Battle Of The Luminaries 3

by Tinyhammer

Votefic. UVR Spinoff. Cross-Pasted On ArchiveOfOurOwn. After at least a decade when the second tournament was unfortunately been cancelled, the Battle of the Luminaries is finally back with its largest roster yet. Who will win? YOU DECIDE! Also, I WILL NOT TAKE MYSTERY FIGHTER REQUESTS!

6. Section One Results

NOTE: Okay, so um... Wow, I didn't expect to get eleven votes on my first section. I was hoping for a bit over five, but considering that I disappeared for a while, I could understand why people would be hesitate to vote for me. Thank you very much...

(The Arena)

"Galactic Tornado!"

That was the sound of Rufus before spinning around towards his opponent. Said opponent, Prince Charming, narrowed his eyes before raising his sword to block the incoming attack. While managing to guard against each strike, he was taken off-guard by the palm strike to the face.

Charming sprawled onto his back before groaning while looking up. His eyes bugged out when he saw that Rufus leapt into the air and did a diving kick downwards. Acting quickly, he rolled to the side to avoid getting kicked into the ground. Charming got up to his feet and swung his sword at Rufus.

However, Rufus' recovery was just as deceptively fast as his speed as he swerved his head to avoid getting slashed. Charming growled before going on the offence by swinging his weapon multiple times, but Rufus just jumped back, continuing to dodge and evade each slash. Soon, the heavyset man found an opening after ducking underneath a swing and he ran forward before doing an uppercut to Charming's chin knocking him into the air. Rufus smirked before jumping up into the air after him.

Until Charming snapped out of his daze and self-righted himself in midair before zooming to the side to avoid Rufus' exaggerated flying kick. Needless to say, Rufus wasn't expecting this and ungracefully crashed on the ground. He then groaned as Charming landed on the ground with a smug grin.

Rufus glared up at Charming. "How did you manage to do that!?"

"Say what you want about Shrek Super Slam, it gave me a lot of practice." The prince boasted, proudly. "I have one of the best air mobilities in the game."

"So you got a few nifty tricks from your time as a guest fighter in that game." Rufus spat. "That still wouldn't save you from becoming the No. 2 in America, Ken Masters!"

Charming's grin vanished as he growled. "For the last time, I am NOT Ken Masters! How you became Zangief's partner in Street Fighter X Tekken I will never know!"

Despite being in her dragon form, Corrin couldn't take the unbearable pain she was enduring. She was being slammed back and forth like a rag doll by an extraordinary person in terms of strength.

"Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales!" Elmyra Duff sang, skipping around the arena while slamming Corrin from left to right. "It's almost time for Dragon Tales!"

Corrin groaned. "Please…" SLAM! "Stop…" SLAM! "Slamming…" SLAM! "Me!" SLAM!

Elmyra heard this and stopped to look around with a confused look on her face. "Huh? Who said that!"

"ME!" Corrin pleaded.

"Where?" Elmyra asked, turning around to the direction of Corrin's voice. However, in doing so, she pulled the dragon with her and accidentally slammed her against the ground again.

"Hello? Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Elmyra called out walking forward while dragging Corrin across the ground.

The princess groaned in pain. She then growled through her faceless… Well, face.

"Oh, that's it… I am sorry, but you forced my hand." Corrin said, darkly.

With that, she slammed her front legs on the ground which engulfed herself and Elmyra in a pillar of water.

However, when the pillar of water vanished, Elmyra didn't look at the attack. She DID get soaking wet and even she noticed this as she blinked twice before looking up at the top of the dome.

"Huh? That's weird. I didn't know it was possible to rain INSIDE." Elmyra mused, putting her free hand to her mouth. She then shrugged before walking off. "Come on, Mr. Dragon! Let's go get to shelter!"

"I am a GIRL!" Corrin shouted while trying in vain to scamper free. "And where are we going to get shelter in this arena!?"

(Announcer's Booth)

Ashley looked at the arena with a look of exasperation on his face before looking at Drake. "Why… Out of all Mystery Fighters, just why?"

"Hey, Tiny likes his boxers so I HAVE to add at least one of them." The vampire insisted. "Punch-Out had already been covered by SSBFreak. Same with Black & Bruised. Tinyhammer already tried his luck with Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and it failed miserably. ARMS has already been covered for obvious reasons and I don't think Super KO Boxing 2 is…"

"I wasn't talking about Wade! I mean, sure he is definitely a lack of a better term 'WTF' choice, but we have long established that those types of picks make things interesting." Ashley scolded. "I was referring to Elmyra!"

Drake chuckled nervously. "Well, I wanted to start with a polarising character just like Sheep Man from the second Battle of the Luminaries."

"Okay, but she is polarising for a good reason! When you get past the irony of a genuinely-innocent, but dense little girl scaring all types of animals, she does nearly as much damage to them than PETA!" Ashley scolded.

Drake winced as he gingerly rubbed his wings. "Trust me… I learned that the hard way. You think Xero had trouble meeting-and-greeting Mystery Fighters?"

Ashley rolled his eyes. "Considering his lecherous nature, there is a strong chance of that."

Before Drake could say anything, his phone started to ring. Raising an eyebrow, he picked it up and put it to his ear.

"Ello?" Drake asked. His face then immediately soured. "Oh, hey… Care to curse at me some more?"

Suddenly, the person on the phone spoke, making Drake's eyes widened.

"Really? Uh-huh? Uh-huh. I see." The mayor nodded. "Aight. Got it. And I promise, even though you missed THIS tournament, I could assure you that you should be a lock for the second OKRON tournament."

With that, he hung up with a blank face. Ashley just frowned, not liking where this was going.

"Um, who was that?" Ashley asked.

"Shredder from TMNT. Or if I waited a little later like the original plan, Shredder from Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl." Drake frowned. "He was obviously originally complaining about getting snubbed and was swearing revenge against me, but he then called to tell me to say 'Yeah, no, I am still pissed that you left me out, but something came up and I have to leave'."

Ashley gulped nervously. "...And what is that 'something'?"

"Unfortunately, it is out of our hands right now." Drake shrugged. "You know as well as I do by this point, that is up to the security team."

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

"Ah, Rugal, it is good to have you back!" Bison grinned as more villains entered his room.

"Good to be back!" The blond man grinned, crossing his arms. "Maximum Impact and XIV be damned! I am THE villain of King of Fighters!"

Jivatma frowned. "I suppose I can't argue, but still… Rude."

Bison chuckled before looking at another villain. "And Shredder, I am so happy that we were able to find you!"

"Normally, I would say that you have every right to be, I would be lying if I wasn't the least bit grateful." The armoured ninja said before scoffing. "I still can't believe I announced AFTER the overweight, lazy cat who didn't even originated in Nickelodeon."

N. Gin blinked twice. "...But you didn't originate from Nickelodeon either."

Shredder glared at the cyborg. "I do not recall asking for YOUR opinion."

Bison then turned to Dhaos. "So is it true that Barbatos is actually refusing to join us?"

The blonde archmage rolled his eyes."Unfortunately, yes. After all, in HIS words, 'Getting disrespected by the staff for allowing an ITEM STORE in the tournament HE was entering', he made it clear that the only way to convince him to join is if we help with his 'crusade'."

"And we are actually going to give up and try to find said item shop?" Infinite asked, making a few people groan. "No, really? It should be a snap for someone like me to find it and kill Mel."

"Mel is literally one of the very few people to equally give service to heroes and villains alike. If she kills her or her shop closes down, how will we get more weapons in case something goes south?" Metal Sonic challenged.

Infinite just scoffed. "Who needed weapons when we got me?"

Metal Sonic slapped his forehead. "...Say what you want about Zavok. At least even HE would know why going after Mel and her item shop would be stupid."

"Also, even if messing with Miss Mel wouldn't be counter-productive, I don't think not having him is THAT big of a loss." Relius Clover mused. "Especially with who we have."

Azrael grinned. "Oh, I concur! While I admit that he has gotten the drop on me at the second Battle of the Luminaries, I KNOW for a fact that I could match his strength."

"Well, we will be looking forward to it. But for now, we have to get to my main plan and…" Bison started before he saw someone raise his hand. "Yes, Zim?"

"Make no mistake. I, ZIM, strive to conquer all! No corner will be unturned!" The Irken shouted, dramatically. "But still, don't you think we should split into the three teams first?"

This took a few people off-guard, especially Bison.

"Three teams?" Ganondorf asked before looking at Bison. "I know that I only looked at your blueprints for a few seconds, but it didn't say anything about teams."

"Ah, so you are going ahead with the main plan, Ganondorf?" Ridley asked.

"Um, as opposed to what?" Bison asked.

This startled most of the villains.

"Wait, YOU don't know!" Nefarious Tropy exclaimed.

"Sorry, sorry! That was our bad!"

Bison's eyes bugged out in horror as everyone looked to the direction of the voice to see… The Goketsuji sisters.

"W-W-What are YOU doing here!?" Bison exclaimed, pointing his finger.

"We are taking your advice, Bison-poo!" Oume smirked, putting her hands on her hips.

"We are going to help you with your plans!" Otane added.

Bison blinked twice. "Huh… I… What?"

"Okay, we admit that we didn't tell Bison yet so here is the spiel!" Oume explained. "He said that he doesn't date, but instead goes straight to making babies!"

Nagase grunted in disgust. "TMI!"

"So basically, we need to come up with our own plans for power that are similar to Bison-poo!" Otane explained.

"HOWEVER, despite us both having the same idea, that is all the similarities that me and my inferior sister have." Oume added.

With that, the two ageing women glared at each other.

"Basically, MY way of power is truly caring about what you value and forming some bonds with your allies to gain them." Otane said.

"And MY way, which is also our MOTHER'S way, is to go straight in and take no prisoners." Oume added.

"So that is where the teams come in." Otane added. "There will be three teams. The first two are obviously led by us based on our respective philosophies."

"With the final team obviously being led by Bison for his main plan!" Oume noted. She then let out a mirthless laugh. "HA! Don't expect Team Otane to go far! They don't even have the numbers!"

Otane paused at this. "...So you already got Dr. Cortex on your side?"

"Pretty much." Oume smirked.

With that, the yellow-skinned mad scientist smirked before making his way over to the older Goketsuji sister and the two high-fived each other. Otane just blinked twice.

"Sorry, but not sorry. But she talked to me first and as they said, you snooze, you lose." Cortex sneered.

"...Yeah, you are probably right." Otane sighed. "Well, did you consider my plan?"

Oume and Cortex's smirk vanished as everyone looked confused.

"I-I-I-I-I did and I loved it!"

Everyone looked on in shock (and horror in Cortex's case) as Dr. Nitrus Brio, Tiny Tiger, Komodo Moe and Ripper Roo made their way over to Otane's side.

"What… What… What are you doing!?" Cortex exclaimed.

After reaching Otane, he looked at Cortex with a smirk. "I am joining Otane's side. The only reason I joined you when you discovered the inter-dimensional crystals was to use you as a means to an end! But now I don't use you to go after you!"

"But… But… That still doesn't explain why the OTHERS are joining you!" Cortex exclaimed.

"I mean… Joe and I DID work with Brio when you tricked Crassssh into getting the cryssssstals for you." Moe admitted, scratching the back of his head. "In hindsssssight, I don't even remember why we joined you in the firsssst place."

"But… Ripper Roo TAXIDERMIED you alive, Brio!" Cortex pointed out.

"That's right. As part of a museum. Ripper Roo really did well for himself." The biologist smiled, patting the kangaroo's side. "He really did well for himself. Unlike YOU, who would discount his accomplishments and see him as just a crazy minion."

Ripper Roo laughed before blowing a raspberry at Cortex.

Kazuya Mishima blinked twice. "Umm… Taxidermied alive?"

Nina Cortex shook her head. "Don't ask."

"But Tiny… You are supposed to be my most loyal minion!" Cortex pleaded. "It is even STATED in bios in some of the games."

"...So let Tiny get this straight. Cortex wants Tiny to be loyal…" The Tasmanian tiger said before narrowing his eyes. "After Cortex was planning to replace Tiny."

The mad scientist's eyes bugged out before looking at Brio was now holding up a set of blueprints with a picture of an army tiger dressed in army clothes.

Cortex grinned nervously. "Um, well, you know that arguably ALL of the Crash games are canon now back to alternate universes sooo…"

"TINY DIDN'T HEAR NO!" Tiny roared, angrily.

Cortex yelped before moving behind Oume, who just looked stunned. Otane just smirked.

"Maybe if you actually talked to Cortex's ALLIES instead of just him, you could have prevented this." Otane taunted.

Cortex and Oume both growled at this.

"So you got a few more people than usual, big whoop!" Oume snapped. "The night is still young!"

"Indeed, it is. But that still doesn't change the fact that the score is still 1-0 in OUR favour." Otane sneered. "Come on, everyone! Let's go!"

Moe's smile vanished. "Wait… Hold on! Joe isn't here yet!"

"Don't worry."

Everyone turned to Krizalid.

"When he told me about the whole thing, someone…" He said before wincing. "I am acquainted with spotted us and it was clear that she wasn't willing to let us go so he offered to hold her off."

"Regardless, it is unfair for him to miss out on the experimental fun." Brio frowned.

"Alright, a couple of us will wait outside of Bison's door for him." Otane offered. "But for now, we got a plan to put into action! Come on!"

With that, she, along with Brio, Tiny, Moe, Ripper Roo, Krizalid, Mukai, Dhaos, Basara, ARIA, Cinder, Kilgore and Elliana walked off with the former two giving Oume and Cortex one final smug look.

Oume growled. "Oh yeah! We will STILL have the numbers! Come on, guys!"

With that, she, Rugal, Ridley, King K. Rool, Infinite, Cortex, N. Gin, Koala Kong, Rilla Roo, Happy Chaos, I-No, Terumi, Azrael, Kurow, Sho Minazuki, Gargos, Malomyotismon, Diaboromon, Zim and the Shredder stormed out. After they left, everyone else was left stunned.

"...Welp. THAT happened." Nagase said.

Bison blinked twice. He then slowly got onto the floor and on his back. He then started to stretch.

"Goketsuji… Goketsuji…" Bison said, during stretches. "Goketsuji…"

Everyone blinked twice.

"...I am going out on a limb and assume that this isn't a part of the plan." Relius Clover frowned.

"Not in a million years…" Nina groaned.

"...Um, guys, is this how the SECOND Battle of the Luminaries started? Please say no." F.A.N.G. frowned.

"I WANT to say no, but then I remembered the weirdest thing was Cruella De Vil trying to join us and you heard how well THAT went." Vega sighed, shaking his head.

Ganondorf slapped his forehead. "...I knew I had a reason to be doubtful of agreeing to rejoin Bison, but wow… JUST wow."

"Goketsuji… Goketsuji…"

(The Arena)

Wade Hixton yelped before jumping to the side to avoid getting hit by a spring-loaded boxing glove. However, he ended up running straight into another spring-loaded weapon, this time, a parasol. Not only did he slammed into it in an embarrassing fashion, but said parasol emitted a small burst of wind which sent Wade flying backwards.

Wade flew until he landed hard on his stomach. After groaning in pain, he shook his head before angrily getting up and glaring at the guilty party. Twintelle just watched with a smug (yet still graceful) smile on her face. Wade just got into his stance before rushing over. Twintelle then sent out her parasol. This time, Wade was prepared and he dove out of the way.

However, he wasn't quick enough to dodge the incoming Chilla glove. Wade winced before raising his arms to block the incoming attack. While said guard was a success, not only did it send the "normal" boxer skidding back on his feet, but he could still feel the cold aura of Twintelle glove. Wade winced before holding himself, shivering.

"H-H-H-H-Hey! No fair using an ice attack on a shirtless guy!" Wade scolded.

"Then, I am afraid that you are going to be in trouble, mon adversaire." Twintelle shrugged. "Dealing with ice is the least of your troubles in a tournament like this, no?"

"Don't think talking in fancy will save you!" Wade roared. He then rushed over again. Twintelle just sighed before sending out her twintails at the same time. However, Wade dove to the side to avoid the Chilla and while the Parasol still ended up in front of him, he LEAPT UP over it and grabbed the twintail while it was retreating back.

Needless to say, Twintelle did not see it coming as when Wade came to him, he delivered a hard blow to his face, knocking her down. While doing so, Wade ungracefully crashed onto the ground, but despite this, he still managed to scamper to avoid the downed Twintelle and started to beat her face in.

Twintelle grunted in pain before sending out her Chilla twintail into Wade's side, knocking the latter off of her. As Twintelle groaned while sitting up, she saw Wade on his side while gripping his side in pain. Narrowing her eyes, she sent out her Parasol twintail at the distracted Wade.

While the Parasol wasn't known for its strength, it was still a good defensive weapon acting as a shield that could literally push back attacks with wind and that was what happened with Wade as he was sent sprawling back. He groaned while looking up before angrily growling and punching in the ground, frustrated that he had to try to get to Twintelle all over again.

"Look, I understand that you wish to give it an 100%, but it was still that you never fought a boxer like me before." Twintelle sighed.

"T-That may be true, but that doesn't mean I haven't seen my fair share of strange boxers." Wade insisted. "How many boxing games have a garbage man that fights with his garbage man and his pet raccoon as a boxer!?"

Twintelle blinked twice. "I… Suppose that you are true. Regardless, despite the arena looking otherwise, this is NOT a standard boxing arena. Allow me to demonstrate."

With that, Twintelle sent out her Chilla twintail forward. Wade just narrowed his eyes before getting ready to dodge.

Until the Chilla punched the ground in front of Wade. At first, the mulleted man was confused. Then, he realised that his feet were frozen to the ground, preventing him from escaping. Looking up in horror, he saw Twintelle waving at him with a jovial smile and a wave.

"Au revoir!" Twintelle announced before sending out her Parasol twintail forward and crashing into Wade, making its burst of wind appear which not only sent Wade out of his icy prison, but also over the ropes and into the portal below.

Wade landed in Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, particularly on top of a boxer, startling both the latter's opponent and everyone in the audience.

The Southern boxer groaned while sitting up, oblivious to said knocked out person. "Aw, shucks! I knew from the start if I got even one elimination, I would be lucky, but I would LIKE to think I have the potential to do… I don't know. ANYTHING better than the first elimination of the tournament. Well, at least it can't get any worse."

"HEY!"

Wade's eyes widened before looking to the direction of the voice to see Mama Tua climbing into the ring with a furious look on her face.

"I don't know where you came from, but you just landed on top of my son and knocked him out just as the match was in his favour!" Mama Tua scolded while stomping over.

Wade turned his head to see an unconscious Salua Tua and a bewildered Big Willy Johnson.

"Well, what do you have to say for yourself!?" Mama Tua asked, crossing her arms.

Wade blinked twice before raising his glove while opening his mouth.

(Announcer's Booth)

Ashley looked with wide eyes as Mama Tua tore Wade a new one before slapping his forehead. "I KNEW that Wade would say something that would make the situation worse and yet I am STILL exasperated."

Drake chuckled nervously. "Don't worry, folks. After ten minutes, he will be taken back to the Recovery Room where our specialised team of medics will heal him back to health!"

(The Arena)

Pinstripe Potoroo laughed like a maniac as he opened fire from his Tommy Gun. Black Orchid just narrowed her eyes before doing a sliding kick, only ducking underneath the barrage, but made it all of the way to Pinstripe. The gangster was not expecting this and took a kick to his stomach.

As Pinstripe staggered back, Orchid got back to her feet before rushing forward. Pinstripe's eyes widened before raising his Tommy Gun to block Orchid's kali sticks. However, all it took was a couple blocked strikes with her weapon before she struck Pinstripe in the face hard.

However, Orchid wasn't done as she proceeded to do a series of super-fast stick strikes and kicks to Pinstripe's face and stomach before ending with a backflip, kicking the potoroo in the chin and sending him flying into the air before landing on his stomach. The Killer Instinct fans in the audience cheered as Orchid gave a smirk before rushing forward to finish her opponent.

Then, Pinstripe groaned while shaking his head. His eyes bugged out when he saw Orchid rushing forward. He yelped before shooting the ground in front of him. This resulted in the ground in pillars of purple fire. Orchid's eyes widened before skidding to a stop. Pinstripe sneered before opening fire on Orchid, hitting multiple times (Don't worry, these are non-lethal ammunition).

Orchid grunted in pain before glaring at the guilty party. "Okay, I KNOW for a fact that you did not have that in your boss fight!"

"Not much of a mobile gamer, are you?" Pinstripe taunted with a smirk. "You know that? I respect that, but if you did your research on Crash on the Run, you would know I heard a couple of new tricks. Let me show ya."

With that, he put away his Tommy Gun and pulled out a cherry bomb in each hand. Orchid's eyes bugged out before Pinstripe started throwing while laughing maniacally. Orchid then proceeded to do a series of dodge rolls and cartwheels to avoid getting blasted.

Then, a bomb fell in front of her exploded. The good news was that it wasn't close enough to physically damage her. The bad news was that it was more than enough to send her flying back until she landed on her rear. This made Pinstripe laugh while putting his hands on his knees. Orchid narrowed her eyes.

"Alright, that's it… I wasn't going to waste this on scum like you, but you forced my hand…" Orchid said, softly yet darkly. "SHADOW BLOCKADE RUNNER!"

With that, she turned into a glowing feral cat-like being of energy before rushing forward. Pinstripe's grin vanished as he got out his Tommy Gun and started to open fire on the incoming cat. However, his bullet bounced off of the cat. Orchid then got ready to pounce.

Until something grabbed her by her hind legs, startling both her and Pinstripe. The two turned their heads to see a grinning Ryuji Yamazaki.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, mo!" Yamazaki sang. "Catch a tiger by its toe!"

With that, he grabbed Orchid by her tail and lifted her up before winding her at like a bat while looking at Pinstripe. The latter's face fell, realising what was about to happen.

BAM!

Swinging Orchid like a baseball bat (and knocking her out of her energy cat form), Pinstripe was sent flying away towards another fight.

Pai Chan looked up from her fight from Tawna Bandicoot to see Pinstripe flying over. "Um, flying alternate dimension ambiguous love interest incoming."

The she-bandicoot raised an eyebrow before turning around and jumping up towards the incoming Pinstripe and did her signature spin kick, knocking the potoroo out of the ring.

Pai looked in awe as Tawna gracefully landed on the ground. "Wow, your reflexes are better than I thought. I just realised in hindsight that a warning like that would cause more confusion than alertness.

The alternate version of Tawna rolled her eyes. "You would THINK?"

Pinstripe landed in Grand Theft Auto, particularly in the middle of a gang shoot-out. Yeah, three guesses on how well THAT went for him.

Orchid groaned while propping herself on her knees while gripping her head. She then growled before glaring at Yamazaki who was sneering, proud at the mischief he had done.

"And what was THAT for!?" Orchid roared.

"I don't think you noticed earlier, but I was in a three-way with Speed Ronin and One of the contenders for 'Weirdest Final Boss in Fighting Games'." Yamazaki said, jerking his thumb towards the fight between Haohmaru and Princess Sissy. "Was forced to be the straight man. Didn't like it. Sane is overrated. So I decided to interrupt a fight so I interrupted yours."

"Well, I am going to interrupt your life!" Orchid shouted, lunging forward.

Ever since Elmyra entered the arena, Bean the Dynamite had latched him onto Ragna the Bloodedge's face and refused to let go, no matter how much the white-haired man

"Get off me!" Ragna roared, angrily.

"With that… MONSTER in the arena?" Bean asked in disbelief. "Heck no!"

"There are literally more than five animals in the arena besides you!" Ragna scolded. "And that is ignoring the fact that she more or less found a victim for the time being!"

"Hey, I know that I am crazy, but I am not THAT crazy!" Bean retorted.

"Oh, for crying out loud…!" Ragna muttered.

