Tournament of Power!

by Dancesnapple

We all know of the great tournament currently happening, but what of a different kind of tournament? One with no antagonists or protagonists. One between eight different franchises entirely. Which will win? This is not just a Naruto fic, but there are too many series to list as a crossover, so just posting it here.

2. Chapter 2

Welcome to Round 1... I mentioned before that I would go more into detail with battles that matter, so the order will be whichever battle I want to bring up first. Also, short explanations of why the battles went the way they did are at the bottom. Enjoy.

With that out of the way, let's go.

"BEGIN!"

Roars and war cries sounded across the entire battlefield as every team got ready and sprang into action.

The four kage burst from the Naruto group, Sasuke blitzing in the other direction with haste, activating his Mangekyo Sharingan with his Rinnegan eye ready. Back with the remaining group, Kakashi, Shikamaru, and Lee take a manji defensive formation around Sakura. The blonde leader of the team leaps out just in front of the group, landing and becoming coated in yellow flaming chakra. "Let's go, Kurama!"

Ichigo released a pressure of Rietsu, speeding off with Renji, Rukia, and Uryu following. Kenpachi, Toshiro, and Byakuya speed out each on their own, leaving Kisuke and Yoruichi going off on their own. Aizen smiles and stands perfectly still, watching the battlefield erupt in explosive attacks.

A scene straight from the days of Dissidia, all ten Final Fantasy warriors leap forward. Cloud, Tidus, Firion, and Cecil breaking off as the largest group. Squall and Zidane split right, Lightning and Noctis going left. Warrior of Light and Kain speed forth in different directions.

"Everyone, remain together." Luke Skywalker yells at his team, but Darth Krayt rushes off to gain distance from the group. Luke resists the curse, knowing Krayt would help, but in his own way. He looks at Boba Fett. "Find a sniping position!" The bounty hunter blasts off utilizing his jet pack. The remaining group forms up defensively, Cilghal and Leia on the inner circle, Luke kneeling by them to sense the battlefield. In front of them, Jaina, Kyle, Kyp, Ben, and Corran form a front line, in order igniting sabers of violet, blue, violet, green, and blue blades and standing at the ready.

"I'm FIRED UP!" Fairy Tail bursts into action, Natsu and Gray speeding off ready to fight something, Wendy and Lucy trailing behind them. Jellal and Erza group up and split off. Gildarts, Gajeel, and Laxus all separating, leaving Makarov alone to watch them off and wish them luck.

"It's morphin' time!" Tommy and Jason call in unison, the rangers all activating their morphing sequences. Jason, "Tyrannosaurus!" Adam, "Zeo Ranger Four!" TJ, "Shift Into Turbo!" Andros, "Let's Rock It!" Shane, "Ninja Storm, Ranger Form!" Conner, "Dino Thunder, Power Up!" Wes, "Time For Time Force!" Eric, "Quantum Power!" Troy, "Go Go Megaforce!" Tommy, "Zeo Ranger Five!" All ten rangers morph at once, a massive smoke spray and explosions erupting around them from the power in the colors of red with a faint hint of green. Tommy's team splits off as he turns to Jason's team, throwing a coin at Jason. "You'll need this!" Jason catches the coin that gives a faint green glow and nods.

Team Kyo blitz into action. Kyo speeds on his own, the Four Kings splitting off in their own group. Benitora and Shinrei each split on their own, Yukimura and Sasuke running off together in another direction. Kyoshiro sighs at everyone's bloodthirsty behavior and remains aware of his surroundings.

Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara rush in their own group, Jin, Toya, Chu, and Shishiwakamaru going off in another separate group. Yusuke calls out, "Happy hunting!" Yomi and Mukuro each go their own direction, Hiei calling out for Mukuro to watch her back, to which she smiles at him and continues on.

With that... all sides clash.

Battle one

Kenpachi speeds smiles madly, laughing to himself as he sprints through the battleground. He looks around, wondering where to go for an opponent. So many to choose! Oh, he tries to sense out a prey, but he was always horrid with direction.

As if in answer to his prayer for a fight, a cloaked individual suddenly lands in front of him. A wave of power pushes from him, an invisible... Force. Kenpachi is halted by the repulse as he readies his blade, chuckling. "What's this? A volunteer dead man."

The cloaked individual huffs as he removes the cloak, revealing a gray skinned man covered head to toe in armor, save for a few open spots. He removes a hilt. "An animal, hm? I should have no trouble putting you down."

Kenpachi brandishes his sword and closes in, slashing and hacking away at the man who is surprised with how easy the provocation was. He didn't even TRY to lure an attack, this guy just gave it to him. Darth Krayt dodges nimbly and easily, the slashes sent at him far too slow for his taste, though the power behind them he could feel. Krayt uses a push, knocking the hulking man back. Kenpachi smiles, removing his eye patch and letting his power free. He charges.

"I might need to take this seriously?" However, Krayt dodges with inhuman reaction. In fact, he was moving before Kenpachi's swing even happened. This thought actually made him stop. "What's this? You're predicting me?!" He sends a slash that launches a wave of energy at Krayt, who throws his hand up. The blast halts cleanly, ten feet in front of him, though Krayt feels a kick from it, flinching at the impact. His eyes widen as Krayt ducks left, Kenpachi's sword stabbing through the smoke and missing his head. Krayt ducks under Kenpachi's guard and activates his red lightsaber, thrusting directly into Kenpachi's gut.

Krayt feels satisfaction at his hit. "A loud talker who needed put down."

…. "What the hell was that? An attack?" The voice surprises Krayt as a hand grips his shoulder, keeping him still as Kenpachi slashes at him, landing a clean hit and leaving a deep wound on Krayt's side. Krayt parries the next set of slashes using his red saber. He open's Kenpachi up and lands two more slashes before infusing his hand with lightning and palm striking the hulking enemy away from him for distance.

Kenpachi skids to a halt, having felt obvious pain, but his chest... Krayt sees a very slight set of burns in each spot his saber hit. It didn't even get through the layers of the skin tissue! "What is this?"

Kenpachi grins madly. "Good palm hit, but hate to tell you that your weapon is worthless. Pathetic." He removes his top, leaving himself shirtless as he pulls his sword forth. "Let me show you real power!" His power erupts, leaving Krayt to deactivate his saber, seeing it was useless.

Krayt thinks on this. His saber isn't able to cut him. His saber hits with heat energy, so this man's skin can survive heat based attacks and strikes. However, the power of Krayt's force attacks have been easily knocking him back and forth. He keeps his saber ready in hand to reignite, in case of needing to deflect an attack. His entire offense will have to be force based.

Kenpachi appears again, his sword now replaced with a MASSIVE ax. He smiles as he readies himself to attack, bringing the weapon up as he charges forth. This leads to a flurry of hacking slashes with the weapon at quickening speeds. However, similar to before, Krayt dodges them. His focus is solely on dodging each strike. Kenpachi notices again. The movement beginning almost before he's even making the next attack. Kenpachi smirks. He suddenly switches his pattern with a feint attack, stopping to gather power behind a power strike slashing vertically onto Krayt. However, Krayt yet again was ready. His saber hand comes up, the red blade appearing as he blocks the hit, the ground around them cracking. Kenpachi tries to pull back, but coughs out. He tries to say the word 'what', but can't even begin. He sees Krayt's off hand, fingers flexed and clenching near each other.

He finally realizes. Precognition! This guy isn't just faster than him, but also seeing his attacks in that split second before they happen! "Correct." Krayt comments. "And before you wonder. Yes, I can penetrate your thoughts too." His hand closes in towards Kenpachi. "I made the mistake of thinking you defeated so easily, and you wounded me. I will not make that mistake again." He then uses a mental attack as well as a choke, Kenpachi beginning to float just off the ground. Krayt raises both hands, concentrating on making his opponent submit.

That's when Kenpachi chokes out. "KA. BAN-" He gurgles as he stresses the next syllable. "KAI!"

Krayt leaps away as energy explodes from the man. The uproar sends a shockwave out, Krayt's natural force shields forming as his takes the hit and resists it, though he staggers just a bit. Krayt is heavily intrigued by this, but knows he can't mess around. This must end now.

In front of him, Kenpachi is no longer wielding an ax. His skin is red, black markings decorating his body, with horns on his head. Krayt is startled by the sudden increase in uncontrollable power. Kenpachi charges with full animalistic intent. Krayt attempts a mental attack, but this man's psyche has become too changed to properly commune with. He moves back, Kenpachi hitting the spot he was standing at and breaking the ground. He charges through, a blur chasing a back pedaling blur, Krayt parrying the odd punch and grab attempts with his saber.

Krayt leads him to the edge of the fighting stage. He throws both hands up, gripping Kenpachi in the force. Krayt inches back towards the edge. He speaks with venom. "You simple animal. Rage is a Sith's friend. Now, let me introduce YOU to it."

Kenpachi powers free, charging him at full pace. At the last moment, Krayt lets his own rage flow through him, empowering him in the force. He augments his speed as high as possible and dodges the lunge. Krayt moves under Kenpachi's arm, dashing to the side, then dashing behind Kenpachi. His wound on his side agitates him further and throws all his power forth, one hand firing a concussive push of power, the other launching a torrential lightning attack. Kenpachi turns into the combined blast. The area crackles with lightning and shakes as Kenpachi screams in pain, the blast moving him and launching him away... outside of the stage. As he falls, his red skin fades, and soon after so does he.

In a split second, Kenpachi lands inside the benching area for Team Bleach. He's out cold. Ichibe is shocked, no pun intended, as he glances down at Darth Krayt, who clutches his side painfully, turns, and runs back inward for another battle.

Battle two

Sasuke Uchiha dashes through the battlefield. His eyes scan back and forth for an enemy. However, his senses quickly pick up on the closing presence. Here, he was trying to avoid a direct fight... but if they want it.

He dodges back, a red blast hitting the ground he was at. Mukuro, the red haired demon woman, lands in front of him. They square up against each other. Mukuro smirks as she gets ready. "A strong silent type who seems to be equally strong willed. You remind me of another sword wielding man I know."

She eyes Sasuke's sword, Sasuke eerily coming off like Hiei. Sasuke huffs. "I would recommend you not face me. Not just because you can't win, but it wouldn't help your universe." Sasuke's eyes have already sensed her out, seeing the strength she has. She's formidable, but he was confident.

She keeps her smirk. "Same arrogance too. Although, at least he has both arms." She radiates demonic energy as she fires a blast at Sasuke.

The blast hits... only to disappear. Sasuke's body engulfs the blast until its gone. Rinnegan, Preta Path. Sasuke slowly draws his sword, staring into her surprised expression with his sharingan, already casting his first genjutsu. "Very well."

