I apologize in advance for this chapter being much shorter than the last two chapters.

A lot is going to happen in chapter 4 so I figured this would be a nice tease before the big fight.

Anyway, Enjoy.

It was the first day of the tournament and the actual fighting would soon begin. Before it could start all the fighters had to meet up in a large room, there they would be given the rules of how the tournament and how things would work. Samus, Peach and Knight soon entered the room. Most of the fighters were there, only a few weren't present. They sat down at one of the many tables set up and simply waited for the meeting to start, as they waited Samus looked around the room to see who was here. And that's when she saw him, Ridley. When she caught sight of him, he just smiled at her, and that was it. He didn't make a scene, he didn't walk up to her and insult her, he just smiled. And than he looked away and went back to talking with Bowser and Ganondorf. Samus started feeling angry, she didn't know why but seeing Ridley just smile made her want to kill him. Peach saw the little exchange and then put her arm on Samus's shoulder.

"Hey." She said. Peach's touch made Samus go a little red but not enough to be noticeable. She quickly looked at Peach. "No matter what happens, you'll still be one of the best fighters ever known." Peach's caring voice seemed to help melt away Samus's anger.

"Thanks, plus we've got someone new who could help me kick his ass." Samus looked at Knight who had been starring at Samus's exchange with Ridley, and Peach calming her down. He said nothing.

Soon everyone had arrived in the room and the meeting began. Soon a man entered the room, he was very weird looking. He wore a sweater, white gloves, and sneakers. He also had a clipboard with him and was wearing a head set with a mic attached. However, he had no limbs what so ever, no arms legs, not even a neck.

"Hello everyone. My name is Rayman, I'll be telling you how things are going to work here." Once he had everyone's attention, he began. "This is how it will work, before we decide who fights who, we are going to have a Free for All Battle. Which basically means your all in one big circler arena fighting each other. In other words, who ever is left standing, gets to continue." Rayman had a huge smile on his face, he was clearly loving his job. Everyone else seemed to love what was about to happen, lots of the fighters were smiling and were excited to see if they could make to the next round. A few were nervous, particularly Luigi and Isabella, Isabella was nervous simply because she was new, and Luigi was scared because he was always scared.

"After that," Rayman continued. "will go into the semi-finals, and after that, the finals. As usual items will be available, except in the semi and final rounds." A few fighters were a bit annoyed that there wouldn't be any items to use in the semi or final rounds. But most seemed fine with it.

"Well it's good to know it'll be even in the later fights." Said Peach.

"Alright, the door to the arena is right behind you all. Good luck." With that, Rayman left the room smiling.

Quickly everyone made there way to the arena. The hallway they were walking down seemed almost intimidating, the only source of light was the light at the end of the hallway, and the sounds of audience members cheering echoed down the hall. Knight couldn't say it, but he was feeling nervous. Peach looked down at Knight, she couldn't tell how he was feeling but she wanted to reassure him he would be fine.

"Don't worry Knight, I know it seems scary. But it's a lot of fun and I've seen some of your moves, you'll do great out there." Knight looked up at Peach. Somehow Peach sounded both cheerful and caring. And it made Knight feel a bit better. He simply nodded toward her. "Good to hear." Replied Peach with a smirk.

Soon they were outside, and the arena could finally be seen. All around there were thousands of people, cheering and screaming in excitement. As everyone made it out of the dark hallway, a metal bridge was contacted from the large balcony they were all on to the arena. The arena was just one big circle made purely out of stone. Below the arena was nothing but water, and a few medical stations to the side for when fighters needed healing after there lose. Once everyone made there way across the metal bridge it retracted back to the balcony, leaving every fighter on the stone, circle arena. Very quickly all the fighters started backing away from each. They all know what chaos awaited them and they were all prepared. Samus, Peach and Knight grouped up together, as did other fighters, all of them were now waiting for a voice that said fight.

"Hello everyone," said an enthusiastic voice from the speaker. "My name is Howard 'Buckshot' Holmes, some of you may know me the violent fighting game show known as Deathwatch!"

"You only mean the adults, right? Cause these kids won't know crap about us!" said another more gruffy voice.

"And with me is my old pal and former Deathwatch companion Kreese Kreeley! How are you Kreese?"

"Aside from seeing you again, great!"

"Good to hear!" he said with a heavy chuckle. "Now folks what's happening here is that it's a Free for All Battle! All the fighters have three minutes to beat the crap out of each other, and who ever is left standing, continues to the next round!" The audience roared in excitement.

"Minus the blood and death, which sucks!"

"Alright, when me and Kreese say fight, they fight. Ready?" there were a few seconds of silence, each fighter was tense and ready to burst into action. Samus had her canon charging and had it aimed at the Ice Climbers. Peach held her frying pan firmly and was setting her sights on Wolf. Knight had his nail drawn and was starring at Ryu. Ryu felt a bit uncomfortable as he starred back. All were waiting for one single word.

"FIGHT!" said Howard and Kreese in unison.