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!

48. Section Twenty-Two Results

(The Arena)

At first glance, the arena gimmick for the current section was considered quite tame, especially compared to the last view ones. Cammy White's Superstar stage was merely the English Manor (or Fraserburgh Castle), only turning the arena into a square version of a stone version. There was also a beautiful aurora playing through above while Cammy's iconic theme played through the speakers giving the arena a more calming vibe.

Regardless, as you would expect, the fighters themselves were not making it easy for each other as they continued to fight hard, not only for themselves but the tournament and of course, Drake.

"Hadoken!"

"Soul Force!"

Two energy balls clashed with each other, cancelling the other out. Allen Snider smirked as he rubbed his finger against his note while Ken merely narrowed his eyes, seriously as the two encircled each other. Allen then made the next move and before doing a flying kick forward. However, Ken raised his arms to block the attack before grabbing Allen's leg and threw him onto the ground.

However, Allen quickly got up onto his feet before swinging his leg again. Ken again, easily blocked it, but found himself being forced back by a series of punches and kicks. At first, it seemed that Allen had Ken on the ropes, but when the American flag-clad man did an axe kick, a glint appeared in Ken's eyes as he crouched down low.

"Shoryuken!" Ken shouted, doing a jumping uppercut to Allen's chin and sending the red-haired man flying in the air before crashing onto his back with Ken gracefully landing on his feet. Allen groaned before looking up. His eyes then bugged out when he found Ken standing up while raising his leg. Allen's eyes widened before rolling to the side to avoid Ken's own axe kick.

"Justice Fist!" Allen shouted, punching his fist out into Ken's stomach. The Shotokan practitioner's eyes bugged out before he was sent sprawling backwards. As Allen finished the move by stomping his foot into a karate stance, Ken got up while gripping his stomach.

"Your Justice Fist is still just as strong as ever." Ken noted.

"But of course! I had been training ever since we found out we got invited back to this tournament!" Allen grinned.

"Ah. Speaking of training, how is that update to Fighting EX Layer coming along?" Ken asked.

Allen's grin vanished as he looked to the side. "...Things. Are going slow."

"Ouch…" Ken winced.

"But it is not like we AREN'T making progress! We had an update clip on the official Twitter site!" Allen insisted. He then frowned. "...Granted, it is three months ago and the clip is literally one second long, but still."

"...Well, at least you still have a future in front of you." Ken noted.

"You too." Allen scolded. "Look, I know that Capcom has taken your story towards… A darker path. But I am sure that you will reunite with your family someday."

"You sound confident." Ken said, raising an eyebrow.

"Dude, besides Ryu and to an extent, Chun-Li, you are the most well-known Street Fighter. You were in Super Smash Bros after all!" Allen reminded.

Ken paused before looking at his fist.

"Until then, let's keep at it!" Allen offered. "Surely, you want to return to them in top-notch shape."

Ken then looked up at Allen for a moment. "Right…"

"Look out!"

Annie Hamilton and Aoi Umenokoji shrieked before cowering down while covering themselves with their arms. Suddenly, Mechanica sprang to life, using her mech's body to cover the two. Just in time to use its body to block a series of missiles flying down from the sky. Once the two landlocked women realised that they were safe, they got up and glared at the guilty party.

Eggman smirked before pushing a few buttons in his Egg Walker, sending balls of energy forward. However, this time, Annie and Aoi ran to the side to avoid the projectile which left Mechanica to block the ones coming towards her. The latter then sent out her Homie ARM forward. Eggman's smirk vanished when he remembered how literally explosive said ARM was so he got ready to activate his thrusters.

"Swanny Clash!"

Then, a swan made out of golden energy crashed into Eggman's Egg Walker. While the damage wasn't that much, it was more than enough to shake Eggman's Egg Walker enough to stop him from escaping which held him wide open for Mechanica's Homie ARM to hit him head-on which exploded and knocked the Egg Walker. Eggman groaned before looking up to see Aoi rushing forward. Eggman gave a smirk before swinging his mechanical claw forward.

Only for Aoi to not only CATCH the heavy-looking claw, but also PULLED on it before locking her arms on it.

"Girls, now!" Aoi shouted.

Annie smirked and nodded before running over to the grappled Egg Walker before climbing up on it and proceeded to do a series of punches to Eggman's face. The mad scientist cried out in pain before desperately raising up his arms and somehow managed one of Annie's punches. The animal lover was not expecting the sudden (yet clumsy) guard and while she was surprised, Eggman finally activated his jet thrusters, shooting him and his mech straight up while throwing a startled Annie and Aoi off of her.

Then, a pair of scrap metal in coils wrapped around the legs of the Egg Walker. Giving a smirk, Mechanica had her ARMS throw the Egg Walker down, crashing on the canvas. Eggman groaned before slowly getting his mech to get back up to see all three girls approaching him from different directions. Eggman gulped nervously before quickly wondering who to target and with what weapons.

Only for a giant ball of light to crash into Annie and Aoi, knocking the two down and startling Eggman and Mechanica. The former two groaned before looking up. There, they saw King Dice using his toon stretchiness to literally move around the Crusader who was struggling to get at least one hit on him.

Annie narrowed her eyes. "Um, rude?"

"Agreed. I knew that just having a more normal round for this round would be too much for THIS tournament." Aoi said, shaking her head in disgust.

"Come on, Aoi! Let's get them!" Annie offered.

The dark-haired woman did a double-take as she watched Annie get up. "Wait… What?"

"You heard me." The rich girl said. "Our goal is to show our crushes how strong we are and how we can do that when we let anyone walk over us!"

"I… Suppose on paper, your logic is sound." Aoi admitted, getting up as well. She then frowned. "But…"

"Come on! There is no reason NOT to go after them!" Annie urged.

With that, she grabbed Aoi's hand and ran off, dragging her towards King Dice and Crusader. However, Aoi looked back at Mechanica with an apologetic look on her face as the latter and Eggman watched them walk off while blinking their eyes.

"...Okay, I admit I take that back." Eggman confessed. "Not even at her worst Amy was that… Scattered-brained."

"I guess that is what happens when you deal with a Power Instinct character." Mechanica admitted, scratching the back of her head.

(Announcer's Booth)

Ashley let out a sigh as he continued to look into the arena.

"Um, Ashley?"

The purple-haired wizard looked up to see Tumble floating in.

"O-Oh, any news?" Ashley asked, looking hopeful.

"Um, no, I was hoping that you could answer us a question in Drake's place." Tumble said. "You know…"

"Um, okay?" Ashley asked.

"Why did Drake have Annie and Aoi come out in the same section?" Tumble asked.

"Um, something about them having similar goals based on their respective backstories and yet different personalities." Ashley shrugged.

"Just like it was the same reason why he had Chinnen and Lei-Fei came out together in the Skies of Paris section?" Tumble noted

"Yes, he knew that if Power Instinct and Virtua Fighter did well, it would be a miracle so he set it up to make both nodes stand out." Ashley explained.

"Woah…" Tumble said in awe.

"Yes, he really wanted to find a way to make every fighter pop out." Ashley said before looking down.

"Ashley…" Tumble said, sadly.

"...I will see if there is anything about Drake's choice, in particular fighters." Ashley said before sighing. "It is the least we can do."

Tumble frowned before floating over and putting his floating hand on Ashley's shoulder. "...We are going to save him."

"...I sure hope so." Ashley said before sighing.

Tumble nodded his head before floating out of the Announcer's Booth where the Millennium Star was floating on top with a worried expression.

"Well?" The Millennium Star asked.

"Well, it is hard to say that he is feeling better but… Definitely in comparison to the last section?" Tumble frowned.

The Millennium Star let out a deep sigh. "...Yes, that is what I thought."

"Look… All we could do is make sure that nothing else goes crazy in this tournament." Tumble offered.

The Millennium Star gave an unseen frown. "...Yes, about that."

Tumble blinked twice before slapping his forehead. "Oh no! What is it NOW!?"

"...I am not sure. All I know is that it is happening outside of the dome and yet practically on top of it." The Millennium Star explained with a sigh. "I just hope that whoever is forming the hero group for this tournament also knows about it."

(Dome; Item Shop)

"Gee, work has been going slow recently." Knuckles frowned.

"It can't be helped." Mel sighed. "Even though our facilities are some of the few that DOESN'T need electricity to work, I don't think everyone's priorities are getting items."

"Still, it is the last quarter of the tournament." Knuckles reminded. "You would think that they would prepare for it."

"To be fair, even if people want to visit this shop, it is actually hard to navigate around the dome, even WITH the Millennium Star's stars illuminating the way." Mel frowned. "Especially since the main thing about this place is that it DOESN'T stay in the same location for too long."

"True…" Knuckles lamented.

Suddenly, the two heard knocking on the door. Knuckles wasted no time walking over to it and sliding the eye slot to see who it was. Upon seeing who it was, his eyes lit up before wasting no time opening it.

Then, two figures came in. The first one was Chaos and the second one was a less-familiar one to the others, an orange-furred echidna dressed in tribal clothing.

"Ah! Tikal! Chaos! You made it!" Knuckles grinned.

"Of course! Someone has to help use the Master Emerald while you are in the tournament!" Tikal giggled.

"Oh, thank you! I really want to stay here the entire time but at the same time, I DO like fighting in the tournament!" Knuckles noted.

"Oh, it is more than alright. I abhor violence but I concede that the tournament is all in good fun!" Tikal offered.

With that, she looked over at Mel before bowing.

"Greetings, Miss Mel. I believe Knuckles has already talked to you about it, but I will be your assistant while Knuckles is in the arena." Tikal introduced. "I can't say that I am as strong as Knuckles, but with Chaos, I should be able to help any potential intruders."

"Um, yes, about that." Mel said before looking at Chaos. "Are you sure that Chaos will be alright this close to the Master Emerald?"

"I could understand your concern but if you recall the ending to the first Sonic Adventure, Chaos has been purified." Tikal reminded. "I believe the cryomancer duo has demonstrated that."

Mel paused. "O-Oh, that makes sense. I just assumed that they were just so stunned by the situation they were dragged into, regardless if they were good or evil."

Tikal giggled. "Indeed. Literally being dragged into a fight with Dot Warner and the Pyro would do that."

Chaos gave a weird groan at this. Tikal just frowned.

"Oh, come now. Those children didn't mean to freeze you with their Final Smash." Tikal scolded.

"Still, I don't blame them for still being salty." Knuckles said, crossing his arms. "They should know how huge their Final Smash literally was."

"Knuckles…" Tikal groaned.

Mel chuckled nervously. "I-In any case, thanks again for coming. We only had one instance of Barbatos finding us but I feel much safer with you guys."

"It is more than alright! We barely got anything to do in our node, anyway." Tikal reassured before looking at Chaos. "Right, Chaos."

The god of Chao nodded their head. Knuckles gave a small smile with a nod.

"Well, I am going to be off. I think this goes without saying but be careful." Knuckles warned.

"You too, Knuckles. Remember, Barbatos knows that you are working with me." Mel offered.

Knuckles narrowed his eyes. "I know…"

Tikal frowned. "Knuckles, I know that you never back down from a fight, but please be smart about this if you have the displeasure of running into Barbatos."

"Yeah, alright…" The master of the Master Guardian sighed.

With that, everyone shared one final goodbye before making his way out of the item shop.

"I hope that he is alright…" Tikal offered.

"Same here." Mel frowned. "Barbatos Goetia is NOT someone you want to mess with…"

(The Arena)

The audience knew that just because the Superstar stage was a more "normal" one, they knew that it wouldn't be tame for too long, but they didn't expect to see a mini-SANDSTORM in part of the arena. Sand was swirling around while the fighters made sure not to go near it. In fact, only two fighters were not only close to the sandstorm but fighting INSIDE of it.

Normally, most people would not like being in a sandstorm, mini or otherwise, but Toph Beifong was calm with a stern look on her face. Suddenly, a giant scorpion tail had spawned to the side and got ready to strike. But without looking, Toph stomped the foot closest to said tail and created a wall to block. However, this left her wide open for part of the swirling sand on the other side to fly straight into her so hard that she was sent flying.

Despite this, Toph managed to use her earthbending to take control of the sand and have it encircle her in a sphere to not only self-right herself but also descend slowly to the ground. Then, an old wrap then lashed out forward before slapping her in Toph. Kan-Ra gave a dark chuckle before rushing over before spinning around and smacking Toph multiple times with his mummy wraps. He then used said wraps to bound Toph before getting ready to slam her onto the ground.

However, Toph quickly used her earthbending on the dirt on Kan-Ra's wraps and used it to break free before summoning a floating rock platform out of nowhere before landing on it. Kan-Ra just scoffed before summoning a swarm of locusts and having them fly towards Toph. Hearing the aggressive buzzing, the earthbender then summoned some flying rocks before leaping off of the platform and diving into the ground to burrow onto it to transport said rocks and out of the range of the locusts.

Kan-Ra raised an intrigued eyebrow. "You are as strong as they say."

"But of course! I am the multiverse's strongest earthbender." Toph boasted.

"That may be true. But you are not truly one with your element." Kan-Ra smirked.

Toph narrowed her eyes. "Okay, I'll bite. What does THAT mean?"

"Easy. There is sand in my disposed pores and by extension my wraps." Kan-Ra sneered.

Toph paused, lowering her guard.

"...Um, TMI, dude." Toph said.

"Yes, I admit that it is not the most flattering thing to boast about." Kan-Ra confessed before stifling a cough. "The point is that you have to actually reach into the earth to use your powers, making it useless if you are on water or ice. Me on the other hand, is literally FILLED with earth!"

Toph's eyes widened at this.

"Now you get it! I am more of an innate earthbender than you!" Kan-Ra gloated.

With that, he let out a dark laugh. Toph… Blinked twice.

"Um, how old are you again?" The dark-haired girl asked.

This took Kan-Ra completely off-guard, breaking him out of his laugh. "Um, over 2500, why?"

"...Okay, I guess you have an excuse for acting senile, but still WOW." Toph said in disbelief while slumping her arms.

Kan-Ra blinked twice. "W-What are you going on about?"

Toph paused before walking forward with a blank look on her face. She then placed her hand on top of Kan-Ra's chest, much to the sorcerer's confusion.

Suddenly, the moment that this happened, Kan-Ra's body started to move around erratically, much to everyone's bewilderment, especially his. His limbs then started to move as if he was doing some kind of dance. This was happening when Toph's hand was still on his torso. Kan-Ra's eyes widened in realisation.

"Oh…" Kan-Ra said.

"Yeah, not like being smart would do you any good against me but again, wow…" Toph muttered.

Needless to say, Kan-Ra's confidence in winning this fight fell before he turned around and ran off while Toph was momentarily distracted by Kan-Ra's stupidity. The earthbender just shook her head in disgust before swinging her arm upwards, summoning rocks out of the ground and sending them straight at Kan-Ra's back, knocking him to the ground.

The mummy groaned before looking back to see Toph approaching him. Realising he had little time to think, he frantically looked around. Then, his eyes lit up when he saw a particular fight. Acting quickly, he grabbed one of the rocks that knocked him down and threw it at said fight.

POW!

"OW!"

That was the sound of Geese Howard as he staggered forward after being hit in the head of the rock. As Mario Mario watched with wide eyes, Geese felt the struck spot to reveal that it was bleeding. Giving a growl, he glared at Toph and Kan-Ra. The latter then gasped.

"Miss Beifong, how could you!?" Kan-Ra shouted.

The dark-haired girl jumped at this. "Excuse me!?"

"You assaulted and disrespected the winner of the third Ultimate Video Rumble!" Kan-Ra said, glaring at Toph.

Toph narrowed her eyes. "No, I didn't!"

"Yes, you did! You were so busy throwing stones at me, you have no care for your fellow fighters, let alone Mr. Howard!" Kan-Ra scolded.

As Geese narrowed his eyes, Kan-Ra scampered over to the crime boss' side and got up.

"Come on, Mr. Howard! Let's work together and punish that disrespectful girl!" Kan-Ra announced.

"...Very well." The blond man said.

With that, he charged up blue energy with his hands. Toph narrowed her eyes before getting into a defensive stance, Mario's eyes widened in horror before going to run over while Kan-Ra rubbed his hands together with a malicious sneer on his face.

"Double Reppuken!"

Geese then swung both of his hands up and sent a large blue ground wave forward.

…And into Kan-Ra's back. The sorcerer was not expecting this and was sent flying with a shocked look on his face as he was sent over the ropes. Toph and Mario blinked twice at this as Geese crossed his arms with a stern look.

"...You saw right through his lies?" Toph asked.

"Child, if I could see through Hein's mole act in canon, what makes you think I wouldn't see through the lies of THIS fool?" Geese reminded.

Kan-Ra landed in Mortal Kombat where he got into a fight with Rain. Unfortunately, water usually beats sand.

