Here it is! The fourth one of this story's chapters! Beforehand, you read about how Pesto and Squit grappled with each other in the air both figuratively and literally, and when once the Goodfeather grapple was over, it was because Squit was just barely able to defeat Pesto in what was partially thanks to a stroke of luck, since what they did to each other could have knocked out either of them and just caused Pesto to lose consciousness by freak chance. Now it's time for the third one of these scraps, where Buttons mixes it up with Marita! Of course, both have some very high levels of durability, the former because he takes a lot of pain and keeps on coming on a frequent basis and the latter because her large frame enables her to withstand the sorts of things that would prove severely harmful or, in some cases, even fatal to the majority of individuals. In addition to that, they've got other kinds of durability levels, like the one that allows them to have a sufficient amount of tolerance for a matchup that neither has to their liking but both have little choice but to get involved in, given what will happen otherwise. They will get ready for what they are required to do to each other unless they want Monty to cause hell to be unleashed on the Animaniacs universe, and of course they don't want that. So, then. Is Buttons going to have it so that his kind of pain tolerance and resistance to injury will prove adequate to bring down even one as huge and hard to harm as Marita? Or is Marita going to prove she's got the superior level of resistance to harm along with the superior size as she brings Buttons down? You will know as soon as you read this chapter I'm now presenting to you!

Animaniacs VS Animaniacs

THINGS TO NOTE:

I own none of the characters. They all belong to Animaniacs, except for Montana Max, who belongs to Tiny Toon Adventures.

Chapter 4-Buttons VS Marita

It was now that Buttons and Marita knew that they were about to engage in a combat clash. They hated this shit with a fucking vengeance, similar to how that was the case with everyone barring Monty, but it was the least consequential choice they could make.

That meant that the best thing they could hope for was for this fight to be over in a short period of time, if they lucked out enough for that to be so. One way or the other, though, doing what was close to kicking off was going to hurt like hell, and spiritually far more than physically, too. As such, and since avoiding it wasn't an option, they readied themselves for what lay ahead.

They both had considerable and amazing durability going for them, even if their other assets were either far different or on far different levels, but this was one time they couldn't be pleased about such things, even though they usually had cause to be(although predictably Marita had said cause much more than Buttons, for obvious reasons).

Buttons looked towards Marita and barked as if to say: "Well, this is it. We must do this in spite of how both of us would prefer a better alternative, and with that being said, I'd like this to be over sooner rather than later, please." "Hey, no problem. You're in luck, as a matter of fact. I want this to be over sooner instead of later myself, and would leap at the chance for a better and nicer alternative, not unlike you." Marita told Buttons in response. "But that's all the more reason for us to goddamn get this crap the hell outta the way once we hear Monty's telling us to do battle." Buttons gave a firm nod, then both of them did indeed hear Monty talking.

Although it wasn't what they were awaiting, but rather he insulted both of them by going out: "Hey, barker bastard and blubber bitch! How about you two fuckholes do less talking and more fighting? You'd best be good and prepared for what you're about to do, fleabag and fatass, because I'm only goddamn going to give my damn signal once! You two got that?" Buttons and Marita ignored Monty's slandering and snide comments, though Marita thought to herself: "The way he never misses so much as one fucking chance to try and degrade and demean us…but I've not got the time to further dwell on that and neither does Buttons! We've gotta get this done!"

Additionally, without looking at Monty, both combatants nodded rapidly, and Monty said to them: "Glad to hear it. Now, fight!" That was their cue. Buttons and Marita promptly went for each other despite how much distaste they had for what they were being forced to do. To start it off, Marita banged Buttons with her belly, causing him to go: "AAAAAARRRRRRFFFFFF!" and be knocked over from both the size of it and the impact that it produced. But he got back up and struck back via rolling towards Marita's ankles and hitting them to knock her over.

