I have previously said that I will not write any Marvel stories nor will I reference them. While I still will not write any stories starring anyone from Marvel, I will now reference Marvel-related stuff. However, don't always expect anything good from those references.

Chapter 5
King of the Fighting Ring

Bowser, Ganondorf, Snake, and Ridley were still eating at the food stall they came across. Looking at the cook, Bowser gave him and thumbs up and said, "Delicious! You have my praise!"

"Glad you like it!" the cook happily said to him.

The Smashers resumed eating, and Bowser said while looking at LGBT Supreme that was across the street. "Would've been even more delicious if I don't have to look at that place…" he said with an annoyed look.

"The fact they even made a restaurant dedicated to this boggles me…" said Ganondorf, also sounding annoyed.

"Right! It should be illegal!" said Bowser. "Thanks goodness same-sex marriage is illegal in Eagleland! I can't imagine going outside and having to see men kissing men all the time…"

"We still got along well with Susanna, though," Ganondorf reminded him.

"It's not like he's actively hanging out with someone the same sex as him, if he even does that… He really only dresses up as the opposite sex and considers himself a woman, but no matter how I look at him, I can't see him as one…" said Bowser. "He is a nice guy, but he still creeps me out…"

Ridley then said, "Before I came to this world, I looked up various worlds to go to and came across one where the entire population is homosexual. Because of this, population is dwindling due to lack of reproduction."

"Seriously?! And the people there are okay with it?!" said Bowser in shock.

"They have a motto that goes like preferring to die gay than to live straight…" said Ridley.

"There really are all kinds of people out there in the universe…" said Snake in disbelief.

Back in the fighting arena, the crowd was going wild as Wario and Incineroar readied themselves for combat. "You can do it, Wario!" Diddy called out to the fat man.

"Show him what you've got!" Donkey said to him.

Wario glared at the tiger Pokemon and said, "You're going down, big cat! You're unlucky to have to face me first!" The Pokemon simply growled in response, and the fire in front of his waist also increased in intensity.

"Are you two ready? If so… then go!" said the referee as he swung down his arm in between them before backing off.

BGM: Pokemon Sun/Moon Trainer Battle (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Wario and Incineroar wasted no time in charging at each other, and they clashed and began pushing each other back and forth as if they were sumo wrestling. The crowd cheered loudly for them as they did so.

Incineroar then picked up Wario by his hands and spun him in circles multiple times before hurling him away. Wario crashed into some of the crowd before hitting a wall, but he got back up instantly and rushed back to the arena while performing a shoulder bash.

Incineroar did not avoid it but instead intentionally took the hit in an attempt to tank it. Wario collided into him with a powerful force and pushed him across the place, despite the Pokemon planting his feet firmly against the floor.

The fire coming out of his waist suddenly burst out like an explosion, blasting Wario backwards. "What the heck?!" said the latter in shock.

Incineroar roared loudly as the fire died down a bit, and the he performed a running start before leaping at Wario with all four limbs sprawled out. Wario out of the way to avoid the body slamming attack. Wario then picked him up by the tail and slammed him onto the floor over and over before throwing him away.

Despite the slamming, Incineroar stood back up as if nothing happened. He roared before charging at Wario with his fist on fire, and the latter swung his fist and collided it with his opponent's, resulting in a fiery shockwave that caused the audiences to step back in surprise. They also felt the heat and sweated.

"Your friend is good!" Ken said to the Smashers.

"Don't underestimate-a Wario," Mario told him. "He's a natural born fighta! He's not someone who can be taken down easily. He's really tough!"

"I can tell that he indeed is strong, but you shouldn't underestimate Incineroar either," Ryu told him. "I took care of him when he was still a kitten and watched him grow up to what he is now, not to mention teaching him how to fight. However, even without teaching him, he still had fighting skills that were born from instinct."

"That's a Pokemon for ya," Mario told him. "They are all born to fight!"

Wario and Incineroar traded punches with each other violently. Though the latter was hitting Wario with fiery punches that should've killed a person with their temperatures, Wario was somehow in a good condition and sporting little to no injuries.

In the midst of taking the punches, Wario grabbed Incineroar's head and headbutted it as hard as he could, so much that the Pokemon cried in pain and took steps back. Wario then shoulder bashed him hard to send him flying back, but the latter came to a skidding stop and glared at him.

"Is that all you've not? Bring it on! I can still fight more!" said Wario while beckoning with his hand for him to come over.

Incineroar roared loudly before running at Wario, who attempted to punch him. Incineroar seemingly allowed himself to be hit in the chest, and when that happened, a burst of fire appeared from his body and blew Wario away. The stripes on the Pokemon's body began glowing.

"Looks like Incineroar is getting serious," said Ryu when he saw this. "Your friend better give it his all, or else he may lose."

