Andi couldn't believe it that she and the boys are scheduled to preform live on TV. She has always wanted to sing live on TV so this was a dream come true for her. But she hated the fact they had to wake up early. She wasn't a morning person and the thought of dragging herself out of bed before the sun had even risen made her groan inwardly. Yet, the excitement of the opportunity overshadowed her reluctance to wake up early.

Andi, Katie, Jennifer who is Kendall's and Katie's mom, and the boys are currently at the place where the boys would preform. Andi noticed that her set up for her performance was beside their set up.

"Can you believe this?" James asks. "We're preforming on live TV." He said excitedly, his voice filled with excitement.

"Are you sure?" Andi yawns. "I'm not even fully awake yet so I could be dreaming. Ow!" She rubs the spot on her arm where Carlos pinched. "Carlos!"

"What?" Carlos looks at her with furrowed eyebrows. "I pinched you to help you make sure you aren't dreaming."

"Thanks," Andi sighs. "I guess."

Logan groans. "Can you believe it's five am?"

Kendall yawns. "Why do early morning shows have to shoot so early in the morning?"

"Why'd you have to yawn?" Andi questions, looking at him with a small glare after she yawns again. "Great, you made me yawn."

Kendall chuckles. "Sorry."

"I hope I don't regret waking up this early." Andi complains, leaning on James as they walked towards their set up. "I just want to go back to sleep."

James chuckles and kisses her forehead, wrapping his arm around her shoulders to help steady her since she was practically leaning on him. "You'll be fine. I'd expected you to be more excited. You get to sing your song on live TV today. And you get to watch us preform. How cool is that?"

"Very," Andi smiles a little though it fell a few moments later as another yawn left her. "You know what else is cool? Sleeping. Oh, how I wish I was asleep right now." She whined, resting her head on James's shoulder. She was still a bit sleepy and wasn't sure if she was going to survive until it was her turn to preform. She'd need a lot of caffeine.

Andi's friends chuckled at her sleepy antics, understanding her struggle but also sharing in her excitement for the day ahead. They knew that once she hit the stage, all traces of sleepiness would vanish, replaced by her trademark energy and enthusiasm.

James shakes his head. "You are something else, Andi."

"Yeah, well, I'm not fully awake yet. Ow!" She glares at Carlos, who had just pinched her again. "Okay, that's it! If anyone else tries to pinch me again, I will pinch back."

"Ooh, I'm so scared." Carlos said sarcastically, grinning at her.

"You should be." Andi warned, though there was a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. She had to admit, their playful banter was helping to wake her up, even if she was still longing for her bed.

Kendall goes to push his mom off her shoulder since she was still asleep. "Don't wake her." Katie stops him while she plays her Nintendo DS. "She hasn't had her eight hours of sleep yet."

Kendall nods and pats his mom's head. "Andi and Big Time Rush. Huge Fan." The group looks over at a red haired woman who walked over to them. "I'm Jane Kennedy, the producer, and welcome to 'A.M. L.A.'. LA's number one morning show."

Jane giggles and gestures for them to follow her. "Come on." They follow Jane over to where she points at a man who was reading a script while drinking coffee. "That is LA's number one morning host, Miles Bainbridge, warming up LA's number one teleprompter."

"No, I'm pretty sure Los Angeles is just one word." Miles said.

"Come on." The group follows Jane again to a room that had a chair, a couch, a tv, and a table full of food. "This is the green room where you can relax, eat,"

Carlos, James, and Logan immediately rush over to the table of food and Kendall was quick to follow after he set his mom on the couch. Andi followed the boys to the food table because it was early and she hasn't ate breakfast yet. Andi started eating the granola bar she grabbed from the table, looking at the person Jane just gestured to. "And meet our other guests like actor environmentalist Ed Begley Jr."

"Hey, guys." Ed greets, standing up. "I'm here to promote my new line of environmental friendly-"

"Keep it fresh for the show, Ed." Jane interrupted him. Ed nodded and sat back down.

Jane turns to Andi and the boys with a smile. "Yeah. We are so excited to have Andi and BTR at 'A.M. L.A.', and I just know that our three million viewers will be excited too." Another woman came into the room holding a clipboard and wearing a headpiece hands the clipboard to Jane.

