The auditions are starting. Aubrey gives Bumper, Captain of the Treblemakers, a bit of a smack down when he gives her a hard time about how the Bellas "blew chunks, literally" at last year's ICCAs.
Chloe pats her arm as she sits down and the first person is ready to audition.
"Start whenever you want, dude," Donald, one of the Treblemakers says.
"Hi, my name is Cynthia-Rose," the girl says.
"Not a dude," Donald says. "It's not a dude."
The last candidate finishes their audition and everyone starts getting ready to go.
"Wait," Aubrey says seeing Beca just offstage. She waves her over. Chloe knows Beca can sing but is a little put out that she couldn't even make it to the audition on time. She frowns at Beca as she makes her way over to them.
"I didn't know we had to prepare that song," Beca tells them.
"It's okay," Aubrey says. "Sing anything you want."
Beca points to the plastic cup holding some pens that is in front of Chloe and says, "May I?"
Aubrey smiles and says "Go ahead."
Beca dumps the pens onto the table, sits cross-legged on the stage, and places the cup upside down on the floor. She starts clapping a beat and tapping the cup and putting it back down. She sings and ends with placing the cup on the stage on the last beat.
Aubrey smiles at her and nods her head. Chloe looks at her unimpressed. Beca gets up off the stage and tells them she'll see them at home.
Later that night, Beca is sitting in her room when Aubrey comes in.
"Come on," Aubrey says. "You're a Bella and tonight is aca-iniation night."
Beca grabs her jacket and follows Aubrey out to her car. They arrive at the Auditorium and Aubrey tells Bec she needs to put a bag over her head. Beca lets her and Aubrey leads her inside.
The bag is removed and she sees Aubrey and Chloe, plus 9 other girls in the room. Aubrey tells them they must drink the blood of their sisters before them. Chloe holds the goblet out to Beca. Beca looks at Aubrey, then Chloe and then at the goblet.
"Dude, no," Beca whispers.
"It's only wine," Chloe hisses at her. "Just drink it."
Each girl takes a sip and then Chloe passes out a blue and yellow scarf to each girl. Aubrey tells them to place the scarf in their right hand and repeat after her. They each repeat the oath that has something about the Treblemakers and wolves ripping out vocal chords.
"Congratulations, ladies," Aubrey says. "You are now a Barden Bella. Time for the Aca-Initiation Party. Follow me."
The girls all follow Aubrey and Chloe to the outside amphitheater. Beca is standing next to Fat Amy.
"I don't know what I'm doing here," Beca says.
"Living the dream," Amy says. "I can't believe they let my sexy fat ass in."
Amy leaves Beca standing alone. Chloe comes up to her and faces her.
"I don't know what you've done to Aubrey," Chloe says. "But, I'm watching you."
"I haven't done anything to Aubrey," Beca tells her.
"She acts differently when she's around you," Chloe tells her. "She loses focus and she cusses way too much. She is not the Aubrey Posen who has been my best friend for almost 4 years."
"No, she isn't," Beca says. "She's the Aubrey Posen who has been my best friend for almost 16 years."
Chloe just glares at her. "I'm watching you," Chloe says. "One wrong move and I'll make sure you're out of the Bellas."
With that Chloe turns and walks away. Aubrey rushes to Beca's side and hugs her.
"I can't believe you're a Bella," Aubrey says. "We are seriously going to kick some a capella ass together!"
Beca doesn't say anything when she sees Chloe glaring at her over her drink. "What the hell did I do now?," Beca asks herself.
The first Bellas rehearsal is the next morning and Aubrey barges into Beca's room.
"Get your ass up alt-girl," Aubrey yells jumping on the bed. "Bellas rehearsal starts in 1 hour and you'd better not be late. Chloe and I are leaving now to get everything set up."
Beca just looks at Aubrey.
"Am I going to have to drag your ass out of that bed?," Aubrey says reaching for the blanket covering Beca.
"I'm up, I'm up," Beca says jumping out of bed.
"Good," Aubrey says. "See you later, Becs."
Aubrey leaves and Beca gathers her clothes for the day. She arrives at the Auditorium with 10 minutes to spare and goes to talk to Fat Amy.
"Hey, short stuff," Amy says.
"I am like only an inch shorter than you," Beca says.
"Tut, tut," Amy says with a wave of her hand. Beca stands there while Amy continues her story about wrestling a croc and a dingo simultaneously. She has them all laughing at her antics.
The rest of the girls arrive and Aubrey claps her hands to get their attention.
"Okay, girls," Aubrey says. "Please be seated. Altos in the back, sopranos in the front.
Chloe starts handing each girl a printout.
"This is a list of all the songs the Bellas have ever done," Aubrey tells them.
"There's nothing from this century on here," Beca says flipping through the pages.
"That's because we don't stray from tradition, Beca," Chloe says dismissively.
Beca smirks and looks at Aubrey who just shrugs her shoulders.
"As you can see, Kori and Mary Elise, are missing," Aubrey says. "They were both Treble-boned last night and have been disinvited from the Bellas."
They hear a quiet cough*Sluts*cough from Amy.
"Brey?," Beca said. "You mean that oath was serious?"
"Dixie Chicks serious, Beca," Aubrey says. "You can fool around with whoever you want to, just not a Treble."
"That's not going to easy, he's a hunter," she says and points to her crotch.
"You call it a dude?," Beca asks with a laugh.
