(The Arena)
Mickey Rogers repeatedly threw punches into Wario's stomach, but they all did no damage, bouncing right off (much like Raiden early in the tournament). Mickey panted as he held up his fists and continued the onslaught of futile attacks.
Wario laughed and slapped himself in the stomach. "What're you trying to do? Tickle me?"
Mickey growled. He didn't want his big comeback to end up like this. Every time he threw a punch at this guy, it would just bounce right back. And the worst part? Wario wasn't even attacking. "Come on, fat guy! Why don't you start fighting?" He asked. "It makes for a better fight if you actually throw a punch!"
Wario shrugged. "You asked for it."
With that, Wario grabbed Mickey, lifted him into the air and spun him around several times. The crowd roared in approval as Wario threw the boxer across the ring.
Mickey landed on his stomach and got to his feet. "Lucky shot." He muttered.
Wolfgang Krauser swung his fist at Juan, but the blonde man again blocked the punch with one hand. Juan yawned, then thrust his free fist into Krauser's stomach. However, Krauser was so big that the punch didn't send him flying back very far.
"Very impressive." Krauser commented. "Never haff I seen such power at a young age. But don't you ever theenk of vhat power you could possess eef you deedn't sleep all of zee time?"
"Eh, not really." Juan said plainly and he stretched, the reed of grass still in his mouth. "I can afford to sleep because of my massive combo links."
Although this confused Krauser a bit, the purple-haired noble didn't bother to press the matter any further than he had. "Vell, shall ve continue?"
Juan gave a lazy shrug. "Might as well, I guess." He said.
As the two approached each other, Roll ran in between them, screaming and firing her Roll Buster behind her. Mukuro was chasing after her, both of his weapons prepared to take the robot girl's head off.
"Stay away from me!" Roll screamed, shooting a fully-charged blast straight into Mukuro's forehead. Although it didn't really hurt Mukuro because he was already dead, he recoiled a bit and this allowed Roll to slink off and catch her breath.
Once she had caught her breath, Roll quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out what looked like a small box. Attaching it to her arm cannon, Roll waited. She knew that Mukuro would be able to smell fear (even though she was a robot) and would pounce on her in a split second.
That's exactly what happened. Mukuro jumped over half the arena and swung his swords down, preparing to land on Roll and cut her in half.
Roll shot a pod from her arm cannon, which quickly turned into a tornado. The twister launched Mukuro into the air, and while he was, Roll removed the attachment from her weapon and blasted the airborne Mukuro with another Roll Buster before taking off again.
(Dr. Light's Lab)
"I'm not sure how I feel about this, doc." Megaman said as he watched his sister fight on the TV.
"What do you mean, Megaman?" Dr. Light asked.
"Allowing Roll to accept the invitation to this tournament." Megaman replied.
"You're just jealous that she got an invitation and you didn't." Protoman said with a sly smirk.
Megaman turned to face his brother. "No! It's just that Roll wasn't built for combat!" He explained. "She's a house-cleaning robot! Taking on all these people is going to be too much for her!"
"Megaman the main reason I allowed her to go was because she's always WANTED to be a combat robot like you two." Dr. Light explained. "Hopefully, this will erase those thoughts and she'll be happy with what she's doing now."
Megaman sighed. "I still don't like it."
(Eliminated Seating)
Mewtwo entered the Eliminated Seating and scanned it. Quickly spotting Ness, the psychic Pokemon floated down to the seat beside the young boy and sat down.
"Sorry, but I couldn't find anything out." Mewtwo explained. "What did you find out?"
"There's a plot going on and a bunch of villains are a part of it." Ness replied.
"So should we do something about it?"
"No. I also found out that there's a fairly large group going against these villains." Ness replied. "They're doing well thus far, so I don't think we should interfere."
"What are you guys talking about?" A new voice asked. Mewtwo and Ness turned to see Luigi looking at them.
"Oh, nothing." Ness shrugged. "I just found out something while I was in the arena, but I was eliminated before Mewtwo entered."
Mewtwo nodded. "That meant that Ness couldn't tell me what he found out until I was eliminated."
Luigi raised an eyebrow. "But…Don't you guys have some sort of psychic mind link? Couldn't you guys have talked to each other while one of you was still in the ring?"
Ness and Mewtwo sat in silence, their eyes widened in realization. After a couple of seconds, Mewtwo stood up and started leaving the Eliminated Seating.
"Where're you going now, Mewtwo?" Luigi asked.
"I am going to go kill myself." Mewtwo said flatly as he left the seating.
(Dome; Snack Bar)
The first thing Blazeman realized when he appeared back at the Recovery Room was that he was hungry, having skipped dinner to train to fight. However, he definitely wasn't expecting the snack bar to be in ruins when he arrived.
Blazeman stepped over a broken table as he walked over to the counter. "Yeesh. What the heck happened here? Did a train go through here or something?"
The owner sighed. "No. Several fighters just had some brawls in here."
