In a recent email, ninjitsuwolf asked if I'd thought of doing an
altetnative ending for the story. I hadn't thought of it before, but it
seemed an interesting idea, especially as he reminded me we'd not seen
Northtown Terry, only been told about him. So this is a "what if" ending,
not the real one, assuming the real Terry got stuck in Northtown. So,
without further ado, here it is. Terry's adventures in Northtown- the
alternative ending.
Krizalid has managed to coonect his DM and batter Terry completely. There was no last minute save by Chris in a burning shopping trolley. Krizalid now stands over the beaten Terry, gloating.
Krizalid- Ha! that'll teach you to mess with me and insult the lovely, manly Zero. We'll be off now, and if this works out, we'll be dumping all the other good guy fighters here too.
Angel- And then we'll rule the world! The real one that is.
Krizalid- Angel, shut up. I'll rule the world. You'll still be an overworked underpaid servant. Bye Terry!
The bad guys get back into the time travel toilet, Angel now crying. To the sounds of old Dr Who effects, the time travel toilet disappears into thin air.
Terry- Shit! I'm stuck in this nightmare now for god knows how long! Here in Northtown where everybody's weird and nobody appreciates how great a hero I really am. What am I supposed to do now? Wait for Zero's gay lover to shove everyone else here too!?
Not knowing what he's meant to do at this point, Terry decides to make his way back to the city. He walks back to where the Happy Happy Fun Club were camped out. Seeing them all asleep in their tents, our hero allows himself a rare moment of doing something bad. He breaks into the club's bus, and hotwires it, leaving Yamazaki and the kids asleep.
Terry- See ya guys. No way I'm bringing you lot with me, especially with the singalongs. Let's see what CD's they've got. (looks at the few CD's in the glove compartment) 30 Campfire greats, crap. Children's favourites, don't think so. Duck King's greatest hits, what the...?
Looking at the CD cover, he see's a short haired blonde guy in a sharp suit and shades with a saxophone. This is Northtown's Duck King. He is also, noticably, a white man.
Terry- So in my reality, Duck goes from white to black, here he's white, and probably started off life black.
He finally reaches the city, and feeling hungry stops outside a 24 hour convenience store. Terry walks inside, and sees the clerk idly watching a music video, a loud punk group. Looking at the screen, Terry sees that it's Kensou and Bao, only Kensou's dressed up like Tim Armstrong from Rancid, with the studded jacket, hat and tattoos. Bao looks like Lars Freidriksen, complete with red mochican, and bat tattooed under the chin. Kensou is the main singer, and sounds like he lives off cigarrettes, they are even doing Rancid's "Fall Back Down." The video ends, telling us that the group are called "Gone off". Terry goes up to the counter with a few items, and is surprised to see that it's Hinako working at the counter, in one of those conveninece store uniforms.
Terry- Hi, I wanna buy these.
Hinako- Yeah, hang on. I'm busy.
Terry- No your not, now get a fucking move on.
Hinako- Don't you tell me how to do my job...
Male Voice- YEEH HAAH! Freeze Motherfuckers!
Female Voice- We're armed!
They are interrupted by three people walking in, two male, one female, armed with shotguns. They are dressed kinda like typical rednecks, and the leader wears an outfit like Mickey from Natural Born Killers. A closer look at the lead thug's face reveals that this is Terry Bogard, the Northtown version, in his own mind at least, America's last great outlaw. He looks a lot rougher, dirtier and unkept than our normal Terry. His partners are Kevin Rian and May Lee.
Bad Terry- Give us all your cash now! And while we're at it, how 'bout a bottle of Southern Comfort.
May Lee- We could use some smokes too, boss. And can we get this pack of extra large Doritos?
Bad Terry- Good thinking. (to Hinako) Now don't try anything stupid, I'm a mean outlaw, a desperado, who'd kill you for any little thing. I'm on Northtown's most wanted list
Hinako- Yeah, at number 3087. I heard of you.
Kevin- Hey, they got the new Andy Bogard video.
Bad Terry- I told you before. We don't like Andy Bogard videos. He thinks he's so much better than me, his big brother.
Kevin- But the world's hottest porn stars are always in his films.
May Lee- It's family jealousy.
Bad Terry- Will you two shut up. We've got a robbery to do.
The heroic Terry has been watching this, and now decides to step in, even if only to finally get some service. He faces off with his Northtown equivalent.
Good Terry- Will you no hopers piss off. Before I really do some damage to you.
May Lee- Oh look. We got us a hero here.
Bad Terry- Do you have any idea who you're messing with. I'm Terry Bogard, the legendary outlaw, and this here's my posse. Hey, wait... you gots my face.
Kevin- Is he one of your other brothers?
