Advanced Variable Geo - Variable Nu
    Chapter 1 - Goddesses Descending On The Field
    by A-kun

    I didn't choose this series over other fighting series' only because the fighters got naked (that part is purely a bonus).  Besides, the naked stuff only appears in the anime, to my current knowledge.  The real reason I chose VG was because, unlike 99% of fighting games and anime, the main character IS NOT MALE!  In fact, most of the leading characters ARE ALSO NOT MALE!  This is the most annoying thing for me when viewing a series.  Having a male hero is okay, but there are far too many secondary females and way, WAY too many leading males.  Hell, even in most series where there are female leads, a guy'll usually have to save their asses!  It's pathetic, repetitious and annoying!  Which is why, while I'll have a few male characters, most of them will be side characters, or at the very most, helpful advisors that do something to help out and then go away.  At one point, later on, a guy might show off, but that'll have no real effect on the story.
    Having seen the Variable Geo video (dubbed version, but I might purchase the subtitled version to compare the translations) and learned vaguely a bit more via websites, I've begun this series tentatively.  I'm looking for the game in hopes of finding more distinct moves among other things (like other characters, gosh darn it!).  Until then, I'll be going ahead with only my knowledge of DBZ, Street Fighter, Ranma 1/2, Rival School and Art of Fighting styles of combat.  How unfortunate.  But, I'm fairly sure I can hash together the necessary combatative information.
    Note as of sometime between the year 1999 and the year 2000: I finally found a copy of the game online, but I'm only allowed to keep it for a day, so I'll play the living crap out of it to see if I can get down more of the moves.  I'm also looking for a copy of the second game, as I've heard numerous characters pop up in that game as well.
    If you can't tell, I rant when I explain.  BEEEDAH!

    Note: You don't _have_ to know about Variable Geo (or Advanced Variable Geo as the game is called) to read this fanfic.  However, I do introduce some of the older characters without giving them an explanation until the end of the fanfic.  Expect spoilers for the Anime and some self-made decisions on outcomes.  Also, I'll be using the Anime as kind of a background, but somethings, like Washio, will be edited out.  Just replace Washio with Nameless Witless Minion #6 and edit out every frame where Reimi comes on to Washio.  If you don't know who Washio or Reimi are, ignore the two sentences above.

    Lemon Note: *Mega-Blush* Um, yeah.  There ARE _some_ naughty bits in this series.  I've decided to outline those heavily, so if you don't want to read Lemon, I'll mark the Lemon bits with the following tag: [[[[LEMON]]]]  The rest of the story will continue with [[[[BATTLE]]]]  By the way, I'm not promising a lemon scene every chapter.  This is supposed to be about the plot, not the sex.  BEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAH!

    P.S. All throughout this series, I'm going to have a few scenes where the character break their intended roles for something goofy.  Eh.  Like I care.

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    In the near future, the faltering "Family Restaurant Industry" began to sponsor fighting tournaments featuring members of their own staff in order to boost their patronage...  Thus began the sport of Full contact waitressing. As it quickly becomes known as more of a success than even the most optimistic restauranteur had hoped.
    But there's more at stake here than prize money and free advertising. The mysterious Jahanna Group, which has marketed the tournaments, has quietly begun to infiltrate the restaurants which feature Full-Contact Waitressing.
    To enter the tournaments, one must have a sponsoring resturaunt (but those who enter can be their own sponsors if they have a resturaunt), a will to fight and be female.  If any waitresses were to win the entire sectional tournament (each section ending whenever the fighters felt like it and starting the next spring), she would get ten million dollars and her choice of prime real estate in any city she desires.  However, losing can often carry the burden of having to put on an embarrassing performance to the victor's whims or possibly even strip naked in front of the viewing audience.
    Because of these embarrassing costs, not all fighter/waitresses desire to enter the tournament and the tournament has come under fire from some strong critics.  So, depending on the level of the victory, one might not have to strup, but they will have to do something asinine and embarrassing.  Besides, they may not have a viewing audience as some fights quickly get out of hand.
    Despite the more-than-blatant assaults on the sport and the high risk of embarrassment, there are still many brave waitresses that enter the tournament in hopes of winning the money.  Some out of desperation, some out of desire and others because they're secretly exihibitionists.  I think the last one is a low probability, but there are such people out there and they might join the sport just to show off.
    *WHAM* *CRASH* *TINKLE* *TINKLE*
    There goes the fourth wall.  And my credibility.
    *SMASH* *CRASH* *TINKLE* *TINKLE* *TINKLE*
    Hey, my self respect!  Dammit, I wanted that!
    *WERUNK**KZZZZZZZZT*
    Aw well, it's not like I ever really noticed those things until I'd destroyed them completely.  Anyway, those who enter the tournaments may battle whenever and whomever they choose, so two tournament fighters would not have to fight were they to meet.  Not to mention some don't recognize each other as newbies join every spring and might not fight until later in the season.  The Champion of the sectional tournament does not need to battle anyone the next year, save the last remaining warrior who hasn't been eliminated from the tournament.
    The tournament fighters are called "VG Warriors" and carry special cards that allow them to call and challenge each other among other things such as call up specially-made rings and conformation poles which confirm that she is a VG Warrior and that she is still active in the tournaments.
    Eh.  Enough with the boring crap, ON WITH THE STORY!

