YamSuper: Don't worry, you got it right. Granted, you did forgot to vote in the Side Battle but that is a common mistake other people made.
(The Arena)
Blue Mary jumped back to avoid being smashed into the ground by the giant arm of Ada. The blonde woman replied by kicking the giant marionette in the head.
"Hey, you can't do that to my sister!" Carl said indignantly.
"Your "sister" nearly smashed me into the ground." Mary said darkly. "You shouldn't be complaining."
Carl merely shook his head. "Look, we don't even want to fight you. All we wanted to do is fight that brown-haired fellow."
"Well, hate to break it you, kiddo but I was fighting him first!" Mary scolded. "YOU interrupted us."
Carl just sighed. "Tis a shame. I was hoping that we would have no problems fighting our first target and instead we have a distraction."
"You two brought this on yourself." Mary said putting up her fists.
Sol blinked twice. "Um, do those morons forget that I am standing right here?"
Then, Diddy ran past him running in fear while Emil chased after him swinging his sword like a maniac.
"Get back here, you banana-breath!" Emil snarled. "I want to turn you into a fur hat for Marta!"
Diddy didn't listen. Instead, he continued running. Sol blinked twice before walking off casually with a shrug.
"I am literally surrounded by freaks."
(Announcer's Booth)
"What's with Emil's mood swing?" Orange-Ratchet asked. "Coming out of the Ready Room, I can see his sweat from way over here."
"Emil is famous for having a… split personality." Tinyrocket explained. "When he goes into battle, he goes into "Ratatosk Mode" and is WAY more violent and destructive."
"Yeah, and it looks like poor Diddy is learning that the hard way." SSBFreak said before turning to Tinyrocket. "On a different topic concerning Mystery Fighters, why…?"
Tinyrocket sighed before reading the clipboard. "Okay, I admit it. I am a major brony."
"Yeah, I could see that and that's okay. I'd seen weirder tastes but that still doesn't explain when you invited Rainbow Dash to a FIGHTING tournament." SSBFreak scolded.
"Yeah, how is someone from a show that is all about friendship and ponies going to fare against such violent fighters?" Orange-Ratchet asked.
"She once beat Starscream from Transformers." Tinyrocket said without looking up.
The colour from both SSBFreak and Orange-Ratchet's faces had been drained.
(Recovery Room)
The Recovery Room was without a doubt one of the most important rooms of the dome. It was where the fighters get transported back after spending ten minutes in a random dome. The skilled doctors made sure that all of the fighters were nursed back to health.
Some of the doctors were actually fighters for the tournament. The hosts needed all of the healing power they could get so they asked all of the fighters that had experience with medical skills or healing powers to help out. Luckily, they had all expected.
Nurse Joy and a Chansey (Both from Pokemon) watched as Jude Mathis used his healing powers on Ryo Sakazaki's hand.
Soon, Jude was done. "There. Now all I have to do is bandage it up."
"Thanks, kid." Ryo sighed as he watched the smaller male wrapped it his hand.
"I must admit, I am surprised that we were unable to fully heal your hand." Jude lamented. "Especially since we can literally revive people that had died in other nodes."
"I think it has something to do with dimensions and vortexes or something like that." Ryo shrugged. "I remember Billy Kane breaking his arm in the first Megamix Tournament while in the arena and it was STILL broken by the end of the night."
"Well, you are all set to go." Jude said. "Just be careful with that hand, okay?"
Ryo nodded and gave his thanks before he got up and walked off still upset that he had foolishly got himself eliminated like that.
Suddenly, he saw that there was a pair of green poles blocking his path. Looking up, he realized that the poles were actually legs and were connected to a strange tall man with a paper bag over his head. What really caught Ryo's attention was the giant scalpel in his hands.
"Poor soul. You had your hand broken." Faust lamented.
"Um, yes…" Ryo said a little intimidated.
"Hmm… Let me heal it." Faust said.
"But Faust, I had already healed it." Jude piped up. "Anymore and I may end up overdosing the hand."
"Then, we have to chop it off and give you a new hand!" The tall man said with a glint in his visible eye.
"What!" Ryo yelled with wide eyes.
"Now what would you have? A wooden hand or a metal hand?" Faust asked. "I suggest that you choose carefully because both can be hazardous against either fire or electricity. Better choose based on your opinion of the least harmful element."
Ryo's eyebrow twitched. "How about neither, you freak!"
With that, he shot a fireball from his good hand catching Faust in his stomach and knocking him down. Ryo took this chance to run out of the Recovery Room screaming like bloody murder.
Faust sat up in confusion. "What? You find they equally painful?"
Nurse Joy, Chansey, Jude and everyone else in the room watched with stunned looks on their faces.
"That's the fourth time Faust had scared away a fighter." Joy said shaking her head.
Jude scratched his head. "Why the hosts asked him to help us again?"
"I honestly don't know." Joy sighed.
"I already told you I am fine so let me go!"
"Please! We are only doing our jobs!"
Everyone turned to see a couple of doctors struggling to get Nash to settle down. Obviously the shark didn't want to spend any more time in the Recovery Room.
Jude shook his head. A doctor's work is never done.
(The Arena)
Tails cried in pain before landing onto the canvas hard. Seeing haughty laughter, he sat up to see Wave on her board with a sneer on her face.
"That's it?" Wave laughed. "Man, no matter you always follow Sonic around! You can't do anything by yourself!"
Tails growled as he got up. "Tough talk for someone who had never been outside of the Sonic Riders franchise!"
"Hey, just because I am more a racer than a fighter doesn't mean I can't hold my own!" Wave smirked. "The Babylon Rouges are going to dominate this tournament!"
Tails rolled his eyes before getting out another ring. He then threw it at his rival. However, the young woman was quick and swiftly dodged it letting it explode harmlessly. Wave then smirked before flying over. Tails yelped before he leapt out of the way nearly avoiding being the attack.
Wave smirked before she stopped and turned on her board readying her wrench. She charged forward again swinging her makeshift weapon. However, Tails saw the attack coming and ducked under it.
Tails got up angrily. Spinning his tails, he flew up and went towards Wave. The swallow readied her wrench and swung at her opponent. But Tails anticipated this and threw a ring at Wave.
In a small explosion, Wave fell off her board and onto her rear.
"Ow! That hurt!" The purple feathered bird snarled.
"There is no way that attack hurt much more than your wrench." Tails scolded.
