Big Time Rush With Female Kendell

by NightofFury121

So this is Big Time Rush with a female Kendell. There are a few changes but it's still fairly close to the actual show. There are things added and there are things that are taken out. I'm still currently working on this so updates will be sporadic. The only reason I have time now to write this because school is shut down due to COVID-19. I hope everyone stays safe. Warnings apply!

1. Big Time Rush

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

A/N: Hey guys I hope you enjoy and that this takes away some of your stress and anxiety. I would appreciate your feedback as to whether I should keep Jo as a girl or make her a guy. I'm not opposed to either or Kendell could end up with one of her guy friends. Please vote for the pairing you want. I also would like to know if you want Lucy to be a male. I kind of want to keep Lucy a female because I kind of want Kendell and Lucy to be bisexual. Kendell, of course, will start off thinking she's straight but then Lucy will flip her life around. I haven't written too many bi characters and I myself am not bi, so don't get too mad if I don't capture their feelings too well. I also ship Logan and Camille but I'll understand if you want to ship Logan and Kendell. I know this is a lot of me talking but I just want your opinions on things. I appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

Kendell and James

Kendell and Jo

Kendell and Logan

Kendell and Carlos

Kendell and Lucy

Warning: Bullying, a parent leaving/ parent divorce, name-calling, swearing

She was a tomboy, she was everything her mother hadn't expected. Her mother is a single mother and has been for a long time. Her father left shortly after Katie was born, due to the fact that he was cheating on their mother the entire time and had a second family. She was young at the time so she didn't totally understand why her father was leaving. It wasn't until much recently she got her mom to tell her the truth about their father and that was when Katie was spending the night at a friend's house.

After their father left Kendell grew closer to her mother and helped her with her little sister. Of course, when her mother wanted her to act more girly she just started acting more and more like a boy. She had three guy friends so of course, she wanted to keep up with them and that meant doing the same things they did. When they joined hockey she decided to do the same thing, it wasn't until middle school hit when it was hard being friends with three boys. In middle school boys and girls weren't just supposed to be friends they were supposed to be more. Every other boy in middle school seemed to trip over themselves because of her looks except her three best friends either it was because they were good at hiding their feelings or she was nothing more in their eyes. It was fine and once they hit high school the three managed to stay close friends.

Now here she was with her three friends, it was close to the beginning of their sophomore year. They were all staring at one thing. The janitor had left the crank in the sprinkler system and there was really only one option for the four of them. Something that would definitely get them all into trouble. With the girls' field hockey team and quite possibly the school as well. While the school offered field hockey as a sport she and her friends preferred ice hockey and seeing as there were no other girls or girls ice hockey she was the only girl on the boys team. Many people had tried to deter her from joining but she pushed on and her friends had stuck up for her. After convincing the school to let her on the team the friends only had one more struggle, Ms. Knight. Luckily for them, she encouraged her daughter to join.

Back to now, she had noticed the crank first and showed her friends and even managed to convince them to do it. Carlos was the first to try it but the crank was in their tight. While Carlos was trying James was talking about some dream he had the previous night and even sang the exact words he sang in his dream. James also didn't have any clue as to what was going on.

"What are we doing?"

"A janitor left the T-bar in the sprinkler valve and do you wanna help us soak the girl's field hockey team?" Kendell explains.

"Yeah."

That solved the issue of getting the sprinklers to turn on. As soon as James said that Kendell and James both went to help Carlos. Logan was a little more hesitant but he eventually went to help his friends. Within a few seconds of them all helping they manage to turn the sprinklers on and hear the screams of the girls. Of course, they all look up and see the four friends near the bar so they start chasing after the four of them.

The friends had a decent enough head start that as soon as they turned a corner they managed to jump into the nearest dumpster. When they thought the girls had all passed they popped up and looked around. Carlos was eating a sandwich he had found and his friends gave him a weird disgusted look. Of course, the girl's team had turned around and noticed the four of them so that was their cue to leave the dumpster. Once they hopped up they started running again only they had ran into a dead-end alley. The girls were about to hit them but Kendell made them stop so Carlos could give James the helmet. James cared the most about his looks and added to the fact if James' mother saw a scratch or bruise on his face she would blame hockey and pull him out of it.

Once they were all situated the girls started hitting them. They didn't get too far into it before they all heard sirens. They had all left in a hurry and the four of them were left in the alley bruised and sore. They eventually had enough wits to get up and head over to Kendell's house since it was the closest. They had gotten whatever cold things they could get their hands on and had even grabbed some soda and snacks. They turned on the tv and somehow James had grabbed the remote first. They ended up watching a music channel and after a few hours of sitting the Pussycat Dolls came on. They were all still in pain from earlier. That is until James made his comment about the lead singer.

"I'm going to marry her someday!"

"You're going to marry Nicole Scherzinger? How?" Logan asks.

Kendell and Carlos both protest and when James pops up they groan. James then jumps up onto the coffee table.

"I'm going to be famous! Sing to soldout arenas and have like five houses. ~Make the girls go crazy~. And then marry Nicole!"

"Are you done? Please be done," Logan states.

"No cause this is the part where I shake my booty! ~I'm gonna be famous, gonna marry Nicole~."

"Carlos!" Kendell tells him.

"Got it," Carlos says and then tackles James. Carlos gets him behind the couch and the two hash it out. Kendell and Logan just laugh at the two being stupid. That is until an announcement on the tv goes off.

"Do you wanna be a famous pop star? Well, today's your chance if you're in Minnesota. Are you ready?"

James and Carlos cease their fighting and James pops up from behind the couch Carlos not far behind.

"I'm in Minnesota!" James exclaims. The tv then shows live footage of people outside of a theater. The tv picks up one of the girls and that girl is Jenny Tinkler and she had just shouted how she was going to be the next Gwen Steffani. The tv then introduces the man who's running the auditions. It also states how sign-ups are until 5 pm and the clock said it was 4:30.

"Call all moms now!" Kendell states and all of them go for their phones. Of course, none of their moms pick up and they all say the same thing in sync.

"Mom call me when you get this message we need a ride real bad!"

After setting their phones down they wait for their moms to call them back. James gets frustrated first and yells at the phones to ring. Carlos' phone rings first and they all scramble for the phone that's ringing. After Carlos picks up he tells the number to get to the house as fast as possible, when he hangs up he's excited and his friends look at him expectantly. The number that called back was a siding company and James gets upset with him and tackles Carlos and the two go at it behind the couch again. Logan yells at Kendell to do something about it.

