(The Arena)

The seven fighters in the arena waited patiently for the next wave to come out. Billy tossed his staff to himself a couple of times and Kathy was whistling a cheerful tune, but other than that, the fighters were quiet. When they heard people cheering, everyone looked at the entrance curtain to see whom was entering.

"RALF JONES! (KOF)

The Ikari Warrior laughed and cracked his knuckles. "Finally, another one of us enters the arena. Let's see if I can match Clark's score." He mused as he ran down the ramp leading to the arena.

Once he hit the arena, Ralf quickly went over to challenge Xigbar. "I'm looking for a fight, man."

"Well, I suppose I can fight you, but keep in mind that there's a RABID FANGIRL ON MY BACK!" Xigbar said, directing the last words towards the Hylian princess latching onto him.

"Sooooooo?" Zelda asked.

Ralf chuckled. "Well, let's see if she slows you down any."

"SHINNOSUKE KAGAMI!" (LB)

Coming out to a loud fangirl cheer, Kagami strode down to the arena, his sword at his side and his white coat blowing in the breeze as he walked. Kagami reached the end of the ramp and gracefully jumped into the arena.

Once he landed, Kagami looked around. "Let's see. My node could use an easy elimination, but whom should I go for?"

His eyes finally landed on Gabby Jay, whom was still trying to catch his breath. Kagami smirked evilly and rushed over.

Gabby looked ahead and jumped in surprise when he saw Kagami running at him. He instinctively lashed out his hand, striking the oncoming man in the face.

Kagami staggered back. "Maybe this'll be harder than I thought it would."

"ACE!" (S3)

The self-proclaimed 'ladies man' of Geddoe's team came out, twirling a Sai in his hand. Ace scanned the arena for any ladies, but came up short. Kathy was too young for him and Ace was smart enough to know that Zelda was Link's girlfriend.

Ace contemplated his chances as he jumped into the arena. Thus far, Geddoe was the only one in the group to have much success. Queen and Joker both got tossed fairly easily.

Without looking, Ace raised his arm to the side, clutching one of his Sai. Vega's claws slashed against them. Ace looked at the masked matador with a smirk.

"Maybe my chances aren't so bad after all." Ace thought as he rushed Vega.

"SHURA!" (WH)

The young Thai fighter came out (to a series of boos) and rushed down to the arena, prepared for anything. Heck, if J. Maxx and Ryoko could score an elimination, maybe there was a chance Shura could, too.

Shura saw Billy and rushed over to him. However, the British stick-fighter saw him coming, pulled his staff into the air and smashed it over Shura's head.

Shura was suddenly feeling a little less confident.

(Hotel; Lobby)

"What's taking Vivian so long?" Mika asked.

"She has to go everywhere." Chonrei pointed out. "It could take her a bit."

The team, still waiting for Vivian to get back from her scouting, was starting to get restless. Guile and J. Maxx were the most anxious to get moving, as their children were at stake and they didn't want to fail them. Although the woman behind the desk found it unusual that there was such a large group of fighters waiting in the lobby (and why a fight would break out there), she didn't say anything.

"We're definitely losing time, though." Clark sighed. "We need to find out where the kids are before Bison does whatever he's going to do."

"You are right, citizen! And 'The Koehan' shall obliterate all evil here should anything happen to those poor children!" Chang said.

"Twelve…" Heavy D! muttered, still keeping track at how many times Chang said something heroic.

Suddenly, everyone heard footsteps again. Looking at the doorway, everyone saw a very furious Yuber coming onto the scene, muttering things about some guy named 'Pesmerga'.

"Yuber." Samus said, narrowing his eyes. "He's in on this."

"Should we try interrogating him?" Guile asked.

"Might be a wise choice."

"Zen let ME handle zis." Nightcrawler said, stepping up.

"You sure?" Samus asked.

"I haff not been doing very much as of yet." The blue-skinned mutant shrugged. "I vant to at least contribute something to zis."

Samus stood in silence before nodding. "Okay. Good luck."