Sailor Jupiter winced before running to the side as a barrage of bullets chased after her. Rocket Raccoon laughed like a maniac as he continued firing while chasing after her with a gatling gun. However, as much as the raccoon was loving the cat-and-mouse chase (and the ironic size difference), he knew that he couldn't keep it up forever and got out a pistol with one hand and fired it, hitting Sailor Jupiter in the leg.

While the bullet was fortunately non-lethal, it was more than enough for Sailor Jupiter to not cry out in pain but also stop running. This left her wide open for Rocket Raccoon to open fire with his gatling gun, striking her multiple times. Sailor Jupiter cried out in pain, but quickly raised her arms to try to block the bullets going towards her upper body.

"Flower Hurricane!"

Sailor Jupiter then suddenly spun around with red petals encircling her with said petals acting as a shield. Rocket Raccoon was taken back by his barrage being blocked by the most unorthodox of projectiles before Sailor Jupiter summoned green electricity in her hand.

"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" Sailor Jupiter shouted before throwing a discus of electricity towards Rocket Raccoon. The Guardian of the Galaxy saw it coming and moved to the side. Sailor Jupiter saw her chance and ran forward before leaping in the form of a flying elbow drop. Rocket Raccoon's eyes bugged out at this.

Suddenly, Sailor Jupiter found herself missing Rocket Raccoon by a mile and crashing on the ground. She groaned before painfully propping herself on her hands. She then noticed that the spot she crashed onto was full of dirt. Before she could ask what was going on, she received a sharp pain to the back. Crying out in pain, she turned around to see Rocket Raccoon holding an energy bazooka with a big grin. She also noticed dirt around Rocket Raccoon's feet.

"You can dig underground!?" Sailor Jupiter gasped.

"Yeah, being in Marvel VS Capcom 3 really gives you unique mechanics!" Rocket Raccoon smirked.

"So you have a lot of zoning tools, hard to hit with your size AND you have more evasive actions!" Sailor Jupiter asked in disbelief. "That is cheap!"

"Darling, if you think THAT'S cheap, you'll never make it in our node!" Rocket Raccoon sneered.

Sailor Jupiter growled before diving at Rocket Raccoon but the mechanic burrowed his way into the ground again to avoid the dive. He then reappeared to the side of Sailor Jupiter before slashing her in the leg. The Sailor Scout cried out in pain before trying to kick her foot out at Rocket, but the latter quickly moved back before getting out a large gun and firing an electric shot into Sailor Jupiter. As the latter was stunned, Rocket Raccoon then started to charge up another shot.

Suddenly, a blur the same size of Rocket crashed into him, knocking the two of them down. Sailor Jupiter weakly looked up to turn to Rocket and was surprised that he was not only lying on the ground, groaning but Squirtle was also groaning alongside him.

Rocket shook his head before glaring at the guilty party. "What the flark was THAT for!?"

By the time the Pokemon snapped out of his daze, he noticed something that made him jump before running behind Rocket and hiding behind him in fear. As Rocket let out a cry of protest and annoyance, he and Sailor Jupiter turned their heads to see Neemon rushing over with a serious look on his face (Well, serious for HIM.)

"There is no escape, turtle boy!" Neemon taunted. With that, he inhaled. "ABCDEFG!"

With that, he burped, sending a cloud of sickly green smoke forward. Sailor Jupiter, Rocket and Squirtle screamed in disgust as the latter two jumped back.

"That's right! You better be afraid!" Neemon boasted. "If no one could go near me, no one could eliminate me!"

"...The sad thing is I see weirder ways to get an elimination streak." The Millennium Star muttered.

Neemon continued his rant. "That's right! I am invincible! Invincible! In…"

"Yeet!"

Neemon immediately looked confused. "Inyeet? That doesn't sound…"

Suddenly, Sailor Jupiter crouched down and wrapped her arms around Neemon's waist before getting up and giving him a strong toss, sending him flying over the ropes with no rope of return.

Neemon landed in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise where he landed in Cally's vacation home where he was forced to spend his time there taking a classic washtub bath by the squirrel in-question.

Sailor Jupiter frowned as she looked in the direction Neemon disappeared into. "Well, that was… Interesting."

"So is getting grabbed by Shuma-Gorath's tentacles." Rocket muttered. He then turned to Squirtle. "Hey, kid, are you alright?"

The turtle paused before nodding. Suddenly, Rocket put his hands on his shoulders.

"Are you sure?" Rocket asked, looking surprisingly concerned.

Squirtle paused for a moment. He then smiled and nodded again, this time more certain. Rocket returned the smile.

"Really? Good." Rocket said.

With that, he pulled out a shovel out of nowhere and raised it over his head. Squirtle's face fell.

BAM!

Sailor Jupiter's eyes widened as Rocket slammed his shovel over Squirtle's head, knocking the Pokemon onto his stomach. While the latter was stunned, Rocket raised his shovel like a golf club and swung it into Squirtle as hard as he could, sending him soaring over the ropes.

Sailor Jupiter watched the whole thing with wide eyes before glaring at Rocket. "Really?"

"Yes, really. In case you didn't know, I don't LIKE getting rammed into." The raccoon shot back.

Squirtle landed in Muppets Party Cruise where he spent the next ten minutes having fun in the eternal water slide of the Slippery When Wet minigame.

"Cannon Spike!"

Akihiko Sanada ran to the side to avoid a diving kick from Cammy White. However, when Akihiko swung his fist at Cammy, the blonde immediately recovered and leapt up to not only dodge the attack but also managed to do a balancing headstand on Akihiko's arm while he was in his punching formation. As Akihiko gaped in awe, Cammy flipped while on the arm and kicked the boxer in the face.

Akihiko ended up crashing his back hard while Cammy leapt up into the air. However, the former snapped out of his daze and saw Cammy before rolling to the side to avoid another Cannon Spike. While Cammy was recovering from his own attack, Akihiko sent out his fist into Cammy's side which sent him staggering to the side. Akihiko then ran forward to do a hook while sending Cammy sprawling to the side. Despite the hard fall, Cammy quickly got up to her feet and got into another stance.

"Spiral Arrow!" Cammy shouted, sending out her trademark drill kick forward. However, Akihiko gave a toothy smirk before punching his fist forward. The two attacks clashed as they went past with both fighters unfazed. Cammy then gracefully landed on her feet before standing up straight and the two looked back at each other with Cammy narrowed her eyes and Akihiko's smirk growing bigger.

Cammy then did her Spiral Arrow again which resulted in Akihiko throwing out a hook to clash with the attack. Cammy then landed on the ground and did another flying kick which Akihiko used another punch. This went on for a while with the two clashing at least seven times. The crowd went wild as they panted heavily while looking into each other's eyes.

"I must admit, for a meathead, you are surprisingly perspective." Cammy noted.

"Hey, I may love protein nearly as much as your nodal companions…" Akihiko started.

"None of my nodal companions loves or at least even mentions protein at least once." Cammy shot back without missing a beat. However, Akihiko seemingly ignored her as she continued.

"...But I know that alone is not enough. I have to take in account all types of fighters. Shotos. Zoners. And of course, Rushdowns like you." Akihiko explained. "Especially since you are not the first fast fighter I faced."

Cammy merely coolly put her hands on her hips. "Technically, you are correct. However, I am arguably one of the original hyper-rushdown fighters in fighting games."

Akihiko merely smirked. "Then, you have my full permission to demonstrate your superiority."

Cammy returned the smirk. "Like I need it, but thanks for the offer. HOOLIGAN COMBINATION!"

With that, Cammy did a rolling jump forward before swinging her leg downwards. However, Akihiko saw the attack coming and raised his arms to block the attack before doing a hard uppercut to Cammy's chin, sending the British woman flying through the air and crashing on her back in pain. She then got on her side while groaning and… Nodded to herself.

She then looked up to see Akihiko rushing forward. Acting quickly, Cammy flipped on her feet while moving backwards to avoid a diving punch from Akihiko. Cammy then kicked her foot out, striking Akihiko in the head and making him stagger back. However, when Cammy ran over to continue the assault with another punch, Akihiko quickly recovered and easily blocked the punch

However, he wasn't prepared for Cammy to do a spinning kick to his side, causing him to stagger to the side. Cammy then proceeded to do a series of Spiral Arrows, however she did so in an erratic fashion. At first, Akihiko was startled but he merely narrowed his eyes before moving back while moving the Spiral Arrows. He then found an opening and managed to punch Cammy out of her weird pattern. But Cammy quickly rolled into a kneeling position.

"Hooligan Combination!"

She then did a rolling jump forward again. Akihiko raised an eyebrow before getting ready to block the incoming attack.

So imagine his surprise when instead of doing a downwards kick, she managed to sit on Akihiko's shoulders before wrapping her legs around his face and flipping to the side, throwing Akihiko over the ropes. After the boxer disappeared into the portal, Cammy stood up with a smirk.

"Making people think that Hooligan Combination is only one attack and doesn't have variants never gets old." Cammy noted.

"Really? I was thinking that it was getting stale."

Cammy's eyes widened before turning around to see Ken and Allen. She then narrowed her eyes at her fellow blond.

"What is THAT supposed to mean?" Cammy challenged.

"Dude, I saw your fight with that red-headed secret agent." Ken reminded. "You used the same exact Hooligan Combination."

Cammy winced as Allen raised an eyebrow.

"How many variants does Hooligan Combination have?" Allen asked.

"Five." Ken said without missing a beat.

Allen's eyes bugged out. "So wait, in terms of alternating Hooligan Combinations combos, Cammy should have at least twenty and she chose the same one two sections in a row?"

"Yeppppppp." Ken said.

Cammy's face turned beet-red. "Shut up! Like YOU'RE one to gloat about using moves over and over again!"

"Yeah, I admit that even now I am still technically a 'flowchart'." Ken admitted, rubbing his chin. He then gave a smirk. "But at least I don't gloat about having different variations of moves and using the same combo, over and over again."

Allen let out a big laugh while Cammy again growled before stomping over.

"...Of course THAT aspect of you isn't gone. I don't know whether I should be relieved or exasperated." Cammy muttered.

Akihiko landed in Katekyō Hitman Reborn where he got into a hot-blooded match with Ryohei.

Annie Hamilton narrowed her eyes before running to the side to avoid a thrust from a giant hammer. She then ran over to Crusader and did an uppercut to his chin. The priest staggered back before managing to recover in time to use the bulk of his free arm to block Annie's next punch. He then went to whack Annie with the grip of his weapon, but the animal lover was much faster than him and ran out of the way.

Not only did Annie manage to avoid Crusader's attack, but she grabbed the healer's arm and despite the huge size difference going against her, Annie managed to slam him onto his back. The rich girl then crouched down and started to punch Crusader's face in. The latter grunted in pain before managing to raise his hammer to block a punch with the handle. As Annie recoiled her fist in pain, Crusader managed to shove Annie away from her. After Crusader got up, he summoned a ball of holy light before launching it forward.

"Swanny Clash!" Annie shouted, sending out her own projectile forward. After the two differing attacks cancelled each other out, Crusader swung his hammer out. Annie yelped before throwing herself to the ground to avoid the horizontal swing. However, Crusader then swung his hammer VERTICALLY onto the ground which resulted in a burst of holy energy which sent Annie flying back, but Crusader was not done yet.

"Deflection Wall!" Crusader shouted, summoning a wall of blue light with a cross on it. He then summoned another wall, this time in front of him and made of yellow light. He then put the shoulder of his free arm into it and charged forward towards Annie. The animal lover managed to snap out of her daze in time before yelping before diving to the side to avoid the attack.

"Hey! That could have seriously hurt me if that attack connected!" Annie scolded.

"Indeed. I must confess that was more aggression than necessary." Crusader admitted before frowning. "But I have to make haste so I can go back to making sure that gambler isn't left alone."

"Well, personally I think fighting him is just as dangerous as leaving him alone!" Annie scoffed. "Besides, he isn't alone. My ally is fighting him!"

BOOM!

"AIEEEEEEEE!"

That was the sound of an explosion, followed by Aoi Umenokoji flying backwards screaming in pain and fear. Crusader just blinked twice.

"...It is nice to have faith in your allies but still." Crusader frowned.

Aoi groaned before getting up on her hands. Suddenly, a circular shadow appeared on the ground. Aoi's eyes bugged out before rolling to the side, just in time for King Dice and swung his club downwards where Aoi was previously. The Japanese woman then went on a counter attack and sent her palm out into King Dice's face, but all while it connected, the purple-clad man just staggered a couple of steps before recovering.

King Dice then launched forward and swung his club downwards but Aoi managed to hold out her hands and catch the club before it could hit her and pulled on it, sending King Dice staggering to the side. Aoi then went on the offensive with a series of palm strikes and kicks. However, King Dice just grunted in annoyance before creating another portal underneath him and fell through it.

Aoi gritted her teeth, knowing that he could appear anywhere so she carefully scanned the ground to see where King Dice was going to appear next. However, what she wasn't expecting was for the portal to appear on a CORNER POST before King Dice launched himself like a rocket and into the unsuspecting Aoi, knocking her down. Once on top of her, King Dice raised his club over him.

Aoi's eyes widened before raising her arms to block the incoming series of club strikes. While she was grateful that her arms were feeling the pain instead of her face, she knew that she couldn't keep it up tomorrow so she acted quickly and raised her arms to catch an incoming club strike before putting her foot onto her chest and throwing her off of him, giving her enough time to get up while shaking her aching arms.

King Dice also got up while glaring at Aoi. "Okay, what gives? You are from Virtua Fighter aka a more grounded fighting game! How are you deflecting my attacks?"

Aoi merely smirked. "It is rather simple. I am the most defensive character in the game. I believe I could parry anything."

King Dice narrowed her eyes. "You could parry anything, huh? Well, can you parry the right dice?"

Aoi's smirk vanished. "Umm, parry the right whatnow?"

King Dice's smirk vanished as a glint appeared in his eye. Suddenly, a red old-fashioned curtain came out of nowhere and surrounded him, startling Aoi. Then, the curtain raised.

To reveal that there was actually SIX King Dice. However, each one was different. Between said King Dice was a rotating, floating pink die. Suddenly, a sign was held up by two ropes with flashing purple letters saying "Choose the Right Dice!"

Aoi blinked twice before looking at the six King Dice, with three standing on each side of the rotating die. They weren't doing anything (except giving Aoi their disgusting, smug grins). As if they were silently challenging Aoi to accept their proposal as a number floated above each one.

"...Um, King Dice, you are mixed up." Aoi said. "This is the Battle of the Luminaries, not the Tournament of Kikai."

A King Dice with the one over his head merely rolled his eyes. "Okay, because this tournament didn't have its fair share of wacky eliminations."

Aoi shook her head before looking at the King Dice. As stated earlier, one had a red bow tie, one had pants that were brighter than the others, one didn't have his signature moustache (which looked absolutely cursed to Aoi) and one didn't have… Pants and was in his yellow spotted boxers. Realising that there was one clear winner, she made her way over to the rotating die and timed her attack. Then, she sent her palm into the "2" side.

…Only for the sign to flash the word "Wrong" in red before the sign fell down and crashed onto Aoi, knocking her down. The sign then raised up as Aoi propped herself on her hands.

She then glared at the King Dice. "Hey, what gives? I hit the right side!"

"No. You hit the number 2." The King Dice with a "6" over his head sneered.

"So?" Aoi challenged.

All of the King Dice then lowered their heads. At first, Aoi was confused, but then she noticed something. All of the tops of the King Dice had five dots, except for one that only had four.

"The top of my head is a five. However, the one you chose is a four." The King Dice with a "4" over their heads explained.

Aoi blinked twice before narrowing her eyes. "Okay, so unless the 'contestant' is as large as Taka-Arashi, what is ANYONE supposed to notice? Especially one as short as Cuphead?"

Meanwhile, Annie cried out in pain before crashing her back. She groaned before getting up while holding her arm with a wince. Crusader just frowned while shaking his head.

"Look, how about this? I will heal your injuries and then throw you out of the ring." Crusader offered. "At least you would be at full health to face any trials in the elimination node."

"Y-You think that just because you appeared in a modern fighting game, that means you are better than me!" Annie scolded. "I could still fight!"

"Look, determination could be seen as a virtue, but it could also be another word of stubbornness." Crusader frowned.

Annie growled before jumping up in the air. "Photon Burst!"

She then sent an orb of energy forward, but Crusader merely raised his hammer to block the incoming projectile. Annie then rushed forward while Crusader was still blocking and grabbed her wrist before throwing him over her shoulder.

…Only for Crusader to completely vanish from the arena, much to the shock of the audience and even a few fighters.

"Um, where is that Crusader guy?" Alice asked.

