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The fourth episode of the Low Power Tournament is here, and this time we are going to be putting Vegeta's right-hand man Nappa from Dragon Ball up against the leader of the Phantom Thieves, Joker from Persona 5.
Intro[]
No rules!
Just Bloodshed
DBX!
Pre-Fight[]
“Alright Joker, this guy is pretty dangerous, don't let your guard down.” A female voice says through a communicator. A teenage boy with black hair, a black trenchcoat, and a stylish white mask nods in response, “Got it Oracle,”
“Looking back on it, having the party split up wasn't the best idea…” Oracle responds, sighing, “We’re never following one of Skull’s ideas again…”
Joker chuckles in agreement as he peeks around the corner, spotting a muscular bald man. “Oracle, I've acquired my target, how are the others doing?”
“Skull and Fox are currently taking on that old pervert, Panther and Queen haven't found that obsessive girl yet, and Mona and Noir are currently taking out that bully.” Oracle responds after a few seconds. Joker nods in understanding, “Understood, I'll go take this guy out and we’ll regroup afterwards.”
“Got it, and be careful Joker, ok? This target is by far the most dangerous one we’re dealing with, so I'll be focusing on providing you support more than the other three groups, since you're all by yourself and all. Go get ‘em, Joker!”
Joker nods in response and approaches the man, “Nappa, your heart is twisted, it is mine to take!”
Nappa turns and looks at this skinny teenager and laughs. “My what?”
“Your heart, it's twisted and distorted with your desire to cause chaos and death. I am here to steal it,” Joker responds, taking his gun and dagger out from his trenchcoat.
Nappa activates his scouter, and a high pitched beeping fills the air. He grins with malicious intent. “Power level six. A string bean like you can’t steal shit.”
Joker grins and aims his gun at Nappa’s head, “It's what us Phantom Thieves specialize in,”
Fight[]
(Now playing: Last Surprise)
Nappa charges Joker and punches him in the gut hard, laughing and grinning. He kicks Joker away with a side-kick to the head.
“Woah, the enemy went first, how unusual. Be on the lookout for more strange occurrences like that, Joker.” Oracle says as Joker regains his footing and composure.
Joker raises his arm and pulls the trigger, the bullet flying right into Nappa’s head.
Nappa raises his hand and catches the bullet. He grins and opens his hand and drops the crushed bullet, his hand completely undamaged.
“Bullet attacks aren't effective right now, try some magic!” Oracle says, and Joker nods in agreement. Joker raises his hand to his mask, which gets surrounded by blue flames, “Go, Arsene!” He exclaims, and a moment later a tall winged red man(?) with a tall tophat appears from blue flames behind the thief. Raising his hand, Arsene casts Maeigaon. Nappa gets suddenly engulfed in dark flames.
“Heh, he’ll never see it coming.” Joker says, grappling over in front of Nappa. “Checkmate,” He says as the flames around Nappa vanish, and he places his gun to the Saiyan’s forehead and fires.
The bullet hits the ground, wasted in vain as Nappa’s face isn’t even moved back from the bullet. Nappa smacks Joker’s hand to the side, grabs his face and headbutts him.
Joker stumbles back as Oracle’s suspicions are confirmed, “Alright he is immune to gun-based attacks, good to know.” Joker lets out a grunt of frustration and grapples back as Arsene uses Cleave, sending a flying slice to try and cut Nappa in half.
Nappa suddenly vanishes, and attempts to punch Arsene from behind.
Both Joker and Arsene turn around after the punch phases through the Persona, and Arsene immediately uses Cleave once more, striking Nappa in the chest. Joker follows this up by striking Nappa 3 times with his dagger. Joker and Oracle are both understandably surprised and confused when the dagger breaks.
“What?! But Cleave was able to hit, how is this guy both immune and not immune to physical damage?!” Oracle says, feeling as though everything she knew about how a battle can work is starting to go down the drain.
Nappa grins and opens his mouth. He screams, and his mouth is filled with a bright light until a beam is fired from it, directly hitting Arsene.
Reacting quickly, Arsene creates a reflective barrier to send the blast back at Nappa. Joker takes this moment of opportunity to grapple away, with Arsene following him closely.
The blast hits Nappa and creates a giant smoke cloud. Nappa walks out of it, smoking, but not hurt. “Not bad. For a power level of six.”
“What does that even mean?” Joker asks quietly as Arsene fires two Cleaves at Nappa.
Nappa once more vanishes, and this time strikes Joker from the left, punching him in the face.
“Wha- This guy can teleport?!” Both Joker and Oracle say at the same time as Joker grapples back. Arsene raises his hand to use Maeigaon once more, consuming Nappa in dark flames.
