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!

32. Section Fourteen Results

(The Arena)

As always, the battles in the arena raged on. Even still, this looks like the most light-hearted arena so far. As picked by Homer Simpson based on one of his fellow surviving fighters, the arena turned into a Battle Stage from Kirby's Dream Buffet. A game literally made out of Sweet Dreams Fuel. Even still, that doesn't mean things will be any less chaotic.

High above the arena, Charmy Bee yelped before flying away to avoid a downwards slash from an absurdly-long nodachi. Sephiroth scoffed before floating towards the bee while preparing a second slash.

"Cheese, get' em!"

A light blue blur then zoomed in and right Sephiroth in the face, managing to knock him back. The same blue blur then zoomed into Sephiroth a few times striking him a few times before returning to Cream the Rabbit's side as she flapped her ears to fly in the air.

"Charmy, what were you thinking going straight in like that at Sephiroth!?" Mewtwo scolded.

The bee frowned. "But we can't let him do any of his huge attacks."

"Even still, his 'basic' attacks are just as devastating." Rosalina recalled.

"Indeed, they are." Sephiroth sneered while still floating in midair. "Allow me to demonstrate."

With that, he dashed forward and swung his Masamune in a horizontal motion in an attempt to slash all four (or six technically of how you count Luma and Cheese). However, Rosalina narrowed her eyes before summoning blue transparent spheres around her and her allies. This managed to not only block Sephiroth's attack but sent him floating back.

"Okay, NOW you could go!" Mewtwo shouted.

Cream, Cheese and Charmy wasted no time charging at Sephiroth and zooming into him striking the white-haired man multiple times. Rosalina and Luma then fired several Luma Bits while Mewtwo then fired several miniscule Shadow Balls into Sephiroth. Despite being bombarded by all sides, Sephiroth scoffed before closing his eyes. Rosalina's uncovered eye widened before narrowing.

"Fall back!" Rosalina shouted.

Cream, Cheese and Charmy flew backwards. Just in time as Sephiroth summoned dark energy around him to act as a barrier for himself. Despite missing everyone, it was barely as the barrier was quite large.

"...As much as I hate to admit it, I am glad that Sephiroth has his 'anime flight' powers from Dissidia." Cream frowned.

"Indeed, at the very least, there should be less casualties in our fight." Rosalina sternly nodded.

F.A.N.G. shrieked before raising his arms to block a bombardment of pies.

"H-Hey! Stop that! Do you know who I am!?" F.A.N.G. roared. "I am Bison's number two! You hear me! Bison's number…"

Suddenly, a cream pie struck him in the face, not only stopping his rant but also somehow striking him multiple times, making him stagger back. Garfield and Scooby Doo looked at each other with smirks before Garfield turned back to F.A.N.G. and threw another pie at the assassin.

Only for Zim to fly in from the side and grab the incoming pie with one hand and aim his blaster at the two gluttons with the others, firing a few shots. Garfield and Scooby's smirks vanished as they were struck by the laser shots. Zim then threw the pie into Scooby's face, stunning.

"They are stunned!" Zim shouted. "Bring them to their DOOM!"

F.A.N.G. finally wiped the cream from his scowling face. "With pleasure!"

With that, he sent up his sleeves upwards and sent two globs of purple goo in an arc before they descended down towards Garfield and Scooby. Garfield managed to recover in time to see the incoming projectile coming and ran to the side. Scooby on the other hand was wiping his face.

Only for a white blur to zoom in front of Scooby and swung a weapon at the incoming projectile.

THWOCK!

Garfield, F.A.N.G. and Zim watched with wide eyes before the projectile was deflected back at the latter two. Fortunately for them, the projectile harmlessly fell on their side. Scooby finally wiped the cream from his eyes to see Snoopy holding a tennis racket while spinning his ears like a helicopter with a stern look on his face.

"H-How? How could a simple mutt from a slice-of-life franchise deflect my poison with a standard TENNIS RACKET?" F.A.N.G. asked in disbelief.

Snoopy smirked before tapping his racket against his shoulder. Scooby raised an eyebrow before looking at F.A.N.G. and Zim.

"Snoopy said that not only is he very skilled in all types of sports but he actually has not one but two tennis games named after him." Scooby translated. "Heck, one of said games could go on forever deflecting incoming projectiles depending on the player's skill."

"Tch. Should have known that whatever tricks you could get your hands on…" F.A.N.G. scoffed. "But while I concede that you three are potential threats in indirect combat, I strongly doubt that you will do any good with direct combat."

To immediately prove his point before dashing forward while crouching his head down like a ninja. Snoopy and Scooby jumped, looking scared. So did Zim, but for a different reason.

"No, wait!" Zim shouted, holding out his hand.

Garfield narrowed his eyes before jumping up and getting out a giant turkey leg out of nowhere and when F.A.N.G. ran close enough, Garfield swung it downwards onto the poisoner's head, knocking him down to the ground. Zim, Snoopy and Scooby winced at this.

"...While from a slice-of-life comic, Garfield IS still from the same platform fighter as both Avatar protagonists and Danny Phantom." Zim frowned.

"Um, right. Got it." F.A.N.G. groaned.

(Announcer's Booth)

"So Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby Doo were the main protagonists of Tinyhammer's very prominent fanfic?" Nine asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yyyyep. It was also where he and Tinyhammer first met." Drake explained. "It wasn't for that particular fanfic, we probably wouldn't even have the Tournament of Kikai OR the third Battle of the Luminaries."

"But why those three though? Snoopy is an eccentric beagle who always has his head up in the clouds, Scooby would rather eat glass than go on a dangerous adventure…" Nine pointed out. "Oh, and they dislike cats. What's more is that he dislikes dogs too. Almost as much as making friends and hard work!"

"Oh, that is rather simple. At the time, they were his favourite characters of all time." Drake shrugged. "Sure, naturally he would have them form their own team."

Nine blinked twice. "...Okay, but as a Kingdom Hearts rip-off?"

Drake chuckled nervously. "Yeahhhhh… Despite looking back with fond memories, there are a few memories that… Are better off forgotten."

Nine raised an eyebrow, wondering if she should prod the subject forward. Fortunately, Ashley more or less changed the subject for her.

"Anddddd done." Ashley said, getting the two's attention.

"Hm? Done with what?" Drake asked.

"I should have been able to rig the next node that Celica and the others have landed in to have someone who should be able to answer how to get them to their respective nodes." Ashley explained.

Drake and Nine's eyes lit up at this.

"Really? That's awesome, man!" Drake grinned.

"And here I thought that you would be nothing more than a spineless Straight Man just like Maurice at the Tournament of Kikai!" Nine smirked.

Ashley looked grumpy at this. "Oi…"

"So what IS the node that you sent your sister?" Nine asked before narrowing her eyes. "I know that at this point it is repetitive to say this but if you sent you to a dangerous node."

"It isn't! It isn't!" Ashley insisted. "Take a look for yourself!"

Nine nodded her head before she and Drake looked at the screen. However, after three seconds, they blinked twice before turning to Ashley with blank faces.

"...What?" Drake asked, finally.

Ashley chuckled nervously. "...I mean I didn't want to take any chances by having them meet someone that would give them, and by extension, us, vague answers. We literally need to be hand-held."

"I mean, yes, but still…" Drake started before trailing off.

"...Look, my sister should more or less be safe for ten minutes so I can't really complain TOO much." Nine admitted before frowning. "But you should know that it is a bad sign when DRAKE is being the one with the sane responses."

Drake glared at Nine as Ashley sheepishly shrugged.

(Minneapolis; Charlie Brown's House)

The Peanuts gang all sat around the television, watching in awe as they saw Snoopy fighting off Zim and F.A.N.G. along with Garfield and Scooby. Unless for Charlie Brown who looked horrified and Lucy who somehow looked even more crabbier than before.

"...What can't I have a normal dog like everyone else?" Charlie Brown groaned.

"It is your own fault, Charlie Brown." Lucy scoffed, crossing her arms. "For owning a stupid beagle! So quit your whining in a vain attempt to gain pity!"

As the round-headed boy sighed, Violet raised an eyebrow at Lucy.

"Okay, while this isn't anything new for you to say, you somehow sound even crabbier than ever." Violet noted.

"Why wouldn't I be? Thanks to Charlie Brown and that mutt, we are now officially associated with this stupid UVR tournament!" Lucy roared, throwing up her hands in frustration.

"You are just still upset that literal blockhead, Steve, landed on you." Peppermint Patty muttered, rolling her eyes.

"I mean that too, but knowing her, she is more upset by the SECOND visitor in our node." Linus muttered, rolling his eyes.

It was then everyone turned their heads towards Schroeder who was sitting with a lovestruck look on his face.

"Yurika…" Schroeder said, dreamily.

Lucy gritted her teeth with a look of extreme jealousy of her face. A few kids snickered at this.

"Ugh, whatever, a stupid beagle like this is nothing more than fodder for actual fighters." Lucy scoffed. "He is going to get creamed and it is all going to be YOUR fault, Charlie Brown, for getting a normal dog!"

Charlie Brown winced as Linus glared at Lucy.

"...Lucy, we have well-reached the era where you don't have to be a 'traditional' fighter to enter the tournament!" Linus scolded, putting his hand on Charlie Brown's shoulder. "Besides, just like Penny Proud, he clearly has his own alliance!"

"But Bubbles, Garnet, Isabelle and Garnet are established fighters!" Lucy recalled. "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a watered-down platform fighter and Scooby didn't even show up in the roster of Multiversus! Shaggy and even VELMA did!"

"But judging by their reactions when they first met each other, they were all good friends!" Linus scolded.

Charlie Brown paused. "Do you think… Garfield and Scooby will look after Snoopy?"

"Garfield and Scooby will look after Snoopy?" Peppermint Patty asked in disbelief. "It is SNOOP that will look after those two!"

"Yeah, he is our best player on our baseball team." Shermy nodded.

"Plus, he even gave an A in Show and Tell!" Sally smiled. "And considering how strict my teacher is with Show and Tell, that is a very tall order!"

"So yeah, Snoopy has a lot of skills and while not all of them could be translated into combat, it is not like he hasn't been in combat before." Linus offered. "I could think of the amount of times Snoopy got into direct combat with the cat next door."

Everyone nodded their heads. Charlie Brown paused before turning his head towards the television while watching Snoopy on the television.

(The Arena)

Kirby ran to the side to avoid a diving kick. However, he was able to avoid the attack, the incoming shockwave easily sent the light Kirby into the air. Dural wasted no time doing an axe kick to Kirby knocking him down to the ground and sending him painfully bouncing across the ground. Dural then did a sliding kick forward. However, Kirby snapped out of his daze and ran to the side.

Kirby then got out his hammer and swung it into Dural's side and sent the chrome woman sprawling to the side. He then ran over to the downed Dural with his weapon still in his hand. However, Dural recovered and pulled her fist back while igniting it in fire.

"FALCON…" Dural said. "PUNCH!"

While the crowd gave Dural a huge mixed reaction, she then did a flaming punch to Kirby's hammer with a falcon around her, sending the weapon flying out of Kirby's hands and out of the arena (and onto Mole Mania's Muddy Mole head). While the puffball was stunned, Dural did an upwards kick and sent Kirby by into the air before dribbling him on her knees and chest like a soccer ball. While in pain, Kirby managed to float up out of Dural's juggle before opening his mouth and inhaling Dural into his mouth. He then copied her ability.

However, when Dural came out, Kirby just appeared with a white high-tech visor. The crowd and even some fighters just stopped and stared blankly.

"...The Copy ability?" Drake asked, speaking what was on everyone's minds.

"Well, what do you expect when you inhale someone who doesn't have their own moves?" Nine snarked.

Dural then spread her legs while balancing on her hands together before performing Tam-Tam's hurricane kick, striking Kirby multiple times and sending him flying away. The pink copier flew back, but recovered and discarded his redundant copy ability, turning into a star. Kirby then grabbed it and threw it forward, striking Dural in the face and knocking her down.

Kirby then floated towards Dural until she was over the Ditto Fighter before turning into a mini-Thwomp and falling straight down into Dural's stomach. The latter's upper body jerked up, clearly showing her reacting in pain. Dural then shoved Kirby's stone body off of her. She then proceeded to punch the stone in hopes of trying to get through. Kirby then broke off of it before flipping backward. He then turned around and ran off. Dural then got up before running after him.

Kirby then ran towards a Food Box. While still running, he then launched himself forward while igniting himself in fire and breaking the box. Once it literally crumbled, a floating food then appeared. A donut with pink frosting and sprinkles. He then sucked it in and inhaled it.

Then, his entire body changed. He turned into a donut with even the same frosting and sprinkles on it. Drake smirked before speaking into the microphone.

"Just like Kirby to be the first to use the Copy ability!" Drake announced. "First off, Wheel!"

As if Drake's words were a starting line, Kirby then started to roll in place. Dural was not deterred as she continued to advance forward. Big mistake as Kirby launched himself forward towards Dural, striking her in the legs and sending her flying in the air. Kirby wasn't done as he managed to turn himself around and go back, striking Dural before she could hit the ground, sending her back into the air.

This proceeded to happen a few more times, juggling Dural in the air. Kirby then did one final charge into Dural and was sent flying straight over the ropes and into the portal. Then, a tiny flash of light, Kirby went back to normal with a stern look in his eyes. Now that Dural was gone, there was only one thing to do.

