Bomb Man jumped onto a turnbuckle and whipped out a bomb, throwing it down at Hsien-Ko. The Chinese ghost girl jumped to the side, causing the bomb to explode on the canvas beside her. Lashing out her hand, Hsien-Ko sent the claws on her sleeve out at Bomb Man like a grappling hook.
“Whoa!” Bomb Man shouted as he jumped into the air and avoided the grappling hook claw. Landing on the chain the claw was connected to, Bomb Man ran down it and gave Hsien-Ko a hard kick when he got down to her.
Staggering back, Hsien-Ko shook her head to regain her senses and glared at the Robot Master. “So that’s how you want to play?” She asked. “Okay. Let’s fight ire with fire. Or shall I say: Bombs with bombs!” With that, Hsien-Ko summoned two bombs, one in each hand.
Most people would have run away upon seeing the Chinese ghost girl with explosives. However, Bomb Man wasn’t most people.
“Oh, this is gonna be good.” Bomb Man said as he created another bomb.
Bowser couldn’t believe his horrible luck. He was really hoping to take care of that blue hedgehog, but the fight against Pyron was seriously slowing him down. And now BOTH of the Mario brothers were in the ring, and the king of koopas knew they would pounce the instant Bowser finished his fight with the being of fire.
“You’re gonna have to fall eventually.” Bowser growled at Pyron. “You already know that your fire doesn’t have any effect on me.”
“That may be true, but that’s not something that should stop me.” Pyron said as he swung a fist, connecting it with Bowser’s face. “See? That attack affected you.”
Bowser sprang to his feet and threw himself at Pyron. “You’re really making me mad, bub!” He warned.
Sonic was running circles around Nemesis, easily avoiding the attack the huge monster was dishing out. Eventually, Nemesis got tired and stuck its foot out, tripping the blue hedgehog as he ran past. Sonic, surprised, fell onto the canvas and slid forward a couple of feet.
“S.T.A.R.S…” Nemesis hissed as it pulled out its trusty rocket launcher, aiming it down at Sonic.
Sonic looked up and found himself staring down the rocket launcher’s barrel. “Oh, snap!” He shouted as he sped off just before Nemesis blew a hole in the canvas. Thinking it had gotten rid of Sonic, Nemesis lumbered off.
Standing aside, Sonic shook his head. “Great. I got it off my tail.” He said as he turned to see Aila standing aside, shooting arrows at Vega. Sonic approached her. “Hey, you!”
Aila turned. “Yes?” The Karayan girl asked.
“What was the big idea with switching my theme song in both these tournaments?” Sonic accused. “It was NOT cool, you know.”
“It was Shadow’s idea.” Aila shrugged. “I thought it was hilarious.”
Shaking his head, Sonic turned and zipped off.
(Announcer’s Booth)
“I still don’t get why we decided to invite Nemesis.” Unknown1 scratched his head. “That thing’s a living death machine.”
“Hey, I said on the advertising pamphlet that this wouldn’t be limited to only fighting games like most tournaments like these are.” SSBFreak reminded. “I just wanted to invite someone from as many nodes as possible and I thought Nemesis would make things interesting.”
“Well, what about Zato?” Tinyrocket pointed out. “We already HAVE a Guilty Gear node.”
“What, and miss seeing the look on Millia’s face when he entered the ring?” SSBFreak asked with a sly smirk.
“Yuber and Pesmerga part two?” Unknown1 asked.
“Admit it. It was funny.”
(SSB Locker Room)
Peach shook her head in disbelief as the remaining SSB representatives watched the fight. “I can’t believe Bowser’s done as well as he has.” The pink-clad princess said. “I don’t know if anyone’s going to be able to eliminate him.”
“It’s still early on.” Captain Falcon shrugged. “Fatigue could wear him down.”
“Yeah. Look at what happened to Mewtwo.” Link reminded. “He’s gotta be twice as strong as Bowser is.”
“Fatigue will have little effect on Bowser.” Peach shook her head. “He’s not going to let anyone beat him so easily.”
“Even with Mario and Luigi BOTH in the ring?” Marth asked in surprise.
“Even on their adventures, it takes both Mario and Luigi a lot of their energy before they can bring Bowser down.” Peach pointed out. “Imagine how hard it’s going to be for them if they fight against dozens more people before even getting CLOSE to Bowser.”
(Dome; Hallway)
Kasumi’s team walked down the hallway of the dome, hoping to catch the other team to let them know that they weren’t alone in fighting off Bison’s plot. However, one thought was on everyone’s mind.
“Are you sure it was okay to let Mister McFist and…Uh…The other boxer back there?” Cream asked.
“Mickey’s got skills. I can’t deny that.” Kid USA shook his head. “I just don’t know if leaving him to fight someone like that King Lion guy is such a good idea, anymore.”
“They’ll be fine.” J. Maxx said. “Our main concern is to find the other team before they start going after Bison.”
“Indeed. They’re going to need all of the help they can get against Bison.” Kasumi agreed.
Suddenly, as the group was approaching an intersection of hallways, a very short and familiar figure stepped onto the scene from the hallway on the right.
The Servbot stopped walking when he saw the group and looked up. “What’re you punks looking at?” The small machine asked.
“Uh…Nothing?” Kid USA asked back.
“Good. If I catch you looking at me, I’m gonna tenderize your face with a spiked mallet.” The Servbot threatened.
“Tough talk coming from someone less than two feet tall.” J. Maxx folded him arms, not amused.
The Servbot was about to reply when another familiar figure walked into view, but stopped the instant it saw the Servbot. The Servbot suddenly noticed the newcomer and looked back.
The Rabbid narrowed its eyes at the Servbot and cracked its knuckles, slowly approaching the suddenly-nervous machine.
“Uh…Buddy! Pal! Where’ve you been? You never write!” The Servbot said. “Look, I seem to have misplaced my heavy artillery, so do you think you can forget you ever saw me?”
