Battle Of The Luminaries 3

by Tinyhammer

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

24. Section Ten Results

(The Arena)

While on the train-like arena, The Ice Climbers yelped before running in opposite directions to avoid being smashed into the ground by a giant mallet. Acting quickly, Popo and Nana ran towards the direction of the guilty party which was Dot Warner to smash her into the side from each side. However, while Dot was recovering from his own attack, she managed to turn herself into a puddle, causing the Ice Climbers to crash into each other.

"Hey, watch it!" Nana scolded.

"YOU ran into ME!" Popo argued.

Despite blaming each other for their clumsy mistake, they both realised that they had bigger problems to worry about and reformed with each other before sending out their palms, sending cold air at Dot, covering the Warner Sister. At first, the Ice Climbers smirked in success. However, Popo was pelted in the face by a snowball, startling his sister.

"Snowball fight!" Dot shouted as she proceeded to pelt a barrage of snowballs at the Ice Climbers at an alarming rate. The pink-and-blue duo cried out in pain before they started to be buried in a pile of snow. Dot smirked before skipping over to the pile and got out a flag to plant it. …Only for the pile to start to spin, making a mini-snowstorm, sending Dot spinning around before being sent flying away. When the snowstorm stopped, it was revealed to be the Ice Climbers using their Squall Hammer.

"Trying to take US on with snow!" Popo smirked.

The Pyro saw this and growled from behind their mask. He then aimed his flamethrower at the two and fired at it. Suddenly, a stretched-out arm made out of water struck the Pyro in the face. The mercenary collapsed on their side. There he saw… HIM. Chaos. The Pyro roared in anger before getting up and running over while reading his axe, but Chaos just threw an orb of water in an arc, striking the Pyro.

Nana saw this and smirked. "Heh. At least we got one problem under control."

Bowser swung his head forward, but Flynn Scifo thought quickly and raised his shield to block the incoming attack. While he was more or less able to block from damage, he was still knocked onto his back. Bowser smirked before jumping forward to do a body splash onto the downed paladin.

"Flynn!"

That was when Bowser was bombarded by a series of blue lasers, striking him multiple times and sending him flying out of the air. Flynn sighed in relief before getting up to see Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore reload her rifle.

"Thanks, Shionne." Flynn thanked.

"Don't thank me yet until we are done here." The pinkette scolded before throwing a sphere of ice above Bowser who was recovering. "Glacia Split!"

With that, she aimed her rifle at the sphere, resulting in raining icicles. Bowser's eyes bugged out before lying down and using his shell to protect himself from the falling icicles. However, Flynn ran over.

"Shining Falcon!" Flynn shouted, swinging his sword downwards before summoning a pillar of light onto Bowser's back. This made King Koopa forcefully stand up. Before Bowser could ask what the Underwhere just happened, Flynn slammed his shield into his opponent to stun him. Flynn was about to counter-slash.

…Only for a bouncy ball to land on his head. While the sudden projectile didn't hurt him, it did make him fall onto his rear. Then, another bouncy ball rolled over to him, this time with someone on it.. Flynn yelped before raising his shield to block the incoming ball. Lemmy Koopa retreated back.

"Wow, you really work quickly with that shield!" Lemmy noted. "Do you think you have a Breakout-like act?"

Flynn blinked twice. "Um, I appreciate the offer, but…"

"Ugh, Lemmy, no…" Bowser groaned, slapping his forehead. "If you are going to recruit new minions, at least make sure they will fight for us."

"Oh, right." Lemmy said before looking at Flynn. "How about you join the Koopa Troop?"

"Um, no thank you." The blond man said.

"Well, that backfired." Lemmy frowned.

Bowser gripped his head. "No, Lemmy! You aren't supposed to give up that easily! That is my motto!"

Lemmy blinked twice. "But King Dad, didn't YOU give up on Princess Peach?"

Bowser winced before glaring at Lemmy. "Yeah, but… That is different! At least there I…"

Suddenly, Bowser and Lemmy were both shot with magical bullets, knocking them away. Flynn jumped before turning to see Shionne lowering her rifle with an annoyed look.

"Hey. villains or not, that was a cheap shot!" Flynn scolded.

"Forgive me for not prioritising my morals over my sanity." Shionne snarked.

(Announcer's Booth)

Nine blinked twice. "...Okay. Let's ignore that you chose Lemmy of all characters. Why did you invite a KOOPALING?

"Why not? Even though they are not Bowser's biological children, they are STILL his children." Drake shrugged. "I just thought it would be nice to have one of said adoptees come in."

"Okay, okay, fair, but why LEMMY?" Nine asked. "At least the other Koopalings would take the tournament seriously. Heaven and hell, if you wanted to have a 'crazy' pick, you could have just picked Iggy."

"Honestly? I think Lemmy is an underrated character, even within the Koopalings." Drake shrugged. "He is just a kid who wants to put on a good show, regardless of what he is told to do." And considering the gimmick of this tournament, he is actually the BEST pick of the Koopalings."

"Wow, so nice to see that you are inviting runts of the litter with ADHD." Nine muttered.

Drake blinked twice. "Runts? What do you mean runts?"

"You know, the youngest one in the pack." Nine scolded.

Drake and Ashley paused.

"Um, Nine, you DO know that Lemmy is the second OLDEST of the Koopalings, right?" Ashley asked.

Nine jumped. "Wait, WHAT!?"

"We don't know the exact age, but yeah, besides Ludwig, Lemmy is actually the big brother." Ashley nodded.

"Oh, shut up!" Nine scoffed. "Next, you will be telling me that the muscle-head, Morton, is one of the YOUNGEST."

Drake and Ashley winced before looking at each other. "Welllllllll…"

Nine paused before rolling her eyes. "You know what? Never mind. What are you going to do about Terry Shirogane for now?"

Drake's face turned serious. "Well, first, I will have the security team interrogate him after he gets eliminated along with Dingodile and Komodo Joe."

Ashley raised an eyebrow. "Dingodile is the main suspect behind the garlic attack. But what if Ace is lying?"

"Well, for starters, Carmelita told me that the murder weapon that killed Terry was one of the Komodo Brothers' own." Drake said, sternly. "IDed by Crunch Bandicoot. I don't know where Dingodile fits in all of this, but Ace IS right that Joe is involved in some way."

"But… Why Terry?" Ashley asked.

"That remains to be seen. For all we know, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got killed for it." Drake lamented.

"...I am still uneasy that you didn't disqualify Ace on the spot." Ashley frowned.

"Yeah, I kinda know how you feel and I totally understand." Drake sighed.

He then gave a dark smirk.

"But Mary isn't complaining right now so why should we?" Drake asked.

"He DOES have a point." Nine piped up.

Ashley groaned before looking at the screen where Celica and Azusa were node-hopping.

(Dome; Interrogation Room)

"Dingodile, please calm down!" Athena pleaded as she, Horkeukamui and Pepper watched Dingodile pace left and right.

"Calm down? Calm down!? That faker is literally framing me AND Joe fer Terry's murder and ya want me ta calm down!" The hybrid snapped, glaring at Athena.

"Even still, getting angry will not get us anywhere." Horkeukamui scolded.

"Well, it makes ME feel better!" Dingodile scoffed. "Seriously, it is one ta thing ta be in the worst place at the wrong time, but whoever was behind the garlic attack are using us as scapegoats!"

"Yeahhhhh, about that…" Pepper frowned.

Dingodile glared down at Pepper. "What?"

"Are you sure that nobody saw you carrying Joe near the Announcer's Booth?" The vulpin asked, raising an eyebrow.

"What kind of question is that!? If they did then Ah would had mentioned it ta ya by now!" Dingodile scolded.

"Then, why did Ace name-dropped Joe?" Pepper asked, putting her hand on her chin.

Athena, Horkeukamui and especially Dingodile's eyes widened in realisation at this.

"I promise that none of us told anyone else that you were covering for him." Pepper said. "And I doubt that YOU told anyone so…"

"Oh God…" Horkeukamui gasped. "The culprits are smarter than we thought."

"Or just lucky. Remember, Carmelita and Wave both theorised that Dingodile was near the Announcer's Booth to direct the garlic cloud there." Athena frowned. "Perhaps the true culprits were there to do exactly that and just happened to catch Dingodile and Joe."

"Ugh, I went there to AVOID getting involved in any major plots!" Dingodile groaned, slapping his forehead.

"To be fair, I may be mistaken, but this is the first time that any villains directly tried to involve the hosts." Horkeukamui admitted.

"And of course, Ah just HAPPENED ta go there the moment that happened." Dingodile groaned, slapping his forehead.

"But it is somehow worse because not only did three vampires get hospitalised, but now an UVR perfect attendee got killed and an imposter took his place." Pepper frowned.

"Ah don't know what the hell happened, but if that Ace name-dropped ME then he is clearly lying!" Dingodile insisted.

"Still doesn't look good for you OR Joey." Pepper sighed.

Dingodile groaned with the three feeling sorry for him.

"Athena?" Dingodile asked.

"Hm?" The yellow-clad woman asked.

The Australian then turned towards Athena with a pleading look.

"Ya said that ya would defend me. But would ya defend Joey too?" Dingodile asked.

"Of course." Athena said without missing a beat.

Dingodile jumped at this. "Ya didn't even hesitate!"

"Why would I? We already went over that he didn't kill Terry and he IS the reason why we found out that you are innocent so of course I will defend him."

"It also helps… Or DOESN'T help is that the last time someone got murdered at these things, it nearly threw the entire multiverse in chaos." Horkeukamui nodded. "Regardless of what villain plot Joe is in, we can't ignore this."

"Besides, whoever is trying to kill Drake, must have had Ace name-drop you and Joe to distract us so they could finish the job." Pepper nodded. "Drake employing Nine as a bodyguard may have thrown a wrench into their plans, but they will not give up that easily!"

Dingodile gave a small smile. "Aw, mates. Ah am…"

His smile then vanished.

"Wait. What was that about a bodyguard?" Dingodile asked.

The three groaned in unison before looking at Dingodile with an exasperated face.

"Don't ask." The three admitted.

Dingodile blinked twice.

"But yeah, we are definitely going to defend you." Horkeukamui nodded before frowning. "But I don't think just defending you is enough. Especially since we know that when Ace returns, he will try to send everyone on a wild goose chase. I think we may have to find the actual culprit."

Athena rolled her eyes. "So what else is new?"

"But how are ya going ta do that?" Dingodile asked, raising an eyebrow.

"First off, we have to figure out the motive." Athena suggested. "What does the culprit gain by killing an OC host?"

The four then paused.

"...This is going to be related to what Xero did, isn't it?" Pepper piped up.

"Yyyyyyeeeeepppppp." Horkeukamui groaned.

"...We are going ta go ta hell and back, aren't we?" Dingodile muttered.

"We always do." Athena sighed.

(The Arena)

Blue Mary Ryan, Kyo Kusanagi and Jude Mathis narrowed their eyes as they looked around the arena. Suddenly, Mary found herself losing her footing and falling onto her rear. Kyo and Jude's eyes bugged out before the former ran over and swung his hand while engulfing in fire (and making sure not to burn Mary). However, not only did he miss, but struck in the face.

Mary growled before punching where she thought the direction Kyo was struck, only to hit nothing but air as well. Then, both King of Fighters representatives were knocked to the ground. Jude stepped back, realising how hard it was to fight normally. So he just closed his eyes and concentrated. A couple of seconds later, he punched to the side. This resulted in a cry of pain and someone falling on the ground.

Then, Ace reappeared, still dressed like Terry Bogard, minus the hat and wig. He groaned while holding his stomach. His eyes then bugged out when he found out that his invisibility had worn out before turning to see the three glaring at him. Needless to say, Mary gave the first move by running forward and flipping forward to do an axe kick. Ace's eyes widened in horror.

He then shot out his hand at the ceiling, releasing a sticky line, not unlike Spiderman's web shooter and used to move out of Mary's attack. The blonde growled after recovering from her attack and glaring at her allies.

"Don't any of you have any projectiles!?" Mary roared.

"Um, well, technically, but only the ground-based Demon Fist." Jude frowned.

"You should know better than anyone that I don't use my flames as projectiles for a long time." Kyo reminded.

Mary growled before watching Ace land on the ground. Despite stumbling for a bit (they ARE fighting on a 'train'), he regained his balance before turning his arms red while making his arms bulk up as if he was Popeye. As fans of Luke from Street Fighter V got angry that Ace was using HIS V-Trigger, the Ditto fighter smirked before punching forward and sending multiple energy shots with his fists.

However, Mary, Kyo and Jude all ran out of the way to avoid the shots before running forward with Mary out first. Ace's eyes bugged out before leaping up into the air as if he was a Dragoon Knight before Mary could grab him. He then proceeded to do Luke's V-Trigger on his attackers, knocking them down to the ground. The three cried out in pain before collapsing on their knees.

"Ugh, this guy knows every trick in the name of fictional combat." Jude groaned. "What are we going to do?"

Mary gritted her teeth. "Come back here and fight like a man!"

Ace landed on the ground with a look of disbelief. "...You are kidding, right? I'd rather not 'be a man' than be hospitalised."

"Of course not! You can't accept that no one will EVER invite YOU to one of these things WILLINGLY!?" Mary snapped.

Ace's eyes bugged out at this. "Excuse me!? In case, you didn't know, the Street Fighter EX series is a major part of the Battle of the Luminaries! I deserve to be here as much as Terry!"

"You don't even have your own fighting style!" Mary countered.

"Yeah, you are literally just created to get ANY characters' moves." Kyo nodded, sternly. "And if someone wanted a character like that, they could just invite someone like Ditto, Shang Tsung or Mokujin. You know… The ones who actually got their own subtrope on Ditto Fighters?"

Ace's eyebrow twitched. "Oh, because NO obscure characters have EVER been invited to these things EVER."

Jude slumped his arms. "...I never really asked because it wasn't that important, but did you even have a voice in the first Battle of the Luminaries?"

