“Yoshi!”
“Jigglypuff!”
“Get offa me, you shrimps!” O’Chunks roared as Yoshi and Jigglypuff continued to pelt him with attacks.
The bearded warrior couldn’t believe how hard it was to fight two small fighters. Yoshi’s attacks were too fast to counter and Jigglypuff was floating circles around O’Chunks, making it hard for him to hit her.
“Why are ye fighting me, anyway?!” O’Chunks asked. “Aye need ta eliminate that boxer!”
“Yoshi! Yosh-yoshi!” Yoshi said brightly.
“Puff! Jij-jiggly, jigglypuff!” Jigglypuff agreed.
O’Chunks mentally slapped himself. “Why did Aye think Aye would get an answer from two people that can’t speak English?” Sighing, O’Chunks put up his fists. “Okay. If Aye have ta take you two out ta get ta the boxer, then so be it.”
Seth leaned backwards as Neo Dio’s arm slashed at him. While the enigmatic being was recovering, Seth shoved his foot into his face. This gave Stun an opening, allowing the enhanced warrior to grab Neo Dio and slam him into the canvas.
Getting to his feet, Neo Dio narrowed his eyes. “You foolish morals think you have a chance against someone like me?!” He asked. “Allow me to show you how deadly I am!”
“You’re not that tough.” Seth shrugged. “Jivatma is tougher than you.”
Stun would have added that Chonos, someone from his node that had yet to enter the ring, was tougher than Neo Dio as well, but that would have only been if he had been able to talk.
Neo Dio narrowed his eyes. “I have yet to reach my full potential! I think it’s time to fight at my fullest at destroy the both of you!” He roared.
“Bring it on, freak!” Seth said with a smirk as he put up his fists. Stun did the same.
Sol slashed his sword at Heavy D!, but the black boxer saw the attack coming and swerved to the side. D! lashed out his fist and managed to catch Sol in the face, making him recoil a bit.
Rubbing his chin, Sol smirked. “Impressive for someone that hasn’t seen any work in a long time.” He noted. “Why haven’t you been brought back yet?”
“Not a day goes by when I don’t ask myself that question.” D! replied as he rushed at Sol with a Rolling Soul Driver.
Sol saw the attack coming this time and held up his sword, blocking the attack. “You seem intent on finishing the fight quickly.” He said with a smirk. “Am I making things too hard for you?”
“You have no idea, buster.” D! replied. “That bearded guy seems determined to eliminate me and I still need to find out why.”
Sol looked over D!’s shoulder and saw O’Chunks futilely trying to attacking Yoshi and Jigglypuff. “I don’t think you’ll have anything to worry about…” He noted.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“Something’s up.” SSBFreak said. “O’Chunks has been gunning for Heavy D! ever since he entered the ring…”
“That doesn’t make any sense.” Unknown1 scratched his head. “They’ve never met each other before tonight.”
“I think it’s safe to say that something’s going on.” Tinyrocket pointed out.
“Then why isn’t that security force staying on top of things?” SSBFreak moaned. “We hired them so they could keep things from happening behind our backs!”
Unknown1 picked up the phone and started to call Gumshoe. “I’m going to let those guys know about this and make sure that they get things settled.” He said.
“Good idea. Maybe we can get them to work harder, now.” Tinyrocket said.
(Dome; Hallway)
“Here’s another one of those shards!” Mickey Rogers announced, holding up a piece of the Master Emerald that was sitting on the floor.
“That makes three.” Koopinator noted. “We’re making good progress thus far.”
“We haven’t found anyone working with Bison, though.” Blue Mary added. “But I guess the shards are a good start.”
“If this keeps up, we’ll have found most of the emerald before those creeps do!” Lilly Kane said.
“Hold it.” The four turned and saw a red echidna walking over. “I’ll be taking those shards.”
“For your sake, you’d better not be working for Bison.” Koopinator growled, putting up his fists.
“Stand down, buddy. That’s Knuckles the Echidna.” Mickey pointed out. “He was on the security force last year.”
“That’s right. He’s one of the good guys.” Blue Mary nodded. “Chances are he’s trying to rebuild the emerald as well.”
“So you guys are looking for the emerald pieces as well?” Knuckles asked, walking over. “What for?”
“Mainly, we’re trying to keep them out of Bison’s hands.” Lilly replied.
“Then it looks like we have similar goals.” Knuckles nodded. “Is there more of you?”
“Yeah. In fact, this whole thing was started when a rabbit kid from your node found a shard.” Mickey said.
Knuckles’ eyes widened. “Cream’s a part of this and Bison’s after the shards?!” He asked. “How many shards did she have when you left her?!”
“At least a few.” Lilly scratched her head.
Knuckles activated his emerald radar. “The more shards there are together, the stronger a reading I’ll get on my radar.” He replied. “Hmm…I still can’t get over this huge source of emerald energy that seems to be moving around on its own…”
Mickey handed the gem shards (which had fused into one) to Knuckles. “You’d better hold onto these.” He explained.
“Thanks. I’ll tag along with you for now. At least then I’ll be able to recover the gem shards you find.” Knuckles nodded as he added the recovered shard to what he had already found, forming one-third of the complete emerald. “Hopefully, I’ll be able to rebuild the emerald before the night is out.”
(The Arena)
Hell’s Chef swung his huge cleaver at Guy, but the red-clad ninja easily jumped to the side and avoided the blow. While in the air, Guy kicked the deranged chef in the face and made him stagger backwards.