"Don't talk that way to me!" Wave snapped getting back on her board.
Tails yelped before he hit the deck to avoid having his head taken off by Wave's board. However, the latter swung her wrench downwards striking the fox in the back.
The poor boy cried in pain before weakly getting up.
"Heh. Admit it, shorty. You are all washed-up." Wave smirked. "Just like Jet will show Sonic next!"
Tails gave a low growl at this. "Diss me all you want. But you do NOT diss Sonic!"
With that, he flew at Wave. The female mechanic smirked before swinging her wrench.
However, Tails quickly stopped his flight to spin around parrying Wave's wrench and knocking it out of the ring (and into Angela Anaconda where it landed on top of Nanette). Tails then spun his tails again flying towards Wave and kicking her chest knocking her off her board.
Tails then decided to go for the coup-de-grace by showing a ring at the downed Wave. In another explosion, she flew out of the ring. Tails then grabbed her board and threw it out of the arena after her.
Wave landed in Fullmetal Alchemist where she started to berate Winry's skills as a mechanic. She promptly got a thrown wrench to the face.
Axl screamed before he jumped back to avoid an explosion. He then glared at his opponent who got two more bombs. Bean gave a big grin.
"Aw, come on!" Axl complained. "Can you do ANYTHING besides throw bombs?"
Surprisingly, this actually make Bean put away his explosions back behind his back. Flapping his wings, he flew up to Axl. He then proceeded to constantly peck his opponent's face.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Axl cried out. "Watch the face!"
After Bean had finished his assault, he fell back to the ground.
"There. I showed you what I can do that doesn't involve explosives." Bean said. "NOW can I blow you up?"
Axl growled as he held his face. "You just stepped on a landmine, birdie!"
Bean excitedly looked down with sparkling eyes. "Really?"
Despite rolling his eyes at the scene, Axl took this chance to slam the blunt end of his chained scythe onto Bean's head before booting him away sending him sprawling. Axl ran over raising his weapon over him.
The duck however had recovered his senses in time to see the attack coming. Quickly rolling to the side, he avoided the attack before kicking with both feet into Axl's face.
Normally that would hurt but not too much. However, his face was still stinging from Bean's rapid pecking so that kick hurt a lot more than it should.
As Axl staggered back holding his face, Bean ran over and punched him in the stomach. It didn't hurt as much as the kick but it still took the wind out of him.
Axl stood up straight and growled. Quickly untying his bandana, he threw it over Bean's face.
"Hey! Who turned off the lights?" Bean shouted taking the bandana off of him.
Only to see Axl leaping forward at him. Using his chain to grapple him, he swung Bean over his shoulder and spiked him onto the ground.
Axl smirked as he watched Bean lay on the ground with stars over his head. Turning around, he knelt down to pick up his bandana and tied it back around his head. He then turned back around to throw Bean out of the ring.
Only to see him standing up looking surprisingly angry.
Charging forward, Bean headbutted Axl in the stomach causing him to stagger back and tumble over the ropes.
Axl landed in Crazy Taxi. He got run over by B.D. Joe.
Bean went back to his happy-go-lucky self as he snapped his fingers in joy. He turned around to see Rainbow Dash bucking Dhalsim out of the arena (and into Super Mario Galaxy where he meditated on a small platform surrounded by dark matter.) Bean blinked twice before getting out another bomb and deciding to cause more mischief.
Clark and Zangief charged at each other before getting themselves in a grapple. Both of them struggled to throw each other. However, both of them stepped back.
Clark ran forward punching forward at a rapid pace. However, Zangief had shown surprising reflexed and blocked the attacks.
"Such strength!" Zangief grinned. "How you ever consider retiring from mercenary work to be a wrestler? I see great things from you!"
"Tempting offer, pal but I am a mercenary through and through." Clark said punching his fist.
"That is quite too bad." Zangief lamented. "Ah well, show me more of those grapples!"
Clark gave a smirk. "That is my intention."
With that, he ran over to Zangief and did a sliding attack knocking the giant off his feet. Clark quickly got up and put Zangief in a foot hold. The Russian wrestler yelled in pain as he slammed his fist on the floor repeatably.
Kicking his free feet, he had booted Clark off of him. The two grapplers got up and faced each other. Clark jumped forward with a kick only for Zangief to grab it. Using his huge strength, he swung Clark around for a couple of seconds before throwing him into a turnbuckle.
Clark groaned as he held his head to try to stop the ringing. He slowly looked up to have his eyes bugged out behind his shades when he saw Zangief charging over.
Clark dove out of the way nearly avoiding a massive body check from Zangief. Seeing that his opponent was stunned, he kicked him in the back.
Zangief turned around furious. He charged forward intending to do a clothesline attack. However, not only did Clark duck under the attack but he also punched Zangief in the stomach as the Russian man was running past.
The large man held his midsection. Suddenly, he noticed Clark rushing over from the corner of his eye. Thinking quickly, he used his Spinning Lariat striking Clark in the face with a spinning fist.
The mercenary sprawled around the ground in pain. He stared at the arena lights dazed. Zangief quickly ran over to the nearest turnbuckle with a big smirk on his face. It was time to end this battle in style.
The crowd cheered him on as he stood on top of the turnbuckle playing to the ground. He then leaped off to do a hard body slam.
That would be the case if Clark didn't snapped to his senses at the last minute.
Rolling to the side, Zangief landed hard on the ground. This time, he was the bearded man's turn to lay on the floor stunned. Clark slowly got up and decided to a finisher of his own.
Throwing the dizzied Zangied in the air, Clark got himself into position. Zangief then landed back-first hard on Clark's shoulder before getting thrown out of the ring.
Zangief landed in The Simpsons arcade game. He wiped the floor with the bear boss making the titular family's adventure a lot easier.
The sword of Chloe Valens clashed with Link's shield. Link swung his sword upwards only for the young woman to jump back.
"Phantom Dance!" Chloe shouted spinning around. Despite Link easily raised his shield block the attack, he found himself being forced back.
Link thought quickly and kicked the knight in the stomach before slamming the handle of his sword into her forehead. Chloe staggered back before quickly recovering.
"Demon Fang!" Chloe shouted before launching a shockwave at Link.
It hit the green-clad man in the legs knocking him down. The young man slowly got up looking annoyed.
"You DO realize that the whole Demon thing is getting kinda repetitive." Link said.
