(The Arena)
"Thundara!"
A series of bolts rained down atop Eleven. The prototype didn't falter and instead shifted between it's mimic forms of Terra and Ryoko to dodge them. "The mirror is not so easily smashed."
"Well then try this!" Ryoko performed a Judo chop to the artificial being. Though she would hit nothing but a gooey mass.
"Ew! Gross!"
Eleven had begun to shift just as she did that, and now it had taken her form again. Seizing the moment from her shock, it picked the girl up and threw her into Terra.
The two girls collided, Ryoko on top of Terra, she'd notice quickly and scramble to get off her.
Terra pondered aloud. "How did me trying to get Aerith's help end with us fighting the strange intangible being together?"
Ryoko threw he hands up upon sitting herself upward. "You tell me!" The Judo girl didn't look too cross for too long when she offered to help them both up. "But so long as we're here, we're suffering together!"
Good timing. Because both girls would get knocked down again courtesy of an energy burst from Eleven!
"Yeah, suffering." Terra weakly said.
Eleven would shift back to its natural state, towering over the two, it grabbed Ryoko by the neck and help her up before assuming her form again.
"Ryoko!"
Before it could launch a huge energy blast in her face, Terra would jump and pierce her sword into it's chest. It didn't react to it, not even when Terra lifted her sword to split it's upper body in half before grabbing Ryoko.
"You can thank me by helping beat this thing!"
Ryoko turned back to face Eleven, by now it had transformed back into Ryoko's shape. By some sick, twisted sense of humor it twisted its upper half so that it's head was facing downwards.
"Come closer. The mirror world is waiting." It said.
Both Ryoko and Terra yelped. "Okay, that thing just entered a whole new level of creepy."
On another area of the ring, Ganondorf leaped into the air to create a huge shockwave, blasting Teruko and Chizuru away. Teruko stood back up first and charged forward with Hero's sword.
The three blade's clashed, though the student was trying hard not to buckle under the weight. "Amusing. For a human. A legitimate achievement in your stupidity."
His leg free and unrestricted, he plunged it into Teruko's chest to leave her breathless for the moment. This was when Chizuru would try and catch him by surprise and pull his feet out from under him.
The Gerudo King would catch her arm. "Ha! Nice try!" And instead flip her upside down and kick her away and into Teruko.
"YA-HOO!"
Midna, riding on a Twilight Wolfo, barreled into the evil King. Ganondorf didn't have enough time to retaliate before he found himself in her giant hair hand and slammed into the ground.
"I think I'll make myself a nice little Ganondorf pancake to feed to my little friends! Stay still!"
Binding Ganondorf with her hair and squeezing him to siphon a bit of his power. Midna conjured a giant ball of Twili Magic and used it to level the Gerudo King.
Teruko and Chizuru both got back up to witness the aforementioned attack. "Is he…?" Teruko spoke up.
"No. But I softened him up for you. He seems tired, and defeating him now wouldn't be as fun. So go ahead and have your fun." Midna said boredly, then picked up Ganondorf with her hair again and squeezed to siphon more power. "I'm bored with him, ta-ta!"
The two both looked at each other. Then Teruko shot Chizuru a sinister grin and held her back while approaching the now recovering Ganondorf. "This one's all mine."
Chizuru took the hint and hurried off to start another fight.
Fang yelped and backed away from meeting the end of Minotaurox's mallet with his face.
"You're not gonna make this easy, are you?" The superhero asked as he went for another swing, and missed.
Fang rolled his eyes. "Why would I? I ain't gonna let myself eat a mallet. If anything, you hold still!" He said before firing corks out of his popgun.
Since he hadn't used his power yet, when one cork got under his defense and hit his knee he immediately felt the punch it packed. Groaning a little he swung his hammer out of instinct from the pain. Which actually managed to surprise Fang and knock him flat on his stomach through hitting his legs.
"Ouch! Watch where you're swingin' that there mallet!" Fang chided when he straightened his hat on his head and swung away from another swing.
This wasn't working quite well, so Minotaurox got into a running position and charged forward. While it initially took Fang by surprise when he saw it, he jumped over the charging ox and kicked him forward with his feet.
Minotaurox almost lost his balance from the kick, but managed to catch himself and turn back around to face Fang, who sent two corks right into his face.
"You do know you're an ox, not a bull, right? And by the way… giddy up!"
When Minotaurox came around again, Fang hopped on the handle of the mallet and then onto his back. Grabbing his horns and watching as the poor teenage hero tried to knock him off with his mallet with no luck.
"G-Ow! Of-Ow! Off!" Minotaurox said as he flailed his body and arms around.
Fang turned his body to the side, letting the mallet hit another part of Minotaurox's back. "Nah! How else am I gonna wear you down before you could use your power?"
Lightbulb! "A-ha! My power!"
(Hotel; Lobby)
"Wait. You guys! What about Sindel!" Steve asked as him and his team ran to the hallway which connected the two building.
Vyse looked at Steve with a nod. "We told her where we were going, she'll catch up with us!"
The team opened the door quickly and went through the hall to get to the Dome, they had to get to that restaurant first.
A figure who was watching them chuckled. He picked up the phone he had and held it to his ear. "Yes, they're headed your way. Best get everything ready for inspection. Shang Tsung will be displeased if this fell through so quickly."
(The Arena)
"Get over here!"
A spear would be launched in the direction of Krohnen. Who scoffed and caught it. "The fuck? Think this shit will work on me? Ha."
He'd morph his arm into a drill again to pull in Kuai Liang. Not anticipating the pyromancer to vault over him, Krohnen shifted his arm into a blade and swung it backward, but struck nothing but air. Kuai Liang ducked and ignited his fist and sent it flying into Krohnen's face.
"Fuck!" Krohnen swung back, but used the momentum to push forward again and ram the front of his gun at Kuai Liang. It didn't accomplish much, as the pyromancer dodged the attack. No matter, he'd just turn his gun and shoot him in the face.
Krohnen shook his head in amusement. "The ninja tricks are pretty tame. You really got neutered in your new game, huh?"
Kuai Liang would take his turn shaking his head. "That may be true. But let's not stray from the fact that you are quite an enigmatic specimen. Copyright sure did it's toll on you, hasn't it?"
"Not the point of that… Done with this conversation." And he fired more shots at Scorpion, but without the element of surprise his gun proved less effective."
The pyromancer ducked under one more shot. "What was that you said about our ninja tricks?"
"Fuckin' shut up!" Krohnen leapt to the Shirai Ryu ninja and morphed his arm into a blade. Kuai Liang held up his kama to block the slash, but found it knocked out of his hands with ease.
"What did I say?" Krohnen said before him and Kuai Liang began trading blows. At first they seemed evenly matched, one not getting a clear advantage over the other. But then Krohnen punched the ground under him and created an explosion which blew Scorpion away.
Not that it burned him, of course. Kuai Liang was back on his feet quickly and back to fighting, he wrapped his kunai rope around Krohnen's arm when he tried sweeping his legs by morphing it into a blade.
"What the fuck are you…?"
"Get over here!"
Kuai Liang pulled on the rope quickly, before Krohnen could turn his arm into a drill. Then he dashed forward in a fury of flames past Krohnen and pulled the rope again. He ignited his kunai end and in turn the flame spread across the entire rope, and when the rope forcefully came undone from Krohnen's arm it left a pretty nasty rope burn on it.