The red eyes within the blackness of Chef’s face deepened. “Hold still, roadkill!” He roared as he lunged at Guy again.
“I think not.” Guy said as he jumped over Chef as he ran towards him. Landing behind the evil cook, Guy swept Chef off his feet, causing him to land on his back.
However, Chef was back on his feet almost instantly. The evil cook spun around. “I’ll turn you into a stew!” He shouted.
“This guy is more demented than the entire Mad Gear gang.” Guy muttered to himself as Chef charged him again. “I need to be careful fighting him.”
Guy had to admit that Chef was a LOT faster than he looked, and reminded himself not to turn and run, because there was no way he’d be able to get away from the evil cook. The one upside was that Chef’s attacks were slow, so at least Guy knew when the best time to attack him would be.
Chef rushed over to Guy and raised his cleaver above his head, preparing to split the red-clad ninja in two. Guy leapt backwards as the cleaver slammed into the canvas, then jumped at Chef, kicking him in the face again.
“You’re starting to annoy me!” Chef shouted. “I don’t like people that annoy me!”
“I might’ve figured that.” Guy said with a smirk. “But if you want to get rid of me, you have to catch me.”
“Sounds like you have a death wish!” The cook roared as he rushed at Guy.
“Okay. I just need to get him mad so he’ll lose his focus.” Guy thought. “Seems like it won’t be that hard.”
Seeing Guy easily avoiding him, Chef blindly charged at him, swinging his cleaver wildly. Guy smirked and jumped to the side as Chef charged past, still swinging his knife. It took a bit for Chef to slow down, but by the time he did, Guy kicked him in the back and sent him toppling over the ropes.
Chef landed in Crash of the Titans. Crash rushed by on the back of a monster, clobbering Chef and sending him into the ocean on his way by.
D! ducked under Sol’s blade again, then performed an uppercut, striking the swordsman in the chin and sending him flying backwards.
Landing flat on his back, Sol got to his feet and smirked. “Man. That’s what I call a punch.” He said as he rushed at D!. “This could be more interesting than I thought…”
Sol lashed out again, sending a wave of fire with a swing of his sword. D!’s eyes widened behind his shades as he held up his arms in an attempt to block the attack.
The wave of fire slammed into D!’s arms, burning him. Still, the boxer managed to keep the flames out of his face. However, this distracted D! and gave Sol the opportunity to kick him in the face, sending the boxer to the canvas.
However, while D! was on the canvas, he heard someone laughing as he was hauled to his feet.
“Well, if it isn’t mister past-his-prime.” Shen Woo said as he pulled D! to his feet. “Face it. You’re old-fashioned style of fighting is out. Why don’t you just give up now?”
“Why are you talking like you’re the one that’s been fighting me, rookie?” D! asked.
“Rookie?! I can beat you blindfolded!” Shen Woo shouted.
“Look, man. I don’t have time to deal with you at the moment.” D! said. “I have an appointment with a much better opponent.”
Pulling his fist backwards, D! lashed it out. “D! MAGNUM!!” He roared, creating a rocketing explosion with his fist and sending Shen Woo flying backwards. D! then resumed his fight with Sol.
Shen Woo flew backwards and would have went out of the ring had he not fly into something hard. Unfortunately for the boxer, said hard thing was the back of O’Chunks, whom reached back, grabbed Shen Woo and held him in front of his face.
“Lad, maybe ye didn’t hear me the first time.” O’Chunks said. “Aye already have meh ‘ands full, so Aye don’t want ta deal with ye right now.”
“But-” Shen Woo tried to say.
“Don’t say anything, lad.” O’Chunks said. “Aye know nothing Aye say will get through to ye.”
Pulling the arm holding Shen Woo backwards, O’Chunks pitched the boxer out of the ring, then turned to continue his fight with Yoshi and Jigglypuff, whom were laughing at the amusing scene.
Shen Woo landed in Mario Strikers: Charged, where he unwittingly caught the ball. Everyone else on the field instantly dogpiled him.
Larcen slowly got to his feet, rubbing his chin after a kick from Lion Rafale. Quickly making a scan of the ring, he saw Metaknight throwing K’ out of the ring (and sending the white-haired warrior into the node of Animal Crossing, where he set Tom Nook on fire (there was much rejoicing)), but not much other than that.
Suddenly hearing rapid footsteps behind him, Larcen dropped to his knees and let Lion fly over him in a flying kick. Whipping out his grappling hook as he got to his feet again, Larcen lashed it out and managed to wrap it around Lion’s ankle while the youth was still in the air.
Larcen flashed a smirk. “Going down.” He said as he yanked the rope down, pulling Lion straight into the canvas.
Lion groaned as he got to his feet. “That hurt, old man!” He said.
“That’s the point of a tournament like this, kid.” Larcen replied with a smirk. “You have to hurt people if you want to eliminate them.”
Lion muttered something under his breath and rushed Larcen again, attempting a combo. Larcen held up his hands and blocked the first punch, then the second, but Lion drove his foot into the gangster’s stomach, catching him off guard and making him drop his guard.
Seeing his chance, Lion punched Larcen a couple of times, then kicked him in the face, launching him backwards several feet before landing on his back.
“Man. For a kid, he packs quite a punch.” Larcen muttered as he got to his feet.
