Hey guys! So glad that summer is finally here! So here's sort of a summer chapter to celebrate this glorious season! It's based off the episode "That's My Jam" requested by AvrilLavigneFan2001.

Chapter 36

The Jam Session

It was summertime in Tranquil Town and Jackie and Grojband were chilling out in the garage. Kin and Kon were sitting on the couch throwing blueberries at the dartboard on the wall. Jackie and Laney watched from behind.

"What are you doing?" Jackie asked them.

"Testing blueberries." Kin explained. "The good ones don't splat."

"But you're just wasting fruit." Laney claimed.

"YOU'RE WASTING FRUIT!" Kon yelled causing the girls to jump.

"Hey there fruit fans!" an announcer said over the radio in the garage. "Loud Fred here, and it's time to put your fruit to use!"

Corey zipped up to the radio and listened.

"There's a jam contest in the Tranquil Town Fairground today! It's the tasty CJFN Summer Jam Jam!"

"Guys!" Corey gasped excitedly. "Did you hear that? They're having a jam contest! Who better to win a jam contest than a band? We jam all the time!"

"Actually Core-" Jackie tried to say but Corey interrupted her.

"They always interview the winner on the radio. When Loud Fred asks us how it feels to have this summer's hot new jam, we'll rock out with a hot summer jam!"

"But Corey, they're talking about fruit jam." Jackie corrected the lead singer. "As in the stuff you spread on bread or toast! You can't make that with music."

Kin and Kon joined them.

"That's where you're wrong my good lady." Kin opened up a book. "The Rock Lore cookbook has a recipe for the perfect jam!"

"And we know how to pick blueberries!" Kon flicked a blueberry at Laney and it splatted all over her face.

"Grr…" Laney scowled.

"Not that one…" Kon smiled nervously.

Meanwhile on the other side of the house, Tracy and Macy were hanging out in Tracy's room. Macy's phone had just received a message.

"Tracy! Rick Salary just bleated that he's going to be judging this summer's Summer Jam Jam!"

"OMJ!" Tracy cried. "If I win that jam contest, hunky Rick will be all sweet on me! And we can savor the fruits of my labor!"

"What kind of jam do you wanna make?"

"Oh I have a recipe. Step 1: Have Macy make whatever-berry jam…" Tracy grabbed Macy by the collar and screamed. "CAUSE I DON'T CARE! AS LONG AS IT WINS!"

WHATEVER-BERRY JAM!

Grojband had just started boiling their jam for the competition. Kin was stirring it up and Corey was reading off the list of ingredients.

"Let's see…we've got water…two tons of berries…vanilla extract and…a tablespoon of love? Where are we supposed to get that?"

"I'm pretty sure it's not something that you can physically measure Core." Laney responded.

"Wow Kin!" Jackie commented. "I gotta say, you really know how to cook up some good-looking jam!"

Kin gave a high-pitched squeal and hearts popped out of him. Kon held out a tablespoon to catch the hearts and then poured them in the cauldron.

"Care to retract that statement Laney?" he asked.

Corey kept reading.

"Okay, it says here that the final ingredient is…the jam! Let's blast it with our music guys!"

They all pulled out their instruments and started playing. Jackie watched as the notes flew into the cauldron.

"Wow, making jam is easy!"

Just then, the garage door opened and Tracy came in.

"You jelly-heads couldn't make toe jam!"

"Well for your info, our toe jam is gonna win this summer's Summer Jam Jam!" Jackie remarked.

Tracy picked up an amp and held it over her head.

"Yeah no…"

The mean teen threw the amp into the concoction.

"Hey!" Jackie exclaimed. "What was that for?"

"There's only room for one of me to win the Jam Jam!" Tracy explained. "And not enough Rick Salary to go around."

Laney noticed that the jam was starting to bubble.

"Uh…guys? That jelly's got some jiggle!"

Suddenly, a fuchsia colored blob emerged from the cauldron, causing everyone to scream. Jackie and Tracy hid in a corner, shaking with fear.

"Kin! What's going on?!" Jackie shivered.

Kin took a look at the recipe.

"Huh. Pushing the amp in and making the jam come to life was the next step in the recipe." He showed his crush the book. "See?"

Kon stuck his finger in the jam and tasted it.

"Hey! This little guy tastes great!"

The other five tried the jam as well.

"Tasty and alive!" Kin observed. "Pretty sure that'll give us an edge!"

"Mmm!" Jackie smiled blissfully. "We're sure to win the jam contest now!"

Tracy glared at all of them. "You mean 'Mmm! I'm sure to win'!"

Jackie grabbed one of the jam's arms and Tracy grabbed the other.

"We made him! He's ours!" Jackie tugged on the arm she was holding.

"And I tried to ruin him by shoving the amp inside that made him alive instead! He's mine!" Tracy tugged even harder.

The two sisters continued tugging on the living jam until he couldn't take it anymore.

"No yell!" the jam said. "Jammy choose!"

"He can talk?!" Jackie was surprised.

"Ugh!" Tracy groaned. "Is he gonna scream when I spread him all over toast and junk?"

"Don't even think about it! He's too cute to eat!"

