It was Spirit Week at Echo Creek Academy, which means it was time for the annual pep rally. The cheerleaders and the opossum school mascot was out in the playing field and all the kids were in the stands. But none of them weren't as excited as one boy: Starling Dragonfly. Hey, it was his first pep rally after all. "Oh, my gosh! I can't wait, I can't wait! My first pep rally! I'm so excited!"

"When aren't you excited?" Marcia asked.

"Shh!"

Principal Skeeves said into a microphone, "And now, Brittney Wong, who became head cheerleader on her own and not because her dad made a generous donation to the school."

The spirit committee ran down the field, chanting while carrying a very bored Brittney. "Go, Echo Creek! Let's try not to get beat! Go, Echo Creek! Let's try not to get beat! Go, go, go, go, yeah!"

Then Brittney took the microphone from the principal and said, "Make some noise if you love the Awesome Opossums!" The crowd cheered while Starling squirmed in his seat. "I love opossums! They carry their babies on their backs!"

Marcia reminded him, "You know she's talking about our football team, right? We're going up against the Warriors." She shuddered at the name.

Starling looked at her. "Warriors?" Did she mean real warriors with swords and war horses?

"Our rivals from Silver Hill Prep," Alicia said.

"Every year, their team slaughters our guys," Marcia said sadly.

Ever the pessimistic teacher, Skullnik said, "It's gonna be a bloodbath." before eating an entire chicken.

Starling was horrified. Maybe they are like the warriors from Mewni! "That's terrible! We must do something!"

"Well, you could join the Spirit Committee," suggested Marcia. "Those kids are relentless when it comes to supporting the team." To prove his point, the male cheerleader, Ed shouted "Opossums!" and did a perfect split. "Relentless," Marcia said again.

Starling grabbed Marcia by the wrist. "What a great idea! We better pick up some supplies!"

But Marcia did not want any part of them. So she put it gently, "As fun as that sounds, you can go without me.

"Okay!" He turned to the troll teacher. "Hey, Skullzy. What's your favorite weapon?"

"Battle axe."

"Gotcha."

(!)

Brittney said into the microphone, "And now, our new mascot... that I never approved of... The Awesome Opossum!"

The Awesome Opossum was just a guy in a very old and raggedy opossum costume. Every time he tried to perform a cheer move, his costume would fall apart at the seams. "Where's the real possum?" shouted Marcia. "Did the Warriors steal it again? Those jerks!"

Alicia put a hand on her shoulder. "Sadly, the real possum wasn't playing possum."

Back on the field the mascot's mask fell off the person's head revealing...

"Hey," Marcia called out. "That's Fergie!"

Alicia nodded. "She's our new mascot!"

A look of dread appeared on Marcia's face. "Oh, no! That means the Warriors are gonna to steal her!"

"Oh, that's silly."

"The only thing that's silly is how the Warriors are gonna look when they try to steal my friend!"

)!)

Meanwhile, Starling was running through the school hallway. He stopped in front of a trophy case that housed pictures of former Awesome Opossums team members. Of course, Starling thought they were the victims of war. "Ah. So many brave young men. So many tragic losses." He drew a sad face on the glass.

Meanwhile, Marcia was on guard patrol, lurking around the corridors. "Alpha Team one," she said to her watch. "Commencing security sweep for the Warriors. Over." She continued to sneak through the hall, shimmying against the walls and rolling on the floor until she was next to the trophy case. Too bad she didn't see Starling. "Oh, Marcia." Caught off guard, Marcia fell on her butt. "How can we prevent another tragic loss to our team," the prince asked as he helped her up.

"Well, if I knew anything about football, I'd use the element of surprise."

Starling's eyes lit up. "Of course, of course, of course..."

"Spritz 'em! Bring out the kitty cat offense!"

"Yes?"

"Maybe even throw a couple big bombs!"

"Bombs! Yeah, I've gotta go tell that to the Spirit Committee. Bye!" And the prince sprinted off.

Once Starling was gone, Marcia resumed spy mode. "We have an all-clear. Move! Move! Move!"

"Ugh, this is not the respect a girl in a possum suit deserves," Fergie said as Alicia pushed her down the hall.

!

