age.

"You say tomato, I say solanum lycopersicum. Thank you." Lisa said as she took the ingredients and headed back into her room.

Yet again, Lincoln then noticed another sister leave their room. This time, his slightly older, sport loving sister, Lynn. "Yeah! Two minutes to game time! Whoo!" The jersey wearing girl hollered in excitement.

"Hey, Lynn, check it out." Lincoln said as he then held out a football which somehow started to float, gaining her attention. "I filled it with helium for the extreme player who demands more."

"I demand more!" Lynn shouted in excitement.

However, before Lincoln could finish dealing with Lynn, his older sister Leni had just left her room causing Lincoln to think fast. "Uh go long." Lincoln shouted causing Lynn to run back into her room as Lincoln had thrown the ball into it.

Lincoln then ran up to his ditzy, blonde older sister. She was holding her hands in front of her, palms facing inward, waiting for her painted nails to dry. "Oh my gosh, Leni!" Lincoln yelled in fake surprise.

"What, is there a spider on me?" The long haired girl asked as she started to panic, frantically rubbing her head. "Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"

"Worse. There's a zit on the end of your nose!" Lincoln lied.

Leni covered her face. "I'm a hideous monster!" She cried as she ran back into her room. Suddenly, Lincoln's older, rock and roll loving sister, Luna jumped out of her room.

"Hey, bro! TV tonight is gonna be rockin'! Yeah!" The short haired girl yelled in a raspy voice as she strummed her guitar.

"Or, you can have your very own flashlight rock show in your bedroom." Lincoln offered as he showed off a multicoloured flashlight.

Luna grinned. "That is sweet! Thanks, Linc!" She said as she took the flashlight and headed back into her own room.

"Has anyone seen my phone? I need to live-tweet my show!" Asked Lincoln's bossy, phone addicted, oldest sister, Lori.

It turned out Lincoln had her phone as he quickly texted something on it. "Hey, Lori, I found your phone!" Lincoln said, offering it to her.

"Give me that!" The blonde girl snapped as she snatched the phone back from Lincoln. "How many times do I have to tell you to keep your hands of my stuff?!"

Lincoln just ignored her though as he started counting down to himself. "Three, two, one."

Lori's phone then started to ring, prompting Lori to answer it immediately. "Hello? Oh, hi Bobby." She laughed as she started to head back into her room. "No, I didn't text you to call me, but I'm glad you did!" Lori said before turning back to Lincoln, glaring at him. "Thanks for nothing, twerp!"

Lincoln then noticed Lily had fallen asleep at some point. Smiling, Lincoln laid her into a laundry basket before giving her a kiss. "And that makes ten". Lincoln then slid down the stairs' railings and jumped to the floor before addressing the audience again as he made his way to the living room. "Like I said, I might not be the fastest, and I might not be the strongest, but to get all of my sisters out of the way, it pays to have a plan."

"You forgot me".

"Ahh!" Lincoln yelled out in shock before realising he has missed someone currently sitting on the couch. "Lucy! I always forget about Lucy!"

"Story of my life" The pale skinned, goth girl said monotonously. Lincoln couldn't quite tell if she was looking at him due to her long black hair covering her eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Lincoln asked.

"It's the season premiere of my favorite show, 'Vampires of Melancholia'." Lucy replied.

"This is the episode of ARGGH that everyone is going to be talking about at school tomorrow! Please let me watch it? Pretty please with a black cherry on top?" Lincoln begged her.

"I'm sorry, Lincoln, but you know the rule. I was here first."

Extremely disappointed that all his efforts were for naught, Lincoln dropped to his knees and gave an over dramatic "NOOOOOOO". Suddenly the lights went out and the TV turned off, alarming both Lincoln and Lucy. "Huh" Lincoln said.

"What just happened?" Lucy wondered.

