Chapter 3: Unleashing the Contestants
After the first wave ended, Mickey Cantor himself was back on the air ready to announce the contestants to fight themselves.
"Well that was a sounding round, and very impressive one at best, but can these 18 contestants handle each other, let's find out shall we?" laughed Mickey on the megaphone.
A large door opened up letting members of the Hotshots and the Ice Men fight each other. Duke Nukem was rather interested in a certain Beautiful Gorgeous as he entered the Ice Men area.
"Say, what's a girl like you doing here out in these neck of the woods?" asked Duke.
"I don't talk to strangers pal" replied Beautiful Gorgeous who shot Duke Nukem down.
"What, you reject Duke Nukem?" asked Duke, "Do you realize who I am?"
"Nope, and I don't care" replied Beautiful Gorgeous.
Beautiful Gorgeous ends up using her laser weapon on Duke which sent him flying across the arena and back where the Hotshots are.
"Flirting with the enemy, not a smart move on your part" said Lilith.
"Hey, I'm a ladies man, I can't help it sometimes" replied Duke.
"Well that kind of attitude is going to get you kicked out of our team" continued Bill.
"Why should I trust someone like you?" asked Duke.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe because I can lead a squad toward its victory or something like that" continued Bill.
"What, you're saying I got no leadership skills?" roared Duke who wasn't happy with Bill.
"Just follow my lead on this one, maybe you'd learn a thing or two" said Bill.
"Just not your day" laughed Lilith.
Duke obviously didn't like being rejected nor being forced to obey orders, but he had no choice, Bill led the way toward the Ice Men arena, the turrents were being automatically built trying to prevent Bill and the others from reaching their goal. But as Bill continued further, Louis who was up on a platform resisted in targeting Bill as he couldn't believe Bill was on the other side.
"Resisting to fire?" asked Beautiful Gorgeous to Louis.
"It's Bill, he led me, Zoey, and Francis against the zombie hordes" continued Louis.
"I don't care what your memories of him are, just fire since he's on the other side" ordered Beautiful Gorgeous.
"You don't fire, I'll pounce them then!" roared Sabertooth as he pushed Louis aside.
"Now there's someone who knows which team they're on" laughed Beautiful Gorgeous.
Sabertooth leaped down from the platform and charged at Bill and the other Hotshots. Bill kept on firing at Sabertooth which amounted to no luck, until Brick ran toward Bill's defense and gave Sabertooth quite a punch.
"Nice work" said Wolverine.
"No problem, I hate those kind of surprises" said Brick.
"Look out!" cried Batman.
Suddenly a Hadoken was fired by Ryu who was up on the platform. The large Hadoken nearly ended up hitting members of the Hotshots who managed to dodge the attack.
"Think you can knock him out?" asked Wolverine to Batman.
"I'll see what I have in my inventory, hopefully they didn't take my Baterangs away" continued Batman.
Thankfully Mickey Cantor and his people did not take away the Dark Knight's Baterangs to which the Dark Knight quickly used against Ryu knocking him unconscious with the Baterangs that he had with him.
"Ouch, that had to hurt!" laughed Mickey on the megaphone, "But wait, a mysterious member of the Ice Men is indeed going to give the Hotshots trouble!"
Smoke indeed was right in the middle of the Hotshots without the members except for at least Wolverine realizing that he was there.
"I smell someone I am not familiar that's around here" said Wolverine.
"You're weird" said Kitana to Wolverine.
Smoke immediately appeared out of nowhere as he was obviously invisible, along with Dan Phantom who had joined Smoke. Wolverine unleashed his claws and charged at Smoke while Kitana and the others took on Dan Phantom. Smoke launched a few rockets from within his robotic belly sending Wolverine flying into the air.
"Let's see that in a replay!" laughed Mickey as they showed Smoke making the surprise entrance and attack on the Hotshots along with Dan Phantom.
Dan was happily keeping members of the Hotshots at bay, while Serious Sam who was up on a platform was setting up for something very explosive as he was allowed to have a rocket launcher within his inventory thanks to Mickey's approval.
"Time to say goodbye!" laughed Serious Sam.
Serious Sam fired the rocket targeting the Hotshots, but that obviously alerted a certain Samurai Jack.
"Quickly, I'll take him down" said Jack.
"You sure about that!" cried Bill.
"Look, just do it, I'll be able to handle myself" continued Jack.
"Looks like we got a member of the Hotshots who has gone a bit rogue here!" laughed Mickey as he was showing Jack's movements on the big screen.
The samurai was indeed making his way up toward the platform to knock out Serious Sam, but a certain Makoto was indeed there ready to be in the samurai's way.
"Nothing's going to get past me!" roared Makoto as she then powered up with a burst of energy.
In spite of Makoto's efforts as she used her martial art skills on Jack, Jack was able to outwit her at every turn and eventually moved onto targeting Serious Sam.
"What the, I don't care how you got passed the defenses, but you won't take me down samurai!" roared Serious Sam.
Serious Sam charged at Jack as he tried to deliver several punches at the samurai, but the samurai ended up delivering Serious Sam an uppercut sending him crashing down to the ground. But as the Hotshots and Ice Men continued to fight each other, it was indeed that time for Mickey Cantor to unleash the mascot Bullseye. The contestants who were not unconscious stood a bit a gasp as they noticed Bullseye's entrance into the arena.
"Come on guys, hit me as best as you can!" laughed Bullseye.
"Alright, he at least asked for it" said Bill who continued to fire at Bullseye along with both members of the Hotshots and Ice Men.
The Hotshots were indeed getting most of what Bullseye had to offer for them in cash, and assorted health equipment items that were being dropped.
"It's Bullseye, our Monday Night Combat mascot, get his stuff while he still going good!" laughed Mickey.
Indeed the Hotshots were on the road to recovery as they acquired the necessary support from Bullseye, to which the mascot ended up exiting the arena, it was time again for them to give it another go against the Ice Men whom were losing the round.
"Looks like the Hotshots are winning this one!" laughed Mickey.
Indeed the Hotshots were winning, a certain Samurai Jack had already taken out Serious Sam and Makoto, and was fighting Beautiful Gorgeous which the two were obviously evenly matched.
"I must say, you're an impressive fighter, too bad I'm going to have to take you down" laughed Beautiful Gorgeous.
Beautiful Gorgeous ends up pushing Jack off the platform in spite of his efforts. But indeed the round itself was called as a win for the Hotshots.
"Looks like in spite of all the action we have here, the Hotshots have won this round, as for the Ice Men, I'd have to say you're going to have to send someone home" laughed Mickey.
Indeed the Ice Men were sent back to the locker room to vote for one of their own off. Within the locker room were obvious confession areas for the contestants to make their claims.
"I don't know about you, but I hate lousy players, I'm going to vote for Louis" said Dan.
"Louis" added Beautiful Gorgeous.
"Sorry pal" said Serious Sam as he voted for Louis.
"Incompetence!" roared Sabertooth as he placed his vote for Louis.
"Sorry" said Sub-Zero who voted for Louis.
"You're going to disappear like me when I vanish into thin air" laughed Smoke who also voted for Louis.
"You got beaten up more than me" sighed Ryu who voted for Louis.
"No offense you could have done a better job" said Makoto who also voted for Louis.
Indeed as the Ice Men's Pit Girl looked at the tally of votes by the other members of the Ice Men, it was clear that Louis was going to be voted off.
"Sorry Louis, looks like you're going to be voted off" sighed the Ice Men's Pit Girl.
Indeed Louis was likely going to be taken away by the robotic guards.
"Time to send you home for good" said the robotic guard to Louis.
Indeed Louis was escorted by the robotic guards back what seemed like an inter dimensional time portal that was acquired by Mickey Cantor.
"You know, I decided to do this to just improve my ratings and compete against my competitor Chris McLean, but hey look forward to more Monday Night Combat!" laughed Mickey.