Samurai in America
Summary: The Rovers take on the Ninja Crows that Cheese has assigned to play decoy on the surface, while the two Pizza Cat teams head down into the fort's interior to take down the rest of the Ninja Crows, and demolish the evil rodent's newest robotic monstrosity. Will the two teams of heroes be able to save the gold deposits, and bring Cheese down? Find out here in the exciting final battle.
Disclaimer: I claim no rights whatsoever to either Road Rovers or Samurai Pizza Cats, nor do I claim to own the rights to any of the characters from either series. Road Rovers is a registered trademark of Warner Brothers. Samurai Pizza Cats is a registered trademark of Saban. All original characters are products of my imagination.
Song for this chapter: 'I Stand Alone'-Godsmack
Chapter Seven: Cheese's Last Stand
As the heroes got set to put an end to Cheese's caper, Hunter said, "Speedy, my team can handle the Crows up here. I think it'd be best if you took your group down into the gold depository, and deal with Cheese's robot. We'll handle things up here, and then we'll come and join you." Speedy replied, "Sounds like a great idea to me, Hunter. Good luck!" Hunter replied, "You too, buddy!" The two heroic leaders shook hands, and then Hunter formed up with his team, while Speedy led the way down into the gold vault.
Three Ninja Crows tried a tag-team attack on Kasha from behind, as she was currently involved in punching out another one. Exile said, "Kasha, duck!" She barely dodged the Ninja Crow's blade, and Exile caught it with his armored fists when the crow went for a second slash. Exile said, "You try to hurt my pretty snowflower…I kick you all the way to Siberia!!" The powerful Husky drove his fist into the idiotic Ninja Crow's gut, and the force of the punch sent him flying into the fence. He froze the second one, and the last one got his bell rung by an uppercut. Kasha returned the favor in seconds, as she spotted another crow fixing to toss a Shuriken at her husband. She shot the throwing star out of midair with her pistol, and then she said, "You were very bad…nobody tries to hurt one I love…unless they enjoy painski…is time for you to go for napski!!" Kasha bashed the Ninja Crow in the head with her fist, and he dropped like a sack of bricks. Exile said, "Thank you, Kasha. You save my tailski!" She replied, "You save me too, Exile. I am not about to let the dog I love wind up deadski, because of stupid Ninja Crows." Exile hugged her, and replied, "I love you too, my pretty snowflower…and I will always love you." Kasha kissed Exile's nose lightly, and then the two of them headed back into the thick of the fight.
Blitz banged his fists against the side of one Ninja Crow's head, and the stupid birdbrain fell over. When he saw another one angle his sword for a flying slash at Samantha's neck from the back, he called out, "SAM, GET DOWN!!" She ducked, just avoiding the razor-sharp katana by an inch. Blitz fired his Desert Eagle, and the big 12.7mm bullet shattered the crow's sword blade into pieces. The Doberman walked up and grabbed the crow by the throat, and pulled him up enough so that he could look him in the eye. He said, "Roses are red, violets are blue. Guess what little girly Ninja boy…I'M GOING TO BITE YOU!!" The Ninja Crow tried to run, tripped over his own feet, and then Blitz seized the moment and bit down hard, his powerful fangs making contact with the force of a steel beartrap. The Ninja Crow screamed in agony, and then Blitz whacked him over the head with his fist. He said, "No stupid, mangy Ninja Crows are going to hurt the one I love…dimwit!" Sam walked up and hugged Blitz, and she said, "Blitz, thank you…I swear to god that I'd probably be dead by now if I hadn't met you. You gave me back the sense of being part of a family again, after my old one was stolen from me. I love you, Blitz…forever." Blitz pulled the pretty black and gold-furred female German Shepherd into a hug, and then he kissed her. When they broke off their kiss, Blitz replied, "I love you too, Sam. Without you, I'd still be lost and unsure of where I belong in this world, and I'd still be jealous of Hunter and Colleen. Most of all…I'd never know the joy of waking up and spending the day with someone that loves me for who I am, despite my faults." Sam replied, "I'll always be here for you, Blitz, no matter what. Come on…there's plenty more Ninja Crows to go around." Blitz smiled, plucked a few feathers out of his teeth, and then he headed off to join his fellow Road Rovers in battle.
Samantha spotted movement just off to Blitz's left, and she quickly identified it as a Ninja Crow getting set to hurl an explosive. She said, "BLITZ, WATCH OUT!!" Blitz moved just in time, and the bomb hit the ground just inches away. Small rocks flew up and pinged off Blitz's armor, but he was just fine. As for the Ninja Crow, Samantha intended to give him his just desserts. She charged forward at her maximum speed, and went into a corkscrew kick that flattened the Ninja Crow. She said, "Nobody tries to kill my husband, idiot!!"
