A/N: Once again I want to give thanks to DaveTheWordsmith, KODfreak, and LegendaryWhiteBoy for reviewing and giving great feedback.

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Chapter 48 – Finals Third Quarter 15-13

For the third quarter in a row the Black Panthers received a kickoff to start the quarter. This time the Stallion kicker booted the ball down to Jason rather than Riley. Jason easily caught the ball and cut toward the middle of the field as everyone moved to the side to try and stop him from running up straight. Richard was the first one on him and he tried to grab a hold of Jason's shirt to pull him down but Jason spun violently out of his grip throwing Richard to the ground as he went. He continued to pick up speed as he hit the wall and broke through the reaching hands and limbs trying to trip him up and got beyond the wall he burst through the wall only to meet Tyson who embarrassed by Hector calling him out did not even try to tackle Jason instead as Jason passed by him he grabbed him by the back color of his shirt and pads and wrenched him back to the line where Jason landed on the back of his head in a heap.

Jason's head hit the ground hard and his body hit the ground a split second later and he did not get up right away. He remained on the ground breathing hard as his head spun from the force of the illegal tackle. Finally after a few seconds he tried to get up but he only managed a couple of wobbly steps before crashing back down to the ground where he lay still on the ground.

Like when Tyson had hurt Huey Caesar tried to go after the bigger defensive tackle but Huey held him back. "No we can't afford to have you ejected from the game," Huey said and Caesar looked up to complain but when he saw Huey's seething eyes he stopped resisting.

"But Huey we can't let him get away with this," Caesar protested as Rummy ran passed him with a stretcher to look at their still friend.

"You won't let him but we have to do it within the rules of the game," Huey said. "Why do you think I taught you those plays?"

"So we're going to use one then," Caesar said calming down a little.

"I didn't want to but we can't over look something that blatant," Huey said.

"Huey, Caesar help me over here," Rummy called them over as he sat Jason up but even now they could tell he was completely out of it.

"Alright," they both said quickly jogging over to their downed friend. As Caesar passed Tyson who was watching with a smug look on his face he hit him with his shoulder. "Watch yourself," he whispered as he passed him.

"Is he gonna be okay?" Cindy asked Rummy on the verge of tears as she looked at Jason who as barely conscious and had no clue what was going on anymore.

"I don't know I'll have to run some test. He might be concussed," Rummy said feeling sorry for the girl who had to watch her boyfriend being carried off the field without knowing if he would even be able to talk again.

Huey and Caesar gingerly helped Jason onto the stretcher that Rummy brought and supported his weight between them all the way to the bench. "I'll take him to the medical room," Rummy said switching out with Caesar. "Ed take Huey's place we've got to get him checked out. I don't think he'll be playing again."

"Just make sure he's alright. We'll handle the rest," Huey said turning back to the field. There would be no more playing by the book. "We're going to have to pick up all our games now that Jason is out. I need someone to move to Jason's spot."

"I can do it brah," Johnny said.

"No Johnny I need you to stay at slot back to catch the clutch balls," Huey said.

"I will nigga," Riley volunteered next.

"You know you can't," Huey refused. "I need my running back if we want to win."

"So who den?" Cindy asked. "Jazmine can't and Hiro is neither consistent enough nor fast enough to take Jason's spot."

"That leaves only you Cindy. You'll need to take his place for now," Huey said as the official marched the ball up fifteen yards for the horse collar penalty.

"I can try but dere's no way I can replace him," Cindy said.

"Just catch the ball when I throw it to you same as usual you'll just be running his routes now," Huey told her as they lined up for the huddle.

"Aight," Cindy said before moving down to the long side of the field to take up Jason's spot in their button hook play.

Huey took the snap on his first play of the second half and immediately vacated the pocket as Hector rushed in from safety position and broke through the corner of his line. He threw the ball quickly down field as Cindy hooked back in getting the inside route on her corner who after running against Jason who ran with speed and technique was not prepared for Cindy who ran a more aggressive style of running. Cindy caught the ball and using her aggressive style blew right through the cornerback getting an extra twelve yards before the free safety managed to push her out of bounds.

"Good job Cindy," Huey said as she rejoined the huddle. "This time you and Hiro run fly routes to draw through defence back so I can hit Johnny."

"Aight."

Caesar snapped the ball back to Huey and went straight after Tyson who was trying to get at Huey and hurt another of his players. Caesar grabbed Tyson and pushed up from under him. He got his hands under his shoulder pads and put even more pressure against ribs causing Tyson to scream out in pain as he hit a pressure point. With Tyson off balance Caesar drove his shoulder into Tyson's abdomen and drove him into the ground where he drove into his stomach again.

