The twelve fighters still in the ring took what little time they had to relax (well, most of them. Kula was still madly chasing Heat Man around the arena) before the next wave of fighters came out. Suddenly hearing the crowd starting to cheer, the fighters looked up at the entrance curtain to see whom was coming down to the ring.
“FUTCH!” (S3)
Taking a deep breath, the Dragon Knight pulled out his huge sword (one that would make Cloud Strife jealous) and charged headfirst down to the ring.
Upon landing in the ring, Futch made his way over to Nei, the only other Suikoden fighter in the ring. “Good to see that you’re still in the ring, Nei.” He greeted.
“I almost feel sorry for what happened to Ace, though.” Nei sighed. “If I wasn’t wrapped up in a fight of my own, I would have gone over to help him.”
“Well, what’s done is done.” Futch said. “Come on. Let’s do some double-teaming.”
“Okay.”
“VIVIAN!” (PM)
The cute Shadow Siren blew a couple of kisses as she went down to the ring, all the while anchored to the ground. Somehow, Vivian was able to get into the arena, but no one asked any questions as to how she did it.
Vivian saw Roy still brandishing his sword and smirked, then snapped her fingers. The canvas underneath Roy’s feet exploded, sending the redhead swordsman flying into the air before crashing down onto the canvas again. Vivian giggled as she ‘walked’ over.
Roy slowly got to his feet and glared down at Vivian. “Hey! What the heck was that for?!” He asked.
“It IS a free-for-all, isn’t it?” Vivian asked back.
Roy growled as he readied his sword. “So that’s how it’s going to be, huh? Okay.” He said. “Let’s do this!”
“GOH HINOGAMI!” (VF)
Receiving a warmer reception than last year (probably because more people knew of him now that he wasn’t a ‘newbie’ to Virtua Fighter), Goh smirked and walked down to the ring.
“Okay. There’s no kooky kung-fu chefs in the ring and it doesn’t look like I’ll have to play the hero this time around.” Goh noted. “Guess all there is that’s left for me is a good, old-fashioned brawl. Good.”
Hpwever, the instant, Goh stepped into the ring, a freshly-peeled potato was sent straight into his forehead. Goh staggered around, holding his head and muttering a few select curse words before glaring at the guilty party.
“You want some of this, pal?!” The Servbot challenged in a strangely unusual manner. “Bring it! I can take you!”
Goh growled and cracked his knuckles, approaching the tiny machine.
May, whom was near the Servbot when he threw the potato, decided to make herself scarce and scampered off.
“KUROKO!” (SS)
The black-clad judge came out from behind the curtain to a mixed reaction, but he paid it no mind. Carrying a red flag and a white flag, Kuroko stepped down to the ring and got in, looking around for someone to penalize.
Setting his sights on the fight between Adam McCloud and Zero, Kuroko stepped over and started waving his red flag. “Penalty! Robot, you are fighting with an illegal beam sword!” He said. “As punishment, you must eliminate yourself!”
Zero and Adam, for the first time in a while, stopped their fight and looked at the judge with unusual stares.
“Uh…We’re in a no-holds-barred arena tournament.” Zero reminded. “With the exception of bullets, anything goes.”
“Don’t talk back to me!” Kuroko snapped. “I’m the authority, here!”
“I propose a truce.” Adam suggested.
“No argument here.” Zero said, his eyes narrowed. “Let’s get him.”
“FAUST!” (GG)
Because of his insane height, it only took a few long steps for Faust to get down to the ring. Spinning his scalpel in his hand, Faust jumped into the ring and landed gracefully as he looked around through the bag on his head for a potential opponent.
Faust set his sights on Lillith and came rushing over. “My dear! You have wings sprouting from your head!” He pointed out.
“Uh…Yeah?” Lillith asked.
“This is serious!” Faust exclaimed. “I may have to operate!” With that, he held up his gigantic scalpel and held it close to Lillith’s face. “Don’t worry. From what I hear, this doesn’t hurt all that much.”
Lillith screamed and backpedaled away from the maniacal healer. “Get away from me, you freak!” She said.
With that, another chase started around the arena, this one going in the opposite direction as Kula and Heat Man.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“You can announce the next Mystery Fighter, Tinyrocket.” SSBFreak said.
“You sure?” Tinyrocket asked as he grabbed a mic.
