Ch 14 - Balling in Love

----------(SOCCER FIELD AREA IN THE SCHOOL OF FRIENDSHIP, 1:20 P.M.)----------

Outside of the school's soccer field, Cornicle the unlucky changedling had his hands placed against the white aluminum fence surrounding the soccer field, as three kirin and one spike-maned white-coated stallion unicorn (who was wearing orange sunglasses, a green sweater and ripped jeans) were patting and searching him down. They placed their hands into every crevice, crook and nanny beneath his wings, in his spiracles, under his carapace shell and between his chitin plating. Feeling violated and frightened at the same time, Cornicle begged for the four thugs to let him go, but they were not done with him yet, until they were satisfied of what they seek.

"C'mon, you little jangly! Up against the wall and spread'em!! Do what we say and there won't be any trouble!", said one tacky-dressed Far Eastern stallion unicorn as he continued to pat him down.

"Just relax, you little horse buggy! It's just a routine inspection!", shouted one of the kirin thugs.

"LOOK, maybe he's down somewhere over there!", shouted Master Zhi as he went down the stairs of the slanted audience seating area (risers) and turned left of his direction. All the other Student Five students started to follow him.

As Starlight continued to head down to the soccer field, she spotted a random sky-blue pegasus mare stretching out on the handrails, before asking "Ma'am, have you seen any one of our friendship students being bullied by some hooligans at the soccer field?!"

"Well, there's a couple of kirin ganging up on a changedling boy over by that fence. Could that be him?", said the excercising pegasus mare as she pointed to the group of random kirin.

"Wait, SERIOUSLY??!!", shouted Master Zhi as he turned back to meet with Starlight and the rest of the students.

Sure enough, Cornicle had his horn entrapped by a magic-suppressor ring on his horn and was bounded by ethereal blue ribbons around his arms. He was being escorted by the three kirin thugs on one Far Eastern unicorn onto the soccer field. Starlight Glimmer, Master Zhi, the Student Five and the rest of the creatures started rushing towards the edge of the soccer field to rescue Cornicle.

"HEY, you bullies let him go THIS instant!!", cried Miss Starlight as she used her levitation magic to pull the restrained Cornicle to her side. However, the thugs started using their leviation magic to pull Cornicle back to their side and soon enough, the rogue gang were joined by a few other unicorn thugs.

Soon, other unicorn students started overpowering the thugs' levitation magic, before they finally managed to rescue Cornicle from the grasp of the bullying gangsters.

In response, a male yellow-coated unicorn male, who was wearing thick brown sunglasses, a vinyl jacket, black wool gloves, ripped jeans and black shoes came rushing to the kirins' aid, along with his few other kirin friends.

"HEY, back off now or else I'll kick your eyes out!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he flew up to the face of one of the kirin.

"BEAT IT, shorty!! You're not worth our time!", threatened the tacky sunglasses-wearing unicorn thug, before turning his attention to Starlight Glimmer and rudely asking, "And who in the hell are you supposed to be??!!"

"I'm---I'm---I'm the official Headmare of this school!!", answered Miss Starlight with a threatening yet hesitant manner, much to the surprise of her students. Every creature who knew Starlight already were aware of her memory loss, but since she is technically an official Headmare on paper, they didn't do anything to interrupt her. They fear that if the thugs were aware of her memory loss, they would take advantage of the situation.

"And I'm the TEACHER!! You rowdy boys are going to be in a lot of trouble for trespassing!!", shouted Professor Rainbow Dash as he performed his kung-fu defense stance. She was not going to let the bullies get the best of Starlight and her students whatsoever.

"OOOHHH, a teacher AND a Headmare!! How threatening!! What are we going to do now??", sarcastically cried one of the kirin to mock Miss Starlight.

"WAIT, I KNOW---!", shouted the tacky unicorn before pulling out his blue whistle from his pocket!

'PFTHEEEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!' goes his whistle!

Suddenly, two of each creature species who were working out on the soccer field immediately stopped what they were doing and started rushing towards the edge of the field. Within the posse of gang reinforcements were two dragons, two griffons , two earthen Equestrians and two buff pegasi. As soon as they stood behind the whistler and the rest of the posse, every creature knew that something dramatic was about to go down.

"Sweet Egg-headed Sparkles!! They brought the dropouts over here??!!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she stared at the diverse posse of criminals.

"Let me be clear to you, lady!", shouted the cocky and tacky whistler. "My name is Student #12138 and the reason why we targeted this jangly over here is because he is lacking a student ID card on his person!"

"A STUDENT CARD??!! Really??!! That's what you're teasing him for??! Out of ALL the things you can bully him over, THAT'S the reason you chose??!", questioned the confused Smolder.

"Yona no believe it! Yona believe you LYING!!", accused the angry nak girl as she pointed the cloven finger at the thugs.

"I never heard of bullies getting so riled up over students without their ID!", wondered the bespectacled Ocellus.

"YEAH, that's usually the teacher's job to discipline them for that! What kind of authority do you student dropouts have for beating some creature up over a card??!", protested Sandbar.

"What the hell were you planning to do with a student who had forgotten their student ID anyway??", questioned the angrily upset Master Zhi.

"We would be kindly be taking him back to his hive vessel, where he can FETCH his card, before he could return back to the school!! Otherwise, if he refuses, he'll have to pay an entry fee to us before he's allowed back in class!!", answered Student #12138 as he barked at Master Zhi.

"THAT'S BULLCRAP!! You're only making these lame-ass excuses, so you can justify extorting money from this repeat offender!!", argued Master Zhi as he yelled at the criminal posse.

"TELL US THE TRUTH, you low-life scum!", demanded Rainbow Dash as she flared up her wings.

"PLEASE, don't make them take my money OR kidnap me back to my home!! It's true about what they're saying!! They wanted to write down my student number---BUT---BUT--BUT--I FORGOT MY CARD BACK AT THE HIIIVEEE!!!", bawled the tear-jerking Cornicle as he shook in fear at the diverse criminal posse.

"Now now now, don't be scared! It's going to be all right! Don't you worry! You are not getting a SINGLE bit from him nor forcing him back to his homeland without my say so, ID or NO ID!", scorned Miss Starlight Glimmer as she stood her ground. With her magical horn, she powered up all the magical energy from within her mind, threatening to blast them with a random wide-area effect teleportation spell that would land them into separate faraway areas without her knowledge.

"Hmmm, you are a strong mare for standing up to a grub boy like him. I respect that!", complimented the short-cut orange-maned unicorn with the thick sunglasses and orange chin stubble.

"Dude, I know this sounds a bit awkard---but....something about this dude irks me....", whispered Smolder to Ocellus' ear.

"Yeeaahhh, he seems kinda----familiar....", pondered Ocellus as she stared at the cool-looking orange-mane unicorn.

"You don't believe he's actually-----"

"NO, yellow unicorn stallion you think of have white strip on nose! This stallion not have that!", mentioned Yona in her broken Equestrian grammar.

"Come to think of it, his mane was a bit longer than this fool's...", commented Master Zhi as he stared into the rebel unicorn's sunglasses.

"AND he doesn't wear these awful clothes...", whispered Tiny Turnip Head to Master Zhi's ear.

"Very well, 'Miss Headmare'! If we can't take him to his home or have him pay the entry fee, then I, Sunny Boy, will settle this with a traditional physical challenge: a two player team soccer match with your nameless student!", challenged the ruffian leader before he used his levitation magic to grab Cornicle.

"Grab him to the center field!" commanded Sunny Boy.

"YES, Headmaster!", shouted Student #12138 as he grabbed the restrained Cornicle with his levitation magic.

"OH NO NO NO!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she pulled back Cornicle with her stronger levitation magic "You low-life insignificant street urchins are NOT taking advantage of this student anymore!!"

"Just WHO do you think you ARE, bitch??!!", shouted one large brown jacket-wearing female griffon as she walked right up to Miss Starlight Glimmer with a threatening pose.

"BACK OFF, Gawker! No need to egg on this hostility any further!", ordered Sunny Boy as he used his ethereal lasso spell to restrain the tough griffon and pull her off from Starlight's personal space. Sunny Boy then later walked up to Starlight Glimmer with a calmer but firm gesture.

"You, take him to the center field!", ordered Sunny Boy to one of the buffer kirin. With his stronger magical levitation powers, the kirin was able to release Cornicle from Miss Starlight's grasp.

"NO WAIT, I don't KNOW how to play soccer!! PLEASE, I beg of you!!", cried Cornicle as he was being helplessly dragged against his own will. Then out of where, Professor Rainbow Dash performed a high-levelled speeding kick to one of the kirin thugs! She later picked up the kirin and held him up by the neck, while Cornicle was held up and shielded by Starlight Glimmer's bubble spell.

"STOP, that's QUITE enough, all of you!!" shouted Professor Rainbow Dash as she held the kirin tightly by his neck via sleeper-hold. The criminal posse gang started to back-up, not wanting to risk endangering one of their own. Professor Rainbow continued on with her demands.

"You wanna play soccer to prove that you are the better posse out there, then go challenge some creature of your own skill level!! Maybe somepony like ME and Headmare Starlight here, huh?!"

"Let's make a BETTER deal! We'll make this soccer challenge a 15-minute eight-vs-eight team-player match! If your team ends up losing, you will leave the school premises and you will NEVER come close to my students EVER again!", challenged Miss Starlight Glimmer as she continued to cast her bubble shield around herself and Cornicle.

"What happens if YOU lose, huh?", said one of the fuchsia-coated rebel pegasus with a scar over her right-eye.

Starlight Glimmer stood silent for a moment, not sure on how she will answer about the condition of this wager.

Suddenly, Sunburst teleported his restrained kirin from Professor Rainbow Dash's grasp to his side, before answering to the scar-eyed pegasus,

"I'll decide on what their punishment will be! In the meantime, let's go play some soccer!"

Every creature in both sides of the battle started to cheer about the new upcoming soccer match, including Professor Rainbow Dash. As she head out into the soccer field, she cried out to her students

"C'MON, School of Friendship!! Let's show these dropouts how we rock this field!! Class is right now in session!!!"

"WOW, that early in recess?! Guess we'll have a little more free time between classes then!", shouted Smolder as she and the rest of the student body followed Rainbow Dash into the center field.

