The following is a crossover between KFP and Mortal Kombat. I do not own the rights to either of these franchises, nor do I intend to profit from this story.

I also may take a few liberties with a few of the character portrayals, but i hope they're not too detrimental. Enjoy!

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Master Tigress was hard at work as usual, up with the rising sun as she practiced all of her best maneuvers, a blur in the sky

Master Tigress was hard at work as usual, up with the rising sun as she practiced all of her best maneuvers, a blur in the sky almost at times, as she leapt and flipped about through the air. It would have been amazing for anyone else, but for her, it was another typical morning.

That was, until she heard a voice calling out to her.

"Help! Help me!"

She turned to see an old cheetah dressed in red and white robes, gasping for air as he ran in her direction, and eventually dropped onto his knees in front of her, bowing rapidly.

"Please! Help! He's going to kill me!" The old cheetah begged Tigress as he tugged at her clothes.

"Slow down, slow down…" Tigress narrowed her eyes as she got a closer look at him. "Who's trying to kill you?"

Before he could even answer, something suddenly shot out behind him, and wrapped around his neck. The old cheetah gasped and struggled for air, as he gripped at what appeared to be the end of a long whip.

Tigress quickly backed off, and looked up to see the figure of what appeared to be a snow leopard, dressed in a grey ninja's outfit. He held out his powerful whip, as an aura of smoke seemed to surround his form, pulling the cheetah back into his arms.

"Go back inside, female…" The Ninja addressed Tigress. "This does not concern you…"

"Your presence on the sacred grounds of Master Shifu gives me every right to interfere." Tigress shot back to the ninja. "What do you want with that old man?"

"Do not test me, female…" The Ninja pointed to Tigress. "Or you shall soon be joining this miserable old wretch in the afterlife…"

Tigress growled a little as she got into a fighting stance, as The ninja simply tightened his whip a little more around the neck of the cheetah. If she made one move towards them, he would have no problem with snapping his neck right then and there.

Then something else happened, which the Ninja, known as Smoke in his circle, did not expect. He felt something smash into him from behind…something big.

Po had spotted what was going on while making breakfast for the whole dojo, and decided to assist in the matter, giving Smoke a good old fashioned belly-bounce from behind, sending the ninja flying.

"Whoa…these are very dangerous." Po mused, as he pulled the whip free from the neck of the old cheetah.

"Ah…" he gasped and looked up at the panda. "Thank you, young one."

Po smiled and nodded, before he suddenly saw Smoke flying right back towards him, with his foot extended in a kick, as he left a trail of thick smoke in his wake.

Po grabbed the cheetah and turned his back, ready to take the blow for him. He didn't feel anything though, as Tigress flew in from the opposite direction, and smacked his chest with a jump kick of her own.

The force of the blow caused the headband smoke was wearing to fall out from under the hood of his mask, landing near tigress as she landed on her feet, and he fell to his back, before rolling and rising back to his feet.

Po prepared to fight alongside his partner, before she slowly reached down and lifted up the headband. She saw familiar characters written on the cloth…

"Lin Kuei…" She spoke lowly, as her eyes narrowed even more, her face taking an even more stern and angry shape, as she then motioned for Po to back off a moment later.

"Take the old man to safety, Po…" she spoke, her eyes still focused on Smoke. "Leave this one to me."

"Yes Ma'am!" Po nodded quickly, as he escorted the old cheetah away from the scene.

Tigress walked slowly towards smoke, who had by now recovered his whip, and gotten into a fighting stance with it.

"Who is your commander?" Tigress asked calmly.

"Go to hell…" Smoke growled at her.

"I know of your despicable clan, demon…" Tigress snarled a bit. "and now that I know it's close by, I won't rest until every one of them is dead…just tell me who your superior is, and where they are, and I MIGHT make your passing as pleasant as I can."

"I don't intend to die as a sniveling rat…" Smoke narrowed his eyes at Tigress. "So you can either go to hell, like I told you before…or, I can send you there myself."

With that, he flung his whip out towards tigress, who caught the end in her right paw, as the end of it wrapped around her wrist. She then used a burst of strength to pull the ninja towards her, as she prepared to meet him with a hard straight punch.

Smoke vanished however, just as she was about to hit him, using a burst of his ninja magic to teleport. He then suddenly came up from the floor under Tigress, and nailed her with a leaping uppercut.

Tigress grunted as she flipped in the air, and landed on all fours, preparing to meet Smoke head-on as he dropped his whip and leapt towards her. As he landed, the two began to exchange punches and kicks at an amazing speed, one combatant matching the other. Smoke was favoring punches mostly, as he attempted to punch her head, then chest, then belly, getting parried everytime.

Tigress then found an opening, as she nailed him in the center of the chest with a well placed left hand. She then jumped behind him before he could realize what was going on, and wrapped her right arm around his neck in a chokehold, giving Smoke a taste of his own medicine.