“Hey, you’re the one that wanted him to come.” SSBFreak shrugged. “You may as well be the one to bring him in.”
“Thanks.” Tinyrocket said with a smirk.
“And now, Mystery Fighter…Number…Three!”
“EDUARDO!” (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)
The purple monster that came out from behind the curtain nervously waved to the crowd as he walked down to the ring. However, once he got to the end of the ramp, he found himself unable to get into the ring.
“Okay. I just need to jump once.” Eduardo told himself. “That’s all I need to do. Come on, senor. You can do it. Three…Two…One…” Eduardo was about to jump in when he stopped himself again, retreating a couple of steps back. “How could this be so hard? I need to get in…Hey, I know! I’ll trick myself! Hey, what’s that, senor?” Eduardo said as he pointed to the right. He then looked in the direction he was pointing with a clueless expression. “What?” With that, Eduardo took one step forward while he wasn’t looking and fell into the ring.
When Eduardo landed, he looked around. “Well, I’m glad THAT’S over.” He said as he suddenly saw Goh approaching the Servbot menacingly. Seeing injustice in what was happening, Eduardo rushed over.
“Senor, stop that!” Eduardo order as he arrived at the Servbot’s side. “Pick on someone your own size!”
“Like you?” Goh asked with a smirk.
“Uh…Oops.” Eduardo managed. In the meantime, the Servbot climbed onto the shoulder of the purple monster.
“TAKE NO PRISONERS!” The Servbot shouted as he pulled out a club.
Eduardo gulped, not really liking what he had gotten himself into.
(Megaman Locker Room)
“Uh…Tron, I don’t want to tell you how to work your mechanics, but I don’t think that Servbot’s supposed to be acting that way.” Megaman pointed out.
“I…I don’t understand it.” Tron said, scratching her head. “I don’t program the Servbot’s to act like this.”
“Then how do you explain how that little guy’s screaming various battle cries at the assassin?” Roll asked.
“Someone must have rewired his circuitry!” Tron said in realization. “Impossible! I can’t think of anyone skilled enough to get through anything I’ve built!”
(Dome; Crowd)
Knuckles the Echidna reclined in his chair, holding the Master Emerald. In all honesty, he was glad that he declined the offer to return as a leader of the security force. Leaving the Master Emerald unattended for so long last year almost resulted in it getting stolen, so when Knuckles decided to come and watch the tournament this year, he just too the Master Emerald with him to keep it safe.
Avoiding the unusual stares he was getting because he was fingering such a huge gem, Knuckles simply continued watching the fight to see what would happen next. For some reason, Knuckles loved fighting tournaments. They just seemed to make something click for him, but whatever it was, it made Knuckles want to jump into the ring himself and see how well he could do.
Knuckles had just returned to his seat, as a matter of fact. He was going to get something from the restaurant, but stopped himself when he saw the battle between Birdie and the Koopinator. Knowing never to interrupt a fight when it included someone like the Koopinator, Knuckles had returned to his seat so he could go check the restaurant in a few minutes to see if the fight had cleared up at all.
Suddenly hearing some footsteps, Knuckles looked up and saw a tall man with dark skin and red hair approaching.
“Knuckles the Echidna, I presume?” He asked.
“Yeah. That’s me.” Knuckles replied casually.
“I’m afraid that I must ask you to hand over that emerald, then.” The dark-skinned man replied with a smirk. “We need it more than you do at the moment.”
Knuckles wasn’t stupid, and he certainly wasn’t as gullible as some people thought. He recognized this man as Gannondorf Dragmire, an evil man from Hyrule, and knew that he was bad news. Standing up, Knuckles placed the Master Emerald on his chair and got into a stance.
“Sorry, pal. I ain’t parting with the Master Emerald.” Knuckles warned. “So why don’t you get out of my face and let me watch the fight?”
“So you won’t give it up that easily, huh?” Gannondorf asked with an evil smirk as he himself got into a stance. “Somehow, I’m not surprised.”
(The Arena)
“KEN MASTERS!” (SFA3)
The fans went wild as one of Street Fighter’s two main characters came out from behind the curtain. Ken played to the crowd as he walked down to the ring and stepped in.
Looking around, Ken set his sights on Futch. Cracking his knuckles, the red-clad man rushed over to the Dragon Knight from behind and jumped at him in a flying kick.
