Chapter 1: Welcoming Windows to Wonderful Worlds Part 4

Guardians:

Ruby (Pokémon Adventures): The Charmer

Junko Konno (Zombie Land Saga): The Shy One

Linhardt von Hevring(Fire Emblem: Three Houses): The Brains/Healer

Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Veteran

Blaze The Cat (Sonic The Hedgehog): The Fire

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Third-Person POV

"Okay, so which one of us will go first?" Ruby asks Blaze and Bucky.

Blaze steps forward, "Allow me to volunteer, I'm curious as to how the rules apply to the matches that take place."

"Knock yourself out, not literally, since you'd be eliminated." Bucky tells the cat woman as he sits down on the sidelines.

"Good luck." Ruby states as he begins to look over which team members he could use for his fights.

Blaze nods as she steps into the squaredcircle, determined to end this fight as quickly as she could. She notices that on the opposite side of the ring that there was a large hole. Before she wonders what's inside of it, a small platform rises up from the inside.

Insert Song: Go For It! (Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX)

14th seed

Guard Duty

Guard Monokuma x 3

"Three opponents with shields and police gear, she'll need to hit them in their weak spot." Bucky explains as he looks on.

"Which is obviously… their behinds!" Ruby deduces.

The Guard Monokumas try to bash Blaze with their shields, yet she just hops atop them as if they were small platforms. She uses a spread shot of three fireballs and they hit the backs of the Monokumas. An easy win for the princess as she exhales when the bots are reduced to scrap.

The crowd of Monokumas are split between boos and cheers. They don't like her winning, but they do enjoy stylish violence. Linhardt was in his spot trying to catch some z's, while Bucky and Ruby applauded Blaze as she sat on their bench.

"Not bad. Though you better be careful not to ring out with how high you were jumping there." Bucky warns her.

"I know how to land carefully on my feet, like you had brought up before I am a cat." Blaze smiles a bit as Bucky reciprocates it.

"Alright, the next round is about to begin. I'll volunteer for this one, hopefully my Pokémon will be okay after this." Ruby stands up and stretches his arms in preparation.

"If they get banged up, we'll take over for the rest of the matches. Right, Sergeant Barnes?" Blaze turns to the metal-armed man and he lightly nods.

"Much appreciated, though they're all going to need plenty of brushing afterwards. This stadium does not look too clean, I'm gonna be picking gravel off of my team for about an hour…" Ruby sighs.

"..." Blaze and Bucky did not feel like replying to that statement as Ruby stepped onto the ring.

Ruby takes out two Pokéballs and recites their contest calls, "Regardless of the effects of time, the coolness that this body encompasses never changes. Carrying with her the tough Intimidate, this is the Pokémon Mightyena—Nana! Regardless of the effects of time, the smartness that this body encompasses never changes. Hopping between rain, sun, and snow with Forecast, this is the Pokémon Castform—Fofo!"

"Does he really need to do that every time he brings them out?" Blaze tilts her head confusingly.

"At this point I've gotten too used to it." Bucky snarks.

Nana growls and Fofo grunts as the next wave of Monokumas appear.

Insert Song: Wild Pokémon Battle (Pokémon Omega Ruby)

13th seed

Ballin'

Ball Monokuma x 2

The spherical baddies rolled onto the battlefield via a randomly placed ramp and landed on their stubby feet.

Ruby prepares his first set of commands, "Fofo, use Hail! Nana, Take Down!".

Hail begins to fall from above, transforming Fofo into her Snowy form and pelting both of the Monokumas… as well as the crowd. Nana then charges right into the left one and knocks it out of the ring, however it then begins to climb back into it.

"Wait, shouldn't that count as an elimination?" Blaze asks.

"Those rules probably apply only to us. Destroying these things is the only way to move on. Some tournament, huh? Ow." Bucky groans as hail bounces off of his head.

"Keep dodging, you two!" Ruby ordered his Pokémon as he tried to come up with a plan.

The Ball Monokumas alternated between throwing garbage and rolling their round bodies at them. Fofo hovered above them quite easily, though Nana was having a bit of trouble. Ruby then realized what he could do to defeat his foes easily.

"Nana, use Roar!" He shouts.

His Mightyena bellows out an intimidating roar that forces the Monokumas back a bit, Ruby smiling as he sees his opportunity. He ushers Fofo to move behind them and charge up.

"Weather Ball!"

A large snowball is then launched out and collides with the Ball Monokumas, leaving them as a pile of scrap and snow. Ruby takes a breath and a bow as he thanks his team for doing well.

"Well done, Ruby, but… how long until this hail fades away?" Blaze asks the trainer, both her and Bucky are left absolutely covered in chunks of hail.

"It usually ends in about five turns so… five or so minutes?" Ruby guesses.

Bucky rolls his eyes, "Great, now I'm back to being the Winter Soldier for a while."

The other two shared a small laugh as Monokumas dressed as janitors struggled to sweep away the piles of hail around the arena. Meanwhile in the crowd, Linhardt has a rude awakening.