Go back to eating as many sweets as he could.

Dural landed in World Heroes. Kidd and J. Maxx mistook her for a clone of Geegus and temporarily stopped their fight to beat her into the ground.

"Konohana-Sakuya!"

Shun'ei's eyes widened as a pink and white magical girl-like being with pink petal-like wings appeared over her and summoned a pillar of pink light. Not only did this heal him, but also protected him from a series of bullets. While stunned, Shun'ei leapt forward with trails of fire and water towards. Happy Chaos, despite having his shots failed, merely shrugged before rolling forward to avoid a flying kick.

Happy Chaos broke out of his roll to aim his gun at Shun'ei again and fired another bullet. However, the Chinese young man turned around and swung his arm. This summoned a giant, blue, watery hand which copied Shun'ei motion and deflected the bullet away. Before Happy Chaos could do anything, he was bombarded by a barrage of paper fans. With the pale blue-skinned man stunned, Shun'Ei lunged at him with a flying kick.

However, when the kick connected with Happy Chaos' face, the latter suddenly vanished in black and blue energy. Shun'ei's eyes widened before noticing Happy Chaos aiming his gun at the green-haired boy's head and fired a bullet, striking him in the forehead and knocking onto his back. Yukiko gasped before summoning Konohana-Sakuya and sending a fireball at Happy Chaos, but the white-haired man fired another bullet at it, negating it.

Happy Chaos then put his hands onto his head before concentrating and aiming at Yukiko. However, the red-clad girl resummoned her Persona to protect her with a pillar of light. By this time, Shun'ei flipped back onto his feet and dashed towards Happy Chaos before sending a giant flaming fist at Happy Chaos. The white-haired man flew onto his back before sitting up. Suddenly, his eyes lit up when he saw something.

"Ooh! This early?" Happy Chaos beamed.

He then got up and ran off… Away from Shun'ei and Yukiko. They both looked at each other in confusion before looking back at Happy Chaos. Their eyes bugged out when he saw that a pair of giant hands carried a pair of tongs (while avoiding the fight with Sephiroth and the others).

"Yo, Glover, do me first! Do me! Do me!" Happy Chaos shouted.

As if the Server Hand heard him, he made his way towards Happy Chaos and grabbed him by the tongs. As he was carried into the air, he clenched his fists in victory.

"Yes!" Happy Chaos grinned. He then re-aimed his gun down at Shun'ei and Yukiko. The two teenagers' eyes bugged out before diving out of the way of the shots. Yukiko then threw her fans up at him. The projectiles hit him head-on but he merely found them an annoyance.

"Um, I know that I usually shrug-off damage, but even Anji's fans hit harder than yours." Happy Chaos pointed out.

He then aimed his gun at Yukiko and fired. However, she summoned Konohana-Sakuya to summon the projectile-nullifying pillar around her. Happy Chaos just shrugged before turning his attention to Shun'ei. However, he noticed that he was running AWAY from Happy Chaos and towards the cake version of Whispy Woods.

"Sorry, big guy, but I really need a boost!" Shun'ei apologised before climbing up the tree.

Whispy Woods gave a grumpy look but otherwise did nothing. Shun'ei then leapt from the top of the tree before using his air dash to zoom towards Happy Chaos before launching a flaming fist. However, he wasn't aiming for the gunslinger but rather the tongs holding him. This made the Server Hands drop Happy Chaos and let him fall to the ground like a stone. In contrast to Shun'ei, he landed gracefully on his feet before walking over to the prone Happy Chaos as he laid unmoving.

Then, Happy Chaos' eyes bugged out, startling Shun'ei.

"GARBAGE DAY!"

With that, he aimed his gun into Shun'ei's chest and fired a bullet, striking the Chinese boy and sending him flying back until he skidded on his back in pain while crashing into a Food Box.

"Shun'ei!" Yukiko gasped before running over to Shun'ei's side. "Are you alright!?"

"No… I mean I will live but it still hurts like hell." The green-haired boy winced.

"As much as I hate to admit it, maybe he isn't as funny as he looks." Yukiko frowned. "I don't suppose that you could do the same thing."

Shun'ei glared at Yukiko. "...Was that last part really necessary?"

With that, he looked for a way around Happy Chaos' defences. His eyes then widened.

"I think I know how to get him out of the ring…" Shun'ei offered.

Yukiko blinked twice. "Really, how?"

Shun'ei then narrowed his eyes. "By…

With that, he immediately leapt to his feet and ran towards Happy Chaos. Yukiko looked in horror as Happy Chaos smirked before aiming his gun at Shun'ei and fired.

Only for Shun'ei to vanish and the bullet to find its way into Whispy Woods, startling both Happy Chaos and Yukiko.

"Hm… That's weird." Happy Chaos mused. "If he could teleport, why didn't he use it until then."

Suddenly, he heard a weird oozing noise. Raising an eyebrow, he looked down to see a small pile of green jelly with a familiar pair of eyes. Then, the jelly then started to change form and summoned hands of fire and water, striking Happy Chaos and sending him into the air.

The jelly then changed into Shun'ei. The green-haired boy breathed in and out before narrowing his eyes in determination. He then ran towards the flying Happy Chaos and summoned his water hand to turn into a claw and slashed through the white-haired man. He then jumped up into the air and gave him a devastating punch with his fiery hand, punching Happy Chaos hard and sending him out of the ring. Shun'ei landed on his feet before breathing heavily.

"...Never thought that I would have to resort to using an exclusive power-up from Dream Buffet to get an elimination." Shun'ei sighed.

"To be fair, outside of Kyo in the second Battle of the Luminaries, I don't think ANY of the KoF protagonists have ever gotten an elimination." Yukiko recalled, stepping forward.

Shun'ei looked at Yukiko in awe. "Huh… I DID notice how rare it is for them to get an elimination at these things.

Happy Chaos landed in Scribblenauts where he landed on top of Maxwell, knocking him. Out of curiosity, the former picked up the latter's magic notebook and… Yeah, I'll leave it to your imagination on what happens next.

Mewtwo raised a barrier to protect himself from Sephiroth's Masamune. Despite having his attack blocked, the dark-clad man rolled his eyes before snapping his finger and summoning several balls of dark energy orbiting Mewtwo. However, the balls stopped orbiting a second later and made his way towards Rosalina waving her wand to direct them away from him.

"Thunder Shoot!" Cream shouted, throwing Cheese at Sephiroth with electricity around her Chao and struck the latter, temporarily paralysing him. Charmy then flew behind Sephiroth and smirked before sending his stinger into the white-haired man's rear. However, the moment Thunder Shoot's paralysis wore off and kicked his leg behind him, striking Charmy and send.

Then, Mewtwo teleported in front of Sephiroth before glaring into Sephiroth's eyes and sending the black-clad man into a daze. The former then slashed his claws twice before doing a tailwhip, summoning psychic energy around the respective parts. Sephiroth snapped out of his daze and did a counter-slash. Rosalina summoned a barrier around Mewtwo, blocking Sephiroth.

"ASTEROID!"

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow before turning around to see a purple planetoid with glowing, yellow eyes heading towards him with a black hole-like aura around him, summoning strawberries from below and surrounded. Sephiroth rolled his eyes before getting ready to swing his nodachi at the Indigo Asteroid.

Suddenly, he heard a whistle. Turning his head, he saw Cream pointing her finger at him. Then, a bunch of multi-coloured Chao appeared out of nowhere and flew towards the planetoid, revolving around it, striking Sephiroth multiple times before sending Sephiroth soaring towards the ground with a painful looking crash. Despite this, he got up and jumped up to go back into the air to see everyone (including Charmy who used his Colour Power) regrouping.

"Well, you seem to be doing pretty well for yourselves." Sephiroth noted.

"As the runner-up of the first Battle of the Luminaries AND the Okron Tournament, I can't afford to let myself go now that easily." Mewtwo said, narrowing his eyes.

"Besides, we can't allow you to have free reign in this happy arena." Rosalina nodded.

"Ah, yes, this arena. I must confess that I am not really a fan of this aesthetic." Sephiroth admitted.

Charmy rolled his eyes. "Shocker."

"Butttttt there ARE some things that I do appreciate." Sephiroth offered.

With that, he pulled out something. A cupcake. Mewtwo's eyes widened at this, but before they could do anything, Sephiroth already took a bite of it. Immediately, he turned into a cupcake with black paper and silver icing. Everyone looked in awe at this.

"Well? Don't I look intimidating?" Sephiroth smirked.

"No, you look stupid." Charmy said, matter-of-factly.

"Tch, that goes to show how sheltered you are from the evils of the world if you can't see…" Sephiroth started.

He then absent-mindedly looked to the screens to see himself and paused.

"By my mother, I DO look ridiculous." Sephiroth muttered. He then glared at the group. "Regardless, at least it will look better than lying on the ground by my feet."

Cream slumped her arms. "...But you don't even HAVE feet right now."

Sephiroth just narrowed his eyes further before spinning around. This caused a tornado to encircle around his now-cupcake body. His opponents' eyes widened before they were sent spiralling around the tornado. A few seconds of spinning (and screaming), Sephiroth managed to break out of the transformation and made his way out of the tornado. While everyone was still spinning, Sephiroth started to charge up magic energy with his free hand and sent it towards the tornado.

KABOOM!

In a large magic explosion, the six were sent flying towards the ground while turning into magic meteors.

And towards the fight Bullet, Isabelle, Relius Clover and Dr. N. Gin which they all looked in horror. While the former three, anyway, with the latter looked excited.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

One by one, the respective meteors crashed into the unexpecting fighters and created an explosion that sent them flying. With Mewtwo crashing into N. Gin, Rosalina & Luma crashing into Relius, Cream & Cheese crashing into Isabelle and Charmy crashing into Bullet. As if you had expected anything else, all of the members from the group on the ground were sent flying straight out of the ring.

Bullet, Isabelle, Relius and N. Gin landed in the Running of the Bulb minigame of Mario Party. However, the latter two landed on top of Boos, causing them to get immediately possessed, leaving Isabelle to carry the giant light bulb while Bullet protected her while punching away the Boos (while ignoring Relius and N. Gin).

Mewtwo, Rosalina, Luma, Cream, Cheese and Charmy all groaned while they laid down on the ground while everyone else looked in shock.

"Unbelievable!" Drake gasped. "Sephiroth had indirectly managed to get four people eliminated!"

"He probably wasn't aiming to eliminate the four that were actively going against him." Nine noted. "He probably wanted to have his own version of the 'Blair Witch Project'."

"Just like Sephiroth to pull a sadistic act and have the people trying to stop him and going after other fighters by having THEM technically eliminate the very people they were trying to protect." Ashley said, sternly.

Sephiroth looked at the Announcer's Booth with a blank look as the crowd gave him a huge mixed reaction for this.

"I…. WAS trying to eliminate the people actively going against me." Sephiroth thought.

Suddenly, he noticed a puff of smoke to the side of him. Looking to his right, one of the Server Hands appeared, this time with a giant cake knife. Said Server Hand descended downwards and literally cut through one third of the arena, making everyone's eyes go wide-eyed.

"Um, I think we should go NOW!" Shun'ei piped up.

Needless to say, everyone who was on top of a certain third of the arena ran off different parts of the arena. Just in time as the third that people were on ascended upwards before vanished, leaving only two thirds of the arena. The ropes were still there, however, seeing that there were no ropes in the MIDDLE of the arena, one side was ropeless, making it easier for people to fall out from that side.

Sephiroth blinked twice before smirking. "...Never thought that a level about cake would be so fun."

(Dome; Junko's Hideout)

The villains that were in Oume's group all looked in horror at what was happening. Along with the shadow clones of Haohmaru, Geese, Kasumi, Sakura, Pikachu, R. Mika and Lilly, they also had more of them.

"Bisonnnnnnn… Otaneeeee…"

That was the sound of a shadowy figure of Oume Goketsuji as she stood in front of the group of clones. She wasn't the only clone of Oume's group. There were also Cortex, Rugal, K. Rool, Kurow, Sho and the Shredder.

"H-How?" Sho asked. "What the fuck is going on?"

"Isn't it obvious? After being hit by that truth bomb by Yamazaki and the others, everyone went into the near-despair stage." I-No reminded.

"But… I am not in despair." Pinstripe said. "Or at least almost there to get a clone of myself."

"Well, that truth bomb hit home for everyone, it seems that it hurts certain things for other people." Ridley sighed. "Like me, K. Rool and Cortex using the tactics of someone who caused us trouble in the Tournament of Kikai with no real payoff."

"And as much as I hate to admit it, Oume's comment about how her plan really showed off the full potential of my power really hit me hard." Kurow frowned.

"And after spending so much time missing out of UVR tournaments outside of the Megamix Tournament, I finally got invited back only for THIS to happen?" Rugal asked in disbelief. "Bison always invited me whenever he liked and THIS is how he treats me!"

"...Would you all like to play you a song on the world's saddest violin?" Terumi muttered.

"Bisonnnnn… Otaneeeeeee…" Oume's shadow spoke.

"...So now what?" Malomyotismon asked.

"What else? Destroy them!" K. Rool scoffed. "I know this sounds weird coming from ME, but even us villains can't let these guys go around!"

"Yes… Let's destroy it. I don't even want to remember this stupid plan anymore…" Cortex muttered.

