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Recap / The Silverscale Arena S 2 E 2 February 2022

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"Welcome, one and all, to the start of a new season! The thirteenth episode in a series of adventures related to the craziest and most deadly arena created! 48 characters in teams of 4 compete to survive! This time, everything goes prehistoric! Various waifus and husbandos compete to survive in a primeval world! Filled with deadly dinosaurs, ancient attackers, and the overall fact that sex and violence are in the air!"

The 13th episode, written in February of 2022. The teams are as follows...

-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): Racheal Saleigh, Taffy, Optimus Prime, and Bagan.

-Team 2 (Noble Flores): Farv (OC), Asriel, SCP-1471, and Luke the Lucario.

-Team 3 (Penny-College Cat): Tifa Lockhart, Momo Yaoyorozu, Aethrus (ImaginaryDragon OC), and Gigan.

-Team 4 (Inked Wolf): Amaterasu, Renamon, Loona, and River the Vaporeon.

-Team 5 (Olivia Linder): Lynel Link, Catra, Millie, and Xena.

-Team 6 (Joanna Towsnhend): Felicia, Bea Santello, Warwick, and Elsa.

-Team 7 (Flickrtail): Makoto Nanaya, Meow, Midna, and Kid Buu.

-Team 8 (Euphie Einsting): G'raha Tia, Edward Elric, Dante, and Jonathan Strange.

-Team 9 (Nikki Greene): Fizzshark, Amise, Mia, and Zhali (All OCs).

-Team 10 (Erros Kire): Rosalina, Camilla, Rouge the Bat, and Princess Celestia.

-Team 11 (Lenno Tekoa): Mae Borowski, Wyona the Wooloo, Shenzi, and Kharnivore.

-Team 12 (Ebirah Mariana): Centorea Shianus, Moka Akashiya, Stein, and Liru.


