The Space Marine woke up from all of the confusion after barging from his supposed prison cell to where he was standing and just when the humans had their guns pointed at his head, he was sure that his head was not bulletproof.

"Take it easy, big guy. We're not here to hurt you."

Titus recognized that voice as Jax Briggs, the man with the machine arms, and when he looked at the ebony man, he wondered what happened to him that costed him his organic arms. Utterly, his predicament was escalating in a more harder scale when two weirdly dressed men approached him, the yellow one with his hair tied in a ponytail raised one of his swords crossed together in a sheath on his back and stood ready, looking precisely cautious, while the man in blue arched his arms and hands by his chest, ready to throw an ice attack. Titus swore that the man in blue was a heretic, but decided not to do anything harsh otherwise.

So the ex-captain of the Ultramarines' 2nd Company stood tall and firm, looking intimidatingly at everyone pointing their guns at him. These soldiers were then ordered by Jax to stand down, but remained on guard, as they don't know what else would Titus do to them.

"Well then giant, let us be acquainted." the man in blue said and introduced himself as Sub-Zero, while his yellow counterpart introduced himself as Scorpion.

"And I'm Jackson Briggs, but let's say these folks here call me Jax."

"And you are?" Scorpion asked, rather oblivious of the Space Marine's identity.

"Titus, of the Ultramarines."

The three men were confused at his last statement, they never heard of an army called the Ultramarines, but they were sure to be giants like Titus.

"So, Titus, can you, um, tell us why you're here on Earthrealm?"

The former Captain was surprised that these humans refer to Holy Terra as "Earthrealm" but decided to talk with them about his experiences.


All 3 were absolutely shocked of Titus' experience in war, how he was once Captain of the 2nd Company, how he fought against a million Greenskins, which Scorpion and Sub-Zero never heard before while Jax assumed that where he lived had a violent sense of fantasy, his encounters with Inquisitor Drogan, whom Titus informed was killed before the Space Marine met him and how he was used by Nemeroth as a living puppet and how he used the corpse of the Inquisitor to manipulate the ex-Captain and his squad into using a weapon which they believed to annihilate the entire Ork WAAAGH! but eventually was used to break open the tower used to hold off the effects of the Warp, and how he defeated Chaos forces threatening Graia, which is where Titus and his company fought along with the remaining Imperial Guard led by one Lieutenant Mira Nero. He also explained how he killed Warboss Grimskull, fought alongside the Blood Ravens, how Veteran Sergeant Sidonus died by Nemeroth's hand, and the time he crushed an entire warband of Chaos, alone, impressing Jax, who never thought he could fight an army all alone. Titus also explained his final encounter with Nemeroth, who was about to ascend to Daemonhood, but eventually was killed by the Space Marine himself. When Sub-Zero asked what happened to him that made him lose his rank as Captain, Titus explained firstly how he was charged of heresy (usually due to his resistance to psykers) by one of his own brothers and how the Inquisitor Thrax of the Ordo Malleus took only him away and how Graia was quarantined. He explained that before he was under investigation while passing through the Warp, the craft he was in suddenly crashed, which explained how Jax and Sonya found him.

Jax, Sub-Zero and Scorpion were confused, they couldn't understand 3/4 of what Titus was saying, but they started to piece back what they understood when Titus explained them about everything that he said, which relieved all 3 of them.

"Where are my captors?"

Jax silently lead them the corpses of the dead Inquisitor and of the four strangely colored Space Marines just by opening the body bags holding at 5 of them.

"Titus, what are these men?" Scorpion asked.

"These men, Scorpion, were the ones that detained me, the Black Templars."

Jax didn't take offense to Titus answer. He was sure that there were Knights Templar who fought at the Middle Ages, all of them were white, but he didn't really see 'Black Templars' but he really needed to get his history right, otherwise, he was just plain confused.

"Then who is that man in the strange garbs?" Sub-Zero asked.

"That's the man who apprehended me, Inquisitor Thrax." Titus replied then spat on the Inquisitor's corpse, making everyone understand how much Titus hated him.

Jax then pulled up his mini microphone on his right ear and dialed "Sonya, you getting this?"

"Confirmed."


"Wow, a Captain that fought like hell till he's out." the man known as Johnny Cage said, rather amazed by Titus' war experiences.

"That giant seemed to be a beast in battle." Kenshi commented.

"Yeah, never thought he'd go up against a lot." A bare chested man dressed in roughly made pants and boots, with a quiver on his back filled with a load of arrows, following a bandana on his forehead. He also carried a bow which was now attached across his right shoulder and his left hip.

"You're telling me Kung Jin, this guy's a killer." Jacqui complimented.

"Still, he's tough as Shinook." Takeda commented, remembering how Titus took both him and Jacqui singlehandedly.


"Alright now, why don't you leave us be, we got something to talk about with our friends."

Titus complied and waited, looking rather calm but intimidating.


"Alright, y'all got that fact that this guy's an ex-captain of his own company, how he fought against a lot like a boss, and how he whupped Chaos ass."

"If I were to say, we could allow him in the Special Forces."

"That all depends. How are you willing to put that guy in charge?"

"Don't worry 'bout that girl, I can take care of him."

"By the way, who's this Emperor this guy was blabbing about?"