Everyone slowly agreed. Ridley was about to go towards the shadow clones and was about to attack. Then, Infinite spoke up.

"Um, are we near the gas lines?" Infinite piped up.

"Um, no, why?" Cortex asked.

"Then, what is that strange smoke coming in?" Infinite asked, pointing to the side.

Everyone's eyes bugged out before turning to indeed see a certain pink gas coming in.

"Oh no!" K. Rool gasped.

"Everyone, cover your noses!" Ridley exclaimed.

Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. Everyone inhaled the pink gas and were immediately sent into a coughing fit. After a few seconds, they all fell unconscious. Except for the shadow clones.

Then, a figure walked in carrying a gas mask.

"...Never thought that perfume could be THIS powerful." They said in awe.

They then looked over to the shadow army.

"Um, yo?" They frowned.

"Bisonnnnn… Otaneeeee…" Oume said.

"Um, hey, so um… I literally just came in here and I only have an outline on what happened." The figure said. "So you don't have to say anything, but apparently the plan was to kidnap the loved ones of the UVR Champions, brainwash them, have them attack the champion and in the end, have them go through a horrific cycle of suffering.

"Dan…" R. Mika and Sakura said.

"Oshizu…" Haohmaru said.

"But in the end, Bison never really cared about your plan. In fact, he was actively helping your enemies out of spite for stealing his people." The figure continued.

"Bisonnnnnn…" Oume growled.

"No matter what… We are always slaves of Junko…" K. Rool added.

"Yes, yes, blame Bison. Blame Junko… But I think you all are missing the point." The figure pointed out. "Now answer me this? Do you think you will all be feeling this pain if you ever come here?"

The shadow clones paused as the figure continued.

"I mean think about it. At every UVR tournament, Bison comes in with a villain plot and every time, it causes SOMEBODY just kind of pain." The figure said. "Now he inadvertently got TWO more villain plots involved. Because that is the tradition of this tournament to have villain plots. Xehanort and Junko even tried to take over as the Big Bad. So no matter what happens as long as they are UVR, the villain plots will never stop. The PAIN will never stop."

The shadow clones paused.

"UVR… Dan's life is potentially ruined because of it." R. Mika said.

"I lost my only brother here…" Lilly said.

"If Drake didn't invite Power Instinct, we wouldn't be feeling this pain…" Oume said.

"Exactly! What is the point of these tournaments if someone will always get hurt!?" The figure snapped. "You would think that everyone will learn their lesson after what happened at the Tournament of Kikai, but no. Drake rebooted the Battle of the Luminaries with little to no care for everyone. If he just realised that there isn't a need for UVR tournaments, we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"Drake…" Geese said.

"Drakeeeee…" Oume growled.

"DRAKEEEEEE…" The shadow clones said.

"That's right! It may be too late to undo the pain that was inflicted onto you but it is not too late!" The figure said. "We have to inflict the same pain that Drake, nay, UVR has inflicted on us!"

"DOWN WITH UVR! DOWN WITH UVR!" The shadow clones chanted.

"Exactly!" The figure sneered. "But only one problem… Even though they are fourteen of you, it may not be enough to make him suffer."

Cortex paused. "K. Rool, Rugal, get the despair-draining machine."

"Agreed. Regardless of how I feel about my sister, she is just as much a victim as me." Oume admitted.

K. Rool and Rugal nodded his eyes before walking over to the machine. The figure smirked before getting out his phone while looking at the unconscious villains.

"We got you now, Drake…"

(Unknown Location)

"Aw, come on! It will only be for one night!" FK pleaded.

"YOU KNOW FULLY WELL WHY I CAN'T DO THAT."

"But that's not fair! You let the prey side go to the UVRs." FK scolded.

"BECAUSE SPENDING ONE NIGHT IN THE MEGAMIX OR CROSSOVER DOME WILL YIELD RESULTS, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE. LETTING ONE OF YOU GO THERE ON THE OTHER HAND…"

"Come on! It wouldn't be the first time!" FK insisted.

"THAT IS BECAUSE IN THOSE INSTANCES, THEY WOULD INVITED."

"Look, come on. Is it really that bad if I go for one night?" FK grumbled, crossing their arms.

"ACTUALLY, YES. I CAME TO A RELUCTANT AGREEMENT WITH THE ETERNAL CHAMPION THAT NONE OF YOU WILL INTERFERE OUTSIDE OF THIS REALM UNLESS UNDER VERY NICHE CIRCUMSTANCES."

FK paused. "...Wait, that is because we will kill them, right?"

"THAT IS OBVIOUSLY CORRECT."

"So what if I only kill people INDIRECTLY?" FK asked.

"I DO NOT FOLLOW."

"Look, I revel in being a murderer, but I also love being sadistic. I do not have to kill people." FK admitted.

They then gave a dark smirk.

"Just make their wish that they WERE dead."

"...YOU TRULY WISH TO GO, EVEN AT THE COST OF NOT BEING ABLE TO KILL?"

"Look, I know that this literally just came out of the blue, but that is how powerful the feeling I am getting from the tournament." FK said.

"...VERY WELL. I SUPPOSE THAT YOUR ATTEMPT OF A LOOPHOLE SHOULD WORK AROUND THE ETERNAL CHAMPION'S AGREEMENT. HOWEVER, THE MOMENT THAT YOU KILL A SINGLE PERSON, I WILL AUTOMATICALLY GIVE YOU A NERF."

FK's smirk vanished. "Are you kidding me!? Didn't you give me enough!?"

"ALL THE MORE MOTIVATION FOR YOU NOT TO KILL."

FK's eyebrow twitched. "Alright, alright… I'll get it! Like I was willing to do so anyway."

"VERY WELL. AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER THAT, MY ONLY OTHER CONDITION IS THIS: WHATEVER YOU WISH TO ACCOMPLISH, YOU SHOULD DO SO BEFORE THE WINNER OF THE THIRD BATTLE OF THE LUMINARIES IS ANNOUNCED."

"Yeah, I kinda figured that I had that kind of time limit." FK admitted.

Then, a white, swirling portal appeared to the side of FK. While startled, they smirked before nodding their head.

"Thanks, Karlsson!" FK smirked.

With that, they ran into the portal with it closing behind them. The being that let them go just let out a deep groan.

"I LOATHE WHEN PEOPLE CALL ME THAT…"

(The Arena)

F.A.N.G. gritted his teeth before rushing forward at the trio of Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby Doo. The dogs yelped before diving at the way, but Garfield narrowed his eyes before raising his turkey legs to block a kick. F.A.N.G. however swung his hand downwards with poison around his hand.

"You're toxic!" Garfield thought. Somehow, this created a thought bubble with the very words that he thought which somehow acted as a shield. Needless to say, F.A.N.G. wasn't expecting this and staggered back out of shock. Garfield then pulled his turkey leg back and slammed it down onto F.A.N.G.'s foot.

The assassin let out a cry of pain before hopping on his uninjured foot while holding his other one. Garfield then swung his turkey leg into F.A.N.G.'s stomach and sent him sprawling backwards until he landed on his face with his rear upwards.

"ZIM WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR DOOM TO BRING THEM TO THEIR DOOM!"

With that, three dog-like stuffed animals were thrown around F.A.N.G.. Realising that they were, F.A.N.G. scampered to collect all three of them, healing him a bit. Zim then ran on his spider legs before stabbing his front legs forward. Garfield narrowed his eyes before raising his turkey leg to block it. The orange cat then glared back at his allies.

"Well…?" Garfield asked.

Scooby gulped nervously at this. Snoopy on the other hand narrowed his eyes before getting out a red boot out of nowhere and started to swing it around. Garfield's eyes bugged out in horror.

"No, wait!" Garfield shouted.

However, it was too late as Zim easily caught the boot with his free-hand. Snoopy looked in awe before Garfield slapped his forehead.

"I knew that dogs were stupid, but did you seriously forget that in All-Star Brawl, EVERYONE could catch and deflect projectiles?" Garfield groaned.

"Oh, right…" Snoopy frowned. "I guess I forgot."

Zim sneered before going over to Garfield and whacking him in the head with his boot, knocking him and startling Snoopy and Scooby.

"F.A.N.G., I shall deal with Garfield!" Zim shouted. "The dogs are yours!"

The assassin returned the sneer. "With pleasure!"

With that, he ran towards Scooby seeing him as the easier one to deal with. Needless to say, Scooby yelped before running to the side to avoid a poisonous knife-hand from him. Snoopy growled before leaping at F.A.N.G. and biting him in the leg. The purple-clad man cried out in pain before tossing Snoopy off of it. The beagle tried to hold onto his pocket, but instead held onto an item inside of him and fell onto his back.

F.A.N.G. then lunged at Scooby again while swinging his poisonous hands at Scooby. The Great Dane yelped before managing to step back while avoiding the incoming barrage. This continued on for a few seconds. Suddenly, Scooby found one of his hind legs touching no ground. Turning his head, he saw that he was backed against the side that had no ropes. With his eyes widened in horror, he looked back at F.A.N.G. who had a malicious look on his face.

"For Lord Bison!" F.A.N.G. announced before shoving both of his palms forward at Scooby.

However, he didn't expect Scooby to throw himself to the ground while covering his head in fear. F.A.N.G. ended up tripping over Scooby's body and falling out of the arena.

F.A.N.G. landed in the Hazy Maze level of Super Mario 64. After sitting up, he blinked twice before his sunglasses.

"...Did I just get eliminated by TRIPPING over Scooby?" F.A.N.G. asked in disbelief. "It is not even like how Wolf O'Donnell eliminated Roy because that was clearly orchestrated by Beetlejuice!"

He then slapped his forehead before checking his pockets. However, after finding one of them empty, he looked shocked before throwing his arms in frustration.

"And OF COURSE, it is gone! Why wouldn't it be!?" F.A.N.G. roared. "It wouldn't even be in the top 5 worst things that happened to me tonight!"

He then sighed before putting his elbows on his knees and his face on his concealed hands.

"At the very least, I landed in a soothing atmosphere…" F.A.N.G. grumbled.

He says while casually sitting inside of the Toxic Maze unaffected as if it was nothing…

Back in the arena, Scooby opened his eyes and looked around, wondering what happened to F.A.N.G. Snoopy, Garfield and Zim looked on in disbelief.

"Wow, he IS mentally tired." Zim frowned. "He probably wouldn't make such a stupid mistake otherwise."

Garfield looked at Zim in disbelief. "Sureeeee… Because he TOTALLY wouldn't make a mistake like that."

The Irken shook his head as he watched Snoopy and Scooby walk over to regroup with Garfield. He just scoffed.

"So you think that triple-teaming me would take down Zim so easily?" Zim scoffed. "Well, let me tell you! Zim NEVER gives up!"

"THAT part is obvious…" Snoopy muttered.

With that, he got out something. Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby's eyes when they saw it was a bar of chocolate. He then took a bite out of said sweet. He then turned into a bar of chocolate himself, only green with red eyes.

"F.A.N.G. isn't the only one who is poisonous to you canines!" Zim boasted. "ATTACK!"

With that, he managed to jump into the air. Snoopy and Scooby looked scared but Garfield just looked determined.

"JUMP!" Garfield shouted.

While taken off-guard by…Everything so far, Snoopy and Scooby obliged as Zim landed on the ground and sent out a large shockwave around him. Not only Snoopy and Scooby leapt over it. But Garfield showed some deceptive agility and pounced forward like the cat to not only leapt over the shockwave but onto Zim who was not also recovering from his attack, but returning to normal.

BAM!

Due to his weight of Garfield, he slammed into Zim hard and knocked him to the ground where he laid on the ground unconscious.

Garfield smirked before grabbing Zim's collar. "Word of the wise: When you are facing people who have been in a plat…"

"A-ACK!"

Garfield's (and Snoopy and Scooby's) eyes widened before turning their heads to see that the shockwave from Zim's attack had struck Shun'Ei (who was sitting relaxing from fighting Happy Chaos) and was sent out of the ring.

Shun'ei landed in Rugrats: Totally Angelica where he got low scores from the judges for his outfit. Keep in mind, said judges are a bunch of babies, an old man, a cat and a dinosaur…

Several people blinked twice at this.

"...Well, THAT'S a first…" Garfield admitted before glaring down at Zim. "Anyway, when you are facing people who have been in a platform game before, don't think you could easily win with a basic boss technique."

With that, he picked up Zim and carried him over to the ropes as Snoopy and Scooby looked in awe.

"Wow, as much as I hate to admit it, Garfield is more skilled than he lets on." Scooby noted. "Say what you want about Zim but anyone who manages to get seven eliminations is not someone to take down that easily."

"Yeah…" Snoopy said with a blank face as he watched Garfield throw Zim out of the ring.

Zim landed in Looney Tunes. When he came to, he got into an argument with Marvin the Martian about how to take over the Earth.

Garfield then walked back while dusting his hands together before noticing something in Snoopy's hands. "Hey, nice accessory you have there. What is it?"

The white-furred dog paused before looking at said item. The Star Piece.

"Oh this? I don't know. I accidentally grabbed it when I was trying to hold onto that assassin." Snoopy explained.

"...I didn't know that he even liked ANYTHING type of fashion that isn't 'dark'." Scooby noted.

Snoopy paused before smirking and throwing it to himself. "Eh. Finders keepers."