"OOOOOWWWWW! WAAAAUUUGGGGHHHHH! UNNNNNNGGGHHH!" Marita bellowed as she fell backwards and, naturally, landed on her back, by which time Buttons had managed to roll out of the way just in time, and as he pushed himself back up after connecting his feet with the ground, he turned to see Marita also pushing herself back up, even if with just a bit of effort thanks to her massive, corpulent and incredibly heavy frame, and she then turned around to face Buttons.

"Quite the trick you pulled there, Buttons," Marita said to him, "although you won't get to pull it twice." Buttons, as he ran over to Marita, barked as if to say: "That's okay. I won't need to use it again." He then leapt over Marita while she tried and failed to grab him, right before he landed on his forepaws and used power kicks from his hindpaws to land multiple speedy kicks into Marita's back, eliciting from her sounds like: "UUUUNNNNNHHH! UUUUUHHHHH! ARRRRRRHHHHHH! GYAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH! YAAARGH!"

But just as Buttons pushed his hind legs to push her forward a bit, put his hind feet onto the ground and do a quick leap forward, Marita turned around so that, while Buttons also turned around, she ran forward, and by the time Buttons was facing her again, Marita was close enough to land a backhand punch across his face, with she did. "OOOOOOWWWWWWWWLLLLL!" Buttons went out in an agonized howl, and then Marita took a hold of his face. This was followed by how she tossed him a few feet away, and Buttons landed hard, though not so hard that he was out of the fight yet. Still, it did hurt, as shown when Buttons went: "UUUUHHH!" While Buttons pushed himself up and looked to Marita, he barked in a manner that could be translated as the following words.

"Some combo you just performed, Marita. I knew you were strong, being a hippo and all, but I never knew that you were this strong!" Marita went up to Buttons and said while doing so: "Hey, what can I say? Strength always has been one of my, well, strong points along with durability, both on levels most never even imagine or dream of! Even by hippo standards, to the point where sometimes even I'm surprised, ironically and amusingly enough!" She stomped on the back of her canine opponent, making him yowl: "AAAAARRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!"

But Buttons then, knowing that hippos have very sensitive skin and that Marita was no exception, made it so that, just as the foot she'd used to stomp his back was back on the ground again, he gave her huge belly an enormous lick, which caused Marita to, at how much it tickled like crazy, burst out into laughter: "WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Buttons, that tickles!" Buttons then spun himself around so that his rear was facing Marita and used his tail to brush this way and that over her fat belly, making it so Marita laughed even harder than before. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!"

He also yipped and barked as if to tell her: "My apologies, Marita, but given all of the big time advantages you've goddamn got the fuck over me, I've got to try anything I can think of to fucking find my way the fuck around in this fight, including fighting dirty, in this form or otherwise! I wish it were not so!" "Me, too, just like we both wish this whole fucking ordeal wasn't so for shit!" Marita replied before head-butting Buttons, which made him loudly bark: "AAAARRRRFFFCCKKKK!" She would also make it so that she was taking a hold of her opponent's tail and slamming him against the ground twice afterwards, first to her left and then to her right.

"WHUUUUULLLLLLLLKKKKKKK! UUUUUUULLLLKKKKKKKKKK!" Buttons yelped while this happened, although he was able to let out a very loud bark that easily startled Marita enough to cause her to let go of his tail, right before, as she went while covering her ears: "YOOOOOWWWW!" he rolled away enough so he would have time to get up again and be on his feet once more. Then, as Marita charged him and said: "Very clever and impressive, Buttons, but not either of those things on a level sufficient to defeat me in this fucking fight!"

