I'm so happy you all enjoyed the first chapter. If you want to learn more about the show go to NFL Rush dot com / Guardians to learn more about the characters. Had to spell out the dot com part since this site dosen't lie website names in stories. Here is a chapter focusing on the Guardians

The following morning miles away from the construction site a football field was awakening from it's slumber and coming to life. It was almost time for another season of football, and the Canton Bulldogs where all excited and ready for a brand new year. They had won the championship the season before, and where eager to repeat. Right now the locker room was humming with life as all the players got dressed in their gear and where getting ready to take the field. Suddenly a whistle blew inside the locker room telling all the players to huddle up, they bustled to their coach, Coach Jones, and his step son Jackson.

"Alright everyone I know everyone is excited to begin another season of Bulldog football," he began which got a big whoop from all the players. Jones silenced the hollering players by raising his right hand, now with a serious expression on his normally happy face. "But I've got bad news: last night our starting Corner-back Jake, and our Defensive Tackle Keith were reported missing. I really want to ask all of you to pray that they are found safely and quickly." The players nodded solemnly, the pre-game mood now completely changed. Jones gave a heavy sigh as he adjusted his hat. Suddenly one of his players raised a hand.

"Yes, Ish?" Jones asked the young African American player.

"Coach I don't want to sound insensitive, but if I'm allowed to ask, who will be filling those voids? Because I don't think they should be filled out of respect for them." Ish said.

"Well if we turn to the TV to the right, I have your answer, Ish." Jones said as he pointed to the television that was in the corner of the teams locker room, which was normally used for watching game film. The TV was turned on and showed an 11 year old white player in a red and blue jersey wearing number 72, "This is Carlos Nixon, he's transferring to our league form the Clippers across town, he's big, he's fast, and he's a Quarterback nightmare registering 14.5 sacks last season, in fact he's got the nickname of 'The Wall'," Jones said as Nixon's highlights where shown, and everyone had to admit they where very impressed.

As for the cornerback vacancy, everyone meet Joseph Sanders," Jones said as he pressed a button on the remote and showed another white kid wearing a dark blue jersey with a green number 26 on his chest, "Sanders models himself after retired NFL cornerback Asante Samuel, and plays just like him, Sanders was cut by the Cyclones after an injury forced him to miss over half the season last year, and needless to say, he's eager to prove himself to us." Jones said to all his players. This time the Korean-American Troy raised his hand.

"Just how good is this Sanders? Is he good, or will I just run right past him like I usually do with my defender?" Troy said in a confident tone which earned a fist bump from Marty.

"You'll be lucky to get past him, Troy," Jones said as he pressed another button on the remote and began showing Sander's highlights, and they where even better than Nixon's, Sanders seemed to be everywhere the ball was, "Sanders is fast, and he's a ball hawk, we're lucky to have pulled him away from the Cyclones." Jones said as the team continued to watch his highlights, which had now just turned into interception after interception. "As much as I hate to replace Jake and Keith in light of what happened to them, this is football, and I had to move fast since both these young all-stars where hot names, and many teams where interested. So let's get on the field and start practicing." Jones said, smiling at the team.

The team gave a big yell and rushed out the locker room door and out unto the field, where they quickly got into groups and began practicing. Ish and Troy joined with their best friends, Marty, Ashley 'Ash', and Tua.

"Hey guy's you ready for another great season?" Ish asked his friends in an excited tone.

"You bet I'm ready," Troy said as he put his white and blue helmet on, "We won the championship last year, so I'm ready for a repeat ." he said in a confident tone. His friends nodded, except for Ash who had hung her head low in contemplation as she brushed some of her red hair out of her eyes.

"Something wrong, Ash." Ish asked his best friend in a concerned tone.

"It's nothing, I just... it's hard to think about what might have happened to Jake and Keith, I mean they where... are our friends, and coach just replaced them." Ash said as she made a fist with her right hand.

"I understand that, Ash," Ish said as he tried to comfort his best friend, "I can tell coach didn't want to replace them, but he had no choice, this is football, players will need to be replaced. I just hope they're okay."Ish said as he took a knee, which his friends did as well and the group took a knee in silence out of respect for their missing friends.

Suddenly two new players walked upon the group and stood their waiting for the group to finish taking their knee. Turning around Ish immediately recognized the number 72, and 26.

"Hey you mind if we join you? Coach said Troy is the best wide out on the team, and I like to practice against the best." Joseph asked his QB.

"We don't mind if you join us," Troy said as he stood up and started looking over Joseph and Carlos, "Just try and keep up." Troy said with a smirk as he took a wide receiver stance.

"Don't complain when I knock you on the ground," Joseph replied as he took up a stance in front of Troy.

"Hey Ish, why don't you have Tua block for you, see if Carlos can get to you?" Ash suggested to her best friend.

