"And now let me welcome Hokey Rookie of the year, player of the year, most valuable player and just about any other award you can find to say this guy is one of the best Hockey players he's probably got them. Join me in a warm welcome to new team USA player Adam Banks" Adam could not believe he was there. It was all so surreal. He never thought that he would actually make it as a hockey player, never thought he was good enough to make a NHL league team but here he was. He had done it. All of the sudden he felt empty. He had fulfilled his greatest dream now what?

"Mr. Banks it time to go on..." a stage director gently prodded him

"What? Oh...right...thanks" he lamely thanked the stage director who was quickly walking away to get some other team USA player. It had been kept a great secret who they were and today was the first time they were going to meet each other. Adam had asked to be the last player introduced so he could see the whole team and not have to wait. His request was granted because no one opposed and he was a big star. When he finally reached the stage he thought wow. There are so many people here. And then he saw a sight that almost made him cry. On the stage were all of his old Duck friends the only ones who weren't there were Goldberg and Julie. Then he saw something that made his smile fade a little bit. He saw Goldberg running towards him and the rest of the duck then the announcer said some words that would hurt Adam more than he would admit to himself. "Well that's it folks. I now present to you Team USA Hockey" After about half an hour of answering question that he wouldn't remember later Adam stepped off the stage and went to his dressing room. To his surprise on the door was a note that said they all had to go to the duck pond for some important news and to get their new Team USA stuff.

He drove by himself so that he could think. He wondered who their coach was going to be, why Julie didn't come, were they really the same old ducks. Could they do what they had done when they were 14? If they didn't they had a lot to lose. His head was pounding hard when he got to the pond and saw something that made him smile and reminisce, a young mother out with her little girl, UNtil tehyb got a good look at the pair. He and his teammates froze when they saw who it was... it couldn't be but sure enough when the mother caught sight of them she skated over and held the little girls hands

"Julie... hi" Connie started

"Yeah. Guys you know I hate going around the bush so I'm going to come out and say that you're wrong. This little girl is not mine but I am the one responsible and she is why I'm not going to the Olympics. Her name is Katia, she's 6 now. If your wondering how she can look so much like me but not be mine its simple. My sister... well she was my twin. She got killed in a car accident about two months ago and my family decided that since I'm a lot like her mother and I know her best that I should be the one to take care of her. I'm not going with you to the Olympics but you have whatever heart and good wishes I can spare from this little angel"

"Aunt Julie! These are the Ducks! You know the Ducks! and you havent introduced them to me" Katia stated looking around at the mixed group of people staring down at her.

"I'm sorry I totally forgot! Katia this is" "Hey princess" Charlie had interrupted Julie, gone down on his knees to look into this little girls eyes "I'm Uncle Charlie"

"I'm your long lost non-blood related Uncle ...Averman... I don't really like Lester... can you imagine Uncle Lester?" Averman went on his own little tangent until Russ told him to shut up and introduced himself "I'm your Uncle Russ"

"I'm your Uncle Dwayne" the cowboy tipped his hat as a way of greeting

"I'm Ken... umm if you want you can call me uncle but since I'm not really...and I'm not sure how you feel about it and..." this time it was Katia who told her Uncle Ken to please be quiet so that the other people could introduce themselves and so little by little they all did Portman and Fulton getting the most original, glared and awed at introduction when they came at her from both sides and lifted her in the air and spun her around in circles.

Connie being the only girl and of course being a girl she squealed and shrunk down to her niece's height like Charlie had done and said "I am your Aunt Connie. Were going to have to do something drastic to keep you away from all those smelly, rotten boys" to which all the guys said "Hey!" and the girls just laughed.

Finally just when Adam went to introduce himself Katia coolly said that she knew who he was. No introduction needed. Adam had been shocked. Not that it particularly matters but kids normally really liked him and she had been so friendly with the others After that she left the players alone so she could see who her Aunt Julie got along with who she liked beast and who she was going to try and get her Aunt with. She quickly found out that her Aunt liked everyone on the team but she had an extra connection with Connie and Adam. This was going to be easier than she thought it was. She had not meant to hurt Adam's feeling but she didn't want to call him uncle. She wanted him to be with her Aunt. It was obvious the spark was their even Averman and Dwayne saw it.

Sorry this was really long. I was going to make the introductions a second chapter but since its all going up today I figured I might as well leave it. I hope its okay. No flames. Constructive criticism accepted. Please don't just say this is bad. It won't help the story and it will hurt my feelings. If you tell me that I need to work on my character development, or describing the place that is helping me thanks and bye!