Needless to say the Kane siblings were proving to be a formidable force in the ring when they were together, and they were proving it fighting off Demitri Maximov and Rawk Hawk. Although the huge, yellow bird was fighting off Demitri as well, Rawk Hawk was enjoying himself fighting against the Kanes.
Lilly was currently the one fighting against Rawk Hawk as she slid in between his legs, swinging her staff upwards on her way by and giving the Glitzville champ a swift whack in the behind.
This did little more than annoy the huge bird, whom turned around to face Lilly. “You’re really asking for it, girly!” He warned. “Normally, I don’t like to hit a woman, but I’m going to exclude you from the group for the moment.”
“I’m not sure how I should take that, but something tells me that I wouldn’t have liked it, anyway.” Lilly replied. “Let’s see those moves of yours in action!”
Rawk Hawk grinned and flipped backwards a foot. “Okay! Let’s RAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWK!!!” He shouted as he spun forward in a rolling ball.
Anticipating this, Lilly pulled her staff back and swung it, striking Rawk Hawk and sending the bird flying across the ring.
“Hmm…” Xavier Pendragon mused as he swung his staff (which Pikachu swiftly avoided). “Maybe my senses were right. Perhaps this little creature IS the biggest threat in the ring.”
Pikachu jumped back and started charging himself with electricity. “Piiiiiiiiii…” He said.
Xavier smirked from underneath the hood of his cloak. “I think not, my friend.” He said as he held up his staff.
Pikachu rocketed forward headfirst, surging with electricity. However, the popular Pokemon slammed into Xavier’s staff, transferring all of the gathered electricity into it.
“And now that you’ve powered up my staff,” Xavier announced as he lifted his staff into the air. “Prepare for immediate disintegration!”
A lightning bolt containing all of Pikachu’s stolen electricity shot into the air and took out three lights on the beams above the ring. The lightning bolt came back down, and would have blown Pikachu to kingdom come for sure had he not jump back several feet at the last second.
“Indeed, you ARE a fast one.” The impressed Xavier noted. “Okay. It’s time I started taking all of this seriously.”
(Announcer’s Booth)
“Great. More damages.” Unknown1 sighed.
“They’re just lightbulbs.” Tinyrocket shrugged. “How expensive can they be?”
SSBFreak opened his mouth when the phone started to ring. Grabbing it, SSBFreak put the phone to his ear.
“Announcer’s Booth…Oh! Hey, Gumshoe!” SSBFreak greeted. “So did you guys find out what was causing all of the ruckus in the hallway near the Recovery Room?” SSBFreak was silent for a few seconds. “Uh…Whaddya mean ‘how’s your sense of humour’?”
“Something tells me that we’re not going to like this.” Tinyrocket pointed out.
“Boy. You’re catching on REAL fast.” Unknown1 sighed as he held his head in his hands.
(Dome; Hallway)
Gumshoe quickly hung up the phone and looked back and forth down the hallway the security force was standing in.
“Did it follow us?” Gumshoe asked.
“Guh.” Marilyn shook her head.
Gumshoe sighed in relief. “Has I known we’d be facing against monstrosities like that, I probably wouldn’t have accepted this job.” He admitted. He looked up at Sergei, whom was holding an icepack to his head. “You okay, big guy?” He asked.
Sergei nodded, still surprised that he could have been knocked aside so easily.
“Well, hopefully, we won’t run into that thing again.” Gumshoe siged.
“On a lighter note, I found this thing while we were fleeing in terror.” Max announced as he held a green shard of gem into the air. “I’m going to have this thing carved down and have it act as a filling for my tooth!”
“You’re not missing a tooth, though.” Gumshoe pointed out.
“I may someday!”
Suddenly, Gumshoe’s phone started ringing. Plucking it from his pocket, Gumshoe answered it.
“Yeah?…What?!” Gumshoe asked. “Okay! We’re on our way!”
“What’s cookin’, flatfoot?” Max asked.
“That was the woman at the hotel lobby.” Gumshoe replied. “Another fight’s broken out. We need to go break up the fighters.”
“Then what are we waiting around here for? Come, young ward! To the batcave!” Psymon announced as he grabbed a surprised Gumshoe by the arm and ran off.
Marilyn followed with Sergei, although the huge rabbit was still feeling a little dizzy. Max brought up the rear, holding the shard of gem he had found, unknowing of how much trouble he had gotten the security force into.
(Dome; Restrooms)
Junior Maximum exited the restroom and prepared to return to his seat, and would have kept on going had a long blade of steel block his path. The young boy looked up and saw Yuber smirking down at him.
“Kid, come with me.” Yuber directed.
“You kidding?” Junior asked. “No freaking way.”
“Bison needs your father’s strength.” Yuber explained. “We’re going to use you as leverage.”
“I don’t think so.” Junior replied as he slipped underneath Yuber’s sword and bolted down the hallway, towards the Eliminated Seating.
Yuber watched him go and growled before giving chase. “Why do they always run?”
(The Arena)
“You ain’t so tough!” Branky shouted at Hanzou as she clawed at him again.
Hanzou stepped back and looked at Mel, the strange puppeteer, with wide eyes. “How are you doing all of this with just a puppet?!” He asked. “This…This is absolutely impossible!”
“I’m no puppet, wash-up!” Branky snapped as she turned to Mel. “Come on, Mel! Get closer to him so I can claw his eyes out!”
“Sure thing, Branky!” Mel nodded as she ran forward and lashed her ‘puppet’ out.
As soon as Branky got close enough, she dug her fangs into Hanzou’s shoulder. The blue-clad ninja roared in pain and struggled for a few seconds before delivering a hard karate chop to Branky’s neck. The wolf puppet (which was seeming less and less like a puppet by the minute) howled as she let go of Hanzou before going limp.
Mel gasped in horror as she pulled her puppet back. “Branky!! Branky, speak to me!” She pleaded. “Are you okay?! Branky!!”
The arena had gone deathly silent, everyone stopping their fights to see what had happened. Samus and Belle looked at each other before slowly backing away from the sobbing puppeteer, knowing what was coming next. People noticed this and backed away a couple of steps as well.
Hanzou suddenly thought that it would be a good time to get away as well, so he started slinking backwards to escape.
Unfortunately, he didn’t go fast enough. Mel started seething and glared daggers at the blue-clad ninja through tear-stained eyes. “YOU KILLED MY BEST FRIEND!!” She roared as she lunged forward.
Mel drove herself into Hanzou’s torso, shoving him towards the ropes. After stopping, Mel angrily delivered several punches and kicks to Hanzou. Mel delivered a total of twenty hits, but Hanzou was unconscious around the ninth.
Seeing her job done, Mel picked up Hanzou and threw him out of the ring. After he was gone, Mel collapsed to the canvas and started bawling her eyes out, holding her limp puppet in her hand.
Hanzou landed in Ape Escape, where it was proved that the ninja monkeys of that node were better ninjas than he was.
Now that the fight had finished, everyone else resumed the duels they were all having. Ken Masters swung his fist at Kyo Kusanagi, but the KOF posterboy was quick to avoid the blow and ducked underneath the punch. Once he saw Ken recovering from his own attack, Kyo leapt into the air and gave the blonde fighter a hard kick in the jaw.
“Okay. That’s how you want to play, Kusanagi?” Ken asked. “Then let’s see how well you can fare against this!”
Ken leapt into the air and performed his Dragon Uppercut, surprising Kyo and punching him in the face. Kyo launched backwards several feet before landing on his back. Kyo was quick to jump to his feet, however, and rushed into battle again, hoping to do more damage.
As he ran, Kyo pulled his hand back. “Let’s turn up the heat!” He shouted as he lashed out his hand, sending a wave of fire forward and at Ken. Ken was taken aback and took the attack to the face. Kyo quickly followed up with two kicks to the stomach.
Ken was fighting a losing battle, and he knew it. Not only was Kyo much fresher than he was, but he was also quite a bit younger, giving him that much more stamina. Deciding to try again, Ken shoved both hands forward and launched a fireball at Kyo.
Luckily for Ken, the attack was a success and Kyo took the fireball to the chest, making him back away. Ken quickly rushed forward.
However, Kyo recovered from the attack and saw Ken coming. “That’s not going to work, Masters.” He warned as he grabbed the oncoming Ken by the arm.
One mighty swing later and Ken had been thrown out of the arena. Ken landed in a grassy field. Getting up and looking around, Ken wondered where he was.
Suddenly, a smoking, blue orb landed at his feet. Ken experimentally picked it up to see what it was, completely oblivious that he was in the node of Halo and he had just picked up a Frag Grenade.
General Guy pressed a few controls, causing his multi-coloured mech to throw a hard punch. His opponent, Tiny Tiger, surprised the military shyguy by catching the huge fist and pushing back, causing General Guy’s mech to step back several steps.
“Such raw power!” General Guy said in awe. “You, my friend, would make a FINE addition to Bowser’s forces! Why not come join us?”
“Tiny choose side! No deal!” Tiny replied. He may not have been bright, but he certainly WAS loyal.
“Such a pity.” General Guy sighed. “Very well. If that’s how you want things to go.”
Pressing another couple of buttons, a hatch on the huge mech’s chest opened up, causing a missile to launch from the hollow center of the mech.
Tiny’s eyes widened in surprise, but after a couple of seconds, he smirked, got into a stance and slapped his hands together in preparation.
The missile soared straight towards Tiny, but the huge tiger’s aim was perfect. One grab later and the missile was safe in Tiny’s hands. Casually flipping it over the ropes (where it destroyed part of a Micro Machines track), Tiny leapt at General Guy and grabbed one of the mech’s arms. Tiny pulled down on it with all of his might, ripping the metal arm from its socket.
“Uh…You ripped off my arm.” General Guy pointed out. “I need that arm.”
Tiny didn’t respond and instead ripped off General Guy’s mech’s other arm.
“What did you do THAT for?” General Guy asked. “That wasn’t very nice, you know.”
The orange tiger wasn’t done and instead ripped off one of the mech’s legs.
“You know? If that was actually me instead of this mech, that probably would have hurt.”
Tiny ripped off the remaining leg, reducing General Guy to a shyguy sitting inside a metal torso.
“Uh…Can we sit down and talk things out?” General Guy asked hopefully.
“Nope.” Tiny replied cheerfully as he picked up the entire mech torso and chucked it out of the ring with General Guy still in it.
General Guy landed in Vigilante 8, directly on top of the school bus Molo was driving, killing him instantly. There was much rejoicing.
Back in the ring, Tiny hummed a cheerful tune and turned around. However, he had to duck to avoid getting hit in the head with a flying Lei-Fang. The DOA fighter continued going and tumbled over the ropes (and into Kirby’s Adventure, where she stuffed herself with Whispy Wood’s apples).
“Nya! Take that!” Felicia said.
Lei-Fei, standing nearby, sighed in relief. “Thanks a lot.” He said. “She just wouldn’t stop with accusing me of stealing her name.”
“And DID you?” Felicia asked.
“What?! N-No! I’ve never even HEARD of her before!” Lei-Fei insisted.
Popo and Nana swung their wooden hammers at Burner Man, but the pyromaniac Robot Master easily jetted backwards and avoided the blows. Seeing their attacks getting missed, the Ice Climbers bounded forward to try again.
“Nana, let’s do a Cyclone Whirlwind!” Popo suggested.
“Uh…What’s that, Popo?” Nana asked.
“Our spinning move!” Popo replied.
“But we never called it ‘Cyclone Whirlwind’…”
“Just do it!”
As they ran, the Ice Climbers pressed their backs to each other and spun around with their hammers outstretched, striking Burner Man rapidly. However, because he was a robot, this attack did little more than annoy Burner Man. Timing a grab, Burner Man reached out and grabbed both of the Ice Climbers’ mallets.
“Hey! Those are ours!” Nana shouted.
“Give them back, you bucket of bolts!” Popo snapped.
“You kids are annoying enough WITHOUT these things.” Burner Man said. “I should just torch these suckers while I’ve got them in my hand.”
“What good will that do?” Popo asked.
“Because by then, you’ll both be defenseless.” Burner Man replied with a smirk. “I’ll be taking away your only weapons.”
Nana patted her parka and suddenly felt a lump in her side pocket. Remembering the sharp gem she had found, Nana quickly whipped it out.
“That’s what YOU think!” Nana shouted as she leapt at Burner Man.
“H-HUH?!” Burner Man asked as he jumped back to avoid a swing with Nana’s makeshift dagger.
“Give back the mallets, torch-head!” Nana shouted. “Give them back or-”
Nana swung again, this time landing a hit. Unfortunately, she had suddenly realized that she had drove her jewel shard into Burner Man’s propane-loaded shoulder tank. Nana pulled the gem from her opponent and scampered off, grabbing Popo and pulling him away.
Burner Man frantically tried to cover up the hole in the tank, but it was already too late. “OH-” Before Burner Man could finish the sentence crudely, his shoulder tank exploded, resulting in a chain reaction that caused Burner Man to explode in a ball of green fire. His head, the only thing that remained intact from the explosion, was sent flying over the ropes.
Burner Man’s head landed in Monkey Island 3, where Guybrush Threepwood started using him as a ‘talking skull’.
Ally Gator shoved her fist at Roll’s face, but the blonde robot ducked under the punch and fired a fully-charged Roll Buster into the redhead’s stomach. Ally flew backwards due to the power of Roll’s attack and landed close to a turnbuckle.
“Sorry about this, Ally.” Roll apologized as she slid forward in a flaming Charge Kick, heading straight for Ally.
The redhead smirked. “Actually, I think I’M the one that should be apologizing.” She said as she rolled to the side and kicked Roll as she passed by. This brought the blonde robot out of her attack and sent her into the turnbuckle.
Ally stood to her feet and approached Roll, igniting her fist in a gray energy. “Time for the Power-Up Punch.” She said with a smirk.
Roll’s eyes widened when she saw Ally throwing a VERY hard punch. “Skull Barrier!!” Roll shrieked as she pressed a button on her arm cannon.
Ally landed the hard blow, resulting in a loud bang when it connected. Ally pulled her fist back and expected to see Roll with a large dent in her forehead, but instead saw her completely unharmed, a circle of white skulls moving around her.
Seeing her opponent’s surprise, Roll turned off the Skull Barrier. “Tornado Hold!” She shouted.
Ally found herself getting lifted into the air, flying towards the ropes. Roll leapt into the air after her and landed a hard kick to Ally’s side, sending the redhead out of the ring.
Ally landed in Mario Strikers: Charged. She looked to the side and saw Waluigi taunting her (actually, he was taunting one of Daisy’s sidekicks, but Ally didn’t know that). Not one to take things lightly, Ally stormed over, pounding her gloves together.
(Eliminated Seating)
Mezu fell flat on his face and slowly got up, rubbing the back of his head. “Dude, her punches feel like iron!” He whined. “We never shoulda done this!”
“Shut up, Mezu!” Gozu snapped. “We’re doing fine! We just need to wear her down!”
Needless to say, despite being outnumbered, Kasumi was dominating the fight. In fact, not a lot of the people around the Eliminated Seating were watching the fight because it was so one-sided.
“It’s about time we stopped playing nice.” Gozu said as he held up his gauntlet. “Time to unleash the elements!”
A wave of fire was shot straight as Kasumi, but the blue-haired martial artist swerved to the side to avoid the attack. Kasumi then leapt at Gozu and slammed her palm into the red-clad ninja’s face.
“You’ll have to do better than that to take me by surprise.” Kasumi warned.
“Fine then.” Gozu said. “Mezu, attack!”
Mezu whined again. “But this is never going to work!”
“Just do it!”
Mezu sighed and clasped his hands together, forming a blue whirlwind around him. Kasumi stepped back and covered her face, just incase Mezu slashed with his gauntlets while he was attacking.
Mezu steered the whirlwind towards Kasumi, but before he could reach her, Kasumi did a little trick of her own.
“Cho Kasane Ate!” Kasumi shouted as she thrust her arms downwards, sending her patented energy streak attack at the whirlwind Mezu was controlling. The energy streaks sliced through the whirlwind and pelted Mezu in the face, making him stop the attack.
“What’re you stopping for, Mezu?!” Gozu demanded. “You almost had her!”
“Her attack went through my whirlwind!” Mezu insisted.
“Then keep going!” Gozu ordered. “Try it again! I’ll help you this time!”
Mezu nodded and started his whirlwind again. However, while the whirlwind of cold was spinning, Gozu ‘strategically’ sent a wave of fire into the attack as well. This attack didn’t work as well as Gozu had hoped, and Mezu’s whirlwind had turned into a powerful tornado.
Kasumi grabbed a chair that was bolted to the ground to avoid getting pulled into the vortex. Gears started turning in the young woman’s head, wondering how she could stop the attack. She came up with only one idea, and she’d need to have perfect timing, but she didn’t have much of a choice.
The blue-haired girl leapt into the tornado and thrust her foot out, managing to nail Mezu in the face. This managed to stop the tornado and sent Mezu into Gozu. Both ninjas lay at the doorway to the Eliminated Seating in a heap.
Kasumi approached the fallen ninjas and raised her arms. “And now, to finish you off.” She said as she gathered energy.
Junior Maximum ran past the fallen ninjas and bolted into the Eliminated Seating. Yuber, chasing the boy, approached.
“CHO KASANE ATE!!” Kasumi shouted as she thrust her arms downwards, sending the biggest wave of energy streaks she could muster, not only sending Gozu and Mezu clear out of the Eliminated Seating, but the surprised Yuber as well. “And stay out!”
Kasumi turned and saw Junior. “You’re…J. Maxx’s son, aren’t you?” She asked.
Junior nodded. “Yeah. That guy in black tried to kidnap me so my dad would work for Bison again.” He explained.
Kasumi narrowed her eyes. “Come on. You’ll be safe here.” She explained. “Let’s go sit down and wait for your dad to show up.”
(The Arena)
Xavier swung his staff downwards, attempting to knock out Pikachu with a blow to the head. The yellow Pokemon was once again too quick and easily jumped to the side. Pikachu did a quick tail swipe, catching Xavier in the leg. Surprisingly, there was enough force in the attack to knock the wizard off his feet and send him to the canvas.
Although more surprised than hurt by Pikachu’s attack, Xavier got to his feet and looked down at him small opponent. “It appears that I need to use more strategy for eliminating you.” He noted.
“Pika!” Pikachu said brightly.
Xavier held his staff in the air, causing it to start glowing green. Thrusting his staff down, an orb of energy shot from the end of it and flew at Pikachu. The rat Pokemon used his Quick Attack to avoid the projectile, but he didn’t go fats enough and his tail got nicked.
“Chu!!” Pikachu shouted as he collapsed for a second. Pikachu quickly jumped to his feet and glared at Xavier before crouching low. “Piiii…” He said, charging up electricity again.
Pikachu rocketed forward, spinning around. Xavier jumped to the side as Pikachu shot past him. Xavier turned to watch Pikachu go, but his eyes widened when he saw where the Pokemon was heading. “Kid! Heads up!” He warned.
Belle turned with a confused glance, but before she could react, Pikachu had slammed into her, surging her with electricity. Pikachu dropped out of his attack as Belle was sent hurtling over the ropes and out of the ring.
Belle landed in Discs of Tron, where she managed to last most of her ten minutes deflecting discs with her hammer.
Rawk Hawk saw Pikachu’s attack while ducking a swing from Lilly Kane. Having seen enough, Rawk Hawk stalked over to the small Pokemon, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and held him up.
“What do you think you’re doing attacking a kid like that?!” Rawk Hawk demanded.
Pikachu looked at Lilly, then back at Rawk Hawk. “Pika pi, Pika Chu pika.” He replied.
“She attacked me first! That makes it different!” Rawk Hawk replied. “Now answer me, shrimp! Why’d you do that?!”
“Pi…Pika pika, chu pikachu pik pika?” Pikachu replied nervously.
Rawk Hawk’s eyes snapped open. “WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY MOMMA?!?!” He roared as he flung Pikachu out of the ring, then stormed back over to continue his fight with Lilly.
Xavier, seeing Pikachu get eliminated, decided to go elsewhere for a fight and went over to start one with Jam Kuradoberi.
Pikachu landed in the living room of a small house. He looked up and saw a short man with a red wrestling mask sitting at a laptop. He turned and looked at Pikachu.
“The Cheat, get over here.” The strange man said. “The guy that sent this e-mail is wondering how my relationship with you is.”
“Meh?” A squeaky voice asked from the other side of the unusual man.
“Huh?!” The man asked as he turned in his seat and saw another yellow and black creature that looked sort of similar to Pikachu. “Wha?! Huh?! But…That’s not…How can…” He frantically looked between the two creatures, wondering which was which.
The strange man screamed as he jumped from his seat and ran off, passing a white, armless being with a red ‘sweater’ and blue propeller beanie.
“Hey, Stwong Bad! How awe things going wiff da e-mail?” Homestar Runner asked.
“Run if you value your life, idiot!” Strong Bad shouted. “The Cheat copied himself! We’re gonna die!!”
Billy ducked a right hook from Demitri before shoving the end of his staff into the vampire’s stomach. Demitri stepped back, holding his stomach, and looked at his opponent.
“You’re more persistent than I had anticipated, worm.” Demitri said.
“I’ll take that as a compliment, because I don’t think you’re liable to give out much better ones, anyway.” Billy shrugged.
Demitri sprung again, bearing his fangs and preparing to take Billy’s head off. The elder Kane sibling easily avoid the attack, dropping onto his back and kicking the vampire with both feet as he passed overhead.
Receiving a sharp blow to the jaw, Demitri flew upwards for several feet before crashing down onto the canvas again.
Billy smirked as he got to his feet and walked over. “Looks like I win, vampire.”
Propping himself onto one shoulder, Demitri saw something coming behind Billy and smirked. Billy noticed this and turned, ducking just in time for Karin’s hand to soar over his head.
“I’m sorta in the middle of something, lady!” Billy said.
“Uh…So?” Karin asked. “It’s nobody important. Just that vampire pervert.”
Demitri’s smile vanished.
“That may be so, but you STILL interrupted my fight.” Billy reminded.
“I’m right here, fools!” Demitri pointed out.
“Can’t we just fight anyway?” Karin asked. “It won’t take very long.”
“Okay.” Billy said as he grabbed Karin and threw her out of the ring. “Man. She was right. That didn’t take very long at all.”
Karin landed in Goldeneye 007. She wandered around for a minute before Oddjob came up to her and pointed an assault rife at her. Karin’s response was to pull her hand back and drive it into Oddjob’s head, splitting his bowler-hat in half.
Felicia jumped on Tiny and clawed at him. The orange tiger roared in pain and yanked Felicia from his arm and threw her to the canvas.
“That hurt!!” Tiny roared.
“Hey! I’m a cat! It’s what I do!” Felicia insisted.
“Tiny cat, too.” Tiny reminded as he bared his own set of claws, which were at least three times as long as Felicia’s.
