Ash Crimson landed flat on his stomach. Jack jumped onto his back and wiggled his clawed fingers around.
“Let’s see. Should I just kill you now or hack off a limb or two to watch you die?” Jack asked. “So many choices.”
“How about you get off of me?!” Ash roared as he pushed Jack off of him. Jumping to his feet, Ash spun around and cast a wave of green flames at the clawed maniac, which Jack easily avoided. “Why are you so intent on killing me?!”
“Hey, I had a blast during that fight we had at the end of last year’s tournament!” Jack cackled. “I want to see if you can prove to be even more entertaining from back then!”
“I’ve been trying to forget that fight for years!” Ash snapped. “Ever since that fight, I’ve been afraid of bridges!”
“Hey, it’s not my fault you’re a pansy.” Jack shrugged.
“WHAT WAS THAT?!” Ash shouted as he jumped forward.
Meanwhile, while Dee Jay was helping Gabby Jay pound on Harvey Birdman and the Kopinator was off challenging J. Talbain, the Kane siblings were studying the fight between Jack and Ash.
“What do you think we should do, Billy?” Lilly asked. “Crimson may know something.”
“But it looks like that lunatic’s having too much fun.” Billy shook his head. “Approaching now could result in him turning on us.”
“So what do you suggest?” Lilly asked.
“Well, I’m gonna go over and see if Krauser’s interested in joining us.” Billy replied as he went over to talk to his boss’ stepbrother.
“Well, what am I going to do then?” Lilly asked herself before feeling a tap on her shoulder. Turning around, Lilly found herself staring down Tigerman, whom quickly took action and pounced.
Megaman took aim and fired several Mega Buster shots down at Sonic while in midair.
“You don’t know me as well as I thought, blue boy.” Sonic said with a smirk as he used his super-speed to avoid all of the shots with ease.
“Then maybe I should try a different approach.” Megaman said as he pressed a button on his arm cannon. “Let’s see how you handle the Homing Sniper!”
Taking aim again, Megaman fired Search Man’s weapon at Sonic. The blue hedgehog stepped to the side, only to see the missile change course and continue to track him.
“Aw, man.” Sonic grunted as he turned and ran away at high speeds. The Homing Sniper followed suit, chasing down the speedy hedgehog.
“That should keep him busy for a while.” Megaman chuckled as he watched Sonic run from the Homing Sniper, running around the ring rapidly.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“Man. As of now, I’d say that Jack has done the most damage out of all the World Heroes thus far.” Unknown1 pointed out.
“Really? After J. Maxx got the elimination a few sections back?” SSBFreak asked.
“But Jack’s been fighting nonstop since he entered.” Unknown1 replied. “And I don’t think he’s going to be stopping anytime soon.”
“Only time will tell. As much as I hate him, I have to commend Ash for standing as long as he has.” Tinyrocket said. “Mind you, I don’t know about his chances now that Bowser is running over to help out Jack.”
“And it looks like he’s winding up for the Bowser Bomb.” SSBFreak said. Ash’s screams of pain were suddenly heard throughout the ring.
“Ouch. Spike to the back. That looked like it hurt.” Unknown1 cringed.
(Dome; Recovery Room)
Gutsman stepped out of the door to the Recovery Room, only to stop short upon seeing Rawk Hawk, Ky Kiske, Blue Mary, Ally Gator and Tiny Tiger standing outside the door.
“What’s going on? You guys waiting for someone?” Gutsman asked.
“Yeah. We’re waiting for Dee Jay and the Koopinator.” Blue Mary replied.
“Uh…Why?” Gutsman asked.
“It’s a little too complicated, I’m afraid.” Ky shook his head. “You wouldn’t understand.”
“Hmm…Actually, I think I do.” Gutsman replied. “You guys are trying to stop some sort of evil plot, aren’t you?”
This made everyone stare at the large robot with wide eyes. Ally was the one to break the ice. “How did you know that?” She asked.
“Those guys are making that O’Chunks fellow from the Mario node work for them.” Gutsman replied. “Something about taking someone close to him.”
“O’Chunks? That Scottish guy?” Rawk Hawk. “Great. He’s just as strong as I am. This changes everything.”
“How so?” Tiny asked, scratching his head.
“We were going into this thinking that all of these creeps were going to be easy to beat.” Rawk Hawk pointed out. “Now that they have people like O’Chunks fighting for them, this can make things a little more difficult.”
“So what should we do?” Blue Mark asked.
“I suggest we wait for Dee Jay, Koopinator and whoever they have helping them to come from the Recovery Room.” Ky suggested.
“Then I’ll wait with you guys.” Gutsman said.
“You sure?” Ky asked the large robot.
“Yeah.” Gutsman nodded as he leaned against a wall and watched the tournament on a monitor. “Let’s see how long it takes.”
(The Arena)
Bowser reared back and let loose with a wave of fire breath at Ash. The Frenchman quickly jumped to the side, only to receive a kick to the face from Jack. As stepped back into Bowser’s fire, singeing his pants a little bit.
“You will both pay for that!” Ash shouted. “These pants are hard to come by nowadays!”
“When we’re done with you, you’ll have bigger worries than that.” Bowser said, cracking his knuckles.
Ash narrowed his eyes and clenched his fist, igniting it in green flames. “It’s time I showed you who’s boss around here.” He said as he cast a wave of green fire at Bowser.
Bowser laughed. “YOU? The ‘boss’?” He asked. “There’s nothing about you that says ‘boss’, kid. I, on the other hand, have ‘boss’ written all over me! I was the final boss in more games than you can count!”
“Shut up! It was a figure of speech!” Ash shouted as he kicked Bowser in the head and sent him flying to the side. However, this left him wide open for Jack to give him a slash to the back, cutting three tears in his jacket.
“What did I tell you about the suit?!” Ash shouted at the clawed maniac.
“You just told us about the pants.” Jack said with a smirk. “I don’t recall you saying anything about the jacket.”
