(The Arena)

Half of the remaining fighters realize how close they were getting to the final section. (The other half were too busy fighting each other for certain reasons.) In fact, by the number of people yet to enter the arena, this should be the second-to-last one which means they were getting up. Then, they heard cheering. They all looked up to see who was next.

"VEEMON!" (DRA)

The blue dinosaur-like Digimon came out to a loud cheer. Jumping up and down a few times in excitement, he threw a few practice punches before making his way to the ring.

"I want to help Agumon but it seems that he wants to go one-on-one with that mouse for now." Veemon mused. "Might as well follow his example and challenge a Pokemon too."

With that, he leaped into the ring and made a beeline for Veemon.

"Hey, little guy." Veemon said getting Pichu's attention. "How about you and me go at it for a bit?"

The baby version paused before jumping up and down in joy.

"Glad to hear it." Veemon grinned. "Just because we aren't the main mascots doesn't mean we can have our own rivalry!"

"FAUST!" (GG)

The bag-headed white-clad had to ducked to exit the Ready Room. Standing very tall, he eyed the Ready Room before spotting Kurow.

"Up, up and away!" Faust yelled bounding down to the ring as fast as he could. With a big leap, he put his scalpel over and swung his weapon down at Kurow startling him (and Mario).

"Watch where you are aiming, you idiot!" Kurow roared. "You almost hit me!"

"I know. That was the point." Faust said flatly.

Kurow's eyes widened. "What!?"

"As the Frenchman with the horrible smoking habit says…" Faust said. "I never really was on your side."

Mario blinked twice. "I don't know-a what you are talking about."

He then narrowed his eyes.

"But if-a you want to smack this creep's face into the ground, then welcome to the club!" He said punching in his palm.

Kurow growled. The night was almost over and yet he felt it was going to be a long one.

"GOURMAND!" (PS)

The overweight chef stood outside the curtain clanging a butcher's knife and a frying pan together. Some people looked in disgust as the blue part of his face.

"So many different animals." Gourmand said in his French accent eyeing the arena. "I can't wait to see how many recipes I could make with them."

Rushing down the ramp, he jumped in (while knocking Spyro and Waddle Dee with the tremor) and made his way over to the fight between Pikachu and Agumon.

Agumon looked up. "Um, may we help you?"

"Oh, yes, you will!" Gourmand said happily. "I always wanted to know how a Pokemon and Digimon would taste."

Pikachu and Agumon's eyes bugged out at this.

"You two are the mascots of your respective franchises!" Gourmand grinned. "That means you two MUST be the cream of the crop!"

"Are you freaking kidding me?" Agumon asked in disbelief. "Interrupting our fight is one thing but to EAT us!"

"I do not recall any rules AGAINST eating your opponents to win." Gourmand said.

Pikachu and Agumon growled before leaping at their attack.

"CHESTER BURKLIGHT!" (To)

The blue-haired blue-clad archer gave a confident smirk before eyeing the arena. With a nod, he wasted no time rushing down the ramp and jumping in.

"Okay, I just need one elimination to tie with Cless and two to gain bragging rights." Chester mused. "Shouldn't be too difficult. I may lack in close-range ranks but I make up for it by being one of the best archers around."

With that, he got out an arrow from his quiver and aimed at Dingodile.

That was until he heard a sudden yet familiar noise. Looking down, he saw that an arrow had been shot beside his feet.

Chester jumped before looking up. Judging by the position of the arrow, it came from the entrance curtain.

"And now, Mystery Fighter… Number… Thirty-One!"

"HAWKEYE!" (Marvel Comics)

Clint Barton, clad in his trademark purple attire, proudly stood outside the entrance curtain with the crowd cheering with a smirk on his face. Tapping his bow against his shoulder, he casually made his way down to the ring.

Once in, Chester was immediately in his face. "What the heck was that!? You couldn't even wait until you were announced to shoot an arrow at somebody!?"

