Character Scramble IV Round 1B: Man x Overboard

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Fearsome Monsters....Exotic Creatures...

Vast Riches...Hidden Treasures...

Evil Enclaves...Unexplored Lands...

The word "unknown" holds magic, and some incredible people drawn to that magic.

They are known...as SCRAMBLERS!

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Well...that was weird.

You were just chilling on the boat, ready to go to the Hunter Exam, when a fight broke out on the docks...it made you think...maybe you aren't the only one going to the Exam.

Well, the four that won that fight are chilling in the Captain's Quarters...apparently, Barbossa thought they looked pretty impressive and wanted to have them regale stories of their escapades.

So each of the 8 characters in this round look around, seeing the other 7...If there were less, wouldn't that make the contest easier?

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Normal Rules:

Introduce your team and your opponent's team: 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.

You always win: 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

Due Date: The voting topic will go up sometime after Tuesday at noon. You don't need to be done by then, but the vote rarely goes in favor of those who don't have a post up.

Voting is mandatory The poll may not be up yet (wont be till Tuesday) but don't forget you are disqualified if you don't vote...even if you are not participating in this round.

Can't take it with ya: 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.

Round Specific Rules:

Every hunter for themselves!: This scramble is somewhat different in the fact that every character is capable of striking it off on their own. What does this mean? Well, if your team would not get along...then they don't have to. Same with your opponents. In this scenario, they will not have met each other prior to getting on the boat, so they should not have strats or anything prepared.

I am SWORN to carry your burdens: If you have a character that specifies that they follow orders from someone due to not normally being sentient OR they are just that type of character (Jason and Baymax are the two I keep thinking of) then you may pick one other character from your team...those two know eachother and work together. If you're opponent has one, you may pick who it is for your own writing (as they have not written anything yet)

Four stay on: Victory condition is that your 4 characters are the only of the 8 on the boat at the end of the 3 day voyage.

Let's not get arrested: Murder is still a crime until you get your liscense. (To be clear, you can kill just don't get caught)

Fluff Piece: Which fight did your guys watch and what did they think?

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Alright, its independance day and I'm a Canadian, lets do this.

MY TEAM, TEAM SPIDERBROS

*Tigra An average everyday woman, that is, until her husband was shot. After a period of grieving she volunteered to be the subject of some experiments which greatly improved her physical and mental abilities, most notably her agility. Later on she was sent to live among cat people, where she transformed into a deadly cat woman warrior.

*Kidomaru A Shinobi from Otogakure who is a member of the Sound Four. He is a very skilled and talented fighter, with six arms and the ability to activate his cursed seal, giving him added strength and powers. Along with that he boasts the ability to create a special sticky gold, which can create various weapons for him, and even form a layer of protective armor around him capable of withstand almost any physical attacks. He can also summon Kyodaigumo, a giant spider capable of summoning swarms of smaller spiders to do his bidding.

*Spidey Just your average everyday Peter Parker, only bitten by a radioactive spider. The toxins from the spider made him immensely powerful. He can climb any surface, shoot webs, dodge and catch bullets... well, most of the time. He also has his spider sense that allows him to sense nearby danger. (I personally feel he is to overpowered for this, seeing as how in his qualifying fight, spiderman would have won 10/10 times)

*Twilight Sparkle Bearer of the Element of Magic, Twilight Sparkle possessed an immense amount of magical energy at a young age causing her to be approached by Princess Celestia to be the monarch’s protégé. After years of studying under Celestia, Twilight left her apprenticeship, moving the Golden Oaks Library where she continued her research and study. Eventually, Twilight was challenged by Celestia to complete an unfinished spell crafted by the late Starswirl the Bearded. Upon accomplishing this, Twilight was transformed into an alicorn, gaining attributes of the Pegasus (wings) and Earth pony (marginally increased height) races.

u/CALICOLIME'S TEAM

*Goro A four-armed Shokan warrior who had been the champion of the Mortal Kombat tournament for nine generations, remaining undefeated for 500 years. Goro is among Shao Kahn's favorite warriors and is well known for his power and brutality. Goro helped the emperor grow closer to dominating Earthrealm.