"Unhand that hero of dusk!"

Bean's eyes bugged out before turning to the side to see Bang Shishigami angrily stomping over.

"I will NOT stand still and watch as you make a fool of a fellow hero, criminal!" Bang snapped.

"Hey, I am not a criminal!" Bean snapped, angrily. He then paused. "I think… The Sonic Archie canon has been dead and the IDW comics are not canon… But we WERE in that poster."

Bang blinked twice before shaking his head and looking stern. "It may be ambiguous if you are canonically working for Nack the Weasel, but you are still a terrorist who thinks that just because Ragna wields darkness that means that give you the right to hang out with him!"

"...Seeing that you are unable to see my face, I am rolling my eyes SO hard thus far, Bang." Ragna muttered.

"...I don't know what you are trying to say, but it is clear that you want me to let go." Bean mused. "In that case…"

While keeping a firm grip on Ragna's face with one arm, he swung his free arm to send out a bunch of bombs forward. Bang's eyes bugged out before flipping backwards to avoid being struck by the bombs. Bang then rushed forward to try to reach Bean. However, the woodpecker did another throw which Bang slid underneath.

But not even a ninja like this could react the thrown bomb at Bean tossed down while Bang was still recovering from his own slide. The bomb sent Bang flying back until he painfully bounced off of the ground as Bean laughed while still trying to keep a firm grip onto Ragna (and Ragna had been trying to pry Bean off while all of this was happening).

Bean groaned while getting up and holding his head. After shaking his head, he narrowed his eyes. Getting out some nails, he threw them as if they were kunai. Bean just got ready to toss some bombs as counter-projectiles.

…Only for the nails to stay in midair. Bean blinked twice in confusion.

"Well, THAT'S not anti-climatic." Bean muttered.

Bang gave a toothy grin as a glint appeared in his eye. "I don't DO anti-climatic!"

With that, he lunged at the nearest nail. Before Bean could react, Bang turned into a blur, zooming at said nail before zipping back and forth between the nails.

Before reappearing in front of Bean with a flaming fist and a determined face.

POW!

After giving Bean (and by extension, Ragna's face) a hard punch, the green-feathered bomber flew straight off of Ragna who crashed onto the ground hard while screaming at the top of his lungs.

Bean landed in Woody the Woodpecker. Needless to say, he and the titular character got into a lot of mischief.

"Ha! Ha! Victory is mine!" Bang grinned.

Ragna groaned as he sat up while holding his face. Bang just walked up behind him and helped him up.

"No need to thank me. I vowed to help my fellow fighters of justice, especially when they are my nodal companions." Bang said before dusting Ragna off. "Just be more careful next time! Even though we are on the same team, we still need to fight our own battles! Regardless, holler when you need to double-team again."

With that, he walked towards Rimururu who was watching with a blank look on her face. So was Ragna.

"...I think I liked it better when we were enemies." Ragna muttered.

CRASH!

Ragna's eyes bugged out before looking in the direction of the loud noise to see Lloyd Irving, Mint Adenade, Hinata Wakaba and Sanane all sprawled onto the ground, groaning in pain. Standing a good distance was a stern Kanji Tatsumi dusting his hands together.

Raising an eyebrow, he made his way over to Kanji. "You seemed to be doing well for yourself."

"That twin swordsman and white mage thought that double-teaming would make it easy for them. They thought wrong." Kanji scoffed. He then brightened before turning to Ragna. "Hey, as long as you are here, let's have a rematch to see how strong I got!"

The red-jacketed man actually gave a hearty laugh. "Someone's been on a confidence trip ever since their fighting game became relevant again! Alright, but no bitching if you get your ass kicked!"

Kanji just smirked. "Same ta ya!"

Orcane shot out a few shots out of water out of his blowhole at his opponent, Duck King. However, the street dance easily flipped to the side, avoiding said shots as they fell onto the ground. Duck King made his way around the puddles (while still looking like he was dancing) and doing a spinning kick.

Orcane easily moved out of the way and spun around, using his tail to sweep Duck King off of his feet. The attack was a success, but while Duck King was taken back, he not only quickly recovered and landed on his feet, but he spun around and kicked Orcane in the face multiple times. When Duck King was done, Orcane flew back before landing on his side. Duck King grinned at this success before rolling forward.

Or that was the plan before Orcane suddenly vanished into the canvas, letting Duck King to roll into the ropes and ended up tangled in them. P-Chan just watched stunned. Suddenly, one of the puddles turned into Orcane. The orca-dog hybrid gave a mischievous smirk before crouching down.

Realising what Orcana was going to do, P-Chan hysterically chirped. As if said chirp acted as smelling salts, Duck King snapped out of his daze and quickly got out of the ropes, just in time for Orcane to send out a stream of high-pressure water forward which would be more than enough to send Duck King out of the ring.

"Nice call, P-Chan!" Duck King grinned, giving a thumbs-up before glaring at Orcane. "Alright, even I could be tough if I am forced to!"

Orcana just gave a strange laugh before dashing forward. Duck King just got ready to evade and counter it. Until he vanished again (though he was different to when he vanished the first time), confusing Duck King. Suddenly, he reappeared behind Duck King striking him in the back with a burst of water.

Duck King flew forward before crashing onto his face in an undignified fashion. Orcane smirked before going forward to continue the assault. However, despite still in his uncomfortable situation, Duck King managed to kick his feet back and struck Orcane in the face. While the orca-dog was stunned, Duck King slowly got up, showing that the fall hurt more than he let on.

When the two recovered at the same time, they both spun around to attack with Duck King kicking his leg out and Orcane whipping his tail out. The two attacks clashed with each other. The two then took turns trading and evading each other's blows and it seemed that the two were evenly-matched.

That was when a large yellow and black blur crashed into them, sending the both of them into the air screaming (and nearly giving poor P-Chan a heart attack) before the two crashed onto the ground hard. The two unorthodox groaned before they tried to get up.

Until Prince Charming jumped onto Duck King's stomach and Orcane's back while he was running past making the two cry out in pain

"Hey!" The prince shouted, getting the two's attention. "You are free to joke around here, but don't get in the way of ACTUAL serious fighters! And speaking of getting jesters out of my way…"

With that, Charming rushed over to Rufus who was just getting up and got into a stance. Duck King and Orcane blinked twice before looking at each other. They then narrowed their eyes before shaking each other's hands. They then got up their feet and rushed towards the swordsman and the heavyset man, taking them completely off-guard.

Duck King grabbed Charming by his arms before throwing himself back and kicking the prince into the air before doing a breakdance as Charming was coming, kicking him multiple times. Meanwhile, Orcane slid on his stomach, knocking Rufus up before the aquamancer blew a pillar of water upwards, sending the biker up higher before jumping up and sending out a stream of bubbles out of his mouth. Both attacks sent their respective victims out of the ring. Duck King stood up straight while Orcane landed on his feet. Both looking stern.

Duck King grinned. "Oh, we did that! We SO did that!

Orcane cheerfully wagged his tail and P-Chan hopped up and down happily.

Charming and Rufus landed in Mortal Kombat, ironically right now to Kobra. Upon seeing someone who actually looks like the actual Ken Masters, Rufus immediately got flustered and wondered if Ken cloned himself. Charming finally had enough and started ranting that his time in the tournament was ruined because of the dumbest things ever all while Kobra looked on in disbelief. Suddenly, all three of them were shot dead.

Erron Black held his smoking guns with an annoyed look in his eyes. "Gods, that was annoying…"

Back in the arena, the Wii Fit Trainer narrowed her eyes before doing one of many yoga poses to dodge out of the way of… A lollipop held up a strange white electronic-faced robot. Wii Fit Trainer then sent a knife-hand forward into the robot, making it disappear into some kind of black mass.

However, her opponent, Jack-O' Valentine then ran forward before flipping forward onto her hands before spinning around with her arms. Wii Fit Trainer tried to jump back to dodge, but while she was able to dodge the incoming kicks, they still found their way to her stomach, knocking the yoga instructor down to the ground.

Wii Fit Trainer sprawled onto the ground, but quickly rolled into a kneeling position. However, around this time, Jack-O' summoned three more robots. Wii Fit Trainer just narrowed her eyes before spreading her arms upwards summoning yellow energy in front of her. But Jack-O' acted quickly, grabbing one of her servants.

Wii Fit Trainer then sent out a yellow ball of energy forward. Jack-O' ran out of the way, but the other two servants got destroyed by the energy ball. However, that was what Jack-O was hoping for as she threw a servant at Wii Fit Trainer. The pale-skinned woman did an upwards knife-hand at the servant, destroying it. Only to narrowly avoid a kick from Jack-O'.

Wii Fit Trainer raised her head in annoyance. "Okay, I admit that I set my hopes up, thinking that you were some kind of aerobatic fighter, but you mostly just let your friends fight for you!"

Jack-O' shook her head. "If you are annoyed NOW, then you would be absolutely furious if I was using my moves from Xrd."

Wii Fit Trainer just returned the gesture before doing a series of strikes forward (which was just a bunch of yoga poses), but Jack-O' blocked the incoming attacks. Once she found an opening by swinging her leg with the iron ball connected with the Wii Fit Trainer's side, making her fly back.

Wii Fit Trainer soared through the air before crashing into the turnbuckle. She then groaned before propping herself on her arms. She then looked up to see Jack-O' staring at her with a frown while carrying three servants.

"Please give up." Jack-O' warned. "You may be a strong woman, but you are not a one-woman battle army."

Wii Fit Trainer frowned before looking down. "You are right. No matter how much I train, I train merely for fitness, not for combat."

Jack-O' sadly frowned.

"However…"

Jack-O' looked up to see the Wii Fit Trainer getting up… With a Smash Ball in her hand.

"I WASN'T training to be a one-woman battle army!" Wii Fit Trainer boasted. "I was training to be a one-woman FITNESS army!"

With that, she broke the Smash Ball in her hands, summoning herself in a blue aura and making her eyes glow. The crowd cheered as Jack-O' stepped back, concerned.

The Wii Fit Trainer narrowed her eyes. "Let's get fired up!"

With that, a bunch of multi-coloured silhouettes of Wii Fit Trainer doing yoga poses were sent forward, striking Jack-O' multiple times and destroying all of her workers. When the barrage was done, Jack-O' collapsed on her hands and knees, still recovering from the pain.

In fact, she was so distracted from the initial barrage that she didn't notice the final giant silhouette heading towards her and crashing into her, sending her soaring out of the arena with no hope of returning.

Jack'O landed in Metal Slug Defence where she put her experience with Tower Defence games to good use against the rebel army.

(Dome; Security Team)

"Alright, alright, alright!" Carmelita yelled at the rest of the security team while standing in front of a whiteboard. "As appointed leader of the security team and the only here we have any UVR-experience, it is up to me to inform of what to watch out for."

"UVR-experience? Didn't you get literally blindsided as much as everyone else when that blackout happened?" Naesala smirked.

Carmelita narrowed her eyes. "Watch it, raven-boy. You are on my list from the start."

"I didn't hear a no." Naesala said in a sing-song tone.

Carmelita growled as everyone looked at each other in worry.

"N-Now, I think we are all aware of the blackout at the third Megamix Tournament." Horkeukumai said, trying to defuse the situation. "But what about the Okron Tournament?"

"Well, according to Murray and Dimitri, the villain group wasn't led by M. Bison, but Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts." Carmelita explained. She then looked to the side. "Or at least that's what happened at first."

"W-Why? What happened?" Athena asked, worried.

"Apparently, a new villain has derailed his plans and killed not only him, but even Marie from Skullgirls, the current holder of one of the most powerful Macguffins in fighting game history." Carmelita explained.

The security team's eyes bugged out at this. Even Naesala dropped his smirk.

"Damn… They were THAT powerful." Pepper said in awe.

"That's right. So that is why we have to nip any and all signs of trouble in the bud." Carmelita nodded.

"...Understood." Gabe nodded. "Incidentally, who WAS this powerful villain?"

Carmelita was about to answer.

…Until a knocking could be heard at the door. Raising an eyebrow, she made her way over and answered it to reveal two figures that made Carmelita go wide-eyed.

"Oh no!" She exclaimed.

The first figure was a well-built man with a simple attire of a white tank top and blue jeans. However, his full head of dreadlock and chain tattoos on his arms were far from simple. The second figure was a white rabbit with a crooked grin.

"Howdy!" The two figures greeted with big grins

"Um, who are these guys?" Horkeukamui asked in confusion and concern.

"Name's Psymon Stark from SSX!" The dreadlocked man grinned, jerking his thumb to himself.

"And I am Max, the better half of Sam & Max!" Max added.

"Wait, don't tell me that THESE are the two…" Gabe started.

"I am afraid so." Carmelita groaned with her face in her hand. "These are the psychos that were in all three Megamix Tournaments."

"Um, actually, that would be ME!" Psymon grinned. "Max was added AFTER the first one!"

Carmelita just glared up at the two. "What are you two doing here!?"

"I invited them."

Carmelita's eyes bugged out before turning around to see Athena making her way over.

"A-A-Athena!" Carmelita sputtered.

"Sorry that I am making you two miss the start of the tournament." The yellow-clad woman frowned

"Normally, I WOULD be more peeved about missing people hitting the ever-loving lights out of each other." Max noted before chuckling. "But when Sam told me that you were from Ace Attorney, it reminded me of good old Gummy and Mags!"

"So it is BECAUSE of Gumshoe and Maggey that are the reason I called you here." Athena smiled. "I think you already know this, but Ace Attorney aren't known for their combat."

"Tell me about it! Gummy and Mags were completely useless in combat! That's why Max and I tried to make the latter into a badass!" Psymon grinned. Suddenly, his grin vanished before raising his arm and glaring at him. "Hey, it all worked up in the end, didn't it!? And besides, the tournament ended before Maggey truly went off the deep end!"

Gabe blinked twice. "Um, who are you talking to?"

"I think his tattoos." Athena offered.

Psymon looked at Athena with a smile. "Aww, you hear that? Gumshoe and Maggey remembered you guys!"

The security team blinked twice before focusing their attention on Athena with Carmelita looking the most furious.

"Athena? Care to explain yourself?" Carmelita asked with a violent twitching eye.

"I am getting to that." The defence attorney reassured before looking at Psymon and Max. "So yeah, I could use some advice, even though Carmelita feels like that if we stayed alert, we could prevent any and all trouble."

Seeing this made a glint appear in Psymon and Max's eyes.

"Oh, really?" Psymon asked.

Max then read up a large script. "Not if the script has anything to say about…"

Suddenly, Athena grabbed said script out of Max's hand, startling everyone, even the two crazy people. Getting out a pen, Athena proceeded to scribble onto the script at an alarming rate.

"And done!" Athena beamed.

With that, she put the script back into Max's hand and proceeded to shake the other hand before going to Psymon's hand.

"Thank you for coming! I wouldn't be able to do this without your help! You can go back to watching the tournament!" Athena grinned before she gently pushed the stunned Psymon and Max out of the room. "Don't be a stranger! I hope we can talk again after the tournament! Goodbye and good luck!"

With that, she slammed the door before she stood against it and slid down onto her rear with a deep sigh. Needless to say, everyone was stunned.

"Umm, girl?" Pepper asked. "What was THAT?"

"I… I can't explain right now. Or at least without looking like a lunatic." Athena admitted before sighing. "What I CAN say is this should be the last time I would be a burden."

The security team just looked at each other in confusion. Meanwhile, outside of the door, for once, Psymon and Max were speechless. They then looked down at the script, particularly what Athena wrote in it.

Finally, Psymon let out a descending whistle. "...Damn, she's good."

"Yeah, I am not even mad that we had this cameo just to make us look like tools." Max mused.

"Not going to lie, I don't mind if it is few and far between, I hope that this isn't our only appearance." Psymon noted.

"Yeah, no way I wanna miss a subplot like THIS!" Max nodded.

(King of Fighters All-Stars Locker Room)

"We seemed to be off to a good start." Alice Garnet Nakata mused.

"Hey, Duck King already got an elimination and Yamazaki is actually doing decently against that agent." Sylvie Paula Paula beamed.

"...I know how much hit-and-miss King of Fighters could be at these things so we should take all of the success we could get." Blue Mary Ryan frowned. "But counting on THESE two to make us look good early on? Really?"

"...Eh. Still beats Shrek Super Slam." Yuri Sakazaki said, waving it off. "Then again, that is not saying much."

Suddenly, the door could be heard opening. Soiree Meira turned his head towards it and once he did, his eyes bugged out.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!?" The teal-clad young man shouted at the top of his lungs.

Everyone jumped before turning to see… Jivatma and Nagase.

"Yeah, what ARE you doing here?" Elisabeth Blanctorcha asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Because we are both representing the same node, as such we are obligated to this locker room just like the rest of you." Jivatma reminded.

"In other words, get off your high horse and your head out of your ass." Nagase spat.

With that, they made their way over a bench and sat down with everyone staring at them.

"Weren't they BOTH involved in the villains' plot at the first and second Battle of the Luminaries?" Mignon asked, blinking twice.

"Yeah, Richard told us about it." Terry Bogard added.

"Of course I was part of the hero group in the third Battle of the Luminaries." Soiree said, sternly.

"Maybe they are on vacation." Luong piped up.

Everyone looked at Luong in disbelief.

"Vacation? You're kidding, right?" Lien Neville asked.

"No, I am not. I was part of the hero group at the Tournament of Kikai." Luong explained. "And M. Bison, along with a few other villains."

Heidern raised a suspicious eyebrow. "But the villain plot STILL happened."

"Yes, it unfortunately happened." Luong frowned. "Inevitable when you have so many villains that are the Big Bads in their respective nodes."

"So that means that Bison is at it again!" Kyo Kusanagi said, narrowing his eyes.

"Really? Maybe he is taking a vacation just like at the Tournament of Kikai." Sylvie Paula Paula said.

"Having Bison take a vacation the first time was one thing, but twice in a row?" Adelheid Bernstein asked in disbelief

"Also, as much as I hate to defend him, Geese broke ties with Bison at the first Megamix Tournament when the latter kidnapped Billy's sister." Terry Bogard piped up.

Rock Howard scoffed. "AFTER he was initially in on that."

"Oh, don't worry, I didn't forget THAT detail." Terry said, rolling his eyes. "But the point still stands."

"And if it ISN'T Bison, who is the head honcho?" Leona Heidern asked.

"I think the better question, Leona, is who is the head honcho at the START considering what I heard about at the Tournament of Kikai." Vanessa said.

With that, most of the fighters started to talk over each other, trying to give their opinions on the matter. Kula Diamond then got up and walked over to the door, alerting Maxima.

"Hm? Kula?" Maxima asked. "Where are you going?"

"I am going to see if Seirah got my ice cream." The blue-haired girl answered.

K' scoffed. "She is coming. So for once in your life, wait!"

"Oh, I know that she is coming. I just don't want to eat my ice cream in HERE anymore." Kula shrugged.

Maxima opened his mouth to answer until he realised how much of a very good point Kula made. K' even raised his sunglasses to show how impressed he was.

"...Damn, since you put it THAT way." K' noted.

"In that case, let me escort her!" Ralf Jones offered, getting up.

Kula put her hands on her hips. "I could go to Seirah on my own!"

"I know, I know!" Ralf chuckled, holding up his hands in defence. "I merely wanted to see how Whippy is doing."

"Oh, right… She WAS being really sad recently." Kula said, sadly. She then glared and pointed at Ralf. "Okay, fine, you can come. But you better do a good job in trying to cheer her up!"

Ralf chuckled before saluting. "Aye-aye, Miss."

Kula nodded before looking at K' and Maxima. "Well, see you later!"

"Okay, bye." Maxima said with a wave.

"My only condition is that you don't let Mr. No-Voice Filter push you around." K' warned.

Kula nodded her head while Ralf glared at the white-haired youth, but said nothing. The two then left the locker room together. Maxima then turned to K'.

"I am impressed, K'." Maxima mused. "Normally, you would be more vocal about Kula being alone with an Ikari Warrior."

"On a normal night, I would have. But he isn't deciding to spend most of his time acting like chickens with their heads cut off." The dark-skinned young man spat before jerking his thumb towards everyone still trying to figure out what was happening. "That is decent enough for me for tonight."

"Hm. Fair enough."

(The Arena)

Tawna raised her arms to block a series of palm strikes. Despite nearly all of her attacks blocked, Pai stayed strong as she managed to get through Tawna's defences and struck her in the chin. With the she-bandicoot dropping her guard, she had to choice, but to take a barrage of palm strikes before Pai ended her combo with a flip kick.

Tawna landed hard on her back, but quickly flipped her way back onto her feet before rushing forward and doing her trademark spin kick. However, Pai did an evasive stance before doing her own spin kick, sending Tawna around before collapsing on her stomach. Pai then flipped forward, landing on top of Tawna and making the blonde woman cry out in pain.

"Your kicks are strong and fast. But that's it." Pai said, shaking her head. "That is what happens when you and the other bandicoots fight someone who doesn't have an easily-telegraphed pattern."

While Pai was still on top of Tawna, the latter glared back at her. "Are you dissing us bandicoots or our enemies?"

The Chinese woman just giggled. "Now that you mentioned it, both!"

Tawna growled before getting up, throwing that she was heavier than Pai. When the blue-clad fighter wasn't expecting this, she still managed to land on her hand before flipping back onto her feet and getting back into a blocking stance. However, you can't block a grab or in this case, a grappling hook.

After Tawna snagged her target with her grappling hook, she yanked Pai towards before grabbing her and proceeded to punch her face in. Pai cried out in pain before managing to hold up her hands to catch Tawna's punch. The she-bandicoot was not expecting this and Pai took this advantage to do another flip, kicking Pai the chin.

As Pai gracefully landed on the ground, Tawna not-so-gracefully landed on her side. She then looked up to see Pai jumping up to do a downwards kick. Tawna's eyes widened before lashing out her grappling hook at the ropes to get away from Pai's kick in time. However, despite being known as a defensive fighter, Pai could also be quite aggressive.

Pai rushed towards the retreating Tawna and while the latter was recovering from her own attack, Pai did a sliding kick to Tawna's side. The adventurer groaned while sprawling into a kneeling position. As much as she hated to admit it, Pai was clearly the better fighter in an arena.

But she also knew that this wasn't ANY normal arena.

Acting quickly, she got up to her feet and jumped up. At first, Pai got into an evasive stance, expecting Tawna to do a forward aerial attack. But instead, Tawna fell straight down, landing on the ground which made a large tremor that sent the shocked Pai up into the air. Tawna then sneered before using her grappling hook on the arena lights, hoisting herself upwards while grabbing Pai.

"What… What are you doing!?" Pai exclaimed.

"Teaching you and your nodal companions a harsh lesson!" Tawna winked. "You may be the master of ground combat, but this tournament is MORE than just ground combat!"

With that, she made her grappling hook before doing a hard spin kick. While the attack wasn't enough to send Pai out of the ring, seeing that she was high up the ground, the momentum was more than enough to send her over the ropes.

Pai landed in Street Fighter where she sparred with fellow Chinese movie star, Fei Long.

Out of all the strange things to see inside of the arena, a little girl having a powerful dragon tied up while they sat at a child's table with the girl dressed like a princess and the dragon dressed like a knight while having a tea party was probably in the Top 30.

"More tea, Mr. Dragon?" Elmyra Duff asked, offering a cup.

"For the last time, I am a GIRL!" Corrin exclaimed.

"Oh, don't be so grumpy! I am sure that this tea will help you!" Elmyra scolded. "Here, have a drink!"

With that, the redhead got up and offered her tea to Corrin. However, she ended up throwing the drink onto Corrin's face. The poor princess cried out in pain before falling back onto her back from the scalding. Elmyra blinked twice before looking into her cup.

"...Yeah, you're right. Needs more sugar." Elmyra mused.