Bad Terry- Can't say for sure. Never did find out who my momma was. Since your here, you might as well give us your wallet.
Good Terry- I'm warning you, I've had a really screwed up day. Mess with me, and I'll take it out on you.
Bad Terry- Is that so. Time to die, hero! Shoot him guys. He done went and messed with the wrong desperado. YEEH HAAH!
The three robbers aim their guns at Terry and open fire. Despite being only a few feet away, they miss with every single shot. The posse hit boxes, the counter (but not Hinako) and manage to make a jeep (their own) flip over outside. They are worse shots than the A Team, and they run out of ammo quickly. The good Terry wonders how they could suck so much, when he remembered people telling him that Northtown's Terry was a loser.
Kevin- We missed him. He ain't dead.
May Lee- We never hit anybody with these things.
Bad Terry- I ain't beat yet. POWER GEYSER!
The bad Terry punches the floor in front of our hero and... a few little sparks come out. That's it, a Dan Hibiki like special move. The real Terry is laughing out loud, before launching his own fully powered up Power Geyser, knocking his bad self up into the air, before crashing into the frozen food section. May Lee and Kevin are now terrified.
Bad Terry- OWWW! UGGHH... (slips into unconciousness)
Good Terry- So who's next? Huh. Come on.
May Lee- This always happens. We ain,t had a successful crime since we took Bao's wallet two years ago.
Kevin- That's not right. Bao beat the shit out of us.
May Lee- Oh yeah. That's my point, we never win. I'm quitting crime, getting a nice safe office job.
Kevin- I'll quit too. Go back to college. Finish my degree. I was only doing this for the thrill anyhow.
Bad Terry's equally inept henchpeople run away, screaming their heads off and promising to go straight. Hinako still sits there idly, as if nothing happened.
Terry- Think I could have some service now?
Hinako- I could'a handled it. Last week those hairdresser girls, King and Vanessa even kicked their arses no trouble.
The good finally paid for, Terry walks out, trying to work out what he's supposed to do next. He no longer needs the youth club bus, so simply leaves it. He is now resigned to the fact that he's stuck here until he can hopefully find a way out. Or at the very least until friendly faces from Southtown find themselves here with him. Terry thinks that, until then maybe he'll just wander around getting into fights and having adventures in this bizzare place.
Later on, the evil Terry recovered enough to walk, and attempted to mug Vice, who in this reality is a shy, timid social worker. Despite her pacifist nature and timidness, even Vice beat seven shades of shit out of the legendary outlaw in his own mind, shoving his shotgun right up his arse.
The end. Again. In a what if it happened instead of the real ending kinda way.
Krizalid has managed to coonect his DM and batter Terry completely. There was no last minute save by Chris in a burning shopping trolley. Krizalid now stands over the beaten Terry, gloating.
Krizalid- Ha! that'll teach you to mess with me and insult the lovely, manly Zero. We'll be off now, and if this works out, we'll be dumping all the other good guy fighters here too.
Angel- And then we'll rule the world! The real one that is.
Krizalid- Angel, shut up. I'll rule the world. You'll still be an overworked underpaid servant. Bye Terry!
The bad guys get back into the time travel toilet, Angel now crying. To the sounds of old Dr Who effects, the time travel toilet disappears into thin air.
Terry- Shit! I'm stuck in this nightmare now for god knows how long! Here in Northtown where everybody's weird and nobody appreciates how great a hero I really am. What am I supposed to do now? Wait for Zero's gay lover to shove everyone else here too!?
Not knowing what he's meant to do at this point, Terry decides to make his way back to the city. He walks back to where the Happy Happy Fun Club were camped out. Seeing them all asleep in their tents, our hero allows himself a rare moment of doing something bad. He breaks into the club's bus, and hotwires it, leaving Yamazaki and the kids asleep.
Terry- See ya guys. No way I'm bringing you lot with me, especially with the singalongs. Let's see what CD's they've got. (looks at the few CD's in the glove compartment) 30 Campfire greats, crap. Children's favourites, don't think so. Duck King's greatest hits, what the...?
Looking at the CD cover, he see's a short haired blonde guy in a sharp suit and shades with a saxophone. This is Northtown's Duck King. He is also, noticably, a white man.
Terry- So in my reality, Duck goes from white to black, here he's white, and probably started off life black.
He finally reaches the city, and feeling hungry stops outside a 24 hour convenience store. Terry walks inside, and sees the clerk idly watching a music video, a loud punk group. Looking at the screen, Terry sees that it's Kensou and Bao, only Kensou's dressed up like Tim Armstrong from Rancid, with the studded jacket, hat and tattoos. Bao looks like Lars Freidriksen, complete with red mochican, and bat tattooed under the chin. Kensou is the main singer, and sounds like he lives off cigarrettes, they are even doing Rancid's "Fall Back Down." The video ends, telling us that the group are called "Gone off". Terry goes up to the counter with a few items, and is surprised to see that it's Hinako working at the counter, in one of those conveninece store uniforms.