"I said I was coming," Caesar said angrily. "You're in for a rough two quarters."

"I'll break you and your little friends," Tyson snapped as Caesar got off him.

"We'll see who gets broken, an eye for an eye my friend," Caesar said.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean. Speak English not monkey?" Tyson growled.

"It means Mr. KKK that I'm coming for Cairo, we're all coming for Cairo and we're going to rip him to shreds. You opened a can worms that should never have been opened," Cairo said discreetly getting in a small kick that none of the officials saw before walking down field to where Johnny had moved the chains again to bring them into Stallion territory.

On his next play Huey rushed the ball as once again in his angry state Caesar overpowered Tyson and threw him to the ground. Huey broke in the secondary only to be taken out at the knees by Hector who had been watching him from the start of the play predicting Huey would rush.

"What the fuck," Huey cursed grabbing his right knee.

"It would be best if you just gave up now and save yourself the pain. Is the championship really worth your health?" Hector asked.

"Screw you. I'm not giving up. Hit me all you want. Hit all of us all you want, break my bones, concussed my head I don't care we will win this and you will pay," Huey said gingerly getting back to his feet and walking off the pain in his knee. It was nothing serious and he would be fine in a few seconds.

"I warned you," Hector said sadly. "I'm not responsible for what is going to happen next."

"Are you alright Huey?" Jazmine asked a look of worry on her face.

"I'll be fine," Huey assured her. "I want a touchdown to show these guys that we will not be intimidated by their cheating."

"But their breaking through our line too early to get any good plays off."

"Should we try the wild cat formation?" Cindy asked.

"It would be wise," Huey agreed. "Riley you're going to have to run a route since Jason is out and Cindy will be with me."

"Just get me da ball nigga. Young Reezy'll do da rest," Riley said confidently.

"We're counting on you Riley. Get us back the lead so we can show them they are not intimidating us," Huey said before breaking the huddle.

"They're going to use the wild cat formation from their last game," Richard said to Hector as Cindy lined up with Huey in the backfield.

"How do you know?" Hector asked as Huey began his count.

"She's been running routes since Tyson took out James. The only reason they would bring her back is for that. Trust me."

"Then who are they going to give the ball to?" Hector asked looking back and forth between Huey and Cindy.

"They'll give it to the girl," Richard said. "They probably think we'll think they are just running another running play so they'll give to her to throw."

"Then we just got to get her before she can throw it," Hector smiled.

Caesar snapped the ball back to Cindy as Richard had predicted and both brothers blitzed the backfield bursting through the line and swarming Cindy. They hit her at the same time and the ball popped out of her hands and Tyson who was the third Stallion in after getting through Caesar this time hit Huey who was trying to recover the ball before pouncing on it himself. He tried to get up and run but Caesar was on him again before he could stand up. While on top of him Caesar pushed his head into the frozen ground and rubbed it a little all the while pretending to be trying to get up off him.

With the possession change Cairo and Dewey came on for their first drive of the second half both with smug smiles on their faces. In one drive they had taken out one of Huey's best players and shown him that one of his best formations would not work on their team.

"What do we do now?" Caesar asked Huey while they waited for the Stallions to change up their players. "We're back to where we were last quarter."

"We'll have to mix things up a bit. We'll put our fastest lineman in as a linebacker and I'll drop back to free safety. This way our secondary will not be weak but in return our pressure on Cairo will not be as strong so we'll have to try and limit the yards they gain after the Cairo gives up the ball," Huey said unfazed by their predicament. "If you and Hiro can get us even just one sack on this drive Caesar it will put doubts in their mind that our defence was not weakened by Jay's removal."

"We'll see what we can do," Hiro said confidently. "It's about time I got in on this game."

Cairo took the ball from his centre and almost immediately threw a short pass to Dewey who was hovering just above the line of scrimmage. He caught the ball and got another yard before Riley brought him down. On the next play Cairo held on to the ball a little longer and threw a pass to Nora who was running a fly route down the left sideline. She was three steps ahead of Jazmine when she went to catch the ball but she had to hold up a little to line up her catch correctly and it was just enough time for Jazmine to wrap herself around Nora and pull her backward to the ground.

Huey could not help but smile a little as they lined back up. She had definitely come a long way since their first practice. They had all come a long way since that first day and now they were in the championship game. A game he personally did not think they would get to when Wuncler first came to them. But here they were and he could not have been prouder of his team yet as he looked down the field at Cairo he still felt seething anger. All the hard work and suffering they had put into getting here was being spoiled by Cairo's underhanded tactics. On defence Cairo's team was not even trying to hit them anymore. They were giving up yards to and penalties to get in hits they knew had good chances of hurting them. They had already sent one of his players off the field and Huey was not sure if he would be coming back and now they were trying to take out more.

