The battle between all of the combatants was intense. Mega Man was shooting his Mega Buster around, Master Chief and Tucker were taking down opponents with their swords, Doomguy was shooting everything in sight, it was a spectacular sight if there was ever one to be seen.

Sonya and Orchid were taking the heads off of Xenomorphs, and Kitana had decapitated some more Hydra goons.

But in the distance was just a young man thinking how this was all going down. One who was basically hated by the others for his general uselessness.

"I don't get it." Jaune muttered, "I fight. I try to keep my friends' spirits up, so why do people keep giving me crap about this?"

Beat chirped in response.

Jaune looked at the one companion that the others had left him.

"I try… I try to be a good leader, so why is it that I can't be allowed to get depressed?"

Beat just cocked his head to the side.

"I mean, it's not like I didn't let Ruby get sad, but we were on a mission! She could find the time to be sad on her own time if she needed to mourn so bad!" Jaune reasoned.

Beat chirped once and ruffled his feathers.

"I mean… It's not like she doesn't think that Penny can't be rebuilt, right?"

Beat just cocked his head, which was really it's entire body.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm a nice guy!"

Beat just floated around and didn't say anything.

"I guess I could've studied more instead of constantly relying on others to compensate, but I'm a strategist! I shouldn't be fighting to begin with!"

Again, Beat said nothing.

"I mean, what's the use of me on a battlefield anyways? - I just get in the way and I only have time to yell out people's names. I'd say that it takes a lot of skill to get your strategy across by only yelling names." Jaune persisted.

Beat said nothing. Again.

"I mean, I guess it might also be luck. Do you think I only made it this far off of luck?"

Beat chirped in response.

"I guess it was a lot of luck." Jaune sighed, "Well, I guess it's time to start using skill."

He got up, unsheathed his sword, and started towards the battlefield.

"Well, this all seems horrible." Sonya muttered.

"I've had worse." Tucker countered, "Had to go into my worst nightmare to do some weird prophecy bullcrap, and I didn't make it."

"Can't be as bad as what Mega Man went through." Kitana pointed out, motioning towards Mega Man's dismembered and half-melted head.

"I'd say he got off easy." Bomberman replied, "Compared to what happened to Pulseman and Dig-Dug, Mega Man was at least destroyed quick."

"And then there was that one Predator asshole who decided Blanka was a new trophy." Master Chief grumbled, "How many of our guys have we lost?"

"HAHAHAHA!" Joker sauntered to the range, "Ohh, happy day, happy day!" He cackled, "Today's the day that ol' Bats loses even more friends, and I'll be the only one he has left!"

"Seriously, this guy acts like Batman rejected his invitation to the prom or something."

"You got that right." Doomguy whispered back to Master Chief.

"I heard that." Joker grumbled, "But let's put a smile on your faces!"

He ripped the helmet off of the Chief and started to shake his can of SmileX gas.

"Any last words?"

"Yeah. Go stick a cactus up your-"

*PSST!*

The Space Marine started choking on the gas, coughing until he started laughing. Laughing until he descended back into coughs, and suffocated while the others watched on in horror.

"Looks like this wild card got a new formula that the old bat didn't get a vaccine to!" Joker cackled.

"Y'know, in the movies," Tucker mentioned, "A hero long forgotten or disregarded usually comes in at the last moment to save everyone."

"Like who?" Sonya asked, "This isn't one of Johnny's lame action movies. Who do we have to pull this off?"

"There's Jaune." Felicia offered.

"Now I'm starting to wish this was one of Johnny's lame movies."

"Okay you asshole," Jaune panted, "Tell me where my friends are!"

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about Joan-"

"It's Jaune actually." The swordsman replied.

"As if I care."

"You should care!" Jaune shouted, "In case you lost your eyesight with the skin on your face, Red Skull, I just took down your forces on my own! So I'd talk. Now."

Red Skull sneered, "I don't have them. But considering that you're-"

"I'm not joining you." Jaune snarled, "Now start telling the truth, or I start stabbing you."

Red Skull rolled his eyes, "If I did have your friends, which I don't, I'd be using them as a bargaining chip right now to try and make you and your stupid voice leave me alone. Honestly, I think that- AUGH!"

Jaune stabbed his opponent in the stomach, "If my studies in anatomy were right, that should have been your liver. Now start talking or I'll shove this thing through whatever it is that you call a heart!"

"I have a heart. It was just blackened when the Allies started attacking others for no reason."

"Oppressing people isn't a means of retaliation?" Jaune asked, aiming his sword above Shmidt's chest.

"Your world seems to think so- ACK!"

Jaune got tired of listening to the Hydra leader prattle on about his world's problems. He figured that that was a better reason to be a hero.

Righting wrongs was better than living up to some family name.

