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--ClashDome Basement--

	"Well, here we are," Cody said as he led Guy, Akira Yuki, and
Haohmaru into the room he'd picked as a hideaway the second he'd gotten a
look at the floor plans in the ClashDome Hotel Brochure. "Secondary boiler
room. Enough noise between us and the upper floors that we'll have to make
an unngodly racket to let anyone know we're here, and there's two doors so
if tall, red and 'Unstoppable' follows us here somehow, we can bolt and
leave him behind while he squeezes through the doors."

	"It seems adequate," Akira said, keeping one hand over Haohmaru's
mouth to remind the samurai not to speak. It might take a great deal of
noise to alert others to their location here, but a great deal of noise was
made whenever the samurai spoke.

	"...." Guy declined to reply in words, instead surveying the
environment as any Bushin would. A large boiler and heater mechanism,
currently switched off as it was the backup, some pipes and pumps, the
normal construction and repair supplies normally stored in places like
this...

	...and a small, sparkling bat winging its way out the door they'd
entered through? "Cody," Guy said, the sound of his voice startling the
other fighters after his long silence. "We have to go. Now."

	Akira and Haohmaru seemed ready to take Guy at his word, but Cody
hesitated, not sensing danger or the mystical as readily as the other
three. "Guy? Come on, we lost Jug-boy ages ago, and nobody else was coming
after us yet-"

	"*Now,*" Guy declared, and headed for the door they had not entered
through...

	...only to recoil as a bat-winged female silhouette appeared in the
doorway. "Ah ah ah..." Morrigan chided. "We happen to need Guy, so I'm
afraid he'll have to come with me." The sparkling bat Guy had seen - one of
Morrigan's Soul Bats - hovered briefly by her shoulder before merging with
her costume.

	"NOT gonna happen," Cody growled, stepping between Morrigan and
Guy. "In case you ain't noticed, there's another way outta here, lady.
Nothin' stopping me from pelting you with anything I can throw while my
buddy hotfoots it out of here, so why don't you just run off and get
Demitri to do his own gutter jobs?"

	"'Cause I've got a job t'do, shrimp, and I'M UNSTOPPABLE!" boomed
another, far too familiar, voice from the door the quartet had entered
through. They whirled, and sure enough, there was the Juggernaut.

	"All right, fighting time!!" Cody yelled. "One way or the other,
we've gotta get through one of 'em and get outta here!!"

	And the melee began.


                 -------------------------------------------
                   The Greatest Fighters In The Multiverse
                              Take On The Ones
                          Who Never Got The Chance.

                        Racewing Productions Presents:
                 Fiction Fighters' Clash--The Ultimate Remix
                                 Section 10
                 -------------------------------------------


--The Ring--

"TAILS!" (StH)

	Miles Prower wanted the Tornado right now.

	He REALLY wished he had the Tornado right now.  Robotnik had had
his Egg hovercraft, why couldn't he have the Tornado, huh? It wasn't fair.

	But alas, it wasn't meant to be.

	"Sorry, buddy," one of the main organizers had said--that
"Racewing" guy, if he remembered correctly.  "We've taken a survey.  Fans
*hate* the mech. Can't stand the thing.  They want to see you go out there
and win using your own two tails."

	And without any other words, the Tornado had been placed into
storage until he was out of the match.

	Miles sighed.  Well, if he was going to avenge Sonic--again--this
time, he'd have to do it on his own merits.  He just wasn't sure if he
could.

	Fifteen seconds later, after kamikaze-divebombing Shadow out of
Roll's path, he felt *slightly* better about his chances.  When the black
hedgehog picked himself up off of the floor, he wasn't happy at all.

	"Okay, Shadow," the orange fox said, taking a defensive stance.
"It's you and me now.  Remember, if you mess with one Freedom Fighter, you
mess with-"

	"-the *sidekicks* as well?" Shadow finished with a sneer.  "You're
out of yor league, fuzzball. I'll take care of you *real* quick."

