CHAPTER 2: "Gathering the team".

After naming the team, Bruce gave Rubencho and Diego the mission to find the members of the new team while he took care of the rest of the preparations. He also mentioned that they had 3 months to find the 11 players and once they had found them, they would meet in that big wasteland. The face of both of them was full of joy and they started their journey to look for the Thunder World players.

The first member was a cousin of Rubencho named Marcos, they had to wait for him to come from his hometown, since he always came to visit the city for a few months. Our heroes, upon meeting him, told him about Thunder World's proposal and, upon hearing this, the young man accepted with pleasure. Another member of the team was a friend of Diego's and Rubencho cousin, Enderson, who lived nearby, the young men told him about the team and before they finished talking to him, he was very enthusiastic and accepted. So the two months went by and our heroes were gathering little by little the team, one of the most difficult to convince was a friend of Diego's named Omar, he lived a couple of kilometers from the city, our heroes arrived at the field where he trained, immediately Diego greeted him, but strange to him that he came to see him and asked him: "What are you doing here? the boy with a serious attitude explains him everything about the new soccer team, so that he could join them, Omar thinks for a while, he looks at the boy and says: "no... I can't go, do you think I will leave this place and my friends for you? That's my answer- our hero when he heard this did not stay with a no as an answer insisting him to change his decision, but nothing made him change, he simply left saying: -don't look for me, my help will not change things-. The boy with an attitude of disappointment and anger could not believe it, Rubencho approached him from behind saying: -there is no other option, let's look for the next one- the boy refused mentioning that it was going to be that Omar was part of the team, staying to find out why the young man had that attitude if he had never been like this.

At nightfall the young men went to talk to Omar's uncle, he mentioned that this attitude was due to the fact that the boy's father was in poor health and therefore he had to take care not only of him but also of his brothers, but he felt helpless because he could not help him more than he wanted to, since his mother had left the city to look for some medicines but had not returned for days, upon hearing this our heroes left thinking that there must be a way to help the boy so that he would join them in the cause. The next day the young men went in search of Omar's mother along with the uncle, at first it was not easy to find her, when they finally managed to find her they found her crying in a fountain, apparently some thieves stole the money with which she had to buy the medicine and she did not want to return until she found the medicine for her husband. However, Rubencho was counting on the fact that a distant friend of his grandfather's named Freddy lived nearby and that he would have the solution to that problem by going to visit him:

-What are you doing here? wait, don't tell me... you need help with something, don't you?

-You think you can help me to get these medicines," says Rubencho handing him a piece of paper, Freddy, doubtful about the strange request, asks him:

-Are some of your parents sick? the young man explains him everything and immediately this old friend looks for the medicines telling him then that it is a great pleasure to help the grandson of his old friend; after this Rubencho gives the medicines to the lady telling her to tell her the whole truth and that if she changes her mind to meet him in the subway at 6 o'clock. The afternoon falls and the young men were waiting for Omar in the subway but he never arrived, Diego was sad because he could not make the boy join them, Rubencho looking at him tells him: -we did what we could, something tells me that he will join us later.... Let's go-

The two get on the subway and leave the place. Rubencho looked at Diego who was still sad because they had not been able to get Omar to join them, when the time came the young people were going to Bruce's place when suddenly they heard someone say: -there is room for someone else- they all turned around and were surprised, it was Omar! Diego gets happy, Rubencho approaches him and says:

-You took too long to change your mind-.

-My mother told me everything, she told me not to worry, that you were the ones who helped her and what better way to thank you than to help you... I waited until this moment I wanted to train a little more, what we have to face is not easy, but here I am and I hope it's not too late".

-Welcome to the team," said Diego happily.

They all go to Bruce, who was in the wasteland and what they saw surprised them completely: there was a red curtain so long and big that it covered everything, he looks at all of them saying: -good job! they have gathered all of you, here we are to form the Thunder World soccer team, a team that will help to give back to soccer the joy and the smile, to accomplish this goal we all must be willing to play soccer... Rubencho, Diego here is my surprise-at that moment the big curtain collapses and everyone was surprised to see a big soccer stadium, Diego's face was filled with emotion, at that moment Bruce mentions: -as you see here is the Thunder World stadium, the Thunder Camp we will train in this place to be stronger-. They all entered the stadium and it was very big, it had dressing rooms, showers, dining room, when they all arrived to the field they saw three girls, one of them was a friend of the youngsters, her name was Marialex, the other one was Greysi, Diego's sister, there was a third girl called Valentina, She liked medicine very much and offered to be the team's paramedic, almost immediately Valentina looked at Rubencho, her face turned a reddish color so much that she looked like a tomato but then she stopped looking at him, instead Diego when he looked at Greysi said:

- my sister, there's no... why her?

- she has a sophisticated taste in fashion and she was the one who made the uniform for them," answers Bruce, Diego complains a little and Greysi approaches him with an evil tone saying:

-You better not even complain, and neither do you guys, you don't want to see me angry, do you?

The youngsters were left with a frightened face, but after this Rubencho says to all of them: -we have to train and become strong to return the smile to soccer... who is with me!- when they hear this they all say "me! joining hands. The young man moves away from the others, takes off his necklace, Diego notices him and sees that he says: "it's starting grandfather, I hope to become as strong as you... I will keep our promise"; Diego approaches him and puts his hand on his back and says: "I'm sure of that... because I will help you! together we will become the strongest".