Chapter 10: Heading For The Game (Concert)
It came to the time to make the final decision on who the best band in history is. The crowd was still shouting like crazy while Dane was sitting there still having a hard time deciding on who he is going to vote for, but had a really hard time deciding. It was about ten minutes after the bandathon when the fans finally made their decisions. The final outcome was outstanding to Dane and his girlfriend Danielle, since the fans decided to vote for Dane. Dane and the bands just looked at the fans and were amazed at how the fans decided. Jimmy held his thumbs up, and called Dane up there to the stage to congratulate him for winning the battle of the bands without even entering that final competition. Danielle looked at him and then the others and pushed him lightly to signal for him to go up to the stage for the celebrations.
Dane just kept looking back and forth from the crowd to the bands with hesitation on if he should go crazy or if he should just be the same Dane that he has been during the whole band concert. Before walking to the stage, he replied to Jimmy with a thumbs up, as he wanted the win more than the others, but even refusing to enter the competition, he ended up with the win. He turned around with his back facing the stage, and excitedly he lifted his arms up in victory. Then, he turned back around so that he was facing the stage, and tried to leap up so he could get up to the top of the stage. He remained cautioned when he was trying to get up there so that he did not have to go back to the hospital with another head injury. When he jumped up, he grabbed the stage edges and pulled himself up onto the stage, standing up. Finally, he got up to the stage and he walked over to the bands, and hugged each one of them. This was not always the thing to do in a celebration to Dane but he was a little more excited than he thought he would be.
Once he was done with the band, he turned back around to face the audience and lifted his hands up. Doing so, he moved his ring finger, thumb, and pinky finger down revealing the peace sign that he had been using every time he won an award for something. The crowd went crazy, craving the appearance of Dane Gallagos since he arrived at the concert. According to the band, the audience came to see Dane play again out in Detroit, but Dane did not believe that. He believed that the crowd came to see a huge concert with the two bands that have deserved an applause. The truth about the whole voting thing was that the fans could not decide on which of the bands they should choose, so they voted for Dane. And with the fingers up and himself over by the edge of the stage, he was a little more lucky not to fall off the stage again than he was to earn that award.
You could hear a very long applause for Dane and the bands of The American Dream and Another Lost Memory, but Dane just quit celebrating all together since he feared that he would fall off the stage again. The flashback came back to him as a weird face came upon him, as he relived the horror in his memories. The fans stop cheering and clapping when they saw him turn around, as the bands just stared at him confusedly. Danielle just stared at him too, as Dane just turned back around and jumped off the stage trying to land on his feet. It was not very lucky for Dane when he jumped for the crowd surfing because the crowd was unable to catch him and hold him up long enough to pass him on to the other person around them, but there was a huge trampoline down by the audiences stand. Since the man in the front row noticed that this was going to happen, the trampoline was going to be set there for his protection. This trampoline came from the man in the front row who enjoyed his time by jumping up and down on it exercising trying to watch the performances. I know you would not even imagine that a man would exercise and watch the performances, but this one man was smart enough to use it to keep his sights cleared and keep Dane safe.
When Dane fell down onto the trampoline, he was able to fly back up into the air and land on the stage. To the band it looked like Dane was trying to commit suicide in this act to crowd surf during his celebration. The band grabbed him and pulled him back so that he was not anxious to jump back down and try to crowd surf again. Danielle jumped up from her seat and ran to the stage. Once she got there, she jumped up with a hold of the stage helping her get up onto the stage to comfort Dane. He usually gets this whacko when he is excited, so if anybody trying to excite him or surprise him, he would either drink or go totally retarded.
Dane looked over to the band members and whispered to them. “Hey guys. I have to get going I have some business to take care of. It is not like I do not like you or anything, it is just that I have to do something that might change my life forever. I will see you guys later, and call me later because I have some plans for you guys once I get an answer out of my girl about this, all right?” Dane then went to Danielle and wrapped his arms around her waist and asked. “Hey. Lets get out of here. We got a little something we have to take care of.” He then sat himself down on the edge of the stage and pushed himself off, in order to land on his feet. He then helped Danielle down onto the floor from the top of the stage.