  • 13 Is Unlucky: For every contestant who shows up in this episode except for Optimus Prime.
  • Accidental Murder: When Aerobolt points out to Optimus Prime about Shenzi who's behind him, he whips out his axe-hand in surprise, which bisects her.
  • A-Cup Angst: Moka, upon looking at Centora's bust, keeps repeating to herself that it's nothing, despite feeling angst over her smaller bust.
  • A Molten Date with Death: Aethrus is ultimately defeated by him being pushed into a volcano, which then erupts.
  • Ash Face: When Asriel has a cherry bomb suddenly explode in his face at the end of the Bloodbath, the next chapter starts with him rubbing soot off his face.
  • Autobots, Rock Out!: When Optimus Prime fights Aethrus for the final time, leading a pack of dinosaurs as well, what else should play but Stan Bush's The Touch.
  • Battle Rapping: A fight that was going to happen between Aethrus and Millie, Anise, Bagan, Amaterasu, Aerobolt, and Optimus Prime abruptly turns into a rap battle between Aethrus and Optimus Prime.
  • Birds of a Feather: Optimus Prime and Amaterasu end up bonding, and eventually falling in love, over feeling overburdened by their duties but never giving up on them.
  • Boom, Headshot!: When Asriel gets rows of spikes stabbed into him, some of them go into his head.
  • Brain Bleach: Catra was planning to attack Meow, but after he takes off his loincloth, exposing his dick, Catra takes a moment to vomit in a corner.
    • After Optimus Prime hears of Aethrus' plan of cumming into a volcano to spread his essence like a giant bukkake, Optimus wishes to purge the image from his memory banks despite not knowing what a bukkake is.
  • Big "NO!": Bagan has one after Taffy's death.
    • Aethrus has one over Optimus Prime firing a beam of light right into his crotch.
  • The Bus Came Back: A whopping 16 contestants return: Racheal Saleigh, Taffy, Optimus Prime, Bagan, Asriel, Tifa, Renamon, Loona, River the Vaporeon, Catra, Felecia, Makoto Nanaya, Rouge the Bat, Kharnivore, Centorea Shianus, and Liru all come back from previous Arenas.
  • Call-Back: The Arena compels two contestants to play Rock-Paper-Scissors once again.
  • Car Fu: The final interaction between Optimus Prime and Aethrus before the final battle has Optimus ram into Aethrus' side while in truck mode.
  • Combination Attack: After Optimus Prime throws the Tyranno in the air, River, Asriel, Gigan, and Aethrus fire their long-ranged weaponry at him, with Amaterasu uses her ink to force the lightning to strike around the Tyranno's body, then Optimus Prime and Makoto go under it and punching it upwards. And the Tyranno is finished off by Optimus firing a Minicron-empowered chest blast at the orb in its chest with Bagan firing a beam into the destroyed orb, causing it to overload with energy and explode.
  • Continuity Nod: Kharnivore, remembering the last time she was in an Arena, tries a strategy of keeping her allies closer this time.
  • Dark Reprise: During the Replenishment, Aethrus sings a twisted version of the song My Favorite Things.
  • Deadly Dodging: The corrupted River tricks Bagan into killing Millie by splitting herself in half then having one half cover Millie. Then when Bagan fires an Extinction Beam at the half of River who then dodges it and hits Millie instead.
  • Devoured by the Horde: Fizzshark gets eaten by a swarm of prehistoric locusts who were attracted by the sauce that was stuck on her.
  • Didn't Think This Through: The last Jackass stunt of the episode has Optimus Prime, Aerobolt, Amaterasu, and Aethrus in something called "Tar-skating" where they're supposed to skate on tar. Except that everyone ends up sinking in it because it's TAR. Optimus even calls out Baskerra by asking "None of you thought this though, did you?"
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When Aethrus attempts to corrupt Millie by fucking her, all it seems to do is make her a smug but sleepy mess, with Aethrus tossing her aside afterwards, making her one of the only characters to No-Sell his corruptive essence.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: River manages to kill Dante, a well experienced demon hunter, with just one attack. Though in fairness, Dante didn't have any weapons on him at this time.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Kid Buu and Zhali get stomped on by dinosaurs, G'raha Tia gets his head bitten off by an Allosaurus, and Lynel Link gets decapitated in the Bloodbath.
    • Renamon suddenly dies at the end of the fourth day from licking a Beelzebufo.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Celestia's presence here would give some insights into the world of United Equestria before it would be explored in detail in a future side story.
  • Eaten Alive: In chapter two, Midna is digested by Kharnivore, Elsa gets eaten by a Hybodus, and Luke is devoured by a Basilosaurus.
    • In chapter 4, Momo, Catra, and Farv get swallowed up by the Giant Rex.
    • And just before the final fight, Mia gets absorbed by the corrupted Kharnivore.
  • Eye Scream: When Aerobolt attacks Aethrus as he's giving a speech, he slashes one of Aethrus' eyes.
  • Face Death with Dignity: As Dante's skull is pulverized by River pressurizing water into it, calmly accepts it and admits he wasn't going to do anything badass anyways without his gear.
  • Foreshadowing: Flickrtail's Team Introduction begins with mentioning that Kid Buu was dramatically nerfed for this game. The significance of this comes up in the Bloodbath, where Kid Buu is the first one killed, and by something that he should have easily survived.
