Namaskar, everyone, hope we're all doing great with ourselves. And as once again, a very special day approaches tomorrow, which will mark now half a decade of five years friendship between me and one certain extremely talented and amazing in both brain and story creativity mind young Indian, who is also the King of us all on here because of both fields and much much more, once more it's time for us to celebrate said occasion, and this time, considering that it's been two years since I did a proper one-shot for it all, it'll be exactly that, and will be a second irresistible sequel to my friendshipversary celebration one-shot piece from four years ago now 'Dance and Die', so joining the one from two years ago 'Wick vs the Bat'.
And as, going on since October 2022, I've at long last, for the first time in my dratted life, haha, been doing the oh so famous US TV show franchise of the Buffyverse, I've now currently begun doing BTVS season 5 this week, and last year I FINALLY saw and immensely enjoyed and loved, again for the first damn fucking time ever, films 1-4 and 6 of old acting legend Sly Stallone's incredible and iconic Rocky franchise and his famous character the Philadelphia boxer champion Rocky Balboa, THAT is what I'll be using for here. The helping starting point will be a VERY certain episode of Buffy season 5, being the one in which our much loved witch gal Tara Maclay's bastard fucker blood kin dare to step foot in Sunnydale and try to convince her to leave with them, all of which I was certainly absolutely DISGUSTED by myself now that I've seen THAT at last.
Plus, there's additional cause for celebration regarding this year's expectant big Christmas release of 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3', in that old comedic acting legend Jim Carrey IS officially confirmed to be returning for it as Dr Robotnik, which is THE thing I've been absolutely hoping and praying to be announced as happening indeed. So together with that enemy hedgehog figure from the games Shadow will be the other big foe expected for this, the third film, NOW we can well and truly look forward to THIS 2024 movie for sure, Shadow AND the Eggman aka Dr Robotnik as the potential duo our heroes of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, together with their human family, will be facing... I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT, people, without Dr Robotnik there would be NO Sonic movie worth watching, but now, THANK GOD and BLESS YOU, Jim Carrey, YAHEY
Plus, in relation to that, the official trailer for the Knuckles TV show has been dropped this week, and BOY OH BOY, I'm SO ABSOLUTELY FUCKING EXCITED for it myself, JUST what we could need before 'Sonic 3' is with us at Christmas. Knuckles was absolutely one of the best things that coulda happened to 'Sonic 2', and now that he's getting his own show to shine in before Shadow Hedgehog AND Dr Robotnik return to menace once again in 'Sonic 3'... BOY OH BOY, have we now well and got something to look forward this year in terms of a new and short but absolutely FANTASTIC looking TV show indeed, YES, boy, how can we not just LOVE what's been done since 2020 to bring the Sonic games to life in proper movie form, huh, this new show with Knuckles taking the lead as "a fish out of water" after his moving to Earth at the end of 'Sonic 2' looks to be SO fecking great.
So, allow me to present you all with said present special for the fifth year running, and I hope it suits absolutely every one of your standards in what it means to be totally worth the enjoyment. And of course, a very very happy friendship anniversary to us both, brother from the Indian homeland, I hope today's end results has made this absolutely worth the very enjoyable effort from me.
And as I will be using the famous Rocky Balboa and his movie series in this, I will be releasing this also as a tribute in remembrance of two of its great figure faces who have very sadly left us within the last few months, them being Burt Young aka Paulie Pennino who sadly departed for boxing heaven last October, and just last week it was the great Carl Weathers aka Apollo Creed who joined him there- two wonderful men who were just as much a big part of the 'Rocky' world as much as old Sly Stallone himself, and Talia Shire aka Rocky's always faithful in dedication to her love and support of him over films 1-4 wife Adrian. RIP to you, Paulie and Apollo/Burt and Carl, this new piece from me is for you both. And as for where this'll stand with the films, it'll be after Rocky's massive hard won victory over Soviet boxer monster Ivan Drago in no.4, and before no.6's plot amazingness as the franchise's MUCH more well earned and better conclusion, cos as far as I'm concerned the bullshitness of film 5 NEVER exists to me, so Adrian Balboa herself will still be alive and in good health for this.