Seeing Larcen getting up, Lion rushed at the gangster, preparing to land a flying kick to his face.
However, Larcen was ready and lifted his knee, striking the oncoming Lion in the face and making him recoil, landing on his behind.
“Stop that!” Lion shouted.
“Not happening, kid.” Larcen said as he jumped forward.
Lion saw Larcen coming at him and lifted his arms, blocking the gangster’s punch. Lion quickly countered the blow and kicked the surprised Larcen in the face, making him back off. “Time for this to end, old man!” He said as he rushed forward.
“You’re right about that, kid.” Larcen said as he pulled out his grappling hook again and lashed it out, wrapping it around Lion’s leg. Larcen quickly pulled it, yanking Lion off his feet. Larcen quickly spun in place, spinning the rope with Lion attached to the end of it around him.
Eventually, the grappling hook undid itself and detached from Lion’s leg. Because there was nothing keeping him on the rope, Lion was sent flying out of the ring.
Lion landed in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where Olimar started bombarding him with Pikmin.
After a surprise attack from Neo Dio, Seth had been thrown across the ring. He was trying to get back over to help Stun with the enigmatic Neo Dio, but Jubei Yagyu wasn’t giving him any breathing space. The one-eyed samurai lashed out with both swords, but Seth saw the attack coming and jumped backwards, then rushed forward, delivering a punch combo while Jubei was distracted.
“Impressive abilities for someone that doesn’t fight with a weapon.” Jubei noted.
“For my job, you need to be in peak condition.” Seth replied. “I must be able to fight armed people at all times.”
“Well, it seems to have paid off.” Jubei said. “Most other unarmed fighters would be dead by now.”
“Well, I’m also a bit determined.” Seth said as he swung his fist at Jubei in an uppercut. “I need to help that guy with the beast over there.”
Jubei looked to the side as he blocked Seth’s attack and saw Stun fighting Neo Dio. “He seems to be handling himself rather well, so I don’t think you should worry.”
“Yeah. I guess the thing HAS been fairly easy to fight.” Seth shrugged as he leaned to the side, avoiding a slash from Jubei’s right sword.
Jubei rushed Seth and slashed several times with both swords, but Seth proved to be just as fast as the one-eyed samurai, dodging most of the sword slashes. Unfortunately, the last one was able to sneak past Seth’s defenses and the special agent found himself flying backwards, landing on his back.
Seth looked up and saw Jubei running at him again. Seth rolled to the side and allowed Jubei to slash at where he had been laying. This gave Seth the opportunity to jump to his feet and kick Jubei in the back, knocking him to the canvas. Seth attacked the samurai a few more times before Jubei was able to get back up.
“You are a good opponent and a fine warrior, but I’m afraid only one of us can win.” Jubei noted as he leapt at Seth again. “And I’m afraid that person will be me.”
With that, Jubei slashed both swords as one, swinging them down with all his might and sending an x-shaped projectile straight into Seth. The special agent tried blocking, but it was too late and Seth took the attack to the face, flying out of the ring.
Seth landed in Double Dragon, where the Lee twins ganged up on him.
Jubei turned his attention towards Stun and saw him throwing Neo Dio out of the ring (and into Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where the clone soldiers mistook him for an alien jedi and gunned him down). Jubei smirked. “Just as I thought. He was victorious.” He said, more to himself than anything.
(Hotel; Hallway)
Kid USA flew into the wall, but quickly recovered and looked ahead in time to see I-No swinging her guitar at him. Ducking under the instrument, Kid USA swerved to the side as I-No slammed her guitar into the wall.
“Hold still and die, you worm!” I-No shouted as she played her guitar loudly, sending a killer sound wave straight into Kid USA’s face and making him recoil.
Landing on his stomach, Kid USA was once again on his feet quickly. “I almost died once tonight! It’s not happening again!” He shouted as he rushed I-No and punched her in the side of the head, making her stagger to the side. Kid USA took advantage of this and rushed forward, delivering a hard body blow to I-No’s torso.
I-No stepped backwards and growled, holding her guitar. “I’m going to make you pay for that one!” She snarled.
“Great. I just made her even madder…” Kid USA muttered.
Ally Gator and Balrog exchanged blows, but each time they swung their fist, their opponent would block the attack with a punch of their own. Because of this, the two boxers were on fairly equal ground.
The biggest difference was that Ally far outclassed Balrog in the speed department, while Balrog excelled in stamina and strength. The two were taking advantage of their strengths whenever they could, but still were unable to pull ahead of the other.
Balrog jabbed his fist forward, striking Ally in the face. “Okay, lady. Just give up now and we won’t hurt you two as bad.” He said.
Ally pulled her arm backwards and lashed it out, striking Balrog with a powerful hook. “You’re going to have to beat us both!” She said.
“So much for getting through to you.” Balrog said.
Ally blocked a blow from Balrog and looked over her shoulder. “Hey, bro! Why do I have to fight the ugly ox?!”
“Hey!” Balrog shouted.
“You mean you’d rather fight the psychotic witch?!” Kid USA asked as he ducked another swing of I-No’s guitar.
Ally pondered this for a couple of seconds. “Okay. You have a point.” She shrugged as she rushed Balrog again.
“Why are you after the Master Emerald pieces?!” Kid USA asked I-No.
“Bison never told anyone.” I-No replied with a smirk. “My guess is that it’s because he didn’t want the plan getting spilled by a stool pigeon.”