"Ouch. That can't be good for business." Blazeman observed. "It'll cost you a lot just to replace everything in here."
"Actually, no. That's the only good thing." The owner said. "The owner of this tournament said he'd pay for the damages since he sold more tickets than expected."
Blazeman nodded in understanding. "I'll just have a large fries."
(The Arena)
Leona jumped at Zeus and delivered a hard kick to the giant man's face. However, it did little to slow him down, as Zeus responded with a hard punch, sending Leona flying away. She didn't get eliminated though, but rather landed about twenty feet away.
Jumping to her feet, Leona rushed at Zeus again, kicking Mukuro aside as she did.
However, before Leona arrived at continued whacking Zeus, Captain Falcon intervened and landed a Falcon Dive to the giant man's face, sending him to the floor.
Stopping several feet away, Leona ripped off one of her earrings. "Falcon, I'd move if I were you!" She said before throwing her earring.
Falcon looked over his shoulder and saw the earring coming. Thinking quickly, Falcon ran out of the way as the earring landed on Zeus' stomach, where it exploded. This was enough to send the large man flying into the air.
"So what do we do?" Falcon asked as Zeus continued to hang in the air.
"I say we get him away from us so we can continue our fight that he so rudely interrupted." Leona suggested.
"You wanna do it or should I?" Falcon asked.
"You can if you want." Leona replied.
"Got it." Falcon finished as he walked over to right beside where Zeus was about to land. He clenched his fist and pulled it back. "Falcon…"
Zeus fell into Falcon's line of sight.
"…PUNCH!"
Because of Zeus' massive girth, the force from the punch didn't eliminate him, but instead sent the giant man sliding away several feet. By the time Zeus had finally come to a full and complete stop, he was pretty close to the ropes.
Zeus stood up and dusted himself off. "I have to admit, that last punch hurt." He said. "But I'm afraid that they'll need to do more than that to-"
That was all Zeus could get out when Yuri Sakazaki ran by, slamming him with her Cho Upper and sending him over the ropes. Yuri was gone as quickly as she came.
Zeus landed in Mortal Kombat, where he and Raiden started a fight to determine whom was the better fighter (guess whom lost).
Roll had backed into a turnbuckle, but wasn't letting up and continued to pelt the oncoming Mukuro with blaster shots. Unfortunately, no matter how many times he was shot, Mukuro wouldn't slow down, and didn't even lose the insane smirk.
"How am I supposed to beat someone who's already dead?" Roll thought. "It's almost like he's shrugging off everything I'm throwing at him!"
Roll quickly flipped a switch and fired her arm cannon. Mukuro winced and prepared to taste another mouthful of a Roll Buster.
Feeling nothing, Mukruo looked down at Roll and saw that a small, metal ball had been deposited on the canvas just into front of the robot girl.
Raising a non-existent eyebrow, Mukuro scratched his head. "What's that do?" He asked.
Roll didn't reply. She simply gave the ball a hard kick, sending it squarely into Mukuro's forehead. As Mukuro stepped back slightly, Roll rushed around him and kicked him in the back of the leg, bringing the zombie to his knees.
Acting on instinct, Mukuro blindly swung behind him where Roll hopefully was. Roll was there, and she got attacked, knocking her away. Luckily, it was the dull and flat side of Mukuro's weapon that struck her in the side, so it didn't give her any cuts.
However, it DID hurt. Roll landed on her side and rolled for a few feet before stopping. Once she stopped, Roll slowly got to her feet and watched as Mukuro did the same, slinking over to her again.
"You think you can pull another fast one on me?" Mukuro asked with a smirk.
*BLAM!*
After taking the surprise Roll Buster to the face, Mukuro was sent recoiling.
"Fast enough for you?" Roll asked with a smirk of her own, starting to feel a little better now.
"Quite." Mukuro replied. "You can stop now."
"And let you cut my circuits in half?" Roll shouted. "No way!"
Roll rushed at Mukuro and landed a hard kick to his face, knocking him back. As Mukuro tried to recover, Roll advanced on him and whipped out a flower bouquet, tossing it at the zombie and taking off again.
Mukuro caught the bouquet and stared at it strangely. "What the-"
One exploding bouquet later and Mukuro was falling past the ropes, unable to save himself from elimination.
Mukuro landed in Unreal Championship. The people started shooting him like they did with the others, but because Mukuro was already dead, nothing would affect him.
Krauser swung his fist at Juan again, but the blonde youth leaned to the side and easily avoided the blow.
"You haff been avoidingk most of my attacks." Krauser commented as he kicked at Juan. "I am beingk most eempressed."
"Eh, it's not that tough." Juan shrugged as he blocked Krauser's kick. "Fighting against a big fellow like you usually means that your attacks are powerful, but slow at the same time."
"You seem to know a lot about fightingk."
"Hey, I run a Bujitsu Center." Juan replied. "It's my job to know these things no matter how lazy I am."
