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!

28. Section Twelve Results

(The Arena)

"FAST BALL!"

Yoshi and Lincoln Loud jumped at Zim's shout before the three dove to the ground to avoid a bullet-like projectile until it zoomed out of the ring and crashed into the barrier. The three then got up, only to see a zigzagging baseball heading forward. However, Yoshi narrowed his eyes before running forward and raised a white baseball bat with green spots in the form of a bunt, managing to deflect it. The guilty party just scoffed while rolling his eyes.

"Really? A bunt?" Christopher Robin said with a bored look on his face. "You DO realise that in Home-Run Derby, that counts as a strike, right?"

"Well, it shouldn't!" Zim demanded. "Nor it shouldn't count as a strike when we get an infield hit!"

"Yeah, Lisa told me that the Japanese are notorious for being adept gamers!" Lincoln agreed, sternly. "But even then, how are players supposed to throw FORTY home runs against you!"

Yoshi angrily nodded his head. Christopher Robin just chuckled.

"True… It is not like you have to hit home-runs to survive here." Christopher Robin said. "On the other hand, I don't have to hold back for the sake of 'fairness'."

"Hold back!? Fairness!?" Zim roared in disbelief. "At what point in the Home-Run Derby are you able to hold back in the sake of fairness!?"

Christopher Robin just smiled before spreading out his arms. This had summoned a bunch of floating baseballs above her. Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim blinked twice before the former two glared at Zim. The Irken winced at this.

"...Oh." Zim said, finally.

"Web Breaker!"

That was the shout of Diaboromon before releasing a large beam of energy out of his chest. However, King Dedede merely narrowed his eyes before raising his hammer to block the projectile. The guard was a success, though he did find himself skidding back on his feet multiple times. After recovering, he got out a Gordo and hit it forward.

However, Diaboromon swung his claw at the incoming projectile, sending it back at Dedede. But the penguin just swung his mallet upwards and hit the Gordo up into the air. Dedede then ran forward, but Diaboromon got into a stance.

"Line Surge!" Diaboromon shouted, swinging his claws around and catching Dedede in slashing the king multiple times before collapsing on the ground. Diaboromon sneered before raising his claw above him to continue the assault. Then, the Gordo that Dedede hit up into the air before, finally fell down on top of Diaboromon's head. Dedede smirked before getting up.

"Heh! Maybe I should go help Yoshi and the kids after I am done with you! My hitting is getting better!" Dedede boasted. "Speaking of hitting!"

With that, he raised his mallet over him before swinging it downwards. However, Diaboromon snapped out of his daze in time before scampering away like a spider. Dedede scoffed at this.

"You think that you are the only giant bug I have ever faced?" Dedede boasted. "I had to deal with an insect queen! You do not fear me!"

Diaboromon stood up "straight" and glared at Dedede. "Oh, I don't, do I?"

"Nope… Which is pretty sad because this is supposed to be a Halloween section." Dedede chuckled. "Even with that baseball-throwing boy here, it is quite tame."

"Indeed… I noticed that too." Diaboromon lamented.

He then gave a dark smirk before getting out his Smash Ball.

"Then, we just have to kick it up a notch, won't we?" Diaboromon asked.

With that, he destroyed the Smash Ball, much to Dedede's worry before activating it.

"System Failure!"

With that, he summoned a sphere of green energy around him. Dedede yelped before jumping back, narrowly avoiding the attack. After a few seconds, the sphere stopped. Dedede blinked twice before laughing.

"You call THAT a Final Smash!?" Dedede laughed. "Even Mario, Sonic and Jigglypuff's Final Smashes are harder to avoid!"

"Because it is." Diaboromon admitted before chuckling. "Then again, it is more of a utility attack."

Dedede's smirk vanished. "Um, utility?"

Diaboromon smirked before placing his hand on the canvas.

"Hocus Pocus, pumpkin focus!" Diaboromon shouted. "Come to life! Cause some strife!"

Shrek immediately stopped what he was doing, freezing in place. Suddenly, all of the pumpkins started to shake, causing everyone to stop what they were doing.

"What… What's happening?" Etalus asked.

Then, the pumpkins started to come to life, doing weird roars and startling everyone. Except for Diaboromon who just laughed.

"There, doesn't it feel like a Shrek Halloween special, now!?" Diaboromon boasted, spreading out his arms.

Shrek looked at Diaboromon in shock. "W-What did you do?"

"I hacked into the Millennium Star's magic." The Digimon said, matter-of-factly.

Everyone blinked twice at this.

"Um, what?" Kyle asked.

"You heard me. While normally my Final Smash could be used to de-digivolve Digimon, I could also use it to hack." Diaboromon explained. "So I hacked into the stage and brought the pumpkins to life."

"Woah, woah, woah, woah, WOAH!" The Millennium Star said, floating forward. "My powers aren't even anything remotely digital!"

"True. But you CAN set it up like a digital display. You said it yourself that Yggdrasil was an AI, right?" Diaboromon asked.

"Y-Yes, but…" The Millennium Star said with an unseen frown.

"Though to be fair, like you said, the stage is not digital so I couldn't edit it as much as I could so I have to make it count." Diaboromon shrugged. He then grinned before spreading out his arms. "So why not change the pumpkins in the enemies from the game based on Shrek's second game?"

The crowd cheered at this as the fighters looked on in disbelief. The latter group then glared up at the Millennium Star who winced at this.

"S-Sorry… I will return the pumpkins to normal!" The Millennium Star insisted.

"Um, no, what I did wasn't any different from what Elena did when she befriended that cow during the Minecraft section!" Diaboromon said, wagging his finger. "I was just using the environment to my advantage. Isn't that the point of this gimmick?"

The Millennium Star winced. "True, but…"

"Besides, it is far too late to pretend to be 'normal' seeing that Drake allowed Yggdrasil AI and Bowser Time in the first place." Diaboromon shrugged. "Besides, as Shrek pointed out, they are just pumpkins."

"...I mean, I can't deny that last part." Shrek said.

"Good! Now THAT'S settled!" Diaboromon grinned.

With that, he snapped his fingers and made the pumpkins start to go after the nearest fighter. Almost immediately, everyone got into a stance. Dedede blinked twice before looking at Diaboromon's smirking face.

"Now where were we…?"

Dedede gulped nervously.

(Announcer's Booth)

Ashley and Nine looked on with wide eyes and slack jaws at what had happened.

"Okay, WOW. As much as we all love to have Xero as a punching bag, not even HE allowed Junko's Unleash the Despair rounds and having the ring full of enemies based on who was in the arena!" Nine said in disbelief.

"I-I didn't even think about someone using the Millennium Star's magic against him, even if he had to use a Smash Ball to do so." Ashley added. He then gave a small smile. "B-But that's alright. Like Shrek and Diaboromon said, they are just pumpkins! They shouldn't make the section that chaotic."

Nine gave an exasperated glare. "Do you really believe that?"

Ashley winced before sinking in his seat. "...No."

Drake groaned before slowly getting up in his seat, covered with burn marks all over his clothes. However, Ashley and Nine didn't seem to notice or care. Then, Drake's phone started to ring. The vampire again groaned before getting it out and answering.

"Hello…?" He answered. His eyes then bugged out. "Wait, really!?"

This time, Ashley and Nine paid attention to him.

"Uh-huh. Yeah, we noticed. Uh-huh." Drake nodded. His pupils then shrank. "That's… Actually makes sense. Unfortunately if that is the case, it makes it harder to return Celica back to the dome."

Nine's eyes bugged out.

"Yeah, tell them that Buntaro and the others were a big help." Drake said before hanging up.

"W-What is it?" Nine asked.

"Um, Nine, could you tell me what are the most prominent parts about Celica?" Drake asked.

The witch blinked twice. "What?"

"I promise! This could potentially get us one step closer to getting Celica back to the dome!" Drake pleaded.

Nine paused. "Um, very well. Celica is far too nice for her own good. She is one of the very people in our node to use magic. She is a White Mage. Oh, and she can't have a…"

Then, her eyes bugged out.

"...Sense of direction to save her life." Nine concluded.

Ashley's eyes widened as well before Drake nodded his head.

"I knew it. I am going to look up the bio of that Azusa girl." Drake said. With that, he started to fiddle with his phone. "Yep, SHE has a poor sense of direction too."

Ashley blinked twice. "So wait… Are you saying that the reason Celica is node-hopping is because her lack of sense of direction is so strong…?"

"...That not even the Recovery Room could transport her back there." Drake sighed.

"What!? There is no way that…" Nine started. She then slapped her forehead. "Oh, who am I kidding? I could totally see that coming!"

"That also explains how Azusa and Leon got roped up into this as well." Ashley frowned. "Their sense of direction is just as bad as hers!"

"...Alright, I concede that you have convinced me that what happened to Celica isn't because of your incompetence for once." Nine said before narrowing her eyes. "But you are still in charge so it is still YOUR responsibility to get my sister back."

"Alright, alright, I know." Drake sighed. He then paused. "Question is, I don't know where we go from here."

"Well, at the very least, we know that it isn't a problem with the Recovery Room and we know that someone didn't send her node-hopping on purpose." Ashley mused, rubbing his chin. "Now that we finally pinpoint the source of the problem, our chances of getting Celica back are higher, albeit not by much."

"R-Right…" Drake said. He then paused. "...So would anyone tell me why the pumpkins are alive when I clearly remembered Shrek not asking for them?"

"Um, excuse me? What did I just tell you!?" Nine roared. "Just because you are the tournament host, that doesn't mean you could find excuses to shirk your responsibility."

Drake blinked twice before looking at Ashley. "In other words, you guys don't want to talk about it."

"What do you think?" The purple-haired man snarked.

(Dome; Interrogation Room)

"...And that is why the comment section for my section on the official site of Tokyo Afterschool Summoners is somehow worse than Twitter." Horkeukamui groaned.

Dingodile gave a blank face. "...That is one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard. And I literally laughed off the two N. Tropies flirting with each other."

"...Unfortunately, that would ironically be considered tame where I am from." Horkeukamui said, rolling his eyes.

Suddenly, the two heard knocking on the door. They both turned their heads.

"Hello?" Horkeukamui asked.

"Horkeukamui. It is me." Athena's voice piped up.

The wolf and Dingodile's eyes brightened up at this.

"Well, don't hesitate to come in." Horkeukamui said.

Athena didn't need to be told twice as she opened the door. However, once she did, Dingodile's eyes widened. In the doorway was Athena.

With a certain Komodo Dragon standing next to her.

"Joe!" Dingodile gasped.

"Dingodile…" The swordsman said, softly while gripping his arm.

The hybrid immediately got up from his seat and ran over to Joe, putting his hands on his shoulders which startled the latter.

"Are ya hurt!? Did any of those bastards try ta attack you!? Or a wannabe hero!?" Dingodile asked. "Ah swear that if they did…"

"C-Calm down!" Joe shouted, stepping back to get out of Dingodile's grip. "I am fine! No one, good or bad, found me before Athena did!"

The retired villain sighed in relief. "Oh, thank goodness…"

Joe paused. "...You were that worried about me?"

"What kind of question is THAT!?" Dingodile asked in disbelief. "After finding out that one out of four people that is trying ta help me is getting pinned fer murder just fer helping me, do ya really think Ah am not the least bit worried about ya!?"

"Well, ssssssorry for disappointing you." Joe scoffed.

Dingodile blinked twice. "H-Huh?"

"I ssssspent too much time hiding from literally everyone the moment Ace name-dropped us in the arena." Joe shrugged. "I didn't even remotely get anywhere sssso…"

Dingodile paused for a moment. He then growled, making Athena and Horkeukamui look concerned.

"You know, fer the supposed 'smart' one of the Komodo Brothers, you sure are a dumbass." Dingodile said, darkly.

Joe looked at Dingodile stunned. "Excuse me!?"

"Ya could have just ran off and ditched me ta do whatever this Otane granny is trying ta do, but no. Ya instead went out of your way to clear my name." The hybrid said, sternly.

Joe's pupils shrank.

"It is because of ME that ya are in this mess! And even now, ya are still trying ta look fer the real culprits!" Dingodile scolded.

"O-Of course! You saaaaaaw what happened the last time at the previous Battle of the Luminaries where the arena got involved!" Joe agreed. "Everyone, hero and villain alike, nearly got killed!"

Dingodile raised an eyebrow. "Are ya sure that is the case?"

"What kind of quesssstion is THAT?" Joe shot back. "Of course it is."

Dingodile paused for a moment. He then rolled his eyes before sighing.

"Athena, Horkeu, do ya mind giving us some space?" Dingodile asked.

"Oh, no, we don't!" Athena insisted, quickly. "Come on, Horkeukamui!"

The wolf nodded before getting up and allowing the two to leave the room. Joe raised an eyebrow.

"Well, they are gone. Ssssso what is it that…" Joe asked.

Suddenly, Dingodile wrapped his arms around Joe, startling the latter.

"...Look, Ah am not usually good at these types of things, but I do know this…" Dingodile said, softly. "Ya have a really bad habit of always lying ta yourself and going out of your way to act stronger than ya really are."

Joe blinked twice for a moment while in Dingodile's grasp. Then, his eyes went misty before he returned the embrace.

"Why…!? Why is thisssss happening!?" Joe roared. "Why did we get ssssstuck in this murder plan!? Why do WE have to be the fall guys!? Why!?"

"Aye, the whole thing sucks tail…" Dingodile lamented, rubbing Joe's back. "Let it out… Let it out…"

The Komodo Dragon didn't need to be told twice as he continued to cry out loud with Dingodile continuing to embrace him. Athena and Horkeukamui stood outside of the room, watching in and feeling sorry for Joe.

"...I never knew that Joe would be able to cry like that." Horkeukamui said, softly.

"You can be surprised how many people try to hide their vulnerabilities from the world." Athena said, shaking her head. "Trust me, I had more than enough experience."

Horkeukamui let out a deep sigh. He then noticed something.

"Um, where is Pepper?" Horkeukamui asked.

"Oh, right…" Athena said before her face fell. "I don't know. Apparently, Jude from the Recovery Room called Pepper and told her that Gabe got into a fight and lost and either you or her have to look after him."

"Um, and where are Carmelita, Wave and the others?" Horkeukamui asked.

"Like I said, I do not know…" Athena said before groaning. "Regardless, I felt like we kept turning fingers on a monkey's paw whenever we got a needed distraction."

(The Arena)

"Get away from you, you disgusting vegetables!" Kula Diamond roared angrily before sending an icicle from a bunch of incoming pumpkins, destroying them immediately.

