(The Arena)

"Kerberos Fang!"

Tilkis yelled as he slashed his sword left-to right at Exdeath, however, the tall being simply held up his sword and managed to deflect both strikes.

"Try harder, fool!" Exdeath bellowed as he brought down his sword at Tilkis, who held up his own sword in defense.

This left Exdeath wide open to attack, and taking advantage of that fact, Meloetta closed her eyes and casted a pink wave of energy over the dark knight, stunning him for a few seconds.

Snapping her eyes open, Exdeath immediately felt a small twinge of pain over his body, this time leaving him open to another sword strike from Tilkis.

However, Exdeath let out a laugh as he instantly snapped out of his daze, as if the chain of attacks didn't affect him at all.

Noticing this, Tilkis brought his sword back up to him and locked swords once more. This struggle didn't end like the other one though, as Exdeath simply drove his armored foot hard into Tilkis' chest, sending him skidding back a ways away, clutching his chest in pain.

Taking his turn next, Dark Pit used his bow and sent a few arrows at the warlock, with all of them barely affecting him.

Growling, Dark Pit pulled apart his bow and made two swords as he raced forward and tried to get a hit in, only to be sent flying after an attempted sword clash due to being unprepared for the strength of Exdeath's sword.

Meloetta sighed as she signaled to Porygon-Z and Staraptor to take their turn now. This wasn't going well, no matter how hard they tried, Exdeath always seemed to recover quickly after every onslaught they put him through.

At first, it seemed as though every fighter was willing to join the assault on Exdeath, however, after everyone threw at least one attack at him, the short-lived alliance silently agreed that only those who were strong enough or dedicated to fighting the warlock would continue with the plan, though anyone was willing to lend a hand if things got too bleak.

If we are to beat him, we need to not give him the chance to recover. Meloetta thought as she joined her fellow Pokémon in attacking Exdeath.

(Announcer's Booth)

"Well, so much for everyone uniting against Exdeath." Livia remarked dryly. "That alliance lasted less than five minutes."

Grey nodded, looking at the various fights around the ring. "Yeah, well, some people would rather not waste energy on one person. As cruddy as it is, it's a rather smart strategy."

Suddenly, Grey's tablet began ringing. "Hello? Oh, wait, let me just…" He said as he minimized the caller to press a button to an app on his tablet. "Okay, there...Look, I'm sorry. There were some Pokémon I wanted to invite, but I couldn't have too many so I had to stick with the basics, the Smash Bros. Pokémon, and one representative for each different type. Also, I'll be honest, you weren't on my priority list on who I was considering for…." Grey started, before sighing after hearing a few words from who was calling him. "Just…..maybe next year, okay?" He finished as he was then hung up on.

Another sigh escaped from Grey as he tossed his tablet onto the table.

"Who was that?" Livia asked.

"Just a certain Pokémon who was upset they weren't invited."

"…Wait, you have a Pokémon translator on your tablet?!"

(The Arena)

Blaze sent a wave of fire out at Wizzro, who simply shrank into the ground to avoid the attack.

Reappearing, Wizzro laughed as he began spinning, sending purple orbs flying from all around him.

Blaze narrowed her eyes in response to this as she began maneuvering around the orbs and closer to the still spinning Wizzro.

Igniting a fireball in her hand, she launched it directly at Wizzro's eye, who groaned in pain as he staggered back.

Smirking, Blaze sent another wave of fire at Wizzro, this time landing and sending the evil former ring flying back several more feet, flames smoldering all over his body.

Wizzro scowled. "Lucky shot! You're really pushing it now, cat! If you won't die soon, I'll have to employ a new tactic." He said as he summoned another wallmaster hand from his chest.

Narrowing her eyes again, Blaze stood at the hand, a determined look on her face. "I've had just about enough of your games, wizard. This fight ends soon, and you will not be the one who remains in the ring!" She finished as she rushed forward.

Josie cried out in pain as she clutched her knee, a victim of a wrench throw by Wave. She then got up and glared at the purple swallow who didn't seem too threatened by her look.

"Mad? Ha! Too bad! What are you gonna do about it? You can't get me from up here!" Wave taunted.

Josie rolled her eyes, a huge change from her usual shy demeanor. As a matter of fact, Wave had done quite a bit of damage to the Filipina girl, the Josie that was fighting her right now was different then the Josie most people knew.

"Says someone who doesn't even fight on a normal basis!" She yelled. "How about you come down here and fight fair?!"

Almost immediately, she stopped to think about she just said. Was she really saying all this? Why was she saying it? Was Wave really so bad that she decided to stoop to her level? Oh no! She didn't want to give anyone the idea that she was a wolf in sheep's clothing, someone who only pretended to be nice and shy when they were actually a incredibly mean and rude person. No, Josie wasn't like that! She wasn't violent!

Soon, tears began to form in her eyes, which only got worse as she fell to the floor crying. It was now apparent that Josie was back to her normal self.

Seeing all this, Wave could only laugh. "See? You are pathetic! And a waste of a mystery fighter slot! Now hold still!" She called out, throwing her wrench towards Josie once more.

Amidst her crying, Josie heard the wrench coming her way. Letting out a small scream, she quickly moved out of the way. She then noticed it lying a few feet from her, this seemed to snap her back to reality as she scrambled to her feet to grab it.

Seeing that she missed, Wave quickly hovered over to her wrench to pick it up before Josie got it, but it was too late. Josie picked it up, and seeing Wave coming toward her with an angry expression on her face, panicked and promptly threw it over the ropes and out of the ring. (Where it landed in Shadow of Destiny, specifically on top of the head of Eike Kusch.)

