Twelve fighters were still in the ring. Before the next section could officially start, eighteen more fighters needed to enter the ring. The only ones focused on the entrance curtain were Kooper, Terry, Muscle Power and J. Talbain. Bowser was chasing Sonic, the Mario brothers were talking about a strategy and Galford was fighting Hsien-Ko (with Ashelin and Aila telling him to back off).
Hearing the audience cheering, the few fighters turned towards the entrance curtain to watch the next fighter enter the ring.
“METAKNIGHT!” (SSB)
The audience cheered as the small, winged sword fighter of Pop Star rushed down to the ring and jumped in. Spreading his wings in midair, Metaknight glided into the ring and dropped to the canvas, whipping out his sword at the same time.
Landing on his feet, Metaknight ran headlong towards Terry. The elder Bogard brother saw the small fighter coming and jumped to the side as Metaknight slashed beside him.
“Nice try, shorty.” Terry said with a smirk.
“Don’t judge me because of my size.” Metaknight said. “I’m the most skilled swordsman on my planet.”
“Aren’t you the ONLY-”
“Shut up.” Metaknight growled. “Just shut up.”
“VANESSA LEWIS!” (VF)
The dark-skinned beauty of Virtua Fighter came out from behind the curtain and played to the crowd as she made her way down to the ring. Once she got into the ring, Vanessa made her way over to Ashelin, hoping for a fight.
“Excuse me.” Vanessa said as she put her hand on Ashelin’s shoulder.
The redhead she-elf jumped and reacted accordingly: Grabbing Vanessa’s hand and flipping her over her shoulder. It was only once Vanessa was on the canvas did Ashelin remember that it was a fighting tournament and not life-threatening.
“Sorry about that.” Ashelin muttered.
Vanessa got to her feet. “Pretty impressive strength.” She said. “You must train a lot.”
“I’ve had practice.” Ashelin shrugged.
“CRUMP!” (PM)
“Buh-huh-huh!” Crump laughed as he stomped down to the ring. “Time for me to prove that I can handle myself against the best of them!”
Landing in the ring, the short, fat henchman suddenly saw a familiar figure in the ring. “Oh! Would you look at that? Mario!” Crump said. “Maybe I can trounce his behind as well and prove to lord Grodus that I can take him down!”
However, on his way over, Crump found himself staring into the angry eyes of Kooper.
“Don’t go near Mario, fat guy.” Kooper warned.
“Back off, koopa.” Crump replied.
“Not happening.” Kooper said, putting up his fists.
“KAZUMA!” (GF)
To a mixed reaction, the Galaxy Fight ninja came out from behind the curtain and made his way down to the ring and jumped in. Whipping out his sword, Kazuma went over to challenge Muscle Power, seeing him as an easy elimination.
“Whatcha looking for, bud?” Muscle Power asked.
“A fight, mainly.” Kazuma replied. “Think you can provide?”
“Can I provide?’ Muscle Power asked. “I’m numbah one!”
“We’ll see about that, won’t we?”
“BALD BOY!” (TFS)
The new TFS resident lived up to his name with his bald head. Dressed in a black football uniform, Bald Boy slapped his fist into his palm and charged down to the ring, leaping in headfirst.
Bald Boy ran over to Aila, hoping to get a fight from her. “Can I interest you in a fight?” The TFS’er asked.
Aila ducked under a stray bomb (courtesy of Hsien-Ko). “I’m sorta busy trying to get Galford away from this girl!” She replied.
Bald Boy scratched his head. “Need any help, then?”
“If you want, but try not to get yourself killed!”
“ROBERT GARCIA!” (KOF)
Standing outside of the entrance curtain, Robert tossed a coin to himself a couple of times before catching it and putting it in his pocket. Once the coin was in his pocket, Robert ran down to the ring.
This first thing Robert did was go over to J. Talbain to see if he could fight him. However, before he could get far, Sonic zoomed past him.
“Outta my way, small fry!” Bowser roared as he swatted Robert aside as he passed by.
Robert groaned as he got to his feet. Making sure no one would run him over this time, Robert ran over to Talbain.
(SSB Locker Room)
“We’ve got a fair amount of people in the ring.” Captain Falcon noted. “We seem to be in good shape.”
