Everyone was getting ready to head to San Antonio.
Lola came to Luke. "Luke, I got a surprise for you!" Lola says, giving him a diamond pendant shaped like a star. Luke gasps in shock and smiles.
"Oh, thank you…" Luke hugs Lola. "I love it."
Lola smiled.
Skylia came to pick up Brandy after the whole ordeal.
"Tonight is my lucky night." Oliver says as he had a plan for that night's show.
Skylia uses magic to heal her son.
Meanwhile, the others finished packing. Pretty much every sibling was avoiding Luna as they loaded their things.
Brandy came to Luna and waved weakly as he was covered in bandages. Luna just looks at him.
"Stay away from her." Oliver says to Brandy
"Yeah." Randy says as Brandy goes to Luna.
Luna sighed, upset as they got on.
The entire drive, Luke just felt broken. Sad and broken. As the bus goes on, it was filled with silence.
Luan decided to lighten the mood. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Luan asked.
"To beat up the girl telling jokes about it." Haiku says, annoyed as Luan looks annoyed.
"I'm getting bored." Lana says before looking at other cars and some billboards. One even showed Luke's commercial.
Leni decided to sit next to Luna. "You okay?" Leni asked.
"I feel like garbage right now…" Luna says. "I regret doing that to Luke, now that I know it was wrong."
"We all make mistakes." Leni says.
Luke was looking over song choices for tonight's show.
"Hey, Luke." Ronnie Anne says standing next to him.
Luke sighed. "I really want to win, but I don't think I can. Luna's older than me and has more experience." Luke says.
"Oh, you haven't heard?" Ronnie Anne asked Luke. "Doug found out about what Luna did to you."
"So, is Luna out…or?" Luke asked.
"Doug is leaving it up to tonight's pre-show poll." Ronnie Anne says. "Luna honestly crossed the line."
Soon they arrived as Hops jumped off. "Hops!" Lana says and goes to chase him.
"She's dead." Lucy says.
The siblings except Leni continue to ignore Luna.
"I don't understand why you continue to support her." Lori tells Leni.
"She's our sister." Leni says.
Tina heads in and thinks about what she will do. She and the others check into their rooms.
Meanwhile, Lana finally caught Hops and looked around.
"Oh, no! We're lost." Lana says.
Lana walked around worried and began to weep while Hops croaked. A woman came up. "Dear, are you all right?" She asked.
"No, We're lost. Also, who are you?" Lana asked.
"My name is Dr. Lopez, and I came to see a boy named Luke." She says.
Luke is upset as Luna tries to apologize, but Lucy walks up. "He says go away." Lucy says "We're not sisters." Lucy says with hate in her voice.
"Give me a chance…" Luna says.
"Don't make me kill you." Lucy says.
Luna pushed Lucy aside. "Luke, please…I'm really sorry, bro…" Luna says tearfully.
"If you're so sorry, why did you do what you did to me?! Do you realize I almost went viral as a meme?! Does that mean NOTHING TO YOU?!" Luke says, sobbing.
"I really didn't think it through at the time…" Luna says.
Meanwhile, Ronnie Anne is looking at the pre-show poll.
"I think Luna is finally meeting her dream's end. Serves her right." Ronnie Anne says.
"What are the poll options?" Stella asked.
"1. Keep her in, 2. Make her apologize on live TV for what she did to Luke and guarantee her elimination, or 3. Eliminate her as part of tonight's elimination and guarantee she never gets back on another episode of America's Next Hitmaker." Ronnie Anne says.
"Wow…." Stella says. "Which one did you pick?"
"2." Ronnie Anne says.
Stella looks at the poll and thinks of which option she will pick.
"Same here, she has to apologize." Stella says.
That evening before the show, the poll went live both on TV and online. It showed that most people wanted her to stay. But others said different things, and the comments said lots of different stuff in them.
One said, "Luna should stay away from Luke. She wasn't being a sibling by doing what she did."