Kyo's eyes widened in realisation. "Hey, yeah! You literally only open your mouth to copy moves where the original wielder shouted them out! You were so personality-less that you don't even have your voice!"

"No wonder Zelda and Doctrine Dark easily found out you are a fraud." Mary muttered. "Terry has more personality in his cap than you ever did in your entire pathetic existence."

By this time, Ace was breathing heavily in pure anger with his face turning red. Suddenly, he started to breathe out fire into the air, startling everyone. He then rushed towards the three while summoning Volga's spear from Hyrule Warriors and swinging it forward at them. However, Kyo and Jude jumped back to easily avoid it.

Mary on the other hand… Caught the spear without touching the blade and pulled on it. Before Ace could realise what had happened, Mary got out a taser and zapped the secret agent with it. Mary then proceeded to do a series of punches and kicks to Ace, not giving him a chance to counter while continuing her rant.

"I don't care how many moves you could learn, you will NEVER have the heart, the personality and the charisma of the fighters!" Mary spat.

She then before doing a rising knee attack to Ace's chin and sending him flying into the air.

"And you had the GALL to try to steal a fan favourite's invitation AND mislead everyone into letting you become the Superstar!" Mary roared.

She then leapt up after the airborne Ace and grabbed him before doing a power bomb.

"But no… You just didn't have to stop THERE, didn't you?" Mary snapped. "Well, Drake was right to not invite you to the third Battle of the Luminaries if THIS is how you're going to get invited!"

She then grabbed the stunned Ace's legs and spun him around.

"Now get the fuck out of here!" Mary snapped. "Mary's… DYNAMITE SWING!"

With that, she let go of Ace and sent him flying. The Ditto Fighter flew towards straight through the air and crashed back-first into the barrier. As the audience let out a big cheer as Ace fell like a stone into the elimination portal.

Ace landed in a bar. He groaned before slowly getting up.

"Ugh, out of all fighters to appear in the following section, it just HAD to be Terry Bogard's girlfriend." He muttered, holding his head. "And what is worse is the hell I am going to get from the security team when I return to the dome. Well, at least I have ten minutes to create a decent abili."

Suddenly, he felt someone tap him on the shoulder.

"Ugh, what is it?" Ace groaned, turning around. "I know I literally came in out of nowhere, but…"

Then, his face fell when he saw that the one who tapped his shoulder was Andy Bogard, giving him a cold glare with his arms crossed. He wasn't alone as nearly the entire cast of Fatal Fury that wasn't already invited to the tournament or are antagonists. From Joe Higashi to Tsugumi Sendo to Alfred to Marco Rodrigeuz. All of them have cold looks on their faces.

"So you stole Terry's spot in the tournament, huh?" Andy said before cracking his knuckles.

Ace slumped his arms. "...If my sacrifice is in vain, I am going to be pissed."

(Announcer's Booth)

Ashley paused. "You rigged Ace's elimination node on purpose, didn't you?"

"Yeah, and?" Drake asked, crossing his arms.

"Nothing. Just making sure."

(The Arena)

Mary panted heavily as Kyo and Jude approached her with concerned faces.

"...Hey, you are doing alright?" Jude asked.

"No…" Mary spat.

"Hey, it is okay. Sure, Terry missed out, but at least you avenged him." Kyo reassured.

"Unfortunately, it is not that simple." Jude frowned. "From what I heard is Terry's murder is related to the garlic attack."

Mary and Kyo's eyes bugged out at this.

"Wait… So this ISN'T about Ace wanting to enter the tournament?" Mary asked.

"Well, considering how angry he got after being told how obscure he is, I am not sure." Jude frowned. "But apparently Terry has traces of garlic on him."

Kyo's eyes widened in realisation. "Now that you mentioned it, Terry has been acting strange ever since the news of the garlic attack reached us."

"Ugh, I do not regret beating that fraud's stupid face into the canvas, but I should had interrogated him." Mary groaned, slapping her forehead.

Jude frowned. "Now what are you going to do?"

Mary paused before letting out a deep sigh. "Nothing. At least not right now. If I get myself eliminated early on, I may be too pissed to properly interrogate Ace in the Recovery Room. I am going to see if I could last a little while longer. You know, to take my anger out on someone else."

"Violent and reasonable." Jude nodded with a nervous chuckle. "Your boyfriend DID get killed after all."

Kyo did a double take at this. "Wait… WHAT!?"

"...Oh right." Jude said, sheepishly. "You would think that I would mention that at least once."

King Dedede yelped before diving to the side to avoid having a falling TNT crate land on him. Despite said crate harmlessly exploding, Dedede didn't even get a chance to exhale in relief before a hovercraft crashed into his side. The penguin was sent sprawling across the ground, groaning. He then growled before getting up and glaring at the guilty party.

Only to raise his hammer to block a rolling bomb. After the successful guard, Dedede got out a spiky Gordo and hit it at his opponent. However, Nitros Oxide quickly rode his hovercraft to the side, avoiding the projectie. The alien then got out a couple of beakers (one with green liquid, the other with red). Dedede narrowed his eyes before using his hammer to block them.

However, he found himself also blocking Oxide's incoming hovercraft. The King then swung his hammer downwards, but Oxide managed to back up his vehicle to avoid it being smashed. Dedede growled before rushing forward, but Oxide made his hovercraft turn around and sped off. While dropping a Nitro crate with Dedede still chasing him.

BOOM!

After crashing into the Nitro crate, Dedede was sent flying back from the explosion. After crashing on the ground, he groaned before slowly raising his head. Only for his eyes to bug out to see Oxide riding forward. With a yelp, he rolled to the side and narrowly avoided being run over. However, Dedede wasn't quick enough to avoid the beakers from Oxide's beaker throw.

"Ha! Face it, tubby! I could ride circles around you!" Oxide boasted. "And there is not an Air Ride in sight!"

Dedede got up before glaring at Oxide. "Well, at least I am not the multiverse's biggest cheater!"

Oxide rolled his eyes. "Oh yeah, like I needed to be told that by YOU."

"Okay, first off, I haven't been a villain in Nova-knows=how long! And even if I WAS still one, I think I still have a right to call you out!" Dedede scolded. "Seriously, Wario & Waluigi, Aran Ryan and Dick Dastardly all waited until the green light! Even Velo who is somehow even MORE of a jerk than you!"

"It is called Survival of the Fastest!" Oxide scoffed. "You gotta act quick or else… ACK!"

That was when Dedede hit Oxide's hovercraft while the alien was gloating, making the vehicle fly backwards while spinning around like a top.

"Brilliant advice!" Dedede smirked before getting out another Gordo and hitting it forward. By this time, Oxide snapped out of his daze and looked up to yelp and duck inside of his hovercraft to avoid the Gordo. Dedede then ran over while readying his hammer again. However, Oxide thought quickly and made his hovercraft spin around with the exhaust pipes admitting flames.

The flames struck Dedede, making him cry in pain. Oxide then got out a red beaker and smashed it over Dedede's head, making a stormy cloud appear over the penguin and literally rain down on him. However, this just irritated Dedede further as he swung his hammer into Oxide's hovercraft. However, the racer was able to recover before speeding off.

…Only to find that he wasn't going anywhere. Raising an eyebrow, he turned his head to see Dedede with his mouth wide open and inhaling like a vacuum. Oxide's eyes bugged out before trying to ride off from the suction. However, Dedede's Inhale move was stronger and Oxide's hovercraft fell into his mouth with its rider falling out of it. After crashing on the ground, he looked back to see Dedede having the vehicle in his mouth. Immediately, Oxide screamed, gripping his head.

"AHH! GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!" Oxide pleaded. "I still have payments on that hovercraft!"

With his mouth still full, Dedede smirked. Oxide blinked twice before slumping his arms with an annoyed face.

"...Aw, Nitro crates." Oxide muttered.

Dedede then spat back out the hovercraft crashing into Oxide and sending both the racer and vehicle flying back and out of the arena.

Oxide landed in Ape Escape 3 where Blue Monkey ran over him with his unicycle.

"I wanna hug you!"

"Cherry Blossom Slice!"

After the two contrasting shouts, GIR ran like a maniac into a pink giant card and resulted in the robot exploding. Genjuro Kibagami grunted in disgust before looking ahead. Only to see a large fist flying at him. However, Ryu and Kasumi Todoh both ran in front of Azrael and despite looking more physically stronger than the both of them, the two managed to send the blue-haired man onto his back.

Normally, Genjuro and Lilly Kane would pile onto him, but they instead ran after Invader Zim. The Irken yelped before activating the spider-legs in his backpack to run away. Azrael just smirked before flipping back on his feet and slamming his leg on the ground, resulting in an unsightly crack in the canvas. However, Ryu and Kasumi both jumped back to avoid the move.

"Hadoken!" Ryu shouted, charging up energy in his palms before sending an energy ball into Azrael's chest. Kasumi then ran forward and did a series of palm strikes and kicks to Azrael's face and stomach. At first, it seemed like the blood knight was affected, but Azrael proved otherwise by kicking Kasumi in the stomach, sending her flying away.

"Kasumi!" Ryu gasped. However, he had no time to go after her as Azrael punched at him next. However, the mascot of fighting games raised his arms to block the incoming attack, sending him sprawling back. Normally, he would help his balance, but the stage was shaking too much and he fell onto his rear. Azrael gave a dark grin before pouncing at him.

"Cho Kasate Ate!"

Then, streaks of energy knocked Azrael out of his pounce and onto his side. Ryu's eyes bugged out before looking to the side to see Kasumi gripping her stomach.

"Are you alright!?" Ryu asked.

"I-I am fine." Kasumi insisted. "Now come, we can't let him take a second to breathe!"

Azrael got up on one knee with a smirk. "I should hope so!"

Meanwhile, Genjuro and Lilly continued to chase Zim around the arena. Soon, Lilly had enough before extending her staff and sending it into Zim's head, resulting in a burst of ice which sent Genjuro sprawling on the ground.

"Ack! Brain freeze! It is a combative Chug-a-Freeze!" Zim screamed before gripping his head. Suddenly, Genjuro aimed his katana at his throat.

"Normally, I would make you wish that the hosts DIDN'T put in that non-killing rule in, I have a bigger fish fry." Genjuro scoffed.

"Yeah! Why did you kidnap and brainwash my brother along with two other people!?" Lilly demanded.

Despite the compromising situation he was in, Zim gave a cocky smirk. "Uh uh uh. It is far too early to reveal our plans!"

Genjuro narrowed his eyes. "Can I stab him?"

Zim's smirk vanished.

"Only in the limbs. We still need him to talk. Unfortunately." Lilly scolded.

"I know. I am not THAT unreasonable." Genjuro said.

With that, he raised his katana over him with Zim's eyes widening.

Then, a bomb fell right next behind them.

BOOM!

The explosion from the bomb sent Genjuro and Lilly flying forward and crashing on the ground in pain. While Zim was taken back by the sudden explosive, he acted quickly and ran over to Azrael to regroup. The two propped themselves on their arms, groaning.

"Hah! You call that a projectile! It was like baseball practice for me!"

"Never thought you would be that stupid to hit one of my bombs like a bat."

Genjuro and Lilly looked up and turned their heads to see Doctrine Dark and Hayato Nekketsu fighting each other. The former two blinked twice before looking at each other. They then growled before looking back at the two. They then got up before making their way over to the two.

By the time D. Dark and Hayato heard them running over, Genjuro sheathed his katana and grabbed D. Dark by the shirt before he proceeded to headbutt him multiple times. Lilly on the other hand resorted to poking D. Dark in the stomach with her staff and with a scary amount of strength, proceeded to slam him from left to right.

Ryu, Kasumi, Azrael and Zim stopped their fight to watch this unfold.

"Hey, no fair! WE'RE supposed to be chaotic fighters!" Zim roared.

"Calm down, Zim." Azrael scolded before frowning. "But at the same time, I could empathise with feeling self-conscious. People should be worried about US causing chaos in the arena. Not the people trying to stop us.""

Kasumi glared at the two. "Oh, you are SUCH victims…"

By this time, Genjuro and Lilly finally stopped assaulting their respective victims with the latter two looking like they were barely conscious. Genjuro then lifted D. Dark over his head and threw him out of the ring with Lilly doing the same to Hayato with her staff.

D. Dark and Hayato both landed outside of the Battle Tower of Pokemon Sword & Shield. They groaned before getting up while holding their heads. Hayato then snapped out his daze first before glaring at D. Dark.

"Nice going, dumbass!" Hayato roared.

D. Dark's eyes bugged out before turning to Hayato. "Excuse me!?"

"If you didn't throw that explosive at me, that Hitokiri and cryomancer wouldn't have gotten that pissed!" The gym teacher scolded.

"Me!? YOU were the one who most likely deflected it towards them!" D. Dark shot back.

"Well, excuuuuse me for not wanting to get blown up!" Hayato said, sarcastically before aiming his wooden katana. "And you didn't spend so much on your explosives and more time training your body, we wouldn't be in this mess!"

D. Dark narrowed his eyes. "You know what? The one good thing about being eliminated is that I don't have to abide by that no-killing rule crap!"

"Yeah, just try it!" Hayato challenged, gesturing to D. Dark with his free hand.

With that, the two continued their fight and several passersby looked scared. Leon, who was on a higher floor, looked at what was happening from a window with a horrified look on his face.

"Oh, bollocks, I gotta stop this!" The former champion of Galar frowned.

With that, he was about to run off.

"Mr. Leon!"

The purple-haired man skidded to a stop before turning around to see Celica, Minerva and Azusa. Celica was the one who spoke up, looking determined.

"Please take us with you!" Celica pleaded.

Leon jumped at this. "Excuse me!?"

"I think I know those two! They were in the roster in the third Battle of the Luminaries!" Celica pleaded, clenching her fists. "Maybe we can find out what is going on with our node-hopping!"

Azusa frowned. "That IS a good point."

"E-Even still, those two look like they are not willing to stop fighting so easily." Leon warned.

"Don't worry, Mr. Leon! You are a former champion!" Celica reassured with a wink. "If you are with us, you can't steer us wrong!"

The former champion paused for a moment. He then nodded his head. "Very well. Everything should be fine as long as you are with me! Now, come on! I think your time is almost up!"

Celica and Azusa nodded their heads before they all ran off.

(The Arena)

"Freeze Lancer!"

Bowser just scoffed before breathing out a stream of fire as a bunch of icicles flew at him, easily melting them. He was about to punish the guilty party for their mistake until Flynn Scifo ran over.

"Tiger Rage!" Flynn shouted, swinging his sword upwards and sending Bowser flying in the air. Flynn then jumped up and did an aerial combo with his sword before sending Bowser back to the ground with one final hit. Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore nodded her head before aiming her rifle at the downed Bowser.

…Only to notice a bouncy ball moving towards her. Acting quickly, Shionne aimed her rifle at it and fired. Only for the projectile to bounce off of it. Shionne's eyes bugged out before she was bowled over by the ball. She groaned before looking up to see Lemmy Koopa rolling over with his ball and trampling her over.

"Shionne!" Flynn gasped. He was about to run over to help his nodal companion. However, he felt someone grab his shoulder. His pupils shrank before turning around to see a smirking Bowser.

"And where do YOU think you are going!?" Bowser taunted. He then grabbed Flynn and jumped up while doing a flip before doing a belly flop with Flynn underneath him. After the knight cried out in pain, Bowser got up while picking up his dazed opponent before winding up a punch. However, Flynn snapped out of his daze, much quicker than Bowser thought.

"Dazzling Spin!" Flynn shouted, zooming past Bowser and slashing him in the side, creating a glyph underneath Bowser which struck him with light. Despite the Koopa grunted in pain, he was mostly annoyed before thrusting his back out, intending to pierce Flynn with his spikes.

However, Flynn raised his shield to block the attack, managing to only staggering back. Bowser then turned around and got into his shell before spinning forward, but Flynn rolled to the side before casting a spell while his opponent was recovering from his own attack.

"Divine Streak!" Flynn shouted, making a circular glyph in front of him which sent out a beam of light forward. However, Bowser saw this coming and sent out his own beam from his fiery breath. The two projectiles collided with each other for a moment before fizzling out. Flynn just stood stunned.

"B-But how?" Flynn asked in disbelief. "That was HOLY light!"

"Yeah, and?" Bowser snarked. "I know that I am the face of video game villains and I know that dark aesthetics are kinda my thing. But I am not unholy. …Okay, actually I am, but you know what I mean."

"Oh, trust me. I know." Flynn sighed.

"AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEE!"

Bowser and Flynn both jumped before they turned to see Lemmy rolling his ball after Shionne who was trying to escape. They both blinked twice before Bowser let out a hearty laugh.

"That's my boy!" Bowser laughed.

Shionne heard this and growled before jumping up. "Spear Sweep!"

While still in the air, she shot out a burst of energy… In the opposite direction of Lemmy. However, this arte recoiled her back and crashed into Lemmy, zapping him with electricity. Bowser's smirk vanished as he watched Lemmy fall onto the ground in pain before rushing over. However, Shionne saw him coming and threw an ice-elemental bomb. Bowser didn't react quickly in time and the bomb exploded in ice, making him cry out in pain.

"Flynn, let's switch partners!" Shionne shouted.

"On it!" The blond man shouted before jumping towards Lemmy. Meanwhile, Bowser finally snapped out of his daze before growling and breathing out fire.

"Gravitas Field!" Shionne shouted, shooting out a sphere of gravity forward. This made the flames revolve around said sphere. While Bowser was stunned by this, Shionne took the distraction to ask a spell.

"Ice Tornado!" Then, a tornado of ice appeared underneath Bowser's feet and sent him flying through the air with chunks of hail striking him all over. Shionne smirked before aiming her rifle.

"Magna Ray!" Shionne shouted, sending a beam of light at the icy tornado. This managed to hit Bowser dead-on and sent him flying out of the ring.

"Ha! I knew that he would be the perfect opponent to fight!" Shionne smirked. "One Koopa down, one more to…"

"WOAH!"

Shionne's eyes bugged out before turning around to see a bouncy ball bounding towards the ropes. However, she also noticed before the ball fell out of the ring, Flynn was forcibly clutching on it (and into Final Fantasy IV where he teamed up with Cecil and his party t against monsters).

Lemmy jumped up happily. "I did it! I got an elimination, King Dad!

However, he then looked around to notice that Bowser was long gone.

"Hm? King Dad?" Lemmy asked. "King Dad?"

He then continued to look around for his father. Shionne blinked twice before groaning.

(China)

Bowser made his way through a bamboo forest, grumbling underneath his breath.

"Ugh, losing to a Tales fighter is one thing, but apparently this one is still relatively new to the multiverse." He grumbled. "I just hope that Lemmy will be alright. Peach should be there, but she could only look after him for so long."

Bowser looked around.

"Where am I, anyway?" He asked. "Obviously this is Ancient China, but of what node…"

"Oh, wow!"

Bowser raised an eyebrow before turning around. His eyes then bugged out when he saw a panda wearing nothing but patched up pants, looking at him with sparkling eyes.

"Oh, wow! I finally got the chance to talk to myself!" The panda grinned. He then paused. "Well, not talk to myself, talk to myself, but still!"

Bowser blinked twice before slapping his forehead. "Of course I get stuck with YOU!"

(Announcer's Booth)

"...Out of all nodes that Bowser has to be sent to, it has to be the one with a Jack Black character?" Nine asked in disbelief.

"Aw, come on! Besides Chris Pratt as Mario, it is the biggest voice casting reaction in the movie!" Drake laughed.

"I swear if Donkey Kong ALSO ended up in Kung Fu Panda and HE meets up with Mantis, I WILL hurt somebody…" Nine growled.

"OH NO!"

Drake and Nine jumped before looking at Ashley looking horrified.

"Dude, it is not THAT big of a deal." Drake muttered.

"No, not that, look at the current elimination node that Celica landed in!" Ashley frowned, looking at the two.

"W-Why? Is she in danger?" Nine said, worried.

"No. At least not yet, but..." Ashley said before sighing. "See for yourself."

Drake and Nine looked at the screen where Ashley was looking at and once they did, their eyes bugged out.

"...Not even Olimar and Nack's node-hopping was THIS chaotic." Drake muttered.

"I admit I didn't bring THAT up because, well, I didn't care." Nine admitted. "But now it has gotten to a point that even I have to mention it. What the fuck is going on!?"

(Dome; Locker Room Hallways)

R. Mika, Yuri, Hinako, Magilou and Edna made their way over to a specific locker room.

"I still don't know what Oume's group is trying to accomplish." Yuri frowned. "Sure, the champions of UVR are strong. But are they really that arrogant to try to mess with?"

"Yes, the only times I heard that the villain group tried to involve a winner was the second and third Megamix Tournaments." Hinako nodded. "And that is only because Demitri Maximoff WANTED to use Kasumi as a bride."

"AND getting Pikachu involved wasn't beneficial to ANYONE, not even the villains." Edna scoffed.

"What is it particularly jarring is that the main goal for Oume's group is to impress Bison." Magilou noted with her hands behind her head. "Someone who is evident to everyone BUT the Goketsuji twins that he doesn't want anything to do with them."

"Ugh, don't remind me. I can't believe how much pain and suffering they are causing for a deluded goal." R. Mika muttered.

"Well, that's humans, alright." Edna snarked.

"Whatever… Let's find some more allies." R. Mika muttered.

Soon, they finally reached the door of their destination. The Street Fighter All-Stars Locker Room. R. Mika then knocked on the door. A few seconds later, someone answered it. Sakura Kasugano.

"Oh, Mika!" The brunette brightened up.

"Hey, Sakura!" The wrestler smiled. "How are we holding out in terms of the tournament?"

"We are doing good." The Pachinko worker smiled. "We are not exactly dominating but other than the first section, we managed to get at least one elimination in each round."

"Well, that is nice to hear." R. Mika beamed.

Sakura happily nodded. Her smile then vanished. "But this isn't about the tournament. But rather the villain team that usurped Bison."

"Villain teamS." R. Mika corrected with a sigh.

"What!?" Sakura gasped.

"It is a long story. Listen, I know this sounds rather, but can we talk to you and Guy?" R. Mika asked.

Sakura blinked twice. "Wait, Guy?"

"She didn't sputter." Magilou piped up.

Sakura paused for a moment before speaking.

"So that video IS true?"

The five women looked confused at this.

"Um, what video?" Yuri asked.

"Hold on. I will get him." Sakura sighed.

With that, she walked off to get her fellow UVR winner. The five blinked twice between looking at each other. Soon, Sakura came out of the locker room with Guy.

"Hello, Mika. How is your investigation going?" Guy asked, crossing.

"Yeah, can't say it is going well, but we are collecting pieces little by little." The blonde sighed. "Now what is this about a video?"

Guy raised an eyebrow. "Ah, yes. Hold on."

With that, he reached out and pulled out his phone to fiddle with it. After a few seconds, he showed it to everyone as it played a video.

A video of Rena fighting Reptile. Mika's eyes bugged out at this as the others just looked even more confused.

"I recognise Reptile, but who's that?" Yuri asked.

"That is Rena. My girlfriend." Guy explained.

The group's eyes widened at this.

"I have just gotten this video recently." Guy elaborated. "We were just talking about it just now."

"...I know that you are a ninja, but you are being a little TOO calm about this whole thing." Hinako pointed out.

"...Yes, I suppose it would be quicker to just tell you, but perhaps this will clear things up." Guy offered.

With that, he started to push a few things on his phone again. Then, they could hear someone calling. Soon, someone answered it as Guy put it to his ear.

"Hello? Yes, it is me again. Sorry to bother you, but you know how Mika is investigating a villain plot that DOESN'T involve Bison?" Guy asked. "Well, I don't know how beneficial this should be, but I wish to put you on speaker and try to explain what you told me just now."

With that, he showed his phone to the women again.

"Um, hello?" A female voice asked.

"Um, yo?" Magilou asked, blinking twice.

"My name is Rena. I am Guy's girlfriend." The voice answered.

The five women jumped at this while Sakura just frowned.

"H-Huh?" Hinako gasped.

"I assume that you saw the video of me fighting Reptile from Mortal Kombat, right? Guy showed me it." Rena asked. "Well, I don't know what to tell you, but that woman in the video is a fake. Not only did I never step foot in the hotel or Crossover Dome, but I am not even in Fictograph City."

"What!?" Yuri jumped.

"Indeed. I am in my node of Final Fight. I am sitting next to my sister, Maki." Rena elobarted. "I can't even fight."

"But… You are the perfect candidate to be one of the six or seven kidnapees." R. Mika pointed out.

Guy and Sakura looked concerned at this.

"Um, I don't know what I could tell you, but I have and always have been right here in Final Fight." Rena explained. "Perhaps someone is trying to send you on a wild goose chase."

"But your boyfriend is the winner of the second Ultimate Video Rumble!" Hinako insisted. "Sure, people forget for a long while now, but thanks to the Tournament of Kikai, everyone remembers!"

"Um, I am sorry, but I don't know what to tell you…" Rena said, clearly sounding confused.

"Same here." R. Mika groaned. "Listen, sorry, Rena, can you hang up now? We have a lot of things to tell Guy and Sakura."

"Um, alright. I don't know what is going on, but I wish you the best of luck. Goodbye." Rena said.

With that, she hangs up, leaving the hero group and the two Street Fighter UVR winners confused.

"What's going on?" Yuri asked. "Sure, we are clearly missing half of the puzzle, but no matter how you look at it, this isn't normal.

"Perhaps Oume's team realises that Guy isn't here so they have their own Ace." Edna offered. Her eyes widened before looking at Guy. "Wait a minute. Here is Cody?"

"Um, inside of the locker room?" The ninja asked, jerking his thumb behind him.

"But he is literally RIGHT THERE, why did Oume's team go so hard?" Magilou asked, slumping her arms.

"Okay, I don't know what is going on and I admitted that I thought about ignoring the video." Guy said before frowning. "But even if it IS fake, there is no way I could do that now."

"I definitely strongly recommend coming with us." R. Mika nodded before looking at Sakura. "You too, Sakura."

The brunette jumped at this. "Huh? But why me?"

"Because even though Guy's situation is ambiguous…" R. Mika said before looking to the side. "You are definitely involved."

Sakura paused before seeing Hinako and Yuri feeling sorry for R. Mika.

"Um, okay. I will join." Sakura nodded. "I've never been involved in one of these villain plots."

"And even if the Rena in the video is fake, it is clear that someone is trying to provoke and while it is unwise to rush in, I also can't wait either."

"Okay, so let's go." R. Mika nodded.

With that, the group walked off with two more fighters.

(Dome; Restaurant)

"But we can't just leave them there!"

"No one said that we will be leaving them there!"

"Might as well be the more we are sitting around arguing with each other!"

"And whose fault is that!?"

The restaurant staff looked on in worry as Whip's group began to fight with each other.

"Look, we have to go NOW! Our allies are in danger!" Bang scolded.

"Um, go where?" Ragna asked. "In case you didn't notice, we still have no clue where Otane's team is. Or what they are doing OUTSIDE of aiding Bison!"

"But we DO know how deadly they are!" Isla added. "They killed Terry and had an impersonator go in his place!"

"We don't know if the two incidents are related though." Hibiki frowned.

"What are you going on about!?" Kanji asked in disbelief. "So Komodo Joe, Dingodile and Ace randomly decide to ruin Terry's night out of the blue!?"

Whip just frowned as she watched the infighting. She then looked at Kula who had her head down, worried about Maxima and Ralf.

"Maxima may have already entered the arena, but they will most likely do the same thing to Ralf!" Isla reminded.

"Furthermore, it is clear that they are gathering more allies!" Kanji nodded. "I don't remember Reptile, Dingodile or Ace being on the list Cortex gave us!"