Krauser continued to attack. He lashed out one fist, and once Juan caught it, the purple-haired man lashed out his other fist. Because Juan was in the middle of blocking the previous punch, the second one drove into his stomach, slightly knocking the wind out of him.
Juan gave a light cough and stood straight again. "That was pretty smart. I didn't see that one coming."
"Thank you. Now, ve must feeneesh our fight and determeene zee veener."
"Sure. Why not?"
Juan rushed at Krauser and landed three hard palm strikes to the larger man's chest, making him step back a couple of steps. Juan continued to advance, pushing Krauser back towards the ropes.
However, unlike those that fell in a similar manner, Krauser found an opening. As Juan was recovering from a powerful strike he had just done, Krauser drove his knee into the younger man's face, sending Juan flying backwards several feet until landing on his back.
Juan slowly stood up. His hair was messed up, his outfit had a couple of tears and the reed in the mouth was long gone. "Okay. Let's settle this." He said.
Krauser nodded, but stayed still as Juan rushed again. Juan swung his fist, but Krauser surprised him by catching the fist in his huge palm. Juan was then easy pickings for Krauser to pick up and toss across the arena.
Had Krauser been thinking, he would have thought to throw Juan over the ropes, but he didn't. Instead of falling past the ropes, Juan landed on Wario.
"Hey! Who do you think you are, buster?" Wario asked as he pushed Juan off of him. "You think you can just LAND on me?"
Juan didn't get a chance to respond. Wario had already booted him out of the arena.
Juan landed on top of a walking Stegosaurus' back in Joe and Mac 2. Finding the ride relaxing, Juan lay down and fell asleep as Joe and Mac continued to whack vicious cavemen with clubs.
Seeing Wario eliminate Juan, Krauser realized his mistake and slapped himself in the forehead. Deciding to forget that he had just passed up an elimination, Krauser turned and strode towards the fight Lau Chan was having with Bowser, hoping to eliminate one of them.
Lau dodged a claw swipe from Bowser and noticed Krauser coming over. "I believe that man over there seems intent on stopping our fight."
Bowser turned, half-expecting it to be a trick. However, when he indeed saw Krauser walking over, he smirked and cracked his knuckles. "I'll be right back."
"By all means. Go ahead."
Bowser walked forward, towards the oncoming Krauser. Once the two came close to each other, they stopped, showing each other (and everyone else watching) that they were the same height standing straight. Both purple-haired noble and overgrown turtle stared each other down, neither one of them making a move.
All of a sudden, Bowser acted, thrusting his head forward. Krauser saw the attack coming and held up his hands, grabbing hold of Bowser's horns before they could slam into his head. The two struggled like this for a couple of seconds, but Krauser got the upper hand and pushed the Koopa king away from him.
Bowser stumbled backwards, but regained his footing after a couple of steps. "Heh. The only one that I know that can block that attack is DK." He mused. "And even he can't counter it that quickly."
"I shall be takingk zhat as a compliment." Krauser said, still in his stance, ready for anything Bowser could unleash.
However, Krauser wasn't expecting Bowser to breathe fire at him.
As the fire spewed from Bowser's mouth, Krauser rolled to the side. The purple-haired man quickly got to his feet and rushed at Bowser. However, Bowser stopped breathing fire and grabbed Krauser before he could attack. With one hand, Bowser threw Krauser from the ring, then went back over to resume his fight with Lau.
Krauser landed in Loonatics: Unleashed, where he helped Tech E. Coyote take down Mastermind while she wasn't looking.
(Hotel; Birdie's Room)
Needless to say, Birdie was getting pummeled.
Had it been under any other circumstances, Birdie may have stood a chance. However, because his son was at stake, J. Maxx was like a furious bull in a china shop, and was hitting Birdie with every attack he knew.
Birdie held up his hands to block a flying tackle from the furious football player, and quickly attacked J. Maxx with a head-butt.
Considering that J. Maxx was wearing a helmet, that wasn't very bright. All Birdie ended up doing was give himself a severe headache.
"Start picking up the pace, you scum!" J. Maxx ordered. "You're hardly putting up a fight!"
"Okay! You're asking for it, then!" Birdie said as he pulled out a knife and swung it. J. Maxx easily avoided the swing and landed a hard kick to the black thug's face, knocking Birdie back a bit.
Ryu was busy in his own battle, fighting off two foes at ones. Actually, in all honesty, Sigma was really the only one giving him a challenge due to his size. Gen-An was proving to be more of an annoyance than a challenge.
The young warrior lashed out his hands, launching a fireball at Sigma. The huge robot swatted the projectile away easily and advanced on Ryu with a sliding kick. Ryu quickly jumped into the air and sent an airborne fireball into Sigma's face, sending him to his back.
While the large robot was on the ground, Ryu jumped onto him and repeatedly kicked him in the face (swatting Gen-An away at the same time). However, Sigma was quick to recover and pushed Ryu off of him.
