Lee regrets skipping the morning lesson to avoid Hawk because Aisha was texting her about Mr. Larusso yelling that someone messing up his dojo. Chris along with half the students left for Miyagi Do. Sensei puts them through the drills of hell to get someone to break but ends up leaving in the middle of it, so Kreese takes over. "Sensei Kreese is so badass, I can see where Sensei Lawrence got it from." Aisha was telling her about Kresse's training.

"I don't know, it sounds cruel. To keep attacking someone when they're defenseless. You guys are training for a sport, not war. Sensei was just saying about how you guys need to have honor." She moved towards the door, hoping the bell was her food.

"God, you sound like Miguel. He said the same thing." She laughed. "It's like Kreese said, he is training us for life. In life, you need to be a winner because there is no mercy for the losers."

"Such a load of bullsh..." Her words trailed off when she saw Hawk standing there. "I'll call you back, Aisha."

"What? No, you were going to tell me about Miguel and Tory's date." She gasps.

"Just ask Tory, you guys are friends now." She hangs up the phone. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to talk calmly, rationally." He spoke slowly.

"Did you trash Miyagi Do?" She put her phone in her back pocket.

"Yeah, so did Miguel, Tory, Aisha, and Red. We are all one." He put up one finger.

"Goodbye." She swings the door closed.

"Okay, it was me." He yelled. She opened the door. "I and a few other guys but I lead it."

"Why?" She narrowed her eyes.

"Because Kreese said I need to show them that they didn't win. It's not over until I say it is." He pushed his way into the house.

"I'm so tired of hearing that name." She mutters, closing the door. She turned around to see him looking around the room. "What are you doing?"

"Looking to see if anyone else is here." He shrugs.

"I want to look for something too." She grabs the chain she saw peeking out of his shirt. "What the fuck are you wearing it for?" She looks at the medal of honor with Miyagi Nariyoshi engraved in it.

"It is my medal of honor now." He smirks.

"You're disgusting." She threw it back into his chest.

"I'm supposed to think it's a coincidence that Moon breaks up with us the same day you try to ruin us." He was annoyed with her bold behavior.

"If I wanted to break up with you for Moon, I would have done it." She felt her phone ding.

"So you thought about it." He took it from her to see that it was Pizza Hut.

"You're not going to turn this on me. We are fighting because you hunted down Demetri." She went to the door when she heard it ring.

Hawk walks in front of her to pay and grab the pizza. "Why don't we talk while we eat my pizza?" He went into the living room. She mocked him as she followed him. She sat on the opposite side of the couch and stopped him when he went to move closer. "So what, you want to break up if I don't want to be friends with Demetri?"

"I think it sad, but if you don't want to be friends I can accept that. I can't accept you going out of your way to beat up a defenseless person, whether that be Demetri or someone else." Hawk got into a lot of fights but the other person was always willing. Demetri was the first person he force into a fight.

"Okay, I won't." He nods.

"What?" She was surprised that he was giving in so quickly.

After taking a big sigh he promised, "I won't start a fight with someone who is defenseless."

"How about not starting fights at all?" She crosses her arms.

He shot her a nasty glare. "I won't start a fight unless provoked."

"Define provoke." He did once get provoked by Red for scoffing at something he said.

"Lee." He hisses. "Don't act like I'm the only problem in this relationship."

"I'm sorry, how am I a problem?" She tilts her head.

"I accept you, flaws and all. You don't do the same." He was getting annoyed with her little-miss-perfect attitude.

"You're comparing my rambling to your temper." She rolled her eyes.

"How about you constantly comparing me to Miguel? You're always praising the guy." He mimicks her voice as he went on. "He deserves so much better than Sam. He needs to find another girl and then he'll realize she was terrible. Why don't you just admit that you want to be that girl." He let out all his jealousy for her close friendship with Miguel out. He knew nothing would come from it but he couldn't stop it from getting to him when she pointed out his flaws but made like their friend was perfection.

"You are not jealous of Miguel." She thought he was trying to manipulate her.

"If you don't want me to be a heartless asshole, then don't treat me like I am one. How am I supposed to feel when my girlfriend thinks the best I can do in All Valley is second place? What you didn't think I saw your text to him the night before the tournament calling him Champ?" He scoffs at her shocked face. "Do you know how I felt when Moon broke up with us?"

"You didn't care." She wonders what the point of the question was.

"Relieved. I was relieved. I kept asking for more time with just me and you. You kept bringing her around, making me feel like a third wheel. The way you cuddled, talked, and looked at her." He took a deep breath before asking. "Do you want to be with her? Are you only staying with me because of some childhood loyalty?"

"NO!" She was horrified by how blind she was by the Hawk mask he wore that she couldn't see that her Eli was still there. That he didn't feel safe enough to tell her about his insecurity. "I'm sorry, I've been a horrible girlfriend." She wrap her arms around his waist and buried her head into his chest. She felt like a bitch for starting a fight about his behavior to others when her actions were hurting him.

"It's not your fault. I can't expect you to read my mind." He rubs her back and rests his chin on her head. "I have to communicate better with you like I use to."

"You mean it." She looked up into those soft blue eyes that she hadn't seen in so long. There was no hard glint or wall up. It was the eyes of the friend she fell in love with.

"Of course, I would do anything to make this last." He kissed her, happy to not be pushed away this time.


Lee was passing out headbands at Coyote Creek. Cobra Kai had been split into two groups, one was wearing red the other black. "Gentlemen, Ladies, welcome to Coyote Creek." Kreese started when everyone was lined up with their headbands on. "You're been split into two teams. Red and black. The goal is to capture as many headbands as possible from the other side. Today, the people across from you are not your friends. They're not your brothers. They are the enemy. The last team standing wins." He plays with a red headband.

"How do we get the headband?" Miguel asks.

"By any means possible. No rules." Kreese answers.

Lee was taken aback that they were supposed to go all out on each other. Johnny sighed and corrected his Sensei. "Use your judgment. This is just a training exercise."

"Correct, but remember, this is your life." Kreese held up the headband. "You lose it, you die."

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Traffic on the 1-18 was a real bitch. Put Coyote Creek into the nav, nothing came up." Raymond walked over to them. He did a makeover on himself. He had on a red shirt, skinny jeans, sleeveless jean jacket with patches of stars and tigers on the shoulders, and a pair of ray bands. The most ridiculous thing was his braided beard that was dyed a gingery red that didn't match his brown hair.

"What have you done to yourself?" Johnny looked him up and down in disapproval.

"Ohh this…" He took off his glasses. "Yeah, you know what, I just decided to flip the script, Hawk-Style. Respect." He nods to the mohawk teen, who was giving him the same weirded-out look like everyone else. Lee scooted close to Johnny, not like how much this guy wanted to fit in with a group of teens. "Heretofore, you can refer to me as Stingray." He plays with his beard.

"Yeah, alright, Chubs. He's on your team." Jonny nods to Kreese.

"Terrific." He knew he couldn't argue since he was the one that said Raymond could stay since he was willing to pay double the price. "Everyone scatter." He yelled making the students run off in different directions. Johnny, Lee, and Kreese waited to see who would be the last to come back.


Miguel waited for Mitch to walk away before he confronted Hawk on seeing him pull out the Medal of Honor from underneath his shirt. "So, you're the one that trash Miyagi-Do." He couldn't believe how much Hawk was changing.

"They're the enemy. I had to put them in their place." He didn't see the point in denying what he already knew.

"So, that means you had to trash their dojo and steal the medal of honor?" Miguel thought it was a cowardly move. "Does Lee know what you did?"

"Not that it's any of your business, but yeah she does. She thinks it was a badass move." He lied, not wanting Miguel to think about getting involved in his relationship.

"That's the biggest load of crap you ever said." Miguel scoffs.

"Man, what do you care? Just because you have a thing for Sam, doesn't mean I have to go soft? Does Tory know about that?" He mocked him.

"I'm not soft and this isn't about her." He shook his head.

"Nah, sure it isn't." He reached into his shirt and pulled out the medal. "You want the medal so bad? Come and take it."

Miguel ran at him. They had an intense fight that made their spars at the dojo look like child's play. Miguel got Hawk onto the ground but he was caught by his arms. "Is that all you got?" Hawks smirk as he kicks him in the stomach making him fly into the tree.

Miguel was able to get to his feet before Hawk was able to land another kick on him. He picks Hawk up and slams him into the ground. He took the headband and the medal of honor off of him. "That's all I got." He stuck the medal into his pocket before anyone else could see it.


The group came back quicker than Lee thought they would. Aisha pouts as she walks over to sit on the log next to Tory and Lee. "Got you out too, huh?" Tory understood the feeling. She was hoping to win it all.

"Guess it's only Hawk and Miguel left." Aisha sighs. She was tired of being in third behind them. Now, sometimes she comes in fourth behind Tory.

"There is still Stingray." Lee pointed out that the overgrown man child wasn't there.

"He probably went home crying when he lost his headband." Aisha refuses to believe that he did better than her.

"Is that them?" Tory stood up when she heard a struggle going on. They followed the noise to see Miguel standing with a red headband in his hands and Hawk on the ground.

"Finish him." Kreese nods to Hawk.

"What?" Lee watched in horror as Miguel did a spinning kick to Hawk's face.

"Team Black." Miguel held the headband in the air. His team crowded around him, cheering.

Lee ran to Hawk. "Baby?"

"I'm good. I'm good." He pushed her hands away to stand up. She coos as she runs her hand over his bruised cheek. She let out a scream when something big came from the leaves and threw itself on Miguel.

"You know, the thing about stingrays is they lie and wait for the perfect opportunity to strike." He had Miguel in a chokehold as he took off his headband. "The red team just won." He screams, holding it in the air. The red team cheered as they gathered around him.

"Looks like you won," Lee smiled at Hawk.

"Doesn't feel that great." He was sore from his loss to Miguel.

"Hey, this is a team-building exercise, so be happy." She pushed the corners of his mouth up.

"She's right." Kreese put his hand on Hawk's arm. "It's not about you all the time, it's about Cobra Kai."

"Yeah," Hawk went over to congratulate the grown man he inspired.

"You know, I would have never allowed a girlfriend to hang around. I thought it would be too much of a distraction. But you get Cobra Kai, I think it's good if you stick around." He pats her back before going over to say a few words to the winning team.

"So many creepy old men." She shivers.

"You better not be talking about me," Johnny spoke from her blind spot, making her jump.

"I don't know Sensei, the way you nod your head at college girls is a little creepy." She teased before joining the group.

"What? I thought I looked hot when I did that." He rethought his pick-up game.