Josie watched the wrench disappear only to turn around into the angry face of Wave, who lashed out her foot to give her a kick to the face.

Only Josie managed to catch her foot, and thinking quickly, grabbed Wave's other foot and pulled her off her hoverboard and swung her back-first hard into the ring canvas.

Wave didn't have enough time to retaliate as Josie quickly continued her assault by throwing a couple punches to her face, followed by an elbow to her stomach, sending the mechanic flying a few feet away.

Not ready to lose just yet, Wave summoned her board as Josie approached her once more in hopes of finishing her off.

Jumping onto her board, she began spinning around Josie at incredibly fast speeds. However, Josie saw what she was trying to do and closed her eyes to prevent getting dizzy.

"What good is that gonna do? You can't see me! Not that being able to see would've helped you…" Wave said before laughing, her voice seemingly coming from everywhere, at least to Josie.

Josie knew what she had to do, just punch forward and hope she get's her. Taking a few breaths, she let out a yell as she punched forward….and knocked Wave off her board.

Seizing the opportunity, Josie ran over to where Wave landed and, not wasting a second, picked her up and pitched her out of the ring, Wave's still dazed body disappeared into the portal below.

Wave landed in Shadow of Destiny. Where, like her wrench, she fell on top of Eike Kusch. Getting up, she failed to notice the car coming towards her, which she had unknowingly saved Eike from…..

Josie gave a small, relived smile at her elimination before she realized she didn't finish wiping away all her tears, to which she finally did. Looking around, she decided to make herself scarce so she could calm herself down.

(Announcer's Booth)

Livia shook her head. "Well, that's what happens when you refuse to learn from your mistakes. What did she think was going to happen?" She asked rhetorically.

"Don't worry everyone!" Grey announced. "When she comes back to the arena in ten minutes, our team of doctors will nurse her back to health!"

(The Arena)

Locke let out a tired groan as he ducked under a card slash from Oswald, who then blocked his attempt at countering with another card slash, giving him a cut on his hand.

Ignoring the pain, He rolled out of the way from a downward slash and picked himself up.

"Gotta admit, old man. You're way tougher of an opponent than I thought you would be." Locke noted.

Oswald smirked. "Good, fighting is only something I've just recently returned to, nice to know that I haven't missed a step."

"Yeah, but, your still no match for me." Locke said confidently as he now slashed at Oswald, who deflected it with card.

"Is that so?"

In response, Locke threw his dagger towards Oswald, who merely ducked under the projectile before he threw a card into the air.

Unfortunately for both fighters, neither expected the other's full attack, Oswald was hit by Locke's dagger on it's way back, and Oswald's mid-air card suddenly flew at Locke, giving a slash across his arm this time, this left him too dazed to catch his dagger, which then hit him in the head, which only made his dizziness worse.

Recovering first, Oswald gave a laugh as he drew ten cards and rushed toward the dazed Locke.

With each of the ten cards in his hand, Oswald delivered a powerful slash to Locke, the attack went on until Locke was completely cut up and fell to the floor, defeated.

Satisfied, Oswald was about to boot him out of the ring when a stray Ice Beam hit him in the back, completely freezing him.

The culprit, Porygon-Z floated over and gave something resembling a laugh as it picked up the frozen Oswald with a surprising amount of strength over the elimination portal and dropped him in.

Oswald landed in Poker Night At The Inventory. Needless to say, after he thawed out, he took a seat and swiftly cleaned out every round.

As Porygon-Z floated back over to assist the others with Exdeath, the Villager came over to Locke unconscious body and looked at it confused, as if wondering what to do with it.

Getting an idea, the Villager pulled out two balloons and pieces of string, tying each piece to the balloon.

Then, he walked over to Locke and tied the other ends of the string to his hand, causing him to float up in mid-air and over the ropes, leaving him hovering over the elimination portal.

Getting another idea, the Villager brought out his slingshot and took aim at one of the balloons, popping one.

The sound of the first balloon popping was enough to wake up the Locke, who groaned at the pain he felt all over his body.

"Huh, what?" Locke said groggily as he soon noticed the Villager aiming his slingshot at the other balloon tied around his hand.

Snapping awake, Locke immediately tried to get the Villager to not go through with the shot.

"No! Wait!" Was all Locke could get out as his pleas didn't work, the Villager let go of his slingshot and popped the other balloon. Sending the treasure hunter falling into the elimination portal with no hope of return.

Locke landed in Thief. Being in no condition to fight, he instead elected to hide and wait out the 10 minutes.

Doing a little dance to celebrate his elimination, Villager looked around to see Tingle forcing Hilda out of the ring. (And into Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, where she got pummeled into the ground by Gill.)

Pausing a moment to consider how that was possible, the Villager only shrugged after a bit and went off to start a fight elsewhere.

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

Bison was currently staring at the monitor in his room watching Exdeath fight as he took mental notes of his skill and endurance.

"Hmm…..Very powerful, and can seemingly recover quickly from any attack…" He noted. "Perhaps he could be a potential recruit."

Another knock came at the door as Bison came back from his thoughts.

"Lord Bison?" Said F.A.N.G as he opened the door and poked his head in. "A person by the name of Ultimecia has requested a meeting with you. She, like Mr. Van Roekel says she has a fair amount of people on her side she is willing to employ under our services."

Ultimecia. That name sounded familiar….A Final Fantasy villain? If that was the case, perhaps he could Exdeath on his side after all.

Grinning at this prospect, Bison simply motioned for his second in-command to open the door. "Let her in." He ordered, to which F.A.N.G nodded.

Within a few seconds, in came the haunting form of Ultimecia, Bison motioned for her to take a seat as he eyed her carefully.

