THE FFML ROYAL RUMBLE

	BZZZZZT.  The crowd was a mix of cheers and boos as Ryoko the space 
pirate approached the ring.  She stepped through the ropes but that 
was as far as she got before Ayaka came down to ring side and pulled 
her out over the top rope.  Ayaka screamed in anger, "HOW *DARE* YOU 
KISS TENCHI LIKE THAT!!!"

	"I DID IT FOR LUCK," Ryoko roared back.

	"Well," Ayaka was unable to hide a grin, "it looks like it didn't do 
much good."

	"WHY YOU!!!!!"

	The two of them almost came to blows but before they could, take a 
wild guess who spotted them.

	"Have no fear," Happosai said as he caught sight of two such 
GORGEOUS females and rolled out from the feet of A-ko and Vegita, 
"Happi's here!"

	Happosai launched himself over the top rope and landed right on 
Ryokos chest.  Then he jumped to Ayakas chest and then continued to 
alternate as the girls ran back to the locker room, screaming.  
Vegita and A-ko watched the whole proceedings and shrugged.  They 
prepared to go at it again, when Tarou finally freed himself from the 
ropes.  He hit the two of them with some of his tentacles and the 
Saya-jin and the super school girl were rocked.  They got back to 
their feet, looked at each other, nodded and Vegita said, "You take 
care of our old punching bag.  I'll be back."

	"Now what do we do?" Ataru asked.

	"Off hand," Kentaro replied as he saw Vegita step through the ropes 
and pick up Happosais motorcycle, "I say, we GET OUT OF HERE!!!!"

	The two young perverts jumped on their bikes, gunned the engines and 
sped away as Vegita hurled the third cycle at their retreating forms. 
 As soon as they were gone for good, Vegita stepped back into the 
ring and joined A-ko in double teaming Tarou.

	WHACK!  CRUNCH!  POW!  THWACK!  CRECK CRECK CRECK!  WHAM!  BAM!  
ZAP!  THAP!

	The camera crew had to pull Blade out of the way as he tried to 
block them from filming the violence.

	Soon, the timer once again reached zero and...

	BZZZT!  Umi made an appearance and the crowd cheered.  She entered 
the ring and cried, "Dragon of Water!!!"

	The water based attack hit A-ko and slammed her into both Tarou and 
Vegita.  Umi quickly drew her sword and prepared for battle.  "Holy 
s***," A-ko cried as she got up, "where'd THAT come from?!"

	Vegita replied as he arose, "Big deal.  I already handled one punk 
girl with a sword.  I can handle another."

	"Punk girl?!" Umi yelled in indignation and she slashed at Vegita.

	Vegita went pale as the Esscudo weapon actually managed to slice 
into the skin of the arm he had raised to block the attack.  He held 
his bleeding arm close to his body and held up his other arm.  He let 
loose several ki balls at the Water Knight but she deftly avoided 
some and sliced the ones she didn't with her sword.

	Vegita growled again and increased the power of his ki attacks and 
this time, when Umi tried to slash one, it blew up in her face, 
sending her down to the mat, almost out cold.  Vegita was about to 
move in but A-ko intercepted him with an elbow to the face as she 
said, "Sorry pal, but I think we girls should stick together."

	Slumping in the left side corner, Tarou thought, "Don't mind me.  
I'll just stay here and bleed a while."

	"3..." the crowd chanted, "2... 1..."

	BZZZZZZZZZT!  "AIYAH," the latest contestant shouted.

	The crowd was a mixture of boos (from most of the women) cheers, and 
fox whistles (from almost ALL the men).  Shampoo bounced (no double 
meaning intended) into the ring and pulled out her bonbori.  She went 
after the nearly unconscious Umi and casually flipped her out.  She 
then slugged A-ko on the back of the head with one of her maces and A-
ko was again knocked into Vegita.  Vegita snarled, "That's IT!  I'm 
tired of you ALWAYS crashing into me!"

	With that and a mighty heave, Vegita launch A-ko and the girl landed 
somewhere in the nose bleed section.  "Aiyah," Shampoo whispered 
under her breath, "small man is real strong."

