“Tornado Hold!” Roll shouted (much to the approval of the crowd) as she shot a capsule from her arm cannon, which landed on the ground and sprouted a small tornado. May got pulled into the twister and found herself getting lifted into the air, but Cody, Eduardo and Felicia were too close when it started and were pulled into the air as well.
Cody crashed onto the canvas and glared at Roll. “Watch your aim on that thing, Roll!” He scolded.
“Hey! You were too close to it!” Roll insisted.
“Retreat!!” The Servbot screamed as he ran past. “This guy’s completely insane!! Pull back!”
The Rabbid ran past, chasing the Servbot and holding a plunger-launching gun, screaming psychotically.
“Which one of those two do you think is more dangerous?” Roll asked.
“Right now? I’d say it’s fifty-fifty.” Cody replied, scratching his head.
Tiny Tiger clashed with Rawk Hawk again. The two giants grappled, trying to overpower the other. Unfortunately, neither of them came out of top and they pushed each other away.
Rawk Hawk cracked his knuckles and rotated his neck. “You’re tough, kitty. I’ve never met someone that could match me in strength.” He noted.
“Same to birdy.” Tiny nodded as he rotated his arms a couple of times. “Him very strong, which Tiny always look for in opponent.”
“Let’s hope you don’t disappoint me anytime soon, pally.” Rawk Hawk said with a smirk. “Time for me to bring the RAAAAWWWWK!!!!” He roared, earning a loud cheer from the crowd.
Tiny scratched his head. “Uh…And Tiny bring out TIIIIIINYYYYY!!!” He said, trying to be as imposing as his opponent.
“Word of advice: Don’t do that again.” Rawk Hawk warned. “It only works for certain people.”
“Tiny know that now.” Tiny said flatly, realizing how stupid he just made himself sound.
(Dome; Hallway)
“Any sign of them, yet?” Kid USA asked as he looked back and forth, walking down the hallway.
“Not yet, mister.” Cream replied. “I’m sure we’ll find them eventually.”
“Thanks for coming along again, guys.” Kid USA told his two nodal companions.
“Just call it looking out fer ye and yer stupid ideas, lad.” Mickey sighed. “I mean, yer just lookin’ fer the woman that nearly killed you back there.”
“Indeed. We do NOT wish for you to charge foolishly into battle a second time.” Maiagaru agreed.
“Thanks…Uh…I think.” Kid USA scratched his head.
Cream’s ears suddenly perked up as she heard something coming down the hallway. She quickly pressed herself against the wall. “Get back, everyone!” She ordered.
Kid USA and Maiagaru quickly complied with the young rabbit’s wishes and got close to the wall. Mickey, however, took the time to look down the hallway to see what the commotion was about. The five people running down the hallway promptly stampeded over the Irishman. The first four weren’t that bad, but the huge rabbit bringing up the rear REALLY hurt.
“Yeesh! We just get back from the arcade and the bosses send us somewhere else!” Gumshoe grunted.
“Hey, we’re the leaders of security!” Psymon said brightly. “It’s our job to run aimlessly through the dome and hotel!”
“I thought our job was to keep the peace here and make sure none of the fighters kill each other.” Gumshoe supplied.
“By golly, you’re right!” Psymon said, as if he had just remembered it. He then looked at his tattoo as he ran. “Why the heck did you plant those thoughts into my mind?!”
“I sure hope he isn’t like this all of the time.” Gumshoe told Marilyn.
“Guh.” Marylin nodded.
“I like him.” Max said brightly. “Well, in any case, we should get over to that hallway near the Recovery Room.”
The five security leaders vanished around the corner, leaving the hallway once again empty.
“Are you okay, Mr. McFist?” Cream asked as she approached the fallen Irishman.
“I just got stampeded by five people, and one of them was probably six-hundred pounds.” Mickey groaned. “Do ye THINK I’m okay?”
“Grow up, McFist.” Maiagaru said. “You have gotten worse than that.”
“Also true.” Mickey nodded as he got to his feet.
(The Arena)
“Criminal Upper!” Cody shouted as he swung his fist, creating a small tornado which lifted May off the ground. While the pirate girl was in the air, Roll nailed her with a charged-up Roll Buster. May fell onto the ground, only to have Eduardo pick her up and throw her into a turnbuckle.
Needless to say, May wasn’t feeling so good.
“This…This is totally unfair!” May said as she used her anchor to help herself to her feet. “You guys are ganging up on me!”
“And what would you call that trick you used to eliminate Kasumi?” Cody asked, folding his arms.
“Uh…A cheap shot?”
“Si, senorita.” Eduardo nodded, a cross look on his face. “You did a very underhanded trick back there.”
“I’m with him.” Vivian nodded. “We feel like you need to get what you deserve.”
“What about you two?” May asked Felicia and Roll. “Why are you helping them?”
“I’m just in it because it looked like fun!” Felicia grinned.
“I wanted a rematch with Kasumi, because we were the last two fighters in the first tournament.” Roll said, her eyes narrowed. “Anyone that eliminates her with a cheap trick doesn’t deserve to win.”
May, having heard enough, sprang at Eduardo and swung her anchor at the surprised monster’s face. Vivian quickly jumped into May’s path, grabbed Eduardo and sunk into the canvas, taking him with her. May soared over the small, circular shadow on the ground, and once she had passed, Vivian pulled Eduardo up again.
“Uh…Thank you, senorita Vivian.” Eduardo said, blushing.
“Think nothing of it.” Vivian assured.
“You wanna take her, Roll?” Cody asked.
“I thought you’d never ask.” Roll said as she slid forward in a powerful, flaming, sliding kick.
May looked back and her eyes widened. “Johnny! HELP!!” She screamed.
As much as he would have liked to help, Johnny was pretty busy at the moment (it’s not easy to remain conscious after continually receiving punches from Ally Gator). Because of this, there was nothing preventing Roll from rocketing herself into May’s back, launching the pirate girl out of the ring.
May landed in the node of the Aladdin video game. She would have fallen down a huge pit had she not managed to snag her anchor on a hook hanging on a nearby wall.
Chung Paihu wildly swung his staff at Falco, striking the Avian in the eye. Falco staggered back, holding his head. This gave the older fighter time to lunge forward and slug Falco in the stomach.
“Had enough yet, boy?” Chung asked.
“Why are you so ticked-off, old man?” Falco said, holding his stomach.
“Need I remind you?!” Chung asked. “You disgraced the name of Terry Bogard by knocking that hat off my head! I must avenge the name of the great Terry Bogard by eliminating you!”
“Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not quite done here, yet.” Falco narrowed his eyes as he pulled out his blaster.
“You’re back for more, eh?” Chung asked. “Very well. This time, I shall not hesitate.”
Before Chung could react, Falco zoomed past him in a Falco Phantasm, knocking the old man into the air. While Chung was in the air, Falco crouched low, then leapt up to catch up with the old man.
Chung turned himself over in midair, but the only thing he saw was Falco’s boot.
After delivering his final kick, Falco landed gracefully on the canvas as Chung fell past the ropes and out of the ring.
Chung landed in Mario Strikers: Charged. Shy Guy plowed him over while riding a huge Bullet Bill.
Falco stood straight and rotated his arm a couple of times. He turned to rush off and find another fight when he saw Mewtwo mentally throwing Dhalsim out of the ring (where the rubbery monk spent the next ten minutes meditating atop a mountain in Earthbound). Falco decided to ignore this and continued on his way.
Adam McCloud swung his sword at Search Man, but the dual-headed robot leapt back to avoid the attack. Search Man quickly leveled his Homing Sniper at the TFS resident’s head and took a shot, but Adam was quicker and deflected the shot with his sword using a well-placed swing.
“He’s really fast, lefty!” The right head pointed out.
“You think I don’t know that?!” The left head snapped.
“Come on! You start shooting the Homing Sniper and I’ll kick him in the stomach!”
“Well, you can’t use that strategy, now.” Adam said.
“Uh…Why not?” The right head asked.
“Because you just announced it to him, moron.” The left head replied flatly.
“Oh. Right.” The right head nodded in realization as he looked at Adam. “You…Uh…Didn’t hear that, okay?”
The left head quickly gained control of his body and swung his fist, clocking the right head in the face.
“Now. Where were we?” The left head asked.
Search Man lunged forward, but Adam was too quick and grabbed the Robot Master, throwing him over his shoulder.
Rawk Hawk swung his fist, which Tiny promptly ducked under. The huge feline quickly landed a hard kick to the oversized bird’s stomach, but it did little to make Rawk Hawk flinch.
“Was that a kick?!” Rawk Hawk taunted. “It felt more like a raindrop! These rock-hard abs are impervious to such weak attacks!”
Tiny grinned and bared his set of razor-sharp claws. “How about now?” He asked.
Rawk Hawk’s face fell.
Tiny lunged at Rawk Hawk and swung both arms, delivering the hardest and most powerful slash attack known to man. Thankfully, the Glitz Pit champion ducked under the attack and let Tiny fly past him.
Tiny, oblivious to the dodge, continued the attack and completed the strike. However, while he felt himself cutting something, it definitely wasn’t Rawk Hawk. Tiny opened his eyes and was surprised to find himself standing over two halves of Search Man.
“Look what happened now, righty!” The left head said. “This is all your fault!”
“Why is everything my fault?” The right head asked.
Tiny quickly decided to dispose of the evidence, grabbed both halves of the downed Robot Master and pitched them out of the ring.
