With that idea, the boys spend the rest of the day feasting themselves with overflowing cocoa. Levi supplies them with a giant cocoa-making machine, while Loki places the cocoa powder in it. The rest ready their mugs, their share of marshmallows and other snacks they wish to dip in their hot cocoa.
After a few minutes of brewing, Luke pulls out a hose and inserts it to the machine's faucet. "Let's do this, dudes!"
"Are you sure it's a good idea to pour out the hot cocoa using a hose?" Lexx asks.
"I sure know hose having that kind of problem? Hahaha. Get it?" Lane jokes.
"Huh…I thought we're gonna get a greener joke…" Lynn wonders.
"Me too," Lane answers. "But there's no grass around. So it ain't green now."
"Okay, quit the jokes for a sec," Luke insists. "Now, who's ready for cocoa river?"
The boys hoot in excitement.
At that encouragement, Luke switches the hose on, and a surge of cocoa are splashed to the Loud boys. And since it was hot cocoa that got splashed onto them, the boys screech in pain from being burnt by the cocoa. "HOT!"
"What do you guys literally expect?" Loki replies.
"Man, I was expecting more of a dream shower of chocolate," Luke adds. "It was cooler."
"But what is cool about 'chocolate rain'? Hahaha! Burn! Get it!" Lane hits the right punchline, but immediately resumes from screaming from being burnt.
Lincoln then suggests, while soaked in steaming cocoa, "Let's just do it the old-fashioned way."
The boys accept. Luke removes the hose, and immediately the boys line up to get their own serving of cocoa. Some of the Loud brothers huddle up in the couch and enjoy a roasting matinee of Frozen. It was the only movie in the family DVR, so they have no choice. Though it is far from a terrible movie, it is kind of shocking for Lincoln to see his brothers overreact in every bits of the movie.
When the bald-capped duke, voiced by the guy from Firefly, shows up onscreen, the boys throw marshmallows at the monitor. When the Hans guy shows up, they do the same thing as before. And when the hit song number starts to roll, they all lose their minds. Lincoln is just enjoying the sight of his brothers go bonkers on such an empowering song.
"Boo! No!" they would scream aloud.
Lincoln can't stop chuckling, especially as the boys throw cocoa to the TV screen. His chuckling is too loud that the Loki pauses the movie and the brothers' attention redirects to Lincoln. The latter eventually notices the brothers' eventual silence, and he tries to stop his unstoppable laughter. It is such an awkward moment.
Three minutes of awkward silence later, Lincoln breaks the ice, "What?"
"Boo hiss!" Lexx mocks him by throwing a snowball to his face. It seems that the twin boys brought home snow in-between scenes.
"Okay, I…" Lincoln tries to enunciate, but another snowball hits his face. And another by Leif. But as Lexx throws another ball to him, Lincoln accidentally aims his cocoa mug and splashes the malty drink towards it, making it melt before them.
All of the brothers gasp in horror, while Lincoln beams guiltily for what he has done.
But instead of expecting of a corporal punishment, Leif screams this idea, "SNOWCOCOA FIGHT!"
With that playful battle cry, the boys take part on unleashing an assemblage of water guns and load them with hot cocoa. Lexx, Leif and Levi bring a blanket of snow inside the house and build snow fortresses and garrisons to turn the house into a snow-laden battlefield, just like the last time.
No alliances though are formed on this round. All of the boys' aim are on Lincoln, who equips himself with water guns like a winter-themed Rambo. As the snowballs get fired, the gleeful 11-year-old shoots at them solidly. He then fires at the snow fort that shields them, much to his over-the-top delight.
However, the aloof one, Loni, unknowingly throws a snowball at Lane. "Hahaha!"
"Hey, that's snow fair! Hahaha! Get it?" Lane quips. Then, a snowball effect (pun intended) starts from there. Lane accidentally hits Luke. Luke fires his gun to Lars and Loni. Lars throws a barrage of snowballs to the twins. The twins hit each other with snowballs. When Loki intervenes, they hit their brother with a snowball, which in turns makes him throw snowballs to the rest. And when Lynn gets hit with a harder one, his competitive instincts kick in.
"Okay, you asking for war?!" Boy Lynn threatens them in comic fashion, which still shakes the boys, "Alright then…" With that, he fires multiple snowballs at the same time.
Loki then encourages the rest, "He may literally take our lives, but he will never take our..." Just before he finishes his referential speech, the boys charge towards each other, ignoring Loki in the process. "Hey! You guys never noticed the power of speech! You guys!"
It is all-out war from there. Brother to brother, striking each other with snowballs and gradually lukewarm cocoa. And for Lincoln, in the middle of this brotherly play, he feels joyful to finally witness what his brothers do in every holiday season.
He speaks of this to the readers of this chapter, "Well, I think that settles on my visit back to the boys. It was fun playing with snow and all. Just don't let the cold brother you anyway." Suddenly, one snowball hits him at his nape, causing him to collapse and let go off his watch. To make matters more inconvenient, one more snowball hits the watch, which causes it to open up the portal back home to the ground. Not wanting for the boys to discover the secret again, Lincoln hurriedly picks up the watch and jumps to the portal. Free fall, he goes crossing dimensions and finally back to normalcy where he continues to fall down in the middle of winter. "AHHHHHHH!" he goes.
Lincoln eventually lands in a large blanket of snow, sliding him and nearly hitting past tall snow structures in full speed. His direction is concentrated to an igloo at the end. So, he tries to come to a screeching halt. And successfully, he does. But the tip of his nose touches one brick, causing the igloo to crash on its bricks.
"Well, there goes another crash," Lincoln utters, "But at least I landed safe. How bad can it be?"
"LINCOLN!" familiar voices rebuke him. Wouldn't you know it? The snow structures he knocked down makes his sisters get buried in snow. And the igloo that collapsed contained Lana, Lola and Lisa. Their disgruntled faces show their immediate impressions.
"Look guys, I can explain…" Lincoln hesitates.
"We've literally been building our snow sculptures in the middle of the cold!" Lori chastises him.
"Now, you'll pay!" Lola joins along.
"How should we make him pay?" Lana asks.
Lynn has a suggestion. "Wait, I have an idea on how we'll make this fun."
Lincoln gulps in fear as to what comeuppance will come up.
Minutes later, the Loud sisters tie Lincoln up to a bobsled and prepare to the slide him from a slope and hit a number of snow sculptures below, including ones that look like bowling pins. It was the same manner that his brethren counterparts did.
Lori encourages the rest, "Alright girls, let's prepare to slide Lincoln down. Ready?"
The girls count in unison, "1…2…3…"
But for Lincoln, at a gulp, he has this only to say, "Déjà vu?"