"Umm, you ARE aware that pumpkins are fruits, right?" Etalus asked with a confused look on his face. While non-chatalently punching a few pumpkins that were trying to sneak up on him.

"Tomato, tomahto!" Kula scoffed before kicking another pumpkin like a soccer ball.

Ever since Diaboromon snapped his fingers, all of the pumpkins have spent most of their time trying to interrupt the closest fight they could lay their vines on (with Diaboromon obviously the only one unaffected by this). Fortunately, they were actually quite fragile and didn't take much effort to destroy. However, for every pumpkin killed, another one takes its place.

"Ugh, there is no end to them!" Kula groaned. "Let's just all gang up on that icky spider and eliminate him!"

"As cathartic as that would be, knowing our luck so far, I doubt that the pumpkins will go back to normal even if Diaboromon is eliminated." Etalus sighed. "We might as well just try to ignore them. Not like they are THAT hard to get rid of.

"Tch. Fine." Kula scoffed.

With that, she summoned ice skates on her feet and started to move towards Etalus. However, the polar bear created icy fists and raised his front legs to block a bladed kick. Etalus then shoved Kula away, but the blue-haired girl quickly recovered by rolling backwards and getting back into a standing position. Kula then pointed her finger over Etalus.

This somehow summoned a snowman from over Etalus and landed on his head. Kula then ran over and did a jumping uppercut with ice around her hand, striking Etalus in the chin. The ursine staggered back, but Etalus quickly recovered and swatted Kula away when the latter was recovering from her own attack. Instead of capitalising on continuing the assault while Kula sprawled, he instead breathed out ice out of his mouth around the area around him.

Kula got up to his feet, only to see wave-dashing towards her on the ice (though to Kula, he was "glitching"). She yelped before getting back on her skates and moving out of the way to avoid getting rammed into. However, Etalus managed to recover in time and go after her. Kula skated off, leading with a chase that wouldn't be out of place in the last section.

Etalus then roared, summoning icicles from the sky and trying to hit. They managed to miss Kula but it was more than enough to take her off-guard for Etalus to do a body-check to her, sending her flying away and crashing into a bunch of pumpkins. The good news was that they broke her fall. The bad news was that she got pumpkin parts and juice all over her. She grunted in disgust while getting up.

"I concede that I could see why you are the resident cryomancer of SNK." Etalus admitted before shaking his head. "However, against someone that actually uses their powers in a frozen wasteland so give up."

"N-No! I can't just be eliminated!" Kula scolded. "The others are counting on me!"

"Oh, come on. Your node has a reasonable amount of eliminations already." Etalus scolded. "To say that my node needs more than you is an understatement."

"There are more important things than eliminations and records!" Kula roared.

Etalus paused at this. However, he merely narrowed his eyes. "Well, even if that is the case, that is still going to take a lot more to defeat me."

Kula returned the glare. She then looked around. Her eyes then lit up when she realised something. She then took her own icy breath. …Where it didn't go anywhere near Etalus. The polar bear blinked twice.

"Um, you missed." Etalus said, matter-of-factly.

"Wasn't aiming at you!" Kula gloated.

With that, she ran over to the spot she froze and picked up a frozen pumpkin to throw it forward. At first, Etalus was startled, but quickly raised a frozen fist to block it. However, he wasn't able to avoid another frozen pumpkin to the face, this time, kicked like a soccer ball. Kula then proceeded to throw as many frozen pumpkins as she could. While Etalus was taken off-guard at first, he managed to block all of them.

Kula was about to grab another pumpkin to freeze and throw it. However, she found it much heavier than before. Turning her head, she found that it was a large pumpkin that was somehow even bigger than the likes of Shrek and Dedede. The pumpkin then roared at her.

Kula blinked twice. She then ran around the pumpkin and promptly froze it. She then started to push and roll it like a giant ball. Etalus raised an eyebrow before quickly catching the incoming pumpkin with his front legs. The two then get into a power struggle, which looks comical. Though eventually, Etalus was winning. Kula gritted her teeth as she struggled in vain. Suddenly, she jumped back and let Etalus roll the frozen pumpkin towards her.

"COUNTER SHELL!"

Kula then did a downward icy hand towards the incoming pumpkin. When the move connected, she then kicked the pumpkin with a surprising amount of force. The pumpkin was then reflected back, not only rolling over Etalus but making it stuck to it. As the pumpkin rolled off quickly, it rolled over the ropes and went over, carrying the dazed Etalus with it.

Etalus landed in Street Fighter where he was promptly pile-drived into the ground by Zangief.

Kula smirked before pointing her finger out. "Ha! A projectile of any other size is still deflectable!"

Most of the fighters actually stopped what they were doing and noticed what Kula just did.

"Hm… Maybe we were too cynical about this hacking." Mewtwo mused, rubbing his chin.

"Yeah, in fact, it actually looks kinda fun." Big Norm smirked.

"Oh, sure, a bunch of grown-ass fighters having an elementary school food fight." Jin snarked.

"Welcome to modern UVRs, kid." Guile muttered, rolling his eyes.

Leon Magnus copied Guile's expression before getting a spell ready, wanting to get back to the action. "Stone Blast!"

This summoned four stones to pop out of the ground around Shiro Tokisada Amakusa before getting ready to dogpile him from all directions. However, the red-haired man just smirked before zooming off, managing to avoid all of the projectile.

"Hell Sword!" Kyle Dunamis shouted, swinging his flaming sword downwards. However, Amakusa thought quickly and used his floating orb to block the incoming attack. When Kyle was recovering from his own arte, Amakusa grabbed the blond boy by the collar and slapped him multiple times with his free hand before kicking him away.

"Dragon Swarm!" Leon shouted, rushing over and doing a series of slashes with his Swordian and dagger, but Amakusa managed to raise his orb to block the incoming barrage. The sorcerer then tried to punish Leon for his mistake, but Leon saw the attack coming and ran to the side. Amakusa then sensed Kyle trying to catch him behind. Acting quickly, he engulfed himself in dark energy before zooming out of the way of Kyle's slash.

"He is fast!" Kyle frowned.

"No, he is just able to hear easily-telegraphed attacks from a mile away." Leon snarked.

Amakusa then recovered from his dash and got ready to attack the two Tales swordsmen. Suddenly, a bouncy ball ricocheted off the back of his head. Blinking twice, he turned his head to see a grinning Lemmy Koopa.

"Oh, right… I nearly forgot about you." Amakusa muttered. For better or for worse, this felt him wide open for Leon and Kyle to run over and slashed him in the chest. Amakusa cried out in pain while staggering back before standing up straight with a scowl. He then sent his orb forward and created a flaming skull forward.

"Demon Attack!" Leon shouted, sending his blades forward with dark energy around it, negating the attack. Lemmy then got onto a pumpkin and started to roll like one of his balls towards Amakusa. However, the sorcerer rolled his eyes before sending his orb towards Lemmy. This resulted in not only hitting the Koopa, but sending him descending in a purple pillar of energy which sent him ascending up into the air.

"Lemmy!" Kyle gasped before growling and rushing forward while ignoring Leon's warning. However, it was too late. Amakusa managed to break out of his attack (while dropping Lemmy like a stone) and sent his orb right into the side of Kyle's head, sending him sprawling back towards Leon.

"Megalomaniac villain or not, surely he wouldn't just expect us to just sit still and let him attack that Koopa!" Leon scolded. "Who do you learn your tactics from!?"

"Um, dad?" Kyle said, weakly while getting up.

Leon blinked twice before shutting his eyes. "...I am not mad at you. I am more mad at myself for believing in you."

Meanwhile, Lemmy got out his wand. Amakusa got ready to counter any bouncy balls with his orb. However, when Lemmy waved it, three of the pumpkins turned into clones of Lemmy startling Amakusa (and Leon & Kyle). All four Lemmys then started to spin around Amakusa trying to confuse and disorient him. However, the red-haired man scoffed before sending orb at one of the Lemmy.

Only to explode into pieces of pumpkin. The rest of the clones then advanced forward and Amakusa's legs, knocking him down.

"Thrust Fang!

"Air Pressure!"

Amakusa was then bombarded by blades of air and a gravity field, striking him multiple times. The sorcerer winced before floating up while holding his arm.

"You children sure are rebellious! You all need atonement for your sins." Amakusa growled.

"And who are you to act like judge, jury and executioner!?" Kyle roared.

"You are not the only religious zealot I have faced nor will you be the last." Leon scoffed.

"You poor children. You have been blinded by false prophets." Amakusa lamented. "Worry not! I will save you! I will take you to my god and…"

Suddenly, a baseball came out of nowhere and hit Amakusa in the chest.

BOOM!

Leon and Kyle went wide-eyed as Amakusa was engulfed in an explosion and sent Lemmy falling on his rear (and revealing the clones). The sorcerer flew straight towards the arena and crashed into the barrier. A second later, he peeled off, unconscious so he was unable to zoom back into the ring.

Amakusa landed in Brawlhalla where Dusk mistook him as a rip-off as him and beat him into the ground with his own orb.

Leon and Kyle looked with slack jaws at what had just happened. They then turned to see Yoshi, Lincoln Loud and Zim looking stunned with Christopher Robin looking in horror.

"Whoops! Sorry about that! I guess not even a god like me is immune to clumsy eliminations at these things, huh?" Christopher Robin apologised before hitting himself on his head.

Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim then glared at Christopher Robin before thinking the same thing. "You liar! I saw your eye twitch when you overheard that sorcerer gloating about his god!"

Leon narrowed his eyes. "I thought you three were supposed to keep Christopher Robin from causing chaos!"

"Um, Zim does not recall taking on that responsibility!" Zim piped up.

"What is the big deal?" Kyle asked. "We did it!"

"Um, no, we didn't!" Leon scolded. "The only reason Amakusa is out of the arena is because of a stray projectile!"

"S-So?" Kyle frowned. "We were winning!"

"Because of me!" Leon scolded.

Kyle jumped. "W-What!? What are you talking about? This was a team effort!"

"Team effort? Most of your attacks involve running like a blinded bull and don't even get me started on the parlour trick of the Koopa!" Leon scoffed.

"Hey, come on! It takes a lot to be a hero!" Kyle pleaded.

"Hero? Pfft. People who use the word hero unironically shouldn't be taken seriously." Leon snarked.

Kyle growled. "Even Judas would call you out for your a-hole attitude!"

Leon glared at Kyle. "Don't you DARE bring his name!?"

With that, the two got into a fight with everyone else blinking twice.

"Hey! I wanna join in too!" Lemmy piped up.

With that, he started to join the shouting match (basically by weird complaints). The fighters looked in awe.

"...I know that they are clearly not the biggest threats in the ring, but I think we should get rid of them." Lincoln piped up.

"Agreed. We got enough on our plates without all of this stupid stupidity." Zim nodded.

With that, Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim went over to Kyle, Lemmy and Leon respectively and while the latter three were still arguing, the former trio readied their respective bats and swung it as hard as they could into their targets, sending all three of them flying out of the ring.

Leon & Kyle landed on a path in Kirby Star Allies. The two groaned before getting up.

"Did we really get eliminated when having a stupid conversation?" Leon asked in disbelief.

"I guess we DID kinda deserve that for distracting everyone else." Kyle sighed. He then noticed something. "Hm? Where's Lemmy? I could have sworn he was knocked out around the same time as us."

Leon scoffed. "You make it sound like…"

Then, the two heard a loud noise. Turning their heads, their eyes bugged out when they saw an enormous sphere of Waddle Dees rolling towards them. On top of said ball was Lemmy.

"Hey, guys! Check out this cool ball I found!" Lemmy grinned as he continued to balance on said ball as it advanced towards the two.

Needless to say, Leon and Kyle ran off in the opposite direction.

"Not even Stahn gave me THIS much of a headache!" Leon shouted.

Makoto gritted her teeth while looking around the sea of incoming pumpkins. However, she wasn't concerned about any of them. What she WAS concerned about was a certain yellow blur zooming around said sea.

"Twirl 'em and Hurl 'em!"

That was the shout of Nova before grabbing a pumpkin and throwing it at Makoto. However, the karakata got into a stance before punching her fist at the incoming fruit, destroying it immediately. However, Nova then lunged at her and did a dropkick to her face. Makoto staggered back, but quickly recovered and did a karate chop downwards. Nova wasn't expecting Makoto to recover that fast and got spiked to the ground.

Makoto then crouched down to punch Nova, but the monkey snapped out of her daze and flipped backwards before doing a kick forward. Makoto managed to block in time, but found herself skidding back on her feet (and knocking away a good chunk of pumpkins). Nova smirked before picking up another pumpkin.

"Flame Fist Fury!" Nova shouted, igniting the pumpkin on fire and throwing it forward. Makoto's eyes widened before rolling to the side, but this gave Nova the chance to run over and leap at Makoto.

"Boom Boom Wake-Up!" Nova shouted, sending her fist straight towards Makoto.

However, the Asian girl narrowed her eyes before punching her own fist out. This resulted in a large shockwave around the two. Nova looked in awe as Makoto continued to look sternly.

"H-H-How are you able to match my punch!?" Nova exclaimed. "Aren't you human?"

Makoto just scoffed. "I may not be as flashy as literally everyone else in Street Fighter history. But I make up for that with raw power."

Nova narrowed her eyes. "Alright, I admit that I underestimate you. But I still think that I am stronger."

Makoto immediately took the challenge by doing a leg drop downwards. However, Nova quickly caught it and sent Makoto flipping onto her stomach. Despite the painful and ungraceful fall, Makoto rolled to the side into a kneeling position. Nova then continued the assault before flipping forward and kicking her foot out, but Makoto grabbed it before throwing her away.

However, Nova landed on her hands before flipping back onto her feet. She then slammed her fists onto the ground, making a large tremor which sent Makoto (along with other fighters and pumpkin) shaking. Nova then ran over and flew another hard punch. However, Makoto thought quickly and drew her own punch, causing the two to have another clash.

However, Nova was faster than Makoto and did a spin kick to the karateka's face, sending her sprawling across the ground. Nova then picked up a pumpkin and threw it at Makoto while she was just getting up and managing to nail her in the head. Makoto grunted in pain before growling while getting up while looking ahead.

"Alright… That's it." Makoto muttered.

With that, she slammed her foot onto the ground with her skin literally turning bright red, startling Nova. The Asian woman then ran forward and punched her fist forward. Nova narrowed her eyes before punching her fist out as well. …Only to find the latter skidding on her feet. Nova looked in bewilderment.

