Dropped into a contest and their entire earth on the line Twilight and the others must fight not just for themselves but for the fate of their entire world
After receiving a mysterious invitation, Twilight, her friends and all the heroes of Earth are whisked away to participate in tournament of multiversal proportions. With the fate of their earth hanging in the balance, Twilight and her friends must unite with other warriors from across the multiverse and hopefully survive the fight of their lives.
Twilight Sparkle paced back and fourth in her room, the invite that had appeared the previous night still on her desk.
Ever since the invite had arrived, Twilight had read and reread the invite trying to find something that could tell her if it was a trap or something along the lines of one.
She had run every test she could think of, but all the results had turned up nothing.
She had since texted her friends, telling them to meet at her house and now she was waiting for them all to arrive.
After several more minutes of waiting, there was a knock on Twilight's room door and Midnight Sparkle poked her head round.
"The others have arrived," she said, "they're waiting with Spike downstairs."
Twilight nodded and followed her sister down to the living room, bringing the invitation with her to where her friends along with Spike were waiting.
"We got your text, Twi" Applejack said.
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash nodded, "whats the emergency?"
"It's," Twilight replied, pulling out the invite and placing on the coffee table, "this."
Applejack and the others all stared at the invite in confusion, curiosity and disappointment.
"I don't understand, darling," Rarity said, "you called us all here for a piece of paper?"
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash agreed, "we were expecting a real emergency, like a supervill.....ow"
Rainbow was cut off by Applejack nudging her in ribs and giving her a disapproving look.
"Rainbow Dash," she said, "if Twilight says it's an emergency, it's an emergency."
"Right," Fluttershy nodded, "Twilight won't have called us all here if she didn't have a good reason."
"Agreed," Rarity added, Pinkie Pie nodding in agreement with her, "Twilight has always had a good instinct when it comes to these things."
"Alright," Rainbow Dash conceded, "no need to jump on me like that, geez."
She turned to Twilight, "so what do you suggest, leader?" she asked.
"That's just it," Twilight replied, "I don't know."
She went on to explain about how the invite had appear the previous night and how she had subjected it to every tests she could think of, with the end result being nothing.
The others all passed the invite round, each other reading it and then pass it on until it reached back to Twilight.
"We're invite to participate in a contest?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "HOW COOL IS THIS!!"
"I've never even heard of the Contest of Champions," Fluttershy said, "is this even legit?"
"I agree," Rarity interjected, "are we sure this isn't some prank or something?"
"I know what you mean, Rar," Applejack responded, "something about this seems a little shady."
"And thats why I called you all here," Twilight concluded, "I have absolutely no idea what to do about this."
"Well," Rainbow Dash said, "I say we accept and deal with whatever comes."
A collective, "WHAT" arose from the rest of the group.
"Are you serious, Rainbow?!" Applejack asked, "we have no idea what this contest even is."
"For all we know," Rarity added, "we could be leaping straight into the middle of a war or something."
"Think about it," Rainbow Dash replied, "we've faced Kang and Starro the Conquerors, on top of that we were recently trained by Wonder Woman and the Amazons."
The others were about to argue, but Rainbow Dash had brought up some good points thus they really didn't have much room to argue the point.
"And besides," Rainbow Dash continued, "what better way to put our training to test than in a contest fit for Champions?"
"I don't know," Twilight said, "I still don't think this is a good idea."
"Come on, Twilight," Rainbow Dash urged, "what do we have to lose?"
Twilight's instincts were screaming at her not to accept the invitation, but at the same time Rainbow Dash had made a good point that they, along with other teenage heroes, had faced threats from both time and space and, yes, recently they had gotten some extra combat training from Wonder Woman.
"Alright," she said, finally, "we'll put it to a coin toss, heads, we accept and tails we don't."
"Cool," Rainbow Dash smiled,
Twilight pulled a coin out of her pocket, "call it, Rainbow," she stated.
"Heads," Rainbow Dash replied.
With that, Twilight flipped the coin.
"Yes!" Rainbow Dash cried.
It landed heads side up.
"Alright," Twilight sighed, "Looks like we're going."
She looked down at the invite, "I guess we accept the invitation," she said, aloud.
Just after Twilight had finished her sentence, the invitation started glowing suddenly and Twilight, her friends vanished.
And it wasn't just them, but all the heroes and villains of earth also vanished.
"I'm your host Ambush Bug and here with the colour commentary my partner, Arcade."
"Hey, good to be here."
"Anyway, I think we should get to the point of why we're here."
"I couldn't agree more, bug."
"Indeed, the Contest of Champions, a tournament where warriors from all across the multiverse battle it out to see who is the best of the best."