Ash screamed in fury and rushed forward, attempting to wrap his fingers around Jack’s neck. The clawed maniac proved to be too quick and jumped back, kneeing Ash in the face.
“You know? Fighting you just isn’t any fun when we’re not on the roof of a moving car.” Jack admitted. “I thought this fight was going to be fun, but this is just turning out to be a big yawn.”
“Well, let’s see if you change your tune in about nine seconds.” Ash growled as he ignited his fists.
Jack paused, smirked and crouched low. “I think it’s time to get outta dodge.” He chuckled as he jumped high into the air and landed on a nearby turnbuckle.
Ash raised an eyebrow. “What the heck is-” That was all Ash got out before suddenly remembering what had happened after Jack pulled a similar stunt last year. Spinning around, Ash saw Bowser stampeding straight at him, looking extremely angry.
Before Ash had time to react, Bowser plowed into him and lifted his head up, catapulting the Frenchman over the ropes.
Jack laughed as he jumped off the turnbuckle. “That was freaking awesome.” He chuckled.
Ash landed on a soccer field in Mario Strikers: Charged. Slowly standing up, Ash growled.
“How could I let those two get the best of me so easily?!” Ash shouted. “Never again will anyone get the better of Ash Crimson!”
Suddenly, three Koopas, two Hammer Bros. and Monty Mole plowed over the prettyboy from behind, chasing down the Koopa with the soccer ball.
Ash slowly got to his feet again and turned. “Who did that?!” He demanded. “I demand to know who did that!”
The two teams quickly came running back from the other side of the field, plowing over Ash from behind again.
Ash raised a hand into the air weakly, but a huge Chain Chomp fell from the sky and landed directly on him before starting to chase down the team of Koopas.
(The Arena)
Harvey Birdman slowly got to his feet and glared daggers at Dee Jay and Gabby Jay.
“How could you guys double-team me like this?!” The winged lawyer demanded. “I’m one of the good guys!”
“After seeing the things ya do to other cartoon characters, not in my book, mon.” Dee Jay shook his head.
“What’s your excuse?” Birdman asked Gabby Jay. “Why did you start attacking me?”
Gabby Jay shrugged. “Easy elimination.” He admitted.
“Yeah. Why the heck did ya enter this thing if ya can’t fight?” Dee Jay asked.
“I can fight! I just prefer to use my lawyer skills to force opponents to eliminate themselves.” Birdman pointed out.
“Oh, gimme a break.” Dee Jay sighed. “If that’s the case, why didn’t those guys running the tournament invite Phoenix Wright or something?”
“I am ten times more experienced than that poser.” Birdman said. “Now watch as I-”
That was all Birdman could get out before Gadget Z jumped in from behind and slammed his hammer into his head.
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” Gadget Z screamed.
“Stay out of this, you.” Birdman, rubbing his head, warned.
“Ruh-oh!” Gadget Z said.
Birdman’s eyes widened, recognizing the familiar tone of voice.
“Scooby Doo…” Birdman said as he approached Gadget Z. “So you thought you could escape me, you drug-dealing dog? Well, I’d say that it’s time to get you out of that stupid robot costume and get rid of you for good.”
“Meep, meep!” Gadget Z said, jumping into the air a bit before rolling off quickly. Birdman growled and gave chase.
Gadget Z rolled over to the fight J. Talbain was having with the Koopinator. “Eh, what’s up doc?” The robot asked as he rolled over.
“Huh?” The wolfman asked as he looked down.
“Bogey behind me! Am I getting slow?!” Gadget Z asked as he rolled behind J. Talbain’s leg.
The blue-furred wolfman looked up and saw Birdman charging over. Sighing in hopelessness, Talbain grabbed the oncoming lawyer by the suit and hurled him out of the ring.
Harvey Birdman landed in Phoenix Wright. Everyone in the node beat on him with blunt objects.
Talbain shook his head and turned to face Koopinator, whom was simply standing still, waiting for Birdman to get eliminated rather than taking advantage of the situation when the wolfman was distracted.
“You didn’t attack me?” J. Talbain asked.
“My friend, I am a warrior. Not a coward.” Koopinator replied.
“Zoom, zoom, zoom!” Gadget Z sang as he rolled off, passing Lilly as she sent Tigerman flying out of the ring with a strike from her staff (and sending him into the node of Mario Paint, where the disembodied hand gave him a coat of paint).
“Kaiser Wave!” Krauser shouted as he lashed out his hands, firing a powerful projectile into Lau Chan’s chest. The aging man was sent flying backwards, but quickly uprighted himself in midair and landed gracefully on his feet. Taking a deep breath, Lau charged forward again, shoving his fist at the purple-haired noble’s face.
Krauser easily blocked Lau’s attack, but the older man proved to be faster than he looked and followed up with another quick punch to the stomach. Krauser found himself flying backwards a few feet, but landed upright while he was still moving, sliding backwards of his feet for a number of meters.
“Impressive, comrade.” Krauser admitted. “I haff not seen someone so old viff so much power.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.” Lau said. “Let’s see how well you can stand up to me when I keep unleashing my fast attacks!”
With that, Lau lunged at Krauser and swung his leg. However, the larger ma saw the attack coming and caught Lau’s leg, throwing the older man behind him.
Lau flew into a turnbuckle and groaned as he got to his feet. “Looks like I need to rethink my strategy.” He noted as he charged forward again.
“I admire your determination, comrade.” Krauser said. “But zhere has to be a limit to how much you can put up viff.”
With that, Krauser pulled his arms back. “Kaiser…”
“…WAVE!”
Krauser’s signature move pierce through the air again, striking the oncoming Lau in the face. The sheer force from the attack launched the Virtua Fighter out of the ring.
Lau landed in Army Men. Scorch, being the crazy pyromaniac he was (hey, a lover of fire made of plastic HAD to be pretty crazy), set the older man on fire.