"H-How? What IS this child!?" Nova asked in disbelief.

Makoto then kicked a pumpkin towards Nova, but the latter raised her fists to block the incoming fruit. However, this distracted her, Makoto ran over and did a downward kick, knocking Nova to the ground. Acting quickly, the dark-haired girl crouched down and punched her back. After Nova cried out in pain, Makoto grabbed the downed monkey and easily threw her over the ropes.

Nova landed in Power Rangers where she teamed up with the Yellow Ranger to take down various mooks.

Guile and Adelheid Bernstein narrowed their eyes before they encircled each other while eyeing each other (and the occasion pumpkin). Soon, Guile made the first move.

"Sonic Boom!" Guile shouted, sending his iconic yellow energy disc forward. However, Adelheid merely created a barrier of monochrome energy and when the Sonic Boom collided with said barrier, it was reflected back at Guile. However, the American merely ran a bulky arm to block the incoming projectile. However, Adelheid then dashed over and did a series of punches and kicks forward, but Guile was prepared and quickly blocked them.

"Flash Kick!" Guile shouted, doing a somersault kick and striking Adelheid in the chin. The German man crashed onto the ground hand, but quickly flipped back onto his feet. Just in time to block another punch. Adelheid punished Guile for his mistake by kicking the soldier in the side and making him stagger away. Adelheid then went with a clothesline attack.

However, Guile managed to not only recover, but also managed to flip himself upside-down, defying gravity and kicking Adelheid in the chest. The latter staggered back but regained his balance and kicked his leg up sending a monochrome ground wave forward, but easily leapt to the side before pulling his arms.

"Sonic…"

Adelheid got ready to use his projectile deflector again.

"...Blade!"

Adelheid blinked twice as he inadvertently activated his projectile deflector. However, instead of Guile's signature projectile, the soldier just created a vertical Sonic Boom floating in front of him. Guile smirked before doing another Sonic Boom forward in the first Sonic Boom which resulted in a cross that flew towards Adelheid. However, while the green-clad man was taken off-guard, he easily stepped to the side.

"I must say that I am impressed." Adelheid said in awe. "Forgive my rudeness, but from what I heard, you are infamous for having only two moves."

"Eh. To be fair, you are not wrong as it has helped me this far. Still, I have nothing to complain about." Guile shrugged before narrowing his eyes. "Even still, Street Fighter is changing and even people like me and Ryu can't stay stagnant. Besides, didn't you just take your moves from your father which HE stole from different moves."

Adelheid winced. "T-That's… I merely learned what my father taught me."

"Yeah, the art of copyright." Guile snarked. "The only reason that Geese Howard didn't slap his ass with a lawsuit was because he was a criminal himself."

"You would THINK that would be a reason why a case wouldn't be made at all. And yet here I am: Relieving several months that I wish I could forget." Adelheid groaned, shaking his head.

Guile blinked twice, wondering what Adelheid meant but quickly realised that it was smarter to try to ignore it. He then ran to the side before pulling his arms back.

"Sonic Hurricane!" Guile shouted, sending a larger yet stationary Sonic Boom at the ground in front of him, sending spinning into a group of pumpkins. This slashed through the hacked fruits and sent produce all over Adelheid, causing him to cry out in shock. Guile smirked before rushing over to take care of Adelheid's vulnerable state. However, despite being partially blinded, the German still heard Guile coming.

Using another move of his father's, Adelheid leapt up while swinging his leg, acting like a blade and striking Guile. The American was sent sprawling to the ground with Adelheid continuing the assault by kicking his leg and sending out a ground wave across the ground and hitting the downed man. Guile cried out in pain, but slowly got up to his feet.

Only for his eyes to bug out when he saw Adelheid rushing towards him. Guile was promptly clotheslined and was dragged by said clothesline by Adelheid until he crashed right into Shrek's house, resulting in a pillar of monochrome energy. Adelheid sternly looked down at Guile as the latter collapsed on the ground.

"I concede that I wield the techniques of my unsavoury father." Adelheid admitted. "However, I am a firm believer that it isn't that techniques that defines us, it is how we use them in battle."

With that, he crouched down to pick up the stunned Guile before throwing him out of the ring.

Guile landed in Battle Arena Toshinden where he got into a friendly fight with Rungo.

(Dome; Recovery Room)

"Really? The reason why Billy and the others are kidnapped is because they are close to the UVR winners?" Lilly gasped.

"I admit that I do not have concrete proof of this." Ryu frowned as the two left the Recovery Room. "But when you match up all of the things, it all makes sense. It is the only thing that links Dan, Billy and Pichu together."

Lilly looked in horror. "So the reason why that assassin had Billy attack me was because…"

"Indeed… To anger Geese Howard." Ryu solemnly nodded.

Lilly blinked twice before looking angry. "...I knew that villains always go after a lot of power, but still."

"Agreed. Even still, we can't let our guard down." Ryu warned.

"Oh, don't worry." Lilly said, sternly.

"Lilly! Ryu!"

The two's eyes widened before turning their heads to see Kasumi and Genjuro, along with Otane and her group.

"Kasumi…" Lilly said, softly.

Ryu raised an eyebrow. "And… Otane and some of her team?"

"Long story." Otane sighed, shaking her head. "To make it brief, that Ace guy was lying about teaming up with Dingodile and Joe to kill Terry?"

Lilly raised an eyebrow. "I had a suspicion he could be lying, but at the same time, I have to ask: What does he have to gain?"

"Hell if WE know! We are just tagging along to see if we can get to the meaning of this!" Elliana said.

"Oh, you think Oume's group has something to do with this?" Ryu asked.

"Well, we are not saying that we DON'T think they are responssssible. Buttttt…" Moe frowned.

"At this point, we are looking for potential allies to help get to the bottom of this." Otane said, sternly.

Kasumi raised a suspicious eyebrow. "Are you SURE Joe is innocent? You guys just admitted that he wouldn't give you a straight answer."

"I am posssssitive! If he DID kill Terry, he would have told us!" Moe insisted.

"Besides, in case you don't remember, we are currently duelling with Oume's group at the moment." Krizalid agreed, narrowing his eyes. "The sooner we'll ruin her plans, the more time we have so we can properly investigate what is going on."

"Speaking of soon, everyone found Oume's hideout." Genjuro piped up.

Lilly jumped. "W-Wait, really?"

"Yeah, everyone is going on the assault! If we all sprint, we can catch up to them!" Genjuro nodded.

"Then, what are we waiting for!?" Lilly asked, narrowing her eyes.

Tiny merely pointed at her and Ryu. "Um, you two?"

"Well, we are here now!" Lilly nodded. "Let's go!"

"Don't need to tell ME twice!" Genjuro scoffed before turning to Kasumi. "You know where they are?"

"Only what Kim, Luong and Chang told me, but it should be enough to find her secret hideout." The blue-haired girl mused. "Come on, let's go."

Everyone nodded their heads before they were about to walk off.

"Attention: Could Krizalid make his way to the Ready Room?" Drake's voice boomed through the speakers.

The dark-skinned man blinked twice before slapping his forehead. "Ugh, I have forgotten it was also my time to enter the arena!"

"It can't be helped. If you don't enter now, it will make the wrong type of person suspicious." Elliana frowned.

"That and if a certain little girl survives this section, maybe then you could… Dispel any and all misunderstandings." Otane frowned, jerking her thumb up at the screen showing the arena.

Krizalid paused at this. He then sighed.

"...I suppose that this was coming sooner or later." Krizalid said before walking off. "I better hear you kicked the asses of Oume's group!"

"Oh, I could assure you that I will make sure that NO ONE will come out unscathed." Lilly reassured, narrowing her eyes.

Krizalid nodded his head before making his way towards the Ready Room. Everyone else then nodded before walking off to join everyone else in the battle between Oume. Unknown to everyone, someone was spying on them the entire time. They then smirked before getting out a phone.

(Unknown Location)

"Ugh, thanks for going out of your way to save me." Ace groaned, rubbing his arm.

"We kinda have to, man. If we don't, then there is a chance that you will squeal all of us out."

"Unfortunately, I have to be careful when navigating around the dome seeing that one of the security members saw me." "Mercenary" lamented.

"ONE security member? Tch, don't worry about it! We still got an entire army to go on the frontlines without raising suspicion!"

"The problem is… Where do we go from here?"

Suddenly, they heard a phone hearing. Immediately, the leader got out their phone.

"Mine! Hello? Uh-huh? Uh-huh…"

The leader's eyes widened at this.

"Really? You don't say! Hm… That sounds like a good idea! Keep at it. But whatever you do, do not come out of the shadows in any circumstance. Aight, I am counting on you!"

"What was THAT?"

"Apparently, the obligatory hero versus villain group is actually going to come soon! And apparently the villain's hideout is the same one that Junko Enoshima was stationed at!"

"Ehhh!?"

"But didn't she brainwash all of the villains in the Tournament of Kikai? Why do they willingly go THERE? I know I sure as hell wouldn't if that happened to me!"

"Normally, I would agree with you guys, but assuming that they are just like us, they are opportunists that couldn't help but take any chances that are literally under their noses!"

"I guess… Well, we are going to try to use whatever Junko has left over to kill Drake."

"...No."

This startled everyone.

"Excuse me!?" "Mercenary" exclaimed.

"Why would you say that!?" Ace asked. "Isn't that what we are here for!?"

"Well, we were. But maybe we were a little too… Direct with our goals?"

"D-Direct?"

"Yes, we don't have to KILL Drake."

The leader then gave a dark smirk.

"We just have to make him WISH that he was dead."

(The Arena)

Banjo and Big Norm lunged at each other before locking arms with each other and getting into a power struggle. Banjo narrowed his eyes while Big Norm gave a cocky grin as they tried to gain ground on each other. Suddenly, Kazooie popped out of Banjo's backpack and pecked at Big Norm's face. The heavyset man cried out in pain as Banjo had the upper hand and shoved Big Norm to the ground. Then, Little Norm ran to his larger form's aid.

However, instead of protecting Big Norm from Banjo & Kazooie and raised his arms to the side of him. Just in time to block a yellow-and-black missile which resulted in an explosion of sparks. Byte let out a monotone scoff before retreating his Seekie arm back. Then, Bark spent out his own ARM at Banjo. However, the bear easily caught it with his hands with a rare sly smirk.

Only to heat from his hands as smoke started to appear. Banjo cried out in pain before retreating his hands. This left him wide open for Byte to send a black boxing glove into Banjo's face, knocking him down. He was about to continue to assault, only to find both of his ARMs pinned to his sides. Turning his head, he saw that Little Norm was holding onto an invisible rope.

"Nice one, man!" Big Norm smirked, giving a thumbs up.

Little Norm returned the smirk before giving the "rope" to Big Norm. Just in time to raise an invisible shield to block an incoming egg. Seeing that Banjo was holding Kazooie like a rifle, Little Norm acted like he was holding a golf club and swung it at a pumpkin. However, Banjo easily shot an egg at it, destroying it. Little Norm continued to hit pumpkins at Banjo, but the bear kept shooting at them.

Meanwhile, Big Norm and Byte got into a power struggle with each other, but the former soon won out, sending Byte onto the ground. Bark let out an indignant growl before rushing over while doing monotone barks. However, Big Norm saw him coming and swung on the rope and sent Byte into Bark like a makeshift flail

Big Norm smirked before dusting his hands together before making a spherical action with his hands. He then sent a transparent bubble forward, managing to capture both Byte & Bark into the bubble. Big Norm smirked before rushing over. However, Byte jumped on top of Bark and used him as a bounce pad. This resulted in a shockwave emitting from the bubble, popping it immediately.

Big Norm's smirk vanished as the still-airborne Byte sent out his Bubb right into the former's face, knocking him to the ground. After sitting back, he looked up to see how Little Norm was doing. Only for the mime trying to use his invisible shield to block a charge from Banjo & Kazooie. However, said charge was covered with golden feathers and when it crashed into the shield, Little Norm was sent flying back. Big Norm's eyes widened before getting up and catching his smaller self.

"...Never thought we would use our first Wonderwing for a MIME." Kazooie asked in disbelief.

"Can't be helped. We literally can't see if we could make damage to his barrier normally." Banjo shrugged.

With that, all three duo fighters eyed each other, making sure that their rivals didn't make a move on each other. Then, Byte then sent out his Seekie and Bubb ARMs at each pair. Banjo ran out of the way to avoid the Seekie. But Big Norm instead caught the Bubb and grabbed onto it, swinging it and sending a startled Byte into Banjo & Kazooie, knocking them down.

"Heh! They are downed! I will keep them distracted while you finish them off with a bang!" Big Norm sneered.

Little Norm nodded his head before getting an invisible object. Big Norm then proceeded to kick a bunch of pumpkins towards the downed Byte and Banjo & Kazooie.

"ACK! STOP IT! WE SPENT A HOUR POLISHING OURSELVES BEFORE ENTERING THE RING!" Byte pleaded.

"Yeah, and I am getting flashbacks of facing Conga!" Kazooie agreed.

Big Norm didn't listen as he continued the assault while Little Norm readied his invisible weapon. Giant piles of dynamite. He was about to throw it onto Banjo & Kazooie and Byte.

BARK.

The Norms stopped themselves before looking in the direction of the bark to see… Bark. The robotic dog then sent out his fist. At what Little Norm was holding, making both Norms' eyes bugged out in horror.

The moment that Bark's fist collided with Little Norm's hand, both Norms were sent flying backwards as if they were covered in an explosion before falling out of the arena from opposite sides. Banjo & Kazooie blinked twice at this.

"ATTA BOY!" Byte cheered, pumping his fist into the air. "WAY TO SHOW THOSE MIMES THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER OVERLOOK ONE PART OF A DUO FIGHTER!"

"Mimes are weird…" Banjo piped up.

"Always have a polite way for everything, don't you?" Kazooie snarked.

Both Norms landed in Sega Genesis's Batman where the titular character mistook them for a couple of Joker's cronies and beat them into the ground.

The Pyro then sent out a stream of fire out of their flamethrower. Only for it to collide with a light blue energy hexagon and was sent back at the Pyro. However, the mercenary was unaffected, in fact they liked it as they were dancing around. Suddenly, a red blur zoomed over and clubbed them over the head with a metallic arm. The Pyro stumbled to the side before recovering and giving a muffled shout of anger.

