A/N: This story was an inspiration and idea I got the day I got April fooled by my relatives (i don't want to talk about it, it's embarrassing), but sometimes I wondered if the pranks luan made are basically safe, or based on rules? Later I realized they're not.

And the prank I have gone through reflected another thought, 'appreciation'. Lincoln had done many good deeds, despite some were errors he had to correct, even selfish ideas, but the point is how he is willing to support and aid his family, but didn't get appreciated right now for all he has done for in the past. It's hard to explain, I might be wrong, who knows.

Oh, if you ask, no, this story does not take place in the episode of 'brawl in the family', this story does not specify the time or place of certain episodes.

I'm talking too much, aren't I? Let us begin.

Today is the day. The day of the year the loud family all feared it would come. April fools day. When luan goes on a pranking spree to her own family to satisfy her mood and spread her joy of the "holiday' tradition. Despite the fact, her family was not feeling the same way as her, but in great fear from any possible stunt she planned to pull, or her practical joke or mischievous act she has in store.

But the family were not ready to leave the house again like the last time, nor ever try to be stealthy in the house. The only option they could think of was hiding in Lisa's bunker "Are we safe?" Lana quivers when the fear of their sister/daughter is active and ready to pull many possible gags, most of which are harmless but they be really humiliating, and there's some which are dangerous, such as raccoon attacks, bleach in contact to eyes and skin, and allergy-pies. Those are the little of many lists.

"This bunker of mine is highly reinforced with a certain metal that makes up of manganese, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, boron, titanium, vanadium, tungsten, cobalt, and niobium" she stated, but her family only raised a brow, not sure of her words. "The ingredient element of steel" annoyed to had such family who is less IQ than her, but she admires her pride in being perfect.

"Good choice" Lana complimented.

"That's great, but what if she placed a prank in the bunker?" Lola acknowledges the bunker around her thinking there might be a slight possibility of break-in and entering.

"Negative, if there was a break-in, my sensors would detect any motions, and notify if the seal is open" she claims, if any were to enter through her doors, the lock would detect any possible entries.

"Why bother, she always finds ways to prank us" Lori accepts her possible defeat sooner or later while she lies against the wall. Yet, most of her family dought Lisa and her high knowledge since Luan is capable of wiring and be handy with electronics, despite the day of the hotel and her capabilities in her part, it's possible she could be one step further than any minds combined. "I might as well be covered in pain or be humiliated in public if she cuts my hair"

Lincoln didn't seem to agree with her words "We're not giving up, we know Luan can be one step ahead of us, but I'm certain this bunker will work" he claims 'it worked for mom, dad, and Lisa last time, so why not do the same but for all of us?" he affirms, most were persuaded by his good statement.

"I guess you're right, son, your mother and I were able to survive Luan's pranks in this bunker" he recalled his recollection of memory the day he and his wife were safe in their daughter's reinforced bunker.

"Even from Lily's diapers she launched" Rita cringed, thinking the possibility if she was not inside in time.

"So what we do to pass the time?" Lynn Jr asked while she lies in boredom on the floor and tossed the tennis ball against the wall and bounces back to her and repeating the processes. Being the athlete of the family, she is not key on stuck in a small space to have less movement to "We can play catch with my ball" she shakes the ball in a motion of convincing everyone to be on board in her idea.

"Let's not do that, dude, even if we play gently and safely, you would just go berserk and competitive" Luna gloats, knowing Lynn and her habit of being competitive instead of playing safe for her family.

"Ouch, you still don't trust me" Lynn sneers as she gives a silly smile, indicating or thinking her sister was joking of their trust issues of her activity sports as a family, even after proving herself during game night.

"No" the whole family spoke in a union, even Lily just as she was picked up by Lori in the process.

"Also, Lily's here, we don't want another injury from you"

"Fine" Lynn accepted her rejection, she couldn't blame them after what she had gone through, yet she tried her best to control her adrenaline rush for sports, and heavy ignorance of her mind on competition against all and all odds.

