Luke was still bitter as the next tour stop had them traveling to Miami. Luke still hated his family.
"You wanna talk about it?" Savannah asked, wanting to help Luke as Lucy looked on.
"Underappreciated! Thankless! Ungrateful for me!" Luke says angrily.
The siblings hear this. "We are thankful, Luke…" Lori says.
"We're grateful." Leni says.
(They are grateful, but Luke tends to ignore them sometimes.)
"We really do love you." Lucy says.
"No, you don't, none of you ever loved Luke. You love OLIVER. You love everything he does! You appreciate him and even worship him!" Luke says. "I think that I'm less important now, considering that I have saved you all countless times, but never got a 'thank you' or a 'we're eternally grateful' or even 'we appreciate you'. I feel about three feet tall now."
"You're right. I'm a horrible sister…" Lucy says.
Charity hears this and embraces her little boy. She was the only one who was thankful for him, even if the odds were stacked against him.
"We'll try to thank you more often." Lucy says.
Later, Lucy was struggling to plan a funeral and asked Luke for help. But Luke was struggling emotionally.
"Luke, I wanted to thank you for supporting me on my birthdays and helping me escape my siblings." Lucy says.
"You're welcome…." Luke says, still distant.
"You hate me, don't you? I said I was sorry." Lucy says looking down.
"It's not you, Luce-Luce." Luke says.
Lucy sighed. "Is it Oliver?" Lucy asked.
"HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE!" Luke shouted.
Lucy held her sensitive ears as they were ringing
"Luke, stop, my ears are bleeding…" Lucy winced.
"I hate the rest of them so much!" Luke says as he storms to the other side of the bus.
Leni runs after Luke. "Luke, are you okay?" Leni asked, being the sweetheart. All Luke could do was sob his heart out as Leni held him close.
Tina feels bad. She was a grateful person, but she and Luke rarely interacted, so Tina was excused.
That night at the Miami show venue, Luke just sat in his own personal dressing room as Oliver and Chalice stood at the door.
"Luke, I'm sorry…" Oliver says.
"SORRY?! That doesn't make up for the years of all the credit you stole from me! All the times we fought as a duo, but you hogged all the glory! You made me feel like I was no longer needed…." Luke sobbed.
"Sorry….I'll do anything to make up for it." he says.
"I finished." Lucy tells Charity.
"With what, dear?" Charity says.
"Luke's party." Lucy says, having made one major error, she forgot Oliver.
"Which party is this?" Charity asked.
"The month-long party in December. I haven't slept in a week." Lucy says as her body was a bit wobbly.
Charity allows Lucy to sleep as she looks over her plans.
"Gabriel, come here." Charity says. Gabriel appears next to Charity.
"You think this is okay, darling?" Charity asked.
"She forgot Oliver. I'm punishing her. How dare she!" he says.
"Leave her alone. She's still a teenager and she's new to planning for other people besides Luke." Charity says. "But she won't get dessert for tonight. She really needs to stop planning his parties without me." She says, feeling like she wasn't needed for her son's birthdays anymore as she started crying.
Meanwhile, Leni was finishing. "Done." Leni says, giving Luke his costume. Luke smiled a little.
"Good luck." Tina says
"Yeah, let the best team win." Pauline says.
Oliver nods "I'll win." Oliver says.
Meanwhile, Lynn watched the Miami Dolphins play.
"Females deserve more…" Lynn says.
Lola had entered a pageant, while Lisa worked on her stuff.
An hour before the show, Lucy looked for her plans and noticed Charity with it. "Mom, I need my planning book back." Lucy says.
But Gabriel was holding it.
Lucy grabbed it. "Thanks." Lucy says. But before she could walk out, Gabriel had a few words for her.
"You forgot Oliver." Gabriel says as Lucy noticed Charity
"Mom, are you okay?" She asked.
"You made me feel useless…" Charity sobbed. "Left me out of the planning for my own son's birthdays….I see now that I can't plan his birthdays anymore."