Brushing his hands off, Krauser folded his hands in satisfaction.
“Oy! Krauser!”
Lifting an eyebrow, Krauser turned around and saw Billy coming over. Looking behind the blonde-haired man, Krauser saw Blanka booting Ness out of the ring (and into Wii Sports, where he hit a homerun with his bat).
“Ah! Billy! Eet ees good to be seeingk you still in zhe arena!” Krauser said, giving the younger man a hard slap on the back, making Billy step forward a couple of steps in recoil. “So vhat breengs you over here?”
“Actually, there’s something I need to tell you.” Billy replied.
“Uh…Ees this personal?”
“No.”
“Okay. Go ahead, zhen.”
“There’s something going on outside of the ring.” Billy informed. “Dee Jay and the Koopinator relayed the message to Lilly and I.”
Krauser looked around the ring and raised his eyebrow again. “Ze half-naked Jamaican and ze turtle in armour?” He asked.
“Uh…Yeah.” Billy nodded. “Look, what they said is-”
“Excuse me?”
Billy looked down and saw Bombette at his feet.
“Can we fight?” Bombette asked. “I’ve been looking for a fight for a while.”
Billy growled. “Oy! I’m in the middle of something, here!” He said as he pulled his staff back and swung it, striking Bombette and sending her flying out of the ring like a golf ball.
Bombette landed in Super Mario Bros. 2, where she blew up in Mouser’s hands.
Gabby Jay swung his fist at Dee Jay, but the Jamaican ducked under the blow and gave the old boxer a punch to the stomach. Gabby Jay stepped back in pain, but quickly recovered and gave Dee Jay a hard right hook.
The two had been going at it since Birdman had chased Gadget Z off (neither of them figured the lawyer was worth running after), trying to eliminate the other. Dee Jay knew that he had a job to do, but he couldn’t pass up a good fight, which was definitely something the old man was providing.
Wiping a spot of blood off his lip, Dee Jay smirked. “You’re pretty good, mon.” He said. “Let’s see if you can top this!”
“Max Out!” Dee Jay shouted, lashing out his hand and sending his trademark orange projectile at Gabby Jay. Taking the attack to the face, Gabby Jay leaned backwards, providing an opening for Dee Jay to step in and kick him in the face. This sent Gabby Jay flying backwards, landing on his back.
Slowly getting to his feet, Gabby Jay narrowed his eyes. “I didn’t want to bring out the big guns so early, but it looks like I don’t have a choice.” He said as he stood up.
Gabby Jay clenched his fists, making his boxing gloves glow. Looking at the two gloves, Gabby Jay nodded and looked at his opponent. Smirking and pounding his fists together, Gabby Jay rushed forward.
Dee Jay saw Gabby Jay coming and raised his arms, preparing to block the blow the old man was charging up. However, it wasn’t enough, because Gabby Jay wasn’t charging just one punch. While Dee Jay blocked the first punch, Gabby Jay thrust an equally-charged punch into the Jamaican’s stomach. This made Dee Jay drop his guard, and once he did, Gabby Jay swung his fist, clocking the Jamaican in the side of the head.
That’s when Dee Jay felt the force of the punch. Each of Gabby Jay’s punches felt ten times more powerful than normal, and he had just found that out firsthand. Dee Jay found himself staggering towards the ropes and tried to stop himself.
Gabby Jay wouldn’t let him recover and gave Dee Jay a hard uppercut, sending the Jamaican up and over the ropes.
Dee Jay landed in Super Mario Galaxy, on a soft patch of grass. Holding his throbbing head, Dee Jay sat down, unaware of the boulder that was rolling in his direction.
(Dome; Hallway)
Maiagaru ducked underneath Yamazaki’s dagger as the thug swung it at her. The Japanese woman quickly took advantage of the situation and thrust her gloved fist into Yamazaki’s stomach while he was recovering.
“Not bad, toots.” Yamazaki said with a smirk. “You’ve got some serious moves.”
“I train myself day and night to perfect my fighting.” Maiagaru replied coldly. “I am prepared for anything you dish out.”
“Really?” Yamazaki asked. “Let’s see if you’re ready for this one!”
Shoving one hand into his pocket, Yamazaki rushed headfirst at Maiagaru, an insane grin on his face.
“Guillotine!” Yamazaki cackled as he leapt into the air, taking the Japanese woman off guard. Grabbing Maiagaru by the face as he jumped, Yamazaki landed on his feet, dragged her for a few feet and threw her aside.
“Why are you guys helping her?!” Cream demanded to both Kid USA and Mickey McFist.
“You really don’t know her, Cream.” Kid USA pointed out. “If we jumped in to help her, Maiagaru would turn on us and get us to back off and let her handle it.”
“Seriously?” Kasumi asked.
“She’s like that sometimes.” Mickey shook his head. “If she gets into a fight, there’s no stopping her.”
Maiagaru continued with the pummeling, thrusting her fists into Yamazaki’s stomach several times, but the entire time, Yamazaki simply stared down at her with a smirk.
“You done yet, lady?” Yamazaki asked.
“W-What?! How could you not be keeling over in pain?!” Maiagaru asked.
“I’ve got a higher endurance level than most people think.” Yamazaki explained as he picked the smaller fighter up off the ground and threw her aside again. “Punching me in the stomach is especially useless.”
Maiagaru grunted as she got to her feet again. “I shall take that into consideration for next time.” She informed.
“Sorry to disappoint you, but there ain’t gonna BE a next time.” Yamazaki said as he leapt forward.
Maiagaru thrust her fist at Yamazaki’s face, but the blonde thug smirked and leaned to the side before swinging his fist upwards. During the swing, his fist became engulfed in purple energy, giving Maiagaru a killer uppercut.
As Maiagaru flew backwards, Yamazaki smirked triumphantly and stepped forward, pulling his head backwards.
Maiagaru stood up again, but before she could do anything, Yamazaki’s head smashed into her face, giving her the biggest headbutt she had ever felt. Maiagaru flew backwards, landing on her back.
