Return of the Evil Choujin
Arc 20 part 2: Tag Team Part 2! What is up with Ares?
Ares took to the hold and acted as it was almost nothing. He leaned a bit forward before quickly leaning backwards, trying to slam Neil into the mat nice and hard.
Neil took in the blow. What was with this guy? He knew Ares was a scary guy to face, but this was ridiculous.
He got up with a very serious expression on his face. He was not going to go down this easily.
And so, he held onto Ares, leapt into the air and shouted, "FULL MOON DROP!" flipping his opponent over and slamming him hard into the mat.
As Ares got up from the fall, Neil slammed his claws into Ares' chest and shouted, "WOLF FANG!"
Upon seeing this amazing comeback, the crowd cheered wildly for Neil. Even Ares' friends had to admit that this was amazing.
Lisa held her hand to her heart and thought, 'I hope this doesn't take its toll on Ares. He was acting like a madman in yesterday's match, and who knows what more pain could result in. Please don't try to murder him, Ares.'
"Come on Ares! Tag me in!" shouted Minnie. Watching things, they needed speed more than strength to win things and that was her style over his.
Ares didn't listen to her as he grabbed a hold of Neil's arms from his Wolf's Fang attack, only stumbling a bit from the attack. Holding tight to the arms, he started to twist them as he tried to actually break them while he lifted his right foot and rush it forward to jab it into the lower part of Neil's leg.
Sitting in the nosebleed section of the stands, three cloaked figures just smirked at the sight in front of them.
"I see that the experiment is working quite well," said the one on the left.
"Yes, Number Three. Don't you agree Number One?" said the middle cloak figure.
"Yes, I do, Number Two. If we succeed at this, all those that came from those traitors shall fall into the darkness," smirked the final member of the small little group.
Neil had to admit that this was getting ridiculous. He grimaced and wrapped his arms around Ares only to be thrown on his back.
The tension rose as Yoshigai shouted, "The merger has now started!"
See as Ares and Neil were occupied with each other, Jasmine and Minnie decided not to assist them and just face each other in a normal match.
Holding his own still, trying to fight back against the pain, Ares leaned back and slammed his head back into Neil before jabbing his knee into the chest.
Sighing towards her brother, Minnie turned towards Jasmine, "Well, time to get started then," she said, launching a punch towards her.
Neil really felt like he was in danger now. He felt scared. He hoped not to after Mando's death, but this new personality frightened him.
He rose to his feet and punched Ares hard into the pole. He decided not to continue that attack. Instead, he stood there and glared.
Feeling the pain from the punch and from hitting the pole, Ares just snarled towards Neil and started to stalk towards him.
"Who do you think you are? You can't stand up to the likes of me..." he hissed out.
Watching the match on Television, Keiko and Mars were just staring in shock at what Ares was doing.
"We taught him better then this," explained Keiko as she looked over to Mars, who was fuming, "Why is he acting like this?"
Mars mumbled something through the tape and once finished, his wife just nodded in understanding and patted him on the knee coaxing, "There, there, I know it is not your fault."
Neil lunged at Ares and shouted, "ALRIGHT, YOU'VE GONE INSANE! TIME TO BRING YOU BACK TO REALITY!"
Then he punched Ares five times in the face and delivered a massive blow to the forehead with his opened palm. The crowd cheered and everyone else prayed that this would work, especially Lisa.
Jasmine and Minnie had been fighting for some time now, but people hadn't been too focused on this.
"If that's the best you got, then you've got another thing coming," Jasmine challenged as Minnie sighed and said, "Well, if you want more, come on," as she sent 2 kicks and a punch to Jasmine's face.
Jasmine took in the blows and shouted, "NO WAY THAT'S GONNA WORK! METEOR FIST!"
Then she sent a punch towards Minnie only to find herself in the position that meant she would be taking in the force of the Ultimate Scar Buster, the crowd cheering all the way and Lisa bringing down a tear.
Neil cringed, realizing it was over. He gasped as the bones in his arms started to snap.
He grimaced and threw Ares into the air. Then he attempted one of his best attacks only to be placed in a position where he was just ready to take in the Ultimate Scar Buster. Now it was over.