"I have to admit that your fireballs are pretty powerful." Sigma said. "But prepare to take a look at what I can do!"
With that, Sigma stepped forward a half a step and shoved his chest out. Suddenly, much to Ryu's surprise, a huge beam of energy fired from Sigma's chest and soared straight towards him. Ryu rolled out of the way, the Sigma's beam accidentally struck Gen-An, plastering him against the far wall and knocking him out.
"Meh. No big loss." Sigma mused before Ryu landed an uppercut to his chin.
Asuka Kazama jumped back as Sabretooth slashed at her. The furred mutant roared and attacked again. Asuka gracefully avoided the blow and landed her fist against the side of his head, knocking him away.
Sabretooth fell back, but was quick to get back into a fighting stance. "Stand still, ya punk!" He roared and charged again.
"I don't think so!" Asuka replied as she jumped, allowing Sabretooth to charge underneath her. Asuka quickly slammed both of her feet into the back of Sabretooth's head, sending him staggering forward.
Sabretooth wasn't one to give up easily, even after his defeat at the hands of Billy Kane earlier in the night. Even still, things weren't looking up for the mutant.
"I can't believe I'm thinking this right now, but I think I'd actually prefer to encounter Logan rather than fight against these guys." Sabretooth thought as Asuka kicked him in the chest.
Deciding to try again, Sabretooth rushed Asuka. This time, he got lucky and slashed her shoulder with his claws. Asuka cried out in pain and gripped her shoulder, backing away. Sabretooth, seeing his chance, advanced on her again.
However, while she was still holding onto her shoulder, Asuka leapt into the air and kicked the oncoming Sabretooth in the chin, knocking him back. Asuka landed on her feet and rushed at her opponent.
J. Maxx roughly grabbed Birdie by the vest he was wearing and repeatedly slammed his helmet into the thug's forehead in pure anger.
"Come on, dad!" Junior shouted from the chair in the middle of the room. "Just a little more! Pound him into a pulp!"
Now normally, J. Maxx wasn't too keen on influencing his son to think such violent thoughts, but at the moment, he was all too happy to oblige. The furious football star slammed his head into Birdie's one last time and let go of him, making the thug step backwards.
Birdie stood in silence before blacking out on his feet, toppling over to the ground. J. Maxx stood over him, breathing heavily and his eyes narrowed from behind his mask.
Looking around the room, J. Maxx saw that Ryu had just knocked Sigma out with his patented Hurricane Kick, and Asuka had thrown Sabretooth over her shoulder, sending him crashing into a table, where he became unconscious. Watari had long ago finished his short fight against Ripper and Hopper and sat on a chair to regain some of his energy as the two thugs lay on the ground, knocked out. Falco was gone from the room entirely, probably having chased Yamazaki down.
Deciding not to wonder where the avian had gone, J. Maxx rushed over to his son and quickly untied him. The football star wrapped his arms around his son, crying tears of happiness and thanking God that his son hadn't been hurt.
As the emotional reunion between father and son continued, Ryu, Asuka and Watari gathered around them.
"Well, that's one of the kids saved." Ryu said.
"I sure hope that the others will have it just as easy as we did." Asuka added.
"I doubt that. It doesn't get much easier than our fights." Watari muttered.
(The Arena)
Axl, still transformed into Heihachi, struck the real one with a palm, knocking the old man away from him.
In spite of this, Heihachi chuckled as he got to his feet. "Absolutely amazing. He has even copied my strength." He mused. "Oh, I am going to have a fantastic time fighting him."
Never in Heihachi's old life had he come upon such a great challenge (mainly because he was technically fighting himself). The old man stood straight, cracked his knuckles and charged again. Axl, in Heihachi's form, advanced at the same time.
The two each thrust a fist out, but Heihachi was quicker, landing a hard hit to Axl's face. This sent the Maverick Hunter flying backwards, the force from Heihachi's attack deactivating the transformation, turning Axl back into his normal form.
(Announcer's Booth)
"Finally." Unknown1 sighed in relief. "I was having a heck of a time trying to determine which was which."
(The Arena)
Seeing that his form had been changed, Axl drew his pistols. "Okay. Let's settle this another way." He said, smirking.
"Young fool and your guns." Heihachi replied. "An explosion couldn't kill me. What makes you think those pea-shooters can do any better?"
One of Axl's guns promptly ricocheted off of Heihachi's forehead.
Axl ran at Heihachi, grabbed his discarded gun and landed a hard kick to the old man's chest, knocking him backwards. Axl tried kicking again, but Heihachi was quick to recover and grabbed his opponent's foot, throwing him away.
This wasn't enough to slow Axl down, though. Axl jumped back up and rushed at Heihachi. Heihachi, expecting another kick to the chest, swung his fist in an uppercut.
However, that wasn't hat Axl was planning. The Maverick Hunter swerved around Heihachi's fist and leapt at Heihachi in a flying kick, kicking the old man in the face and sending him tumbling over the ropes.