“That may be so, but the tournament’s only half over.” Fox reminded.
“Meh. I’m not worried.”
Peach was about to add her two cents when she heard a rapid knocking at the door. Curious, the pink-clad princess walked over to the door and opened in. No sooner was the door opened when a blur of green shot into the locker room and latched onto Peach.
“Peach, something’s happened!” Mimi wailed. “I can’t find them! They’re gone!”
“C-Calm down, Mimi!” Peach said. “Who’s gone?”
“Nassy and O’Chunks!” Mimi cried. “Nassy told us to meet her after one of us got eliminated, but I can’t find her! I’ve tried to see if O’Chunks has seen her, but he’s gone, too!”
“Well, O’Chunks couldn’t have gone far.” Peach assured. “He’s entering the ring in a couple of sections.”
“But…What about Nastasia?’ Mimi asked, rubbing her eyes to wipe away the tears.
“She’s probably with him.” Peach suggested.
Mimi shook her head. “No, she’s not. She’s not in her spot in the crowd and I can’t find her in the hotel.”
Peach bit her lip. She wasn’t really sure what to say, now. She knew that Mimi considered Nastasia like a big sister, or even a mother, and she was always prone to getting severely upset whenever something came up.
“Look, I don’t enter the ring for a while.” Peach said. “How about we go look for her together? If O’Chunks is still in the ring when I enter, I’ll ask him if he’s seen her.”
Mimi simply nodded, continuing to wipe her tears of fear away. With that, she led the pink-clad princess down the hallway, starting the search.
(Hotel; Lobby)
“Why the heck are we waiting here?” Rawk Hawk asked. “We should be storming that creep’s room right now.”
“Lilly just got eliminated.” Billy replied. “We need to wait for her to catch up before we move on.”
“Be patient, oaf.” Koopinator scolded the yellow giant. “To go against Bison, we’ll need all the help we can get.”
“You think this many people is enough, though?” Blue Mary asked, doing a quick head count. “I think we’re going to need quite a bit more.”
“You kidding?” Rawk Hawk laughed as he stepped over to Tiny. “I’m sure the big guy here and I could bench press half of Bison’s men ourselves!”
“Uh…Policewoman have point.” Tiny pointed out. “It better safe than sorry.”
“Thanks a lot, pal.” Rawk Hawk said flatly.
“Bison’s no pushover, mon.” Dee Jay reminded Rawk Hawk. “Fight him unprepared and you’ll likely get killed.”
“Even still, waiting around isn’t going to do us any good.” Ally Gator pointed out.
“Da! Ve are needingk to be movingk quickly!” Krauser agreed.
“Not without us, you’re not!”
Everyone turned to see Kid USA, Cream, Maiagaru, Kasumi, J. Maxx and Brian Battler enter the lobby.
“Big bro!” Ally said. “You know about this plot, too?”
“Know about it? I was almost killed BECAUSE of it.” Kid USA shook his head. “If Cream here hadn’t shown up with that piece of emerald, I would be dead now.”
“It’s a shard of the Master Emerald. It holds immense power.” Cream replied. “Knowing him, mister Knuckles is probably looking for these.”
“So is that all of your allies?” Ky asked.
“No. We’ve got two more coming.” Kid USA shook his head. “They should be getting here soon.”
“Well, we’d best wait for them as well.” Billy noted.
Rawk Hawk muttered something under his breath and folded his arms. “All this waiting is making me bored.” He said.
(The Arena)
“CHUN-LI!” (SFA3)
Street Fighter’s leading lady came out to a loud cheer. Setting her sights on the ring, Chun-Li stepped down and got into the arena.
“Looks like Vega got eliminated.” Chun-Li noted. “Too bad. I was hoping to give him a few punches myself.”
“Lady! You gotta help me!” Sonic said as he rushed over to Chun-Li. “That villain over there is trying to kill me, man!”
Chun-Li narrowed her eyes at Bowser, whom lumbered over. “Step aside, lady. My fight’s with short, blue and spiky.”
“Why don’t you pick on someone your own size, scum?” Chun-Li said, cracking her knuckles.
Meanwhile, Sonic chuckled. “That should keep big, green and ugly occupied for a bit.” He said as he continued on to challenge Mario.
“And now, Mystery Fighter…Number…Nineteen!”
