(The Arena)

Normally, fighting on the new roller coaster track, suggested by Yuri Sakazaki, would be very risky to put it mildly. However, the two particular fighters were on top of it, not letting the roller coaster bother them that much.

Margaret sent out a ring of glowing cards which sent out a series of lights forward. However, her intended opponent, Sandbert turned his… sandbag shape into a hexagonal one which resulted in a light blue light that looked suspiciously to Fox McCloud's Deflector. And just like said move, it sent the lights back at Margaret and struck her.

Sandbert then hopped over to punish Margaret for her mistake, but the blue-clad woman suddenly teleported out of the way. She then reappeared behind Sandbert, grabbed him and performed a German Suplex on him. Sandbert quickly recovered as the two jumped up higher in the air and the roller coaster rode underneath them.

"Cu Chulainn!" Margaret shouted, crushing a glowing tarot card and summoned a monochrome spear warrior to thrust their spear forward. Sandbert just shrank his body down to avoid said thrust. Then, a giant human-like fist burst out of his head and gave Cu Chulainn an uppercut, making it vanish into a blue wispy mist.

For those who watched Persona 4, this should actually hurt the user, but Margaret just raised an intrigued eyebrow. Sandbert then started to… Pucker up. This sent out a series of hearts forward.

"Ardha!" Margaret commanded, summoning a half-red half-blue androgynous person and sending a series of fireballs and icicles at the hearts. As absurd as it sounds, this resulted in a firework display of sparks making the crowd cheer. Soon, the two stopped to jump over the roller coaster.

"You are living up to your reputation." Margaret noted.

"So are you." Sandbert added. "Which makes it even more odd that you are merely Igor's assistant."

"Power doesn't mean we should interfere with the fates of the guests of the Velvet Room." Margaret scolded. "My sister is well-meaning, but she is the definition of a troublemaker."

Sandbert raised a non-existent eyebrow. "Correct me if I am wrong, but you are arguably interfering right now."

"I suppose I cannot deny that logic." Margaret sighed. "I just want to keep an eye out on Elizabeth, Marie and the others. You saw what the former is like at the last tournament."

"True… She looks fun to fight, but annoying and not the cheap annoying. I would know." Sandbert added. He then paused. "Speaking of annoying…"

With that, he and Margaret looked down at the arena at one particular fight. While jumping over the roller coaster one more time. Static Shock and Korra were still trying to eliminate Pichu. However, whenever the Pokemon was not sending out electric strikes, he was zipping around the two dark-skinned heroes.

"Hold still!" Korra growled, putting her hand on the ground and using her earth-bending to shake the ground and making several fighters shake. (Static was not affected, of course because of his Static Saucer) However, Pichu used his Agility to zip up, not only avoiding the tremor and also striking Korra in the face.

As the female Avatar staggered back, Static sent out a stream of electricity forward and managed to grab Pichu in mid-air.

"I hope which node you land in, it will give you more peace of mind than this arena." Static frowned.

With that, he levitated Pichu over the ropes to deposit out of the ring. However, Pichu was furiously struggling to break free with a furious look on his face.

"Pi… CHUUUUUUUU!"

With that, he sent out a large surge of electricity around him, not only breaking free out of Static's grasp, but also zapping everyone and causing them all to cry out in pain. Well, almost everyone.

"...I've been told that Pichu's attacks are somehow STRONGER than Pikachu's, but this is ridiculous." Sandbert muttered as he continued to be zapped, though he wouldn't know by looking at his expression.

"Indeed. I wonder what fate he got trapped in." Margaret mused, just as unfazed as Sandbert. Though at least you could tell that the electricity was touching her, by how wildly her hair was acting.

After Pichu's surge was down, everyone collapsed on their hands and knees. Then, the lights started to flicker. Everyone noticed this and looked at each other in worry.

(Announcer's Booth)

"Cole, I am freaking out here!" Drake exclaimed as he paced back and forth with a worried look on his face.

"Alright, alright. I will be there as soon as possible!" The electromancer reassured.

"Please do! I am getting flashbacks of the third Megamix Tournament!" Drake pleaded.

With that, he hung up the phone with Ashley looking concerned.

"Drake, I am just as worried as you, but freaking out is not going to help the situation!" Ashley frowned.

"You say that, but I can't help it!" The vampire exclaimed, looking at his friend. "We are not even at the FIFTH section yet and already we have something that would threaten the tournament!"

Ashley shook his head. "While it doesn't change anything for US, I wonder what in the world got into Pichu."

"Hell if I know. For all we know, it could be related to the garlic attack or not!" Drake exclaimed. "The party is just getting started and things are escalating THIS quickly!?"

Then, Drake's phone rang.

"Oh, great! What is it THIS time?" The mayor muttered before answering. "Yes? Yes, Nurse Joy? Uh-huh."

Then, his pupils shrank.

"Wait, what!?" Drake exclaimed. He then looked insulted. "No, I had nothing to do with it! Woman, why would I do so?"

Ashley looked confused and concerned as Joy spoke.

"Okay, fair enough. I have my word that I had NOTHING to do with it." Drake explained. "I'll go searching if Pichu is eliminated."

For the second time, Drake hung up with a look of mental exhaustion on his face.

"What is it NOW?" Ashley frowned.

"Apparently, a couple of fighters didn't show up to the Recovery Room after their ten minutes in their elimination node was up!" Drake explained.

Ashley gasped. "Do you think that they were kidnapped?"

"No, Nurse Joy confirms that according to the machine that transports people from the elimination node." Drake explained. "Turns out that they were in ANOTHER elimination node!"

Ashley's eyes bugged out at this. "What!?"

"Yeah, the medical team didn't call me when it FIRST happened because they wanted to give me the benefit of the doubt, but they did when the SECOND time it happened." Drake frowned.

Ashley raised an eyebrow. "Well, DID you have something to do with this?"

"NO! Dracula, you saw what happened to Xero when the Tournament of Kikai ended!" Drake scolded.

"Fair enough." Ashley said, raising an eyebrow. "Incidentally, who ARE the fighters?"

Drake frowned. "Well, apparently they are…"

(Dome; Super Smash Bros Locker Room)

Everyone looked at the screen with awkward silence.

Then, Lucina looked at Byleth with a weak smile. "Claude seems to be at the top of his game right now."

The teacher looked back at Lucina with the same expression. "Hopefully he is. Knowing him, he thought of at least a dozen potential plans."

The awkward silence then continued. Pikachu then had enough and jumped off of the bench.

"P-Pikachu?" Lucario asked.

The electric mouse looked at his fellow Pokemon and spoke.

"Yes, that is a wise thing to do. But are you sure that just talking to him in the Recovery Room would help?" Lucario asked.

Pikachu just narrowed his eyes before speaking.

"True… It is better than letting him do… Whatever he wants." Lucario frowned.

"I'll go with you." Samus offered, getting up and putting on her helmet.

Pikachu nodded, silently thanking the bounty hunter before the two made their way out of the locker room with everyone giving their silent offerings.

"...Shouldn't at least one more of us come?" Pit frowned.

"Even if we do, there is a stronger chance that he will listen to Pikachu." Rosalina lamented. "I think even Samus knows that and only went mainly for Pikachu's sake."

"Yeah, but…" Pit said before sighing. Palutena put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"I know that with so many people here, at least one of us will be involved in a plot, but first Wario's garlic has gotten stolen for the stinkbomb attack and now… Whatever is happening to Pichu." Fox frowned.

Kazooie just scoffed. "I STILL think that garlic-muncher ate all of it and merely forgot."

Yoshi shook his head before speaking in his native tongue.

"Yoshi says-a that his nose will know if that is the cas." Mario explained before shaking his head. "Then again, I think-a anyone with a functioning nose would be able to tell the difference."

"I just hope that Wario doesn't act like a Karen and make things worse for everyone involved." Sora mused.

Everyone in the locker room immediately looked at Sora in disbelief when he said this.

"...Dude, I know that you're still relatively new to Super Smash Bros, but REALLY?" Sephiroth muttered.

(The Arena)

Huff N Puff Wolf nervously looked around the arena with his claws at the ready. Then, a black, shadowy portal appeared on the ground behind him and Basara appeared behind him with a dark grin on his face. However, he also chuckled which gave his location to Huff N Puff Wolf. The crossdresser's eyes bugged out before spinning around, clawing at Basara.

However, Basara raised his giant shuriken to block said claw. The yurei then readied his weapon and swung it horizontally, but Huff N Puff Wolf jumped back before inhaling and exhaling, sending a large gust of wind forward which sent Basara flying backwards away from his opponent.

But while Basara was taken off-guard, Basara launched his shuriken at the ground and used it as a makeshift grappling hook. After landing back on the ground, he vanished into thin air and before Huff N Puff Wolf could look around, Basara reappeared in front of him and without giving the wolf to even yelp, swung his shuriken into Huff N Puff Wolf's chest.

Huff N Puff Wolf staggered back holding his chest before looking up. Only to see Basara going for another swing. Huff N Puff yelped before ducking underneath the shuriken and did a series of slashes to his torso with his claws. Basara winced in pain at first, but then started to grin as he tried to counter with a downwards slash, but Huff N Puff Wolf jumped back to avoid the attack.

"What the hell, man!?" Huff N Puff Wolf roared. "You DO know that this is a NON-KILLING tournament, right!?"

"Yes, but that doesn't mean I can't be as brutal as possible!" Basara sneered. "I will scar your she-wolf fur in the name of my lover, Kagaribi!"

"I am a MAN, you moron!" Huff N Puff Wolf growled, angrily.

Basara's sneer vanished as he blinked twice in confusion. "What? I mean I kinda knew that, but I just thought you want OTHER people to see you as a woman so…"

"That's a TRANS person! I am a CROSSDRESSER!" Huff N Puff Wolf roared. "BIG difference!"

Basara blinked twice. "...I knew that I hadn't been to one of these things for a long while, but to think that things changed THAT much."

Huff N Puff Wolf's eyebrow twitched before inhaling, sending another gust of wind at Basara. The serial killer flew backwards and unlike the first time this happened, he had no time to recover and landed hard on his back. He looked up to see a pouncing Huff N Puff Wolf temporarily blocking the lights.

Huff N Puff Wolf then landed on top of Basara and proceeded to scratch the yurei's face in. Normally, this would have fatal wounds to a person, but seeing that Basara was… Well, undead, merely felt scratches like a common house cat was attacking them. Basara grunted in annoyance before vanishing in a dark portal.

Huff N Puff Wolf growled before scanning around, looking more angry than scared. Realising that he could be anywhere, Huff N Puff Wolf breathed in before looking at the ground and exhaling at the ground, not only launching himself high up into the air, but also knocking Basara down hard onto his back when he reappeared. Huff N Puff then flew down, preparing to bite into Basara.

However, Basara snapped out of his daze before raising his shuriken just in time for Huff N Puff Wolf to bite it. Despite this, the wolf continued to try to bite through. Basara growled before kicking Huff N Puff Wolf in the stomach and causing him to stagger back. Basara then flipped back onto his feet and advanced forward before swinging his shuriken at Huff N Puff Wolf. However, the crossdresser was prepared as he ducked underneath it and scratched at his attack.

Only for Basara to fade away, only to reveal that he was standing in the spot where he was knocked down. You see, a good part of Basara's fighting style is making illusions of himself and faking out his opponents. Basara sneered before lashing out his shuriken as Huff N Puff Wolf. The lupine yelped before raising his arms, preparing for the worst.

