Greetings, my friends!
Here is my newest of stories, and this time, it's a crossover!
A "Treasure Planet" and "Mortal Kombat" crossover which is actually a sequel to one story of mine apiece in the category of those franchises, to be exact.
"An Arm And A Leg" for the former one of those and "Payback Pays Off" for the latter, to be exact.
There has been a cosmic phenomenon that is essentially impossible to explain, describe or even make anything of that causes both universes, the "Treasure Planet" one and "Mortal Kombat" one alike, to shift in a way so that they overlap each other briefly, but said overlap causes the entire Doppler family, Jim and Sarah Hawkins, B.E.N., Morph and all eight of the(recently revived and then bandaged up to heal from where they were given what damage killed them in their first lives)Earthrealm champions who, despite how something that would usually be a lesser priority at a bad time actually turned out to be one of those rare times in which it was a great idea that gave them as much as they could be given in terms of a chance against their upcoming Tarkatan adversaries(if you've read "Payback Pays Off" you know what I'm talking about), still were not able to survive their battle against them meet up.
Meet up in a talk show set in real work New York City, which is where their respective homes are brought, as well, in spots where they would be able to harmonize themselves with everything else, of course, but need to get to know everything about each other and receive a means to help them get to where they live after everyone is filled in about what's happened, though they are thankfully given a place to stay on that just as thankfully opulent talk show set.
Funny thing is, part of what they fill each other in about has to do with an OC of mine, who is a horrible felid named Ellie, and she is also Amelia's aunt(you'll find out why she's so awful when you read about her in this story, believe me), and the phenomenon has made it so that, albeit by freak chance and where she was at the time, the overlapping brought her into real world New York City, and right in front of the building which contains the talk show set.
Learning everything she does and deciding to see for itself whether or not what she's found out about her niece is true, she comes up to the set itself, and, well, you'll see what the results are when she makes her presence known.
Lots of things that are quite worth remembering will take place during the stay of the heroes in this talk show set, but to read about and thus get to enjoy the memory of them, you must do just that…read about them and the rest of this story, of course.
So read away, as I present this fanfic to you without further ado!
THINGS TO NOTE:
This takes place about a year after the events of "An Arm And A Leg" and "Payback Pays Off", fanfics involving "Treasure Planet" and "Mortal Kombat", respectively, in terms of the two stories of my own making this crossover is a sequel to, just to be specific about things here.
I don't own any of the franchises that I'm using for this crossover here, either, even though their combination is, as I've made clear before, a sequel to two of my stories, one in each category of said franchises(though that part was rather obvious, but I wanted to be fully exact/precise here).
Yes, this story's title is indeed a distortion of that thirteen part series of novels: "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" by Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket and all of what ones of its adaptations bear that title instead of an alternate name.
All three of this story's chapters(yes, it is indeed a three chapter story)will be posted today, since I decided that the complete story should be available in the same day, even though I usually do a story with chapters one by one in terms of said chapters.
There are many reasons as to why, but I can't go into them.
A Series Of Memorable Events
Chapter 1-Introductions
Strange, isn't it, and, indeed, funny, don't you think, how things turn out sometimes?
Oh, yes, life sure a box of chocolates, so very full of surprises, indeed, to be sure.
As evidenced by a very big one, specifically an occurrence which followed two different instances in two different universes.
First of all, there had very inexplicably been an indescribable kind of cosmic phenomenon which was just as incomprehensible, sudden and abrupt(seemingly out of the blue, in fact), and it caused the following two things.
The first of them was to make the fictional "Treasure Planet" universe and the just as fictional "Mortal Kombat" universe to be pushed in a fashion which caused them to extend over one another, albeit only for a short amount of time, but that was still plenty long enough for what happened second.
And what the hell fucking happened second was that the effect of it made it so that Jim Hawkins, his mother, Sarah, all of the Dopplers, B.E.N. and Morph from the former universe, as well as all eight of the recently resurrected(we'll get to what the hell killed them in a moment)Earthrealm champions from the latter universe(who consisted of Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, Jackson "Jax" Briggs, Frost, Kenshi, Kung Lao and Kitana), were brought into real world New York City along with their respective homes in a way which was able to allow said homes and them all to coexist if the residents found out what was going on, were able to modify their lives and allow said coexistence of every sort which would be needed if this was not to become a disaster or anything similar, residence related or otherwise.
Okay, so before we go into the main matters here, let's get to both why the eight Earthrealm champions were in their second lives after having been revived, and after that, something concerning the Doppler family matriarch, the one and only Captain Amelia.
Get ready, by the way, because their story is going to be one hell of a long one, much longer than that of the "Treasure Planet" universe born and created heroes, Amelia or otherwise.
Their recently having been revived and then bandaged up to heal from where they were given what damage killed them in their first lives was, in the latter case, thanks to, despite how something that would usually be a lesser priority at a bad time actually turned out to be one of those rare times in which it was a great idea that gave them as much as they could be given in terms of a chance against their upcoming Tarkatan adversaries(like I said in the intro, if you've read "Payback Pays Off" you know what I'm talking about), they were still were unable to survive their battle against them(which, sadly, made it rather clear that they were all going to be overwhelmed and fail no matter what, especially since Sub-Zero, the one leading them, came the closest to success and still failed and died, even with all of his tenacity along with that of the other seven and what sort of extra stackings of the deck in their favor they'd ironically gotten from the least likely of sources).
It had been a year since their deaths, and during said year, a fool named Shujinko, who, quite a few decades prior to that, had been deceived into believing he worked for a greater good, when, in reality, as he'd find out the UNBELIEVABLY hard way, he was an unknowing tool of a greater evil, specifically that of bringing back Onaga The Dragon King, had managed to use a special gift he possessed, ironically given to him by Onaga when he was first deceived, to help see to his permanent undoing(the ability to take on the form and abilities of any fighter he chose).
This, and a warrior named Nightwolf managing to trap Onaga's soul in the Netherrealm thanks to how Shujinko defeating him enabled him to do so and thus this both saved the realms from the Dragon King and made it so that Shujinko undid the worst and most foolish mistake he ever made, was also accompanied by the following.
Although, before the restored and returned Dragon King made his presence known in Shang Tsung's palace, which is where the thunder god Raiden battled the Deadly Alliance that consisted of the aforementioned Shang Tsung and Quan Chi after all eight Earthrealm champions died at the hands, or should I say blades, of the Tarkata, Raiden sadly failed to defeat them, as well, despite being, as I said before, a thunder god, and, ironically, it wasn't long before Quan Chi first defeated Shang Tsung after they turned on each other following this and then tried to kill the Dragon King upon his arrival(but couldn't, which, for an even bigger irony, led to first Shang Tsung recovering and then Raiden, and all three tried, but were less than successful in, taking down Onaga, even with their combined powers).
Anyhow, when Raiden tried for the only thing that might destroy the Dragon King(a giant, super-powerful and super-explosive lightning bomb), but didn't despite destroying Shang Tsung's palace, Shang Tsung himself, Quan Chi, ironically the very Raiden who created said lightning bomb and everything and everyone who was close enough to the palace to be destroyed, as well, all eight of the souls that belonged to the slain Earthrealm champions(said souls having been consumed by Shang Tsung prior to Raiden challenging him and Quan Chi in order to try and save Earthrealm from total destruction)were freed.
As was the soul of the long before then slain(by Shang Tsung with Quan Chi's assistance)Liu Kang, which OF COURSE Shang Tsung had consumed, as well, given his longtime desire to do so, which was part of why the hell he and Quan Chi had come to confront Liu Kang and see him dead(and tragically, they were, as made clear above, successful).
Now, by the time that this frightening, dangerous and life-threatening year was almost over(specifically a small amount of time prior to Shujinko's victory over the Dragon King), a ninja made up of a giant combination of souls who went by the name of Ermac was able to use his special powers of telekinesis and mysticism to bring Liu Kang back to life and see all eight of the heroic, brave and persistent Earthrealm champions, who, after dying, had been turned into Onaga's slaves after the resurrection I spoke of above(of course he did it for that purpose and was also controlling their minds), freed from his mind control after proving more than a match for them, even when he was battling all eight at once, during this time and they were then back to normal in full(and in every way).
Thanking Ermac and getting ready for everything that they needed to be ready for along with him, they would all later learn of Onaga's defeat and destruction, as would Ermac and all others, as well as how Raiden had come back to life as a living dead, very dark hero version of himself, trying to kill Shujinko for unwittingly putting Earthrealm in harm's way thanks to his now undone mistake, with the latter narrowly escaping his fate.
Now that, and a whole lot of meeting up, reuniting and plenty else had happened before the lot of everyone I've mentioned and all others returned to where the hell they resided and started to consider where they should take it from there(the most notable part of what would be considered "plenty else" was the takedown of any and all villains there were to deal with by the heroes, the eight resurrected Earthrealm champions or otherwise, of course), and just an hour or so thereafter, the occurrence that led to what I just spoke of, well, occurred.
