BGM-Super Smash Bros. for Wii U OST-Menu
Ruby: My name is Ruby Rose, leader of Team RWBY! What are Eggman and Goblin up to now? It sounds like they formed an alliance with Ganondorf and Bowser to win the Contest. The worst villains our worlds have to offer working together? That is very scary, especially when I get the feeling they have a more sinister plot in mind.
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Battle 7: Battlerealm Investigations
Galactorum, Battlerealm
BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-My Ambition
It's been a few hours since the Contest of Smashers began that brought the best champions in the multiverse to come and fight for the ultimate prize. Multiple epic fights rage on at the same time all over the Battlerealm, and they couldn't be more entertaining for the Collector and the Grandmaster, the Elders of the Universe hosting this cosmic Contest watching the fights from their holographic projections from the Galactorum. Each Elder still holds half of the Iso-Sphere in their hands, and whoever's team wins keeps the complete cosmic power for themselves. And from the looks of it, The Collector's team holds the advantage at the moment.
"How does it feel, brother, to be losing in your own game?" Collector taunted his brother. "You were the one who proposed a new Contest of Champions to see who would keep the Iso-Sphere, and yet here you are, with your champions holding a measly ONE Keystone while my champions are in the lead with THREE!"
Grandmaster scoffs from his brother's taunting, "Don't get so cocky, brother. A game is no fun if it's not challenging. We're about to enter the second act. Things will really heat up now."
"Assuming the mortals don't figure out a way to escape the Contest." Collector said, well-aware some champions are trying to find ways to escape the Battlerealm and end this Contest before things get out of control.
"You and I BOTH know escape from the Battlerealm is impossible without our power. Try as the humans might, they'll never break free. The Iso-Spell that binds this realm makes it so." Grandmaster grinned a bit evilly as the Elders continue watching their champions fight one another for control of the Keystones.
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Battlerealm
It's been a while since we last saw Spider-Man's team. He, Gamora, Blake, and Knuckles have been wandering around the Battlerealm since their encounter against Mario's team. Since then, they haven't fought any other fighters beside the occasional Adaptoid ambush, and besides the one they have, they haven't found another Keystone.
Knuckles sighs from all the boredom while walking, "This is getting dull. We've been walking for hours. Where the heck is everybody? I'm itching to fight someone else that's not one of those "Adaptoids"."
"Isn't that a good thing? Our main goal is to find the other Keystones as fast as possible. We can't afford wasting time." Blake responded to Knuckles's impatient.
"We're wasting time not doing anything! Do we even know where the next Keystone is?" Knuckles asked.
"I've been following my Spider-Sense but it hasn't picked up anything lately." Spidey said.
"Great, we're lost and have no idea where to go next." Knuckles remarked.
"I'm sure something will come up pretty soon." Peter assured him optimistically.
"I'd believe it. You are a magnet for trouble." Blake joked with a little smirk to the spider.
"And crazy cat people apparently." Peter chuckled, annoying Blake. While he was joking around, something from his costume starts ringing which got everyone's interest and attention, lastly Spider-Man's.
"You gonna answer that?" Gamora asked him stoically to answer his phone.
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Spirit
Peter takes out his OsPhone from his belt buckle to see he's getting a call from Iron Man, "My phone's ringing, and it's from Iron Man! I'm actually getting signal in this weird place? It's about time!"
"Hurry up and answer him!" Blake said, wanting to hear what Iron Man has to say, and if possible, if their other friends are with him as well.
Peter acknowledge and answers the call, putting the armored avenger up in a mini holographic form standing on his phone. "Spider-Man. Glad I finally reached you." Tony said, glad to have finally made a connection with the other heroes.
"Tony! Boy, am I glad to see you! Looks like you found a way to contact us. Are the others with you?" Peter asked his armored mentor.
"You can meet them yourself. I've gotten in contact with Tails's group. Put everyone in holo-form." Iron Man instructed Spidey to do, which he does with a simple push of a button, and now Iron Man's group and Tails's group are standing beside Spidey's group in full-size holograms to make it easier to talk to each other as if they're in person.
"Looks like we're all here and accounted for." Tails said in his holographic state.
"Hey everybody, long time no see." Sonic grinned.
"Guys! It's so great to see you all again!" Ruby smiled.
"Glad to see you're okay, Ruby. I was getting worried." Yang said, relieved to see her little sister is alright.
"We're back together again. Sort of. It's been nuts around here, you wouldn't believe it. We fought a plumber and a princess in a boxing ring!" Peter said, briefly telling what his group been going through lately.
"This place is all-kinds of crazy, but we managed to find a Keystone in the mix." Amy said as Sonic shows them their blue Keystone.
"We found one too," Weiss replied as Ruby shows them their yellow Keystone. "Spidey, you didn't lose yours right?" She asked the webhead.
"Why did you immediately assume I lost mine? I'm careful with things. See? Stuck on my hand." Peter quipped, showing the others the red Keystone stuck on his left palm.
"Still be careful with it." Stark advised the webslinger. "Assuming no one else found the others, we have three Keystones while the other team only has one, leaving four left to find. We're in the lead, meaning we can afford to slack off a bit and learn more about this Battlerealm and brainstorm an escape plan." Iron Man said, proposing they should start investigating the mysteries of the Battlerealm.
"It's about time." Gamora agreed.
"So far as I know it's a cosmic mystery that shouldn't exist and is producing a subtle energy that 'compels' us champions to fight." Stark said from his observations and experiences.
"We noticed it with Lucina. We need to figure out what is up with this place." Ruby said, determined to solve the mystery of the Battlerealm.
"That's what I'm saying, rosebud. Let's continue investigating on our own and contact each other when we find something." Stark replied.
"Sure. See ya soon." Spidey said.
"So long!" Sonic grinned before they ended the call, leaving Spidey's team all alone again.
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"Alright, kids. We must find out where in the cosmos the Battlerealm is located!" Gamora told her teammates.
"Sounds like we all have a common goal." A new voice enters the conversation that gets their attention.
"Who?" Knuckles asked, wondering where and who this new person is.
BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-The Base
Approaching the heroes are four more Champions surprisingly from their side, the Collector's side, starting with an anthropomorphic fox wearing pilot gear, a blue-haired swordsman prince that looks similar to Lucina but is actually a male, a princess in a pink dress, and an adorable yellow mouse.
"Don't be alarmed. We're on your side. I'm Fox McCloud, leader of Star Fox." Fox introduced himself to Spidey's team.
"Oh yeah. Kinda forgot you guys are on our team." Spider-Man quipped.
"You were the one who summoned them." Blake reminded him.
"I can't keep track of people I never met!" Peter wisecracked.
"So you're our Summoner. Greetings, friend, my name is Marth, prince of Altea. This here's Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom…" Marth introduced Peach standing next to him.
"Hello." Peach kindly waved.
"And this creature's name is Pikachu." Marth then gestured to the small electric mouse Pikachu, Pikachu.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu said his name happily.
"Nice to meet you. My name's Spider-Man. We're already familiar with you, Marth. You're a legend in Lucina's world. They call you the Hero-King. I can see why Lucina tried to disguise herself as you. You both look practically the same except she has longer hair and doesn't understand my jokes." Peter joked.
"Sorry, I don't really follow. I'm revered as a 'legend' in the future?" Marth asked, a little shock but also confused since he comes from a past version of Lucina's world, more than 2,000 years before her and Chrom's time.
"We're dealing with spacetime. Don't worry your little blue hair over it. I'm actually kinda a legend in your world too, surprisingly. They call me the legendary Hero-Spider!" Spidey quipped, referencing his adventures in Chrom's world.
"If you're done stroking your ego, Fox, what did you mean we have a 'common goal'?" Blake switched topics to talk with Fox.
"It's about this Battlerealm. Nothing makes sense here. Past and future collide. Fractured dimensions occupying one space. It's a prison. A death trap. Too dangerous of a place to host a tournament. We could all end up dead, trapped here forever." Fox explained.
"Rather not. I have graduation soon." Peter quipped.
"I've been leading an investigation. Figure out ways to break free from this dimension when we overheard your earlier conversation that relates to our mission." Fox continued.
"Sounds like we do have the same goal. What's your plan?" Gamora asked the galactic pilot.
"I've been trying to gather readings where we are, but my scanner doesn't have enough range. We need to find a better scanner. Know where we can find one?" Fox asked.
"Knowhere." Gamora simply replied.
"It's gotta be somewhere." Knuckles remarked.
"No. Knowhere. It's a place. I've been there before." Gamora answered a bit explicitly.
"Isn't that place the floating head of a dead Celestial?" Spidey asked the Guardian assassin.
"What's a Celestial?" Peach innocently asked.
"It's best you don't know." Peter quipped.
"Knowhere serves as a science station among other activities. There should be a version of it here in the Battlerealm. We can use its universal scanners to figure out our exact location." Gamora explained.
"Lead the way, killer green." Peter joked.
BGM End
Knowhere, Battlerealm
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Determination
Accompanied by Fox's group, Spider-Man's team made their way to Knowhere. They walk around for a bit together exploring the mining colony with Gamora and Fox in the lead. Some people like Marth and Peach are truly amazed walking inside the head of a dead space god from another universe. "This is truly a wonder. Walking inside the dead corpse of a space god that has been converted to a market of sorts. Your world holds a lot of marvels, Spider-Man." Marth told the webslinger.
"Yeah, we have a lot of weird stuff in our universe. One of them is Weiss, but you get used to her after a while." Peter joked.
"Pika!" Pikachu hops onto Peter's shoulder and rubs his cute little head against his, with Peter petting it.
"I got a Pikachu! You think I have what it takes to be the very best that no one ever was?" Spidey quipped to Blake.
"You have a hard time handling Ruby's dog, and forget about traveling the world. You can't afford it." Blake joked.
"You're probably right, but I'm sure Pikachu could at least beat you in a game of cat-and-mouse." Peter quipped.
"I'm not an ordinary cat, y'know." The faunus cat smirked.
"Neither is the electric mouse sitting on my shoulder, Tom." Spidey snarkly remarked.
Up ahead of the rest, Gamora and Fox are having a little conversation of their own, mercenary to mercenary. Two heroes part of their own best galactic-saving team from parallel dimensions. "I've been from one side of the cosmos to the other—And I haven't even HEARD of the Battlerealm before! Have you?" Gamora asked the fox leader.
"My team and I been to strange systems, but nothing like this. How close are we to Knowhere's universal scanner?" Fox asked.
"Just a little further beyond this wreckage. Looked like someone had a fight earlier and it wasn't pretty." Gamora said, glancing her surroundings to see wrecked equipment and small fires that are starting to dimmer.
Peach looks around the area too until her eyes gaze at four familiar beaten heroes lying unconscious on the floor. "Look! Some people are hurt!" Peach informed the rest of the group.
Marth runs up a bit forward and recognizes the white-haired princess girl among the ninja frog, a lady ninja, and a fitness trainer. "Princess Corrin! Her allies are down!" Marth recognized her, Greninja, Sheik, and Wii Fit Trainer.
Spider-Man lights up his lenses to scan their Corrin and her team's injuries while everyone checks if they're okay. "They're injured, but they'll live. Corrin, you alright, princess?" Peter asked, helping the groaning dragon girl up her feet as she wakes up, slowly opening her eyes. "You're safe now. Take it easy." He gently advised her.
"You're the Summoner, Sir Spider-Man. Thank you for coming to our aid." Corrin thanked him and his team for saving them.
"Spider-Man is fine. What happened here?" Spider-Man asked how she and her squad got all beat up and left for dead.
"We located a Keystone in this area. It was in the hands of the Grandmaster's Summoner, the one called Green Goblin." Corrin answered, referring to her recent battle against Osborn and his allies a bit back.
Spidey silently hiss from hearing his arch-enemy's name, "Goblin! Should've known it was him. Sorry you got yourself beat up by that lunatic. He's kinda my responsibility."
"Do not apologize. I underestimated his cunning and brutality." Corrin replied.
"It didn't look like he was alone. Who else was with him?" Fox asked about Goblin's cohorts.
"Ganondorf and Bowser, along with that other girl with the umbrella." Sheik spoke.
"That must be Neo. Why is she helping Goblin? Didn't he turn her into a goblin which lead to her death the first time?" Blake asked.
"Probably has no other choice unless you want to go up against the Grandmaster, and I rather go up against him than work with Goblin." Peter joked.
"Do you know where those jerks went?" Knuckles asked Sheik.
"I'm afraid not." Sheik shakes her head, having no clue where Goblin's team ran off to.
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BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite OST-Gamora Theme
Then at that point, multiple threats trigger Peter's Spider-Sense. "Heads up, guys. We got company." He warned the three groups.
Another Adaptoid squadron ambushes the champions out of nowhere. These aren't the usual Adaptoids, however. They're the Egg Adaptoids, modified Adaptoids by Dr. Eggman himself, evident with his insignia on their faces.
"Adaptoids!" Spider-Man recognized the threats.
"With Eggman's face on them!" Knuckles added, punching an Egg Adaptoid in the face.
"We saw one of them working with the Goblin and his allies earlier." Corrin informed, slicing up two at a time.
"What is Eggman and Goblin up to now?" Knuckles asked, pounding his fist on a Donkey Kong-styled Adaptoid.
"Not important at the moment! Fox, on your left!" Gamora warned her new ally of an Adaptoid attack.
Fox saw the danger coming and blasted it down with his blaster, "Saw it! Thanks!"
Meanwhile, Spider-Man stands behind Pikachu and Greninja against a few dozen Adaptoids. Easy peasy for a superhero commanding two very powerful Pokemon "Pokemon Trainer Spider-Man here to challenge you! Go, Greninja! Use Hydro Pump!" Peter commanded the ninja frog.
"Greninja!" Greninja obeyed, firing blasts of water to soak the Adaptoids.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" Peter commanded the electric mouse.
"Pi-ka-CHUUUUUU!" Pikachu brought down a large thunderbolt to damage on the soaked Adaptoids, taking advantage they were covered with water and uses electricity to deliver extra damage.