Only for Basara's shuriken to wrap around Huff N Puff Wolf, chaining him in place. Basara then pulled Huff N Puff Wolf over to him and stared into the poor crossdresser's terrified eyes.

"Normally, I would kill you to please Kagaribi, but I actually have to please more than one person right now." Basara reassured

With that, he pulled on his chain, sending Huff N Puff spinning around like a top. Basara laughed as Huff N Puff Wolf slowly stopped spinning and waddled around dizzily towards the ropes. Basara skipped over with his hands on his hips before putting a finger on his free hand on Huff N Puff Wolf's chest and gently pushed him out of the ring.

Huff N Puff Wolf landed in Snowman's Land level of Super Mario 64. Unfortunately, it was on the large mountain where the wind blew him off and sent him flying right into the freezing water.

"Turn into the scrap metal that you are!" Krohnen roared before turning his black-gloved arm into a drill and thrusting towards Maxima. However, the Canadian man just raised his arm to block the incoming attack, resulting in a firework display of sparks. Maxima smirked before kicking his foot at Krohnen who quickly blocked the attack.

While the guard was a success, Krohnen was sent skidding back on his feet. When he finally stopped, he winced before lowering his head. His eyes then bugged out to see a hatch opening to show a laser. Krohnen's eyes bugged out as Maxima fired a giant green laser out of said chest.

Krohnen rolled to the side before turning his black-gloved arm into a gun before aiming at Maxima and firing. The bullets hit Maxima head-on, making him stagger back. Krohnen grinned before rushing towards Maxima while he was stunned. However, the cyborg snapped out his daze in time to block when Krohnen swung his BLUE-gloved hand at Maxima and sent a series of pillars of fire.

Maxima easily blocked said fire and rushed over before wrapping his arms in the form of a bearhug. Krohnen grunted in pain as he struggled to break out of said grip. Maxima just smirked. Then, flames surrounded Krohnen's blue-gloved hand. Then, an explosion of fire appeared between Maxima and Krohnen, making them backwards. The two groaned before groaning before getting up and glaring at each other.

"You know, you can't tank all of my hits forever!" Krohnen taunted.

"Oh, don't worry, I don't intend to!" Maxima countered, punching his fist into his palm. "I still want to get back for kidnapping our princess!"

Krohnen paused, knowing what the full story of the 'kidnapping' was. "Tch! And I want to get back at f that failed prototype, but losing the hunk of junk wouldn't affect him too much."

"Really? I was thinking the same thing about you." Maxima smirked.

"Hey!" Krohnen roared before turning his black-gloved into a firearm again and started to open fire on Maxima. However, the Canadian man activated his thrusters and moved forward while blocking the incoming shots. Krohnen just scoffed before punching the ground with his blue-gloved fist when Maxima got close, resulting in a spherical explosion of fire.

Maxima was sent onto his rear, but quickly long enough to block another drill attack from Krohnen. Maxima then kicked his foot out, but Krohnen sent out his blue-gloved hand with flames around it to clash with the kick which was enough to clash with it. Krohnen jumped back as Maxima got up before getting ready to continue their fight.

"PICHUUUUUUU!"

Then, Pichu came out of nowhere and charged into Maxima's chest with a fully-charged Skull Bash. Despite the blatant size AND weight difference, it was more than enough to send Maxima flying straight out of the ring.

Maxima landed in Sonic Lost World. Unfortunately, he was found by the Deadly Six, a bunch of technopaths and made him do even more humiliating dances.

Krohnen looked with wide eyes before goggles before growling at Pichu who was actually ignoring him and going back to fight Static and Korra, both looked stunned by Maxima's disappearance.

"What the hell was that!?" Krohnen roared. "Aren't you supposed to keep the little rodent AWAY from the rest of the arena!"

Korra growled. "We are TRYING!"

"Well, it is clearly not enough!" Krohnen roared before stomping over. "If you are not going to boot this LITERAL lightweight, I am going to do it myselfffff!"

CRASH!

That was the sound of Krohnen falling on his face hard. He groaned before looking up behind him to see several Pikmin wrapping around his legs. He blinked twice behind his glasses before glaring at the guilty party walking forward.

"What the fuck was THAT for!?" Krohnen roared.

"I don't know what is going on with Pichu, but he is clearly showing more power and aggression than usual." Captain Olimar scolded. "Better leave it to someone who could actually absorb electricity!"

"Well, they have been doing it when Dreadlocks entered the arena and not only is the runt STILL here, but he eliminated MY opponent!" Krohnen roared. "It is clear that I have a better shot of getting rid of that rat!"

"But you can't!" Olimar scolded. "You will just jeopardise the electromancers!"

"Oh yeah! In that case, why don't YOU stop me!?" Krohnen challenged.

Olimar let out a sigh. "I was afraid that you would say that."

With that, he blew into his whistle and a group of red Pikmin swarmed around Krohnen and started to carry him towards the ring. The blue-haired man struggled to break free before growling and putting his blue-gloved hand on the ground and creating a burst of fire. On one hand, being the Pikmin carrying him were red Pikmin, they were unharmed.

On the other hand, the burst had forced Krohnen himself to fly into the air and out of the Pikmin's grasp. Krohnen then did an axe kick towards Olimar as he was falling down. The astronaut's eyes bugged before diving to the side to avoid the attack, but Krohnen ran over and punted him away.

Olimar crashed around the ground a few times while Krohnen ran after him to kick him away again. However, for better or for worse, this was the first time that he was shoved away by someone bigger than him and recovered in time to roll in the way to avoid getting punted. Olimar then grabbed a purple Pikmin and threw it onto Krohnen's foot while the latter was recovering. The blue-haired man cried out in pain before hopping on foot.

"Ow! My fucking foot!" Krohnen yelped. He then glared down at Olimar. "I gotta…"

That was when he was hit by a series of white blurs which made him stagger back. Despite this, he wasn't hurt that much.

"Ha! Do you think your weak Pikmin throws could hurt!" Krohnen taunted. "I've been hit by farrrrr worseeeeee…"

Then, Krohnen collapsed on one knee as Olimar crossed his arms.

"I do not doubt that." Olimar offered. "What I DO doubt is that you fought someone who has poison on them."

On cue, a white Pikmin waved at Krohnen.

Krohnen growled. "Well, joke's on… You. We have Lin… And… That Hisoku broad."

"Okay, in that case, my boast is not 100% accurate, but my point still stands." Olimar shrugged.

With that, he instructed a group of red Pikmin to walk over to Krohnen and picked him up again in case the pyromancer would use his powers again. Thankfully, Krohnen was too weak to try to fight back and was easily tossed out of the ring.

Krohnen landed in an abandoned city before weakly sitting.

"Aww… I was the embodiment of… The tagline 'Shatter All Expectation' and not only am I an early elimination, but now I have to spend…" Krohnen muttered before wincing from the poison. "Ten minutes in this craphole poisoned…"

"Oh, really?"

Krohnen's eyes bugged before turning around to see a dark-haired man with a noticeable forehead. The most striking thing about him with his giant fleshy arm and a VERY dark grin on his face.

"Well, in that case, you won't escape from me just like you escaped the lawsuit." Tetsuo Shima sneered.

Krohnen blinked twice before his goggles. He then collapsed on his back while looking at the dreary sky.

"Oh, for fuck's sake."

Back in the arena, Olimar sighed in relief.

"Bada-Boom!"

Then, a fireball struck Olimar in the back, knocking him down. He groaned before glaring at the guilty party.

"Hey, I wasn't ready!" Olimar scolded.

"Hey, you were the one who literally ran out of our fight!" Impmon taunted, holding a flame on his finger. "Didn't even have the decency to say 'Smell ya later'."

"Sovereign Gale!" Jade Curtiss shouted before summoning his spear in a flash of light and planting it on the ground, resulting in a pillar of wind to appear in front of him, crashing into Solid Snake and making him fly back a few feet until he skidded on his back. Jade smirked as he started to cast a spell. However, while he did so, a green circle was on the ground when he did his Sovereign Gale arte.

"Explosion!"

Snake's eyes bugged out before quickly scampering off to the side, but it was a little too late as a ball of fire fell on the spot Snake was previously lying and resulting in a fiery cone-shaped explosion, sending Snake flying away. As the mercenary crashed onto the ground, Jade gave a light chuckle before getting ready to cast another spell.

"Thunder Blade!" Jade shouted, summoning an electrified sword over Snake's head. However, the bearded man got out his surveillance drone and rode out of harm's way and said electric sword fell on the ground, creating a ring of electricity around him. Despite his body still in pain, Snake got out a grenade and pulled out the pin before throwing it at Jade.

"Thunder Lance!" Jade shouted, summoning his spear and thrusting it at the incoming grenade, resulting in it exploding harmlessly. "I must say, for the face of video game soldiers, you are kinda unprepared."

Snake's eyes bugged out at this. "Excuse me!?"

"Oh, come now. The Metal Gear Solid series has a wide array of guns that you never use." Jade pointed out. "Sure, you could argue that Sakurai made you not use firearms, but considering that Olimar is allowed to use his obscure and situational Rock Pikmin, I don't see any reason for you to leave your guns at home."

Snake growled before getting out a missile launcher and launching a shot at Jade. However, the mage just rolled his eyes while not dropping his smirk before running to the side. But Snake directed the missile towards Jade, but that was what the long-haired man was hoping for.

"Sovereign Gale!" Jade shouted, planting his spear in the ground again and sending a pillar of wind around him, making the missile fly back towards Snake. The mercenary's eyes bugged out before rolling forward to avoid getting blasted by his own explosion. He then saw Jade readying another spell.

"Oh no, you don't!" Snake roared, angrily before running forward. However, Jade just smirked and cancelled his spell casting.

"Impaling Heaven!" Jade shouted, spinning around with his spear out. However, Snake quickly did an upward kick just as the spear reached Snake's body. Somehow, the kick clashed with the spear, making Jade stagger back. Snake smirked before running back and doing a series of punches and kicks to Jade's face and stomach, not giving him a chance to block.

Snake then ended the combo with an uppercut, sending Jade flying in the air before landing on his back. Snake smirked before getting out his missile launcher and aiming it at the downed Jade.

"Thunder Lance!" Jade shouted, managing to snap out of his daze and aimed his spear at Snake, zapping him with electricity and making him stagger back. Jade then got up with his spear still out.

"Sonic Spear!" Jade yelled, thrusting his spear forward. However, Snake not only recovered in time to dodge the attack, but also grabbed Jade's weapon, for once making the mage go wide-eyed.

"Do you really think I need guns to face people with magic or bladed weapons?" Snake boasted.

With that, he yanked the spear out of Jade's hands before thrusting the blunt end of the weapon into the latter's stomach. Snake then used all of his strength to use the spear to throw Jade out of the ring. Though the moment Jade fell into the portal, his spear vanished out of Snake's hands. At first, the bearded man was startled. But then, he shrugged before dusting his hands together and walking off.

"Eh. As long as he is still buying me drinks." Snake smirked.

Jade landed in Rick & Morty. Yeah, I will just let you imagine the interactions Jade and Rick will have…

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"

That was the sound of Sagat sending a series of red crescent energy projectiles forward. However, Velvet Crowe wasn't phased as she made her way around the projectiles before rushing forward Sagat. But the Muay Thai fighter anticipated this and crouched down low. So did Velvet.