“STORMTROOPER!” (Star Wars)
Much like in the last tournament, a lone Stormtrooper emerged from the curtain and made his way down to the ring. The crowd response was much warmer than last year, as people were cheering instead of laughing due to the expendable grunt’s success in the ring in the previous tournament.
“I’ll make Lord Vader proud.” The white-clad soldier said as he stepped into the ring. “This tournament is going to feel the wrath of the Galactic Empire.”
The Stormtrooper whipped out his blaster rifle and shot a laser bolt at Crump. The portly henchman took the laser bolt to the back, making him take his attention off of Kooper (whom quickly slipped off to start a fight elsewhere).
“Buh-huh-huh! How amusing!” Crump laughed. “You trying to take me out that way! Because I’m so popular, people should know that lasers don’t have any effect on me!”
The Stormtrooper paused. “Oops. Looks like I mistook you for Batman, but now I guess you’re too short and fat.” He said as he walked off. “Sorry. I just think I’d rather fight someone more worthwhile.”
“H-Hey! Get back here!” Crump shouted as he gave chase.
“LI XIANGFEI!” (FF)
The Chinese glutton (although she was still extremely thin) came out from behind the curtain, balancing three meat buns on her nose. Hitting them into the air, Xiangfei opened her mouth, catching all three meat buns and swallowing them at the same time.
“Mmmm…That’s good eating.” Xiangfei said as she rushed down to the ring.
As soon as Xiangfei was in the ring, Kazuma crashed into her, courtesy of Muscle Power’s throw from across the ring.
“Ugh…Sorry about that.” Kazuma said as he got to his feet.
“Don’t tell me that wannabe is beating you.” Xiangfei said.
“Hey, you wanna go challenge him or something?!” Kazuma asked.
Xiangfei stood in silence, shrugged and rushed forward, straight at Muscle Power.
“HUGO!” (S3)
The main protagonist of Suikoden 3 came out to a decent-sized cheer. Swinging his dagger a couple of times, Hugo ran down to the ring, charging his True Fire Rune.
When Hugo landed in the ring, he looked around, suddenly seeing Aila still in the ring. Hugo rushed over to his fellow Karayan. “Hey, Aila! Good to see that you’re still in the ring!” He said.
“Hey, it feels good to get out of that Sound Booth once in a while.” Aila chuckled.
“How IS it in there, anyway?” Hugo asked.
Aila shrugged. “Pretty good. Shadow and Astaroth are good friends to me.” She replied.
“No offense, but you three make a very unusual-looking trio.” Hugo shook his head. “I can’t believe that you’re good friends with an immortal hedgehog and a bloodthirsty demon.”
“Don’t say that about Astaroth. He’s a sweetie.”
“SANKURO!” (SS)
The crowd mainly booed the thief that emerged from the curtain. Paying it no mind, Sankuro walked down to the ring, his hammer slung over his shoulder. Stepping into the ring, Sankuro looked around for exactly three seconds before a weight slammed into his face, making him collapse.
Hsien-Ko bounded over, looking worried. “Oh! I’m so sorry! I was aiming for that American ninja and missed!” She said. That’s when she saw that Sankuro was looking a little beat up as he got to his feet. “Wait. I didn’t throw it that hard to cause that much damage. What happened?”
“Uh…Nothing.” Sankuro said, trying to forget about his tussle with Jak and Torn.
“FUUMA!” (WH)
To a mixed reaction, the red-clad ninja came out from behind the curtain and rushed down to the ring, jumping in.
Once he landed, Fuuma rushed over to Muscle Power, whom had just knocked Xiangfei away. “This is great! There are two of us in the arena at once!” Fuuma announced.
“Uh…Yeah? So?” Muscle Power asked.
“We can double-team all of these losers and take the crown!” Fuuma replied.
“Uh…Just try not to get in the way.” Muscle Power said.
“Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?” Fuuma asked. “Usually, you’d be running around, saying that you’re ‘numbah one’ about now.”
Muscle Power paused. “Am I really like that?” He thought.
(Dome; Hallway)
“What the heck are we doing here?’ Gumshoe asked as the security force walked down the hallway.
“Because this script is saying that we need to be here now.” Max said, reading a booklet that read ‘Megamix Tournament 2’ on it.