Landing the attack, Minnie just sighed as she wiped her hair out of her face. She felt bad for doing that, but it had to end now. Looking over to Ares and Neil, she just stared with wide eye as Ares had his foot on Neil's chest and was pressing down.
"Ack!" she cried out as she pushed Ares off of him and slugged him right in the face, "Ya knock it off!"
Considering that Neil and Jasmine could hardly move right now, Yoshigai dinged the bell and shouted, "THE MATCH IS OVER! TEAM SCARFACE WINS!"
The crowd of course cheered and of course Neil's friends just sighed in disappointment. Ares' friends cheered as well. But Lisa... she actually had similar feelings to what Neil's friends had. This was not the Ares she wanted to see win.
Neil struggled to his feet and carried Jasmine to the bleachers. Sadly, he collapsed and had to be brought to his seat by his friends. This was not the result anyone had expected.
Jumping out of the ring as they were declared the winner, Minnie just took after Ares as he started to storm out of there, "Hold it right there, Ares! You have some explaining to do! What was with that? You were trying to kill him!"
Suddenly, Ares forced her up against the wall. Minnie winced as she looked up towards Ares as he just sneered down at her, "Yes I know... I wanted too…"
"Wanted to? Ares, you aren't a killer! You never want to hurt anyone this badly," she shouted towards him but only to be pushed harder against the wall, Ares had a hold of her arm and was tightly holding on it.
"Shut up, Minerva," hissed out Ares as his eyes flash a brighter red towards her, actually using her hated real name, "You know nothing."
Leaving it to that, he just tossed her to the ground and walked away. Minnie was just left there, trying to hold back the tears.
The next match was finally underway. It was between Team Mystery and Team Rock. Considering the amazing defensive power shown by Team Rock, they received a few cheers. But Team Mystery, now they got a lot from the crowd after that miracle finisher.
"Alright, now we can't let those two advance to the merger," Rocky said, "We have to defeat one of them if we want to make it to the next round."
And so the match began as Rocky ran at the first cloaked figure and delivered a hard punch to his face. Man, was that cloak on tight or what? Even a blow to the face didn't get it off.
The man rubbed his face and glared at Rocky. Then he ran at the kid and kneed him in the gut, held him above his head and threw Rocky into the pole.
As Ares was headed down the hall, Lisa confronted him and said, "We need to talk."
But she knew he wasn't willing to. She let down a tear and said, "Ares, you are out of control. I don't like seeing you like this. I think I am partly responsible for your behavior. I've been keeping in something and I think that might be the reason for your mood shift."
Then she ran up to him, holding onto his tight and pressed her lips up against his. After about 20 seconds, she released the kiss and shouted, "I LOVE YOU, ARES! PLEASE STOP ACTING LIKE THIS AND GO BACK TO YOUR OLD SELF!"
Feeling the kiss against his lips and hearing the words, Ares was just frozen a bit in time. His body was telling him to ditch her, toss her aside. His heart was telling him to go with the flow, that he should feel the same way about her. But his mind... his mind was the tie breaker for the two and it wasn't picking either of them.
His eyes just flashed back to normal as he just started to back away from her. Fear was on his face from his confusion.
"I-I-I-I-I... I have to go... can't hurt..." he said as he just turned and started to run away.
As he fled, a certain doctor showed up and asked, "Should I knock some sense into him before tomorrow?" as Lisa shook her head and said, "Actually, I'd give him time to recover if I were you. Just promise me one thing. If he isn't able to recover his old self by tomorrow, I want you to replace him as Minnie's partner until he returns to normal."
Wayne nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do that."
"Shouldn't you ask me if I want to pair up with this hack!" hissed out Minnie as she walked up to the two of them, glaring towards the doctor.
"It is all your fault, he's been like this ever since he came out of your care! What did you do to my brother?"
"I suggest we continue on with the plan, Number One,"
"I agree with Number Two. At this rate, they shall figure out what is going on. We can not allow this."
"Yes, Number Three and Number Two, I understand...go and find the spawns of the traitors to the DMP...heh, we shall soon regain our numbers again."
Lisa just sobbed and said, "Minnie, you're only saying that because of your worry for Ares. I'm worried about him too, but you can't blame everyone present for this."
"She's right," Wayne said, "I did nothing to him. I didn't even touch him. It was the nurse who gave him everything. All I did was take notes and examine him to see if he was better. He recovered all by himself. Although I wouldn't mind doing a checkup on him if I had the chance."
