//------------------------------// // Timmy the Champion (Edited) // Story: Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship // by redandready45 //------------------------------// Timmy walked into the Clover Community Center's indoor track. He saw a group of boys in jerseys being coached by some tall guy. He realized this was the place. "Excuse me," Timmy asked as he walked up to the tall person, "are you Thunderlane?" The guy turned around. He looked old enough to be a high school senior. He had a light blue mohawk, a muscular frame, and he wore a blue tracksuit over his body. "You must be Timmy Turner," the guy said with a smile. "Welcome to CCC's Junior Runners. Let me introduce you to everyone." Timmy followed Thunderlane as he walked toward the boys. "Guys," Thunderlane said. The group stopped their exercise and ran up their coach. "Meet your new teammate. Timmy Turner." "Hi Timmy," the group cheered happily. "Timmy," Thunderlane said, "meet Buttons," he pointed to some kid with a two tone orange hair and a cap with a propeller on it. "Featherweight", he said, gesturing to some scrawny kid with two-tone brown hair. "Red," Thunderlane said, gesturing to some chubby kid with red hair. "Terramar," Thunderlane said, gesturing to a tall, thin boy with aqua blue hair. "Pipsqueak," Thunderlane said, gesturing to some short kid with hair color similar to Timmy's. "Rush Sentry," Thunderlane said, gesturing to a stern looking boy with navy blue hair, "younger brother of my friend, Flash." "And-," Thunderlane said, only to see someone not there," where's Rumble?" "He's still on the mat," Pipsqueak said with a British accent, gesturing to some boy who was furiously doing push ups. "101...102," the boy grunted, furiously doing his reps. "Rumble," Thunderlane said, "get over here and introduce yourself." "Oh fine," Rumble grunted. "You're the captain, little bro," Thunderlane scolded, "you have to introduce yourself to your new teammate." "Wait," Timmy said to Thunderlane, "your little brother is the team captain?" "I know," Thunderlane said with pride. Timmy watched with amazement Rumble backflipped his way to the rest of his team. Timmy suddenly heard a girlish scream. "Oh my gosh," a girl said. "It's Rumble," said another. "Who else could it be," Rumble said with some snark. The two girls ran up to the boy and asked to take pictures. "Popular too," Timmy said with some envy. Rumble pushed away the girls and approached Timmy with a smile. "Hey Timmy," Rumble said, "I'm Rumble Rage. I wanted to welcome you to our club." Timmy barely avoided a deep frown. "I bet you do," Timmy said with forced politeness. "Anyways," Rumble said, "let's train." Timmy trained, and to his frustration, he was dead last behind everyone else in everything from push ups to running. Rumble always was first, smiling because he probably thought he was better than everyone else. When their lunch break came, Timmy felt discouraged, as he watched the boys enter the community center's lunchroom. "Timmy what's wrong," Wanda asked Timmy. She and Cosmo were disguised as shoes on his feet. "I did terrible," Timmy said. "Timmy," Cosmo said in an assuring tone, "don't get yourself down." "Come on guys," Timmy said, "I'm always been picked last at gym. These guys are probably no different. They've probably already decided I'm the team loser." "Maybe just eat something," Wanda said, "you'll feel better." Timmy sighed and walked into the lunch room at the Community Center, sitting at a separate table from his team. He opened his lunchbox, only to find a note inside. "Dear Timmy. I owe you a tuna sandwich. Love, Dad," "Stupid dad," Timmy said, balling up the note and throwing it away. Just as he was about to wish something up, someone came up to him. "Timmy," Rumble said in confusion, "what are you sitting over here?" Timmy looked at Rumble with confusion. "Uh..." "And where's your lunch," Rumble asked. "I...Uh....forgot it," Timmy said. "You want some of mine," Rumble said, pulling out an egg salad sandwich, and splitting it in half. "You're giving me some of your sandwich," Timmy said with confusion. "Why?" "I don't want you going hungry," Rumble said with sincerity. Timmy frowned morosely. "But you're popular and cool. And I'm the newbie," Timmy said sadly. "Listen," Rumble said, "I can be a jerk, but I am no snob. I'm your captain, and as your captain, it's my job to look out for you." The firmness in his tone brought a smile to Timmy's face. "Now quit sitting alone," Rumble said, beckoning the buck tooth boy to join them. With a happy grin, Timmy ran to sit with them, where the other boys were chatting about their business. Except for Button, who was playing on his Joy Boy. "Oh," Timmy said to Button,"is that the new Crash Nebula?" "Yeah," Button said furiously, "but I can't past this one level." "Maybe I can help," Timmy said. "Really?" Button asked. "I'm kind of an expert on Nebula," Timmy said with a proud smile, taking the game. Timmy started fiddling with the controls, using the tricks Sunset taught him. "He's doing it," Button said with surprise. Soon, every member of his team started crowding around him as he plowed through the boss that everyone struggled with. "YOU WON!" The game said. The boys starting cheering for the pink-hatted boy, filling Timmy with a huge smile. "How did you do that?" Red asked Timmy in amazement. "Knowing your environment," Timmy said with a smug smile. "See you guys next week," Timmy said happily as he walked out of Clover Community Center. "Bye Timmy," the Junior Runners said in unison. "Wow," Wanda said, disguised as watch, "that turned out better than expected." "Yeah," Timmy said with a deep frown, "I thought Rumble was gonna be like Tad and Chad," Timmy said, "but he turned out to be a great guy after all." "You thought Chip Skylark was a jerk," Cosmo said, disguised as a water bottle, "but then he turned out to be pretty nice." "I guess," Timmy said. "Just remember Timmy," Wanda said, "life may not be perfect, but not everyone out there is looking to make you miserable." Timmy smiled warmly at that. "So what now?" "Sunset said we're going for a walk in the park," Timmy said. His smile grew as he saw the familiar motorcycle pull up. He ran up to the motorcycle. When he approached, Sunset took off her helmet. "Hi Sunset," Timmy said. "Hi Timmy," Sunset said with a warm smile. "How was your first day?" "Great," Timmy said with a warm smile. "Thank you." "For what?" Sunset said with a happy smile. "Because of you, I'm doing so much cool stuff that I never did before," Timmy said, getting into the minicab. "You wouldn't be doing this if you weren't such a cool little guy," Sunset said with a smile, which Timmy returned. "Anyways, onwards to the park." The two drove to the park, thinking their day couldn't get any better. Unbeknownst to them, someone was watching them from the distance, hidden inside some bushes, with deep, furious eyes.