A/N: I went all out with the new "teammates allowed" rule so you get to see some of the other X-Men in action this chapter. I hope you enjoy it!

Round 4
Wolverine vs. Deadpool

Storm's lightening landed just short of hitting Deadpool. Logan cursed and went in for a strike of his own, he made a small tear in Deadpool's outfit, but most of the attack was blocked by the mercenary's katana. As Deadpool backed up Rogue grabbed his arm but missed the small tear exposing his skin. Deadpool grabbed her arm and twisted it into a wrist lock.

"You all are very good at fighting me together. Such great teamwork! It's really lucky that you didn't have to fight me on your own Wolverine, what would you do?" Deadpool laughed and dropped Rogue's arm.

Logan snarled and sprang at Deadpool claws ready to deal a double strike. Deadpool hit back with his twin katanas. Both fighters took large gashes. Neither really noticed.

"Wolverine stop!" Storm shouted, landing near Rogue to make sure she was alright. "We can't attack Deadpool if Logan's in such close combat with him." She sighed and turned to Rogue. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, my wrist's just a bit strained." Rogue said.

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Logan and Deadpool struck fought hectically, each taking twice as many hits as they bothered to block. Gashes were constantly healing and their clothes were stained with blood. They circled each other and rushed in with blades and claws drawn. Their weapons shone crimson with each other's blood.

Deadpool threw in a spinning kick to Wolverine's head. Logan ducked and slashed at the leg. He hit but Deadpool didn't slow down. Next the assassin unclipped a grenade and stuffed it down the back of Wolverine's shirt. Logan twisted his arm and cut his own lower back so the grenade fell out of the torn shirt, then dove behind a large fountain as it went off.

Deadpool laughed. "Did you see that everyone? A brilliant maneuver by Wolverine! Let's give him a hand." He started clapping. The spectators stood puzzled; as usual it was hard to tell if Deadpool was talking to them or the imaginary audience in his head.

"Come on punk." Wolverine said, "I'm the one you need to focus on." Then he charged Deadpool and the both went crashing through the display window of a sporting store. The crowd broke into applause and whoops, nothing excited people more than destroying things.

Logan got up first and dropped right back down to body slam Deadpool. Deadpool arched his back to throw Wolverine off of him. Then he stood made a double strike with his katanas while Wolverine was still in the air.

Wolverine kicked off of Deadpool while launching himself unto a spin, Deadpool's Katanas came with him. Logan stood and pulled them out of his stomach, grimacing.

"That really hurt you know." He snarled.

"Oh you and I are used to taking pain." Deadpool chided.

"True," Wolverine smiled, "But just cuz I'm used to something doesn't mean I have to deal with it. I could always remove the problem." Logan pulled the swords out of his stomach and stuck them in the floor, then he slashed crossways and the katanas fell to pieces.

Deadpool stared. "That was not a smart move." He said, "I liked those swords." Then he disappeared.

Wolverine spun around in time to see Deadpool fire his gun at pointblank. The bullet hit Wolverine's skull and ricocheted into the wall. Logan clutched his head with one hand while blocking Deadpool's punches and strikes with the other. After a minute he was able to use both hands and strike back, but Wolverine couldn't help but worry that he'd gotten rid of the wrong weapon.

Deadpool fired again, this time the bullet ripped through Logan's leg. He managed to fall to the side, against a table. He leaned on this while the wound closed, then went back in to exchange blows with Deadpool.

Wolverine punched and Deadpool ducked under his arm, letting Logan pass and then hitting him in the kidneys. Logan growled and swung again with his claws, this time they caught Deadpool in the face, cutting off one of his ears. Deadpool fired his gun again and shot Wolverine in the chest. Logan graoned as he felt one of his ribs crack. He was again forced to find support while his wound healed, at leastb this time Deadpool was recovering too.

"Hee hee hee, you fight like a wimp, like a kid." Deadpool laughed as his ear grew back. "I wonder if your kids fight as badly as you do."

"Leave my kids out of this, bub." Wolverine snapped.

"Hey," Deadpool shrugged, "They should leave themselves out of it. They almost ran over me while I was just trying to get a cheeseburger."

"You lying bastard." Wolverine said, his voice dangerously low.

"Have I seen your kids before? Go ahead ask me what they looked like."

"I don't care if you saw them or not. Just leave them out of this fight." Wolverine rushed Deadpool and slashed crossways over the assassin's chest, slicing some of the ribs in half.

