Three days had gone by since the camping trip. Miss Rose had taken the time to review all of the videos and everyone, even the not-so-bright ones, got either an A or a B. Nightwolf did receive his free package of Forever Burning Wood and Havik received his tickets to Disneyworld for the upcoming summer (he preferred to go during Christmas break, but rain was constant in Florida that time of year and even someone like Havik hated rain).

People wondered what happened to Leo after the trip, but that thought soon was forgotten. Today, those with tickets were going to get the chance to watch the State Football Finals between Namco High and DC High. Namco was a tough team, but can they withstand the power that is DC High?

“We’ll have to find out!” cried Rolento as he sat down on the bleachers.

Jax looked at him in an odd way. “What the heck are you talking about?” he asked.

Rolento shifted his eyes a bit. “Eh, never mind.”

Meanwhile, on the field, the players of both Namco and DC are getting ready for the big game. On the DC side, they felt that they didn’t need to practice.

“Okay,” said Superman. “I feel that we didn’t need to practice here, since we practiced on our already-broken dummies back at school.”

“I just realized something,” called out Robin. “Did the authoress of this fic ever assign us a coach?”

“Who cares,” said Lobo while cracking his knuckles. “We’re still going to kick Namco’s fraggin arses!”

Meanwhile, Coach Heihachi looked at his team. “Unlike DC, we actually practiced here and just finished a second ago. However, just because we practiced, doesn’t mean that we’re going to win this thing.”

“Gee, that’s the spirit,” said Hwoarang sarcastically.

Heihachi looked over at him. “Stay quiet, boy-who’s-name-I-could-never-damn-pronounce! Now remember, we have our ‘secret weapon’ if things get bad.”

“What secret weapon is it?” asked Paul.

Suddenly, Kuma the bear smacked Paul upside the head.

“Owe!”

Heihachi stared at him. “It’s a secret you moron! Now, before I bore you all to death, get out there and kick arse!”

“YEAH!” the entire team cried out just as the whistle was blown by the main referee.

Both teams approached the referee, who held a coin in his hand. “Okay, will the captain of each team please step forward.”

Both Jin and Superman stepped up on either side of the referee. Once they were settled, the referee got the coin ready. “Namco’s call.” He then flipped the coin into the air.

“Tails!” Jin called out.

Suddenly, in the audience, a flock of seagulls come flying in and completely cover Demitri.

“DAMMIT!” he cried jumping up. “I’M NOT EVEN PLAYING FOOTBALL!” He ran out of the stands running and scream for dear life.

Then, the coin landed on the ground back on the football field. “Tails! Namco receives first.”

Namco’s offense line got themselves into position along with DC’s defense line. The ball is set into the field and there was a bit of a pause before the whistle was blown. DC began running forward as Namco began running back. Amazo kicked the ball and it went flying high into the air. Namco kept their eye on the football as it fell towards them.

Soon, it fell into Mitsurugi’s hands. The force of the ball nearly knocked him into the floor, but he managed to get himself balance. He began running forward. Unfortunately, most of his teammates were knocked down by the big players long before. All of them headed towards him, jumped, and tackled him into the ground.

The whistle blew then. The large DC players got themselves up with Mitsurugi left on the ground. Jin walked over to him. “Are you all right?”

Mitsurugi got himself up, leaving behind a dent on the ground in his own shape. “Eh, yeah, I think.”

Hwoarang began panicking again. “We’re going to lose!”

Jin sighed. “Calm down…eh…how do you say your name again?”

As the game continued on, Skullomania managed to find himself around Namco’s side and near the cheerleaders. He soon spotted Wonder Woman sitting quietly on the bench watching the game. He jumped over the fence and sat next to her.

“Hi there, remember me?” Skullomania said.

Wonder Woman slightly turned her head to see Skullomania. “Um…yeah. Marvel High right?”

“Actually, it’s Capcom-Midway,” Skullomania answered. “It’s a pretty good school, but not as good as DC High!”

Wonder Woman turned her head forward again. “Um, yes, I suppose.”

“Well, it is a beautiful day…almost night time really. I like night time, do you?”

