Rocket loves rockets

[Jason flying elbows 21]

   Rocket is not only a hockey player in the VHL but was also a Rocket enthusiast. No not an enthusiast of himself of course but of ACTUAL Rockets. Why did he become so fascinated with such a random subject? What fascinated Rocket to become such a fan of Rockets? Why is it so damn fun to say Rocket so many times in one sentence? Well, lets start at the beginning shall we...

 

The Beginning...

 

 

 

    I wasn't joking...This is the beginning of why Rocket loves Rockets and it starts with his parents. Rockets dad himself had quite the rocket on him or at least that is what his mom said. So there you go its all genetics....HA almost had you there. It actually starts when Rocket was just a wee little lad still in diapers playing with everything in the house besides his actual toys. One day however that changed when his great uncle Lester brought Rocket a toy Rocket during a visit. This was no ordinary rocket either it lit up like a damn Christmas tree it made sounds that sounded like they came straight out of an airfield. This toy caught Rockets attention so bad it was basically mind control for the kid. This is the only toy he would play with from here on out. He eventually grew out of those diapers mind you at a later age than normal BUT still he grew out of them and when he did guess what? He still loved that rocket. He had beaten and battered this toy to the point the lights didn't resemble a Christmas tree anymore and it sounded less like an airfield and more like the distant fart of your grandfather sitting across the room. It didnt matter though Rocket loved his rocket. Would he ever grow out of this thing?

 

The answer is....

 

     No, he wouldn't. Even when rocket became a teenager and started playing hockey he held on to that toy. One day while walking home from hockey practice Rocket was surrounded by a group of older teenage kids who knew about Rockets obsession and they were tired of it. The all pinned Rocket to the ground and stripped away his backpack. The "leader" of the group took out that toy rocket and smashed it as hard as he could. The toy blew up in to many pieces and then he grabbed Rockets stick to smash the remaining pieces even more. They let Rocket go and ran away leaving him traumatized on the ground looking over at his childhood toy broken into what seemed like a million pieces but lets be realistic it was maybe 15 pieces. Rocket didn't know what to do with himself...A piece of him had been ripped away and sent into the oblivion. Where does he go from here?

 

Become the rocket

 

 

 

     Rocket had no choice than to embrace the spirit of his toy rocket and become the rocket himself. You see, his name actually isn't Rocket it's actually Theodore Salvador the 3rd but that is no more as he now refers to himself as Rocket. He studied rockets in school, he embraced the rocket mentality in everything that he did and when I say rocket mentality I mean go fast and go boom. When working his way through the juniors on the way to the VHL Rocket was known for his blazing speed but at the end of it all was a massive BOOM every time he missed a check and slammed into the boards. I mean he hit a few players too but he always seems to awkwardly fall and somehow land on his head. While being a Rocket was all that Theodore Salvador the 3rd knew he also spent a lot of time making REAL rockets of his own.

 

What goes up must come down

 

 

 

Rocket spent a lot of time making rockets of his own. He always had help from his fellow rocket enthusiast that were a part of the North American Rocket Enthusiast Association also known as NAREA. He learnt how to create home made rockets including the fuel needed to be able to actually launch them. It took Rocket 13.5 months to build his first rocket but he was ready to finally launch it. He gathered around the field near his school with a couple of his NAREA buddies who had assisted him in making this rocket. After all of the preparations were made it was time to launch this bad boy. After the countdown from ten Rocket launched his rocket. Surprisingly to everyone there the rocket actually took off. It soared so high in fact that it disappeared from sight. Everyone stood around wondering if they should leave since Rocket literally launched his damn rocket into space but as they were about the leave they heard a distant explosion and when they looked up they could see a small cloud of smoke miles high in the sky.  Rocket was so excited about the outcome he started jumping and cheering and his NAREA buddies soon joined in with him. Rocket took a step back from the group and as he was about to open his mouth to talk that's when it all went dark.

 

The aftermath

 

     Rocket woke up in a hospital six months later. He had no recollection of who he was, where he was or what had happened to him. He had been struck by a piece of fallen debris from the rocket that had exploded in the sky many months ago. He spent the next few months learning about his life all over again. Who he was, who is family was and where he was from. While learning about life all over again his parents left out the part about Rockets. They feared that something like this would happen again so instead they aimed his passion towards hockey and that is how Rocket started on the path of actually becoming a good hockey player. Even though the past was left behind him his parents still called him "Rocket" as his nickname just to remember the kid he once was but when he asked about it they said it was because he was as fast as a rocket when he was on the ice. He loved the idea of being a rocket so much that one day he saw a magazine at the doctors office that had a rocket on the cover. He picked it up and opened it to the article about rockets....