"Xiaoyu? Asuka?" Lili called out, trembling as she stumbled her way up yet another staircase in the halls of the DOATech Tritower. Blood was trickling down the top steps. Lili could barely get to the top without slipping on it, and noticed a human finger among the mess. This couldn't have been the work of just the tengu or Alpha 152. Dead or Alive's ninjas must have had something else planned.
"Asuka! Where are you guys?" Lili shouted again, rounding a blood smeared corner to find exactly what she had hoped would not be there.
All her Tekken friends (and foes) were slaughtered, mutilated, or totally missing. Lili, predictably, screamed. She had thought that the Dead or Alive gang would be relatively easy to beat, and that death on either side would be rare. How could such horror be possible?
"Asuka!" Lili wailed upon finding her body buried beneath the severed limbs and bodies of others. She was almost unrecognizable, her head half cut off. Xiaoyu was close by, sat against one wall, an arm missing, but otherwise not as badly mauled as most.
"Xiaoyu! Xiaoyu are you alive?" Lili lunged for her ally, shaking her by the shoulders desperately. Suddenly the top half of Xiaoyu's corpse slid off from her legs and thudded against the marble floor. Lili screamed again. She stood back up on shaking legs, looking all around the large Tritower hall just in case the killer had stayed. Then she looked back at the sea of corpses that had once embodied every good and bad aspect of her life.
"Christie? Nina? Hwoarang?" She continued, close to tears, "Aren't you all supposed to be so tough? Isn't anyone alive?"
"I, I am…" came the smallest moan that Lili thought she may have just imagined. It came from Steve Fox, slathered in blood, wounds covering him.
"Steve! What happened? Do you think you can stay alive?"
"It wasn't…from Dead or Alive. I know that. It wore yellow and had…this grappling hook…and…Zafina is alive. She escaped. Find her…"
Now Steve was dead too. Lili felt his wrist and he had no pulse. His skin slowly became colder and colder to the touch. Lili was practically hysterical.
"Jin, couldn't you have survived?" she yelled out, "or Julia? King? Dragunov? Yoshimitsu? Heihachi? Anna?" Eventually, Lili gave up. Everyone but her was dead. Their eyes were open, but the only thing that moved was the blood flowing leisurely from their gaping wounds. Just as she was going to leave the hideous scene and spare herself the misery of further digging through the corpses, she turned around to come face to face with an already blood splattered Scorpion, fresh out of Mortal Kombat, now in alliance with the remaining ninjas of Dead or Alive.
