(Chapter 2)

The battle raging on was starting to drag on seem to last for hours while the defenders would lose people they would take 5 demons down with them, but the demons seemed endless even when Fujin came down with the other elemental gods of Earthrealm the tide seem to turn. As the gods seem to push the demons back A blast came out of the portal obliterating the gods of water, fire, and earth, then out of the portal strolled out an ugly looking being who mockingly said" ah the mighty gods of Earthrealm, or what's left of them," followed by a short laugh "most have fallen before me."

"Shinnok." Growled out Raiden

"What aren't you glad see your friends again," Taunted Shinnok as out of the portal stepped four figures.

Smirking Quan Chi stepped aside as revenant versions of Kung Lao, Nightwolf, and Cyber-Subzero.

"Brother." Bi-Han gasped out as he saw the undead corpse of his younger brother.

"Cousin." Questioned Kung Jin

Raiden simply glared at Shinnok and Quan Chi. Quan Chi looked amused at the reactions and then did a double take at Bi-Han, "Noob-Saibot, why are you on Raiden's side?"
"Noob-Saibot is dead, I am Bi-Han Champion of the Elder Gods!" retorted Bi-Han.

Shinnok raised a near none existent eyebrow at Bi-Han's answer. He let lose a laugh and turned to the revenants and said "fight."

As the order left Shinnok's lips the Revenants charged at the still living defenders, as the remaining Revenants and another horde of demons flooded out of the portal. The Kombat began anew as the revenants pared off with the champions Raiden looked around to see the Kung Cousin's fighting as Jin tried to reach out to his dead cousin, the cryo-brothers were fighting in a reversal of their fight during Shao Kahn's invasion, and Fujin as holding off Nightwolf, Shinnok was making his way to his Portal to the Heavens. Raiden flew into action shouting gibberish as he flew (think his flying attack in the games) and a flight ensued between the two, Raiden barely winning his fight, so he did the only thing he could, He Closed his portal to the Heavens, called out for a retreat and teleported to the gates so he could seal them to contain the invasion for a time, as the defenders of Earthrealm left Raiden saw Hsu Hao fighting Jax and getting his cybernetic heart ripped out as he pushed his boss Mavado past the gate as Jax crushed the heart in his hands.

As Raiden was watching so to did an actor named Art Lean he saw how long it would take for everyone left alive and he saw some demons would slip out by the time, so he did what he knew was not only the only thing he could do, but also the stupidest thing he could do.

"Quan Chi I changed you to Mortal Kombat!" Art yelled, gathering all the invaders attention on himself. The revenants looked at him like he was a dead idiot, the demons looked amused, Quan Chi was debating taking the challenge when Shinnok came down after seeing the portal to the Heavens closed, heard the challenge and gave Quan Chi a look that said finish him quickly.

"Very well fool," Quan Chi said as he moves to face Art, "know that your death is swift and all on you, because of your stupid decision."

"Fine, but before we start," Art said in an accepting tone, "you know that your shoes are untied right?"

"Oh" Quan Chi replied as he looked just to be remined that he was wearing boots that didn't need to be tied. Then he felt it, a massive amount of pain as his leg garments were lifted so far up that his crotch was painfully compressed by the sheer force. Jax, Nightwolf, Kabal and Stryker all were trying to hold in their laughter as they knew what just happened. The fight from there was longer than even Art was expecting(translation it lasted about a minute Art was expecting to be creamed in ten seconds flat.), of course he didn't expect Quan Chi to fall for the Melvin either, but ultimately Quan Chi won, Shinnok then step in and grabbed Art with a giant skeletal hand, and asked "what was this supposed to accomplish anyway fool? You lost and will soon die."

"Yeah but might want to look at the gate." Art taunted, as the oni general Moloch notice it was shut and moved to open it. He found he couldn't open it.

"You evil types don't understand self-sacrifice, thought I get one last pleasure out of this. I MELVINED QUAN CHI!" Art exclaimed as Shinnok realized the meaning of Moloch's failure to open the gate in the sky temple. He promptly squeezed Art's head off and to his annoyance he found the actor's face was laughing, even in death, laughing over what he had done. He turned to the snickering Revenants "what is so funny?" he asked in a sharp tone belying his anger.