Back in the ring, the crowd was bursting out into cheers as the two mystery Choujin had won yet another match. Rocky just groaned and wined, "Why can't these guys be beaten?"
And so, the next match was between Team Forest Destroyer and Team Girl Power. The match started with Trent going up against Yoko.
As the match was starting, someone was trying to hurry back to their seat, only to lose balance and knock their pop all over the likes of Chess, "Oops..."
Chess turned to the kid, a calm look in his eyes. Then that calm look turned into anger as he spat, "HOW DARE YOU SOIL THE FRONT OF MY ROYAL CLOTHING?"
Then transforming into his queen form, the pop now slathered all over his boobs, he winked and said, "You should have waited for this, stud."
Canadakid and Kiya just banged their heads against their seats in disappointment.
Meanwhile, a certain woman was walking towards a group of 3 cloaked figures and said, "Hi, I was wondering when you would pay me for injecting that virus into the boy."
The first two just glance over to the shortest of the three. Sighing, he dug out his wallet and handed over the payment that was due, "Here you go, in full."
Number One then took a step towards her, "Would you like to earn that amount again, but double it?"
Back in the ring, the match ended with Team Girl Power reigning supreme. This actually surprised the crowd for they had come close to losing.
Finally, Kazuo announced the final match of the second round, Team C/A versus Team Maelstrom. Alyssa was first going up against Kevin.
Kevin hooked her in the neck and knocked her to the ground as he started to bend the girl's knees.
The fight was actually over with quite quickly. Kevin had defeated Alyssa and the match was over.
"Well, that's that," Yoshigai said, "Join us tomorrow for round 3!"
And so, everyone packed up for the night. Lisa waited in her hotel room for Ares to return. She really hoped he was better today.
But Ares hadn't returned and Neil and the others had gone back to their hotel room. This was an unexpected outcome. No one from their team had made it to the third round.
Neil spread out on the bed, now that the rooms had been switched since every one of the 7 friends had lost, and said, "Ares was so different back there. He really hasn't been himself since this started. Heck, he tried to kill me. I'm not hoping for any loss from him since he is our friend... sort of... but I hope something can bring him back to normal. Well, he's gonna be fighting those two cloaked guys tomorrow. Maybe they can beat him. I'm kinda glad the pressure's been taken off of us."
Soon enough, it was late and everyone went to sleep. During all this, a young woman was walking outside of their hotel. She was holding a needle with some kind of black vaccine inside of it. Suddenly, she heard a noise as a young girl poked her head out of the shack and asked, "Who's there?"
Rosaline glared at the woman and said, "Oh, you're just a nurse. Why are you out so late?"
The nurse laughed and said, "Um... I'm not doing anything. I'm just taking a shortcut home."
Then she turned and thought, 'Damn, I'll get him tomorrow.'
"Why did you agree to allow her to try and inject Neil, Number One?"
Inside their base, the three cloak figures just sat across from each other in a dark room. They had to discuss their current movement.
"Yes, I have to agree. The injection is only supposed to work on those children with demon blood in them... Mars... Checkmate... even Kevin Mask should have been affected from his time."
"That is why I allow her to do so, Number Two and Three," responded Number One with a smirk, "Think of what could happen if the injection works on him. We can expand further..."
Coming to her room, Minnie just ran to her bed and flopped on to it. She started to sob into it. What was going on with Ares? He hadn't been seen since he fled out of the area and she tried to look for him. He'd better show up for their match tomorrow. But how was she going to get him back to normal...how?
Arc 21: The Secret Behind Ares' Behavior
Well, the night passed and today was the day for the next round to begin.
The bleachers had been filled up and Sushiman was rather drowsy from a lack of sleep last night. Apparently, Minnie had kept him awake, but not just her crying. He felt the same way she did right now. Ares had started to scare him.
Wayne was Minnie's official substitute partner, so he was ready for what was coming.
Now, one would think that Sushiman being in the first match would be bad since he hadn't slept all night. Actually, a secret he had been keeping sealed up for years was that sleep kept his power at normal and a lack of it increased his strength. If anything, he was more prepared for this match than any other match.
So when Yoshigai called his team name up Culedhel and Savageman, he was actually more focused than ever before.