"Good idea, Ash, you always remind me why you are the smart one." Ish said with a small laugh which caused Ash to giggle slightly. Tua gave a laugh of his own as he picked a football off the ground and took up the position of center. Carlos lined up opposite of of Tua and took his defensive stance.

"Hike!" Ish yelled as he took the snap from Tua and dropped back to throw. However he didn't get much time to think as he saw Carlos perform a perfect spin move and get around Tua and quickly crash into him and knock him to the ground, where he laid their stunned for a second.

"Hope I didn't hurt you man," Carlos said with a small laugh as he stood over Ish and extended a hand to his quarterback, which Ish took and Carlos helped pull him to a standing position, "They call me 'the Wall' for a reason, man! it takes two or three guys to block me." Carlos pounded his chest with a grin.

"Yeah, I think I'm starting to see why they call you that," Ish said with a laugh and a grin on his face a he patted Carlos's helmet, which the defensive lineman to laugh. "Let me throw this time, Carlos. I really want to test out Joseph and see how good he is."

Carlos nodded and, Tua took the football again, getting ready to hike. Just before he could, he heard Coach Jones blow his whistle, signaling for everyone to huddle up. The group jogged back to the benches, Ish, Tua, Marty and Troy lining up on offense, while Carlos and Joseph got into the defensive huddle.

"Slant rout to Troy." Jones ordered Ish, which caused the young gunslinger to nod.

"Ready, break!" Ish shouted as his offensive group broke their huddle and took up their positions, on the adverse Joseph and the defense broke their huddle and took up their defensive stances. "Ready, set, hike!" Ish yelled as he took the snap and dropped back to throw, he looked on the right for Troy, hoping that his speed would allow him to get away from Joseph, however another problem presented itself as Carlos burst through the left tackle and began to charge at Ish like a raging bull.

Ish decided to take off and run. He tucked the football and took of running towards the right side of the field, however what he saw next almost made him stop and take a slide as he saw Joseph break away from Troy and start charging at him from the front, what happened next surprised the young quarterback as he suddenly felt himself get grabbed by his waist from behind and get pulled to the ground, by Carlos.

"Good job Carlos!" coach Jones congratulated his defensive lineman.

"You aint seen nothing yet coach, I'm just getting warmed up." Carlos said as he once again pounded a fist into his chest. Ish stood up on his own and brought quickly got back to the huddle.

"Alright let's try a flea flicker, Marty please block Carlos for me?" Ish asked his blonde friend. Marty smiled and nodded silently as he gave his best friend a thumbs up, "Ready, break!" Ish shouted as the huddle broke, the defense broke their huddle as well and took up their stances opposite of their offensive counter parts. "Ready, set, hike!" Ish yelled as he took the snap and handed off to Marty, Marty took the handoff and rushed forward a few feet before turning around tossing the ball back to his quarterback. He then proceeded to block Carlos who had once again gotten through the offensive line. Ish saw Troy deep and threw the ball with all his might, once that ball was in the air Ish just stood there and watched to see where it was going to land.

Troy brought up his hand to catch the ball, but what happened next surprised the Korean-American as Joseph suddenly appeared in his vision and jumped in front of the ball and pulled off a perfect interception. Time seemed to slow down for Troy as he quickly recovered from his initial shock and tried to dive forward and wrap his arms around Joseph to prevent him from getting any additional yards, but Joseph quickly got out of Troy's reach and began speeding down the sideline, where he was first met by Marty who was preparing to tackle the cornerback, but Joseph pulled off a spin move that Adrian Peterson would have been proud of and spun out of the way of the young running back. Joseph a few seconds later found himself in the end zone, to which he celebrated by giving a mile high salute.

"Well done, Joseph!" Coach Jones congratulated the young cornerback as Joseph ran back to the line of scrimmage and handed Ish the ball.

*Later*

"That was a brutal practice." Troy said with a groan as he took a seat on the bleachers.

"Tell me about it, I'm the one who threw three interceptions to Joseph." Ish said with a groan of his own as he hung his head low in defeat. He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up and saw Ash there surprisingly smiling.

"Don't feel bad Ish, we all have a bad day, you made a couple of bad throws, but once you stopped throwing to Joseph's side of the field you completed nearly every one of your throws, so hold your head up." Ash said as she gave her best friend a pat on the back, "Besides I had a good practice, I made all ten of my kicks." Ash said with a grin on her face which caused everyone to laugh. Suddenly their NFL R'S on their left wrists started to beep, indicating an incoming message. They all looked around to make sure nobody could hear the beeping before they allowed the incoming message though.

"What's up Ish?" Tua asked his leader.

"The message simply says to come by the Hall of Knowledge, Let's get down there." Ish ordered as he and his friends grabbed their bags and began to quickly make their way towards the Pro Football Hall of Fame.