As the little girl went to put more sugar cubes inside of the cup, Corrin groaned, wondering how she got into this mess. Sure, it was kinda her own fault turning into her dragon form in front of Elmyra, but that potoroo more or less tricked her into trying to scare Elmyra. Now she was trapped and she knew that more people wouldn't want to help.

Suddenly, she realised something.

"...I am an idiot."

With that, she engulfed herself in water before turning back into her human. By this time, Elmyra finally took her eyes off of the sugar in the tea (she put in ten cubes, by the way) and gasped when she saw her dragon gone and in its place, a tied-up young woman.

"Miss Dragon!? Where are you!?" Elmyra exclaimed.

With that, she proceeded to look around for the dragon before searching underneath her chair, the table and eventually, the chair that Corrin was bound to, literally lifting it over her head.

Finally, she looked at the bound Corrin in disdain. "Do you know where my dragon is?"

"Um, yes." Corrin lied, shifting her eyes from left to right. "She is hiding."

Elmyra blinked twice. "Hiding?"

"Um, yes, you noticed how there were puddles all over the place?" Corrin asked, making the younger girl nod. "Well, she likes to go play and hide-and-sneak in them!"

Elmyra's eyes lit up at this. "Ooh, I LOVE hide-and-seek!"

"Well, you better go seek her!" Corrin said, trying to keep a smile.

"Okay!" Elmyra said, cheerfully.

With that, she threw Corrin away to go search for the dragon. However, they were having their "tea party" next to the ropes so Corrin ended up flying over out of the ring.

"...Well, I suppose it is only fitting that the first "clumsy" elimination would be by her." Ashley muttered from the announcer's booth.

Corrin landed in Time Killers. The good news is Rancid actually came to her rescue and used his chainsaw to cut her from her bounds. The bad news was Rancid saw her chainsaw sword, got jealous and challenged to a fight to see which weapon was better.

Lloyd Irving yelped before raising his twin swords to block a thrust from a bo staff. Said bo staff shrank back to Sanane. Meanwhile, Hinata Wakaba ran forward, deciding to try her luck with a close-range attack.

"Demon Fang!" Lloyd shouted, sending out a blue wave across the ground. However, Hinata just leapt over the projectile before leaping up high and kicking out her legs, sending both of her sneakers. At first, Lloyd was startled at this, but he quickly parried them away with his swords. Lloyd smirked at his success.

Until Hinata somehow sent a THIRD sneaker at Lloyd's face, knocking him down onto his rear.

Lloyd groaned before glaring up at his opponent. "Hey! I called hax! How could you kick off THREE sneakers!?"

"That is a lady's secret!" Hinata winked before punching her fist into her palm as Sanane ran over. "Now I am going to…

"POW HAMMER!"

Suddenly, a toy hammer appeared out of nowhere over Hinata's head and made her wobble around dizzily, startling Sanane. Thinking quickly, Lloyd got up and ran forward.

"Beast!" Lloyd shouted, swinging his sword and sending a blue ghostly figure of a lion's head into Hinata, sending her flying into Sanane and knocking the two away. Lloyd grinned before looking back at the one who summoned the toy hammer.

"Nice one!" Lloyd grinned.

Mint Adenade happily nodded before casting another spell. Meanwhile, Hinata and Sanane got up holding their heads.

"SHARPNESS!"

Hinata and Sanane's eyes bugged out before seeing Mint raising her staff which summoned a red light around Lloyd's swords. It doesn't take a Tales expert to realise that Mint improved Lloyd's strength.

"Fighting them two-on-two is just going to be a big headache!" Sanane groaned. "We have to separate!"

"No duh! But how?" Hinata asked. "That swordsman is actually like a wall around her!"

"Oh, Hinata, my simple-minded sometimes ally, sometimes opponent." Sanane said with a mischievous smirk. "Do we NEED to go around?"

Before Hinata could ask what Sanane meant by that, the latter ran forward towards the two. Lloyd then got into a defensive stance.

Suddenly, Sanane extended her bo staff and used it as a pole vault to launch over Lloyd and Mint, startling the two Tales fighters. The moment that she was in the perfect spot, she extended her bo staff again, this time in the middle between Lloyd and Mint and slid down while spinning around, kicking both of them and knocking them away.

Lloyd in particular was sent flying towards Hinata who smirked at her ally's technique before jumping up after her airborne and started to do a series of punches and kicks as if she was in an over-the-top movie (or a shonen anime) before ending the attack by an axe kick, knocking Lloyd to the ground.

Hinata landed on her feet before glaring at her groaning opponent. "Let this be a lesson for you! NEVER interrupt a fight!"

"Hey, we didn't interrupt your fight on purpose!" Lloyd insisted.

"Even still, you two still went 'Well, as long as we are here'." Hinata countered. She then smirked. "AFTER you realise that you two were out of your league!"

Lloyd growled before getting up. "Double Demon Fang!"

With that, he swung his swords, sending two waves across the floor. But Hinata easily jumped to the side and sent out her palm in a burst of yellow and green energy. However, Lloyd recovered from his own attack and raised his swords to block the burst of energy. Lloyd then slashed at Hinata's feet, knocking her off of her feet.

Normally, Lloyd would take advantage of Hinata's downed state, but he quickly turned to go help Mint with Sanane. Or at least he would have if he didn't trip and fell onto his face. He groaned before looking back to see a smirking Hinata holding his leg.

"Uh-uh-uh. First rule of combat!" Hinata taunted. "Never turn your back in the middle of a battle!"

"Deep Mist!"

Sanane gave a bored look as she was completely covered in mist.

"Oh no! I can't find my opponent in the mist!" Sanane said in a mock-dramatic fashion. "Whatever will I do?"

She then extended her bo staff and spun it around. As she predicted, she hit Mint and knocked her down. Sanane shook her head before heading in the direction of the shout.

"Look, I think you are better off in the Recovery Room." Sanane frowned. "Seriously, the only attacking artes you have are the equivalent of a paper fan."

"Acid Rain!"

Sanane's eyes bugged out. "What Rain!?"

Then, purple rain started to rain down onto the area where Sanane was standing. The bojutsu practitioner yelped before hopping in place, bracing herself for pain. But… Nothing.

Then, she saw Mint run towards, actually going to the offensive for once, whacking her a few times with her staff. Sanane grunted in pain, realising that the attacks hurt much more than it should. Little did she know that Mint's Acid Rain lowers a person's defence.

Sanane growled before holding out her hands and managing to catch Mint's staff. Acting quickly, she kicked her foot out and struck Mint in the stomach. Sanane then narrowed her eyes.

"Time to get this in style!" Sanane smirked.

With that, she got out her bo staff and extended it underneath her to launch herself high into the air where she almost touched the arena lights. She then dove downwards towards the downed Mint fist-first with a determined look on her face. Everyone looked in awe while Lloyd looked in horror..

…Then, Sanane suddenly appeared descending OUTSIDE of the ring and into the portal.

Everyone blinked twice at what had just happened. Except for Mint who was breathing in and out, close to the area where Sanane fell into.

Sanane landed in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While it took her a while to get rid of the inevitable shock and confusion about creating a crater on a new resort island, she spent the rest of her time having fun pole-vaulting around the island.

Back in the arena, Ragna spoke everyone's thoughts. "What the freaking hell just happened!?"

"Um, I know that the previous UVR tournaments don't really do this, but considering the circumstances, we will briefly stop the tournament to show what happened." Drake said from the announcer's booth.

Then, all of the monitors showed what happened. Particularly seconds when Sanane was going to use her devastating attack on a downed Mint.

"TIME STOP!"

Suddenly, the entire world turned monochrome. Except for Mint who weakly got up while breathing out.

"Oh, thank goodness… I really thought I had to be floating to fully use that Mystic Arte." She said in relief.

With that, she made her way over to the frozen Sanane and grabbed her before carrying her over to the ropes. Sure, she wasn't known for her physical strength, but Sanane wasn't exactly a heavyweight. Finally, Mint positioned her victim over the ropes where she had a one-way ticket to an elimination node.

When the monitors turned off the replay, everyone blinked twice with Mint chuckling nervously with a blush.

"Wow… No wonder she was concerned about people hating her for spamming that." Tawna said in awe.

"Interesting instant replay." Sticks said, narrowing her eyes. "Who is your 'generous' benefactor THIS time?"

Drake chuckled nervously. "Um, well…"

"Your paranoid nature is right for once, but you STILL managed to miss the bigger picture!" Hinata snapped at Sticks before turning her anger to the announcer's booth. "What's up with that!? That's not fair!"

Ashley sheepishly scratched his cheek. "I suppose it IS a little cheap. However, Mint doesn't have that many offensive options sooo…"

"So you are saying that she is the ONLY one who gets to literally FREEZE anyone and anything!?" Hinata exclaimed.

"Unless you have a better way for us to phrase it, yes." Ashley sighed.

"Okay, WOW. Just wow!" Hinata roared with her face turning red with anger. "Even XERO didn't have major red flags waving in front of everyone's face until literally the FINAL fighter of the THIRD section!"

Drake narrowed his eyes. "Aw, come on! If I was an incompetent host, I would had banned Mint's Time Stop and left with her limited offensive options!"

"Then, why invite a WHITE mage to begin with!?" Hinata argued. "I swear if I wish I could perfect my energy ball just like Sakura and Batsu did so I could send out a…!"

"...Beast."

"Not what I was going to say, but…" Hinata started before pausing. "Uh-oh."

Then, a ghostly figure of a lion crashed into Hinata's back from behind and sent her flying out of the ring.

Mint frowned before walking over to a smirking Lloyd.

"That wasn't very nice…" Mint scolded.

"Yeah, well, first rule of combat." Lloyd echoed. "Never turn your back in the heat of a battle!"

Hinata landed in Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls where she took out her aggressions on Haiji Towa.

"Well… That was… Not boring." Bang Shishigami frowned.

Rimururu shook her head. "Let's just continue our fight before something else weird happens."

"Very well!" Bang grinned before getting into a stance. "Give me your best shot!"

Rimururu smirked and nodded. She then sent out a wave of ice forward, but Bang easily ducked underneath the projectile before rushing forward and kicking his foot forward. However, Rimururu wasn't a slowpoke herself as she jumped back to avoid the attack. Even still, Bang continued to assault with a series of strikes which Rimururu kept jumping back to avoid.

"Konru! Up front!" Rimururu shouted. Her ice spirit friend then flew in front of her just as Bang was about to punch her. The ninja's eyes widened in shock and pain as he ended up freezing his forearm. Rimururu smirked before slashing Bang in the chest with her kodachi and knocking him away with her foot.

Bang staggered back for a few steps, but then recovered and ignited his arms in fire before punching them together, instantly melting the ice. Just in time as Rimururu ran forward to do a downwards slash. Or at least that was what she tried to do until Bang managed to catch the kodachi between his hands.

As Rimururu looked in horror, Bang let go of the kodachi before throwing himself onto his back and kicking his leg upwards, striking Rimururu and tossing her in the air. Bang then left up after Rimururu and did a series of aerial punches and kicks before ending the combo with a downwards punch.

Rimururu crashed onto the ground hard before groaning while looking up. She then saw Bang landing on the ground before rushing forward to continue the assault. Rimururu's eyes widened before making Konru go in front of her and create a path of ice forward and underneath Bang's feet. Rimururu crouched down and kicked her foot forward, catching Bang in the stomach before knocking him down.

Despite the painful and humiliating knockdown, Bang got up with a weak smile. "You grew a lot from the first Megamix Tournament, didn't you?"

"Well, ending up all of the way in the Final Four could do wonders for a girl's confidence." Rimururu smirked. "Our reboot and the fact that it is still being played in the professional part of the FGC also helps!"

"I respect your growth! However, I cannot afford to show any mercy myself! While Blazblue is doing well, in terms of Arc System Works, Guilty Gear, Granblue Fantasy and even that new Dungeon Fighter game is becoming more relevant!" Bang added. "As the first representations of our series, it is up to me and Ragna to show why our series has so many games, along with why that major crossover game is called BLAZBLUE Cross Tag Battle!"