(Announcer's Booth)

Nine blinked twice "...Is this the first time that someone got eliminated while unconscious?"

"Well, it depends on how you look at it. Wolf and Rawk Hawk eliminated Roy and Little Mac respectively around the same time that THEY went unconscious." Drake recalled. "Zim on the other hand managed to eliminate Shun'ei seconds AFTER he blacked out."

Ashley rolled his eyes. "Of course we have gotten to the point that we will discuss something like that unironically."

"And of course Zim will most likely act like he earned that elimination!" Nine muttered, copying Ashley's expression.

Drake chuckled nervously. "Well, maybe he didn't end with a bang, but still you gotta give it to Zim, seven eliminations isn't anything to sneeze at. Especially since we should be coming up to the third quarter of this tournament."

Nine raised an eyebrow. "You make it sound like that particular time frame will be difficult to get eliminations."

"Well, yes and no. It WILL be difficult. To get DOUBLE eliminations in a section." Drake admitted.

"I don't know if you noticed or not but Drake has made sure that there are only four Big Guys per node with the exception of the smaller nodes only having three." Ashley added.

"Yes, even I noticed." Nine noticed. "Especially noticeable in my node, Super Smash Bros and Crash Bandicoot."

"Well, I created a system where at least three Big Guys come out every section." Drake explained. "Thus why we are seeing so many eliminations."

Nine raised an eyebrow. "But…"

"But I made sure that the third quarter will have only two Big Guys per section. You know, for the sake of balancing." Drake shrugged.

"So we may see Battle of the Luminaries' very first two-Big Guy round with the system starting the next section?" Nine asked.

"Technically we already started. Dural was the final Big Guy of the second quarter and Zim did surprisingly well, especially for a villain." Drake admitted. "Personally, I love rounds with more Big Guys rounds, the more the better."

"Shocker." Nine said, rolling her eyes.

Drake continued as if he didn't hear Nine. "But I have to think smart about this and besides it is not like they CAN'T be fun. The Tournament of Kikai demonstrated this. Still, it is definitely going to be harder to reach the likes of Zim, the Pyro and especially Peach."

"Maybe not as quickly, but at the same time, this system will make things easier for fighters to survive the next section." Ashley admitted. "I mean let's face it. The already-long list of elimination streaks in the Tournament of Kikai would be much higher if it wasn't for the Big Guy Blockers."

"Yes… About that." Nine frowned. "How is SHE going to perform said sections at the second tournament?"

Drake and Ashley looked worried before looking at each other. Suddenly, Drake heard his phone vibrate. Getting it out, he examined it and his eyes bugged out in horror.

"...Speak of the devil." Drake muttered.

Ashley and even Nine looked worried at this.

"W-What is it?" Ashley asked.

"She merely texted me saying 'Do you want to do some last minute Mystery Fighter arrangement'?" Drake shrugged.

"Um, why?" Nine asked.

"I am not sure. Might as well ask." Drake said before texting her back.

However, once he did, his eyes bugged out.

"W-What is it?" Ashley asked, looking worried.

"W-We may need to watch a video first before I could probably tell you." Drake said.

Ashley and Nine looked at each other in confusion before Drake picked up a tablet and fiddled with it. Once he was done, two familiar people showed up on the screen.

"Hey folks, this is Carver, along with my girlfriend Blunny, the host of the side stories of the Battle of the Luminaries 3… AND of course, the new Okron Tournament: Revisioned, which has not seen an update for quite some time. Part of me hopes it's coming soon, but…"

(The Arena)

Reid Herstel swung his sword at Rin Oyama. However, the karateta jumped back to avoid the slash before sending her fist forward, but Reid was holding a shield with the other hand and raised it to block it.

"Light Spear!" Reid shouted before jumping up and spinning around, striking Rin before doing a thrust and knocking Reiji's niece to the ground. Despite landing on her back hard, Rin quickly rolled backwards to get away from Reid.

"Achifu!" Rin shouted, swinging her arm and sending a wave of purple electricity forward. Reid raised his shield to block the projectile. Rin then ran forward, but Reid swung his sword downwards. However, Rin managed to catch the sword with her hands and while Reid was stunned, Rin kicked the red-haired young man in the stomach.

"Feesa!" Rin shouted doing a series of lightning kicks to Reid, striking him multiple times and causing him to cry out in pain.

"Tempest Strike!" Reid shouted before doing aerial rolls with his sword, not only getting out of Rin's grasp but also striking her multiple times. Rin fell onto her back before Reid landed on her feet.

"Demon Fang!" Reid shouted, turning around and swung his sword upwards with a ground wave forward. However, Rin snapped out of her daze before rolling to the side. She then got up and got into a stance. Reid narrowed his eyes before getting into the same stance as well.

"WAKA WAKA WAKA!"

"CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP!"

Reid and Rin looked confused before turning to the direction of the noises. To get bowled over by a pair of yellow blurs. The two teenagers groaned before looking up where the blurs went.

Only to see Pacman in his classic form chomping down on strawberries. And Homer Simpson was also on the ground, walking like a quadruped animal while chomping down on strawberries as well.

Reid growled at this. "Those selfish idiots are going to eat up the entire arena!"

"Agreed. Even if the arena was going to be smaller either way, that doesn't mean we shouldn't delay the progress." Rin agreed. "I would rather have the arena shrink because of the Server Hands just like you, Reid."

The swordsman paused at this. "I… Just wanted to eat at least SOMETHING before getting eliminated."

"Come on. Let's eliminate them before they make things more complicated for the rest of us." Rin said, sternly.

Reid narrowed his eyes before nodding his head. The two then got up before heading over to the yellow gluttons.

"Super Lightning Blade!" Reid shouted, doing a thrust forward towards the nearest one, which was Homer. Not only did it strike the yellow-skinned man with electricity, but he was sent flying backwards until he crashed into Whispy Woods. This shook the tree cake and dropped a bunch of strawberries onto Homer until everything but his head was covered in the fruit. Homer groaned before glaring at the guilty party.

"Hey! What was THAT for!? Do you think I LIKE being knocked into trees and having strawberries on top of me!?" Homer roared. He then paused before taking a bite of some of the strawberries. "Okay, maybe the last part I am okay with but still!"

"Lucky bastard…" Reid muttered. "At this rate, you are going to eat up the arena long before the Server Hands come in to literally take another piece out of this. I am going to stop you!"

"Oh yeah! No one gets in the way of MY food and gets away with it!" Homer growled.

He then took another bite of the strawberry pile. Suddenly, he started to inflate just like a balloon (and sending strawberries all over the place). Reid's eyes widened at this and they widened even further when Homer rolled over to Reid. Acting quickly, the red-haired man raised a shield to block the incoming charge, but was sent flying onto his back. Reid groaned as he laid on his back.

His eyes then bugged out when he saw Homer bouncing up into the air. Reid yelped before rolling to the side to avoid being squashed by Homer's balloon form. Acting quickly, he got up while… Sheathing his sword. He then got out a halberd and swung it all of his might into Homer and sent him rolling backwards.

"Sword Rain!" Reid shouted, doing a series of stabs with the end of his Halberd forward and sending Homer rolling backward further.

"Hey! You are cheating! I may not know about anime weapons but that is NOT a sword!" Homer roared.

Reid paused before shrugging. He then ran forward to continue the assault. However, Homer quickly deflated himself when he realised that if he didn't, Reid would easily roll him out of the ring. He then got out a bowling ball and threw it at Reid. The hunter did not expect this and yelped before jumping out of the way so the bowling ball landed out of the ring (and onto a Geodude's head. Said Geodude went on as if nothing happened).

Homer then rushed forward and did an uppercut to Reid's chin and sent him flying onto his back. Homer smirked before leaping on top of Reid and proceeded to punch him into the face. The red-haired boy cried out in pain before raising his Halberd to block a punch. With Homer retreating his fist in pain, Reid found an opening and kicked the family man off of him. Homer got up with a growl, ready to get revenge. However, he saw Reid put away his Halberd and got out a longer spear, making it harder to approach him. Homer winced before looking around.

His eyes then lit up when he saw a Food Box. Acting quickly, he swung his fist downwards on it and broke it. Reid's eyes widened before jabbing his spear forward, but it was too late as Homer already caught it and put the food item in his mouth.

CLANG!

Reid's eyes widened as his spear collided with a giant, yellow spiky ball. Despite the successful clang, Homer looked like he was in pain.

"Ow! This candy is sweet yet pointy!" Homer groaned. "Like the time I licked the ice cream I spilled on that porcupine!"

Regardless, he "shrugged" before rolling forward now in the Needle Copy form. Reid's eyes widened before running off with Homer chasing after him. Being hit by a giant, ball of literal fat is one thing, but a giant, SPIKY ball would be hell. He continued to run.

However, he ended up running close to the edge. Reid's eyes bugged out before skidding to a stop and ended up struggling to wave his arms in terms of trying to balance. However, Homer was still rolling towards him.

Until his Needle form wore off and he ended up with Homer before landing on his rear. Homer blinked twice before looking up to see Reid still trying to keep his balance. The former then smirked before getting up and walking over to Reid.

And poked his finger into his back.

"Poink."

"YYYYYOOOOOWWWWW!

Reid let out a huge shout before leaping up into the air while holding his rear in pain. Then, a couple of seconds later, he suddenly realised something.

"Wait, I am not in pain." Reid said.

He then looked down to see he was floating up a few feet over the elimination portal and Homer was on the edge, waving to him with a smile. Reid blinked twice before looking at the nearest Lakitu with a frown.

"Uh-oh…"

As if gravity had a cruel sense of humour, Reid finally fell out of the air and into the portal.

Reid landed in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Fortunately for him, he landed in a fruit orchard on a Mystery Fighter so he had a full ten minutes of eating nothing but fruit.

"Heh. That will show him not to mess with MY eating." Homer smirked, dusting his hands together. He then scowled. "Now to teach the same lesson with that other teenage brat. I may like being lazy, but I could be really determined and focused when I want to…"

His eyes then lit up when he looked down on the ground.

"Ooh! More strawberries!" Homer said before reaching down.

This goes without saying but we have gotten to the point where a staredown with a serious karateka and a smiling yellow round creature could be seen as the norm, no matter how comical it is. Pacman then got out a pixel apple and threw it forward. Rin easily moved to the side.

However, while Rin did so, Pacman held out his hand and sent out a glowing yellow dot which left smaller dots. Pacman then turned back into his classic form and started to follow and eat the dots before crashing into Rin. The teenage girl staggered back but soon recovered.

"Achifu!" Rin shouted, sending out a purple projectile. However, instead of a wave of electricity just like she shot at Reid earlier, it was a multi-hitting fireball, striking Pacman multiple times in the face. As the mascot staggered back, Rin ran over and did a series of punches and kicks to Pacman's face and… Face seeing how rotund his body was. With one final punch, Rin sent Pacman flying back. However, the karateka ran after him, knowing that he was a zoner.

However, Pacman managed to sit up and take out a fire hydrant out of nowhere before planting it on the ground. On one hand, this did little to stop Rin's kick as it sent the fire hydrant flying away (and crashing into poor Whispy Woods). On the other hand, this gave Pacman enough time to run in place while lowering his head. After a second of this, he rolled straight forward into Rin's stomach. Rin's eyes bugged out in pain before she was sent sprawling back. Pacman nodded with a smile before cycling through his fruit to see which one to use.

Only to feel like he was being held by the sides of his head before feeling like he was levitating. Looking up, his eyes bugged out at the Server Hands carrying him up with its tongs. Rin looked up while holding her stomach in pain, looking just as shocked before narrowing her eyes.

"This is not the way I wanted to get a second elimination, but stopping him from eating the arena comes first." Rin said, sternly.

With that, she ran over and picked up a Food Box that was nearby before throwing it at Pacman while he was stuck. While this freed the yellow sphere, he was sent falling to the ground. At first, he summoned a blue line before bouncing off of it like a trampoline.

However, Rin saw it coming and leapt up to throw two more Food Boxes, making it turn yellow and then red before bouncing up and crashing into Pacman. The latter was not expecting this and fell down awkwardly before bouncing off of the red line which bounced him up and broke the trampoline. Pacman then fell to the ground. Rin then crouched down and did a jumping uppercut.

…Only to hit nothing but air. When Rin landed back on the ground, she blinked twice in confusion before looking up.

Only to see Pacman's rear dropping down toward her.

BOING!

After Pacman's hip collided with Rin's head, he bounced off of it hard and sent Rin crashing on the ground hard which she laid dazed. Pacman then gracefully landed on his feet before dusting himself off. He then walked over to Rin and pushed herself underneath the remaining bottom ropes.

"Oh my game! You have NO idea how glad Namco gave me a Flutter Jump in the reboot for Pacman World!" Pacman said in relief.

Rin landed in Typhoon Gal where she got into a karate match against Onna Sanshirou.

Rosalina winced as she gritted her dominant arm after being slashed by Sephiroth's Masamune while Luma looked on in worry.

"Luma, think fast!"

The star turned to the direction of the voice to see Charmy Bee throwing a honeycomb toward them. The star then quickly caught said honeycomb before floating over to Rosalina and offered it to her. Despite being in pain, she found the strength to eat the honeycomb and almost immediately, her wound was healed.

"Thank you, Luma… Charmy…" Rosalina smiled, softly.

"No problem!" Charmy grinned.

