(The Arena)

All seven fighters in the arena looked up at Master Hand and Crazy Hand. As the two started spinning around in midair, the spike sticking out of the middle of the arena shrank back into the canvas.

Suddenly, the remaining fighters started feeling the arena shake. After a few seconds, everyone started noticing pieces of the arena falling off. Toppo and Heavy D! had to leap to safety to avoid falling into elimination.

When the earthquake subsided, the arena was now in the shape of a star, but the ropes around the edges were still in the shape of a square, providing huge gaps for easy eliminations.

"You fighters had better watch out now!" Unknown1 laughed. "Gaps that size are big enough for the largest of fighters to fall through!"

Suddenly, everyone heard the distinct sound of Thousand Foot Krutch coming from the speakers. The seven fighters turned towards the entrance curtain.

"MEL!" (S3)

"It's all around me"

"I can't wish this away"

"You so amaze me"

"You took my monster away"

"Here we go, Branky!" The dark-haired Mel told her wolf-puppet excitedly. "We're going into the arena to get as many eliminations as possible to help our node!"

"Oh, boy!" Branky 'replied'. "It's going to be so much fun taking everyone down!"

"Wake me! C'mon and wake me up now!"

"I want to cut off my strings and break"

"Loose of your control of me"

"Cut your strings and break free with me!"

Mel leapt into the arena and quickly rushed to help Toppo with Larcen. Leaping into the air, Mel slammed Branky's head into the burglar's back, finally knocking him off his grappling rope.

"Everybody, shake your body"

"Lift your hands"

"Stop fronting, you're just a puppet"

"Everybody, shake your body"

"Lift your hands"

"Stop fronting, you're just a puppet!"

"Ugh…Thanks, kid." Larcen said as he got to his feet.

"Thanks? We were trying to kill you!" Branky exclaimed.

Mel looked at her puppet angrily. "Branky! Don't be rude!" Without another word, Mel walked over to a turnbuckle and started beating Branky against it. "Say it! Apologize!"

"Owowowowowowow! Okay! Okay! I'm sorry!"

Larcen reached under his fedora and scratched his head. Realizing that he had seen stranger things, he turned, only to duck as the Master Sword, Toppo still wielding it, soared over his head.

"FRANCO BASH!" (FF)

Stepping out from behind the curtain, Franco pounded his fists together before running down to the ring.

Heavy D! saw him come in and smirked. "Finally. Another boxer." He said. He approached Franco and put up his fists. "Let's see how powerful your punches are, Bash."

Imagine D!'s surprise when Franco, being a Thai fighter, shot his foot forward.

D! staggered back, clutching his jaw. "You're a Thai fighter?" He asked.

Franco nodded with a smirk. "You sound surprised."

"Great." D! muttered. "Now it looks like I'll have to wait for Steve Fox to come out before I fight a boxer."

"PEACH TOADSTOOL!" (SSB)

As the Super Mario Bros. 3 theme came through the speakers, Peach came out from behind the curtain, waved a few times and blew some kisses before getting to the bottom of the ramp.

Link turned just in time to see Peach hover into the arena. Once Peach landed on her feet, she ran over to him to see what was up. "Link, why are you walking around with the Butterfly Net instead of the Master Sword?"

The Hero of Time scratched his head nervously. "Well…You see…While I was fighting this purple-haired swordsman, I kinda…Lost it." Link replied.

Peach's eyes snapped open. "You LOST the Master Sword? What'll Zelda think if she found out?"

"She doesn't have to." Link assured. "I just need to find the Master Sword before I return to the Locker Room."

"But…Isn't this being played everywhere around the dome and hotel?" Peach asked.

Link paled.

(SSB Locker Room)

Everyone instantly looked at Zelda and saw that she was looking at the ground, although she was turning beet red.

"Uh…Is there anything wrong, Zelda?" Roy asked, almost afraid to speak up.

Steam started shooting from Zelda's ears. "He…Lost…The…Master…SWORD!"

Zelda leapt out of her seat and wrapped her fingers around Roy's neck. "He lost the freaking Master Sword, you moron! Of COURSE nothing's wrong!"

After everyone saw that it took the combined efforts of Luigi, Mewtwo and Bowser to pry Zelda off of Roy, they were tempted to search the dome for a straitjacket.

(Hotel; Sagat's Room)

Sagat lay on the floor, doing push-ups with one arm behind his back. After Ryu had scored his elimination against Scorpion, Sagat had come back to his room to start training for his rematch after the tournament was over.

"I must be in top condition if my fight with Ryu is going to be fair." Sagat said to himself. "If he did any better than I did, I must train even harder."