Unfortunately for Ken, Futch noticed him in time and spun around, holding up his sword. Ken’s foot struck the huge blade of Futch’s weapon, doing absolutely nothing to hurt him.
“You’re going to have to try harder than that.” Futch pointed out simply.
“I can see that.” Ken replied as he charged at the Dragon Knight with the intent of elimination.
“YURI SAKAZAKI!” (KOF)
The crowd cheered for Yuri as she ran down the ramp leading to the ring, waving to the crowd.
Deciding to ignore Kula’s unusual behavior for the moment, Yuri decided to help out Lillith. After all, she had a psychotic man of medicine chasing after her with a gigantic scalpel as long as she was tall.
“Chou Upper!” Yuri shouted as she lunged at Faust and delivered a strong uppercut to where she figured his jaw was underneath the bag he was wearing.
Lillith breathed a sigh of relief as she watched Faust fly back several feet. “Thanks.” She said.
“Don’t mention it.” Yuri said before suddenly seeing Faust getting to his feet. “But here he comes again!”
“I say we work together, here.” Lillith suggested.
“This guy’s creeping me out. I’m all for it.” Yuri nodded in agreement.
“JOE THE HEDGEHOG!” (TFS)
The yellow hedgehog stood outside the entrance curtain, using his red shirt to clean his shades off. Once he was satisfied, Joe replaced his shades and launched himself down to the ring.
Joe saw Cody and rushed over. Cody turned to see him coming, but it was already too late. Joe nailed him with a strong uppercut, sending him into the air. While Cody was in the air, Joe rushed underneath him before he could hit the canvas.
“Shooting Star Combo!” Joe shouted as he thrust his fists into Cody back several times. After about six punches, Joe kicked Cody into the canvas again.
Cody slowly stood to his feet and looked at the newcomer. “You’re pretty fast.” He noted.
“I’ve been training.” Joe replied with a smirk as he readjusted his shades.
“Well, let’s see how well you fight when I’m fully aware of you coming at me.” Cody suggested, putting up his feet.
“Wouldn’t have it any other way.” Joe said with a smirk.
“CECILE!” (S3)
Those that weren’t present last year stared in awe at the young girl running down to the ring with a helmet and breastplate at least two sizes too big for her. Dragging the end of her spear behind her and gripping her shield in her other hand, Cecile energetically leapt into the ring.
The instant she landed, Cecile held up her shield and blocked a stray fireball from Ken. Once she did, Cecile charged forward at the first person she saw. That was currently the fight between Vivian and Roy.
Cecile lunged at the two, but they both saw her coming. Vivian sunk into the canvas and duck underneath Cecile’s spear while Roy simply blocked the attack with his sword.
“I don’t remember inviting you.” Roy noted.
“I just wanted to find someone to fight and I decided on you guys.” Cecile replied simply.
“Think you can manage a second opponent?” Roy asked Vivian.
Vivian smirked. “Can you?” She asked.
Roy returned the smirk. “Let’s do this!”
“KIM DRAGON!” (WH)
With traditional Chinese music playing through the speakers, the Bruce Lee lookalike of the World Heroes gang came out to a mixed reaction. Kim Dragon took a deep breath, then charged down the ramp and leapt into the ring.
May saw him come in and instantly swung her anchor at him. Kim Dragon saw the attack coming and gracefully leapt over the attack, kicking her in the face at the same time. May staggered away, holding her face.
“That hurt!” May shouted.
“You hitting me with the anchor would have hurt me even more.” Kim Dragon replied. “You shouldn’t be complaining.”
“Don’t talk that way to me!” May shouted as she lunged at Kim Dragon again.
“And now, Mystery Fighter…Number…Four!”
“ALLY GATOR!” (Black & Bruised)
(In the jungle, the mighty jungle)
(The lion sleeps tonight)
(In the jungle, the mighty jungle)
(The lion sleeps tonight)
The redhead boxer rotated her head a couple of times and pounded her gloved fists together before charging down the ring with a grin on her face. Leaping into the ring, Ally made a beeline straight for Eduardo to give him help with Goh.
“Hey, Eduardo.” Ally greeted as she arrived at the side of the other Mystery Fighter. “You need help with this guy?”