“Well, if you don’t know anything, then I guess that means you’re useless to us.” Kid USA said.
“You sound like you actually have a chance of winning.” The red-clad witch said with an evil smile. “I’m afraid that, even if I didn’t have that buffoon on my side, I’d still be able to beat the two of you into the ground.”
“I’m still here, you know!” Balrog pointed out.
“Ally, we need to finish these two off quickly so we can catch up to the others!” Kid USA explained.
“Way ahead of you, bro!” Ally replied, clenching her fist and ignited it in flames. “I say it’s time to bring out the flame powerups!”
“We’ve only got a few of those, but this IS a worthy-enough time.” Kid USA nodded, clenching his own fist and igniting it as well. “Okay! Let’s do this!”
The boxing siblings unleashed flurries of punches on Balrog and I-No, and the added power from the flame powerups gave the siblings three-times the power with each punch. The evil fighters tried to block, but couldn’t do it in time and received several intensely-painful punches. By the time Kid USA and Ally had finished, I-No and Balrog were already out like a pair of lights. The guitar-playing witch and the fallen boxer collapsed to the floor, unconscious.
“Well, I’m glad that’s over.” Ally said with a smirk. “Good job, bro.”
“Thanks, sis. You too. Now let’s get out of here and find the others.” Kid USA replied.
The siblings high-fived before turning and running off down the hallway.
(The Arena)
Hulk Davidson pulled his huge axe into the air and brought it down hard, but Bass saw the attack coming and jumped backwards as the huge weapon spiked into the canvas. The black robot quickly charged his arm cannon and unloaded it into the recovering Hulk Davidson’s face.
Unfortunately, this did little more than anger the giant reptile. “You little punk! I’m gonna crush you for that!” He roared as he pulled his axe back, preparing to swing horizontally.
“You’re going to have to attack faster than that.” Bass said with a smirk as he easily jumped over Davidson’s axe and kicked him in the face. “With attacks that slow, it’s no wonder you were beaten so easily.”
“Say that again!” Davidson shouted as he charged forward in a shoulder-barge, managing to barrel into Bass. The black robot was sent flying across the ring and landed on his back, sliding to a halt.
Bass slowly got to his feet and narrowed his eyes. “Okay. That attack hurt.” He said as he activated his leg jets and started hovering above the ground. “Time for me to stop pulling punches.
Bass rocketed straight at Davidson, but the dino saw him coming and held up his axe. Bass plowed straight into the axe, but Davidson’s strength was evident with the fact that his guard was holding up and he wasn’t getting pushed back despite a rocketing robot plowing into him.
The struggle continued for a few seconds before Bass’ jets finally overheated and the robot pulled away. Bass landed on the canvas and looked at Davidson, pondering.
“He’s definitely as strong as he looks, and that’s not a good thing…” Bass said to himself. “Maybe if I can get him away from that axe…”
Bass rushed at Davidson, firing several shots from his arm cannon as he ran. Davidson managed to block all of them with his axe, but he wasn’t paying attention because of this and when Bass got close enough, he kicked the axe right out of the green dino’s hands.
Davidson watched as his axe spun in the air for a few seconds before planting itself into the canvas. He then turned to glare at Bass. “What was that for, punk?!” He asked.
“That was the chance I needed.” Bass replied as he hovered above the ground again. “You’re helpless without that axe.”
Davidson smirked as Bass rocketed towards him again. “Nah. In fact, the axe just weighs me down.” He said as he leapt into the air, managing to jump right overtop of Bass because he wasn’t carrying a five-hundred pound axe. As Bass passed underneath him, Davidson gave one of his leg jets a hard kick.
The kick caused Bass’ leg jet to malfunction, and as such, caused the robot to go out of control. Bass spiraled into the air, turned around and rocketed straight down into an elimination portal.
Bass landed in Scrapland, where he started opening fire on the robots that tried to arrest him.
Ryoko lashed out her hands, firing an energy blast at ZT. The TFS resident easily blocked the blast and lashed out his own hands, firing a larger energy blast at the young martial artist. Ryoko took the attack to the face and was sent sprawling.
“Fatigue weighing you down?” ZT asked.
Ryoko slowly got to her feet. “No way! It’s only been a couple of sections! I’m still perfectly fine!” She insisted as she got into her stance again.
“Good to see that you don’t quit so easily.” ZT said with a smirk as he rushed at Ryoko and punched at her.
However, Ryoko caught ZT’s fist and threw him over her shoulder, causing the brown-haired fighter to land flat on his back. ZT was quickly back on his feet and spun around to face Ryoko again, only to receive an energy blast to the face, launching him backwards.
ZT landed on his back again and slid towards the ropes, but jumped to his feet before his got too close. “Hmm…This could be tricky. She’s still fighting like she just entered the arena.” He said to himself before rushing at Ryoko. “Then maybe I can eliminate her if I can get her to use up all her energy.”
The TFS resident and the young martial artist clashed again, dodging energy blasts and sneaking in the odd attack once in a while. Eventually, Ryoko managed to gain the upper hand and shoved her palm into ZT’s face, making him back away from her. Mustering up some energy, Ryoko sent another energy blast into ZT’s stomach, but the brown-haired fighter snapped out of his daze quick enough to block the attack.
