Storyline
Back in the '80's the Shidosha Spartans where one of the biggest power house team in all of Japan. Behind them they had 9 championships, and all they needed were 1 more win to own Japan's High school record of most championships.
The year was 1985. It was the finals to go to Tokyo's finals. In the final 3 seconds of the game, the Spartans were down by 4 points, on their own 45 yard line.. They were losing to the leagues worst team, The Shojo Dragons.
The linemen took their positions on the line. As the QB took his position behind the center he let out a maniacal laugh
QB "hahahahahaha now do you think well lose to scum like you? No fate has destined us to win here to go down as Japans legends in American football Ready…Set HUT… HUT!!"
The center snapped the ball and he dropped back and to look around and as he found a Receiver in the open one of the DE broke free into back field.
DE "YOUR MINE!!"
And as the QB pulled his arm back to throw he felt the presence of the DE upon his side. He threw it up as the DE hit him and laid him out. But as he saw the ball leave he left he pulled out an evil smirk
QB "heh we……win…."
The ball flew down the field, down passed the 30 to the 20 to the 10 and as it hit the five the clock ran out of time, and on the 5 yard line his receiver stood there waiting, open in the free, he jumped with all his might to get the ball, but behind him a CB lurked in the end zone. When the ball dropped close enough he made his move and intercepted the ball
As the QB saw this his once smirked face turned to one of despair for he knew all his hope fell away as he knew it was over. The score board stood there 28-32. The sun set on the score board, and it turned off and there they sat on the sideline as the Shojo Dragons celebrated their victory over the Shidosha Spartans.
This victory marked the dawn of a new era. The era of the Shojo Dragons.
For the many passing years the Spartans were going down hill. It was to the point of where the Spartans were not winning any games for the past 5 seasons. But now we take you to where the
story begins here in 2004.
Summer came and went. and teams were set up all around the enrollment sheets all around campus. On the first day of school all the 1st years were running around as if they had never been in a high school before. ( lol that's because they're freshmen) as they ran around the different teams set up all around the campus. The captain of the football team stood there with flyers to pass out to the on goers. The first years seemed receptive as the took the flyers that lifted his spirits a lot, but then he felt nature call him so he put down the flyers and he walked of and as he passed a trash can he found most of the flyers he passed out to them in it. He looked away in spite of what he saw he tried to keep his hopes high. He slicked his spiky hair back and walked away again.
Up in the principals office he looked down at them all the first years and he turned to a man covered in the shadows.
(??) "you know my son comes here this year Head Master Rhyu?
(Rhyu) "yes I know he does what of it sir?"
(??) I don't want him playing football here you know I am your schools head funding I should pull the plug on such a worthless program you haven't even won a game in five years
(Rhyu) "no sir you cant do this to them it's a good program they don't have a coach or trainer how can u blame them…?"
(??) "them …. Them?? There is only one person on the team the rest are just pity players to help him out. And I CAN SHUT IT DOWN!! But I will wait ill give this team one more season but if you cant win this championship in the Tokyo Bowl I'm going to shut down this stupid program and tear up the field…"
The man walked out the door and the head master stood there looking at The football team captain taking out his flyers from the trash can and whispered to him self and the room
(Rhyu) " can he do it alone?? If only we had won maybe he wouldn't be so bitter… I'm sorry…"
As the school day came to an end all the student ran out of the school with books in arms and backpacks filled. And there he sat on the football field waiting for someone to show up he sat on a hitting bag and tossed the football up into the air as he waited. But no one showed up.
On his way home that night he spotted someone in an alley way getting surrounded. He looked and he saw some skinny little kid being closed in on he walked over to the scene and saw one of the guys had a pocket knife. He walked into the alleyway
(Team captain) "hey what are you bastards doing picking on a kid you should be ashamed."
All five of them turned around and looked at him
(thug 1) "what do u want punk"
(thug 2) "yea who are u anyways"
He smirked and leaned against the wall
(team captain) "me my name is No last name One."
(thug 5) well no one nice to meet you now…. DIE!!"