"Nghhh! Fu~uuuuuuck! Damnit! You'll…pay!" He sneered. Clutching his badly burned and bloody arm.
Scorpion stilled, his kunai and rope draped over his hands. "I took your arm out of commission. If you still wish to fight.."
Krohnen grinned, in spite of the pain. "Oh you fuckin' bet I still want to fight!"
"Very well."
Krohnen leaped forward, sticking his leg forward at the last second to catch Kuai Liang off-guard. It didn't work when the Shirai Ryu caught it and attempted to swing him to the side, but Krohnen used his other leg to kick him in the face and break free.
Kuai Liang ignited his fist again and punches forward, Krohnen caught it and redirected it to the ground. Then slammed his own palm into it to create a wave of fire that surrounded him.
Again, being a pyromancer, and Scorpion, he wasn't burned. "You should know at this point that fire is not effective on me."
Krohnen huffed. "So what, I can still…" He looked toward his damaged arm again, which was still badly injured, and was now starting to ache. "…Aw, crap."
"Quite." Said Kuai Liang, before reappearing to unleash a fury of fiery swings from his kusarigama.
Krohnen growled and tried to launch another fire attack, only to get intercepted by a fire elemental summoned by Kuai Liang breathing fire on him. He flailed around to put it out while Kuai Liang simply sighed.
"Same cannot be said for you. Best to put you out of your misery."
Without much more effort, Kuai Liang walked up to Krohnen and booted him out of the ring mercifully.
With a snap of his fingers, JP summoned deep purple rifts in the surrounding area where he and Storm stood. The Marvel heroine summoned a mist around them in turn, fogging up JP's vision. He groaned and spun his cane to teleport to a nearby rift.
JP roared when he transported and slammed his cane engulfed in psycho power into the ground. The dark spike struck nothing but air.
His missed calculation was berthed by laughter courtesy of Storm, who summoned rain from an unknown angle and doused JP. Then struck him down with a bolt of lightning.
"Whirlwind!"
JP was picked up by a guest of wind and pushed away. It didn't hold him long, with a swing of his cane he transported to another rift. Luckily he actually managed to land just above Storm. Taking her by surprise with a slash of his cane, followed by a dark purple shockwave of Psycho Power.
Storm held her hand to the new cut on her torso, then vanished into the fog she conjured.
JP spun his cane and teleported to another rift. Then used his Psycho Power to summon a dark phantom forward and clear away bits of fog.
"For one who wields Mother Nature and her elements, I did not expect such pusillanimity."
A shard of ice would emerge from the fog and strike his hand, his cane sliding away into the fog.
"Nature has no mercy for those who bear their fangs and serpent tongues at her." Said Storm as she towered out of the fog in front of JP.
"Give her my condolences…"
JP snatched at Storm's neck with his free hand. Psycho Power coercing through her body while purple vein-like cracks began forming on her body.
"You know how this ends, Ororo? In ruin!"
The cracks began to glow as Storm writhed for a few more seconds, then sat back up to face JP.
"For whom?"
In an instant Storm flew out of JP's grasp before his attack could finish, and pulled the fog back over them. JP swung his cane to transport to yet another rift when he heard Storm groan from the effects of his attack.
"Nature's righteous fury? I beg to differ." He took to summoning more dark phantoms to clear away the fog. Next was a plethora of said creatures to cover most of the ground encircling him.
Bet he wasn't expecting them to be fired back at him through a whirlwind. The culprit was clear as crystal.
"You have disrespected Mother Nature for the last time! Come forth wind!"
JP would find himself caught up in an ice spike summoned from the canvas. As Storm summoned massive hordes of wind around her.
"By the power of Gaia! The power of the wind!"
The typhoons swirled JP, chipping away at the spike and causing small chips of ice to pierce his exposed head. But through the pain he managed to break his cane hand free and teleport to a rift to save himself.
JP panted. "Free. At last."
Before he could take another breath, he would suddenly find his lungs devoid of air. He would fall to his knees, suffocating while Storm floated over.
"Indeed you are."
One last whirlwind would carry him over the ropes where he helplessly fell.
JP landed in SMG4. Swagmaster would repeatedly blast him with his 'fun stick' to try and coerce the names behind his initials.
Omega looked around for his opponent, since their fight began Khameleon had used the tactic of blending into her surroundings to try and gain an edge. Which had yet to happen for one reason, that being…
"Tell whoever gave you the ability to camouflage to supply yourself with the most efficient coolant known; mint." He then opened fire on what appeared to be a clear area.
But the truth was revealed when Khameleon uncloaked herself and activated her Shadow Glow ability. Causing all the bullets to be ineffective to her.
"I am far from helpless, machine." The Umgadi then sprung forward curled into a ball, uncurling to stab forward with her sais.
"I have yet to be convinced." It appeared as though Khameleon struck nothing but his arm cannon. A fact made clear when she was blasted away.
Khameleon disappeared again. But it wouldn't be long before Omega detected her presence and spewed fire in all directions around him. Trying to weed her out.
In his attempt to do so, he inadvertently created a fire shield that wouldn't detect her body heat. Which gave her the perfect opening to smash him on the head with her jade staff.
"My sisters would be proud of my performance. Including our leader, Tanya." She said with pride upon smacking Omega more, then swinging her staff upwards and upper cutting him.
She curled into a ball again and tackled him. Stabbing her sais into what she believed was his foot when they both stopped.
Only it turned out to be his thrusters.
The sudden stream of flame emerging took Khameleon by surprise, lightly burning her and blasting her back. Omega soon took control of his thrusters and fired a series of missiles at the Umgadi.
"Predator you are not, Umgadi. Your cloaking is useless here, these are heat-seeking missiles. My advice? Mint." He said in response to Khameleon disappearing again.
Sure enough, a trio of explosions would follow his statement. But what put Omega on guard was the lack of Khameleon being revealed by them.
"Your mechanical body lacks spirit and vitality, machine! No soul, no victory!"
Two steel fans would make their way into Omega's body, first by the blade, and then would extend out to pierce even more of Omega. Khameleon uncloaked and took off at Omega leaping and extending her legs out.
POW!
Omega launched a punch with his metal arm that rocked Khameleon, sending her back, and well, right onto her back. Omega shook his head at the prone Umgadi.
"Very big words from a moveset clone. I should expect nothing less. At least you aren't Frost, nor carry any of her moves."
One last string of missiles would be the end of Khameleon's run.
Khameleon landed in Mortal Kombat Armageddon. Where she'd get confused with the past timeline version of herself.
Aerith leaped over a sword swing of Garland, and then ducked under another. She then swung her Guard Stick and sent out magic projectiles to knock him back.
"Not dissuaded so easily, flower girl. I'll have your head for these annoyances! Reel!"
A part of Garland's greatsword detached from the blade and made a beeline for the girl. It wouldn't succeed in wrapping around her, but it would in doing so for her Guard Stick.
"No!" Was all she could say before she was pulled forward.
"Yes!" Garland retorted, his voice barely hiding his glee.
"Seal Evil!" Aerith shouted. That faint dark orb came back and paralyzed Garland in place. Allowing the flower girl to get herself free.
"Tempest!"