“Impressive, but I’ve just got more agility.” ZT pointed out. “Had I not snapped out of that as fast as I did, I may not have been able to block it.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment, but I need to finish the fight so I can help D!-san!” Ryoko said as she rushed ZT and started forcing him towards the ropes.
ZT was aware of this and smirked, grabbing Ryoko’s arm. “I’m afraid that’s not going to work on me.” He said as he threw Ryoko over the ropes.
However, Ryoko grabbed hold of ZT’s arm and was still holding on after he threw her. Grabbing one of the ropes, Ryoko brought herself back down onto the canvas and hurled the surprised ZT out of the ring at the same time.
ZT landed in Sly Cooper, where he started attacking Muggshot.
Ryoko sighed in relief at how close that fight had become, then turned to go help Heavy D! with Sol, but paused for a second when she saw Kirby performing a suplex, sending Goombario out of the ring (and into Sonic & Knuckles, where he hitched a ride on a mechanical beetle). Shrugging, Ryoko rushed over to help D!.
However, before she could get very far, O’Chunks landed in front of her (a victim to a severe headbutt from Yoshi). Ryoko narrowed her eyes. “You!!” She said.
O’Chunks’ eyes snapped open as Ryoko jumped on him.
“Why are you determined to get rid of D!-san?!” Ryoko roared. “Fess up, you brute!”
With O’Chunks occupied with an opponent, Yoshi and Jigglypuff were about to go find other fights when Duck King decided to jump in, rolling into Yoshi. Breaking out of his roll, Duck smirked.
“You like that? There’s more where that came from, man!” Duck said as he spun in place.
Yoshi grumbled and performed a roll of his own, ducking into an egg and rolling straight into Duck’s stomach, sending him to the canvas.
“Oh…I guess you can do that, too.” Duck said as he got to his feet. P-Chan slapped himself on the forehead with his wing.
“Yoshi!” Yoshi said as he jumped at Duck and performed his flutter kick, kicking the breakdancer in the face several times. Landing on the canvas, Yoshi did a tail-whip, knocking Duck off his feet.
“Wow! Those were some serious moves, man!” Duck said as he got back up again. “You ever consider a career as a dancer?”
Yoshi paused, tilting his head. “Yosh?” He asked.
“Yeah! Like this!” Duck said as he got down and spun around on his shoulders, kicking wildly. Yoshi received several blows to the face, but backed off and narrowed his eyes.
Duck, unaware that he had just attacked Yoshi, looked down. “What’d you think of that?” He asked.
Yoshi pulled his foot back and punted Duck out of the ring (P-Chan jumped out after his master). Yoshi paused, looked at his feet for a few seconds, then moonwalked away.
Duck landed in American Idol. While he may have been an excellent dancer, he was definitely NOT a singer…
Geddoe and Duke clashed again, locking swords for what must have been the fiftieth time. Ever since Duke had entered the ring, the two rivals had been going at it, trying to best the other despite them being nodal companions.
“Good to see that you haven’t lost your edge, old man.” Duke taunted.
“You know I hate it when you call me that, Duke.” Geddoe said, eye narrowed. “Ever since you found out I was immortal and over a hundred years old, you’ve been calling me that.”
“I just like to get on your nerves.” Duke said as he lashed out with his sword again. “Maybe it’ll make you lose your focus.”
“Wrong again, Duke.” Geddoe replied as he blocked the huge sword with his smaller, one-handed sword. “With my old age, I’ve perfected my focus. I can’t lose it, now.”
“Pity. It would have given me the edge to win our fights.” Duke said as he started casting magic from his Fire Rune.
Quickly casting his built-up magic, Duke lashed out his hand and sent a ball of fire at Geddoe, whom had just started casting magic from his True Lightning Rune. The one-eyed mercenary didn’t have time to finish casting his magic and took the attack to the face.
Duke smirked as Geddoe fell on his back. “You give up, Geddoe?” He asked. “Finally going to admit that I’m the better mercenary?”
“I’ll die first.” Geddoe muttered as he got to his feet.
“But you can’t…” Duke said before realizing what Geddoe meant. The redhead mercenary slapped himself in the forehead. “Oh, yeah. That’s a real smart one, Geddoe.”
“Now let’s get back to our fight.” Geddoe said.
“Sure, but I’ll still win even if you DON’T admit it!” Duke said as the two rushed each other again.
Duke’s two-handed sword and Geddoe’s one-handed sword clashed several more times, neither of the two rivals letting up for anything. Eventually, the two swords locked and the mercenaries started a struggle to get the upper hand and force the weapon out of their opponent’s hands.
After several seconds of struggling, the two wore out at the same time and broke away, staring each other down for a few seconds.
“It’s time this ended.” Geddoe said.
“I couldn’t agree more.” Duke replied.
“LOOK OUT!!”
The two turned and saw Cammy White flying towards them after getting thrown by Hulk Davidson. Before either of the two had time to react, Cammy flew straight into Geddoe and landed on the canvas while the one-eyed mercenary flew out of the ring.
“Hey! That was my opponent you just knocked out of the ring!” Duke shouted as he drew his sword and pointed it down at Cammy. “I am NOT going to let you steal my win like that!”
“H-Hey! I’m sorry!” Cammy insisted. “I didn’t mean to do that!”
“Save it!” Duke shouted.
The redhead mercenary was about to slash at Cammy when he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning his head, Duke found himself staring into the eyes of Pintel and Ragetti.