Shag unleashed a pair of gas grenades, and six Ninja Crows fell out of the tree they'd been hiding in. He promptly produced handcuffs, and tied them to the fence. Muzzle was then unleashed, and the Rottweiller started having fun with a group of eight Ninja Crows.
Hunter ran three Ninja Crows down, and the first one received an elbow to the head. He took out the second one with a kick in the gut, and the last one got a spinning backhand. Colleen brought her fist around with incredible force, and caught a Ninja Crow right under the chin. She judo flipped another one, and then she created a domino effect by kicking a third one in the gut, which caused him to fly backwards into five of his fellow dimwits. She then spotted another one lining up on Hunter with a dart, and she knew that Ninja darts usually used some type of poison. She called out, "HUNTIE, MOVE!!" The crow launched the dart, and it just barely missed Hunter. Colleen scanned the dart with the chemical analyzer built into her helmet's sensor array, and found it to be laced with a rather deadly blend of toxins. If Hunter had been hit, he would've been dead by now. She grabbed the Ninja Crow before he could throw another dart, and she snapped his wrist. After that, she growled out, "Do you know what I'm about to do, you lousy little coward?" The crow replied, "Awww…I'm sorry. Did I make the little puppy mad? You should thank me for tryin' to put that hideous mutt down…I mean, how can you stand to be his teammate…let alone his wife. Heck, I'm surprised his own MOTHER is willing to admit being related to him." Colleen shouted, "DON'T YOU EVER SAY THOSE THINGS ABOUT MY HUNTIE, YOU LOUSY FREAK!! I DON'T CARE IF HE'S A MIXED BREED, DO YOU HEAR ME?! I LOVE HUNTIE BECAUSE HE'S HONEST, KIND, PURE OF HEART, AND BECAUSE HE RESPECTS ME FOR WHO I AM! AS FOR HIS MOTHER…SHE'S MY ADOPTIVE MOTHER TOO, AND NOBODY INSULTS MY FAMILY, OR TRIES TO KILL MY HUNTIE!!" Colleen jumped into the air, and with a yell of, "HIYA, CY YOUNG!! NOLAN RYAN!! TOM GLAVINE!!", she unloaded a triple kick/punch/reverse bodyslam combo, which left the Ninja Crow looking like a building had fallen on him. Hunter saved her seconds later, by yanking a Ninja Crow right out of the air and beating him to a pulp, since the dumb crow had tried to stab her in the neck. Hunter said, "Thanks, Colleen. My life would be so empty…in fact, I might even be dead by now, without you. You've been my best friend since the day we met, and in my eyes, you're more than just my second-in-command, and much more than just a girl…you're my better half, and the one I love with all my heart and soul." Colleen kissed the handsome Retriever-mix, and replied, "I love you too, Huntie. You've been with me through everything…good times and bad, and I know that I'll always have you at my side." They kissed once more, and after they'd finished mopping up the last of the Ninja Crows on the surface, they made their way down to where the real battle was raging.
'Now I've told you this once before
You can't control me
If you try to take me down you're gonna break
Now I feel your every nothing that you're doing for me
I'm picking you outta me
you run away
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
You're always hiding behind your so called goddess
So what you don't think that we can see your face
Resurrected back before the final fallen
now they've arrest until I can make my own way
I'm not afraid of fading
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
And now its my time (now its my time)
It's my time to dream (my time to dream)
Dream of the sky (dream of the sky)
Make me believe that this place is invaded
By the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out
Before you can breathe
Breathe into me
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside!'
Cheese watched with pure joy as the blast from his robot's chest-mounted beam cannon tore right through the armored door to the gold vault like it was tissue paper. When the smoke cleared, he found himself staring at huge, neatly arrayed stacks of gold bars. Cheese said, "Oh Jerry…this is more gold than I ever dreamed of…get the Ninja Crows working on loading it, now! I wanna be outta here in time to pay Princess Vi a little…visit, right when that obnoxious spoiled brat sits down for dinner…that is if she can even sit down that long." Jerry replied, "Gotcha, Cheesy. Ninja Crows…start loading the gold. Get a move on, we don't have all day to…" Jerry was interrupted, when he heard Speedy call out, "IT'S OVER, LIMBURGER BREATH!! GET OUTTA THERE RIGHT NOW, BEFORE I COME UP THERE AND CHOP THAT OVERSIZED TINKERTOY OF YOURS TO PIECES!!" Cheese shouted, "JERRY!! YOU SAID THE NINJA CROWS WOULD GET RID OF THOSE PESKY FURBALLS!!" Jerry replied, "Look at it this way, Cheesy…those mutts aren't here…maybe the Ninja Crows got them instead." Cheese replied, "You're right…I feel better already. NINJA CROWS, GET THOSE CURSED CATS!!"