Annie merely put her hands on her hips. "Wait for it…"

As if on cue, the Crusader suddenly reappeared out of nowhere and crashed onto his back hard. Said priest just stared up at the ceiling with wide eyes.

"I… I saw it." Crusader said.

"S-Saw what?" Coco asked, wondering what was going on.

"Space… I… Saw space. The stars. The planets. Even the sun." Crusader said in absolute awe. "It was nothing like I faced before… I…"

"Um, sorry, could you stop talking for a moment?" Annie asked while walking over.

"Oh, okay." Crusader said.

With that, he obliged. Annie then crouched down while getting out a marker while scribbling all over Crusader's face. For some reason, the white-clad man was too stunned to protest. When Annie was done, Crusader's face looked like he was wearing Darth Maul's mask.

"Okay, you can continue." Annie said, putting the cap back on the marker.

The Crusader nodded. "...This is the work of God? As a test of my faith or a present? Or is it the work of the opposite? As a way to tempt me? I WANT to say the former, but there has been nothing saying anything about being able to literally go through space."

"Could you get up please?" Annie asked.

"Oh, okay." Crusader said.

With that, he obliged. Annie then took his hand and walked off while taking the larger man with her.

"Wait… This happened when that girl threw me. Did SHE send me here? Wait, is she a god? She wouldn't be the only god in this tournament. Still, I don't think Palutena has the ability to send people into space. And yet, how could that girl?"

"Could you climb over the ropes, please?" Annie asked.

"Oh, okay." Crusader said.

In the name of the rule of three, Crusader started to climb over the ropes.

"Furthermore, if she IS a god, how do I approach this? Sure, there is only one god in my node, but that is no reason to look down on other religions. If it gives them faith, who am I to judge? However, if this is an attempt for me to convert, I have to be firm. Yes, what she did was impressive, but I have to be strong anddddddd…"

As if you expected anything else, Crusader stumbled over the ropes and into the elimination portal.

Crusader landed in Eiyuuden Chronicles where Maureus, seeing a fellow muscular mage, tried to strike up a friendship with him. However, Crusader was too busy being confused by Maureus mistaking MP for MUSCLE points.

Annie smirked as she waved goodbye to the disappeared Crusader before walking back while everyone looked stunned.

"For those who are confused, Annie has a super where she literally throws her target through space itself for only a few seconds." Tumble explained.

"...So THAT'S what he was muttering about." Ashley the girl noted.

Annie nodded her head with a grin before turning around to see how her ally was doing. Her smirk vanished when she saw Aoi staring at her in awe. So was all SIX of the King Dice.

"Um, Aoi? I think King Dice used Shadow Clone Jutsu." Annie frowned. "And for some reason, one of them doesn't have any pants."

Said pantless King Dice paused before stifling a cough with his fist. "R-Right, that was a great… Commercial break. But now it is back to the main event!"

"Roll the dice!" All of the King Dice grinned.

The crowd then started to chant "Roll the Dice." Aoi just shook her head before reading her shot. At least she knows for sure what was the right one as she sent out her palm at the number "3".

This time, the sign's letters changed into a flashing green with the word 'Right'!"

"RIGHT!" The King Dice cheered.

"Now you get a reward!" The real King Dice sneered. "A beatdown jackpot!"

Aoi's eyes widened. "Wait, what?"

With that, portals appeared underneath each of the six King Dice as they all fell in. Then, a portal appeared to Aoi's side where the King Dice with brighter pants appeared and swung his club downwards. However, Aoi yelped before running to the side to avoid a downwards swing.

However, she was unable to avoid the multi-coloured poker chips that flew from the current King Dice's swing against the ground, hitting her in the head. This stunned her long enough for the King Dice with no moustache to reappear and swing his own club into Aoi's back, knocking her down. Aoi groaned before propping herself on her hands.

She then gritted her teeth with her hair covering her eyes.

"...That does it."

Then, the pantless King Dice popped out of his portal before swinging HIS club downwards towards Aoi. However, that was when the Yamato Nadeshiko swung to life and caught the club before it could hit her. Acting quickly, she pulled on the club, taking the startled King Dice with it and taking him into an arm bar.

Then, the red bow-tied King Dice came out of his portal to strike Aoi, but the latter held out the pantless King Dice in front of her, making him act like a meatshield. As the pantless King Dice cried out in pain, Aoi then kicked him into the red bowtie King Dice, knocking him down.

Next, the four-spotted head King Dice came out (though she still couldn't tell) came out, but not only Aoi easily caught HIS club as well, she then took his arm and BROKE in. Aoi then proceeded to do the same to the rest of his joints.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" The four-spotted-head King Dice cried out. "Don't you know that breaking limbs on purpose is frowned upon!? Didn't you see what happened to that Monacon woman!"

"Spare me." Aoi said, rolling her eyes. "You are a toon. You could literally just snap it back to its place in a few seconds."

"Still rude!"

By this time, the real King Dice came out, but by this time, Aoi then literally used her joint-breaking things to turn the four-spotted-head King Dice into a living hammer and pulled it over her. The real King Dice's face fell.

POW!

Aoi slammed down the hammer-shaped King Dice onto the real one's head so hard that the latter fell straight onto his face, stunned. This made the hammer (along with the other King Dice) different from smoke. While startled by the sudden disappearance, Aoi narrowed her eyes before crouching down and grabbing the collar of the stunned King Dice before stomping over the ropes and shoving the purple-clad man underneath the bottom one.

She then sighed in relief while wiping her brow. Suddenly, she heard cheering. Turning around, she saw Annie clapping her hands.

"Alright, nice one, fellow true love seeker!" Annie smirked. "We sure hope those fools do not mess with us!"

"Yes, indeed…" Aoi said, letting out a deep sigh. "However, I must make your promise never to make me do something like that, Annie."

The rich girl's smile vanished. "What? We got rid of them so they can't interrupt our fight anymore so there is nothing stopping us from triple-teaming Baldy McNose…"

"AIEEEEEEEEE!"

Aoi and Annie jumped before turning their heads. There, they saw Mechanica rolling on her side in her mecha towards another fight.

Ganondorf was about to do a Warlock Punch until Mechanica's rolling mecha crashed into him and rolled all over him. At first, Metaknight was quite startled, but then sprang to life before doing a shuttle loop, knocking Mechanica into the air before spinning around and creating an orange tornado around her, striking Mechanica several times before she was sent flying over the ropes.

Mechanica landed in Megas XLR where she geeked out over Coop and how he was able to rebuild an entire robot using nothing but trash.

Ganondorf groaned before propping himself on his hands and knees. He then growled before looking around. It didn't take him long to see Dr. Eggman pathetically ducking inside of his Egg Walker.

"You! I KNOW that you are responsible!" Ganondorf spat.

"I-It was an accident!" Eggman insisted.

"The fact that you are still alive is an accident!" Ganondorf roared, getting up.

"Make no mistake, I am not saying that whatever you will deal with Eggman isn't karma." Metaknight piped up. "But one could argue that this is also karma for YOU after you had tossed that…"

Suddenly, Ganondorf immediately picked Metaknight off of the ground with his hands firmly on his mouth. Metaknight then proceeded to angrily and comically thrash in Ganondorf's grip, giving muffled screams (which by the fact that Metaknight was wearing a mask made it even MORE silly.)

"R-Regardless, even the King of Evil shouldn't get distracted by every slight against them." Ganondorf said, still holding onto the thrashing Metaknight. "Mercy is not in my dictionary, but I will spare it for you tonight."

Eggman blinked twice behind his sunglasses. "Um, alright?"

Ganondorf nodded his head before walking off (while still carrying the thrashing Metaknight). Eggman just scratched the back of his head.

"Um, I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but am I the only one who thought that was totally random?" Eggman frowned.

Annie and Aoi looked at the whole scene with wide eyes and slack jaws. They then looked at each other with the latter looking quite cross with the former.

"Umm, at least it adds to the list about why we are more special than other girls?" Annie asked.

Aoi just groaned while slapping her forehead. "I do NOT envy the recap team having to cover all of… THIS."

(Wonderland; The Queen's Court)

"And so, for the crimes of getting eliminated and having said portal appear in MY court without permission." The Queen of Hearts said as she sat in her judge's bunch.

She then glared at King Dice who merely frowned as he stood in the defendant's podium.

"GUILTY!" The Queen of Hearts shouted at the top of her lungs.

"But your Majesty, I already told you. I didn't decide which elimination node I go to. Nobody does!" King Dice insisted. "In fact, I am sure that a lot of people would want to AVOID the elimination node they appeared in!"

"SILENCE!" The Queen of Hearts roared, making King Dice wince (and several people in the jury stand fly away). "For your punishment, OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"

King Dice's eyes bugged out as everyone cheered.

"Wait, are you saying that I am not going to be able to leave this court WITHOUT my head on my body!?" King Dice exclaimed.

"That is exactly what I meant!" The Queen of Hearts spat.

King Dice looked on with a frown. He then let out a sigh.

"Very well…"

With that, King Dice put his hands on his head. As if you expected anything else, he took it off as if it was merely a hat, causing everyone to go wide-eyed.

"...Would this suffice, your Majesty?" King Dice frowned with his head still in his body's hands.

"Um, yes?" The Queen of Hearts said, at a loss for words.

"Very well. I shall be taking my leave then." King Dice said.

With that, the body of King Dice walked off while still carrying his head with everyone watching him leave in awe. The Queen of Hearts then rubbed her chin.

"White Rabbit…" The Queen of Hearts said finally.

The bunny jumped at this. "Y-Yes, your Majesty?"

"Who was it that spilled jam on my royal tablecloth again?" The Queen of Hearts asked, calmly.

The White Rabbit blinked twice before pointing to one of the cards. "Um, that one?"

Everyone turned their heads where the White Rabbit was pointing. Immediately, all of the cards stepped away from the guilty party with the latter looking around with a look of horror on his face. He then looked back at the Queen of Hearts who was turning red with anger.

"OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!" The Queen of Hearts roared.

Suddenly, she calmed down while putting her elbows on the bunch and her face on her hands with a suddenly-sweet smile.

"...By your own hands."

At first, everyone was stunned to hear this. However, almost immediately, everyone was cheering and started to chant "Off with your head! Off with your head!" The poor card looked around with a look of worry on his face. Regardless, realising that there was no way out of the Queen's orders, he let out a deep sigh while putting his hands on his head while trying to pull it off.

Meanwhile, King Dice had finally walked out of the court, hearing the cheering and chanting behind him. Hearing this, he let out a smug smirk.

"Something tells me that I just made the executions in Wonderland much more interesting." King Dice said, chuckling to himself.

Suddenly, King Dice's torso started to vibrate. Raising an eyebrow, he put his head onto a cubic hedge (yes, he still hasn't put his head back on his body yet). His body then reached into his jacket and pulled out a rotary phone before putting it to the speaker and the receiver to his head.

"Ello?" King Dice answered.

His pupils shrank when he heard a familiar voice speak.

"Ah, boss! I wasn't expecting you to call until AFTER I came home from the tournament!" King Dice smiled before the Devil answered. "Ooh, you have a job for me? Kinda sudden but you know your right-hand man never refuses a job offer from you?"

Needless to say, King Dice was grinning from non-existent ear to non-existent ear. However, upon actually hearing it, it faltered as his eyes widened.

"Um, boss? Don't take this the wrong way, but that doesn't sound like our usual work." King Dice said.

The Devil then proceeded to tell King Dice everything.

"Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, HIM from the Powerpuff Girls? Has an idea for a villain plot in the next Tournament of Kikai?" King Dice asked. "So you want me to help save this tournament so you could cause chaos in the following one? I guess that makes sense. But is it really THAT bad right now?"

The Devil then answered King Dice's question, causing the purple-clad man's eyes to bug out.

"Oh. Ohhh. Yeahhhhh, kinda hard to do… ANY kind of villain plot if THAT happens. Alright, not my usual thing, but like I said, I am never one to turn down an order from you." King Dice offered. "I will get to work as soon as I am done in the Recovery Room. Later."

With that, he had his hands hang up. The head and the body then looked at each other.

"...As much as I hate to admit, Xuan Dou Zhi Wang is doing a great job making people remember, even if it is by accident." King Dice frowned.

King Dice's body merely shrugged.

POP!

After hearing a sickening sound, a bunch of gasps could be heard making King Dice's head and body turn towards the direction of the court. However, cheers could be heard.

"...Oh. He actually managed to take off his head by himself." King Dice said in awe. "Good for him."

His body silently agreed by clapping his hands together.

(Dome; Electrician's Office)

"So what is the next step?" Kaoru asked.

Ell Blue rubbed his chin. "That is a good question. I know that we would say that we would make another attempt to ruin the tournament, but honestly, I wanted to make the hosts suffer for what they did to us."

"Yes, about that." Jack said, piping up before turning to Freddy. "Freddy, I specifically remembered Ell Blue requesting you kidnap both Drake AND Ashley."

The serial killer raised his hands in defence. "Don't look at me. I am just as stunned as you are! In fact, I specifically saw sucking both of them in! I don't know how the femboy slipped through the cracks!"

"Well, considering that Drake is the main host and not Ashley, it doesn't matter." Blast shrugged.

"Still, that IS concerning. Sure, it doesn't affect our plans, but what would happen if the reason Ashley didn't get kidnapped also affected Drake?" Ray frowned.

"True… Maybe we should investigate later." Blast said.

Suddenly, the door sprung open. Everyone turned to see Ace.

"Bad news, guys! Claire, Prayuth, Linn and CoolB had all been captured." Ace frowned.

Ell Blue's eyes widened. "What!?"

"Yeah, apparently they got caught outside of the security team room and got into a fight and lost!" Ace explained.

"Wait, caught outside the SECURITY team room?" Ameth asked before slapping his forehead. "Ugh, that dumb blonde! Not only did she try to go and rescue Yan and her own, but she also managed to rope three other idiots!"

"Now what? Set up a rescue team just like we did with me?" Ace asked.

"...I am going to be blunt. The main reason we went out of our way to save you is because at the end, we had a lot of things that would have been detrimental if you squealed." Legend said, crossing his arms without looking at Ace.

"Da. The only thing we are keeping a secret is that Freddy Krueger is actually Psycho Mantis and even then, we are going to keep it a secret for the sake of planting a seed of paranoia." Andrei nodded.

"Guys, come on." King frowned. "We are in this together."

"That's right. Because all we got is each other." Xeno nodded.

"Indeed, we should prioritise rescuing them." Kuya said before frowning. "But how? After everything we did so far, they are definitely not going to make it easy for us."

Ell Blue crossed his arms before looking down though. Indeed, they have to rescue their nodal companions, but the question was how? Sure, they had the numbers, sure, they had Freddy, but at this point, EVERYONE was prepared to fight them. If they needed to fight, how should they do it?

Suddenly, they heard knocking at the door, bringing everyone out of their train of thought.

"Come in!" Kaoru said, cheerfully.

The door then opened and once they did, EVERYONE'S pupils shrank.

Standing in the doorway were a bunch of despair clones. However, they didn't look like anyone that Xuan Dou Zhi Wang had encountered thus far. However, they WERE people that they definitely looked like before.

"H-Huh? They look like despair clones, but how are they?" Kaoru asked.

The despair clones then looked around the room for a moment. They then started to huddled around each other to talk among themselves, taking the occasional moment to see the group. Everyone else just looked at each other in confusion.

Suddenly, the huddle broke and they ran forward.

…And grabbed Ell Blue and Freddy.

"Ell Blue!" Lee gasped.

"H-Hey!" Ell Blue shouted.

"Oi, I'M the one who is supposed to give bad touches!" Freddy roared. "Not the other way around!"

Then, the rest of the despair clones went over to the sleeping body of Drake and picked him up. They then ran out of the room with Ell Blue, Freddy and Drake.

"H-Hey!" Kaoru gasped.

"W-What the fuck is going on!?" Blast asked.

"I don't know but we should go after them!" Ruriy suggested.

"I think we should ALL go after them!" Xeno suggested. "Even if it is just despair clones, if it's THESE people, we need all of the muscle we could get!"

"But how about Cole?" Kuya asked, suggesting to the unconscious electromancer.

"What about him? In case you forget, he isn't going anywhere." Ameth reminded.

"Right, come on!" Arashi said before smirking. "I wanna see where this is going!"

With that, everyone, including the clones currently under their ran out of the room after the despair clones while leaving behind the unconscious Cole all alone in the electrician's office.

(Dome; Security Team Room)

"Ohh, Yan! Thank goodness that you are alright! Those horrible people must have been treating you poorly! Were they starving you!? Linn, give him some of your snacks!"

"What!? No way! This is all I have after my face is known to the multiverse!"

"Don't be selfish!"

"Claire, I can't breathe…"

Horkeukamui, Gabe Logan, Lloyd Irving, Hibiki Takane, Claude Von Reigan and Kanji Tatsumi stood in exasperation as they watched Claire wrap her arms around Yan's neck.

