Introduction
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Before I start, there's just a few things I want to point out.
This story is based off of the game Vigilante 8: Second Offence, which is a vehicular destruction game. The point of the game is to drive around the arena and use various weapons to blow the other cars to bits.
Of course, this game also has a story mode, and that's what I'll be focusing on. Instead of writing the battles (which I've never really been that good at), I'll be writing the cutscenes that play in between levels.
And to make things interesting, instead of using the original drivers from the game, I'm replacing them with characters from different games. The same cars and same specials (but with different names) but different drivers.
The eighteen cars here are divided into three 'teams', each racer being brought out into the middle of nowhere for seemingly no reason. One team is good, one team is bad and one 'team' is out for themselves. Here's the rundown on the characters and cars.
The Vigilantes are the good guys. These six characters are out to stop the threat of the villains here in the only way possible: By blowing them up. The drivers may have different personalities, but they're all after the same thing, so that's why they've all decided to work together.
LUIGI MARIO (Mario series)
Vehicle: Thunderbolt
Driver description: You need a description? Well, okay. Medium height with a well-groomed mustache. Wears a green cap with an 'L' on the front, a green shirt, blue overalls, white gloves and brown shoes.
Vehicle description: Black car with yellow trim. Looks newer and sporty-looking.
Special move – Thunderhand: Luigi shouts 'Thunder!' and fires a single ball of lightning from the car. If it strikes an opponent, in results in an explosion of electricity. The force from the attack can also send Luigi flying backwards several feet.
Reason for fighting: One of the villains has his girl. Luigi wants her back.
KATHY (Suikoden 3)
Vehicle: Wonderwagon
Driver description: Medium height with blonde hair. Wears a white shirt, brown vest, pink cowgirl hat, denim shorts and brown boots.
Vehicle description: A purple and white beetle with a black hood, a 1 on the side and a 0 on the front.
Special move – Cowgirl Gun: Kathy screams 'Yee-Haw!' and rapidly fires from a large gattling gun on the roof of her car. Leaves no room for attack unless Kathy misses her target, but can knock weapons off other cars if pelted with enough ammo.
Reason for fighting: Kathy just wants to prove she can hold her own against the big guys.
BLUE MONKEY (Ape Escape series)
Vehicle: Dakota Stunt Cycle
Driver description: Blue is actually a silver-haired monkey, and is taller than most of the other drivers. Wears a blue jacket and denim jeans with brown boots.
Vehicle description: A simple stunt motorcycle, painted blue with a 3 on the front.
Special move – Banana Bomb: Blue shouts 'Banana Bomb!' and launches a large banana out of his sidecar. The banana explodes, resulting in fireworks-like explosions. Has short range, but has high damage. Useful against the larger vehicles.
Reason for fighting: Blue was getting ready to ask Pink on a date when he was taken. He wants to go back to he can actually ask her.
YETO (Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Vehicle: Livingston Truck
Driver description: Yeto, like his name suggests, is a huge yeti and the largest racer of the bunch. White fur with ram-like horns on his head. His two bottom corner teeth stick out over his upper lip.
Vehicle description: I guess it's only fitting that a large yeti drive a huge, yellow flatbed truck, eh?
Special move – Yeti Roar: Yeto lets out a loud roar from the truck's speakers and several sound waves fire from the truck. The sound waves send other vehicles flying if they strike them. Almost useless at close range.
Reason for fighting: Yeto only wants to get back home to his wife, Yeta. He thinks the villains hold the key.
HARUKA HIKARI (Megaman Battle Network)
Vehicle: Samson Tow Truck
Driver description: Medium height with short, brown hair. Wears a purple shirt with a white stripe across the middle and a floor-length, green dress.
Vehicle description: An old, rusty, orange tow truck with a flashing red light on the roof.
Special move – Tow Cable: Hey, it IS a tow truck. Haruka shouts 'You're going for a ride!' and fires the tow truck's cable at an opponent. If it latches on, Haruka can drag the opponent, causing immense amount of damage to lower-armoured cars.
Reason for fighting: Haruka is after something that could help her husband's research, but would need to get through the villains to do so.
SKIDD MCMARXX (Ratchet & Clank series)
Vehicle: Xanadu RV
Driver description: Skidd is a turquoise-skinned, tall alien with a black goatee. Wears a rainbow, tie-dye shirt, a pair of shorts and sandals.