Wario charged at Incineroar to hit him with a shoulder bash again, but this time, the latter countered it by punching him in the head above so hard that Wario face flat onto the floor, and then the tiger began pummeling him in the back over and over.

The audiences were starting to become shocked at how brutal Incineroar was, and the referee was thinking of stepping in to stop him before Wario was killed. However, Wario suddenly shot up while shouting loudly, much to everyone's surprise.

He punched Incineroar hard in the abdomen to make him slide back, and then he charged at the Pokemon. Both sides then punched and kicked each other nonstop intensely, showing no signs of backing down at all. The audiences were in awe at the intensity of the fight, so much that they were all silent and not cheering at all.

As both sides continued their battle, they began to show signs of fatigue from the constant punching and kicking. Yet, they refused to back down and kept on fighting the best they could.

Eventually, they stopped and backed away while breathing heavily. Both fighters were clearly wounded and bleeding all over. "This is… is… I don't know anymore…" said Diddy in awe.

"They're both equally strong!" commented Donkey.

"I can do this all day…" Wario said to Incineroar while raising his fists to fight again.

Incineroar roared angrily, and then his entire body burst into flames. The Pokemon then leaped high into the air and landed on a girder close to the ceiling, causing everyone to look up in surprise. The fire coming out from his body was making the girder glow and even melt.

"What's he doing?!" asked Mario in shock.

"He's going to use his ultimate move, but it's going to cause a large amount of damage!" said Ryu in shock.

"Should we stop him?" asked a worried and scared Diddy.

"Normally yes, but for situations like this, there's a pro who will handle it," Ken assured him. The former didn't look worried at all.

Wario pointed his fist at Incineroar and shouted, "C'mon, bring it! I'm not afraid of you!"

Incineroar let out another roar and then leaped off the girder with his limbs sprawled out and his whole body still on fire. Wario remained standing in place, thinking he can somehow counter it.

Both sides almost going to come in contact with each other when suddenly a large figure charged into them from the side and sent them flying. This cancelled out Incineroar's ultimate attack as well, so the Pokemon's body turned back to normal. The two fighters flew across the room and came to a stop against a wall and fell to the floor.

BGM Ends

Everyone looked at the person who interrupted their fight and saw that it was a large muscular man who was entirely made of diamond. "Who is he?!" asked Donkey in shock.

"One of the strongest men on this island and a high-ranking member of Whitebeard's pirate crew, Diamond Jozu," replied Ryu.

"He sort of runs this place, and if he does allow people to challenge him, he always wins," added Ken. "Nobody here has beaten him in a fight before!"

"Wow! He's that strong?!" said Diddy in awe.

Jozu changed his body back to normal flesh, and he said to Wario and Incineroar as those two were getting back up, "That's enough fight for the two of you! If I hadn't step in, you're going to wreck this place and endanger the lives of people, and the both of you might lose your lives as well. Don't get so reckless!"

"I didn't need your help! I could've stopped him!" Wario angrily said to him. Incineroar roared, as if trying to say that he could've finished off Wario if Jozu didn't interfered.

While the two contestants were arguing with Jozu, Mario asked Ken, "How does he turn into diamond? Eez he a metahuman?"

"Devil Fruit powers the last time I checked," Ken replied. "So yeah, you can call that a metahuman."

Samus, Link, and the Mii Fighters stumbled across a hot spring resort. Reading a sign there that one could simply go in there for the hot springs and not necessarily stay there for the night, Link asked Samus, "How about we go in there and take a dip? I've never been to the hot springs before!"

"We're on a mission here, so we should be doing something productive instead," Samus reminded him.

"I think it would be a good idea!" said Gunner.

"Agreed!" said Brawler.

"While I doth hit together about the importance of our mission, I doth regard it is still a good imagining to take time to unbend. Once thy minds, souls, and corporal agents are soothed, we shall be able to wot what deed to take next," said Swordfighter.

Samu and Link stared at the last Mii Fighter, and the latter said, "You still speak like that even with your new voice, don't you…?"

"This method of speaking is filled with class that most people shall ne'r understand. Prithee doth wot, alas, that I am 'i no way mocking thou or saying aught to underwhelm thy intelligence, yet I doth apologize if thou feel offended 'i any way," Swordfighter said to them.

"None taken," replied Samus. She didn't actually understand everything he said but still got a slight idea.

Link then asked Samus, "You want to go in there? Since these three want to, I'm going in with them as well."

Samu thought for a while and then said, "Fine, but only for a short while…"

The five then went inside the resort and approached the front desk. There was a large, muscular man with a face full of beard standing there, dressed in a dark blue shirt and a pair of jeans. He was arguing with the lady at the front desk.

"I told you that must go into the male side!" the lady told him.

"And I told you that I am a woman! A trans woman!" the man angrily told him in a loud voice that grabbed everyone's attention.

