Bison growled as he lashed out his hand, sending an orb of dark energy at Galford. The blonde samurai easily sliced it in half with his sword and continued running at the evil dictator.
“You insignificant gnat!” Bison roared as he grabbed the oncoming Galford and threw him aside, sending him flying into Bridget. “It will take more than that to defeat me!”
“How about yourself?” A new voice asked. Bison looked and saw Mimi walking into view, having taken Bison’s form. “I wonder how well you’ll be able to stack up to your OWN power.”
“So you think the only way to defeat me is to copy my power?” Bison asked as he smirked. “I wonder if that’s a compliment to me or it just makes you look like a coward.”
Ashelin helped Bridget and Galford to their feet and looked at the two Bisons fighting. “Great. Which one’s the real one?” The redhead asked.
“Looks like we’re going to have to have for that green girl to transform back to her normal form.” Galford shook his head.
“That sucks.” Bridget sighed. “I really wanna give Bison a peace of my mind.”
“What do you have against Bison?” Galford asked the young boy.
“He was in charge of this big plot last year and he played me like a pawn for the first few sections.” Bridget replied. “I wanna get revenge.”
Gears turned in Ashelin’s head, the she-elf pondering something for a few seconds.
Sword Man slashed his sword, but the transformed Uriko easily backflipped over the blade, kicking the Robot Master in the face on the way down. Sword Man staggered backwards a few steps, but quickly received a furry fist to the face before he could recover.
Anyone watching Uriko’s antics as a catgirl were instantly reminded of Felicia, because her speed and agility were greatly increased in her transformed state. Sword Man wasn’t finding this much of a thrill, and Alice helping Uriko made things ever worse.
“I’m still not fully charged yet, Uriko.” Alice said as she smashed her fist over Sword Man’s head. “Keep attacking until I can transform again!”
“Nya!” Uriko nodded as she leapt at Sword Man again.
“WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO MUCH?!?!” Gozu screamed as he ran from a furious Eiji Kisaragi.
“Need I remind you what you and that brother of yours did to me last year?!” Eiji roared as he continued to give chase.
“It was your fault for picking up the gauntlet pieces in the first place!” Gozu replied.
Eiji seemed to ignore this and instead kept chasing the red-clad ninja down.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“What exactly does Eiji have against Gozu?” Tinyrocket asked.
“We’re not sure, but apparently it involved Eiji and a couple of elemental abilities that once belonged to Gozu and Mezu.” SSBFreak scratched his head.
“We’re never really told anything.” Unknown1 added.
“But…You guys RUN the tournament.” Tinyrocket pointed out.
“Yeah, you’d think we’d be more in the loop of things.” SSBFreak nodded. “None of the fighters wanted to talk about it last year.”
(Dome; Recovery Room)
Billy left the Recovery Room and stopped short when he saw the large group of people waiting for him, Dee Jay, Koopinator and Krauser among them
“What’s going on?” Billy asked.
“We’ve been waiting for you, Billy.” Koopinator replied.
“Right now, your sister is the only one going against Bison’s plot that hasn’t been eliminated yet.” Blue Mary added.
“Lilly’s still in the ring?” Billy asked as he looked towards a tv monitor on the wall, where he saw Lilly fighting Lese’el Deathbringer with Wan Fu.
“Hey, your sis has guts.” Rawk Hawk pointed out. “That thing looks like it could tear a person to shreds.”
“Thanks for pointing that out, big mouth.” Billy muttered as he walked past the huge bird. “Now I have something to worry about while I’m fighting Bison’s cronies.”
“So what we do now?” Tiny asked.
“We need to find out what Bison’s planning first.” Dee Jay said. “I say we start searching for one of the villains working with Bison and see if we can get info out of him.”
“Works for me.” Ky nodded. “But we need to hurry. We don’t know what Bison’s up to, and he could be putting the finishing touches on his plan right now for all we know.”
With that, the group turned and walked down the hallway, starting their trek to hunt down one of Bison’s men.
(Dome; Hallway)
“Get away from me!” Nana shrieked as she jumped out of the way as a huge, green fist slammed into the wall where she had previously been standing. “What did I ever do to you?!”
Popo jumped onto the monstrosity’s back and started whacking it in the head with his hammer. “Leave my sister alone, you monster!” He shouted.
The monster, unaffected by Popo’s attacks, simply grabbed the blue-clad Eskimo and hurled him into a wall. It then turned and continued walking at Nana.
Several thoughts went through Popo’s head as he got up and ran at the monster. “Why isn’t this thing going after me?” He thought. “Why is it focusing on Nana?”
Nana found herself backed into a wall as Popo continued to whale on the monster (to no effect). She started shaking in fear, wondering what this monster wanted from her.
The monster reached out and plucked the green gem shard from her parka pocket. Holding the gem in his hand, the monster absorbed the gem, turned and lumbered off, leaving no evidence it was even there, save for two terrified kids.
“Nana, are you okay?” Popo asked as he approached his sister.
Nana didn’t answer. She had already fainted dead away.