He rushed him with the knife. But he dodged him like any QB would. Then he tripped him. All the others saw this and they attacked him. He saw this and dodged all of them and started to beat them into submission
(all the thugs) Help No One is beating us up help on one Is beating us up.!!" as he finished them off they all got up and ran off. He looked over at the kid and saw he was a high school student at his high school. He held out his hand
(team captain) "you ok kid?"
(student) " yes thank you No One-san
The team captain laughed and said
(team captain) "no that was a joke that not my real name my name is Joe Kudo, and yours is?"
(kid) " oh I get it hahaha that was pretty funny. Oh I'm sorry Kudo-san I'm Ruddy Tanaka.
(Joe) "well Tanaka-san why were they going to beat you up what are you doing here this late at night?
(Ruddy) "well they just wanted money and I was on my way home and I was the only one here on the street. so yea haha I'm sorry I caused you so much trouble.
(Joe) "no its ok I actually had fun kicking their asses. Hey you wana go to a party I'm on my way to one?
(Ruddy) "I'm sorry I have to study I have to go I'm sorry but thank you I don't know how I can repay you."
He started to run off
Joe looked at him and yelled out
(Joe) "stop!!"
He stopped and turned around and Joe walked up to him
(Joe) " here you go"
He handed him a flyer for American Football,
(Joe) "there that's how you can repay me… or at least think about joining ok lates"
He walked the other way down the street as he looked at his poster and walked off the other way.
The next day at school ruddy wandered around the campus looking at the flyer and he bumped into some one he looked at him and before he could look up the tall guy turned around and yelled
(??) he watch out where your….
The guy looked down to see a little guy hiding under his backpack. He put his hand up to the backpack and lowered it
(Ruddy) "I'm sorry here you …
He was cut of by an ecstatic burst of yelling
(??) "Ruddy IS THAT YOU I CANT BELIEVE IT?! ITS ME ALEX!!
Ruddy looked up at him an saw a giant
(ruddy) your Alex Takahashi from middle school? My friend Alex? No your not. You weren't' that tall silly I would know my own friend.
Alex looked at him
(Alex) "idiot I grew over the summer"
(Ruddy) "oh haha that would explain a lot how have you been I see you grew a little"
(Alex) -in a stern voice- " yes I know we have already gone over that"
He looked down and saw a paper in his hand
(Alex) "oh what's that? "
Ruddy looked down but it was gone and in his best friends hand's
(Alex) "Ameri…..American Football?? What is that?"
(Ruddy) I don't know but I'm going to check it out today as a favor, wana come with me today to check it out? We can catch up on what happened over summer break.
(Alex) "o um…. Well I don't … I mean I have studies then I have…
(ruddy) "please Alex…"
Ruddy stood there giving puppy eyes to Alex and finally he gave in
(Alex) ok fine only cause your my friend
(Ruddy) good ill see you here after school ok bye
He took off running
Alex looked at him an laughed and thought to him self
(Alex) in thought heh he's like a little brother to me I can never say no to that lil kid well lets see what trouble we getting now heh
After school that day Again he waited there to see if any one would come to practice. Some time passed and he figured he saw no one so no one would show up as he gathered up his stuff and was about to walk off but in the distance he saw two people walking in from the entrance hallway. He looked at them intensely and saw that Ruddy and some tall kid. As they came into the light they saw. Joe standing near the bench.
(Joe) ahh Tanaka-san I'm so glad you came.
(Ruddy) Kudo-sempai I told u would come and I'm a man of my word. Oh this is my friend form middle school Takahashi, Alex is it ok that I brought him?
Alex bowed, while Joe's jaw dropped
(Joe) of…of course its fine no its great we may have a chance this year.
(Alex) looked at ruddy and ruddy at alex and they both asked
(both) have a chance at what?
(Joe) at the Tokyo bowl the winners of our league go on to play in the World Bowl. Ant then they get put down in the worlds hall of fame high school football team our school was good in the 80's but never that good its my dream to one day be there.
He looked at the two utterly confused in his monologue
(Joe) but anyways lets start our practice
Alex walked forward unto the field
(Alex) what first for us.
Ruddy fallowed his lead
(Joe) lets start with 40 yd dashes
(Alex) what?!
(Ruddy) what's a 40 yd dash
(Joe) its is what it sounds like you run like hell for 40 yards
Joe jogged over to the other side of the lines and he held up his hands
(Joe) who's gona go first?
Ruddy and Alex both looked at each other as they didn't know who would go first.
(Alex) ill go don't worry first to show you who's truly the best
He set up at the line
(Joe) READY… SET… GO!!
He took of running and as he crossed the 40 Joe stoped the clock in at 5.0
(Alex) hey what did I get ?
(Joe) your time was 5.0 seconds that's not bad, that's actually pretty good , with that time you could be a receiver but can you catch??
Alex looked at him and smirked and walked off
(Joe) ruddy you ready?
Ruddy nodded
(Joe) READY… SET… GO!!
Ruddy took off leaving a dirt trail behind him. Joe stopped the clock as he passed the 40 and a look came on his face as if he had just seen a ghost as he looked at the stopwatch.
(Ruddy) Kudo-sempai what did clock in at
(Joe) 4.…4.…
(Alex) spit it out !!
(Joe) agh …..4.3 seconds
Alex and Joe looked at each other both with draws dropped
(Ruddy)is that good what did Alex get?
(Joe) ruddy ….your one of the fastest men on earth. your going to be our Running back Tanaka Ruddy. With you no one will beat us.
Joe started to pack up his stuff, after practice ruddy walked in to the locker room to see Joe In there.
(Ruddy) when do we start our season kudo-sempai
(Joe) we start our season in about 4 weeks but we play our first game in two days Alex walked in afterwards
(Ruddy) what we play in two days!?
Alex looked and as he heard that his jaw dropped
(Alex) what in two days?! No way we wont be prepared in time we don't have enough players……do we??
Joe looked at him confused
(Joe) you don't know much about this sport very much do you
Both of them nodded as to say no he looked at them both and with a look of despair
(Joe) we have a long ways to go
The next day in class ruddy was thinking about what the upcoming game would be like at first he was a lil scared to think we would be playing a contact sport then he as he was getting brave two big guys walked in the door to class he recognized them from his middle schools rivals. As they came up to him he sunk back into his desk remembering what he said to them. But thay passed by harmlessly.
Practice came again and joe waited for them out there and he held some papers in his hand ruddy and alex walked in fully dressed for practice. Joe walked up to them
(Joe) here take these and pass em out to the coaches of the different sports clubs. Well get recruit players. Well be ready for tomorrow
They took the papers out his hands and ran out of the stadium
Joe looked down at his watch
(Joe) 5..4..3..2..1..now
They both ran back into the stadium
(Ruddy)um……
(Alex) what he means is he forgot to ask you where the clubs are.
(Ruddy) what no you forgot
(Alex) no you did
(Joe) girls no need to fight heres a map of the school and ive marked where the different sports clubs are.
They took the map and ran off again
(Joe) what first years -he laughed to him self-
They ran around to different parts of the school handing out different flyers to the coaches. By the end of the day they were dead tired walking home together. But they passed a gym and saw on guy working out it was the taller of the two guys he had put on 255 lbs on the bench press they both stopped to watch if he could do it. As he lifted the bar he slowly let it come down and he push it up slowly. They both watched in amazement as he did this.then again the both started to limp home
At the schools bus stop the ruddy and alex were both a little late for the bus and had to run to the school and as they cam up to the bus stop they saw a group of about 25 kids plus Joe.
(Ruddy) who are these people ?
(Alex) and why are they here at the football bus stop
Joe walked forward in his casual clothing
(Joe) these my friends are the fruits of your labor these are the players that came out to help us in our game today.
(Both) ahhhhh
(Alex) so those flyers we haded out yesterday theses are our new team mates
(Joe) no these are our replacement players they are only here for the hell of it were here to win.
The bus pulled up and the all boarded the bus. Ruddy sat across from Joe.