Lucy feels guilty. "Mom, you're not useless. I just got clingy again." Lucy says. "I'm sorry. You should plan the party. I'll just have to tell Luke our bond is broken." Lucy says.
"No, honey. You don't have to do that. You can still be his sibling. Just give him a little breathing room sometimes." Charity says. Lucy nods.
Meanwhile, the triplets smile and get a notice that they'll appear on a talk show. They also plan to appear on some other trips. (Angry9guy will address this in a future subplot)
Luke goes for an early dinner and sees Lucy following him. Luke just looks down.
"Luke, wanna go eat?" She asked. Luke nods sadly.
Lucy smiled and took him. "This will be fun. I've been thirsty for blood orange juice." She says.
At the restaurant, Luke couldn't help but feel sad.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I still feel thankless and unappreciated by everyone but you. Especially Oliver." Luke says.
"Luke, if they try to thank you, please do not ignore them. Please do it for me." Lucy says.
"THIS ISN'T ABOUT IGNORANCE!" Luke screamed.
"My ears…" Lucy says.
Later, Luke came as Luna wanted to talk to him. She wanted to sing to him privately.
Luke sniffed as he listened to her sing. It was basically a song thanking Luke. Luke smiles and forgives Luna.
Leni soon finds Luke and offers him a shirt with a thank you note. He takes it and smiles at it.
Soon, the show was going to begin very soon.
Luke just sat in his dressing room, alone.
Chalice finds him. "Still upset?" She asked.
Luke sniffed, nodding.
"I can't face the rest of them right now." Luke says.
Lana hears this and frowns.
Soon, the show was going to begin, but Lana came on stage with Lola and Lisa
"Hello, Miami!" Lynn says, coming in with Lori and Luan
"We have something to say. A few days ago Luke helped us and he beat a grade A meanie. We wanted the whole world to know that he's the greatest brother. He's beaten lots of villains, yet he's never gotten credit." Lisa says, showing footage.
People smile as they cheer for Luke.
Soon, April came on stage to officially start the show.
"Welcome to Miami, ladies and gentlemen! Tonight's show is live on one of Miami's most prestigious beaches! And tonight will be another double elimination show to determine our top 6 teams." April says.
"The theme tonight is Best Of Katy Perry. As you can tell, we have the singer herself as a guest judge here tonight!" Gemma says as the crowd goes wild.
"Remember to vote for your favorite teams, America!" April says.
Savannah smirked as she, Pauline, and Tina came out wearing some torn jungle attire. They performed "Roar", which was Savannah's favorite. Even using a CGI tiger.
(Angry9guy: Mine too!)
Fans cheered for them. As Katy smiled as it was one of her most iconic songs.
They work well together. "Thank you, Katy Perry, you are my hero." Savannah says afterwards as she goes to get an autograph.
The triplets look on as they get ready.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what a moment! These girls are starting to catch up to Luke, Oliver, Chalice, and the triplets." Gemma says as Troy was not concerned, but Luke hissed.
"Who wants an encore?" Tina asked.
Fans cheer as they do it again. They receive a standing ovation.
"Coming up next is the fantastic trio of Mrs Chalice, Oliver Fox, and Luke Huntington!" April says. But the crowd is surprised to just see Oliver and Chalice appear on stage.
"Where's Luke?!" The crowd asked.
"He just bailed on us." Oliver says.
Gemma cuts to commercial as she grows concerned for Luke.
"It's her fault." Lola says pushing Tina down.
"Yeah, she's cheating somehow!" Lana says.
"She made Luke upset." Lily says.
Tina looked down as Savannah helped her up.
"What do you gotta say, cosmic cheaters?" Lola says.
"Is this true?" April asked, appearing backstage.
"No, we'd never cheat!" Savannah says.
"It's true, they're cheating somehow…" Luke hissed as Tina sniffed.
"Are you sure?" Luna asked
"Positive. They weren't this good. Before, Tina was never this good…" Luke sobbed.
