(The Arena)
The remaining twelve contestants were glaring at each other making sure that nobody does a sneak attack on them from behind. Well, ten of them anyway. Haar and Taokaka was sleeping the corner. Suddenly, they all looked up to see who was coming out next.
"MOSES SANDOR!" (To)
The one-eyed spear thrower let out a feral yell before rushing down the ring with his throwing spear in his hand. He then leapt without a second thought. Once in, he made a beeline for Caius.
"Oh, hey, Moses." Caius said looking up.
"Hey, Caius! Glad to see you still in the ring!" The bandit grinned taking the swordsman under his arm. "And most importantly, glad to see you back on our side."
"Um, right…" Caius said still remembering the things he been told he had done last year. "In any case, I am glad someone from our node is here. I was feeling all alone."
Moses blinked his uncovered eye twice. "Um, you DO know that Rita is still in the arena, right?"
Caius paused before promptly pointing to the right. Moses turned his head to see Rita standing aside reading her book. The mage looked up to see the two men glaring at her.
"What are you two morons looking out?" Rita spat before storming off.
"Um, oh right." Moses said scratching the back of his head. "I forget."
"VOLDO!" (SCIV)
Everyone unfamiliar with Soul Calibur looked in awe, fear and/or disgust as the clawed fighter laid on his knees giving strange breathing noises. He then crawled down the ring like an insect and leapt into the ring deciding to make Haar and Taokaka his first targets seeing them both as sitting ducks.
That was until Ike walked into his way not looking amused in the slightest.
"Even if it is irresponsible of them to sleep during a tournament, it is still despicable to attack them while they are doing." Ike said darkly. "Let's see how well you fight against someone who is fully aware."
Voldo paused for a moment before standing up straight and getting into his weird dance-like stance.
Ike blinked twice. "Um, why do I have a feeling that this would not be good."
"LEONA!" (KOF: MI)
The blue-haired Ikari Warrior stood proudly on the ramp with her usual stoic look on her face. She then made her down the ramp and leapt in. Once in, she ran over to Renamon.
The Digimon looked up and narrowly swerved her head to the side to avoid Leona's attack. Much to her surprise, the attack looked like a knife slash. Renamon kicked her in the chest knocking her back.
"So, you play for keeps, eh?" Renamon asked.
Leona held her chest while glaring upwards. "I never let up in a fight. Expect any mercy and you will find yourself beneath my feet."
Renamon narrowed her eyes. "Oh no… It is YOU who will be beneath my feet."
"NEEMON!" (DRA)
The small dopey-looking Digimon looked around with an odd-look on his face. He then casually walked down the ramp before stepping in with Demitri watching him enter.
"And what may I ask may a small creature with an ignorant expression like you is going to be strong?" Demitri said walking over.
"Hey, I am strong! Really!" Neemon insisted.
Demitri merely crossed his arms. "All right. Humor me."
Neemon nodded his head. "Happy Accident!"
Suddenly, a banana peel appeared underneath his foot causing him to slip and flip backwards sending the peel straight onto Demitri's face. The vampire calmly got the peel off of his face and promptly dropped it.
"Thank you for confirming that you do not deserve to live." Demitri said before readying his claw. "Now do the world a favor and hold still."
Neemon shrieked before turning around and running off.
"RELIUS CLOVER!" (BB)
The masked mad scientist smirked with anticipation as he scanned around the arena. There were so many good candidates for his experiments.
"Oh my. I don't think I could even choose." He said stepping down the ramp and making him way into the ring. He then noticed Pikachu and made his way over to him.
"Ah, I had my eye on you ever since last year, my fine rodent friend." Relius said looking down.
Pikachu stepped back. He barely knew Relius and already he had a bad feeling about him.
"So much strength. So much potential." Relius said with giving a smirk. "To be my next guinea pig."
Pikachu shrieked in shock before quickly sending a bolt of electricity at Relius. Suddenly, a giant magenta marionette came out of nowhere and took the attack for Relius.
"Why, thank you, Ignis." Relius said. "Now don't overdo it. I still need it alive."
"BLAIR DAME!" (SF: EX)
The blue-haired kick-fighter came out to a series of cat-calls. Putting her hands on her hips, she strutted down the ring and stepped in.