The Pyro then got out a shotgun and fired it forward. However, Fox McCloud and Foxy ran to opposite sides to avoid the shots. While running, Fox got out his blaster and fired as many shots into the Pyro. However, the latter just aimed his shotgun at Fox. But Foxy just ran over and did a flip, kicking the Pyro in the chin and sending him up before crashing on the ground. The Pyro groaned before sitting up.

They then noticed that they were surrounded by pumpkins. Immediately perking up, they readied their flamethrower and proceeded to set fire to said fruit, making the eyes of the space foxes bugged out in horror.

"No!" They exclaimed before dashing over, but it was too late as the pumpkins ran away and cried out in pain. This caused a chain reaction that caused them to run into other pumpkins. The Millennium Star rolled his eyes.

"Ugh, not again…" The Millennium Star groaned.

He then floated over to the pumpkins and summoned a large rain cloud, making drops fall down on the pumpkins, killing the fire. Foxy looked in disbelief before looking at Fox.

"'Ow in the 'ell did this here scurvy dog be the least screen time-focused in the last section?" Foxy asked in disbelief. "May I remind ye that there said section been an ice-themed stage?"

Fox shook his head. "Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe because they were in the same section as that polar bear chase and Shrek and Peach trying to get revenge on Shadow."

"Well, we can't go on like this! I may be a lubber o' the sea, but if we 'ave to stop our fight an' wait for the Millennium Star to put out the fire, I be goin' to scream." Foxy frowned.

Fox blinked twice. "Agreed. We have to make sure that they'll have no room to use their flamethrower on the pumpkins."

Foxy smirked. "NOW that be there what I want to 'ear!"

With that, he zoomed over the Pyro and smacked him in the face with his flamethrower arm. He may not be able to use its original function for obvious reasons, but he was still going to use it. The Pyro staggered back before getting out their axe and swung it forward. However, Foxy easily jumped over it and did a dropkick which sent the Pyro staggering back further even more.

Before the Pyro had a chance to recover, Fox did a baseball slide to knock the pyromaniac off of their feet. The space vulpines are then dogpiled onto the Pyro, in an attempt to pin them down. However, despite being two of them, the Pyro was still heavier than both of them and got up while picking them up easily before throwing them to the ground.

They then aimed their flamethrower at them and fired. However, Foxy aimed his own flamethrower arm and sent out a stream of fire for the two projectiles to clash.

"Lad, now!" Foxy shouted.

Fox nodded his head before getting up and ran to the side before kicking the Pyro in the side before proceeding to do a series of kicks to their stomach. The Pyro grunted in pain before punching their fist, but Fox swerved his head to the side to avoid the attack before doing a flip kick, sending the Pyro swerved away. The mercenary then got out their shotgun and proceeded to fire. However, Fox activated his deflector, sending the shots back at him.

Foxy ran over to Fox with a smirk. "Heh! We're winning!"

"That seems like the case." The StarFox leader nodded. "But don't let your guard down."

"Oh, don't worry! Ye an' I know that there we could literally run circles o'er all o' their weapons!" Foxy reassured.

The two space vulpines then turned their heads to see the Pyro crouching down and looking like they were about to do a rugby tackle. The two smirked before getting ready to dodge an easily-telegraph charge.

Only for the Pyro to zoom forward at a sudden speed. Not that it was faster than the foxes, but obviously since it was so sudden, they caught them both by surprise and ended up ploughing through their stomachs with each of their shoulders. The two were then sent flying away.

"SCREEEEEEEEEE!"

CRASH!

Foxy ended up crashing into another fighter, knocking them down. Fox on the other hand, wasn't as lucky as he flew over the ropes.

Fox landed in Pokemon where a Delphox fell in love with him and wrapped their arms around him, much to the pilot's chagrin.

Foxy groaned before propping himself on his hands, unaware that he was on top of another fighter. He then saw that the Pyro was now wearing some kind of thermal jetpack on their back. Foxy blinked twice before slapping his head with his flamethrower arm (and immediately crying out in pain from accidentally whacking himself).

"I 'ave forgotten that the Pyro 'ad a jetpack as a secondary weapon." He groaned from both exasperation and pain.

By this time, Foxy finally noticed that he was on top of another eye. His good eye bugged out when he found out it was the wide-eyed face of Kula Diamond.

"Ah ha ha…. Sorry about that there, lass." Foxy apologised, sheepishly.

"How dare you…"

"H-Huh?" Foxy asked.

Suddenly, Kula grabbed him by the jacket and pulled his face to her with the latter looking absolutely furious.

"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO JUMP-SCARE ME!? YOU THINK THAT I HAVE TIME TO GET STUFFED INTO A SUIT!?" Kula roared at the top of her lungs.

"W-Woah, I ain't not the original Foxy animatronic, I am…" Foxy started, looking scared. "

"DO YOU REALLY THINK I WANT TO GO THROUGH ANOTHER HALLOWEEN SECTION JUST LIKE I DID AT THE TOURNAMENT OF KIKAI! I HAD NIGHTMARES FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG!" Kula roared. "OF COURSE I HAD TO APPEAR WHEN THAT STUPID VAMPIRE DECIDES TO HOLD A HALLOWEEN EPISODE!"

Needless to say, everyone stopped what they were doing to see Kula ranting.

"AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORST PART IS!? I COULD HAD ALMOST BEEN ELIMINATED IF YOU CRASHED INTO ME THE WRONG WAY! DO YOU REALLY THINK I HAVE TIME TO GET ELIMINATED WHEN THERE ARE POTENTIAL VILLAINS TO LOOK OUT FOR!" Kula roared.

Foxy blinked twice before looking to the side and then looking back at Kula. "But that there Irken and virus Digimon."

"THOSE TWO ARE IRRELEVANT! I AM LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN PARTICULAR SET OF VILLAINS!" Kula roared. "IF I DID, I WOULD HAD GONE AFTER THOSE TWO CREEPS THE MOMENT I STEPPED IN THE ARENA!"

Zim's face went from thunderstruck to annoyed before leaning against his bat. "Boring conversation. Can't focus."

Lincoln glared at his nodal companion. "Zim, don't steal lines from Fairly OddParents. You know how salty Timmy is that he didn't get into All-Star Brawl or Kart Racers 3."

"JUST GET OUT OF HERE! IT IS MAKING ME PHYSICALLY SICK TO EVEN LOOK AT YOUR FACE!" Kula roared. "I DON'T EVEN CARE HOW THE TECHNOLOGY MADE YOU LOOK ORGANIC!"

With that, she proceeded to swing Foxy around a few times before throwing him straight out of the arena with all of her might.

Foxy landed in Contra: Hard Corps where he teamed up with Brad Fang.

Everyone watched with shrunken pupils and slack jaws as Kula breathed in and out heavily. She then stomped her way over to Shrek's house and made her up the path until she was on the roof before engulfing herself in a block of ice.

(Dome; King of Fighters All-Star Locker Room)

Everyone in the locker room sat looking just as, if not more dumbstruck as everyone else.

"I… I think we should call and check up on Ralf and Whip." Heidern piped up.

"You think…?" K' snarked, still looking dumbstruck.

With that, Heidern got out his phone and started to dial a certain number. After a few seconds, someone answered it.

"Sorry, Whip?" Heidern asked.

"Um, she is busy." An unknown voice said.

Heidern's good eye widened at this. "Wait, who is this!?"

"Sorry, sorry, I understand that this is all so surprising for you." The voice apologised.

Heidern blinked twice. "Wait… You're that Dexter boy!"

"That is correct… Look, it is a long story but I had to intercept any and all calls to Whip." Dexter sighed. "Trust me when I say that they don't need any distractions."

Heidern paused. "Could… Could you tell me what is going on? I know that my soldiers, Ralf and Whip, went to stop a villain plot on their own, but I knew that said villain plot may be… Personal for Whip so I decided to trust them to do it on their own."

"Well, for better or for worse, that villain plot is about to end soon." Dexter said, sheepishly.

(The Arena)

Everyone continued to stare dumbstruck at what had just happened. Suddenly, some of them heard weird screaming.

"Oh, not again!"

They then turned to see pumpkins on fire while running around in pain. The Millennium Star grumpily floated in to summon another rain cloud. Not too far was the Pyro, happily clapping their hands together.

Shrek blinked twice. "...The Pyro has to leave."

"No duh." Jacky said, rolling his eyes. "Question is, how? While most of their eliminations are… On the silly side, they are still hard to eliminate."

"Well, maybe I should take a page out of the Ice Climbers' book that was used to eliminate Dot Warner on her fourth section." Shrek mused, rubbing his chin.

"You mean outwacky the wacky?" Jacky asked. "That's a solid idea. But how are you going to do it?"

Shrek smirked. "How? By being me, of course!"

With that, he walked over to the Pyro.

"Oh, Pyro!" Shrek shouted, getting the mercenary's attention. "Is it okay if you set me on fire with your flamethrower? Pretty please?"

Everyone stood bewildered by this. Even the Pyro looked like they were confused. However, they were never one to turn down a chance to use fire so they aimed their flamethrower.

Shrek smirked before turning around just as Pyro fired a stream of flames, making everyone's eyes bugged out.

"Oh no…" Hyo said in horror. "Just… No…"

HPPTPHTPHPHHPH!

That was the sound of Shrek's farting into the incoming stream of fire. This resulted in not only the flames flying straight back into the Pyro, but the force had spent him flying away and out of the ring. Several fighters coughed while holding their noses.

"What the hell, dude!?" Dedede roared. "Are you trying to kill us!?"

"What? The Pyro is gone now!" Shrek chuckled. "Besides, I can't be Shrek if I don't bring a bit of Shrek-ness to the tournament, now can I?"

"...What even is this section?" Ashley groaned.

The Pyro landed in Valkyria Chronicles III where they made quick friends with fellow eccentric pyromaniac, Gisele, much to the Nameless' disdain.

As everyone tried to go back to fight (emphasis on try), one particular fighter decided to take advantage of the gimmick. Shadow the Hedgehog gritted his teeth before skating off. Just in time to avoid a meteor shower of pumpkins. Mewtwo smirked before using his telekinesis to lift a few more pumpkins into the air and send them towards Shadow.

However, Shadow leapt up and used his Homing Attack on the nearest pumpkin and bounced off of it before going onto the next pumpkin. He then proceeded to do this until he was getting closer. But Mewtwo narrowed his eyes before sending out a Shadow Ball. It was an uncharged one, but the ball of dark energy was more than enough to crash into Shadow.

Shadow fell backwards, but quickly flipped himself onto a standing position and landed on the ground just in time to skate out of the way to avoid another pumpkin. He then got out a Chaos Emerald.

"Chaos Control!" Shadow shouted before disappearing. However, Mewtwo just rolled his eyes and the moment that Shadow reappeared behind him, Mewtwo swung his tail behind just in time to block an incoming kick.

"Everything personal, adult." Mewtwo snarked. With that, he whirled around and swung his claw with shadow energy around it. However, Shadow managed to flip in midair before snapping his fingers. This resulted in a small burst of Chaos energy where Mewtwo was, finally hitting the psychic and sending him crashing on the ground. Shadow then skated over to do a flying kick, but Mewtwo managed to summon a barrier around himself, blocking the attack. Shadow quickly flipped back into a standing position before the two got into a stance.

Suddenly, they both paused.

"It seems like we are about to get our fight interrupted." Mewtwo noted, seeing Makoto approach Shadow from behind.

"Looks like it." Shadow mused, seeing Adelheid Bernstein try to do the same to Mewtwo.

Only immediately, they turned to strike their respective attackers. With Mewtwo hitting Adelheid with a Shadow Ball and Shadow knocking Makoto away with a Homing Attack.

Despite the latter knocking onto the ground, Makoto stood up straight and got into a stance. Shadow smirked before he proceeded to literally run circles around Makoto. The Karekata just narrowed her eyes before pulling her fist up into the air and slamming into the ground. This resulted in a large tremor that sent Shadow shaking in place. Makoto then dashed forward and punched Shadow in the face.

The hedgehog was sent sprawling across the ground. He groaned before looking up to Makoto rushing forward. After quickly, he did a sweeping kick using the thruster from his rocket skates to do a flaming kick to Makoto's legs which not only sent the Asian girl off of her feet and crashing onto the ground. However, Makoto quickly got into a kneeling position.

Just in time to see Shadow wielding a bright yellow blaster with a large head of Omochao attached to it. The hedgehog smirked before firing it forward. Makoto's eyes widened before running to the side to avoid the Omochao head. Only for said head to bounce off of one of the pumpkins and bounced back at Makoto, striking her in the back and sending her towards Shadow.

Shadow smirked before doing a flip kick, striking Makoto in the chin and sending her flying into the air. Shadow then leapt up after Makoto before doing an aerial combo to her and ending with an axe kick, knocking the latter to the ground. Makoto groaned before sitting up. She then looked around.

"Well… When it is Rome." Makoto muttered.

She then continued to look around while keeping an eye out for Shadow. Her eyes then lit up before rushing off. Shadow raised an eyebrow before looking in the direction where Makoto was running.

Shadow then noticed that Makoto was running towards a larger pumpkin like the one Kula ran into. She then ran behind the hacked fruit and started to push it. Despite the large size difference, she managed to make it roll. Shadow raised an amused eyebrow as Makoto continued to push it towards him. The black-furred rodent rolled his eyes before skating to the side.

"Kid… If you really think that I would just stand still and let you run me…" Shadow started.

Then, Makoto dashed to the opposite side of Shadow and sent her fist into the giant pumpkin. This resulted in the giant pumpkin flying straight at Shadow, making the hedgehog's pupils shrank.

SPLAT!

Makoto smirked as she watched the giant pumpkin splattered all over the canvas. She then ran over to pieces so she could pick up the stunned Shadow to eliminate him.

"Not how I would like to get an elimination, but I don't think anyone would complain." Makoto mused.

"True. That WAS an actual smart move."

Makoto's eyes bugged out before whirling around to see Shadow standing behind her unscathed while holding a spear of yellow energy above his head.

"Too bad it was so against the teleportation powers of the Ultimate Lifeform." Shadow smirked. "CHAOS SPEAR!"

With that, he sent out the spear which turned into multiple energy spears and crashed into Makoto, striking her multiple times and sending her flying out of the ring.

Meanwhile, Mewtwo telekinetically sent a barrage of pumpkins forward. However, Adelheid summoned his projectile deflector the fruits back at Mewtwo. However, the Pokemon then swung his claw upwards, sending the pumpkins back to Adelheid. The two then had an odd tennis match, trying to splatter pumpkins onto each other. However, seeing that this was about to be a stalemate, Mewtwo had enough and sent a bunch of stars forward that zoomed in on the incoming pumpkins, making Adelheid raise an eyebrow.