"Sorry, you're not fooling with anyone with that look of yours!" the lady told him in frustration. "Even a trans woman try to look like an actual woman, but you don't look like one at all!"

"That's because I'm a tomboy!" the man told her. "I was born a man, but I want to be identified as a woman, a tomboy, hence the reason for my appearance!"

"Would it hurt you to at least shave?! What kind of woman has a beard?!" the lady said to him as she started to lose her patience.

"Beards are signs of manliness, so it makes sense that a tomboy like me would have a beard in order to look manly!" the man told her.

"Look, either you go to the male side of the hot spring or you leave this place! For all I know, you're just looking for an excuse to get a peep at the women's side!" the lady angrily told him.

"You transphobic scoundrel!" the man angrily said to her while slamming her desk. "I'm going to sue you and this whole place for mistreating trans people!"

Two guards then came over, grabbed his arm, and dragged him out of the place, and he kept on shouting angrily at the woman, saying how she was an enemy to all transgendered people.

"What was that all about…?" said Brawler, confused.

"Like the front lady said, he's clearly just looking for an excuse to get into the female hot springs for a peep…" said Samus with an annoyed and even angry look. "I've heard and seen various methods men try to peek on women, but this is a new low!"

"I never get why people would want to become the opposite sex… The only reason I can think of is men wanting to ogle women's body without getting scolded because it's now their own…" said Link.

"They're freaks. That's all that you need to know," said Samus. "I may act like a guy often, but I still identify myself as a woman."

"Anyway, let's forget all that and head for the hot springs," Link told her.

Fox, Falco, and Captain Falcon were touring the town, and they were enjoying the sights so much that they forgot about their mission.

Stopping in front of a movie theater, they saw a poster for an upcoming movie called Predatory Birds, which is about a group of female vigilantes. Next to it was a poster for another upcoming movie called Black Widower, which is about a female assassin who kills women and leaving their husbands widowers.

"Remind me to watch Predatory Birds when it comes out," said Captain Falcon. "I'm looking forward to it!"

"I'm sure it'll be a great movie, since it's not afraid to enter the R-rated territory and try out different genres, while Marvel always likes to play it safe and remain formulaic!" said Falco.

Then a skinny, bespectacled guy with a bowl-shaped haircut, a buck tooth and an oversized runny nose showed up and said in an annoyingly high-pitched voice, "DC sucks! Marvel rules! You are morons for wanting to watch DC movies! You stink!" He also wore a black shirt that had the message Captain Marvelous is my wife.

When the three heard him, Falco said to him, "That's only because your big fat ugly mom works for Marvel, so an illegitimate son like you will eat up anything she farts out!"

Normally, one would expect the kind of response from the other person to be anger and frustration, followed by coming up with some sort of response or perhaps stomping off in rage. Instead, that guy dropped onto the ground and began flailing his limbs all over the place while crying like a baby. "WAAAAAAAAAAA! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT?! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA! YOU MEANIE!"

Needless to say, his behavior attracted a large amount of attention. Even the Smashers were surprised by the way he was acting. "Look at this moron… They say Marvel fans are very defensive about their series, but this is something…" commented Falco.

Out at a sea and a considerable distance from Secon Island was a large pirate ship built in the likeliness of a whale.

The towering captain of the pirate crew Whitebeard was currently on board the ship, seated on a throne and being attended to by attractive women in nurse attires. Several of his men were on the deck, doing casual stuff like chatting and drinking.

Marco, one of his higher ranking crew members, approached him with a cheerful and relaxed look on his face and asked him, "What's the matter, pops? I can tell that you're not in the brightest of moods right now. Something the matter?"

"You sure know how to read me," Whitebeard said to him as the former smiled a bit.

"We've been together since forever, so it's obvious I would know you well!" Marco said to him.

"Gurarara! I expect nothing less from my son!" said Whitebeard. "Either way, it's true that something is bothering me a bit."

"What is it? Anything I can do to help?" Marco asked him.

"I've been sensing a certain person's presence… Or rather, a being…" said Whitebeard as his expression became more serious. "I just hope this doesn't bode anything bad for us…"

TO BE CONTINUED

Whitebeard finally makes his appearance, alongside Marco and Jozu! I hope you look forward to more appearances from them!

Susanna mentioned here is an OC from me you might remember if you've read my old stories. When the Smashers' mansion got destroyed and they are living at a place called 10 Lives Apartment, Susanna was one of their neighbors. He is a large, muscular man who wears a blonde wig and heavy makeup identifying himself as a woman, but pretty much nobody is able to take his gender identification seriously because of his masculine appearance, no matter how much effort he takes to make himself look like a woman.

Also, Mii Swordfighter speaks Old English. I managed to pull that off using a converter found online.