Bad Moon Rising The Next Step

Previously on The Next Step...

Emily and Michelle are now co-captains!

I definitely did not see that coming.

You know A-Troupe's a family, right?

And sometimes, families help each other out.

It's the best feeling. I'm just ready to go to Regionals and win!

We need to choreograph a new routine for Regionals.

I think we need two routines because we're going to make it to Finals.

CHEERING

You can't avoid me forever. You're even avoiding our duet practices.

I can't talk to you about this any more.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYING

I think the new routine is amazing.

I think it's the best thing we've done.

So many intricate moves and different styles.

It feels like it's kind of a projection of

everybody in The Next Step.

Whoo! All right, everybody!

-That was pretty good!

-That was great.

I love the energy! You know what? Let's go home early tonight, OK?

-All right!

-Whoo! Good job, you guys.

I can't believe Emily's letting us go early.

This is not like her at all.

We've worked really hard and we've come so far as a team.

Hey, hey, hey! Where do you guys think you're going, huh?

-Oh.

-Home?

Well, yeah, they did really amazing and the energy was great,

so we decided to maybe...

Oh, they did amazing and the energy was great.

-Energy was great.

-Oh.

I'm a little shocked,

I mean, they've never intervened in what Michelle and I say before,

so why now?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, no, we're not done here.

-No.

-What?

-What?

I'm not staying longer.

Joking! We just kind of want to have a fun night.

Yeah. We're going to hang out as friends, not just team-mates.

Thinking about it, we never actually all hung out just to have fun.

I'm super excited for the hang out party.

# We, we're gonna show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're gonna tear The roof off this place

# Stand up! #

Hey, everybody! Let's have some fun.

West?

Are these your pyjamas?

Well, if you may know, yes, they are my pyjamas, and Kate told us

to get comfortable, so...

-Not that comfortable!

-Please, girl, I work this.

-It's a robe!

I always keep an extra pair of pyjamas in my in my duffle bag.

You never know when a surprise pyjama party's going to break out.

Hey, are you guys ready to have some fun?

-Yeah!

-All right!

-OK, let's play Machine.

-All right.

Machine is basically just, like, an improv game.

You get to make sounds and you get to move and be parts in the machine.

We're making a koala pyjama pant making machine.

I don't know what is going to happen right now.

SHE MAKES A MACHINE NOISE

-OK.

-What is that?!

SHE MAKES A MACHINE NOISE

I'm super excited to play Machine.

It's actually one of my favourite games!

But don't tell anyone that.

THEY MAKE MACHINE NOISES

It's really funny to look around you and see all these people

doing weird things.

We're all just hanging out together as a team and, you know,

just kind of, like, letting loose for once.

Amazing! That is a serious machine!

OK, now that we're all warmed up and we're good to go, eat up,

have some fun. Enjoy your night.

Get some snacks! Some, some now!

Yeah. All right, guys, come on, I think we should play Truth Or Dare.

I suggested to play Truth Or Dare

because I know some people are hiding some secrets

and this is the perfect opportunity to figure it out.

Let's start with West. Truth or dare?

Ooooh, West!

-Truth.

-Yes! Oh, I've got a good one, I've got a good one.

-What's your biggest secret?

-My biggest secret?

-Yup.

-Well, I witnessed a bank robbery before.

-What?

Yeah, I actually followed him, and I know where he buried the money.

But this is a couple of years ago, so I don't know if it'll still be there.

It's very weird that he just came out and said it so casually.

OK. So, my turn! Mm, Stephanie, truth or dare?

Dare.

I think it's always safer to pick dare.

I double dog dare you to go into the juice bar

and use Tiffany as your hands and order some drinks for everybody.

-As your hands?

-I say we all go.

-What do you mean?

-Let's all go!

I say we all do it right now! Let's go! Let's go!

I'll explain it more when we're there, let's go! OK.

-I don't get how this works.

-Can you stop!

-Try it.

-Do what I told you guys to do.

Go, put your arms back, yes. All right, now let's go.

-Be good.

-Arms expert is when, you know, you have your hands

behind your back and you have someone else play your arms.

Then I have to walk on over to the juice bar and order a juice.

Now, when I get there,

Tiffany decided it would be a good idea to put some lipstick on.

Put it on!