Aerith shot out her staff and conjured an array of pink petals that swarmed a pink-ish orb covered with arcane symbols and glyphs. It exploded just as Garland regained mobility.
The flower girl giggled. "I can see why Prishe was able to beat you. Honestly, I can almost forgive Midna for taking away my allies."
"SILENCE!"
Garland swung his sword forward, creating a series of explosions in Aerith's path.
"Lustrous Shield!" Aerith called and put up a magic shield in the shape of a flower in front of her, blocking the worst of the attack.
"Now you've let your guard down!" Garland smarmily said when he crashed through the shield and grabbed Aerith by the neck.
"You… still… lost… to… Prishe…." Aerith said under his grip.
In response, Garland roared and tossed her away. "I said SILENCE!"
Aerith rolled on the ground with groans of pain, but used her Guard Stick to stand back up. "And I say… Seal Evil!"
The seconds were passing, Aerith got out of the way of his chain attack and fired more projectiles from her Guard Stick.
Garland staggered, but removed truly unperturbed and straightened his posture back to fix Aerith with a sneer. "Do you know who I am, flower girl?"
Aerith raised her staff to the sky. "Healing Wind!" The resulting Limit Break restoring most of her energy and vitality. She smiled at Garland. "Tell me."
Garland stabbed his sword into the ground. "I am GARLAND! The first! The original! The one who came before all others! And I will knock you do-!"
Aerith interrupted him by pointing her staff forward. "RAY OF JUDGEMENT!"
The beam blasted Garland and very nearly made him fall on his rear. Not that it stopped Aerith any.
"Seal Evil! Tempest!"
One spell after another, she rendered him immobile and then blasted him back more with her pretty pink burst of magic.
"Ready?! Because this one's a keeper! Seal Evil!"
For what was possibly the last time, Garland was stuck in limbo through that accursed dark orb.
"Prishe was right after all, ha! HOLY!"
The large light explosion proved too much for the large black knight to handle, or at least, almost. He shot out the chain for his sword attachment one last time as he toppled over the ropes.
"Chain Cast!"
Aerith yelped as it wrapped itself around her Guard Stick, pulling her with it until she was against the ropes. The sheer weight of the knight and his weapon threatening to eliminate them both.
"I am not going down without an elimination! Give up, flower girl! You cannot hope to taste victory!"
Aerith couldn't retort back under the extreme pressure of the weight she was holding in her arms. Groaning with each little strain, she aimed her staff at Garland's face.
"Seal…!"
"Flare!"
Garland waved his sword again and rising explosions littered the path upward, before finally catching Aerith in the face. The blast knocking her backward, and slightly igniting her dress which she quickly put out.
Sadly for Garland, the blast had the effect of melting the chain attachment from his sword. Which Aerith was holding. His last link to the ring severed he fell hopelessly into the elimination portal.
Garland landed in Suikoden. Where he made the mistake of trying to 'knock down' Yuber.
Edric sent ROB flying back with a swipe of his finger, specifically into a turnbuckle. The robot didn't look too deterred as it twisted it's body back into place and shot out a laser from its lens.
"YOU HAVE YET TO IMPRESS, IN LOOKS OR IN COMBAT, VICTORIAN WITCH. I ADVISE A DATE WITH BAYONETTA ABOUT MATTERS RELATING TO CLOTHING!"
A magic blue rope-like construct wrapped around his neck. "And I am telling you I'm not going! My fashion sense is top-tier!"
"YOUR SOCIAL SUICIDE." ROB then sparked up his thrusters and began hovering into the air, taking the rope construct of Edric's with him.
The green-haired Blight didn't take too kindly too it, not that he could do much at all. "H-Hey! Let us down!"
"NEGATIVE."
ROB then began shooting lasers down at Edric, who could only help in fear as he struggled to swerve out of the way of each one.
"That also doesn't give you the right to mess with it! Now let go!"
ROB shook his head. "NEGATIVE. YOU LET GO!" And there went another laser.
Edric barely managed to avoid singeing his hair, a fact which made his anger boil over. He took out another potion. "Fine!"
The middle Blight flicked the potion at ROB, creating an explosion which sent them both falling to the ground. Though Edric was mindful enough to use another potion to create a squishy, bouncy spot to land on before he hit the ground. Albeit at the cost of bouncing off it and landing on his back.
Right at the moment he got up, an even bigger laser than before came bursting right toward him. It came too quick to avoid and thus he ate it right in the face, knocking him down and leaving his with more than a few burns.
"Ah! My face! My beautiful face!" He despaired, clutching his bruised complexion while ROB rolled over to him.
Edric heard him and turned his head, face deathly calm. "I'm gonna turn you into a pile of unrecognizable trash."
He summoned his fortified rope again and used his magic to wrap it around ROB. This didn't serve to constrict him for long with his spinning rotor arms. Which he used to break out and hopefully try to catch Edric with a series of spinning punches.
It didn't work, instead Edric used his illusions to make ROB think he had him while he swerved out of the way. A tactic which worked perfectly and allowed Edric to throw another exploding potion at ROB.
"YOUR TRICKS ARE EFFECTIVE, SOMEWHAT. BUT NOT THIS TIME." Spinning his rotor arms again, he flung the potion in a random direction. He missed his target, and instead ended up flinging it towards Minotaurox. Which actually ended up harming the hero since the circumstances didn't allow Resistance to protect him. Not that Fang was complaining.
"IT APPEARS I MADE A SLIGHT MISCALCULATION." He said before getting wrapped up in Edric's blue rope-construct.
"That. You just did, period." Edric too advantage of the opportunity and threw another potion at ROB, this time it created a gooey substance that left him even more incapacitated and unable to move.
Grinning, Edric tied another firework underneath ROB's thrusters and ignited a flame on his fingers.
"Let this be a lesson. Never insult a Blight's, the richest family on the Boiling Isles mind you, fashion sense. Bye~eee!"
And he had ignition! Like with Lord Raptor, the firework carried ROB up and over the ropes before poofing in an explosion of colors. Poor ROB wouldn't have a chance of getting back in.
Immediately upon getting his elimination, Edric would hear a burly voice shout out…
"Resistance!"
Followed by a voice going…
"Aw, crud! Hey, kid! Mind giving me a hand with that rope of yours!?" Fang the Sniper called out to Edric.
The boy witch shrugged and immediately lassoed his fortified rope around the hero.
"Hey!" Minotaurox raised his mallet, only to find it shot out of his hand by Fang.
"I don't think so. Now, time to say goodbye!" Fang snapped his fingers and his prized treasure the Marvelous Queen pulled up behind him. Revving it up and savoring the sound he dashed the bike forward.
Minotaurox struggled against Edric's grip, confused. "This doesn't make sense. Resistance makes me impervious to superpowers!"
Edric smirked. "Not really much 'impervious' qualities to a rope, is there?"
"What the kid said!" Yelled Fang as he slammed into the restrained Minotaurox. The force of the blow being just enough to launch him out of the ring.
With the deed done, Fang tipped his hat to Edric and walked off. Edric could only put his hands up in confusion. "Where's my thanks?"
(Dome; Hallways outside Recovery Room)
Gozu turned to look at his brother groggily as he faced down Heathcliff. The Sinner scoffed and shrugged off the ice projectile and slammed his bat at him. Launching the poor ninja into a wall.
