When Jeff pulled into the parking lot and got out of his car he stood staring in shock. Every surface, from the buildings to the ground, was covered in white sheets or plastic wrap. Starting to think that Annie might be right he walked into the main building, where an even odder site greeted him.
Inside every surface was also covered in either sheets or plastic wrap. But lining the walls were sheets with grass fields painted on them. There seemed to be a lot of green and brown around, with everything looking like some sort of lush field.
"Pelt!"
Jeff turned to see Garret sitting at a table, wearing what looked like a brown sheet tied on him like an animal skin pelt. He looked like an extra from The Flintstones.
"I'm sorry?"
"You have to put on a pelt before you go into the gymnasium!" Garret said as he indicated to a pile of brown sheets at his feet.
"I'm sure no one will mind if I keep wearing what I have on." Ignoring Garret's protests Jeff walked into the gym, where he was greeted with the strangest site so far today. The entire gym, in addition to every surface being completely covered, was made up to look like some sort of prehistoric jungle. The walls were covered with sheets with palm trees and (oddly) Christmas trees painted on them. Hanging from the ceiling were green ropes and giant paper mache pterodactyls. And the floor was covered in thin green streamers.
"Jeff, over here!" Jeff looked up and walked over to Abed and Troy, who were both dressed in sheet pelts and carrying clubs.
"Fred, Barney. I didn't even know they were giving out plastic clubs?"
Abed shook his head at Jeff. "Oh they didn't give these out. We already had these when we arrived at school."
"Of course you did. Where are the others?"
"Annie is around here somewhere. Pierce had another fight with his girlfriend and locked himself in one of the handicap stalls, so Britta and Shirley went to try and get the two of them to work it out."
Jeff shook his head at the turn in Pierce's life over the last month. He wasn't sure which was odder; that Pierce was actually involved with a woman his own age or that they fought, broke up, and made up (which Pierce described to them in graphic detail) as often as a high school couple did.
"Jeff!" Seeing the familiar vocal source Jeff made his way through the crowd over to Annie, who was also wearing one of the animal pelt sheets. She looked him up and down with a not so surprised look. "I see a time traveler has arrived in the Stone Age. Don't you ever get tired of always dressing like the cool guy?"
"This is less about being cool, and more about not looking like a moron. Seriously, have you seen yourself?"
To his surprise Annie grinned. "I don't know, I think these outfits have some advantage to them."
Just then Dean Pelton got up on a chair and blew into a microphone. Ignoring or not noticing the looks he got from his outfit (fuzzy brown short shorts and a fuzzy bikini top) he smiled at everyone. "Hello everyone, and welcome to our end of the year "Pre Dawn" mixer. After cramming your minds with ways to improve the future I felt it would be fun to step back into prehistoric times, where the biggest problem you had to worry about was being eaten by a dinosaur."
"Dinosaurs and people never lived together!" Starburns yelled out.
Deal Pelton stammered for a moment before recovering. "Yes well, today we're bringing back a old favorite. We'll be starting the day's activities with a game of paintball."
"SHIT!" They all looked to the back as the janitor kicked a garbage can in frustration and stormed out of the gym. Dean Pelton tried to play it off like it was all an act as he pulled the sheets off the tables in front of him to reveal the paintball guns.
"Well, don't worry everyone. This year I've taken precautions. As you can see every surface had been covered in protective covering. Once we're done we'll just remove it and Greendale will be clean and safe. Now, I've thought long and hard about what the prize should be this year. And I've thought about what everyone here would aspire to be, me. So if you win this year you will be dean of Greendale for a day."
Groans were heard throughout the crowd with someone yelling out. "So if we win we just play dean to this school?"
"Oh, it's not play. I wanted it to be authentic so I had the school board draw up a contract stating that any decisions and policies that are enacted by the student being dean will be official and permanent. You'll have as much power and authority as I do. For a day of course."
The crowd suddenly quieted down as what was said sunk into their heads. "So anything that the dean could do, like deciding if someone could graduate early, was possible?" Someone called out.
"Yes, if you wanted to graduate early that would be poss…" Dean Pelton's face fell when he saw the hungry looks on everyone's face. "Wait, what I meant was-." He screamed as the crowd made a mad dash for the guns and paintball pellets.
"All right!" Jeff looked at Annie as she threw off her animal pelt sheet, revealing several guns and paintball pellets already strapped to her. She handed a gun to Jeff with the determined look of a soldier. "Let's to this."
To be continued.