Moments later, Hiei and his group glance across the battlefield, seeing a blast of lightning and black, what Hiei makes out as flames, as they feel out what happened, finally realizing what happened as Hiei builds a bad feeling. Kurama has taken his time to spread around seeds for plants capable of growing over the battlefield and collecting information for him. Surveillance is his strategy. Kurama looks through the plants, quickly seeing the issue.

The battle was only a few minutes long as other battles raged, but Sasuke now clutched Mukuro's unconscious form in his own hand that crackled with electricity before throwing her off the stage.

She lands in the stands, still out cold. Kurama shakes his head as they all feel anger at the loss so soon into the tournament.

Battle three

"Damn it, Natsu!" Lucy calls, herself and Wendy having lost their way in their attempt to follow the hyperactive song of ice and fire.

Wendy merely sweat drops and sighs. "To be fair, Gray is equally to blame keeping up with him." The two kept going, seeing explosions across the battlefield. She catches the sight of a yellow burst of energy from Kenpachi vs Krayt. She sniffs around as they run, her Dragon Slayer senses helping keep them on trail to get to Natsu. That is, until- "Lucy!"

The two of them stop and take defensive postures, only to be left confused. In front of them was a stumbling man who seemed utterly happy and possibly drunk? No, he's just happy and eccentric. A long black haired swordsman with a pretty face. Lucy reaches for her keys, Wendy calling up power, but the samurai holds his hands up to placate them. "Whoa, there. Hello!" He says cheery. "Is there no way to simply sit down and talk about this?" He opens his eyes to appraise the two girls, his eyes finding Wendy for a moment before he smiles wide. "Sasuke! I found a girl for you!"

Wendy's senses pick up the second presence just in time, dodging to the side as a young white haired boy with red eyes narrowly misses a fatal strike, speeding past her and Wendy. He skids to a halt beside his ally. The boy, indeed near Wendy's age, scowled at his ally. "Lord Yukimura, we're supposed to fight them."

Yukimura smiles cheery and pats his head. "Come now, don't be like that! I'm sure you can get along with her!"

"For once, could you just focus!" Sasuke chides his master.

Wendy gets ready, Lucy mimicking her and retrieving her first key. Lucy yells out. "Are you going to fight us?"

Yukimura, with no sound, appears right beside her, smiling wide. "I mean, no one should want to fight such a lovely girl."

Lucy almost found herself charmed, but leaps back. "Open: Gate of the Golden Bull!" From a golden light, a large warrior, a humanoid bull wielding a large ax, appears in front of her.

"OOOooooo! How dare you put the MOOOooooves on Lucy!" He scream out, moo puns a plenty. He lashes out at the long haired young looking man. Yukimura's smile is gone at this point, a blank confused look, maybe interested in where this creature came from.

Sasuke comes in and slashes Taurus' back. Yukimura's eye goes from calm to dangerous in an instant, attacking viciously and scoring hits on the stunned bull. Lucy calls forth her celestial dresses, wearing the dress granting her power akin to the Lion Constellation, Leo. She readies her whip, lashing out at the two swordsmen assaulting her spirit.

Wendy gathers power. "Fast winds that run the heavens. Vernier!" A magical aura forms around herself, Lucy, and Taurus. She then yells out. "Armor! Arms!" The two enchantments add on top of the first two. Vernier to increase speed, Armor to harden the skin, and arms to increase the magic power released in their magic attacks through arm use.

Yukimure slashes at Taurus again, the bull's skin blocking the sword as he launches a counter attack, the swordsman nimbly dodging, surprised. That's when Lucy's whip wraps around his leg, Lucy pulling him away from Taurus and slamming him into the ground. Yukimura stands up, slightly shaken, to see Taurus speeding at him. The bull's wounds are healed?! He turns to spot Wendy, seemingly chanting.

He dodges away from Taurus and smiles. "I see. No one messes with the white mage, huh?" He dashes around Taurus and parries a whip attack, distracting both attackers. "Sasuke!"

On command, the small boy appears between himself and Taurus, his sword coating itself with lightning as he impales Taurus through the chest, using the lightning to increase cutting power. Taurus coughs out before disappearing. "Taurus!" Lucy yells out. She pulls the next key, Sasuke already sprinting at her to cut her off.

"Ile!" The chant doubles the previous three enchantments, Wendy dashing in and cutting Sasuke off from Lucy, wind clashing with a blast of lightning and forking it away from herself and the blonde. Suddenly, Yukimura lands behind her, swinging at her temple. She ducks to the side, but won't be able to dodge it. "Deus Corona!" Her defensive enchantments stacks with another increasing her defense more. The sword bashes her head, knocking her as if she'd been struck by a bat. Sasuke moves in with lightning charged in his sword. Wendy calls out. "Deus Eques. Physical Ability Rise!" wind spirals around her leg as she kicks at Sasuke, the swordsman using his sword to block and getting launched away, bouncing across the ground as the distance between them grows.

Wendy turns back to Yukimura, bringing up a wind barrier that blocks a thrust from the man. She pushes a wind counter attack at him, but he dodges and leaps back. Wendy starts to get worried, seeing Sasuke charging back. All these enchantments and these guys still maintain a speed advantage?! Luckily for her, Lucy calls out. "Open: Gate of the Giant Crab! Open: Gate of the Archer!" Both spirits appear, a stylist looking man with crab appendages and a male archer wearing a horse head fixture.

The crab smirks. "Hello, baby!"

The horse man salutes. "May my aim be true!"

The crab, Cancer, speeds in at Sasuke, using scissor like blades in his hands to clash with the boy. The archer, Sagittarius, sends several flaming arrows at Yukimura, who slashes them out of the air. Wendy uses the bought time to send an air repulse, forcing both fighters to leap back to dodge. They regroup, faced against the two female combatants.

Lucy charges up a blast of light. "Light of Regulus!" She begins charging an attack of light. Wendy takes time to breath in and recover some power as her enchantments wear off. Lucy pulls a third key out. "Open: Gate of the Scorpion!" Summoning a man with a large scorpion tail, Scorpio.

During this time, the other two spirits fend off Yukimura and Sasuke, only for Sasuke to slice through Cancer's blades and through him, and Yukimura to score a head hit on Sagittarius. The spirits disappear, but the two see Wendy, Lucy, and Scorpio all glowing.

Lucy and Wendy call out. "Unison Raid!" Their powers combine and multiply, Lucy firing a blast of light, Scorpio firing a large sand attack from his tail, and Wendy breathing in. "Sky Dragon Roar!" A massive wind blast fires from his mouth akin to a dragon's breath attack.

The three attacks fuse as they close in on the two swordsmen. Sasuke's eyes widen as his eyes scan the battlefield, seeing debris scattered. Perfect! He quickly replaces himself with an illusion of himself that is really just debris. His image is engulfed in the blast as the attack closes in on the surprised but calm Yukimura.

… "Sekireigan!" Yukimura seems to stand still as five more Yukimuras appear from his body, scattering in all directions. He's engulfed in the blast as the attack hits hard enough to cause a large detonation and shake the stage.

Lucy, Wendy, and Scorpio all breath heavy, seeing Sasuke off to the side, also breathing heavy for barely dodging that attack. Suddenly, the five images of Yukimura appear behind the two fairy tail mages and spirit, each having finished a slash. Two on Scorpio to dispel him, one on Lucy's right arm to hinder her whip usage, and two on Wendy's chest and back to subdue the support fighter. Four of the images flicker away, leaving one Yukimura standing still as he gasps. The technique still takes a lot out of him, but he soon gets his breathing under control. He turns the Lucy and Wendy, breathing hard. "Well, I am certainly impressed by you both, but I can't mess with you anymore." Sekireigan, the move that increases the user's speed beyond light speed as well as slight time distortion to launch several attacks at once.

Lucy gets to her feat. "We can't lose! We're Fairy Tail mages!" She grabs her whip off the ground with her left hand. She scowls at him defiantly.

Yukimura sighs, "And here I thought I was being TOO cautious when I took these." He holds up her key pouch. He begins a run at her to end it when a golden flash sparks between them, a fist narrowly missing Yukimura and hitting the ground. An orange haired man wearing a suit, tie, and black tinted glasses appears in front of Lucy. Yukimura smiles at the newcomer. "And here I thought these keys were required for these summons."

Lucy shakes as she steps towards the summon, the spirit of the Lion, Leo, otherwise known to Fairy Tail as Loki. He speaks up at Yukimura. "I can summon myself, bastard." His power flares as light energy forms around him. "Lucy stand back!"

Yukimura sighs. "If you can't properly hit us, you won't win." He stares back, just as serious as Loki, "This ends now."

Loki powers up his energy. He'll need to use all his power at once. The longer he's out on his own power, the more it slowly fades, so it's now or never. Lucy stands with him, still brandishing the whip in her left hand as she charges light energy similar to himself.

However, all are surprised when Wendy is back on her feet, her own power rocketing up. She stares up at Yukimura, ignoring the intense pain from the two wounds inflicted on her, blood on her front and back, and also dripping down her head from the blow she took earlier. Her power continues to rise as her hair goes wild, going from pure blue to a bright pink. She enters the form of Dragon Force.

In unison, the three fighters charge Yukimura, faster and more invigorated than ever... as lightning channels across the ground underneath them all, forming a spider web. The shocks slow and hinder all three Fairy Tail fighters, injuring them. Yukimura separates into six images of himself yet again for Sekireigan, charging Loki and Lucy.

And just above Wendy, the equally young Sasuke comes down, his sword radiating a torrent of lightning as he swings down at her. She spins around and tries to meet his speed with her power. He calls out. "Raijin Honoikazuchi!" (Thunder Fire)

The entire field blinds as lightning, wind, and light burst together...

A few moments later, at the edge of the arena … Lucy is dropped off, quickly flickering out from free fall and into the Fairy Tail stands. Yukimura sighs, showing battle damage, but seemingly still in high spirits. Sasuke trails behind him, carrying Wendy, back to blue hair and unconscious, as he gently tosses her off, her form fading after a few seconds and landing in her team's stands.

Sasuke growls out, covered in scrapes. "That was annoying." He eyes his master. "And you used Sekireigan twice already. Three more is your limit."

Yukimura waves off his concern. "Oh ho! Don't mind it." He saunters off. "Come Sasuke, there's more to do."

Battle four

Not too far away, another battle has just concluded. A battle that took place at Fairy Tail's starting position... Makarov Dreyer was left alone...

Yomi stands, from Yu Yu Hakusho's team, gripping the old man by the throat. Yomi shows obvious signs of battle, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, but his expression shows no pain, eyes closed as they almost always are. Makarov, on the other hand, appears out, having given his all. "You fought like a young man." He approaches the edge of the stage. "Nothing held back."