I can put lipstick on her face and she can't say anything about it.

-Right there! That's the spot! Yes!

-Push harder.

-All up, yeah.

-Maybe more.

-Corners!

-Yeah! Over there in the corner!

-A bit to the right.

Yeah! Get it all over there!

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Other side. Yeah, yeah. There we go.

Guess what? Movie time!

Oh, yeah!

OK this is what I've got - I have action adventure,

I've got horror, I've got rom-com...

Rom-com!

I personally want to watch a romantic comedy.

I want to watch a horror movie.

I'd like an action or maybe even a comedy.

This is what we're going to do, we're going to have a competition.

So whoever can show me the best dance move gets to choose the movie.

Dance will solve every problem,

even who gets to choose a movie. Perfect.

West first, here we go.

-All right.

-Go, West! Go, West!

Glutes! All right.

-Get it, grandpa!

-All right.

-Get it going, West.

-Hoo!

-Oh! Whoo!

Oh, look at those magic feet!

Yeah! Too bad Daniel ain't here to see this.

West is hilarious.

He always comes up with the craziest moves.

-I have two moves.

-What?

-Two!

-Number one! Number one.

Oh, look at that!

Number two.

Giselle just whips out two moves out of nowhere. That's crazy!

These really cool acrobatic, you know, back arch kind of things.

I think she should win the dance battle.

-I'm not watching that rom-com!

-What?

'Everyone's moves are all right,'

but I'm going to bring something new to the table.

Oh!

Everyone's moves are pretty amazing, but James clearly won.

-I have to give that to James.

-Yeah.

OK, James, what do you want to watch?

Definitely not a romantic comedy.

I am so worried about James winning.

Last week, James made me watch a movie

about a cyborg robot cop in space.

But I don't really care, so you can choose, Riley.

-Aww!

-That's so cute.

I just did it because I knew she probably cared more about the movie

we were watching than I did and it kind of made me feel good.

I think it's really sweet that James gave me his movie choice.

Mmm... Oh! Touchdowns And Tutus.

-Yeah!

-I love that movie!

I can't even describe it, I mean...

Oh! It's just such a good movie!

Touchdowns And Tutus is an exquisite movie about a bunch

of football players finding the inner beauty of football

through ballet.

My favourite part of Touchdown And Tutus is

when two football players have to drag a boat up the Amazon River.

One of the players runs so fast that he goes through a time warp.

Magically gets turned into a dog and all of the football players have

to come together and go rescue the football player from the dog pound.

Then they end up digging this really big tunnel

and they find this box of old football plays

from, like, the 1800s,

and it's so cute, cos it's where they share their first kiss

and they fall in love.

That's just great.

Best movie ever. You're welcome, you're welcome.

All right, guys, I think we should play Truth Or Dare again.

Cos only me, Steph, and West got to go last time.

-All right. I'm down with that.

-I'd love to see someone top mine.

I dare James to kiss Riley.

No. No. I don't want to see that.

That's easy.

Aww.

It's not really much of a dare, I probably would have done it anyway.

It's nice to have everyone else know that we're in a relationship.

-Emily, truth or dare?

-Dare.

I've played Truth Or Dare a lot before

and I know it's always safest to pick dare.

I dare Emily to do the Saltine Cracker Challenge.

The Saltine Cracker Challenge

is when you have to eat six crackers in less than one minute.

It's pretty much impossible.

-I'm not doing that.

-You have to do what you're dared.

-No. No, that is just ridiculous.

-Do it! Do it!

Six, don't make me make it seven.

-Fine! Fine! I'll do it.

-Yes!

-All right.

-I am a little surprised that Emily agreed to do this dare,

I mean, she's always so uptight about everything.

No water, salty crackers, and it's Emily.

All right, you've got one minute! Time.

You have no watch on, West.

-You don't see this invisible watch right here?

-OK.

-All right.

-Marks!

-And...

-Set.

-Go!

-Salt.

She's spewing crackers everywhere.

It's really gross and we're all trying to dodge her cracker spit.

-Really?

-Oh!

-Ew!

Come on, come on, come on, come on!

She's not really a goofy person, so... I don't know,

I never thought she would do something like that.

-Say the alphabet, say the alphabet.

-Alphabet!

-MUFFLED:

-A, B, C, D, E...