  • Four Is Death: The first chapter ends with four casualties.
    • The fourth chapter has a huge swathe of contestants get taken out by a Wolfpack Boss, and has two teams be completely wiped out by the end of the chapter.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Implied where when Optimus wonders who will take up the torch for those he swore to defend, he specifically hopes it's not Huffer.
  • Groin Attack: Optimus Prime fires a beam straight from the Matrix of Leadership right into Aethrus' biggest dick.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: When Baskerra’s team defeats the Dinosaur-Tank, its upper half is split off from its tank half.
    • Loona gets stabbed in half by one of Tyranno's icicles.
    • When Bagan fires a beam at Aethrus during the replenishment, it causes an explosion that destroys half of the corrupted Makoto's body, leaving her remaining half to crawl away.
    • Optimus Prime splits Shenzi in half by accident when he's shocked by her presence after Aerobolt points her out to him.
  • Head Crushing: Zhali gets her head crushed by a rampaging diplodocus.
  • Hermaphrodite: Team 9 is entirely comprised of them.
  • Hidden Depths: Turns out that Optimus Prime is such a good singer that his voice is enough for Aethrus to retreat for the time being.
  • High-Voltage Death: Centorea and Carmilla get fried from the Giant Rex's volts.
  • History Repeats: Let's see, the first episode of a season has a Transformer that leads a major faction of Cybertron who is put on Baskerra's team, isn't initially properly introduced until he awakens in the Bloodbath, is surprised to discover he has genitalia, turns out to be a surprisingly good singer, falls in love with someone inside the Arena who then dies, and manages to win the Arena. The only difference is that the Transformer in question is an Autobot instead of a Decepticon.
  • Impaled With Extremeprejudice: Warwick gets taken out by one of Tyranno's icicles impaling him.
    • Asriel gets murdered by Kharnivore shooting several spikes into him.
  • Innocently Insensitive: When G'raha Tia talks to Edward, he finds it nice to find an adventurer his height, unaware of Edward's feelings on his size. When Dante also presses his Berserk Button by accident, Edward resorts to outright attacking him.
  • Impromptu Tracheotomy: Anise gets killed by a Dimetrodon tearing her throat out.
  • Improvised Weapon: In Millie's introduction, she fashions some stalagmites out as a weapon she plans to use to attack Xena.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: In the failed Tar-Skating event, Aethrus is the last one to be pulled out of the tar, and when Aethrus asks why he's the last one to be freed:
    Aerobolt: "Probably because you're a destructive influence with a hypersexualized body set to corrupting and destroying innocent lives."
    Aethrus: "...you don’t have to put it that way."
  • Killed Offscreen: The Souleating Oviraptor makes itself known to the other contestants by throwing the corpses of Tifa and Meow over a hill.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: In the Bloodbath, when Meow causes Zhali to trip by running into her, she's in the process of calling it a dick move, only to get crushed by a Diplodocus. And in the same chapter, G'raha Tia gets his head bitten off while screaming for help.
    • Midna gets her skull crushed by Kharnivore as Midna tries to tell her she's not food.
    • As Makoto and Momo are running away from something and Momo tells Makoto they should regroup, that's when she gets chomped on by the Giant Rex.
    • As Aethrus is ranting to Optimus about how he ruined everything, the volcano erupts and finishes him off for good.
  • Limit Break: Fittingly, Tifa uses one of her Limit Breaks from the Final Fantasy VII Remake, Dolphin Flurry, to finish off Xena.
    • Warwick obtains a Smash Ball in the third chapter and kills SCP-1471 and Liru with his Final Smash.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: When Jonathan Strange and Edward Elric fall victim to the Tyranno's icicle attack, their bodies are frozen and then explode.
  • Loincloth: As part of the theming of this month, most of the characters wear one as their outfit, though most aren't appreciative of the costume.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: Xena's body is reduced to salsa after Tifa finishes her off with the Dolphin Flurry.
  • MacGyvering: Stein managed to make a Regressor Ray out of rocks, twigs, and maybe a few bits from the Dinosaur Tank.
  • Marshmallow Hell: When Wyona panics over Shenzi calling her the 'Emergency Food', she huddles into Mae and accidentally mashes her face into Mae's boobs.
  • Misplaced Retribution: When the can of Mountain Dew that Taffy threw hits Moka in the head, with Luke saying it wasn't him. Not believing him (likely because he was charging up aura to destroy her at the time), she kicks the can into Luke hard enough to get him to cough up blood.
  • Mythology Gag: The dinosaurs Optimus unites to help him are all basically organic versions of the Dinobots, complete with a gruff Tyrannosaurus leading them. The obscure Dinobot, Slash, is even represented there by a raptor.
  • Neck Snap: How a Hyendodon finishes off Rouge.
    • How Gigan kills a frozen-in-place Stein.
