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!

40. Section Eighteen Results

(The Arena)

The tournament has been shown under a new lighting. Literally as instead of arena lights, it was Power Stars illuminating the dome. That was because the cast of Xuan Dou Zhi Wang, along with "Psycho Mantis" had caused a blackout in hopes of ruining the tournament. However, thanks to the Millennium Star and everyone else's determination, the tournament went on.

"Pepper Breath!"

Agumon spat a fireball out of his mouth. Said fireball then clashed against another fireball. Pikachu paused as a red, fluffy fox stood on all fours in front of him, after breathing the counter-fireball.

"Thanks, Vulpix." Pikachu nodded.

The six-tailed Pokemon looked back with a nod before disappearing with a flash of light. That was one of the fifty-five possible Pokemon the audience will see in the arena as cameos. For this section, Pikachu requested that they would have the Pokeball item, particularly from Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Pikachu then ran off to grab another Pokeball but Agumon would have none of that.

"Pepper Breath!" Agumon shouted, spitting out another fireball. This time, in Pikachu's direction, creating a flame to make the mouse Pokemon yelp and jump. Agumon then ran forward and leapt, swinging his claw at Pikachu. However, the latter saw him coming and ran to the side to avoid the attack. He then swung his tail at Agumon but the dinosaur easily caught it with his hands.

Not giving Pikachu a chance to counter by engulfing the both of him in electricity, Agumon slammed his opponent onto the ground before kicking Pikachu away, knocking him away. The mouse then got up and sent out a Thunder Jolt, having it bounce across the ground. However, Agumon jumped to the side to avoid it. He then ran forward and slashed with his claw.

Only for Pikachu to have his tail glow white and swing it to clash with the incoming attack. Pikachu then swung his tail again but Agumon quickly blocked it before kicking his foot out which caught Pikachu in the face and sent him staggering back. Despite Agumon having the perfect chance to do a follow up attack, he just frowned and shook his head.

"I know that I can't just force you to do better but I KNOW you could do better than this." Agumon scolded.

When Pikachu recovered, he looked down.

"Look, I know that you are worried about Pichu, but remember, you are not only an UVR champion but THE sole champion of the Battle of the Luminaries." Agumon reminded. "Those petty people tried to ruin the tournament while YOU were still in the ring."

Pikachu actually growled at this before looking at the screen that showed Psycho Mantis.

"Remember everything you went through in the first tournament. Remember all of those hurdles you had to leap over." Agumon reminded. "Even though you may or may not recreate that said magic, that doesn't mean you can't show them why you win."

Pikachu paused before looking at Agumon with a solemn look.

"And don't forget. Despite arguably having a pair of clumsy eliminations, the people will believe in you to become a Superstar." Agumon offered. "They believe in you. I believe in you."

Pikachu slowly nodded.

"Good. Now let's continue." Agumon nodded.

A red blur and a monochrome blur zoomed high above the arena and thus the madness. That didn't make their fight any less chaotic. Jake Long and Danny Phantom glared at each other. Danny then made the first move by summoning green energy around his hands and firing a beam forward. However, Jake flew around the beam and flew forward while punching his fist out. But Danny turned himself intangible which allowed Jake to fly past. The ghost smirked before turning around to shoot another ecto blast.

Only for Juniper Lee to leap up into the air and do an axe kick to Danny, knocking him onto the canvas. The teenage girl then did a diving kick to Danny while he was down. However, the white-haired boy snapped out of his daze and yelped before rolling to the side. He then kicked June in the face, sending her staggering back. However, before the two of them could do anything, Jake flew by while breathing out a stream of fire.

June yelped before jumping back. Danny on the other hand, narrowed his eyes before creating a shield of ice and flying forward towards Jake, who was still breathing fire. The dragon was unable to stop his own attack in time and took the shield charge head-on before being sent flying back. Instead of flying after Danny, he turned around to focus her attention on June.

Only for a spinning orange starfish to float to his level. Danny blinked twice before looking down at June who was smirking.

"Staryu! Use Swift!" June shouted.

The star Pokemon then aimed their jewel at Danny and shot rapid-fire stars at him. The ghost just raised his ice shield to block the incoming projectiles. …Only for them to GO OVER Danny and strike Danny in the back. As he cried out in pain, June's smirk grew larger.

"Swift never misses." June corrected.

Danny then summoned a green shield around him so that the stars wouldn't hit him anymore. However, Jake then flew over Danny and pulled his hands together over his head before swinging them down like a hammer into Danny's barrier. The white-haired boy flew to the ground and crashed, breaking the barrier. He groaned before sitting up.

"Ugh, neither of you had seen recent work." Danny asked with a groan. "How are you guys so strong?"

"Like I said earlier, dawg, I was in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode last year so I saw work even if I was in my Season 2 form." Jake smirked. He then looked at June. "June on the other hand, I can't say."

"Hey, just because I haven't seen work in a long while, that doesn't mean I am not prepared for it!" June scolded. "Hell, if anything, my lack of work made me even more determined to prove myself! I wasn't even in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion."

"...To be fair, neither was the Eds or Courage the Cowardly Dog." Danny piped up. "Sure, Ben 10 was popular at the time but having his teenage AND child forms?"

"I am more confused by having CAPTAIN PLANET as the Boomerang guest fighter when Scooby Doo and Yogi Bear were right there." Jake added.

June shook her head. "Point is, I showed the world that I could keep up with you guys!"

"Well, we'll see." Jake said before growling. "I STILL want to get my revenge on Danny for what happened in that Death Battle!"

Danny just smirked. "Hey, nobody likes a sore loser!"

June just chuckled while cracking her knuckles. "Heh. I knew that this tournament would be fun!"

Tumble just watched the exchange with a smile. He then nodded before making his way towards the Announcer's Booth.

(Announcer's Booth)

Tumble entered the Booth to see Drake and Ashley still on the ground.

"H-Hey, how are you holding up?" Tumble asked, concerned.

"...Well, Drake's cardiac arrest has finally stopped if THAT'S what you are asking?" Ashley muttered.

Tumble frowned. "Yeah, that is kinda what I am asking."

"H-H-Hey, it's fine." Drake reassured. "So Tumble, how is the Danny/Jake/June team-up going along."

"O-Oh, it is going great! Sure, there was the inevitable awkwardness from people being reminded that people used to ship Danny and June together." Tumble started.

"...Good, that is kinda what I was hoping for." Drake said with a smirk, making Ashley roll his eyes.

"...The three are fighting hard and showing off their respective skills from their cartoons." Tumble explained. "You really picked a good one!"

"Nah, it is more of a team effort, Ashley was the one who picked Jake while I picked June." Drake corrected."

Tumble blinked twice. "...You casted Juniper Lee just for the shock value of that cursed pairing."

"Why not? I somewhat did something similar to Homer." Drake shrugged.

Tumble paused for a moment. He then sighed before shaking his head.

"Whatever…" Tumble said.

"So did you have any trouble contacting Carver and the others?" Ashley asked.

"Yeahhhh… About that." Tumble frowned. "Apparently, they had a barrier around their studio to protect themselves from getting possessed. But at the cost that we can't contact them and vice versa."

"Aw, that's a shame but it can't be helped." Drake frowned. "I don't want THEM to get roped into this."

"When do you think you will come back to announcing?" Tumble asked.

Drake paused. "...Perhaps. But can you keep announcing till the end of the section?"

Ashley looked on with wide eyes. "Wait, are you sure?"

Drake glared at Ashley. "Of course! I don't want to lose to Psycho Mantis OR Xuan Dou Zhi Wang!"

"I know, but…" The wizard frowned.

"Besides, everyone else is fighting in the arena so why not me?" Drake asked, sternly.

"Drake…" Ashley said, softly.

"PLEASE." The vampire pleaded.

Ashley paused for a moment. He then sighed.

"Alright, if you say so… Just don't overdo it." Ashley said.

Drake nodded his head before looking at Tumble. "Sorry to spring this on you, Tumble. But can you last until the end of this section."

The die paused before holding his hand. "Um, okay, all of the announcements have been done and I don't have to worry about explaining anything to the recap team."

Drake then smiled. "Don't worry, you are doing a great job!"

Tumble paused before giving a small smile and nod. He then floated out of the Announcer's Booth. Ashley then looked at Drake in concern.

"...Drake." Ashley said.

"I am FINE. I do NOT want to lose to them and neither do them." The mayor said.

Ashley paused. "...Right."

(Dome; Electrician's Office)

Freddy, still disguised as Psycho Mantis, looked at everyone else. "Hmm… It is still early on but I don't think turning off the power will change anything that much."

Shirley shook her head. "Typical. We should have known that they wouldn't let a blackout ruin the tournament so easily."

"Motherfucking great." Brazel muttered, throwing up his arms in the air.

"Guys, guys, come on!" Ell Blue scolded, walking forward. "Sure, I wanted the blackout to have more of an effect but it is not our coup de grace. It is just a warmup to show Drake and by extension the multiverse not to mess with us!"

"Sooo what now?" Wuxie asked.

"Unfortunately, nothing in terms of affecting the arena. We still need to recruit more people." Ell Blue sighed. "For now, we are starting with the top! Shirley, how are Ray and Panda doing?"

"Quite good, actually." The aeromancer nodded. "Bison is currently fighting Oume's despair clone as we speak so it is only a matter of time."

"Perfect! Now Ace, how about our OTHER potential target?" Ell Blue asked.

"The good news is that she is still in her seat." The ditto fighter said before frowning. "The bad news is that she wouldn't leave unless a certain fighter in the current section is eliminated."

"That's all?" Ell Blue asked before laughing. "Don't worry about it! We'll just make sure that they will eliminated this section!"

"Um, how?" King asked.

"Bruh, have you forgotten?" Ell Blue asked before gesturing to Freddy. "We more or less have THE Psycho Mantis!"

The nightmare-weaver's eyes lit up at this. "Ooh, do you mean…"

"Yes, but NOT YET. Let's see if the fighter gets eliminated early on. If not, THEN we could strike!" Ell Blue offered.

"Also, we get to mess with Drake even more!" Freddy smirked.

"Exactly! It won't be as grand as the attempted blackout but it should still make a mark in his psyche." Ell Blue said.

"Best part is Freddy dealing with people going to the electrician's office and the Announcer's Booth meaning we have all of the time in the world!" Claire sneered.

"But Freddy, do you think you would be able to do so from all of the way here?" Kuya asked.

"It would definitely be a first but I will definitely try! Anything to ruin someone's life!" Freddy smirked before looking at Ace. "So Create-Your-Own-Character? Who is the fighter?"

The agent returned the smirk.

"It is…"

(The Arena)

Megaman winced as he struggled to keep his Mega Buster locked onto his target. However, they were going too fast for him. Suddenly, his opponent zoomed right at him from behind and struck him in the back of the head by a metallic weapon. Normally, this would knock out a person or worse, but seeing that Megaman was a robot, he was merely stunned. He then looked up.

Only for his eyes to bug out when he saw Wave the Swallow going to pick up a Pokeball. After quickly, Megaman got out a circular buzzsaw in his hand and threw it forward at a fast speed. The Metal Blade clashed with the Pokeball that Wave was going to pick up, causing it to fly away. Wave yelped before glaring at Megaman. Only to yelp again before raising her wrench (which was actually BIGGER than she was) to block another Metal Blade.

Wave growled before riding forward and swinging it at Megaman. However, the Blue Bomber turned one of his arms into a flaming sword and raised it to block it. The two then got into a power struggle. However, due to Wave not being a direct fighter, Megaman easily won out and sent Wave off of her board and onto her rear. The mechanic growled before getting up and got back on her board.

However, Megaman then started to fire tiny energy shots at her. Wave acted quickly and raised her wrench to block the shots before riding to the side. Megaman then fired a shuriken forward. But Wave rode to the side before making her way to the side. She then picked up a Pokeball and threw it down. Megaman's eyes bugged out as a Pokemon appeared from it.

It was a purple alien-like Pokemon with red eyes. Megaman's pupils shrink while Wave's eyes light up.

"A Genesect! Perfect!" Wave grinned before smirking. "Now, use Techno Blast!"

The Bug-and-Steel type Pokemon nodded before firing two bright green shots at Megaman.

However, the robot gave a smirk before waving his arm and summoning blue skulls around him. At first, Wave just assumed the skulls would just absorb the shots. But much to her shock and horror, the rotating skulls DEFLECT the shots back at Genesect, hitting the Pokemon and sending them flying back into Wave, knocking the swallow away.

…She then proceeded to crash into ANOTHER fighter where she and said victim were sent into a corner post. As the two groaned, Megaman, along with the other fighter's ally and opponent stared with wide eyes.

"Ugh… Custom specials? I have forgotten about the Custom Specials…" Wave groaned. "But can you blame me? Who remembers them nowadays?"

Suddenly, she felt a pair of arms around her chest. Blinking twice, she looked up.

…To see the upside-down view of a pair of eyes through the darkness of a hood.

"You don't FEEL like you're eighteen." Kukri said.

Wave's pupils shrank as her purple face turned red from anger and embarrassment. She then quickly pecked Kukri. As the geomancer cried out in pain, she leapt up and glared at the guilty party.

"What the Labyrinth Zone is wrong with you!?" Wave roared.

Kukri looked up in disbelief while holding his hurt hand. "ME!? You were the one who crashed into ME!?"

"So that is a good reason to cop a feel!?" Wave shot back.

"Hey, you are all over Rule 34 sites! I just wanted to see if you were worth your mouth!" Kukri scolded. "Spoiler alert: You're not!"

Wave's pupils shrank. "Excuse me!?"

As the two got into a shouting match, nearly everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the two in disbelief. Megaman on the other hand, walked over to Ash Crimson and Tohru Adachi.

"Um, Mr. Crimson?" Megaman frowned, getting Ash's attention. "I know that you are most likely still trying to gain friends. But I think you need better standards for friends."

The Frenchman rolled his eyes. "Cut me some slack. He was the reason why Betty was able to find me. Of course, I don't feel like shunning him."

"Okay, wow, I never thought that the Hate Sink that showed up during the pre-resurgence era would be seen as positive but here we are!" Adachi muttered. "THAT Ash would have not given Kukri the time of day, even if it is because he was mostly 'too good for everyone else'."

"Alright, that does it! I wanted to fight that super fighting robot, but I will settle for you!" Wave roared.

"Tch! Like someone who routinely is the first elimination would do anything against most people in the arena, let alone me!" Kukri boasted.

Wave growled before riding towards Kukri and swinging her wrench. However, the geomancer dissolved into sand, not only harmlessly avoiding Wave's wrench attack, she ended up getting sand in her face. As she coughed out sand in disgust, Kukri reappeared behind Wave and kicked her in the face and nearly made her fall off of her board.

When she turned around, he saw that Kukri was shooting sand from his palm onto the ground while spinning around with his leg out. Wave's eyes bugged before leaping up over the attack. However, Kukri was quick to recover from his own attack and got ready to attack Wave while she was down. …Only to see that Wave still in the air and slowly descending down to the ground.

Wave sighed in relief. "Thank goodness I adjusted the Fly-type Accelerator before coming here."

With that, the swallow made her board stop her descent with Wave holding her wrench over her and holding down. Kukri then flipped forward to avoid the attack before rushing over and kicking Kukri in the face. Wave fell off of her board and onto her rear. Kukri then flipped forward and did an axe kick. Wave yelped before raising her wrench to block it and when the guard was a success, Wave shoved Kukri away.

Wave then got up and leapt onto her board and started to ride around Kukri. However, the geomancer just rolled his eyes before vanishing into sand again. Wave's eyes bugged out before Kukri reappeared out of the ground and did an uppercut which sent Wave flying in the air and crashing onto her back. She then sat up while coughing out sand.