"Sorry, kid but I overheard you saying that you called someone one of the best archers around." Hawkeye smirked. "There was no way that I could not take that challenge."

"So I take it that if you wanted to, you could have killed me." Chester said narrowing his eyes.

"Bingo!" Hawkeye said.

Chester crossed his arms before getting into a stance. "All right! You want to challenge my skill? I show you what I got."

"HAKUMEN!" (BB)

The white-armoured samurai (and Jin Kisaragi's future self) coolly got out his long blunt-edged katana with his long ponytail blowing in the non-existent wind.

He coolly made his way down the ramp while stepping into the arena. Seeing Kurow as the biggest threat, he made his way forward.

That was until Spyro ran into his way.

"Out of my way, lizard." Hakumen said darkly.

"First off, I am a dragon, not a lizard." Spyro said before smirking. "Second off, sorry but I am looking for a challenge but you look like you may help me with that.

Hakumen paused before getting into his stance. "All right. Let's see how confident you are when you are lying face-down in front of me.

"RALF JONES!" (KoF: MI)

The brown-haired mercernary leapt out of the Ready Room with a loud shout. Throwing a few punches, he nodded before stampeding down the ramp and leaping in.

"All right! Who's first?" Ralf called out. He then noticed someone walking up to him. His grin than vanished.

Waddle Dee readied his spear with a determined yet cute glare.

"You have GOT to be kidding." Ralf said in disbelief.

Waddle Dee's response was to poke Ralf's leg with the sharp end of his weapon.

"Yow!" Ralf said hopping up and down holding his leg while hopping up and down on one foot. "All right, you little squirt! You want a fight then I'll give you one!"

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

Bison had just got off the phone and looked at Vega who was standing next to a piece of machinery.

"Well, is the machine ready?" Bison asked.

"Yes… Just like in the first Megamix Tournament, it should work." Vega mused. "Unfortunately, the power it has to put up against is quite overbearing. I think it only have enough strength for one… Maybe TWO tries."

"Trust me. That is all we can need." Bison said with a smirk. "And how is Eggman Nega doing?"

Vega paused before looking to the side.

Bison raised an eyebrow. "Well?"

"I don't know. I tried to call him and anyone else who is with them at the time but either they saw that their number is no longer in use or they just didn't answer at all." Vega said.

Bison's eyes widened. "Vega! Go and investigate! See what is going on!"

Vega jumped at this but slowly nodded. "Yes, sir. I will see what is the hold-up."

With that, he exited the room. Bison sat in his seat looking surprisingly worried.

"I can't fail this year." Bison said before narrowing his eyes. "No, I WON'T fail this year!"

(Hotel; Lounge)

Kraken sat on a sofa looking at the screen. "Look at that overweight chef! If that was me up there, I would have gone to town with those creeps!"

Valgas merely rolled his eyes. "For a so-called feared pirate, you sure get distracted a lot!"

"Hey, it's not MY fault what everyone else is doing is sooo boring!" Kraken whined.

Valgas shook his head. "Whatever. We should have been with Eggman Nega by now so get off your saltwater butt and come!"

"All right, all right, I'm coming…" Kraken whined. "But I better make it in time to enter the arena."

"We see if we make this quick." Valgas mused. With that, he started to make his way towards the door.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his face. Turning around, he saw that there was a kunai in his back. With wide eyes, he looked to see Wang-Tang and Ayame glaring angrily at them.

"Oh no! It's the Dragonball wannabe and the highly-visible ninja!" Kraken whined.

"We are not that happy to see you guys either!" Ayame said crossing her arms with a pout.

Valgas put his fist to his mouth and coughed. "Is there something the matter?"

"Don't play innocent with us! We know that you are working for Bison!" Wang-Tang snapped.

"How could you assume that?" Valgas asked feigning offense.

"Well, a certain baseball player saw you going to kidnap somebody." Ayame shot back.

Valgas growled before getting his stance. "All right, fine! We take care of two threats to Bison AND me!"