The two halves of Search Man landed in Survivor. The left head voted the right head off the island, making people wonder how it would actually be possible.
Duo Lon continued to scan the ring as he dodged a swing from Roy’s sword, trying to find someone with a dark aura. The Rabbid was giving off an unusual aura, but it didn’t seem entirely dark. Tiny’s aura was surprisingly light, Rawk Hawk’s wasn’t as dark as he thought it would be and J. Maxx’s was sort of a mix between light and dark.
“I can’t sense Ron anywhere.” Duo Lon mused. “He must be here somewhere. I sensed an incredibly dark aura coming here. There can’t be someone with as dark an aura as him.”
Suddenly, something tapped against his foot. Looking down, Duo Lon found himself staring down at Pikachu, whom was repeatedly giving his leg head-butts.
“Uh…Can I help you?” Duo Lon asked the small Pokemon.
“Pika! Pik Pika!” Pikachu replied cheerily.
“I’m busy at the moment.” Duo Lon replied. “Maybe after I eliminate your nodal companion, here.”
“PIKA!” Pikachu shouted, spreading his arms.
Everyone heard a loud rumbling as a lightning bolt flew from above and struck Pikachu, igniting him in electricity. Duo Lon was unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire and found himself getting launched from the arena.
Duo Lon landed in Sonic Adventure 2. The ghosts of Pumpkin Hill flew away in terror.
“…And this one’s for that poor Dizzy girl your dragged onto your crew!” Ally shouted as she gave Johnny another hard punch to the face. “And this one’s for all of the girls you’ve gone after!” Another punch. “And this one’s just because I feel like it!” Another punch.
“Okay! Okay!” Johnny said, holding up his hands. “I’ll make you a deal! If you join my crew, I’ll make you the head of training!”
“Are you freaking KIDDING me?!?!” Ally roared. “Okay! This one’s for you so my brother won’t have to do it later!” Another punch. “This one’s for me for not being able to do this any sooner!” Another punch.
Ally grabbed Johnny and hauled him to his feet, pulling her fist back.
“And this one’s for you so you can fall unconscious before you get yourself killed in the elimination node!” Ally said as she gave Johnny the hardest punch she could muster, sending the black-clad pirate over the ropes.
Ally was right. Johnny was unconscious before he hit the ground of his elimination node. Unluckily for him, he landed in the Duke Nukem node and, because he was unconscious, Johnny was unable to look at all of the good-looking woman of the node.
(Dome; Hallway)
Ash Crimson sent a wave of green fire at his opponent, Trident, hoping to set the Atlantean on fire. Trident proved to be more agile than he looked and swerved to the side, allowing the wave of fire to strike the wall.
Seeing his attack getting avoided, Ash narrowed his eyes. “It seems that you’re more persistent than I thought.” He admitted. “Well, now I believe that I must not hold anything back, now.”
Trident got into his stance and beckoned Ash to step forward, issuing a challenge in Atlantean. He may not have been able to understand what Trident was saying, but Ash knew a challenge when he saw one. The white-haired prettyboy smirked and cracked his knuckles before approaching his green-skinned opponent.
Ash swung his fist, catching Trident off guard and nailing him in the chin. Ash quickly followed with two more hard punches to the stomach. Trident stepped back, but quickly recovered and thrust the fist holding his weapon at Ash’s torso. Ash received a hard blow to the stomach, and then a spinning kick to the head.
Grasping his jaw, where Trident had landed the kick, Ash stepped back. “A lucky shot.” He said. “It’ll take more than that to beat me, you freak!”
Trident narrowed his eyes and gripped the pitchfork in his hand tightly. Trident crouched and leapt forward, spinning his weapon wildly. Ash’s eyes widened as he leaned to the side. Trident’s pitchfork spiked into the wall beside Ash’s head. Ash chose this time to give the Atlantean a kick to the stomach while he was distracted.
“I’m running out of time.” Ash growled to himself. “If I can’t beat this reject quickly, I’ll lose my window.”
Unfortunately for Ash, Trident heard his muttering. Narrowing his eyes again, Trident rushed Ash and delivered a hard punch with two quick kicks following closely behind it.
As much as Ash didn’t want to admit it, he was fighting a losing battle. Trident was much more talented than Ash was hoping, and he still looked like he wouldn’t be falling for a bit. The clock was ticking for Ash, and he only had a short while before the time to complete his mission would be up.
Deciding to try one more attack, Ash jumped towards Trident and created a pillar of green, flaming energy around himself. Ash grinned evilly as the pillar died down. He had gotten extremely close to Trident when he started the attack. There was no way he could have survived that. However, when Ash got a better look, his eyes widened in disbelief.
Trident had surrounded himself with a strange, mystical forcefield.
The shield of energy vanished and Trident gave Ash a hard kick to the face, sending the prettyboy sprawling.