“Yeah,” Wonder Woman said, half bored. Skullomania continued talking and to be nice, Wonder Woman let him do so.

Soon, Namco’s defense and DC’s offense were on the field after DC scored 8 points. Maxi walked out holding his helmet in his hand. “Do I really have to?”

Hwang looked at Maxi oddly. “How many times do I have to say yes this year? So what if you’re Elvis hair gets messed up for one night?”

“It’s more than that if you ask me,” Maxi said finally putting his helmet on.

The players got themselves set up. DC’s quarterback, Batman, got himself set up. “Down! Set! Hike!”

The ball is passed to him and he backs a bit as the others players tackled each other. Soon, he saw Robin open and he passed the ball to him. However, just before Robin could catch the ball, Kuma jumped up and tackled Robin just as the ball landed on the ground.

Robin looked up and saw who he was up against just as Kuma began biting his leg. “OH MY GOD! SOMEONE HELP ME!”

“What a sissy…” Superman mumbled. He attempted to fly over to the ball in hopes of grabbing it. However, Hwang managed to pick the ball up and ran with all of his might. Suddenly, Joker came in front of him. Hwang thankfully saw Maxi not too far from him and tossed the ball to him just before he was tackled. Maxi ran the last few yards and made a touchdown.

The Namco side of the bleachers cheered wildly as DC’s defense line grunted. “That’s nothing,” said Amazo. “We’ll come back.”

The kickoff was made by Yunsung, who scored the extra point successfully bringing the score to a tie, 8 to 8.

The game continued on and soon, the first quarter was over with DC just managing to bring the score 16 to 8. Namco went back to their sidelines to meet up with Coach Heihachi.

Coach Heihachi shrugged. “Okay team, so both teams have even defense line, which is good. We’re only down 16 to 8, we can still catch up.”

Suddenly, Heihachi’s son (and Jin’s Dad) Kazuya stood up. “You know, I looked at your plays today and I just want to say…they suck. How are you going to get around that?”

“You shut up!” Heihachi yelled. “What are you doing here anyway?”

“Jun made me go, but that’s besides the point,” Kazuya replied. “I should know because I did have to deal with the crap in little league football as a kid-”

“Anywho,” Heihachi said cutting his only son off. “Get ready, and, um, yeah…”

“YEAH!” the Namco team cried out.

Soon, the second quarter began. As that went up, Nightwolf and T-Hawk were returning to the bleachers after buying themselves each a corn on a cob.

“Not as good as homemade but good,” Nightwolf said after taking a bit of the corn.

“Agree,” replied T-Hawk.

Suddenly, they both spotted Julia Chang, the girl they saw riding her bike on their way to their camping trip last weekend. Immediately, they both dropped their cob of corn and ran over to either side of her.

“Hello,” they both said.

Julia noticed the both of them then. Liking the attention a bit, she smiled and blushed a little. “Um, hi there.”

“I’m Nightwolf.”

“And I’m Thunder Hawk, but everyone calls me T-Hawk. What’s your name?”

“Julia.”

“Nice to meet you Julia,” both male Native Americans said.

Julia thought it was a bit odd for the two of them to be how they were. However, she decided to continue a conversation with them. “So, are you guys enjoying the game so far?”

“Yes,” they both answered at the same him.

Julia laughed a bit. “That’s so cute how the both of you speak at the same time. Well, I have to get going, nice to meet you both.” She soon left and disappeared into the crowd.

T-Hawk and Nightwolf looked at each other then. “You know,” said T-Hawk. “You’re one of my good friends and everything, but I’m afraid that you are, right now, competition to me for Julia.”

“Same here,” Nightwolf agreed. “May the best Native American win!”

After sometime, the second quarter ended with DC leading 24 to 8.

“We’re so kickin fraggin’ arse!” yelled Lobo as they all settled back to their bleachers.

“We’re definitely going to lose,” mumbled Hwoarang.

“Yeah, but at least we have our pride,” replied Mitsurugi. After a pause, he looked at Hwoarang. “Why is it so hard to pronounce your name?”