Smoke used his magic again though, vanishing out of her arms in a flash of smoke, before reappearing near his whip. Tigress quickly jumped out of the way as he got the weapon and swung it hard, the tip narrowly missing her. He then twirled it through the air, and lashed it at her again, as she rolled out of the way once again.

Tigress then leapt at him as she saw the right moment, and attempted to take him down with a jump kick. Smoke simply vanished again however, and by the time she landed, he lashed out the whip again, snapping the end around her neck.

Tigress choked and gasped, as she tried in vain to pull the whip from her neck, feeling it constricting around her windpipe. Smoke savored the moment, as he stepped forward, bracing the whip with his other arm and tightening the grip it had on her neck.

"A valiant effort, female…" Smoke smiled under his mask. "But there's one thing your master should have taught you…never try to fight a teleporter!"

With that, he withdrew a katana sword he kept sheathed in his back, and whipped it at her, aiming for her chest with it. She saw it flying towards her, as she then dropped her right paw, catching the hilt of the sword as she then spun and cut the whip with the blade, freeing her windpipe as she ran towards smoke with it.

Smoke teleported again, but she was prepared this time, as she quickly turned and threw the sword behind her. It sailed through the air as it met with the teleporting Smoke, impaling him through the belly.

"Gaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" Smoke cried out as he fell to the ground, onto his knees. He tried to pull the sword out, but was stuck inside him for good, as Tigress walked to him slowly.

"Who is your master?…" She asked him again.

Smoke then looked up at her defiantly, and pulled down his mask, revealing his snow leopard face for the first time. He looked almost like Tai Lung, only a little younger. He then spit in her direction, and jammed the blade further into his gut, before he suddenly went limp, and collapsed onto his side, dead.

Tigress looked down at his body stoically, before looking down at the Lin Kuei headband that she now possessed, in her paw.

"Whoa…" Po exclaimed, as he returned to the scene with the Old Cheetah, and Master Shifu.

"Master Tigress…" Shifu walked to her slowly. "What happened?"

"I'm sorry, Master…" Tigress looked down for a moment. "He left me no choice."

Shifu then looked over at the headband she held, and noticed the Lin Kuei symbol on it…his eyes immediately went wide at the sight.

"Are you sure this fellow left you no choice?" Shifu questioned her. "Are you sure it wasn't out of vengeance?"

"Vengeance?" Po quirked his eyebrow a bit.

Tigress did not answer him, as she then walked over to the cheetah.

"Who are you? Why have I not seen you in the valley before?" She asked him.

The cheetah was much more relaxed now as he answered. "My name is Tong Lau…and I am a wanderer. I walk this world and study it in depth, and I have thus seen many things on it…including those that others were not meant to see."

Tigress got closer to his face. "Like the headquarters of the Lin Kuei?"

Lau hesitated for a moment…but then nodded slowly. "Indeed…and I can tell you have your reasons for hating them, as I do…" He looked over at the body of Smoke on the ground.

He then turned back to Tigress and spoke to her again. "They stole something from me, something very valuable…They sent Smoke to kill me before I could get it back…what they intend to do with it, I know not…but it could be potentially fatal for all those around them."

Tigress nodded slowly, as she then turned to Master Shifu. "Do I have your permission to escort this man, Master?"

Shifu wanted to protest at first…but she looked up into her eyes, saw more determination than ever in them, and realized that dissuading her from this was pointless.

"Permission Granted…" Shifu sighed as he spoke.

Tigress bowed deeply. "Thank you, Master…." She then led Lau away from the temple, and slowly towards the outskirts of the valley.

Po walked towards Master Shifu, befuddled. "Master? What's going on? Who are the Lin Kuei? And why is Master Tigress so interested in them?"

Shifu walked slowly as he sighed again and spoke. "The Lin Kuei…a name I hoped I would never hear again." He turned to face Po slowly. "The Lin Kuei are a fearsome team of warriors, masters of a very ancient form of Ninjitsu…they were once champions of light, as we are… but years ago, the turned to darkness, under the leadership of a fearsome spectre."

"Spectre? You mean, like a ghost?" Po scratched his head.

"Something like that…his name was Scorpion, and he recruited other powerful warriors to his cause, with the promise of never-ending life and power…they are nothing more than puppets now, slaves to his desire to destroy all that's good in this world."

"But what does all this have to do with Tigress?" Po furrowed his brow, confused.

"My boy…" Shifu looked him straight in the eyes. "There's something I haven't told you about Master Tigress. Her family in the valley is her adopted family."

"Adopted?"

Shifu nodded slowly. "Tigress' birth parents were both murdered by the Lin Kuei…"

Po's jaw dropped as he looked wordlessly out beyond the valley.

"Come, Po…" Shifu tugged on his arm. "There is nothing that even I can do to quell such a vengeful spirit…the others will be needing their breakfast."