Okay, I like to give my reviewers thanks here and my response to their reviews. And it's a new record with 5...
Gerao-A: The problem I'm finding with Angel is, where does she fit... Definitely not on Diana's team. There isn't K9999 or anybody else, so where do we put the poor lonely Angel? Fear not, I have a solution... so she'll be there...
Tornado(Reviewer: Yeah 100% humour I am not good at... I can't crack 25 good jokes a chapter... Now I get what you meant by the dynamite run, what I thought it was something else (and yes it will be there, as well as the hand grenade relay). Tennis, of course doubles... what fun is there if we haven't got the world's most unusual pairings (like I'd be fair and let them pick who they want to be with)... with them yelling at each other or one being a ball hog or whatever. Weight lifting was planned, Jungle run, I did plan a marathon like thing but this is a better idea... thanks a bunch for your support.
AngelicPhoenix: If you mean by actual Olympic events, there already some and there I hope there will be approximately be a 50/50 split between actual sports and variants of sports (Although there are only 2 actual sports at the moment). Of course this doesn't include the random stuff.
Hassun: Well I'm glad you took notice of the support a team thing and the fact Gato is indeed a good swimmer had occurred to me. The outlaw team does indeed look strong, whether they cheat or not... but what's an outlaw team if it doesn't cheat.
White shadow: Yes, another one... but as I said before I'm not good at writing 100% wacky. I'd like to believe there is a good amount of variety in this... a story (well that's somewhere), laughs and competition.
This chapter is also a little longer then I thought, but I promised you guys day 1 and day 1 is what you'll get.
With the reluctant help of Yashiro, Shermie, Chris, Vice and Mature the Ikari's with Terry and Rock go to work. Yashiro, Chris, Shermie, Terry, Rock and Ralf dealt with the track while Heidern, Clark, Leona, Vice and Mature dealt with the pool. After 3 long days they had finally finished, and it looked very respectable indeed, Terry had even insisted on them painting the track like the colour it was at the Olympics as opposed to the absolutely boring black tarmac. The water at the pool was now crystal clear and clean as well as the diving board and platform being cleaned. The now exhausted group meets at the La Illusion, after again explaining the situation to King and Yashiro handed her the rules on the condition she promised not to laugh. A few smirks later, King served them.
"Terry, I've been meaning to ask you, you didn't have to help us... so why did you?" Heidern asked wondering why Terry showed up at the stadium in the first place
"I have some pride in my home town, despite what it has been through over the years... Rock wanted to come so he did, but I still don't know if he truly knew what he was getting into" Terry looked at Rock who was sitting back on the chair eyes closed, completely worn out.
"Terry... don't lie, I lost a bet..." Rock replied eyes still closed
Clark laughed "What was the bet?"
"We had an argument a few weeks back over who was better at various console games, we played it out, Rock lost" Terry smiled
Ralf and Yashiro were having an arm wrestle on another table. King watched the pair and made sure they didn't cheat. They seemed evenly matched.
"Come on Ralf take him down!" Leona shouted
"You can win Yashiro" Chris cheered
Ralf started to push appeared to have the upper hand, both appeared to be putting a lot of strength into it. However Yashiro was slowly being pushed down... he tried for one more push, and gained a small amount of ground but then Ralf overpowered him."Ralf is the winner" King announced
"Way to go!" Leona stood up and cheered and patted Ralf on the back
"Nice job, I'm way out of practice..." Yashiro said
"Neither of us are in our best state... so how about a rematch later..." Ralf offered
"You are on" Yashiro replied
"Why don't we have it in the competition?" Leona asked
"Good point..." Heidern then takes out the pad and added arm wrestling to it
3 days later...
All of the teams had arrived all waiting for the start of competition tomorrow. Having heard a lot of the fighters gather in King's bar, Heidern asked if he could register team members there. King accepted and Heidern sat a table while she let it be known to the others the Heidern was ready to register teams. Of course her team was first, as Mai, Mary, Chizuru and Angel entered.