"Looks like he still has the same moves he used in the Tournament of Kikai." Adelheid mused. He then dashed forward, but Mewtwo sent a bunch of tiny Shadow Balls forward. However, Adelheid dashed to the side and kicked out a Reppuken to manage to catch Mewtwo in the shin. When the psychic let his guard down, Adelheid then rushed over and did a series of punches and kicks to Mewtwo's face and stomach.

Adelheid then ended with a Genocide Cutter, sending Mewtwo flying backwards. However, Mewtwo self-righted in mid-air into a floating position. He then swung his claw in a horizontal fashion, sending a purple wave downwards. But Adelheid rolled to the side to avoid the projectile. However, Mewtwo then teleported in front of Adelheid, but the German man raised his arms to block an incoming downwards tail attack. Mewtwo tried to make up for his mistake by punching his fist over, but Adelheid easily grabbed it.

However, Mewtwo's fist was surging with electricity, causing Adelheid to cry out in pain. Mewtwo smirked as using Thunder Punch and did a series of claw swipes and kicks before ending up with a flip, catching Adelheid in the chin with his tail. The blond man was sent flying towards the air, but landed on his hands before flipping back onto his rear.

"It seems that the only thing you have in common with your father is his strength." Mewtwo noted.

"I appreciate your acknowledgement." Adelheid sighed, shaking his head. "Even now, I am still stunned by not only how cruel my father is, but how petty he is."

"Seriously, even at my worst, I would never throw a temper tantrum and blow up my own airship, killing everyone including myself, because I lost a match." Mewtwo muttered, rolling his eyes. "I am pleasantly surprised that your sister didn't pull the same stunt in 2003."

"Ugh, don't remind me. I truly love my sister, but on bad days, I admit that she could act unsavoury." Adelheid groaned. "Look, shall we continue?"

"Let's." Mewtwo nodded. With that, he floated off to the side and sent out more homing stars forward. Adelheid started to run off, knowing that he can't use his deflector on all of them at once so he ran off with said projectiles chasing after him. However, while running, he was making sure that the stars were chasing him in a straight line.

Once he made sure that was the case, Adelheid spun around and activated his deflector and sent the stars straight back at Mewtwo. The feline-like Pokemon narrowed his eyes… And allowed the stars to strike him in his body, making him grunt in pain. Adelheid raised an eyebrow at this.

"Hmm… I know it is impossible to avoid Swift without guarding, but you would think that he would make SOME attempt to…" Adelheid mused.

Suddenly, Mewtwo teleported in front of Adelheid, startling the blond man. Before the latter could react, Mewtwo gave a dark glare into his opponent's eyes, making Adelheid wobble in his spot dazed. Mewtwo then spun around, whipping Adelheid in the face with his tail and sending him sprawling away.

Despite the hard hit and fall, Adelheid quickly rolled into a kneeling position. Only to see Mewtwo charging up his Shadow Ball. Once it was fully charged, he sent it forward. Adelheid narrowed his eyes before reflecting the projectile back at Pikachu.

…Only for his projectile deflector to not come out at all. Before Adelheid could comprehend what just happened, the ball of dark energy crashed into Mewtwo and sent him flying back and out of the arena.

Adelheid landed in Tekken where he got into a conversation with Jin about their messed-up families. Needless to say, Adelheid realised that he didn't have it THAT bad in comparison to the Mishimas.

Mewtwo smirked at his first elimination before Shadow skated over to the Pokemon with a raised eyebrow.

"...Oh, I have forgotten that Disable could literally disable the last move the target does." Shadow mused.

"Yes… I obviously can't do that in Super Smash Bros because it would be too cheap for the type of gameplay. But seeing that this ISN'T Super Smash Bros." Mewtwo chuckled.

(Furinkan High School; Courtyard)

"For the last time, I am not the person you think I am!" Makoto roared, angrily.

A dark-haired tall man shook his head with a frown.

"Oh, dear Akane, how could I ever mistake such a lovely figure as yourself?" Tatewaki Kuno said, dramatically.

"Look, buddy. I came from a tournament called the Battle of the Luminaries, based on the Ultimate Video Rumble." Makoto explained.

"Okay, now I know that you are lying because if there was such a tournament, I would have heard about it, let alone been invited to it!" Kuno scolded, narrowing his eyes.

"Hey, they can't invite EVERYONE! This is actually only my second tournament!" Makoto insisted. "My name is Makoto and I am from the Street Fighter node!"

Kuno raised an eyebrow. "Oh right, 'Makoto', I will believe you. But just let me do a little test."

Makoto scoffed before getting into a stance. "Tch. Fine by me. Just don't."

Then, Kuno grabbed onto Makoto's chest. The girl's pupils shrank as she slowly looked up at Kuno with a lecherous look on his face.

Meanwhile, Celica, Azusa and Leon were talking to Ranma and Akane were walking in a different part of school.

"So instead of spending ten minutes in one node, you have to spend ten minutes in multiple nodes?" Akane frowned.

"Oof. That's rough, guys." Ranma winced, putting his hands behind his back.

"Oh, it isn't so bad. The residents of the nodes we went into were surprisingly understanding of our situation." Celica explained.

"I mean yeah if they didn't, that means they had never even heard of the Ultimate Video Rumble at all." Akane shrugged.

"Yeah, what kind of idiot hasn't even heard of one of the biggest crossover tournaments of all time?" Ranma asked.

As if on cue, the unconscious form of Kuno flew into the sky behind them. Said five didn't even notice.

(Hotel; Secret Laboratory)

"BUREAAAAAAAAAA!"

After giving his signature battle cry, Barbatos Goetia rushed over while pulling his axe over his head. Despite this being a threatening scene, Dhaos narrowed his eyes before floating to the side to avoid being smashed into the ground. He then pulled his hands back, summoning blue energy around his hands.

"Dhaos Laser!" Dhaos shouted, sending a beam into Barbatos' side. The blue-haired man was sent flying back and crashing onto his side. However, Barbatos got up, but Dhaos flew over.

"Tetra Assault!" Dhaos shouted, striking Barbatos in his face and stomach with a series of punches and kicks. However, Barbatos grunted in pain before slamming his head against Dhaos' forehead. This sent the archmage flying back and skidding back onto the floor. Dhaos groaned before looking up. His eyes then bugged out in horror when he saw that Barbatos wasn't going towards him, but going towards the machine containing the Star Pieces.

"DON'T!" Dhaos shouted before zooming at Barbatos as fast as he could. He barely managed to tackle Barbatos to the ground. However, Barbatos merely grunted in annoyance before upper-cutting Dhaos off of him. He then got up and swung his axe downwards, but Dhaos quickly recovered and rolled to the side before floating upwards.

"Why are you going out of your way to protect those accused items?" Barbatos asked in disbelief. "They are a glorified currency for trades. They are not even MANDATORY!"

"Because they are more than items! They are literally holding the form of hype which we collected from our team!" Dhaos scolded.

Barbatos blinked twice. "...So let me get this straight. You willingly put yourself on my shit list for items that don't even benefit the user that much."

Dhaos' eyebrow twitch. "Hey!"

"GET OVER HERE!"

Scorpion let out his iconic spear straight into Cinder's chest before pulling him straight over it and dealing a devastating uppercut to his chin, sending Cinder flying up into the air before crashing onto his back.

"Feel that, Johnny?" Scorpion taunted. "THAT is how 'Get Over Here" is so iconic! You have to put power in your voice! Your anger! Your determination! Your desire to see your opponent suffer!"

Cinder sat up, looking annoyed. "Yeah, yeah… You are the original. Blah blah blah. And you are basically Nicki Minaj where every bitch is your son. Blah blah blah."

"Well, they are!" Scorpion snapped.

Cinder rolled his eyes before zooming forward. Scorpion was too distracted by his boast and ended up being headbutted in his stomach. With his eyes bugging out in pain, he found himself getting dragged through the air until Cinder finally stopped and sent Scorpion flying into the wall. Cinder smirked before punching into Scorpion while the spectre was stunned.

Only for Scorpion to vanish into flames, causing Cinder to punch the wall instead. Scorpion then reappeared in the same flames and kicked Cinder in the back, sending him flying into the wall instead. Scorpion then proceeded to do a series of punches and kicks to Cinder's body. Cinder in pain before making his body explode, sending Scorpion flying backwards.

However, due to being a pyromancer spectre, Scorpion quickly flipped back after falling on his back, just in time to block an incoming punch and countered with a kick to Cinder's stomach. The flaming man smirked before returning the kick. Scorpion then got up a pair of ninjato and swung them forward, but Cinder raised a shield of fire to block the incoming attack. But Scorpion managed to slash through and sent Cinder into a fall.

Scorpion scoffed. "Just because you are literally on fire, you think you have a chance against me? Your fire is artificially implemented into you. MY fire is literal hellfire."

"So? Hell isn't THAT bad! In fact, I would actually hang out there if I didn't have a lot of things to do." Cinder scoffed, rolling his eyes.

Scorpion blinked twice before narrowing his eyes. "Real hell is nothing like VivziePop portrays!"

Sub-Zero raised a polearm made out of ice to block a golden metallic blade. Despite this, ARIA merely continued the assault, swinging her blade again but Sub-Zero easily blocked it. However, ARIA's Bass drone flew behind Sub-Zero and sent a projectile into his back. After the cryomancer cried out in pain, ARIA kicked her foot into Sub-Zero's stomach, knocking him down.

ARIA then flew over to stab Sub-Zero while he was down, but the Chinese man rolled backwards to avoid the attack before sliding forward in a shoulder charge with ice surrounding said shoulder and ramming in ARIA's face. After the android floated back before Sub-Zero got up and sent out a sphere of ice into ARIA, freezing her immediately.

Sub-Zero then ran over to the frozen ARIA before dealing an uppercut to the robot's chin, sending her flying high into the air. When ARIA fell to the ground, Sub-Zero ran over and did a series of punches and kicks, struggling her off of the ground. Suddenly, ARIA self-righted herself with a burst of energy around her and sent Sub-Zero soaring into the wall.

"K-K-K-K-KOMBO BREAKER!"

ARIA then switched from her Blade Form into her Bass Form and sent out a projectile from her chest. By this time, Sub-Zero snapped out of his daze in time to go wide-eyed and create a barrier of ice to block the incoming shot. However, ARIA sent out her Boost drone forward. Sub-Zero, however, was more prepared as he sent out ice below him, recoiling him upwards (and creating icicles in front where the Boost drone collided) before landing on the wall and jumping off of it.

"SURRENDER. I FACE GLACIUS ON A REGULAR BASIS SO I AM FAMILIAR WITH FACING OFF AGAINST CRYOMANCY." ARIA said, matter-of-factly.

Sub-Zero narrowed his eyes. "Not only did me and my brother predate Glacius by at least one year. My cryomancy is much more defined seeing I saw more work. I am the face of fighting game cryomancers!"

"DO YOU THINK I HAVEN'T ANALYSED THE PRIORITIES OF ICE LONG BEFORE ENTERING THIS TOURNAMENT?" ARIA asked.

Sub-Zero merely scoffed before creating a hand axe of ice. "Allow me how my cryomancy couldn't be analysed."

Larcen Tyler gritted his teeth as he looked around the arena where he and his opponent were fighting. Suddenly, he noticed a puddle of darkness underneath his feet. Acting quickly, he jumped back in time to avoid Basara popping from the puddle with a jumping uppercut with his giant shuriken. Larcen then rushed over and did a series of spiked-gauntleted punches to Basara's face and stomach.

With one final punch to the chest, Basara was sent skidding on his back. The yurei groaned before getting up on his knee, only for a spinning sai to impale itself in his chest. Basara winced before raising his shuriken to block another thrown sai. He then swung his shuriken at Larcen, but the cat burglar threw himself to the ground to not only dodged the attack, but sent a grappling hook at Basara's legs and made the latter fall onto his back.

However, the moment Basara hit the ground, he immediately vanished in a dark puddle. Larcen was not expecting Basara to recover so quickly and was taken off-guard. Long enough for another puddle to appear underneath his feet with Basara grabbing onto his feet. Immediately, he felt himself sinking into the puddle. Acting quickly, he lashed out his grappling hook at the ceiling.

Just in time to not only pull himself out of the puddle, but also a stunned Basara still holding onto Larcen's feet. When the two were closer to the ceiling, Larcen purposefully let go so they could both fall to the ground with Larcen, knocking the wind out of Basara. With the blue-haired man stunned, Larcen got up before getting out a sai… And throwing it to the side. Then, Basara kicked his foot out, managing to sweep Larcen off of his feet. Despite having the upper hand, Basara looked annoyed.

"How are YOU giving us so much trouble!?" Basara roared. "I could definitely understand Barbatos and Scorpion and Sub-Zero is one of the most recognisable faces in Mortal Kombat, but YOU?"

"In case you didn't know, Eternal Champions is just as violent as Mortal Kombat." Larcen shot back with a smirk as the two got up. "There is nothing new about you. Except that you are uglier than everyone else I faced."

Basara growled. "Well, at least I OWN that I am a killer!"

Larcen's smirk vanished. "Um, w-what does THAT have to do with anything?"

"Because you supposedly dislike killing and yet your finisher is not only a Mortal Kombat fatality, but it is actually one that I would do!" Basara sneered.

Larcen growled before rushing over. Meanwhile, Ralf watched the whole conversation while blinking twice.

"...Why DID Larcen end up in a Mortal Kombat-like clone if he doesn't like killing?" Ralf asked.

He says this while using that last sai that Larcen threw to try to cut those ropes binding his wrists.

Dhaos cried out in pain before crashing into the wall. He winced before looking up at the sneering Barbatos.

"Gee, Dhaos, you don't seem to be doing well. Maybe you should cast a spell?" Barbatos taunted. He then gave a mock gasp. "Oh, wait! I would just cast a counterspell, basically locking you out most of your artes by default!"

The blond man growled as his eyebrow twitched as Barbatos continued.

"No, really, what did you, a mage, arch or otherwise, was thinking when you went against me?" Barbatos asked.

Dhaos frowned. "I confess that my physical artes is limited in the mainline games. But that is why we have the gacha games. DHAOS BLAZE!"

With that, he sent out three fireballs forward. Barbatos then raised his axe to block incoming projectiles easily but Dhaos.

