r/whowouldwin • u/mrcelophane • Feb 03 '16
Interactive Character Scramble V Final Battle: The Champion Arises
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Across the multiverse, several heroes (and villains) one day found themselves in possession of mysterious orbs sent out by enigmatic multiversal being, Mr. Celo Phane. Said orbs promised these characters anything their hearts desired if they destroyed said orbs. These heroes complied, and after being transported to another world and being pitted against each other they are put together with newfound companions to form teams of four.
After defeating a completely BS opponent, these newly formed teams received a holographic message informing them of a gathering on New Island, where all would be revealed. After a number of hijinks involving an airship , a sunken ship, a scientific facility, and an underground hideout; the teams finally made their way to a castle home to the being Mewtwo, who informed them that they had been gathered to face off against an as of yet unknown multiversal threat. The team that succeeded against this threat would be granted access to Jirachi, the wish granting Pokemon.
However, more hijinks would ensue as these teams found and underground cloning laboratory in Mewtwo’s facility. After fending off the spookiest of armies, each team recruited one of these clones to their side. With their newfound clone team member, said teams engaged in a most unusual round, before the remaining four teams finally got the chance to meet Mr Celo Phane, who would reveal to them the identity of the multiversal threat. But as it turned out, the threat was none other than Phane himself! Having been possessed by the glitch Missingno (which itself was created by the malevolent entity known as the other and the glitch of a being known as John Freeman), Phane has taken on the guise of Dark Phane, and dragged all of the remaining competitors into the distortion world in hopes of making them into his servants. In their attempts to escape from Dark Phane’s clutches, two teams managed to recruit a new member to their side as they made their way out of the distortion world.
Now, out of the original 48 teams and 192 characters, only two teams of six remain to stand up to the evil Dark Phane. Can they hope to match his power? Is the multiverse doomed to destruction, or will a team prevail and be granted their heart’s desires?
The answer to these questions will be revealed… right now!
Only two teams managed to escape from the distortion world, each consisisting of six members each. However, if that isn’t enough bad news, Dark Phane has also followed you, reappearing right next to your team members. However, instead of attacking he congratulates the two remaining teams for passing the previous rounds.
“JoIN mE!” Dark Phane offers to the two teams “And wHen i CumE in2 my FUL POWAH you ShAlL reaP the reWardS. Yu Shall B thE HeRALDS oF PhANe to The Rest of THE MuLTiVersE!”
Your job is to narrate a timeline in which the other team accepts this proposal and your team declines.
As Dark Phane receives his new Heralds, he turns to the Saviors and begins to pace towards them in his signature slow southern pace.
“Quickly!” Mewtwo mutters, sensing his own doom, “Call me master, swear allegiance to me, SOMETHING!”
As soon as your team does so, Mewtwo stares at Dark Phane and proclaims “AHA! Even you, Phane, are a slave to the rules of the realms you enter! You have a team of beings from another world, as do I...and we have made eye contact. Prepare to battle!”
It is decided that the final showdown will be held in one week, and will be a double battle held at Pokemon Stadium.
Mewtwo suggests that your team members take the upcoming week to prepare themselves. He has files listing feats and accomplishments on the other team that he collected for his cloning research and the other team will ahve access to Phane’s knowledge of your team (which is equally as comprehensive). He begs you to use this time wisely because, with the fate of the multiverse at stake, it will be time for one last fight to the finish
Normal Rules
Team Preview: Have a short introduction of both teams, basically go over basic powers/strengths/weaknesses/personality, etc...executive summary of what you think the average reader should know.
I’m Unbeatable: This competition is about analysis, not necessarily who would win. If you think your team would lose 9/10, then talk about that in your post and then go through what would need to happen to win the 1/10
It’s Bigger on the Inside!: The location of the round is always big enough to hold all of the characters on your team and your opponents team. No matter how ridiculous that might make things.
Oak’s Words Echoed: Characters are assumed to be at the same power level they started the tournament at at all times. To clarify, this means you would not be able to loot Master Chief of his armor if you beat him in a previous round, or otherwise gain a competitive advantage based on anything that happened in a previous round. This is to aid your opponent in research of your character.
The Rules Are Made Up and the Types Don’t Matter: Every character was assigned types during the scramble. However these types were just to give people teams with more varied power sets and will not actually affect the matchups. This is especially true since /u/mrcelophane changed some of the submitted types in order to make the scrambling work. The one exception is if one of your characters is actually a Pokemon.
Due Date: After Mardi Gras! (Party Hard)
Voting is Mandatory: Not voting causes me to multiply the number of votes you got by 0 and then subtract 1. And missingno isn't allowed in the tournament AND THIS IS WHY.
Round Specific Rules
It’s been one week since you challenged me: Your team members will have one week to prepare for the upcoming battle. And while Dark Phane’s attack destroyed Mewtwo’s mansion, he has knowledge on the other team stored away. Use your time wisely, and assume Dark Phane’s team does the same.
