A/N: Back after my one day siesta with a new chapter. I hope you like it. Once again I want to give thanks to DaveTheWordsmith, KODfreak, and LegendaryWhiteBoy for reviewing and giving great feedback. Everyone you should check out and review their works because there is some great stuff there if you haven't already, especially "Choices" and "More than Friends" great fics by DaveTheWordsmith and KODfreak's "The Other Guy". Also check out and review "Life Goes On" by DaBlackGoku one of my favourite fics on the site and maybe we'll get the next update soon. Please review.
A/N II: So I have two sequels planned for this fic the first being one of hockey and the second another football one. Over the next few chapters of this fic I'm giving you my readers the chance to submit suggestions for new team names for both sequels. Private message me your suggestions or put it in your review. Don't forget to mention which sequel the name goes with. I will then picked out the best names and put up a poll to let you vote which one you all like. Please submit your suggestions.
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Chapter 43 – Pregame Morning
Jason's alarm went off and he quickly turned it off so it would not wake anyone else. Slumping out of his bed he headed straight for the bathroom attached to his room and looked in the mirror. What looked back at him was a sore sight. He had gotten very little sleep that night because he ribs were hurting him again. The constant movements of practice and the punishment he took during games never gave them time to heal and the shot he took from that the night before had not helped them any.
Washing his face he set about taping up his ribs just to be safe and headed back into his dark room. Sitting on the edge of his bed he ruffled through the stack of clothes beside his feet for his running shorts and a light shirt. Once he was dressed he grabbed his IPod and headed down the out into the kitchen where he quickly took a deep drink of the cold water from his fridge.
He walked through the living room where Cindy stirred on his couch. Normally she slept in one of the two spare rooms his house had but she had stayed up late the night before studying the tapes and had fallen asleep on the couch where Jason and Riley had left her with a heavy blanket. Quietly he scooped her up and gently laid her on his bed with a smirk. She tried to put up a tough front but when sleeping she looked just as innocent as Jazmine and it made Jason smirk.
Sliding on his shoes he stepped out into the cold predawn. The snow had pretty much melted over the last week but it was still cold and the ground was still frozen. Blowing cold breathe in the air with a smile Jason got into his Corvette and headed off to Wuncler Stadium. He was not supposed to be going out alone but it was game day and he could handle himself.
With nearly no one on the road this early Jason sped to the stadium and pulled his Corvette right up to the player's entrance. Only the field crew was there that early. The game was not until that night but they had to make sure the field was prepped and that the conditions were the best they could make it for the players. By now the field staff expected his early arrival and as he walked through the corridors to the locker room they greeted him warmly while going about their own business.
Jason sat down in his booth beside the door and looked around the locker room. It was hard to believe that today would be his last day sitting in that booth. That it would be his last day with his new friends for several months.
With a deep sigh he changed his shoes for his cleats and stood up and headed up to the field for his morning workout.
Back at Jason's two hours later Riley was forcefully awaken by his phone's ring tone. He knew who was calling. The only person who would call him this early would be his brother. Grabbing his phone he pressed the green call button. "Whatchu want nigga?"
"It's already eight get up," Huey's voice said and Riley groaned looking at the digital clock in the corner f his room.
"We're not even in da same house and ya still being an annoying nigga," Riley grumbled falling back on his pillow. "Go annoy someone else."
"Just get up and make sure everyone else is awake," Huey sighed. "We're going to meet at the stadium at three."
"Den I can sleep for seven more hours nigga. Ya have a phone call dem yaself," Riley said abruptly hanging up his phone and turning it off before falling back to sleep.
Downstairs Jason opened the front door his superstitions now placated for the time being. Taking off his shoes he yawned and headed straight for his room ready to go back to sleep until one o'clock as was his custom on game nights. Completely forgetting he had moved Cindy earlier that morning he stripped down to his boxers, removed the tape from his ribs and slid into the left side of his bed pulling the covers over his head. He was drifting off to sleep when someone grabbed his around the waist and pulled their body up close to his.
His eyes shot open and his first reaction was to jump out of his bed and grab one of the hockey sticks he kept in the corner of his room. Luckily he was too groggy at that point to instantly obey his first reaction and that delay was long enough for him to remember what he had done before he left for his workout. Too lazy to do anything about it he just closed his eyes and hit the second alarm on his clock which was set to wake him at one o'clock. Before he fell asleep he heard Cindy mumble something and bury her head into the back of his shoulders and he fell asleep with a smile on his face.
At the Freeman house Huey closed his phone cursing the laziness of his brother. Opening the phone again he called the one person he thought would be awake this early, but Jason's phone just rang until it went to its automated message system and once again Huey cursed loudly, there was only one reason Jason would not pick up his phone.
He called around to the rest of his team but no one was picking up their phones and he was starting to worry at least until Hiro picked up when Huey finally reached his number. "Hiro are you guys alright over there?" he asked as soon as Hiro answered,
"We're fine why?" Hiro asked his tine showing worry as well reacting to Huey's tone.