Heihachi landed in F-Zero GX. Like Hugo back in Section One, it was in the middle of a race. However, Heihachi saw the leading car (Bio Rex's) coming at him and swung his fist, striking the front of the F-Zero machine, stopping Bio Rex and starting a thirty-car pileup.
Bowser dodged a palm strike from Lau Chan, then slashed the older man in the chest two times. Lau quickly recovered and kicked Bowser in the face.
However, it did little more than make him flinch. Bowser laughed and backhanded Lau ten feet away with one swing. "Face it, gramps! You're way out of your league!" He taunted. "You're far too old to be fighting someone my size and strength!"
"To be fair, you're not that much bigger than Wolf or Jeffry, and yet I'm able to defeat them fairly regularly." Lau countered.
"But those nodal companions of yours are both humans." Bowser retaliated. "I bet you haven't faced a monster like me before."
"I should introduce you to Goh Hinogami sometime." Lau replied with a smirk.
The two advanced on each other again. Bowser tried attacking Lau with his claws again, but the aging fighter was quick to avoid them and land three strong punches to the overgrown lizard's chest.
The sheer power from Lau's punches not only hurt Bowser, but sent him reeling for a couple of seconds. The Koopa king was quick to recover and glared daggers at his opponent. "Okay, so I underestimated you." He said. "Big deal. It's not like I haven't been thrown around before."
"Mainly by those two plumbers, I take it." Lau said simply, although he had a sly smirk at the time. "You seem to face defeat at every turn."
Bowser's eyes widened, then narrowed again. "Okay, I'm gonna kill you for that one, alright?"
With that, Bowser lumbered at Lau, whom closed his eyes and took several deep breaths. Bowser got close to Lau and prepared to slash him in half with his claws.
Lau's eyes opened.
Almost instantly, a fist was driven into Bowser's chest, sending the huge turtle flying across the arena, eventually soaring straight out of the arena. The audience watched in awe at Lau's display of raw power.
Bowser landed in Rampage: Total Destruction. He grabbed Kyle the Cyclops and pounded him into the ground. George and Ralph had to gang up on Bowser to take the Koopa down, and even that took up most of Bowser's ten minutes in the node.
Mickey Rogers slowly stood up after Sie Kenou had thrown him across the arena.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." Mickey said as he looked around the ring. "If I'm to survive, maybe I should go for what looks like an easy elimination."
Setting his sights in the catgirl Roomi, Mickey smirked and walked over.
Roomi, on the other hand, was in a fight with Blanka. The green-skinned beast-man rolled at Roomi, but the young-looking fighter gracefully leaped to the side and allowed Blanka to soar straight into a turnbuckle, making him dizzy.
Seeing that her opponent was down, Roomi stretched and yawned, deciding to wait for Blanka to recover rather than go over and throw him out of the arena.
However, Mickey chose that time to come in, swinging his fist from behind. Roomi's cat-like instincts kicked in and she threw herself to the canvas, then kicked behind her, avoiding Mickey's punch and striking his stomach at the same time.
As Mickey clutched his stomach, Roomi jumped to her feet. "Nya! I don't like people attacking from behind, you know." She scolded.
Mickey wasn't given the chance to respond. Roomi shoved her fluffy fist into the boxer's face, knocking him back. "So why did ya try to do that?" Roomi asked.
"Hey! I'm just looking for an easy elimination!" Mickey blurted out before realizing what he had just said.
Roomi stared at Mickey in silence, her eyes narrowing. "So ya think I'm gonna go down easily?" She asked. "Nya! I think not!"
Mickey swung his fist again, but Roomi was quick to avoid the blow and kicked Mickey in the stomach again, forcing the black boxer towards the ropes.
Poor Mickey tried blocking Roomi's next move, but Roomi had chosen that time to grab him, and everyone knows that blocking doesn't do much against a grab. Room tossed Mickey out of the ring, then turned as a recovered Blanka ran at her to continue their fight.
Mickey landed in a void of blackness. The black boxer stood up and looked around.
"Where the heck am I?" Mickey asked.
Suddenly, a smiling banana appeared out of nowhere and started doing a weird dance.
"It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Peanut Butter Jelly Time!" A voice started singing. "Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Peanut Butter Jelly Time!"
(Announcer's Booth)
The two announcers stared at the screen, slack-jawed.
"I don't care if the thing is a random-node generator." SSBFreak said. "I don't want anyone else landing there."
"I couldn't agree more."
(The Arena)
Gaira's beads whacked Billy in the chin, sending him flying back a couple of feet. Billy landed on his back, but was quick to get to his feet. The Biritish fighter then ran at the giant monk, jumped and kicked him in the head. Gaira stepped back half a step, but was quick to punch Billy in the face.
Billy recoiled and sprang back, swinging his staff. Gaira easily stepped over the attack and swung his beads again, smashing them over the blonde man's head.
