| Match 1 - Robert Newell The Ghostbusters vs The Nazgul Group V - Minas Morgul "This is very bad!' Egon whispered to the other ghostbusters. "These readings are off the charts. There are some seriously dangerous ghosts around here" "Nothing we can't handle" replied Peter "After all, we are the ghostbusters" The Witchking of Angmar looked on the pathetic fools. Four men, no problem. He was invincible, no man could kill him. He summoned Akhorahil and Khamul to confront the pitiful ghostbusters. "We're gonna die!" Winston murmurred as the three Nazgul approached. "We're gonna die!" "No one is going to die" Peter insisted "They already are dead, and we are going to bag them just like every other ghost we come across." The Lord of the Nazgul started to say something to the ghostbusters, when the four let loose with their proton packs. The three nazgul were caught in the beams and quickly drawn into the portable ecto-containment unit. The judges rule that being put in the ecto-containment unit involves being thrust into another dimension, so the Nazgul lose by what can be considered a ring out. Winner: The Ghostbusters (1-1) The Nazgul (1-1) Match 2 - Brian Ailshie American French Alliance vs The Death Eaters Group AC - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Ben Martin: Finally, some redcoats to kill! Mark: huh? who's he talking about? Brian: Well it seems that Lucius had a Red surcoat on under his wizard cloak. Anyway, he shed the cloak in the heat, and with his obvious British accent . . . BOOM! Tolkien: Oh, Ben just shot Lucius between the eyes. A second shot takes Voldemort down. So much for J.K.'s super wizard right Anne? Anne? Who's that you're talking too? Tolkien moves over to talk to Anne McCaffrey and her four visitors. Brian: Anyway, Draco sees his father fall and is mad, but yet frozen by the death of his hated master. His moment's distraction costs him his head. Jacopo cuts him down. But then he screams in terror. He drops his blade, stumbles to the ground and backs away crab-style, kicking and yelling all the while. Ben and Gabriel turn to look at what's scared him so much and their reactions are nearly the same. J.K. Rowling: Yes, for what they see is their personal fears, the Boggart's power. Lacking magic, they won't be able to beat this! Brian: I wouldn't be too sure, it looks like the Count is out of range to be effected. He see's the thing switching forms between a burning woman, a dead child, and so on. Edmond backs up, when suddenly it dawns on him. He enter's a room to his side and returns with a large foot locker. J.K: I fail to see how that is going to help. He's still . . . Oh! That can't be good. Brian: Yes he closed his eyes, and scooped up the thing with the trunk. A moment later and the rest of the team has snapped out of the spell. Edmond: Quick, we've got to find our way back to the kitchens! J.K: Ok, they've caged the boggart, which does neutralize it's power, but it isn't dead. Brian: No, but it can't get out, even if the heat of the oven they just put it in burns the chest, it's still locked in the oven. Pretty sure they won't be opening that anytime soon. We've got to call the boggart out, and give them the win. Winner: American French Alliance (2-1) Death Eaters (0-1) Match 3 - Alexander Strub Hobbits vs. Death Eaters Group AC - Hogwarts "Over here!" Pippin shouted at the Death Eaters to draw their attention away from Frodo and the ring. Foolish Draco was distracted and looked to see who was shouting. Merry, who was hiding on the other side of the corridor, threw a rock at Draco's head and knocked him out. "How dare you injure my son!" Lucius roared at Merry, "Avada Kedav-" "Leave 'im alone!" roared Sam in turn, and stabbed Lucius in the leg. "Fool!" Lucius kicked Sam down and uttered 'Crucio!" causing Sam intense pain. "Sam!" cried Frodo. Merry and Pippin shouted with anger and leapt on Lucius, repeatedly stabbing him with the short swords they had obtained from the Barrow Wights. Lucius collapsed under the weight of teir frenzied assault. At this point, Pippin made eye contact with the Boggart. The Boggart turned into leaf tobacco being torn up and thrown into a river. "Ol' Toby!!!" shrieked Pippin. "That's what you're afraid of?" asked Pippin incredulously. "Yes..." gasped Pippin sheepishly, "it ruins the quality, and you have to let it dry out before you can smoke it or ..." "It's just so... so... ridiculous!" Merry responded. Merry having accidentally uttered the counter-spell, the Boggart weakened and turned into Estella Bolger, his Hobbit crush. "Stelly!" shrieked Merry, "I've got to hide!" The Boggart angled it head curiously. Frodo called out, "Don't you see? It's some kind of changeling! Kill it!" All four hobbits try to kill it but can't as it is a magical creature and simply changed it's form whenever it was injured. After turning into a turnip (Sam's greatest fear), Pippin ate the