"All right! FINALLY some action!" Kraken grinned getting into a stance.

"Don't be so cocky." Ayame smirked getting out a shuriken. "I heard Shoma whopped you into next week."

The pirate's grin vanished. "Hey!"

(The Arena)

"JUDE MATHIS!" (To)

Normally, the black-clad medical student would have politely waved to the decent cheer he was getting but he knew that he had something to do. Wasting no time adjusting his gauntlets, he dashed down to the ring and leaped in without a second thought.

"I want to help Faust with Kurow and Caius but he seems to be doing well fighting them off." Jude mused. "Then again, having THE Mario with you helps."

He then noticed Dingodile standing to the side. Narrowing his eyes, he dashed over. Dingodile looked up in time only to swerve his head to the side narrowly avoiding Jude's punch.

"Oi, mate! Ya got a death wish or something!" Dingodile snapped.

"You know what is going on!" Jude demanded. "Tell me what is going on!"

Dingodile quickly realizes what he meant. "Oh, ah see. Sure. Why not? But Ah have ya know getting the information is going ta be harder than ya think."

Jude narrowed his eyes. "That what you think!"

"DAIGO KAZAMA!" (RS)

The black-clad gang leader stood tall outside the entrance proudly. With a stern glare, he made his way down the ramp.

Hakumen saw him come in and kicked him away before making his way over pointing his long sword at Daigo's neck.

All Daigo did was narrow his eyes. "You better have a good reason for doing that."

"You… You have a strong aura around you." Hakumen said. "And I know a threat when I see one."

"So I take it you want a fight." Daigo said. "Fine but don't expect any mercy."

"Please don't. It is the only way for you to survive." Hakumen said.

"MEWTWO!" (SSB)

The psychic cat-like Pokemon came out to an enormous cheer. He coolly crossed his arms while floating a few feet off the ground. Mewtwo slowly made his way down to the ring.

Teleporting in the ring, he pointed his finger at Veemon who was still fighting off Pichu. Suddenly, Veemon literally froze in his place. Using his psychic powers, Mewtwo slammed the Digimon a few times against the canvas.

Veemon weakly got up to see Mewtwo floating over. "Hey! What was THAT for!?"

Mewtwo merely shrugged. "Obviously the Pokemon VS Digimon is more or less a big fad in the arena right now."

Veemon growled. "I don't care if you are a legendary Digimon! You are NOT going to get away with doing that to me!"

"And now, Mystery Fighter… Number… Thirty-Two!"

"BUBSY THE BOBCAT!" (Bubsy the Bobcat)

The orange bobcat came out to a huge mixed reaction. But he didn't pay the negative part of it any mind. He was just happy that he had a chance to show his stuff.

Running down the ramp at a high speed that would even make Sonic proud, he leaped into the arena with somehow managed to glide into the ring. He then dealt a kick to Spyro's face.

The purple reptile staggered back. "Ow! What was THAT for?"

"Hey, I haven't seen any work for a while." Bubsy shrugged with a grin. "I have to enter the arena with a bang or they won't take me serious at all."

Spyro narrowed his eyes. "That doesn't mean you won't pay for that move."

"Hey, lighten up." Bubsy said. "What could possibly go wrong?"

For some reason, both the positive and negative reactions of the crowd to Bubsy had gotten louder.

"AKUMA!" (SF: EX)

The dark-skinned brutal fighter stood outside the entrance curtain eyeing the arena intently. Raising his knee, he did his teleport making his way to the ring.

Hakumen and Daigo were fighting each other. Suddenly, they sensed a loud presence. Turning their heads, they saw Akuma coming over.

"So you are the infamous Akuma?" Hakumen said darkly.

"Indeed. And out of all of the fighters in the ring so far, I sense the most power from the both of you." The fiery-red haired fighter said getting into his stance with a stomp. "If you dare show me I am wrong, you will die!"

Daigo narrowed his good eye. "Don't worry, I intend to come out of this thing alive."

