They kicked her off the squad, so she built an empire to crush them at finals!
Mocked by the mean girls who slapped her down and tore her uniform, she vows to fight back with an elite crew. In RISE OF THE CHEER UNDERDOG, a hidden prodigy finds a secret mentor who gives her a black card to finance the ultimate comeback.
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Mocked by the mean girls who slapped her down and tore her uniform, she vows to fight back with an elite crew. In RISE OF THE CHEER UNDERDOG, a hidden prodigy finds a secret mentor who gives her a black card to finance the ultimate comeback.
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00:13Elwin you're ruining my line again. I'm on my mark. Your mark? Sweetie with your body
00:19you look like an accident anywhere you stand.
00:28See that? Because she didn't hold steady. I held it. Just because it feels steady doesn't
00:33mean it looks good on camera. Nationals isn't a charity show.
00:40Keep going. One more. Come on, show us a heavyweight miracle. Let's go.
00:53I'm not here to be liked. Impressive. Too bad the floor doesn't need surprises. It needs
01:01perfection. Starting tomorrow, we change formations. She can't keep going like this.
01:08I didn't hurt her.
01:11Stop! Stop! Stop!
01:17What the hell were you doing?
01:19Not me. The count I got was different from what we rehearsed.
01:23So now you're blaming everyone else?
01:25I told you she shouldn't be in stunt group. She's always half a beat behind.
01:28Yeah, she's half a beat behind.
01:30Serafina, you changed the- I've been trying to help you fit in and you keep- keep putting
01:35all of us at risk. She changed the count. She did it on purpose.
01:39Are you saying I would intentionally hurt my own teammate? Enough.
01:46Coach, I didn't- You're off practice starting now.
01:49What? Nationals is around the corner. I can't risk the whole team.
01:53I didn't hurt her. Then why does every disaster somehow involve you?
02:00Felix, you saw it, right? She changed the count.
02:04I- I didn't notice.
02:07Leave the team for now. We'll wait for the school review.
02:12Sometimes walking away is the best way to love the team.
02:29There. That's her.
02:29Oh my god, she actually showed up.
02:35You need to tell them the truth.
02:37Eileen, calm down.
02:38I am calm. You were there. You know Serafina changed the count.
02:42This isn't the place.
02:43Then where is? After the whole campus calls me a monster?
02:45This is already blown up enough.
02:47So you're leaving me to take all of it alone?
02:49I can't let this ruin me too.
02:51Ruin you?
02:52We both know being tied to you right now isn't exactly good.
02:56So you're breaking up with me?
02:58Maybe we both need to move on.
03:01You're not moving on, Felix. You're running.
03:11Done crying?
03:13If you were as useless as they say, I wouldn't be here.
03:17Who are you?
03:19A woman who can help you win it all back.
03:25Ladies, this is the girl I told you about.
03:28Maren Vale, why are you here for me?
03:31Because when you got dumped in that cafeteria, you didn't look broken.
03:34You looked like you wanted to burn the place down.
03:36I'm not as strong as you think.
03:37Of course you're not.
03:38Right now, you're still begging them to forgive you and admit you were right.
03:42I just want the truth out.
03:44Truth? In places like this, only winners get to tell the truth.
03:47Then what do you want from me?
03:48Join my team.
03:49What team?
03:50A team of girls who got cut, mocked, and thrown away.
03:52No sponsors, no official gym, no one speaking for them.
03:56But they have one thing.
03:57What?
03:58Hunger.
03:58You want me to take on the varsity team with a bunch of rejects?
04:01I want you to go to nationals and crush them in front of everyone.
04:04I've been kicked out.
04:05The school will never let me near competition again.
04:07You still don't get it.
04:08Competition didn't abandon you.
04:09You were finally forced to stop depending on everyone else.
04:12Tonight, eight o'clock.
04:14Your choice.
04:20Ladies, this is the girl I told you about.
04:24Her?
04:24Yes, her.
04:28If you want to win nationals, you start learning to fight beside her tonight.
04:41Starting today, you're a team.
04:43A girl who just got dragged across campus is supposed to lead us.
04:47Keep going, Sylvia.
04:48I saw your video.
04:50Nice tumbling.
04:51But competition takes more than one girl who can flip.
04:54Nobody here needs another rejected joke.
04:56Funny.
04:56I'm not here to coddle you either.
04:58Then what are you here for?
04:59To win.
04:59Do you know why we're all here?
05:01Because the main teams didn't want us.
05:02Too injured.
05:03Too bulky.
05:03Not pretty enough.
05:04Too hard to control.
05:05You're not our savior.
05:06You just got tossed out too.
05:06I never said I was here to save anyone.
05:08But if you want to keep being whatever people leave behind, you can walk out now.
05:11You talk big.
05:13Enough talking.
05:14Show me skill.
05:15L-O-1.
05:16Floor.
05:17Right now.
05:25I don't need you to like me.
05:26But if we're getting to nationals, you better get used to me.
05:29Fine.
05:29Then don't just shine alone.
05:31From today on, Elwen leads.
05:32Why?
05:33She just got here.
05:34Because she still has fire.
05:35Most of you have learned how to survive without embarrassing yourselves.
05:38She hasn't.
05:39She still wants to rip the ceiling off.
05:40Don't make me regret staying.
05:42Official training starts tomorrow.
05:44And pick a name for this team.
05:46They call us rejects.
05:47Then let's make them remember who rises out of what they threw away.
05:52Good.
05:53Someone's outside taking pictures.
05:55Before training tomorrow, no stunts.
05:57We start by saying the one thing each of us most wants to hide.
06:03Again.
06:04Are you not hearing us?
06:06Or are you pretending?
06:07This isn't working.
06:08Right now, you're acting like a copy-pate version of Serafina.
06:11I'm nothing like her.
06:13The way you command people, you are.
06:21What's wrong with your knee?
06:23Nothing.
06:24You're shaking.
06:25I said I'm fine.
06:28If she wants to say it, she'll say it.
06:34The forum's already talking about us.
06:39Don't.
06:39But they're already watching us.
06:41Welcome to our world.
06:46That's enough for today.
06:48We didn't even finish two clean sets.
06:50Because what you want are obedient performers, not girls willing to bet everything with you.
06:53Then what am I supposed to do?
06:54First, shut up.
06:55Learn why they hurt.
06:57Before training tomorrow, no stunts.
06:59We start by saying the one thing each of us most wants to hide.
07:01Are you insane?
07:01I'll be here tomorrow, but if you turn this place into another varsity squad, I'm the first one out.
07:09I'll go first.
07:10Before every performance, I used to think one thing first.
07:12Not how to do better.
07:13It was how to make myself look less offensive.
07:14I thought if I worked hard enough, someday they'd stop seeing my size.
07:16Then I realized they never would.
07:18They made me a base not because they trusted me.
07:19It was because they thought I didn't look like someone worth flying.
07:21I got cut because doctors said I shouldn't keep going, but nobody asked whether I wanted to stop.
07:25When they humiliated people, I said nothing because I was afraid I'd be next.
07:29I didn't get kicked out because I was bad.
07:31It was because I refused to smile and pretend everything was fine.
07:33We can't perform like them.
07:35What do you mean?
07:35They chased lightness, symmetry, polish like they were copied and pasted, but were different.
07:39Your strength shouldn't only be used to lift others.
07:42Your explosiveness should break rhythm, not disappear inside a fixed smile.
07:45My tumbling shouldn't prove I'm not a plus-sized girl.
07:47It should prove a plus-sized girl can hit the floor like a cannon.
07:49You want to throw street dance rhythm into cheer structure?
07:51And power tumbling.
07:52And pauses.
07:53Not every count has to smile.
07:55We make the audience feel they're not watching a team that was accepted.
07:57They're watching rejection turned into a weapon.
07:59That's insane.
08:00And explosive.
08:01If we cut the rhythm like that, it'll ease my landing pressure.
08:03Wait, this offbeat into a power lift?
08:05Serafina would hate this.
08:06Why?
08:06Because what she fears most is people seeing there's more than one kind of beauty on stair.
08:11Keep going.
08:14If they see this, they'll never leave us alone.
