Super Otaku Brawl - Round One: Traverse Town

There is nothing sharper than a hawk's eye.

Tobias could verify this, as he had already identified the location of 6 out of 7 contestants, despite being several hundreds of feet in the sky. And there's the last one. Nancy, was it? She seemed nice. Innocent. Undeserving to be in this competition. Tobias supposed she needed a friend.

With a kreeeee, he started his dive. Even when he was fighting for his life on an alien planet, the sensation of flight never ceased to give him joy. As he approached the skyline, he pulled back, banked sharply, and circled around. He searched for an open window in the house where he had saw Nancy. There. No lights too. This would be easy. He began morphing.

Turns out it was too easy, getting in here. The lights turned on, and a blond man with a pipe stood in the doorway. Tobias hadn't finished morphing, so of course he looked like a freakish, nearly naked, bird-man hybrid. The man's pipe fell to the ground.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

<AAaaa>"aaaaahahhhghgh!"

With a thud, this man fainted. Carefully, Tobias finished his morph. He was now back in his human body, and no longer capable of thought-speech. Awkwardly, he stepped over the man's body, and searched for some decent clothes. He didn't want to scare this Nancy too much.

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Two subsequent screams pierced the air, and the dogs stood at attention. One barked to the other, and the other ran into the kitchen. Nancy, now further terrified, leaped back, and pulled out her revolver. She of course knew she wouldn't be able to muster the courage to pull the trigger, but she shakily held it at the doorway anyways. And a figure came through. She yelped, and closed her eyes.

"Whoa there! I don't want to hurt you!"

She opened her eyes, and saw a skinny teenaged boy, wearing nothing more than a blue leotard.

"W-what are you doing here? What was that?"

"I... um... kind of scared the guy who was living here. I didn't mean to, I swear!"

Cautiously, she let her arms down, and pocketed her gun.

"So, you don't live here?"

"No. I'm guessing you don't either."

"No... but I didn't break in! I was just... uhh..."

How was she supposed to explain that an omnipotent multiversal entity dropped her off inside someone's house? And that she was supposed to fight like 7 other people to the death? And that some of those people were also incredibly powerful?!

"A friend! Yeah. Just a friend of those dogs."

At her cue, the dalmatian who stayed behind came out from under the piano, and let out a soft waf.

It was clear that Nancy didn't know who he was. He supposed this would be for the better, because how would she react to knowing that he was supposed to kill her? But how soon until the cat's out of the bag? Speaking of which...

Bark. Bark bark bark.

At the sound of the barking, coming from another room, the dog perked up, and ran into the kitchen.

"Oh! Um, there's something you should know... this guy I scared? He fainted. Yeah. We should go check on him."

"Wait! Who are you? What's your name?"

"Just call me Jake."