Boggart and that issue was apparently solved. At last Lord Voldemort made himself visible. "I see you have finished my minions at last. Any warrior or wizard would have finished those weak fools in five minutes. You will be easy to slay." Voldemort than cursed "Imperio!" bringing Draco's unconcious body under his control. He had the youth grab a pike from a nearby suit of armor and attempt to impale Merry and Pippin. Then Frodo pulled out the Phial of Galadriel and cried out something in Elvish that none of us could quite understand when we were watching in the theater. The righteous glow of the light of the Evenstar (Earendil w/ Silmaril) burned Voldemort so badly that he lost control of Draco who once again crumpled to the floor. "Uncle Bilbo had something for dealing with the likes of you..." Frodo growled, "and it's name is Sting!" Frodo pulled out Maegnas, his Elvish blade, which glowed blue at the Dark Lord's presence. Still blinded by the Light of Earendil, Voldemort did not see Frodo's thrust, and his cold heart barely felt the blade strike. Maegnas' blide sizzled at Voldemort's blood, but remained firm. Voldemort melted into a puddle on the floor. Sam and Pippin picked up Draco's body, looking for a place to dump him (as they weren't willing to kill a defenseless child). At that moment they passed the room of requirement, which turned into a vast broom closet at their necessity. They chucked Draco in and closed the door. "Let 'im clean up while e's tryin' to find 'is way out," Sam said scornfully, "This place is a mess!" Alexander: So the hobbits have managed to defeat the Death Eaters. Who would've guessed?" Brian: I certainly didn't. Robert: Nor I. What were you thinking anyway? An old Game Boy with no batteries could kill a hobbit! J.K. Rowling: He wasn't thinking, that's the problem! J.R.R. Tolkien: No just a minute, young lady! Hobbits are the force that shifts the balance in the favor of good! It's called ucatastrophe - the opposite of catastrophe! J.K. Rowling: Well it seems like a regular catastrophe to me! J.R.R. Tolkien: Is that so? J.K.: Yeah it is, old man. I'll teach you a lesson in writing!" <Rowling lunges at Tolkien> J.R.R.: Hold! I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! Meet Glamdring the Foe-Hammer! <Tolkien pulls out the sword from somewhere and prepares to do J.K. in. The latter shrieks and runs off.> J.R.R.: Well I seem to have... <Notices the weird looks all the Fantasticrumble folks are giving him.> J.R.R. Never mind. Alexander: You're right Robert. I don't know what I was thinking. Winner: The Hobbits (1-1) Death Eaters (0-2) Match 4 - Brian Ailshie Alien Killers vs Pixilated Pugilists Group AB - NCC1701-D 'Enterprise' Brian: Well Mr. Statistics, do you think we'll have our first sweep of a bracket? Mr. Statistics: It is very possible that the Alien Killers will sweep this GROUP! The Pixy Pugy's are less of a challenge than any of the other three teams in my mind. Of course, those space marines have been a big variable in these fights. Anyway, let's see what happens. Brian: Yes, here we go. The Pugilists appear together this time, in the Cargo Bay. They spread out around the room. Here come the Alien Killers. Ripley and Hudson open fire with those devastating pulse rifles. Their accuracy isn't as good as Croft and Nukem. Croft hits Ripley. Bull's-eye to the forehead. She falls limp, but the spread of the pulse rifles takes Nukem down, and Oh! Croft and Hudson just killed each other! That leaves Mad Max, who is fighting off Scorpion's attacks as best he can. And that's over, Scorpion just pulled his mask off and cooked the Road Warrior on the spot. Riddick's on his own now, against the two Mortal Kombat ninjas. The two ninjas split off around the first parked shuttle. As Scorpion comes around the far side he sees Sub-Zero laying on the deck. Eww, he's belly down, but face up! His head's been spun a full 180! Scorpion runs around the front of the shuttle trying to catch his enemy. Riddick jabs at his face with his knife, but Scorpion dodges, and it hits his shoulder. The blade slips from the convict's hand as the ninja turns away. Scorpion levels his hook-thing and clobbers Riddick with it. Riddick almost side-steps the second blow and it hits his forearm. Yuck! It broke his arm! Scorpion laughs at his foe's pain, but only for a moment. Riddick snaps the bone back in place and kicks the ninja in the crotch. Riddick disappears as Scorpion doubles over in pain. When Scorpion recovers, he doesn't see any sign of Riddick. He circles the second, and then the third shuttle. As he passes in front of the last shuttle the shuttle's phasers come to life! There's not much left. Mr. Statistics: And there we have it! The first sweep of a grouping! Hurrah for the Alien Killers! Winner: Alien Killers (4-0) #1 Seed for Group AB Pixilated Pugilists (0-2) Match 5 - Robert Newell Pixelated Pugilists vs Team