"Logan has a learner's permit!" Kendell tells them. The two boys stop fighting and look at Logan expectantly. Logan just looks at Kendell like he did something wrong.

"But I need an adult in the car with me and a car!"

"Kendell do something!" James shouts.

"What are you looking at me for? Logan's the genius!"

"What! I panic under pressure and then you always come up with an answer!" Logan tells them.

Kendell was about to deny it when she thought for a moment and told them, "I know how to get there!"

They all scramble to get their jackets on and in Kendell's case a beanie and fingerless gloves. Once they're out the door they go to one of Kendell's neighbors to ask her to borrow her car and for her to sit in the passenger seat. They, of course, had Kendell do all of the talking and promised her to shovel her driveway all winter long. As soon as she agreed they helped her put on a jacket and carried her out to her car.

The drive wasn't too long even with Logan driving slower than the speed limit it took twenty minutes tops. Logan had parked in front of the theater and they were all in a rush to get out and when they finally did get inside they were so close to being late. James was the first one inside and ran right up to the desk. He told the ladies that he was James Diamond and wanted to be famous and started singing. One of the ladies happened to be the record producer's assistant and didn't even let James finish before giving him a clipboard and slapping a number on him.

James' friends came in right as she slapped his number onto him. After a few seconds, Jenny had come out of the theater with two security guards escorting her out. She was protesting and kicking her legs the whole time when she saw the four friends she immediately said hi to them. Their response was to say 'hi' back in response.

Jenny then told them, "He's evil! I'm a star!"

She was then carried off by the guards. The assistant then approached the three who hadn't signed up. She asked for Logan's name and he had said, "Oh, no thank you. I'm going to be a doctor."

"Yeah, well I'm a desperate talent scout and you have a cute smile and Justin Timberlake made 44 million dollars last year."

"Hit me."

Carlos then speaks up as well, "I wanna be famous too!" He also starts singing before he's slapped with a number as well.

The assistant then approaches Kendell, Kendell towers over the woman so she addressed her how she looked. "You. Tall, blonde, and eyebrows, you want your dreams to come true today?"

"Sorry, my dream is to play center for the Minnesota Wild, but I'll also consider the Maple Leafs."

The assistant gives her a bewildered look before slapping a number on her as well.

"810 is next!" She says looking at James before leaving. James gulps before switching his number with Logan. Carlos looks at Logan before speaking.

"Dude you don't sing!"

"Carlos that was the worst pep talk in history. Luckily I'm a genius, I'll think of something. Kendell?" logan asks the last part looking at Kendell.

"Beatbox."

"Got it."

Logan shrugs off his jacket and slams the clipboard into Carlos' chest. When Logan comes back out he is disappointed and scared and his friends hear the yelling coming from the room. Logan then tells James not to go in there and James also looks scared. Logan also says how the producer is Satan and curls in on himself. James then switches numbers with Carlos.

The assistant calls for 811.

"All you buddy go get 'em!" James tells him reassuringly. Carlos looks at Kendell for reassurance and she's at a loss for what to say or do. Carlos enters the room all hyped up. When he picks up the microphone there's a bit of feedback. He tosses the mic around a bit before farting into it. The producer tries to get up to strangle him but his assistant holds him back. Carlos then leaves and heads out to where his friends are.

"Not going to Hollywood!" Carlos says excitedly. The assistant comes out not all happy saying that 812 was up. James tried to switch numbers with Kendell as well but she blocks him.

"James this is your dream, not mine. Remember opportunities like this come once in a lifetime. Now grab onto that dream with both hands and go big time," Kendell pushes James towards the door and he stumbles before going through the doors.

When James gets up onto the stage he starts to sing. Of course, his friends sneak in as well but he doesn't notice them. Instead, he gets uncomfortable by the way that the producer is staring at him and messes up. After James makes his mistake he asks if he can start over. The producer instead is very rude and sarcastic back. James was about to restart but the producer yells at him and yells next.

"But I'm good," James states.

"I don't need good. I need the fire, ok? I need someone to knock me out of my seat and as you can tell, I'm still in it, because you have no talent!"

"No talent? No talent! You're the one with no talent! You haven't had a hit in ten years!"

"Hey Girl to my Heart by Boy Quake was a hit nine years ago!"

"Oh, Girl to my Heart. Let me see if I can remember that rock classic. ~Girl my eyes and girl my mind, it never stops after it starts. 'Cause you're a girl," Kendell hops up onto the table at this point. "~A girl, a girl to my heart, heart, heart!~" Kendell gets on her knees and shoves her hands into the producer's face.

The assistant calls for security after she knocks the producer backwards and Kendell keeps on her onslaught of insulting him. "Here's a new hit for you! ~Oh, you're such a turd, oh yeah a giant turd and you look like a turd and you smell like a turd!~" That was when security came up and grabbed her off of the table. "Hey, get off me. Come on. Get off me!" Kendell starts to fight the two security guards and because of years of hockey she was stronger than she looked.

"What's the worst that could happen if I try and break her free?" Carlos asks Logan.

"Uh, Juvenile, one prior for mooning, 20 hours of community service."

"I can live with that!" Carlos then jumps in and tries to help Kendell. James also puts the mic back into its spot and jumps from the stage onto the security guards as well. Logan after a bit decides to go help his friends. After a bit of fighting, they all end up in front of Ms. Knight's house because the police had come.

When Ms. Knight opens up the door she is greeted by her daughter her daughter's friends, her neighbor, and the cops. The first thing out of Kendell's mouth is, "Hey mom remember that time I saved you from choking? Wow, that was close, and I love you."

Kendell's mom has a look of disbelief and shock on her face and after Kendell's response her face shows 'really Kendell?' and a bit of disappointment. After a brief explanation from the officers, the kids are allowed inside and their neighbor goes home. The kids all walk over in front of the fireplace and stand. When walking they all have their heads low and are walking disappointedly.

"Dude, how did you know those songs?" Carlos asks Kendell.

"They play Boy Quake on the nineties channel all day at work and I made up the giant turd song."

"That was catchy," Logan comments.

"What happened? The truth, now!" Ms. Knight demands.

"Mrs. Majkowski helped us try to make James famous," Logan tells her.

