Spider-Man/King of Fighters Ch.14
The trio of K,Spider-Man and Maxima were in danger at both ends. One,a group of armed goons,the other,two of Southtown's most notorious criminals-Billy Kane and Yamazaki!
"Tell ya what."Spidey said to K and Max."I'll take the goons behind us-you take Laurel and Hardy there."
"Sure but---who's Laurel and Hardy?"said K. "Let's not get into technicalities K."said Maxima. "Anyways,they were a comedy team and that fits both of these stooges just fine."
"Thoght so."said K. "Let's do it!" Both sides of fighters got into fight stance as the subway train become an arena. "Looks like just another contest match to me."said Maxima. "Ah,but if Yamazaki and me were invited me to this KOF we'd be fighting fairly and all that."said Billy. "Unfortunately,you and your biker pal are in for the bout of your lives."
"Namely,don't expect us to fight fair!"said Yamazaki as he reached into his left side pants pocket. "I don't expect to---c'mon!"said K as the fight began.
K thrust forward with his Blackout and was directly behind Yamazaki. Once he was behind him,K lashed out a fireball kick throw at his opponent.
Yamazaki then spun around and did a knocked it right back at K. "YOW!"said the clone as he barely dodged the return coming projectile. "How did you.?"he said.
"Hey,every fighter has their secrets right?"said Yamazaki. "Now let's see what else a champion like you's got!"
Billy Kane thrust forward on his red staff and lunged it at Maxima. The cyborg dodged the staff and then slammed Billy in the chest with a Vapor 4 cannon punch.
Billy landed on his rump from the blow. "Man,you been takin'your vitamins eh mate?"he said. "Not really."said Maxima. "Just your standard issue cyborg hydraulics."
"Yeah,right!"said Billy as he jumped to his feet.
K and Yamazaki squared off on the other side of the room. Both fighters traded blow after blow with each other.
K thrust a roundhose kick,Yamazaki ducked it and then slammed his fist into K's chin. Yamazaki then thrust forward with a few punches and then slammed his knee into K's abdomen.
The clone staggered away from Yamazaki,trying to gain some distance and a new plan of attack. Yamazaki then jumped at K and did a Serphent's arrow lash.
K jumped over it,then grabbed onto a nearby pole,swung around on it and planted both feet into the killer's chest,knocking him backwards.
After that,K unleashed his chain drive on Yamazaki. "WHAM-SLAMM-POW-POW-KRAKK!" Poor Yamazaki was slammerized by K's ultimate killer barrage attack.
The hired thug fell up against a seat and was out cold.
Spider-Man meanwhile handled the gang of thugs. "Surrender at once Spider-Man!"said one of the armed thugs. "You have no place in this contest!" "I have plenty places I choose to be!"he said before jumping onto the ceiling.
"FIRE!"said the team leader. Shots of ammo fired upon the ceiling where the webslinger stuck to. But no sooner did he jump off of where he lay and landed directly behind them all.
"Get'em!"said the team leader. "NOT!"said Spidey as he fired a web net from his web-shooters. A thick covering of webbing goo fell upon the group of gunmen,causing them all to get entangeled and stumble about.
Spidey then finished the job by jumping up at the goons and slamming a super-punch on the whole lot of them. "POW!"
The webbed up goon batch fell to the floor and were out like a light.
All that remained now was the ever popular Billy Kane who was really giving Maxima a major hoot foot!
Billy twirled his staff around and a ball of flame formed and erupted from it,hitting Maxima square in the chest.
"RRRGHH!"replied Maxima in pain.
Just then,Billy saw what had happened to both Yamazaki and the backup they were given. "That bloody tears it!"he said in anger. "Why is it that mercenaries can't score on ajob well done anymore? And why is it after the likes of Terry and Ryo that just everyone else Yamazaki an'me keep coming across-think they can be as tough a goody two shoes like the Bogards can?
Well,you'll never take ol'Billy alive mates! An'I'm gonna take your lumbering robo-bum with me!"