"So what do we do? Go back to the Elimination Seating and find more allies?" Lloyd asked.

"But that would take too long!" Rimururu insisted.

"Indeed. The time for action is NOW!" Bang agreed.

"Your name shouldn't be Bang Shishigami, but Leeroy Jenkins!" Ragna scolded.

"Oh, and like YOU are any better!" Isla scolded.

Ragna growled. "Why you…"

"ENOUGH!"

Everyone jumped before turning towards Whip who was glaring at each other.

"Look, I get it! I am worried for Ralf and Maxima's lives too! Especially after what happened to Terry!" Whip roared. "But yelling at each other is not going to help!"

The group looked down in shame. Whip just let out a deep sigh.

"To those arguing that we should be getting going, I want to too. But we need at least ONE lead to go on first." Whip said.

"...Well, there is one."

Everyone looked towards Claude.

"Ace…" He explained.

"The Ditto fighter?" Kanji asked, raising an eyebrow. "What about him?"

"In case you forget, his misdeeds are one of the only things that got broadcasted to the multiverse." Claude reminded. "I don't think that the security team will let him get up and leave the Recovery Room."

Hibiki's eyes widened. "Oh, that's right. While they are willing to let villains run around scot-free until they do something, this is something they can't ignore."

"Also, didn't that Wario guy say that Terry was related to the garlic attack in some way?" Rimururu asked.

"He did." Lloyd nodded. "But we also established that whatever Oume is planning and the garlic attack are unrelated. Or at least that is what Ralf and Whip told us."

"That is correct. It seems that for one riddle solved. Three more take its place." The Ikari Warrior nodded. "But regardless, we at least have a lead."

"Wait, do you really think the security team is going to listen to us and help us interrogate him?" Isla asked.

"They should. This isn't like before the UVR tournament resurgence where the security team weren't involved in the main plot." Whip scolded. "If we tell them that we are investigating a villain group, they should let us cooperate. The group we are going after killed Terry."

Bang nodded his head. "So what are we waiting for? Let's go to the Recovery Room and hope we will meet the security team there."

"But what about Bison?" Lloyd frowned.

"What about Bison?" Isla repeated. "Larry didn't call us once since we left so Bison didn't do his plan yet."

"So let's go." Kula said, sternly.

Everyone nodded their heads before getting up and exiting the restaurant with the staff looking worried.

"...I am starting to see why the hosts didn't invite 'normal' people." Gino frowned.

"Agreed. At least there aren't any fights inside of this place." Jill sighed.

Mama just looked worried.

"Krizalid… If you truly care about Whip, don't do what everyone thinks you would do to her friends."

(The Arena)

Dedede growled before lunging his mallet forward. However, his intended target jumped back and avoided the blow. However, said target vanished before reappearing behind Dedede.

"Beast!"

A ghostly figure of a lion crashed into Dedede's back and sent him onto his face. He groaned before looking up to see Jude Mathis getting into a stance.

"I have GOT to stop picking fast with super-fast fighters." Dedede muttered. He then got out a Gordo and hit it towards Jude.

"Dragon Shot!" Jude shouted before doing a jumping uppercut to the incoming Gordo and sent it back at Dedede. However, the king saw it coming and hit it back at Jude. The two then got into a lethal game of tennis with each other. Soon, Dedede lost the exchange by taking the Gordo in the face and knocking him down. Jude then ran over the downed Dedede and started to beat his face into.

Dedede grunted in pain before sending his fist into Jude. This was more than enough to send the dark-haired youth into the air. Dedede then got up and readied his mallet like a baseball bat. However, Jude snapped out of his daze and self-righted himself in midair.

"Phoenix Plunge!" Jude shouted, sending a flame downwards. Dedede's eyes bugged out before hitting the flames away. However, this made him wide open for Jude to do an axe kick to his face. Dedede staggered back as Jude landed on the ground and ran forward.

"Rising Falcon!" Jude yelled, doing a flip kicking Dedede in his chin, followed by a downwards kick to the penguin's face. The latter staggered back, holding his face with his free hand.

"Okay, what the heck?" Dedede roared. "How did a medic hurt that hard!?"

"Just because I am a medic, that doesn't mean I can't fight close up." Jude corrected. "Besides, didn't Kirby become a doctor once?"

"...I refuse to believe that Kirby got a PhD anywhere other than the 'medical school' Mario went to." Dedede muttered. "Said school also gives PhDs to literal babies WARIO."

"Aw, come on. It is not THAT bad." Jude scolded with a nervous chuckle. "After all, Dr. Mario is a puzzle game so that means it still takes a good amount of brainpower…?"

Dedede rolled his eyes before pulling his hammer over his head, deciding to end the conversation abruptly. However, he wasn't aiming for Jude, but rather the ground, shaking the already vibrating ground even further as Jude was stunned. Dedede kicked the medic in the stomach, sending him sprawling back. Despite the painful fall, Jude was able to roll backwards on his knee.

Just in time to see Dedede running over. Acting quickly, Jude jumped up in the air and to avoid a belly slide from Dedede before landing on top of the penguin's back. Despite the latter grunting in pain, he stood up with Jude still standing on him and fell over. Dedede then stood up and got ready to strike Jude. The dark-haired young man's eyes bugged out before pulling his fist back to do another arte.

"Frost Breaker!"

With that, he punched the ground and made stalagmites of ice appear and strike Dedede. Jude sighed in relief before preparing another arte.

However, Dedede recovered faster than Jude expected and swung his hammer against the ice, shattering them and forcing Jude to yelp and raise his arms to shield from any pieces getting into his eyes. But this felt him wide open for Dedede to grab Jude with his free hand and lifted him over him.

"Trying to attack a PENGUIN with an ICE-elemental attack?" Dedede sneered. "I take it back. You don't really need that much knowledge to be a doctor!"

With that, he threw Jude like a lawn dart and over the ropes with no hope of return.

Jude landed in Fire Emblem Awakening where Brady begged him to teach him martial arts seeing that the former was a fist-fighter and a medic.

Zim yelped before using his spider legs to scurry to the side to avoid being slashed in half by a katana. Genjuro Kibagami just scoffed before he proceeded to chase after the Irken. Zim then threw a lawn gnome, but the hitakari merely swung his katana at it. This was a mistake as the moment his blade touched the strange projectile, it zapped him with electricity. Zim laughed in success.

Azrael then appeared right next to him and used his arms to block an extended staff, startling Zim. Lilly Kane gritted her teeth before making an explosion of ice, covering a good chunk of Azrael's body. However, the blue-haired man just flexed his upper body to get off the ice.

"Hadoken!" Ryu shouted before sending out his trademark projectile forward. However, Azrael then smirked before engulfing himself in a dark aura and when the energy ball hit the aura, he sent out his own energy ball at Ryu, knocking him down.

Then, Genjuro ran up to Azrael and slashed him three times in his back. Zim then tried to grab Genjuro with his spider leg. Only Kasumi Todoh to rush forward before kicking Zim in the face and knocking him down. Zim growled before getting up to his side.

"GIR, avenge me!" Zim demanded.

Then, Zim's robot assistant ran towards Kasumi. "Captain America!"

The blue-haired woman acted quickly by sending streaks of energy at GIR making him explode. She then looked at the others.

"Guys, I will take the alien!" Kasumi shouted. "Focus on Azrael!"

Zim's eyes widened at this.

"Okay, got it!" Ryu shouted back.

Kasumi nodded her head before glaring at Zim. The latter returned the glare, but then smirked.

"Looks like it is up to ZIM! As usual!" Zim thought.

Meanwhile, Azrael rushed towards Ryu, Lilly and Genjuro. However, Ryu and Genjuro struck out of the way while Lilly pole-vaulted to avoid Azrael's punch. Ryu and Genjuro then punched and slashed the blood knight in the side respectively. However, the latter then jumped up while kicking away the both of them. But Lilly then soared down from above and slammed her staff on top of Azrael as hard as she could.

However, Azrael just smirked before kicking his foot out. But Lilly thought quickly and raised her staff in a defensive stance and the moment that the kick collided with the staff, Lilly immediately countered and knocked Azrael on his back. Lilly then summoned ice around the end of her staff, making a makeshift spear. However, the blue-haired man grabbed the staff before it could stab him.

"THIS is how you draw blood, Little Miss Set Swords To Stun!" Genjuro roared, leaping up in the air before sending his katana down and slashing at Azrael. The blood knight cried out in pain, but then quickly laughed before engulfing himself in a dark aura and knocked Lilly and Genjuro skidding on their backs towards Ryu.

"Um, guys, I know that you want to interrogate this guy, but…" Ryu frowned.

Lilly and Genjuro crossed their arms, grumpily. "It is impossible to do so with someone who actually LIKES getting the Jack Buer."

Ryu let out a deep sigh. "Pretty much."

"Ugh, whatever. Let's cut our losses and try to eliminate Azrael before going to interrogate Zim." Lilly muttered.

"No duh. Any ideas of how to do so?" Genjuro sighed. "I am obviously not good at the whole non-lethal thing so I wouldn't know any good ways to throw someone out of the ring."

"I think I got an idea." Ryu offered. "But for now, we have to keep attacking him and won't let him get a chance to breathe."

Lilly and Genjuro nodded their heads before the latter rushed over to Azrael. The latter smirked before punching at Genjuro. But the magenta-haired man quickly raised his katana to block the attack. However, this sent him skidding back on his feet. Lilly then rushed forward while multiplying her staff and slamming it onto Azrael's head.

"Shoryuken!" Ryu shouted before rushing in and doing a jumping uppercut to Azrael's chin, making the blue-haired man stagger back. Lilly and Genjuro then ran over and swung their weapons at Azrael. However, the latter tried to get into a power struggle, but Azrael was clearly winning.

Then, Lilly managed to notice something behind Azrael. Ryu holding a Smash Ball with a stern look on his face while nodding his head. Lilly paused before returning the stern nod. Ryu then broke his Smash Ball. Then, Lilly not only jumped away from the power struggle, but grabbed Genjuro and pulled him away. As the hitokiri cried in surprise, Azrael stumbled forward, trying not to fall down with a stunned look on his face.

"Shinku…"

Azrael's eyes widened before turning around to see Ryu charging up energy in his fists with an aura around him.. The former just smirked before getting ready to brace for the super projectile.

"...Hadoken!"

But not even he was prepared for Ryu to send out a Kamehameha-like beam instead of a larger energy ball. Before Azrael could block, he got hit by the beam and was sent flying towards the barrier being bombarded by it. When the beam was done, Azrael dropped like a stone into the portal.

Azrael landed in Splatoon 3 where he took down a Cohozuna in record time. As the workers looked in awe, they could hear Mr. Grizz commented on recruiting him.

Lilly and even Genjuro were in awe at what Ryu had done.

"H-How!? You didn't have that as your Final Smash!" Lilly reminded as he watched Ryu watch over.

"I don't know. But nowadays, I could easily use my Shinku Hadoken that is a little redundant to have it as my Final Smash." Ryu shrugged. "The Shinku Hadoken from the Marvel games? That is a little less common."

"Oh, right. I have forgotten that those games copied Dragonball Z." Genjuro muttered. "Well, at least he is gone. Which means we could go to interrogate…"

"Eliminate them in my name!"

Genjuro jumped before turning his head. To see GIR flying towards him and latch onto his face.

"I am Batman!" GIR cheered as Genjuro struggled to pull the robot off of him.

Zim then rode over on his jetpack and headbutted Genjuro in the stomach, sending him staggering back. Unfortunately for him, it was right next to the ropes and he ended up stumbling out of the ring.

Genjuro landed in Sakura Wars where he tried to control his urge to kill for once by playing a few games of Koi-Koi.

Ryu and Lilly looked in horror at their ally being eliminated while Zim laughed.

"Ah ha! Unlike other villains so far, I have actually proven my worth and gotten an elimination!" Zim gloated.

Ryu narrowed his eyes as Kasumi ran over. "With a cheap shot."

"All is fair in the name of my victory!" Zim gloated.

"Well, you better enjoy that elimination because you ain't going to enjoy it for now." Lilly growled, beating her staff into her palm.

Zelda, Gomamon and even Donkey Kong looked around the arena with serious looks on their faces. Suddenly, Zelda noticed something in the corner of her eye.

"DK! Starboard side!" Zelda shouted.

The gorilla didn't need to be told twice as he launched a fist to his left side. Just in time for it to clash with a pair of katanas. Despite having his sneak attack fail, Sooga just scoffed before landing on the ground and flipping backwards, just in time to avoid a hook from DK. However, he saw a red orb heading towards him.

Acting quickly, he ran towards the direction of the orb and jumped over it where it harmlessly exploded. Zelda yelped before surrounding herself into a spiralling wind to avoid being slashed.

"Marching Fishes!"

Sooga turned his head and quickly slashed through an incoming barrage of multi-coloured fishes before running towards the guilty party. Gomamon winced before sliding on his belly to avoid a downwards slash sword. DK tried again by rushing over and rolling forward, but not only Sooga jumped over the brown-furred primate, but also slashed him in the back while he was recovering from his own attack.

DK cried in pain, but growled in anger before kicking his foot behind him and managing to kick Sooga in the back. After the Yiga Clan member staggered forward, Gomamon pounced onto his torso and started to slash his torso. Meanwhile, Zelda teleported behind Sooga using Farore's Wind and kicked Sooga in the back. The latter grunted in pain and annoyance before spinning around and sending the two back.

He then noticed DK rushing over to punch him. Thinking quickly, Sooga got out some kind of device and had a blue glow around it. This made a giant ice cube appear behind him and DK. The gorilla's eyes bugged out before trying to skid to a stop, but it was too late. DK crashed into the cube where he laid on his back dazed while Zelda looked in awe.

"You can use Sheikah Slates too like my Link!?" Zelda gasped. She then paused. "Well, not my MY Link, but in terms of Super Smash Bros."

"Of course. Nearly everyone in my node can ." Sooga reminded. "Even Hesta. And if I am to be so blunt, I don't think HE knows how he got into the Hyrulian army."

By this time, DK sat up with a dazed look on his face. He then got up with a growl before doing a series of punches forward. But Sooga was prepared and summoned a red diamond shape in front of him to not only block the first punch, but send DK flying back with a powerful double slash into a corner post.

He then heard the sounds of mediaeval armour. He whirled around to block a sword strike from a ghostly suit of armour. But while the guard was a success, this left him wide open for another attack from Gomamon.

"Tail Slap!" Gomamon shouted, doing a flip and striking Sooga in the chin and surprisingly sending the muscular man flying up. Despite this, Sooga self-righted himself in mid-air and landed on the ground.

"It seems that you and Donkey Kong live up to your reputations, princess." Sooga admitted. "Even the Digimon managed to surprise me a couple of times."

"Okay, wow, I know that I am as big as my current allies, but still not cool." Gomamon scolded, narrowing his eyes as DK walked to his side.

"Regardless, it is going to take a lot more than that to take me down." Sooga warned.

"Unfortunately, he is right." Zelda frowned. "Anyone got any ideas?"

DK paused for a moment. He then got out a large banana. Zelda and Gomamon groaned before they were about to scold DK that there was no time to eat.

Then, DK actually THREW the banana at Sooga. While startled, the twin swordsman swerved his head back to avoid the sudden projectile.

"...I confess that I almost fell for that, but still you can't just…" Sooga started.

Then, the banana came back like a boomerang and hit Sooga in the back of his head while he was scolding DK and sent him flying back towards the primate. As DK winded up a punch with a smirk, Sooga's eyes widened behind his mask.

POW!

Sooga was sent flying through the air while flipping multiple times after receiving a hard uppercut from DK before he soared out of the ring. By this time, DK caught his banana with a grin while Zelda and Gomamon looked in awe.

"Oh right… I have forgotten the first Mario & Rabbids game had a DLC campaign." Zelda realised.

Sooga landed in the original Hyrule Warriors where he got into a fight with Volga.

The Pyro gave a muffled roar before rushing over while raising their fire axe over their head before swinging it downwards. However, Chaos used his permanently liquid arms to block the blow and got the axe stuck. The Pyro growled before they struggled to pull their axe back. However, Chaos raised his leg to kick the Pyro in the stomach and knock him onto their back.

The Pyro groaned before sitting up. Then, they noticed Chaos extend his arms and pull it back like a whip before lashing it forward. The Pyro quickly rolled to the side and got out their shotgun where he started to fire at Chaos. However, the Pyro being the Pyro was only aiming at his torso and not his brain. Chaos then sent out an orb of water at the Pyro.

But the Pyro ran to the side and put away their shotgun to get out their flamethrower. They then fired a burst of air at Chaos. This had finally made the aquamancer not only fly over, but soar over the ropes. The Pyro jumped up in joy.

…Only for Chaos to extend his arm towards the Pyro and latched onto them before propelling himself not only back into the ring, but also flew into the mercenary, knocking them to the ground. Chaos stood up straight to attack the Pyro while they were down.

…Until he saw that his opponent was angrily beating the canvas while throwing a tantrum like a little kid. Chaos blinked twice before curiously poking the Pyro. Dot Warner frowned before glaring at the Ice Climbers.

"Now look at what you did!" Dot scolded, gesturing towards her friend. "They are having a miserable time right now!"

"Forgive us if we don't seem sorry." Nana muttered.

"Hey, I know that you two didn't have that much screentime together at the second Battle of the Luminaries for… Obvious reasons." Popo sighed, shaking her head. "But we've seen enough to know how much of a threat you two are together."

Dot narrowed her eyes. "Alright… You're not wrong… In fact, let me help you prove HOW right you are!"

With that, she pulled out a comical-sized mallet and pulled it over her head. The Ice Climbers yelped before running off to the side. However, Dot continued the assault, chasing after them while trying to hit them with her mallet.

"Come back! I just wanted to play you both like an accordion!" Dot sneered.

"Hey, how tempting! Or how about no!?" Nana snarked.

With that, she created a block of ice and hit it behind her. However, Dot easily smashed the ice but the Ice Climbers then ran over and did a spin attack forward. However, Dot put on a ballerina outfit and did a spin herself. The two attacks clashed with each other before they both stopped.

Only for the Ice Climbers to be both wearing tutus.

"ACK!" Popo screamed. "What did you do!?"

"Oh, sorry. You're right. A blue tutu would have worked better." Dot apologised, tapping her cheek.

Popo growled before rushing over with his mallet and started to swing wildly at her. However, Dot just used her ballet skills to dance around it. Soon, the Warner Sister kicked Popo away. Nana ran over and caught her brother.

"Um, I think we are out of her league trying to fight A WARNER SISTER." Nana frowned.

"D-Don't worry. She is not unflappable. At least in comparison to the last tournament." Popo reminded. "She could be taken off-guard."

"But how?" Nana asked as she watched Dot dance around.

Popo frowned for a moment. His eyes then lit up in realisation.

"I got it!" Popo offered. "Just follow my lead!"

With that, he got out their Smash Ball. Before Nana and Dot could react, the blue-clad Ice Climber broke it, surrounding him and his sister.

"Ready?" Popo asked.

"Like I have a choice." Nana muttered.

With that, the siblings high-fived each other. Then, a giant ice mountain appeared underneath not only them, but also Dot. There was also an orange condor flying around and a polar bear wearing nothing but sunglasses and pink shorts, struggling not to lose his balance. Said mountain started to spiral.

However, Dot smirked before putting on a figure skater outside and started to skate around the side of the mountain, defying gravity. Nana looked worried, but Popo nodded his head.

"Okay, let's grab onto the Condor's back!" Popo shouted.

Nana was confused, but nodded before they took turns launching each other into the air using their Belay more. Popo then grabbed one of the Condor's feet before pulling on the rope connecting the Ice Climbers the two. There, they saw Dot doing figure skater spins and the polar bear still trying to balance.

"Okay, on my signal, let go!" Popo commanded.

Nana's eyes widened at this. "Wait, you are not implying…"

"Of course! Not even SHE will see it coming!" Popo smirked. "Andddddd NOW!"

With that, the Ice Climbers let out of the Condor.

…And onto the polar bear.

The white-furred bear yelped as the pair of youths landed on his back from behind, making him lose his balance. Popo then taught quickly and threw his end of the rope with a standing end into the side of the spiralling mountain. Nana acted quickly and grabbed the rope and the two then tried to use the polar bear as an unwilling sled.

Right into Dot, who was too busy showing off, didn't see them coming until it was too late.

BAM!

Everyone looked in awe as Dot was sent flying after having the polar bear crashed into her at full speed. She went so far that she actually went over the ropes.

"AT LEAST I AM STILL CUTE! STILL CUTE… STILL CUTE… STILL CUTE…" Dot shouted, dramatically sounding like a losing fighting game character before falling into a portal.

Dot landed in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise. She groaned after landing in the sand of the beach on the main island and dusting herself off

"Yeah… I knew that if I even reached half of my old elimination score, I would be lucky." Dot sighed. "And four eliminations is nothing to be ashamed of, especially how surprisingly strict this tournament is in terms of long elimination streaks. Still, I like to think that Tinyhammer's writing for me is different enough to avoid me getting stale."

She then looked around.

"Well, can't say that I didn't have fun. At least I could relax." Dot noted.

"Hey, Dottie!"

Dot's eyes widened before turning her head in the direction of the voice to see a small black cub with pink lips and a tiger-patterned shirt, looking at her.

Dot's eyes twitched. "Oh. So you think that you are harmless, that means you could say anything and get away with it!"

The black-furred bear jumped. "H-Huh?"

Then, her eyes turned red with the matching aura surrounding her. "Well, you are wrong!"

With that, she raised her legs and Akuma-teleported towards the bear before grabbing him. She then proceeded to beat the poor ursine up with all of the patrons looking on in horror.

Including Dotty, the Peppy Rabbit, who the bear was actually calling out to.

Back in the arena, everyone, including the Ice Climbers looked in awe at what had happened. In fact, the only one that was reacting was the polar bear who was holding his burning red stomach in pain. He then glared at the Ice Climbers as he (along with the iceberg and the Condor) slowly vanished.

"Kids… You're nuts!" The polar bear scolded before vanishing completely.

The Ice Climbers didn't react to the polar bear. Instead, they then slowly turned their heads towards each other. They then smiled before they started to jump up and down while holding their hands while everyone cheered for them.

"W-We did it! We actually did it!" Popo grinned.

"We eliminated THE Dot Warner!" Nana added. "And it is not like she was THAT heavily fatigued like with Bugs Bunny! We managed to get rid of her on her FOURTH section! We'll go now in UVR history!"

"Yeah! Now that we know that we are outsmart and outwacky THE Dot Warner, we could take on ANYTHING!" Popo grinned.

Nana happily nodded. Then, her smile vanished as her eyes bugged out.

"Um, Popo?" Nana asked.

"Yeah, Nana?" The blue-clad boy asked, still grinning.

"How close was our ally when we used our Final Smash?" The pink-clad girl questioned.

Popo looked horrified before the two looked to the side. …To see Chaos was completely frozen, most likely from the iceberg.

They then saw a gloved hand appear from behind the frozen Chaos and pushed him to the side which sent him sliding towards the ropes until he tumbled over them.

Chaos landed in Spiderman where after he thawed off, he got into a fight with the Sandman. Unfortunately, the two learned the hard way that water and sand do not mix.

The Ice Climbers looked in the direction where Chaos slid off to before looking where he was previously standing.

To see the Pyro holding their flamethrower.

The Ice Climbers yelped before running off. The Pyro let out a war cry before running after the children. They ended up running over to Princess Peach Toadstool and hiding behind her while she was fighting G.

"H-Hey!" Peach scolded.

"Help us! We just used our Final Smash!" Nana pleaded.

"OR conveniently dropped shards of the Master Emerald!" Popo added.

Peach paused. "...Don't misunderstand. I WILL help you. But what were you expecting when you eliminated the Pyro's friend?"

"I don't know!" Nana cried with tears in eyes. "I never thought we would get that far!"

"Now, now, everyone." G said, stepping forward. "This may be a fighting tournament, but this is a situation that doesn't warrant violence."

"Oh, really?" Peach asked, eyeing the Pyro as they approached further. "Well, whatever it is, you better make it quick."

G nodded his head before crouching down… AND picking up the Ice Climbers in one hand.

"H-Hey, what are you…" Popo started.

That was all he got out before G threw him and Nana out of the ring, startling Peach and the Pyro

The Ice Climbers landed in Celeste. Needless to say, due to their experience with climbing up mountains, they easily scaled the titular mountain.

"H-Hey!" Peach gasped before narrowing her eyes. "What was that for!?"

"Now, now." G scolded before turning to the Pyro. "Don't you see my… Potentially non-binary friend, there is no reason to seek revenge when the source of your revenge is gone."

The mercenary paused.

"Sure, this is a free-for-all tournament where we will fight each other, but it is all in good sport and not for vengeance." G explained with a grin. "Also, you are a Mystery Fighter which means you are the sole representation of your node so you should be focusing on what you have to offer and not spend most of your time going after ONE target."

Everyone stood awestruck by G's speech. The Pyro looked at G for a moment. …Before doing an "Ah, Forget it" gesture before walking off while sulking his head that his friend has been eliminated. G nodded his head with a smile.

"See? As long as they realise there are certain things you shouldn't fret about, they won't be sidetracked." G said, proudly.

Peach paused. "...Sure. I won't deny that you are more or less correct.

(Announcer's Booth)

Drake, Ashley and Nine looked with slack jaws when they saw this.

"...Okay, how in the heaven and hell did DOT manage to look the most normal in that chain reaction?" Nine asked in disbelief.

"...Now that I think about it, while still acting like a wacky toon, Dot acted like a straight woman for a good chunk of her encounters." Drake noted.

"I didn't even know Dot could DO straight woman." Nine mused.

"Well, I am not complaining. As much as I liked watching Dot's antics, it WOULD be a little repetitive to see her mess around with fighters with little effort all of the time." Drake smirked.

Ashley paused. "So am I the only one concerned that Dot is beating up a defenceless Animal Crossing villager?"

"Eh, it is just Barold, my nightmarie." Drake said, waving it off. "Let her do what she wants."

Ashley slumped his arms with a look of disgust on his face while Nine blinked twice.

"WOW." Ashley frowned.

"He has black fur, pink lips and dresses like a caveman while having the LAZY personality!" Drake roared. "You can't tell me that there is something unsettling about him!"

"Nightmarie?" Nine asked in confusion.

(Sound Booth)

Aila gave a descending whistle. "Looks like things are heating up."

"I should hope so." Shadow said before smirking. "I am entering next."

Astaroth sighed. "You have NO idea how jealous I am, Shadow. I just KNOW that my node would have been a shoe-in with our sixth game if it wasn't for Soul Calibur and Soul Edge ruining the second Battle of the Luminaries.

"Come on, Astaroth. I totally feel for you, but you know why you guys couldn't come back." Shadow scolded. "Especially since Veigue Lungberg is in the cast."

"I know…" The axe-wielder grumbled. "Still would be next to fight in this tournament with the new Superstar format."

"Yeah, I wonder what the next one is going to be." Aila mused.

"I am not sure." Shadow admitted. He then smirked. "But what I WILL say is that nothing is going to slow ME down!"

"Um, guys?"

Shadow and Aila turned to see Astaroth looking at a screen with an unseen frown.

"Why is someone replacing Shadow's song with something else?" Astaroth asked.

Shadow's eyes bugged out. "What!?"

Shadow and Aila then ran over to see that Astaroth was right. Someone was typing into the computer.

"W-What's going on?" Shadow asked. "A malfunction?"

"I-I am not sure!" Astaroth frowned.

"Look! Whatever is replacing Shadow's song is also replacing the song of…" Aila pointed out.