08:17Then let them come.
08:25Look, the rejects actually showed up.
08:28Don't waste energy on trash.
08:30Isn't that the accident queen from the scandal?
08:34I heard you put together a team.
08:36I thought it was just an online joke.
08:37Are you here to watch the competition or to see what losing to us looks like?
08:41You still dream big.
08:42But don't worry, I already came up with a name for you.
08:45The Fat Circus.
08:46When the music starts, try not to blink.
08:49Trust me, I never blink when I'm watching a train wreck.
08:53Introducing first, the West Side High Wildcats.
09:07Who are these girls?
09:09They're insane.
09:14We really blew that up.
09:17I saw those girls in the front row go pale.
09:20Not bad.
09:22Where are your entry documents?
09:30Without full documentation, your score may be void.
09:35Did you already know this was never just a competition?
09:38This isn't an accident.
09:39Obviously not.
09:40Someone set us up.
09:42If the score gets voided, we lose everything after this.
09:46You watched us compete.
09:47You checked us in.
09:48And now you're telling me we were never properly entered?
09:51Without complete documents, our hands are tied.
09:53He's not the problem.
09:54Then who is?
09:55I've seen this before.
09:56There was a former alternate on Varsity who outperformed a starter in a trial event.
09:59The next day, her registration suddenly had errors, then she quit.
10:01You're saying Serafina's done this before?
10:03Not just her.
10:04People connected to the board help make these things disappear.
10:05You mean the school is helping her?
10:07Not the school.
10:07The people who own the room.
10:08Did you already know this was never just a competition?
10:10I knew they wouldn't let you walk onto the floor easily.
10:13But I didn't expect them to block even a warm-up event.
10:16That's not exactly comforting.
10:19Look.
10:22This is 10 years ago.
10:24After winning a qualifier, I was told there had been a procedural issue too.
10:27Music rights, medical files, registration order, they can always invent a reason.
10:30Who did it?
10:31The Holtz.
10:33Serafina's mother is chair of the board.
10:35So they really can erase us from the system?
10:36They can.
10:37But they're not untouchable.
10:38You have a way?
10:40I need the original check-in log from tonight.
10:44So what they stole wasn't just one event, it was the ticket.
10:47Exactly.
10:48They're not afraid of one win.
10:50They're afraid of you making it to nationals.
10:59That's them, the team that almost lost their own registration.
11:03Heard they got back in through connections.
11:05Amazing.
11:05We get sabotaged, and somehow we're still the dirty ones.
11:09Then we win until they shut up.
11:12Persistent, aren't you?
11:13Sorry to disappoint you.
11:15Don't celebrate yet.
11:16Getting back on the list doesn't mean anyone will remember you.
11:18Then you'd better pray the audience has a short memory.
11:20Today, don't prove yourselves, announce yourselves.
11:24They're waiting for a joke.
11:25Then let them watch a declaration.
11:39Who are they?
11:41Tell me their team name.
11:48We're trending, not as a joke.
12:01Looks like you're enjoying this.
12:03More than you think.
12:05Aesthetics of power is absolutely insane.
12:07The girl in the last row stages a comeback.
12:10You blew up.
12:12Not me, us.
12:14Trending won't catch a stun, and likes won't hold a flighter.
12:17If you want fame, earn it on the mat.
12:21Someone outside asked me to pass this in.
12:25That tone?
12:26I don't need a detective.
12:27Sarafana's panicking.
12:28Panic means she finally sees us.
12:30Wrong.
12:31She doesn't see you.
12:32She sees the possibility of losing.
12:37Know what you look like right now?
12:39Like children who got praised once and lost their minds.
12:42But it means we have a shot.
12:44You already did.
12:46Don't act like you need applause to know what you're worth.
12:51Looks like you're enjoying this.
12:52More than you think.
12:54The internet loves a spectacle, especially one that looks rebellious.
12:56You're not afraid of a spectacle.
12:58You're afraid people are realizing they can win without your standards.
13:00You really think one viral trend rewrites the rules?
13:02No, but it can keep you awake.
13:04Good.
13:04Since I can't erase you, I'll destroy every single one of them, one by one.