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    "Hmmm, another BORING day...," Ayako Yuuki sighed, lazily looking out at the main resturaunt of the SOTO bar and grille even though her eyes always looked closed.
    The customers just weren't coming in today.  The tables had been mostly bare except for a few regulars who came for the bar.  The most she had to do so far today was take an order for a prime steak.
    She looked at the dance floor that the SOTO also sported.  Again, bare.  The techno-funk music that had been playing was rather generic recently.  She'd have to talk with the manager about that.  Not to mention that the lights, while well-positioned and numerous in colors, were flashing off of the mirror-esque floor.  It made the room seem even more boring and empty.
    Ayako was pretty much ready to ask her manager for the rest of the day off. It was usually about then that a mysterious stranger would show up and challenge her to a match.  This tactic rarely failed.  In fact, it had almost become her philosophy: Just when you're about to scream out of boredom, something'll happen that'll make you wish you had stayed bored.
    She waited.
    And waited.
    And _waited_.
    Finally, sick and tired of waiting, she headed for the manager's office.  She knocked on his door.
    "What is it, Ayako?" the manager asked through the door as if he had been expecting it.  Maybe he had X-ray vision.  That idea disturbed Ayako immensely.  It would explain why she had never seen him outside of his office.
    "Can I have the rest of the day off?  I'm too bored and Emi's going to be here in about ten minutes to take my place," Ayako complained through the door.
    "Fine, Ayako," the manager replied.
    "Thanks!" Ayako said, turning dramatically to let her long purple hair swoosh.
    Ayako wore a plaid shirt with long sleeves that was cut high so to show her stomach, but not enough to show the beginnings of her breasts if she were to jump or bounce, but if she were to stand on her hands, anyone standing on the right side of her would see them.  She also wore a very black mini-skirt which could've been silk, but Ayako had decided to go for pratical and chose a heavy leathre.  Leather was tough and it didn't burn away if her opponents used fire attacks like that Satomi Yajima had.  Well, not as readily as some materials.  And as the final note, she was wearing her lucky cotton panties.
    As if she had missed her cue a few paragraphs ago, another woman entered the resturaunt.  This newcomer had shoulder-length dark brown hair, bright blue eyes, an Aerosmith t-shirt and blue jeans on.  She looked around the club as Ayako sized her up.  Taking a chance, Ayako approached the newcomer and drew a black fan with the pink frills on the end.
    "Hi, care to dance?" Ayako asked, smiling coyly and striking a cute pose.
    The newcomer looked Ayako over and hummed as she decided.  Finally, she smiled and shook her head.
    "Sorry.  I'm spoiling for a fight," the new girl said as she began walking past Ayako.
    "I can satisfy you that way too," Ayako told the unknown girl.
    The girl looked at Ayako and grinned widely.
    "Then it'll be even better when one of us loses, won't it?" the girl asked rheotorically.
    Ayako smiled in reply.
    "Okay, how about a side bet?" the girl inquired, awkwardly pulling out her VG card from her front right jean pocket.
    "A side bet?  How fascinating," Ayako responded as she pulled her own VG card from... somewhere.
    "The loser has to do whatever the winner wants her to for three whole days," the new girl said, blushing a bit as she dared to say the words, or perhaps it was from the thought of where the card had been.
    Ayako smiled even wider.
    "Sounds good.  I know what I'm going to do when I win," Ayako stated, kissing her new opponent on the cheek before heading for the dance floor and clicking down the two corners to activate the special computer towers in the floors and the VG screen which was hidden behind the giant logo of SOTO on the nearby wall.  The computer towers rose out of the floor as the VG screen revealed itself.
    Ayako walked to the furthest tower and inserted her card into the slot.  The computer scanned the card and declared, "Confirming VG status..," before adding a surprised sounding, "CONFIRMED!"
    "I always thought these things always sounded just a little too surprised," Ayako's opponent declared, staring at the tower next to Ayako.
    "I'm VG Warrior Ayako Yuuki," Ayako informed her opponent.
    With a nod, the mystery girl inserted her card into the slot before informing her opponent, "I'm VG Warrior Yuki Asamiya,"
    "Confirming VG status.... CONFIRMED!" the computer declared.
    "Asamiya?  As in the King of Fi-" Ayako began.
    "No, just a similar family name.  I don't know that Athena girl personally, nor am I related to her," Yuki responded in a dull yet annoyed tone as if she had been asked the question far too many times for her taste.
    Ayako shrugged.
    "Ready to fight?" Ayako asked.
    "I was ready an hour ago," Yuki answered.
    Ayako dashed forward, almost too fast for Yuki to follow, but Yuki leapt backwards, forcing Ayako to charge further.  Yuki lashed out with a strong sidekick.  Ayako leapt up and placed her hand on Yuki's leg before launching a kick at Yuki's face, where Yuki's right hand had been in a guard position. Yuki stumbled back uninjured.
    Ayako dashed forward and slashed at Yuki with her fan.  The attack tore a large piece out of Yuki's shirt in a diagonal cut from Yuki's right shoulder to her left kidney.  Had Ayako been wielding a sword instead of a fan, Yuki would've been dead.  As it was, Yuki just blushed at the new tear and continued fighting.
    The fight went on for a few minutes, Ayako zooming in and landing a light strike then hurrying away before Yuki could use her power techniques to strike Ayako.  It was a good technique except for two things.  The first being that Yuki had a lot of endurance and the second being that Ayako's speed was beginning to fade as the fight dragged on.
    Finally, Yuki landed her first strike of the fight, a slashing attack that tore off the right sleeve of Ayako's shirt.  Ayako felt her arm tingle as if it had been numb.  Ayako decided that fun was fun, but it was time to win the match.  A little more humilation for her opponent, then a spectacular finale.
    "You're good, but I wonder if you're good _enough_ to beat me," Ayako commented before spinning up to Yuki and launching a crescent kick that Yuki slid around.
    Ayako quickly realized that she should taken the victory sooner.  While she had been having fun tearing at her opponent's clothes, she had been exhuasting herself and now Yuki's endurance and power began to prove more useful than the speed Ayako possessed.
    Yuki struck Ayako with a strong palmheel to the solar plexus, followed by a strong punch to the stomach.  Ayako wheezed and stumbled backwards to recover as Yuki marshalled her energy.  Yuki lunged forward, spinning fast while unleashing rapid spinning backfists.
    Ayako dodged as best as she could, but a few strikes came close to doing some real damage.  One backfist struck Ayako in the shoulder, numbing it instantly.  Ayako leapt back as she noticed that her fan had been knocked away sometime during Yuki's backfist assault.  Yuki smiled evilly at Ayako.
    "Ready to end this fight?" Yuki inquired, blazing with a blood red aura.
    "Not another loss..," Ayako groaned inwardly.
    Yuki roared an unintelligible word while unleashing a powerful blast of energy to encompass Ayako and send her crashing backwards into the nearest tables.  Soon, the energy faded away and all noise faded away, save the generic techno-funk music in the background.