(The Arena)
Gozu screamed as he flew past Queen and Wise Idiot, Eiji still hot on his heels. The red-clad ninja had been running from Eiji ever since the ninja-with-a-mullet entered the ring and Gozu was starting to tire out.
Eiji, on the other hand, didn’t look drained in the least, and was rapidly gaining on the ninja he was chasing. Gozu knew this, and realized that unless he did something quick, there would be no stopping Eiji from throwing him into next week.
“Okay! Look, I’m sorry!” Gozu shouted as he turned his head. “I’m sorry that you had to endure that last year!”
“You morons nearly got me AND Julia Chang killed!” Eiji shouted back. “You think I’m going to let you off that easily?!”
“You can’t blame me for trying!”
The two continued to run around the arena, nearly bowling over several unsuspecting fighters. Gozu looked back to see if Eiji was still right behind him and suddenly ran into something hard, instantly bringing the red-clad ninja out of his run.
Bowser turned around and lifted Gozu off the ground by the back of the neck of his outfit. “Where do you get off running into my back like that?” The koopa king asked. “I have an appointment with those two Sega characters over there!”
Looking around, Bowser suddenly saw Eiji coming over and held Gozu out. “Is this yours?” He asked.
Eiji pondered the possibilities for a few seconds before smirking behind his mask. “Nope. Not mine.” He said as he turned and walked away. “Do what you want with it.”
Bowser shrugged and tossed Gozu over his shoulder, sending him falling out of the ring.
Gozu landed in Rayman Raving Rabbids. A group of Rabbids saw him land, screamed and dogpiled him, beating on him with plungers and spatulas. Rayman shrugged and continued onward.
“Trap Shot!” King shouted as she kicked the air, sending a projectile flying into the face of Captain Kidd.
The pirate captain stepped back and smirked. “Pretty neat move you have there, lady.” He noted as he pulled his hand back. “But I have one of my own.”
“Pirate Ship Punch!” Kidd shouted as he lashed out his hand, sending a ghostly pirate ship flying forward a few feet, ramming it into King’s stomach and sending her flying backwards.
King landed on her back, but looked up in time to see Kidd rushing her. King rolled out of the way as Kidd punched the canvas where she had been laying. King quickly kicked Kidd in the side before getting to her feet and kicking him again in the face.
“You’re pretty persistent, lady.” Kidd admitted. “Let’s see how persistent you are after this.”
Kidd rushed King and gave her a hard punch to the stomach, followed directly by an uppercut to the chin, launching the female bartender into the air. King once again landed on her back, but recovered just as fast and jumped to her feet.
King rolled up her sleeves. “Looks like I have a real fight on my hands.” She said to herself. “Looks like I have to bring out the big guns.”
King rushed forward, surprising Kidd with her speed. When she arrived at the pirate’s side, she did a backflip, kicking Kidd in the face with both feet and sending the pirate captain into the air. King jumped up after him and gave him a hard kick to the stomach, sending Kidd flying straight down and into the canvas, knocking the daylights out of him.
“Looks like I win, Kidd.” King said with a smirk as she picked Kidd up and threw him out of the ring.
Captain Kidd landed in Power Stone. The monstrous form of Dr. Erode slapped him into the ground while he was aiming for Wang-Tang and Ayame.
Not one to take much of a rest after a fight, King turned to start another duel. She turned in time to see J. Talbain gently dropping the small form of Shabon out of the ring (and sending the young girl into Mario Party DS, where she played the drum in Toadette’s Music Room, much to the chagrin of the four players).
“So you decide to pick a fight with a little girl?” King asked sternly as she walked over.
“Hey, she’s the one that insisted I fight her.” Talbain said defensively. “At least I got her out of the ring without hurting her.”
“I suppose so.” King shrugged as she walked away.
Queen and Wise Idiot locked swords again. The two sword-wielders had been clashing for several minutes, attempting to get the better of the other. Wise swung his sword horizontally, but Queen proved to be just as quick as her opponent, ducking under the blade and lashing out her own sword.
Wise saw the attack coming a mile away and stepped to the side calmly as Queen’s sword shot past him.
“I’ll give you credit. You’re definitely one of the best sword-wielders I’ve ever seen.” Wise admitted as he repeatedly swung his sword, forcing his opponent towards the ropes. “However, you won’t be able to hold out forever.”
“Then I guess it’s time to stop playing defense.” Queen said with a smirk as she retaliated with several sword slashes of her own, forcing Wise to back away.
Wise’s eyes widened. “You were playing defense the entire time?” He asked.
“Buddy, I’m a mercenary.” Queen replied. “You have to be prepared to confuse your opponents.”
Wise continued to swing his sword, managing to block all of Queen’s much-faster slashes. “I don’t believe it. You’re three times faster when playing offense!” He said.
“Tell me something I don’t know.” Queen replied as she pushed Wise away.
Wise staggered backwards in an attempt to regain his footing. As he did, Queen charged her Water Rune. The blue-faced swordsman managed to regain his balance and rushed forward again.
“Not going to happen.” Queen said as she cast her Water Rune, creating a huge iceberg that shot from the canvas underneath Wise and sent him flying out of the ring.