"I got better. I've been taking lessons from mom and Gemma." Tina admitted. "No one seems to accept the fact that I am good at something. Maybe I should quit." Tina sniffed.
"It isn't that we want you to quit, sweetie. I think you're doing fantastic. I think Luke has a lot of emotional stuff going on, and it's affecting his mental health right now." Charity says. "He's not mad at you."
Luke sniffed.
Soon, the triplets went on. They did the song "Firework", staying in sync. Luke gasped and was furious.
The fans cheered as Luke left the beach.
Luke sat on a bench at a nearby boardwalk, fuming.
"They're cheating…" Luke says.
(Angry9guy: they're not, but Luke just thinks so.)
"They stole the song that me, Chalice and Oliver were gonna use!" Luke cried.
Luna comforts him. "So, they cheated?" She asked.
"THEY'RE SONG THIEVES!" Luke shouted.
Luna comforts him. "Are you going to go on tonight? I'll ask them to delay it." Luna says.
"I didn't practice another song with them." Luke says.
Luna tells them as he is given more time.
Luke then sees 3 people called the mysterious trio heading on stage. He watches them.
They performed well as fans cheered. After that, one of them tripped as it was revealed to be Sal.
"Sal?" Savannah asked as Lonnie smiled sheepishly. Colleen smiled.
"Why would you hide yourself?" Savannah asked
Sal shook and goes to the dressing room with his cards.
"Who's this low life?" Troy asked as Tina gets defensive.
"Don't you dare!" Tina says as Troy ignored her and walked to Sal, who was shaking and tearing up, uncomfortable.
"Listen, you're not winning, loser." Troy says as he and his brothers walk off.
Luke looks at Sal, then at the triplets. No one bullied his friend and got away with it. No one.
"Save it for after the tour." Luna says.
"No. Not happening." Luke says. "I'm sick and tired of those brats walking all over my friend like that!"
"You should probably plan for your turn." Luna says. Luke nods.
Later, Chalice shows the backup plan as they practice for an hour.
"To think a boy who had a major disability and disadvantage is still in this. Too bad he'll probably lose to me." Chalice says.
Luke is feeling apprehensive as he sees the rest of his siblings laughing at him instead of appreciating him. That made his blood boil.
"Hey, Luke, good luck." Leni says.
"Yeah, Sal may be your friend, but he has to fall. You gotta be able to crush even your friends " Lola says as Sal runs. He was afraid of Luke's siblings. Not all of them, but Lola was his worst.
"Coming up next is the main event and the stars of the show, Luke Huntington, Oliver Fox, and Mrs. Chalice!" Gemma says.
Luke didn't appear as he was hesitant.
Ronnie Anne kissed him for encouragement. Luke just shook.
"It's okay, we got this." Chalice says as she finally gets him on stage.
Fans cheered for them as they began performing "Swish Swish", Luke tuning out the rest of his siblings and friends as he performed.
Luna cheered.
"Go, Luke!" Stephen says.
"You can win…" Lucy says softly.
The girls are screaming and cheering for Luke, Oliver, and Chalice.
Chalice smiled and winked as they finished.
Luke ran before bumping into Leni.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's just me." Leni says.
Luke looked at her. She holds him.
After a while, Luke was gone, not bothering to stay for the elimination announcement.
None of the main teams were eliminated.
Luke ran back to his hotel room as the siblings comforted him when they finally showed up. Luke just looked down. He was feeling unconfident now.
"It's going to be okay. You'll crush Sal so hard, he'll wet his pants." Lola says.
"There's something else that I'm participating in here in Miami that I'm unconfident about…." Luke says.
"The hero event?" Luna asked.
"Oliver said he'd enter to show off against Randy." Luan says
"Can we listen to Luke?" Lucy asked.
"It's the 'Mr. Teen Sunbeam' pageant here in Miami. I entered it yesterday and got in." Luke says. "But forget it. I know I'm not confident enough to compete."