"Well," Kendall smiles. "We are very excited to be here."

"Yeah, the show's running long." Jane notices, handing the clipboard to the woman. She looks at Andi and the boys, who all look at her with wide eyes at what she says next. "You guys are cut."

Jane points at Kendall's mom. "Wake up mommy and get out."

When she and the other woman leaves the room, Ed looks at Andi and the boys. "Harsh."

Andi looked over at James, furrowing her eyebrows and growing concerned for him at seeing he's not blinking. Kendall waved a hand in front of James' face, trying to bring him out of his state of shock.

Kendall looks at Andi with panic. "What just happened?"

Andi shakes her head and frowns. "One minute my dream came true and next minute it was crushed." James pointed at her in a sign of agreement.

"The official term is you got bumped." Ed told them.

"Leave me out of this." Katie speaks up. "I'm on level twelve of 'Castle Bashers', and I have to get my four knights to the ring of fire." She grinned as she continued to play her game.

Andi and the boys quickly run out of the room and catch up with Jane. "What do you mean 'cut'?" Logan questioned.

Jane turns to face each of them. "It means I have to cut time from my show, and you were in it."

James nervously laughs. "Wait, but being on live TV is number seven on my list of things to do before I'm twenty."

Andi, Carlos, Kendall, and Logan looks at him weirdly. Logan shakes his head. "You don't have a list."

James takes his list out of his pocket to prove it, speaking dramatically. "Oh, I have a list."

"Look, you just said you were excited to have us." Carlos pointed out.

Jane nods. "I'm a producer. I lie. And my show is seven minutes and seven seconds too long." She shoves the schedule to Logan. "And LA needs their traffic, weather, stock reports, celebrity interviews, and cooking tips. What they don't need to see is a wannabe singer and a stupid boy band."

Andi and the boys look at her with offense and James even gasped. "Ouch." Andi muttered. She may have only known the boys for a few months, but they were more than a stupid boy band to her. They were her friends and family, and she wasn't going to let some producer talk about them that way. She wouldn't let that producer talk badly about her either, not when they had worked so hard to get here. She was determined to stand up for them, even if she had a slight fear of confrontation.

"The boys aren't a stupid boy band!" Andi defends them. "Okay...Maybe sometimes they do dumb things, but they're a talented group of guys who have worked hard to get where they are. And I'm not a wannabe singer, okay? I'm a hardworking performer who has put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into my craft, and I won't let anyone take that away from me. Especially not some arrogant producer who thinks she can just cut us from the show without even giving us a chance." Andi's voice was filled with determination as she spoke, her eyes flashing with defiance. She wasn't going to let anyone belittle her or the boys, not when they had come so far and worked so hard to achieve their dreams.

Jane raises an eyebrow at Andi's outburst, clearly taken aback by her boldness. "Well, aren't you feisty," She says, her tone laced with sarcasm. "But I'm afraid my decision is final. You're cut from the show, end of story."

Andi crosses her arms over her chest, refusing to back down. "No, it's not the end of the story," She retorts defiantly. "We deserve to be on that stage just as much as anyone else, and we're not going to let you push us around. We'll find a way to make our voices heard, with or without your precious TV show."

Jane rolls her eyes, clearly unimpressed by Andi's defiance. "Good luck with that," She says dismissively, turning to leave. "But I wouldn't get your hopes up. The show must go on, with or without you." She then turned and left the group.

"I did not get up at five am to be treated like this!" Kendall exclaimed out of frustration, clearly upset about this just like his friends. Andi, Carlos, James, and Logan nodded in agreement.

Andi's heart ached for the boys. They were all so disappointed, and it broke her heart to see them like this. They had worked so hard to get to this point, and now it felt like all their dreams were slipping through their fingers. But they had to figure out a way to fix this.

****

Andi and the boys surround Jane after looking at the schedule and finding out what set she was at. "So, um, we looked at the schedule..." Kendall started.