Another said, "She's the cruelest sibling in this show's history. Why keep her on the show any longer?"
A third comment was by one of Luke's fans. "How dare she attack him this way! She should have known that he's been through a lot, yet she chose to hurt him further!"
The votes pile in until a final result is determined.
"That was really something, according to all of you out there in America that voted and commented. The final result of this week's pre-show poll is…Make her apologize on live TV for what she did to Luke and guarantee her elimination." Doug says. Luna pales as she hears this.
"No…" Luna says as she starts to cry.
"You deserve to suffer. I'm waiting for you to rot in hell!" Lucy says.
Leni holds Luna.
Meanwhile, Sam is in complete disbelief at all that had been happening. She had seen the entire live video. And now she's seeing Luna cut up Luke's outfit for tonight. Sam walks up and snatches the scissors from Luna's hands.
"Luna, what are you doing?!" Sam asked.
"What have you done?" Lucy asked as she had seen the whole thing as she walked forward "You just ruined any chance of Luke recovering!" Lucy says and leaves, trying not to lose it.
Sam is looking over the ruined outfit. "I had hope in you, but you're not the Luna I fell in love with. You're conceited, mean, and just plain abusive to Luke." Sam says. "This was a one-of-a-kind costume he had shipped here from New Orleans! And now it's ruined! You are a horrible excuse for a sibling!"
Lucy bumped into Ronnie Anne.
"Lucy, what's wrong? What did she do?!" Ronnie Anne asked as Lucy's face was red. "Okay, Lucy, please calm down. You're going to pass out from stress…" Ronnie Anne says
"I-ghu " Lucy groaned as she did indeed pass out. Rocky carries her back to the hotel.
Ronnie Anne shows up. "LUNA!" Ronnie Anne shouted.
Angry Luigi speeds in and gets between Luna and Ronnie Anne "No one hurts Luna!" Angry Luigi says, only for Ronnie Anne to toss him aside.
"What the hell, Luna?!" Ronnie Anne says in anger. "Are you just trying to guarantee that everyone around you will be angrier at you?! Because it's actually happening! You have ruined any chance of Luke being happy! I hope you're actually proud of yourself right now!"
Ronnie Anne goes for a punch as Angry Luigi tries to stop it, but Ronnie Anne kicks him away and soon beats up Luna.
Leni grabbed Ronnie Anne as she and Carlota pulled her away.
"Hey, leave her alone! That's enough…" Carlota says as they pull her off.
Leni gasped as they all turned to Lucy who came in with a bucket as Luke vomited hard, broken mentally.
Alem tuber cracked his knuckles, wanting to fight, but Skylia held him back. Sam sees Luke's state, and starts sobbing, her heart torn into pieces inside as she really felt for Luke.
Lucy rubbed his back as Garrett gasped. "Buddy!" He says.
"My son looked up to you." Skylia says.
"Luna, I warned you to stop it, but you didn't care enough to listen!" Lori says.
"Like I said, people can never change." Lisa says as Charity comes in. The siblings all see her looking at her broken son, then at Luna.
Alem tuber looks at the 4th wall. "Guys, I will now issue a warning. Things just got dark." He says.
Angry Luigi crawled to Luna as Alem tuber stopped him. "You'll thank me later." he says.
Leni helps Luna up before backing off.
"My baby….my poor, innocent baby….what happened?!" Charity sobbed as she held Luke.
Luke was shaking hard and he vomited again.
Lucy looks on.
"Darn…." Clyde says
"Any chance we can delay the show's start time?" Lana asked.
"I got it." Lola says as she heads to Doug.
"Please delay the start time. Luke is struggling hard." Lola says.
"I will. How much time does he need?" Doug asked.
"At least two hours." Lisa says. "He'll be fine then. Because it's 4:00 now."
One hour later Tina finishes practicing and goes to check on Luke. She sees Leni and Carlota working together to fix the ruined outfit.
