Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Floating City

A nearby Thor and Loki take notice of the two bandits.

"How generous of Tahn's henchmen to make themselves so blatantly obvious."

"Let's just get this blasted exchange over with..."

The Sons of Odin proceed to approach the pair of henchmen.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Dec 18th 2018 at 2:41:28 AM

"Narktus. He... after the Assassin attack on the Halberd, he found me. He has Star Dream, and he used it to convert me into that monstrosity!"

"Star Dream?! As in the reality-bending supercomputer Star Dream?"

"That Star Dream." Meta Knight offers a hand to Vision to see what he can do.

Vision silently begins the transfer, holding out his hand as well.

If it work, then Vision attempts to do what he did to Ultron years ago and attempt to wipe out any traces of the old and evil programming. He's pretty thorough in his check to avoid any traps or carefully detected commands left behind by Narktus.

If he succeed, he opens his eyes and nods, smiling a little. He then look up as Iron Man arrives in his Mark L, approaching the fighters.

—

Samsara is in her room at the fort, carefully writing down the trap-changing schedules. She leans back a little and search for a pen, nodding quietly as someone hand it to her. She stops, look back and yelp, noticing Kellam.

K-KELLAM ?!

Hey.

What are you doing here ?

Don't you remember me ? I was at that fight against the Einherjar with Lucina, Laurent and Gregor. My weapon got lost though so I... cheered on mentally. And followed you around.

That's great ! You're a good knight for defense !

Thanks, I'll move on to introduce myself to the others.

Yes please. It's kind of awkward to have you around in my room.

Yeah.

He leaves, and Samsara kind of goes back to work.

Dear Naga, he vanished...

I haven't left the room actuall-

BLEURAGH !

KELAMM HAS JOINED THE SHEPERDS... AT LEAST WHEN THEY FIGURE OUT WHERE HE IS

Edited by Bolded1 on Dec 18th 2018 at 11:49:57 AM

D!Meta Knight now flies down towards the rest of the group as Psycho!Ness arrives there too.

"Are you alright now?", Psycho!Ness asks K!Meta Knight. "Pseudo was really worried about you. ... What's this Star Dream?"

"Something potentially dangerous to this whole world.", D!Meta Knight says as he lands right next to the boy.

The two men look at Thor and Loki when they approach. One of them steps forward a little, keeping his hands out of his pockets so signify that they don't want things to get hostile.

"If you're here for the deal, show us the ransom note. If you don't have it on you, we ain't doin' business. Could be a trap, y'know."

"I've got your ransom note right here.", a voice suddenly says. The bandits look, seeing Kumatora and Duster◊ approaching, the former holding the note. Surprisingly, Claus◊ is with them. He must've searched them out to talk to them after learning about what happened.

Kumatora walks up to the bandit and somewhat roughly hands him the note. He reads it through, then turns to his partner.

"Arright, it's the real deal."

The other bandit nods and takes out a small, old-looking radio-like machine, which he holds in his hands. The first bandit starts turning some buttons.

"You'll be communicatin' directly with the boss on this.", he says as he's busy.

Kumatora and Claus are completely silent, both looking like they're having the greatest trouble remaining calm. Duster, while just as troubled, is able to control himself more, and supportively puts his hands on their shoulders to try to help them.

Trunks slowly comes to consciousness as he reaches into one of his pockets, grabs a Senzu bean and eats it.

He quickly hops up and flies over to the other fighters.

"Will someone tell me who the hell that was and why there are two more of him who aren't evil?"

Seems like it worked.

"That was Parallel Meta Knight, a physical amalgamation of all the dark energies I have had to cast off from myself throughout my life. I never realized they would congeal together like that, but all he needed was a portal opened by a power clashing with my own to escape from the dimension in which the energies were left. What's left should dissipate into nothingness now that he's been destroyed, and for that, I thank you."

"As for myself, I was being controlled against my will in the form of a cyborg killer at the time you arrived. The other me is just that. Nothing more than myself from an alternate version of the same reality."

   Huh, Vision ? Am I going crazy because of the heat ?   

   No. I know everything that there is to know. Let us go.   