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” The Rabbid screamed as it lunged forward.
“I suppose not!” The Servbot said as he turned around and ran off. “Retreat! Retreat!”
With that, both of the short fighters were gone, leaving the small group alone again.
“That rabbit would make a good ally.” Kid USA stroked his chin in thought.
Maiagaru smacked the American upside the head.
(The Arena)
Luigi’s fists connected with Midknight’s fist several times. The half-vampire bared his fangs as he upped the ante and swung his fists even faster, but the green-clad plumber easily blocked the attacks.
When he saw an opening, Luigi shoved his foot into Midknight’s leg, knocking the vampire to one knee. Luigi quickly drove his hand into the vampire’s neck, making Midknight stagger back.
“Come on!” Luigi taunted. “Let’s see you try!”
Midknight narrowed his eyes. “You’re asking for it, plumber.” He said as he advanced on Luigi.
However, he wasn’t expecting Luigi to charge his Thunderhand, surging his hand with electricity. When Midknight got close enough, Luigi sent his hand flying into his stomach, surging the half-vampire with a lot of electricity.
When Luigi finished the attack, Midknight flew backwards and landed on his back. The half-vampire quickly jumped forward and gave Luigi a hard kick to the torso. And the fact that Midknight’s legs were almost all bone made the kick feel even harder. Luigi was sent to the canvas, but quickly got to his feet again.
“Okay. Keep my eyes open for the kicks.” Luigi told himself. “Those bone-legs are as hard as rocks.”
Suddenly, before Luigi could make another move, a small figure jumped onto his back from behind.
“C’mon, mister plumber! Gimmie a fight!” Bao said cheerily. “I’m bored and I wanna do something!”
“Kid, get off of me!” Luigi said as he threw Bao off his back. Midknight decided to stand back and wait for Luigi to finish.
“What’s wrong? You decided to fight me?” Bao asked.
“No. In fact, you jumped in while I was in the middle of a fight.” Luigi scolded.
“So?” Bao asked.
Luigi stood in silence for a couple of seconds, grabbed the orange-clad kid and threw him out of the ring.
Bao landed in Halo. He tried using his cute looks to keep the Covenant from shooting him, but as he soon found out, the aliens were immune to it.
Bowser held up a bulky hand and blocked a firey punch from Pyron. The koopa king quickly retaliated with a hard slash of his claws, but it did little more than anger the being of fire.
“Foolish mortal!” Pyron said. “You honestly thought that would do anything to stop me?!”
“Give me a break, here! I’m running out of ideas!” Bowser snapped.
“All the better for me.” Pyron said as he approached Bowser and gave him a kick to the face, knocking the huge turtle back a couple of steps.
Rubbing his jaw, Bowser narrowed his eyes. “I’m starting to feel his hits.” He said to himself. “That’s never a good sign.”
Realizing that Pyron, being immortal, had infinite times more stamina than he had, Bowser decided to get back in the game and pick up the pace.
“I can’t take out that hedgehog or those two pesky plumbers until I get rid of this thing.” Bowser muttered. “I need to get it out of the ring before it does the same to me.”
“This should take care of you!” Pyron shouted as he sent a wave of fire at Bowser. Bowser held up his arms and blocked the attack, but that was what Pyron was expecting, and quickly rushed in, giving the koopa king a boot to the head. “You’re starting to weaken. I can sense it.”
“So what if I am?!” Bowser snapped. “I can still kick your flaming behind into next week!”
“You’re persistent. I’ll give you that.” Pyron admitted. “I don’t think even Demitri Maximov or Jedah would still be standing after everything I’ve done.” The flaming being smirked. “How do you intend on defeating me, anyway?”
Bowser smirked darkly. Pyron’s expression turned to confusion. The koopa king pulled a glowing orb from out of nowhere and held it in his hand.
“I didn’t wanna use this so early, but it looks like this is as good a time to use it as any.” Bowser said. “Each of us SSB representatives were given one of these when we arrived.” With that, Bowser clenched his hand, crushing the orb and making it explode, then started laughing. “Let’s see how you can stand up to THIS!!”
As Bowser talked, he grew in size. His horns grew longer, the spikes on his shell lengthened, his claws became razor sharp and his face started twisting in a dark, warped way. Within seconds, Bowser had become fifteen feet tall, a lumbering monstrosity of what he used to be.
“Uh oh! Pyron’s in for it now, folks!” SSBFreak announced. “Now that Bowser’s performing his Final Smash and has transformed into Giga Bowser, nothing will be able to harm him for thirty seconds!”
Pyron’s grin faded completely as he started backing away. However, that did little to stop Giga Bowser from letting out an inhuman roar and lunging forward. The huge monster sent punch after punch into Pyron, punching the flaming being’s entire body with one blow. Pyron was down for the count long before Bowser’s thirty seconds were up.
Giga Bowser picked up the body of Pyron and pitched him out of the ring like a pebble. Right after he did, he shrunk in size, transforming back into his normal self.
Pyron landed in Ecco the Dolphin. Needless to say, he didn’t like the water.
“I never tire of that.” Bowser said as he shook his head with a smirk. He looked over his shoulder and suddenly saw Sonic forcing Franco Bash over the ropes and out of the ring (where the kickboxer landed in Metal Slug, where he plowed his way through a tank).
A smirk floated across Bowser’s face. “Hey, hedgehog!” He called out, getting Sonic’s attention. “Now that I finished with the Human Torch-wannabe, I can deal with you again! Isn’t that GREAT?!”
Sonic eyes widened as Bowser lumbered straight at him. “Aw, man! Now I have to deal with ANOTHER inhuman, ugly beast bent on total destruction?” He complained as he turned and sped off, Bowser hot on his heels.
