| Match 1 New Jedi Knights vs Tolkien's Heroes Atlantis Brian Wrote: Mr. Statistics: Here we have as close as we'll get to a rematch of the last tournament's Final Match. That time, Luke and Gandalf battled for a long time before Gandalf was able to tire and overpower the young Jedi. This time Luke has his sister and wife to help him. Tolkien: True, but Gandalf has Radagast and Bilbo to help him. Lucas: Fat lot of good that will do him. Tolkien: Speaking of fat . . . Brian: Ok, guys! Drop it. Either way it is now a 3 on 3 fight. Luke and Gandalf see each other and both smile. Luke: I'll have to take their leader. Do the best you can with the other two. Leia: Ok Luke. Wait! There's only one other?!? Brian: But Luke has already ignited his lightsaber and strode toward Gandalf. Luke salutes with his saber, and Gandalf returns the gesture with Glamdring. The two slash at each other. The magical Elven blade is somehow able to block the lightsaber. Tolkien: It's the magic of Narya the Ring of Fire. Lucas: Meanwhile Mara Jade and Leia have attacked the old brown wizard. Tolkien: Radagast has evoked the power of the Flora of Atlantis to his aid. Lucas: Oh! But first blood goes to the Jedi! Mara's Danger Sense alerted her to Bilbo's attack and she jabbed him with her lightsaber. The ring bounces from his finger as the fat little kid falls to the ground. Tolkien: He's not a KID! He's a HOBBIT! Lucas: Hobbit, Halfling, Kid, whatever. Brian: Watch the match guys! Radagast just eveloped Leia with some hanging vines. Mara leaps to her rescue, but the two are hard pressed to keep the various plants from overwhelming them. Suddenly the window behind Radagast bursts open and a wave of water crashes in. Leia and Mara take advantage of their higher ground and ignore the water as they fire at Radagast. The brown wizard goes down. Tolkien: And so do the two girls. Their 'higher ground' was only because Radagast had them wrapped in vines and branches. The plop into the swirling water. Lucas: But they do know how to swim. They start for a nearby staircase. Yoda: Up that same staircase Luke and Gandalf have gone. Three stories higher has their battle taken them. Tolkien: How come his characters get to come in here? Madden: You don't have any room to complain, your orcs keep taking my chicken wings! Brian: Back to the fight. Luke and Gandalf continue to battle. Glamdring pushes back the green lightsaber and drops toward the Jedi, but Luke pushes out a hand and the force guides the blade away from the Jedi's body. It seems this battle may go on for quite a while. Mr. Statistics: Like I said, the last battle between these two lasted a very long time, hours and hours. Lucas: Hah! But this will sway the tide! Here come Mara and Leia! Tolkien: Don't count Mithrandir out yet! He aims his hand at Mara and shoots a blast of light as he did to the Nazgul. The red head is flung into the wall where she slumps to the ground. Mr. Obvious: I don't think she'll be getting back up from that. Brian: No, but the attack on his wife has emblazoned the heart of our Master Jedi. He attacks with renewed vigor on the greatest of the Istari. That and the rain of blaster fire from Leia prove just too much for Gandalf. Luke cuts Glamdring from Mithrandir's hand. Narya clatters to the ground along with several of Gandalf's fingers. A blaster shot from Leia finishes the wizard off. Mr. Statistics: And Luke brings himself, and his team, to the finals yet again. RJ Wrote: RJ: WELCOME RUMBLE FANS! At long last we are here in Atlantis for the Finals of the Fantastic Rumble 2006 Team Tournament. We have gone from 30 groups of 5 teams each all the way to just 4. We have the New Jedi Knights (7-1, 2nd place in group L) with Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa Solo versus the Tolkein�s Heroes (7-1, Wildcard #2 from group R) with Gandalf the White, Radagast the Brown, and Bilbo Baggins. I have many commentators here with me so let�s get to it. Here at the Fantastic Rumble we don�t do any pre-game show�.we RUMBLE! Yoda: Many dangers in a sinking city do lurk�.Careful all competitors must be. Mr. Obvious: Since each of these teams has extra-sensory abilities, they find each other quickly. RJ: Gandalf stops his team in along a road near the coast where the Luke and Leia have been meditating. Mara Jade is on the lookout. Mara: Luke, where are we now? Gandalf: We are on Atlantis, for now anyway. Your foes are here. RJ: Bilbo slips on his Ring and with Sting starts to head around behind his foes. Gandalf: You have met my friends. I am afraid to tell you that the outcome here will not be as fortunate for you. Mara: I think not old man! RJ: She