After a few minutes, an announcer came over the microphone. “Ladies and gentlemen! Please welcome both the Namco and DC High cheerleaders to the field! Both teams have actually got together to perform a routine for all of you! The routine is lead by DC’s cheerleading captain Harley Quinn and Namco’s cheerleading captain Anna Williams!”

The cheerleaders of both high schools assembled themselves in the field. Techno music began blaring through the speakers and the cheerleaders began their routine for the spectators.

Harley and Anna were three feet from each other as they danced. Anna then looked over at Harley. “That’s the wrong step!”

“So I make a mistake,” Harley replied. “At least I don’t look like a s-”

Before Harley could finish, Anna suddenly attacked Harley. The girls stopped dancing and watched the two have a brawl, hitting each other and pulling each other’s hair (Harley’s clown hat thingy with bells in this case).

Then, the girls pulled away from each other. Everyone sighed of relief thinking that the fight was over.

“Seriously,” said Jax. “Almost every chapter there’s a cat fight…not a problem for me really.”

Suddenly, Harley pulled a shotgun (full of water) out. “Don’t make me use this!”

“That’s nothing!” Anna cried out. Then, from out of nowhere, she pulled out a large bazooka gun causing sweat drops among everyone.

“Night night,” Anna said. She blew a kiss to Harley and fired the gun. A long balloon with a pink kiss mark at the tip of it flew out. Harley ducked as did everyone else. However, once the balloon landed, foam flew everywhere making all the cheerleaders, even Anna, a mess.

Harley stared at Anna. “Clever, just clever, now I probably look like a rag to my beloved Mr. Joker!”

“FOR THE LAST TIME, I’M NOT YOUR BELOVED!” yelled out Joker from the sidelines.

The referee came by then. “Okay, that’s enough, we have to continue with the game.”

“Yes we do,” said Heihachi. “Since DC is kicking our butts, I’m going to finally bring in my secret weapon.”

“I’m telling you, it’s not going to-” Kazuya began to say.

“Silence!” Heihachi demand. He took out a whistle and blew into it. “Bring on the secret weapon!”

It was then that a large police truck came into the field causing silence amongst everyone at the game. The slightly-nervous policemen came out the truck. A loud roar came within the truck then and the entire vehicle began rattling. This caused even more silence amongst the field, even the big guys of the DC team.

The two policemen opened the side door. Suddenly, two large hands appeared out of the truck, grabbed the two policemen, and threw them across the field. Then, the figured stepped out of the truck revealing himself.

“Marduk?” asked a confused Maxi.

“Yes,” Heihachi replied. “Marduk is our secret weapon. Sure he’s a bit obsessed with cameras, but he’s quite good as a football player.”

Marduk looked around the area. It was then that he spotted Morrigan, who had a video camera in her hand. He quickly ran over to her. “Keep that camera on me!” he demanded.

Morrigan looked up at him. “Why would I want to keep my camera on an ugly, hairy guy?” she asked.

Marduk then took the camera, crushed it in his hands, grabbed Morrigan, and ran off.

“AAHH!” Morrigan cried out.

“Morrigan!” Sharon cried out.

“Great, there goes our green-haired succubus friend,” said Tanya.

Suddenly, Morrigan appeared in front of them again. “Hi girls, did you miss me?”

Her two friends gawked at her. “But we just saw-” Sharon began.

“I had a feeling that would happen,” Morrigan said. “Aren’t magical decoys a wonderful thing? It’ll disappear before he could do anything?”

“Actually,” said Asuka from nearby. “Marduk was going to bring your ‘decoy’ to a random hot guy…he likes to play match maker at random times.”

“Rats!” Morrigan cried out.

During the middle of the third quarter, Mr. Haggar brought an ice-cream cone over to his date of that night, Ms. Michelle Chang.

“I’m glad we were able to finally have a good date,” said Michelle taking the cone. “Even if it was a school event.”

“Me too,” said Mr. Haggar. “I thought we’d never get our date going. At least it’s going well so far, right?”

“It sure is.”

It was then that Capcom-Midway High’s cheerleading coach, Miss Cheer, noticed Mr. Haggar. “You’re cute, let’s DATE!”