I do not own the Buffyverse, the 'Rocky' films, or any of the other film and TV characters who appear in this, the only characters I own are OCs
"The girl belongs with her family," Mr. Maclay snapped insistently, "I hope that's clear to the rest of you."
"It is," Buffy agreed, but with absolutely no true agreement whatsoever in the way she said it, every ounce of defiance and loyalty to her friend and fellow gang member evident to be heard, "You want her, Mr Maclay? You can go ahead and take her." She paused, and then announced, turning to him, "You just gotta go through me."
"What?" the man exclaimed.
"You heard me," Buffy went on, hands on hips, repeating similarly what she had just said, "You wanna take Tara out of here against her will, you gotta come through me."
"And me!" Dawn spoke up in agreement, Tara beginning to smile in relief as Dawn moved to her sister's side, arms folded across her chest.
"Is this a joke?" the old man demanded, like the arsehole he was nothing but, stepping forward, "I'm not gonna be threatened by two little girls."
"You don't wanna mess with us," Dawn put in.
"She's a hair puller," Buffy agreed.
"And, you're not just dealing with two little girls," Giles now spoke up, moving to stand behind the sisters as he put his glasses back on.
"You're dealing with all of us," Xander agreed himself.
"Except me," Spike said casually.
"Except Spike," came the response from Xander.
"I don't care what happens," Spike agreed matter of factly.
"This is insane," Mr Maclay said, outraged at what everyone was saying, "You people have no right to interfere with Tara's affairs. WE... are her blood kin. Who the hell are you?"
Everyone, apart from Spike who remained where he was in the background, remained stood firmly where they were, backing their dear friend and group member. "We're family," Buffy said, as Tara smiled through tears. She glanced at Willow, who smiled back.
"Dad?" Donny now said at last, in just as much disbelief at what was happening as his father, "You... you gonna let 'em just...?" He stomped forward, the anger now coming onto his own face, pointing to Tara. "Tara, if you don't get in that car, I swear by God I will beat you down."
"And I swear by your full and manly beard, you're gonna break something trying," Xander said in response.
"Ooooooohhh, now now now, young Xander, why don't you leave that to the experts, eh?" It was a new voice that had just spoken, coming from behind the Maclays, and as everyone looked, or turned round in some cases, to where it had come from, they saw to their great surprise a new arrival, a man with a bald head and large stuck-out moustache, wearing a red and black trenchcoat and black trousers, gloves and leather shoes, standing in the doorway of the magic shop, a big comedian's grin on his face.
"And who the hell are you?" Mr Maclay demanded to the new arrival.
The man gasped, giving an expression of mock open mouthed surprise, then he cackled out loud. "I do beg you pardon, Daddy Maclay," he responded as if remembering he hadn't introduced himself, his beaming smile returning, "Where are my manners?" He walked forwards into the shop. "I...am...Dr ROBOTNIK!" he announced, spacing out the 'I' and 'am' and then spreading his arms out wide like a circus ringmaster as he announced his name, his smile not faltering.
"Robotnik. As in the Eggman Robotnik, from the Sonic games?!" a now wide eyed Dawn asked, recognition coming upon others of the Scooby gang at hearing the name.
"The very very same, young Dawny," Robotnik confirmed, as proud as ever. Then he glanced over to Beth Maclay. "You can drop the act now, Raven," he told her.
Beth nodded and folded her arms, and then, to everyone's great shock, starting from her feet and going upwards, Beth's entire form, skin, clothes and hair, all transformed in seconds to that of a blue skinned red haired yellow eyed woman, her skin also sporting scales.
"What...?" an utterly horrified Mr Maclay gasped.
"I'm afraid poor young Beth has been outta the equation for some time, Papa Maclay," the Rebecca Romijn played version of Mystique, also known as Raven Darkhölme, from the main trilogy of the X-Men movies said with a sly grin of her own. She then turned to Tara, "It was me who visited you earlier, young Tara, in the guise you just saw me as. I'm sorry about what I said, it was only an act, part of our plan..." she gestured briefly at Robotnik with a head movement, "...to bring us all here."
