(The Arena)
"GRIM REAPER!"
Ness ducked as Landis swooped above him. The crazed Winghorde swung his scythe, but Ness had ducked in time for the weapon to miss.
Ness, luckily, knew one way to bring a flying opponent to the ground. Crouching low, the psychic boy concentrated.
"PK THUNDER!" Ness shouted, firing a ball of psychic energy into the air.
Using his mind, Ness controlled his attack, causing it to strike Landis in the back. The shock from the attack dropped Landis from the sky, making him land on his side. The winged lunatic jump to his feet.
"The Grim Reaper shall make you pay!" Landis shouted as he spread his wings to fly away.
Much to his surprise, his wings didn't unfold.
Landis looked at Ness, whom was smirking triumphantly. "My attack numbed your wings." The boy said simply. "Now it should be easier to remove you from the arena."
Before Ness could advance, Yuber flew by, screaming his head off.
"YUUUUUUUUBERRRRRRRR!" Pesmerga screamed, chasing after his sworn enemy.
(Announcer's Booth)
Unknown1 glared at SSBFreak. "Just how much did you pay Pesmerga to come here?"
The elder announcer gave a sly smirk. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
(The Arena)
Gabby Jay ducked as Kyo Kusanagi swung his fist, sending a wave of flames at his two opponents. Brocken, however, wasn't so lucky, and received the attack to the face. As the German robot staggered back, Gabby Jay looked in his direction.
"You gotta stay aware of your opponent or else you'll get smacked!" The old boxer said before pausing. "You know? The sound of me giving fighting advice kinda sounds funny."
Kyo used this to his advantage and landed a hard kick to the old boxer's back. "Then you should seriously try considering your own advice, pal." He said with a smirk.
Gabby growled and lashed out with a one-two punch. Kyo held up his hands and blocked both punches, but wasn't prepared for the body blow that followed directly after them.
Brocken, having recovered, extended his arm out to hit the distracted Kyo in the face.
Although a fair amount of people were cheering for Gabby and Brocken (if only because they were still amazed at Gabby's earlier elimination), the majority of the crowd was cheering for Kyo. This was expected considering that Kyo was one of the most popular characters in the tournament (along with Ryu, Mario, Sonic and possibly Terry Bogard).
Kyo, rubbing his head, decided to level the playing field. Grabbing Brocken, Kyo threw him away, over the ropes.
Brocken, however, proved to be quicker than people thought, and activated his leg jets. Brocken gracefully floated back into the arena, and once he was in, he increased his speed and torpedoed at Kyo.
Kyo heard the jets activate, turned and smirked. "Don't think so!" He said as he swerved to the side and allowed Brocken to shoot past him. Once the German robot was gone, he resumed his fight with Gabby Jay.
Now, Brocken didn't have the best brakes around, and found it incredibly hard to stop moving. In fact, he plowed over Pesmerga (giving Yuber a chance to catch his breath) and continued going towards the fight between Landis and Ness.
Ness swung his baseball bat, connecting with Landis' face. Now, if Landis had been able to fly, he would have avoided an attack like that easily, but the effects of Ness' PK Thunder were still preventing Landis from using his wings, which was frustrating the Winghorde.
After getting hit with the bat, Landis found his head getting turned. Opening his eyes, he saw that he was looking over his shoulder and Brocken was coming straight at him.
Momentarily forgetting about Ness, Landis smirked, stood up and grabbed Brocken before he plowed into him. "GRIM FREAKING REAPER!" He screamed as he threw Brocken away, over the ropes.
Brocken tried to reactivate his leg jets, but found that he had used up most of his energy in that last run. The German robot could do nothing as he fell through an elimination portal.
Brocken landed in Unreal Championship. Two members of the red team watched him appear.
"I wonder what the deal is with all of these people appearing here." One pondered.
"Ah, who cares?" The second asked before sniping Brocken. "Free kills."
Back in the arena, Landis chuckled darkly. His laughing quickly came to a halt when Ness smashed his bat over the Winghorde's head again.
"You're becoming annoying." Landis glared at the psychic boy. "The Reaper hates annoying people."
"You think I'M annoying?" Ness asked. "Who's the one rambling on and on about the Grim Reaper?"
Landis, for once in his life, was silent. He simply ran at Ness and swung his scythe.
Ness pulled out his yo-yo and performed a round-the-world with it, parrying the strike Landis was about to land with his scythe. How Ness was able to use a yo-yo to do this confused everyone in the stands, but no one really pressed matters any.
"You're good, but the Grim Reaper is ten times better!" Landis taunted with a smirk.
Ness sighed. "Look, as much as I'd LOVE to continue this, I have more important matters to deal with." He said as he pulled out his bat again.
"Let's see what you've got, then." Landis chuckled.
Landis advanced, but Ness quickly grabbed him. Then, using his mind, Ness spun Landis around and threw him over his shoulder, over the ropes. In the air, Landis chuckled and tried flying back in, but suddenly realized that Ness' psychic powers were still disabling his wings. Landis fell through the vortex.
Landis landed in Suikoden 2, right beside Sid, whom other than the fact that he wasn't wearing a cover over his eye, looked almost exactly like Landis.
"…Well, THIS is awkward." Sid mused.
Ken confidently lashed out his hands, sending another fireball at Kula. After he did, he waved to the crowd, which he thought was giving him a loud cheer.
"Thank you! Thank you! You're too kind!" Ken said.