"But Yan, I was SOOO worried about you when I found out that you were taken in!" Claire whined.

"Claire, please, I am fine." Yan said before muttering. "Except my pride…"

The cryomancer then glared at the group. "Really? How could you do this?"

"...Really? You are really asking after everything you did for this tournament?" Lloyd asked.

CoolB crossed his arms. "Drake started it."

"The hell he did! I can't believe you are actually doing all of this crap and STILL think that you are in the right!" Kanji said in disbelief.

"But of course! WE are the heroes! YOU are the villains!" Claire shot back.

Yan blinked twice. "Um, I know that we shouldn't say this…"

"Um, it is a long story." Prayuth said.

"Well, don't hesitate." Kanji said, crossing his arms.

Linn narrowed her eyes. "And why should we tell YOU?"

"Because if you don't…" Kanji said, cracking his knuckles. "...We will BEAT it out of you!"

"Ooh, I am sooo scared!" CoolB said, shuddering in place. "NOT!"

Kanji growled as Gabe shook his head.

"It's no use…" Gabe sighed. "If Yan on his own was this tough, just imagine how hard it would be to interrogate FIVE of them."

Horkeukamui raised an eyebrow. "Don't you mean seven?"

"...So for some reason, I don't think we would have any more luck with the despair clones." Gabe muttered.

With that, they turned to the Shredder and Sho Minazuki, squatting their legs while rarely giving anyone any attention.

Horkeukamui let out a sigh. "Kanji, you were on the security team in the first Battle of the Luminaries. Are there any tricks you could show us?"

The bleached-hair boy frowned. "Um, not really. We only had two interrogations. The first one was when we threatened to destroy Pinstripe Potoroo's Tommy Gun if he didn't tell us everything. The second one was Barbatos Goetia. And you know how well THAT went."

"Yeah, if anything, you should consider yourself lucky that he actually bothered to humour you period." Lloyd sighed, shaking his head.

"Wait, you said that you threatened Pinstripe's Tommy Gun to get him to talk, right?" Claude asked.

"Yeah, and in hindsight, it was really pathetic." Kanji said, shaking his head.

Claude then smirked. "I think I got an idea. Does anyone have a phone? You know, I am kinda from a node with no phones sooo…"

The group looked at each other in confusion before getting out their respective phones. However, they were quick to notice Hibiki's phone looked quite old.

"Wow… I haven't seen a phone like that for a long while." Claire piped up.

Hibiki winced. "H-Hey, my only appearance in a game with a 'modern' setting was Capcom VS SNK 2: Mark of the MILLENNIUM!"

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. We probably wouldn't get modern phones if it wasn't for the Xillia crew." Lloyd shrugged.

Gabe shook his head. "What is it you want, Claude?"

"The official bios of the ones we have in the cage." The archer said, jerking his thumb towards them. "Minus the despair clones, of course."

Gabe nodded his head before going through his phone. After a few moments, he looked up.

"Um, got it." Gabe said, offering his phone to Claude.

The brown-skinned man accepted it and looked through it. "Hm. No. No. Maybe. Not really."

"...Okay, I'll bite. What are you hoping to accomplish?" Gabe asked.

"Unfortunately, nothing with these." Claude frowned. "Sure, I could make a COUPLE of them work… UNLESS…"

He then turned towards Kanji.

"Um, Kanji, could you come with me?" Claude asked.

The electromancer blinked twice. "H-Huh? Um, sure. But what for?"

"I think I know how to get our prisoners to tell us what we want." Claude offered.

"Yeah, fat chance!" CoolB taunted.

"There is no way that we would give up after coming all of this far!" Linn boasted.

Claude merely turned towards them. …Before giving a malicious smirk.

"I know. That is why I am going to pull all of the stops." Claude said.

CoolB and Linn shuddered as Claude looked at the others.

"Keep at it. Even if they won't break so easily, it is going to work." Claude offered.

While confused, Lloyd nodded his head. "Leave it to us."

"Right, shall we, Kanji?" Claude asked, putting his hands behind his back.

The bleached-hair boy, despite not knowing what Claude had planned, eagerly nodded before the two young men walked towards the door. The people in the cage looked at each other in worry.

"W-What do you think is going to happen to us?" Prayuth asked.

"I have no idea." Claire frowned. She then smirked before wrapping her arms around Yan. "But I know that Yan will protect us!"

The red-haired man blinked twice. "...Wait, ME?"

"Of course, who else?" Claire asked. "Prayuth?"

"Oi!" The Muay Thai fighter roared.

Gabe slumped his arms. "...THIS is the Big Bad for this tournament?"

(The Arena)

A blur of purple and gold had zoomed from all directions, striking Ganondorf. However, the warlock merely scoffed while blocking the barrage or at least in front of him. Letting out a loud shout, he emitted a sphere of dark energy around himself. Just in time to clash with Metaknight's blade and send him flying backwards. Ganondorf then flew forward and swung his sword downwards.

However, Metaknight snapped out of his daze before flying to the side to avoid it and spinning forward like a drill, striking Ganondorf's multiple times in the side. The Gerudo gritted his teeth in pain before emitting dark energy around him again, but Metaknight saw it coming and easily flew back to avoid it. Metaknight then proceeded to do a series of slashes while Ganondorf was recovering from his own attack.

Ganondorf growled before raising his sword to block Metaknight's own before using it to shove Metaknight away. The former then sent out a ball of energy with his free hand towards Metaknight. However, the puffball recovered in time to hit it back at Ganondorf. The two then proceeded to have a round of Dead's Man Volley with each other. However, Ganondorf soon lost the exchange and took the ball of light to the torso, sending him back. Metaknight then flew over to go on the offensive.

Only to be knocked out of the air by a bolt of electricity and onto the ground. Metaknight groaned before looking up. Just in time to roll to the side to avoid being impaled by an electric spear. Metaknight rolled backwards and stood up to see Ganondorf having put away his sword and now had a trident.

Metaknight narrowed his eyes. "So you have the trident from the Hyrule Warriors version of you."

"Well, technically, EVERY version of me IS me." Ganondorf smirked. "So why not be limited to the Ocarina of Time?"

"Well, you could use any weapon you want, it will take more than that to take me down." Metaknight boasted.

"We will see, my 'fellow Big Guy'." Ganondorf taunted.

Metaknight narrowed his eyes further before the two flew at each other. Despite having a lighter weapon, Ganondorf was more able to keep up with Metaknight's fast swings, matching it with his own speed. As their weapons clashed multiple times, Ganondorf then flew backwards and threw his trident forward to which Metaknight flew to the side to avoid.

Only for the trident to come out like a boomerang. Metaknight managed to hear this and moved to the side to avoid it. Ganondorf then caught his returning trident before jabbing his trident forward while engulfing the prong with a ball of electricity and shocking Metaknight before swinging his free fist with dark energy, knocking Metaknight to the ground. Ganondorf gave a dark grin before flying downwards.

Suddenly, a bright flash of light came out of nowhere and blinded Ganondorf, forcing the King of Evil to hold his eyes with his free hand in pain. Suddenly, a colourful and bright blur rammed its way into Ganondorf's side, knocking him away. Metaknight sat up in confusion, realising the blur was Anthrax.

Suddenly, he was pelted with red energy balls. At first, he was taken off-guard, but he thought quickly and swung his sword swiftly to deflect them. He then saw Ashley aiming her wand at him.

Metaknight narrowed his eyes. "And what gives you the right to interrupt our fight?"

Ashley merely shrugged. "Red, explain."

Immediately, the wand turned into a frowning Red.

"Okay, so I don't know if you noticed, but Ashley and I were fighting Anthrax and things were pretty normal at first. However, Ashley then started to talk down to Anthrax's… Unicorn magic. Anthrax got upset and told us, with me translating, of course, that unicorn magic is on the same level as holy and fairy magic and it could take down any evil. And Ashley was all like 'Yeah' and Anthrax was all right like 'Yeah' and out of the blue, Anthrax told us that her magic is able to even beat Ganondorf. Ashley seemed interested and decided to egg Anthrax into fighting Ganondorf. With me trying to stop her, seeing that if Anthrax is wrong, Ganondorf will get revenge on not only her, but also US. But Ashley and Anthrax didn't listen and the latter went 'Leeroy Jenkins' in unicorn and charged straight at Ganondorf."

By this time, Metaknight was blinking his wide eyes at Red's lengthy explanation.

"In conclusion, seeing that you were fighting him, we might as well distract you." Ashley said, shrugging her shoulders.

Metaknight again blinked five more times. "...Between this and your previous way of getting to that white mage, I need to get you out of the arena asap."

Ashley merely scoffed. "Like you would succeed."

Metaknight's non-existent eyebrow twitched before flapping his wings and flying towards Ashley and Red. The latter yelped before turning back into a wand, just in time for Ashley to grab it while narrowing her eyes and firing a series of projectiles at Metaknight, but the swordsman easily swiped Galaxia at Ashley.

"Stab in the Dark!"

With Ashley's shout, her wand was engulfed in smoke again, this time, turning into a katana to block Metaknight's own blade. However, the puffball merely flew to the side before going flying forward. Ashley tried to raise her katana to block the attack, but while she managed to do so, she found herself being forced back. Metaknight then flew up and did a spin kick, knocking Ashley to the ground. Ashley quickly sat up and swung her katana, but Metaknight easily blocked and despite having the smaller sword and size, he managed to shoved forward.

"Spear Me!" Ashley shouted, engulfing her sword in smoke. While it didn't hurt Metaknight, it did make him be taken back in surprise. Ashley then swung her weapon, this time, a long spear. Metaknight managed to block the attack, but it was last-minute and thus still sent him flying back to the side. Ashley then got out and decided to stab, using the range of the spear to her advantage.

However, Metaknight raised his sword to block the spear stab before flapping his wings and flying towards Ashley. The dark-haired girl quickly swung her spear horizontally, but Metaknight easily flew around the attack. While Ashley was recovering from her own attack, Metaknight did a single yet prominent slash into his opponent, sending her sprawling and dropping her spear on the ground. This resulted in said spear turning back into Red while holding his head.

"Ugh, I think we made a mistake agreeing with Anthrax to interrupt the fight between Ganondorf and Metaknight." Red groaned.

"Hush. We just need to take things to the air." Ashley scolded.

"...Umm, Metaknight could fly too." Red reminded. "And besides, even if he didn't, I don't usually be your broom AND your wand at the same time unless you could deal with one of those by your…"

Suddenly, Red froze in his spot. He then looked at Ashley who merely had her usual expressionless look on her face. Suddenly, she then smirked.

"...Oh no." Red frowned.

"Oh yes." Ashley said. "I don't think I have to command you to turn into a wand."

Red let out a groan before obliging. Ashley quickly grabbed it and started to concentrate, making Metaknight raise a non-existent eyebrow before quickly getting into a defensive position. Then, magical energy surrounded Ashley before her eyes opened with them flashing white.

"FLIGHT OF ICARUS!"

With that, she was engulfed in a blinding light, forcing Metaknight to use his stubby arm to shield his eyes. When the light cleared, Metaknight lowered his hand to see…

…Ashley now has white-feathered wings on her arms. Metaknight raised an eyebrow at this before narrowing his eyes.

"An interesting trick. But I have reason to believe it is just that… A trick." Metaknight said.

"Oh, really? Well, we will see about that." Ashley boasted.

With that, she started to flap her win… Arms rapidly and ascend up in the air. Metaknight merely looked stern before flapping his own wings and flying upwards.

"Shoot The Breeze!" Ashley shouted, aiming her wand at Metaknight and firing projectiles.

Only for the wand to shoot out non-lethal bullets. Metaknight wasn't not expecting such fast projectiles and took them. Ashley then continued firing her wand like a gun, sending more bullets. However, Metaknight was able to recover and swing his sword rapidly, managing to deflect the bullets away from him while advancing forward. Ashley just growled in annoyance.

"Ketchup Down!" Ashley shouted, sending another projectile, this time red. Metaknight just continued slashing, expecting to deflect it just like with the bullets.

SPLAT!

Imagine his surprise that instead, his entire mask was covered with ketchup which caused him to blink twice. Ashley nodded her head before continuing the assault.

"Chop To It!" Ashley shouted, turning her wand into an axe and flying toward before swinging it downwards, knocking Metaknight out of the air. Ashley then let herself down while putting her axe over her. It was then Metaknight looked up to see Ashley coming.

He then narrowed his eyes before turning his wings back into a cape.

CRASH!

That was the sound of Ashley's axe crashing into the ground. However, Metaknight was nowhere in sight. Ashley genuinely looked surprised as she looked around for where Metaknight was. …Only for said swordsman to grab Ashley from behind and proceed to tap-dance onto the witch's back before performing a suplex on her, knocking her down. As Ashley weakly got on her side, Metaknight glared down at his opponent(s).

"You have a lot of unpredictable attacks, but it seems that they are all flash and no substance, focusing more on shock value to take opponents off-guard." Metaknight said, coolly.

Suddenly, the axe turned back into a frowning Red. "Um, you DO realise that you just described WarioWare as a whole, right?"

"Red, I wish to have a conversation with you after we are done here." Ashley said, darkly without looking at her familiar.

The imp yelped before shuddering while Metaknight merely blinked twice. Letting out a sigh, he made his way over before spinning around. This created an orange tornado around him, managing to suck in Ashley and Red, striking them multiple times while spinning them around before stopping the attack and sending them flying over the ropes with them both too stunned to fly back.

After finishing his Mach Tornado, Metaknight merely let out a sigh while getting out a cloth to wipe his mask from the ketchup.

"As much as I hate to admit it, I am starting to see how Wario managed to get THAT girl to work for him if he merely played to her… Chaotic tendencies." Metaknight muttered.

Suddenly, a blur zoomed over him. Looking up, he saw what looked like an electric rainbow letting out a cry of pain before going over the ropes. Blinking again, he turned around to see Ganondorf panting heavily in anger while lowering his trident which looked like it was just used an attack.

"What have I done to deserve all of these interruptions?" Ganondorf asked.

Metaknight merely looked at Ganondorf in exasperation. "...Really? You are unironically asking that."

"I was referring to what I did RECENTLY, you fool!" Ganondorf shot back.

Metaknight merely rolled his eyes.

Ashley & Red, along with Ganondorf's elimination, Anthrax, landed in My Little Pony (the original, not Friendship). Anthrax fits in with the cheery ponies and even Red seems like he wanted to have a good time. Ashley… Not so much.

Dr. Nefarious Tropy gritted her teeth before sending a series of orbs forward. However, Coco Bandicoot merely acted quickly and moved around the incoming projectiles while advancing forward. However, N. Tropy quickly thrusted her tuning fork and sent out a horizontal energy barrier forward. But Coco created a Quantum Wall behind her and kicked off of it before spinning around and knocking N. Tropy down onto her back.

Coco then jumped up to land on top of N. Tropy's chest, but the blue-skinned woman raised her tuning fork to block the incoming ground punch before shoving it forward, sending Coco flying back. N. Tropy then got up and readied a counter attack. …Only for a sickle connected by a chain flew into her head, sending her staggering back. She then growled before glaring at the guilty party.

To see Axl Low waving at her with a cheeky grin on his face. He then sent out his sickle at N. Tropy, but unlike the last time, the mad scientist easily side-stepped it, causing it to embed into a corner post. Axl merely shrugged his shoulders before going to retreat it back.

"WAIT, MR. LOW!"

The British man (and N. Tropy) jumped at Coco's sudden shout.

"Don't take it out yet!" Coco yelled.

With that, she jumped up and grabbed the chains with her hands. Suddenly, she was propelled forward and kicked N. Tropy with both of her feet. As the latter fell back onto the ground, Axl looked in awe.

"Oh, right. I forget that Coco and her brother could grind on rails in It's About Time." Axl realised. He then smirked. "Yo, Coco!"

The she-bandicoot turned her head. Axl then sent out both of his sickles. However, they went around the two Crash Bandicoot women and went over the ropes, sticking into the barrier. Coco immediately smirked, knowing what was happening as she jumped onto one of the chains and grinding on it as if she was wearing roller skates. By this time, N. Tropy had got up and shot an energy shot.

But Coco just side-flipped to the other side of the chain and started to grind on it. While doing so, she got out her fruit bazooka. N. Tropy's eyes widened before running to the side to avoid the shot. However, Coco merely jumped back to the other chain and tried to fire her bazooka shot. N. Tropy managed to move to the side again, but this time, while she was able to avoid being hit directly, she was sent flying away from the blast.

However, N. Tropy was sent flying towards Axl. The blond man's grin vanished as she crushed him, knocking the two to the ground. This resulted in Axl making his sickle retract from the barrier, sending a startled Coco crashing onto the ground. The two time travellers before realising where they were. N. Tropy smirked before she was about to smash her tuning fork into Axl's face.