    The veteran VG warrior sized up her opponent.  Her opponent had short brown hair, brown eyes and was wearing a light grey skirt with a white shirt.  She had never heard of the resturaunt NERV, but a match was a match.  One that the more veteran VG warrior felt was a certain victory for herself.
    "All riiight," the VG warrior said, shrugging.
    "VG warrior, Maya Ibuki," the less experienced fighter said, still trying to get over the fact that her opponent had bright pink hair and looked like a ten year-old girl.
    "VG warrior, Manami Kusonoki," the short and younger-looking VG fighter declared, her green eyes flashing.
    Manami put on her giant kitty gloves and prepared for battle.  Maya was going to be no match for the fifteen year-old fighter, who had been in some semi-serious training recently.
    "CAT... ROCKET... PUNCH!" Manami cried, throwing her right giant kitten glove at Maya.
    Maya was expecting the glove to weight the same weight as a bunch of cotton.  Pity she didn't know Manami.  Maya went sailing out of the ring and collapsed in a heap.  Luckily for Maya, the victory was only Level 5.
    Manami pulled her glove back as she gave the audience a V with her other glove, allowing the glove to clock her.  She hopped back to her feet and was rewarded by the cheers of the crowd.

    Ayako woke in an apartment that she didn't recognize.  She instantly began looking around.  The room she was in looked like a rather bland and ordinary bedroom.  The bed was well-made and there was a nightstand with a lamp that practically screamed "Dull".  She wasn't sure what to expect when she woke up, but one of the things she had NEVER expected was a bedroom straight out of a "Better Homes" catalog.  Except for the sheets she was laying under, the room looked almost untouched.  It was about then that she heard the door to her left open.
    Yuki entered with a tray that had a tea pot, two cups with saucers and some toast.  Taking note of the other girl, Ayako glanced down to see that she was still clothed.  Mentally, Ayako cursed, but wore an uneasy smile.  Yuki was wearing a somewhat unique waitressing outfit: a pink set of bunny ears, thigh-high stockings, shoes with white furry puff balls on top, a pink mini-skirt under a dark blue vest.  Over that was pink bolero jacket with white frills.  And had Yuki's grown longer hair that fast?
    "Well, feeling better?" Yuki inquired.
    "Uh, yeah, I suppose.  Where are we?" Ayako asked.
    "Just an apartment that I rented a few months back.  When there's no VG tournament to participate in, I usually just wander around," Yuki answered, pouring them the tea.
    After accepting a cup of brown brew from Yuki, Ayako noticed a folded piece of paper.  She sipped her tea, wondering what the paper was.  Suddenly, the flavor of the tea overwhelmed her.  She spat, spraying the tea all over.
    "Ah, I see I'm getting better," Yuki said, sipping her own tea and grimacing rather heavily at the flavor.
    Ayako coughed a few times, setting her tea cup and saucer aside.  Once she regained her breath, she turned to Yuki.
    "Um, let me guess, you're not too good at cooking..," Ayako began.
    "Well, I wasn't sure if you'd like Diet Pepsi, so I made this.  Besides, I won, therefore _you_ have to do what I want for the next three days," Yuki said.
    Ayako had that sinking feeling again.
    "Here's what I want done while I'm at work.  I'd like the laundry done first, then you can dust, I think it's been a few weeks since I did that, then I'd like you to make dinner.  I've left money on the table in case you want to call for pizza or if you wanted to go to the store..," Yuki began.
    "Couldn't we do something simpler... like make love?" Ayako inquired abruptly.
    Yuki blushed, then giggled.
    "I'm not the kind of girl to do that right away, Ayako-chan.  Besides, after your duties today, you'll be too wiped out.  Maybe tomorrow, sometime after you feed the fish and buy some decent soda..," Yuki began, unfolding the paper to reveal a LONG list of jobs and chores for Ayako to do.  Ayako had to fight the urge to cry.

