Chapter 1: Welcoming Windows to Wonderful Worlds Part 5

Guardians:

Ruby (Pokémon Adventures): The Charmer

Junko Konno (Zombie Land Saga): The Showa (Zombie) Idol

Linhardt von Hevring(Fire Emblem: Three Houses): The Brains/Healer

Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Veteran

Blaze The Cat (Sonic The Hedgehog): The Fire

Yamcha (Dragon Ball): The Wolf

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Third-Person POV

The gong rang out and the main event had begun.

Insert Song: Yamcha's Theme (Dragon Ball FighterZ)

Yamcha, overtaken by the despair-inducing device on his neck, grits his teeth intensely as if he were an actual wolf.

Bucky's eyebrows furrowed, feeling bad that he's managed to find someone else who was forced into obeying evil individuals. Regardless, he knew that the only way to get through to this guy was to beat the brainwashing out of him.

The two of them charged at each other and a small shockwave could be felt by those in the audience by the force at which they collided. A swift kick by Yamcha was blocked with Bucky's vibranium arm, allowing the latter to sweep his other leg to trip him. Before the latter could land an overhead blow with said vibranium arm, the former rolls backwards as the metal fist breaks the stone floor of the ring. Yamcha then backflips and smashes his heel into the ground, creating a shockwave that pushes the super soldier back.

"Experimenting on people as well… Whoever Tao's working for, they've reached another level of cruelty…" Ruby watched the fight with disgust.

Bucky hits Yamcha with an uppercut before knocking him back with a big boot to the chest.

Blaze shakes her head in response, "Indeed, it's unforgivable what they have done. This also confirms that even if we manage to defeat Tao here, that our next move is going after them next. Who knows what they could do if we all just leave them be and return to our homes?"

Yamcha responds by clawing at Bucky multiple times, his shirt getting small rips on the chest area.

Ruby nods, "Right, although we have no choice but to move on. We still need to find a way out of this world, and even then we could end up somewhere else entirely! Once this fight is over, we should talk it over with…. Wait, where are Junko and Linhardt?"

Blaze and Ruby look over to see an empty spot in the crowd where Linhardt was napping earlier. The two of them gasped before making their way out of the arena worriedly.

"Hm? Where are—" Bucky sees them leave and pauses for a moment.

"Hey! Don't stand there and ignore me, I still haven't gone all out yet!" Yamcha shouts to get his opponent's attention.

"You haven't?" Bucky asked with a slight smirk on his face, pissing Yamcha off.

"No! Guess I'm gonna have to show you I'm not playing around…"

Yamcha gathers up energy into the palm of his right hand, supporting it with his left as Bucky waits patiently. An orb of yellow-orange energy is formed and Yamcha shoots it back at Bucky, who easily dodges to the side. However, the ball circles back around like a boomerang that actually works, hitting Bucky in the back.

"The hell?" Bucky reacts to having been hit by a laser shaped like a basketball.

"How about that? That's my Spirit Ball, a technique I came up with." The brainwashed Yamcha chuckled.

"Fancy trick, got any other ones?" Bucky asks, somewhat impressed but still ready to take him down.

"A few actually, so don't underestimate me!" Yamcha grins, taking that line as a bit of a compliment.

"Funny, I'm doing the exact opposite right now." Bucky mutters under his breath as he formulates a plan in his head.

Yamcha then attempts another claw swipe and Bucky blocks it with his vibranium arm before they continue to brawl it out.

"Agh… ack…."

Junko continues to try moving her body towards the table where her Pokéballs were. It was all for naught though, her body just can't budge an inch. She eyes the television screen that Tao is using to watch the fight.

It's still an even match, despite Yamcha's ki techniques making Bucky go on the defensive currently.

"That moron is too busy showing off instead of defeating him right away! Bombard him with ki blasts already!" Tao yells at the screen angrily, his tea beginning to spill.

Junko winced as she saw Bucky and Yamcha punching each other's faces at the same time. Tao notices this and smirks.