Wise landed in Sonic Adventure 2, where he cut Eggman’s mech in half with his sword.
Bison did a front flip, landing both of his feet against the forehead of Mimi, whom was still transformed to look like the evil dictator. The force from the blow sent Mimi flying backwards and turned her back to her normal self.
“That hurt, you big meanie!” Mimi shouted. “You’re really asking for it!”
“And you think a little girl can stop me?” Bison asked with a smirk.
“With the help of us, maybe!” Galford shouted as he jumped in from behind and slashed with his sword.
Bison quickly swerved to the side to avoid Galford’s blow, but received a plasma shot to the face courtesy of Ashelin.
“You worthless gnats!” Bison roared as he swung his hand, backhanding Galford and sending him flying away. “You think your attacks can actually defeat me?!”
“Our attacks don’t matter, Bison!” Bridget growled as he lashed out a yoyo. “We just need to be really mad!”
“I see you’re still upset about last year.” Bison said with a smirk as he lashed out his hand, sending an orb of dark energy at the bounty hunter.
“You played me like a pawn, Bison!” Bridget shouted back as his yoyo struck the oncoming energy orb and cancelled both attacks out. “There’s one thing I want from this tournament, and that’s revenge!”
“This kid is starting to sound like Jak.” Ashelin shook her head. “That’s not good, considering what the path of revenge did to him.”
“I’d say that it’s time for me to finish this.” Bison said as he stepped back a couple of feet and lunged forward in a flaming torpedo. “Psycho Crusher!”
Galford, the only one fighting Bison that was out of the way, called out to the others. “Get out of the way!” The blonde knight shouted.
Mimi and Bridget managed to get out of the way in time, but Bison plowed into Ashelin with full force, sending the redheaded she-elf flying backwards. Ashelin flew backwards several feet before plowing into Wan Fu and knocking both fighters to the ground.
“Hey! What’s the big idea!” Wan Fu demanded as he got to his feet. “I was just about to deal the finishing blow to that alien!”
“I apologize, but you have to understand that it wasn’t my fault.” Ashelin insisted as she got to her feet as well.
“A likely story!” Wan Fu said. “Maybe I should pound you with my staff a few times to get the real story out of you!”
Ashelin stood in silence before raising her leg and giving Wan Fu a hard kick to the face, launching the tattooed man over the ropes.
“No!” Lilly Kane said as she jumped backwards from Lese’el Deathbringer’s claws. “I can’t fight this thing by myself!”
Wan Fu landed on a huge pizza in Mario Party 3. He instantly started wolfing it down.
Bowser clawed at Pyron, but the flaming being easily blocked Bowser’s claws and grabbed his arm. Pyron intensified the flames around him, hoping to burn Bowser to a crisp. However, when he regulated the flames again, Pyron’s eyes widened when he saw Bowser still standing and virtually unharmed.
“But…How?” Pyron asked.
“Pal, I’ve been dipped into lave so many times I’ve become immune to it.” Bowser chuckled as he drove his head into Pyron’s forehead, knocking the flaming being away. “Now if you’re done, I would really like to go and take out those two Sega characters for making me eliminate my nodal companion.”
“I’m afraid the word ‘quit’ isn’t in my dictionary.” Pyron replied. “Allow me to demonstrate.” With that, Pyron sent a wave of fire at Bowser, hoping to make him back away.
“That’s not gonna happen.” Bowser said as he inhaled and breathed a wave of fire of his own. Both waves of fire clashed, but neither could surpass the other. Bowser and Pyron got closer in an attempt to get the better of the other, but the two waves of fire continued to negate themselves.
After a few seconds of this, the sprinklers above the ring suddenly kicked on, pouring water all over the ring and drenching everyone.
This included Bowser and Pyron. Once the water started coming down, the two stopped attacking with fire and backed away from each other.
“Looks like I’ll have to resort to other methods to beating you.” Bowser said before suddenly seeing that he was close to Sonic and El Blaze. The koopa king quickly reached out, grabbed El Blaze and threw him at Pyron.
“You think that can stop me?” Pyron asked as he attacked the oncoming wrestler with perfect timing and sent him out of the ring. “I believe I overestimated you.”
“That was just a distraction.” Bowser said just before ramming his horns into Pyron’s stomach.
El Blaze landed in River City Ransom, where he spent the next ten minutes beating on the Frat Boys.
(Hotel; Lounge)
“Hold still, tin can!” Balrog shouted as he thrust his fist at Search Man. The two-headed robot was too quick and jumped to the side before kicking the boxer in the head with his left leg.
“Keep him at bay, Righty!” The left head of Search Man instructed. “I’ll pick him off with the Homing Sniper!”
“You got it, Lefty!” The right head nodded before looking at Balrog. “You couldn’t punch a beached whale!”
Balrog’s eyes snapped open, then narrowed. He charged the two-headed Robot Master and started throwing punches.
“I didn’t mean like that, you fool!” The left head roared as he smashed a fist over the right head. “How can I pick him off with the Homing Sniper if he’s close to us?!”
“Well, how could you expect me to keep him at bay when I’m attached to you to begin with?” The right head asked.