Tina looks confused. "What happened here?" She asked.
"It was horrible…" Carl says and shows Tina the footage.
Tina gasped in shock. "Oh, poor Luke!" She says.
Meanwhile, Luke was feeling better. Charity was giving him ginger ale and a nausea pill to help with the vomiting. He takes the pill, then holds his head in his hands.
"How do you feel, cupcake?" Charity asked Luke.
"Better." Luke says.
"That's good to hear." Charity says.
An hour before the show, Sam is very angry at Luna. She is in utter disbelief and is still angry that Luna tried to destroy Luke even more.
"We're breaking up! I can't stay in love with a monster who just wanted to be famous alongside Mick Swagger. I think Mick would frown upon the behavior you've exhibited lately." Sam says. "I never knew the type of person you were until now. And now I see you for what you've become. A conceited, mean-spirited, hateful, and unkind MONSTER! And the minute this Hitmaker tour ends, I will make sure our bandmates know this, too! And Luke will stay with me at my house as Miss Charity gave me permission to take him after this!" Sam says, running off in tears.
Luna looked stunned as her life was basically over. She looked down, knowing she had no one left.
"Okay, here's the plan. We use fireworks for your big entrance, then reveal this awesome shirt with the two of us on it because I make epic shirts, then Hollywood, here we come!" Alem tuber says, but Oliver frowns at the shirt idea.
"Oh, come on, this is art here!" Alem tuber says.
"I don't like your art." Oliver says.
"I'm going to see Luna." Angry Luigi says as Alem tuber looks annoyed that his siblings were plain out disrespecting his art.
"Luna?! That's it!" Alem tuber called out as he walked over to his brother. "She's horrible! Move on!" He says. "You need to realize that she's basically a good-for-nothing has-been now! And don't bother going to see her. Mom says you can't. Why? Because Luna is bad news and now just a bad influence altogether."
Angry luigi glares. "You all just judge! from the moment we met, you wanted to get rid of me, now you want Luna gone! I don't care!" he says as his body crackled with black electric sparks.
Skylia immediately stops Angry Luigi from uncontrollably using his powers inappropriately and looks him in the eye.
He fainted.
"Randy, I'll deal with your brother. There's stuff in him I can't explain, but at times he can't control his anger." Skylia says. "When he wakes up from this, Luna won't cross his mind. Trust me, it's for the best."
"Okay, memory wiping spells are kinda taking it too far." Oliver says.
"We've tried everything else." Skylia says. "At this point, it's either that or banning him from seeing Luna ever again."
Lucy was looking up. "Luke's leaving after this. Damn it!"
Lynn and Lincoln see her crying, which was a rare sight.
"Luce, you okay?" Lynn asked
"No! Luke's leaving after this!" Lucy cried.
"It's not a permanent thing, Luce. Sam just wants Luke to stay with her until other arrangements are made. Such as sending Luna to a mental institution or otherwise. Luke just needs to be somewhere safe when this Hitmaker stuff is behind us." Lincoln says.
They hug their younger sister.
"I'm not myself. I'm scared for the future. I can't control my emotions. I hate it." Lucy says nervously.
"You're just growing up and being more expressive. You'll be fine. Plus, maybe we could talk Sam into taking you." Lynn says.
"No, he needs his time. Plus I don't wanna leave you guys " Lucy says
"Hey, the show's going to start in 30 minutes." Lola says.
Everyone soon heads to the show venue at the San Antonio Riverwalk.
Haiku stopped, seeing the crowd had tripled. She looked nervous as she couldn't handle too many crowds.
Charity took notice. "Why don't you just watch from Luke's dressing room? Would that work?"
"Yes." Haiku said and goes there.
Soon, it was time for the show to begin as Doug came up on stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, before the show starts, we have Luna on this very stage to make a live and public apology." Doug says.