It's just really nice to see her loosen up once in a while.

Kind of reminds me of when we were younger.

I am actually glad I did the dare.

It was nice to be laughed with instead of at for a change.

I don't think I ever want to see another cracker in my entire life.

It's your turn, Em, you've got to go.

Michelle, you haven't gone yet. Truth or dare?

Truth, after that.

LAUGHTER

Out of all of the guys in A-Troupe, who would you want to date most?

Ooh!

Michelle has never actually told me how she feels about me.

If she says she likes me, then that tears the team apart.

And if she says she likes someone else,

then that'll tear me apart.

Either way, this is not going to end well.

So, Michelle.

Who would you want to date in A-Troupe out of the boys?

I asked Michelle about who she likes because she's new,

we don't really know her that well and I kind of want to know!

When she gave me that look...

I don't know, it kind of reassured that there is something between us.

Um...West.

-Ooh!

-Obviously, I'm not going to say Eldon

because that would just be ridiculous.

I choose West.

I'll just make a joke out of it.

Scoochies, schoohies.

I know that I couldn't have told everyone that I like Eldon,

but it's just hard, hiding my feelings all the time.

Michelle's been avoiding me ever since Emily got back.

I need to know what's going on.

What do you want?

What Eldon and I have needs to be over.

I saw the look you gave me when we were doing Truth Or Dare.

So what?

Eldon, you're dating Emily, she's your girlfriend.

I'm going to break up with her.

Eldon saying that he'll break up with Emily to be with me

is what I've wanted to hear for the longest time

and he's finally saying it.

But, if he breaks up with Emily now, our team will fall apart.

You can't do that.

Why not?

Well, one, you'll break her heart,

and two, if you break up with her now,

you'll mess everything up for the team.

I don't know what I'm going to do now,

but it's definitely not over.

-So what does everyone feel like doing?

-Eating.

-Yeah. I'm starving.

-You're hungry?

-Um, what about pizza?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

I was thinking maybe we can tell some ghost stories.

-Yeah, yeah!

-But everyone's hungry.

I'll tell you what, boys versus girls,

-whoever gets the most scared buys the pizza.

-Yes.

-It's on. It's on.

-Someone turn down the lights.

-Let's do it!

Be prepared to be scared.

The idea of telling ghost stories is really good

because there's no way the girls can beat the guys

at telling scary stories.

OK, so one night, a couple was driving down a dirt road

and they had just heard on the news that a person had

escaped from a mental asylum

and he had a hook for a hand.

I definitely think the girls can win this competition

because Stephanie's story is really good.

All of a sudden, the boyfriend doesn't come back

so the girl gets out of the car and, just as she's about to look up...

The boyfriend's hanging from the tree and he's scraping across the roof.

-How many times have I heard that?

-Heard it!

We've heard that one before.

Everybody's heard Stephanie's ghost story before.

-Yo, West, you got this one?

-I'm all over this, bro.

-You've got it.

-All right.

-I'm going to get some snacks. OK.

We're getting pizza.

I'm a growing boy, I want some real snacks.

-Yeah, he's a growing boy!

-Some chicken or something.

All right, I want to listen to this.

OK. Well, before I tell you guys this story, I just want to

let you know that this very dance studio used to be a chicken factory.

-No, it didn't.

-Yeah, right.

-Oh, yes, it did, oh, yes, it did.

It did. West is right. It used to be a chicken processing plant.

-Yeah.

-Look.

I seriously hope we got new floors.

I actually just thought that was for decoration.

This place used to be a chicken factory?

Ew!

All right, now it's time for my story.

Back in the early 1920s, in this very factory,

there were a lot of chickens.

As soon as I hear the word chicken mentioned in a scary story,

Riley's going to crack.

I am terrified of chickens.

When I was little, I got attacked by a chicken.

From that day, I have never been able

to even think about a chicken without getting creeped out.

Then one chicken managed to pick the lock with his beak

and then all of the other chickens escaped, all of them.

I think West is scaring the girls, definitely.

Until they got all of them back, except for one chicken.

Then one day, when the security guard was sleeping, this chicken came

and pecked him to death!

-No!

-Yes.

-There's no way.

It's not even realistic, like a crazy chicken?

There's nothing scary about chickens.