	"Yeah? Just try it!"


"CINDER!" (KI)

	The man made of flame and embers strode towards the ring. After
repeated attempts, the Cheese Legion had gotten him to understand a few
simple ideas. (By beating them into his head mostly.)

	First, the hedgehog in the ring and the big scary armored guy were
allies. Second, that all others *currently* in the ring were enemies and to
be eliminated, preferably with injuries. Third, that the flying fox-thing
who had entered just ahead of him was a friend of the hedgehog (the one
that was *not* the ally) they'd just arranged to capture with the help of
the big scary armoured guy and thus should be beaten on severely before
eliminating him so as to discourage him from searching for his friend.

	With that in mind, Cinder jumped into the ring, unleashed a
Flamethrower on the red robot, and was promptly frozen near-solid by a
backhand sweep of said robot's sword, currently in Ice mode, as Zero
decided he didn't want scorch marks on his armor.

	"That didn't take long," Racewing commented, chuckling.

	"You're surprised? He's a KI'er," Iczel replied.


"FULGORE!" (KI2)

	"And so is he..." Iczel went on. "We'll see if he does any better
though."

	The robot Fulgore, fortunately for the Cheese Legion, was very easy
to re-program, so they hadn't had to beat the three things into *his* head,
just type them.  He climbed into the ring and unnleashed a Plasma Claw at
Dan, who countered it with a Gadoken and rushed in, interrupting the
robot's attempted Monster Combo with a quick throw, dumping him into the
frozen Cinder, which both shattered the ice around him and knocked him
sprawling.

	"Doesn't look like it..." Racewing mused thoughtfully.


"SHADOW!" (MSF)

	The black hedgehog in the ring turned around toward the voice that
had spoken his name.

"...NO, NO, NOT YOU.  I MEANT SHADOW *CHARLIE*!" (MSF)

	"Oh.  Well, okay, then."

	As Shadow the Hedgehog went back to dodging Roll Buster shots and
swoops from Tails with the greatest of ease, Shadow the Cyborg started
Sonic Booming everything in sight.

	It is worth noting that Dan Hibiki, the only person in the ring
*not* gifted with either speed, flight, or a long-range projectile, was not
very happy at the moment...


"GOENITZ!" (KOF96)

	...and his mood wasn't about to change anytime soon.

	Using a Power Geyser to cover himself from Doom, Terry Bogard
stoped in his tracks.  "Hey!  Wait a minute!  Aren't you dead?" he asked
Goenitz with wide eyes.

	"About as dead as you are strong, little wolf," the Orochi general
replied with a sneer.  A giant column of air rushed up at Terry's feet,
which the Fatal Furite rolled away from with ony milliseconds to spare.
"Thank you so much for calling attention to yourself, by the way. Since I
already know how you fight, this will be all the easier."

	Terry gritted his teeth.  Doom behind him... Goenitz in front...
this was *not* going to be his night.


"GEN-AN SHIRANUI!" (SS4)

	"KEH KEH KEH KEH KEH! ROLLING BUZZSAW!"

	Terry's opinion of the night suddenly went up as Gen-An, seeing
Goenitz looking away from him as he arrived, tore into the Orochi warrior's
back with his claws spinning like crazy.

	"Whoa! And Goenitz learns the hard way that paying too much
attention to one guy hurts in a Rumble event!" Iczel cheered. "Gotta admire
Gen-An's guts, though, going for a boss first thing..."

	Goenitz snatched up Gen-An by his neck, shook him like a rag doll,
and slammed him down on his face before kicking him away.

	"Or maybe he didn't have a clue in heck who he was backstabbing?"
Racewing added snidely.

	"Don't rub it in..." Iczel groaned.


"JIN SAOTOME!" (MvC2)

	Jin was confident as he strode to the field of battle.  Extremely
confident.

	All right.  This was what was going to happen.

	Jin was going to go into the ring, and Jin was going to whoop some
ass.

