After everyone had prepared themselves, Cortana once again appeared and said to the group as a whole "The fight has been announced as a four to three fight in your favor." She said while a four panel slot machine reminiscent of the one used by the Overseer from the Beta appeared in front of them. "The slots will now determine who fights this round. Those who are not selected may watch from the viewing rooms."<br/><br/>The slots began to turn rapidly and soon the first stopped on Jack Spade. the second slowed to a stop on Lucy. The Third on Koopatrol, and the fourth on Rukia. JD was upset to put it lightly, but he knew what happened when you threw a fit in a chat room or video game server, and so he kept silent. "Good luck guys!" he said, hiding his disappointment with a small forced smile. Making his way to the viewing area, he found a seat that was next to none other than the small two tailed vulpine, Miles "Tails" Prower. "I hope you don't mind." He said as he noticed someone with purple skin next to Tails. "Not many seats left, y'know."<br/>__________________________________________________<br/><br/>"Bang, Bang! Goodbye losers!" Deadpool shouted as he fired two rounds into the nearby wall of the arena. "Would you just shut up already!" a red echidna yelled at the Merc with a mouth. A small boy wearing a kimono and holding some paper dolls sighed and put them away. "I agree with Knuckles. the more incessant babbling you do, the less coherent and valuable information I can gather." he smirked evilly and added. besides, you're fighting a Joker clone if the quote I overheard was right."<br/><br/>Deadpool was suddenly glad he had a mask right now.<br/><br/>"There's something I don't get though..." the boy said uneasily. Knuckles opened one eye and stood up from his cross legged stance. "And what's that... Kalluto?"<br/>_____________________________________________________<br/><br/>"Welcome to the 3rd consecutive Random Roster Rumble of D block!" an over the top and very confident voice sounded out as the doors were opened on both team's sides. "This will be a forty life game. your attacks have been strengthened to kill after six successful hits. Four if you are resourceful. First team to take out the enemy team wins. You have forty re-spawn tokens. When they run out, it's every man for himself! The re-spawn points in the city are moved every five minutes. Do try not to die, and have fun!"<br/><br/>Rukia stepped out of the room to find a huge city that looked like it was void of people. "It's like in my world when we put up barriers and made fake cities..." she breathed. "But then... where are our opponents?" A bullet whizzed through the air and as it approached Rukia, a shout was heard.<br/><br/>"HEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S DEADPOOL!!!"<br/><br/>In an instant, Rukia used Flash Step and was thirty feet in the air as though standing on solid ground. "JACK!" she shouted "I thought you said you had him!"<br/>_____________________________________________<br/><br/>JD was watching the screen with anticipation. "I wonder if Deadpool will end up... on ice?" he smirked. Tails looked at him. "I don't get it."<br/><br/>JD sighed and shook his head. "Her sword can freeze- Holy Hell!" he said, noticing a red blur fly straight into Rukia's stomach and use spiked gloves to cause her to double over. A few more punches were received before she sliced into Knuckles with her Zanpakutō. A strange thing happened then. JD wasn't sure if it was the game's programming or if it was just Rukia, but ice began spreading around Knuckles as he fell to the ground. as it shattered, Knuckles shattered with it. A counter at the top of the viewing screen showed:<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FF40FF">40</span>-<span style="color: #0000FF">39</span></span><br/><br/>Tails hollered "C'mon Knuckles, you can do it!!!"<br/>______________________________________________<br/><br/>Rukia looked down at her sword. "This is going to be fun!"<br/><br/>---------------<br/><br/>"So she's an Ice type huh?" Kalluto said. putting his paper dolls away, he smirked. "Time to see the real woman behind the mask!" He pulled up his map and was shocked into silence. "R-R-R-Rukia? THE Rukia??? I wonder..." He scanned the map, the look of shock increasing on his face with each name he read. "Zavyr... Doce... They survived!" He started running as far away as he could and sank to his knees, paling considerably. "No... How will I face them! They were my friends, sure, but this is a death match!"<br/><br/>A building next to the one he was in started to fall from impact with something he couldn't see from his position.