"Perhaps. But the Demon Fang and Fist arte is a Tales traditional attack." Chloe said. "Plus, it is quite efficient because it is literally my only projectile."
Link then smirked at this. "Speaking of projectiles…"
He then got out a boomerang. Despite stunned, Chloe got herself ready.
Unfortunately, she didn't know that the boomerang was an elemental one. Throwing his boomerang at his opponent, a small tornado surrounding the weapon. Despite Chloe had managed to block it, she found herself before sucked in back towards Link. The blonde man quickly before punching the woman in the face knocking her down.
Chloe sat up angrily. "Dishonourable cheater! You said you wanted to have a swordsman duel and yet you pulled such a stunt!"
"You literally knocked me off with a projectile and yet you are complaining when I used one?" Link asked annoyed. "Double standards much?"
"At least I used my own sword to create the projectile unlike relying on a different weapon!" Chloe snarled.
"Well, sorry!" Link said rolling his eyes. "Seriously, I was a third-party character in a fighting game that used weapons and I did the same thing and not a single person complained about it."
Chloe shook her head before getting up seeing that there was no getting through to him.
"Sword Rain!" She shouted stabbing at Link repeatedly.
However, Link stepped back from the attack and got out a bomb. Throwing it at Chloe's attack, it exploded sending him on the ground.
Link walked over to throw her out of the ring but Chloe kicked forward catching the man in his chest. With that, she jumped back to her feet and slammed her handle into his skull.
Link stepped back stunned. He then noticed Chloe charging forward trying to run him through.
He then ducked under the attack while readying his sword. With a spin, he spun around at a rapid speed sending the surprised knight flying out of the ring.
Chloe landed in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker where she spent the next ten minutes saving children from Mr. Big's goons.
Link smirked at his elimination. He then turned around to see Fox booting Asch out of the ring (and into Crash Bandicoot where he landed on top of a pile of Nitro crates.) Nodding at his node's success, he decided to see how well his node can do.
(Hotel; Pool)
The pool was mostly quiet. Mainly because that it was used a couple of days before the actual tournament to relax. Once the actual tournament started, almost nobody decided to join so that was when it was that quiet.
That was until the door shot open.
Shoma ran through the doors looking around frantically. "Dang it! He is not in here either!"
The baseball player roared in anguish. Ever since he had kicked the tar out of Kraken, he had been looking high and low for Valgas. However, it had seemed that he had lost sight of him.
"This is horrible!" Shoma growled. "At this rate, that creep may have already got the target he was after!"
He then angrily punched a nearby locker not believing his luck. Some poor innocent person was going to use as one of Kurow's puppets and he was blindly running around the hotel like a chicken with his head cut-off.
He was so angry that he didn't notice the water in the pool bubbling. However, a couple of seconds later, Shoma heard the weird noise and turned to the pool.
"What the?" Shoma asked.
Suddenly, the bubbles went towards Shoma. The white-clad boy quickly got out his baseball bat with a worried look on his face. Whatever he was fighting, he was ready for it.
That was when something emerged from the pool. A young man who was wearing nothing but a skin cap, goggles, a speedo and flippers on his hands and feet.
Shoma's eyes lit up. "Nagare!"
The young man watched his friend run over. "Shoma, what is the problem?"
"Nagare! I know that this sounds weird but have you seen a big, muscular shirtless guy with blonde spiky hair and blue pants that looks like he is a wrestler?" Shoma asked.
The swimmer stayed silent for a moment. "No… I did not."
"Dang it!" Shoma growled.
Nagare shook his head. "Shoma, what has happened?"
"Listen, it is a very long story but to put it short, the guy I described is in league with Bison AND Kurow!" Shoma exclaimed.
"Are you sure?" Nagare asked calmly.
"I'm sure! I heard them said their names!" Shoma demanded.
"Oh dear…" Nagare frowned. "This sounds serious."
"It is!" Shoma said. "We have to find that steroid junkie before it is too late."
Nagare calmly went over to a bunch and put on his jacket. "Patience, Shoma. If what you said is true, we may be facing a dark force. Even more so than Hyo and Kurow put together."
"I know but what do we do?" Shoma asked.
"What else do we do?" Nagare said turning around. "We need help."
Shoma nodded his head. "Yeah, let's go to the Eliminated Seating and form a team."
Nagare gave a small smile. "Indeed. The power of teamwork had helped us win against Justice High twice so it would do it again."
Shoma happily nodded. The two were then silent save for the ripples of the pool.
"Sooo… Where is the Eliminated Seating again?" Shoma asked scratching the back of his head.
Nagare's smile faltered. "I thought you knew."
Shoma's face fell. "Uh-oh…"
(The Arena)
Kunai and shuriken scattered across the arena. Ever since Ayame had entered the ring, she had gotten a fight with her fellow ninja, Espio.
Ayame pulled out another kunai from her sleeves and threw it at Espio. However, the chameleon was quick and threw a kunai of his own cancelling both attacks out.
The green-clad girl growled at having her attack negated and decided to go for close-combat. She rushed forward and swung her leg at Espio causing him to back-flip out of harm's way. The lizard had sprung to life catching Ayame in the chest knocking her on her rear.
Ayame jumped back on her feet. "Should I power up now? I only get to use my power once."
However, in the time she had talked to herself, she realized that Espio had turned invisible. Looking around frantically, she found herself falling on her rear. Kicking blindly, she had managed to catch Espio in the face causing him to stagger back.
"You are a sneaky one but you are out of your league." Espio said rubbing your chin.
"Hey! I KNOW that I could beat you!" Ayame demanded getting back up angrily.
"Oh really? In case you weren't keeping count. I had scored THREE eliminations." Espio said holding up his fingers.
"And that is exactly why I think I could beat you." Ayame said with a smirk.
Espio blinked twice. "I beg your pardon?"
"From what I saw, the three people you eliminated were formidable foes." Ayame said. "That plus the fatigue you have must make you exhausted."
Espio's face fell. The girl was right. He literally came into the arena at the very start and Ayame had gotten in a more later draw meaning that she was still rearing to go while Espio had most of his energy drained. However, he was not one to show weakness.
"If you assume that you will beat me just because you are fresher, then you are sorely mistaken." Espio said.
With that, he did another back-flip creating a tornado of leaves sending Ayame flying in the air. The young girl screamed before she had managed to self-right herself and land on her feet.
However, Espio was waiting for her and greeted her with a kick to the gut followed by a karate chop to the shin. Ayame collapsed on one knee before Espio kneed her in the knee sending her sprawling.
Despite the pain she was going through, Ayame slowly got up shaking her head. She then growled realizing that despite Espio had fatigue working against him, he was still a deadly threat.
Suddenly, a light bulb appeared over her head.
Getting out another shuriken, Ayame threw it at Espio who easily swerved out of the way.
However, that was Ayame was hoping for as she ran forward.
Rushing over to the surprised ninja, she had opened forced his mouth open and reached inside pulling out his long tongue. Espio's pupils shrank knowing what his foe was about to do.
BAM!
Ayame let go of the tongue allowing it to strike Espio knocking him down with stars around his head. Humming a jovial tune, she crouched down to pick up Espio and throw him out of the ring.
Espio landed in Tenchu where he disappeared into the shadows.
"Get back here and fight like a man!" Emil shouted still chasing after Diddy.
The monkey didn't reply. Instead he turned around and shot his popguns at his attacker. Emil easily blocked the peanuts.
"Demon Fang!" Emil shouted sending a shockwave at Diddy.
The arte connected knocking the brown-furred simian down. Emil smirked before he leaped into the air with his sword high in the air. Diddy weakly looked up to see the attack coming. Shrieking in fear, he rolled backwards nearly avoiding being cut in two.
Deciding his best form of escape was through the air, he activated his barrel-jetpack flying off the ground.
However, all Emil did was smirk. "Trying to get away from in the air."
"Dark Radiance!"
Swinging his sword upwards, he launched himself in the air surprisingly Diddy. Swinging his sword downwards, he knocked Diddy onto the ground. Emil then finished the attack by sending a shockwave at Diddy knocking him away.
Diddy groaned before getting back up. Perhaps he had used his Smash Ball far too early. He then saw Emil charging over grinning like a maniac.
"Havoc Strike!" Emil shouted jumping up in the air and kicking forward.
Diddy yelped before he leaped over the attack and landed on the young boy's head. Deciding that he didn't want to come off, he grabbed the blonde hair and held on for dear life.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Emil yelled. "Get off me, you little turd!"
Diddy didn't listen. Instead he continued to hang on for dear life. Emil growled before he struggled to get Diddy off of him. He then started to do back-flips in place to try to get the monkey off of him.
However, Diddy was much more determined and continued to grab on for dear life. Emil scoffed realizing that his plan wasn't working.
"Okay? You know what? I don't care if this will give me a bad hair day!" Emil said readying his sword. "I am going to slash you in two!"
Diddy yelped before getting out his peanut popgun. He swiftly pointed it at Emil's head and pulled the trigger.
POP!
Emil stood in his place with wide eyes. Diddy blinked twice wondering what was going on. Suddenly, Emil slowly went on his knees and collapsing face-first on the canvas unconscious. Diddy sighed in relief before pushing the swordsman out of the ring.
Emil landed in Luigi's Mansion where he landed in an empty ditch in the boneyard.
Sol looked around scanning for an opponent. Deciding on Fox, he made his way over.
That was when a pair of arms wrapped around his waist from behind.
Sol soon found himself a victim of a very painful suplex. The swordsman groaned as he sat up to stare at the culprit.
He then saw Mary smirking at him.
"Forgot about little ol' me?" Mary asked.
"I'll be honest. I wanted YOU to forget about ME." Sol groaned getting up.
"Sucks to be you then." Mary said running forward.
Sol sighed before raising his sword to block a kick from Mary. Pushing his sword, he forced the cop onto her back. The young woman rolled backwards before rushing again. This time, she did a sliding kick.
This actually took Sol off-guard and knocked him off his feet. Mary then sat on top of Sol and put his free arm into an arm lock.
Sol grunted in pain and annoyance. "Get off!"
"Make me!" Mary demanded.
"All right! You asked for it!" Sol snarled.
Using the handle of his sword, he slammed it into the side of Mary knocking her off of him. The two fighters got back up.
Sol swung his sword sending a wave of fire at the woman. However, Mary was quick and not only ducked under the projectile and tackled Sol back to the ground before punching his face a few times.
Sol while being punched grabbed Mary and threw her backwards. The two then got up back before glaring sparks at each other.
Igniting his sword in fair, Sol Badguy rushed forward swinging his sword. However, Mary jumped back nearly avoiding being fired.
She then countered with a jumping knee attack striking Sol in the face and sending them both in the air.
"MARY'S…"
Mary then grabbed Sol in mid-air and spiked him into the ground. Sol slowly got up stunned and with his back to Mary who proceeded to grab him by the chest.
"…DYNAMITE SWING!"
Mary started spinning around while holding onto Sol. With one mighty swing, he threw the swordsman out of the ring.
Sol landed in Advance Wars where he took out the entire Black Hole army all by himself.
Mary nodded to herself with a smirk.
"Hey!"
Mary's eyes widened to see Carl Clover storming over with Ada following.
"That was OUR target therefore OUR elimination!" Carl demanded.
"That is not what the results screen is going to say at the end of the tournament!" Mary smirked.
Carl snarled. "Very well. We just have to settle on the person who eliminated our target, won't we, sis?"
Ada nodded her head before moving forward swing her arms. Mary jumped back to avoid the barrage of slashes. Finding an opponent, she kicked Ada in the end causing him to stagger back.
Getting out a stun gun, Mary charged to Ada and jabbed it into her torso surging her with electricity.
"SIS!" Carl cried in horror.
Mary continued the assault before stepping back watching the sparks dance on Ada. Carl immediately rushed over to his sister's side.
"Sis, are you all right?" Carl asked. "SIS!"
Mary raised an eyebrow. "Um, kid? Aren't you a little old to have imaginary sisters?"
Carl's eyebrow twitched as he glared daggers at Mary. Jumping forward, Carl tackled Mary to the ground and started to punch her face in.
"How dare you!" Carl said in a blind rage. "Don't talk like you know what my sister and I had been through! You monster!"
Normally, punches from Carl wouldn't hurt that much but combined with his rage, Mary was seriously really the pain.
However, Mary had managed to kick Carl off of her. She then sat up to feel her face.
However, the young boy wasn't done yet. Reaching into his cape, he pulled a giant cog that was as big as him. Mary looked up to see the cog rolling towards her and knocking her out of the ring.
