Hey, King Spike Rules here and her is the third chapter to Spike's Basket ball. Now with Soarin with him, Spike works to find more members and he will soon get a chance with three new recruits wanting to join.
Chapter 4: New Starters.
Soarin sighed standing next to the door with his arms crossed and he groaned looking at his watch, sighing louder with seeing the time when he then heard running. He turned to see Spike running his way and he looked annoyed at the younger man.
"Dude, what took you so long?" Soarin asked looking at Spike who looked back at him smiling.
"Sorry, I had cleaning duty." Spike said and Soarin nodded, knowing that pain when it came out and the two of them started to head to gym.
"Spike there you are." Dash yelled out walking towards Spike and Soarin with a mad look on her face, confusing the two of them as they looked at each other, "I need you to get rid of your friends."
"Friends?" Spike said confused as they followed Dash to the gym where they could see three students in the gym looking at a basketball court.
"Tell them they can't be here because of basketball practice." Dash said crossing her arms and looking at Spike with an annoyed expression on her face.
"But what am I suppose to do here?" Spike asked looking at her and Dash sighed out loud.
"They have to be your friends, since they said they were waiting for you." Dash said as Spike looked at Soarin and they both smiled as Spike walked up to them. The three turned to look at him with one being a little heavier then the other two and shorter with wild orange hair wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans. The one next to him with a head taller and a few inches shorter then Spike as he had neater green hair wearing a long sleeve sweater and grey dress pants with a slouch stance. The third was the same height as Spike and Soarin, and he had long green hair with a dark shade made up in bangs over his right eyes.
"Hey, your the captain of the boys Basketball Club?" he asked looking at him and offered Spike his hand, which Spike took and shook it.
"Yeah, i guess and you guys want to join?" Spike asked smiling looking at them as he looked at all three of them.
"Awesome. Yeah, I'm Sandbar and those two are my friends named Snips and Snails." Sandbar said pointing to the other two looking at him sweating as they were not sure how he would respond at seeing them.
"This is great, we have five now." Spike said holding out a piece of paper and offered it to them as he continued, "All you have to do is sign this and we can get our club official in the office." Sandbar happily signed it and handed to his friends, who were nerves before signing it themselves with Spike smiling wide taking the paper and running out of the gym. "I have to see the principal to finalize this." Spike yelled out running off and the other four stood there waiting for him as Dash was watching with her arms crossed.
"I can't believe this is happening." Dash said under her breath and Applejack took notice of he statement.
"What do you mean?" Applejack asked looking at Dash with her hands on her hips, staring at Dash who looked at her.
"The last boy club failed in every tournament they signed up in and slowly fell away because of their constant failures." Dash said looking at Soarin talking to the newbies, "And now it's happening again, no one will take our school seriously with a weak team like that playing against other schools."
"Hey now, don't just go kicking down the apples before they wide." Applejack said defensively to Dash who looked at her confused at what she said, "You can't just judge them without giving them a chance."
"Oh, really?" Dash asked her smirking at her and Applejack feeling uneasy about that smirk.
Spike stood there in front of Principal Celestia reading over his form for a club and she looked it over closely with a few glances to Spike who was a little nerves from her taking her times.
"Well Spike," she paused looking up at him, a fair skin showing off with her long rainbow colors hair, "You do have the five plays you need for the club to start, but i don't see a manager for the club on here."
"O-oh, we're still looking for one." he said his nerves slowly getting the best of him and she could see him sweat more the longer he talked to her.
"Now, you will need to get one in three months before the preliminary tournament start." Celestia said pausing for a moment taking off her glasses looking right at him, "But I can set you up as a club. We'll get you a club room and set you all up with uniforms for the tournament along with a teacher to keep an eye on you." Spike was left shocked as she smiled and he smiled wide, hugging her much to her shock as she placed her acceptance stamp on his form.
Spike ran straight for the gym and peaked inside with the form in his hand when he saw Soarin standing there facing off with Dash.
"Come on, it would be so bad." Dash said a smirk on her face as Soarin glared at her with anger in his eyes.