"They're not cheering for you, smart guy!"
Ken looked in time to see his own fireball, now a frozen ball of ice, smash into his face. The crowd had been cheering because Kula had cleverly frozen the fireball in midair and then used it against its wielder. The force from the attack had sent Ken onto his back.
The blonde Street Fighter slowly stood up, standing amongst several pieces of frozen fireball. "You're a sneaky one, lady."
"Not that hard considering you've been playing to the crowd most of the time you've been in the arena." Kula replied with a smirk.
Ken's eyes narrowed as he lashed out another fireball. Kula didn't bother to freeze this one. She simply created a wall of ice, which the fireball slammed. The burning ball of fire melted a small amount of the ice, but it wasn't enough to burn a hole straight through it.
As quickly as she created it, Kula took down her wall. "You'll have to be quicker than that."
The two fighters rushed at each other and each threw a couple of punches. However, each fighter was able to block the attacks of their respective opponent fairly easily. Even though she was starting to feel a little worn out, Kula was able to keep up with Ken's punches and prevent either of them from hitting her face. Once she saw an opening, Kula thrust her fist into Ken's stomach.
Ken slouched over, grasping his stomach in pain. Kula sighed in relief and reached out to grab the older fighter and throw him from the arena.
As soon as Kula came within reach, Ken grabbed her arm. Kula realized all too late that Ken had been feigning pain.
Ken quickly tossed the ice girl from the ring. Kula, fatigue starting to weigh her down, fell limply through the vortex.
Ken stood up and brushed his hands off. "Well, that's that."
Kula landed in Megaman 1. Fireman saw her and fired a short beam of fire at her. He was promptly frozen for his troubles.
(Eliminated Seating)
K' growled at the sight of Kula getting eliminated. He made a mental note to kill Masters for such a cheap trick after the tournament was over.
(The Arena)
Jubilee lashed out her hand, creating several more explosions. Donkey Kong, now knowing that these fireworks WEREN'T for touching, rolled to the side to avoid them. Once he got up, the giant ape grabbed Jubilee and slammed her into the canvas.
The young mutant girl stood up and shook her head. "Man. For a stupid ape, you're pretty aware of what's going on."
DK didn't respond. He simply scratched his head and tried to figure out if Jubilee insulted or complimented him. Deciding t shrug it off, DK peeled a banana, ate it in one gulp and threw the peel away.
Jubilee advanced on DK, whom simply stood still with a stupid smile on his face. Jubilee lashed out her foot, striking DK in the chest. However, DK had what was called 'abs of steel', and Jubilee only succeeded in hurting her foot.
As the young mutant hopped around, clutching her injured foot, DK did a half-turn with his fists outstretched before spinning in the opposite direction in fast circles.
"Folks, while this isn't DK's most powerful move," Unknown1's voice came through the speakers. "The 'Spinning Kong' is definitely one of his most useful ones!"
Jubilee was too distracted with her foot to notice DK spinning at her. The giant ape spun into the young mutant, striking her several times before he finally stopped spinning. DK, feeling a little woozy, collapsed to his back.
Jubilee stood up and found that she was dangerously close to the ropes. Looking over her shoulder, Jubilee saw DK lying on his back, looking dizzy. Smirking to herself, Jubilee started walking towards him to throw the ape from the ring.
She took about two steps before stepping onto the banana peel DK had thrown away earlier. Jubilee slipped on the peel, flew backwards and tumbled over the ropes, falling through an elimination portal headfirst.
DK heard the announcement, leapt to his feet and waved to the cheering crowd.
Luigi saw this and shook his head. "Man. He's gotta be the luckiest of us all."
"For once, I am inclined to agree with you on that." Gannondorf sighed, folding his arms.
"Shouldn't we be fighting or something?"
The Gerudo king shrugged. "If we must."
Jubilee landed in Kingdom Hearts, where she promptly blew Oogie Boogie to kingdom come.
When Sora and the others arrived later on and couldn't find the villain, they just destroyed the castle and found the keyhole to save the world.
(Dome; Basement)
Unknown to everyone above the ground, another battle was taking place. This one was between Julia Chang and Gozu & Mezu. Eiji and Rasputin stood aside as Wile E continued to read his newspaper.
Julia ducked as a stream of fire flew over her head. As soon as she did, a blast of water erupted from under her feet, sending her into the air. Julia landed on her side, but quickly jumped to her feet.
"You're in way over your head, lady." Gozu said. "You should have just let us go on."
"And let you kill Eiji?" Julia asked. "No way!"
"Fine, but just remember that you're bringing this upon yourself." Mezu narrowed his eyes and lunged at the native girl.
Eiji wanted to go and help Julia, but she had insisted that she would be fine by herself. That and the battle was against Gozu and Mezu, whom doubled as two of the worst ninjas around. Eiji had a feeling that Julia could wipe the floor with them both much like he had done earlier in the night.
Julia dodged a punch from Mezu, and quickly retaliated with a kick to the blue ninja's stomach. As Mezu backed off a bit, Gozu advanced. Julia quickly got close to the floor and swung her legs, knocking both ninjas off their feet.
Gozu was the first to react. While on the floor, he shot another wave of fire at Julia. Julia luckily saw this coming and leaned to the side, allowing the fire to pass her by.
While Julia was avoiding Gozu's attack, Mezu had gotten to his feet and landed a hard kick to Julia's back. The native girl collapsed to one knee, clutching her back. This allowed Gozu the time to get up ad strike her in the face.
