"The Summer"
A fan-fiction by Aaron
© Aaron, Rocket Power Heat
Chapter 1- The Opportunity
It was the summer of 2006 in Ocean Shores. Otto, Reggie, Twister and Sam had just finished their first year of high school, and looked to celebrate by going to the Shore Shack. "The usual round of things, Ray," said the outgoing Rocket Boy, known as Otto. He had grown a little lankier, but was still a mere 5 feet tall, and had a wrist band on his left arm that said "Get Lost with God." Other than that, Otto retained his boyish features since he was 9.
Reggie and Twister were basically the same, except, well, they had a romance going since last year. The two held hands while eating their Shack burgers. Otto shook his head. "Will you two stop, you are making me want to puke!" Reggie ignored this and said "Let's go to Mad-town, Twister and Sam!" "I have to show you this great new move that Otto can't do!"
"Really, Reggie? I am after all me!" "I can beat you any day of the week, loser!" Twister interjected "Hey, she's my girlfriend, so back off!" The two started trading blows, and eventually Twister pinned Otto down, much to Otto's chagrin. "What are you going to do about it, shrimp?"
While Sam and Reggie came to try and stop it, Ray took a phone call. "Hello, Shore Shack. Yes? I understand. See you then." "Damn it, Otto and Twister, can't you two stop going at each other!" They just stared at each other for 5 minutes, until Ray announced something. "Aaron is coming to Ocean Shores for the summer." The two friends would just not stop fighting. Ray pulled off Otto off of Twister. "WILL YOU LISTEN TO ME FOR TWO SECONDS!"
Ray went on to tell the gang that Aaron had accepted a job as a head basketball coach at a local YMCA, to make a little extra money, starting as of tomorrow. "Would you be interested in joining? It's a four on four league, and the winners of the tournament would score $1,000 for each player."
Otto never could refuse an offer for competition. "Of course! Are you guys in or not?" Everyone stared at Otto, then went "Yeah!"
The very next day, the kids went over to the local YMCA to sign up on Aaron's team. But there was no Aaron to be seen, where was he? Reggie had an idea. The basketball court! Sure enough, there he was just shooting around, doing crossover dribbles, shooting down 3 pointers with ease.
Sam looked at Aaron with great interest. "You didn't look like you could play basketball." Aaron winced at Sam for a moment. "Sammy, Sammy, Sammy. You have so much to learn about me. Want to play a game of one on one with me? Just be warned, you'll probably get destroyed." Sam just laughed. "I know that, I always get destroyed in sports." "To twenty," Aaron said. "Loser's outs, 2's and 3's." "Got it?"
In quick fashion, with Aaron's mad handles and shooting, he wasted The Squid in short time. "That is what we call, game!" Twister wanted to go next, if he could beat Aaron, then Reggie would be really impressed. During the game, he couldn't stop looking at Reggie. It was obvious to Aaron: He was clumsy and unfocused. Next up was with Otto.
This was a pretty evenly matched up game, as even though Aaron had at least 4-6 inches on Otto, Otto had the quickness. The final score ended up being 20-19. "Well, at least I got a work-out with you. Practice starts tomorrow, so we can gear up for the tournament." Then he watched Otto and Twister play against Reggie and Sam. Otto was such a ball hog, just shot it every time. He never passed it. Twister wanted to kiss Reggie every time she made a good play.
Aaron just groaned. "I have a lot of work to do with these guys." "This is never easy with this crew."