She then made her way over to Haar who was still sleeping. Making sure that Ike was distracted with Voldo, she ran over. Shooting her foot out, she kicked the man into the stomach immediately breaking him out of his rest.
"Oof! Huh? What the?" Haar asked looking around before seeing Blair. "Oh, it is another fighter."
"That's right. I think it is time for you to wait up." Blair said crossing her arms. "But don't worry, I should be able to make you go back to sleep very soon."
"I suppose there is no way around it." Haar sighed getting up. "Just one thing before we start though."
Blair raised an eyebrow. "And that is?"
"What section is this now?" Haar asked.
Blair's jaw dropped as she slumped her arms.
(Hotel; Bison's Room)
"And that is why I need to absorb this soul." Nightmare said. "Any questions?"
Everyone looked at each other after Nightmare had told them everything they need to know about Soul Calibur.
"Whoa, so THAT'S why you need this guy." Eggman said in awe.
"Quite an interesting story if you ask me." Jivatma noted as a few others nodded.
"That is why this person is so important." Nightmare said.
Bison nodded his head. "I fully understand now. This only makes me even more determined to find him. Everyone, split up and fan out. He has to be somewhere in this building. We have to find him before someone finds out what we are doing and rescues him."
Everyone nodded their heads.
"Now, I am assigning teams and this time, if you found out by any would-be heroes, do NOT leave them by themselves!" Bison growled.
With that, most people ESPECIALLY Eggman and Metal Sonic glared at Hazama. The green-haired man shrugged with a confused look on his face.
Everyone groaned as they held their heads. They were so busy groaning that they didn't notice a certain cockroach exiting through the door.
(Hotel; Boiler Room)
Seth,Victor and Moritz watched in shock upon what they had heard from Victor's device.
"So THAT'S what they are planning." Seth said slowly.
Victor shook his head. "I must admit, I am quite impressed and interested. Too bad that we didn't think of it."
Seth glared at Victor. "You can worry getting outclassed in evil when we are done! Right now, we have to get to their target before they do!"
"Right, right. Don't worry." The wiser Evil Twin reassured before thinking. "By a rough estimate, he should just be leaving the Recovery Room by now."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Seth asked. "We have to warn him."
Victor raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure? By doing you, you would be putting yourself in the line of fire."
Seth just shook his head with a shrug. "Wouldn't be the first time?"
Victor returned the shrug. "All right. Don't say you weren't warned. Come on, brother."
Moritz glared at his brother. "Gee, that would be a delight thing to hear if I had at least ONE ice cream that DIDN'T melted!"
He was referring to a large gooey sweet-smelling mess that was all over the ground.
Victor rolled his eyes. "Just shut up and follow us."
Moritz grumbled before following the two towards the door and exited it.
"Finally, I am out of that place." Seth said sighing in relief. "I think I sweated a good chunk of my body weight."
"Good, then you should be able to go faster." Victor said coldly. "You don't seem to whine about things like this. Besides, we have to find our living MacGuffin."
Moritz blinked twice. "He is a McDonald's meal? No wonder the villains want him."
Victor slapped his forehead. "I swear… If you weren't as experience in technology as me."
"What a coincidence."
The three's eyes widened before turning towards the direction of the new voice to see Ganondorf walking over with a smirk on his face.
"I had just received word about this target myself and I am supposed to meet up with the others to find him." Ganondorf said before raising a flaming fist. "But I am sure they don't mind me being late. What with me bringing in three meddlers."
Seth slowly got into his stance with a growl. "Ugh, we don't have time for this!"
"You're right. We don't." Victor said. "Go on ahead, Seth. Moritz and I will hold him off."
Seth looked at the two. "Are you sure? This guy is just as dangerous as he looks."
"Well, we are just as dangerous." Victor smirked.
Seth paused for a moment before nodding. "All right. Whether I find him or nor, I will go to the Elimination Seating when I am done. Be careful."
"Understood." Victor said.
Seth then ran over. Meanwhile, Ganondorf crossed his arms letting out a hearty laugh.
"Surely you jest. What are two deformed going to do to beat ME, the king of evil?" Ganondorf asked.
