SBS Time!
JakeCrusher: Kotaro is like Inuyasha.
Game2002: The author of Negima is a fan of Inuyasha, and that's where he got Kotaro's inspiration from.

Chapter 16
Nobody ever survived this move? Your previous opponents must all be weaklings then!


Both Lucario and Mana were both on stage now facing each other and Talko was giving them the introductions. "On the left side we have another genius from Mahora Academy, Mana Tatsumiya! Even though she is supposed to be a middle school student, one would never believe it by her appearance, which resembles an adult in every way! She is said to the master of sniping, but can she fight with full power if she doesn't have any projectiles with her? And on the right side is the Aura Pokemon, Lucario! He is one of the few Pokemon that is capable of speech! Isn't that amazing?"

"So how strong is Mana?" Marth asked Ku Fei.

"She's really tough-aru," Ku Fei told her. "I fought her many times but only won once against her-aru."

"Isn't she supposed to be skilled at using projectiles?" Captain Falcon asked. "I did see her fight using her fists and legs during the first part, but…"

"She's still very strong-aru. You'll see what I mean!"

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"So… You think Lucario can do fine here?" Pikachu asked.

"I'm sure he'll do fine," Yoshi said with a mouthful of cookies. "He's a very strong fighter, I tell you."

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"And without further delay, let us begin the fight!" Talko said before running off the stage to give the signal to begin. "Go!"

Lucario bowed down politely before getting into fighting stance. "I shall begin now." He got into awareness when Mana reached her hand into her pocket and got out something which he didn't see clearly. Lucario continued watching her with awareness when Mana opened her fingers and then flicked something that was on her palm using her thumb. Suddenly, Lucario was struck in the forehead by something and fell back. "Ack!"

"What was that?!" Talko gasped. "Did Mana throw something at him?!"

The thing that hit Lucario fell to the floor and he looked at it and saw that it was a coin. "A coin?"

"Uh? What did she just do?" CF asked.

"As said earlier, Mana is a sniping master," Negi explained to him. "But that doesn't mean she is restricted to using only guns. She has amazing fingers that can allow her to flick away whatever she is holding at monstrous speed almost equivalent to that of bullets, and coins are apparently her favorite kind tools to use. If it comes to long rage fighting, there is none better than her…"

Lucario was continuously hit by the incoming coins and had almost no chance to fight back at all. When it seemed like Mana ran out of coins, she reached into her pocket and got out more again and continued firing them. However, while she was 'reloading', Lucario got the chance to close in on her for an attack. He used Extreme Speed to rush up to her in a split second and threw a punch, but Mana quickly leaped out of the way and continued firing coins at him, hitting him in every part of the body.

"Aura Sphere!" Lucario quickly formed a blue energy ball in between both hands and fired it at her. Mana moved out of the way fast, but even though she wasn't hit directly by it, the aura released by the energy ball was like heat and it burned a little bit of the sides of her clothes.

"Double Team!" Next, Lucario clasped both his hands together and then clones of him started to pop out all over the place and encircled her from all sides.

"A cloning technique?" she thought. "I'll just hit every single on of them!" She folded up the coins in her hands and then with a swing of her arm, she threw the coins at every single one of the clones. The clones disappeared when they got hit, but she was unfortunate enough to not hit any of them. "None in the front… That means…" She turned just in time to see the real Lucario pouncing at from behind.

"Cross Chop!" Lucario lifted both arms into the air to prepare a karate chop, but Mana whipped out another coin in a split second and flicked it right into Lucario's chin and managed to knock him backwards. "Gah!"

"If you're thinking that for a sniper like me having a weakness in close range combat," she told him, "then I'm sorry to disappoint you. I have no weakness in range at all."

"She is a strong one…" Lucario thought, rubbing the part of the chin that got hit. Mana fired another coin at him and he quickly leaped up to avoid it. "Flash Cannon!" He lifted up his hand and formed a ball of light that blinded her and then he threw it.