Terry- Hi, I wanna buy these.
Hinako- Yeah, hang on. I'm busy.
Terry- No your not, now get a fucking move on.
Hinako- Don't you tell me how to do my job...
Male Voice- YEEH HAAH! Freeze Motherfuckers!
Female Voice- We're armed!
They are interrupted by three people walking in, two male, one female, armed with shotguns. They are dressed kinda like typical rednecks, and the leader wears an outfit like Mickey from Natural Born Killers. A closer look at the lead thug's face reveals that this is Terry Bogard, the Northtown version, in his own mind at least, America's last great outlaw. He looks a lot rougher, dirtier and unkept than our normal Terry. His partners are Kevin Rian and May Lee.
Bad Terry- Give us all your cash now! And while we're at it, how 'bout a bottle of Southern Comfort.
May Lee- We could use some smokes too, boss. And can we get this pack of extra large Doritos?
Bad Terry- Good thinking. (to Hinako) Now don't try anything stupid, I'm a mean outlaw, a desperado, who'd kill you for any little thing. I'm on Northtown's most wanted list
Hinako- Yeah, at number 3087. I heard of you.
Kevin- Hey, they got the new Andy Bogard video.
Bad Terry- I told you before. We don't like Andy Bogard videos. He thinks he's so much better than me, his big brother.
Kevin- But the world's hottest porn stars are always in his films.
May Lee- It's family jealousy.
Bad Terry- Will you two shut up. We've got a robbery to do.
The heroic Terry has been watching this, and now decides to step in, even if only to finally get some service. He faces off with his Northtown equivalent.
Good Terry- Will you no hopers piss off. Before I really do some damage to you.
May Lee- Oh look. We got us a hero here.
Bad Terry- Do you have any idea who you're messing with. I'm Terry Bogard, the legendary outlaw, and this here's my posse. Hey, wait... you gots my face.
Kevin- Is he one of your other brothers?
Bad Terry- Can't say for sure. Never did find out who my momma was. Since your here, you might as well give us your wallet.
Good Terry- I'm warning you, I've had a really screwed up day. Mess with me, and I'll take it out on you.
Bad Terry- Is that so. Time to die, hero! Shoot him guys. He done went and messed with the wrong desperado. YEEH HAAH!
The three robbers aim their guns at Terry and open fire. Despite being only a few feet away, they miss with every single shot. The posse hit boxes, the counter (but not Hinako) and manage to make a jeep (their own) flip over outside. They are worse shots than the A Team, and they run out of ammo quickly. The good Terry wonders how they could suck so much, when he remembered people telling him that Northtown's Terry was a loser.
Kevin- We missed him. He ain't dead.
May Lee- We never hit anybody with these things.
Bad Terry- I ain't beat yet. POWER GEYSER!
The bad Terry punches the floor in front of our hero and... a few little sparks come out. That's it, a Dan Hibiki like special move. The real Terry is laughing out loud, before launching his own fully powered up Power Geyser, knocking his bad self up into the air, before crashing into the frozen food section. May Lee and Kevin are now terrified.
Bad Terry- OWWW! UGGHH... (slips into unconciousness)
Good Terry- So who's next? Huh. Come on.
May Lee- This always happens. We ain,t had a successful crime since we took Bao's wallet two years ago.
Kevin- That's not right. Bao beat the shit out of us.
May Lee- Oh yeah. That's my point, we never win. I'm quitting crime, getting a nice safe office job.
Kevin- I'll quit too. Go back to college. Finish my degree. I was only doing this for the thrill anyhow.
Bad Terry's equally inept henchpeople run away, screaming their heads off and promising to go straight. Hinako still sits there idly, as if nothing happened.
Terry- Think I could have some service now?
Hinako- I could'a handled it. Last week those hairdresser girls, King and Vanessa even kicked their arses no trouble.
The good finally paid for, Terry walks out, trying to work out what he's supposed to do next. He no longer needs the youth club bus, so simply leaves it. He is now resigned to the fact that he's stuck here until he can hopefully find a way out. Or at the very least until friendly faces from Southtown find themselves here with him. Terry thinks that, until then maybe he'll just wander around getting into fights and having adventures in this bizzare place.
Later on, the evil Terry recovered enough to walk, and attempted to mug Vice, who in this reality is a shy, timid social worker. Despite her pacifist nature and timidness, even Vice beat seven shades of shit out of the legendary outlaw in his own mind, shoving his shotgun right up his arse.
The end. Again. In a what if it happened instead of the real ending kinda way.