Victor's smirk had grew larger before turning to Moritz. "Moritz, if you will."
"Oh goody-goody gumdrops!" Moritz said clapping his hands together before getting out a remote.
Suddenly, a birdcage appeared in front of them. Victor and Moritz both fly into it and closed the door behind them with Ganondorf scratching his head in confusion.
Then, the cage started to transform into an eight-foot-tall chrome robot with the Twins inside of the torso. Ganondorf blinked twice as the robot got into a stance.
"Well, I had seen stranger things." Ganondorf said getting into a stance of his own.
(The Arena)
"CHERIA BARNES!" (To)
The pink-haired healer put her hand on her hand and breathed in and out before gracefully walking down to the ring and stepped in. She then saw Demitri still chasing around Neemon and saw injustice. Acting quickly, she pulled out a throwing knife out of one of her sleeves and threw it at Demitri.
It caught the vampire in the chest causing him to cry out in pain and allowing Neemon to escape. He glared at the guilty party.
"You have a lot of nerve to attack ME like that." Demitri said darkly.
"And you have a lot of nerve to attack someone who is five times smaller than you." Cheria said narrowing her eyes. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"
Demitri raised an eyebrow before smirking. "You may not be as tall as me but you are still a reasonably-sized woman."
Cheria stepped back in disgust before she started to cast a spell.
"Seraphic Bolt!" She shouted. Then, a bolt of lightning crashed down from above Demitri. However, the vampire heard the attack coming and stepped back narrowly avoiding the attack. However in doing so, he realized there was something about the bolt.
"Holy lightning! That was holy lightning!" Demitri said with his skin turn even more paler than before.
"That's right. I think you had your last feast, Demitri." Cheria said darkly.
The demon growled not believing his luck. "Arrogant girl."
"And now, Mystery Fighter… Number… SEVEN!"
"SAKURA KINOMOTO!" (Cardcaptor Sakura)
Anime fans went wild as an adolescent girl dressed in a pink Magical Girl-like outfit as the opening song to her played through her speakers. Gulping nervously, she held onto her key-like necklace before closing her eyes.
"The key that holds the power of the stars. Reveal your true form to me." She chanted as her necklace got engulfed in a ball of light and started to float. "I, Sakura, command thee under convert. Release!"
Then, the necklace turned into a pink baton-like staff with wings on it. Sakura grabbed it and made her way down to the ring with the cheers getting even louder. Once in, she saw Pikachu fending himself as Relius and Ignis.
Sakura narrowed her eyes before getting out a card and sending it spinning in the air. "Windy Card, strike the masked man and the giant puppet! Windy Card, release and dispel!"
"What the?" Relius asked looking to the side to see Sakura swinging her staff against the card causing it to turn blue causing her dress to billow.
Then, the card turned into a beautiful woman with long blonde hair and green tendrils attached to her. She then zoomed over to Relius and Ignis. The two were taking into the air by the strong gust as wind the woman was emitted. Soon, the woman vanished allowing the two to crash onto the ground hard.
Relius got up groaning in pain. Suddenly, he had gotten a twisted smirk as he looked at Sakura who was running by Pikachu's side.
"Interesting."
"VILLAGER!" (SSB)
One of two of the newest representative of Super Smash Bros exited the Ready Room and waved his hand to the warm reception he was getting. He then walked down the ramp with his seemingly-eternal cheery smile on his face.
He then happily skipped towards Caius and Moses. Caius saw him coming and immediately readied his sword.
"Demon F…" Caius started before Moses grabbed his hand.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Chill out! It is just a kid!" Moses reassured.
"I don't know. There is something… Unnatural about him." Caius said.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous!" Moses laughed before crouching down to the Villager's level. "How dangerous could this kid be?"
The child paused for a moment before getting out a wood-chopping axe all while still having his smile on his face.
Moses' face fell. "Oh crap…"
"MAKOTO MIZOGUCHI!" (KoF: MI)
The dark-haired man threw a piece of food into his mouth before swallowing it whole. He then let out a large shout with a fiery aura surrounding him. He then ran down the ramp with his sandals making a comical sound. He then leapt into the ring without a second thought.
He then rushed over to Taokaka who was STILL sleeping on the ground. He then crossed his arms looking annoyed.
"Geez, Louise! It is a miracle that nobody tried to eliminate this girl while she was sleeping!" Makoto said before sighing. "Oh well. Can't be helped. Just have to wake her up."
He then took in a deep breath.
"ORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The sudden shout sent Taokaka leaping up swinging her claws hysterically.
"Huh? Who? Where? When? Why?" Taokaka asked before looking around. "Oh, that's right. Tao is in the Battle of the Lumi-thingies."
With that, she got up and walked off completely unaware of Makoto lying down on the ground covered in scratches. His hands were up and twitching.
"Ouch…" Makoto said slowly.
"MAURU!" (WW7)
The purple-furred rabbit-like creature waddled down the ring with a blank look on his face He leapt in and made a tremor on the ground.
Spyro saw him come in and raised an eyebrow. "Well, THAT'S... Interesting."
Suddenly, he saw Mauru making his way over towards him obviously wanting a fight with him. Mauru then shot his large claw out. Spyro immediately countered by using his ice breath to freeze it. Mauru cried out as he retreated his arm back.
"Heh. Now what are you going to do?" Spyro taunted.
Mauru blinked twice looking at his frozen arm for a moment. He then raised it over his head and smashed it over Spyro's own not only knocking it down but also freeing it from its icy prison.
Spyro laid on the canvas holding his throbbing head. "Everyone's a critic…"
"GEARY!" (CB)
The bronze cleaning-obsessed robot put his hands on his hips not liking what he was seeing.
"Ugh! This ramp is even DIRTIER than last year!" He said in disbelief. "How is that even possible?"
With that, he turned his arm into a mop and made his way down cleaning down the ramp. A few fighters in the arena watched him in disbelief. Soon, he had finally arrived in the arena. Neemon curiously made his way over to him. The two then stared at each other.
"Leave now, you imperfect creature!" Geary said with his green eyes turning red. "I have bigger threats to imperfection to face! Be grateful that I had decided to spare you for now!"
Neemon stayed silent for a moment. Suddenly, he burped sending a green cloud into Geary's face.
"AAAAAHHHHH! MY FACE! MY PERFECT FACE!" Geary said running over frantically before going to clean his face. "Must wash away the sin!"
Neemon looked in confusion before walking off.
(Hotel; Hallway)
Nina Cortex, Pinstripe Potoroo and Rilla Roo walked down the hall searching for the target. The former two were in front.
"I still don't understand why we are doing this." Nina muttered.
Pinstripe put his hands behind his back as he looked down. "What do you mean? Did you forget why we need to find this guy? I expected something like this from Tiny or Komodo Moe but not from you."
Nina glared up at Pinstripe. "You fool! Don't insult my intelligence! Of course I know why we need him! What I don't see if why we need to give him to Nightmare?"
"Um, because he is the only one to gain power from it?" The red-clad man asked wondering what his boss' niece was going with this.
"Exactly!" Nina said. "How do we know what he won't use said power against us?"
Pinstripe's eyes widened in realization. "Well, since you put it THAT way…"
While the two were talking in, Rilla Roo was listening in closely. Suddenly, he heard a whisper. Raising his eyebrow, he saw a hand motioning him to come over. Out of curiosity, he made over to it.
Only for Jasper and Horace to leap at him with a rope and bag respectively.
"I just don't see how Bison could trust Nightmare aka the stealer of souls so willingly." Nina said completely unaware of Rilla Roo hopping back with Jasper and Horace clinging onto him.
"Probably the same reason why he trusts an insect-like alien, a demon lord, the king of evil, four mad scientists, Barbatos Goetia…" Pinstripe said. As he continued to list things off, he was too obvious to Rilla Roo trying to shout for help but Jasper and Horace were covering his mouth.
"All right, all right! I get it! But I still don't think we should trust Nightare! After all, he didn't first accept our offer the first time around!" Nina noted. After seeing that they weren't going to help him, Rilla Roo started to fight kicking wildly.
"This IS a big place. Not even the Azure Knight could find one person by himself." Pinstripe reasoned. Horace quickly grabbed Rilla Roo's feet before while Jasper put the hybrid in a full nelson
"I know. It is just that guy… Well, he…. He creeps me out." Nina said looking to the side. Rilla Roo still continued to kick strike Horace's face a few times. Jasper then put a gag around Rilla Roo's mouth.
"Hey, kid. Don't worry, he gives me the heebies-jeebies too. But not as much as his chick." Pinstripe shuddered. Acting quickly, Horace quickly punched Rilla Roo's in the stomach stunning him long enough for Jasper to tie him up.
"Ugh! Don't even get me started about that woman! She is annoying as much as she is scary! I just hope that this doesn't come back to bite us back!" Nina spat. In a last ditch attempt, Rilla Roo gave out a loud shout to alert his allies before because of the gag, it was muffled.
"He better not! Not even they would risk a good number of villains!" Pinstripe warned. Jasper and Horace put the bag over Rilla Roo. Sighing in relief, the two picked up the bag and carried it out with Rilla Roo still kicking in a vain attempt to escape.
"You got that right." Nina said before looking behind. Immediately she noticed something. "Um, didn't Bison assign Rilla Roo to us?"
Pinstripe looked back as well and scratched his head. "Oh yeah. I thought he did as well."
The two then looked at each other. They then shrugged before casually walking off.
(Abandoned Base)
Samus Aran continued to carefully thread around the destroyed remains of what she assumed to be a base. She kept aiming with her arm cannon ready to shoot at any moment.
All those years as a bounty hunter gave her a lot of experience. She knew that an area like this might trouble for her. Anything could jump out at her and attack her.
She hoped that she would escape this place soon. She didn't want to spend her entire ten minutes acting in caution. She knew that it could have been worse but she wasn't liking the tension.
Suddenly, she heard footsteps. Acting quickly, she aimed her arm cannon in the direction of a hallway. She then saw someone going around the corner.
The person was some kind of figure in green futuristic armor wielding some kind of rifle. Samus' eyes widened behind her helmet.
"Master Chief?" Samus asked out loud.
The figure immediately aimed his rifle at the bounty hunter. "Freeze! Identify yourself! And tell me how you know me!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down." Samus said. "I am not your enemy."
"Then why are you trespassing here?" Master Chief asked.
"Trespassing?" Samus said in disbelief before looking around. "Trespassing on what?"
"You are not in the position to snark, woman." Master Chief spat.
Samus growled before her mask. "Great. The first person to see through my armor and know I am a woman and he is a douche. Listen, I am telling you. I am not your enemy."
"Oh, and how exactly did you suddenly appear here out of nowhere?" Master Chief challenged.
Samus bit her lip. How was she going to tell him that she had been teleported here from another world due to losing a tournament?
"Listen, it is a long story and I am sure that if you just relax and listen." She said.
"Heh. A likely story." Master Chief scoffed. "Now you have two options. Surrender and I will take you into the brig for questioning or resist and I will show no mercy for you."
Samus gave a sigh of exasperation. "Well, so much for that. Oh well… As long as I am here."
She then pointed her arm cannon at Master Chief.
"Sorry, I am not one for giving up easily." Samus said boldly.
"Tsk. Very well. But don't whine when I drag you back to HQ." Master Chief said getting ready to open fire.
"And don't go crying when you drag YOURSELF back to HQ." Samus said getting fire to shoot as well.
(The Arena)
"FELICIA!" (DS)
The blue-haired cat-girl came out to a loud cheer. She cheered happily and she waved to the warm reception.
"Thank you! Thank you! Don't forget to buy tickets to my latest concert!" Felicia said making her way down the ramp.
The crowd continued to cheer as Felicia entered the ring. However, the cheers started to die down. Felicia's smile vanished as she looked around wondering what was going on.
Then, she noticed Taokaka. The cloaked cat-girl then noticed her. The two stared at each other for a moment.
They then pounced at each other having a classic catfight with claws and hissing.
Cheria blinked twice before looking at Demitri. "Um, what is going on?"
The vampire just held his head. "Just a catfight…"
"And now, Mystery Fighter… Number… EIGHT!"
"BUBSY THE BOBCAT!" (Bubsy the Bobcat)
The orange feline came out a mixed reaction. However due to his performance last year, the positive part was a lot bigger. Rubbing his hands together with a big smirk on his face, he ran down the ramp as fast as he could and leapt in without a second thought.
Using his gliding ability, he made his way over to Applejack and landed onto mounting her
"Hey!" Applejack called out. "What are yer going and doing?"
"As embarrassing as it is to admit, I always wanted to ride a pony!" Bubsy grinned.
Applejack narrowed her eyes. "Well, that does NOT give ya the right to mount me without permission? Do you always do things like that!?"
"Ah, come on! What could possibly…" Bubsy started.
"DON'T!" Applejack snapped. She then calmed down. "Just don't… Ugh, I suppose worse things could had happened."
"KING SOMBRA!" (MLP: FiM)
Applejack's eyes widened to the fullest. "Doggone it! Why did I go and say that!?"
The dark pony let out a dark chuckle as he licked his lips. He was already feeling confident with his recent decent over Lon'Qu so now he felt he could go far. Turning himself into smoke, he had made his way down to the ring.
Billy saw him come on and had gotten an evil smirk on his face. He then ran over to the still smoke-formed Sombra.
"You know what they say. Where they is smoke…" Billy said before spinning his staff around igniting both ends with fire. "There is fire!"
He then moved closer to Sombra. However, all this did was annoy him. Sombra turned back into his pony form.
"Fool!" Sombra spat.
"Not much for talking, are you?" Billy smirked.
"NESS!" (SSB)
The young dark-haired psychic adjusted his sideways cap before stepping down to the ring waving to the cheering crowd. He leapt down into the ring and scanned around to see if there were any of his nodal companions that need his help.
"Hmm… Pikachu has the support of that girl with the magical cards and Ike seems to be doing quite well against that claw fighter." Ness mused before shrugging. "Oh well. I guess I just have to help the Villager."
With that, he made his way over to the fight between the Villager and Moses and Caius. Getting out his yo-yo, he shot it out at Caius tripping him and sending him onto the ground.
Caius got up and saw who the guilty party was. "Hey! What was THAT for?"
"You were double-teaming one of my nodal companions." Ness noted. "He may be creepy but he is still a good guy."
Caius narrowed his eyes. "Don't annoy me, kid or else I will literally turn feral on ya!"
"I had faced dozen enemies from small to big." Ness said readying his bat. "I am ready to take on any and all forms."
"REID HERSTEL!" (To)
The red-haired swordsman held a doughnut in his face. With a happy look on his face, he took a bite of it before making his way down to the ring.
Once in, he had gotten the attention of Renamon and Leona as the two had made their way over.
"I had seen you before." Renamon said.
"Yes, you were the one who had eaten up at least a quarter of that large victory stew and still had room for more." Leona noted.
"Yep! That this year's victory stew would be even bigger so people like Kirby and Dedede don't eat all of it at once!" Reid grinned.
The two women paused.
"Let's fight someone else." Leona said flatly.
"Indeed. Just being near this kid literally makes me nauseous." Renamon agreed.
With that, they walked off leaving the man blinking twice in confusion.
"And now, the final fighter of this section…"
"SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!" (StH)
The Blue Blur came out to the loudest cheer of the Sonic the Hedgehog node by far. Smirking, he played to the crowd urging them to continued cheering. He then zoomed down to the ramp as fast as he could using his Homing Attack to zoom over the fight between Taokaka and Felicia. Even he wasn't confident enough to try and break up such a fight.
He ran over to Bubsy who was running fast as he could as well. Shooting his leg out, Bubsy tripped and was sent flying straight into a turnbuckle.
"Heh. Poser." Sonic smirked as he watched Bubsy dizzily peel himself off the turnbuckle. He then ran over to Chun-Li and skidded to a stop in front of her.
"Yo, Chunners! How about you and me go at it for a while?" Sonic said raising his fists.
Chun-Li merely rolled his eyes. "Still as cocky as always, are we, Sonic?"
"Hey, I can't help it if I am way past cool!" Sonic smirked causing a loud cheer for the crowd.
Chun-Li shook her head. "All right, all right. We will fight. You may be faster than me but I think I could still hit you on target with my kicks!"