Nightcrawler vanished in a cloud of purple smoke, appearing directly in front of Yuber, making the black-clad madman stop.

"Move, fool." Yuber threatened.

"I am sorry, but I am afraid zat I cannot do zat." Nightcrawler said, getting into a stance. "Vat do you know about zis plot?"

Yuber smirked as one of his blades shot from within his sleeve and landed in his hand. "Ah, good. Something to take my anger out on."

(The Arena)

"CHUN-LI!" (SFA3)

Street Fighter's leading lady came out to a loud cheer. The blue-clad police woman rushed down to the ring, confident that she could do fairly well.

When she hit the arena, Ace pushed Vega away and walked over. "Hey, there! Wanna go out Saturday night?"

Chun-Li kicked him in the head. "I don't know who's got lamer pickup lines. This guy or Jon Arbuckle."

"JOE HIGASHI!" (KOF)

Joe came out in his usual fighting attire: A pair of shorts. He played to the crow as he ran down to the arena. To say that Joe felt great would be an understatement. Joe felt like nothing could spoil how good he felt.

"HIGASHIIIII!" Billy screamed kicking Shura away and running over with his staff raised.

Joe's eyes bulged. Being the boyfriend of Lily Kane meant that he had to deal with her overprotective brother, whom happened to hate his guts. Joe turned tail and ran.

(The Crowd)

Lilly Kane sighed. She knew this would happen. The instant Billy and Joe would be in the ring together, the former would be after the latter's head. Lilly just had to hope for the best and continued to watch the show.

Unknown to her, Lilly was being watched.

(The Arena)

"MEWTWO!" (SSB)

Mewtwo sighed as he floated down to the arena. Ness had been eliminated, and that meant that he had taken all of the knowledge he had with him. All the psychic Pokemon could do now was wait for a villain to enter and get the info from them.

Reaching the end of the ramp, Mewtwo lifted himself off the ground and floated into the arena gracefully, arms folded the whole time. His first instinct was to help Zelda, but from the looks of things, she had everything under control (if you call acting like a crazed fangirl for a one-eyed gunner with a black cloak under control).

Mewtwo decided to go help Gabby Jay with Kagami, as the old boxer looked like he was starting to lose the fight.

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

"BLAZEMAN!" (The Fallout Shelter)

Blazeman jumped into the arena and looked around. Two of the biggest names in fighting games, Chun-Li and Terry Bogard, were in the arena with him, and that meant that he could have the chance to fight with some of them and hopefully do well.

The TFS resident stepped to the side as Joe and Billy flew past him, then drew his sword as he walked over to Terry, hoping for a challenge.

(Announcer's Booth)

"Tell me WHY you invited one of the TFS'ers to fight, again." Unknown1 said.

SSBFreak smirked. "Experimenting for next year."

"WOLF HAWKFIELD!" (VF)

The American wrestler of the Virtua Fighter node stood outside the entrance curtain, let out his trademark howl and ran down to the arena.

In all honesty, Wolf was surprised at how well his node was doing thus far. Kage and Goh had done the best out of all of them so far, and only a few of them were left to enter, so Wolf could only hope that he could improve on what Kage and Goh had done.

Once he hit the arena, he quickly saw Vega without an opponent now that Chun-Li was beating Ace into the canvas. Wolf went over to Vega, grabbed him and piledrived him into the ground.

Vega jumped to his feet. "If you hurt my face from that, you'll pay with your life." He said icily.

Wolf chuckled. "Bring it, prettyboy!"

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

Bison growled and paced back and forth. "Where's Gannondorf?" He muttered. "He was eliminated two sections ago, so he should be back by now."

"What's so important about that guy, anyway?" King Lion asked. A few others agreed with him.

"Because whether you like it or not, he is one of the strongest people helping us." Bison replied. "And the fact that he's not here by now makes me wonder if he ran into any of the force that's trying to stop us."

Suddenly, as if on cue, Bison's phone on the table started ringing. Bison quickly picked it up and answered it. "Yes?" He asked. He instantly recognized the voice on the other end. "Gannondorf, where ARE you? You know that you're supposed to meet back here, so where ARE you?"