----------(10 MINUTES LATER ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

In order to make sure this soccer game is evenly and fairly matched for both teams, Sunny Boy had devised a team planner for both sides and gave each team some special items that would limit their special abilities. For this challenge, each team would be consisted of two yaks, two magic users, two flyers and two Earthen Equestrians. Both teams must have same number and type of species (e.g. if there's one unicorn and one kirin at one team, the other team must also have one unicorn and one kirin). Magic suppressor horns must be worn by unicorns/kirins to ensure neither side use their special magical spells or moves to overpower the other team, yet still use some of their magic to enhance their speed, power and agility. Flyers can use their wings as freely as they can, but they must wear special weights on their wing tips, with a mass that is 8% of the flyer's weight, so as to restrict their ability to perform high-altitude/high-speed moves. Dragons who want to play have to wear iron masks over their maws, so that they cannot use fire breath against their opposing players. To ensure that the huge strong yaks don't accidentally maim or kill their opponents or team members with their overpowered strength during the soccer time, their ankles and arms were also weighed down by wrist and ankle weights like the flyers, with a mass that is also 8% of the wearer's weight. By limiting the abilities of each species without compromising tactical advantage and ensuring fair gameplay for both teams, this soccer match is guaranteed to determine which team will win the wager based on their skills and strageties alone.

On the west side of the soccer field were the school players of the "Friendship Team", which consisted of yaks Yona and Yohanne, unicorns Starlight Glimmer and November Rain, Greta the griffon, Silverstream the hippogriff and two Earthen Equestrians Master Zhi and Strawberry Scoop.

Starlight Glimmer plays as defensive mid-fielder at the center mark of the soccer field, while Greta and Silverstream play as Starlight's wing women. For center back player, November Rain stands at the middle line near the penalty area, while Yona and Yohanne act as flanking full back players. Finally, Master Zhi plays as the team's trusted and most intellegent Equestrian goalkeeper and Strawberry Scoop acts as the sweeper in the penalty area.1

On the east side of the soccer field were the gangsters of the "Sunny Side Schoolboys", which consisted of yak students #35679 and #49782, kirin student #549012, unicorn Sunny Boy (aka Headmaster), griffon student #60129, dragoness student #47023 and two buff Earthen Equestrian students #12042 and #80239.

Like Starlight, Sunny Boy plays as the defensive mid-fielder, while his two flanking mid-fielders will be Students #35679 and #49782. Stallion student #12042 act as the team's center back player, while flyer students #60129 and #47023 act as the flanking full back players. Finally, Student #80239 plays as the team's most strongest and bulkiest Equestrian goalkeeper, while kirin student #549012 acts as the sweeper.

However, despite all of those precautions to ensure equity and equality in both teams, there was one factor that still has not gone into play yet: one of the gangsters, Student #12138, offered to play as the soccer referee.

"All right, time to KICK OFF!", shouted Student #12138 after placing the soccer ball at the center spot between Miss Starlight Glimer and Sunny Boy.

"HEY, wait a minute!!", protested Miss Starlight Glimmer. "You can't have one of your own gang members act as a referee!"

"And why the hell not, Miss Tacky Headmare??", asked Student #12138 as he leaned in on Starlight Glimmer.

"Because we can't have team-based bias affecting how they judge the players on whether the score point was legitimate or not, as well as determine whether one of us would be penalized for fouls! We need a neutral referee that can observe this game at a fair non-biased standpoint!", explained the very stern Starlight Glimmer.

"Hmm, you do have a good point", agreed Sunny Boy as he looked around for a random creature to act as referee.

"Hey, how about this old geezer over here?", asked Sunny Boy as he pointed to Mr Tang who was sweeping up plastic bottles from the grassy fields with his broom and handled pan.

As Mr Tang was almost finish with his rounds as a part-time custodian, Student #12138 approached Mr Tang after he was done dumping all that garbage in his dustpan into the green dumpster container nearby.

"Good afternoon, 先生 (Seng Sung)!2", greeted Student #12138. "I have a very important request to ask of you!"

"你想要乜嘢? (Neiy Suang Ngu Mut-yeh?)3", asked Mr Tang in his Canternese language, thinking he was a fellow Far Eastern Equestrian immigrant.

"Nothing too special. We just need somepony to act as our referee for our little soccer game over here. We only need you for 15 minutes of your time. 妳會幫手嗎? (Neiy Wooi Bong Sow-ma?)4", asked Student #12138 as he bowed and pleaded with him.

Upon seeing the many griffons, dragons, yaks, changedlings and kirins on the soccer field and sitting on the rising audience seats around the field, Mr Tang was not too keen on helping out a bunch of non-Equestrian creatures to oversee a soccer game. He really thought that the fellow Far Eastern unicorn must be playing with his head.

"你講笑咩? (Neiy Gong Sew-meh?)5 You seriously want me to act as a referee for these damn critches who think they can barge into the soccer field and own everypony on the soccer?", questioned the racially biased Mr Tang who was weirded out by the many creatures on the school's soccer field.

"Each team has their own equal number of required species on the soccer field and their abilities are specifically suppressed by various devices, so there's no bias in racially-defined advantage that can end up destroying the soccer field and the players on both teams! Instead, everything will be played on skill level, not by rigged luck!", explained Student #12138. "I would offer to act as referee, but---"

"Then be their referee then! I have no interest in fraternizing with foreigners!", grumbled Mr Tang as he packed up his cleaning supplies before heading for the shack.

Feeling like he had no choice but to act as referee in spite of Starlight's protest, Student #12138 turned around and said, "Well, I guess I'll play as the referee for my homies and help them score a big win for my boss! Then maybe, we can have our kirin crew hang out on this spot wherever we want to---!!"

"NOW, hold on a freakin' liberal hooting minute, 歹徒 (Gai Tou)6!", interrupted Mr Tang as he quickly dropped his cleaning supplies and turned around at the fellow Far Eastern Equestrian. "Who said you could bring your red-horned qilin to MY workplace, HUH??!"

"WELL, it's just a suggestion I would give to my good boss once we win the wager!", explained Student #12138. "But if you want to discuss on what the wager would be if we win, we could..."

"Like HELL you will! Who do you think you are, letting these critches invade THIS country by playing soccer with a rival gang of other critches, if that's what you're REALLY doing??!!", question the berating Mr Tang as he looked daringly stared into the Far Eastern unicorn's eye.

"OH, we're not playing against a rival gang!", corrected Student #12138. "It's just the students from that nearby school over there---!"

"WHAT??!! You're picking on little school kids now??!", shouted the even more upset Mr Tang. "As much as I despise fraternizing with foreign students, I hate living up with these gangster wannabes even more! Especially those from the damn Triads! You ain't from the Triads, aren't you?"

"Uhhh, not exactly...", Student #12138 lied to Mr Tang as he sweats profusely.

"Well, judging by those critches on both sides of the field, I say you're just a bunch of rogue drudges who likes to think they're better than everypony else in this school!", pondered Mr Tang as he stared at the waiting creatures on the soccer field.

"Well---we aren't EXACTLY teasing them for---", nervously spoke the male gangster unicorn before he was interrupted by Mr Tang.

"And one of THOSE Equestrian students happened to be my foster grandson, and I'll be damned if I see him fraternizing with you low-life critch thugs! FINE, you wanna referee to be on your little diverse game of yours?! I give you somepony to force you outsiders to play by the OFFICIAL rules---", grumbled Mr Tang as he pulled out his blue whistle from his custodian shirt pocket and went towards the soccer field. Student #12138 bowed in respect to the old racist stallion unicorn who was about to oversee a soccer match between two groups of random foreigners.

"Thank you, sir! I really appreciate---", then he was suddenly interrupted by Mr Tang once more as he turned around towards Student #12138.

😡"But DON'T you think this means I'm doing this for all the young critches attending this liberal school! I'm only doing this for me, my grandson AND my young friend who also works at this school! If anypony's gonna teach both these otherkin how we play in Equestria, it's gonna be ME!! SO DON'T fuck up my soccer field any further with your foreign filth! Play by MY rules, and I might consider not calling the cops on all of y'all!!"

'該煨囉 (Gung Wu Law)!7 What is wrong with this old grandpa?! So much hatred! What a jerk...', thought Student #12138 as he followed Mr Tang to the soccer field.

As the remaining audience peered at the new referee coming to the soccer field, everypony in the audience were surprised at the frail wrinkly appearance of the old Far Eastern Equestrian.

"HEY LOOK, it's Mr Tang!! And he brought his own whistle with him!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head after spotting his foster grandpa.

"You mean the new school janitor?!! COOL!", squawked the excited Silverstream.

"I guess he's going to play the referee for this match-up...", said Ocellus who was now whering her violet-and-turquoise cheerleader uniform with the short skirts, tank tops and pom-poms.

"Oh MAN, I hope he doesn't get trampled or rammed by the big boys over here!", chuckled Smolder who was also wearing the same outfit as Ocellus.

"HEY!! Tang! Ready to be integrated into some multi-cultural gameplay?!", shouted Master Zhi from the goalkeeper net.

"SHUT UP, you damn liberal nerds!! I only volunteer to be your referee, because you gotten yourself into some deep shit with some criminal critch rogues here!!", shouted Mr Tang as he stood on the center field and yelled at Master Zhi.

"Again with the 'critch' word??! What's with this nutcase?!", cringed Sandbar.

"What? It's short for 'creatures'! It's how me and I would address those who are unique compared to us Equestrians", explained Tiny Turnip Head as he turned his attention to his confused friends.

"Kinda sounds a bit condescending, don't you think? Like if you were talking to an ungodly malicious spirit...", wondered Ocellus as she silently sounded out the slur.

"Yeah, somehow shortening it makes you sound---like a grouchy old crone...", said Smolder as she paused to sound out the slur like Ocellus did.

"That's my Mr Tang for ya!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he winked at the girls.

😡"Listen up, ya damn daft aliens and LISTEN well!!", shouted the grouchy Mr Tang at the center of the field at he addressed both the players and the crowd.

