Hiya. I'm GF, and today is a great day.
This is a new story I'm working on. It stars the cast of King of Fighters, although there's also quite a bit of other SNK games thrown in too. Expect to see Kizuna Encounter, Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, Last Blade, Samurai Shodown, Metal Slug, and more!
In this, the first chapter, an Alien Invasion is taking place, and Mars People is not involved. (Fans of Metal Slug, breathe a sigh of relief.) Oh, and we find out that Orochi is still A&K (Alive & Kicking), and he's a bit…. OOC, to say the least.
VIOLENT DISCLAIMERING TO COME AGAIN: I don't own SNK Playmore or any of the games represented or anything else I might choose to make fun of within the pages of this story. Oh yeah. If I get some details wrong, don't blame me. This story follows a completely different canon than KoF. I suppose you can call it Accurate Alternative Universe.
So then, ladies and gentlemen: The Neo Geo Chronicles starts now.
The Yamata no Orochi: Once a very evil god-spirit bent on destroying humanity, now is a chaotic neutral misanthropic god-spirit who manifests itself in the form of a fifteen-year-old kid from Sweden who, like about seven or eight other people in the dangerous city of Southtown, can control the power of fire. Or at least, that's what said Swedish kid likes to say.
His name was Chris. He couldn't remember his last name, or even if he had any parents. Hell, even his own gender is debatable. He looks like he was thrown up from the nineties. Bowl-cut, loose-fitting blue shirt, baggy white pants, blue velcro shoes, black undershirt, everything about his fashion statement screams: 90's style rapper, except for the fact that he was white. He came into the King of Fighters tournament along with his two friends, Shermie (again, no last name) and Yashiro Nanakase. At first, they were going to fight because Yashiro had formed a rock band and that he wanted to advertise it. Then they found out that they were three of the four Heavenly Kings of Orochi (the last one was Leopold Goenitz, some fancy-pants controller of wind.), and things weren't the same. Apart from being branded evil by Justice's Hypocrite Kim Kaphwan, they also had to fight Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, and Chizuru Kagura in '97. And then, Chris himself was revealed to be the manifestation of Orochi, who back then was in fact evil. And then he died, along with Shermie and Yashiro.
Through some weird black magic ritual or something, they came back in 2002(1) with one goal in mind: Take Kaphwan down a couple of pegs, and get the Sacred Treasures Team while they're at it. Well, they beat Kaphwan and his Korea Team, but they couldn't beat Yagami Team, which itself got knocked out by Japan Team. Ever since, Chris, Shermie, and Yashiro had lived pretty much normal lives. Well, as normal as Heavenly Kings of Orochi can get, at any rate, especially when your namesake lives with you.
Well anyway, Chris was walking down the street, listening to his MP3 player he got from former Outlaw Team member Billy Kane the other day (coincidentally listening to Asterisk by Orange Range), WHEN SUDDENLY (!2) he was ambushed by a house. This house was a very nice house with some windows, maybe a chimney or two, and most definitely a door. Oh, and arms, legs, and a cockpit in the middle of the house. In other words, this is a house-mech belonging to…
"SO YOU ARE CHRIS! I'm so going to enjoy reducing you to a bloody puddle on the ground!"
Yup. It belonged to a Japanese genius inventor girl whose full name was unknown (all she could remember was Kori), also known as "the creator of Cyber Woo". She lived by herself, but she was often seen with a Scottish bearded guy (whose name is Angus MacLeod III) and his truck of awesome. Little did they know they were actually related, by way of Kori's second cousin.
But back to the house-mech. This giant hulking mass of brick, mortar, and titanium alloy wasn't one of Kori's best ideas. No, that would be the Iron Lizard(3). In comparison to the cuter rocket launcher alternative commonly employed by Fiolina Germi and Marco Rossi, the house-mech was a complete waste of time, resources, and house. You see… um… it fell apart after around one minute of stareoff-ing. "Aw dammit. I was hoping to get this thing operational by the end of the week." Kori complained, to which the host for Orochi replied, "So you could stomp around in your brick-and-mortar monstrosity?"
"Cyber Woo's in for repairs, and there was supposed to be an alien invasion sometime next week, but yeah."
Chris's eyes shot open. An alien invasion? This sounded too good to be true. But if it was, he'd better alert everyone's second-or-third favorite KoF endboss right away. As much as Orochi disliked humanity (and he didn't like humans that much, especially those named Kyo Kusanagi.), he despised aliens-with the exception of Mars People of course- that much more. Their beeps and boops and "poo-wah"s weren't threatening, but their weapons certainly were. Not to mention they were usually silly shaped things. I mean, Mars People was, and MP's a space squid. HOORAY FOR SPACE SQUID!
-MEANWHILE IN OUTER SPACE-
"pee poo-wah pee boop beep bepeep beeeeep."
In case you couldn't tell, that meant "that girl found out our plans." And in case you couldn't tell, that was alien speak. Another shady alien responded (in its native tongue, of course) "zorp zorble zorple zorb zorb zorbling zorpo zorrrrble" (that means, "Even worse, that girl is a freaking boy. I cheeeeecked.")
"pee pee-wah poo-wah bedeep?" (What are we going to do?)
"Llama Zog Zog llama llama zorg" (Do not worry, my fellow extra-terrestrials)
"pee-poo pah-wah?" (About what?)
"Llama Zog Zog torgo" (About the gender-confused human)
"zorp zarp zap zap zorbleb?" (What gender confused human?)
"Llama Zog Zog zerg zurg zarg zorg id jots" (Bah. I wish I wasn't assigned to such idiots.)
"pook poo poom beeep!" (We resent that!)
