Chapter 7: The Last Four Matches for Bout 2

The lunch break was about to start. Since Teeko thought the first four matches for bout 2 was a pretty good showdown, he decided to offer them a pizza party, full of the latest pizza from his own resturant called Teeko's Pizza Cavern. When everybody arrived at the lunch room, they were stunned to see all that pizza.

"Oh, wow!" Cream exclaimed. "All this pizza for a battle well done?"

"Yep. You all have been rewarded a pizza party for your efforts." Teeko replied. "Plus, the pizza came from my resturant."

"YOU own a resturant, doc?" Bugs asked.

"It's called 'Teeko's Pizza Cavern'. Where the latest pizza can last you a happy lifetime."

"Catchy catch phrasthe." Daffy said as he took his seat.

"There's enough pizza for all of you. So, dig in and enjoy yourselves." Lawrence flew in Teeko's face with a look of total concern. "Lawrence, what seems to be the matter?"

"It's Lexi Bunny, sir. Lola must've hypnotized her to make herself extremely weak instead of knocking her out." Lawrence replied. Teeko's eyes grew wide.

"WHAT?" He waddled fast towards Lexi, who was in a hospital bed with a white bandage wrap around her head, having her ears out. "Lexi, I settled you up for the next bout. What happened here?"

"It seems Lola's knowledge is stronger than I thought. I must've slammed my head instead of hitting it." Lexi replied.

"Now what do I do? Do we even have another girl available to replace Lexi?"

"We could have Kunimitsu replace Lexi, sir." Lawrence suggested. Teeko sighed.

"Oh, alright. I suppose that'll do." He slowly waddled back to the lunch room, where everybody was taking one pizza slice after another. He noticed Bugs, Lola, and Buzz weren't eating. He waddled up to them in wonder.

"How come you three aren't eating my fabulous pizza?" He asked.

"We're vegetarians, Teeko." Lola replied in a bored voice.

"Oh. That's right. You're rabbits. Well, that's why I ordered side salads for you three." He held out a plate full of salad goodness. "Here's my complimentary tossed salad deluxe for the three rabbits."

"What happened to Lexi?" Buzz asked.

"She's a bit groggy from that fight. I scheduled her to fight in the next bout, but it seems the klunk on the head was more than just a klunk on the head."

"You mean, you replaced her?" Lola asked.

"Yes. Kunimitsu is taking Lexi's place and fights Mighty."

"She's won a fight against Stitch, so I know she'll win against an armadillo." Bugs complied.

"I'm sure she will, too."

Later, after the lunch, bathroom, and rest break…

"Alright people, this bout is beginning to come to a close after these last four fights." Teeko started. "I'll announce the recent winners after bout 3. For now, let's begin with Yoshi versus Bowser Jr. You two get into the ring to begin your match."

The two did so. They walked into the ring to begin the batch, but before Teeko announced them to start, he wanted to add a little twist.

"Let's let these two fight Super Smash Bros. style." He said as he pressed a red button. It transformed the arena to Fox McCloud's Spaceship roof. "Ready? BEGIN!"

Bowser Jr. started by rolling into his spiked shell ball towards Yoshi. He jumped out of the way and stuck his sticky tongue out and took the smaller version of Bowser into his mouth as a Yoshi egg came out of his rear end. The egg shook for a moment, showing that Bowser Jr. was trying to free himself. As he was, Yoshi saw a hammer come out of the sky and he grabbed it just in time for Bowser Jr. to finally hatch. The hammer automatically started banging while the little hammer tune from Donkey Kong began to play.

Meanwhile in the lobby…

"More delays? I can't believe it!" Lawrence blurted out in Teeko's ear.

"What happened this time?" The giant bat asked.

"I just received word from the Soulblade Headquarters. They said that Seung Mina and Li Long had to leave for an important purpose. It seems like they'll never come back."

"But, they're in for the 3rd bout shortly after these last four battles for Bout 2. Luckily, we have plenty of males to replace Li Long, but it seems like we're out of available ladies. What do we do?"

"We'll have to find something… and I just noticed. Kunimitsu is already up for fighting Big the Cat."

"Don't we have NiGHTS available?"

"She's fighting Sonic."

"And Lola's…"

"…fighting Vector the Crocodile."

"Shoot! We need one more female!"