Axl yelped before raising his chain to block the incoming attack, however, N. Tropy kept trying to strike Axl, but the British man kept blocking. Realising that he couldn't keep playing defence forever, he went out one of his sickles upwards past N. Tropy and into the ceiling to use it as a makeshift grappling hook. However, N. Tropy saw what he was doing and merely sneered before holding onto them.

Unfortunately, despite having the insane range and capability of doing so, Axl rarely used it as a grappling hook and ended up spinning around the air with N. Tropy still holding onto him.

"Nice trick, but it is going to take a lot more than that to get me off!" N. Tropy boasted.

"But I wasn't TRYING to do a nice trick!" Axl insisted while the two were still spinning. "Or at least on purpose!"

N. Tropy's eyes widened at this. "Wait, what!?"

Indeed, just like in the first Megamix Tournament with Larcen Tyler, Axl was spinning around the arena helplessly with no hope of stopping. However, UNLIKE Larcen, Axl had TWO long-range sickle so acting quickly, he lashed out the other one out which ended up crashing into the barrier. This resulted in two coming to an abrupt stop with N. Tropy being sent flying out of the arena.

Coco saw this and laughed. "Nice one, Mr. Low! You really humiliated her!"

Suddenly, she heard groaning. Turning his head, he saw Axl slowly lowering himself to the ground while looking ill.

"Um, are you okay?" Coco asked, concerned.

"How did that cat burglar manage to send half of the section spinning around without losing his…" Axl started.

Suddenly, his eyes bugged out as he put his hands to his mouth with his face turning green. Immediately, he ran towards the nearest ropes and if he expected anything else, he puked his contents into the portal, causing the audience to react in disgust.

"...See? This is why sight is overrated." Toph muttered. "I can't imagine that it is pretty."

N. Tropy landed in Time Man's stage in Megaman: Powered Up. She immediately sat up with a grumpy look on her face.

"...Okay, my male counterpart didn't survive a single section either, but at least HE managed to get an elimination before going out." N. Tropy muttered, crossing her arms. "Well, I suppose there are more humiliating things to happen."

Then, a portal opened up over N. Tropy's head. She looked up and… Yeah, I think this speaks for itself.

Back to the arena, Annie Hamiliton and Aoi Umenokoji shrieked as they ran away from a barrage of soaring energy shots. Dr. Eggman let out a dark laugh before pushing a couple of buttons and sending out a lot of missiles from his blasters. They all went towards the two girls. However, while Aoi was understandably scared, Annie narrowed her eyes.

"Aoi, behind me!" Annie shouted before running forward. "Angel Breath!"

With that, she sent out a ring of energy towards the middle of the missile storm, this resulted in an explosion which resulted in a large crowd of smoke. Despite seeing that his missiles didn't hit his target head-on, Eggman crossed his arms confidently as he felt like he did enough damage.

Suddenly, he saw a light flash from the smoke. Before Eggman could do so, a heavenly beam of light shot from the smoke and hit Eggman's Egg Walker head-on, sending it onto its rear. When the light finally cleared, it revealed that Annie was kneeling down in a praying position with the image of a saint behind her. Aoi just looked in awe.

"Come on!" Annie urged.

While still stunned by Annie's… Religious attack, Aoi nodded her head with a stern look before the two then ran forward. By this time, Eggman had got up and swung his claw forward. But Aoi moved quickly and grabbed the claw before locking it in place.

"Annie, now!" Aoi shouted. The brunette nodded before she ran forward. Despite having one arm locked, Eggman swung the other robot arm, but Annie saw it coming and crouched down.

"Rainbow Rise!" Annie shouted, doing a jumping uppercut with a rainbow surrounding her hand, managing to perfectly clash. When the attack was done, Annie landed on top of said arm before kicking Eggman in the head. The mad scientist grunted in pain before gritting his teeth.

"BUZZ BOMBER!" Eggman yelled.

Annie blinked twice. "Buzz whatnow?"

Aoi, on the other hand, looked shocked. "Wait… It can't be."

Then, a blue blur came out of nowhere and towards the current fight. The three looked up to see that the blur was a blue and black mud dauber bug. Everyone then realised that it was one of Eggman's classic Badniks. Before anyone could say anything, the Buzz Bomber fired a spread shot of energy bullets from its stinger into Aoi, making her let her go. Eggman then used said arm to grab the flabbergasted Annie and threw her into Aoi, knocking the two women down. They both groaned before looking up at Eggman.

"Hey, what gives!" Annie roared. "You clearly didn't have that robot bug when you entered the area!"

"Well, I could summon Buzz Bomber in Sonic Smackdown." Eggman smirked. "In fact, they are not my only robot summon in said game."

Aoi's eyes bugged out. "Wait, there is MORE!"

"Mm-hmm." Eggman said, cheerfully. "Allow me to demonstrate."

With that, he put his fingers in his mouth and whistled. This summoned another bug robot, this time, a ladybug riding on the ground with one wheel and going straight towards Annie and Aoi. The two women shrieked before diving to the side. Eggman then whistled again, this time summoning a chrome robot, floating up with a jetpack while holding a gun before firing a shot, managing to get the two girls and knock them down.

"And now…" Eggman said before spreading his arms. "Hyper Buzz Bomber Force!"

With that, a swarm of Buzz Bomber appeared behind Eggman and flew forward in lines of three. They rammed into the two women, sending them sprawling back with each line charge until they both went underneath the ropes.

Annie and Aoi both landed in an empty train station. The two then got up and dusted themselves off.

"Ugh, I can't believe we didn't even survive the section!" Annie grumbled. "Furthermore, we lost to that enemy to cute, little woodland creatures!"

"Maybe we would have a chance to eliminate him if SOMEONE didn't drag us away from him, leaving our other ally to face him alone." Aoi muttered before sighing and looking away. "Whatever… Where are we, anyway?"

"AOI!"

Annie and especially Aoi's pupils shrank before turning around to see someone walking over. There, they saw a Casuasian man with blond hair and red pants. He was looking at Aoi with a lovestruck look on her face.

"Long time no see, my vanilla beauty!" Joe said, dumbly.

Aoi let out a deep sigh. "Hi, Joe…"

Annie blinked twice. "...Who?"

Joe proudly beat his fist against his chest. "I am from the first Street Fighter!"

Annie paused when she heard this. She then countered her fingers as if she was counting fighters. Joe's grin vanished as Aoi shook her head.

"I was talking about the one BEFORE Street Fighter II!" Joe snapped.

"Oh, that makes more sense. I mistook you for a generic punk in a beat-em-up." Annie noted.

Joe glared at Annie for this.

"I don't need YOUR input, Little Miss Flashy!" Joe shot back before looking back at Aoi with a lovestruck face. "Sooo, even though you are only here for ten minutes, wanna go on a mini-date? Here, I even got some items that would suit you!"

With that, he got out a box of vanilla chocolates with one hand and vanilla flowers with the other. Aoi looked absolutely exasperated while Annie blinked twice.

"...Um, I don't get it. What's the punchline?" Annie asked.

"You know Birdman, the tournament host from the original Ultimate Video Rumble?" Aoi asked with a deep sigh. "Let's just say that he found me… Uninteresting."

"Tatsumaki Senpu-kyaku!"

Allen Snider's eyes bugged out before diving to the side to avoid a fiery tornado. However, when said tornado saw that it had missed and stopped to reveal to be Ken Masters and while he took some time to recover from his attack, Allen was also recovering from the last-minute dodge which left Ken regaining his balance and ran towards towards Allen and leapt up to do a downwards axe kick.

However, Allen snapped out of his daze and yelped before rolling to the side to avoid the axe kick. Allen then acted quickly and did a sweeping kick to Ken's feet, knocking him off of his feet. However, the blond man managed to recover and land on his feet before flipping back onto his feet. However, Allen then rushed forward.

"Triple Break!" Allen shouted, jumping up and doing three upwards kicks in succession. However, while Ken was able to see the attack coming and blocked it, this sent him skidding back on his feet. Allen then ran forward before doing a flying kick, but Ken managed to catch Allen's kick out of the air before spinning him around in place before the American flag-clad man crashed on his back. Ken was about to kick him while he was down, but Allen managed to recover and kick Ken in the stomach, causing him to stagger back.

"Rising Dragon!" Allen shouted, doing a jumping uppercut to Ken's chin, sending HIM onto his back. Unlike Ken, Allen didn't waste his chance by pouncing onto Ken and proceeded to beat his face. However, while Ken grunted in pain, he managed to grab onto Allen by his gi and then rolled backwards like a ball before throwing him over him and onto his back.

Allen groaned while sitting up while rubbing his back. "Ugh… You haven't lost your touch."

Ken got up with a sigh. "Well, ignoring the fact that I DID appear in the latest Street Fighter game, I DO spent a lot of time teaching a lot of rookies my moves."

"Really? I thought that you were trying to HIDE from the world." Allen asked, raising an eyebrow.

Ken merely shrugged his shoulders. "Eh, I could resist seeing the eager spark in their eyes."

Allen smirked. "Huh. Couldn't resist, could we?"

"Yeah… Might as well show them how to deal with tournaments like these." Ken sighed. "Come on. Let's show our nodes about different moves!"

Allen eagerly nodded, charging up fiery energy in his hands. Ken saw this and gave a small smirk.

"Trying to take ME on with fire?" Ken boasted before charging up his own energy in his fists.

"FIRE FORCE!"

"SHINKU HADOKEN!"

With that, they sent fiery energy balls at each other. This resulted in the two projectiles clashing, resulting in an explosion of fire which forced Allen to shield himself with his arms. However, Ken on the other hand was used to fire and he ran towards the explosion and rolled underneath it, managing to barely avoid being burned. After that, he broke out of his roll and ran towards Allen.

"Shoryuken!" Ken shouted, doing his own jumping uppercut and knocked Allen into the air. However, Ken wasn't done yet as he did a series of kicks, not only striking him and keeping him juggled in the air for a few seconds before sending him to the ground with an axe kick, sending Allen to the ground. The red-haired groaned before getting up. His eyes then widened when he saw Ken rushing forward before charging up a spinning kick. Allen acted quickly before raising his arms.

Only for the spinning kick to do two things. 1. Has a black calligraphy-like stroke around it. 2. It broke towards Allen's guard, making him stand stunned for a moment. However, he lowered his eyelids before collapsing on his knees. Ken acted quickly and grabbed Allen before he had a chance to recover, lifted him up and threw him over the ropes. He then dusted his hands together.

"Huh. I guess Allen has forgotten that while IV isn't the latest game in our series anymore, Ryu and I could use Focus Attack in Super Smash Bros." Ken noted.

Allen landed in Global Champion where he got into a spar with McCoy.

(Dome; Junko's Hideout)

"This is ridiculous! We searched for this place for the THIRD time!"

"Oh, I am sorry! It is just that the last time we left this place unattended, a CERTAIN group thought it was a good idea to not only use it as their hideout but also used the items of the PREVIOUS hideout owner!"

"Oi, get off our backs, kid!"

Maki and Himiko had decided to join Cortex, N. Gin, Rilla Roo, Ridley and I-No go to the Junko's old hideout seeing that the former two had experience with Junko and the rest of the group. Needless to say though, despite knowing that they had bigger fish to fry, they obviously had their issues.

"Oh, I am sorry! I guess I am just biassed against people who, directly or not, caused all of this to happen!" Himiko scolded.

"Oh, come on! You can't blame ALL of this on this!" Cortex scolded.

"Look, I get it, it is unfair for… Anyone to predict all of… THIS." Maki said before narrowing her eyes. "But that excuse could only go so far when you all should know better!"

"To be fair, despite everything that is happening, we never see the hide nor hair of Junko and by extension, Tsugumi." N. Gin said, scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah, DIRECTLY!" Himiko scolded.

"Look, I just want to know what you guys were thinking when you decided to use the hideout of Junko Enoshima!" Maki said. "ESPECIALLY the ones who directly or indirectly caused trouble for her in the Tournament of Kikai!"

Ridley winced. "E-Excuse me for pointing fingers, but WE weren't the ones who suggested.

"He is telling the truth, Maki. In fact, he, Dr. Cortex and K. Rool were the most vocal against it." N. Gin added with Rilla Roo nodding his head.

"Alright then. When did you-know-who convinced everyone to go along with it?" Maki challenged.

Cortex frowned. "Well…"

"Because it is go big and go home."

Everyone's eyes widened before turning their heads to see Oume Goketsuji walking forward with her hands behind her back.

"O-Oume!" Cortex gasped.

"It is as you said: Any villain that was involved in Xehanort's plot in the Tournament of Kikai were understandably weary about dealing anything with her." Oume explained while walking forward. "THAT is why I decided to go through with the villain plot."

Himiko blinked twice. "Umm, what?"

"How much were you told about my plan?" Oume asked.

Maki raised a suspicious eyebrow. "Admittedly just the outline. Oh, and how you kidnapped the loved ones of the UVR champions, brainwashed them and forced them to fight each other."

"That is correct. You know how much Bison, the usual Big Bad at these things, loves power, right?" Oume asked. "Well, I have to outdo a plan that not even he would come up with. Not only daring to piss off the champions, but also using the items of someone that not even the villain would deal with."

"Oh, well, I think you already know this, but a lot of good THAT did!" Himiko scolded.

"Oh, come now. Technically speaking, our plan worked." I-No scolded. "It is just that Bison doesn't appreciate it."

Maki glared at I-No. "Are you serious?"

"Just saying. If you are going to bitch, at least bitch for the right reasons." The guitarist shrugged.

Maki and Himiko growled at this. However, after that was an awkward silence. Oume just stood there, crossing her arms while the other villains nervously shifted their eyes towards each other.

Himiko paused. "...Wanna go give this room one more search, Maki?"

"Might as well…" The assassin sighed.

With that, the two teenage girls walked off, leaving the villains by themselves and making the awkward silence intensify. Finally, Cortex broke the silence with a sigh.

"I'm… We're… Sorry." Cortex groaned.

Oume merely looked… Stern.

"Look, I get it. We all knew that Bison wouldn't have wanted you or your sister and misled you thinking that you had a chance." Cortex frowned.

Oume raised an eyebrow. "...But?"

"But… We really did like your plan." Cortex insisted.

"Mm-hmm." Oume said, crossing her arms.

"No, really. I am really impressed by how ambitious." Cortex insisted.

"Yes, not even Bison would dare to mess with an UVR champion." I-No nodded. "Especially after what happened in the third Megamix Tournament."

"Not only that, you actually had the gonads to use items that Junko Enoshima, knowing that it could attract her just like having a Danganronpa character in the security team AND a Mystery Fighter." Ridley noted. "Needless to say, we were quite vocal about it."

"But you stood strong. You were willing to go all out so that you would risk attracting her." N. Gin offered.

A good distance away, Maki and Himiko watched in exasperation.

"...This is exactly why we had to excuse ourselves." Himiko muttered.

"Yeah, no one that we wouldn't speak up at least once…" Maki said.

Back with the villains, Cortex continued.

"Furthermore, we joined your side because you actually believed in your worldview." Cortex said.

Oume raised an eyebrow.

"I mean I want to take over the world. And as much as I have to deal with those pesky bandicoots, I also know that they are far from the only threats in my node." Cortex said.

"Agreed. The strong usually eat the weak so naturally we would want to join your side rather than your sister's." Ridley nodded.

Oume paused. "...And over Bison?"

The group growled before they were about to answer that in unison.

"...BEFORE you found out that he was playing you all for fools." Oume elaborated.

The group paused. Cortex then sighed before speaking up.

"Honestly, I would be more than content following Bison… AT THE TIME." Cortex said, trying to not go into a rant about Bison's actions. "However, while I want to take over the world, I always want to squash those who get in my way."

"Yeah, K. Rool and I joined your team because we think it would be more fun than joining Bison's team!" Ridley agreed.

"Indeed! I am all for Bison's plans, but even now I want to fuck around with villains more than heroes every once in a while." I-No smirked.

Oume paused at this.

"Look, we never thought that Bison would want to take you as his wife, but we also genuinely thought that we would all be impressing him." Cortex noted. "But he actually led us all on!"

"Yeah, about that…" Oume said.

"Hm?" N. Gin asked.

"Apparently, he only wanted to lead me and Otane on." Oume muttered. "He claims that WE jumped the gun and took you guys under his nose."

Cortex's eyes widened in disgust. "Excuse me!?"

"In hindsight, I don't recall any of us asking for Bison's permission or even input." N. Gin noted. "In fact, we should have seen the red flags when Bison got confused when the three teams split up."

Cortex's eyebrow twitched. "N. Gin, do you want me to slap you?"

The rocket-headed man's eyes lit up at this. "Oh, yes, please!"