Logan lays the schedule on the moveable podium Jane stood in front of. "And if you trim just a little time from the weather, the chef dude's weekend recipe, the market update, and cut one Hollywood minute..."

"You'll have time for Andi and Big Time Rush." Carlos finished.

James gets out his list. "And I can check 'live TV face time' off my list."

"This is good." Jane comments. "No, this-this works." She smiles a bit. "I think I owe you guys an apology."

At first Andi believed her, then she remembered Jane saying that she lies and she had a bad feeling Jane was currently lying to them. "Follow me." Jane tells them, gesturing Andi and the boys to follow. "I'm gonna tell the director to make these changes right now."

"I feel like you're lying." Andi commented, narrowing her eyes at Jane. She wasn't entirely sure what it was, but something told her that Jane wasn't being entirely honest.

Her comment goes ignored as Jane leads them to a door that had a 'special waiting room' sign on it. "But I need for you guys to wait in our special waiting room."

The boys were first to go out the door, but before she follows them Andi turns to Jane. "Yeah," Andi nods. "You're totally lying."

Jane smirks. "Yep." Andi gasped when Jane pushed her out the door, closing it behind her. She stumbled a little, but thankfully Kendall had reached over to help steady her. Her heart fluttered at his touch as his hands rested on her hips for a second.

"Thanks." She muttered, a blush tinting her cheeks.

He grins. "No problem." He removed his hands from her and she immediately missed the contact.

"Get out of my face," Andi and the boys turn around when they hear Jane's voice on the intercom. "You stupid singing teens."

"Of course," Kendall said. "You realize..."

"This means war." Andi and the boys spoke in unison dramatically.After Kendall texted Katie to come and open the door since it was locked, it only took a few moments for Katie to get there and open the door. "I thought I told you to leave me out of this." Katie sighs. Andi chuckles a bit at seeing she was still playing her game. "I have to defeat the she-beast before she destroys the dwarf people."

Andi and the boys apologize and tell her thank you as they quickly run inside. As they get back inside they each wear blue bandanas, sunglasses, and Carlos even had on his helmet. "Okay," Kendall speaks. "Operation 'Cut time from 'A.M L.A.' so Andi and Big Time Rush can preform on tv' is under way."

Andi shakes her head at the operation name. Logan looks at Kendall with raised eyebrows. "That's a really long operation name."

"Ooh, how about something like 'Operation Winter Blitz'." Carlos suggested.

Andi nods. "That would work if it was winter."

"Just move out." Kendall told them and they each quickly ran off different ways.

Logan grabs a nearby laptop and after James connects the laptop to the teleprompter the two meet Andi, Carlos, and Kendall in a nearby storage room. "We're in." Logan smiles when the teleprompter showed up on the laptop screen. "The teleprompter is ours."

Carlos points at him. "Give us a good intro."

Andi smiles at the introduction Logan gave them. "Also joining us live in the studio celebrity environmentalist Ed Begley Jr., and a musical performance by the greatest female singer in the history of the world, Andi, and right after will be a musical performance by the greatest band in the history of the world, Big Time Rush."

From her place beside Carlos, Andi looks at the door when James walks into the storage room, closing the door behind him. He smirks. "Being the greatest band in the history of the world," He shows his list and checks it off. "Check."

James then goes to sit on the floor beside Andi while Kendall says, "Now to shave some time off morning update."

Thanks to Logan's fast typing skills he managed to make the teleprompter speed through the morning updates, but Andi honestly felt bad for Miles since he is having to say it this fast.

Andi and the boys scream when the door suddenly bursts open revealing an angry Jane. "Hey, there...You." Kendall nervously smiled.

Jane glares at each of them, pulling out the blue cord that connected the laptop their using to the teleprompter. Andi and the boys stand up, looking at Jane with nervous smiles. "So..." Andi drags out the word, looking at Jane with a small smile. "Good news! You're gonna have enough time for us to perform on the show."

Jane pulls out her walkie-talkie, ordering security to get Andi and the boys. "We should run." Logan realized, looking scared.

Andi grimaces as she nods in agreement. "Yeah, I think you're right."