As he gets to the edge, Makarov opens his eyes, straining to breath as his hands come together, a golden light forming between his hands. Yomi continues, "Admirable-" His fist shoots forth, bashing Makarov off the stage and out of the tournament. "But mistaken." The old man had put up everything he could, but Yomi was too much, too fast. Even had Fairy Law been able to cast, the ability drains the user based on how powerful all its targets and their numbers are. It likely would have killed him here, and techniques that kill are not allowed.

With that, three bodies now inhabit Fairy Tail's stands. Far off, Gajeel, Gildarts, and Laxus all see the new arrivals in the stands with horror as they still search for their battles.

Battle five

Lightning and Noctis run side by side, Noctis glancing between directions while Lightning remains focused on what's ahead. Lightning readies her sword and shield as Noctis summons his sword. In front of them, two targets wielding weapons charge back at them. They pick up pace to meet the enemy, coming face to face with Darui and Chojuro of Team Naruto. Darui slashes his blade to parry an attacking strike from Noctis, Lightning clashing and knocking Chojuro back.

Chojuro stops first and raises his hilt, the chakra in the weapon forming a shield, blocking Noctis. Darui forms seals behind Chojuro, lightning chakra sparking and creating a large number of energy balls that fire outward around Chojuro. "Laser Circuits!" The energies guide around his ally and home in on Noctis, who throws his personal dagger over Chojuro's shoulder. Just as the laser circuits close in, Noctis teleports to his dagger, directly between Chojuro and Darui. He swings his sword at the Raikage, only for sand to condense from around them into a barrier, blocking the attack for enough time that Darui rushes back. The sand clenches Noctis' blade and sucks it in. He decides to desummon the weapon, the sword disappearing, as he brings a short sword up to block Chojuro, who uses his weapon to form an ax.

Kurotsuchi comes down from above, only for Lightning to leap up at her and shield bash her away. Lightning lands and looks to the air, seeing Gaara up on a sand platform. Flyers... great. Chojuro and Noctis exchange blows, the Mizukage shifting his weapon's form to adapt to Noctis conjuring new weapons from seemingly nowhere. However, Noctis nimbly flicks his dagger into the air. Chojuro fails to notice as he goes for the next swing, Noctis disappearing before the attack lands. Chojuro picks up on his presence, leaping backwards as Noctis comes down with a polearm, striking the ground with enough force to break the surface. He twirls the weapon, knocking Chojuro's weapon aside and scoring a wound on Chojuro's arm.

Darui and Kurotsuchi try to double team Lightning, but she proves to be immensely faster and stronger than both of them. The female Tsuchikage creates a cement to cover the ground around Lightning, but Lightning strikes the ground with enough force to uplift the surface. She leaps onto the uplifted ground and jumps over the cement, firing several magic lightning blasts to be deflected by Darui. She lands and knocks him away before dodging Kurotsuchi's next attack, grabbing her and tossing her at Darui. She pursues them, sparing a single glance at Noctis, confident that he can win his fight.

Gaara rains sand attacks from above, Noctis dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, and dodging with the use of his dagger. Chojuro charges after him, swinging away with his weapon, now forming a long sword. Noctis is aware that he can overpower Chojuro, but he can't get the chance dodging Gaara. His next dagger throw warps him into the air, away from Chojuro. He throws the dagger now at Gaara, the Kazekage's sand forming a shield between himself and the coming dagger. Noctis warps to his dagger just before it hits the barrier, throwing a conjured sword at the barrier before throwing his dagger at a different angle.

The barrier was formed to block a dagger, not the full sized sword, the blade piercing through as Gaara ducks to the side, the same side the dagger is at. His sand begins to react, but Noctis appears, landing a melee strike on Gaara to knock him off his own sand platform. Gaara clenches his fist, the platform morphing to grab and crush Noctis.

Noctis switches his magic defensively. The sand seems to hit him, but he moves through the sand in a quick movement, having dodged it instead. He falls from the sand and lands on the ground, lightning panting.

Gaara lands, clutching his cheek, as Chojuro approaches. "This guy is too hard to nail down." Gaara nods at Chojuro's statement.

"His speed is on par with ours, unlike the other one who's faster. You have a jutsu that can lead him into my sand?" Chojuro shakes his head.

"Not exactly, but I have the next best thing. I can hold him off for a bit if you have a trick that you can charge."

Gaara kneels and places his hand on the ground, feeling the hardness of the ground. "I think I can make it work." He looks at his ally. "Be careful." Chojuro smiles as he steps forth. "Wait." Gaara states as some of his sand washes over Chojuro, seemingly disappearing and leaving a him spotless. "Sand armor..."

Chojuro glances at his injured arm, the sand armor covering the wound and working as a makeshift bandage. He nods and charges ahead, Noctis getting ready.

The two clash, a flurry of blades clashing. Chojuro quickly begins working out his enemy's arsenal. Two swords, a lance, and a dagger. Chojuro forms a hammer from his sword hilt made of chakra, bashing Noctis' guard and knocking him back. Chojuro speeds through hand signs. "Water Style: Water Vortex Jutsu!" A spiral of water forms from the air, firing at Noctis who rushes back from the vortex to gain distance. Chojuro then forms another set of seals before placing one hand forward and one hand up. "Hidden Mist Jutsu!"

The air around them moistens as mist appears, masking the area and blinding Noctis. He glances around, finding nothing. He narrows his eyes at the mist. He defeated Leviathan. Some water user can't threaten him. He channels his magic defensively, phasing and dodging through a near certain death strike from Chojuro before he disappears into the mist.

Noctis continues dodging and avoiding attacks he wouldn't be able to avoid otherwise for a good minute. He waits for then next moment he feels an attack going, casting Barrier. Instead of phasing through, Chojuro's attack is repelled, leaving him off balance as Noctis then hits him with Firaga. The explosion dispels a large portion of the mist, the fire destroying a good bit of the sand armor and leaving glass particles in the air. Chojuro gets back up, counting with a water dragon jutsu, only for Noctis to then use deflect, the dragon going back and hitting a water close substitution of Chojuro.

Chojuro dashes away from the mist, only for Noctis to rush through after him, closing the distance with another warp throw and slashing at him, inflicting a second wound across Chojuro's chest. Noctis stands over Chojuro, weapon raised at him. "Surrender."

Chojuro is stunned for a moment, before noticing some sand in the air. He smirks, substituting for water again, leaving Noctis confused for just a moment as the ground below him turns to sand. Noctis is shaken and warp throws into the air, sand forming from the entire ground below and chasing into the air and enclosing around Noctis, capturing him.

Chojuro lands with Gaara. The two watching an extreme mass of sand floating in front of them and a large crater in the battlefield. Chojuro breaths exhausted. "That was rough."

Gaara nods. "The make of the fighting stage was hard to break down into sand-like material to use, but controlling it is no different from the gold I've incorporated before. It took a great deal of effort to make enough sand from this place to trap him before he'd get away."

The sand floats away, Gaara meaning to release Noctis over the edge. He carries it until the sand is well over the edge of the stage.

However … that is when the outside of the sand explodes outward, Noctis bursting forth and landing back on the stage, surprising Gaara and Chojuro. Surrounding Noctis are each of the Royal Arms, weapons of the royal family. This is the Armiger Limit break, his power flowing with magic power. His speed, strength, power increase immensely. He speed blitz's them, making one real strike on Chojuro as several of the other weapons float around and strike as well, launching an injured Chojuro up. He warp throws up after him, grabbing him and throwing him off the stage.

Gaara tries to use the sand outside the stage to catch Chojuro, but his concentration is destroyed as Noctis is already on him, striking him and breaking the sand armor around him. Noctis breaks through Gaara's Ultimate Defense sand, bashing him off the stage as well. Noctis throws his weapons after, breaking apart any sand that could catch them as the two fall off. Noctis calls the weapons back with ease as the Armiger wears off, leaving him momentarily gassed.

Gaara and Chojuro disappear, reappearing in the stands.

Noctis sighs, content, as he turns to find a somewhat dirty Lightning. He glances up at Naruto's stands, finding Darui and Kurotsuchi there as well. Noctis and Lightning nod to each other as they walk off.

Battle six

Squall and Zidane, like their allies who just won, rush forth together. They look to and fro before halting, taking combat ready positions.

In front of them, a wind storm bursts mixed with ice. An Irish voice calls down at them from above. They stare up at a red haired demon man with wind spiraling around his legs to fly. He smirks at there. "Well, ther' boys. Ya' wouldn't happen to be tryna' get past here, would ya?"

Toya appears from where the wind and ice had cut them off. He takes a combat position, eager to charge them. "So, which two of us will take these guys down?"

Behind them, Chu smashes into the ground, cracking his knuckles with a smirk. "I call first dibs."

Shishiwakamaru appears with Chu. "I say we just get to it."

Squall huffs, lifting his gunblade nonchalantly and letting its back on his shoulder. "I have a better idea. We'll just eliminate all four of you at once." Squall speaks softly to Zidane. "You're more agile than I am. Once their abilities are known, move around my attacks to secure the take-downs."

While Zidane is more than aware that Squall is much faster and stronger than his base form, he was confident in his own abilities to move, avoid, evade, and strike. He nodded before leaping after a charging Squall at the two demons in front of them, the two behind charging in as well.

Battle seven

The Four Kings, Hotaru, Akira, Akari, and Bontenmaru, travel in a group, searching for intended targets. Bontenmaru sighs. Being the hulking behemoth of the group, he towers above them. "As much as this is like old times, we can't seem to find any groups." His one exposed eye scans the field, seeing fighting in the distance and other areas obscured by large attacks.

"stop!" Akira warns them, the smaller white haired young man holding his arms out to stop the three behind them. He tilts his head to the left, sensing. The young man's eyes remained closed. Hearts Eye, the sacrifice of sight to increase instincts and physical ability. His senses detect a presence. "Straight left-"

Hotaru, blonde haired wearing a long sleeve loose top shirt with shorts, draws his double sided sword, the other side having a dagger and the main side a sword, charges head on.

Kain Highwind, lance wielding dragoon of the Final Fantasy team, rushes off, picking up the trail of another opponent. Hotaru drops in front of him, cutting him off. The other three catch up, Akira quickly chiding him for simply running in.

Hotaru gives him a blank look. "What do you mean? I had to call him before you did."

Akira's closed eyes twitch. "So you charge in so you get first crack." He transitions to a smile. "True." He was also equally excited for a battle, but he would prefer at least getting a look at the enemy first. Bontenmaru and Akari each land next to them.

