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/Parysian Feb 03 '16
Part 7: Morally Grey
“Well, Dark Phane, we’ve won. Give us Jirachi.”
Mewtwo floated up to meet Dark Phane, who was ascending on a platform made of blue energy.
“ThAT waS NeVr iN the AGReeManT. NoOW if U’ll eXCUse mE, Il B On mMy waY.”
He began ascending out of the stadium.
“Not so fast, asswipe!”
“WhO DarES!?”
“I do, Lady Deadpool!” She had Jirachi in tow.
“We’re the winning team, which means your Scramble is over!”
At these words, Jirachi woke up.
“Aw hey little guy. You were a real pain in the ass to get ahold of, you know that?”
“No, TaHt’s NoT POssible!”
“Yet here we are. Okay, Jirachi, for my first wish, I selflessly wish everyone on our team back to perfect health.”
The tags on Jirachi’s crown began to glow, then in a burst of yellow energy, her team appeared around her, no sign of injury or death, all in one piece.
“So we won. What are we wishing for?”
Francis stepped forward. “We’ve been over this, we’re doing this first because it might take all of Jirachi’s energy, and we’ll only get one shot. Jirachi, we wish for the power to end Dark Phane.”
“Uh.. R you SuRE? I couLd meK u MY nEW hEARlDS! wITh Mroe POWah thaN u cOUld PossibLy IMaginine!”
“Not buying it. Jirachi? Final answer.”
The Wish Pokémon’s crown began to glow bright yellow, then came a blinding flash.
The members of Team Grey Matter looked at one another. While they didn’t appear different, each could feel the newfound power running through them.
Francis looked at the ground beneath him and saw differing superimposed images, like layers of phantasmal landscapes all loosely stacked onto one another. What is this?
“WeLL, MuST b gOINg! PlacEs 2 be, tIngs to do, You KNow.” Phane said, beginning to fly away.
Nuhvok-Kal released a wave of purple energy which collected into a single point, dragging Dark Phane towards it.
Mewtwo rose into the air and teleported them all just in front of Phane.
“No, PLEasE!”
Baron held forth a huge purple weapon which he fired at Dark Phane. The blast seemed to warp space around it, tearing away at Phane’s being. Then Kha'Zix walked forward, his claws glowing with energy. When they touched rocks of ground they simply passed through, as though the offending material wasn’t even there. He took these claws and stabbed them into Phane. Lady Deadpool, her arm freshly regenerated, held up two swords and jumped around him, cutting so fast it looked like she was in a dozen places at once. Francis was starting to see pieces of the entity chopped away, revealing lines of code and pixilated images underneath, Missingno.
> Send him to the SHADOW REALM
You grab DARK PHANE and pull the DARK out of him, trapping it in the Jack of Spades.
Now the body of Dark Phane was gone, and Mr. Celo Phane collapsed to the ground. Only Missingno was left.
What am I seeing? Francis wondered. Every object around him looked different, as if he could see it from so many different perspectives at once. Not just perspective, but something else, something he could intuitively grasp, but not quite articulate.
Then it hit him. He was seeing their timelines. Every object around him had a timeline that stretched back to infinity, except for one, Missingno. One entity was made of pure malevolence, and unlike the other timelines in the area around him, it seemed largely unchanged across eternity. The second was the opposite. A time paradox, with a distinct beginning and end, yet spiraling infinitely in either direction. He focused on the second, reached into its timeline, and pulled.
Slowly, the entity came free into the physical world. It looked like a normal human, albeit an oddly dressed one, but beneath that Francis could see dozens of timelines living inside the being.
“What are you?”
“No tIM 2 EXplAin, I mUSt B gOINg. GooD Luk, MistEr ClocK.”
It walked past Francis, stopping at a point in space where a particularly high concentration of timelines intersected. Then he punched it, shaking the ground around them, and disappeared.
“What… what was that?” Nuhvok-Kal asked.
“I’m not sure I know.”
While the others were concentrated on the Paradox Being, Mewtwo was watching The Other. It remained in the center of Nuhvok-Kal’s singularity, and was intensifying it, warping space around the edges, creating distortions in time that Francis could see, and deepening the singularity, causing it to sink deeper into space time. Looking inside, it almost resembled a deep tunnel, with a world of swirling blue and red at the end, which the malevolent entity flew towards.