"You'll not need to worry about that any more."

Instantly recognizing the new voice, Sagat sprang into a standing position and spun around, not surprised to find himself staring at M. Bison.

"What do you want, scum?" Sagat spat. He had no intention of coming within twenty feet of Bison or even considering rejoining Shadaloo if given the chance.

"Scum?" Bison asked with an evil smirk. "I'd be more careful if I were you. You see, I have a job offer for you.""

"Not interested." Sagat said quickly. "In you OR your organization. If that was all you came for, I suggest you leave."

"I'm afraid you have no choice." Bison replied as he lunged forward in a Psycho Crusher. Sagat, unprepared for this attack, flew back-first into the far wall.

Sagat slowly stood up and glared at Bison, but he still was prepared, as Bison lashed out his hand, firing an orb of dark energy at Sagat.

"Sagat! Look out!" The giant man suddenly felt himself getting tackled from the side, knocking him out of harm's way. Looking up at his rescuer, Sagat's good eye widened.

"Bruce?"

A freshly recovered Bruce Irvin looked over his shoulder at Sagat. "I'll take this creep on! You go get help!"

Sagat shook his head. "No. I can't let you fight him alone."

"You're injured!" Bruce insisted. "You're in no condition to fight!"

Sagat sighed. "Okay. I'll be back as quick as I can. Good luck, Bruce."

Bison tried to stop Sagat from escaping, but Bruce slammed his knee into the dictator's head, allowing Sagat to run out the door.

"You'll pay for that with your life, my friend." Bison said to Bruce.

Bruce got into his stance. "Bring it!"

(Hotel; Cafeteria)

"…And now we found you here." Julia finished telling Rasputin the story. It had taken her a good deal to get through the whole story, especially after Eiji had experienced two massive pain attacks during her explanation.

Rasputin, Rose, Nightwolf and Tikal had all paled, and the two new fiends had noticed this. "What seems to be the problem?" Eiji asked.

"I was afraid this was why we felt two extremely strong elemental powers coming from the came area." Rasputain said, his eyes wide. "This is bad. Very bad."

Eiji was now extremely interested. "What? What is it?"

"You see, no normal human body is supposed to be able to wield two elemental powers of this strength." Rose explained. "Fire and water are the absolute worst kinds to put together."

"Why?" Julia asked. "Is Eiji is danger?"

"Very much so." Rasputin nodded. "You see, when two elemental forces are held in the same body, they start to want to take full control. Soon, the two elements have an all-out control war with the host stuck in the middle."

Suddenly, as if to clarify Rasputin's statement, Eiji's body lurched back as he howled in pain again. His body held a red aura, then a blue aura before finally reverting back to normal.

"What's the cure?" Julia asked, clearly wanting to help Eiji.

Tikal sighed sadly. "There IS no cure. The only way for this to end is if one or both of the elements willingly leave Eiji's body. Until then, we can do absolutely nothing."

Eiji's skin turned as white as a ghost. "So, there's nothing anyone can do?"

"I'm sorry, my friend." Rasputin sighed. "But no, there is not."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Julia asked.

"The only thing we CAN do is go to those two ninjas and see what they know." Rasputin replied. "I enter in the same section as Mezu, but you two must look for those ninjas and see if they know anything on these elements."

Eiji sighed. "Thank you for trying, sir." He said. "Come on, Julia. Let's go."

(The Arena)

"BRYAN FURY!" (T5)

The white haired cyborg cop shoved the curtain aside as he came onto the ramp. Looking down at the arena, Bryan smirked at the lack of apparent challengers and adjusted his vest before running down to the arena.

Bryan's first instincts were to go for the one that had the most fatigue. Currently, that was Heavy D!. However, Bryan couldn't make it very far, as King, whom had knocked R. Mika away a few seconds ago, stepped in his way.

"You stay away from him." King said sternly. "I've heard of you and about how you always play cheap."

Bryan smirked. "It's such a pity that I have to harm such a lovely face."

King shuddered at Bryan's voice, which she didn't find attractive in the least. "Sorry, pal. I'm taken."

"By who?"

"Ryo Sakazaki." King explained. "And if you try anything with me, not only will I pound you into a pulp, but Ryo will make sure that you eat through a straw for all of next month."

Normally, when Bryan was threatened like that, he would have laughed, but since King had said 'Ryo Sakazaki', he wasn't so sure if it was such a good idea to hit on her.

"WILLIAM GUILE!" (SFA3)

"It's better not to look back or should we dust off our journals"

"Stare deep through the feedback for the new day"

"Like the distortion has things to say"

Guile walked down to the ring as Downhere began to play. The military man with the tall hair rolled his shoulders before saluting to the crowd.