strikes out with her lightsaber and a hand with a Ring on it falls to the ground�next to a dead hobbit. The Princess picks up the Ring. Radagast gasps in horror to see such destruction. He is soon silenced by a blast from Leia�s blaster. Gandalf: ENOUGH! The evil inside of you is still too much to do naught but good. (He slams his staff down on top of Mara and she screams the pain of an unwanted death.) Luke: Master Wizard, why the need for destruction? Gandalf: The Ring your sister carries is Evil and destruction is Its companion always. Throw it into the sea, Leia. Leia: But It could help us Luke! Don�t you see? It has the Power to defeat the Dark Side once and for all. You could wield It. RJ: Gandalf come toward her and leys a hand on her shoulder. Lucas: I have a bad feeling about this. Gandalf: Remember what your brother told you when you defeated the Fellowship? It is true now. You would not be able to win anything with that Ring. It only brings pain. Do either of you want the possibility of facing him? Luke: I have helped my father once before, I could do it again. Leia: I cannot, Luke. You know it. Gandalf: I can offer relief and peace at last�plus happy reunions. You both know of what I speak. RJ: Luke and Leia nod. They take each other by the hand and when Gandalf strikes his staff to the earth once more. Once the blast of light has faded, Gandalf stands above the bodies of two peaceful Jedi. And with that half of the finals are complete. Mark Wrote: Mr. Statistics: It is interesting that three of the four team captains were in the final four of the last tournament. And these two captians - Luke Skywalker and Gandalf the White - were in the final match. Impwessive clergyman: Twoo enough. And in the wast baddle, Gandolf da White did pwebail, and Wuke Skaywalkah was daveeted. Daffy Duck: Doeth anybody undherstand what dhis guy ith thaying? Tazz: Enough chit-chat! The Skywalker twins and Mara Jade appear on the shores of Atlantis, and Gandalf and Company appear further along the beach. Immediately, the Tolkien advantage becomes clear. Leia: What! The ground is shaking! I think this whole island is sinking below the sea! Gandalf: Ah. We have arrived at Numenor at the time of the sinking. We must head for higher ground. Radagast, call on the local vegetation to support us. Bilbo, don't...Bilbo? Where did that confounded hobbit get to? Michael Cole: Bilbo has put on his ring and is sneaking over to the jedi. Brave little hobbit, eh Brain? Bobby Heenan: Stupid little humanoid, if you ask me! Invisibility won't help him against people who can sense him coming! Oh, see! Bilbo tried to sneak up on Leia, and the princess just spun in place and shot her blaster right in his direction. Cindy: It may be that, just as Anakin used the force unconsciously in his podracing, Leia may have been using the force unconciuosly to direct her shots, and that's why she never misses a shot in three whole movies. Mr. Statistics: Let me check that....Yes, it seems we never have seen her miss. Even in the rumble, I can't think of a time when she has missed. Plenty when it has done no good, of course... Tazz: But this time, Bilbo is blasted squarely in the chest, and is disintegrated, leaving nothing but an enigmatic golden ring. Gorilla Monsoon: Mara spots the ring, and it looks like Sauron's temptation is taking over her. Bobby Heenan: Or a much more obvious temptation. Mara Jade: Ooh! Shiny! Bobby Heenan: She reaches out to take the ring, but a huge tree root reaches out of the ground at her feet and coils around her middle. Looks like the force didn't warn her for some reason. Tazz: Radagast waves his staff, and the tree root swells, squashing Mara Jade into jelly. Luke clucks his tongue, but he doesn't really seem all that broken up by it. Timothy Zahn: Well, it's probably just because he knows she'll come back to life... Lucas: Hey! Who let that hack writer in? Peter Jackson: Get him out! Get him out! Gorilla Monsoon: Radagast sends his vines after Luke and Leia, but Luke somersaults over them. Yoda: Training he has at jumping over vines. Trained him well, I did. Bobby Heenan: He's closing in on Radagast, but Gandalf waves his staff, and a blast of light leaves Luke momentarily blinded! Tazz: Radagast's vines snake around Luke's body, and..Oh! Michael Cole: Looks like no one's been watching Leia for a little while! She snuck around the side of the battle, and shoots twice at the wizards -- One shot knocks Gandalf's staff out of his hands, and the other strikes Rdagast in the chest. The brown wizard falls dead, and the vines instantly wither and die. Gorilla Monsoon: And now it's down to Gandalf and the Skywalker