Akari quickly bashed both Akira and Hotaru in the back of the head with a sadistic grin. Akira quickly shot back. "Why are you hitting me?! He ran off."

"Because I felt like it." She countered, smiling at their opponent. "Now that you two are done, I'll take him." She sways back and forth seductively, Kain only getting further confused.

Bontenmaru comments. "I don't want to see that. Hey, friend, She is actually a he."

Akari twitches just when 'she' was in range of the confused Kain. Kain took the moment to strike and knock her back. Akari skids to a halt, her spiked rod up to block a subsequent hit. "Damn it, Bontenmaru!" He inner power flows around her rod, a wind like energy firing at Kain. "Soul Vamp!"

Kain tries to block the hit, but the energy connects to him as his energy is slowly drained. He does a quick lunge, closing the distance faster than Akari expected. Bontenmaru reaches quickly and grabs her, pulling her back, Kain missing his attack by a hairy. He goes for a second swing, Akari using her scepter like rod to clash and hold his weapon still. Bontenmaru pulls his wooden sword out, bashing Kain's arm, knocking Kain's arm from gripping his weapon, Akari pushing the weapon hand aside, leaving him with both arms out and chest exposed.

Kain's eyes widen, a flash of ice spiking towards him from between Akari and Bontenmaru. Kain, faster than any of the three attackers, leaps away, the ice striking where he stood just a second earlier. Akira lands, twin swords in his hands with ice lightly coated on them. Kain leaps up, swooping in and striking where the three stand. They narrowly dodge, but are all three sent back.

They stop back with Hotaru, Akira turning his head towards him despite his closed eyes. "You waiting for an invitation?"

Hotaru blankly replies. "I'm allowed to fight now?" he says, looking truly enlightened by the notion. He looks at the enemy as Akari and Bontenmaru charge him. "He's as fast as a Mibu, but hits harder than Kyo." His look doesn't change, though his voice drones slightly. "He's too strong for Bontenmaru, and too fast for Akari to be able to finish him." He spares a glance at Akira. "If you want to cripple yourself, you could do it." He states with no suggestion about it, but follows up with, "I'll do it."

Akira startles as Hotaru dashes forward, parrying an attack to protect Akari quickly. Akira watches. It's true. He COULD defeat this guy, but it would require a technique that would leave him heavily exhausted. However, Hotaru's entire arsenal burns his stamina the longer he fights. This will only work out if he manages to get a hit quickly. Bontenmaru and Akari come to the same conclusions as him, but leaping back.

Kain is focused. A brute with a wooden sword. A man dressed as a woman fighting with a scepter and able to drain you. The youngest is a master sensor who uses ice. However, this one has yet to use an attack on him. Hotaru begins running his hand over his skin, his fingers leaving blood colored ink over his skin. This continues until he has tribal markings over his entire body. Once finished, he readies his sword. "Moenn." His blood markings emit ki from the surrounding environment, empowering his body and increasing his power at the cost of stamina. Suddenly, it doubles in power, the markings emitting flames around his body and further increasing his power and ability. He thinks to himself. "Just one hit."

With that, both sides clash at blinding speed. Kain leaps and uses swooping strikes, blocked and countered by flame empowered strikes from Hotaru. Hotaru parries a lance strike up and kicks him away. Hotaru swings his sword. "Suzaku!" His flame fires a massive phoenix made of fire. However, Kain simply twirls the lance, blocking the attack and the resulting explosion. Hotaru leaps up, and suddenly does a swooping motion identical to Kain's.

The dragoon warrior dodges the mimicry of his own style, realizing. "He's copying me?!" He attacks, Hotaru twirling his sword, the dagger side parrying the attack as he counters with the sword side. He lands a hit on Kain as Kain returns the favor, each scoring light wounds on each other. A drop of Hotaru's blood lands on Kain's cheek.

They separate, Kain reaching up to wipe the blood from his cheek, but it disappears. His confusion is short lived as he focuses on Hotaru, who stands lit in flames with no sign of it affecting him. Kain smiles. "I guess it's time to use my full power." He hadn't even used his full power, the Holy Dragon power.

Hotaru looks surprised, then disappointed. "Oh, you should have done that sooner. I'm sorry." Kain almost questions what he means before shuddering, his body heats up. Hotaru speaks out. "Keikoku." He clutches his chest, then his head. He suppresses some pained grunts, his skin turning red and his breath distorting the air from the high temperature. In just a moment, his body is lit on fire.

The blood markings as its known empower the body of the user, the second level of the marks interact with the users other powers, which is Hotaru's Moenn that coats himself in flames and further increases the power from the blood markings, which are made with his own blood. An enhancement of this power is Keikoku, allowing some of his blood to dissolve into his opponents skin … before lighting on fire from the inside out. At that point, the only thing that stops the flames is Hotaru's will or your death. Even killing him will not shut the flames off as once inside, the power for the burning blood feeds off the victim.

Hotaru wastes no time, rushing towards Kain and grabbing the helpless man. Kain's body begins to give out, the fire burning around and inside him burning hotter. Hotaru takes him to the edge of the arena, throwing him out.

Hotaru keeps an eye on him as he falls... and disappears. A flaming beacon lands in the Final Fantasy stands, Hotaru ending the technique and his control of the flames, the fires going out in an instant, leaving Kain breathing heavily in pain in the benches. Hotaru then ends his blood markings power, the flames around him dissipating while he wipes the marks off slowly.

He shakes to the side, a supportive hand keeping him upright. He turns to see Bontenmaru supporting him. "Don't tire yourself out too fast." The two smirk. With that the Four Kings move on.

Up in the stands, Kain looks down on the battlefield, ashamed to be the first loss of his team. However, he then sees four more fighters in the Yu Yu Hakusho stands, the four demons that just attacked Squall and Zidane. Kain smirks. He fought hard, but his team is still taking names.

Battle eight

A knight's sword and a masamune clash, Warrior of Light and Kyoshiro separating. Warrior of Light came across the passive samurai and engaged him. The two of them see the burning pyre that appeared in the Final Fantasy benches. He sees that Kain has lost, which greatly annoys him. Warrior of Light turns to Kyoshiro, who is already breathing heavy.

This fight has not gone his way at all. While Kyoshiro is more than twice as fast as the Warrior of Light, he found that the warrior's armor and defenses repelled anything and everything he was throwing at him. The knight also has a great deal more power. Kyoshiro fancied himself a defensive fighter, but facing an enemy with a sword and shield mentality, he was being forced into the initiative role.

This wasn't a contest of skill. It was simply a mismatch he would have to try and overcome. Warrior of Light(Calling him WoL from now on) goes on the offensive, using his Fire Fang attack to launch several fireballs. Kyoshiro falls into his techniques, known together as the Mumyo Jinpuu Ryu, a style utilizing ki techniques with sword skills. He uses his basic attack, Mizuchi, making quick near imperceptible slashes to send wind slashes into the oncoming fireballs and igniting them before they get to him.

WoL gets through the debris, attacking shield first then beginning a series of sword slashes. Kyoshiro parries and uses the defensive trap technique, Genbu. Air currents change and condense into snake like shapes of wind that attack WoL, who uses a flurry to fend them off. However, Kyoshiro quickly ducks away, the rest of the technique setting in. Compressed air encloses WoL in a dome, leaving him trapping with the wind made serpents. This is the attack of Genbu the turtle, to be trapped inside his shell. The air compresses and decompresses, changing the air pressure to suffocate WoL, but the warrior is already preparing for the inevitable. Sudddenly, the outer shell disappears, the intake of air creating a flameless explosion. However, WoL uses Shield of Light, releasing a burst of energy from his body to cancel the forces. He took some blunt damage, but nothing he can't handle.

Kyoshiro would be too optimistic to think his opponent would be beaten that easily. While the initial explosion was canceled, he uses the distraction to go to the next technique, sending dozens of slashes manipulating the wind to cut and knock WoL into the air, the warrior deflecting most and his armor protecting from the rest. Kyoshiro appears above him, the air around him forming the shape of the dragon technique, Sieryu, to knock the opponent up with an advancement of the earlier Mizuchi and then put everything into a strike back down to earth.

Rather than wait for the attack to come, WoL throws his shield directly at the incoming attack. The shield bashes into it before a magic force pulls the two together. A counter attack with his sword! The two attacks clash, blasting the to apart in midair.

WoL follows up the separation by releasing a shining wave of energy, tracking through the air at the landing Kyoshiro, who dodges forward and closes the distance. Weary of whatever other techniques he might have, WoL pulls back, Kyoshiro unleashing yet another wind attack, several wind slashing currents missing the spot he'd just stood.

But that's when WoL notices the slashes from behind him. He looks back in front, seeing Kyoshiro attacking from the front. A pincer move, dodging only guarantees it hits you! Kyoshiro smirks, hoping to land the third of his style's key four moves, Byakko the tiger. Each side representing a slashing claw. WoL, unfortunately, held yet another counter, using Rune Saber. He conjures a field of energy, blasting the pincer attack behind him. The energies form around his blade, empowering and extending the sword as he slashes head on at Kyoshiro's forward attack. They clash in a burst of energy, Kyoshiro being launched back and skidding to a halt on his feet.

He breathes heavy for a moment. The move Byakko is meant to guarantee a winning strike. WoL took it head on as a challenge. The move Sieryu offsets their position and leaves them vulnerable. WoL had a recovery and counter. The move Genbu is defense and meant to trap. WoL broke it's end! Well, if that's the case, guess there's still one more of the main four to use.

Kyoshiro brings his sword up, the air around it heating up. "Suzaku!" He swings, the air igniting from friction to create a fire bird, the phoenix Suzaku. Unlike Hotaru's variation of the move, this one has a twist that WoL won't like.

WoL sees the bird coming, empowering his sword with light yet again. With a single slash, he sends forth several conjured swords of light as projectiles, the beam like blades downing the phoenix before it gets at him, dissipating the fire.

WoL stares at the disappearing bird, then to Kyoshiro who hasn't moved. Is that all? He prepares to charge, only for the bird to reform where it was and continue its charge. This time WoL uses his own blade to cut through the attack, smashing it. A double attack? Hmph. Annoying, but effective against most opponents, but not him.

WoL charges past the spot, rushing Kyoshiro who still hasn't moved, causing WoL to stop. Is this a trap? He's luring him into another trap like that turtle move. However, he feels the heat in the air again, turning around as the phoenix reforms yet again right behind him. The attack hits, obscuring WoL in an explosion of flames.

Just as the legend of a phoenix reforming, the attack of Suzaku reforms infinitely until dispelled in one of two ways: it hits its target or the victim manages to perfectly match and clash it's level of power perfectly. Overpowering it or redirecting it will not work.