The crowd cheered for each team as Sushiman was first up against Savageman for he had been left out of the last match.
While this went on, Wayne was standing around thinking, 'How could it come to this?'
Then he saw something odd. The nurse was here. His suspicions risen, he decided not to let his presence be known, so he watched as she waited in front of the men's washroom. Soon enough, Neil had exited and she smiled and said, "Oh, you poor thing. Are you still hurting from yesterday?"
Neil smiled and said, "Yes, I'm kinda glad to have a nurse here."
"Then allow me to give you this injection," she said, holding the needle in her hands, "It will heal up your pains and make you stronger than ever before."
Wayne got up out of his seat just as the nurse was about to apply the injection and lunged at her, knocking it out of her hands.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" he spat as Neil blinked and saw the needle turn into a giant.
The nurse quickly ran away as the giant needle advanced towards Neil. Neil cringed as the needle lunged at him. The boy simply dodged to the side and grabbed onto the needle. The vaccine inside of it had a weird evil look on its face and it was black.
Just as things seemed helpless for the poor boy, the doctor slammed his fist into the needle, destroying it. This caused the vial it was attached to to shatter to pieces as the doctor glared and said, "So the nurse is to blame."
The match started with Sushiman running insanely fast, even for him, at his opponent. It was only mere seconds until Sushiman had knocked Savageman into a pole and kicked him hard in the chest.
The crowd cheered. Karia had to admit, this was new.
Savageman quickly recovered and held his hand up to the side of his head shouting, "URADADADADADADA!" releasing his famous Apache War Cry.
Sushiman flew back as Savageman ran up behind him, kicked him in the back, leapt into the air and transformed into a bear delivering a huge body slam. After that, he leapt off of Sushiman with a defensive pose.
The crowd was clapping until Sushiman rose to his feet. It was as if the attack meant nothing to him.
He quickly charged at Savageman and started to throw random Karate chops at him. Savageman had no time to react as he took in blow after blow. Then Sushiman knocked him to the ground and leapt on his back, attempting his legendary Camel Clutch. If this succeeded, Savageman would lose.
Luckily, Savageman had managed to free one of his arms and tag his partner at the last second as Culedhel as Culedhel kicked Sushiman into the pole, grabbed him by the head and slammed him into the pole dozens of times.
Finally, he threw Sushiman into the mat and began to bend his legs.
Sushiman growled as Karia just glanced at him. She was shocked. Sushiman was acting like an animal today. She had no clue it was the lack of sleep that had caused it, but she liked it. She was actually blushing. This side of the Sushiman turned her on.
Soon enough, he flipped his body around and now he was clutching to Culedhel's neck from behind. Then he rolled backwards and slammed the fox's head into the mat.
After that, he sent Culedhel into the air, as the fox descended, Sushiman caught him with his legs, juggled him around and slammed him against the mat.
The demon fox rolled around and grabbed onto Sushiman's hands creating a metal ball around them. Sushiman tried to stand up but the ball was too heavy.
"That ball weighs over a ton," Culedhel said, "every minute, it will get smaller and crush your hands, but it will weigh more."
Sushiman grunted as he couldn't stand to hold it up. He realized now that maybe he had no choice. But how could he tag Karia right now? He couldn't lift his hands.
Karia had to admit that she was worried too, worried that he was too stuck up to tag her.
Her suspicions became unfounded when he inched towards her and said, "Reach downward... and tag me..."
With that Karia tagged her partner and took his place, lashing out her dagger fingers. She then ran at Culedhel and shouted, "NAIL HURRICANE!" spinning like a tornado around the fox demon and putting various cuts on him.
It seemed being out of the match had not solved the other problem, though. Though Sushiman wasn't moving, the ball was indeed getting smaller and his hands were in extreme pain. No, there was no way. He had to stay focused until the end of the match.
"Culedhel filled up his cuts with a strange metal and said, "The ball only comes off if one of us loses," then he tagged in Savageman.
Savageman transformed into his beast form and shouted, "BEAR CLAW!" doubling his claws in size and dealing major damage.
Savageman continued to slash Karia, but he was careful not to slash open her clothes. He had seen the results of such things from the last round.