"Are you out of your mind, there's o way we can do that." Soarin yelled out getting into her face and Dash glared back at him when Spike put his hands in between them.
"Whoa, what the hell is going on here?" Spike asked looking at them both and he cloud see a few of the players where watching this confused.
"All I want is to show the newbies how a real game will play out." Dash said looking at Spike and shrugging off the glare from Soarin.
"She want's to do a practice match with our new team against them." Soarin said as Spike looked at her shocked and Dash simply turned around.
"Hey, i thought you two could handle carrying them since that is the plan right?" Dash asked a smirk on her face and Spike just looked at her in shock as did Applejack, her eyes wide and a fuel of frustration building up inside her.
"Fine." Spike said shocking every one in the gym, even Dash as her smirk grew wider then ever thought possible. Soarin turned him around and walked him a few feet from earshot.
"Are you out of your mind, there's no way in hell we can compete with them at this point. We just became a team." Soarin said confused as to why Spike would agree with something like this.
"Relax, we will have to face strong teams in the tournament and we need to get ready for that." Spike said walking over to the other three and talked them over on the rules of the game, making sure they new what was going on and how they need to do.
"You sure we can do this?" Snips asked feeling uneasy as he was the unfits of them all and he looked at himself with a hint of sadness to it.
"Yeah, I believe you guys can do this." Spike said patting his back and they all smiled with Spike looking over at the girls club team where Dash was standing next to the girl from last time that helped Fluttershy get to the nurses office along with two girls that looked the same except one had blue hair and the other had blue, and then finally a girl with long red, orange, and yellow hair with all of them looking at the boys.
"Okay, my team will be me, Trixie, Aloe, Lotus, and Sunset Shimmer." Dash explained with her team looking at the boys annoyed at what they were doing and got ready as Spike got in his passion to face Dash in a jump ball. "You ready for this?" Dash asked smirking at him and Spike smirked back at her.
"Yeah, let's get this started." Spike said as Pinkie played ref and tossed the ball into the air, which they both jumped for with Spike reaching for all his might. But Dash was easily higher then he was sooner and launched the ball to Trixie, who drove through with Snips and Snails trying to stop her. But she easily moved past them with Aloe and Lotus screens, getting her to the paint while Soarin went to stop her only for Trixie to pass it to Shimmer who was outside the paint. Spike moved to stop a three pointer, but he was too late and they made the first point with ease. The ball fell into Snips hands and sweat ran down his face looking around at not sure what to do as Spike yelled, "You have to move forward or we lose the ball." Hearing that, Snips tried to dribble towards the center only for Aloe to knock it out of his hands and into Lotus'. Snips looked in shock to see he make a lay up to make it a five lead and Snip was shocked.
"Got it." Soarin yelled taking the ball and heading on through the court, slipping through the girls and going for a three with Dash jumping in front of him to stop his shot. But Soarin passed it behind her so Spike could make a lay up to make it 5 to 2. Trixie took the next ball and charged on with Sandbar trying to stop her, but she rolled around him near the three pointer mark and got the points. Sandbar held his head down when Spike patted his back.
"We'll get this, don't sweat it." Spike said and Sandbar gave him a small smile, but i was a fake one as he was lost in thought and soon was fading through the background with the game playing on around him. Spike and Soarin worked hard as the latter got a three pointer to make it 8 to 5. But one rush from Dash and a steal by Trixieput the girls at a 12 5 lead. Spike saw the score and then at his team, Snips and Snails were gaslighted, barely able to move as they both were sweating buckets and Sandbar was lost in his own mind with him not moving much at all after failing to stop Trixie's three pointer.
"You know what she's doing right?" Soarin asked standing next to Spike who looked around and wiped his mouth.
"I know," was all Spike said looking around them with his mind on what was happening to the team, "and we need to figure out what to do before out club disbands before it even starts."
TBC.
That is it for this chapter and i hope you enjoyed it. There is a little ooc here but I feel it's good for the drama. Please leave a review.