Mary landed in the Sanubia Desert from Final Fantasy X. However, Carl's cog had landed on top of her so she spent the next ten minutes struggling in the heat.
Peach raised her frying pan to block a series of bullets being fired at her. Once the barrage had ended, she ran forward striking her attacker on the head.
Gemel rubbed his head before looking up. "You DO realize that didn't hurt me that much."
"Perhaps but that doesn't mean it shouldn't drain you." Peach said before trying again.
Gemel raised his arms to block the attack. Despite the comical size difference, the two suffered to gain ground.
Then, Gemel activated the jets on his back to boost forward shoving Peach away. The princess staggered back before recovering.
"All right. It seems more drastic measures are in order." Peach said crouching down.
She then pulled out a turnip from the ground. Where it came from was anyone's else. She then threw it at the robot.
"Ha. Sorry, princess but it is going to take a lot more than that to beat me." Gemel said easily swatting the turnip away.
"I realize that." Peach said plucking out another turnip away and throwing it.
If Gemel had a visible face, he would have blinked his eyes a few times. Again, he easily swatted away the turnip.
Peach continued to throw turnips despite Gemel was easily swatting them away. The robot wondered what the pink-clad woman was up to.
Peach reached to the ground once more to pull out another turnip.
However, this time it was different.
Gemel gaped as Peach pulled out a light blue glowing sword. The latter looked away her new weapon before smirking.
"Just what I needed."
With that, she lunged forward at the surprised Gemel. Swinging her sword vertically, Gemel had actually managed to catch the glowing blade with his hands.
"How are you holding it like that?" Peach asked in disbelief.
"I am a ROBOT, remember." Gemel said flatly.
Peach growled before she struggled to get her weapon back. However, Gemel wasn't going to let Peach have her way and pulled back in a tug-of-war.
"Gimme!" Peach demanded.
"No!" Gemel snapped.
"I am not going to reply again! Give me back my Beam Blade!" Peach scolded.
"Are you sure?" Gemel asked.
"Of course I'm sure!"
If Gemel had a mouth, he had been smirking.
"All right… You asked for it."
With that, he let go of the blade. Peach stunned by her sudden victory fell onto her back dizzied. Gemel chuckled before walked over.
"Well, at least you got your weapon back." He said shoving Peach underneath the bottom rope.
Suddenly, a ball of electricity had hit him in the back surging him. He turned around to glare at the guilty party.
Lucas gulped nervously seeing that Gemel didn't care for his PK Thunder attack.
"Hey, what's the big idea, kid?" Gemel demanded. "What you did just now was cheap!"
Despite worried, Lucas narrowed his eyes. "And your trick to get rid of the princess wasn't?"
"Hey, she literally asked for it!" Gemel scolded.
"Still, Peach is my nodal companions and if you mess with one of us, you mess with most of us." Lucas said with a stern glare.
Gemel sighed as he shook his head. "Can't say I don't feel the same way. All right, kid. I just hope you know what you are getting yourself into."
"Me too…" Lucas muttered.
Meanwhile, a pair of fans had clashed with a staff. Tear Grants stood in her place while Hokuto continued the assault with her fans.
Tear jumped back to over a vertical attack from Hokuto before swinging her staff sending a small ball of light into Hokuto's chest.
While the attack didn't hurt that much, it did sent Hokuto stepping back a couple of steps. Tear got out a knife and threw it at her opponent.
However, Hokuto saw the attack coming and quickly raised one of her fans. When the knife went through the fan, the brunette quickly closed it catching the projectile in the progress.
Tear watched as Hokuto threw the fan away. "Impressive move. I assume that you had been training for this."
"My family had been training for generations." Hokuto explained sternly. "We are ready to take on any and all opponents and their attacks."
"Very well." Tear said narrowing her uncovered eye. "But let's see how you deal against this attack."
With that, she started to cast a spell. Hokuto seeing what usually happen to people who let Tales fighters finish. Unfortunately, she was too late.
"Éclair de Larmes!" Tear shouted as a glowing white X appeared under Hokuto's feet. The latter found herself screaming in pain as she was pelted with light energy.
Hokuto collapsed on one knee panting before she got back up just to see Tear charging over.
Hokuto held her arms to block a staff strike from Tear. Despite it hurt her, she quickly counter-attacked by kicking her fellow brunette in the side causing her to stagger away. Hokuto continued the assault by slamming her palm into her face.
Tear staggered forward before turning around to see Hokuto with her fans again. The two charged at each other clashing weapons with each other.
Then, Tear flipped over a fan swing and slammed her staff over Hokuto's head knocking her down. The young woman groaned as Tear watched her get back up.
"You are indeed skilled but you need a lot more to take me off-guard." Tear noted.
Hokuto then looked up at Tear with a small smirk.
"Very well."
Despite confused by Hokuto's reaction, Tear went on her guard. Hokuto got up and raised her left hand up. She then did a motion with her other hand as if she was pulling on something.
The audience and Tear looked in awe as a giant ball of energy surrounded her left hand that was connected to a thin line of energy in the right hand as if she was going to fire an arrow.
That was just like she did. Hokuto released the energy ball at the woman pummelling the soldier until she flew straight out of the ring.
Tear landed in Hello Kitty where she died of cuteness overload.
Hokuto nodded to herself proud at her success as the first character exclusive to the EX series to get an elimination. Turning around, he saw Lucas levitating Gemel out of the ring with his psychic powers (and into Megaman where the titular character mistook him for an enemy.) Raising her eyebrow, the young woman decided to see the psychic boy alone.
(Unknown Land)
Peach wandered around a peculiar land looking confused as she looked around.
"Hmm… Okay, I KNOW I am in my home node but where?" Peach mused. "I'd been to many places that it is easy to forget a couple."
Suddenly, she stopped as she looked down. In front of her was a checkered square.
Suddenly, everyone went back to her. "Oh, this is Mario Party 3! Particular a Duel Map!"
Then, she saw a familiar yellow-clad brunette princess with a Snifit. Her eyes lit up.
"Daisy! Oh, woo-hoo! Daisy!" Peach sang getting Daisy's attention. "Over here!"
"Peach?" The brunette asked confused.
"Oh, Daisy! It is so great to see you!" Peach smiled. "I am so glad that I get to spend the ten minutes with…"
Suddenly, Daisy scowled. "What are YOU doing here!"
Peach skidded to a stop surprised at her friend's reaction. "I-I beg your pardon?"