Taking a seat, the sorceress was quick to get down to business. "So, Bison. It's come to my attention that you've been herding up all the villains that were invited to this tournament, myself included. May I ask why?"

Bison could only give a small laugh as a response. "It's standard practice to me now, I do this at every tournament I attend. However, this year I've decided to take my time in recruiting others as a way of throwing whatever "heroes" try to stop me off track. They know I'm up to something, so why not throw them off guard?"

"Interesting, a very unique approach, and just what are you planning?" The sorceress inquired.

Bison only waved his hand. "That will be explained once we have everyone we need, which as of now, is only missing you and the villains you have at your side. If I'm not mistake, that includes Exdeath, right?" Bison asked, gesturing towards the monitor.

Ultimecia turned to the monitor and smirked. "Of course he is, I have all the villains in my node wrapped around my finger. There is but one thing I must ask before we reach any sort of deal, what is in it for us?"

"Power. If this process works, I will have control over all that exists. Join me, and I may bestow the power to you." Bison offered.

Ultimecia looked conflicted. "Vague. How exactly do you intend on obtaining power of this caliber?" She asked.

Bison grinned again. "Trust me, it's not a hard task. But, you'll never know for sure if it's to your abilities unless you attend our little meeting.

The sorceress sighed and gave Bison a stern look. "Fine. You twisted my arm. I'll bring everyone except Exdeath, for obvious reasons. But be warned, if this turns out to be a waste of time, I will not hesitate to extract revenge." She warned.

Nodding, Bison simply watched as she got up and headed for the door. "I'm well aware of any potential consequences, Miss Ultimecia." He said, as he flashed another grin. "But, I assure you, this is a cause worth fighting for."

(The Arena)

Mui Mui lashed out with her fist as she attempted to subdue D. Dark by going for this throat, but D. Dark was smarter than this and simply swiped his red shoulder blade out, causing the girl to recoil.

Narrowing her eyes, Mui Mui kicked her leg up and swatted the blade away, before following up with her punch again, this time connecting.

D. Dark choked a bit as he held his throat, this left him open to a series of pokes, followed by a punch to the face.

Recovering, the gas-mask wearer brought out his glowing purple wire and sent it spinning toward's Mui Mui throat as revenge. Only Mui Mui anticipated this and caught it around her arm instead.

What she failed to notice, however, was that this allowed D. Dark to pull her close to him. Doing just that, the former mercenary pulled on the rope and dragged her towards him.

Suddenly, the purple wire starting sparking with electricity, shocking Mui Mui and causing her to cry out in pain, which stopped once D. Dark delivered a kick to the head.

Letting out another giggle, D. Dark was about to finish his downed opponent when he was shot in the back courtesy of Duck Hunt's summoned gunman.

A frustrated growl came from him as he glared daggers at the dog and duck duo. Rushing forward, he gave the two a hard kick, sending them both flying back, but not before the dog sent another can bouncing towards him, it exploding in his face as he took a few steps back, dazed.

Struggling to pick herself up, but eventually doing so, Mui Mui ran as fast as she could to clock D. Dark in the back of the head, only to have him turn and immediately put his hand to her neck.

"Do you really think you could get away with underestimating me? Don't you know what happens to people who underestimate me?" D. Dark chided, before letting go of Mui Mui's neck and uppercuting her, as they were close to the ropes, the girl flew over them and out of the arena.

Mui Mui landed in Cooking Mama. Where she had fun tasting all the food the titular character cooked.

D. Dark nodded to himself. That was one down, and there was only one left to go.

Turning his attention back to the dog, he froze when he saw a Smash Ball clenched with the dogs jaws, all the while, it and the duck on it's back sported an angry glare in their eyes.

The smash ball broke once the dog bit down on it, causing both the dog and duck to glow.

The dog then pointed at D. Dark, as if commanding some invisible force to attack.

At this, the psycho scoffed as he looked around him, thinking it a joke, he rushed forward, only to then be caught and stuck by a flock of pixelated birds.

Landing hard on the ring canvas, D. Dark got up only to see all five of Duck Hunt's gunmen staring him down.

"Oh, great." Was all D. Dark could get out before the gunmen began unloading on him, sending him closer and closer to the ropes.

As the onslaught finished, the dog and duck looked triumphantly at the barely standing D. Dark as the dog let out it's signature laugh, to roaring applause from the crowd.

Getting out a clay pigeon, the dog held it in it's mouth before throwing it, leading it to land in D. Dark's hand.

D. Dark's eyes widened as he realized what was about to happed

On cue, the clay pigeon exploded into pieces, the force of the explosion was enough to send D. Dark over the ropes and into the elimination portal.

D. Dark landed in Mortal Kombat. Where Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and Baraka saw him as a rip-off and took turns beating him down.

The dog then let out it's laugh again, as it looked around and saw Bonus-Kun flipping while engulfed in flames towards Shantotto and sending the small mage out of the ring. (And into Harry Potter, where she quickly proved to be the most powerful magic user there.)

The punching bag gave a sigh. "A pity. That mage could have very easily bested me if she just focused only on that goal. But instead, she let her pride and ego get in the way of victory." He lamented as he shook his head and went off to start another fight.

The duck only slightly tilted it's head in confusion before he saw Tingle coming over, likely looking for a fight…..

Nagase and Jun traded blows as Jun tried to get her ribbon back. But Nagase was still insistent on her being defeated at Jun's hand before giving it back.

"Why are you even doing this? We need to focus on beating that giant knight!" Jun exclaimed, pointing towards Exdeath.

Nagase scoffed and rolled her eyes. "More like YOU gotta focus on beating that giant knight. You think I'm wasting all my energy on getting rid of one person? Nuh-uh, no way, I'm gonna conserve my energy so I can survive until the end thank you very much."