	Shampoo was so amazed that she didn't see Tarou approaching from 
behind and was knocked out of the way by him as he tried to choke the 
life out of Vegita.  Vegita managed to get Tarous hands off his 
throat and the two of them began a test of strength.

	"Man," White Wolf said, "Vegita has been practically DOMINATING this 
thing ever since he entered it."

	"Well," Tybalt replied, "Vegita is one of the toughest guys out 
there and I don't think anyone, barring a major upset, besides 
another Saya-jin, will be able to get him out."

	White Wolf nodded in reply and then listened to a message being 
delivered to him over the head set he wore.  "Oh boy," he said, "wait 
till you see who's next.  This place is going to explode."

	"10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."

	BZZZZZT.  True to White Wolfs words, the people erupted with cheers 
as Ranma stepped through the curtains.  "Aiyah," Shampoo said, 
"Shampoo must fight husband?"

	"Looks like its that way," Ranma replied as he flipped into the ring,
 "and I'm NOT your husband."

	"After Shampoo get rid of husband, husband go on date with Shampoo?
"

	"No, and for the last time, I'm NOT your husband."

	Shampoo let out a savage yell and swung her bonbori at Ranmas head.  
Ranma was content to simply dodge the attacks of the purple haired 
Amazon for the moment.  "Better pace myself," he thought, "there's 
gonna be a LOT of strong guys coming out later and I want to be as 
fresh as possible."

	Vegita meanwhile, had won his test of strength with Tarou and was 
now crushing the minataurs hands.  Tarou screamed in pain and in 
total desperation, head butted Vegita in the stomach.  He then got to 
his feet and smashed the back of the Saya-jin nobles neck with a 
vicious double axe handle.  Remembering where Umi had cut him, Tarou 
savagely began to kick Vegitas arm, causing the wound to reopen and 
start to leave small drops of blood on the mat.  Vegita then hit 
Tarous stomach with a head butt of his own and the two of them simply 
started to trade left fists.

	Soon, it was time for another participant to enter....

	BZZZZT!  Fuu was accompanied to the ring by the cheers of the crowd 
and she stepped through the ropes and quickly drew her sword.  Seeing 
that Vegita was who should be delt with first, she sent a strong 
slash at his back.  The blow stuck home and Vegita cried in agony as 
the sword cut deep.  Tarou took advantage of this opening and slammed 
his left fist down on Vegitas back.  Vegita collapsed in pain and Fuu 
tried to move in, so she could figure out how to get rid of him, but 
then she learned how "greatful" Tarou was for the help as he tried to 
wrap her up with his tentacles.  Fuu jumped back just in time and 
slashed upwards.

	Tarou-minatour howled in agony as the sword cut off the tips of two 
of the tentacles.  "GREEN GALE," Fuu cried.

	The attack hit both Tarou and Vegita and sent them crashing into 
each other.  Shampoo then abandoned Ranma in favor of a target that 
she didn't feel bad about trying to hit.  The bonbori and the Esscudo 
sword clashed again and again.  The two locked their weapons and each 
of them struggled with all of their might as they tried to disarm 
each other.

	Ranma meanwhile, pulled out a tea kettle filled with hot water and 
walked over to Tarou.  "I gotta admit, you've done pretty good 
PANTYHOSE Tarou," then he dumped the contents over the monster, "now 
let's see how you do when you have to fight fair."

	Tarou turned back into his human form.  However, since injury 
carries over from one form to the other, it didn't do him any good.  
The cut off tips of the tentacles translated into several deep gashes 
on his back and the many bruises and welts were now much larger (and 
more painful) then they had been before.

	Vegita walked besides Ranma and said, "I assume you're going to try 
to kick the c*** out of him now."

	"Yep," Ranma replied as he cracked his knuckles.

	"Mind if I join you?"

	Ranma looked over at Vegita and thought, "Whoa.  This guy has a cut 
on his back the size of a canyon, his arm is in bad shape, he's been 
in here so long and he's STILL ready to go???  Man, this guy's TOUGH.
"

	Aloud, he said, "Sure... I guess."