"He's my jam so I can do whatever I want with him!"

"He is not!"

"Guys!" Laney broke the girls up. "Didn't you hear him? He wants to choose whose jam he is. I'd want the same if I were jam."

"Well this is a no-brainer!" Jackie said to her band. "Who wouldn't wanna be friends with you guys? Let's hang out with Jammy and show him that our warm friendly hearts are better than that cold hate potato in Tracy's chest! He'll pick us for sure!"

"Oh yeah?" Laney remarked. "Then where is he?"

Jackie looked behind her and saw that Jammy was gone.

"Jammy?"

As it turns out, Tracy had taken Jammy to her room and Macy was giving him a makeover.

"When you're Tracy's jam, you'll be styled, pampered, and popular!" Tracy claimed. "All the other jams will be so jelly!"

Jammy looked into a mirror and smiled.

"Jammy pretty…"

"Stick with me Tracy's Jam and you'll always be pretty!"

"And bored!" Corey came in, snatched Jammy away, and he and the others took him to the mall.

Jammy went up to a store owner.

"Jammy say…roar!"

"Eeek!" the owner shrieked and ran away. "A blob monster!"

Corey, Kin, and Kon laughed.

"Told you we'd have fun!" Corey said to Jammy.

But Jammy was sad.

"Jammy not monster…Jammy pretty…"

"You boys and your stupid pranks!" Jackie scolded. "Can't you see that Jammy doesn't want to be portrayed as a monster? Let's think…there must be something else we can do to have fun."

But before the brunette could think of anything, Jammy was taken away by none other than Tracy. The long-haired teen put the dark pink jelly inside a special jar with a heart on it.

"Jammy like…"

"You'll have the best jar at the contest!" Tracy promised. "My treat!"

Jackie snuck over and took Jammy out of his jar. She and the band decided to take Jammy to the park. But when they got there, Jammy wasn't having any fun.

"Jammy miss new jar…" he sighed.

"Tracy's trying to spoil Jammy you guys!" Jackie told her friends. "And spoiled is the last thing a jam should be!"

"But how do we compete with gifts Jacks?" Laney asked.

"Friendship is a gift Laney! We'll win Jammy over by giving him the one thing Tracy can never give him….fun!"

So Jackie and Grojband took Jammy to do all sorts of fun things with them. They thought for sure that Jammy would like them then, but all of their fun activities were either boring to Jammy or made him get hurt. Each time they failed to make Jammy happy, Tracy took him away and gave him something that did make him happy. After another failed attempt, the gang returned to the garage.

"Jammy no more splat…" Jammy whined.

"So you didn't like bungee jumping." Jackie shrugged. "But I bet you're gonna love waterski shark jumping!"

Jammy screamed and ran away.

"Look Jacks, I know you're trying to show Jammy a good time, but you're pushing too hard." Laney insisted.

"Maybe you're right Laney." Jackie sighed. "I just really want us to win this Jam Jam. But Jammy has no reason to pick us."

"Don't worry Jacks." Corey picked up his guitar and started strumming. "We'll think of something."

Then, all of a sudden, the five friends heard the sound of another guitar. They looked behind them and they saw that it was Jammy playing on his own instrument! Jammy giggled.

"Jammy like jamming!"

"Of course!" Corey snapped his fingers. "You're made of music! Jammy, if you pick us, you can help jam out a cool new tune that'll make a lot of people really happy today!"

Tracy came into the garage holding her car keys.

"Making people happy is what firemen do! And they're tired all the time! C'mon Tracy's Jam! I'll give you a ride to the contest! Something else Jackie and her lame band can't do!"

When Jammy saw Tracy's car, he dropped his guitar and ran off. Jackie looked down sadly.

SPLATTY SPLAT TRANSITION!

Tracy and Jammy arrived at the Summer Jam Jam in Tracy's car.

"Being my jam makes you super popular!" Tracy stuck her head out the car window. "EVERYONE LOVE MY JAM!"

A crowd of screaming girls rushed over and started snapping pictures of Jammy.

"Be my BFF Jammy!" Tracy persuaded. "You'll get seen!"

Just then, Rick Salary walked by holding a jar of peanut butter.

"Hey Rick!" Tracy picked up Jammy and showed him to her crush. "Here's the sweet jam I made to win the Jam Jam!"

"Cool." Rick smiled. "Can't wait to judge that jam."

As Rick walked away, Tracy held her right hand over her heart and waved her left hand in front of her face. Jammy spotted the peanut butter in Rick's hand and copied Tracy.

"Jammy love…"

"Tracy love too!" she pointed to Rick. "That's the prize if we win! So pick me already!"

Jackie and Grojband entered the scene and saw the huge line of girls waiting to get their picture taken with Jammy.

"Great." Laney rolled her eyes. "Tracy made Jammy popular too. We're toast."

Jammy came over and strummed a note on Corey's guitar.

"Jam!" he giggled.

"Jammy! We can jam together if you pick us!" Corey whispered to the others. "Don't worry guys! We still got a chance!"

DRIPPY JAM TRANSITION!