"But this producer guy was super mean to everyone!" Carlos exclaims.

"So I sang him the giant turd song and there was a tiny fight, but nobody got hurt!" Kendell finishes.

"And now I'm really sad," James says sadly.

"Ok, who wants a sandwich?" Ms. Knight asks accepting their answer.

The teens all say yes while raising their hands. That was when Katie started to speak up after the teens were making their way to the kitchen. When Katie starts to speak they all turn around to look at her.

"Wait, that's it? That's your interrogation? You didn't put the screws to 'em or slap 'em with the hard cheese!"

"I don't know what you're but you are not allowed to watch FOX anymore," Ms. Knight replies.

"Well, can I at least hear the giant turd song?"

Kendell starts it and then her friends join in singing with her. As they're singing the doorbell rings and they all make their way to the door still singing the song. When they see who's at the door they all stop and the boys scream. James gets excited thinking that the producer, Gustavo Rocque, and his assistant Kelly Wainwright.

"Yes! I knew you'd come back for me!" James tells Gustavo, hugging him.

"I'm not here for you!" Gustavo says pushing him off. "I'm here for her!"

"What?" James asks.

"What?" The three still in the doorway asks.

Ms. Knight in the background yells that she'll make tea.

Kendell breaks out of her stupor first and invites Gustavo and Kelly in. The two get situated fairly fast Gustavo in a chair and Kelly standing behind him. Gustavo speaks first.

"Ms. Knight I want to take your family to Los Angeles and produce some demo tracks with Kendell."

"You can't be serious," Kendell says.

"It'll take three months and we'll take care of all of your expenses," Kelly says.

"Kendell you have a gift. You have the fire you also have anger management issues. Some people say that I have anger management issues but I also have FIVE HOUSES!" James starts singing again hoping to get another shot but Gustavo tells him to stop and he quickly does. "Please don't ever do that again.'

"Kendell we've traveled to twenty-two cities. We've auditioned over 20,000 people and Gustavo's picked you!" Kelly tells her.

"But I'm not a singer," Kendell protests.

"You sing all the time, in the car, at the table. You sing to me when I can't sleep at night," Katie tells him.

Kendell quickly denies it because she's with her guy friends and doesn't want to seem overly feminine in front of them. "No, I don't."

"Yes you do honey," Mrs. Knight tells her.

"When you shovel the driveway when you answered the door two minutes ago!" Katie tells her big sister.

"But that's not singing," She tries to deny again.

"Yes, it is honey."

"And she's always singing along to the nineties channel," Katie tells Gustavo and Kelly.

"KATIE!"

"So, what do you say kiddo? You wanna go to L.A. and be molded and shaped into a big old star by the Gustavo Rocque?"

Everyone looks at Kendell with anticipation. Kendell looks at her little sister before looking back at Gustavo. "No." Her answer shocks everyone and Gustavo breaks the mug that was in his hand. Carlos laughs and James gives him a look. Gustavo then asks for a minute and exits. Kelly leaves money for the broken mug but then hears Gustavo smashing things so she leads a good sum of cash. Before she leaves through the door she tells Kendell to really think about it, Kelly also tells her that they leave tomorrow at two if she changes her mind and leaves her card. Katie smacks her sister upside the head and calls her an idiot. Katie also gets up and leaves saying that she's taking a twenty.

...The Next Day...

Kendell is in her work uniform which consists of a red apron. She's also wearing a long grey sleeved shirt with jeans and a beanie. Her long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail and tucked inside of her beanie. Her bangs are still exposed. She is standing outside of the shopping mart her three friends next to her. Logan and James have shopping carts as well.

"So I uh did the math last night on this whole singing thing and Katie was right. You're an idiot," Logan tells her aiming his cart at the cart rack. He misses and dents the car parked close to the rack. "It's breaking right."

"Guys I don't want to go to L.A. with that Jerk. I wanna be here with you jerks and play hockey for our team," Kendell retorts.

"But this is just like hockey! Only instead of crashing the boards and rushing the net you're singing and dancing!" Carlos tells her excitedly.

"What have you got to lose?" Logan asks.

"Dude, California! The girls, the beach, the stars, the girls or in your case boys!" Carlos tells her.

"Yeah but none of that matters if it's minus my best friends. Add those numbers up, Professor," Kendell tells them.

"Okay, carry the two. Ah, nope still an idiot," Logan responds to her. She gives him a look before looking at James.

"What about you? You haven't said anything to me all day."

"I'm not talking to you," James tells her.

"You just did," Logan and Carlos say in sync.

"You know what dude a part of me hates you right now. No, all of me hates you. But call that guy back."

"That guy said you have no talent," Kendell says directing it towards James then moves onto Logan, "Made you cry and broke mom's teacup."

"But he wants to make you famous," James retorts. He then aims his cart towards the cart rack. He also misses and hits a guy with grocery bags. They all say sorry and the guy gives them a scared look before hurrying off. After they rush off Carlos gives Kendell a proposition.

"Okay if I make a hole in one you have to call that guy back," Carlos taps his helmet before taking one of the carts from Kendell. Carlos then backs up and gives the cart a push before hopping into the cart. Of course, Carlos leaps before looking and a car is driving by and hits hit.

"You should still call him," Logan tells her.

"He's been on the cover of Rolling Stone!" James tells her pulling out a piece of paper with Gustavo on the cover.

"What other odd things do you carry in your pockets?" Kendell asks laughing a bit.

"My lucky comb and an 8 x 10 personalized headshots, one boy next door, one bad boy."

"We just want what's best for you man," Carlos says a little woozily. He gives Logan a side hug and grabs his face mistaking him for Kendell.

"I'm Logan."

"You-" Carlos points at Kendell before passing out.

"He got hit by a car for you," logan points out.

"Yeah, opportunities like this come once in a lifetime," James tells her.

"Now let me get this straight. You're saying if you all had a chance to go to L.A. with a giant turd producer to record demos, you'd go?" Kendell asks them.

All three boys reply with yes, even Carlos on the ground. Kendell then takes her cart and aims it at the cart rack she makes it, unlike the boys. That was when she made her decision. She called Kelly and told her to meet her at her work and that she had something important to tell her.

"Don't think about him, think of millions of dollars," Logan says helpfully.

"Think of millions of boys and girls," Carlos also tells her.

"Think of me as a backup singer who gets his own solo career, you know, after your second album," James tells her and they approach Gustavo and Kelly as they approach them.

