Billy was trying to make the best of his ‘minor’ inconvenience with him being turned into a woman. Unfortunately, he couldn’t get over the fact that there were several guys making catcalls at him (Although technically, they were making them at Lilly’s figure. Billy would REALLY kill them for that) and that Joe had actually hit on him (Well, he had mistaken him for Lilly. Lilly DID say that it was an honest mistake…).
“Where DID Higashi run off to, anyway?” Billy asked himself as he looked around. Jin Chonshu had mistaken him for Lilly as well and after Billy had finally gotten it through his head (with several blows to the noggin) that he wasn’t Lilly, Joe was long gone.
In the meantime, Joe was cowering behind the bulky form of Gutsman. The large Robot Master looked down with a confused expression.
“Uh…I don’t remember giving you permission to use my body as a shield.” Gutsman pointed out.
“Um…Please?” Joe asked.
“Nope.” Gutsman shook his head as he drop-kicked Joe across the ring.
Ryo and Bolts stood aside and watched as Akuma the Hedgehog pounded on Bob, whom had just interrupted his fight with Akira Yuki. The two TFS’ers looked at each other.
“I’m starting to feel sorry for the fat guy.” Bolts said. “Should we go help him?”
“Against Akuma?” Ryo asked. “No way. We’re good fighters, but we’re not THAT good.”
“Also true.” Bolts shrugged. “So what do you suggest? Should we go help that puppeteer?”
Ryo looked over his shoulder and saw a hysterical Mel whaling on Momoko with the ‘corpse’ of her puppet. “I’m almost afraid to get close to her now.” He admitted.
“Somersault!” Guile shouted as he did his trademark kick-flip and struck Kyo in the jaw. The KOF posterboy was sent flying back several feet, landing on his back.
Kyo, although stunned, quickly jumped to his feet. “Okay. You caught me off guard there.” He said. “Looks like I need to step it up a bit.”
Kyo rushed Guile and swung his hand, sending a wave of fire at the American soldier. Guile took the blow to the chest, but quickly regained his footing and gave Kyo a hard backhanded punch. While Kyo was distracted, Guile grabbed him and hurled him away.
Guile stood still and brushed his hands off as Kyo flew into Cortez. “Well, that’s enough of that.” He said. “I think I’ll just wait for him to come back here to fight me. Ken’s honor is worth me going after him.”
(Recovery Room)
The newly-arrived Ken let out a loud sneeze, falling out of the bed he was laying on.
“Oh my!” Nurse Mio said as she went over to help Ken back onto his bed again. “Are you getting a cold?”
(Dome; Hallway)
A lone Goomba backed against the wall, eyes wide with fear. He had only taken two steps towards a green gem that had sparked his interest when this monstrosity jumped down in between the Goomba and the gem and looked at him menacingly.
The sight of this monstrous creature scared the Goomba enough as it was, but when it cast him a dark an evil glare, the Goomba started seeing his life flash before his eyes.
When the Goomba was backed away far enough, the monstrous creature bent over and picked up the green gem shard. Once it was in its large hand, the game vanished, absorbing itself into the creature. The creature felt a large surge of power flowing through it as two more spikes sprouted from its back.
Its job done, the creature lumbered off to find the next closest piece of the Master Emerald. Once it was gone, the Goomba slumped to the floor, passed out.
(Dome; Restrooms)
Knuckles pulled a Master Emerald shard from one of the bathroom sinks and placed it with the others he had collected. As of now, he had collected most of the Master Emerald base.
“Let’s see…Where’s the next piece?” Knuckles asked himself as he started concentrating. However, he lifted an eyebrow after a couple seconds of focusing. “That’s strange. According to my radar, there’s three pieces less than what there was when I shattered the Master Emerald.”
Scratching his head, Knuckles wandered out o the bathroom and back into the hallway of the dome. “How can that be possible? Did Eggman locate some of the shards and coat them in a special solution that blocks my radar?” Suddenly, his eyes widened, then narrowed. “I bet that’s it! Eggman’s behind this, as usual! He’s gotta be around here somewhere if he’s stealing Master Emerald shards.”
With that, the extremely-gullible echidna charged off down the hallway.
(Sound Booth)
Shadow suddenly paused for a second, then slapped himself in the forehead. “What an idiot.” He muttered.
“You say something, Shadow?” Aila asked.
“I don’t know. I just get the feeling that the knuckle-headed echidna has just made himself look even stupider.” Shadow replied with a roll of his eyes.
“Maybe it’s just gas.” Astaroth shrugged.
Shadow paused again, looking in deep thought. “No. No, it’s DEFINITELY that bonehead echidna.” He replied.
(The Arena)
Lilly Kane leaned backwards as Rosa’s sword swung past her face. The younger Kane sibling quickly thrust her pole out and caught the swordswoman in the side of the face. As Rosa stepped to the side, Lilly stuck her pole into the canvas and gave her a hard kick with both feet.
Rosa staggered back, but quickly snapped out of it and kicked the surprised Lilly in the chest while the younger woman was about to attempt another attack.
“That’s not going to work twice, kid.” Rosa warned. “I learn from my mistakes.”
“Good. That’ll keep this fight from getting dull.” Lilly replied as she spun her staff in her hand for a second.
Taking a deep breath, Rosa charged again, swinging her sword horizontally. However, Lilly was anticipating this and ducked under the blade. After Rosa’s sword had passed, Lilly stuck her staff into the canvas again and pushed off of it, kicking Rosa in the face with both feet as she spun herself upside down and back into a standing position.