Sneering at the bat-wielding British man, Gozu got back up and tried to stab forward with his claws. But Heathcliff easily caught with a scowl on his face.
"Oi! You ain't looking so swell, yeah? How about I leave you for the healers? I ain't got time to muck about with you lot." With that he lightly pitched Gozu upwards and swung him into the wall as well.
Heathcliff shook his head as he pushed a stray strand of hair out of his face. "Like I said, I got places to be." Just then he heard clapping from behind him.
He turned to see two young witches applauding his effort. Taking it as him being mocked he raised his bat to swing again.
The dark-skinned spectacled one held up his hands in protest. "Woah, hey! Relax! That was real, we were cheering you on. We saw the whole thing."
Heathcliff let out a "Hmph" as he rested his bat on his shoulder. His tilting his head forward and raising an eyebrow seemed to signal to the two if they had anything else to say.
The more demonic-looking witch stepped forward. "I'm Amber, and this is Derwin. We were looking to meet up with our friend and fellow resistance member; Katya. When we couldn't help but here you mention the restaurant?
The Sinner narrowed his eyes. "Yeah? What about it?"
Derwin tapped his fingers together. "Well, we were looking around for our resistance leader, Raine Whispers. We've been trying to get ahold of them, but they aren't answering our messages or their crow phone…"
Amber spoke up again. "And last we knew, they were in the restaurant. So, do you mind if we tag along with you there? Just in case?"
Heathcliff narrowed his eyes at the two, looking at them with that same angry scowl he always wore. Truth be told, he was already tired of how much work this was turning out to be. But at the same time, a disappearance? And a warning? It couldn't be a coincidence.
The British man sighed and held his bat down, motioning for them to lead the way. The two witches smiled and did so. While Heathcliff just shook his head at them and followed.
This had all better be worth it if he got his chance to let loose and crack more heads open.
The trio didn't notice an armored man let out a sinister laugh as he slunk back into the shadows while running off to likely go tell someone about this. More interlopers!
(The Arena)
"Blizzara!"
"Blizzara!"
The opposing flurries of ice shards pierced each other and shattered. When this happened both Terra's clashed swords for a stand-off. Neither side won before Ryoko ran up and ignited an energy blast in the mimic Terra's face.
"That was close…" Terra puffed. The two turning to see the mimic of Terra reforming and ignited her hand.
"Fira!"
The two girls eeked and rolled to the side to dodge the fireball storm from the mimic.
Once Ryoko got back up the mimic Terra tried to squire her with a thrust of it's sword, but the Judo practitioner deflected the blade and left it open for Terra to blast it away with magic.
"My turn!" Ryoko tagged herself in and judo tossed Eleven over to Terra who sliced it in half with her sword.
Terra was about to use another spell when a hand formed out of the grey lifeless mass that was Eleven. It wrapped around her ankle and threw her back toward Ryoko so it could reform.
The girls both groaned. "If I could just get it in another struggle, I think you might be able to get rid of it then." Terra said weakly as she got back up.
The idea made a lightbulb go off in Ryoko's head. It did sound like a good enough plan, and the perfect way to kill two birds with one stone!
And just in time! Because Eleven had just activated Trance Mode! Changing it's Terra mimic form to a Trance mimic. An act which made both Terra and Ryoko gulp.
"Look what I discovered! Meteor!"
"Oh, no." Both girls said in unison. Sure enough, in a sense of deja-vu, meteors began descending around the girls.
"Hurry! Come on, Terra!" Shouted Ryoko as an exploding meteor went off near her and pushed her back somewhat. She almost crashed into Terra if not for blonde catching her. "Right behind you!"
"Meteor!" And with the call more meteor began raining down on the two. Terra sliced through one, while Ryoko broke one to pieces with an energy burst.
"Meteor!"
On the call of the Trance Eleven, more meteors came for the girls to destroy, Terra with a fire spell and Ryoko with a judo chop.
"You okay!?" Terra called out.
Ryoko flashed her a thumbs up. "I'm good!"
"Meteor!" Eleven called again.
And again both girls fought against the tide of space rock and continued on to the source. Terra blasted through it with Blizzara, and Ryoko actually caught one and flung it back at Eleven, who blasted it to bits in the same manner as Terra.
"Not bad for a World Heroes character!" Terra chimed with a giggle.
Ryoko huffed, though it looked less menacing and more cute. "Hey, I scored an elimination at all three Megamix Tournaments! Has to count for something!" She would then look back at her now slightly burnt hands and wince.
The two were now close enough to Eleven, who smirked at them as it unleashed another spell which began pulling them in toward it.
"Aren't these your spells!?" Asked Ryoko who then turned tail and began fighting against the current.
"How am I supposed to know what it'll do!?" Terra defended as she too tried to fight it. But eventually both became pulled in right at Eleven finished charging.
"Chaotic Curr-!"
Right as Eleven could call the attack and unleash the second half of it, Terra stopped fighting and turned back to it. Then brought her sword again it's own.
"Ryoko! Now!"
Turning her head back to get a look at what was going on, Ryoko saw her own opportunity and took it! Charging up another energy burst while running over she sent it right into Terra's back.
The force of the blast would launch Terra right into Eleven, effectively forcing them both over the ropes, or through them in Eleven's case, and out of the ring.
Eleven and Terra landed in Kingdom Hearts. Specifically the battle with Maleficent. Yup! As soon as Eleven transformed into the boss character it began raining meteors down everywhere.
Ryoko jumped for joy back in the ring. "Woo-hoo! Two eliminations! D-San!... wouldn't be the proudest, but I'm showing I can do well on my own!"
Ganondorf groaned as he held up his swords. Deflecting a blow from Teruko simply by standing strong, though it was helped by Teruko's aggressive approach.
"That puny little gnat of an imp may have siphoned most of my magic. But it doesn't matter!" He said pointedly, and with pointing a sword to Teruko. "I can still defeat you!"
"En Garde." Teruko smirked, recovering and pointing her own sword, Hero's sword, at the Gerudo King.
Ganondorf roared and charged forward wildly swinging his blades. Teruko learned pretty quickly that she wouldn't be fast enough to dodge all of them so she took the approach of waiting for an opening and then slipping away.
There it was! Her chance! Ganondorf swung too far out and allowed Teruko to slid under his legs. Of course, the Ultimate Lucky Student made a note to lightly hit in between the legs.
Ganondorf felt the pain of that hit and dropped his swords to tend to his pride. Teruko smirked and slammed his head into the canvas with a curb stomp.
"At least make this a challenge! Even if you're at twenty five percent!" Teruko taunted as she approached him again.
Ganondorf chuckled, his laughter muffled by the canvas. "Want a challenge? HERE YA GO!" His fist was only lightly coated in dark magic thanks to Midna, but looked to still be enough to pack a kick.
Sadly, Teruko knew to back away immediately, and for good measure she kicked at his arm. It didn't break thanks to the gauntlets, but it definitely wasn't a pleasant feeling.
"You… insignificant…!"
Teruko just rolled her eyes. "Shut up." She said before kicking him across the face again. This seemed to knock some life into him as his pupils shrunk and he immediately stood up and grabbed his swords.
"How… DARE YOU!" Ganondorf leaped into the air as Teruko tried to back away, slamming his fists and unleashing a powerful shockwave around where he landed.