😡"I don't know what kinda wager match you're pulling here, but the last thing I wanna see you do is bring more criminal critches to the same nation you sought to make yourselves home at!! If you wanna play soccer like the Equestrians of this nation, then you better go play by MY rules! If you don't like what I had to say, TOO BAD! The school runs this field here, NOT you! If any outsider, gangster or student, invades this turf without respecting its preserved historical landmark as a soccer training and playing field, I'll call every last police officer out there to kick you off these premises!! HAVE I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR??!!"

Every creature was silent for the moment as they looked at the new referee. Of course every creature was well aware about the intended use of the soccer field. There was no reason to lecture them about playing by the rules, as there had been previous other non-Equestrian athletes from the school that had been taught soccer over the past 11 months.

"We get it, Tang!! You don't like foreigners disrespecting Western sports! JUST start the game already!!", yelled Master Zhi from his goalpost before Mr Tang blew his whistle to start the game.

----------(GAME TIME 0:00 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

"PLAY BALL!!!"

⚽And thus, Sunny Boy quickly became the first center fielder to kick the soccer ball into the goalkeeper's direction. As the ball rolls towards the Friendship team's side, every creature from both sides of the team started heading for the soccer ball. Starlight Glimmer attempts to chase after the ball, but the sly sleek Sunny Boy used his suppressed self-hovering magic to block Starlight's path, swaying like an annoying ghost to everywhere she goes. This was much to Starlight's frustration, since the suppressor on her horn would not allow her to teleport.

⚽As the game went on, the diverse audience on the crowd started cheering fortheir respective teams. The sport fans uprooting for the School of Friendship were wearing their violet-and-teal themed sport colors. All the female cheerleaders, including Smolder, Ocellus, Light Hoof and Shimmy Shake, were jumping, flying and spinning for joy, chanting for their team to win against the thugs.

📣'Magic, honesty and loyalty is in our flesh!'

📣'Kindness, generosity and laughter does the rest!'

📣'Friendship, Friendship, that's the way we roll!'

📣'When we work together, we will score the winning GOAL!!!'

"WOOOOHHOOOOOO!!! GO School of Friendship!!" cheered the Friendship fans on the rising seats as they hollered out for the winning team with their vuvuzelas, foam fingers, maracas, clappers and confetti poppers.

On the other side of the bleachers though, there were creatures in black-and-dark green hoodies and sweaters hollering out for their team, the Sunny Side Schoolboys, as they clanged their green beer bottles, wood planks, wooden buckets and metal baseball bats with either their sticks, the concrete floor or on the metal railings. Unlike the Friendship fans, they don't have their own cheerleader squad, but they do have buff soldiers who are leaning against the railings, barking threats to their team players to not lose against the opposing team, or face punishment from the boss.

'Get over there and kick their asses, or I'm kicking yours!!'

'Don't let those pansies get the best of you!! You'll never live it down if you do!!'

'Push them to the dirt or you're going six feet under!'

'Remember!! FAILURE is NOT an option!!'

"RRAAHHHRAAAHHRAHHH!!! GO GET'EM, HEADMASTER!!", shouted the Sunny Side Schoolboys as they lifted up from their seats to make themselves heard by their leader.

⚽"HEY HEY HEY!! Pass ball to Yona!!", the nak girl shouted as she hollered out for her team. However, yak #35679 managed to head bopped the soccer ball over Yona's head, passing the soccer ball to yak #49782, who then head bopped the ball over Yona, before it was kicked by Earth Equestrian #12042!

⚽As Yona shouted out "HEY, no ignore Yona!!", Yohanne managed to intercept the flying ball with a perpendicular headbutt attack, causing the ball to bounce to the north side of the field. Before it went out of bounds, every creature from both teams started chasing after the soccer ball, while Yona attempted to ran past the gathering crowd and shouted out for her team members to pass the ball to her!

⚽As Mr Tang the referee struggles to avoid being caught in the rushing and bulky crowd and Sunny Boy the leader continued to harass Miss Starlight Glimmer with his annoying hover block, Yona attempted to chase after the rolling soccer ball as quickly as her stamina lets her to!

⚽However, it was intercepted by the mighty kick of dragoness #47023, who quickly past the ball to the fleeting griffon #60129! Though both these buff femme fetale creatures originally started at their full back positions, they were pretty cocky in charging with the team, leaving their posts for the sake of scoring the winning goal themselves!

⚽Greta and SIlverstream attempted to intercept the ball with their swift running hooves and hefty wing beatings, but Yona constantly kept blocking their path and their wing weights disallowed them from flying any higher without straining themselves!

⚽"YONA! Please don't block your players from accessing the ball! You gotta give them a little more space", shouted Professor Rainbow Dash from the seats, who was now acting as the Friendship team's coach. But the coach's words fell on Yona's deaf ears as she was too focused on getting her chance of kicking the ball!

⚽With a swift might side-swiping kick by Dragoness #47023, the soccer ball flew straight at the goal net, but Master Zhi was able to leap to his far left to counterattack the ball in time!!

⚽"Parry to the right!!"

⚽Undeterred, Griffon #60129 leapt and quickly intercepted the deflected ball and used a roundhouse kick to push the ball back at the net!! But alas, Master Zhi was able to get up from his first block in time to deflect the incoming soccer ball a second time!!

⚽"Parry to the left!!"

⚽Suddenly, the rushing yak #49782 headed straight for the deflected ball, leapt and pushed the ball back to the net with a mighty headbutt attack! No good!! Master Zhi had rapidly leapt from his crouching position to block the ball a THIRD time!!

⚽"Parry in the middle!!"

⚽As Yona came rushing to the penalty area at Master Zhi's side, hoping she will act as the sweeper alongside Strawberry Scoop, the ball suddenly hit her in the head and shortly got deflected into the middle of the goal's net, just as Master Zhi was lying face down on the ground! In other words, Yona had accidentally scored the winning point for the OTHER team with her head!!

"PFFTTHHEEEWWWW!!!" goes Mr Tang's whistle!

🥅"One accidental scoring point for the Sunny Boys!! Way to be a traitor to your own team, mate!!", shouted Mr Tang as he rally the scoreboard and scolded at Yona at the same time. Yona noticed that the referee was standing to her right side.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, LOAFER8!!??", shouted the extremely disappointed Master Zhi as he quickly ran up to the embarassed Yona.

As the rest of the players gathered to Mr Tang's position to see what just happened, Master Zhi immediately started berating at Yona

"YOU STUPID IDIOT!!! You shot the ball into OUR net!! That means the opposite team gets the point, NOT us!!"

Master Zhi then slammed a hard mighty punchdown onto Yona's head, but since yak skull's were thicker than Equestrian's skull, she only felt a slight bump attack to her head. Still, it was emotionally painful for Yona to be humiliated by Master Zhi's punch.

"HEY, what's going on??!", asked Tiny Turnip Head as he flew from his seat to see a better view of the crowd.

"I think there's a dispute over the goal point! I'm gonna go check it out!", speculated Professor Rainbow Dash before she got off from her seat and flew towards the goalpost to assess the situation.

"Yona sorry!! Yona no mean to!!", the guilt-ridden nak girl cried as she looked down on the floor.

"You should've headbutted to THAT other net, you useless black horn!", shouted Master Zhi before he immediately performed an upper kick attack at Yona's soft nose, causing her to fall back onto the ground.

By then, some creatures that had gathered at the far west side of the soccer field suddenly gasped and hooted in horror and surprise, as Yona started to wince in crying pain from Master Zhi's powerful kick.

"OH MY CELESTIA!!! Why would you DO that?!!", shouted Miss Starlight Glimmer after she witnessed Yona being mercilessly bucked by Master Zhi's left lower hoof. Starlight Glimmer immediately started rushing to Yona's aid and saw that her nose was bleeding profusely.

"HEY, that wasn't very nice of you to do!!", shouted Silverstream as she yelled at Master Zhi.

"I can't believe he actually attacked one of his own teammates! That's not very sportsmare-like! Guess the power of friendship isn't strong in this one!", mocked Sunny Boy as he smirked at the unamused Starlight Glimmer.

As soon as Coach Rainbow realized what was going on, she immediately flew up to Master Zhi face-to-face and, with an angry stare on her face, she went loudly asked to him,

"Tell me, MAN! Why did you do it??!! Why??!!"

Master Zhi then immediately barked at Coach Rainbow with a very harsh tone

"That idiot went charging at me and bumped the ball into OUR net!! It's her fault that we lost the point and THEY won theirs, NOT MINE!! This yak HAD to be taught a lesson in fidelity to their team player, you know??! You think generals will let their men slide if they ended up shooting their own soldiers??!"

"Okay, HERE'S THE DEAL, bub!", shouted the furious Coach Rainbow. She firmly pressed her muzzle against Master Zhi's muzzle, though he was not deterred by Rainbow's disapproving glare.

"I'M the coach who is running this team, NOT YOU! You don't have the right to act as the dictator who runs roughshod over my student players like slaves!! If you don't like how your team is playing, then you go answer to ME, all right??!!"

"And how the hell are YOU gonna teach her not to score the wrong goal??! Let her play again and hope she doesn't fuck up!? That's not how I taught MY son how to play soccer back in my home country!", argued Master Zhi as he pushed his head back towards Coach Rainbow, before she counter-argued back with this statement.

"Well, THIS is not YOUR country! We run things very differently here in Ponyville! If you don't like how we treat our players with compassion and kindness to give them the motivation to win, then you can leave this soccer field and let US win the game for ourselves!"

An intense silence was building up between Rainbow Dash and Master Zhi, as they face off in the battle of the glares!

"Do you think you could still play, Yona?", asked Miss Starlight after she wrapped a bandage around Yona's nose. As Yona was helped back on her two lower hooves by Silverstream and Greta, Yona started to shiver and bawl out as tears started flowing out from her eyes.

😭"Yona just want to kick ball, but no creature want to pass ball to me!!"

"Awww, it's all right! You'll get your turn soon!", cheered Silverstream as she rubbed Yona's head.

"HEY, you know what's cooler than passing the ball?! Blocking the enemy from stealing the ball in the first place! Now THAT'S a real team player!", added Greta the Griffon as she tried to lift Yona's spirits up. However, her efforts were not enough to stop Yona from tearing up.

