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When Runo walked inside the gym and towards her friends, Shun asked her, "Hey, where's Dan?"

But Runo merely shook her head and kept her eyes directed to the ground. Shun's eyes widened. Damn it, Dan! Where the hell are you?

"Okay, team!" exclaimed Coach Harben as he walked towards the group. "Let's take roll call. Shun."

"Here."

"Runo."

"Here."

"Alice."

"H-here."

"Billy."

"Huh, oh here."

"Joe."

"Present."

"Chan-Lee."

"Here."

"Fabia."

"Right here."

"Dan."

Silence.

"Dan?"

More silence.

"DAN!"

"HERE!"

"DAN?" The group turned around to find none other than Dan Kuso, running towards them in his P.E. clothes.

"What took you?" asked Shun.

"You don't wanna know," answered Dan as he gasped for breath.

"Now that you mention it, yeah, I don't," replied Shun. "Glad you could make it, pal." He and Dan fist punched.

Runo breathed a sigh of relief. About time!

"Well," started Coach Harben as he tucked his clipboard under his arm. "Now that we have the WHOLE team present, finally, we can now choose a team captain and a team name."

"I nominate Dan for team captain," said Runo immediately.

Coach Harben raised his eyebrows. She's voting for the guy who missed the first two practices?

"I second the nomination," said Shun raising his hand. The rest of the team nodded.

"Okay…I guess Dan's team captain…but why choose him?" asked Coach Harben.

"Because…if it weren't for him," started Joe.

"None of us would've joined the team," finished Shun with a smile.

Coach Harben blinked. Well, if Dan's the one they want, Dan's the one they'll get. "Okay, now for a team name."

"Well how should we decide on that?" asked Fabia.

"Well let's see, first name something you all have in common, or something all of you like to do."

Immediately, the whole team looked at one another and grinned, but it was Dan who answered, "Bakugan. We were called the Bakugan Battle Brawlers when we formed a team while we played Bakugan. We were the Brawlers before then, and that's not going to change. I say our team name should be The Basketball Brawlers."

Coach Harben smiled as he wrote the name down on the clipboard along with Dan's name, for he was the captain.

"Now that that's settled, let's do some laps. Everyone do a round of…oh let's make it 11 laps around the gym this time. Oh come on now," said Coach Harben as everyone groaned. "You can survive another lap. Everyone shall do 11 laps except for Dan."

"What?" asked Dan. "What am I going to do then?"

"Dan…you will be doing 15."

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

"YOU MISSED THE FIRST TWO PRACTICES, SO NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE UP FOR IT!"

"BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR! I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO SKIP PRACTICE! I WAS CATCHING UP ON MATH! I WAS DOING DETENTION!"

"YOU KNOW WHAT? FORGET I SAID 15! MAKE IT 20!"

"WHAT FOR?"

"FOR TALKING BACK TO YOUR COACH LIKE THAT! JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE THE TEAM CAPTAIN, DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO GO EASY ON YOU!"

Dan opened his mouth to argue but Runo stepped in and clapped her hands over his mouth and whispered in his ear, "Idiot, quit yelling at him. Do you wanna make it 25?"

"Thank you, Runo," said Coach Harben as he turned to the rest of the team. "Well? What are you waiting for? Start running!"

Please review! The first game will be coming soon! And I promise that when I write the first game, it will be longer than this.