Riverdale Gladiators Archie Fan - betty_cooper72@yahoo.ca Men participate in American Gladiators style competition against female gladiators from Riverdale... ****************************************************************************** ****** The arena was filled with the sound of trumpet music and the all-female crowd gathered all cheered. "Ladies from the Hermione Lodge Memorial Coliseum in Riverdale, New Jersey here are your Gladiators!" a woman's voice announced. At the top of a set of stairs a towering muscular blonde with her hair tied back in a ponytail and dressed in a red, white and blue spandex outfit. "She's 8'4", 517 lbs. Betty "Ice" Cooper!" the female announcer said as the crowd roared with approval. Another huge woman, this one with raven black hair that hung loosely over her shoulders dressed in a similar outfit appeared at the top of the stairs. "Next, she's 8'2" 520 lbs. Veronica "Diamond" Lodge!" the announcer shouted as the crowd continued to cheer. A third enormous woman appeared at the top of the stairs. She had fiery red hair with bright green eyes and wore a mostly red spandex outfit trimmed with just a bit of white and blue. "Give it up for the 8'5" 533 lbs. Cheryl "Inferno" Blossom!" the announcer declared as the audience hooted and hollered with delight. A fourth gigantic woman appeared at the top of the stairs. She was Hispanic with blonde streaks in her dark brown hair and dressed in a mostly blue with red and white trim spandex outfit. "And let's hear it for the 8'3" 508 lbs. Ginger "Spice" Lopez!" the announcer stated as crowd continued to express their pleasure. A fifth massive woman appeared at the top of the stairs. She was black with her curly hair tied back in a sort of puffy ponytail. "Fast and Deadly, at 8'6" 515 lbs. it's Nancy "Panther" Woods!" The announcer called out to the delight of the crowd. A sixth humongous woman appeared at the top of the stairs. She was Asian with pink highlights in her long black hair. She wore a mostly white spandex outfit with red and blue trim. "And last but certainly not least 8'1" 516 lbs. it's Sheila "Fury" Wu!" The announcer bellowed as the crowd yelled their approval. The six huge women all stood in a line facing the raucous audience. "Ladies I give you your Gladiators!" the announcer shouted. "And now your hosts, Polly Cooper...!" the crowd cheered. "And Archie Andrews," the crowd went quiet. The camera panned to a huge muscular blonde woman dressed in a tight fitting black dress standing next to an average sized red-head who looked to be about 18 years old. Polly was actually the older sister of Betty "Ice" Cooper and was almost the exact same size as her younger sister. Next to her Archie, who was about 5'10" and 190 lbs. looked like a child. "We've got a great show lined up for you and the viewers at home tonight," Polly said to the audience. "Isn't that right Archie?" Archie just looked around nervously, clearly uncomfortable. "Our Gladiators are here and they're ready to prove why we call them Gladiators," Polly continued not missing a beat. "So let's get ready for our first event of the evening, The Wall." The camera panned over to a big seventy-five foot high rock climbing wall. "Panther and Fury are going to be our two gladiators for this event," Polly said. "So Archie how about you introduce our contenders." The camera panned down to two athletic looking men dressed in singlets, one wore red and the other wore blue. Both men looked nervously between the tall wall and the two huge women standing behind them. "Um, Steve is blue and Dave is red," Archie said nervously. "And..." "And the rules for the Wall are simple," Polly interrupted him. "Our contenders need to climb to the top of the wall without getting ripped off by our gladiators. They get a ten second head start. The first one that makes it to the top gets 10 points, the second gets 5. And now let's go to our referee Geraldine Grundy." The camera panned to a silver haired woman easily as large as the gladiators dressed in a black and white striped bikini top and black spandex shorts. "Contestants ready?" Grundy asked. The two men both nodded nervously. "Gladiators ready?" Grundy inquired. Nancy and Sheila both grinned and nodded as they rubbed their hands in anticipation. "Go!" Grundy ordered. The two men ran to the wall and began climbing as fast as they could. A ten second timer appeared on a clock next to the wall counting down. As soon as it his zero Grundy ordered the Gladiators to go. Sheila reached the wall and began pulling herself up quickly and easily using only her arms. In just ten second she had closed the gap to the contestant she was chasing Steve. She reached up with one arm and grabbed him by one of his legs and with ease pulled him off the wall. However Sheila wasn't done. She swung Steve like a club bashing his body against the wall. Steve's body hit the much harder wall with more force than a car crash, exploding on impact in a shower of gore. Sheila was left hanging onto the wall with one hand, Steve's leg in her other hand the only part of him still intact. Nancy meanwhile and climbed up and was quite literally over top of Dave, her feet on grips below him and her arms on grips above him, effectively trapping him. Nancy then pressed her body hard against the wall. Dave