A/N: Made it! Here's Part 2 of MVP Ego! Last time, Tony and Dennis' ball hog behavior are starting to strain their chances to be on the team. Will Daryl find a way to see their ball hog ways once and for all? Find out as we go to Part 2 of MVP Ego!
MVP Ego: Part 2
At ToonSchool, Daryl paced through the hallways who is still trying to think up a plan to see his brother and his rival's error of their ways, when he saw a 14 year old boy by the lockers. Judging by his appearance, he noticed that he might be related to Dennis as he approaches him to find out.
"Excuse me, are you related to Dennis Jackson by any chance?" Daryl asked to the boy by the lockers.
The boy turns around and saw Daryl behind him, whom he responds, "Yeah, I'm his brother, Darrell Jackson. How do you know about my little brother?"
"I'm Daryl Lente, one of the new kids in school, and my stepbrother, Tony Clark is your brother's rival at the basketball tryouts," Daryl explained.
"Tony? As in Tony "Yo-Yo Boy" Clark? The boy who saved the world 3 weeks ago? I didn't know you're related to him!" Darrell said in shocked as he's talking to the brother of Yo-Yo Boy, "Okay, Daryl. What's up between my brother and yours? And please, call me D.Q."
"D.Q.?" Daryl wondered.
"What? I noticed that our names has the same pronunciation and I decided that I shortened my name to D.Q. so there's no confusion," Darrell explained, "Is that okay?"
"I guess so," Daryl said as he shrug their name confusion off for a while, "Anyway, Tony and Dennis' rivalry has gone off the defense. They didn't pass the ball to their teammates when they wanted to, they often call each other names, and they bumped their teammates without even looking. Even Tony attacked Dennis for calling him a baby ball hugger."
"Hmm... I see. Dennis has a temper when it comes to someone who wants to outplay him on court," Darrell mentioned.
"I didn't know. Anyway Darrell, if Tony and your brother won't stop being ball hogs, they might lose their chance to be on the team again," Daryl said.
"I already know the deets. My brother once tried to practice some basketball when my parents confiscated his basketball stuff to let him raise his grades up," Darrell mentioned about Dennis' problems in the past, "But with some NBA help, we manage to get him some sense about it and he was able to do better at school."
"Well, I don't think some NBA idols won't help them stop their ball hog ways," Daryl groaned. But his disappointment turns into a smile when he saw his friend; Tommy passes him by with his video camera on his hand. "But maybe there is a way to let them see their errors."
"I've got an idea, come on!" Daryl said as he chased Tommy down, while Darrell follows him down in confusion.
At the last tryouts for the cheerleading team, Isabella and Dionne are finished with their routine as Jenny watches the tryouts in a nervous expression with her hands holding her pom-poms shaking.
"Okay, we're done. And after Mindy finish with her turn, if she ever gets in, it's your turn," Isabella said to Jenny.
"I don't know. I don't think I can do this," Jenny said in a nervous tone.
"Come on, Jenny. We talked about this," Dionne said, "You can do this if you put your mind to."
Realizing what they been through in the past few days, Jenny calms down and said, "You're right. It's just the cheerleading tryouts. I can do this."
Then, they saw Mindy angrily left the gym, seeing that she didn't make it to the team and when Jenny's name was called, she quickly became scared again and turns back into a turtle shell form in embarrassment.
"Listen! Try not to think about you will embarrass yourself in front of the judges, try to think of supporting ToonSchool, not impress them," Dionne said to Jenny.
"Yeah, just don't think, feel," Isabella added.
Noticing that their pep talk is working, Jenny said to her friends before she went to the center of the court, "Thanks, guys."
Then, as she walks to the center of the court, she saw some judge cheerleaders waiting for her routine. Noticing this, she takes a deep breath before she starts her routine.
As the song "E is for Everybody" starts, Jenny starts to use some cheerleading moves that Isabella and Dionne taught her, only she improvise using her robotic gadgets for effects and using some of the gym equipment around the court, which impressed the judges and her friends.
As they saw more spins and flips, Tommy tries to film it with his camera, but he was stopped by Daryl, which he whispers to his ear to borrow one of his video tapes that he filmed the tryouts earlier, which he agrees and gave him a few tapes before Daryl left the gym, much to Tommy's confusion before he filmed Jenny's performance.
After she finished her tryout, the judges stood there frozen and speechless after they saw Jenny's performance. Until Paulina said, "Now that's what I call an excelente performance!"
"Looks like we found our last cheerleader for our team! Right, girls?" the school's cheerleader current captain, Susie Carmichael said to the girls, which the girls nodded in approval, much to Jenny and her friends' delight and joy.
"Wow! I can't believe it! I'm in the team!" Jenny said in excitement, "Thank you guys! Without you, I wouldn't enter it without you teaching me some moves and tips!"
"You're welcome! A Fireside Girl is always there to help!" Isabella replied.
"Forget about that! Group hug!" Dionne called as she and her friends hugged each other in joy, now knowing that they're in the cheerleading team.
After the fight with Dennis and was given a detention by Prickley for 3 hours, Tony was called to meet his stepbrother at the Chill Room, much to his confusion since he only called him to the Chill Room to play some video games (except for fighting games).
