Jump 8 - Generic Fighting Game - The Jump

If we were to all be selected as Earth’s champions, the first order of business would be to make a name for ourselves as a team.  To that end I found it fitting that we call ourselves the “Kings of Fighting” to mirror my aims to becoming the future king of jumpers.

I still find the name stupid.  Half of us aren’t even men.

I think a better name could have been chosen as well.

Much to my chagrin, the only other humans on the team were less than enthusiastic about my naming aesthetic.  Eventually I managed to make the name stick and that’s what we went by.  As we were all now “kings” I had to assign everyone a domain to rule over. They are as follows:

Alice – “King” of Magic

Karen – “King” of Strength

Lizardon – King of Fire

Flyer – “King” of the Sky

Sgt. Shock – King of Lightning

Bruce – King of Skill

Psychic – King of the Mind

I believe I chose something fitting for everyone.  For myself, as the leader, it was only natural to call myself the “Supreme King” as I have jurisdiction over all other kings.

Someone’s gotten full of himself.

Was there really nothing else you could have called yourself?

Getting back on topic, the first five years were filled with us traveling the world and dominating local and international fighting tournaments.  We were never without enough funds to live very comfortably.  It got to the point that if even one of us entered a tournament the lesser combatants would quit out of fear.  Gave the rest of us free entrance to fill the holes in the rosters and even more recognition.

Aren’t you forgetting something?

No…

No, you definitely are.

But-

You can’t forget about how we fought against each other when we first arrived to test out our strength.

Without the use of most of our powers too.  How was that supposed to be accurate if we couldn’t go all out like we would against the competition?

Right, that did happen, didn’t it.  The matches went something like this:

Bruce vs. Alice – Winner: Alice

Karen vs. Psychic – Winner: Karen

Me vs. Lizardon – Winner: Me

Sgt. Shock vs. Flyer – Winner: Flyer

Lizardon vs. Sgt. Shock – Winner: Lizardon

Bruce vs. Psychic – Winner: Psychic

Flyer vs. Karen – Winner: Karen

Me vs. Alice – Winner: Me

Thanks to Alice’s artefact we didn’t have to worry about sustaining any injuries.

I still had to expend magical energy to use it!

You draw from my power to even summon it in the first place.

I, well, that is to say-

Moving on, through some miracle getting the Pokémon on airplanes wasn’t a hassle.  There were even creatures from bears to sentient training dummies taking up space on flights.  How they became competitors was beyond my understanding.  We showed what we were made of, and had fans the world over.

Then we were approached by a man calling himself the guardian god of this realm.

His name was Raijin, and while most would have been more skeptical about it I asked for a simple show of godly power to get us to take him seriously.  He snapped his fingers and the weather went from nice and sunny, to dark and cloudy with lightning striking.  A storm was coming, but he snapped his fingers again and the weather turned back to normal.  I was convinced, and everyone else was too.  He explained to us through words and visions that a tournament between worlds was about to take place.  Champions from each world would be chosen and they would have to fight.  The champion’s world gets to invade the other after ten consecutive wins and our world was on a loss streak of nine.  If we couldn’t do what other’s failed to in the past nine tournament it would be game over.  Having already established a dominating presence all over the world we were the best bet for a single combat tournament like this.  We gathered a couple things we’d need for the duration of the event and were warped to where the tournament would be held.

            The competition would have been fierce had we only been able to use what we gained in this world, but Karen by herself was honestly enough to take them all on.  Since we were permitted to use what abilities we had there really wasn’t anything to worry about.

            We even surprised Raijin with what we could do.  He even wondered if he could beat us while using his full power as a god.  The initial matches were no problem, but what we hadn’t counted on was the bracket being set up so that their strongest fighter would never fight one of us until the finals.  So in the end we all had to face each other along with their other contestants.  Alice and I had to fight in the quarter-finals to decide who would face the “Supreme King” in the semi-finals to decide who would represent our side.

            Alice and Karen bought fought hard, and it seemed like it could go either way up until the end.  In a turn of events that surprised me, Karen managed to beat Alice and move on to face me in the semi-finals.  Even with the fate of the world at stake, I couldn’t help but find a certain thrill in getting to fight with Karen.  She currently outclasses me in strength and since she developed her combat skills in the world of Negima! and became a ninja here I had cause to be concerned. 

            I was scared out of my mind with the thought of having to face him, but knew that I couldn’t afford to hold back.  Calming my nerves, I faced the battle with a calm mind, and serene heart.  He certainly pulled no punches and used everything at his disposal to beat me.  I had to deal with lightning strikes, silently casted magic and more, but I somehow was able to keep up and held my ground for a lot longer than anyone expected.

            Karen really had grown much stronger than when we had last seriously fought all out.  If I had underestimated her it would have cost me the match.  I was victorious in the end and went on to fight the current champion, Joro.  He had four arms, great strength and nothing really supernatural to work with.  My fight with Karen was much more challenging.  Chao Cahn, the leader of the other world’s forces was not amused, but the rules of the Transient Fighting tournament prevented him from acting in his rage.

            How come you always are the one saving the day in the end?

            I’m the strongest one of us currently, and essentially the main character for all intents and purposes.  It only makes sense that I would excel at being the hero.  It’s all a part of my path to becoming the future king of jumpers.

What does that even entail?  I’ve been confused about that goal since I became a girl.

            You’ll understand as we progress through more and more jumps.

            I think you just don’t know.  Continuing on with the recap, after the Transient Fighting Tournament ended we were sent back to our world to live out the rest of our days.  Raijin thanked us for our cooperation in helping him protect the realm and went off to who knows where to do god stuff.  With only one real objective we continued to stomp the competition in fighting tournaments.  There was an extreme shortage of worthy opponents for me and Karen so we ended up having to hold back for most of the time we had left.  As the “King” of Magic I deserve to be able to showcase my magical prowess.

            In the jump after the next we go to I think you’ll get your fill of strong opponents.  There may even be a few familiar faces.