What does winning Sectionals meant to you? Getting ready for Regionals.
Work had to be done. Only thing wrong was… the football championships were coming up. Fast. It was the Super Bowl of high school.
"Okay guys…" Mr Schue did his usual routine. Walking in, all chirpy while the class acted bored. The only thing that was odd was the fact that the footballers, Liam, Lachlan, Nick and Jeffrey were all pumped up.
"Mr. Schue, can we do any songs to do with playing football?" Jeffrey asked.
"Sorry, but we'll focus on winning REGIONALS"
Everybody yawned
"But we're going to the football championships soon"
"No."
Everybody yawned again. It was boring. Maybe the guys should just leave New Directions in the dust. But unlike their predecessors, they knew what they were doing was right. They didn't care about popularity.
Buffy was absent. Sam was also absent.
"Where are Buffy and Sam?" asked Charlie
"Well, Buffy won't be here for the next three weeks, due to a holiday in Australia, but I don't know where Sam is…"
A blonde girl, about college years, entered.
"Sam's dead" she announced. It was Quinn Fabray, the girl Damien kindly interrogated
"How?" Lily asked, interrogating the blonde
"He committed suicide"
Everybody's heart sank. Even Damien's.
"That's… sad" Jeffrey almost shed a tear.
Liam and Nick already went in a breakdown.
Bieste and Schuester were talking in Figgins's office
"Great news! The glee club and the football team will have another coalition, with the success from two years ago" announced the Indian principal
"Great!" Mr Schue chirped.
"We can't do zombies again, though" Bieste worried
"Yeah we can" Mr Schue told the football coach.
"Yeah, but we need something new. Like… robots or something"
"What about warriors?"
"It will take a lot of work"
"Deal"
Bieste was explaining about the performance with her football team
"Really?" asked Daniel "Stock" Bebbington, a player.
"Yes really. We need to prove that we are a team. If the previous team can do it, why can't we?" Lachlan told Stock
"We're not laughing stocks" added Brandon "Lockdown" Herzegovina, a meathead football player
"But we need to prove the school wrong"
"Cut the fat, bitch. We ain't hipster nerds" added Steve "Locomotion" Phelps.
"Locomotion's right. We ain't doing this" agreed Ryan "Moses" Lord
"Come on guys, where's your courage?" asked Bieste
"In the laundry" joked Moses
Liam and Nick rolled their eyes. Locomotion, Stock and Lockdown laughed
"Guys, Coach Bieste and the football team are joining us for the week" Mr Schue explained
"Why?" Kimmy asked
"Because, we have a project"
"What project?"
"Warrior camp"
"Warrior camp?"
"But that's not it. Ex-member, Quinn Fabray, will join us"
The blonde from earlier came in.
"She is so hot!" Jeffrey whispered to Lachlan
"It's a pleasure to be back, Mr Schue!" Quinn chirped.
"Please, now that you're grown and in college, you can call me Will"
"Okay, Will"
Quinn was pleased to be back in what was her old choir room. It was a memory. A memory that she could share.
Football Fever had affected McKinley. Big time.
It was Day 1 of Warrior Camp. The football players had a bored expression on their faces.
"Why are we doing this?" asked Lockdown
"Get back to work" Bieste fired
"Okay guys, let's get Lachlan to show you how it's done" Mr Schue told the players, who were not interested in coming.
Lachlan got up in front of the coalition, and sung Poison by Alice Cooper. Everybody, minus the players clapped.
"Our song is They Don't Care Abut Us by Michael Jackson"
"But Mr Schue, the Cheerios have Regionals that day"
"Looks like you'll need a quick change over"
The girls in the squad sighed of relief. Except Buffy, who was absent.
The footballers were learning steps from Mr Schue. Bieste was clapping. It seemed like everyone was enjoying it.
"When do we get the makeup?" asked Lockdown
"Day 2"
It seemed like Day 1 was success. Maybe first impressions don't count.
The football players left. Sue Sylvester watched with rage. Her cheerios will never do this crap.
Sue called in her minions, Darcy and Ginny to her office
"Well, ladies. Some of our beloved cheerios are doing that warrior crap with the glee club"
"Why would anyone, and I mean anyone, join that crap" asked Darcy, jokingly
"Exactly" Ginny preached
"Well, ladies, it's because they are mediocre. Nobody but the mediocres and the terribles join glee club. Thank god that you didn't join"
"Well, Mary is trying to join, to be closer to her girlfriend, Charlene" Ginny dobbed in
"Charlene who?" Sue asked
"Charlene Catherine Efron" Darcy told her coach.
"Not her full name" Sue snapped
"Then just Charlene Efron" Darcy answered back
"Charlie for short" Ginny added
"Over my dead body will that happen. Darcy, Ginny, you must do a bad deed. Tell the girls already in geek club that they have to choose"
The blonde and the redhead giggled. Not everyday were they asked to do this by Coach Sylvester
Ginny and Darcy approached Kimmy later that day.
"Meet Coach Sylvester in her office. Don't forget to bring Marley and Lily" Ginny told her
"Why?"
"Because, she'll give you three a resignation letter. You have 3 days to choose if you wanna stay or go"
"I don't wanna leave the Cheerios"
"Ginny forgot to tell you that it's not for cheerios. It's for glee club, you daft dimbo" Darcy told added
"But…"
"Make a choice. Cheerios or geek club" Ginny snapped
"But…"
"Sweetie. It's not that hard to choose between glee club and Cheerios. Make a goddamn choice, you idiot" Darcy also snapped
Kimmy sighed.
In Sue Sylvester's office, Kimmy, Lily and Marley were given two resignation letters. Sign this and give it to Schuester"
"This isn't fair"
"You think's that's not fair? Well, my Cheerios lost to the Bush High Devils in the 2011 Regionals competition. That wasn't fair"
Kimmy and Marley sighed. They wished they were Buffy. She was absent.
Kimmy, Lily and Marley were chatting.
"What are you choosing?" Kimmy asked
"Choose glee club" Lachlan told them
"Since when did we invite you?" Marley snapped
"We need you guys. But I'm not going to force you. There are only three of you"
"Thanks. We'll take that into consideration" Lily thanked.
They put some more thought into it.
It was Day 2 of Warrior Camp. They were wearing makeup. They were doing weak warrior moves.
"Come on guys, put some life into it" Mr Schue told them
"But we're warriors!" Lockdown told him.
"Just be more… stronger"
They were trying harder.
"That's more like it"
Stock was putting effort into it. So was Moses.
In the bathroom, Lily, Kimmy and Marley were chatting away about their chooses
"I'm torn" Kimmy said
"Choose what you want" Lily told her
"Preach" Marley agreed
"But I love them both"
"Whatever. Sam's dead. I'm doing what's called moving on"
Marley giggled at what Lily said. Kimmy just rolled her eyes. They removed their warrior makeup.
Moses was flirting with Nikki
"Hey babe"
"Hey"
Nikki was turned on. Sure, he wasn't Finn, but he sure wasn't Lachlan. Or worse, Lockdown.
They stared into each other's eyes. Love.
"Are you coming to the game?" he asked.
"Yes" she answered
They giggled and looked at each other some more. Lachlan stood there, watching. Lachlan was quarterback. Moses was only a sophomore. This was not how Lachlan wanted to spend his senior year. It wasn't even close to his plan.
Lily, Kimmy and Marley turned in their letters of resignation to Mr Schue.
"You can't do this" he said
"Cheerios is important to us" Lily snapped
"I wanna make Darcy and Ginny happy" Marley told the curly-haired teacher
"I'm sorry Mr Schue" Kimmy apologized
Sue spied on them. She smirked. She had won.
Marley sat and ate lunch with Darcy and Ginny. She knew that Cheerios was what she would do to win their respect
"So… Marley, you excited for Regionals?" Ginny asked cheerfully
"Yeah" she said, kind of bored
"Come on, you can do better than that" snapped Darcy
"It's just that… I'll miss the rest of Warrior Camp"
"Come on… we have Regionals! That's better than Warrior Camp!"
"But I wanna see how it ends"
"Is that why you read books? Just to see how it ends?"
Meanwhile, Lily was quite happy about quitting. She was giggling with Marissa, Lindsay and Mary beside her. Mary was looking kind of lonely without Buffy, but she was happy nonetheless.
Kimmy was sad.
"What's wrong?" asked Mary, who was next to her
"I just miss Glee"
"I know how you feel. I miss Buffy"
"How's things with Charlie?"
"Horrible. She talks non-stop. I don't date people who don't shut up. I do the talking, not them"
"Understandable. Why don't you just break up with her?"
"Because. Buffy's not ready to coem out yet"
"She's… gay?"
"Whoops! Did I just say that out loud?"
"I think you did" Marissa interrupted
"Did Buffy just get outed?" Ginny asked, with a gossip-y tone of voice.
"I think she did" Darcy told her ginger best friend
Lachlan stood, with a "This is how God repays me?" look on his face. He cared about glee club. He cared about it more than his life.
"No me gusta" he whispered to Jeffrey, using Buffy's catchphrase
The football players were approached by the volleyball team.
"Get ready" Hannah said, with a "start the countown" tone of voice
All the football players, with the exception of Lachlan and Moses got slushied (Lachlan and Moses dodged the cups).
