This is the first solo concert that Luna and her band will be performing, and seeing how Mick Swagger is handling the whole thing from what happened, and Michelle Lewis and her plan going in motion, looks like we're escalating for what truth has been hidden. Enjoy reading everyone.

Family of Two.

Chapter 290: Day 9, Solo concert.

(Vermont.)

The tour buses have arrived, to the location of the next concert called: Higher Ground, located at South Burlington.

Katie Crest walks out of her tour bus, and she looks to the place. "Ah yes, now this is an all-around and good place for the tour and the number 1 musical stadium in all of Vermont. So glad a friend of mine managed to get us in here."

Luna also comes out, and she watches as the others begin to move the gear into the stadium, while the roadies from Mick's tour begin to move only the big amps for the Luna-Tics to also use. Luna then looks towards Katie Crest. "So, where's Mick Swagger?"

Katie Crest sighs. "At this time, still in his bus." The duo look to the bus. "He's a wreck after what happened, and I don't mean because he got caught into the whole drug ordeal, but because of his band mates. From history speaks…."

Luna then recalls. "Mick Swagger has known Chris, Donnie and Adam since they were in High School, and went around The U.K trying to show everyone that they got the musical talent, throughout his long 40-year'f of his career, and now this."

"I guess losing his crew has made him into a shell of a man, and I can't blame the dude. The band is what forged the legacy of that said person, and with the band gone… Well, things might not go so well for Mick, but we'll try and pull through, with or without him. He just needs to cope with the ordeal."

Katie Crest nods. "Spoken with truth, if Mick Swagger doesn't recover in a week, then I got no choice but to let him off the hook. This could be bad for his career, and luckily no one hates him on social media, he just got caught in the wrong turn of the road."

"No kidding dude" said Luna. "Well, gotta get going and help the others." Luna walks away from Katie Crest, and she helps her son carry the other guitars, and then she sees Katie Crest going to the tour bus of Mick Swagger to check on him.

Then Luna sees Michelle looking to the tour bus of Katie Crest, and Luna knows what she has planned. 'Looks like Michelle is ready to go with her plan, which means we gotta make sure that Katie Crest doesn't know that Michelle is at the bus tonight.'

Michelle then follows the rest of the band and she goes through the songs they should perform. 'Okay, so Luna and the others will start the concert by performing the song with Lincoln, and that song is called, Whatever it Takes, and then the rest of the songs, Mick knows will be next.'

'After three songs from Mick Swagger, Luna and the rest of the band perform the songs they made. This whole tour is going better than I thought, but it still changes the fact of what has to be done.'

Michelle then helps her daughter clean the microphones. 'And that plan would be finding out if Katie Crest was behind the attacks on Lincoln Loud. Tonight, my plan goes in motion, and i have to be careful. Who knows what Crest, has in that damned tour bus of hers.'

(At Mick Swagger's Tour bus.)

"Mick, I just needed to…. Oh what the hell?!" Katie Crest looks away and covers her eyes.

Right there, in his bed is Mick Swagger and he's naked and has a bottle and looks to the picture of his friends. "Crest, I don't have time for this. Can't you see that I'm mourning here?"

Katie Crest then grabs a pillow and a blanket and tosses it to Mick, and now he's covered. "Mick, I've seen you go through this before. When you're precious mum and grandma died, and I know that this is hard, but can you just get over it already?!"

"Those three morns did this to themselves and they were nothing more than trouble from the start! I told you that we should've gotten a band that would agree with the rules from the loud and her friends, and then you said no, and all because they were you're pals!"

Mick Swagger then throws the bottle at her, but he misses and it hits one of the roadies outside. "You just don't get it do ya?! Those blokes were a troublesome lot, sure. But they were more than my band mates, those lads were my friends and family!"

"I have no one left in my life, no one! Those boys are gone because of a trouble that they made, and then paid for it with you arresting them! I know they did wrong, but we could've sorted that stuff out!" He then grabs another bottle of wine and drinks from it. "This is for you, lads!"

Mick Swagger pours some of the wine onto the photo, and this confuses Katie Crest. "First off, that wine thing you're doing is for those who died, and they didn't die, and secondly, get a grip and put the bottle down! Look at yourself!"

Mick Swagger looks at the mirror and sighs. "I'm a shambling mess, and not the man I once was long before, and the worst band leader ever. I wasn't strong enough to stop my friends from what they did, and now I am paying the price." He then pours the wine over him and sulks there.

"I am nothing without my band mates. They were the sole reason for me to be where I am, and gave me the positive vibe on how we can rock n' roll it all the way, but now…. I'm nothing but the shell of me former self."

Katie Crest is at a loss for words. "Oh for goodness… Ugh! You had better get a grip on yourself before the end of the tour!" She then closes the door and then she grabs her phone and makes a call.