	Jin was going to STAY in the ring and *win*, because no way was he
going back to the holding cell and that psychotic magical girl again.

	And while he was here, Jin was going to deal some major damage to
the idiots that were trying to stop Demitri's Plan To Give Him A Break.
(What'd Demitri ever do to *them*, anyway?)

	These things would all come to pass.  Because Jin had the power.
And he had the skill.  And he had--

	"What are you waiting for!  TAKE IT OFF!" a female voice shouted
from the stands.

	Jin finally entered the ring by falling over into it.


"WOLF HAWKFIELD!" (VF4)

	Wolf got about halfway down the aisle to the ring before a pair of
shouts got his attention.

	"Yeah! NUM-BAH ONE!"

	"You show 'em brother! Show 'em what us REAL fighters are about in
a wrasslin' ring!!"

	Muscle Power from the World Heroes node and Bass Armstrong from
Dead or Alive node were standing in ringside seats, yelling like morons.
Wolf's eyebrow twitched as he made his way over to the pair, who kept
cheering until the Canadian grappler was about a foot away from them. He
kept staring until they shut up, then turned towards the ring.

	Muscle Power then, naturally, got stupid. "Yeah! Go! REAL wrestlers
ru-!"

	He never got to finish the sentence, and when Bass tried to stop
the attack, he got drawn in too.

	Wolf ran over both of them like a steamroller.

	"*YOU* do not get to talk about REAL wrestling!" (CLOTHESLINE!)
"*I* have trained in shootfighting!" (DROPKICK!) "*I* have trained in the
Hart Dungeon!!" BODYSLAM! "*You* two-" (DOUBLE DDT!) "are *nothing*-" (SIDE
SPLASH!) "but a pair of-" (DOUBLE NOGGIN KNOCKER!) "LOUSY HULK HOGAN
BRAWLING *RIPOFFS!*" (GIANT SWING!)

	Muscle Power went flying all the way down the aisle to the stage
doors.

	(GIANT SWING!)

	As did Bass Armstrong.

	Wolf then stormed the ring, fuming, and shocked the whole damn
crowd by tearing into Goenitz like a wolverine and nearly taking the Orochi
general's arm out of its socket before the man could escape Wolf's armbar.

	"Holy crap, did they light a fire under *him,*" Iczel commented
once he got his jaw off the floor. "What d'you think they *said* to him??"

	Racewing shrugged. "Had to be *something* insulting to get a man
going that fast," he replied as he watched Wolf sidestep a column of wind
and trap Goenitz in a Suplex. "He's definitely acting like he has something
to prove now."


"ROUGE!" (SA2)

--Locker Rooms--

	"Knuckles!  Hey Knuckles!"  Mighty the Armadillo banged on a random
locker. "Come on man, this isn't funny.  You can't stay in there forever
just because of her!"

	"I can try!" came the muffled reply from inside the locker.


--The Ring--

	"Shadow, just what do you think you're doing?  Have you gone
compeltely crazy?  We're your *friends*, damn it!"  The bat girl ran over
to Tails, who was hovering above the ring.  "Are you all right?" she asked,
flying up to him.

	"For now," Tails replied.  "But we need a plan.  We definitely need
a plan..."

	"Friend or foe, it is irrelevant," Shadow called up.  "In the
matter of a night, you will all revere me just the same.  So stop
prolonging the inevitable, and come down and face me!"

	"Well, I'm open to suggestions," Rouge muttered.


"IBUKI!" (SF3:3S)

--Eliminated Seating--

	The second Makoto heard the name, she literally fell out of her
seat.  "Yaaaiiii!  They let *her* in too?  I don't believe it!"

	Sure enough, there was Makoto's ninja rival, wearing her trademark
cutoff ninja garb, and tossing kunai daggers all over the place--a good
tactical move, considering the situation she was in.

	"You're telling me.  Like any self-respecting ninja would wear an
outfit *that* raunchy," Mai commented idly with a scoff.