Billy thrust forward at Maxima again,but to his surprise,Max caught his left wrist and brought him upward,letting him hang in the air like a silly pinata.
"I think you and your boys have had enough fun for one day pal."he said. "K and myself have a title to win,and you and this Kingpin are keeping us from it!"
"Oh hell."said Billy. "You're gonna hit me ain'tcha?" "Yup."said Maxima before he planted another Vapor 4 cannon punch that sent him flying across the room and through the rear door window. "KRASSH!"
"I think we're all done here."said Spidey. "Pretty good moves there Spidey."said Maxima. "Yeah.pretty good."said K. "Considering you mostly webbed them up." "Hey,use whatever works pal."said Spidey. "Now,what do ya think is next?"
As if in answer,the subway train came to a screeching halt,and the entrance doors opened. "That answer your question long johns?"said K. "Guess so."said Maxima. "C'mon,this is obviously our stop."
"Wait a minute."said Spidey as he ran up to the doors. "Lemme check a moment---I have a-sense about these things..just wanna see if anything's out there."
As Spidey peeped out into the darkness,K made a remark. "A-sense?"said K. "Honestly,what's this guy got-a spider sense? Hahaha." "Hey..how'bout some gratitude kid?"said Maxima. "If it wasn't for Spider- Man there,we might've been dead."
"Yeah well,we could've handled them off in the long run max."said K."he's just not a teammate in this contest we're in."
"I have a feeling this is turning out to be more than just a contest right now."said Max. "After that little excursion there,I have a feeling Spider there may be right about the guy who's holding this tourney-and if he's the one who obviously sicked that-robot thing on us earlier as well as the clones Spidey told us about-maybe he's got ahold of some NESTS technology or something."
"Maybe."said K. "But we won't know unitl we find out for certain what's going on. Speaking of which-hey web-head---ya got something yet?"
Spidey popped his head over the roof of the car. "Quit your piping."he said. "It's safe-but dark for the time being."
Both K and Maxima stepped out into the dark and found they were on a platform leading to a door. K snapped the fingers of his red glove and a single flame popped up on his finger,allowing some light to shine in the room they were in.
The door before them was double handled and there was a monitor above it waiting to come to life. Suddenly,Spidey's warning sense came on.
"Something's about to happen!"he said. "Stand ready." The monitor flashed to life and bright light emerged from it.
"WHO GOES THERE?"said a voice over the speaker system. "Uhmm..we're the KOF champions here to complete the finals."said K. "Quick Spidey."Maxima whispered to Spidey. "They can't know you're with us so hide!"
Spidey nodded and jumped back into the subway car out of sight. The screen then shown a single eye looking down at them. "AH YES."said the voice. "K AND MAXIMA---WAIT A MOMENT PLEASE."
The doors then let off a low hum vibe and then popped open.
Both warriors then entered the doorway with Spider-Man quickly following close behind.
The tunnel they were in was dark but had pale yellow lights built upon the walls. Spidey then decided to hop up onto the ceiling and follow them via wall- crawling.
"I guess we go forward."said K. The trio then walked forward down the dark tunnel until finally,they could see a spot of light at the end.
The pair found another door and a speaker next to it. "PREPARE TO ENTER FOR THE FINAL MATCH HEROES."said the same voice again. "THERE WILL BE NO TURNING BACK."
"How inviting."said Maxima. K shrugged and shoved the door open.
There standing before them both was a vast underground arena.
It was a large square arena with straight cubic lines designed upon it and on all four sides a pillar of flame was set on each all blazing brightly.
There,on the other side of the arena was another set of doors with brass handles on them,and a large TV monitor was set above it all as well.
"This must be the place."said K. "Must be."said Maxima. "So what's next?"
The monitor crackled to life and a dark shadowy figure was shown on the screen. "Greetings to you both K and Maxima."said the figure in the screen,his voice heavilly muffled. "I am aware that you are both the winners of the KOF semi-finals.but as you can see-it is still far from over. What you must do now that you were summoned here is this. You must fight and defeat a secret and powerful challenger we have selected for you to fight.
