(The Arena)
"GET OUTTA THE WAY IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE!" Joe screamed as he bowled over Gabby Jay and Kagami with Billy Kane hot on his heels, screaming murder and swinging his staff like a maniac.
It seemed like daily routine now for both the fighters. Every time Joe would go on a date with Lilly, Billy would jump in and either carry his sister off or attempt to beat Joe into the ground. This was mainly because Billy didn't like Joe because he thought Lilly deserved better.
Still, Billy had yet to realize that Joe was the only one Lilly would date, and the two of them were genuinely in love. Unfortunately, Billy just wouldn't come to realize this because Lilly was the only family he had left and was really over-protective of her.
Meanwhile, the latest Mystery Fighter, Blazeman, was currently in a fight with Terry Bogard. The Fatal Fury star stepped back as Blazeman swung his sword, narrowly missing him.
Terry chuckled and adjusted his cap. "You're not bad."
"Hey, SSBFreak invited me to participate, so I intend to make the most of it and give it my all." Blazeman said with a smirk.
Terry clenched his fist and lunged forward in another Burn Knuckle.
Anticipating this, Blazeman held out his hand and concentrated. Suddenly, a swirling pillar of fire appeared around him and Terry flew straight into it. The pillar only went a little higher than Blazeman's head, but the damage was done. Terry flew into the air and landed on his back.
Terry slowly got to his feet and looked at his opponent. Blazeman simply stood in his stance, sword in hand. Terry chuckled again. "I guess that's the advantage of coming from a place none of us are familiar with. I wasn't expecting that."
Blazeman nodded. "I appreciate that."
"Well, I must admit that I'll have fun taking you down."
Blazeman smirked. "You sound like you're actually going to defeat me."
"WILL YOU LET GO OF MY FREAKING ARM?" Everyone heard Xigbar scream.
Zelda had once again latched onto Xigbar's arm, and was the only one in the arena not fighting. Xigbar, now extremely furious, was shaking his arm wildly, lifting Zelda off her feet and waving her around at the same time.
(Announcer's Booth)
SSBFreak rubbed his chin in thought. "Blazeman's going for Terry first." He mused. "I wonder if that's a good thing."
"What do you mean?" Unknown1 asked.
"If I were Blazeman, I probably would have gone for an easier elimination first." SSBFreak explained. "Terry's one of the most powerful characters in the arena."
"One of the most?"
"Along with Mewtwo, Chun-Li, Kagami and Gabby Jay."
"…..Gabby Jay?"
"Hey, after how much he's surprised everyone here, I'd say anything's possible."
(Eliminated Seating)
Ryofu casually walked out into the Eliminated Seating, found a spot and sat down.
Janne saw this and raised an eyebrow. "You're seeming awfully cheerful for someone that got eliminated within ten minutes."
The large man nodded. "I knew I probably wouldn't last very long. The better man won."
"The guy in the black cloak that's frantically waving his arm around, trying to get that Hylian princess off of him?"
"That's him." Ryofu nodded. "I admire his strength and skill, since he was able to eliminate me with only one hand."
"So what do you intend to do?"
"What I believe is the custom for congratulations in this time: Buy him a couple of drinks after the tournament finishes."
The Frenchwoman sighed. "Just be careful not to overdo it with the drinks. Remember that LAST tournament like this we were all invited to?"
Ryofu looked at the ground. "Was it THAT bad?"
"Are you KIDDING me? You and that Kung Lao guy from the Mortal Kombat node were singing Irish songs, completely out of tune and sync I might add, for three hours!"
Meanwhile, Jin had just shown up as well. He started making his way down to an empty seat (preferably one far away from his father, Kazuya) when Xiaoyu jumped in from the side and tackled him to the ground in a death hug.
"Oh, Jin!" Xiaoyu said happily. "I missed you so much!"
"W-What are you talking about, Xiao?" Jin asked, trying to push Xiaoyu off of him. "We were together in the locker room before the tournament started!"
"But that was SO long ago and I was getting really lonely!" Xiaoyu insisted.
Kazuya watched the scene from afar and his gaze softened. Seeing Jin and Xiaoyu reminded him of Jun Kazama, his late wife, and how much they were in love. A lone tear rolled down his face.
"No, you fool!" The devil gene in Kazuya screamed. "Sentiments like this will keep you from your goals!"
"Just shut up!" Kazuya screamed back. "Seeing Jin like that reminds me of Jun! You KNOW how much she meant to me!"
"You sicken me." Devil snorted. "After all these years, you still don't want to completely grasp the gene because you refuse to let go of these worthless feelings."
"Jun is the one thing you will never make me let go." Kazuya replied. "I loved her too much to simply forget about her."
Devil, seeing that he wasn't going to get though to Kazuya, reluctantly quieted down as Kazuya went back to watching the arena.
(The Arena)
Gunter ducked as Rogue fired another laser bolt from her newly-acquired gun. Her hair was still black and gray, meaning that Xigbar's unique ability was still in her grasp.
Needless to say, Rogue was having a field day. She had managed to shoot the majority of the people in the arena (Yoshimitsu, Vega and Mewtwo were the lucky ones) and she STILL hadn't run out of ammo.
