Advice: Watch this first and picture it happening.
After clarifying a few more rules to the team who didn’t quite understand what one on one on eleven meant, Gilda v Dash with everyone else trying to stop them, who got the ball first was decided by a simple game of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock. Now the whole point of adding lizard and spock to that game is because there’s an 80% chance that people with a similar mindset will throw the same as the other so the two were added to vary it up.
So after five draws Dash simple said “Ugh!... you go first!” as she dragged her hands down her face before she then flung her arms over her head in frustration. In fairness though, Gilda was one match away from doing the same. And with that, Gilda headed to centre field with the ball while Dash took up her position about fifteen metres away from her and slightly to the side. Pinkie Pie lit the fuse and the countdown to match star began… 10.. 9…
BANG!!!~
Dear god that was loud! It stunned or dazed half the players on the field and a good number from other fields too. Including Dash and Gilda. Gilda however recovered faster than Dash did and took full advantage of the distraction. She bolted directly towards Dash and almost looked like she was going to barrel right into her. She pivoted around her friend at the last second and was now heading right for the goals. Dash may’ve been the best player on the field but that wasn't as big of an advantage as disadvantage for her. Everyone else had given her plenty of room and one distracted Rainbow Dash was still easier to get around than all those others.
Gilda kept her pace, even as Dash recovered right behind her. She knew her smaller rival was faster but each of their footwork with a ball were roughly equal and with Gilda’s advantage, albeit slight, there was no way Dash was getting the ball from her. She skilfully dribbled the ball past the only two people who’d gotten in her way and was open for a goal shot. In the same second that Gilda came to a complete stop Dash had caught up to her, but in that same motion of stopping, Gilda put all her weight into the kick. It sailed through the air directly into centre net. Goal.
Snowflake was still cowering from the explosion, something Dash would have to look into in the future… well, maybe not Dash now. Dash just stood there, face dropped in shocked awe that she’d lost. And so fast. “Tough break Dash.” Gilda said as she turned and saw her friend’s expression. It brought a smile on her face that she could cause such a thing. “Looks like you’ve only got about 10 seconds to make a goal too.”
Oh, did I forget to mention that both of them knowing the mechanics of the game as well as they do knew full well that this could end way faster than either could react and as such, put a clause in the match that if the first person scored within the first run of the field of the game then the second person had that same amount of time to make a goal themselves, give or take a few seconds. Well they did. I mean, really, did you think this whole thing would end in four paragraphs? I write way to extendedly to finish it that fast… unfortunately.
The players reset, only this time, Dash had the ball at centre field and Gilda was defending. This time with a whistle instead, that Pinkie still blew way to loud, the match began and Dash sprinted in the opposite direction to Gilda. Three people ran at her, Applejack, Scootaloo and Note Worthy prepared to run along side her if/when Dash broke through the three. Applejack came at her first but Dash simple sent the ball between her legs and reacquired it on the other side. Next up was Scotoaloo who made a small kick for the ball but was side stepped with ease. And on the third, Dash change direction at almost an instant 90 degree turn to avoid Note Worthy.
Past the three, Gilda and Applejack came running towards her. Both of them where just behind her as she ran diagonally from the side field towards the goal. Applejack had managed to catch up from the rear and come in beside her in a blocking angle towards the net as Gilda kept making swings at her feet. Dash knew Gilda wouldn’t fall for it but AJ would. She stopped on the spot, ball under foot. Applejack ran past her just a bit but enough to open the goal up to her. Gilda however had stopped just as fast as Dash had and made one last attempt for the ball.
But just as fast as Gilda had made her kick, Dash did the same. The ball once more shot through the air headed towards the goal, except headed more towards the side of the net around chest height. Snowflake dived in to intercept it… and did! With the goal blocked, Dash had run out of time to make her come back even under a rule that Gilda had come up with likely to save herself if Dash had gotten the ball first. She’d lost.
Dashes face… she wasn’t shocked, she wasn’t mad… she sure as hell looked it though, but she accepted that she’d been beaten. “Well Dash, looks like I win.” Gilda said as she flung an arm over the former captain’s shoulder.
“Yeah, you won G. Guess you’re first move’s to kick Flutters and Derpy off of subs right?” Dash replied dejectedly, honestly, she hated the fact that her friends were getting booted above the fact that she’d been deposed.