Felicia’s eyes widened at the sight of Tiny’s huge set of razor-sharp claws, then quickly thrust her foot into the giant tiger’s knee.
Tiny’s major problem was that because he focused so much on upper-body strength, his legs weren’t as strong as he would have liked. That was why Felicia’s kick hurt a LOT more than it should have. Tiny dropped to his uninjured knee and glared at Felicia.
“That way cat-lady want to play?” Tiny asked. “Okay. Tiny no want to do this, but Tiny have no choice, now!”
Bearing his razor-sharp claws, Tiny pounced at Felicia, preparing to slash with both hands.
However, Felicia saw the attack coming and jumped into the air after Tiny. This took Tiny off guard and he was forced to attempt his attack prematurely. However, Felicia’s aim was perfect, and she soared past Tiny just before he took the swing. While she was in the air, Felicia swung her foot down and connected it with Tiny’s forehead.
Everything went in slow-motion for Tiny after Felicia’s foot connected with his head. The aim was absolutely perfect, and Felicia had just struck a ‘sweet spot’ on his head. A hard enough blow and anyone could fall unconscious.
That was exactly what happened to Tiny. The orange tiger fell unconscious as he fell limply past the ropes and into an elimination vortex.
Tiny fell headfirst into three feet of snow. The cool sensation from the snow brought Tiny back to his senses, and when the large tiger stood up, he looked around. He saw strange, huge machines that looked like turtles walking around, shooting lasers at flying, futuristic machines.
“Use your harpoons and tow cables on those walkers!” Luke Skywalker shouted into his comm.
“Hey, Luke! There’s an orange beast on the ground down there!” Dack Raltar, Luke’s gunner, pointed out.
“Huh? Hey, you’re right, Dack!” Luke said. “…Why is it climbing that walker?”
Tiny reached the top of the walker and went to the neck area. Once he arrived, he pulled both hands into the air and thrust them downward, striking the neck of the walker with enough force to remove the head altogether.
Grinning widely as the AT-AT hit the ground, Tiny jumped off and rushed off to take out another one.
Back in the ring, Felicia was still looking off into the elimination portal she had sent Tiny through. However, that was when Takuma Sakazaki fell into her line of view, falling into an elimination portal as well (and landing in the original Art of Fighting, where he told Mr. Big what he thought of him and beat him into the ground).
Felicia turned and saw Mewtwo standing there, arms folded. Felicia grinned and scampered over. “Alright! Cat-power!” She said. “Cats can’t be beat!”
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that a cat you just eliminated?” Mewtwo quizzed.
“Uh…Oh, yeah.”
Mewtwo sighed in hopelessness and floated off.
Rawk Hawk jumped at Lilly Kane with the intent of delivering a flying kick, but all he got was a mouthful of staff. As Rawk Hawk was sent sprawling, Lilly Kane laughed.
“This is so much fun!” Lilly said. “I can’t believe Billy didn’t teach me how to fight sooner!”
“Lady, you’re REALLY asking for it!” Rawk Hawk threatened as he got to his feet. “Someone as cute as you shouldn’t be allowed to fight in the first place!”
“Watch your mouth, Big Bird.” Lilly warned, narrowing her eyes. “I find being hit on by oversized birds very unsettling.”
Rawk Hawk’s eyes snapped open. “What the heck did you just call me?!”
Lilly smirked, knowing she had hit a nerve. “Big Bird.” She replied.
Rawk Hawk screamed in fury as he blindly rushed at Lilly. The younger Kane sibling smirked. This was exactly what she was waiting for.
As Rawk Hawk ran at her, Lilly held her staff with both hands and started spinning it, creating a wheel of ice as she spun. Once the ice wheel had been charged up, Lilly let loose and sent it spinning at Rawk Hawk. The surprised bird took the projectile to the face, receiving several sharp blows.
While Rawk Hawk was stunned, Lilly rushed forward and swung her foot, booting the oversized bird out of the ring.
Rawk Hawk landed in WCW vs. NWO. Needless to say, he got wasted.
Ryo, the latest entry from TFS, held up his arms and blocked a punch from Lei-Fei. The monk tried again and shoved his palm out again, but Ryo proved to be just as quick, holding up one arm and blocking the blow. Ryo held onto his hat with the other hand as the force from Lei-Fei’s attack shot past him.
“That’s some pretty powerful attack.” Ryo chuckled. “The force almost knocked my hat off.”
“Let’s see you try.” Lei-Fei challenged, prepared for the worst.
“Your funeral.” Ryo shrugged as he put his hands together and pointed an index finger forward. “Dragon Shotgun!”
Ryo shot a green projectile from his finger, sending it directly into Lei-Fei’s chest. Or it would have had the monk not raise his guard again and block the attack.
“Okay. I’ve been at this long enough.” Lei-Fei said. “Time for me to finish this.”
Lei-Fei hurled himself at Ryo and started throwing punches and palm strikes in rapid succession, all focused around Ryo’s chest area. Lei-Fei punched at Ryo about twenty times before ending his attack and backing off.
“Well, there’s no way he could have-” Lei-Fei said as he opened his eyes to look at what was left of Ryo. However, once he did, his eyes sprang open.
Ryo stood, almost untouched from the last assault. The TFS resident laughed. “Man! That was great!” He complimented. “I almost didn’t manage to block those last three hits!”
Lei-Fei started backing away, not really liking how this was going anymore.
“Now it’s time for me to try that!” Ryo said as he lunged at his opponent. “Drilling Fist!”
Ryo did what Lei-Fei did in rapidly throwing countless amount of punches directed at Lei-Fei’s torso. However, unlike Ryo, Lei-Fei was unprepared for this and took all of the blows to the body, quickly falling to Ryo’s onslaught.
When Ryo backed off, Lei-Fei collapsed at his feet. Ryo smirked and picked the monk up by the neck of his robe.