"Cream's not up for a battle for the next bout. You could have her to replace Seung Mina in the battle against Kixx."

"But, she already fought Yaarp."

"She's the only female available."

"But, what about…"

"Chun-Li? She's fighting Jax."

"Ohhh! Okay, Cream then. Cream! Come here, please!"

Cream stood up and walked up to Teeko, who held the Bout 3 list in his hand and handed it to her.

"What's this for, Teeko?" She asked.

"It seems as though the Soul Calibur/Soulblade committee is having an important assignment on their hands and they had to be disqualified from the tournament. I need a second opinion. Who do you think should replace Li Long for the battle against Karin in Bout 3?" He explained. Cream thought for a moment.

"What about Splodyhead? He hasn't fought anybody yet." She replied.

"Same for the other experiments."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is the ones such as Sparky, Sample, Splodyhead, Plasmoid, Stitch, Yang, Deforestator, Yin, and Kixx are coming here to fight. The others, including Babyfier, Holio, Richter, Phantasmo, and Spooky, are here just to be part of my dragon audience."

"Ohhhh! Good thing I chose Splodyhead."

"Yes. I must agree. So, here's what I want you to do: I want you to scratch out Li Long's name in the Bout 3 list and write Splodyhead's name in that place. Then, I want you to cross out Seung Mina's name and write in yours."

"Me? Against Kixx this time?"

"Yes, but this time, you'll have hand-to-hand combat."

"Phew!"

Be sure to place the roster back on the board when you're done."

"Okay." She walked over to the bulletin board and pinned the roster back on it just in time for Teeko to announce the winner on Yoshi and Bowser Jr.'s fight.

"It looks like Bowser Jr. is the winner! Congradulations… but, ew! He sure did some mighty fine damage to Yoshi. Looks like he's disqualified as well."

"You mean he actually killed Yoshi!" Lawrence exclaimed. Teeko miraculously shook his head.

"No. Yoshi's unconcious, but the deep, bloody wounds he has from Bowser Jr. are quite strict. He'll have to rest with Lexi."

"That's a relief."

Right on cue, Bowser Jr. came in with the unconcious Yoshi in his arms. Lawrence picked up the Yoshi with his claws as he carried him to the recovery room to heal and rest with Lexi. He laid him in the next bed to the right of her.

"Teeko, I'll bandage his wounds while you keep the tournment going." He said from the room as the giant bat nodded.

"Very well. Congradulations, Bowser Jr.! You've moved on to the semi-final round, which is also known as Bout 4."

"Thanks, Mr. Teeko." The smaller Bowser replied as he walked back to his dad, which was the real Bowser himself.

"He didn't really have to call me 'Mr. Teeko', but okay. Anyway, Crash Bandicoot and Dingodile, please report to the arena to begin your match."

"It's about time, mate." Dingodile said in his Austrailian accent as he stood up. "I show that crazy bandicoot not to mess with me!"

"Dream on, Dingo-Drip!" Crash yelled back as he followed. As they arrived at the center of the arena, Teeko beeped in.

"Are you two ready?" He asked. They both nodded simultaneously. "BEGIN!"

"Looks like you don't have your fire gun, Dingo!" Crash teased. "What are ya gonna do now, huh?"

"I'll make this fight interesting, mate!" Dingodile replied as he pulled out a remote control and pressed the red button. It made a boxing ring rise up from under their feet through a trap door. When the ring was in it's complete position, stools appeared. One in one corner and the other in another corner across from the first. A pair of blue gloves was at Crash's stool while Dingodile's green boxing gloves was at his stool. Each of them had a tall waterbottle full of ice cold, clear, and clean water as well.

In the lobby…

Everybody was shocked to see this boxing ring in the middle of the arena, including Teeko and Lawrence.

"What the…?" Teeko sputtered out in shock. Lawrence just froze in his flying in mid-air as he watched.

Back in the ring…

The green baby dinosaur, from the "Crash Bandicoot: Warped" level called 'Dino Might!', was setting Crash up for battle by putting his boxing gloves on. Dingodile had nobody to back him up, knowing that he didn't need any help as he placed his own gloves on his hands.

"Let's do this." He said to himself as he stood up and punched his fists together. Crash walked towards the center just as soon as the starting bell rang.