"Stacie," Aubrey says. "The Trebles don't respect us. And if we let them penetrate us, we are giving the all our power."
"Um, not a good enough reason to use the word 'penetrate'," Fat Amy says.
"Okay, girls," Aubrey says. "We will practice every day for at least 2 hours. I know you've all heard about what happened at the ICCAs last year, but we will make it there again with hard work and determination."
"Wait," Stacie says. "I don't know what happened last year."
"There's a video," Ashley tells her.
Lily pulls out her iPad and they all watch the video where Aubrey vomits during her solo. Beca gives her friend a sympathetic smile.
"Okay, that's enough of that," Aubrey says. "It happened. It's history. Moving on."
The girls are put through their paces, first with vocal lessons. They weren't singing just making music with their mouths. Chloe then showed them some choreography and had them each do the steps. Beca was having some trouble so Chloe grabbed her wrists and showed her how to do the moves.
"I got it," Beca said and Chloe left her alone.
Chloe is doing her solo and the girls are trying to do the choreography when Aubrey decides to call it a day. The girls all start gathering their things and leaving.
Beca walks over to Aubrey.
"Hey, Brey," she says. "Did we just learn the same choreography from the video."
"What's wrong with that choreography?," Chloe asks. "I helped come up with that routine last year."
"Don't you think it's a little outdated?," Beca asks.
"The choreography is fine, Becs," Aubrey says. "You'll see. We'll get it together and we will make it to the ICCA Finals with the 3 kickass songs and choreography that got us there last year."
Chloe stands by with a smug smile. This is the Aubrey she was used to. Controlled and not taking anything off anybody.
Beca just nods and turns to leave.
"Beca, a word," Chloe says. Both Aubrey and Beca look at Chloe.
"What's up?," Beca asks walking closer to Chloe.
"You will have to remove those ear monstrosities when we perform," Chloe tells her.
"You don't like me very much, do you?," Beca asks.
"I don't like your attitude," Chloe says. "And I don't like how Aubrey acts around you."
"Whoa, Chlo," Aubrey cuts in. "That's a bit harsh. Beca and I have known each other most of our lives. Of course, I'm going to act differently around her."
"It's okay, Brey," Beca says.
"You are also constantly usurping Aubrey's authority by questioning everything we do," Chloe says not the least bit bothered by Aubrey's admonishment. "It's distracting."
Beca looks at Aubrey. Aubrey stands there shocked.
"I think I'm just going to go now," Beca says. She gathers her stuff. She gives Aubrey a small wave.
"See you at home, Brey," Beca says and leaves.
Aubrey watches Beca leave.
"What the hell, Chloe?," Aubrey says. "That was unnecessary. Beca is my best friend and you had no right calling her out like that."
"I'm Co-Captain," Chloe says. "If I see something, or someone, causing anyone to lose focus, I have every right to call them out on it."
She grabs her stuff and rushes out of the Auditorium. Aubrey collects herself and leaves as well.
Things are bit tense around the house for the next couple of weeks. Aubrey knocks on Beca's door one night.
"Hey, Becs," Aubrey says. "I just wanted to ask if it was okay to have the Bellas over on Friday night after the riff-off."
"Sure, a party sounds good," Beca says. "And what the fuck is a riff-off?"
Friday night comes and the riff-off has just begun. Beca watches with amusement as Aubrey jumps in and starts singing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" including punching motions. As Aubrey makes her way back with the girls Beca stops her.
"So we can pick any song we want?," Beca asks her.
"Yep," Aubrey says. "As long as you match the word and stick to the category."
"Cool," Beca says.
She watches as CR grinds on Stacie as they sing S&M. This riff-off continues until it's just the Bellas and the Treblemakers.
Jesse, who she works with at the radio station, jumps in with Feels Like the First Time. A song comes to her and she jumps in with No Diggity. She notices Chloe's look of shock as she starts rapping. It takes the girls a bit before they join in and pretty soon everyone has joined. Beca finishes the song and the crowd starts cheering.
They are "cut off" because Beca didn't match the right word. Aubrey was pissed and Beca and CR had to hold her back from physically attacking the emcee.
They managed to calm Aubrey down and gather the girls. They all headed to the parking lot and the girls piled into cars driven by Chloe, Aubrey, and Beca.
The party is going strong and everyone is still a bit pissed that they lost. But, they were also complimenting Beca on her rap skills. Fat Amy had made her 'surprise' punch and it was't long before most of the Bellas were drunk.
Chloe goes up to Beca and pulls her close.
"That rap was really, really hot," she says. She and puts her arm around Beca's shoulders and pulls her even closer.
"You are really, really drunk," Beca tells her with a laugh.
"Time for some drinking games," Fat Amy yells over the music.
"Oh, no," Beca says with a groan.
All the girls cheer and someone turns down the music. They all gather around Amy who is pouring shots.
"We are going to play 'Never Have I Ever'," she tells them. "The rules are simple. You say "Never Have I Ever" and then tell something you haven't done. Everyone else who has done it, takes a shot. Got it?"
Everyone hollers out "Yeah."
"I'll go first," Amy says. "Never Have I Ever. . .had sex with a girl."
Not surprisingly, Beca, CR, Stacie, and Chloe do a shot. What does surprises most of them is Aubrey downing a shot as well.
"Captain?," Amy says. "You and the ginger do a little lady loving?"
"It wasn't Chloe," Aubrey says. "It was Beca."