“Just…Just shut up!”
Balrog managed to land a hard body blow to Search Man’s torso, launching the Robot Master into a lounge chair. The left head attempted to get up, but the right head had more will at the moment and was preoccupied.
“This chair feels real nice.” The right head pointed out as he started feeling the chair’s material. “Maybe we should get Wily to set a few of these up at his evil base.”
“We’re in the middle of a fight, moron! Now is NOT the time to be feeling chairs!” The left head shouted before realizing something. “How can you feel, anyway? We’re robots.”
“I dunno.” The right head replied simply. “I don’t think too much about it.”
“That’s probably because you don’t think too much at all.” The left head muttered as his will overpowered the right head, giving control of the body to the left head.
“THIS is the robot Bison considers a threat?” Balrog asked himself. “If I don’t kill that thing, those two heads will.”
With that, Balrog pulled his fist back and lunged forward in a Crazy Buffalo, directing it at Search Man’s chest.
The left head looked and saw Balrog coming. “Look alive, Righty!” He ordered.
“I…I thought we WERE alive.” The right head pointed out.
“Just punch him!”
“Oh, right!” The right head nodded as he controlled Search Man’s right arm and gave the oncoming Balrog a hard punch to the face, bringing the boxer out of the attack. Search Man quickly kicked Balrog while he was stunned, knocking him away.
Balrog landed on his feet and screeched to a halt. “Pretty quick moves for a robot.” He noted. “But let’s see if you can survive my ultimate attack!”
Pulling his fist back, Balrog charged at Search Man. “Gigaton Blow!” He shouted.
“Righty, hold out your hand!” The left head ordered.
“Okay!” The right head nodded as he held out the right hand of Search Man. Balrog’s fist flew into it with full force, resulting in a scream of pain from the right head. “That hurt! That freaking hurt!” He whined. “Lefty, you could have made the right arm move! Why didn’t you?!”
“Because I would have felt that.” The left head reminded. “Now shut up and help me.”
Search Man stepped forward, punching Balrog several times. The right head managed to get the last hit in and sent Balrog flying into the far wall.
“Okay! Time to finish it!” The left head said as he held up the sniper gun. “Homing Sniper!”
Search Man sent the heat-seeking projectile out and it flew straight into Balrog’s face. Balrog collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
“Well, that’s that.” The right head nodded before pausing. “Uh…What did we come in here for in the first place, Lefty?”
“Uh…I can’t remember.” The right head replied.
“Well, let’s go watch the tournament. I’m sure it’ll come to us while we’re sitting there.”
With that, Search Man turned and left the Lounge, leaving Balrog’s prone form on the floor.
(The Arena)
Sword Man slashed his sword, but Uriko (whom had transformed back into her human form) saw the attack coming and ducked to the side, giving the Robot Master a swift kick to the torso.
At least, that’s what she was aiming for. Uriko’s foot soared through the gap separating Sword Man’s hips from his levitating upper torso.
“Didn’t hurt.” Sword Man said simply as he picked Uriko up and threw her aside. However, that’s when Alice, whom had garnered enough energy to transform into her rabbit form, kicked him in the face with a furry foot. Sword Man staggered back, giving Alice an opening to punch him in the stomach.
“You are becoming a nuisance.” Sword Man noted as he slashed with his sword. Alice jumped backwards to avoid the sword, but was unprepared for the strong body blow that followed. Sword Man sent the huge rabbit backwards, knocking her away from the fight.
“Hey! That wasn’t nice!” Uriko shouted as she jumped on Sword Man’s back and started beating him over the head with her fists (even though they were still hidden in her overly-long sleeves).
“Get off of me, human!” Sword Man shouted. “All those punches are giving me a headache!”
Uriko smirked. “Okay.” She said as she planted her feet against Sword Man’s upper torso and kicked off, launching herself into a backflip, which she landed easily.
However, the force from Uriko’s kick had pushed Sword Man’s upper torso out so far that the levitation mechanism on his lower torso couldn’t find it anymore. Sword Man’s upper torso landed on the canvas with a dull thud as his legs started walking around, trying to find him.
“You dishonorable cheater!” Sword Man accused Uriko.
“Hey, it’s your own fault for having such a big weakness.” Uriko shrugged.
The teenage girl slowly managed to haul Sword Man’s upper torso up and pitched it out of the ring. She then kicked the legs out after it.
Sword Man landed in Simpsons Hit and Run. Homer suddenly plowed over him in a monster truck.
Uriko nodded and turned, only to see Blanka throwing the still-transformed Alice out of the ring (where she fell into the node of Loony Tunes; Bugs hit on her until she transformed back).
“Hey! You just eliminated my big sister!” Uriko shouted at Blanka as she stormed over.
Blanka scratched his head with a dumb look on his face before shrugging and rolling at the teenage girl.
“Whoa!” Luigi shouted as he ducked under a high surprise punch from Stinkoman. The blue-haired Strong Bad-like character was proving to be a lot faster than he looked and it was starting to catch Luigi off guard. “How the heck did you get so fast?!”
