“Do everyone a favour and die!!!” The Servbot screamed as he started throwing grenades (where he had gotten them from was anyone’s guess) at Mewtwo and Goh. Mewtwo easily stopped the grenades with his psychic powers and folded his arms, throwing all of the deadly explosives out the ring safely (where they destroyed a certain old man in the Ranma node; there was much rejoicing).
“I never would have thought that little thing was capable of such destruction!” Goh admitted. “I didn’t think they were supposed to be this fierce!”
“They’re not.” Mewtwo replied. “Someone messed with it’s programming.”
“You think that pirate girl that created them did it so this thing would have a better chance in the ring?” Goh asked as the Servbot started throwing paper airplanes at the two.
“Ms. Bonne loves the Servbot’s like children.” Mewtwo replied. “There’s no way she would willingly make one of her beloved creations a walking death machine.”
“So what do we do, then?”
“Remove this thing from the arena.” Mewtwo replied as he cast the Servbot a glance. “As strange as it sounds, it’s a threat to everyone here.”
Adam McCloud found himself getting thrown into a turnbuckle. Adam groaned as he slowly got to his feet, looking around the ring to see if he could figure out whom the one to attack him was.
Suddenly, someone landed at his feet. Thinking that it was someone looking for a fight, Adam drew his beam sword. However, he suddenly noticed that it was Joe the Hedgehog, his nodal companion.
“You okay, Joe?” Adam asked as he helped Joe to his feet.
“Ugh. Yeah.” Joe replied, rubbing his head. “Man. I didn’t think Cody could hit that hard.”
“You need any help, Joe?” Adam asked.
“You seem to have your hands pretty full as it is.” Joe noted. “I’m fine for now.”
“Okay. If you think you’re okay.” Adam shrugged as Joe rushed off to challenge Cody again.
Adam was about to continue on his own as well when a familiar Robot Master flew past.
“GET BACK HERE!!!” Kula Diamond screamed as she flew past Adam, still chasing Heat Man down.
Standing aside, the right head of Search Man looked and saw Heat Man getting chased. “Should we go help him, lefty?” He asked.
“I think Heat Man’s perfectly capable of looking after himself.” The left, serious-looking head replied as he held up his arm to block a punch from Ken Masters. “Now help me!”
“Oh. Okay.” The right head nodded as he kicked Ken in the stomach.
(Dome; Hallway)
“Now do you see what the deal is?” Koopinator asked Dee Jay. “I saw some guys from your node chasing a woman from mine. I knew that something wasn’t going right.”
Dee Jay rubbed his chin. “Well, I remember Dan & R. Mika telling us about this big plan Bison was attempting to pull off.” He replied. “I wouldn’t put it past Bison to come up with a new one.”
“Then are you with me?” Koopinator asked. “If that Bison character is planing something, we need to stop it.”
“I agree with you, there. Anything Bison gets involved in can’t be good.” Dee Jay nodded. “But we can’t just run headfirst into battle.”
“Why not?” Koopinator asked. “I could take most of Bison’s cronies easily.”
“That’s just the thing. ‘Most’.” Dee Jay countered. “Bison will have plenty of help and we won’t be able to take him alone. We’ll need help and lots of it.”
Koopinator was silent, his arms folded. As much as he hated to admit it, Dee Jay was right. He was tough, but he wasn’t tough enough to take on a small army.
“What to you propose we do, then?” Koopinator challenged.
“I say we start searching the dome and hotel and see if we can get some info out of some of Bison’s men.” Dee Jay suggested. “And we’ll also see if we can get some help from other people, whether they came here to fight or not.”
Koopinator nodded. “Okay. Let’s go, then.” He said. “But we need to hurry.”
“No argument here.” Dee Jay replied. “Come on. Let’s get moving.”
Before either of the two could move, the five security generals rushed past them.
“Why did the tournament’s owner want us at the arcade, anyway?!” Gumshoe asked.
“A fight broke out at the arcade!” Psymon replied eagerly. “I’ve been waiting a long time to get started again!”
“A video arcade, two punks and a chance to have the top score.” Max noted. “Truly an extremely-deadly combination. Good times.”
“Guh.” Marilyn nodded in agreement.
Sergei remained silent, but followed the others, with Psymon leading the way, around a corner. Once they were gone, Koopinator and Dee Jay looked at each other, shrugged and took off in another direction.
(The Arena)
Ally Gator leaned to the side as May’s anchor swung past her head. Ally then sprung into action and gave the pirate girl a hard body blow, knocking the wind out of her.
“You seem to be on the top of your game, lady.” May noted with narrowed eyes as she swung her anchor again, this time horizontally.
Ally quickly ducked under the weapon and attempted another couple of quick punches, which May avoided with a jump backwards. “Hey, I’ve entered this thing before.” The redhead replied. “No offense, but I know all about how this tournament works, newbie.”
“At least I’VE seen work, lately.” May said with a smirk.
“HEY!” Ally shouted as she lunged forward.
Eduardo was about to go over and help his friend when the Servbot crashed down at his feet, a victim to one of Mewtwo’s psychic throws. Eduardo looked down at the little Lego man before it jumped to its feet again.
“Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me?!” The Servbot shouted as it looked around. “I don’t see anyone else around, so I guess you ARE looking at me…”
Eduardo suddenly decided to get out of the area, slowly inching away.
“Hey! Don’t ignore me!” The Servbot shouted as he pulled a Molotov Cocktail out from out of nowhere. “This is what happens to those that ignore me!”
Seeing the flaming bottle, Eduardo’s eyes bugged out as he turned tail and ran away screaming.
Zero and Adam kept taking swings at Kuroko, attempting to take down the deranged judge before he could declare any more penalties (so far, the black-garbed judge had shouted about twelve penalties at random fighters).
“How much longer is he going to keep handing out penalties?” Adam asked.
“Maybe when he runs out of them…” Zero shrugged as he gave Kuroko a hard kick.
“Dude, have you even PLAYED the games he was in?”
“Uh…No?”
“Then we DON’T wait for him to run out of penalties.” Adam replied. “We’ll be here all night.”
“Yeesh. Want me to toss him into the air?”
“Please.”
Zero grabbed Kuroko and threw him upwards. As the black-garbed judge was in the air, Adam pulled out his gun and fired several times, striking the airborne Kuroko with perfect accuracy.
“Penalty! You are bringing a firearm to a fighting tournament! That’s a violation of Section 5.37 Page 4 Paragraph 16 of the Judge’s Handbook!” Kuroko shouted as he fell towards the canvas again. “For that violation, you must throw yourself from the arena!”
“Are you even AWARE that you’re getting pummeled?” Adam asked aloud as he pulled his hands back and started gathering energy.
Once Kuroko came within range, Adam lashed out and launched a fireball from his hands. The Hadouken slammed into the airborne judge with full force, sending him past the ropes and out of the arena.
Kuroko landed in Sunset Riders. He saw Black Horse riding in with his gun and started trying to pin penalties on him. He was promptly stampeded over underneath the hooves of the evil cowboy’s horse.
“STOP RUNNING AND DIE LIKE A MAN!!!” Kula screamed as she barreled over Hon-Fu and Kim Dragon while chasing down Heat Man.
“I’m NOT a man!!” Heat Man shouted back as he fled. “I’m a robot!”
“TOMATO, TOM-AHTO!” Kula roared as she waved her hand in front of Heat Man’s path, creating a block of ice.
Heat Man, unprepared for this, flew headfirst into the block of ice. Kula’s ice was too cold for Heat Man to burn through, so all Heat Man managed to do was give himself the biggest headache he had ever felt.
This, of course, gave Kula the chance to finally grab Heat Man and pull him close, burning daggers into his eyes. “DO YOU EVEN HAVE A REMOTE IDEA OF HOW MANY PAINFUL MEMORIES YOU MADE ME REMEMBER?!?!” She screamed at the cowering Robot Master. “I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FORGET THOSE MEMORIES FOR YEARS!!!”
“Uh…I’m sorry?” Heat Man replied with a nervous grin.
“IT’S TOO LATE FOR APOLOGIES, MORON!!!” Kula screamed. “I HOPE THAT THIS TEACHES YOU A LESSON!!!”
Kula wound her arm up a couple of times before pitching Heat Man over the ropes. Heat Man tried to rocket back in, but Kula acted quickly and created an ice barrier in his path. Heat Man hit his head on the barrier and tumbled back down into the portal.
Stunned, dazed and part-relieved, Heat Man landed in the middle of the desert in Super Mario Bros. 3. The Angry Sun tried to dive-bomb him, but Heat Man actually enjoyed the intense heat.
Kim Dragon and Hon-Fu slowly stood up shortly after Kula had run them over. Looking in the direction she had gone, the two saw that she had calmed down, wasn’t screaming random death threats and was standing still.
“Guess that means the robot’s eliminated.” Hon-Fu scratched his head.
“Probably.” Kim Dragon nodded. “Well, shall we get back to our fight?”
“Can’t think of a reason not to.” Hon-Fu shrugged.
With that, the two Chinese men started attacking each other again. Kim Dragon relied on his fists and feet to do the job, but Hon-Fu had the advantage of a pair of nunchucks to give him the edge.
Hon-Fu proved this point by lashing out with his weapon and spinning it around several times. Kim Dragon dodged the blow and thrust his foot into the other man’s stomach, knocking him back a couple of steps.
“You’re quicker than people make you out to be.” Hon-Fu noted.
“I’ve had a lot of practice.” Kim Dragon replied. “Not being in any games in a while gives me time to hone my skills. I think that I could beat you if we kept fighting long enough.”
“We’ll have to see about that, won’t we?”
The two were about to continue fighting when Yuri Sakazaki jumped in and gave Hon-Fu a hard kick to the face, knocking him away. She turned and stared down Kim Dragon, cracking her knuckles.
“What did you do that for?!” Kim Dragon demanded.
“I decided that I wanted to fight you.” Yuri replied. “So let’s get going before that cop wakes up!”
“You asked for it.” Kim Dragon said, eyes narrowed. “I’m going to-”
“Chou Upper!” Yuri shouted as she rushed forward and gave Kim Dragon a hard uppercut to the chin, launching him out of the ring before he could finish his sentence.