"Sorry, sorry" shouted a voice from the basement. "L-listen, I've got something reeeaaallly important going on down there and I-I'm just gonna need all the power in the house. Just all of it. So y-you guys are just gonna have to just deal with it for a while." The old man wearing a lab coat rambled as he made his way out the basement and into the living room where Lincoln and Lucy were. At the moment, he had some odd green spill down his mouth, possibly indicating that he was drunk.

Lincoln sighed before turning back to the audience. "If you thought having ten sisters was weird enough, this is Grandpa Rick. He's basically a super scientist. He actually just moved in with us just a couple of months ago. Since then, he's been taking me, and usually just one of my sisters, on these crazy adventures across the multiverse! But today really isn't a good day for this." Lincoln explained as he turned back to his grandfather, giving him an annoyed look. "Seriously Grandpa Rick? Now I've no chance of catching 'ARGGH!'." Lincoln moaned.

"W-what, you mean that obviously fake ghost show?" Rick bluntly asked.

"It's not fake!" Lincoln argued, getting more annoyed.

"Lincoln, have you seen an actual real ghost on that show? Like actually see the thing on camera and not-not just special effects and some jerkoff running around pretending to be scared?" Rick asked. Lincoln winced at his language. He hadn't quite got used to his Grandpa's foul mouth just yet.

"It wasn't Lincoln's turn to have the TV anyway," Lucy interrupted. "I was meant to catch the season premiere of 'Vampires of Melancholia'."

"You mean that Twilight knockoff with all that vampire romance crap?"

"Excuse me?" Lucy quietly asked, who's also now starting to get irritated with her grandpa.

Rick decided to change the subject. "L-look, none of that matters right now, I need both your help. We got-we got to get get the hell out of here and go take care of business. It's important." Rick ranted.

"Seriously?" Lucy asked.

"Yes seriously! Do you have any concept of how much higher the stakes get out there? What do you think I can just do it all by myself? Don't you want the power back as soon as possible? Come on!" Rick then got out a strange device and activated it which created a portal. Realising that neither of them had anything better to do due to the lack of any electricity, both Lincoln and Lucy sighed and begrudgingly followed Rick into the portal.

Meanwhile upstairs, the rest of Lincoln's sisters were murmuring in confusion about the sudden power outage leaving them all in the dark. "All right! All right! Everybody just calm down!" Lori shouted, trying to keep everyone in order.

"Guys! I can't see anything! I think I've gone blind!" Leni shouted in a panic, arms out in front of her.

"No, you didn't go blind." Lori said, growing more irritated at the situation. "What the heck happened?"

There was a brief silence for a moment as no one knew the answer. "Hey! I know why the lights went out! Cause they liked each other!" Luan laughed as the rest of her siblings groaned at the joke. "Get it?"

"Hey, where's Lincoln and Lucy?" Lana asked, realising her other siblings weren't around.

"I'm gonna guess that they went with off with Grandpa Rick on one of his weird adventures." Lori said, not exactly a massive fan of Rick's adventures. "In fact, I literally know who's responsible for this now."

"If Grandpa Rick did indeed do this, should we really be interfering?" Lisa asked, knowing full well that messing with Rick's experiments could be even more disastrous than someone messing with her own.

"Hey, when Mom and Dad are out, I'm in charge." Lori asserted. "And Grandpa Rick can't just take all the power in the house just for his experiments. Now where did Grandpa Rick say he was doing his experiment thing again?"

"In the basement." Lisa answered.

...

After following Rick through the portal, Lincoln and Lucy found themselves in a place completely unlike Earth. The sky was yellow with other planets still visable from where they were. The grass was blue and the creatures and flora was unlike anything seen on Earth.

"Whoa..." Lucy gasped in amazement.

"Wow, what is this place?" Lincoln asked, equally amazed.

"It's Dimension 35-C," explained Rick as he gestured to the landscape "and it's got the perfect climate conditions for a special type of TREE, Lincoln, called a Mega Tree, and there's fruit in those trees, and there's seeds in those fruits. I'm talking about Mega Seeds. They're-they're incredibly powerful, and I need them to help me with my research, Lincoln." Rick started to walk as he finished speaking with Lincoln and Lucy following behind. While both of them were amazed at this new world Rick had brought them to, they were also both nervous and still upset over missing their shows.