    Yuka Takeuchi smiled as she waved goodbye to her friend Satomi Yajima.  Of course, it did feel a bit unnerving to see Satomi and her brother Daisuke living in a mansion, even if it was only three stories high plus a basement. But, Satomi had won the tournament last year and with it, the ten million dollars and the prime real estate.  It was a relief as well to find out that Daisuke's relapse into the Grand Mal Seizures had been faked, probably by the same people who had tried to control Satomi's mind.  Yuka began down the path from Satomi's house to the street and sighed to herself.
    She shook her head and scolded herself for not being more cheerful.  Satomi was smiling a lot more nowadays, even if she had quit VG.  Not to mention that Yuka and Satomi now had a much better understanding of each other.  Satomi was happy with her new life and that was the important thing.  A wind blew up behind her, interupting her thought briefly as hair blew into her face.  She tossed her incredibly long brown hair back and her fountaining ponytail returned to it's proper place.
    Yuka wondered what was next in her life.  Working for Hanna Miller was, currently, her only source of income.  Satomi had offered her money, but Yuka had declined.  Yuka would win her own ten million dollars in the VG tournaments someday, not that she really needed it, and she'd have a house as close to Satomi's as she could find.  But to Yuka, VG was still the toughest competition out there.  Mainly because both the newbies and a few of the older fighters were so unpredictable.  You could win one day and lose the next.  Even if she did someday win the VG tournament, she was adamant about staying in the tournament.  Fighting was a way of life and a way of bonding to other people.
    A car's horn broke Yuka out of her reverie.  She spun to see Reimi Jahana, the sexy light blue-haired too-many-times-to-really-count VG champion and president of Jahana, sitting in a red Mercedes.  Yuka was a bit stunned at the sight.  She had met Reimi twice before, the first time was when Reimi tested her power and the second was when Reimi declared Satomi the winner of the VG tournament.  Needless to say, neither one of them really knew each other.
    "Need a ride?" Reimi inquired.
    "Uh..," Yuka began hesistantly.
    "I can promise you I won't bite, I just came to talk," Reimi teased.
    Yuka decided that she was going to need a ride anyway, and since Jun Kubota was out of town for a VG match, she wasn't going to be able to hitch a ride with the wrestler.  Yuka opened the passenger side door and got into the car before closing the door again.  Reimi shifted the car into drive and the car roared to life, shooting forward and surpassing the nifty trick of going 0 to 60 MPH in six seconds by going from 0 to 130 MPH in three seconds.  Yuka almost became one with her seat as the intense pressure of the incredible speed was shoving her steadily backwards into the cushioning of her seat.
    "COULD YOU SLOW DOWN, PLEASE?!" Yuka yelled over the roar of the engine.
    Reimi slowed the car down to 70 MPH.
    "Sorry, I'm still getting used to this new car of mine," Reimi apologized, giving Yuka a glance and a somewhat pleasant smile.  However, Yuka thought she saw a lecherous look in Reimi's eyes.
    Yuka began sweatdropping.  It almost seemed like everyone in VG was either a lesbian or denying it from the way most of the fighters acted.  Now that she thought about it, that idea was silly.  Then some not-so-subtle hints began clicking in her head and she realized that the statement she had been ready to dismiss might be, at least in some way, a truth with roughly seventy percent of the fighters in VG, if not more.
    "So, how are you?" Reimi inquired.
    "Um, I'm doing okay," Yuka answered.
    "That's good," Reimi responded.
    Yuka squirmed as Reimi turned a corner.
    "May I ask why you decided to pick me up?" Yuka asked, realizing after the fact that the phrase came out sounding not quite right.
