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So Kirby and Aigis are surrounded by bad guys. Not a great look! However, there is the matter of Selvarias message, one she believes to be from Zenos, who she sees as her lord, sworn to protect and obey, beyond her own safety or thoughts. Shes been told to keep that puffball and robot girl safe until Zenos can fight his great warrior (who is not the puffball in this case), and heres Tifa, already screwing that up! Sure, the girls getting punished with some Tiger Shots for her trouble, but theres no time to process this information. Selvaria WILL explain things at the first possible NANOSECOND, she will make the words of her lord understood, and probably everyone will say mean things to Tifa. Like, Zenos is going to want to enjoy the thrill of a good fight too much to NOT let them go (plus he knows Tusks stipulation, killing the weaklings in front of him means he does not get a potentially glorious battle), and whats Kiryu going to do, AGREE to punch a woman? Even if worst comes to worst, Kirby is perfectly equipped for a quick escape, burrowing into the terrain after grabbing Aigis with his Twin Drill ability. Kirby may not be the brightest bulb, but hes more than willing to help get his friends out of a tight jam, especially one who just protected him! All they have to do is get some distance and Wheel Kirby can just zoot Aigis right back up, she just needs to hang on and hell take her for a ride!. No, this fight is gonna take place fairly and squarely. And by fairly, I mean Zenos and Tusk are gonna duke it out, and everyone else is also gonna fight over to the side here. Everyone here wants that, except Aigis, who just wants Kirby safe.

But I have a feeling a big question is okay who the Hell is Tusk?

https://youtu.be/NJGo2fmUAII

Everything you wanted Conan the Barbarian and He-Man to be. That is Tusk. An immortal warrior, given endless life and the durability to match by the Ichorians, angelic beings of the Astral Plane that yknow just like. Angels and shit gave him immortality, alright? His sole purpose, defending the Earth from astral threats like Gargos, a demon that none else could even hope to wound. Equipped with the blade Warg-gram, forged from the most primal and unbreakable element of the Astral plane, Tusk well, to put it simply, he swings his sword at you, and you die. Please enjoy a few passages from the Killer Instinct novellas The Watchman Awakens and Conflux

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Dont struggle, continued the stranger, speaking through an ugly slit of a mouth set in a featureless face. Youre not goin anywhere. Thats Ultratine youre wrapped up inproprietary tech, of course. Each cord is a hundred times stronger than the cables that hold up the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Cut me free, said Tusk again. And he closed his eyes in concentration.
I told you, it aint gonna happen.
I wasnt talking to you.
The runes on Warg-gram blazed to life and Cinders arm lunged forward suddenly.

What the blazing hell! cried Cinder. He tried to let go of the handle but he couldnt. The blade pulled him against his will all around the cargo hold, hacking at everything in sight, throwing up sparks, and wreaking havoc. Riptor scurried up the stairs leading to the second level, and vanished from sight. Cinder staggered forward like a puppet and swung Warg-gram at Tusk, but the blade merely sliced through the Ultratine netting as though it were nothing more than string, leaving Tusk unscathed. The barbarian dropped to the floor. Slowly, he stood up to his full height.

Now make a door, he commanded.
Cinder cried out as Warg-gram, still held in his hand, plunged into the steel floor up to the hilt, then dragged him around in a circle, cutting through the metal sheeting. The instant Cinder completed the circle, the sword flew from his hand and Tusk caught it in mid-air by the handle.
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The dinosaur glanced up at the bound swordsman, then peered down at his weapon, snuffling at it. Reaching out its neck hesitantly, it picked up Warg-gram with its mouth. The handle instantly turned molten hot and the dinosaurdespite being a fire breatherhowled in agony as several of its teeth melted. It flung aside the sword and ran down the ramp to plunge its mouth in the cooling snow.
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Tusk went into a dive position, holding Warg-gram out in front of him, the wind blasting his face as he reached terminal velocity. He reckoned he had a minute or so before he hit the ground. He thought about the young Asian woman hed seen in Warg-gram. He thought about the blue-skinned warrior. He thought of the Ichoriens and their making song He struck the ice with the sound of a bomb going off.

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So the simple matter is, Warg-Gram is an utterly insane weapon. Able to follow Tusks commands with thought, capable of melting through steel, bone - it took a man made of lava in order to even get close to how hot the sword could get! Designed specifically to pierce a magical being, known as the only weapon in the realms that can slay Gargos (and the only one that actually HAS!). This is combined with Tusks 10,000 years of training and discipline, honing his reflexes, making him a warrior without peer. And sure, hes a fighting game character amongst the Killer Instinct cast, but he defeats Fulgore (imagine if The Predator were a robot) and ARIA (imagine if all of SKYNET were a robot and it wanted to step on you) in a single blow and mortally wounds Riptor (imagine a raptor, but technology and it breathes fire) in the process. He is not just guy with magic sword. He walks forward, he slashes you, and you WILL be cut in twain. You slash him, he will survive it - when stabbed in the heart by a fragment of Gargos via Shadow Jago, something made explicitly to kill him doing exactly what it was supposed to, Tusk just fell comatose for a while. Im not saying thats ideal, but I am saying that considering his terminal velocity fall, it is going to take a very, very long time for anyone to wear Tusk down.

Which brings us to his fight with Zenos. Now, I will not pretend that Zenos is not a worthy foe - he absolutely is. The sheer amount of damage he brings to the table is tremendous. But the thought of clashing blades with Tusk? That will be absolutely intoxicating. Tusk is seasoned enough to know how to avoid magical attacks, has slain dragons in the old world, can take on assaults from beyond the stars. A test of your reflexes? Bro SHADOW COUNTERS are the name of the game, get outta here, reversals are Killer Instincts entire thing! Tearing out out a life? Tusks life will NOT end, thank you very much, no matter how much he seeks it! The important thing is that this will NOT be a short fight for either of them, they both will be injured, and theyre both probably going to have a Hell of a good time.

Which leaves everyone else and uh. Yknow that Zenos guy? The one thats fighting Tusk? Kirby has his powers. Like, all of it. Tidal waves, lightning, precog, the rending of souls, freezing the ground and petrifying all around, becoming dragon, A TEST OF YOUR PUYO? Look, as much as Id like to argue that Kiryu and Sagat have a really awesome 1v1 over around Bubblegloop Swamp or something, they are 100% collateral damage in this fight. Or at least, Kiryu is. Kirby might have by far the best offensive output of everyone here, and can pretty handily keep Tifa and Kiryu out of their most effective ranges, but hes not soloing. He has a friend. (Contd Below)