Round 3: Fight (The Bucket)
Field Value Edition Crab 3 Round Round 3: Fight (The Bucket) Location The Bucket Entrants Florida Man, Mister Overkill and Oji-san (Juan Freaky Freakers) vs Berbie Result Berbie won
Florida Man, Mr Overkill and Oji-san vs Berbie was a Round 3 (Fight) match of Crab 3.
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Florida Man, Mr Overkill and Oji-san (lost)
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Berbie (won)
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Recap
From the wiki page Florida Man:
In the rebel’s reality, Overkill contemplated suicide, before thinking of his experiences and realizing he would not have changed a thing. The freaks then appeared, and hugged him - except Z. In appreciation for Overkill trying to rescue them out of Nuremberg, Z gave Overkill an Overcroc shadow and another Overkill shadow, telling them however it was not too late to go back. Overkill replied Z would go far and that he would do what he would regret the least. After that he visited Dizzy, who noticed he looked different, decided yet fearful. Overkill told her the Gamemaster had showed him many of his futures, they all ended in death, even besides the tournament. However, what he feared for was the destinies of his teammates if the rebellion was a mistake - to cheer him, Dizzy offered to read him the tarot, showing the cards death, the tower, and the hanged man. Later then, the fight against Berbie began. Florida Man began pummeling Berbie and even broke his head, but Berbie quickly regenerated and used blood control to gain the advantage. Oji-san and Overkill then attacked, the shadows firing at the immortal bird to put some distance between him and the headliner, and allow Oji-san to rescue him. When Berbie teleported behind him, Overkill summoned Overcroc to rip off his arm, Oji-san tied him, and revealed Carolyn hiding inside him, who tried to use her contract with Berbie to stop him - however, Berbie laughed it off as he did not consider the freaks his equals. Before he could attack Carolyn, Oji-san jumped to defend her, but Berbie caught him with one arm and threw him away, shrugging the bullets and attacks fired at him. He was crushed then by Florida Man, but reconstructed, calling the rebels not special, just one of many unsuccessful attempts at rebellion to be crushed - when Oji-san tried to envelop him in an attack, Berbie called him ungrateful and terminated him with a massive blast. His next target was Carolyn for helping them, but Overkill took on the brunt of the attack, fatally wounded, the man’s last words were for Florida Man to continue the battle for him. Telling Carolyn to step aside, Florida Man prepared then to face Berbie. Berbie mocked Florida Man for his partners being dead, and an exchange of blows began, before Berbie summoned a magic orb to chase him. Using his hair to cling to pillars and dodge the orb, in the end Florida Man headbutted it, destroying it but losing his helmet in the process. Berbie then used his magic to crush Florida Man’s balls, telling him to admit defeat, but the freaker refused, almost fainting from the pain. He then remembered the people he met at the tournament, and his team - and before Berbie could kill him, his deformed daughter (with Kevin) came to the rescue, though Berbie easily killed, exhausted at the existence of crab babies. Florida Man then grabbed a minigun from the Senjata armament and fired magai balls at Berbie, who deployed a forcefield - yet the balls shifted form and stabbed Berbie through it. Using the opening, Florida Man punched Berbie with a Honkita glove. When he was declared the loser to the surprise of all Crabs, Berbie began ranting, at how ridiculous the win had been and how unfair given that they received help from other Crabs, and declared they were all going to Nuremberg, the spectators too, and the announcers were fired. Seeing him in this state, Wietse finally jumped from the spectator area to the arena and confronted his friend. Berbie said Wietse had abandoned him, and Wietse replied he wanted to leave the Bucket behind, and that he did regret not taking Berbie with him, maybe things could have been different. Hearing this, Berbie was saddened and taken aback, but at that moment of weakness a miasma emerged from inside his body, killing him - the spirit of the power it had been granted to him by the Gamemaster. As the power tried to possess Wietse, Florida Man got in the middle and took the attack - but as he remembered him enjoying a hangover with his team and explaining them how little he was affected by drugs, he simply took onto that power by himself, evolving into G-Florida Man.