You may both take turns in fighting him the same way you did in the preliminaries,the first one of you who defeats him in any way possible---is the winner. But,if you lose to this challenger. You will both be denied the grand prizes and tilte of this year's KOF. Are you both ready?"
"We've come this far."said K. "Count on it!" "Same here."said Maxima. "Bring it on!"
"They're either brave-or ridiculously cocky."thought Spidey looking out through the door. "Well,they made it this far,might as well see how it all fares out.and see if anything else suspicious happens courtesy of the Kingpin!"
"Very well."said the man on the screen. "Prepare youselves!"
WHILE BACK IN TIMES SQUARE.
The Kingpin stood upon a platform and podium with microphone and a large video monitor stood before the crowds of people who have been watching the KOF since it started.
"Ladies and gentlemen."he said into the mic."We thank you for waiting patiently for this final event to come. Our two finalists have made it to the very top,but..one final battle still remains. They are both to fight and face a secret challenger. A fighter so secret,so powerful,we can't reveal his identity to you at this time. But.he is all that stands between them and the title for tag-team champions! So,sit back,relax,take bets if you wish---and enjoy the grand finale!"
"Wow---K and Maxima are sure to win this time!"said Kong.
Terry,Ryo,Shingo and the others were all watching as well. "Man,I wish that was me and Terry up there."thought Joe. "I'm glad for K and Maxima they made it this far."said Shingo. "But-I can't help shake the feeling of déjà vu that something is wrong with this contest since it started."
"I can't help but feel the same."said Kim. "It almost seems like KOF'99 all over again." "Well,we'll just have to wait and see."said Saisyu.
The doors on the other side opened and out stepped a rather collossal looking fighter. He was dressed from head to toe in black leather with grip gloves on both hands and a skintight mask covered the upper part of his face and head,concealling his identity.
"Check this guy out."said Maxima. "The leather warrior?" "Whoever he is,stay on your toes."said K.
"Good luck guys."thought Spidey. "You're gonna need it."
"I shall go first."said K as he stepped up to the challenger that awaited him. Both K and the fighter stood face to face with each other.
"TOURNAMENT SUPREME FINAL MATCH---BEGIN!"said the man.
Both fighters got into stance and the match began.
The masked man made the first move. He sprinted forward at K with a rushing knee,but K dodged it and then slammed his elbow into his back. A blow like that would cause a normal fighter to fall forward in pain,but..to K's surprise the man didn't even double over.
Instead,the fighter simply thrust out a back kick into K's side,knocking him away.
"Fast and thick eh?"said K. "Like that's gonna be any help to ya." K then thrust forward again and did his Blackout move,but to his next surprise,the challenger caught him by the throat in mid-shift speed.
"GAKK-HEEY!"he replied as he was brought into the air by a grip made of steel. "K!"said Maxima. "Hoo boy!"thought Spidey. "No one ver said they were gonna be taking on-a gorilla!"
The masked man then threw K across the arena floor and skidded to a halt. "Whoever this guy is---he's no lightweight,I can tell ya that!"thought K as he got back up.
K then ran back towards the bullying fighter he was facing and went into a Flame drive move. The fighter then jumped right over as it as K swung out his flames.
"Wha.?"said K as he stopped and turned to see where his opponent was. And he saw him all right,flying straight at him with a jump kick to the chest!
"UNNGH!" went K as he was knocked across the floor and slid to a halt. The masked fighter then jumped into the air again and was immediately over K,ready to lay the final blow upon him! "LOOK OUT K!"said Maxima.
HOW MUCH MORE INTENSE AND DANGEROUS CAN IT GET? THE FINAL MATCH CONTINUES AND THE MYSTERIOUS MASTERMIND IN LEAGUE WITH THE KINGPIN STANDS REVEALLED. NEXT IN CH.15
The trio of K,Spider-Man and Maxima were in danger at both ends. One,a group of armed goons,the other,two of Southtown's most notorious criminals-Billy Kane and Yamazaki!