Billy slowly got to his feet and ran his hand through his blonde hair (his bandana had been knocked off long ago). "Who in the right mind uses BEADS as weapons?" He asked.
"Uh…Me?" Gaira replied simply.
"Why did I have a feeling you were gonna say that?" Billy asked. "Look, no offense, but I just need to finish this fight so I can get back to getting some info out of that Mukuro guy."
Gaira paused and looked around. "Uh…I don't think he's here anymore."
Billy snapped to attention. "What?"
"I don't see him in the arena." Gaira replied. "Someone must have eliminated him."
Billy roared in anger and charged at Gaira again, seeing that this monk had just ruined his chance to get info out of Mukuro by stepping in to fight.
"Man. You've got a serious temper." Gaira said as he stepped to the side, allowing Billy to dart past him.
Seeing that he wasn't running at Gaira anymore, Billy did an instant about-face, planted his staff into the ground and pole-vaulted at the huge monk, kicking him in the back of his head, making Gaira stagger forward.
Letting out another roar of anger, Billy jumped in the air and lifted his staff above his head.
Gaira turned and saw Billy swinging what looked like a dozen staffs down at him.
Billy's super move did more than allow him to vent his anger. Gaira was sent out of the arena with no hope of return.
Billy landed on his feet and took a couple of breaths before Yuri Sakazaki, looking for a fight, jumped him.
Gaira landed in Metal Gear Solid. The soldiers nearby suddenly became alerted, as large !'s appeared over each of their heads. Solid Snake came in from another directed and shot them all.
Lau was in the process of trying to regain his energy after his fierce battle with Bowser. The aging man was sitting in the middle of the arena as carnage erupted all around him, slowly regaining any lost strength.
Suddenly, Lau was lifted off the ground, flying twenty feet into the air. Lau landed on his back and looked at whomever was responsible.
Roll blinked a couple of times, her arm cannon still aimed at Lau. She wasn't sure if using a Tornado Hold on him while he was resting was such a smart move.
"I have no quarrel with you." Lau said. "Please let me get back to my recovering."
"But we're in the middle of the section." Roll pointed out. "I thought that we weren't supposed to rest until the end of each section."
"So you seek a fight." Lau said as he got up. "Very well. I shall rest up after eliminating you."
Seeing Lau advance on her, Roll gulped and took aim again, firing a charged-up Roll Buster at him.
Lau was more aware than Mukuro, and he demonstrated this by swerving out of harm's way, grabbing Roll by her collar and tossing her at least ten feet away.
Roll landed on her stomach and slowly got up. She rushed at Lau again and managed to land a couple of quick attacks before the older fighter smashed his elbow into her stomach, launching her away again.
Once again, Roll got to her feet. Not being one to give up, Roll charged again. Lau tried attacking her with his palm, but Roll slipped by and gave him a hard kick to the stomach. As Lau bent over in pain, Roll blasted him in the face with another Roll Buster, making him fly back.
Lau landed on his back, but quickly sprang to his feet. Popping his neck a couple of times, Lau rushed at Roll. Roll, on the other hand, changed her weapon to the Rock Ball, dropping a steel orb at her feet and kicking it.
The old fighter saw the ball coming at him and quickly swatted it aside in the air. Roll, however, was prepared for this. While Lau was distracted, Roll had again changed her weapon, this time to the Tornado Hold.
Roll fired the miniature tornado, sending Lau into the air. Roll quickly took aim again and fired another Roll Buster, striking the airborne man and knocking him just past the ropes.
Lau landed in Super Dodge Ball. The Canada Foxes and Korea Bombers pelted him.
(Dome; Hallway)
A volley of laser bolts flew down the hallway as Falco Lombardi continued to chase Yamazaki down. Various people, including audience members, staff and even a few unlucky eliminated fighters had to press up against the wall to avoid getting trampled or shot (in Falco's case).
"Hold still!" Falco shouted as he fired another shot. After starting their fight earlier on, Yamazaki had broken into a run, resulting in a chase. Every time Falco had caught up to the gangster, it would result in a quick fight before Yamazaki would break into another run to another part of the dome or hotel.
Falco, deciding to stop the thug, put his gun away and focused all attention on his quick feet. Being one of the faster Smash Bros., Falco easily closed the gap between him and Yamazaki. While running, Falco crouched low and shot forward in a Falco Phantasm. The blue avian shot through the thug, stopping Yamazaki's run and sending him to the floor.
Slowly standing up (and still keeping one hand in his pocket), Yamazaki glared daggers at Falco. "You really want to become roasted, don't you, turkey?" Yamazaki asked. "I could shishkabob you without even trying."
"Then why do you insist on running from me if you really think you can beat me?" Falco asked.
Yamazaki, for the life of him, couldn't come up with an answer. So instead, he simply pulled his knife from his pocket and stalked straight at the blue bird. Yamazaki swung his knife at Falco, but the avian was quick to avoid the blade and drove his foot into the thug's stomach, making Yamazaki step back.