Buttons, after Marita's charge ended with her ramming him with her right shoulder and making him yell: "GGGRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!" fought back. The way in which he did so was that he got up on his hind legs and smacked Marita in one region of her face or the other, first with open forepaws and then with his forepaws formed into fists. Plus, he used the claws on those same forepaws to slash cuts upon Marita's sides and belly, and Marita would go thanks to all of this: "UHHHHHH! UUUNNNNGGHHH! OOOOOOF! OWWWWGH! ARRRRGGHHH! UUUUUUNNNNHHHH! YAAAARRRHHH! ARRRRHHHHHH! YARRRRRGGGHHH! OOOOWWWWW! OWWWWNGGGHH! AAAGGGGHHH! NNNNGGGHHHH! NNNNNNNFFFFFF! OOOONNNNFFFF! UNNNNNNNNNFFF! AAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAIIIIEEEEEE! ERAAAAAAAAAAA! EEEEIIGGHHH!"

Buttons, while delivering these attacks, barked in a fashion that translated into: "Maybe not, but it's not the only fucking thing I've got in my fucking arsenal, so don't think that I've reached my limits!" He clapped his forepaws onto the sides of Marita's head subsequently and succeeded this with slamming his forepaws turned to fists onto those same sides of that same head of Marita's. "E-RAAAAAAGGGHHH! AAAAIIIIIEEEEGGGHHHH!" Marita went, but she kicked Buttons in the underside, resulting in him hollering: "HHHAAAARRRRPFF!" She also landed an uppercut upon his chin, which evoked: "YOOOWWWGGHH!" from him.

Marita then clapped her hands onto the sides of the head of Buttons, commenting while she did so: "I see what you mean, Buttons, but let's not fucking forget that I haven't exactly run out of moves to use for this motherfucking matchup, either!" She made fists out of her hands and slammed them onto the sides of her opponent's head, which made him go out: "AAARRCCCK!" just like, beforehand, when she clapped him on the head sides, he said: "UUUURRRRFFFFF!" Buttons, however, then made a move which made it seem as though he had Marita on the ropes.

For, just after he used his forepaw fingers and the claws thereon to tickle Marita's belly button and cause her to once more explode into laughter, especially since he used them to tickle her belly itself, too, he barked in a way that could be heard as: "While I see what you're saying, Marita, I think I've just fucking thought of a way to end this fight by beating you, which I am, at this moment, putting the hell into action!" he lunged himself forward so that his nose would hit his opponent's exposed throat.

You see, when Marita burst into hysterical laughter from Buttons tickling her paunch and navel, laughing out loud with: "HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she threw her head back solely by reflex action, and as such, her throat was open for a hit. And so, when Buttons nailed her in it with his nose/muzzle, Marita suddenly went on out not with any kind of laughter, but rather with: "HAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHH…? AAACCCGGHK…!" while quickly grabbing her throat with her right hand and gasping for breath.

Now, Buttons seemed to be just a moment away from winning, and it did indeed look as if he had Marita dead to rights and ripe for the knockout. However, just after Buttons barked so that he could be comprehended as saying: "All right, Marita, it's time to end this!" and bit Marita on the belly, knowing that her thick layers of fat would protect her organs from any kind of harm or damage despite how her skin was punctured by his teeth(even if the wounds were not the sort that would prove serious in any way despite how they bled a little bit, much like was the case with the claw wounds he produced on her sides and stomach earlier in this fight), Marita recovered her ability to breathe properly far faster than might have been expected, by Buttons, anyone else and even herself.

After all, her having unbelievable durability even for a hippo, which is quite a statement, made this possible and, in fact, reality. And, once her throat and ability to breathe were back to normal and she took in some air while watching Buttons remove his jaws and the teeth therein from her gigantic gut of girth, she jumped back a little bit and made sure that it was in a way so that she stomped the ground, creating an impact and shockwave that knocked Buttons down and made him hit that same ground with enough impact to make him say: "OOOOORRRRFFFF!"

That it took him by surprise due to how unexpected it was only added to the impact that Buttons was nailed by. Marita said while going over to Buttons and grabbing a hold of the scruff of his neck: "You are quite astute, Buttons. It is time to end this and we're going to, although in a different way than you no doubt meant to make happen and expected to happen!" She then made it so that she pressed his face and most of the rest of his body(except for everything that was part of the back of him, of course)against her behemoth of a belly with her free arm and the hand that was attached to it.