"What was that for?" Moses asked angrily
"For joining glee club" Hannah explained
"We didn't exactly join, you freak" Lockdown corrected angrily.
"Freak? Sad excuse" Alex laughed
Locomotion got angry
"You're sad excuses for a volleyball team"
The volleyball team laughed at him and walked off. Some of them were pretty nice kids in middle school. That was, until Bullroar trained them to be the worst kids of the bunch.
The football players, minus Jeffrey, Liam, Nick and Lachlan went up to Mr Schue
"What is it, guys?" the teacher asked
"We quit" Locomotion answered
"Why?"
"Because, those volleyball guys are gonna ram at us" Moses told Mr Schue.
"I thought you guys gained courage from Warrior Camp"
"We did too. Sorry about that, Mr Schue" Stock apologized.
The boys walked away. They left, with Moses singing a rendition of Electric Blue by the Cranberries.
"Come on guys" Moses said, rounding up the boys.
"Will you still play the game?" Mr Schue asked
"Yes"
It was Regionals for the cheerleaders. The girls lined up for the bus. Lachlan stopped Kimmy, Lily and Marley from doing so.
"Guys! Aren't you going to do glee anymore?"
"Why would we? It's lame" Lily snapped
"But guys, who did you sign up for? Us!"
"Come on guys" Ginny snapped
"No. I won't Ginevra. I'm going with Lachlan" Kimmy said. Lachlan smiled
But Lily and Marley didn't join them. They hopped on the bus and left glee for good.
They got to the game on time.
"Hey guys" Kimmy said with a smile
"You're back!" Will cheered. He and Kimmy hugged
The game started. The McKinley Titans were losing.
"Come on guys!" Bieste roared
The guys still were failing. All but Moses and Lachlan.
That was, until Lachlan got tackled.
Bieste got in a rage.
"Why don't you call your mommy" insulted a guy from the other team, who was directing the insult at Locomotion
"I don't have a mommy. She died of cancer you numpty" Locomotion roared
"Oh really? Where's your daddy? Pigfarts?"
"You're messing with the wrong person, bitch"
The rival player chuckled.
Locomotion got angry
"Let me handle this, Locomotion" Moses warned
"No, Moses. I'm strong"
"But I can handle this"
"Fine"
"Back off. You heard me? Back off, slut"
Lachlan stole the ball from the rival player and made a mark. The crowd cheered.
It was the halftime show. The campers at Warrior Camp, minus the players, got ready.
"Wait, Mr Schue, we'd like to join in just for this number. We had an epiphany" said Moses, backed up by the other players. Locomotion nodded in agreement. As did Lockdown and Stock.
"Let's do this" Will cheered
They smeered on their makeup and got ready to perform. Only Liam had a broken leg and Nick had a fractured nose.
They did a performance, but when it came to Lachlan's solo, he froze.
"Sing" Lockdown whispered
Lachlan got kind of shaky
"Sing!" Lockdown did again, only a tad annoyed
Lachlan still was shaky
"SING!" Lockdown got angry. Lachlan ran off the field. Kimmy joined him.
"Come on Lachlan, you can do this" she encouraged him
"I'm a coward!" he said, feeling worthless
"How very untrue" she told him
"I can't even encourage two cheerleaders to join us at the game"
"Now, you encourage me to join you guys"
"I'm sorry Kimmy, I have to leave" he said in tears, ruining his makeup.
The performance didn't go as planned. The crowd left and booed.
Moses, Nikki and Stock were pissed at Lachlan for stuffing this up.
Meanwhile, the Cheerios weren't doing any better.
Mary froze.
"Keep going" Darcy snapped
Mary couldn't handle the pressure.
"Don't just stand there! You're ruining the moment!" Ginny snapped
Mary was sweating and shaking.
"What are you waiting for?" Lily snapped, joing Ginny and Darcy
The judges removed points from the Cheerio's performance. It ended up in awkward silence.
Mary ran off crying.
"Bitch" Lily mumbled
Ginny and Darcy nodded.
Marley was shocked. She ran off to comfort Mary.
"What's wrong?"
"It's Buffy"
"What?"
"I can't handle being without her. Whenever I'm with Charlie I see her"
"Is that all?"
"I have to go"
Mary cried harder. Marley didn't want to dissapoint her new friends, so she went back inside.
The football team lost the game and the Cheerios lost to the Pythons.
Lachlan was approached by Nikki.
"You barstard!" she snapped
"What did I do?"
"You left the freaking game"
"I got game fright"
When Lachlan was expecting the least, Nikki gave him a big whack. On purpose. She approached Moses. They had a little chit-chat and BANG! They had one, long kiss.