	White Wolf and Tybalt winced as Ranma and Vegita opened a can of 
high quality, grade A Whoop A** on Tarou.  "Things aren't looking so 
good for Tarou, are they," White Wolf joked as Ranma and Vegita tried 
to force Tarou over the top, while Tarou held on to the top rope for 
dear life.

	"He held in there for a long time," Tybalt agreed, "I don't think 
he's gonna be in this for much longer."

	He was wrong.

	BZZZZZT!  The crowd roared in approval as Sailor Mercury came on the 
scene.  She reached the ring and aimed for the off balance trio of 
Ranma, Vegita and Tarou.  "SHINNING AQUA ILLUSION!" she cried.

	The funnel of water hit all three of them and of course, Ranma-chan 
and Vegita were knocked back as Tarou-minataur reformed.  "Oh dear," 
Mercury muttered, "it seems as if I have erred."

	"I thought you were supposed to be the smart one," Ranma-chan 
snapped.

	Tarou was about to charge but was cut off by Vegita once more and 
the two of them continued their personal duel.  Ranma-chan ducked as 
two bonbori and an Esscudo sword went flying at his head and landed 
on the far side of the ring.  "GREEN GALE," Fuu cried as she tried to 
put distance between her and Shampoo.

	The attack sent Shampoo into Ranma and that left the two Magical 
Girls to face off with each other.

	"GREEN GALE!"
	"SHINNING AQUA ILLUSION!"

	The two attacks slammed into each other and the Senshi and the Magic 
Knight put all their energy into them.  Finally, the two attacks got 
so powerful that the both of them exploded and the back blast sent 
all the participants into different corners and Mercury and Fuu over 
the top and out of the ring.

	"What has occurred," Fuu asked as she sat up and adjusted her 
glasses.

	"I believe that our attacks grew too ponderous for our control.." 
Mercury replied.

"... and the aftershock of such sent the two of us out," Fuu finished.


	Fuu smiled and the two of them walked back to the locker room 
together, glad to have found mental equals.

	BZZZZZZT!  Guyver 1 entered the fight.  He flipped over the top rope 
and went to work.  He closed in on Tarou and hit him with two punches 
to the stomach and a jump kick to the face.  He followed up by 
extending his arm blades and slicing Tarou on the left shoulder.  He 
moved on to Vegita and hit him with a jumping spinning crescent kick 
to the face.  He then followed up with a slash along Vegitas chest.  
Vegita was able to dodge it just enough so that it was only a minor 
flesh wound.  Guyver didn't stop his pace as he went to Ranma-chan 
and retracted his arm blades as he hit her with an elbow to the back 
of the head as Ranma tried to hit him with a forward punch.  He then 
moved to Shampoo and hit her with a savat kick to the face.

	Ranma-chan got up again and attacked Guyver.  "TENSHIN AMAGURI KEN," 
she cried.

	The attack hit home 274 times and Guyver was knocked back into the 
ropes.  The young aqua transsexual moved forward and kicked Guyver in 
the face with his right foot.  Suddenly, Shampoo joined him and 
Guyver tried to fend off both the fists and the bonbori attacks of 
the two martial artists.  Vegita meanwhile and Tarou had hooked up 
again and were now just trading punches.

	Soon, it was time for the next contestant to enter.

	BZZZZT!  Another alternate was needed as Nurse Angel Ririka was also 
out sick, however Guyver probably wouldn't have minded if it had been 
anyone else then who it was.  TekkaKnight Warhammer on the other hand,
 almost died from joy.

	Teknoman ran to the ring and launched himself into the fight by 
throwing Ranma-chan and Shampoo across the ring.  The two armor 
covered warriors looked at each other and then ignored all others as 
they went face to face.  The crowd got on its feet as the two stared 
each other down.  The tension was thick enough to slice with a chain 
saw.  Finally, the tension broke as the two of them threw punches at 
the same time and each hit home on the others face.  Teknoman pulled 
out his battle staff as Guyver extended his arm blades.  The two 
weapons clashed over and over again as Teknoman and Guyver neither 
lost or gained a quarter.