twins. He draws Glamdring and whistles for his staff. Bobby Heenan: Luke draws his lightsaber and Leia draws her blaster, and the twins begin to circle the wizard. Tazz: Leia attacks first, shooting into Gandalf's robes. Gandalf deflects the blast with his staff, but now Luke closes to within melee range! Gorilla Monsoon: Gandalf and Luke cross swords, and Glamdring appears to have no trouble deflecting a lightsaber. Bobby Heenan: Well, if it can deflect a Balrog's flaming sword... Gorilla Monsoon: Good point. And Leia is still looking for an opening. She aims and fires, but Gandalf blocks it with his staff. Michael Cole: What's going on? It looks like the staff just absorbed the blaster bolt, and now he's aimed it back at Leia! The princess tries to dodge but... >>BOOOM!!<< Gorilla Monsoon: Whoof! Excuse me! Looks like the staff magnified the response, and tore up half the beach. Leia is just gone. Heenan: And Luke is very upset. He attacks again this time with vehemence! Yoda: Bad, this is! Very dangerous, attachment is! Attachment leads to fear, fear leads to abger, anger leads to hate... Tazz: And hate leads to Luke beating Gandalf's tail! The white wizard is giving ground again and again, and again, and Luke is fighting with all the abilities which have been bequeathed to him by his father. Michael Cole: The chosen one! And with all his fear and anger as well! Just like at the end of ROTJ! Gorilla Monsoon: But Gandalf isn't Vader, and he knows it. The Maia folds into himself, and vanishes, appearing some two hundred yards up the beach. Luke breathes deeply, trying to contain his rage. Gandalf: It was always between you and I, Luke. As it was before. Don't cheapen this. Don't fall to the dark side. Tazz: But Luke doesn't listen. The pian of his sister's loss is still too new. He charges up the hill, the power of the force going ahead of him like a vengeful wave. Gorilla Monsoon: Gandalf points his staff, and a shaft of lightning leaps from the tip to strike Luke in the face. And, unlike force lightning, this kind is instantly deadly. Luke falls to the earth, paralyzed from the shock. Bobby Heenan: Gandalf steps over to Luke's prone form and kneels beside his defeated foe. Gandalf: I am so sorry, Luke. You and I, we should never have had to fight one another. Forgive me. Tazz: Luke cannot speak--he is too near to death--but his eyes grant forgiveness. Gandalf finishes it with a merciful slash to Luke's neck, to continue on to the finals. Mr. Statistics: And another repeat of a past battle. Gandalf won the last round, but now Vader has significant help. Mark: It will be Fantastic fighting's first champion captaining one team, and fantastic fighting's second champion captaining the other team. Gorilla Monsoon: It's gonna be quite a battle, coming this Sunday, only on pay per view! Brain: What? Gorilla Monsoon: Sorry. Force of habit. Votes (Robert = New Jedi Knights, Ailshie Kids = Tolkien, Stacey = Tolkien) Winners: Tolkien's Heroes (8-1) 4 votes New Jedi Knights (7-2) 2 votes Match 2 Sith Lords vs Young X-Men Atlantis Brian Wrote: Nightcrawler makes the first attack. He <Bamph's> in and kick's Darth Maul. However the Sith Lord's reflexes are too fast. He grabs the X-Man by the neck and they both teleport across the room. Maul's lightsaber ignites and he hit's Nightcrawler with it. His hand is still on the X-Man's neck as he teleport's away again, this time to nowhere as the mutant dies mid-teleport. Maul is brought with him out of the arena. Meanwhile, Rogue manages to grab Dooku and takes his powers. Dooku goes into convulsions and dies. That leaves Vader left to face blasts of fire, ice, and now force lightning all at once. He sends his lightsaber in a curving arc, and cuts down Ice-Man and Rogue but Pyro has enough warning to turn his fire blast on the weapon. Vader falls to his knees. It seems the blasts have negatively effected his suit. An earthquake shakes the city, and is followed by a wave of water. Pyro slips away as Vader is drowned. RJ Wrote: Jamie: I am here where the Sith Lords (7-1, 1st in group H) who are Darth Vader, Count Dooku, and Darth Maul. They will be battling the Young X-Men (7-1, 1st in group Q) who are Ice-man, Rouge, Pyro and Nightcrawler. In a quiet clothing shop near the center of town, their battle goes down. Madden: The three Sith Lords surround the store and Nightcrawler makes a move that proves to be his last. POW! Right into the waiting grasp of Vader. OOOOH! The blue mutant was chopped to bits by the lightsaber of the Chosen One. And it is now three-on-three. Jamie: Pyro lights up the place and stands firm against Dooku Pyro: I�m not afraid of you ugly old