Requiem for a Thief
The wait for Joker vs Gionro has been an interesting one. Jotaro is the only one who knows who Giorno is and his knowledge extends to only knowing he’s Dio’s son and he has a Stand. Mitsuru doesn’t even know who Joker is despite coming from the same series. This combined knowledge of close to zero meant there was a lot of speculation during the lead up to the fight.
Spider Man: So, do you think he has vampire powers because he’s the son of a vampire?
Alucard: Is that why you chose to talk to me?
Spider Man: That came off as insensitive, I’m sorry.
Alucard: I’m pulling your leg kid. Though I don’t see how me being a vampire makes you think I would have more knowledge than Jotaro does.
Spider Man: I’m just speculating here. You're the only nice and friendly vampire we can talk to here so I figured I’d ask for your opinion.
Alucard: My opinion? He’s the son of a vampire. Whether or not he inherits his powers is not of my concern. I’m going to have problems with him either way.
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Joker: So who is this, other Joker hmmmm?
Mitsuru: I’ve told you already. I have no idea who he is.
Joker: Really? Are you sure you’re not hiding anything from us? Maybe he’s someone special to you?
Mitsuru: I shouldn’t be expected to know who everyone from my world is. Though, if I had to guess, he’s definitely a better Joker than you.
Joker: gasp WHAT?!… you don’t think I’m funny? Oh I’ll show you a good laugh!”
Mitsuru was ready to pull her blade on the Clown before suddenly.
Joker: ARGUEGHEHUHHH
Joker’s body was engulfed in electricity before it collapsed in front of Mitsuru. She looked ahead to see the Thunder God and Earthrealm’s Protector standing with an arm outstretched, lighting crackling between his fingers.
Raiden: Are you alright Mrs?
Mitsuru: I’m fine, thank you.
Raiden: Let me guess, he was asking about the other Joker?
Mitsuru: Yeah he was. I really honestly do not know anything about him. Sorry for not being able to give any information on him despite being from the same world.
Raiden: You should not fault yourself for not having that knowledge. Instead, you should look forward to meeting him after his fight. Then, you can get to know him better.
Mitsuru nodded before looking back down at Joker’s unconscious body.
Raiden: I will take him to Batman. You go on with your day.
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Frank West: So, I think we can connect the dots here. Giorno is the son of a vampire who also has a Stand. That Stand has the ability to stop time. It would make sense if he had the ability to do something similar. Maybe not stop time itself but do something to mess with it, like slow it down or speed it up.
Michelangelo: Meanwhile, he would have Dio’s vampire abilities like the blood sucking and the laser eyes and the ice powers!
Frank West: Exactly! Now, as for the other guy, well, Mitsuru said she doesn’t know anything about him but they do share a similar power in being able to bring out a Persona.
Michelangelo: Mitsuru’s Persona is all about freezing things. So maybe Personas are tied to elements.
Frank West: Right, though, from the silhouettes, it looked like that guy was holding a gun.
Donatello: Maybe he has a gun because it’s thematic. You know? Firepower.
Raphael: in the middle of playing on an arcade machine shut up Donnie!
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In the meantime, Nolan took it upon himself to tour the new Saiyan around. Goku got a bit side tracked with showcasing all the fights Death Battle has had in its history, focusing only on the DB hall of fame and archives that at the end of the day he forgot to give Bardock a proper tour, resulting in the man getting lost trying to find his room. Nolan was fortunately in the area to help him and decided to give Bardock a proper tour of the place the following day.
“So you know where the dorms are now, right?”
“Yeah. Are we required to live here?”
“Not really. We have the ability to go back to our own worlds anytime we want. Though, most combatants who are already dead in their world tend to just stay here.”
Bardock glanced back at the door of his room. It wasn’t the worst place to stay but it was also very lonely. He remembered his son and how he was all grown up now. Maybe he could go home with his son every few days to spend time with him. If that was even possible. What if he just gets brought back to the time before he died. Maybe the planet wouldn’t have been destroyed yet but it would be living on a limited time. Maybe he could give it a try and push himself to use Super Saiyan again to change the future. He shook his head. These were thoughts for another time. He turned back to Nolan.
“What else does this place have?”
“Follow me.”
“This is the cafeteria.”
Boom
“What was that?”