"Not enjoying the show? Would you like a snack while watching to make the experience more pleasurable?"

"Tch…" Junko clenched her teeth as the cyborg assassin came uncomfortably closer.

"That depends, do you have any sweet buns or peach sorbet?" A voice answers Tao's question suddenly.

"What?!" Tao turns to where the voice came from to see a sleepy healer coming into the light.

"Linhardt!" Junko calls to him, surprised to see him coming to her rescue.

"Angelica tea also sounds quite good right now as well. Hm…" Linhardt ponders.

"How did you get in here you brat?!" Tao aims his right arm cannon at him.

He shrugged before flipping through his tome. "That lift from above. Also, brat? A bit rude, since we've only met once—"

"Then this will be our second and last time, boy!" Tao interjected.

"Oh boy…" Linhardt stated as Tao fires his Dodon Ray.

The healer ducks before firing a Wind spell from his right hand, however Tao expected that. He pushes Junko into the line of fire…

… And the Wind blade cuts off her left arm.

"AGHHHHHH!" Junko cries in pain.

Linhardt fell to his knees and he looked to be holding back vomit in his mouth, while Tao simply cackled at his mistake.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! What a fool you are, and I originally assumed that you were the most intelligent out of the bunch! You're weak in both mind and body, boy!"

Junko just kept breathing heavily, while her friend was leaning over while holding his stomach.

Tao was all smiles, "Well, since the girl will bleed out in due time I might as well shoot a hole in you before getting back to watching the match. How do you feel knowing that in your last moments, you hurt someone you tried to protect?", he asks Linhardt.

Both he and Junko then went silent out of the blue.

"... Hey Junko, does it actually hurt? Also my apologies." He asks out of nowhere with his head down.

She shakes her head, "It's okay, and it doesn't surprisingly. But I recommend that you please move out of the way."

"What?" Tao turns to Junko, confused.

He notices that the area where her arm was cut off wasn't bleeding, then a button is clicked on the table next to him. Pushed by the very arm that was cut off, managing to move on its own.

"EYAHHHHHH!" The mercenary screams in fear at the sight of the detached arm moving.

The Pokéball opens up and Wooloo pops out.

"Hitsuji, Double Kick!" Junko orders him and he obliges, kicking the shocked Tao twice with its back legs.

Tao is sent flying, making Linhardt take a step to the right as he crashes into the wall. Junko is now able to move once more after taking out the general, she gets accustomed to moving again as Linhardt literally gives her a hand.

"Thank you." She tells him before quickly hitting him with her reattached, yet now sleeveless arm.

He did still cut off her arm, even if it was a mistake that turned into a good trick.

"Ow. Admittedly, I did deserve that, but still ow." Linhardt clenched his right arm in pain.

Junko rubbed his arm apologetically. "Sorry. Now let's get back to the others!"

"Hold on… what do we have here…?" Linhardt spots something that catches his eye.

He and Junko start to walk past Tao's unconscious body towards something in the back of the room, but then they hear the elevator ding. The two of them reluctantly prepare for another fight but…

"Junko, Linhardt!"

Ruby and Blaze descended down into the underground room to join them.

"It's wonderful to see you both unharmed." Blaze sighs in relief.

"Unharmed?! Look at Junko!" Ruby points at the zombie idol.

"R-Ruby, it's alright. I'm—"

"Her adorable outfit has been ripped! I'm gonna have to sew her a new sleeve!" Ruby says as he shows them the ripped sleeve.

"Oh dear Goddess…" Linhardt rolls his eyes before heading towards what he was looking at earlier.

"You did this, didn't you! I'll make you pay for ruining the look of an idol!" Ruby yells at the unconscious Tao.

Blaze puts her face in her right palm, while Junko giggles softly.

Another claw swipe across Bucky's face, leaving cuts on his left cheek.

Another punch to Yamcha's gut, taking the wind out of him.

