Spider-Man/King of Fighters Ch.5

The amazing/ultimate Spider-Man swung overhead to where K and Maxima were,to see what was aout to attack them.

Emerging from the steam of the sewer manhole was a strange creature. It was a large huling craeture with greyish skin,metallic components on it's arms and legs and a strane V shaped haed with two slanted eyes. It looked like something out of an old Power Rangers episode.

"I don't know what that thing is."said K. "But it's keeping us from proceeding through the rest of the championship. I'll stop it!"

K threw a roundhouse kick fireball at the creature,but just as the projcetile flew at it,the thing brought up one of it's hands and it morphed into a protective shield.

"WHAT TH---?"said K surprised.

The creature then aimed it's left hand and fired a force beam from it,knocking both fighters down to the asphalt.

Spider-Man saw what was happening and dropped downward upon the robotic creature. Planting both of his feet right at it's head!

But to his avail,the creature stood unharmed and swatted the webslinger off of it's shoulder.

"Man,that was my best wide open!"said Spidey. "Looks like I'll have to try a different approach.

Spidey then fired both webshooters at the creature's feet,covering them both in full weblines. The hero then began to pull with all his super-strength,but before he could,the creature just chopped both lines off and then hit Spidey with another force-beam,knocking him across the ground.

The cyborg then bent down to remove the excess webbing,but just as he was about to,Maxima came rushing in and then smashed into the cyborg's head with his Vapor Cannon punch.

The creature was knocked backwards from the blow,but was still unharmed. "Man-what's thing made of?"said Maxima.

K then jumped over Maxima and then threw a roundhouse kick against the creature's head.

K then lashed out his Flame Dash at the robot,knocking it off it's feet and causing it to fall to the ground.

But just as it fell and hit the ground,it spattered into a deep ozzy goop,elongated across the ground and then reformed back to what it was.

"It's some kind of metamorph!"said Spidey. "Nothing we do can harm it." "Well,that's just dandy!"said K irratated. "We're supposed to be fighting the other combatants,not stupid freak robots!"

Just then,Spider-Man saw the manhole cover still open and detected a faint hint of gas coming from it. "I got a plan!"said Spidey. "And gimme one good reason why Max and me should follow it."said K. "C'mon K,you wanna get back in the contest,or spend all day dancing with this tinker toy?"

K sighed. "Okay.what do ya got in mind?" "You both keep that thing occupied,and I'll get it to fall down into the sewer hole."said Spidey. "Got it-good!"

Spidey then shot a webline upward and took off to a nearby rooftop. K and Maxima just shrugged and attacked the creature.

K ran at the creature and began doing flame uppercuts at it and Maxima began punching and kicking it.. The cyborg kept it's morphed shield up while it's left hand was about to turn into another deadly weapon.

"I see what you're trying to do pal."said Spidey. "Bad idea!" Spidey then jumped down near the creature and then fired another webline at the creature.

The hero then began to pull even harder than before to get the creature down into the manhole. K and Max saw what was going,looked at each other,nodded and then moved in by shoving the creature right at the manhole.

"Ha-ha-gotcha!"said Spidey as he pounded both of his fists upon the cyborg's head,causing it to fall back down into the sewer.

"Okay we got it back down there,now what?"said K. "Leave that to me."said Spidey as he went down into the manhole. "Be right back!"

Spidey landed onto one of the sides of the runways of the sewere tunnels. There,Spidey saw the andriod assasin arise from the waters and it fired another force beam at him.

The wall-crawler then jumped over the beam and dove straight at the assassin and tackled him head-on into the water and struggled with the creature.

Finally,Spidey had the robot in a lock with both os his arms and elgs,pinning both the robot's arms and legs back.

But the robot was as strong as the wall-crawler was and struggled with all it's cybernetically advancwed power to do so.

Suddenly,both K and Maxima jumped down into the current and saw where the two were.

"Need a little help there?"said K. "Don't you know it."said Spidey. "Quick-do something to disable this frankenstein before it breaks free!"

Maxima looked over the design on the thing's chest and saw a round metallic lid cap on it's chest. He then strode forward and ripped the cap right off.

"NOW K!"he said. "This thing's lid is open---drop a flame ball in it!" K lit up a large fire cinder,went over to the robot and dropped it in.

Just as he did,Spidey's warning sense went off again. "EVERYONE GET BACK-IT'S GONNA BLOW!"he said as he jumped off.

K and Maxima ran and jumped onto the corridor railing and went around into a tunnel along with Spidey,just as the robot exploded into a fiery mess of plastic and wires,and then floated downstream into the darkness.

