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Chapter 19 – Pregame Planning
Huey sat in Caesar's living room with his best friend playing Modern Warfare 2 on split screen. It was the night before their next game against Riley's new team and after their last practice that afternoon, Huey and Caesar were going over their game plan for the next day. They would have to come up with some new stuff because neither teen expected Riley to keep their old game plan a secret from his new team. Huey was lucky that he had kept his best plays secret from his brother or he would really be in a tight spot.
"So are we gonna bust out that move this game?" Caesar asked giving his half of the screen a disgusted look as Huey popped his character in the head.
"I'd rather not. I want to save that play for a real desperate moment," Huey said. "But with Cindy back we do have our other options. I plan to run those plays with my rushing as often as possible. We never tired it out with Riley because he was more likely to just run with the ball then finish the play."
"What about Johnny do we have any plays for him?" Caesar asked getting am measure of revenge by knifing Huey's character.
"Ass," Huey cursed skipping by the kill cam. "Johnny is not as fast as Jason, but he has better hands so he'll do well on third down conversions where we don't expect extra yards after the catch."
"With both of them in our opponent's secondary and Hiro in short we'll have them running all over the place," Caesar said once again getting Huey, this time with his FAMAS in the chest.
"That's the plan. If they worry too much about our passing game more lanes will open up for Cindy and me and we can get our running game going this time," Huey said. He paused the game when his phone rang the ring tone it did most often these days. "What's up Jazmine?"
"Huey we need your help?" Jazmine's scared voice shouted over the phone.
"What's wrong?" Huey asked. Jazmine had been staying at Cindy's house that night since everyone else was on the east side of Woodcrest with Huey staying at Caesars and she did not want to be so far away from the rest of the team the night before their next game.
"There're strangers on Cindy's lawn. I'm scared we think we saw weapons," Jazmine cried through the phone.
"We'll be there in a few minutes," Huey said jumping to his feet. "I have to make another call. I'll call you back in a few seconds."
"Alright Huey just hurry," Jazmine said before Huey hung up his phone.
"We're going to Cindy's house Ceez. They think someone is trying to break in," Huey said running to the front door where he grabbed the keys for his Mustang from the key rack. On his way out the door he quickly dialled another number. "Jay where are you right now?"
"I'm at my house with Johnny and Hiro, why Huey?" the star receiver's voice came back off the phone.
"There's a problem at Cindy's house. She hasn't called you yet?" Huey said glad his window was down on his car. He grabbed the roof and jumped through the window.
"No she hasn't. Though it doesn't to surprise me it is Cindy we're talking about she can handle herself." Huey could hear the sound of footsteps on the other end and guessed Jason was also running to his bike. By the faint sound of voices he guessed Johnny and Hiro were following close behind.
"Well there's a problem we need to get over there now," Huey said starting his car as Caesar jumped in the passenger seat.
"We're closer so we'll get there sooner," Jason said and Huey could hear the distinct starting of his motorcycle.
"Just don't do anything stupid," Huey said hanging up his phone again and peeling out of his drive way glad he had a fast car. He pushed the car to its limit right away forgetting all the rules of the road.
"You don't think its Kyle do you?" Caesar asked as Huey plugged his phone into the Bluetooth system in his car and searched for Jazmine's number again.
"It's possible but I don't think so. This isn't his style. He doesn't seem to like direct confrontations," Huey disagreed.
"What about Riley's new team? They did go as far as to poach Riley from us. Who's to say they won't go as far as to try and remove our players before the game?" Caesar said as Huey's phone rang throughout the car.
"And they targeted the girls at Cindy's house," Huey said his wheels screeching as he rounded a corner.
"Big mistake," Caesar said with a smile. If there was one girl he never wanted to mess with it was Cindy.
Jazmine looked out her window at the strangers coming up Cindy's lawn while listening for her phone to ring again. When it finally did she grabbed and quickly pressed the call button. "Huey?"
"Yeah we're only a few blocks away. I called Jason and he's on his way with the others just sit tight and we'll be there in a moment," Huey said.