“How did you get so good at fighting, anyway?” Rosa asked as she rubbed her chin in pain. “The last I heard, you preferred to sit at the sidelines.”
“Billy taught me self-defense.” Lilly replied. “I owe all of my training to him.”
Rosa looked to the side and smirked. “The woman that looks like you that is chasing the half-naked man with the shorts?” She quizzed.
Lilly narrowed her eyes. “Okay. Insulting my brother AND my boyfriend. Definitely not a good choice.” She said.
Lilly leapt into the air and pulled her staff back. Rosa watched in shock as Lilly’s staff multiplied several times, much like Billy’s did during a super move. Withing seconds, Lilly was holding twelve staffs, which she promptly swung downwards, straight at Rosa.
If it was just one staff, Rosa may have been able to block or counter the attack. Unfortunately, since there were twelve of them, Rosa was walloped with enough force to send her clear out of the ring. Lilly landed back on the canvas, holding one staff again.
Rosa landed in Kirby’s Avalanche, where she tried cutting the falling blobs apart to avoid getting crushed. It didn’t work.
After throwing Kyo away, Guile found himself getting double-teamed. The guilty party was the duo of Felicia and Rikuo. Guile raised his bulky arm to block a claw swipe from Felicia and then proceeded to kick Rikuo in the stomach. The American soldier then grabbed Felicia by the arm and threw her over his shoulder, sending the blue-haired catgirl flying into her aqualish nodal companion.
“This guy’s pretty strong, Felicia.” Rikuo noted. “You think we should fight someone else?”
“Heck no!” Felicia shook her head. “We still outnumber him! He’s gotta fall sooner or later if we both keep attacking him! Now come on!”
“Why are you the one making the decisions?” Rikuo asked.
“Uh…Because I’m the more popular one?”
“Who can argue with reasoning like that?” Rikuo sighed.
The two Darkstalkers rushed Guile again and pounced. Guile blocked Felicia’s attack again, but this time, Rikuo’s attack got through and landed a hit on the side of Guile’s face. The American soldier staggered to the side, and the two Darkstalkers quickly jumped him and latched onto him, Felica onto his chest and Rikuo onto his back.
“Come on, Rikuo!” Felicia said. “We can wear him down! Just keep on his back!”
“I’m trying!” Rikuo insisted.
Guile tried to shake off his two attackers, but Rikuo had too good of a grip on his back and Felicia’s claws had dug into his shirt. The American soldier looked around before spotting a turnbuckle. Gears turned in Guile’s head before coming up with an idea.
Turning so his back was facing the turnbuckle, Guile jumped backwards and rammed Rikuo into it as hard as he could. The force from the attack was more than enough to knock Rikuo off Guile’s back and loosen Felicia’s grip enough for the American to peel her off his shirt and throw her away.
With Felicia gone, Guile looked down and saw Rikuo at his feet, the wind knocked out of him. Guile lifted the lowest rope going around the ring and pushed the merman under it.
Rikuo landed in Megaman 2. Thankfully, it was in Bubble Man’s stage, so he was able to spend his ten minutes underwater.
Ryo and Bolts eventually decided on a battle and interrupted the fight between Yugo and Chipp Zanuff. As Bolts fought off Chipp, Ryo squared off against Bloody Roar’s main character.
Yugo, in his wolf form, slashed at Ryo, but the turquoise-haired young man held up his Razor Tomahawk, blocking the blow. However, he was unprepared for Yugo’s next kick to the torso, sending him flying backwards a few feet.
Ryo quickly jumped to his feet and readied his weapon again. Leaping at the wolf, Ryo swung his tomahawk horizontally. Yugo quickly jumped back and gave Ryo a quick boot to the head.
“Man. This guy’s too quick.” Ryo muttered as he held his head. “I don’t know how I’m going to beat him.”
Ryo looked at his hand and shrugged. “I guess it IS my quickest attack.” He noted. “Maybe I can surprise him a couple of times.”
The TFS’er suddenly saw Yugo jumping at him and aim his finger at him. “Shotgun!” He shouted.
In an attack similar, yet faster, than his Dragon Shotgun, Ryo fired an orb of green energy at Yugo, catching the wolf by surprise and taking the hit to the face. As Yugo hit the ground, Ryo fired two more Shotgun blasts into his face.
Seeing Yugo stunned and down, Ryo rushed forward and swung his Razor Tomahawk again. This attack was a success and sent Yugo rolling for a couple of feet, a large rip in his shirt and a healthy bite taken from his energy.
Yugo, transformed back into his human form by now, tried propping himself onto his hands, but couldn’t take any more and collapsed to the canvas completely.
Ryo, seeing him opponent defeated, smirked and walked over. He picked up the hero of Bloody Roar and pitched him out of the ring.
Yugo landed on Crazy Harry’s dynamite box in the Muppet Show. The resulting explosion destroyed the theatre box usually occupied by Statler and Waldorf.
Mel continued to whale on Momoko with Branky’s ‘dead body’, sobbing hysterically all the while. The young newcomer to KOF was unable to even get a hit in and could only attempt to block the repeated attacks from Mel.
“Do you understand, now?!” Mel asked. “Branky’s gone! That ninja broke her neck!”
“But it’s just a puppet!” Momoko repeated.
“And I’m telling you that she wasn’t!!” Mel screamed down at Momoko.