"Tell ya what."Spidey said to K and Max."I'll take the goons behind us-you take Laurel and Hardy there."
"Sure but---who's Laurel and Hardy?"said K. "Let's not get into technicalities K."said Maxima. "Anyways,they were a comedy team and that fits both of these stooges just fine."
"Thoght so."said K. "Let's do it!" Both sides of fighters got into fight stance as the subway train become an arena. "Looks like just another contest match to me."said Maxima. "Ah,but if Yamazaki and me were invited me to this KOF we'd be fighting fairly and all that."said Billy. "Unfortunately,you and your biker pal are in for the bout of your lives."
"Namely,don't expect us to fight fair!"said Yamazaki as he reached into his left side pants pocket. "I don't expect to---c'mon!"said K as the fight began.
K thrust forward with his Blackout and was directly behind Yamazaki. Once he was behind him,K lashed out a fireball kick throw at his opponent.
Yamazaki then spun around and did a knocked it right back at K. "YOW!"said the clone as he barely dodged the return coming projectile. "How did you.?"he said.
"Hey,every fighter has their secrets right?"said Yamazaki. "Now let's see what else a champion like you's got!"
Billy Kane thrust forward on his red staff and lunged it at Maxima. The cyborg dodged the staff and then slammed Billy in the chest with a Vapor 4 cannon punch.
Billy landed on his rump from the blow. "Man,you been takin'your vitamins eh mate?"he said. "Not really."said Maxima. "Just your standard issue cyborg hydraulics."
"Yeah,right!"said Billy as he jumped to his feet.
K and Yamazaki squared off on the other side of the room. Both fighters traded blow after blow with each other.
K thrust a roundhose kick,Yamazaki ducked it and then slammed his fist into K's chin. Yamazaki then thrust forward with a few punches and then slammed his knee into K's abdomen.
The clone staggered away from Yamazaki,trying to gain some distance and a new plan of attack. Yamazaki then jumped at K and did a Serphent's arrow lash.
K jumped over it,then grabbed onto a nearby pole,swung around on it and planted both feet into the killer's chest,knocking him backwards.
After that,K unleashed his chain drive on Yamazaki. "WHAM-SLAMM-POW-POW-KRAKK!" Poor Yamazaki was slammerized by K's ultimate killer barrage attack.
The hired thug fell up against a seat and was out cold.
Spider-Man meanwhile handled the gang of thugs. "Surrender at once Spider-Man!"said one of the armed thugs. "You have no place in this contest!" "I have plenty places I choose to be!"he said before jumping onto the ceiling.
"FIRE!"said the team leader. Shots of ammo fired upon the ceiling where the webslinger stuck to. But no sooner did he jump off of where he lay and landed directly behind them all.
"Get'em!"said the team leader. "NOT!"said Spidey as he fired a web net from his web-shooters. A thick covering of webbing goo fell upon the group of gunmen,causing them all to get entangeled and stumble about.
Spidey then finished the job by jumping up at the goons and slamming a super-punch on the whole lot of them. "POW!"
The webbed up goon batch fell to the floor and were out like a light.
All that remained now was the ever popular Billy Kane who was really giving Maxima a major hoot foot!
Billy twirled his staff around and a ball of flame formed and erupted from it,hitting Maxima square in the chest.
"RRRGHH!"replied Maxima in pain.
Just then,Billy saw what had happened to both Yamazaki and the backup they were given. "That bloody tears it!"he said in anger. "Why is it that mercenaries can't score on ajob well done anymore? And why is it after the likes of Terry and Ryo that just everyone else Yamazaki an'me keep coming across-think they can be as tough a goody two shoes like the Bogards can?
Well,you'll never take ol'Billy alive mates! An'I'm gonna take your lumbering robo-bum with me!"