"Is it better to ignore it, that these bomb shelters are built of sand"

"Scoring themes from our views, making movies of tragic news"

"Does this helpless picnic have its own Neverland?"

However, while Guile was focused on winning the tournament for his family, he was completely oblivious to the fact that his only daughter was being targeted for an evil plot led by the man he despised the most, M. Bison. Guile jumped into the arena.

"They say America never hurts"

"They say America never cries"

"Like no one's lonely in America"

"Like no one's lonely in America"

Once he hit the arena, Guile quickly saw Bryan Fury attacking R. Mika. Thinking quickly, Guile lashed out a Sonic Boom, sending Bryan into the awaiting arms of Toppo, whom quickly started attacking the zombie-cyborg with the Master Sword.

Mika nodded. "Thanks, Guile."

"No problem." Guile replied. "Mika, I know this may sound like I'm asking a lot, but I need you to try and survive this section."

"Sure, but what for?"

"Bison enters in the next section." Guile replied. "I'm going to need help taking him down."

Mika nodded. "Okay."

"LUCKY GLAUBER!" (KOF)

As it turned out, Lucky had made it to the ready room just as his name was announced. Lucky leapt out from behind the curtain, almost completely out of breath. After catching his breath, Lucky waved to the crowd (which was giving him a surprisingly loud cheer) and pumped his fist into the air several times before running down to the ring.

"Hey, D!" Lucky called out.

Heavy D! turned just in time to see Lucky jump into the arena. The tall basketball player ran over to his friend. Once Lucky got close enough, the two friends high-fived.

"It's good to see that you're still in the ring, man." Lucky said.

D! nodded. "How's the mission coming?" He asked.

Lucky sighed. "Not great. We found Amy Guile, but some creeps had beaten us to her. Ryoko, Bridget and I walloped a few of the villains, but the fourth one ran off after Amy. Ryoko and Bridget went off after them.

D! nodded. "Say. Has Nightcrawler met up with you guys yet?"

Lucky raised an eyebrow. "Nightcrawler? No. When was he eliminated?"

"At least three sections ago." D! replied, looking just as confused. He turned towards the Eliminated Seating and saw a cloud of purple smoke rising from a now-empty seat.

(Dome; Hallway)

Nightcrawler materialized alone and looked around nervously. "I can't BELIEVE zat I forgot about ze mission!" He said. "Eet looks like I have to do theengs myself, zen."

(Diamond City, Streets)

Lee Chaolan chuckled as he drove down a country road in Diamond City on Mona's red scooter, towards the house belonging to Wario. Mona, sitting behind the silver-haired man was bound arm and leg with duct tape.

"This'll be the easiest money I've ever gotten." Lee said. "I'll take you to Wario and demand that he hand over a fairly large portion of his money in exchange for you."

Mona would have shouted an insult at Lee, but there was very little she could shout with her mouth covered with a cloth.

"Don't worry, my dear." Lee said smugly. "If you're as good a friend to Wario as you say you are, I'm sure that he'll make the exchange without a second thought."

Lee looked ahead again and continued to pilot the scooter down the road, humming a very annoying tune (Mona figured that it wouldn't have been that bad if Lee wasn't completely tone-deaf).

Suddenly, Lee's humming was brought to an abrupt halt. Lee felt something big and round smash into the side of his head, knocking him off the scooter completely. The wielder of the huge weapon stopped the scooter with a huge hand.

Lee landed on the grass and shook his head to clear it. Looking at Mona, he saw her rescuer standing in front of her, seething at him. Lee's mouth went completely dry.

"You criminal scum!" Chang Koehan shouted, brandishing his iron wrecking ball (which Shiba had thrown out of the ring earlier). "You have some nerve doing this to a poor, helpless woman!"

Lee quickly stood up. "Hey, now! Can you really blame me? I just needed some extra cash!"

Another Kim-like glint came from Chang's eye, showing that he was extremely ticked-off. "'The Koehan' shall make absolute certain that you never do this again!"

Mona, still sitting on her scooter, watched as Chang swung his iron ball at Lee. All she could do was hope this mysterious superhero could save her.

(The Arena)

"HANZO HATTORI!" (SS)

A loud cheer erupted from the crowd as the familiar black-clad ninja came out from behind the curtain. Hanzo ran down to the arena and leapt into the air. While still over the elimination field, Hanzo vanished into the air, leaving a log to fall through the vortex (where it landed directly on top of Dr. Wily's head in the Megaman node).

When Hanzo appeared in the arena, he saw that his aim was perfect. He had appeared directly in front of Kagemaru, whom had finally stood up, his energy replenished.