Bu~buuuut this was in vain, too. As again, the magic siphoning from Midna meant it didn't quite reach Teruko, and even if it did she leaped out of it's blast radius.
Speaking of doing a leap of her own, Teruko roared and brought the butt of the handle of Hero's sword down on his head. Slamming him into the canvas again.
He tried to get up quickly and make a grab for her legs, but Teruko laughed haughtily and put a stop to that by slamming his arm down.
Teruko sighed and put a hand on her hip. "This really isn't any fun since you got neutered. Guess I'll just do my business someplace else." And without another word, she stood him up on the ropes and kicked him in the face over them. Not before swiping his great swords from him.
Ganondorf landed in Kid Icarus Uprising. Specifically in Palutena's temple, one ray of heavenly light later and he was down and out.
"So allow me to get this straight. You think there is something going on at the restaurant in the arena?" Fang tapped his foot in curiosity.
Tails nodded. "Yes! And whatever it is, doesn't sound like it will stop. That Raine from the Owl House node warned me about it, it's why I in turn warned that Heathcliff to check it out!"
The out of place party in this, Chizuru, who had been fighting with Tails before he suddenly stopped and called Fang over, placed a finger to her chin in thought. "So you wish for me to assist in this endeavor?"
Another nod. "Yeah, I'll get my friends to help, and you get yours to help out too! I have a feeling this is only piece of the puzzle. Whoever is behind this may have something to do with the Mortal Kombat characters getting replaced too."
Fang twirled his popgun. "I don't recall getting asked if I had a choice in this."
Tails chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head. "I was hoping you would help out free of charge." Fang twirled his gun again, eyes narrowed. "And for a chance to get some treasure out of all this?"
Fang mulled it over for a minute, still twirling his gun. Meanwhile Chizuru finished her own thoughts and nodded to Tails. "If this has another chance of drawing those that would upend the seal…. then I shall offer my assistance to you. I find it troubling that this happened without my awareness."
Miles nodded back and flashed a grateful smile. "Great! Thank you!" He turned to Fang, still thinking. "Whoever is behind all of this has to have resources, riches to exploit! Come on, Fang!"
Fang huffed. "Fine. I'm in on this crazy superheroic adventure. So what do we do now?"
Tails opened his mouth, but Chizuru spoke first. "We gather more allies. If this lies deeper than we know, then the enemy numbers must be numerous. I will offer to leave, I'm more useful outside the ring than in."
A thumbs up from Tails. "Just what I was thinking!" He then began spinning his tails and offered a hand to Chizuru. "Wanna get on?"
Chizuru nodded and held onto Tails arms, soon the two were up and about to fly over the ropes. But before he dropped her in, Tails turned back to Fang. "You focus on getting more allies inside the ring, okay?"
Fang nodded with a roll of his eyes, twirling his gun again. "Yeah, yeah. I'll do my part. Don't get your tails in a twist." With one final nod for confirmation Tails dropped Chizuru into the elimination portal.
Chizuru landed in Winx Club. The titular characters decided to neonify her outfit into something more… personable. What followed was the girls getting a stern lecture from a rather cross Chizuru.
"Alright, now let… Ah!" Tails would end up getting struck in the face by a cork from Fang's popgun. The force of it ended up causing him to stop spinning his tails just long enough to let him fall into the portal himself.
Tails landed in Little Misfortune. He, along with Benjamin, quickly saw through Morgo's ruse and delivered the hurt to the demon.
Back in the ring, Fang blew off smoke emitting from his popgun. "Hey, the chance for a free elimination was there. I ain't complaining." He said with a shrug.
The Count of Monte Cristo flourished his cape while spinning out of the way of DK's attempt to bowl him over. He remarked the gorilla with a grin.
"Let your irrationality pave way to your defeat. Which will be swift and convicted."
His response was a swift backhand nearly striking him in the face. The Count ducked under and brought his hand down to the gorillas face when leaping over him.
"Show me some poise." Was all The Count said.
DK simply looked at Dantes for a moment, his mind seemingly understanding the phrase. Before The Count knew the ape was spinning, his fists held out to deliver punches.
"Hmph." The Count leaned out of the way and used his cape to deliver a series of flame-laced punches to DK. It worked twice, but DK blocked the next to pick him up and hurl him upward.
The Count curled himself in to avoid a head smash from DK, then fired a beam using his flames right down at DK's face. The attack worked and DK landed on his back.
Dantes landed seconds later and lunged forward, slashing at DK once he was standing up with his cape. DK tanked the attack and grabbed The Count. Bowling over him with his weight.
The Count kicked away at DK before he could grab him again and rolled back onto his feet. "You can scrap, but are ye truly endeavored to survive the fury of my flames?"
In his head, DK was starting to get real tired of this guy and his way of speaking. It honestly felt like he was talking in tongues! He had to eliminate him before too long.
The Count clenched his fist, igniting it in his flames. He then sent his fist upward into DK's chin, the rising uppercut knocking him back.
He then dashed in the air to get to where DK was going to land first. With a chuckle he slammed his fists into the canvas to create a large dark explosion around him.
Dantes looked up to the sky to see where DK had went flying, only to be grabbed by a set of hands and slammed into the canvas. He got back up, only to be launched further away from a rumbling caused by DK slamming his own fists to the ground.
"You're proven yourself not but an impudent distraction!"
He jumped up and kicked DK in the face, then fired a beam down below. The ape avoided it and began spinning his arm over and over.
Confused, The Count shook his head and began running forward. Firing another beam at DK, who finally stopped and rolled away from it again.
The Count took this chance to leap up and delivering a deadly swipe with a swish of his cape. The attack knocked DK off his feet and allowed Dantes to continue.
A clone of The Count sprung forward and delivered another punch to DK, and then the real Count took his place and gave him another hard punch. Then he shot out his leg to bring it to DK's head.
DK snapped out of his disoriented state and caught The Count's foot, then grabbed the other and snatched him out of the air to slam him down into the ground. Doing it another time for good measure.
And this fight was done! Too dazed to get up properly, The Count would eat a massive Giant Punch from DK. Sending him clear out of the arena with no chance of returning.
Katya traced a spell circle with her hand, firing a ball of flame at her opponent; Fox McCloud. The projectile was dissolved when the lupine shot through with his blaster.
"Try again." He taunted.
The fanfic writer growled. "Oh, you bet I will! But first!" She summoned more spell circles out of thin air and pulled out a tambourine. "How about a little music?"
All it took was one small tap and she managed to lift Fox's blaster into the air with her magic. Now defenseless she rushed in on him, tapping her tambourine to create shockwaves.
Fox put his acrobatic skills to good use, dodging and jumping over every last shockwave produced by Katya. But it wouldn't necessarily matter when he ate another fireball to the face once he was close.
Katya smirked. "Told you I'd try again."
Taking a gander at the singer fur on his face, Fox seethed and sprung toward Katya, planting a kick right to her abdomen and then across the face.
Katya stumbled back and used another shockwave to force Fox back. "You ain't taking down a master of the arts down so easily, Fox!"
Fox got back to his feet, head cocked to the side. "Master of what art? Music?"
The tambourine player grinned. "Fanfiction!"
SMACK!
Fox learned quite painfully what she was talking about when Katya summoned a book out of nowhere and slammed it across the his head.