"But that isn't the right thing to do!" Jun insisted.

Nagase simply shrugged. "Who cares, this isn't stupid, it's being smart. At least, if you actually care about winning. Besides, it's not actually hard to beat that guy, those idiots will figure it out eventually."

Jun only sighed as she got out her yo-yo. "Looks like theirs only one way I'm gonna be able to go help out the Pokémon…"

While this was happening, two katanas clashed with each other, one normal and the other glowing a variety of different colors, but currently was on red.

Rosa gritted her teeth as she tried to gain the upper hand, but Hayate was just as determined as her, and so far there seemed to be no clear winner.

"I must admit, for being someone from a node such as yours, you are quite determined." Hayate commented, somewhat impressed.

Rosa smirked. "Thanks. I plan on impressing the host with my skills, as the rest of my nodal companions also look to do, when we received the invites, we were warned that we were already in danger of being cut from the roster for the next tournament unless we do well."

"Well, as much as I would like to help, I'm afraid you'll have to actually best me if you want that elimination."

Realizing she was starting to win, Rosa's smirk grew as she drove her knee into the descendant of the original Hayate's stomach, sending him to the floor. Seeing him trying to get up, the swordswoman drove the handle of her katana into his head, keeping him down.

Laughing triumphantly, Rosa raised her sword to deal the finishing blow when a yo-yo suddenly wrapped around her leg, Ross stared bleakly at it for a second, before it began sparking, shocking her and bringing her to one knee.

Jun, who had intended to wrap her yo-yo around Nagase and shock her, could only detach it and quickly rush over apologizing.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I was aiming for that ninja and she moved out of the way, and well…." She trailed off, as she noticed both Rosa and Hayate's less than sympathetic looks.

"How about you keep your weapons within your own battle?" Hayate asked as he got up, agitated.

"Great. I had him until you intervened. Now, I'll make you pay for-ACK!" Rosa said as she was kicked in to face by Nagase.

"How about you just be grateful she gave you a chance to take advantage?" Nagase questioned, pointed towards Hayate.

"Because I have more honor than you, If I was defeated, so be it. I lost. I would be impressed to have lost to someone who hails from a node like Kizuna Encounter." Hayate explained. "Besides, this doesn't concern you."

Nagase smirked, before she turned towards a recovering Rosa, and then back to Jun.

"How about we catch them by surprise? You take Rainbow Katana, I'll take Kizuna Encounter here." She proposed.

Jun gave another sigh. "Seems like their both equally mad, and they won't stop unless defeated or victorious, so…..yeah, sure."

"Alright, let's do this!" Nagase said excitedly before she immediately taken aback by Rosa roaring and rushing towards her.

With barely enough time, Nagase held up her ninjato to block the blow, but was caught off guard again by Rosa's determination as she was quickly put on the losing side of the struggle.

"You will both pay for interrupting! Once I'm done with you, I'll go for bird-girl and eliminate her next!" Rosa yelled as she pushed her swords further down towards Nagase, furthering her advantage state.

But, Nagase's surprised look quickly came back as she started fighting back harder, eventually making the struggle equal again.

"Is that so? Well, I'm afraid that won't be happening because…" Nagase started before kicking Rosa's leg, once again putting her to one knee.

Her smirk growing, Nagase kicked her opponent across the face a few times before stepping back.

"Time to end this!" She proclaimed.

Grabbing Rosa's arm, Nagase leapt high into the air before flipping her and Rosa so that they were facing the canvas.

Nagase then began spinning as they both fell headfirst into the ground, effectively piledriving Rosa into it.

Getting up from her attack, the ninja looked towards Rosa, who at first tried to get back up, only to collapse back to the canvas.

"Your determined. I'll give you that." Nagase said as she lifted Rosa up and threw her out of the ring.

Rosa landed in Galaxy Fight. Where she sparred with Roomi for the next 10 minutes.

Turning towards Jun, Nagase saw her also throwing Hayate out of the ring. (And also into Galaxy Fight. Where he made the 1v1 a three-way brawl.)

"Was he hard?"

Jun nodded. "Yeah, but, thankfully my yo-yo came in handy."

"Well, wanna finish fighting?"

Another nod came from Jun. "I still need my ribbon back, so of course."

(Announcer's Booth)

Livia watched Rosa getting eliminated and deciding to compliment her performance. "Well, she never gave up and in turn gave a solid effort."

"Yeah, and she had Hayate eliminated before Jun's accidental interference. So, yeah, like you said, solid effort."

Livia nodded. "Hopefully the rest of the Kizuna Encounter node will do as well as this or better."

(The Arena)

"Hadouken"

Fault Zone barely had enough time to roll out of the way as the fireball from Ken sailed past her.

Not missing a beat, Ken launched another one at her, which she again barely managed to avoid.

Ken gave a smug grin at the Imperfect as he watched her scramble to avoid his projectiles "Ha! Can't kick me now, huh? Sucks to suck! Get a new fighting style, loser!" Ken said as he began running towards the former ballerina and, when close enough, leapt into the air and began spin kicking, sending her flying when the attack was done.

Landing hard on the canvas, Fault Zone groggily looked up to see Ken fast approaching. Thinking quickly, she spun her legs around once Ken was close enough, getting him caught and sweeping him off his feet.

Getting up, she was about to continue her attack when Ken sat up and blasted her with another Hadouken, sending her flying back further.

Rolling back onto her feet, she began realizing that she was now mostly outmatched unless she used seismic accelerators. She sighed, she had hoped to be able to save them for larger opponents, but now it appeared she had no choice.

"Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!" Ken yelled as he began spin kicking once more, this time though his kicks were charged with flames.

"Now!" Fault Zone yelled. Her arms started to glow green as two long needle-like limbs appeared in place of them. Holding them up in defense, Ken's foot collided with the needle arms, and successfully deflected his kick. Quickly twirling back, and going to defense again, Fault Zone did this for each spinning kick Ken gave.

Landing on the ground, seeing his attack failed to leave an impact, Ken growled and threw his fist forward, only to have his punch deflected like his kicks, this time with Fault Zone's metallic leg.

"This fight is over." Fault Zone said. As she then leapt into the air, her seismic accelerators glowing green like they did when they first appeared.

Ken didn't have any time to counter as Fault Zone stabbed the ground under him, causing a small earthquake to erupt underneath, the force from it was enough to send him into the air, where a mid-air kick was all it took to send him out of the ring with no hope of return.

Ken landed in Left 4 Dead. Unfortunately right next to a certain crying zombie….

"Victory!" Fault Zone cheered as she did a celebratory dance for her elimination, finishing with a bow.

Once finished, she decided to take a moment to relax and headed toward a corner and jumped onto a turnbuckle and observed the fights around her.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of a yell, and saw Blaze launching an huge stream of fire towards Wizzro, the former evil ring didn't have time to react and took the attack head on, launching him clear out of the ring.

"Hmm, she reminds me a bit of Solara with her ability to use fire." She said, impressed. Electing not to rest yet, she ran toward the cat, a desire to spar on her mind.

Wizzro landed in The Wolf Among Us. Specifically during the fight between Bigby and Bloody Mary, where he proved a surprisingly dangerous adversary for the two.

Bégoniax stabbed her fork forward, intent on squiring Menat, but the Egyptian girl simply spun out of the way and thrust her crystal ball forward, clocking her in the face.

Recovering, the witch pulled out a potion and smashed it on the ground next to Menat, but again, she dodged the attack and got Bégoniax in the face.

"You're annoying me, little girl!" She said, still recovering from the hit.

"I'm sorry, but I must end this fight so I could help that brown-haired prince with the dark warlock, and to do that you must be eliminated." Menat said flatly.

Bégoniax simply offered a taunting laugh in response. "You really are confident you can win this fight, huh? What, do you know that you win since you can see the future?"

Menat shook her head. "It's not clear, but I do believe what is going to happen to you will cause your elimination, and I believe it will be by my hand."

"You sure it's not YOUR elimination your seeing?" She asked in a mocking manner as she brought her fork down to the girl, who simply used her ball to deflect it.

Menat sighed as Bégoniax recovered once more. She was getting nowhere, this fight was one-sided, anything Bégoniax threw at her, she could simply use her ball to stop it. She needed to end this fight and go help Tilkis and the Pokémon with Exdeath.

Summoning four magic purple orbs to her side, she intended to hurl them all at the witch and finish her off with one more crystal ball strike, until she gasped as she turned to look at the stand against Exdeath.

Exdeath, having had enough of not doing anything and simply absorbing hits, decided to finally act, he brought his sword down really hard against the canvas, causing the entire ring to shake and creating a small shockwave that knocked those closest to him back a bit.

Tilkis, who had tried his best to stay on his feet, regained his composure and rushed Exdeath again.

"You still stand? Hmph, regardless this game is over for you, mortal!" Exdeath yelled as he got ready.

"We'll see about that, warlock!" Tilkis bravely proclaimed as he charged forward.

As brave as it was, Tilkis' lone attempt was in vain. Exdeath charged his sword and effortlessly swatted Tilkis away….and flying towards Bégoniax.

Bégoniax, about to go over and continue her fight, saw him flying over and remembered what he did. Smirking darkly, she caught him in her hand.

Tilkis could only give a defeated look at the witch who he inadvertently set off by simply attacking her.

"I'm gone, aren't I?" He said, dejected.

"Yes." Bégoniax said, smiling as she threw him out of the ring.

Tilkis landed in Dead or Alive Extreme 2. Where he spent the entire 10 minutes hiding out and reminding himself that he was taken.

Bégoniax laughed in victory as she turned over to where Menat was.

Only to see her looking determinately towards Exdeath, without even looking, she threw each of the four purple orbs at her, dazing her, before finally throwing her magic-charged ball at the witch. Causing Bégoniax to tumble over the ropes and out of the arena.

Bégoniax landed in Banjo-Kazooie. Where she argued with Gruntilda over methods of how to obtain beauty.

Menat was about to go over and help, before she gasped again, not long after, she smiled and gave a smirk at the then downed Pokémon and Dark Pit.

"Good job, guys." Menat said for some reason, giving a thumbs up as she decided to go rest on a turnbuckle.

Exdeath laughed as he looked at the downed fighters around him, wondering who to eliminate first.

"You all thought you could defeat me? How pathetic! Perhaps uniting as one like you had intended would have allowed you to stand a chance! But look, I've won, and this entire tournament will soon follow!"

Seeing some fighters getting up again. Exdeath simply brought his sword down again, which again caused the ring to shake, and kept anyone from getting up, well, almost everyone….

Meloetta recovered quick enough to float upward and save herself from Exdeath's attack, glaring daggers at him, the legendary Pokémon lashed out her hands, sending a huge ball of energy at Exdeath. Which was enough to cause him to fall to one knee as he recovered.

"It appears you underestimate us, you don't use your full power because you don't think we're worth your time. Well, I'm afraid that was a BIG mistake! As well will all now show you! Heal Pulse!"

Meloetta said, though Exdeath couldn't understand her. She then turned to her 3 allies and sent a wave of healing magic over them, immediately allowing them to recover.