Dane then walked through the crowd smacking the fans hands, as he tried to get through the crowd to the door. Danielle just followed him on the way to the door, wondering what the thing that they had to do was. Dane just turned his head to her and smiled, as he pushed the door open, so he could get out of the concert with his head raised up high with his ideas hidden. Going out to the parking lot he had his finally chance to speak before he finally got a chance to propose. “Sorry about leaving so quickly, but I have to get ready for my concert later tonight. I got a call earlier, and they rescheduled it for about nine o’clock tonight. I have to get some rest and prepare for the huge concert, but I will not have many people watching it this time around. But, we have to go and take a road trip, so we better get there before seven so we could get all the way to California by eight o’clock, so that I can get my stuff ready and work on my tune up and practice for the concert.”
“Oh. All right. W better get back to my place and get everything ready. Bt do not rush me because it might take me about thirty minutes to get my make up done and my clothes changed.” Danielle said walking with him to Robby and Cooper’s car, with them both waiting in it. Robby opened his door up, and popped out to scare Dane. Robby grabbed a hold of the door handle, and pulled the car door open. He just looked at Dane with a little grin, but Cooper just stared at him with an evil smirk expression on his face. Dane jumped into the car, and scooted over to the other side so that he was on the right side of the car. Danielle followed him into the car, as she was sitting in the middle with her head laying on Dane’s shoulder, while Robby shut the door so they did not fall out of the car as they were moving. Robby opened his door back up and got in. With the keys in the ignition he would twist the key around and push on the skinny petal to leave the parking lot.
“Why were you in such a hurry?” Robby asked looking to find out what was up with Dane.
“Yeah Dane. What is going on with you? I saw you earlier, and I am wondering, what the heck you were thinking when you jumped off the stage for the crowd surfing,” said Cooper leaning back against his seat.
“I will tell you guys a little later. I just have something I have to do before the concert, and it will be life changing.” Too bad for Dane, Danielle listened into the conversation wishing that she would not have with her head still laying on his shoulder. “So. What were doing sitting out here in the car while I was celebrating?”
“Well. We have a little camera in the middle of the auditorium so that we know what is going on while the bands are playing. It is not too big of a deal but we really stayed out here so that when you guys were ready to go we would be here waiting, so we could get going to the concert that happens in about two hours. Why weren’t you here earlier? We have to be in California in about an hour.” Asked Cooper.
“No we do not. We have around three hours. Unless my stupid watch is off by an hour.”
“Your watch must be off by an hour, because my watch is solar powered. We have to get there in about an hour, so we do not have enough time to go and get your stuff. I sure hope you have everything you will need to last you four hours, or else you are out of luck. Hate to say.” Robby said as they stayed on the road for the extra hour, as Danielle and Dane were fast asleep the whole hour that they were on the road. Robby and Cooper just exchanged glances at Danielle and Dane before just giving up. Good thing they did because if they did not stop, then they might have gotten in a car crash, because they were only a couple minutes away for a huge crash. But before they did, Robby pushed on the brakes and held off the huge crash for another time.
It was an hour later when Robby drove the car into the parking lot of the California Stadium where Dane’s band had to play at for the half time show. They were supposed to be playing at the following week’s game, but the band could not make it to the game because their lead guitarist was sick. Once the car pulled into the parking lot, Robby yelled behind him at Danielle and Dane.
“Hey guys, wake up!” Robby yelled before turning off the car by twisting the key in the ignition the opposite way that he did to turn the car on. But luckily for Dane, being the sleeper he was, they still had thirty minutes left in the first half before it was time for the halftime show. Robby grabbed a hold of the doorknob and pushed it down so that he could push the door wide open with his arms. Following this, he moved his leg out towards the door, and stepped his foot down onto the ground, allowing him to get out of the car. He then grabbed the keys and pulled them out, excited to be seeing the California and Texas game. Following this, he pushed the door shut so that when he tried to open Dane’s door, he did not smack himself into the door accidentally.
