A/N: Sorry about not updating, didn't have the ideas or inspiration, so now I'm going to just sit down and do it. Please don't get mad at me if it isn't as good as the other chapters, since I'm trying my hardest to update right now. Anyway, enjoy.

The twins walked into the suite, still laughing at how Zack toppled over when he tried to make his sled go faster. Cody was making funny faces to make fun of what Zack looked like when he began to fall, but Zack still just laughed at them, knowing Cody was only joking around.

They walked over to the small breakfast bar, since it was still pretty early in the morning, and got some hot chocolate. The two slowly sipped it every now and then as they walked over to the elevator, which was quick to open this time, and they got in as it began to slowly go up.

As they walked out of the elevator, Mr. Moseby came up behind them and lightly tapped Zack on the shoulder, and he jumped, nearly spilling his hot chocolate. Zack calmed down while Cody burst out laughing.

"Ah, there you two are, I've been looking everywhere for you," Mr. Moseby said.

Zack and Cody looked at each other and then back at Moseby and said, "We didn't do it!" in unison.

"Didn't do what?" Mr. Moseby asked suspiciously.

"Errr, nothing. Why were you looking for us?" Zack asked, wondering.

"I just wanted to tell you that there is now a definite date for the Holiday Battle of the Bands. It's December 23rd."

"Wow, that's only four days away! We better rehearse more often," Zack quickly remarked.

"How much money has it made so far?" Cody asked, also wanting to know how many bands there were to compete against.

"Well, with eleven bands signed up, every guest buying a ticket, and over on hundred people from outside of the hotel buying tickets, it's made 5,330 dollars," Mr. Moseby said.

Zack and Cody's mouths immediately hung open, them staring at Mr. Moseby in awe.

"That's a lot of money!" Zack nearly yelled.

"Yes, it is. More than enough to pay the cash prizes for the winners. It looks like you two actually helped out instead of making my life harder. Here's a reward for it."

He gave both of them twenty dollars, and they rushed into their suite. They were both surprised by the amount that the Battle of the Bands competition brought in, and by how generous Mr. Moseby was.

"Wow, twenty bucs for nearly nothing!" Zack said excitedly.

"That's nothing to the $500 prize money we'll hopefully be getting!" Cody replied, just as excited.

"Hopefully? Have you heard our song? We'll definitely get it," Zack said, laughing.

The next day, the entire band once again met in the laundry room. Cody brought his old electric guitar and his acoustic guitar, remembering that once Max had said she had taken guitar lessons when she was young. So they set up while she played a little to bring back the memories.

They had decided a few days previous to that day that Max would play an electric guitar to counter melody the acoustic guitar. Once she had remembered what the frets were to correspond with the notes, and the few tricks she had learned to make it easier to move through the frets quicker, and she had learned the music to the guitar, they plugged it up to a small amp, which Cody and Zack had bought with their $40 total plus the rest of the money they had.

They gave her, Tapeworm, and Cody a mic. Tapeworm's and Max's were to sing, and Cody's was to put in front of the strings of his acoustic to make it able to hear behind everything else. Zack's keyboard was plugged into an outlet and turned all the way up. After turning on the amp and turning it all the way up as well, they were ready.

They rehearsed for a long time, nearly the entire day, knowing that they had to get perfect at it to win the Battle of the Bands. By the end of the day, they were all tired, and left the stuff set up in the laundry room, since Arwin locked it up every night, and they had told him that they were going to leave it there.

They all said goodnight to each other, and sulked off to their suites and cars, in Max and Tapeworm's cases, and they all went to bed as soon as they got home, or to their suite in Zack and Cody's cases.

The next morning, Cody woke up early. It was 5:48 to be exact. He rubbed his eyes, and looked at the red numbers on the clock before the '8' turned into a '9'. He then dragged himself out of bed, once again rubbing his eyes. He then remembered that their band had agreed to meet in the Laundry Room once again at six.

So his eyes shot open and he quickly shook Zack awake. He reminded Zack as well, who shot out of bed as quickly as possible. Cody ate a small breakfast while Zack took an extremely quick shower, and while Cody was in the shower, Zack got dressed and ate a small breakfast, too. As soon as Cody was out and dressed, they bolted to the elevator, repeatedly pressing the button, as if pressing it more would make it come faster.

Once it arrived on their floor, they jumped in, and pressed the button of the floor that the laundry room was on, and waited anxiously as it set into movement. In the middle of the elevator ride, Cody checked his watch, which read '5:59'. They stumbled out once it stopped, and met with Max and Tapeworm at the door, since they arrived at the exact same time.

They both let out a sigh of relief as Zack pushed the key to the Laundry Room into the socket, and turned it, unlocking the door and pushing it open. As they got set up again, turning on the mics, turning on the amp, etc. Max wondered about something, and decided to ask.

"Just a question, how in the world did you get that key, Zack?" she asked.

"Oh, Arwin gave it to me before he left here last night when I told him we had to meet here early," Zack explained.

"Then how did he lock up last night?"

"This one's a spare key."