    Reimi smiled at the statement, but it faded.
    "I came to apologize to you and Satomi, but I felt I should talk to you first.  I've been so caught up in repairing the damaged tournament hall and cleaning out certain parts of Jahana that I've been too busy to come by any earlier.  My mother had set up a secret organization in Jahana that I didn't know about, one that would resurrect her after she was dead.  You know what happened to her plans, right?" Reimi inquired.
    "Yeah, Satomi and I blew them up," Yuka answered.
    "That's right.  And that's the reason I came to apologize," Reimi explained.
    "You don't need to apologize.  It was your mother alone who organized most of this and corrupted some good and loyal people," Yuka told her truthfully.
    Yuka had seen almost firsthand how much damage that Miranda Jahana's corruption had done to two people in particular.  Both wound up paying for the mistake of misplaced loyalty with their lives.
    "I was fairly sure there probably wouldn't be any hard feelings, but I just wanted to be absolutely certain.  Assumptions and all," Reimi responded.
    Yuka nodded.
    "By the way, you'd better be ready to fight really hard this year.  The number of VG warriors in this section alone has increased and the VG tournaments now reach over sixty percent of the world, which means that in the coming years, we might be seeing warriors from all around the world," Reimi informed her.
    Yuka whistled.  That was a lot of people who saw the matches and that meant a lot of money changing hands to get the confirmation towers and the rings set up.  It also meant that a lot more people were going to be joining the tournaments in the future too.  In the past few years, only six or seven new faces had shown up in the VG section Yuka was in, most of which didn't make it past the first two rounds because of the stronger and more skilled fighters who had been in the tournament before.
    "Hey, have you had your first match yet?" Reimi asked.
    Yuka began sweating.  Reimi was a powerful fighter and the leader of Jahana, but even she had to win her way into the finals this year.  Yuka began hoping rather strongly that Reimi didn't ask her to a match because it was a little too awkward to fight a woman who was mentally undressing you in the middle of the fight.  Plus because of that fact, Yuka began wishing she wasn't empathic.
    "Um, not yet," Yuka said.
    Reimi smiled.
    "Good, I'll be able to see how you've improved spiritually," Reimi commented, before adding, "and physcially,"
    Yuka decided that the car had an unusual vibe about it.  If she didn't know better, she's swear that was a strange form of jazz playing, but she had never heard it before and she was pretty sure she was only imagining it.
    "Now or later, it's all the same to me," Reimi shrugged, smiling confidently.
    "No thanks.  I'd rather lose in a fight first," Yuka said.
    "So long as you lose," Reimi declared, smirking.
    Before Yuka could reply, Reimi stopped the car.
    "Here we are.  Your apartment," Reimi informed Yuka.
    Yuka got out and turned back to Reimi.
    "I won't lose, not to you or to anyone else," Yuka told her.
    "That's exactly what Kaori Yanase said the year before last," Reimi shot back before adding in a lecherous tone, "So work on your hand techniques before our match,"
    Reimi drove off before Yuka could think of anything to say.  Yuka fumed a bit before deciding to just go back up to her apartment.  Reimi smiled to herself as she pulled her car onto the highway.
    A thought entered her head, one so deliciously ecchi that I'm not even going to write it down.  Let's just say Reimi was going to have a very pleasant dream that night involving Yuka Takeuchi, a batch of fresh strawberries and some whip cream.  The part about the sex toys just got weird.
    For the first time in her life, Yuka was hoping she didn't have to fight someone.