Nintendo Group AB - NCC 1701-D Comic Book Guy: Ooh! The dilemma! Lara Croft, the pinnacle of digital hotness versus Samus Aran the original video-game vixen. Robert: What do you mean dilemma? It's not like you get to chose who will win or that either of them would ever have anything to do with you. In any case, Lara has opened up on Samus with her twin desert eagles. The bullets, though high caliber, have no chance of penetrating Samus's armor. Crocodile Dundee: That's not a gun... (Samus returns fire with a volley of power missiles, splattering Lara all over the wall) ... that's a gun. Robert: Down the next corridor, Link and Subzero are exchanging shots. Link decided fire was an appropriate to ice blasts, so he is using his flame rod. Comic Book Guy: Ahem, it is a fire rod. Robert: Whatever, his "fire" rod. CBG: It appears that they are at an impasse. Robert: Right, moving on for a second. Down one deck, Scorpion has shouted something at Kid Icarus and thrown his spear at the boy. This isn't going to be pretty. Scorpion uppercut Kid Icarus through the deck, killing him instantly. Unfortunately for him, moving up to the next deck put him in the crossfire between Link and Subzero. He gets hit by a fire ball at the same time as being frozen by an ice blast. Eww. Shigeru Miyamoto: Link is running low on magic. Everyone: Who are you? Robert: The genius creator of the Legend of Zelda series, of course. Thanks for stopping by Mr. Miyamoto. We'll get back to Link in a second. Duke Nukem and Megaman are blasting away at each other on the other side of the ship. Megaman is putting out a tremendous volume of fire. Duke manages to avoid it all and takes one shot back. The blast was from Duke Nukem's shrink gun. All of a sudden, Megaman is only a few inches tall. Duke walks up, lifts his boot and smashes the now tiny robot. His laziness in victory is going to cost him. Samus had tracked Megaman down through a tranceiver impanted in his circuits. She didn't arrive in time to save the valiant robot, but she did get the drop on Duke Nukem and blasts him in the back. Crocodile Dundee: Not a very sporting lass is she? Robert: She's a bounty hunter. Fighting fair is for chumps. Mr. Miyamoto: Link has plenty of tricks still up his sleeve. Robert: Oh yes, the fight is still going on. Link is using up the last of his magic reserves to power his invisibility cloak. He has snuck up behing Subzero and is about to strike. Subzero is no fool though. He heard Link sneak up on him and strikes first. He punches Link, but the Hero of Hyrule deflects the blow with his shield. Subzero is unarmed and at quite a disadvantage. It doesn't take much longer before Subzero lies dismembered at Link's feet. Winner: Team Nintendo (3-1) #2 Seed for GroupAB Pixilated Pugilists (0-3) Match 6 - Brian Ailshie The Dragon vs Team Pern Group W - Pride Rock Rand: (looking at the dragons in the air) Well those are definitely Shadowspawn! He sends a blast of balefire at the smallest Dragon. Anne McCaffrey: Jaxom disappears as the balefire erases him in time. But look!! He has re-appeared! He appears right behind Min and Elayne. He leans over Ruth's shoulder and grabs the two women. Half a beat of his wings and Ruth disappears again. Rand yells in anger and agony. Aviendha: Rand! DO NOT use balefire again! As you can see it doesn't work. Anne: I guess since the dragons can leap through time anyway, they have some sort of 'immunity' against balefire. Or at least Ruth, the most 'time aware' of the dragons does. Brian: Anyway, Rand is mad now. He creates a 'power' arrow and speeds it at Golanth. The great bronze bellows in agony as the weapon pierces his breast. But look! Instead of suiciding into between as the dragons usually do when they die, F'lessan holds his friend here! Golanth crashes to the ground on top of Aviendha! I'm pretty sure F'lessan won't be walking away from that crash, but neither will the Aiel warrioress. After all Golanth is nearly the size of a 727 jet. Anne: Rand is beside himself in grief now. Not only has he caused more women to die, but especially the three women he loves most. Lews Therin is cackling in madness in his head, making it even harder to think. While he is stuck in grief, F'lar and F'nor leap from their dragons and take him down. Yes the plan worked! Mark: Plan? What plan? Anne: Well, they were told they could come watch and learn, but they didn't understand. So I told them what to do. I did invent them, I can be their coach too can't I? Brian: She didn't actually interfere in the match, she just gave them an idea to do. The doing was still up to them, so it's fair. Robert: Well I guess. Brian: Don't worry, Rand and company still advance too. Even if they lose to the Bears (I know, not likely) they still hold the tie-breaker over both the Cats and the Shadow, who are both 2-2. Winner: Team Pern (3-1) #1 Seed for Group W The Dragon (2-1) #2 Seed for Group W |