"Well?" Gustavo asks.

"Ok, I'll go to L.A. with you and record some demos," She pauses, " If you take my buds and make us a singing group."

Her friends all look at her shocked and Logan chokes a bit on his drink and Carlos says 'dude!'.

"Cold up my nose," Logan comments.

"Well, you guys said you would go," Kendell tells them.

"I'm sorry, are you trying to make a deal with me? I make the deals!"

"If you want me, you have to take all of us."

Gustavo starts to laugh at her remark before he speaks, "Have you even heard your friends sing? Oh, that's right, they can't."

"Well I'm no megaproducer like you but I know they sing better than dogs and you can turn them into stars, right?"

"Is this supposed to sway me? I'm Gustavo Rocque! I'm amazing! I'm amazing! And if you think I'm so desperate because of two or twenty-two cities that I haven't been able to find anybody, you can think again because there is no way, NO WAY Gustavo Rocque is taking the four dogs from Minnesota to Los Angeles to make them stars! It's never going to happen! Never!"

"So we have a deal!"

"Yep," He says calmly.

After that was said and done there was a lot that needed to be done. Her friends were shocked at her boldness considering this was the guy that could change her life. After Gustavo said yep to her they were even more shocked. Kelly had wanted to get everything finalized before she and Gustavo had to fly back and once Kendell's shift was over there was no problem. Of course, the boys had to go home and convince their own parents to go to L.A. but after a bit of convincing, all of them accepted. James' mom was the hardest to convince but once she was convinced it was all set. They then had to decide which adult(s) would go with. It was eventually decided that Jennifer Knight would go with them. It was a hard decision for all of them but they all decided that it was for the best. The next thing they all knew was that they were all on a plane heading to L.A.

The flight took about three hours and once they landed they got into a limousine. The limo ride took about an hour before they arrived at a hotel. the hotel was called the Palm Woods and Kelly had greeted them the minute they showed up.

"Welcome to the Palm Woods, home of the future famous!" Kelly explained.

"That's the first palm tree I've ever touched!" Ms. Knight says excitedly.

"Every year kids and parents from all over the world come here looking for fame in tv, movies, and music."

"Oh, hey there's that funny kid from the juice box commercials!" Kendell points out looking at the boy and his mother dragging him up the stairs.

"I just want my childhood back!" The boy yells.

"Tyler, let's go," His mother says still dragging him.

"Okay! You guys are going to love it here! the rooms are clean, you're close to the studio, and there is an amazing pool."

At the mention of a pool Kendell and the boys rush off to go look at it. the boys all push and shove each other to get their first and because all of the boys pushing each other Kendell pushes all three of them at once and beats them. When they get to the pool area they see people having fun both inside and outside of the pool. They also see four unoccupied lounge chairs.

"Alright, James and Logan stay here and save us these spots, Carlos let's go get booked in and carry the bags up. Make sure no one else takes those spots, even if you see a cute girl, got it? Good now, let's go."

After about ten minutes they get checked into the room and as soon as all of the bags are in the room they rush back downstairs. They didn't even get a good look at the room before leaving. If they would have they would have been shocked but we'll get back to that. Now that all four of them were down by the pool they were sunbathing.

"We're so not in Minnesota anymore," James states.

"Uh, Minnie who now?"

"You guys were right," Kendell admits to them. Before she can say much more though a girl comes up to her and slaps her. How dare you?! How dare you steal my boyfriend away from me? He was going to propose and you betrayed me! How could you? I never want to see you or him ever again! Never!" The girl storms off and they're all left in shock.

"Barely even been here two hours and you're already making enemies!" Logan states.

"Yeah, exactly what I need more enemies."

"What's that supposed to mean?" James asks.

"You guys all saw how most of the girls treated me in Minnesota, they didn't exactly like the pranks we pulled and they were mad at how I was taking three boys away from them instead of just one."

"But none of us were dating you!" Carlos says.

"Yes, but the petty girls at our school were too blind to see that. A lot of them were jealous that I spent more time with boys than girls, especially since a lot of girls wanted to date someone on the hockey team at some point."

"Wait I still had girlfriends though," James tells her.

"And they hated me."

After a few minutes of silence, they hear a voice.

"That was Camille the Palm Woods method actress queen," The voice is coming next to Kendell and she lifts up the trash can lid to reveal the juice box, commercial kid. "The name's Tyler. You may have seen me acting on various juice box commercials. Only, I don't want to be an actor I wanna be a kid."

"Tyler!" Tyler's mom called off in the distance.

"Oh, hide me!" Tyler ducks back into the trash can and Kendell puts the lid back on him.

"Have you seen my son? Red hair, adorable, born to be a star. We've got an audition!"

They all point towards the lobby and say that he went that way. After Tyler's mom is gone they tell Tyler that she's gone.

"Thanks," Tyler stands up in the trash can.

"So is everyone here an actor?" Logan asks.

"No, that's Guitar Dude, he's a songwriter," Tyler points at a guy with long hair, sunglasses, and a guitar.

"What's up?" He asks before playing his guitar and singing, "~What's up? What's up? What's up? Yeah.~"

They wave back at him and then a dog starts to bark so they look at the dog that's barking.

"Oh, that's Lightning te tv wonder dog," Tyler points out and the dog waves at them.

"He's good," Kendell states.

"Oh, and then there's the Jennifers. Three girls all have the same name, who sing, dance, and act!"

The three girls all walk slowly and Tyler points a fan at them to make it look dramatic. Everyone turns to look at them and the boys get interested.

"Hey!" James shouts and Kendell internally facepalms at how the boys are acting. The girls turn around and face them. "We're in a band."

The girls fake enthusiasm before the Jennifer on their right states, "And we're actresses who don't care."

Carlos being oblivious asks, "Wanna go to the movies tonight?"

"Are you guys staring in the movie?" Middle Jennifer asks.

"No."

"Then no," The Jennifer on the left finishes.

"If that seems harsh then it is because of this town, so..." Jennifer on the right says again.

"Later," all three girls chorus before leaving.

"I'm so in love" Carlos states.

"Okay reality check! We have to promise ourselves now that we're not gonna let this singing thing or this town change us, especially not the people! We are four hockey players from Minnesota and we can never forget that! Do we all agree?" Kendell asks.

"Yes!" Her friends reply.