"Oh no! It's her!"
Peach turned to see Waluigi walking over with a Piranha Plant by his side. The Millennium Star and Tumble were also there. All of them looked upset.
"Are you freaking serious? This-a is the only time that we can play Mario Party without Peach and this just HAD to be the random node she appears in!" Waluigi groaned.
"W-What? What do you mean?" Peach asked hurt.
"Every time! Every time we play Mario Party with you, something lucky always happens to you!" Waluigi snapped.
"Yeah! You always get stars from hidden blocks! You always win mini-games and even Mario can't play! And when you get Bowser Roulette, you always get his "100-star" deal or something!" Daisy snapped. "Granted, the last part was probably because he has a thing for you but still!"
"You are always winning Mario Party in an one-sided match." Tumble said. "You hardly give the other players a chance to play to win."
"That is why every time you go away to tournaments like these, we would have a Mario Party medley!" The Millennium Star said sternly. "So we wouldn't have to put up with your cheapness!"
"YEAH!" Everyone else agreed.
Peach looked around. Everyone was glaring daggers at her.
"Um, gee? I am sorry to hear that…" Peach said softly. "But I am only here for ten minutes so I don't suppose you mind me being here…"
A few seconds later, Peach ran away holding her head as everyone threw stars, coins and dice blocks at her.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Okay! Stupid question! Stupid question!"
(Hotel; Restaurant)
The restaurant owner ducked his head under the counter with a jaded face. "Where were these guys two sections ago? It's common tradition for this place to get hit first!"
Impmon yelped as he jumped in place to dodge a series of bullets.
"Dance, little imp, dance!" Pinstripe sneered firing at Impmon's feet. Koala Kong stood beside with a small smirk and his arms crossed.
The black imp growled before he jumped back avoiding the barrage.
"Bada-Boom!" Impmon shouted sending a small fireball at Pinstripe striking him in the chest causing the potoroo to stop his barrage and cause a very nasty burn on his suit.
"Hey, kid! Do you know how much this suit costs?" Pinstripe snapped.
"Probably about ten cents because MAN it is tacky!" Impmon smirked.
"Hey!" Pinstripe snarled.
"That's it." Kong said flatly. "I am going in."
Impmon smirked. "Bada-Boom!"
Kong thought quickly and blocked the incoming fireball with his iron bracelets. He then lunged himself at Kong.
Impmon yelped before jumping over the large mutant and landing on his face. Pinstripe snarled before running forward and jumping up in the air intending to land on Impmon.
The Digimon saw the attack coming jumped out of the way allowing Pinstripe to land on Kong instead.
"Hey! Watch where you are aiming!" Kong snapped.
"Well, maybe if you didn't suck, I wouldn't have hit you!" Pinstripe snapped.
"I SUCK! If you had better aim, we had already gotten that shrimp by now!" Kong scolded.
"Come on, guys! Don't fight!"
The two goons turned to see Impmon sitting casually on a turned over table.
"Both of you suck just the same." Impmon grinned. "So there is no reason to argue about it."
Pinstripe and Kong blinked twice before looking at each other. They then narrowed their eyes before nodding. Pinstripe immediately started to open fire on Impmon who back-flipped under the table where the bullets harmlessly hit the table.
"Darn these non-lethal bullets!" Pinstripe growled.
Kong looked around. Suddenly, he saw another turned over table. Rushing over to it, he grabbed it and threw it at the table Impmon hid behind.
The two tables were destroyed leaving a stunned Impmon. Pinstripe smirked before he immediately opened fire on the shorter guy.
Impmon staggered back after receiving a lot of strikes. He held his arm in pain.
Pinstripe gave a haughty laugh. "Face it, kid! You lost!"
Impmon growled at this. "I did not! I am just warming up."
With that, he started to charge up power. Pinstripe and Kong raised their eyebrows wondering what was going on.
"SUMMON!"
With that, he sent a series of ice shards at the two. Normally, they were quite small but for now, they were bigger than usual.
Pinstripe yelped before diving out of the way opening fire at Impmon when he did so. The poor imp fell to the ground unconscious.
The mobster got up dusting off his suit with a smirk.
"Heh. Some attack!" Pinstripe smirked. "It left him completely wide open!"
With that, he then started to laugh heartily. Normally, Kong would had joined him but he was too busy trying to keep his consciousness.
When Impmon launched his attack, while Pinstripe was lucky in dodging, Kong took the full attack. Normally, he would easily shrug off an attack like that but a very big ice shard hit him in the smack of the head.
Pinstriped continued laughing. Suddenly, a shadow fell onto him. "Hey! Back off, will ya? You are…"
That was all he got out before Kong collapsed onto him unconscious. The restaurant owner nervously peeked from behind the counter nervously.
Suddenly, five figures rushed into the restaurant.
"All right! Nobody move!" Ally snapped punching her fists together.
"We are the security team, see!" Kanji said readying his chair. "And we want you to stop this fight!"
Suddenly, the security team noticed that the three people on the floor unconscious. They all blinked twice.
"Anyone else think that this is going to be a running thing for us?" Hunter asked. Everyone else slowly nodded.
(The Arena)
"Sticky Net!"
Tai-Lung got caught in a small net. The snow leopard crossed his arms and tapped his foot in an annoyed fashion. Baring his claws, he easily scratched open the net before glaring at the guilty party.
Wormmon gulped nervously.
"Look here, worm. My fight is not with you." Tai-Lung said darkly. "Maybe it will be when I defeat the other fighters but not now."
"N-No!" Wormmon stammered. "I watched your movie! You are a dangerous man! You cannot be left alone!"
"Heh. Flattener." Tai-Lung smirked. "But what makes you think you can defeat me let alone the great Tai-Lung?"
Wormmon gulped nervously. As much as he hated to admit it, he knew Tai-Lung was right. He was a fool to rush him alone.
Or at least just as Wormmon.
Suddenly remembering something, he pulled out his Smash Ball the hosts had given him. Tai-Lung raised an intrigued eyebrow.
"I sure hope this works…" Wormmon muttered crushing the Smash Ball in his hands.
Suddenly, Wormmon started glowing in a bright light blinding Tai-Lung.
"Wormmon digivolve to…"
Soon, the light cleared, Tai-Lung looked up to see a different figure replacing Wormmon. It was a tall green winged insect with a serious and deadly aura around him.
"…STINGMON!"
Tai-Lung blinked twice before giving a small smirk. "All right. You win. You had now gotten my full attention."
With that, the two got into fighting positions. Tai-Lung made the first attack charging forward. However, the newly-transformed Stingmon had proven to be much quicker and easily dodged the leopard's blows.
Stingmon found an opening and kicked the feline in the face causing him to stagger back.
"Moon Shooter!" Stingmon yelled as he shot a ball of white energy from his hands. However, Tai-Lung ducked under the attack and rushed over to give Stingmon's gut a good punch.
The insect flew back in pain before fluttering his wings stopping his painful flight.
"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon shouted activating a pink spike on his hand and diving down. Tai-Lung quickly flipped himself backwards on his hands before flipping into a crouching position.
Tai-Lung then lunged forward and gave Stingmon a hard kick. The green Digimon returned the favour with a kick of his own. The two then started to exchang blows with the audience cheering them on.
"I have to finish this fight soon." Stingmon thought. "My time as Stingmon is also up."
Tai-Lung then punched forward only for Stingmon to parry it. This was it.
"EVIL ANTENNA!"
Stingmon then launched his twin antennas onto Tai-Lung's head. Everyone then saw that Stingmon was draining Tai-Lung's health with his antennas.
Once the attack was done, Tai-Lung collapsed on one knee. Stingmon promptly booted him out of the ring and not a moment too soon. He soon changed back into Wormmon.
Tai-Lung landed in Sly Cooper where he took out his aggressions on General Tsao.
Blaze launched a wave of fire at Fox McCloud who quickly activated his deflector sending it back at the cat who side-stepped out of the way.
"Well, safe to say that projectiles are out of the question." Blaze mused.
She then ran forward decided to go for close combat. The purple cat ignited her foot in fire charged forward doing a baseball slide. However, Fox was quicker and jumped over the attack allowing Blaze to go through.
Getting out his blaster, he shot several bullets at the downed cat who cried in pain. Groaning, Blaze got back up. She looked up to see Fox rushing forward and sending out a fist. However, Blaze had caught the hand and ignited her own hands in fire.
"Yow!" Fox shouted pulling his hand back and waving it to get rid of the flames.
With him distracted, Blaze launched a fiery punch into his stomach sending him staggering back. The vulpine held his stomach as he cautiously stepped back.
Suddenly, he had gotten a pain in his tail.
"Ow!"
Fox looked behind him to see Lucas' foot on his tail. From his position, Fox assumed that he was moving backwards as well.
"S-Sorry." Lucas apologized.
"It's okay. Just be more careful, kid." Fox said.
Lucas nodded before rushing forward towards his opponent. "PK Fire!"
Tails yelped before he jumped back to avoid an explosion of fire. Getting out a ring, he threw at Lucas. However, the psychic activated his PSI Magnet by creating a force field around his hand. Not only did it absorb the attack but it also healed him a little.
Tails growled in annoyed before rushing forward. Lucas yelped before getting out a stick out of nowhere and swung it Tails' head causing him to stagger to the side.
The fox shook his head to get rid of the dizziness before trying again swinging his tails catching Lucas in the side and knocking him down.
Lucas got up and blocked with his stick just in time to block Tails' tails. Kicking his foot out, he booted Tails in the rear.
Tails staggered forward before turning around. Narrowing his eyes, he started to fly above the ground.
Suddenly, something had grabbed his foot.
Tails looked to see that Lucas that launched a rope snake at the former's foot. Lucas narrowed his eyes by charging psychic energy in his free hand.
Tails' ears drooped.
Meanwhile, Fox jumped back to avoid a fiery kick from Blaze. The vulpine decided to return the favour with a hard kick to Blaze's face sending her back.
Blaze flew until she crashed back-first into Tails who had also been launched towards them. The two Sonic characters sat back to back-to-back too tired to move.
"Oh, thank goodness." Lucas said throwing Tails out of the ring.
"I actually thought my hide would be literally fried." Fox added shoving Blaze underneath the bottom rope.
Blaze and Tails both landed in Cool Spot seeing that they landed at the same time. They were both still tired so they decided to relax on the beach.
Fox and Lucas smiled at each other and nodded. Suddenly, Fox's vulpine hearing had perked up something. Thinking quickly, he grabbed a surprised Lucas and dove out of the way narrowly avoiding before they could get hit by an airborne Roberto soaring out of the ring (and into Soccer Kid where he helped the main character throughout the level.)
Fox glared up to see Ayame scratching the back of her head in embarrassment.
"Hey, be more careful!" Fox scolded.
Ayame nervously chuckled. "Sorry, guys. My bad…"
Crunch staggered back in pain. He weakly looked up to see Tiny Tiger advancing forward punching his fist in his palm with a big grin.
Tiny then bared his claws and he leapt forward and slashed at Crunch who quickly blocked it with his metal arm. However, Tiny made up for his mistake by kicking Crunch in the stomach.
Tiny grinned as he watched Crunch stagger back. "Tiny knew training would pay off! Tiny finally beating Crunch!"
The marsupial glared at his enemy. "It is called FATIGUE, pal! The only reason I am not beating you in an one-sided fight is because I had been fighting from the start while you just came out!"
Tiny merely scoffed. "Tiny not worried about fatigue. Tiny work hard to win tournament!"
Crunch rolled his eyes at this. "I see you are working out those muscles and not those brains!"
"Hey! That why Tiny hate Crunch!" Tiny growled. "Crunch is mean, sissy copycat!"
"Whatever! Fatigue or not, I rather eat my socks than lose to you of all people!" Crunch snarled.
With that, he charged forward getting into a grappling struggle with Tiny. The two giants pushed to gain around. However, Tiny seemed like he was winning.
Tiny then lifted Crunch over him and slammed his side on his knee. Crunch yelled in pain as Tiny let him fall onto the canvas.
Crunch groaned as he got up holding up his side. As much as he hated to admit and he REALLY hated to admit it but his fight with Nash really drained him of most of his energy. Nonetheless, he was never one to give up.
Crunch sprang to life drop-kicking Tiny in the face causing the feline to stagger back holding his face. Crunch followed it up with an uppercut knocking Tiny in the air. The bandicoot then jumped up, grabbed Tiny and performed an Argentine Backbreaker.
Tiny cried in pain before Crunch threw him onto the ground.
"Aw, did the bad Crunchie-Wunchie hurt the big kitty?" Crunch taunted with a smirk.