"Ow! You hit me with a freaking book!" Fox rubbed the top of his head in pain.
Katya nodded. "Yeah, and?"
Fox's eyebrow twitched. "And!? Okay, done playing nice!"
The lupine dashed forward again, this time taking the time to jump over the shockwaves and fire a shot from his blaster. Katya had less time to try and get him when she had to also swerve and lean before she could shoot again.
Her next mistake came when she tried to fire another shockwave from close range. Fox used his reflector to send it right back at her, much to her shock as barely had time to dodge it before she ate a kick to the face.
She staggered back, but recovered enough to see Fox charging up fire to smash into her with Fire Fox. In a haste she grabbed her tambourine off the ground and began tapping.
"Lullaby soothes the savage lupine!" She chuckled as her sleeping spell made its way to Fox. The effects were instantaneous and Fox immediately yawned and began struggling to stay up.
Katya continued to play, confident she was about to win. Fox took two steps in an attempt to run, but he yawned again and found himself unable to fight sleep.
Wait! The spell! He could reflect the spell! Of course! Fighting the sleeping spell for just long enough, he activated his reflector and immediately he could feel the spell's hold wearing off as it bounced off him and flew toward Katya.
The fanfic writer yawned as she continued to play while the spell encircled her. Unfortunately, she put together what happened a little too late. And she had less fight in her, evidently because she was asleep within seconds.
Being a little delicate with the sleeping witch, Fox lightly shoved her under the ropes.
The lupine then wiped some sweat off his brow after his elimination. "That was close. Way too close, she almost caught me sleeping on her."
SMACK!...again.
"No, but I did!" Said a smirking Teruko, who had just smashed Hero's sword hard onto his head. The blow briefly knocked him down to his knees.
"Wha…?" Was all he would get to say as Teruko hurriedly picked him up and pitched him over the ropes.
Fox landed in Whiplash. Where he was set on fire by Spanx & Redmond to 'cure' his 'human-loving disease.'
Fujin kicked up a whirlwind to dash forward and charge at Storm, who used her own mastery over the wind to push him back.
The demigod stopped and dropped to the ground. "Your mastery over the wind is impressive, Ororo."
Storm nodded and crossed her arms. "My mastery is dependent on my mastery over my mind. Something that takes years of learning how to control."
As a point of sorts, Storm unleashed a tornado right under Fujin. Who initially struggled before regaining his balance to use it to throw himself at Storm.
Storm managed to just swerve past the spinning demigod, and also impressively managed to deflect an arrow from his crossbow by flinging it away with her own wind.
Fujin landed back on the ground, turning to Storm with a smile. "May you weather your own inner storms completely one day, Ororo."
The mutant blinked at the sentiment, and then nodded again with narrowed eyes. "I intend to."
Fujin used his power to hurl his sword at the mutant, who exercised her own to catch it and flung it back at him. Fujin caught it back in his sheath and charged forward again, this time he was fast enough to catch her.
"Your inner strife is most sympathy inducing, Ororo. Perhaps I can help you weather your mind?"
Storm struggled against Fujin's own might and control of the wind. She didn't want to admit it, but she was aware that Fujin likely had her beat in this regard. But there was one last trick to try.
Fujin came to a sudden stop, the momentum he had racked up flinging Storm into the distance. Somewhat. She regained her momentum quickly, and when she did she waved her hand out at him.
The demigod was confused for a moment. Until he tried to breath and found no air coming into his lungs, he gasped and coughed when he realized what was happening. In his mind he couldn't help but respect Storm for her tactic, but it was futile.
Fujin took a deep breath and shot his own hand out at Storm. Immediately she noticed the effect of what she had just tried at him. She gagged for a second before restoring her own airflow.
"A clever and useful trick. But one we both know and share, Ororo. Have you any others?"
Storm looked at Fujin, then smiled. "Plenty."
The mutant rushed forward, catching all of Fujin's arrows in mid-air and flinging them back to him. All of them were dodged easily.
"Was that a.." He started, and then stopped when he could feel the pressure in his ear increasing, an act that made him groan loudly and fall to the ground in pain.
Storm looked on with a nod, her plan was working now. With a thrust of her hands she conjured an earthquake where Fujin lay. His pain left him unable to activate his power to float.
"Whirlwind!"
The still pained Fujin found himself helplessly spinning into a wind tornado that carried him the ropes, Storm quickly following behind.
"You may field the power of wind more effectively, Fujin. However, wind is yet one natural element of Mother Nature. Of which I am wielder of all."
She then floated above the ring and Fujin, almost to the roof. "Which is most unfortunate for you."
Without another word she brought down a giant streak of lightning down at the demigod, who in spite of it had recovered enough to try and fly back in.
"I think not!" With one final flurry of ice shards aimed directly at Fujin, Storm had successfully spiked the demigod right down into the portal below.
(Hotel; 5th Floor)
Sindel walked the halls of the floor where her and General Shao's rooms lay. So far so good, not that she was scared, but with the suddenness of the General's disappearance. As well as his odd stance on matters, Sindel couldn't help but be suspicious.
"Barren. Quiet, near silent. Can't help but sense that I am not both alone, and not at the same time." Sindel mused aloud as she went over to General Shao's room.
The Empress took an ear to the door to briefly listen in for signs of life, nothing. No sounds of movement, no doors opening or closing, not even the sound of the television. All in all the room was as quiet as the rest of this floor.
Ah! It was likely fruitless to check, after all, the silence told her all she needed to know. That the room was deserted, and no sign of the General was within. Shaking her head, she pulled her hand away from the doorknob and looked around.
Nothing. As is what she seemed to want to believe, but that aura remained. But she just couldn't seem to detect exactly what was amiss….
But then she heard it, a small thump. As if someone bumped into something. And she had a crystal clear idea of where it had come from; her own room.
Scowl on her face now. How dare this intruder have the gall to mess about in her own room! Whoever this scoundrel was, they were surely in for a very rough punishment when she discovered their identity.
Without haste or caution, she kicked the door to her room open wide, and immediately she locked eyes with the culprit.
"How dare you! What business do you have in my personal quarters!? And to what end do you have to achieve in doing this!?"
…
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(The Arena)
E. Honda gave a hearty laugh as he and Hinako clashed their palms together. The struggle would start even, but the older and bigger girthed Honda began to overpower her. Ending with a body shove back.
"Not bad, kid! This fight will be great in getting the art of sumo, my art of sumo, more attention!"
Hinako smiled with a tilt of her head. "Well, thank you Mr. Honda! Maybe you could even make an appearance for my school sumo club too!"
E. Honda chuckled. "Maybe. We'll see. But I'll definitely consider it! Now back to our main show!"
The older sumo wrestler got into running position and charged forward, but Hinako fought back with a shoulder tackle. It managed to get him to stop, giving her a chance to pick him up and throw him back.
Honda got up, his eyes wide in amazement. "Wow. Where did you find that strength kid?"
Hinako giggled. "Practice, of course! I've been honing my sumo for a number of years, and I've been able to throw just about anyone in KoF!"
The older man gave a smile to the petite girl's explanation. "Ha! Could say the same for me! Glad to see the art is getting it's due!"
Honda then resumed fighting, running over to Hinako again and catching her in his hands. But Hinako was able to break free with a palm thrust to his face. Following with more palm hits.