"how about I read your future?" Lucy asked with the cards on her hand, the same cards that were used to pass the time during the long road trip, but ended with both good and bad luck. Although most are eager to be on board with her decision, most are not. Despite the fact how partially half of the group didn't get what they expect their fortune they or most fear their past experiences, such as Lori and her accident, and Lincoln and his time wasted over a silly prediction.

"Oh, I want one, I want to see if Mr. Universe would open the door for me again" Lola insisted to have her fortune told, eager to have the moment a man politely open the door for her again just like from the pit stop.

"No, what if it ends up with an evil skeleton card thing again, what if your card predict a prank coming?"Lincoln insisted to her, seeing how he believes in the superstition just like the rest of the family, all except Lisa who does not believe in such, nor blessings or curses. But beliefs can cause problems when labeling someone for that matter like he was labeled as misfortune last time for a losing game his sister had to endure but found a blame to give.

"Lincoln, you can't still possibly believe in the fortune of prediction, we debunk this after the infant owl incident" Lisa stated her facts, but most of which was not what Lincoln would agree.

"And it took you two days to debunk my "bad luck"" Lincoln counter back, but Lisa did the same.

"That is because you were lying"

"OK, can we start the cards, I want to my fortune read-" Lola's words were cut off by a faint knock on the entrance of the top hatch. Later did they know, a great chill came to each spine to hear a voice on the other side.

"Oh no, is my family hiding in the bunker? That is very rude for not celebrating the holiday" Luan spoke in sarcasm on the other side as she apparently has a small cane on her hand, decorated in all yellow and the top with a jester's head in a laughing posse "I hope you don't bunk the night in their, ha ha ha, get it?"

The family groans in annoyance, but they weren't leaving or have any fear now they're inside the bunker. "Yes, we get it, but good luck pranking us when we are here" Lori mocked in a playful tone.

"Sure, but how do you intend to stay in there without food?"

Eyes jolted open and wide, releasing if they were to stay inside until midnight they need to have three meals to last the day, yet that plan slipped through their heads. "...Oh..."

"That doesn't matter, we could last a day without food" Lincoln stated but her sister counters back with another problem.

"And the stuff you all left unintended for me to take?"

"What" they all asked in a union. Lisa was able to open the poke out a scope from the top part of the hatch, and from what she could see was all their valuable belongings each tied to a rope from the high tree, and underneath the tree was a paper shredder. The setup is complex with a large funnel on top of the shredder to catch belongings easily. All tied spreadly in a circle formation, one seemed to be a laptop, a fabric bows, guitar, football, bun bun, Lynn's ugly tie, Rita's novel, Vlad statue, a plumbing tool which Lana calls it big bertha, a collection of tiaras, and Lisa's fecal samples.

"This may not seem a prank...yet…, but first I thought we could play a game, and this just one prank for this special day" she explained. The whole family took a turn to see through the scope but were shown in utter shock, especially Lola. After all the hard work and time to earn each tiara, she couldn't bear to lose it all.

"No!" she yelled as she immediately opens the hatch and the moment she stepped one foot out, a hand stopped her from proceeding.

"Nah ah ah, there will be pranks set off if more than one person leaves, even drop all your belongings down the shredder, if you want your stuff to be safe, one of you have to go through all my prank landmines" she stated her rule of the game and Lola headed back inside.

"Great, now what?" she asked. The group huddle together to discuss a solution in private, even from Luan's ears to hear.

"Ok, we know more than one person would set off the pranks, don't know what and how but it might be bad if all our stuff goes to shreds" Lincoln marked

"So someone has to go, my photos of me and boo boo bear are in that laptop!" she pleads and begs to retrieve her belonging. Most of her photos that occupied most of the space on her phone were transferred to her laptop to make more room in her phone. Quivering her image in her head of seeing her memories with her lover being erased and gone permanently.

"it seems one of us have to be a sacrifice"

"Please don't say it like that, Lucy" Lincoln requested with strict narrow eyes, but later came to his senses after something got into in their ears.