Jazmine looked out the window to see Candy stepping out the front door with a bat in her hands. "I don't think we can do that."
"What do you mean?" Huey asked and she could hear the concern in his voice as his car sped up in the background.
"Cindy isn't just going to hide and wait for you," Jazmine said as Cindy crossed the field.
"What da fuck are ya doing on my lawn?" She shouted at the strangers. From her place at the window Jazmine could not see any distinguishing features as they stood outside the porch light's light. They all just looked like shadows to her except Cindy how stood just inside the light.
"Very brave of you to come outside to meet us girlie," an unfamiliar voice answered. "You're saving us some energy by coming to us."
"Say what?" Candy said charging him with her bat. She was met by one of the other shadows with a crowbar who seeing her charge what Jazmine guessed was they're leader moved to counter.
Cindy saw the man at the last second out of the corner of her eye and she stepped back and took a swing at the stranger. The bat connected with the stranger's side before Cindy brought the bat back for another swing into the stranger's back.
"Come on," Cindy said kicking the downed stranger one last time in the gut.
That last kick seemed to enrage a few of the other strangers and they charged at Cindy with their blunt wepaons only to find themselves in the same place as the first. Each one fell to Cindy's powerful swings or kicks until only the leader remained.
"Looks like ya da only one left. Ya should have brought more goons," Cindy said pointing her bat at the stranger. "Now ya gonna get down or ya gonna lay down."
"Fuck you bitch," the stranger said pulling out a lead pipe. "You think you're the only one with a weapon."
"Have it ya way," Cindy said charging the stranger. The stranger dodged her first swing and replied with a swing on his own grazing Cindy in the arm.
"Jazmine are you still there?" Huey asked when she stopped talking.
"I'm still here," Jazmine said unable to take her eyes off her friend.
"What's going on?" Huey asked.
"Cindy is being Cindy?" Jazmine said with a smile. "I don't think you need to speed over here anymore. She's taken care of it."
"Of course she did," Caesar said telling her she must be on speaker phone.
"We're right around the corner."
"Jay is here already," Jazmine said seeing the lights of Jason motorcycle pulling up at the edge of the lawn while Cindy was engaged with the last stranger who was proving to be too agile for her bat. Behind him came Hiro's Flex and she assumed Johnny was in there. Over the last couple of days Johnny had integrated himself into the group as easily as Jason had done weeks ago. They shared many of the same personality traits that made it easy for them to get along with both of them, but while Jason was natural cocky and arrogant, Johnny was laid back and humble. While Jason did not take his talents completely for granted he still did to a point, while Johnny worked continuously for his skill.
"Make sure they leave someone conscious. I want to find out who they are," Huey said.
"Will do," Jazmine said taking her phone and edging outside. She kept to the porch while Jason made B-line of the two combatants.
"C what's going on?" Jason asked standing just outside the light.
"I got dis JJ," Cindy said dodging a strike from the stranger's pipe.
"Just get him down. We want him awake to find out who he is," Jason said content to stand outside the fight. Hiro and Johnny soon caught up to him and rather than wait near the fight they circled around to join Jazmine on the porch when they saw he standing there.
"No problem," Cindy said missing another swing.
"Drop the bat. You aren't going to hit him with" Jason advised.
"But da pipe," Cindy argued.
"Just get under it and subdue him," Jason said.
"Okay," Cindy said throwing the bat at her opponent who easily dodged it and Cindy dropped into a Brazilian jujitsu stance Jason had shown her.
On the porch Johnny and Hiro joined Jazmine. "Is that Huey?" Johnny asked pointing to her phone and she hit the speaker phone button.
"Johnny how are things going there? We're right around the corner," Huey said and they could hear his car in the distance but could not see it.
"Everything is good here brah," Johnny said. "Cindy's got everything under control and Jay is here for back up."
"You should hurry though Huey if you want to see this," Hiro added as Cindy dodged a pipe swing and landed a punch to the body. "It won't last much longer."