The other villains watched as Bison continued. "What? What do you mean you don't want to help anymore? What could be more important?"

(Hotel, Gannondorf's Room)

"Oh, I'm sure you can handle things just fine without me. Goodbye, Bison." Gannondorf said as he hung up the phone.

As soon as he hung up the phone, Gannondorf picked up another piece of paper and started folding it. As he did, he looked around the room at all of the origami animals and objects scattered around the room.

A genuine smile floated across the Gerudo king's face. Maybe he had finally found his callng…

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

Bison growled again as he hung up the phone. "Looks like we're going to have to continue without his help."

"Shouldn't matter." Setsuna muttered. "He's a fool, anyway."

"Well, without Gannondorf's strength, we'll need to try even harder to fight off this force." Bison said. "All of you, take your positions, because I have a feeling that we'll be encountering some of these people very soon."

The others nodded and left the room. Unknown to anyone, a small, circular, black shadow on the floor slid out of the room as well.

(The Arena)

"RICO!" (S3)

Rico gulped nervously as she gripped her hammer. She and Kathy were the last females from the Suikoden node remaining, and unlike the latter, Rico wasn't liking her chances. If her master, Fred Maxmillion, could be eliminated so easily, what's to stop his squire from the same fate?

Clearing her head and trying to remain as calm as she could, Rico walked down to the arena and climbed in.

Rico quickly rushed over to Kathy to help her. Swinging her hammer, Rico knocked Shura away.

Kathy smiled. "Heya, Rico! How're y'all feelin?" The rancher greeted cheerfully.

"A little nervous." Rico said.

"Ah, don't worry." Kathy laughed. "Look, let's stick together. I'm sure that we can wear someone down."

Rico managed a weak smile and nodded. "Okay. Thanks, Kathy."

"GUNTER!" (GF)

Gunter, a giant, lizard-like creature, came out from behind the curtain to a mixed reaction (much like for most of the Galaxy Fight crew). Much like Rico, Gunter wasn't liking his chances, but he was doing a better job at hiding his nervousness.

Still, Musafar and G. Done had managed to get eliminations, so maybe the lizard-man would get lucky.

Shura saw Gunter come in and rushed over, seeing him to be an easy elimination.

One second later and Shura was sent flying across the arena. Gunter smirked.

"ROGUE!" (MC)

The young mutant came out from behind the curtain and flew down the ramp as the crowd cheered her on.

Rogue sighed as she jumped into the arena. Remy was gone, Logan was gone. Rogue was really hoping to do some double-teaming, but because Wolverine had just been eliminated, she couldn't. Gambit had been eliminated long ago, taking out those chances as well.

Seeing Xigbar fighting Ralf (with Zelda still on his back, by the way), Rogue rushed over and took a glove off.

Xigbar turned just in time for Rogue to place her uncovered hand on his face, draining his energy. The Organization member collapsed to one knee after a couple of seconds as Rogue stood over him, her brown hair turning black (and the white streak in her hair turning gray).

"Let's see, here." Rogue said as she held out her hand. Sure enough, a gun materialized.

Rogue smirked and rushed off to cause mischief.

"And now, the final fighter of this section…"

"YOSHIMITSU!" (T5)

The odd sword-wielder came out from behind the curtain and started twirling his sword, lifting himself off the ground. Yoshimitsu hovered into the arena the rest of the way, landing on his feet.

"It's a pity I didn't get an earlier draw." Yoshimitsu chuckled. "I might have had the pleasure of eliminating that scum, Bryan Fury."

Still, Bryan was long gone, so Yoshimitsu had to look for a fight elsewhere. He went over to Kathy and Rico, although he had to pause to let Joe and Billy run by, the latter still chasing the former.

"Excuse me?" Yoshimitsu asked, getting the attention of both teenagers. "I'm looking for a fight."

Kathy smirked. "Well, y'all got one, now!"

Yoshimitsu smirked behind his mask. "Very good. Let's see what you've got."