Rogue took aim again and fired, sending a laser bolt straight into the back of Gunter. The huge lizard roared in pain as he collapsed to one knee.
The female mutant smirked and floated forward to eliminated Gunter when she felt a laser bolt slam into her back. Looking over her shoulder, Rogue saw Xigbar, aiming his free hand (and gun) at her.
"Look, lady. Do yourself a favour and stop copying my style!" Xigbar threatened before resuming his fight with Ralf.
Rogue stood in silence before shrugging. Suddenly, she couldn't feel the gun in her hand anymore. She quickly noticed that her hair was back to its normal colour, meaning that her newfound powers were gone. She turned to look at Gunter and saw that he had now gone off to pick a fight with Wolf Hawkfield.
In the meantime, Zelda had seen Rogue and her eyes narrowed for the first time since she entered the arena. She quietly let go of Xigbar's arm (slightly surprising the Organization member) and strode over.
Ace held up both of his Sai and blocked Vega's claw as the masked matador tried a vertical slash. The Spanish man lashed out again, but all he succeeded in doing was make a few tears in Ace's patchwork leather jacket due to the womanizing mercenary dodging the blow.
"I hope you realize that you've just made me really angry." Ace said simply.
"How so?" Vega asked, smirking from behind his mask.
"You ripped my jacket." Ace replied, in a strangely calm tone. "Do you have any idea whatsoever as to how hard it is to come across this kind of leather in my node?"
"Not really, but then again, I don't care." Vega said, still in his stance.
Ace lashed out his fist, striking Vega's mask with full force. Then, much to everyone's surprise, Vega's mask split in half, falling away from the vain man's face.
"Now we're even." Ace said with a smirk.
Vega didn't answer. He simply looked back and forth between the two pieces of his mask in horror, seeing that he no longer had any protection for his face. He slowly looked at Ace again, his glare turning into one of pure anger.
Ace, not expecting this, stepped back and raised his guard, preparing for the worst Vega had to offer.
"YOU DIE!" Vega screamed as he lunged at Ace and slashed wildly.
It took a fair amount of effort, but Ace managed to either block or avoid most of Vega's attacks. While parrying a slash, Ace found and opening and kicked Vega in the stomach, making the Spanish man stagger back.
"I'd better get him out of here before he hurts somebody." Ace mused as he rushed at Vega.
Vega snapped to attention and prepared to take Ace's head off, but it was already too late. Ace had booted Vega out of the arena, making the first elimination of the section.
Vega landed in Fatal Fury 2, where he took out his aggressions on Laurence Blood.
Gunter swung his club, smashing it over Wolf's head. The red-haired Virtua Fighter then proceeded to grab the giant lizard and piledrive him into the ground, earning a loud cheer from the crowd.
Wold watched as Gunter slowly got to his feet. "You know? You guys really need to consider retiring from the fighting scene." He said. "A lot of you guys got tossed pretty easily."
"Maybe so, but we've gotten two eliminations so far." Gunter replied. "Maybe you should consider saying that to one of those guys from the Kizuna Encounter node.
Wolf shrugged. "Yeah. You got me there."
"And I hope you realize that I'm not going to let up." Gunter added, getting into his stance again.
"I'm aware of that." Wolf said with a smirk. "And be sure that you don't."
The two advanced on each other again. Wolf was the first to act, swinging his fist. Gunter, however, was quick enough to avoid the blow and strike the American wrestler with his club again.
Wolf stepped back, holding his arm, but quickly recovered. He jumped at Gunter and planted both feet against the giant lizard's chest. As Gunter stepped back, Wolf ran up from behind and grabbed him.
The American wrestler smirked. Coming up from behind and grappling the opponent meant that he or she would have a heck of a hard time trying to break free of his iron grip. It worked all the time when Wolf did it to his nodal companions in the Virtua Fighter tournaments.
However, unlike Wolf's nodal companions, Gunter carried a weapon, which he promptly reminded Wolf of by bringing it up and smashing it into Wolf's forehead. This made Wolf let go of the lizard-man and hold onto his head.
Gunter, seeing his chance, rushed at Wolf.
However, unlike Vega before him, Wolf snapped out of his daze in time. He grabbed the oncoming Gunter and with one mighty swing, threw the lizard over his shoulder and out of the arena.
Gunter landed in, of all places, the node of Dave the Barbarian. Dave looked at him, blinked three times, screamed like a little girl and ran for the hills.
Chun-Li thrust her foot out, kicking Yoshimitsu in the chest. The robotic fighter flew into a turnbuckle, but quickly got to his feet again and prepared his sword for Chun-Li's next attack.
The policewoman lunged at Yoshimitsu again and kicked at him again. This time, Yoshimitsu was prepared and raised his sword. Chun-Li's foot connected with the blade of steel, so it did nothing to hurt her opponent.
With Chun-Li's foot still striking his sword, Yoshimitsu pushed forward, forcing Chun-Li away from him. "You're quite fast on your feet." Yoshimitsu said. "I think Eddy and Christie would even have a hard time trying to keep up with your kicks."
"Thanks. You're not bad yourself." Chun-Li added. "I haven't fought a real swordsman since Sodom, and he simply used a pair of Sai to fight with."
"Perhaps I should seek out this gentleman after the tournament." Yoshimitsu pondered as he swung his katana at Chun-Li. "The way you put it, he sounds talented."