Stark's about to protest but then just shrugs and look down at the group.

   Superhero stuff coming in, I'll be taking "Vis" for now, bye.   

   You seems pressed, Tony. What's happening ?   

   Endgame, Vision.   

Vision nods and they both fly away.

"You should probably rest up a bit. Pseudo'll want to contact you soon.", Psycho!Ness says. "He felt really guilty about what happened to you."

D!Meta Knight nods to Trunks.

"Indeed. Though I've already been to this world years ago to deal with an enemy from my past. Now it seems I must lend my aid here once more, at least if that odd man is correct. I was wary, but after what just happened, I have a feeling he might have been correct."

Trunks nods as Vision and Tony leaves.

"You're welcome. You must have had to cast off a lot of dark energy to make something that strong."

Edited by Laicuss333 on Dec 18th 2018 at 5:12:54 AM

"... Very well."

"Come on, Meta Knight, let's head for the city."

The three other heroes nodded to each other and joined the rest of their friends in launching a final attack on Zero's old body. All three of them gathered their respective elements into a series of giant drills, backed by the Mazinger's Photonic Energy, becoming three colorful streaks that spiraled together.

Everyone's attacks would meet with the Doctor's fist, causing shockwaves to ripple through time and space. Said enemy gnarled his robot's broken teeth and pushed against them, FALL! FALL ALREADY!!!!

"No. Not today...NOT EVER!!!" Miles roared back as he pushed his Robobot Armor past its limits, causing it to slowly start breaking apart.

"We got a future we're aiming for with our friends! And we're gonna make sure you're not part of it!!" Nebula called out, also pushing her robobot to go beyond.

"Today, we bring this conflict to an end...for the sake of a brighter tomorrow!!" Corona yelled, her mech doing the same.

Doc found his fist slowly being pushed back...but before he could do anything, he saw a certain white puffball get in his face, "What the.." A whack from the White Kirby stunned him, allowing everyone's attacks the chance to break through.

As the Doctor watched his robot's arm start to crack, new images filled the air. Images of the many encounters Miles and his friends had on their travels. All the friends they made...and were likely wishing for their victory.

The Doctor screamed as the arm broke apart and more cracks spread throughout his body, beams of light shooting forth from all parts of him, '''THIS...THIS CANNOT BE!!! MY DREAM...MY NEW WORLD!!!!!!"

At long last, Mazinger Zero succumbed to its injuries and was destroyed in a blinding flash of light that could be seen all across the worlds...from its destruction, the energy stolen was being released and scattered over both the Arena and across space and time.

The great battle was finally over...

Shining Gundam falls on its hands and knees.

Mr. Moneyfists flicks the cigar out of his mouth and folds his arms triumphantly.

As Void descends, Mr. Pew Pew catches it. "What... was that? What did you do?"

"Poyo!"

"Of course, why did I expect something intelligible?"

The Swarm quickly disperses back into the Arena to reform into Master Hand.

The Mage-Sisters' spirit slowly drifts out as well.

As everyone starts to leave, D!Meta Knight starts heading off too. Psycho!Ness sighs as he glances at his now broken cellphone on the ground, which he picks up.

"Suppose I shouldn't keep this laying around, just in case our enemies do some hacking crap on it or something to find our base."

"Is... your employer too shy to meet with us himself?" Loki inquires, raising an eyebrow.

Thor, meanwhile, simply places a comforting hand on Kumatora's shoulder while offering her a reassuring smile.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Dec 18th 2018 at 3:26:11 AM

Trunks just shrugs and I Ts away.

"Actually, Ness, can we stick with you until Botar possibly shows up? Just want to make sure everything goes smoothly."

Psycho!Ness turns around.

"That's fine, but with my phone busted that might take a while. Gonna have to give them a signal for the cameras to spot, otherwise they won't know that the battle is over. We've only got a few camera feeds, so we can't look over the whole Arena at once."

"No, but we're aware of how dangerous this world is, so the boss ain't gonna appear here in person just to get potentially ambushed.", the bandit says. He then smiles.

"There, it's workin'."

A static noise comes out of the machine for a few seconds, which then shifts to a voice.