"Are you sure this place is safe? Maybe this was a bad idea." Lincoln asked feeling pessimistic about the situation.

Rick stopped to kneel down and place his hands on Lincoln and Lucy's shoulders. "Alright, listen to me. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're looking around, and it's all scary and different, but, you know, m-meeting them head on, charging right into them like a bull that's how we grow as people. I'm no stranger to scary situations. I deal with them all the time. Now, if you just stick with me, we're gonna be—"

Suddenly, Rick noticed a giant, green, alien monster with multiple black eyes eyes and sharp teeth behind Lincoln and Lucy. "HOLY CRAP, KIDS RUN!" Lincoln and Lucy looked behind them, screamed and immediately started to run with Rick. "I never seen that thing before in my life. I don't even know what the hell it is! We got to get out of here, kids! It's gonna kill us! We're gonna die! We're gonna die, kids!"

...

Sometime later, after getting chased around for a bit. the siblings and Rick had managed to escape the monster and were now continuing on with Rick's adventure. Though Lincoln was still a little shaken up from the ordeal, Lucy was faring slightly better. "Okay, I have to admit that thing was kinda awesome."

Lincoln gave his sister a look. "Lucy, you know that thing was trying to kill us, right?"

"Sigh. I know."

Rick noticed Lincoln starting to frown. "Oh, Lincoln, take a deep breath. Breathe that fresh air in, Lincoln. Y-you smell that? That's the smell of adventure, Lincoln. That's that's the smell of-of-of-of a whole different evolutionary timeline."

Lincoln stopped, growling in anger. "You know, all I wanted to do tonight was just watch one episode of ARGGH! I tried doing everything I can to have this night to myself but noooo! Instead I get brought on Grandpa Rick's crazy adventures to get something that's probably for himself since he's not even telling us what he even needs these 'mega seeds' for. Is that about right Grandpa Rick?"

Rick then got angry at Lincoln himself and pointed an accusatory finger at him. "O-oh I see how it is. You know what I think the problem is with both of you and the rest of your sisters? Y-you're all selfish! The only thing you care about is me, me, me. Like I know it's really stupid that there's only one TV and one bathroom in the whole house but y-you never try to work anything out. Y-you just fight over it! And now you're calling me selfish? How do you know I'm not doing something for everyone's benefit? You ever think about that L-Lincoln?"

Both Lincoln and Lucy glanced downwards with guilty looks on their faces, realising there was some truth to their Grandpa's words. Seeing the guilty looks on their faces, Rick softened up on them. "Besides look at all the crazy crap surrounding us. Look at that thing right there." Rick said gesturing to an odd looking creature rolling around. It's appearance was indescribable. "What the hell is that thing? You think you're gonna see that kind of thing on some fake ghost or vampire show? Look at it just lumbering around. It defies all logic, that thing."

Lincoln sighed as the three continued onwards. "Sorry. It's just that I've been looking forward to this episode all month."

"He does make a good point though. The stuff here is real." Lucy admitted, earning a pointed look from Lincoln with what she was implying.

Before he could say anything else, the three stopped at the end of a cliff. Rick then grabbed Lincoln to show him what he's found. "Lincoln you see this" Lincoln could see a vast forest of strange looking trees. "You see what we just stumbled upon, Lincoln? Any idea what that is down there?" Rick asked Lincoln.

"The mega trees?" Lincoln guessed, feeling slightly uncomfortable.

"That's right, Lincoln the mega trees with the mega fruit on them and that's what I'm talking about, Lincoln. That's where my seeds are. If we would have done what you wanted, I would have never have found them, because you're so in love with Argh or whatever it's called." Rick ranted, gesturing to the forest.

"Ok, ok." Lincoln said, not wanting to get back into that argument. "So, what's so special about these seeds, anyways?"

"You ask a lot of questions, Lincoln. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an underfoot figure." Rick replied.