That was when James had a brilliant idea for them to get into the pool. They didn't have their swimsuits on so they had to rush upstairs for their swimsuits. Kendell had grabbed her swimsuit first and had managed to get into the bathroom first as well. The boys on the other hand just grabbed their swimsuits and a shirt before running back downstairs to use the bathrooms down there to change. The boys took longer than expected and so Kendell had grabbed a bag for them to throw their clothes in and had even asked the reception desk for some pool floaties they could either buy or borrow.

When the boys got out of the bathroom Kendell was standing in front of them, she had an oversized Hawaiian t-shirt on over a bikini. The top was resting against her thighs and had the boys pausing in their tracks at their female friend. Of course, Kendell had snapped them all out of it by shoving the bag at them to put their clothes in. When she started to walk away the boys started to follow and the receptionist, a lady with her hair in a bun had shown her the floaties that were available for purchase. She bought them and made the boys carry their own and after a few minutes of them blowing up their floaties, they were ready. Carlos had also seen a place where they could buy drinks out of a coconut. Kendell also bought those with her money from the supermarket and pretty soon they were all in the pool sipping from their coconuts just relaxing.

After a bit, the boys all grew restless and had wanted to pull a prank on Kendell by flipping her tube but they were quickly turned down due to the fact that Kendell could easily hurt them if she wanted to and she was sure to remind them of it as well. That was when they decided to get out. They stacked up their floaties in a pile before the boys saw where the Jennifer's were sitting. Kendell followed them.

"Okay, you guys do realize that they're going to be a lot like the popular girls at our school, right?"

"And they blew us off," Logan states.

"No, they said 'later'," James says.

"And it's later!" Carlos finishes.

"Okay, now that you're all settled in, your sister complained again that she has no friends so your mom let her watch Shark Cage on FOX and now it's time to start Gustavo's band boot camp."

"Kelly can you just give them a minute to make a fool of themselves?"

"You do realize that they won't go for them until you're all famous, so let's roll."

"Kelly clearly you don't understand the power of the..." James says and then gestures at his face. Kelly then allows the boys to make a fool of themselves. "Ladies, I don't think we properly introduced-" the Jennifers throw the smoothies they were drinking at the three boys, Kendell was close enough that she also got splattered with the smoothies, "-ourselves."

"Now that that's done, let's go to boot camp," Kendell says pushing the boys away from the girls.

"I really don't get why they keep coming after us they obviously have someone that they all like right in front of them," Jennifer on the right states.

"It's obvious she gives them what they need!" Middle Jennifer says.

"Just ignore them," Kendell mutters under her breath as she continues to push the boys.

"I really wish I would have saved my smoothie just for her," Jennifer on the left says and they all laugh.

Once they're out in the lobby Kelly starts talking to them again and tries to get them into the limo but Kendell asks if she can change or at least put some pants on. Kelly says they were on a tight schedule so she pulled out the pants Logan was wearing earlier because Logan was the closest to her size. She had to roll the pants a few times but she was ready. The boys then all wanted to trample each other to get into the limo but after a simple shove from Kendell, Kelly was the first one in and then Kendell and then the boys.

When they were all in the limo the boys apologized to Kendell about what the Jennifer's were saying. She told them not to worry about it and that she was used to it and that they were still allowed to pursue them if they wanted to. The boys then protested about not wanting to date someone who was going to be rude to their best girl friend. Kelly was touched by what they said but had a job to do and as soon as they arrived Kelly made them get out and started leading them to where Gustavo was at.

"Welcome to Rocque Records, where you are going to sing, dance and sweat your butts off. If you wanna end up on these walls."

They look at the posters on the walls and stop at the Boy Quake poster.

"Do we want to end up on these walls?" Kendell asks.

"Yes," James says firmly.

"Guys say hi to Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls!" Kelly announces walking next to Nicole. They all turn around and stumble over each other.

"Hey, guys! What's up?" Nicole asks. They're all flabbergasted until Carlos breaks the silence and points at James.

"He's gonna marry you!"

"Where's my ring?" Nicole asks flattering them and James is speechless.

"I'm sorry about them, we're recording some demos with Gustavo."

"Gustavo."

"Yeah, have you worked with him?"

"Yes, actually on my first album. Let's just say we had some creative differences," Nicole smiles sweetly and Gustavo chooses that moment to come out of his office.

"Nicole, baby! Oh!" Nicole throws a telephone at him and he hurriedly shuts his office door.

"Good luck! You especially Ms..."

"Knight, Kendell Knight."

"Good luck, you're going to need it spending all of your time around boys. See you all," Nicole leaves with one last smile at them.

"Nicole!" Carlos calls out.

"All clear!" Kelly calls at Gustavo who slowly opens his door.

"Okay, so you guys ready to be stars?" Gustavo asks approaching them.

"Yeah," they all chorus.

"Good, then prove to me you can be stars," Gustavo takes Carlos' helmet off. "We have three days to prove to this record company that there's something, anything here!"

"Uh, three days? What happened to three months?"

"Uh, the CEO of all of our butts wants to see you guys on Friday!"

"We have to be a band in three days?" Logan asks timidly.

"No, you have to be a great band in three days! Unless you don't think that you can do it Ms. make us a pop group!" Gustavo approaches Kendell.

"Oh, we can do it. No problem. Bring it," Kendell says getting into his face.

"Oh, I will bring it! I'll bring everything I got!" By this point, the two are almost nose to nose.

"This is a little too close for me," Kendell sates backing up a bit.

"Yeah me too," Gustavo backs up and starts walking towards the studio. Everyone else following suit. Once they're in the studio Kelly grabs dark green shirts for them and camo pants for them to all put on for boot camp. When they're all done changing they line up and face him. James had rolled up his sleeves so he could show off his muscles.

"To be a great pop group, you need four things; great dancing, a great look, a great song, and great singing!" Gustavo emphasizes each great and the word that comes after. Kelly then blows an airhorn. After the air horn is blown people come through the door. "And by the end of the day, today me and my team will transform the four dogs from Minnesota into Gustavo Rocque's new pop explosion."

Gustavo poses and that cues the people behind him to also do a cool and sassy pose. The stylists do a pose, then the dance instructor, and then the marketing team who doesn't have anything planned.

"We're the marketing team we don't really have a move," the female marketer states.