"No one is picking up their phones," Huey said pacing back and forth through his living room and kitchen.
"Well I know Ed, Rummy, and Johnny are still sleeping," Hiro replied. "I think Johnny plans to sleep till oneish. It would be my guess that they are all doing the same."
"So my teams just lazy then, that's just great," Huey sighed annoyed with his so called star players. Upstairs Caesar was still sleeping in Riley's bed but he could hear Jazmine moving about in the guest room above him.
"No they're just preparing for a night game. Johnny told me he was sleeping late to conserve energy," Hiro explained. "I would assume at least Jason and maybe Cindy are doing the same. Can't say the same thing about your brother though, he's just naturally lazy.
"Then why are you awake?"
"I wake up at the same time everyday and once I'm awake I can't go back to sleep," Hiro answered and Huey could tell by the sound of his voice he was shrugging his shoulders as if it was nothing.
"Well make sure everyone at your house is up in time. I don't want anyone late for our last game," Huey told him. The last thing he needed was to be embarrassed by his team in front of Cairo.
"Don't worry we'll be there. You just got to make sure the others get up. I'll see you at the stadium Huey," Hiro assured him before hanging up.
Huey tossed his phone on the couch and went to rummage through the fridge looking for something to make for breakfast while upstairs he heard the shower turn on.
An hour later Huey was sitting on the coach with Jazmine curled up against him resting her head on his shoulder while they watched the news.
"Huh, look at this," Huey said turning up the TV when the sports section of the broadcast come on. They were doing a special on their game tonight. Either it was a slow morning for the local news or more likely Wuncler who owned the station had paid for the spot to promote the game and make even more money off of them. The radical revolutionary in him should have been outraged but once again his team was benefitting from Wuncler's greed. Who knows who would see the broadcast and any positive expose for Riley that did not involve guns, drugs, or gangs, was a good thing; maybe this would help him get onto a good path for the future.
"Oh looks it's you Huey," Jazmine said excitedly as the reporter showed him recovering the onside kick against Alex from the Reagan Roughbacks.
The Wuncler Black Panthers are led by their captain seventeen year old Huey Freeman. A retired domestic terrorist Huey Freeman has taken high school football by storm leading his twelve men mixed gendered team to the finals of the Maryland mixed gender tournament. Playing both Quarterback and Free Safety Huey has led his team passed last year's winner the George W. Bush Chargers in a tight thirty eight to thirty five game before running over the Reagan Roughbacks sixty six to forty two and finally last week overcoming a breath stealing overtime victory over the Roosevelt Revolvers forty five to thirty nine. Now tonight he is going to face his toughest challenge yet in the also perfect three and zero Graves Stallions led by their two Chicago native import players Quarterback Cairo and wide receiver Dewey Abbado Mamma-see mamma-say mamma-ma-cu-sah Jenkins. The reporter said and the screen showed a few clips from Cairo's game and seeing them only made Huey angry.
Faced with such dangerous adversaries Huey is not coming to this game alone. Supporting Huey in this game as they have done in almost every other game is Huey's Golden Triumvirate consisting of his younger brother, running back, and cornerback Riley "H.R. Paperstacks" Freeman, the versatile Blonde Bomber Cindy "Fearsome" McPhearson who has shown her abilities as a tight end, running back, quarterback, and cornerback, and finally the Wuncler Black Panthers own import wide receiver and middle linebacker all the way from Canada, Jason "the Outlaw" James. Considered the best offensive core in the league all three of Huey's Golden Triumvirate are at the top of their respective positions in almost all categories. Huey could not help but smirk at his three showboating ego fed players being referred to as his minions.
If Huey's Golden Triumvirate was not enough Huey also managed to lure Johnny "Iron Grip" Kamaka away from the George Bush Chargers to add to his solid receiving core with Jason James and Hiro.
At the start of the tournament the Wuncler Black Panthers' biggest weakness was their kicker Jazmine DuBois who could not get a field goal to save her life, but since then she has evolved into a near consistent kicker who has come up with the big kicks when needed. Rounding of the Black Panthers star filled line up is their defensive captain, Centre, and defensive tackle Michael Caesar who leads the league in sacks.
With this kind of fire power the game is sure to be one for the ages and there are even rumours that the NFL is coming to scout Ed Wuncler for a new NFL team and we've heard they are bringing scouts. In the next few years could we see all or some of these players in the NFL?
Could this be the fate of Cairo and the Stallions? The segment ended with a still of Jason and Riley ripping Alex apart with the Cross Cleave.
"I have to give it to Wuncler he knows how to spend his money," Huey said with a small smile. In his head he had replaced Alex with Cairo in that last still. Of that was how it ended he would have no problem with that. Whether he did or his team did it Cairo was going to pay.
Does Cairo have one last scheme planned before the start of the game? Will Cairo share Alex and Rex's fate and fall to the Cross Cleave?