“I train all day every day just in case someone comes by with a challenge.” Stinkoman explained, his mouth still moving out of sync with his words (Luigi still couldn’t get over how strange that looked). “If I get a challenge, I want to give it my all and show how well I can fight!”
“Is that all you care about? Fighting?” Luigi asked.
“Have you got something against fighting?” Stinkoman asked, pointing one of his ‘hands’ at Luigi. “Maybe I should show you just how good fighting feels by giving you a good punch in the face!”
“Uh…No thanks.” Luigi said as he lashed out his hand, sending a green fireball at Stinkoman. The strange individual smashed his fist into the oncoming orb of embers, punching through the attack like it was nothing.
Luigi did a double-take, only now realizing what he had gotten himself into fighting a guy like this. Stinkoman charged at Luigi and let out a battle cry, lunging at the green-clad plumber.
Said green-clad plumber quickly swerved to the side and let Stinkoman fly past him. As soon as Stinkoman was beside him, Luigi sprung into action.
“Luigi Cyclone!” Luigi shouted as he spun around wildly, striking Stinkoman with a flurry of punches while he was still in the air. The last punch from Luigi’s attack sent Stinkoman flying away, landing on his back.
Stinkoman jumped to his feet and stared in amazement. “That move was amazing, man!” He said. “How’d you do it?! You gotta teach me!”
“Uh…How about later?” Luigi asked.
“Sure! I look forward to it! Anything to make myself a better fighter!”
“This kid has a serious problem.” Luigi shook his head as he ran at Stinkoman and booted him out of the ring.
Stinkoman landed in Galactic Wrestling. Starface and Checkmate ganged up on him.
Lilly screamed and jumped over the claws of Lese’el Deathbringer, jumping onto the alien’s back and running down it, jumping off behind the monstrous alien and driving her staff into its back.
Lese’el roared in pain as it spun around to face Lilly. The younger Kane sibling backed away, nervously wringing her staff.
“B-Back off!” Lilly said, trying to sound threatening. “D-Don’t make me kill you!”
Lese’el obviously wasn’t amused and roared. Lilly screamed and jumped backwards as Lese’el clawed at her again.
“I need to get rid of this thing fast!” Lilly said as she started spinning her staff in her hands, gathering up a spinning wheel of cold energy. Lashing it out, Lilly sent the cold wheel spinning straight into Lese’el’s face. While the alien was stunned, Lilly rushed forward and kicked it in the face.
Lese’el recovered abnormally fast and lashed out its claws, ensnaring Lilly in its left claw. The alien roared and threw the young Kane sibling away, making her land on her side.
Lilly groaned as she slowly got to her feet. Fatigue was starting to get the better of her and she knew it. If she wanted to finish off her opponent and survive the section, she’d have to do it fast.
The young girl looked forward and saw Lese’el approaching her, snapping its claws like a crab several times. Lilly waited for Lese’el to get close, then shoved her staff into the canvas, pole-vaulting herself into the air. While she was in the air, Lilly gripped her staff with both hands and pulled it back.
Lilly fell towards the canvas and swung her staff when she got close to her otherworldly opponent. Lilly’s blue staff smashed over Lese’el’s head with a sickening crack, causing the alien to collapse. When Lilly got to her feet, Lese’el was laying on the canvas, letting out unusual-sounding groans as stars circled its head.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Lilly pushed Lese’el underneath the ropes with her foot. “I’m glad that’s over.” She said.
Lese’el landed in Asteroids. Luckily, because it was an alien, it didn’t explode in space, so it simply swam about, attacking asteroids for ten minutes.
Bison grabbed Ashelin and threw her away before blocking an attack from Galford. However, a yoyo (courtesy of Bridget) flew into his head, providing a opening for Galford and Mimi to attack.
The evil dictator laughed. “You fools can’t stop me so easily!” He said as he grabbed Galford and threw him aside before concentrating on Mimi.
The little green girl looked up at Bison. “I’m not afraid of you, you big meanie!” She said before sticking her tongue out at him.
“You should be, little girl.” Bison said with a dark smile. “No one’s is as strong as I am. This is why it’s taking four of your to fight me.”
“If O’Chunks was here, he could pound on your butt all day!” Mimi snapped. “Compared to him, you’re not strong in the least!”
Bison’s grin faded. Could it really be true that O’Chunks could potentially be stronger than him? If that was the case, then Bison made a mental note not to double-cross the bearded warrior like he was originally planning.
He quickly looked down at Mimi again. “I shall see that for myself when I see him.” He replied before grabbing Mimi and throwing her away.
Mimi landed on her side and slowly got up, narrowing her eyes at Bison. “You’re asking for it.” Mimi said, surprisingly dark.
Suddenly, with a loud crack, Mimi’s head turned upside-down. Four long and thin legs emerged from the bottom of her neck and lifted the girl’s body off the ground. Within seconds, Mimi had become a huge spider-like creature easily twice as tall as Bison and Mimi’s small body was now the head for the creature.
“Mimimimimimimimimimimimimimimi…” Mimi chuckled wickedly as she stepped forward and jabbed one of her legs down at Bison.
