On January 4th, Tina sighed, waking up. To her surprise, a majority of the Huntington family remembered her birthday. And not because they were forced to.
Tina was stunned. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
"You're welcome." Luke says. "I'm not that selfish, you know. You spread rumors about that? Well, I'm here to prove that I have a kind side."
"Thanks." Tina says.
Jessica walked around. "That's my cousin Jessica, though both our parents aren't here, so we decided to stick together. She's autistic and has speech issues." Tina says.
"Oh, I see." Luke says.
"Oh, hey, Tina." Savannah says, coming in. "Happy birthday!"
"Thanks. I can't believe Luke's here…" Tina says, stunned.
Jessica nods and walked off.
Later, Savannah and Tina walk through the mall as Tina considers attending Luke's anniversary celebration.
Lynn and Lisa had managed to calm down since the new year started. Luke was scared of them because they blamed him.
"Luke, listen, we're sorry about blaming you." Lisa says.
"I'm sure you are." Luke says.
"Look, we really are sorry…" Lynn says.
"If you're so mad at me and my friends, maybe we shouldn't be around you! It would probably make things so much easier for you!" Luke shouted.
"Luke, you know we can't keep fighting. Yeah, it's true that sometimes we are jealous of how perfect you and your friends are, but we care for you and about you." Lisa says.
"I promise to stop being jealous of you and your friends." Lynn says.
"Says the girl who teased Garrett for being wheelchair-bound and not being good at cheerleading or basketball…" Luke says.
"I was wrong for doing that, okay? Now can we finally make up? Every time we get in these messes, it doesn't end well." Lynn says tearing up before walking off to be alone.
Luke sighed. "Fine. I forgive you." He says.
Later, Lucy was buying decorations for Luke's anniversary.
"It has to be perfect…" Lucy says, wanting Luke to love her.
Meanwhile, Mugman was coming home after winning a chess tournament for inkwell isles
"I'm proud of you!" Elder Kettle says
"Hey, Mugsy, should we go and leave Inkwell Isles?" Chalice asked.
"No way! There's no adventure there…" Cuphead says.
"And I like my home." Mugman says.
"Yeah, but more life is in that other world. Plus, I can take Luke back and you need to make things right with Lucy." Chalice says.
"Or we can convince Luke to come to Inkwell Isles full time, then fight the king." Cuphead says.
"We need to prepare for the next show." Mugman says. "Plus, I think the Oakley Academy students are constantly wanting me to re-enact my mascot initiation for the whole school. Not that I'd say no to that…"
Chalice crossed her arms. "Listen, Mugman, you know if you keep going to Oakley, we won't be supporting you since we're banned. You're the brains here. It's hard for me to babysit Cuphead. Can you just please stick around us until me and Luke end our feud?" Chalice says.
"Yeah, Cuphead's a tough cookie." Elder Kettle says.
"No, I'm not, and I think we should head to the Inkwell Isles 4. I mean, imagine if we win. we can become king. Also, I'm still on the devil's hit list." Cuphead says as Mugman and everyone else had left Cuphead
"Hey, wait, I'm not ready to die yet!" Cuphead says, running off.
Meanwhile, Kali was buying a gift for her twin siblings, but remembered that Luke's anniversary was on that day as there was posters for it everywhere. "I don't hate Luke, but he's in every town I've seen this past few months. Jeez, we get it his anniversary is coming up. No need to force everyone to come…"
At Tina's school, she sees Mugman sitting alone.
"Oh, your siblings can't support you because of Chalice and Luke's feud?" Tina asked
"I know Luke doesn't want her back." Mugman says. "Chalice is trying to force Luke to take her back. There is no feud. It's a game of Force Luke To Date Her."
"What's it like being the mascot of two schools, drama star of two schools, and chess champion from wherever you come from?" Tina asked.
"Hard." Mugman says.