I mean, "bawk, bawk", that's not even scary.

Till this very day, they still haven't found that one chicken.

And you can...

SCREECHING

All of a sudden, we just see this giant furry chicken or bird,

or whatever it is.

I don't even know, I'm so scared.

I just scream at the top of my lungs.

JAMES LAUGHS

That was priceless! A chicken bird!

Come on!

James did know about my fear of chickens,

and it's not irrational.

It's perfectly rational to be scared of chickens.

They're just freaky.

You know, you guys really know how to take things too far.

-Riley!

-That wasn't funny, guys.

I believe you guys owe us some pizza.

Oh, yeah, some pizza.

-With extra chicken!

-Extra!

-Extra!

-Extra poultry.

-I like Hawaiian, so thanks.

-West, get over it.

We are totally going to get them back for this.

All right. Thank you very much.

I don't need any change back, have a great night, sir. Go ahead.

Giselle, go distract them. Have a good night.

Right now we're going to get the boys back

for that little chicken prank.

We're going to douse this pizza with hot sauce

and hopefully watch their faces go beet red.

OK, so I've been working on this new move, guys.

Steph, block, block!

It was all my idea to prank the boys

because we needed to get them back.

-Give it to me.

-That's a lot of spicy.

-Oh!

-Hey, boys.

-That was pretty cool.

-It was pretty cool, right?

-We've got pizza.

-Pizza's here!

-The pizza is here!

-Yeah!

-Yeah!

Yo, pull that in right there, right there. Dig in, dig in, dig in!

I'm about to dig in.

-Yo, wait up.

-Yeah, yummy. Smells so...

-That has hot sauce on it.

-No, it doesn't.

'My mom used to put hot sauce on everything,

'I can smell hot sauce from a mile away.'

And it's not like it was very well hidden either.

It was all over the top of the pizza.

OK.

Oh!

-Not only did you guys try and pull a prank on us...

-And fail.

-..but you made this pizza better.

-A lot better.

-No!

You know, the prank was pretty good for girls.

That stuff is really preschool for us.

We do bigger and better things.

-Hey! What's going on here?

-What?

What are you guys doing here? No-one should be here at this time.

I don't know what to do. I just kind of backed up, like,

I don't want to go to jail.

-No, no, it's OK, sir. We're here with our teacher.

-Kate?

-Where'd she go?

-I don't see any teacher.

What are you guys doing here?

There's really nothing to worry about.

Don't tell me what to worry about, and wipe that smirk off your face.

Honestly, I'm a little bit intimidated.

What did we do wrong?

We were just enjoying some pizza.

Why do you keep talking back to me like that?

-I was just answering your question

-Trying to impress your friends?

How impressive will it be

when you have to call your parents to come pick you up downtown?

Yeah, I'm a little frightened. That's a healthy response.

He just pulled out handcuffs! What, he'd going to arrest me?

-OK, I don't think that's necessary.

-Hey! Was I talking to you?

-No.

-Turn around.

-What?

Turn around. Hands behind your back.

As James is getting handcuffed, I'm thinking,

"OK. Oh, my gosh! What is happening right now?"

THEY LAUGH

We got you good!

I couldn't do it anymore!

Uncle Mel! We got them.

Giselle came up with this brilliant idea

to bring in her uncle, actually. And he's a cop.

Did that work? Did that work?

All along, the hot sauce was actually a distraction.

The double prank, the prank within a prank, I should have seen coming,

cos I used to live for the double pranks.

Wait, hold up. Ms Kate, were you in on this?

Normally, I don't like pranks, but this one was harmless.

Besides, the boys needed to be put in their place.

All right, you guys, what do you say to a dance party?

-Yeah!

-Let's go! Whoo!

I can't believe how much fun we had. I mean,

I feel like I'm actually back in A-Troupe now.

We got to spend the night just hanging with friends

and stop worrying about Regionals.

This night has just showed us all that we really are friends,

that there's something that connects us more than dance.

# All we want is to dance Until the morning light

# So catch that feeling You can feel it in the air tonight

# Let's go crazy It feels amazing

# Come on let's lose control And party all night

# No time for faking it Come on just move your hips

# Throw your hands up to the sky Let's party all night

# Let's go crazy It feels amazing

# Come on let's lose control And party all night! #