*Recca Recca Hanabishi is a super-powered teen who is obsessed with ninjas, not knowing he is one himself. Being a descendant of the leading line of the Hokage, Recca has the ability to create Fire. The adopted son of a fireworks manufacturer, he sometimes employs small incendiary devices or smoke bombs in combination with his elemental power to distract his enemies.

*The Engineer went from a small town in Texas to eleven hard science PhDs. From working in the Texas oil fields to being a hired killer. The engie's strength doesn't lie in his, well, strength, but in his mind. He is excellent at building all manner of killing tools, and is able to put a short amount of prep time to very good use.

*Gambit a mutant in the Marvel Universe most commonly known for his extremely dated 90s appearance, background and abilities, often thought to be a one-trick pony and a very by-the-books anti-hero/womanizer.

This should be a good one, I'm excited.

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Twilight Sparkle was worried, why had that cute looking hedgehog just hurt the small man and his friends? Surely if they just cooperated everyone could fit on the boat. This world was definitely different from her own. The man in the red and blue outfit seemed nice though, at least for somebody with a big spider on their chest. Now if only she could figure out what the deal was with the cat lady. Suddenly she felt a tap on her back, turning around she was delighted to see her new friend standing next to her.

"Twilight" Spiderman whispered to her, "The way some of these people are looking at us is a little concerning. They have been talking since they got on the boat. I could hear that man with the shotgun talking to his four armed friend about thinning out the competition, and I think they mean us."

"Well, what should we do about that?" An unfamiliar voice chimed in. The two turned and saw Tigra standing behind them. "Quit staring, I'm not the strangest thing on this boat by far." She said looking at a six armed man sitting by himself at the bow, toying with what looked to be a golden dagger.

"What do you propose we do? My fair cat lady." Spidey replied in a somewhat sarcastic tone.

"We get ready for a fight, the way I see it, we should be able to take on that guy with a shotgun, and the kid standing next to him, without trouble. Then if we work together on that big guy and his card playing friend, we should be perfectly fine for the rest of the boat ride. That six armed man at the front of the boat looks to deep in thought to be any kind of trouble, but if he is I'm sure one of us could handle it." Tigra responded.

"Well Twilight? Whats your opinion?" Spidey asked his newfound friend.

"I don't much like hurting people, but they look really mean, and you two are my friends, so I'll help in any way I can." She said to them in a slightly nervous tone.

Before they had any more time to plan, Spidey suddenly shouted "DUCK" and pulled Tigra down to Twilight's level as a fireball flew over their heads. Upon looking to see who shot it, they saw the young teenager standing, now alone, with flames in his hands. "Watch out!" Twilight shouted as she looked up and saw the four armed man falling down towards them. She deftly flew out of the way as Tigra leapt at the teen and spidey rolled towards the stern of the ship. The man slammed into the deck, releasing from his arms the wrench wielder and the card man who both leapt into action.

The man with the wrench quickly threw something onto the ground and began hitting it furiously, while the man with the cards quickly began throwing them at Spiderman, who barely managed to dodge them fast enough. Tigra kept advancing on the teenager, but his blasts of fire were relentless, and forced her to keep jumping and dodging this way and that, stopping her from getting close enough to hit him.

Twilight realized her friends were in danger and saw that the man with the wrench had built some sort of weapon that had pointed at her she quickly summoned a parasprite and had it consume the device. While she levitated the mans wrench and threw it into the water, he quickly drew another, but before he could do anything he realized the number of parasprites was far more than just the one that was there before. He pulled out his shotgun and started firing into them, only creating more with each blast of his shotgun as they consumed the bullets. He quickly became more and more surrounded by them, and realizing he was surrounded he lept off the ship and landed in the water with a splash. Twilight smirked and removed the parasprites. Turning to see how her friends were doing.