😭"Yona useless! Yona's fault for hitting ball in wrong net!", the depressed nak girl bawled.

"It's all right, Yona! Don't worry about that! We'll get'em next time! Just do better and listen to what Professor Rainbow says! Win or lose, we WON'T let these thugs get the best of us!", assured the determined Miss Starlight Glimmer as she stroked Yona's face to wipe away her tears.

As the staring contest continued between Coach Rainbow Dash and Master Zhi, Starlight immediately shouted,

"November Rain, you're on goal duty! Rainbow, you take the center back position!"

That phrase snapped Coach Rainbow Dash and Master Zhi out of their glances as they immediately turn their attention to Starlight Glimmer. Realizing that he was being replaced, Master Zhi shouted at Starlight Glimmer

"WAIT, HE'S the goalie now??! What about---??!!"

"YOU'RE in the penalty box!", ordered Rainbow Dash as she pointed at the row of enclosed seats located underneath the rising audience seats, before giving Master Zhi a red card.

"You're shitting me!!", cried the upset Master Zhi as he stared at Coach Rainbow.

"Does THIS look like I'm playing with you??! Three rounds is what you get!", informed the mad-staring coach as she focused her eyes onto Master Zhi. Seeing that there was no other way around his punishment, as going against the official Headmare's words would lead to losing his job after she regained her whole memory, Master Zhi began to march towards the penalty box. He still kept his stare at Coach Rainbow, holding his red card and pointing his finger at her before yelling

".......this ISN'T over, coach! That nak's gonna be a burden to us!"

"I wouldn't count on it, 'Master of Child Abuse'!", back-sassed the hollering Coach Rainbow.

"I think I just saw Master Zhi kick Yona in the face!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he flew back to his seat. He had just barely witnessed his master perform an upper kick on the nak player from high above the gasping crowd.

"WHAT, are you serious??!! But WHY??!!", cried the flabbergasted Ocellus.

"What kind of substitute teacher kicks a student in the face?! He does realize we're not doing martial arts, right??", sarcastically questioned Smolder as fumes started emitting from her nostrils.

"Oh no! YONA!! She's not TOO hurt, is she??", shouted the worried Sandbar.

"She's all right, Sandbar! She'll be back on her hooves to play again!", assured Coach Rainbow Dash as she flew up towards her seat to fetch her water bottle. "It's just a dumb accident with the soccer ball! It'll be all right, ladies! He's in the penalty box where he belongs!"

"WAIT WHAT??! But----WHY???!!", questioned the confused Tiny Turnip Head.

"Whaddya mean 'WHY'? He kicked Yona in the face, for crying out loud!", cried Ocellus as she teared up about her best friend being hurt in the scuffle.

"There must be a good reason!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he racked his tiny brain.

"For poor sportsmareship, THAT'S why, kid! You see, hurting our own team players is NOT cool, because that's not how we get our team to win the game here!", explained Rainbow Dash before drinking her cold water from her bottle.

".....well, it's how Master Zhi taught me how to play!", claimed Tiny Turnip Head.

"PPFFTTT!! OH, *COUGH*! *COUGH*! SO---you must be the one that got kicked in the face by your daddy during soccer too, huh?", questioned Rainbow after choking on her water.

"Uhhh....not really! All Master did was kick the ball at me, while I try to defend the goal! Sure it hurt a lot when he tried to aim for my face , but it taught me how to be very vigilant for the ball!", explained Tiny Turnip Head as he twiddle his thumbs.

Coach Rainbow then perked one of her eyebrows up. She later questioned Tiny Turnip Head

"Lemme ask you this, kid! If he catches you scoring the wrong goal, would he kick you in the face?!"

"Uhhh---I don't think I can answer that, because I'm always aware of where I'm supposed to shoot....", timidly replied the hesitant Tiny Turnip Head as he blushed. "LOOK, I know he may come off as mean sometimes, but he REALLY hates it when players score the wrong goal! He will get super angry and scary when he sees his team kick the ball in the wrong net! If it wasn't for him, I would've messed up like all the other loser players in my home soccer team!"

"Well, whatever your pops did to turn you that way, that's not how we do things here, squirt!", replied the unamused Coach Rainbow Dash. "Here, we teach our students how to support one another and learn from our mistakes through experienced education! That's how we become a better team!"

Not wanting to lose his Master forever, Tiny Turnip Head timidly looked up to Coach Rainbow Dash and hesitantly asked,

"---Is Master Zhi going to be in trouble?..."

Coach Rainbow let out a heavy sigh. "Kid, he's not going to jail YET---okay? After this game is over, he'll have to answer to the new Headmare Trixie. Hopefully, she won't be THAT insane to let him stay! If she does, I'm going straight to her office to blurt out my personal complaint to her!"

PPFFFTTHHEEEEEEEWWW!!!!! goes Mr Tang's whistle.

"OH, looks like the game is about to start! I better get back to my goal post now!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she flew towards the soccer field. However, as soon as she remembered about the kid's well-being, she immediately dashed back to the white pegasus boy and told him,

"OH, almost forgot----KID, if your daddy--or MASTER--or whatever you wanna call him----decides to do something completely crazy or idiotic, PLEASE come talk to me, all right?! I'll be in the gymnasium or ANY sports field at all times! Here's my work schedule! Wish me LUCK!!", hollered coach Rainbow Dash after she passed her paper work schedule to Tiny Turnip Head, before dashing off to her designated goalpost.

----------(GAME TIME 5:00 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

'PLAY BALL!!!', shouted Mr Tang the referee once more, before Rainbow Dash became the first one the strike

📣'Teamwork, teamwork, RAH RAH RAH!'

📣'We got // high school spirit // to flippin' // BEAT YA!!'

The Friendship Cheerleader squad continued with their morale-boosting cries to encourage their schoolmates to make an epic comeback after their first goof-up. As both teams struggled to kick the ball into their opponent's net, Rainbow Dash the center-back player became the dominant ball keeper in the sports battlefield!

⚽"AWW YEAH, check THIS out!!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she performed a wing-hovering high-arc flip with all her might to avoid the side-swiping sliding kick attack by the speeding griffon student #60129. It was an amazing feat for Rainbow Dash to perform, in spite of the straining weights on her wing-tips!

⚽As soon as Rainbow Dash touched down on the grassy field, she immediately caught the low-flying soccer ball previously kicked by yak student #35679 the mid-fielder!

⚽As Rainbow Dash continued to kick the ball into the opponent's side, she was immediately ambushed from behind by the mean pink Dragoness student #47023, who came dashing in with a leaping dash from behind in an attempt to chase after and steal Rainbow Dash's soccer ball!

⚽But Dash was WAY too quick on her hooves and hovering wings, as she immediately make a hard right with her ball to throw the dragoness off course, before kicking it high off the ground, straight up into the air!

⚽As soon as the ball fell straight down, Rainbow performed a backwards dash with a large forward flap of her wings, throwing dragoness student #47023 off her guard, before Rainbow bounced the falling ball onto her head and catapulted the punted ball with her right-sided upward knee-strike! Suddenly, the soccer ball immediately went backwards over Rainbow Dash's head!

⚽"C'mon, don't be scared!! I dare ya to take that ball away from me!", mocked Rainbow Dash as she thrusted her left leg backwards to both push the hesistant dragoness player even further away (without contact) AND kick the arcing soccer ball with her left back heel!

⚽As soon as the soccer ball immedately started arcing forward over Rainbow's head, she immediately punted the mid-air ball forward with a mighty B-cup chest bump as she leapt forward off the grassy ground!

⚽Suddenly, as soon as the soccer ball landed onto the field, it rolled towards Yona and Yohanne, who were being pursued by yaks #35679 and #49782!

⚽"C'mon, pass ball to ME already!! It's Yona turn!", shouted the frustrated nak girl (who now has a bandage and gauze pad over her nose)! Just like the last round, she still continued with her pursuit for her chance to shine! Yohanne was the first to react as he kicked the ball, passed on by Rainbow Dash! As the ball flew between the Sunny Boy yaks, Yona immediately started charging forward after the ball! In response, yak #35679 started lunging to his left side as he desparately attempted to block Yona from catching the ball!

⚽"C'mon, PASS TO YONA already!!", she continued to cry as the red-bandana wearing Earthen Equestrian #12042 kicked the ball back and passed it to yak #49782! Under quick reflexive instinct, he turned around and performed a backwards hoof-kick to throw Yona off-guard as she immediately lunged at the flying ball!

⚽Instead of grabbing the ball, Yona ended up landing on the grassy ground as she lunged forward, completely missing the ball all together! As soon as Yona rolled over onto her back, she immedieately got back up and saw Silverstream chasing after the rolling ball along with the rest of the players from both sides!

Just as Silverstream was swiftly flapping her hovering wings during her own pursuit for the soccer ball, she immediately felt her left leg being weighed down by Yona grabbing onto her left hoof, crying like a sad shivering baby!! Suddenly, Silverstream found herself trapped on the center spot of the soccer field with a living yak heavy-weight burden!

"PLEASE, Silverstream!! ME want you to pass ball to Yona!!", the crying nak girl bawled as she held tight onto Silverstream's left hoof.

"YONA!! Get off of me!! I need to stop that ball from being kicked towards our net!!", Silverstream yelled as she desparately tried to shake Yona off her left hoof. Amazingly, despite her immense weight that was tightly hugging her, Silverstream was able to lift her strong left horse leg off the grassy field! Alas, it was NOT enough for Silverstream to shake the crying Yona off her back!

"PLEASE, SILVERSTREAM!! Yona kick very good!! Yona can help!!", the chubby nak girl continued to cry as she desparately held onto Silverstream's shaking left leg.

"No matter how hard Yona try, no creature pass ball to me!!", Yona continued as tears flow down her face. Not wanting to be known as the fat yak who let the other team win and doomed the whole school's reputation, Yona desparately pleaded for Silverstream to offer her some kind of redemption for her past mistakes!

Seeing the commotion riling up on the center spot of the soccer field, Rainbow Dash immediately dashed over there and confront the two squabbling creatures, before she immediately shouted,

"YOU, Silverstream!! When the ball comes to you, pass it to Yona, before she passes to me!! GOT IT??!!"