Kid USA and J. Maxx helped Maiagaru to her feet. “I think that’s enough, Maiagaru.” Kid USA said.
“Release me, fool!” Maiagaru said as she pulled against the two holding her back. “Let me finish this thug off!”
“You just received a bad beating.” J. Maxx informed. “You need to let off a little bit to preserve energy.”
“I shall let you know when I am finished!” Maiagaru roared.
Seeing the scene, Yamazaki chuckled. “I’ll be taking my leave. Thanks for the exercise, lady.” He said
With that, Yamazaki turned around and casually strode down the hallway as Maiagaru’s roars of fury echoed continued to blare even after he was gone.
(The Arena)
I-No swung her hand down, playing her guitar loudly. Sound waves shot forth from the instrument and flew straight at Demyx. The sitar-playing Nobody jumped to the side to avoid the blow.
“Why are you doing this?!” Demyx asked. “I thought we would get along because of our similarities!”
“Ignoring the fact that this is a FIGHTING tournament, I don’t DO ‘getting along’.” I-No replied with a smirk as the teeth on her hat gave a crooked smile. “Now hold still!”
With that, I-No rushed Demyx and swung her guitar at him. Thinking quickly, Demyx played a quick couple of notes on his sitar, creating a wave of water and sliding out of harm’s way on it. By the time I-No had realized that Demyx was no longer in her field of vision, the Nobody was long gone.
In fact, Demyx had caused the wave to take him around I-No, depositing him behind the insane guitarist. Demyx quickly played another chord and created a small wave, shooting it towards I-No.
The wave crashed into the woman’s back, sending I-No flying into the ropes. Once the wave died down, I-No leaned against the ropes, soaking wet, as she spat a small stream of water onto the canvas.
“That should give me enough time to get out of the way.” Demyx said to himself as he turned around.
Only to duck as Watari flew overhead, swinging his katana. The Suikoden ninja landed gracefully on his feet and stood up, fingering his sword.
“What is it with assassins going after me?!” Demyx asked.
“I’m a ninja, genius.” Watari pointed out. “Get your facts straight.”
“Get away from me!” Demyx shouted as he turned.
Watari didn’t give Demyx much time to run and threw a ninja kunai at him. The small knife flew past Demyx and drove itself into a turnbuckle.
“Why am I reminded of Larxene all of a sudden?” Demyx asked as he turned to watch Watari running over. Demyx tried to keep Watari at bay with another chord of sitar-playing, but the black-clad ninja was too quick and jumped in, driving his foot into the Nobody’s chin. This was more than enough to send Demyx out of the ring.
Demyx landed smack dab in the middle of an ocean level in Super Mario Bros. Looking around while he was underwater, Demyx suddenly saw that several Bloopers and a couple of really hungry-looking fish were surrounding him. The Nobody screamed as he started playing his sitar underwater.
Back in the ring, I-No grumbled as she twisted her hat in her hands, wringing it out. Placing her hat back on her head, I-No looked around.
“Where’d that punk go?” I-No asked. “When I get my hands on that little freak-”
That was all I-No could get out before Gadget Z decided to jump in, quite literally. The malfunctioning robot fell from above and landed directly on top of I-No, knocking the insane woman to the canvas.
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up…” Gadget Z whined.
“Get off, you!” I-No roared as she shoved Gadget Z off of her.
“How dare you disturb my family vacation!” Gadget Z roared back.
“…Okay. That just made no sense.”
“Ah raptured mah toenail.”
“And that made even less sense.” I-No sighed. “I suppose I should get you out of the ring.”
“Pikachu! I choose you!” Gadget Z said as he clocked I-No in the head with his hammer.
I-No staggered back, but quickly recovered quickly and lashed out with her guitar, striking the barrel robot and sending him rolling aside a few feet.
“The lights went out…All over the world.” Gadget Z said dizzily. “Dude. Dude. What a trip.”
“Looks like you’ll be easy pickings now.” I-No said with a smirk.
The barrel robot suddenly got to his ‘feet’. “THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!” Gadget Z screamed as he swung his hammer, striking the red-clad woman in the stomach like a baseball bat and sending I-No out of the park and out of the ring.
I-No landed on dry land. Slowly getting up, she looked around.
“Where am I?” I-No asked.
Suddenly looking ahead, I-No’s eyes widened, because she saw Demyx using his powers to hold the entire Super Mario Bros. ocean above his head in a huge ball. Looking around, I-No saw all of the deadly marine life flopping around uselessly.
Demyx saw her and smirked. “Look who it is.” He said.
“Uh…What’re you going to do with that?” I-No asked, pointing to the sphere of water above Demyx’s head.
“Simply holding it in place.” Demyx explained.
“Then I can kill you right here and now.” I-No said as she approached.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you. In fact, I’d high tail it over to high ground.” Demyx informed. “Need I remind you that I got here first and will go back to the dome before you? Once I vanish, the entire ocean will fall back down and drown you unless you’re on the shore.”
I-No stood in silence for a few seconds before heeding Demyx’s advice and running off.
“Right on! Let’s roll, man! We gotta boogie!” Gadget Z said as he pointed into the air and started rotating the area of his body where his hips were supposed to be.
Suddenly, Hinako slid past the robot on her back, sliding underneath the ropes and falling out of the ring. Although this caught the barrel robot off guard for a second, he shrugged and continued on his way, loudly humming the tune to ‘Bonanza’.
Sonic the Hedgehog shook his head and turned to face Megaman again. “Yeesh. You’d think that people would be kind enough not to interrupt a fight.” He said.
“Yeah. That being said, that looked like a powerful attack.” Megaman pointed out.
“Ah, that was just a normal Spin Dash, man.” Sonic said. “The only reason she went as far as she did was because she didn’t block it.”
Hinako landed in Silent Hill. Needless to say, she didn’t dare move from the spot she landed in to avoid running into Pyramid Head.
Koopinator jumped to the side as J. Talbain slashed his claws at him. The armour-clad Koopatrol stood in his stance, prepared for anything the wolfman was going to throw at him.
“Ignoring the fact that I can avoid those slashes easily, what good do you think they’ll do on me?” Koopinator challenged. “This armour I’m wearing is near-impenetrable. Those slashes of yours will have no effect one me.”
“That may be so, but my attacks will be able to get through eventually.” J. Talbain explained as he kicked at Koopinator’s face.
The smaller fighter grabbed the oncoming foot and lifted J. Talbain into the air, slamming the wolfman into the canvas several times before dropping him and folding his arms.
J. Talbain coughed as he got to his feet. “How the heck were you able to lift me like that?” He asked.
“I train day and night.” Koopinator replied. “Because of this, I am one of the toughest fighters in the Glitzville circuit.”
“Which will make it even more satisfying when I beat you.” The wolfman explained.
“Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen.” Koopinator said as he lunged forward, spiked-shell first. J. Talbain quickly avoided the blow and delivered a kick to Koopinator’s midsection, sending the smaller fighter flying away several feet.
Koopinator landed awkwardly, but quickly uprighted himself, got to his feet again and rushed J. Talbain, preparing a hard right hook. When he arrived, Koopinator swung his fist, hoping to make contact with J. Talbain’s face.
Unfortunately for the Koopinator, J. Talbain saw the attack coming and swerved to the side. J. Talbain quickly took advantage of the time the Koopinator was distracted and recovering to pick up and throw the smaller fighter out of the ring.
The Koopinator landed in Sonic 2, where he found himself destroying mechanical hornets and wasps for the next ten minutes.
Jetta swung her arm, sending a razor-sharp ribbon spinning at Alice. Alica attempted to avoid the blow, but received a sharp cut to the shoulder. Alice collapsed to one knee and grasped her shoulder in pain.
In the meantime, Jetta smirked and looked down. “Looks like I win.” She said.
Alice looked up at her and narrowed her eyes. “I think not.” She said as she engulfed herself in a white light.
A furry white paw shot from within the white light and slammed into Jetta’s face. As the circus acrobat recoiled, a white rabbit jumped out of the light and landed on top of Jetta’s downed form.
However, this did little to stop Jetta. Sending out another ribbon, Jetta managed to land a strike against Alice’s face. The huge rabbit held its face as it got off of Jetta. Jetta jumped to her feet and lashed out with her foot, magically increasing her speed to make her attack stronger.
Jetta’s foot connected with the back of Alice’s head, but while Alice was falling towards the canvas, she managed to kick behind her with both feet, striking Jetta in the chest with her huge rabbit feet and launching her into a turnbuckle.
Getting up, Alice reverted back to her human form and rushed over to the stunned Jetta. Jetta slowly shook her senses back into herself, but before she knew it, Alice had arrived at her side and had punched her out of the ring.
Jetta landed in Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage, where she started a fight and turned the Western Bar level into an all-out brawl.
“Man, that’s going to hurt for a bit.” Alice groaned, holding her injured shoulder. “I guess I should just try to deal with it.”
Scanning the arena, she saw El Blaze kicking Chris Lightfellow out of the ring (sending the Silver Maiden into the node of Joust, where she demolished the competition). Seeing that the Mexican wrestler didn’t have an opponent now, Alice ran over.
(Hotel; Lobby)
“Hold still ya furry freak!” Earthquake roared as he swung his bladed weapon at Sergei. The huge rabbit showed a surprising case of agility and jumped back, avoiding the blow. As quickly as he avoided the attack, Sergei lashed out with his own fist, catching Earthquake with a right hook.
Staggering backwards a couple of steps, Earthquake rubbed his face before narrowing his eyes. “You’re asking for it, bunny!” He shouted as he grabbed Sergei and spiked him into the floor.
While the two giants were duking it out, the rest of the security force stood aside, not making a move.
“Uh…Aren’t we gonna help Sergei?” Gumshoe asked.
“You kidding?” Psymon asked. “I may be a lunatic, but I’m not supid.”
“Yeah. Going into battle when those two are going into it could be complete suicide!” Max agreed before giggling. “Hee hee! The mere thought is giving me this tingling sensation!”
Marilyn looked at Max strangely, but remained silent as she folded her arms and watched Sergei grab Earthquake and repeatedly punch him in the face.
“You’re…Starting…To…Annoy…Me!” Earthquake said in between the punches Sergei was giving his face. After the last word in his sentence, Earthquake shoved Sergei away from him and gave him a kick to the stomach.
Had it been anyone weaker, the kick would have done absolutely nothing to Sergei. However, because of Earthquake’s massive size and strength, Sergei was sent flying into the far wall. Sergei let out a groan as he got up, but quickly recovered and charged the huge bandit again.
“You just never learn, eh?” Earthquake shook his head as he pulled his weapon into the air and swung it down, attempting to take one of Sergei’s limbs off.
However, Sergei was anticipating this and jumped to the side to avoid the blow. While Earthquake was recovering from his failed attack, Sergei slipped in a hard kick to the head, stunning the giant man. Sergei leapt into action and wrapped his arms around Earthquake from behind.
“Sergei, this is no time for hugs!” Max called out. “That guy is trying to kill you!”
Sergei didn’t seem to notice (or he just ignored) Max and leapt into the air with Earthquake, turning both over in midair and piledriving the giant bandit into the floor headfirst.
Amazingly, this did little to stop Earthquake, whom pushed Sergei off of him with his feet and got up to stare the huge rabbit down.
“Looks like you’re not going to make this easy for me.” Earthquake said.
Sergei, although he was breathing deeply, remained silent. His red eyes glowed and dimmed several times with his breathing.
“Well, I’m afraid I NEVER give up in the middle of a fight!” Earthquake shouted. “Either I win or I lose! I ain’t backing down from this!”