Ash slowly stood to his feet and glared at Trident, knowing that he wouldn’t have a chance to complete his mission, now. “Fine. You win this round.” He said. “Consider yourself lucky that I went easy on you.”
With that, Ash turned and ran off, leaving Trident alone in the hallway. Trident wondered why Ash had run off like that and started walking forward to go to the Eliminated Seating.
Trident took three steps when he felt his foot tap against something. Looking down, Trident found himself looking down at a green gem. Curiosity getting the better of the Atlantean, he scooped up the gem.
Unfortunately, this gem was a piece of the Master Emerald. Something kicked in the instant it was in Trident’s hand, sending a surge of energy through the Atlantean. Trident let out an inhuman howl of pain as the Master Emerald shard pumped all of its energy into him.
(The Arena)
“Get offa me!” Brian Battler shouted at Felicia, whom had latched onto his back and dug her claws into his jersey. “I don’t need an insane catgirl on my back while I’m fighting!”
“Aw! Why not?” Felicia asked.
“It was hard enough trying to move with Ally Gator on my back last year!” Brian replied. “Mind you, you ARE a bit lighter.”
“Say that again, Battler!” Ally Gator challenged from across the ring, stopping her fight with Falco for a second. “If I hadn’t befriended you guys after the last tournament-” That was all she could get out before Falco kicked her in the stomach.
“Just get off me, will ya?!” Brian asked.
“But your jersey is so soft!” Felicia replied. “I think I may take a nap while I’m here…”
Brian’s eyes narrowed. “You did NOT just say that, lady!” Before Felicia could fall asleep on his back, Brian thrust his body forward, hurling Felicia off of his back. However, much like what had happened last year, Brian’s jersey was thrown off of him as well, leaving the football player clad in a blue tank-top and his trademark shoulder-pad. In the meantime, Felicia, whom was still clutching Brian’s jersey, curled up on it on the canvas and fell asleep.
Roy saw this and saw the sleeping catgirl as an easy elimination. Wandering over quietly, Roy prepared to pick up the sleeping Felicia.
Just as Roy got within reach of Felicia, the blue-haired catgirl sprung to life, grabbed Roy’s arm and hurling him out of the ring in a split second. As quickly as it happened, Felicia was curled up and asleep again.
Not a lot of the girls in the audience noticed Roy getting tossed (and land in the middle of a raging battle in the Dynasty Warriors node). They were too busy swooning over Brian’s newly-uncovered abs.
Although temporarily distracted after shouting at Brian, Ally had gotten her fight with Falco back on track. Shoving her fist forward, Ally swung a punch at the blue bird, but Falco was quick to avoid the attack and retaliated with a kick to the torso. Ally proved to be just as fast and blocked the attack with both of her gloves.
“You can’t keep this up forever, lady.” Falco smirked as he crouched low. “I’m just too fast for you.”
Ally wasn’t stupid and knew what Falco was doing. The redhead boxer waited for Falco to start moving when she stepped to her left. Falco rushed forward in a Falco Phantasm, but like Ally had planned, he had missed his target.
While Falco was recovering from his missed attack, Ally delivered a hard blow to the head, knocking the daylights out of him.
Without thinking of throwing him from the ring, Ally picked up Falco and hurled him away before realizing what she passed up. Ally growled to herself.
Falco was surprised that he landed on something soft. However, when he looked down to see what he had landed on, his eyes widened.
The lone eye of a very angry Gau stared back at Falco.
Gau pushed Falco off of him, then picked him up by the back of his jacket using the longer point of his two-pronged spear. Letting out a roar of anger, Gau spun in place and thrust his weapon down, catapulting Falco out of the ring.
Falco landed in Looney Tunes. An anvil fell on his head.
“Do us all a favour and keel over dead!!” The Servbot screamed at the Rabbid as he swung a wooden mallet. The Rabbid, his expression even, countered the blow with a plunger.
The two vertically-challenged fighters continued their makeshift sword-fight, stepping around the ring and narrowly avoiding the other fighters. Swinging their weapons at each other, the Servbot and Rabbid kept on clashing before they ended up locking ‘swords’.
Breaking away from each other and stepping back a couple of steps, the two charged again and swung with all of their might.
One large ‘CRACK!’ echoed throughout the ring. A lot of the fighters stopped dueling to see which of the two insane fighters had won the fight.
The Servbot and Rabbid stood, each holding a broken weapon which had broke when the two had clashed. The two stood in silence for a few seconds before deciding their last resorts.
Deranged battle cries.
“DAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!” The Rabbid screamed.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!” The Servbot screamed back.
“DAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!”
“DAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!”
Standing aside, Tiny and Rawk Hawk looked at each other, then back at the screaming pipsqueaks before walking over. When the two giants reached the screaming battle, Tiny picked up the Servbot while Rawk Hawk picked up the Rabbid.