Three Ninja Crows went after Sundance, but he shot out their blades, and then he kicked the first one into a wall, bashed the next one with his gun, and the third one got his fist in the beak. Cosmo bodyslammed one of the idiotic fools, and then he rapidly disarmed six more. Dee Dee slapped ten of them with her whip, before proceeding to kick each one in the head.
Meanwhile, Speedy found himself doing battle with four Ninja Crows at once. One of them came in from the side, and Speedy quickly spun towards him, bashing him in the head with the handle of his sword. He backflipped over the second one, and kicked him into the wall. The third one tried to go sword-to-sword, and Speedy quickly disarmed him, before picking him up and launching him headfirst into the hallway outside. The last one went down to a rising crescent kick. He spotted another one trying to hit Polly with a crowbar, and he called out, "POLLY, DUCK!!" She dropped to the ground, and Speedy slammed the crow to the floor. He shouted, "DON'T YOU EVER TRY TO HURT MY WIFE, BIRDBRAIN…OR I'LL PLUCK YA CLEANER THAN THE WALKING THANKSGIVING TURKEY THAT YOU ALREADY ARE!!" He dropkicked the stupid crow, and then he moved over to aid Polly.
Guido blasted eight Ninja Crows with a solar blast from his umbrella, before spotting another one aiming at Speedy with a stolen XM-107 sniper rifle. Polly was currently engaged in battle with five Ninja Crows, and Good Bird was too far away to help, so Guido jumped up to where the Ninja Crow was perched, and then he said, "Excuse me…don't ya know that guns are dangerous…ESPECIALLY IF YA AIM AT MY BEST FRIEND!! I HOPE YOU BROUGHT SOME BUTTER, 'CUZ YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET FRIED!!" All the Ninja Crow saw, before he was knocked out, was a flash of blue, as Guido's right fist met his skull. Speedy said, "Thanks, buddy…I owe ya one!" Guido replied, "Speedy, I owe you more than I could ever say…my life, being married to Lucille, and especially your forgiveness for all the rotten stuff I ever did to ya. Speedy, there's no other Cat like you, and I'm glad to call ya my friend." Speedy replied, "Thanks, Guido. Go back up Good Bird, and I'll go with Polly and Sayaka." Guido nodded, and then he took off to lend a hand to his feathered friend.
Polly had just dropped two Ninja Crows in less than a second, when another one tried to tackle her. Sayaka met him halfway, and shouted, "DON'T YOU MESS WITH MY SISTER, SCUMBAG!! NO ONE MESSES WITH A MEMBER OF EITHER THE CERVICHE OR ESTHER FAMILIES!!" She crossed her swords in front of her, and called out, "NOVA BURST!!" The fiery red star-shaped blast blew the Ninja Crow clear out of Fort Knox, and sent him flying all the way back to Prisoners' Island.
Speedy joined the two Esther sisters, and he said, "How's it goin' there, Polly?" Polly replied, "Oh…Speedy! We're fine. Cheese's goons have just about had it." Speedy turned, and spotted one more Ninja Crow trying to attack Polly, this one wielding a hand grenade that he'd scooped up. Speedy jumped up, grabbed the crow by the back of his neck, and tossed him clean out of the fort. He called out, "DON'T YOU EVER MESS WITH MY KITTEN, BIRDBRAIN!!"
Just seconds later, Good Bird flattened all but one last Ninja Crow, and that one tried to hurl a bar of gold at Speedy's head in desperation, but Polly caught it in mid-flight. She shouted, "YOU'RE DEAD MEAT, YOU STUPID BUZZARD!! NOBODY TRIES TO HURT SPEEDY WHEN I'M AROUND!!" The crow replied, "Oh…big words from the little hotheaded witch that used to beat him to a pulp every time he was even a minute late…you called him stuff like…imbecile…picklehead…scroll's idea of heaven…and now you're MARRIED to him…he really is desperate if he can't find someone better than you." Polly screamed, "DON'T YOU DARE START WITH ME, BIRDBRAIN!! I NEVER, EVER HIT SPEEDY FOR BEING LATE, AND I APOLOGIZED FOR ALL THE TIMES I CALLED HIM NAMES. HE'S FORGIVEN ME, BECAUSE WE'RE BEST FRIENDS, AND HE LOVES ME BECAUSE HE'S ABLE TO SEE PAST MY TEMPER, DOWN TO WHERE THE REAL ME IS…AND I CAN SEE WHERE HIS REAL SELF IS…THAT'S WHY WE FELL IN LOVE!! SPEEDY'S BEEN MY BEST FRIEND SINCE…FOREVER, AND NOW HE'S MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE!!" IF YOU MESS WITH HIM, I'LL MAKE YOU WISH YOU'D STAYED ON PRISONERS' ISLAND!!"