"Tiger Uppercut!"

"Rising Moon!"

Sagat did his trademark uppercut while Velvet did a flip with a blade appearing out of her foot, causing the two rising attacks to clash with each other. When the two serious fighters landed on the ground, Velvet then ran over and did a series of kicks with said blade sticking out of her boot.

Sagat merely narrowed his good eye before stepping back, trying to avoid or block as much as he could. However, while Velvet's legs are more deadly due to the blade, Sagat's legs were still longer and when he kicked at an incoming attack, Velvet was actually sent flying back.

Sagat then returned the favour with a series of punches, elbows, knees and kicks to Velvet, not giving her a chance to block and counter before kicking his foot out into her stomach before knocking her away. Velvet was sent sprawling before slowly getting up as Sagat was about to charge up another energy projectile.

"Tig…"

"Slag Assault!" Velvet shouted before getting out her hand-blade out and slamming it on the ground and making a small fissure appear. While the arte didn't itself hit Sagat, it was more than enough to make the bald man shake. Velvet then ran over.

"Defiant Conviction!" Velvet yelled before doing a series of kicks while surrounded by a purple shadow to Sagat before ending with a diving kick, knocking Sagat down. She then landed gracefully on the ground before crossing her arms as Sagat got up.

"You know, for such a large man, I wouldn't have pegged you to be the defensive type." Velvet taunted.

"Any beginner would realise that a good defence is the best offence." Sagat scoffed. "If you can't get close to me, you might as well let me win."

"Well, considering that I am able to break through said defence just fine, it seems that the beginner is YOU." Velvet said with a rare smirk.

Sagat growled before getting up to his feet. "You want offensive? I'll give you offensive! TIGER KNEE!"

Sagat then sprang forward knee-first. Velvet was not expecting the attack to come out that fast, especially from a large man and took the attack to the face, knocking her into the air. However, Velvet self-righted herself in midair.

"Rising Falcon!" Velvet shouted, doing a diving kick forward. But Sagat caught Velvet's leg before the arte could hit him before throwing her to the ground. Velvet got into a rolling position before the two glared at each other.

"What's the matter!? Don't you want me to get into the fray!"

"Get away from me, man! You're crazy!"

Sagat and Velvet's eyes widened before turning their heads to see Storm the Albatross riding on his board and being chased by Emil Castagnier who was swinging his sword wildly at him. However, they were so focused on each other that they didn't look where they were going.

CRASH!

Storm and Emil collided with Sagat and Velvet, sending all four of them crashing on the ground.

Storm growled before glaring at the guilty party. "Hey, do you mind!?"

"Hey, we are fighting here!" Emil roared.

Sagat and Velvet then slowly got up and glared down at Storm and Emil. The latter two shrank back as Emil's eyes turned back to green.

"Umm, we are sorry?" Emil apologised.

Velvet rolled her eyes before looking at Sagat. "Do you mind taking care of Emil? Sure, he still deserves it regardless of who did it, but there are other nodal companions I would rather 'betray' if that makes sense."

"No, no, I totally get you." Sagat offered.

With that, Sagat crouched down and picked up Emil. Meanwhile, Velvet's left arm turned large and demonic, grabbing Storm by his neck. The two then threw their respective victims out of the ring with Velvet kicking Storm's board after him.

Emil and Storm both landed in Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance where they made a bet on how many Dream Eaters Emil could recruit in the ten minutes they would be there.

(Dome; Interrogation Room)

Dingodile sat at the table with his snout in his arms as he laid there sadly. Even now, he still can't believe how he pulled into this mess. The one time that he would be able to wander around the dome WITHOUT getting mistaken for being a part of a villain group, he was mistaken for a part of the villain group.

And to make things worse, he is being accused of DIRECTLY trying to stop the tournament. Even back when he was with the Cortex Commandos, he could still remember how much fun he had in the first two Battle of the Luminaries. And now if Drake gets his way, he will be banned from entering the tournament.

Then, he heard the door open. Dingodile groaned before looking up.

Only for him to see Athena with a sympathetic look on her face.

"Hey… How are you holding up?" Athena asked.

"Pretty fine. Considering that Ah am about ta be banned from this tournament." Dingodile muttered.

"Yeah, that was a stupid question." Athena winced before walking over to the chair opposite of Dingodile and sitting down,

The two then shared an awkward silence.

"...I know the truth." Athena piped up.

Dingodile looked up. "H-Huh?"

"Okay, that was an exaggeration." Athena said before holding up the note that was stuck in her hair. "Here. Take a read."

Dingodile raised an eyebrow before reading said note. His eyes then bugged out at this before looking up.

"The reason that you were being silent about why you were in the hallway is because you were trying to protect your friend, right?" Athena asked.

Dingodile paused before sighing. "Well, Ah wouldn't say friend, but otherwise ya are right."

Athena paused for a moment at Dingodile's statement just now as if she heard something, but for now, didn't try to persuade it.

"I promise that we will not tell the rest of the security team about your acquaintance." She explained.

Dingodile blinked twice. "Wait. We? Rest of the security team?"

"Yes, only Horkeukamui, Pepper and I read this note." Athena explained.

"And ya didn't rat me out ta the rest of the security team?" Dingodile asked.

Athena winced as she scratched the back of her head. "Well, no, as Horkeukamui said earlier, usually the villains only hurt people if it is beneficial to their goals or at least in the way. However, whoever was behind the garlic attack, didn't care who got hurt."

Outside of the interrogation room, Horkeukamui frowned while crossing his arms. "I am not saying that she isn't right, but I wish that she didn't phrase it like this whole thing was MY idea."

Pepper just giggled as Athena continued.

"I don't know what plan your acquaintance is dealing with, but we have reason to believe that whoever is behind the garlic attack is more dangerous." Athena explained. She then frowned. "But I thought that the others would be just as compromising."

"Horkeukamui and Pepper probably weren't as compromising either, but you forced their hands!"

Athena and Dingodile's pupils shrink for different reasons before the former wraps her hands around her necklace with a deep red blush.

"Widget!" Athena scolded.

Dingodile blinked twice. "Um, didn't yer necklace just roasted ya?"

Athena let out an exasperated sigh. "More or less… They do that a lot."

Dingodile paused. "...So you promise that ya won't go after mah acquaintance?"

"Like I said, the person behind the garlic attack is more dangerous." Athena reassured.

Dingodile looked at Athena for a moment. He then gave a small smile.

"Heh, Ah thought ya were cast as the punching bag of the team just like Dick Gumshoe and Maggey Byrde." Dingodile said, softly. "But no. Ya are just as valuable as everyone else here."

Athena blinked twice. "Umm, I don't know how to take that."

"Considering how you were freaking out before going here, you should take what you can get!" Widget piped up.

Athena glared down at her necklace with a blush. "Widget!"

Dingodile just chuckled at this.

"Look, I don't mean to rush you, but even though we got some time, can you give me the full details?" Athena urged. "We don't have much time. Sure, Horkeukamui and Pepper will give the signal if the others want to walk in on our conversation, but still…"

"Aight. Ya probably have got one hell of a distraction ta be distract someone like THE Carmelita Fox." Dingodile nodded.

Athena winced as she shifted her eyes to the side. "And then some."

(Dome; Security Team Room)

"Hold still, you literal gasbag!" Carmelita Fox roared before aiming her shock pistol at Wario and opening fire. The yellow-and-purple-clad man yelped before diving out of the way to avoid the electric shots. Carmelita just continued firing at her opponent until Wario got annoyed and charged over like an angry bull.

Despite this, Carmelita narrowed her eyes and jumped up, not only going over Wario's charge, but also kicking him in the back of his head and knocking him down. Carmelita then landed on the ground before turning around and firing an electric shot on the downed Wario, making him cry out in pain.

Wario then got up and growled. Only to see another electric shot being launched at him. Wario leapt before ducking underneath the projectile before rushing forward. Carmelita then thought quickly before spinning around and kicking Wario in the face, making him stagger to the side.

However, Wario has proven to have a lot of endurance by backhanding Carmelita and sending her flying into the wall. Carmelita groaned before looking up. Her eyes then bugged out when she saw Wario rushing towards her shoulder-first. Carmelita then dove to the side to avoid getting smashed into the wall.

"Hey, you just destroyed a part of the wall!" Carmelita roared. "That is coming out of your wallet!"

"Spare me." Wario muttered, rolling his eyes. "I seen-a more destruction with your lover's spats with that ringtail!"

"Hey! Leave my personal life out of this!" Carmelita snapped.

Wario smirked. "Aww! It is-a personal, isn't it?"

Carmelita growled before flipping in place and kicking Wario in the chin, sending him up in the air before Carmelita charged up her shock pistol before shooting at Wario, shooting him out of the pain and crashing on the ground. Carmelita then jumped up and landed hard onto Wario's stomach.

Meanwhile, Gabe, Naesala, Jet and Wave were watching the whole thing. Cole left a little while ago when Drake called him about the flickering lights in the arena.

"I can't believe we are not doing anything!" Gabe roared.

"Hey, Carmelita seems okay with fighting on her own." Jet shrugged.

"But we shouldn't be fighting like this to begin with!" Gabe scolded. "We should have ganged up on Wario and arrested him!"

"Hey, Athena said it herself. Doing so would take way too long and honestly, Wario isn't the type of person I want to have a back-and-forth with." Naesala shrugged.

Gabe looked on in disbelief. "What is WRONG with this security team!?"

Naesala paused. "...I know that Syphon Filter didn't see any work for a long time, but how 'sheltered' can you get?"

Wave on the other hand, was completely quiet. In fact, she never said a word since Athena insulted her.

Meanwhile, Wario was riding his trademark motorcycle around Carmelita who was trying to shoot at him, but she kept missing.

"Ha! It is nice to see that you are still taking accuracy lessons from Stormtroopers!" Wario taunted.

Carmelita growled before flipping backwards towards the wall before using it as a spring before launching herself at Wario and kicking with both feet, knocking him off of his bike and onto the ground. Wario groaned before getting up to see Carmelita aiming her pistol at him.

"Well, do you surrender?" Carmelita taunted.

"Surrender? That isn't-a in my vocabulary!" Wario snarked.

"Typical criminal vocabulary." Carmelita spat.

"Hey! I am-a the VICTIM this time!" Wario roared.

With that, Carmelita and Wario ran forward.

"YOU'RE TOO SLOW!"

Carmelita and Wario skidded to a stop, nearly ramming into each other.

Gabe and Naesala turned their heads with wide eyes.

Jet had a blank look on his face.

Wave was pointing her finger with a stern look on her face.

Wario blinked twice before narrowing his eyes. "Hey! What's the matter you!?"

"Yeah! What you just did was really distracting!" Carmelita agreed.

"That's the point, dum-dum." Wave muttered before turning to Wario. "Obviously nobody bothered to tell you that even if you beat Carmelita, you would still have to deal with half of the security team!"

The yellow-and-purple man let out a mirthless laugh. "Do you-a really think I am afraid of them!?"

"That is not what I meant." Wave scolded. "Half of them think that Dingodile may be innocent."

Wario's eyes bugged out at this. "Wait, what?"

"It's as I said! The blatant comic relief member even volunteered to be Dingodile's attorney!" Wave exclaimed.