"Oh, you'll win." Lola says.
"I've never competed in a pageant like this one before." Luke says sadly.
The next day, it was the morning of the pageant.
Luke was given a big breakfast as the attention was only on him. Luke was surprised to see that they made this whole breakfast with what they could find on the hotel breakfast buffet.
"Today is about you and no one else. While Mom was planning your birthday party, I planned your victory party." Lucy says "I'm going to pick out the cake."
"And we will all be there." Stephen says as all the siblings nod. They knew Luke would only notice them when they gave him a party, then go back to avoiding them.
"I can't make it. I have a magic club to help." Oliver says. "I'm co-captain with Emila."
Luke sighed and nodded.
Soon, Lucy took Luke out to choose the cake. He chose a cake that looked like a pageant winner on a sunshine-themed stage. Lucy buys it.
Luke grabbed Lucy's shirt. "This party better be 100% perfect or else!" Luke hissed. He didn't see photographers taking pictures. But they weren't of him.
Meanwhile Oliver had basically lied, he sees Alem tuber and his friends driving their party truck
"Randy started this…" Oliver says and uses a spell to make Jack's steering go wrong.
Oliver flew to fight the villains. He took care of them easily as people cheered for Oliver's return as Troy and his brothers watched on.
Oliver smiled. "Lisa was wrong. Luke and I are the heroes. Why would I need Lisa's help? The siblings aren't as strong as us." he says and flies off to sign autographs.
Meanwhile, Leni buys a gift for Luke.
Luke is brushing his hair in the mirror of his dressing table.
"I believe you can win." Ronnie Anne says. Luke smiles a little.
Luke begins to watch the other contestants.
They were awful, compared to Luke, who looked very nervous.
"Luke, what's there to be nervous about? These guys suck." Lola says.
"The fact that one of them is Cuphead! And we've all seen his charismatic side…" Luke says as he watches Cuphead go on stage.
"Cuphead is into pageants?" Mugman asked.
"I entered him in this, ding-dong." Chalice says. "Now, watch him."
"Why? Luke's already broken enough as it is!" Mugman says as Cuphead was a pro.
"I rest my case." Chalice says. "He's brilliant!"
Soon, it was time for the talent round. Luke watched Cuphead go up and was shocked to see him playing the piano. Mugman was jealous.
Cuphead then lifted his head off his body as the judges were stunned by this. Luke's jaw dropped. The judges clapped.
Luke looked like he wanted to give up as he turned his back, away from the stage. The siblings see this as Luke is taking off his hippie-themed ribbon dance costume, a look of defeat on his face.
"You can't give up…" Lucy says.
"How can I compete with that?!" Luke says sadly.
"It's not about winning, it's about having fun" Lincoln says.
"Put your costume back on, Luke." Luna says.
"Why?" Luke asked.
"You can't give up." Luna says.
Luke puts his costume back on and goes on stage next, ribbon sticks in hand.
He does his ribbon dance routine to "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" by The Sunlight Shakers. At one point, he pulled off spelling his first and last name with his ribbons.
Everyone cheered. It was clear Luke would be the winner, like always.
It was now time to show off the "Sunbeam" suits. After a few other contestants did so, Cuphead came out to model his.
People clapped and even Mugman admitted his brother looked good in his suit.
Cuphead flashed his best smile and people took pictures.
Luke hissed as he put on his suit and soon, it was his turn.
"Good luck!" Luna says.
"Thanks." Luke says.
"Walking On Sunshine" plays as Luke appears in his suit.
Everyone cheered for him as he showed off his suit. He even flashed a few smiles and made a cute face for the camera.
The crowd loved him. He blew a kiss as he walked offstage. Lucy smiled.
Soon, the results were being tallied.
"You got this." Luna says to Luke.
"I ain't too worried about it." Cuphead says.
The judges finished tallying up the points. And soon, the host makes the announcement.