“There’s a fight going on inside. That tends to happen a few times a week. When you get a peaceful moment to eat, you need to savour it.”
Nolan opens the doors to the cafeteria, which were the size of buildings. Bardock wondered why the doors were so big until he saw his answer lying on the side of the room. A purple ball of energy the size of a car flew by the center of the cafeteria, making its way to the other end. Lots of combatants were quick to jump out of the way before it was halted mid-air, inches away from a black gloved hand. A hand that belonged to Darth Vader. At the opposite side of the cafeteria was the one responsible for firing the blast. With a massive metallic body and one third the reason why the doors and rooms everywhere were so big. Megatron looked like he had just been thrown against the wall and fired that blast before asking questions.
“What’s your problem tin head?”
Vader kept the energy blast in place while responding with anger laced in his voice.
“You ruined my cake.”
“Hah, not my fault you didn’t look where you were going.”
In that instant Vader sent Megatron’s blast back at him. Megatron blocks it by activating his force field before firing more shots at Vader from his arm cannon. Vader ignites his lightsaber and leaps through the air at the Decepticon, dodging every blast sent his way.
Bardock was shocked at how unruly the situation was while Nolan simply let out a sigh of annoyance.
“Let’s come back later when they’ve finished fighting.”
They left to the sounds of explosions and debris being crushed as combatants began to both flee from the cafeteria or defuse the situation.
Nolan continued to show Bardock around to the various other rooms the Death Colosseum had. From the outside it looked like the Colosseum in Rome except vastly upsized, not ruined, and of course tailored for everyday living. The ground floor held the cafeteria as well as the offices for Death Battle. Combatants were not allowed there though. The 2nd floor had a multitude of workshops. Whether the combatant relied on technology or magic this was the place they would go to finetune their techniques and abilities. The floor above was the gym. The reason it almost takes up the entire third floor is because of the amount of space needed to accommodate all the combatants. This is also the floor that held the bath house where you would see showers, spas, saunas and steam rooms. There is also a laundry room on this floor. Just outside the third floor was a massive rainbow road that formed a ring around the Death Colosseum. The ring was a few times wider than the Colosseum itself though it could be adjusted to be bigger. This is where the speeders usually raced. The next floor is the entertainment room. Here, combatants get to chill and hang out while eating snacks and playing games. From board games, card games and of course, video games. The place had arcade machines, PC stations, every generation of Nintendo, Sony, Xbox and Sega consoles and even phones designed for the best mobile gaming experience. In the event any of the combatants want to play the games some of them came from. There were multiple theaters that could stream a variety of TV shows and movies. This is the floor that draws the most shocked reactions from new combatants. Being able to see your own adventures from a variety of different mediums is a surreal experience and only a rare few don’t think much about it. One more floor up is the library. Don’t think I need to explain what it is. The remaining floors from here on out are the dormitories, with each floor being dedicated to a season. As of now there are 11 floors since Season 24 and Season 25 are to be housed together since Season 24’s pool of new combatants is too small to merit its own floor. And at the top of the Colosseum is the Death Arena. Where combatants go to watch the fights.
As Nolan and Bardock rode the elevator from the top floor back to the cafeteria Nolan briefed Bardock on the rules this place has.
“Number one rule here is we’re not allowed to kill each other.”
“What happens if we do?”
“We die, obviously. I don’t know what Death Battle’s plan was when they put this many strong fighters in the same place and expected them to follow this rule. It has almost been broken many times in the past.”
“Why hasn’t it been broken yet?”
“We can thank Superman for that. Rule number two, do not enter the offices on the bottom floor. Rule number three do not take any fights outside the Colosseum or into the arena without proper permission. Rule number four, don’t bring anyone else who isn’t a Death Battle combatant here. You got that?”
Bardock simply nodded. His stomach began to growl.
“Right, you have Saiyan hunger. Don’t worry, the cafeteria has enough food for another Saiyan.”
The two fathers entered the cafeteria again, where things seemed to have calmed down. Vader’s legs were encased in ice and he was being held back by the combined might of Dimitri, Guts and the Dragonborn while the Chosen Undead stood in front of Vader with his shield up just in case Vader managed to throw out another attack. On the other side of the room, Optiums had managed to hold Megatron down with help from the Gundam while .EXE and Star Force floated in front of Megatron with their respective shields to block any attacks. And in the middle of the room stood Satoru Gojo, who had expanded Limitless to encompass the middle of the cafeteria to act as a wall between the two tyrants. In the meantime, he was eating a slice of cake. Bardock couldn’t comprehend the absurdity of the situation until Nolan placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it. Come one, let’s get a table at the back.”