13:06I want them learning how to kneel before nationals ever arrive.
13:13Stop!
13:13That's not our track!
13:14This is the version in the system.
13:15Bullshit!
13:16We submitted the original cut!
13:19What do we do?
13:20The local file's here, but there's no time to reload it.
13:27Give me three minutes and I'll tear their system apart.
13:30You don't have three minutes.
13:32Captain!
13:35We use this one.
13:36Are you insane?
13:37Half the routine won't land on that beat.
13:38Then we hard switch.
13:43Now?
13:43Now.
13:45Opening stunt, push back half a count.
13:46Second tumbling pass rides the drums.
13:48Don't chase the melody in the climax.
13:49Chase the bass.
13:50This is insane.
13:51We were pushed into gambling the second they dragged us here.
13:53Everyone follows her.
13:54From this second, the original routine is dead.
13:56Dance like your lie-offs depend on it.
14:09I genuinely thought we were going to die out there.
14:12This wasn't an accident.
14:13Someone switched your lane before you even ran.
14:20They still qualified.
14:21Tell them next time it has to be cleaner.
14:25The thing I hate most is being seen as someone who only survived through loopholes.
14:27Now you all get to see me that way, too!
14:31Shit.
14:33Sylvia, don't touch me.
14:38At least tell us what this is.
14:40When I applied for my athletic scholarship in high school, I underreported my family income.
14:43You falsified it?
14:44My mother had just divorced that year.
14:45On paper, we had money.
14:46In reality, we had access to none of it.
14:47The system didn't care.
14:47It only cared about the numbers.
14:48And then?
14:49Then I got the scholarship.
14:49Later, they found discrepancies.
14:50Because I had grades and medals they could profit file and bury at Ridley.
14:52So they're not trying to report you.
14:53They want you ashamed enough to quit.
14:54Now someone dug it back up.
14:54The thing I hate most is being seen as someone who only survived through loopholes.
14:57Now you all get to see me that way, too!
14:58I don't.
14:59You will.
14:59You're the captain now.
15:01You love words like honesty, trust, carry it together, then tell me.
15:04Does someone who lied to the system deserve to stand on your team?
15:07There.
15:08Even you have to think about it.
15:09Let her go.
15:14If you want to yell at me, go ahead.
15:16I'm too tired to yell.
15:18That second I paused wasn't me deciding whether you deserve this team.
15:21It was because I was thinking how many people get pushed into choosing between lying and being erased.
15:27You can hate who you were then.
15:29But I'm not letting them use it to push you out of this place now.
15:41They're not done.
15:44Are you out of your mind?
15:45You admitted it publicly.
15:46That hands them the knife.
15:47Did you lie to get that scholarship?
15:50Do you feel disgusting staying in competition?
15:52Back off!
15:53If she's innocent, why can't she answer?
15:57Because you're not here for answers.
16:00You're here because you smell blood.
16:02Your favorite thing in the world is dragging out someone's worst moment and pretending it's justice.
16:06But if someone made an imperfect choice inside an unfair system,
16:08and that means you get to nail them to it forever, then you don't love fairness.
16:11You love watching people kneel.
16:12So did she lie or not?
16:13Yes! When she was a teenager, she lied to survive in a system that cared about paperwork more than reality.
16:17If you actually want to talk fairness, go ask the school that knew the truth,
16:21profited off her, and is now acting shocked.
16:23Are you out of your mind?
16:24You admitted it publicly. That hands them the knife.
16:26They already had the knife.
16:27I'm refusing to let you pretend you were never cut.
16:31Honestly, I thought you'd make her disappear until the heat died.
16:36She's not a liability. Shame is.
16:44She's a waste of space. Next time someone tells you to kneel,
16:47ask whether they've earned the right to hear your confession.
16:50You are deeply dangerous. Thanks.
16:57Elwyn, I think I may have been wrong.
17:02Because she reached out to me.
17:04What did she want?
17:07Oh my god. Give a girl one viral moment and her ex crawls right back.
17:11I'm not here to talk to ask you alone.
17:14Then that's progress.
