Revised version (Sorry about the previous stuff, that was from when I posted this on Quizilla and I Guess I forgot to get rid of it. sorry...)

Chapter 3-A New School

Be-Beep Alex turned off the alarm. She went downstairs, put a bagel in the toaster and took a quick shower. She changed into the uniform she was given. Not bad, she thought as she looked over herself in the mirror. "Now to complete it all off," she said as she grabbed a black cap and stuck it on the head so it was partly to the side. Perfect, she thought. Better go though. She went downstairs, grabbed her bagel, tennis bag and skateboard and left. When she got to the school she thought, Hmm. I'm really early. I guess I'll go to the tennis courts. As she walked towards them, she heard a lot of people practicing. It sounded like a lot of boys. Damn, guess I can't practice. I guess I might as well watch them practice. As she watched the tennis team practice, she thought, Hm. I thought chibi would be here.

Right after she thought that, she heard a freshman yell, "Look the regulars are here."

Alex didn't bother to turn around since it wouldn't concern her. Then she heard, "Yo, Alex."

She turned around and saw Momo, Eiji and Ryoma along with 5 other guys, all wearing regular jackets, except for the computer glasses dude who looked like their manager.

"Ohayo." said Alex, bowing. Eiji just happened to glomp her, causing her to stumble a bit, which caused her hat to fall off.

"Alex-chan," said Eiji, "Why did you cut your hair so short?"

Alex's hair was sorta like Ryoma's except it was shorter so it stuck up in some places.

"I got a guy's uniform so I have to fit in right?"

"Told ya she'd get a guy's uniform," said Ryoma.

"And why am I not surprised you a regular Ochibi?" retorted Alex.

"Who's this?" asked the guy with closed eyes.

"And why'd she call Echizen 'Ochibi'?" the guy with the odd hair cut asked that question.

Momo explained, "This is Alex. She's from America. She knows Echizen because they lived near each other."

"And who are these people?" asked Alex.

"Oi. Right," said Eiji.

"This is vice-captain Oishi Syuichiro, Fuji Syusuke, Inui Sadaharu, Kawamura Takashi and Kaidoh Kaoru"

All of them said hi in turn except for Kaidoh who did his regular "Fssssh".

"Um, Kikumaru-san" whispered Alex, "Why did Kaidoh just hiss?"

"He does that a lot. He's called Viper because he's like a snake and of his snake shot," replied Eiji.

"Snake Shot?" asked Alex.

"You'll get it when you see his playing style"

Alex nodded in understanding.

"You want to warm-up with us?" asked Eiji.

"Um, if it's alright with everyone else," replied Alex, a bit unsure.

"It should be fine" said Oishi.

As Alex and the regulars entered the tennis courts Alex heard, "Look the regulars," "Wow, they look so cool," "Who's the new guy?" "And how come he gets to warm up with the regulars?" Alex could tell Oishi heard the comments about her and gave him a pleading look. "Ok everyone, this is Alex. He's just helping us warm-up. Now get back to practice." Once she saw everyone else get back to practice she started to stretch.

"She does a lot of unusual stretches," observed Kawamura.

When Alex finished her stretching Inui said, "With her stretching program she stretched about 97 of the muscles in her body." A

ll the regulars looked at her. "Too bad she can't be on the boy's team," said Fuji.

"Hey, Momo," said Eiji, "Why don't you play a match against Alex."

"Sure" said Momo "You fine with that Alex-senpai?"

"Sure," said Alex, "I don't mind."

MATCH BEGINS

"One set match, Momoshiro to serve," announced Oishi who was the chair judge.

"You sure you don't want to serve?" asked Momo.

"I'm sure," said Alex, "And don't go easy on me," she added.

"If you insist" said Momo. He served a fast and heavy ball.

"Look" said the uni-browed freshman. "Momo-chan-senpai's Bullet Serve!"

'Bullet Serve,' thought Alex as she shot it back. 'Not bad.' She then took the point. Momo did his Bullet Serve again and they started to rally.

As they rallied, Ryoma started to smirk.

"What is it Echizen?" asked Kawamura.

"She's just playing her warm up tennis."

"Warm up tennis?" asked the rest.