Vega ducked as one of Bridget’s yoyos soared over his head. Using his flexibility, Vega leaned back while he was down as Aila’s arrow shot past him. Rolling to the side, Vega got to his feet, but before he could do anything, Ashelin drove her fist into his masked face.
“So you think that the best way to fight be is to team up against me?” Vega asked. “I didn’t think you lot were the cowardly type.”
“Who’s cowardly?!” Bridget asked.
“I could have put on an insulting theme for you, wise guy!” Aila snapped. “Don’t make me shove this arrow where the sun don’t shine!”
Vega paused, somehow getting the feeling that the young girl was very capable of such a threat.
Ashelin whipped out her gun and leveled it at Vega’s head. “Let’s see you dodge THIS one, creep.” The she-elf said as she fired the gun. However, Vega proved to be a lot faster than he looked and ducked under the blast (said blast shot into the back of Nemesis. It was unknown if it noticed). Vega quickly slashed his claw and sliced Ashelin’s blaster in half.
The she-elf cursed. “That was the only gun I brought!” She said as she kicked Vega in the chest. Vega flipped backwards, recoiling from the blow, and landed on his feet again. The Spanish matador quickly pounced forward, aiming himself towards Bridget.
“I think not!” Bridget shouted as he spun a yoyo at the airborne man. Vega quickly blocked the projectile with his claws and kicked the boy in the face, making him stagger backwards.
Seeing Vega forcing Bridget towards the ropes, Ashelin growled and rushed forward as Aila took aim with her bow and arrow. The Spanish matador lunged his claw forward, but Bridget stepped to the side and avoided the blow, but quickly received a knee to the face.
“Looks like I can bring down your numbers a bit.” Vega noted as he grabbed the stunned Bridget and threw him over the ropes. Right after he did, Ashelin jumped him from behind.
Bridget landed in Sunset Riders, where he saw the bounty on one of the villain cowboys and rushed off with dollar signs dancing in his head.
Basara lashed out his spinning, bladed weapon at Terry, but the elder Bogard was quick to avoid and rolled to the side. Basara was anticipating this, however, and sprung into action, slashing Terry with his weapon.
Holding the deep cut on his shoulder, Terry backed off. “That’s going to hurt for a while.” He muttered through his teeth. “I thought zombies were supposed to be slow.”
“Just shows you what Resident Evil did to our reputation.” Basrara shook his head before lunging at Terry again.
“Not this time.” Terry said as he pulled his hand into the air. “Power Wave!” He shouted as he slammed his fist into the canvas, sending his trademark floor-crawling projectile at the undead samurai.
Basrara took the attack to the stomach, bringing him out of his attempted attack.
Terry wasn’t finished though. Pulling his fist back, he lunged forward. “Burn Knuckle!” He shouted, striking Basara in the face with his fist and sending the undead man reeling.
Staggering back several feet, Basara looked at Terry and prepared to throw his weapon again. “I’ll tear you apart!” He said as he lashed out his hand, spinning his bladed disc at Terry.
His eyes widening, Terry threw himself to the floor, causing the bladed weapon to soar over his head. Once the weapon had passed, Terry jumped to his feet and rushed Basara doing a front-flip and slamming the heel of his foot into Basara’s forehead.
However, Terry had forgotten that Basara didn’t call his weapon back yet. Pulling on the chain connected to his wrist, Basara yanked his bladed disc back to his hand. Terry noticed this and dropped to the ground again just as the weapon flew past him.
“Quite impressive senses.” Basara noted. “I’m afraid that it won’t help you.”
“That’s what you think.” Terry said with a smirk as he pulled his fist into the air. “Overheat…”
Basara’s eyes widened and prepared to swing his weapon to take off Terry’s head before he could finish his sentence.
“…GEYSER!!”
Basara wasn’t fast enough. Terry’s fist slammed into the canvas three times, creating three consecutive pillars of flaming energy. The first two struck Basrara in the face and the third, the most powerful one, sent the undead man flying out of the ring.
Basara landed in Mario Strikers: Charged. The team of Boos saw him as one of them and welcomed the undead man to their team.
Terry sighed in relief and adjusted the cap on his head, realizing how close that last move was. Turning, he saw Lilly using her staff to smash Nash across the face, sending him toppling over the ropes (sending the womanizer into Mortal Kombat, where he found that hitting on Jade was never a good idea).
“What was that for, Lilly?” Terry asked as he approached.
“He made some inappropriate comments.” Lilly replied simply.
“How bad?”
“Let’s just say that if Billy heard them, he would have ripped that man’s tongue out.”
(Dome; Hallway)
Mickey Rogers received a hard blow to the face from King Lion, sending him into a wall. Rubbing his chin, Mickey R. jumped back into battle to help his team-mate, Mickey McFist, fight the large form of King Lion.
“This guy outclasses us, laddie.” Mickey M. told his partner. “But together, we may have the power to take him down.”
“Yeah. His punches hurt.” Mickey R. added, still rubbing his chin.
“That hurt you?” King Lion laughed. “That was my weak punch.”
“You calling me weak?!” Mickey R. demanded.
The larger man shrugged. “Okay.”
“Lad, don’t! He’s trying to make you mad!” Mickey M. warned. Unfortunately, it didn’t stop Mickey R. from jumping at King Lion.
King Lion pulled his fist back. “THIS is a strong punch.” He said as he lashed out his hand with full force, plowing it into the airborne boxer’s stomach and sending Mickey R. rocketing down the hallway several yards.
Mickey M. looked up at King Lion and narrowed his eyes. “You’ll pay fer that one, laddie.” The Irishman said.
“Not jumping at me showed that you’re a lot smarter than your friend.” King Lion pointed out. “But do you really think you can take me out by yourself?”
“It ain’t gonna stop me from tryin’.” Mickey M. said as he concentrated and engulfed his gloves in a gray energy.
“What the?” King Lion asked.