"The woman's team correct?" Heidern asked
"Yes..." King replied
"So it's yourself, Mai Shirunai, Blue Mary, Chizuru Kagura and Angel?" Heidern asked
"That's right" Angel said excitedly "Thanks again for the offer" Angel smiled
"Well I really needed numbers and May Lee and Yuri had already committed themselves to other teams" King replied
"Here are the events that are taking place on the first day, you'll be notified at the end of each day of competition what will take place next" Heidern handed the team a piece of paper "You may also only a enter maximum of 2 of your team into any event, any later rulings and you will be notified later" Heidern told them
"Thank you" Chizuru said and the rest of the team except King left
A few hours later and K', Diana, Kula, Maxima and Whip had arrived.
"Team name?" Heidern asked
"K' team, that alright with everybody else?" Kula asked
"Doesn't matter what we are called really, so I guess that's fine" Maxima said
"Wait, there is motorcycle racing in this?" K' looked at the piece of paper that had Day 1's events on it
"On Day 1, yes..." Heidern replied
"Would you do it K'?" Kula smiled sweetly
"Hmm" K' thought... but he really wished Kula wouldn't keep doing that.
"Well, you can put yourself down then withdraw later" Heidern said
"Fine, put me in, I guess" K' said
"So all 5 of you are in?" Heidern asked
"Yes..." Diana replied
"Excellent, see you tomorrow" Heidern said as they walked off
Outside the bar
"Well, I'll see you guys later, Kula and I are going having a look around" Diana said
"And I'm going to meet up with Ralf, Clark and Leona" Whip said
"Alright, meet you back at the hotel" Maxima waved to the three of them as they left.
"Why'd I let myself do that..." K' asked himself
Maxima patted K' on the shoulder... "Don't worry it won't be that bad... and Heidern did say you could withdraw"
"Of course he would, but I don't think Kula will" K' sighed
A bit later...
"Kyo Kusanagi... good to see you" Heidern greeted Kyo
"Yes, nice idea... anyway King told us we could register... that'll be myself, Benimaru, Daimon, Shingo and Iori" Kyo was interrupted
"Hmmph, I can make my own intro thank you..." Iori said "I still don't know why I am signing up with you"
"Because nobody else wanted somebody who attacks his own team mates?" Shingo said, trying to act brave and impress Kyo
"You want to be next victim? I'd do the world a huge favour" Iori gave an intimidating stare at Shingo
Shingo went very quiet
"Alright that's enough, we are a team... remember?" Kyo told his group
"We may be on the same side here, but I am never anybody's team mate" Iori said
A long silence followed, until Heidern broke it...
"Hope to see you tomorrow..." Heidern said"Yes, thanks again" Kyo replied as he and his 'team' walked out
Iori quickly left the group...
"Kyo, why did you allow him to join us?" Benimaru asked
"Because, he's probably a strong competitor and as usual had no other team" Kyo said
"I still don't think this is a good idea, Yagami is too much of a loose cannon" Daimon said
"We'll just have to see what happens" Kyo had his concerns too but tried to make it seem he had it all under control.
At the end of the day the teams looked like this. On looking most teams had 5, compared to both the Psycho soldiers team and Ash's team which only had 3 each, so Heidern decided to make a rule of that no team can enter more then 2 people in any event, and that some events would be restricted to 1 member per team.
Fatal fury team: Terry, Andy, Joe, Tizoc, Rock
Art of Fighting team: Ryo, Robert, Yuri, Takuma
Ikari team: Ralf, Clark, Leona, Heidern
Korea team: Kim, Jhun, Chang, Choi, May lee
Women's team: King, Mai, Mary, Chizuru, Angel
K' team: K', Kula, Maxima, Whip, Diana
Psycho soldiers team: Athena, Kensou, Chin
Japan team: Kyo, Benimaru, Daimon, Shingo, Iori
Outlaw team: Geese, Billy, Yamazaki, Gato
Ash team: Ash, Duo Lon, Shen Woo
A/N: I had the following problems with teams and have 2 things I'm unhappy with
1) Angel and Iori placement
2) Lack of numbers on Ash team and Psycho soldiers team. I can't (don't want to) use Bao because I plan to have Bao toss (instead of hammer throw) as an event.