"-this thing on? Yeah, is it on? Can they hear me?", the voice says. Kumatora suddenly narrows her eyes for a moment, as if finding something suspicious.

"We can hear ya, boss. And that group o'people's already arrived."

"Oh! Um-"

The voice makes a throat-clearing noise.

"I'm sure introductions aren't in order, but for the sake of keeping things civil: I'm Ken Tahn. I'd say it's nice to meet you, but I'm not there in person, and I don't think you'd feel the same way either way. But I understand why."

Tahn doesn't really seem to be talking in a very professional manner.

"With all due respect, I'd like to get to the point.", Claus says, his voice strained from keeping his anger in. Tahn laughs a little.

"Easy now, Claus. We'll get to that."

Claus pauses, staring in confusion.

"How do-"

"-I know your name? I'm a master thief, Claus, I just know these kinds of things. I know all of the names of the people currently present. Loki, Thor, Kumatora, Duster."

Kumatora and Duster are, understandably, just as shocked and confused as Claus is.

"Oh, perfect!" Keeby takes out a cell phone of his own and calls the Star Dragoon.

"Meta Knight can just travel all over the place with the Star until someone notices!"

"Why don't you do it?"

"Hmmm..." He hops aboard. "Sit tight!" He flies off on the Star Dragoon, leaving a highly visible cosmic trail behind himself.

Edited by KiriK on Dec 18th 2018 at 5:37:52 AM

Psycho!Ness just stares as he goes. He then turns to Meta Knight.

"... has he always had a star as a ride? ... 'cause that's kinda cool."

It might take Keeby a while, but eventually he should be able to spot a small, flying television-like machine with a Pigmask logo on its side. The same logo that's on some of the stuff in Pseudo's base.

"Well, it used to be a Warp Star, the kind you would grab onto and ride. When he got the bifurcated jetpack version of one, I do not know."

Keeby slowly circles around the object while waving to try and get spotted.

Psycho!Ness just blinks.

"Yeah, um... we don't have things called a Warp Star where I come from."

After a few seconds, the television suddenly turns to look at Keeby. Its screen flickers a bit until Pseudo appears on it.

"What are you doing? Did something go wrong? If so, why isn't Ness contacting us?"

"I didn't come here to listen to you gloat about whatever this forsaken parlor trick is," Thor says, not bothering to hide his exasperation. "Like Claus, I would rather we get straight to the bloody point already and be done with this nonsense..."

"Yes, yes, I suppose that meek blonde lad of yours must have told you everything he knows about us," a thoroughly unamused Loki chimes in. "He is your spy/messenger, after all, correct?"

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Dec 18th 2018 at 3:50:33 AM

GE!Oca

"B, please, I don't need those things anymore," he says with a smirk, morphing his hand into the shape of a key for shape-shifty dramatic effect.

"Which is good, 'cause I'm pretty sure they went extinct when the universe died."

"No, no, everything's okay. Except Ness lost his phone. Meta Knight had a doppelganger - two of them, actually, one evil and bronze-colored, and the other identical to his regular self - and the bronze one split his phone in half."

"Oh! Right. But then that means you were successful in saving Meta Knight?"

Tahn laughs, sounding really amused.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that meek blonde lad ain't taking orders from us. Regardless, back to business then."

A moment of silence.

"Instead of me demanding a certain number, tell me... how much do you think Lucas is worth?"

Kumatora and Claus look confused.

"What? That's a stu-... um, that's not a good way to do business.", Kumatora says, holding back as to not risk making Tahn angry.

"Actually, it is.", Duster suddenly says, getting their attention. "This way, he can see how much we're willing to pay for him at first and then potentially ask for more than that. He'll be able to see just how high he can make his price go before it becomes too much, and he can then ask a price around the highest point we were alright with, which can be a lot higher than our first offer."

"Yeah, that's correct.", Tahn notes. "I honestly didn't know at first how much he'd be worth, so I figured I might as well try this. So tell me... how much is Lucas worth to you?"

The three start to think. They can't say a number they cannot afford, but if they say a number too low to Tahn's liking, the deal may be off...