“Look, kid. I think that’s enough.” Billy Kane, still in his female form, said as he stepped in and stuck his staff in between Mel and Momoko. Mel accidentally beaned herself in the head on Billy’s staff.
Mel sighed as she sat down again and continued crying.
Momoko sighed in relief as she got to her feet. “Talk about overreacting.” She said. “If I had known that she treasured that puppet more than anything, I wouldn’t have mentioned anything.”
“If you had been in the ring earlier, you’d probably think that that thing wasn’t even a puppet.” Billy replied. “I’m starting to having second thoughts, myself.”
“Well, thanks for the assistance, Ms. Kane.” Momoko said.
Billy’s eyes snapped open and shot a glare at Momoko. “I’M NOT MY SISTER!!” He roared. “WHEN ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO REALIZE THAT?!?!”
Grabbing Momoko, Billy pitched her out of the ring (and onto the beach in Street Fighter Alpha 3, where she jammed with Dee Jay’s homies).
“For the last freaking time! That stupid vampire pervert from the last section cast this spell on me and turned me into a girl!” Billy continued shouting. “Now everyone’s mistaking me for my sister when…” He suddenly became aware that his voice had returned to normal. He quickly felt his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, thank goodness that’s finally over.”
Billy, now back to normal, turned only to see Zelda gently placing the crying Mel out of the arena and sending her falling into a vortex. “Uh…What was that for?” He asked.
“To get her out of the ring.” Zelda replied. “Hopefully, when she gets back to the Recovery Room, that puppet friend of hers will be back to normal.”
Billy sighed and went over to start a fight with Samus.
Mel, still crying, landed in Rayman: Raving Rabbids, where she took out her aggression on the army of Rabbids that tried to jump her.
Mewtwo hurled a fully-charged Shadow Ball at Jin Chonshu, but the younger Jin twin quickly and easily rolled to the side to avoid the projectile. Getting to his feet, the red-clad fighter rushed the psychic Pokemon and delivered a hard kick to his face.
Chonshu smirked as Mewtwo floated backwards a couple of steps, holding his face. “Looks like the fatigue is catching up to you, cat.” He taunted.
Mewtwo glared at Chonshu. “I’m not a cat.” He replied. “I’m a Pokemon.”
“Meh. It’s the same thing.” Chonshu shrugged. “I never really got into Pokemon that much.”
“Very unusual, considering that your age group is generally the ones that play the games.” Mewtwo taunted as he swiped at Chonshu.
“Why does everyone assume that Chonrei and I are little boys?” Chonshu asked as he blocked the attack. “I’m older than you by a long shot, you know.”
“Highly doubtful, even if you ARE older than you look.” Mewtwo replied casually.
Seeing that arguing with the large Pokemon wouldn’t get him anywhere, Chonshu rushed Mewtwo again and swung his foot. Mewtwo easily blocked the attack and countered with a tail swipe, striking the young-looking fighter in the face.
As Chonshu stepped back, Mewtwo pulled his hands back and started gathering energy. “Sorry about this, but I think I need to end the fight here.” He apologized as he launched a final Shadow Ball at Chonshu.
Because Chonshu was stunned, there was nothing he could d to block the attack. Chonshu took the attack to the face and was sent flying out of the ring.
Chonshu landed in the bar level in Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage. However, he stepped on a bullseye that Bugs had planted earlier and a safe suddenly fell on him.
(Hotel; Pool)
Vega staggered back as a plunger found itself latched onto his mask, preventing him from seeing. Vega grabbed the plunger and attempted to pull it off, but to no avail (he could have easily took his mask off to remove the plunger, but he wasn’t doing that anytime soon).
The Rabbid, on the other hand, whipped out a spatula and charged at Vega, whacking him in the kneecaps. Vega shouted in surprise and pain as he collapsed to his knees, at which point the Rabbid swung the spatula again, striking the plunger attached to Vega’s face. The plunger dislodged itself from the matador’s mask and ended up getting stuck to the ceiling.
As soon as his face was free, Vega glared at the furry, white creature in front of him. “You’re quite the annoying one, aren’t you?” He asked.
The Rabbid paused, tilted its head for a second, then rapidly nodded its head with a stupid grin.
“Somehow, I’m not surprised at the reply.” Vega sighed as he thrust the fist holding the triple-bladed claw at the Rabbid’s face.
The Rabbid saw the attack coming and bent over backwards, leaning back limbo-style as Vega’s claw soared over his head. As Vega pulled his hand back, the Rabbid struggled to keep its footing, but ultimately lost the fight and fell flat onto his back.
Vega smirked as he got up. “You can’t even stay standing.” He taunted. “I don’t understand how I was losing to you.”
The Rabbid quickly jumped onto its feet and glared up at Vega. The two stood in silence for a few seconds before the Rabbid whacked Vega in the kneecaps again.
Vega once again shouted in pain as he collapsed. “Okay, this is just making me mad.” He said as he sprang at the Rabbid in a rolling ball.
The Rabbid saw the attack coming again. Even a small brain like the Rabbid’s was able to understand when an attack was going to hurt, as the white bunny scrambled to the side. Vega continued rolling towards the lockers obliviously before breaking out of the roll and thrusting his claw forward.
Inside the locker, Nastasia’s eyes widened before her blindfold as she felt the cold steel of Vega’s claw barely miss impaling her. Natsasia let out a muffled scream, but it only lasted a few seconds before the blue-skinned woman fainted.
Vega growled as he pulled his claw from the locker. “Okay. It’s about time I finished this stupid little game.” He said as he turned towards his opponent.