"Dude… You are going to get your nasty sand all over my board!" Wave said in disgust.

"Don't worry, when I am through with you, the last thing we will worry about is your board!" Kukri said with a smirk through his hood.

Wave's eyes widened in horror. "The crap!? I knew that you were depraved, but to do THAT to me in front of the ENTIRE multiverse!?"

Kukri's smirk vanished. "What!? No! I meant burying you alive in sand in the most painful way possible! Do you think I wouldn't turn your outfit into a skimpy one if I had the chance!"

The hooded man paused, realising what he said.

"Wait, let me try that again." Kukri said.

While Kukri was trying (and failing) to correct his statement, Wave frantically looked for a way to save herself. She noticed that another Pokeball had spawned. Acting quickly, she grabbed it and threw it at Kukri's feet. This broke the geomancer out of his thinking. Acting quickly, he started to teleport by disappearing into sand.

…Only to find that his body was freezing up. He looked down to see a tiny otter-like Pokemon with a white face and a light blue body ramming into his body with water around him. Kukri's eyes widened in realisation and horror as Wave started to laugh.

"Nice one, Oshawott!" Wave sneered. "Water and sand truly don't mix!"

"Ugh, to be disadvantaged by a Gen 5 Pokemon!" Kukri winced. "Please don't add an aquamancer to King of Fighters, SNK!"

Kukri then looked up to see Wave standing over him while beating her wrench in her hand. The former's covered face fell.

POW! BIFF! BAM! WHACK! BONK!

After a few hard hits from her wrench, Wave grabbed the collar of a barely-conscious Kukri and pulled him to her.

"If you are SO thirsty, maybe you should drink some 'Respect Women' juice sometime!" Wave spat.

With that, he dragged Kukri's body over to the ropes and slid him onto the top rope. As Wave breathed in and out heavily, everyone looked with wide eyes and slack jaws. Then, a good chunk of the crowd started to cheer, especially the women.

"You saw it here, folks! Wave the Swallow has gotten their first elimination for not only herself, but also as a whole, the Babylon Rogues in UVR history!" Tumble announced. "It just goes to show that ANYTHING could happen at these things!"

Wave glared up at the die when he said this. "Was that last part really necessary!?"

She then sighed before giving a small smile.

"It's about darn time…"

She then turned to see where her previous opponent, Megaman, was. But she noticed him approaching the person who has gotten the second elimination of the section to ask them for a fight. At first, she was annoyed that she was unable to continue her fight, but then she realised that her board may have gotten sand all of it, thanks to her fight with Kukri and as far as Wave believes, that took high priority.

Kukri landed in a certain space station. He then got up with wide eyes through his hood.

"Was I the FIRST one eliminated? By one of the BABYLON ROGUES!?" Kukri asked in disbelief.

He then growled while clenching his fists and seeping sand from between his fingers.

"Ugh, and I thought my loss in the Tournament of Kikai was bad enough. Sure, I was eliminated by a clumsy elimination but at least the person who eliminated me got five eliminations!" Kukri ranted. "But the Babylon Rogues are notorious for being jobbers at these things! And speaking of jobbers, I was also the first one out when standing next to ASH FUCKING CRIMSON! I can't take this humiliation! I… I…"

Suddenly, he started to put his hands on his throat and weakly cough as if he was choking. He then collapsed on his knees, continuing to cough. A good distance away, Darth Vader was holding out his hand to choke hold Kukri with several Stormtroopers standing behind him.

"Um, permission to speak, sir?" A Stormtrooper asked.

"Permission granted." Darth Vader said without keeping his attention off of Kukri.

"...Was it really necessary to force choke him, sir?" The Stormtrooper asked. "Sure, he is not only an intruder, but also seems like an obnoxious one at that, you don't usually resort to that tactic this quickly."

Darth Vader then looked at the Stormtrooper who jumped a little (while the other Stormtroopers stepped back).

"I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere."

Charlie Nash narrowed his eyes as he watched Sadira use her web grappling hook to fly around the arena. As the assassin continued to ride around like Spiderman, she threw some knives at Nash. But the blond man easily ran to the side. However, Sadira sprang to life and did a dive kick at Nash. But the latter flipped backwards to avoid the attack.

"Sonic Boom!" Nash shouted, sending a blue energy disc with just one arm (in contrast to Guile's two-handed own). However, Sadira slashed through the projectile easily before throwing her own projectiles. But Nash ran around it and ran straight at her. But Sadira lashed out her web at the ceiling lights to grapple hook out of the way of Nash's flying kick.

As Nash was recovering from his own attack, Sadira landed on the ground before kicking her leg behind her and kicking Nash in the back and staggered forward. Sadira then ran over to continue the assault but Nash spun around and backhanded Sadira in the face. As the Thai woman staggered, Charlie ran over and did a series of punches and kicks to Sadira's face and stomach before ending by jumping up and swinging his leg in an arc, striking Sadira in the chin.

While Sadira flew through the air in pain, she managed to recover in midair and landed on her feet. She then noticed a Pokeball right next to him. Giving a smirk, she grabbed it and threw it on the ground. This released a tiny, pink blob with beady eyes. Said blob turned into a flash of light before transforming into Sadira, only pink all over. Nash looked on in horror while Sadira blinked twice before smirking.

"Well, I always said if you can't trust anyone, trust yourself." Sadira smirked. "So I can't think of a more fitting Pokemon for me to get."

Ditto nodded before the two looked at Nash who shrank back. They then pounced at him with Sadira spinning around her claws outstretched. Nash was able to move out of the way, but Ditto swung from a web line on the ceiling to kick Nash in the head, causing him to stagger back. That was when Sadira and Ditto struck together, slashing at Charlie multiple times with their claws. Sadira then ended up with a kick to Nash's stomach, knocking him to the ground. The blond man groaned before propping himself on his side. Sadira then sneered.

"Well, seeing that this is a no-kill tournament, I suppose there is no point in going all the time." Sadira shrugged. "Just crawl yourself underneath the ropes. They should give the elimination to me just like they did to Billy & Mandy against the Villager in the Tournament of Kikai."

Nash glared at the two. "Never… I will never give up."

"Ah well… I'll just do it the hard way." Sadira said, shrugging her shoulders. "Come on, Ditto! Let's end it with a double dive kick!"

The Transform Pokemon nodded their head before they and Sadira leapt up before doing a dive kick in unison. Nash gritted his teeth before zooming out of the way. Despite their double attack being dodged, they went to chase Nash down.

However, Nash ended up zooming around Sadira and Ditto, startling the latter two.

"W-What the?" Sadira exclaimed. "I don't remember him running THIS fast when fighting him earlier!"

Suddenly, while still zooming around Sadira and Ditto, Nash then started to send out blue energy bullets, striking the two multiple times and making them cry out in pain. When the two were distracted, Nash zoomed over and did a double clothesline to the two, knocking them down. As Sadira and Ditto laid on the ground, the former looked up to see Nash standing triumphantly over them while wielding a big rifle in one hand and on his feet…

"...Roller skates?" Sadira asked.

Nash didn't say anything. He just aimed his rifle at the downed Sadira and proceeded to send out a larger energy bullet at the downed assassin. Her eyes widened before she was about to send out another web line to get out of harm's way but it was too late as the charged shot hit her dead on and sent her soaring over the ropes, too stunned to get back. Ditto frowned, seeing that their trainer fell out of the ring before transforming back into their regular form before vanishing in a puff of smoke. Nash just stared with a cold look on his face.

"Wow, THAT is a blast from the past!"

Nash raised an eyebrow before turning around to see Megaman walking over with an awed look on his face.

"I didn't know that you had your gun and skates from Cannon Spike." Megaman noted.

Nash merely shrugged his shoulders. "Might as well. Outside of the Marvel VS Capcom games, it is one of the few crossover games I had a prominent role in."

"Hey, I asked Dr. Light to install my hover skates function from that game as well." Megaman said before reading his Mega Buster. "As long as we are here, wanna have a 'Cannon Spike' duel?"

Nash paused for a moment before shrugging again. "...Sure. Why not?"

Sadira landed in Overwatch where Widowmaker mistook her for a member of the enemy team and immediately shot her dead.

Juniper Lee smirked as he bent down to pick up a Pokeball. Only for a stream of fire and blast of ice to strike her in the back, knocking her down. She then groaned before looking up at her attackers, Danny Phantom and Jake Long with smirks on their faces.

"If you didn't want to have all of the time to get Pokeballs, maybe you shouldn't fight in the air when all of the Pokeballs are spawning to the only land-locked fighter!" June roared.

Danny and Jake's smirks vanished before looking at each other.

"She DOES have a point." Jake admitted.

"Yeah…" Danny shrugged.

With that, their smirks returned before they soared down at June with their fists out. The adolescent yelped before flipping backwards on her hands to avoid their attack. When June landed back on her feet, she growled before rushing forward while kicking her foot at Jake. However, the dragon smirked before grabbing June's foot and spun it around, also sending the latter spinning around before crashing on her back. Jake smirked before advancing forward.

Only for June to kick Jake in the stomach with both feet, sending the New Yorker flying away. She then got up to her feet, only to yelp and punched an ecto punch from Danny. The ghost then continued the assault, not giving her a chance to dodge and counter. Or so he thought as June found an opening, grabbed Danny's arm and threw to the side. That was when Jake sprang to life with a punch towards June. However, the Te Xuan Ze managed to block it.

The two then exchanged punches and kicks with each other, trying to get a strong hit in. But Jake then whipped out his tail, tripping June and sending the adolescent on her side. Jake then went to continue the assault.

…Only for a green swirling portal to suddenly open up underneath Jake and June, sucking the both of them in. Then, a second portal opened up the spot where the first portal was and dropped the two onto the ground. Danny smirked while dusting his hands together.

"Having the power of the God of Portal and Transitions is fun!" Danny smiled, giving a thumbs up.

June growled before raising her arm and summoning purple energy around her head. She then slammed in on the ground. This caused a mesh of purple energy to surround Danny's feet, pinning him to the ground.

"H-Hey! I can't move!" Danny exclaimed. "No, really, I can't turn intangible!"

Jake looked at June with a raised eyebrow. "Heh, neat trick, yo. What is it?"

"It is a FusionFall skill, particularly Snare which slows down all enemies. Granted, other people could use Snare but seeing that I fight the supernatural, it only makes sense that MY work is more effective against it." June smirked.

"Heh. Sweet." Jake said.

He then pushed June down before running after Danny.

"Thanks for the free hit!" Jake boasted.

June growled before getting up and running towards Danny. "Oh heck no! I didn't snare him for YOU!"

By this time, June managed to catch up with Jake with the two raising their fists to punch the ensnared Danny. The white-haired superhero winced before trying to get up a shield but the snare managed to negate his powers. He closed his eyes and prepared for the worst.

Only for a light blue blur and a purple and pink blur flew in front of Jake and June's punches respectively. The two Asian-Americans looked in shock and horror as Link and Meredy flew out of the ring from their respective attacks. The two just stood thunderstruck while Danny continued to block. Quickie ran past the three before diving into the portal to join her human.

Link and Meredy landed in Kingdom Hearts III where they rode on the former's shield in the shield-surfing minigame of Arendelle.

As Jake and June continued to look stunned, Danny finally opened one eye. Once he realised that he wasn't being attacked, he lowered his guard.

"...Let me guess. At least one fighter got thrown in your direction and you ended up eliminating them." Danny muttered.

Jake and June slowly nodded their heads. They then looked at the guilty party to see Chronos with an annoyed look on his face.

"...Why is it that I am so uninterested in this tournament and yet the lack of my potential eliminations were stolen from me by accident?" Chronos muttered. He then sighed. "As long as I showed those two fools how futile it is to face me."

With that, he was about to float off.

"Hold it right there!"

Chronos rolled his eyes before turning around to see Danny, Jake and June glaring at him.

"Yeah, no, do you really think we would let you gangsta walk around the arena free now?" Jake snapped. Immediately, Danny and June gave him weird looks.

"...I do not recall any of my actions or mannerisms being similar to a gangster." Chronos said, matter-of-factly.

"He means walking around as if you own the place!" June scolded before shifting her eyes to the side. "...I think."

"I mean around Clockwork enough to know how powerful chronomancers could be!" Danny agreed.

Chronos let out a bored sigh. "...Very well. The sooner I deal with impulsive fools like you, the more I will show you what you are up against."

With that, he started to go into a spellcasting position. Almost immediately, Danny, Jake and June made their way over and struck Chronos with a series of strikes. The white-haired man winced in pain from the attack from all sides but still managed to cast his spell.

"Tetra Spell!" Chronos shouted. This then summoned four novice spells at once. A single fireball, a spear of green wind, a triangular burst of stalagmites and a floating blue urn turning upside down and pouring out a literal pillar of water. One of the spells had struck all three youths at least once, causing them to collapse on their knees.

"Chronos Corridor!" Chronos shouted, slamming his fist in the ground and creating a sphere of blue energy around himself, knocking Danny, Jake and June away. Chronos then proceeded to cast another spell. Danny then started to fire a series of green ecto blasts at Chronos, trying to interrupt his spell but while the projectiles hurt him, Chronos was still able to cast his spell.

"Chain Strike!" Chronos shouted, summoning chains out of the ground over Danny. However, the ghost was able to turn intangible to avoid them. Acting quickly, he threw ecto energy from his hands, creating a long, thin portal on the ground.

"Go over the portal, it will increase your speed temporarily!" Danny commanded. With that, he floated over said portal which summoned green particles around him. Jake and June made their way over it and not only they also felt particles around themselves but they also felt faster. They then decided to use their speed to go around Chronos. The chronomancer just narrowed his eyes.

"Trinity Bit!" Chronos shouted, summoning grey orbs around him to protect him. However, Danny just alternates between ecto and ice shots while Jake breathes fire. While the Trinity Bits protected Chronos against the initial assault, he soon found himself before being bombarded by ecto, ice and fire. June then ran over and did a hard uppercut to Chronos' chin and sent him high into the air. Danny and Jake then flew after Chronos but managed to recover and self-right himself in time.

"Tetra Assault!" Chronos shouted, slashing Danny and Jake with his arm blades multiple times before ending with a spin kick and knocking them away. Danny and Jake were able to recover in time.

"Dang, this dawg ain't playing!" Jake winced. "Do you have a SMITE Ultimate you could use?"

"Yeah, but while it could be used for snipes, I don't think that would be enough." Danny frowned. His eyes then lit up. "Wait… I think I got an idea but it is risky!"

"At this point, I will try anything once!" Jake offered.

Danny nodded his head before flying straight at Chronos. The chronomancer just rolled his eyes before reading his arm blades. Then, Danny turned intangible and inserted himself in Chronos' body, engulfing him in a green aura for a moment. Jake's eyes lit up.

"Heh, good idea! You keep him in June and I will beat you down!" Jake smirked.

However, Chronos' body shook violently for a moment. Then, Danny was violently ejected from Chronos. He rolled backwards before stopping while rubbing his head with a dizzy look on his face.

"I suppose that is an interesting trick but while I am not a ghost, I am still a god and as such you WILL…" Chronos started.

Suddenly, he felt his body slowly descending.

"H-Huh? What's wrong with my body?" Chronos asked, weakly.

Chronos continued to descend downward, despite his clear but still vain attempts to try to float upwards or at least stop descending. Chronos continued to go down while Danny waved at him with a smirk on his face. Soon, Chronos ended up descending down right into the portal, still unable to do anything.

"Oh, heck yeah, dawg, you totally did it!" Jake grinned. He then paused. "Umm, what DID you do?"

"Well, I kinda knew that my overshadowing would work on him, at least for long so I decided that in the small time I had inside of him, I would freeze his blood with my cryomancy." Danny explained.