"Let's finish this fiend before he can finish us! Focus Blast!" Meloetta said as she launched another energy ball at Exdeath as he recovered, putting him down to one knee once more.

"Electroshock!" Dark Pit said as he uppercuted Exdeath while wearing a huge mechanical arm that seemed to be pulsing with electricity.

Taking his turn, Porygon-Z summoned thunder bolts that struck Exdeath even further.

Exdeath couldn't believe it, he was almost beaten! Th-This wasn't supposed to happen! How could these pathetic fools snatch light from nothing but shadow?!

"Im-Impossible! I can't be beaten by a bunch of small creatures! This doesn't make any sense!" He loudly said in denial, as he now struggled to get back to his feet.

Unfortunately, Porygon-Z, not wanting his healing to ruin this chance, charged up an Ice Beam and fired, freezing the warlock in place.

"You should have done something when you had the chance. Like use some of those spells you had at the ready, but you didn't. And for that, we well claim victory on this day! Now, Staraptor!" Meloetta exclaimed.

As if on cue, Staraptor nodded and began flying towards the frozen Exdeath at an incredibly high speed, and only grew faster as he drew closer. A determined look on his face.

Using Brave Bird, Staraptor crashed into Exdeath, breaking the ice and sending the warlock tumbling over the ropes.

"NOT POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEE!" Exdeath screamed as he fell into the portal.

Exdeath landed in Soul Calibur. Where he had a huge battle with Nightmare that almost destroyed the arena they fought on.

Quickly using Heal Pulse to heal Staraptor, Meloetta floated down to the ground as she pondered the future she now saw for herself.

"Perhaps it's for the best, I made a goal before it happened, and I accomplished that goal. So, now to accept my fate." Meloetta said calmly as she turned around.

"Electroshock!"

And was immediately met with an uppercut courtesy of Dark Pit, sending her flying out of the ring almost too easily.

Meloetta landed in the world of Vocaloid. Where she performed alongside Hatsune Miku on stage, singing to the crowd.

"Even if I helped, I still told you I would send you out of here, and I'm an angel of my word." He said smugly. "Now, where's that other Poké…mon?" He said as he turned around and saw Staraptor and Porygon-Z glaring at him angrily.

"Well, I found them." Was all he could say before he got his blades out.

(Announcer's Booth)

"Is it me, or are they almost a perfect match?" Grey asked as he watched Miku and Meloetta perform.

"No, you're not the only one." Livia said, also watching, except looking a bit more uncomfortable.

(The Arena)

Tingle laughed as he swung his bag toward Duck Hunt, who ducked under the swings and threw a can out toward the delusioned tiny man.

However, Tingle caught the can and gave another laugh. "Oh! Dog and Duck want to place catch? Okay, Tingle play along! Catch!" He said as he threw the can back at the duo.

Panicking, the dog swatted it away, where it exploded harmlessly on the ground. Deciding to try a new tactic, the dog summoned a gunmen, who shot at Tingle.

Tingle, however, noticed the weird look of the gunmen and thought it to be a cutout. Taking his bag out again, he slapped it across the gunmen's face, turning him around and causing him to fire at Duck Hunt instead, to which they again dodged the attack.

In it's head, the dog cursed itself for using his smash ball this early, and he wasn't gonna get another one for the rest of the tournament.

Tingle saw the dog looking down and mistook it for sadness. Getting out a balloon, he skipped toward the dog with the intent of giving it to the dog.

However, he didn't account for how big the balloon was compared to him, and soon began floating up in the air, letting out a tired groan as this happened.

"Dog and Duck! Help! Help get Tingle down!" Tingle pleaded, looking down.

Snapping him out of his thoughts, the duck pointed up towards where Tingle was dangling from the end of his balloon. Realizing what this meant, the dog got out a clay pigeon and threw it upward.

The clay pigeon didn't get high enough to Tingle, however, and exploded several feet from him, causing him to float a few feet further away.

Seeing the attempt fail, Tingle looked up at the balloon he was dangling in thought. Getting an idea, but not sure how it would end, Tingle slowly put his finger up to the balloon.

Gulping, he pushed his finger forward and poked a hole in the balloon, which somehow didn't cause it to pop.

Suddenly, Tingle began flying all around the arena, causing some fighters to stop and stare at this display, including Duck Hunt.

Soon, he began running out of air and also began moving closer to the ground with each second.

Even worse, he was falling straight towards Duck Hunt, who both realized too late that they had to move out of the way.

Tingle crashed right into them, the force of the blow being enough to send the duo sliding under the ropes.

Duck Hunt landed back in well….Duck Hunt. They then used their various moves to make the game harder, giving more opportunities to laugh at the player.

Ralf looked around, doing a head count and realizing only three more people needed to be eliminated for the next section to begin.

"Where's that swan girl? Me and her never got to finish our fight."

Seeing her fighting Nagase, Ralf smirked as he smacked his fist into his open palm.

"Time to kill two birds with one stone." Ralf said coolly.

Rushing over, Ralf ignited his fist and sent it in the direction of Jun, who caught it and pushed him back.

"Oh, you. I take it you want to continue our fight?"

"Yep." Was all Ralf said.

Nagase, frustrated, sent a wave of fire towards Ralf who simply sidestepped the attack.

"Thought that was gonna catch me off guard, huh?"

"No, this was!" Nagase shouted as she kicked Ralf hard in the face, before sending a fireball straight into his face.

Jun followed the attack by using her yo-yo, she wrapped it around his leg as he was flying, causing him to stop and hit the ground hard.

Getting up, he saw Jun running toward him and sent out his foot, catching her in the chest.

Re-igniting his fist again, he was about to hopefully connect this time until Nagase sent another firewave at him, as he was focused on Jun, he didn't see it and took it straight in the legs.

This gave Jun enough time to recover, getting out her yo-yo again, she wrapped it around Ralf once more and shocked him.

Now getting out a few explosives, she threw each of them onto the Ikari Warrior who could only watch in silent defeat as he was still wrapped in Jun's yo-yo string.

"Dangit." Was all Ralf could mutter as the explosives around him activated, Jun unhooked her yo-yo from him as it happened, launching him over the ropes and into the elimination portal.

Ralf landed in SMG4. Swagmaster saw him, and, somehow mistaking him for Greg, promptly opened fire on him with his gun.

Watching Ralf get eliminated. Nagase came over to Jun with a unsure look on her face.

"Now, I take it they'll be no more distractions?" Nagase questioned.

"I hope so, maybe now we'll be able to finish our fight."

"Good, at least for now I suppose." She said as the two continued sparring.

(Dome; Hallways)

Ash growled as he sent another fireball out at Juri, who simply swatted it away with a kick. Growling once more at this, he elected to try again. Although he knew that was futile at this point.

"Come on! Is this really all you got?! For someone who had stolen the powers of two incredibly powerful KOF fighters, I expected more!" Juri taunted.

Ash shook his head, trying to ignore her. He then began to ponder his situation, what was he going to do? For the past several minutes he had been trying to create an opening for himself using fireballs, to no avail. If he knew any better, he would have just given up, but the money was too entrancing to him, he had to get that money, but how?

That's when he realized it, he had been trying to find a way to approach her using hand-to-hand combat, knowing he would likely lose. But how about trying to make her approach him?

Smirking, he then made the fireball currently in his hand disappear as he got up.

"Heh, so, electing to not fight me proper? What's the matter, afraid you're outclassed?" He questioned in a mocking manner.

Juri saw right through his ruse, growling to play along, she suddenly sprang to life and gave the Frenchman a hard kick to the face, following it up with a sweeping kick, then delivering another kick to the face while Ash was still in mid-air, sending him flipping face-first to the floor.

Taken aback, but still not giving up, Ash quickly recovered and raced forward, this time dodging Juri's kick and retaliating with a punch to the face, followed by a hard kick to the leg. Which was enough to down her to the floor.

Growling and trying to ignore the pain, Juri was about to use her other leg to kick Ash away, until Ash sent two fireballs from both hands to her good leg, this time actually making her cry out in pain.

Ash laughed as he leaned in closer to Juri. "What's the matter? Your main sources of attack out of commission? Pity!" Ash taunted, before once more targeting Juri's legs, sending kick and fireball after kick and fireball to them.

Smiling, Juri once again soldiered through the pain as she leaned upward and gave a headbutt to Ash, sending him back a few feet, Juri then fought through the pain once more as she stood up and gave a punch to the prettyboy's face.

"You think just because my fighting style revolves around kick's doesn't mean I can't fight with anything else?! Ha! You misjudge me." Juri said, the pain in her legs showed as she struggled to get every word out.

Ash scoffed as he then threw a kick to his own as form of surprise, only Juri saw this coming and caught his leg, pulled both it and Ash toward her, and then finally hooked her leg against Ash's other leg and pulled her leg up, once again sweeping him off his feet and sending him to the floor.

Ash tried to get up, but Juri kicked him back to the floor, leapt onto his body and put her foot to his head, holding it down.

"Eh, you had the right idea. But pain is something I've learned you have to just power through." She said weirdly calmly as she then brought her leg up, then back down hard on Ash's forehead, knocking him out.

Confirming he was out cold, Juri stepped off the downed Ash and started walking to her original destination before Ash interupted, the gym.

"Well, Bison. I defeated the first of your little jobbers, if this is how you want to play. Then I'll play along for now. Besides, once I'm through with everyone your sending after me, You and Seth are next." She said, giving a small laugh.

(The Arena)

Porygon-Z raced around the ring with an excited Sasquatch in tow, desperately trying to get away from the white snow creature.

Not wanting to stop for a second, the manmade Pokémon wondered how he got into this situation. He had just been with Staraptor helping to fight Dark Pit for Meloetta's elimination when suddenly Sasquatch walked by, made some kind of excited and curious laugh, and now here he was, trying to shake him off.

He needed to get rid of this thing, but how? He didn't want to risk getting caught, and if he stopped to use an attack, that would surely be the result.

What Porygon-Z didn't notice though was that while he was thinking, he had slowed down considerably, allowing Sasquatch to catch up, and soon enough catch him.

Smiling, the yeti let out a satisfied laugh as he glomped the poor Pokémon, who tried to desperately to escape his clutches.

"I must divert his attention! That'll give me time to charge up an attack!" Porygon-Z said as he struggled to get himself free.

Eventually, managed to free enough of himself to use a move, he aimed up at one of the light's for the entire arena and fired an Ice Beam at it.

Controlling the shape of what form the ice took, Porygon-Z managed to create a very long special chandelier made entirely of ice, and with the light shining through it made the whole thing even more nice-looking.

Seeing it, Sasquatch let out a happy yell as he tossed Porygon-Z aside to go get a closer look.

His plan having worked, Porygon-Z floated a few feet back, knowing he likely didn't have much time. He then began charging up one more attack, one that took longer than most to charge up.

Sasquatch turned back around to see this, and letting out another noise that sounded like it was dripping with curiosity, began making his way toward the Pokémon.

"Almost there…." Porygon-Z said to himself as Sasquatch drew ever closer.

The charging for the attack finished. Porygon-Z let it loose, firing a huge beam of energy at the yeti, who took the attack head on, and, you guessed it, went soaring over the ropes with no chance of returning.