Polly clobbered the last Ninja Crow, and then it was just down to them, and Cheese's robot. The Rovers came in, and Colleen said, "Blimey…you Cats really know how to handle yourselves. What are we gonna do about that monstrosity?" Speedy said, "Hey, Sundance…you're a good shot. Shoot out the camera lens on its head, and then Polly..I want ya to go rip the thing's head off. After that, we'll finish it off Pizza Cat style." Hunter said, "He's probably gonna try and shoot Sundance if he gets a chance. Sam, Colleen…we'll run interference. With the speed that Sam and I have, and Colleen's agility, we should be able to keep him occupied for a while."
The three Rovers dashed in, and Jerry immediately tried to center the gunsights on Colleen. Each time he got her centered, she'd move, and Hunter would zip in and start running in random patterns. Samantha was currently using flash grenades to blind the villains to the approach of Sundance.
When the gold-armored marksman was in position, he fired a single armor-piercing round from his revolver that blew out Cheese's camera, blinding the robot. Cheese screamed, "JERRY!! THE MAIN CAMERA'S GONE!! HOW ARE WE GONNA FIGHT IF WE CAN'T SEE?!" Jerry replied, "Calm down, Cheesy…I'm trying to get the backup camera online."
Just then, there was an ear-splitting sound of shrieking metal, as Polly ripped the robot's head clean off, and tossed it onto the ground. Cheese screamed, "JERRY!! SHE TORE THE HEAD OFF!! GET THAT CAMERA WORKING NOW, AND THEN I WANT THAT RED-HAIRED PSYCHOTIC TABBY TURNED INTO PASTE!!"
Jerry replied, "Yes, Cheesy…there we go!" Before he could aim the weapons again, Jerry saw the sight that he dreaded just as much as Cheese flaring up for an explosion…the Pizza Cats, and Good Bird…all of them going into the stances for their finishing moves. Speedy called out, "PIZZA CAT POWER…YAH!!" Guido jumped up onto his umbrella, and fiery blue energy engulfed his sword. He slashed downward, releasing the powerful attack to the cry of "AZURE DRAGON FIRE!!" Polly's body was surrounded by a pink flame of energy, which turned to a blazing red once it collected into her flute and kodachi. She made the shape of a heart in front of her, and called out "HEARTBREAKER!!" Good Bird pointed his sword at Cheese's bot, and once the blazing swirl of yellow energy had reached its peak, he called out "THUNDERBIRD!!" Sayaka held out both of her blades, and electric blue energy started arcing back and forth between the two blades, eventually turning red and forming the shape of a star. She called out "NOVA BURST!!" The combined blast tore through layers of armor, and Jerry said, "Cheesy…I think we should EJECT!!" The two of them yanked their eject handles, and once they landed, they turned around in time to see the robot explode. Cheese shouted, "JERRY…THIS IS ANOTHER FINE PLAN THAT YOU MANAGED TO GOOF UP!! CAN YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!" The elderly crow muttered, "We would've been able to pull this caper off, if it weren't for your endless stupidity…oops…" Cheese screamed, "WHO ARE YOU CALLING STUPID?! JERRY…YOU MAKE ME SO MAD…AAARRRGGGHHH!!" Cheese exploded, and when the Rovers and Pizza Cats found him and Jerry, Colleen kicked Jerry in the head, hogtied him, and tossed him into the Stealth Rover. Speedy sliced the tree branch that Cheese was hanging on, and when he landed, Polly beat him up, and then he soon found himself stuffed in the same spot as Jerry.
With the gold reserves saved, the heroes all shook hands with the commanding officer at Fort Knox, and then they departed. The Pizza Cats would take Cheese and Jerry back to Little Tokyo with them tomorrow, and drop them off as a present to Princess Vi on their way back to the Pizza Parlor. Having accomplished their mission, the heroes all headed back to Road Rover HQ to get some well-deserved rest.
Next Chapter: With Cheese's plans foiled, the Pizza Cats head out for one last meal with their canine friends, and then the Rovers decide to fly them home, as thanks for their help. Princess Vi throws the book at Cheese, and there's going to be plenty of romance and comedy coming up in the final chapter. Be here next time for Chapter Eight: A Fond Farewell