Needless to say, Jake looked absolutely horrified by this.

"Oh, don't give me that! If it wasn't anything less strong, they would have died slowly and painfully!" Danny scolded.

"Um, I know what you are TRYING to say but that doesn't make it any better." Jake frowned.

"Oh, shut up!" Danny snapped before floating down. "Let's go back to June and continue our three-way battle!"

Jake merely shrugged before descending down as well."

(Peach's Castle; Tick Tock Clock)

The next elimination node Celica's group visited was Tick Tock Clock from Super Mario 64. They all watched as the platforms moved in and out. However, they do it at an alarming rate.

Celica blinked twice. "Um, are we in one of those Kaizo Mario games?"

"Yes, I am getting a migraine by watching the platforms going so fast." Azusa frowned.

"We must be at this level near 9 o'clock." Linkle mused.

Celica turned towards Linkle with a raised eyebrow. "9 o'clock?"

"Yes, the Tick Tock Hop level is special in that if you enter the level with the hour hand closest to a certain number, it would affect the platforms." Leon added.

"Off the top of my head, having the hour hand closest to 12 makes the platforms stop completely, closest 3 will make it slow, closest to 6 have everything move at random speeds." Linkle mused, counting it off. "And of course, 9 makes everyone faster."

"Oh, wow, learn something new everyday!" Azusa said in awe.

"Yeah, I am just glad we landed in a safe spot so nobody would get hurt by the super speed of this level." Celica nodded.

While the group were talking, Minerva turned her head away from the group. There, she saw Chronos bouncing down the giant clock tower as if it was in a pinball game, having the worst luck and falling straight into the quick-moving platforms. However, Minerva was the only one who noticed him. Seeing that, it was too little, too late to go to Chronos, she just shook her head before turning her attention to the conversation.

(The Arena)

Garfield yelped before running to the side to avoid being smashed into the ground by a picnic basket. While Little Red Riding Hood was recovering from her own attack, Garfield got out his turkey leg and swung into Lil Red's stomach, knocking her down. However, while the cat was recovering from HIS own attack, Donkey ran over and kicked at Garfield with his hind legs.

Only for Spongebob to run in between Donkey and Garfield and take the kick for the latter. While Spongebob absorbed the kick, he was still sent flying back. Fortunately, Garfield was able to return the favour by throwing a pie into Donkey's face before the latter could summon his deflecting barrier. While the burro was temporarily blinded by the cream, Garfield smirked before jumping up and pulling his turkey leg over him.

Only for Lil' Red to run over to do a dropkick to Garfield's face, sending him sprawling away. The feline ended up next to Spongebob. The fry cook frowned before helping Garfield up. Donkey and Lil' Red then ran forward. However, Spongebob got out a reef blower out of nowhere and blew it at the two Shrek representatives, sending them rolling backwards.

While the two were downed, Spongebob and Garfield then started to send out bubbles and pies respectively at them, striking them multiple times. As Donkey and Lil' Red cried out in pain, Spongebob fired his bubble wand before swinging it and sending a missile bubble at the two. Donkey looked up to see the projectile coming and yelped. He then got up and ran forward, summoning a barrier around him which sent the missile bubble back at Spongebob. However, he just reached out and grabbed it out of the air.

"Don't get me wrong, I LOVE what GameMill is doing for the mechanics of the second game." Spongebob said before sighing. "But I am going to miss deflecting AND catching projectiles."

Garfield nodded his head with a smirk. Spongebob then threw the missile bubble forward but Lil' Red threw a crab apple at it, destroying it immediately. Garfield was about to do something. …Then, he noticed something that lit up his eyes. Acting quickly, he put down a familiar teddy bear before running off.

At first, Donkey was confused but then he noticed that Garfield was running towards a Pokeball. Acting quickly, he ran after Garfield and easily caught up to him. by seeing that a donkey was always faster than a lazy, fat cat. However, when Donkey passed Garfield's teddy bear, the feline then turned around and spread his arms out.

Then, the teddy bear suddenly sprang to life, going towards Donkey and crashing underneath his legs and sending him flipping into the air before crashing into his stomach. As Donkey laid dazed, the teddy bear zoomed into Garfield's hands before hugging him.

"Good job, Pooky!" Garfield congratulated, sounding the most cheerful in this entire tournament.

With that, he picked up the Pokeball with his free hand before throwing it down, releasing it into a flash of light. And what came out made everyone's eyes widened.

It was an adorable light pink feline-like Pokemon floating in a bubble. Garfield's eyes lit up before smirking.

"Alright, Mew, use… Use… Whatever your attack in Smash is!" Garfield commanded before pointing his finger out.

The Pokemon then narrowed their eyes.

"Mewwwwww!"

With that, they floated up into the air. The four watched them ascend towards the ceiling before disappearing. Garfield, Donkey and Lil' Red blinked twice while Garfield continued to keep his smirk on his face.

"...Huh?"

"For those who are confused, Mew debuted as a Pokeball in Melee where they would do nothing but in Brawl, where she would drop CDs and if you collected all of them, you would collect stickers instead." Tumble piped up. "And in 4, it can't drop CDs, trophies OR custom parts. But seeing that the Pokeball line-up is based on Ultimate and due to said game not having in-battle collectibles, Mew doesn't do anything."

Garfield blinked twice before narrowing his eyes. "Then, why have Mew in Ultimate at all!?"

"Well, Mew IS the rarest Pokemon of the first generation." Tumble shrugged. "And Mew IS the rarest Pokeball to get in both Melee and Ultimate."

"What's the point if they do NOTHING!?" Garfield roared. "There's first-gen basis and then there's THAT!?"

Suddenly, he heard a whistle. Turning around, he saw Lil' Red standing over him while holding her basket like a golf club. Garfield blinked twice before looking at the nearest Lakitu with an exasperated look.

"...Collecting them all is SO overrated." Garfield muttered.

Lil' Red then swung her basket like a golf club, sending Garfield flying off. However, the brunette's aim was a little off as Garfield didn't fly over the ropes but towards a certain battle.

"Pikachu, look out!" Agumon shouted, shoving Pikachu to the ground. "Claw Uppercut!"

Agumon shouted, doing a jumping uppercut. The attack hit the incoming Garfield head-on before sending him flying over the ropes. Agumon landed on the ground while dusting his hands together.

"Andddddd done." Agumon said before walking over to Pikachu to offer a hand to help him up. "The situation may be different but we gotta show people that our battle is not something to be trifled with, right?"

Pikachu paused before accepting Agumon's hand. Meanwhile, Spongebob, Donkey, Lil' Red, Snoopy and Scooby watched with slack jaws.

"Umm… Maybe you should have swung your basket like a softball bat instead of a golf club." Donkey suggested. "Perhaps your aim would have been better then."

Lil' Red glared at Donkey. "I don't need to hear that from YOU, Mr. Elevator Attendant of the Loserville Hotel!"

Meanwhile, Snoopy looked up at Scooby with horror. "We lost Garfield!"

"As sad as it sounds, I am not really surprised." Scooby sighed. "If anything, I am more surprised the three of us made it so far together."

Garfield landed in a neighbourhood in Westfinster. He grumbled before getting up while dusting himself off.

"Ugh, I can't believe I lasted so long only to be eliminated in an anti-climatic fashion." Garfield muttered. "Oh well. Six eliminations is nothing to be upset about and at the very least, I could rest down."

"Oh no you don't! You ain't going to do any of that!"

Garfield winced before slowly turning around. There, he saw another orange rotund tabby cat just like himself.

"We have always been rivals but we never had an actual one-on-one fight. For obvious reasons, I would whoop your tail." Heathcliff smirked, cracking his knuckles together. "But showing up in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl AND getting six eliminations in an UVR tournament? Yeah, I am not going to let this chance go to waste now that you could be a proper fighting rival!"

Garfield slumped his arms. "...This tournament takes place on a Wednesday so why did it feel like a Monday?"

(Dome; Crowd Entrance A)

Solid Snake, Rosalina and Luma made their way towards the Announcer's Booth. The former was making his Codec.

"So it isn't ANY of them?" Snake asked. "Okay, got it. Well, keep at it. Considering how entitled and short-tempered they are, they could easily let their guard down. Until then, Otacon, Snake out."

Rosalina frowned. "Not much luck."

"Yeah, Otacon said that he turned the internet upside-down and there isn't a single one in Xuan Dou Zhi Wang who is able to copy Psycho Mantis' powers. At least that well." Snake sighed, shaking his head.

"So it isn't any of them or Ace, who IS Psycho Mantis?" Rosalina asked.

"I am not sure. I WANT to say that they are not as dangerous as Psycho Mantis but even still, they are still potentially dangerous." Snake said.

"Agreed. Especially since they are willing to ruin an UVR tournament." Rosalina mused. "Do you think that it is Junko?"

"Why because Psycho Mantis could be Tsugumi?" Snake asked. "Ultimate Cosplayer or not, NO ONE would be able to successfully 'cosplay' hacking the lights and screens. Furthermore, if they are helping Xuan Dou Zhi Wang, it is probably someone as obscure as them."

"Maybe it is from Psychonauts then?" Rosalina asked.

"Maybe if the second game didn't show up recently." Snake pointed out. "Furthermore, we don't even know if Psycho Mantis' imposter is a psychic."

As the two continued to talk, the Luma looked around the hall. Suddenly, he looked worried before turning towards Rosalina and spoke, getting her attention.

"Hm, what is it, my child?" Rosalina asked.

The Luma then pointed to a poster and started to talk. Rosalina's uncovered eye widened.

"Are you sure?" Rosalina asked. The Luma nodded his head. "...Very well. Let's do an experiment. Snake?"

The mercenary raised an eyebrow. "Hm?"

"Could you go on ahead?" Rosalina asked.

Snake looked suspicious.

"I promise if what I think is going to happen, you shouldn't be hurt." Rosalina offered.

Snake paused. "...I mean if I would, you would at least be honest and warn me about it. Alright. I'll do it."

With that, Snake walked on ahead. Rosalina and Luma looked ahead with concern as Snake slowly started to leave their line of vision.

"...Shocking but not surprising."

Rosalina and Luma turned around to see Snake RIGHT BEHIND THEM with a grumpy look on their faces. Despite this. Rosalina just frowned.

"...That's on us. We should have realised that they wouldn't let us go the long way that easily." Rosalina sighed.

"Even still, that doesn't explain how they turned the hallway into a cartoon repeat pan." Snake groaned. "I don't think Psycho Mantis is able to do something like that. Now what?"

"There you are!"

Snake's eyes widened before whirling around while getting out his knife. Wade Hixton and Wolfrun yelped at this.

"What the Bad End!?" Wolfrun roared. "Do you ALWAYS get out a knife whenever someone calls you from behind in a public place!?"

Snake paused before putting away the knife. "Sorry… I am a bit on edge at the moment."

"...Welcome to the club." Wolfrun muttered.

"Oh, Rosalina, was it, I was looking for you." Wade grinned before running past Snake.

"Um, what is it?" The blue-clad woman asked.

Wade Hixton then got the Star Piece. "I think you dropped this in the Eliminated Seating after you and Snake left it."

Rosalina paused before examining it. "Um, thank you for your thoughtfulness but this isn't mine."

Wade jumped at this. "Wait, what?"

"Yes, it is a Mario star-themed item and I admittedly do collect those but the only star items I carry around at all times are Star Bits." Rosalina admitted.

Wolfrun rolled his eyes. "Told you that it was just a coincidence."

"Aw, shucks. What do I do with this now?" Wade frowned.

"We can decide later. For now, we have to find a way to warn Drake and Ashley that whoever Psycho Mantis is, is an imposter." Rosalina said.

Wade's eyes bugged out at this. "Wait, you mean that mean ol' psychic is nothing more than ANOTHER evil cosplayer?

"...Well, I don't think it is Tsugumi but otherwise, yes." Snake said, rolling his eyes.

"Dog dawg it, if that is the case, Drake needs to know right away!" Wade frowned.

With that, he ran off towards the direction of the Announcer's Booth.

"H-Hey, wait, the hallway…" Rosalina started.

Suddenly, something happened that made everyone's eyes bug out.

Wade was suddenly surrounded by a golden barrier. They also noticed the darkness swirling around the barrier. But it didn't seem to be a part of the barrier but rather trying to ENTER it. Snake, Rosalina, Luma and Wolfrun just watched with wide eyes.

Wade then stopped and turned around to see everyone looking at him.

"...What?"

(Dome; Rooftop)

Oume continued to squat down the rooftop, trying to meditate in a vain attempt to keep her mind out of everything that was going on so far. Sure, she could hear the roars of the audience but it was almost blocked out by the wind from being so high up.

Suddenly, she heard the door opening up. Giving a wince, she dared to turn around to see Otane slowly walking onto the roof with Ragna and Bang behind him.

"Otane…" Oume groaned, rolling her eyes.

"Oume…" Otane said, solemnly. "What a tournament, huh?"

"You're telling me, the whole thing with Psycho Mantis actually made me forget everything else that happened for five minutes!" Oume muttered.

Bang narrowed his eyes. "A lot of things have happened but let's focus on why we are here! Oume Goketsuji, you WILL give us the recipe for the antidote of that horrific concoction."

"No…" Oume said, matter-of-factly.

"Oh, really, you won't. In that case, let's go back home." Ragna said, sarcastically before looking annoyed. "Do you REALLY think that we would say yes?"

"Look, I know this sounds weird considering what I did to the champions' loved ones but you couldn't pay me to give a crap about what is currently happening to the tournament, let alone six people." Oume muttered.

"Six people!?" Bang roared. "Those six people wouldn't even be in this mess if it wasn't for you!"

"Oume, come on. There is no benefit to letting them eventually die a painful death." Otane frowned.

"Again, you can't really pay me enough to care." The older twin muttered. "I was literally used and humiliated by every person that I considered an ally."

"...Forgive me if we are not sympathetic." Ragna snarked.

Otane stepped forward while rolling her eyes. "Oume, come on… To say that things had escalated is an understatement. Apparently, Ryuhaku, Shizu and Rena's deaths are actually affecting the timeline."

Oume looked at Otane confused. "Huh, the timeline?"

"Something about the butterfly effect or whatever?" Ragna asked. "What I DO know is that the Eternal Champion came in person so you KNOW that you caused some deep shit!"

"Did you really think that kidnapping three people from elimination nodes would not have any form of consequence!" Bang challenged. "Your actions affect heroes and villains alike!"

Oume paused before scoffing and looking to the side.

"The effects probably wouldn't even be that bad."

Otane, Ragna and Bang looked appalled at this.

"Excuse me!? Didn't you hear my friend, Ragna, tell me that the ETERNAL CHAMPION came in person!?" Bang exclaimed. "The Big Good is the game where tragic deaths affect EVERYONE!?"

Ragna growled before reading his sword. "That's it! I am going to drag you back to the Recovery Room whether you like it or not!"

"Boys, boys, please!" Otane pleaded, stepping forward.

"W-What? But…" Ragna started.

"I know, I know. Listen, I think the only one who could possibly get through to her." Oume offered. "So please…"

Ragna and Bang paused before looking at each other. They then shrugged before looking down at Otane and nodded.

"Thank you…" Otane said before looking at Oume. "Look, Oume. I totally know how you feel. Bison played with MY heart too."

"Yes, well, I could understand why he toyed with YOUR heart but mine." The older twin said in disbelief.

Otane rolled her eyes. "Well, at least you are not COMPLETELY gone."

"Look, regardless of the actual ending, no matter how you look at it, I technically won. At least against you." Oume scolded. "Not only did we successfully shut YOUR team down but we succeeded in our plan. The only reason we didn't go through with it was because we were told almost immediately that Bison never cared for us. It is way more painful for a success to be all for nothing rather than a failure."