Hon-Fu got to his feet and suddenly saw that his opponent was gone. “Hey! He was MY elimination!” He accused, pointing at Yuri.
“I didn’t see your name on it.” Yuri replied with a smirk.
“You know what? Fine. Let’s see if you can dodge this one.” Hon-Fu said as he started spinning his nunchucks and approaching Yuri.
Hon-Fu swung his weapon two times before feeling a tap on his shoulder. Looking over his shoulder, Hon-Fu found himself staring into the angry eyes of Eduardo.
“Senor, it’s not nice to attack a woman like that.” Eduardo pointed out as he grabbed Hon-Fu and pitched him out of the ring after Kim Dragon.
Hon-Fu landed in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, in the subway level. Standing up, Hon-Fu quickly saw Kim Dragon standing nearby.
“There you are!” Hon-Fu said. “Well, now that we’re eliminated, maybe we can finish that fight of ours.”
“Maybe the guys announcing the tournament will broadcast it for the audience.” Kim Dragon shrugged.
Before either of the two could make a move, a subway train drove by, plowing over both of them.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“I dunno about you guys, but I thought that was WAY more entertaining than if those two actually finished their fight.” Unknown1 said.
(The Arena)
Futch held up his huge sword and blocked another fireball from Ken. So far, Futch had been managing to block most of Ken’s attacks pretty easily. In fact, he had even managed to deflect a couple of Ken’s fireballs back at him.
Ken ducked as another of his own fireballs soared over his head. “You seem to be more focused than you were last year.” He noted.
“Well, I was the first to fall in my section and the one that eliminated me was one of those rejects from the Last Blade node.” Futch growled. “After that happened, I put twice as much training into my time as I used to.”
“Hey, at least you’ve improved.” Ken smirked. “But you’re obviously not at your top, or you wouldn’t have challenged me.”
“I can see you still haven’t taken Jin Kazama’s advice of overconfidence to heart.” Futch noted as he swung his huge sword forward.
“You’re asking for it, Dragon Knight!” Ken shouted as he kicked at Futch. Once again, Futch raised his sword and blocked the attack, allowing Ken to strike the sword with his foot.
Ken stepped backwards towards the ropes, his foot stinging from the failed attack. As plans started running through Ken’s head, Futch rushed forward and prepared to swing his sword with all his might.
A light went on inside Ken’s head as Futch charged him. “That’ll work.” He thought. Ken leaned to the side as Futch swung his sword. While Futch was recovering from his own attack, Ken acted quickly and pushed the Dragon Knight over the ropes.
Futch landed in Harvest Moon. When a cow started to chew on his hair, he was tempted to kill it, but was afraid that the farmer with the unusual face would sue him.
Cody swung his fist at Joe the Hedgehog, but the yellow TFS’er proved to be too quick and rolled to the side. Joe quickly sprung to his feet and kicked the former hero in the side.
“Smart guy, eh?” Cody asked as he pulled his arm back. “Get a load of this, then! Criminal Upper!”
Cody lashed out and created a small tornado with his hand. However, Joe saw the attack coming and jumped backwards. After he was out of harm’s way, Joe pulled his hands back and started to form a ball of red energy.
“Pretty sweet move there, Cody.” Joe complimented. “But I have something that can beat it. Power Blitz!”
With that, Joe thrust his hands forward, firing a large ball of red energy at his opponent. Cody wasn’t expecting the attack and was given a hard blow to the stomach. Cody recoiled, but quickly uprighted himself and rushed Joe.
Cody leapt at Joe and delivered a hard kick. Joe tried to create a protective shield, but couldn’t activate it in time and received a blow to the head. This time it was Joe to recoil.
“Looks like we’re pretty evenly matched, here.” Joe noted.
“Yeah. I look forward to seeing which of us comes out the winner.” Cody nodded with a smirk.
Suddenly, the two heard a loud roar of anger and disbelief. Turning, they saw Goh Hinogami flying from the ring while the Servbot screamed random death threats after him, even after Goh had gone through the portal.
Seeing Mewtwo nearby, Cody asked the obvious. “How the heck did that thing get that guy out of the ring?” He asked.
“Trust me. You do NOT want to know.” Mewtwo replied with a sigh before floating off to pick a fight with someone else.
Cody and Joe looked at each other, shrugged and continued fighting.
Goh landed in Super Mario Strikers. The metal ball slammed into the back of his head, sending him facefirst into the ground. Several Koopas ran over his back while he was down.
(Dome; Crowd)
“Hey! Down in front!” Rancid from Time Killers shouted angrily.
Unfortunately, the two people fighting weren’t going to settle down anytime soon, and they were constantly blocking the view of the arena from the others in the crowd, but neither of the two seemed like they cared.
Gannondorf flew backwards as Knuckles’ fist slammed into his stomach. The dark warlock honestly hadn’t been expecting this sort of power to come from someone so small. As much as Gannondorf didn’t want to admit it, Knuckles seemed like he was just as strong as he was.