He turned himself around and walked towards Dane’s car door and grabbed onto the door handle and pulled on it so that he could open it up and let Dane and Danielle out. Once he had the door all the way open, he grabbed onto Dane’s shirt and dragged him out of the car onto his feet. Dane then suddenly woke up, but while he was stretching, he fell back and hit the car door. Cooper then got out of the car and walked around the front of it to meet Dane, Danielle, and Robby on the other side. Danielle looked towards the stadium and she was shocked at how Texas was leading California by twenty one points. Dane then just turned to the scoreboard and saw that it was first down with California controlling the ball. Dane just started to walk his way slowly to the stadium doors with Robby, Cooper, and Danielle following him. Once he got there, he just pulled an identification tag to show that he really was who he was. Danielle was then giving a free ticket for being the girlfriend of the biggest lead singer of all time. That was one thing that most people do not allow out there at the football games, handing out tickets to band members’ relatives, but this man was very appreciative for Dane and his band.
Robby started walking in front of Dane on the way to the bleachers where there were free places where nobody was sitting, where he kept places for Cooper and Danielle safe. Dane though, went over to the side where he prepared himself for the performance being early enough for practice. He was not the only person early, the other band members were there as well, standing out there by their cars, playing for the incoming and outgoing fans. Dane though did not know that they were there until he heard the guitarist Mick playing really nice and loud. Dane then hearing the guitar player, started to tune himself and pump himself up while playing his guitar on his way to the parking lot. On his way, he decided to stop down by the ticket booth to meet with the fans down there.
One of the men from the booth walked out to greet the lead singer of the biggest rookie band in the state of Texas. “Hey. I see that you have showed up, I really did not think that you would live for us to see this night.” The man said looking at Dane with disgust.
Dane got furious and grabbed the man by the collar. “Whoa there. If you want to talk to me that way I will have no choice but to tackle your butt. I came here for the halftime show and get you guys more tickets sold, and this is the respect I get for doing so. It is my fault that you still got the job anyway. It was 1996 when I went out there and made eight touchdowns in a game and gave you guys that record, so give me some respect you worthless peace of crap. And people from all across America came here to see me and that gave you guys your money, so I would not mess with me if I were you.” Dane is not this way most of the time but he was not as relaxed as he usually was at these kind of games and with the disrespectful punks who screw with his mind.
Robby and Cooper then walked straight up to that area and just stared at Dane and grabbed his arms. “Whoa there Dane. Just calm down. You do not want to go and fight this guy just yet, we only have about three and a half minutes until the big halftime show so you better go get ready.” Robby and Cooper then walked away from him staring back at the man behind the counter and pointed to him with disgust and fled from the area.
Meanwhile Dane was still standing there staring him down with a look of disaster on his face. He just pointed to him, before turning around to make his back face the man at the booth, and walked off. He went straight to the game and stood down by the bleachers with his mind staring down on the game. Noticing that the Cowboys were down by fourteen points with the score being twenty one to thirty five with the favor being on the Chief’s side of the score.
This moment in the game was more important to the Cowboys than it was to the Chief’s in any part of the games they have been in. Texas is in some serious trouble, and with Danny Horrus out there with his rushing block power, they may have been in more trouble than the coach expected. Danny was down at the end of the linebackers line and saw Jimmy Horner out there waiting for the ball and the rush. This was not normal for the Chiefs having known what they were going to do before they do it, but it might keep the advantage for the Kansas City defense. There was a new player out there though, and that new player was named Kevin Golfield and this was the major wildcard for Texas.