Even though she couldn't see with the light blinding her, she could still tell that something was being fired at her, so she jumped in a random direction fast to avoid getting hit by the incoming silver projectile. Lucario immediately went after her and started attacking her with a series of aura-induced punches and kicks, but she showed amazingly agility in dodging them by moving left and right. She flicked another coin into Lucario's body again and knocked him back.

"Ugh!"

Mana took out another new batch of coins and fired at them nonstop rapidly like a machine gun. Lucario quickly leaped aside to avoid one coin but Mana apparently didn't just fire in one direction; she fired in multiple directions at once so the coins were spreading all over the place. Despite this, Lucario got the hang of it and moved around swiftly to avoid getting hit.

"Amazing! Mana is a displaying an incredible ability to of firing coins nonstop!" Talko exclaimed. "But Lucario is apparently also skilled in dodging too! Will he be able to get in close for the kill however?"

"Mamamia! I've neva seen anything like-a theez!" Mario said.

"That's why she is a very tough opponent-aru," Ku Fei told him. "Despite being a long range fighter, she can still put up a fight in close range combat. She basically has no weaknesses in range at all-aru."

"I've never seen anyone who can flick coins around like that…" Kirby said. "It's basically the same thing as firing bullets…"

"And I'm willing to bet that guy over there can catch bullets if he can catch those," Captain Falcon said, pointing to Wario who was apparently standing off the stage behind Lucario catching all those incoming coins. His swift movements left to right just to catch the coins were more than enough to amaze everyone.

"Ha! Ya! Got it! Another one!" he said to himself over and over while grabbing any coins that were fired in his direction. "It's such a waste to throw away money like this!"

"Aru?! He can catch Mana's coins?!" Ku Fei said in disbelief.

"When eet comes to finding or getting money," Mario explained to her, "He duz eet betta than anyone else."

Lucario continued to dodge the incoming coins, but constantly moving around had started to tire him out and he was eventually struck by another coin in the guts and fell back onto his knees. "Have enough yet?" Mana asked him.

"The fight is not over until one of us falls over and not get up," Lucario said to her.

"Very well; I will accompany you to the end then." She got out another batch of coins and readied to throw it when Lucario stood back up and pointed both his hands at her.

"Aura Stream!" he shouted, an aura appeared around his palm and a rapid blast of miniature Aura Spheres were fired at her constantly.

Mana quickly jumped around with skill to avoid every single shot and she would continue to flick coins at him while doing so. When the constant coin shooting stopped for a while, Lucario placed both his fists side to side and then moved them apart, and in doing so a bone made of aura was formed. It looked like he was unsheathing a sword.

Mana fired more coins at him and he used the aura bone as a bat to whack them all away and then charged up to her while continuing to smack away any incoming coins. When he was near, he slammed the bone to hit her but she quickly jumped out of the way and shot more coins which were knocked away when Lucario quickly brought up the bone defensively. Lucario ran after her and kept on swinging the bones around to hit her, but Mana managed to avoid them all by jumping around.

Lucario then pointed the bone at her and the tip of the bone extended forward much to her surprise. She stepped aside fast but didn't expect Lucario to swing the extended bone to the side, and she was struck in the body and rolled back from the impact, but managed to come to a stop in a crouched position. Lucario raised the bone over her and was going to slam it down on her when she quickly fired a pair of coins aiming for his feet and managed to knock him over, and the aura bone disappeared in the process. "Guah!"

"How about this?" she said. She tossed the remaining coins she have left in her hand into the air, and then quickly taking a new batch of coins, she flicked them into the air and struck the airborne coins from below. This caused those originally airborne coins to shoot down at an angle and struck Lucario in the back and pelted him painfully. It was like hail raining down and pelting on him.

"GAH!!!"

When he saw that his 'son' was receiving a beating, Yoshi became worried and shouted out to him with a mouthful of cookies. "Lucario! Don't give up! Stand up and fight! I know you can do it!"