Eventually Honda was able to stop Hinako's hands with his own, and when he did he pushed her back while still keeping their palms locked.
This ended when he pushed her into the ropes and let go of her, the momentum launching her forward into Honda's arms where he throw her up then palm struck her back down on the head.
Hinako turned on her back, looking up only to see Honda's hip coming down toward her. The young girl yelped before rolling out of the way.
When Honda landed, Hinako lifted her leg up and stomped onto the ground. The attack caused the ground near her to rumble, and it was enough to reach Honda and make him fall flat on his rear.
The young sumo practitioner smiled when it seemed like she had him. Getting into her own running stance, she kicked up dirt behind her before charging forward.
THUD!
That was when Honda had chosen his time to do a forward leaping headbutt, right into Hinako's own head. Thankfully it didn't seem to have hurt her much, though she did fall back with a groan and rub her head.
"H-Hey! That move isn't in traditional sumo!" Hinako complained.
E. Honda grinned. "It's in my traditional sumo style, and soon it will be the standard practice across the entire world of sumo!"
Hinako widened her eyes in horror. This man was a quack sumo wrestler looking to enforce his own blasphemous style into the entire sumo world!? The horror! No! She couldn't let that happen!
The young sumo student huffed before activating her Climax Super. She got back into running stance and rushed forward. Catching Honda by his mawashi and taking him along for a brief ride.
When she stopped, she gave Honda a series of painful palm thrusts across his entire body. Then picked him up with her hands, and with one powerful dunk, slammed him into the ground. And then picked him up again to throw him clear out of the arena.
Hinako dusted off her hands with satisfaction upon getting her elimination. "I'll die before I allow you to poison the sacred art of sumo!
"Yah! Woo!" B. Jenet exclaimed as she performed a diving kick at Kuai Liang, the Shirai Ryu founder caught her heeled foot and tossed her to the side.
B. Jenet managed to catch herself and land on her feet. Shooting a fake pout at Kuai Liang, she ducked under a fireball and leaped up and over a pillar of fire before planting her foot right in his abdomen.
"I don't know if you were better off having most of your face hidden, yet. What are you, Batman?" She asked, her other foot resting on his shoulder.
Kuai Liang, who had doubled over in pain. Gave a deep sigh. "Most certainly not."
He then flipped backward, kicking his legs to throw B. Jenet off her balance and leave her open to getting pricked by his spear.
Problem was that didn't end up happening, instead B. Jenet caught the spear and wrapped it around her leg. Then spun her legs in an incredibly fast motion.
"Get over here!" B. Jenet said while spinning her legs, to which Kuai Liang roared about copyright before it pulled him along with it and making him eat a multitude of kicks.
When Scorpion fell to the ground, B. Jenet put a hand on her hip and clicked her tongue. "Fatigue getting to you? Don't recall you letting Krohnen get away with that…"
Kuai Liang nodded, getting up to one knee. "Correct."
He then disappeared and reappeared above B. Jenet, swinging down his kusarigama at her. But then he remembered that she still had his spear, a fact that came when she lassoed it around his axe and used it to pull him down.
'Whoops, sorry! Forgot I still had this!" She said before using her foot and leg to pick him up. Kuai Liang dropped the possum act and grabbed her leg to flip her over his head and to the ground.
Picking up his weapons, he summoned a fire elemental to breath a stream of fire at B. Jenet. But the pirate girl spun her hand out in front of her to create a mini whirlwind that dissolved the fire.
"Get over here!" Kuai Liang shouted when he shot out his spear, using his pyromancy to ignite the entire rope in flames.
"Huh, uh… nah!" B. Jenet said before she creating another little whirlwind to catch the spear and let it harmlessly to the ground when it dissipated.
Growling, he tried his teleporting trick again. This time he reappeared to her side to throw a punch at her face. But B. Jenet caught it and threw him over her shoulder.
"You're really starting to slow down. I don't see Aerith having this much trouble, and she's been in the same amount of time as you!"
Kuai Liang's response was to surprise her with a kick to the head. He then spun to his feet and got out his kusarigama, only to tilt his head in confusion when he saw B. Jenet standing with her back turned to him, hands in her head.
"Honestly?" She asked him, her back still turned to him. When Scorpion got close was when she turned back around, expression angry. "You're starting to bore me!"
In a rage, she took off her heel and began smacking Kuai Liang over and over and over with it. At the final hit she smacked him so hard with it she launched him clear out of the ring.
Watching him fall into the elimination portal, B. Jenet could just sheepishly laugh and put her heel back on.
Aerith fell flat on her back, a victim of one of DK's backhands. She managed to get out of the way from the ape bowling her over not unlike what he tried with The Count.
This time Aerith was waiting with a few good smacks with her Guard Stick. It worked a few times, but DK grew wide and caught it when she tried one more time.
"You're a lot smarter than you look, huh?" Aerith asked while she struggled in his grip. DK's only response was to grin and chuck the staff and Aerith with it to the side.
Aerith struggled to keep her balance upon landing, which wasn't good when DK had both his hands help at his side's right behind her.
"Seal Evil!" She quickly cast the spell to paralyze him. Then fired a series of projectiles at him with her staff. He took the attacks and nearly lost his own balance as a result.
The flower girl was about to cast another spell when DK surprised her with another Giant Punch that came just inches of her face. Thankfully she was just out of reach of it, but the sheer force of the attack pushed her back.
This minor distraction allowed for DK to pick her up and toss her into the air. Then bring his fists down onto her back when he leaped up after her.
Aerith landed on her stomach, but quickly got up in time to swing her Guard Stick up to whack DK in the jaw and stop his attack from leaving her immobilized.
Instead, DK retaliated by smashing the ground with his hands. The force sent shockwaves that launched Aerith into the air again. But this time she sent another projectile to stop DK in his tracks.
Landing, she spun her staff and used it to block any and all of DK's attempts to get in. When she had him all tangled, she gave him a swift bonk on the head for good measure.
In his daze, DK knew he couldn't give up, so as a sort of Hail Mary he began spinning his arms around rapidly. Effectively turning himself into a spinning Kong copter, the attack was fast enough to catch Aerith and carry her with him while dealing multiple blows.
Back where this started, with Aerith on her back, she used her Guard Stick to pull herself back up. Yeah, no, she was starting to feel the effects of fatigue.
"Not… giving up yet!" She said in defiance to DK, who could only smile dumbly at her and strike a pose.
"Tempest!"
The attack caught DK off-guard, if only because the ape's mind immediately wandered in awe at how pretty it looked. The resulting explosion was less so.
Her quick thinking was rewarded! Yes! Now it was time to finish this, she began charging up her next attack. DK got back up and shook his head, then his attention diverted to Aerith.
"Holy!"
Much like the other times, the massive explosion of light caught DK in it's tracks, and also like the other times this move saw use it would send DK far away. Far enough to fly over the ropes, and his attempt to get back in fell just short.
DK landed in Mario vs Donkey Kong. His decided to help his younger self try and defeat the plumber, to middling degrees of success.
Aerith breathed a sigh of relief and sat down again, taking the chance to do a bit more drawing on the ground while waiting for the section to be over.
"Snack time!"
Midna summoned two wolves at Joker and Skull, the two Phantom Thieves shared a look before leaping over their first attack and brandishing their weapons when they turned around.
"Ready, compadre?"