Cortex paused at this. "...Why do I keep forgetting that those threats won't work on you anymore?"

I-No shook her head. "Look, we are villains. Doing bad things is what we do. But sometimes it is nice to do bad things with other people. Sure, I can't say I had much fun in the second Megamix Tournament and the first Battle of the Luminaries, but there were a couple of moments where I had enjoyment."

"And at the end of the day, when you really think about it, we could have continued the plan, even after finding out the truth." Ridley frowned. "What really thwarted it was… Ourselves."

"Yeah… I kinda figured it…" Oume spat. "But you know what? I don't even care about my plan OR Bison. All I care about is one thing…"

"A-And that is?" N. Gin asked.

"At the end of the day, Xuan Dou Zhi Wang wouldn't have gotten the Despair Extractor and the Despair clones if it wasn't for us. So that means one thing." Oume said before frowning. "If they succeed, that means it was because of OUR plan."

The villains' pupils shrank at this.

"But that means…" Cortex sputtered.

"That's right! Basically, the tournament would be over because we would be putting all of our energy for someone who wouldn't give us the time of day and we would have to live with that for life!" Oume exclaimed.

"N-No!" Cortex cried out.

"K. Rool and I are already going to go through hell and back back in the Smash Mansion for what we did to Pichu!" Ridley said, gripping his head. "We don't NEED this!"

"Exactly! So yeah, I don't know if I could forgive you nor do I know if I even want to." Oume said before letting a deep sigh. "...But for now, let's try to minimise the damage."

"Y-Yeah… I don't mind having bad rumours spread about me, but I don't think I could live with THAT going over our heads." I-No frowned.

"R-Right… Let's clean things up and then we could talk about this, Oume." Cortex offered.

Rilla Roo nodded his head as Oume raised her eyebrow. She then sighed.

"Sure, so I was kinda filled with everything that happened, but is there anything new?" Oume asked.

"Well, nothing major. But…" N. Gin started.

While the villains exchanged information, Maki and Himiko just watched on, not knowing how to feel about this.

"...Imagine things going to pot THIS badly that you have to see having a villain get a pep talk about ruining lives as a positive." Himiko muttered.

"...I don't even know where to begin telling Della about half of the stuff that happened here." Maki sighed.

(Dome; Entrance)

Kyo Kusanagi and Benimaru Nikaido ran in different directions to avoid a giant, black blur. The blur, which was Volcarona, did an u-turn to turn around and fly towards his opponents. However, Kyo and Benimaru narrowed their eyes before doing an uppercut in their respective elements of fire and electricity to where the Pokemon's chin would be, sending it flying away.

As Volcarona shrieked in pain, it recovered before breathing out a large stream of fire at the two. However, Benimaru ran in front of Kyo and engulfed his arm in electricity before swinging it down, directing the fire away from them. Kyo then rushed from behind his friend and jumped up while igniting his hands in fire and spinning around, striking Volcarona. However, the moth spun around and struck Kyo with his wing.

Despite the hard strike, Kyo quickly recovered when he hit the ground, rolling into a kneeling position. Benimaru then ran forward and did a flip which summoned a bolt of electricity from the ground. However, Volcarona flew out of the way and went up into the sky. Kyo and Benimaru frowned, knowing that they don't have any typical projectiles.

"Um, Kyo, I don't suppose you could fly just like in King of Fighters: Sky Stage?" Benimaru asked.

The pyromancer looked at Benimaru in disbelief. "...I'll do better than that. I will actually remember that game without you telling me!"

Then, Volcarona went on the offensive by rolling itself forward while engulfing himself in a flaming wheel. Kyo and Benimaru yelped before running to the side to avoid being run over. However, Volcanrona wasn't done yet as it steered its Flame Wheel towards the two, but Kyo and Benimaru kept dodging him. Unfortunately, Volcarona didn't look like it was going to stop and it continued rolling.

…Only for it to crash into the side of the hotel. Kyo and Benimaru both blinked twice at what had happened while Volcarona broke out of his Flame Wheel and laid down dazed. Then. Mr. Moseby ran out of the hotel, after hearing the crash.

"What is going on!?" Moseby shouted before seeing the downed Volcarona. "No Heartless moths in the lobby!"

"...He isn't IN the lobby." Kyo snarked.

By this time, Volcarona broke out of its daze and flew up. It then started to flap its wings rapidly which resulted in a large buzzing noise which forced Moseby to cover his ears in pain. This resulted in a greenish shockwave to go towards Kyo and Benimaru. The latter narrowed his eyes.

"Raijinken!" Benimaru shouted, punching his fist forward while engulfing it in a ball of electricity, negating the projectile. However, despite doing so, he and Kyo ended up holding their ears in pain from the noise of the soundwave. Volcarona then flew forward and did a tackle, knocking the two to the ground. It then opened its maw to bite Kyo.

However, Kyo managed to snap out of his daze in time to grab Volcarona's maw before it could bite him. This resulted in the two getting into a power struggle, though it looked like Volcarona was winning. Benimaru then got up to his feet and grabbed his hands around the head of the moth.

"Kyo, let go!" Benimaru shouted. After the pyromancer obliged, Benimaru made another plan. "Benimaru Collider!"

With that, he engulfed Volcarona in electricity. The Pokemon cried out in pain before emitting himself in a burst of fire. Benimaru yelped, being knocked to the ground with burns on his body. Volcarona then flew up and charged straight at Benimaru.

…Only for it to miss completely and skid across the ground. Kyo, Benimaru and Moseby all blinked twice at this. Then, Volcarona flew off of the ground and flew towards the two to try to tackle Kyo and Benimaru. The two Team Japan representatives went to dodge out of the way. …Until Volcarona flew up into the air and used Flamethrower onto the two. Kyo and Benimaru's eyes widened before running around to avoid it.

"Okay, that is IT! I had it with this bug!" Kyo growled.

"Same here, but what can we do? It doesn't seem to be super-effective against fire or electricity!" Benimaru pointed out.

"Oh yeah, I was wondering about that." Kyo noted. "Why isn't your electromancy working on it?"

Benimaru blinked twice. "Um, because Bug or Fire aren't weak to Electric?"

Kyo's eyes widened. "But it is FLYING! Are you saying that GROUND-types could affect it?"

"That's… Actually a good question." Benimaru frowned.

"Um, maybe it is because of my lack of knowledge of Pokemon that makes me not get the context…" Moseby frowned before shouting. "BUT HOW IS THIS RELEVANT TO BEATING THAT DEMON MOTH!?"

It was then Moseby's shout had alerted Volcarona to him and went from Kyo and Benimaru to him flying forward. The dark-skinned man yelped before turning around and running off. Benimaru's eyes widened before pulling his arm back and charging up electricity in it.

"Raiha…"

With that, he thrusted it forward.

"..JIN-OU KEN!"

Benimaru then sent out a giant beam of electricity from his arm, straight towards Volcarona. This struck the Pokemon in the back, not only sending him to the side of the hotel, but away from Moseby, making the British man sighed in relief. Volcarona then collapsed on the ground before weakly flying up. Kyo and Benimaru narrowed their eyes before rushing forward.

…Only for Volcarona to keep crashing into the wall while flying up. Kyo, Benimaru and Moseby looked in awe as Volcarona continued to alternate between going up and crashing into the wall.

"...The Tipton Hotel had better get a lot of publicity from this collab." Moseby muttered.

Benimaru gave Moseby a double-take at this. "Wait, WHAT!?"

Kyo then stepped forward while looking up. "...Well, it escaped, but at least it is doing so with its tail between its non-existent legs, seeing that it is going around drunk."

"You say that, but didn't it feel like it was already acting drunk while fighting?" Benimaru asked. "Like we did some heavy damage to it at the start of the fight, but not THAT big?"

"Maybe Volcarona has low defences? I don't know. I could barely remember all of the names, let alone their stats of the Pokemon." Kyo shrugged.

"Wait, what did you say that thing's name was?" Moseby asked.

"Volcarona." Kyo repeated.

Moseby's eyes widened at this. He then held his head for a moment, looking like he was getting a migraine.

"Wait… Isn't that the same type of Pokemon that destroyed the original Okron Tournament?" Moseby asked.

"The very one." Benimaru said.

Moseby continued to grip his head. "Ugh, maybe I AM getting too old for this, how could I forget such a large event?"

"To be fair, we had forgotten as well." Kyo offered.

"A lot of us did." Benimaru nodded.

Moseby looked up with wide eyes. "Wait, WHAT!?"

"Yeah, I don't get it either. We thought there was only one Okron Tournament, but apparently there are two." Benimaru frowned.

"But… How could SO many people forget what is basically Mothra destroying the Megamix Dome?" Moseby asked.

"That IS a good question." Benimaru said, rubbing his chin. "Maybe because it has to do with the fact that the Okron Tournament is…"

"Um, don't get me wrong, this IS an interesting topic." Kyo said before frowning. "But I think we are going off-topic."

Benimaru's pupils shrink. "Oh, right! We have to tell the others about this!"

"Come on, I will show you to the security team room." Kyo offered. "Even if no one is there to answer our questions, you could still talk to a certain someone."

Benimaru gritted his teeth. "Oh, I will."

Kyo looked up at Moseby. "Yo, you are coming, old man?"

The dark-skinned man. "I would get offended for being called that, but this whole tournament has made me nostalgic for the twins' antics! Seriously, all I was warned about was having fights in the lobby and that's it!"

"Yeah, it is like every post-resurgence UVR is going out of its way to outdo each other." Kyo frowned.

"So yeah, I am staying put in the lobby!" Moseby said. "I don't know what else to say, but good luck! Because you are going to need it!"

With that, he stomped off towards the hotel. Kyo and Benimaru just looked exasperated as he walked in.

"...And this is why you don't have slice-of-life live-action people as part of your staff." Kyo snarked.

Benimaru shook his head. "Come on… Even if that Volcarona is injured, it is too dangerous to leave it unchecked."

Kyo nodded his head before he and Benimaru went back into the dome. At the same time, three certain people exited the hotel while looking back.

"Well, it is clear that Drake didn't pick Moseby based on his manners." F.A.N.G spat.

"I WANT to say that Moseby is just being Moseby, but even for him, that was more grumpy than usual." Sora frowned.

Bison paused before looking up at the sky in exasperation. However, once he did, his eyes bugged out.

"Um, maybe this is just a coincidence, but could it be because of THAT?" Bison asked.

F.A.N.G and Sora looked up at the night sky and just like Bison, their pupils shrank.

"...Um, guys, I know that you may not want to hear this but…" Sora frowned.

"I know, I know, it is going to be harder than I thought to take back my role as the more feared villain after… THAT!" Bison groaned.

"...Not exactly what I am going to say, but sure."

(The Arena)

"Diving Tackle!"

Chairperson yelped before raising her arms to block a diagonally drill kick from Alice Garnet Nakata. However, the guard was a success, Chairperson still found herself staggering backwards. After Alice landed on the ground, she did a series of punches to Chairperson (which resulted in explosions of pachinko tokens), sending the dark-haired girl sprawling onto her back, groaning.

Only to see Alice fly up into the air, forming into a ball which temporarily blocked the starlight. Chairperson again yelped before rolling to the side to avoid a rolling attack from Alice. When the blonde got up while holding her head, dizzy from her other attack, Chairperson quickly got up and did a series of punches and kicks to Alice's face and stomach. However, they went at a slow pace. While they still hurt, Alice was able to recover in time to catch a punch.

Acting quickly, Alice threw Chairperson over her shoulder and onto her back before kicking Chairperson away. The Asian girl managed to get up on her side before rolling into a kneeling position before sweeping her leg out and managing to catch Alice by surprise, knocking her onto her back. Acting quickly, Chairperson got up and latched onto the blonde before punching her with punches.

Alice grunted in pain before frantically holding up her arms, managing to block Chairperson's punches. Acting quickly, she grabbed onto Chairperson's shirt and threw her over. With that, Alice managed to get up to her feet before rushing at Chairperson while she was just recovering. However, Chairperson yelped before doing a jumping uppercut in retaliation.

…Only for Alice to simply stagger back after receiving the uppercut as Chairperson landed on the ground.

"Umm… That was it?" Alice asked, blinking twice.

Chairperson returned the gesture. "Yeah, that was it."

"Umm, where do you learn to fight?" Alice asked.

"Um, an online correspondence course run by Dan Hibiki." Chairperson explained.

Alice's eyes widened before lowering them. "...Yeah, that sounds right."

Chairperson's pupils shrank at this before narrowing her eyes.

"Um, WOW? You really don't have any respect for the dead, do you?" Chairperson asked.

Alice was taken back. "H-Huh?"

"Sure, Mr. Hibiki is fighting life-and-death in the Recovery Room and yet you are mocking him despite the amount of pain he is in." Chairperson scolded.

Alice winced. "N-No, I didn't mean it like that."

"Really? Then, what DO you mean!?" Chairperson challenged while crossing her arms.

"Um, well…" Alice sputtered.

Chairperson sternly walked over to Alice and crouched down.

"On your knees!"

With that, she did a hard sweeping kick, knocking Alice onto her knees. Chairperson then got up while still glaring down at Alice.

"I can't believe you! Even though you know that there are people going through a painful cycle of life-and-death, you had the gall to make a joke at their expense!" Chairperson scolded, wagging her finger at Alice.

"I-I didn't mean to! I forgot!" The blonde insisted.

"You forgot! You forget that SEVEN people are dead!?" Chairperson exclaimed in disbelief. "So you're telling me that you forget that TERRY is dead!?"

Alice's pupils shrank. "N-No!"

"And how is this any different!? Would you like it if someone talked poorly about Terry when he is currently dead!?" Chairperson snapped.

By this time, tears formed in Alice's eyes. "No…"

"Then, have some respect for the dead! Even if they are going to be revived at the end of the night!" Chairperson snapped.

"S-Sorry…" Alice said.

Chairperson shook her head before walking away. "Honestly, I know that there is nothing we could do about the chaotic nature of this tournament, but that is no reason to lose our humanity!"

Alice was now completely ashamed with tears falling from her eyes and onto the platform. Chairperson then stopped before glaring behind her. She then pointed at Alice.

"ARISE!"

Suddenly, Alice went up high into the air as if hit by a strong uppercut. She then dropped like a stone into the portal. By this time, the crowd and even a few fighters looked with wide eyes. Chairperson just groaned while holding her forehead.

"Ugh, I know I shouldn't talk about this, but how are we going to save the tournament if we have people talking like this?" Chairperson muttered. "Especially one who isn't a villain or even normally a jerk?"

Alice landed in Granblue Fantasy. While it obviously took a bit to recover from Chairperson's Lecture Attack, she soon got into a fight with Anila and was quickly surprised by how much the latter fought like Terry Bogard, albeit as a sexy, sheep woman.

Rocket Raccoon gritted his teeth before firing an electric projectile from one of his many bigger-than-him guns.

"Hadoken!"

Said projectile clashed with another blue projectile, negating both of them out. Rocket just grunted in annoyance before getting ready to fire another shot.

"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

Rocket's eyes widened before acting quickly and diving to avoid a disc of green electricity. However, this left him wide open for Ken Masters to rush over and punt him like a football. The Guardian of the Galaxy was sent painfully bouncing against the canvas. He then groaned before using his gun to prop himself up on his feet.

"Hadoken!"

"Supreme Thunder!"

Rocket's eyes bugged out before burrowing underground to avoid another energy ball and stream of electricity and proceeded to avoid around the arena. Ken and Sailor Jupiter frowned before paying attention to the ground to see where Rocket would pop up, A few seconds later, Rocket popped out of the ground and fired a gatling-like gun at Ken and Sailor Jupiter, but the two saw it coming and ran to the side to avoid it.

Rocket just clicked his tongue. "Oi, why are you butting into my fight!?"

"Dude, Ryu and Chun-Li told me about you when you appeared in Marvel VS Capcom." Ken snarked. "You are somehow just as dangerous as the VILLAINS!"

Rocket merely smirked at this. "Sorry, bud, but if you think complimenting is going to make things easier for you, you got another thing coming."

Ken and Sailor Jupiter rolled their eyes at this. Rocket Raccoon then took advantage of this by throwing a grenade forward. His opponents looked horrified before diving to the side to avoid being caught up in an explosion. It was then Rocket opened fire with his gatling gun, alternating the two while they were down, causing them to cry out in pain. Ken gritted his teeth before holding out his hands.

After firing some bullets into Sailor Jupiter's body, he went back to Ken. However, a giant flaming ball formed in front of him, blocking the incoming bullets. Rocket's eyes widened before running forward while he continued to fire at Ken. However, the blond man just ran forward while holding his fireball in front of him before jumping up while holding his fireball over it while throwing it down, resulting in an explosion of fire which sent Rocket flying away.