Although Mimi’s sudden transformation took Bison off guard, he easily blocked the attack. “An impressive move, my dear. Unfortunately, it will do you no good.” He said.
Standing aside, Galford, Bridget and Ashelin stared in shock at Mimi’s display and didn’t make a move to go help her as she continued to peg Bison with her spider-like legs.
“Remind me never to get into a fight with her.” Ashelin said.
“I’m just glad she’s on our side.” Galford noted.
“Maybe I can take out Bison while Mimi’s distracting him.” Bridget said as he pulled out both of his yoyos and performed a double walk-the-dog. Bridget jumped onto the yoyos and rocketed towards Bison’s back.
However, the makeshift rollerblades were noisy, and Bison heard them coming from behind. Bison blocked one more attack from Mimi before folding his arms and teleporting away.
Bridget’s eyes widened as he saw that he was heading straight towards Mimi. “Mimi, watch out!” He shouted.
Mimi turned to look, but before she could react, Bridget slammed into her with full force. The force from the blow sent the huge spider-creature over the ropes and into a portal.
“No!” Bridget shouted.
Mimi landed in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Transforming back into her small form, Mimi squealed with glee as she ran off to get on a ride.
Bridget shook his head in disbelief. He had just eliminated one of his team-mates and now the fight against Bison was going to be even harder.
Bison chuckled as he lowered from above. “That was fairly amusing.” He noted.
“You fiend!” Galford shouted as he jumped in and slashed at Bison.
As Galford and Ashelin continued to whale on Bison, Bridget sighed and turned around to help, but stopped short when he saw Bowser throwing Blanka out of the ring (and into Super Mario Kart, where he started eating banana peels).
“What is it with you people trying to interrupt my fights?!” Bowser roared as he turned and drove his forehead into Pyron’s chest.
(Hotel; Metaknight’s Room)
The small, round form of Metaknight leapt at the demon known as Jedah Dohma and slashed his sword several times. Jedah held up his arms as blocked the blows, but was surprised as the speed the winger knight was attacking at.
However, Jedah had been quick to find out that Metaknight was extremely light. All it took was a simple throw to send the small fighter across the room. On the flipside, being so small made Metaknight lightning-fast, and he was zipping around Jedah and delivering attacks from all angles before the demon king had a chance to react.
“This is starting to become annoying.” Jedah noted as he tried to keep his eyes on Metaknight, whom was maneuvering around the blue-skinned demon again. “I can see why Bison wants this guy fighting alongside him, but how does he expect anyone to catch him?”
Keeping an eye on Metaknight’s frantically-moving form, Jedah anticipated where he would end up next and attacked. Sure enough, Metaknight ran straight into the punch, creating an opening for Jedah to continue attacking.
“I shall ask again to avoid killing you.” Jedah said as he continue attacking. “Will you or will you not come willingly?”
“I was thinking about not going at all.” Metaknight replied as he thrust his sword out, stabbing Jedah through the stomach.
Jedah roared in pain, but managed to grab hold of Metaknight’s sword and pull it from his torso. “That was pretty fast.” He noted. “But I have an attack just as effective.”
Metaknight’s eyes narrowed behind his mask as he prepared himself for the worst.
Jedah held his hand out and, in the blink of an eye, his fingernails extended to amazing lengths, going straight towards the small fighter. The long nails would have punctured Metaknight for sure if he wasn’t prepared and jumped to safety.
While he was in the air, Metaknight spread his pair of wings and took to the sky, swooping down at Jedah and slashing at him. Jedah growled and ducked under the oncoming ball of blue.
Unfortunately for Jedah, Metaknight did an instant about-face and slashed at the demon as he passed. Metaknight continued attacking like this several times before jumping off Jedah’s head and landing on his feet, folding his wings again.
“You insignificant gnat! You dare make me look like a fool!” Jedah shouted. “You cannot escape the wrath of Jedah Dohma for long!”
“Just like how you cannot escape from having a stupid name?” Metaknight teased, taking a moment to joke for once in his life.
“Oh, right. Like ‘Metaknight’ is any better.”
“As you can see, I can out-power you.” Metaknight said. “Now, if you will, leave me in peace before I am forced to get rough.”
Jedah growled. The small ball of blue had a point. “Very well. I shall take my leave for now, but just remember that Bison will be back for you later.”
With that, Jedah turned and stalked out of the room. Metaknight shook his head in hopelessness before going back to his training.
(The Arena)
Speaking of short fighters with amazing speed, Choi Bounge jumped at Watari and slashed his claws, but the silent ninja simply held up his katana and blocked the blow. Watari then pushed Choi off of him, sending the small man flying backwards several feet.
Choi easily turned himself over in midair and landed gracefully on his feet. The small man looked up and saw Watari rushing at him, preparing to swing his katana down.
“Not gonna happen!” Choi taunted as he flipped into the air and landed on a nearby turnbuckle, perching himself on it as Watari slashed at nothing but air. Once Watari’s attack missed, Choi sprung from the turnbuckle and soared down at the ninja, slashing at him twice.
Although these two attacks took Watari slightly off guard, he recovered quick enough to drive his foot into Choi’s face and send him flying backwards again.