"Julia!" Eiji shouted as he stepped forward to assist her.
Rasputin held him back. "Fear not, Eiji. I believe she has the ability to do this."
Reluctantly, Eiji held his ground and watched as Julia blocked the following punch from Gozu, holding his fist in her hands. Julia quickly used this to her advantage and spun Gozu's arm, lifting the red-clad ninja off the ground and making him spin in the air once before landing on his back.
With Gozu on the ground, Julia spun in place and thrust her fist out. Luckily, it was a direct hit and slammed into Mezu's chin, knocking the blue ninja back a few feet.
Mezu quickly tried another water attack, but Julia quickly and casually avoided it. The blue ninja started sweating, realizing how much trouble he was in.
"I've had it just about up to HERE with you two!" Julia said as she approached Mezu, grabbed him and threw him around, making him land on top of Gozu.
The two ninjas slowly got to their feet, not wanting to believe that this simple girl was beating them. "It'll take more than that to defeat us!"
"I'm sure." Rasputin said before looking at Wile E, whom was still reading his newspaper, not really paying attention. "You wouldn't mind, would you?"
Once again, a brown thumb's up stuck into the air. Without taking his eyes off the paper, Wile E reached up, grabbed a rope hanging from the ceiling and casually pulled it.
Gozu and Mezu suddenly saw a shadow falling over them. "What the heck?" Gozu asked as he looked up.
Suddenly, a piano fell from the ceiling and directly on top of the two wannabe ninjas.
Julia stared in shock. "H-How the heck did he do that?" She asked.
"When dealing with someone like him," Rasputin said, jerking his thumb at Wile E. "It's best not to ask questions."
"Well, we'd better get out of here before these two wake up." Eiji said as Wile E activated a crane, lifting the piano off of the flattened and unconscious ninjas.
Julia and Rasputin agreed and quickly went back up the stairs leading into the dome.
Wile E simply continued to read his paper, as if nothing had happened.
(The Arena)
Elaine and Mai continued to fight, as they had been since the blonde woman had hit the arena. Elaine jabbed at Mai with her sword, but she only succeeded in attacking the air beside the ninja woman. Elaine quickly swung again, but Mai jumped over her blade and kicked her in the face, making her stagger back.
With Elaine distracted, Mai smirked and pulled out a few paper fans. "Let's see you stop this!" She said as she tossed all of the fans she was holding at Elaine.
Elaine shook her head. "Very stupid move, lady." She muttered. Two swings from her sword and Elaine had cleaved all of the fans tossed at her in two.
Mai quickly used this to her advantage and rushed at Elaine while the fans were distracting her. Mai lunged into the air and spun around a couple of times, aiming for Elaine.
The blonde swordswoman saw Mai spinning at her and quickly jumped to the side. Mai flew into the ropes around the arena, causing them to stretch out. Once they reached their limit, the ropes flung Mai back into the arena, straight at Elaine again.
Elaine quickly thrust her foot out, managing to hit Mai in the head. This brought the ninja out of her attack, making her fall to the ground.
Mai dizzily got to her feet and narrowed her eyes at Elaine. "You're going to pay for that." She threatened.
"Oh, am I?" Elaine asked, an eyebrow raised. "Let's see you try."
Before either woman had time to react, Venom chose that time to interfere. Swinging in on a web-line attached to the beams above the arena, Venom kicked Mai, knocking the female ninja away from Elaine.
Once Venom landed on the ground, Elaine narrowed her eyes. "I appreciate you coming in to help, but I could have handled that."
Venom smirked. "Help? No, we're looking for an easy elimination."
That made Elaine even angrier. "Okay, you know what?" She asked. "Before I continue with the half-dressed ninja, I'll kick your sorry behind into the canvas."
"We'll see who kicks who's behind!" Venom laughed and lashed out his foot.
Elaine easily blocked Venom's kick, but wasn't prepared for the punch the followed directly after it. The blonde swordswoman staggered back, holding her face in pain. She quickly recovered and started seething.
"You asked for it, you freak!" Elaine shouted as she rushed forward and started stabbing the air repeatedly.
Elaine's sword cut through the air with ease, and Venom would later admit to having a rough time trying to avoid getting attacked. However, Elaine's last strike managed to land, jabbing into Venom's shoulder. Venom howled in pain and grasped his shoulder.
In the meantime, Elaine stopped attacking and advanced. She knew that she would need to act quickly or Venom would recover and easily overpower her. Elaine forced Venom back towards the ropes and kneed him in the face, knocking him out of the arena.
However, Venom had managed to recover, and shot another web-line up to the beams above the arena. This allowed the black spider to reel himself back into the arena. Landing in the arena, Venom quickly grabbed Elaine and threw her over his shoulder, out of the ring. Elaine wasn't so fortunate as Venom, and fell through the portal.
Mai Shiranui stormed over. "That was MY elimination, you jerk!" She shouted. "I worked hard to wear her down and-"
That was all Mai could get out before Venom splattered webbing over her face.
"AND we think your voice is annoying." He said as he advanced on Mai.
Elaine landed in Star Wars: Episode 2, where she found herself caught in the crossfire between the Jedi, Jango Fett and thousands of battle droids.