"Meh. I guess." Chun-Li shrugged. "But what he has in strength he loses in brains. He's not exactly the brightest of us Street Fighters."
(Dome; Hallway)
Sodom let out a loud sneeze while running and fell to the ground. Vivian's shadow, coming from the opposite direction he was, silently went around him.
(The Arena)
Chun-Li and Yoshimitsu continued to circle each other, staring into each other's eyes, as if waiting for the other to make the next move.
Suddenly, Yoshimitsu stopped walking, sat down and started spinning in place. After a couple of seconds, Yoshimitsu vanished completely.
Chun-Li stepped back in shock. "Huh? Where'd he go!"
"Namunamu!" Yoshimitsu's voice rang out above the policewoman. Chun-Li looked up in time to see Yoshimitsu materialize and fall towards her, swinging his sword.
Thinking quickly, Chun-Li rolled to safety and jumped to her feet. As Yoshimitsu landed, Chun-Li gathered up a large amount of energy in her hands.
Yoshimitsu turned as Chun-Li threw herself at him, her hands surging with an unknown power.
Chun-Li lashed out her hands, creating a huge sphere of blue energy. Poor Yoshimitsu was unfortunate enough to be caught right in the middle of it, so he was pounded with energy with each passing second.
By the time Chun-Li had finished the attack, Yoshimitsu was worn out. The robotic warrior collapsed, making it easy for Chun-Li to pick up and dump over the ropes.
Yoshimitsu landed in Ape Escape 3, where he and Yellow Monkey got into a fight about ninjas (how the severely-overweight primate knew anything about the ways of the ninja, Yoshimitsu didn't know).
Rogue was still searching for someone to take abilities from when a ball of burning energy slammed into her back and knocked her to the ground. Rogue quickly stood up and turned around. "What's your-"
That was all Rogue could get out before Zelda's high-heeled shoe connected with her forehead, knocking the mutant to the ground again, this time to her back.
"What's the deal with you?" Rogue asked.
"You DARE copy his moves?" Zelda shouted, pressing her foot down on Rogue's stomach. "I, like, have half a mind to take you down!…No, scratch that. That's, like, totally what I'm going to do."
Rogue quickly pushed Zelda off of her and jumped to her feet. "So that's how ya wanna play, huh?" She asked, cracking her knuckles. "Well, bring it on, sugah!"
Zelda did. She rushed at Rogue and backhanded her across the face. Normally, a slap like that wouldn't have hurt, but Zelda's hand had been surrounded by a strange, sparkling energy and had intensified the slap.
Rogue, rubbing her chin, stepped back. "Oh, you shouldn't have done that, lady."
With that, Rogue flew at Zelda, soaring mere inches off the ground. Zelda quickly spun in place for a couple of seconds just before Rogue made contact with her.
Zelda vanished from sight just as Rogue flew past where she had just been. "Why am I reminded of Nightcrawler now?" She asked as she skidded to a halt and looked around. "Where are ya?"
"Over here!"
Rogue looked in time to see Zelda spring from a turnbuckle and kick her in the chest with both feet. Rogue staggered back, but held her ground and swung her fists a few times at the Hylian princess. Zelda was lucky enough to dodge the first blow, but then received two hard hooks to the face.
Without thinking of the consequences, Zelda grabbed Rogue and concentrated, creating another orb of fire-like energy (Din's Fire) in her hand.
Two seconds later, a loud explosion rocked the entire arena. Everyone quickly stopped fighting to see what had happened and saw Zelda standing over the charred, motionless body of Rogue.
Zelda gave a quick and nervous chuckle before disposing of the evidence, dropping Rogue outside of the arena. She then skipped back over to Xigbar as if nothing had happened.
Rogue landed in Tony Hawk: Underground, right in the middle of a skate park with a competition going on. All six boarders tripped over Rogue's body in perfect succession, creating a pileup in the middle of the skate park.
(Hotel; Lobby)
Yuber swung at his opponent again, but all he did was slice through a cloud of purple smoke. Nighrcrawler appeared above the black knight and kicked him in the head before landed gracefully on his feet.
As the blue-skinned mutant fought the homicidal maniac, the rest of the team stood aside to cheer Nightcrawler on (although Reed was now holding an ice bag up to his head, still recovering from his recent loss at the hands of Ryuji Yamazaki).
"Stay still, you freak!" Yuber shouted as he wildly swung his second sword at Nightcrawler, but the German mutant again showed his swift nature by leapng into the air and over Yuber's sword, kicking the black knight in the face on the way back to the ground.
Yuber stepped back and growled. Things hadn't really been going his way the entire day. First he lost to three members of the security force, then his sworn enemy (and the only living being Yuber was afraid of) chased him into the arena in an attempt to kill him, and now this simple mutant was starting to get the better of him.
Nightcrawler jumped into the air and vanished again. Yuber frantically scanned the lobby for any signs of the blue-skinned mutant appeared again, but didn't think of looking above him, which was exactly where Nightcrawler had appeared. Nightcrawler landed directly on top of Yuber's head, knocking the black knight down and pinning him there.