"You might wanna hurry because this rope is on a timer, so one of you have to go quickly" Luan added, but this only gave pressure more than it has gotten. Lincoln poked his eye on the telescope to see the situation all over again.

"Ok, I'll nominate myself to-" looking back only to see his family standing way far from his distance with their eyes staring back at him in a motion of choosing, and chose him. Without a doubt, he gave an annoyed look on his face and crossed his arms. "Of course" he muttered, just as he opened the hatch and stepped out to land on the grass and look around with cautious for any possible threat or prank. Crouching nearly down in a way of preparing for an incoming prank if he triggers by tripping wire.

"Alright, Lincoln, I was expecting Lynn, but you'll do, you may have gotten through the last pranks I set up when I called for Ronnie Anne over, but can you go for another round?"

"I hope I could" fearing he might take the wrong steps in each area, gently tapping his toe for any triggers. Until he took another step and something sprayed from the ground and to his clothing and face. Startled by unknown oily substance as he waved his hands in shock. "AH...what is this" he asked when he took a sniff on his shirt until he knew what it was. "Peanut oil?" looks back to Luan with a puzzled look on his face. But she had her reasons for the oil, considering the scent is a lot stronger than regular solid nuts.

"It's not for you, it's for the woodland creatures who want to go nuts" she laughed. Next thing Lincoln knew he was in one of Lucy's poem. The sound of squeaks from the trees and chirps from the sky, looking high and below, squirrels and birds were caught by the scented flow.

"...Uh oh..." Lincoln said his possible reaction words when the birds pecked and squirrels ravished through his clothing but did not bite the skin. Lincoln ran around the area with the tense desire to lose the creatures, yet he pulled many triggers of each prank.

While inside the bunker, the family could hear his screams, they were not screams of pain, not even cries for help, but rather in fear and fright. Along those screams came with the sound of gears grinding, ropes binding, and coils winding all for it to end with silent. Which it was strange. Poking their heads out, only to see Lincoln hanging upside down by is the leg with a rope up from a different tree. He appears to be covered in covered by who knows what, pies, tart and feathers, banana peels, and more. "Hey….uh...can I get some help… please?" he dazed after having to go through a trap where he was spun around rapidly.

"We can't, bro, no more than two people out the bunker-"

"Actually, you can all come out, I was lying" Luan said as the eyes of each loud were jolted open again.

"W-what, why?!" Lincoln yelled in disbelief, taking off all the smudges off him such as pies, tart, and others.

"Well, I knew if all of you would set the pranks off quickly and the game would end just like that, now time for the bonus round!" she yelled as she came turned into a mic and pulled out what appears to be a tablet with buttons that contain symbols that represent their belongings. Laptop, fabric bows, guitar, football, bun bun, Lynn's ugly tie, Rita's novel, Vlad statue, a plumbing tool which Lana calls it big bertha, a collection of tiaras, and Lisa's fecal samples. "Here" she said after passing the tablet to her mother.

"Uh, honey, what is this, what do you mean about the bonus round?" Rita asked, the rest of the family also curious.

"Well, you have to choose a one belonging to sacrifice to free all the belongings and Lincoln. He is tied up with the same ropes as the rest of stuff, and you only have two minutes to choose or they all go shredding and Lincoln goes for another round of pies, and go!" she commenced her time, but this only displeased the loud family further from fear, even Lincoln.

"Are you nuts!?" Lola scolded

"Out of all the pranks, this is cruel and too far!" Lynn jr also scolded

"Honey, you will stop this- WHAT THE!?" Rita was about to walk to her daughter but something passes by her at such speed, a diaper that nearly hit her head.

"Yeah, can't leave outside a five-foot radius from the bunker, I thought this might also help if you were to save your belongings and Lincoln by foot." she explained with no option to take rather than pick a cut to save all, or cut all.

"You gotta be kidding me, all we have to do is choose which to shred?!" Lori question in great agitation.

