Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.

When a former member of NERDS turns into a villainous cheerleader, Matilda "Wheezer" Choi and the rest of the NERDS must infiltrate the cheerleader squad and save the world from a machine that wreaks havoc by entering other dimensions.

Overweight and unpopular, fifteen-year-old Irene really wants to be on the cheerleading squad, so when she is supended and must serve two weeks of community service at a retirement home, she secretly signs up the residents for a dance competition with heras their coach.