It took Yuber a couple of seconds, but he leapt into the air and force Nightcrawler off him. Yuber quickly spun around and swung his sword, this time managing to get lucky, as his sword clipped Nightcrawler's shoulder.
As the German mutant staggered back, holding his shoulder. Yuber, seeing his chance, stepped forward and swung again. Nightcrawler, while still in pain, was able to see the attack coming and dodged to the side, then punched Yuber in the face with his good hand.
"Why do you fight me?" Yuber asked, sounding much more calm. "You're no match for the likes of me."
"Zat doesn't mean I shall back avay from zee challenge!" Nightcrawler shot back, still holding onto his shoulder. "People like you, zhey make me sick!"
Yuber smirked. "Such a sharp tongue. I wonder how sharp it would be against my blade."
With that, Yuber lashed out again. Nightcrawler quickly vanished again, but Yuber had managed to slash his leg before he did. Still, Nightcrawler completed the teleportation, and appeared right behind the black knight, whom was looking up, half-expecting the German to appear above him again.
Yuber saw Nightcrawler from the corner of his eye and quickly reacted, taking another swing. Much to the dismay of the rest of the team, Yuber got lucky, making a deep slash into Nightcrawler's chest, sending a fair amount of blood everywhere.
The German mutant screamed in pain as he collapsed to the ground, defeated. Yuber stood over him and smirked. "It's about time something happened my way." He said as he turned and walked off, leaving his bleeding opponent on the ground.
Once Yuber had gone, several members of the 'good' team rushed over to aid the fallen mutant. Guile quickly looked at the woman behind the check-in counter. "Don't just stand there, lady! Call the recovery room!" The woman nodded and picked up the phone.
"There's no way he'll be able to continue fighting Bison's forces like this." Falco sighed. "We'll probably have to go the rest of the way without him once that Shadow girl returns."
"That 'Shadow girl' has a name, you know." Chonrei muttered at the avian.
(The Arena)
Kagami swung his sword at his two opponents, but it struck neither one. Gabby Jay was fortunate enough to duck under the blade and Mewtwo had teleported to safety. Gabby Jay quickly punched Kagami with a right hook, but it did little more than make the brown-haired man tilt his head to the side a bit.
Mewtwo, in the meantime, had appeared not too far away and started charging up a Shadow Ball in his hands. Once it had gotten large enough the psychic Pokemon lashed his hand out, shooting the ball of dark energy at Kagami, knocking him to the ground. Mewtwo advanced.
Kagami slowly got to his feet and looked over his shoulder. "You know what? I'd say that you're a far better challenge." He told Mewtwo before grabbing Gabby Jay and throwing him across the arena.
Mewtwo's eyes narrowed. "Very well."
The two rushed each other. Kagami swung his sword at Mewtwo, but the psychic Pokemon was quicker, teleporting around Kagami and smacking him with his tail. Kagami quickly swung his sword backwards, surging it with flames at the same time.
The sword strike didn't attack Mewtwo, but the flames that leapt off the blade did. Mewtwo collapsed, slightly burned but otherwise alright. Mewtwo slowly got to his feet and glared daggers at Kagami, whom simply stood straight and beckoned Mewtwo to come forward.
Mewtwo floated forward, but not before clenching his fist and igniting it in dark purple fire. Kagami saw this and lit his own hand up in flames.
Once the two were close enough, they each swung their hands, although Mewtwo jumped into the air before he did so. Kagami's flame barely touched Mewtwo, but it did burn him slightly. Mewtwo's dreaded midair claw swipe, however, was a direct hit. Kagami was shocked to find himself flying at least twenty feet into the air.
"To those who are confused," SSBFreak said through the speakers. "Mewtwo's midair swipe is known to be one of the most powerful non-smash attacks in Melee. If the damage was high enough, this simple attack was usually more than enough to grant a KO."
"Kagami had better step it up." Unknown1 added. "The way things are going, I don't think he'll be able to keep up."
Kagami heard that and growled before stepping up his attack rate. He swung at Mewtwo several times, hoping that he would attack his opponent at least once.
Mewtwo was able to block or avoid most of the sword strikes, but he received a couple of small wounds from the attack. Seeing an opening, Mewtwo reached out and grabbed Kagami, then spun him around over his shoulder (much like Ness' throws) and threw him out of the arena.
Kagami landed in Super Mario Kart. Donkey Kong Jr. drove over him.
Joe ducked as Billy's staff again swung over his head, but didn't stop his running. He knew from experience that he wouldn't be able to fight an enraged Billy (believe me, he tried) and the only courses of action would be either to run or to talk him out of attacking. And since Billy hated his guts, running was really his only option.
"Stay still and let me kill you, Higshi!" Billy screamed.
"What kind of fool do you take me for?" Joe asked.
"A bigger one than you look!" Billy shouted back.
Fighters were diving out of the way to avoid getting trampled by the two. Neither Billy nor Joe were paying attention to where they were going, because much like Yuber & Pesmerga's little show earlier, the only thing on Joe's mind was escaping Billy's wrath, and the only thing on Billy's was pounding the half-naked Thai fighter into the ground.
(The Crowd)
Lilly held her head in her hands. She really hated it when Billy got like this. She truly loved Joe, and she knew he returns the feelings, but Billy would much rather die than have someone like Joe for a brother-in-law.
