Flashback!
Ikutoshi: Wow Taurus Mask, you can do things besides wrestle?
Taurus Mask: I just play casually.
Shirou: Hello Carbuncle. I'm Shirou, MC's...friend.
Carbuncle: Oh, you! I ain't losin'!
Shirou: is this what it's like to be opposed to MC?
Temujin: You're actually here, Loki? They let you out of your bondage?
Ahura Mazda: Why'd the Warmongers let you out?
Loki: Wish I knew. Not like I can do anything stuck in this straitjacket.
Q'ursha: Except, y'know, play mind games and make me miss every shot.
Loki: Yep. Soooo, how's about a handicap? That I get first place if literally everyone somehow misses all their shots?
Q'ursha: Still here, jackass. My turn isn't over yet.
Loki: Yes, I can see. Hell, if you get a basket, I'll take last place. I'm betting you won't though.
Q'ursha: Deal. I win, you shut your damn mouth.
Loki: 'kay. Everyone else in?
And so Loki's proposal is accepted. Q'ursha proceeds to score zero (0) baskets.
Present
Loki: All down to you, Carbuncle. You know, even I've heard of you in solitary and damn are you awesome at what you do. Your team needs to work with you to win. Just like all those people who were after you before. You know what they're like~
Carbuncle: (GASP!)
Traumatic flashback!
Carbuncle: Help!
Mob A: After him! He's that way!
People after the Miracle Jewel!
Carbuncle: Oh no! (trips) why...
Not Narcissus: Is someone there?
Carbuncle: STAY BACK! I KNOW WHAT YOU AREEEEE!
Not Narcissus: I think somebody just screamed? Can't see, can't hear. Can you write it for me?
Carbuncle: wait what
Mob A: I heard something that way!
Carbuncle: Oh goddammit! (hides)
Mob A: You! Uhhh, priest guy! Didja see the Miracle Jewel anywhere?
Not Narcissus: Excuse me, what did you say? I can't see or hear well.
Mob A: Huh, guess not. This ain't a good place to hang, man! (walks off)
Carbuncle: ...priests aren't supposed to lie.
Not Narcissus: I think I know what you said. And I didn't actually lie, hehe.
And that's how Carbuncle met someone who treated him as a person for the first time ever.
Carbuncle keeps visiting Priest Not Narcissus, who taught him to sing and stuff. And then one day...
Not Narcissus: Carbuncle, you shouldn't come here anymore.
Carbuncle: Hello! ...wait, where's the priest guy?
Mob B: THERE YOU ARE
Carbuncle: wait what OH NO
Carbuncle runs and calls out to the priest! But nobody came...
Carbuncle: You didn't rat me out too, did you? Please say it ain't so!
But nobody responded...
Carbuncle: If you were gonna sell me out, why'd you help me to begin with!?
Present
Loki: If something can't be done, you blame them for it. You're so right for that.
Carbuncle is shook over a what-if. Did the priest abandon him, or did something happen to them...?
Carbuncle: did everyone try so hard...for me?
Loki: Now get that ball out of your hands already, haha.
Carbuncle shoots! ...he misses!
Amduscias: Oh my god, literally nobody managed a basket this round so...Loki gets 10 points?
Shocked and appalled gasping and murmurs!
Party Waiting Room
Aegir: Welp, figures that'd happen when Loki goes out.
They've met before when Loki crashed his parties. As in, Loki shows up, opens his mouth, and everything blows up.
Carbuncle: I'M SORRY YOU GUYS
MC: what'd he say to you? / that bastard!
One explanation later...
Aegir: Huh.
Carbuncle: ...I'm sorry for what I said to you, Chernobog.
Chernobog: No worries.
Otohime: Yes. We may be behind, but we just need to win the next one.
Aegir: When are you punks gonna stop cryin' over spilt milk?
MC: Huh. Something up with you?
Aegir: I'm only mad for myself. It's my life, and I am the goddamn star of it! I just wanna sock Loki in the face for personal reasons. Anyways, I'll carry you guys next round.
Next round is Ultimate Rugby. Two randomly drawn players per team will fight it out on the field.
Aegir: Hey Chernobog, it's me and you this time. You good?
Chernobog: Will I be of any help after last time?
Aegir: Just do better!
Aegir drags Chernobog away.
Later
Chernobog: Where are we going?
Aegir: To tell Loki we're gonna kick his lying ass for Carbuncle!
Aegir yells at Loki from the stands.
Aegir: S'up dick! Had fun picking on Carbuncle!?
Loki: What are you, his dad or something?
Aegir: I'mma pull your tongue out next game.
Loki: Wow, being popular is hard man. And what kinda dick bullies a dude who can't move?
Team Southern Tokyo Waiting Room
Q'ursha: Dammit, he's up again and I'm not!?
Fuxi: Sit down, he's still gotten to you.
Yamasachi: Uhhhh do we have a plan that isn't "guess I'll just die now"?
Fuxi: Oh yes. It'll be chaos, but you'll make it work.
Elsewhere
Secret weapon against secret weapon time!
Cthugha: So in rugby all I gotta do is get the ball over that line?
Kamui: Are you planning on doing so by exploding the ball over it?
Shiva: No tongue shall lead me astray!
Jagannath: Hell yeah, this gonna be good!
Koropokkur: We're screwed against them.
Horus: We were going to go up against them eventually.
Speaking of rugby...
Gunzo: My time has finally come! I promise I'll win it for us, Wakan-senpai!
Wakan Tanka: Right! Also, how's rugby work with two people a team?
Moritaka: So those two are up.