"What!? But from what-a I heard, he was caught red-handed!" Wario said.

Carmelita actually winced at this. "I must confess that I don't know what got into Athena but…"

"But nothing! She tried to defame Jet's testimony!" Wave scolded. "Even though he has no reason to lie!"

"Yeah, I don't know what type of crazy pills that woman took earlier, but it is clear that she is being a pest!" Jet agreed.

"Exactly! She is never going to believe us and is just going to waste our time!" Wave snapped. "That is… If we don't conduct our OWN investigation!"

Gabe blinked twice. "W-What do you mean?"

"We are going to prove that Jet is not lying and Dingodile IS guilty!" Wave exclaimed before turning to Wario. "However, I need YOUR help!"

"MY help?" The greedy man asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, if what you say is true, we need to investigate the Super Smash Bros Locker Room." Wave explained. "Maybe we could find a clue that would link Dingodile to the garlic attack."

Carmelita's eyes bugged out. "W-What!? But I was going to interrogate Wario about that myself!"

"Oh, because he would cooperate with a team who is defending a person that was there at the scene of the crime and refused to reveal WHEN he was there!" Wave snapped.

Carmelita narrowed her eyes. "That is still no reason to steal OUR witness!"

"Woah, woah, woah, I don't-a know what is going on, but I am not going ANYWHERE with someone who is trying to waste time!" Wario snapped.

Wave smirked. "Then, don't. Come with me, Jet and Gabe and we will try to nip this in the bud!"

Gabe's pupils shrank. "Wait… WHAT!?"

"Oh yeah. Remember how Athena doesn't trust Jet's words?" Wave asked. "Well, if we have someone from the security team supervising our investigation, they HAVE to believe us!"

"But why ME!?" Gabe complained.

"Because Horkeukamui and Pepper are actively TRYING to go through with this farce, Carmelita would most likely want to lead the team, Naesala would just tick us off all of the time and it should be obvious that Athena is out of the question!" Wave concluded.

Gabe narrowed his eyes. "Well, that doesn't mean I should come! We already got enough on our plate without me being in an 'opposing' group!"

"Wait a minute…" Wario piped up, getting everyone's attention. "We-a are trying to confirm this Dingodile's guilt so we don't go through with this Bully?"

"Yep! I believe in Jet and I know that he would never exaggerate like this." Wave nodded.

Wario paused before shrugging. "Okey-dokey."

With that, he started to make his way towards Gabe.

"H-Hey. Why are you approaching me?" Gabe asked, looking intimidated. "Get back."

Wario then grabbed Gabe and put him over his shoulder (Which looked absolutely silly due to the height difference.) while Carmelita, Naesala and even Wave and Jet looked stunned at this.

"H-HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!?" Gabe roared, trying in vain to break free.

Carmelita narrowed her eyes. "What are you doing!?"

"I am NOT-A waste anymore time!" Wario scoffed. He then looked at Wave. "Well? Are we going to the locker rooms?"

"Um, sure." The purple-feathered avian before stifling a cough and looking at Athena with a sneer. "Jet, come on! Ready to put your money where your mouth is?" Wave smirked.

"...Okay, I have no clue what is going on." The hawk said before returning the smirk. "But you KNOW I won't resist a challenge."

"Hey! You can't just abduct a member of the security team!" Carmelita snapped.

"What is the big deal? We all want the same thing, don't we? To bring the one behind the garlic attack to justice!" Wave taunted. "We just have less patience for that Athena woman!"

"That and maybe if she wasn't so convinced that my testimony is wrong, we wouldn't take someone because you KNOW that she will pull that again!" Jet added.

Carmelita winced at this. "Yeah, well… Not wrong. But even so…"

"Look, we promise we will return when we are done, but unless you have a better alternative to protect us from her slander, you have no freaking excuse!" Wave scolded.

"Okay, I understand that the situation is crazy, but…" Carmelita frowned.

Unfortunately, Wave, Jet and Wario already started to walk off with the latter carrying Gabe over him.

"WHY IS NOBODY TRYING TO STOP THIS MORON!? THIS IS CLEARLY BREAKING AT LEAST ONE RULE!?" Gabe roared, trying to break free. "I DID NOT CAME HERE TO BE ON SOME WANNABE PROSECUTOR'S TEAM!"

"Ah… Shut up-a in your face." Wario muttered.

As the group leaves (and Gabe continues in vain to try to escape), Carmelita and Naesala look in disbelief.

Naesala then gave a descending whistle. "Well, that just happened."

Carmelita blinked twice. "But… Why would Ringtail want Athena to defend Dingodile?"

Naesala jumped before looking at Carmelita. "Wait… Ringtail? As in YOUR Ringtail? What made you suspect Sly Cooper?"

Carmelita growled before pointing to her head with her free hand. "Because Sly Cooper is the only one who gives me headaches like these!"

(The Arena)

"Bada-Boom!"

Olimar yelped as he picked up a Red Pikmin and raised it to block the incoming barrage.

"Summon!"

Olimar's shut eyes snapped open before turning around and protecting the red Pikmin from a storm of ice crystals. However, this resulted in a few imbedding in his back, knocking him down. Impmon smirked before continuing.

"Bada-Boom!" Impmon shouted, sending a fireball into Olimar's back. The good news was that they melted the ice crystals on Olimar's back. The bad news was the burning pain that followed.

"Summon!" Impmon yelled. Olimar's eyes bugged out before whistling and summoning a couple of Winged Pikmin to carry him out of the barrage of ice crystals and onto the ground.

"Hey! What gives!? You have been spamming those two moves ever since you entered the arena!" Olimar scolded.

"It is called strategy, bub! And by strategy, I mean, not letting you have a full army of Pikmin!" Impmon retorted.

Olimar winced before looking to the side. Indeed, he didn't have that much Pikmin, thanks to Impmon.

"Summon!" Impmon shouted, sending another barrage of ice crystals forward. This time, at the Pikmin, destroying most except the blue ones.

Realising that Olimar was literally losing his options, he acted quickly and tried to pull more Pikmin out of the ground.

"Bada-Boom!" Impmon shouted, sending a fireball forward again. Olimar growled before picking up a certain red Pikmin and throwing it at said fireball.

…Only for him in his frustration to throw a rock Pikmin instead. The two projectiles collided with each other, but while the Rock Pikmin was destroyed, he was sent flying right into Olimar's helmet, sending the Hocotatian flying backwards until he landed on his stomach. He groaned before getting up.

"Summon!"

Olimar's eyes bugged out before a few ice crystals pinned him to the turnbuckle. Impmon smirked before walking over while cracking his knuckles.

"You see, the problem with your previous opponents was that they weren't going all-out with ya!" Impmon gloated.

"W-W-Wait, don't…" Olimar pleaded. "If you eliminate me, your life will be ruined!"

Impmon stopped walking. "...Wait, what?"

"You heard me!" Olimar added. "If you eliminate me, YOU will be the next Steve Killer!"

Impmon's eyes widened.

"That's right! Xero may do something to you just like with Nack the Weasel at the Tournament of Kikai!" Olimar explained.

Impmon blinked twice.

"...Why would I be afraid of Xero?"

Olimar blinked twice. "Huh…?"

"First off, I admit that I did not fully watch the aftermath of the Tournament of Kikai, but I heard that things more or less got a little messy." Impmon explained. He then smirked. "Do you really think that the people will let Xero host a second tournament without huge supervision, let alone allow him to rig the wheel and elimination nodes in HIS favour? I could only imagine how ticked Orange-Ratchet was with him at the time."

Olimar winced. "Well, when you put it THAT way."

"Secondly, recall the first half of my name. Imp. I LIVE to troll and mess with people so being the current "Steve Killer" is actually a compliment for me." Impmon smirked. "I actually liked seeing that guy breakdown over not getting his way."

"Okay, fair…" Olimar frowned.

"And even then, even though I am obviously on his hit list, he will be too busy trying to 'rebuild Steve's lost honour' after Drake putting much destruction after having Minecraft Steve appear after you." Impmon concluded. "So any more objections?"

"I mean, all good points, but…" Olimar said before sighing. "Just make it quick."

"Gladly. There are bigger opponents that I want to humiliate, anyway." Impmon chuckled, walking over.

With that, he grabbed Olimar and threw him out of the ring with the Pikmin running after him.

Olimar landed in Cuphead where he and his Pikmin got along with the Root Pack.

"PICHU!"

Korra gritted her teeth before using her lightning-bending to direct away another lightning bolt from herself and throwing it back at Pichu. The baby Pokemon was knocked onto his back, but due to being an electric Pokemon, he merely sprang back onto his feet and charged forward Korra.

The avatar quickly summoned a pillar of earth with the intent to protect herself, but while it did, said pillar not only broke from Pichu's attack, but continued on before headbutting Korra in the stomach. Korra's eyes widened in pain before collapsing on her back. Pichu then sprang forward.

Until a strike of electricity hit Pichu in the side, knocking him away. Static Shock floated over before trying to grab Pichu with his electromancy, but the Pokemon quickly recovered and jumped around to avoid being grabbed. Pichu then launched himself at Static, but the superhero quickly created a barrier of electricity around himself.

The two forces clashed with each other for a moment, resulting in a firework display of sparks. Korra then ran up behind Pichu and used her lightning-bending to try to hold her in place. But almost immediately, Pichu broke out of Korra's grasp and zapped her, knocking her away. Pichu then got ready to zap the downed Avatar.

Only for Static to create a barrier of electricity around Korra, blocking Pichu from going forward. Static Shock then rode over to Korra's side.

"Um, nothing personal, but I take it that lightning-bending or whatever you call it is a rare ability in your world?" Static asked.

"THAT obvious, huh?" Korra asked before sighing. "But yeah, I never got into a situation where I needed lightning-bending so all I could do is redirect electricity."

"Well, that's fine. We need to stop him from someone getting eliminated like that cyborg." Static offered. "However, we need to make sure that we can somehow get him out of the ring."

"Should be easy enough. After all, he is the lightest fighter in Super Smash Bros Ultimate." Korra reassured. "We just have to hit hard and fast!"

"...Yeah, but." Static started.

Pichu then sent out a bolt of electricity at Korra, but instead of deflecting it with her lightning-bending, she caught it and managed to hold it in her hand.

"Static, juice my bolt!" Korra shouted.

The dreadlocked teen was stunned by this. "W-Wait, what!?"

"Don't worry, just keep an eye out for Pichu!" Korra reassured.

Static blinked twice, but he quickly rode to the side to avoid getting zapped by Pichu. The dark-skinned superhero then poured some of his electricity into Korra's bolt. The Avatar nodded as she used her free hand to send a gust of wind into Pichu, knocking him away.

"Good! Keep on doing it!" Korra urged.

Static just shrugged before sending his hands out. One hand to transfer electricity into Korra's bolt and the other one to try to keep Pichu at bay. As this kept on doing it, Korra's bolt keep on growing larger and larger.

"Good! Now do the same for yourself and we'll throw them together!" Korra offered.

"Um, sure, I may need both hands for this though." Static frowned.

"That's fine! I got your back!" Korra offered.

Not too soon, Pichu charged forward, trying to zap Static, but Korra ran in front of him before doing an axe kick to make another stone wall appear. The wall was easily destroyed, but Korra then used her free hand to send out a stream of fire forward. But Pichu then sent out a bolt of electricity causing the two to clash for a while.