However, when Vega turned, the Rabbid had already lunged at him, flying straight at his masked face. The Rabbid slammed into the masked matador, knocking both opponents out into the main area with the pool.
After tumbling backwards with the Rabbid still attached to his face, Vega landed on his back. He quickly grabbed the Rabbid and peeled it off of him before throwing it across the room.
The Rabbid quickly and easily landed upright and charged again. Vega sighed as he stood up.
Pulling his foot back, Vega gave the Rabbid a good, hard punt, sending the white creature flying into the middle of the pool, screaming.
Vega waited for his opponent to surface again, and when he did, he saw the Rabbid splashing around playfully with a cheery smile on his face, as if nothing had even happened.
It took a while for Vega to register what was happening, and even then he didn’t quite believe it. “Talk about a one-track mind.” He said as he walked towards the door. “Bison had better be giving me extra pay for this…”
(The Arena)
Busuzima, in his chameleon form, lashed out his super-long tongue at Rimururu, but the maiden of ice jumped back and gave the tongue a slash with her dagger. Busuzima roared in pain as he retracted his tongue and transformed back into his human form.
Now as a human, Busuzima jumped in place a couple of times, holding his mouth. “What the crap did you do THAT for, kid?!” The green-haired mad scientist demanded.
“Hey, I don’t know where that tongue’s been.” Rimururu pointed out. “You actually think I’m going to let it touch me?”
Busuzima finally let go of his mouth and narrowed his eyes. “Okay, kid. I’ve been playing nice up until now, but it’s time I started acting serious!” He said.
With that, the green-haired maniac rushed Rimururu and lashed out with his foot, catching the surprised girl in the face. Rimururu stepped back, but quickly recovered and slashed at the madman again. Busuzima saw this attack coming and stepped back to avoid the attack.
However, he wasn’t prepared for the wave of ice that followed. And the fact that he was wearing shorts and sandals and that his chest was exposed didn’t help very much.
“Ack! So cold!” Busuzima shouted as he jumped back and covered his chest, chattering his teeth.
Rimururu stood in silence before lifting a finger. “Uh…No offense…But do you realize how stupid your making yourself look?” She asked.
“And who’s fault is that?!” Busuzima asked.
“I’d better get him out of the ring before he humiliates himself any further.” Rimururu sighed as she ran over to Busuzima and gave him a swift kick to the behind, sending the green-haired maniac out of the ring.
Busuzima landed in Crash of the Titans, where he turned into his chameleon form to take out the mutants around him. Crash later came through and tried to ‘jack’ him to take out Cortex’s forces.
“Hadouken!” Akuma the Hedgehog shouted as he shoved his palms forward and launching a fireball at Bob. The overweight newcomer to the Tekken series took the projectile to the face and stepped back.
Akira Yuki rushed forward and grabbed Bob. The Virtua Fighter threw Bob away, then turned back to Akuma. “I thought we’d never get him out of the way.” He noted.
“People like him search for challenges everywhere.” Akuma shrugged. “If that is part of whom he is, I can’t really hold it against him.”
“Well, shall we continue our fight?” Akira asked.
“I thought you’d never ask.” Akuma said with a smirk.
Xavier Pendragon swung his staff and clocked Guile in the side of the head. The American staggered to the side a couple of steps, but quickly recovered and shot his foot backwards blindly, managing to slam it into the wizard’s chest.
“Impressive. You weren’t even looking, there.” Xavier noted as he started charging his staff.
Guile turned and jumped to avoid a green energy orb that shot from the head of Xavier’s weapon. “Being in the army as long as I have gives me heightened senses.” He explained as he lashed out his hands, sending a Sonic Boom at Xavier.
Xavier smirked and held up his staff, parrying the projectile. “I’m afraid that’s not going to work.” He warned. “That attack is much too slow.”
Guile growled. He didn’t want to admit it, but he was losing the fight. Xavier was a lot faster than he was and his attacks hurt a lot more than Guile thought they would (especially the staff-blows to the head. Those REALLY hurt).
“I need to find an opening quickly if I want to defeat him.” Guile told himself.
Xavier held his staff into the air and started to gather energy. Guile saw this and suddenly realized something important.
Pulling his hands back, Guile lashed out a quick Sonic Boom, sending it into the unsuspecting Xavier’s staff. Because Xavier was still charging energy, Guile’s attack was pulled straight into it. The added source of untapped power sent a surge overload through Xavier’s staff, causing the head of the wooden weapon to explode.
Xavier looked at the remains of his staff in shock, realizing what this meant.
“You’re helpless now, aren’t you?” Guile asked with a smirk.
Without giving Xavier time to respond or react, Guile rushed him and performed a Flash Kick, striking the wizard in the chin and sending him over the ropes and out of the ring.
Xavier landed in River City Ransom, where he gave Conan a good swat to the head with his staff.
Guile landed on his feet and smirked as he watched his opponent get eliminated. He was about to go start another fight when he heard a loud thump coming from behind. Turning, Guile saw Bob’s unconscious body (which Akira Yuki had thrown earlier) laying on top of Felicia. Said blue-haired catgirl didn’t look very amused.
“Get offa me, fat boy!” Felicia growled as she kicked from underneath Bob’s huge frame. “This is SO humiliating!”
It took most of her leg-power, but Felicia was finally able to get Bob off of her and push the overweight man over the ropes. As soon as Bob was gone, Felicia’s legs flopped to the canvas as the catgirl sighed in relief.
