Summary: crsovr HSM&Troy. Troy Bolton has a twin sister, Briseis Bolton.Back in East High, an evil genius plots to destroy the HSM gang & sends them back in Ancient Greece. The fall of Troy has happened, Achilles is not dead instead Briseis is. What happens when the great warrior chances a meeting upon the present Briseis? and how will the gang get back in time to save the school from evil hands, callbacks, Decathlon and the Championship game?

- the time travel thingy for the gang wont happen for a few more chapters. but next chapter is about Achilles. -

Chapter 1

1 week later

The Winter break was finally over. School is back and at the East High, Albuquerque, New Mexico everyone was booming with excitement and chatter and merriment. Cheerleaders were flying and dancing everywhere, skaters were skateboarding again, the basketball jocks were awaiting for their fellow Captain, in the meantime, playing a short dribbling game and everyone else was greeting each other and cheering their old Wildcat hymn Wildcats sing along, yeah you really got it going on, Wildcats in the house, everybody, say it now! Wildcats…

Finally, a huge yellow bus came to a stop. As Troy and Briseis Bolton got off the bus, everyone who was around the area started flocking over to them in greeting. By "everyone" meaning the cheerleaders and the basketball jocks. Their team captain and student body president have finally arrived. Troy's next best man, Chad, greeted eagerly his friend.

"Hey guys, Happy New Year." Troy said happily, walking alongside his sister, who also was sharing the same feeling of happiness and excitement. Everyone else was trailing behind them or at their tail and shouted for joy at Troy's greeting.

"Yeah! It's gonna be a Happy Wildcat New Year man!" Chad exclaimed enthusiastically. He was always a loyal and true supporter to the Wildcat team in East High. People agreed in glee at his exclamation as well. "2 weeks we're going to the Championships, with you leading us to infinity and beyond."

Troy smiled sheepishly and didn't respond at the compliment. He was always the humble fellow.

"Oh! I'm so excited for that day!" Briseis interjected excitedly. "You guys will be your at-most glory once again!"

"Not us. The whole school." Chad replied with confidence. "WHAT TEAM!" he started…

"WILDCATS!" Everyone replied.

"WHAT TEAM!"

"WILDCATS!"

It was going to be a great day coming back.

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The halls were filled with a great many people. People hanging around for awhile at their lockers, people walking to their classes or people just chattering away all the events that happened during the Winter break.

One girl, stood out from the crowd with her flashy all pink Gucci wardrobe, naturally cat walking in the middle of the hallway with her eyes glued to her up-class high-tech cell phone and her brother (dressed as trendy and 1st class as she was) walking by her side. The girl, Sharpay Evans and her brother Ryan Evans were now slowly approaching the basketball jocks that were coming in. Sharpay pouted a bit at them and waved her hands up in a signal for them to make way for her because she wanted to pass in between them. They all parted ways for her, not in terror but in somewhat mockery. They didn't like her that much at all. But Sharpay and her brother were as popular and as powerful as they were, only Sharpay and Ryan only cared for the betterment of themselves and no one else's.

"The Ice Princess has returned from the North Pole." One commented in mockery. Everyone else laughed.

"You know she probably spent the holidays as she always does." Chad said knowingly.

"How is that?" Troy asked curious.

"Shopping for mirrors!"

Everyone absolutely AGREED on that. And laughed loudly. Sharpay's vanity has reached an infinity and beyond.

The jocks noise though, unknowingly annoyed another group. A group not that much seen or known, The Scholastics, who were putting up new posters up the school walls that time.

Their team captain, Taylor, stopped from her work to take a peek at them.

"Ugh." She said in disgust. "Behold the zoo animals holding their New Year."

And at that, the morning bell, signaling for students to go to their classes immediately, rang.

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Only three people seemed not to be cheerful or excited about the school coming back to action. Nor did they care to associate with others. They were hidden in the depths of the school, far from everyone's eyesight, but close enough to get to their classes as soon as the morning bell rang.

"It's almost ready."

The guy said in a deep voice, with a tone of malice in it.

"Good."

This time a girl. So much evil, deceit and cunning guile was in her voice, it was enough to bring shivers to your spine.

"Soon we will have our glory."

Another guy, who had a voice that clearly voiced out his hungry for power and popularity.

And then, they laughed softly.

Not just any laugh out of merriment, but a laugh that held much evil and wickedness in it.

And at that precise moment, the morning bell rang.

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Gabriella Montez was walking nervously in her new school. She felt quite anxious about it all. On her sides, the principal of East High and her ever supportive mother.

"Ma, my stomach." Gabriella said, voicing out her inhibitions and holding her stomach. Her mother turned to her.

"It's always like this on the first day of school." She replied to her daughter comfortingly. "You'll do great, you always do." Gabriella pouted and looked all the more nervous. "And I made my company a promise that I can't transfer until you graduate." Gabriella's mother pointed out.

