AU: Yes, I'm starting another story. Aren't I horrible? My inspiration just keeps dashing about and refuses to stay focused on one story only, which explains all the oneshots... and now this. This is another random idea of mine; it's not a oneshot, nor will it be a complete story; I'm not sure of how many chapter it will consist in the end - probably about six or seven.
It's a crossover between Wicked and Glee; let's say it's post-musical, but for some reason you can make up yourself Glinda knows that Elphie and Fiyero are alive and the three of them are still friends, though secretly. The Glee club still consists of the original members, so Rachel, Finn etc. haven't graduated yet. Guess that's all you need to know.
Hope you like it! Please R&R.
Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked, nor do I own Glee.
Chapter 1.
'Elphie?' Glinda asked, looking around, quirking one eyebrow. 'Where are we?'
'How should I know?' Elphaba snapped. 'If you hadn't been harassing me when I was trying to do the transportation spell, we'd be in the Vinkus right now, visiting Fiyero's family, just like we were supposed to!'
'Well, you were the one that wanted to use a transportation spell instead of just going there by bubble!'
Elphaba threw her hands in the air in exasperation. 'Because Fiyero and I are not able to create bubbles!'
Glinda fell silent at that. 'Oh. Right.' She looked around. 'Well, there are people right over there!' she pointed. 'Shall we go and ask them where we are?' Before either Elphaba or Fiyero could answer, she had skipped away towards the people. Elphaba looked at Fiyero and shrugged. 'I suppose asking for directions won't hurt.' She followed Glinda into the other room and looked around. There were several people sitting there. Some of them held stacks of paper in their hands, which they were reading intently; others were talking softly to one another. Glinda quickly got into conversation with a few cheerleaders and Elphaba sat down next to a girl with brown hair and brown eyes.
Rachel Berry looked at the green girl next to her and decided to play nice. She flashed the girl a brilliant smile. 'Hi, I'm Rachel Berry. You must be auditioning for the role of Elphaba too, aren't you? That's not so hard to guess – the green is kind of a giveaway.' She decided not to comment on the green being a bit overdone. It was only an audition, after all.
Elphaba gave her a puzzled look. 'What?'
'The role of Elphaba, in Wicked?' Rachel asked. Elphaba still looked confused. 'I am Elphaba.'
Rachel interpreted that wrong and her eyes darkened. 'We'll see about that, because I will get that role. I have been eating, sleeping and breathing Elphaba ever since I first saw Wicked on Broadway and I am not going to let some amateur steal my dream role away from me!'
Elphaba, however, suddenly tensed. 'Wait a clock-tick. Did you just say 'wicked'?'Had they figured her out? Did they know she was the Wicked Witch of the West?
Rachel, next to her, was starting to wonder if this girl was in her right mind. 'Yes, Wicked. The musical? The one we're all here to audition for?'
Luckily, Kurt walked in just that moment and she squealed. 'Oh, Kurt, hi! Are you auditioning too?'
He smiled at her. 'I'm auditioning for the role of Prince Fiyero Tiggular,' he announced. 'I believe I am perfect for that role.'
Fiyero, who had been talking to another boy, heard that and turned around. 'Excuse me?'
'Kurt,' Rachel said patiently. 'Don't you think Fiyero might just be a little too… masculine a role for you?'
'Hate to break it to you, Kurt, but she's right,' Mercedes, who was sitting on Elphaba's other side, said apologetically. 'Fiyero is hot. You are gay.'
'Well,' Kurt said, not in the least discouraged. 'I wouldn't say that. Fiyero is kind of gay, too.'
'Excuse me?' Fiyero demanded again, in a slightly higher-pitched voice than usual. Glinda was trying her hardest to stifle her laughter and he glared at her.
'It's true,' Kurt said in answer to Fiyero's outburst. 'I mean, of course, he appears to be in love with two girls in the musical, but have you seen those pants he's wearing during the first act? No straight man would wear pants that tight.'
'I haven't worn those in years!' Fiyero protested. 'When am I going to stop hearing about those?'
Everyone was now staring at him and Rachel asked a little sceptically, 'Wait a minute. You guys actually expect us to believe that you three are Fiyero, Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked, is that it?'
Elphaba looked a little pained. 'Please don't say 'wicked'.'
Kurt looked from one to the other in confusion. 'What is going on with you three? Who are you?'
Glinda immediately straightened her back, stuck her chin in the air and announced, 'I am Glinda the Good Witch of the North, commonly known as Glinda the Good, formerly known as Galinda Upland of the Upper Uplands, and I feel utterly offended that you haven't heard of me.'
Everyone stared at her. Glinda threw her hands up in the air and gave up. 'Where are we?'
'Lima, Ohio,' one of the cheerleaders, a blonde one, told her. 'William McKinley High School. We're about to audition for the musical Wicked, which we are going to perform in the auditorium of our school in a few months.'