"Cream, I am going to lock weapons with Sephiroth!" Mewtwo shouted.

The rabbit sternly nodded her head. "I'm on it!"

With that, she did a short dance before summoning what seemed like a brick wall in front of Mewtwo. The psychic nodded his head before summoning his spoon and floated forward. He and Sephiroth then locked weapons with each other in an aerial power struggle. Rosalina raised her wand to use her telekinesis to help push Mewtwo. Luma, Cream, Cheese and Charmy then floated over behind Mewtwo to physically push Mewtwo.

Despite being outnumbered, Sephiroth managed to hold his own even if he was still being forced back, albeit slowly. Then, while still locking weapons with Mewtwo before summoning magic around his nodachi and resulting in a burst of magic power which sent all five flying away. Rosalina's eyes widened before waving her wand and summoned a barrier around each of her allies before floating them back to her to regroup.

Sephiroth then tried to fly over to smash at Rosalina but Mewtwo returned the favour by summoning his own barrier around Rosalina, blocking Sephiroth's strike. Luma did a gasp at their mother nearly being hurt before narrowing his eyes before charging up in place and zooming straight into Sephiroth's face, knocking him away from Rosalina. However, Sephiroth just recovered with a smirk and an intrigued raised eyebrow.

"Not bad. I am actually having a bit of fun." Sephiroth admitted. "But it is going to take a lot more than that to take me down."

"Unfortunately, he is right." Cream frowned. "I think Cheese should be able to deal with Sephiroth but he is tankier than most of Eggman's robots."

"That's not saying much…" Charmy muttered. "But yeah, and I think he could easily counter the Wisps I brought."

Suddenly, his eyes widened in realisation.

"Cream, you are the solo healer for a while!" Charmy suddenly shouted.

"W-Wait, what?" The rabbit gasped.

Charmy didn't say anything, he just flew down while startling everyone, including Sephiroth. He then flew towards a Food Box and used his stinger to break it. This released a gummi spring. He grinned before taking a bite out of it.

In a puff of smoke, he turned into a living.

"Hey, Sephy, you need to put a spring in your step!" Charmy boasted.

With that, he crouched down to ready himself before letting go towards Sephiroth. The white-haired man's eyes widened at this before going to the side and avoiding him.

…Then, it happened, Charmy then bounced off the barrier protecting the audience before going to bounce off of the other side of the arena. He then bounced off of THAT before going to the ceiling and rebounded off of it. As you expected, he proceeded to bounce all over the arena.

"HHHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPP! IIIIII CCCCCAAAAANNNNNTTTTT SSSSSTTTTTOOOOOPPPP!" Charmy shouted.

"D-Don't worry, Charmy!" Cream reassured. "I will help you!"

With that, the orange-clad girl and Cheese flew forward and managed to grab onto Charmy. …Only to be pulled along with him.

"AAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEE!"

Everyone watched with wide eyes as the Sonic fighters bounced all over the place. Not only did they bounce off of the barrier, but they even managed to bounce off of Drake, then Astaroth, then Whispy Woods, then even the Millennium Star. Mewtwo and Rosalina looked in horror as they tried to grab them.

"Can't you get a hold on them?" Rosalina asked. "They are bouncing too fast for me to get a grip!"

"I… Was about to ask you the same thing." Mewtwo frowned.

Then, when Charmy, Cream and Cheese crashed into the wall, the spring finally wore off but the momentum was still going on as they soared towards the arena while screaming at the top of his lungs.

Particularly Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby. The three yelped before the latter dove down while covering his head. However, Snoopy and Garfield got out their tennis racket and rolled-up newspaper respectively and swung them in reflex. They managed to hit Cream and Charmy respectively and sent the two straight out of the arena. After doing so, they managed to pant heavily while everyone continued to look in disbelief (except for Scooby who was still burying his head).

"...Well, that is enough screentime for ME for this section." Garfield said before walking off as if nothing happened. "If anyone needs me, I will be chowing down on strawberries and cake!"

By this time, Scooby finally took his hands away from his eyes. "...Is it over?"

Sephiroth looked just as awestruck as everyone else. However, he then smirked before looking at the stunned Mewtwo, Rosalina & Luma. Particularly Rosalina.

"Okay, WOW. First, the Spring Mushroom is one of the most unpopular power-ups in Mario history and now… All of THAT." Sephiroth sneered. "You and spring power-ups don't seem to mix well together, do you?"

Rosalina, along with Mewtwo and Luma, glared at Sephiroth. However, before they were about to say something, they saw something that made them go wide-eyed. Raising an eyebrow, he turned around to see the Server Hands returning to the arena while carrying the same cake knife and just before, they took a "slice" out of the arena. This time, cutting it in half. All of the fighters looked on.

"Sooo is it this side that will be disappearing or the other side?" Homer asked. As if on cue, he felt the side he was on rising up. "Whoops, this side."

The people on the rising slice immediately ran towards the edge and leapt back into the remainder of the arena. Sephiroth paused before smirking.

"Just like a Kirby game. Starts out sickeningly sweet and pleasant and starts to get chaotic at the end." Sephiroth noted.

Mewtwo slumped his arms. "...The recap team is going to have a field day with this section."

(Forest Path)

A girl and a monkey frowned before looking at each other.

"Gee, I know that we did a lot of exploring, but even then, I don't think we ever did anything like THIS?" The monkey asked.

"Yeah, this is going to be hard. It is a good thing that we have a special someone." The girl offered.

With that, the two looked at the reader.

"But we need YOUR help! We need to call the Map! To call the Map, say 'Map'." The girl smiled.

Celica then walked next to the two with a smile.

"Go on! Say map!" Celica smiled.

"You can do it!" Azusa offered walking over.

Then, a map with eyes poked its way out of the girl's backpack.

"Louder!" The monkey grinned.

"Give it everything you got!" Leon encouraged walking over to the monkey.

Finally, the map leapt out and went into a void where he landed on a bigger map.

"If there's a place you gotta go, I'm the one you need to know! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map!" The Map sang. "If there's a place you gotta get, I could get you there I bet! I'm the MAP! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the Map! I'm the MAP!"

"Dora and Boots have found not only Celica A. Mercury node-hopping just like Chang, Eddy, Olimar and Nack, but now it seems that she has dragged Azusa Miura and Leon into it." The Map explained. "So Dora and Boots want to help them get back to the Crossover Dome. And I know how to do it!"

The Map then took a deep breath.

"Basically, Celica has to have physical interaction with the fighter she is sharing the node with." The Map explained. "What does that mean? Well, after Celica landed in the Paper Mario node in Section Two, when she hopped to her first node, she actually shared it with another fighter. And then she did so with another node. And another. Basically, every section, whichever node she goes to next, at least one fighter from the tournament will show up."

The Map then smiled.

"So you tell Dora that Celica has to hold hands, hug or whatever with the fighter that she is sharing the elimination node with." Map offered. "Main fighter or Mystery Fighter, as long as they are from the tournament, she should be fine!"

We now return to Dora and the others.

"What do we do?" Dora asked.

We now hear a quick silence.

"Ah, I see." Dora nodded.

"So wait, outside of the node I landed in when I got eliminated, I was actually sharing the nodes I was hopping to with OTHER fighters?" Celica asked in awe.

"That is what the map says." Dora shrugged.

"Huh. I never noticed. The only fighters we saw and nearly came into contact with were the two Tales swordsmen, delinquent and Digimon in Gex's cave." Azusa mused.

"Wait, I think I remembered seeing a fighter from the tournament." Celica admitted.

"Really?" Leon asked.

(Flashback; Section Three; Gotham City)

A bunch of crooks screamed like little girls before running away in fear.

"Death Government!"

Then, a giant black wave travelled across the ground and crashed into the fleeing bunch of crooks before falling to the ground hard. As they groaned, Shadowgeist dusted his hands together.

"Well, what do you think, kid?" He asked.

Then, Red Hood walked in while reading a pistol.

"Eh, seven out of ten. Kinda rusty, but I suppose it can't be helped for someone from an obscure node." Red Hood said, shrugging his shoulders.

Shadowgeist turned towards Red Hood with an annoyed look. "Rusty!?"

He then leapt up into the air before landing on the back of a crook, causing him to cry out in pain.

"I will show you 'rusty'!" Shadowgeist said before glaring down at the crook. "Well!"

"Alright, alright, I would never deal drugs again so please don't kill me!" The crook pleaded.

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!" Red Hood scolded, aiming his gun.

A second crook frowned, sitting up. "I may be able to do the time, but the problem is YOU won't let us do the time!"

"Also true." Red Hood admitted before getting ready to fire. "At least you get to die on a high note."

Suddenly, a black, swirling projectile knocked the gun out of Red Hood's hand, startling everyone. While Red Hood was taken off-guard at first, he immediately groaned before looking up.

To see Batman, Batgirl and Nightwing glaring down at this.

"...We have GOT to stop meeting like this, guys." Red Hood muttered through his mask.

"You are already dangerous enough on your own, Red Hood." Batman said, sternly. "Now you have someone who shares your dangerous views."

Shadowgeist crossed his arms. "You know, for the so-called poster boy for 'edgy hero', you are a bit of a pansy with your no-killing policy."

Red Hood threw up his hands in frustration. "Thank you, it is about time that someone gets it!"

Batgirl shook her head. "Look, we will take care of these drug dealers so back off."

"Do you really think that is going to work?" Shadowgeist muttered.

Nightwing then got out his Escrima Sticks with a sigh. "True, but I feel like we should attempt to do so."

As the Bat Family and the two anti-heroes were about to square off against each other, the drug dealers held each other in fear.

"Um, excuse me?"

Everyone paused before looking towards the direction of the voice to see Celica walking over with Minerva following her.

"I am sorry to interrupt but could you tell me how much longer before I appear in the Recovery Room?" Celica asked as if oblivious to the intense atmosphere.

Everyone blinked twice before looking at each other in disbelief.

(Present Time; Forest Path)

"When I first saw Shadowgeist, I assumed that I was still in Fictograph City, but outside of the Crossover Dome for some reason, but after showing up in that Crash Bandicoot level, I realised we were node-hopping." Celica mused.

Azusa brightened up. "Well, at least we know the solution to our problem."

"So where are the fighters for THIS node?" Boots asked.

"YOW!"

Everyone shouted before looking in the direction of the shout to see Swiper the Fox running in fear while holding his rear. Charmy flew after him with a furious look on his face while Cream & Cheese were following, looking worried.

"Try to swipe MY honey, will ya!?" Charmy growled.

"Alright, alright, I am sorry!" Swiper shouted while running.

"Charmy, please, I know that swiping is wrong, but you are going too far!" Cream scolded.

With that, they went off, unaware that the others were watching them with blinking eyes.

Dora then shook her head. "Swiper, what are we going to do with you?"

"Come on!" Leon urged. "They are getting away!"

Dora nodded his head. "Come on, vamanos!"

With that, they ran off against the chase, particularly after Cream and Charmy.

(Announcer's Booth)

Drake, Ashley and Nine watched with blank faces.

"...I know I shouldn't complain about the results." Drake confessed. "But… That shouldn't have worked."

"And yet it did." Ashley said, merely shrugging his shoulders.

"Well, at least we know the solution." Drake sighed.

"Agreed. Let's take the time to think of an efficient way to tell all of the fighters about…" Ashley started.

Then, Nine took the microphone.

"Attention all fighters!" Nine said, getting everyone's attention. "We had finally found the solution for getting my sister, Celica A. Mercury back to the dome. After you are eliminated, all you have to do is make physical contact with my sister so you have to look for my sister in your elimination node and hold hands."

She then growled before igniting a flame with her free hand.

"And ONLY hold hands." Nine growled. "Also, I must not catch you slacking off! Because if I see anyone doing so in the next nodes that my sister hops into, I WILL burn you alive!"

With that, she turned off the microphone, leaving Drake and Ashley.

"...Or we could do THAT." Ashley said with a blank face.

(Coolsville; Malt Shop)

"So wait, all there is to stop Celica's node-hopping is to have physical contact with her?" Daphne asked in awe as they watched the tournament on Velma's laptop.

"Jinkies! I knew the case was different from Chang & Eddy and Olimar and Nack's, but to think about the solution was so… Simple." Velma said in awe.

"Hey, do you think that we should tell him to look out for her?" Scrappy asked.

Fred looked on in disbelief. "Scrappy, do you really want to go after HIM?"

Everyone paused before looking outside of the malt shop. As if on cue, someone crashed into the road which resulted in a large crate. Despite the hard fall, whoever fell before leaping up into the ground.

Scrappy paused. "...Good point."

Shaggy Rogers narrowed his eyes as he floated high up into the air while glaring at his opponent. Christopher Robin just gave his innocent-looking smile while having literally a hundred baseballs revolve around him, merely waving his finger to move them around. Shaggy just crossed his arms.

Christopher Robin finally made the next move by sending them all to Shaggy. The teenaged boy just raised his arms to block the incoming barrage. The baseball then exploded the moment that they collided with Shaggy, but the latter just kept blocking, only moving back from the explosions a little bit. Soon, Shaggy had enough and floated forward while still blocking.

Despite this, Christopher Robin just smirked before snapping his fingers and summoned a giant baseball to fly from underneath him and used it as a platform to fly away from the approaching Shaggy. Christopher Robin then threw more baseballs forward. Shaggy just easily swiped the baseballs away where they flew away and crashed into the road before exploding. Shaggy then lunged forward and punched forward.