“Wait, are you serious right now?” asked Gilda in surprise.
“Yeah?” Dash returned. “Wasn’t that the whole reason you wanted ta take my place?”
“Not that you dumby. My goal! You’re really gonna just accept my cheap-arse goal?” Dash just looked at Gilda confused. “Wow! You are soft! You know as well as I do that that first goal had nothing to do with skill… well, a little bit of skill, but I had it way easier than you did on your run.” Gilda lifted her arms away from Dash to out in front of her. “Yo, Bicep! Chuck us the ball!”
“Seriously?” Dash asked, lifting an eyebrow to her friend as the ball was thrown. Gilda caught it and just smirked at her. “All right then!” Dash proclaimed, clenching her fist to her chest. “But one thing though.” Dash turned towards Scootaloo and Applejack who’d came over by now. “You two, I know you were going easy on me. Well don’t. If Gilda’s going to be a good sport about this then the least I can do is make it a fair game. I got past you kiddo way to easy and AJ you never took a single sweep at the ball.”
“That’s the spirit!” cheer Pinkie Pie.
“Well now that neither of us are cheating,” Gilda said stepping up, ball in hand. “Why don’t they start with the ball.” and she handed it off, forcefully, into AJ’s chest. “And we have ta get it from them, run it to half field and then make a run for the goal. Get rid of this single runner BS. You gaaaame?”
“I’m gaaaame!…”
“I bet you are…” Gilda replied with a laugh as Dash realised what Gilda had made her say.
The field reset once more and the game began. Applejack, Scootaloo and a few others managed to keep the ball away from either of them but eventually Gilda was the first to get it. However after running to mid field and having to turn around, she was completely blocked and ended up losing the ball. The same happened to Dash not to long after as well. This had ended up being a lot harder than either had anticipated. Perfect!
It went on for a while. Dash would get the ball and lose it, Gilda would get the ball, get slightly further than Dash then lose it. Dash would get the ball get slightly further still than Gilda before she’d lose it… at one point Gilda had the ball but was being forced back towards the goal, which until they ran to mid field, was considered her own goal. The ball came within centimetres of the goal line as Gilda ran towards it and skilfully at the last moment, sent it flying back over her head past Derpy and the other person chasing her's heads, to right behind them. She turned right as it happened and took the ball as it landed, started gribbeling her way back to centre field. There were just way too many people for this to keep going or neither of them would end up making a goal.
She moved off towards the side of the field, barely with in bounds giving her a small bit of room not far from the centre field but many still blocked her. Despite having scene what she can do in barely a few centimetres, there was still some fool standing past the mid field line instead of before it. It was the guy of no real note worth: Note Worthy. “Yo Dash. The ball passes centre line and comes back it’s on my side right?!” she shouted out, clarifying so that Dash would understand what was about to happen.
“Duh, that’s the whole poi…” Dash stopped mid senta- Gilda kicked the ball as hard as she could well away from herself and instantly ran towards the middle of the field away from the boundaries. At first Dash didn’t understand what G was doing. But as her eyes followed the ball, she saw as it hit Note Worthy square in the face as he stood PAST the midfield line and bounced off of him back into what was now considered Gilda’s side of the field. In the span of about a second and a half Gilda had gotten it past Dash’s defence… twice. There and back. She intercepted the ball and began towards her goal.
Gilda had a nearly straight shot towards her target now. Almost everyone had been planning to block her off at the middle but now they were all behind her. The only two left in her way where the goal defence: Fluttershy and Derpy. Derpy was still stunned from what she’d seen and was looking off towards centre field.. or possibly the side lines. Either way she was easily outmanoeuvred. It only left Fluttershy before her now. Gilda didn’t try anything fancy though, she just glared and continued to charge right for her.
Fluttershy panicked. She covered her face jumped out of Gilda’s way, who by the looks of it would’ve just ploughed right through Fluttershy if she hadn’t. Fluttershy now laying on the ground peered back over her shoulder as Gilda pressed on, there was only one thing between her and her goal: the goalie! Gilda had plenty of distance between herself and anyone else. She slowed down and took a brief moment to aim rather than just kick. It was heading towards the high right side, an eight difficulty shot. Roid Rage jumped to intercept…
GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!~
“Stay with me man!” Dash yelled. Gilda looked back and saw her holding Note Worthy in her arms on the ground.
“Someone get help!”