Nappa runs out of the Maeigaon with his hands in front of his face and tosses an energy orb at Arsene.
Arsene is taken completely off guard and gets struck by the orb, getting consumed by the explosion following contact. Joker winces in pain as some of the damage gets transferred over to him, and he turns to see Arsene on the ground, barely able to stand.
“H-He.. He targeted your Persona?!” Oracle exclaims, her mind racing with how and why this fight is going the way it is. Joker doesn't respond, instead opting to try and get Arsene back on his feet by commanding another Cleave.
Nappa spreads his arms and fires an energy orb identical to the earlier from each hand, one at Arsene and one at Joker.
Joker easily rolls out of the way, and Arsene’s Cleave manages to cut the other orb in half. Joker lets out a sigh of relief and quickly grapples up into the air as he tries to think of a way to turn the tables in his favor.
Nappa stances up and shows his lack of injury with great bravado. His scouter beeps. “Huh? Well looky here, someone’s been powering up. Power level one-fifty, not bad. Still small fry though, I’m gonna have fun tearing you up.” Nappa tosses numerous orbs at Arsene, all of which explode.
Arsene raises a magical barrier to deflect the first few shots, but is unable to keep up with the sheer number of projectiles. Explosions and dust surround the Persona as Joker is forced back to the ground, landing and rolling as he takes a knee in pain. “N-No, Arsene!” He says, feeling the death of his Persona.
“Weird. Your power level’s back to six.” Nappa scratches his chin, deep in thought. He shakes his head and grins. “Doesn’t matter, your bizarre tricks won’t work on a Saiyan elite such as myself. Grah!” Nappa charges Joker again, and punches him directly in the face.
Joker snaps out of his trance just in time to grapple out of the way, flying high into the air where he summons another Persona, “Alice!”
Behind him, a small and young-looking girl appears, “Die for me!”
Before Nappa realizes it, teddy bears strapped with bombs to their chest start appearing, running towards Nappa and exploding.
Nappa covers his face, expecting the bombs to stop, but when they continue he flies into the air and tosses another orb, blowing up the teddy bears.
Joker keeps grappling across the air as Alice vanishes.
Nappa notices Joker grappling in the air and vanishes in front of him before he soccer kicks him to the ground. “How the hell did you possibly believe a little girl could beat me?”
Joker grunts and rolls across the ground, quickly picking himself up as he looks at Nappa. “His teleportation is becoming a problem…. I've got to nullify that,” He says in his mind, before summoning another Persona, “Jack Frost, ICE AGE!”
“Hee-Ho Ho Ho!” A small jester-like Persona appears behind and above Joker, casting Ice Age. The entire surrounding area gets covered in ice, freezing anything except Joker that gets caught in the ice.
Nappa creates an energy orb, but doesn’t put it anywhere, he just holds it. When the ice comes near him, it can’t handle the heat of this energy and is unable to freeze him. “Getting chilly in here, huh?”
From the other side of the ice, a large flame crashes through the ice and strikes Nappa in the body. Joker despawns the Persona and grapples over, summoning Titania to use Ziodyne. Lightning strikes around Nappa, repeatedly shocking him over and over and over again.
The orb in Nappa’s hand dissipates and he screams in pain. He grits his teeth and fires another beam from his mouth, aimed at Titania.
Joker, seeing this, quickly desummons her and rolls out of the way from the blast range. “This seems to be working, I just gotta keep him on his feet.” Joker thinks to himself, summoning a Persona and sending another blast of fire through the ice at Nappa.
Nappa swats the blast of fire out of the way, and recovers from the onslaught of lightning. He growls and flies towards Joker faster than even mach 3 and tackles him through the roof of this mementos subway station. He tackles him through floor after floor until they are no longer below the ground of mementos.
Joker closes his eyes and lets out grunt after yelp as he gets repeatedly slammed through the floors of Mementos.
When Nappa reaches the city of Mementos, he spins around and tosses Joker into a building, landing gracefully. “Sorry about that, needed some more space. You were popping my bubble.”
Joker groans in pain and struggles to get on one knee. His hair is disheveled, his trenchcoat is slightly ripped, and his face is covered in blood. He groans again as he raises his hand, his breathing heavy and his clothes stained with blood. Then he simply snaps.
Takemedic
Green energy swirls around Joker as the blood from his face dissipates, and his wounds heal themselves. He stands upright, back to full health, and scans the area for Nappa, now more determined than ever to beat this bald bastard.