“How can you argue with logic like that, man?” Psymon asked Gumshoe, making the detective step away from him.
“Look, the only reason I signed on for this job was to keep the peace.” Gumshoe pointed out. “Not to put up with two lunatics.”
“Guh.” Marilyn agreed.
“What have we done to show that we’re lunatics?” Psymon asked defensively. He was met with cold, flat stares from Gumshoe, Marilyn and Sergei. “Don’t answer that.”
“We’re just treading water, here.” Gumshoe explained. “If I went this slow back in my node, I would have been fired ages ago.”
“Well, we won’t have to wait long.” Max said, pointing down the hallway in the direction the group was walking. “According to this, we should be meeting up with someone right about…Now.”
As if one cue, someone came walking around the corner and walked straight into Psymon. The dreadlocked psycho stepped to the side and laughed.
“Boy! That’s what I call great timing!” Psymon said as he looked at whom he had walked into.
Unfortunately, the newcomer didn’t look as pleasant as Psymon. “Out of the way, worm.” Ganondorf Dragmire said.
“Hey, watch your mouth.” Gumshoe ordered. “We’re the security force here. We have full authority over everyone here.”
“You have no authority over me!” Ganondorf said. “I am Ganondorf Dragmire!”
“Pleased to meet you Mr. Mire.” Max said, shaking Ganondorf’s hand. “I’m Max.”
Ganondorf growled as he swatted Max aside, sending the white creature crashing into the wall.
Sergei growled as his red eyes deepened. The giant rabbit stepped forward to take the evil king on. Marilyn followed behind, cracking her knuckles.
“This could be rather interesting.”
Gumshoe looked to the side and saw Psymon simply standing still, watching the fight. “What’s wrong with you?! Why aren’t you moving in to help?!” He asked.
“The script says that only Sergei and Marilyn can fight this guy.” Psymon, whom was now reading the booklet, replied casually.
“That doesn’t make any sense!”
“Sure it does. Here. Read this.” Psymon said as he passed the booklet to Gumshoe.
“Uh…‘Gumshoe reads part of script Psymon points out as Sergei and Marilyn start fist-fight with Ganondorf Dragmire’.” Gumshoe read before pausing and looking ahead with a confused expression.
(The Arena)
“HUITZIL!” (DS)
(You’re wondering who I am…)
(Machine-o-matic man…)
(With parts made in Japan…)
(I am the modern man)
The gold robot came out to a mixed reaction and ‘Mr. Roboto;. Huitzil paid it no mind and stepped down to the ring, preparing to take on whomever came at it. Huitzil set its sights on J. Talbain and Hsien-Ko, seeing them as threats despite them being its nodal companions.
(I’ve got a secret…I’ve been hiding…Under my skin…)
(My heart is human…My blood is boiling…My brain IBM…)
(So if you see me…Acting strangely…Don’t be surprised…)
(I’m just a man who…Needs someone…And somewhere to hide!)
(To keep me alive…To keep me alive!)
When Huitzil landed in the ring, it stepped towards J. Talbain when Luigi jumped in and struck it in the head. Huitzil turned and looked down at Luigi, whom was now looking nervous.
“Oh. It’s not a guy in a suit.” Luigi said as he backed away. “It’s a real robot.”
Huitzil turned its left hand into a chainsaw. Luigi ran away screaming, but Huitzil gave chase.
“SHINGO YABUKI!” (KOF)
Kyo’s self-proclaimed student came out to a decent-sized cheer. Punching the air a few times, Shingo ran down to the ring and leapt in headfirst.
Seeing the Stormtrooper fighting Crump, Shingo rushed over. “Shingo Kick!” He shouted, launching himself forward in a flying kick.
Crump looked up in time to see Shingo’s foot fly into his face. As the fat henchman recoiled, the Stormtrooper looked down at Shingo.
“Thanks a lot, kid. I was starting to think he’d NEVER go away.” The Stormtrooper replied.
“Uh…No problem.” Shingo said, not wanting to tell the Stormtrooper that he was the young teenager’s intended target.
“And now, Mystery Fighter…Number…Twenty!”
“LEON POWALSKI!” (Star Fox)
Up in the Eliminated Seating, Falco did a spit take with his water and looked at the entrance curtain with wide eyes.