    Jun Kubota was having fun.  The black-haired, green-eyed goddess of wrestling was currently having fun with a rookie who had been too confident for her own good.  Not to mention she was a lot weaker than Jun.  The rookie's name was Rei and she too had long black hair, but her hair had been tied back into a ponytail and her eyes were brown.
    The match had only started about two minutes ago and Rei was already on the verge of losing.  Rei had quickly realized that agreeing to the strip rule was _not_ the smartest thing to do the instant one started in VG.
    Rei had made the mistake of getting in too close to Jun, where wrestlers like Jun could dominate even against kick-boxers like Rei.  Not to mention that Jun was far more experienced in fighting.  Rei had been winning some kick-boxing tournaments in recent years and thought she was good enough for VG.  That's when she and all the newbies like her found out that ordinary tournament matches were nothing compared to the awesome difficultly of a true VG match.
    Jun encased the inside of her elbow with energy and clotheslined Rei, sending the kick-boxer flying against the ropes to rebound and run into Jun's elbow thrust.  Luckily for Rei, Jun's elbow pad softened the blow.  Unfortunately, combined with the last attack she had received, Rei was just not strong enough to continue fighting.  She collapsed.
    Jun turned her gaze to the nearest large screen TV which was displaying her face and Rei's.  Rei's face on the board was darkened.  The row five lights in a straight line below her picture lit up.
    "Oooh, too bad.  It's level four," Jun said.
    Jun grinned and hefted Rei up by the back of her tattered waitress uniform. She shoved Rei against the ropes and grinned evilly.  She really enjoyed this part.  The part where she gloated over her pathetic opponent.  Rei was still mostly conscious, but she didn't have any more fight in her.
    "Come on now, the crowd's waiting," Jun told her, handing a two by four.
    Rei whimpered, then sighed.  She began singing a Hanson song while pausing briefly to whack herself in the forehead.  It was quite satisfying to see the once-arrogant opponent embarrass themselves.
    "I'm almost glad the Olympics kicked me out," Jun murmurred.
    As Rei finally ended the song, Jun almost got the urge to yawn.  It was fun winning, but sometimes the opponent wasn't very entertaining afterwards.  Sometimes the excessive crying or whining would ruin the moment or other times it was the sheer lack of singing talent on the part of the opponent after the fight.  At times, VG was just disappointing.
    You had no right to cry in Jun's mind.  When you entered, you knew what sort of crazy ass stuff might happen when you lost.  You either sucked it up and did what you were told or you left VG.  That's the way it was.  Glory to the winner, complete and total humiliation for the loser.  Whining about it certainly hadn't changed many of the rules.
    Rei collected the shreds of dignity she had remaining and left without saying another word, no doubt to look for some aspirin.  Jun huffed to herself.  Some people had took loss poorly, others took it well.  Jun leapt out of the ring, which sank below the street, and hopped on her bike.  If she hurried, she could probably catch Yuka at home and she might be able to weasel a date out of Yuka.
    As she started her bike, she noticed something in her sidecar.  It had cute pink hair, green eyes and was wearing a blue and white dress.
    "Manami, what the heck are you doing here?" Jun inquired.
    "You're going to see Yuka, right?  I'm coming with," Manami answered.
    Jun groaned.  If there was something she had learned, Manami was well-nigh impossible to argue with.
    "All right, but no squeezing my breasts while I'm driving, okay?" Jun asked.
    "That's okay.  I like Yuka's chest better," Manami answered.
    Jun grinned to herself.  She liked Yuka's chest too.  In that respect, she and Manami were in agreement.
    "By the way, I thought you lived-" Jun began.
    "I had a match nearby," Manami answered.
    "Lemme guess, you won?" Jun asked.
    "Yep.  Newbie," Manami grinned.
    "Those things are like rodents," Jun commented.
    "That's why I always win!  After all, I'm a cat, no da!" Manami stated, proving that she had been watching far too much Fushigi Yuugi as of late.
    Jun just smiled, turned her head to roll her eyes, checked traffic and began driving back to Tokyo.

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    More newbies challenge the veterans.
    A strange girl sitting a room.
    Ayako and Yuki get it on.
    Yuka, Jun and Manami out on the town.
    All this and more in the next chapter!


    Next, Chapter 2: Goddesses of Partying Down!


    A-kun, signing off.

    Visit my new VG page at: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3968/variable/avg.html
    And if anyone has or knows of a page where I can find pictures of K1, K2, Miranda Jahana or Material, I'd really appreciate it if you dropped me a line at: akun15@hotmail.com and labelled the subject [Advanced Variable Geo].

    Explanations and Bios: (WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE VG VIDEO AND IS REALLY LONG)
    This is for people who know diddley about Variable Geo.

    The Levels are how much you have to make an ass out of themselves if they lose.  Both fighters, in my series at least, can agree to or suspend the strip rule.

    As for the voices on the confirmation towers, they do almost sound like they're totally surprised when someone is confirmed as a VG warrior.  It's almost as if the computer, after saying "CONFIRMED!" is about to follow it up with "Oh my gawd!  What the hell do we do now?!".

    Sidebets are, as always, optional in every fight.  Both fighters have to agree to it, much like the strip rule.

    As stated before, some fighters can choose forgo the performance/strip rule if their opponents agree.  However, some corporate sponsors will offer large bonuses if the fighters don't forgo the rule, which, for money desperate warriors, will often wind up making the choice for them.

    At age 17, Jun Kubota became friends with Yuka shortly after their fight together.  Yuka almost lost to Jun, but managed to make a comeback and win thanks to Satomi's encouragement.  Jun gets incredibly cruel in a fight and was booted out of the Olympics for her unsportsmanlike fighting style which is devastating and brutal.  While it's still a sore point in her career, even she'll joke about it occasionally (but only when in an incredibly good mood).  She's very opinionated and will rarely back down from anything, especially a fight, unless it's against an opponent who uses a weapon.  (Jun feels weapons are unfair, no da)
    She keeps telling Yuka "We're gonna have a good time," repeatedly and gives Yuka rides on her motorcycle.  Plus the way she was almost ready to strip Yuka naked before the match was done adds to the suspicion that she's infatuated with Yuka in a potentially non-platonic manner.  I could be wrong and it may very well be that I'm reading all of these signals wrong.  And maybe full-contact yodeling dentistry will catch on one of these days.
    *pauses**checks newstations*
    Okay, it hasn't happened yet, so I'm _probably_ not reading these signals wrong.
    Jun is best described as a well-tanned girl with long dark-hair that goes down to her butt or so.  She wears a red headband.