17:15What I did to you in the dining hall, I did it because I was scared.
17:18Serafina's side was already making threats. Anyone who stood with you would get dragged down too.
17:22So you pushed me first.
17:23Yeah. I know it was cowardly, but I really do want to make it right now.
17:25You know what the funniest part is? People like you always decide to become decent the moment I no longer
17:29need you.
17:29It's not like that, isn't it?
17:30Where were you when the whole campus threatened me?
17:31Where were you when I got kicked off the team?
17:32When I had no value, you were afraid I'd contaminate you.
17:34Now I'm trending, now everyone's talking about me, and suddenly you've found your moral compass?
17:37I'll admit, at first I did think that if I stood up for you now, maybe I could fix things.
17:41There it is. You're not here because you care about me.
17:43You're here to salvage what kind of person you look like.
17:45Too bad, I don't need anyone to prove I'm worth loving anymore.
17:47I can help you.
17:48How?
17:48I know Serafina's digging into all of you.
17:50She wants to break your team member by member before the next round.
17:53How do you know that?
17:56Because she reached out to me.
17:59What did she want?
18:01I just asked him to be sensible.
18:05You really think you can outrun the past?
18:07Some people may be spineless, but at least they know which side wins.
18:12Thanks for coming tonight. You just saved me the trouble of feeling nostalgic.
18:17See you at the next competition.
18:19If your little team still has enough people left to show up.
18:23Don't make it obvious. Make them lose like it was technical.
18:26Who is Mrs. Holt?
18:30No way!
18:32You've got to be kidding me!
18:34That routine was worth that?!
18:37It was cleaner than last round!
18:39They tanked our execution score on purpose, and underscared our difficulty.
18:49Don't be too devastated. Not every competition rewards a narrative.
18:55Don't give her what she wants.
18:57This isn't subjective preference. Someone is using the sheet to bury you.
19:01Here. Synchronization error minus your point four.
19:03But on video, it's barely a visual drift. Not even a real break.
19:06And this.
19:07They logged our final transition as low risk.
19:09So when they can't steal the routine, they redefine it.
19:12Someone on that panel got bought.
19:15Do we have proof?
19:16No. Right now, all we have is a pattern.
19:20And suspicious never beats polished legitimacy.
19:25Mrs. Holt said State U doesn't want them getting too comfortable on the road to finals.
19:29So how do we manage the spread?
19:31Don't make it obvious. Make them lose like it was technical.
19:34Who is Mrs. Holt?
19:36Seraphia's mother. One of the most powerful people on the board.
19:40Your so-called standards are just a machine to keep your daughter centered and everyone else trained to step back.
19:46The one with the silver brooch. That's her.
19:52You know her?
19:52Ten years ago, I met her politeness first, then her methods.
19:57Maren. After all these years, you still prefer side entrances.
20:01Because people like you keep contaminating the front.
20:04So you're Elowen. You have more presence than the clips suggest.
20:08And you're more fake in person than in the audio.
20:10Good. I like girls with nerve. Provided they know when to stop.
20:15You've built impressive momentum. Audiences love an underdog and media loves a fresh label.
20:20But the spotlight is not designed for everyone.
20:22What exactly does that mean?
20:23It means girls like you should not be standing under that kind of light.
20:26Girls like me?
20:27Wrong body type, wrong polish, messy background, and especially prone to giving other girls dangerous ideas.
20:31The idea that if they are loud enough, stubborn enough, resistant enough, they can bypass standards.
20:35Your so-called standards are just a machine to keep your daughter centered and everyone else trained to step back.
20:38I maintain order.
20:39You're not order. You're just used to people calling your bias taste.
20:43Then remember this. The fact that you are allowed on the floor now does not mean you beat the system.
20:47It means the system hasn't focused on you yet.
20:50Did she ever say that to you worse?
20:58Are they insane? When they can't beat us clean, they investigate our lives, our pasts, our bloodlines.
21:02Are they insane?
21:03This isn't a review. It's a message. We can decide whether you deserve to exist at all.
21:06You have two choices now. One, shrink, stay quiet, and hope they decide you're less threatening.
