The Showdown (short story): Difference between revisions

| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild)|Jenny Everywhere]]

On behalf of the [[Heroines Guild]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild)|Jenny Everywhere]] travels to the ghost town of [[Showdown]], on [[Planet 19-1-14-4]], a favoured hideaway of the famous outlaw [[Amber Kelly]] and her gang of smartly-dressed female robbers, the [[Fashionistas]]. After Jenny and Amber come face to face, Amber challenges Jenny to a duel, but proves far slower than Jenny. Instead of shooting to kill or wound, Jenny is so precise that she uses a series of strategically-aimed shots to ruin Kelly's outfit, and thereby her composure and concentration, before forcing her backwards into a horse-trough and shooting down an old sign hanging over it, which falls down on Kelly's head, knocking her out. When the outlaw comes to, Jenny has tied her onto her horse, still in the same embarrassing state of undress, and the two are on their way to the nearest Guild outpost, apparently twelve miles, or five towns, away.  

* [[Jenny Everywhere]] appears as [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild)|the incarnation]] previously seen in ''[[Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild (short story)|Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild]]'', with “olive skin” and hair in a pixie cut. On top of the obligatory [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]], she wears a ''Spinal Tap'' T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and pink combat boots, as well as, befitting the “Wild West in space” setting, “a gun belt with a small six-shooter”.

* This is the [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild)|same incarnation of Jenny]] as in [[Mattkind]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] story for the previous year, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild (short story)|Jenny Everywhere Visits the Heroines Guild]]''. Mattkind's contribution to the next year's Day, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (short story)|Downtime]]'', picked up directly where ''The Showdown'' left off.

* [[Jenny_Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Another Jenny]] somehow acquired a copy of this story, read it, and commented upon it, somewhat denting the [[Fourth Wall Awareness|fourth wall]] in the process, in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Fanfic Critique (short story)|Fanfic Critique]]''. Later, [[Mattkind]]'s own [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (short story)|Downtime]]'' acted both as a direct sequel to ''The Showdown'' and as a prequel to that story, showing that Jenny herself was the author of the in-universe version of ''The Showdown'' and had mailed to [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|the Parallax Jenny]] while drunk.