| GCB Fanfics: Vs. Mode |
Vs. Mode - Ryu vs. Duke"And we're back" Brock said. "Welcome back to Vs. Mode. We're back now that the Bahamut carcass is out of the ring" "Yep, and my inventions are always good with things. Unfortunately removing dead dragons is not one of them, so there were a few failures..." Lucca realized she was starting to drift away. "Um, anyway, after Knuckles' victory over Yuna in an exciting match, we're going to have another match between the Japanese martial artist we all know, Ryu, and the gunslinging, badmouthed shooter, Duke Nukem. What do you make of this match, Brock?" "Well, according to my little paper here, Ryu is seeded fifth and Duke Nukem is twelfth. And I've called most of them right already, except stupid Wario. By the way, did I mention that if I get more matches right than anyone else I win a prize?" "That's...interesting, Brock, but why not talk about the match?" "Oh, right, right" Brock chuckled a little. "Well, Ryu did take out CATS, who was annihilated far more easily by Cloud Strife this year. Even so, Ryu gave CATS a harsh whooping that left people thinking he wouldn't even return this year. He fell in the second round to Samus Aran. Duke Nukem had a similar pattern, when he shot down Iori Yagami, a talented master of fighting. After Iori loomed Alucard, who had no trouble cutting Duke Nukem down to size. While Samus did take out Sonic controversially, Alucard fell soon after, and so I am lead to believe Ryu has the advantage, doing a better job against a stronger opponent than Duke. But, you never know, because Duke has taken out Iori Yagami, a man who has defeated Ryu in several independent tournaments. But, comparing them to one another that is, I would say--" "All right already!" Lucca snatched Brock's microphone. "You heard it here, Brock thinks Ryu will win by comparison of about a thousand other people. Now let's get to the match. First we'll start with the underdog. He fights with guns, bomb and things. He has that haircut and the glasses. The guy with the catchy name, Duke Nukem!" Duke came out to a smattering of applause and cheering from people who tried to make deep-voiced grunts. "NUKEM DUKE!" A few people could be heard yelling. "And Duke...has no guns?" Asked Lucca suspiciously. It was true, Duke grinned at the crowd and stepped into the ring. He had no guns in his hands, or even on him. "Without guns, how can he stand up to Ryu?" Brock asked. "In hand-to-hand combat, Ryu is nearly unbeatable" "I don't know, Brock" Lucca replied. "I'd say he's screwed" Came a voice. The two turned around to see a guy in a vest with blonde hair and a red hat to cover it. His blue jeans lead to sneakers. "Terry Bogard?" Asked Brock and Lucca in unison. "That's right" Terry put a seat between the two of them and put up his own microphone. "I'm here to co-announce for this fight since I didn't make it in. Do you know why?" "Because you lost to Aya Brea, who's weak and didn't even make it back herself this year?" Brock asked. Terry looked at Brock, speechless. After a few seconds, Terry continued. "Aaaanyway, I'm going to be hanging around for Ryu's fight, so enjoy my company. Anyway, this Nukem guy can't compare to Ryu. I've fought Ryu before, and he's too strong for this guy to fight without guns" "You heard the great Bogard..." Lucca said, somewhat sarcastically. "Terry says that we might as well just skip the match. Will this be true?" "Well, we'll see soon enough. Here comes his opponent, Ryu" Ryu came out to a loud amount of applause a cheering. People holding up signs that read "HADOKEN!" and "SHORYUKEN!" could be seen. Ryu walked straight to the ring, Ken standing right beside him. Ryu looked around and stepped into the ring. "Ruketatato!" Ryu stated. Duke just smirked. "Oh, this is going to be a beatdown all right" Terry commented. "Unless Nukem can make guns materialize instantly, he's dead meat, mmhm. Speaking of dead meat, how'd you like to come to a barbecue I'm hosting tonight?" Terry asked, turning to Lucca. Brock held his microphone to his mouth. "May I remind people that there is NO flirting with the announcers! I repeat, NO FLIRTING WITH THE ANNOUNCERS!" "Sheesh, buddy, all right" Terry said. "Didn't know she was yours" "Hey!" Brock quickly said, turning red in the face. "Okay, and let's go to Ref-Bot for the