Tiny growled before he got up. "Crunch make Tiny mad!"
With that, he leaped forward scratching his claws wildly. Crunch raised his metal arm to block the attacks. However, every time Tiny scratched Crunch's arm, the bandicoot found himself being forced back.
Tiny then noticed that they were advancing towards the ropes. Now to say that Tiny wasn't the brightest crayon in the box was an understatement but one thing was for sure. He did know his stuff about fighting.
Tiny crouched down and grabbed Crunch by the legs. Jumping up, he sent Crunch flipping towards the air until he fell into an elimination portal.
Crunch landed in Smackdown where he wiped the floor with most of the wrestlers.
Diddy narrowed his eyes as he got out his popgun and shot a peanut at his opponent.
Rainbow Dash smirked as she easily flew out of the way. "Was that all you got, monkey boy?"
Diddy then got out a second popgun and proceeded to shooting multiple peanuts at Rainbow Dash. The Pegasus shrieked before she quickly flew around the line of fire. Diddy smirked as he followed RD around the arena trying to shoot her down.
Suddenly, Rainbow Dash zoomed at Diddy at a blinding speed and sent him spinning around the arena shooting the other fighters with peanuts by accident.
Diddy slowly stopped spinning wobbling in place dizzily. Suddenly, he noticed most of the fighters were angrily glaring at him. Diddy looked down at his popguns before hiding them behind his back with a sheepish grin.
Suddenly, he heard laughter. Looking up, he saw Rainbow Dash laughing at him.
"Man! That was awesome!" She said between laughs.
Diddy jumped up and down angrily at the blue pony. He then made his way to the turnbuckle and climbed up it. Rainbow Dash was too busy laughing to notice.
Diddy then did a leap towards Rainbow Dash landing straight on her face promptly stopping her laughter. The rainbow-mane pony flew around trying to Diddy off of her. The monkey smirked before punching Rainbow in the face.
Rainbow Dash cried in pain trying to get the simian off of her. Thinking out of desperation, she flipped in mid-air creating a rainbow ring.
However, just like with Emil, Diddy held on for dear life. Deciding to have a little fun, he climbed onto her back and grabbed her by the back of her name.
"Hey! Get off!" Rainbow Dash demanded.
Diddy didn't listen. Instead, he hanged on with one hand holding his cap in the air with the other.
Rainbow Dash growled. "Oh, so you think you are Applejack now!"
With that, she flew around trying to get Diddy off of her. Rainbow Dash growled in rage before flying down to the ring. Diddy hanged on grabbing her mane tightly. Decided to do an experiment, he steered Rainbow Dash to the left. As he guessed, Rainbow went left.
Diddy gave a mischievous smirk.
Grabbing tightly, Diddy steered down to the ring and started to soar towards straight into the turnbuckle.
All that would be the case if Rainbow Dash didn't literally stop in mid-flight. Diddy wasn't expecting this so he would himself going over the turnbuckle with no hope of turning back.
Diddy landed in Pac-man World where he chowed down on fruit.
"Heh. I can't believe banana-breath actually thought that would work." Rainbow Dash smirked.
With that, she looked back at the others to see who had survived. Link stood still looking ready for anything while Ayame threw a kunai to herself. After confirming that the damage Ada taken wasn't severe, Carl wiped some sweat from his brow in relief. Clark stretched out his arms while Fox breathed in and out trying to ignore the burns Blaze gave him. Hokuto sat down and started meditating to get some strength while Tiny crouched down and curiously poked her. Finally, Bean dribbled a bomb like a soccer ball while Lucas and Wormmon wisely inched away from him.
Rainbow Dash rubbed her hooves together in excitement ready to see who were in the next batch of fighters coming out of the Ready Room.
FINAL SCORE (7 Votes for the main event and 6 Votes for the side battles)
(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score
LUCAS (SSB) (7:0) = 7 (Gemel, Miles "Tails" Prower)
RAINBOW DASH (MLP: FiM) (6:1) = 5 (Dhalsim, Diddy Kong)
AYAME (PS) (6:1) = 5 (Espio the Chameleon, Roberto Miura)
FOX McCLOUD (SSB) (6:2) = 4 (Asch the Bloody, Blaze the Cat)
BEAN THE DYNAMITE (StH) (6:2) = 4 (Axl Low)
LINK (SSB) (5:2) = 3 (Chloe Valens)
CARL CLOVER (BB) (5:2) = 3 (Blue Mary)
HOKUTO (ST: EX) (4:3) = 1 (Tear Grants)
CLARK STILL (KoF: MI) (4:3) = 1 (Zangief)
TINY TIGER (CB) (4:3) = 1 (Crunch Bandicoot)
WORMMON (DRA) (4:3) = 1 (Tai-Lung)
(ELIMINATED)
BLUE MARY (Kof: MI) (4:3) = 1 (Sol Badguy)
DIDDY KONG (SSB) (5:4) = 1 (Emil Castagnier)
MILES "TAILS" PROWER (StH) (5:4) = 1 (Wave the Swallow)
GEMEL (StH) (4:4) = 0 (Princess Peach Toadstool)
TAI-LUNG (KFP) (3:4) = -1
ROBERTO MIURA (RS) (3:4) = -1
TEAR GRANTS (To) (3:4) = -1
ZANGIEF (SF: EX) (3:5) = -2
PRINCESS PEACH TOADSTOOL (SSB) (3:5) = -2
ASCH THE BLOODY (To) (2:5) = -3
DHALSIM (ST: EX) (2:5) = -3
CRUNCH BANDICOOT (CB) (3:6) = -3
SOL BADGUY (GG) (2:6) = -4
AXL LOW (GG) (1:6) = -5
EMIL CASTAGNIER (To) (1:6) = -5
BLAZE THE CAT (StH) (2:7) = -5
ESPIO THE CHAMELEON (StH) (2:7) = -5
WAVE THE SWALLOW (StH) (0:7) = -7
CHLOE VALENS (To) (0:8) = -8
Side Battles:
"Donut Mess With A Hungry Imp"
IMPMON (DRA) draws with PINSTRIPE POTOROO AND KOALA KONG (CB)
3 to 3
Oops… Jinxed It: Remember last section when I said that all five Sonic characters had survived the section? Well, this section had SIX characters and yet Bean was the only one standing when the dust settled.
First Come, Last Serve: By the end of this section, all of the fighters from Section 1 had been eliminated.