Christopher Robin then summoned baseballs around him as an orbiting shield and blocked the incoming punch. Not only were the baseballs blocked, but they exploded again and sent Shaggy flying backwards. Christopher Robin then pointed his finger and proceeded to pummelled Shaggy with more baseballs. However, the brown-haired young man managed to send them away with a burst of energy around him and sent them away.

Christopher Robin put his hand on his chin. "Wow, you definitely didn't get rusty!"

"Of course, man! Sure, Multiversus had shut down with a whimper, but the skills I used from that game are still, like, fresh!" Shaggy reminded.

"True…" Christopher Robin noted. "Even still, while it has been a while since the Home-Run Derby, people STILL fear all of these years."

"Oh, I do NOT doubt that." Shaggy muttered, rolling his eyes. "How could a FLASH game be so tough?"

Christopher Robin just giggled before pointing his finger and sending another baseball at Shaggy. The teenager just raised his arms to block the incoming projectile. Only for the baseball to stop in mid-flight. Shaggy raised an eyebrow before lowering his guard. Big mistake as the baseball then zoomed back into Shaggy's face and sent him crashing downwards into a shop. Christopher Robin sneered and crossed his arms.

Suddenly, he saw a blur zooming out of the shop. Christopher Robin just shrugged before throwing his baseball forward. Only for the projectile to find back into Christopher Robin's forehead, sending him sprawling backwards. The adolescent boy managed to recover before looking up.

…To see Shaggy holding a bat. Christopher Robin blinked twice before looking down to see the store that Shaggy crashed into was a sporting store. He then looked back at Shaggy who was getting into a batter's stance. Christopher Robin paused for a moment. He then smiled.

"Here is where the fun begins." Christopher Robin noted.

With that, he threw a baseball. However, it ended with zigzagging towards him. Shaggy gritted his teeth before swinging, but ended up missing and getting a "strike" (with said baseball soaring out of the town and exploding). Christopher Robin then threw another baseball, but it immediately went invisible. Shaggy narrowed his eyes before swinging his bat. This managed to hit one of the baseballs back at Christopher Robin.

Christopher Robin swerved his head to avoid the baseball (where it zoomed into a condemned building, destroying it instantly). He then sent out another ball, this time going up and down. Despite the erratic pattern, Shaggy managed to hit and sent it into the sky which it flew up into the sky before it literally turned into a star.

"Hmm… You are good. Not even Pooh could hit my baseballs so easily." Christopher Robin mused, rubbing his chin.

He then smiled.

"In that case, I have no reason to 'play fair'." Christopher Robin said.

With that, he pointed his finger downwards and summoned a thousand baseballs in front of him. At first, Shaggy was startled before narrowing his eyes and getting into a stance. Christopher Robin then sent it downwards all at once. Shaggy then proceeded to swing his bat multiple times and managed to hit baseballs away from him in different directions and breaking into various buildings.

However, a baseball managed to find its way into the back of Shaggy's mind, taking him by surprise. This made him drop his guard and started to get pummelling by the baseballs. They actually struck him to the point that it covered his entire body. Soon, they started to cover him and make a white messy blob. Christopher Robin just smiled before clenching his fist and using the baseball to squeeze Shaggy.

Then, a bursting light came from the baseballs and sent them everywhere. Christopher Robin merely had them all stop in place with a simple wave of his hand. Shaggy now had a pulsing golden aura around him. Christopher Robin raised an amused eyebrow.

"Not bad. But the fight is still young…" Christopher Robin said.

Shaggy narrowed his eyes. "So I noticed."

Suddenly, Christopher Robin then noticed something that made him look up. Several pieces of bread were floating around the area before making their way towards the baseballs and wrapping them around them. Christopher Robin blinked twice before smiling again and shaking his head and getting out another baseball.

Only for another piece of bread to appear out of nowhere and wrap its way around it. THIS finally made Christopher Robin's smile drop. Acting quickly, he summoned three more baseballs, only for three more pieces of bread to wrap around them. He then summoned thirty only for the same thing to happen.

"H-H-How is this even POSSIBLE!?" Christopher Robin gasped, losing his composure for once.

"I, like, actually feel bad for you, little man."

Christopher Robin looked at Shaggy who had his head down with his hair covering his eyes.

"First, you had to go into a section where projectiles are useless so your moveset is extremely limited." Shaggy explained. "Time to have to choose to fight ME. Don't get me wrong. If it was any other time, I would have humoured you and gone on all night. Or at least as long as you are here."

He then looked up with a stern glare in his eyes.

"But my best friend is entering the tournament as we speak and I do not want to miss another minute of it!" Shaggy exclaimed.

"I-I-Impossible…" Christopher Robin gasped. "I knew that you could potentially match MY power, but… But… Even still, the only person who could able to survive my torture gauntlet, physically AND mentally is Winnie the Pooh!"

"Make no mistake, if I wanted to, I could, like, be the god of the ENTIRE multiverse!" Shaggy boasted.

He then took a deep breath before casting Christopher Robin one final glare.

"But there are some things that are worth more than godhood!"

With that, he sent the sandwiches to Christopher Robin. At first, the British boy tried to raise a giant baseball to act as a shield, but it got engulfed by bread as well. This left him wide open to get hit by multiple baseball-packed sandwiches, not giving Christopher Robin a chance to do anything.

Shaggy narrowed his eyes before raising his hands to summon two giant pieces of bread and had them appear on the side of the still-being-pummelled Christopher Robin. Shaggy then clapped his hands together, making the bread copy his movements.

BOOM!

In one more giant explosion, the entire area was covered in smoke. When it soon cleared, Shaggy slowly floated down while glaring at Christopher Robin. As he laid in the ground unmoving.

By this time, Fred, Daphne, Velma and Scrappy exited the malt shop with worried looks on their faces before slowly approaching Shaggy.

"A-Are you okay, Shaggy?" Fred asked.

"Yeah… I am…" The skinny man reassured.

"But you clearly used MUCH more than 5% of your power." Daphne pointed out.

"Yeah… But like I told that boy, there are some things worth fighting for other than godhood." Shaggy said.

He then looked back at the others with a bright smile on his face. As if nothing had happened.

"So how is Scooby doing?" Shaggy asked.

"Um, great! He already got his first elimination!" Scrappy said. For once, he couldn't give 100% in being excited for his uncle.

"More or less. Said elimination had him ducking down and having his opponent run in a raging bull and tripping over him." Velma muttered.

"Zoinks, THAT'S embarrassing. Well, we all gotta start somewhere." Shaggy frowned. He then brightened up. "Come on! Let's go back inside so we could properly watch him fight with snacks!"

With that, he walked past his friends and back into the malt shop. Fred, Daphne, Velma and Scrappy just looked stunned before looking around the area. Several buildings had unsightly holes in them, craters were literally around the roads and the prone body of Christopher Robin was slowly disappearing, signalling him going back to the Crossover Dome.

"...Things never stayed the same after he took a bite out of that 'rock candy'." Velma said, blankly.

Fred, Daphne and Scrappy solemnly nodded.

(Dome; Recovery Room)

Christopher Robin appeared in the Recovery Room, still unconscious. Cheria Barnes just looked in awe.

"...Where did I even begin with this?" Cheria asked in disbelief.

Despite this, she proceeded to help the young boy. While trying to ignore the cries of pains from some of the latest patients. The brainwashed victims of Oume's plans. They were all writhing in pain with the group team approaching them, looking on in horror.

"Billy…" Lilly said with tears eyes.

"Father…" Kasumi said, weakly.

"W-Well, did you find anything?" Tiny asked.

"I-I don't know…" Jude frowned. "I do not know everything about medical science in the multiverse but even still, constantly being revived and dying because of ONE potion is unheard of."

Everyone looked on at the writhing victims before they started to go prone, falling down dead. An awkward silence could be felt…

"This is obvious…"

Everyone turned their heads before their eyes went wide-eyed.

"I knew that it wouldn't be that easy to stop Oume's group this early in the tournament… And yet, I let my thirst for revenge overcome me."

Everyone looked at each other in fear and confusion. Genjuro then stepped forward, looking surprisingly concerned.

"...Haohmaru?"

The ronin just looked at Genjuro with a sad look on his face before walking over to Shizu's cot and crouching down.

"...I don't know what we could have done differently but we shouldn't have ran in." Haohmaru lamented. "Especially since it is what THEY wanted."

Everyone paused, not knowing what to say or do.

"S-So what now?" Hinako asked.

"How about you let ME look at them?"

Everyone once again turned their heads and once again, their eyes all bugged out in shock at who was entering the Ready Room.

Reapermon.

Guy narrowed his eyes. "You. What are YOU doing…?"

Suddenly, Veemon ran forward with Impmon slowly following.

"Oh, Reapermon! I've never been so glad to see you!" Veemon grinned.

"THAT'S an understatement." Impmon muttered. "But yeah, your timing couldn't be more perfect."

Everyone looked on in confusion before looking at each other.

"Um, am I missing something?" Yuri piped up. "Isn't Reapermon a villain?"

"No, he is just the final boss of the first Digimon Rumble Arena." Veemon corrected. "He is less of a villain and more of a heel."

"Indeed. The ruthlessness you witnessed that game AND the arena is just that… A show." Reapermon explained. "Furthermore, I am more of the Grim Reaper's group."

"The one that came in to help with the final battle against Junko in the Tournament of Kikai?" Samus asked, crossing her arms. "If THAT is the case, where were YOU?"

"Oh, come now!" Reapermon scolded. "While attempting to take down Junko once and for all is our top priority, us Grim Reapers have a job to do!"

"Yeahhhhh, about that." Magilou said before frowning.

Reapermon jerked his head up, as if by surprise. "Wait, Junko is behind it!"

"Yes and no…" Magilou said, shaking her head. "It is a long story, but while nobody saw hide nor hair of Junko, she DID leave behind her first hideout in the Tournament of Kikai, along with several items."

"Junko's old hideout was still intact!?" Reapermon asked in disbelief. "What were the hosts thinking, not dismantling it!?"

"It doesn't matter…" Geese spat, not keeping his eyes off of Billy's cot. "Do you see what the problem is or not?"

Reapermon paused. "Very well…"

With that, he made his way over to the victims' cots. Needless to say, everyone was weary despite being told by Veemon that he wasn't a full-on villain. Despite this, they let Reapermon look over the victims. He then paused before looking at everyone.

"Umm… I could tell from just standing here that they took a lethal poison, but does anyone have the vial or whatever it was in?" Reapermon asked.

"I do." Static piped up before walking over to Reapermon and holding out the vial.

Reapermon looked down at the vial while putting his hand on his chin.

"Yes, we are familiar with this type of poison. Thanatos knows how many people fell victim to it." Reapermon noted. "What I am confused about is how Junko was able to perfectly mix it together with a Life Bottle to create this vicious cycle for the rest of the night.

"Well, this IS the same woman who kept avoiding death." Guy muttered.

"W-Wait, you say for the rest of the night." Mickey said.

Leonardo's eyes lit up at this. "W-Wait, does it mean?"

"Unfortunately, it is the complete opposite." Reapermon lamented.

"W-What do you mean?" Ryu asked.

"If we can't find a way to stop this brutal cycle, all six of them will be dead forever." Reapermon said.

Everyone's eyes bugged out in horror at this.

"W-When you mean dead forever, do you mean?" Ripper asked.

"Nothing could revive them. No Phoenix Downs. No Life Bottles. NOTHING." Reapermon lamented.

Everyone's eyes widened in horror at this.

"B-But you could stop it? Right?" Veemon asked.

"Unfortunately, not even us Grim Reapers know the answer right off the bat." Reapermon explained. "Maybe if I could find out HOW Junko made this… THEN we could create an antidote."

"...H-How long do you think we have?" Edna asked.

"I can't say… All I know is that it has to be before the tournament ends." Reapermon explained.

"See? I told you that we had no time to argue!"

Everyone once again looked down the exit of the Recovery to see Otane, Moe, Tiny, Elliana, Reptile, Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Larcen walking in. Needless to say, everyone's eyes narrowed in hatred at the sight of Otane.

"You!" Samus roared, aiming her arm cannon at Otane.

The elderly woman yelped before looking offended. "For the last time, I am OTANE, not Oume! Why does everyone always mix us up!?"

Ryu landed in between the two groups while looking at Samus. "Otane and the people here actually HELPED us try to rescue the victims!"

"Indeed, I do not approve of my sister's actions especially since it started to cause the Butterfly Effect!" Otane insisted.

Jude blinked twice. "Umm… Butterfly effect?"

"Oh, right… I probably should have mentioned that if Ryuhaku, Shizu and Rena dies, it could directly affect the multiverse, what with them not being from this timeline." Reapermon said, sheepishly.

Everyone except the group with Otane looked in horror at this.

"I don't suppose you have any new news, Larcen?" Reapermon asked. "I was literally asked to come over here by the Thanatos of your node."

"Nah, we just learned about the Butterfly Effect from the Eternal Champion as well." The cat burglar frowned.

"Great…" Reapermon muttered.

"Well, isn't it obvious? Let's go back where my sister is and interrogate her and her cronies for answers!" Otane piped up. "We mostly came back to get Krizalid!"

Everyone winced at this.