The Principal softly interjected. "I've reviewed your impressive transcripts. I assume your life will shine brightly here at East High." He said with much assurance, while giving Gabriella her schedule of classes and a map of the school so she wouldn't be lost.

Gabriella glanced at it dejectedly.

"I don't want to be the school's freaky genius again." She turned back to her mom. Her mother gave her a soft look and held her in her hands.

"You just be Gabriella." She said simply and kissed her goodbye on the forehead.

"This way." The Principal softly said, indicating that she had to go to her classes. He led her to the stairs. Gabriella imagined it to be her stairway to doom as she slowly went up. She glanced back at her mother, as if it would be the last time she'd ever see her mom and then ran all the way up.

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In the Drama Classroom, students were all preparing for class. Or more likely, passing the basketball around and still chattering about their Winter Break or greeting each other while their teacher was lounging for awhile reading a script of some sort. Troy Bolton was seated on top of his desk at front, with his back faced to the teacher, talking animatedly to his friend, who had the same position as him. His sister, Briseis was in another class. Though they were supposed to have the same time for Drama Class, she chose to take a higher level of a subject: Advanced Chemistry.

Gabriella finally made it to her first class without fainting or anything of the sort. She looked around the class for the teacher in charge and did not notice the man who she sang with a week ago at the Freestyle Club on New Year's Eve. She spotted her teacher and gave a sheet to her indicating that she was a new student to East High. Then she slowly went passed the rest of the people finding a seat at the very back of the classroom, unknowingly passing Troy.

Troy, who was still talking animatedly to his friend, stopped the moment Gabriella passed him. He got curious, his heart beating as he watched the girl walking to the back of the classroom. He knew, deep inside him that it was her. He'd recognize that hair anywhere. But he still wasn't quite sure. He wanted to see clearly if it really was Gabriella but people blocked his way. Like Sharpay, for example.

"Hi Troy." She said flirtatiously and laughing in a very flirty way. Though, Sharpay was quite oblivious to Troy as his attention was trying to see the face of the girl, who he couldn't see because she was at the back of the class and everyone else was in his way.

The 2nd bell rang.

"I trust you all had a splendid holiday." Ms. Darbus, the Drama teacher said loudly making the students sit down on their chairs and prepare themselves for class. "Check the lobby signs, for new activities, Mr. Bolton," Scolding Troy, seeing as he still wasn't properly seated at his chair, because he was still quite trying to find out the face of the girl. He sat down immediately as his attention was called. "Especially our Winter Musicale." Ms. Darbus continued on.

Chad, noticing his friend's troubled face asked, "Hey man, you alright?"

Troy merely nodded in response.

"We will have single auditions for our supporting roles and pairs auditions for our two leads." Ms. Darbus continued on advertising.

Chad gave a "Boo", thumbs down in response to that. Though he was a true supporter for his team and school, he absolutely despised anything that goes on with the Drama Club, musicales in particular.

"Mr. Danforth, this is a place of learning, not a hockey arena." While Chad hated the theater antics, Ms. Darbus clearly disliked the basketball, sports area. In her opinion, they give importance to nothing else in life. Chad immediately hid the basketball out of her sight.

"There is also a signup for next week's Decathlon Competition. Chem. Club Taylor Mackessie," Taylor raised her hand up at that. "Can answer all your questions regarding that."

Troy, in the meantime, was not paying attention to any of the announcements and was desperate about finding out who the girl was. He finally thought of an idea and brought out his phone, dialed Gabriella's number and pressed the call button.

A soft ring tone then floated in the ears of everyone in the classroom.

And Troy was shocked at this revelation.

She was here.

His heart leapt to the fastest speed ever.

"Aah, the cell phone menace has returned to our crucible of learning." Ms. Darbus announced, dropping her papers and getting a small bucket of some sort.

Sharpay, holding out her phone, wondered whose phone it was ringing. She turned to her brother, Ryan. "Was that you?"

He shook his head in response.

"Sharpay and Ryan, cell phones." Ms. Darbus holding out the bucket to them. "And I will see you in detention."

Sharpay groaned at that. She did not wish to have detention on the first day back.

Meanwhile, Gabriella realizing the phone which was ringing was hers, she frantically checked who the caller was. Seeing it was Troy, she made a confused look.

"We have ZERO tolerance for cell phones in class," Ms. Darbus said as she made her way to Gabriella, holding out the bucket in front of her new student. "So, we will get to know each other better in detention. Cell phone!" She said menacingly. "And welcome to East High, Ms. Montez."

And at that statement, Troy got it. He felt quite happy at that moment. Ms. Darbus spotted him next holding out a cell phone as well.

"Mr. Bolton, I see your phone is involved so we will see each other in detention as well!"

Chad, hearing that, protested immediately.

"That's not really a possibility, Ms. Darbus, Your Honor. See, 'cause we have basketball practice and Troy…"

But Ms. Darbus wouldn't have ANY of it. "Aah!" She interrupted before Chad could even finish. "That will be 15 minutes for you too, Mr. Danforth. Count on it."

Chad's face looked appalled at that.

Seeing this punishment, Taylor gleefully whispered to her seatmates, "That could be hard for Chad, he probably can't count that high."

"TAYLOR MACKESSIE, 15 MINUTES!"

Like Chad, her expression couldn't be any less than shocked.

Ms. Darbus banged the bucket full of cell phones on Troy's chair, making him jump. She was mad.

"Holidays are over people! WAY OVER!" She breathed. "Now, any more comments, questions?"

The guy at the back, behind Taylor slowly raised his hand.

"Jason."

"So…how were your holidays Ms. Darbus?" Jason asked, as if nothing out of the ordinary happened just 5 seconds ago. Troy, Chad and Taylor looked back at him with faces that might have read, "WHAT!" or something of that sort.

"What?" He asked them all in defensive. Taylor just closed her eyes in response. Ms. Darbus just shook her head.

The bell rang precisely at that.

And everyone immediately made their way out to get to their next class.

Troy bolted out the classroom first and hid just behind the door. Everyone greeted him students made their way out.

"See in detention man." Chad dejectedly said to Troy as he made his way to his next class. He would rather have basketball practice than go to a stupid detention.

The last girl, Gabriella finally exited the class, looking over at her school map so that she wouldn't be lost. Troy immediately spotted her and ran to her.

"Hey!" He said with surprise and excitement on his face on seeing his singing partner. Gabriella shared the same surprised look as he did.

"I don't…"

"Believe it…"

"Or me…"

"Either…"

They shared a look and laughed quietly at how they were able to finish each other's sentences now.

"My mother's company transferred here to Albuquerque." Gabriella explained. "I don't believe it! I can't believe you live here!" She exclaimed brightly, relieved to know that she was lucky enough to find someone she knew. Troy heart raced to the top seeing her beautiful face lit up.

They started walking together along the corridor.

"I know!" Troy said while whispering. "I mean this is a real surprise!"

"Why are you whispering?" Gabriella asked him, giving him a funny look. She continued looking around to see where she was going.

"Well you know, about the Snowboarding thing, nobody really knows about it…" Troy said nervously, hoping she'll get the idea. And she did.

"You're friends don't know you sing." Gabriella stated.

"Well… it's just that… well… that time… it was a totally different person…" He stopped short, as Gabriella abruptly turned completely focused on finding her right way. He smiled to himself.

"So…Welcome to East High!" Troy said enthusiastically as they were walking in a new corridor. And then they saw the audition signups for the winter musicale. "And I'm sure you just can't wait to try out for that." Troy pointed gently to the audition signups.

Gabriella smiled, softly shaking her head. "Oh no. I don't want to sign up for anything yet. I just want to get to know the school. But if you sign up, I'd consider coming to the show." She grinned.

Troy grinned back. "Yeah that's quite impossible."

"What's impossible, Troy?" a flashy blonde in pink suddenly came out of nowhere, surprising both Troy and Gabriella. "I wouldn't think that was even in your vocabulary." Sharpay's icy eyes turned to Gabriella. "It's so nice of you showing our new classmate around."

Sharpay then turned to the bulletin board behind her, took out her permanent marker and signed her name almost filling up the entire bulletin board so that no one else would be able to sign their names. She turned around.

"Oh!" Sharpay exclaimed to Gabriella in mock attitude. "Where you going to sign up?" Before anyone could answer, she carried on. "My brother and I have starred in all of the school's productions. There are a lot of supporting roles in the show. I'm sure we can find something for you."

Even though insulted, Gabriella smiled sweetly with Troy getting nervous for her. "No no no. I was just looking around the bulletins; a lot's going on in this school. Wow…" Troy just nodded in approval of whatever Gabriella said.

Gabriella took this as a sign for her exit. She slowly walked across Sharpay, giving her a theatrical smile. "Nice penmanship." And she left to go to her next class.

Troy thought it would have been the perfect time to leave also, since he wasn't exactly feeling comfortable being near the Ice Princess. But before he could anywhere far, Sharpay stopped him.

"So!" Sharpay went up to him. "What'd you this vacation?"

Troy really wanted to leave. "Um… basketball… More basketball. Haha."

"You are so dedicated." Sharpay complimented in awe. "Just like me!" She added.

Troy laughed awkwardly at that.

"Watch me at my show." Sharpay invited. Troy nodded. "Promise?" Troy gave her an honest nod and tried to leave again until Sharpay stopped him again.

"Tootles!"

Troy just stared back horrifically. "Tootles…" He replied awkwardly and ran off to the other direction.

Sharpay seeming satisfied made her way to her own class, not before turning to where Gabriella walked off and glaring as if she was still there.