Sergei growled and rushed forward, preparing to give Earthquake a hard punch. The huge bandit saw the attack coming and raised his arms to block the blow. Sergei’s fist slammed into Earthquake’s arm, all of the power dying out quickly.
Earthquake didn’t want to admit it, but this fight was getting him nowhere. Sergei was proving to be just as strong as he was, which was definitely something Earthquake didn’t like.
“I’m a little short on time. Looks like I’ll have to retreat for now.” Earthquake thought. “I’ll have to deal with this furry freak some other time.”
Earthquake quickly pushed Sergei away from him and narrowed his eyes. “Texan Ninja Vanish!” He exclaimed before engulfing himself with flames and smoke. When the smoke cleared Earthquake was gone.
Gumshoe scratched his head. “Okay. That just defies all the laws of physics I can think off.” He noted. “How can a ninja that fat vanish that quickly?”
“Ninjas are ninjas, pal.” Max shrugged. “Much like how mimes are mimes and clowns are clowns…Boy, I really feel like blowing something up now for some strange reason.”
“Guh.” Marilyn nodded.
(Eliminated Seating)
Kasumi and J. Maxx led their small group into the Eliminated Seating with hopes of finding some more help. Everyone saw that a few of the fighters were missing, but paid it no mind and looked around.
“See anyone?” Kid USA asked.
“Well, Brian’s probably a good start.” Kasumi said, pointing out the football player eating popcorn.
“Let’s go ask him, then.” Mickey shrugged.
The group made their way over to Brian. Eventually, the football player looked up and saw them coming. “Oh, heya, Maxx!” He greeted.
“Greetings, Brian.” J. Maxx nodded. “Look, we need a favour to ask of you.”
“Shoot.”
While J. Maxx was talking to Brian, Kid USA suddenly saw that one particular fighter was absent. “Hey! Where’s Ally?” He asked upon not seeing his little sister.
“Ally? She left with a few other fighters to go somewhere.” Brian replied. “I’m not sure what it was about, but they sounded pretty serious.”
“You think they could be trying to stop the plot as well?” Kasumi asked.
“If so, this can help greatly.” J. Maxx nodded. “Where were they going, Brian?”
“I think it was the Recovery Room to wait for Dee Jay or something.” Brian relied, scratching his head.
“Then we should go over and see if we can catch them.” Maiagaru said.
“You in, Brian?” J. Maxx asked.
“Sure. Why not?” Brian asked as he stood up. “From what they told me, D! and Lucky had a blast fighting off the plot last year.”
“Good to have you on board.” Kasumi nodded. “Is there anyone else hanging around here that would be helpful?”
“Please! Take me with you!” Mickey Rogers said as he came rushing over. “I can be useful! I can fight! I can prove it!”
“Uh…Who’re you?” Kid USA asked.
“See?! No one remembers me anymore!” Mickey Rogers said. “I just want to feel important again!”
“Alright! Fine! You can come!” Kasumi said. “Just stop your begging!”
“Kasumi, are you sure this is a good idea?” J. Maxx asked. “This guy isn’t exactly the best fighter around.”
“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Kasumi replied. “Right now, I’d take anyone that wants to help out.”
(The Arena)
Megaman continued to shoot Mega Buster shots at Sonic, but the blue hedgehog was still too fast and avoided all of the shots with ease.
“Come on! I told you already, man!” Sonic reminded. “I can easily avoid those things!”
“I know.” Megaman said with a smirk.
“Uh…Then what’re you still shooting them for?”
“To distract you.” Megaman replied. “Charge Kick!”
With that, Megaman slid forward in a powerful kick that looked similar to what Roll had done earlier in the tournament. Sonic may have been fast, but he wasn’t fast enough to avoid the kick Meaman was doing. Sonic flew backwards and landed on his back. While Sonic was distracted, Megaman created a Rock Ball and kicked it into the hedgehog’s face as he was standing up.
“Dude! What the heck was that?!” Sonic demanded.
“My backup plan.” Megaman replied. “Now let’s see if you can get through this, Sonic.”
Pressing a button on his arm cannon, Megaman activated his Leaf Shield, surrounding himself with several floating leaves.
“Leaves? Heck, I can get through that easily.” Sonic said as he advanced.
“I think not.” Megaman said as he pressed the button again, launching all twelve leaves surrounding him into Sonic’s face, making the blue hedgehog stagger backwards.
“That was a pretty fast move, dude.” Sonic admitted. “However, this is where it’s gonna end!”
“How so?” Megaman asked.
“Sonic Wind!” Sonic shouted as he curled into a ball and started spinning, creating a blue tornado, catching Megaman and sending the blue bomber spinning into the air. Sonic jumped out of his own tornado and leapt up after Megaman, kicking the blue robot out of the ring with a blow to the torso.
Megaman landed in Bomberman. After accidentally shooting a bomb, Megaman ended up destroying everything in a fifty-mile radius.
Haohmaru slashed with his sword, but his opponent, Krauser, easily avoided the attack simply by stepping backwards. While Haohmaru was distracted, Krauser sent a Kaiser Wave into the swordsman’s chest, sending him flying away.
Not one to give up, Haohmaru jumped to his feet and rushed Krauser, swinging his katana wildly. Krauser saw the attacks coming and managed to avoid most of them, but a few swings of Haohmaru’s sword got through and gave the purple-haired man a few cuts.
Quickly recovering, Krauser rushed ahead and gave Haohmaru a hard uppercut, sending the black-haired man flying away.
“I am needingk to get out of here. Billy is needingk my help.” Krauser said to himself. “I am needingk to come up viff a vay to get out.”
Seeing Haohmaru rushing over, Krauser formed a quick plan. Haohmaru jumped in and gave Krauser a hard kick to the face, sending the purple-haired man out of the ring, almost too-easily.
The satisfied Krauser landed in Mark of the Wolves, where he and Tizoc ended up in a duel.
