The fans screamed in the neon-lit stadium. Gathered from all around, with almost as many backgrounds as the competitors themselves, each hollaring, waving flags, holding up posters to declare their allegience to this warrior or that fighter.

"Well folks, we've seen some unusual fights already, but get ready for one humdinger of a strange match up!" announced Hiro.

"Humdinger?" asked Dai.

"Anyway...." recovered the slightly more enthused announcer, "one of our competitors has already activated the teleporters early, so it'll take a few moments to locate him. Anyway, some info on our first competitor. He's from New York and enjoys coffe gum..." covering his microphone, Hiro leaned over and whispered to his counterpart "Who wrote this crap? That's all it says!"

"Just go with it." replied Dai, taking over for her partner. "Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause for Iggi..."

"Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof woof..."

Though a tad shaken by the sudden boos of the crowd, Dai continued undaunted, "And that would be Timothy, our sound man, playing some theme music for Iggi?"

"Who let the--" BANG!

"What the hell!? Was that a gunshot!?" shouted Hiro. "Get a camera to the sound room!" Moments later, an image flared to life on the jumbo screen, showing a man whose feature were hidden behind the brim of a bright blue cowboy hat. He holstered a pistol and forcibly ejected the offending CD from the player. The stadium was suddenly devoid of any and all Baha Men.

Covering his mike once again, Hiro whispered to no one in particular "I guess we're gonna need another Timmy..." taking his hand away, he tried to calm the audience down. They took everything rather well. Gun slinging maniacs were nothing compared to some of the crazies actually going into the arena. "It seems we have a new sound guy for a little while...Ah! We've found Iggi!"

The jumbo screen changed again, showing a white sandy beach bathed in the glow of the full moon. Standing at least 40 feet tall, an enormous sand sculpture of a canine form stood in the moonlight. It's sand teeth bared as it stood motionless in a baying pose aimed at the celestial body. Though the tide threatened to come closer, and literally sweep the sculpture off it's feet, the enormous dog naturally paid it no mind.

"Uh...Hiro? You said we'd found Iggi...well, where is he?" Dai was seriously considering hiring a new staff, seeing as how the current one either had members being shot or cameramen who couldn't find rain in the monsoon season. Her thoughts were interrupted, however, as she noticed a slight movement coming from the enormous sand dog. More accuratly, coming from between it's hind-quarters.

"Hey, what's that? Zoom in!" barked Hiro. That may have been a mistake, as this merely seemed to confuse the masses moreso. Something seemed to be forcing it's way out from underneath an upturned sand tail. the burrower seemed black and white in color, though it was slightly obscured by the deceptive color of the moonlight.

"You don't think that's..." started Dai. She would have yelped as she saw the head burst out of the sand dogs posterier, had she not been the cool, collected pro she was. Hiro, for once, was speechless.

The head was quickly followed by paws and small, furry body. Several people, including way more members of PETA than would could be considered safe for a sporting event, gasped as the tiny puppy fell to the ground. Luckily, he stuck one paw out and managed to grab onto one of the legs of the giant sculpture, scurrying to safety at ground level.

Ignoring the yells of "Yeehaw! Go Iggi!" coming from the sound room, Hiro whispered to his friend "You believing this?"

"That had to be the most bizarre entrance I've seen...." muttered Dai. Turning back to her mike, she said "Ladies and gentlemen...Iggi."

What members of the crowd that had recovered themselves whooped for the frisky pup.

Juni, who was still waiting in the main arena, continued to stay locked onto the television sets as the Boston terrier shook off all the sand out of its fur.  The blonde quickly glanced back at her brown-haired partner Juli, but before she could even say anything...

"I don't even want to know WHAT kind of sick freak would have a fetish for young short haired blondes in full body leotards with an entrance like that.  Juni, just get into the teleporter."

"Well, okay.  But I'm still annoyed that Shadowlaw couldn't even dispense a budget to get me some neat fireworks for MY entrance..."

As she was about to step into the teleporter, Juli stopped her.

"Are you allowed to take that with you?"

"Take what?"

A soft 'mew' was heared as Juni's pet tabby kitty cat, Cuddles, stuck it's head out from behind Juni's hair.  Juni turned to look towards her then beamed.

"Oh, it's okay!  Cuddles is harmless!  She just wants to get a closer view of the action!"

"Cuddles... is harmless?"

"Yep!"  Juni beamed again as Cuddles mauled Juli and left a rather nasty slash across her face.  "Really harmless!  She really likes you!"

The teleporter activated and Juni dissappeared before she could hear her partner screaming in pain.

"Ah, our second contestant finally caught up, Dai!  She's the cute pretty young blonde in tights, and she enjoys shiny explosions, being cheerful, and Adolf Hitler!  ...Are these people for real?"

"Just keep reading the card, Hiro."

"Well, anyway, at least she's really cute.  Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause for JUNI!!!!"

A flash, and there was a kitty cat on the beach.

The audience stared.

"Wow, Hiro, I never knew you had a thing for kitty cats and thought them to be pretty..."  Dai grinned.  "Your infatuation with catgirls knows no bounds, does it?"