"Just get me someone to question," Huey said.
"Why does stuff like this happen around our games?" Jazmine asked.
"We're the b league in high school football. Our league is filled with the players who could not play for the varsity teams because they weren't good enough or more likely were kicked off the team. Our league is full of the cheaters and ruffians of the varsity league," Hiro explained. "As we get closer to the finals things are probably going to get even worse."
"I don't like it. Can't we just play football?" Jazmine said as Cindy got a hold on the stranger's weapon hand and using the technique Jason had once used on Riley she hooked the stranger's arm near the triceps and dragged the arm across her body while she moved around to sweep his feet from under him. Once he hit the ground Jason pounced holding him on the ground.
"We have one of them Huey," Hiro said. "We're going to subdue the other attackers."
"We're just pulling up now," Huey said as his headlights came into view.
Huey jumped out of his car once he put it in park and ran over to where Jason was holding down the last stranger and Cindy was standing over them gloating. "I told ya not to miss wit' me. I fucked ya up good."
"Holy crap," Caesar said looking at the scene before him. At least half a dozen men dressed in black were laid out all over Cindy's lawn, most howling in pain from the baseball bat shots. A couple who were beginning to stir were being held down by Johnny and Hiro.
"Stand him up," Huey said angrily to Jason who obliged and dragged the stranger to his feet, hooking his arms behind his back and placing a leg between his prisoners feet to sweep him back to the ground if he tired anything.
"You're going to tell me who you are and why you tried attacking my players," Huey said but he really wanted to say girlfriend, but held back.
"Fuck you," the stranger said and Huey punched him in the face.
"I've not been a patient man lately. Don't test me," Huey said ripping off his hood and pulling his brown hair back sharply to yank the man's head back. "Who are you?"
"Answer the question?" Jason hissed in his ear. "It will not take much for me to break your arms."
"Alex did," the man squealed under the threats of the two teens.
"Who's Alex?" Cindy asked picking her bat back up.
"The captain of the Reagan Roughbacks," the teen said eyeing the bat nervously. "He wanted to make sure you couldn't play tomorrow."
"Has anyone called the police yet?" Huey asked his team.
"I did while we were on route," Hiro said as police sirens blared down the street.
"You can explain the rest to the cops," Huey said releasing the teen's hair. He had the information he needed. This Alex would pay for trying to harm Jazmine; he'd make sure of that. "We'll all be staying here for the night and we'll go the stadium together tomorrow." Huey added walking over to meet the police.
The team spent the night at Cindy's house and in the morning they piled into Hiro's Flex for the ride over to Wuncler stadium. In front of them in their usual black Escalade were Ed and Rummy who after being informed of the night's events came over to Cindy's house to take up their positions as bodyguards. Behind them the linemen made up the end of their caravan in a Ford Windstar.
The ride across town to Wuncler Stadium was a restless one. After last night there was not a person on the team that did not want a piece of the Reagan Roughbacks. This was no longer a game to them, it was all about payback.
Hiro brought his Flex up to the player parking at the back of the stadium. Waiting in the parking lot was Wuncler with team of large men with short cut hair and dressed in black suits.
"Because of what happened last night I've hired these guys to watch over you when you're not on the field today," Wuncler said. "These guys weren't cheap so you better win."
"We're not just here to win anymore Wuncler. We're going to tear them apart," Huey sneered.
Wuncler laughed. "That's what I want to hear. Your gear is in your room and I've taken care of the paper work for our new player." He said with a smile looking at Johnny like he was a valuable possession before leaving them with their security and headed for his private box.
Huey led his team into the stadium surrounded by the black suited men. Entering the room the men waited outside forming a wall around their door.
Jason immediately went to his booth beside the door while the girls pulled across the divider.
"Now way brah," Johnny said seeing his new equipment in his booth next to Hiro and one of the linemen. "And I'm even number eighty four, cool."
"I'll give Wuncler one thing he knows how to treat his players," Huey said changing into the bottom half of his equipment before heading to the whiteboard to lay out his game plan.