“Hey! Watch it!” Crunch Bandicoot shouted as Knuckles jumped over him. “I’m trying to watch the fight, here!”
Knuckles once again dis-acknowledged the existence of the protestors and continued to focus on his opponent. Gannondorf saw Knuckles coming and lunged at him foot-first, giving the small echidna a hard kick.
Although he was taken aback and was sent flying through the air, Knuckles quickly uprighted himself in midair and glided back over to Gannondorf. Once he was overtop of the dark king of the Gerudos, Knuckles dropped out of the glide and landed on top of him, then started driving his fists into Gannondorf’s back.
Luckily for Gannondorf, he had a tougher body and a high-pain threshold so he didn’t really feel the attack that much. Jumping to is feet, Gannondorf knocked Knuckles off of him.
“We could have avoided this altogether if you had just given me that emerald of yours.” Gannondorf supplied.
“Screw that! The emerald stays with me!” Knuckles shouted back. “It’s my sworn duty to protect it!”
“Shut up, you whippersnapper!” Cranky Kong, sitting nearby, snapped as he whacked Knuckles over the head with his cane. “I can barely hear the fight!”
Gannondorf, suddenly seeing an opening, pulled his hand back. Knuckles saw this and charged forward.
Unfortunately, he was too late. Gannondorf unleashed the Warlock Punch and it was a direct hit. Knuckles went flying across the stands, leaving the Master Emerald free for taking.
“Thanks for the emerald!” Gannondorf said with a smirk as he picked up the emerald.
However, before he could get very far, a blur of red shot past and struck the Master Emerald, shattering it into many pieces, which flew off in all directions, magically going through walls and vanishing.
Gannondorf looked down at the newly-arrived Knuckles with shock. “How did you get back so fast?!” He asked.
“When it comes to MY emerald, I get determined.” Knuckles replied.
“Well, in case you haven’t noticed, YOUR emerald has just been shattered.” Gannondorf pointed out.
“I’m aware of that. I can repair it, and if it’s in pieces, it’ll be safe from people like you.” Knuckles replied as he gave Gannondorf a huge uppercut, sending him flying backwards and knocking him out.
Knuckles breathed heavily as he rushed out of the stands. He had a job to do, now. It was one that he was hoping he wouldn’t have to do again: Gather the missing pieces of the Master Emerald.
(The Arena)
Roy growled as his sword sliced a wooden log in half. He had actually taken a swing at Bakuryu, but the young ninja had vanished from sight. He had been doing this for a while now, and it was starting to get incredibly frustrating.
“Stay still for once, ninja!” Roy shouted aloud. “Where’d you go this time?!”
“Up here, prettyboy!” Bakuryu shouted from above as he dropped down and swung his sword.
“Oh, YOU’RE a fine one to talk.” Roy said as he stepped back and held up his sword, blocking the blow. Once he blocked it, Roy slashed forward, countering the blow Bakuryu would have landed.
Because of this sudden attack, Bakuryu couldn’t vanish in time and took the blow, flying back yet landing gracefully on his feet. Narrowing his eyes at the swordsman, Bakuryu drew his own sword and rushed forward.
“Not happening, pal.” Roy warned as he swung his sword to counter Bakuryu’s ninja blade. The two young fighters locked swords a couple of times before Bakuryu jumped back and warped away again, leaving another log in his place.
“When is this guy going to stop this?” Roy growled to himself as he picked up the log Bakuryu had left behind and looked around. Once he saw Bakuryu coming at him again, Roy hurled the log at him.
Bakuryu, not suspecting the attack, received a very sharp blow to the forehead. As Bakuryu stepped back, holding his head, Roy rushed forward and pushed him over the ropes and out of the ring.
Bakuryu landed in Naruto, where Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura beat him into the ground.
Cecile held up her shield as Q-Bee repeatedly tried to sting her. Q-Bee’s stinger struck Cecile’s shield several times, but nothing actually got through the defense.
“I gotta hand it to her. She IS persistent.” Cecile noted. She suddenly saw an opening and took it, swinging the spear she was holding out at the giant bee woman.
Q-Bee received a pretty major cut for her trouble and flew backwards in pain.
When Q-Bee calmed down, she glared daggers down at Cecile and zoomed in for the kill. Cecile quickly put up her shield, hoping that it would be enough to block the attack.
Q-Bee struck Cecile’s shield with full force, and her stinger actually punctured the steel surface of it. Luckily for Cecile, it didn’t go any further. In fact, Q-Bee got herself stuck with her stinger in the shield, unable to get it out.
Cecile saw this and smirked. “Looks like you can’t get out of my shield.” She noted as she walked towards the ropes. “I suppose I could let you hold onto it for a while and let the people fix it when you get back.”
With that, Cecile used all of her muscle to throw her shield, with Q-Bee still attached, over the ropes. Q-Bee tried to fly back in, but the weight of the shield was too much for her and she fell into a portal.
Q-Bee landed in World of Warcraft. Some newbies saw her and mistook her for a monster. Q-Bee easily proved them wrong.
The obvious downside to Cecile’s situation now was that she was without a shield. The young girl, although knowing that she wasn’t used to fighting without her shield, grabbed her spear with both hands and rushed off to start another fight.
Long swung his fist at Falco, but the avian was too quick and ducked the punch. However, Long had anticipated this and drove his knee into Falco’s face while he was crouched over. Falco was sent reeling as Long advanced and delivered another few quick punches to the blue birdman’s face.
“You’re fast for a human.” Falco noted as he zipped forward in a Falco Phantasm. Long quickly blocked the attack, but couldn’t stop a minor blow that followed afterwards.
“It came with my ‘animal’ instincts.” Long replied as he gathered up his energy and engulfed himself in a bright light, making Falco cover his eyes.
When the light cleared, standing in Long’s place was a six-foot tiger wearing his green gi. Falco’s eyes widened, seeing at how much this new form could enhance his speed and agility.
Long rushed Falco and swung his newfound claws at him. Falco sprang back and allowed Long to slash nothing but thin air. Once he saw the attack fail, Falco jumped at his opponent and delivered a hard kick to his face.
Although the attack hurt him, it did little to faze the enhanced Long. Long pressed forward with a couple more claw swings and kicks, and although he managed to land a couple of hits, Falco had avoided the majority of the attacks.
Long took one more swing, which Falco managed to avoid with a lean to the side. Falco pushed Long towards the ropes and performed a flipkick, removing Long from the ring.
Long, still in his tiger form, landed in Spyro the Dragon. He and Hunter got into a fight that ended in a draw when a random Orc clubbed them both.
Vivian sunk into the canvas as Yuri’s fireball soared over her head. Once the attack stopped, Vivian rose from the small shadow on the canvas and delivered a punch to Yuri’s stomach. The young Sakazaki stepped back, but quickly recovered and sent an uppercut flyign into the Shadow Siren’s chin. Vivian was sent flying into the air, but the spout where her legs were supposed to be remained anchored to the ground, so she couldn’t really go anywhere.
“No fair!” Yuri shouted. “You can't get thrown from the ring!”
“Sucks to be you.” Vivian shrugged as she snapped her fingers. The canvas underneath Yuri’s feet exploded, rocketing the young girl into the air. Yuri crashed into the canvas, but found herself getting to her feet.
“Okay, that’s it!” Yuri shouted as she rushed forward and dove at Vivian in a flying kick. Vivian took the blow, but acted quickly and countered with a couple more punches, knocking Yuri away from her and sending her towards the ropes.
Seeing her chance, Vivian rushed forward and started delivering punches. Yuri started blocking them, but found herself getting forced back. By the time Yuri realized that she was getting close to the ropes, it was already too late. Vivian had grabbed her and had thrown her out of the ring.
Yuri fell into Rival Schools, where she and Tiffany took turns beating on Daigo.
Vivian, seeing her opponent eliminated, brushed her hands off with a satisfied smirk as she turned.
She stopped when she saw Ken throwing Nei over his shoulder and out of the ring (where she demolished the competition in Guitar Hero). Deciding not to bother with him, Vivian moved on to find a fight elsewhere, stepping around the Servobt (which now had war paint marked on its face and was screaming battle cries) on her way.
(Hotel; Arcade)
“Move out of the way!” Kid USA ordered the others in the arcade as he gave his opponent, Mileena, a hard punch to the face, knocking her away. The various others moved out of the way to avoid Mileena as she flew past.
While still in the air, Mileena saw a handlebar on the DDR machine. Grabbing hold of it, Mileena spun around and launched herself back at Kid USA. Surprised at the attack, Kid USA didn’t think about blocking and Mileena collided with him, sending them both into the side of a nearby arcade machine.
Kid USA slowly got to his feet and jumped back to avoid a dagger swing from Mileena. Thinking quickly, Kid USA clenched his fist and ignited it in a gray hue.
“Let’s hope this works for me as much as it worked for Ally in the last tournament.” Kid USA mused as he charged his Anvil Powerup and rushed at Mileena.
Mileena quickly blocked the first punch, but when Kid USA managed to slip the second punch through, she felt it. She REALLY felt it. Mileena recoiled and staggered back several steps at the abnormal power of the single punch.
But Kid USA wasn’t done, yet. He quickly punched Mileena several more times, trying to attack as much as he could before his powerup ran dry.
Unfortunately, the powerup nly lasted about thirty seconds, and the instant the powered punches stopped, Mileena sprang into action and gave Kid USA a hard kick to the head, knocking him backwards. Mileena crouched low and drew her daggers before leaping at Kid USA and preparing to drive her weapons through his heart.
A shrill scream from someone in the crowd of people snapped Kid USA back into reality and he saw Mileena coming down at him. Rolling to the side, Kid USA avoided the attempted assassination as Mileena’s weapons slammed into the carpeted floor where he had been laying only a matter of seconds beforehand.
Seeing how close he had actually come to getting killed, Kid USA’s face turned white, as he now knew how serious Mileena was. She would (and probably could) kill him without a second thought. Kid USA was starting to regret stepping in and starting the fight, now.
Unfortunately, while Kid USA was wrapped up in his thoughts, Mileena chose that time to spring into action again, slashing and stabbing the blonde boxer with her daggers. The small crowd watched in horror as Kid USA received countless cuts, some of which looked pretty deep. Mileena finished the assault with a final kick, sending Kid USA flying into an arcade machine with a scream of pain.
Mileena was about to jump in and finish the job when she heard footsteps coming from outside the arcade. Knowing that it was the security force, Mileena decided to take her leave.
“Consider yourself lucky.” Mileena told Kid USA, whom was struggling to stay awake. “Not a lot of people manage to escape my attacks.”
In the blink of an eye, Mileena had gone off, leaving the arcade through another door. The instant she was gone, the security force entered through the main door.
“Alright, people! The party starts now!” Psymon announced. “Where’s the fire?”
Max looked around for a few seconds before pulling a match out of nowhere. He was about to light it when Marilyn backhanded the match out of his hand.
Sergei was the one to spot Kid USA and pointed the battered boxer out to the others.
“Yeesh, this kid really got a number done on him.” Gumshoe said with a shake of his head. He looked at the crowd. “Does anyone know who the one responsible is?”
“It was that Mileena woman from the Mortal Kombat node!” Someone shouted.
Gumshoe sighed as he looked down at Kid USA, whom had lost consciousness. “There’s no use. He’s almost dead as it is.” He replied. “We may as well start a search for that woman and arrest her for murder.”
Standing in the crowd, a little rabbit girl was sobbing, and it only got worse when she heard what Gumshoe said. The small rabbit dared to look at the unmoving body of Kid USA again, but only managed to do so for a second before turning away and burying her head in her friend’s dress.
“It’s okay, Cream.” The pink hedgehog with her assured. “He’s going to be fine.”
“No he’s not, Amy!” The rabbit, Cream replied through her tears. “Did you see how many times that bad woman stabbed him?!”
“I’m sure he’ll pull through.” Amy Rose insisted. “He just doesn’t seem the type to give up that easily.”
Cream seemed to not notice what her friend had said and kept crying, wishing that there were something she could do.
Suddenly, Cream felt something tap against her foot. Looking down, Cream found herself staring at a shard of green crystal, which looked like it had broken off of something much larger.
Cream’s eyes widened in realization. Bending over, Cream scooped up the Master Emerald shard and raced over to Kid USA’s unconscious form, ignoring her friend’s calls. When Cream arrived at Kid USA’s side, she screeched to a halt and held the emerald shard near, concentrating.
Kid USA’s cuts and wounds started to glow green before they slowly started to vanish. Cream gave a hopeful smile.
(The Arena)
Ally Gator, unaware of what her big brother was going through, shoved her fist at Lillith’s face. The purple-haired girl quickly leaned back and avoided the blow, bringing her foot up at the same time, striking Ally in the chin.
Recoiling from Lillith’s attack, Ally rubbed her chin for a second before pounding her gloved fists together and rushing her again.
Seeing Ally coming, Lillith smirked. “I don’t think so.” She taunted as she gracefully swerved to the side. Ally’s fist shot past her, leaving the redhead open for an attack to the side. Ally staggered to the side for a second and recovered just in time to receive another kick to the face.
Ally looked and saw that Lillith had turned her foot into a blade of some sorts. Knowing what was coming next, the redhead jumped back as Lillith’s foot swung past her. This left the purple-haired girl open to attack, which Ally quickly took advantage of with a punch to the back. Ally quickly followed up with a couple more punches and a hook.
Lillith stepped back. “Okay. I’ve underestimated you.” She admitted. “But can you really blame me? I don’t have any idea whom you are!”
“I get that a lot.” Ally said as she narrowed her eyes. “And it’s good that you’ve underestimated me, because otherwise, you’d be expecting me to do this!”
With that, Ally clenched her fist, igniting her gloves in a strange, yellow energy. Ally jumped forward and gave Lillith a quick punch, stunning her. While the purple-haired girl was stunned, Ally pulled her right hand down, giving Lillith a hard strike to the face. Ally then brought her right hand back up again, giving Lillith a hard backhand, knocking her away.
Lillith slowly got to her feet and stared at Ally, surprised. “What was that?!” She asked.
“My signature move.” Ally explained with a smirk. “Everyone in my node has one of those.”
Without giving Lillith a chance to retaliate, Ally rushed forward and gave the surprised bat-girl a strong uppercut to the chin, sending Lillith spinning out of the ring and into a portal.
Lillith landed in the Cave level in Goldeneye 007. As James Bond ran around and shot guards left and right, Lillith curled up and took a nap on the cold floor.
Rotating her head a couple of times, Ally turned to see if she could find another fight. However, the instant she turned, she found herself staring into a tall person’s chest. Looking up, Ally found herself staring into a paper bag.
“I was going to cure that poor girl of her bat-wing disease!” Faust explained. “How could you eliminate her while her health is at risk?!”
“Uh…I’m pretty sure that she wasn’t sick.” Ally said, her eyebrow raised.
“Nonsense!” Faust insisted. “It’s simply not possible for someone to have bat wings sprouting from their head and be perfectly fine at the same time!”