"...Why do you want to handle her with kid gloves again, Otane?" Ragna muttered.

"As if things weren't bad enough, our own allies were the same! They never believed that we had a chance with Bison despite us LEADING them and just went along with it!" Oume snapped.

Otane's eyes widened at this. "Wait, our as in…"

"Don't tell me that you actually still thought that your team was actually backing on having a crush on Bison?" Oume challenged. "When the hero team opposing my team called them out, NOBODY had an answer! If MY team never supported you, why would YOUR…"

Otane paused for a moment, taking what she had learned to heart. She then breathed in and out.

"...I don't think that is the case." Otane said, finally.

Oume paused. "Huh?"

"Sure, they may not have supported us in our personal goals, but they still supported us." Otane pointed out.

Oume jumped. "What kind of Kum-Bah-Yah bullshit is THAT!?"

"At the end of the day, even though our teams were formed to do a certain goal, we DID form said teams based on our beliefs." Otane explained. "Remember, what is how we formed our teams."

"...What's your point?" Oume asked.

"Sure, your team didn't follow you because they thought you had a chance with Bison but they DID follow you because they genuinely agreed with your lifestyle." Otane said.

Oume paused. "But what good is it if it's all for nothing."

"Oh, come on. You know fully well that we had always lived our lives without Bison in them." Otane scolded. "What should we stop now?"

Oume scoffed before looking to the side. "I don't know. I guess I never had everyone I had ever trusted stab me in the back before."

"No, Bison is the only one who stabbed us in the back." Otane corrected.

"...Does it really count as backstabbing if Bison never agreed to this 'contest'?" Ragna muttered.

Otane continued as if ignoring Ragna. "While everyone else was in the wrong in leading us on, we didn't get them to follow us based on our end goal. We did it because of our beliefs."

"Our… Beliefs?" Oume said.

"I probably shouldn't say this but even though you lost your end goal, you could potentially be the Big Bad." Otane frowned. "Nothing was stopping you."

Oume paused. "...Okay, I'll give you THAT. EXCEPT how could I lead a team I don't even trust?"

"Well, maybe if you focus on what you could do beyond Bison, maybe you could find your team could do things you wouldn't believe." Otane said. "That is how I felt about my team."

Oume stayed silent. "...Why are you helping me?"

"...Well, for once, I feel like I could emphasise with you seeing that we both had the same goal and both failed it." Otane said before looking to the side. "The fact that innocent people are going to die and the timeline is in danger is also a good point."

"The fact that Xuan Dou Zhi Wang were most likely the ones who stole the despair extractor and despair clones, INCLUDING your own, may also be a possibility." Ragna muttered.

Oume jumped. "Wait, do DID?"

"We do not have confirmation. What we DO know is that there was a knockout gas attack in Junko's old hideout and it was similar to the one in the Recovery Room." Bang pointed. "Coincidence? I think NOT!"

Oume paused for a moment. Thinking about everything that had happened so far. She then sighed.

"...Fine. On one condition."

Otane looked up. "And that's…."

Oume gave a cold glare. "I want to see Bison."

Otane returned the expression. "...Yeah, I think we BOTH need to see him."

"He should be in his hotel room." Ragna offered. "F.A.N.G. told us that he was in there the entire time."

"W-W-Wait, the more we dilly-dally, the more pain the champions' loved ones AND the more the timeline is in danger!" Bang exclaimed.

"Then, we DON'T dilly-dally. It is as simple as that." Oume said, matter-of-factly.

"Agreed. Let's make haste." Otane nodded.

With that, the two Goketsuji sisters then passed Ragna and Bang. Bang just looked on in horror while Ragna just… Frowned.

"But… But… But…" Bang sputtered.

Ragna put a hand on Bang's shoulder. "Welcome to my world…"

(The Arena)

Donkey ran forward with a serious look on his face before kicking his hind legs out. However, Spongebob Squarepants jumped out of the way before spinning around with a kick of his own, striking Donkey in the stomach. But after the burro staggered to the side, Spongebob felt his body being bombarded by something. Looking down, he saw several crab apples on the ground.

Spongebob blinked twice before looking at Lil' Red. "Umm, you DO know that if normal punches don't affect me normally? So the same could be said about apples."

"Well, dang it!" The red hooded girl muttered.

Then, Donkey managed to kick his hind legs, this time connecting with Spongebob. However, instead of kicking the sponge, he merely 'grabbed' him and 'held' him over him with his hind legs and stood on his front legs. The quadruped smirked before he managed to juggle around Spongebob a bit before kicking him away. Lil' Red then ran up and spun her basket around, striking Spongebob multiple times.

While Spongebob grunted in pain, he managed to recover by getting a spatula. However, it wasn't just any spatula as it was a hydro-dynamic one with port and starboard attachments. Said attachments started to spin around, causing Spongebob to fly in midair. Despite this, Lil' Red just narrowed her eyes before throwing another apple at Spongebob. However, it wasn't aiming at Spongebob himself but his spatula.

This made the spatula fizzle out before Spongebob landed on his rear. Donkey then ran forward. But Spongebob quickly got out a fish bowl out of nowhere and somehow managed to stuff himself inside of it before rolling away from Donkey. As the burro's eyes widened before the fish bowl started to go around him and Lil' Red at an alarming speed. Donkey narrowed his eyes before jumping over to land on top of the fish bowl.

Big mistake as Donkey ended up struggling to keep balancing on the fish bowl. Said bowl continued to roll around until it went through the corner post

CRASH!

Lil' Red winced as Donkey crashed into the corner post, leaving him upside-down. Spongebob then finally appeared out of the fishbowl before picking it up.

"No wonder other platformer fighters usually have four specials. Having a side special is fun." Spongebob grinned.

Lil' Red ran over to Donkey who just plopped onto his stomach. "Um, wanna retreat and find another opponent? He could tank every attack we got."

"No, no, I think we got it. Just because he could absorb our damage, that doesn't mean he could absorb our KNOCKBACK." Donkey offered.

"Okay, not wrong. But in that case, we need a LOT of knockback." Lil' Red frowned. "Your kicks are strong but not as strong as Shrek's punches."

Donkey looked around for a potential answer. His eyes then lit up when he saw a Pokeball. He then ran up and grabbed it with his mouth before turning around.

…To see Spongebob with a Pokeball.

"I choose you… Whoever you are!" Spongebob shouted, throwing the Pokeball forward.

Donkey thought quickly and threw out his Pokeball as well. With that, their respective Pokemon came out. Once they did, everyone's eyes bugged out.

Both Pokemon were huge, being thrice as big as Potemkin. As if that wasn't bad enough, Donkey's Pokemon was white with some kind of golden gate around their waist. The second one was darker in comparison with dark colours all over them with spiked wings.

"Oh, wow! What are the odds? Not only did Donkey and Spongebob summon two legendary Pokemon, but also Arceus and Giratina, aka the God and Satan of Pokemon respectively!" Tumble announced.

"The God and Satan of Pokemon respectively!?" Donkey asked with a big grin. It then faltered. "...Is that good?"

The two then roared, making everyone in the arena cover their ears in their pain.

"You HAD to ask!" Lil' Red muttered.

Giratina then breathed in and fired a spiralling wind towards Arceus and by extension, Donkey and Lil' Red. Arceus stood strongly and blocked the incoming wind projectile for Donkey and Lil' Red. Despite this, they still felt the strong wind, forcing them to hold onto Arceus' legs.

However, Giratina wasn't done as he continued to fire Dragon Breath after Dragon Breath at Arceus and while the God of Pokemon was able to tank it, Donkey and Lil' Red were forced to hold on for dear life. Unfortunately, Lil' Red couldn't hold on anymore.

"AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEE!"

"LIL' RED!" Donkey cried out as he watched his nodal companion fly over the ropes with no hope of return.

"Good job, Giratina! Now it is my turn!" Spongebob grinned before getting out his hydro-dynamic spatula and holding up to fly into the air. "I am going to…"

Then, Arceus slammed his legs on the ground.

SPLAT!

Spongebob then flew straight down onto the ground just like a comet. He groaned before propping his hands up on his hands.

"Well, that was weird. How does one trip while they are in the air?" Spongebob mused. He then narrowed his eyes before flying up again. "No matter! I will…"

SPLAT!

Spongebob groaned before slowly getting up while propping himself on his hands again.

"Huh… That's strange. Not even I am THAT clumsy." Spongebob mused. "I wonder what is…"

"RULE OF THREE!"

Spongebob's eyes widened before looking up to see Donkey rushing forward. The quadruped then grabbed Spongebob with his hind legs before throwing him out of the ring. However, Spongebob just got out his pizza box and used to glide back.

But as Donkey said, the Rule of Three was in effect as Arceus slammed his front legs onto the canvas for the third time. Spongebob was then sent zooming down into the portal.

Spongebob landed in a city. He sat up while blinking twice.

"...What a weird situation, even compared to tournaments like this." Spongebob noted before looking around. "Now where am I…?"

"Are you alright?"

Spongebob turned to see the Powerpuff Girls Z floating down to his level. However, his eyes lit up when locking on Bubbles.

"Ooh, is that a bubble wand!?" Spongebob exclaimed.

"H-Huh?" Bubbles asked before looking at her wand. "That's right."

"Oh, wow, I am a fellow bubble blower!" Spongebob said with his eyes lighting up.

Bubbles sheepishly scratched the back of her head. "Um, I don't mean to let you down but I can't make bubble art. I mostly used them for combat. Like capturing, rescuing, projectile deflecting."

"Well, that's alright. As long as you are creative and have fun with them, that is what is important in the end." Spongebob offered. "What is the extent of your bubbles?"

Bubbles smiled at this. "Well, I could also use them to constrict people, healing, used as 100-ton weights and even ELECTROCUTE."

"Electrocute?" Spongebob asked in awe. "Not even I could do that. How do you do well…"

"Well…" Bubbles said.

With that, the two started to talk. A good distance away, Blossom and Buttercup looked with wide eyes.

Buttercup then grumpily crossed her arms. "If this tournament is going to pull a Rule of Three, MY 'counterpart' better be good."

(Jellystone Park)

"Well, EXCUSE ME for wanting to defend myself!" Lil' Red grumbled, crossing her arms.

Ranger Smith gave an exasperated sigh. "...Look. I know that he is in the wrong but to say that you escalated the situation was an understatement."

"Aw, come on, it wasn't THAT bad!" Lil' Red scolded.

Then, the two heard groaning. Turning their heads, they saw Boo Boo and Cindy Bear bandaging a battered and bruised Yogi.

Ranger Smith frowned before glaring at Lil' Red. "Again, Yogi shouldn't have tried to steal your picnic basket but you went too far teaching him a lesson!"

"Hey, I am just a little girl up against a BEAR. Forgive me for pulling all of the stops." The brunette muttered.

"A lot of things Yogi is, but violent is not one of them." Range Smith said, shaking his head.

"Well, I admit that you got me there." Lil' Red said, rolling her eyes. "Seriously, you would think that the 'smarter than average' bear would at least know how to block when someone is on top of them, whaling on them."

Ranger Smith let out an exasperated sigh.

(The Arena)

Ash Crimson and Tohru Adachi soon a good distance away from each other with smirks on their faces. In the middle of them was a Pokeball. However, instead of the top half being red, it was more purple and pink with a capital "M" on it. It was a Master Ball, a Pokeball that usually holds Legendary Pokemon in it. Needless to say, when the two saw it, they immediately started to fight over who gets to it.

"Magatsu-Izanagi, do you mind?" Adachi asked, snapping his finger. This summoned his Persona which was actually a red version of Yu's Persona. Said Persona ran forward towards Ash. However, the red-clad man ran to the side too narrowly to avoid the slash. He then saw Adachi running towards the Master Ball. However, Ash merely smirked before blowing a kiss.

This summoned a green floating flame in Adachi's path. The ex-cop's eyes widened as he tried to skid to a stop but it was too late. The flame exploded into Adachi's chest, knocking him down. After he collapsed on his back, Ash ran towards the Master Ball. However, while Adachi was still in pain, he aimed his gun at and fired a non-lethal bullet at Ash's leg. The Frenchman winced before hopping on his unhurt leg.

Adachi slowly got up before rushing over but Ash snapped back before swinging his hand in a horizontal fashion, creating a wave of green fire. However, he swung his hand again, this time vertically which turned the arc into a cross and zoomed forward. Adachi easily saw the projectile coming and moved out of the way to avoid it. The two then ran towards the Master Ball. Adachi then leapt forward to strike Ash in the head with his pistol whipping.

However, Ash just did an exaggerated shrug. The moment Adachi's pistol connected with Ash, the red-clad man vanished into thin air. As Adachi's eyes bugged out, Ash reappeared behind the convict and laughed before pushing Adachi in the back and sending him staggering forward. Despite this, Adachi summoned Magatzu-Izanagi behind him to plunge his blade into the ground in an attempt to strike Ash. However, due to doing a blind attack, Ash easily jumped back out of the attack.

Adachi glared at Ash. "...You are being really annoying. And not even the 'regular' annoying you used to be."

"Hey, I actually want to do well this time." The white-haired man smirked. "Heck, one could argue that I am doing better seeing that half of the required eliminated fighters is almost filled up and I am still here, even outlasting the likes of Link and Garfield."

"Yeah, well, it doesn't matter if you are the first person to get eliminated in a section or the last one." Adachi taunted. "Get eliminated without a single elimination and you are just a washed-up loser. Just like whoever fails to get the Master Ball."

"Kinda cynical but not inaccurate." Ash shrugged before his smirk grew bigger. "In that case, I better make you eat your words and take it for myself."

"We'll see about that!" Adachi smirked. "Magatzu-Izanagi!"

With that, he summoned his Persona to swing his blade with red electricity around it. However, Ash then dashed forward while vanishing in green fire. He then reappeared on the other side of Magatzu-Izanagi, slashing through the Persona through green fire and making Adachi wince in pain. Ash then put a knife-hand into Adachi's chest. The ex-cop winced while holding his chest. Ash then ran over to continue the assault.

Only for Adachi to snap to reality and grab Ash by the arm. Pulling the startled Frenchman, Adachi slammed his pistol into his back, knocking him down. Adachi sneered before making his way over to the Master Ball and picking it before throwing it down. All Ash could do was look in horror as he was at the mercy at whatever the Pokemon was in the Pokeball.

"Goldeen Goldeen Goldeen!"

Adachi, Ash and everyone else who had the pleasure of watching blinked twice as a white and orange goldfish with a horn helplessly flopped around the arena. It was a Goldeen, arguably the most useless Pokemon to get in Super Smash Bros.

Suddenly, Ash started to laugh. "Mr. Adachi, you are a great clown! You make me laugh!"

The serial killer glared at Ash. "What are YOU laughing about!? You could have gotten Goldeen too!"

"Yes, but YOU were the one making a big deal about whoever fails to get the Pokeball will be the loser!" The red-clad man taunted. "I am just throwing your words back in your face!"

"Alright, I get it…" Adachi said, darkly. "Goldeen, use Horn Attack!"

Ash stopped laughing though he was still smirking. "Wait… What?"

He then saw Adachi picking up Goldeen before getting ready to throw her like a lawn dart. Ash's eyes bugged out before jumping to the side to avoid the attack. However, that was when Adachi ran towards Ash and tackled him to the side. The ex-cop then proceeded to stomp on Ash several times.

"Not exactly what I had in mind admittedly." Adachi sneered. "But fail to adept once and you will be a washed-up loser."

Despite being in pain, Ash glared at Adachi. "That was what you initially said…"

The dark-haired man's smirk vanished. "Aw, shut the fuck up."

With that, he gave Ash's body a good punt, knocking him out of the ring.