However, that was all he could get out before Mickey M. rushed the large man and sent a huge flurry of immensely-fast punches into King Lion’s face and stomach. King Lion wasn’t even given the chance to block and received almost twenty punches in seven seconds. When Mickey M. delivered the final blow, King Lion staggered backwards in pain.
“Does EVERYONE from your node have the ability to do that?!” King Lion asked.
“EVERYONE.” Mickey M. replied.
Suddenly, Mickey R. charged back onto the scene and gave King Lion a hard punch to the face, stunning the large man. While King Lion was distracted, Mickey R. rushed around him and gave him a punch to the back, knocking King Lion forward.
Seeing King Lion falling towards him, Mickey M. gave the larger man a hard uppercut to the chin, sending him flying backwards again.
“You little punks!” King Lion shouted. “You think I’m going to let either of you get away with that?!”
“Would ye?” Mickey M. asked with a smirk.
King Lion growled and pulled out his sword. “I don’t think so!” He shouted as he rushed at the orange-haired Irishman. Mickey M.’s eyes widened, wondering how he didn’t see the sword until now.
King Lion swung his sword, but the Irishman swerved to the side to avoid the blow. King Lion tried a couple more times, but before he could get an attack in, Mickey R. intervened and attacked him with a three-hit combo.
Stepping back, King Lion growled. Neither of the two boxers were looking very tired, and had managed to stand up to everything he had thrown at them. “Very well. I’ll take my leave this time.” He said. “Consider yourselves lucky.”
“Tell us what Bison’s up to!” Mickey R. said.
King Lion smirked. “Let’s just say that he’s after a large jewel.” He said as he turned around and rushed off.
“A large jewel?” Mickey M. asked. “What would a large jewel be doing here?”
“You think it has something to do with this thing?” Mickey R. asked as he pulled out a green gem shard.
“…Where’d you get that, laddie?”
“Oh, I found it on my way to the Eliminated Seating after getting eliminated.” Mickey R. shrugged.
“It’s looks exactly like the gem Cream has.” Mickey M. noted. “Maybe there IS a connection!”
“We’d better go find the others and tell them, then.”
With that, the two Mickeys ran off, hoping to catch up with the rest of the team.
(The Arena)
“S.T.A.R.S…” Nemesis groaned as it swung its fist at Galford. The blonde ninja quickly evaded the attack and slashed the mutated monster with his sword.
“Back, foul beast!” Galford ordered as he continued to slash at Nemesis.
Stepping back, Nemesis reached into its trenchcoat and pulled out its trademark rocket launcher.
“Where the blazes does that thing GET that from?!” Galford said as Nemesis opened fire, sending a rocket at him.
Vanishing into thin air, Galford avoided the rocket and appeared over Nemesis, bringing his sword down upon the mutant’s head. Unfortunately, this did little more than anger the beast.
Nemesis roared and spun around, launching Galford off of it. The blonde ninja was sent crashing into a turnbuckle as Nemesis lumbered over.
Looking up, Galford saw Nemesis’ ugly mug staring down at him. Narrowing his eyes, Galford gripped his sword and sprung into action, stabbing Nemesis through the stomach.
Unfortunately, much like before, all Galford did was make Nemesis even madder. The mutant beast threw Galford off of it, then pulled his sword out of its chest. Pulling its arm back, Nemesis through Galford’s own sword at him.
The blonde ninja looked up in time to see his weapon coming at him. Throwing himself to the ground, Galford let his sword fly over him, burying itself in another one of the turnbuckles.
Seeing Nemesis coming over again, Galford rushed over to his sword and attempted to pull it out of the turnbuckle. However, it wouldn’t budge. Galford continued to attempt to pull his sword from the turnbuckle as Nemesis loomed over.
“S.T.A.R.S…” Nemesis moaned.
Galford smirked. “I’ll give you stars!” He shouted as he let go of his sword, rushed behind Nemesis and pushed it over the ropes, sending the mutant toppling into the elimination portal.
With Nemesis gone, Galfor walked over to his sword and casually pulled it from the turnbuckle. “I can’t believe that thing actually fell for it.” He said.
Nemesis landed in Cruis’n World. A school bus promptly hit it, but all it did was crumple the front end of the bus. Nemesis, unaffected, lumbered off.
Millia lashed out her hair, wrapping it around Zato’s arm and slamming him into the canvas. The blonde man growled and got to his feet, which were still surrounded in a black, shadow-like substance.
“I’m going to enjoy this, Millia.” Zato said as he summoned a huge, black hand from the shadow and punched at Millia with it.
The blonde woman saw the attack coming and lifted herself into the air by pushing her hair into the ground. “Face it, Zato! I’m much more powerful than you remember!” She shouted back.
“Indeed, you HAVE gotten some extra skills since you defected.” Zato nodded. “But you’re not alone. I have ALSO learned some new tricks.”
“Then why aren’t you using them?” Millia asked as she lashed out with her hair and struck Zato in the chest with it.
“Very well.” Zato said as he lifted a hand. A shadow appeared behind Millia as a hand reached out a grabbed her.
Millia growled and turned the tip of her hair into a blade, slicing the huge hand of shadow at the wrist and destroying it. Millia landed on her feet and rushed at Zato.
“Millia, Millia, Millia.” Zato shook his head as Millia jumped at him. “You should know better.”
Lifting his arm again, Zato created a shield of shadow in front of him, which Millia flew straight into. The blonde woman hit the shield and collapsed to the ground.
“Even with new skills, you are unable to surpass me. Millia, I’m a little let down.” Zato said.
Millia struggled to get to her feet, but a fist of darkness slammed into her face, knocking her down again. Zato stepped even closer to her. “Maybe I should just put you out of your misery right now.” He reasoned. “However, I think I want to watch you suffer.”
“That’s enough, shadow-boy.” Terry Bogard said as he stepped in.
“Step back, Bogard.” Zato said. “My quarrel is with Millia.”