The three's eyes then bugged out in horror at who was said person was

"...It is HIM. It HAS to be." Shadow muttered.

(Dome; Random Hallway)

Haohmaru frowned as he looked at the screen.

"CURSE THAT NICKTOON AND ROBBING MY RIVAL A CHANCE TO SHOW OFF HIS STUFF AFTER OSHIZU OR RATHER WHAT HER BRAINWASHERS HAD LOW OPINIONS OF HIM!" Haohmaru ranted. "I, THE LEGENDARY HAOHMARU, KNOWS THAT NOT EVEN HE WILL LIGHT A CANDLE TO ME, BUT STILL!"

"...What did I tell you? Just listen out and we will find him in no time.

Haohmaru's eyes before turning to see Geese and even Yamazaki looking with exasperated faces and Static and Leonardo blinking twice.

"AH, MY FELLOW UVR WINNER, GEESE HOWARD! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE YOU UNTIL AFTER YOU ARE FINISHED WITH THE TOURNAMENT!" Haohmaru greeted.

"Yeah, so did I…" Geese muttered. "I guess not even I could have everything I want…"

Haohmaru frowned. "FORGIVE ME, BUT SOMETHING CRUCIAL HAVE GONE UP AND IT IS SO CRUCIAL THAT I AM FORCED TO EVEN DENY A FELLOW MEETING WITH AN UVR WINNER! YOU SEE…"

"Your precious Shizu has been kidnapped, brainwashed and forced to fight Genjuro Kibagami while not only fighting like you, but also talking like you, albeit thankfully not as loud?" Geese asked, crossing his arms. "Yeah, we know."

Haohmaru jumped at this. "WHAT!? HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT THIS!?"

"Because the same thing happened to Billy. Along with Pichu and Dan Hibiki." Geese explained.

"Someone is kidnapping the loved ones of the UVR winners and provoking them." Static frowned. "They even had Billy attack his own sister."

"GREAT MUSASHI!" Haohmaru gasped. "I KNEW THAT WHOEVER BRAINWASHED MY BELOVED OSHIZU WAS FOOLISH TO ANGER THE LEGENDARY HAOHMARU, BUT THE OTHER UVR WINNERS!"

"Exactly! That is why we are trying to find the remaining winners." Leonardo said.

"We don't know what they are planning yet, but no matter what happens, this is going to be big!" Yamazaki smirked.

"GLORIOUS. JUST LET ME FIND MY CURRENT ALLIES!" Haohmaru grinned.

"Well, I doubt that they will be as strong as us, but beggars can't be choosers." Geese shrugged before smiling. "Where are they now?"

"WELL, I INSTRUCTED THEM TO WANDER THE HALLWAYS IN CIRCLES UNTIL THEY RUN INTO A VILLAIN!" Haohmaru answered.

Geese's smile vanished as he and his allies stared at the ronin in disbelief. The latter didn't notice as he continued.

"WE DIDN'T RUN INTO EACH OTHER YET WHICH MEANS THEY FOUND ONE BEFORE WE DID!" Haohmaru instructed. "COME ON! WE MAY BE TOO LATE TO ACTUALLY JOIN THEIR SIDE BATTLE, BUT WE CAN AT LEAST HELP THEM WITH THE END!"

With that, he turned around and ran off leaving the four blinking twice.

"...I mean I respect him as a warrior, but other than that… Not that much." Leonardo frowned.

"...Be grateful that you are only stuck with him for one night." Geese groaned. "Me and my nodal companions have to deal with him when he comes out for DLC for XV."

Yamazaki actually looked worried for once. "...Hey, does that mean we have to take turns making sure that he doesn't sneak his coffee in the game?"

Geese winced as he bit his nails. "Oh God… I don't even WANT to think about THAT responsibility!"

(Dome; Hallway)

Tiny frowned before pulling his fist back and punched forward. However, Infinite ran to the side, avoiding the punch before slashing in the side of Tiny's leg with his red sword. The Canadian cried out in pain before kicking his foot out, but Infinite quickly flipped backwards before rushing forward and lunging to stab Tiny in the stomach.

However, Tiny thought quickly to block the incoming sword stab. Despite breaking all types of logic, Tiny's fists managed to bounce off Infinite's blade and sent the startled jackal onto his back. Tiny then pulled his fist back before sending it down. But Infinite's eye widened before rolling backwards. While he was able to avoid being smashed into the ground, he wasn't able to get away from the incoming shockwave from the punch.

Infinite was sent flying back until he crashed into the wall. He groaned before looking up to see Tiny running over. Infinite growled before jumping up and using the wall to boost off of it to avoid another hard punch from the green-haired man. While still in mid-air, Infinite did a combo into Tiny's back. The latter cried out in pain before kicking his leg back and managed to catch Infinite in the face.

Infinite flew backwards, but self-righted himself in midair before landing on the ground. Then, as Infinite turned around, the gem of his chest started to glow. As Tiny turned around, the jackal swung his free hand and sent a wall of dark red cubes forward. Tiny did not expect this and took the wall to his body.

After staggering back, Tiny found that everyone had turned red with the same cubes running around with his hearing distorted. He then saw multiple images of Infinite phasing in and out. Tiny stepped back while looking around worried as they all advanced forward. Tiny punched at one but it phased out. Then, the real one pounced at Tiny and slashed him multiple times. As the Canadian staggered back further, his vision finally cleared.

"Hey! What gives?" Tiny frowned. "I thought the Phantom Ruby went back to the Classic Era."

"It did. Regrettably, this piece of the Phantom Ruby is a fake one made by the doctor." Infinite admitted. "While I admit that I am not at my full power, I still have my special abilities from Sonic Forces Speed Battle where I am top tier."

Tiny slumped his arms. "...So you're saying that your highest moment is in a spin-off gacha game."

Infinite's smirk vanished from behind his mask. "How dare you!? It is BECAUSE Sonic Forces was so good that it has gotten a spin-off gacha game! Do you see Adventure 1 & 2 getting a gacha game? How about Generations!?"

Tiny shook his head. "You are one sad little man and you have my pity."

Rilla Roo grunted in pain before receiving a punch to the face. He slowly recovered before glaring at the guilty party. Mickey McFist just smirked as he got into a boxing stance and hopped up and down. Rilla Roo growled before rushing forward and pulling his arms over him and slamming it onto Mickey. However, the Irishman jumped to the side to avoid the attack and clocked Rilla Roo in the side.

Rilla Roo staggered to the side, but quickly recovered and with a glare, spun his kangaroo tail around. However, Mickey jumped over the tail before punching Rilla Roo in the face. The former then ran over and did a series of punches to the hybrid's face and stomach before ending with an uppercut which sent Rilla Roo flying onto his back. Mickey then pounced on him and started to beat his face in.

Rilla grunted in pain before pushing Mickey out due to his half-gorilla strength. He then angrily beat his chest before rushing forward. However, Mickey was able to roll the side and did a couple of more body blows to Rilla Roo's side.

"Ya think that having the DNA of strong animals would make you go off against a human?" Mickey gloated. "Well, you are wrong! …No, really. I fought King Khan before. That guy is more beast than human."

Initially, Rilla Roo was confused by Mickey's last comment, his anger from the taunt overtook him as he used his kangaroo legs to pounce forward. However, Mickey swiftly ducked underneath the pounce and did an uppercut to Rilla Roo's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

"Aye… Ya might as well help us restrain that edgelord because it is clear that you don't have ANYTHING to work with!" Mickey taunted.

Rilla Roo's eyebrow twitched before reaching behind his back. …And pulled out a metallic mallet with spikes on the end. Immediately, all of the confidence drained from Mickey's face as Rilla Roo ran forward and swung his new weapon downwards. Mickey yelped before jumping back.

While Mickey avoided the mallet, he couldn't do anything about the incoming shockwave. While the Irishman, Rilla Roo swung his mallet again, this time horizontally into Mickey's stomach (fortunately with the blunt end) and was sent flying into a wall. After peeling off of it, Mickey groaned before shaking his head to get rid of the stars before looking at Rilla Roo tapping his mallet against his shoulder.

"...Right. The original character from Crash Bash would be the one to use stuff from his game." Mickey muttered.

Tiny's eyes bugged before ducking down to avoid a dark red energy bullet. When the bullet was about to hit the wall, the bullet turned back into Infinite before kicking off of the wall and launching himself back to kick Tiny in the back of his head. The green-haired man grunted before turning around while still crouching just in time to block a sword slash before shoving Infinite away.

Infinite flew backwards before landing on his feet. However, Tiny slammed his fists on the ground, making a large tremor and making Infinite shake in his spot. Tiny then grabbed him by his head and pinned him against the wall.

"Look, as much as you did a Canadian boot to the head, we only want to know what is the deal with Shizu." Tiny frowned.

Infinite just scoffed. "Even if you DO know, it wouldn't change anything."

"Then, why not tell us and waste everyone's time?" Tiny argued.

"Because I don't like being bossed around." Infinite scoffed.

Tiny rolled his eyes. "And this is why people look down on you."

Infinite growled underneath his using his fake Phantom Ruby to boost out of Tiny in form of an energy bullet going upwards. The green-haired man flew backwards and crashed on his back. He groaned before looking up.

…Only for Mickey to trip over him. Tiny blinked twice before looking towards Rilla Roo. …To see him approaching him while hopping on something that looked like a mixture between a flamethrower and a pogo stick.

"Tiny, think fast!" Mickey shouted.

The Canadian turned his head to see Infinite created another wall of cubes and sent it forward. Mickey and Tiny yelped before getting up and running to the side to avoid the wall while Rilla Roo easily bounced over it.

"I admit that you have forced me to use more than 5% of my power…" Infinite started.

"More than 5% of your power?" Mickey asked in disbelief. "Now you think you are Shaggy?"

"...But it is still useless against me." Infinite boasted. "Most fighters fall before me, let alone people who fight with just their fists and nothing else."

Mickey and Tiny glared back and forth between Infinite and Rilla Roo for a moment. …Before sighing.

"He DOES have a moment." Mickey admitted.

"Yeah…" Tiny sighed.

Infinite nodded his head. "Good. Now seeing that you realise how futile your efforts are, you can…"

"Autocombo."

Infinite froze in his spot. "Autowhatnow?"

The jackal looked up to see a white spiralling aura around Mickey and Tiny's gloves with smirks on their faces. Tiny then ran towards Infinite and did a punch. Infinite just scoffed before swerving his head to the side to avoid the fist. However, he was unable to avoid the lightning-fast barrage to his face.

Rilla Roo wasn't that much lucky as Mickey's own barrage was faster than his flame-powered pogo and managed to punch the gorilla-kangaroo off of it. The two boxers then did a series of blows to their respective opponents. Soon, they ended with one final uppercut to send the two animals to the walls where they slid off. Rilla Roo was knocked out immediately and Infinite was struggling to stay awake.

"B-But how?" Infinite asked. "Literally the only people who know about you two before that treehugger got invited to the first Megamix Tournament are the owner and Tinyhammer! You are literally nothing but air!"

"And heck this air just kicked your ass!" Tiny boasted before he and Mickey high-fived each other.

"Now as much as I like rubbing your failures in your face, let's talk!" Mickey said, punching his fists together.

Infinite growled behind his mask. "Never! To do that is to admit defeat! You will not have your way!"

With that, he used his Phantom Ruby to float off of the ground and dash off. Mickey and Tiny just watched with wide eyes at the whole thing.

"He… He DOES realise that he completely abandoned his ally here, right?" Mickey asked, pointing to the still unconscious Rilla Roo.

"...To be fair, he can't talk so there is probably no point in interrogating him." Tiny shrugged.

"There is no way in hell Mr. Head-Up-His-Ass thought that far ahead." Mickey scolded.

"Also true."

With that, the two turned around to walk over to the unconscious Rilla Roo. Unknown to the pair, they were being watched. The watcher then readied a gun.

"Even still, we got one of theirs." Tiny smiled. "That gotta count for something!

"It does… The problem is how we get someone who can't talk to talk." Mickey frowned, putting his hand on his chin.

"Maybe if we…" Tiny offered. Then, his ear perked up. "Hmm? What's that noise?"

The two then turned their heads towards the direction of the noise to see a gun pointing in their direction. Their eyes bugged out in horror.

"No, wait!" Mickey pleaded.

BANG!

(The Arena)

"Marching Fishes!"

Zelda narrowed her eyes as several multi-coloured fishes flew at her. However, she swung her arms and summoned a diamond barrier around her. This acted as a projectile deflector, sending the fishes back at the guilty party. Said guilty party just smirked.

"Bubble Deflector!" Gomamon shouted, summoning his own projectile deflector in the form of a bubble sending the fishes back at Zelda. The princess just reused Nayru's Love to re-deflect the projectiles back. The two then went into an odd tennis match, trying to send the odd projectiles into each other. Soon, it was Gomamon who lost the exchange as he was sent flying back.

Zelda clenched her fist after winning the fight before sending out an orb of fire forward. Gomamon recovered in time and saw the orb of fire flying over. He yelped before sliding forward on his stomach before it could explode in fire. Gomamon then ran over to Zelda before pouncing forward and swinging his claw. Zelda just narrowed her eyes before covering her leg in magic and kicking at the claw.

After the two attacks clashed with each other, Gomamon landed on the ground, but couldn't recover as Zelda kicked her leg out at the Digimon and sent him sprawling across the ground. Zelda then engulfed herself in wind and vanished before reappearing right next to Gomamon, knocking him away again.

"Marching Fishes!" Gomamon shouted, despite being in pain (and feeling embarrassed). Zelda got into a stance to use Nayru's Love again. However, instead of fish flying at her, they started to fly AROUND her. Zelda's eyes widened as she looked around and the fish started to encircle her before flying towards her to do a pincer attack. However, Zelda summoned a barrier around her to send fish flying everywhere.