"Ah. Another ninja." Kage said. "It pleases me to see how well we've been doing in the tournament."

Hanzo nodded. "Quite. You and Galford managed two eliminations and that Watari fellow managed four." He replied. "Hopefully, I will be able to do just as well."

Kage nodded. "Well, shall we fight?"

"Let's."

"KING LION!" (KE)

King Lion wasn't sure how his chances would be in the arena now, especially after how badly Max Eagle and Hayate had managed. Now there were two ninjas, a psychotic cyber-zombie, a super-strong American soldier, a furious female wrestler and a juggler wielding a strange sword in the arena. King Lion sighed as he jumped into the arena. He figured that he may as well get this over with.

The first thing King Lion tried to do was go for Heavy D!, being a boxer and all, but when he saw D! and Lucky fighting Franco Bash, he decided against it.

Unfortunately for King Lion, R. Mika saw him come in. Knocking King away, Mika ran at King Lion and tackled him to the ground.

"Okay, pal! Your friend Chaolan wouldn't say anything, but I bet that you'll crack a little easier!" With that, Mika showed an unusual amount of strength again and picked King Lion up, slamming him into the ground.

King Lion kept asking why he was cursed with such bad luck.

"G. DONE!" (GF)

When G. Done came out from behind the curtain, he wasn't expecting a loud cheer, but was surprised when he actually heard a surprising amount of people in the audience cheering for him. G. Done looked around the stands in amazement before nodding and starting his trek to the arena.

Craig Marduk, whom had returned from the recovery room after his defeat at the hands of Cranky Kong, laughed heartily. "Is that your name? What the heck kinda name is G. Done?"

Five seconds later and Marduk was flying back into the eliminatinon vortex. He landed in Unreal Championship like Ash and Spiral did, but with his arm in a sling, there was very little he could do to prevent himself from getting blasted.

Almost instantly, the cheer for G. Done got a heck of a lot louder. The streetfighter continued his trek to the arena, a little more confident now.

G. Done hit the ring and instantly ran at Larcen, whom was still dodging attacks from Toppo. Thrusting his fist out, G. Done slammed it into Larcen's back, knocking the burglar down.

The newest fighter looked at Toppo. "Need a hand?" G. Done asked.

Toppo nodded, silently thanking him.

(Dome; Hallway)

Jin Chonrei and Vivian walked down the hallway quietly, making sure that they didn't make any noises. They were currently trying to find King's brother Jan before any of these villains got to him.

"Where could he be?" Vivian asked Chonrei. "He wasn't in his seat in the audience."

"I don't know." Chonrei sighed as rubbed his temples. "I honestly don't know."

"You don't suppose we're too late, do you, Chonrei?" Vivian asked fearfully.

"I hope not." Chonrei said before something caught his eye. Looking down the hallway, Chonrei saw Vega, one of the two that had come into the storage room, talking with Anna Williams. "But I think I know a way of how we could find out."

Vivian nodded. "Got it." Grabbing Chonrei again, Vivian sank into the floor, turning both young-looking fighters into a shadow on the floor so they could listen in.

"So, did you get the boy?" Vega asked.

Anna nodded. "It was a piece of cake, really. And with his big sister in the ring, we'll have nothing to worry about." She replied with a smirk. "So, how many targets do we have left?"

"We're getting there." Vega replied. "But I think the next one we should focus on is that squire of Christ Lightfellow. He isn't a fighter at all and we'll be able to overpower him easily."

Feeling that they had heard enough, Vivian and Chonrei rose from the floor, each of them with stern expressions on their faces.

Vega saw the two rise from the floor as his eyes widened. "Those two heard us!" He shouted. "They actually heard us!"

Anna puts up her fists. "You go on. I'll take these two brats." She said. "I won't be a minute."

Vega nodded and rushed off, leaving Chonrei and Vivian to face Anna Williams.

Vivian snapped her fingers, creating a flame. "We've heard enough, lady! You and your buddies are going down!"

Anna smirked. "We'll just have to see about that."

(The Arena)

"JOKER!" (S3)

Joker appeared on the ramp with a bottle of brandy in his hand. Thinking quickly, the purple-clad mercenary downed the rest of the bottle and chucked it into the elimination vortex before running down to the ring (his bottle landed safely on the ground, but Tony Hawk quickly tripped over it).

Once he entered the arena, Joker looked around at his surroundings to see if his nodal companions needed any help. Toppo seemed to be doing fine (although the fact that he was wielding a strange-looking sword confused the middle-aged man a little), and Mel was currently banging Branky against a turnbuckle again as her current opponent, Guile, looked on in confusion.