“Are you okay?” Terry asked.
“What do you mean by-”
“BUSTAH WOLF!”
The explosion that erupted from Terry’s fist was more than enough to send the shadow-user over the ropes and out of the ring.
Zato landed in Manhunt, where he sunk into the shadows to allow the chaos to erupt around him.
Adjusting his cap, Terry nodded and turned to check on Millia. However, he saw Mario throwing the weakened Millia out of the ring (and into Streets of Rage, where she used her hair to strike down an attacking Axel, whom mistook her for an enemy).
“What was that for?!” Terry demanded.
“I a-saw an elimination.” Mario shrugged.
DrTempo, holding an elemental staff in his hands, swung at Jeffry McWild, sending a wave of water up and splashing it into the larger man’s face. While Jeffry was distracted, DrTempo drove his foot into his stomach.
However, the last attack brought Jeffry back to his senses. The large man quickly grabbed DrTempo and pitched him across the ring, then rushed forward to prepare an attack.
“This guy is becoming a severe thorn in my side.” DrTempo muttered as he got to his feet. “Looks like I may have to change forms again. I’d better make this quick before I run out of energy.”
In a flash of light, DrTempo had changed forms, turning his armour colour lighter and now wielding two guns. Taking aim, DrTempo prepared to fire the guns at Jeffry. Before he could do it, Jeffry’s foot slammed into his face, knocking DrTempo back even further.
DrTempo groaned as he got to his feet, staring up at Jeffry, whom was in his stance.
“Starting to second-guess your decision about fighting me?” Jeffry asked.
“Not yet.” DrTempo replied. “I’ve still got some fight left in me.”
Taking aim, DrTempo fired one of his guns, striking Jeffry with one of the pellets that came from the barrel. DrTempo, seizing his chance, rushed forward while Jeffry was distracted and kicked him in the head, knocking the larger man back.
“See? How do YOU like it?” DrTempo challenged.
Jeffry chuckled. “That actually hurt. I’m impressed.” He noted.
“I can still beat you! Bring it on!” DrTempo said.
“You’re asking for it.” Jeffry shrugged as he sprung into action, kicking at DrTempo wildly. DrTempo managed to avoid most of the kicks, but the last couple sneaked past his defenses and struck him in the face.
Staggering back and clutching his face, DrTempo took the time to analyze the situation.
“Okay. I’m starting to run out of energy.” DrTempo said. “If I let my energy get too low, I won’t be able to go into my different forms and I’ll be a sitting duck for this guy.” Narrowing his eyes, DrTempo rushed ahead. “I’ll have to finish him off quickly.”
DrTempo rushed at Jeffry at high speeds and swung his fist, landing an uppercut to the larger man’s face. Jeffry stepped backwards, towards the ropes. DrTempo continued the onslaught of attacks and, after a few more hits, finished Jeffry off with another uppercut, sending the larger man up and over the ropes.
Jeffry landed in Sonic Adventure, where he went fishing with Big.
Bombs flew in every direction as Bomb Man flew past Hsien-Ko, throwing his trademark explosive. The Chinese ghost girl retaliated by swinging her oversized claw at the robot as he past, attempting to do damage. Bomb Man took the attack, but quickly recovered and pulled out two more bombs.
“Let’s see you handle this!” Bomb Man laughed as he threw the bombs.
It took a bit of flexibility, but Hsien-Ko was able to avoid the two bombs (which struck Bowser in the back and exploded. He didn’t seem to notice) and generated a spiked ball in her hand. Rotating her hand, Hsien-Ko hurled the spiked ball at Bomb Man.
Bomb Man proved to be a lot more flexible than he looked, and easily avoided the projectile. While Hsien-Ko was distracted, Bomb Man rushed in and gave her a kick to the face.
Hsien-Ko staggered backwards, but recovered and rushed in to attack again. However, before she could get very far, Bomb Man struck her again, this time in the stomach. Once again, she quickly recovered and gave Bomb Man a hard blow to the face, knocking him backwards.
“You just don’t know when to give up, do you?” Bomb Man asked.
“You might say that I’m very determined.” Hsien-Ko replied.
“Let’s see how determined you’ll be in about five seconds.” Bomb Man said with a smirk as he created two more bombs.
“Is that all you can do? Create bombs?” Hsien-Ko asked.
“Uh…Yeah. My name’s ‘Bomb Man’ for a reason.” Bomb Man replied.
“You should seriously think about expanding your arsenal.” Hsien-Ko said as she turned her claws into sharp blades. “It makes you way too predictable.”
Without giving Bomb Man time to react, the Chinese ghost girl rushed forward and started attacking. The Robot Master received several hard blows to the torso and face, not being given any time to counter.
Just as Hsien-Ko was about to punch again, she suddenly noticed that Bomb Man was still holding the two bombs he had just created and that they were just about ready to go off. Thinking quickly, Hsien-Ko grabbed the robot and threw him out of the ring while he was still holding the bombs.
Bomb Man landed in Crash Bash, where the two bombs he was holding exploded, blowing up Rilla Roo.
Ashelin kicked Vega in the face, knocking him down. “I know your boss is up to something, prettyboy!” The she-elf said. “Now tell me what it is!”
“So you like being the nosy type, eh?” Vega chuckled as he got to his feet and lashed out at Ashelin (missing completely). “What makes you think Bison’s doing something?”
“That stupid smirk tells me everything.” Ashelin pointed out.
Vega’s smirk vanished as the matador narrowed his eyes. “You think you can do anything? By the time you get out of the ring, Bison will have had most of the Master Emerald shards anyway!” He said.
“Master Emerald?” Ashelin asked, forming a smirk of her own. “Thank you for cooperating.”
With that, Ashelin booted Vega out of the ring, sending him falling into an elimination portal (and into Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage, where the bull stampeded him). As soon as Vega was gone, Ashelin pulled her communicator from her pocket.