Ash landed in the Palace of Shadow in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Old Door where he used his flames as a torch. However, that was a big mistake as a bunch of Phantom Embers saw him and approached him with… Heart-shaped eyes.

Potemkin grunted in annoyance as he struggled to reach out to grab his opponent. However, Sora, being known for being athletic and easily leapt over the grab before swinging his Keyblade in a midair combo. Potemkin staggered back but recovered quickly enough to block a jumping downwards slash from Sora. Potemkin then spread his arms back, sending Sora back.

However, Sora managed to recover in midair before gliding back towards Potemkin. However, he stopped his glide mid-flight before casting a spell, summoning lightning bolts and striking Potemkin multiple times. Sora then ran forward and did a series of slashes to Potemkin. While in pain, the soldier kicked his foot out but Sora leapt up over the attack before smacking Potemkin in the helmet.

But it did little to faze Potemkin as he reached out and grabbed Sora while he was still in mid-air. He then proceeded to fire close-range explosive shots into Sora, knocking him away. The Keyblade master painfully bounced across the ground before sprawling on his stomach. He groaned before getting up. Only for his eyes to bug out when he saw Potemkin rushing forward.

Acting quickly, Sora leapt over Potemkin when the giant slid on his stomach. After landing on his feet, Sora turned around and fired a fireball from his Keyblade. However, Potemkin also turned around and… Flicked at the fireball. This had actually sent the projectile back to Sora. The brown-haired boy was not expecting this and took the attack to the chest, causing him to stagger back.

Sora slowly recovered with a frown. "As much as I hate to admit it, Xehanort has really been upping his game since the Tournament of Kikai."

Potemkin let out an exasperated sigh. "For the last time, I am NOT a Heartless."

"So you expect me to believe that the totally-not-a-Heartless getup is a new makeover?"" Sora said, sarcastically.

"My old outfit was when I was a slave. THIS outfit is a military uniform." Potemkin insisted.

"Even if what you said about the old one is the truth, you arguably look like even MORE of a slave!" Sora insisted. "I don't know what Xehanort is planning nor why it involves you but I am going to rescue you!"

"...How did you and your friends not go after Vivi in the second Kingdom Hearts game?" Potemkin muttered.

Sora didn't say anything but raised his Keyblade to cast another spell. This time, he summoned a bunch of brightly-coloured balloons. He then hit them with his Keyblade which sent the balloons flying towards Potemkin. The soldier raised his arms to block but he still found himself being struck by the incoming balloons. Sora then THREW his Keyblade at Potemkin but the latter swatted at the weapon, knocking it away.

The Keyblade then spun towards Pikachu and Agumon's fight, accidentally knocking them down. However, as the Keyblade spun back at Sora like a boomerang, neither he nor Potemkin noticed. The two groaned before sitting up. Agumon then glared at the two.

"Hey! In case you both forgot, there are usually at least more than fifteen fighters in an arena!" Agumon roared.

Unfortunately, Sora and Potemkin were so busy trying to fight each other that they didn't even hear Agumon. The Digimon's eyebrow twitched at this.

"Why, those idiots… I gotta…" Agumon muttered.

Suddenly, Pikachu walked ahead of him, startling Agumon.

"Um, Pikachu?" Agumon asked, concerned.

The Pokemon didn't say anything. He just breathed in and breathed out before slapping his cheeks together twice.

Suddenly, he zoomed towards Sora and Potemkin using his Quick Attack. When he saw close enough, he clambered onto Potemkin until he reached the giant's head before zapping him with electricity. Sora jumped at this before his eyes lit up.

"Heh. Good one, Pikachu!" Sora grinned. "Now…"

"Claw Attack!"

Sora's grin vanished before turning to the side to see Agumon rolling forward with his claws out.

"Ohhhh…"

Meanwhile, Potemkin struggled to grab Pikachu off of him but the electric Pokemon kept scampering around his body with his speed. The crowd then went wild at this.

"Really? It's been a whole DECADE between the first and third Battles of the Luminaries and I have to go through this AGAIN?" Potemkin asked in disbelief.

However, unlike last time, he realised a trick that he didn't use in the first tournament. He then threw himself to the ground (and made a tremor, having everyone shake) before rolling around in an attempt to get Pikachu off of him. However, the mouse just ran to make sure that he was balanced on top of Potemkin. Realising that he wasn't getting Pikachu off-guard, he started to roll from back to forth in hopes of getting the mouse off.

Pikachu continued to stay balanced. Realising that Potemkin wasn't going to stop, Pikachu made his way towards Potemkin's head and made his tail glow white before swinging it downwards at Potemkin's helmet. Said headwear then started to ring causing Potemkin to hold it in pain. Pikachu then started to surge electricity through his cheeks.

"Pepper Breath!"

"Fire!"

The fireballs caused each other, negating themselves. Agumon just scoffed before running forward. Sora just frowned before raising his Keyblade to block a jumping claw swipe from Agumon. When the dinosaur landed on his feet to recover from his own attack, Sora kicked his foot out to catch Agumon in the foot and sent him sprawling back. Sora then continued the assault by swinging his Keyblade downwards. But Agumon snapped out of his daze in time.

"Claw Uppercut!" Agumon shouted, doing a jumping uppercut to clash with Sora's attack. The Keyblader wielder staggered back a step which was long enough for Agumon to headbutt him in the stomach, forcing him to hold it. Soon, he recovered before summoning water swirling around him and sending an arch towards Agumon. The Digimon just jumped back from the spell.

"Look, I know how serious you and Pikachu take your rivalry and I am sorry we interrupted your fight." Sora frowned. "But you chose the worst possible thing to get revenge. Xehanort is trying to form a plan here again and he managed to turn that Guilty Gear rep into a Heartless."

"Um, ignoring the fact that I would have ignored your reasoning." Agumon said, blinking twice. "I don't think that he is a Heartless."

"Aw, come on! You were in the first Battle of the Luminaries!" Sora scolded. "You can't tell me that he DOESN'T look like a Heartless!"

"Then, why aren't your Keyblade attacks aren't as effective as other Heartless?" Agumon shot back.

Sora was about to retort before his eyes widened in realisation and paused to think. Agumon just rolled his eyes.

Agumon then sighed. "I gotta get you out of here but you lower someone else's IQ points… CLAW ATTACK!"

With that, he rolled forward. Sora's eyes widened before snapping to attention to block the attack, causing him to step one. However, in that one step back, he accidentally stepped on something that made him slip and fall on his rear. Sora winced in pain before looking up to see what he tripped on.

…For his eyes to light up when he saw a Pokeball right in front of him. Without thinking, he quickly grabbed it and threw it on the ground. In a flash of light, a brown-furred ram with green leaves around his neck and back appeared. Sora's eyes lit up even more before getting up.

"Oh, boy!" Sora cheered before leaping onto the goat. "Gogoat, use Horn Leech!"

The goat Pokemon let out a cry before rushing forward with Sora riding while holding onto their horns like handlebars on a motorbike. Agumon's eyes widened before diving to the side to avoid being rammed into. However, Sora pulled on Gogoat's horns, making him turn and go back towards Agumon. The Digimon then got up while narrowing his eyes.

"Pepper Breath!"

Sora and Gogoat's eyes widened in horror as Agumon spat out a fireball at the latter. Gogoat cried out in pain as part of his body burned before he started thrashing around. Sora was not expecting the goat to do so and vaulted off of it over the ropes while passing Potemkin. Normally, he would use his glide to go back but the time he realised what was going on, it was too late.

Agumon gave a bored look. "...Well, what do you expect when you come after me with a GRASS-type Pokemon?"

As Potemkin stared in shock, Pikachu smirked before leaping off of him before summoning a ball of electricity. Using his tail, he then swung it at the ball and sent it into Potemkin's back. Despite the ball not being that big, it was more than enough to send the giant flying over the ropes.

"And that was Pikachu's Electro Ball. For those who are uninitiated, Electro Ball's grow if the user's speed is higher than the opponent!" Tumble announced. "And considering that Potemkin is your standard Mighty Glacier, that Electro Ball was probably at full power!"

Agumon smirked. "Now THAT'S the Pikachu I know!"

The crowd cheered for the two as Pikachu looked back with a smirk.

In fact, they were so focused on the latest eliminations that they didn't notice Ell Blue joining Psycho Mantis and whispering in his ear.

Meanwhile, Potemkin landed in a field. Raising an unseen eyebrow, he looked around.

"Hmm… This place feels familiar." Potemkin mused.

"So much for trying to save you while you were still in the tournament."

Potemkin winced before looking in the direction of the voice to see Sora getting into a stance with a determined look on his face.

"At the very least maybe I could save you from being Xehanort's puppet any further." Sora said, sternly.

Potemkin sighed before he was about to get into a stance.

"Potemkin, is that you?"

The soldier and Sora's eyes widened before turning in the direction of the voice and when they did, the latter jumped. It was a young woman but she didn't look normal. She had blood red hair. She wore a white skimpy outfit with bandages and blood all over her. Furthermore, she had a key jammed through her head while carrying a giant golden key that had a face on it.

"A.B.A.! Paracelsus!" Potemkin said with wide eyes. "It is one thing to land in my own node but you meet up with one of my nodal companions that I haven't seen for a long while!"

"Indeed. And I never thought we would more or less come close to interacting with an UVR tournament." The giant key said (despite having their mouth stitched shut).

"Meh. If you are not invited, I don't want to be there." The redhead scoffed while speaking in a morose tone.

"...Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that if YOU are not invited seeing that it is YOUR name under the life bar?" Paracelsus asked.

Potemkin shook his head. "You two haven't changed a bit."

"Woah, woah, woah, WOAH!" Sora said, getting everyone's attention. "So you guys are his nodal companions?"

"Yes. What's your point?" A.B.A. asked.

"And his… Appearance didn't get a double-take from you?" Sora asked.

"It did. Once. But I got over it." A.B.A. said, matter-of-factly.

"Sure, we haven't seen work in a Guilty Gear game in a long while but even we know about Potemkin's redesign all of the way in 2014." Paracelsus explained.

Sora winced as Potemkin crossed his arms while glaring at the former.

"S-S-So he ISN'T a brainwashed slave?" Sora asked.

"...He is a soldier so technically…" A.B.A started.

"A.B.A." Paracelsus scolded.

Sora frowned before looking up at Potemkin with a sad look on his face. "Oh, wow… I don't know what to say except that I am really, really sorry…"

Potemkin let out a deep sigh. "...It is alright. I suppose I DO look like a Heartless and I suppose it is natural to be paranoid about Xehanort being here seeing that Psycho Mantis tried to hijack the tournament. That and I suppose what you are going to go through in the next ten minutes is punishment enough."

Sora was taken back. "H-Huh? What do you mean?"

"That key…"

Sora turned to see A.B.A dragging Paracelsus while looking at the former as if she was in a trance.

"...I want that key." A.B.A said, eyeing Sora's Keyblade

Sora was immediately taken back as he stepped back. "Y-Y-You can't have it!"

"But I want it…" A.B.A persisted.

"Boy, I strongly recommend that you retreat." Paracelsus warned.

Sora didn't even need to be told twice as he ran off. A.B.A ran after him. Potemkin just shook his head in hopelessness.

(Dome; Hallway)

Nine growled as she stood in front of a hallway while crossing her arms.

"The answer is right on the top of my tongue, I just know it." Nine muttered.

"Woah, she actually left the Announcer's Booth."

"As if we didn't need proof of how things are going down the shitter."

Nine's eyes widened before turning around to see everyone that was involved with the trial of Dingodile, Joe and Athena making their way.

Nine narrowed her eyes. "You're late!"

Jet returned the glare. "And you're dilly-dallying!"

"Yeah, why are you just standing here?" Isla nodded. "While we don't know the full cast, we at least know that Psycho Mantis and Ell Blue are in the electrician's office."

"...You really want to know?" Nine asked.

With that, she sent out a fireball into the hallway. Before everyone could ask what was going on, a fireball then flew from behind the group and into Cinder's back. Seeing that he was made of fire, it didn't hurt him but it still made him look back with wide eyes.

"What the hell!?" Cinder exclaimed.

"WHAT IS IT, CINDER?" ARIA asked.

"Some moron tried to sucker-punch me with a fireball!" The flaming man roared, looking around for the assailant.

"That 'moron' was ME." Nine muttered.

Athena's eyes widened at this. "H-Huh?"

"What? Are you saying that hallway is from a cartoon?" Naesala asked in disbelief.

"Looks like it. No matter how much I tried to reach the electrician's office, it just kept looping back." Nine muttered.

Kanji's eyes widened. "Did Psycho Mantis do this!?"

"A part of me WANTS to say duh but isn't his whole deal being that he is able to take over other people's minds?" Claude asked.

"Exactly. It seems that Xuan Dou Zhi Wang has another potential recruit other than Psycho Mantis and Ace." Nine muttered. "Because none of them are able to do it."

Kyo slumped his arms. "H-How the hell did THAT node of all nodes manage to get so many allies? Terry and Ace I could see. But Psycho Mantis and now a potential reality warper!?"

"All the more reason why they had to be stopped!" Carmelita exclaimed. "Nine, do you think that what is going on is some kind of spell?"

The witch shook her head. "I checked and it isn't any kind of magic."

"Great… Now what?" Ralf asked.

"Well, we at least know who the real culprits are. We just have to find at least one person in the Xuan Dou Zhi Wang and…" Mukai offered before cracking his knuckles. "...Persuade them to tell them how to get to the electrician's office."

"Especially since we got more than enough people to split up." Lloyd added. "We should cover the entire dome and hotel."

"Don't forget that not only that some of us are currently in the arena AND a good chunk of us still have to enter it, some of us are going to the Ready Room as we speak." Maxima reminded. "We just have to go check the Elimination Seating to see how they are doing."

"Well, let's go!" Nine urged. "Even Junko is more or less willing to let the Tournament of Kikai go all of the way to the end!"

With that, everyone nodded their heads before walking off. Meanwhile, Athena, Dingodile, Joe, Moe and Krizalid walked together.

"Hey, guys, how are you holding up?" Athena asked.

"Ah mean Ah am not cooped up in that interrogation room OR cage so Ah am not going ta pretend that things haven't improved." Dingodile muttered.

Athena frowned. "Still mad that you got roped into this."

"Of course Ah am mad! It is bad enough that Ah got accused of attempting to kill the host but at least Ah could say Ah was in the wrong place at the wrong time!" Dingodile insisted. "But when that copycat name-dropped me AND Joe, it almost made me wish that my flamethrower was mah main weapon!"

"You weren't exaggerating. You really blew up the instant that happened." Athena winced.

"Like from a pragmatic standpoint, Ah could see why they did it but as far as Ah know, they don't know that Joe was trying ta clear my name!" Dingodile snapped.

"Unfortunately, I admit that it made sssssense for me as well." Joe muttered, closing his eyes.

"Hm, what do you mean?" Moe asked.

"Well, we have confirmed that at least one Xuan Dou Zhi Wang ssssseen us, I don't think that they know that Athena was also trying to clear Dingodile'sssss name." Joe admitted.

Krizalid gave a stern look. "So even though they can't say for certain that you were getting closer to revealing them, they took the 'better safe than sorry' route."

Moe grunted in disgust. "Even Cortex is more honest with HISSSSS intentions."

"Well, Ah don't know how 'convenient' it is fer." Dingodile scoffed. "Ah wish ta kick their tails fer what they did fer us!"

"Tell me about it. It wasssss no fun running around a public place like it is a stealth mission." Joe muttered.

"Well, assuming that they are not all in the electrician's office, they are most likely doing the same right now." Athena offered.

Joe then had a dark smirk on his face. "Then, we ssssshould give them a taste of their medicine, eh!?"

Dingodile gave a big laugh. "Oh, hell yeah! The turnabout is fair play!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Moe grinned, putting a hand on Joe's shoulder. "Let'sssss show them how we felt about this whole thing."