Billy Kane looked in time to see Krauser getting tossed, then turned to his sister. “Lilly, you stay here. I’m gonna head out and give the others a hand.” He informed.
“You sure you don’t want me to go instead?” Lilly asked.
“As crazy as it sounds, it’s safer for you to stay in the ring as long as possible.” Billy replied.
Lilly sighed. “I AM capable of handling myself, you know.” She explained.
“I know, but I’m just worried for your safety.” Billy replied.
“Fine. I’ll stay for the time being, but don’t expect me to sit out of helping out.” Lilly said. “Once I get eliminated, I’m coming to find you.”
“I guess that’s as good as I can get it.” Billy shrugged. “Now I just need a way to get out of here…”
“Let me help ya with that, pal!” Jack cackled as he jumped in from behind, grabbed Billy by the back of the jacket and hurled him out of the ring.
Once Billy was gone, Jack cackled and ran off to cause more mischief.
Lilly scratched her head. “How did that guy help in stopping the plot last year?” She asked herself.
Billy landed in Clayfighter, where he smashed his staff over Bonker’s head (and leaving a very severe dent in the clown’s head).
Meanwhile, a very-annoyed Wise Idiot was trying to fend off Gadget Z, whom just didn’t seem to be leaving him alone.
“Get away from me!” Wise shouted as he slashed his sword at Gadget Z.
“There is no spoon!” Gadget Z said, shaking his fist, as he rolled at Wise and swung his hammer.
“There really IS no way to get through to you, is there?” Wise sighed.
“Nya! Insulted I am!” Gadget Z shot back. “Teach you I must! Who’s in charge!”
Gadget Z rolled at Wise and spun his barrel-shaped body around, attacking Wise while holding his hammer outstretched. Wise got struck in the stomach several times before Gadget Z finished with a blow to the head.
“That hurt, you little machine!” Wise shouted, holding his face.
“Now you’re on my time, you little skunk!” Gadget Z pointed out. “Give me the crystals!”
“…What?” Wise asked as he charged and gave Gadget Z a hard kick, sending him rolling away several feet. “I’m going to need to finish this quickly and get him out of the ring before he hurts somebody.”
“Did someone get the license number of that truck?” Gadget Z asked dizzily as he got to his ‘feet’. The robot then turned to face Wise again, only to see the blue-faced swordsman running at him and slashing him with his sword.
Gadget Z rolled back another couple of feet, then jumped back up. Once he did, Gadget Z started jumping up and down, waving his fists wildly and letting out garbled screams of fury ala Donald Duck.
Wise stared down at Gadget Z while the robot was having the tantrum, then kicked the robot out of the arena.
“Yay! I’m a pop sensation!” Gadget Z cheered as he flew out of the ring and into an elimination portal.
Gadget Z landed in King of Fighters, where he spent ten minutes whaling on K9999 while calling him ‘Richard Nixon’.
Haohmaru swung his sword at Gabby Jay, but the old boxer ducked under the attack and sent his right fist into the swordsman’s stomach. Haohmaru backed off, then tried again with a vertical swing.
Gabby Jay wasn’t prepared for this and was given a minor cut in the torso for his troubles. The aging boxer backed off, trying to come up with a decent strategy to defeat the black-haired swordsman with.
“How can I beat this guy?” Gabby Jay asked himself. “He’s gotta be half my age and twice as fast.”
“I do not wish to kill you, old man.” Haohmaru pointed out. “Simply back down from the fight and I shall eliminate you quicky.”
“Ain’t gonna happen, sonny.” Gabby Jay pointed out. “If you think I’m going to stand down from a fight, no matter what the opponent, you’ve got another thing coming! I didn’t get my boxing record by backing away from fights!”
“Which is why you lose in boxing so much.” Haohmaru pointed out.
“Hey!”
The two rushed each other again and attacked. Haohmaru’s sword attack was faster than Gabby Jay’s fists, but the old boxer was backed away far enough for the sword to miss slashing him. Gabby Jay managed to sneak in a left hook while Haohmaru was recovering from his own attack and sent the samurai sprawling.
Groaning, Haohmaru slowly got to his feet, leaning on his sword for support. Looking at Gabby Jay, Haohmaru’s eyes widened when he saw the old boxer rushing at him.
Gabby Jay swung his fist upwards, nailing Haohmaru with a powerful uppercut, this sent the samurai flying up high and falling just past the ropes.
Haohmaru landed on the streets of Jak 2. Slowly getting up, Haohmaru looked around before suddenly noticing a shadow fall over him. Looking up, the black-haired samurai saw Jak leaping off of a flaming hoverbike in midair, sending the now-unoccupied aircraft falling towards Haohmaru.
Blanka and Jack circled each other, each one baring their claws in case the other would attack. Blanka’s eyes narrowed in determination as Jack’s crooked grin just got bigger.
Suddenly, both clawed fighters lunged at each other at the same time, slashing at their opponent as they passed. When they landed, the two turned to face each other again.
Jack looked at his body and saw that his shirt had rips and that he was bleeding. “Crap. That’s gonna leave a real mark.” He lamented.
Blanka had fared better than Jack, having only suffered a minor cut and a bit of lost hair. The green-skinned beast lunged at Jack while he was distracted and latched onto him.
“Hey! Get offa me, you sick-”
That was all Jack could get out before Blanka surged him full of electricity. Once he was done, Blanka jumped off the clawed maniac and let him collapse to the canvas.
Jack groaned. He didn’t want to admit it, but Blanka was winning the fight. However, Jack wasn’t about to give up as he got to his feet and rushed the beast again.
Blanka, proving to be just as athletic as Jack, did a backflip to leap over the maniac as he passed underneath. Jack found himself running into the ropes at the arena’s edge.
It took a couple of seconds, but Jack was able to free himself from the ropes and spun around to face Blanka again. “Try and do that again, you green-”
Blanka was a lot faster than Jack’s mouth and did another backflip, kicking Jack with both feet on his way up. This sent Jack flying out of the ring.