As soon as Yona heard the special 'p' word that she so desparately needed, she immediately let go of Silverstream's leg, got up from the ground and cried out,

"*SNIFF*, thank you, Professor! Yona will do her best from now on!!"

"OKAY, we're all good now, right??!! LET'S WIN THIS GAME!!", shouted Silverstream as she immediately flew off to catch up with the rest of her team.

⚽As Mr Tang desparately tried to keep track of where the ball was going without being trampled by the students and thugs, Silverstream suddenly leapt up from the ground after a powerful flap-down of her weighted wings, before performing a mighty headbutt attack on the flying soccer ball!

⚽"YONA, your turn!! Pass it on!", Silverstream shouted as the soccer ball speeds down towards Yona as she stands in the penalty area around her team's goal net!

⚽As Griffon student #60129 tried to interfere with Yona, he was immediately blocked by Strawberry Scoop as she rushes in between the opponent griffon and Yona.

⚽"Thunder Snow KICK!!!", shouted Yona as she performed a twirling leap before performing a backspin kick to pass the ball towards Rainbow's direction!

⚽As Dragoness #47023 and Earthen Equestrian #12042 attempted to tackle Rainbow Dash, the athletic sportsmare lept up into the sky as she rapidly flapped her weighted wings, and does a back-flip spinning kick attack against the ball!!

⚽"CYCLONE SHIFT SWEEPER!!", shouted Rainbow Dash who had JUST barely dodged Dragoness #47023's attempted tackle! As soon as Rainbow had done her spinning backflip, she immediately twirled downwards and landed safely onto the ground on her side, before the dragoness was able to make her move!

⚽As soon as the ball had been deflected from Rainbow's twirling aerial kick, it immediately flew towards Mr Tang's face who was standing in the penalty area around the goal net, before bouncing off against his wrinkly face and landing onto Student #80239's goal net!

"GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she leapt up for joy and performed congratulatory double high-fives and low-fives with Yohanne and Greta!

"HEY, what the hell, man??!!", shouted Student #12138 as he ran towards the facially bruised Mr Tang. "How can that count as a goal when that ball hit you in the face??!! That ain't fair, man! You basically head into that penalty area and scored that point for these goody-two-shoes students!!"

"As much as this really hurts your pride as much as my face," explained the injured Mr Tang, "the referee technically is not involved in playing the soccer game for EITHER team, so that means I could've NOT headbutt that ball into your goal, even if it was by sheer accident!! THUS, Team Liberal Friendship School WINS THE GOAAALL!!!"

"OOHHH YEEEAAAHHH, in YOH FACE, NOOBIES!!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she continued with her slamming high-fives and low-fives with the rest of his team!

"LET'S PLAY BALL!!!", shouted Mr Tang as he picked up the soccer ball and carried it to the center spot.

"HEY, Yona finally does something amazing!! Yona pass ball!! Is every creature proud Yona helped??!", shouted the happy nak girl as she ran to her teammates with her cloven hands in the air. However, every creature was too busy chasing after the legendary Element of Loyalty who helped score the winning goal.

Saddened by them ignoring the nak girl who delivered the median pass between Silverstream and Rainbow Dash, Yona became dejected and hung her nose-bleeding head in shame.

📣'Y-O-N-A!!!'

📣'She's the yak who saved the day!'

📣'Y-O-N-A!!!'

📣'Her spinning kick's is worth a replay!'

As Yona turned her attention to the crowd, she noticed a group of cheerleaders by the side of the field, who were performing synchronized dances with their high-kicks, pom-pom twirls and jumping jack leaps. She soon realized that the cheerleader squad, consisting of Smolder, Ocellus, Shimmy Shake and Lighthoof, were actually praising her for being the best passer who helped Coach Rainbow Dash score the winning goal!

"ALL RIGHT, GO YOOONNAAAA!!", shouted the wing-beating Tiny Turnip Head, who was also wearing the same Friendship cheerleading uniform (along with the pom-poms) as the girls, albeit the skirt was instead replaced by bright purple-and-teal striped pants!

📣'She's the yak with a big soft heart'

📣'And a hip persona!'

📣'Spiralling like a thunderous snowstorm'

📣'GIVE IT UP FOR YONNAAAAA!!!'

"WOOHOOOHOOOOOO!!!", cheered the Friendship students in the fan crowd as Yona teared up happily at the students' loving support for their favourite yak player.

"C'mon, Yona!! We gotta get ready for the next round! You're replacing Strawberry Scoop as the new sweeping defense near our goal net!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she escorted the cheerful Yona to her designated postion.

----------(GAME TIME 10:00 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

⚽"Kangaroo JUMP KICK!!!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she ran from the northwest corner of the soccer field to intercept the flying ball heading for Griffon student #60129 and Dragoness student #47023!!

⚽As soon as Rainbow Dash lept from the corner, she immediately thrusted her left hoof forward and deflected the charging ball perpendicularly, before the ball head straight to Yona once again!

⚽"YONA'S BUCKING BALL-ISTA!!", shouted the amazingly agile fat nak girl as she performed purposeful aerial backwards slip onto the ground, catching the soccer ball with her back hooves and implanting herself on the ground with her two big horns!

Before Earthen Equestrian Student #12042 could charge in to perform a show-stopping attack against Yona, the fat nak girl quickly tossed the ball up with her lower hooves in the air, before catapulting the ball forward with her springing upward two-hooved kick, all while having her head still planted onto the ground!

Seeing her team player immobilized, Greta immediately stopped in her tracks and quickly pulled Yona from the ground and set her upright with her big strong arms!

"Nice job, Yona!! Keep up the good work!", hollered the proud griffon girl as she and Yona charged toward the opponent's goal net.

"Typhoon SEA SWIRLER!!!", shouted Silverstream as she flapped her wings rapidly to keep herself stead as she flipped herself backwards in mid-air! As soon as her lower hooves were at their highest tangent point, the spinning backwards kick made contact with the speeding ball (right before Silverstream was being flanked by two charging Sunny Side Schoolboy yaks)!!

"YKSLER'S PALM OF WAR!!!!", shouted Yona as she forcefully slapped her palm against the soccer ball, causing it to speed towards the opponent's goal net once more!

PPPFFTTHHHHEEEEEWWW!!!! goes Mr Tang's whistle, before the referee shouted, "HEY, THAT IS AN ILLEGAL MOVE!!"

Suddenly, every creature in the crowd started rising up from their seats, though their expressions highly differed from each split group. The Friendship sport fans started awing with disapproval, sad groans and upset cries over the foul move, while the Sunny Side Schoolboys started jeering, cackling and sneering at the yak who had once again made ANOTHER mistake in the game!!

"BOOO, YOU SUCK!!", shouted Master Zhi as he yelled from his penalty box.

"YONA won goal by herself!! YAAAYYYY!", shouted Yona before realizing her team members were showing disappointed faces and were covering their faces in disappointment.

"Hey, why every creature no happy??", asked the confused Yona, before she was immediately lifted off the ground and was grabbed by her front top by the surprisingly strong and elderly Mr Tang via levitation magic.

"WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU, LOAFER??!! You're not supposed to use your fucking hands in soccer, you know??!", shouted Mr Tang as he shoved his livid face against Yona's bandaged muzzle.

As soon as Yona felt the pain on her bleeding nose once more, she started to cry once more and bawled out

😭"HEY, why referee mad at me?! I score point, yes??!! Please no hurt Yona again!! I no why you so mad!!"

"HEY, let her go!!", shouted Greta as she flew forward and grabbed Yona off Mr Tang's grip.

"BUZZ OFF, PIGEON!! This blackhorn needs to be taught a lesson---WOAH!!!", shouted Mr Tang before he was immediately grabbed from the back by Miss Starlight Glimmer.

"What do you think YOU'RE doing??! Scaring a little child like that??! Is this how you treat your grandson back home??!", berated Miss Starlight Glimmer as she yelled into Mr Tang's ear while levitating him.

"That's none of your freakin' business, lady!! I'm just teaching those critches some major discipline!", shouted Mr Tang as he struggled to break free from his levitation.

"HEY, didn't you heard what I said??!", shouted Rainbow Dash as she ran up to Mr Tang's face. "No creature EXCEPT ME is the coach of MY team! YOU do your job as a referee calling out penalties, while I do my job teaching kids about proper sports play!! You got that, old man??!"

"UNLESS we can find ANOTHER referee and put YOU in the penalty box with your yellow friend here, HMMM???!", threatened Miss Starlight as she pointed the penalty box where Master Zhi was begrudgingly sitting. Despite the fact that she couldn't remember her role as Headmare, Miss Starlight was still able to hold her ground for her students and had already proven herself to have the necessary leadership skills to out-rank the referee. Feeling pressured into keeping his role as referee, Mr Tang responded to Miss Starlight

"NO fucking way!! You're not gonna find a strict referee like me! You fire me now, those gangsters will assume that you forfeit the game and run your little school to the ground! YOU NEED ME!!", shouted Mr Tang as his dentures were on the brink of falling out of his mouth.

"Then BEHAVE like a grown-up and let ME handle the yak FOR you!!", sternly barked Rainbow Dash before turning her attention to the crying Yona. As soon as everything was calmly resolved, Miss Starlight Glimmer finally released Mr Tang from her grasp. Once again, every creature on the soccer field was aghast, horrified and shocked at what they were witnessing. It was same reaction they had when Master Zhi kicked Yona in the face, but in this case, Yona was fortunate that Miss Starlight and Rainbow Dash were able to interfere sooner before things got out of control.

"ALL RIGHT!! Let's start again!! NO points scored for the Friendship Team!! Score right now is tied at 1-1!", shouted Tang before grabbing the soccer ball and bringing it to the center spot of the field. As the Sunny SIde Schoolboys cheered on about their lucky break, the Friendship Team could only hung their heads in shame as they followed the referee.

"Why referee mad at Yona??!! Yona did everything right!! Right??!!", shuddered the tearful Yona as Greta gently stroked her brown fur to keep her calm. Apparently, the shock of being manhandled by the referee shocked her so much, it cuased all her sense to go numb, preventing her from hearing the loud ramblings of a manical mad referee. With her head being barely out of the clouds, thanks to Greta, the griffon girl softly replied to Yona

"Yona, you CAN'T use your hands in soccer. It's against the rules."

