Disclaimer: I don't own the X-men, Marvel does, I do however, own all OCs that appear in this fic
Chapter 3: Mutant Football
The ball sailed through the air and Sarin ran for it, leaping into the air he caught it with ease, landed like a cat and took off down the field, heading straight for the endzone…
…when two of the opposing side crashed into him like a pair of eagles attacking a mouse. Sarin hit the field hard and the ball spun out of his hands. Seeing him go down Beserker immediately went in to back Sarin up, grabbing the ball before either of Sarins attackers could get their hands on it, taking off up the field, intending to complete what Sarin had started.
"You O.K?" Sunspot asked Sarin, helping him up
"Never better" Sarin replied as Beserker passed the ball to Zander, who slid in underneath three of the opposing team to score the first touchdown of the game. Principal Kelly had left his office to observe the tryouts and he didn't like Zanders touchdown one bit.
"What are you doing? You're supposed to make sure no mutants get onto the team" he snapped at Duncan, as the other mutants gathered around Zander, congratulating him on his touchdown
"Don't worry, they won't, I'll make sure of it" Duncan replied
"You'd better, or there might be another free place on the team this year" Principal Kelly said threateningly. Duncan glared at the mutants then nodded at one of his buddies who was on the opposing team. The boy nodded back and took off down the field as soon as his teams quarterback kicked the ball, aiming straight for Bobby, despite the fact the ball had landed at the other side of the field.
Before Sarin could shout a warning to Bobby, the opposing player slammed into him like a freight train. Bobby hit the ground hard, his right arm landing beneath the rest of him at an awkward angle, the weight of both him and the other player bore down on it and a sharp crack was heard by everyone near the playing field, as was Bobbys sharp cry of pain. He was rolling around on the ground holding his right arm when the rest of his team went over to help him. Sarin grabbed the player who'd taken Bobby down and sharply hauled him to his feet.
"What the hell was that!!" he yelled, his eyes blazing with white fire, the player gulped nervously, afraid Sarin might incinerate him. Principal Kelly saw it as well and had to make a great effort to keep his grin hidden.
"Calm down man" Zander said, pulling the two apart with help from Beserker and Sunspot
"He broke Bobbys arm and you're telling me to calm down!!" Sarin yelled
"Don't worry, I think it's just a hairline fracture, nothing too serious" Bryce said, kneeling down to examine Bobbys broken arm. He quickly grabbed a couple of pads and a pair of sweat bands to create a makeshift split, holding the broken bones in place.
"My grandmother was a doctor back in Poland, she taught me some stuff" he said, guessing that everyone was surprised by his medical knowledge
"Don't worry about me guys, just beat these jerks" Bobby said to the others, gritting his teeth in pain at his broken arm as Kitty and Rogue came onto the field, helped him to his feet and took him inside to the nurses office.
"Well, what're you waiting for, get back to the game or you're disqualified" Duncan told the mutants, high fiving his friend on his way back to the sidelines, despite that, the rest of the opposing team didn't share Duncans sense of happiness and just looked disgusted at his tactics.
"Hey listen, he may care that you're mutants but we don't, we just wanna be on the team, same as you, we just want to play football, not beat down on mutants" the opposing teams quarterback said to Sarin
"Good to know" he replied
"Don't think that means we'll go easy on you guys though" the lineback said, smirking
"Wouldn't ask ya to" Sarin said, smirking back as the team trunched back to their sides of the field. The rest of that half was pretty uneventful, with both sides pushing the other to their limit, even though Duncans friend tried to provoke the X-men with cheap shots and dirty tricks, they overcame it and the other team tried to involve him in the game as little as possible.
The half ended and the teams swapped ends, getting ready for the other half of the game.
"What're you guys doing, do you wanna be on my team or what?" Duncan snapped at the other team
"Your team? I thought it was the schools team" the quarterback said, more focused on adjusting his trainers then what Duncan was saying
"Take those mutant freaks out or you can forget about being on this team" Duncan said in a low and deadly voice, glaring at the quarterback
"Forget about it pal, we're not doing your dirty work for you" the lineback said coldly, Duncan clenched his fists so tight in rage that the clipboard he was holding almost snapped in two, whoever won, he lost.