Spotting Nappa, Joker immediately contacts Oracle. “Oracle… I'm going to take this guy all by myself…”
“W-What?! But you'll di-”
“Futaba, if the others get involved, they will die, ok?” Joker says. Oracle is taken aback at the use of her real name, and she knows that Joker is truly serious about this.
“O-Ok…. Just be careful Ren, ok?” Futaba responds with genuine worry in her voice.
(Now playing: Take Over)
Nappa turns on his scouter and locates Joker. “There you are.” He vanishes on to the building, next to Joker, arms crossed. “Sorry bout that, you were making me feel a little cramped. Say, you’re not dinged up at all, huh? What’s that about?”
Joker immediately turns and summons Michael, a demonic-looking Persona with large red wings. Michael then uses Sword Dance, creating multiple blades around Nappa and sending them flying into him from all angles, impaling him multiple times.
Nappa manages to dodge three of them, but is impaled by the fourth in the shoulder.
Joker switches Michael out for Titania and casts Freidyne after grappling to another building. A large blue explosion consumes Nappa, dealing massive repeating damage.
Nappa, breathing heavily, remains standing but visibly hurt. There’s a few burns on his body, and his armor is heavily damaged. His scouter is also destroyed. He rips the sword from his shoulder, screaming as it dissipates. “That little punk…” He stretches his arms. “Without my scouter he can probably surprise me. There’s too much damn cover here!”
Joker grapples around the city, taking a moment to compose himself as he quickly thinks of a game plan. Putting his hand to his mask and summoning Alice to cast Mamudoon. Small knives oozing with Curse magic appear and stab into Nappa from all sides, dealing a surprising amount of damage.
Nappa screams, and grits his teeth. “If I can’t find out where you are, then I’ll just have to make it so that I won’t have to…” He screams and lifts two of his fingers into the air. Suddenly, a giant ball of energy surrounds the area and explodes, engulfing both Nappa and Joker. It also, incidentally, destroys all of the buildings in a mile radius.
“S-Shit!” Joker covers his face, going into Guard and tanking the attack, albeit barely. He falls to his knees, panting as his clothes are almost completely torn apart. His hair is fringed, his mask is cracked, and one of his eyes has gone useless due to being covered in so much blood.
“F-Fucking… Hell….” Joker mutters to himself, mustering the energy (and fighting through the immense pain) to snap and use Takemedic again. However he doesn't get healed to full, he sustained too much damage from that to get replenished fully. His appearance gets brought back to normal, although there's quite a few marks and bruises covering his face.
Nappa chuckles and slowly floats towards the ground. “I’ll be damned if you survive that, you pipsqueak.”
Titania suddenly appears once more, casting Ziodyne and striking Nappa with lightning as Joker picks himself up.
Nappa screams in pain and anger, and when the attack subsides, he spits out a bit of blood. “Damn kid.” He charges him and attempts to gut punch him.
Joker grins and has Titania use the spell card he had given to her earlier, being Tetrakarn. A reflective wall appears in front of him, reflecting the punch and setting Joker up for a counterattack, which he does by casting Ziodyne once more.
This time Nappa manages to grit his teeth and interrupt Ziodyne before it is finished by tossing an incredibly explosive orb at Titania.
Titania lets out a yelp of pain and falls to the ground. Joker, not willing to let another one of his Personas die, quickly dispels Titania before Nappa can finish her off, and summons Jack Frost to cast Bufu, creating a small ball of ice in front of Nappa, which quickly explodes and inflicting Freeze.
Joker lets out a sigh of relief at his lucky shot, and quickly brings Titania back. She casts Nuke Amp, before Joker quickly rolls back to create some distance.
“Titania, Freidyne!” Joker exclaims, commanding Titania to cast Freidyne once more. The frozen Nappa gets consumed by the explosion once more, but now it's nearly doubled in power and damage, along with gaining extra bonus damage due to his frozen state.
After the onslaught subsides, Nappa is down on one knee. He is breathing heavily, and coughs up a lot of blood. “Aren’t you…the little pest?”
Joker stays silent as he has Titania cast Concentrate. He then switches Titania out for Alice and looks up at Nappa, “What, are you feeling scared?” He asks tauntingly, before…
“Die for me!”
Nappa powers through as much pain as possible, getting to his feet the second he sees Alice. “Die!” He lifts two fingers again, but doesn’t create a massive mile radius explosion. This explosion is contained to about 500 feet, but just as deadly.
“Sh-” Joker eyes widen as he quickly uses an item to erect a magical wall, which absorbs most of the explosive damage and protects both Joker and Alice. As the explosion settles, Joker doesn't hesitate to dispel Alice, not wanting to risk the death of an Ultimate Persona.