DAMN, what a story that was, wouldn't you agree?
But hey, I told you that it was going to be one hell of a long one before I started it, didn't I?
Anyway, on to the matter of what the hell happened in the "Treasure Planet" universe prior to what happened to cause this overlapping that led to these inhabitants of their respective universes and where they resided being brought here into real world NYC.
A year prior to now, much like was the case with how things ended up in the "Mortal Kombat" universe in the story described above(I'm adding this in despite having made such a fact of how much time it was before what's happening now in each universe just for emphasis and because of how part of why it's that amount of time is for everything in both of the fics this one is a sequel to, well, to be able to make sense), there had been an extremely evil, deadly and sneaky mouse(a humanoid mouse that resembled what Captain Amelia would be if she were a mouse instead of a cat)who went by the name of Malicia board the R.L.S Legacy under the guise of wishing to assist Amelia in her latest of cruises(if you haven't read "An Arm And A Leg", you should do so in order to know what I speak of here)but actually wanting to take over to make her own ship to help her perform her dirty deeds, and while Amelia managed to defeat her via fatally breaking her neck when she revealed her true intentions and dislocated all four of Amelia's limbs(though Amelia's arms stayed in place just long enough for her to put Malicia in hell with the aforementioned neck breaking move), the felid captain became tortured and helpless, to the point where, despite her limbs(all four)being relocated so that they were exactly as they, well, were prior to Malicia's dastardly dislocation of them, she still had to spend some time in a hospital.
When she got home, she, despite being as close to being "right as rain" as she could be, was still plenty weak and in need of being taken care of by her family, and it would be a good year before she was back to normal, but it was now a year later and she was only too happy to be back on her feet and not dependent on her family, the fact that she of course still loved them and was grateful for their help notwithstanding(Jim Hawkins had filled her slot as captain while she was recovering and did excellently, with Amelia thanking and congratulating him as she resumed her position).
It was not long after she got back home at night from her most recent of cruises that she, just before it was bedtime for her family and herself, would experience what happened to make it so that her universe and the "Mortal Kombat" one crossed over in a sense that made her, along with her family, Jim Hawkins, his mother, Sarah Hawkins, B.E.N. and Morph, end up in not just the Big Apple in the real world, but specifically in a talk show set building, while everyone's respective homes were brought to spots where they would be able to harmonize themselves with everything else.
Which was most/quite favorable for them, of course, but the need to get to know everything, about each other or otherwise, and receive a means to help them get to where they live after everyone else also learned about what happened, the way they were now in a world where they were meeting up with entirely different individuals who wound up in the same talk show set and would, rather obviously, be living in terms of what universe they'd live in forevermore, was going to make things awkward, at best, and turbulent, at worst.
Now, let's get the obvious the fuck out of the way here…there wasn't a single individual among this lot from either group of the ones from the two different universes who wasn't shocked to the point of speechlessness, at least not until Jim Hawkins managed to regain his ability to speak, though how neither he nor anyone else knew or would ever know, and he asked: "Who…who the hell are you guys?"
"Funny you should fucking say that…" Sonya replied, "…because that's just what the hell we were about to ask the lot of you!"
"And for that matter, how the fuck did we end up HERE?" Jax asked.
"Not to mention, what IS here?" Amelia went, just as confused as the others(understandably in her case and theirs alike, mind you).
"WAIT!" Kenshi shouted, and everyone looked at him. "I'm telepathic, one of my most important powers. I can easily find out everything that we need to know, at least as far as everyone present here is concerned."
"Telepathic?" asked Matey.
"It means I can read minds." Kenshi informed her.
"HEY!" cried out Jib. "I don't want to have someone look into my brain and thoughts!"
"I'm sorry, but it's the only way to progress here that will do any good at all."
"Or would you rather make things difficult to the point of being almost impossible here, and in a way that will leave us trapped in, well, whatever place we are, right now?" asked Jim.
Seeing that Jim had a point, much like Kenshi had quite the sound idea, Jib nodded and so did everyone else who wasn't Kenshi.
Kenshi then, ironically, gave a nod of his own and used his telepathy to find out everything that all of the ones present were required to know and made sure it was passed on to everybody's mind through the fucking help of his own after he'd collected the fucking facts he fucking required, and by the time that he was finished, no one lacked a single fact as far as knowledge about all of the ones they had never met before was concerned.