Andi and the boys run out of the storage room and end up running past the green room where Katie, Mrs. Knight, and Ed are still at while they tried to run away from the security guards that are chasing after them. At one point Andi and the boys end up at the traffic set.

Andi lowered the sunglasses she wore, furrowing her eyebrows as she glances at the camera crew for the traffic set, wondering how they got there. When Kendall grabbed her arm and when she heardthe boys let out a small scream, she knew that the security guards were catching up to them. She looked at the guy telling the traffic reports with an apologetic expression before she quickly followed the boys.

Finally they close a door behind them, thinking that they were safe. They were wrong when the door a few feet in front of them opens revealing the security guards. "Retreat!" Andi and the boys shout, trying to open the door again only to find out it's locked.

"It's locked." Logan sighed as they turned back to the security guards.

"We've got the perps." The security guard in front said into his walkie-talkie. "Are we authorized to use force?"

Andi and the boys look at the security guards with fear when they hear Jane reply with, "Absolutely."

Andi glares at the walkie-talkie. "How rude."

Andi looks at James who stood beside her when he looks through his small notebook that he had his list in. "Get beat up by security guards?" He laughs nervously, looking back at the security guards. "Nope, not on my list."

Andi scoots closer to the boys when the security guards get closer to them. "Logan, options, now." Kendall demanded.

"Well, there's five of us, and three of them," Logan points out. "But their huge, so..."

Andi looks at him with wide eyes. "We're dead?"

"We might be." Logan agrees, looking just as panicked as Andi felt. "But I was actually gonna say we should scream."

"Yeah, okay." Andi replied and screamed along with the boys out of fear and panic. This wasn't how she thought this morning was going to happen. She didn't wake up this morning just for it to end with her and her boys getting beaten up by security guards.

They stop screaming and look at the three security guards with confusion when they started twitching. The three security guards then fell to the floor revealing Katie who saved Andi and the boys with the help of two tasers.

"Katie?" The five of them asked, looking at Katie with surprise. They didn't expect her to suddenly show up and take the security guards or but they were beyond thankful she did that.

Katie drops the tasers onto the ground, looking at the five teens with an annoyed expression. "Thanks." She takes her Nintendo DS out of her back pocket. "I was just about to beat the castle guards so I can get to the final boss level."

Andi looks at her with an apologetic expression while apologizing along with the boys. Before Katie leaves, Kendall stops her. "Oh, Katie. Could you keep mom asleep? She doesn't need to see any of this, right?"

Katie sighs and walks away. "But," Logan looks at Kendall with confusion. "Seriously, where'd she get that taser, man?"

Kendall shakes his head, his eyebrows furrowed with confusion. "I don't know."

****

Andi and the boys are now dressed up in different costumes. Why? Andi has no idea, but she just went along with it. Carlos was dressed as a police officer, Logan was dressed as a pharaoh, and James was dressed as a fisherman. Andi wasn't for sure what Kendall was supposed to be dressed as but what he had on reminded her of Abraham Lincoln. For her costumes she was dressed as Ed Begley Jr's assistant who was going to help him present his new environmental line of items.

Once the show was live James went on the nearby stairs, using the fishing pol that was with his fisherman costume to take away Ed's win-powered spinning tie rack. While Ed and Miles were distracted Logan took Ed's soy mulch energy drink and drank it all. Andi got on the bike that was going to power the toaster and started peddling when she heard Ed and Miles talking about the toaster.

She flipped her hair that she used to cover her face over to smirk at Jane while waving at her. Jane gasped, looking at her with wide eyes. Andi faced downward, fixing her hair so it was covering her face again before Miles and Ed looked back at her. She sped fast enough so that the bike was unconnected and drove right towards the Hollywood minute background, knocking it over.

Andi gets up, fixing her hair that was all over her face. "I'm good." She said to everyone, smirking when Jane let out a scream. Andi could tell Jane was even more angry by the expression on her face. Andi rubs the top of her head, wincing a bit. "Kinda wish I borrowed Carols' helmet though." She then realized she was on camera and she sheepishly smiled at it, awkwardly waving at it before she scrambled to get out of frame and change out of the outfit.

After taking the blue jumpsuit she wore over her clothes she went back to where the boys were now around Jane.