Rimururu blinked twice. "...You would be best buddies with Galford?"

Bang's eyes lit up at this. "You really think so!? In that case, regardless of who wins, could you introduce me to him! I really wanted to talk with a fellow hero of justice!"

"...Great. Me and my big mouth." Rimururu muttered.

Deciding to do whatever she could to distract her from her mistake, the cryomancer ran forward before swinging her kodachi. Despite spending a good chunk talking, Bang jumped back to easily avoid the attack. However, for this slash, Konru flew into Rimururu's weapon, enfusing the blade with ice and making the slash bigger.

While the attack wasn't still didn't hit Bang, it still made the hot-blooded man wince from the cold. This was more than enough for him to be off-guard for Konru to fly in front of Rimururu and turned into a series of short-range icicle projectiles that strike him multiple times. Rimururu then smirked before rushing forward to slash Bang.

However, Bang snapped out of his daze and quickly grabbed the wrist of Rimururu's weapon arm. Acting quickly, Bang flipped himself onto his back while putting his feet onto Rimururu's stomach. The ninja then rolled backwards while sending Rimururu flying to the air while screaming. Acting quickly, he flipped himself back onto his feet before whirling around.

"Forgive me, Miss Rimururu, but your journey ends here!" Bang roared.

He then rushed forward before igniting his arm in fire before dealing a devastating punch to the falling Rimururu.

…Or he would have if he didn't hit anything, but air. Bang stumbled forward a couple of steps before recovering and looking around, trying to figure out where Rimururu landed.

Suddenly, he felt his hair feeling a bit wet. Raising an eyebrow, he looked up.

Only to see a platform of ice falling towards him.

CRASH!

After the frozen platform landed on top of Bang's head and made him fall onto his face with nails completely out of it, Rimururu panted heavily after jumping off said platform.

"That was scary!" Rimururu said. A couple of seconds later, she put her hands on her hips and let out a hearty laugh. "But now it is over, it is now awesome AND hilarious! Konru, do you mind?"

Konru being Konru didn't say anything and instead floated towards a spot between Bang and the ropes. Upon touching said spot, they created another path of ice. Nodding her head, Rimururu walked over to the still-dazed Bang and used her foot to slide him on the ice path and underneath the bottom ropes.

Bang landed in Naruto where he had a bombastic spar with Might Guy.

Rimururu then looked around while using her hand as a visor. "Okay, what should we do next?"

She then spotted the Wii Fit Trainer off to the side stretching.

"Bingo!" Rimururu said before rushing towards her.

Black Orchid growled before swinging one of her kali sticks. Ryuji Yamazaki just grinned, raising his arm to block the attack. Orchid thought quickly and swung her other kali sticks, but Yamazaki just got his knife out of his pocket and blocked it. Yamazaki then kicked his foot out, catching Orchid in the stomach and knocking her away.

Orchid was sent flying until she skidded on her back, but quickly rolled backward into a kneeling position just in time to avoid Yamazaki's snake arm. The yakuza grinned darkly before rushing forward and swinging his knife wildly at Orchid who dodged and parried it.

Soon, Orchid found an opening and struck Yamazaki in his chest. While it didn't hurt him that much, it was more than enough to stop his assault and Orchid to do her own assault, striking him multiple times to his face and stomach, just like she did with Pinstripe before ending up with a flip which she sent Yamazaki flying high in the air before landing ungracefully her feet. Orchid smirked before rushing over.

Suddenly, Yamazaki bit Orchid by the leg. As the agent cried out in pain, Yamazaki then proceeded to slam her left and right with her still in his teeth. When he was finally done, he let go of her before kicking her away. Orchid winced before getting into a kneeling position.

"You are as dangerous as they claim." Orchid winced.

"Thank you. I consider that a compliment. Especially since I am going to be in XV!" Yamazaki smirked. "I am seeing more work than you, girlie!"

"Hey! People are STILL playing our reboot game and besides, rumours have it that there is going to be a new Killer Instinct game!" Orchid scolded.

"Well, that's what they are. Rumours." Yamazaki taunted.

Orchid growled before doing a sliding kick forward. Yamazaki wasn't expecting the sudden speed and was taken off of his feet. Orchid smirked before climbing onto Yamazaki and started to beat onto her with her kali sticks. Yamazaki grunted in annoyance before getting up to his feet.

However, that didn't stop Orchid as she wrapped her legs around Yamazaki before spinning around and slamming Yamazaki in the ground hard. She then climbed onto Yamazaki and started to put her arm behind her back and started to apply pressure to it. Yamazaki grunted in annoyance before standing up straight again. However, he then realised that Orchid was trying another stunt so he threw himself backwards.

This ended up with Yamazaki slamming Orchid against the ground, knocking the wind out of the latter. Yamazaki then climbed onto Orchid and attempted to stab her with his knife. However, Orchid thought quickly and blocked the attack with her kali sticks. Yamazaki just smirked before sticking out his tongue in a creepy manner. Orchid growled before using her free kali stick to strike Yamazaki's face.

Stupid mistake because that was the face he makes when he was going to do his counter move. A literal explosive headbutt to Orchid which knocked her out immediately. Yamazaki sneered before getting up while grabbing the unconscious Orchid by her head.

"That's the only problem with knocking your own victim. If they are not conscious, they won't be able to feel the torture you inflict on them." Yamazaki mused. He then threw Orchid over the ropes like a rag doll over the ropes. "Ah, well."

Orchid landed in the original Killer Instinct. When she came to, she saw her original self… Literally flashing her HALF-BROTHER, Jago to death. Needless to say, she immediately made her way far away from the original Orchid.

(Dome; Restaurant)

"...Shouldn't we call the security team?" Jill Evans frowned as everyone peeked from the entrance door. "Like, seriously?"

"Well, Drake and Ashley DID warn that fights were inevitable and we should only call the security team if they were having the fight INSIDE of the restaurant sooo…" Mama shrugged.

Komodo Joe gritted his teeth before raising his Scimitar to block a few strikes from a whip. After ducking underneath a horizontal swing, he rushed forwards towards the wielder of said whip… Whip. The Ikari Warrior just narrowed her eyes before jumping back to avoid a sword swing.

She then proceeded to kick Joe in the chest, forcing the Komodo Dragon to stagger back. Whip then lashed out her whip again, but Joe quickly recovered and jumped to the side to avoid the whip strike. Joe then fished into his robe and pulled out some kind of smoke pellet, engulfing him in a purple smoke and when the smoke cleared, he vanished, startling Whip.

"Where did he…?" Whip asked.

She got her answer when she felt a hard strike against the back of her head. Whip staggered forward, feeling her consciousness draining, but she quickly recovered before growling and spinning around with her whip outstretched. She managed to catch Joe in the arm, making him in pain.

"...Look, I am mainly doing thissss to get Krizalid on our side, but I am trying to be nice here!" Joe snapped. "I could had eassssily killed you jussssst now, but I chhhhhose to try to knock you out!"

"I don't need your mercy! I need answers!" Whip roared. "What is Bison planning?"

"How ssssshould I do? Haven't you heard of don't ssssshoot the messsssenger, Whippy?" Joe admitted.

"If you are merely a messenger, you wouldn't interfere!" The brunette scolded. "And don't call me Whippy!

With that, she lashed out her namesake weapon, Voodoo. Joe raised his Scimitar to block the incoming attack. However, Whip was trying to attack Joe. She was wrapping her weapon around Joe's wrist. With the swordsman stunned, he was forcefully pulled towards her. Whip then started to do a noblewoman's laugh while stomping on Joe's head.

When Whip was done, she kicked Joe away before doing a downward whip strike onto Joe's back. The Komodo Dragon grunted in pain before getting up to his feet and dashing forward, thinking that Whip would be limited close up. Imagine his surprise when Whip's weapon handle and turned into a blade.

"What… What… What kind of whip is THAT!?" Joe exclaimed.

Whip just smirked. "Think I am called Whip just because I use it."

With that, the Ikari Warrior kicked Joe in the stomach, causing him to stagger back a few times. Joe growled before glaring up at the guilty party.

Only for his face to fall when he saw Whip's weapon turned into a FIREARM.

BANG!

Whip shot her firearm with a powerful yet non-lethal bullet striking Joe in the forehead. It was more than enough to send him onto his back, out cold. Whip's firearm turned back into a whip as she glared down at the unconscious lizard.

"And THAT'S for calling me Whippy." She said. "Only Ralf gets to call me that!"

"Aww, I knew you cared!"

Whip physically winced before slowly turning around to see a smirking Ralf and a confused Kula.

"R-Ralf? Kula?" Whip asked, surprised. "How long have you been standing there?"

"Just came here." Ralf admitted, putting his hands between his back. "But long enough to know that my little nickname to you is special."

Whip slapped her forehead with a groan. "Of course YOU have to be there when I say that. Things were already looking bad for me so why not?"

Kula on the other hand looked down at the Komodo Dragon. "Was that lizard the reason you were so slow coming back, Seirah?"

Whip just let out a deep sigh. "More or less. Though mainly because he got in my way trying to confront Krizalid."

Ralf's eyes bugged out. "Wait, what? But why?"

Whip frowned. "Because they were going to see Bison."

Kula gasped while Ralf gritted his teeth.

"NESTS was one thing, but BISON?" Ralf exclaimed.

"That's what I said!" Whip said. "That is why I had to go after him before he made a mistake he would regret!"

"In that case, let's interrogate Mr. Kaa Talk!" Ralf smirked, punching his fist into his palm.

"Yeah, after we find him again!" Kula added, pumping her fist in the air.

Whip and Ralf's eyes bugged out before looking around to see that Komodo Joe was long gone.

"H-Hey, where did he go!?" Whip exclaimed.

"He couldn't have woken up and just walked away!" Ralf added. "You clocked him pretty hard!"

Whip groaned as she collapsed on her knees.

"I knew that this night would be rough for me, but for things to go south THIS much." The Ikari Warrior lamented.

Ralf and Kula gave sympathetic glances with the latter putting a hand on Whip's shoulder.

"Come on… Let's go into the restaurant and see if we can figure out what was going on." Ralf offered.

Whip weakly nodded before getting up. Unknown to everyone, someone who was carrying Komodo Joe bridal-style They were making sure that the three weren't going to go over to where they were. Once they confirmed that they were safe, he looked down at the unconscious Joe.

"Always getting into trouble, eh, mate?"

(The Arena)

You would think that a large sword and a folding chair clashing with each other would be a rare thing to witness. In this case, this wasn't anything new. Ragna the Bloodedge and Kanji Tatsumi smirked as they got into a power struggle with each other. When it seemed like they were in a stalemate, they leapt away from each other.

However, Kanji went on the offensive, tossing his folding chair at Ragna who merely swatted it away. But that was what Kanji hoped for as he ran towards Ragna and did a flying dive towards his opponent. But Ragna just smirked before crouching down.

"Inferno Divider!" Ragna shouted, doing a jumping uppercut with his sword, striking Kanji before doing a series of punches and kicks. Some of said punches were covered in dark energy which made orbs fly from Kanji and into Ragna. When the white-haired man was done, he did a downward slash and sent Kanji crashing on the ground.

Kanji groaned after the hard fall before quickly flipped onto his feet and rushed forward as Ragna was landing. Getting out another folding chair (Don't ask how he did so), he did an upwards swing with it. While startled, Ragna raised his sword to block the attack before skidding back on his feet.

Ragna raised an eyebrow. "You are being really aggressive tonight, even for YOU."

"I have to attack first before you because I KNOW that one good attack from you could drain a good chunk of my health into your own!" Kanji retorted.

Ragna just smirked. "You are trying to take down as quickly as possible? Let's see if you could actually do that!"

Kanji just narrowed his eyes. "Oh, I will! Take-Mikazuchi!"