Ryouta: And there's still everyone else.
Moritaka: Things are changing now.
Tezcatlipoca: Haha, it's you and me this time Loki!
Loki: Oh. This is fine. It's not as if I wished I had a sane partner or anything.
Party Waiting Room
MC: Welp.
Otohime: I cannot imagine Aegir losing to them.
Girimekhala: I guess?
Gargoyle: Or maybe he'll choke against them.
Carbuncle: Guys, I'm gonna go cheer for Aegir and Chernobog in the stands!
Later
Aegir: So how do I look in a rugby uniform!?
MC: like an actual student / nice! / carry me!
Chernobog: Impressive. You look like a true rugby player. Given you had it already, have you played?
Aegir: The teachers made a team and kicked the students' asses. Why wouldn't I love a game of stealing balls from people? You got talent and I wanna make it shine.
Barong: Everyone here? I brought Nobuharu to cheer for everyone!
Nobuharu: Hello! I will also explain the game rules. Fight over the ball, team who doesn't have it at the end of the round time limit loses! If you drop the ball, it'll randomly respawn on the field elsewhere.
Barong: Only tackles allowed against players. But feel free to use your powers to play defense or steal the ball!
Round one, eight teams, seven balls. Someone's gonna be out first.
Aegir: Chernobog listen up. If we pull it off, we'll be the best. You don't seem to want to use your ice magic thing, but you just have to not damage people with it. So...
Chernobog: I see...
MC: Good luck you guys!
Aegir: Yep, keep cheering from the stands, MC. Y'all worried if everyone came to cheer too?
Carbuncle: Uhhhh n-no?
Girimekhala: He said himself he came to cheer for you.
Otohime: Good luck, Lord Chernobog. Yay~!
Chernobog: Thank you, I will do better this time.
Gargoyle: Nice outfit. How about I petrify you in it later?
Aegir: Get bent.
Carbuncle: Don't push yourselves too hard. Pull out if it gets that bad.
Aegir: ...heh. Watch me kick everyone's asses.
Later
Rugby field, up. Game on!
Nobuharu: Game 9, round 1! Begin!
There goes the ball! Moritaka catches one first!
Moritaka: I have it, Ryouta! You're up!
Ryouta: Got it! Noble Phantasm, Sweets of the Holy Grail!
Ryouta summons a bunch of jelly as defense!
Aegir: Cool. Noble Phantasm, Anchor of the Sea God!
Aegir grabs a ball, then passes it to Chernobog! Chernobog raises ice walls to defend!
Chernobog: None shall pass my defenses.
Barong: Wow, that was fast! Two teams got balls and turtled up already!
Third ball?
Jagannath: Got it!
Jagannath passes to Shiva!
Gunzo: Yoink! Interception!
Wakan Tanka: Well done, my Gunzo!
Fourth ball gets scooped by Yamasachi before it even spawns in with Fuxi's fortune telling!
Yamasachi: Wow, Future Vision makes this so easy!
And so the game goes on. Team Kudan ends up the only team to not have a ball by the time they all spawn in. The teams start lowering their guards against each other...
Fuxi: ...Yamasachi, pass me the ball now!
Yamasachi: wait what--(yoinked)--WAIT WHAT
Aegir: Sucks to be you. Gimme ALL the balls!
Next...
Gunzo: Whew. They never did say only one team would be eliminated a round so--OH NO!
Gunzo slips on a sudden ice patch!
Chernobog: Apologies, son of man. Are you hurt?
Gunzo: Uhhh, no, thanks. Wait, where'd the ball go!?
Chernobog throws Ball #3 into his ice.
Aegir: God, y'all suck at this. If I have all the balls, that makes everyone else the loser! ...well actually Shinjuku can keep one. As a treat.
Loki: Smart move, Aegir. You go on and paint a target on yourself for everyone, why don't you.
Aegir: I'll toot my own horn but it'd still have been tough if I had to go this alone. But now it can work with him working with me!
Cthugha might be the only one who can break Chernobog's ice walls. In which case, the teams without balls will focus on him and Tezcatlipoca since he can't move.
Loki: Huh. Guess I need to reevaluate you since you aren't as dumb as I thought.
Later
Otohime: How very Aegir of Lord Aegir.
MC: Cool! / kinda worried about him being the biggest dick on the field / GET THEIR ASSES
Gouryou: (walks over) He's on another level. Weird how well he works in a team sport. He could pick up soooo many dates on the beach.
MC: Gouryou!? / you here to cheer? / cheer with us!
Gouryou: Slipped away from the Umamichi peeps to give a whoo-whoo. Aegir's crazy out there. Also, hey Girimekhala, Li Chou's so proud of you that sumo game.
Girimekhala: Aww thanks, it's because you guys cheered for me.
Gouryou: They're cheering you guys on too, even if they never came over to talk.
MC: Tell them we said thanks / heard them in the kendo game / I'll go see them later
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(B) Gouryou: Nice, huh? We'll always back you up.
(C) Gouryou: Cool, they'll be glad to see ya.
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Carbuncle: Is it okay for Aegir to go so far for me?
Girimekhala: Man's gotta do what a man's gotta do sometimes. Mad respect for all those bars he spits.
Gouryou: Cheer for him if you're worried. I think he's having a good time.
Field
Tezcatlipoca is surrounded! He seems fine though.
Tezcatlipoca: I've been waiting for this!
1v6! Meanwhile...
Aegir: Ooh, ball #4?
Koropokkur: Try it, bitch.
Cthugha: OH GOD HELP
BATTLE START
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