The poor girl had always been trying to get Billy to realize that Joe wasn't all that bad, but nothing had ever worked.
Sighing in frustration, Lilly stood up and left her seat. She thought that maybe grabbing a snack from the restaurant would calm her.
(The Arena)
Joe was still fleeing in terror from Billy's wrath when he looked up at the stands. His eyes widened as he suddenly stopped running.
Now, Joe had never stopped running during one of the chases he and Billy had in the past, so Joe stopping was really the last thing Billy was expecting. Billy collided with Joe, knocking both men to the ground.
Billy stood up and looked at Joe as the Thai fighter stood up as well. "What the heck did ya stop for?"
"Look."
Billy looked at the stands and saw Lilly leave through one of the doors at the back of the bleachers. However, he saw three shady-looking guys walk out after her the instant she left.
Both men's eyes widened in realization. "Lilly!" They both shouted at the same time.
A light suddenly went on inside Joe's head. "Billy, eliminate me! I'll go save her!"
"What? You should eliminate ME!" Billy retaliated. "She's MY sister!"
"Look, who's been in the arena longer?" Joe asked.
"Me, but-"
"Exactly! You can wait for another villain to enter and get answers from him!"
Billy was silent. "Do you really care for Lilly?"
"Yes! More than anything!" Joe insisted.
"Okay. I must be going crazy, but I'll trust you to save her." Billy said.
Joe smiled. This was his big chance to prove to Billy that he and Lilly loved each other.
"But you'd BETTER save her." Billy whispered coldly. "You don't wanna know what's going to happen to you if you fail."
Joe gulped, but nodded. Billy pushed him over the ropes and out of the arena.
Joe landed in U.S. Acres, right outside of a barn.
"Hi, there!" Orson the pig greeted. "So what brings you here?"
"A tournament." Joe said simply.
"A tournament?" Wade, a white duck with an inner tube around his waist, cried. He then started running around in circles, screaming his head off.
"What's with the duck?" Joe asked.
"A DUCK?" Wade screamed, jumping onto Joe's face. "WHERE?"
The duo of Rico and Kathy were still doing a double-team, although they were now fighting Wolf Hawkfield. The American wrester tried to grab Kathy and slam her into the canvas, but was stopped when Rico slammed her hammer into his back.
Wolf, thinking quickly, thrust his foot behind himself and get lucky, hitting Rico in the face. However, this meant that he had to take his eyes off of Kathy, whom gave him a hard kick square in the stomach.
"This is getting tricky." Wolf thought as he picked up Kathy and threw her into Rico. "I'm only used to fighting one-on-one. Taking on two opponents at once is something I'm not used to."
Realizing that he'd need to even the odds somehow, Wolf quickly grabbed Rico, picked her up and threw her away, then resumed his fight with Kathy alone.
Ralf swung his fist, catching Xigbar in the face. The Organization member stepped back a couple of steps, Zelda still clinging to his arm.
"I must admit, you're really good, even with someone attached to your arm." Ralf said with a smirk.
"Thanks. Now if she would just let GO of it." Xigbar muttered, now giving up on getting Zelda off him because nothing would get through to her.
"Mmm…Comfy." Zelda purred as she nuzzled against Xigbar's shoulder. Both soldier and gunner sweatropped.
"Look, could we get back to the fight?" Xigbar asked. "Moving around a lot seems to help the circulation in my arm a bit."
Ralf nodded. "Sure." With that, he jumped at Xigbar and lashed out his foot.
Xigbar quickly held up his free arm and blocked the kick, then lashed out, smashing his gun over the Ikari Warrior's head.
Ralf stepped back and slapped a fist into his palm. "Time for me to bring out the big guns, it seems." He then rushed at Xigbar, screaming 'GALACTICA PHAMTOM!'.
Xigbar, however, saw the attack coming and rushed to the side, dragging Zelda with him. Ralf flew past Xigbar and continued the attack.
However, Rico was unfortunate enough to fly into the battle during this time. Ralf's powerful flaming punch struck her in midair, hitting her with enough force to send her clear out of the arena with no hope of return.
Ralf sweatdropped again. "Uh…Oops?"
Rico landed in Harvest Moon. The lead character of the game quickly picked a flower from the ground and offered it to her.
Back in the arena, Kathy saw her friend get eliminated. "Rico!" She cried.
Wolf, on the other hand, laughed. "Oh, man! That was amazing! I can't believe how timely that was! Man, what are the chances of that happening again?"
Kathy's mind clouded as she slowly turned to face Wolf, narrowing her eyes in uncharacteristic fury.
Wolf, still laughing, chose that time to look at Kathy. Once he saw the anger in her eyes, his laughing stopped. "Uh…What?"
"Ya'll threw Rico over there!" Kathy shouted. "Ya'll caused her ta be eliminated!"
"Hey now! You two were double-teaming me and just threw your friend to another part of the arena!" Wol insisted. "I didn't know where she was going!"
"It don't matter!" Kathy boomed. "Ya'll STILL were the one ta do it, partner!"
"So what're you gonna do about it?" Wolf asked, showing Kathy that he was at least a foot taller than her.
Kathy growled, pulled her foot back and sent it straight into Wolf's crotch. Wolf's eyes widened in pain as he collapsed to his knees. This brought his head lower to the ground, which Kathy promptly gave a strong uppercut to.