"Huh? But you just-"

Before Lincoln could finish that sentence, Rick gave Lincoln and Lucy each a pair of shoes. "Put those on" Rick demanded, prompting Lincoln and Lucy to do so. "They're special grappling shoes. When you're wearing these things, these babies, you can basically just walk on any surface you want, kids, up, down, below, turn around to the left. These things really-ah!" Rick stopped to grab Lincoln who was just about to walk off the cliff. "You need to turn them on first." Rick explained.

"Oh right." Lincoln said awkwardly before doing just that.

Rick wiped his forehead. "Phew, really uh...really dodged a bullet there."

...

Back in the Loud house, the rest of the siblings were looking into the basement which was currently pitch black. "Ok, since when did Grandpa Rick start doing his experiments in the basement? Doesn't he usually do that in the garage?" Lori asked.

"Dunno sis." replied Luna. "All he said earlier that he was working on something down there and that we weren't allowed to see it".

Lori frowned, remembering Rick telling everyone that earlier that afternoon. "Oh...right."

Lori then heard a creaking sound, causing her to gasp and hide behind her other siblings. "There's something in the basement! I'm not going down there!"

Lynn then decided to taunt her older sister. "Ooh! You're scared of the dark!".

"I am not!" Lori protested. "You're the one who's scared."

"I'm not afraid of anything." Lynn claimed. Suddenly, the front door of the house opened up causing everyone to scream.

"What is going on here?" The voice of their mother asked. "Why is the power out?"

It turned out that the Loud siblings' parents had come home. The two approached their daughters. "Well?" Their mother, Rita asked still waiting for an answer.

"We think that thing Grandpa Rick is working on is taking all the power in the house. Also he's gone on another adventure with Lincoln and Lucy." Lori answered, prompting Rita to sigh in frustration.

"Seriously?" Rita asked before turning to her curly haired husband. "Look I'm sorry Lynn but I don't know if Rick living here is such a good idea."

"Oh come on, Rita," Lynn Sr. protested. "I know you two have some issues but I haven't seen him in years. He only just came back into my life. Besides, it's not like he's making us lose money, he takes care of himself fine."

"That's not the issue though. I don't know how safe we are with all these inventions of his around and I'm really concerned with him taking the kids off to who knows where. I don't think he's a good influence on them." The blonde haired woman argued back.

Lynn Sr. sighed "L-look why don't we just go see what it is down there. I mean it can't be that dangerous if Dad would just leave it right?"

Rita sighed "Fine then". She then looked into the basement. "Does anyone have a light?"

"Oh!" Luna exclaimed in realisation before getting out the flashlight Lincoln gave her earlier. "Good thing Lincoln gave me this!"

...

Back in Dimension 35-C, Rick, Lincoln and Lucy had managed to climb down the mountain. "All right, either of you want to come help me get these seeds?" Rick asked.

"Sigh, I'll get them" Lucy said as she made her way up the trees to grab the fruit.

As she did this, Rick got out his portal gun, readying it until he realised something. "Oh God damn it!" Rick shouted in anger.

"What's wrong?" Lincoln asked.

"I forgot to charge my interdimensional portal device. It's got no charge left, Lincoln. It's got no charge left!" Rick explained, frustrated with himself for forgetting something so important.

Lincoln started to panic. "What?"

"It's as good as garbage, Lincoln. It's not gonna work anymore, Lincoln." Rick ranted to him.

Unbeknownst to him, Lucy had come down with the fruit. She heard the conversation and also started to slightly panic. "The portal device isn't working?"

"JESUS CHRIST LUCY!" Rick jumped as not even he was immune to Lucy's sneakiness. "How the hell do you even do that?"

Lucy shrugged before continuing on. "How are we going to get back home?"

Recovering from the scare, Rick took the fruit from Lucy, opened it up and took out the two seeds inside of it. "There's ways to get back home, Lucy. It's just-it's just gonna be a little bit of a hassle. We're gonna have to go through interdimensional customs so Lincoln, you're gonna have to do me a real solid."