“Ah, shaddap!” Ally shouted as she clobbered Faust in the face, sending him sprawling. Ally stalked off to find another fight.
Laying on his back, Faust was contemplating how he could cure Ally of her temper problem when Mewtwo poked his head into the good doctor’s field of vision.
“To be fair, you WERE asking for it.” Mewtwo explained.
“Gadzooks! A talking feline!” Faust shouted in surprise as he jumped to his feet. “There must be something wrong with you! Please allow me to help you!”
“Just stop and think about what you’re doing.” Mewtwo explained. “You, an overly-sized doctor with a scalpel that looks like a toothpick for Gyrados, going against me, one of the most powerful Pokemon in existence with the ability to move things with my mind. Do you REALLY think it’ll be safe for you to proceed?”
Faust stood in silence for a couple of seconds before shrugging and stepping forward.
“Apparently so.” Mewtwo sighed as he levitated Faust into the air and threw him out of the arena, keeping his arms folded the entire time.
Faust landed in Phoenix Wright. Several police officers jumped him and arrested him because his scalpel looked like a murder weapon.
Although she was without her shield, Cecile was managing to hold her own against Vivian. Grabbing the pole of her spear with both hands, Cecile swung. Vivian saw the attack coming and sunk into the canvas again, turning into a small, circular shadow on the ground and ducking underneath Cecile’s swing.
However, Cecile had anticipated this and awaited Vivian to rise from the canvas again. Cecile promptly gave the Shadow Siren a boot to the head, sending her flying back a few feet.
While Vivian was stunned, Cecile advanced again and struck her in the face with the blunt end of her spear.
“And here I was thinking that the absence of your shield would make you a lesser fighter.” Vivian noted as she rubbed her jaw.
“Hey, a soldier has to be prepared for anything, even if it means their defense getting taken away.” Cecile replied simply.
“Well, can your armour stand up to my flames?” Vivian asked with a smirk as she snapped her fingers.
Cecile knew what was coming next and plunged her spear into the canvas, leaping off her feet and holding herself in the air as the canvas erupted in flames underneath her. The instant the flames died down, Cecile got back to her feet and pulled her spear out of the canvas.
Vivian watched the display in surprise. No one had ever avoided her attack like that before, and seeing Cecile do it so skillfully made her realize that she had plenty of training and could probably avoid whatever she threw at her.
Thinking quickly, Vivian sunk into the shadows and moved underneath a surprised Cecile. Once she had passed the armour-clad girl, Vivian rose from the shadows and pushed her forward. This made Cecile stagger towards the ropes.
Quickly taking advantage of the situation, Vivian charged forward, grabbed Cecile’s legs and flipped her over the ropes and sent her tumbling out of the ring.
Cecile landed in Rayman: Raving Rabbids, where she shocked all by throwing a cow further than anyone else had done.
Joe the Hedgehog ducked a blow from Cody, then followed with a kick to the former hero’s stomach. As Cody stepped back, Joe lashed out his hands and sent another Power Blitz into his stomach, launching Cody back several feet.
“Alright! He’s down!” Joe said as he advanced. However, on his way over, Joe watched as Cody jumped to his feet again.
“Pretty quick, but you just caught me off guard.” Cody explained as he lashed out his hand, performing another Criminal Upper. Joe couldn’t avoid this one in time and was sent shooting into the air.
Joe managed to turn himself over in the air and land on his feet. When he did, he rushed at Cody again. Deciding to try one more trick, Joe pulled both hands back as he ran, gathering up energy in each palm.
“Take this!” Joe shouted as he slammed his hands together. “Final Blitz!!”
The two energy orbs Joe had created combined to form one large orb, which fired a beam of energy at Cody. The former hero’s eyes widened as he saw the beam coming.
Joe held his position for a couple of seconds before ending the attack. When the attack ended fully, Joe saw that Cody was nowhere in sight.
“Did I eliminate him?” Joe asked.
“I’m afraid not.”
By the time Joe turned, Cody had already grabbed him and had thrown him from the ring. The yellow hedgehog fell headlong into a portal.
Joe landed in the Cantina in Star Wars. Deciding to ignore the sight of Obi-Wan slicing off Ponda Baba’s arm, Joe sat down at the bar and ordered a drink.
Back in the arena, Cody saw his opponent get eliminated. Nodding once, Cody prepared to go off and pick another fight.
“Hey!”
Cody turned and saw Adam McCloud glaring at him while still locking swords with Zero.
“That was my nodal companion you just eliminated!” Adam accused.
“Homing Sniper!” An unfamiliar voice shouted.
“No, you fool!”
Zero was suddenly shot in the shoulder, making him back away from Adam. Search Man quickly rushed onto the scene and booted him out of the ring (where he spent ten minutes cutting down foes in Zombies Ate My Neighbors).
Adam suddenly turned and saw that his opponent was gone. “That was MY elimination!” He snapped.
“See what you did, righty?!” The left head shouted. “You wanted to have ‘fun’! See where that’s gotten us?!”
“Well, so-rry!” The left head pouted as Adam pounced.
Kasumi Todoh stepped back as May’s anchor swung past her head. Kasumi then stepped forward and delivered several quick palm strikes, but May was quick enough to hold up her anchor and block the attacks.