With that, the three fighters glared at each other. Everyone else nearby wisely inched away from the three-way.

"E-123 OMEGA!" (StH)

The bulky E-series robot stepped outside the entrance curtain eyeing the arena.

"Eggman had been long eliminated." Omega said in his robotic voice. "Plans for revenge are forced to be comprised."

With that, he activated jet boosters on his back making his way down to the ring before scanning around. However as he did so, he noticed Geary glaring at him.

"Another robot, eh?" Geary said stepping forward. "Well, I hate to tell you this big guy but as ironically as it sounds, there is only room for one fully-mechanical fighter here."

"You are challenging when you are merely a house-cleaning robot?" Omega asked. "You shall pay for your insolence."

"House-cleaning robot!?" Geary said in disbelief. "I am about to clean house! Figuratively and literally!"

(Hotel; Lobby)

The group of Ally Gator, Hunter, Vivi Orniter and Mel ran through the hallways as fast as they could. However, Ally slowly stopped running and looked down.

"Ugh! I can't believe we just left Kanji back there!" Ally growled.

"It's not like we had a choice!" Hunter said. "His big scary skeleton thingy is the only thing that even have a chance to keeping that Barbatos creep at bay."

"Yes and he said that he needed to stay behind to make sure Barbatos doesn't come after them." Vivi added.

"Yeah but what if his skeleton falters?" Ally asked. "Then, he will be by himself."

"Don't worry, Kanji is a lot stronger than he looks." Hunter said. "Did you see how he manages to lift up that guy without much effort?"

"Yeah but lifting isn't the same as fighting." Ally said. "Like Tiny may be the strongest lifter in my node but he isn't the number one boxer."

"It is not like we have a choice." Mel said. "You saw him in the arena. I don't care how strong we are, we will eventually falter after him."

"I guess." Ally said lowering her head. "I just hope that Kanji isn't going in over his head."

The boxer then raised her head.

"Well, we can't let Kanji's sacrifice be in vain!" Ally said. "We have to stop those crooks."

Hunter paused. "Um, how?"

"Whatever it takes!" Ally snapped. "The night is almost over and we didn't have any progress! It is now or never!"

Hunter, Vivi and Mel paused before looking at each other. They then nodded.

"Good. Now let's go." Ally said. "To say we wasted enough time is an understatement."

Everyone nodded before running off.

(Dome; Hallway)

Tiny Tiger and Blaze the Cat ran down the halls as fast as they could.

"How Blaze got caught?" Tiny asked while running.

"Easy. My own stupid pride." The princess said. "I didn't want to be seen as a burden."

"Burden?" Tiny asked.

"Yes, I am a princess and I shouldn't have to be the bane of everyone trying to keep me safe." Blaze said.

"Tiny no mind." Tiny said flatly.

"Huh?" Blaze asked looking at the tiger as the two stopped running. "But because of me, you could had been killed by that explosion back there!"

Tiny shook his head. "That no Blaze's fault."

"Yes, That Blaze's fault!" Blaze said. "If I just stayed in the Recovery Room, none of this would have happened!"

Tiny paused for a moment. He then bent his head downward to Blaze.

"Blaze is safe now. That is all that matters." Tiny said simply.

Blaze looked in awe blinking twice. She then giggled.

"You are a simple tiger, aren't you, Tiny?" Blaze said.

Tiny nodded with a grin. "Tiny knows what Tiny likes."

Suddenly, the two had heard heavy footsteps. Before the two had any chance to react, they saw a figure coming around the corner. Their eyes widened when they found it was Barbatos Goetia holding his trademark axe in one hand and Kanji in the other arm.

Barbatos then saw the two. "Ah, Tiny. Perfect timing. The security team had escaped. I had managed to keep one of them from losing me but…"

Suddenly, he noticed Blaze.

"Hey, isn't that the one with the power?" Barbatos asked. He then smirked. "Heh. And to think I thought you were nothing but muscle. Let's capture her and take her back to Eggman Nega. Won't he be pleased?"