"Well we could try something," Her male co-worker states. The two then start doing the robot before Gustavo tells them to stop when they do he says thanks and turns back to the band he's going to be shaping.

"First up in boot camp, great dancing! Mr. X has choreographed for Boy Quake, Boyz in the Attic, Madonna, Beyonce, and Yo Gabba Gabba." As Gustavo is describing what he's choreographed for Mr. X does a few of the dance moves.

"And now I will make you eXplode with the dance! We will start with an eXamination. Cross leg, spin, pose," Mr. X states doing the move and expecting them to follow suit. Kendell and James start first and pull it off almost flawlessly, Logan and Carlos start a bit later and Carlos has his helmet on again. Logan ends up hitting Carlos in the face, knocking him backward. James and Logan then help Carlos back up because they're the closest.

"I'm good," Carlos says once he's on his feet.

Mr. X then comes over to the group. He starts at Kendell, "She's great, but not serious." He then comes over to James who is standing next to her. "He's serious, but not great. He lost a pet when he was young and he is still sad."

"Sparky," Carlos says and his eyes get watery.

"And he is just plain awful," Mr. X says at Logan.

"Yep," Logan admits nervously.

"They are eXcruciating and cannot be ready by Friday."

"I'll Xdouble your salary," Gustavo tells him.

"Xdone."

"Alright I'm going to be back in one hour and I wanna see dancers not dogs!" Gustavo yells at them before leaving with Kelly in tow.

"Starting positions!" Mr. X yells, he then turns on the stereo and moves back to his original place where he dances. They copy him and fail over and over again. They then start to mess around. They don't exactly know who started it only that they kept messing around. They even found brooms and mops at one point and started to play hockey with them. Mr. X eventually makes them spin and because they spin so much they all fall down exhausted and dizzy. Kendell is the last one to fall but when she does Mr. X gets fed up and storms out of the room. That was only ten minutes after Gustavo had left too.

After Mr. X had left they all just pretty much sat around and talked or messed around some more. After an hour as promised Gustavo and Kelly returned. Gustavo shut off the stereo and when the two saw the four of them just laying about Kelly decided to ask first.

"What happened to Mr. X?"

"Well, first he banged his head into the wall a few times," Logan starts.

"Then we got really dizzy," Carlos says next.

"Then he said a bunch of bad words that start with x," James says making an x with his arms. Gustavo getting angrier with what each of them said until he explodes at Kendell's comment.

"Then he Xquit," Kendell finishes. When Kelly sees that Gustavo's about to explode she grabs the headset by the stereo to muffle his outburst. Gustavo's outburst just so happens to be him screaming at the top of his lungs.

Once he's calmed down enough he yells at them to go into the conference room so he can talk to them. At this time they're all in clothes they found around the studio. Kendell was wearing sweatpants and an oversized red t-shirt. James is wearing a black tank top and grey sweatpants, Logan is wearing a blue t-shirt and black sweatpants, and Carlos is wearing burgundy sweatpants with a grey tank top and a hoodie tank top over it. This was what they had worn when they were doing their dance lesson as well.

Now Gustavo was lecturing them in the conference room, "Boot camp part two, the great look!"

"When do we sing?" James asks.

"When I tell you to sing!"

"Guys we have some exciting looks that will literally transform you!" the male marketer says.

"Can't we just be ourselves?" Kendell asks and everyone laughs before she's quickly denied.

"We researched and electroshocked focus groups to determine the exact look and name that will sell millions of records," the female marketer states.

"Then we turn you over to the stylists to change all of your clothes and possibly shave your heads," the male marketer states and James shrieks and holds his head.

"Now, Griffin wants a tasty dish on Friday. That's why we're giving him..."

The stylists are then left to the teens and they all start to freak out and fight back. James is more willing to it than the others, Kendell puts up the most fight because she doesn't want her look to be changed just because of Hollywood. Even back in Minnesota, it was a long-sleeved tee or sweatshirt and jeans and on her lazy day's sweatpants and sweatshirts and of course her signature beanie. The stylists had finished up the boys first before Kendell demanded that if they were going to strip her to at least do it away from the boys.

"I'm sure they've all seen it before!" One of the stylists states and soon enough she's in a different outfit as well her friends giving her respect by turning away.

Once they're all dressed they get pushed back into the studio and Kendell is in a sports bra and overalls and a denim beret as well. Carlos is in a sweatsuit, James is in loose green pants and an opened up collared shirt, and Logan is in a piano suit jacket with a collared shirt and bow tie, he is also wearing rolled-up grey loose pants. Carlos and James are also wearing headbands and Logan is wearing sunglasses. The banner behind them saying boy-liscious.

"Boy-liscious," the female and male marketers finish.

"The beach, the girls and guys, and shirtless overalls," Kendell says unenthusiastically. "Why are we called Boy-liscious if I'm a girl?!"

"I think we look good," James says doing different poses.

"Well, considering that you're supposed to be the talent in this group, it's more to attract girls and other boys to the group. You'll be the main image for the band and encourage little girls to want to join a band themselves!" The female marketer says.

"Not bad, uh, but I need options. What else you got?"

"Change it!' The marketers' chorus.

They all start to fight the stylists again. They are then changed into red, white, and blue. The new band name is Red, White, and Boy.

"Seriously? Boy in the title again?"

"Well, when we first originally heard and saw your name and the other three were boys as well we also expected you to be one, sorry. Not really," the female marketer states.

"This does look great with war veterans who own Buicks," the male marketer tells.

"We look good!" James says again.

This time logan is in Uncle Sam getup, James is in a low-cut white top with pieces of cloth coming down from his shirt and in red leggings, Kendell is in a one-piece red uniform, and Carlos is wearing a red, white, and blue striped shirt underneath a onesie looking thing that's blue.

"We look like Uncle Sam threw up on us!" Kendell points out.

"You, silent! You, more options!" Gustavo says directing the first part towards Kendell and the second part towards the marketers and stylists.

"Change them!" The marketers say again. The teens once again try to fight them on it. When they're changed again they are all wearing tight black pants and black clothing. They all also have black boots on and Kendell has red fake hair extensions in. The new name is Danger Boy. Kendell's top is also lower cut exposing some cleavage and while her pants are uncomfortably tight she's covering her chest with her hands.

"I give you..."

"Danger Boy!"

"Danger Boy is danger and parents will forbid their kids to buy the dangerous music."

"That's exactly why they will," the male marketer finishes.