Bob landed on the moon in Sam & Max, creating a fairly large crater.
Lucia’s whip cracked against the canvas, making Rasputin, whom was standing nearby, jump into the air in fright.
“My dear, this is completely wrong!” Rapsutin insisted. “You shouldn’t be fighting people! You’re the chief of your tribe! You should be bringing them to peace!”
“Pal, I didn’t become the chief of my village just because my father was the chief before me.” Lucia pointed out. “My skills are the most respected in Karaya.”
“If you insist on fighting, then I’m afraid that I have no choice but to retaliate.” Rasputin sighed as he lashed out his hand, sending a lightning orb at Lucia.
Lucia snapped her whip again, striking the lightning orb and canceling it out. “I’m glad you came around.” She said as she rushed at the peace-loving hippie.
As Lucia came close, Rasputin surprised her by swinging his foot out. That kick itself wasn’t what surprised Lucia. It was the massive, glowing, yellow shell of energy that encased it during the kick that took her off guard. Lucia received a hard kick to the face, and Rasputin followed with two more similar kicks. This sent the Karayan chief across the ring.
Landing on her side, Lucia slowly got to her feet and narrowed her eyes. “For a pacifist, he’s a pretty good fighter.” She noted as she readied her whip and rushed the hippie again.
Rasputin saw Lucia coming at him and prepared to swing his hand at her. However, Lucia had a quicker draw and snapped her whip, striking Rasputin in the face and taking off a bit of his beard.
As Rasputin stepped back, Lucia ran forward and shoved him over the ropes and out of the ring. After he was gone, Lucia turned and saw Roll and Gutsman. Chosing them for a fight, she went over.
Rasputin landed in Megaman: Battle Network. When he got his hands on a PET, let’s just say that the net would never be the same again.
Gutsman stood in front of Roll, protecting her from the axe swings of Leo Gallen. “Roll, have you found the right weapon, yet?” The large robot asked. “This guy has some pretty strong attacks. Even with my armour, I can’t keep this up forever.”
Roll panicked when she finished cycling through the weapons she had in her arm cannon. “T-There’s no water-based weapons!” She realized. “That’s impossible! I could have sworn that I installed the Lead Bubble at least!”
“So you don’t have anything?” Gutsman asked.
“Nope.” Roll sighed.
“I was afraid of that.”
“Come on, you big bucket of bolts.” Leo challenged. “Hit me!”
“Uh…I don’t think you want me to do that.” Gutsman pointed out.
“I dare you! Try it!”
Gutsman shrugged. “Okay. If you say so.”
With that, Gutsman shoved his fist forward and Leo caught it. However, instead of launching him across the ring, Leo was able to hold his ground and successfully block all of Gutsman’s raw power.
When the attack was finished, Gutsman looked down at the armoured man with wide eyes. “Amazing. No human’s ever stood up to my attack before!” He said.
“I’m the muscle of the Six Knights of Zexen.” Leo replied with a smirk. “Anything you can dish out, I can parry.”
“Well, let’s see if you can stop THIS!” Gutsman said as he pulled his hand back to prepare to throw another punch.
However, Lucia had chosen that time to interfere and received a powerful blow to the face while she was approaching from behind. As opposed to Leo actually taking the full blunt of the attack, Lucia was sent flying out of the ring.
Roll watched her go and scratched her head, wondering if Gutsman was even aware that he had just gotten an elimination.
Lucia landed in Sonic Riders. Using her whip, Lucia knocked Amy off her board, got on and took off.
Billy held up his staff and blocked a swing of Samus’ sword. The elder Kane then raised the end of his staff up, striking the dark-skinned swordsman in the chin with the end of the pole.
Samus stepped backwards a bit, but quickly recovered and cast some Wind magic. An explosion of wind erupted from beneath Billy’s feet, launching the blonde man into the air.
Billy crashed down onto the canvas and slowly got to his feet. He knew that he needed to act fast if he wanted to get Samus out of the ring. Samus was extremely skilled with a sword and he wielded powerful Wind magic. Gripping his staff, Billy rushed forward towards the Tinto soldier. Seeing Billy coming, Samus raised his guard and prepared to counter the blow.
The first blow was easily blocked, but Billy took Samus off guard by following up with a knee to the stomach, making Samus drop his guard. While Samus was distracted, Bily pulled his staff back.
“FORE!” He shouted as he swung his staff and struck Samus in the face, sending the swordsman up and over the ropes.
Samus landed in Twisted Metal, where he used his sword to slice the oncoming Sweet Tooth in half.
(Dome; Hallway)
Dee Jay poked his head around a corner and watched as an angry Vega turned a corner up ahead. “Okay, mon.” He said. “He’s gone.”
“That simpleton looked fairly angry.” The Koopinator noted as he looked around the corner as well. “Are you certain that it was a good idea not to step in?”
“Try and fight Vega when he’s mad?” Dee Jay asked. “No way, mon.”
“So should we continue up to the Eliminated Seating?” The Koopinator asked.
“Yeah. Let’s get-”
“Dee Jay, could you report to the Ready Room?” Unknown1’s voice came through the speakers. “You’re entering in the next section.”
“On second thought, you may wanna hold on that.” Dee Jay said. “Looks like I gotta get going.”
“So what shall we do, then?” The armoured koopa asked.
“I’ll go to the ring and see if I can get some help from there.” Dee Jay replied. “You continue to the Eliminated Seating and see what you can come up with.”