The two men have been grappling with each other for nearly six minutes, neither one of them is willing to give up just yet. Yamcha backflipped to his side of the ring before taking a deep breath in before charging his aura. The wind barely managed to push Bucky back a few feet as he got back into a prepared stance.

Yamcha grinned before unleashing his greatest technique, "NEO WOLF FANG FIST!".

Bucky brought his arms up to block the assault as the martial artist let loose with a flurry of claw swipes and punches. The White Wolf couldn't defend against all of the strikes, especially since Yamcha's speed was not something he could keep up with too much.

"AWOOOOOO!" Yamcha howled as he knocked his opponent back with one final blow.

Bucky was indeed sent flying, like Yamcha told him before their battle started. That was not the end of the duel however. Having a cool metal arm proves useful once again as Bucky used it to claw into the squared circle to decrease his air time. After he lands, the two of them stare at each other before both acknowledging each other as worthy opponents.

They prepare one final clash, the two of them take aim at where they would strike to knock the other person out of the ring.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The two of them gave out a loud battle cry as they charged toward each other.

And in the end…

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Bucky landed in the crowd, the steps being shattered as he crashed. Yamcha has won… however he just stands there in a daze. It takes about half a minute until he snaps out of his trance. Shattered pieces of metal fall to the ground from where Bucky hit him: his neck.

"W-What the hell?" Yamcha looks around frantically to see where he was.

The mind control has been broken.

Bucky groans as he picks himself up from the rubble and brushes off the parts of a Monokuma audience member he crushed with his body.

"Did… I just win a tournament? This has to be a dream right? Someone pinch—ow!"

Bucky walks back to the ring and obliges, "You sure did. That was actually kind of fun, congratulations."

Bucky extends a hand to the confused Yamcha, who accepts it with a confused, but ecstatic smile on his face.

"James Barnes, you can call me Bucky."

"Heh, I guess now I could really be known as: The Great Yamcha!"

"Not gonna happen pal."

"So… wait, this is just another multiverse thing? Finally, a chance to make up for not being in that one tournament!"

"The Great Yamcha" fist pumps with enthusiasm after being informed of the current situation.

"We're happy to have you here!" Junko welcomes him with open arms.

"This group is starting to get quite bloated, with this many people around I'll never be able to get enough hours of rest…" Linhardt sighed.

"Sheesh, what's that kid's problem?" Yamcha asks Ruby.

"To sum it up, he's brilliant but lazy." Ruby shakes his head in annoyance.

"Don't be rude, Linhardt. With the upcoming battles ahead, it would be better to have more allies. It's good to have you Yamcha." Blaze shakes her hand with the newcomer.

"So what's the deal with these projector screens?" Bucky asks as he taps them and his finger goes through, "Jeez, what was that?".

"They're gateways to other worlds… they are what Team Zetsubou used to make all of this happen… sending the Monokumas all over the multiverse…" Tao begins to stir after being knocked out for so long.

"General Tao?!" Yamcha recognizes him as the mercenary is standing back up.

"Indeed, and I should have known that picking an easy target like you to be my guinea pig would lead to your failure… someone who's stupid enough to get caught would also be stupid enough to lose!" Tao bellows out at him, spit flying out of his mouth.

"Hey, that's hurtful. And I actually won, you know!" Yamcha defends himself.

"Tch… not in my eyes, you did. You may have ruined everything this time, but mark my words… you will—"

(This sound plays /-0nNALFR1hs )

Violet light enveloped Tao and suddenly he was gone.

"Where did he go?!" Ruby observed his surroundings to make sure he wasn't hiding anywhere for a sneak attack.

"He just vanished! What was that light?" Junko fidgets anxiously.

Bucky punches the wall in frustration, "Damn it, he's gone again. Now we have no other leads to our enemy."

"Hold on… he mentioned those projectors being gateways. We could just use them to travel across the worlds and end this 'Team Zetsubou'." Blaze suggests.