And soon enough, the merger had started. Sushiman leapt into the ring, but it was kinda hard to the balls on his hands. Karia sighed and said, "Alright, it's time to get those balls off of you."
And so, she started to spin like crazy and shouted, "ULTIMATE KAMIKAZE!" ramming hard into Savageman and taking him out.
As soon as the balls fell off, Kazuo shouted, "IT SEEMS AS IF CULEDHEL IS ALONE NOW! HOW WILL HE WIN THIS?"
"I was gonna save this attack," Culedhel said, "but I got no other choice. BLACK DRAGON SLASH!"
Culedhel leapt high into the air as a sword formed in his hand. He raised it above his head and sent it down in a clockwise formation. As the sword struck 12, a black burst of flame came from his sword and went through his opponents taking them out.
Kazuo dinged the bell and it was official. Sushiman and Karia had lost.
Sushiman had fallen into a deep sleep as a result while Karia carried him back to his seat saying, "You really impressed me back there. I'm proud to have lost to you back then."
Yoshigai pulled out the list and said, "The next fight is between Team Nightmare and Team Couple!"
Jacks and Zelda received many cheers along with Kiya and Chaos Woman. The match started with Chaos Woman and Zelda.
"You just can't take enough punishment from me, can you?" she asked while Zelda grimaced and said, "Shut it. I'm tired of you winning so much? And what happened? After that last match, you've been acting rather smug."
Chaos Woman gasped and said, "Oh, you're right. I'm usually so serious about everything, but lately I'm starting to act like that bitch, Jasmine."
"That's my daughter," Zelda remarked, "And yeah, she is kind of annoying."
The anticipation ended when Zelda and Chaos Woman both gave up and now the match was a one-on-one between Jacks and Kiya.
"Don't take me lightly," Jacks said, "I don't go easy on girls."
Kiya grinned and said, "Well, older men don't scare me, either."
And so, Kiya became a wolf and leapt on Jacks, sinking her fangs into his shoulder. He quickly pried open the girl's mouth and threw her against the mat.
Kiya quickly recovered and pinned Jacks to the ground, scratching his face. Jacks grimaced and delivered a fierce kick to her chin knocking her up into the air.
Then he leapt up at her and shouted, "METEOR DROP!" wrapping his legs around her and driving her into the mat.
The crowd cheered as Kiya got up, snarling. Then her eyes glowed as she said, "Time for you to deal with the powers of a Crinos!"
The audience gasped as her body changed. Now she stood on two legs and her muscles had expanded in size. With that, she grappled onto Jacks and slammed him hard against the mat.
The crowd cheered at the sight of this. But Yoshigai was confused.
"Say, Mr. Nakano," he said to his partner, "What is a Crinos?"
"It's a half-man, half-wolf," Kazuo said, "Some would classify them as Lykens, but these are a lot stronger. Back in the old days, people would fear the Crinos for their overwhelming power and thirst for human blood. Kiya is a very dangerous opponent now."
This was shown as Jacks was taking in a very heavy beating now. Kiya was just punching him nonstop until she decided to try a new tactic, held him over her head and slammed him hard against the mat.
As Jacks recovered, he kicked the wolf hard in the chest. It dealt some major damage but Kiya easily reacted.
She threw him into the pole and shouted, "NOW IT'S TIME TO LOSE! WOLF BAZOOKA!" with that, she delivered the Wolf Barrel technique, but since she was in her Crinos form, it was twice as powerful. There was no doubt about it. Jacks had lost.
Yoshigai pulled out the schedule and said, "The next match is between Team Scarface and Team Mystery."
The two nameless Choujin entered the ring while Wayne and Minnie followed.
"Since Ares couldn't show up for today's match, he has been replaced," Kazuo explained, "Subbing for him is a local doctor from another city named Wayne."
The crowd could not take this seriously in the slightest. How was a doctor supposed to wrestle?
All things kinda made sense to them when Minnie was the first to go up.
"You do a great job out there," Wayne said, "Your brother would want it. Remember, you have to defeat one of them before the merger otherwise we're screwed."
"Fine then," hissed out Minnie as she was just pissed that Ares hadn't shown up for the match. Well...she would have taken care of them now and quick.
"Time to go now, big boy," sneered Minnie as she charge forward to hit a punch only to leap into the air and send out a kick to the back of his skull.