"Sorry my lord it's just we knew of this move, it's a joke among certain parts of Earthrealm." Jax answer with as straight a face as he could muster.

"And you didn't tell Quan Chi about this because?" Shinnok asked

"As Jax said it's a joke, we never thought we would ever see anyone attempt it, much less succeed at it." Kabal replied as he gained control of his laughter.

"I see," Shinnok said turning to Quan Chi "well thanks to your error we're stuck in here for a while, I hope you have a backup plan."

"My lord, I will have Drahmin signal the rest of the invasion force to attack random points on Earthrealm, that will surely draw out Raiden." Squeaked out Quan Chi still in a massive amount of pain and fearing for his life.

"Very Well than Quan Chi Do so, NOW." Commanded Shinnok as Quan Chi began casting the spell to contact the Oni general.

(Earthrealm Location Unknown)

"I MELVINED QUAN CHI!" those words were the last thing to escape the portal to the sky temple as Raiden closed the doorway to his home and the current trap of the Netherrealm's forces.

"That genius S.O.B," Johnny said as he realized Art was the one who said them, "now I wish I could have seen that." A smack followed his cocky statement.

"Cage shut up, that man just sacrificed himself to buy us time to regroup and prepare a counter attack and you make a joke of his last words?" Sonya exclaimed.

"No Major Blade, I knew Art, the man was a sunt actor, often laugh out of auditions, because his main source of work was cheesy kids show where he wore rubber monster suits," Johnny replied in such a serious tone that even Raiden was startled by it," and he just gave his life in a way that pays tribute to the movie that inspired him to begin acting in the first place, I think he would have wanted for people to at least see the look of utter pain that Q-ball Quan Chi would be in, if only for the sake of showing he wasn't a joke."

"Art's sacrifice aside, Shinnok is not going to be trapped there for very long." Bo Rai Cho reminded everyone.

"That depends on if he has forces outside of my sky temple, actually." Raiden replied, "as I closed the gate I too closed the portal anywhere in my temple and only I can open them, now who do we count among the dead?"

"Well, Hsu Hao is dead, Art's surely dead, and Lui Kang is still back in Jinsei Chamber as we didn't have time to retrieve him, the cyborgs are in need of repair and most of the soldiers, monks, and thugs are injured." Sonya listed off.

"The Jinsei was created after Shinnok's fall so he may not know if it Lui Kang could still be retrieved when he's fully healed." Raiden mused. Suddenly Sony's wrist com went of as her superiors called her up to tell here that she better have those allies as the feared invasion is happening all over the planet.

"sir, we have them, but we were targeted for a preemptive strike and most are injured or dead." Sonya replied "I don't think we have the forces to counter but we managed to trap most of the enemy forces top tier kombatants in one location, but we can do much more their leadership include a necromancer. Sir I think we are going to need help from outside the realm, but we'll send what help we can."

"Very well but let us know where you go and what deals were made if any." The com cut out.

"I don't think that…" Raiden started

"Major Blade is correct Raiden, we need allies from other realms if we are to survive this." Fujin interrupted, "we simple don't have the strength, skill or power to match Shinnok, Quan Chi, and his Champions, Demons, and Oni."

Looking around at the state of things Raiden couldn't help but agree, "fine, but no more than four to a realm at most." Said Raiden

"I will head to the Netherrealm Alone," Bi-Han said, "the Elder Gods told me there was a faction of Demons and Oni who didn't support Shinnok and I may be able to obtain their aid."

"Cage, Kira, Kenshi and I will head to Outworld to beg the new Kahn for aid." Sonya said.

"There is a power struggle in Outworld right now, if you offer aid to one side in, they may give their aid in Earthrealm – Netherrealm war and we may broker a peace between realms." Raiden explain and advices. "I will take Kai, Shujinko, and Kung Jin to Sedio the Orderrealm, everyone else be ready to do whatever you can to keep Earthrealm from falling to Shinnok."

(Author's note)

And Chapter 2 done, Earthrealm is in deep sh*t demons and oni everywhere the main Netherrealm force may be trapped but that's not going to last long. The idea of hitting Quan Chi with the Melvin came from Brave1's fic Melvin where Scorpion and Noob Saibot do the same thing. And thanks to the MKDemigodZ-Warrior's review of the first chapter for Art's last name I forgot it as it's been awhile since I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie.