The study group realize that the game was a scheme by school rivals City College to destroy Greendale's campus.
They band together with other Greendale students to face the City College paintball players to try to save their campus and win the $100,000 prize money for the school.
They convince the "surviving" students to form a rebel alliance to defeat the Pistol Patty troopers and use the cash reward to pay for the damage done to the school.
Abed impersonates Han Solo and flirts with Annie (Alison Brie), who is attracted to his alternate personality.
Jeff (Joel McHale) and Troy each want to lead the group, devising separate plans to defeat the troopers.
Jeff plans to lead a mass charge on the troopers' stronghold, an ice cream truck armed with a paintball Gatling gun.
Troy, Abed, Annie, and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) draw some troopers to the library and fortify themselves in the study room, where they plan to escape through the air vent.
Meanwhile, the ice cream truck's Gatling gun overpowers Jeff's team, and only Britta (Gillian Jacobs) survives.
In the final scene, Abed, oblivious to the fact that he is talking to the janitor who will be cleaning up the paintball mess, annoys him by narrating what happened in the competition and asking what his summer plans are.
[1] Creator Dan Harmon explained that the two parts were "designed to exist both as one story" but each had different themes: "second one erupts — the Western motif falls away and an out-and-out war happens.
[2] Dan Byrd and Busy Philipps from Cougar Town (mentioned frequently by character Abed Nadir in the series) guest starred as members in a crowd.
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix said that the episode was "a lot of fun" but "felt like more of a goof" compared to the first part of the series.
[10] Cory Barker of TV Surveillance said it was "a tremendously fun episode with a number of great gags and lines, but it had less stylistic and narrative depth than last week's first part.
"[11] After watching the season 2 finale, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige gave Joe and Anthony Russo the job of directing the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier.