"Final score! Lady Pirates-62, Knights-56! We would like to thank you for attending this week's game!" Said the announcer just after the final buzzer. Vert stood up from his seat and met Agura out on the court. "That, was AWESOME! I can't believe you didn't even get injured when #2 jammed her elbow in your stomach!"

She smiled and took a sip from her water bottle. "Yeah, I'm almost immune! Hey thanks for coming to my game when Spinner had his."

He pulled her into a nice side-hug. "Eh, I saw his game last week. Besides, I would go to every single one of your games if I could!"

She smiled and gave her fellow member on her Pirates team a hug. "I wish. Hey, can we make to Spinner's game?"

Vert checked the clock on the side of the court's scoreboard. "If we hurry, we can make it!"

Agura swiftly glided through the crowd of people and ran outside along with Vert.

Since they had a small stormshock right before the two games, Vert and Zoom decided to go alone. (He still had his suit on, yes.)

After the mission, Zoom had left for Spinner's game because he had attended Agura's game yesterday.

Vert jumped into the Saber and followed Agura. "I know an off-road shortcut." She informed before swerving off to the right.

"Off-roaders…" Vert rolled his eyes and smirked.

"This way, this way, this way…" Agura panted as she ran down a long hallway. Right now, it was a long time-out, since the dancers were on the court doing their job and music was getting the crowd rowdy.

The entered the room and saw all the teammates huddled up listening to plays.

"C'mon." He said and took her hand. They ran down behind all the announcers and computers that controlled the whole house and made their way to just behind the seats put out for players.

Vert found an empty seat next to Sherman. "Hey! You guys made it!" He smiled. "The coach said that the opening should start in about a minute."

"I haven't seen that yet." Agura watched the opposing team shoot.
"Oh, it's EPIC." Vert replied and leaned back.

Suddenly the lights turned completely off. People started cheering as 'Welcome to the Jungle' started with the guitar solo.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... the black panthers...! (Panthers FTW)"

Strobe lights were the only source if you wanted to see.

The cheerleaders formed two straight lines for the team to run through.

"Number one... Max PETWAY!" The announcer boomed.

He ran through the two lines and back into the center of the court.

"Number two, ALEX REED!" The younger member ran through the line and met up with Max. They high-fived and waited for another one.

A few more passed before,

"Number nineteen, SPINNER CORTEEEZ!"

The crowd chanted his last name as Spinner ran back to the center and waited for the next teammate.

"Spinner's really well known here." Sherman clarified to Agura.

As others were called out, a group picture of the male basketball team was on the screen used to show videos and ads.

Spinner still had his storm-shock watch on as he practiced with his team.

The music stopped as the marching band did their own song.

Just before the game started, all of the Battle Force 5 watches beeped. "Storm-shock in T-Minus five minutes."

Spinner paused and ran to Sherman. "What do I do? I can't just bail unless I break something!"

"Agura, Zoom, come with me!" Vert ran back down and left the game.
Spinner watched them worridly. "CORTEZ!" One of the coaches shouted.
"Coming! Just tell me if they need help, kay?" Spinner ran back to his team as they huddled up.

"What's going on?" Vert asked Sherman, who was sitting next to one of the coaches and two other players that he knew well. "The game's tied with three minutes left, how'd the mission go?"

"Just fine." Agura replied.

Zoom took a seat next to Sherman. "Spinner got knocked down twice and the second time made him not do so well."

"In other words, he nearly sprained his ankle." Stanford clarified. Vert nodded. "Understandable…"

The buzzer had both teams split up.

"SPIN!" Agura shouted to him.

He turned and smiled widely.

The dancers got back into their places on the sidelines and watched the boys play.

"I bet Spinny missed me." Agura asked and smirked. "That's cute…"

"Well, this is nearly the first time I've seen Spinner with his hair straight down and in a ponytail for over ten minutes." Stanford said as he looked to the Cortez who was running down and passing the ball to someone in a #86 jersey.

"It's funny because someone on the other team said he had long hair. And #7 said in these words, 'He may be small, but he can slither out of people's ways like a maniac…'." Sherman laughed.

"I'll say." Said a tall teammate with a #23 jersey. "He's really good when he gets mad at some people for underestimating him. I learned that the hard way." He joined in as he dried his face with a towel.

The buzzer sounded again for the last time-out of the day.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have one minute left in the game…!" The announcer said.

Vert eyed his one of his technical supporters. "Spin looks really tired…"

"He always is after a game when they score over 60." Stanford shrugged.

With just about forty seconds left, Spinner got to take a few shots.

He stepped up to the free-throw line as one of the reffs tossed him the ball. In unison, the entire audience, dancers, cheerleaders, and marching band shouted:

"FREE-THROWS WILL BALL GAMES (Clap) WHOOP!"

Spinner shot and groaned half-way. The ball hit the rim and bounced off.

The reff threw the ball to him again. "FREE-THROWS WIN BALL GAMES (Clap) WHOOP!" This time everyone hand their hands in the air as they watched him shoot.

The ball bounced on the rim and fell in. The crowd went wild as they finally got ahead.

The other team stole the ball and made their way to their goal. #2 managed to take the ball and run down the court. With ten seconds left, everyone stood up to watch.

He shot and the ball gently brushed up against the rim. Spinner jumped up and shot again as one of the opposing team members tried to pull him down.

Everyone held their breath as the ball balanced on the rim, then fell through.

The crowd screamed as Spinner fell back onto the floor and fought to calm down.

#2 helped him up and patted him on the back.

Agura ran after him and pulled him into her arms. "That was awesome!" She smiled. Spinner wiped his forehead. "Yeah… can you bring me some water…?" She nodded and let him down.

Vert smirked and patted his back also. "Good job man."

"Thanks… I'm so tired…!"

The red-head scratched the back of his head. "Well, we'll celebrate after you take a shower."

The Cortez eyed him. "Stanford… gimme a hug."

He backed away. "No…!"

"C'mon! You deserve it! C'mon-c-c-ju-HUG ME!" He demanded and chased Stanford down the court.

Agura arrived back with his water bottle.

"Well that was fun!" Zoom snickered.

The Cortez quit and took the water. "That wasn't really fun for me."

A few opposing team members passed by and congratulated him.

"Oh wow, this never even happened when I was in high school. After my team won a game of soccer, no one was happy. Our coach thought we could have always done better, and the other team had so many injuries." Vert said.

Spinner smiled and dried his face that was glistening with sweat. "Yeah yeah… How 'bout we go to Zeke's and party it up? I need to get out of these clothes." He tugged on his black and red jersey with #19 on his shorts and chest.

"Sure…" Vert put his arm around Spinner's neck, but quickly pulled away when it was drenched with sweat. "Egh… But first, go take a shower! UGH!"