"Just watch," he replied.

Momo came back to get 4 straight points. "Game Momoshiro, 1-0," said Oishi.

Alex bounced the ball, getting ready to serve. "Better get ready Momo," said Alex as she served. But when the ball bounced, it bounced in the opposite direction. Momo dodged the ball before it hit his face.

"T-T-Twist Serve??" said one of the freshman. "

Hey, Echizen." said Fuji "That looked exactly like your twist serve."

"That's cause it is," said Ryoma. "Oyaji taught her that."

Alex served again, but this time it was a normal serve.

"What," asked Momo, "No twist serve?"

"Nahh" said Alex, "I don't like using it." as she shot the ball back.

They rallied for a while when Fuji noticed something. His smile grew wider. Inui notice and asked, "What is it Fuji?"

"Look at her feet," he said. Inui looked and saw a circle of scuff marks around her left foot. Momo shot a ball and Alex just rotated to hit it back. "She's not moving from her spot."

"Tezuka Zone?" mumbled Inui, amazed at this girl's skill.

This time, when Momo shot the ball across to the other side of the court, Alex spun on one foot and kept on spinning. Once the ball got close enough, Alex suddenly put down her foot, bending with her arms crossed, and shot out her arms. The ball shot with large amount of speed to the left corner of the court. Everybody was silent. Fuji had his eyes open and everybody was looking at the fence where the ball was stuck.

"That's new," mumbled Ryoma.

"What was that?" cried a freshman.

"Spinning Shot," said Alex.

"Spinning" started Kawamura

"Shot" finished Kaidoh.

"Interesting," said Inui while scribbling in his notebook.

"Whoa" said the uni-browed kid.

As the match progressed, they could see that she could control where the ball would go and had great precision with it as well. After about 20 min. Oishi called, "Game and match, Alex 6-1." As Alex dried the sweat off of her and put her racket into her tennis bag, Momo and the rest of the regulars sort of gathered around her.

"Nice match," said Momo.

"You too," said Alex. "Oh and I know you were holding back," she added.

"What?" asked Momo. "You guys wanted to see what I was made of. That's why I wasn't playing at my best either."

"Warm-up Tennis," said Ryoma.

"You remember that Chibi?" asked Alex.

"Hm, you never had that."

Nobody asked what "That" was. They all knew he meant Alex's Spinning Shot.

"Yeah, well Momo made me get a little serious."

"So that was your Warm-Up Tennis?" asked Kawamura.

"Well, sort of, not really," said Alex, "My warm-up Tennis is what I played in the first game. I realized that I had to get a little serious. Key word's a little. I was also pissed that you went easy on me even after I told you not to." "And I don't get why you have to call it warm up tennis," she added, glaring at Ryoma.

Ryoma just looked at her with a look that said "Come on tell the truth".

"Oh fine," she said, "I also wanted to end the match quickly."

Just then the doors to the court opened. "Captain," said everyone, except for the regulars and Alex, while they bowed. 'So this is their captain,' thought Alex, 'I wonder how strict he is.' The captain walked over to where the regulars and Alex stood.

"What's he doing here?" he asked in a voice that made Alex think, 'Okay, very strict. Or just plain cold. That face doesn't help either.'

Alex got scared and immediately stopped talking. Oishi noticed your look (notice how it's only Oishi who notices these things? No there is no implied meaning, just though I should point it out) and explained the story to the captain. "It's nothing Tezuka," said Oishi. "She was just watching the practice. She knows Echizen from America and met Eiji and Momo yesterday."

"Why was she playing a match with Momo then?" he asked.

"We wanted to see her strength," answered Fuji.

"Although we weren't able to gather sufficient data because she knew Momo wasn't playing at his full strength," added Inui, "She played at an equal strength,"

"Um well, I better go," said Alex. "I need to change and get my schedule. Bye. Nice meeting all of you." With that she grabbed her bag and went to the girls changing room.

"How'd she know where to go?" asked Kaidoh.

"Maybe she walked around here when she was getting her paperwork done," suggested Kawamura.

All of the regulars turned towards the direction Alex left. 'What an odd girl,' they all thought. (except Ryoma of course)