"That's right, and all this was possible thanks to some mysterious backers, Mojo Media and our gracious organisers the Grandmaster and the Collector."
"So how does the contest work?"
"I'm glad you asked Arcade, you see its a good old fashioned 'last man standing,' the losers and their earths are erased and whoever wins takes home the prize."
"Sounds simple, enough,"
"Well, enough of that, let's go down to the VIP box to join the Grandmaster for the pre contest opening ceremony."
Back in the holding cells.
Rainbow Dash had finally recovered from being teleported.
"Arrr," she groaned, "my head."
Like Twilight, she had had her ring and geode taken from her and she had been placed in cell.
All across the area, Sunset and the rest of the Champions were all slowly recovering from being teleported, each in a different cell to each other.
En Dwi Gast a.k.a. The Grandmaster along with his brother Taneleer Tivan a.k.a. The Collector watched from their position in the VIP lounge area.
The stands were packed to the rafters, the crowd were on the edge of their seats waiting for the contest to start.
"Our guest will be arriving shortly," The Collector said, "Shall we get things underway?"
"We shall, brother," The Grandmaster nodded, "but first, I'd like to make an announcement to contestants."
He produced a microphone, his voice was broadcast throughout the holding cells.
"Combatants," he said, his voice had a menacing tone to in,"in the coming days each of you will fight, some are here of their own volition, others were brought here by chance. If you defeat all your opponents you will face one final challenge and the outcome of this tournament will determine your Earth's fate."
The Grandmaster smiled as a giant hologram of himself was projected into the arena.
"Hello, everyone!" he declared, his voice was now upbeat and jovial, "who's ready to get this show on the road?"
The crowd erupted into screams in reply, the suspense was killing them.
"Very well," The Grandmaster said, "let the games begin."
Fireworks erupted, signalling the start of the contest.
The two brothers' attention was interrupted by the arrival of Topaz, The Grandmaster's personal bodyguard and head of security.
"Your esteemed guests have arrived," he stated.
"Excellent," The Grandmaster replied, "show them in, Topaz."
Topaz nodded and stepped aside, allowing the aforementioned guests entered the room.
They were gods, deities and various other beings from across the multiverse.
"Welcome," The Collector proclaimed, "welcome, friends."
"We're so pleased you came," The Grandmaster added, "I hope you're all ready for show."
"Please," The Collector said, "help yourselves to some refreshments."
"The show will begin, momentarily," The Grandmaster smiled.
Back with Twilight.
The six armed woman had refused to answer any of her questions, simply smiling and walking away while saying, "try to get along with your cellmates."
Twilight was confused by the statement, she thought that she was the only one in the cell.
It was then she realised she wasn't alone.
Someone was sitting on the opposite side of the cell.
"So," the figure said, "they got you too, huh?"
"Who are you?" Twilight asked.
The figure stepped forward, revealing himself.
"Name's Tommy Oliver," he said, "I'm guessing you and your friends got an invite too?"
"Twilight Sparkle," Twilight replied, "and yes, we did, how did you...?"
"Me and my friends got one too and then we found ourselves here," Tommy answered.
"The invite said something about a contest," Twilight said, "and that announcement said we have to fight and that our Earth's fate hangs in the balance."
"Seems that way," Tommy replied.
"How do we escape?" Twilight asked, "do you have a plan?"
"We play along for now," Tommy replied.
"What?" Twilight exclaimed, "are you serious?!"
"Well, like you said," Tommy retorted, "our homes are on the line, besides I already tried to escape."
"What happened?" Twilight asked.
Her attention was drawn to a small device attached to Tommy's neck.
"What is that?" she asked.
"They call it an Obedience Disk," Tommy explained, "they put them on all of us, even you."
Twilight felt around her neck, sure enough, an Obedience Disk had been placed on her neck.
"If you try and escape," Tommy explained, "you get zapped."
Before the two could continue, some guards came marching down the hallway.
They stopped at one of the cells, opened it, entered and exited dragging a prisoner with them.
Suddenly, The sound of cheering was heard, signalling that the first match of the Contest of Champions was about to start.
A screen in a corner of the cell blinked on, showing the arena above.
The voices of the commentators was heard over the intercom.
"Both these fighters are quick on their feet, so don't blink or you might miss them."
"Anyway, let the battle begin!"
Twilight and Tommy watched as the two combatants began to duked it out with each other.
Spark seemed to have the edge on Lilac in terms of abilities with his more wider range of powers.
But Lilac was able to close the gap with her speed, moving so fast that Spark couldn't get a proper lock on her.
After a while, Spark had started to get tired and sloppy.
Lilac charged at him, ready to deliver the finishing blow.
But at the last second, Spark was teleported away before the blow could be struck.