  • Newhart Phone Call: When Baskerra gets a call about how the name Prehysteria was already taken, we only hear Baskerra's side of the conversation.
  • No Body Left Behind: When Asriel kills Rosalina, her body vanishes into sparkles.
    • Nothing is left of Centorea after being struck by the Ultimate Conductor Tyranno's lightning.
    • Mae's body is burned away instantly when she's hit by a meteorite.
    • Millie gets obliterated when she's hit by Bagan’s Extinction Beam.
    • And in chapter 7, Mia gets completely absorbed by Kharnivore while Aethrus is completely destroyed by the volcano erupting.
  • Non-Gameplay Elimination: While Racheal doesn't die, she's removed from the game when she gets transformed into a regular Bombay Cat by Stein's Regressor Ray and isn't able to be reverted back to her normal self.
  • Noodle Incident: Whatever happened at Jamie's birthday party that caused Dante to never want to jump out of birthday cakes ever again.
    • When Tifa, Centorea, Anise, and Jonathan Strange are forced to show their endowments to a crowd of Ugly Bastard Ape people, Anise says it reminds her of her first hazing in college.
  • Off with His Head!: In the Bloodbath, G'raha Tia gets his head bitten off by an Allosaurus and Lynel Link gets beheaded by Camilla's axe.
  • Percussive Therapy: When Millie realizes that she hasn't killed anyone since she got here, she makes a beeline for the nearest creature, which happens to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and turns it into a bloody stress toy.
  • Pervert Revenge Mode: When Meow gets caught looking under Makoto's skirt, she punches him straight into a wall.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After Xena’s breaks her hand in her and Tifa's Punch Parry and before Tifa kills her:
    Xena: "GUH! What...those gauntlets...they must be enchanted..."
    Tifa: "Nope! Just the old Lockhart charm."
  • Punch Parry: Tifa and Xena have their fists collide into each other during their fight, with Xena breaking her hand from it.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Shenzi witnesses Aethrus turn a few creatures into black slurry and destroying all the plant life, takes it as a sign to BOOK IT.
  • Shout-Out: When Baskerra announces the theme of the episode, she calls it "Prehysteria", only to receive a call telling her that the name was already used for a children's stop-motion movie.
    • Just before Tifa kills Xena, she gets a murderous urge heralded by the phrase 'FINISH HER!'.
  • Shown Their Work: As Gigan's watching the corrupted River and Kharnivore cause destruction with his dick out, Shenzi brings out her pseudo-penis out as a comparison, which is something hyenas actually have.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Aethrus is about to go on a speech about how big the scope of his plan is and how this world is just the beginning, Aerobolt interrupts the speech by attacking him.
  • Sixth Ranger: When a bolt of lightning hits Aerobolt’s shield form in chapter two, he awakens and joins Optimus' team.
  • Squashed Flat: Kid Buu by a sauropod in the Bloodbath. And because of how nerfed he was, its enough to kill him.
  • Team Killer: Shenzi makes her intentions clear of eating Wyona when she gets the chance to. When she finally makes an attempt to eat her in chapter 4, it fails, but it causes Wyona to fall into some corruptive muck that does kill her, making her indirectly responsible.
  • Tempting Fate: When three members of the sixth team are transported onto a raft in stormy seas, Elsa tells them that it's just water, only to fall into the water and gets eaten by a Hybodus.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Every returnee except for Optimus Prime dies once more.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: When Mae notices that a meteor is about to hit her, she goes "Ah, balls" before is smashes into her.
    • When Millie sees the Extinction Beam that's about to hit her, she goes "Aw, nuts" before she's killed.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Kid Buu for Team 7 and Shenzi for Team 11.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The sauce Taffy throws out in the first night ends up landing on Fizzshark's face, which seals he mouth shut from how sticky it is. The sauce then attracts some prehistoric locusts, which then devour her.
  • Villain: Exit, Stage Left: After losing the rap battle with Optimus Prime, and finding his voice to be too perfect, Aethrus decides to retreat for the night, vowing this isn’t over.
  • Wham Line: A rather minor one, but at the end of chapter 3 where Celestia is masturbating, it's revealed that she isn’t thinking about her husband, but rather Chrysalis of all people!
  • Wolfpack Boss: The remaining cast in chapter 4 has to deal with a Giant Rex, a Souleating Oviraptor, and an Ultimate Conductor Tyranno.
  • The Worf Effect: Kid Buu, who got nerfed so severely that he's the first one eliminated, and by something that wouldn't affect him normally.
  • You Do NOT Want To Know: Why Dante doesn't want to jump out of birthday cakes after Jamie's birthday. We're not given the details, but we're assured it was traumatizing.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Racheal's reaction after Taffy's attempt of bringing them a healing item instead gives them a can of Mountain Dew.
  • Your Head Asplode: When Aethrus shoves Gigan's head through a spike as Gigan's firing his laser, it causes his head to be completely destroyed.


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