    Manami Kusonoki may look only about eight to twelve years old (with her bright pink hair in twin ponytails) depending on what scene you look at, but she's actually fifteen and an Idol Singer to boot!  She practically emits a "Super Cute Field" wherein anything she does gets kiddy music and kiddy sound effects.  She wears two of these giant cat paw gloves while fighting, adding more 'oomph' to her attacks.  Most of her style seems to be almost child-like as she has attacks like "Cat Rocket Punch!" where upon she throws a giant cat paw-like glove at her opponent.  The astounding thing is that one Cat Rocket Punch has been known to knock four girls down.
    She thinks VG is a game and probably hasn't even had the chance to lose a real fight (I, of course, have given her a solid track record).  You only see two of her attacks in the anime.  One is to clear away some lackeys and the other is to give Jun an oppurtunity to lay the smack down on a VG warrior who is under mind-control drugs.  Although, she knows the Cicada Ruse (where upon it looks like you've been stabbed or stuck heavily when in fact your opponent has only attacked your clothes, leaving them open for a powerful counterattack.  Just be sure to have some underwear on before doing this, as you usually shed most of your outfit.) which shows she does have some actual training, but it might not have been very extensive.
    Manami blatantly grabs one of Yuka's breasts in the anime and gives it a squeeze before telling Yuka, "That was fantastic!  You've got the nicest pair I've ever felt,".  She later nuzzles Jun's chest before sadly declaring, "They looked bigger,"  If these aren't blatant declarations of her preferences, I don't know what is.  Then again, like I stated before, I could be reading these signs wrong.
    If you want a good idea of what Manami looks like and you're an anime fan, mix Sasami (of Tenchi Muyo!) with Chibi-Usagi (from Sailor Moon R), leaving most of Chibi-Usa's face, hairstyle and hair color, but Sasami's physique.

    Satomi Yajima has brown eyes and short brown hair that's rather unruly.  She and Yuka Takeuchi have trained together since their early teens and thus know the same style of fighting.  Satomi had been a good fighter before meeting Yuka and won numerous tournaments to show for it.  She and Yuka were on par for power, but Satomi had far more experience and skill.
    Despite this, Satomi never won an actual match against Yuka.  Yuka has the ability to read the emotions and spirits of her opponents and sometimes their very memories and thoughts.  Satomi might also have this ability, which might explain why they have an incredibly emotional bond.  Because of the bond and her own shyness, Satomi kept losing and running away emotionally.
    Both became waitresses, but Yuka was the only one fighting in VG.  Satomi probably didn't enter the tournament because of three reasons: 1) with her mother and father dead and her brother Daisuke so young, Satomi had to spend a lot of time at home or working.  2) When Daisuke began his Grand Mal Seizures, Satomi couldn't afford to get injured in a match as she needed to make all the money she could waitressing to pay for Daisuke's huge medical fees.  3) She didn't want to lose to her friend, Yuka.
    Just when Daisuke was getting better, he 'relapsed'.  Emotionally wracked at the thought of her young brother having to suffer more Grand Mal Seizures, Satomi was completely unprepared when she taken by a group in Jahana, started by Miranda Jahana (Reimi's mother), and offered the money necessary to perform an expensive operation to 'cure' Daisuke's recent 'relapse' into the Grand Mal Seizures.  It was believed that Satomi would be an excellent candidate to host Miranda (who had been dead for a long time, no da).  But as it turned out, she and Yuka, the other candidate, had an emotional bond far stronger than even the spirit of Miranda could contain.  Miranda and the group in Jahana both went up in smoke, causing most of the parts of the VG Tournament hall to be destroyed, damaged and/or burned.
    Ayako met Satomi when Satomi was being studied by the secret Jahana group to find out if she was suitable for Miranda.  Ayako took a shining to Satomi, but Satomi wasn't really in the mood for Ayako's antics.  Satomi seemed to be losing for the first forty seconds, then she blasted Ayako unconscious with one attack and caused some serious damage to the night club they were in (thus why Ayako would grumble about losing two so fast, because actions are far faster than words).  Satomi and Yuka both had similar ideal physical qualities, but Yuka has a bigger chest to hold her large heart, no da.  Why the mystery group in Jahana didn't just check both Yuka AND Satomi leads me to believe that they (the mystery group) weren't the sharpest Nerf ball in the Ginzu knife factory.
    Satomi and Yuka had a fight on the roof to discover the reason that they fight, thus ending Satomi's shyness.  As to the reason they fight?  I don't know.  I look for reasons to write lemon scenes.  (Yes, I'm a disgusting male.  Live with it.)
    Daisuke, Satomi's little brother, looks a lot like Satomi, but has more subdued hair and is about ten years old.