However, WoL emerges from the debris, showing damage to his armor, but still unimpressed. Kyoshiro's eyes widen as he's aware of his options shrinking. He can't trick his way into a victory. His stamina will run out before he can take out WoL's defenses. WoL might even figure out Suzaku's workaround, which would cost him the only damaging move he's landed a hit with. Guess it's already time for one of his two trump cards.

He holds his masamune in front with both of his hands firm. His power flexes as all four of the attacks from before conjure around him, images of Genbu the turle, Sieryu the dragon, Suzaku the phoenix, and Byakko the tiger. All the beasts combine, the energies combining into a massive golden light around Kyoshiro. The spirit beasts go into the sky above WoL, the energies forming a massive golden dragon, the final attack named Kouryu. The attack comes down at WoL, filling his vision with only the glow of the attack as he's engulfed in it.

Like a beacon that can be seen from across the battlefield, Kyoshiro breathing hard as it ends. He sighs with the debris falling, most of the rocks from the ground being temporarily suspended in the air from the storm the attack brought. "Now, to throw him out-" Kyoshiro stops as the storm clears.

This was not the Warrior of light he was facing before. What appears is the Warrior of Light's trump card, Class Change, becoming not a Warrior, but a Knight. His newly transformed armor shows clear damage taken from the attack he just tanked. He brings his shield up, using the Mirror Attack ability to send a portion of captured energy from Kyoshiro's attack back at him. The samurai moves quickly, the blast missing, but the Knight of Light (Now calling him KoL), closes the gap. Thankfully not much faster, still giving Kyoshiro a speed advantage, the two begin a flurry of strikes and parries, his armor much more effective now.

Kyoshiro uses a close range Mizuchi, only for KoL to use Protect and block it perfectly. Suddenly, KoL's sword releases several blades of light firing out at Kyoshiro, each scoring hits on him and knocking him away. The samurai stumbles and is sent rolling on the ground before getting to his feat close to the edge of the stage.

KoL rushes to keep the pressure on, seeing Kyoshiro channel power into his eyes for something. However, before he can find out what, a new addition to the fight appears. The bandana wearing man with a trident like spear, Benitora, from the Samurai Deeper Kyo team, lands between them with a smirk. "Now, now, I can't let you eliminate my friend, can I?"

Kyoshiro calls out. "Be careful, Benitora! He's stronger than you!"

Benitora keeps his gaze on KoL, smiling. "I'm aware of that." He readies his spear. "But I wouldn't exactly be a warrior if I didn't stand my ground, would I?"

KoL scowls, needing to get through this man to eliminate the clear threat. If what Kyoshiro stated was true, this shouldn't be hard. He charges the spear wielder, closing the distance and slashing through Benitora... with no resistance and going straight through. An illusion!

Around him, eight Benitora's smirk at him, readying their spears and thrusting at high speeds. "Reverse Hassun!" KoL uses his sword to block one attack aimed at his chest, conjuring seven light blades to block each of the thrusts from hitting the chest. So they're all solid when he needs them to be, huh? Too bad he didn't get a single-

KoL lurches and coughs up, blood dripping from his mouth. He lashes out, seven of the Benitoras getting hit and disappearing as the last blocks the counter, skidding back to Kyoshiro and breathing heavy already. Kyoshiro gets next to him. "You know that attack drains you." The two were out of breath, but were now in much better condition than their opponent.

KoL gets to his feat, his insides in pain. That attack? Benitora's signature move, the Hassun, utilizes his clones to create a whirlwind thrust that, even when missing, can take chunks out of an opponent, though the victim can block it if powerful. The Reverse variation creates eight clones, more than the usual, and each of the thrusts stop right at the point that they would impale the opponent. The vibrations in the air given off from the power of each thrust passes through any surface, any armor, into the body of the victim, shaking and quivering their insides, even liquidating the organs of some victims. It doesn't matter how powerful the armor. You're only choice is to stop the attack before it happens, which KoL almost did, had he known what to expect.

KoL defiantly stands tall, still able to go. Kyoshiro and Benitora get into combat positions. Benitora smiles at his friend. "This battle isn't over yet, it seems."

Before they clash again, KoL's focus shifts to the Final Fantasy stands... where he sees Cecil appear.

Battle nine

Firion falls from the stage, also taking his spot in the stands of his team. Up on the stage, only two of the original four man group of Final Fantasy fighters remain, Cloud and Tidus, the latter of which looking heavily beaten while the former is out of breath.

This was bad. They searched for opponents, only happening to come across the largest group in the tournament, the remaining eight Star Wars fighters. Outnumbered two to one, they weren't able to escape. Firion had taken on Kyle Katarn; Cecil had fought Jaina Solo, while Tidus fought Ben Skywalker backed by Leia and Cilghal.

Cloud on the otherhand was given the worst of it, facing Kyp Durron and Corran Horn who were backed by their leader, Luke. It was like fighting Loz and Yazoo in his own world if they were backed by Sephiroth. He'd hesitate against just the leader, but with the other two, he wasn't holding up well. Given the states of his comrades, they weren't holding well either.

Cloud calls to Tidus. "Try to get to the others."

Tidus glares at him. "No! No way are you Auroning me right now!"

Cloud huffs. "We won't beat these guys as we are, and we can't get away. You need to get out of here while I hold them. It'll take a lot to face this group."

Tidus lets out a growl. "Not that I could get away anyway. We should just try to take as many down as we can!" A moment of pause before the answer from Cloud, a simple shake of the head. "And why not?"

Cloud knew as he stared at the reason they wouldn't be able to take down anyone. Luke answers Cloud's stare dead on. As long as no one keeps him occupied, no one can eliminate the others. "Only him. I'm going to use everything to just get him."

"No." Cloud simply answers. "You're right, even the distraction I have won't hold them for long. I'll need you to help me take that one out." A single materia on his sword begins to glow. "I have my distraction ready."

Tidus growls, but finally lets out a scream in anger before taking off to the left. The team of jedi all begin launching rocks and debris at him while uprooting the ground under Tidus, but this is the star player of the Zanarkand Abes! He dodges the attacks and continues to make the run as the group is forced to turn attention to Cloud. Within an instant, seven of the eight star wars fighters are teleported from the fighting stage, reality warping with them in that spot. Luke is shocked and confused as Cloud takes this moment. Haste, Thundaga, Firaga, and everything else he can use to empower himself as he comes down with a Braver finisher, launching a blade beam with the slash as he clashes with Luke.

The other seven? They all land in a pocket dimension of sorts. They can't even fathom where they are for the moment, but they quickly realize the situation, seeing large behemoth sized knights surrounding them... the Knights of the Round summon. They begin fighting the summons within the summons' dimension.

Cloud locks his blade with Luke as Tidus lands on the other side. Cloud ducks back, his sword separating into several blades and surrounding the Jedi Master. Tidus charges all his power and goes for the kill with his limit breaks as well. Luke, in a split moment, brings out his red shoto saber in his left hand, with his green saber in his right. Within that moment, all that is seen are blurred movements, Cloud encased in golden light as his speed skyrockets, the swings of Tidus' blade, and the red and green sabers of Luke defending each angle of attack. In the last moment of the strike, Tidus had the shoto saber and green saber locked as Cloud was coming down from above in the final strike of his Omni Slash! In that moment, a blaster bolt came through the flurry, striking Tidus in the chest and knocking him back from Luke. The Jedi and Fantasy warrior's eyes flickered over, seeing the shot had come from a far off upper level of the stage, Boba Fett having made his shot with a long range blaster. With both arms free, Luke turns around, parries the final strike of Omni Slash with his shoto saber and impales Cloud on his green lightsaber.

Cloud's surprise is all that's given before Luke throws him and force pushes Tidus to the edge of the stage, Tidus falling off.

Cloud clutches at his chest in pain, but manages to get one hand on his sword and barely stand, akin to a cripple. He looks up as the dimension seems to crack, the other seven Jedi reappearing, having defeated the Knights of the Round.

Cloud stands defiant, blade forward as all eight of the force users in front of him raise one hand towards him. In an instant, an invisible combine push launches him off the stage as well, reappearing in the stands.

Final Fantasy has lost five fighters already...

Battle ten

Jason, Shane, Troy, Wes, and Eric are all five blasted back, sparks flying from their bodies, and hit the ground hard. They groan in pain as they get to their feet. Jason steps in front of them, calling his Power Sword. Before them stands only one man, Kyo Mibu, leader of the samurai team. He had a slightly mad grin, completely unscratched with his long spiky hair going everywhere. He swings his black masamune, Tenro, to use the same moves used by Kyoshiro, starting with Mizuchi. The countless unseen slashes spark off all five of the red rangers.

They press through the sparks, all drawing blasters and firing lasers back at Kyo, who seemingly disappears with how fast he is, flickering in and out of spots around the area, sword slashes picking off the rangers until they're back on the ground.

Shane punches the ground in frustration. "How is he so fast? We can't touch him!"

Troy gets up, frustrated. "Time to go Legendary!" He hits the switch on his belt, calling for a key. For the Megaforce rangers, each and every key held access to a different ranger power from any of the past rangers. "RPM: Get In Gear!" He inserts a blue key, his ranger form shifting from the Super Megaforce red ranger to the RPM blue ranger. Why this one specifically? Each of the RPM rangers had a singular special power. The blue could slow down time. He activates the power, the rangers on the ground seemingly frozen still as Troy rushes at Kyo.

Kyo seems frozen like them, but Troy finds Kyo's eyes still locked firmly on him. Troy attacks Kyo, who despite the time slow still keeps up with him. Troy summons the blue ranger forms power weapon, a large cannon. He fires point blank, but Kyo counters with Sieryu, launching Troy into the air and striking him back down.

Troy hits the ground, the blue RPM form breaking back down to the Megaforce form. Time goes to normal, the other four helping him up. Wes shakes his head. "That looked painful." Eric sighs. "I guess equaling speed doesn't work, then?"

Kyo smirks, firing a Suzaku, the fire bird heading towards the five. Jason rushes forward, pulling out the coin given to him by Tommy, the green energy summoning the Dragon Shield. The shield reflects the phoenix right back at Kyo. Kyo is surprised, but manages to fire a second Suzaku, the moves identical and canceling.

Jason steps up, red and green ranger powers on full with the Power Sword and Dragon Dagger in hands. "Come on, guys! Let's answer his speed with power! If anyone manages to hit him, we can take him down!"

All four nod. Shane, Wes, and Eric all four activate their battilizers, powerful upgraded forms with new weapons. Troy calls another key, a red one this time. "Go Go Samurai!" He transforms into the Samurai red ranger, following up with the battilizer for the Samurai rangers. Fitting given their samurai opponent.