Just then, Joker sensed Midna behind them, a theory proven right when the wolves disappeared into a dark swirling portal before they lunged again.
Joker's eyes widened. "Behind us!"
Skull had more agency, surprisingly, and immediately swung his pipe behind him. It didn't hit Midna, barely. But it did make her smirk.
"Not bad, Blondie. Looks like you're very 'for real' about this after all. Almost a shame." Was what she said before she slammed the dark twilight magic ball down at the two.
When the explosion cleared and the two were nowhere to be seen, Midna put her hands on her hips and pouted. "All talk, I expected more from the so-called 'Phantom Thieves'…."
That was when Skull dropped to the ground, surprising Midna and swung his pipe to punt her back a ways. Following it with a blast from his shotgun.
"You ain't seen anything yet, babe! Uh, but don't take that too much to heart. Literally." He said when Joker also dropped to the ground. The two having used Joker's grappling hook to evade Midna's attack.
Midna got back up with a smile. "Alright, looks like we have ourselves a fight. Good! Now to make you apologize for making me wait!"
She summoned another wolf to ride on, and then summoned two more and sent them forward. Joker and Skull managed to dodge again, and then jump on the spinning wolves when they came back. Joker taking the chance to leap at Midna first and catch her with a slash of his dagger.
Skull leapt next and leapt up higher to descend from above the imp, slamming his foot down onto her face. And repeating the process twice more before blasting her back down to the ground.
Midna growled and used her hair to grab both Phantom Thieves and slam them into the ground. Then got back onto her wolf and rammed into the two of them before knocking them back with another wolf throw.
Joker got back up first and used his grappling hook to latch onto Midna and pull her toward him. Though Midna was prepared for this and generated a shockwave of dark magic to blast him away.
Skull's turn now! He tried to swing his pipe at her again, but Midna caught it with her hair. Prompting Skull to try wrestle it away when Midna simply shook her head and throw him toward Joker.
Joker saw this and leaped over the flying Skull, then firing a shot at her with his gun. It connected and knocked her off the wolf she was sitting on.
Skull limped back up to Joker, toothy grin on his face. Joker shot him a small grin right back. The two silently agreeing on the next course of action.
"PERSONA!"
"Arséne!"
"Captain Kidd!"
The duo's respective Persona's manifested behind them. Midna sat back up and looked up at the sight, and then did a real pout.
"Come on!"
The two Phantom Thieves smirked at Midna, Skull deciding to take his turn first. "Maziodyne!"
Midna summoned two wolves to hide under and shield her from the rain of lightning strikes, but the powerful attack broke through her constructs and shocked her anyway. Just in time for Joker to take his turn.
"Eigaon!"
The dark Curse attack sucked Midna in and dealt heavy damage to her in spite of her Twili status. When it was finished Midna was on the ground, downed.
Skull turned to Joker, pipe firmly planted on his shoulder. "Could be a possum act to snatch us when we're not lookin'! Let's say we go All Out!"
Joker adjusted his glove in response. Smile etched on his face.
"Time to go for an All-Out Attack!"
The two Phantom Thieves rushed the seemingly downed Midna, which only made her eyes widen and confirm their theory that she was pretending to be out.
Joker and Skull then unleashed an incredibly swift and powerful barrage of attacks on the poor imp, whose yells of pain filled the air around them while a small dust cloud from the attack was kicked up.
When it was finished, Skull leaped out of the cloud and got his shotgun back out.
"And don't come back!"
With that last shot, he successfully blasted Midna over the ropes. Sadly, Midna was determined not to leave without at least one elimination.
In a flash, she used her hair to grab Joker and pull him with her over the ropes. The suddenness of the act was enough to leave him too stunned to try and get back in.
Midna landed in Jak II. She got hit on by Daxter and promptly kicked his butt into next week. To be fair, he found it incredibly hot.
"Joker!" Back in the ring, Skull rushed over to the ropes to see what had happened, and could only groan inn annoyance when he saw he was too late to save his friend.
"Man! Are you for real!? I can't believe it! Stupid-ass imp!" He kicked the ground and leaned against a turnbuckle. Well, might as well see what everyone else was doing.
Storm was meditating in mid-air to conserve energy, Fang was similarly to him off to the side twirling his popguns, Ryoko and Hinako were currently sparring together whilst also chatting about something Skull couldn't make out, B. Jenet was twirling a finger in her hair out of boredom, Aerith was still on the ground drawing, Omega was smoothing out a dent in his body from his battle with Khameleon, Teruko was napping away on a turnbuckle as Edric approached her with a snicker as he reached for the Hero's sword only to get kicked in the face for his troubles.
With no immediate sign of the next section starting the survivors simply kept to what they were doing until they got to go ahead to prepare for the new fighters…
(Results; 20 votes on the Arena Fight and Side Battles)
STORM (MN:ROTI) (18:2) = 16 (JP, Fujin)
FANG THE SNIPER (StH) (16:5) = 11 (Minotaurox, Miles 'Tails' Prower)
RYOKO (WH) (15:5) = 10 (Eleven, Terra Branford)
AERITH GAINSBOROUGH (D:FF) (16:6) = 10 (Garland, Donkey Kong)
TERUKO TAWAKI (D:DT) (15:6) = 9 (Ganondorf, Fox McCloud)
B. JENET (KOFXV) (13:7) = 6 (Scorpion)
E-123 OMEGA (StH) (13:7) = 6 (Khameleon)
SKULL (P5) (13:7) = 6 (Midna)
HINAKO SHIJO (KOFXV) (12:8) = 4 (E. Honda)
EDRIC BLIGHT (TOH) (12:9) = 3 (R.O.B.)
(ELIMINATED)
MIDNA (HW) (11:9) = 2 (Joker)
MILES 'TAILS' PROWER (StH) (12:10) = 2 (Chizuru Kagura)
SCORPION (MK) (12:10) = 2 (Krohnen McDougall)
DONKEY KONG (SSB) (11:10) = 1 (The Count of Monte Cristo)
FOX MCCLOUD (SSB) (11:10) = 1 (Katya)
JOKER (SSB) (10:10) = 0
GANONDORF (HW) (11:11) = 0
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (MB) (9:11) = -2
KATYA (TOH) (8:12) = -4
FUJIN (MK) (8:12) = -4
E. HONDA (SFV-VI) (8:12) = -2
MINOTAUROX (M:TOL -N) (8:12) = -4
TERRA BRANFORD (D:FF) (8:14) = -6
CHIZURU KAGURA (KOFXV) (7:14) = -7
ROB (SSB) (6:14) = -8
KROHNEN MCDOUGALL (KOFXV) (5:15) = -10
GARLAND (D:FF) (3:17) = -14
ELEVEN (SFV-VI) (3:17) = -14
JP (SFV-VI) (3:18) = -15
KHAMELEON (MK) (2:18) = -16
"Through Patches of Fire & Ice"
HEATHCLIFF (LC) home-runs GOZU & MEZU (KE)
20 to 0
Third Time Is Most Definitely The Charm: Third section in a row where Aerith gets two eliminations. Impressive for the petite flower girl. Keep this up and she'll break the record for quickest amount of time to get double digit eliminations!
On The Subject Of Section One…: A lot of Section One finally got tossed this section. As a matter of fact, only Aerith and technically Teruko are left.