	Half the seating turned around to stare at her.  Silence followed
for a long while.

	"...shut *up*," Makoto finally said.


--The Ring--

"VEGA!" (CvS2)

	The masked Spaniard backflipped down the walkway into the ring, the
invincibility of the move allowing the various hurled drinks, garbage, and
debris to pass by without touching his "beautiful" body.

	Once in the ring, to everyone's surprise, he barrelled through the
assembled fighters to stop *right* in front of Doctor Doom. "My good
doctor," the assassin intoned through his mask, "Sonic has not appeared in
our designated recovery room, despite his fifteen minutes having expired.
As the cameras could not track him either, the natural suspicion is upon
you... so can you inform me of his whereabouts...?"

	Doom folded his arms. "Cease your meaningless threats, pseudo-
ninja. Sonic is currently within my chambers in the hotel, guarded by a
Doombot more than capable of targeting at superspeed. He is not a concern."
One armoured hand made a sweeping gesture at the 'heroic' fighters. "These,
however, are."

	"Next time, then," the Spanish aristocrat said to the Latverian
one, "you will remember to notify your allies of your plans so you do not
meet an unfortunate.. accident."


--Announcer's Booth--

	Iczel turned down the gain on the ring mikes and groaned, switching
his microphone off. "Well, now we know where Sonic went, Race.  And that
there's something big up.  Vega's only that brave when he's got major
backing..."


--The Ring--

	Roll gasped - her electronic ears had more than enough gain to pick
up Doom's comments even from the ringpost where she was standing. Reaching
back, she activated a control on her collar. "Sakura! Come in!!"


--ClashArena, Locker Room Hallway--

	"...and that's basically what Demitri's bunch - they call
themselves the Cheese Legion - are up to," Sakura finished, having related
to the present fighters all that she could remember of Demitri's plot.
"Anyone, please, if you'll help, we'll need-"

	"~*skzzt* -kura! Come in!~" fizzed a radio she'd been wearing since
accompanying Roll on her 'reporter' tour. Sighing, the fighting schoolgirl
looked plaintively at Chun Li, who stepped forward and took over the
speech. "Yeah, Roll? What is it? I'm just trying to rally some of the
locker room!"

	"~It's Doom! He's got Sonic in his room! You've gotta get him out
of there, and watch out, there's a Doombot and Light only knows what
else!~"

	Sakura stared at her radio in shock.


--The Ring--


	"And, the final fighter of this round..."


"MATRIX!" (TK)

	Matrix, feeling lucky that she'd entered last in the Section, ran
down to the ring, wondering if perhaps, just *perhaps,* she might break the
Killers' Rumble-type event jinx and actually get an elimination or two.
{Maybe I can...!} she thought.

	"Annnd here comes Matrix from Time Killers, folks," Iczel chimed in
on the mike, "maybe hoping she can get an elimination via backshot?"

	{Maybe not,} Matrix thought sourly, casting a nasty glance up at
the broadcast booth as every eye in the ring focused on her at least
briefly.


--Eliminated Seating--

	Finally. Stupid steps, she'd thought they'd never end... "Um...
hello?" Sakura asked as she approached the Eliminated Seating box.

	She was answered by the sight of Makoto and Mai engaged in a
staredown. "Hey! Guys!" Sakura said, a little louder this time.  That
seemed to get their attention, though the two continued to grumble for
another few seconds afterward.  "Hey, Kasugano!  What brings you here?
Feel like getting some popcorn for me?" Makoto asked with a grin.

	"No time for that.  We've got a major crisis on our hands."

	Mai laughed.  "Oh, I'm sure.  What happened?  Did Ryu get a
hangnail?"

	"No, not this ti--I mean, NO, a *real* crisis!" Sakura huffed.
"See, it's like this..."

	Amidst many eavesdropping ears, Sakura burted out the whole sordid
story.  The mention of Demitri alone got half of the seating to drop what
they were doing, and the mention of Doom worked on about another quarter of
it.