Then, a floating, rotating tarot card with a wispy aura floated in front of Kanji. The bleached-hair boy then swung his chair, destroying it. Then, in a burst of wispy aura, a large bulky skeletal robot wielding a giant lightning bolt. Kanji's Persona then raised said weapon to send an actual lightning bolt onto Ragna.

Or it would have if he didn't block the attack by putting the sword over his head with a smirk on his face.

"I know your moves as much as you know mine!" Ragna taunted. Kanji growled before rushing forward again.

"Dead Spike!" Ragna shouted, swinging his sword upwards and sending out his demonic beast forward. However, Kanji saw the attack coming and quickly blocked it with his chair. Ragna then kicked his foot out. However, Kanji quickly caught it with his free hand.

Ragna's eyes widened in horror while Kanji gave a dark smirk before he started to spin Ragna around in the form of a giant swing before letting him go flying into a turnbuckle. Ragna groaned before looking up to see Take-Mikazuchi rushing towards him. Acting quickly, he rolled out of the way to avoid getting body-slammed into the canvas.

However, in doing this, this left him wide open to a thrown folding chair to the back of his head, making him stagger forward. Kanji smirked before rushing over and doing a leaping dropkick forward. Until Ragna swung his sword behind him, sending Kanji down. Ragna then turned around to strike Kanji while he was down. However, the delinquent snapped out of his daze and threw another folding chair at Ragna, but the swordsman quickly blocked it.

But he has forgotten one thing. Kanji could sometimes make his thrown folding chair go up after it is blocked before going back down and that was what happened with it landing on top of Ragna's head. It only stunned the red-jacketed man for a moment, but it was more than enough for Kanji to get up and run over to do a hard uppercut to Ragna's chin, sending him out of the ring.

Ragna landed in DmC: Devil May Cry where he got killed by Dante. And by killed, I meant dying while laughing when the protagonist tried to say that Ragna was a rip-off of HIM. Despite literally being the last one standing, "Dante" was understandingly furious the entire time.

Dan Hibiki growled before rushing forward and sending out his palm at his opponent. "GADOKEN!"

With that, Dan let out a small ball of energy before it disappeared instantly. He blinked twice, Normally, the attack would fail because of its pathetic range. However, the problem wasn't that he wasn't in front of his opponents, technically.

"Down here, you eediot!" Ren roared before slamming his hammer on top of Dan's foot. The Saikyo-style practitioner cried out in pain before hopping on his unharmed foot. The Chihuahua then climbed onto Stimpy and gave him a light kick in the side. Stimpy reacted by running forward and doing a headbutt to Dan's stomach.

Dan staggered back while holding his stomach. Ren then made Stimpy go forward the assault. However, Dan snapped out of his daze just in time for Stimpy to stick out his tongue to attack. Dan yelped before jumping to the side to avoid the lick "attack". Acting quickly, he tried to grab onto Stimpy's tongue.

…Only to retreat back while shaking his hands in a disgusting fashion. "Ew! Not Smart! Ew! Not Start! Ew!"

Ren just rolled his eyes. "Kick his butt, Stimpy."

The Manx cat blinked his eyes. "Um, okay."

With that, he walked over to Dan and gave his posterior a good kick before to the rear. Ren was about to scold Stimpy, but shrugged when he realised that it still counts in more ways than one. Dan growled, getting annoyed before turning around and rolling over.

"ORA!" Dan shouted while slapping Stimpy in the face. With the cat stunned, Dan pulled his arm down.

"Koryuken!" Dan shouted, doing his own version of the Shoryuken, striking Stimpy in the chin and sending him flying in the air with Ren holding on for dear life.

"Dankukyaku!" Dan shouted before a series of kicks forward, hitting both Ren & Stimpy at the same time before knocking them away.

"You shouldn't be here." Dan scolded.

Ren growled, glaring up at Dan. "What was that, you pink putz!? We may not be as relevant as you and your little Street Fighters, but back then, we were revolutionary!"

"No, you yourselves are fine. …For the most part." The pink-clad man corrected. He then frowned. "I was referring to… Outside of your cartoon."

This immediately made Ren frown and Stimpy got teary-eyed. The former looked at the latter before glaring at Dan.

"How dare you!? No one makes Stimpy cry, but me!" Ren snapped.

With that, he rushed over to Dan and swung it at the latter, but despite his reputation says otherwise, Dan was COMPLETELY incompetent or at least to stand still to take a clearly paragraphed attack and he jumped out of the way before pulling leg out and punting him to close to Stimpy's head, making him gasp.

"Ren!" Stimpy yelled.

"I better take you two out of your misery…" Dan frowned before running forward.

Stimpy then looked at Dan with a surprisingly dark look before jumping in front of the downed Ren.

Before sending out a hairball from his mouth into Dan's face, making everyone react in disgust.

"AHH! MY FACE! MY BEAUTIFUL FACE! THIS IS SO CLOSE!" Dan cried out trying to wipe his face clean.

By this time, Ren got out to his feet, holding his head. He then saw Dan reacting in horror in disgust. He then gave a dark smirk.

"Hey, Stimpy, what goes after the number three?" Ren asked.

The Marx cat's eyes lit at this. "Ooh, ooh, I know! I know!"

With that, he grabbed Ren and ran over to Dan. By the time he finally looked back at the mismatched duo, his eyes bugged out.

"FORE!"

Stimpy then swung Ren like a golf club into Dan's stomach, sending him staggering back until he tumbled over to the ropes.

Stimpy then frowned before putting down Ren. "Hey, Ren, do you think I am going to get in trouble for breaking the rules?"

"Breaking the rul…" Ren asked before slapping his forehead. "We may be representing the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, but that doesn't mean we will be limited to JUST those moves!"

Dan landed in the original Art of Fighting where he spent the next ten minutes being chased by Mr. Big's lackeys because they kept mistaking him for Robert Garcia.

"Sun Salutation!" The Wii Fit Trainer shouted, sending her arms downwards and sending a yellow ball of energy forward at Lloyd Irving. The twin swordsman just narrowed his eyes.

Then, Mint Adenade ran in front of Lloyd, startling the latter before casting a spell.

"Holy Wall!" She shouted, creating a barrier around herself and Lloyd, stopping the projectile immediately.

Lloyd sighed in relief. "Thanks, Mint. But please don't run into stuff like that!"

"Forgive me, Lloyd, but that projectile was fully-charged and you didn't look like you would block that in time!" The healer frowned.

Lloyd nodded his head. He then saw a gust of cold wind heading their way. He narrowed his eyes.

"Blazing Tempest!" He shouted, doing a series with front flips with his swords igniting in fire, cutting through the ice.

Rimururu growled at her projectile being negated. "Butt out!"

"Indeed. You already got an elimination each. There is no need to interrupt OUR fight." Wii Fit Trainer nodded, sternly crossing her arms.

"I understand your feelings, but we didn't want to go into the next section with our elimination being so… Dishonourable as they were." Mint frowned.

"Well, I could see that Taiyo High student's side of the story, I suppose Drake's reasoning for you having that Mystic Arte is also sound." Wii Fit Trainer mused. She then frowned. "Your friend, on the other hand."

"I don't care if it WAS her fault for having her back turned into the middle of a free-for-all tournament!" Rimururu snapped. "Don't complain about having a cheap elimination under your belt when you could 100% avoid it!"

"Well, excuuuuuse me for not feeling chivalrous towards the girl who went out of her way to stop me from helping my nodal companion!" Lloyd countered, rolling his eyes.

Rimururu groaned before rushing forward with her kodachi out. Lloyd just narrowed his eyes

"Demonic Chaos!" Lloyd shouted, sending out a series of shockwaves forward. Despite the large amount of projectiles heading her way, Rimururu just smirked before having a frozen mirror-like barrier forward. This acted as a projectile barrier as when the shockwaves hit the mirror, they were sent back at Lloyd.

Lloyd and Mint were not expecting this and ended up tripping up and landing their faces. Rimururu grinned at her success while Wii Fit Trainer gave a confirming nod before the two ran over. Lloyd looked up and his eyes bugged out.

"Grave Blade!" Lloyd shouted, slamming one of his swords on the ground and sending bits of earth forward. This struck Rimururu, causing her to stagger back. Wii Fit Trainer on the other hand, summoned three hula hoops around her before somehow using her to fly towards the two.

As Lloyd and Mint (and Rimururu) looked in bewilderment, Wii Fit Trainer got out of her move and sent the hula hoops flying in the sky somehow before crouching down and doing a stretch, striking Lloyd in the head. The red-clad man cried out in pain before angrily getting up.

"Tiger Blade!" Lloyd shouted, jumping up in striking Wii Fit Trainer upwards. While the yoga instructor cried out in pain, she managed to recover and gracefully land on her feet as Lloyd ran forward.

"Sword Rain!" Lloyd shouted, stabbing one of his swords forward. However, Wii Fit Trainer managed to avoid them with a series of yoga poses. When the arte was done. Wii Fit Trainer sent out a knife-hand into Lloyd's forehead, sending him back.

"I admit to never facing a twin swordsman before, I have a lot of experience with facing single-sword fighters." Wii Fit Trainer admitted. "So I know how to avoid their swings."

Lloyd narrowed his eyes. "Fair enough."

With that, he ran forward and did a thrust. Wii Fit Trainer shook her head before effortlessly avoiding the attack.

"Hurricane Thrust!"

When a burst of wind appeared from Lloyd's sword, striking the stunned Wii Fit Trainer and sending her into the ropes. While she didn't go over them, she was still wide open for one more arte.

"Sonic Thrust!" Lloyd shouted, doing a normal thrust forward, but it was more than enough to send Wii Fit Trainer over the ropes.

Wii Fit Trainer landed in Hole in the Wall where her flexibility made it very easy to fit through the strange titular challenges.

Back in the ring, Lloyd gave a smirk. "I guess the Smash sword fighters don't mix their weapons with elements that much."

With that, he turned around. Only for his smirk to vanish when he saw Rimururu shoving Mint out of the ring (and into the original Final Fantasy where she made for a great White Mage for the party.) The cryomancer then looked at Lloyd with a smirk.

"Welp, you got your proper elimination!" Rimururu taunted. "Too bad, it was at the cost of your ally!"

Lloyd growled before rushing forward.

Haohmaru let out a hearty laugh as he rushed forward before swinging his katana downwards. Princess Sissy just grinned before getting her treasure chest and having a sword block out of it, causing the two blades to clash with each other, making an explosion of sparks.

Sissy then made her sword retreat back into his chest before kicking her foot forward. While by itself, her kick wouldn't have hurt that much, but a giant chainsaw appeared on her boot as she kicked it forward. Haohmaru raised his katana and quickly blocked the incoming attack, but was unprepared when an extended boxing glove popped out of Sissy's chest and into Haohmaru's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

Despite wincing in pain at this, Haohmaru just smirked. "HA! HA! HA! IT SEEMS THAT YOUR STATUS AS A BIG GUY IS NOT REPLACED! YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY IRRITATING AND TENACIOUS TO FIGHT AGAINST!"

"Well, thank you! As the future queen of Certain Country, you need a strong ruler to rule it!" Sissy smirked. "That and I want to show everyone what I could do!"

"I, THE LEGENDARY HAOHMARU, COULD UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS! I LIKE TO CONSIDER MYSELF THE KING OF THE ULTIMATE VIDEO RUMBLE AND AS SUCH, I CANNOT AFFORD TO GIVE MY FANS A HALF-ASSED PERFORMANCE!" Haohmaru grinned.

"I should hope so." Sissy smirked.

With that, she opened up her chest again to reveal… A frog around the same size as Sissy before hopping forward. Haohmaru blinked twice before slashing at the frog which it immediately went down before it exploded into smoke. Haohmaru looked up to ask Sissy what was going on.

…To see the princess open her chest and have pink bombs fly out of it.

BOOM!

Haohmaru flew through the air before landing on his back. The ronin groaned before propping himself on his katana. His eyes then bugged out that Sissy was gone. Despite this, Haohmaru just narrowed his eyes before getting into a stance and waited patiently.