With all five rangers in a super powered form, they all light the area up with all of their most powerful attacks and blasts. Everything is ignited in explosions. Kyo, blitz's back and forth, dodging each and every attack as the onslaught continues.

Battle eleven

Erza and Jellal stop, hiding behind a rock for cover. Erza uses her magic to spawn a sword. She uses the reflection on the blade to look around the corner, seeing the last Naruto group: Kakashi, Lee, Shikamaru, and Sakura.

She withdraws the sword, glancing at Jellal. "Four of them." She thinks for a moment. "We should take them-" Jellal places his hand on her to stop her.

"Each of these universes are supposed to be close in power to us. We can't just go into a battle without scouting them out first."

Erza thinks on it. She's taken groups and droves of enemies out time and time again. She was tempted to simply rush them, but Jellal was right. If it was just her pride on the line, she'd do it in a heartbeat. Instead, it was her universe. She nods. "Right. Outnumbered two to one isn't a good scenario."

"Actually, you're one off." A new voice sounds. Both Fairy Tail team members try to ready themselves, but are suddenly thrown through the cover, landing hard near the other four ninja. They scramble to their feet to see who ambushed them. "It's a bit hard to ambush a sage." Naruto proclaims, stepping forward, chakra flaming around his body as his eyes' pupils are elongated with fox pupils crossing with it.

Naruto is about to rush the two, but senses something. He stares off in the direction of the other battles, sweating lightly. He scowls. "Kakashi, Lee, Shikamaru, can you three handle these guys?"

Kakashi notices the change. "Sure, but why the change in strategy?"

Erza scowls as Jellal is quickly thinking of ways to get out.

Shikamaru answers for him. "Naruto, who are you sensing?"

Naruto shakes his head. "It's someone from the other teams. Whoever they are... I should save my power to deal with them." Naruto turns back to the two in front of him. Speaking to hit team, "I'll interfere if I need to."

Jellal's senses go into overdrive, ducking a kunai. He dashes back, sensing an attack coming. He blocks a punch from who he guesses is his opponent, Kakashi. Kakashi's hands light up with purple lightning as Jellal's shine with bright light. The energies blast them apart, Jellal watching as Kakashi speeds through hand signs faster than anything he's ever seen. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The fireball launches at Jellal, who answers with a beam of light to clash, only for Kakashi to disappear from behind the attacks.

Jellal looks around. Above? Behind? He realizes just in time, jumping up as hands break up from the ground at him. Jellal throws his hands down. "Jiu Leixing!" Several swords of light form and fire from in front of him into the ground. The hands seem to jolt as if hit, until a puff of smoke. Jellal stares at the smoke, seeing nothing but debris. A trap?

"Mud Wall!" Around Jellal, four walls rise from the ground, the only way out being up. On top of the wall, Kakashi lands, hand signs finishing. Dog heads form on each of the walls, crackling with lightning through the mouths and firing into the created pit.

Jellal reacts fast placing three magic staves into the ground. "Mirror Water!" The staves absorb the lightning from all sides, then fires it into the wall Kakashi stands on. The former Hokage leaps off the destroyed wall, Jellal lighting up in an aura of light and following at high speeds.

Kakashi parries several punches and kicks, casually pulling a kunai out and countering, forcing Jellal to focus on blocking the bladed hand and not getting cut. His focus on the bladed hand leads him open to a kick, knocking him away. Kakashi's eyes widen as all five staves land around him. Jellal, still flying back from the kick, clasps his hands together. "Sacred Song!" Energies surround Kakashi, hitting him hard until his body turns to water and falls apart.

Kakashi appears outside the staved circle. "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" The water from the clone becomes the dragon, whipping at the mage.

Jellal scowls, throwing his hand up and using water magic to halt the dragon, letting the water fall on the ground. His other hand goes forward, launching a wind blast. Kakashi answers with another fireball, the wind magnifying the fire as per Naruto's jutsu rules. Jellal answers with earth magic, bringing up a wall that breaks up in different parts, but shields him, leaving smoke behind.

Jellal keeps his senses alert, seeing something to the right. He uses darkness magic, spawning several tentacles to attack, only to hit a kunai tied to fabric, hanging in the air. Jellal turns to the left, seeing Kakashi come out and round house kick Jellal in the head, knocking him through the leftover parts of the wall.

Jellal hits the ground several times before rolling and stopping on his feet, shaken. He stares at Kakashi, who throws two kunai before forming more hand signs, purple lightning chaining and connecting the kunai, the chain aimed at Jellal.

Jellal leaps into the air putting one hand on the other, the back hand only having its index and middle fingers extended. "Grand Chariot!" Seven magic seals appear and create a constellation, releasing a powerful blast of light down on Kakashi that seems to hit.

Jellal lands, sweat dropping on his face as the smoke clears, purple lightning crackling in a sword of lightning armor, Kakashi standing in place. "I know I'm getting old, but you can't expect me to go down THAT easy, can you?" The two lock eyes, Kakashi serious but still relaxed in posture, and Jellal strained slightly. Jellal wasn't holding back, but Kakashi seemed to be pressured but unconcerned. He hopes Erza is holding up better. . .

She isn't. She spawns twin swords channeling electricity, hammering at Lee who parries with his nunchaku. Lee swings the weighted weapons, bashing sword strikes aside as the two exchange kicks. Erza's armor changes, her requip magic, removing her leg guard and spawning a sword at her foot. She kick swings the sword in the hopes a third blade would land a hit, but it only forces Lee back. She requips armor back on her legs, changing her outfit to an eloquent metallic armor dress as she lightly floats. Dozens upon dozens of swords appear in the air around her as she thrusts her hands forward to send them at Lee.

The Handsome Devil of Konoha reacts, opening the Gate of Opening. He dashes faster than before around all the swords, appearing just under Erza and kicking her in the jaw, launching her up into the air. He appears behind her using the Dancing Leaf Shadow, his bandages wrapping around her. The two plummet to the ground. Erza thinks fast. "Primary Lot-"

"Requip!" Her armor changes, red armor wings ripping from the bandages and flapping quickly, disrupting the fall as she and Lee stop just inches from the hit. She spins the two, shoving them apart. Lee lands on the ground and quickly dodges several slashes from the primary sword for her armor. She falls back and flies up, using the wings.

Lee sighs, a bit of pain at using the Primary Lotus to so little effect. Erza ramps up the fire power of the armor, sword turning into a giant saber of fire. Lee smiles at the challenge. Second gate... third gate... fourth gate... Fifth gate... open! Lee's hair flows upward, skin turning red as his eye's turn into just a blank white, blue chakra flowing around him. Erza doesn't wait for whatever is coming, charging. However, she notices Lee's dramatic change in speed too late, the green suited ninja blitzing into the air until his kick strikes her in the gut. He begins spinning in place like a drill, kicking again and again as his kicks ignite the air into fire. He makes a setup kick, stunning her in pain as he spins.

She manages to regain senses and requip, bringing up another full body armor and spear bringing a guard up to her head to block the coming kick.

"Leaf Burning Sky!" His final kick spins around, smashing into the ground below. Erza rises from the ground, armor mostly broken, she raises a lance and throws it at Lee, who's still in the air. Still burning with the power of the gates, Lee spins in the air. "Leaf Hurricane!" His rounded kick hits the lance aside, letting him fall, land, and rushing at her.

Disturbed by his speed, she quickly requipping into her Clear Heart Clothing, losing heavy armor to increase speed and using her sword's range to keep him back. The two dance around each other, Lee trying to close distance and Erza wisely keeping the faster opponent back.

Jellal scowls at Kakashi. "You want my full power! Here it is!" He takes his stance, one hand down, one up, as a cyclone opens up into the sky above them. Kakashi's eyes look upward, seeing a bright light from above.

Kakashi scowls as the massive meteor sized ball of energy in the sky forms. Kakashi begins hand signs as purple lightning channels all around himself. "Lightning Style: Purple Lightning!" He throws the lightning as a ranged blast akin to Sasuke's Kirin in size. The blast of lightning is so powerful is roars out from his hand like a bolt.

Jellal calls down is ultimate move. "Sema!" The massive meteor of light energy comes down and clashes with Kakashi's power attack. The two energies create a struggle in the sky for mere moments before both ignite and create an massive explosion of light and crackling electricity.

Jellal stares awestruck by the display, shocked at his move getting thoroughly canceled. He squares off with Kakashi yet again. He thinks he has the versatility advantage, though not by much. Kakashi is deadly serious now, having seen the power of that last attack. It was on the level of a tailed beast. Jellal pauses when Kakashi doesn't take any form of stance. That's when Jellal feels it. A connection. He's no longer able to move.

His glance to the side confirms the issue, a shadow connecting him to the pineapple haired man, Shikamaru. "Shadow Possession, complete." He changes his hand sign. "Shadow Strangle!" The shadow morphs around Jellal's body, a hand appearing around his throat.

Jellal coughs and strains, but his look turns fierce. "Don't take me for a weakling!" His darkness magic works through Shikamaru's shadows, shadowy tendrils spiking out and attacking Shikamaru and restraining him. "Bind Snake!" Through the shadows, a tattoo creeps onto Shikamaru and restrains him, both of them bound by the other's technique.

Kakashi closes in and slashes at Jellal, only for the hit to pass through him. Jellal's image smirks at the trickery. The image disappears, but his magic doesn't, seeming to restrict Shikamaru. Jellal appears behind Kakashi.

"Now, you're mind!" His hand lights with light energy as he punches... as Kakashi turns into pure electricity. The shock completely stuns Jellal, Shikamaru smirking.

"Sorry about the ruse, we needed you out of hiding." Shikamaru states. "You can't hide from a ninja." The shadows manipulated before spiky out in Shikamaru's shadow stitching, piercing Jellal's limbs and holding him in place through physical restraint.

Kakashi's hand comes around with a kunai to Jellal's throat. They make eye contact. "Two can play with copies." Kakashi calmly looks at Jellal's struggling expression. "They didn't call me the Copy Ninja for nothing."

Jellal's vision blurs as he's surrounded by a cloud of flower petals. Leaves enter the mix as blades stick through the haze, seemingly impaling him. But when he reacts, they're gone. Illusions? He thought. Genjutsu being the answer. He quickly brings his hand up, channeling magic to dispel the illusions, as the haze is forced away... and his vision is that of the black void as he's falling. The genjutsu ensured he couldn't fight back as they threw him off the stage. With that, Jellal Fernandez disappears, landing in the stands.

Erza sees Jellal get tossed out, roaring out as she puts her power into her sword. She will not lose! This is not where she falls!