"Well, I may as well look around for the others."

"Why do I get the feeling that we missed something incredibly badass and heartfelt at the same time?" Tucker asked nobody in particular.

"I'm still trying to figure out why he hasn't figured out that he used up all of his gas on Chief and Doomguy. Guy is definitely not good at conserving stuff like this." Sonya pointed out.

"Eh, they guy thought that Doomguy's helmet was decorative. Who knew that it could protect against poisons?" Kitana rhetorically asked.

"I think Batman might have modified it for that function actually." Orchid wondered, "Is there anything that man isn't prepared for?"

"Probably Joker here. The guy is unpredictable as hell."

"O-KAY!" Joker sauntered into the room, "Apparently, I used up all of that gas on Skull's goons. Never thought I'd say this, but seeing them laugh like that was disturbing."

"Y'know, if you let us go, we could help you take down that maniac-"

*BANG!*

"Don't insult us maniacs like that, soldier boy." Joker cut off, sheathing his gun back into his coat, "We don't appreciate being associated with that heartless-"

*CRASH!*

Several Xenomorphs arrived in the warehouse that Joker had set up for his base of operations.

"What the hell?" Joker asked, making his way to the window, "I thought that, - oh…"

All of Joker's henchmen had either been harvested or had their head eaten off.

"I wonder why they didn't go after skullker's goons." Joker mumbled, "And why didn't they use their alarm?"

"Is that what that red blinking light was?" Tucker asked, "I thought it was your introductory alarm. Warn people that you were coming in the room."

"Why would I do that? People should just assume that I'm always coming into the room." Joker snarked.

"Sonya and I have fought these beings before." Kitana mentioned.

"Yeah, if you let some of us go, we could help you out." Sonya added.

"Eh, let me check my calendar."

"Figures he'd have one for this kind of situation."

"We'll get you Batman's autograph on one of your cans if you help." Orchid offered.

"DEAL!" Joker untied the remaining heroes, "Suckers. Now I can blame ol' Batsy for when I-"

*SHLING!*

"Ugh, I thought he'd never shut up." Kitana mumbled, looking at Joker's head, "I swear, he's almost as bad as Kano."

"Well, we have a hive to beat. Where do you think the queen is?" Sonya asked, picking up her weapons.

"Chief's sensors said that the most blips were coming from the southwestern area of the sector. We should try for that." Tucker mentioned.

"Alright, let's move!"

"I still have no idea how you were a good opponent for X-23." Jaune said, "I mean, the girl's healing factor is on par with Wolverine's for crying out loud. Why did they think you were a good fit?"

"Ugh! Could you just kill me already?" Mileena asked, "Your voice reminds me of stupid people who are oblivious to other people's pain and misery - and not in the good way."

"I think that maybe that clown girl that Deathstroke mentioned would be a better opponent." Jaune said, "Right Beat?"

Beat said nothing, but did do his best to nod his head.

"I mean, I ended up beating you. Imagine how people who actually lost to you must feel."

"I can imagine." Mileena mumbled as she waited for the blood loss to finally take her.

"Well, this was a nice talk." Jaune got up to walk away.

"Hey! WHAT ABOUT ME?"

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"You paralyzed me, and I'm bleeding out. Don't you think you should…"

"I don't follow."

"PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY!" Mileena screeched.

"Oh, right. Sorry about that." Jaune said, smacking his head, "Okay, just let me try to make this as painless as possible-"

"AUGH! You didn't even hit any vital organs you imbecile!"

"Sorry! Stop pressuring me!"

"If I still had my hands I'd do it myself."

"If you could still move your hands, you;d try to gut me." Jaune replied, "Okay, I'm going to try to -"

"Augh! AGAIN?"

"Sorry!"

Beat shook his head. This was going to take a while.

"That took…" Sonya panted, "Way longer than it should have taken."

"How…" Orchid clutched her side, "How did this guy take down Tucker and Kitana at the same time?"

"Well," Sonya looked at the remains of Carnage, "I'd say it was because they didn't have fire to beat them with."

"It's just the two of us now." Orchid placed her hand on Sonya's shoulder, "We can't let the Xenomorphs run rampant, or the whole city is lost."

"More so than usual?" Bomberman quipped.

Jaune carefully trekked through the terrain. Having been able to get past a lot of opponents, he looked around.

Green blood everywhere. Some acidic, and others neon green.

It almost like something out of Mortal Kombat.

Jaune tripped over a severed Xenomorph head that still had its spine attached.

Okay, maybe it was something exactly from Mortal Kombat.

"Alright Jaune." He said to himself, "You got this far on your own. Sure you lost your shield fighting Mileena, but that doesn't mean that you aren't 'useless baggage' like everyone says you are."

He moved carefully. Moving past the acid blood, eggs, and leftover traps, he was making his way into the hive. Hopefully nothing would go wrong.

*CRASH!*

So much for that.

The eggs started opening up. The traps started beeping, and the exit was going to be-

*CRASH!*

"Well, so much for a way out." Jaune muttered, "Let's just keep going-"

"GRAWWH!"

"Ah peanuts."

"So, no way out I guess." Sonya muttered.

"Like we're letting anyone out. We have a plan here though."

"Right. Bomberman will get to the basement, and bring the whole building down. The two of us will hold off the queen at the upper levels."

"At least we don't have to worry about any more surprises-"

*CRASH!*

"Agh! Dang it!"

"Arc? What the hell are you doing here? And where's Beat?"

"I stopped moping around. As for Beat, well…" Jaune started to explain.

"No time! LOOK OUT!" Orchid lept forward in her fire cat form, and struck the new intruder.

"A Predalien? When did that-"

"Do we really want to figure that out, or are we going to actually fight?" Sonya cut off.

"Back to our regularly scheduled programing?" Orchid joked.

"I'll hold this thing off!" Sonya shouted, "The rest of you finish the mission!"

"This is my fight, and I-"

"This isn't the time, blondie!" Orchid grabbed Jaune by the hoodie, "There's a time and place for pride, but the battlefield isn't one of them!"

"Careful Sonya!" Bomberman called out.

"I don't have to be." Sonya grunted, "It's kombat time!"

"Are we sure that the Queen is in the basement?"

"Pretty sure." Orchid mentioned, "Bomberman found and modified an old Predator detonator. One blast, and the whole thing goes up in flames. No more Aliens, no more Predators, they'll be dead."

"Well, at least the franchises won't get dragged down any further…" Jaune quipped, "Why are we trying to find the queen anyways?"

"If we attack her, the other Xenomorphs will try to get in the building to protect her. Once Bomberman's blast goes off, they'll be taken down with the bitch."

"And we have the easy part. Just gotta distract the queen, and kill anyone along the way, right?"

"Yep." Orchid replied.

Sonya was holding herself fairly well against the predalien. By which we mean that she wasn't getting curbstomped by the thing.

"Urgh," the Special Forces agent wiped the blood from her chin, and summoned her drone to restock on her bombs.

"Try this!" She tossed all of her shrapnel bombs at once, and the Predalien staggered back. Seeing her opening, Sonya rushed forward, and used her signature leg grab and slammed her opponent into the ground. She continued to attack and dodge until it was getting obvious that one of them was burning out.

"Ugh…" Sonya was the one to use up her energy. And while managing to break her opponent's leg was good, it didn't stack to her having been impaled in the lung.

"One… Last… Shot…" She punched in some commands into her wrist device, and summoned her drone.

The drone locked onto the Predalien, who was clawing its way to Sonya, and charged forward.

*BOOM!*

The drone detonated, sending the Predailien's blood everywhere. And onto Sonya as well.

"AUUGHH!" She struggled as the acid blood started to eat away at her organs and skin. Eventually finding her breath and accepting her fate as she closed her eyes one last time, and hoped for a better timeline.

"Woah!"

Bomberman rushed through the maze that was the basement floor of the building, placing bombs everywhere to hold off the Xenomorphs.

"Gotta keep moving. Got to - AHA!" Bomberman found what he was looking for: The main support beam. Destroy this, and bring down the whole building on top of it.

As an added bonus, the gas pipes would detonate and bring the entire thing up in flames.

"RAWWH!"

Bomberman turned around and saw some more Xenomorphs.

"Okay, just gotta hold these guys off, until I get the signal."

He readied some bombs, and took a battle stance.

"Time to blow up!"

Jaune and Sonya had found the hive's primary nest.

"Tch, souless bastards." Orchid mentioned, seeing their more recent victims.

"Well, get busy fighting, or get busy dying." Jaune moved to attack.

"Wait, we can't-"

"RAWW!"

The two of them jumped at the new opponent, "You were saying?" Jaune quipped.

"Hold them off! I'm going to kill this bitch!"

Jaune went to work slashing at the new Xenomorphs. Managing to hold them off for a fairly good amount of time.

Orchid managed to bob and weave against the attacks by the Praetorians and other Xenomorph castes. The increasing power hill making her more aggressive.

"RAAHH!"

Several Minutes later…

"And another one of the heroes bites the dust." Ganon noted, seeing the explosion, "Now to break into this place!" He started to push.

He kept pushing and pushing until-

*CRACK!*

He broke through a hole in the barrier.

"Ah yes. Kinetic Reflector." He recalled, "Works against impacts, but not against continuous force."

He grinned as he made his way to penetrating the base's defenses.

X: Trigon finale and a bit of what's going on in universe A next time. Maybe even some Thanoseid too.