"Ack, ow! Why is it hailing all of a sudden? Just wonderful, as soon as I could ignore the crowd noise this happens, I'm never gonna be able to nap anytime soon."

The green-haired student then looked around with his half-closed eyes, noticing something off.

"Hm? Now where could Junko have gone? With the other three out fighting, it's down to me to go search for her, isn't it? (sighs) If I must…"

He yawns as he slowly stands up and stretches before leaving to go look for his associate.

"Agh… huh? Wha?!"

Junko gasps as she awakens in a dark room with no windows. She tries to look around, but finds herself unable to move her limbs. It's like her entire body is paralyzed! She spots her Pokéballs on the table next to her, but suddenly she hears someone also waking up across from her.

"Whoa… what a headache. Huh?" A male voice says as he opens his eyes, "Whoa… what's a kid like you doing here? Whatever 'here' is anyways… hey, why can't I move?!"

"I wish I knew the answers, but I'm just as confused as you are sir." Junko responds to the silhouette in front of her.

"Man, this is just not my day… I wake up in some weird dystopian version of West City, I get attacked by robot bears, and when I decide to explore the World Martial Arts Tournament Grounds, I get hit on the head and knocked out!" He groans.

Junko notices something in that statement that peaks her interest.

"Wait, West City?"

The guy gives a confused response, "Uh, yeah? That's the one we're in right now. Haven't you seen any signs or… wait they're probably destroyed or something. Hold on, are you not from here?"

"You could say that… My name is Junko Konno." She introduces herself.

"Nice name, you can call me the great—GYAHHHHH!"

The man was then painfully electrocuted as Junko looked on in horror, watching him faint from the shock. She then hears some cackling and footsteps as a small light flickers on to reveal their captor's cyborg face.

"Well aren't you as cute as a button, my dear…" General Tao smiles as he walks towards her side.

"Y-Y-You're…" Junko stumbles on her words as she recalls who he is.

"You most likely have been informed of me by your little friends, yet I should properly introduce myself. I am Tao Pai Pai, also known as Mercenary or General Tao."

He bows politely to her as she trembles in fear.

Junko continues to struggle with her loss of movement, "Where am I and why can't I move?!"

Tao just keeps that grin on his face, "Relax, you are only below the temple in the facility where the Monokumas are built and sent out into this world to wreak havoc. And to answer your second question, my Pressure Point Attack allowed me to knock you out and leave you paralyzed!"

Junko's eyes widen as she sees the Monokuma units being crafted and sent out via a lift.

"I'm sure you assume that your companions will come searching for you, but they won't even make it past the final match! I'm afraid you'll have no saviors left, Marshmallow Girl." Tao murmured into Junko's ear as he messed with her floofy hair.

Junko feels chills running down her spine, but she begins to feel some anger as well.

"You're wrong, they'll be able to make it past any opponent you throw at them!" She shouted.

Tao just simply removed his left hand and the hidden knife under it shoots out.

He holds it up to her neck as she grimaces, "Quite a lot of faith in them, don't you? Haven't you just met them as well? What makes you think that they're trustworthy enough?"

Junko gulped before deciding to explain her reasons,"I do believe in them a lot. I may not know them too well, yet from what I've seen and experienced… I wouldn't have been able to survive this far without them. We may be from different worlds, but they've shown me so much kindness. I want to stay with them until this is all over, that's my answer and I won't change it."

Tao just scoffs as he places his hand back onto his arm.

"It seems as though your confidence is misplaced. You see… I managed to find a perfect test subject for an experiment my associates are working on."

"Experiment?" Junko expresses her confusion.

"Yes, a small device that could allow even the most hopeful individuals to become despairing puppets under our command. Of course this is just a prototype, but it's time we give it a spin on someone Ifound quite easy to capture. A person from my reality."

Tao presses a button on his wrist communicator and Junko hears the screams of the man she talked with earlier. Eventually his eyes open up and an eerie red glow stares directly at her.

"What did you do to him?!" Junko demands an answer.

"Hee hee hee, he's just had a change of heart, that's all. Compared to the other fighters I could have chosen, he may be the weakest, but against your friends…"

Junko gasped as she learned what he's planning, clenching her teeth as her body remained still.

"If your group of fools manage to make it to the final round, then be prepared to have them crushed by my puppet! Now let's see how far they've gotten shall we?"

Tao switches on a TV and Bucky's in the middle of battling the 4th wave: one large Junk Monokuma.

"4th seed, so they've made it this far…" Tao smirks as he gets to test out the mind control device.

Junko eyes the individual Ruby, Blaze, and Bucky will have to face, the corrupted individual before her. Worrying quite a lot for the safety of the former three, as well as the latter. She needs to find a way to prevent either side from killing the other.

"Oof… right through the eye." Tao uttered as he watched the match.

Bucky just punched the Junk Monokuma right in its large bulging eye with his vibranium arm, ending the machine's suffering.

