Round 3: Fight (The Bucket)
Field Value Edition Crab 3 Round Round 3: Fight (The Bucket) Location The Bucket Entrants Kome Reidos ((B)Rat Pack) vs Cassidy (Monomyth) Result Kome won
Kome vs Cassidy was a Round 3 (Fight) match of Crab 3.
Entries
Kome (won)
Hosted on Cubari (archived copy).
Cassidy (lost)
Hosted on Cubari (archived copy).
Recap
From the wiki page Kome Reidos:
In Cassidy’s reality, Cassidy in her Kemono form (as it was her peak) was excited to face Kome and to pay her back for getting too rough in training. She was surprised to see Kome already in her future form, and commented she looked as serious as ever. The battle began with Kome teleporting in front of Cassidy and trying to grab her face, but the headset stopped her. Going instead for SQUEEZING HER CHEEKS, Kome flipped Cassidy over to the ground, but the headset stopped the fall from hurting as well. Holding her in place by SQUEEZING HER CHEEKS, Kome summoned a huge sharp Vail crystal, stabbed the shield, and tried to make it grow inside in order to reach the headset. Cassidy pushed herself off Kome, using the shield to slide through the arena and stand again, noticing her reflexes to be more cat-like as well. Cassidy theorized Kome could not nucleate Vail crystals inside her field or she would have stabbed her already, but could likely make it grow once it had stabbed through to some degree. As she thought she had to keep her distance, Kome teleported behind her and put her on a chokehold (though the shields stopped it from actually choking her), and once again stabbed at the headset. This time managing to make the crystal grow in time, she damaged it and her arm closed on Cassidy’s throat - but to her shock a ghostly maw grabbed it and pulled her off the girl, forcing her to activate the Mindscape. There two spiritual temple liondogs had appeared, to protect Cassidy who was in her kami form. Angered by the interruption, Kome began fighting the guardians, and eventually Cassidy recovered consciousness inside the mindscape enough to see the battle ensue. Through struggling with the lions, Kome managed to defeat them in a brawl and redirected pieces of the mindscape on her opponent, causing a huge explosion - but much to her dismay the headset released a fail-over and shielded the Monomyth girl. Realizing the headset was at its limit, and Kome realizing her vail reserves were running low and dropping the Mindscape, they both decided to finish the other. Cassidy attempted to use a technique to banish evil spirits, but was surprised when it failed to affect Kome, who in turn began beating her. Getting on top and creating another vail blade, Kome derided Cassidy for having so much power granted but being aimless and weak to use it and ignore the hardships of the world. Cassidy replied she was sorry Kome had to face such a hard world and if she had to struggle so much to be powerful, but that even if it did not look like it, she was trying. She then blinded Kome with lights and flipped her over, before releasing hot tea Earl Grey on her face, burning her and running away through the destroyed arena, activating the tether of her headset. Kome attempted to activate the Mindscape, but she lacked enough vail and ultimately concluded she did not need it to defeat Cassidy. Surprised by Cassidy throwing her jacket at her, Cassidy held onto Kome’s arm, but the girl easily overpowered her and performed a judo flip - much to her shock, Cassidy had tethered herself to the arena, so Kome found herself landing alone out of bounds, giving Cassidy the victory.
In Kome’s canon reality, both girls reminisced the kind of lives they had, Kome her struggles in the harsh world to rise to the top in order to survive and Cassidy being carried to the moon by the headset and learning to accept her place in it while being safe. The match began, with Kome saying out loud she always wondered where she would end in her path, and transforming into her future form. Laughing loud much to the surprise of the onlookers -and exploding the Ant during it- the Future! Kome seemed to be overly joyed of finally being powerful. As Brat Pack commented on her change, Kome offered Cassidy the possibility to end her life quickly if she would humiliate herself and beg. Cassidy asked for time to consider it and requested to know Kome’s wish, to which the woman responded she wanted to be given control over every universe, to create an empire without mistakes or suffering, showing several Crabs working under her and some enslaved. On the audience, Wietse argued that the wish was to be made by the entire team, but Kome mocked her team asking who of them would be able to stop her. Seeing this, Cassidy responded to Kome’s offer by telling her the whole Ant situation had gotten over her head. Clearly incensed, Kome used her mindscape and tore several scars on Cassidy right away, considering the battle finished, then before the girl could react nor the headset attempt to heal her kicked her in the air. Confused at what was happening, Cassidy was then pinned down by several giant vail blades descending over her, but they were stopped by her headset. Kome commented on the headset’s strong capabilities, but noted the weakness she noticed in Cassidy’s Round 2 - that it lacked defense against the spiritual or mental. Having said that, she activated the upper mindscape, warping Cassidy and herself into the mind plane again and going through the forcefield, holding the girl. She then summoned several vail blades that impaled the girl, and went on to grab the headset - to her surprise, the headset electrocuted her sending her flying and waking up Cassidy. Battered and bruised, with the headset struggling to heal her and the shields deactivated, Cassidy nonetheless decided to fight and rushed towards her enemy, but Kome intercepted and began to soundly beat her much to the despair of her team. Upon hearing Maiden 4 words, she finally grabbed her opponent and, wondering out loud what all the training she did for was about anyways, flipped Kome against the ground, finally hurting her. Furious, Kome activated the mindscape once again and got on top of Cassidy, brutally beating her down while noting how “easy” her life and team selection had been compared to her own - through it, the headset finally adapted to what was occurring and responded by accelerating Cassidy’s mental synapses at space-travel velocities, allowing her to finally catch up with Kome’s speed and headbutt her off. Kome shouted Cassidy still had no chance and summoned a storm of vail blades, and, seeking through her past instead of her future, Cassidy used her own peak form, the kami form she took on the previous round, becoming once again a goddess and releasing several spirits to fight against the vail blades. As a small war ensued inside the arena, Kome and Cassidy charged at each other, and the second touched the first chest and activated her power, a powerful light blinding everything. Now in a deeper layer of the mind, Kome found herself back as usual. Breaking down, she grabbed Cassidy and asked what had she done, and Cassidy responded she wanted to talk to the real Kome, not her future version. Much like in her Round 2 then, Cassidy and Kome appeared in a fake mental school, and scenes of Japan, living “life” and discussing their lots. Kome told Cassidy about a friend of her world who had been good to her and how she could not forget it, and Cassidy told Kome about her failing to get into college, and how she landed onto Monomyth and felt not as capable as them, but still how she did want to help others. She noted Kome could be a hero, and how the nature of Empires was not based merely on asserting force over others, but in protecting their people, showing Kome’s Randolph’s grave. Back to the black void where they had appeared, Cassidy wondered if Kome did not know that already and if deep down she was not trying to gain power in a desperate effort to keep herself and her friends safe. Now on tears and remembering her team, Kome did not respond but hesitantly tried to continue the fight - yet to her surprise Cassidy surrendered. They appeared back in reality, and Cassidy asked Kome to promise her to find a way to make everyone happy if she got her wish. Before she could reply, the Gamemaster destroyed Cassidy for losing, leaving only her headset intact in front of a regretful Kome. After that, Kome apologized to their team, and asked Wietse to discuss the wish with her.
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Kome Reidos (revision 2623, 2026-09-02; by Fresbi, Writer-sama, Cherescheo); Cassidy (revision 1706, 2025-02-07; by Fresbi)
Edited by: G
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