    Reimi Jahana is the reigning champion of the Japan sectional tournament, thanks to the training of her overly-zealous mother who used to beat her if she showed weakness in her fighting stance, etc.  Her mother also had a device implanted into Reimi, who was still conscious and not under any form of pain killer, so that if Reimi attacked Miranda's next incarnation, the other incarnation could cause Reimi incredibly pain, thus taking the champion down.  Luckily, Miranda's plan were dashed and Reimi recovered fairly well from the ordeal.
    She has a manservant in the anime named Washio with whom she has 'relations'.  Am I the only one who thinks that 'Washio' is actually the author or artist of the series being a jerk and taking one of the best fighters in the whole series?  If you're wondering, 'Washio' won't be appearing, despite his helpful hacking...er, INFORMATION GATHERING skills (Yes, I hate Washio, he got one of the best choices).  Reimi's blue hair is as long as Yuka's, but is curly instead of straight like Yuka's.
    The one word Reimi likes most: Equality.
    She reveals this tidbit when a newbie tries to get out of having to show her body.  The newbie is caught and forced to show off.
    The thing that annoys Reimi the most: Hiding one's face like a coward.
    She reveals this when a masked warrior shows up while she and 'Washio' are making out.  With a swift toss of a nearby rose, she destroys the mask to reveal the VG warrior beneath.  Annoyingly, 'Washio' knew the "mystery VG warrior"'s identity before Reimi destroys her mask.  Maybe 'Washio' could recognize her apparel, but he still annoys the @#$%@#$ @$#%@#$ out of me.
    The thing she hates the most: Disturbances to the natural order.
    She declares this when Satomi, under a lot of Miranda's influence, defeats her strongest rival, Kaori Yanase.  It isn't until Miranda activates the device in Reimi's body that Reimi realizes what and who she's really fighting.
    The sight she feels is the most beautiful: Goddesses (VG warriors) locked in battle.
    She tells 'Washio' this when Satomi and Yuka on the roof of the VG tournament hall and are about to fight.

    Miranda Jahana was Reimi's bitch-like mother.  If you've ever seen a mother practically cry and fawn over a child that has a tiny scratch, Miranda is the exact opposite.  She used a riding crop to strike Reimi when she was training.  And Reimi was, I'd estimate, no more than ten years old at the time.  And Miranda didn't seem to trust anyone save the employees that would stab their own mothers for a nickel or the ones that were trusting to a fault.  If you watched the first Variable Geo video, you'd agree with me in saying that I hope her death was as drawn out and painful as it could possibly be.  This was NOT a woman to like even if you only saw her.  The fact that her face seems to almost always have either a scowl or a cruel sneer of disgust or joy whenever you actually get to see it adds to my personal dislike of this woman.  Although, I have to compliment the creators.  They knew how to make someone that ANYONE can hate.

    Yuka Takeuchi is called a "Ryu (from Street Fighter) clone" and for some very good reasons.  She has a style much like Ryu's and she doesn't lose a single match throughout the entire anime, save one unofficial fight against a non-VG psychopath.  Yuka's main attack is the Scream Devil Bullet or whatever it's called in the game, but she has quite a few more special attacks.  Her two most amazing abilities are: 1) being able to feel her opponents emotions and sense their strongest memories.  2) Being able to absorb her opponent's energy blast and use the power right back at them, amplified by her own energy.
    She also seems to be a fairly good fighter and can use a few astoundingly powerful techniques, but as is revealed by the anime, she fights best when she can feel her opponent's emotions.  To date, there are almost no fighters who can completely mask their emotions well enough that Yuka can't feel them.
    Yuka has brown eyes like Satomi and long brown hair that's mostly tied back into a fountaining ponytail.

    Kaori Yanase was Reimi's chief rival and among some of the veterans of VG.  She defeated a newbie in the anime with only three attacks, the first attack only tearing her opponent's outfit.  She relies on a computer to study her opponents, estimate their skills and find hidden weaknesses.  It was her intense research into the better fighters in VG that allowed her to figure out how to break Miranda's control over Satomi Yajima.  Her style is kick-boxing, but Kaori tends to try and lead her opponents to forfeit or come back at a later date if they're far weaker than her.  It could be that she believes in having a match that is at least partially in her opponent's favor and dislikes fighting vastly weaker opponents.

    As for Rei, she's not in the anime or the game.  Bonus if you figured out what series she's from.  Answer to be displayed next chapter.

    Yuki Asamiya is a created character and is NOT related to Athena Asamiya of "King of Fighters" fame.

    Bonus for all those who knew that Maya Ibuki is actually from Neon Genesis Evangelion.  I don't know why I chose her to be a VG fighter, but this is a one-shot appearance anyway, so no big deal.

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