"And Lara comes out on top!" Ken called out in excitement.

"Was there ever any doubt?" Tifa smirked, "She had better strength, speed, and feats. I'm just happy that someone from Square netted a win."

Cloud and Tifa were celebrating, and had invited most of their friends. The only reason why the word 'most' was used, was because not everyone was at the hotel yet.

And some haven't fought yet, either.

Yeah. Tifa was still waiting on Barret or Red XIII to enter the ring. It's not that she didn't like Cloud or anything - Just the opposite in fact - But, she wanted to see more of her friends around.

Time to check out the winner, the loser, and everyone else.


"So, out of curiosity, who's the upcoming vid-game villain that's fighting next?"

Peach tapped on the next page of her tablet, looking for the next combatant. "Huh." She raised her eyebrow, "It's Scrooge McDuck."

Bowser stopped doing his push-ups in surprise, "Uh, what game is he from?"

"He's actually not from a game. I think he was from an old television show. Like Goliath."

"Hmm. So, Wario, or Cranky Kong. Who do you think he's going to fight?

"Well, there's also Mr Krabs." Peach mentioned after a moment of thinking.

"Hmm." Bowser agreed, "But there's also the idea of him fighting a poor person for contrast."

"Like Aladdin?" Bowser asked.

"Yeah. Like him."


"Four days! It took you lot four days to get me out of there?"

Lara was pretty pissed off at the fact that she was stranded in the desert for 96 hours, and she was sure to let everyone know that.

"For the fifth time, we also had to bring medical supplies to bring Nate back to life." Green Arrow explained.

"Not to mention the fact that the propeller blade conveniently impaling him was total bullshi- OW!"

"Don't mind Raiden. He's been on edge ever since he and a bunch of other heroes fought Doomsday." Oliver apologized.

"Doomsday? - As in the monster that killed Superman of all people?" Lara asked, clearly worried.

"Don't worry much luv," Tracer reassured as she put the airship on autopilot, "The villains got him trapped in an underground bunker. Got some kind of kinetic energy whatchamacallit to hold him."

"Did any of you get that? I got like… None of it."

"Doomsday's not today, or ever." Green Arrow translated.

"Okay then. What time are we getting to this hotel you keep talking about?" Lara asked.

"ETA is five hours. That should be enough time to get this bloke back on his feet." Tracer said, referring to Nathan, whose spine looked like it was severed.

"Alright then," Zelda replied, cracking her fingers, "Let's get to work."

The process of reviving a fallen fighter was rather complicated. When it was just Samus, she would typically just stick them in a recovery chamber that she had on her ship. The process was excruciatingly long, and whomever was revived had excruciating phantom pains afterwards.

Then Mario came along, and with him, came 1-Ups. The 1-Ups made reviving people a lot easier, but still did nothing to reduce the phantom pains. In addition, the bodies still had to have their bodies restored before being brought back to life, else the fighter be doomed to die a second time, either by pain or by inflicted wounds. It was best to not ask how they found that out.

After all that, Peach and Zelda's magic made repairing those wounds much easier, and had the added bonus of being able to give people who were essentially vaporized a new body.

Goku's arrival gave rise to Senzu Beans, and their mystical healing properties. This shortened the time it took for a resurrection to take place. Though phantom pains were still a problem.

Then Jak and Daxter arrived, and by combining their green eco with Tony's technology , essentially making the phantom pains almost non-existent.

The machine was difficult to describe, but it was Tracer's first time seeing it in action.

The machine went to work repairing the wounds, using the green eco and Senzu Bean particles to repair the wound.

Lara raised an eyebrow. She figured that since it was just impalement, that it was a pretty quick heal. The machine then gently moved a 1-Up to Nathan's body.

"Augh!" Nate shot up, holding onto his stomach in pain, "Goddammit that hurt like…" He paused, looking around to see one familiar face, and a few unfamiliar faces, ""Ugh, whatever."

"Glad you're alive too."


X: if there was a picture next to 'procrastinator' in the dictionary, my face would probably be that picture.

Wade: what took so long with this chapter?

X: home issues. If I weren't above it, I would totally post my bitch of a mother's real name and let people troll her… Maybe she'd commit suicide!

Pinkie: that's uh… that's dark.

X: I have repression issues because of the bitch, no shit it's 'dark.'

Wade: Alexis, hon… could you do the disclaimer while Pinks and I try to calm X down?

Alexis: Chirp chirp!

Wade: thanks. You're the best!