The Koopinator nodded. “Okay. Sounds like a plan.” He replied. “However, I enter the ring in only a couple of sections, so I shall have to hurry.”
“Good luck, then.” Dee Jay said, flashing a thumb’s up.
“You too.” The Koopinator nodded.
With that, the two parted ways and ran off in opposite directions.
(Dome; Break Room)
“Let me go, woman!” The Servbot screamed at Tron as he started waving a butcher knife at a confused Sie Kensou.
“I don’t know how to fix this thing.” Tron sighed. “Not even switching channels on him will change anything.”
“So what can you do?” Kensou asked. “If you can’t fix him, you need some way to keep him under control so he won’t hurt somebody.”
“Tron Bonne, we need you at the Ready Room.” Tinyrocket’s voice came through the speakers. “You’re entering the ring in the next section.”
“This just complicates matters even further.” Tron sighed. “What am I supposed to do?”
“Do you have anything so tabs can be kept on him?” Kensou asked.
Tron scratched her head, then pulled a small wristband out of her pocket. “With this device, I can keep track of anyone wearing it and I’ll be able to know where the Servbot is.” She said as she grabbed the Servbot’s arm and slapped the wristband on it. “This way, if he’s causing trouble, we’ll know where he is.”
“Sounds like a plan.” Kensou nodded.
(Eliminated Seating)
Junior Maximum’s eyes lit up when he saw his father come into the Eliminated Seating. “Dad!” He said as he rushed forward and threw his arms around his surprised father.
“Junior?” J. Maxx asked. “What are you doing here? You should be in the crowd.”
“Someone tried to kidnap him, Mr. Maximum.” Kasumi Todoh explained as she came over. “He came here and I managed to fight off the attackers.”
J. Maxx’s eyes narrowed. “Bison.” He spat. “He must be trying to get me to help him with whatever he’s doing.”
“You’ve been through this before?” Kasumi asked.
“Yes. Last year.” J. Maxx nodded. “Ms. Todoh, I’m extremely thankful that you were able to save my son, but I’m afraid that I have a score to settle with Bison.”
“Then I’m going with you.” Kasumi said, folding her arms. “I can’t just sit by and watch this happen.”
J. Maxx looked around and saw one of his nodal companions. “Dragon!” He called out.
Kim Dragon looked up. “Yeah?” He asked.
“Keep an eye on Junior for me, okay?” J. Maxx said.
“No problem.” Kim Dragon nodded.
“You stay with him, Junior.” J. Maxx explained. “Your dad’s going to go give Bison a good punch.”
“Give him an extra one for me, okay?” Junior asked with a smirk.
J. Maxx smirked behind his helmet. “You got it, kid.” He said as he stood up. “Okay. You ready?”
“Whenever you are.” Kasumi nodded.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“This seems all too familiar…” SSBFreak noted, scratching his head. “All of the fights going on outside the ring, some of the evil fighters keeping their heads low…”
“What’s he talking about?” Tinyrocket asked.
“These things happened last year and we never figured out what was going on.” Unknown1 replied.
“You think these happenings are related to the ones last year?” Tinyrocket asked.
“Knowing Bison and the rest of those guys, I wouldn’t be surprised.”
(The Arena)
One of Chipp’s arm blades lashed out at Bolts, but the silver-haired young man lifted the blade of his scythe to block the attack. Bolts quickly kicked Chipp in the stomach, knocking him away. Chipp flew through the air, but easily uprighted himself and landed gracefully on his feet.
“You’ll have to try harder than that, kid!” Chipp said as he rushed forward.
“I was counting on it.” Bolts said with a smirk as he lifted his scythe into the air. “Lightning Quake!”
Bolts slammed the end of his scythe into the canvas. A bolt of lightning shot from it and traveled across the arena floor towards the oncoming Chipp.
However, the white-haired ninja saw the attack coming and pulled off an attack known to ninjas everywhere: He vanished into thin air and left nothing but a log.
“What is it with ninjas and logs?” Bolts asked himself as he watched the log get surged with electricity.
“I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.” Chipp replied as he jumped in from the side and landed a hard kick to Bolts’ face.
Bolts stepped to the side a couple of feet, but quickly regained his composure and instantly spun around, slashing his scythe at the air and sending a blade-shaped lightning projectile flying at Chipp.
Ninja or not, Chipp didn’t have enough time to avoid the attack and took it to the chest. While Chipp was stunned, Bolts rushed forward and punched the ninja in the face, making him stagger backwards.
“I didn’t want to do this so early on, but if I want to eliminate you, I can’t pull any punches.” Bolts said as he lifted his hand. “Lightning Crusher!”
Chipp shook his head back and forth to regain his senses, and once he did, he heard a loud crackling noise coming from both sides. Looking, Chipp’s eyes widened when he saw that there was a wall of lightning on either side of him.
However, Chipp didn’t have time to avoid, as Bolts promptly caused the two walls to smash together, surging electricity through Chipp. Bolts stopped his attack after a couple of seconds and Chipp collapsed, dazed.
Seeing his opponent down, Bolts walked forward, picked Chipp up and threw him out of the ring.
Chipp landed in Mario Strikers: Charged, where he saw a gigantic Chain Chomp barreling over everyone on the field. Chipp smirked and charged forward.
Thirty seconds later and Chipp was sitting victoriously on the head of the unconscious and defeated Chain Chomp.
Kyo jumped to the side as a giant cutlass slammed into the canvas. Cortez, the floating skull ghost pirate, cackled as he lashed out with the hook he had on one of his other three hands.