"Um, yeah, about that." Yuri frowned.

With that, she pointed to the side. Otane's group looked where she was pointing and their eyes bugged out.

All of Whip's group, minus Kula, gave them awkward stares.

"Um, yo?" Ragna asked.

Otane jumped. "W-W-What are you all doing here!?"

"At first, to stop Krizalid from joining you and by extension, Bison." Whip said before sighing. "But now it seems that we have to stop you from wasting so much energy."

"W-What is THAT supposed to mean?" Otane asked.

"Oh, I could promise you. We WILL tell you all in great detail." Ralf offered, crossing his arms. "But only when HE shows up…"

As if on cue, everyone heard a noise. Turning their heads, they saw a flash of light appear in one of the cots. A few seconds later, Krizalid landed in the Recovery Room.

"Ugh… I still can't believe that pain-glutton just interrupted my conversation with the Anti K' for kicks!" Krizalid muttered. "Now what am I going to…"

His eyes then bugged out when he noticed the group he was in AND Whip staring at him.

"W-W-Whip, what are YOU doing here!?" Krizalid exclaimed.

"Ignoring the fact the main reason why we are here is because of YOU, jackass, do you really think we wouldn't come back here for Kula?" Isla challenged.

Krizalid paused before looking to the side with a scoff. Then, another flash of light appeared in a nearby cot. Immediately, Kula Diamond sat up.

"I gotta get to Krizalid before he gets away!" Kula exclaimed.

"Don't need to do that, Princess."

Kula's eyes bugged out before turning her head to see Maxima giving her a small smile.

"Hey…" Maxima said, softly.

Kula's eyes lit up before leaping from the cot and rushing over to Maxima before wrapping her arms around him. The cyborg returned the embrace.

"Uncle…" Kula said, crying tears of joy.

"I am sorry I worried you, princess." Maxima offered, rubbing Kula's back.

Whip gave a small smile at this. However, she let out a sigh before looking at Krizalid who was looking to the side.

"Krizalid…" Whip said, sternly.

"I know, I know…" The dark-skinned man muttered. "You have a lecture for me."

"I do." Whip said, sternly. "But… I also have to tell you something first."

She then looked at Otane with a solemn look.

"...Though Otane may need to hear this more."

The ageing woman blinked twice as everyone else looked at each other with winces.

(The Arena)

Clark Still and Darun Mister locked hands with each other and got into a power struggle. Despite the latter being slightly taller, the two men managed to be evenly matched.

"Elegant Lariat!"

Clark and Darun's eyes widened before jumping back to avoid a lariat from Ladiva.

"You call THAT a lariat!? THIS is a lariat!" Darun boasted. "LARIA-T!"

Fans of Fighting EX Layer cheered as Darun did a double-hitting, spinning lariat to Ladiva and knocking her down. However, this left him wide open for Clark to run behind him and wrapped him around Darun to do a German Suplex. Clark then followed up with an elbow drop.

Darun grunted in pain before kicking his foot out and caught Clark in the side. As the Ikari Warrior, Darun got back up to his feet to get ready for a counter attack with a punch. However, Clark just quickly recovered and swerved his head to the side and easily avoided the blow. He then smirked before uppercutting Darun in the chin and sending him staggering back.

However, the ground suddenly shook, making Clark and Darun struggle to keep their balance. Ladiva smirked after using her geomancy to shake the ground, ran forward and did her Elegant Lariat, this time having it be a success and knocked both of them to the ground. She then rushed over to Clark, seeing him as the bigger threat and made a hard body splash which knocked the wind out of him.

Despite Clark being stunned, she also knew that Darun wouldn't be done for now and she was right as the Indian man got up to his feet and made his way forward. Ladiva quickly kicked her foot out, but Darun merely thrusted his chest forward, which acted as a shield, sending Ladiva staggering back which sent her wide open to a dropkick which knocked her down. By this time, Clark got up and threw a punch at Darun who easily blocked it with one bicep. The two glared into each other's eyes.

"PYRO SPHERE!"

Clark and Darun's eyes widened before a fireball flew past them and right into Whispy Woods. The poor tree cake reacted in place before shaking violently. This dropped a bunch of strawberries, managing to bury Clark, Darun AND Ladiva. The three grapplers comically poked their heads out of the large pile, blinking twice.

They then turned to see Guilmon and Forsburn fighting each other, as if oblivious to what the effects of the former's projectile did. Clark and Darun paused for a moment. They then narrowed their eyes before making their way out of the pile. Ladiva's eyes widened at this.

"N-N-Now! Getting hit by stray projectiles is just what it is to be expected at modern UVR tournaments like these." Ladiva said, sheepishly. "Especially since the arena is getting smaller."

"Well, they should realise that and make more of an attempt to be more wary of their surroundings." Darun said, darkly.

"Besides, surely THEY don't mind that WE interrupt their fight, do they?" Clark retorted.

With that, they continued towards the two while Ladiva looked on with a frown. By the time Guilmon and Forsburn realised what was going on, it was too late.

"INDRAAAAAAA BRIDGE!" Darun shouted.

The crowd cheered as Darun did an upwards chest thrust into Guilmon which knocked him into the air. Clark then merely did a hook to Forsburn's face before sending him up in the air with an uppercut. With the two pyromancers stunned, Darun and Clark held out their arms to use an Argentine Backbreaker on them when they came back down.

Only for the four to get engulfed in a pink light.

Ladiva watched with wide eyes as Clark and Darun propelled back from the pink light and painfully skidding on their backs. In contrast to Guilmon and Forsburn who descended downwards peacefully. Despite still looking stunned, they quickly recovered before landing on their feet. Clark and Darun blinked twice before looking annoyed when Konohana-Sakuya disappeared at Yukiko's silent request.

"Hey! Why are YOU getting involved?" Darun scolded.

"Oh, I don't know." Yukiko shrugged. "Despite helping Shun'ei take down that weird man, I didn't really get an elimination and I don't think it is fair for me to loiter around the arena without getting one sooo…"

Clark slumped his arms. "There are better ways to remedy that WITHOUT interrupting us."

Forsburn narrowed his eyes. "And where do YOU get off, seeing that you interrupted Or fight?"

"YOUR fight interrupted OURS first with that Digimon's stray projectile!" Darun shot back. "If you are not going to treat this tournament as a large free-for-all instead of a one-on-one then you are too dangerous to be kept in the arena."

"Look, I am sorry that my move hit you guys." Guilmon apologised before narrowing his eyes. "But don't think I will appreciate you trying to eliminate us with a cheap move."

"You don't have to smile and accept but you are not going to let out of this without feeling like a pizza feels like." Clark said, cracking his knuckles.

"Very well, then let's do it!" Yukiko said, fanning herself.

"...This is the definition of a miscommunication breakdown." Ladiva frowned before sighing. "On the other hand, it IS rare to have three-on-three fights sooo…"

With that, the three got into stances. Yukiko then resummoned Konohana-Sakuya and sent out a pillar of flames towards the grappler trio. However, the three easily ran out of the way but Forsburn immediately dashed towards the nearest grappler, which was Clark, and smacked him in the face. Forsburn then emitted smoke from his body and engulfed the three, sending them coughing.

"They're blind!" Forsburn yelled, looking back at Guilmon.

The red dinosaur nodded his eyes before the two entered the giant smoke cloud before they started to slash the grapplers in the sides with their knife and claws respectively. The three cried out in pain in trying to grab the incoming animals. However, Forsburn and surprisingly Guilmon were deceptively fast and kept taking hits.

"Clark! Darun!" Ladiva shouted during coughs. "Can you hear me!? Try to follow my voice!"

Despite being in a coughing fit and getting slashed by Forsburn and Guilmon, the two men made their way over to Ladiva. However, when they got close enough, she then grabbed them both and threw them high into the air. She then slammed her hands on the ground and made an earth tremor, startling Forsburn and Guilmon and sending them on their rears.

With the pyromancer stunned, Ladiva ran over to where she heard them fall and grabbed them by their tails with each other. Shee then started to spin around while using the wind from the spinning to blow away the smoke (and reveal Clark and Darun on his rears, holding their heads from the fall). Yukiko gasped before throwing a fan at Ladiva's head. It didn't hurt that much, but it was more than enough to drop Forsburn and Guilmon as they laid dizzily.

"...Would it do any good to complain for a little warning next time?" Clark groaned.

"Sorry, loves, but if I did, they would have figured out the plan." Ladiva shrugged.

"True. As long as THEY are down and not us." Darun said, sternly as he stepped forwards towards Forsburn.

However, Guilmon snapped out of his daze and saw Darun approaching Forsburn. Acting quickly, Guilmon ran over and headbutted Darun. Unlike last time, the dark-haired man wasn't able to flex in time and ended up staggering back while holding his stomach. By this time, Forsburn recovered and thought quickly.

"Regroup!" Forsburn shouted.

Guilmon nodded his eyes before he and Forsburn ran back towards Yukiko.

"We have to be more careful." Forsburn frowned. "Trying to take on one grappler head-on is dangerous enough but three?"

"Yeah, I underestimated a grappler in the first Battle of the Luminaries and that didn't go well for me." Guilmon frowned.

"I could zone them out for you, but I don't think I could keep an eye out for all three of them at the same time." Yukiko offered.

Forsburn paused. "...In that case, we are going to have to use THIS."

With that, he pulled out a red pepper, startling Guilmon and Yukiko.

"A Copy Food Ability?" Yukiko asked in realisation. "When did you manage to grab that?"

"When it was just me and Guilmon fighting each other." Forsburn explained. "I didn't use it because he is a fire-elemental Digimon."

"Yeah, but I don't think we will get all three of them at once." Guilmon frowned.

"Maybe if only one of us ate it." Forsburn pointed.

Guilmon and Yukiko's eyes widened in realisation. They then looked at each other and nodded. Meanwhile, the three grapplers stared at them.

"Looks like the hyena managed to grab one of the Copy abilities." Ladiva mused.

"Yeah and it looks like it is the Burning one." Darun noted. "That is the fiery dashing one, right?

"Don't worry, mobility may not be grapplers' strong suit but if we look out for each other, we should be able to save whoever they are targeting." Clark offered.

However, they didn't expect Forsburn, Guilmon and Yukiko to bite into the chilli pepper AT THE SAME TIME.

The three grapplers' eyes widened as the three pyromancers ran forward. They then ignited in fire before dashing forward at a grappler each. The grapplers would have run out of the way but they were too stunned by seeing THREE people use a Copy Ability at the same time. Because of that, Forsburn crashed into Clark, Guilmon crashed into Darun and Yukiko crashed into Ladiva with the three grapplers flying out of the ring. When the Copy ability wore off, they all panted heavily with stern looks.

Before Guilmon and Yukiko looked at each other in excitement.

"That was SO cool!" Guilmon beamed.

"For all my time being a pyromancer, I never imagined actually BEING the fireball!" Yukiko agreed.

With that, they joined hands with Forsburn and got into a mini Ring-Around-The-Rosie. Though Forsburn was obviously doing it half-heartedly with a stunned look on his face.

Clark, Darun and Ladiva landed in Saturday Night Slam Masters, particularly in a three-way between Gunloc, the Wraith and Black Widow interrupting it and thus the former three got into another three-on-three fight.

Tilkis Barone blinked twice before shaking his head in hopelessness and swinging his large sword upwards.

"Titan Wave!" Tilkis shouted, sending a large ground wave forward. Scooby Doo yelped before running to the side to avoid it. Tilkis then ran over to Scooby and swung his sword horizontally. The Great Dane again screamed before diving to the ground avoiding the attack. However, this left him wide open to a kick to the head. Scooby staggered back before shaking his head and glaring to the side.

"Remind me again when I let you talk me into fighting the swordsman with Cloud Strife blade!" Scooby snapped.

Snoopy looked away from his fight with Lincoln Loud. "Come on, Scooby. Even if Garfield has the most experience in direct combat, do you really want HIM to be the one to do the heavy lifting in this alliance?"

"I mean, true but…" Scooby frowned. "That still doesn't explain why YOU get the everyday boy and I get the warrior!"

"Dude, I watched gameplay videos of that game!" Snoopy corrected. "His moves are limited just like yours!"

"Yeah, but they are STILL direct moves!" Scooby scolded.

"Umm… I should probably point out that a more pragmatic fighter will hit you while you are talking." Tilkis piped up.

Scooby groaned as he looked back. He then put something in his mouth and started to chew. Tilkis' eyes widened before getting into a defensive, thinking that it was a Copy Ability. However, Scooby then spat out what was in his mouth and onto Tilkis' feet. The swordsman's eyes bugged out before looking down to see pink bubblegum around his feet, sticking him to the ground.

Scooby then stood up on his hind legs and got out a black umbrella before rushing forward and flailing it at Tilkis. The prince yelped before raising his sword to block the incoming barrage.

"Aegis Shield!" Tilkis shouted, summoning a barrier around him and negating all of the damage to Scooby. The former then swung his sword and knocked Scooby down. The brown-furred dog went sprawling around to the ground, making Tilkis shake his head.

"I have no pleasure in beating down a fledgling dog. However, my node… Nay, my SUBNODE needs the elimination." Tilkis lamented. "Besides, you should have known better to go against a swordsman when you never had any experience."

Scooby's eyes widened at the last part. Tilkis didn't notice this before stepping forward and swinging his sword downwards.