The next day everybody had arrived at the stadium and the teams got a glance at each other... some talking to each other others staring at each other.
"Before the start of competition I have a few announcements to make" Heidern got everybody's attention as he picked up a megaphone.
"Firstly will our judges enter the area please?" Heidern called out
Yashiro, Shermie, Chris, Vice and Mature all entered the stadium from the grandstand, a few murmurs and gasps were heard.
"They have to live by a few rules... and they are being passed to you now" Heidern said as a copy of the rules was given to each team.
"Secondly, as a rule for all events, teams can only assign 2 members for any event, some events however can only have 1. The events for tomorrow are 800 metres hand grenade relay, Pool not the swimming kind the table and ball kind, Darts, 10 meter platform diving and 10 meter bombing" Heidern continued
A few teams laughed to themselves at the announcement of some of the events.
"If you have any questions ask them while you register your teams entries, now please form a line in an orderly fashion and register for today's and tomorrow's events" Heidern finished
Orderly fashion had little meaning to most of the teams as they lined up and registered."How can you be sure your 'judges' are held by this contract?" Kim asked as he registered
"Because, Yashiro seemed terrified when Ralf read the rules out loud" Heidern replied
"I say their existence and them being here is evil enough..." Kim said
Suddenly the 5 judges began to feel weaker... as if they suddenly lost all their energy
"Please... don't let us die... again" Chris shouted out
Kim looked surprised
"So you beg for mercy? Fine... but judge fairly or else" Kim looked at 5 judges who after that sentence stood up again
"Maybe there is hope for anyone to reform" Kim left to join his team again
"Not likely" Ralf said under his breath.
The teams who were participating motorcycle race around Southtown got ready... It was 2 laps around the streets of Southtown which was a 8 corner circuit, starting just outside the stadium and through a course which had been prearranged, news of the event had gotten out so people were on the streets to watch the action. The participating team members would be.
Terry Bogard, Ryo Sakazaki, Kyo Kusanagi, Blue Mary, Chizuru Kagura, K' and Billy Kane.
"I hope you like my new engine Bogard" Billy taunted
"Well whatever, I just hope you make it past the first corner with that piece of junk" Terry replied
"Hey, is that part legal?" Mary looked at Billy's bike and asked Terry
"Probably not" Terry sat on his motorcycle and everybody else followed.
Mature stood in a box high above the track and she'd have control and watch over the race. 5 lights would come on then go out, when the lights went out it was time for racing. The first light went on, the racers started revving their engines, Terry gave a glance at Billy who was revving the engine like there was no tomorrow, the second light went on Mary and Chizuru remained focused, third light, K' was cool as ever not focusing on anything else but his own thing. Fourth light, everywhere in the stands and the teams bit their lips, with the anticipation of what was going to happen. The fifth light went on, tension at the highest point.... Then... the lights went out...
Everybody got away decently, with one exception... Billy had for some reason stalled.
"ARGGGH! Stupid piece of junk..." Billy slammed his hand hard onto the handlebar and with a powerful boost of flame the bike immediately moved into motion
Perhaps too fast because he was moving into the first corner and tried to turn but had too much speed and unfortunately crashed into Terry, Ryo and Kyo who were all sent to the ground, but not Billy who was sent flying into a brick wall. Having suffering from far worse blows from each others DM's they weren't too badly hurt and the 3 of them stood their bikes back up and tried to continue. Billy however wasn't as fortunate, as Chris waved a black flag over his body.
"You're disqualified for causing a major accident" Chris announced as he continued to wave the black flag
"If it's an accident how come I'm responsible?" Billy stood up
"The ruling is final you are out" Chris said
"Ahh shut up..." Billy tried to walk away but was approached by Geese.
"Are you alright Billy?" Geese asked knocking Chris out of the way
"Oh I think so... man that hurt..." Billy rubbed his back
"Well good because, this will hurt even more... RAGING STORM!" Geese raised his arms and dropped them causing waves to hit Billy multiple times leaving him knocked out.
"Why did you do that for?" Chris asked standing up
"Because he failed me... perhaps he won't be so careless next time" Geese said as he walked back into the crowd.
Mary had a narrow lead over K'. K' however seemed to be faster and was all over the back of Mary, Chizuru was still in reach of K' but K' began to lose her while Terry, Ryo and Kyo were well and truly behind due to the crash. They were coming up to a complicated left turn then a quick right turn, K' tried to take the inside line on Mary however, she defensively cut him off prevent him taking the corner on the inside however K' had anticipated this as he went around the outside of Mary and had the perfect line into the right hand corner. Mary now had nowhere to go unless she wanted to wipe herself and K' out of the race as K' took the lead. However Mary didn't notice Chizuru coming along side her as she was too focused on K', they were then side by side going into the home straight, Chizuru seemed to have a speed advantage and pulled in front of Mary however a corner was coming up and Mary dived down the inside and retook second place from her.
Meanwhile Ryo was in fourth over Kyo and Terry as this time Kyo threatened to make a move on Ryo on the same section K' had passed Mary. However Ryo seemed to take the inside line better which forced Kyo to the outside and now the tables had turned and he was under pressure from Terry. Terry tried to get along side him but Kyo made this difficult by moving himself into the center of the track.
K' was beginning to extend his lead over Mary, but then suddenly a large amount of wooden barrels had dropped onto the track.
"Hahah... they are sure to fall on their face now, and Billy will win and Geese will pay us money" Yamazaki laughed
"Idiot... Billy was disqualified on the first lap, but who cares... let's just watch the carnage" Gato said
K' could do little as he was moving too fast so he tried to find a path but there was no way so he was sent flying off, but had created a clean path by knocking the barrels out of the way but Mary had to move slowly to negotiate it. K' tried to recollect himself and get back in the race, and he got back on just as Mary had got past him. Now he had to get past her again... K' accelerated and knew he was faster then she was but she wouldn't fall for the same trick twice, he figured he would bide his time and pounce at the last moment but still keep her under pressure. Through the second last corner K' began to get closer to Mary, a left hand corner would lead them to the finish line and that's when he would attack.
Mary took a good line into the final corner and K' began to gain speed, he moved outside as if to pass her, Mary moved over to block him, the finish line was in sight, but then K' moved to the other side and got along side and Mary couldn't block him again, it was really close as K' got much closer to her and then both crossed the line with Mature waving the chequered flag... and both stopped a bit after the finish line. But who had won?
Chizuru crossed the line in a secure third place and Ryo managed to defend his position from Terry who had passed Kyo as he wasn't so fortunate on the barrels.
"Who won?" Mary asked K' after everybody crossed the line
"They are looked at it now... I think" K' replied without looking at Mary
Then the results were on the screen... Mary had beaten K' by 3 hundredth's of a second. The people watching were cheering loudly and clapping.
"Way to go Mary!" Mai shouted as she, Angel and King ran down from the stands to congratulate her and Chizuru.
"Aw... you did your best K', it's not your fault Yamazaki dropped barrels onto the track...otherwise you would have won" Kula said
"That was him? I'll kill him!" K' ran after a crazed laughing Yamazaki.
"Wait, we've got to be given the medals..." Kula called out for him
Mary, K' (after Kula and Maxima finally convinced him to stop giving chase) and Chizuru were all awarded medals by Vice. Gold of course for Mary, Silver for K' and bronze for Chizuru. But Vice had another medal... as she handed a piece of aluminium foil to Ryo for placing fourth. Then Vice had a wooden spoon and handed it to Billy from coming last.
"I can see you making a nice collection of those" Terry laughed
Billy only growled in reply
The next event would be 100 metres hurdles.
"For this event you will be put into heats, the top 4 of each race make the final" Heidern said "Oh and slowest time is awarded a wonderful wooden spoon" Heidern addedThe teams worked out strategy over who their members would be.
The first heat consisted of Robert, Jhun, Mai, Kula, Clark, Joe, Athena and Yamazaki. They all lined up along side.
Yashiro got ready with the starters pistol.
"Ready?" Yashiro raised the pistol
Bang! The pistol went off and everybody was racing. Everybody had a decent start and up came the first hurdle, Athena smiled and teleported through the first hurdle while Yamazaki tried to knock the hurdles out of the way while everybody else was jumping over them. Athena was very quick though despite not being too fast as she teleported as opposed to jumping which saved her a bunch of time, however Yamazaki quickly realised that he was indeed slower because jumping them was faster so soon tried to catch up. The races didn't last long as Athena had teleported past the final hurdle with Jhun in second with the rest of the field close behind. Jhun raced as fast as he could as they both got to the finish line and Jhun finished slightly ahead of Athena due to her losing speed.
"Ahhh! Athena... umm..." Jhun tried to think of something to say
"Yes?" Athena replied
"Good race..." Jhun said
"Yes... good race..." Athena replied as Robert finished in third, Joe in fourth.
"Jhun get away from her... she's mine and you know it" A voice called out
Jhun turned around and saw Kensou...
"No, I'm a bigger Athena fan... so she's mine" Jhun replied
"She's on MY team" Kensou argued "and I'm a bigger fan" Kensou continued
The two kept arguing while Athena shook her head and sighed and walked away...
"Hey where are you going!" Jhun called out after her and started running but was tripped by Kensou
"You stay away from her" Kensou said
"Never, besides I can run faster then you can" Jhun got up and tried to chase after Athena
"You can't! I'm better then you at almost everything... no wonder Athena likes me more" Kensou said
"Prove it!" Jhun stopped running and faced Kensou
"What?" Kensou replied
"Prove you are better than me... we will compete for Athena, whoever gets the best individual result between the two of us, gets to be Athena's biggest fan," Jhun said
"Fine! I'll beat you and break your nose doing it! And since you are going to lose, the winner also gets a date with Athena" Kensou shouted
"Shall we shake on it?" Jhun asked extended his hand
"Okay..." Kensou shook Jhun's hand and it was a deal. Both walked away smiling, confident that they would win.
Athena had watched the entire thing from a distance.
"Men, winner gets a date with me? They could have asked me first" Athena sighed again
"Who do you want to win?" Mai asked
"Kensou, but only..." Athena started but Mai interrupted her
"Ooo... so you do have a crush on Kensou" Mai giggled
"No! Only because he's on my team and I want my team to do as well as possible" Athena said firmly
Heat 2 was about to start. This time featuring Shen Woo, Andy, Kim, Angel, Leona, Kensou, Iori and Gato.
"Ready?" Yashiro again with the starters pistol
Bang! Everybody was off again and Andy had got a fantastic start with Kim not far behind as they jumped over the first amount of hurdles however Kensou was slowly falling behind but he wouldn't allow Jhun to win in the final as he tried to push a little more. However it didn't end up doing much as he tripped on the last hurdle, the others were just too quick leaving him last... Andy had won, with Leona in second, Kim in third and Gato in fourth.
"Better luck next time" Jhun was smiling as Kensou panted hard as he crossed the finish line.
"I'll... get... you..." Kensou breathed in and out
"Ah... I think Mature has something for you..." Jhun was still smiling his head off.
Mature handed Kensou the wooden spoon.
"Not... the... wooden... spoon..." Kensou was still breathing hard
"See you, I've got a final to win" Jhun headed back to the start line with Athena which angered Kensou even more
The final was therefore... Andy, Jhun, Leona, Athena, Robert, Kim, Gato and Joe. They took their positions on the starting line. Yashiro again with the starting pistol.
"Ready?" Yashiro asked for the third time
And the pistol went off again. Leona had taken an early lead with Andy not far behind, Athena was still teleporting but this time her competition was faster with everybody neck to neck, nobody was being left behind this time as Leona had begun to slow slightly and now Athena had taken the lead as she teleported through another hurdle, Kim was now in second and Leona in third. It was far too close to say who would win, it would be all decided after the last hurdle, as Athena cleared it first but Andy was fast catching her and Athena simply couldn't run as fast as she lost the lead to Andy and then Gato had passed her as well as Andy crossed the line in first, Gato who came out of nowhere in second and Athena came home in third, with Leona in fourth and everybody was within 1 second of Andy. Vice awarded the gold to Andy, silver to Gato, bronze to Athena and the aluminium foil to Leona.
The 100 meters Limbo was next and the hurdles had been lowered to make it harder to go underneath.
"Well done, to everybody who has a medal today... our last event is the 100 metres Limbo... each team may only have 1 participant so no heats this time" Heidern announced
The teams talked about who they would enter... about 5 minutes later they had lined up. It was Geese, Choi, Mai, Whip, Chin, Rock, Shingo and Yuri on the start line. This time Shermie had the starters gun.
"Ready?" Shermie said raising the pistol
The pistol went off again as everybody came to the first limbo, but of course for Choi he only had to duck his head a little and go underneath, while everybody else had to take their time and clear the hurdle, there was no doubt that Choi was going to win as he barely had to duck underneath to clear each limbo.
"Hehe... this will stop that shortened psycho" Billy pressed a button and suddenly Choi was stuck to one of the hurdles by his claws.
"What's this!?" Choi shouted "its like a magnet!" Choi was pulling harder and harder but he couldn't get anywhere.
"INJUSTICE! Somebody's tampered with those!" Kim shouted out
Meanwhile Geese was seemingly clearing the limbos easily as he tripped up Chin along side him. Rock was in third behind Geese as the cleared the half way distance.
"How's he doing it so easily!?" Terry asked
"Hey look the hurdles are rising as Geese comes to them" Andy said
"Looks like somebody's screwed around with Choi too..." Kim pointed onto the track... "Something strange is going on"
"Hey, Billy has got a remote of some kind there" Jae Hoon said
Suddenly Billy who was sitting quietly in a corner of the grandstand had 4 fighters around him."What ya got there?" Terry asked
"Nothing, piss off" Billy replied
"Can I have a look" Dong Hwan asked
"No! It's mine!" Billy moved the remote away defensively but Jae Hoon was on the other side and ready to snatch it from him.
Back to the race Choi was still struggling... Geese was coming next to him.
"Too bad for you... looks like a win for me" Geese laughed as he was going past Choi but then the hurdle suddenly lowered just as Geese was going underneath it hitting him on the nose.
"OWWW! What on Earth are you doing Billy!?" Geese shouted out then looked into the crowd to where Billy was supposed to be and saw Kim, Jae Hoon, Dong Hwan, Terry and Andy. Then Choi was finally released and continued to race, Geese tried to get up but each time he did the hurdle came down and hit him on the head again.
"This is fun, beating the stuffing out of injustice with their own weapons" Jae Hoon said
"That'll teach them not to cheat again" Kim watched on as Geese finally rolled away from the hurdle.
The race continued and Choi crossed in first place after finally getting off the hurdle however because of the delay the others weren't far behind with Shingo in second, Yuri in third and Rock in fourth place. Vice awarded the 4 medals.
Geese meanwhile still hadn't finished as the last hurdle was continually moving up and down making it impossible for him to time when to go underneath it without getting hit, eventually he tried to roll underneath but then got hit anyway. Vice walked up to him and threw the wooden spoon over to him.
"NOOOOOO!" Geese cried out before getting hit again.
"Hey girls... guess what?" Mary called out
"What?" Mai replied
"We are leading the competition!" Mary shouted
"Yah!" Angel cheered and the woman's team enjoyed their rare moment in the spotlight.
And this brings us to the end of day 1 (finally).
The medal tally
1. Woman's team: 1 gold, 1 bronze
2. Fatal fury team: 1 gold, 1 aluminium
3. Korea team: 1 gold
4. K' team: 1 silver
5. Japan team: 1 silver
6. Outlaw team: 1 silver, 2 wooden spoons
7. Art of fighting team: 1 bronze, 1 aluminium
8. Psycho soldiers team: 1 bronze, 1 wooden spoon
9. Ikari warriors team: 1 aluminium
10. Ash team: Nothing
The woman's team is leading the competition but for how long will it last. How many wooden spoons will the outlaw team collect? Ash's team is yet to score, but maybe they'll have better luck in the events on the next day which include 800 metres hand grenade relay, pool, darts, 10 meter platform diving and 10 meter bombing. On day 3 it will be an actual Olympic sport day including 100 metres freestyle, shooting, weight lifting and the first round of the mixed doubles Tennis.