Seeing the attack coming, Kyo jumped backwards as Cortez’s hook spiked into the canvas. Gears started turning in the KOF posterboy’s head, wndering how he could beat Cortez. He had found out long ago that fire had no effect on the skeleton ghost, and that had taken away Kyo’s strongest form of attack.
Cortez swung the longer sword his upper-left hand was holding, attempting to slice Kyo in half. The dark-haired man jumped over the blade and gave the floating hand a hard kick, sending both the hand and the weapon flying away.
Kyo waited for Cortez to summon the hand back, but he didn’t do it. In fact, the skeleton pirate didn’t look very pleased.
“Oy! Amigo, what did ya do that for?!” Cortez demanded.
Kyo suddenly realized that if Cortez got separated from his weapons, he would be almost helpless. However, before he could put his plan into action, Cortez’s hook gave Kyo a hard backhand, sending him flying away.
The dark-haired man landed on his back, but quickly got to his feet with a smirk. “I know how to beat you now, pal!” Kyo said. “Get ready, because here I come!”
Kyo rushed forward at his opponent. Cortez swung with his hook, but Kyo quickly gave that hand a kick, knocking it away. Cortez swung both his cutlass and dagger at Kyo, and the dark-haired man had to try harder to avoid them, but both attacks failed. Kyo gave both hands a hard kick, knocking both away and leaving Cortez without any weapons.
“Time to finish this!” Kyo said as he jumped into the air and gave Cortez’s giant skull an uppercut, sending both skull and long, floating backbone out of the ring. Kyo landed on his feet and looked around, seeing that Cortez’s hands and weapons had all vanished.
Cortez landed in the desert of Super Mario Bros. 3, where the end of his floating backbone planted itself in the sand. Cortez attempted to free himself, but found himself unable to budge.
Ryo held up his arms and blocked a punch from Joe Higashi, then quickly fired a Dragon Shotgun into the Thai fighter’s face. Joe stepped back in pain and Ryo stepped forward, but Joe recovered quickly and thrust his foot into Ryo’s chest.
“How the heck did you recover from that so fast?!” Ryo asked.
“You kidding?” Joe asked with a smirk. “I get pounded on so much on a daily basis that I hardly even felt that.”
Joe lashed out his hand, but Ryo blocked the blow, forcing the TFS’er back a bit. Ryo was forced back a couple more steps and ended up backing into something, taking him by surprise. Ryo looked over his shoulder and saw that he and Bolts had backed into each other.
“Hey Bolts.” Ryo greeted.
“Hey, Ryo.” Bolts replied.
“How’re you holding up?”
Bolts looked ahead and saw Roll changing settings on her arm cannon. “The blonde robot’s stronger than she looks.” He replied.
“Well, what did you expect?” Ryo asked. “She’s last year’s finalist.”
“Yeah.” Bolts nodded. “Hey, you wanna switch opponents?”
“Can’t think of a reason not to.” Ryo shrugged.
With that, the two TFS’ers spun around and charged past each other to take on the other’s opponent.
Bolts swung his scythe at Joe Higashi, but the half-naked man was quick to lean to the side and give the silver-haired young man a kick to the side of the head. At the same time, Ryo swung his hand and gave Roll an uppercut, launching the robot girl into the air. However, Roll had previously charged her Roll Buster and while she was in midair, she sent an orb of fire into Ryo’s chest.
Landing on the ground, Roll sent her foot into Ryo’s stomach. Ryo shot a Dragon Shotgun at her, but it whizzed by Roll’s head, giving the robot girl the momentum to slam her fist into the side of Ryo’s face.
Bolts lifted his hand and caused ten bolts of lightning to rain down from above, attempting to strike Joe with at least one of them. Joe managed to avoid most of the lightning bolts, but the last one gave the Thai fighter a shock to the behind.
As Joe started running in circles, holding his behind in pain, Bolts sighed in relief. He was about to turn and help Ryo with Roll when a cyclone of dust and wind appeared around him, quickly lifting him into the air. Suddenly, when Bolts was a good twenty feet off the ground, the tornado shut off. There was nothing preventing Bolts from crashing headfirst into the canvas. Joe rushed forward and pulled his fist back.
Ryo attempted to give Roll a punch to the head, but got another face-full of fireball. Roll quickly kicked the taller fighter in the shin, making Ryo bend over in pain. Roll punched Ryo again, knocking him away from her.
While Ryo was away from her, Roll pulled out her ball and chain again and started spinning it around her head. When she had spun it enough, Roll let loose and sent the spiked ball straight into Ryo’s body. This sent Ryo flying straight backwards.
At the same time, Joe had given Bolts the hardest punch he could muster. The force from both attacks sent the two TFS’ers flying backwards, where they crashed into each other back-first. This was too much for either Ryo or Bolts to take and they both slumped forward.
“Well, I’m glad that’s over.” Joe said as he picked up Bolts and threw him out of the ring.
“Yeah. I was thinking I would lose for a second.” Roll nodded as she picked up Ryo and hurled him out of the ring after Bolts. She turned and saw Gutsman throwing Leo Gallen out of the ring (where he decapitated countless Orcs in the Lord of the Rings: Two Towers). “I see you finished your fight, Gutsman.”
Gutsman shrugged. “Eh. He was pretty good. He probably would have won if I wasn’t an armoured robot.” He reasoned.
Ryo and Bolts landed in a dark cave. The two stood up and looked around.