Deadpool teleported again and kicked Wolverine's legs at the knees. Logan quickly jumped up and continued to attack Deadpool with a new rage. There was only so much Wolverine could take, and Deadpool had gone way past his annoyance limit.

He landed strike after strike on the mercenary not paying much attention when Deadpool managed to shoot him. It didn't take long for Deadpool to teleport again.
Wolverine sniffed the air but couldn't find Deadpool's scent right away. Then he smelled it coming from the next floor up (it was a three-floor store). From the top of the stairs Deadpool tossed down a mountain bike hard enough to knock Wolverine over, then he jumped down thrust a javelin through Logan's shoulder and firmly into the ground.

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Outside the crowd cheered again, Deadpool may have been a little weird but he was very entertaining.

Rogue groaned, "Can't we do anything?"She asked Storm.

Storm shook her head, "They're still fighting too closely together and Deadpool's getting to violent for me to let you fight him too."

"I have an idea." Bobby said.

"Let's hear it." Storm said, against her better judgment.

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Deadpool had stuck the javelin deep into the floor. The only way Logan got free was by slicing off most of it above his chest and lifting himself into a reverse pushup. Deadpool took shots at him the etire time.

"Having fun yet?" The mercenary laughed.

"Oh yeah, loads." Wolverine said through gritted teeth, "I'm just worried-" He paused to gasp in a breath, "Your missing out on all the really great parts." He took the longer half of the javelin and launched it at Deadpool. The mercenary simply disappeared and landed behind Logan.

"Feel like giving up?" Deadpool laughed.

"Not on your life." Wolverine growled. Turning as the next shot tore through his arm he slashed again at Deadpool. Once again, the mercenary teleported out of harm's way.

"Then how are you going to beat me." Deadpool asked from the railing above and jumped down towards Wolverine. Logan felt the floor growing cold and as he stepped away to dodge Deadpool's drop kick his feet slipped out from under him. Logan landed on his butt and had to kick off of shelf to get out of Deadpool's way. Luckily when Deadpool landed he also slipped on the newly formed ice and went sliding the other direction.

Logan caught Bobby's scent in the air and smiled, for once that kid had been useful.

"Logan, catch!" Rogue shouted as she threw a pair of boots at him.

When he caught them Logan's hands were cut by sharp spikes built into the soles. Logan's grin widened and he quickly started taking off his old shoes. Deadpool was wobbly rising to his feet and trying to slide over to Wolverine.

Logan pushed off of the wall he was sitting against to get behind a display of roller blades and out of Deadpool's line of fire and sight. Then he pulled on the ice boots and jumped to his feet. The spikes on the bottom of the shoes dug into the ice and held him in place. The boots were a little loose but he had laced them tightly enough to make up for it.

Logan ran over to Deadpool who stared at his steadiness, then braced himself to counter attack. As soon as Wolverine punched him he went sliding into a shelf. Logan followed up with a kick to the side Deadpool's head. The spikes on the shoes added an extra sting to the impact. Deadpool punched back, but didn't have much force without a solid grounding.

"Screw this." The mercenary shouted and teleported away.

Logan heard a thud on the second level and noticed that more than just the floor was now coated in ice; the entire store gleamed with a frosty coating.

"Damn!" Deadpool shouted and teleported back to the first floor. "Okay, let's see who runs out of regeneration energy first. It won't be me." He said.

Logan ran towards him and Deadpool started pelting him with bullets. Logan was able to dodge some of them, but not many. Wolverine worried that Deadpool might be right.

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Storm stood with Bobby and Rogue on the second level, watching the fight. She new Logan was still in trouble and started looking for anything else that could help him. Then she saw what looked like a window under the ice.

"Bobby, make the ice thinner there. Does that lead outside?"

Bobby concentrated and a square of ice melted away. "Yes." He said. "Yes it does."

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Stormy winds blew open the window and whipped around the two combatants. Wolverine picked up on the new plan quickly and ran towards Deadpool again, zigzagging to be less of a gun target. He grabbed the assassin and tackled him to the floor. Pushing off of a shelf he sent them sliding to the window. When they hit the wall he stood and dumped Deadpool out of the window.

The mercenary hit the ground before he could teleport back inside, they had been on the first floor.

Death-by-Chocolate appeared at the doorway to the store, levitating slightly so he didn't have to worry about balance. "Wolverine is the winner. Nice teamwork X-Men."

Wolverine walked over to the edible demon. "Where," He asked, "Are my kids."