“And now, the big finisher.” Ryo said as he wound up the arm holding onto Lei-Fei. “Mountain Toss!”
In an amazing display of power, Ryo hurled Lei-Fei clear out of the ring with enough power to make a strong fighter jealous. Lei-Fei went so far that he slammed against the forcefield protecting the audience before falling headfirst into an elimination portal.
After he had eliminated Lei-Fei, Ryo looked over at Mel, whom was still in the middle of the ring, creating puddles of tears around her as she clutched her ‘dead’ puppet. Although he was still a little weirded out, Ryo felt a little sorry for the girl and went over to comfort her.
Lei-Fei landed in the node of the Sims. As the kitchen behind him caught fire and the residents of the house screamed gibberish at each other, Lei-Fei looked up and wondered why there was a green diamond floating above his head.
(Hotel; Lobby)
“Where’s that security force?” The woman behind the front desk asked herself with a sigh. She was beginning to know how the owner of the dome restaurant felt last year with all of the fights destroying the place.
O’Chunks grunted in pain as Gutsman threw him into a wall. The Scottish warrior peeled himself off the wall in time for Gutsman to throw another rock-hard punch. O’Chunks was quicker this time, and held up a huge palm, catching Gutsman’s powerful fist in it.
It took a fair amount of effort, but O’Chunks lifted Gutsman off the ground by the arm and slammed him into the floor several times. O’Chunks let go of Gutsman and brushed his hands off, only to step back in shock as Gutsman got to his feet again.
“How did ye stay conscious, lad?!” O’Chunks asked. “Humans canne’ stand up to the power of meh fists!”
Gutsman smirked. “Forget something?” He asked as he rapped his fist against his chest, resulting in a metallic clang.
“Oh, yes. Aye fergot about that.” O’Chunks sighed. “Yer a robot.”
“Make sure ya don’t forget about it, again.” Gutsman reminded. “It’ll save you a lot of trouble before you waste energy trying to make a dent in my armour.”
“Lad, my punches ‘ave already given ye a couple of dents.” O’Chunks said, cracking his knuckles. “That means that Aye am more than capable of fighting ye.”
“Yeah. You’re right on that.” Gutsman said as he swung a right hook, catching O’Chunks in the jaw.
O’Chunks staggered back, trying to regain his footing. Once he did, he slapped his fist into his palm and charged, grabbing Gutsman and suplexing him into the floor. However, Gutsman was quicker than he looked and gave O’Chunks a hard kick to the face.
Once O’Chunks had let him go, Gutsman got back to his feet and threw one more punch at the bearded warrior. O’Chunks took the blow to the face and flew into the wall before collapsing on the ground, defeated.
Gutsman, standing victorious, sighed. “Look, you seem like an okay guy. Why are you helping that creep in black?” He asked as he helped O’Chunks to his feet.
“Aye canne’ tell ye.” O’Chunks replied. “There’s no telling what Bison would do if Aye told ye.”
Gutsman narrowed his eyes, starting to get a good idea on what O’Chunks was doing helping the bad guys. “They’ve got one of your friends, don’t they?” He asked.
O’Chunks looked at the ground. “How do ye know?” He asked.
“I spent a while working with Wily.” Gutsman replied. “I just know these things.”
“O’Chunks, get over here!”
The two turned to look at the doorway leading into the hotel and saw Yuber standing there, clutching his arm. Gozu and Mezu, sporting even worse injuries, walked into the hotel, vanishing from sight.
“Forget the robot! Come on!” Yuber ordered.
O’Chunks quickly and reluctantly complied, but not before pulling a piece of paper from his pocket and passing it into Gutsman’s hand. The confused robot watched O’Chunks go, wondering what was written on the paper.
Once O’Chunks had followed Yuber into the hotel, Gutsman opened up the piece of paper in his hand and scanned over it.
If Gutsman would have had eyebrows, he would have raised one. “Why would that guy want me to protect-” He asked himself before getting cut off.
“Gutsman, we need to you report to the Ready Room.” Tinyrocket’s voice said through a speaker on the wall. “You enter in the next section and we’d like you to enter on time.”
It seemed that Gutsman would have to worry about this little ‘mission’ later. Gutsman left the lobby and started making his way to the Ready Room to enter the ring.
(The Arena)
Vivian gripped her arm in pain as she got to her ‘feet’. She had been hurting ever since the beating she received at the hands of Adam McCloud, and Lilly Kane was just making it all worse.
“Boy, did I make a stupid mistake in challenging this girl to a fight.” Vivian muttered as she snapped her fingers, causing the canvas underneath Lilly’s feet to explode.
“Ack!” Lilly shouted as she was sent flying into the air. However, the younger Kane quickly and easily uprighted herself in midair before landing on her feet. Once she did, Lilly lashed out with her staff and struck the Shadow Siren in the face.
Vivian ‘stepped’ away, holding her face. “How can I be losing this easily?” She asked herself. “Maybe I just drained myself fighting that guy from TFS.”
Turning to look at Lilly, Vivian suddenly saw the blonde girl run at her, stick her staff into the canvas and vault herself at the Shadow Siren. Thinking quickly, Vivian held up her hands, catching Lilly by the foot. Vivian quickly ignited her hands, setting Lilly’s shoe ablaze.
“AH! It burns!!” Lilly shrieked as she jumped around on one foot before using her ice powers on herself, putting out the fire and cooling her foot. Lilly sighed in relief before looking at Vivian. “That hurt, you know.”
“Yeah. Fire does that.” Vivian nodded.
“I didn’t want to do this.” Lilly warned. “But seeing as how you’re willing to do anything to survive, I’ll have to do the same.”
Lilly pulled her staff back and started concentrating, gathering up cold energy. Vivian, not really sure what Lilly was planning, stepped back and blocked.