"That guy ends up killing himself, I'm gonna stop him and then kill him." She then sees Luna, Sam and Lincoln and the woman sighs. "He's sulking, mourning and blames himself." Katie Crest then walks away. "Show time in one hour, people."

Lincoln, Luna and Sam are confused. They have never ever heard of Mick Swagger go through this, but only when his family passed away, and his band mates didn't pass away, they just got arrested.

They look to the tour bus of Mick swagger, and they see the rockstar cover the blinds.

"That guy is a total mess" said Sam. Lincoln and Luna agree and they all head to the stadium.

(Moments later.)

We now see Katie Crest, and she yells out. "Jam it up in ten minutes people!" She then goes over to the stage manager and he informs her that everything has been setup and this makes her smile. "Good."

Katie Crest sees the food that has been served is ready, and looking delicious and she samples one of the cupcakes. "Excellent, and my favorite too!"

Katie Crest then sees one of the roadies is helping with double checking on the wires, and then Chunk checks on the connections of the instruments. "Keep up the good work, boys. This is going great."

But she fails to hear or notice that the roadies is electrocuted when the other roadies plugs in a livewire, and then Chunk goes over and help the guy out of the mess.

Katie Crest then goes over to the rest of the band, the Luna-Tics. "Alright, everyone here center staged and ready for tonight? We got ourselves a full house, and I want all of you to do your best." she then looks towards Lincoln. "And to show them how a good combo is better than a solo act."

Lincoln nods and he tunes his guitar, then Luna goes over to the woman. "Mick still a mess?"

Katie Crest sighs. "Yeah, he is. He's not gonna leave the bus, he's been calling to roadies to bring him something, and worst of all, he called for delivery for food for the 5th time. He's lost it, but I am giving him one week to recover from his mourning state."

The others didn't expect this to go down, it sounds horrible. "The dude needs to calm his nerves and look at the bigger picture. His band mates were jerks" said Sam.

"Same words I told him, didn't work at all" said Katie Crest. She then checks her watch. "We're gonna be close to begin, so setup and stand fast to rock in like ya mean it."

The band nods and they all double check their gear, then Katie Crest looks around. "Where the heck is Michelle Lewis? I thought she was here earlier." she only sees Delilah with the clipboard and the stuff that they need to do.

Mazzy then tells Crest. "She went to use the restroom, but she'll be back here soon. The food is the cause, one of them is not doing well, and I think it has gone bad."

Katie Crest is confused, but she shrugs it off and she walks off to the where the food is at. She tries one of the donuts, but then she smells it. 'Ugh! She is not wrong!' She then looks for the roadie who brought this food here.

(Outside the stadium.)

As the concert goes on, Michelle Lewis goes around the tour buses and she sees the guard walking by, and she hides. The guard passes by her and she sneaks to the tour bus of Katie Crest. She sees no one else is there, and so she goes in.

Michelle looks around and notices something Crest wasn't smart about. 'Wow. She got a lot of cash to buy this tour bus with tons of relaxing stuff, but no cameras? Wow.' She then snoops around, and then she sees something. "Bingo."

Michelle Lewis finds what she seeks, and that something is the journal of Katie Crest. "I found it." But then she hears someone coming, and so she hides underneath the table.

The guard looks through the window of the bus, but he sees nothing and he continues with his patrol around the parking lot. Michelle notices this and she sighs in relief. 'Now that was too close.' She then looks to the journal in her hands.

'Crest will wonder where this is. But if I can recall, she barely notices anything missing, and she always has a backup journal. Doug Rockwell is dang good in knowing that bitch and what she does, and now we have the upper hand, no time to read this.'

Michelle then sneaks away from the bus and she locks it. 'Best to bring this to the others later.' Michelle secretly goes back to the Luna-Tics tour bus and she hides the journal underneath her bed, and then she goes back to the stadium, then she turns on the bus security.

But as she left, someone else goes to the bus and that someone is Doug Rockwell. 'Time to cause some…' But he gets electrocuted when he touches the door knob of the bus and he falls to the ground. 'What the heck was that?!'

Doug gets up and he looks to the bus. 'Damn it. Looks like I'll need to wait for when they leave the door open, and then I can get in and get my revenge!'

Doug then goes back to the stadium, so that no one will know he left and went back to the buses. But he doesn't notice Mick Swagger saw the whole thing.

The rockstar legend then looks to the bottle he drunk from. "I must…. I must be seeing things now. I need…. Need some, s-sleep." He then passes out.

Day 9 to the summer rock tour.
A/N: Well, the band is jamming it out without the rockstar legend, Michelle's plan is underway, Doug is out to infiltrate and cause some damage, and Mick Swagger is a damned mess, a whole lot of stuff is gonna go down this week, yo! Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 5/22/21 – 5/23/21.