“Sorry, matey.” Ragetti said as he and Pintel pulled their handcuffed hands (Ragetti’s right and Pintel’s left) backwards. “But that’s quite enough.”
The two bumbling pirates thrust their cuffed fists out as one huge ball, catching the surprised Duke in the chin. The force from the combined punch sent Duke out of the ring as well.
With Duke gone, the two pirates turned to Cammy. “Uh…Hello, poppet.” Pintel said, trying to flash a friendly smile.
Cammy screamed and scrambled away.
“Hey, I tried ta be nice!” Pintel pointed out.
“Well, maybe she ran because we ain’t exactly the best-lookin’ guys around.” Ragetti said, looking himself over.
“…Yeah. I guess yer right, Rags.”
The two pirates looked around for another fight and saw Metaknight throwing Guy out of the ring (and into Ninja Gaiden, where he vanished into the background). Deciding to try and fight Hulk Davidson, the two rushed over.
(Kongo Jungle)
Duke landed on his behind in the middle of a jungle. Holding his chin (where the two pirates had punched him), Duke looked around, wondering where he was. However, he stopped when he saw Geddoe standing a ways away, looking around himself.
Deciding not to get up, Duke chuckled. “Well, looks like we have to put up with each other for the next ten minutes.” The redhead pointed out. “I just hope that it doesn’t turn into one of those cheesy shows.”
“I wouldn’t worry about that.” Geddoe said casually (without turning around). “It’s probably already been done, anyway.”
“Yeah. I guess.” Duke shrugged. “I guess we wouldn’t have enough time to start another fight, eh?”
“Not likely.” The one-eyed man replied simply.
“I suppose that’s the drawback of evenly-matched rivals.” Duke sighed. “It takes us a long time just to get close to finishing a fight between each other.”
“You’re right about that.” Geddoe nodded, still not turning.
“So any idea where we are?”
“My guess is Donkey Kong Country.” Geddoe said as he looked over his shoulder. “You may want to get up, Duke.”
“What for?”
Duke suddenly felt a rumbling underneath him. By the time he realized he was sitting on an active geyser, it was too late. A rocket of water erupted from underneath the redhead mercenary, sending Duke high into the air and flying far away.
Geddoe watched as Duke became smaller and smaller before he fell somewhere over the jungle. “Well, it looks like I’m on my own.” He noted as he turned around to face the jungle. “Well, I’m here for ten minutes, so I may as well see how I can fare against the enemies here.”
The one-eyed mercenary stood in silence for a few more seconds, looking around. He heard a few growls from the inhabitants of the jungle, which included kremlings, bees and deranged beavers.
Geddoe smirked. “This could be interesting.” He said to himself.
Drawing his sword, Geddoe entered the thick of the jungle to start his trek.
(The Arena)
Mai threw a fan at Kirby, then rushed at the ball of puff. Just as the brunette ninja anticipated, Kirby swallowed her fan, giving Mai an opening. The ninja rushed at the distracted Kirby and kicked him, sending him tumbling away.
“Okay. I just need to keep him from swallowing me and copying my abilities.” Mai said to herself. “As long as I keep him from doing that, I can fight him and win.”
Kirby, whom had landed on his head, rolled over to stand on his feet and rubbed his head. He then looked at Mai and narrowed his eyes, scurrying back over to fight her.
Mai kicked at Kirby when he got close, but the pink ball of puff was too small to hit and Kirby tackled Mai in the torso, knocking her to the ground. While the ninja was down, Kirby rapidly punched at her, punching at least five times a second.
However, while Kirby was attacking her, Mai managed to find an opening. “Stop doing that!” She shouted, kicking Kirby away from her.
Getting to her feet, Mai rushed at Kirby’s downed form and grabbed him, picked him up and threw him out of the ring.
The female ninja had forgotten about Kirby’s ability to float, and could only watch as Kirby floated back into the arena, right above her. The instant Kirby was above Mai, he morphed into a rock and dropped straight down towards the brunette.
Mai’s eyes widened as she jumped to the side and let Kirby’s rock form hit the canvas. A few seconds later and Kirby turned back into himself.
“What’s the matter with you?!” Mai shouted. “You could have killed me!”
Kirby quickly responded with a backflip-kick, kicking Mai in the chin and launching her a few feet away.
Mai growled as she got to her feet. “Time to finish this!” She shouted as she lashed out her arms and threw several fans at Kirby.
Kirby looked ahead and saw the fans coming, ducking under some and jumping over others as he ran towards Mai. When he reached Mai, Kirby grabbed her.
“Hey! Let go, you little shrimp!” Mai shouted.
Kirby, naturally, didn’t listen and leapt high into the air, turning himself over in midair and winding up for the world’s biggest piledriver. Kirby slammed Mai into the canvas after falling a good twenty feet down, spiking the ninja into the ground and knocking her out.
With Mai out like a light, Kirby hummed a tune as he cheerfully pushed Mai out of the ring underneath the bottom rope.
Mai’s unconscious form got lucky and landed on a patio chair on the beach stage of Sonic Adventure.
Sol smirked as he slashed his sword at D! and Ryoko. Now that he was fighting two opponents at once, things were getting interesting. Lashing his sword out again, Sol sent a wave of fire at the two friends.
“Ryoko, get back!” D! shouted as he raised his guard again.
Ryoko jumped backwards as D! blocked the wave of fire. Once the flames died down, Ryoko leapt at Sol and sent an energy blast into his face, making the dark-haired man recoil.