start of the battle!" Ref-Bot floated over to Ryu and Duke. "Are you ready?" Ryu nodded. Duke chuckled. "Oh yeah!" "Three...two...one...go!" Duke dashed forward. "Okay, small-eye, I'm gonna kick the crap outta you without my guns!" Ryu moved forward and thrust his fist forward into Duke's stomach. Duke groaned as he was knocked back and fell on his back. Duke got up growling. He fixed his sunglasses and made another charge. Ryu quickly smashed him with a strong fist across the face, extending down to the chest. The Shotokan followed with a quick kick to the side of Duke's head, and then proceeded to kneel with another kick. The gun fighter fell on his back, leaving Ryu a chance to jump over him with an advantage for his next attack. Duke was just getting up as Ryu punched him twice in the stomach, and stepped back, cupping his hands. "Hadoken!" He yelled, sending a blue fireball from his fists at Duke. The attack burnt into Duke's stomach and in addition knocked Duke off his feet onto his back. "And Duke goes down again as Ryu hits him with his trademark Hadoken attack!" Lucca announced. "Duke is taking a terrible beating. Why isn't Duke using a gun?" "It doesn't matter" Terry added. "Ryu is very strong, he'd be able to stop a gun in the meantime" Ken crossed his arms from ringside. "Pfft, this fight is pointless. Duke is nothing compared to Ryu without any addition weapons" Ryu leapt into the air and did a 180-degree turn into a kick, and then landed with a straight punch to the face. "Duke keeps trying to fight back, but he just can't take it!" Brock announced. "This fight seems almost pointless. Ooh, that was a nasty punch!" Ryu drove a knee into Duke's stomach, and then grabbed him. Duke growled and punched Ryu in the face, but to no avail. Duke's weak attacks were nothing compared to Ryu. Ryu threw Duke forward, smashing him to the ground hard. Duke wiped a bit of blood from his mouth. "Gr...you're not gonna win this, Ryu..." Ryu loomed behind Duke. He leapt into the air and prepared to hit him with a karate chop. "Breathe your last breath. You won't be again until you wake up" Before Ryu could even execute an attack, a shot blasted him in the side. Ryu hit the ground hard. "Whoa, Ryu went down!" Brock gasped. "Looks like that Nukem guy had something good in him" Terry added. "But I doubt he's going to take it" Lucca looked a bit angrily at Terry, then turned back to her announcing. "Ryu went down pretty badly, but the question is, where did Duke get a gun? He didn't bring one" Duke grinned, now holding a gun the size of his shoulder. There was a word in white painted in Japanese on it. "How'd you like it, Ryu? I'm gonna finish you off now!" Ryu got up. Duke grinned and pointed his gun. "Okay Ryu, you got your fun, but now you lose. If you so much as touch me, I'm going to shoot your friend, then you and after that, half the audience!" He pointed his gun at Ken, leaving Ryu to gasp. "You do not dare!" "I do" Replied Duke. "I do dare, and unless you want you, your friend and then the audience to DIE, you're gonna let me beat the crap out of you and then beat you!" "Killing is against the rules" Replied Ryu. "You will be disqualified if you are to kill me" "You think I care?" Asked Duke, grinning. "I'm in it for the fighting, not for little pansy victories. Maybe wusses like you and your little friends like Pikachu and Kirby and Tom Nook want to just get little victories and be all 'Oh, look at me, I'm the winner!', but I fight for keeps. Now stand there while I beat the crap out of you!" "And Ryu and Duke seem to be...talking? This is highly odd..." Lucca said. Without choice, Ryu let his clenched fists down. Duke grabbed his gun and smashed Ryu across the face with it, leaving him to fall. "My goodness!" Gasped Lucca. "Ryu is getting beaten badly! Duke is pummeling Ryu with his fists, feet and gun, though no shots, oddly, and Ryu isn't doing anything about it! Oh, that was a nasty smash to the face. This is hard to watch" "Ryu may lose this match in shame...he's getting beaten down in front of the audience without even putting up any kind of fight" Brock announced. "Geez, this is ridiculous!" Terry said. "Ryu, you get up and beat that guy down, you hear me?! You beat Yagami, you beat Kusanagi, you beat Yamazaki! Heck, you even Kim Hap Kwan! Don't lose to that