Indeed, there was Leon. The chameleon looked up at Falco, smirked evilly and waved. Falco’s eye twitched a few times before he jumped to his feet and ran from the Eliminated Seating, screaming his head off.
Leon saw this and shook his head. “Pity. I would have loved to see the look on his face when I beat his elimination record.” He said as he stepped into the ring and camouflaged himself, blending into the background.
Ashelin, in the meantime, had given up on getting Galford away from Hsien-Ko and was fighting Vanessa Lewis. The two woman fought for a bit, dodging each other’s punches and kicks.
“My. Such fierce combat.” Leon’s voice said, startling the two women. He suddenly materialized again, his arm on Ashelin’s shoulder. “You sure look like you’ve had practice, my dear.”
“Remove the arm before I tear it from your socket, you creep.” Ashelin threatened, narrowing her eyes.
Leon lifted a non-existent eyebrow. “Well, well, well. THAT is the type of attitude I like in a woman.” He said.
Ashelin quickly punched the chameleon in the face.
“SLAYER!” (GG)
The gentleman vampire came out from behind the curtain and studied the ring for a few seconds, trying to come up with a decent strategy. Setting his sights on Bowser, Slayer walked down to the ring and stepped in.
Unlike those before him, Slayer easily maneuvered around whomever was in his path to the king of koopas. Sonic flew past him, Mario jumped over him, a blaster shot from the Stormtrooper soared over his head and an arrow (courtesy of Aila) shot behind him.
Eventually, Slayer arrived at Bowser’s side, only to see that he had his hands full with Chun-Li.
“Looks like you’re in need of assistance, my good man.” Slayer said.
“Sure. Give me a hand with this crazy lady so I can resume chasing down that little blue punk.” Bowser said.
Chun-Li narrowed her eyes. “Two against one now? Sounds like good odds to me.” She said as she jumped at the two.
“JUAN!” (S3)
(Too many days like the other days)
(I feel I'm lost like it's yesterday)
(Half expecting Saturday)
(I can't seem to turn around)
(Turn around to you again)
(Half expecting Saturday)
The young and lazy Bujitsu teacher came out to Perfect Ending's 'Sleepwalker', yawning and stretching. He had been napping in the Ready Room for a while and, as luck would have it, he woke up when he had to enter the ring.
(By the way, by the way, I'm not okay)
(By the way, by the way, I'm not okay)
(By the way, by the way, I'm not okay...)
(To be awake is the only thing I want!)
(With you, I'm just walking in my sleep!)
(To be awake is the only thing I want!)
(With you, I'm just walking in my sleep!)
Juan scanned the ring for allies as he made his way down. “Hugo and Aila.” He noted. “Not bad, I guess.”
Fuuma saw him enter and rushed over, attempting to give him a karate chop while he wasn’t looking.
Without looking, Juan shot his hand to the side and caught Fuuma’s wrist. Juan quickly turned his arm, flipping Fuuma into the air and making the redhead ninja land on his back.
“What the heck?!” Fuuma asked.
“I’ve got the biggest string of combos in my node and I’m one of the highest damage dealers in the game.” Juan replied simply. “I may be lazy and sleep a lot, but I’m still the best at what I do.”
Fuuma started sweating, only now realizing that he had gotten into a fight with a fighting machine. He quickly looked back. “Give me a hand, Muscle Power!” He called out.
“You’re on your own, Fuuma.” Muscle Power replied as he walked away. He was never really one to think rationally, but there was a first time for everything.
“And now, the final fighter of this section…”
“PROTOMAN!” (MM)
Coming out to a techno remix of his theme song, Protoman stood outside the entrance curtain, his scarf wafting in the wind (even though there wasn’t any to begin with). Protoman hit the ring and went over to help Luigi with Huitzil.
Jumping in, Protoman gave the gold robot a hard kick to the face, making Huitzil stagger backwards.
“Why are you so scared of this thing?” Protoman asked the green-clad plumber.
“You would be too if you were human!” Luigi replied.
“Okay. You have a valid point.” Protoman shrugged. He suddenly saw Huitzil coming at the two of them. “Here it comes again.”
“Ack! Quick! Run!”
“You can.” Protoman said as he whipped out his shield. “I’m going to take it on.”