Nappa regains steady breathing and stands up straight. “I’m getting a little tired of your persistence.” He flies towards Joker and attempts to clothesline him.
Joker hops out of the way, summoning Michael and casting Mahamaon, covering Nappa in glowing golden pages, which then explode to deal massive Bless damage.
Nappa defends, and takes quite a bit of damage, but manages to stay on his feet. He tosses an orb at Joker creating a cloud of smoke that Nappa charges through after vanishing behind Joker. He grabs him, one arm on his neck, the other on his ankles, and drops him onto a mean knee.
Joker screams in pain as he can feel his spine almost get shattered. Michael, upon seeing Joker in this critical state, uses Divine Judgement. As Nappa raises Joker to knee him again, he feels a sudden pain covering his body, causing him to drop Joker.
As Nappa feels the sudden pain of getting his health halved, Joker manages to roll slightly and weakly snap, using Takemedic to heal 200 health. His internal bones and spine get healed, however his energy does not, and he's now a bit more tired than before. Joker looks at Nappa, realizing that, even though Nappa just got his health halved, he still has the advantage.
“T-This guy is…” Joker takes a step back as he dispels Michael and uses Takemedic once more, getting back to nearly full health.
Nappa screams in anger. “Why can’t you just die? I’m a Saiyan warrior, the head of the armies, I’m King Vegeta’s most trusted warrior! You should be dead, lesser scum!” Nappa, too enraged to think clearly, flies towards Joker and tackles him out of the crater and back into the city in order to slam him against a building.
Joker’s eyes widen as Nappa rushes at him at much faster speeds than he showed to be capable of earlier. Joker looks behind him and sees the rapidly-approaching building, and quickly fires his grapple to escape Nappa’s tight-yet-sloppy grip, letting the Saiyan crash through the building alone.
“Alright, this guy’s pissed, so he's likely more dangerous, but also will be easier to outmaneuver and hit.” Joker thinks as he grapples through the city.
Behind Joker, a tall building is lifted into the air and tossed at Joker with frightening accuracy.
“SHI-” Joker’s eyes widen as Alice appears behind him, casting Survival Trick at the very last microsecond. The building crashes into Joker, slamming him down into the street below as Alice gets dispelled, and Joker can feel his body get brought to the brink, but not past it. Left at exactly 1 HP, Joker summons Titania and casts Mediarahan, bringing him to full HP at the cost of quite a bit of SP.
Nappa immediately follows up with a relentless barrage of attacks, tossing exploding orb after orb and basically blowing up most of the city.
Joker summons Alice, using her natural resistance to Nuclear to tank the attack. Joker grapples out of the explosions and summons Michael, casting Megidolan. A large explosion consumes Nappa, dealing by far the most damage that Joker’s dealt so far.
Nappa manages to catch the giant orb of energy, although he is slowly heading towards the ground. The impending doom of this giant ball manages to snap him out of his rage and let him think rationally. Nappa growls and continues to make his way until his feet touch the ground again, which shatters beneath him. He seems to be at a stalemate with the ball, it is unable to push him further and he cannot push it up. All he can do is hold this time bomb above his head.
Joker uses Nappa’s struggle to buy some time. Summoning Alice and casting Concentrate, he gains a temporary 2.5x power buff to his next magic attack. Then he casts Mudo-Boost, before finishing this build-up with one final Die for me! Teddy Bears charge at Nappa, dealing so much more damage than before and also increasing Nappa’s chances of death.
Nappa feels the very core of mementos splinter beneath him, his footing failing, and tries one last time to lift it. The bears surround him and explode, dropping the ball right on Nappa. “You’ll pay…I will kill you!” Nappa screams before his arms snap from the pressure and he is hit with the full force of this attack and disintegrated.
Joker gets knocked off his feet from the force of the explosion, and upon making sure Nappa is completely gone. He picks himself up, using his final Takemedic to get to full health once more. He leans against a building and breathes heavily, before finally communicating to Oracle.
“O-Oracle… I took him out… Tell the others to regroup at the entrance, we’re done for the day…” Joker says between breaths.
“You won?! Thank goodness, alright I'll tell the others. Good going, Joker!” Oracle responds after a few seconds.
Joker lets out a sigh of relief and hangs his head down, taking the time to mentally recover from the fight, “I need some curry…”
KO![]
Next Time on Low Power Tournament![]
THE START OF SEMI-FINALS!
Trivia[]
- This is the fourth episode of the Low Power Tournament, which is hosted by Jershy, and is co-written by his brother.
- Nappa was written by his brother, while Joker and Oracle were written by Jershy.