“Are you going to root for your son?”
“What do you think, Jotaro?”
“I’d imagine you’d at least care for your own blood.”
“I don’t even remember ever having a child so I don’t see why I should start caring now with this knowledge. He’ll earn my respect when he wins.”
The day of Gioker is here. The seats fill up and the combatants wait for the fight to start. Mitsuru is looking forward to seeing what Joker has to offer in this fight. Jonathan looked forward to Giorno’s performance despite his relationship to Dio. Dio has clearly shown he has no idea he had a son so his influence on him is next to nothing so Jonathan has decided to judge him independently from his status as Dio’s son. Speaking of Dio he watched the blank screen with disinterest. Whatever his son had in store it would not match the power he held. Jotaro sat between his great, great grandfather and immortal rival. He used to sit next to Spider Man as he found the quips he would make during fights funny but after Jonathan arrived he needed to make sure the two weren’t at each other’s throats. The reason Dio and Jonathan sat so close to each other is because they wanted to keep an idea on each other, so the only way Jotaro could make sure they don’t start causing a scene is by sitting in between them. Similar to his relative, he was rooting for Giorno, confident that he didn’t inherit any of Dio’s traits.
Due to Superman and Goku sitting in VIP seats Bardock couldn’t sit close to his son. So he decided the next best thing was to find Nolan and take a seat next to him. He sat down next to Nolan, who didn’t comment on his presence. However, the person who originally sat on that seat did have something to say to him.
“Excuse me sir. That’s my seat.”
Bardock turned to the person whose seat he was on originally belonged to. He found himself looking into bright, yellow eyes with red rings around the pupils, which complemented her red hair.
“Oh, sorry. I don’t know where my seat is.”
“A new seat appears every time we get a new combatant. Your seat is at the very front at the corner.”
Just before Bardock stood up Nolan spoke up.
“We don’t have designated seats, we sit where we want. How about you go take that seat Makima.”
“Hmm… if you insist, Viltrumite.”
Makima began to walk away.
“Who was that?”
“Someone you should keep your guard up around. She’s not physically strong but she has other ways to overpower you.”
Bardock vaguely remembered a red haired freak in the DB hall of fame that Goku showed to him. If he remembered correctly, she could control anyone she deemed inferior to herself. Which was quite the absurd concept to Bardock given that she was only human. Not that strong and she thinks she’s better than me? Heh, she’ll have to do better if she wants to control my mind.
The screen began humming to life, though it still displayed a black screen. Then, the words ‘Take Your Time’ appeared on the bottom right corner of the screen and began spinning around like a loading symbol. On the top right Giorno’s picture was shown with a 100% security level displayed beneath it.
Miles Morales: Hey cool. It’s like a video game loading screen.
Then, two voices cut through the darkness.
[Now playing: Requiem for a Thief]
“Gold Experience!”
“Go! Arsène!”
The black screen immediately cuts to the inside of a giant palace as Giorno’s Stand and Joker’s Persona clash at the center of the screen, sparks flying from their arms colliding.
FIGHT
The two send each other back, with GE taking a stance in front of Giorno who sat atop a golden throne while Arsène lands in front of Joker.
“Giorno Giovanna, your heart is twisted! It is ours to take…”
GE and Arsène charge at each other again and Arsène unleashes Cleave at the enemy Stand. GE barely dodges the attack, causing it to slice the top half of Giorno’s throne off, also narrowly missing the Stand User. Though, he isn’t bothered as he casually tosses aside the Calling Card he had been given.
“Sciocci fantasmi! My dreams aren't yours to take.”
Jotaro: He doesn’t seem malicious at first glance. Though, he is definitely not clean either. What’s his deal?
Joker pulls out his gun and fires at Giorno but GE parries each bullet by punching them and turning them into bees which fly off. Joker then commands Arsène to cast another spell and the word ‘Maeigon’ pops up in a box at the top left corner of the screen.
“Persona!”
A pillar of fire erupts from the ground and consumes GE. The camera pans to Giorno as the fire engulfs him too.