Wolf, still in severe pain, flew backwards and landed on his back, pretty close to the ropes. The red-haired wrestler slowly got to his feet, not really noticing Kathy stampeding over to him.
Once she got close enough, Kathy leapt into the air and thrust both feet out, planting them into Wolf's back. This wasn't a very powerful attack, but it managed to push Wolf over the ropes and out of the arena.
Wolf landed in Unreal Championship. Because he was still in pain, he was a fairly easy target. However, none of the people playing the game seemed to notice him because a member of the blue team had just swiped the red team's flag. All of the players on the red team stampeded over Wolf, trying to catch the punk with the flag.
Shura kicked at Chun-Li, hoping to make contact with her face. Ever since he had picked a fight with Chun-Li, Shura wasn't having the best of luck. He had found himself lucky to simply attack once before his opponent managed land three strikes in a row.
Even still, Shura wasn't one to give up easily, no matter how badly he was losing the fight. And his current kick had proven to be a success, striking Chun-Li in the face. Shura used the time she was distracted to his advantage and advanced, kicking three more times.
Chun-Li was struck twice in the stomach and once more in the face. The policewoman flew back a few feet, but turned herself upright in midair and landed gracefully back on the canvas.
Chun-Li smirked. "I never thought Shura, of all the World Heroes, would be giving me THIS tough of a time." She chuckled.
Standing up, Chun-Li gathered up energy in her hands again.
"KIKOKEN!" Chun-Li screamed as she lashed out her hands, firing a ball of blue energy at Shura.
Shura saw the attack coming and lifted his leg, blocking the attack. Chun-Li, however, was anticipating this and rushed at Shura.
Once she got close enough, Chun-Li leapt into the air, turned upside-down and spun around, kicking rapidly. Shura got struck in the face with every attack of Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick, and once the move was finished, Shura was launched back, into a turnbuckle.
Seeing her chance, Chun-Li rushed at Shura, deciding to end the fight.
Shura regained his senses in time to see Chun-Li coming at him, and quickly thrust his foot in her direction.
Unfortunately for him, Chun-Li wasn't close enough yet, and his kick struck nothing but the air just in front of him.
Chun-Li smirked as Shura's eyes widened. He knew that he was in severe trouble now.
One powerful kick later and Shura was sent flying out of the arena. Chun-Li lowered her foot.
Shura landed in Rayman 3. At first, Shura considered himself lucky, but unfortunately for him, an inflated Globox had chosen that time to float above him and run out of energy. Gobox deflated in midair and dropped all 400 pounds of him on top of Shura.
(U.S. Acres)
Joe sighed as he sat amongst the chaos erupting around him. Orson was trying to strike up a conversation, but Joe couldn't really hear him. Wade was running around, screaming his head off about chickens. Roy and Lanolin were having their usual argument, getting louder and louder each time they opened their mouths. Booker was chasing a worm around the farm, trying to catch it. Sheldon and Bo were the only ones not making any noise, because Sheldon was tanning his shell and Bo was just staring off into space with a stupid expression.
The Thai kickboxer sighed. "Just seven more minutes and then I'm out of this nutfarm."
"NUTFARM?" Wade screamed, somehow being able to hear Joe. He screamed even louder and ran up a tree.
(Dome; Hallway)
Vivian's shadow raced through the dome, faster than usual. This was because she had finally found out how the villains were going to pull of this plan of theirs and she wanted to get back to the lobby as fast as she could.
The main reason Vivian stayed as a shadow on the ground was because if she ran into any villains on her way back to the lobby, she'd be able to slip around them without being noticed. The absolute last thing Vivian wanted after finding out vital information was a fight.
As Vivian raced down the hallway, her shadow passed by the five members of the security force.
Psymon noticed the circular shadow on the floor and his head followed it until it went around a corner. "I think I just saw a shadow move along the floor by itself." The crazed snowboarder said aloud.
Joanna looked at Psymon with an odd glare. "Okay, that's it. No more caramel pizza for you tonight."
"What? But I was telling the truth!"
(Galaxy Fight Locker Room)
Rolf looked at Roomi. "We're the last two, Roomi." He said. "There are only two of us left and our node only has two eliminations."
The catgirl tried to look optimistic. "Well, it's two more than we thought we were going to get."
Rolf shrugged. "Yeah. I guess we're STILL doing better than those guys from the Kizuna Encounter node."
(The Arena)
"Come on, you hunky man, you!" Zelda said. "You can beat this guy easily!"
Xigbar sighed. He had given up on getting through to Zelda ong ago, seeing as nothing was going to work that way. He and Ralf were still fighting as normally as they could, but both were finding Zelda's cheering (while still gripping Xigbar's arm) annoying.
Thinking that maybe he could get through to Zelda if he tried asking nicely, Xigbar paused his fighting and looked at her. "Look, I'm honored that you like me and all that, but this IS a fighting tournament." Xigbar explained. "So do you think that you could please let go of my arm so we can continue?"
"But Xiggy, I just find you so irresistibly cute!" Zelda whined.
Xigbar's good eye snapped open as all thoughts of kindness instantly left his head. "XIGGY?" He screamed, lifting Zelda into the air with his arm. "THAT DOES IT! GET OFF!"