Luna appears on stage as several people start booing her. She starts speaking, anyway.
"Everyone, I'm here with one final apology. Luke, I'm sorry. I mean it. I don't know what got into me when I posted that image or when I ripped your outfit apart. I really love you, Luke. I'm really, really sorry." Luna says.
"What does Luke think?" A fan asked.
Luke looks at Luna. "It's going to take some time. I want to forgive you, but I just can't right now. There's a lot to think about." He says before going off to get ready.
Lola came up. "I have a present for you." Lola says and gives her a ticket back to Royal Woods.
"What?!" Luna asked.
"Listen, you're in really hot water now. You invaded his personal space and that's illegal. So, it's either you go home or go to jail." Lisa says.
"Go home! Go home! Go home! Go home! Go home! Go home!" The crowd chanted.
Doug then came up and announced one of the eliminations early.
Mick came up. "Doug, we went to college together. I know you too well and I think you know me too well. So let me do this, just this once, please." he says
"For the record, that was university, but go on." Doug says and allows Mick to do the honors.
"Luna, you were my biggest fan. I saw lots of potential in you, I really did. But your actions spoke loud and crystal clear. Unfortunately, sometimes you gotta wake up from that dream. You're eliminated and you can't enter ever again! Also, you're banned from my tour and I sorta made a few calls." He says as Sully and Mazzy came.
"Oh, no…" Luna thought.
"How could you, Luna?! I thought you were cool!" Sully says
"You tricked us! You are nothing but a cold blooded and mean spirited thing!" Mazzy says as right then, police officers from the San Antonio police department came up to escort Luna off the property and to the airport.
"Wait, let me say goodbye to Brandy…my Munchkin." Luna says.
"Who is she?" He asked as Luna shattered inside. The police officers took her away at that point.
Leni looked upset.
"Can I wipe Luna from her memory?" Lisa asked.
"No." Lori says.
Doug soon gets back on stage.
"Now, as I was going to say before….welcome to the San Antonio Riverwalk, the setting for tonight's performances. We are right in the middle of their Mardi Gras celebration, so tonight's show is themed around all things Louisiana! Let's all put our hands together for the 30 contestants that will compete for your votes here tonight!" Doug says as the crowd cheers. "Tonight, the top 25 will be announced. Those contestants will go to the next show in Houston and perform at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo kickoff show to take place during their opening week!" Doug says.
"Okay, Oliver, you're up first." Alem tuber says.
"Making his way up is the newest member of the Waterlash family, Oliver Waterlash!" Doug says as fireworks and electric sparks rose up forming the words "Oliver Is Fantastic!" as people cheered.
Oliver soon comes up, holding his prized guitar. He begins playing it as he performs "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" by Hank Williams, a song he knows from his childhood due to hearing it on the radio many times.
People cheer as Oliver just keeps on performing.
Backstage, Luke looks over his shattered guitar, sobbing as he is also dressed in his new outfit.
"Poor Luke…" Lola says.
"That country guitar was one of his favorite ones, signed by Laine Hardy himself. Luke loves Laine's music and Laine was and still is one of his many musical inspirations, among others." Lincoln says.
Luke sheds tears and just turns away. Lincoln soon speaks to the other siblings.
"He really worked hard on his routine and song for tonight." Lincoln says. "We have to boost his confidence. He's the final performer tonight, so we have to make sure he is confident enough to perform."
"How? He's mentally broken." Lola says.
"By being the siblings we should have been to him when he started performing on this show." Lincoln says. "He needs us more than ever now."
"Weren't we already doing that?" Lola asked.
"Not in the beginning. We were so focused on what we wanted from this, that we never thought of Luke at those times." Lincoln says.
"So, what's your plan?" Lori asked.
"We show him that we are the siblings that are in his corner. Show him that he can do this." Lincoln says. "Show him that he's amazing in every way and treat him right."