Lee takes a hit, sending him back, but he quickly recovers, empowering himself further. Sixth gate. He powers up even higher and charges at Erza at a speed she knows she can't match. She quickly requips into her adamantine armor, combining the two shield plates to link together into a massive wall shield.

Lee gets to her in a blind... "Morning Peacock!" He unleashes a horrendous barrage of punches so fast and powerful, Erza feels her arms numb in a second. She's pushed back, and pushed back, and pushed back. With each inch she loses, she is unsure how to counter this kind of power. She then looks forward... the shield is breaking! Lee calls out with a roar as he smashes through the shield, bashing her back with the final punch. She skids and falls back, shocked when there's no more ground beneath her feet. She begins to fall back before she requips a sword and jabs into the fighting stage, saving herself.

She sighs, hanging from the sword. Maybe her opponent will think she's eliminated and leave, she can regroup with Natsu and Gray, and they can come back and beat these guy-

"I'm impressed." A worn out voice calls. She glances up in horror to see Lee standing on the wall of the stage. Simply standing with his feet stuck to the side. She tries to speak how he is doing it, but he cuts her off, dropping to a kneel and doing a circular leg sweeping kick. "Leaf Whirlwind!" The kick smashes through the sword holding Erza up, causing her to fall. She stares wide eyed as she sees him get farther away... and she suddenly hits the ground of the Fairy Tail stands.

Battle twelve

A horde of what appears to be flower petals clashes against a massive blast of fire. Byakuya stands up with his hand raised, controlling the thousands of tiny thin metal blades that reflect light to resemble petals. In front of him was a very angry and childish duo.

"HEY! Why don't you get out from behind those things and fight me!" Natsu yells out. He growls out. "Wings of the Fire Dragon!" He sends two flame whips, though Byakuya uses his released blades to block it all.

Byakuya states simply. "You use fire, but if it cannot reach me, it will never beat me. Your flames are pathetic compared to those I've met."

This irritates Natsu beyond belief, empowering his arm to punch away a wave of blades sent by Byakuya. The fire explodes and scatters the wave, but the scattering petals surge back around as Natsu ignites his feet, spinning on his hand and kicking two streams of petals with each foot. He rockets in to reach Byakuya, only for Byakuya to dash backwards, keeping distance.

The petals chase Natsu, closing in on him before clashing into a wall of ice, Gray landing on the wall. "Ice Make: Cannon!" He forms an ice cannon and fires a powerful ice shot. Byakuya dodges the shot, but it cut off his escape from Natsu, the dragon slayer closing in on Byakuya and going for a fire powered punch.

Just before the hit lands, Natsu is locked in place with several yellow energy bindings locking around his arms. Restrained, Byakuya raises one hand, channeling his ability with Kido spells, firing an energy shot into Natsu to knock him back. "Ice Make Prison!" Prison bars of ice form around Byakuya from all sides, Gray dropping down between Byakuya and Natsu. "Swords!" Blades of ice form on his main hand and left elbow. He spins in place, cutting the bindings off of Natsu and slashing at Byakuya, who dodges back, getting cornered at the wall of the prison.

The two rush him, but Byakuya flickers out of sight, landing behind them and firing another Kido to break his way out of the prison. Byakuya lands outside and throws his hand towards the prison, the petals of his sword closing around the prison with the mages inside.

Gray and Natsu share shocked looks as Gray activates a dome of ice around them, the petals smashing into the defense from all sides. Natsu roars his fire. "Fire Dragon Sword Horn!" He covers himself in fire and rockets forward, smashing through the dome and through all the petals in his path, Gray following as the two escape the petals and land away from Byakuya.

Natsu and Gray share a glance. "Think you can rush him?" Gray comments.

Natsu smirks and bites back. "Sure thing. Think you can hit him?"

Gray smirks back. "Positive."

Natsu yells out as he charges. Byakuya brings his hands up as the petals rush the mage. However, just as the petals close in, Natsu dodges them, moving further towards Byakuya. Time after time, the barrages miss as Natsu closes in. Each time Byakuya uses his hands to direct his attacks, Natsu's begun to memorize the hand movements to predict the attack patterns. He smirks as he closes in.

Byakuya scowls as Natsu enters the 10 meter range. He sees Gray ready with an ice arrow to shoot at him. So Gray will fire at him if he moves, and Natsu is within the range that his released sword won't attack it. Byakuya closes his eyes. "Bankai."

Suddenly, thousands more petals form and appear around him and from the ones already out, creating a sea of pink blades much like blossoming petals. The blades from around his body block Natsu and launch him away while the blades far off close at Gray, destroying the ice arrow.

Gray scowls as Natsu blows his way out of the pit of petals. Byakuya stares at them, body completely relaxed. "Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."

The large wave of petals swarm at them as Gray growls. "Ice Devil Slayer: Wall!" Black marks creep up his whole body originating from his arm. A wall of purple ice forms, blocking Byakuya's attack. The petals continue to cut and hammer through the ice as Natsu charges up all his fire power.

"Take this!" He breaths in. "Fire Dragon ROAR!" Just as the petals break through the ice wall, Natsu releases his breath attack, firing through the wave. The fire makes its way towards Byakuya, who uses a stream of blades to redirect the attack so that it goes right past Byakuya's right. Natsu scowls. There's no predicting him anymore. He doesn't need to move to make an attack, so he can't memorize any patterns.

Gray quickly calls over. "Natsu, I think I can take him down for good. Instead of me attacking at range, I'm going to move in. I need you to attack from here, using your roar."

Natsu smirks and nods. He lets out a massive yell, fire burning all around him and rising into the sky. Byakuya's stare narrows as he raises his hands, palms out. "Very well. I shall put you both down here and now." All of the petals form around him as he prepares to launch everything as one solid ranged attack.

Natsu keeps roaring and picking up power. "I will never lose! Come and try me!" He breathes in. All of the petals blast towards Natsu. "Fire Dragon Roar!" This time, the blast is more powerful, blindingly bright, and clashes with the pedals in such a way that the stage shakes. In just a brief moment, the two blasts shine, Natsu's fire breath getting ripped through and the mage getting launched back.

Byakuya stands high as he talks down at Natsu and Gray. "Are you ready to admit defeat yet?"

Natsu growls at him. "Fairy Tail mages don't know how." That's when Byakuya sees that Gray isn't next to Natsu. It's an ice clone. A mannequin! Byakuya senses the impending attack, Gray landing behind him and throwing his hands up.

In a single flash, Byakuya is frozen inside a massive ice mountain of purple ice.

"HAHA! How's that for admitting defeat!" Natsu gloats. He rushes up to Gray as they fist bump. "Bout time we kicked him to the curb."

Gray chuckles. "Yeah, yeah. Let's knock him out before we celebrate."

Natsu reaches for the ice, intending to pick the ice up and throw it off the stage. However, the moment his hands touch the purple ice, a spray of ice from above hitting and freezing his hand to it. Gray creates his ice blades on his hand and elbow, spinning around to slash at their attacker, only to be parried and knocked back by Toshiro, the white haired, blue scarfed young captain from Team Bleach. "It's very rare for me to meet someone else who uses ice." The young looking fighter looks at Gray with interest. "Purple ice seems a bit tacky, though." Gray scowled as Toshiro unleashed more ice at him, prompting a retaliation. The two begin launching ice attacks at each other.

Natsu watches them fight as he complains. "Hey! Can't you at least get me out of this?!" At that moment, the purple ice cracks. Natsu glances over as the ice shatters, his hands coming free. However, he's not the only one free. He sees the shape of Byakuya, but solid reflective metal pink. The pink pushes off, becoming a large number of the Senbonzakura blades, having coated Byakuya's body and shielded him from the ice.

Byakuya stares blankly at him. "That tactic has never worked on me." Indeed, the last time this was done, it was a clone of Toshiro who froze him, and he used this exact same method of escape. Natsu slightly shakes. Something about his dead serious glare reminded him an awful lot of Erza.

Natsu isn't quite prepared when a wave of Senbonzakura hits him, cutting him up and knocking him into the ground, bleeding. Natsu breathes heavily, stumbling to his feet. Byakuya still stands in front of him, the same cold look as when the battle started. "No..." Natsu brings his hands up, igniting fire around him. "You-" His fire intensifies. "-have not-" Suddenly, lightning sparks around him. "-beaten me yet!" Fire erupts, lightning charged around it as the two elements combine. "Lightning Fire Dragon Mode!" The power courses through his body as he fires a single shot to push Byakuya back.

Byakuya lands and stares at Natsu. To most, it would be the same hollow stare, but for a moment, Byakuya feels like he's fighting Ichigo again. This same defiance and constant pulling from a bottomless well of effort and willpower. However, Byakuya was confident of one thing. He'll succeed in breaking that willpower this time.

All of the petals reform around the two of them, becoming a tall wall of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of pink energy like swords made up of the petals. The two a restricted to the area, something akin to an arena. Byakuya grabs the nearest one and charges Natsu. The two clash, Byakuya using Flash Step to increase speed and swapping blades to beat back Natsu's ferocity. He blocks a blast with one sword and thrusts another at Natsu, who blocks the blade. The blade pierces through the arm and gets stuck when Byakuya steps away.

Natsu roars out. "Lightning Fire Dragon Roar!" The shot zooms right at Byakuya, who gathers several of the swords, using them as a surrogate lightning rod to attract the lightning portion of the attack to them. The attack misses as a result. Byakuya looks up, finding Natsu above him, charged full of power and ready to beat him down. Time seems to slow, a single pink petal blade floating around Byakuya's hand. His hand clenches the tiny razor blade sized piece.

In super speed, Byakuya's clenched fist rockets into Natsu's gut before the mage's punch could land. He coughs up, unable to breath as his lightning fire mode drops, the slayer falling to the ground, clutching his gut.

Byakuya stands above him, releasing his clenched hand, his palm sliced in several parts and bleeding. He used his control of the single blade to propel his fist faster than he himself could move, delivering a blow stronger than any physical strike he could do otherwise. This was the very move he'd done when he'd punched a literal hole through one of his past opponents. It's amazing this slayer didn't have a hole as well.

Natsu gasped and clutched his gut for air, only for the walls of swords to scatter back into the thousands and thousands of petal blades. Byakuya controls them perfectly as he blasts them into Natsu... propelling him off the edge.

As the same time, Gray is beaten back, his feat reaching the edge of the stage. Toshiro lands there, having activated his own bankai, Daiguren Hyorinmaru. Gray breathes heavily, having been beaten down. Toshiro compliments him. "I'm impressed. I would almost say you could beat Rukia with your mastery over ice." He then drops any form of smile and stares coldly at him. "But there's a reason ice is my element in Soul Society." The ice around him forms ice wings, talons on his feet, and augment his arms. He fires a blast at Gray that the mage attempts to block, but he finds himself being pushed back. With a final roar, Gray is launched from the stage...

