Chapter 7: Gapshots and Scramblers
Indeed it was going to be another round between the Icemen and the Hotshots with the Hotshots losing their own Duke Nukem during the last round. A certain Mickey Cantor was rather pleased with the ratings that were going through the rough as he had another secret meeting with Lucius Malfoy who was visiting him in prison.
"I must say, it's rather interesting bunch you got me" laughed Mickey.
"Indeed, I aim to please" continued Lucius.
"Say, where the heck is that son Draco of yours?" asked Mickey.
"I have him on assignment scouting more possible contestants even on Chris McLean's own turf" laughed Lucius.
"And what about the Shadaloo being ripped apart by those global government agencies?" asked Mickey.
"I'm already planning to enlist the members of Shadaloo whom were not caught to help us apprehend more possible contestants for your second season" laughed Lucius.
"Sounds fantastic" laughed Mickey, "can't wait to see them in action, speaking of action. Let's get ready for some more Monday Night Combat!"
Indeed it was yet another round for the Hotshots whom were on a losing streak, without Duke Nukem to lead the pack the Hotshots were certain to go down unless a leader stood firm.
"Listen" said Batman, "we can still be able to get through this."
"Yea, how?" asked Lilith.
"Hey, Bats gots the right idea of himself being the leader" said Brick, "much better than that Duke Nukem guy."
"Sounds good to me" said Scorpion.
"Yea whatever" added Wolverine.
"Fine, I'm in" said Lilith, "but I know I'm going to regret it one way or another."
"I'm in, those moves of yours back there in a few rounds could serve us a good purpose" continued Bill.
"I hope your skills can do better" said Jack.
The Hotshots being led by the Dark Knight moved out heading toward the Icemen's ring to give them a taste of their own medicine.
"Sounds like we got company" said Beautiful Gorgeous to Dan Phantom.
"Let's give them a big surprise then" laughed Dan.
Smoke who was invisible snuck around the Hotshots, likewise Dan did the same, both of them appeared right behind them with Serious Sam, Beautiful Gorgeous, Ryu and Makoto moving in.
"Great, it's a trap!" cried Lilith, "Just wonderful."
"Uh oh, looks like the Hotshots indeed had fallen into another trap, but it wouldn't be fun to just see them wasted by the Icemen, so we decided to make things a bit interested by unleashing the Gapshots on them!" laughed Mickey, "And let's not forget the Scramblers!"
Indeed rockets were being launched a few feet away by some Gapshot bots that were landing and targeting whatever targets were on the ground itself.
"Great, just when we were going to have our fun" sighed Dan.
Smoke decided to take care of the Gapshots as he turned invisible, but the Scramblers ended up shooting lasers at the robotic ninja to which Sub-Zero stepped in to save his old friend by freezing the Scramblers and breaking them into pieces.
"Wow, look at that folks, let's see that on the big screen!" laughed Mickey as he was showing Sub-Zero freezing some Scramblers and breaking them into pieces.
"We still need to take out those Gapshots" said Beautiful Gorgeous.
"Leave that to me" said Ryu.
Ryu stepped forward and launched a few Hadokens targeting the Gapshots destroying them as the Hadoken ended up hitting them. Suddenly a Gapshot that was rather far from Ryu fired a rocket which sent him flying right into the air and tumbling badly right onto the ground.
"Ouch, that had to hurt folks, let's see that in an instant replay!" laughed Mickey.
"We're not going to be made into a laughing stalk by some robots!" cried Serious Sam, "Er, no offense to Smoke."
But as more Gapshots came into the scene they were also targeting the Hotshots as well to which the Hotshots had an easier time dodging the oncoming rockets.
"Over here!" cried Batman as he led the way.
"We have to use this to our advantage, but how" said Lilith.
"The Icemen would be too much concentrated on going after the bots that are attacking them" continued Jack, "I say a surprise attack would be a good answer."
Batman signaled Lilith and Brick to their positions, along with Jack, Wolverine, Scorpion and Bill.
"Now!" ordered Batman.
Wolverine led the way with his claws ready to go after Dan, with Scorpion, Jack and Bill as his backup.
"You four won't get away!" cried Dan.
Dan attempted to use his Ghostly Wail to try to push the four away, but Scorpion managed to teleport and give Dan a good punch from right behind, to which he typically used his spear and gave Dan an uppercut.
"Wow, let's see that surprise attack in an instant replay!" laughed Mickey as he then showed Scorpion's traditional moves on the big screen.
That obviously brought attention to Sub-Zero and Makoto who turned their attention toward Scorpion, Bill, Jack and Wolverine.
"You don't want to mess with me kid" said Wolverine to Makoto.
"Don't call me kid anymore" said Makoto.
Before Wolverine could even know what hit him, Makoto gave Wolverine quite a vicious attack that even shocked Wolverine, she ended up ending the combo with an uppercut to which Wolverine landed on his feet.
"Nice moves, but you won't stand a chance against mine" said Wolverine.
Wolverine charged at Makoto with his claws ready, but Sub-Zero who stepped right in front of her ended up freezing Wolverine with his ice powers right on the spot literally and likely saving her.
"I didn't need to be saved" said Makoto to Sub-Zero.
"Sounds like he was only inches away" said Sub-Zero.
"Wow, what a fight folks!" laughed Mickey as he couldn't believe it displaying the replays on the big screen to which it was time for Juice Bot to come in, "Hear that folks, it's Juice Bot, the contestants that are still capable can still hit him where it hurts!"
Indeed Dan was hoping to use Juice Bot to regain his health but also the other contestants whom were not injured as well.
"I feel fully charged" laughed Dan, "time to bring some payback."
Dan immediately targeted the next big threat the Hotshots would possess toward the Icemen, namely Brick.
"You're going down big guy" laughed Dan.
Dan charged at Brick and gave him quite a punch which literally knocked the large guy down with one blow.
"Oh you're going to pay for that" said Lilith as she then fired her weapon at Dan where Dan was easily able to dodge the attacks.
"Is that the best you can do?" laughed Dan.
"How about something like this!" cried Jack as the samurai came in charging with a sword ending up slicing and hurting Dan a bit.
"You'll pay for that!" cried Dan.
Indeed the clock was ticking on the round that was going to be over soon, and it seemed like neither the Hotshots nor the Icemen were going to win this one. The buzzer indeed rang signaling an end to the round.
"Ouch, looks like neither team made any real gains here, they'll likely have to vote off a team member!" laughed Mickey.
A few minutes later in both the Icemen and Hotshots locker rooms, the votes were cast and it was quite clear Wolverine was out and so was Ryu whom were both either knocked out or frozen solid. They were escorted by robotic guards straight toward the inter dimensional portal back to their own worlds.
"That's all the time we have here for Monday Night Combat, until these messages!" laughed Mickey.