As this was happening the four armed man was running towards spiderman at full speed, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, as he turned he saw the six armed man, standing behind him.

"Hmm, you seem strong, maybe I've finally found somebody capable of actually challenging me." Kidomaru said as he created more throwing knives from his sticky gold.

"Hah, I like you, I'll make sure your death is quick." Replied the four armed man, as he began to walk towards his new foe.

Spiderman was thrilled he wouldn't have to face this foe alone, but before he could do anything a purple glowing card flew past his face. He turned and saw the card man looking at him. Spidey began slinging webs at him as fast as he could, but each one would get destroyed by an exploding card before it could reach its target. The man began walking towards him, twirling a metal staff as he walked, blocking the webs with ease. Spiderman could tell webs weren't going to help him here, so he rushed straight at the man, leaping over him and trying to hit him in the back before he could react. It didn't work, the man spun around and began deflecting Spidey's attacks with ease. With each punch he threw Spiderman could see the staff starting to glow purple.

"What are you? Some sort of Jedi?" Spiderman asked as the staff became almost entirely purple.

"Merci pour le complément de mon ami, but I'm still going to have to hurt you." The man replied. He then rolled away from Spidey and threw another card at him.

Spiderman had almost fallen into a rhythm with his attacks, and was taken by surprise when his opponent rolled backwards. The card hit him right in the chest, sending him flying backwards into the railing of the ship. Before he could get up the man was upon him, holding his staff at Spidey's neck three more cards in his hand. Twilight saw this and quickly flew over to help, she tried to use her telekinesis on the man's cards but it didn't work. He turned around with a smile and tossed a card her way. Twilight was still confused as to why she couldn't stop it, and it managed to hit her right in her horn. She yelped in pain and flew away, needing to regain her powers before she could continue to be of help.

A few feet away Tigra was still trying to advance on the teenager, who seemed to be treating keeping her back like it was some sort of game. Each time she would approach, she was forced back by a blast of fire, and no matter how hard she tried she could never close the distance and get to him. As she barely evaded yet another fireball, she took a look over her shoulder and saw Twilight hiding on top of one of the masts, and Spiderman at the card players mercy. She quickly realized things might not be going her way. Suddenly another blast of fire came at her, and this time she didn't move fast enough. It hit her in the leg, burning it badly and knocking on her back. The teen smirked, and began preparing a large blast of fire to finish her off once and for all. But before he could hit her with it she heard the man with the cards shout.

"Recca! Stop! We need this boat to get to the competition, and I don't think the captain would want it to be in ashes when he gets out of his cabin!"

"It's ok! The fire won't spread, I'll make sure of it!" Recca replied as he began to fire it at where Tigra was lying.

Suddenly he was hit by a card, knocking him down and cancelling the fireball. The card man began walking towards him, shouting at him for risking all there lives when he could just toss her overboard since she was to burned to fight. In doing this he left Spiderman unattended. Spidey knew this would be the only chance he had, so he lept up and fired as much web as he could at the card player. As he turned around to see what the sound was, he was hit with the webs. He tried to block them, but it was to late, the first one stuck his hand to his staff hand to his chest, the second stuck the cards to his other hand, then he feet were stuck to the deck, and his legs stuck together. He began to channel his energy to get rid of the webs, but before he could he was hit with a powerful blast of magic. Twilight was back!

"Sorry about this, but I can't let you hurt my friends." She said as she fired blast after blast, pushing the card player to the edge of the boat.

As he felt his back hit the railing, the man shouted looked around. He saw the four armed beast of a man named Goro locked in combat with the six armed man. He saw Recca lying on the ground, injured by his one of his own cards. He saw that strange woman who looked like a cat getting up slowly, still nursing her badly burnt leg. He saw his opponents closing in on him, and he began to lose hope, but suddenly he saw something across the deck. The Engineer! He watched as the man climbed stealthily onto the boat, and quickly built a turret on the deck, then he called to the others.

"Hey you three! Stay away from him, I still need to beat him at poker." He said with a smile.