Billy thrust forward at Maxima again,but to his surprise,Max caught his left wrist and brought him upward,letting him hang in the air like a silly pinata.
"I think you and your boys have had enough fun for one day pal."he said. "K and myself have a title to win,and you and this Kingpin are keeping us from it!"
"Oh hell."said Billy. "You're gonna hit me ain'tcha?" "Yup."said Maxima before he planted another Vapor 4 cannon punch that sent him flying across the room and through the rear door window. "KRASSH!"
"I think we're all done here."said Spidey. "Pretty good moves there Spidey."said Maxima. "Yeah.pretty good."said K. "Considering you mostly webbed them up." "Hey,use whatever works pal."said Spidey. "Now,what do ya think is next?"
As if in answer,the subway train came to a screeching halt,and the entrance doors opened. "That answer your question long johns?"said K. "Guess so."said Maxima. "C'mon,this is obviously our stop."
"Wait a minute."said Spidey as he ran up to the doors. "Lemme check a moment---I have a-sense about these things..just wanna see if anything's out there."
As Spidey peeped out into the darkness,K made a remark. "A-sense?"said K. "Honestly,what's this guy got-a spider sense? Hahaha." "Hey..how'bout some gratitude kid?"said Maxima. "If it wasn't for Spider- Man there,we might've been dead."
"Yeah well,we could've handled them off in the long run max."said K."he's just not a teammate in this contest we're in."
"I have a feeling this is turning out to be more than just a contest right now."said Max. "After that little excursion there,I have a feeling Spider there may be right about the guy who's holding this tourney-and if he's the one who obviously sicked that-robot thing on us earlier as well as the clones Spidey told us about-maybe he's got ahold of some NESTS technology or something."
"Maybe."said K. "But we won't know unitl we find out for certain what's going on. Speaking of which-hey web-head---ya got something yet?"
Spidey popped his head over the roof of the car. "Quit your piping."he said. "It's safe-but dark for the time being."
Both K and Maxima stepped out into the dark and found they were on a platform leading to a door. K snapped the fingers of his red glove and a single flame popped up on his finger,allowing some light to shine in the room they were in.
The door before them was double handled and there was a monitor above it waiting to come to life. Suddenly,Spidey's warning sense came on.
"Something's about to happen!"he said. "Stand ready." The monitor flashed to life and bright light emerged from it.
"WHO GOES THERE?"said a voice over the speaker system. "Uhmm..we're the KOF champions here to complete the finals."said K. "Quick Spidey."Maxima whispered to Spidey. "They can't know you're with us so hide!"
Spidey nodded and jumped back into the subway car out of sight. The screen then shown a single eye looking down at them. "AH YES."said the voice. "K AND MAXIMA---WAIT A MOMENT PLEASE."
The doors then let off a low hum vibe and then popped open.
Both warriors then entered the doorway with Spider-Man quickly following close behind.
The tunnel they were in was dark but had pale yellow lights built upon the walls. Spidey then decided to hop up onto the ceiling and follow them via wall- crawling.
"I guess we go forward."said K. The trio then walked forward down the dark tunnel until finally,they could see a spot of light at the end.
The pair found another door and a speaker next to it. "PREPARE TO ENTER FOR THE FINAL MATCH HEROES."said the same voice again. "THERE WILL BE NO TURNING BACK."
"How inviting."said Maxima. K shrugged and shoved the door open.
There standing before them both was a vast underground arena.
It was a large square arena with straight cubic lines designed upon it and on all four sides a pillar of flame was set on each all blazing brightly.
There,on the other side of the arena was another set of doors with brass handles on them,and a large TV monitor was set above it all as well.
"This must be the place."said K. "Must be."said Maxima. "So what's next?"
The monitor crackled to life and a dark shadowy figure was shown on the screen. "Greetings to you both K and Maxima."said the figure in the screen,his voice heavilly muffled. "I am aware that you are both the winners of the KOF semi-finals.but as you can see-it is still far from over. What you must do now that you were summoned here is this. You must fight and defeat a secret and powerful challenger we have selected for you to fight.