Falco took this chance and raced at Yamazaki, driving his fist into the psychotic thug's face, knocking him back even further.
Yamazaki quickly regained his senses and charged again, kicking at Falco's beak. Falco held up his feathered hands and caught Yamazaki's foot, then pushed him back. Yamazaki couldn't keep his balance and fell onto his back.
"This isn't good." Yamazaki thought. "There's no way I'll be able to win against a guy this fast."
In spite of the situation, Yamazaki still got to his feet, although his mind was racing for an idea as he dodged a swing from Falco.
"Attention please." SSBFreak's voice came through the speakers. "Will Ryuji Yamazaki report to the Ready Room to enter the arena in the next section?"
Yamazaki smirked as he blocked Falco's next punch and stepped back. "Looks like I need to split."
"Not likely." Falco said, eyes narrowed. "You'll have to get through me first."
"Looks like I'll need to create a distraction." Yamazaki thought.
"Look! A three-legged anteater!" Yamazaki shouted, pointing behind Falco.
"Huh?" Falco asked, turning around. When he turned back, Yamazaki was gone. "Why do I always fall for things like that?"
(The Arena)
Rosa swung her sword, slicing through Kensou's Psycho Ball and canceling the attack. However, Kensou was expecting this, and rushed at Rosa, kicking her in the face.
In all honesty, Rosa was amazed at how long she had stayed in the arena. The only one from her node to last even remotely close to her time was Max Eagle back in Section One.
Kensou wasn't giving her an easy time, though. Rosa had actually almost been eliminated twice since she entered, and both of those times she was thrown onto the ropes, but bounced back in. This meant that Kensou was starting to get frustrated, because he had almost made an elimination twice. The fact that he just couldn't seem to be able to defeat this woman was enough to aggravate him.
Rosa swung her sword again, managing to slice a bit of Kensou's jacket. Kensou, taken aback by the sudden attack, didn't notice Rosa's foot coming at his head until it was too late. As Kensou recoiled from Rosa's kick, the swordswoman advanced, taking a deep breath and preparing herself in case Kensou was going to trick her.
Seeing Rosa approaching him, Kensou was quick to get back into his fighting stance. "I have to do this for Athena!" He told himself. "I need to get an elimination and show everyone that the Psycho Soldiers mean business!"
"I'm afraid my node needs the elimination far more than yours does." Rosa said, having heard Kensou talking to himself.
Kensou launched another Psycho Ball at Rosa, but the swordswoman gracefully avoided the projectile, rushed up to Kensou and grabbed him.
Kensou could do nothing as Rosa pitched him over the ropes. Kensou was unable to teleport like Athena could, so he could do nothing as he fell through the vortex.
Kensou landed in the old game 'Athena', where he helped his 'other self' take down the final boss.
Back in the arena, Rosa jumped for joy. Up in the Eliminated Seating, everyone else from the Kizuna Encounter node (everyone but King Lion, Joker, Gozu and Mezu) was cheering loudly for their nodal companion, having scored the node's first elimination of the night.
"Folks, Rosa has finally done it!" SSBFreak announced. "With her elimination over Kensou, Kizuna Encounter now has an elimination!"
Rosa continued to celebrate, still amazed at what she had just done. The crowd was going nuts, the fights around her had stopped and all the lights in the arena were focused on her. Rosa,for once in her life, was the center of attention, and she couldn't believe how good everything felt. She felt like she could take anyone else in the arena on.
That is until Wario sneaked up from behind and pushed her out of the arena.
"Well, so much for that." Unknown1 said.
Rosa landed in Excitebike, where she made a game of dirt-biking VERY complicated.
Roomi and Blanka continued their fight without any interruptions (after all, people had seen what had happened to Mickey Rogers). Roomi jumped at Blanka and batted him in the head a couple of times with her paws. Blanks quickly recovered frm the weak attack and did a back-flip, kicking the catgirl in the face and sending her into the air.
As Roomi was in the air, Blanka walked underneath her and crouched low. Everyone started cheering, knowing what was coming next.
The instant Roomi had gotten close, Blanka let out a howl and created a field of electricity around him, shocking Roomi and sending her to the ground, some of her fur burned. In spite of the state she was in, Roomi jumped to her feet like nothing was wrong.
"Nya! That hurt, ya know!" Roomi scolded the green beast. "Maybe I should eliminate you for that!"
Blanka scratched his head. "Isn't that what we're supposed to do?" He thought. He shrugged it off and rolled at Roomi again. This time, Blanka was successful and plowed the catgirl into the nearest turnbuckle.
After Blanka got off of her, Roomi slowly got to her feet, starting to tire out. Seeing Blanka standing in his stance, Roomi got into her stance as well. The two animal-like fighters lunged at each other, swinging paws and claws rapidly.