"What plan?" Donny demanded, and began stomping towards Mystique, "And dare you dare to impersonate my-" But he never got any further, as Mystique kicked out with her right leg, foot landing perfectly in the in-between space of Donny's legs and square into the family jewels, a great gasp escaping Donny's mouth as he bent double, clutching his you know whatsit in both hands. Mystique then pivotted neatly round on her left foot and followed it on with a spinning back kick, again from her right leg, foot slamming hard into Donny's chest with the force of it sending him flying back, the Scooby gang stepping to both sides out the way as the Maclay man crashed down hard on the floor and lay still, unconscious.
A once more big grinning Robotnik now came forward, approaching Mr Maclay. As soon as he came up to the other man, he raised his right hand, the glove which encased it actually being one of his Robotnik Control Gloves, pointing and aiming his index finger straight at Mr Maclay's chest. "This plan, I believe, Papa," Robotnik said, and with that he stabbed forwards with his hand, the silver tipped point of his gloved finger landing right where Maclay's heart would be, the other man screaming out loud as powerful electricity surged through him, the source of it coming from Robotnik's glove. Robotnik kept his finger there for a number of seconds before finally withdrawing it, Mr Maclay slumping down to the ground, out cold, on his back.
The Scoobies, and even Spike couldn't help himself reacting the same way, gaped open mouthed at all they had just witnessed, before finally one of them, being Dawn, broke the silence. "How did you do all that?" she asked.
"The show's about to begin," Robotnik said, addressing them all, not exactly giving a direct answer to Dawn's question, "Let's goooooooooo."
Mr Maclay felt himself slowly come round, his ears picking up a noise which soon began to become clear as the sound of people jabbering and talking. Then, as his blurry vision slowly became clear again and he looked down at himself, still lying on his back as he was, he saw to his once more great shock that he had been stripped of his normal clothes and now wore only black boxing shorts, his hands encased in red boxing gloves. And then, as he scrambled back up onto his feet, he saw he was no longer in the Sunnydale magic shop, but in what appeared to be a boxing ring in an indoor stadium.
And all around the vast exterior of the outside surrounding the ring were the sources of the talking: hundreds of young men and women, the majority Western and Asian, black faces included, and some also wore Middle Eastern wear, who all erupted in a roucos of boos and various jeers of whatever as Mr Maclay stood up and looked around, now seeing, sitting at the front of the crowd on one side of the ring, Buffy and her group, a smug faced Spike and Joyce Summers there too, Tara and Willow looking the most comfortable and happiest of all, Tara sat in Willow's lap, arms around her beloved's neck.
Next to them was a young man with long dark shoulder length curly hair, wearing a black leather jacket with a police badge clipped to it, plain red t-shirt, blue jeans and red and white converse with white laces, dark sunglasses raised so that they rested on his forehead, and a strip of red cloth tied round his head- this was Fanfiction author Flashraven aka Max as that was his real name. Next to him sat his beloved Tatsu Yamashiro, dressed in a beautiful white sleeveless wedding dress, both hands supporting a very excited looking toddler boy of three years old, with long shoulder length blonde wavey hair, wearing only a yellow Bruce Lee tshirt and a nappy, on her own lap, her and Max's adopted son Joshua, both giving him massive smiles.
With them were Max's best friend on Fanfiction from India Aragorn II Elessar, once more sporting his t-shirt displaying "Anyone who don't love or even know the world of Lord of the Rings and Tolkien don't know just what they're missin'" on the front; their co-joined best friend and story planning and creating co-operator from the land of Ireland Brainstorm Sorcerer; and their three other big best author friends Bl4ckHunter, Stand with Ward and Queen and OmniIBIBUltraInstinctGodzilla, the five each with a hot young woman on either side of them, the girls sporting big smiles as they fussed over the author boys, hands and lips and all.