The hike was prepared to be made by the center to the quarterback, with Goldman there prepared for the play. The quarterback though, decided that it might be better to pass, but he had faith in his other teammates. So when he got the ball, he passed it over to Goldman being exactly where the Chief’s believed that they were going to give it to, so the whole team rushed in to take out Goldman, but he just threw it out to Golfield for the pass down at the twenty yard line. This pass did not end there, since Golfield was a quick rusher, he pushed his way away from the player that was guarding him all the way to the one yard line. There, he just leaped into the air, and rolled in to land a celebration touchdown. Back by the men standing waiting for their time to play their defense, he slapped the hands of the offense men in congratulations.
But, they should not celebrate just yet they only had a minute yet and they were down by a touchdown. The kicker just rushed out onto the field ready to make the extra point but he just turned his head to the man in front of him and pointed out to the touchdown line. He pulled back and lifted an arm up into the air signaling for the kick, but when he ran up there, he picked up the ball and ran right through the men easily to get the two point conversion. The players could hear the crowd cheering for them as they got this large look on their face pumped up by the crowd. The kicker looked at the players out on the other side of the field and studied their positions and found an opening.
Dane watched them and pointed out to the quicker player, and the kicker knew to kick it to the easy fumbler so that they could get that ball back and be closer to the goal line. Without hesitation, he ran straight up and kicked it up into the air to make it hit the fast running rusher knowing that it would be easy to fumble the ball on him. The defense men covered the man, and the special linebacker for the Cowboys and got ready for his spot. He finally found an opening in the rushers arms, and running up to him, he swatted the ball out of his hands while taking him down, allowing the man beside him to pick it up. The other man rushed right through the defense men but was not very lucky in the final couple seconds in the game when a player ran straight after him and tackled him at the touchdown line which totally squashed him down on his arm, crushing it. He just laid there rolling around on his arm waiting for help for his arm.
Paramedics finally rushed to the field to get im up onto a stretcher, with the players staring down at him knowing that this game might be over with their best defense man injured. But the coach just remembered Dane’s football experience and turned to him.
” Hey Dane, we need your help out there. You are our only option left and without you, we have no chance of going off to the super bowl. Just help us for this final game, and maybe if you want to play some more come here and see me afterwards. We need you more than ever with our best player out with an injury and we need to keep them from scoring in the next half, so are you in?” The coach asked being very convincing.
“I do not know right now. I will get you my answer after the halftime show. I will think about helping you out for this game but do not expect me to help you in any of the other games. My football career is over, but it will feel good to go out there again in front of the fans with them cheering me on. But I have to go now and get my stuff ready for the half time show that goes on in about ten minutes.” Dane replied walking to the parking ,lot to get his stuff all organized and his guitar all tuned up and ready for the huge gig. Mick looked towards Dane and nodded.
“Go on out there and do what you do best, and maybe your team will go to the super bowl. As they said, they need you more than ever and maybe it will be a good idea to go out there and help your former team out. But until then, concentrate on your music and do not be nervous out there this time because Danielle will be out there watching you.” he said laughing thinking that it was going to be a real joke to him, but it just frustrated him even more. “Whoa calm down there. Hold your anger and your frustration of the game and injure some people and totally annihilate that Chief’s defense and offense because all of Texas is rooting for you to brig this team to the super bowl to face off with the Patriots. Get prepared and let the crowd guide you along the way and remember that the fans will love you no matter what decision you make for the team. Mister quarter back better be ready for the rushes and the passes because you will relive your childhood before the retiration from football in 1997 for your singing career after you and your team won the super bowl. Bring all you can bring and do not put any pressure on yourself out there because being a quarter back and a huge rusher, you are the real deal.”
“But I have something I must do before I play, but I really do not feel like doing both of them. I must ask you, can I just skip out on the performance and go to the team for preparation for the final two quarters? I am doing this for the fans and not for myself, so I must forget about the whole performance and get into the rushing mood. Good luck out there with the band and with your singing because you are a better singer than I am, and I will see you after the game.” Dane said walking off away from him to go to the dressing room with the team to pump up for the huge final half of the super bowl qualifying.
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