Only for Gomamon to crash into Zelda's torso, knocking the blonde onto her rear. Gomamon then pounced at Zelda, but the princess summoned magic around her hands and sent her palms forward which sent Gomamon flying back. As the seal was sent sprawling, Zelda got up and dusted herself off.

"It seems that your inexperience with combat is relevant." Zelda frowned.

Gomamon looked up, appalled. "Excuse me!?"

"As harsh as those arch-mage's words are, her Aquaman comparison was not inaccurate." Zelda sighed. "In your Rookie form, your PARTNER did more fighting than you."

Gomamon narrowed his eyes. "Oh, like YOU'RE one to talk! I could count all of you Zeldas fighting WITHOUT your respective Link with one paw!"

"I confess that we do need Link to fight Ganon, but we could still fight on our own." Zelda offered. "Maybe in the water, you would perform better. But here?"

"Oh, really?" Gomamon asked. With that, he turned around and rushed towards Zelda. The princess shook her head before activating his Nayru's Love to block against Gomamon's claw.

Only for the claw to clash with the barrier, resulting in a firework display of sparks. Zelda looked in awe. In fact, she was so dumbfounded that she couldn't do anything when her barrier vanished as Gomamon landed on the ground.

"Tail Slap!" Gomamon shouted, doing a flip and kicking Zelda in the chin, sending her flying in the air. Gomamon then landed on the ground and did a running charge, headbutting the falling Zelda and sending her out of the ring, not unlike Spyro the Dragon.

"I may not have that many moves with them, but my claws could slash through solid ice." Gomamon gloated with a smirk.

Zelda landed in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic where she had a lovely talk over magic and princess duties with Twilight Sparkler.

Kyo Kusanagi smugly crossed his arms. "I am Kyo Kusanagi, the heir of one of the three clams that sealed away Orochi. As such, I have very powerful flames that have no artificial weapon, let alone a fellow natural pyromancer."

Suddenly, he swerved his upper body back to avoid a horizontal slash from an axe. Despite dodging a lethal weapon, Kyo still kept his smirk the entire time. Ironically, it vanished as he stood up straight, showing a frustrated face.

"So of COURSE I just HAD to be a show-off and go against a flamethrower, even though the wielder of said flamethrower is fireproof!" Kyo growled. "Of course!"

The Pyro being the Pyro, didn't pay Kyo's mini-rant any mind as they swung their fire axe again, this time in a downwards fashion. However, Kyo easily jumped to the side and did a couple of punches to the Pyro's chest, followed by a kick to the face. The mercenary staggered back before recovering and growling before swinging his axe again. However, Kyo rolled to the side, avoiding the blow.

Kyo then ignited his hand in fire and swung his arm in an arc to ignite part of the ground on fire. The Pyro looked in awe from behind their mask as he watched the flames burn. This left them wide open for Kyo to do a series of punches and kicks while the Pyro's back was turned before ending with a hard kick, sending Pyro onto their stomach. Kyo smirked before flipping forward and doing an axe kick onto the Pyro's back.

The Pyro cried out in pain before getting up, using their girth advantage to easily knock off Kyo. They then got out his flamethrower and aimed it at the brown-haired youth before firing. Kyo narrowed his eyes before igniting his hands with his own fire and sending a burst of fire, causing the two fiery attacks to clash with each other. When the fire skirmish ended, the Pyro… Excitedly pumping their flamethrower in the air. Kyo just rolled his eyes.

"It is people like him… Her… Them that makes me regret being a pyromancer." Kyo muttered. He then ran off to the mercenary while they were still cheering and did a hopping double kick to the Pyro's stomach. The red-clad mercenary staggered back before raising his flamethrower. Only for Kyo to punch the nozzle and send it back into the Pyro's head, making the latter hold their head.

"See? That is the problem with your mercs!" Kyo taunted. "You are so busy fighting people that are just as crazy and stupid are you to know how to face someone with common sense."

The Pyro growled before getting out a shotgun. Immediately, Kyo's smirk vanished as he yelped before diving to the side to avoid a blast. The Pyro then reloaded it before aiming again. Kyo then started to run away with the Pyro firing many shots.

"Oh hell no! I am NOT fighting Fio Germi again!" Kyo roared before sliding to the ground and grabbing the Pyro's legs and sending them onto their back. Kyo climbed onto the Pyro and started to punch his fist. …Only to grip his hand with a look of pain on his face.

"Not smart! Not smart!" Kyo winced. The Pyro then growled before putting up the poster boy for King of Fighters before lifting him over them. The pyromaniac then started to spin Kyo around like a pizza and tossing him high in the air. The Pyro then aimed his flamethrower and shot out compressed air, sending Kyo flying high in the air, screaming at the top of his lungs before falling out of the ring.

Kyo landed in Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme where the titular character mistook him for an arsonist and literally hosed him down.

Princess Peach Toadstool winced before skidding on her feet while using Perry as a shield. She then looked up to see G rushing over (while making sure his top hat doesn't fall off). Peach gritted her teeth before raising her parasol to block an incoming punch. G then swung his other fist to do another punch. However, Peach quickly put her guard down and summoned Toad to counter G's punch with an explosion of spores.

As G flew upwards in the air,Peach then jumped up before doing an uppercut with Perry. G self-rightered himself in midair before sending a shot of magma at Peach's chest. The princess yelped before crashing onto her back. G then landed on his feet before grabbing Peach's legs and spun her around a few times before throwing her, sending her flying.

Peach flew through the air for a moment but she self-righted herself as well before floating in the air with pink sparkles emitting on her. She then landed on the ground before crouching down to pull out a turnip out of the canvas before throwing it at the incoming G. However, the president smirked before surrounding himself with a golden barrier, deflecting the turnip. But after the barrier vanished, G grabbed his turnip and threw it like a baseball.

Peach yelped before getting out a tennis racket and hitting the turnip back at G. But the strange man jumped up in the air before igniting his hand in magma before spiking the turnip like a volleyball and sending it back like a flaming meteor. Peach narrowed her eyes before swinging her racket at the incoming turnip. She gritted her teeth as she skidded on her feet. She then sent the flaming turnip towards the barrier.

G smirked at this. "Ah ha! I knew that I would have a great fight against one of the biggest monarchs of all time would be a hoot!"

"Um, thank you." Peach said, sheepishly. "I must admit that I am having an… Unique time fighting you too."

"It is a shame that I cannot fight you at your full potential." G lamented. "The fight would be even more even."

Peach narrowed her eyes. "I admit that I am at a huge disadvantage, that doesn't mean I am out just yet."

"Though it WOULD help a lot against THIS guy." Perry muttered.

"Don't encourage him!" Peach scolded.

"Sorry!" Perry said, quickly.

Fortunately, G didn't seem to hear Perry's comment as he let out a hearty laugh. "Well said, princess. But you know what they say. Action speaks louder than words."

With that, he put his hand to the ground and started to charge up energy. Peach's eyes widened in horror, realising that G was charging up one of his attacks before rushing over. Letting out a "Ha-Cha", she lunged forward, hip-first. However, G rolled to the side to avoid Peach's attack and attacked the pink-clad woman with both feet while she was recovered from her own attack.

As Peach was sent sprawling, G continued to charge up energy from the ground. While he was done, he rushed over to Peach who was on her back and swung a magma-powered punch forward. Peach acted quickly and raised Perry to block the attack. Unfortunately, she didn't grip him hard enough and Perry was sent flying away.

"PERRY!" Peach gasped, holding out her hand.

"PRINCESS!" The parasol yelped as he fell over the ropes (and into Looney Tunes where for once, Wile E Coyote got lucky and managed to grab him to save him from falling after a failed trap. …Again.)

"Ah, that's a shame." G lamented. He then smirked. "But then again, while a president AND a monarch should lead their people, they can't depend on them forever."

Peach glared up at G. "You know what? That is fair enough."

The muscular man grinned. "Splendid. So let's continue this fight and…"

Suddenly, he found himself looking into a cannon. Upon further inspection, it was connected to another parasol. This time, white and looking like it was merged with a certain deranged rabbit. G blinked twice as Peach smirked while holding her new parasol.

"Umm…" G started.

BOOM!

Then, the cannon on Peach's parasol fired right in G's face, resulting in a large cone-shaped shot. G fell onto his back where he laid unmoving. Peach breathed in and out before walking over.

"Well, I can't say that I am happy to lose Perry, I WAS looking for a chance to use my Boom-Brella." Peach sighed.

With that, she crouched down and used most of her remaining strength to push the unconscious G underneath the ropes.

G landed in Final Fight where when he came to, he got into an arm wrestling duel with Mike Haggar.

"Get back here and fight like a man!" Lilly roared, throwing her frozen staff like a javelin forward. However, Zim, while riding on his jetpack, rode to the side to avoid it.

"Mwa ha ha! Zim is more than a man so I don't have to conform to fighting like one!" The Irken gloated.

"You are right for the wrong reasons!" Lilly snapped before running over to her staff and grabbing it and swinging her staff and sending a wave of ice. While it didn't hit Zim, it did manage to make a wall of ice at the side of the green-skinned alien. He just scoffed before flying off to the side.

"Shoryuken!"

That was when Ryu jumped from the other side and did his trademark jumping uppercut to Zim's chin and sent him flying away and crashed into the ice wall. He groaned before looking up to see Lilly, Ryu and Kasumi Todoh approaching him while with the glares. Zim gritted his teeth before getting out a blaster and firing several shots at the three. However, Lilly jumped forward and swung her staff around to deflect the shots away.

"GIR! Shield me!" Zim demanded, summoning his robot minion.

"I wanna fly!" GIR cheered before running towards the three.

"Oh, I will make you fly alright!" Lilly sneered before getting ready to swing her staff like a golf.

However, Zim sent out his spider-limbs and zapped GIR in the back, making him fly upwards and over Lilly's attack before exploding in her face. The cryomancer staggered back stunned, but Kasumi rushed over but Zim opened his jetpack and sent out a downwards bomb which sent him flying high in the air.

"Hadoken!" Ryu shouted, sending out his trademark projectile forward. However, Zim sneered before grabbing the energy ball and holding it in his hand.

"Ah ha ha! I could easily catch your pitiful projectiles!" Zim gloated. "That means you won't be able to reach me!"

Ryu narrowed his eyes before jumping up like a Dragoon Knight. Zim's smirk vanished as he yelped and threw the Hadoken back at the incoming Ryu, but the brown-haired man was prepared.

"Tatsumaki Senpukyaku!" Ryu shouted, doing his forward spinning kick, not only destroying the projectile and going towards Zim before kicking him in the face on the final spin. The Irken fell like a stone and crashed onto the ground. He groaned before propping himself on his hands and knees. Suddenly, the ground underneath him froze his limbs to the ground. Zim shrieked before looking up to see Kasumi, Lilly and Ryu glaring down at him.

"Look, you are just making things harder for yourself." Kasumi scolded.

"Indeed, just tell us what we need to know." Ryu nodded. "Why did the group you are working for kidnapped Dan, Billy and Pichu?"

Zim smirked. "And Shizu."

Kasum, Ryu and even Lilly lowered their stances in confusion.

"Who?" Lilly asked.

Zim's smirk vanished. "Oh, wait. Never mind. Genjuro is long gone. The perfect taunting moment has passed."

Ryu blinked twice before shaking his head. "Your group tried to kidnap me. There is no way I would let you do that."

Zim's smirk returned. "Oh, don't worry. We don't need you."

Once again, the three were confused as Ryu spoke up. "W-Wait, what?"

"Make no mistake, in a perfect world, we would have kidnapped and brainwashed you regardless." Zim sighed. "But in terms of our plans, we already got Dan Hibiki so that is enough. Especially since you are on 100% after Rugal failed to defeat you."

Lilly blinked twice. "Wait… So you DIDN'T have Dan attack us because of Mika?

"Yes and no. Dan was a target just because he was the second best choice." Zim said before smirking. "But don't think we didn't take advantage the moment we found out from K. Rool that Mika was in the opposing group."

Kasumi narrowed her eyes in disgust. "What is your exact plan?"

"Do you really want to know?" Zim asked. "Well, truth be told, while most of us won't be able to do anything in the ring, I, Zim, have been given the chance to FINALLY put our plan into the next stage!"

Lilly beat her staff into her palm. "Then, tell us."

"Uh-uh-uh. Ever heard of the golden rule?" Zim smirked. "Show! Don't tell!"

With that, he sent out another bomb from his backpack which sent him flying into the air. He then activated his jetpack before pulling out something that made the three's eyes widened.

"Is that… A Smash Ball?" Kasumi gasped.

"It can't be!" Ryu gasped. "Unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you haven't appeared in another fighting game outside of those subpar ones!"

"Well, I will give you a hint!" Zim sneered. "I will be able to SMITE you!"

With that, he destroyed the Smash Ball with his hand and wasted no time activating what would be his Final Smash.

"I will fall DOOM on you all!" Zim roared, raising his arms in the air.

Then, a bunch of stuffed moose fell from the sky and fell to the ground, surrounding Ryu, Lilly and Kasumi. The three looked around in fear and confusion. Then, the moose started to grow before exploding in bursts of purple electricity. The three cried out in pain before collapsing on their knees. Zim smirked before flying down.

"FOR PLOT ADVANCEMENT!"

With that, he crashed into one of the three. The only two looked in horror as the one who was rammed into flew over the ropes and into the elimination portal.

Kasumi crashed in some kind of dojo. She groaned before propping herself on her hands and knees.

"To get eliminated by a lunatic like him." Kasumi lamented. "And I still don't know what those villains are planning."

"You have a lot of gall entering my dojo!"

Kasumi winced before looking towards the direction of the voice. "Sorry, I am…"

Her eyes then bugged out when she saw that the person glaring down at her was a bulky man with long dark hair and a matching moustache while dressed similarly to Kasumi. Upon seeing Kasumi's face, his eyes bugged out.

"K-Kasumi, I thought that you were gone for the day." The man said, confused.

The blue-haired woman looked in awe. Then, tears started to form in her eyes before she got up and ran towards him.

"FATHER!"