pathetic wimp!" "Ryu!" Gasped a schoolgirl in the audience. She turned to a guy next to her, a man dressed like Ken, only in pink. "Come on Dan, we got to do something" The guy named Dan nodded and dashed down to ringside with Ken alongside with her. "Ken!" "Sakura, Dan" Ken said in surprise. "What are you doing here?" "Are you seriously going to let this happen?" The girl named Sakura said. "Ryu's getting beaten and not doing anything! Do something!" She pleaded as Lucca and Brock continued to give details of Duke mercilessly beating Ryu senseless. Ken looked at Sakura seriously. He wasn't about to worry Sakura with such a thing as Duke's true threat. He simply replied "If I interfere, he'll be disqualified. Ryu would not want that" "Oh give me a break..." Dan rolled his eyes. "The guy's not worth worrying about" Ryu pulled himself to his feet, only to be kicked again. His mouth was bleeding, and his muscles ached. Duke chuckled and continued to hit Ryu in the face several times, not falling over. "Had enough yet, Ryu?" Ryu simply glared. "I don't like that GLARE!" Duke brought his gun into Ryu's face again. He turned around and did something that Ryu was unable to see. When he turned around, Duke had a second gun. "Duke has another gun?!" Gasped Brock. "Oh my, things look bad for Ryu..." Lucca added, seeming a little upset. "Oh, this is bogus" Terry complained. "This Duke guy can't really be winning so easily. Ryu would crush him" Ryu got to his feet, and hobbled over due to the one-sided beating he received, nearly pushing Duke off his feet. Duke pushed Ryu back, knocking him over. "Pushing me is not a wise thing to do in your predicament, Ryu. Not wise at all" Duke brought his guns up and into the side of Ryu's head, one after another. Ryu hit the ground. "Okay, you've had enough. Get on your knees and tell everyone that I'm superior. Then I'll finish you" Ryu gasped at this outrageous demand. He had snapped. Ryu stood up and looked Duke Nukem in the eyes. He spoke confidently. "No" "No?" Duke growled angrily. "Okay then, time for your friends to go!" Duke pointed his gun at the area where Ken, Sakura and Dan were. A shot rang out from it. Ryu gasped as the entire section of an audience was decimated. However, all the people were safe. Ken, Sakura and Dan stood in their poses after using their Hadoken, Hadousho and Gadouken. Duke gave an angrily yell at this. Ryu saw his chance. He dashed up to Duke and leapt up. "Atuetse fugen!" He quickly turned about a half-dozen times in a row, kicking Duke several times. Duke turned around and pointed his gun point blank for a kill. Ryu however, took a pose. "Shinku...HADOKEN!" He yelled. As Duke's bullets shot, a massive fireball, much larger than the first Hadoken, blasted through them and into the guns themselves with an explosion. Duke yelled as he was sent flying from the ring. However, he didn't land out of the ring, due to the assistance of Ken. Duke stepped back as Ryu advanced. "W-wait Ryu, I was...kidding! That's right, heh heh! Oh screw it" He reached onto his belt and threw something at Ryu. Ryu sent another Hadoken at the thing, causing another massive, fiery explosion that blew half the ring apart. Duke looked up, and saw Ryu still standing. "Oh, crap" Ryu dashed forward and kneeled. He came up with a punch that made a crunch as he said. "SHIN-" A second punch to Duke's chest. "SHO-" He leapt up with his finishing uppercut combo. "RYUKEEEN!" Duke was launched high through the air for what seemed like ten minutes to him. After a few seconds, he came down and bounced off the floor, landing outside the ring. "The winner, Ryu" "And Ryu wins!" Lucca announced. "It seems he bounced back from a near-defeat and getting beaten senseless to win!" "Screw this, I'm gonna kick me some stupid gunman ass!" Terry leapt from the table. "See ya, Lucca, Bort" "It's Brock!" Yelled the Pokémon breeder from the table as Terry dashed off. Duke got up. "Why you..." Ken, Dan and Sakura entered the ring. Ken spoke. "I think it's time we teach you a lesson for toying with something like the safety of the audience" Duke backed away from Ken, Dan was there. He moved to the side, where Ryu had been. Sakura stepped into the last part Duke had to get away and grinned. Duke could only yell as he was hit by various punches and kicks from