Xigbar swung his arm with all his might, sending Zelda flying off of his hand and across the arena.
Zelda once again landed a ways away from the fight Xigbar was continuing, and also like before, she got up quickly, squealed in glee and torpedoed at him again.
Ralf saw Zelda coming over Xigbar's shoulder and sighed. "This is getting old." He said. "You think you could move to the left for a second?"
Xigbar shrugged, nodded and steppe to the side as Zelda continued running.
However, she hadn't counted on Xigbar moving to the side and flew right past him, her face going straight into Ralf's outstretched palm.
Ralf picked Zelda up with one hand and threw her over his shoulder, sending her flying out of the arena. Now, if Zelda had been thinking straight, she would have easily teleported back in, but because she was still a caffeine-injected fangirl, she didn't remember to teleport and fell through an elimination portal.
Zelda landed in Animaniacs. Yakko & Wakko saw her and hearts appeared in their eyes.
"He-looooooooooooo, nurse!" The two brothers said as they jumped into the confused princess' arms together.
"Boys." Dot, the Warner sister, sighed.
Back in the arena, Terry rolled to the side as Blazeman's sword struck the canvas beside him. Terry quickly responded with a Burn Knuckle, landing a direct hit to the TFS resident's chin.
Blazeman staggered back and rubbed his mouth, where Terry's fist had hit. "Man. This is WAY more intense than I thought it was going to be." He said with a weak chuckle.
Terry, in the meantime, had jumped into the air. "Power Dunk!" He shouted, thrusting his fist as Blazeman's head, engulfing it in yellow energy.
Blazeman looked up in time to see the attack coming at him and held up his sword to block the attack. The block was a success, but Terry forced the sword from Blazeman's hand, sending it several feet away.
Seeing his opponent disarmed, Terry smirked. "Well, your weapon's gone. Now what're you going to do?"
The respond he got was Blazeman reaching into his pockets and pulling out two spiked yo-yos. This time it was Blazeman whom smirked.
Blazeman lashed out his left hand, firing one of the spiked yo-yos at his opponent's legs. Terry lifted one leg off the ground as the yo-yo went underneath it, but because he was watching the first, he wasn't expecting the second one to ricochet off his head.
As Terry staggered back, Blazeman advanced, spinning the yo-yo in his right hand around in consecutive round-the-worlds. Terry knew that he needed to act fast if he was to survive, and he did the first thing he thought of.
He pulled his arm into the air.
"Overheat…GEYSER!"
The resulting explosion of energy rocketed from the ground just as Blazeman's yo-yo touched it. The force from the geyser not only forced Blazeman to stop his advancing, but it also caused his yo-yo to rocket backwards, taking him with it a couple of feet.
As Blazeman returned to his senses, Terry smirked and lashed out two Power Waves, sending them in Blazeman's direction.
The Fallout Shelter member's gaze softened. "Great. How am I supposed to get through THAT?" He muttered. Suddenly, a light went on inside his head. In the blink of an eye, Blazeman put his yo-yos back in his pockets and had pulled out a white bow with an arrow ready to shoot. Blazeman pulled the string on the bow back and let the arrow fly.
The arrow soared through the air, surprising everyone by piercing through the two Power Waves and finally finding a home in Terry's shoulder. The elder Bogard brother screamed in pain and collapsed to one knee.
Blazeman looked down and saw his discarded sword. Picking it up, Blazeman rushed at Terry and booted him out of the arena while he was distracted.
As soon as Terry was eliminated, Blazeman sighed in relief. "I actually did it." He mused.
Terry landed in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, where Phoenix instantly objected to his appearing out of nowhere.
Ever since she had eliminated Wolf, Kathy had started a fight with Billy Kane, and the two were pretty evenly matched. Kathy cracked her whip at the British fighter, but Billy quickly lifted his staff and blocked the attack. Billy quickly swung his red staff, smacking it against Kathy's head and spiking her into the ground.
Kathy slowly got to her feet, rubbing her head. "Okay. I don't git angry all that much, but now ya'll went and done it!" Kathy rolled up her already-short sleeves and pushed her pink cowboy hat forward slightly.
Billy smirked. "This could be interesting." He said, rubbing the side of his face where Kathy had kicked earlier.
In all honesty, Billy was really having second thought about sending Joe out to save Lilly, but if the guy really loved her as much as he said he did, he would trust him. Even still, he felt guilty that he wasn't going to go save her.
As he blocked a kick from Kathy, Billy wondered what Lilly would have wanted him to do. {She'd probably want me to take a break from being the overly-protective big brother and have some fun.} He thought and sighed to himself.
Well, the only thing Billy could do was wait for a villain to enter and see what they knew about this. However, to do that, he had to beat Kathy, and she wasn't making it easy for him.
Kathy swung her fist, striking Billy in the face and making him stagger back a couple of steps. Billy rubbed his jaw and smirked. "That hurt, lady." He said. "You're good, but I'm afraid that I need to finish the fight."
"Bring it, ya'll!" Kathy challenged.
The two rushed at each other and swung their respective weapons. Although Kathy managed to strike Billy with her whip, Billy got the upper hand, striking her in the chin with his staff and sending her into the air.