Lucario heard him shouting and thought to himself, "Father is rooting for me… I must not disappoint him…"

Mana finally stopped attacking him and said, "So are you still getting up? If not, that means you've given up."

Lucario glared at her and wondered what he could do to defeat her. He then saw a coin lying in front of him and something struck him immediately. He picked up the coin and tossed into his mouth and chewed it for a while before swallowing it.

"Uh? Did you just eat the coin?"

"I see now! Lucario came up with the idea of eating the coins to recover himself!" Yoshi said, punching his palm. "When we were fighting ROB's enemies on his planet, he did something like this too and became strong enough to beat up his opponent afterwards!"

"That's something you don't see everyday," Pikachu said. "But of course, being steel type is what makes it possible."

Lucario stood back up and got into fighting stance and said, "I am ready to fight again!"

"I don't get what you see in eating the coin just now, but if you still want to fight, I'll fight you till the end too!" Mana said, and then she fired a couple more coins at him again. Instead of dodging or blocking, Lucario quickly chomped down on the incoming coins at a fast speed and swallowed them. "What?!"

Lucario charged at her and threw a punch that she managed to avoid and then quickly launched another coin at him. It hit Lucario in the side of the body and bounced into the air, but he jumped at the coin and quickly ate it also. Still not getting what he was doing, Mana continued to fire coins at him while keeping a safe distance and Lucario would swallow any coin that she threw at her.

"In a strange turn of events, Lucario suddenly started eating the coins!" Talko said. "What is he doing? Are those coins actually chocolate coins?"

Mana got out more coins to fire at Lucario, but he suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind her in almost a blink of an eye and struck her from behind really fast. She didn't see this coming at all and was struck in the back of the head but recovered onto her feet by rolling. Lucario charged at her and started attacking at a speed that was faster than usual and Mana was actually having a harder time trying to dodge his strikes this time. "Did he become faster or what?!" she thought. "How come? Wait a minute!" That was when she finally realized the reason that he ate the coins, but then Lucario managed to land another blow into her stomach. "Oof!"

After she was blown back from the hit, Lucario pulled back both his arms and blue aura started to come out from his body. "Dragon Pulse!" he shouted, and he thrust forward both hands and a burst of aura was shot forward and it molded itself into the form of a serpentine dragon that soared across the air with its jaws wide open.

Mana couldn't dodge the incoming move in time and the aura dragon went through her and burned her all over body. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"

Finally, she fell back onto the edge of the stage unconscious with her clothing burned up partially, but not enough to guarantee any fanservice. Talko ran up to her and shook her in the shoulder. "Are you waking up?" She gave no reply for several seconds however, so Talko pointed to Lucario and proclaimed him the winner. "Winner goes to Lucario!"

BGM: Pokemon series victory theme

"Yoshi! He won! He did it! Yoshi!!" Yoshi exclaimed happily while jumping off from his seat.

"Hey! Your cookies are flying all over the place!" Pikachu said to him.

"Aru! Mana lost?!" Ku Fei said in shock.

"Cool! I didn't expect that he could beat Mana!" Negi said. "She's one of our toughest fighters in the class and yet still lost!"

"I'm honestly amazed too!" Kaede said.

"That guy is born fighter," CF said. "Yoshi raised him from an egg and he has already surpassed his father."

Mana slowly got back up again and rubbed her head, and then Lucario walked to her and said, "It was a good fight."

She smiled and got up saying, "Congratulations! You're one of the few people who managed to beat me in a fight!"

The two of them returned to the waiting room where the others greeted them, and then Talko got onto the stage and said, "Now we shall continue on with the next fight! Wario vs. Abnormal Lee!"

"It's my turn already?" Wario said, looking up from picking up coins on the ground. In fact, he was already on the stage picking up the coins that Mana left behind. "All right! Time for me to beat up someone! Who is my opponent?"

"Hiya!" cried a high-pitched cry. Wario looked in the direction of the sound and saw a guy who looks very similar to Bruce Lee doing a somersault jump onto the stage and he did several eccentric poses. "You're going down, sucker!"