	Tarou and Vegita were still trading punches as they moved around the 
ring.  Tarou got in a good left uppercut but Vegita answered with a 
vicious round house right.  The two of them backed off and then they 
hit each other with hay makers that sent both of them crashing to the 
mat.

	Ranma-chan went back to dodging Shampoos attacks, giving her a 
chance to catch her breath.

	Finally, Teknoman managed to batter through Guyvers defences and 
delivered a snap kick to Guyvers stomach.  As Guyver doubled over, 
Teknoman backed up and when Guyver came up to a vertical position, 
Teknoman clobbered him with his staff and sent Guyver over the top 
and to the floor.  Warhammer jumped for joy and yelled, 
"YEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!"

	Guyver thought, "I thought he was supposed to be impartial," before 
he passed out.

	"There can be only one," Teknoman said as he raised his arm in 
victory but was hit from behind by a drop kick from Ranma-chan, who 
had managed to get away from Shampoo.

	To the crowds approval, the two of them got into it.  Teknoman hit 
Ranma-chan with a strong punch to the stomach.  Ranma-chan staggered 
back and fell to her knees due to the unbelievable force she was hit 
with but she refused to stay down as she got up and answered with a 
sudden Moko Takibasha.  Teknoman was sent back into the ropes by the 
ki attack and he swung his staff at Ranma-chan as he bounded back but 
the martial artist rolled out of the way.

	BZZZZZT!  Future Trunks waved at the ecstatic crowd as he entered 
the contest.  He grabbed Tarou from behind and held him so his father 
could land a few more punches to the beasts gut.  "Finally," Vegita 
smirked, "A worthy opponent has entered."

	"What about this guy," Trunks asked as he indicated the almost out 
on his feet Tarou, "he seems to be giving you a hard time.  Not to 
mention those girls with the swords..."

	"Oh, be quiet and help me get rid of this beast so we can duel."

	"You got it Dad."

	Tarou had other ideas.  Using his massive strength, he managed to 
throw Trunks off him and placed a sudden forward snap kick into 
Vegitas bread basket.  The two Saya-jins backed off and Tarou-
minataur thought, "Che.  They don't deserve their reputation.  I can 
take out a dozen of these apes with my eyes closed."

	Tarou decided to take the brief respite he had been given as the two 
Saya-jins regrouped and psyched himself up by going over what he had 
done so far.  He had already eliminated Sailor Mars, NG Knight, 
Jotarou and Yamcha.  These two would be next.  Nothing would stop him.


	The crowd could feel the electricity building as Vegita and Trunks 
prepared to attack Tarou-minataur.  They could sense that on the next 
exchange, someone was going to be eliminated.

	Then, Vegita and Trunks charged the now ready Tarou and their battle 
began in earnest.  Tarou spread both his wings and tentacles to their 
fullest, swinging them in a variation of the Omega Destroyer move.  
Vegita, who was more tired then he would have admitted, got hit by a 
large number of the swings, while Trunks, who did get hit by several 
solid ones, managed to avoid taking any serious damage.  He got in 
close to Tarou and kicked him in the jaw hard enough to be heard in 
the gift shop by the main enterence of the arena.  Trunks and a 
recuperated Vegita grabbed hold of Tarou and the older warrior cried, 
"NOW!"

	The two Saya-jin heaved and threw Tarou-minatour out over the top 
and into the crowd, where the monster landed right on top of his 
number one fan.  Tarou sat up and punched a hole in the ground.  He 
got up and walked out.  His last thought, before he went to the back 
area, was, "I'll get even with you for this.  I swear it."

	"Oooo," Tybalt grimaced, "tough break for Tarou, not to mention 
Blade.  He lasted all that time and now he's out of here."

	"Yes," White Wolf replied, "but this is where things have gotten 
interesting.  There's another Saya-jin in this contest and I have a 
feeling that they're about to get it on."