	And of course, mentioning *Sonic* netted another... one-thirtieth.
Namely, Bunnie and Amy Rose, both of whom were now making plans to bust
Sonic out of wherever he was themselves.

	"No, no, we can't go rushing in all crazy-like!  We have to be
organized!" Sakura told them frantically.  "And some of us have to protect
Guy, too. This will be dangerous, so I understand if you don't want to, but
who's willing to help?"

	There was a brief clamour from the various fighters present - many
had been at the second Ultimate Video Rumble, and had a substantial grudge
against Demitri from the events there, and others were of the heroic
stripe. Finally, Sakura put her foot down. "QUIET!!!"

	Silence fell.

	"Okay all of you, one at a TIME!" she yelled. "First thing we need
is a group of fighters to take Doom's suite and get Sonic out of there.
Who's fought Doom before?"

	"Y'all countin' that time in the ring?" Bunnie asked hopefully.

	"Sorry, Bunnie-san, but you didn't do so well," Sakura apologized.
"Anyone beaten him...?"

	"Over here, bub."

	Sakura let out an 'eep' as she spun around to find Wolverine,
Storm, and Psylocke of the X-Men behind her "Aaah! ...Logan-san, don't DO
that!" she yelled, exasperated, then took a deep breath. "You're right,
though. You and Psylocke can sneak through most things, and Storm has
enough power to fight through anything you can't handle. Okay, I guess
we'll-"

	"I'm coming too."

	"Huh?" Sakura turned around to see Amy Rose standing facing her,
looking uncommonly determined. "But Amy-chan-" the schoolgirl began to
protest.

	"No," Amy cut her off. "Sakura, I love Sonic...and if he's in
trouble, I want to help him out of it. I..." she paused. "I want to show
him that I'll do for him what he's done for me..."

	Sakura paused, then nodded. "All right. Wolverine, Psylocke, Storm,
and Amy are with me. The rest of you-"

	"The rest of you," Chun Li called out as she came up the stairs
behind Sakura, "can gather around. I'll need at least one other squad of
you to come with me, and the rest can secure the Eliminated seating and
make sure that any of the heroes leaving the ring find out about this
Cheese Legion. Sakura, get going," the Chinese Wushu fighter nodded.

	"All right. If you haven't heard from us in half an hour, call
Security and come up to find us," Sakura added, then took off at a fast jog
with her hero team behind her.

	It wasn't until they'd turned the corner that it occurred to Sakura
to wonder how *she'd* ended up in charge of all this...


--Penthouse, ClashDome Hotel--

	It was times like this when Sonic the Hedgehog wished that his
super-speed powers extended to recovering from unconsciousness.  But when
he finally gained a visual on the figure standing above him, he was
instantly awake.

	Doom.

	"You!  You're the guy that offed Bunnie!  You're going down,
*yesterday*!" Sonic instantly went into overdrive, darting and rolling
around the room, attempting to give Doom a good few buzzsaw whacks... but
for some reason, every time he got even a little bit of speed going, he'd
meet with blaster fire in front of his feet, forcing him to change
direction.  SWAT-Bots certainly weren't this good.  How was this metalface
doing this?

	"It would be in our best interests if you desisted," the green-
suited being said.  "There are matters more important right now than your
petty grudge, and I am not here to fight.  However, if you persist in this
manner, I will not hesitate to restrain you."

	Sonic darted back in front of Doom and came to a stop. "If you're
not here to fight, then what's going on?  And... weren't you in the ring
just a little while ago?  I doubt you would get eliminated that quick, what
with all those cheap laser cannons of yours...

	"You are corrcet.  I am a DoomBot, a robotic double of the entity
that you see in the ring.  You are a marked life form, hedgehog.  You have
knowledge that others want."

	"What knowledge?"

	"You are familiar with the 'Chaos Emeralds' of your world, yes?
They are here.  And they are in... opportunitstic hands.  If they learn to
use this power, a great many people who do not deserve it will have it, and
they will use that power to change the very fabric of reality as we know
it."