"Whoa---how did you know it was going to explode,Spider-Man?"said Maxima. "Call it a.sense about things."said Spidey."Now c'mon,let's get back to the surface."

The trio then climbed up the ladder and Maxima then placed the manhole back on. "There was nothing we couldn't handle."said K as he put on his shades. "Uh-you're welcome pal."said Spidey. "Look,just what was that about?"

"How should I know?"said K. "Max and myself were just heading down through an alley,toom a wrong turn and that-thing shows up."

"Look K,cut 'em some slack!"said Maxima. "If it weren't for him,we'd be dead by now. Look,on behalf of K,I thank you plenty for saving us Spider- Man,but if you'll excuse us,we have a battle to win ya see--."

"Yeah I know,it's---pardon the pun---all over town,the King of Fighters contest."said Spider-Man. "But---I just thought to let ya know,I think I know what was responsible for causing that monster robot to show up."

"You do?"said K. "What?" "Well,yesterday,I was swinging by through this same area,when I saw three sabatours exit from this same manhole,but when I got there.they were all exact duplicates of-Kyo Kusanagi!"

"D-did you say..duplicates of Kusangai?"said K. "Yeah,mean something to you?"said Spidey. "Uh.no,it's nothing."said K as he turned away.

"The hell it isn't!"said Spidey. "If someone gets concerned about something and asks the question you did-then it's gotta be something!"

"Let's say it is."said K. "But I'm not sharing it with folks I don't know." "What's that got to do with it?"said Spidey. "Think I saved your miserable lifer for nothing mr.pumous ass?"

"I didn't ask for help okay?"said K. "But thanks anyways,c'mon Max we gotta get back to the contest before it's too late."

Spidey then shot a webl ine at the biker's right leg and pulled at it,causing K to fall to the ground. "True what they say,pride comes before the idiot falls on their ass."he said. "Spidey,you're out of line there pal!"said Maxima. "Tell that to your 'friend 'there Max!"said Spidey. "Now are you gonna spill,or am I gonna have to get rough with ya as well?"

Max placed both of his hands on Spidey's shoulders and answered calmly. "Look,I'm sorry for my partner's attitude,he's got-issues about something as they say. But you've got to understand Spider-Man,that you're up against more than you know. I promise,if you meet up with us at the finals,you might be able to help us with something. But I can tell you this---those were clones of the man named Kyo Kusangai."

"So..they were clones."said Spidey. "And I guess they had to be have been the ones who planted that little nasty surprise."

"I'm sure they did."said Maxima. "But you've got to steer clear until then,understand?" "Okay,okay."said Spidey."..but remember,I'll be watching the both of you during this tournament,and as for you.mr.leather pants and I'm so bad it hurts attitude.don't push your luck!"

Without another word,Spidey then shot another webline and took off to the air. K then turned on his flame and burned the webline off his pants leg. "Stinkin'bastard!"he said "Who's he think he is?"

Maxima grabbed K and pulled him up onto his feet. "Look K,I know you have great misgivings about NESTS,but we don't really know if it's them again. Not until we get to the finals and sort this mess out-and remember,we weren't able to do away with that robot unitl Spider- man helped us. It's not a crime to let others help you when needed."

"I get the picture."said K easing off of him. "It's just that I've read stories from the Daily Bugle that Spider-Man's not to be really trusted."

"There's an old saying,"said Maxima. "don't believe everything ya hear---or read. Just think of it as guardian angel just for this year's KOF."

"Well,as long as he doensn't butt into the fight rounds,he should be okay?"said K. "Now c'mon,times-a-waistin'!"

Maxima sighed. "I wonder if the original Kusanagi's attitude was like this?"he thought. "They obviously perfectly copied it."

The two warriors ran back off to join back in on the battles. "Whatta pumpous pain in the ass!"thought Spidey. "This K guy makes Wolverine look like a saint. Well,whatever's happening,they obviously know something about it. But whatever it is,I intend to find out what,with or without that dorkwad K's help!"

While back in the midst of the tournament at a parking garage building..

Both the Art of Fighting team of Ryo and Robert and the Psycho Soldier team were about to face off with one another.

Both Ryo and Athena first stepped up to the plate. Ryo made the first move by throwing a fireball,but Athena put up a deflective shield and threw his fireball right back at him.

"WHOA!"said Ryp as he ducked from the deflect attack.

For the two Kyokugens,this was not going to be an easy fight.

While in another part of town,both Kim and Jhun were about to fight it out with the Dance team of Duck King and Bob Wilson,who would kick who out of the tournament?

MORE TO COME IN CH. SIX