Hiro decided not to satisfy her with a reply as Juni promptly then finally appeared and fell right into the sand next to Cuddles, stood up, brushed herself off, then looked around.

"Hey!  It's the beach!"  The blonde beamed again.  "I like this!  So... um... what am I supposed to be fighting right now?"

She quickly looked at the card she was given for the tournament.

"I'm fighting a dog?  Wow, neat!  Normally, I don't like dogs much, but I bet it's a big monster dog!  A humongous beast that is salivating and just waiting to chomp and tear me up and it'll take all my prowess as both a Shadowlaw agent and a hunter of monsters of the dark in order to defeat this big big evil COOL LOOKING graphical creature of the largest magnitude!  Course, a beach really doesn't set the atmosphere for a horror survival fight, but whatever!"

Happily looking around as Cuddles leaped onto her shoulder, Juni adjusted her gloves and quickly dashed behind a table, then surveyed the area from her hiding place.

"Hmm... don't see the beast anywhere.  Oh, hi Iggi."

A pause.

"Iggi!!  Hey, it's Anna's dog that I saw before in New York once.  You'll help me find the monster, won't you?  With your nose of... um... awesome sniffyness or something."

She stared at her card again.

"Yep!  I'm looking for the dog monster.  That's named Iggi.  You wouldn't happen to know where it is, would you?"

Cuddles mewed happily as she took a look at her old friend again, but it was then that Juni saw the monster!  A huge beast nearby, made out of sand that had... wheels for some reason.

"Ah!  There it is!  Out of the way, Iggi!"  Juni yelled as she kicked the little dog aside, sending it crashing into a nearby beach umbrella.  "I'll take care of this!  This Iggi is no match for my... um... well, since I didn't bring along Avelle's gun... I really don't have a weapon for this thing.  And I'm still having trouble incorporating Psycho Power into my attacks.  Hmm."

It looked like her opponent was about to give up. Just as Iggi crashed into the table with an audible 'WHAM!', The Fool flipped over sideways onto it's back, and looked to be in quite a bit of pain.

"Uh...yeah!" yelled Juni, "Obviously my feared Shadaloo precense is frightening you to no ends!" She then psyched herself up moreso, and gave the offending creature a MENACING STARE! "Take that!"

Iggi, having managed to recover himself, shook his head to clear it and looked back to the fight.  That was his intention, but he ended up with a view full of tabby cat instead.

<YARN HEEEAAAD!> mewed the ecstatic Cuddles before tackling him. Iggi once again found his poor, poor cranium on the recieving end of much cat-paw related boppage.  Iggi groaned.  Why why WHY did he always get cornered by scary people!?

Juni was apparently intoxicated with the scent of victory.  With each MENACING STARE sent the way of The Fool, it's head recoiled, as if struck with a physical blow.  Oh, this would be a grand day for the DOLL indeed!  Especially after last years fiasco.  And besides, this evil dog monster was a lot scarier than some metaphysical psychic woman!  Rose was really powerful and all, but an evil dog monster had pizazz.  Woo hoo!

Iggi growled to himself.  He was probably going to feel really bad about this in the morning, but...with a loud bark, Iggi took off like a rocket, bowling Cuddles over.  Hearing Cuddles mew in surprise, Juni turned to make sure her precious kitten was okay. That was a mistake, as The Fool zoomed in and ran her over in a bizarre imitation of Iggi.

The blond agent groaned as she tried to clear her head from the impact shock.  She saw The Fool spin on it's wheels, turning back to face her.  She lost sight of Iggi as he ran behind The Fool.  Oh no! He didn't realize how dangerous it was!  She had to save Iggi!  As the sandy monster roared towards her, Juni let her muscles uncoil into a Cannon Spike, the underside of her boot catching the monster just under the chin. It flew backward, and as it's back hit the ground, she saw Iggi fly backward out from behind it.

"Oh you poor doggy! I'll help you!" Juni cried, not realizing she was the cause of his injury.  As she rushed over to him, Iggi sprang back onto his feet.  The Fool followed suit, rolling between him and the agent.  Another demons roar, another squeal of the tires, and it was once again rushing towards her.

<Yarn Head wants to play!> mewed Cuddles.  Iggi, wondering how the cat could sneak up on him like that, jumped up in total surprise.  Unfortunately, The Fool did the same thing, hopping over Juni a moment before impact.

It was at this point that Juni pointed at The Fool and shouted.

"Cuddles!  Psycho Streak!"

"Mew?"  The cat looked back at her questioningly as Juni sighed.  She dreamed of a time when she could just salute and shout "Yes, sir!" and her Lord Bison would appear and assist her by psycho crushering her opponent to oblivion, but she had to make due with Cuddles instead.

Juni pointed at The Fool again and stared at her kitty cat.  "Pretty please?"