After that, she used her other arm to press against the part of his back that was just below the part of his back that the arm above it was pressing against, and she performed a hug-like grip to push his entire frontal body, face and all, deep into the soft blubber of her giant goliath of a gut. While Buttons struggled to the extent that he could, trying everything in his power to break free as sounds like: "MMMMMMPPPPFFFFF! MMMMMMMMFFFFFFFFFFFFF! GNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNPPPPFFFFFFFGGGHHHHHH!" could be heard from him, Marita spoke the words you'll read below to him.

"I'll admit, Buttons, that you almost had me there! I'll grant you that much! The amount of resistance to injury and/or pain I've got and the swiftness with which I recover from shit like those fucking things, however, gave me a chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and I am now damn well of the intent to do just that!" Due to how much strength she possessed and put into her current grip attack, and thanks to how Buttons had been taken unawares and was of course trapped and unable to take in enough air to stay conscious or do enough to break loose in his current position, it didn't take too long an amount of time at all before he passed out.

And when he did, Marita could tell that he'd lost awareness and she had won. So she took her arms off of Buttons and stuck them out so that he would land in her hands on his back so he could easily breathe again and start the road to recovery while unconscious, right before she a second thereafter heard Monty's voice. His uttering was made up of the words: "The winner is Marita! Good triumphing, Marita! Guess you've proven that, of the two of you, despite how both of you are able to withstand and survive incalculable amounts of punishment, you've got the greater level of that durability and damage resistance gift! Of course, I'll admit that shit doesn't fucking surprise me, considering how much bigger, stronger, harder to cause pain to, more durable and more overall powerful than Buttons you are, but the fact that he gave you quite the run for your money makes it clear that you beat him when he was obviously not holding back and fighting at his best, thus showing more than ever that you're just plain not someone who he can defeat, no matter how well he's able to fight! I'm also less than surprised with the kind of way that your fat ass used to triumph, tubby!"

Monty gave Marita a cruel grin, to which Marita responded by shooting Monty a nasty look, and, as Marita pretended not to be in a state where her blood was boiling throughout her body from how livid she was just now thanks to knowing that she had to make sure Buttons was able to recover properly, before and after he came to, Monty would speak his next of words. He said: "All right, this clash just came the fuck to a fucking end! Now get the fuck back to that lot who are either fucking finished or awaiting their fucking times to fight and bring that currently comatose canine along this fucking instant, fatso! And don't think singing after you're through with this tussle here is going to make it so that it's over, fat lady, 'cause it isn't! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

Although she was further angered by what Monty said to her, Marita refused to be hurt or made to lose it by his open disrespectfulness towards her, particularly with how there was so, so much at risk in addition to how she couldn't let anything happen to Buttons while he was getting better bit by bit. It also did her good to remind herself, albeit silently and in her own mind, that it was now over(the fight she and Buttons had to engage in, that is). So another reason as to why it just wasn't worth exploding despite how tempting that was just now.

Marita, as a result, brought herself and, as she held him, Buttons, to where the group was, and said to those in it who weren't currently out cold: "Excuse me, everyone? I know you moved like you did before in order to give more room to Wakko and the defeated Yakko, then Squit and the beaten Pesto, but unlike those times, I think you'll need to move out even further. After all, given my size and stature, as well as how Buttons needs all the breathing room he can get as he sleeps the results of our fucking fight off, plus how Wakko and Squit are already occupying part of the space while keeping their subdued opponents safe, I do believe you can tell that it's both necessary and required like I can."

Those who she was directing these words to nodded and complied to her wishes, then she sat down where she could tell would be the appropriate spot for her to do that and made sure that Buttons stayed in the position he was in and in her hands. Then she said: "Thank you very much, all of you." Those who she was thanking responded: "No problem." Afterwards, Wakko would mention: "All right, three have goddamn gotten fucking finished the fuck up by this point. But I can tell there are still lots to follow the one that was just completed." Monty's yelling out to let it be known who would mix it up next now ensued.