"Heeyyy, you did fine though! That was an AWESOME pass---even though you did it incorrectly..."

Despite Rainbow's cheering encouragement, Yona was still shivering and crying from the shock of being grabbed by her stretchy top.

"Yona mess up again....Yona fail team once more...", the nak girl sobbed.

"HEY, how about this?? I'll be at the center spot and I'll pass the ball to YOU!", offered the positively smiling Rainbow Dash. "C'mon, it's NOT over yet for all of us! At least you didn't score the wrong net this time! We still got time left before the game ends!"

As Rainbow Dash escorted Yona to her old full back position, Rainbow Dash placed herself at the center back position near the goal net and gave a thumbs up to Yona as a sign of confidence. Once again, Starlight and Sunny Boy were at a face off as they focused their target on the soccer ball on the center spot.

----------(GAME TIME 12:30 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

⚽*PUCK!* goes the soccer ball as it went straight for the top metal border of the goal net!

⚽*PUCK!* goes the soccer ball again as it went straight for the left metal border instead!

⚽*PUCK!* goes the ball once again as it went for the right border instead!

⚽Everywhere the soccer ball went, November Rain the goalkeeper tried desparately to leap for the speeding soccer ball, but never seemed to catch the ball in time----well, not that it matter anyway...

⚽As it turns out, yaks #35679 and #49782, who were within the Friendship Team's west side of the soccer field, were having trouble kicking the ball into the net, as their overgrown hair were partially blocking their visions, and their awkward slow (yet powerful) kicks were not pinpoint accurate enough to aim for the net. Things were not made easy as Greta kepy swooping in with her large weighted wings to block the opponent yaks' field of view, making it hard to focus their clumsy kicks toward the net.

As Student #12136 went charging towards November's net and performed a forward swooping kick at the deflected soccer ball, Greta tried to block the incoming ball from hitting the goal net, but had unfortunately missed her target! But that didn't matter as the ball once again got deflected by the metal arched border of the goal net---

---and got bounced off by Yona's BIG head once again and landed straight into the goal net a SECOND time!!

As soon as Yona got up from her second head injury, she realized too well that she had once again goofed up the reputation of her home team!

"OH NO!", cried Yona. "Yona mess up again!! PLEASE no hurt YONA! It accident!! Yona know it her fault!!"

Soon, she began wincing and cowering in terror, laying on the grassy ground in a fetal position, anticipating for some upset strong creature to come over and beat the yak up for scoring their own net with her big round head! Soon, the Sunny Side Schoolboys started jeering and cackling at the clumsy yak, mockingly thanking her for putting them toe-to-toe with their rival team players. It was too much for the yak to handle on her own.

"PPPPFFFFFTTHEEEEEEEEWWWW!!!" goes Mr Tang's whistle before shouting "ANOTHER point for the Sunny Side Schoolboys, courtesy of the traitorous---!!"

"DON'T say ANYTHING!!", interrupted Rainbow Dash as she got close to the referee's face. Unphased by her anger, he replied with an unsympathetic tone

"WHAT?! I'm JUST stating the facts! YOU saw what she did! You can't fault me for reporting what the we saw---!!"

"Awwww, Greta! What the hell??!"

"You idiot bird! You were supposed to stop the ball from bouncing towards the goal!"

"That ball was JUST about to head straight for you---and you MISSED instead??"

As Yona was getting ready to be berated, she noticed that both the Friendship team players and the Friendship fans started jeering at Greta instead of Yona. The nak girl was utterly confused at the crowd's reaction! Why were they blaming the griffon sweeper instead of her?? Even the gangsters had to pause to hear what in Equestria they were saying.

"OH, uhhhh, hehehe, clumsy ME! I accidentally threw myself UNDER the ball, instead of AT the ball!", nervously chuckled Greta as she stroke the back of her head. "And that ball bounced off the metal post and hit you instead!! Guess I'm bad at protecting my teammates, hehehe!"

Yona tipped her head in confusion, before Greta placed her own right talon onto Yona's shoulder and whispered

"It's going to be okay, Yona! Just focus on keeping the ball out of the opponent's grasp! I'll find some creature else to guide ya, all right?"

Aside from Yona, Tiny Turnip Head was also confused and he asked, "Uhhhh, what's going on? Why are they blaming some other critch player and not---??"

"SHHUSH!! Just play along and roll with it, peggy!", growled Smolder as she snapped at Tiny Turnip Head.

"Uhh, YEAH! BOOOOOO!! You doomed us all, you silly bird! Get back to the bleachers!", hooted Smolder as she turned her attention to the game.

"What the hell is going on here??", questioned Mr Tang as he wondered why they didn't turn their attention to the clumsy nak girl.

"Looks like THEY finally found their NEW scapegoat! Or should I say---a booed-bird!", nudged Rainbow Dash before Greta came rushing in towards Mr Tang's front.

"That's right!", grumbled Greta as she puff up her tall and mighty pose in front of the referee. "I'M the one who messed up the game for the team, NOT Yona this time....you got a problem with that---SIR??"

Intimidated by Greta's mighty size towering over Mr Tang, but still nervously trying to maintain his composure, he took a deep breathe, stared at the griffon's eyes and said

"WELL, since you failed to keep the ball from bouncing off that idiot yak's head, I guess I'll just give you a yellow card for now!"

"---MAKE IT RED!", demanded Greta as she shoved her head towards Mr Tang.

"WHAT??!! Are you serious?!", questioned the nervous referee.

Greta then immediately punched Mr Tang in the face with her mighty fisted talon strike, swiped the red card from his shirt pocket and shouted out to him as she flipped Mr Tang the bird while holding the stolen red card.

"YES---I AM! You can give that yellow card to Yona for me, all right?! CHOW!"

"You BITCH!! You think you can control this soccer field game like the back palm of your gritty talon?! I own this field!!", cried the upset nose-bleeding Mr Tang as he berated at Greta as she walked away from the soccer field.

"It's NOT YOUR field, Mister! It's SCHOOL property! I don't give a flying freakin' feather about who you are! If any creature's gonna follow the rules, it's gonna be YOU, your yellow friend, and EVERY creature else who's playing and spectating on the school's field!", berated Rainbow Dash as she stared down at the bleeding Mr Tang.

"YOH, Griselda!" shouted Greta as she flew over the crowd of Friendship fans. "You're up next! Go play as the wingman for us, okay??"

"What the hell happened, Greta??!", shouted Griselda the dark-feathered-face male griffon.

"Got myself in the penalty box by decking that dickhead referee in the nose!", Greta replied as she showed her red card.

"OH man, I hope you're not planning to do what I think you'll be doing!", shuddered Griselda as he was aware of Greta's rough nature.

"Don't worry---I'm not gonna kill him....just gonna lecture this player about respect for other creatures---that's all!", chuckled Greta as she slammed her fisted talon onto her palm.

"---Well, don't be TOO rough on him, Greta! Heard from Silverstream that he has a little peggy to take care of! Wish me luck!", hollered Griselda before he headed off into the soccer field.

"HEY, keep an eye on the yak girl for me, ALL RIGHT?!", hollered out Greta before she flew down below the audience seats.

Just as Master Zhi was about to leave the penalty box once the three rounds were up, he was met with a towering green-and-white feathered-face griffon at the single entrance.

----------(GAME TIME 13:30 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

"ALL RIGHT, BREAK TIME'S OVER! Let's start again! And PLEASE! Keep the ball outta my face this time!"

⚽As soon as the ball was kicked off by Starlight after the whistle, every creature started scrambling for the ball as fast as they could, hoping they would be the next creature to score the next winning goal!

⚽As the ball rolled towards Griselda, he immediately kicked it off the ball with a high trajectory arc, flying above the other opponents, before it landed on Silverstream's hooves!

⚽As quickly as she got the ball in her possession, she immediately kicked it at a high-angled trajectory so high up in the sky, that every creature had no idea where the ball was going to land.

⚽As Miss Starlight and Sunny Boy started to stare at each other and block each other's way, suddenly, the falling soccer ball went straight down towards the space between Miss Starlight's and Sunny Boy's head, before being held into position by the two unicorns' foreheads!

Immediately, every creature had stopped playing and started to gathering around the two rivaled unicorns, watching closely as the Miss Starlight and Sunny Boy walked in circles around the center spot, while holding the soccer ball steady with their foreheads.

"WELL, aren't you gonna blow your whistle??!!", shouted Student #12138 as every creature became hesitant to interfere with the stare-off.

"FOR WHAT, man??!! There's no rule against holding the ball with your heads! They're not even touching it with their hands!", cried out Mr Tang as he watched the intense and weird stand-off in disbelief. Since that punch to the nose, he was now sporting both a bruised face AND a cotton ball strapped to his nose via bandages. His voice was now a little ruddy and nasal from the blocked nose passage.

"Well, what the hell are we gonna do now??", asked Student #12138 to Mr Tang the referee.

"Shh, just wait and see, okay?", shushed the referee as he posed in a cautious crouching stance.

As Miss Starlight and Sunny Boy continued to stare at each other, their intense rivaled feelings for each other started to ease off and slowly as they walked circles with each other, their gazes no longer showed disdain for each other, but rather a sense of relaxing harmony and comfort of each other's company. No longer opposite players on the soccer battlefield, they continued to stare off into space, all while holding that round soccer ball with their leaning foreheads.

"What Headmare and thug stallion doing?! This be taking too long!", shouted Yona as she continued to observed the entranced unicorns.

"How in the heck are we gonna stop them from staring at each other?", asked Silverstream.

⚽"EASY, we just continue playing soccer! DUUHHH!", shouted Master Zhi who came out into the field and swiftly kicked the soccer ball out into the sky without hurting the two unicorns in the process.

⚽"HIYAAAH!!!! MAN, I am SO glad to be outta this damn box! Stupid bird!"

