Outsiders Fight Night

Authors Note: This is a rewrite of the fight scene in the outsiders when Ponyboy and Johnny ran away.

     A shimmering blue Mustang pulls up next to Johnny and Ponyboy.  Right away they knew who it was, the Soc’s grandmaster Bob.  Johnny got a shiver down his neck as he could see the rings on his fingers as Bob got out of his car. “That was the Soc that beat me,” Johnny said.   Ponyboy told Johnny that they should leave because he didn’t think they would get out alive if they saw them.  As Bob and the other Soc’s approached Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy started to speak with his greaser twang, “Why don’t ya’ll Soc’s turn around and go back.” Bob and the other Soc’s started to laugh.  “What little greaser kid is gonna tell us what to do?” said Bob as he and the Soc’s approached Ponyboy.  Johnny, without warning, jumped at Bob tackling him to the ground.  He hit him in the face knocking him out cold.   Johnny grabbed all the rings off of Bob’s hands and put them in his pocket and ran away. The Soc’s went up to see if Bob was okay, while Ponyboy ran in the same direction following Johnny.

        

     After awhile, Ponyboy caught up with Johnny in the alley next to his house. Ponyboy cursed, “What was that for? Are you crazy?” Johnny explained, “The reason why my parents don’t care for me is because they are not my real parents. They are my aunt and uncle who despised my parents.   They were my only family in the city.  A gang of Soc’s mugged my mom and dad and they both died. The Soc’s stole both of their wedding rings.” Ponyboy said, “Wait can I see those two rings?” Johnny handed off the two rings and Ponyboy inspected them closely in the light.  “These two rings, these were my parents’ wedding rings.  They wore them the day of the crash and they were never found,” Ponyboy said.  Johnny and Ponyboy went back home to Darry and Sodapop and told them both what they knew. They both knew that Bob’s dad was once the head of the Soc’s.  He really hated the Greasers who back then were Johnny’s and Ponyboy’s parents. They all had a rage in their eyes.   They knew who had made their lives miserable and what they had to do.

       

      They all had traveled to the eastside of town, Soc territory.  They brought along Dally, the mastermind behind getting revenge. Dally told all of them to stay put to see if anyone was out.  He shared an equal amount of rage at the Soc’s. About 15 minutes later, Dally came back in a full sprint out from behind Bob’s house. There was a thick cloud of smoke because he had lit a cigarette, dropped it and it started Bob’s house on fire.   Johnny and Ponyboy couldn’t stand what Dally did, so they ran into Bob’s house and tried to save the Soc’s.  There were no Soc’s to be seen.  Once they turned around to get out, the doorway had collapsed in and it was covered in flames.  Ponyboy could hear Darry and Sodapop outside yelling for him.  Ponyboy closed his eyes and he woke up in his bed with Darry shaking him and yelling his name.  It was then that he realized it had only been a dream.