"You will never preform on my show!" Jane exclaims. She brings out her walkie-talkie. "Security! I need security!"

"We should run again." Logan spoke, looking at Andi and the boys with wide eyes and each of them immediately agreed.

The boys threw off the rest of their costumes they had on while the five of them ran back to the green room where they saw Jennifer was asleep. Andi and the boys were quick to stay quiet when Jennifer lifts her head off the pillow and they let out a sigh of relief when she laid her head back down, continuing to sleep.

Andi looks at Katie when she speaks and noticed she's still playing her Nintendo DS. "You know that producer lady is going to have every security guard on the lot after you."

Kendall looks at Katie with a pleading expression. "Not if my baby sister, whom I love, creates a distraction."

Andi and the boys then repeat 'please', looking at Katie with pleading expressions. Katie closed her Nintendo DS, looking at them with an annoyed expression again.

****

Andi and the boys were now in the room beneath the set where chef Hollandaise is shooting his segment. Kendall stood on a latter, using a saw to cut a circle around where Hollandaise is standing.

"Sorry, Chef," Kendall apologizes. "But we have to cut this segment short."

Logan grabs Andi's arm, pulling her back when Chef Hollandaise falls through, landing near where she was standing a moment ago. Andi looks at him with a relieved smile. "Thanks." He let go of her arm and nodded in response, looking back at her with a smile.

A worried expression forms on Andi's face as she looks down at Chef Hollandaise. "Should we be worried about him?"

Logan and James shake their heads. "He'll be fine."

Carlos takes the apron and the chef hat from Chef Hollandaise and climbs up the later, taking Chef Hollandaise's place. Andi and Kendall get back to the room they are shooting each segment just in time for the financial update. Andi got a blank cue card along with a black marker and writes down what they want Miles to say. She handed it to Kendall who stands in front of the camera, showing Miles what to say next.

Miles smiles. "And here's the financial report with new correspondent Logan."

Jane looks over to her left, her eyes widening at seeing Kendall. "What?!" She exclaimed and Kendall quickly threw the cue card down before he runs off.

Logan climbs through the whole he just cut with the saw, coughing because of the saw dust. He then looks at the camera with a smile. "Today I recommend buying stock in Begley's Own Green Products. The tasers are excellent." He catches the energy drink that James threw to him from below him. He smiles at the camera again. "The energy drinks...Really work. And his organic saws can cut through the toughest studio floors."

Jane gets a small paper bag from someone and starts to breath into the paper bag to help calm her down. "Now over to James Diamond with the weather." Logan gestured over to where James is at the weather set up area.

"Do we really need a weather report?" James questions, throwing the finger pointer he held away. "It's LA. It's gonna be bright and sunny all year long." He takes his sunglasses out and puts them on. He gets his list out of his pocket and checks off something. He grins. "Be a weather man...Check!"

"Go back to Miles!" Jane head into her headpiece. "Back to Miles!"

The cameraman moves the camera back to where Miles' set up is. Miles was sitting beside Carlos, eating the fishsticks Carlos had made. "These are really excellent, Chef Carlos." Miles complimented and Carlos smiled brightly in response.

"Oh, I'm gonna put my feet up too." Miles grinned, putting his feet up on the desk just like how Carlos was sitting. Jane then ordered every security guard the KULA lot to destroy Andi and Big Time Rush.

"This just in." Miles speaks while he gets an update through the earpiece he's wearing. "Every security guard on the KULA lot is currently involved in a low-speed chase."

"Sweet!" Carlos and Miles exclaims. Carlos points at the camera. "Let's go live."

A.M L.A. then shows Katie driving while playing her Nintendo DS being chased by every security guard. "Do you want me to go to commercial?" Miles asks Jane. He furrows his eyebrows and mimics the way Jane was pulling a her hair angrily. "What does this mean?"

Carlos' eyes grow wide at seeing three security guards heading after him. He pats Miles on the shoulder as he gets up. "Gotta go."

A few minutes later Miles is standing in front of his desk, looking at the camera with an awkward smile when he realized they were live again. "Oh, are we back?"