Tiny hurled the small Servbot out of the ring, while Rawk Hawk resorted to a drop-kick to remove the Rabbid from the ring.
“DAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!” The Rabbid screamed psychotically as he followed the Servbot into an elimination portal.
The Servbot and Rabbid landed in SSX 3, where they resumed their screaming battle. Within seconds, the mountain of snow collapsed in a huge avalanche.
Mewtwo swung his arm, telepathically lifting Thomas Component MKII into the air and throwing him several feet away. The silver-looking hedgehog got to his feet and watched as Mewtwo started charging a Shadow Ball.
However, instead of running, Thomas smirked and simply stood still as Mewtwo continued to charge his projectile.
Once the projectile was at its maximum strength, Mewtwo lashed it out, sending it straight at the TFS resident. Thomas simply stepped to the side and avoided the attack.
“How come you made no move to attack me while I was charging?” Mewtwo asked.
“Because I needed that attack to be at it’s full power for me to copy.” Thomas said simply as he pulled his hand back and lashed it out, sending an already-fully-charged Shadow Ball at Mewtwo.
For the first time in his life, Mewtwo got scared, if only for a split second. Swerving to the side, Mewtwo allowed the copied attack to pass him by.
“Looks like I’ll need a better strategy to eliminate this one.” Mewtwo said.
Suddenly, an idea struck the psychic Pokemon. Thomas, in the meantime, pulled his hand back again.
“Let’s see if you can avoid a second one!” Thomas shouted as he threw another copied Shadow Ball at Mewtwo.
Mewtwo stood still and waited. He needed to time this perfectly. When the time came, Mewtwo raised his arm.
The copied Shadow Ball reflected off of an invisible barrier Mewtwo seemed to create and flew back at Thomas. Surprised at the turn of events, Thomas was unable to avoid the attack and took it to the face. Thomas was sent recoiling, tumbling out of the ring.
Thomas landed in Star Trek: Next Generation, where he ripped apart a Borg soldier when it tried to ‘assimilate’ him.
Kula waved her hands, sending another wave of ice at J. Maxx, but the football player proved too fast and rolled to the side, allowing the area of canvas where he was standing to be frozen instead.
Breaking out of his roll, J. Maxx stood to his feet and hurled a football-shaped energy projectile at Kula, striking her in the face with it. The ice girl stepped back and held her face.
“I didn’t see that one coming.” Kula said. “I’ll have to remember to be more alert.”
“Kid, fatigue is starting to weigh you down.” J. Maxx replied. “Do you honestly think you can beat me, here?”
“I’ll just have to try and see, won’t I?” Kula asked as she put up her fists.
“Unbelievable. You still won’t back down.” J.Maxx shook his head. “Okay. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
With that, J. Maxx stampeded at Kula, shoulder first. Kula, surprised at the large man’s speed, took the attack to the face and found herself getting carried into a turnbuckle. When Kula made contact with one of the arena’s cornerposts, J. Maxx backed off and let her slide to the ground.
“Give up, yet?” J. Maxx asked.
“No.” Kula said as she staggered to her feet and stumbled forward, limply swinging her fist. J. Maxx held up his hand and Kula walked right into it, holding her just out of reach and preventing her from attacking.
After a few seconds of watching Kula swing, J. Maxx sighed and decided to put the poor girl out of her misery, picked her up and gently threw her over the ropes.
Kula landed in the middle of a hockey game in NHL 2K7. She literally froze the puck.
J. Maxx sighed and turned around to start another fight. He wasn’t expecting a flaming fist to make contact with his face.
Ken Masters watched as J. Maxx tumbled into the elimination portal (where he accidentally destroyed one of the sets in The Movies node) and smirked. He nodded once, satisfied, and turned around to pick another fight.
(World Heroes Locker Room)
“That…That guy just used a dirty trick to eliminate J. Maxx!” Ryoko shouted angrily. “How could that guy do that?!”
“I noticed that he did the same thing to Kula last year.” Captain Kidd sighed. “It looks like he hasn’t learned.”
“I hope he’s still in the ring when I get in there.” Ryoko growled, cracking her knuckles.
(Dome; Closet)
Everything in the closet was completely black with the door shut. In fact, you wouldn’t have been able to see anything had there not been a glowing, green, cell phone screen seemingly floating in midair.
Ash Crimson quickly dialed Bison’s number and placed the phone to his ear.
“Yes, Crimson?” Bison’s voice said from the other end. “I trust that your mission was a success.”
Ash sighed. “Unfortunately…”
“I hope you realize that I LOATHE that word, Crimson.” Bison’s voice was icy.
“Bison, I was on my way to accomplish the mission when I ran into that green-skinned reject from the Eternal Champions node.” Ash replied, rubbing his temples. “He started a fight and I just ran out of time. There was nothing I could do.”