"Gale Assault!" Dhaos shouted, swinging his arm and sending a tornado into Barbatos. Said wind projectile spun around the axe-wielder and sent him spiralling around before flying into a wall. Barbatos groaned before quickly recovering and growled before dashing forward.

"Dhaos Laser!" Dhaos shouted, sending out his laser and pinning Barbatos to the wall. The archmage smirked, happy for Tales of the Rays.

Suddenly, he heard loud noises to the side. Raising an eyebrow, he turned his head.

Only for his eyes bugged out to see Ralf Jones using his Vulcan Punch on the shackles, pinning Maxima down.

"Oh no!" Dhaos gasped. He then went to fire a Dhaos Laser at the two.

Until he felt a pair of strong arms wrap around him. With his eyes widening, he looked up to see the upside-down dark grin of Barbatos.

"Going somewhere?" Barbatos sneered before looking at Ralf and Maxima. "Yo, Rambo, Cyborg! Take care of my nodal companion for me!"

With that, he threw Dhaos at Ralf and Maxima like a lawn dart, taking the latter two by surprise and knocking the three to the ground. As the three laid groaning, Barbatos nodded his head before he made towards the Star Pieces. The three men groaned after getting up. Dhaos' eyes bugged out before he was about to fly off to stop Barbatos. Suddenly, he felt a strong hand around his hand. Turning his head, he saw Maxima glaring up at him.

"Sorry, not sorry, can't let you give those Star Pieces to Bison." Maxima said.

Dhaos was about to send out a spell at Maxima, but then Ralf tackled him to the ground to prevent him from escaping.

"GUYS! NO ONE IS STOPPING BARBATOS!" Dhaos shouted.

Cinder, ARIA and Basara's eyes widened before looking to see that indeed Dhaos was right. Immediately, they tried to go after him. However, they were stopped.

"GET OVER HERE!" Scorpion roared, sending his spear at Cinder, wrapping around his waist and pulling him over before proceeding to wrap him around. ARIA tried to use her Booster form to fly over, but Sub-Zero leapt onto her and froze her mechanical wings before sending her crashing to the ground. Basara tried to get into a puddle but Larcen sent his grappling hook around his neck and forcibly pulled him out of it.

By this time, Barbatos finally reached the machine with a big sneer. He pulled his axe back.

"I may not have been anywhere close to finding that accursed item shop yet. However, I WILL punish any and all who dares use it!" Barbatos shouted.

"NOOOO!" Dhaos, Cinder, ARIA and Basara shouted.

With that, he slammed his axe against the machine with all of his might.

"BUREAAAAAAAAAAA!"

(Hotel; Lobby)

Whip's group, the Babylon Rogues, Carmelita, Naesala and Wario ran into the lobby, startling Moseby.

"Okay, we are in the lobby." Whip said into her phone. "Now what!?"

"Um, well…" Dexter started.

BOOM!

Everyone jumped at this, upon hearing a very loud explosion and seeing a burst of light from the side.

"...I think the answer is obvious." Dexter groaned.

Suddenly, they saw several streaks of lights flying from the direction of the explosion and then scattering around in other exits of the lobby.

"What… What is that?" Hibiki asked.

"Come on!" Carmelita urged.

Everyone then made their way over to the direction of the explosion. There, they saw the entrance to the secret laboratory open. Despite being confused about where said entrance came from, they ran into it and when they saw it, their eyes widened.

Barbatos was pumping his axe into the air while laughing heartily while Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Larcen, Ralf and Maxima watched him. All of Otane's group that was in the lab when Barbatos and the others entered were on the ground unconscious, even the ones who were fighting earlier. Barbatos was standing in front of a smoking machine.

"And THAT is what you get for using items in the same building as me!" Barbatos boasted.

"...Maybe we shouldn't have enabled him." Larcen winced.

"Yeah, not our best moment." Maxima frowned.

"Well, look on the bright side!" Scorpion said, beaming through his mask.

Ralf raised an eyebrow. "What bright side?"

"Now there is no place where Reptile could hide!" Scorpion said, proudly.

Everyone blinked twice at this. Then, Sub-Zero created a giant paper fan out of ice before smashing it over Scorpion's head.

"...Ralf? Maxima?" Whip piped up.

The Ikari Warrior and the cyborg (along with everyone else) looked in the direction of the voice to see the large.

"Ah, Whippy, everyone!" Ralf grinned. "How are y'all doing?"

"How are WE doing?" Lloyd asked in disbelief. "Do you have ANY idea how worried we were for you two?"

Maxima scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, sorry about that… But yeah, we are fine."

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, OKAY!" Carmelita roared. "I do NOT know what is going on, but all six of you, along with all of the unconscious people here are going to the security team room now!"

"Okay." Barbatos smirked.

Everyone jumped at this.

"E-Excuse me?" Carmelita asked.

"Don't misunderstand. I am not willing to hand myself in. I just wanted to punish all of these cowards for trying to use items." Barbatos shrugged. "Also, apparently they are using said items for some kind of villain plot or something. I don't really give a crap."

Everyone looked on in exasperation at this.

"...Should I be happy that one of the most dangerous villains in JRPG history has a one-track mind?" Naesala muttered.

Whip looked around. "Um, guys, this may not be the best place to ask, but where is Komodo Joe and Ace?"

"They are not here. And no, we don't know where they are." Ralf SIGHED. "Not even THEY know where they are. Apparently, this happened while under their nose."

"Yes, about that." Carmelita said, raising an eyebrow. "Could this be related to that 'confession' you were planning to give me?"

"More or less." Whip sighed. "But first things first, let's gather up everyone here."

"Way ahead of you."

Everyone turned around to see Barbatos already holding at least five unconscious villains on his back with a cheery grin on his face.

"Better be grateful, but you ain't going to see me going out of my way to be helpful!" Barbatos beamed.

Everyone blinked twice. Sub-Zero then glared at Scorpion.

"YOU thought it was a good idea to join forces with him." Sub-Zero scoffed. "I sure as hell didn't'."

"Shut up before I make you Toasty." Scorpion muttered.

(The Arena)

On top of the Announcer's Booth, the Millennium Star looked around while looking worried. Tumble noticed this and looked worried.

"Is something the matter, Millennium Star?" Tumble asked.

"I… I am not sure. I just felt a large surge of star power." The silver star said.

Tumble raised a non-existent eyebrow. "Star power?"

"Yes and it is similar to my own." The Millennium Star nodded. "What's more, the star power isn't in one place, but rather all over the place."

Tumble jumped at this. "Wait, so they are multiple star powers."

"Indeed, but at the same time, they feel like… The same power." The Millennium Star mused.

"Wow…" Tumble said in awe. "So what are you going to do?"

"I am not sure. I obviously can't investigate on my own." The Millennium Star admitted.

Suddenly, they heard the crowd going wild. Looking down at the arena, the Millennium Star and Tumble saw that Christopher Robin had several baseballs revolving around him.

"...Especially not right now." The Millennium Star said with an unseen frown.

Christopher Robin continued to have the baseballs revolve around him, playing to the crowd. He then looked back at his opponents and sent them forward.

Lincoln Loud's eyes bugged out. "Get ready!"

With that, he, Yoshi and Zim got their respective bats ready and swung at any baseballs heading towards them. However, said baseballs were either too fast, too slow, went around in erratic fashions or just plain going invisible. Sure, they managed to hit a few, but they were all grounders that went nowhere near Christopher Robin.

Christopher Robin did an innocent-like giggle before raising his hand and summoning more baseballs. He then sent out a baseball forward at Lincoln. The white-haired boy was about to get ready to hit it, but suddenly found the baseball invisible. Lincoln panicked as he frantically tried to swing it only to find himself spinning in place before dizzily falling onto his rear.

Zim then swung his bat at the incoming ball, actually managing to hit it. Or it would if it didn't stop in mid-flight, making Zim miss completely. The baseball then zoomed past, missing the Irken, but still making him fly away. Christopher Robin then sent a zigzagging ball towards Yoshi. The dinosaur growled before readying his bat and swinging it.

Not only did it connect with the ball, but it also sent flying into Christopher Robin's face. Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim's eyes lit up at this, realising that they had hit him. However, the British boy recovered, still keeping his innocent face, making his attackers' faces fall.

"Triple base hit." Christopher Robin said, matter-of-factly.

"What!? Shouldn't that be enough!?" Lincoln exclaimed, desperately.

Christopher Robin blinked twice. "Um, if it is called HOME-RUN derby. If it is anything else, it is nothing more than a glorified foul ball."

"Aw, come on!" Zim roared, stomping his foot.

"My turn." Christopher Robin said, cheerfully.

With that, he raised a finger, summoning more baseballs. Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim's eyes bugged out before scampering around to avoid the incoming barrage by rolling into an egg, riding on a scooting and flying on a jetpack respectively. While they managed to get hit directly, they couldn't avoid the mini-explosions they knocked them down. Christopher Robin smiled while throwing a baseball to himself before getting ready to throw it.

Suddenly, an ice projectile crashed into Christopher Robin's back from behind. He then turned around to see Jin Kisaragi and Hyo Imawono looking stern.

"Oh, thank goodness! We are saved!" Lincoln smiled in relief.

"So you have some new batters." Christopher Robin mused.

"This is absurd. How are you having THIS much trouble over a glorified creepypasta?" Jin scoffed.

Christopher Robin raised an eyebrow. "Oh, you are a non-believer?"

"A non-believer? Of course. You are a little boy from a Disney slice-of-life cartoon." Jin scoffed.

Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim's eyes widened as Christopher Robin crossed his arms.

"At least Penny Proud has various tricks to use, albeit limited." Hyo said before scoffing. "But you… There is a reason why you are a glorified minigame sidequest in the Kingdom Hearts series."

"I know that the bar has been… Lowered after Penny Proud won, but even still Drake shouldn't just invite any character and think it would stick." Jin scoffed. "Sure, you may have gotten lucky by hitting that sorcerer out of the ring. …Somehow, you can't expect to do that."

Christopher Robin frowned. "Then, I just have to…

Suddenly, an egg rolled into Hyo while Lincoln crashed into Jin knocking him away, startling Christopher Robin and Zim.

"...Well, that is weird." Christopher Robin said before puffing in his cheeks. "Now I am grumpy and need something to distract me."

He then looked at Zim with a smile, making the alien yelp.

"Looks like it is just you and me." Christopher Robin beamed.

Zim gulped nervously. Meanwhile, Hyo and Jin groaned after getting up before glaring down at Yoshi and Lincoln.

"What was THAT for!?" Hyo roared.

"Are you crazy!? Do you really think that underestimating CHRISTOPHER FREAKING ROBIN was a wise idea?" Lincoln roared.

"...You can't be serious." Jin said in relief. "Literally all he does is throw unhittable baseballs. Sure, I could imagine how frightening it would be for YOU, the main protagonist of a slice-of-life cartoon and Mr. "So Happy", but not us!"

Lincoln narrowed his eyes. "Oh yeah! Well, whose node is doing well right now."

Hyo and Jin narrowed their eyes as Yoshi started to laugh.

"...These two will get in the way regardless." Hyo noted.

"Agreed. Let's eliminate them and show them what a real threat is." Jin agreed.

With that, they put their hands on their respective swords. Yoshi got out an egg and threw it at Hyo, but the red-clad man got his katana and swung it at the incoming projectile, slashing towards it. However, Yoshi just ran over and kicked his foot out, but Hyo managed to block the kick combo with his free arm before kicking Yoshi in the stomach, knocking him away.

Yoshi crashed on the ground hard but quickly rolled backwards into an egg before making his way towards Hyo. However, the white-haired young man stepped, allowing Yoshi to roll pass. The dinosaur then rolled back, but Hyo swung his katana at the egg, managing to catch Yoshi out of his egg and knocking him down. Yoshi then stuck out his tongue at Hyo, but the latter leapt over it.

"Do you really think I wouldn't anticipate your most common form of attack?" Hyo boasted while sending both of his feet onto Yoshi's head, sending the green-scaled reptile sprawling to the ground. Hyo leapt up again and swung his katana downwards, but Yoshi snapped out of his daze and rolled backwards to avoid the attack. Yoshi then got out an egg before throwing it forward.

However, Hyo easily swung his katana at it, sending the egg flying back at Yoshi. The dinosaur yelped before swinging his bat into the egg and sending it back at Hyo. The red-clad man slashed through the egg.

"I could deflect projectiles too." Hyo explained. "I could take down that little 'threat'" more than you ever will."

Yoshi narrowed his eyes at this. He was about to say something until he noticed a baseball rolling towards his feet. With his eyes lightening back before picking it up and getting ready to throw. Hyo got ready to deflect it.

Suddenly, Yoshi jumped up high into the air with a rainbow over him before throwing it forward, sending another rainbow forward. The baseball then disappeared, startling Hyo. The white-haired teenager's eyes widened before getting into a stance. Then, Hyo felt the baseball hit him in the chin, making him wince. Yoshi then ran at him and jumped up, swinging his bat into Hyo's face. The latter staggered back to recovering and glaring at the guilty party.

"T-T-That projectile doesn't count! It shouldn't even count as a projectile!" Hyo spat.

Yoshi rolled his eyes. "If you are whining now, then I am half-curious to see how you will react to 'the little threat'."

Lincoln yelped before narrowingly running to the side to avoid a blade. He then got out a spintop and threw it forward. However, Jin just grunted in disgust before kicking it away. The cryomancer then ran over and sent a snowflake forward at Lincoln, freezing the adolescent boy in a block of ice. Jin then swung his blade again at the block of ice, breaking it and sending Lincoln sprawling on the ground.

Lincoln groaned before looking up. His eyes then bugged out when it saw a blade of ice sending towards him. Acting quickly, he grabbed his hands up and managed to grab said projectile. He then threw it back at Jin, but the blond man rolled his eyes before using his sheath to block the projectile. Lincoln then ran over and got out a water gun before squirting water into Jin.

However, Jin used his cryomancy to create an aura to freeze the water before it could hit him. Lincoln yelped before acting quickly and swinging his water gun into Jin's shin. The cryomancer's eyes bugged out before hopping on one leg while gripping the other. Lincoln then launched a yo-yo at Jin's other leg before tripping him onto his rear.

Jin glared down at Lincoln. "You have a lot of gall, don't you? Do you even realise who you are up against?"

"Nothing personal, dude, but I have to give it my all. My sister, Luna, already outdid herself in the Tournament of Kikai and Luna and I both agreed that we cannot." The white-haired boy shrugged.