Mr. Haggar looked at her oddly. “You’re nice and everything Miss Cheer, but you’re not even an actual character, rather than a filler because the authoress wasn’t sure who should be the cheerleading coach.”

“Who cares!” Miss Cheer cried out. “That doesn’t mean we still can’t date.”

“I’m already on a date,” Mr. Haggar said nodding his head towards Michelle.

Miss Cheer took Michelle’s ice-cream cone and shoved it into poor Michelle’s mouth forcing her to fall back. “Not anymore.”

Mr. Haggar sighed. ‘Why can’t I have a normal date?’

Soon, the end of the third quarter came and the fourth and final quarter was just about to begin. The score was 40 to 24. Namco needed three more touchdowns in order to win the whole game.

“That’s it,” Kazuya said standing up. “There’s no way that the stupid old man’s plans are going to go right the way things are now. Time to take matters into my own hands.”

He took a spoon and a bowl full of chili beans out from nowhere and taps his son Jin on the shoulders. “What Dad?” Jin asked a bit annoyed.

“It’s time for last resort,” Kazuya said. “If you don’t want your Grandpa to take his own loss out on us for the rest of our lives, you must eat this!”

Jin looked down at the bowl of chili beans. “Where the heck did you get that?”

“Never mind that!” And with that, Kazuya took a spoonful of the chili beans and shoved it into Jin’s mouth. “This is a…long time family recipe starting with your great-grandpa Jinpachi.” He shoved another spoonful in Jin’s mouth despite his protest. “You’ll experience a bit of…change…but it’s going to be worth it.”

“MMM!” Jin cried out trying to swallow the food.

A few minutes passed and the fourth quarter began starting with Namco’s defense and DC’s offense pitting against each other once again. The play continued but it only resulted with the switch between Namco’s offense and DC’s (dreaded) defense.

“Let’s get this going,” said Amazo eyeing the already nervous Namco team. “We’re so going to win this thing!”

The players got themselves set up. Mitsurugi got behind the ball holder. “Down, set, hike!” he called out. The ball was passed to him. He backed up a bit, then passed the ball to Pac-Man, who caught the ball in his mouth.

“Now try not to swallow it this time!” cried out Maxi from the sidelines.

Pac-Man then saw Jin open as he noticed Beast Boy running towards him. He passed the ball. As the ball headed towards Jin, black energy began surrounding him and his eyes began to glow red. Black tattoos began covering him as he caught the ball. As the football captain began running, horns poked out of his helmet and a pair of black feathered wings sprang out from his back.

“What the fraggin’ hell?” yelled out a confused Lobo.

“Who cares!” cried out Killer Croc. “Let’s get him!”

Jin came towards the goal in high speed, knocking down many of the large DC football players out of his way. Many in witness stopped to see what they were doing and watched as Jin managed to make the VERY first touchdown for any player playing against DC’s defense line.

“What!” cried out Atom Smasher.

“We’re supposed to be the best!” cried Lobo.

“Holy moly you didn’t say ‘fraggin’’ for once,” said a surprised Martian Manhunter.

“I know, how surprising,” Lobo replied.

Meanwhile, Heihachi stared at Kazuya. “Gee son, you HAD to give him the devil gene.”

“You’ll thank me later,” Kazuya said in reply.

For the remainder of the game, it was all Jin in his devil form making touchdowns and giving the DC defense line the beating they long deserved. Finally, at the last second, Namco managed to get the win 48 to 40. Everyone celebrated Namco’s new undefeated record (again) and beating DC’s own near-undefeated record.

“Thank goodness it’s over,” said Rolento. “It was a great game, but I prefer that we didn’t have a filler chapter again.”

“You said it,” said Jax. “Sadly this marks the end of football season.”

“We still have wrestling and basketball coming up,” Rolento said. “And the continuation of our cheerleaders.”

Meanwhile, Hwoarang went up to Jin, who was now back to normal. “Nice game. What was that thing you went through?”

Jin shrugged. “I don’t know. I just hope it doesn’t happen every time I eat chili beans.” He paused for a moment before saying, “Gee, I could never say your name…”

“WHY CAN’T ANYONE SAY MY NAME RIGHT?” cried out a frustrated Hwoarang.

And so ends football season…