Fortunately, Rocket was able to stop himself by activating the jetpack on his back and barely managing to recover himself. He then glared down at Ken who was still holding up his flaming orb with one finger.

"Okay, I KNOW that you don't have those in the games!" Rocket accused.

"I don't. But I DO have weapons in Brawlhalla!" Ken boasted.

Meanwhile, Sailor Jupiter ran forward while charging up her own elemental orb over her head. "Jupiter Coconut Cyclone!"

Rocket immediately prepared to fire a counter-projectile at the orb. However, instead of showing it upwards, Sailor Jupiter threw it DOWNWARDS at the ground underneath Rocket which resulted in an upwards pillar of electricity, managing to hit Rocket and causing him to cry out in pain. As much as he would rather eat his own tail off than admit it, he was in trouble. So he then got out another grenade and threw it downwards.

"SJ!" Ken shouted.

"I see it!" The Sailor Scout said, narrowing her eyes.

With that, they ran in opposite directions from the grenade. However, instead of an explosion, this resulted in a burst of green pulsing energy that didn't send Ken and Sailor Jupiter flying away and rather being forced BACK towards the direction of where the grenade which resulted in the two people slamming their backs against each other. As they laid stunned, Rocket smirked before getting out a grenade launcher.

"Man, I love the Gravistack Grenade!" Rocket smirked.

With that, he aimed his gun at the two and fired. However, Ken was able to snap out of his daze and saw the shot coming. With his eyes widening, he quickly shoved Sailor Jupiter away from the shot. While the latter was taken out of harm's way, Ken was sent flying back and over the ropes. Sailor Jupiter groaned before looking up and when she realised what had happened, her jaw dropped.

"M-Mr. Masters?" Sailor Jupiter asked.

Rocket blinked twice before scoffing. "Okay, WOW. Sacrificing for someone is one thing, but for a person you just met? And people call me out for looking down on heroes."

Sailor Jupiter growled before getting up.

Ken landed in Gran Turismo where he took his aggressions out of a sports car.

Platinum the Trinity snickered as she bounced on a pogo stick, bouncing around the arena. As they did so, they moved around a bunch of folding fans going her way. Despite this, Luna looked back and snuck out her tongue. Mai Shiranui growled as she continued to run towards the retreating Platinum and jumped up into the air.

"Musasabi no Mai!" Mai shouted, diving down like a flying squirrel. This actually took Platinum as they yelped before hopping off to the side to avoid the attack. However, this left her left open for Mythra to run in from the side and slash at Platinum, knocking the magical girl down. They groaned before looking up to see both Mai and Mythra standing over her, glaring at her for her comments when she first entered the section.

Gritting her teeth, Platinum pumped her staff in the air. This resulted in a ring of hearts around the staff with the gem glowing blue. Platinum's eyes lit up before giving an evil smirk. She then swung her staff at Mai and Mythra easily jumped back. However, they didn't expect Platinum's staff to turn into a flail with a hammer-head that looked like a cutesy cat head on it.

Mai and Mythra were not expecting this and were knocked to the ground. Platinum then pulled her flail back and swung it downwards towards Mythra. However, the swordswoman raised her blade to block the attack. Mai then got up and ran up before kicking Platinum in the face. The magical girl staggered back as Mai went in for another strike, but Platinum recovered in time before summoning a heart underneath her feet and riding it away from the two.

Luna looked back with a cheeky grin. "A lot of good boobies are getting you! It is making you go slow!"

Mai growled. "Excuse me!? I'll let you know that I am a ninja!"

"Darling, I am in the same node as BANG SHISHIGAMI." Luna taunted. "That means nothing to me!"

Mai's eyebrow twitched before pointing her fan at Mythra. "What about HER!?"

The swordswoman's eyes bugged out at this. "ME!?"

"At least I could RUN in my outfit." Mai said before glaring at Mythra. "But look how tight her outfit is!"

"Excuse me!? Sure, most of your outfit is… Loose, the rear part of your outfit is up so that it looks like it is giving you a wedgie!?" The photomancer scolded.

"Really? REALLY!? Is THAT why Sakurai considered me 'not for good boys and girls' when YOUR jumpsuit is…" Mai started.

Then, Mai was engulfed in electricity, thanks to her shock collar. However, at this time, Mythra and Platinum were used to it as they were hardly fazed.

"This is ridiculous! Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is considered a downgrade compared to the first game!" Mai scolded. "You shouldn't be able to get in! You are weeb-bait!"

"I mean you are not wrong, Mai Shirabooby, but you have no right to say that!" Luna scolded.

Mai and Mythra looked at Platinum in disbelief before looking at each other and looking back at Platinum.

"Neither do YOU!" Mai and Mythra snapped in unison.

Luna blinked twice. "...Sena, do you know what these Boobzillas are talking about?"

"Why are you asking ME? For better or for worse, you are… An expert on insults?" The boy's soul retorted.

Mai and Mythra's eyebrow both twitched before Mai got out a fan from her top and threw it forward. Platinum yelped before turning her staff into a stop sign to block it. Mythra then rushed in to slash at Platinum before turning her staff again, this time into a pogo to bounce high up into the air. Platinum then summoned a white, transparent balloon and latched onto it.

"And now…" Luna smirked before raising her staff and making the gem change colour again. When it changed to cyan, her eyes lit up before her smirk grew larger as she aimed her staff like a shotgun. It then fired a white cat-like missile out of it. Mai and Mythra were not expecting this and could do nothing from the explosion from the missile, sending them both flying away.

Platinum aimed away and fired, this time at Mai. However, the ninja managed to get up in time. Narrowing her eyes, she ran over to the incoming missile and jumped up and LANDED on the missile before using it as a footstool and flying towards her. Platinum yelped before popping her balloon, allowing herself to drop down to avoid an aerial attack from Mai.

However, Mythra then rushed forward and swung her sword at Platinum, knocking her away. Mythra then rushed forward while Platinum was downed. However, the younger blonde looked up and acted quickly before pointing her staff at her and fired a giant bubble forward at it. Mythra then swung her sword at it, but instead of popping it, she ended up being trapped in it.

However, before Platinum could do anything, she was bombarded by a bunch of fans. Mai continued throwing fans at the magical girl, not giving her a chance to avoid them which forced Platinum to use her stop sign staff transformation to block it. By this time, the bubble trapping Mythra inside popped. She then raised up her sword while charging it up with light energy. Platinum looked up and yelped before jumping back to avoid the downwards slash.

…But Mythra's Lightning Buster art didn't stop at the downwards slash as she did a series of super-fast slashes, knocking Platinum clear over the ropes with no hope of return.

"That was too much, Mythra!" Pyra scolded.

The blonde paused in disbelief. "You gotta be kidding me. That brat has been the worst type of disrespectful. She deserved it."

"...I suppose that she needed to learn some discipline. Especially since she seems to drag that other soul into her messes." Pyra said before sighing. "Even still, if you don't control your temper with people annoying you, you may end up making a fool out of yourself."

Mythra merely scoffed at this. "Not if I successfully take care of said person that is annoying me."

Meanwhile, Mai looked at Mythra with a grumpy frown.

"Ugh, as much as I hate to admit it, that Mythra girl is stronger than I thought." Mai muttered. "Not helping if I CAN take her, she could just switch to Pyra and tank my flames."

Suddenly, her pupils shrink when she realises something. Around this time, Mythra stopped her internal conversation with Pyra before turning to see Mai.

"Well, I take it the truce is over?" Mythra asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Um, yeah, but before that, I have a question for you." Mai said.

Mythra narrowed her eyes before getting into a stance. "Yes?"

"...Are lightning and light the same thing?" Mai asked.

Mythra immediately paused, dropping her guard. "Um, what?"

"You know how in some games certain elements are considered the same 'type' like water and ice or wind and lightning." Mai explained.

Mythra blinked twice, completely confused. "Umm, light and lightning are their own separate elements in our games. Oh, and I don't know if you want to know, but that goes for fire, water, ice, earth, wind and darkness."

Mai gave a big grin. "Thank you. I just wanted to know.

Suddenly, her cheery grin turned into a twisted one before she pounced forward and latched onto a startled Mythra.

"H-Hey, what are you…!?" Mythra started.

"I deserve to cameo in Super Smash Bros!" Mai shouted.

It was then Mai's shock collar activated, zapping her again. However, because she was also holding onto Mythra, she was also shocked as the two cried out in pain.

"I am one of the most iconic King of Fighters characters! I have rarely missed a SNK crossover! Hell, when I wasn't in King of Fighter XII, there was an entire campaign simply called 'No Mai, No Buy'!" Mai shouted.

BZZZZZT!

"Ahhhhhh!" Mythra screamed.

"And yet Sakurai didn't let me in because I am not 'family-friendly'. Not only do I have more tamer outfits from my earlier games, but Pyra and Mythra are from a game with overly-sexualized women and Bayonetta literally goes NUDE for her hair attacks! Of course, I am pissed!"

The shock collar continued to shock Mai and Mythra. But while both women seemed to be in pain, Mai was still continuing on.

"If THEY get to get in with Bayonetta toning down the hair-stripping and Mythra getting tights that she NEVER had in her base game, I could get a toned down outfit too!" Mai roared. "I will NEVER forgive Super Smash Brothers for what they did to me! And that is why I will NEVER stop my hatred, you hear me!? NEVER!"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

BOOM!

Then, an explosion engulfed the two, resulting in a large cloud of smoke covering them. Then, the smoke cleared, it showed both women on the ground with charred marks all over their body where they laid unmoving. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, one woman sat up as if she merely stepped on a banana peel.

Mai then let out a noblewoman's laugh. "Oh ho ho ho! And that is what Super Smash Bros get for thinking this stupid collar could…"

Then, the collar activated again, zapping her and causing her to cry out in pain. She then grumbled.

"...Fine, maybe it will slow me down a little." Mai muttered.

Despite this, she went back to being happy as she got up and walked over to the unconscious Mythra and picked her up before walking over to the ropes and tossing her over the ropes.

Mythra (and Pyra) landed in Boyfriend Dungeon where they were shocked to find out that there was an entire game where a player could not only fight with living weapons, but also date them.

(Dome; Bar)

Ryo Sakazaki and King looked at the screen in exasperation.

"...Well, got a Plan B?" Ryo muttered.

"That WAS Plan B." King groaned.

Ryo turned towards his girlfriend, confused. "Wait, then that's the case, what was Plan…"

"I don't want to talk about it." King said without missing a beat.

(Looney Tunes Land; Desert)

"...You are never going to catch that Roadrunner."

Wile E. Coyote growled as he fiddled with a catapult that was about to launch a rock at a potential Roadrunner. He then glared back at Platinum with her arms crossed with a smug smirk.

"Seriously, you appeared in what… 1949? More than seventy years and you are STILL unable to catch a bird that is scientally SLOWER than coyotes!" Luna taunted.

Wile E's eyebrow twitched, trying to drown out Luna's insults as she continued to work on his catapult.

"Furthermore, didn't you already try that trap before? Man, for a so-called super-genius, you sure ain't creative!" Luna sneered. "You know, I am seeing why they shelved your movie despite it being completed."

Wile E's eyes pupils shrink when he hears this.

"Luna, that was too far!" Sena scolded.

"Eh. Is the way the movie shelved bullcrap? Yeah." Luna admitted. "But I am going to be blunt. I don't see the movie being good because I always thought his cartoons were overrated."

Wile E paused before going back to work, making some last-minute adjustments to it.

"BEEP BEEP!"

Wile E's eyes lit up before he and Platinum looked to the side to see a certain blue-feather Roadrunner running down the road so fast that he was leaving a trail of dust behind him. Wile E gave a smirk before he got ready to pull the rope. Platinum just smirked, knowing exactly how it would end up. And when the Roadrunner ran past, Wile E pulled the rope.

…And made the catapult fly towards Platinum who was still smirking.

"...Eh?" Luna asked.

That was all she got out before the rock fell onto Platinum resulting in an upwards rise of dust from the collison. Wile E's eyes bugged out at what had happened putting one hand to his mouth. He then looked at the reader and raised a sign that said 'Oops!'.

"Hey, isn't that Wile E. Coyote?"

The canine raised an eyebrow before turning around to see Celica and her group walking towards him.

"Oh, wow. It IS him!" Celica said in awe. "Add another name to our list of celebrities we met while node-hopping."

Wile E immediately perked up upon being called a celebrity and proudly put his hands on his hips.

"Wait, if it's Wile E. Coyote, then that means… He is the best type of person that could help us!" Leon said.

Linkle's pupils shrank at this. "Oh yeah, you are right! Hey, can you hold up signs?"

Wile E blinked twice before holding up a sign that said 'Um, yes?'.

"Then, please…" Azusa said, clasping her hands together.

With that, Celica, Azusa, Leon and Linkle bowed their heads.

"...Teach us sign language!" The four pleaded.

Wile E jumped at this. Zoro just looked at his node-hopping companions before looking at the canine with a shrug.

"Pretty much." Zoro said.

Wile E blinked twice.

(The Arena)

Mario Mario and Geese Howard looked at what Mai just did with frowns.

"No wonder she-a would rather argue with us Smashers than deal with Slenderman." Mario winced, pulling on his collar. "She is actually as scary as horror monsters."

"I must admit, I did wonder if I ever became a fighter in Super Smash Bros, she may be a bigger thorn in my side than TERRY." Geese admitted, rubbing his chin.

Mario rubbed his temples. "Ugh, let's continue so I distract myself."

Geese paused before shrugging. "If you say so."

With that, he punted Mario away like an American football, sending the plumber painfully bouncing off of the ground a couple of times. Mario groaned before weakly looking up to see Geese smirking at him. Mario glared at him for the cheap trick (but also scolded HIMSELF for setting himself up like that) and got up while sending a fireball from his palm forward.

"Double Reppuken!" Geese shouted, swinging one arm upwards which created a wheel of blue energy before swinging the other one resulting in turning the wheel into a ground wave, sending it towards Mario. However, the red-clad man got out a yellow cape and swung it at the incoming projectile, deflecting it back at Geese, making the blond man step to the side.

However, that was what Mario was looking for before getting out a couple of futuristic blasters and firing a couple of energy shots from it. However, Geese thought quickly and raised his arms to block the incoming shots. Mario just ran around while using his blasters to fire shots at Geese, but the crime boss either dodged or blocked them with the occasional Reppuken to counter it.

Mario then jumped up into the air and took off his hat before throwing it forward. It was then Cappy sprang to life, making himself spin in place. Mario, while still in midair, took a dive towards the Bonneter before using him as a spring pad to launch himself towards Geese and a couple of shots, managing to take Geese off-guard. Mario then landed on top of Geese's head before bouncing off of it. As the crowd went wild, Geese laid stunned before Mario landed on the ground and fired a few more shots as Cappy flew back onto Mario's head.

"It feels weird to-a resort to long-range outside of the Mario + Rabbids games." Mario mused.

"IT CAN'T BE HELPED. GEESE IS AN EXPERT OF COUNTERING AND UNLIKE BOWSER, HE DOESN'T LET HIS GUARD DOWN SO EASILY." .D.D. reminded.

"Besides, while your standard moves are more than enough, you gotta spice it up for your fans." Cappy offered.

Mario smiled and nodded before turning back to Geese. However, it quickly faltered when he saw Geese rushing over before doing a hard punt. Mario acted quickly and did a flip to avoid it before firing a shot into Geese's chest, making him hold it in pain. Mario then went on the offensive and rushed to do a sliding kick. However, Geese managed to recover in time and crouched down to catch Mario's foot. As the plumber's face paled and Geese had a sinister smirk on his face, the fighting game fans went wild.

"Predictabo!" Geese shouted before lifting up Mario and landed him onto the ground. As the crowd went wild, Geese reached down to pick up Mario again and slammed him onto the ground, resulting in a burst of electricity. As Mario groaned, Geese raised his foot to stomp on him while he was stunned.

"ACTIVATED ROCKET NOZZLE!"

After F.L.U.D.D. gave his sudden shout, he pointed his nozzles at the ground before sending out a burst of water from it which sent the dazed Mario flying up into the air and out of Geese's stomp (while soaking him into the process). Mario groaned before finally snapping out of his daze. Needless to see, he was frightened when he saw that he was in midair. Acting quickly, he grabbed the handles of F.L.U.D.D. and quickly activated the Hover Nozzle to stop his descent.

"Ugh, I HAD to show off to everyone that I am appearing in King of Fighters XV." Geese groaned, looking over his now damp suit. "I HAD to ring my suit in an arena like this."

He then looked up at the hovering Mario to see him glaring down at him.

"It looks-a like I have the high ground." Mario pointed out.

"So it seems." Geese noted. He then smirked. "Too bad that was your biggest mistake."

Mario blinked twice in confusion. Geese merely walked forward until he was right underneath Mario. He then raised his hands in the air.

"Raging…"

Mario's pupils shrink when he hears this.

"STORM!"

With that, he slammed both of his hands on the ground which created six pillars of powerful blue energy around that went so high that it managed to reach and hit Mario, knocking him out of the air. As the once-again dazed man fell to the ground, Geese recovered from using his signature move before sending both of his palms together forward and struck Mario, sending him flying forward and over the ropes with no hopes of Cappy or F.L.U.D.D. saving him. Geese crossed his arms with a smirk.

After Mario landed in his elimination node, he groaned before sitting up.

"Mama-mia, I didn't expect Geese's Raging Storm to-a reach me from THAT height." Mario admitted, rubbing his head.

"WELL, THINK OF IT THIS WAY, MARIO. YOU LOST TO AN UVR CHAMPION." F.L.U.D.D. reassured. "EVEN IF HE IS A VILLAIN."

"Yeah." Cappy nodded. He then paused. "Um, where did we end up?"

"I am not-a sure." Mario said, looking around. "This feels like the first level in…"

It was then Mario's eyes bugged out before slapping his forehead.

"Oh no!" He groaned.

"W-What is it?" Cappy asked, worried.

Mario let out a sigh. "Well…"

"Well, well, well."

Mario winced before turning his head to see two girls walking over. One was a blonde while the other had green hair.

"If it isn't our old rival, Mario." The blonde sneered, crossing her arms.

"Looks like he has just been eliminated by an UVR tournament seeing that he is daring to send on OUR turf." The green-haired girl noted, putting her hands on her hips.

Mario let out a groan. "Look, I don't-a want any trouble."

"Well, you got it, anyway." The green-haired girl spat.

"You are history." The blonde taunted.

"...PARDON MY LANGUAGE. BUT WHAT IN THE SCIENCE EQUIVALENT OF HELL IS THIS?" F.L.U.D.D. asked.

"F.L.U.D.D., Cappy, please-a meet the Bubsy the Bobcat of the Mario series, the Great Giana Sisters." Mario groaned.

"Ohhhh…" Mario's partners said in unison.

Giana narrowed her eyes. "And what is THAT supposed to be?"

"If your lawyers couldn't get us, why would you?" Maria taunted.

Mario let out a groan. "It's been one of those days…"

Back in the arena, Coco Bandicoot narrowed her eyes before running around to avoid a series of rocks being thrown her way. When the barrage had ended, Coco ran forward towards the guilty party and spun towards them. However, unlike other bosses of her node, Toph Beifong easily sees (or rather hear) Coco coming and slammed her foot onto the ground and summoned a stalagmite, sending Coco high up into the air.

While startled by this, Coco managed to summon a Quantum Wall and kick herself off of it, just in time to avoid an upwards boulder, tossed by Toph. Coco then got out her bazooka again and fired a Wumpa Fruit, but Toph quickly raised her arms and created a small wall of earth to block the attack. However, Coco fired another shot forward at the wall destroying it and fired one more.

But Toph summoned floating rocks to the side before burrowing into the ground and moving into said rocks. Toph then sent rocks at Coco, but the she-bandicoot easily ran around to avoid them. However, when seeing that her opponent was easily avoiding the projectiles, Toph opted to slam her foot on the ground to try to send Coco into the air with a stalagmite. The blonde managed to outrun it, but was still startled.

Realising that Toph was trying to stalagmite after her, she moved to summon a Quantum Wall to increase her speed. As Toph sends out more stalagmites onto the ground, Coco manages to weave around them. However, Toph noticed how fast Coco was going and threw over rocks at Coco, but they instead attempted to surround the she-bandicoot and slow down her speed. When Coco realised what she was going down, the encircling rocks created an explosion of earth, knocking her onto her side.

"Look, you can jump on all of the floating crates all you like." Toph taunted as she watched Coco weakly get up. "But you will never beat an earthbender, let alone the best one so give up!"

The blonde stood up while glaring at Toph. "Never! I want to get revenge for my node!"

"Revenge for what? Our show is cooler than your games!" The blind girl taunted.

"No, revenge for your theft!" Coco scolded.

Toph paused at this, slowly dropping her smirk. She then frowned before crossing her arms.

"...I have no idea what you are talking about." Toph lied.

"Don't talk bull! You or at least your fellow Nicktoons had stolen the Nature Wheels from Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled so you could use them in Nickelodeon Kart Racers!" Coco taunted.

Toph let out a sigh. "...I should have known that one of them screwed up. Okay, look, cut us some slack. We NEEDED those elemental wheels. In case you have forgotten, I can't see!"

"Then, why are you in a RACING game!?" Coco asked in disbelief.

"Well, because I am just that much of a fan-favourite that they wanted me in the game, regardless of logic." Toph admitted. "While I obviously can't complain, they clearly didn't think that through."

"Regardless, I am going to avenge not only my node, but also Spyro the Dragon." Coco said, bravely. "The Professor did not appreciate having his inventions stolen like that."

"Sorry, me being playable in anything trumps all justice." Toph said before her blind eyes lit up. "Oh, and speaking of playable regardless of logic…"

With that, she reached behind her and pulled out a long metallic mallet before swinging it. Coco wasn't not expecting Toph to pull out a weapon so she couldn't do anything when the mallet collided with her. However, instead of striking Coco away, Toph's hammer managed to grab onto the she-bandicoot somehow before throwing her onto the ground, having her painfully bouncing across the ground before landing on her back.

"Ugh… Those are Brawlhalla weapons that feel so tacked on." Coco groaned.

"You think THAT is bad, you should hear how Ezio from Assassin's Creed got in using a sword and an orb, but not katars." Toph pointed out.

Coco raised her head with wide eyes. "Wait… WHAT!?"

Toph didn't answer. She merely took advantage of Coco's shock and slammed her foot onto the air and sent a diagonal stalagmite underneath Coco, sending the blonde flying towards Toph who smirked while reading her hammer. However, Coco saw this coming and spun around horizontally to direct herself out of the way of the swing. She realised that Toph has every right to be boastful about her abilities.

Then, her eyes widened. Narrowing her eyes, she ran towards Toph who swung her grapple hammer at her. But the blonde did a sliding kick underneath the attack before doing a flip, striking Toph in the air. The earthbender crashed onto her back, but despite the hard fall, she quickly sat up.

"Okay, cute trick, but it is going to take a lot more than that to…" Toph taunted.

Suddenly, her smirk vanished as she looked around.

"W-Wait… Where… Where… WHERE IS THE GROUND!?"

With that, she started to feel around where she was, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. …Only for the moment she started to go forward, she ended up falling.

You see, when Coco knocked Toph into the air, the former summoned a Quantum Wall and sent it up like a horizontal floating platform which Toph landed on. Due to said wall not being able of any elements of earth, Toph couldn't sense anything. So even someone like her could freak out as she fell off.

…And right in the range of Coco's bazooka.

BOOM

Coco's bazooka shot hit Toph head-on and sent the blind girl soaring away, clear over the ropes and into the portal. Coco smirked before patting it.

Toph landed in Daredevil where she teamed up against the titular protagonist. Needless to say, the crooks that had the misfortune of fighting them did not believe they were losing to not one, but TWO blind people.

"Cannon Spike!"

Axl Low yelped before raising his sickles to use the chain connecting it to block a diagonally dive kick. Despite having her attack blocked, Cammy quickly flipped backwards and landed on her feet before rushing over and punching Axl in the stomach. As the time traveller's cheeks puffed out in pain, Cammy did a flip, kicking him in the chin and sending him onto his back.

Cammy then jumped up to do another Cannon Spike to the downed Axl, but the young man snapped out of his daze and quickly latched out one of his sickles at the ropes and pulled himself out of harm's way just as Cammy missed her attack. Despite this, the Delta Red agent just ran forward towards Axl to continue her assault. However, this time, Axl was ready.

"Axl Bomber!" Axl shouted, doing a diagonal jump while igniting his sickles in fire and striking Cammy, sending her into the air. When Axel landed back on the ground, he then lashed out one of his sickles to grapple Cammy before pulling on it and slamming her hard on the ground. At first, Cammy looked like she was completely downed for the count so Axl lashed out his sickle again.

However, Cammy managed to snap out of her daze before rolling backwards, allowing the sickle to lodge itself in the ground. Cammy then ran forward on top of the chain of said sickle and before giving Axl a chance to react, kicked the blond man in the face. Axl staggered back a few steps, but recovered quickly to swing his sickle, this time at mid-range. However, Cammy easily flipped to the side.

"Just surrender." Cammy boasted. "You are far from the person I faced with long-reaching normals."

"Hey, do you really think I would just say yes and let you eliminate me!" Axl scolded, narrowing his eyes. "I WAS in the Final Eleven in the second Megamix Tournament."

Cammy raised an eyebrow. "Oh, right. I completely forgot about that. Which is weird because you are the biggest surprise of Final 11."

Axl's eyes bugged out at this. "Even more so than a Koopa Troopa recolour and at the time of the tournament, the weakest character in Super Smash Bros history?"

Cammy merely smirked. "You would think that but yes?"

Axl growled before lashing out his chain again. However, Cammy easily ducked underneath it before rushing forward. However, Axl yelped before lashing his other one at the ceiling and having it act like a grappling hook (and this time, when he was ascending, he sent the other one at the barrier to stop himself by swinging out of control).

"Ha! Bet you can't reach me!" Axl taunted.

Cammy merely blinked twice at this. She then reached behind her and pulled out a gun. As Axl's smirk vanished, Cammy fired a series of shots at the time traveller which made him cry out in pain while loosening the sickle hanging from the ceiling before dropping onto his rear hard. Axl then looked up shocked.

"H-How!? I know that you are in special forces and obviously they have guns, but still the only other Street Fighter to use a gun is Nash!" Axl said in disbelief.

"...Axl, what is the name of said game Nash got his gun from?" Cammy asked with a blank face.

"I believe it is called Cannon Spi…" The blond man said before his pupils shrank in realisation. "Ohh…"

"Seriously, obscure game or nothing, you would think people would put two and two together." Cammy said, rolling her eyes.

With that, she proceeded to open a run on Axl. However, despite still sitting on the ground, the time traveller spun his chain in front of him, acting like a makeshift barrier that deflected the bullets away from him. Realising that Axl had his own way of dealing with zoners, Cammy decided to put away her gun and ran over to do her Hooligan Combination. Axl quickly stopped spinning and got up while getting ready to block again.

Only for Cammy's rolling jump to drop to the ground before performing a sliding kick, knocking Axl off of his feet. Cammy then clamped onto the downed man and got his legs into a Boston Crab. Axl cried out in pain before slamming his palm against the floor multiple times in a vain attempt to get Cammy to stop. As much as Axl hated to admit it, he was in trouble. So desperate times call for desperate measures.

Axl then lashed out his sickle at the ropes and used it to grapple hook out of Cammy's grip, sending the blonde woman crashing on her back. Despite the unsightly fall, Cammy got up before running over. Axl merely frowned.

"If I do this, I'll lose the element of surprise." Axl noted. "But I will cross that bridge when I get to it."

With that, he got into a defensive stance which created a purple aura around himself by this time, Cammy flew up and did a hard roundhouse kick to Axl's head, knocking him over to the side. Cammy then leapt up into the air before performing a Cannon Spike.

Only for her body to suddenly slashes all around her, making several tears in her clothes and causing her to cry out in pain. She then fell onto her back. Axl, who didn't have his purple aura anymore,did not look fazed by this and ran over before picking up the downed Cammy and dropping her over the ropes.

Cammy landed in Nintendogs + Cats where she died of cuteness overload.

Back in the arena, the Millennium Star looked around, seeing the audience's confused and stunned face. He then floated forward.

"It looks like it is time for another instant replay." The Millennium Star said. "Everyone, please look at the screen."

Everyone obliged before the screen had a brief moment of static before showing everyone what just said. It then showed Cammy about to attack Axl while the latter still had his purple aura. Suddenly, everything except for Axl turned monochrome and frozen in time with his aura disappearing. Axl then proceeded to do a series of slashes with his sickle to Cammy's frozen body. The assault only lasted for two seconds, but it was more than enough when everything became unfrozen.

Axl chuckled. "Man, did I wish I could finally control my time powers back in the second Megamix Tournament!"

With that, he turned around to see who was left. Sailor Jupiter and Rocket were still going at it, along with Metaknight and Ganondorf, though ironically the latter seem more tame in comparison. Eggman examined any damages in his Egg Walker while Coco sat down and played on her tablet for a bit. Geese adjusted his tie while Chairperson was squatting down, already tuckered out from this section. Finally, Mai was casting Metaknight and Ganondorf a dark glare from aside, showing that she wasn't completely over her hatred of Super Smash Bros yet.

Then, the familiar aura surrounded the fighters before surrounding the audience. They all appeared on the star platforms before the following fell off one by one: Coco, Ganondorf, Mai, Chairperson and Sailor Jupiter. The remaining five then looked at Axl with an intrigued eyebrow.

"Wow, I must admit that I thought you being in the Final 11 was just a fluke." Geese admitted.

"Yeah, I didn't even KNOW that you were a chronomancer." Rocket noted.

Axl smirked while rubbing the handle of one of his sickles against his chest. "Well, let's just say that things change between games."

Then, Eggman's platform fell off. Followed by Axl and Metaknight leaving Geese and Rocket.

"Huh. Former UVR champion or not, I never expected somehow named after a flarking GOOSE to be a potential Superstar." Rocket noted.

"Said the rodent who got pissed off being called a raccoon despite not only looking like one, but being their SURNAME." Geese snarked back.

Fortunately, before the fight could get ugly, the final platform fell showing who the current winner was.

"Congratulations, Geese Howard!" The Millennium Star announced. "You are this section's Superstar!"

The blonde man smirked with his arms crossed as the crowd cheered him on.

"I don't usually say this, but seeing that I wouldn't even be floating here without you, I must thank you for making me the Superstar." Geese said. "And to the minority who thought I didn't deserve it."

He then made an X with his arms.

"They can die forever!"

The crowd went wild at this, making Geese's smirk grow bigger. Sailor Jupiter blinked twice at this.

"Um, isn't that the equivalent of saying 'people die why they are killed'?" Sailor Jupiter asked.

Mai rolled her eyes. "Yeah, we don't get it either."

RESULTS (19 Votes)

GEESE HOWARD (KoFAS): 15:4 = 11 (Kan-Ra, Mario Mario)

ROCKET RACCOON (GotG): 15:4 = 11 (Squirtle, Ken Masters)

METAKNIGHT (SSB): 14:5 = 9 (Mechanica, Ashley & Red)

AXL LOW (GG): 13:6 = 7 (Dr. Nefarious Tropy, Cammy White)

DR. EGGMAN (StH): 13:7 = 6 (Annie Hamilton, Aoi Umenokoji)

SAILOR JUPITER (SM): 14:8 = 6 (Neemon)

CHAIRPERSON (RS): 12:7 = 5 (Alice Garnet Nakata)

MAI SHIRANUI (KoFAS): 12:7 = 5 (Pyra & Mythra)

GANONDORF (SSB): 12:8 = 4 (Anthrax)

COCO BANDICOOT (CB): 12:8 = 4 (Toph Beifong)

(ELIMINATED)

ANNIE HAMILTION (PI): 11:8 = 3 (Crusader)

KEN MASTERS (SFAS): 11:8 = 3 (Allen Snider)

CAMMY WHITE (SFAS): 11:9 = 2 (Akihiko Sanada)

AOI UMENOKOJI (VF): 9:10 = -1 (King Dice)

PYRA & MYTHRA (SSB): 9:10 = -1 (Platinum the Trinity)

MARIO MARIO (SSB): 10:11 = -1

TOPH BEIFONG (NASB): 10:11 = -1

PLATINUM THE TRINITY (BB): 8:11 = -3

DR. NEFARIOUS TROPY (CB): 8:11 = -3

ALLEN SNIDER (FEXL): 8:11 = -3

ALICE GARNET NAKATA (KoFAS): 8:12 = -4

SQUIRTLE (SSB): 8:12 = -4

ASHLEY & RED (WW): 8:12 = -4

CRUSADER (DFO): 6:13 = -7

AKIHIKO SANADA (P4A): 6:13 = -7

KING DICE (CH): 6:14 = -8

MECHANICA (A): 6:14 = -8

KAN-RA (KI): 5:14 = -9

NEEMON (DRA): 3:16 = -13

ANTHRAX (SSS): 2:17 = -15

Side Battles:

"The Legend Eater Returns!?"

Kyo Kusanagi (KoFAS) and Benimaru Nikaido (KoF) uses a moth trap on Volcarona (PKMN)

12 to 7

Go Big And Go Home: Five Big Guys have entered this section, but despite they usually not doing well, FOUR of them managed to survive the section meaning that there would only be ONE new Big Guy entering the new section. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is the first time this has happened.