Joe looked at Moe with a small smile and nodded. The three then walked on ahead. Athena smiled brightly while Krizalid just paused.

"Well, we have a lot of work to do but at least we know who the real culprits are." Athena noted.

"Indeed… It is kinda hard not to get inspired when I see Moe get so fired up over his brother..." Krizalid mused.

(Hotel; Bison's Room)

M. Bison gritted his teeth before flying wildly at Oume Goketsuji's despair clone. However, the elderly woman narrowed her eyes before leaping over Bison. Despite this, the dictator turned around and flew back to Oume. The latter just used her short size to duck underneath the attack. Oume then jumped up and headbutted Bison in the stomach.

The red-clad man's eyes bugged out before he sprawled across the floor with the wind knocked out of him. Groaning, he looked up. Only for them to bug out when he saw Oume fly into the air before doing a spinning dive kick with energy around her. But Bison vanished into purple energy, causing Oume to harmlessly kick the ground. Bison then reappeared a good distance away before kicking Oume away.

Despite Oume sprawling to the ground, she quickly flipped back onto her feet. Just in time to block a forward flip kick from Bison, albeit she ended up skidding back on her feet before crashing backfirst into a wall. Bison narrowed his eyes.

"Psycho Crusher!" Bison shouted, spiralling forward with Psycho Power around him. Oume quickly got up and kicked off of the wall, allowing Bison to crash into the wall. As the red-clad man laid against the wall stunned, Oume ran over and did a diving kick towards Bison. However, the latter recovered in time before raising his hands and summoning Psycho Energy around them to create a burst, knocking Oume away.

"Leave me the FUCK alone!" Bison roared before floating up.

Oume got up. "You really have a lot of gall to think you would be able to escape the consequences of your actions."

"A lot of things that answer could attest to but not here!" Bison snapped. "I NEVER at one point told you or your sister that you should form your own villain group!"

"Then why did you tell us that we had to dig a little deeper?" Oume asked.

"I only said that to get you off of my back!" Bison retorted. "I never wanted ANYTHING with you two!? YOU trapped me when I showed up in your estate and Otane didn't make things better! Why would I ever want to be NEAR you let alone having you to… Have my heir!?"

"Even after everything we did for you?" Oume asked.

"After everything we did…" Bison said in disbelief. "Whether you mean to or not, you took MOST of my allies, leaving me unable to do my plan. And it was my best plan yet. You have no idea how long I spent time on it, taking what I learned from previous failures at these tournaments and even how the likes of Xehanort and Junko failed. And researched everything about the nodes for any potential people to use and yet… And yet…"

With that, he gritted his teeth before clenching his fist. Then, black particles started to fly up from his body. However, Bison didn't even notice. Oume seemed to be noticed but didn't say or do anything. She just stared at Bison. Finally, the red-clad man glared at Oume.

"I don't care if what happened to me is karma for everything I did, you do NOT get to tell me that I am in the wrong when you didn't even bother ASKING me to take most of my allies!" Bison roared. "PSYCHO CRUSHER!"

With that, he spiralled towards Oume away while Psycho Power around her. But Oume just jumped to the side to avoid the attack. She then sent out a series of energy balls at Bison. However, the dictator recovered before swirling his arms around to use his Psycho Power to turn into a projectile deflector, sending them straight at Oume, striking her multiple times.

Bison then leapt up into the air before falling downwards before collapsing on top of Oume's back. The despair clone cried out in pain but Bison just crouched down and grabbed Oume by the hair before throwing her into the opposite wall. Bison then flew over and engulfed his fist in Psycho Power and punched Oume in the face. Bison then proceeded to punch the vertically-challenged woman multiple times.

"Everything was perfect! I had the potential resources!" Bison shouted before alternating punches. "The blueprints! The allies! But YOU! You and equally-infernal sister have to ruin EVERYTHING! Not even my enemies ruin things THIS mess! You humiliated me!"

With that, he continued his assault with his face full of anger and frustration. Oume wasn't able to have a chance to block or counter. Bison then pulled his fist back for one more punch.

Only for someone to grab his wrist. Before Bison could react, he felt someone grab him before throwing him to the ground. Despite the sneak attack, he immediately glared up with his pupil-less eyes.

Only for them to bug out when he noticed that it was… Him. Bison. However, just like Oume, this Bison was completely black with glowing yellow eyes. The shadow Bison stared down at the original before crouching down to Oume's level who looked like she was barely struggling to keep conscious.

"You deserved that." Despair!Bison said.

"So did you." Despair!Oume shot back.

"Well, I would argue that you deserved it more but in doing so, I would be distracting myself from the real enemy." Despair!Bison admitted.

Despair!Oume nodded her head. "...So you are already informed."

"Indeed. All of the humiliating losses I endured… The negative reception I built up over the years… Because of the UVR tournaments." Despair!Bison sighed.

"And because of said UVR tournaments, I have met you this led us to this whole mess." Despair!Oume nodded. "If Power Instinct weren't invited, we wouldn't endure such pain."

Despair!Bison paused. "...So, truce?"

Despair!Oume stared at Bison's hand for a moment before accepting it.

"Only until the real enemy is dealt with." Despair!Oume admitted.

"Of course. We can decide what to do afterwards." Despair!Bison nodded.

With that, he helped Despair!Oume up. The two then looked down at Bison who was looking up at them with pure bewilderment.

"I will not forgive you, Bison, but I acknowledge that you are just as much a victim as me." Despair!Oume said. "Even though you don't care, I will avenge the both of us AND my sister."

"I… I…" Bison sputtered.

"What in the…!?"

Bison, Despair!Bison and Despair!Oume's eyes bugged out before looking in the direction of the shout to see F.A.N.G. looking absolutely horrified and bewildered by what was going on.

"Ah, F.A.N.G. The dutiful subordinate as always." Despair!Bison admitted. "However, there is nothing you could do for me right now."

"Indeed. We already got what we came for." Despair!Oume nodded before looking at Despair!Bison. "Bison, let's go."

The bigger despair clones before crouching down and putting his arm around Despair!Oume. The two despair clones then surrounded with purple energy before vanishing out of the room before the original Bison and F.A.N.G. could do anything leaving the two Shadaloo people stunned.

"W-What's going on, Lord Bison…?" F.A.N.G. asked.

"I do not know…" The red-clad man admitted. He then narrowed his eyes. "What I DO know is this."

F.A.N.G. turned towards Bison. "Yes?

Bison then turned his attention back at F.A.N.G.

"...I am going back to bed."

F.A.N.G. blinked twice behind his sunglasses. "...Huh?"

"I am tired physically, mentally AND emotionally… You literally can't pay me enough to give a shit right now." Bison said.

"B-B-But whatever those shadowy clones are, they are ruining your good name!" F.A.N.G. frowned.

"Like it hasn't been ruined enough already." Bison muttered.

"B-But…"

"Look, I appreciate you checking up on you, but I just wanna rest." Bison sighed.

With that, he climbed back into bed as if nothing happened. F.A.N.G. just watched him with a slack jaw. He then shook his head with a frown.

"...This can't go on. I need help." F.A.N.G. said.

With that, he ran off leaving Bison's room to go somewhere. He was so focused on what was happening to his master that he didn't notice that he passed Ray and Panda who were standing behind a corner. Next to them was the despair extractor. However, it was definitely smaller to the point it could be handheld. They smirked before Panda picked up the machine. Ray then started to dial something on his phone. Soon, someone answered it.

"Bison's near-despair… Extracted."

(The Arena)

Charlie Nash and Megaman then started to skate around the arena using their rollerblades and hoverboots respectively. They then aimed their respective guns at each other and started to fire. Despite wincing from the bullet barrage from their respective opponents, though obviously Megaman felt it less due to him being a robot.

Because of this, he was quicker to recover and switch weapons before sending out a Metal Blade. However, Nash saw it coming and leapt over the projectile and when he landed on the ground, he charged up his gun before firing a large energy arrow at Megaman. However, the Blue Bomber summoned orbiting skulls around him to deflect the projectile back at Nash. But the blond man was moving too fast and was easily out of the way. Then, Nash skated towards Megaman.

"Flash Kick!" Nash shouted, doing a flip and kicking Megaman in the chin, sending the robot in the air before he crashed onto his back. Nash then skated over before climbing onto Megaman and proceeded to punch his face in. The latter just grunted in pain and annoyance before kicking Nash off of him. The ex-soldier winced as he held his stomach from the kick (after all, metallic legs tend to have painful kicks by default).

Megaman then got out and ran over before doing a sliding kick. However, Nash snapped out of his daze before dashing out of the way. He then aimed his gun at Megaman and continued to fire. The Blue Bomber then quickly summoned another barrier around him, this time it was pink petals with yellow spots. This protected him from the bullets while giving Megaman enough time to get up.

Nash narrowed his eyes. "You are still going strong after all of these years."

"Of course. Even though it's been a long while since Megaman 11, my series is still being kept alive, albeit of HD rereleases of my spinoffs and showing up in Super Smash Bros Ultimate." Megaman reminded. "Besides, the same could be seen for you."

Nash let out a sigh. "Indeed. I am actually impressed with myself after dying so many times."

Megaman frowned. "Oh, come now. You only died twice."

Nash gave Megaman a weird look. "...The fact that you think that is normal shows how much Sigma stagnates death for you. Also, dying twice? Sure, CANONICALLY."

Megaman shook his head before aiming his arm cannon and shooting out an icy projectile. However, Nash easily skated around the attack before moving towards Megaman. However, the robot did a jumping uppercut to Nash's chin, knocking the blond man in the air. Megaman then skated underneath Nash before summoning a fan underneath him which created a tornado that sent both him and Nash further up in the air.

While still in the air, Megaman aimed his Mega Buster and started to charge up his Mega Buster. However, Nash self-righted himself in midair before charging up his gun. The two then sent their projectiles at each other, causing the two to clash. They then landed on the ground before Nash staggered over before doing a series of punches and kicks to Megaman, forcing the Blue Bomber to block. Nash then crouched down.

"FLASH KICK!"

With that, he did a somersault kick to Megaman's chin. Or it would if the attack connected. Nash ended up missing and flipping in the air, hitting nothing. Megaman then smirked before aiming his Mega Buster and shot out a purple bubble with some kind of device all of it before floating up to Nash while he was still in the air.

BOOM!

After taking the Danger Wrap head on, Nash was sent flying backwards and way over the ropes with no hope of return.

Nash landed in Captain America where he and the Winter Soldier talked about their respective deaths and rebirths.

Hayate narrowed his eyes before placing one hand on his sheathed katana as a blur of purple and blue encircled him. Suddenly, a black and green blur lashed at him from the side. Acting quickly, Hayate took his katana out of the incoming attack and slashed it away. Soon, the blur stopped revealing that it was Kid Cobra before shaking his Slamamander in pain.

Hayate then rushed over to Kid Cobra and swung his katana horizontally but not only did the snakeboarder was able to leap over Hayate's charge but also kicked him in the back, causing him to stagger forward. Kid Cobra then swung around and smacked Hayate in the back of the head, resulting in a burst of wind which sent Hayate sprawling to the ground. Kid Cobra then sent out his Hydra, a Multi-Shot fire-elemental ARM forward.

However, Hayate snapped out of his daze before scampering to avoid the three-part attack and its incoming explosion. Kid Cobra then sent out his Slamamander again but Hayate ran to the side to avoid it. Kid Cobra then started to charge up but Hayate knew that was a bad idea to let him do that and dashed over.

But Kid Cobra broke out of his guard and moved in a snake-like motion to do a breakdance, kicking Hayate in the face twice. With Hayate staggered back, Kid Cobra flipped back onto his feet and did a headbutt with his helmet but Hayate snapped out of his daze in time to hold up his hand and managed to parry the incoming headbutt.

"Jyouwankei!" Hayate shouted, engulfing his fist in multi-coloured energy and punching Kid Cobra in the face, knocking him down onto his back. Hayate then did an axe kick onto Kid Cobra but the livestreamer sent out one of his ARMS towards the ropes to grab it and pull him out of harm's way.

"Jeez, for sssssomeone who doesn't have a single projectile or mobility option, you are tricky to fight with." Kid Cobra mused.

"Hey, Dhalsim was one of the veteran characters in the Street Fighter EX series." Hayate recalled with a smirk. "The way I see it, you ARMS fighters are literally just him but in a different flavour."

"But you told me that you are NOT the original Hayate from the EX games!" Kid Cobra shot back. "You probably never even met Dhalsim let alone fought him!"

Hayate paused for a moment. He then shrugged. "Meh."

Kid Cobra hissed through his helmet before looking around. The moment he noticed Jake Long getting ready to throw a Pokeball. Acting quickly, he lashed out his ARMS before grabbing the Pokeball right out of Jake's hand before retreating it back to him. Jake blinked three times before looking back to see what happened to his Pokeball.

"Hey! NOT cool!" Jake roared.

"Sorry! Survival of the SSSSSwiftest!" Kid Cobra shrugged with an unseen smirk.

With that, he threw his Pokeball on the ground which released the Pokemon in a flash of light. Everyone looked in awe.

…Only to see a tall coconut tree with said coconuts having dopey-looking faces on them. Everyone blinked twice as Kid Cobra released an Alolan Exeggutor.

"...Suddenly, I am not mad anymore that my Pokeball was stolen from me." Jake admitted.

"Yeah, we would never let you hear the end that the Pokemon the American Dragon released is arguably the most UNdragon Dragon-type of all time." Danny added.

Kid Cobra frowned behind his helmet before turning to see Hayate to see him snickering.

"...Okay, this isn't the subscriber magnet I was hoping for but I think I could make it work." Kid Cobra admitted.

With that, he lashed out his Slamamander at Alolan Exeggutor's neck and used it as a grappling hook to latch onto near the Pokemon head. Kid Cobra then sent out his Hydra forward. Hayate's smirk vanished as he ran off. Until the last time, while he was able to run out of the Hydra's attack, he was unable to avoid the explosion and sent him flying away, crashing onto his back.

Kid Cobra then sent out his Slamamander towards the downed Hayate but the swordsman rolled to the side. However, the burst of wind sent Hayate sprawling away further. The latter groaned before looking up.

"Could Dhalsim do THAT!?" Kid Cobra taunted.

Hayate blinked twice. "Technically, he CAN see that he could levitate."

Kid Cobra growled through his helmet. "Go on, make all the smart alec remarks you want. As I have the high ground."

Hayate winced, knowing that Kid Cobra was right. While the former had faced aerial fighters before, he never faced someone who had a high place. Suddenly, his eyes widened in realisation.

"Alright, as long as you got the upper hand, let's see if you use everything you got on me!" Hayate taunted.

"Ha! Gladly!" Kid Cobra boasted.

With that, he switched his Slamamander for his Coolerang before launching it at Hayate. The swordsman narrowed his eyes before raising his sword to deflect the Coolerang and right into Alolan Exeggutor's leg.

Suddenly, Alolan Exeggutor reacted as if in extreme pain. Kid Cobra's eyes bugged before holding onto his neck for dear life.

"Hisenzan!" Hayate shouted, doing a rolling slash and moving him upwards. He then latched onto the bottom of Alolan Exeggutor's neck before quickly scampering up it. He then grabbed Kid Cobra's Coolerang ARM before moving down while wrapping said ARM around Alolan Exeggutor's neck.

This made the strange Dragon-type to recoil in pain before bucking around like a wild horse. Hayate flew onto the ground. Kid Cobra on the other hand was stuck due to his Coolerang ARM being wrapped around Alolan Exeggutor's neck.