'Ohio, where is that?' Fiyero asked. They looked at him as if though he were crazy. 'The United States?' Kurt offered weakly, but the confused look stayed on the three strangers' faces.
'Oh my Oz,' Elphaba breathed when she finally realised what was going on. 'I transported us to another world.'
Glinda gasped. 'Elphie! How could you!'
'This is your fault!' Elphaba snapped. 'I told you I needed to concentrate when I did the spell, but no, you just had to distract me!'
Glinda bristled. 'Now wait just a clock-tick…'
'Wait a minute, where are you from?' Mercedes asked in utter confusion. The three of them looked at her simultaneously. 'Oz.'
'Prove it,' Rachel Berry demanded. 'If you three really are who you say you are, prove it. Perform magic or something.'
'Now that is something I can do,' Glinda sang and she created her bubble and floated up to the ceiling. She looked up to it in disgust. 'Ugh, this room is so small.'
The Glee kids merely stared at her in awe and disbelief, until Rachel commanded in a high voice, 'You. Elphaba. Enchant a broomstick for me.'
Elphaba quirked one eyebrow. 'Excuse me?'
'Do it!' Rachel screeched, and Elphaba rolled her eyes and grumbled, 'Fine. Someone get me a broomstick.' She had to prove to these people that they really were from Oz, or they would never help them, but she didn't like this.
A tall boy fetched her a broomstick and she opened the Grimmerie, which she had been clutching to her chest ever since they had arrived in this new world, and began chanting. The Glee kids watched in awe as they saw the broomstick lift and Elphaba slammed the book shut. 'There. Happy now?'
'Oh my God,' Kurt whispered. 'It is them!'
Rachel scoffed. 'That's impossible.' She examined the broomstick closely, waving her hands all around it to find any hidden strings that might explain the object floating, but she didn't find any. Everyone was staring now and Elphaba sighed. 'Yes, we are from another world. Now could you please stop staring and help us get back?'
'Oh,' Mercedes said suddenly, her eyes gleaming. 'They must star in our play!'
'What?!' Rachel exclaimed. 'No, no, no way! I am to star in that play! I was born to play Elphaba!'
The real Elphaba quirked an eyebrow at her and Rachel flushed. 'I mean… Oh, forget it!'
'Don't you see?' said Mercedes. 'This is the perfect opportunity for us to show the rest of the school that we are not losers. These three can play the leading characters perfectly – because they are the leading characters! We'll blow the entire school away with our performance!'
Rachel huffed. 'Fine. But you're going to have to prove that you can sing first.'
Elphaba looked exasperated. 'I don't want to sing! I want to go home!'
'We won't help you until you help us,' Mercedes declared, and the other Glee kids agreed. Elphaba sighed and gave in. 'Sure. Perfect. We'll help you, but you will help us afterwards.'
Mercedes shook the green girl's hand. 'Deal. Now let's go get you to audition for Mr. Schue – he'll be blown away!'
Mercedes, Quinn and Rachel flanked Mr. Schue as Elphaba walked on stage and read through the song she was required to perform for her audition. They had told Will Schuester all about the Ozians they had met backstage and that they were the real Elphaba, Glinda and Fiyero. Will didn't believe them in the slightest, of course, but he was willing to go along with it. If they believed that these three kids were perfect for the roles, perhaps that would give them some confidence and they would be able to impress their audience.
Elphaba flipped through the pages before declaring flatly, 'I'm not singing this.'
'What? Why not?' asked Mercedes, slightly taken aback. Elphaba looked at her as if though she were crazy. 'You want me to sing praise of the man that ruined my life? No, thank you. There is no 'Wizard and I' anymore. That was just a stupid childish dream.'
'Sing another song, then,' Quinn offered, handing Elphaba the lyrics of 'No Good Deed'. The green girl eyed them warily before tossing them to the side. 'No way. Never.'
Mr. Schue, who was finding this just to be the tiniest bit ridiculous, sighed. 'Why not?'
'Because it includes a spell from the Grimmerie, for one,' Elphaba said with a pointed glare, 'and I do not plan on changing my boyfriend into a scarecrow once again.'
Fiyero, standing at the back of the stage to wait for his turn, shuddered. 'No, thank you.'
'And also because it's not true at all, that good deeds don't go unpunished,' she went on. 'I was desperate when I said that, and it was one of the darkest periods of my life, which says something, and so I'd rather not be reminded of it.'
'Fine,' Mr. Schue said patiently. 'Then will you sing this song?' He handed her 'Defying Gravity' and she rolled her eyes. 'Sure, I'll sing about my escape from the Wizard's palace as a fugitive, because that was such a joyful time.'
Mercedes sighed. 'Elphaba…'
'Fine, fine,' the green girl grumbled. 'Give me a moment to learn the lyrics.' She walked off to the side of the stage and as if that was her cue, Glinda came floating down in her pink bubble, beaming. 'What song shall I sing? Tina showed me all the songs backstage, and I love them! Do you want me to sing 'Good News' first?'