Seeing his opponent in the air, Billy smirked. All he need to do was eliminate her now.
However, a stray laser bullet from Xigbar's guns had chosen that time to interfere. Xigbar had taken aim at an airborne Ralf, but missed and had sent the laser bolt across the arena. The bolt struck Kathy in the stomach with just enough power to knock her backwards, over the ropes.
Billy cast the Organization member a dark glare.
Kathy landed in Sunset Riders. However, as Kathy was walking away, a stampede of horses galloped by. Luckily, Kathy noticed this on time, leapt into the air and landed on top of a horse's back.
"YEE-HAW!" Kathy cried, waving her hat in the air and the horses continued running, galloping over the four heroes of the game.
Gabby Jay swung his fist, but it sailing straight over Ace's head, as the mercenary had ducked in time to avoid the punch. Ace then lashed out with his Sai, but Gabby quickly held his hand in the way of the swing and blocked the Sai, showing that his boxing gloves were more durable than they appeared.
Only one more elimination was needed to end the section, and both fighters were attempting to be the one to score that coveted final elimination before the next wave of fighters came out.
Gabby Jay stepped back and pounded his fists together. He then rushed at Ace and started swinging.
Ace tried to avoid the attack as best as he could, and he managed to avoid a good number of swings and block even more, but Gabby still managed to land several hits to his face and stomach. After Gabby had thrown the last punch (and made Ace stagger back a bit), he bent over, clutching his knees and breathing heavily.
"Man….That…Was pretty rough." Gabby panted. "I don't know…How Piston Hurricane…Manages it."
"Maybe it's because of your age?"
Gabby turned in time to see Ace's fist coming at his face. Gabby staggered back after the punch, but kept staring at Ace. "What about my age, sonny?" He asked.
"Eh…Nothing." Ace said, remembering that everyone that had made a comment about the old boxer's age or him considering retirement got eliminated by him.
"Good. Now put 'em up!" Gabby said, getting into his stance again and still looking as animated as possible.
"Okay, but don't blame me." Ace shrugged.
"For what?"
"Eliminating you." Ace replied as he rushed at Gabby again. The old boxer followed suite.
The two clashed again, swinging Sai and fists. Occasionally, one of the two would get lucky and sneak a hit in, but the majority of the time, the attacks were avoided or blocked. The two started moving around as they fought, going towards the ropes around the arena.
Suddenly, Ace saw the much-needed opening he had been looking for. Thinking quickly, Ace jabbed forward with his knee sending it into Gabby Jay's stomach and knocking the wind out of him. Gabby collapsed to the ground, gasping and wheezing.
Ace sighed. "Sorry about that." He apologized as he picked Gabby up and chucked him out of the arena.
By the time Gabby Jay had landed in his elimination node, he had gotten his breath back. Slowly standing up, Gabby saw that he was in a very familiar arena.
"Well, well, well." A voice said. "If it isn't the punching bag with the mustache."
Gabby turned to saw the gigantic Nick Bruiser standing over him.
"So did you last longer than five minutes?" Nick asked with a smirk. "Highly doubtful, considering that Little Mac can beat your sorry behind in seven seconds."
Nick cracked his knuckles. "I have a match against Hoy Quarlow in half an hour, so maybe I'll train by pounding your behind into the ground."
Three minutes later and a shocked Gabby Jay was standing victorious over the equally-shocked Nick Bruiser.
Back in the arena, Ace smirked and twirled his Sai in his hand again. Turning around, Ace looked around the arena. Ralf and Xigbar had ceased dueling for a second, but were still staring each other down. Chun-Li and Mewtwo were also staring each other down, but they were circling each other as they did so. Billy Kane was still glaring daggers at Xigbar for the stolen elimination and Blazeman took a few experimental swings with his sword.
After a few seconds, the seven fighters were aware that the next wave was about to enter the arena.
RESULTS
RALF JONES (KOF)
CHUN-LI (SFA3)
ACE (S3)
XIGBAR (KH2)
BLAZEMAN (TFS)
MEWTWO (SSB)
BILLY KANE (FF)
(ELIMINATED)
KATHY (S3)
ZELDA (SSB)
WOLF HAWKFIELD (VF)
GABBY JAY (SPO!)
SHINNOSUKE KAGAMI (LB)
TERRY BOGARD (KOF)
VEGA (SFA3)
JOE HIGSHI (KOF)
SHURA (WH)
YOSHIMITSU (T5)
ROGUE (MC)
RICO (S3)
GUNTER (GF)
BONUS MATCHES:
"Lobby Lockdown 2"
YUBER (S3) slices and dices NIGHTCRAWLER (MC)
Eliminations: Ralf, Chun-Li and Ace, 2; Xigbar, Blazeman, Mewtwo, Billy, Kathy, Zelda and Wolf, 1
Current Elimination Leaders: R. Mika (8), King (7), Bruce Irvin (6), Peach Toadstool (5), Lucky Glauber (5), Chang Koehan (5), Heavy D! (5)
Surprise of the Section: Shura got more Live votes than I thought he would. Hmm…Guess he's more well-liked here than he is at the actual UVR.
Beating His Record: In the original UVR, Ralf entered all three tournaments and didn't get a single elimination. Here, Ralf managed two in his first year.