<Okay, mommy!>

"MREOW!!!!"  Cuddles mewed loudly as she flashed and dashed right through The Fool with a blinding light, which also accidentally toasted Iggi who was nearby.  The dog yelped then decided that it was finally time to get away from the scary psycho girl (and her mommy, Juni, too).  Running away with the Fool running after him, he quickly climbed (well, hopped a lot) to the top of a rather big rock on the beach.  Juni dashed after the sand demon, attempting to keep on the offense.  The Fool continued to run from her and she managed to skillfully maneuver it to the side of the rock, thinking she could trap it.  Instead, The Fool jumped and Iggi jumped onto it, and suddenly it changed into a hang glider!  Juni could only blink in amazement as she saw it soar away, puppy dog and all.

The girl blinked again.

"What the...?  It can shapeshift, too!?  COOL!  Though why is it trying to kidnap Iggi?  Wait!  Come back here!!!"

With a mach slide, Juni had fast caught up to it just as it slowly fell to the the ground. She turned to face the descending beast, and greet it with another Cannon Spike while saving Iggi, but she was interrupted...

BUUUURP!

...interupted by a spherical gob of sand being spit at her head. She flipped back onto her feet as the glob bowled her over. The Fool spit several more spheres her way as it lazily drifted downward. Not one to be fooled twice so quickly, she expertly dodged each new projectile with an expert dance of spins and mach slides. As The Fool touched ground, it ceased it's barrage and merely stood sizing her up with Iggi curled underneath it's monsterous head.

"Cuddles! Rescue our friend!" she commanded.

"MREOW!" and Iggi suddenly found himself being carried with part of his neck in Cuddles' mouth.  It was even wierder to the terrier, seeing as how Cuddles was just over half his size.  Cuddles jumped towards her mommy, and Iggi could only kick his legs in moot protest as they rocketed towards the young agent. Juni grabbed the still-flying Iggi as Cuddles landed on all fours in the sand.  The young girl began to the wonder why The Fool was sitting on its metallic butt and kicking its front legs, but she didn't have time to wonder long as her veiw was suddenly filled with large amounts of terrier underbelly.

Iggi's tiny nails scratched at the agents head and face frantically, half for purchase and half because he was here to FIGHT, dammit.  His jaws found her short, blond hair, and he promptly began giving Juni good reason to consider a toupee for a few weeks.

"Iggi calm down you're safe now and....oh EW EW EW!!!  That smell!"  Juni began her own mad clawing at the canine form on her face, desperately trying to remove the source of the offensive odor.  Odd, she never heard of dogs breaking wind when they were scared.  In a slightly mad attempt to get the smell away from her nostrils, she realized seconds too late that she had just thrown the plucky little puppy right back at the monster she had just rescued him from.  D'oh!

Iggi hit The Fool dead in the head, and both went rolling.  They hit the rock The Fool had glided from earlier, and The Fool dissapeared in a puff of sand. Iggi stood up and shook himself off.

"Where'd it go?" she asked to no one in particular. It wasn't to the left....not to the right....ack! Behind her!?

Nope, not there either.  Yay, she won! Jumping up and doing the Juni Victory Dance, she didn't notice Iggi sink quickly into the sand and reappear right behind her.  The Fool rose up right underneath him, completely silent.

<Hey Cuddles! Let's go for a ride!>

"Eh?" Juni turned towards the sound of the bark behind her. Was Iggi hurt? She found herself staring right at the grinning face of that most outstanding individual, The Fool. She failed to notice Cuddles happily mewing from atop it's head with Iggi. "Is this going to hurt?"

<SAND AVALANCHE!>

The swirling tidal wave of sand, powered to slightly obscene proportions due to the large size of the beach, might have been just a little bit of overkill.  Sucking the enormous sand sculpture Iggi had made prior to the fight into the wave to give it even more oomph was definatly overdoing things a little. But that still didn't stop the puppy from yelling atop The Fools floating head <YAHOOIE!>

<This is fun!> laughed Cuddles. <Hey, did we just pass mommy?>

Iggi, being the ultimate Stand Master of the Hour, would have sweatdropped, had he not been too badass to do so.  He just sighed slightly as he felt himself get teleported back to the ClashDome.
 

"Ow.... my head... where am I?"

Juni slowly opened her eyes to see herself back at the Arena, as her partner Juli was glancing towards the teleporter.  She could fuzzily hear something about those two announcer people screaming about how Iggi was the winner, but her head was spinning too much for her to hear it clearly and the shiny stadium lights and loudly cheering audience didn't help.

"Hmm... that's wierd..."  Juli's muttering was close enough for Juni to hear, at least.  "Never saw a sand tidal wave before.  Wonder where the heck THAT came from.  How random."

"That's no fair!"  Juni snapped.  "That sandmonster Iggi only won because of a random weather event!"

With a sigh, Juni quickly ran up to Iggi and Cuddles to retrieve her kitty cat, then looked towards the dog.

"Oh... hey Iggi.  It's okay.  It's not your fault that I lost.  Thanks for trying to help."

Juli's voice quickly came from behind.  "Um... you realize that your opponent was the DOG Iggi, right?  And I'm talking about the one not made out of sand.  The sand one must have been a decoy prop or something that decided to fight back once you attacked it."

"It was?"

The brunette nodded.  "Yea."

"Doh!"