Pesmerga plowed over any fighter in his path as he continued to chase down his sworn enemy, Yuber. As of now, four unfortunate fighters had found themselves trampled underneath the feet of the two knights, but neither of them paid any mind. The only thing on Pesmerga's mind was killing Yuber and the only thing on Yuber's mind was avoiding that.
"Look…Uh…Pesmerga, why don't we just sit down and discuss this?" Yuber asked, looking over his shoulder as he ran.
"I KEEEEL YOU!" Pesmerga screamed, raising his sword into the air.
Unfortunately for the black knight, he wasn't watching where he was going. Like Mai, Yuber ran straight into the ropes around the arena, making them stretch out. The ropes reached their limit again and launched Yuber back into the arena, straight into Pesmerga, knocking him to the ground.
Yuber quickly jumped to his feet and ran off, hoping to gain some distance between him and Pesmerga.
However, he was unknowingly running towards the battle Luigi and Juzoh were having with Gannondorf. Luigi saw the black knight running at him. "Hey, Juzoh. There's another villain coming over here."
The large man looked over his shoulder. "So you want me to take him?" Juzoh asked.
"Go ahead. I'll hold this guy off until you're done." Luigi said.
Jozuh nodded with a smile. "Thanks." He said as he turned around and swung his club down, smashing it over the oncoming Yuber's head. This sent the black knight back into the canvas.
Yuber slowly stood to his feet and glared daggers at Juzoh. "Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?" He asked.
"Uh…No?" Juzoh replied, scratching his head.
"I am the black knight!" Yuber shouted.
"Oh. Hello there, Mr. Black knight."
"You DARE attack me?" Yuber screamed. "I should kill you where you stand!"
"Oh…Well, that's not very nice." Juzoh said.
Yuber screamed in fury as he rushed at Juzoh. The large man simply grabbed him and tossed him over the ropes. The black knight screamed murder as he fell into elimination.
Yuber landed on the roof of a tall skyscraper. He stood up and started seething.
"CURSE YOU, PESMERGA!" Yuber screamed into the sky, waving his arms. "I COULD HAVE DOMINATED EVERYONE IN THE ARENA, BUT YOU JUST HAD TO APPEAR AND MAKE MY LIFE MISERABLE! WHEN I GET BACK TO THE DOME, I'M GONNA-"
Yuber was cut short when someone came up from behind and kicked him in the back, knocking him off the top of the building. Yuber fell down hundreds of feet to the ground below.
"Uh…Ron? I don't think that was one of Drakken's henchmen." A redhead girl with long hair said from aside.
"I know that, Kim." The teen boy with short, blonde hair replied. "I just thought that guy was getting annoying."
A small, naked mole rat popped out of his pocket. "Uh-huh!" It agreed.
Pesmerga looked around the arena for any sign of Yuber, but because he had just been eliminated, the black knight was nowhere in sight. Pesmerga growled.
"Who's the one that eliminated Yuber?" Pesmerga shouted.
"Over here!" Juzoh called out, waving at the black-haired knight.
Pesmerga silently drew his sword and walked over. However, before he got very far, Goh stepped in, delivering a hard kick to his head.
Pesmerga quickly recovered and glared at the Virtua Fighter. "Do you have a death wish?"
Goh shrugged. "Nah. I'm just looking for an elimination."
"Out of the way." Pesmerga said, being one of the many Suikoden characters who wasn't much for words.
"Afraid not." Goh said with a smirk.
"Very well." Pesmerga said simply as he narrowed his eyes and advanced and swung his sword.
Goh, being a much more agile fighter, easily dodged the attack. Pesmerga tried swinging again, but Goh held up his hands and caught Pesmerga's hand, preventing him from bringing the sword down on him.
Although Goh struggled a bit, he managed to push Pesmerga over to the ropes. Once he got close enough, Goh let go of Pesmerga and pushed him back, stunning him. This made the black-haired swordsman easy pickings for Goh to grab and toss from the arena.
Pesmerga landed on a ship out in the middle of the ocean. Pesmerga slowly stood up and looked around.
"Hmm…Don't remember you applying to be on my crew, mate."
Pesmerga looked over his shoulder and saw a very distinctive pirate walking over.
"You see, if you stow away on the Black Pearl, you'll be tossed overboard." The pirate said.
The black-haired knight didn't reply. He simply kicked Jack Sparrow in the head.
Back in the arena, Kyo Kusanagi lashed out his foot and kicked Gabby Jay in the stomach. The old boxer staggered back, in pain. In his old age, Gabby was already starting to feel like fatigue was weighing him down, despite he had only been in the arena for one section.
With Brocken eliminated, Gabby was left to fight Kyo on his own. However, it didn't really seem to matter, as the German robot didn't really contribute much to the battle to begin with.
Even still, Gabby quickly recovered and delivered a hard punch to Kyo's face. The KOF main character stepped back and shook his head.
"I'll admit that you've got more skill than people give you credit for." Kyo said. "But you've got to fall sooner or later."
"I'm well aware of that." Gabby nodded. "But I intend to fight as hard as I can until I get eliminated." He rushed at Kyo and tried another punch. "You have to admit, it's gotten me an elimination so far."
"Yeah, I'll give you that." Kyo said as he easily blocked the old man's punch. "But don't expect too much more."
"Hey, I wasn't expecting the first one." Gabby admitted. "I might surprise myself even more."
"Well, let's just see about that." Kyo said with a smirk as he sent another wave of fire at his opponent.