“I think senor Lego man has things covered, senorita Ally.” Eduardo replied before pointing. “In fact, I am considering HELPING senor Goh right now.”
Ally looked in the direction Eduardo was pointed and saw the Servbot jumping up and down on Goh’s back. The two Mystery Fighters looked at each other and shrugged.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“Okay. I’m confused.” Unknown1 said.
“At what?” SSBFreak asked.
“How do Eduardo and Ally know each other? Eduardo’s from a cartoon and Ally’s from a game that hardly anyone played.”
“Well, Eduardo’s one of my favourite characters, and Ally’s SSBFreak favourite female video game character.” Tinyrocket replied. “They met each other when SSBFreak and I became friends.”
“I’m still confused.” Unknown1 shook his head.
(Hotel; Arcade)
Several people were scattered around the arcade, playing different games. Even a couple of fighters whom weren’t scheduled to enter the arena for a while were present, having fun.
One particular man was standing aside, watching a monitor of the arena. He had blonde hair and a large blonde soul patch. He was wearing a red and white headband, a brown vest and a pair of shorts decorated like the American flag. He was currently watching Ally Gator teaming up with Eduardo and starting a fight with Falco Lombardi and Bakuryu.
“That’s my baby sister, alright.” Kid USA chuckled to himself. “Come on, Ally. You did well last year. Let’s see a repeat performance.”
Kid USA was about to go over and watch Dan Hibiki and Duck King duke it out in a DDR match when he saw a few figures aside, talking to each other. Kid USA thought that they looked suspicious, so he went over to listen in, his movements acting before his brain again. On closer inspection, Kid USA recognized the trio as a few of the fighters from the Mortal Kombat node.
“How interesting.” Baraka chuckled quietly. “So Bison needs Master Shao Khan’s help and that includes us as well?”
“You’re right about that.” Mileena replied, her mask covering her mouth and nose. “We’re to report to Bison as soon as possible.”
“Well, what’re we waiting around here, for?” Reptile cackled. “Let’s go kill some people.”
This struck a nerve with Kid USA. This made him jump in front of the doorway leading out of the arcade, blocking the exit from the three fighters.
“Hold it right there!” Kid USA shouted. “You guys aren’t going anywhere!”
Baraka gave a big, toothy grin. “Looks like we’ve got a bit of resistance.” He noted.
“I call dibs on his left leg.” Reptile said, getting into a stance.
“You guys go on. I can take him alone.” Mileena said. “You report to Bison and tell him I’ll be right behind you.”
“Try not to take too long.” Baraka said as he and Reptile slipped past Kid USA and ran off.
Kid USA chuckled at Mileena. “So a pretty woman’s going to fight me?” He asked. “Must be my lucky day.”
Mileena pulled her mask down, revealing a huge set of teeth that looked like Baraka’s.
“HOLY CRAP!!!” Kid USA said as he jumped back. Mileena saw this, replaced her mask and jumped forward.
(The Arena)
“MEWTWO!” (SSB)
(My head’s spinning, the world’s twisted)
(My head’s twisted, the world’s spinning)
(My head’s spinning, the world’s twisted)
(My head’s twisted, the world’s spinning)
(Round and round and round and round…)
Coming out to ‘Gravity’ by Delirious, the psychic Pokemon came out to a loud cheer. Mewtwo gave a bored sigh and floated down to the ring. When Mewtwo reached the end of the ramp, he simply teleported into the ring.
Mewtwo appeared near Goh, whom was still laying on his face with the Servbot jumping on him. Goh looked up and saw the psychic Pokemon. “H-Hey! Gimmie a hand here!” He pleaded.
Mewtwo lifted a non-existent eyebrow in amusement. “Very well.” He said as he concentrated his energy, throwing the Servbot off Goh’s back. Once the little machine was gone, Goh scrambled to his feet.
“Having trouble beating a little man made of Lego?” Mewtwo asked with a smirk.
“Hey! That thing’s more aggressive than it looks, okay?!” Goh insisted.
“Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.” Mewtwo chuckled.
“SEARCH MAN!” (MM)
“Okay. Here’s the plan.” The left head of Search Man explained. “We’ll go in there, pick off a couple with the Homing Sniper and then work together to get them out of the ring.”
“Sounds like fun!” The right head replied. “Come on! Let’s go!”