"Okay, I think I am done!" Static shouted.

"Good, now wait for the signal!" Korra yelled.

With that, she stomped her foot on the ground which sent a rock to appear from underneath Pichu and high into the air.

"NOW!"

With that, she and Static sent out their large lightning bolts at the same time at the airborne Pichu.

However, the mouse snapped out his daze before using his Agility move to zoom out of the way. The two lightning bolts continued flying up towards Sandbert and Margaret who were still fighting on top of the roller coaster rail with Korra and Static's bolt hitting them respectively and sending them flying until they crashed into the force field before they fell off, surprisingly too stunned to recover and fell like stones into the elimination portal.

Needless to say, Korra and Static were completely thunderstruck. The latter just sighed.

"What I was trying to say before Pichu interrupted us was that hitting hard is not the problem, hitting FAST is." Static said before giving a sheepish grin. "But at least we know that we definitely don't have to worry about power."

"...I can't even cry because it would make it easier for Pichu to zap me." Korra groaned.

Sandbert and Margaret both landed in Galaxy Fight where the former took out his aggressions on the entire cast until Bonus-Kun came up and fought him with Margaret looking on in intrigue.

Claude Von Riegan smirked as he aimed his bow at Shulk and opened fire. However, the Monado-wielder raised his weapon to block the incoming attack. Claude just continued to open fire on Shulk who opened the guard against the attack with his sword. Realising that he couldn't go on defence forever, Shulk ran over.

However, Claude just flipped backwards when Shulk swung his sword horizontally at him and while the latter was recovering from his own attack, Claude ran up and kicked Shulk in the head before following up by smacking his bow against his face. Shulk staggered back, but recovered before kicking Claude in the stomach.

Claude staggered back, but jumped to the side to avoid a stab from Shulk's sword. Claude then jumped back and fired a few more arrows which Shulk quickly deflected before rushing over. Claude just smirked before running off while shooting an arrow behind him. Shulk yelped before swerving his head to the side.

"Back Slash!" Shulk shouted, extending the Monado with light and quickly forward towards Claude. However, the moment Shulk shouted those words. Claude immediately leapt to the side, avoiding the attack before getting up and doing a spin kick, sending Shulk sprawling to the ground.

"Heh, not much use having that big a sword if you can't even go too fast." Claude sneered.

Shulk narrowed his eyes as he got up to one knee. "Speed doesn't equal victory."

"Maybe, but when you are double-shotting everything, it certainly helps." Claude taunted.

Shulk shook his head before getting up and extended his sword with light again and swung it at Claude, but the archer just threw himself to the ground before rolling backwards before firing another arrow which Shulk blocked.

"Okay, so far, no glowing blue eyes which means he has no chance of seeing what I had in mind." Claude thought as he watched Shulk run over. The tan-skinned man smirked before jumping and landing on his hands on top of Shulk's shoulders. Claude then landed on the ground and fired an arrow into Shulk.

Shulk cried out in pain as he hopped up and down before plucking out the arrow out of his rear. He then heard laughter before turning to see Claude with a big grin on his face. Shulk narrowed his eyes.

"Alright, that's it… SPEED!" Shulk shouted as the circle on the Monado glowed light blue with the same glow around his shoes.

However, that was what Claude was hoping for as he pulled out some kind of device from his pocket and threw it on the ground just as Shulk got ready to run forward. Said device was full of slipping oil which spilt on the canvas in front of Shulk's path.

…Only for Shulk to run AROUND the oil slick and swing his sword right into Claude's side. The archer's eyes widened in pain and mostly shock as he was knocked down to the ground. He then looked up at Shulk stunned.

"H-How? I was making sure that you didn't have a vision and saw through my trap!" Claude exclaimed.

"Do you really think I didn't learn enough from Byleth to know what you are up to?" Shulk asked with a smirk. "In fact, I predicted your trap the moment you started to taunt my speed!"

Claude cursed himself for being too obvious before getting up and aimed another arrow. However, Shulk had already not only run straight at Claude, but right behind him.

"Back Slash!" Shulk shouted, doing a downward slash to Claude's back and sending him flying straight out of the ring.

Claude landed in Tales of Destiny where he compared strategies with Garr Kelvin.

"Alright, I have improved my score from the last tournament." Shulk nodded with a smile. "Now…"

Then, his eyes bugged out as they flashed blue.

(Shulk's Vision)

Static and Korra continued to try to get Pichu out of the ring with Korra holding up a hand to draw in some electricity.

"Make way for Squirrel Girl!"

Static and Korra's eyes widened before turning to see Makoto Nanaya rushing towards Pichu.

Static's eyes bugged out. "What are you doing!?"

"What does it look like I am doing!?" Makoto boasted. "I am adding some Tournament of Kikai to this tournament!"

With that, she did an axe kick on Pichu, knocking him to the ground. Suddenly, Tiffany Lords ran forward before sliding between Makoto's legs. The Beastkin girl then grabbed Tiffany's arms and swung her upwards while kicking Pichu into the air. The two young women then leapt up after him before doing a body press on the Pokemon.

"Heh. That was easy." Makoto smirked.

"Piiiii…"

Sparks could be seen underneath Makoto and Tiffany.

"CHUUUUUU!"

Then, a pillar of electricity appeared from underneath the two women, knocking them away and went straight up in the ceiling where all of the lights blew.

(Present Time)

Shulk snapped back to reality.

"Ugh, I know those two are trying their best and all, but they are taking too long to take down that Pokemon."

"Why don't we take a swing at it, Squirrel Girl? We could even use my second Team-Up Technique while we are at it?"

Shulk's pupils shrank before turning to see Makoto and Tiffany looking like they were getting ready to approach Pichu. He then looked around frantically before finding Snake standing to the side before rushing over.

Snake saw him coming. "Oh, hey, kid, how is it doingggggg?"

That was the sound of him being pulled by Shulk's free arm towards the two women.

Notice how the stage gimmick of the section hasn't been mentioned much thus far? That was mostly because Sandbert and Margaret were fighting on top of it. Needless to say, even if somebody wanted to get onto the track for whatever reason, it would be practically suicide at that point. However, with them gone, two certain fighters decided to make up for lost time.

Standing on top of the track, two rapiers clashed with each other with a small explosion of sparks. Puss in Boots and Pura glared into each other's eyes. Then, the roller coaster rode towards them. Despite this, the felines acted quickly and jumped onto the car as it was going past.

After landing back on the track, they immediately went back to locking rapiers with each other. However, Pura started to win said power struggle (He may be just a cub, but remember he is STILL a tiger against a domestic cat). Puss realised this and threw himself on his back, allowing Pura to go past.

Despite the clumsy fall, Pura quickly rolled into a kneeling position before turning around and swinging his rapier, just in time to parry Puss' attack. The Spanish feline then tried to make up for his mistake by swinging his rapier at Pura, but the tiger cub just did a series of jumps, ducks and dodges to avoid the barrage. The two then jumped up as the roller coaster car ran back.

"Heh. Not bad for someone who got their skills from a costume for aesthetic purposes." Puss mused.

Pura merely shrugged. If he could talk, he could tell Puss that because of how limiting the moveset of him and the other "ridable" animals were so they decided to take a couple of their costumes in Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled to make up for their lack of variety.

"Regardless, it takes much more than a mere costume to make a warrior." Puss warned. "Allow me to show you."

Pura narrowed his eyes before getting into a stance.

Then, a fireball came out of nowhere and hit Puss in the tail. The cat cried out in pain as he hopped up and down, trying to put out the flames. As Pura looked in awe, he was suddenly barraged by a bunch of lasers. The two groaned before looking at the guilty party.

Dr. Neo Cortex and Cinder were flying through the air (with the former using his jetpack) and firing lasers and fireballs at each other. Puss and Pura looked at each other before narrowing their eyes and looking back at the two.

"Hey!" Puss roared.

Much to the felines' surprise, Cortex and Cinder stopped their fight to turn their heads.

"Your projectile battle is interrupting OUR battle!" Puss scolded while Pura nodded.

Cortex rolled his eyes. "Forgive me if I am not sympathetic to your little duel."

"Also, the reason why we are up here is so we wouldn't interrupt anyone else's fights." Cinder added with a smirk. "Kinda selfish that we go back to interrupting other people's fights other than your own."

Puss and Pura narrowed their eyes before looking at each other and nodding. They then both turned to the incoming roller coaster car. Cortex and Cinder blinked twice before looking at each other in confusion.

Then, Puss and Pura jumped up as the car came towards them. However, they both landed on top of it before leaping off of it. Towards Cinder and Cortex respectively.

The two villains' eyes bugged out before the two latched onto them.

"H-Hey, get off!" Cortex shouted, angrily.

Pura didn't listen. He just climbed onto Cortex and started to scratch up his jetpack with his claws.

"H-Hey! Don't do that! You are going to…" Cortex started.

That was when Pura jumped off of Cortex. Just in time as Cortex was now zooming across the arena with his jetpack was malfunctioning while screaming at the top of his lungs. Cortex then fell like a stone out of the ring.

Pura smirked and nodded his head before looking up to see Puss doing a hard dropkick to Cinder's face, sending him flying out of the ring too stunned to recover. He then gracefully landed on the ground while checking his boots. (He DID kick a literally flaming man, after all.)

"Well, that takes care of those two pests." Puss smirked. "Shall we continue?"

Cortex and Cinder both landed in an old-fashioned Japanese town during a huge thunderstorm. Cortex growled as he got up while taking off his destroyed jetpack.

"Ugh, why is it whenever a bandicoot DOESN'T spoil my fun, it is a glorified lackey of one of said bandicoots!?" Cortex growled, examining said jetpack.

"Now, now, let's be reasonable." Cinder smirked. "I was going to ruin your day in some way or another."

Cortex growled as he glared at Cinder. "That's it! I will…"

Then, his pupils suddenly shrank before he started to look around where he and Cinder landed with the pyromancer looking in confusion.

"OH NO!" Cortex gasped.

As Cinder jumped at this, Cortex threw away his jetpack and ran off. Cinder watched the whole thing with blinking eyes before he started to laugh.

"Really? REALLY!? The so-called Big Bad Mad Scientist is afraid of a little thunderstorm!?" Cinder laughed. "Dude, I am literally made of fire right now and I am not afraid of a little rain unless it is a…"

That was when Cinder was swept up by a tsunami.

The men (and the lesbians) do not know who to cheer for as two legs clashed with each other. Chun-Li narrowed her eyes while Shermie had a coy smirk on her face. Both women backflipped away from each other.

"Kikoken!" Chun-Li shouted, sending her energy ball forward. Shermie then did a quick spinning hop to the side before dashing forward. Chun-Li got into a defensive stance to block any kicks. However, you cannot block a grab as she grabbed Chun-Li's shoulder and somehow flipped right over her before slamming the Chinese woman.

Shermie then did a follow-up, flipping and slamming her knee on Chun-Li's back. The blue-clad woman cried out in pain before spun around and kicked Shermie off of her. Chun-Li then got up.

"Hienshu!" Chun-Li shouted, flipping forward and landing on top of Shermie's stomach. The redhead's cheeks puffed out as Chun-Li crouched low before spinning and kicking Shermie, knocking her way. Shermie then got up to her feet as Chun-Li ran over.

