AAOOOSC! #10

Chapter 28: "What Was That Again, Joey?"

Sidney, Nathan, Jonathan, Carter, Matt, and Ryan burst into the main room of the headquarters with the ruler of the NHL still swung over Carter's shoulder.

"We got him!" Carter shouts. "We got him!"

From the main table, the three Gulls skaters, Brandon, Joseph, and Nick seem like they were playing a game with cards before the others intruded. They stop what they are doing and peer up at the seven.

Nick raises up his deck of cards fanned out in his hands. "You guys got Marián Hossa?" He plucks a card out and shows it to them; it is a trading card of Marián Hossa.

"Nope, but close!" Carter then thrusts Toews into the seat next to Nick.

"Oof!" Toews exclaims as he hits the chair. He pulls himself up and shoots Carter a glare. "Can you go more harsher than that?"

Carter shrugs. "Eh, I can," he says, not getting the rhetorical question.

"We'll be back-- We gotta get the others!" Sidney tells Toews. He then speeds off into the hallway with the other power players.

Toews senses someone staring at him, so he turns to his left to see that it is Nick who is doing so. "Yeah?"

"Do you have Marián Hossa?" He shows the card of Marián to him.

"He's not even playing with us," Joseph hisses at his teammate. "What do you expect him to do, randomly pull out a Marián Hossa card for you?"

Toews flicks his hand in the air; a card immediately pops out from behind his fingers. He then holds it out to Nick.

Nick looks down at it. It's a Marián Hossa card.

"Oh, thanks." He smiles like a young child, takes the card, pairs it up with his card and puts it aside. He then turns to Joseph. "What was that again, Joey?"

Joseph rolls his eyes, having them land on his cards. "Who has Zach Parise?"

"Uh..." Brandon flips through his cards. He then shakes his head at his teammate. "Go fish."

Joseph turns to Nick.

"Go fish," Nick tells him.

Joseph averts his eyes to Toews.

Toews shrugs. "You think I'll randomly give you a card of my rival?"

Joseph begrudgingly snatches a card from the deck in the middle, then peers down at it. "Ryan Kesler. KesBoss. My man." He then puts it in his hands with his other cards.

"We're back!" Sidney shouts as he rushes back into the main room with all the other GHP members, minus Patrick, of course.

They all gather around the table, forcing the three Gulls to relocate their game area to the other end of the table.

Once everyone is seated, Toews gazes around the hockey players lining the table. When his eyes land on Matt and Ryan, he knits his eyebrows, then immediately raises them.

"Matt Hackett and Ryan Faragher!" He looks taken aback, not because of the two goalies themselves, but because of the information his powers gave him about the two.

"Yup, that's us." Ryan gives him a cool look, swishing his index finger from himself to his buddy.

"And you're the ruler of the NHL?" Matt has awe-filled eyes.

Toews nods his head. "Yeah."

"Wow, that's awesome!" Matt seems highly impressed.

Toews studies them more. "Power play of the San Diego Gulls, power player of the Utah Grizzlies, got sent back from 2016 along with those guys..." He points to the three Gulls skaters, who are immersed in their game of Go Fish. He then reverts his index finger at them. "We'll help you get back to your right time."