“Where do you think we are?” Ryo asked.
Suddenly, a loud, inhuman roar erupted from behind the two, followed by a scream of fright. The two TFS’ers turned and saw Jabba the Hutt’s Rancor cornering an alien dancing girl (whom Jabba had just dropped into the pit).
“Does that answer your question?” Bolts asked.
“Yeah. I guess it does.” Ryo nodded. “You feel up for one more fight?”
“I thought you’d never ask.” Bolts replied with a smirk.
With that, the two TFS’ers lunged forward together to save Oola from the Rancor.
Akuma the Hedgehog and Akira Yuki lashed out punch after punch, but with each punch one threw, the other one blocked. This continued on until each fighter had thrown fifteen punches. Eventually, the two fist-fighters broke away from each other and jumped back, seemingly anticipating that the other would attempt an attack that would leave them out in the open.
“You’re pretty good for a hedgehog.” Akira said with a smirk. “I’ve never seen someone able to keep up with me like that.”
Akuma gave a small, amused smirk. “I was trained by the best.” He said. “And even still, you’ve blocked all of my punches. That is an accomplishment in itself.”
“I’ve noticed that you haven’t been using those special attacks of yours like that fireball you used on that fat guy.” Akira noted. “Any particular reason?”
“You have no projectile moves.” Akuma replied. “I prefer to win a fight fairly.”
“Glad to see that we’re in the same boat, then.” Akira nodded.
The two fighters rushed each other and continued the onslaught of punches. Like before, each of the two blocked the other’s punches, proving that they were both evenly matched.
Akira blocked one last punch from Akuma and thrust his fist out as hard as he could, deciding to end the fight. However, Akuma was way ahead of the Virtua Fighter and had anticipated this. The red hedgehog ducked under the blow and delivered a hard uppercut to the unsuspecting Akira’s face.
The Virtua Fighter flew backwards at the power of Akuma’s and landed on his back. Akira quickly jumped to his feet and prepared to rush Akuma again only to see that Akuma had already run over to him.
Before Akira had time to react, Akuma had given him another killer uppercut, removing Akira from the ring.
Akira landed in Drawn to Life. Crazy Barks jumped on him and started gnawing on his hair.
“CrazyBarkslikesthetasteofhair.” The short, deranged creature rambled in one breath.
Back in the ring, Akuma took a deep breath and folded his arms in victory. He turned around and looked at the ring at the other survivors. Guile was rotating his arm to flex his muscles, looking relatively fresh. Kyo was starting to sweat, but still looked ready for the next wave of fighters. Gutsman had a couple of dents in his armour (most likely from the axe swings of Leo Gallen), but looked alright. Mewtwo was floating aside, concentrating to wear off some of the fatigue wearing him down. Felicia was also looking a little weighed down, but because she didn’t have Mewtwo’s abilities, the catgirl was curled up on the canvas, having a nap. Roll, being a robot, didn’t look fatigued, but the signs were still there. Joe Higashi was trying to get close to Lilly and ask if she was alright, but a cold glare from Billy made him back off. Zelda looked almost untouched and patiently awaited the next fighter. Rimururu took a deep breath and readied herself.
Akuma looked up to the entrance curtain and a smirk floated across his face as he got into his stance.
FINAL SCORE: (12 votes on the main fight, eleven votes on the bonus fight.)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
GUILE (SFA3) (9:3) = 6 (Rikuo, Xavier Pendragon)
BILLY KANE (FF) (9:4) = 5 (Momoko, Samus)
GUTSMAN (MM) (8:4) = 4 (Lucia, Leo Gallen)
AKUMA THE HEDGEHOG (TMG) (8:4) = 4 (Akira Yuki)
RIMURURU (SS) (8:4) = 4 (Busuzima)
KYO KUSANAGI (KOF) (8:5) = 3 (Cortez)
LILLY KANE (KOF:MI2) (8:5) = 3 (Rosa)
MEWTWO (SSB) (9:6) = 3 (Jin Chonshu)
JOE HIGASHI (KOF) (7:5) = 2 (Bolts)
ZELDA (SSB) (7:5) = 2 (Mel)
ROLL (MM) (8:6) = 2 (Ryo)
FELICA (DS) (8:6) = 2 (Bob)
(ELIMINATED)
RYO (TFS) (7:6) = 1 (Yugo)
BOLTS (TFS) (6:6) = 0 (Chipp Zanuff)
LUCIA (S3) (6:6) = 0 (Rasputin)
XAVIER PENDRAGON (EC) (6:7) = -1
YUGO (BR) (6:7) = -1
AKIRA YUKI (VF) (5:7) = -2
LEO GALLEN (S3) (5:7) = -2
RASPUTIN (WH) (5:7) = -2
CORTEZ (PM) (5:7) = -2
BOB (T6) (5:7) = -2
MEL (S3) (6:8) = -2
SAMUS (S3) (5:8) = -3
MOMOKO (KOF) (4:8) = -4
CHIPP ZANUFF (GG) (4:8) = -4
BUSUZIMA (BR) (3:9) = -6
RIKUO (DS) (3:9) = -6
JIN CHONSHU (FF) (2:10) = -8
ROSA (KE) (2:10) = -8
BONUS MATCHES:
“Pool Party”
VEGA (SFA3) shreds RABBID (R:RR)
6 to 5
Suikoden’ed Out: Although Lucia managed to get an elimination, all four of the Suikoden fighters this round were eliminated.