CLANG!

Tilkis' eyes widened as his sword collided with something. A shovel. He then noticed Scooby having a surprisingly serious look on his face. He then got up while wielding his shovel as a sword.

"H-How?" Tilkis asked.

"I actually had martial arts and samurai training from one of my many animated movies." Scooby explained. "I literally just remembered that when you reminded me that I was fighting a swordsman."

Tilkis blinked twice. "...And what do you think I am swinging around? A giant kitchen knife?"

Scooby didn't say anything but rather made the first move for once and swung his shovel downwards. Tilkis raised his sword to block the attack and the two got into a power struggle with each other. However, the size of Tilkis' sword made it easier for the swordsman to win it before shoving Scooby back. As the Great Dane staggered back, Tilkis ran forward.

"Artemis Dance!" Tilkis shouted, swinging his sword multiple times. However, Scooby managed to hold up his shovel to block the incoming assault. However, Tilkis then did a horizontal slash.

BOING.

Tilkis' eyes widened as Scooby suddenly sprang up into the air. The latter then had a spring on each leg and managed to land back onto the ground. However, he ended up crashing on top of a Food Box, breaking it. Scooby's eyes bugged out before looking down to see the Copy Food Ability. He then smirked before picking it up and nibbling on it.

"Ehh, what's up, doc?" Scooby said.

As the crowd cheered, the effects of the Drill Carrot took effect as Scooby took the form of a carrot. Doing his trademark giggle, he then started to burrow in the ground and started to make his way to the arena.

However, while initially startled, Tilkis narrowed his eyes before watching where Scooby was going, making sure that he didn't go near him but still close enough for Tilkis to do a counter attack.

Unfortunately for Tilkis, Scooby just needed to go a circle around Tilkis to damage him. And when Scooby made said circle, it had a large tremor striking Tilkis. The swordsman cried out in pain before collapsing on his knee. Scooby then popped out of the ground and seeing Tilkis was stunned, he wasted no time rushing over and pushed him out of the ring.

Tilkis landed in the Thunder Plains of Final Fantasy X. Unfortunately, his sword turned out to be a great lightning rod.

Lincoln just frowned at his early opponent getting eliminated before glaring at Snoopy. "Well, you got one of us, but you are not going to take ME down that easily."

Snoopy just smirked as he ran forward with his tennis racquet. Lincoln got out his baseball bat and the two locked their unorthodox weapons with each other. Despite the comical exchange, they got into a power struggle. The two seemed to be even, despite Lincoln being slightly bigger. Suddenly, Snoopy whirled his ears to fly back and swing his racket downwards.

Lincoln yelped before raising his bat to block the downwards attack. Snoopy then flew over while swinging his racket, forcing Lincoln to block the incoming barrage. Acting quickly, the white-haired boy jumped back and got out a water pistol. Snoopy yelped before going away and flying off, but Lincoln already fired at him, striking him with a stream of water and knocking him down.

"Man, I can't believe it took me THIS long to use this baby!" Lincoln laughed.

Snoopy got on his hands and knees before shaking to get himself dry. He then growled before reaching out and getting out an apple and taking a bite out of it. At first, Lincoln got into a defensive stance, thinking it to be another Copy Ability. However, Snoopy then ran forward at an alarming speed, ending up running behind Lincoln. With the adolescent taken off-guard, Snoopy slammed him in the back which knocked him down which everyone looked in awe.

"For those who don't know, in the Game Boy Colour game, Snoopy Tennis, there are a few modes." Tumble piped up. "Including Power mode where there are power-ups that will affect the course of the match."

The Millennium Star blinked twice. "...I was the one who gave life to you. I have no idea where you get all of this knowledge."

Snoopy then continued the assault by dashing through Lincoln and striking him once more. The white-haired boy cried out in pain before summoning his raccoon "allies" and having him drag away from Snoopy. However, the white-furred dog smirked before chasing after the boy and landing on top of Lincoln, making him cry out in pain. Snoopy then proceeded to smack Lincoln around with his racket.

Only for Lincoln to suddenly zoom upwards while turning into a red and black blur and knocking Snoopy off of him. When Lincoln landed back on the ground, he was in his Ace Savvy outfit.

"Heh. Not bad for a fellow Slice of Life character." Lincoln smirked. "But now you have to fight me as Ace Savvy, just like how I fought like him in Nickelodeon Super Brawl Universe?"

"...Wasn't that a glorified palette swap though?" Forsburn piped up.

Lincoln winced, trying to ignore the pyromancer. "E-Even still, Ace Savvy is one of the coolest people of all time! No one could be cooler than him!"

Snoopy blinked twice at this. He then smirked before spinning around in place. Lincoln quickly got out a card in each hand before getting into a stance.

Then, Snoopy appeared wearing sunglasses and a red sweater with the words 'Joe Cool' on it. Lincoln blinked twice in confusion. Suddenly, Snoopy did a COOL pose.

Then, all of a sudden, Lincoln was engulfed in a giant block of ice which startled everyone. Snoopy then spun around again before changing into a black mask. He then started to flex to the crowd as he got into his Masked Marvel persona. He then zoomed towards the ice cube and zoomed towards the block of ice. This managed to not only break said ice but send Lincoln flying out of the ring. Snoopy smirked, dusting his hands together.

"And Woodstock thought my costumes from Snoopy's Grand Adventure wouldn't see much use!" Snoopy chuckled.

Lincoln landed in Earthbound Beginnings where he helped out Ninten, Ana and Lloyd take down various weird enemies.

Mewtwo cried out in pain after being forced backwards. However, he recovered and swung his claw upwards which used Confusion to direct Sephiroth's nodachi away from him. Rosalina & Luma then fired Luma Bits from their wand and body respectively which struck him multiple times. However, Sephiroth just scoffed before summoning a magic barrier in front of him to stop the attack.

Sephiroth then floated around his barrier and swung his Masamune at Rosalina & Luma, but the blue-clad woman just summoned her own barriers around herself to protect himself against the attack. Mewtwo then sent in a burst of purple energy into Sephiroth which sent him flying away. However, the white-haired man quickly recovered and zoomed at Mewtwo, but the psychic easily teleported out of the way.

Despite this, Sephiroth just sneered. "You are only delaying the inevitable. Even since you lost those two Sonic childrens, you lost your healers."

"We don't need them to take you down." Mewtwo said, narrowing his eyes.

"Oh? Then, why did you form an alliance with them if you needed their help that badly?" Sephiroth retorted.

Mewtwo and Rosalina winced at this. As much as they hated to admit, they have been having a lot of trouble even since Cream and Charmy were eliminated.

"D-Don't act so cocky!" Mewtwo scolded. "The eliminations based on this time were more indirect! It doesn't show your power!"

"Oh, au contraire. I think it shows everyone how chaotic my power is." Sephiroth said before smirking. "In fact, let's do an experiment. Who will be eliminated without me looking?"

At first, Mewtwo and Rosalina & Luma looked confused at this. Then, Sephiroth closed his eyes and raised his free hand into the air. This made a bunch of fiery pillars erupt from the ground and startled the rest of the fighters, making them run out of the way.

"Stop it, Sephiroth!" Rosalina scolded. "Your fight is with us!"

"True, but our fight has caused nothing but indirect ones thus far. So it is only natural that we will end this section with one." The white-haired man shrugged.

With that, he raised his hand and summoned a meteor shower. Mewtwo and Rosalina's eyes bugged out at this before using their telekinesis to try to direct the meteors away from the arena (which is actually easy seeing how small the arena has gotten). However, this left them wide open for Sephiroth to find over and slashed at both of them, sending him flying away.

"Now let's truly see who will eliminate who with this." Sephiroth said before raising his free hand again. "DESCEND, HEARTLESS…"

Suddenly, that was all he got out before he left himself levitating into the air. Blinking twice, he looked up to see the Magic Hands, carrying him up with their tongs. Sephiroth paused before narrowing his eyes and slashing at the tongs. Just like that, the tongs were slashed in half, freeing the black-clad man.

"Well, that was a minor annoyance." Sephiroth muttered. "Now where were…"

That was until he heard a familiar noise. Turning his head, he saw that Rosalina had a familiar rainbow aura around herself. The blue-clad woman immediately summoned a Launch Star and used it to boost herself towards Sephiroth before activating it.

This summoned a large star in front of Sephiroth which struck him multiple times from not only the star's body but also from the literal shooting star from said one. This continued on with the Final Smash, even not giving Sephiroth a chance to evade or counter but Rosalina knew that it wasn't enough.

"My child, get into position!" Rosalina exclaimed.

Luma nodded their head before flying over Sephiroth while he was still being pummelling by the Final Smash and got into a charging position. When the Final Smash ended, Luma charged downwards into Sephiroth, knocking him down. It wasn't enough to take him down for good, but it was more than enough to take him out of the ring.

Sephiroth landed in Tales of Xillia where he took out his aggressions on Wingul.

Rosalina panted heavily while putting her free hand on her chest. "...I had a feeling that we would use our Smash Ball, but I didn't think it would be THIS soon."

"It can't be helped." Mewtwo frowned. "Not even Sephiroth could predict that we will lose Cream and Charmy the way we did."

Luma solemnly nodded. With that, the three looked back down inside of the arena to see how everyone was recovering. Surprisingly, most of them seemed to recover just fine. Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby were trying to figure out which was the best Copy Food ability, Homer and Pacman were chowing down on poor Whispy Woods (and making a tear appear from his eyes), Guilmon, Yukiko and Kirby were collecting strawberries and Forsburn was just blinking twice, stunned that everyone seemingly forgotten that the arena was bombarded by pillars of fire.

Then, the familiar aura surrounded the fighters and then the arena. They all appeared on their star platforms before the following ones fell. Guilmon, Yukiko, Forsburn, Pacman, Mewtwo and finally Kirby. Leaving Rosalina & Luma, Garfield, Scooby and Snoopy. Needless to say, they were all excited.

"Hey! We ALL have a chance of becoming the Superstar!" Scooby grinned.

"I knew that the Superstar system is based off of hype but I didn't think our reunion would be THAT impactful!" Snoopy noted.

"It also helps that you two actually redeemed yourself for your first eliminations." Garfield added. He then smirked. "But at the end of the day, it is clear that I am the fan-favourite out of us…"

That was when Rosalina & Luma's platform disappeared, along with Garfield. The latter's eyes bugged out at this.

"What? I actually put in the most work out of the three of us and I'M the one who got the least hype in our alliance?" Garfield asked in disbelief. He then growled. "TVTropes was right. Hard Work Hardly Works!"

Snoopy and Scooby eagerly looked at each other in excitement.

Then, the last platform fell.

"Congratulations, Snoopy!" The Millennium Star beamed. "You are the Superstar!"

The beagle grinned before doing his signature happy dance and making the crowd go wild for him.

In the crowd, Penny Proud gave a smile as she clapped.

"I am glad that I could make this happen."

RESULTS (17 Votes)

SNOOPY (P): 14:3 = 11 (Cream the Rabbit, Lincoln Loud)

SCOOBY DOO (SB): 14:3 = 11 (F.A.N.G., Tilkis Barone)

GARFIELD (NASB): 13:4 = 9 (Zim, Charmy Bee)

ROSALINA & LUMA (SSB): 13:4 = 9 (Relius Clover, Sephiroth)

HOMER JAY SIMPSON (TS): 13:5 = 8 (Reid Herstel)

KIRBY (SSB): 12:6 = 6 (Dural)

MEWTWO (SSB): 12:7 = 5 (Dr. N. Gin)

PACMAN (SSB): 10:7 = 3 (Rin Oyama)

FORSBURN (RoA): 10:7 = 3 (Clark Still)

YUKIKO AMAGI (P4A): 10:7 = 3 (Ladiva)

GUILMON (DRA): 10:7 = 3 (Darun Mister)

(ELIMINATED)

CHARMY BEE (StH): 10:7 = 3 (Bullet)

ZIM (NASB): 12:9 = 3 (Shun'Ei)

CREAM THE RABBIT (StH): 10:8 = 2 (Isabelle)

SHUN'EI (KoFAS): 8:9 = -1 (Happy Chaos)

SEPHIROTH (SSB): 8:9 = -1

ISABELLE (SSB): 8:10 = -2

CLARK STILL (KoFAS): 7:10 = -3

BULLET (BB): 7:11 = -4

RIN OYAMA (PI): 7:11 = -4

TILKIS BARONE (ToAS): 6:11 = -5

DARUN MISTER (FEXL): 6:11 = -5

REID HERSTEL (ToAS): 6:11 = -5

LINCOLN LOUD (NASB): 7:12 = -5

DR. N. GIN (CB): 6:12 = -6

DURAL (VF): 4:13 = -9

HAPPY CHAOS (GG): 4:13 = -9

LADIVA (GF): 4:14 = -10

F.A.N.G. (SFAS): 3:14 = -11

RELIUS CLOVER (BB): 0:17 = -17

Side Battles:

"Remember When These Guys Used To Be Everyman Protagonists!?"

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers (SD) overpowers Christopher Robin (WtP)

10 to 7

Zim Will Bring Doom To Silver: Despite having two eliminations short of tying with Peach for most eliminations overall, Zim still managed to have an impressive run of seven eliminations, getting him the silver medal thus far. Especially with the usual track records of Big Guys and villains at these things could be.