Chapter 33

> "*There are those whose strengths that cannot be measured by rank*"
> ― Skull talking about Team Blueperor's strength to Vintage.
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Team Blue faces Team Workers Head Towel in the Round of 16 (first round). How will they do against the hard workers?

## Characters

### Returning

Goggles
Emperor
Headphones
Bobble Hat
Rider
Skull
Gloves
Prinz
Eight
Vintage
Omega
Double Egg
Red-Soled

### Debuting

Buzzcut Towel
Topknot Towel
Hipster Towel
Slick Towel

### Referenced

Army
Forge Octarian Jacket

## Plot

The Square King Ranked Battle Cup has begun and Team Blueperor has made it in! The opening ceremony is being held at the sacred Skipper Pavilion. There are wishing boards there and Team Blueperor decide to write some wishes about Specs healing up soon. They're expecting Goggles to arrive soon, as he sent a text message saying that he's fired up. Soon after, Goggles arrives in a Mech Suit which makes him sound like a robot. He then writes wishes using his suit's powers. Goggles changes back to his usual clothes and all the qualified teams are showing up for this, and Rider, Gloves, Skull, and Team Eight are among the qualified players! To everyone's surprise, Emperor has joined Team Blueperor, but people still see them as ridiculous. X-Blood, the conqueror of the Ranked Battles, marches towards Skull. Vintage says that Skull had risen up to X-rank more quickly than he thought. Skull says he's stronger than ever, as an S4. Vintage tells him that anyone who isn't X Rank will never be able to beat him and that everyone S Rank and below are **losers!!** He whacks the wishing board which makes all of the wishes fall off. Double Egg tells everyone that losers and weaklings only rely on things like wishing boards. Goggles begins to try and hang the wishes back up on the board desperately and X-Blood sneers at him. Goggles tells them that wishes will come true IF you do your best, and it doesn't matter if you're a C- ranker or an X ranker because everyone is enjoying the battles and trying hard! Skull steps in and tells Vintage that there are those whose strengths that cannot be measured by rank, and they'll beat him. But Vintage still believes that it would be impossible to defeat X-Blood. He and his team march off, and Skull doesn't say anything back. The Round of 16 (First Round) is Clam Blitz and Team Blueperor's opponents are the hard working and sweaty Team Workers Head Towel, who came from their the construction jobs.

The match begins at Piranha Pit with Team Blueperor gathering the clams. Goggles collects ten clams and it turns into a power clam. He throws it at the opposition's goal, but only to realize that he threw it into Emperor's face. Emperor throws the power clam with his face and it hits it into the goal. The barrier is broken! Team Blue starts to smoothly throw the clams to score points and Rider and Skull notice that it's dangerous. Skull notices that Team Blue is focusing too much on scoring and soon, Team Blueperor were all struck down by the opposition! Team Workers Head Towel begins their attack and Team Blueperor attacks them. Buzzcut Towel opens his Tenta Sorella Brella and uses it as a shield to move forward. Team Workers Head Towel hits Blueperor's Goal with a power clam and starts throwing their clams in. They have the lead and Team Blueperor is in trouble!

Goggles throws a power clam at Workers Head Towel's goal, and Buzzcut Towel moved in front of the power clam to block it! But Goggles didn't throw the power clam, he threw Emperor instead! and he batters down Buzzcut Towel! Team Blueperor begin their counter attack. They defeat the remaining Team Workers Head Towel members and throw their clams in the goal and somehow, Goggles throws Emperor again, inside the goal! Team Workers Head Towel are desperate to stop them by attacking them, but Goggles thwarted their attempt with his Splashdown!

Team Blueperor wins and has made it through the Round of 16 (first round). Team Workers Head Towel decide to head back to work. The other matches have ended. Team Gloves and Team Eight have made it through! The S4 are going to battle next but they have a problem, Army is injured! Apparently, he went to pick ingredients for his curry when he was attacked by wasps, even though he protected his head!! So Rider decides to step up as he is a S+ ranker too!

**How will Rider perform on the team?**

## Characters

### Team Blueperor

* Goggles
* Emperor
* Headphones
* Bobble Hat

### Team Workers Head Towel

* Buzzcut Towel
* Topknot Towel
* Hipster Towel
* Slick Towel

### Others

* Specs
* Rider
* Skull
* Army
* Forge Octarian Jacket
* Team Gloves
* Team Eight
* Vintage
* Omega
* Double Egg
* Red-Soled

## Trivia

* This is the first time Goggles has thrown a character
* The reason that Vintage said S instead of S+ because he didn’t want to make Skull feel upset
* Skull is the second person to understand Team Blue/Blueperor’s unbelievable strength