Tiny took a deep breath. He looked down at Blaze who looked just as nervous as him. If Barbatos took Blaze back to Eggman Nega, they probably wasted no time killing Blaze for the power. But Barbatos was working for Bison who Cortex was also working for. If he protects Blaze, he would go against his orders.

This must had been what Dingodile was talking about. About things about better things besides blindly following orders. This was it. He had to choose between his boss and a young woman he literally just met today.

Tiny narrowed his eyes and put his arms out blocking Blaze. Barbatos looked a bit surprised but narrowed his eyes.

"Tiny, what are you doing?" Barbatos asked darkly.

"Tiny protect Blaze!" The tiger said sternly.

"I could see that! Question is, why?" Barbatos growled. "I am your ally!"

"No, Cortex is ally. Scary Axe Man is not!" Tiny snapped. "Tiny no listen to you!"

Barbatos growled before throwing Kanji into the wall like a rag doll.

"All right! You want to play hero? Go ahead." Barbatos said readying himself. "But just remember why they call ME the Killer of Heroes!"

Blaze narrowed her eyes before readying a flame. But Tiny put a hand in his way.

"No. Blaze run." Tiny said.

"What!? You are going to fight this brute by yourself?" Tiny asked in disbelief.

"Yes. Blaze has power and Scary Axe Man wants it." Tiny said sternly.

"But what makes you think you can win?" Blaze asked.

"Tiny don't think he can win." Tiny said. "That is why Blaze run. Blaze can't afford to get caught."

Blaze paused for a moment not wanting to run. However, she realized that the reason that she got captured in the first place was because she didn't listen to Faust's advice and stayed on the sidelines.

"All right." Blaze said before running off. "Just be careful."

"Blaze too." Tiny said.

Barbatos gave a crazed look. "Gonna face me like a man, eh? Well, we see just how far your pride gets against me!"

Tiny growled before clutching his fists. The two giants were so focused on each other that they didn't notice a certain faint red aura surrounding Tiny's hands.

(The Arena)

"KING DEDEDE!" (SSB)

Coming out to his theme song, the blue overweight tapped his giant hammer against his shoulder with a smirk on his face.

"Kirby failed to survive his first section and Metaknight didn't even get an elimination." Dedede said. "If I at least survive the section, then I could stick it to them later."

With that, he waddled down. Puffing himself full of air, he floated into the arena over to Waddle Dee and Ralf.

Ralf looked up only to narrowly avoid being smashed by his hammer. "Hey! What the?"

"Good to see you still in the ring, soldier!" Dedede said to Waddle Dee.

The bandana-wearing mook politely bowed in front of Dedede.

"I am not really into the whole teamwork thing. But I am in a good mood so far." Dedede said. "What about I help you thrash soldier boy into the ground?"

Ralf narrowed his eyes. "Two against one? Sure, why not? We need to even the odds, anyway."

"CHUN-LI!" (SF: EX)

The first female character in fighting games came out to a loud cheer. Doing a few leg stretches, she wasted no time rushing down to the ring and jumping in.

Once in, she made a beeline who was still trying to eat Pikachu and Agumon. Gourmand looked up only to have a kick to the face.

Gourmand staggered back before recovering in. "What in the world was THAT for, Miss?"

"Are you kidding me?" Chun-Li asked in disbelief. "You wanted to COOK two fighters and you asked why I attacked you."

"I was merely looking for ingredients." Gourmand said.

Chun-Li grunted in disgust. "People like you make me sick."

Agumon looked at Pikachu. "Well, at least she is keeping that creep off of our backs for a while."

Pikachu nodded.

"BARK THE POLARBEAR!" (StH)

The yellow-furred polar bear exited the Ready Room with a confused look on his face. A few people got confused too when they saw his bruises. He was still trying to figure out what happened.

Bark stepped in looking around for a fight. Suddenly, he noticed Kurow and Caius fighting off Mario and Faust.