“What’s that?” Aila asked.
“My communicator.” Ashelin replied as she spoke into it. “Torn, come in. Come in, Torn.”
(Dome; Snack Bar)
Torn growled and ripped the communicator from his belt. “Just a minute, Ash!” He said as he put his communicator back on his belt and gave Sankuro a kick to the face. The huge man stepped back, but quickly recovered and swung his hammer. Torn saw the attack coming and jumped backwards.
“Hold still, elf!” Sankuro shouted as he swung his hammer again, striking the wall instead of Torn (and leaving an unsightly hole in the wall). “I can’t crush you if you don’t hold still!”
“Yeah. Like THAT’S gonna make me stand still.” Torn muttered with a roll of his eyes. The brown-haired elf whipped out his gun and fired, but Sankuro proved to be fast and blocked the shots with his hammer, deflecting the shots into the walls and ceiling.
“Nice try, kid.” The thief chuckled. “But that’s not going to work.”
Pulling his hammer backwards, Sankuro swung it out and attempted to take the elf’s head off. Torn quickly ducked under the blow and drove his foot into the thief’s stomach.
Across the room, Jak was relying on his hands to take down Earthquake. The huge thief grunted in annoyance as Jak dug his hands into his stomach. Following several hard blows to the stomach, Jak leapt into the air and spun around, slamming his leg into Earthquake’s head.
Earthquake stepped back and growled, pulling his weapon into the air and swinging it down.
“Too slow, fatty.” Jak said with a smirk as he jumped back. Earthquake’s weapon slammed into the floor, missing the light-haired elf. “It’s going to take more than that to take me down.”
“Oh yeah?” Earthquake asked. “Well, let’s see you avoid this one!”
Earthquake inhaled and exhaled a second later, breathing fire down at Jak. The male elf covered his face with his arms, and Earthquake used that to his advantage with a hard blow to the body. While Jak was bending over in pain and surprise, Earthquake lashed out again, catching Jak in the face and knocking him backwards.
Jak crashed into the wall, but quickly peeled himself away and landed on the ground, glaring daggers into Earthquake’s eyes.
“You’re asking for it!” Jak roared as he lunged at Earthquake.
Sankuro shoved the end of his hammer into Torn’s stomach and lifted him into the air, flinging him across the room. Torn landed on his side, but quickly got to his feet and whipped out a small knife.
“So you like to fight with weapons?” Torn asked. “Okay. Have it your way.”
With that, Torn sprung to life and flew at Sankuro, swinging his knife. Sankuro quickly blocked the attack with his hammer, then swung his weapon, striking Torn in the face and sending him sprawling.
Torn slowly got to his feet, but shook the attack off and turned to face Sankuro again. “Okay. I’d say that it’s about time Jak and I stopped fooling around.” He said before turning to his partner. “Jak! Time to take out the trash!” He said.
Jak smirked. “Now you’re talking my language, Torn.” He said as he reared back and roared inhumanely, morphing and twisting until he had become a white-skinned, white haired, dark-eyed beast with long nails.
Earthquake saw this and stepped back in surprise. Dark Jak roared and lunged at the oversized bandit, digging his claws into Earthquake. Sankuro was also taken aback by Jak’s twisted transformation and became distracted long enough for Torn to break out a hard combo of punches and kicks.
Dark Jak continued to strike Earthquake with a massive amount of energy-powered attacks. The huge man wasn’t given a chance to counter or block and found himself going into a daze pretty quickly. Dark Jak leapt into the air and pulled his arm up, preparing to swing it down.
Torn looked up from attacking Sankuro and saw Dark Jak coming down. Smirking, Torn punches Sankuro one more time and jumped.
Dark Jak slammed his fist into the ground, sending a shockwave of dark energy out in all directions and launching both Earthquake and Sankuro into the air (Torn was airborne at the time, so the attack didn’t affect him). Both bandits crashed into the floor as Jak gripped his head, morphing back into his normal self.
Torn looked down at Sankuro, only to see the bandit getting to his feet. The hammer-wielding man quickly backed away from Torn and Jak and fled the scene, running off to enter the ring.
“Should we go after him?” Jak asked as he stepped away from the unconscious Earthquake.
“Ashelin just called me. I’ll see what she wants.” Torn replied as he fished his communicator from his pocket and activated it. “Yeah, Ashelin?”
“Torn, I just eliminated that Vega guy from the Street Fighter node.” Ashelin explained. “He’s in cohorts with Bison and seems to know what he’s up to.”
“You want Jak and I to go to the Recovery Room to ‘interrogate’ him?” Torn asked.
“You got it. This may just be the lead we need.” Ashelin replied.
“Got it, Ashelin.” Torn nodded as he turned off his communicator and turned to Jak. “Leave fat boy, Jak. We need to get over to the Recovery Room.”
(The Arena)
Kooper ducked into his shell and spun around Aoi, whom swung her hands down in an attempt to actually hit the smaller figure. The blue-shelled koopa quickly arrived behind Aoi and popped back out of his shell, jumping into the air and kicking Aoi at the same time.
Feeling the hard kick, Aoi stepped forward and turned around to face the koopa, only to have Kooper launch himself and ricochet off of Aoi’s head.
“Hold still!” Aoi shouted. “I can’t hit you!”
“It’s not my fault that I’m fast.” Kooper shrugged as he spun himself forward and launched himself into Aoi’s stomach, knocking the wind out of her.
Aoi coughed a couple of times and looked at Kooper, narrowing her eyes. “Maybe I just need to anticipate his attack.” She mused.
Kooper launched himself at Aoi again. However, the dark-haired woman was expecting this and leaned to the side, reaching out with her hands. Aoi’s aim was true and she managed to catch Kooper’s shell, preventing him from attacking her.
