'Doh, right! Wait for me--....
....Um...!

Meddy, who was about to follow Dust, finds herself stopped in her tracks, feeling the liquid from above. Out of curiousity, she removes the liquid from her head before investigating it with her own eyes.

UM... MAYBE HE WAS ON TO SOMETHING AFTER ALL.

---

Heat Man shrugs to himself, and keeps walking.

Meddy suddenly runs up behind Dust.

WH-- DUST MAN! DR. REGAL HAD THE SECURITY SYSTEMS SHUT DOWN, THERE'S NO WAY ANYBODY WOULD HAVE SEEN US!

---

Hea Man shrugs.

I got no idea what this "Shadow Tribe" is.

Wario Jets through the air, pulling Waluigi across.

*achoo!*
...
......What? Is a 3 syllable word that means "good health" in german' too DIFFICULT for you 'ta understand!?
...Nah. Waluigi was just tryin' 'ta think of someone who would've said Wario's name in passing.
Waluigi, we've gone over this stupid anime crap a thousand times--
That... Or maybe it's... some kinda bad omen.
...
....Pfft. Quit bein' such a worrywart! Ain't no one gonna hurt on Wario's watch! Not their wallets, anyway.

Somari, and everyone else seemingly knocked out are now awake and fighting, but not too long before feeling a large tremor across the ground.

What the...?

Everyone goes just in time to see a yellow blur of lightning land around the location.... an extremely large castle.

---

Crazy Miner lies in a crater on the ground, Shake King standing tall next to him. A bolt of lightning goes off in the distance.

...You know. You may be right, Shake King. Even if I can't feel it, I got a body full 'a hurt... and if my injuries won't have from fighting you already... prolonged battling means I will die. No way around it.
...
I know the feeling. The feeling of emptiness. Your sole purpose run obsolete. The hate, the rage-- I felt it all too well.
I know I would've ended up like you. Someone filled with so much rage he can't let it go. Someone who's looking for an outlet for their troubles-- And finds it in the shape of a bumbling fool.
I wanted to blame him, too. For why I failed. For why I couldn't move on. But then... Instead of taking this change to get revenge on me for trying to kill him... instead of admonishing me... he said something I'll never forget...

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Instead of changing the things around me, I should instead change myself. Work on focusing on what's best for me. Walking my own path.
I didn't know what I wanted to be, and so I blamed my failures on someone I saw myself in.
...
You blame your lost empire because on Wario, but in reality... That's just Karma doing it's thing. All the people you hurt, all the lives you threatened... That's just those deeds coming back to haunt you.
You do that, and then you threaten even more lives-- and you expect things to get better? If you're doing this solely for the sake of domination and revenge... You haven't learned anything.

Miner slowly starts getting up, on one knee, slowly gaining more and more Dou energy.

Either way... this has to end.
I can't let you kill people just because you want to see one person suffer... no... I won't.
DO YOU HEAR ME!? YOU'RE DONE HURTING INNOCENTS! YOU'RE DONE!

Crazy Miner suddenly zips behind Shake King, grabbing him by the neck and torso!

DO IT NOW!

Warping noises suddenly come from behind them, along with two words.

Chaos...
...
BLAST!

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Chaos Blast (Laser/Explode)- Shadow or Shadwari releases an explosion of highly powerful negative chaos energy that damages all that is within range.

(It's now or never!)

Crazy Miner does a collection of acrobatic moves, dodging the lightning before striking Shake King with his pickaxe... only for it to be blocked.

...You can't feel pain, can you not? So you shouldn't feel any of this.

Shake King with a backhand forces Crazy Miner into the air, pursuing him with flight.

Nice try, Flake King, but you couldn't even hope to tickle me!

Miner fires with Headlight Blasts, but Shake King dodges them all.

Die!

Miner throws one final Pickaxe at him, but it is easily avoided, as Shake King immediately grabs Miner in midair.

Cease this nonsense!

Shake King is suddenly hit in the head with the returning Pickaxe boomerang-style... but to no effect.

What?
Your cunning will do you no good.

The force of Shake King's grip tightens. Miner braces for any incoming impact.

Prepare to Tremble!

Shake King throws Miner down at the Air Cruiser, chucking him at such a velocity Miner not only tears through, but splits it in the process.

Damn it!

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Headlight Blast (Electric/Laser)- Crazy Miner shoots a radiating beam of energy from the headlight of his helmet. Immune to immunities and affinities.

Viewtiful Joe (Anime)- Prologue

Joe blocks a staff strike from Master Oogway.


Really!? Aw, sweet! What's gonna be the trial!? Am I gonna, like, fight some super cool army of ninjas!? Or maybe a band of epic samurais dudes!? Or maybe an evil mirror counterpart of myself!?