Just as soon as the ball was kicked out of their heads, both Miss Starlight and Sunny Boy fell onto each other's lips, causing them to share what may be an accidental kiss with each other. Needless to say, Student #12138 was aghast at the sight of his leader landing first base with the Headmare of the school. As soon as Miss Starlight Glimmer felt her lips touched Sunny Boy's mouth, she immediately fell back to the ground, catching herself with her hands on the ground. As Miss Starlight Glimmer laid her eyes on the astounded foolish unicorn thug that had previously challenged the whole school to a soccer match, Sunny Boy noticed that something must had fell out from Starlight's pocket.

Laying on the grassy field at the left side of Starlight Glimmer was a mysterious key. Attached to that key was an acrylic decal of an orange bursting sun with orange/beige-yellow radial crepuscular rays, along with blue four-pointed stars surrounding the sun. As much as he wanted to address to her about the fallen object, Sunny Boy was way too entranced by how beautiful the Headmare was. That swirly dark purple and teal mane, that double-D cupped bust jutting out of her black silk vest and blue shirt, those pretty cute violet eyes...

Feeling pity for the fallen Headmare, Sunny Boy quickly offered his black gloved hand to Miss Starlight, before she grabbed his hand and pulled herself from the ground. Before Sunny Boy would had a chance to tell her about the key though, his throat started to tense up and he was unable to speak to the unicorn mare. As soon as Miss Starlight was back on her hooves, she immediately bolted and ran off without saying 'thank you' to the love-struck and confused gangster. In response, Sunny Boy quickly chased after the Headmare, but it was now no longer because he cared about winning the soccer game happening around him.

As the game went on, Yona and Silverstream noticed something different about the yellow stallion who once kicked Yona in the nose. With Silverstream's binocular vision, she was able to deduce that the sporting Master Zhi was now also sporting his large left black eye.

"HA, look! That stallion who kicked you had just got his JUST desserts! He's socked in one eye and his friend is sporting the same nosebleed as YOU, Yona! What goes around comes around, right??!", laughed Silverstream as she ran along with Yona.

"Uhhh, yeah---of course! Hehehe...", nervously chuckled Yona. Though she felt like Master Zhi and Mr Tang were the ones who traumatized her in the first place, she felt like what her friends were doing was rather too harsh for her new friends, even though the punishment was just the same. All Master Zhi and Mr Tang wanted was for every creature to play the game as it was originally intended; they just went about it the wrong way...

⚽Then, just as she was used to being lost in her own thoughts, she immediately saw Yohanne the muscular yak boy (who was now wearing a pair of white sneakers over his hooves) catch a soccer ball with his knee, boosted up in the sky and cried out,

⚽"YOHANNE YETI KICK!!!"

As he did, Yohanna immediately flipped himself upside down and performed a somersault kick onto the falling soccer ball. SInce his horns were not as large as Yona's, he didn't end up planting himself hard onto the grassy ground.

He DID, however, kicked the ball SO hard, that he actually catapulted his right sneaker off his lower hoof, causing the sneaker to fly towards Mr Tang's right cheek! Fortunately, the ball didn't hit Mr Tang in the face, so he was lucky that the ball didn't end up knocking him out unconscious for good!

"OH NO! Yohanne sorry! Me no mean to hit you! Please no yellow card for little boy yak! It not hurt bad, yes?", cried Yohanne as he ran up to the injured referee, who was now rubbing his right cheek in pain.

"LISTEN KID!! Once the game starts, the referee isn't allow to complain about getting injured during game time, since the referee technically doesn't play the game with either team! So legally, I'm not physically hurt! Now emotionally---that's a different story!", explained Mr Tang as his head started to throb intensely from the pulsing pain.

"Now GET OUT THERE and continue playing, or else I'll give you a yellow card for interfering with a game official!", threatened the angry Mr Tang as he pointed the finger at the rushing soccer players. As soon as Yohanne got his right white sneaker back on his hoof, he immediately went back to playing with the others.

"HAHA, he got his face hit TWICE in one game! What a card!", cawed Greta as she laughed from the penalty box.

As every creature resumed with their game, Mr Tang immediately spotted something strange on the soccer field. Avoiding the large creatures as best as he could, he went up and saw a key with the sunny acrylic decal lying on the field. He picked up the custom key and immediately blew his whistle, before stopping his pocket-watch timer.

"ALL RIGHT, who threw this garbage onto the soccer field??!!", shouted Mr Tang.

"What is it NOW, referee??! You've been pausing the game more frequently lately! I'm starting to wonder about you being in cahoots with the Friendship students!", questioned Student #12138 as he went up to the referee.

"TRUST ME, I ain't doing this for the BOTH of you, okay??!", shouted Mr Tang who was now sporting bruises on both cheeks as well as a bandaged now.

As soon as Miss Starlight Glimmer turned her gaze at what Mr Tang was holding, she immediately recognized that key---though for some reason, she can't remember how it got there. More so, she doesn't even know why she has it in the first place. Nevertheless, Miss Starlight immediately ran up to Mr Tang and shouted,

"It's not garbage, you idiot! It's MY keychain! It must've fell out of my pocket during the gameplay"

"OH, is that so?! Well, keep that junk outta my---ERRGGHH---SCHOOL'S field, okay??!!", shouted Mr Tang before he blew the whistle to signal the continuation of the game. "Let's GO, people!! Time is of the essence!!"

After Miss Starlight pocketed the key into her possession, she was immediately being stalked by Sunny Boy once more. Try as she might, she was unable to escape the hovering and blocking movements of the cocky Sunny Boy. However, the short-cut maned thug wasn't there to gloat around to harass the Headmare about how close he was to winning the soccer match. His focus right now is aimed at getting the Headmare's attention, so that he could perhaps court or even serenade her, before asking his out on a---

⚽WHHHAAAAAMMM!!

Before he could react, Sunny Boy was immediately hit in the face by the stray soccer ball, knocking his sunglasses and causing him to instinctively shut his eyes in pain!

"OWWEEEEE!!!!"

Seeing her chance to escape his presence and give herself a chance to play with the other students, she immediately ran off into the west side of the field to join with Strawberry Scoop near her team's goal net.

----------(GAME TIME 14:30 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

⚽As soon as Miss Starlight was in possession of the soccer ball on the far west side of the soccer field, she immediately started kicking the ball to the opposite east side of the soccer field. Though Rainbow Dash would love to take the honor of scoring the winning goal, she felt like the official Headmare had waited long enough after being harassed so many times by the cocky Sunny Boy. Hence, it became her duty to block off any opponent flyer from stealing the soccer ball from Miss Starlight.

⚽As Starlight was focusing her sight on the east goal, she noticed that Earthen Equestrian #12042 was performing a sliding kick attack on her left side!

⚽With her limited yet fairly strong levitation powers, she was able to lift the ball up over the sliding kick and lept over the rebel Earthen Equestrian in time, before she continued off with kicking her soccer ball to the intended goal.

⚽Then, Miss Starlight immediately encountered yak #35679 in her path, who tried to block Starlight from kicking the ball towards the opponent's net!

⚽Using whatever wits she had left inside her frazzled brain, she used the power of deception by faking a forward kick, causing yak #35679 to instinctively crouch down and slam his strong arm to the ground, hoping to block the ball from rolling between his huge legs---only to realize Miss Starlight used her limited levitation to slight nudge the ball to the left, before circling around the yak to the right and meeting up with the soccer ball! With that obstacle out of the way, she continued on with her mission to score the next point for the Friendship team!

⚽Then came ANOTHER even faster sliding kick by kirin #549012, but Starlight was able to dodge THAT in time by simply kicking the ball way up at a higher-angled trajectory and leaping up as high as she can to avoid the kirin's attempted low-point tackle (no magic required!)

⚽As soon as she was able to make through that obstacle, griffon student #60129 (who had recently escaped from Rainbow Dash's side-swiping blocking moves by performing a strong but less powerful thunder wing-clap) went swooping in for a low-levelled high kick strike in front of Miss Starlight!

⚽But alas, she was also too quick on the draw, as she ultimately kicked the ball high up to her face and used as much power from her suppressed horn as she can, to boost the ball way up in the sky, before taking a swerving right-turn run to avoid the griffon's upward-kicking lion paw and catching the landing ball with her running hooves!

⚽As soon as dragoness student #47023 escaped Rainbow's block by spinning her wings fast enough to create a medium-sized windy whirlwind to push her off, she immediately ran towards Starlight's direction and attempted to block Starlight's path by crouching in front of her and using the tail between her legs to knock the ball off its course!

⚽And Starlight had ONCE again outsmarted that reptilian opponent by kicking the ball towards the gap between the dragoness' tail and leg at such rapid speed, the dragoness had no time to react! Before long, she immediately bowed down so low, looked between her legs and saw Starlight Glimmer kicking the rolling ball along the grassy field!

⚽As soon as Miss Starlight Glimmer was near the goal and was about ready her mighty kick towards the opponent's goal net, yak #49782 came rushing in with intent to tackle her into the ground, hoping to stop her from scoring that goal!

"RRRRRAAAAHHHHHH, yak no let school mare score ball in net!!", yelled yak #49782 as his magnificently ground-shaking stomps caused Miss Starlight Glimmer to lose her footing as she tried to steady herself into kicking the ball.

"DON'T WORRY, HEADMARE!! Master Zhi to the rescue!!", shouted the yellow stallion jerk who thought he could intercept the yak by placing his own body into the path of the rampaging yak opponent.

"IRON CHEST FLEX---!!"

✊WWWWWHHHAAAAMMMM!!!!✊

Just as soon as Master Zhi was hardening himself both mentally and physically against the charging yak, the brutish beast mercilessly whacked him off out of his path with a single arm swipe, launching Master Zhi sideways and sending the yellow stallion tumbling across the grassy fields!

"AAAAHHHHHH, MY RIIBSS!!! MY RIIBSS!!! AAAHHH, They're piercing my chest!!", shouted the heavily bruised Master Zhi as he allowed onto the ground in excruciating pain!

"OH NO, MASTER!!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head after he witnessed another horrific tackle by the enraged yak.

Just when Starlight Glimmer was at the brink of being tackled by the merciless yak and ruin her chances of scoring her first goal, along came a side-swerving angry adrenaline-fueled female nak, who positioned her frontal horns to point at an upward angle at the right moment, without thrusting herself onto the would-be rammer!

"YONA HORN BLOCKER!!"