Jack landed in Final Fantasy, where he looted the bodies of some dead soldiers before running off.
Bowser and Mewtwo found themselves back-to-back as El Blaze and Sonic continued to fight them off. The two had been fighting their opponents for a little bit and now they had only just reunited.
“It seems that we are in a bit of a predicament.” Mewtwo noted.
“Speak for yourself, cat!” Bowser snapped. “I could beat BOTH of these suckers!”
“Then why HAVEN’T you?” Mewtwo quizzed.
“Uh…I…Don’t feel like it!”
Mewtwo rolled his eyes and sent a Shadow Ball into Sonic’s face. Mewtwo floated over to Sonic and telepathically lifted him into the air before slamming him into the canvas several times.
“Dude, what gives?!” Sonic asked. “You’re worse than Silver!”
“I don’t know if that’s a compliment or not, so I’ll simply ignore that comment.” Mewtwo replied casually as he swung his arm at the canvas underneath Sonic’s feet, causing an explosion of purple fire to erupt underneath the blue hedgehog.
Bowser clawed at El Blaze, but the masked man proved to be too quick for the Koopa king and jumped into the air, giving the huge turtle an airborne roundhouse to the face.
“You’re getting annoying, you punk!” Bowser snapped as he rubbed his oversized nose.
“So what’s your point?” El Blaze asked with a smirk.
“I’d say it’s about time to turn up the heat.” Bowser said with a smirk as he reared back and started exhaling, spewing a stream of fire at the wrestler.
El Blaze’s eyes widened as he started running from the flames chasing him down. Eventually, Bowser ran out of breath and the flames died down. El Blaze took the opportunity to kick the huge king in the face again.
“Just for that, I’ll tear you apart limb from limb!” Bowser shouted as he approached with a menacing look on his face.
“Not likely, amigo.” El Blaze said with a smirk as he lunged forward and gave Bowser a hard punch to the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. While Bowser was distracted, El Blaze gave the Koopa king a hard kick to the face, sending him flying backwards.
However, this was just as Sonic performed a Spin Dash into Mewtwo, sending the psychic Pokemon flying backwards at the same time. The two SSB representatives slammed into each other with full force. However, because Bowser was so much heavier and Mewtwo was so much lighter, the force from the blow sent the dazed Mewtwo flying forwards, falling out of the ring.
Mewtwo landed in Resident Evil 4, where he made Jack Krauser shoot himself.
Back in the ring, Bowser growled as he got to his feet, glaring at El Blaze and Sonic, both of whom were no longer wearing smirks. The two Sega characters looked at each other, then back at Bowser, whom roared in fury as he lunged forward. J. Talbain and Wise Idiot saw Bowser losing it and rushed over to get him to stop. Gabby Jay was tempted to go over as well, but he valued his vital organs and wasn’t sure if stopping an enraged Bowser was a good idea. Blanka, Alice and Lilly were too afraid to step forward and Watari simply didn’t care, standing aside with his arms folded.
The black-clad ninja looked around the arena. After he was sure that the sufficient number of fighters had been eliminated, he glanced up at the entrance curtain to see whom was going to enter next.
FINAL SCORE: (12 votes on the main fight, eleven on the first bonus fight and twelve on the second)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
BOWSER (SSB) (12:1) = 11 (…Holy…Freaking…Crap) (Ash Crimson, Mewtwo)
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (StH) (9:4) = 5 (Hinako, Megaman)
J. TALBAIN (DS) (8:4) = 4 (Harvey Birdman, Koopinator)
GABBY JAY (SPO!) (8:4) = 4 (Dee Jay Maximum, Haohmaru)
BLANKA (SFA3) (7:5) = 2 (Ness, Jack)
ALICE (BR) (7:5) = 2 (Jetta Max)
WISE IDIOT (TFS) (7:5) = 2 (Gadget Z)
EL BLAZE (VF) (7:6) = 1 (Chris Lightfellow)
WATARI (S3) (7:6) = 1 (Demyx)
LILLY KANE (KOF:MI2) (8:7) = 1 (Tigerman)
(ELIMINATED)
BILLY KANE (FF) (8:7) = 1 (Bombette)
JACK (WH) (6:6) = 0 (Billy Kane)
WOLFGANG KRAUSER (FF) (6:6) = 0 (Lau Chan)
GADGET Z (S3) (6:6) = 0 (I-No)
HAOHMARU (SS) (6:6) = 0 (Wolfgang Krauser)
DEMYX (KH2) (6:7) = -1
MEGAMAN (MM) (5:7) = -2
JETTA MAX (EC) (5:7) = -2
KOOPINATOR (PM) (5:7) = -2
CHRIS LIGHTFELLOW (S3) (5:7) = -2
DEE JAY MAXIMUM (SFA3) (5:8) = -3
BOMBETTE (PM) (5:8) = -3
MEWTWO (SSB) (7:10) = -3
HINAKO (KOF) (4:8) = -4
LAU CHAN (VF) (4:8) = -4
I-NO (GG) (4:8) = -4
NESS (SSB) (4:8) = -4
TIGERMAN (TFS) (4:9) = -5
HARVEY BIRDMAN (AaL) (3:9) = -6
ASH CRIMSON (KOF) (2:10) = -8
BONUS MATCHES:
“Distressing Damsel”
RYUJI YAMAZAKI (FF) takes out MAIAGARU (B&B)
7 to 4
“Land of the Giants”
SERGEI (R:RR) stalemates with EARTHQUAKE (SS)
6 to 6
Rumble Dominator: EVERYONE voted ‘Live’ for Bowser. His only ‘Die’ vote came from his fatigue.
At the Top: Bowser and Sonic, for the second section in a row, dominate the votes and take the top two slots again.
Sibling Rivalry: Billy and Lilly have been neck-and-neck with votes the entire way through. In the end, the only thing that eliminated Billy was that he got an earlier draw than his sister.