On the other side where the Sunnydale group sat were the main Big Four from the TV show 'Merlin': Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby and Katie McGrath, Colin and Bradly in their usual 'Merlin' outfits, Angel and Katie both in the same beautiful sleeveless white wedding dress as Tatsu, the girls sitting in Bradley and Colin's laps, arms around their lovers' necks and hands playfully stroking their hair while the boys had their own arms around the women's waists, all four enjoying one another's fuss. With them also were fellow 'Merlin' actor Richard Wilson, he in normal civilian attire, and the five Knights of the Round Table Sir Leon, Gwaine, Elyan, Lancelot and Percival, all dressed identically in dark trousers and boots and chain mail suits, long red tunics with the image of a golden spread winged dragon displayed on the left hand side breast pocket belted in place over the suits, their faces lit up with great expectation and excitement.
And next to this group, they too all bouncing and buzzing with immense excitement, the expressions on their faces adding to it, were the three main girl hotties from the two 'Charlie's Angels' films of 2000 and 2003 Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders and Alex Munday, who, along with the 'Merlin' individuals once again, having been invited to see and enjoy what was to come.
"Ah, I see today's entertainment performance figure is awake," Dr Robotnik's voice sounded out throughout the room, and as the huge crowd turned in his direction, those who were sat down standing up to do so, this time raucous cheers and applause now erupted from everyone all around as, with Robotnik in the lead and Mystique next to him, the Italian Stallion figure of the famous Philadelphia boxing champion Rocky Balboa, in the company of wife Adrian and their son Robert Balboa Jr., came into view and made his way through the excitement emitting crowd towards the ring, the cheers and standing ovation not letting up for a second as Rocky climbed through the ropes and into the ring, Dr Robotnik following after him, Mystique staying by the ropes, while Adrian and Robert took their places between the Scoobie gang and Max and Tatsu.
Once the noise had finally died down, Robotnik addressed the crowd, once more spreading his arms out like a circus ringmaster as he did so, huge grin on his face. "Hello, boys and girls, did you miss me?" At once, massive echoes of "Yeeeeeessssss" sounded out, arms being raised in the air above heads, as the crowd roared their agreement delight, increasing still further when Robotnik added, "Bet you can't wait to see me back as the hedgehog's big bad in movie number 3, can't ya?".
At last, as everyone calmed down again, Mr Maclay himself spoke up. "Oi, you, Moustache Man," he shouted, everyone now looking to him, "What the hell have you done to me?"
Robotnik sneered out loud as he stepped forward. "The mistake, Daddy Maclay, was thinking you'd won," he said, now making some gestures with his hands as he spoke the next words, "But that was just a prelude, an hors d'oeuvre, an aperitif, an amuse-bouche."
"I get it," Mr Maclay spat.
Again, Robotnik sneered, "I don't think you do." And a moment later came the thunderous reply of "NO!" from the entire ringside audience, followed by loud boos all around. "But you're about to," Robotnik went on once the raucous had once more died down, gesturing with both arms to Rocky, "Thanks to THIS guy, the famous Italian Stallion, the champo ultimate from Philly, the one, the only, the one in a thousand million billion via X squared times the hypotenuse of Y squared tripled, divided by the absolute value of fame, equals... ROCKY BALBOA!" As Robotnik loudly hollered out the boxer's name, yet again the vast crowd all around erupted in cheers and standing ovation, an equally as mega happy little Joshua, still sat on Tatsu's lap, joining in himself with some applause.
"Thank you, thank you," Rocky at last spoke himself, addressing the audience and soaking up what they were giving him, "It's great to see so many of you tonight, to witness what the good old doctor here..." he nodded to Robotnik, "...and our five young friends from online..." he now gestured to Max and his four buddies from Fanfiction, "...one of whom I can't believe only finally saw the amazingness of my movies for himself last year..." laughter, including from Rocky, followed at that, "...have arranged for this year's double celebratory occasions."
"Them being the now half a decade of five years' buddyship celebration our young Brit and Indian boy chappies of Maximus and Aragorn have between 'em..." Robotnik took over, the two concerned smiling, "...and the co-joined honeymoons between Maxy and Tatsu..." Robotnik turned to the 'Merlin' cast, "...and our Prince Arthur and magic man Merlin laddies Colin and Braddus with the oh so lovely Angel and Katie." Applause came again as the six individuals who had been singled out smiled or chuckled.