"For the first time in Mr. Teen Sunbeam history, we have co-winners! Your Mr. Teen Sunbeams are Luke Huntington and Cuphead!" The host says as the judges bring out two of the same crown.
"Way to go, Cuphead!" Mugman says.
"Ya did it, ya ding-dong!" Chalice says.
"All right, Luke!" Lincoln says.
Lucy just clapped.
"How do you do it?" Mugman asked.
"It's a secret!" Cuphead says. "Come on, let's go get ice cream to celebrate." Cuphead says.
"That sounds simple." Mugman says.
"And Luke gets a party about him!" Luke says as Lucy nods.
"We'll try not to screw up." Stephen says.
Lucy gives Luke a blindfold. As if Luke didn't already know there was a party.
Lucy smiles and leads him to the party where there was images of Luke.
"Wow!" Luke says and goes for the gifts.
Lucy made him a horror comic that wasn't too scary.
Lily made him a drawing and Lola got him a sunbeam crown.
With the cup trio, Cuphead couldn't stop staring at his crown.
"Ya did great out there, Cuphead." Chalice says.
"I have to know! How'd you do it?" Mugman asked his brother.
"I don't know." Cuphead says.
Chalice eats her ice cream, smiling, but felt a bit lonely without Oliver.
Meanwhile, Lola brings Luke up for a dual pageant part of the party as they have fun doing it.
Soon, Luke and his friends were having a great time at the party. They decided to play tag and started running around the room. The game was fast-paced and exciting, with everyone trying their best to avoid being tagged.
As they ran around the room, they laughed and shouted, enjoying the thrill of the game. Luke was particularly good at dodging and weaving, making it difficult for his friends to catch him.
The game continued for a while, with everyone getting more and more tired as they ran. Eventually, they all collapsed onto the floor, panting and laughing. It had been a great game of tag, and everyone had enjoyed themselves immensely.
Then Luan began juggling.
Luke giggles and soon wanted the cake, feeling tired after the long day.
Luna turned off the lights as Luke's body lit up with flames before it stopped as he saw the lights with a cake that said Congratulations Luke as it had a line resembling a sash. Luke squealed.
Everyone sang to Luke who smiled and wished that Lucy and Charity would make up and give him that party.
That night, Oliver returned as Chalice turned on the light " Welcome home" Chalice says
"Hey, Chalice." Oliver says.
"So, how was your club?" Chalice asked.
"Great." Oliver lied.
"I know you're lying. You went out instead of supporting Luke, why?" Chalice asked "Give him a chance."
"It was just a bland robbery…" Oliver says.
"I heard what you said through the cameras. You said you didn't need me and yet you didn't bother to actually check out what was going on. 7 people are in the hospital because you wanted to get back at Randy. You need to grow up." Lisa says
"Huh?" Oliver asked as Lisa showed him that there was a bomb that blew up in Greendale and Oliver did nothing but sign autographs.
Meanwhile Luna reads a bedtime story to Luke as Angry Luigi texted Luna about an adventure he had.
"You went to the world of Aladdin, that's great. Oh, you had to fight bullies? You must have had fun!" Luna texted.
"Why should I care?" Luke asked.
"Oliver was there and was about to use the lamp for a perfect party but Munchkin saved the day, defeating Wlem, Wandy, the Triplets, and Oliver with some help." Luna says, but Luke was sound asleep.
She quietly leaves Luke's hotel room and closes the door.
With Cuphead and Mugman, Cuphead shows Elder Kettle the crown he won.
"Nice…. " Kettle says and falls asleep.
Meanwhile, Luna was taking a shower.
"Wait, you said Brandy fought Oliver and the triplets for a lamp?" Lucy asked as Luna shrieked.
"LUCY!" Luna screamed as Lucy brushed her teeth.
"Sorry, but isn't a lamp basically cheating?" Lucy asked.
"Just go!" Luna says, livid at Lucy.
Meanwhile, Oliver got ready for bed.
