HOW WE MET

It is May 2018, a new season of shows are underway at Rocky Mountain Rep.. The Pink Ladies are now led by Tyler Symone, who feels she has "outgrown" her relationship with the arrogant leader of The T-Birds, Johnny Nogerelli, just before summer break. A new arrival comes in the form of clean-cut English student Josh Kellman, the cousin of Sandy Olsson. Josh quickly becomes smitten with Tyler, despite the gentle warning of the sole remaining lead character from the first film, Frenchy (Didi Conn). Frenchy tells him that Tyler will not date him since he is not a T-Bird.

At the local bowling alley, Johnny flirts with Tyler's friend and fellow Pink Lady, Paulette Rebchuck (Lorna Luft), to make Tyler jealous, and she retaliates by kissing the next man who walks in the door, which happens to be Josh. Bemused by this unexpected kiss, Josh attempts to ask her out the next day at an audition for the school talent show but discovers that she has a very specific vision of her ideal man ('Cool Rider'). He realizes that he will only win her affection if he turns himself into a cool rider and begins saving up for a motorcycle by selling completed homework assignments to the academically challenged T-Birds.

Josh buys the bike, fixes it up and spends all his spare time after school learning to ride it. A gang of rival motorcyclists called the Cycle Lords surprise the T-Birds at the bowling alley. Before the fight starts, a lone anonymous biker, wearing all black clothing as well as a motorcycle helmet and dark goggles to cover his face, appears and defeats the enemy gang, performing impressive stunts and leaping over police cars to disappear into the night. Tyler is instantly fascinated with the stranger.

The following day at school, Frenchy tells Josh about that motorcycle chase, and a strange guy swept Tyler out of her bobby socks. Josh confides in Frenchy he's the one.

Tyler is surprised again by the Cool Rider while working at her after school job at her family's gas station, and they enjoy a romantic twilight motorcycle ride. Just as Josh is about to reveal his identity, they are interrupted by the arrival of the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies; before Josh disappears again, he tells Tyler that he will see her at the talent show, in which the Pink Ladies and T-Birds are performing. Tyler wonders how the Cool Rider knew about the talent show, but fails to deduce it could be a Rydell High School student since only they knew about the show. Johnny, enraged by Tyler's new romance, threatens to fight the "Cool Rider" if he sees him with her again, and the group has an argument about who belongs to whom.

At school, Tyler's poor grades in English lead her to accept Josh’s offer of help with her essay on Shakespeare's Hamlet, but although she has warmed to him considerably, he still cannot reveal his double identity. Tyler has begun to realize that, despite his shy, bookworm outward appearance, Josh is a kind, good guy who genuinely cares about her. She then slowly begins to discover that she has similar feelings for him and starts to reciprocate his crush. These events are not lost on their mutual acquaintances, and Johnny demands that Tyler quit the Pink Ladies for his "rep" and subtly threatens that the T-Birds will beat up Josh if she refuses. Tyler is visibly upset by this but refuses to quit the Pink Ladies. Although still head over heels for the Cool Rider, interactions with Josh reveal that she has become smitten with him as well.

The night of the talent show, Tyler and the Cool Rider meet outside the school, but are instantly ambushed by the T-Birds who pursue Josh in a motorcycle chase, with Tyler and the Pink Ladies following in a car. They pursue him to a closed-off construction site which, conceals a deadly drop, and the biker's absence suggests that he has perished below, leaving Tyler inconsolable, thinking her Cool Rider is dead.

The school year ends with the graduation luau the next day. The Cycle Lords suddenly appear and begin to destroy the celebration, but are stopped by the emergence of the Cool Rider, much to the surprise of Tyler. After roundly defeating the Cycle Lords and leaping over the pool on his motorcycle, he finally reveals himself to all in attendance to be Josh. After his initial shock, Johnny offers him a T-Bird jacket and welcomes him into the gang. All of the couples pair off (Josh/Tyler, Johnny/Paulette, Lewis/Sharon, Davey/Dolores & Rhonda/Goose.