"And YOU, Maclay Papa..." Robotnik turned back to Mr Maclay, pointing straight at him with his right index finger, "...are the one who's gonna be this year's main entertainment."
"Hmmph," Mr Maclay huffed, and looked to Rocky. "I'll beat you no problem, Balboa," he said in a very arrogant manner, "You should've never come back into the ring. And when I'm done with you, I'll take Tara back to where she rightfully belongs, with her kin, away from where she can't do no harm to anyone."
At that, Gwaine immediately rose to his feet. "Nobility is defined by what you do, not by who you are," he put in very indignantly indeed.
"I'm inclined to agree with our Knight of Camelot friend there indeed," Spike agreed, also standing up, "The only way you're gonna get to the young witch here..." he glanced briefly at Tara and Willow before turning back to Mr Maclay, "...is to go through us all. And I'd say it's a pretty big crowd against the likes of just the one of you." Laughter and loud murmers of agreement followed at that.
"Couldn't agree with ya anymore with that, Spike," Captain Jack Harkness's voice suddenly sounded out, and with a flash of blue light the man himself, dressed in his traditional Doctor Who outfit, materialized into the boxing ring next to Rocky. This time though, he had brought someone else with him too, Eliot Spencer from 'Leverage', the second man holding a long black guitar case and wearing a brown broad brimmed hat atop his head and long hair.
"Ha ha. Pleased to see me for the third time running, are we, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen?" he asked in great delight, arms spread out wide as yet again great cheers of joy and greeting erupted from the whole audience.
As Jack now exited the ring and went to stand with Mystique, Eliot himself now looked to Mr Maclay. "I'll happily beat and destroy your sorry butt myself before I let you take Tara away from her true family and home, Maclay," he said defiantly, "But I'll allow Rocky that pleasure in doing so."
"Hear, hear, Eliot," Rocky agreed, glowering at Mr Maclay himself.
"Well after I crucify Balboa, you're next, boy," Mr Maclay answered back as typical the selfish arrogant self-caring little prick he truly was nothing but, addressing Eliot, "I'll gladly take you on and throw your sorry tough butt outta this ring, then I'll escort Tara outta this place and take her as far from here as if possible to be, then lock her up and banish her evil demon's soul to the darkest deepest place as is possible to imagine so that she can well and truly do no harm whatsoever afterwards."
"Over our dead bodies you'll do so!" Max roared as he leapt to his feet, everyone following him in doing so, Tatsu carefully supporting Joshua who wrapped his little arms around her neck. Spike took on vamp form, and Gwaine, Sir Leon, Lancelot, Elyan and Percival all drew their swords, they and the entire audience erupting with fresh outrage at what they had just heard, all of them putting their entire support behind Tara, who took all this in with tears in her eyes, Willow smiling at her proudly.
"I'm gonna get you, Balboa," Mr Maclay challenged Rocky as he danced around, waving his boxing gloved hands in the air as Eliot himself, still holding his guitar case, made his way out of the ring and joined the Scoobie gang, "Come on, come and get me. I'm the champ, and I'll beat ya. I'm gonna bust you up. Then I'll take Tara back to where she belongs, you'll see."
"You won't have to look to find me, asshole, I'm here," Rocky gave back, "I'm ready for ya. Bring it on."
"Language, Rocky boy, we do have ladies and a tot in the crowd, ya know," Robotnik laughed, reminding Rocky of the true facts, glancing briefly to little Joshua sat on Tatsu's lap.
"It's time to fight," Robotnik rang out, "Mystro, please." And with that, the ringing of a bell sounded out loudly.
And, first load of fun, and as Robotnik would totally put it, a prelude, an hors d'oeuvre, an aperitif, an amuse-bouche, basically a taster, cos I'll have to do two chapters this time, haha, delivered to ya'll. TBC in next chapter, fasten ya seatbelts, everybody, cos next we well and truly get into the action and fun big time, yeehah