“I hope for your sake that there truly WAS nothing you could do.” Bison growled. “Very well. We’ll have to find another chance to complete the mission you failed.”
“It wasn’t my-”
“Report back, Crimson.” Bison cut in before the line went dead.
Ash sighed and hung up his phone, opening the door to the closet and leaving it. Something was telling him that he was going to be having another bad day.
(Dome; Hallway)
“We’re almost there!” Psymon said. “Once we get there, we just need to break the two guys fighting apart from each other.”
“Can we use tazers?!” Max asked hopefully.
“I can’t think of a reason why we can’t.” Psymon said with a grin.
“Oh, goodie!”
The five security leaders ran around the final corner to stop the apparent fight going on near the Recovery Room. However, once they did, they all screeched to a halt.
“W-What’s THAT thing?!” Gumshoe asked.
“It’s either my Uncle Louie or a really ticked-off yeti.” Max supplied.
“Guh?” Marilyn asked.
“No, Marilyn.” Max shook his head. “Something tells me it’s not Uncle Louie.”
Sergei pushed his way past the others and charged forward. A huge, clawed hand backhanded him across the face and sent the huge rabbit flying into the wall.
“Holy crap! We may be in over our heads, guys.” Psymon noted.
“Ya THINK?!” Gumshoe asked.
With that, all five of the security leaders ran away screaming while the monstrosity in the hallway lumbered off in another direction, seemingly feeling a source of power drawing it near.
(The Arena)
Ukyo Tachibana swung his sword at Brian Battler, whom quickly stepped backwards to avoid the attack. As Ukyo was recovering from his own attack, Brian lunged upwards in what looked like an uppercut using his shoulder pad. Ukyo took the attack to the face and flew backwards several feet.
The blue-haired swordsman coughed several times as he staggered to his feet, slouching over slightly. Ukyo was losing the fight against Brian, but the swordsman DID manage to sneak a few hits in, shredding off bits of Brian’s tank-top and cutting his hair pretty short at one side.
As Ukyo prepared himself, Brian cracked his knuckles and got into his stance. “This should be enough to put you away, pal.” He said as he charged forward in his American Supernova.
This was exactly what Ukyo was planning and the swordsman stepped aside as Brian passed. Ukyo quickly swung his sword, slashing at Brian’s torso. Brian took the attack and flew to the side, extremely lucky that the sword hadn’t pierced his skin.
Seeing his chance at an elimination, Ukyo charged forward.
Laying on his back, Brian looked ahead and saw Ukyo coming. Once the blue-haired swordsman got within range, Brian grabbed his arms and pulled him forward. Brian quickly planted his feet into Ukyo’s stomach as he passed overhead and flipped Ukyo over the ropes and out of the ring.
Ukyo landed in Trauma Center. Needless to say, once the doctors saw how much Ukyo was coughing, they instantly decided they should operate.
Adam McCloud swung his sword at Vivian, but the cute Shadow Siren quickly sunk into the canvas, underneath the attack. Vivian quickly rose from the canvas again and gave Adam a hard punch to the face.
This attack threw the TFS resident off guard for a second, but he quickly regained his footing and narrowed his eyes at Vivian. “Let’s see you attack me without sinking into the floor like that!” He challenged.
Vivian smirked. “Suit yourself.” She said as she snapped her fingers.
“Blizzard!” Adam shouted instantly.
A wave of coldness swept through the area, and when it had passed, there was a frozen explosion cloud sitting on the canvas in front of him. Adam smirked and picked up the frozen explosion.
If anyone would have been able to see Vivian’s eyes, they would have been wide open. “That…That’s impossible!” She said.
“In real life, maybe.” Adam said with a smirk as he threw the frzen explosion at Vivian and shot a stream of fire at her.
The stream of fire struck the frozen explosion, causing the ice to melt. Vivian’s explosion finally completed once it had been thawed out, but the major setback of it was that it was now near Vivian. The explosion caught Vivian by surprised, knocking the Shadow Siren to the ground.
Seeing his opponent near defeat, Adam stepped forward.
“Do a barrel roll!” The caffeine-injected Sarah Bryant shouted in glee as she did a front-flip from the side, slamming her back into Adam. The surprise attack sent Adam tumbling over the ropes.
Adam landed in Cannon Spike. Seeing Arthur and Simone shooting at a hoard of enemies, he whipped out his pistols and charged in to help.
“What the heck did you do that for?” Vivan asked.
Sarah giggled as she got to her feet. “Gee, I dunno. I guess I just, like, felt like it.” She said. “Besides, it looked like he had a lot of fun!”
“You just eliminated him.” Vivian pointed out. “I wouldn’t consider that ‘fun’.”