In the gym, Brittney was talking to a shaking friend who was standing before a giant trampoline. "Don't worry, Sabrina. The Spirit Boys are gonna catch you. Grow some pompoms!" Sabrina jumped onto the trampoline and flipped through the air. Suddenly, Starling brust into the gym, distracting the boys and making Sabrina fall to the ground.

Starling took one of the cheerleaders' pompoms and shook them. "Do these explode?" He tossed one of them like a grenade at a male cheerleader, but nothing happened. "Maybe we can set them on fire!"

Brittney took the pompoms away from him. "Uh, we're kinda in the middle of something?"

Starling remembered that Brittney was the head cheerleader and pointed his scepter at her. "You're the leader. What's the plan?"

!Brittney made a curt laugh. "This year we have a secret weapon." She snapped her fingers and was joined by two cheerleaders. "We're gonna distract them with out booty-shaking dance moves. Uh-huh."

Starling stared and blushed at the display. His pants also felt uncomfortable. Clearly, these girls were no Amazons. "Do you know nothing of combat?! No Warrior is gonna be distracted by Chantal's booty!" The aforementioned cheerleader's cheeks turned red. "Lucky for you, my mom assigned the royal guards as my babysitters."

(!)

Flashback to Starling's childhood. A royal guard kneels in front of young Starling holding a stuffed toy. "You know you've done it right when you hear the neck snap." He twists the stuffed toy's head, causing its cotton stuffing to pop out. Young Starling delighted jumps up and down, clapping his hands. "Yaaay!"

(!)

Cut back to present day. Starling chuckled at the memory. But Brittney just pointed at him. "I know on planet 'Moo-ni' or wherever it is you're from, it may be okay to be stupid, but no pesky magical foreigner is gonna question my leadership! You are officially banned from the spirit committee!" She whipped her hair.

"Fine! Looks like it's all up to me," Starling said dramatically.

Britney said into the microphone as he walked out of the gym, "Okay, thanks for coming out! Come back never!"

(!)

Outside in the parking lot with Marcia, Fergie and Alicia...

"Okay," said Marcia. "If a Warrior tries to kidnap you, blow on this stranger danger whistle."

Fergie pushed it away saying, "This is ridiculous. I just wanted to dress up like a possum to pick up on men."

"Hey! This whistle's gonna save your life! Put it in your mouth! Do it!"

"No!"

"Blow it!"

"Never! You get it away from me!"

"Let me hear you blow!"

"Get that whistle away from me!"

Meanwhile, Starling was talking to a group of stray cats in a dumpster. "You guys ready to be part of my kitty cat offense?" Meow. "Ugh, fine. Then I guess we gotta do this the hard way. Kitty!" He jumped into the dumpster and the air was filled with the sounds of fighting.

(!)

That night, Fergie, still in her opossum costume was at Marcia's house with Alicia and Marcia...and she was not happy about it at all! "Why can't I go home?! Dude, it's Taco Wednesday. It's the day we eat all the leftovers from Taco Tuesday!"

"Because," Marcia explained as she looked around. "Your house would be the first place the Warriors would look when they try to kidnap you!"

"It kinda feels like ''you're'' trying to kidnap me."

Marcia growled at her, "I'd watch that talk if you ever want to see your parents again."

"Marcia!" Marcia heard her name being called outside. She opened the blinds to find Starling fighting with a little squirrel. "Hey, Marcia, do you have any highly flammable liquid?"

"I don't know. Check the garage."

"Cool, thanks!"

Marcia closed the blinds. "Alright—"

Fergie was not paying attention. "Man, I bet I could get a lot of action if I had a real prehensile tail."

Alicia nodded. "Oh, yeah."

"I'll be like, 'Hey, boys, you care for a drink?' Wha!" Unfortunately, instead of grabbing a nearby can of soda with the stuffed tail, Fergie caused the can to spill all over Marcia's brand new laptop, shortening it out. The three girls stood in shock and silence.

(!)

It was game time. And it was a full house. The girls were doing their butt shake cheer leading routine and Marcia was still being a bodyguard to the opossum mascot, who at this point, just wanted her to get away from her.

"It's almost game time, and thanks to me, no Warriors have even gotten close to you."

Suddenly, Starling, garb in Middle Ages armor and carrying a huge mace jumped out from behind the two girls and let out a war cry. "HAAAAAH! Who's ready for a bloody, bloody bloodbath? Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

To say Marcia was disturbed was an understatement. "What's with that crazy look in your eyes?"