"CRESCENT MOON SLASH!" Haohmaru shouted, doing a jumping uppercut with his sword. At first, it looked like he hit nothing, but it soon revealed that he struck Sissy who appeared out of nowhere. When Haohmaru finished his attack, Sissy landed hard on the ground. Haohmaru smirked before flipping forward and doing a downward slash.

However, Sissy snapped out of her daze and quickly raised her cape over her. This actually managed to block the incoming attack. With Haohmaru recovering from his own attack, Sissy opened her chest and suddenly, a pale djinn did an uppercut to Haohmaru's chin, sending him flying in the air before collapsing on his back. Sissy smirked as she watched Haohmaru dazed.

"It is nothing personal, Mr. Haohmaru. I 100% respect you." Sissy said before getting out a ray gun. "But I want to give the crowd a show!"

With that, she fired a shot at Haohmaru.

However, the original UVR winner snapped out of his daze and quickly got out his sake bottle and swung it at the incoming shot. Which made it go back to Sissy whose pupils shrank.

The moment the shot hit Sissy, a cage connected to a rope came crashing down onto her, startling everyone, even Haohmaru. Then, red curtains came onto it, obscuring Sissy to them.

Then, the cage slowly descended to show Sissy… As one of her frog guards from earlier. The princess-turned-frog looked at her hands in pure horror before gripping her hands with a shriek.

"For those confused what the hell just happened, that was Sissy's super, Princess Illusion!" Drake explained from the announcer's booth. "The cage is part of said super if she used it properly."

"...Would it do any good to point out that still doesn't explain where that cage came from?" Ashley muttered.

"HA! HA! HA! IT SEEMS THAT FOR ALL OF THE OBSCURE PEOPLE SHE FOUGHT, SHE NEVER CAME ACROSS SOMEONE WITH A PROJECTILE-DEFLECTOR!" Haohmaru laughed before looking at Sissy. "YOU WERE FOOLISH THAT JUST BEING A FINAL BOSS WOULD BE ENOUGH TO TAKE DOWN THE LEGENDARY HAOHMARU SO EASILY REGARDLESS, I DO HOPE YOU FOUND WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THIS TOURNAMENT! CYCLONE SLASH!"

With that, he swung his katana, sending an orange tornade towards Sissy. When it reached her, the tornado suddenly became taller, sending the poor girl screaming (or croaking) in fear before falling out of the ring.

Sissy landed in the Mediaeval levels of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. She was then tackled to the ground by a frog before kissing her on the lips. It was then the amphibians turned back into humans (or humanoid in the Lab Assistant's case).

Haohmaru nodded his head before looking at two particular fighters and pointing his katana at them. "I HAVE DONE MY PART FOR THIS SECTION! NOW IT IS ALL UP TO YOU TWO PROPERLY END THE FIRST SECTION OF THE TOURNAMENT! MAKE IT COUNT!"

Veemon blinked twice before looking at Sticks the Badger. "...What does he mean?"

"Haohmaru is probably one of those sheep that routinely believes that the tournament must follow a symmetric system." The conspiracy theorist muttered before rubbing her chin. "Then again, it DOES stop someone from getting five eliminations in one go or making sure that someone doesn't enter the next round without doing anything so I suppose it IS a necessary evil."

Veemon paused. "...Why do I keep talking to you as if you are a sane person?"

Sticks didn't seem fazed by this, but still opted to continue their fight by throwing her boomerang at Veeman. The Digimon yelped before jumping to the side to avoid the weapon before rushing over and punching his fist out. However, Sticks acted quickly and jumped over Veemon, leapfrog-style and grabbed her boomerang while it was coming back.

Sticks then jumped away from Veemon with the latter running towards her. Sticks just threw her boomerang again, but Veemon quickly ducked underneath it and before rushing forward and getting ready to throw a punch. That was until Sticks's boomerang smacked Veemon, knocking him down.

Veemon sat up, stunned. "What in the Dark Area just happened? There's no way your boomerang could return THAT fast!"

"Maybe not NORMAL boomerangs perhaps?" Sticks asked before smirking. "But I trained with boomerangs for so long that I know how to direct them!"

Veemon growled. "Vee Knockout!"

With that, the blue-scaled dinosaur punched his fist forward. However, Sticks just jumped to the side before throwing her boomerang at Veemon. However, this time, the Digimon had his own tricks up his sleeve.

"Vee Punch!" Veemon shouted, rotating his arms around. This connected with Sticks' boomerang, forcing it back towards the stunned badger. Despite her catching it, she still took a punch to the stomach, sending her into the turnbuckle. Sticks groaned before looking up to see Veemon advancing forward.

Then, Sticks lashed out her free hand towards the sky, sending a lime-green grappling hook of energy at the arena lights. At the last moment, she was shot up into the air, leaving Veemon to punch the turnbuckle. Yeah, Enerbeams are handy to have.

Veemon growled. "Hold still!"

"Hey, not MY fault you chose to fight a long-range fighter with no projectiles!" Sticks smirked before collapsing on the ground. "Sure, most of the Rookie Digimon may have baby's first fireballs, but it would still help a lot more than your literal-kid punches!"

Veemon growled. "What am I going to do? I could Digivolve into Flamedramon, but I saw what happened to that space monkey at the Tournament of Kikai. She may snag it."

He then thought of something before jumping up in the air.

"Vee Knockout!" He shouted before doing his large punch on the ground. This had actually shook the ENTIRE arena and made everyone struggle to keep their balance.

…Except for Sticks who jumped into the air at the time and after the tremor, she ran over to Veemon and kicked him in the head, knocking him down onto his rear.

"Do you know what is one of the perks of being a conspiracy theorist?" Sticks asked before grinning. "You don't get taken off-guard that easily!"

With that, she leapt over to Veemon and wrapped her legs around his neck, performing a Hurricanrana which sent the Digimon towards the ropes and tumbling out of the ring.

Veemon landed in Bonk's Adventure where he and the titular protagonist dominated the level with their literally hard heads.

Sticks dusted herself off with her free hand before turning to see who was left. Tawna laid against a turnbuckle with her arms crossed with Twintelle doing the same against the opposite turnbuckle. Haohmaru was playing to the crowd while ranting very fast while Duck King was impressing the audience with his dance moves. Kanji grinned as he punched his fist into his palm while Yamazaki laughed like a maniac. Lloyd and Rimururu were still going at it while Ren attempted to teach Stimpy battle strategies and failed. Finally, Orcane took it upon himself to create puddles all over the arena to distract Elmyra from going after her or any other fighter. (Yes, she is STILL looking for "her dragon".)

Sticks gave the remaining fighters a suspicious glance before looking back and forth between them and the Entrance Curtain. Sure, whoever was left all had potential to be a threat, but she knew that she had to worry about eighteen new fighters.

However, she was about to worry about something else as she was engulfed in a white, sparkly aura.

"Woah!"

"What now?"

Sticks turned to see that literally everyone else in the ring had the same aura.

"Ooh, pretty!" Stimpy smiled.

"Yeah, but what is it!?" Ren added.

Then, they all heard loud shouts. They all looked up to see the same auras that were surrounding them, were surrounding… EVERYONE in the arena.

"Looks like we are not the only ones affected." Twintelle frowned.

"W-What is going on?" Lloyd asked.

"You don't think…" Kanji started. "It is the second Battle of the Luminaries all over again!"

Then, all of the auras vanished, much to everyone's relief. Suddenly, all of the fighters felt like they were struggling to keep their balance. They then looked down to see that they were on yellow star platforms with twinkling stardust.

"Ooh, I don't know what is going on, but I like it!" Elmyra beamed.

"Yeah, it is lit and all, but what is going on?" Duck King asked, leaning forward at the edge.

Suddenly, Duck King's platform disappeared, making the street dancer fall and collapse on his face. Yamazaki pointed his finger and laughed at Duck's misery. Until HIS platform vanished as he fell onto his rear. Then, Sticks' platform fell, but unlike the two King of Fighters reps, she was more or less prepared and landing on her feet.

Then, the following platforms fell. Kanji, Twintelle, Elmyra, Orcana, Ren & Stimpy and finally, Haohmaru. The three remaining people: Lloyd, Tawna and Rimururu looked at each other in confusion.

"...Welp, at least I don't think that it has anything to do with the tournament going down." Tawna mused.

"Yeah, but what is all of this about?" Lloyd said.

"Well, for better or for worse, we will find out soon." Rimururu frowned.

Then, Tawna's platform vanished. Lloyd and Rimururu paused before looking at each other. They didn't know what was going on, but they knew it was between them.

Then, one platform vanished.

Lloyd blinked twice as Rimururu struggled to keep her balance. Suddenly, his star platform started to ascend upwards. The twin swordsman struggled to keep his balance, but ultimately recovered.

He then looked at the Announcer's Booth to see both Drake and Ashley looking ecstatic. Then, a floating blue die with white spots floated up in the air. Suddenly, he gave a face with floating hands and feet. He was giving a big smile.

Then, sparkles fell from the ceiling. Lloyd looked up to see a silver star with a defined white moustache descending down.

"Congratulations, Lloyd Irving!" The star spoke in a booming voice. "You are the Superstar!"

Lloyd just blinked twice.

VOTES: (11 Votes)

LLOYD IRVING (ToAS): 9:2 = 7 (Hinata Wakaba, Wii Fit Trainer)

RIMURURU (SS): 9:2 = 7 (Bang Shishigami, Mint Adenade)

TAWNA BANDICOOT (CB): 9:2 = 7 (Pinstripe Potoroo, Pai Chan)

HAOHMARU (SS) 8:3 = 5 (Princess Sissy)

REN & STIMPY (NASB): 8:3 = 5 (Dan Hibiki)

ORCANE (RoA): 7:4 = 3 (Rufus)

ELMYRA DUFF (TTA): 7:4 = 3 (Corrin)

TWINTELLE (A): 7:4 = 3 (Wade Hixton)

KANJI TATSUMI (P4A): 7:4 = 3 (Ragna the Bloodedge)

STICKS THE BADGER (StH): 7:4 = 3 (Veemon)

RYUJI YAMAZAKI (KoFAS): 7:4 = 3 (Black Orchid)

DUCK KING (KoFAS): 6:5 = 1 (Prince Charming)

(ELIMINATED)

BANG SHISHIGAMI (BB) 6:5 = 1 (Bean the Dynamite)

WII FIT TRAINER (SSB) 6:5 = 1 (Jack-O' Valentine)

MINT ADENADE (ToAS): 6:5 = 1 (Sanane)

DAN HIBIKI (SFAS): 5:6 = -1

VEEMON (DRA): 5:6 = -1

BEAN THE DYNAMITE (StH): 5:6 = -1

PRINCESS SISSY (PI): 5:6 = -1

HINATA WAKABA (RS): 5:6 = -1

PAI CHAN (VF): 4:7 = -3

BLACK ORCHID (KI): 4:7 = -3

CORRIN (SSB): 4:7 = -3

RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE (BB): 4:7 = -3

PRINCE CHARMING (SSS): 4:7 = -3

JACK-O' VALENTINE (GG): 3:8 = -5

SANANE (FEXL): 3:8 = -5

RUFUS (SFA): 3:8 = -5

PINSTRIPE POTOROO (CB): 2:9 = -7

WADE HIXTON (WHCP): 0:11 = -11

SIDE BATTLES

"Whipping Brothers Into Shape"

WHIP (KoFAS) disciplines KOMODO JOE (CB)

9 to 2

Obligatory "In Case Of A Tie" Spiel: If there is a tie in the votes, the person who gets the later draw wins. That is why Duck King is still in the arena and not Wii Fit Trainer, Bang and Mint. That being said though…

Darkhorse Beginning: Out of all people to get the top slot, I would have never guessed it would be Lloyd. Sure, it is partly because of him having a later draw than Tawna and Rimururu, but considering that this is his first time surviving a section PERIOD, it is still impressive.

The Katana Has Not Been Dulled: While I knew that Haohmaru and Rimururu were both fan-favourites, I am still impressed that BOTH of them managed to make the top four. I thought for sure that they would start slowly.