Dingodile ran up to the orange marsupial and gave him a good socker punch right in the mouth. Then, Crash tried to punch back, but Dingodile blocked it and punched again. The crowd geered at the sight of this. Crash's mouth was bleeding as he regained himself. Dingodile was chuckling to himself as he just stood there.

"How do explain that, mate!" He asked with evil in his voice. Then, Crash gave off an unexpected blow and punched the Austrailian accented beast vigoriously in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. As he was holding his stomach in pain, Crash snuck an uppercut under his chin and knocked Dingodile to the floor, unconcious. There was no referee on the ring, so Teeko volunteered to do the counting from the PA.

"And Dingodile is down! One… two… three…" Dingodile began to move a little as Teeko continued to count. "…five… six… seven…" Dingodile pushed himself up slowly to his feet. "OHHHHH! Dingodile is on his feet! Unbelieveable!"

The crowd roared as he said this. They were really getting into the action. Dingodile was groggy, but he still hung in there. Crash had a full advantage this time, seeing that Dingodile was extremely groggy and wobbly. As the Austrailian beast swung to punch Crash, he completely missed most of the time. Finally, when Dingodile got close enough to set a punch to Crash's jaw, he counter-attacked by punching him back across the face, then giving extermely fast multiple punches under his chin. At this rate, Dingodile was outmatched.

"It seems like Dingodile has had his bragging rights come to an expired rate!" Teeko announced as the action was going on.

Crash finally stopped his punches and allowed Dingodile to wobble for a minute before he collasped to the floor again on his back. The crowd roared as Teeko announced the count.

"One… two… three… four… five… six… seven…" The crowd started to count along. "…eight …nine… TEN!" The crowd went wild. "The winner is Cra… wait a minute! What's this?"

The crowd got quiet as a tasmanian tiger, dressed in shaggy brown pants with a boomerang in his right hand, jumped into the ring from out of nowhere and threw his boomerang towards Crash and knocked him out cold by hitting him in the head with a loud "CLING!" As soon as the orange marsupial collasped right next to Dingodile, the crowd resumed their loud cheering. Teeko was speechless as he made the mic make an audio feedback sound and finally spoke.

"Ahem… the winner is… amazingly Ty the Tasmanian Tiger." He announced.

Minutes later…

Ty walked in with the unconcious Crash in one hand, dragging him by his hand, and the unconcious Dingodile in the other, dragging him by the tail.

"I believe these knuckleheads belong to you, King of the Bats." Ty said as he laid them both flat on the floor.

"That's Teeko!" He exclaimed.

"My bad!"

"Where in the world did you come from?"

"I heard there was a tournament for 500 million dollars up for grabs and I wanted to be in it, since Ratchet came here without TELLING ME!"

"I was busy picking up Kay from the island of Yinching!" Ratchet yelled back. "I was rushing."

"Well, you could've called me upon that rush!"

"Enough!" Teeko screamed. "Now, Ty. Listen to me. Since you defeated our real winner, which was Crash, you'll have to take his place in the semi-finals. In the meantime, you'll just sit with Ratchet and Kay until this bout is over."

"Cool by me, man." Ty replied as he walked to Ratchet and Kay's little section.

"Lawrence, you need to carry these two into the recovery room with Yoshi and Lexi." He didn't hear a reply. "Lawrence?" He looked down and saw the small bat dazed and unconcious on the floor next to Dingodile. Teeko sighed as he picked up the smaller bat and gave him a small pluck on his nose, waking him up.

"Huh… what?" Lawrence tiredly said.

"Carry Dingodile and Crash to the recovery room with Yoshi and Lexi, please. Thank you."

"Oh! Alright, sir!" He picked up the two simultaneously and carried them to the room as Teeko announced the next battle.

"Yin and Yang! Please report to the arena to begin your fight!" He announced.

The two experiments roared in response as they followed each other to the arena to begin the battle. "Ready? BEGIN!"

Yin began to spray some water at Yang, but Yang dodged it cleanly by quickly strafing to the left side. He shot his lava ammunition at the water octopus and it slammed him hard on his face, causing him to squeal in pain. This made Yang chuckle.

"Meega na la kweesta!" AHHHH HAHAHAHA!" He screamed as he got back on all fours just in time for Yin to get up again. He sprayed again. This time, it got in contact to Yang's face, causing him ro roar in pain. He grew angry as he powered up a strong lavaball and shot it at Yin's abodomen this time, knocking him unconcious… and making Yang the winner.