As Tao continued to view the tournament, Junko tried to get her body to inch over to the table where her Pokémon were. She glances over by the screen and spots Blaze taking up the next fight. Hoping that they'll make it through this and defeat Tao, she continues to struggle for the sake of her newfound companions.

She doesn't want to let them down.

"Hm…"

Meanwhile Linhardt is still searching for Junko in the crowd of Monokuma spectators.

Linhardt grunted in annoyance, "Far too much noise for my liking. It's times like these where I'd actually find destroying these machines to be preferable…"

The Garreg Mach student continues to look around the temple, yet there is no sign of his zombie idol acquaintance.

"Perhaps I'm not thinking in the right mindset. If she were to have been abducted, they would have likely placed her in a well guarded area…"

He spots an area with two Monokuma guards with rifles in their hands, they only stepped aside for broken Monokuma units being carried through. The Monokumas stepped onto a platform which lowered them down into the underground, before they were replaced by new units.

Linhardt raises both of his eyebrows in response, "My theory was correct, although there's a new problem. How am I supposed to pass through without engaging them?"

He flips through his faith magic tome to see what he could use, stopping on one specific spell.

"Hm… this one can't be used on myself, however…"

Linhardt reads the instructions before he gets it completely memorized and hides behind a wall closer to the guards.

"You know, I've been having some crazy dreams lately." Monokuma 1 told his coworker.

Monokuma 2 looks at him surprised, "Dreams? But we're robots, aren't we?"

"True, but I do have them sometimes. Anyways, it's one of those dreams that affects you in real life. I was in the air and then I suddenly fell down, and my body acted like it was falling!" He explains.

Monokuma 2 was intrigued, "Ah… so that's why I heard some creaking in the bed next to mine."

"Yeah! I fell into my bed as a response to that dream, like this see!"

"Warp." Linhardt whispered as he cast the spell.

Monokuma 1 was taken away in a flash of light as soon as he jumped into the air. A couple seconds later when Monokuma 2 was looking around in confusion, he landed on top of him breaking them into pieces.

"Like that?" Monokuma 2 asked, now just a head.

"Exactly!" Monokuma 1 replied, also a head.

Linhardt just casually walked by and stepped onto the lift, impartially waving the two Monokumas goodbye. Monokuma 1's headless body waved in response as Monokuma 2 sighed.

"Final match, you're up Mr. Barnes."

Ruby wipes some sweat off his forehead as he steps down from the ring. His Swampert, Mumu, is doing the same.

Bucky stretches before making his way inside, "I didn't know what I was expecting when this was called the 'Monokuma Martial Arts Tournament'. Fighting killer robots all day had just become dull, don't know how Steve didn't get bored when he fought them…"

"Steve?" Ruby questions him.

"Old friend of mine. Though… old in another way now. Let's just get started." Bucky answered as he made his way to his side of the ring.

An intercom then begins to turn on and a voice rings out across the arena.

"Congratulations you lucky three!"

"Wait, is that…" Ruby turns to Blaze to make sure and she nods seriously.

"Where are you hiding, Tao? We beat your army, so come down here and actually fight. This is a tournament, isn't it?" Bucky calls him out, but Tao just laughs.

"I would love to kill you myself, yet I wanted to introduce you all to an old friend of mine. I was given a task where I had to test out a new device for the sake of 'research', and he was my chosen test subject! Don't be too hard on him though, he hasn't fought in quite a while…"

"What does he mean by all that?" Blaze wondered.

Ruby was puzzled as well, "From how he worded it, he captured someone and used some kind of gadget on him to make us fight him. Not another Monokuma this time, but an actual person."

"Mind control…" Bucky shook his head as the lift began to lower to the underground facility once more.

The corrupted individual stepped onto the lift and was taken to the ring for his match against Bucky. Long black hair blowing in the wind, scars on his face, sleeveless orange martial arts Gi to show off his muscles. He glares directly at Bucky with his unnaturally red eyes and simply smiles.

"I'm gonna send you flying!" He tells Barnes with a twisted grin.

Yamcha, Master of the Wolf Fang Fist. One of the most powerful humans in Universe 7… Although that may not mean much in the long run, he's a talented martial artist in his own right. A master of ki, life force energy in his world, who uses techniques such as the Spirit Ball and the aforementioned Wolf Fang Fist. Currently not having a good day.

"Not gonna happen, pal." Bucky replies, not batting an eye.

"Tch, ha!" Yamcha strikes his own martial arts stance.

Bucky gives a more simple stance, one that doesn't look like he's trying too hard, as the gong rings beside them. The main event has begun.

Next time on Danganronpa: Fictional Guardians: Yamcha vs Bucky Barnes! The finale to Welcoming Windows to Wonderful Worlds! It's been a while, hey! I hope you're all looking forward to the final part of the first chapter! Normally a DBZ character fighting an MCU character might be a bit one sided sometimes, but I believed I could make an exception here. Fictional Epicenter is getting a new chapter soon as well! The poll for the free time events is still running so vote for your favorites until the 7th of February! See you all next time! /7uw7cf91q