Sol quickly regained his balance and readied himself. “This is getting good.” He said to himself. “I wonder which one would be better to eliminate first…”
Charging forward at the alliance, Sol swung his sword down, directing the attack at D!. The black boxer quickly jumped backwards and lashed out a R.S.D., drilling Sol in the face with his fist.
However, Sol was quick to recover from this attack and kicked D! in the face hard, knocking him away.
“D!-san!” Ryoko shouted before leaping at Sol in anger, unleashing several punches.
Sol used his sword to block Ryoko’s attacks. “Why do you call him that?” He asked. “You two are from completely different nodes.”
“You have no idea what he did for me last year!” Ryoko shouted as she kicked at Sol. “I’m not going to stand by and watch you pummel him!”
“Then I’m afraid that you’re now on my list of targets to eliminate.” Sol said with a smirk as he slashed at Ryoko, harder than before. Ryoko screamed in pain as Sol’s sword slashed her arm. Ryoko collapsed to one knee as she gripped her wound with her good arm, tears of pain rolling down her face.
“Ryoko, no!” Heavy D! shouted as he charged across the arena, hoping to get to Ryoko.
Sol smirked as he picked Ryoko up with one hand by the front of her judo outfit. “You should know better than to mess with me, kid.” He said. “You should be thankful that I took it easy on you.”
With that, Sol threw Ryoko out of the ring, sending the injured girl down into a portal.
“No!!” D! shouted as he ran forward.
Ryoko landed in Team Fortress 2, where the Scout hit on her. He was promptly launched across the stage for his troubles.
Sol smirked. “Well, that’s one down.” He said to himself as he turned. “Now to get rid of-”
“D! MAGNUM!!!” D! roared as he charged straight towards Sol.
D! lashed out his hand and created another rocketing explosion. Sol wasn’t ready for it this time and was sent flying straight out of the arena. D! watched him fall, eyes narrowed.
“At least I avenged Ryoko.” He said as he turned and saw O’Chunks coming over. “Now to get some answers.” He said, cracking his knuckles and approaching the Scottish strongman.
Sol landed in Road Rash 64. Seeing a bike gang approaching, he smirked and drew his sword, approaching all of the oncoming motorcycles.
Hulk Davidson swung his huge axe at Pintel & Ragetti, but the bumbling pirates jumped over the blade (a little awkwardly; they still hadn’t gotten used to moving in sync with each other). Once they landed on the ground, the two pirates lashed out with their swords, only to have Davidson block the attacks with his own weapon.
“His defense is too strong, Pinty!” Ragetti said.
“Keep at ‘im, Rags! We’ve gotta get through sometime!” Pintel replied.
Davidson laughed. “You think those swords are going to do anything to me?” He asked. “Even if you punks DO get an attack through, I won’t even feel it!”
“What’re we gonna do?!” Ragetti asked.
“He’s bluffin’ mate!” Pintel assured. “Keep at ‘im!”
The two pirates continued to unleash their swords on Davidson, but the green dino blocked everything they threw at him. Once he saw his chance, Davidson stepped back, to give himself more room, then charged forward with a shoulder-barge.
Pintel & Ragetti tried to block, but even so, they were powerless as Davidson plowed into them and sent them sprawling.
“Too bad we’re cuffed together like this.” Pintel lamented as the two got t their feet again. “It’d be a lot easier to attack him from both sides.”
“But then we’d ‘ave an unfair advantage.” Ragetti reminded.
“And that big lug doesn’t already?” Pintel quizzed, pointing at Davidson.
“Time to take out the trash!” Davidson laughed as he charged at the two pirates like a bull.
“Oi! ‘Ere he comes again!”
Pintel & Ragetti quickly ran to the side together as Davidson charged past. Davidson slowed to a halt once he realized he wasn’t running at his targets anymore, and the two pirates struck him a few times with their swords, but like before, it did nothing to help them.
“You twerps are starting to annoy me!” Davidson growled as he pulled his axe above his head.
Pintel & Ragetti jump back as Davidson’s axe crashed into the canvas. “Looks like we’re backed into a corner, Rags.” Pintel noted.
“Maybe we can still get outta this…” Ragetti said hopefully.
“It’ll take a miracle.” Pintel shook his head.
Davidson laughed as he pulled his axe above his head. “I’m gonna enjoy this!”
“Jigglypuff!”
Davidson lifted an eyebrow as he turned around, finding himself looking down at Jigglypuff.
“What do you want?” The green dino asked.
Jigglypuff jumped into the air, floated up to Davidson’s face and fell asleep. However, this was Jigglypuff’s rest attack and the most powerful move in her arsenal. To the shock of anyone unfamiliar with the move, Davidson flew headfirst out of the ring to a loud crack that sounded like a metal baseball bat, covered in flames on his way out.
Davidson landed in the middle of the ocean of Ecco the Dolphin, where the water put out the flames on his body.
Pintel & Ragetti stared down at the sleeping Jigglypuff with wide eyes and open mouths, not believing that a fighter so small could send a fighter at least five times her size out of the ring just by falling asleep.
“D-Did that thing just…” Ragetti asked.
“Yeah, it did.” Pintel nodded.
“Y-You think we should…”
“Yep. I think we should.”