21:09Two, if they think you were never meant to stand here, train until forcing you off costs them too much.
21:13Now that sounds right.
21:14She's right. We've been trying to prove we deserve this. I've changed my mind. I'm done asking for recognition.
21:20I want them to watch us win and then explain themselves why all that effort still couldn't stop us.
21:28This doesn't feel like scoring bait. It feels like a declaration of war.
21:31Good. At last, it doesn't look like a permission slip.
21:35You still showed up. The more you don't want me here, the more I want to win in front of
21:38you.
21:38Let's see if that confidence survives the floor.
21:54We actually made it!
21:56They've already launched the review. Just because they failed now doesn't mean they won't get dirtier next time.
22:08Dig up the things they never wanted seen. All of them.
22:13She's gone dark!
22:26These came from inside the clinic. They can reach that too.
22:32I'm done! At this point, we're not training for competition. We're just waiting to be skinned next!
22:36If I really destabilize out there, they'll say they were right about me all along.
22:39I really didn't say anything back then. If they call me complicit, I don't even know how to deny it!
22:44Let's stabilize first. No one makes a decision today and no one disappears alone.
22:48Easy for you to say. You let us into the spotlight. Now everyone's ugliest wounds are public.
22:52Are you leading us to a comeback or marching us into a public execution?
22:55Don't dump all of this on her. You think if you quit, the post disappear? They won't.
22:59They don't just want you out of competition.
23:04They want you to delete yourselves.
23:11She's gone dark.
23:14She's gone. The semi's tomorrow.
23:22I can't find her.
23:35Hello? If we don't find her, we can't even feel the routine!
23:41Your taste in hideouts is terrible.
23:42I wasn't trying to be found.
23:44I kept thinking last night, if I go out there today, I either drag all of you down or wreck
23:47myself.
23:47Either way, they win.
23:49You know what's worse than the injury? They've moved into your head.
23:51Now they don't even need to touch your knee, they just need you to believe you're doomed to ruin everything
23:54and you'll finish the job for them.
23:56But I really could destabilize-
23:57Yes, you might. Then go with that possibility.
24:00If every burden they thought would crush you, we do not want you because you're perfect.
24:02We want you because you're ours.
24:07Pull that disappearing act again and I'll haul you back myself and lock you in the gym.
24:10Touching reunion over. Now tell me, can you go or do we rewrite the whole thing right now?
24:13I can go. But if I go down, don't save the stunt.
24:17Save the person. Now that sounds like a team.
24:27We actually made it!
24:33I can't.
24:49Treated like a freak and you didn't save me first. You first saw how-
24:59You knew Ophelia a long time ago.
25:04Yes.
25:06Destroyed your career.
25:07She did.
25:09So when you chose me, was it because I was worth betting on or because I was useful?
25:15At the beginning, yes. I was looking for someone who could rip open the Holt family's fake perfection.
25:20You had the anger, the talent, and the refusal to bow.
25:25So I really was a weapon.
25:27At first, yes.
25:29You saw me get kicked out, humiliated, treated like a freak, and you didn't save me first.
25:34You first saw how to use me.
25:35I opened a door. You were the one who walked through it.
25:38Don't dress this up as mercy. You know what I hate most? Not that enemies want to destroy me.
25:43It's when someone says they believe in me while quietly calculating where I fit in their revenge.
25:49Elowen-
25:50Don't!
25:50If you ask me now whether I still see you as a tool, the answer is no.
25:54But if you ask me whether I had selfish motives when I first approached you, the answer is also yes.
25:57So from the very beginning, I was a piece in your ten-year war with Ophelia.
26:00You were never a piece. Someone I thought I could keep under control.
26:02Finally, a true sentence.
26:07Big, angry, and disobedient.
26:08Yes, and one more.
26:10You had more talent than they did.
26:14If you want the full truth, I'll give it to you now.
26:17Then don't choose the version that flatters you.
26:19When I first approached you, yes, revenge was part of it.
26:21I knew exactly what kind of girl the Holtz fear most, and you checked nearly every box.
26:26Big, angry, and disobedient.
26:27Yes, and one more.
26:28You had more talent than they did.