Vehicle description: An old, beige RV with a bike-rack on the back
Special move – SOS Call: Skidd shouts 'Help me, dudes!' and sends a signal into the air. Three small ships float down from above and bombard the nearest opponent with gunfire. Thankfully, they don't attack friends.
Reason for fighting: Skidd just wants to get back home, but taking out Dr. Nefarious at the same time wouldn't hurt.
The Coyotes are the bad guys here. While a couple of them are simply out to have fun, most of these bad apples are out to cause some serious destruction. The only obstacle they have in their quest is the Vigilantes, and all of the villains know that this'll be harder than it looks.
DR. NEFARIOUS (Ratchet & Clank series)
Vehicle: Palamino XIII
Driver description: A tall, blue, humanoid robot. Wears a flowing, black cape and gears are seen underneath the green dome on his head.
Vehicle description: A sleek, futuristic, yellow car floating off the ground. The number 13 is on the front.
Special move – Bio Obliterator: Nefarious screams 'Die, Squishy!' and fires a huge beam of orange energy from the front of his car. It'll do more damage if it's a direct hit, and is more effective on larger cars. Nefarious is unable to move during the attack.
Reason for fighting: Nefarious wants to destroy all organic life, even if it means joining with a small group of them to do so.
KNUCKLES NADINE (Black & Bruised)Vehicle: El Guerrero
Driver description: Tall height with orange hair done into a messy ponytail. Wears a blue top and denim shorts.
Vehicle description: An older-looking, brown racecar with a black roof and trunk.
Special move – Horseshoe Missiles: Nadine screams 'Your luck is out!' and shoots three horseshoes from the back of her car. The horseshoes instantly home in on the nearest car, whether it be friend or foe.
Reason for fighting: Nadine was offered a chance to get her singing career back off the ground if she would help out.
YOYO (Jet Grind Radio)
Vehicle: Blue Burro BusDriver description: Medium height with green hair. Wears a light blue hoody, dark blue shorts and a pair of 3D glasses.
Vehicle description: A huge, blue bus that looks like it came from a prison.
Special move – Graffiti Spray: Yoyo shouts 'Take this!' and causes a cloud of graffiti to spray from the exhaust pipe on the bus. While it doesn't do much damage, it will cause any vehicle that gets caught in it to stall for several seconds.
Reason for fighting: Yoyo is mainly in this for fun, but he seems to have another reason that no one knows.
NEO CORTEX (Crash Bandicoot series)
Vehicle: Excelsior Stretch Limo
Driver description: Short height with black hair and goatee. Wears a white lab coat and pants and has a big 'N' in the middle of his large forehead.
Vehicle description: A long, white limo with a black roof and silver figure on the hood.
Special move – Lab Experiment: Cortex laughs maniacally as activates a machine on the front of his car, causing a lot of lightning to surge out from it. The lightning attacks both friend and foe, lasting about five seconds.
Reason for fighting: Cortex is out for global domination. Is there ever any other reason?
TIRA (Soul Caliber 3)
Vehicle: Tsunami
Driver description: Medium height with short, blue hair. Wears a green top and green shorts, with blue eyeshadow on her face.
Vehicle description: A futuristic, red and white hover car with three 'wheels'.
Special move – Soul Blade: Tira screams 'Die!' and lunges her entire car forward, going so fast that it becomes a streak of light to cause damage to any foe she attacks. Tira is unable to control her car during this, so it's easy to avoid.
Reason for fighting: Tira is searching for someone good enough to become the host for Soul Edge.
DEMYX (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Vehicle: Marathon
Driver description: Medium height with brown hair, half of it sticking up and the other half acting as a mullet. Wears a black cloak, black pants and black gloves.
Vehicle description: Looks like a blue hatchback with yellow and orange trim.
Special move – Water Strike: Demyx shouts 'Dance, water! Dance!' as his sitar (sitting on the front of his car) emits several huge sound waves of water. Any car caught in the crossfire is attacked once a second for about five seconds.
Reason for fighting: Demyx wants to prove to himself that he can be tough and take on impossible odds.