Allowing his anger to get the better of him Huey threw up a signal he had been hoping not to use. The Black Panther's nearly emptied their secondary and lined up on the line of scrimmage.

Unsure what was happening Cairo ended his count and took the ball and dropped back as the entire Black Panther team exploded through the Stallions line and stormed Cairo. Huey was in the front and was the first to get Cairo and he latched onto him but made no attempt to bring him down. Huey simply kept him in place as Caesar was the next one in. He jumped at Cairo hitting him at the shoulders and drove him to the ground while Huey tried to hold him up.

Cairo let out a scream as his body bend oddly before he hit the ground and the ball flew up in the air. Cindy was able to get the loose ball while wrestling with a lineman to get the ball. When the official blew the play dead Cindy was the one in possession of the ball.

"Never mind a sack .That was much better," Huey said as Cairo was carried off the field by his trainers.

"Will he be able to play?" Hiro asked watching them carry Cairo to their bench and begin checking him out.

"He should be able to play by their next drive. We didn't get the full effect on him. For that to have really hurt we need Jason and Riley to get him like in Cross Cleave," Huey said. "We have the power but what makes a move like that really deadly is speed. Speed only Riley and Jason could manage to produce at such a short distance."

"Oh well we got da ball dat's what really matters nigga," Riley laughed

"He's right let's get some points this time," Caesar said.

"Well we can't use the wild cat as long as Jason is out and they know Cindy has to cover his position," Huey said looking over at his bench where Stacy was signalling him. "Hmm that could work."

"What could work nigga?" Riley asked turning his head to look at the bench but he did not know what the signals meant it was not something he needed to know so he had not bothered to even try and learn during practice.

"The play Stacy just sent over. They used it on us during the last game with my own spin," Huey answered before outlining the play.

Huey ended his count in a shotgun formation with all his receivers and Riley in motion running around him. As Caesar hiked the ball back Cindy ran in front of Huey snatching up the ball before it got to him. She took three steps and drew away Richard before tossing the ball back to Huey who immediately tossed the ball back to Riley who was running behind him while Johnny and Jazmine ran down field and Hiro helped block with the line. All the movement confused the Stallion defence and almost four defenders all went after Johnny assuming with only him and Jazmine who had only caught one short ball in four games in their secondary that the ball would go to Johnny. The rest of the defenders believing Riley would run because they had never seen him throw the ball tried to blitz him. Both these things combined to leave Jazmine alone in the Stallion secondary.

Riley put the ball up in a perfect spiral and Jazmine caught the ball running across the field away from Johnny. With the ball she had a clear shot to the end zone and with her first six point score and the chip for the PAT she restored the Black Panther lead at 20-15.

Nick got the ball again from the kick off and returned it for nineteen yards before Riley brought him down. Coming back on to the field with only the slightest of limps Cairo handed the ball off to Nick for his first play of the drive before taking another nasty hit from Huey who was trying to hurt him. Nick got six yards before Cindy caught him and taking her own frustration at Jason's injury on him drove him into the ground with all the force

On the next play Cairo aired the ball out to Dewey who gave Riley a small push that the official did not see to put some separation between them before catching the ball and slipping out of his first tackle. Riley got him on the second tackle by grabbing his ankle and pulled back hard so Dewey who thought he was in the clear fell on his face but managed to keep hold of the ball.

With a fresh set of downs Cairo made a short screen pass to Nora who was taken down by Jazmine before handing off to Nick again who got a nice gain of eleven yards before Huey got him.

The loss of Jason on their defence was more noticeable then Huey had originally anticipated. Without him watching the secondary or watching the running back there were large holes in his defence that Jason's speed and experience usually covered up for them. Without him they were put on display for Cairo who took full advantage of them and got his team within the last ten yards of the Black Panther half of the field.

Cairo set up for a second down in the at the eight yard line and tried to rush the ball when all his receivers were covered in the short amount of field they had. He got to the line of scrimmage but Hiro had broken through the line near the end and came up behind him as Caesar broke away from the lineman trying to stop him and both of them hit Cairo at the same time dragging him to the ground where was almost stepped on by one of his lineman.

Dewey caught the ball on Cairo's next attempt to reach the end zone but he was stopped short by Huey on the one yard line but he did pick up the first down and give Cairo a fresh set of downs to punch the ball in. On the first down Cairo needing only one yard handed the ball off to Nick for an HB dive but against the odds Hiro was able to stone wall him above the wall and Nick could not get the single yard needed for a touchdown.

Cairo reset his offence for the second down as the clock ticked down into the last minute of the quarter. Rather than try to simply punch the ball into the end zone, he looked to the air and tossed the ball to Dewey near the corner of the end zone. Once again the Black Panthers managed to stop Cairo from getting his touchdown as Riley stalking Dewey managed to reach around Dewey and knock the ball away from his hands.

Faced with one final play before he had to choice between risking it for a touchdown or getting the three point Cairo once again decided to take the fate of his team in his own hands. Taking the ball from practically under his centre he dove forward almost practically scrambling over his linemen's backs. Huey met him above the line leaping to try and stone wall him before the goal line. With a feral growl Cairo pushed forward into Huey determined not to lose to him again and with one last burst of effort just managed to get the ball over the plane of the goal line before he was swallowed up by the mass of battling players below him.

The officials immediately blew their whistles and the ones standing on the line threw up their arms to signal a touchdown which with the PAT made the score 22-20 for the Graves Stallions.

The Stallions kicker booted the ball back to Riley with only seven seconds left and Riley moved to return the ball. Riley stiff armed Richard but was caught up by Tyson who deliberately hit him and made it look like it was an accidently collision. While Riley was thrown to the ground Tyson managed to stay on his feet off balance. "I'll break you," Tyson sneered while he stepped hard on Riley's hand with his cleat while pretending to be off balance form the collision. He rubbed one of his studs into Riley hand before falling down to complete his show.

"Urgh, oh god it hurts nigga," Riley screamed holding his hands.

Huey rushed straight to his brother and grabbed hold on his right hand. What he saw sickened him and brought tremors of rage through his body.

Riley's fingers were mangled with his index finger and third finger sticking out in an impossible angle!

"Ah jeez nigga it hurts," Riley continued to scream as Stacy and Mina ran onto the field since Rummy was still in the back with Jason.

"We need to get him to Rummy," Stacy said looking at his hands.

"I'll kill him," Huey shouted letting go of Riley hand and turning toward Tyson who was getting to his feet a giant smile plastered on his fast. "I'll kill him."

"Stop him somebody," Mina shouted and Caesar and Hiro grabbed Huey and wrestled him to the ground the combined strength of the two large teens too much for Huey.

"You'll get ejected Huey and with Jason out and Riley injured we'll have to forfeit. Remember what you told me. Get revenge within the rules of the game," Caesar said sitting on top of Huey.

"Fix mah hand niggas," Riley screamed. "Hurry and fix it so I can play."

"Your fingers are broken Riley you can't play like this," Stacy argued. "How are you going to hold the ball?"

"I'm left handed nigga just reset mah fingers so da pain will stop," he said through clenched teeth.

"I can't we need to take you to see Rummy," Stacy told him. "We're going to help you to your feet. Just bare the pain."

"What happened?" Rummy voice suddenly called as he came out of the tunnel and ran across the field. "Ed told me something happened to Riley."

"Dat baboon over dere stepped on Reezy's hand," Cindy said glaring at Tyson who was gloating with his team at their bench as the official had already blown his whistle to end the quarter.

"Let me see," Rummy said feeling Riley's fingers with one hand while pulling out some medical tap and a knife with his other.

"How's JJ?" Cindy asked as Rummy began cutting off Riley's glove.

"He's in the back right now," Rummy said concentrating on causing Riley as little pain as possible while trying to remove the glove. Once the glove was off he quickly straightened out Riley's index finger causing Riley to cry out in pain. He quickly taped the finger to his middle finger to keep it straight before doing the same to his third finger and taping to his pinkie finger making it look like he only had three digits on his right hand. "That should hold for the rest of the game. We'll get you a new glove and combine the finger and tape that up to, to provide extra cushion and more stability."

"Thanks," Riley said taking the hand Rummy offered him to help him to his feet.

"I need to go back and take care of Jay," Rummy said.

"Is he going to be alright?" Cindy asked concerned.

"I'm not sure yet. He just gained back his coherency," Rummy said before running back o the tunnel while the rest of them went to the bench. At the bench Riley immediately shoved his hand into one of the water bottles that was in the process of freezing from neglect to numb his fingers while they rested up for the next quarter.

No one was sure what they were going to do now. Jason was as far as they could tell out of the game for good, Huey was battered and beaten, and now Riley really only had one hand and he was no sign of the Stallion letting up on the cheap shots, who knew who would be next.

The third quarter is done and Huey and the gang are still behind by two points. Without Jason and with an injured Riley can they overcome their handicaps and make a comeback in the final quarter? Next time 'The Heart Beats Strong."