Jin scoffed. "That tournament obviously put a lot of bias on cartoons rather than video games. Sure, you have the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. But let's be honest. Most people would have completely forgotten about it if it wasn't for this tournament."

Lincoln growled before shifting his head to the side. "...Why can't we talk about that All-Star Brawl getting a sequel? Some of the assets got leaked for crying out loud…"

"What was that?" Jin asked.

"Nothing!"

Jin rolled his eyes before getting up to his feet and swinging his sword out of his sheath. However, Lincoln put on VR glasses and raised a lightsaber to block the incoming attack. Jin again rolled his eyes before somehow managing to use his cryomancy to freeze it. Jin then swung his katana and sent Lincoln skidding backwards on his feet.

Acting quickly, Lincoln grabbed a nearby pumpkin and threw it. Jin just scoffed before slashing through the pumpkin. Suddenly, Lincoln did an uppercut with another weapon. Jin staggered back while holding his face. He then recovered before looking down Lincoln and his weapon and…

"DID YOU JUST HIT ME WITH A DIRTY DIAPER!?" Jin shouted with his eyes widened to the fullest.

"Well, no offence, dude, but your attitude DOES stink a lot sooo…" Lincoln shrugged.

"I WILL TURN YOU INTO AN ICE STATUE!" Jin roared.

With that, he summoned an ice platform on the ground and skated towards Lincoln. However, the adolescent boy crouched down while narrowing his eyes. When Jin got close enough, he somehow changed his outfit into a superhero one while managing to grab the incoming ice platform Jin was and taking him in the air with a surprising amount of strength. After a good distance, a ring of cards surrounded Lincoln and sent Jin flying away.

Meanwhile, Hyo raised his arms to block a series of flutter kicks from Yoshi before pushing him away. Yoshi landed back on his feet. Suddenly, his eyes bugged out when he saw Yoshi running. Hyo raised an eyebrow before turning around to…

CRASH!

After Jin flew through the air before crashing into Hyo, sending both iaijutsu practitioners on the ground, groaning. Hyo then got up while glaring at each other.

"Watch where you are going!" Hyo roared.

"YOU should watch where you are standing!" Jin scolded.

They then glared back at the respective opponents. Only for a giant rolling egg rolled into Hyo while Lincoln rode a bike right into Jin, sending both men flying out of the ring.

Hyo and Jin landed in Street Fighter EX where they got into a three-way fight with the original Hayate.

Yoshi and Lincoln grinned before high-fiving each other.

"Heh! We sure showed those elitists off, didn't we?" Lincoln laughed.

Yoshi happily nodded.

"AAAAAAAAAAA!"

SPLAT!

Yoshi and Lincoln shielded their arms after Zim fell onto a pumpkin and splattered pumpkin pieces all over them with the Irken lying down face-first. The former two paused before turning their heads to see Christopher Robin waving at them.

"...Maybe we should go back to facing Christopher Robin." Lincoln asked.

Zim raised his head. "Gee, you think?"

An egg collided with a yellow-and-black missile. When the two unorthodox projectiles collided, the egg harmlessly exploded while the missile retreated back. Banjo then fired Kazooie via Breegull Blaster at Byte and Bark, but the robot cops ran to the side to avoid the projectile eggs. Banjo aimed Kazooie at Byte, seeing him as the bigger threat and fired at him.

Byte got into a defensive position to block the incoming barrage. After firing at Byte, Banjo aimed back at Bark. Just in time for the robot dog to send a flaming fist into the incoming egg. At the same time, Byte ran forward, but Banjo aimed Kazooie at the bigger robot and fired an egg, but Byte swatted it away.

"It is like we are playing Red Light, Green Light!" Kazooie reminded. "One of them is going to hit us eventually!"

"Good point. Let's switch!" Banjo nodded.

With that, he put Kazooie back into his backpack and they switched sides with now Kazooie carrying Banjo and ran over to Byte. Despite the blatant size difference, Kazooie ran at an alarming speed and Byte couldn't react in time as Kazooie leapt at Byte and crashed into him, using Banjo's bear weight. Byte gave a monotone grunt as Banjo pinned him down.

Bark then ran over to protect his partner. However, Kazooie saw him coming to the backpack before ducking into it. Then, the bottom of the backpack opened and sent out another egg bouncing towards Bark. The dog punched his extendable fist at the egg, but that was a big mistake as the egg exploded like a grenade, knocking Bark down.

"BARK!" Byte gasped before stretching out his hand at the ropes and managing to grab a hold of it. Using his ARMs as a grappling hook, he went towards the ropes with a stunned Banjo still holding onto them. When Byte reached his destination, he threw himself backwards and slammed Banjo & Kazooie to the ground, knocking the wind out of them. Byte was about to run over to Bark.

"Aqua Edge!"

Byke jumped before looking to the side to see Yu Narukami jumping to the ground to avoid three buzzsaws made out of water from Richter Abend. Said projectiles flew towards the downed Bark.

"NO!" Byte exclaimed before launching his ARMs towards Bark and grabbed him to pull him out of the way, just in time to avoid the projectile. After pulling Bark to him, Byte panted heavily (which sounds weird because they were… Well, monotone.) Banjo & Kazooie blinked twice.

"Oh, right, Min Min told us that you are both weak against water." Banjo recalled.

"Wow, your boss must be as incompetent as Chief Wiggum if they put you two as SHORE PATROL." Kazooie snarked.

Byte turned towards Kazooie. "HEY, WE DO NOT NEED TO GO NEAR THE OCEAN! THAT IS THE LIFEGUARD'S JOB TO DEAL WITH ISSUES IN THE WATER!"

Kazooie rolled his eyes. "Alright, alright, Rusty and Rustier, grab the generic anime protagonist! The teenage one, I mean!"

Byte paused. "UM, WHY?"

"So we could try to eliminate the other generic anime protagonist so he wouldn't hit you with stray water attacks." Kazooie offered.

Banjo's eyes widened at this. "Wait, what…?"

"AH, I SEE." Byte nodded. "I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP."

With that, he stretched his arms towards Yu and grabbed him before pulling him from the stunned Richter. Before the half-elf could exclaim what happened, Kazooie shot out an egg from her mouth and sent it into Richter's face. He staggered back before glaring at the guilty party.

"Hey, we did a cheap shot on you, what are you going to do about it?" Kazooie sneered.

Banjo slumped his arms. "...I love how when you are genuinely trying to help someone, you are always getting me into trouble."

Meanwhile, Byte merely raised his Seekie ARM to block a wave of electricity. He then sent Bubb forward. However, Yu blocked it with his katana and summoned Izanagi before doing a slide forward. Byte stepped to the side but before he could do a counter attack, Yu swung his katana in his robot's side and knocked him down. Bark then punched his own ARM, but Yu easily stepped to the side.

Yu then swung his katana, sending another lightning wave at Bark. However, Byte sprang to life and leapt on top of Bark which created a shockwave around the dog which not only deflected the projectile, but also sent Byte flying into the air before sending his Seekie into Yu's face and knocking him down. However, despite being hit by an electric missile in the face, other than an unsightly bruise, Yu didn't seem to be affected as he got up.

"You are truly standing up to your status as a duo fighter." Yu noted.

"THANK YOU. BARK IS MORE THAN MY PARTNER, HE IS MY BEST FRIEND. THAT IS WHY WE ATTEMPTED TO ENTER THE ARMS TOURNAMENT AS ONE SOLE ENTITY." Byte explained.

"I must say that I respect that." Yu said. "Even though each one of us from the Investigation Team are solo fighters, we kinda envy Ken & Koromaru for working together."

"WHY DON'T YOU FORM A DUO WITH THAT URSINE ALLY?" Byte suggested.

"That could work. Teddie wouldn't mind." Yu said before frowning. "Though not so much if he finds out what you meant."

"UM, VERY WELL." Byte said.

With that, Byte sent out his Seekie again, but Yu quickly raised his katana to block the incoming missile. However, Byte sent this Bubb out before Yu did an electric sword uppercut to deflect the incoming attack. Yu then sent out Izanagi who swung their blade at Byte, but the taller robot leapt onto Bark which sprang him up in the air and not only over Izanagi, but landed near Yu.

Yu swung his katana at Byte, but the latter, being a robot, simply did a shoulder-charge forward, using his body as an advancing shield. The two got into a power struggle with Byte winning. However, Yu summoned Izanagi again to join him, now taking advantage of the power struggle. Byte whistled, summoning Bark and getting him to push help, resulting in an odd confrontation.

"SPRING, BOY!" Byte shouted.

With that, he put his foot on top of Bark's head, activating the spring and launching Byte forward while taking a stunned Yu with him (and making Izanagi) vanish. Using the momentum, Byte threw Yu out of the ring.

Yu landed in Danganronpa 3 where he protected Makoto from Munakata.

"Mortal Spring!" Richter shouted, swinging his sword and axe forward. Banjo was sent flying back towards the turnbuckle while zooming past several pumpkins before crashing into the turnbuckle. Banjo groaned before looking up while dazed.

"Aqua Edge!" Richter shouted. Banjo's eyes widened as several water buzzsaws flew straight at the turnbuckle. The bear quickly dove out of the way of the incoming projectiles.

"Ugh, that could have been bad…" Banjo groaned.

Kazooie poked her head out with her feathers all flustered up. "What are YOU complaining about!? You didn't get squashed by your full-muscled man and scaled-up robot weight!"

"...Should I praise you for how detailed your insults should get?" Banjo muttered.

"Negative Gate!"

Banjo & Kazooie's eyes bugged out before the duo switched sides so Kazooie ran forward. Just in time to avoid a sphere of dark energy. Kazooie then rushed towards Richter.

"Mortal Summer!" Richter shouted, slamming his sword on the ground which resulted in a large pillar of fire, making Kazooie yelp before skidding to a stop. She then switched back to Banjo on her feet with the bear getting out the bird to fire some eggs forward, but Richter swung his weapons at them, easily slashing through the projectiles. Banjo narrowed his eyes before firing more eggs.

However, these eggs looked like they were made out of crystal. Despite this, Richter slashed through the eggs. But this resulted in tiny explosions of ice shards. Richter grunted in pain and shock. Banjo then dashed forward while Richter was stunned and used Kazooie into Richter's stomach, knocking the wind out of him and sending him onto his side. The red-haired man sat up while gripping his stomach.

"What? Just because you can't summon blades of water and black holes whenever we want, that doesn't mean we can't use elementals as well."

Richter got up while narrowing his eyes. "Like that would help you."

With that, he ran forward, causing Banjo to shoot out more ice eggs at Richter. However, the half-egg raised his axe to block the incoming projectiles and when he was close enough, Richter swung his sword into Banjo, knocking him and Kazooie down. The duo groaned before they saw Richter casting a spell. Banjo then aimed Kazooie at him and fired another egg, but Richter easily swatted it away.

"Enduring Winter!" Richter shouted, zooming at Banjo and slashing through him with both weapons while blasting him away with a burst of water, knocking him down again.

"You two are indeed strong and have more chemistry despite your… Personalities." Richter mused. "But it would take a lot more than that to take me down. The first time I was eliminated was because of the Bishamon of modern UVRs and the second time was… Because of Dot Warner."

"Yeah, I guess you ARE a little all that and a bag of chips." Kazooie muttered. She then smirked. "Good thing we don't have to play fair all of the time!"

Richter raised an eyebrow at this. Suddenly, he heard sounds approaching him. He then looked down to see a tiny clockwork version of Kazooie walking towards him.

BOOM!

Richter flew through the air after the tiny version of Kazooie exploded and sent him flying over the ropes. Banjo & Kazooie sighed in relief.

"Thank the Mighty Jinjonator for Clockwork Kazooie Eggs." Banjo said, wiping his brow.

Richter landed in Final Fantasy XIII-2 where he got into a fight with Caius.

Shrek raised his arms to block a series of punches from Jacky Bryant. He then kicked his foot out to strike Jacky, but the racer easily ran around him and returned the kick to the side. Shrek grunted in pain, but quickly recovered and sent out his fist forward. However, Jacky managed to leapt up and used Shrek's own punching arm as a vault before kicking Shrek in the face.

Shrek grunted in pain before grabbing Jacky by his leg and throwing him into a crowd of pumpkins, splatting them all over him. He groaned before sitting up and glaring at the guilty party. …Only to yelp and roll to the side to avoid a rolling pumpkin. Despite missing, Shrek just shrugged with a smirk before crouching down and picking up another pumpkin before rolling it like a bowling ball.

By this time, Jacky got up and easily dodged out of the way. Shrek then continued to roll more pumpkins towards Jacky. The blond man continued to avoid the incoming barrage. However, he was taken off-guard when Shrek decided to pick up a pumpkin and threw it forward. Jacky yelped before throwing himself to the ground while avoiding the pumpkin.

However, Shrek just smirked before rolling another pumpkin while Jacky was down right into his head. The racer grunted in pain as Shrek ran over to kick Jacky. However, the latter snapped out of his daze in time and managed to roll to the side. Acting quickly, he did a sweeping kick, knocking Shrek onto his rear. Jacky then leapt up to his feet while doing a couple of spinning kicks to Shrek's face. The ogre grunted in pain before blocking a third one, allowing him to get up.

"How the hell are you so hard to fight?" Shrek shouted in disbelief. "You are a freaking RACER?"

Jacky rolled his eyes. "Oh, because THAT stopped Captain Falcon from showing up in Super Smash Bros."

Shrek winced at this. "That's… Not wrong. In hindsight, you would think that Huff N Puff Wolf would be one of the fastest fighters in this tournament seeing that he was a mount in OUR racing game."

Jacky blinked twice. "...Wait, the wolf that always wears a nightgown was basically a KART in a racing game?"

"That's what I'm saying." Shrek shrugged.

Jacky shook his head, deciding to continue the fight by running behind a pumpkin and kicking it like a soccer ball into Shrek's face. With the green-skinned Scotsman stunned, Jacky ran over and did a series of punches to Shrek's stomach, knocking the wind out of him before Jacky leapt up and did a spinning kick, sending Shrek staggering to the side.

Jacky then did a flying kick towards Shrek, but the ogre recovered and raised his arm to block the incoming kick. Despite this, Jacky flipped backwards onto his feet. However, Shrek did punch forward. Jacky was able to block it, but was sent skidding backwards on his feet before crashing into Shrek's house and crashing on his face. He groaned before propping himself on his hands.