Huh? What's that supposed to mean?


Oogway's body begins to gain more transparency, before vanishing, only leaving a voice behind.



Oookay...

Joe then hollers out:

Alright! I know my master brought me, like, some kinda opponent to face! Come out if you're not a big chicken!

Immediately after this, Joe begins to hear two footsteps.

Hehah! Looks like it's a red-letter day after all! I get to pummel the one who got me kicked out of Jadow! And with no stupid V-Watch to save him!
Jadow!?...
As usual, brother, your impulsiveness is your worst enemy. We should fight to better ourselves... not to tend to our egos.
Pfft! I don't need some watchless loser to make me feel better about myself! I already know I'm stronger than ever!
...Brother? Darn it, Master Oogway! Did you really have to go and pair me up against these two while you spend chill time in the Spirit Realm!?

Alright, it's about time we start goin'. Waluigi?
Nyeh-heh! Ready!
Don't hurry back.

Wario and Waluigi prepare to leave, but turn back at the last minute.

Oh yeah. Ashley?
Huh?
Thu-- thaaaah-- Thahn-- Thaaaaaaaaane--
Wario's physiologically incapable of saying the words "thanks" unironically.
It's no problem. A thanks from him is as rare as it gets, anyway.
you!
Now that I expect.

Wario and Waluigi leave...

Reeed! Are you done patching that Rooftop!?
Aaaaalmos--

Before the voice can finish, however, a crashing noise interrupts him, along with that of rumbling.

uuuugh...
Ow... ooh! A creature like you will be plenty interesting to gather data on!

Ashley facepalms.

YOU'RE DEAAAAAAAD!

As Prototype gets ready for the finishing blow... His fellow teammates block his path.

Huh?
That's enough. You need to get a hold of yourself.
What are you... a hold of myself...?
(I think the message has already been proven. We can't kill anyone if we don't have to.)
Kill someone? Ugh...
...NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO DO, RUNT! I'LL TAKE THE LIVES OF WHOEVER I WANT--

Prototype begins charging at the rest of his team... before a blunt force hits him in the back of the head.

Ungh...!

Prototype collapses, revealing the person responsible for his being knocked out is Soul.

And I thought I've seen issues.
Hey!
I think you mean "thank you for stopping our battle-crazed friend before he took the life of someone else".
You took him out... in one hit..
Is that a problem?
No, no! Just... wowzers.

HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HU--
HEY, SHOW-OFF!
!?

The tall figure suddenly does a backflip, avoiding a trio of Barbed Eggs, and then immediately after landing ducking under a Boshi Kick!

...

Right as Boshi slides onto the ground, he is immediately greeted with a SOFT COMBINATION, before being caught to the side of the face with a TASER KNUCKLE!

(Maybe I shoulda invested more 'a those stat points into somethin' other than speed...)

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Barbed Eggs (Cutter/Nature)- Boshi throws an Egg with a lot of spikes. Will pierce armors and/or cause bleeding on impact.
Boshi Kick (Swift/Shadow)- Boshi automatically dashes within a fixed range in the opponent, kicking them very hard and very fast. In the face.

SOFT COMBINATION (Impact/Swift)- IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE USER ATTACKS WITH AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF PUNCHES AND KICKS. INSTANTLY BREAKS GUARDING MECHANISMS.
TASER KNUCKLE (Electric/Impact)- THE USER ATTACKS THE TARGET WITH A SWIFT SPINNING BACKHAND, STRIKING WITH NIGH-LIMITLESS POWER AND ALSO PARALYZING THEM!

(Is... this really the same guy from before? He's so... weird...)
WHAT'S WRONG, YOUNG SCALE? YOU SEEM A BIT... TONGUE TIED--!

Walter furiously begins coughing.

Hey, are you...?
N-no, I'm good. I've just... never... held an impression for that long.
I know. It's out of line for me to act like this. What's the problem?

Since nobody feels like having the problem explained to them on-text twice, Scale proceeded to give the two of them full context as to what had happened.

RIDER CALLED YOU A PERSON MADE OF JELLY! I CALLED YOU A JELLY-CLAD STRANGER! EVEN IF I HAD KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR NAME THE BLAME GOES TO HER, NOT ME!
I should put myself for adoption.. Or an auction... Or find SOME kinda way to quit bein' a bodysharer to a MORON!
BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME ANY NORMAL PERSON WOULDN'T GO INSANE FROM YOUR PRESENCE! THOUGH I WONDER WHAT ABILITIES WE WOULD GET FROM EATING JELLY JIGGLER'S SOUL...

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ENTITIES APPROACHING AT RE-ENTRY SPEED.
Enhance Barrier Resistance to level .5 on the Richter scale.
BARRIER ENHANCED.