The Pokemon continued to thrash around wildly. Soon, they ended up thrashing towards the ropes. They then tripped over the ropes before falling into the portal. Just like with the Chain Chomp and elephant in the ice circus section, the Alolan Exeggutor simply turned back into stardust. Kid Cobra on the other hand wasn't as lucky. Hayate smirked as his opponent vanished into his portal.

"Gotta have those 4x weaknesses." Hayate chuckled.

Kid Cobra landed in Tekken where he had a short collaboration with Julia.

Scooby Doo proceeded to throw pies after pies forward. But Hodan just gave a big grin before using his bath towel to block the incoming projectiles. However, Snoopy flew behind Hodan and smacked him in the back of his head with his tennis racket. As the ape staggered forward, Scooby ran over before using his umbrella as a fencing foil, smacking Hodan in the face before kneeing him in the stomach.

However, Hodan countered with a headbutt which sent Scooby staggering back. Normally, he would continue the assault but he turned around while whipping his towel at Snoopy. The beagle yelped before raising his tennis racket to block it but when he technically guarded against it, the racket still smacked against Snoopy's nose, causing him to stagger back.

Hodan looked back to narrowly raise his towel to block a downwards swing from Scooby's shovel. The former then swung his leg but Scooby jumped back to avoid the attack. Hodan then swung his towel and sent out a swirling projectile of steam forward. At first, Scooby raised his shovel in an attempt to block but instead the steam swirl stopped before changing form into Hodan. The organic Hodan smirked before doing a dropkick but again, Scooby thought quickly to block it. However, Scooby ended up skidding back on his feet.

"W-What the!?" Scooby exclaimed. "I knew that ape was strong but that last attack was stronger than before!"

Hodan just heartily laughed. "Surprised? I am a charge character."

Snoopy blinked twice. "Um, what is that?"

"Wait, I think Velma told me before I came here." Scooby explained. "Long story short, if he gets to 'charge' he could either do his special attacks or in this case, make them stronger."

Snoopy narrowed his eyes. "Then, we'll make sure that we don't have a chance to 'charge'."

"...I was afraid you would say that." Scooby muttered.

With that, they both ran forward towards Hodan. The elementalist just laughed before rolling forward. However, Snoopy flew upwards to avoid it while Scooby ran to the side. Snoopy then put on his Masked Marvel mask before punching downwards onto Hodan. Despite the huge difference, this broke the latter out of his roll and knocked him onto the ground.

Scooby then leapt onto Hodan's back while he was down but the ape just got back up and ran to buck around as if he was a wild horse. Scooby shrieked before trying to hold on for dear life. Snoopy narrowed his eyes before going to fly forward.

Suddenly, his eyes bugged out. He then stopped whirling his ears around before collapsing on his stomach and making Scooby and Hodan stop their struggling to look at him.

"Um, Snoopy?" Scooby asked in concern.

"Are you alright?" Hodan asked.

Snoopy didn't say anything. He just started to hold his head in pain. Several fighters stopped what they were doing, wondering what was going on. Scooby frowned before going over to Snoopy.

"S-Snoopy?" Scooby asked.

Suddenly, Snoopy whirled his ears together before flying off, startling Scooby. The beagle then flew over to Pikachu and Agumon and whacked them in the face with his tennis racket, knocking them down. The two groaned before looking.

"O-Ow. What the?" Pikachu asked.

"I am disrespecting your fight!"

Pikachu looked up to see Snoopy with a deranged look on his face.

"That's right, motherfucker! I am disrespecting your fight!" Snoopy taunted. "What are you going to do about it!?"

Pikachu, along with Scooby and Donkey watched with wide eyes and slack eyes. Snoopy then proceeded to hop from left to right like moving like a gorilla.

"I am not respecting your fight, bitches!" Snoopy taunted. "And I have the bitch pass being a dog!"

Pikachu and Agumon both paused before looking at each other with bewildered looks on their faces. They then looked up, jumping in time to duck underneath a swing from Snoopy's racket.

"Aww, am I pissing you off!? Am I trampling all over your rivalry!" Snoopy sneered as he frantically swung his racket at the two.

"C-Calm down! We don't want to hurt you!" Agumon pleaded.

"Well, I want to hurt YOU, physically AND mentally!" Snoopy taunted.

With that, he continued to swing his racket at Pikachu and Agumon, forcing them to block the incoming assault. It was not like they were able to strike but it was more like they didn't want to hurt Snoopy. Unfortunately, while blocking, Pikachu opened one eye at Snoopy.

…Only not to see Snoopy but rather Pichu carrying his racket with a furious look on his face. Pikachu's eyes bugged out.

"CHUUUUUUUU!"

Out of instinct, Pikachu sent out a bolt of electricity which not only hit Snoopy but sent him flying backwards towards the ropes which he tumbled out of them.

Snoopy landed in Klonoa where due to being out of range out of Psycho Mantis' mind control, he fell unconscious. Unknown to him, a certain purple-clad feline stood over him with wide eyes. He then gave a dark smirk.

As Pikachu panted heavily, everyone stared with wide eyes and slack jaws. Then, they ALL glared up at a certain screen.

Ell Blue was flipping through a phone while Psycho Mantis was playing a Nintendo Switch. They then raised their heads to notice everyone glaring at them.

"...What? We were bored." Psycho Mantis shrugged.

Immediately, everyone started to boo the two and by extension the rest of Xuan Dou Zhi Wang.

"What!? Have you forgotten that this is a Junko-esque takeover!" Ell Blue scolded.

"Not even Junko directly interfered with the fights!" Megaman scolded. "She even removed the wheel penalties of Donald Duck when she found out that Xero had been rigging the wheel against him!"

"...I am STILL in awe that JUNKO was the most responsible one in that scenario." Cloud muttered.

"Well, that is her and this is ME." Psycho Mantis taunted, crossing his arms.

"...Me as in Psycho Mantis?"

Everyone paused before looking in the direction of the Announcer's Booth to see Drake and Ashley glaring at Psycho Mantis and Ell Blue.

"...What?" Psycho Mantis asked.

"You know what I mean. Are you TRULY Psycho Mantis?" Drake asked.

Everyone's eyes bugged out before looking at each other while talking.

"Wait, you mean he ISN'T Psycho Mantis?" Jake asked in disbelief.

Cloud put his hand on his chin. "...Now that I think about it, his attitude and mannerisms are different from the time that Psycho Mantis was in the Tournament of Kikai."

"Seriously, it took until someone spelling it for everyone to realise that." Adachi said, rolling his eyes. "I do NOT recall Psycho Mantis talking like a high-school bully."

Donkey narrowed his eyes. "Alright, Ace. Take off that stupid gas mask! We know the truth!"

"Now hold on!" Wave piped up. "Ace may be a Ditto Fighter but he can't copy taking over someone's mind."

"Yeah, what's the truth?" Hayate asked.

With that, everyone glared at Psycho Mantis. The psychic paused before crossing his arms.

(Announcer's Booth)

"...I don't think they are going to reveal Psycho Mantis' true identity." Ashley frowned.

Drake gave a dark look. "...They really wanted to mess with us, huh?"

"There's that… Or maybe they know that doing their identity would be their Kryptonite."

Drake and Ashley turned around to see Snake, Rosalina & Luma, Wade and Wolfrun.

"...Huh? Kryptonite?" Wade asked.

"Yes, if we find out what exactly 'Psycho Mantis' true identity is, it would narrow down how to reach them." Rosalina explained.

"Really? Why is that?" Ashley asked.

"Well, are you aware of the Wrap Around trope?" Snake asked.

"You mean that video game mechanic where you go off-screen on one side and reappear on the other side like the Mario Bros game?" Ashley asked.

"That's right. The hallway leading here seems to loop whenever they try to approach this place." Rosalina explained.

Ashley's eyes widened at this. "Wait… Really? Sooo did Psycho Mantis do this? Or whoever is trying to disguise himself as Psycho Mantis?"

"If that is the case, how do you guys reach the Announcer's Booth?" Drake asked.

"Easy!" Wade grinned, holding up his Star Piece. "For some reason, this shiny rock is able to get us over here without wrapping us around!"

"Really? Wait, is that a Star Piece?" Ashley asked.

"Yes, it is clear that whoever is disguising as Psycho Mantis is weak or at least have their powers less effective against them." Rosalina explained.

"T-T-That's great!" Ashley beamed. He then frowned. "But how are you going to narrow down the culprit with just that info?"

"I admit that I do not know." Rosalina lamented. "Star power could be quite vague. It could count as another form of hope so it is anti-despair OR it could be seen as light so it is anti-dark. OR the true identity of Psycho Mantis is space-based."

"...Doesn't matter."

Everyone looked at Drake who had a dark look on his face.

"...All that matters is you found a way to reach Xuan Dou Zhi Wang." Drake scolded. "As far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter who or what Psycho Mantis is as long as you take that jackass now."

Wade, Wolfrun and Luma shuddered at this, Snake frowned, Ashley looked at Drake in concern and Rosalina just had a neutral look on her face.

"...Understood. We will see what we can do." Rosalina said.

"...Thank you." Drake said.

"...Wow, you are really pissed, aren't you?" Snake asked.

Drake glared at Snake. "What kind of dumbass answer is that!? The fighter with the least amount of fighting experience in the entire tournament had been used as a puppet to attack someone who is currently going through some PTSD on MY watch and you THINK that I am pissed!"

The mercenary winced. "...That's."

"If you have time to ask stupid questions, you have time to investigations and fuck off and get to work!" Drake roared.

With that, he turned towards the arena to see how everyone was recovering. Everyone felt uncomfortable with Luma hiding behind Rosalina.

"...I think we should go." Rosalina frowned.

"Wait!"

Everyone looked at Wolfrun who was rubbing his arms.

"...Xuan Dou Zhi Wang's main goal is to get revenge on Drake for not inviting him so he is their main target right?" Wolfrun asked. "So maybe we should leave the Star Piece with HIM."

Wade's eyes lit up at this. "That is a great idea! Whoever that fake psychic is wouldn't be able to use their powers on the Announcer's Booth!"

"W-Wait, but don't you need it to combat Xuan Dou Zhi Wang?" Ashley asked.

"I mean… We have Rosalina, maybe she could use the same power as the Star Piece to oppose the fake Psycho Mantis." Wolfrun suggested.

"I mean I could give it a shot but even now, I am still confused by why that particular Star Piece has so much power." Rosalina frowned.

Then, her uncovered eye widened.

"...But we CAN get a new Star Piece." Rosalina said in realisation.

Snake's eyes widened. "We can?"

"Yes. We just need to return to the Eliminated Seating." Rosalina offered. She then looked at Wade. "So I think it is safe for you to give the Star Piece to them."

"Aight!" The Southern man said.

With that, he walked over to Ashley and handed him the Star Piece. The latter paused before accepting it.

"Thanks…" Ashley said.

"It is more than alright! We don't want you two to be hurt, right, Wolfrun!" Wade grinned, looking at the wolf.

"H-Huh?" Wolfrun jumped before looking away while scratching his now blushing cheek. "...No, we don't."

"Well, you heard that vampire. We wasted enough time talking. Come on." Snake urged.

Everyone nodded before they left, leaving the two hosts. Ashley then glared at Drake.

"...I know that you are going through a rough time but that was no reason to lash out at Snake like that." Ashley scolded.

"I just wanted them to stop wasting time and start focusing on stopping Xuan Dou Zhi Wang spat before anyone else ended up like Snoopy." Drake said without taking his eyes off of the arena.

Ashley frowned before looking at the Star Piece in his hand.

(The Arena)

Hodan frowned as he watched Scooby Doo pace around the arena shifting between anger and sadness.

"Of all the deceitful, cruel, bullying… Snoopy did NOT go halfway across the multiverse to be seen as a pawn for some petty revenge!" Scooby grumbled. "He didn't deserve this!"

"Indeed. What a tragic end to an impressive run." Hodan lamented.

"I really wish Mystery Inc was here. They would solve who is really Psycho Mantis and help speed up taking them and Xuan Dou Zhi Wang down." Scooby muttered.

"Oof, you must really want to avenge your friend to want to try to solve a mystery WILLINGLY." Hodan winced. He then sighed. "But if you really wanted to stick it to the haters as they say, we should continue our fight because stopping the tournament is what they want."

Scooby let out a deep sigh. "Fine… Give me a sec to get ready."

Hodan nodded his head before Scooby slapped his cheeks together. He then got out his shovel and ran forward. Hodan raised his bath towel to block the incoming strike from the weapon. Scooby continued to swing his shovel but Hodan kept blocking with his towel (despite breaking all sorts of weapon logic). The ape then jumped back and whipped his towel at Scooby's hind legs.

However, Scooby leapt over the attack before doing a spin kick to Hodan's face, causing him to stagger away. Scooby then ran forward to continue the assault but Hodan managed to recover and kick Scooby in the stomach. As the Great Dane staggered back, Hodan started to "charge" up, emitting from his body. He then ran over to do a punch forward.

But Scooby quickly put on his spring "shoes" and leapt up high into the air and dodging Hodan's punch. Scooby then went to do another belly bomb just like he did with Landis. However, unlike the Winger, Hodan saw it coming and grinned before grabbing Scooby out of the air before pile-driving him into the ground.

While Scooby laid on the ground, Hodan stood up before getting ready to do an elbow drop. However, his eyes bugged out when he noticed a Pokeball right next to him. With his eyes lighting up, he ran over to grab it. By the time Scooby snapped out of his daze, Hodan threw it on the ground and released whoever was inside.

"Swirlix!"

The Pokemon was a floating, small piece of white cotton candy with a clumsy look on their face. They then released a pink mist around itself. …And nothing else. Scooby and Hodan blinked twice.

"...Looks like you got a dud." Scooby noted.

Suddenly, a glint appeared in Hodan's eye.

"Oh, did I?"

With that, he lashed out his towel at Swirlix which wrapped around the Pokemon. He then pulled his unorthodox weapon back before swinging it forward, sending Swirlix forward. Despite that, Swirlix was releasing the mist as they fell near Scooby. Before the brown-furred dog could do anything, he felt his body being slowed down because of said mist.

Scooby's eyes bugged out before looking at Hodan (slowly, of course) to see the latter with a big grin on his face. Then, steam appeared over Hodan before rolling forward while Scooby was still slowed down.

BAM!

After being hit head-on by the weight of a rolling ape, Scooby was sent flying backwards before going over the ropes and into the elimination portal. Hodan chuckled as he dusted his hands together.

"As much as people don't want to follow the example of that ex-cop, he still demonstrated that there is a big difference between Super Smash Bros and an UVR tournament." Hodan noted.

Scooby landed in a familiar location. He sat up while rubbing his head as the patrons looked with wide eyes.

"Mama mia… " Scooby muttered.

"Uncle Scooby!?"

The Great Dane's eyes widened before turning around. Only to be tackled-hugged by his nephew.

"Well I'll be!" Fred said in awe before smirking. "Scooby is one of the few that actually had his own node as an elimination node."

"I thought for sure he would show up in a scary node." Velma noted. "That's how people are easily frightened as he end up."

"Don't spook him, Velma!" Shaggy scolded. He then looked at Scooby with a smile. "Hey, you did great, Scooby!"

"Yeah, better than me!" Daphne noted. "I must admit that we were all worried for you!"

"Well, YOU are but I never had any doubt in my Uncle Scooby!" Scrappy offered.

The older dog blinked twice. "Wait… I did."

"Of course. Sure, you had a couple of clumsy eliminations like with that poisonous assassin and the bearish principal." Fred admitted. "But the rest of your run was simply phenomenal."

"It seems that your martial arts haven't dulled since the Samurai Sword movie." Daphne said.

"And you made good use of your weapons from the various games we had!" Fred nodded.

"You even managed to weaponize one of our biggest memes despite Fred and I not being there!" Shaggy concluded.