Unfortunately, it did Vivian no good. Lilly lashed out and sent a wave of cold energy at the spout where Vivian’s legs would have been. Vivian looked down in shock at her spout, which was now frozen. This made it impossible for the Shadow Siren to move.
“Time to end this.” Lilly said as she grabbed Vivian and lifted her off the ground, heaving her out of the arena easily now that she wasn’t connected to the canvas.
Vivian landed in Unreal Championship. Thankfully, her spout thawed out before anyone saw her, so Vivian sunk into the shadows to avoid getting nuked.
Samus easily blocked a swing from Kyoshiro, then lashed out with his own weapon. The redhead clown of the Samurai Showdown node jumped into the air and blocked the blow with style.
“Showoff.” Samus muttered. He got a quick kick to the face when Kyoshiro landed on the canvas again.
The two swordsmen locked weapons several times as they worked their way around the ring, but eventually, Samus got the upper hand and gave Kyoshiro a knee to the face after breaking his guard.
Although this took the clown by surprise, Kyoshiro quickly readied himself again and lashed out with his weapon. “It will take more than that to beat me!” Kyoshiro said. “My skills will overpower you!”
“Sounds funny coming from a guy with face-paint and a REALLY bad wig.” Samus replied, raising an eyebrow.
Kyoshiro narrowed his eyes. “When this is over, I shall work my victory over you into my new dance routine.” He said. “It will be the talk of the country.”
“…Dance routine.” Samus repeated flatly. “…You’re going to work our fight into a DANCE routine.”
“Yes. What’s wrong with dance?”
“Dude, I am SO taking you down.” Samus growled as he advanced and swung his sword fiercely.
Kyoshiro managed to block Samus’ relentless attacks, but he found himself getting forced towards the ropes. Once he was close enough to them, he was easy pickings for Samus to push over the ropes and out of the ring.
Kyoshiro landed in Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Fawful started bombarding him with magic.
Demitri growled, as he now had to deal with both Billy AND his meddling sister. After defeating Vivian, Lilly had come over to help her big brother beat down the vampire. Demitri ducked as Lilly’s staff went over his head, but he was unable to avoid Billy smashing his staff down onto his back.
Surprising both Billy and Lilly, Demitri sprang forth and slashed with his hands, which looked like they had become razor-sharp (not as sharp as Tiny’s claws, but still fairly sharp). Lilly was able to avoid the attack, but Billy received a sharp cut to his torso.
“Billy! You okay?!” Lilly asked as she helped her brother up.
“Yeah. I’m fine.” Billy nodded. “I can still take him.”
“Let’s get him together, then!”
Both Billy and Lilly rushed at Demitri and swung their respective staffs. Demitri tried to avoid the attacks as best as he could, but one of the staffs (he couldn’t tell whom it had come from) smashed into his side, knocking him to the canvas again.
Slowly, Demitri stood to his feet and glared daggers at the Kanes. “You two are truly persistent bugs.” He said before smirking evilly. “However, I still have an ace up my sleeve.”
Setting his sights on Billy, Demitri pulled a rose from his pocket and threw it at the elder Kane. Billy, not sure what the rose was for, made no attempt to block it and allowed it to strike him.
However, the instant the rose struck Billy, a cloud of smoke engulfed him, vanishing a moment later. Lilly coughed and waved her hand in front of her face as she looked at her brother. However, when she did, Lilly’s eyes snapped open.
She was staring at herself.
Well, not really herself, but Billy under the effects of Demitri’s Midnight Bliss. Billy had turned from a young man with short, blonde hair to a young woman with blonde hair that went past her shoulders. Aside from the fact that Billy was still wearing his jacket and jeans, he looked exactly like his little sister.
“Billy?!” Lilly asked in shock.
“What?” Billy asked, but his eyes snapped open when he heard Lilly’s voice come from his mouth. “Uh…Why is my voice different?”
“Billy, don’t look down.”
As if you were expecting him to do something else, Billy didn’t do as he was told and looked down. He became suddenly very thankful that he had zipped up his jacket before hitting the ring.
A high-pitched scream was heard everywhere in the dome as Billy started hyperventilating in horror, not really liking what had changed with his body.
Billy suddenly remembered what made him change. He cats a cold glare at Demitri, whom was slowly starting to turn black, changing into his demon form.
“Okay! That’s IT!!” Billy (still with Lilly’s voice) shouted. “This freak is going DOWN!!”
Billy lunged at Demitri before the vampire could finish his attack and started whaling on him with his staff, not letting up for anything. After thirty strikes, Billy backed off, picked up Demitri’s barely conscious figure and threw him out of the ring.
Once Demitri was gone, Billy looked around and suddenly noticed that several members of the audience were making catcalls at his new body. “Hey! Shut up!!” He threatened. “If you don’t stop that, I’m coming up there to beat you freaks into the ground!”
Demitri landed in House of the Dead. Let’s just say that the main heroes of the game had a heck of a time trying to kill this vampire.
Still in his wolf form, Yugo crashed into a turnbuckle, the force reverting him back to his human form. Wiping blood from his mouth, Yugo watched as Brian Battler approached, laughing.
“This is a total blast!” Brian said, cracking his knuckles. “I’ve never fought a wolf before!”
“I hope you realize that I’m not actually a wolf.” Yugo reminded as he stood to his feet.
“I hope you realize that I don’t really care.” Brian said with a smirk. “A wolf’s a wolf.”
“Well, my wolf form’s drained for now.” Yugo muttered, more to himself. “I may as well take this joker out with my normal form.”
“Come on, shrimp! Let’s rock and roll!” Brian urged.
“Very well.” Yugo said as he rushed at Brian and delivered a swift blow to the body.
Brian’s laughter abruptly stopped, not really expecting Yugo to be so fast in his normal form. He was almost as fast as a human as he was as a wolf. Yugo proved this with a powerful and quick kick to the jaw.