Suddenly, it all came back to him. He was captured by Ganondorf and was dragged into the boiler room. Kurow then played a flute and knocked him out. That was probably why he didn't remember anything between that.

He then growled in rage. "Hey, Kurow!"

The claw-fighter looked up to see Bark stampeding at him.

"It is PAYBACK!" Bark roared.

"Well, it seems that you are quite popular for this section." Faust said. Kurow just growled.

"NITROS OXIDE!" (CB)

"Oh no! It's him!" Dingodile said while blocking a punch from Jude. "That guy gave me a headache just by LOOKING at the race between him and Crash."

The green multi-legged alien rode his floating vehicle coming out to a mixed reaction. Though the negative part was louder due to the race against him in Crash Team Racing. With a smirk, he rode into the ring getting out a couple of beakers.

His first instinct was to throw them at the duel between Spyro and Bubsy. The two cried in pain after being knocked out.

"Hey! What's up with them?" Spyro roared.

"I am looking for a fight and you two will suffice quite nicely." Oxide said. "Even though you two are wash-outs."

Bubsy eyed Oxide from up to down. "Said the guy who is fighting in a vehicle."

"Hey! Good one!" Spyro smirked. "I guess he isn't that so tough as he claims!"

Oxide smirk's vanished. "Hey!"

"MAURU!" (WW7)

The purple stout rabbit-like creature waddled out of the entrance curtain. Looking up into the audience, he saw his little friend, Mugi cheering him out. Mauru waved back before rolling down the arena.

Mauru jumped into the arena. Almost immediately, Veemon flew into him a victim of Mewtwo's psychic throws. Veemon then groaned before noticing that Mauru was staring down at him with his blank stare.

"Oh, um, sorry?" Veemon asked sheepishly.

Mauru blinked twice before raising his arm in the air revealing his sharp claw. Veemon yelped before jumping back to avoid the attack.

"Looks like I had found a new opponent." Veemon said getting into his stance.

"CHAIRPERSON!" (RS)

The dark-haired teenager did a few practice stretches. Once she was done, she ran down the ramp (with her jacket staying on despite she didn't had her sleeves in it.)

Chairperson ran over to the fight between Hawkeye and Chester.

"Hey!" Chairperson shouted.

Both archers immediately stopped when they were doing to look at the young girl.

"I saw your battle from all of the way in the Ready Room!" Chairperson scolded. "Both of you keep throwing arrows at each other even though said arrows could easily hit one of your fellow fighters!"

The two archers blinked twice.

"And for what? All for the sake just to see who is better at archery." Chairperson said. "There is better ways of doing so without getting somebody hurt you know. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Hawkeye and Chester paused for a moment. They then looked at each, smiled and shook hands with each other.

Chairperson smiled. "Good. I am glad that you two had decided to…

That was until Hawkeye and Chester lifted Chairperson into the air.

"Hey! What are you doing? Hey! Put me down! Hey! Hey!" Chairperson yelled.

She was promptly thrown across the ring.

Hawkeye dusted his hands together. "Good riddance."

"I say." Chester said. "Now where were we?"

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

"YURI LOWELL!" (To)

The dark-haired black-clad man came out to without a doubt the loudest cheer of the Tales node so far. He smirked at the more-than-warm reception before swaggering down the ramp and jumping in with his sword over his shoulder.

Once in, he decided to make Mewtwo the first target right. "Azure Edge!"

Yuri swung his sword sending a blue energy ball at Mewtwo. However, the Pokemon saw the attack coming and used his psychic powers to deflect the attack back at Yuri.

The vigilante rolled to the side avoiding the projectile. "Well, you are more aware of your surroundings than I thought."

"Well, what do you expect from a PSYCHIC Pokemon?" Mewtwo asked. "Also, you have a lot of nerve attacking me like that."

"Hey! The tournament is almost over!" Yuri said. "For the sake of the fans, you have to give an 110%."

"I suppose I can't argue with that logic." Mewtwo said getting into his stance. "All right. You asked for it."