Jane furrows her eyebrows, turning to a nearby assistant and grabs his shoulders, shaking him angrily. "Why are we back? We don't have anymore segments!"

"We're seven minutes and seven seconds short." The assistant told her. Jane shoved him away roughly, crying as she laid her head on the moveable podium in front of her.

Andi and the boys step in front of her. "Oh, if only there was something that could be done to fill in that time." Kendall pretended to sound sad, holding the schedule in front of him. Andi and the boys then pretended to think.

Jane stops crying, looking at the teens with a glare. "Never!" She pushes the podium to the side. "Do you hear me? I'd rather have seven minutes and seven seconds of dead air and to get fired than to lose to you!"

Andi's eyes grow wide when Jane grabs two tasers, pointing them at her and the boys. Andi was quick to take a step behind the boys so they were hiding her while the boys try to hide themselves. "As long as I'm standing here, oh, Andi and Big Time Rush will never preform on live TV!"

Just when Andi thought Jane was going to taser them, Katie drives into the room, knocking Jane to the floor. "I did it!" Katie happily exclaims. "I defeated the evil she-beast!"

"Yeah, you did." Andi snickers, trying to hold back a laugh as she and the boys walked away from Jane and towards Katie. "And just in time, too."

Andi looks back at Jane when she heard Jane groan in pain. Katie grimaces at seeing Jane on the floor and looks at Andi and the boys. "I was playing while driving again, wasn't I?"

Andi and the boys nod. "Yep."

"Miles." The assistant walked back over, showing him a cue card. Andi quickly heads over to where her set up is at and got ready to sing.

"Ooh! Words to read." Miles smiles. "Let's give it up for Andi with her new hit single, Make It Shine!"

Once Andi was done with her performance Miles introduced Big Time Rush and the boys sang their song ''Till I Forget About You'.

At the end of the boy's performance the boys gesture Andi over since she was standing off to the side. Andi smiles and goes over to stand beside them. They congratulated each other while Miles stood beside them.

"This just in." Miles smiles at the camera that faced each of them. "Andi and Big Time Rush rocks!"

"And we are out!" The assistant director called out.

Miles then shakes each of their hands as he congratulates them. "Preform on live TV?" James said excitedly, getting out his list to check it off. Andi, Carlos, Kendall, and Logan point at him with smiles on their faces. "Check!" They exclaimed the same thing along with James.

Andi was practically buzzing with excitement and happiness as the boys continued to congratulate each other. Her first TV appearance and singing live with the boys went perfect and she was ecstatic. It took a lot longer and was more complicated to actually be able to sing on live TV, but the ending result was worth the trouble.

"Hey, guys."

Andi looks over with wide eyes at seeing Jennifer standing behind Kendall and Carlos. Kendall lets out a startled gasp, not expecting her to be up yet. Andi shares a panicked expression with the boys when Jennifer asks, "Um, did I miss anything?"

Miles shakes his head. "No."

"Nope." Everyone else agreed. They all silently agreed it was best to not let her know what she really missed out on while she was gone. and the boys exchanged relieved glances, glad to have avoided Jennifer catching onto the chaos that had just unfolded. As Jennifer walked away, the tension in the room seemed to dissipate, replaced by a sense of accomplishment and relief.

Andi grins at the boys, feeling a rush of gratitude for their teamwork and resilience throughout the wild ordeal. "Well, that was something, huh?" She pouts. "And I still never got my morning coffee." She groaned dramatically, leaning onto Kendall.

Kendall chuckles, smiling fondly at her as he ran a hand through his hair. "Coffee sounds like a good idea right about now. Let's go grab some."

Andi's eyes lit up at the suggestion, her exhaustion momentarily forgotten in the prospect of a much-needed caffeine boost. The rest of the boys nodded in agreement, their faces still flushed with the excitement of their successful performance. Andi followed them out of the studio, feeling a sense of camaraderie and accomplishment wash over her.

As they made their way to the nearest coffee shop, Andi couldn't help but feel grateful for the bonds they had formed through their shared experiences. Despite the challenges they faced, they had come out on top, stronger and more united than ever.