"So, you're saying all I did for him means nothing? I knew I was a horrible sister." Lucy says.
"Luce, you're doing great things for him. The rest of us are going to try harder." Lincoln says. They see Luke kneeling in front of his broken guitar, sobbing.
"Luke, listen…we're here to support you. " Lori says.
"We're going to cheer you on!" Leni says.
"We're going to support you for as long as we live." Lucy says.
"You can win!" Lola says.
Luke slowly looks up at them.
The siblings give him a sibling group hug, and even Tina joins them.
"Thanks…." Luke says.
"I'll use my magic and try to fix your guitar." Lucy says.
"I gotta go. I'm up next." Tina says and takes off.
Soon, Oliver finishes performing as the crowd cheers for him. Oliver leaves the stage.
"That was your best one." Alem tuber says.
"Amazing! I hope Luke's okay. I'm going to check on him." Garrett says as he goes off to do so.
(A/N: Garrett is still Luke's BFF, regardless of him supporting Oliver during the show.)
Tina heads to the stage, and performs "Down At The Twist & Shout" by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
People began to cheer her on, but it was obvious that they wanted Luke.
Luke looked for his guitar as Tina finished and came backstage. When she appears, he just stares at the wall.
Lucy goes to use magic to fix the guitar, but couldn't, due to all the pieces not being there.
"Sigh. I'm sorry." Lucy says
"We could order him a new one…" Leni says.
Luke just lays on the floor, tears in his eyes.
"I have a better idea." Lucy says and uses magic to make a new one.
Lincoln looks at it.
"What? I made a replica using Grandma Harriet's spells." Lucy says.
"It doesn't look like his prized guitar. It's not signed." Lincoln says.
"What now?' Lori asked.
"Unless he gets his signed guitar, he won't go on." Lynn reminded Lori.
"We failed like we usually do." Lucy says.
"Some siblings we are….Lincoln was right, we are horrible." Lana sniffed.
"We could try asking Laine to sign a new one…" Leni says.
"Like he has time for that." Lisa scoffed.
Laine appears before the siblings.
"What is going on?" Laine asked.
"We need you to sign a guitar for Luke or his dreams will be crushed." Lisa says, confused on how he just magically appeared.
"Luke has to see it." Lucy says.
"Of course." Laine says and signs the guitar as Luke watches.
Luke took the guitar "Thank you…" Luke says.
"I'm a guest judge on tonight's episode, so I came here to do just that. I look forward to your performance, Luke." Laine smiles and goes off to rejoin the judges.
Soon it was time for Luke to go on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the main attraction is coming. He is a 16 time pageant winner, he won Audition, he's a star on and off the stage, he is Luke Huntington!" Doug says.
People were clapping and cheering wildly as Luke came up. Luke begins to perform "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry, the crowd really getting into the performance.
Girls scream his name and cheer as he does his performance.
The siblings cheered for him. Luke smiles and continues.
Oliver is watching him, shocked by Luke's stage presence.
"I'll never win….I'd never be able to compete with that kind of stage presence….." he says sadly. He begins to sob.
"Dang it, hopefully my next plan will work…" Randy says.
Soon, Luke finishes his performance. The crowd goes wild and throws flowers at him. Laine speaks once the cheering subsides.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Laine Hardy, and I'd like to personally congratulate Luke." he says, smiling knowingly at him. Luke looks surprised by this.
"Congratulations for what, exactly?" Luke asked.
"For all your achievements and the kids you inspired." Laine says.
Luke grinned as people cheered and clapped.
"And…." Laine presses the diamond button.
Luke smiles even bigger at that.
Soon, the votes were in as Tina, Oliver and Luke were safe. The siblings carried Luke and lifted him up as Tina looked on.
Oliver and Randy look at each other, frowning.
Luke grins. "I'm Houston-bound!" He says.
Oliver leaves as The siblings cheer.
"Luke's going to win! Luke's going to win!" They chant.