"Booyah!" They say together and fist bump.

"I, uh, can't feel my legs!" Logan says nervously.

"That's because the pants are dangerously tight."

"I hate it!"

"So do we."

"I need five new looks for tomorrow. All right, now follow me to hear your first hit single that's gonna put me back on top! Move out!"

"Alright come on!." "Oh." "Whoah!"

Those were the teen's responses as they made their way to follow the adults. The last comment was made because they could barely move their legs and they fell. Once they fell James once again made the comment about how they look good. After they all fell they were stuck there until the adults noticed the missing teens and the stylists changed them into their comfier clothes, they were wearing earlier. They took a small break after that and Gustavo started part three of their training, so to speak.

"Ok, part three of the great pop group boot campapalooza, the great song!" Gustavo yells at them.

"It's called Girl Time!" Kelly says as Gustavo makes his way to the piano and she passes out papers with the lyrics.

"It's a song about no matter what time of day it is, ~don't you know it's girl time~. Ooh, I just woke up, What time is it? It's girl time! Excuse me sir, do you know what time it is? Yeah, girl time!"

"What if you have a sinus infection? Isn't that doctor time?" Logan asks.

"No, no, no, it's still girl time!"

"Right."

"Why does it have to be girl time? Besides how many of your songs don't have the word 'girl' in them?"

"Well let's find out! Ms. question everything I do. Let's take a look at my wall of PLATINUM RECORDS! Let's see there's uh, Girl Like You, Girl You Are my Girl, Hot Girl, Cold Girl, Girl to my Heart, Yard Squirrel Christmas- I forgot about that one was there-, Girl Zone, Girl Zone Remix, Girl Cake, and Girl, Girl, Girl, which sold three million copies and number one for five weeks! Any other questions Dog?" Gustavo taps her cheek and Kendell gives him a cocky look before asking.

"Are any of those songs from this Girlennium?"

That comment from her is the boiling point for Gustavo and quite literally steam comes out from his ears and he's shaking so bad that he causes an earthquake.

Kelly then pulls him away from the teens after his meltdown and takes him to the recording part of the studio. She then monitors his heart rate.

"Okay, your heart rate is back to normal and your blood pressure is 120 over 80. You can produce now."

The teens are now in the sound booth with water and pillows. They all are just looking around in the booth and Carlos is jumping up and down facing away from them.

"Remember these kids haven't had a break all day. I think they're getting a little punchy."

"I don't care," Directed towards Kelly and now into the speaker Gustavo says, "okay, now it's time for the final phase of Gustavo Rocque's most awesomest pop group boot camp, THE SINGING!"

"What is this place?" Kendell asks, everything still new to her.

"It's a sound booth, it just isolates the vocals in case we need to edit or enhance them later," Kelly tells them calmly.

"Why are there pillows on the floor?" Carlos shouts at her.

"Do you want us to nap? Cause we will!" James supplies helpfully.

"They just absorb any extra echo or treble, just like those big foam mic covers," Kelly tells them. Kendell picks up the mic and hits herself in the head, the drowsiness of the day finally catching up to her. "And I put some fruit water in there in case your mouths get dry, ok?" James picks one us and holds his thumb up.

"Okay great and-"

Gustavo gets cut off by Kendell hitting Carlos in the head with the mic.

"Funny, do it again," Carlos dares her. She hits him again, this time a bit harder.

"Not so tough without your helmet, are you?" Kendell taunts laughing a bit. Carlos ten picks up one of the fruit waters to aim at Kendell but he misses and sprays Logan instead.

"Knock it off!" Logan yells at him. Carlos instead sprays more water at him. Logan then picks up his own water and squirts it at Carlos but he misses and it hits James instead.

"You just ruined my lucky white v-neck!" James shouts at him. He then grabs a water bottle and sprays all three of his friends.

"Maybe the fruit water was a bad idea," Kelly says unhelpfully as she and Gustavo watch the teens fight in the sound booth.

"Please get them to stop," Gustavo asks nicely.

"Guys. Guys!" Kelly says into the mic to get the teens' attention. Of course, they don't listen and instead keep fighting. they eventually start a pillow fight with the feather filled pillows blocking their view from Kelly and Gustavo. "Pillows were a bad idea too. I told you they were tired."

"Just have them meet me in the studio when they're finished," Gustavo says calmly and leaving to his office to get away from them. It was about twenty minutes later when they were all finished and KElly went to go get Gustavo and ushered the boys to the studio. In the studio, the marketers, Mr. X, and the stylists are in a group while the teens are in a straight line. Gustavo then walks by each one and points out their flaws.

"You can't sing!" directed at Carlos. "You can't sing or dance!" Directed at Logan.

"I can backflip!" Logan supplies unhelpfully.

"Stop it! Forever!" Gustavo doesn't even bother telling James anything he just walks right past him and moves straight to Kendell. "And worst of all, you don't even seem to want this!"

Kendell just coughs up the feathers that are in her mouth.

"What about me, I can sing dance, and I want this!"

"You remind me a lot of Matthew McConaughey."

"Awesome!"

"I can't stand Matthew McConaughey. This group can't sing, can't dance, you don't have a song or a look, and they're covered in feathers! And I would rather quit right now than commit pop suicide on Friday in front of the record company. However, there is one song I would love to play for you. ~Ooh, now that I'm through banging my head. This band of dogs is officially dead~"

After Gustavo is done the group is asked to leave and Kelly gives them a lift back to the hotel. When they get back they all change and are lounging by the pool. The boys are all depressed and angry and Kendell is just kind of cool with it.

"He's a really good piano player," Logan says breaking the tensed silence between all of them.

"And I am so depressed," Carlos says glumly because of the way her friends feel Kendell is also kind of disappointed in herself as well. She was ruining her friends' hopes and dreams.

"It's the music, Guitar Dude, please," Kendell asks.

"Oh, sorry."

"So has Gustavo Dork made you guys famous yet?" Katie asks approaching the four of them.

"We had some creative differences," Kendell tells her sister.

"You got fired, didn't you?"

"All he did was yell and scream at us and make us wear dangerously tight pants."

"Yeah, you're right. He wanted to turn us into rich and famous pop stars. What an idiot!"

"He wanted to turn us into his trained dancing dogs!"

"Rich and famous dancing dogs!"

"He's got a point," Logan points out.

"Oh, so you're siding with James now?" Kendell demands of him.