Michelangelo to Frank West: We were right! He does have fire abilities.
“Heh, he’ll never see it coming.”
Arsène rushes forward at GE and baits out a punch from it, which it blocks. As Arsène rushed forward Joker grappled to the ceiling to close the distance with Giorno. As Maeigon’s effects began to wear off Joker landed in front of Giorno with his gun aimed at his face.
“Checkmate.”
He fires, but the bullets have no effect on Giorno. Joker was confused, until he suddenly started having an out of body experience. He turned around to see his actual body standing still as one of his bullet-turned-bees flies past it.
Frank West: Uhhh, what’s happening?
Jotaro: I think I understand. He boosted the speed of Joker’s consciousness, causing it to outpace his physical body. He thinks he’s moving when in actuality, he’s not.
Frank West: I’d say that’s close enough to timey wimey bullshit.
“Mudamudamudamudamudamudamuda MUDA!”
GE releases a flurry of punches at Arsène, causing him to break. Joker’s consciousness is immediately pulled back into his body as he recoils from the damage of Arsène being defeated. Giorno gets up from his throne and rushes at Joker with GE at his side. When he reaches Joker he delivers a backhanded blow at the Phantom Thief while GE punches him into his arms. Giorno then holds Joker from behind while GE releases a flurry of kicks on Joker before Giorno knocks him away.
Mitsuru: His Persona is already broken? That’s not what I was expecting. Either Giorno’s Stand is incredibly powerful or Arsène is a weak Persona.
As Joker falls back he quickly fires his grappling hook into the ceiling and barely dodges a punch from GE in the process. The camera zooms into his face as he places his hand on his mask and blue flames emit from underneath it. Joker pulls his mask off and the blue fire forms a visage of his mask on his face as he yells out-
“Alice!”
A little girl appears floating next to Joker with a very ghostly appearance. She looks down at Giorno and GE chasing after Joker on foot before pointing at them. Another pop up box at the top right corner of the screen echoes what she says.
“Die for Me!”
Frank West: Wait a minute.
Michelangelo: Uhhh, what?
Mitsuru: A second Persona…
“Impossible! A second Stand…”
Giorno is suddenly surrounded by human-sized teddy bears with bombs strapped to their chest. The toys started running at Giorno and while GE did its best to fend them off there were too many. One slipped through and knocked Giorno into GE with its explosion, causing the rest to dogpile on the two before detonating.
Dio: Defeated by teddy bears…
The two leap out of the explosion cloud and GE punches the ground just before they land. Giant beanstalks began growing from the ground, skewering the bears until there was none left.
Jotaro: So his Stand is all about life. Both creating and manipulating it.
Joker swings through the now dense jungle in the palace, searching for his opponent down below. He abruptly freezes mid swing and looks up to see GE holding the other end of his grappling hook.
“laughs You never took the time to understand my Gold Experience.”
Joker’s grappling hook suddenly turns into a snake, which causes Joker to let go of it and fire his gun at it. Only for the bullets to have no effect on the snake. Joker suddenly feels stinging pain in his chest. As if he was the one shot by bullets. As he falls he notices Giorno sitting atop of a beanstalk leaf and takes aim. The screen zooms in to Giorno’s face as he reveals the true strength of Gold Experience.
“All objects given life by Gold Experience desire to return home.”
All of a sudden, the bees that have been aimlessly flying around the palace begin to funnel back into Joker’s gun. The amount of them entering at once causes the gun to break. GE flies toward the falling Thief before releasing another flurry of punches on him.
“Mudamudamudamudamudamudamuda MUDA!”
GE finishes its attack with a powerful kick, sending Joker flying through multiple beanstalks before crashing on the ground. He tries to get up, only to fall on one knee due to his injuries.
“Nnff… ” his Persona… creates life… I’ve got to nullify that!
Joker reaches for his mask again as blue flames burst from his face.
“Jack Frost! Ice Age!”
A small, white bodied demon with a round shape and blue jester get-up is summoned behind Joker.
“Hee-hohoho!”
The palace is engulfed in a blizzard that freezes the beanstalks. As Giorno and GE land on the ground they are encased in ice. However, more perceptive combatants noticed Giorno looked like he was trying to stab GE before they were frozen. Suddenly, the icey prison they were held in exploded in a great light. Joker shields his eyes from the brightness before looking back with a surprised gasp. The screen turns as well to reveal Giorno’s evolved Stand; Gold Experience Requiem.