	Trunks and Vegita stood still, waiting for the other to make the 
first move as Teknoman found himself battling both Ranma-chan and 
Shampoo.  Teknoman blocked the bonbori with his staff but couldn't 
block the kick from Ranma-chan.  Teknoman grunted but retaliated with 
an elbow to the face.  This left an opening for Shampoo to bash him 
in the stomach with her left bonbori.  Teknoman used the flat end of 
his staff and batted Shampoo away.

	Finally, inevitably, Trunks and Vegita exploded all over each other. 
 They traded left and rights at a pace no one else could have kept up 
with.  Under normal circumstances, the duel would have been even but 
Vegita had been fighting longer and was injured enough that Trunks 
was able to get the edge.  Trunks slipped behind Vegita and delivered 
a forearm to his injured back.  Vegita managed to bite back his 
scream of pain but was unable to do anything else as Trunks hit him 
again.

	Ranma-chan and Shampoo were beginning to wish for a breather as 
Teknoman was holding the both of them off.  The armor covered warrior 
wasn't feeling much better and all three of them felt worse when they 
saw who was next.

	BZZZZZT!  The roof was nearly torn off the arena as the crowd went 
wild at the appearance of the young Gohan.  Ranma-chan raised her 
hands in a gesture of peace to Teknoman as she said, "Hold on a sec.  
I think we may have to call a temporary truce."

	Teknoman took stock of the situation and nodded in agreement as he 
said, "There are WAY too many of these Saya-jin guys in here.  
They've just GOT to go."

	The temporarily allied trio greeted Gohan by jumping him the second 
he entered.  "Hey," Gohan cried, "I thought this was 'everyone for 
themselves', not 'Pick On Gohan Day'!"

	Desperately, the young Saya-jin pushed away Ranma-chan and Shampoo 
(flinging them to opposite ends of the ring) and then unloaded with 
an uppercut on Teknoman, sending him into the air.  Gohan flew up 
after him and drove an elbow into his stomach.  The two of them fell 
to the mat and Gohan drove his elbow in even more as they landed.  
Ranma-chan was all over him with her multi-punch technique as he 
arose and Gohan was surprised to find himself knocked back a few 
steps as the blows hit home.  Of course, Ranma-chans fists felt like 
she had been hitting Adamantium.  Shampoo tried to polish him off 
with a clubbing shot to the head with her bonbori.  This didn't even 
tickle Gohan but it did give Ranma-chan the time she needed to power 
up a Moko Takibasha and let it go right in the young Saya-jin 
halflings face.

	That attack didn't hurt him either but the flash did blind him.  As 
Gohan was temporarily sightless and off balance, Teknoman, Ranma-chan 
and Shampoo pushed him to the ropes and tried to hoist him over the 
top.  Gohan however, hooked his arms around the top rope and wasn't 
going anywhere.

	Trunks had maintained his advantage over Vegita and continued to hit 
him on the back.  He saw the straights his friend was in and 
imediatly started to head over yelling, "Hang on Gohan!  I'm co..."

	He was tackled from behind by Vegita and clobbered by multiple fists 
to the back of the head as he heard his father say, "NEVER turn your 
back on an enemy."

	Gohan lashed out with his foot and hit Teknoman in the face.  The 
Space Knight fell back and Ranma-chan and Shampoo found themselves 
unable to hold Gohan up anymore.  Gohan struck quickly with a forward 
kick to Ranma-chans stomach and an elbow to the back of his head.  
Shampoo tried to whack him with her maces again but Gohan grabbed 
them and Shampoo lost her weapons again as Gohan threw them away.

	Teknoman got up and opened his shoulder ports.  "TEKNO POWER BLASTER,
" he cried.

	The large energy blast slammed into Gohan while Ranma-chan and 
Shampoo found themselves just barely clearing the blast zone.  
Fortunately, the energy draining field that protected the crowd held 
and the only one hit was Gohan.  The energy faded and Teknoman could 
only stare as Gohan, who had been pushed back into the ropes, looked 
as if he wasn't even phased.  "I put everything I had into that blast,
" the armor covered warrior thought, "this is going to be a bit 
harder then I thought."

	"Nice shot," Gohan complimented.

	"Ummm... thanks," was all Teknoman could think of replying with.

	The crowd chanted, "3... 2... 1..."