He hollered: "The time has now come for the two ones who will engage in the follow-up fight to bring themselves to where that damn battle fucking happens! I've decided to make a big-ass blend of bitches, beauty, bruises and bleeding, and the way in which I make that the case? Why, I am now assigning Hello Nurse and Minerva Mink to get their bitch asses the hell to what region of this fucking place I make sure the scraps occur in! This is the only time I'm saying this, you bitchy-ass blonde broads, so if you've got brains to go with your boobs, you'll hop to it and do nothing resembling stalling! This is nothing like anything that looks like over, and I refuse to wait for what I fucking want any longer than I fucking have to!"

Along with how both Nurse and Minerva felt a massive surge of ire stir up inside them, the way Monty was talking so nastily and insultingly towards them, and had to act as if it weren't there, the two of them looked at each other. This was followed by Nurse telling Minerva: "Much as I fucking hate this shit, what we've got to do, we've got to do." Minerva replied: "You're very right, and consequently, let's do anything we can not to let it last." Having told one another what they did, they walked along to where they would have their fight when Monty ordered them to battle, and by the time they got there?

Why, they posed for what both of them knew was in their very near futures, and did everything they were able to do to block out the way this hurt like a bitch throughout their souls and spirits, despite how it ironically was the least painful it would be for them out of all of the levels of excruciation they might feel that way, each one applied to each way things could go the fuck down during all of this shit.

Both of them were very, very, very unhappy indeed about this, not just for the obvious reasons, but also for good reason. There wasn't any way out, but that hardly subverted how much they loathed and were tortured from the inside out by and about it. They let out a very upset and morose sigh while looking in one another's directions, and they really hoped that they wouldn't have to await their catfight long. Not because they were in any way going to enjoy it, but because the longer they waited, the more it would wrack them and the slower their fight would be in finally reaching its end.

Monty, as a contradiction to how Nurse and Minerva felt at the moment, was so ecstatic, overjoyed, elated and delighted that words couldn't describe it one bit, nor could he even begin to express it. Nurse and Minerva were very close to taking one another on in combat, and while there was no doubt about that, there was a question about something else. Namely, the matter of who was going to take this fight's win, and who of the ones in the lot he'd ordered to fight, even if they didn't want it, would be who he chose to go at it with each other? You won't know the answers to such questions here, but you will know them in the chapter after this now concluded chapter you've just gotten done reading.

END OF CHAPTER 4

All right, did you enjoy this chapter? Was it good for you? I am hoping that your answer to both of those questions is "yes". Yep, I had Marita win this fight, all right, because while Buttons does have an impressive amount of durability and pain tolerance, the way that he can go through so much hell all the time and still keeps going, and obviously, being a dog, has some strength and speed on his side and claws and teeth for weapons, here's the thing. Marita not only is a lot stronger and more durable than Buttons, even if not nearly as speedy, but she's also harder to cause harm and/or pain to than he is, as evidenced by how Buttons reacts to harmful things far more often than she does, and that's if she ever has. Therefore, I made it so that Marita would end up the one who won the battle. Although it was a long rumble, but still. By this point, though, we're finished with this phase and the next one of those phases will be the one in which Hello Nurse does battle with Minerva Mink. After all, that's what Monty commanded and thus what will be what happens next. Who will come out triumphant in that upcoming confrontation, and who will Monty choose to be the succeeding two Animaniacs heroes he has go at it against their wills in the succeeding chapter of the chapter succeeding the one that's just been completed? Only one way to know, and hey, you know the drill! As soon as I post the next one of this tale's chapters, you'll be able to read it and find out! Meantime, however, I wish for some ratings and reviews for this fourth of chapters, if you please!