Before he has second thoughts about this, he was suddenly grabbed by two hands and pulls him in to the Chill Room, which revealed to be Daryl as Tony asked him, "Daryl? Okay, I know you want me to invite me over because you still haven't gotten over with-"
He suddenly stopped in mid-sentence as he gasped in shocked to see Dennis with his older brother with him, which he saw in the same expression and asked in anger, "What is he doing here?"
"I'm the one who's asking questions here, mister! Are you back here for Round 2?" Tony said as he punched his fist to hands, ready for another fight with Dennis.
"Oh, bring it!"
As Dennis and Tony is about to fight once more, their brothers stop them and Daryl said, "This is why we're here, you two! Ever since you start your rivalry, you've been nothing but ball hogs in the tryouts!"
"Plus, you bumped your friends at the court like your bulls or something!" Darrell added, "Don't you see that you're rivalry turned you into ball hogs who can't even share a ball?"
"Hey, HE can't even share a ball! He can't even spell 'ball' right!" Dennis states.
"Hey! I can spell! It's you who can't even spell 'hoops' right!" Tony said back, but his brother stops him and said, "Enough! If you don't believe you're ball hogs, then Tommy's tape will."
Daryl then put Tommy's tape he borrowed earlier to the VCR and press the play button to begin the tape. At the TV, they saw Tony and Dennis playing basketball as they unknowingly bumped all the other players, ignoring their teammates' call to pass the ball, and they even stepped on Ben as Upgrade, much to Tony and Dennis' shock.
As they continue watching the footages from the tryouts, Daryl said, "See what we mean? If you don't put your rivalry aside and work together for once before tryout ends, you may never have another chance to get in to the team ever again!"
"Because of this rivalry, you're tearing the team apart! Do you want that to happen?" Darrell asked.
Now became guilty on what they done, Dennis replied, "No, we don't. Man, we are so idiots about this!"
"I know." Then, Tony turned to Dennis and apologized, "Sorry for calling you ball hog and stuck-up, Dennis."
"And I'm sorry for criticizing your basketball skills and calling you "Amateur Baby Ball Hugger"," Dennis apologized, "Looks like being the best in court really got over our heads, right?"
"Yeah," Tony replied as he giggled at his answer, which Dennis did the same and they start the friendly laugh about this.
"Man, we are idiots, are we?" Tony asked as he still laughing.
"Yeah, two idiots who are ball hogs on court," Dennis answered while he still laughing.
As they stopped laughing, Tony quickly asked to Dennis, "Hey, how about we'll settle this rivalry once and for all with a basketball video game match?"
"You're on!" Dennis said as he and Tony sat down in front of the TV as they start playing that mentioned basketball video game as Daryl and Dennis watched this happy moment together, knowing that they are now friends after their match on their video game.
They enjoyed this moment for a minute, until Daryl asked Dennis in confusion, "Not to ruin this happy moment, but should we tell the Snobs about the ball cannon that was installed yesterday before we got here?"
As Daryl asked that question, the Snobs quickly use Bubbles face on the facial recognition system, which it shuts down and they entered the room no problem. However, cannons start to pop out around the room as they pelted the Snobs with dodge balls, volleyballs, soccer balls, and basketballs before the security system of the room toss them out.
"They'll figure it out in time," Darrell answered as they and their brothers watched the Snobs kicked out in delight.
At the last tryouts for this year, Tony and Dennis start to work together as they pass the ball to their brothers as the new cheerleading team that includes Jenny, Isabella, and Dionne cheering on their team.
As the players play hard to get into the team, everyone including Mickey, Prickley, and the coaches, Oscar and Wizard watch the team in ecstatic mood, knowing that they can't who will be on the team this year. One that was most proud at the team is the coaches, seeing that Tony and Dennis are finally working together at last.
At the final 30 seconds on the timer, Bubbles quickly dodges the opposing team with her super speed and passes the ball to Danny, who uses his ghost powers to phase through his opponents, which he also passes it to Dennis. As Dennis is about to make it to the hoop, Tony quickly called him to pass the ball to him.
Without hesitation, he quickly agrees in a friendly, yet determined nod as he passes the ball to Tony, which he jumps to the hoops and dunk the ball to it as the referee blows the whistle, signaling that the game's over, with Tony and Dennis' team's score is 16 while the other is 15.
Everyone cheered as Tony and Dennis' makeshift team won, which Tony and Dennis gave each other high-fives as they look each other in friendly smiles, now knowing that they are not only teammates, but also good friends as Oscar and Wizard pick them, Danny, Jimmy, the Powerpuff Girls, Jake, June, Stitch, Darrell, Timmy, Ben, Gwen, Dani, and Bart to be on the team, much to their delight.
Although Daryl is still disappointed that he still on reserve, he is still glad that Tony and Dennis finally working together not only as a team, but also as friends, too.
"You know, you should gone with scissors," Tommy said as he approaches him in a mischievous smile.
"Would you get out of here?" Daryl ordered in annoyance, still wishing that Tony won instead of him in a Rock-Paper-Scissor match.
A/N: Wow, Daryl still haven't gotten over his victory to Tony, isn't it? Stay tuned for more episodes of ToonSchool and maybe, I might continue Soul Shifters: Reality Struck, too! For now, review and I'll see you later!