The fight broke apart and the two jumped back, landing about five feet away from each other. They were each sporting a few new scratches and bruises, but neither of the two were about to give up now.
Blanka was the first to act, rolling at Roomi again. Roomi was quick to come up with a plan, however, and leapt into the air landing on top of the rolling Blanka. She then started running on top of the rolling beast, sending him careening around the arena.
In a similar fashion that happened to the Duck King/Shabon incident that happened a while ago, Roomi rode the rolling Blanka around the arena. Unlike Shabon, however, Roomi was able to control where to send Blanka.
Deciding to end the fight, Roomi rolled Blanka over to the ropes (rolling over Wario and Roll at the same time). Once she arrived, Roomi jumped off, raced over to the ropes and pulled them up. The provided gap was more than enough for Blanka to fit under, as he rolled straight out of the arena.
Blanka landed in Adventure Island. He found a pineapple and started chowing down. Once Master Higgins showed up, he mistook Blanka for an enemy and started throwing stone axes at him.
He won't be making that mistake again.
There was only one elimination left that was needed to finish the section, and both Leona and Captain Falcon knew it. The two fighters were throwing everything they had at each other, trying to overcome the other and become the victor of the fight.
Leona pulled her hands back and swung them at Falcon, sending a sharp-looking energy cross at the racer/bounty hunter. Falcon, using his amazingly-fast feet, raced to the side and rushed at the blue-haired girl from a different angle, sending his fist into her face in another Raptor Boost.
This attack caught Leona off guard and sent her into the air. However, while she was still airborne, she turned herself over and lashed out her foot, nailing a bulls-eye at Falcon's forehead. Now it was Falcon's turn to recoil, stepping back and holding his head. As he did, Leona landed on her feet, ran at Falcon and kicked him in the stomach, knocking the hotshot racer backwards.
As Falcon got to his feet, Leona ripped off another explosive earring and threw it at Falcon. Falcon was able to snap to attention in time to see it coming, so he ran to safety as the earring landed on the canvas, exploding. Falcon raced at the surprised Leona and jumped at her.
"Falcon Kick!" Falcon announced in midair.
Falcon's foot, engulfed in flames, struck Leona in the face and sent her to the floor. While Leona was laying on the ground, Falcon landed on his feet and followed up with another Falcon Kick, this time going horizontally instead of diagonally. Once again, his foot hit Leona in the head, knocking her back further.
The hotshot racer/bounty hunter stood over Leona as she struggled to get up. "Look. Why don't you just give up now?" He asked as nicely as he could.
"Never." Leona spat.
"Have it your way." Falcon shrugged as he picked Leona up and threw her from the arena.
Leona spent the next ten minutes in the node of GI Joe, where she pounded Snake Eyes and Quint into the ground and sat down.
Back in the arena, Falcon sighed in relief, stood straight and brushed off his outfit. Turning around, he saw the other survivors of the section relaxing and resting. Roll fired an experimental Roll Buster out of the ring to make sure that it was still working. Yuri Sakazaki was sitting on the canvas, regaining her strength. Wario leaned against one of the turnbuckles, casually picking his nose. Axl, ready for just about anything, tossed one of his guns to himself, catching it each time. A bandana-less Billy Kane was leaning against his staff as he breathed heavily and Roomi stretched before getting ready for the next wave of fighters to appear.
The tournament was nearing completion as the next wave of fighters prepared to enter.
RESULTS
WARIO (WW)
ROLL (MM)
ROOMI (GF)
YURI SAKAZAKI (KOF)
CAPTAIN FALCON (SSB)
AXL (MMX7)
BILLY KANE (FF)
(ELIMINATED)
LAU CHAN (VF)
ROSA (KE)
BOWSER (SSB)
BLANKA (SFA3)
LEONA (KOF)
GAIRA CAFFIENE (SS)
SIE KENSOU (KOF)
HEIHACHI MISHIMA (T5)
JUAN (S3)
MICKEY ROGERS (AOF2)
WOLFGANG KRAUSER (FF)
MUKURO (LB)
ZEUS (WH)
BONUS MATCHES:
"Junior's Rescue"
J. MAXX (WH) clobbers BIRDIE (SFA3)
"Clipped Wings"
FALCO LOMBARDI (SSB) shoots down RYUJI YAMAZAKI (FF)
"Way of the Warrior"
RYU (SFA3) pwns GEN-AN (SS) and SIGMA (MMX)
"Feral Fighter"
ASUKA KAZAMA (T5) skins SABRETOOTH (MC)
"Why did Bison hire you guys?"
WATARI (S3) eliminates RIPPER and HOPPER (FF)
Eliminations: Wario, Roll and Roomi, 2; Yuri, Falcon, Axl, Billy, Lau, Rosa and Bowser, 1
Current Elimination Leaders: Billy Kane (8), R. Mika (8), King (7), Xigbar (6), Bruce Irvin (6), Chun-Li (5), Peach Toadstool (5)