"Spinning Bird Kick!" Chun-Li shouted, flipping herself upside-down. However, Shermie just smirked before leaping forward and managing to grab Chun-Li with her legs around her neck and slammed her on the ground. Chun-Li groaned before speaking, getting up to her feet and glaring at Shermie.

"Why do you have so many grappling moves!?" Chun-Li exclaimed. "Is this the power of the Orochi power?"

"Nnnnnnope. That would be Yashiro." Shermie explained. "Mine is literally electric!"

"Electric!?" Chun-Li gasped before narrowing her eyes. "So do you have anything to do with why that Pokemon is being so violent?"

"Spare me. Pichu's cute and all, but if I wanted to train a baby Pokemon to attack animals, I would have chosen a Cleffa." Shermie scoffed. "Did you know that CLEFAIRY was going to be the mascot of Pokemon?"

Chun-Li blinked twice, wondering if Shermie was being 100% or just messing with her. Regardless, the bewilderment turned into anger and Chun-Li went back on the offensive by doing a series of lightning-fast kicks forward. Shermie's eyes widened (though Chun-Li couldn't tell) and raised her arms to block the incoming barrage.

While Shermie was able to block against the barrage, she found herself being forced back. However, the fashion designer then found an opening and grabbed Chun-Li's feet before throwing the Chinese woman to the ground before following it up with a knee drop. However, Chun-Li rolled backwards to avoid the attack before kicking Shermie in the head.

Shermie staggered back before recovering before kicking her leg out, but Chun-Li kicked out her leg as well. Unlike the first time the two legs clashed, Chun-Li put more force behind her kick which sent Shermie staggering back.

"Maybe THIS will teach you not to outdo ME in kicking!" Chun-Li smirked before crouching low. "Hazan Tenshou Kyaku!"

With that, she leapt up and did a series of airborne kicks to Shermie before landing on the ground and charging up blue energy in her palms.

"KIKOSHO!"

Chun-Li then created a sphere of energy around her palms just as Shermie fell towards her. This sent enough power to send Shermie flying straight out of the ring.

Shermie landed in Rumble Roses. For better or for worse, she fit right in.

Chun-Li smirked as she dusted her hands together. "An Interpol agent's job is never done."

Suddenly, she noticed the lights flickering on and off. She frowned before looking up.

"It is getting worse…"

(Unknown Location)

Oume, along with a lot of people from her team watched the whole thing that was happening in the arena. Said team glared down at the former who shrank back.

"Ha ha! Shocking!" Oume said with an exaggerating shrug

"Okay, I wasn't there at the time." K. Rool confessed before narrowing his good eye. "But Ganondorf told me how much disarray the blackout at the third Megamix Tournament caused for Bison's plan."

"Yes, and considering that I KNOW for a fact that Bison HATES losing." Relius sneered. "So if the little runt ruins the entire tournament, you might as well kiss his seed goodbye!"

"I must confess, I don't care whether I win or lose. I am just in it for the drama." Happy Chaos said before frowning. "What is the point if it ends so soon? At least we had a lot of build-up in the third Megamix Tournament and the second Battle of the Luminaries!"

"Alright, alright, alright! I'll admit it! If Pichu ruins the tournament, I will take full responsibility!" Oume insisted. "But we NEEDED to be like this."

"Do we?" I-No asked, raising an eyebrow. "I am all for being a sadistic bitch for kicks, but you clearly have an end goal. Don't you?"

"Yes, we HAVE to make our targets as miserable as possible!?" Oume exclaimed. "Why do you think we had our hideout in this particular place!? It has the materials we have to do so!"

K. Rool frowned, crossing his arms. "For some sake, you better be right. I shouldn't have to explain why I feel uncomfortable being here!"

Before anyone could say anything else, they all heard groaning. They turned their heads to see Billy Kane all tied up and slowly waking up.

"H-Huh? What?" Billy asked.

"Well, well, well. Look like who has woken up." Oume smirked, getting the British man's attention.

"W-What?" Billy said before his pupils shrank. "LILLY!"

With that, he started to struggle with the ropes.

"Let me go! I have to see my sister!" Billy roared.

Upon hearing this, Relius let out a hearty laugh. "Wow! I knew that worrying about your sister is one of your prominent traits, but to think you would be THAT stupid!"

"H-Huh? What the hell does THAT mean!?" Billy demanded.

"You know the Goomba that came to your boss' room and told you about the explosion in the laundry room?" I-No sneered. "That was a lie!"

Billy's pupils shrank. "W-What?"

"That's right. Your dear baby sister isn't the target this time around!" Oume said before grinning. "It's you!"

"Me!?" Billy exclaimed before growling. "You old hag! Do you really think Geese Howard wouldn't find out about my kidnapping!? He was there too when that Goomba lied to me! When he puts two and two, he will try to find you and ruin your lives!"

Oume paused for a moment at this. She then gave a creepy look on her face.

"Good. That's the plan…" She said.

Billy shrank back in confusion at this. He was about to demand what Oume was talking about.

"Um, sorry to interrupt the mood, but…" N. Gin piped up, standing next to a machine and getting everyone's attention.

"Oh, you think the machine is going to work?" Oume asked, brightening up.

"Hopefully. I may have the blueprints for the machines from previous UVR tournaments, but it is still a hassle to create a new one from scratch." frowned.

"It can't be helped." Oume argued. "We may be not only facing the obligatory hero group, but also my sister's inferior group. I know that I am still new here and all, but I KNOW for a fact that we are on a strict time limit."

"I guess you are right." N. Gin sighed. Then, the machine started to flash. "Well, here it comes. Finger crossed that worst case scenario, the machine literally explodes in my face."

Everyone focused their eyes on the machine as something materialised in it (Nobody even commented on the last part of N. Gin's statement.) Then, a confused and scared figure appeared as everyone gave devilish smirks and Billy looked thunderstruck.

"Wait… But that's impossible!" Billy sputtered. "You're…"

(Hotel; Outside Bison's Room)

Elliana hissed angrily as a boxing glove appeared out of one of the arm cannons of her mech before punching it forward. However, Sho Minazuki let out a dark chuckle before vanishing to not only avoid the punch, but also reappear behind Elliana to slashed her mech with her twin katanas.

Elliana just scoffed before swinging her mech around, hoping to hit Sho, but the redhead ducked underneath before jumping up and swinging his katanas downwards. Elliana yelped before retreating in her mech as it received several strikes. Sho laughed as he proceeded to slash the mech multiple times.

However, while Elliana was hiding in her mech, she pushed a button. Then, steam appeared from Elliana's arm cannons and engulfed Sho, causing the twin swordsman to cry out in pain. Elliana then poked her head (um, body) out of the mech and activated it, sending a boot out of her arm cannon into Sho's stomach.

Sho was sent flying back until crashing into the wall. Elliana smirked before aiming her arm cannon at Sho and firing a rocket fist at Sho. However, the redhead snapped out of his daze in time before vanishing just in time to avoid the fist. Just in time as the fist exploded. Sho then reappeared with a scowl.

"You think you are hot shit right now, but you are not because you are using your mech to fight!" Sho taunted.

"Oh, spare me!" Elliana sneered. "You wouldn't be whining if you had a PERSONA in a PERSONA fighting game?"

"I don't need no fucking Persona!" Sho roared. "Fighting you is nothing, but a piece of snake!""

Elliana's sneer vanished as she rolled her eyes. "Someone was a fan of the Magic School Bus before their edgelord stage."

Sho's eyebrow twitched before rushing forward. However, Elliana just fired another cloud of steam forward at Sho. However, this time, the latter was prepared for it before swinging his katana at said cloud, sending it back at Elliana. The snake cried out in pain and shock. Sho smirked before dashing forward and doing a cross-slash with a surprising amount of force to send Elliana into the wall.

Unknown to the two, Kula was peeking her way outside of the doorway 's room.

"I have to ask. How is it looking so far?" Ralf asked as he and Whip searched through the room.

"Umm, it is hard to say." Kula frowned. "At this rate, those two are going to knock each other out at the same time."

"Shocker." Whip muttered. "Just keep an eye, Kula. We may not have much time at all to search in here."

"Yeah… About that." Ralf muttered. "Don't you think that this is a little TOO easy?"

Whip looked at Ralf, confused. "Huh? What do you mean?"

"Aw, come on, Whip!" The bandana-wearing man frowned. "I know that you are focused on finding Krizalid, but don't you think it is the least bit suspicious that no one is guarding this place? It is almost ALWAYS the stage for the final battle."

The young woman paused in thought. "Yes… At first, I thought that Mukai and the fatter Komodo brother were the guards, but as it turns out, they were waiting for Joe to return."

"What's more, he didn't even bother trying to fix the door!" Ralf added.

Whip paused before crouching down and looking under the bed. She then noticed something. "Huh?"

"Oh, you found something?" Ralf asked, looking up.

"Um, yes. Come over." Whip offered, reaching her hand under said bed.

Ralf obliged as Whip pulled out a set of blueprints.

"Hey, you found them!" Ralf grinned.

"Yeah. It seems that Bison is getting sloppy." Whip mused.

"After all of the times he lost, I am not surprised." Ralf laughed. "So what do they read?"

Ralf and Whip then read said blueprints. However, once they did, their eyes bugged out in pure horror.

"No…" Whip gasped.

"I knew that Bison had something twisted, but damn…" Ralf muttered.

"Shit!" Sho shouted as he was being chased by three homing missiles. Elliana cackled as she watched as her enemy tried to outrun them. To Sho's credit, due to his quick speed and flash steps, he was able to easily outspeed them. Sho then ran over to Elliana. The snake's smirk vanished as Sho leapt over Elliana.

The missiles collided with Elliana and caused her back. Sho smirked before doing a series of slashes to the back of Elliana's back. The mech-rider growled before turning around and biting Sho in the arm. As the redhead cried out in pain, Elliana rotated her arms around and struck Sho in the side, sending him flying into the wall.

Sho groaned before hoisting himself up with his katanas. "You literal snake! You could have poisoned me!"

"Spare me." Elliana muttered, rolling her eyes. "The poison gimmick was already stolen by Ranno so I wouldn't be able to poison you even if I tried."

Sho growled before rushing forward and leapt on top of Elliana's mech before he tried to stab the snake directly. Elliana yelped before retreating in the mech, trying to avoid being stabbed.

"Hold still and let me stab you! Or destroy the mech! Whichever comes first!" Sho roared, during stabs.

Elliana growled. "Tch! Fine by me!"

Suddenly, she pushed a button inside of her mech. Then, she was sent flying out of it much to Sho's surprise.

"What the…" Sho started.

BOOM!

Then, Elliana's mech exploded right in Sho's face. This resulted in the twin swordsman flying off to the side before crashing into the wall hard before peeling off and falling on his stomach out cold.

Elliana gracefully landed on the ground with a cruel smirk. "Well, you destroyed my mech. At least you got your wish!"

"Good. That means you have time to fulfil OURS!"

Elliana's eyes widened before turning her head to see Whip, Ralf and Kula angrily glaring down at her.

"Oh, you actually waited for us to finish!" Elliana smirked. "That is so nice of you to wait!"

"Save it! Where is Krizalid and where is Bison!?" Whip demanded.

"Ignoring the fact that I made it clear that I am NOT giving you the whereabouts of Krizalid, I don't know what Bison is doing." Elliana taunted.