As May was trying to block the attacks Kasumi was dealing out, the blue-haired girl lifted her hands into the air. “Cho Kasane Ate!” She shouted as she swung her hands down, sending streaks of energy down and pelting May in the face.
The pirate girl stepped back and held her head, but quickly recovered and gave Kasumi a kick to the stomach, then slammed her anchor into her back. May jumped back and swung her anchor down, striking the canvas with it. Kasumi felt the ground underneath her shake, which gave May enough time to sneak another couple of hits in.
“You are indeed a sneaky one.” Kasumi noted. “But I’ll have you know that it’ll take more than that to defeat me.”
“I’m aware of that.” May said with a smirk.
Kasumi stepped forward and thrust her palm out, catching May in the face. Kasumi followed with another kick to the stomach, then an elbow to the chest.
May stepped back, not really liking where the fight was going anymore. Maybe she should have chosen another opponent to fight…
Before May could think any further, Kasumi stepped in again and struck her in the face several times. Kasumi gave a couple more kicks, then delivered one final punch to the face. May was sent recoiling from the attack and landed on her back, where she lay unmoving.
Kasumi’s eyes widened. “Oh…Did I get too carried away, there?” She asked as she slowly stepped forward. “Are you okay?”
May’s fingers clenched the handle of her anchor.
Jolting to life and ending her possum act, May swung her anchor with all her might, catching the surprised Kasumi in the face. Kasumi crumpled to the floor, unconscious instantly. May whistled a cheerful tune as she got up and threw Kasumi’s unconscious form out of the ring.
Kasumi still unconscious, landed on the Nemisis in Resident Evil 3, saving Brad Vickers’ life. Brad quickly picked her up bridal-fashion and scrambled off to find someplace safe to hide.
May brushed her hands off as the audience starting booing her. She turned, only to freeze when she saw the looks of some of the fighters. Cody, Vivian, Kula, Ally and Eduardo were glaring daggers into the eyes of the young pirate girl, obviously not impressed with her cheap and underhanded trick.
“I simply don’t believe it!” SSBFreak announced. “Kasumi Todoh, the reigning champion, has fallen to a dirty trick!”
“Her nice personality didn’t work in her favour, here.” Unknown1 said as he shook his head. “I was honestly thinking Kasumi would last longer.”
“Well, it looks like some of the fighters down there didn’t take too kindly to May’s trick.” Tinyrocket pointed out. “I’d watch out if I were in May’s shoes.”
“The streets will flow with the blood of the guilty!!” The Servbot shouted as he jumped from behind the crowd of angry fighters and leapt at May with a potato peeler.
FINAL SCORE: (13 votes on the main fight, but only 10 on the Side Matches)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
KEN MASTERS (SFA3) (10:3) = 7 (Futch, Nei)
VIVIAN (PM) (10:3) = 7 (Yuri Sakazaki, Cecile)
MEWTWO (SSB) (9:4) = 5 (Faust)
ALLY GATOR (B&B) (9:4) = 5 (Lillith Aensland)
MAY (GG) (9:5) = 4 (Kasumi Todoh)
SERVBOT (MVC2) (9:5) = 4 (Goh Hinogami)
FALCO LOMBARDI (SSB) (9:5) = 4 (Long)
CODY (SFA3) (9:5) = 4 (Joe the Hedgehog)
EDUARO (FHfIF) (8:5) = 3 (Hon-Fu)
ROY (SSB) (8:6) = 2 (Bakuryu)
ADAM MCCLOUD (TFS) (8:6) = 2 (Kuroko)
KULA DIAMOND (KOF) (8:6) = 2 (Heat Man)
SEARCH MAN (MM) (7:6) = 1 (Zero)
(ELIMINATED)
CECILE (S3) (7:6) = 1 (Q-Bee)
YURI SAKAZAKI (KOF) (7:6) = 1 (Kim Dragon)
FAUST (GG) (7:6) = 1
ZERO (MM) (7:7) = 0
HEAT MAN (MM) (7:7) = 0
LILLITH AENSLAND (DS) (7:7) = 0
KASUMI TODOH (KOF) (6:7) = -1
JOE THE HEDGEHOG (TFS) (6:7) = -1
NEI (S3) (6:8) = -2
LONG (BR) (5:8) = -3
BAKURYU (BR) (5:9) = -4
Q-BEE (DS) (3:10) = -7
GOH HINOGAMI (VF) (3:10) = -7
FUTCH (S3) (3:10) = -7
HON-FU (FF) (2:11) = -9
KUROKO (SS) (2:11) = -9
KIM DRAGON (WH) (1:12) = -11
BONUS MATCHES:
“Master Crash”
KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA (StH) cracks GANNONDORF (SSB)
8 to 2
“Top-Score Buting”
MILEENA (MK) shreds KID USA (B&B)
6 to 4
Wanting Someone New: A lot of the people that voted against Kasumi did so because they wanted a new champion.
Smash Dominating: From the looks of things, The Smash Bros. cast are doing a lot better than the other nodes. So far, only one person from their numbers has been eliminated.