As Brian rocketed across the arena, Yugo ran after him. The brown-haired hero of Bloody Roar leapt into the air and delivered a hard kick to Brian’s midsection, sending the American football player out of the ring.
Brian landed in Gears of War. When he figured out how to use the chainsaws, the alien race didn’t stand a chance.
Yugo nodded and turned to start another fight. He suddenly saw Xavier Pendragon standing over the defeated form of Jam Kuradoberi.
“Did she put up much of a fight?” Yugo asked.
“Actually, yes.” Xavier nodded as he picked up Jam and dropped her over the ropes. “I’ve never seen someone punch or kick that fast before.”
Jam landed on an Elite Covenant Warrior in Halo. When she saw all of the others starting to swarm her, Jam tried retaliating, but only managed to last three minutes before falling to a Plasma Sword.
Now that they had recovered their mallets, the Ice Climbers were back in action and proving tis against Kyo Kusanagi. Popo slammed his mallet into the hero of KOF’s stomach, knocking the wind out of him. This gave Nana enough time to jump on Kyo’s back and plunge her hammer into the back of his head.
“Great work, Nana!” Popo cheered as Nana jumped down beside him. “Say, by the way, where’d you get that cool gen you used to take out that weird robot earlier?”
“What this?” Nana asked as she pulled the Master Emerald shard from her pocket. “I just found it before we entered the ring. Talk about luck, eh?”
“You said it.” Popo nodded.
Kyo, in the meantime, had gotten to his feet. Igniting his hand in flames, he looked down at the two Eskimos. “I’d say that it’s past your bedtime, kids.” He said. “Why don’t you go back to the hotel and crash for a while?”
“That’s stupid!” Nana said. “Why should we listen to you?!”
“Yeah! We outnumber you two-to-one!” Popo agreed.
“I’m afraid that’s not going to last much longer.” Kyo said with a smirk as he sent a wave of fire at the vertically-challenged mountain climbers.
“We don’t think so!” Popo said as he blew on the oncoming wave of fire, the cold air coming from his mouth extinguishing the flames before they even got to him.
“NOW who’s laughing?!” Nana asked with a smirk.
“Why, that would be me.” Kyo said as he rushed forward while Popo was still recovering from his own attack.
Nana’s eyes widened. “Popo! Look out!” She warned as she latched onto her brother.
Kyo delivered a hard kick, punting Popo out of the ring. Because she was still holding onto him, Nana was pulled out at the same time.
The Ice Climbers landed on a beach in Cool Spot. Liking the warm weather, the two kids climbed out of their parkas and into some bathing suits.
Seeing his opponents getting eliminated, Kyo turned and looked around at the rest of the arena. The most noticeable thing was that Billy, whom was still under the effects of Demitri’s Midnight Bliss, was screaming death threats at a couple of fans in the twenty-third row of the bleachers. Mel was still crying over Branky, but Ryo was doing his best to comfort her. Yugo looked pretty fresh, and was going over to challenge Felicia. Xavier was sitting down on the canvas to recover his energy, and Mewtwo was hovering in place, also recovering energy. Samus was looking around the ring for any potential fights, and Roll and Lilly were standing off to the side, not really wanting to take part in anything yet.
Kyo glanced towards the entrance curtain, knowing that, by now, the next wave of fighters would be entering.
FINAL SCORE: (9 votes on the main fight, six votes on the first bonus fight, and seven on the second.)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
BILLY KANE (FF) (7:2) = 5 (Karin Kanzaki, Demitri Maximov)
FELICIA (DS) (7:3) = 4 (Lei-Fang, Tiny Tiger)
KYO KUSANAGI (KOF) (6:3) = 3 (Ken Masters, Ice Climbers)
LILLY KANE (KOF:MI2) (6:3) = 3 (Rawk Hawk, Vivian)
SAMUS (S3) (6:3) = 3 (Kyoshiro)
XAVIER PENDRAGON (EC) (6:3) = 3 (Jam Kuradoberi)
YUGO (BR) (6:3) = 3 (Brian Battler)
MEWTWO (SSB) (7:4) = 3 (Takuma Sakazaki)
ROLL (MM) (6:4) = 2 (Ally Gator)
MEL (S3) (6:4) = 2 (Hanzou)
RYO (TFS) (5:4) = 1 (Lei-Fei)
(ELIMINATED)
ICE CLIMBERS (SSB) (5:4) = 1 (Burner Man)
TINY TIGER (CB) (5:5) = 0 (General Guy)
RAWK HAWK (PM) (5:5) = 0 (Pikachu)
PIKACHU (SSB) (5:5) = 0 (Belle)
BELLE (S3) (4:5) = -1
JAM KURADOBERI (GG) (4:5) = -1
KEN MASTERS (SFA3) (5:6) = -1
VIVIAN (PM) (5:6) = -1
BRIAN BATTLER (KOF) (4:6) = -2
KYOSHIRO (SS) (3:6) = -3
GENERAL GUY (PM) (3:6) = -3
TAKUMA SAKAZAKI (KOF) (3:6) = -3
ALLY GATOR (B&B) (4:7) = -3
BURNER MAN (MM) (2:7) = -5
LEI-FEI (VF) (2:7) = -5
KARIN KANZAKI (SFA3) (2:7) = -5
DEMITRI MAXIMOV (DS) (2:7) = -5
LEI-FANG (DOA) (1:8) = -7
HANZOU (WH) (1:8) = -7
BONUS MATCHES:
“Champion’s Revenge”
KASUMI TODOH (KOF) beats the living daylights out of GOZU and MEZU (KE)
5 to 1
“Muscle Powered”
GUTSMAN (MM) clobbers O’CHUNKS (PM)
5 to 2
Fantastic Fours: If I’m right, Felicia and Mewtwo are the only fighters thus far to get more than three eliminations.
My Favourite Part: Pikachu landing in Homestar Runner. I don’t know why, but that really cracked me up.