Sasquatch landed in Where The Wild Things Are. Needless to say, he fit right in.

Porygon-Z gave a nod to his second elimination before quickly going back to help Staraptor with Dark Pit.

Meanwhile, Josie, having spent the section observing the fights around her once she calmed down after the fight, did a head count and saw only one more person had to be eliminated for the section to end. Excited, she turned her attention towards one fight in particular.

Blaze sent out a fireball towards Fault Zone, but the former ballerina twirled out of the way before leaping forward and stabbed the feet under her.

Lucky for Blaze, she had managed to backflip out of the way in time and give Fault Zone an upward kick to the chin, causing her to fall back.

Not one to go down so easily, Fault Zone swung forward, clipping Blaze in the legs and sending her falling backwards into the canvas.

Kipping herself up off the ground, Blaze launched another fireball and this time, actually caught Fault Zone, who could barely keep herself up after the attack.

"I must say, you are quite the opponent." Fault Zone said as she regained her composure.

Blaze only smirked as she ran forward, but Fault Zone caught her by surprise when she motioned to stab the ground again, only to stop just before she hit the ground and gave Blaze a kick to the face.

Smirking, she followed up with a proper ground stab, this time catching Blaze with the force of the impact and sending back down hard on the canvas.

Unsure of if she was down or not, Fault Zone approached with caution, when she saw Blaze unmoving, she was still unsure of if she was playing possum or not.

She got her answer when Blaze sprang to life and thrust her knee forward, but the dancer was ready for and caught her, hanging her upside down by the leg.

"Thought you could get the better of me with that old trick? Well, I'm afraid that won't be so simple." She said as she headed towards the ropes.

Blaze finally spoke up. "Yes, admittedly. But, I'm not done yet!"

Using her free leg to try and give a kick to the face, but that was in vain as Fault Zone caught that too and left her dangling with seemingly no way out.

Or so one would think, Blaze than put her hands on the ground and with a surprising amount of strength, managed to roll both her and Fault Zone forward. She rolled the both of them until Fault Zone was the one facing upward.

"You are a worthy opponent, perhaps we can fight again sometime?" Blaze said cheerily as she thrust her legs forward, effectively kicking Fault Zone onto the top rope, said rope ended up moving down and back up by the sudden weight on it, flipping the former ballet dancer over them and into the portal below.

Fault Zone landed in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum. Where she proved herself to be an incredible dancer, even by the Director's immensely high standards.

Realizing that the number of fighters that needed to be eliminated was reached, Blaze looked around at the remaining ones. Josie and Menat were both resting on turnbuckles likely gathering themselves, Tingle was happily skipping about without a care in the world, Staraptor and Porygon-Z were still sparring with Dark Pit, as was Nagase and Jun, Villager was swinging around a net trying to catch butterflies (Where they came from Blaze had no idea.), and finally, Bonus-Kun was simply staring up at the entrance curtain looking determined.

Blaze noticed the crowd began cheering again as the spotlight shone on the entrance curtain, signifying the start of the next section, and in turn, the entrance of the next batch of fighters.

FINAL SCORE: (10 votes on the main fight and 10 on the Side Match)

(Live Votes: Die Votes) = Final Score

BLAZE THE CAT (StH) (10:0) = 10 (Wizzro, Fault Zone)

TINGLE (HW) (8:2) 6 = (Hilda the Paradox, Duck Hunt)

JUN THE SWAN (TAS) (8:2) = 6 (Hayate, Ralf Jones)

PORYGON-Z (PKMN) (7:3) = 4 (Oswald, Sasquatch)

DARK PIT (SSB) (7:3) = 4 (Meloetta)

BONUS-KUN (WW7) (7:3) = 4 (Shantotto)

VILLAGER (SSB) (7:3) = 4 (Locke Cole)

NAGASE (KOF:MI2) (7:3) = 4 (Rosa)

STARAPTOR (PKMN) (7:3) = 4 (Exdeath)

MENAT (SFV) (6:4) = 2 (Bégoniax)

JOSIE RIZAL (T7) (6:4) = 2 (Wave the Swallow)

(ELIMINATED)

DUCK HUNT (SSB) (5:5) = 0 (Doctrine Dark)

DOCTRINE DARK (FEXL) = 0 (5:5) (Mui Mui)

BÉGONIAX (RM) (5:5) = 0 (Tilkis Barone)

FAULT ZONE (MN:ROTI) (5:5) = 0 (Ken Masters)

ROSA (KE) (5:5) = 0

TILKIS BARONE (TotT) (5:5) = 0

EXDEATH (DFFNT) (4:6) = -2

MELOETTA (PKMN) (4:6) = -2

LOCKE COLE (DFFNT) (4:6) = -2

KEN MASTERS (SFV) (4:6) = -2

SASQUATCH (DS) (4:6) = -2

RALF JONES (KOFXIV) (4:6) = -2

WIZZRO (HW) (4:6) = -2

WAVE THE SWALLOW (StH) (3:7) = -4

HILDA THE PARADOX (UNI-B) (3:7) = -4

OSWALD (KOFXIV) (2:8) = -6

MUI MUI (KOFXIV) (2:8) = -6

HAYATE (FEXL) (2:8) = -6

SHANTOTTO (DFFNT) (0:10) = -10

SIDE BATTLE:

"Juri's Gauntlet: Match 1"

JURI (SFV) defeats ASH CRIMSON (KOF)

9 to 1

A Smashing Start: All three Super Smash Bros representatives got an elimination this section, in spite of Duck Hunt not surviving.

Oh, And Another Rule: In case your wondering how I determine ties, I give it to the fighters who came out later rather than earlier.