"What's that?" Lincoln asked apprehensively.

"When we get to customs, I'm gonna need you to take these seeds into the bathroom, and I'm gonna need you to put them way up inside your butthole, Lincoln." Rick explained.

"WHAT?" Lincoln asked, shocked that his Grandpa would ask him to do such a thing.

"You gotta put them way up inside there, as far as they can fit." Rick emphasised.

"Seriously? Why do I have to do that?" Lincoln shouted, horrified about what he was being asked to do.

"Well, somebody's got to do it, Lincoln. Th-these seeds aren't gonna get through customs unless they're in someone's rectum, Lincoln, and they'll fall right out of mine. I've done this too many times, Lincoln. I mean, you're young. Y-y-you've got your whole life ahead of you, and your anal cavity is still taut, yet malleable. A-and you really don't expect me to ask Lucy do you? I mean come on Lincoln, y-you just don't do that Lincoln, it's disgusting. You can't just ask your little sister to do something like this!" Rick ranted to Lincoln.

"Sigh, I'll do it."

"What?!" Rick and Lincoln both shouted, shocked that Lucy would even volunteer.

"I know Lincoln's not exactly had anything his way today so if he doesn't want to do it, then I'll do it." Lucy explained.

Lincoln sighed. "No Lucy, Grandpa Rick's right. I'll do it."

"Are you sure?" Lucy asked.

"I'm sure Lucy. You shouldn't have to do something like this. Granted, neither of us should really but-" before Lincoln could finish that sentence, Rick patted him on the back.

"Atta boy Lincoln. Just remember you're doing this for grandpa. And your sister."

"What have I just gotten myself into?" Lincoln wondered aloud to himself.

...

Back at the Loud House, the family had huddled together as Luna lead the way, unsure of what Rick had actually put down here. "There's nothing funny about this situation. Although, I do like dark humour." Luan joked, making everyone groan.

"Is someone touching my hand?" Leni fearfully asked.

"You're touching your own hand." Lynn replied.

"I hate basements." Lori stated, regretting coming down.

"Luna do you see anything? Rita asked.

Luna used the flashlight to look around. "Nothing out of the ordinary dudes." Luna then saw the circuit breaker and approached it. "Guys, it's turned off". Luna turned it back on bringing power back to the house.

The family members then looked around. "There's nothing even in here?" Rita questioned. "Ok seriously Lynn, how are we meant to trust your dad when he's making stuff up now?"

"W-well, I...umm..." Lynn Sr. was at a loss as he couldn't think of a way to defend his father in this situation.

"When Rick gets back, I'm going to have a few words with that man." Rita stated.

...

Back in Dimension 35-C, the three had made it to Intergalactic Customs. Lincoln awkwardly left the bathrooms feeling very uncomfortable with his predicament. Intergalactic Customs looked a bit like an airport. Lincoln saw all types of aliens here though the ones in charge were these insectoid aliens almost resembling flies that Rick said were called gromflomites. As Lincoln approached Rick and Lucy, who were currently standing in a slowly moving line, Rick started speaking.

"I don't like it here, kids. I can't abide bureaucracy. I don't like being told where to go and what to do. I consider it a violation. Word of advice, if you ever find out that someone's linked with the Galactic Federation like these guys, don't trust them. Anyway, did you get those seeds all the way up your butt?"

Lincoln sighed in embarrassment. "Yes, can we please get this over with. They're kinda hurting me".

"That means they're good ones. I take back what I said earlier." Rick said, placing a hand on Lincoln's shoulder. "You're a good kid, Lincoln. You too Lucy. Those mega seeds are super valuable to my work. You've both been a huge help to me. I'm gonna be able to do a-all kind of things with them. It's gonna be great, Lincoln. A-all kinds of science."

Lucy also placed a hand on Lincoln's shoulder. "Sorry you had to do this. I promise next time if I can make it to the couch before any one else, I'll let you choose the show."