Gabby quickly ducked and avoided the attack, but a couple of his hairs got singed in the process. While he was at the ground, Gabby waited until the fire wave stopped before lunging upwards in an uppercut. The punch was a direct hit against Kyo's chin, making the prettyboy fly back a few feet.
Kyo landed on his back and rubbed in chin in amazement as he stood to his feet. "That was a real powerful punch, old man."
"Like I said, I've been training." Gabby replied with a smile.
"Train? You're old enough to retire."
"Boxing's my life, sonny. Unlike my mentor, Glass Joe, I'll never retire."
"Well, I think it's time to end this fight." Kyo said as he rushed at Gabby.
Seeing Kyo running at him and ignite his hand, Gabby got a little nervous. Still, he wasn't one to back away from a fight, and put up his fists.
Once Kyo got close enough, he swung his hand, which was engulfed in flames.
He struck nothing but air.
As Kyo paused in wonder at where his opponent had gone, Gabby came in from the side and slammed his gloved fist into Kyo's face. This, much to everyone's shock, sent Kyo tumbling over the ropes and out of the arena.
Kyo landed in the node of the Animaniacs. An anvil landed on him.
(Announcer's Booth)
"I don't believe it." SSBFreak shook his head with wide eyes. "Gabby Jay's a better rumble fighter than a one-on-one fighter."
(The Arena)
As the carnage erupted all around him, DK was simply sitting down, eating bananas. Every time he finished one, the giant ape tossed a peel away (where, nine times out of ten, some unfortunate fighter slipped on it instantly). The only thing on the ape's mind right now was his craving for bananas rather than surviving the section.
Suddenly, something rolled into DK's side. Looking at it, he saw a small, round, green thing sitting beside him.
Thinking it was an apple, DK grinned, picked it up and bit into it. However, the only thing he did was hurt his teeth. DK grimaced and tossed the object over his shoulder, where it exploded in midair.
Rolento, the one whom had tossed the grenade in the first place, rolled over and smacked his baton over DK's head.
"I'm surprised that you had the smarts to throw that away when you did, comrade." Rolento commented. "I underestimated your brain."
DK grinned and got to his feet. The giant ape, still smiling, pulled his head back and lashed it out in a powerful headbutt. Rolento, not expecting, this, took the full effects of the attack and did a faceplant into the canvas.
Seeing his opponent on the canvas, DK pulled his fist into the air and brought it down. Rolento, however, recovered and rolled to safety as DK'sfist connected with the arena floor. The German soldier then came out of his roll, leapt into the air and whacked his baton over DK's head again.
DK easily reached behind himself, grabbed Rolento and slammed him into the canvas again
"He's pretty strong." Rolento said to himself as he got to his feet. "I haven't even made him move yet. If I'm to eliminated him, I need to be cautious."
Ducking into a roll again, Rolento flew at DK and dropped a few grenades as he went by. The grenades went off almost instantly, sending DK into the air.
Seeing his chance, Rolento leapt high into the air (at heights almost no other Street Fighter could match) and delivered a kick to the giant ape's back, knocking DK out of the arena. Rolento landed gracefully on his feet again.
Donkey Kong landed in his home node, on the beach. DK smiled, laid back onto the sand and peeled another banana.
Once Ness had eliminated Landis, he had hoped to use his psychic powers on the villains in the ring to see if they knew anything abut this dark force he and Mewtwo had been feeling all night.
However, Cecile had stepped in his way, looking for a fight.
During this fight, Ness had seen Yuber getting eliminated, thus leaving Gannondorf as the only villain in the arena. The psychic boy knew that if he were to find anything out, he'd have to finish his fight with Cecile first.
"PK Fire!" Ness shouted, throwing a bolt of fire at Cecile. The young girl quickly held up her shield, blocking the projectile, which turned into a small pillar of fire the instant it made contact with it.
"You're not letting up, are you?" Cecile asked. "That attack was a snap to block."
"No. I'm not letting up." Ness shook his head. "I never let up."
"Good. I don't want you to let up on attacking just because I'm a girl." Cecile replied.
"You kidding?" Ness chuckled. "Most of the girls in my node could kick my butt! If anything, they'd let up on ME."
"Good to hear that you never let up, though." Cecile nodded. "Let's finish this fight."
Ness smirked. "You got that right." With that, Ness crouched low. "PK Thunder!"
Cecile, seeing what had happened to Landis, held up her shield. However, instead of seeing the ball of lightning come around to hit her, she saw it fly around behind Ness. Cecile gulped and kept her shield raised, somehow thinking that it wasn't going to work.
The ball of lightning struck Ness in the back, launching the psychic boy forward several feet, straight at Cecile, covered in electric energy.
Ness flew straight into Cecile's shield, electrocuting her through it. The force from the attack sent Cecile across the arena. Once she landed, Ness rushed over to her.
Cecile slowly stood up, the effects of the electric attack still lingering. Once she was standing straight, Cecile looked ahead, and her eyes widened when she saw Ness running at her, wielding a baseball bat.
One swing later and Cecile was out of the park. Ness quickly put his bat away and rushed over to Gannondorf, whom was still fighting off Luigi and Juzoh.
Cecile landed in Toejam and Earl 2, where she proved to Peabo and Sharla that she could beatbox like any alien on the planet.
(Dome; Recovery Room)
Toppo walked up to the door to the Recovery Room and lightly knocked on it a couple of times. A few seconds passed before the door opened, revealing Nurse Mio.