With fifteen minutes left on the warning clock, Jason stood up fully dressed, turned is helmet to face the rest of the team and grabbed a football. Outside he kicked the ball up to his knee and juggled it around with his feet his mind visualizing the game ahead.
"Need some company brah," Johnny asked stepping out of the locker room and through the security wall.
"Sure," Jason said kicking the ball over to Johnny who kept it up with his foot, having a lot more trouble than Jason did with the odd shaped ball.
"From everything I've picked up over the last week you know that Riley is going to be coming for you right brah?" Johnny said giving the ball back.
Jason caught it easily with his foot and bumped it up his knee. "I know but I can handle Riley."
"Just don't let your emotions get the better of you brah," Johnny said accepting the ball when Jason kicked it back over. "Your ribs can't be fully healed yet."
"There're not, but I can still take some hits as long as no one puts direct pressure on the bruised ones," Jason said catching the ball in his black taped up forearms when Johnny kicked it back. "It's time we get back."
"Yeah brah," Johnny said and they returned to the room just in time to grab their helmets and join the rest of the team on their journey up to the field.
Huey led his team up to opening of the tunnel where they could hear their entrance song Thugnificent's 'Stomp em in the Nuts' and the announcer hyping up the crowd. "AND NOW YOUR WUNCLER HIGH BLACK PANTHERS! STARTING AT WIDE RECIEVER NUMBER EIGHTY-EIGHT JASON 'THE OUTLAW' JAMES!"
Seeing Riley watching from the opposing side of the field Jason rushed onto the field, doing a cartwheel then a back flip as he went in imitation of Riley from their first game before staring directly at his old teammate as he crossed the field.
"AT TIGHT END A NEW COMER TO YUOR BLANK PANTHERS NUMBER EIGHTY FOUR JOHNNY 'IRON GRIP' KAMAKA!" the announcer yelled out next as Johnny did a little jog out onto the field.
"What the hell is going on?" Alex cursed seeing the Hawaiian receiver line up beside Jason to high five the rest of their team as the announcer continued on calling out the home team. "I thought he quit."
"This isn't good," Corey said beside his running back. "We can't stop both Jason James and Johnny Kamaka."
"Don't worry about dem. Just get Johnny I got Jason," Riley said from behind his gold tinted visor. It went well with his green and blue uniform but he was not too sure about the gorillas on the helmet.
With the announcer finished announcing the home team Alex, Corey, Riley, and Brooks went to meet Huey, Jason, Cindy, and Johnny at centerfield where the officials waited for the coin toss.
"We have a grievance," Alex said when he came in hearing distance f the officials.
"What is your grievance?" the head official asked.
"Number eighty four on the Wuncler High Black Panthers is an ineligible player. He goes to George Bush High School," Alex said but he was only met by smiles on the other team.
"He transferred last week," Huey said. "We submitted all the paperwork several days ago. Same as you did for your new receiver." He looked at Riley who was busy staring at Jason and Cindy with a scowl. Cindy was standing almost right against Jason who was looking down at Riley.
"He's right son the paperwork has been approved," the official said holding out the flag and ribbon coin. "The flag is heads and the ribbon is tails. As the visiting team Reagan High gets to call it in the air." He flipped the coin up.
"Tails," Alex called and the coin fell showing the ribbon.
"Receive or defend?" the official asked retrieving the coin.
"We'll receive," Alex said with a smug grin while he picked his teeth with his tongue.
Huey looked up at the uprights and saw the wind blowing left to right. "We'll take the left side."
"Ya ain't goona beat me dis time Jason," Riley sneered at his rival.
"Just come at me shorty," Jason laughed before turning to follow Huey back to his team.
They lined up for the kickoff which Jazmine hit right to Riley who took the ball at a run and headed down field.
Jason put on a burst of speed lined up as the gunner and broke into through the Roughback's special teams heading straight for Riley.
With their second game underway way what does Alex have in store for Huey and the gang? Will Riley's team change get him the glory he believes he deserves?