Seconds later, two figures crash through the building, one holding the other's body under his arm.

GREETINGS, MR. SCALE FROM THAT ONE BOARD MEETING. I AM AWARE YOU HAD SPACE ISSUES!?
Uh....
IN THAT CASE, NEVER FEAR...
...BECAUSE I AM HERE!

You can't get them.


Edit: Also this should belong in Strategy.

HAHAHAHA! I'M AFRAID IT'S TOO LATE NOW, JELLY-CLAD STRANGER! ONE MUST ALWAYS SEEK THEIR PRINCIPLES THROUGH IF THEY WISH TO BECOME A RIGHTEOUS HERO!

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Bowser grins.
Perfect... I will order my remaining outside forces to pick them before arrival.

Fine. Picky.

Walter grabs he who's name has not been spoken and throws him into the air and flies away.

What do you mean? Tomatos have seeds in them. That's why they're known as fruits.
That ain't what they said. Somethin's wrong with you.
Oh. Well... I'm not worried. I heal quickly, right? So I'll probably be back to normal on our way!

He also turns to the person who happened to be there.

I... should probably ask if you want to come.
WHY!
I just feel like it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
For the love of-- put a sock in it, Dumb Hair! What were you even dreaming about!?
I saw it, man. I saw the face of God.
I know. I saw you, too. We fist-bumped. You had that goofy look on your face.
Okay, very funny. Where's that thing we were fighting?
You don't remember? We destroyed the pocket dimension stored up with all that power. After that, it vanished. But SOMEONE couldn't handle harnessing so much energy at once, knockin' 'em OUT!
So... I'm not in a psuedo-reality containing an infinite loop of hellscapes where I die over and over again but in worse ways.
Oh, no, you still are.
A--
For 's sake! I'm screwing with you! What the hell's your problem!? Because if you've lost your damn mind, I'm gonna have to be the good cop!
Nothing... just... that was way too soon, dude. That was too soon.

Walter points at the ruined building, restoring it back to full condition (and then some).

Oh, curse words! I totally forgot about what Scale said!

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Gloff nork gobble shnick frup... blupp blop plorst munkie.

---

Did I rattle my brain somehow?

Ladies and gentlemen, it is our honor to bring you live, The President, Walter!

A roaring sea of cheers consume the stadium. Walter steps up to the front, waving his hand.

Eeheeheehee!
Mr. President, in such an extremely short amount of time, you have brought peace to the Omni-Multi-Omni-Omni-Multi-Omniverse, united the people, Outpizza'd the Hut, and brought society itself to an all-time high. Truly, you have changed the outcome of life itself. Are there any words of wisdom you would like to spread?
Well, I just want to say that for the record, despite what it may seem, the best of us is actually hidden in our flaws. The things that make us question ourselves. Because it gives us something to overcome and better ourselves. It's a gift that all humans have.
For a long time, I flip-flopped and couldn't find who I wanted to be until one day, it just... clicked. I had to embrace my potential instead of running from it. And it's when that changed happened... that was what I knew what I was destined for.
You don't have to do it alone, either. It's why we all exist, after all. But overall, I think the greatest thing about us is that we can adapt. Not just as people, but as a society. As a place.

Everyone begins cheering, a roaring applause rising once again...

SIGN MY AUTOGRAPH!
No, mine!
Nah, we deserve his autograph! We've met him!
His blasted complexion and sheer based energy compels me!

Wow. that was... awe inspiring...
Oh-ho, stahp it! Please!
But here's one more question.

The crowd suddenly goes silent.

...
Uh... Shoot. I guess.
Have you seen the face of God?
...That's honestly a bit of a strange question to ask. Kinda deep, too. But I'd answer with "it depends on the entity you choose to address as god". I've met an white-bearded ape. He could probably be addressed with god.
I've also met the All-Father Odin. He rules the realm known as Asgard! A little stern, but he's pretty cool!
...Hmph. Ever so enwrapped in folly, it seems.You are not nearly as ready as you think you are.
...Okay? No offense. But you guys are really beginnin' to creep me out.

Walter begins to back away from them... but then bumps into something behind him, knocking him down to the ground. As he looks up, he finds that both Plum and Ripot are already there.

I have seen the face of god; I have witnessed it. And now I am aware of The Divine.
Uh.... good for you? I guess??
With his blessing, he has given me the truest level of enlightenment. I have found favor from the one who's name is too glorious to leave my lips.
It will help you... Just as it has helped me.
Feast your eyes... For this...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

After 27 seconds of screaming, Walter stops, taking everything in.

*huff*... *puff*... *huff*...
AAAAAA--