"Ah! Toppo! Come in!" The nurse said. "What brings you here?"
Toppo walked into the Recovery Room silently, making Mio remember that he never really spoke in public.
Dr. Tuta saw Toppo and raised an eyebrow. "Toppo? What're you doing here? Surely you can't be here to wait for Shabon to arrive."
Toppo was confused, but nodded.
"You mean she was eliminated?" Tuta asked. "How long ago?"
The silent juggler paused in thought before flashing his left hand twice, then sticking two fingers into the air. He would have used his right hand as well, but the Master Sword was still in his grip.
"Twelve minutes ago?" Tuta asked. "Well, that's strange. She never showed up."
Toppo's eyes widened and his breathing quickened.
"Where could she be, then?" Mio asked.
(Somewhere in the Hotel)
"Leave Shabon alone, you brutes!" Shabon shouted as she thrashed against the grip of Ripper and Hopper. "What did she ever do to you?"
Shabon had spent the ten minutes in her elimination node, and was expecting to return to the Recovery Room like everyone else. However, she had appeared in a different room altogether, where Ripper and Hopper were apparently waiting for her. One of Bison's men had temporarily tampered with the teleportation device, causing Shabon to appear in an entirely different location from where she should have appeared.
The two guards simply threw Shabon to the ground. Shabon looked around the room and her eyes widened when she saw Amy Guile, Junior Maximum, King's brother Jan, Mel Masters and Louis, the squire of Chris Lightfellow, tied to chairs.
Shabon's eyes widened at the last person. "Louis! What's going on?" She asked.
Louis simply shook his head. "I don't have the slightest clue, Shabon." He said. "I can't believe I could let this happen to myself."
As Shabon looked around the room even more, she saw several villains, a good number of them looking a little beat up, scattered around the room.
"Men, the time has come to take action." M. Bison said, coming into view.
"Already, sir?" Vega asked. "But we're still down one target!"
"I'm aware of that, Vega." M. Bison said. "But Billy Kane enters in the next section, so once he enters, we won't have any problems kidnapping his sister."
"But why now?" Setsuna continued. "If I remember correctly, you were planning to put the plan into action a little later."
"I was, but plans have changed." Bison replied. "For those of you who don't know, there is a group of people aware of our little plan. Now, if it had been small, I wouldn't be worried, but now this group has gotten too large for me to ignore."
Amy's eyes lit up. "Daddy!" She said happily. "He's in the group, isn't he?"
Bison growled. "Yes, my dear. That pathetic soldier of a father of yours is indeed among this group." He then focused attention on his men. "I need a few of you to keep an eye on Lily Kane. As soon as she leaves the stands with her brother in the ring, nab her. The rest of you take the rest of these younglings to their posts."
The henchmen nodded and grabbed each of the kids, dragging them from the room one by one, despite their protests.
Once the room was empty, a small, circular shadow on the floor slid under the door.
(Dome; Snack Bar)
The owner of the snack bar ducked under the counter as a bolt of lightning blew off a good chunk of the top.
"Why didn't I just stay at my old job?" The owner asked himself. "The dangers were so fewer at the radioactive chemical plant."
Pichu torpedoed through the air and slammed into the Liquidator's stomach, surging him with electricity. The water dog flew back and splattered against the far wall.
Liquidator collapsed to the floor, but quickly got back up again. "Congratulations! You have just won a lifetime supply of beatings! Pick up your first sample today!"
The dog of water turned his arm into a giant fly swatter and swung it down at Pichu. The small, electric mouse, however, used his speed to his advantage, zipping out of harm's way as the fly swatter slammed into the ground, turning into a puddle of water.
Liquidator summoned the water back to his arm and rushed at Pichu again.
The small Pokemon smiled. "Pichu!" He shouted, shoving his face forward and creating a small ball of electricity. Liquidator quickly created a wall of water in front of him, which absorbed Pichu's attack. As soon as Pichu stopped charging his attack, Liquidator shoved his watery hand through the wall and punched the small Pokemon in the face, sending him across the room.
"Feeling down in the dumps? Need a little pick-me-up?" Liquidator said as he walked over to the fallen Pokemon. "Then call 555-LIQUIDATOR!"
With that, the water dog picked the small, yellow rat off the ground and threw him across the room again. This time, Pichu was a little more agile, as he turned himself over in midair, landed on his feet and flew at Liquidator.
As soon as he arrived at Liquidator's feet, Pichu shoved his small hands into the air. "PICHUUU!" He screamed.
Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot down right where Pichu was standing (which didn't really make a lot of sense considering that the snack bar was indoors). And because Pichu was standing so close to Liquidator, the water dog was affected as well. Liquidator shot into the air as Pichu ran underneath him.
Pichu crouched low and awaited Liquidator to fall close enough. Once he did, Pichu did a backflip, surging his tail with electricity. Liquidator fell straight into the attack, howled in pain, split in half and fell to the floor in two puddles.
"Dance, water! Dance!" Gadget Z shouted from the doorway. He was then on his merry way with a still-confused Musafar behind him.
The small Pokemon looked back and forth between the two puddles and smiled triumphantly, thinking he had won. "Pi!" He said in victory.
Suddenly, the two puddles of water slid towards the doorway to the snack bar, joined together and formed the Liquidator again, who looked at Pichu angrily.
For once, the dog of water said nothing. He simply growled at Pichu and fled the scene. Said small Pokemon happliy walked over to a table, where Benimaru Nikaido was eating a bowl of rice.