Kula's eyes widened. "Wait, so not only do you not know what Bison is currently doing, but you don't even know where he IS?"

"Not really. Sure, Bison may be the head honcho as always of the whole thing, but as far as I'M concerned, OTANE is my leader." Elliana explained. "Besides, I am sure that if our plans clash with his, he will confront us. But seeing that we are in the dark as far as I know, he seems to be doing well off."

Whip and Ralf looked at each other in worry. Kula on the other hand, narrowed her eyes.

"Fine! We will just focus on YOUR team for now!" Kula said.

Elliana let out a laugh. "Sorry, kid, as much as I want to give you something for humiliating that edgelord, I think I was generous enough already! Now if you excuse me, I have to leave."

Ralf crossed his arms. "You are awfully cocky for a mere non-elemental snake."

"Oh, I am, am I?" Elliana asked as a glint appeared in her eye.

Suddenly, something materialised in front of Elliana, startling the trio. It appeared to be… Elliana's mech?"

"W-What? But we saw you destroy it!" Whip exclaimed.

"Yeah, but I could recall it anytime I want!" Elliana smirked. "Now if you excuse me…"

With that, she aimed her arm cannons at the three and fired a large amount of steam at them. The trio jumped before Kula put out her hands and created a wall of ice, protecting them from the steam. Elliana took the time to run off.

"Hey! Get back here!" Whip roared. "Darn it! We lost another potential informant!"

"Um, I know that you want to literally whip some sense into Krizalid, but I think we got other things to worry about." Ralf frowned.

"R-Right, you're right…" Whip frowned. "I knew that we should focus on Bison, but to think that he would think up a plan."

"B-But… He wouldn't be able to pull it off, right?" Kula piped up. "The snake said it herself. Otane and Oume's teams don't know what Bison's plan is so that means that he should have a lack of villains on HIS team."

"Yeah, but something tells me that Bison still managed a way to make it work." Ralf frowned.

Whip paused. "What section is it now?"

"Umm…" Ralf said before looking at the monitor. "Section Four. Though from what I could see, most of the fighters required to end the section are eliminated."

Whip nodded her head. "There may not be that many strong fighters to choose from in the Elimination Seating, but…"

"But we can't wait anymore. We need a bigger team." Ralf frowned

"Alright, so let's do it!" Kula beamed. Her face then soured. "Just promise me that we won't get too many pyromancers."

"We'll see when we get there." Whip giggled.

Ralf scratched the back of his head. "Huh. I could have sworn we had forgotten something."

Whip glared up at Ralf. "Whatever it is, Colonel, it can't be THAT important right now. Or at least to delay getting a team together."

"Yeah, you are probably right." The muscular man admitted. "Come on."

Whip and Kula nodded their heads before the three ran off. Completely passing over Sho's unconscious body.

(The Arena)

Solid Snake raised his arms to block a fist. However, while the guard was a success, Snake found himself skidding back on his feet before crashing into a turnbuckle and collapsing on his stomach. Snake groaned before looking up. Only for his eyes to bug out when he saw Makoto Nanaya running over.

Acting quickly, Snake rolled to the side to avoid being punched into the turnbuckle. Snake then got up and wrapped his arms around Makoto in the form of a sleeper hold. However, Makoto punched behind her and caught Snake in the side. The mercenary staggered back, holding his side. Makoto then turned around and punched Snake in the side.

Snake was sent flying backwards until he managed to self-right himself in midair before gracefully landed on the ground. However, Makoto was rushing forward and punched. However, Snake ducked underneath the attack and headbutted Makoto in the stomach. When the squirrel girl staggered back, gripping her stomach, Snake did a series of punches and kicks before ending with a sobat kick to Makoto.

Makoto fell onto her side as Snake got out a grenade and threw it on the ground next to her. Makoto snapped out of her daze before yelping while picking up said grenade and throwing it away. However, that was what Snake was hoping for as he climbed onto Makoto and started to punch her way.

Makoto grunted in pain before placing her feet on top of Snake's stomach and throwing him off of her. The two then got up and Makoto ran over again. Snake just got into a defensive stance. Suddenly, Makoto turned into THREE of her and went at Snake and different directions. Snake was completely taken off-guard as two of them disappeared in a puff of smoke while the real Makoto zoomed behind Snake and elbowed Snake in the back.

Snake staggered forward before glaring back. "You are deceptively powerful."

"But of course!" Makoto grinned. "I AM the unbeatable Squirrel Girl, after all!"

Snake blinked twice. "Umm, I think your ally is too distracted to overhear you. You have no reason to humour her."

"Hey, ever heard of kayfabe!?" Makoto scolded.

Snake blinked twice before growling and looking to the side. "Shulk, what you saw had better be accurate!"

Shulk looked back at his nodal companion. "You know I would never exaggerate my visions like that!"

"PUNCH!"

Shulk's eyes bugged out before raising his sword to block a Groovy Punch from Tiffany Lords. Fortunately for Shulk, Tiffany wasn't as strong as Makoto, at least in terms of punching strength. This did little to put down Tiffany as she continued the assault with a series of punches.

Shulk just narrowed his eyes as he continued to block the punches. Once he found an opening, he kicked his foot out and caught Tiffany in the stomach, knocking her away. Shulk followed it up with a horizontal swing. Tiffany was knocked to the ground and Shulk ran over to return the assault.

"Lift-Off!" Tiffany shouted, propelling herself upwards feet-first and kicked Shulk in the face and sent him up into the air. After Tiffany landed on the ground, she punched forward while Shulk was coming down and sent the blond teenager sprawling on the ground. Tiffany then jumped up into the air.

"Exciting!" Tiffany yelled, doing a diving kick forward. However, despite Shulk was in pain, he quickly raised his sword to block the incoming dive kick. Shulk then quickly got up, but not quick enough to dodge the punch to her face. However, he recovered enough to block a kick.

"Wow, you are really good." Shulk said in awe. "I could see why you lasted more than two sections!"

"Thanks! I was really worried that we would have to worry about Akira or god forbid, Kurow to come in clutch for us." Tiffany noted. "But it seems that if I could stand on my own two feet, ANOTHER could!"

"That is nice to hear." Shulk offered. "Regardless, I won't make it easy for you."

"Wouldn't have it any other way!" Tiffany smiled.

With that, she ran over to cartwheel over, but Shulk easily moved out of the way before extending his sword in her side and making her fly into the air.

"Jump!" Shulk shouted, summoning a green glow around his shoes and leapt up after Tiffany. However, the cheerleader self-righted herself in midair and managed to block a kick just in time. The two then exchanged blows as they fell to the ground. Then, Tiffany got a lucky kick to Shulk's chest.

Shulk was then sent flying back. At first, even Tiffany was stunned by this, but she just shrugged before running off after Shulk. You see, as potentially broken Shulk's Monado Arts were, each one came with a price. In the case of Speed, it was defence. Regardless, Shulk managed to self-right himself before landing on the ground.

Shulk then crouched down and used his enhanced jumping ability to do a rushing headbutt into Tiffany's stomach. As the blonde's eyes widened in pain, Shulk did an upward slash, sending Tiffany upwards.

"Air Slash!" Shulk shouted, jumping up and extending his sword to strike Tiffany twice and sent her out of the ring.

Tiffany landed in Dead or Alive where she teamed up with Tina Armstrong to beat down the latter's father.

Shulk sighed in relief before the green glow around his feet vanished. "Another negative vision averted. I am just sorry that I had to eliminate an innocent person to do so."

"Woah!"

Shulk's eyes widened before looking up to see Snake and Makoto on top of the roller coaster track (when, how and why they got up there was anyone's guess). They both jumped over the car. However, judging by Makoto's startled face and clumsy landing, she clearly didn't see it at the last minute. Snake smirked before pushing Makoto off of it and into the elimination portal. Shulk just gave a small smile of relief.

Makoto landed in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise (It is an expansion pass of New Horizons so the running gag still counts). The male squirrels on the resort immediately swarmed her with hearts in their eyes.

Impmon gritted his teeth. "Summon!"

The Digimon then summoned a bunch of ice crystals before firing them forward. However, Puss In Boots ran forward and summoned his blue barrier around himself to send a couple of crystals back to Impmon. The imp yelped before ducking underneath said crystals. He and Pura then ran forward while running on all fours.

Impmon looked up and again yelped before jumping back and avoiding a rapier slash from Puss. However, he was off-guard for Pura to jump up and kicked Impmon in the face The Digimon staggered back before Pura slashed him in the chest with his rapier.

"Bada-Boom!" Impmon shouted, throwing a fireball at Pura. The tiger cub yelped before throwing himself to the ground. Impmon then kicked him in the head, knocking him away. Then, Puss jumped up and swung his own rapier at him. Impmon yelped before catching the rapier with his hands before the end could hit his face Despite the scary close call, Impmon smirked before kicking Puss in the stomach and knocking him into Pura knocking the two down.

"Summon!" Impmon shouted, creating ice crystals and sending them at the downed felines. The two cried out in pain as they got up. Impmon then ran over and did an uppercut to Puss, knocking him away. He then turned around just as Pura was going to swing his sword at him, but Impmon spun his finger in circles to create hypnotic rings which froze Pura in his tracks before Pura booting him away.

"Heh, I'll give credit where credit is due. You kitties sure are persistent!" Impmon smirked.

"We could say the same to YOU!" Puss scolded, getting up. "At least the mad scientist and literal hothead interrupted our fight by accident! Why did YOU get involved?"

Pura angrily nodded.

"No reason, really. I just saw how ticked off you guys were at those two and I decided to try my luck with you guys." Impmon shrugged.

Puss' eyebrow twitched. "When DONKEY has more self-preservation than you!"

"You wanna get back to fighting each other? You gotta get rid of me!" Impmon offered. "Bada-Boom!"

With that, he sent out another fireball at Puss, but the Spanish feline summoned his barrier around himself to deflect the projectile back at Impmon. However, that was what Impmon was hoping for by sliding underneath said own projectile and when Puss was recovering from his own barrier, Impmon kicked his foot upward and struck Puss in the chin.

Pura then ran over and did a three-slash combo to Impmon, making him stagger back. Pura then did a thrust, but Impmon recovered and jumped back. But Puss then leapt up at Impmon and did a downward slash to him, knocking him down. The two felines then leapt up at him.

"Summon!" Impmon shouted as the two swung their rapiers at him, only to clash with a bunch of floating ice crystals. Impmon smirked before using a Bada Boom on the ground to blast himself onto the roller coaster track.

"Ugh, as much as I hate to admit it, but he is a crafty one." Puss muttered. He then smirked. "In that case, we should fight as if we are on the Great Wall of China."

Pura understood what Puss meant and returned the smirk. Impmon on the other hand blinked twice in confusion.

Pura then got down on all fours. Puss then jumped onto him.

"CHARGE!" Puss shouted, pointing at his rapier.

Pura nodded his head before he started to run. …In circles. Impmon wasn't the only one who was dumbfounded. Everyone else was confused.

"Ha! What is your plan!?" Impmon taunted with a laugh.. "You are going to make me so dizzy that I will fall off the track!"

Pura then stopped running in circles and ran towards the direction of where Impmon was. Much to everyone's surprise, he then leapt up high into the air as if he was a Dragoon Knight from Final Fantasy.