26:30Don't hand me candy now.
26:31But things changed.
26:31I originally thought I was training a symbol that could help bring the Holtz down.
26:35Then I realized you're not a symbol.
26:36You are the strongest captain I've ever seen.
26:38You don't just rise on your own.
26:39You force everyone around you not to kneel.
26:41How exactly am I supposed to believe that?
26:43Believe someone who turned me into strategy first and only later remembered I was a person?
26:48Got it.
26:49I knew that woman had an angle.
26:51She admitted?
26:51She dragged us all into her old war, and now finals are right here.
26:54So tell me how this team is supposed to function now.
26:56If the foundation was a lie, what exactly are we standing on now?
27:01We thought we were rewriting our fate.
27:03What if actually we were pushed into someone else's revenge script?
27:18Say something.
27:19You let us here, so are we still going or not?
27:22We have to decide if they really dump everything.
27:24This isn't just embarrassment.
27:25My eligibility, medical support, transfer options, all of it could be wrecked.
27:29My mom already asked if I'm getting sucked back into school team drama again.
27:31If this hits during nationals week, she will force me out.
27:34Say something.
27:34You let us here, so are we still going or not?
27:40You don't even know anymore, do you?
27:51You want to go too?
27:52I want to know what is happening inside your head right now.
27:59I'm thinking maybe they were right.
28:04Who?
28:05Everyone.
28:06That after getting kicked out of the mainstream, I got so desperate to prove I wasn't finished
28:09that I dragged all of you into it with me.
28:11I kept telling myself I was leading a comeback, but what if actually I shoved all of you a bigger
28:15humiliation?
28:15That's where your head goes?
28:16After they drove you to the edge, your first instinct isn't to hit back,
28:18it's to wonder whether you were never supposed to get here at all?
28:20Listen carefully.
28:21If you walk now, if you walk because you're afraid you're not pure enough, selfless enough,
28:23harmless enough, and you throw all of this away, then you become exactly the failure they
28:26always said you were.
28:27What they want most isn't just to see you beaten, it's to watch you do it to yourself.
28:29I'm not making this decision for you, but don't forget we stood with you in the beginning,
28:32never because you were perfect.
28:33Who are you really winning for?
28:35Have you forgotten your original intention?
28:38I decide how we win.
28:42Pleasing other people.
28:44All the times I thought I was sticking it to my ex, or making the whole school regret not picking
28:49me,
28:50none of that was about making myself happy.
28:53I figured you'd come here.
28:56You're good at that.
28:57I'm not here to defend myself tonight, then why are you here?
28:59To see whether you'd chain yourself back to that last row.
29:02I used to think I was fighting to be recognized, then I thought I was fighting for revenge.
29:07Then later I started using leading the team to win as proof that I wasn't worthless.
29:11But all of those still hand the power to someone else, whether they approve,
29:14whether they regret it, whether they fear me, it's still all about them.
29:16I don't want to dance for them anymore.
29:18Not to silence haters, not to humiliate an ex, not even to avenge you.
29:21I want to win, because this is my body, my team, and my story.
29:24They do not get to define what this competition means.
29:28That's the sentence I needed you to say on your own.
29:31Don't you dare pretend this was part of your plan.
29:34It wasn't.
29:38You grew this yourself.
29:41I haven't forgiven you.
29:43You shouldn't.
29:45Good.
29:46Because this time, I decide how we win.
29:56How far I decide, but not as a dictator.
29:59We decide it together.
30:05We're not training yet.
30:06We talk first.
30:08You don't get peace first.
30:10You tell the truth first.
30:12Fine.
30:13You approached me at the beginning because you saw I could flip the table for you.
30:16Yes.
30:17You trained us, and beyond wanting us to win, you also wanted to use us to drag the holds down.
30:20Yes.
30:21Did it ever occur to you that by doing that you were putting a group already wounded by the system
30:25onto another battlefield you controlled?
30:26Yes.
30:27But I told myself that if you won in the end, the manipulation along the way would be forgivable.
30:31That was the most selfish thing about me.
30:33What you owe me isn't just the use.
30:35It's that you watched me learn to stand up for myself and still tried to keep your hand hidden on
30:38the wheel.