Double Trouble: The final match will be a double battle, meaning each side will have two characters fighting at any given time. Everyone else on the time cannot directly interfere with the active fighters, but they can still watch the match and give advice/commands to their side. Fighters can switch out at any time, as long as both the current fighter and the replacement are willing to. When a character switches out, they disappear in a flash of light before their replacement appears at their location a second later. A fighter is eliminated if they are killed, knocked unconscious, surrender, or are otherwise incapacitated. Your team wins if you eliminate all 6 of the opposing team’s members.
Stadium Mode: This battle takes place on Pokemon stadium. While it begins as your fairly standard battlefield, as the fight continues it will shift between grass, fire, water, and rocked themed stages. There is no specific order for these transformations.
Fluff Piece
Traitor! Why did the other team decide to join Dark Phane? Power? Insanity? Did the Distortion World mess with their minds?
Take This! Tripple Finish!: Once the opposing team is defeated, your team members can use Jirachi’s wish in order to defeat Dark Phane. However, rather than simply wish him away, your team members can use this wish to make themselves strong enough to beat Dark Phane by themselves. Defeating him with the combined power of your entire team should be enough to free Phane from Missingno’s clutches.
Make a wish: After Phane has been freed from Missingno, he will likely be extremely grateful to the team that saved him. And, being the nice…ish multiversal entity that he is, he can grant each of your team members anything their heart desires. So after the fight is over, there’s only one thing left to do.
GO LOOK UP THE STORIES FROM /u/Parysian and /u/LetterSequence below.
Finished Reading? Then go to this voting form and choose your champion
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u/LetterSequence Feb 03 '16
Chapter 8: Multi Track Rusing
“The trickster human approaches me? Your document was very… interesting, to say the least. At least you’re not robotic like the other human. That makes it much easier to crush you with my bare hands.”
“Trust me, I gain plenty of metal once I get older.”
“So what’s your grand plan? To trick me? Such a thing is highly impossible.”
“Please, I’ve never met someone I couldn’t overcome! Well, there was this blonde vampire, but that’s beside the point.” The yagh grew tired of his talking and charged at him, knocking Jojo onto the ground. He tried to bring his fists down on the human, but he rolled out of the way in the nick of time. Jojo needed to act fast. He observed his surroundings, looking for an opening. After a few seconds, he found something that could help.
“Heh heh! Catch me if you can!” Jojo extended his vines onto a nearby tree and swung his way there, causing the alien to give chase. Joseph landed in the branches of the tree and looked as the Yagh was unable to get that high. Feeling invincible for a moment, his whole world came crashing down, literally, when Baron tackled the tree with enough force to knock him out of it.
Joseph jumped back up into action, pacing around the Yagh for a moment. For a while, the two just stared at each other, waiting for the other to make a move. Suddenly, Joseph smiled and pulled a string before running away. “Hah, you aliens should learn more about human nature!”
Baron looked down and noticed a lit grenade was on his clothes somehow! “You think you can fool me with something I have already seen? Pathetic.” The Yagh threw the grenade and searched his back for the rest of them… but there was nothing there.
“You really think I’d use the same trick twice? That just shows how much you know about me!” The Yagh was confused, he had heard the other grenades have their pins pulled once he threw the original grenade, where could they possibly be? That was quickly answered when he noticed the tree in front of him, wrapped completely in grenades.
“How did you wrap the tree so qui-” Before he could even finish the thought, the grenades around the tree exploded, causing it to become uprooted. The force of the blast sent the entire tree to crash on top of Yagh. Joseph looked upon his work with pride. There was no way he was getting up from that. Except…
“What? Impossible!” Jojo couldn’t help but express his shock when Baron essentially bench pressed the entire tree to throw it off of him. All that seemed to do was make him angrier. “Shit, I didn’t plan this far ahead!” Baron almost seemed to laugh a sinister laugh as he got closer.
“If that’s all you’ve got, then I’ll enjoy breaking you.” Baron took another step, when suddenly he felt immobilized. It wasn’t just his legs, but his entire body was unable to move. “What… what is this?” He was completely held up by a rope.
Joseph laughed once more. “Psyche! I plan everything from the very beginning!” Hoping Baron didn’t see through this obvious lie, he continued. “While that tree was on you, I used my Hamon to accelerate the growth of the grass and flowers here! During that time, I hid a rope within the field so you wouldn’t see it coming!” Baron was caught completely off guard. “Now, time to end this. This is my final attack. Hamon… OVERDRIVE!” Joseph began to glow with a vibrant energy, when all of a sudden, he felt a presence. An almost… menacing presence. He turned around and was face to face with Kha’Zix.
“Ha! I knew if I turned invisible, I’d lose that kid again. All the easier to take you out now!”
“You didn’t lose me for long!” Big Chill tackled Kha’Zix and began flying in the air with him. Joseph looked back at Baron, that little moment of distraction being enough for him to break through the rope. Jojo was out of tricks, for real this time. He did the only thing he knew when his back was against the wall.
“Time to run for my life!”
Ben flew through the air while holding onto Kha’Zix. While he was right in his grasp, he started breathing his ice breath right in his face. “I’m going to make sure you never hurt anyone again!” Kha’Zix didn’t intend to die here, and kicked Ultimate Big Chill off of him. With a slash of his claws, he managed to remove any ice that has built up.