"The winner of this match is match is Yang! Congradulations!" Teeko announced as Yang stood on two feet again and roared in victory. Yin was tired out, but was overall alive. Yang offered a helping hand and decided to carry the mutant octopus on his back and carried him to the recovery room. Teeko was astonished by Yang's win.

"Amazing! That creature has more lava than a volcano itself! Anyway, finally! Our last battle of this bout: Knuckles versus Rouge. I'm hoping to find this battle interesting." He announced as the two looked at each other with stern looks on their faces.

"This won't be in private again, will it?" Knuckles asked. Rouge shook her head.

"Not this time, Knucklehead." She replied. "This time, we're gonna settle this the old fashioned way."

"Good."

Seconds later…

"Let the amazing battle begin!" Teeko announced as Knuckles jumped for his attack. He attempted to punch the bat thief in the face, but she blocked it with a kick and floated backwards, landing perfectly on her feet.

"I see you've haven't changed at all." Rouge said cooly. Knuckles growled.

"Stop blabbering and fight like a man!" He yelled as he screamed for another punch with a twist. This impact slammed the bat towards the ground. As she was trying to get up, he punched her again, making her entire, limp body tumble backwards, head first into the wall. Knuckles was kneeled down with his fist in the ground. He grunted with satisfaction.

"Looks who's stronger now." He said to himself smoothly.

"Well, this battle was indeed a blast, but was short. It still counts however." Lawrence said as he sat back on his perch as Teeko nodded as he announced.

"The winner is Knuckles! He gets to move on into the semi-finals!" He announced. Minutes later…

"Excellent bout, everyone." He started as dinner was being served to everybody at the large table. "I would like to do a recap of our first 8 winners since the tournament started: Buzz Bunny, Kunimitsu, Lola Bunny, AiAi, Tails, Cream, Lexi Bunny, and Armor King. Those 8, except Lexi, will move on to the semi-finals as soon as Bout 3 is complete. I had to make some minor changes to that bout since Li Long and Seung Mina had a bit of a delay. Cream volunteered to make those changes and they're listed on the bulletin board behind us, so after dinner, be sure you take a good look at it. Enjoy."

While they were eating, Lawrence flew up to the bulletin board and read the roster for Bout 3:

Bout 3: Boys vs. Girls

A.) Splodyhead vs. Karin Kanzuki

B.) Kixx vs. Cream

C.) Sonic vs. NiGHTS

D.) Jax vs. Chun-Li

E.) Vector vs. Lola Bunny

F.) Mighty vs. ­­

G.) Big vs. Kunimitsu

H.) Bowser vs. Bianca

"OH, NO!" He exclaimed. This made everybody freeze.

"What is it, Lawrence?" Teeko asked.

"Mighty doesn't have anybody to fight against! We ran out of girls!"

"Well, we'll just have to call up one… but, who? Since Rouge has been defeated?"

"I KNOW, I KNOW!" Cream screamed from the far end of the table. "Tikal!"

The rest of the contenders murmured in agreement, including the experiments. Lawrence smiled slyly as he handed the phone to Teeko, who smiled back.

"Not a bad idea, Cream." He said as he dialed the number for Sega Headquarters. "Remind me to thank you later." He heard the phone ring for a few seconds, then it picked up. "Hello? Hi, Sega Headquarters? I'd like to request Tikal into the tournament… (voice on other line)… Tomorrow morning? That'll be fine. Thanks." He hung up.

"Well?" Lawrence asked.

"They're gonna send Tikal in by tomorrow morning for our next bout."

"Excellent. Well, better write Tikal's name in the roster."

And so he did. Here's the list one more time:

Bout 3: Boys vs. Girls

A.) Splodyhead vs. Karin Kanzuki

B.) Kixx vs. Cream

C.) Sonic vs. NiGHTS

D.) Jax vs. Chun-Li

E.) Vector vs. Lola Bunny

F.) Mighty vs. Tikal

G.) Big vs. Kunimitsu

H.) Bowser vs. Bianca

To be continued…

(Sorry, I left out most of the action in Yoshi and Bowser Jr.'s battle, for those of you who are disappointed. I made it too grusome for a T rated story, so I didn't wanna go through all that just to raise the ratings. So, again, I deeply apologize.)