Hey, King Spike Rules here and her is the third chapter to Spike's Basket ball. The practice game between the newly formed Boys Basketball Club and the Girls is heating up with Spike and Soarin trying their best to keep the team from dying.
Chapter 5: Crushing Battle.
Spike and Soarin looked at their team, seeing Snips sweating buckets and trying to catch his breath as Snails worked on trying to do defense to cover him.
"You keep an eye on him." Spike said standing up and tried to help Snails with covering Dash, who was heading for another charge through the middle and then tossed it to Trixie, who was free in the left. Spike turned to try stopping her shot but Aloe was doing a screen that stopped him in his tracks. Trixie got another shot and it made it adding two more to their lead as Spike got the ball, looking at everyone and charged on getting past Lotus, Aloe, and Trixie only for Dash to slip through and knocked the ball out of Spike's hand. He turned just in time to see her do a three pointer behind his back and then she turned to him with a smug smile on her face. Spike was furies and tried to get ore points but the last five minutes of the game made the score difference even great with the final score being 24 to 5.
"This is freaking ridiculous." Soarin said panting and looking at the team, Snips barely able to keep himself off the ground and was using the bench to keep himself from hitting the ground.
"Yeah, but at least it's over." Spike said looking up at him from kneeling and smiling, looking for to the bright side of things while Sandbar and Snails looked over snips who was still catching his breath.
"What do you mean over?" Dash asked as Spike and Soarin turned to look at her spinning a ball on her finger with a smug smile still on her face, "This is a whole game, this is just the two minute break in between the first and second quarter" Spike and Soarin were in shock at what she had told them, but before they could say anything Applejakc took her arm and lead her away from them.
"What the hell are you doing, trying to kill them?" Applejack asked her eyes a fury of fire over what Dash was doing.
"What, it's just a game between two teams." Dash said smiling pulling away and walking back over tot he other, "You guys ready for another quarter?" Spike looked at the gassed Snips and he let out a long sigh.
"Fine, but we're playing a man down since he's not playing." Spike said pointing towards Snips as Snails helped him sit on the bench with water in his hand.
"Then I guess your forfeiting then." Dash said smugglly and this was Soarin breaking up, grabbing her shirt and pulling her to face him.
"Are you freaking kidding me, if he plays any more he'll be in the hospital and you want to act like a total bitch?" Soarin said glaring at her and Dash was glaring back at him.
"Let me go or you would regret it." Dash said and they two faced off.
"What is going on here?" a voice called out and they turned to look to see Vice-Principal Luna standing there with her arms crossed with Twilight standing next to her herself looking annoyed. "Let go of her shirt before your suspended." she barked and Soarin let her go, leaving Dash with a glare in her eyes.
"Dahs, what are you doing?" Twilight asked looking at her teammate and Dash looked at the teacher in front of her.
"I just thought it would be a great chance to have the girl's club to welcome the boys club with a basketball match." Dash said looking at them and acting like it was all in good fun. Twilight didn't answer when she looked around and saw Snips was gassed bably.
"Alright, just continue with a man down." Twilight said with her and Luna walking over to the side, allowing Dash to hide her smug smile looking at Spike who was shooting her a glare. Applejack stood next to Twilight her arms crossed.
"You know all that welcoming stuff is a steaming pile of cow patties right?" Applejack asked and Twilight nodded.
"Yes, but it's pride." Twilight said looking at them and Applejack was left in shock as she looked at her captain, "Spike and Soarin want to fight on, and I'm sure the next quarter could surprise us." Applejack turned back to look at them and the second Quarter went by, the girl team's killing the boys team with several three points, alley-oops, free shots, and everything with Spike and Soarin working the damndest to keep up with Snails and Sandbar struggling to help. It came down to be 56-14 and the boys were all getting tiered, even Spike for all the extra work he put in to cover a man down and Applejack handed each of them water while the girls were relaxing their moments as dash looked at teh boys a smile still on her face.