Junko's eyes widened at the idea, "She's right! There's a chance we could run into him again, or another member of his group. We could even save our own worlds from this calamity!"

"There's also a likely chance that we could run into new allies from the worlds we visit. People who have been scattered like us, or even those we already know!" Ruby agrees as well.

"Sounds like a good plan to me! If Tao's working for them, then they have to be as bad or worse than the Red Ribbon Army. No way I'm letting them get away with what they did to me!" Yamcha slams his fist into the palm of his hand.

Linhardt then raises a finger to interrupt, "There's one issue though, which one do we go into? There's two gateways here after all."

The group of six realize that the path has been split, and they discuss which one to go through first. Ruby, Junko, and Linhardt wanted to head into the right screen, while Blaze, Bucky, and Yamcha argued for the left screen. Eventually it was decided that they would split up for now in order to be more efficient.

"I know that we all met only a while ago, but I am going to miss having you all around." Junko admits.

"Junko, it's not like we're not gonna bump into each other. The paths probably merge further down the line." Bucky assumes.

"Right, so don't go missing us until all of this crazy stuff is over, okay?" Yamcha grins towards the Showa Idol and she nods.

"Good luck, you three. We will see each other again, so no goodbyes for now." Blaze smiles before Team BBY hop into the projector screen.

"Well, I hope this gateway isn't too frustrating to navigate." Linhardt climbs in with a yawn.

Ruby hops into the screen as well, but hangs out his top half to hold out his hand to Junko. She grabs it and they're both pulled in, entering a gateway to another world…

Meanwhile…

Location: Unknown

"Ow…"

Komaru Naegi, former participant in the Demon Hunting of Towa City. Armed with the Megaphone Hacking Gun, she can fire a variety of Truth Bullets and used them to her advantage against the Monokuma hordes she has faced against. Originally assigned to guard a dimensional gateway (as you saw earlier), she now finds herself in a new and unfamiliar world.

Komaru wakes up rubbing the back of her head as her eyes open wide. She gasps as the streets she's on are wrecked and abandoned.

"Is this… a theme park?" She asks aloud when she looks around.

It seems as though it is… at least it was. Broken windows on a storefront with merchandise on the ground, a trail of melted ice cream leaking out the front door of the ice cream shop, and an arcade machine has been tossed out with a shattered screen and claw marks on it.

Something happened here, and Komaru was starting to get some deja vu.

"Ste….bo…Os…..ld?"

Komaru tilts her head in confusion as she reads the broken sign for what movie was supposed to be playing at a dilapidated theater.

"Guhuhuhuh!" Childish, yet sinister laughter rang out suddenly, startling Komaru.

"M-Monokumas?!" She lets out in surprise as she sees two of them waddling around a bronze statue.

They were taking the head of a broken Monokuma unit and planned on putting it on one of the heads on the statue. It wasn't long until they noticed the girl and dropped what they were doing to attack her.

"Take this!" Komaru shouts as she fires two Dance Bullets at the bears.

The two of them get down on an imaginary dance floor, right before they get shot in the eyes by her Break Bullets. Komaru grunts as she continues to wonder about what's going on. However, something else catches her attention: the statue.

"This seems very familiar… but also a bit wrong somehow…" She states as she looks it over.

On the left there was a man with a mustache in a suit with his right hand reaching out. His left hand was holding the hand of a small animal-like character, who had a big smile on his face. This character was wearing shorts, had big feet, had a rounded nose, and his ears were… long and floppy.

They were… rabbit ears?

Heyo everyone. Dropping the final part of this chapter here because my birthday is coming up and I want to give a gift to y'all instead. No gift receipt though, so if you don't like it you can't return it. Ha, just joking around. What a start to the Guardians team, huh? Well, next time you won't be seeing them, neither will you see Komaru. Instead, the other half of the Guardians will debut in the next chapter…. Which I have no idea what to call yet. For now I hope you all enjoyed this, thanks once again for reading!