“Then maybe you just need to, like, see how fun it is!” Sarah said brightly as she bounded forward, towards Vivian. “Once I, like, throw you from the ring, you’ll see how much fun it can be and stuff!”
“Easy for YOU to say.” Vivian replied.
Sarah jumped at Vivian and attempted a kick, which Vivian quickly swerved around. Vivian countered the blow with a punch to the blonde fighter’s midsection. This sent Sarah sprawling.
“Hey! That, like, totally wasn’t nice and stuff!” Sarah accused.
“So?” Vivian asked as she approached the downed fighter and grabbed her leg.
“Uh…What’re you doing?” Sarah asked.
“Showing you how ‘fun’ getting eliminated is.” Vivian replied as she hurled Sarah out of the ring.
Sarah landed on the roof of a hijacked taxi in Grand Theft Auto. She shouted with glee as the taxi hung a hard left, going around a corner.
Felicia was still napping on Brian’s jersey in the middle of the ring. Once Adam was tossed, Felicia yawned and woke up, stretching herself out for a couple of seconds before standing up.
“Boy, that was a good nap.” Felicia noted. “I wonder what’s happened in the ring while I was gone?”
Taking a look around the ring, Felicia noticed that there were considerably few fighters in the ring. Yawning one more time, Felicia scampered off towards Eduardo.
“Anything interesting happen while I was asleep?” Felicia asked the purple monster.
“How could you sleep through the two short senors screaming at each other, senorita?” Eduardo asked with a confused glance.
“I’m a heavy sleeper, and Mr. Battler’s jersey is just SO comfortable!” Felicia replied. “Say, you wanna fight?”
“Well, I-”
“Great!” Felicia said as she leapt on Eduardo and covered his eyes.
Eduardo stumbled about, trying to get Felicia off of him, but because she was actually clutching him rather than a shirt, it was harder for him to do so than Brian did earlier.
“WEEEEE!!!” Felicia laughed as she rode on Eduardo’s back as he stumbled about the ring. She looked ahead and suddenly saw that Eduardo was running towards the ropes.
Thinking quickly, Felicia leapt off Eduardo’s back. However, when Eduardo finally saw where he was running, it was too late to stop himself and he tripped over the ropes.
Eduardo landed in Donkey Kong Country, where he had a blast swinging on vines.
Gau swung his spear, but Roll saw it coming and jumped to the side. Both points of Gau’s two-pronged weapon slammed into the canvas where Roll had been standing. Roll quickly saw her chance and open fired on Gau with her Roll Buster, making the serious Kobold back off.
“You’re pretty persistent for a robot.” Gau noted.
“Hey, I’m last year’s runner-up.” Roll shrugged. “I have a title to live up to.”
“So did that Kasumi chick.” Gau replied with a smirk.
“She fell to a dirty trick!” Roll snapped as she kicked Gau in the shin. “She could have gone far here!”
Gau quickly slammed the end f his spear into Roll’s forehead, making her stagger back. “That may be so, but that just shows that anything can happen in a tournament like this.” He noted. “Allow me to show you.”
With that, Gau pulled his spear back and thrust it forward, intent on running Roll through with it.
The spear struck something, but it wasn’t Roll. Instead, it was what Roll was holding. Roll was holding a spiked ball as big as she was, and Gau’s spear had just bounced off of that.
(Sound Booth)
“I think I might know what’s coming next.” Shadow noted.
“Me, too.” Aila nodded. “Have an idea?”
“Yeah.” Shadow nodded. “Hey, Astaroth! Could you hand me that Eiffel 65 CD over there?”
(The Arena)
Roll started spinning the spiked ball, which was attached to the barrel of her arm cannon with a chain, above her head as the accompanying music started.
(You spin me right round, baby. Right round.)
(Like a record, baby. Right round. Right around.)
(You spin me right round, baby. Right round.)
(Like a record, baby. Right round. Right around.)
Gau, somehow knowing what was coming next, slowly back away. Unfortunately, it did him no good, as Roll let loose and shot the spiked ball forward, clobbering Gau and sending him clear out of the ring. The audience roared in approval.
Gau landed in Nintendogs. He promptly stabbed the disembodied hand that tried to pet him.
“Take this! And that!” Branky, Mel’s wolf puppet, shouted at Cody as Mel swung her at him. “You ain’t so tough! My head’s tougher than you are!”
Mel slammed Branky into Cody’s stomach, making the former hero of Metro City back off, clutching his torso.
“What is it with you and that dummy of yours?” Cody asked Mel.
“Eh, I’ve gotten used to her.” Branky shrugged.
“Branky! That was completely unaccounted for!” Mel snapped at her puppet. “Do you want me to beat you against that turnbuckle again?!”
“Ack! No!” Branky wailed. “Sorry, Mel! Sorrysorrysorry!!!”