man! I am one dangerous mutant. Dooku: I think not. Jamie: He raises his hands and a fiery beam falls on Pyro and while he is distracted by that, Dooku lights him up with Force lightning. With the shop in flames, Ice-man and Rouge run to leave. Maul turns to Vader and he points after the fleeing mutants. Maul growls and runs after him. Rouge: Bobby, I don�t think we can defeat these guys. Ice-man: Sure we can we just need to get you close enough to them. Follow my lead. Jamie: Ice-man uses the water filling the city to create streets of ice in hopes to slow down Maul. He evades each and every fall with his impressive Sith arts. Ice-man and Rouge turn a corner and wait to surprise their foe. Madden: But he surprises them by jumping down from above. He Force jumped up to the top of the building when he saw them go around it. Most impressive! Lucas: That�s Vader�s line! Jamie: Maul slices at Ice-man and he falls nearly dead. He turns toward Rouge. Maul: I promise to make it�painless. Rouge (thinking quickly): Can I kiss my boyfriend good-bye? Jamie: She reaches down and takes the last icy breath from Ice-man�s lips and blasts Maul away with shards of ice. She turns to flee again, but is held in place. Very quietly and with no fanfare Vader emerges from the shadows. Vader: Foolish girl. You may have been able to defeat one, but never me. Just know this. I don�t need to touch someone to have them die. Jamie: The Sith Lord then chokes the girl mutant and mutters as he leaves� Vader: All too easy. Mark Wrote: Madden: Well, fight fans, here we go into Atlantis, with our first match. The Darths appear in the great hall of Atlantis, and the Young X-men appear just across the hall. What is that music? Weird Al Yankovic:<To tune of "YMCA">: Young X-Men! Take a good look around! I said, X-men! Better fall to the ground! Because, X-men! You're gonna get beaten down! Cause the Darth's! Don't! Show! No! Mer-cy! Madden: Darth Maul charges across the hall, snarling like an animal! Iceman dodges, Rogue takes to the sky, and Nightcrawler teleports, but Pyro's right in the way, and loses both arms and legs and his head before he hits the ground! Wow! Let's see that again in slo-mo! Weird Al: Young X-men! You haven't a prayer! Yo, X-men! You better get outta there... Madden: Iceman sends a blast of frozen air at Maul, but before it reaches him, Maul gestures, and the air is stopped with the force! And there's Dooku with force lightning! Iceman loses his concentration with the agony, and Darth Maul slices him down with ease. Weird Al: Cause if you don't run, you'll be reduced to blood, guts, and hair! You are way! out! matched! In! this one! Madden: Rogue locks her hands around Dooku's head, and seizes a bit of the force from hum, but Darth Maul force-shoves her across the room! Wham! Did she hit with a lotta force on that one! Weird Al: Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! You gotta give it to S-I-T-H! You know it's gonna be S-I-T-H! Yeah! Disco Stu: This is Disco Stu's favorite fight so far! Madden: Nightcrawler >Bamfs< behind Count Dooku and delivers a couple of well placed kicks, but suddenly, the rubble from the collapsing capital begins flying at him and colliding whenever possible! Vader is propelling it with the force, of course. Weird Al: You've had quite a run, so be glad about that! You can't tangle with these boys! Madden: Rogue shakes off the impact, and flies back to help Nightcrawler, but this time Darth Maul is ready, and uses a force-enhanced leap to tackle her out of the air. She is disembowled before they hit the ground. Weird Al: S-I-T-H! You're gonna lose to the S-I-T-H! Madden: Nightcrawler gets control of himself enough to teleport away. He appears behind Count Dooku, only to find that Dooku was waiting for him! Seems it's hard to sneak up on someone with the force, and Dooku's lightsaber lops off an arm! Weird Al: Young men, X-Men, take a good look around, X-men, Young-men, you're gonna get beaten down! Madden: Nightcrawler tries to >Bamf< away, but suddenly, he can't get any air into his body! His throat is constricted, and he can't take a breath. Vader tightens his fingers, and soon the last of the X-men succumbs to asphixiation. Dang! who would have expected a shut out at this level of the game? Weird Al: S-I-T-H! They just got slaughtered by S-I-T-H! Winners: S-I-... uh, The Sith Lords Votes (Robert = Young X-Men, Ailshie Kids = Young X-Men, Stacey = Young X-Men) Winners: Young X-Men (8-1) 4 votes Sith Lords (7-2) 2 votes And that set's up the final match which we will all vote on by next week. Of course that battle is between: Tolkien's Heroes (8-1) vs. Young X-Men (8-1) |