DISCLAIMER: I don't own Devil May Cry or Mortal Kombat.
Dante stood in the arena, rolling his eyes. Shang Tsung smirked from his throne. "Dante the devil hunter, you are the next contestant! You will face… Baraka!" Baraka stepped out of the ranks of enforcers and bared his fangs at Dante.
Dante smirked. "Dude, do you even know how ugly you are? Those teeth are quite the farming implements, and let's not even talk about the skin and blades!" Baraka started swinging his blades at Dante, but Dante easily dodged every attack, before bringing out his sword and charging. In a flash, it was over. Baraka fell into two pieces, his torso hitting the ground, while his legs fell over backwards.
Amazingly, Baraka was still twitching, showing slight signs of life. "Finish him!" Snarled Shang Tsung, disgusted by Baraka's outright failure. Dante picked Baraka's torso up off the ground, glaring at the repulsive creature before him. "With pleasure." Dante's sword swept out at a speed that easily surpassed human possibilities, and Baraka's head was severed, before being slashed in half on the way down to the ground.
Shang Tsung raised his hand. "Your next opponent will be… Scorpion!" There was a flash of fire, and Scorpion appeared. Shang Tsung ordered the start of the battle, and the two demons charged each other. They exchanged sword blows, but neither was really hurting the other one. Raiden narrowed his eyes, trying to figure out why Dante was so much slower and weaker all of a sudden. The speed and power he had displayed when fighting Baraka should have allowed him to destroy Scorpion almost as easily as he had killed Baraka. Finally, Scorpion gripped Dante by the shoulders, and the two vanished in a jet of hellfire.
A few minutes passed, before Scorpion reappeared, holding up a bleached white, chalky skull with a spine attached to it. Shang Tsung smirked as he declared Scorpion the winner, but Raiden was wondering what was going on. Something about this simply didn't add up. Dante was more than strong enough to kill Scorpion, and Dante would not burn to death if engulfed in hellfire, as he had been engulfed in hellfire many times and come out unscathed. Raiden had to investigate.
Scorpion reappeared in the Nether realm, walking up to Dante and dropping the skull on the ground. "It worked. They all fell for it."
Dante laughed. "When you suggested that, I thought you were kidding! That thing doesn't even look like me! For starters, it's too short!"
Scorpion shrugged. "If you stay here for a while, no one will detect you, so you will have more than enough time to kill Quan Chi. He is dangerous, and far too powerful for me to defeat, but he will be no match for you. I will continue through the tournament to keep up appearances, but you will appear at the end and kill Shao Kahn! But remember, Noob Saibot is mine! I will have his filthy, dishonourable head!"