Noticing that he wasn’t moving, Kooper poked his head out of his shell and found himself staring at Aoi’s angry face. He flashed a nervous grin, but that didn’t stop Aoi from throwing him into a turnbuckle.
Kooper groaned as he got out of his shell and looked at Aoi. “Looks like this is going to be harder than I thought.” He noted. “I’ll have to be more careful.”
Ducking into his shell, Kooper once again spun himself at Aoi. The dark-haired woman pulled her foot back in an attempt to kick the blue-shelled koopa out of the ring, but when she swung her foot, Kooper maneuvered himself around Aoi. Jumping out of his shell, Kooper gave Aoi a hard kick from behind, forcing her towards the ropes.
Aoi stopped herself from falling over the ropes and prepared to turn, but Kooper once again ricocheted off of her head. Aoi collapsed, unconscious, as Kooper pushed her underneath the bottom rope and out of the ring.
Aoi landed in Tetris. Needless to say, with her unconscious, she was a sitting duck.
DrTempo took aim with one of his guns and fired it at Mario. The red-clad plumber ducked under the shot and rushed forward, giving DrTempo a hard punch to the face and knocking him backwards.
Recoiling in pain, DrTempo shook his head and looked at Mario. “Maybe challenging Mario wasn’t the best idea I’ve ever had.” DrTempo said to himself. “And I’m running out of energy again. I need to get him out of the ring before my energy runs dry.”
Changing forms again, DrTempo summoned a beam sword in his hand and charged Mario. The portly plumber stayed in his stance, then took action.
“Yahoo!!” Mario shouted as he performed the Mario Tornado, striking DrTempo with a flurry of punches. The last punch knocked DrTempo away even further.
“Okay. Trying this again…” DrTempo said as he rushed forward and prepared to swing his sword. Pulling his arm into the air, DrTempo swung his sword down in an attempt to attack Mario.
However, DrTempo suddenly found himself facing the other way when he pulled off the attack. Looking around, confused, DrTempo turned and saw Mario holding his cape a smirking.
“It’s a-gonna take a-more than a-that.” Mario said as he rushed the surprised DrTempo and performed his Coinbox Jump, lifting both fighters into the air.
While in the air, DrTempo suddenly found that he was getting close to the ropes. However, when he looked at Mario, it was already too late. The portly plumber had performed his meteor smash, sending DrTempo out of the ring.
DrTempo landed in Street Fighter 3, where he got into a fight with Necro.
Mario landed on his feet and turned to see what Luigi was doing. He saw his brother throwing Midknight out of the ring (and into Castlevania, where Simon Belmont wonder why nothing was killing him). Mario wandered over.
“Hey a-Luigi!” Mario greeted. “What do you a-want to do now?”
Luigi turned his head and saw Bowser continuing to chase Sonic down (how he was doing it was anyone’s guess). “Normally, I would suggest double-teaming Bowser, but it looks like he’s got his hands full already.” He shrugged.
“Trap Shot!” King shouted as she kicked the air, sending her trademark projectile at Muscle Power. The blonde wrestler simply held up his arm and blocked the attack. However, he wasn’t prepared for King to rush forward and give him a kick to the head, knocking him down.
King quickly pulled her foot into the air and slammed it down onto the downed wrestler’s back. Muscle Power growled and jumped to his feet, knocking King backwards. Muscle Power advanced, cracking his knuckles, as King got up and stood in her stance.
“You think that you’re big and tough, don’t you?” King asked as she jumped into the air and kicked at Muscle Power, making him step back a couple of feet. “Well, let me be the one to prove you wrong!”
“What is it you guys have against us World Heroes, anyway?” Muscle Power asked as he grabbed King’s leg when she kicked again and threw her aside. “Some of us have done pretty well.”
“That may be so, but most of the people here have had a lot more fighting experience than you!” King replied as she leapt at Muscle Power and kicked him in the stomach.
Muscle Power backed away, clutching his stomach. “That shouldn’t make a difference!” He insisted.
“Sometimes, that’s what makes you or breaks you.” King replied with a smirked as she kicked the wrestler in the face several times.
While he was being kicked, Muscle Power growled and pushed himself forward, knocking King off balance. Pulling his fist back, Muscle Power punched King and sent her sprawling. “Want me to make you eat those words?!” He asked as he grabbed King and suplexed her. “Well, here it comes!”
Grabbing both of King legs, Muscle Power started spinning, taking King with him.
“NUM...”
King started to snap out of her daze. Shaking her head, she suddenly realized how fast Muscle Power was spinning her.
“…BAH…”
Everyone left in the ring stopped what they were doing and took a step back, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire if Muscle Power’s aim was off.
“…ONE!!!!”
With that, Muscle Power let go of King’s legs. The female kickboxer was sent flying clear out of the ring, going so far as to slam into the forcefield protecting the audience from stray attack. Still in disbelief at the sheer power of Muscle Power’s throw, King fell headlong into an elimination portal.
King landed in Kirby’s Adventure, where Paint Roller attempted to use his drawings to take her down (it didn’t work).
Standing aside, Ashelin, Galford and Aila watched Muscle Power’s display of strength and looked at each other nervously.
“I was contemplating challenging him to a fight, but now I’m not so sure.” Ashelin admitted.
“Remind me never to put on any insulting music for him in future tournaments.” Aila shook her head.
That’s when Uriko jumped in and gave Aila a kick to the head. The dark-skinned girl staggered to the side and shot a dark glare at the teenage girl.
“What’s your problem?!” Aila asked. “I wasn’t ready!”
“I was just trying to get an easy elimination.” Uriko shrugged.
Aila growled and whipped out her bow and arrow. “Okay. You want a fight? You’ve got one.” She said.
“Need help, kid?” Ashelin asked.
Aila shook her head. “This one’s mine.”