"Twilight, does basketball have a mercy rule lick Baseball?" Luna asked looking at the score and the boys sitting in silence over their game.
"No, they go even if the other team got no points until the end." Twilight whispered and Luna nodded with the ten minute rest ending, and the third quarter pulling the girls ahead even more with Spike and Soarin getting near their limit while Snips was at his, and Sandbar hung his head with the whistle blowing and the score had gown even more with it being 89-20. A two minute break goes by as the boys sit in on their bench, their heads down with Spike staying in silence while Luna looked at them with a hint on concern in her eyes.
"Twilight, are you sure about not wanting to call it quits?" she asked looking at the student, "I mean, this is not even close to fair score rise and I feel it's impossible to have a comeback."
"It is impossible." Spike said his head having a towel draped over it and they all looked at him, "but giving up when it looks bad is worse then not trying at all." The whistle blows and they get up with Snips standing up with them.
"I- need to be out there with them." Snips said as they looked at him and watched him walk onto the court with Spike smiling wide, joining them as Dash smirked at seeing them.
"Oh, look. You ready to stop holding them down?' she asked smugly and even got a look from her team while Applejack was staring daggers at her.
"Twilight, you might need to hold me back if she keeps talking like that." Applejack said and Twilight nodded with Luna also noting how Dash had talked to the players.
"We're ready to make the rest of this game interesting." Spike said getting the ball and holding it while he looked at the other teammate, seeing other things before he moved in for a charge. Dash smirked as she moved in to stop him and was ready for any move he could do. So, Spike threw the ball behind him to Snips, who was shocked and then tossed instantly to Soarin who did a three points to make it 89 to 23.
"What the?" Dash said shocked as she got the ball after a check and lead the team down, seeing a man to man defense as she smirked moving and heading for duck in Spike had his hand in the perfect spot to stop her. Dash gritted her teeth and tossed it to next to only to see Snips getting the ball again. They were shocked as Trixie moved to block a shot, but this left Spike open to be giving a hand off and him rushing to the paint to get a lay up for two.
"What's going on?" Luna asked confused at how they were doing suddenly good.
"Dash and the others are putting their guard down, so their making more mistakes." Twilight explained with her eyes locked on the game as Dash held the ball tightly while looking at the boys, three of them were near their end and even Soarin was way past his limit, pushing himself on with his will to keep trying.
"Alright, that's it." Dash said looking at them as she looked at all her players and then back to the boys, "Not a single point more from them understood?" And they all nodded, wanting to impress the captain as the girls went on a ramped points, screens, and other shots taking the tired boys to the cleaners with Spike and Soarin never getting the ball for the rest of the game. Dash and her group had completely singled out the three new players, and forced Spike to watch the score climb even higher then it ever was. With the final whistle, the score was 150-25 and Spike just stood there looking at the score in complete shock from it. "Better luck next time champ." Dash said mockingly patting Spike's back and walking past with Spike looking at the boys club, Snips laying on the court breathing heavily with himself forced to work even more with out Spike and Soarin to cover it. Swallowing hard, Spike walked towards the trio, seeing they were all in bad states from how the game had played out.
"Y-you guys did great." Spike said looking at them and they all looked up at him, seeing they new they were killed that night and didn't do much of note to help out the club. "Rest up tomorrow, practice the day after." With that, Spike shook their hands and turned to head off home as the girls continued their practice with Twilight over seeing how the girls were doing. Walking on through the gym and off of school grounds, Spike saw Soarin waiting for him and the duo walked on in silence for a few minutes with their minds on what had happened..
"You know exactly what Dash's plan was with that?" Soarin asked not looking up.
"Yup, kill the boys club before we even had a chance to really get started." Spike answered with his head up and a long sigh as the duo continued to walk on down the street, their hearts and mind heavy with the fear over the future of the basketball club.
TBC.
That is it for this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it as it's building even more with more to join soon.