The Drifters are just what their name suggests. They're just out for themselves. They're not on anyone's team. As a matter of fact, they aren't on their own team either. They're not good guys, they're not bad guys and if you play through story mode as a Drifter, you fight other Drifters as well as the Vigilantes and Coyotes.
VANILLA (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
Vehicle: Chrono Stinger
Driver description: Vanilla is a tall rabbit with tan beige fur and a tuft of brown hair on her head. Wears a red blouse and a pink dress.
Vehicle description: Something that looks like a racecar from the 1920s. Purple frame with white doors and exposed wheels.
Special move – Bunny Flash: Vanilla shouts 'Bunny Flash!' and activates a mechanism. Everything else in the arena (enemies, friends, items, obstacles) freezes in place for several seconds, although Vanilla is still able to move around and attack freely.
Reason for fighting: Vanilla just wants to go home and get away from all this senseless violence.
RABBID (Rayman: Raving Rabbids)
Vehicle: Moon Trekker
Driver description: Nothing more than a short, stout, white rabbit with an odd-looking facial expression,
Vehicle description: A white and brown moon jeep. Has six large tires and a dome in the middle for the driver.
Special move – Rabbid Rabbit: The Rabbid lets out his trademark psychotic scream as two claws on the sides of the car repeatedly swipe forward, taking big bites out of anything it touches. More effective on bigger targets.
Reason for fighting: Unknown, but probably little more than fun.
HOAGIE (Day of the Tentacle)
Vehicle: Grubb Dual Loader
Driver description: Medium height, overweight, with lots of black hair. Wears a blue cap forcing his hair to cover his eyes, a black shirt with a white skull on it (which is about a size too small) and blue jeans.
Vehicle description: A huge, brown garbage truck. Nothing much else to say about it.
Special move – Compactor: Hoagie lets out a chuckle as the garbage truck's arms reach out and grab hold of the opponent. If the car is small enough, Hoagie then puts it into the back of the garbage truck and shoots it out damaged. It it's too big, Hoagie just thrashes it around a bit before letting go.
Reason for fighting: Hoagie thinks this is all a dream, so he's just going along with it until he wakes up.
DINGODILE (Crash Bandicoot series)
Vehicle: Goliath Halftrack
Driver description: A tall cross between a dingo and a crocodile. Has the body and head of a dingo, but the tail and teeth of a crocodile. Wears a pair of beige, baggy pants.
Vehicle description: A white and tan camouflage army truck. Has treads at the two back tires on each side.
Special move – Fire Pillar: Dingodile's trusty flame-thrower comes in handy once again. Dingodile fires an orb of fire at the ground near a target, causing a huge pillar of fire to erupt from the ground, engulfing anyone near it.
Reason for entering: Like most of the drivers, Dingodile just wants to get back home.
CARMELITA FOX (Sly Cooper series)
Vehicle: Vertigo
Driver description: Medium height, tan-furred fox with a full head of black hair. Wears a brown police jacket and blue pants.
Vehicle description: A sleek, silver hot rod with black trim.
Special move – Stun Gun: Carmelita shouts 'Freeze, dirtbag!' and causes a small orb to float into the air above the nearest opponent. Carmelita leans out her window and shoots the orb with her stun gun, amplifying the attack and causing it to rain down on the opponent with ten times the power.
Reason for entering: Carmelita would like to have the Coyotes behind bars, but prefers to do things on her own.
BILLY & LILLY KANE (Fatal Fury or King of Fighters series)
Vehicle: Wapiti 4WD
Driver description: Both are medium height, but Billy is taller. Billy has short, blonde hair, and wears a denim jacket with jeans and a red and white bandana on his head. Lilly has long, blonde hair and wears a red dress.
Vehicle description: An old, brown, rusty station wagon with the image of a snake on the hood.
Special move – Element Whirlwind: Billy and Lilly shout 'Element Whirlwind!' as one and fire their respective element in the form of two different coloured orbs (Fire for Billy, Ice for Lilly). Once the orbs strike the ground, a whirlwind of red and blue energy erupts from the ground lifting anyone nearby (even the Kanes) off the ground.
Reason for entering: Billy senses something fishy going on, while Lilly just wants to get back home to Joe.
Okay. Those are the eighteen drivers. Like I said, when I post a chapter, it'll consist of that character's 'cutscenes'.
Let's see how this thing turns out.