Pintel & Ragetti turned around and ran away from Jiggypuff, towards Larcen (whom had just sent Sgt. Joe into the node of Disney, where he got into a heated argument with Donald). In the meantime, Jiggypuff woke up, looked around and skipped off.
“Cannon Spike!” Cammy shouted as she performed a kick in the form of an uppercut.
“Oh, no you don’t!” Emily replied as she grabbed Cammy’s foot and spun it around, spinning Cammy around a few times before making her fall onto the canvas.
Cammy quickly jumped to her feet. “You’ve been blocking my attacks ever since we started!” She shouted as she kicked at Emily. “How are you blocking so fast?!”
“Juan may be the biggest combo-master in my node, but I’m a very close second.” Emily replied as she blocked Cammy’s kick, then shoved her fist into the blonde’s stomach.
“I’ll have you know that I’m a specialist in fighting as well.” Cammy reminded as she leapt at Emily and kicked her in the face.
The redhead staggered backwards, holding her chin, before smirking. “That just makes it that much more entertaining.” She said as she rushed at Cammy and started throwing punches.
Cammy managed to block the first several punches, but Emily was able to sneak a hit it and that made Cammy drop her guard. Emily quickly continued the assault and finished with a hard punch, sending Cammy into a turnbuckle.
Groaning as she got to her feet, Cammy looked ahead and saw Emily rushing her again. Cammy quickly put up her fists and blocked Emily’s first kick. Acting before the redhead could get another hit in, Cammy grabbed the redhead’s foot much like Emily had done to her and pushed her away.
As Emily tried to regain her balance, Cammy did another Cannon Spike. Because Emily was unfocused, she wasn’t ready and took the attack to the face. Emily was launched into the air and landed on her back. Cammy took advantage of the situation and dove at Emily, doing a drill kick into her side while she was down.
This made Emily jumped to her feet and glare in anger. “You think I’ll let you get away with kicking me while I’m down?!” She asked.
Emily rushed Cammy again, but the special ops agent was ready and gave her a knee to the face when she got close. Emily stepped backwards, towards the ropes.
“And now the finisher.” Cammy said as she rushed towards Emily. “Cannon Spike!”
With a final kicking-uppercut, Cammy sent Emily up and over the ropes, sending her down into an elimination portal.
Emily landed in Suikoden 1, where she finally had a chance to fight her mother at the top of her game.
Cammy sighed in relief as she turned to see whom all was left in the ring. Larcen was eyeing Pintel & Ragetti suspiciously, as if waiting for them to act first. Metaknight was giving a similar look to Kirby, as if contemplating challenging his rival. Jubei Yagyu stood silently off to the side, saving his energy. Heavy D! was fighting O’Chunks a lot more determinedly than before, perhaps because his friend had been eliminated. Stun was also resting up, although he was sitting on the canvas to do so. Jigglypuff was sitting on a turnbuckle and Yoshi was doing a very Duck King-like breakdance in the middle of the arena.
Cammy made a quick head count, then turned to the entrance curtain, where the next wave of fighters were about to enter.
FINAL SCORE: (13 votes on the main event; 12 on the side battle)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
LARCEN TYLER (EC) (11:2) = 9 (Lion Rafale, Sgt. Joe)
CAMMY WHITE (SFA3) (9:5) = 4 (Geddoe, Emily)
KIRBY (SSB) (9:5) = 4 (Goombario, Mai Shiranui)
METAKNIGHT (SSB) (10:6) = 4 (K’, Guy)
PINTEL & RAGETTI (PotC) (8:5) = 3 (Duke)
YOSHI (SSB) (8:5) = 3 (Duck King)
JUBEI YAGYU (SS) (8:5) = 3 (Seth)
HEAVY D! (KOF) (9:6) = 3 (Sol Badguy)
STUN (BR) (8:6) = 2 (Neo Dio)
O’CHUNKS (PM) (8:6) = 2 (Shen Woo)
JIGGLYPUFF (SSB) (7:6) = 1 (Hulk Davidson)
(ELIMINATED)
SOL BADGUY (GG) (7:6) = 1 (Ryoko)
HULK DAVIDSON (VJ) (7:6) = 1 (Bass)
GUY (SFA3) (7:6) = 1 (Hell’s Chef)
RYOKO (WH) (8:7) = 1 (ZT)
GEDDOE (S3) (7:7) = 0
DUCK KING (FF) (7:7) = 0
BASS (MM) (6:7) = -1
GOOMBARIO (PM) (6:7) = -1
SGT. JOE (S3) (6:7) = -1
ZT (TFS) (6:7) = -1
K’ (KOF) (6:8) = -2
EMILY (S3) (5:8) = -3
MAI SHIRANUI (KOF) (5:8) = -3
SETH (KOF) (4:9) = -5
LION RAFALE (VF) (4:9) = -5
DUKE (S3) (4:9) = -5
NEO DIO (WH) (3:10) = -7
SHEN WOO (KOF) (3:10) = -7
HELL’S CHEF (GHS) (2:12) = -10
BONUS MATCHES:
“Boxing with Rhythm”
KID USA and ALLY GATOR (B&B) knock out I-NO (GG) and BALROG (SFA3)
8 to 4
Team Ash; Definitely NOT the King of Fighters: Like last year, Ash Crimson, Duo Lon and Shen Woo have been eliminated pretty easily. I guess more people like the veterans…
Flash in the Pan: Hell’s Chef…Uh…Wow.