"Ugh, think, Jacky, think! Sure, he beat me in strength and endurance." Jacky admitted. "But I have him beat in speed and skill. I just have to find a way to overwhelm him."

Suddenly, he realised something. Acting quickly, Jacky ran forward. Shrek got into a defensive position to block any incoming attacks. Jacky then started to run on top of the pumpkins and used them as stepping stones on a pond. When he was close enough, he used the pumpkin as a vault to punch Shrek in the face. The ogre staggered back, but Jacky was not done yet before using another pumpkin as a vault and doing a flying kick.

Shrek wasn't the fastest runner on the track, but he was able to block most of Jacky's attacks. However, with Jacky keeping using the pumpkins as vaults, they made his already-fast attacks even more quicker, making it harder for him to block or dodge. Jacky continued the assault on Shrek until he backed up the latter against the ropes. The ogre groaned before quickly realising where he was before looking back at Jacky.

"...Note to self: When a host asks you to do a Halloween section when it is not anywhere close to October, freaking refuse." Shrek muttered.

"Good note." Jacky smirked. With that, he did one flying kick to Shrek's face.

"YEAH!"

The crowd cheered as Shrek tumbled over the ropes from said kick.

Shrek landed in the Double Dare stage in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, particularly in the giant slime pit. He looked around to see where he was, along with the fact that he was the only one there (Obviously seeing that most of the Nicktoons were at the tournament), he shrugged.

"Not MY type of slime, but when life gives you lemons, the lemons whole." Shrek said before floating off in the slime pit.

Shadow the Hedgehog narrowed his eyes before using his odachi to slash through a pumpkin. However, Mewtwo used his psychic powers to send down a meteor shower of pumpkins downwards. Shadow just zoomed around them or slashed through the incoming fruit. Shadow then used his Chaos Control to teleport his way behind Mewtwo.

However, just as Shadow appeared behind Mewtwo, the Pokemon disappeared just as Shadow swung at him. The latter's eyes widened before looking around to see Mewtwo sending out the barrage of pumpkins at him. Shadow gritted his teeth before slashing through the first incoming pumpkins. However, one stray pumpkin nailed him in the head. This got him off-guard and nailed with a lot of fruit. Shadow groaned before sitting up with pieces of pumpkin all over him. He then noticed Mewtwo snickering at him.

"Hey, since when you are not above having a glorified food fight?" Shadow asked in disbelief.

"...This is coming from the hedgehog whose main job is to prank various fighters with song chances, have two brightly-coloured guns in their arsenal from their 'edgy" game and is seriously about ironing linens." Mewtwo retorted with a smirk.

"Hey! You weren't there!" Shadow scolded. "It was so beautiful!"

"Uh-huh…" Mewtwo muttered, rolling his eyes. "Going back to the topic of your job, it is like how you had fun doing… Less serious things."

"Yeah, I noticed and it turned out to be beneficial for you in the long run." Shadow noted. "Not even I could say that I would be able to eliminate THE Bugs Bunny, fatigue or otherwise."

"Definitely." Mewtwo said. "Now let's continue."

With that, he telekinetically picked up the pumpkins and launched them at Shadow. The hedgehog just narrowed his eyes before making his way around them. He then got back out his Omochao gun and fired at a head at one of the incoming pumpkins. Said Omochao head ricocheted off it before bouncing off another pumpkin and bouncing at Mewtwo. The psychic's eyes widened, not expecting this and took this to the head.

After Mewtwo crashed hard on the ground, Shadow smirked before crouching down and rolling up into a Spin Dash before launching it straight at Mewtwo. The feline-like Pokemon was sent flying into the air, but managed to self-right in midair. However, Shadow leapt up after him and did a combo with his odachi before ending with a downwards slash, knocking Mewtwo back to the ground.

Shadow then did a Homing Attack forward. However, Mewtwo vanished into thin air to avoid the incoming black ball. Shadow managed to roll into a kneeling position before looking around. He then noticed Mewtwo had teleported away. Acting quickly, Shadow skated forward before leaping forward and zooming around Mewtwo, creating a black tornado. However, Mewtwo acted quickly and created a psychic barrier.

Shadow smirked before getting out a black rifle and aiming it. This was the Shadow Rifle. The most powerful weapon in his sole game. Being able to kill any enemy in one shot. Thus why Drake suggested that he could only have five shots. However, he was definitely going to make it count. When the tornado finally faltered, Mewtwo dropped his barrier. Shadow then fired.

Mewtwo then raised his arm at the incoming shot, sending it back at Shadow. Before Shadow could even think about swearing, the shot struck him in the chest. The hedgehog was sent flying off like a bullet before crashing into the barrier. Everyone winced while Mewtwo smirked before Shadow dropped like a stone into the elimination portal.

"What is the point of having a powerful projectile if it could easily…" Mewtwo smirked.

Suddenly, his eyes widened in realisation.

Meanwhile, Shadow landed in a house in Animal Crossing. He groaned before getting up while dusting himself off.

"Looks like not even I am immune to this low-scoring tournament." Shadow lamented. "Still, I wouldn't mind only having three eliminations too much if I could at least beat Sonic."

"Well, I never!"

Shadow raised an eyebrow before turning around to see a cross Judy doing a DIY project.

"I know that we had fighters falling from that tournament the entire time but you would think that they would draw the line of making fighters fall in a lady's home." Judy grunted in disgust.

"Well, sucks to be you." Shadow shrugged. "Hey, you are doing one of those DIY projects, aren't you? What are you making?"

Judy rolled her literally starry eyes. "Well, if you really must know, I am making an Aroma Pot."

"An Aroma Pot?" Shadow asked, blinking twice.

"Yes, do you wish to create your own?" Judy asked.

Shadow blinked twice. "...Do they count in lavender?"

"Well, they should. But not when you first create. You have to paint it over to get it to smell like lavender." Judy shrugged.

"Not sure how that works, but as long as I can get that smoothing fix." Shadow nodded before going over to ask Judy for the recipe.

King Dedede winced as he pulled his mallet over his head before sending it downwards on a bunch of pumpkins. He then swung his weapon upwards to the side to smash some more pumpkins. He then proceeded to play whack-a-hole with the pumpkins.

"Web Wrecker!"

Dedede's eyes widened before trying to turn towards the direction of the shout while raising his mallet to block. However, he was hit by a giant beam of yellow energy, knocking him onto his back. While the penguin was downed, the pumpkins then proceeded to dogpile all of them. Diaboromon smirked as he crossed his arms, watching the chaos.

Suddenly, Dedede popped up with a loud yell and scattering pumpkins everywhere. He then rushed towards Diaboromon in a blind rage and did a baseball slide forward. However, the literal virus smirked before snapping his fingers and having a giant pumpkin extend their vines towards Diaboromon and pulled him out of harm's way, causing Dedede to skid onto his face. Dedede groaned before getting up.

"What the heck!? You are not even fighting most of the time!" Dedede roared. "You are literally having those pumpkins do all of the work for you!"

"Sorry, sorry, I am having too much fun getting into the Halloween spirit to fight properly!" Diaboromon laughed.

Dedede's eyebrow twitched. "I am SO glad that this stupid section is almost over!"

Diaboromon's smirk vanished. "Oh, right. It is, isn't it? In that case, I have to amp it up!"

With that, he snapped his fingers. This made the pumpkins from all over the arena to immediately go over to Diaboromon before swarming all over his body. Dedede's eyes widened at Diaboromon turned into a mecha-like figure made entirely out of pumpkins.

"Say what you want about being compared to the Halloween section, but would Beetlejuice and Jack Skellington be able to do THIS!?" Diaboromon sneered.

With that, he aimed one of the mecha's arms at Dedede and turned into an arm cannon. The penguin's face fell before several pumpkins at him, knocking him down and splatting pumpkin juice all over him. Dedede groaned before sitting up. Only to narrowly block a punch from the pumpkin mecha. When Diaboromon was recovering from his own attack, Dedede got up.

Dedede then leapt up high into the air, not unlike a Final Fantasy Dragoon and managed to soar up where Diaboromon. Dedede then swung his mallet at the Digimon, but the latter sent out pumpkins, causing Dedede to hit them away instead.

"Web Wrecker!" Diaboromon shouted, sending a yellow beam from his chest. Dedede's eyes bugged out before swinging his mallet at the projectile. Diaboromon then used the arms of the mecha and spiked Dedede to the ground. The virus sneered before raising the mecha's leg to stomp onto the king.

However, the leg stopped suddenly. Diaboromon blinked twice before looking down. There, he saw Dedede manage to hold up the incoming leg, stopping it from stomping. Despite struggling to do so, Dedede shoved the leg forward, making the mecha lose its balance.

"Woah, woah, WOAH!"

CRASH!

SPLAT!

When the mecha crashed onto their back, pieces of pumpkin splattered everywhere in the arena, including the remaining fighters. Despite being splattered just like everyone else, Dedede had a big smirk on his face before making his way forward with his mallet behind him. He then made his way to Diaboromon who was lying on the ground dazed.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Dedede sneered.

With that, he picked up Diaboromon and threw him out of the ring.

Diaboromon landed in Megaman Battle Network where he got into a fight with the titular character when the former tried to cause more mischief.

Dedede took a piece of pumpkin from his sleeve and licked it before looking around to see who was next. Mewtwo used his psychic powers to clean himself while Jacky grumpily tried to get his jacket clean. Byte used a cloth to clean up Bark while Banjo licked the pumpkin pieces on his arm with Kazooie complaining as always. Finally, Christopher Robin casually dusted himself off with Yoshi, Lincoln and Zim looked in horror while Kula, the only one who didn't get splattered due to still sulking inside of her ice shield.

Then, the Millennium Star's familiar aura surrounded him and the audience. Then, they all appeared on the star platforms. Next, Dedede came off. Then, Christopher Robin. Followed by Banjo & Kazooie, Jacky and Zim leaving Mewtwo, Yoshi, Kula, Lincoln and Byte & Bark.

Mewtwo raised an eyebrow at Byte & Bark. "I must say, it is quite stunning that an ARMS fighter would be in the running for the Superstar."

"I WAS THINKING THAT AS WELL." Byte admitted. "ESPECIALLY SINCE HOW LOW-SCORING OUR NODE WAS DOING SO FAR."

Then, Kula's platform fell off. With Lincoln and Byte & Bark.

"Looks like we are having a Super Smash Bros Superstar this time around!" Yoshi beamed.

"Indeed. This actually works out for us." Mewtwo admitted.

Yoshi blinked twice. "Um, how?"

"I will explain later." Mewtwo offered.

Soon, the final platform fell off.

"Congratulations, Mewtwo! You are the Superstar!" The Millennium Star offered.

The psychic Pokemon smirked as he bowed to the cheering crowd. "Thank you, everyone. It seems that my status as the runner-up at the Tournament of Kikai is still fresh in everyone's minds, but I still appreciate the support."

"So do you have anything in mind?" The Millennium Star said.

"Well, it is not that fancy. Especially compared to the ice circus and the Halloween section." Mewtwo admitted. "However, I think we are due for a break."

"Yeah, seriously…" Kazooie muttered.

"Instead, I request that we will have a Special Smash." Mewtwo admitted.

"Special Smash?" The Millennium Star asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Indeed. We will have a Special Smash based on the Custom Rules from Super Smash Bros." Mewtwo said.

He then smirked.

"...I request that we will all wear Franklin Badges for the majority of the next section."

Everyone's eyes bugged out at this before looking towards one particular fighter.

Christopher Robin blinked twice.

"Well… This is going to stink…"

RESULTS (17 Votes)

MEWTWO (SSB): 15:2 = 13 (Adelheid Bernstein, Shadow the Hedgehog)

YOSHI (SSB): 12:5 = 7 (Kyle Dunamis, Hyo Imawano)

BYTE & BARK (A): 12:5 = 7 (Norm, Yu Narukami)

LINCOLN LOUD (NASB): 11:6 = 5 (Lemmy Koopa, Jin Kisaragi)

KULA DIAMOND (KoFAS): 11:6 = 5 (Etalus, Foxy)

ZIM (NASB): 12:7 = 5 (Leon Magnus)

JACKY BRYANT (VF): 10:7 = 3 (Shrek)

BANJO & KAZOOIE (SSB): 10:7 = 3 (Richter Abend)

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (WtP): 10:7 = 3 (Shiro Tokisada Amakusa)

KING DEDEDE (SSB): 11:8 = 3 (Diaboromon)

(ELIMINATED)

SHREK (SSS): 10:8 = 2 (The Pyro)

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG (StH): 10:8 = 2 (Makoto)

ADELHEID BERNSTEIN (KoFAS): 9:8 = 1 (Guile)

MAKOTO (SFAS): 9:8 = 1 (Nova)

THE PYRO (TF2): 10:10 = 0 (Fox McCloud)

FOXY (FiS2): 8:9 = -1

DIABOROMON (DRA): 7:10 = -3

RICHTER ABEND (ToAS): 7:10 = -3

LEMMY KOOPA (SMG): 8:11 = -3

NOVA (SRMTHFG!): 7:11 = -4

FOX McCLOUD (SSB): 7:11 = -4

GUILE (SFAS): 7:11 = -4

JIN KISARAGI (BB): 6:11 = -5

LEON MAGNUS (ToAS): 6:11 = -5

KYLE DUNAMIS (ToAS): 6:11 = -5

ETALUS (RoA): 6:12 = -6

NORM (CB): 5:12 = -7

YU NARUKAMI (P4A): 5:13 = -8

HYO IMAWANO (RS): 4:13 = -9

SHIRO TOKISADA AMAKUSA (SS): 4:13 = -9

Side Battles:

"Tales of Bloody Combat"

Barbatos Goetia (ToAS), Scorpion, Sub-Zero (MK) and Larcen Tyler (EC) crushes the hopes of Dhaos (ToAS), Cinder, ARIA (KI) and Basara (SS)

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Last Minute MVP: The Pyro barely managed to beat Vivian's record for the MVP for Mystery Fighters at the eleventh hour. You think I am saying that because he barely got into the top half and that is definitely true, but…

I Am Not Exaggerating, Every Vote Counts!: …There had been a last-minute vote. I usually start counting the votes almost immediately at midnight on the deadline, but forty minutes later, I got one more vote. Sure, the voter barely missed it, but not by much so I decided to count it as well. If it wasn't for said voter, not only did the Pyro wouldn't have left the tournament taking the MVP spot for Mystery Fighters, but Kula wouldn't have gotten a double elimination and Dedede wouldn't be able to fight another day.