	"I don't get it.  What can *I* do?" Sonic asked. "I know I need to
get the Emeralds back, ASAP, but how?"

	"For now, nothing.  Even *you*, for all your powers and reputation,
cannot stand alone against this 'Cheese Legion', as they call themselves.
I and my creator, however, will do as much to aid you in foiling their
plans as we are able."

	"And why would you help?" Sonic asked suspiciously.

	The DoomBot 'hmph"ed.  "Let us simply say that Doom does not like
to *share* power."

	Sonic mulled over this for a few seconds.  "...makes sense, I
guess.  Fine, then.  Truce.  For now.  All right, I guess the first thing I
should do is--"

	That was about the time that Doom's door imploded, revealing two
schoolgirls and three X-Men, none looking too happy.

	And after putting two and two together, Sonic knew that unless he
did some fast-talking, this was going to get complicated *real* quick.


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Who will win?  Who will lose?  Will Amy Rose make any difference?  Will
Tails?  How empty will the ring be after this round?  How old are *any* of
the Third Strike characters?  Not to mention Fred!

You control the outcome of... um, most of these questions.  So, get voting,
and see what happens next time!

                                                    -Racewing & Iczel_prime


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Fiction Fighters' Clash Voteform

Section 11

Notes:

1) Lucca has 5 die votes for fatigue.  Zero and Terry have 2.  Roll, Dan,
Tron, Shadow (the Hedgehog), and Dr. Doom each have one.

2) Doctor Doom is a Really Big Guy.  So is Goenitz.  And your tourney
organizer is a complete and utter moron.  A whopping *fourteen* fighters
will be eliminated this round, all because I've always liked seeing what
the shiny red button does.  Please still only submit ten LIVE and DIE
votes.  We'll take care of the rest.

3) With the advent of Capcom vs. SNK 2, all applicable characters'
movelists are updated again.  Consider Capcom characters to be using C-
Groove, and SNK characters in N-Groove.  All Alpha 3 fighters are in A-Ism.

4) Shadow (the Hedgehog), Tails and Rouge have all of their Sonic Adventure
2 powerups and abilities.

5) 10 live votes, 10 die votes, and 1 winning team (or whatever) for each
Bonus Match. Voting's open until June 13, 2002.  Send all votes to
(gha...@panix.com).


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Fighters Currently in the Ring:

Roll (Marvel vs. Capcom 2)

Dan (Marvel vs. Capcom 2)

Tron Bonne (Marvel vs. Capcom 2)

Shadow (Sonic Adventure 2)

Zero (Mega Man X4)

Terry Bogard (Capcom vs. SNK 2)

Lucca (Chrono Trigger)

Doctor Doom (Marvel vs. Capcom 2)

Tails (Sonic Adventure 2)

Cinder (Killer Instinct)

Fulgore (Killer Instinct 2)

Shadow Charlie (Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter)

Goenitz (The King of Fighters '96)

Gen-An Shiranui (Samurai Shodown 4)

Jin Saotome (Marvel vs. Capcom2)

Wolf Hawkfield (Virtua Fighter 4)

Rouge (Sonic Adventure 2)

Ibuki (Street Fighter 3: Third Strike)

Vega (Capcom vs. SNK 2)

Matrix (Time Killers)



Bonus Match #1: Let Me Outta This Looney Bin!
Team 1:
Cody (SFA3), Guy (SFA3), Akira Yuki (VF4), Haohmaru (SS4)
vs.
Team 2 :
Morrigan (MvC2), Juggernaut (MvC2)


Bonus Match #2: Hold On, You Guys!
- Sonic's Mind and Mouth
vs.
- The Rescue Team's Impulsiveness
(Basically, cast your votes on whether you think Sonic will be able to stop
Sakura's Rescue Squad before they get into a brawl with the Doombot!
[laughs] Think fast, hedgehog!)


Happy Voting!