the four fighters. After a good amount of beating, the four let Duke go. He wobbled forward, just as Terry came running. Terry raised a fist into the air. "BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAKU!" He came forward with a dashing Burning Knuckles, smashing Duke in the stomach and knocking him out of the ring. He walked towards the group that had already done the damage to Duke. The five began to laugh at the silly American man who thought he would win by threats. "That was a highly odd but very exciting match" Lucca said. "Yep, and now it's just you and me, not you me and that loud-mouthed American guy with the hat" Brock complained. "Er, anyway, next time we got Dante and Ryo Hazuki!" "Yes, that seems promising too!" Lucca smiled. "So join us next time, on Versus Mode!" ---- Duke was in his locker room, muttering angrily to himself as he packed his bags to head home. "I got beaten, then beaten more and humiliated. This year's battle sucks. I would win too if I had Aiai or CATS or Olimar as my opponent....sheesh" Duke walked out of the room. At least, he tried to. A man in a red suit and blue-ish cape stood in his way. "Nukem, you failed" "W-wha?" Duke took a step back. "Who are you?" The man stepped forward. Into the doorway stepped two men behind him. A tall, light-skinned man with blond hair, a face mask and a claw in one hand, and a black man with a blue outfit and boxing gloves. "You know who I am" "N-no I don't" Duke said, trying to be innocent. "Balrog" The man said. The boxer stepped forward and dashed at Duke, slamming him with a fist. Duke went flying back into a locker, making a dent. The first man stepped forward. "You know I am Mike Bison, leader of the Shadaloo. I sent my recruits to give you those guns that would fit into the ring. You were entrusted to defeat Ryu, and were given an extra security measure" "I-I didn't get them!" Duke got to his feet. "Vega" Bison turned to the taller man with the claw. Vega slashed at Duke's bag and took out the gun that he was using to attack Ryu. Vega handed it to Bison, who pointed to the word on it. "Shadaloo. Don't play stupid. You know what happened" Duke got to his feet. "Yeah, whatever! I used your guns, but I just didn't win! So sue me, Bison!" "The point was so you could defeat him, not hot dog for the entire crowd, you incompetent fool" Bison growled angrily. "I gave you the guns that fit into the ring, so you could pull them out to surprise Ryu and finish him off quickly. But instead you had to showboat like a complete idiot. Now you shall pay" Duke pulled his normal handgun from his belt. "Okay then, you wanna mess with me?! DIE!" Duke took a shot from his bullet, straight at Bison. Bison grinned and leapt into the air, going forward and spinning around as he did. A purple light surrounded the man as he yelled "PSYCHO CRUSHOR!" Bison slammed into Duke, sending him flying backwards, just as the bullet bounced off the energy Bison was giving off. "You will not mess with the Shadaloo any further. Balrog, Vega. Finish him" With that, Bison exited the room. Duke gasped as Balrog came at Duke and slammed him with a hard punch to the stomach. Duke fell to his knees, gripping his stomach and gasping. Vega leapt into the air and came at Duke, slashing him across the face. Duke fell to his hands and knees, as blood dripped from his face. And all that was left for him was the time it took for Balrog and Vega to finish the job... ---- As the crowd was getting ready for the battle between Dante and Ryo Hazuki, a messenger Paratroopa for the tournament flew in and dropped a note on the table. Lucca picked it up and gasped. "My gosh...folks, this just arrived. Duke Nukem was found in the locker room, and pronounced dead" A chatter broke out among the people. "The tournament doctors say that it could not have been from the fight between he and Ryu a few minutes earlier. He was also found with heavy bruise marks and slashes, and probably bled to death" "Would you please give a moment of peace for the departed fighter" Brock announced. The crowd went silent. Ryu was backstage with Ken (Dan, Sakura and Terry had all gone back to the audience). He knew what the heavy blows and slashes meant. Bison was after Ryu. And Ryu knew that by round two, he would be playing a factor in the next match. Next Entry Back |