A/N: I do not own Austin & Ally or the characters. It all belongs to Disney. This fic is directly based on my favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Turtle Temper." So everybody maybe somewhat out of character. Hope you all enjoy it and please review with feedback. It'd be appreciated.


It was a few minutes before Austin was to go on stage for a local charity concert. The previous musician had finished up and it would take a little bit before the crews would be ready for Austin's performance. Backstage in a quiet blue room, Trish was looking over the event's program while Dez was having a disagreement with the water cooler. Austin was quietly meditating on the couch to get his nerves settled. Even though he was a seasoned veteran at performing, there was always the prospect of something going wrong so he relaxed himself.

Ally took this moment and playfully poked the back of Austin's neck. He was somewhat startled, but shrugged it off and closed his eyes again. Ally then poked at his rib cages and Austin grabbed her hands and pulled her under him tickling her in the sides as a repercussion for her playfulness. As you might expect, she laughed loudly and squirmed on the couch as her flailing leg accidentally knocked over a purple vase.

Trish didn't exactly approve of this banter at this particular moment. "Guys, when a rock star is about to go on stage, he's supposed to be mentally preparing himself."

"Sorry, Trish, I'll giggle quieter," Ally replied. It turned out she couldn't as Austin then made her lie on her stomach on the couch and he lay on top of her ready for more tickling.

"Say it," he playfully ordered.

"Austin, get into meditative form!" Trish scolded.

"Not till Ally says it," he answered putting his fingers near her waist and Trish put her hand to her face in annoyance.

"Austin is the best singer in the world," Ally said between giggles while sounding desperate for Austin to get off her.

"And…" He started lightly scratching her waist.

"And he can't perform a song without me."

"And…" He then put his fingers to the back of her neck and tickled.

"And we'll always be a team and there's no way we can make it in the music world without each other."

"AND…" He then put up her arms and reached for her exposed armpits.

"And in the history of music, there will never be a better…"

"Guys, enough!" Trish finally burst out, putting a stop to the whole thing as it was their time in a few minutes.

"OK, Trish, whatever you say." He got off of Ally as she breathed a big sigh of relief. He gathered his things and got ready to go on stage, walking towards the door with everyone. "Do you have the guest list for the after party?"

"I have it on my phone so I can just plug it into a computer and print it out."

"And I've ordered all the 255 pizzas that everybody who attends can scarf down," Dez chimed in, earning looks of bewilderment from his friends.

"Dez, there are only 80 people coming so we don't need that many," Austin replied. "And how exactly are that many pizzas going to be paid for?

"We can just use the ticket revenue to cover it."

"What's been going on in here?" a voice suddenly said. The team turned around and saw an older arena employee named Jeremy had walked in to get them onstage. "What are you playing tardiness?"

While somewhat taken aback by this, Dez tried to reason with him. "No, sir. We're just…"

But he was cut off as Jeremy looked over their shoulders at the broken vase and got angry. "Which one of you juvenile callibraids broke my wife's vase?"

Austin certainly didn't appreciate this. "Callibraids?"

"I don't even know what that means," Dez quietly said scratching his head.

"Me neither, but I don't like it." Austin reached into his pocket to grab his phone and call arena management to report him, but Ally grabbed his arm and reminded him he was going to be introduced in two minutes.

"Let's just go." The four of them walked out the door and started to head toward the stage with Austin being the last one out.

"That's right, you blondie pinhead," Jeremy called back at him. "Listen to your mommy."

Needless to say, Austin was incensed by this. He stopped in his tracks growling and while shaking with rage, he pointed his guitar at him. "Hey! Watch it buddy!"

"Oh no! I didn't know you had diamond earrings on your guitar!" Jeremy taunted, looking at a shiny decoration that Ally had put on the soundboard.

"Diamond earrings?" Feeling blood rise to his face, Austin started charging at Jeremy with his three friends trying to hold him down. "I'm not going to take this from some hairy incompetent dwarf with a crew cut!"

"You calling me ugly? Seen a mirror lately country boy?"

Ally was pleading with her partner to cool it as she attempted to restrain him with Dez and Trish. "Austin, don't!"

Jeremy wasn't done mocking the blonde pop star. "You want a piece of me?"

"When I'm done, a piece of you is all that's going to be left!" he yelled back at him.

"Yeah well, if you'll excuse me, I got a job to do." With that, Jeremy walked away and out of sight. Austin dropped his pursuit of him and let himself go limp into his friends' arms. Unfortunately, some fans in the stands had a view of this incident and caught it on their phones.

"Way to blow your composure, Austin," Dez chided. "Just get on stage."

Austin was announced over the loudspeaker and he stormed onstage. The incident was still very much on his mind and during the half hour he sang his songs, he shook and his voice quavered. The crowd noticed this and showed their displeasure with him. After he was finished, the crowd only gave him a polite applause instead of a standing ovation. Ally, Dez and Trish walked up on stage to console him. Jeremy was off to one side and had recorded Austin's poor performance on his Droid.

"Keep going, country music banjos!" he called to them. "This is pure money!"

"We're not banjos, you idiot!" Austin was close to apoplexy by this point.

"Yeah and it's not country music," Dez called back, not aware he wasn't helping. "It's pop music."

Trish had noticed a bigger problem. "Guys, people got us on video!"

"Not for long they don't!" Austin snatched the mike and gave the crowd an ultimatum: "Everybody who has a video running, stop it and delete it NOW!"

He noticed Jeremy starting to run towards the exits with his phone. "I'm going to make a fortune off of his bad acts!"

Ally had seen enough and while she was angry with how her dear friend had been treated, she decided to put a stop to everything. "This night's over, let's just head home."

Austin would not let it go even as his friends walked to the door. "Wait, we have to find that guy and break his phone and his face!" Everybody had headed to the exits and Jeremy was nowhere to be seen. He let out a very angry groan and stormed over to where his friends were. If this night wasn't the absolute most horrific night in Austin Moon's life, it had to be ridiculously high on the list.


A/N: More to come.