Jotaro's eyes widened with shock at the display of this new ability. The ability to empower a Stand far beyond what it was capable of before. Even Dio leaned forward in his chair, now intrigue. Gold Experience Requiem’s reveal alone was so powerful that it sent a chill out of the screen and shot up the spines of every combatant. Resulting in a collective shock and awe at the mighty display.
Joker steeled himself and began running at Giorno.
So this is the endgame? Then let’s finish this! “Satanael! Begone! Begone! Begone! Begone!”
Joker stopped at the sound of his voice echoing. He sees past versions of himself for every second that has passed. He turns only to see more of himself until he comes face to face with GER, reading another flurry.
“This, sciocco fantasma, is justice! This is Requiem!”
The screen pans out a bit for a change of pace, now displaying the fight in manga format. The pages begin to flip to show GER unleashing a barrage of punches at Joker. The pages continued to flip on and on and on and on with each one being an image of GER beating down Joker in a 7 page long muda.
“Muda muda muda muda mudamudamudamudamudamuda mudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamuda mudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamuda mudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamuda mudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamuda mudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamudamuda MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA! MUDA!!!”
The final punch sends a bloodied Joker flying back into the wall of the palace as the screen goes back to video display. Joker craters the wall as a UI display on the bottom left corner displays his health gauge as depleted. His body slides down to the ground, leaving a trail of blood behind. The music starts to die down as the screen follows suit, going dark.
It stayed like this for a while, causing most of the combatants to have assumed the fight was over.
Mitsuru: Not a bad display. So many Personas, and yet it still wasn’t enough.
Jotaro: Yare yare daze. That was intense.
Dio: Hmmm, I suppose that was not bad.
But only most of the combatants thought the fight was over. A few were able to hear faint voices throughout the arena.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Joker?”
“I won’t allow it! Joker!”
“Keep fighting! You can do it!”
“Snap out of it!”
“If you die now, I…”
“Joker, no!”
“Joker’s got it!”
“Joker!”
“...I’ll kill you again myself!”
Goku: Man, that was an intense fight!
Superman: Do you hear that?
Goku: Hm? Hear what?
Bill Cipher: Ugh, what’s that noise?
The Doctor: Oh, very interesting.
Luke Skywalker: Master, do you hear them?
Yoda: Mmm, yes. I do.
Discord: Ohoho. I don’t think the fight is over yet!
A blue butterfly suddenly flew by the screen followed by an explosion of blue fire that covered the entire screen. Joker’s voice could be heard, shouting one name.
“SATANAEL!!!”
The screen came back to life and the music exploded, revealing the body of an archangel, whose size reached the palace’s ceiling. Its wings extended over the frozen beanstalks and golden throne as it dispersed the flames and roar caused the screen to vibrate. A whisper could be heard by all the combatants.
“I am thou, thou art I.”
Many were shocked at this turn around and those who had heard the voices of Joker’s friends were amazed at the display.
Joker points his gun at Giorno one last time, a move that Satanael mimics with its own.
“Maybe you didn’t hear me before. Checkmate.”
He pulls the trigger and the words ‘Sinful Shell’ pop up at the top left corner of the screen. The gun held by Satanael fires a massive bullet coated in blue energy at Giorno. GER immediately rushes at it with a flurry of blows to stop it in its tracks. The screen zooms into the struggle between Return to Zero and Sinful Shell. GER screams as it tries to stop the bullet as cracks on the screen start appearing, causing the combatants to panic as sparks of electricity begin seeping through the cracks on the screen. Finally, one of GER’s punches causes its arm to explode. Requiem is then obliterated by the bullet, with Giorno following suit as the bullet tears apart his body. Leaving only his head to be burnt away by blue flames. The bullet hits the ground and causes a massive explosion that destroys the golden throne. A golden arrowhead flies out of the explosion, which Joker catches before leaving the palace. A results screen shows up, showing Joker’s performance in the fight.
[Music stops]
The screen then changes to show an airport. The combatants continue to watch the best they can through the cracks on the screen. They are then shown a close up of a plane ticket to Florida with the words ‘Speedwagon Foundation Airlines’ printed on. Giorno’s voice is heard.