(Ruddy) Kudo-sempai who are we playing today anyways
(Joe) The Aburame Aces
(Alex) they sound tough -he said from the back of the bus-
Joe laughed a lil and replied
(Joe) hell naw they finished last place last year with one win
(Ruddy) oh to who did they get their first win to.
(Joe)…us…
After that the bus ride was quiet between the three of them the rest of the ride over. As the bus pulled up to the school the got off the bus an over to the stadium and to their sideline.
(Joe) they are very much like us we have recruit players and so do they all we have to worry about is number 45 their veteran LB. but he isn't very good either. He cant catch up to either of you guys. So don't worry
They all suited up for the game and in the stands the crowd was sparse
In the booth one of the announcers looked at the clock
(Announcer 1) where is the new recruit at? He's 15 min. late!
The new announcer ran up the bleachers and ran in the door out of breath
(Announcer 2) I'm sorry… I'm late… I… couldn't find the school… So now where do I… sit.
(Announcer 1) your 15 min late don't you knw how to be on time for a football game!!
(Announcer 2) yes I do know how to be on time to a futball game now lets get settled! And get started.
(Announcer 1) (over the loud speakers of the stadium) NOW LETS GET THIS GAME UNDER WAY THE MATCH BETWEEN THE HOME TEAM THE ABURAME ACES!! AND THE VISITING TEAM THE SHIDOSHA SPARTANS!!….
… AND THERES THE KICK OFF TO THE ACES
Joe kicked the ball of into the end zone and the returner ran it back to the 25 yard line. And in the first play
(Aces QB) ready… set… hike!!
The Qb got the ball and as he pulled it up to pass over the speaker head boomed a voice
(Announcer 2) NO, NO, NO MANO, MANO
The other announcer looked at him then at his ad and realized it wasn't a miss-print in the paper but that he was not meant for football ball soccer. He looked up at the other announcer.
(Announcer 1) you know this American football right??
(Announcer 2) American…. Football?? What's that??
(Announcer 1) NO WAY YOU DON'T KNOW AMEIRCAN FOOTBALL!! I guess I'll have to teach you as you go. You see the
The QB can touch the ball but the center starts it then when he has it he has two options 1 he can hand it off and the RB can run it or he can 2 pass it
(over the speakers)
DOWN AT THE 30 YARD LINE WITH 11:00 CAN THE ACES KNOCK IT IN FOR A ONT TOUCHDOWN LEAD
They pushed the ball down the field Joe stood there on the side line looking at them not able to stop the Aces
(Joe) Damn it we need a defensive leader…
He threw down his bottle and he tightened his fist.
The Aces QB lined up behind his center
(Aces QB) sorry Spartans you lose again READY…SET … HIKE!!
He took the ball and held it up and tossed it at the WR who caught it in the end zone for a 30 yard pass. Joe stood on the sidelines and smirked
(Joe) no, no my friends its not over actually its just the beginning we will be the dawn of a new era
They tried to run it in for the 2 pt conversion.but failed
The score at the first half is the aces up 6 - 0
On the sideline Joe looked at Ruddy an he approached him
(Joe) ruddy I want u you to line up at the 5 yard line wait for the ball to be kicked and once you grab it I want you to a run with all you got. Avoid all the people at all cost
Ruddy looked him with a serious face and he nodded.
The ball was kicked and ruddy looked at in the air and he ran into the end zone and grabbed it he saw all of his blockers trying to hold off the defenders buy it was no use they got through
He started to run but his leg started to hurt but he still ducked and dodged most of the defenders he looked around as he hit the 35 yd line
(Announcer 1) HE COME OUT OF THE END ZONE ANT TO THE 10 THE 20 NOW THE 30 HE MIGHT GO ALL THE WAY
On the 45 yard line he was tackled
(Announcer 1) whoops look like I spoke to early.
He got up and looked around and looked at Joe who was helping him out
(Ruddy) was that good?
Joe looked at him with a smirk
(Joe) that'll do for now ruddy now get in the huddle
On the line Joe looked around and looked at Alex who was across the field.
(Joe) READY….SET….HIKE!!
The ball was snapped and Alex dropped back into position and as he lifted his arm to throw he was already getting hit by the LB.