"Hey, little buddy." Benimaru greeted as Pichu jumped up onto a chair. "I got you a bowl of rice if you wanted it. I figured you earned it after that battle."
"Pichu!" Pichu said in thanks as he started eating.
(The Arena)
Gannondorf pulled his fist back as he blocked a punch from Luigi with his other hand. Luigi suddenly saw the Gerudo king's fist become engulfed with a strange, purple energy.
"Crap!" Luigi shouted as he backed away.
Gannondorf lunged forward in a Warlock Punch, which would have been powerful enough to send an unprepared person across the arena easily. However, since Luigi had seen this coming and had backed away, the punch hit nothing but air.
Seeing his punch get avoided, Ganondorf growled and prepared to attack. And he would have, had Juzoh not smashed his club over the evil king's head. Rubbing his head, Gannondorf stood straight and glared at Juzoh. "I'll kill you for that, you know."
Juzoh scratched his head, shrugged and smashed his club over Gannondorf's head again.
Luigi sighed. "It's not a good move to make him angry, man." He told Juzoh. "He's one of the strongest characters in our node."
Juzoh again shrugged. "So? I've fought stronger."
Gannondorf's eyes snapped open. Luigi stared at Juzoh with wide eyes. "Oh, you did NOT just say that."
"Why? What's so wrong about saying there are people stronger than him?" Juzoh asked.
"You see, Gannondorf considers himself the strongest." Luigi explained.
"But…He's not." Juzoh said. "In fact, I can think of five people right off the top of my head who-"
Gannondorf roared as he flew at Juzoh. Luigi tried stepping in the way, but all that got him was a hard punch in the face, knocking him aside. The evil king pulled his fist back and thrust it forward.
It landed straight into Juzoh's open palm.
As soon as it had made contact, Juzoh gripped Gannondorf's fist in his palm tightly, although he still wore the usual, happy expression on his face.
"You know? Killing people isn't very nice." Juzoh said. Gannondor started wincing in pain as Juzoh's grip on his fist got tighter and tighter by the second. "You should find a better hobby. Maybe origami or something like that. Because honestly, senseless killing isn't really going to get you anywhere. Say, I should probably just let you go. Have a nice day, now!"
With that, Juzoh picked Gannondorf up by his fist and hurled him out of the arena.
Gannndorf landed the node of Dilbert. It was a weekend, so the office was empty, leaving no one for Gannondorf to kill.
The Gerudo king sighed as he sat down on a chair. Then glancing beside him, he saw a piece of paper on a desk. He absent-mindedly picked it up and started folding it.
Luigi stood up and saw the Gannondorf was gone. He then saw Ness walking up beside him.
"You could have used your powers to read his mind and find out what's going on, you know." Luigi suggested.
"I tried." Ness replied. "There's something deep within Gannondorf's head that somehow manages to block my telepathy. I just can't seem to read his mind."
"So what're you going to do, then?" Luigi asked.
"Wait for a villain with a weaker mind to enter the ring." Ness said simply as he walked off without another word.
Luigi scratched his head for a few seconds before he felt something strike his foot. Looking down, he saw an active grenade. Luigi's eyes snapped open as he dove to the side. Once he was out of the way, the grenade exploded.
Looking at where the grenade had come from, he saw Rolento perched on top of one of the turnbuckles.
"Your awareness in commendable, comrade." Rolento said. "Much like that giant ape I tossed out a few minutes ago."
"You're pretty quick yourself." Luigi added. "I've played the games you were in."
Rolento smirked. "Glad to hear it, comrade. But that was a game. This is real."
"Then I hope you're tougher to beat here." Luigi chuckled, putting up his fists.
The German leapt from the turnbuckle, straight at Luigi. The green-clad plumber shoved his hand out, launching a green fireball at the oncoming German. Rolento anticipated this and swatted the fireball away with his baton.
Rolento landed on his feet, still a good ten feet away from Luigi. The German soldier then broke into a run and dashed at Luigi, pulling out a grenade at the same time. Once he got close enough, Rolento swung his baton at Luigi's head. The younger Mario brother quickly and easily blocked the swing with both hands as Rolento flew by.
As soon as he went by, Rolento jumped, turned around in midair and hurled the grenade at Luigi. The thin plumber saw the grenade land on the canvas and kicked it away (where it exploded, sending Venom and Mai into the air).
Rolento smirked at his opponent's quick reactions. "Good. A challenge." He said as he rushed forward again.
Luigi saw Rolento rushing at him and shoved his fist out. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, as Rolento ran straight into the fist. The German quickly recovered, crouched low and slid forward, knocking Luigi off his feet.
Rolento was about to use this to his advantage and throw Luigi from the ring, but the plumber had already jumped to his feet.
"Pretty quick, eh?" Luigi said with a smirk.
Rolento was given time to react. Luigi had already delivered his Flaming Coinbox Jump to his chin. Rolento rocketed high into the air as Luigi jumped after him. Luigi then sent Rolento out of the arena with a well-placed karate chop.
Rolento landed in Bomberman.
…Oh, come on. Two guys throwing unlimited explosives at each other. How do YOU think that turned out?
Although Rolento's grenade had thrown them off a bit, it still didn't stop Venom and Mai from continuing their battle. The two had been battling ever since Venom had eliminated Elaine, which had been a while by now.
