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"I must ask once more why you feel the need to keep such useless pawns when you already have Saibot and Ermac" idly spoke the fallen god Shinnok to Quan Chi who was currently being drained of his energy.

"I see them as powerful tools, it will be hard for the remaining warriors to kill their team mates and will cause grief in Raiden, making him much easier for you my lord, however if I may request, can this be sped up, Scorpion has learned of the true nature of his clans demise and has been hunting me for some time." spoke the tiring sorcerer, luckily he was now empty and his energy could be replaced with the more powerful magic used by Shinnok.

"…Indeed," finished Shinnok while in another place two warriors stirred from a dream like state.

Moments ago

Noob suddenly fell to his knees, his mouth spewing his black tar like blood as a sickly green energy flowed out of him, he could think clearly for the first time, and while many may believe that this would change him he remained strangely the same, minus the ridiculous feelings of loyalty to the useless sorcerer.

His first goal was obvious, remove himself of any unsatisfactory commitments, how? Kill the sorcerer, why? He may try to regain control and Noob had some of his own issues to deal with first, why give the sorcerer a chance?.

Fortunately, he was merely outside Quan Chi's palace, a small Netherealm castle, probably stolen, at the moment however, he knew that Quan Chi was speaking with Shinnok inside, the two would be very powerful when fighting together, and that is a battle in which Noob wants no part of.

It took only another half hour before he felt the presence of the fallen god dissipate from the castle's inner sanctum, soon the vile paper white skinned creature known as Quan Chi would emerge from the castle to check on him, it would be then that he would strike. As anticipated merely moments later a tired looking Quan Chi hobbled out of the castle, looking even paler than usual, luck was seemingly on his side with how the sorcerer seemed so tired.

Hiding in the shadow, he watched the conjurer stand looking confused before running out and jumping up, hitting Chi with a swift kick, as soon as Chi finished his descent he kicked his body away from the entrance hall into the surrounding sands, causing the sorcerer to have to catch himself before he fell into a large rock face. Jumping to his feet the sorcerer was forced into the defensive, dodging and blocking flurries of punches and kicks, however with Noob's unique ability to use his own shadow as a doppelganger he was soon overrun by the one warrior who presented the threat of two.

Being caught by the shadow Noob, Chi used the new found power given by Shinnok to overpower the shadow and throw him into the approaching Noob allowing him the opportunity to throw several of his skull projectiles, now powerful enough to keep Saibot down due to the increase in power, he now had time to note that Saibot had been fighting with greater skill than usual, using his shadow for more than simple sneak attacks, then again this was the first time that Noob had fought with his own will and not by Chi's, so perhaps an increase in effectiveness was to be expected. Distracted by thoughts of improving the original spell he did not notice the green glow surround his body, only when he was thrown to the side without any contact from another being did he come back to what he was doing and now noticed that Ermac, a creation of Shang Tsung's, now his. Ever since he altered several aspects of Ermac during his sleep in his regeneration process the warrior had been loyal to him. Such thoughts however, would have to wait as Noob was on him once more, slower since the barrage of projectiles but still fighting, and now with the aid of Ermac as well.

Whenever he threw a punch, it would be blocked and countered by the other warrior, whenever he kicked, it was dodged and again countered by the other, all in all, Quan Chi was being pummelled till he finally managed to jump back, muttering powerful chants, the sorcerer caused the two warriors to be momentarily be blinded allowing him to capture both in a short term control spell, preventing their limbs movement. Now he was able to begin the chants for the original spells used to first control them, a long spell that would take several hours. In that time he thought of how they had escaped his spell, 'the only possible conclusion was the possibility was that the spell no longer identified him, due to the change in nature that his magic had undergone, he already was solving the problem either way' Was his thoughts three hours into the process, 'the warriors were weakening by now, their resolve breaking soon they would be his' he finished as a horrifying sound came to his ears, a sound that could mean his demise, three words in all yet horrifying all the same.

What were the words you ask?

"GET OVER HERE!"

Authors note: if anyone likes this, I will make the chapters much longer, this is just to see if anyone will be interested