"Yep"

"Ugh, fine!" they all have given in their defeat and commit to the game. "Obviously not my laptop, that has my photos and pictures, and it cost me four hundred dollars!" she stated.

"Alright, we get it" Lola scoffed, being annoyed by her love and memories, yet she's not wrong about the price if it really is expensive to replace. But she felt one out there might be sacrificed "we definitely shouldn't shred my years of hard work of tiaras, but we could shred that toilet thingy"

"No, not birtha, I need her when I fix toilets, why not that creepy statue, I need my tool, especially fixing the clogs Lincoln makes" Lana declines her twins request, but Lincoln was not pleased to hear her statement.

"I heard that!" he raised his voice to get their attention.

"We know!" each said in union.

Lucy did not agree with this option as she grown more off and odd to give chills down each spine "Never, or you will feel the dark curses of-"

"Ok ok, chill out, Lucy!" Lynn jr said to lower her inner darkness "what about Dad's tie collection, they are so ugly, especially the white rabbit" she claims, and immediately Rita agreed.

"Yes, let's get rid of them, like now" Rita looks back to the tablet and she was ready to press the button, but her finger came to a halt when her husband took the table away from her.

"No, please, not my ties!" Lynn Sr. insisted, not bearing to see his ties turn into a variety of piece.

"Dad, your ties are awful" Luna scolded her father's ties, but he didn't seem to agree, trying to come up with a solution to get his ties out from the choice of shredding.

"No, never, what about Lincoln's doll" he pointed at the stuffed bunny, belonging to Lincoln who he had it ever since he was very young as Lily. But that choice trigger lincoln in a full panic mode.

"No, do not shred bun bun, I repeat, do not, I took all these pranks for you all, so you all owe me one big time!" he yelled in desperation, rejecting his father's option, but they all seem to agree with Lincoln.

"Well, he did go through such pranks for us, but on the other hand, he is above his age limit to sleep with a rag doll" Lisa specified her claim. This also brought the attention of others, but not in a way Lincoln would want them to see.

"He is not a rag doll, he is bun bun, my life friend!" he yelled as he shakes in attempt to free himself from the ropes "do not shred him- GET YOUR FINGER AWAY FROM THAT BUTTON!" he yelled as he could clearly see his index finger getting closer to the button, but after that yell, Lynn sr moved his finger away. "But the others are expensive to replace, most are irreplaceable, like my ties, yours is bought at a hospital gift shop, we'll get you a new one" most shook their heads in an agreement, yet Lincoln doesn't seem to agree.

"No, don't you dare!"

"But, honey, you're too old to sleep with that doll, we'll make it up to you when this is all over, but you need to learn to give up something you don't need, sorry" Rita said as she raised her hand to make her choice. Promising to make up the tragic loss and possibly ground Luan in the process of destroying one of her sibling's belongings. But this only put Lincoln in a full panic mode to the point of shaking and waving his body to struggle out the ropes and save his stuffed bunny.

"NO, DONT-" his words were cut off as he watched his mother pressed the button and that put a disbelief in him and later saw his stuffed bunny released from the ropes and fall. Everything was moving a slow motion to his eyes and the last thing he could gaze was was bun bun's eyes, then distant away from his sight to see. The sound of cuts and hum were all he could hear and everything was blank and voided from any possible reaction, only the sound of his stuffed bunny in the shredder. He felt himself lowered to the ground very gently, but just as he reached the ground he immediately ran to the paper shredder, and got down on his knees and once he took the funnel and took the cutting piece off… there were cotton and pieces of light brown squares in the bin.

"I'm sorry honey, but we had to" Rita said as she apologized just as the rest of the family came from behind, they too were sorry. But the boy stayed silent, barely even moving, they couldn't see his arm go through the bin, but he appears to be shaking, shivering, or possible quivering, thinking he might be crying. Later luan came close, around Lincoln with a smile on her face.