"Why don't you move here full time?" Tina asked
"Cuppy and I are heroes in our world. We can't just leave it." Mugman says. Then he begins to think.
"You're planning on leaving entirely and just making Cuphead do all the hero stuff so you can stay here with Luke, aren't you?" Tina says.
"I am tired of those two pushing me around!" Mugman finally broke down, sobbing.
"Okay, you can leave, maybe they'll live without you." Tina says.
Cue to Cuphead and Chalice in hell, having been captured. Without Mugman, Cuphead isn't that useful.
"Welp, that didn't go well." Chalice says.
"We were too hard on Mugsy." Cuphead says.
Back to Tina and Mugman
"Live without me? Seriously, because they kinda rely on me to save them a bit too much! Where is my appreciation for the things I do for them?!" Mugman says.
"You and Luke are alike. Although, you are a kind perfectionist. But a bit overbearing, too." Tina says.
"Name one time." Mugman says.
"You tried to kill an ice cream man because his hat was crooked. I mean, yes, Cuphead has flaws, but what the heck did the ice cream man do to you?" Tina says.
"We're chill." Mugman says as the ice cream man was outside.
"GO AWAY, ICE CREAM MAN!" Mugman says as he drives away looking sad.
Later, Tina was eating lunch alone. Since Savannah was in Greendale, Tina had no Royal Woods friends.
Luan notices Tina sitting alone and feels bad.
Mugman sighed, arriving in hell.
The devil grabbed him " Ha I knew you'd come" he laughed
"Cuphead!" Mugman says as he turned to see Cuphead tapping on the elevator frantically and leaves
"Oh, come on, I look away for one second!" The devil says.
Meanwhile, Lucy was writing poems as she noticed Cuphead, who jumped through the window.
"The devil's got Mugman and I need your help to save him." Cuphead says.
"Sigh." Lucy says, not liking the fact that she had to remember Cuphead. But he seemed very desperate.
"I'll help." Lucy says and chants a spell, opening a portal to hell as the students scream, running out of Royal Woods Middle School. Lucy had a small smirk.
She stepped in with Cuphead.
"Give me my brother, devil!" Cuphead says.
"Cuppy!" Mugman says.
"Or else what? You think the girl and you will beat me?" The devil asked.
"I'll try to be scared." Lucy says, mocking him. He shot flames but Lucy was in her 8 of spades form and used her shovel to deflect the flames.
"Give him and maybe Chalice back." Lucy says.
"Never!" The devil says and shape–shifts into a bull and tries to ram into Lucy, who leaped over as he rammed into a wall with a thud. Lucy knew she couldn't outdo him. Her best bet was to beat him using wits or rather the coward's way out.
She grabbed Mugman and Chalice and noticed Cuphead shooting the devil with his peashooter.
"Cuphead…" Lucy says and flies to him, but the devil blasted her through the portal, causing the school to be destroyed.
"Okay, time to go!" Cuphead says as the cup trio manages to escape.
"Thanks, Cuphead, for saving me." Mugman says.
"No. Thank you for saving my soul all the time" Cuphead says as the portal closed.
Mugman hugged Cuphead as it seemed things were back to normal.
Lucy rebuilt the school, using magic.
"Mugsy, we're sorry we weren't very…you know…supportive of the decisions you made about your education. We always assumed you just wanted to attend Inkwell Academy for the rest of your days." Cuphead says.
"I'm getting older and wiser, and I feel Oakley is my place." Mugman says. "It's not because of Luke. It's because I want to do what makes me happy. I'm not giving up my hero status, but all heroes need an education, no matter who or what they are. I'm not giving up my place here, either. You do know I inherited teleportation, right?
"You like that place?" Cuphead asked. Mugman nods.
"Does everyone have teleportation now?" Chalice asked, noticing a lot of people seem to just have the power to do anything from Luna to Luke.
"Just the three of us in this universe. Goodbye for now, Cuphead. Take care of yourself." Mugman says, leaving after hugging his brother. "I'll be back. I promise."