“No, you fool! Not yet!” The left head protested. Unfortunately, the right head had more willpower at the moment and the left head was unable to stop his other half from racing down to the ring and jumping in.
Search Man landed in the arena as the right head looked around eagerly. “Hey, lefty! Look! Here comes Heat Man!” He said before waving. “Hi, Heat Man!”
“Move, moron!!” The left head ordered.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Heat Man barreled over Search Man in a desperate attempt to escape his chaser. Kula stampeded over the downed Robot Master as she ran by.
“I hope you realize that I’m blaming all of this on you, righty.” The left head pointed out.
“Awwwww…”
“LONG!” (BR)
“Finally! Help!” Bakuryu said as he watched the green-clad man jump into the ring. He ducked a left hook from Ally Gator as he called out to his nodal companion. “Hey, Long! Over here!”
Long looked over and saw Bakuryu fighting off Eduardo and Ally alone and sprung into action, engulfing himself in a white light on the way over. When the flash of light subsided, Long had transformed into a huge tiger wearing his outfit.
Eduardo saw the tiger coming over, screamed and ran off. Ally sighed and ran after him to get him to calm down.
“What’s with him?” Long (still in his tiger form) asked.
“I guess he’s not used to seeing huge animals.” Bakuryu reasoned.
“Well, now that they’re gone, let’s resume our fight, ninja-boy!” Falco said as he steped forward.
Bakuryu jumped into battle, and Long was about to assist when he felt a sharp pain in his arm. Long de-transformed back into his human form as he plucked what looked like a giant bee stinger from his arm. Curiously, Long looked towards the entrance curtain.
“Q-BEE!” (DS)
The gigantic bee creature gave a blank smile as she floated down to the ring and hovered in. When she landed, Q-Bee continued her trek towards Long.
“My. A humanoid that looks like an animal.” Long noted. “You wouldn’t happen to be a human with abilities like me, would you?”
Q-Bee didn’t give a response. She just stuck her stinger forward and flew straight at Long, whom easily rolled out of the way. Q-Bee continued flying until getting her stinger stuck in a turnbuckle.
“Evidently, she seems to be more than a mere human.” Long told himself. “If I’m to fight her off, I’ll need to be extra careful.”
“HON-FU!” (FF)
Spinning his nunchucks in his hand, Hon-Fu walked down to the ring to a positive crowd reaction and jumped in.
Hon-Fu made a quick scan of the arena and set his sights on Kim Dragon. Avoiding Heat Man and Kula (and walking past a Servbot screaming obscenities at him), Hon-Fu walked towards his target.
“Kim Dragon, I presume.” Hon-Fu said.
“Yeah. That’s me.” Kim Dragon nodded.
Stepping to the side as Joe the Hedgehog flew past him, Hon-Fu readied his nunchucks. “I’m here for a fight. Shall we begin?” He asked.
“Can’t think of a reason not to.” Kim Dragon reasoned.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“Um…Which one’s which?” Tinyrocket asked. “I can’t tell.”
“Simple. Kim Dragon looks like Bruce Lee while Hon-Fu looks like Jackie Chan.” SSBFreak replied casually.
“…Okay…I STILL don’t know which is which.”
“Time to bring out the last fighter?” Unknown1 asked.
“Go ahead.” SSBFreak said.
(The Arena)
“And now, the final fighter of this section…”
“KASUMI TODOH!” (KOF)
Last year’s winner came out to an immensely-loud cheer, which was much larger than the one she received last year. Guessing that it was because she was the defending champion, Kasumi waved to the crowd and walked down to the ring.
“I wonder why I got such a lousy draw this year…” Kasumi pondered. “I think those guys just gave me this draw so I would have less of a chance at becoming champion again.”
Seeing Yuri fighting off Faust alone (Lillith had been knocked aside earlier, where the Servbot had started fighting her), Kasumi rushed over to assist her friend.
“I apologize for not coming to your aid sooner, Yuri.” Kasumi said as she swung her arms downwards, giving Faust a taste of her trademark energy move.
“There was nothing you could do about it, Kasumi.” Yuri assured. “In fact, I wasn’t holding out that bad.”
“Well, now that there’s two of us, we can take him on even easier.” Kasumi said with a smile.
“You bet, Kasumi! Let’s get him!” Yuri shouted.
With that, both girls rushed Faust together.