Once again, Choi landed on his feet and glared daggers at Watari through his shades. “You’re asking for it, ninja!” The short man said as he rushed at Watari.
“We’ll see who’s asking for it.” Watari noted as he held up his katana and blocked the oncoming swings from Choi. Choi managed to sneak a few hits in and knocked Watari back a couple of feet.
Reaching into his pocket, Watari pulled out a handful of throwing needles. “Let’s see how fast you REALLY are.” The ninja challenged as he started throwing the needles at the small man.
Choi’s eyes widened behind his shades as he started moving to avoid the rapid-fire projectiles from Watari. Utilizing a selection of sleek and quick moves, Choi managed to jump over, duck under or swerve around any and all of Watari’s needles.
When the dust settled, Choi looked around and laughed. “Ha! How’d you like that?!” He asked.
“Not bad, but that was all just a distraction.” Watari explained as he jumped at the unprepared Choi and slashed at him. Choi flew backwards several feet, flying into a turnbuckle.
Watari smirked underneath his mask and approached, grabbing Choi by his shirt and throwing the short man out of the ring.
Choi landed in Mario Strikers Charged. The teams, not really paying attention, started kicking him around thinking he was the ball.
Watari nodded once in satisfaction before something plowed into him from behind, knocking him to the ground. Slowly getting up, Watari turned to see Sonic getting to his feet as well.
“Watch where you’re going.” Watari said sternly.
“Sorry, man.” Sonic apologized. “I’m just trying to stay away from that turtle until he calms down.”
“You caused him to eliminate his nodal companion.” Watari explained. “Bowser’s not going to forget it.”
“What can I do to pass the time, then?” Sonic asked before coming up with an idea. “You up for a spar?”
Watari shrugged. “Okay.” He replied.
The silent ninja pulled his katana into the air and swung it down. Sonic backpedaled a few steps to avoid the attack. Watari was anticipating this and threw a few needles at the blue hedgehog. Sonic looked up too late and one of the needles slammed into his shoulder.
“Ack! That hurt!” Sonic said as he pulled the needle from his shoulder. “You’re going to pay for that, man!”
Sonic curled into a ball and started spinning, engulfing himself in a bright blue light. After a couple of seconds of charging up, Sonic unleashed his patented Light Speed Dash, flying at Watari at nigh speeds.
However, Sonic had forgotten that he was fighting a ninja, and Watari proved this with a ninja vanish technique, vanishing just before Soinc bowled him over. As Sonic continued on, Watari landed on the canvas from above. Expecting that Sonic went through the ropes and eliminated himself, Watari brushed his hands off and continued on to start another fight.
But Sonic didn’t hit the ropes. He hit the turnbuckle and bounced off of it like a pinball, bouncing right back and slamming into Watari’s back with full force. Feeling the full brunt of the attack, Watari flew over the ropes as Sonic uncurled himself.
Watari landed in House of the Dead. His katana proved to be an excellent weapon in zombie-slaying.
Sonic looked around the ring for another fight and saw Luigi throwing Queen out of the ring (and sending her into Timesplitters, where she cleaned Harry Tipper’s clock after he hit on her).
“Sure. Mario’s brother could be a good fight.” Sonic nodded as he ran headfirst at the green-clad plumber.
Ashelin took aim at Bison’s head and pulled the trigger of her pistol, only to hear a clicking noise coming from it. “Guys, hold him off for a bit!” She told Galford and Bridget. “I need to reload my gun!”
Bridget smirked. “Yes, ma’am!” He said as he jumped at Bison, baring yoyos.
Ashelin reached into her pockets to find another cartridge of ammo, but before she could get very far, she saw Eiji Kisaragi approaching her from the corner of her eye.
“These toys can’t defeat me, fool!” Bison laughed as he swatted a yoyo out of the air.
Again, Bridget smirked. “Let’s see how you can stack up against Roger!” He said.
Bison raised an eyebrow. “Who?”
With that, Bridget threw a teddy bear at Bison. While it looked like a simple, adorable teddy bear at first, rotating blades emerged from its torso and started acting as a propeller, keeping the bear off the ground. The teddy bear flew at Bison, whom knew that blocking wouldn’t do any good. The evil dictator hovered backwards for a few feet before Bridget called Roger back.
However, that’s when Galford jumped in from above and slashed at Bison. The evil man looked up too late and received a hard blow to the face.
Bison staggered back, still not sure how these simple fools were beating him. Pulling his hand back, Bison sent an orb of dark energy at Galford, whom easily slashed through it and advanced.
“You can’t escape, fiend!” Galford shouted. “It’s time to make you pay for all of the evil you have committed!”
Bison tried blocking, but Galford was so determined that his attack broke right through Bison’s guard. While the evil dictator was distracted, Galford grabbed him and threw him into the air, jumping up after him. Galford gave Bison a hard slash in midair, sending Bison falling down into an elimination portal so fast that the evil man didn’t get a chance to teleport back into the ring.
Bison landed in Halo 3. Someone on the blue team mistook him for someone on the red team and swung his battle axe.