Deciding to start his own fight, Joker ran at Link and lashed out his palm, attempting to strike the Hero of Time. However, Link saw the attack coming and held up a strange, blue staff rather than the Master Sword. Joker's palm struck Link's staff, dealing no damage.

"Not bad reflexes, I must admit." Joker said.

Link smirked. "Now let's see how good YOURS are."

In the blink of an eye, Link pulled out the Megaton Hammer from behind his back and raised it above his head.

Joker smirked as he dove out of the way in time for the hammer to smash into the canvas. It looked like he was going to actually have a challenge taking him down.

(Sound Booth)

"Do you guys have any more suggestions for music?" Shadow asked his two new friends.

Astaroth scratched his bald head as he searched through a box of CD's. "I can't seem to find any at the moment." He admitted.

Aila suddenly spotted a CD and looked at it curiously. "Hey Shadow? I think I may have found something, but this CD confuses me."

"What is it, Aila?" Shadow asked.

The Karayan girl passed him the CD. "The CD only has one song on it, but it's still fifty minutes long." She explained.

Shadow looked over the CD, and once he did, his eyes lit up. "Who's next?"

Astaroth picked up the list and showed it to Shadow. Almost instantly, the CD was in Astaroth's giant hands.

"Put it on!" Shadow said. "Quickly! This'll be good!"

Astaroth shrugged and went over to the stereo system.

(The Arena)

"BAO!" (KOF)

"This is the song that doesn't end"

"Yes, it goes on and on, my friend"

"Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was"

"Now everybody's singing it forever just because"

Bao came out from behind the curtain that was could be the most annoying song ever written. As Bao merrily marched down to the arena, a lot of the people in the audience started covering their ears in annoyance. And the strangest thing? Bao actually LIKED the song. After bobbing his head to the music, Bao skipped the rest of the way down to the ring.

"This is the song that doesn't end"

"Yes, it goes on and on, my friend"

"Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was"

"Now everybody's singing it forever just because"

As soon as Bao entered, Mel finished giving Branky a beating. Looking in the direction of the newcomer, Mel smirked.

"Perfect. Branky, here's your easy elimination!"

Shoving Branky in Bao's general direction, any non-Suikoden fan started in shock as a continuous stream of fire spewed from the puppet's mouth, flying straight towards Bao.

As Bao started running around the arena to put out his hat fire, Mel took a much-deserved standing ovation from the crowd.

Lucky Glauber watched Bao running around and shook his head. "The kid had it coming, anyway."

Heavy D! nodded. "You said it."

"SETSUNA!" (LB)

The dark assassin came out from behind the curtain with an evil look on his face. Now that he had recovered from his humiliating defeat at the hands of Lucky Glauber, Setsuna could redeem himself by killing a few people in the ring. The dark-skinned man confidently strode down to the arena and jumped in.

As soon as Setsuna hit the canvas, his eyes snapped open at what he saw.

Lucky smirked and cracked his hands. "Well, well, well. Look who's here." He chuckled. "Back for round two?"

"You know this guys, Lucky?" D! asked his friend.

"He's more of an acquaintance, actually." Lucky replied. "He tried to kill me and I beat the snot out of him."

Seeing Lucky approaching him as he caught another basketball, Setsuna quickly turned tail and ran.

Meanwhile, King Lion had grabbed Peach and slammed her into the canvas. He was so wrapped up in his fight with her that he hadn't noticed the theme song change (any DDR fan would have recognized the song as 'Gyruss').

King Lion, pleased with this new wave of good luck, lifted the stunned princess off the ground and held her by the throat, starting to choke her. The techno theme song music suddenly started picking up.

Suddenly, the evil man felt something tap against his feet. Looking down, he saw a lit stick of dynamite.

*KA-BOOM!*

The techno music suddenly paused as King Lion was sent flying into the air, dropping Peach.

"And now…Mystery Fighter…Number…EIGHT!"

"AND the final fighter in this section…"

Peach looked at the ramp to see whom had taken King Lion out.

"WILE E. COYOTE!" (Looney Tunes)

As the techno theme song quickly resumed playing at faster speeds, Wile E. stood outside the curtain, still in his throwing position from when he had tossed the dynamite into the ring, almost oblivious to the loud cheer he was getting. Silently, the brown coyote stood up and ran down to the ring, leaping in just as King Lion hit the floor.

Peach stood up and brushed her dress off as Wile E. landed beside her. "Thanks for the help."

Wile E's response was to hold up a sign that read 'no problem'.

"Well, let's take this monster out!" Peach smirked and cracked her knuckles.

Wile E. pulled out a remote and flashed a sly smirk at King Lion.