Cody scratched his head. He had seen weird things in his life (Dan Hibiki being one of them), but this just took the cake for him. He decided to get the poor girl out of the ring now, because from the looks of things, she needed serious help.
Branky looked forward and ‘saw’ Cody coming. “Mel, look alive! He’s coming again!” The puppet warned.
Mel, whom eerily wasn’t looking at Cody to begin with, turned and saw him coming. “Oh! You’re right, Branky!” She said. “Come on! Let’s get him!”
Cody didn’t have time to think of how Mel could have known he was coming if she wasn’t even looking at him, because he was already short on time. “Criminal Upper!” He shouted, creating his signature move again and lifting the puppetmaster and puppet off the ground. The girl and wolf puppet let out surprises shouts as they flew through the air and landed on the canvas.
“Hey! You hurt me!” Branky shouted.
“Hurt YOU?” Mel asked.
“Mel, I think it’s time for our finisher!” Branky said.
“Right!”
Mel jumped to her feet and shoved Branky forward. Cody’s eyes sprang open as he watched a stream of fire spew from the mouth of the puppet, getting bigger and bigger the further it went. The flames engulfed Cody, but for some reason, they didn’t burn him.
However, Cody was unable to see a thing in the fire, and thus was unprepared for Mel to come running through the fire. Mel gave Cody a swift kick in the behind, sending the former hero out of the ring.
Cody landed in Excitebike 64. One of the racers nearby wiped out, causing his bike to land near Cody. The former hero shrugged, got on and took off.
Back in the ring, the eleven fighters still in the arena took a break from their fighting to have a slight rest before the next wave of fighters entered. Mewtwo had a few bruises, and was hovering in place, his arms folded. Ally, Vivian and Ken looked a little roughed up, and Ally was still trying to catch her breath after the severe beating she gave Johnny. Tiny and Rawk Hawk looked at each other, each of them forming strategies on how to beat the other. Mel dusted off Branky as she eyed Ken Masters and Mewtwo, wondering which was more dangerous. Brian looked okay, despite the fact that his jersey was gone and his tank-top was almost in shreds (much to the delight of a number of girls in the audience). Felicia gave another refreshed yawn and stretched a bit more as Pikachu scratched himself behind his ear. Roll looked almost untouched, and was viewing the settings on her arm cannon to decide what power she should use next.
The fighters used what time they had to rest, because they knew that the next wave was about to enter.
FINAL SCORE: (13 votes)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
MEWTWO (SSB) (11:3) = 8 (Dhalsim, Thomas Component MKII)
ROLL (MM) (10:3) = 7 (May, Gau)
TINY TIGER (CB) (9:4) = 5 (Search Man, Servbot)
FELICIA (DS) (9:4) = 5 (Roy, Eduardo)
PIKACHU (SSB) (9:4) = 5 (Duo Lon)
KEN MASTERS (SFA3) (9:5) = 4 (J. Maxx)
RAWK HAWK (PM) (8:5) = 3 (Rabbid)
BRIAN BATTLER (KOF) (8:5) = 3 (Ukyo Tachibana)
MEL (S3) (8:5) = 3 (Cody)
ALLY GATOR (B&B) (8:6) = 2 (Johnny)
VIVIAN (PM) (8:6) = 2 (Sarah Bryant)
(ELIMINATED)
SARAH BRYANT (VF) (7:6) = 1 (Adam McCloud)
JOHNNY MAXIMUM (WH) (7:6) = 1 (Kula Diamond)
FALCO LOMBARDI (SSB) (8:7) = 1 (Chung Paihu)
GAU (S3) (6:7) = -1 (Falco Lombardi)
UKYO TACHIBANA (SS) (6:7) = -1
THOMAS COMPONENT MKII (TFS) (6:7) = -1
ADAM MCCLOUD (TFS) (7:8) = -1
EDUARDO (FHfIF) (6:8) = -2
SERVBOT (MVC2) (6:9) = -3
ROY (SSB) (6:9) = -3
CODY (SFA3) (6:9) = -3
RABBID (R:RR) (4:9) = -5
CHUNG PAIHU (KE) (4:9) = -5
DUO LON (KOF) (4:9) = -5
KULA DIAMOND (KOF) (5:10) = -5
SEARCH MAN (MM) (4:10) = -6
JOHNNY (GG) (3:10) = -7
MAY (GG) (4:11) = -7
DHALSIM (SFA3) (2:11) = -9
BONUS MATCHES:
“Return of Ash”
TRIDENT (EC) whales ASH CRIMSON (KOF)
9 to 4
Fall of the First Section: At the end of this section, everyone that entered in Section One is now eliminated.
Seeing Double: If you read my first tournament, you may notice that Trident appears to be going through something similar as what Eiji Kisaragi did back in Megamix One. I assure you that this will be entirely different.