"Team action! Beat them up while I use my Web Balls!" Spidey commands, webbing up more Adaptoids for Greninja and Pikachu to double-team the creatures.
Blake lunges around slicing down the Adaptoids in her path. She lands behind one, and as it turns to clobber her, she uses her Semblance to form an explosive dummy to hit while she leaps to safety. She jumps down next to Sheik to work together blasting the other Adaptoids down.
Wii Fit Trainer works with Knuckles to dismantle some more Adaptoids with her exercise moves that are pretty effective. Knuckles gives a two-hit combo to a few of them before uppercutting one to the air for Peach to hip bash to the side. "Not bad, princess." Knuckles complimented her.
"Thank you." Peach giggled.
"Taste defeat from Falchion!" Marth taunted, striking his enemies with lightning-quick sword slashes.
"Fear Yato's wrath!" Corrin joined in on the taunting, teaming up with Marth to strike down more enemy forces.
"Run from the Godslayer!" Gamora as well helped out the prince and princess from two different worlds, stabbing multiple Adaptoids in one strike.
Fox shows off some impressive kick action on the Adaptoids in conjunction with his blaster. He dashes forward through a line of them at a blindingly fast speed, leaving behind afterimages and the explosions from the Adaptoids. "Spidey, hit me with your web balls!" The mercenary ordered the webhead.
"If you say so!" Spidey fires multiple web balls at Fox, who activates his Reflector to reflect them at more enemies hopping from above.
"Blake! Throw your ribbon at me and hold onto it!" Knuckles instructed his teammate.
"Right!" Blake tosses him a ribbon to grab. Knuckles starts spinning in place as fast as he could, spinning Blake around as she strikes down the surrounding Adaptoids with a single slash from her katana before Knuckles tosses her up and then slams her down for a powerful stab on one Adaptoid while in the process unleashing a shockwave that knocked down its remaining forces.
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"That takes care of the last of them." Blake noticed the battle is over and the Egg Adaptoids are finished.
"I…ISO…EN…ERGY EXT…RACT…ED…TRAN…S…FER…A…BY…SS..." The Egg Adaptoid Blake stabbed spoke in staggering, dying gibberish before it fully shut down, leaving behind some confusing words for them to ponder.
"What the heck was that thing talking about?" Knuckles asked the faunus having no idea what it was saying.
"I have no clue." Blake replied, with her and everyone else clueless as him.
"Why did Eggman reprogram these Adaptoids to attack us?" Spidey wondered.
"Probably to steal our Keystone. Not a bad idea." Gamora said.
"But why would the Goblin leave us be instead of finishing us off?" Corrin asked, still wondering why Goblin didn't finish her off while she was unconscious after their fight.
"The guy's insane enough never to take a bath. We'll worry about him later. Right now, we need to use Knowhere's scanners to find out where the Battlerealm really is." Spidey replied, wanting to get back on track of their original mission.
Later…at Knowhere's Universal Scanner Room
BGM-Sonic Adventure OST-The Past
"Alright, we're in business." Gamora said, sitting on a chair while the other three teams stand behind her as she scans the Battlerealm for any clues and hints where they are in the multiverse.
"Anything?" Fox asked her after a bit of searching.
"These readings are contradictory, confusing—how can this be?" Gamora remarked in a little shock of her findings.
"What?" Spidey asked what got her a little surprised.
"The Battlerealm is located outside of space—and time!" Gamora answered, surprising the folks behind her.
"What does that mean?!" Marth asked her.
"Whatever the Battlerealm is…it exists OUTSIDE the multiverse!" Gamora revealed.
"What?! That's impossible!" Knuckles remarked, surprised from hearing this.
"Is it still possible to escape?" Blake asked, looking a little worried.
"We can't!" Gamora said bluntly, not sugarcoating it or anything, that escape is impossible for them. "The only way is to fight! We MUST fight! Win the Contest! It's the only way!"
"I am going to be late for dinner, aren't I?" Spidey joked to ease the tense tension in the air. One mystery of the Battlerealm is solved: It exist outside reality, with the possibility of escape near zero. The only way to escape is for one team to win the Contest, or be trapped here forever.
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KFX Here: One thing's confirmed about the Battlerealm: It exist outside the multiverse. What other mysteries does this realm hold? We'll find out what Sonic's team learns next time along with a legendary fight to get some focus. Sonic and Pac-Man versus Mario and Mega Man? And Ultimo caught in the middle to destroy them all?
Question of the Chapter: What similarities can you spot between members from these three teams that appeared in this chapter: Spider-Man's team (Spider-Man, Blake, Knuckles, Gamora), Fox's team (Fox, Marth, Peach, Pikachu), Corrin's team (Corrin, Greninja, Sheik, Wii Fit Trainer)?