"Nice job, Kenshi." Kitana said, to which Kenshi said: "Thanks, Kitana. Well, we're a lot closer to getting to the bottom of this and finding out what our best bet is here than we might have been otherwise."
"Still, we've got quite the long way to go." Sarah pointed out, and all of a sudden, with fortune continuing to favor them, the host of the talk show set that they were on came on in and was saying: "All right, now, let's see what else I can…"
Just as he opened the door, he saw the entire bunch of them and went: "WHOA! Who…what's…that…you…?"
"Oh, dear. Of course no one knew we were here before or after Kenshi helped us out so much." Delbert said. "But fortunately, I have the ideal solution!"
"Wait, what?" Frost asked, but then Delbert said: "Though I had no time to use it, since Kenshi had to hurry in order to give us as many of the facts that we needed as possible due to our confused, astounded state at the time, I can now put to use this new invention of mine…one which tells specifically of locations and the individuals therein. It will surely clear things up in terms of the rest of what needs to be cleared up."
The talk show host looked at everyone else after looking at Delbert, and they looked at him just before looking at Delbert, and, since no one seemed to have any objections or better ideas, Amelia said: "Do it."
Well, if his wife told him to do something, Delbert never failed to comply, so he quickly got his latest of inventions to work and, once it was finished with everything, speechlessness once again ensued, this time with the talk show host joining in with them concerning said speechlessness.
After a while, the talk show host said: "Damn, am I ever going to be armed with new material for my future shows! Wait…why…why the hell was that the first thing I fucking thought of? We have to focus on your well-being, all of you, and more than this, we've got to find a means so that everyone knows about this and you're able to take it from there in a way that doesn't derail or fuck up your lives!"
"Yes, and while sounding like a great topic for one of your talk show's episodes sounds awesome, I'm glad you realized that it wasn't the number one priority here." Jim stated. "Frost here might have managed to make it so that what seemed like a selfish, piss-poor timing, bad prioritizing kind of thing actually turned out to be a good idea and one that helped the bigger matters, well, to the extent it could, anyway, but that sort of thing happens once in a blue moon. No…fuck that…once in a double, or triple, or, really, most likely, QUADRUPLE shades of blue moon. And while these are not frequent kinds of circumstances we're dealing with here, they are still far less rare than what I mentioned just beforehand, and that's quite a statement."
"It's funny, by the way, that you should mention the phrase 'blue moon' or variants of it, Jim," Frost told him, "when I'm wearing what the hell kind of fucking costume I currently and always do and have the sort of powers I have, especially knowing that my trainer, and someone with much the same kind of shit on both counts, was and is Sub-Zero here."
"True, that!" Jim nodded and then everyone laughed briefly, but then the talk show host said: "But anyway, back to the main matter here."
Amelia put across: "You spoke of our well-being and how things will be figured out here so that we can adapt to what's pretty damn blatantly going to be our new lives, although thankfully with us still having the same damn homes as before put into different, but convenient, locations, the fact that I, and I'd wager quite a few others here, are very unhappy about how some things from our previous lives have been forever stripped away notwithstanding."
"Yes, I did, and I have just the thing!" the talk show host said. "It is, I am sorry to say, nighttime here, much like it was in your respective universes of before, but that doesn't mean I can't go out to try and find a means to help you with everything you need said help with, and I can. After all, lots of people watch me and the ones I work with on TV each night, given that I'm a talk show host. So my being so well known and informing as many individuals as I can of these new arrivals has a good chance of making it so you can, well, make yourselves at home here on this real world planet Earth and the New York City therein…figuratively and literally! However, since you must all remain here to minimize the chances of any kind of shock or chaos or what have you ensuing, there are plenty of things to do on this set. You may need to settle into all of this for a little bit and so won't have that on your minds a whole lot, but should it become otherwise, the amount of money I earn for this living makes it so that this place is filled with choices galore for anyone and everyone who wishes for one or more of them when it is affordable."
"Sounds great on all counts," Johnny Cage told him, "although you've got other guys who are part of this show who can help you out with this, don't you?"
"Yes, and believe me, they'll be helping me out with this, much like the ones who are informed of everything here will. But I have to make myself scarce in order to get them, fill them in and set things into motion. After all, I doubt you guys want to be here for the rest of your lives, even though it's quite the set." responded the talk show host.
"Very true." nodded Kitana, and with that, the talk show host took off to do his thing.
CHAPTER ONE ENDING
Was this a good start?
I'm hoping it was.
And wait till you see what the hell is fucking revealed and how the hell things turn the fuck out in the next chapter!
But for this one, ratings and reviews, please!