let out a brief cry as his body was pancaked against the wall by Nancy's 515 lbs. frame and crushed. His remains sloughed off the wall to the ground while Nancy jumped down off the wall landing deftly on her feet, leaving behind a large bloodstain that had once been Dave. The crowd cheered loudly at the Gladiators victory. The camera panned back to Polly and Archie in the announce booth. Polly was smiling while Archie's mouth was hanging open in shock. "Well looks like our Gladiators won that round, wouldn't you agree Archie?" Polly asked. Archie didn't responded and just continued to stare at the wall, shocked but what he had just witnessed. "Well on to our next event, Power Ball!" Polly declared. "Since our first two contestants didn't make it past the first round we've replaced them with some alternates, who are they Archie." Archie glanced down at some cue cards he had fumbling through them. "Ah it doesn't matter anyway," Polly said. "For this round they'll be going up against Spice and Diamond!" The camera panned down to playing fields that had been set up on the arena floor. There were two yellow areas at either end and a large green rectangular area in the middle. There were five cylinders set up four near the corners of the green area and one in the middle. In the yellow area were two bins filled with balls. "The rules for Powerball are quite simple, the contenders score points by getting a ball into one of the scoring cylinders. Two points for one of the outer cylinders or five points if they manage to get one in the center cylinder," Polly explained. "But of course to score they have to get past our gladiators." The camera panned down to the two contenders. The two men were on opposite sides of the playing area while Ginger and Veronica were in the green area. Grundy stood to one side near the middle. "Contestants ready?" Grundy inquired. Both men looked nervous as they stared at the two huge women they were going up against. "Gladiators ready?" Grundy inquired. Ginger and Veronica both grinned with anticipation. "Go!" Grundy shouted. The man in the red was up against Ginger and he immediately made a dash to his right hoping to out run Ginger. However Ginger was much faster than her bulk suggested. She easily ran over and caught him with one arm in a headlock. Ginger then squeezed the man's head between her massive bicep and huge forearm. The men's face went red and his eyes bulged until they popped out of his head, moments before his skull imploded from the pressure sending brains and blood all over the floor as the crowd roared with approval. On the other side the man in blue ran to his left as Veronica gave chase before he cut back to his right. In the NFL such a move would have left a running back with a clear path to the end zone. However Veronica had far greater reach than an NFL defensive lineman and she easily wrapped her arms around his waist. Veronica then hoisted the man like a rag doll up into he air and slammed him down onto the back of his head in a German Suplex style move. The man's head burst open against the ground leaving a bloody stain on the floor as the crowd cheered ever louder. "Well Spice and Diamond certainly made short work of those two," Polly commented with a chuckle. "After two rounds it's still scoreless for both contestants." The scoreboard hanging high above the area floor read "0-0". "So Archie what's our next event?" Polly asked. Archie was still staring at the broken and bloody corpses of the two men which were simply being left where they had died on the Powerball court. "Our next event is one of my personal favourites, Hang Tough," Polly said. "The object of this even is that one at a time the contestants must use a series of hanging rings to get from one platform to another without being stopped by our Gladiator. And for this event the contestant will be going up against none other than my sister Ice!" The crowd cheered as Betty took her position on one of the platforms and flexed for the crowd. On the other platform a nervous man in a red singlet looked across at her. "And we've managed to find another replacement for this event," Polly said. "Who do we have now Archie." Archie just looked at her confused and hopeless. "Yeah, you're probably right, we don't need to know his name," Polly agreed. "Let's just watch the action." "Contestant ready?" Grundy asked. The nervous contestant in his red singlet nodded. "Gladiator ready?" Grundy called across the gap to the other platform. Betty nodded as she grabbed one of the rings. "Go!" Grundy commanded. The nervous contestant desperately grabbed at rings as he tried his best to go wide and past Betty. However Betty calmly followed him swinging with ease and able to skip rings with her enormous reach. The contestant had barely gone halfway before Betty grabbed him between her legs. The contestant let out a cry and let go of the rings and found himself still trapped between Betty's legs in a scissor grip. Betty looked down at him and let go of one of the two rings she was hanging on and gave him a thumbs-down. She then squeezed her thighs together powerful. The man let out a cry as he was bisected in half at the waist between Betty's legs his two halves falling to the mat below. Betty calmly swung and made her way back to her platform