Uriko was the first to act, rushing Aila and kicking at her. Aila was ready for this and ducked under the kick. Quickly spinng with one leg outstretched, Aila tripped Uriko off of the one foot she was standing on, sending the teenager crashing to the canvas. Uriko quickly got to her feet and rushed at Aila, throwing a punch (which looked unusual consider that her fist was at least six inches inside her sleeve).
The Karayan girl took the punch to the face and stepped back, pulling out her bow and firing three arrows at her opponent. Uriko easily avoided the arrows (which ended up getting embedded into one of the turnbuckles) and pounced again. Aila blocked Uriko’s next attack and pushed her away.
An idea suddenly struck the dark-skinned girl’s head. “Why do you wear such long sleeves?” Aila asked.
“I dunno.” Uriko shrugged. “They’re comfortable.”
“But haven’t you ever thought that your opponents could take advantage of those long sleeves?”
“Like what?” Uriko asked, confused.
Without giving Uriko time to react, Aila rushed her and grabbed both of the sleeves of Uriko’s jacket. Aila crossed the sleeves and rushed behind Uriko, tying the two sleeves into a knot behind her back.
Uriko suddenly realized that her favourite jacket had just been used as a makeshift straitjacket, and she wasn’t too thrilled about it. “Hey! That’s not fair!” Uriko said as she struggled to free her arms. “I can’t move my arms!”
“You brought this on yourself.” Aila replied casually as she picked Uriko up and threw her out of the ring.
Uriko landed in World of Warcraft. Seeing as how she couldn’t use her arms, she decided to get into hiding.
Lilly Kane held up her staff and blocked a claw slash from J. Talbain. The wolfman attempted another attack, but Lilly proved to be too quick and continued to block his attacks.
“I don’t want to do this, but you’re leaving me no choice!” Lilly warned as she summoned up some more cold energy and swung her staff, expelling a wave of ice from the tip. Talbain easily blocked the blow and continued forward.
“You’re extremely skilled, Miss Kane. In fact, I would hate to fight you if you didn’t have so much fatigue weighing you down.” Talbain said. “However, you are starting to tire out due to being in the ring so long.”
Lilly suddenly realized that she was breathing heavily. Talbain was right. She had been fighting for a while and was really tiring out. However, there was something that just made her continue fighting, even though she felt like her legs could buckle on her.
“I…I can still fight…” Lilly said, taking deep breaths.
“I find that unlikely.” Talbain sighed as he pressed forward and gave Lilly a kick, although it was much lighter than his previous attacks. He didn’t want to really hurt the girl. Just make her work hard enough to tire herself out completely.
Lilly stepped back and swung her staff at the wolfman, whom easily ducked under the blow and rolled towards Lilly, tripping her and sending her to the canvas.
The younger Kane sibling tried to get up, but it was no use. Lilly collapsed, defeated.
Talbain sighed and gingerly picked Lilly up, depositing her over the ropes and letting her fall into an elimination portal.
Lilly landed on a bed in Paper Mario, where she curled up and fell asleep.
J. Talbain sighed and turned to see how everyone remaining was doing. Mario and Luigi were talking, as if trying to come up with a decent strategy. Bowser was still chasing Sonic, whom was easily running from the giant and even running backwards while making faces at the king of koopas. Kooper, whom looked relatively fresh, simply looked towards the entrance curtain. Galford was running in to challenge Hsien-Ko, but Ashelin and Aila seemed to be telling him to stay back. Terry looked almost untouched and readied himself for the next wave of fighters while Muscle Power rotated his arm and prepared himself for more action.
Talbain looked up towards the entrance curtain, knowing that the next fighter would be entering any minute…
FINAL SCORE: (15 votes on the main fight, 14 on the first bonus fight and 13 on the second)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
MARIO MARIO (SSB) (12:3) = 9 (Millia Rage, DrTempo)
TERRY BOGARD (KOF) (11:4) = 7 (Basara, Zato)
LUIGI MARIO (SSB) (11:5) = 6 (Bao, Midknight)
BOWSER (SSB) (12:6) = 6 (Pyron)
HSIEN-KO (DS) (10:5) = 5 (Bomb Man)
KOOPER (PM) (10:5) = 5 (Aoi Umenokouji)
J. TALBAIN (DS) (11:6) = 5 (Lilly Kane)
ASHELIN (J&D) (10:6) = 4 (Vega)
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (StH) (11:7) = 4 (Franco Bash)
AILA (S3) (8:7) = 1 (Uriko)
MUSCLE POWER (WH) (8:7) = 1 (King)
GALFORD (8:8) = 0 (Nemesis)
(ELIMINATED)
LILLY KANE (KOF:MI2) (10:10) = 0 (Nash)
DRTEMPO (FT) (7:8) = -1 (Jeffry McWild)
VEGA (SFA3) (7:8) = -1 (Bridget)
KING (KOF) (7:9) = -2
JEFFRY MCWILD (VF) (7:9) = -2
MIDKNIGHT (EC) (6:9) = -3
MILLIA RAGE (GG) (6:9) = -3
BRIDGET (GG) (6:10) = -4
URIKO (BR) (6:10) = -4
PYRON (DS) (6:10) = -4
BOMB MAN (MM) (5:10) = -5
ZATO (GGXX) (5:10) = -5
AOI UMENOKOUJI (VF) (5:10) = -5
NASH (S3) (5:10) = -5
NEMESIS (RE) (5:10) = -5
FRANCO BASH (FF) (3:12) = -8
BASARA (SS) (3:12) = -8
BAO (KOF) (2:13) = -11
BONUS MATCHES:
“Undercover Work”
JAK and TORN (J&D) whallop EARTHQUAKE and SANKURO (SS)
10 to 4
“One Mickey Too Many”
MICKEY MCFIST (B&B) and MICKEY ROGERS (AOF2) defeat KING LION (KE)
7 to 6
Surprise of the Century: Muscle Power not only getting an elimination, but surviving the section. I honestly didn’t see that one coming.