30:39Yes.
30:40I confused protection or control.
30:42I thought I knew better than you how this should be won, but the truth is, I didn't trust that
30:46you could win without my way.
30:48I'm sorry.
30:48Not because you're upset, because I was truly wrong.
30:50If from today on, I only get to be a coach and not touch your decisions, I accept that.
30:53That's what I needed to hear an apology.
30:55The truth.
30:55And neither will you.
30:56I will not be anyone's peace again.
30:57How this team moves now, what we perform at finals, what risks we take, and how far I decide, but
31:01not as a dictator.
31:02We decide it together.
31:03For finals, I'm done performing a formula.
31:05I want every scar we carry, choreographed into the routine.
31:09Shame, injury, exclusion, silence, rage.
31:11We hide of it.
31:12We are done hiding.
31:14Now we're talking.
31:15Fine.
31:16At least now it doesn't feel like unpaid revenge labor.
31:26This board looks like group therapy.
31:30Good.
31:31Good.
31:32Nationals might as well witness how the things they try to break become weapons.
31:39This routine is not built to comfort judges or to make us look inspirational.
31:44It's built so anyone watching can't keep pretending they didn't see.
31:54That one's for everyone who said I wasn't the right kind of pretty.
32:02You want them to see the fall coming first?
32:05Yeah.
32:06And then watch me pull it back myself.
32:10It's not floor work.
32:11That's an indictment.
32:15You do not need to be brave on command.
32:18What I'm most afraid of is the whole world seeing that I said nothing back then.
32:22And choreograph the silence too.
32:24Yeah.
32:26If this lands, nobody will ever be able to reduce you to a joke again.
32:30And if it doesn't land, then at least we won't lose while pretending to be polished.
32:33We fight truthfully.
32:37Hello?
32:38And me, Anya.
32:38Tell your little friends to back off.
32:45This isn't reporting.
32:46It's old sewage in a new bottle.
32:48They're not just trying to smear you.
32:49They want officials to think that if you take the floor, any incident becomes their liability.
32:53That they let a dangerous athlete compete.
32:55Due to escalating public concerns, the committee is discussing whether to revoke your performance slot.
33:00On finals eve?
33:01Based on anonymous stitched together hit pieces?
33:03We have to protect the event.
33:05Every time you say protect, it's always people like us who get removed.
33:08We will be in touch.
33:08If they pull our slot, we don't even get to lose.
33:13Wait.
33:13The whole internet is shifting.
33:24Who posted this?
33:25Burner account.
33:26Zero history built to drop a bomb.
33:28Doesn't matter who.
33:28Now the Holtz have some explaining to do.
33:39Someone is helping us.
33:41Or using us to stab them.
34:01I'm saying this, but they're really strong.
34:04That's what makes her dangerous.
34:05She's not just cool.
34:06She's actually good.
34:07If we lose, everyone will say, see?
34:10Authenticity and rage are moving, but the title still belongs to the standard.
34:16Are you scared?
34:18Yeah.
34:20But for the first time, I'm not afraid of comparison.
34:25Then that's enough.
34:28We better pray.
34:29We don't do prayer.
34:31I just showed the nation what champions look like.
34:33Good.
34:34Then I'm about to show the nation what they've never seen before.
34:42Representing the West High Royals, the West High Cheerreaders.
34:46Let's go.
34:47Go.
34:49Come.
34:59Move.
35:00Are you competition today?
35:05Go.
35:07Go.
35:08Go.
35:08Go.
35:32You're insane out there.
35:34Worked, didn't it?
36:05Team Holt's score is disqualified.
36:07And the final championship result is as follows.
36:11National champions, reach out!
36:22What do you want to say right now?
36:24They kept telling me I was too big, too loud, too dangerous, too wrong to be seen.
36:28Then I learned what's really dangerous isn't girls like me standing in the spotlight.
36:33It's powerful people deciding you should never be there while stealing every chance you have to prove yourself.
36:38So you've ever been pushed to the back row?
36:40If they ever told you girls like you shouldn't, flip past it.
36:43Flip it, girl!
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