Story: KoF: The King of Fighters: South Town Stories Remastered
Author: Master Jin Sonata
Written: January 2008
Remastered: July 10th, 2016
Genre: Humor
Rating: T (Language and Goofy Violence)
Disclaimer: I do not own SNK or its chaotic city of South Town.
Shingo's Hotdog Cart
8:23 A.M.
"Hotdogs! Get your hotdogs here!"
Shingo Yabuki was walking down the streets of South Town with his new brightly decorated hotdog cart he bough with his own allowance. He got the idea from his teacher Kyo, who insisted that Shingo get himself a part-time job so he wouldn't pester Kyo all day.
After ten minutes without finding a single customer, Shingo stops in front of a large hill to take a short break.
"Whew, pushing this thing is hard work…I wonder where I can draw in a big crowd of people?" he asks himself, wiping his brow before leaning against the cart.
Little by little the cart began to roll closer toward the steep hill he unknowingly stopped in front of, until…
WHUMP!
Shingo slides off of the cart and falls face-first onto the ground. He looks up in time to see his hotdog cart roll down the hill.
"Ack!" Shingo yelps as he jumps to his feet and begins pursuing his runaway cart.
The hotdog cart begins to pick up speed as it descends down the hill, swerving back and forth along the way.
"Lookout below!" Shingo yells as scores of people began jumping out of the way of the rampaging cart zooming down their path.
One particular woman who was just exiting a corner store, however, was too far away to heed Shingo's warning.
CRASH!
It was Vice.
Vice was on the ground in a daze, with her groceries sprawled about the area, while Shingo's hotdog cart was smashed into a nearby lamppost. Finally arriving at the disastrous scene, Shingo goes to see if Vice was alright. Just as Shingo bends over to ask if she's okay, Vice suddenly reaches out and grabs Shingo by the neck.
"Is that your cart?" she asks in a low, angry tone.
"Um…well…yeah…so…uh…wanna hotdog?" Shingo says with a cheesy smile.
Seconds later, Shingo was seen jammed head-first into the side of the hotdog cart as Vice continues to be on her way in a huff.
Some time later after he had hammered the dents out of his cart, (along with prying his head out from within the side), Shingo continues his rounds to see if he can sell some hotdogs to anyone.
He eventually sees K', Kula, and Maxima hanging out just outside of a clothing store.
"Hey you three! Wanna hotdog?" Shingo asks the trio.
"Hotdogs give me gas," K' says, tipping his sunglasses down as he looked at Shingo.
"I don't like em'," Maxima adds with a smirk.
"Hotdog? Is that…some sort of flavor of ice-cream?" Kula asks curiously.
"Uh…sure!" Shingo lies, pulling out a hotdog and bun from his slightly beat-up cart and handing it to Kula.
Kula takes the hotdog and licks it.
"Eep!" she shrieks, chucking the hotdog away from her. "It burnt my tongue!"
The tossed hotdog flies away from Kula, straight into K's mouth. The hotdog gets lodged in his throat as he begins to choke on it.
"Don't worry! I'll save you buddy!" Maxima says, grabbing K' from behind and performing the Heimlich maneuver.
The hotdog K' was choking on flies out of his mouth, bounces off of a nearby mailbox, and flies back toward Maxima, hitting him clear in the eyes.
"Ah! I can't see!" Maxima yells as he wipes the piping hotdog from his face.
"Eheheh…" Shingo laughs nervously after witnessing the chaotic event. "Anyone up for seconds?" he asks nervously.
It wasn't long before Shingo could be seen running down the street with his cart trying to evade K', Maxima, and Kula who were now after him.
After losing them, Shingo stops for another break to catch his breath.
"Man, selling hotdogs is hard!" Shingo says with a big sigh. "I wonder what I'm doing wrong?"
Just then, Kensou approaches Shingo.
"Got any meat-buns or rice-balls?" Kensou asks eagerly to Shingo.
"No, but I have hotdogs! Wanna try one?" Shingo asks, pulling out one for him to taste.
"Sure!" Kensou says, taking the hotdog and gulping it in one bite. "Hey, not bad!"
"Great! That'll be $1.50!" Shingo says.
"…You mean that one wasn't free?!" Kensou says, a shocked look on his face.
Before Shingo could respond, Kensou turns around and starts fleeing from Shingo.
"Get back here!" Shingo yells as he began pursuing Kensou, pushing his cart along the way.
Shingo was inching closer to Kensou by the second, and was sure to catch him, but Kensou takes a sharp turn around a side-alley, leaving Shingo to zoom straight past the alley…
"Oh No!"
…and down the exact same steep hill where he lost control of his cart earlier.
Shingo is dragged along as his cart sped down the step hill a second time, this time zigzagging from one side of the street to another. When it began to level off, Shingo was ready to stop the cart using his own strength…
CRASH!
…when it hit a parked car sitting on the side of the street, completely totaling the vehicle upon impact.
Shingo regained his composure and looked at the mess he made.
"Oh man…I wonder whose car I wrecked…" Shingo says, gulping, when a familiar woman suddenly grabbed him around the neck again.
It was, you guessed it, Vice.
"Mommy…!" Shingo yells before getting completely clobbered by Vice for ruining her car.
After the beat down, Shingo dizzily gets up and grabs his semi-destroyed cart and drags it down the street, where he meets another person he'd rater not want to encounter.
It was Blue Mary, the police officer.
"Excuse me, young man, can I see your hotdog vending license?" Blue Mary asks Shingo, tapping her foot.
"Uh…license?" Shingo asks with a nervous laugh.
Obviously Shingo didn't have one, and Blue Mary could tell immediately by Shingo's exasperated look on his face.
Shingo then looks up and notices Kensou emerge from an alley right behind Blue Mary. Shingo took this opportunity to use him as an excuse for not having a license.
"Hey look! That guy bought a hotdog from me without paying!" Shingo yells, pointing to Kensou.
Blue Mary turns around and sees Kensou begin to flee from the scene once again when he saw that was busted. Blue Mary didn't pursue him.
"He's getting away! After him!" Shingo says, attempting to give chase to Kensou, when he trips and falls over Blue Mary after she tries to stop him, with Shingo landing on Blue Mary's chest in the process.
Thirty Minutes Later…
Shingo was now in jail for running an illegal hotdog cart, assaulting a woman, destroying public property, disturbing the peace, wrecking a public vehicle, and finally: lying and groping a police officer.
Kyo comes by to bail his student out. Both of them walk out of the police station and were on their way home.
"Man, I leave you to run your own small business and in no time you cause chaos in South Town," Kyo says, shaking his head in disbelief.
"But Kyo-san! It wasn't my fault I swear!" Shingo pleads to Kyo all the way home.
Poor Shingo. Things didn't go very well for him and his little business.
I wonder what else is happening around South Town right at this moment…
Continue on to the next chapter!