In Berbie’s canon reality, Berbie observed the changes in Centuria after the tournament - the horde and the brotherhood were no more, the Empire prevailed, and the Forest Alliance mourned the loss of Der Baum. Although he stated they were just pieces out of countless similar ones serving the Gamemaster, he felt sorry for the gnomes who begged and offered servitude if he would bring the tree back. Detecting this, the Gamemaster appeared in his little girl form, and revived Der Baum as a sprout - the gnomes decided to uphold their loyalty to him then. Later watching a show, Berbie realized he wished to see the puppets turning on their master. Berbie began planning then. He advised the gnomes to abandon the Gamemaster and hide from his attention, but they refused, as the Gamemaster had told them of a King Wenceslas who was a great enemy that would attack. Berbie stated the Gamemaster did not need them, but in the end accepted their help for his plan, asking them to find fictional anime characters with the power to grant wishes. Later that night reading Hunter x Hunter, Berbie asked the Gamemaster to punish the rebels himself, in three separate timelines, and a yellow anime potion for them, to even the odds - the Gamemaster agreed. After that Berbie required a hundred brute gnomes, a hundred kind gnomes, and a hundred clever ones to test his idea. A few nights later, as he watched Wietse play the concert on Japan, he received a report of the gnomes - that the brute gnomes would drink the potion from its briefcase under extreme conditions, but often broke it too early. Berbie ordered to use indestructible briefcases with Contestro and SRU technology, then heard about the battles going on Nuremberg and even a certain rebel’s desire to negotiate (likely Mishka). After that, he ran the experiment again, this time the Gamemaster killing the gnomes before they could use the potion, which to Berbie proved it could work. Later training for his match, Berbie thought of how every person in CRAB was kept alive by the Gamemaster in order to tell their stories, himself included. He reminisced of Chadwick, his time as a Gamemaster, and how his love for the real Gamemaster corrupted and maddened him, until GM-Chan returned and, puzzled at Chadwick still being there, destroyed him. He reminisced as well about killing old Wietse, when Wietse called him out on his crimes as a Gamemaster piece, Berbie counting every death he suffered, hoping that by a million Wietse would forgive him. That night, before the match, he recorded a message. Three timelines began then, one for each opponent. In Florida Man’s timeline, he began savagely beating up Berbie, while Oji-san accepted Berbie’s surrender… of nothing, as Berbie stated at this point, the rebellion path was outside of the usual rules of CRAB and as such, there was nothing like victors, or out of bounds, or late deliveries, just continuing the story the Gamemaster willed. Berbie kept coming back then, no matter how many times Florida Man killed him. Oji-san instead asked what was the so called Gamemaster’s will, but Berbie admitted he had no idea. Overkill in the meantime fought Berbie, deploying all sorts of weaponry and killing him again and again and again, so many times the bird finally reached his long awaited one-million death mark, fighting back then. In Florida Man’s timeline then, the man discovered the locked Contestro briefcase, set to open in 72 hours. In Oji-san’s Berbie began painting and talking with the prince, refusing his offer of inner peace. As Florida Man maddened tried to break the suitcase and even drank Berbie’s blood, Berbie spoke his points to Oji-san: that the rebellion were also following the Gamemaster’s will, that the evil or good of everyone depended on circumstances beyond their control, that to do nothing in regards of fate is to gain nothing, that rebelling and questioning everything is right, to how he had decided to go along with whatever the GM decided and made a Scapegoat for those who rebelled against his authority, how by following the GM’s authority blindly he opened the door to his own darkness, until killing Wietse opened his eyes. He stated the key was awareness, and personal accountability. Although he believed the GM had decided everything already, he chose to be a good person. Berbie then admitted his plan: to kill Overkill personally in revenge to the gnomes killed, to talk with Oji-san and to have Florida Man be the conduct of a wish… As the suitcase opened and Florida Man drank the yellow potion with Alluka’s powers, requests were granted and a wish was made to create a pocket universe containing the unified selves of every crab that ever rebelled and every gnome that ever helped the Gamemaster, also Crabs who no longer competed, as soon as he killed Mr Overkill - otherwise, Berbie would die a million times. As soon, in each timeline the rebels disappeared, with Florida Man granting the wish, Oji-san bidding Berbie farewell before the bird broke his own neck, and Overkill dying and vanishing. The timelines condensed into a multiversal marble, as Berbie fell and returned to his original fat bird form, dying as he gazed at the stars.
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Florida Man (revision 1469, 2025-01-24; by Fresbi); Mister Overkill (revision 1472, 2025-01-24; by Fresbi); Oji-san (revision 1476, 2025-01-24; by Fresbi)
Edited by: G
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