“You’re exactly what I was looking for! My ultimate hunt! My best prey!” Kha’Zix spread his wings and began to hover in the air. “You’re going to taste delicious when make you draw your lasssst breath!” The evil bug tried to impale Ben, but the good bug managed to turn intangible in time to avoid getting stabbed. He found his claw being submerged in ice. Ben became tangible once more and punched him square in the face.
“All you care about is what you eat? The things you harm have friends, they have family!” Another phase through froze the other claw. “My friend… he was your last meal. I hope you choke on him.” Ben became intangible one more time. Kha’Zix didn’t know where he was going to attack from. Going invisible wouldn’t help much at this point, he needed to find a way to free his claws from the ice. If he could get just one sneak attack off, it’d be over.
The big bad bug felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. Upon looking up, he realized why. Ben had completely frozen his wings while intangible. Unable to support his weight, Kha’zix came crashing down. landing on a beautiful flower bed. Big Chill landed next to him, and looked down on him. “If you give up now, then it’ll end here.”
“Of course, I give up.” Kha’Zix looked defeated and weak, but it was merely a ploy. “I give up your life!” A spine came out of Kha’Zix’s back, catching Ben off guard. The spine lodged itself deep into Ben’s side, before exploding like shrapnel. Had the spine hit just two inches to the left, it surely would’ve been a fatal blow. Despite not being a kill shot, it was immensely painful, causing Ben to bleed.
“You… Fine then. I’m sorry I have to do this.” Ben knew this wasn’t a game anymore. Mewtwo told him that Phane was the one messing with his omnitrix. In all likelihood, if Ben died here, his omnitrix wouldn’t be there to bring him back. Therefore, he had to treat his life with utmost urgency.
Ben flew onto Kha’Zix’s back and gripped onto his frozen arm, pulling with all of his might, until he heard a snap. He had ripped it clean off. Kha’Zix screamed in pain, unable to do anything to stop him. Through sheer determination, Ben pushed past the pain and screams and did the same to his other claw.
Kha’Zix laid there, unable to attack anymore. Ultimate Big Chill landed in front of him and looked at him coldly. “Say hi to Phane for me.” With a large burst of his fire breath, he was instantly covered head to toe in a thick layer of ice. With no way of attacking and no way of getting out, it was useless to even try.
Kha’Zix has been eliminated!
Things weren’t looking good for Jojo. He couldn’t run forever, and he knew it. There was seemingly no way for him to win. Brute force wasn’t an option, his opponent was leagues stronger than he was. His tricks would have to be innovative to work, but there wasn’t much to work with in a perfectly grassy field.
“This should slow him down, even a little bit.” Joseph pulled at his hair, yanking out a few strands. “Although, I hate to do this to my perfect hairstyle.” With a little bit of Hamon, he straightened out the strands of hair, and threw them with all of his force. The hair managed to pierce his skin, doing exactly what intended. The Yagh simply looked down at the attack.
“You resort to giving me splinters? If that’s all you have left, I’ve already won.” Joseph’s back was against the wall. There was nothing left for him to do but fight. He ran up to the alien and unloaded a flurry of punches and kicks into him, all augmented with Hamon.
“Zoom Punch!” Jojo’s arm extended out much farther than it had any right to go, hitting Baron right in the face, dazing him. “Hamon Overdrive!” Another hamon punch caused Baron to stagger. “Rebuff OVERDRIVE!” He put all of his effort into this last attack. A double elbow drop filled with his hamon energy. Surely, this onslaught of attacks would knock out Baron.
“My turn.” Baron seemed unfazed by all of this. With a simple backhand of his shield, he send Jojo flying. When he landed, he felt as if one of his ribs was broken. Baron walked up to him, hovering over his bruised and defeated body. One hit to Joseph did more than all of Joseph’s attacks on Baron. What did that say about his odds?
Jojo knew he was all but defeated. Despite that, he held up a finger and began to speak. “B-Baron. Your next line is ‘Enough talk. Let’s end this now.’, right?”
“Enough talk. Let’s end this now… What?”
“You dumb aliens need to wake up and smell the flowers more!” Joseph threw a handful of dandelions at Baron’s face, momentarily confusing him. “Get him, Ben!” That signal was all he needed to finish off Baron. Within a matter of seconds, Ben flew around Baron multiple times, releasing a stream of ice fire behind him as he flew. Completely frozen as well, Baron was unable to escape. All he could feel was the immense cold overtaking his body.
Baron has been eliminated!
Ben landed on the ground next to Joseph. As he did, he nearly collapsed before Joseph helped support him. “Kha’Zix got me good.” Jojo noticed the wound on his side, feeling sorry for the kid.
“That bastard got me good too. Don’t worry, there’s just one opponent left. After him, Alice can heal us up, good as new.”
“That last guy… he looks tough. We can’t give up now.” Ben stopped leaning on Joseph and began to fly again, as much as it hurt him. “Let me get the first hit off. I can still fight.”
The gang leader teleported into the arena, standing a few feet away from the two opponents. He looked at them and shot an evil grin.