"Wait," Twilight said, "what was that?"
As if in answer, the commentators started talking again.
"I bet you're wondering what just happened?"
"I sure am, Bug."
"Well, that was the Anti Fatality field."
"Anti Fatality field, whats that?"
"It's very simple, the loser is teleported away before the finishing blow can be struck, can't have our combatants dying on us can we? I mean what do think we are monsters?"
"Hmmm, kinda seems like cheating when you put it like that."
Twilight breathed a sighed of relief.
"Well," she said, "at least, we don't have to worry about our lives being on the line."
"These two deadly dames aren't just pretty faces, they pack one hell of punch, literally."
"Well, get ready because fists are about to fly."
The two combatants appeared in the arena, one with long yellow hair with complex looking bracelets and the other, a pink haired girl, welding giant gauntlets, almost as big as her entire body.
When the signal was given the two girls charged at each other.
The yellow haired girl firing blasts from her bracelets, while the other girl blocked with her giant gauntlets.
The pink haired threw punch after punch, which yellow haired girl dodged and counterattacked.
The fight kept going back and fourth, neither one showing any signs of backing down.
The tie was finally broken with almighty punch from the pink haired girl that sent the yellow haired girl flying into a wall.
"Ooo, that's gotta hurt."
"I won't be so sure, Arcade."
Miraculously, the yellow haired girl got back on her feet, seemingly unfazed by the previous attack.
Her eyes turned red and her hair glowed bright yellow, like it was on fire, she charged at the pink hair girl and hit her with punch that had the same amount, if not more, power than the punch she had thrown at her.
The pink haired girl, didn't have time to react or defend, the punch knocked all the wind out of her.
"Um, what just happened?"
"Well, it seems Miss Xiao Long has just activated her Semblance, quite a powerful one at that."
"And a Semblance is?"
"A unique power those from Miss Xiao Long's Earth possess, all of them different and varying."
"Oh, so like mutants on our Earth?"
"Exactly, and Miss Xiao Long's Semblance is to absorb damage from hits she takes, adding them to her own physical power."
"Okay, well this fight just got a whole lot more interesting."
By this time, the pink haired girl had mostly recovered from the attack and was back on her feet.
Now empowered by her Semblance, the yellow haired threw punch after almighty punch.
The pink haired tried to block, but eventually she began to weaken and with one final almighty punch the yellow hair girl completely shattered the pink haired girl's gauntlets.
The pink haired girl fell to the floor defeated and was teleported away.
"Wow," Twilight remarked, "that girl could give Applejack a run for her money in terms of strength."
"Alright, folks, are you ready for the next BATTLE?!"
The commentators listened as the crowd roared in response.
"Both these fighters are crazy strong, so look out those in the splash zones!"
The two combatants appeared in the arena.
Once the signal to fight was given, the two unveiled their powers, Max with his Turbo modes and Rex with his nanite builds.
"Ah," The Grandmaster breathed, as he, his brother and the rest of the assembled gods and deities watched the battle unfold, "people hitting people, is there anything more beautiful?"
"Indeed, brother," The Collector replied, "they fight with such courage and determination, truly a spectacle to behold."
The two brothers clinked their glasses together and continued to watch the fight.
Twilight and Tommy continued to watch the fight between Max Steel and Generator Rex.
Max seemed to have the edge over Rex, in terms of versatility, with his wide range of modes, but in terms of power, Rex had the edge with his more offensive builds.
"They're pretty good," Tommy commented, "I'd hate to go up against ether of them."
"Their powers are amazing," Twilight nodded, "being able to build whatever they need out of nothing."
Just then the six armed woman from before arrived at their cell, she motioned to Tommy.
"You're up next," she barked, "on your feet."
"I guess thats my cue," Tommy said.
As Tommy exited the cell, Twilight noticed the six armed woman opened the cell door with a strange keycard of some kind.
The six armed woman then led Tommy away, to prepare him for the next fight, after which the cell door was closed.
Twilight returned to watch the fight between Max Steel and Generator Rex.
"If only the combatants knew what waits for them at the end of contest," The Grandmaster smirked, "wouldn't you agree brother?"
"Indeed," The Collector nodded, "they will have to face our champions."
The two brothers smiled at each other, knowing exactly what was waiting at the end of the Contest for the combatants that manage to make it the end.
They would have to face their own personal picks for the contest, Longshot, the Champion of the Universe and the being simply known as - Ægon.
Back with Twilight.
She watched as the next combatants were announced those being: Tommy Oliver vs Ryu.
Soon after being called, the two appeared in the arena.
The two faced each other down, sizing each other up, trying to gauge the other's power.
When the command was given, the two activated their powers.