Galford and Bridget nodded at each other before remembering Ashelin. Turning to see what was taking her so long to reload her gun, Galford and Bridget saw Ashelin booting Eiji out of the ring (and sending him headlong into Ninja Gaiden, where he started attacking monsters).
“Is that why you were taking so long?” Galford asked.
“He thought he could sneak up on me.” Ashelin replied. “I just decided to prove him wrong.”
Gabby Jay swung his fist at Jeffry McWild, striking the huge man in the chest. However, Jeffry’s chest was just as tough as he was himself, so the old man’s fist did nothing to damage him. Instead, all Gabby Jay did was hurt his fist.
Seeing Gabby Jay staggering around, holding his hand, Jeffry looked down. “You okay?” He asked simply.
“What do you EAT, sonny?!” Gabby Jay asked, shaking his hand to get the feeling back in it.
Jeffry shrugged. “Fish.” He replied.
The old boxer sighed and rushed Jeffry, knowing there’d be no use talking to him. Seeing that his chest was pointless to attack, Gabby Jay swung at the huge man’s face, clocking him in the side of it. This attack proved to be more successful than the blow to the chest, as it made Jeffry stagger to the side a couple of steps.
“Hmm…” Jeffry noted, rubbing his chin. “You punch pretty hard for an old guy.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment, sonny.” Gabby Jay replied, looking up at Jeffry, whom was at least a full foot taller than he was. “Now let’s see how powerful your punches are.”
“Against you?…Uh…You don’t wanna find out…” Jeffry said, backing away a little.
“Come on! I dare you!” Gabby Jay challenged as he tapped his face. “Hit me right here!”
Jeffry sighed. “Okay.” He said as he backhanded the old boxer lightly, sending Gabby Jay flying to the side several feet. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
Gabby Jay slowly got to his feet and wavered around a bit. “Is that all you got?” The old man asked. “That was nothing!”
Jeffry shook his head in hopelessness as he picked the old man up and tossed him over the ropes.
Gabby Jay landed in The Movies. Seeing a sci-fi set in action, the old boxer didn’t realize it was fake and started attacking the man in the alien costume. He was hauled off the lot three minutes later.
Back in the ring, Jeffry scanned the ring to see whom was left. Bowser was still fighting Pyron, but from the looks of things, the koopa king wanted to get things finished quickly so he could continue chasing down Sonic. Said blue hedgehog was having a fight with Luigi and it looked like they were evenly-matched. King, Uriko and Lilly were standing aside, wisely conserving energy, while J. Talbain was rushing in to help Bowser with Pyron. Galford, Bridget and Ashelin were also conserving energy, although Ashelin was making sure that she had a spare ammo cartridge handy when she needed it.
Jeffry looked up at the entrance curtain, knowing that the next wave of fighters was about to enter the ring.
FINAL SCORE: (13 votes on the main fight, twelve on the bonus fights)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
LUIGI MARIO (SSB) (11:2) = 9 (Stinkoman, Queen)
BOWSER (SSB) (11:4) = 7 (Gozu, Blanka)
ASHELIN (J&D) (9:4) = 5 (Wan Fu, Eiji Kisaragi)
BRIDGET (GG) (8:5) = 3 (Mimi)
URIKO (BR) (8:5) = 3 (Sword Man)
GALFORD (SS) (8:5) = 3 (Bison)
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (StH) (9:6) = 3 (Watari)
LILLY KANE (KOF:MI2) (10:7) = 3 (Lese’el Deathbringer)
J. TALBAIN (DS) (8:6) = 2 (Shabon)
KING (KOF) (7:6) = 1 (Captain Kidd)
JEFFRY MCWILD (VF) (7:6) = 1 (Gabby Jay)
PYRON (DS) (7:6) = 1 (El Blaze)
(ELIMINATED)
WATARI (S3) (8:7) = 1 (Choi Bounge)
BLANKA (SFA3) (7:7) = 0 (Alice)
QUEEN (S3) (6:7) = -1 (Wise Idiot)
STINKOMAN (HSR) (6:7) = -1
M. BISON (SFA3) (6:7) = -1
SWORD MAN (MM) (6:7) = -1
GABBY JAY (SPO!) (6:8) = -2
EIJI KISARAGI (KOF) (5:8) = -3
MIMI (PM) (5:8) = -3
LESE’EL DEATHBRINGER (TFS) (5:8) = -3
CHOI BOUNGE (KOF) (5:8) = -3
EL BLAZE (VF) (6:9) = -3
WAN FU (S3) (4:9) = -5
SHABON (S3) (4:9) = -5
WISE IDIOT (TFS) (5:10) = -5
ALICE (BR) (4:10) = -6
CAPTAIN KIDD (WH) (3:10) = -7
GOZU (KE) (1:12) = -11
BONUS MATCHES:
“Balrog’s Mistake”
SEARCH MAN (MM) shoots down BALROG (SFA3)
7 to 5
“Knight’s Honor”
METAKNIGHT (SSB) fends off JEDAH (DS)
9 to 3
Koopa King: Bowser continues to dominate voting and stay within the top five fighters. I wonder how long this is going to last…