“The Distortion world?”
“I believe so. It seems The Other is taking refuge there until it can regain its power.”
“And we’re just letting it escape?”
The singularity shook, then the tunnel began to crumble, shaking the ground beneath them.
“The Other has dealed the bridge. We no longer have a choice.”
The singularity continued to shudder, then started growing, out of Nuhvok-Kal’s control.
“He’s not sealing the bridge, he’s destroying it. And trying to take us down with it!”
Mewtwo grabbed the unconscious body of Mr. Celo Phane, then teleported them all to the upper stands of the Stadium. The sky was turning red above. Space bent and cracked around the still growing singularity, releasing bursts of energy into the air.
Hoopa floated over to meet them, and a ring portal appeared. “Everyone through!”
“You know, getting out sounds like a great idea about now, right guys?” Lady Deadpool said, pushing them through the portal. Hoopa closed the ring once they were all through, preventing the storm of energy from following them.
They stumbled into the Great Hall of Mewtwo’s castle. The eastern wall was still cracked in several places from Dark Phane’s arrival, but the castle was otherwise pristine.
Francis could see the mess of timelines all over the castle, all branching off from a single point then being pruned until only two remained. Many went into the ground and ended. Others, more recently, stopped on the floor of the Great Hall itself. He walked over to one and felt it, and got the eerie sense that in the timeline he was touching, things didn’t work out nearly as well.
His thoughts were interrupted by a voice.
“I suppose congratulations are in order.”
Celo Phane was on his feet, now fully awake and healed. “And of course my gratitude. While preparing for this scramble, I was tampering with the Distortion World where I found The Other lurking. I called an associate of mine, who is responsible for keeping track of the deleted timelines of the Scramble, to help defeat this threat, but his paradoxical nature left him vulnerable to be corrupted by The Other, thus creating Missingno. You saved both me and my associate, as well as causing The Other to seal itself off in the Distortion World, at least for now. You have earned the prize of the Scramble, a wish for each of you”
Lady Deadpool spoke first. “My old team. You took them from me, and I want them back.”
Phane snapped his fingers, and they appeared behind him, Static, Ryoko, Kiritsugu, and Skulduggery. She walked them, “Miss me, losers?” Ryoko punched her in the shoulder, Static just gave a lopsided grin.
“I would wish for the freedom of the Bahrag Queens,” Nuhvok-Kal said, “but we both know I have no queens to return to, no home waiting for me.”
“Let’s be real, Francis added, “None of us have a home to go back to. You made us for your amusement, and now you’re discarding us with consolation prizes.”
“So you know.” Phane said. “Yes, the Scramble is… for lack of a better term, an elseworld, a living what if. None of us are truly the original. Except for me of course. But I can still offer you each your wishes. I could create new worlds for you to go back to, indistinguishable from the originals, and you would still have the powers granted to you by Jirachi.”
That stopped Francis. I could have it all back. My wife, my son, my youth, everything I wanted in a world custom made for me to live in it. And to top it all off I would be the master of time. You would have to be insane to pass that up.
“No deal.”
His team looked at him, surprised.
“Everything I wanted was to fix my world, or the world I thought was mine. But that’s a different Francis grey, not me, and I can’t go back into his shoes. I can only hope he learns his lesson faster than I did. I’ve grown quite fond of this timeline, and I don’t want to be plucked out of it and thrown in some perfect Matrix where I pretend this all never happened as a reward for playing your game. So you can take your wish and shove it; I’ll see myself out.”
He turned and began walking towards the exit.
If Phane was surprised, he didn’t show it. “Shadow Broker? Kha’Zix?”
“I would take no pride in an empire that was given to me. I shall make my own way, thank you.”
Kha’Zix tittered in assent, “I crave biological perfection, but the hunt, this I live for. I would kill anyone who simply handed me my goal and denied me the journey.”
The followed Francis out.
Spades left as well. He had just been about to end his own universe as he recalled, it would do no good to go back there.
Besides, this guy reminds you too much of Doc Scratch anyway.
Nuhvok-Kal was the last one to depart.
“Is there nothing you desire, Nuhvok-Kal of the Bohrok?”
“Anything you may offer me is of no importance to me, compared to those walking out the door. Goodbye Phane.”
He rolled out towards his team. They walked out together and the doors slammed shut behind them.