as the second contestant was brought up onto the platform. The contestant looked down to see his fellow competitor laying on the mat, broken in half but not quite dead yet. He then looked across at Betty who was looking back at him, her thighs stained with blood. The contestant turned around as he considered running only to find Grundy's large ominous frame blocking his path. "Contestant ready?" Grundy asked threateningly. The contestant gulped and then grabbed one of the rings. "Gladiator ready?" Grundy inquired. Betty responded by slapping her blood-stained thighs together. "Go!" Grundy cried. The contestant began swinging on the rings looking to try and hide off in a corner hoping that Betty wouldn't get him. However the course wasn't big enough and Betty was far too fast on the rings. In a matter of seconds she had him cornered. The contestant decided to let go and simply drop hoping to escape with his life. However before he could fall to the mat Betty was able to catch him between her legs by the head. The contestant squirmed and tried to pull his head free but Betty held him tight. Betty squeezed her thighs and blood sprayed out from between her thunderous thighs and the contestants decapitated corpse fell to the mat. "Impressive showing by Ice there," Polly said. "She is certainly doing our family proud. Say Archie didn't you used to date her?" Archie didn't respond. He was simply staring at the first contestant who was still somehow alive and desperately trying to crawl off the mat. However, as he watched Grundy walked over and stepped down on his head, crushing it like a melon finishing him off. "Yeah, you dated Ice, Diamond and the Gladiator in our next event of the day, The Joust, Inferno!" Polly announced. The crowd cheered as Cheryl climbed up onto a large pedestal holding a pugilist stick. "The Joust is our next event and the rules are quite simple. The contestants have thirty seconds to try and knock Inferno off the pedestal with their pugilist stick without getting knocked off themselves. If they knock her off they get ten points, if they last the whole thirty seconds they get five points, simple as that." Polly explained. "So who's the new contestant in red Archie?" Polly asked. Archie didn't reply as he watched the terrified contestant being forced to climb up onto the pedestal by Grundy. He was wearing a fully caged helmet, elbow pads, gloves and knee pads but still looked utterly tiny next to Cheryl who wore no protective gear. "Right again, their names don't matter," Polly said. The contestant was now up on the pedestal holding on tightly to his pugilist stick. "Contestant ready?" Grundy asked. The frightened contestant shook his head no, but Grundy ignored him. "Gladiator ready?" Grundy queried. Cheryl grinned and nodded her head yes. "Go!" Grundy ordered. The frightened contestant began swinging his pugilist stick wildly. However the blows didn't even cause Cheryl to flinch as she simply stood there taking them for several seconds. Cheryl then batted the contestants stick out his hands with a single blow and then thrust the padded end of her own stick into his chest. Even though the stick was padded there was enough force that the stick drove into and through the contestant's chest and out his back. Cheryl pulled her pugilist stick back and the contestant toppled to the mat as the crowd cheered. The next contestant in blue looked like he was about to crap in his singlet as Grundy forced him up onto his pedestal. "Contestant ready?" Grundy asked once he had his pugilist stick. The contestant simply stood his knees quaking, not answering. "Gladiator ready?" Grundy inquired. Cheryl licked her lips like a hungry dog and nodded. "Go!" Grundy asked. The contestant didn't move and Cheryl stood a little annoyed. She leaned forward till she was eye level with the contestant. "I'll give you a free shot," Cheryl said as she pointed at her chin. The frightened contest took the opportunity to swing his pugilist stick as hard as he could, striking Cheryl in the side of the head with the big padded end. However Cheryl didn't budge at all. She straightened back up unimpressed. "Is that the best you can do?" Cheryl asked haughtily. Cheryl then swung her own pugilist stick with just one hand. She struck the side of the contestant's head with enough force to knock his head clean off his shoulders, sailing out into the audience where a group of women cheered as they tried to catch it. His body stood on the top of the pedestal for a moment. It then wobbled back and forth a couple times before toppling to the mat below. The camera then cut back to Archie and Polly up in the booth. "Well it looks like we've run out of contestants unfortunately," Polly said. "So I guess that means that the winners today are the Gladiators." The crowd all cheered. "So Archie, what did you think about today's events?" Polly asked as she and Archie faced the camera. "Well... honestly I..." Archie started to say. However before Archie could say anything else Polly wrapped him up in a chokehold. She then squeezed hard crushing Archie's neck and popping his head right off. "On behalf of Grundy and the Gladiators, thank you all for watching," Polly said to the camera. "Tune in next time when I'll be joined by a new male broadcast partner." The End?