Ryu fired off some energy projectiles, called Hadoukens, and Tommy, using his Master Morpher, changed into one of his five ranger forms.
The two traded blows, Tommy changing into different forms to try and outmanoeuvre his opponent.
The battle came to ahead when Tommy, using his Dino Thunder Black Ranger form, his Ryu with an Energy orb, his most powerful attack, Ryu tried to block it but he was teleported away before the attack could hit.
With Tommy taking the win, he was taken back to his cell with Twilight.
After which, the next fight was announced.
"You okay?" Twilight asked, as Tommy looked like he was worn out.
"That was close," Tommy said, "that guy wasn't pulling his punches."
"We're fighting for our Earth's very survival," Twilight replied, "I don't think anyone can afford to mess around."
"Good thing I got this," Tommy answered, with a smile, he reveal one of the guards keycards, he had managed to swipe when he was taken back to the cell.
"Right," Twilight nodded, "lets move."
Tommy looked around, making sure that no one was watching, then silently unlocked the cell door.
He and Twilight exited the cell and began looking around.
The corridor seemed like a giant menagerie, with cells lining the walls, each containing combatants from different Earths.
Some ranged from human to humanoid to otherworldly, like an anthropomorphic banana and a man with a hamburger for a head.
All of them had Obedience Disks, some even had Inhibitor Collars on them, devices that neutralise the abilities of anyone they were placed on.
"Something doesn't add up," Twilight said, "why gather all these fighters together and make them fight, for fun? Entertainment? Some sick joke? What?"
"Or maybe it's for something else," Tommy answered.
"Like what?" Twilight queried.
"I don't know," Tommy replied, "but we're going to find out."
The Security room and Broadcasting room.
The security guards watched as the contest carried on, right now a battle was raging between two samurais, Miyamoto Usagi vs Samurai Jack.
"Now, this is what I call a show," one guard remarked, as he and his comrade watched through the monitors.
"Agreed," the second guard nodded.
They continued to watch the fight.
Back with Tommy and Twilight.
The two were beginning to get lost as the sheer size of the holding cells, the place looked like it went on forever.
They rounded a corner and were surprised at what they saw.
A giant crystalline wall, containing all the combatants that had lost in the contest so far.
"So this is what happens to the losers," Twilight said, "are they dead?"
"No," Tommy replied, "they seem to be in some kind of stasis."
"I think it's sick," Twilight remarked, "these are living beings, not trophies to be displayed."
"We still need more information," Tommy said, "there is no use in flying off the handle until we know for sure who or what we are dealing with."
"You're right," Twilight nodded.
Suddenly, she remembered something, when Sunset had looked into Starro the Conqueror's mind, when he tried to take over the minds of all the superheroes and supervillains on their world.
"something that could destroy an entire universe, something bigger, stronger and more powerful than Starro itself."
"What if we're being prepared or tested" Twilight stated.
"Prepared? Tested?" Tommy repeated, "what are you talking about?"
Twilight explained about what had happened with Starro, what her friend had seen, she also explained who and what Starro was.
"If thats true," Tommy answered, afterwards, "and this is all a test, then why the contest? Why all the deception?"
Twilight thought for a moment, "maybe," she said, "whoever is behind this, is running out of time and needs to find those of us that have what it takes to take on such a mission or threat."
Back in the Security room and Broadcasting room.
The guards had suddenly noticed that the two combatants had escape their cells and were wandering about.
"Alert, Spiral," The first guard said, "send out the guards and inform the boss!"
"Roger," The second guard nodded.
Back with Tommy and Twilight.
As the two continued to wander through the endless hallways.
Suddenly, an alarm sounded and Rita Wayword a.k.a. Spiral, the six-armed woman along with some guards also with dogs that appeared to be made of liquid metal, materialised ahead of them.
"Combatants," Spiral declared, "you will return to your cells or face cancelation."
"I don't know what that means," Tommy responded, "but if I'm going down, I'm going down fighting."
"We want answers," Twilight added, "why are we here? Whats the real reason for the contest?"
"The reason is for your own good," Spiral answered, "trust me, you'll be grateful."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Tommy retorted.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," Spiral replied, "I wish I could cancel you now, but you are too much of an asset to the over all plan."
Twilight and Tommy prepared to stand and fight.
Spiral simply activated her master controller, the thing she used to control all Obedience Disks.
Tommy and Twilight instantly fell to the floor, unable to withstand the amount of electricity coursing through their bodies.
Spiral stood over the two, as they slowly lost conscious.
"Remember this well," she smirked, "everything here belongs to the Grandmaster including you, he orders, you obey. His eyes see everything and his will controls everything here, so if you survive you will be grateful."
The end of the speech was lost on the two heroes as they finally completely passed out.