“I feel weirdly compelled to go over to Florida… Very strange…”
Suddenly his eyes go white and he starts bleeding a black liquid from them. GER appears next to him and quickly prevents him from having a mental shutdown. Not only that, it also fixes all the cracks on the screen at the same time.
“I now suddenly want to restructure Passione…”
Giorno turns around to exit the airport while tossing his plane ticket away.
“It won’t be the end of the world if I miss this flight…”
The screen goes black one last time.
KO
A victory card of Joker appears as the crowd cheers and applauds. They were quite satisfied and left with a lot of burning questions on the nature of Gold Experience and Joker’s Personas.
Frank West: Guess we were wrong about a lot of our predictions.
Michelangelo: Yeah, that’s a bummer.
Spider Man: That was incredible! I could barely keep up with Giorno’s abilities. I wonder what that out of body experience would feel like…
Miles Morales: Would you like to ask him to try it on you later?
Spider Man: pondering
Static Shock: Why would you want that?
Spider Man: I’m just curious.
Joker: Well that wasn’t very funny.
Bane: Neither are you.
Joker: Hmmm? Did you say something, big guy?
Alucard: Well, I guess he isn’t so bad.
Rocket: I gotta get myself whatever gun that big guy had.
Mitsuru: I wonder how he has access to so many Personas. I’ll have to have a chat with him later.
Jonathan: What a hard fought battle with many twists. Giorno held out till the end. I admire his grit.
Jotaro: Yeah, it was pretty good. Right, Dio?
Dio: Hmmm, I thought it wasn’t so bad when he started breaking the screen. Then he lost…
Jotaro: You seriously can’t spare a bit of pride for him?
Dio: What do you take me for Jotaro?
The exit doors below the screen materialised and the representatives from each series got up to go meet the newcomers. Joker and Giorno walked out into the arena, both amazed at the architecture, the space view and the seats lined with over a hundred combatants. Some of them even began clapping and cheering for the newcomers.
“This looks incredible.”
“I have to agree, fantasmi.”
“Hey, you were great back there. You forced my hand. I never expected anyone to be able to get me to bring Satanael out like that.”
Joker extended a hand to Giorno who happily reciprocated with a handshake.
“You fought well too. I never knew anyone could have so many Stands.”
“Oh, you call them Stands? Those were my Personas.”
“Personas? They seem different from Stands. You have to tell me more later. Until then, it looks like we have company.”
Mitsuru, Jotaro, Jonathan and Dio had made their way over and gave the two a warm welcome.
“Welcome to the Death Colosseum, Joker.”
“That's quite the name huh. My name is Ren. Amamiya Ren.”
“Hello Ren, I am Kirijo Mitsuru but you can call me Mitsuru.”
“Have I heard of you before?”
“No, so we have a lot to discuss.”
Ren looked around before looking back at Mitsuru.
“Why were you the only one who came to greet me?”
“I am the only one from the series you come from. I’ll explain more later over dinner.”
“I had my doubts but I’d say your performance up there cleared most of them Giorno. You did well.”
“Thank you sir.”
“Call me Jotaro. This is Jonathan and this is Dio.”
Jonathan was excited to meet Giorno in person but Dio could care less. Only coming down because Jotaro pulled him along.
“It is an honour to meet you Mr Giovanna. I admire your skills and prowess. I wish for us to be able to train together to get stronger.”
“Do you have anything you want to say Dio?”
“Hmph, we can talk later. Let’s go back, the next announcement is about to start.”
As the six of them made it back to the seats the screen began to play the next time announcement.
Next time on Death Battle
The screen flickered before giving a side shot of a fleet of Bowser’s airships and the Egg Fleet. The likeness of Bower and Eggman flickered on and off as images of Bowser’s Kingdom and Eggman Land for screen space. More moments displaying the glory of the two villains were shown before ending on a scene of both villains laughing. The next fight had been set.
Bowser from Super Mario Bros and Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog.
Not even half a second after the announcement was over Bowser stood up from his chair to let out a loud roar and Eggman got up too with a laugh of glee.
“About time!”
“I’ve been waiting to scramble you and serve you a loss, Eggy!”
“Your shell will crack before this egg boils, Spikey!”
Among the commotion Mario and Sonic, who are sitting next to each other, exchanged looks of amusement.
“Get ready for two weeks of these goofball's non-stop gloating.”
“Mama Mia…”