(Recovery Room)

Oume and I-No looked in awe at what had happened.

"Well, I'll be." Oume said in awe. "I am going to be blunt. Out of all people, I didn't expect HIM to finally put the next part of our plan underway. Let alone use his new skills from appearing in that SMITE collaboration."

"Well, that's on YOU, Oume." I-No scolded. "You just HAD to make sure that the plan wouldn't continue until you-know-who is eliminated."

"Hey, I already gone over WHY we needed to wait that long." The older Goketsuji twin scolded. "In fact, we literally just explained it."

She then looked to the side to talk to a third person.

"Right, F.A.N.G.?"

The purple-clad man jumped at this. "H-Huh? Ah yes. It all makes sense."

I-No raised a suspicious eyebrow but before she could say anything, Oume's phone started to ring. The elderly woman then answered it.

"Hello?" Oume asked. Her eyes then lit up. "Oh no! Please don't wait on my account! We already waited this long! Besides, we should be able to be there when he appears in the dome. Just go on ahead, Cortex!"

With that, she hung up the phone before looking at F.A.N.G.

"So yeah, we are going to finally go to the next stop of our plan." Oume explained.

The assassin sternly crossed his arms and nodded. "Good. As you are fighting for Lord Bison, you are expected to be perfect with this because that is what he deserves."

"Don't need to tell ME twice. Just relay the information to Bison-poo" Oume nodded before smirking. "Also, maybe I am being a little premature, remember to call me Lady Oume soon."

F.A.N.G. shuddered at this. "N-Noted."

Oume nodded her head. "Good. Let's rock and roll, I-No!"

"Um, sure." The rocker girl said.

With that, the two have walked off. F.A.N.G. let out a long sigh before walking over to a certain cot. On it was a sleeping M. Bison. Tending to him was Kyoko Minazuki with Vega sitting next to a cot, looking at him with a mirror.

"Well, how is he?" F.A.N.G. asked.

"Well, he is fine physically if THAT'S what you are asking." Kyoko muttered. "However, he is going to have one hell of a hangover tomorrow."

"...For some reason, I think that is the LEAST of his worries." F.A.N.G. groaned.

(The Arena)

Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore gritted her teeth before aiming her rifle and firing a shot. However, her target, Lemmy Koopa, was too quick, rolling to the side while rolling on his bouncy ball. Using his wand, he summoned another ball and sent it bouncing towards. Shionne narrowed her eyes before rolling to the side to avoid the ball and countering with an arte.

"Annihilation!" Shionne shouted, shooting a beam from her rifle and aiming it from left and right, making an energy burst in the ground. This actually made the ball Lemmy was on flying away and sent him crashing on the ground. Shionne aimed her gun again, but before she could fire, Lemmy retreated into his shell and started to spin around before advancing forward.

Shionne's smirk vanished before she tried to get out of the way but it was too late as the shell came into her legs and sent the pinkette crashing onto her stomach. Soon, Lemmy popped his head back out before flipping onto Shionne's back and started to do a tap dance. Shionne grunted in pain before growling and rolling to the side, dropping Lemmy to the ground.

"Lunar Blast!" Shionne shouted, doing a backflip and kicked Lemmy high into the air before firing several light beams and striking him multiple times. The Koopaling crashed on the ground, but quickly sat up and waved his wand to summon another ball from underneath. Shionna smirked before throwing an icy orb to the ground.

"Glacio Split!" Shionne shouted, firing a bullet at the orb. This resulted in the ground around Lemmy's ball freezing it. However, much to Shionne's horror, Lemmy managed to stay balanced on his ball.

"H-How!?" Shionne sputtered. "How are you able to balance on the ice, let alone on a BALL!?"

"What, this is nothing!" Lemmy laughed. "I was put in charge of Ice Land in Super Mario Bros 3 by King Dad! After that, I have more of a tolerance to cold!"

"Oh, he has THAT much faith in you?" Shionne asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, he just asked which one of us Koopalings would want to look after it, everyone stepped back except for me." Lemmy corrected.

"That sounds about right." Shionne muttered, rolling her eyes before casting a spell. "Spread!"

A pillar of water then appeared from underneath Lemmy's ball, sending it flying into the air with the rainbow-haired reptile holding on for dear life. Shionne smirked before aiming her rifle at the ground where it looked like the ball was going to land.

"Gravitas Field!" Shionne shouted before shooting out a sphere of gravity. The ball finally fell into it and started to revolve in it. However, Lemmy still managed to balance on it. While startled once again, Shionne didn't hesitate to charge forward.

"Lunar Corruption!" Shionne shouted, sliding past Lemmy and releasing a burst of energy from her rifle, striking Lemmy and sending him crashing on the ground. Despite the hard fall, Lemmy started to spin in his shell again and moved forward. But Shionne jumped up into the air.

"Displode!" Shionne shouted, sending several bullets at the ground and striking Lemmy multiple times. While Lemmy wasn't hurt, he was still sent flying back before getting up.

"If I were you, I would throw more than bouncy balls!" Shionne gloated.

Lemmy blinked twice. "Um, okay?"

With that, he pulled out another round object, this time purple with yellow stars on it, before throwing it. Shionne rolled her eyes before aiming her rifle at the bouncy ball.

...Only to realise at the last moment that this bouncy ball had a lit fuse.

BOOM!

After shooting the bomb, Shionne was sent flying back so far that she ended up going over the ropes.

Shionne landed in the Flintstones where she, despite her petite frame, managed to down an entire set of Brontosaurus ribs in one sitting.

Lemmy blinked twice after watching Shionne fly out of the ring.

"Hm? Who shoots point-blank at bombs?" Lemmy asked, confused before shrugging. "Must be a culture shock thing."

With that, he walked off. Unknown to him, Ribbon Girl and Pomme were watching him the entire time with blank stares.

"I think… That was elimination number eighteen." Ribbon Girl recalled.

"Yep. And seeing that we are the only ones who didn't get an elimination yet, we should try to eliminate each other here and now.." Pomme nodded.

"And correct me if I am wrong, but there hasn't been much usage of this train gimmick?" Ribbon Girl asked.

"It can't be helped. Sure, fighting on a train isn't exactly putting you on solid ground, but it is not that hard to get used to." Pomme shrugged.

"All in all, it looks like ending the section is up to US." Ribbon Girl said.

"Yyyyyep." Pomme nodded.

The two then got into an awkward silence. Suddenly, they both started to smirk before getting into a stance before Pomomme spoke into her microphone.

"Calling all Rugrats!" Pomme sang, making music notes surrounding her. "Calling all Rugrats!"

"Everybody's doing a brand new dance now!" Ribbon Girl sang, sending an electric fist forward.

Pomme floated to the side, not unlike Princess Peach to avoid the punch. "Please come in Rugrats!"

Ribbon Girl merely shot out her other arm which had a yellow party popper on it. "I know that you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now!"

Pomme's eyes widened before raising her arms to block a couple of strikes from the popper. "Ack… Take it to the maximum!"

The two then started to continue to sing while fighting while everyone, including the remaining fighters, were looking in confusion. However, a good chunk were looking excitedly."

"Umm… What are they doing?" Ashley asked.

"Don't you see? They are having a sing-off!" Drake grinned.

"No duh! But still, it is kinda random for them to do one NOW?" Ashley asked.

"Listen to the lyrics of the respective singers!" Drake pointed out. "Ribbon Girl is singing Kylie Minogue's Locomotion while Pomme is singing Danny Saber and Rakim's Take the Train used for the first Rugrats movie!"

"Okay, wow, I knew that those two seemed like opportunistic glory hogs, but to dedicate their battle to singing train-related songs?" Nine asked in disbelief.

"Breather section or not, someone has to use the environment in SOME way." Drake shrugged.

Due to being focused on their singing battle, Ribbon Girl and Pomme ignored the banter from the Announcer's Booth and started to literally float around each other.

"The train's been hijacked on track and will never come back!" Pomme sang, swinging her microphone like a flail.

"You gotta swing your hips now!" Ribbon Girl sang, using her double jump (or in this case quadruple jump) to avoid the attack and sent out her Popper.

"The express, the last stop is where the fun's at!" Pomme sang as a muscular anthro rabbit appeared out of nowhere and not only grabbed the popper before spun the startled Ribbon Girl around before throwing her into the corner post. Said rabbit vanished as quickly as he appeared.

"I got my friends, a car full of hostages." Pomme sang with a smirk as she sent out multiple music notes forward. Ribbon Girl managed to snap out of her daze before quickly out of the way.

"Come on, baby, jump up, jump back!" Ribbon Girl sang, sending both of her ARMs forward.

"To the destination, there'll be lots of kids!" Pomme sang, spinning to the side in a stylish manner before rushing forward while Ribbon Girl was retreating her ARMs. She then kicked her out to the blonde's chest, making her stagger back. Pomme smirked before jumping over to continue the assault.

Only for Ribbon Girl to send her Popper at her feet, which resulted in a burst of wind which sent the incoming Pomme onto her rear and Ribbon Girl high up into the air.

"Do it nice and easy now, don't lose control!" Ribbon Girl sang, sending both of her ARMs at the downed Pomme, knocking her to the ground. She then landed on the ground before grabbing the mouse with both hands.

"A little bit of rhythm and of a soul!"

With that, Ribbon Girl spun around and threw Pomme over the ropes. She then jumped up, raising her arms with a big grin on her face.

"So come on, come on, do the locomotion with me!"

Pomme landed in Zootopia where she did a duet with Gazelle.

The crowd cheered for Ribbon Girl as she waved to the crowd. She then turned around to see who was left. Ryu and Lilly were still chasing after Zim, now having even MORE questions while Mary wandered around, still looking like taking her anger out on somebody. Lemmy continued to ride on his ball, doing aerobatics while Peach sat on the ground, keeping an eye on him for Bowser's sake. Dedede laughed heartily while slapping his belly while DK did a Tarzan-yell while beating his chest. Finally, Gomamon was excitedly clapping ready for more while the Pyro sat down, still bummed that Dot had been eliminated.

Then, the Millennium Star's aura surrounded the audience before surrounding the fighters. Then, the star platforms appeared underneath. Then, Ribbon Girl's fell off. Followed by Lilly, Ryu, Mary, Peach, Gomamon and DK. Leaving Dedede, the Pyro, Zim and Lemmy.

"Ah ha ha! As if this is news, I have successfully broken the horrible streak of villains being unpopular at these things by not only ending up in the Top four in terms of hype, but also bringing along three villains with me!" Zim laughed.

Dedede blinked twice. "Um, you DO know that I am not a villain anymore in the second Kirby game, let alone NOW, right?"

"And I don't think the Pyro is a villain." Lemmy said before pausing. "I think…"

"Only because the people are just as blood-thirsty and crazy as they are!" Dedede snarked.

Then, the Pyro's platform vanished, followed by Zim's.

"Looks like we are having another Nintendo-based Superstar, kid!" Dedede smirked.

"Neato!" Lemmy beamed.

Then, one of their platforms fell.

"Congratulations, Lemmy Koopa!" The Millennium Star beamed. "You are the Superstar for this round!"

The Koopaling's eyes lit up as he excitedly jumped up and down while waving to the cheering crowd.

"Thank you! Thank you all! I really appreciate you loving my act so far!" Lemmy beamed. "And because of that, I am going to reward you back!"

With that, he reached into his shell and pulled out a piece of paper. Everyone looked confused.

"Oh, what is that?" Tumble asked.

Lemmy grinned. "The plans for my stage!"

RESULTS (15 Votes)

LEMMY KOOPA (SMB): 11:4 = 7 (Flynn Scifo, Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore)

KING DEDEDE (SSB): 11:4 = 7 (Nitros Oxide, Jude Mathis)

ZIM (NASB): 11:4 = 7 (Genjuro Kibagami, Kasumi Todoh)

THE PYRO (TF2): 11:5 = 6 (Chaos, Kyo Kusanagi)

DONKEY KONG (SSB): 10:5 = 5 (Sooga)

GOMAMON (DRA): 10:5 = 5 (Zelda)

PRINCESS PEACH TOADSTOOL (SSB): 12:7 = 5 (G)

BLUE MARY RYAN (KoFAS): 9:6 = 3 (Ace)

RYU (SFAS): 9:7 = 2 (Azrael)

LILLY KANE (KoFAS): 9:7 = 2 (Hayato Nekketsu)

RIBBON GIRL (A): 8:7 = 1 (Pomme)

(ELIMINATED)

GENJURO KIBAGAMI (SS): 7:8 = -1 (Doctrine Dark)

ICE CLIMBERS (SSB): 7:8 = -1 (Dot Warner)

G (SFAS): 7:8 = -1 (Ice Climbers)

SHIONNE VYMER IMERIS DAYMORE (ToAS): 7:8 = -1 (Bowser)

BOWSER (SSB): 8:9 = -1

DOCTRINE DARK (FEXL): 7:9 = -2

KASUMI TODOH (KoFAS): 8:10 = -2

DOT WARNER (A!): 8:10 = -2

KYO KUSANAGI (KoFAS): 6:9 = -3

FLYNN SCIFO (ToAS): 6:9 = -3

SOOGA (HW:AoC): 6:9 = -3

POMME (RoA): 6:9 = -3

ZELDA (SSB): 6:10 = -4

JUDE MATHIS (ToAS): 5:10 = -5

ACE (SFEX3): 5:11 = -6

CHAOS (StH): 4:11 = -7

NITROS OXIDE (CB): 4:11 = -7

HAYATO NEKKETSU (RS): 4:11 = -7

AZRAEL (BB): 3:12 = -9

Side Battles:

"Unknown VS Unpopular"

Mickey McFist and Tiny (B&B) TKOs Infinite (StH) and Rilla Roo (CB)

12 to 3

Underestimating Koopaling Love: I am pleasantly surprised at how much love that Lemmy got in this section. Because of how controversial the Koopalings, I could see him going either way, but while it wasn't by a landslide, he still managed to get an elimination.