Lincoln smiled at her. "Thanks Lucy."

"Okay, next through." Called out the gromflomite. The three walked forward until the alien stopped them. "Except you. You go over there."

"Why does he have to go over there?" Rick questioned.

"Random check. He's got to go through the new machine."

"What new-what new machine?" Rick asked, getting slightly on edge.

"It's a new machine. It detects stuff all the way up your butt."

"RUN KIDS RUN!" Rick shouted. Realising he got caught, he grabbed Lincoln and Lucy, ran through security and tried to make a break for the exit. The gromflomite then called for red alert causing a team of armed gromflomites to start chasing after them. As they ran, Rick pushed over a giant capsule with an alien fetus inside it in an effort to slow down the gromflomites. Unfortunately, a giant door closed in front of them, cornering them. Thinking fast, Lincoln activated his grappling shoes and ran up the wall. Rick and Lucy quickly managed to do the same. "Ooh! Oh, nice, Lincoln! The student becomes the teacher." Rick praised.

The three ran up to the top of a building. Unfortunately, the gromflomites were able to fly, causing the three to continue running for it. The three ran across a pipe and jumped towards a flying vehicle full of luggage. Rick managed to catch a part of it with Lincoln catching Rick and Lucy catching Lincoln. "You know, I have to admit, this is way more thrilling then watching ARGGH!." Lincoln admitted, surprised that he'd actually be having fun running for his life.

"Same." Lucy admitted. Unfortunately, that feeling subsided as Rick's grip on the vehicle slipped.

"Aah! Aw, hell, no, dawg. You know me I'm just trying to—" was all the slime alien could say before the three landed on top of him. The three quickly got up and managed to reach a portal. Rick started to type on the portal computer. "I need to type in the coordinates to our home world. Lincoln. Lucy. Cover me." Rick demanded as he tossed a gun to each of them.

"W-wait, are you telling us to kill them?" Lincoln questioned.

Lucy wasn't feeling much better about it. "I couldn't take someone else's life."

"Look, I already told you, they're Galactic Federation bureaucrats. But if you really can't just kill them then try aiming for their legs or arms or something, whatever! Just keep shooting, kids! You have no idea what prison is like here!" Rick shouted at them, desperate to motivate them into shooting. Being careful where they aim, Lincoln and Lucy managed to hold off the gromflomites without actually killing any of them long enough for Rick to type in the coordinates back to Earth and the portal to activate.

"Come on, kids! We got to get the hell out of here!" Rick shouted as he grabbed the kids and jumped through the portal. The three then landed in the Loud house living room. The three took a moment to take in some deep breaths before Rick asked in concern "Ok, you two good? Th-That might have been a bit much for you two. Wasn't really sure if you were ready for that kind of adventure."

Rick hadn't planned for the adventure to get as violent and life threatening as it ended up being. To his surprise though, both of his grandchildren seemed fine and were even smiling. "Ok, that was actually pretty exciting." Lincoln admitted.

"That actually scared me..." Lucy then admitted. "Where's my notebook? I need to write all this down."

Rick smiled. "Y-you see? Why watch some fake garbage when you got me? You two really kicked ass today."

"Ahem"

The three looked behind them to see Rita, Lynn Sr. and the rest of the kids giving Rick an accusatory look.

"Uh oh"

...

At Rick's insistence, the family had moved the conversation to the garage. "So why exactly did you lie about having experiments in the basement then turn off the power while you took Lincoln and Lucy on one of your 'adventures'?" Rita interrogated Rick.

Rick sighed. "Alright...I didn't want to admit this but...we went to go get these mega seeds. If I can harness their energy, I could provide completely free energy to the whole house. I turned off the power and told everyone not to come to the basement to surprise you. Thought I'd, you know, save some money before setting things up."

"Wait, really?" Rita asked surprised at Rick's generosity.

Lynn Sr. smiled. "See Rita, I knew Dad's just looking out for us."