"What do you mean?"

Marcia turned to Alicia. "Watch Ferguson. I need to talk to Prince Cuckoo Pants."

Two seconds after Marcia left, Fergie was grabbed and abducted by two Warriors. "Stranger danger! STRANGER DANGER!"

"Okay, Star, what are you up to," Marcia asked.

"Exactly what you said," Starling said with pride. "I booby-trapped the battlefield."

She what? "WHAT?!"

Marcia turned to look at the field...only now instead of a playing field it now was a battle field straight out of a World War 1 movie!. "STARLING... The Warriors weren't actually gonna kill our team! They were just gonna beat them in football! WHICH IS A GAME!"

Starling blinked. "Ohhhhh..." He just made a booboo.

The game started...and so did the carnage. The players on both sides of the field ended up tripping on tripwires and setting off land mines, sending them flying like rockets. Both the players and the fans screamed with terror. Starling was horrified. "Oh, no. Everything's going according to plan."

The referee blew his whistle again and tripped over a tripwire. The end zone lifted up like a trapdoor, and various cat creatures came out to attack the players.

Marcia deadpanned, "Let me guess, the kitty cat offense?"

Starling just chuckled nervously.

Suddenly, a giant squirrel attacked the Warriors. "We have to do something!"

"Marcia ran into the field, dodging the exploding land mines and slammed her foot on a giant squirrel's tail, stopping it in its tracks. She then karate kicked it in the face, making it fall flat on its back.

"Alright! Dude, you are awesome!"

Marcia blushed at the football player's words. "Uh, thanks, bro."

A magical bird swooped down and picked up one of the Warriors. A giant squirrel pounced on Marcia. Starling tried to rescue a Warrior from a vortex, but stopped when he saw his friend in danger. "Marcia!" And he abandoned the Warrior to his fate as he attempted to rescue her. Starling jumped into the air and pulled mace apart to reveal his magic scepter inside. "Mending Heart Hurricane!" The spell transformed a group of monsters into harmless squirrels. Meanwhile, the Spirit Committee ran across the field, with Brittney Wong shoving the others aside. "Out of my way! I am too pretty to die!" Suddenly, a giant snake popped out of the ground and swallowed her hole.

"Mending Heart Hurricane," Starling shouted, turning the giant snake back into hundreds of normal worms. Back on the ground, Brittney spat out snake saliva. While this was going on, Marcia saved some of the Warriors from the fire cats, but she was soon surrounded by fire cats and giant squirrels.

"Nuclear Heart Healing Hurricane!" Starling's spell dropped out of the sky and turned all of the monsters back to normal with a wide blast of magic.

(!)

Meanwhile, two of the Warriors continued carrying Fergie away. "Come on, fellas! Can't we discuss this man to possum?!" BOOM! The Warriors got blasted by Starling's land mines. Free, Fergie ran back to the field. What was left of it anyway. "Hey, Marcia, you were right! They were trying to kidnap me!"

Marcia was horrified. What was she doing here?! "Fergie, get off the field!

"What?! I can't hear you through all the explosions!" BOOM! Fergie stepped on a land mine, blowing her up.

"FERGIE!" Marcia ran over to the smoldering Fergie. "No, buddy! I'm sorry! I failed you! Forgive me!"

Suddenly, Fergie burst out giggling. "Dude! I was just playing possum!"

"Huh?!"

"It's what we do!"

Marcia hugged the opossum girl. "You're alive! This is why you only have two friends!"

When the carnage was over, Starling walked around the remains of the football field. It was destroyed and the players, fans and cheerleaders on both sides were hurt, and it was all his fault. All because he took Marcia's words too seriously. "I've really messed up."

Marcia took his hand. "You mean, we've really messed up. I should've been watching out for you."

This was too much for the Warriors. They dashed to their school bus and sped away. Suddenly, an Echo Creek football player realized, "Hey, they just forfeited. We win!"

The crowd came out of hiding and cheered. Some of them ran into the scorched playing field and lifted Marcia and Starling into the air. "Woo-hoo!" Starling completely forgot all about the sadness as he cheered. And yet... "Huh... Why do I have this weird feeling I'm forgetting something?" A giant magical bird swooped down and snatched Marco, who screamed. "That was it."