You may both take turns in fighting him the same way you did in the preliminaries,the first one of you who defeats him in any way possible---is the winner. But,if you lose to this challenger. You will both be denied the grand prizes and tilte of this year's KOF. Are you both ready?"
"We've come this far."said K. "Count on it!" "Same here."said Maxima. "Bring it on!"
"They're either brave-or ridiculously cocky."thought Spidey looking out through the door. "Well,they made it this far,might as well see how it all fares out.and see if anything else suspicious happens courtesy of the Kingpin!"
"Very well."said the man on the screen. "Prepare youselves!"
WHILE BACK IN TIMES SQUARE.
The Kingpin stood upon a platform and podium with microphone and a large video monitor stood before the crowds of people who have been watching the KOF since it started.
"Ladies and gentlemen."he said into the mic."We thank you for waiting patiently for this final event to come. Our two finalists have made it to the very top,but..one final battle still remains. They are both to fight and face a secret challenger. A fighter so secret,so powerful,we can't reveal his identity to you at this time. But.he is all that stands between them and the title for tag-team champions! So,sit back,relax,take bets if you wish---and enjoy the grand finale!"
"Wow---K and Maxima are sure to win this time!"said Kong.
Terry,Ryo,Shingo and the others were all watching as well. "Man,I wish that was me and Terry up there."thought Joe. "I'm glad for K and Maxima they made it this far."said Shingo. "But-I can't help shake the feeling of déjà vu that something is wrong with this contest since it started."
"I can't help but feel the same."said Kim. "It almost seems like KOF'99 all over again." "Well,we'll just have to wait and see."said Saisyu.
The doors on the other side opened and out stepped a rather collossal looking fighter. He was dressed from head to toe in black leather with grip gloves on both hands and a skintight mask covered the upper part of his face and head,concealling his identity.
"Check this guy out."said Maxima. "The leather warrior?" "Whoever he is,stay on your toes."said K.
"Good luck guys."thought Spidey. "You're gonna need it."
"I shall go first."said K as he stepped up to the challenger that awaited him. Both K and the fighter stood face to face with each other.
"TOURNAMENT SUPREME FINAL MATCH---BEGIN!"said the man.
Both fighters got into stance and the match began.
The masked man made the first move. He sprinted forward at K with a rushing knee,but K dodged it and then slammed his elbow into his back. A blow like that would cause a normal fighter to fall forward in pain,but..to K's surprise the man didn't even double over.
Instead,the fighter simply thrust out a back kick into K's side,knocking him away.
"Fast and thick eh?"said K. "Like that's gonna be any help to ya." K then thrust forward again and did his Blackout move,but to his next surprise,the challenger caught him by the throat in mid-shift speed.
"GAKK-HEEY!"he replied as he was brought into the air by a grip made of steel. "K!"said Maxima. "Hoo boy!"thought Spidey. "No one ver said they were gonna be taking on-a gorilla!"
The masked man then threw K across the arena floor and skidded to a halt. "Whoever this guy is---he's no lightweight,I can tell ya that!"thought K as he got back up.
K then ran back towards the bullying fighter he was facing and went into a Flame drive move. The fighter then jumped right over as it as K swung out his flames.
"Wha.?"said K as he stopped and turned to see where his opponent was. And he saw him all right,flying straight at him with a jump kick to the chest!
"UNNGH!" went K as he was knocked across the floor and slid to a halt. The masked fighter then jumped into the air again and was immediately over K,ready to lay the final blow upon him! "LOOK OUT K!"said Maxima.
HOW MUCH MORE INTENSE AND DANGEROUS CAN IT GET? THE FINAL MATCH CONTINUES AND THE MYSTERIOUS MASTERMIND IN LEAGUE WITH THE KINGPIN STANDS REVEALLED. NEXT IN CH.15