Natsu and Gray land in the stands.

Battle thirteen

Aizen couldn't help but smile at the current scene before him. Standing in front of him were four red colored fighters and one green, all trying and trying to do SOMETHING to him, but nothing was accomplished. Tommy, Adam, TJ, Andros, and Conner all breathing heavily before Aizen blasts them all again, resulting in sparks literally flying from them all.

They hit the ground hard, Tommy calling orders. "I don't think we can get any further with this guy like this."

Andros stands with Tommy. "Let's ramp up the power."

TJ calls out. "Wait-" But it's too late, Andros initiates his battilizer. Conner follows suit, turning into the triassic ranger, then transforming into his own battilizer. Adam and Tommy were already in their Zeo suits, while TJ simply watched his allies.

Aizen gasps at the power increase. The rangers all go into offense. Tommy uses a power kick, knocking Aizen back as Andros launches missiles at him. The missiles hit, sparks flying everywhere as Aizen is knocked to the ground hard. He gets up and rushes to the side, but is cut off by Adam, who outfights him quickly and beats him back down. This is when Conner uses his ultimate attack, firing a beam on the downed former soul reaper. The attack hits, forcing Aizen to let out a scream of pain.

TJ stands back, still, as they continue to attack.

Aizen is hit towards the edge, skidding to a halt. Tommy calls out. "Together guys!" He, Adam, Andros, and Conner all combine weapons and fire on Aizen, the attacks blowing wounds into him and leaving him to collapse to a knee. Andros powers down, jumping in for a power punch. The attack hits, a echo of "YEAH!" going off.

They all look at Aizen's horrified face as he stumbles backward. The four rangers finally start to seem confused. Aizen's face looked... hurt? Confused? That's when they see it. The image of Aizen starts to disappear, being replaced by none other than TJ, who's demorphed back into his human form and bleeding, beat up. He can't stand anymore as he falls outside of the stage. TJ lands in the stands...

The four rangers all turn back and see the morphed TJ that stood behind them chuckling lowly. The image of the Turbo red ranger fades away, replaced with Aizen, completely unharmed, and has yet to move. They've been under his illusions from the start!

With a single move, he blasts Andros and Conner, destroying their battilizer forms and reducing them to base ranger form. The four ranger regroup, shocked, no, furious that this man made them attack their friend. TJ was in critical condition, and this madman caused it with an honest to god smile.

Tommy sweats underneath his helmet. They can't fight an enemy that can make illusions like this. No, they need mass power to win the fight. "Everyone, call your zords. We'll wipe him out with them!"

They all agree...

Far off, the five rangers that fought Kyo all collapse to the ground, battilizers destroyed. Kyo is just too fast. They can't touch him. Jason stumbles to his feat. "We can't hit him like this. We need to lay down power on a larger area. We need zord power, now!"

And with that, the nine rangers call their giant robots into the ring... time for chaos to erupt in Round 2...

End Round 1

Kenpachi vs Krayt: Fun note, the temperature of Captain Yamamoto's bankai and shikai in Bleach absolutely eclipses that of a lightsaber. Due to the fact that several characters at different times RESIST the captain commander's flames, but Kenpachi is notable for having more durable skin, it's very likely that a lightsaber cannot pierce him. That is unfortunately the only advantage he had. Most powerful force users in Star Wars EU have feats that place their speed and reactions in relativistic to above lightspeed. Kenpachi is relativistic, sure, and he even is capable of equaling power for some moments, but the severe speed disadvantage, combined with having maybe one free hit, means he'd lose this fight.

Sasuke vs Mukuro: One of the top five strongest in this vs someone who has power, but lacks speed and any substantial special abilities. Bad roll for Mukuro.

Lucy and Wendy vs Yukimura and Sasuke: Okay, so the first of a bad round for Fairy Tail. Lucy and Wendy DO hold a raw power advantage. However, Fairy Tail is the slowest series in this tournament overall. Sasuke is high relativistic, meaning within the percentages of light speed, and Yukimura is extremely fast by those standards. Mostly going to dick around with them until the finishing blows. If Wendy had come against Kyoshiro or Kyo, she could consume their techniques as they're all wind based, but as is, Wendy was the only thing keeping them in consideration. Lucy is not shown summoning large amounts of spirits often enough to do a SUMMON EVERYONE moment and win, so while it was interesting, it was delaying the inevitable.

Yomi vs Makarov – Unfortunately, many of the Fairy Tail group are people that will run and find their own fights. Even when grouped they take quick opportunities to select their own opponents, so a large roving group of mages was incredibly unlikely. With Gildarts, Gajeel, and Laxus all solo, we KNOW Natsu is going to run ahead, with the other teamups suiting that action, and Makarov is used to sending them and letting them go on their own. As such, Makarov vs Yomi? Outgunned, slower, less fighting experience, less variety. While he has Fairy Law, it strains further the stronger the multiple victims around are and it can kill instantly which wouldn't be allowed, and that's assuming Yomi gives him the chance. Based on character statements of power levels by the author of Yu Yu, most of their team are moon level, meaning they can devastate the moon by themselves. The highest feat in Fairy Tail covers the country of Ishgar, which is woefully outgunned. Without an advantage of magic type or trick, Mak was done.

Lightning and Noctis vs Gaara, Darui, Kurotsuchi, and Chojuro: While the Kage are shown able to go against people capable of lightspeed, they still lack overall power and hax ability for these four. Gaara was their best bet, but most Final Fantasy games hold feats of incredible speed and durability. Short answer, Lightning can thunderstomp two of them in a straight fight, while Noctis would require Armiger to do it, but Armiger takes him to levels comparable to Lightning and other high tier FF characters. It was essentially the Kage vs Otsotsuki characters, which we know the answer to how that would go.

Squall and Zidane vs Jin, Toya, Chu, and Shishiwakamaru: Just like the last match, except where the Kage lacked power and had good enough speed, the Yu Yu squad has power, but lacks speed. Yu Yu characters. Without equal speed, they weren't going to win, though they'd certainly get their hits in.

Hotaru, Akira, Akari, and Bontenmaru vs Kain Highwind: This is a firm example of SDK's hax movesets giving a win. Kain's speed is up with their final tiers, but his raw power trumps them hundreds of times over. Unfortunately, they have not one, not two, but three durability ignoring attacks on their team, so the one that was most likely to be used would be the one to end it, hence Hotaru taking him out.

Warrior of Light vs Kyoshiro: Funny thing about SDK is that the two main characters are two of the rare people who lack the ability to instakill stronger opponents. Their movesets are based around guaranteeing hits and finishing blows against people of comparable strength, which is why Kyoshiro is so great at defensive fighting. However, against someone like WoL, he lacks the ability to truly win. It was likely WoL would have won until the dice decided for Benitora to go after WoL, and he DOES have a durability defying attack, making him the epic savior of this fight, but also a reason it will go on to the next round.

Cloud, Firion, Tidus, and Cecil vs Luke, Jaina, Ben, Kyle, Kyp, Corran, Cilghal, Leia, and Boba Fett: The amount of names in here should show how UNLUCKY this was for Cloud and friends. Cloud is my favorite Final Fantasy character, and he go FUCKED in this roll. There was NO way they were going to defeat anyone, and surely wouldn't manage to get much done. Straight unfair.

Kyo vs Jason, Troy, Wes, Eric, and Shane: You know, Power Rangers has several light speed reactionary feats, as well as up to country levels of power. They had a great setup with two organized teams... THE DICE HATED THEM! So the team that was on defense just happened to be attacked by the fastest character here. Kyo could dance around them for days. Nothing was going to happen, but since they still have zords, it has to go on to next round.

Erza and Jellal vs Kakashi, Lee, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Naruto: Again, Dice hating people. Okay, so there was debate over how the groupings would work in fairy tail. Given that during the final arc of fairy tail, Erza spent the majority alongside Jellal and helping him with them facing the same opponent, while Natsu and Gray had their spat with each other, make up, and had a history of teaming up like in the Tartoros arc, it was obvious Erza and Jellal would be one team with Natsu and Gray on the other. But then they go and rush here. Naruto can sense them perfectly coming, and while Jellal is Fairy Tail Kakashi, he's lacking in both power and speed, despite the slight variety advantage he has since Kakashi no longer has sharingan. Erza can block city level destruction with her armors, but Lee can literally smash a meteor made from the pieces of the moon when in sixth gate. Points go Naruto.

Natsu and Gray: I WANTED NATSU TO EAT AMATERASU! I SO wanted many things with these guys, and while there is still plenty of interesting stuff to have with Fairy Tail, they started out the WORST! Again, Fairy Tail lacks speed, which hampers them against Bleach characters, who are all relativistic. Power can for the most part match up, but that's where it ends. They have mostly matching power, a slight disadvantage in speed, and no particularly effective advantage in their magic. Byakuya has fought ice before, and Toshiro has shown greater power in ice in actual feats than Gray has. Natsu's flames are also not nearly as strong as Yamamoto's from Bleach, and Byakuya and Toshiro end the series certainly on the level to withstand a bit of punishment from those levels of attacks. If it was just Byakuya, maybe, but unfortunately, Toshiro ended up there too.

Aizen vs Tommy, Adam, Andros, TJ, and Conner: And this team goes after one of the top five most dangerous people here, AND they have absolutely NO counter to his special power. This was a joke. The team of rangers on defense got attacked by the fastest fighter, and the team on offense attacked someone who would likely stand still and enjoy while killing anyone dumb enough to oppose him. One of them was going to get Momo'd, which we rolled for, ending up with TJ. So even in fanfiction left to chance, the black guy goes first. It's a damn shame.

All other groups did not roll encountering anyone this round, OR in character they had reasons to not engage anyone such as intel gathering. As such they wouldn't have fought unless someone else rolled to stumble across them.

Here's the current tally of characters:

Naruto:

Naruto

Sasuke

Kakashi

Sakura

Shikamaru

Lee

Bleach:

Everyone.

Final Fantasy:

Squall

Zidane

Warrior of Light

Lightning
Noctis

Star Wars:

Everyone.

Fairy Tail:

Gildarts

Laxus

Gajeel

Power Rangers:

Tommy

Adam

Andros

Conner

Jason

Wes

Eric

Troy

Shane

Samurai Deeper Kyo:

Everyone.

Yu Yu Hakusho:

Yusuke

Hiei

Kurama

Kuwabara

Yomi