Power Clashing

**Power Clashing** is the name of Nicole Archina's execution, as featured in New Hope University: Major in Murder.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 30 of New Hope University: Major in Murder*

Nicole still had that soft smile. "So if that's y'all, make sure I get mentioned as a martyr for the revolution, okay? I'm..." She suddenly gasped and pointed at me. "Saya! I forgot! Your dark grey turtleneck is done! It's in my room! You're gonna look so..." and the floor opened up underneath her and she dropped into the darkness.

**POWER CLASHING**

the execution of NICOLE ARCHINA

The television monitors were working, and they flickered to life. Nicole lay on a huge swath of fabric. She looked around with disorientation for a moment, then struggled... she was tied with thread and could not move.

Nearby, there was a huge, horrible machine chugging and thumping. At first it looked like just a misshapen monster, but I realized it was a giant sewing machine needle and motor. Slowly, inevitably, the cloth started moving, pulling her towards the terrible needle.

Then, very suddenly, the machine stopped. Nicole lay there for a moment, a very confused expression on her face. Two Monokumas ran out, both carrying paddles, and began whapping her with them. The cloth, unable to bear the weight of all three of them, tore, and Nicole fell again, and the screen went dark.

The lights came back up. Nicole was lying on a giant chess board. She stood up, groggily looking around. She was not given much time to get her bearings before a giant paintbrush descended from the sky and painted, in the air next to her, an angry-looking wolf. Impossibly, somehow, the wolf began to move. It stomped and snarled and then ran directly at Nicole, who just helplessly covered her face.

The wolf didn't get to her, because it was intercepted by a lion. A bull then slammed into the lion and ran several steps before being stung by a scorpion and falling down dead. Two fish flopped on the chess board nearby as a crab pinched the scorpion in half.

Nicole just took a step back watching this display, seeming far more confused than afraid. She didn't even look surprised when she noticed that there was a shadow over her head that was getting bigger and bigger. She looked up. I don't know if she had any time to register what was happening before it was over.

A tank had fallen from above, directly on top of her. It sat, indented into the chess board. The treads slowly came to life, pulling the tank out of the impact crater. It left behind a terrible, huge streak of blood as it rumbled away.

## Trivia

* The random elements inserted into the execution are likely from executions prepared for the other participants of the killing game:
	+ The paddling Monokumas were seen in JP Laettner's execution, Bears Will Be Bears
	+ The chessboard would have been prepared for Saya Wild, Ultimate Chess Grandmaster
	+ The magical paintbrush would have been prepared for Morgan Lee, Ultimate Painter
	+ The various animals that follow the wolf are those depicted in the constellations for the zodiac, so they were likely prepared for Emily Voss, Ultimate Astronomer
	+ The tank that crushed Nicole would have been prepared for Earl Morale, Ultimate Tank Commander
	+ Of this mix, only JP's execution was used prior to Power Clashing (or even used at all), and Saya was the only living participant to have an element of her execution appear.
	+ Curiously, though there are elements of executions for Morgan, Emily, and Earl, there is nothing in Power Clashing that connects to Ashley Coelho, Ultimate Debater, making her the only victim absent from this list.