Elphaba, who had taken a look at the songs as well, looked at her friend incredulously. 'You seriously want to sing a song celebrating my death right in front of me? Glinda, that is rude.'
Glinda flushed. 'Of course not. I'm sorry. Um… 'Thank Goodness'?'
Fiyero quirked an eyebrow. 'Isn't that one about our engagement?'
Glinda's face went even redder. 'Right. I get it. That would be awkward. 'Popular', then?' She didn't wait for an answer, but started to sing happily. 'Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I…'
Rachel, Quinn and Mercedes, along with the other Glee kids – who had taken seats in the auditorium to watch the Ozians' performance – clapped and cheered. Mr. Schue, however, was merely staring at the bubble in which the blonde was floating around. It looked so real… How did she do that? It wasn't like they had such professional equipment here at McKinley.
What he was also amazed by, was how perfect she was as Galinda. She sang the song just right. Perhaps his students were right and he should let these three kids star in the play – if the other two were just as good, that was.
'Excellent!' he said when the blonde girl was done singing. 'You'll make a fine Galinda!'
Glinda frowned at him. 'It's Glinda now. The 'Ga' is silent.'
'Right,' Mr. Schue said, not sure if she was being serious. 'Well, anyway, it was great. Shall we move on? Elphaba, are you ready?' It felt really silly to address the girl like that, but he didn't know her real name, so he didn't really have a choice.
Elphaba nodded and stepped onto the stage. 'Fine. I'll sing the song.'
She opened her mouth and sang, and the entire auditorium fell silent. She had the most beautiful voice – the perfect voice for the role of Elphaba. She sang the song with such ease, as if she'd never done anything else, and even Glinda and Fiyero were baffled – neither of them had ever heard Elphaba sing before.
Glinda tuned in after a while, singing, 'If we work in tandem,' and singing her part in the song from there. While Glinda sang her line, Elphaba muttered a spell under her breath – she wanted to make this performance as real as possible, now that she was here anyway – and when she yelled, 'It's me!', her broom lifted high up into the air with her on it. The Glee kids and Mr. Schue could only stare, the latter's eyes nearly bulging out of his head as she sang the rest of the song perfectly.
'And nobody in all of Oz,' she hissed, 'No Wizard that there is or was, is ever gonna bring me down!' She belted out the final notes of the song and gracefully descended until she had both feet on the floor again. 'How did I do?' she asked a bit shyly, and the Glee club all jumped up and cheered for her – even Rachel, who usually never cheered for anyone but herself. Well, and for Finn, for course, but only because everyone expected her to, since he was her boyfriend and all.
'That was amazing!' Mr. Schue said, more enthusiastic than anyone had ever seen him. 'I've never seen such a fantastic performance in my life!'
Rachel felt slightly offended by that. 'Mr. Schue…'
'Would you please do the duet with Fiyero, too?' Mr. Schue asked the green girl. 'I'd love to hear you sing once more, and that way, we can hear Fiyero sing, too.' He bent over towards Mercedes and Quinn. 'I wonder how she let the broomstick fly up. It looked really impressive.'
'She enchanted it,' Quinn told him, but he merely laughed. 'Oh, Quinn, I love how you Glee kids always get so absorbed in the things we're doing.'
'She's not kidding,' Mercedes chimed in. 'Mr. Schue, I know it's hard to believe, but that girl over there is Elphaba and she just enchanted that broomstick to fly.'
'We didn't believe it ourselves at first,' said Rachel, on his other side, 'but they proved it.'
'Let's have them prove it again, then, shall we?' Mr. Schue said just the tiniest bit sarcastically. 'Make her cast another spell.'
Elphaba caught that last part and sighed. 'Do I have to prove that I'm real again?'
'Yes, please,' Mercedes said a bit sheepishly, and Elphaba sighed again. 'Fine.' She muttered something under her breath and suddenly Finn, who had been sitting on stage to accompany Elphaba's singing with his band, turned into a frog. The thing looked around in confusion and croaked, and Rachel shrieked in anger and panic. 'That is my boyfriend! Change him back right now!'
'Sorry,' Elphaba mumbled. She muttered something else and there was Finn again, looking slightly bewildered. 'What just happened?'
Glinda sighed as she floated down in her bubble. 'Elphie, you can't just go around and change people into frogs. It's not polite.'
Mr. Schue, meanwhile, looked as if he was about to faint. 'Mr. Schue?' Mercedes asked in concern. 'Are you all right?'
He swallowed. 'I think I just need to… um… go home and… think about this. Class dismissed.' With that, he hurriedly grabbed his things and fled the auditorium, leaving the students slightly baffled.
'Well,' Elphaba said sarcastically. 'That went well.'