Mai landed a hard kick against Venom's face, making the black spider stagger back. Venom looked at Mai and saw her running at him. He smirked.
"Venom Fang!"
Venom did a small jump forward, somehow turning himself into a blob with razor sharp teeth. Mai flew into the attack, but managed to avoid any damage by leaping to the side. However, that didn't stop Venom from sinking his teeth into the tail of her outfit.
"Let go, you freak!" Mai said as she delivered another hard kick, this time into Venom's side. This not only made the mutant let go of Mai's outfit, but got rid of his blob-like appearance, returning him to his normal form.
Venom quickly jumped to his feet and kicked Mai in the stomach. Mai clutched her stomach, but not before she released a fan and sent it straight into the toothy anti-hero's eye. Venom roared as he plucked the fan out of his organ of sight and tossed it away.
"You've just made us mad!" Venom shouted.
"Bring it, Jaws!" Mai shouted back.
Mai lunged at Venom and spun around several times. Venom blocked the attack, but what he didn't notice was the Mai had created a few waves of fire around her, and his arms had felt the full effect.
Venom again howled in pain as he dropped his guard and backed off. Mai smirked as he ran at her opponent.
Despite that he was in pain, Venom was still aware of Mai coming at him. As Mai got close enough, Venom reached out, grabbed her and threw her from the arena.
Now that his opponent was gone, Venom did a quick scan of the arena. "Rats. The ice girl is gone. We were hoping for her to cool off our arms."
Mai had landed in Dead or Alive, where she accused Kasumi of stealing her look.
Only one more elimination was needed to end the section, and everyone now knew that. This made everyone pick up the pace a bit to try and eliminate one more person so that they could continue on to the next section.
Goh lashed out his fist, but the only thing it struck was the gloved hands of Gabby Jay. Said old boxer then thrust a punch into Goh's face, which the assassin blocked himself.
Although the two were pretty evenly matched, Goh had one thing Gabby didn't: The ability to kick, which he quickly put to his advantage, kicking the old man in the stomach.
Now, it was bad enough that he wasn't used to actually doing WELL in the arena, but Gabby's old age just made the pain worse. Gabby hunched over, grasping his own stomach. Goh advanced with a smirk.
Still clutching his stomach, Gabby lashed out with his left hand and jabbed Goh in the face. As Goh staggered back, this gave Gabby enough time to stand straight and forget about the pain.
The old, French boxer pounded his fists together and rushed forward, straight at Goh. In all of the years Gabby had been boxing, he always had a determined look on his face. Even after the countless matches he kept losing, Gabby still remained determined.
But now, it was a different look of determination on his face. No one knew what it said, but it would have been enough to make an average person actually afraid of the old man.
Goh, however, wasn't your average person. He saw the look on Gabby's face, smirked and advanced himself.
The two fighters each pulled a fist back and lashed it out. The two fists collided with an amazingly powerful force. So powerful that the others in the arena could have sworn that the arena shook.
As quick as their first punch, Goh and Gabby lashed out their other fists, which also hit each other.
Goh and Gabby continued hitting each other's fists at surprising speeds. However, Gabby, being much older than Goh, was quickly tiring out. So he did the one thing that broke the chain of punches.
He ducked.
Goh's last punch soared over Gabby's head. Seizing the opportunity, Gaby grabbed Goh's arm with one hand and put the other at his chest. Then, using all his might, the old boxer threw the much younger, and now much angrier, Goh out of the arena.
Goh landed in Hitman, where he felt right at home.
Back in the arena, Gabby Jay was now doing his 'happy chicken dance' in excitement, seeing as how he had three eliminations and already he had broken his boxing winning record. The other five fighters were scattered around the arena. Luigi was looking a little tired, but was looking okay. Venom still looked reasonably fresh, but was starting to show some signs of fatigue. Ken looked the freshest of the bunch, and brushed his hair back with his hand. Juzoh yawned and rotated his arm a few times. Ness sat on one of the turnbuckles, keeping his energy for the next villain to enter the arena.
The next wave of fighters were about to enter, and everyone (save Gabby Jay, whom was still doing his strange dance) turned to the curtain to see them come in.
RESULTS
NESS (SSB)
JUZOH KANZAKI (LB)
GABBY JAY (SPO!)
VENOM (MC)
KEN MASTERS (SFA3)
LUIGI MARIO (SSB)
(ELIMINATED)
GOH HINOGMI (VF)
DONKEY KONG (SSB)
LANDIS (S3)
ROLENTO SHUGERG (SFA3)
MAI SHIRANUI (KOF)
GANNONDORF DRAGMIRE (SSB)
CECILE (S3)
KULA DIAMOND (KOF)
KYO KUSANAGI (KOF)
PESMERGA (S2)
ELAINE (S3)
JUBILEE (MC)
YUBER (S3)
BROCKEN (WH)
BONUS MATCHES:
"Ninja's Revenge"
JULIA CHANG (T5) kicks the sorry behinds of GOZU and MEZU (KE)
"Electric Flood"
PICHU (SSB) shocks LIQUIDATOR (DWD)
Eliminations: Ness, Juzoh, Gabby Jay and Venom, 2; Ken, Luigi, Goh, Donkey Kong, Landis and Rolento, 1
Current Elimination Leaders: R. Mika (8), King (7), Bruce Irvin (6), Peach Toadstool (5), Lucky Glauber (5), Chang Koehan (5), Heavy D! (5)