"Lynn, even if that's true, I still don't trust him with these adventures he's been doing." Rita turned back to Rick. "In what way are your adventures benefiting our kids?"

"Rita, I'm a genius." Rick replied in a slightly annoyed tone. "All I'm doing is showing them the ways of the multiverse. I'm educating them, Rita! More than their crappy public schools could!"

"Ok well do you have any evidence of that?" Rita asked.

"Sure, Lincoln, tell your parents the square root of Pi." Rick ordered.

Lincoln immediately answered the question "1.77245385...whoa."

"What the?" Lynn Sr. said in confusion.

Rita then got out a calculator to check the answer. "Wow, he's actually right."

"Hey wait," Leni asked. "I thought pies were circles, not squares?"

Lori sighed. "No Leni, not that kind of pie."

Ignoring Leni, Rick gave Lincoln another order. "Lincoln, tell your parents the first law of Thermodynamics."

Yet again, Lincoln answered immediately. "The increment in the internal energy of a system is equal to the increment of heat supplied to the system." Lincoln looked amazed at himself. "Wow! I'm a genius!"

"See Rita, I knew my Dad would be a positive influence on the kids, I mean, they've never come back injured have they?" Lynn Sr. asked, happy that the suspicions towards his dad turned out false.

Rita thought for a moment before answering. "Yeah, you're right honey. I guess I just overreacted. Ok Rick, you can keep taking the kids on adventures." Rita conceded.

"Y-you've nothing to worry about Rita. I just want you to know, between us, from now on, it's gonna be clear communication." Rick claimed.

"Well, that's great. Alright everyone, remember that bedtime's in an hour." Rita told her kids before she and Lynn Sr. left the garage.

"Man, I didn't know hanging out with you was making me smarter-ow!" Lincoln shouted in pain. As soon his parents left the garage, Rick quickly grabbed some kind of syringe and injected Lincoln with something.

"Full disclosure, Lincoln it's not. Temporary superintelligence is just a side effect of the mega seeds dissolving in your rectal cavity." Rick admitted.

"Aw seriously? Then what was that injection for?" Lincoln asked.

"If I didn't just give you that injection, then once those seeds wear off, you would've lost most of your motor skills, and you'd lose a significant amount of brain functionality for 72 hours, Lincoln. You're welcome." Rick explained.

Lincoln just sighed in disappointment. Lori then stepped forward. "So let me guess, the whole 'supplying free energy to the house' was a lie too?"

Rick scratched the back of this head awkwardly. "Uhh yeah...y-you might not believe this but that was exactly what I was trying to do."

"Wait, seriously?" Lori asked in surprise.

"Yes seriously!" Rick replied angrily. "W-what, did you think I was just some self-serving asshole? W-why wouldn't I do something that benefitted the whole family? Real nice opinion you got of your grandfather, Lori!"

To Rick's surprise, Leni jumped forward to give Rick a hug. "Aww, you do care about us!" Rick groaned in response before gently pushing her off him.

"Yeah well don't thank me yet Leni. I needed those seeds real bad, and I had to give them up just to get your parents off my back, so now we're gonna have to go get more adventures." As Rick ranted on, the Loud siblings just simply watched him, not really sure how to react to this. "And then we're gonna go on even more adventures after that, kids and you're all gonna keep your mouths shut about it, because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important, and they'll tear us apart kids, but if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, kids, and you're all gonna be part of them, and together, we're gonna run around, kids. We're gonna do all kinds of wonderful things. Just you and me, Lincoln. And which ever of your sisters is relevant to what we're doing. The outside world is our enemy, kids. We're the only friends we've got. It's just Rick and The Loud House. Rick and The Loud House and their adventures. Rick and The Loud House forever and forever. Me and Rick and whoever running around, and Rick and The Loud House time. All day long, forever. All a hundred days. Rick and The Loud House forever 100 times. Over and over. All 100 years. Every minute."

As Rick had finished his insane ramblings, Lori came to a sudden, disturbing realisation. "Wait, what was up Lincoln's butt again?"