A few minutes later, the Summer Jam Jam was about to start. Jackie and Tracy were onstage with Jammy, waving to the crowd. An old lady was next to them holding her own jam and Rick was sitting at the judge's table.

"Welcome to the Tranquil Town Summer Jam Jam!" Loud Fred said through a radio. "Let me introduce our 65 time defending champion and her doily-berry jam…Barbara! And the only challenger with the guts to challenge her, two girls with a jam that walks and talks?! That's cray-cray! And your jam judge, hunky Rick Salary!"

Barbara handed her jam jar to Rick.

"As a sweet undefeated champion old lady, I'll go first!"

Rick stuck his spoon in the jar and tasted the jam.

"Rick's never tasted better jam!"

Barbara stepped offstage while giving Jackie and Tracy a competitive smile.

"I sweeten it with a grandma's love!"

"Aw man!" Kon complained from the audience. "No fair! All we had in ours was a dork's love!"

Kin giggled creepily as he stared up at Jackie. The Matthews sisters stepped up to the table and Rick stuck his spoon inside of Jammy. Jammy giggled.

"Jammy tickle!"

"Rick thinks this is weirder than sushi…" he tasted the jam. "But Rick's mouth feels like it won the lottery! This mystery jam is the winner!"

Jackie and Tracy gasped excitedly and hugged Jammy tightly. Barbara angrily smashed her jam jar on the ground before walking away in defeat.

"Only one of you gets the winner's ribbon!" Loud Fred reminded the girls. "Whose jam is this?"

Tracy pulled Jammy aside.

"You're my jam!" she yelled. "I gave you gifts, I made you popular, and now I made you a winner! You owe me! Make me impress Rick!"

Jackie took Jammy away from her demanding sister.

"Don't rush him! Sorry I was so pushy Jammy. I wanted you to choose us so my band could jam. But I should have been nicer. I'll understand if you wanna pick Tracy."

Jammy looked back at the older girl who was smiling in anticipation. Then he looked back at Grojband. Then back at Tracy. Then back at Grojband. Then back at Tracy.

"Hurry up and pick me!" Tracy commanded.

"It's okay Jammy." Jackie encouraged the pink blob. "No matter who you choose, we'll still be friends."

Jammy smiled for he had made his decision.

"Jammy Grojband's jam!"

Jackie and the gang all gave Jammy a group hug.

"Rickgratulations!" Rick pinned the first place ribbon on Jackie's shirt. "And now, for a special winner's hug."

Jackie wrapped her arms around the popular boy. She saw that Tracy was about to throw another one of her temper tantrums.

"That's my hug!" Tracy pointed a finger at Jackie. "AND THAT'S MY JAM!"

The teenager screamed and blasted into the air surrounded by jars of jam. Her diary and pen floated up to her and she started writing flames across the pages. This caused Tranquil Falls to blast out water and Mount Tranquility to erupt (despite not being a volcano). Tracy then finished writing and returned to normal. Her diary fell into Corey's hand.

"Jackie Matthews!" Loud Fred announced. "How does it feel to have this summer's hot new jam?"

"Well Loud Fred, I'll let my band tell you!"

Grojband started playing a new song.

Corey: Spread the news around

There's a brand new sound

And it's all for me

When I hear that beat

It makes me move my feet

You'll be moving too

Just wait and see

When you ask me

Laney/Kin/Kon: What's that dude?

Corey: This is what I'll say to you

All: That's my jam

That's my jam

Corey: I know you like it sir

And I know you like it ma'am but

All: That's my jam

That's my jam

Corey: Can't take it away

Cause jammin's what I am

Spread the news around

There's a brand new sound

And it will never go away

All: When I hear it, when I feel it

It will sweeten up my day

When it's thumpin' and it's pumpin'

I jump up and say

Hey! Hey! Hey!

That's my jam

That's my jam

Corey: I know you like it sir

And I know you like it ma'am but

All: That's my jam

That's my jam

Corey: Can't take it away

Cause jammin's what I am

That's my jam!

When the song ended, Jackie tossed her blue ribbon over at Jammy, who absorbed it.

"Jammin'!" Jammy cheered.

"Looks like our jam was pretty hot Core." Laney said.

"Our jam Lanes?" Corey gained a spotlight. "As soon as it's out of the jar, a jam belongs to everyone! Jam fills your soul, gets stuck in your teeth, and all it wants in return is your love. So don't turn your jam into a stain on the ground! Taste it. Don't waste it."

The spotlight disappeared.

"Wow. Maybe you should have written those lyrics down…this morning!" Laney shouted.

Corey gave her a sheepish smile.

Kin and Kon were over at the judge's table spreading jam on toast. Kon offered a slice to Jackie.

"Tastes like a winner to me!"

Jackie took the toasted bread and recognized the color of the jam that was on it.

"Jammy!"

"Rejoice my friends!" Jammy said happily. "This is every jam's destiny! I embrace it! For I have lived-"

Jackie took a bite out of the toast.

"Mmm…this tastes even better on bread!"

"Thanks for coming out everyone!" Corey shut the garage door.

Sorry for making you guys wait for another chapter again. Been having some tough writer's block lately. Hope to see you all again soon!