"Oh really? I can say the same thing to you too!" Wario said, cracking his fist.

"We have Wario, a man known for his infinite greed and power!" Talko said. "And then there is Abnormal Lee, the winner of last year's Fire Emblem Arena Championship!"

"That guy's the winner of last year's tournament?!" Negi said in shock.

"Then that must mean he's really tough!" Kotaro said. "Will that fat guy do all right?"

"Wario eez very strong, perhaps even more so than me," Mario said. "Since I'm not sure about da champion of da previous tournament, I don't know eef Wario can handle him though. I think-a he shouldn't-a have any problems with theez."

"On your mark, get set… FIGHT!!!" Talko shouted before running off the stage as fast as he could.

Wario raised his fists and taunted Abnormal Lee, "Bring it, Mr. Champion! I'd like to see what makes you a champion!"

"I'm going to show you how much you suck!" Lee said. "I'm going to use my ultimate technique right off the bat to defeat you! This is the move that made me the champion last year and nobody has ever survived getting hit by this move!"

"Interesting! Bring it already!"

"Get ready to die, sucker! Hoooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!" Lee continued standing in one place doing all sorts of odd poses as if he was dancing. When he was done, he charged into Wario at a blinding speed and landed a punch into his stomach. "Give me an S!"

"Oof!"

Then he uppercut Wario and knocked him into the air. "Give me a U!" He then jumped up higher than Wario and smashed him over the body to send him crashing onto the floor again. "Give me a C!" And then finally fell onto Wario to give him a nasty stomp to the stomach. "Give me a K!" He bounced up into the air again and did several spins before falling back onto Wario the second time to give him the strongest stomp. "YOU SUCK!!!"

STOMP!!!!

After the final stomp, Lee landed next to Wario with his back towards him and raised both hands into the air and yelled out loud, "YES!!! I WIN!!!!! I'M GOING TO BECOME THE CHAMPION OF THIS TOURNAMENT LIKE LAST YEAR AGAIN!!!! YEEHAW!!!"

"Nobody ever survived this move?" Wario's voice said. "All those people you've fought in the past must be wussy weaklings then!"

Lee was surprised to hear Wario talking, and when he turned his face to him, Wario instantly grabbed him in the face using his hand. "If you're done gloating over yourself," Wario said with an evil grin, "Then it's my turn to finish you off!"

He jumped into the air with Lee in his grasps and then fell back down and slammed the back of his head into the floor forcefully, and then Wario lifted up his other hand and gave him the finishing punch to the stomach incredibly hard, so hard that streaks of crack spread throughout the stage.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Abnormal Lee screamed at the top of his voice like a little girl, and then he passed out from the unimaginable pain that he received.

Wario got up and dusted his hand while Talko pointed to Wario saying, "Winner is Wario!"

BGM: Wario series victory them

"He won already…?" Negi said in disbelief. "But wasn't that guy he's fighting a champion?"

"So much for being the champion…" CF commented.

"That final blow's got to hurt too…" Kotaro added. "Just look at the floor…"

As Wario walked back to the waiting room, Talko said, "Let's take a short break while the stage is being repaired. Meanwhile, may Negi and Metaboss get ready for their fight which is coming up after the break?"

Hearing this, Negi turned to look at Metaboss who was winding his arm as an exercise and said to him, "I will be an honor to fight you next, Mr. Metaboss!"

In his mind however, Metaboss said to himself, "So this kid is my target! Heheh! Soon there will be no more point for me to be fighting in this tournament! Time to get the work started!"

TO BE CONTINUED

Abnormal Lee is an OC, but that doesn't matter since you're not going to be seeing him anymore.

I'm really in the mood for working on this story these days, so that must explains the improving qualities of each chapter. The ending of this chapter is really suspicious, isn't it? Also, there's going to be something very interesting happening in the next chapter. A very special character is going to show up…