As the body momentum of yak #49782 caused his abs to become pierced against Yona's static horns, the momentous ground shaking had immediately stopped. As soon as Starlight had realized what Yona had done, a bellowing voice rung into her ears

"HEADMARE!! NOW!!! SCORE GOAL FOR SCHOOL!!", shouted Yona as she struggled to bear the weight of the pierced yak on her single thick horn.

As soon as she looked behind and saw ALL her rushing students trying to protect her AND the Sunny Side Schoolboys trying to steal her ball, she immediately kicked the soccer ball as hard as she could, sending the ball flying to the right! The goalkeeper, a bulky short-cut stallion student named #80239, tried to leap towards the ball, but he was too slow on the mark to block the ball in time!

----------(GAME TIME 15:00 ON THE SOCCER FIELD)----------

🥅Alas, Team School of Friendship had finally managed to won their second point for the whole student body!

As soon as the goal point was scored, Mr Tang finally fainted from the exhaustion, still bleeding and bruised from the multiple strikes to his face. He quickly looked at the stopwatch and realized how much time has already passed. He loudly blew his whistle and cried out

"AND THAT'S the END OF THE GAAAMMEEE!!!"

🎉🎉🎊🎊All the students, school sports fans and cheerleaders came rushing from their audience seats to congratulate Starlight with multiple high-fives, slapping furry skins against some scales, talons, appendages, hands and paws from all other creatures!🎊🎊🎉🎉

🎉"You were AWESOME, Miss Starlight!!"🎉

🎉"WAY TO GO, TEACHER!!!"🎉

🎉"OOOH YEEEAAAHHHH, SCHOOL OF FRIENDSHIP, FOR THE WIIINN!!"🎉

🎉"GO STARLIGHT GLIMMER!! GO STARLIGHT GLIMMER!!"🎉

🎉"I'm SO happy that you are our headmare!!"🎉

As the friendship students continued to celebrate for their favourite teacher and official headmare (including Rainbow Dash who came rushing in to give a hard heart-warming hug), few of the Sunny Side Schoolboys (including Sunny Boy, the injured Yak #49782 and Student #12138) went up to the celebrating Starlight Glimmer with slight discontent and inner grudges over their loss.

"Why the hell are you goody-two-shoes celebrating about??! This match is tied 2-to-2!", shouted Student #12138 as he sneered at the celebrating students

"ACTUALLY, it's tied 1-to-1!", corrected Mr Tang as he approached the two teams. "YOUR yak player had performed an illegal move that involves physical contact with other opponent players--and THAT player happened to be MY ol' friend!"

"GGODD, it hurts when I breathe---GODAMNIT!!!!", continued the wailing Master Zhi as he clenched onto his caved-in chest.

"Master Zhi!! Are you all right??!! Can you get up??!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he rushed to his aid.

"Oooohh, boy! That looked like it REALLY hurt!", winced Ocellus as she assessed the body damage on Master Zhi.

"GAAH, it feels like I got ran over by a freakin' freight train!!", Master Zhi shouted from the top of his exhausting lungs.

"HA! Looks like you got DOUBLE the dessert serving like the referee here! AND it was from a yak too!!", mocked Smolder as she pointed her claw finger at Master Zhi.

"HEHE, yeah! Talk about priceless irony! He who throws the mud at his target will always get dirt stuck in his talons, as Grandpa Gruff would say!", snickered Greta as she smirked at the pitiful Master Zhi.

"OH YEAH?! Well, THEIR yak barged in and pierced her horns onto YOUR yak, so therefore the score is 1-0 for Friendship vs the SSS!! So DOUBLE-HA!" argued Student #12138 as he yelled at the referee.

"Technically, she only moved to the side to block him in order to protect me; I never actually saw her pierce his abs on purpose. It was his own adrenaline-fueled momentum that brought him to his own downfall", explained Miss Starlight Glimmer as she came to Yona's defense.

Seeing his yak friend still feeling th agony of his ab wound, Student #12138 counter-argued with a harsh loud tone against the Headmare

"BULLSHIT!! You're obviously biased towards the Friendship Team, because of your injured friend here! We're not gonna let this stand, are we Headmaster??!!"

As Sunny Boy was staring into the glistening eyes of the worried Headmare, he found himself opening his heart to seeing the benefit of the doubt from both sides of the team. Feeling like it was his yak henchman that instigated the struggle by physically attacking first and that the Headmare's student was only protecting her out of friendship instinct, he felt like the action was justifiable on the fat nak's defense. If the roles were reversed at that time, his yak henchman would've reacted the same way if that nak came blindly rush in without considering the safety of his gang members.

"If the referee says it's a tie and the Headmare said the yak girl acted in defense against my student's unprecedented tackle, then Miss Headmare and her team should clearly be awarded further for heroism, as well as enforcing both sportsmareship and friendship among her students...", commented Sunny Boy as he gladly smiled at Miss Starlight Glimmer. Student #12138 suddenly looked at Sunny Boy as he became shocked and speechless by Sunny Boy's support for both the referee and the school headmare.

"Hey, little horse buggy!", called out Sunny Boy as he turned his attention to the staring Cornicle, "Next time, always remember to bring your student card wherever you go, outside OR inside of the school."

"ECK! Like I'm gonna take advice from a bunch of bullies!", snarked Cornicle as he turned his face away from Sunny Boy.

"HEY, don't be rude, Cornicle! They may be thugs, but at least they retain some sense of honor and standards...", snapped Miss Starlight Glimmer as she used her unsuppressed levitation to pull his ear to her face.

"OW OW OW, okay okay, I'm sorry, Miss Starlight!", shouted Cornicle before he was released.

Sunny Boy then reached out his gloved hand for the changedling boy to shake with, as a symbol of a non-aggressive peace between the students and the rogue gang, as well as an addition that the Sunny Side Schoolboys would promise to no longer come raiding within the school premises ever again. Though hesitant at first, Cornicle quickly grabbed Sunny Boy's hand with his two chitin hands, before giving him a healthy welcoming shake, causing the students (and Rainbow Dash) celebrate their first victory towards a better peace with the rogues as well.

"OH, and for the yellow stallion who got pummeled by one of my yak boys...", continued Sunny Boy as he walked up towards the writhing in pain on the floor

"Let this sports experience be a lesson for you. Not every creature will have the same level of intelligence as you. That's why you gotta teach them in the way that they could understand. I may not know about how your culture deals with failure or defeat in wherever you're from, but right here in Ponyville, good people teach their kids to not worry about whether they fail or lose in gameplay, but only worry about whether they're having good fun or not..."

Every creature from both sides of the team watched on with peculiar curiosity of the high-levelled thug lecturing a master on compassion and understanding, an ironic twisted role-reversal that shocked them to their inner core.

"So please---take good care of your friends---as they may as well take great care of you in return...OH, and the same thing goes for that old referee too!", Sunny Boy shouted out his final words to both Master Zhi and Mr Tang, before walking up to the Headmare for an informal fist bump.

"UH OH, we better get ready for our next class! The professors are gonna be worried sick about where we are right now!", shouted one mare pegasus student who was staring at her watch. As soon as every creature realized that they still have academic work to be done, every creature (including Professor Rainbow Dash and Miss Starlight Glimmer) started to walk off the soccer field in groups, going on about their own business and talking cheerfully about today's soccer game...

Well---almost every creature. One fat nak girl with a bandage around her nose was still standing on the soccer field, walking up to Master Zhi and offering her helping hand for the injured soul.

"----HUMPH!! Looking to bash MY nose in too, as part of your short quest of retaliation??!", scoffed the withering yet stubborn Master Zhi as he looked away from Yona.

".......No", replied the soft-spoke Yona as she outstretched her hand. "Yona learn from Headmare that revenge no make you feel better long time. Only grow and fester, like bad weeds! Though Headmare and Professor Dash may no forgive yellow stallion for nose kick, Yona knows that you just want game to be play right...but...stallion already told that he no can hit creature for failure. It no teach creature anything."

"Besides, Yona know already yellow stallion still have care for tiny white pegasus...", continued Yona as she forced herself into grabbing Young Master Zhi's hand, before lifting and carrying Master Zhi like a damsel in distress. "Yona will forgive stallion and learn everything from Master with white pegasus boy, if stallion say sorry to every student, plus Yona, in school".

Feeling the awkward silent tension between him and Yona (as well as the writhing pain in his chest), Master Zhi agreed to her terms, before telling her, "UUggghhh, let's get me to the nurse's office first, all right??! Then you can take me to the Headmare's office, so I can speak through the intercom!"

"DEAL!!", shouted Yona as she gracefully carried the poor Master Zhi with her thick strong arms, all while leaping along the way.

"Oh...uhhh...by the way.....nice job blocking that tackle! We would've not won--the--GAME---without you!", thanked the struggling voice-strained Master Zhi as he tried to maintain his composure during Yona's lift and carry.

"HUSH, yellow stallion needs sleep! No time for talk!", shushed Yona as she ran off out of the soccer field.

As Sunny Boy stood motionless with his fist still sticking out in the air, Student #12138 started to give a sincere smirking smile and suddenly realized the reason why Sunny Boy gave leeway to the Headmare and her students.

"---You got the raging hots for that headmare, don't ya lover boy??", teased Student #12138 as he flicked his finger at Sunny Boy's chin.

After a short interval of silence between the two thugs, Sunny Boy became the first to break the silence within his gang of diverse creatures as they gathered around their love-struck leader.

"C'mon...let's go home, my dear students! I have to get prepared for my first errand task with my dear godfather..."

---END

Author's Note

1. For those unfamiliar with soccer terms, here's a map of all the soccer positions
   

2. Cantonese for "Sir"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Sir&from=&to=yue

3. Cantonese for "What do you want?"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=What%20do%20you%20want%3F&from=&to=yue

4.Cantonese for "Will you help?"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Will%20you%20help%3F&from=&to=yue

1. Cantonese for "Are you joking?"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Are%20you%20joking%3F&from=&to=yue

2. Cantonese for "gangster"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=gangster&from=&to=yue

3. Cantonese for "OH GOD!"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Oh%20God!&from=en&to=yue

4. Loafer: yak/nak (because they look like a giant loaf of bread when unshaven); usually used as a derogatory term