"No, I- maybe. Kinda. Yes."

"You guys blew it, you blew my shot, you could've tried harder but you didn't!"

"Ok, let's all just calm down and think nice, happy thoughts about kittens!" Carlos says happy trying to defuse the situation.

"You think about kittens with your bad singing and that stupid helmet!" James pushes Carlos onto one of the lounge chairs.

"Whoah, guys, guys. Remember our pact about not letting this town tear us apart?!" Logan tries but James and Carlos just start attacking each other again.

"Great, now we're all fighting. I didn't even wanna do this!"

"Everybody with no problem wants to do this Kendell!" Carlos shouts still fighting James. Now Logan and Kendell join in trying to get the two to separate.

"I know but it's all happening so fast!"

Katie gets fed up with all of them fighting so she pushes them into the pool.

"Katie, what'd you do that for?" Kendell asks her sister.

"Looked like the four of you needed to cool off."

"She's right," Logan says.

"I'm sorry," James says and his friends turn on him pushing him underneath the water. Katie once again takes a beach ball and throws it at them getting them to stop. They eventually get up and grab towels and take a bench near a fireplace. After getting it lit they all sit around it, cold and contemplating.

"I could stay here and be a model, I'm still great looking or the star of a reality show," James says.

"Which one? Project Idiot?" Carlos asks rudely.

"That's just your jealousy talking."

"You know what's funny? We didn't even get a chance to sing together," Kendell states and that gets a few laughs from them. "~Oh, you're such a turd,~" the boys start to join in with her except James who's pouting.

"~Oh, yeah a giant turd and you look like a turd and you smell like a turd.~"

James joins in and they stand up, "~Oh, yeah a giant turd and you look like a turd and you smell like a turd!~" People begin to look now including Ms. Knight and Katies. Katie is laughing at them and Ms. Knight is shaking her head at her daughter and her friends. "~O, you're such a turd, oh yeah a giant turd and you look like a turd and you,~"

James takes it away and hops up onto the bench, "~Smell like a turd!~" They all burst out laughing at the song and at James' antics. Also, everyone around them starts applauding them and cheering.

"You guys were right! I really think we should do this!"

"How? We got fired, remember?" Logan says skeptically.

"We didn't get fired. I mean we got fired but the problem is we didn't try our best!" Kendell says giving a pep talk to them.

"I tried my best," James points out.

"We know, James. We know. Guitar Dude, I need some music, something inspirational. We are hockey players, brothers, and sister of the ice and we do not quit. Now are we going to dump the puck and scramble back to the bench or are we going to grab that puck, pull the goalie, and rush the net big time?"

"You really think we can make it as a band?" Carlos asks.

"No, but I've realized three things since we got here, one I love singing, two I love singing with you guys and opportunities like this come once in a lifetime!"

"What's the third thing?" Logan asks.

"It's minus eight in Minnesota right now, and I'm in love with this pool. So what's the play? Dump the puck or Big Time Rush?"

"Big Time Rush!" James says first and then Carlos and finally Logan before Kendell repeats it as well. After that, they went upstairs to get ready for bed. Tomorrow they would go back to Rocque Records. Their room was horrible but hopefully, soon enough they would get a better room or at least a better place to stay. The Knight's shared one of the rooms and the three boys had the other. Even though it was a hotel it was a lot more like living in an apartment, a tiny cramped apartment.

...The Next Day...

Kendell had made a few calls the night before one to Kelly about how they'd be at Rocque Records the next morning and hung up. She also called a few of her other not so close teammates and asked them to shovel Mrs. Majkowski's driveway and that she would send them some money. She also called Mrs. Majkowski and told her that if the boys didn't shovel her driveway to tell her and she would deal with them. She had made her calls in the living room area of the apartment once her mom and sister were in bed and so were the boys. She didn't want to disturb them but she knew that each of the calls were necessary.

Today had all four of them walking over to Rocque Records which took a good ten minutes and now they were walking to the same people as the day before.

"Well?" Gustavo asks Kendell.

"Ok, we'll do it your way, no goofing off, no pillow fights, and no questions for the next two days," Kendell tells him.

"Ok, Girl Time from the top."

"Except for that. We really don't want to Girl Time."

"Oh, let me guess. You have a better idea, well, let's hear it! Let's hear the dog's better song title!"

"Big Time," they all chorus together and pause before saying the last word. "Rush."

"It's about four hockey players from Minnesota who have an amazing opportunity in front of them and they're going to take their best shot."

"I like it and you've got to stop using the word girl in all of your song titles," Kelly tells Gustavo jumping in.

"I... Like it also. We're going to be working all night because Friday is two days away and we are in a Big Time Rush."

"Yes!" the teens cheer.

Gustavo eventually tells them to knock it off and they're all in the sound booth again, this time no pillows or water just four teens.

"Okay, Big Time Rush from the top. Only this time, let's try not to make me want to choke you."

They all start with the intro of ah, ah, ahhh, ohhh. After that, they all take turns with a line before chiming in together and then singing the rest of the song together. They rehearse for hours with very little breaks. They practice throughout the night and only get two hours of sleep before going back at it again. Once it's the end of Thursday they're allowed to go home but have to return extra early for a little more practice before their performance in front of the CEO.

When they are done practicing they are rushed off to the stylists to get fixed up and not be so sweaty before their performance. they all get make-up put n them, Kendell the most reluctant to get anything put on her face and then they're all done and ready to perform. The teens were all ecstatic to be performing, Gustavo was the only person that was nervous. After the song is over they all pose breathing heavily, waiting for Griffin, the CEO's approval.

The teens can't see or hear through the glass but Griffin turns to Gustavo and says, " I like 'em and the board's gonna love 'em. You have three months to make your demo. I told you this was going to work out, but I thought the one was a boy? No matter I have to go, my pants are cold. The teens are in the studio anxious about what the CEO thought of them.

"Guess who's staying in L.A.!" Gustavo tells them and they get excited. They all hug one another in happiness. "Stop cheering, if you thought the last three days were hard, wait till you see the next three months! Carlos still can't sing! Logan still can't dance! And I still can't stand James!"

"We'll work on it!" Kendell tells him.

"Okay, now you can celebrate," Gustavo grants.

Kelly and Mr. X cheering and getting excited behind him.

That was the start of their musical journey and it certainly won't be a while before it all falls apart.

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