Puss then jumped off of Pura and did a dropkick forward. Impmon was so stunned that he took the attack to the face and fell out of the ring. Puss and Pura then gracefully landed on the ground and took off their hats bowed while everyone cheered them on.

Impmon landed in Hazbin Hotel where he spent the next ten minutes annoying Husk.

"Demon Fang!"

"Ko-Ou Ken!"

That was the sound of Lloyd Irving and Yuri Sakazaki's respective projectiles clashing with each other. Truth be told, they weren't aiming for each other, but at the third party, Steve. But he grew wings and flew out of harm's way before landing on the ground. Lloyd and Yuri narrowed their eyes before running after Steve, knowing what Steve was like when he was alone.

However, the moment Steve landed on the ground, he swung his sword at his opponents, knocking them down. With them stunned, Steve started to dig for materials. However, Yuri snapped out of her daze before spinning her leg around and tripping Steve on his back. Yuri then climbed onto Steve and started to beat his face in. Lloyd then smirked before getting up.

"Rising Phoenix!" Lloyd shouted, jumping up and igniting himself in fire before diving down towards Yuri and Steve, sending the two flying away. Yuri groaned before sitting up and glaring at the guilty party.

"Hey! Traitor!" Yuri angrily roared.

"Hey, this IS a three-way, isn't it?" Lloyd smirked. "We only form a 'truce' so Steve isn't doing anything on his own."

Yuri narrowed her eyes. "Okay, fair enough. Then, let's continue that trend, shall we?"

With that, she grabbed Steve by his legs and threw him at Lloyd. She didn't throw him that hard, but it was more than enough to send Steve into Lloyd, knocking him down. Yuri grinned before jumping up.

"Raiou Ken!" Yuri shouted, sending an energy ball downwards. However, Steve snapped out of his daze, grabbed Lloyd before using him as a shield. After grunting in pain, the scarfed boy growled about being used as a meatshield before managing to reach behind him and throw down Steve.

The dark-skinned man got up while throwing his sword before getting into a power struggle. Yuri smirked before charging up energy.

"Haoh Shoukou Ken!" Yuri yelled, sending out a large energy ball forward. Lloyd's eyes bugged out before he and Steve jumped back to avoid the projectile. Yuri then ran over to Steve.

"Chou Upper!" Yuri shouted, doing an uppercut to Steve's chin, sending him flying into the air.

"Hurricane Thrust!" Lloyd yelled, doing a thrust forward with his sword and creating a burst of wind, knocking the two of them down.

Steve then got up. While it was impossible to tell, he was not liking his chances. Sure, he could possibly take on Lloyd or Yuri individually. But together? He needed to pull out the big guns. He then got into a minecart and started to ride towards Yuri. The brunette saw him coming and got ready to kick him out of his minecart.

Only for Steve to swerve his minecart to the side, confusing both Yuri and Lloyd. Steve then got out of his minecart and turned around while getting out his Smash Ball. His opponent's eyes bugged when they realised that he was lining them up. Steve broke his Smash Ball, summoning the multi-coloured aura around him and launched the spring on them.

Only for Yuri to leapfrog over Lloyd at the last moment.

The spring hit Lloyd, sending him flying away until he crashed into the ground. He groaned before propping himself on his hands.

To see that he was in a dark room full of TNTs and Creepers. His face immediately fell.

BOOM!

In classic Minecraft fashion, the house where Steve trapped Lloyd in exploded and the scarfed man was sent flying out of the ring as Steve ate a steak.

Lloyd landed in Suikoden V where he and Dungo compared blacksmithing tips.

Soon, the rainbow aura and glowing of the Final Smash ended and the moment that happened, Yuri made her move and ran over before grabbing Steve.

"Why you!" Yuri growled, slapping Steve in his face multiple times before giving him one final slap, sending him out of the ring.

Steve landed in a grassy plain with a surprisingly soft landing. He then noticed a bunch of kids looking at him with wide eyes.

"H-Hey!"

Steve looked down to see that he was sitting on top of a dark-haired blue-clad girl. Said girl was NOT happy as she managed to use a surprising amount of strength to get up and throw Steve off of her. Steve and the girl then got up with the latter breathing in and out heavily with her face turning red. Everyone else looked at each other in worry.

"OH, YOU BLOCKHEAD!"

After Lucy Van Pelt shouted those words, the force of said shout sent Steve flying back and crashing into the kids.

Charlie Brown groaned as he laid on the ground. "Oh, good grief."

Back in the arena, Yuri dusted her hands together before going to count the remaining fighters. After she was done, her eyes bugged out before looking at one particular fight in worry.

"Um, if you REALLY want to get rid of that little guy, this is your last chance in this section to do it.!" Yuri frowned, cupping her hands to her mouth.

"Don't you think we KNOW that!?" Korra roared as she blocked a wall of earth to a bolt of electricity from Pichu.

"Calm down, Korra!" Static Shock scolded as he tried to grab Pichu with his elecmancy. Again.

"Calm down!?" Korra asked in disbelief, shaking the earth to try to get Pichu to stand still. "We are going through a Blair Witch Project and you want me to calm down!"

Static Shock frowned as Pichu just managed to zoom out of the way. "It is kinda ridiculous that we are having just as much trouble with this little guy as the Witch and the Hunter."

"The Witch and Hunter are notorious for being annoying to take down!" Korra snapped, sending a fireball at Pichu. "Not only is Pichu arguably the lightest fighter in the tournament, but shouldn't he have at least FIVE sections worth of fatigue from all of the recoil damage is taking!?"

"But what can we do?" Static asked. "He is clearly too fast for us to catch him. You have to go at sonic speed to catch…"

Then, Static's eyes widened in realisation.

"That's it." Static noted.

"W-What? You thought of something?" Korra asked.

"I think so!" Static offered. "I am going solo for now!"

With that, he rode off on his Static Saucer to the track. Pichu just growled before chasing after the superhero and zooming onto the track as well. He also got run over by the car, but Pichu easily jumped over it.

"Heh, I knew that you would be able to leap over it." Static noted before smirking. "But can you leap over THIS!?"

With that, he sent out a bolt of electricity at the car while it was going around the track. However, this made it go faster and faster. Pichu just jumped over the car while it went around. And around. And around.

By this time, the car was nothing more than a blur and while Pichu was doing an excellent job, leaping over it.

However, as Static predicted, he wasn't that fast and finally got hit by the car.

"PICHUUUUUUUUU!"

After everyone winced from getting hit by the car, the electric mouse was sent flying out of the ring, screaming at the top of his lungs. Finally into the elimination portal.

Pichu landed in Sonic Heroes where he caused a power shortage that took out the power of the Casino Park level. Keep it mind, said level is an entire CITY.

Static Shock breathed in and out before falling on his saucer.

"Thank heaven THAT'S over." Static muttered. "But the question stands… What made that poor Pokemon act like that?"

With that, he looked down at the arena. Sagat and Velvet opted to stop their fight for now, as with Puss and Pura. Shulk cautiously looked around as if he was getting a vision while Snake was… Hiding in a cardboard box. Basara was actually playing to the crowd, using his shuriken and chain like a lasso, much to the confusion of Chun-Li and Yuri. Finally, Korra was on her knees, breathing in and out just like Static, happy that Pichu was gone.

Then, everyone was covered in the Millennium Star's white auras before everyone appeared on a star platform. Then, the following platforms fell in order.

Basara. Pura. Sagat. Velvet. Yuri. Korra. And Chun Li, leaving Snake, Static, Puss and Shulk.

"Oh, wow!" Shulk smiled. "I never expected I would get THIS close to being the Superstar!"

"Yeah, you definitely improved a lot since the last tournament!" Snake added with a smirk.

Then, Puss' star vanished. Only with Shulk's. Snake's eyes bugged out.

"Wait, you mean… I have a chance?" Snake asked.

"Looks like it." Static noted.

Then, one more platform fell.

"Congratulations, Static Shock!" The Millennium Star smiled.

Static immediately jumped up on his platform, punching an electric fist in the air with a big grin on his face.

"Now THAT's what I am talking about!" He cheered before looking around with a grateful look on his face. "Thank you all! I thought that I would be out of practice seeing that I haven't had a new cartoon in recent years, but it is COOL that after all of this time, you still remembered me! Thank you!"

Everyone cheered for Static. Except for Snake who grumpily pouted.

"My cardboard box paradise…" Snake muttered.

Shulk rolled his eyes. "Don't be a drama queen, man."

Static continued to look around the audience with a big grin on his face. However, he noticed something that made his smile vanish.

"Umm, where's Drake?"

Everyone's eyes bugged out before looking at the Announcer's Booth to see that indeed it was just Ashley there.

"Oh, don't worry, he is right here. He just fainted." Ashley reassured with a genuine smile.

And thus the loud cheering turned into an awkward silence.

VOTES: (12 Votes)

STATIC SHOCK (SS): 10:2 = 8 (Margaret, Pichu)

SOLID SNAKE (SSB): 10:3 = 7 (Jade Curtiss, Makoto Nanaya)

SHULK (SSB): 9:3 = 6 (Claude Von Riegan, Tiffany Lords)

PUSS IN BOOTS (SSS): 8:4 = 4 (Cinder, Impmon)

CHUN-LI (SFAS) 8:5 = 3 (Shermie)

KORRA (NASB): 8:5 = 3 (Sandbert)

YURI SAKAZAKI (KoFAS): 8:5 = 3 (Steve)

VELVET CROWE (ToAS): 7:5 = 2 (Storm the Albatross)

SAGAT (SFAS) 7:5 = 2 (Emil Castagnier)

PURA (CB) 7:5 = 2 (Cortex)

BASARA (SS) 6:6 = 0 (Huff N Puff Wolf)

(ELIMINATED)

IMPMON (DRA) 6:6 = 0 (Captain Olimar)

PICHU (SSB) 6:6 = 0 (Maxima)

STEVE (SSB): 7:7 = 0 (Lloyd Irving)

CAPTAIN OLIMAR (SSB): 7:7 = 0 (Krohnen McDougall)

DR. NEO CORTEX (CB): 7:7 = 0

CLAUDE VON RIEGAN (FETH): 5:7 = -2

MAKOTO NANAYA (BB) 5:7 = -2

SANDBERT (RoA): 5:7 = -2

SHERMIE (KoFAS): 5:7 = -2

EMIL CASTAGNIER (ToAS): 5:7 = -2

LLOYD IRVING (ToAS): 6:9 = -3

JADE CURTISS (ToAS): 4:8 = -4

CINDER (KI): 4:8 = -4

TIFFANY LORDS (RS): 5:9 = -4

MAXIMA (KoFAS): 4:9 = -5

STORM THE ALBATROSS (StH): 3:9 = -6

MARGARET (P4A): 3:9 = -6

KROHNEN McDOUGALL (KoFAS): 3:9 = -6

HUFF N PUFF WOLF (SSS): 2:11 = -9

SIDE BATTLES

"Something Stinks Around Here!"

CARMELITA FOX (SC) is forced to have a rival investigator in WARIO (SSB)

6 to 6

"They're OUR Hero Group! Get Your Own!"

ELLIANA (RoA) self-destructs on SHO MINAZUKI (P4A)

7 to 5

Slow Mysterious Start: The Mystery Fighters have been going slow thus far with only two out of the first six Mystery Fighters to get ONE elimination each. Static Shock is not only the first Mystery Fighter to get two eliminations, but also the first Mystery Fighter Superstar.