Later, that same alien spoke, "pook pook pook?" which meant, "What does resent mean?"
-BACK DOWN TO EARTH, GAEA(4) or SOME VARIANT THEREOF, ONE DAY LATER-
"So let me get this straight: There's going to be an alien invasion next week?"
These words were spoken by a tall, white-haired dude with white pants, brown shoes, and a glyph tattoo on his chest. This was the Yamata no Orochi, otherwise known as just plain Orochi."Yes, that's what I was told." The girly-voiced male host of Orochi responded.
"And you were told by a girl in a pink jumpsuit?" (5)
"Yes."
Orochi thought for a minute. "Was it Kori?"
"Yup."
"This calls for investigation. I'll see into her mind, you keep her busy. Ready, BREAK!"
With that, God-spirit and human incarnation went about their tasks.
-TWENTY MINUTES LATER…-
"Chris, when I said 'keep her busy' this wasn't what I had in mind."
Orochi was referring to the fact that Chris had kidnapped Kori and hogtied her. Kori wasn't struggling, but there was a pleading look in her eyes, as if trying to say 'please don't kill me…' in a really timid voice. She obviously saw Orochi, and thought that he was his more violent clone Mizuchi (6). "Well, I suppose we can makedo with this. Let's see here…" Orochi put his hand on Kori's head, and instantly all the young inventor prodigy's worries suddenly went away. Mainly because she passed out from fear. Once he got the information he needed, he lifted his hand off of the poor girl's head. She was still unconscious. "Well… this is a funny story to tell to Seiryuu(7). Get this girl to the local doctor, Chris."
"On it!"
With that, Chris picked up the (still tied) Kori off the floor and ran out of the current building they were in, going to the local doctor (who just so happened to have a couple of defibrillators.)
-TWO DAYS, ONE HOUR, and FORTY MINUTES LATER…-
"And that's the last I saw of them."
Orochi was currently explaining to his other two hosts, Shermie and Yashiro, where their drummer at. Which was to say, he didn't know. Shermie then sparked a lightning bolt of an idea. She asked him, "Chief, your consciousness expands throughout Southtown, right?"
"Yeah… your point being?"
"Well, maybe Chris and Kori are no longer in Southtown."
Yashiro piped up, "So they're in Second Southtown(8), then?"
"No, silly. The Chief's consciousness is in Second Southtown, too."
"That's true, but it gets a pretty faint signal. It may have something to do with Second Southtown being across the Atlantic."
"Well, got any ideas?"
The snake-god thought for a moment. Most of his ideas usually blow up in his face, either due to poor staffing or just poor timing. And then… "I think Chris told me that Kori told him that there would be an alien invasion sometime within the week."
Yashiro, being Yashiro, queried, "An alien invasion? You sure? We already have Mars People here, you know."
"Yeah, but I hope that he's not involved."
-MEANWHILE IN CHINATOWN-
(9)
"Yo, Mars! We've got a lot of orders today! Make sure you get those noodles served to the right people this time!"
"Pedeep ploop poom bedeep beeeeep!" ("I'm on it! Noodles, prepare to be served!")
-BACK AT THE OROCHI HOUSE-
"I'm sure he's not involved." Shermie reassured her boss, but said boss was deep in thought. "uh… Chief?"
"Oh! Sorry, Shermie. I'm thinking."
Yashiro then went, "Aaaanyway, if there's going to be an alien invasion, shouldn't there be a mothership somewhere above Earth?"
Orochi thought for a bit. And then… "Yashiro, you may be on to something here. Let's go check it out."
With that, snake-god and loyal subjects traversed the dangerous territory of their house and went outside, thinking that they would find some clues as to where the other active heavenly king of Orochi and Japanese mechanic girl were at…
EXPOSITION NO JUTSU!
1 – In the canon of Neo Geo Chronicles (which is a fanfiction and thus isn't supposed to have one) the events of The King of Fighters '98 doesn't include the New Faces Team from '97, comprised of Shermie, Chris, and Yashiro, mainly because they weren't invited to that tournament. It's really hard to deliver invites to The Different Space, you know.
2 – WHEN SUDDENLY is one of my favorite story phrases. It's usually used in conjunction with ambushes, surprises, and exclamation points.
3 – The Neo Geo Chronicles canon states that Kori developed the Iron Lizard at the age of 8, which was tested at a science fair and bought up by SPARROWS for use in warfare. She's really proud of her creation.
4 – Gaea is apparently another name for Earth. It was brought up in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, I believe.
5 – This isn't actually Kori's outfit. I couldn't remember what she looked like, so I just copied Liv Trainer's outfit from Custom Robo Arena (a Nintendo game, actually), and made her wear it. It fits perfectly.
6 – Mizuchi is one of the bosses in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum. He's a clone of Orochi, and is much cheaper than that guy.
7 – Seiryuu is one of Orochi's Sigma Omega Delta buddies from Nirvana Tech (7a). He resides in some ronin kid named Kaede. They are on complete opposite sides of the neutral spectrum, but due to Kaede's good nature, Seiryuu is a good guy.
7a – Nirvana Tech is but one of many supernatural colleges where the young gods graduate from. Because even all-powerful gods need to graduate. Aside from Nirvana Tech, there's also Valhalla University and The College of Mt. Olympus.
8 – Second Southtown is the setting of Garou: Mark of the Wolves. I believe that the Jin brothers, Jack Turner and Lee Pai Long live there.
9 – In Mars People's card description in Card Fighters DS, it mentions that MP works at a noodle shop in Osaka. Since this is completely separate from the actual SNK canon, it's implied that MP works at a noodle shop in Chinatown.