While they got ready for the other team to kick to them Sunspot looked over and saw Rahne, Kendra, Destiny and Holly trying out for the soccer team, he waved at Rahne and the young Scottish girl waved back in reply. He was so busy looked at Rahne he almost missed the ball as it soared into the air after being kicked by the other teams quarterback. He caught it, leaping backwards as it sailed over his head, he landed precariously on his feet, teetering on his tiptoes, by the time he'd managed to regain his balance the other team was upon him. Acting quickly he passed it to Bryce who was waiting nearby, as soon as the Polish mutant caught the ball he took off up the field, the opposing teams lineback saw that all his team was at the other end of the field with nothing between Bryce and the endzone, and took off in hot pursuit. Bryce raced for the endzone, he was almost there when he slipped on a damp patch of grass leftover from the rain the night before, by the time he'd regained his footing and momentum the lineback had caught up and threw himself at Bryce, catching him around his waist and dragging him down to the floor with ease. As Bryce fell his arms flailed out trying to break his fall, all he managed to do was catch his arm on a sharp rock sticking up out of the field, opening up a small cut on his lower right arm.
"Sorry man, here let me help" the lineback said, reaching down to help Bryce up, as soon as he did Bryce scuttled backwards away form him.
"Stay back" he said, checking to see if he was bleeding anywhere else.
"What's the problem? I only anted to help you up" the lineback asked, insulted. Bryce held out his right arm, the lineback looked and saw a couple of drops of Bryces blood drip onto the field, where they burned away the grass they touched.
"I've got bad blood, you wouldn't want that to happen to you would you?" Bryce asked him, standing up on his own
"Guess not" he replied. The game restarted and the opposing team managed to score a touchdown of their own thanks to a lucky run by their quarterback. As the final minutes ticked away the mutants assembled for a final attack on their opponents endzone.
Zander caught the ball as it was kicked his way by the opposing team and quickly took off towards the endzone with Sarin and Sunspot falling in behind him. As he passed the halfway point Zander as taken down by the other teams quarterback, but he'd already thrown the ball behind him to Sarin, who carried it onwards. As they neared the endzone Duncans friend took him out with an elbow to the stomach, despite the pain Sarin threw the ball over his shoulder where Sunspot caught it. He shot past Duncans friend before he could do anything to stop him and crossed the final few meters to the endzone, only to see it blocked by the rest of the opposing team, acting quickly he dropped to the ground and slid along it, taking full advantage of the damp grass to slide through a small gap left by the other team to cross the land and score his teams second and final touchdown seconds before the end of the game.
Duncan threw his clipboard to the ground in frustration as the rest of Sunspots team cheered and raced up the field to congratulate him. Sunspot climbed to his feet, is ears ringing with the cheers of his team, he looked around to see the girls soccer practice had ended as well, Rahne ran over, having seen his touchdown and threw her arms around Sunspot, a few seconds alter both of them let go and backed away from each other, blushing furiously.
Duncan glared at the two teams, they may have won but he was going to make sure he'd keep a few of them out of the team regardless.
"O.K, since there's eight spots available six of you get to go through to the team, except Drake and Naie" he said
"Why not?" Bryce said in disbelief
"Drake wasn't even playing for most of the game and with that broken arm he'd be off the team for most of the year anyway. And Naie used his powers" Duncan, happy he'd be able to justify his choices to Principal Kelly
"I did not" Bryce replied
"Yes you did mister Naie, you used your powers when you were cut earlier in the game" Principal Kelly said
"But that's not fair, I didn't do it on purpose"
"Calm down mister Naie, you're lucky I'm not expelling you" Principal Kelly said before walking way back into the school.
"Since there's two still spots free I guess I'll have to pick two of the losing team to fill them, Joey Collins, Jake Keller" the quarterback and lineback looked up as Duncan said their names
"Yea?" they said unison
"You're on the team" he said, not happy about it whatsoever
"Yes" they both said, high-fiving each other
"Practice starts on Wednesday at lunch, now all of you get out of here before I change my mind" he said, marching back into the school with his friend following sullenly behind him.
"Sorry you didn't get on the team" Joey said to Bryce
"Meh, with my blood it's probably for the best, I was gonna try out for the track team anyway" he replied
The both teams and the girls who'd tried out for the soccer team headed back inside the school to their next lessons, joking and celebrating, completely unaware of what was going to take place later that day.
In chapter 4 – The new student body president Graydon Creed promises lots of changes at the school, starting with getting rid of the X-men.
To be continued, please review