Velma rolled her eyes. "Of course you would focus on that the meme."

"All in all, you have shown Warner Brothers, scratch that, the entire multiverse that if Multiversus ever return, you should be in the roster!" Scrappy nodded.

Scooby's eyes widened at this. "Y-You really mean that?"

"Of course. I mean, Jenkins, you are SCOOBY DOO. It would be blasphemy to have something Scooby Doo-related without you." Velma offered.

"I genuinely don't believe that they had ANY plans to leave you out." Shaggy nodded.

Scooby paused before looking around at his friends where they were all smiling at him. Scooby smiled back.

"Guys, thanks…"

"It is more than alright, Uncle Scooby!" Scrappy nodded. "You've already done more than enough."

With that, Mystery Inc got into a warm group hug, celebrating Scooby's elimination streak.

"...So are we just going to pretend that I don't notice the destroyed property outside of this Malt Shop?" Scooby asked, not breaking from the group hug.

"Shh…" Velma gently said.

(The Arena)

Normally, when you think of a duel between wielders of giant swords, you would think that they would be more ground-based and not air-based. However, Cloud Strife and Es are demonstrating this leaping high into the air and clashing their respective swords with each other. They then glared into each other's eyes. …Well, Cloud did. Es just gave her usual emotionless stare.

The two flew away from each other before Cloud swung his sword and sent a wave of green energy forward but Es also swung her own sword in a similar motion, using her Crests to send a similar-shaped wave forward. The two projectiles then clashed with each other. Cloud scoffed before landing on his feet and rushing forward. Es merely raised her sword to block the incoming slash.

Cloud and Es then got into a power struggle, trying to gain ground. Cloud gritted his teeth in determination before managing to find himself pushing Es forward. However, the gate guardian flew herself onto her back, using Cloud's momentum to stumble forward and trip over her. Es then got up and slammed Cloud by his leg with her free hand before slamming him against the floor.

Es then proceeded to do this several times, making Cloud grunt in pain before Es let go of her opponent to let him sprawl on the ground. Cloud groaned before growling and spinning his sword at Es' feet but the young-looking woman leapt over the attack. However, this gave Cloud enough time to get up.

"You are stronger than I look." Cloud noted, glaring at Es.

"I have received that statement a lot." The gate guardian admitted. "However, it isn't about me being strong but rather YOU letting your anger get the better of you."

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

"You have been fighting with anger this entire time and while I do not know the source of it, I DO know that it is affecting your actions." Es explained.

"I am NOT jealous!" Cloud snapped.

Es tilted her head to the side. "...While anger and envy DO go well together, I fail to see how you would mix the two in this situation."

Cloud's eyes widened, realising he had inadvertently shown his weakness. He then ran growled before swinging his sword upwards and sending a green wave forward. Es then slashed at the projectile, negating it. However, Cloud ran over to a Pokeball and threw it down.

Out of the Pokeball came out a small cute cream in an egg shell with red and blue shapes on it. Cloud then smirked while Es got into a defensive stance.

"This could be dangerous." Es noted.

"VERY dangerous." Cloud smirked. "Togepi, use Metronome!"

The egg Pokemon happily chirped before his hands to go left and right like a metronome. Everyone watched with bated anticipation, knowing how unpredictable Metronome is. Togepi's hands then turned blue. It was the moment of truth.

Suddenly, the black smoke surrounded the arena, startling everyone.

"Hey, nice one, PM." Ell Blue smirked.

"Um, I didn't do that." "Psycho Mantis" corrected.

Tumble frowned. "Um, Togepi is using one of their five possible outcomes, Smokescreen. Which obscures the entire screen for ALL players."

"Typical that I would get the outcome that affects everyone, even the user." Cloud thought with a frown. He then shrugged.. "Well, at least she doesn't have the advantage any…"

Before he could finish his train of thought, a broadsword came from Cloud's front and knocked him to the ground. He groaned before growling.

"You have GOT to be kidding me…" Cloud muttered.

He then saw a flash of light going downwards towards him. Cloud's eyes widened before raising his sword to block the incoming slash. Es then did another swing before Cloud again blocked it. The ex-soldier then spun around with his leg outstretching and managed to sweep Es off of her feet. Cloud then raised his free hand and summoned a flame on it to give him more light.

Cloud saw Es rushing forward. The former leapt before raising his sword to block the incoming slash before using his other hand to send the flame right into Es' face. As the gate guardian staggered back, Cloud ran forward before doing a series of slashes to Es before ending with an upwards slash that sent Es into the air. Cloud then leapt up after her.

However, Es self-righted herself in the air before raising her sword to block the attack before rolling forward to slash Cloud and knock him onto the ground. Es then swung downwards with her sword while Cloud was downed.

However, she didn't notice a green glow around Cloud.

"FINISHING TOUCH!"

Cloud then swung his sword, creating a green whirlwind around him and sending Es flying backwards. Cloud then got up to his feet.

"Man, I am so glad that Sakurai let us use Limit Breaks." Cloud said, taking a deep breath.

Then, the smokescreen cleared up. Cloud immediately got into a stance, getting ready to face Es.

…Only to see that Es was nowhere in sight. Cloud blinked twice before looking around in confusion.

"Um, you all may want to look at the Instant Replay." Tumble said.

Cloud raised an eyebrow before looking up at the screen which showed what happened with him and Es. When the latter was knocked away from Cloud's Finishing Touch, Es still managed to self-right herself in midair before landing on her feet. …Or if that would be the case if she landed on the canvas. She instead fell right into the elimination portal.

Es landed in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise where she had pudding with Marty.

Cloud blinked twice before frowning while tapping his Buster Sword against his shoulder.

"...Well, THAT is anti-climatic." Cloud admitted. He then smirked. "But at least I showed her that nothing will face off against the Buster Sword."

Wario kicked the ground like a bull before charging forward shoulder-first. However, Samus saw the attack coming from a mile away and did her rolling jump over the attack before firing an uncharged shot into Wario's back, knocking him down. Despite this, the yellow-clad man easily jumped back to his feet before turning around and trying again. Samus just shot a missile at Wario.

But Wario ran to the side and continued running towards Samus. However, the bounty hunter lashed out her grappling beam at Wario to grab him and slammed the company CEO onto the ground. Samus then aimed her arm cannon at the downed Wario but the latter spun around when Samus fired some shots at him. Wario then jumped up to his feet and… Took off his hat.

He then put on a different cap that looked like a cartoon's dragon head. Then, flames came out of Wario's nostrils and shot a fiery stream at Samus. But the armoured woman just raised her arms while engulfing herself in a white light just as the stream. Then, a missile flew out of the fire and towards Wario, exploding in his face and sending him flying backwards.

Wario groaned before looking up to see Samus in a different Varia suit. Wario just scoffed before sending out a fireball at Samus. But it merely bounced off of it, showing that it was fireproof. Samus then ran forward before aiming her arm cannon and using her flamethrower onto Wario, catching him on fire. The yellow-clad man cried in pain before running back and forth like a madman. After a few seconds, he stopped before patting himself all over and killing the flames.

Suddenly, he grinned. "Yeah, keep-a giving me everything you got!"

Samus raised an eyebrow behind her helmet. "You seem even more eager to fight than usual!"

"Of course! Those Xuan Dou Zhi Whateve-a punks stole MY garlic!" Wario exclaimed.

"...Once again, your priorities are on-point as always." Samus muttered.

Wario ignored Samus as he continued. "I want to make-a them wish that they were never born but at the same time, fake or not, that Psycho Mantis is definitely-a threat so I need to stay in the arena as long as possible to train."

"That's… Not a bad train of thought." Samus mused. "At least for YOU, anyway."

"So come on, Sammy!" Wario urged, slapping his hands together. "Hit me with every weapon you got! If-a I take it, I could take on anything!"

Samus merely shrugged her shoulders. "Your funeral."

With that, she ran forward. However, she ended up doing so at an alarming rate, startling Wario. Using her Speed Booster, Samus did a clothesline to Wario which sent him flying backwards. Samus then aimed her cannon and fired several plasma shots into Wario, striking him multiple times. As the company CEO collapsed on his back, Samus continued the assault.

However, Samus continued the assault of projectiles, causing Wario to grunt in pain. He then managed to get up and got out on his motorbike out of nowhere to ride off. However, Samus just aimed and fired a missile at Wario. The yellow-clad man looked up to see the missile homing in on him. He narrowed his eyes before he continued to speed up.

Then, Samus smirked behind her helmet before firing another missile. This time, on the ground Wario was about to ride over. This resulted in a patch of ice appearing. As if you expect anything else, Wario's bike slipped on the patch of ice, causing him to struggle to keep his balance. This gave the homing missile enough time to fly into Wario's motorbike.

BOOM!

The homing missile exploded which sent the motorbike flying around with different parts with Wario collapsing on his face. He groaned before propping himself on his hands. Samus continued to smirk.

"Pokeball, go!"

Samus' smirk vanished as she saw Wario throw a Pokeball forward. Then, it opened up to reveal the Pokemon. This resulted in a large cheer from the men. It was a green and white graceful-looking feminine humanoid.

"Gardevoir."

With her gentle voice, the Pokemon summoned a round barrier around her. Wario and Samus both know that Gardevoir used Reflect, while normally it just raises the defence for all Pokemon on the ally's side, in Super Smash Bros, it deflects projectiles. Which makes it difficult for a zoner like Samus.

However, at the same time, Gardevoir could only walk around slowly so it was easy to get around. Not helping was that while Gardevoir could reflect projectiles, she can't block physical attacks. Sooo…

"Giddy up!"

"Gardevoir!?"

Samus was taken back, Wario then ran over to Gardevoir, grabbed her and carried her onto the shoulders. Wario then smirked before running forward while still carrying Gardevoir and with one hand holding onto the Pokemon, he sent the fist of his free arm out. However, while startled by Wario's action, Samus still managed to jump back out of Wario's punch.

The yellow-clad man just continued the assault with another punch but Samus turned into her Morph Ball before rolling underneath the attack. Samus then broke out of the ball to do an uppercut to Wario's chin. However, even with Samus' armour, Wario was just sent staggering back. Despite this, Samus latched out her grappling beam at Gardevoir to grab them from Wario.

However, Wario grabbed Samus' grapple beam before it could reach Gardevoir. The former smirked before throwing Gardevoir high into the air, making the poor Pokemon scream the entire time. Wario then pulled on Samus' grapple beam towards her (and wisely avoided saying a certain catchphrase). He then grabbed Samus before doing a couple of power bombs on her. He then swung around and sent her flying away. He then managed to catch the stunned Gardevoir when she came back down.

"Thanks for-a the warm-up, Samus, but I think I should focus on other opponents." Wario sneered as he watched Samus plop herself on her hands and knees. "You and the others better get a lot done out of the arena."

With that, he ran forward, doing his shoulder-barge. However, unlike with the last times, Samus wasn't able to react in time and despite having an extra unwilling passenger, Wario rammed into her, sending her flying over the ropes.

Samus landed in Baraduke where she teamed up with Toby "Kissy" Masuyo to take down hordes of Octy.

Wario laughed heartily before putting down Gardevoir. "Hey, thanks, lady!"

The Pokemon cast Wario with a death glare. "I am a MALE! Why do people forget that there is an equal chance of me being that instead of female!"

With that, he vanished. However, Wario didn't even notice as he continued to celebrate. He then looked to see who was left. Danny, Jake and June temporarily formed a truce to take a break, same with Pikachu and Agumon, though the break was more mental. Cloud cleaned his Buster Sword vigorously with a cloth while Megaman looked at his Mega Buster, wondering which weapon to use next. Hayate sat against a corner post, getting back his energy while Adachi did the same, he looked more relaxed. Wave did some last-minute checks on her Extreme Gear while Hodan sat in a Lotus position. Finally, Donkey looked around with wide eyes. He then grinned.

"Hey, I am officially on the same level as an UVR champion!" Donkey grinned.

Everyone turned towards Donkey with confused looks before looking at each other. However, upon doing so, their eyes widened in realisation.

"Well, what do you know?" Hodan noted before smiling. "Besides Donkey and Pikachu, nearly everyone else outlasted so many survivors of the last section."

"And it is not like we had an easy run!" Hayate added with a smirk. "This section had Spongebob Squarepants, Link, Sora and Samus Aran."

"We even outlasted the darkhorse alliance of Snoopy, Garfield and Scooby!" June added.

"Ha! If this doesn't show that I am a threat, I don't know what will!" Wave smirked.

Everyone then got engulfed in the Millennium Star's aura before it surrounded the entire audience. Then, the star platforms appeared underneath the fighters. Then, they dropped in the following order: Hodan, Hayate, Donkey, Wave, Cloud, Adachi, June, Megaman, Jake, Wario and Danny leaving Pikachu and Agumon.

"Hey, this is the closest a Digimon has ever been to being the Superstar." Agumon said with a smirk.

Pikachu smiled and nodded.

Then, the last platform fell off. Everyone's eyes bugged out at this.

"We have a first, ladies and gentlemen!" Drake said from the Announcer's Booth. "The Superstar of this section… Is actually the Superstar of the PREVIOUS section."

Pikachu's eyes widened as the Millennium Star floated towards him.

"Congratulations, Pikachu! You are the Superstar… Again!" The Millennium Star beamed.

The mouse was taken back as the entire audience cheered for him. He looked around for a moment. He then looked down at Agumon who was looking up at him and clapping with a smile. Pikachu paused before smiling.

"Right…"

RESULTS (19 Votes)

PIKACHU (SSB): 16:4 = 12 (Potemkin, Snoopy)

AGUMON (DRA): 14:5 = 9 (Garfield, Sora)

DANNY PHANTOM (NASB): 14:5 = 9 (Chronos)

WARIO (SSB): 14:5 = 9 (Samus Aran)

JAKE LONG (AD:JL): 13:6 = 7 (Link)

MEGAMAN (SSB): 12:7 = 5 (Nash)

JUNIPER LEE (TL&ToJL): 12:7 = 5 (Meredy)

TOHRU ADACHI (P4A): 11:8 = 3 (Ash Crimson)

CLOUD STRIFE (SSB): 11:8 = 3 (Es)

WAVE THE SWALLOW (StH): 11:8 = 3 (Kukri)

DONKEY (SSS): 11:10 = 1 (Spongebob Squarepants)

HAYATE (FEXL): 9:10 = -1 (Kid Kobra)

HODAN (RoA): 9:10 = -1 (Scooby Doo)

(ELIMINATED)

CHARLIE NASH (SFAS): 9:10 = -1 (Sadira)

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (NASB): 10:11 = -1 (Little Red Riding Hood)

SCOOBY DOO (SD): 11:12 = -1

ES (BB): 9:11 = -2

MEREDY (ToAS): 9:11 = -2

SAMUS ARAN (SSB): 9:11 = -2

SORA (SSB): 9:12 = -3

KID COBRA (A): 8:12 = -4

POTEMKIN (GG): 7:12 = -5

ASH CRIMSON (KoFAS): 7:12 = -5

LINK (SSB): 8:13 = -5

SNOOPY (P): 9:14 = -5

KUKRI (KoFAS): 5:14 = -9

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD: 5:14 = -9

GARFIELD (NASB): 6:17 = -11

SADIRA (KI): 4:16 = -12

CHRONOS (ToAS): 3:16 = -13

Side Battles:

"Recruiting Despair"

M. Bison (SFAS) meltdowns on Oume Goketsuji (PI)

18 to 1

Eternal Star: Pikachu is the first fighter to get the Superstar status TWICE. Only fitting for the only winner of the Battle of the Luminaries to be the one to do so.

Survivor Slaughter: Despite having big names like Sora and Spongebob entering this section, Pikachu and Donkey are the only ones who survived despite lasting at least one section.