With Tina, she was wondering what her birthday would look like. She had a few ideas. After school, Tina arrives to see decorations.
"Jessica?" Tina asked.
"Surprise!" Luke and his friends say. Tina was stunned.
"Happy birthday!" Luke says.
"Thank you!" Tina says.
The party was filled with laughter and there were a few gifts and a cake. And a piñata.
Later, Tina gets ready to hit her piñata. Luke handed her the bat.
She smiled and broke the piñata, making it rain candy.
Everyone cheered and had their share of it.
Tina sees a fan made comic of the time she joined in on an adventure. She smiled at this.
"Thanks, Lincoln." she says.
"You're welcome." Lincoln says.
Soon, it was cake time. Tina sees her strawberry cake as Luke lit the candles.
"Everyone, thank you for making Tina feel special today." Savannah says.
"No problem, wait, has Tina been living by herself?" Leni asked.
"Yeah, I wanted to have her live with me, but it's too dangerous." Savannah says.
Tina and Jessica frown before the house started to shake as Jessica tries to scream, but she really couldn't speak.
Savannah fell over as Tina groaned.
Noke arrived in a mech suit. "I'm back and it seems the one who ruined my 5th birthday is still alive. I'll fix that." He says as Savannah got ready. He flew in the air, but Savannah leaped and grabbed his leg, which was a bad idea. He was flying as Savannah looked worried.
"He's not the only genius. No one ruins my day and hurts my friends!" Tina says and goes to the basement revealing her own lab.
"Really?" Lisa says, annoyed as Tina got a jetpack and a laser blaster and flew off.
Meanwhile, Savannah looked at Noke.
"Why are you doing this? It's just a birthday." Savannah says.
"Birthdays were the only thing that mattered to me." Noke says.
"He has a point." Luke says.
Tina flew up. "Give me back my friend! I still can't believe you did that! Killing Jessica's parents cause she tripped and killed our brother because he was late! You've lost your mind and your mom and dad have gone nuts. I may be autistic but I'm not a nut case!" Tina says and shoots a laser at Noke as the mech was badly damaged.
"Stay back or the girl gets it." Noke says, trying to use Savannah as a hostage, but Savannah let go and was falling.
"Woah!" Savannah says as Tina swooped in and saved her from falling to death.
"What else did you do?" Tina hissed.
"I may have tried to kidnap Luke so he'd stay with us forever." Noke says.
"WHAT?!" Tina says, stunned he tried that.
"Should we call Jitro? I think he can take care of him." Savannah says
"At this point, anywhere but here." Tina says.
Savannah made the call. Jitro showed up ten minutes later.
"Don't worry, we'll take it from here" Jitro says and took Noke away
"I'll be back and I'll murder your siblings Luke then marry you" Noke says as they are soon gone.
"Hey, look, I'm sorry Noke ruined your birthday." Savannah says.
"It doesn't matter. I've made some good memories this year." Tina says.
Lisa came home, surprised that Tina was smart like her and needed to up her game.
Leni got an idea "What if Tina stayed with us?" Leni asked.
"No way. It's too dangerous and Luke has a hard enough time living with us." Lori says.
"I don't care. They need our help. Plus, Mom's spent years with Luke and she's one of the few people who know how to actually care for Tina, maybe not Jessica, but we can try." Leni says.
"Oh, all right." Lori says. "They can stay here."
At the party, it was wrapping up as Emila was by the door, ready to take Savannah home.
"Don't worry. I'm sure a family will take you and your little sister in." Savannah says.
"I sure hope you're right." Tina says.
Leni arrived, panting. "Tina, pack your bags, because you're going to live with us." Leni says as Tina and Jessica froze.
"Wait, what?!" They asked. Luke was stunned by this, speechless.
"I mean, you two don't have anywhere el-" Leni says as Tina and Jessica hug her.