"If it makes you feel better, here" she said as she pulled out the real bun bun on her hand, handing it to her brother. "The only thing they shredded was a paper mache replica" she explained, she didn't have a mean bone in her body to cause such destruction. The family was relieved to hear, but they could see lincoln's arm slowly moving up to grab his stuffed bunny. They notice his arm was shaking, or stuttering, but once he took the bunny he slowly places it on his chest, still shaking or shivering.

"Wait, so our stuff is made of paper mache!?"

"Well, no, only lincoln's, I knew you would all choose for that stuffed bunny, obviously. Plus he would easily forgive and forget" she said, but just as she took a clear look at lincoln's face, she took a step back in a way of caution and concern. The face she saw was not forgive and forget.

"Luan, I know I say this a lot, but you are grounded for three weeks" her father said, seeing how this was too far for a prank, sure she always get the same grounding time for every last day of April fools, but most are just a week in her room, but this time this caused emotional pain to begin with.

"Do you have any idea how serious this prank has gotten?" Rita said and looks back to see her son still on his knee, shaking and quivering. As a mother would do, she approaches to apologize to Lincoln. "Lincoln, are you ok-" just as Rita placed her hand on her son's shoulder, Lincoln immediately turned around to slap his mother's hand away, and his face brought high concerns. Tears rushing out of his eyes, eyes jolted in anger but they could tell there was sorrow behind them, his body still shaking or quivering, and he was breathing very heavily and rapid. Lincoln held bun bun with his other hand close to his chest...he was hurt.

"...Lincoln…" she could see how emotionally hurt her son was, all of them could see it clearly, but that stare didn't last when Lincoln immediately got on his feet and run inside from the back door, and a loud slam was heard in the processes. Gazing upon the door and realize how a choice caused, but that choice was forced out of their will. Luan did not expect this to happen, but she knew this was not what she wanted.

Looking back with upset eyes and look, Lynn jr opted to speak first. "Forgive and forget, you said, what do you call that?" she scoffed "Thanks to you, he's mad at us because of your sick prank"

"Why was this prank meant for him?" Lori asked, but luan was

"... no, I didn't mean to make him mad, I thought-"

"You thought what you predicted, but you didn't realize the effects were" Lisa stated as she and the rest of the siblings left, but only Rita and Lynn stayed to give a word.

"This time, grounded for two months, no funny business or entertainment parties, and straight apology to your brother" Rita said, she was strictly disappointed, even her husband felt the same. Both headed inside to make up for the damage they caused as well, they didn't bother to untie their belongings since it didn't matter to them right now. leaving luan alone outside the backyard, she could only do was look around and see the mess she made in the yard. The feeling of saps and drain of the body of energy to the point of describing guilt. But what were the rules of April fools she did not follow for each year?

Ideally, an April Fool's Day prank should be funny to everyone involved when it's all over. At least, that's the main goal.

It's considered acceptable for April Fool's Day pranks to cause some inconvenience to their victims. Making people feel embarrassed or irritated is okay. Wasting people's time is okay. Making them do some work to undo the prank (Lincoln did for Ronnie Anne) is also okay. After all, the entire point of April Fool's Day is to make people look foolish, but laugh in the end.

However, inconvenience should never turn into actual violence or harm. This includes causing serious psychological harm. No one should get hurt. Nor should the property be permanently damaged (motel prank). Nor can April 1 be used as an excuse to engage in any illegal activity.

Her action proved her less of a comedian, no rules were properly followed for each year to label each stunt as pranks, but rather a risk of potential hazards. Now she had to deal with the shame and guilt she caused by failing to follow the rules, but such rules were not in her common knowledge. "I really messed up bad, I'm sorry, Lincoln"

A/N: I know the prank is too much and/or too far, and I'm sorry if it upsets or displeases you, but I try to capture Luan's behavior and an idea of her pranks from the episodes, and I noticed each were possible hazards and broke the rules of April fools prank, plus the possible harm she pulled off in the first prank episode with Lincoln, with the raccoons. So I had to make an idea prank of my own with those elements. Also, Lincoln is not mad or angry to his family, just shaken by the sudden betrayal and loss of appreciation from his family.