"Dunno man, must the ruler of where he's from."

"Yeah, make him Captain again, don't you think?"

"Let's find out."


Titus surely was patient, very patient than the Space Wolves, whom he'd known for their savagery in battle that made them as ferocious as the Greenskins, or the Blood Angels, for their dedicated eternal battle for both Sanguinus and the Emperor. Usually, in Graia, his supposed enemies fell by him when he murdered their ruthless leaders to stop their attack, and he even looked at the machines that the Special Forces utilized. It wasn't as advanced as the Adeptus Mechanius would say, but upon looking on what he saw was an autocannon firing rapidly, Titus was impressed that such a weapon could have that much firepower, although it would be something that can attract the Orks for their obsession of salvage, firepower and speed can usually render them addicted to the thrill with no absolute limit.

That is, until Jax came by and invited Titus over. There, he met those whom he beaten before, but was surprised that none of them tried to attack him.

That is until the blonde woman and the younger woman on her right sat down along with those, but the Space Marine stood up instead, since none of the chairs can take his weight nor would the table can.

"So, I take it that you were a former Captain, yeah?" the young woman said, oblivious of Titus.

"Yes." the Astartes said plainly, rather not comfortable with the humans around him.

"Okay, since we know who you are, let's say hello, I'm Takeda."

"I'm his father, Kenshi."

"General Sonya Blade, and the idiot next to me, is my husband, Johnny Cage and the girl beside me is Sergeant Cassie Cage, my daughter." which irritated Johnny.

"Hanzo Hasashi, formerly known as Scorpion.

"Kuai Liang, also known as Sub-Zero."

"Jacqueline Briggs, my friends here call me Jacqui."

"Kung Jin."

Titus was at least confused for a while. He never heard of names such as that in the Imperium, long before his exile.

"What do you say we make a Captain of our Special Forces?" Sonya offered.

"Special Forces?"

"That's right. We're here to dedicate to protect Earthrealm from Outworld and the Netherrealm?"

"What are these places you say?"

Before their conversation went further, a portal loomed outside in where they were so everyone there went out and saw for themselves.

Titus then saw what he never had seen in his years as a Captain of the 2nd Company.

A tall, blue-skinned man dressed like a tattooed Aztec warrior with a long wooden stick with round metal spikes appeared sheathed at his side. His accomplices were...

A weird man with green eyes and in sorcerer's robes, usually covering up all over, with cloth covering his mouth.

A man whose face is covered with a mask that doesn't even cover his wrinkled, blackened eyes, clad in Western garbs, his hat was filled to the brim with bullets around the cap, he was dressed in a vest and leather leggings and boots. He also carried two holsters with Wild Western-era revolvers, and he also carried an ammo belt hanged around his left hip to his right shoulder. He also had an old hunting rifle attached to his back.

A mutant whose appearance looked nothing more than an overgrown reptile, hence his crocodile-like teeth and claws.

"I had enough of your prattling Earthrealmers! GIVE US BACK THE AMULET NOW!" the tall man said, obviously frustrated.

"Ugh! HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SAY IT?! WE DON'T HAVE THE AMULET!"

The tall man then looked at the Space Marine and was rather impressed by his size, because the Astartes was around his size, and was rather armored all over except his head.

"And what of this stranger you brought along?"

"He's-"

"Enough. I challenge this strange man to Mortal Kombat!"

"As you wish."

Titus sprang forward, with others looking up to him while the other guys looked up to the tall blue man.

"Fighting me will be a fatal error, mutant."

"There are no errors in my judgement. And I am no mutant. I am Kotal Kahn!"

So Kahn charged and performed a proxy sync fight with Titus, who blocked and swatted away his punches rather quickly, until he found an opening: he dodged Kahn's kick and punched him in the stomach then threw another in the face.

"Excellent, stranger." the tall blue man commented, after favoring his bruised lip.

Kahn then punched him in the face twice, but Titus dodged the third one and locked him in a clinch where he kneed and punch Kotal Kahn repeatedly in the stomach right before the latter dropped him in the back and flipped him over where Titus rolled before standing up. Kotal Kahn charged and synced blows with Titus, who blocked them rather hardly, even the shoulder block, in which Titus retaliated with a swift hit to the jaw then a Superman punch to the face. Kahn got lucky with a kick in the stomach but didn't expect Titus ram him upright in the chest following with a spinning heel kick to the face and then the ex-Captain pick up the Emperor of Outworld then slam him face-first in the other side of the pavement.

Kahn was about to stand up but didn't expect Titus to throw a powerful punch at his jaw, then a chokeslam that broke his spine and a stomp to the face which broke half of his skull. Surprisingly, Kotal Kahn wasn't able to get up again.

"Your invasion is short-lived, mutant." Titus mused upon seeing the broken form of Kotal Kahn.

Just as he was about to beat up the Emperor of Outworld more, the Western styled man stepped forward with both revolvers aimed at his head, warning "Come any closer and I'll put some in your head."

Titus swatted away his revolvers and kicked the man in the chest, sending him flying across until he crash landed onto a couple of doors of a cargo container, knocking him out cold.

The mystical green eyed man pushed him away with ESP and grabbed the broken form of Kotal Kahn as the reptile-like mutant grabbed the cowboy-styled bounty hunter and his guns.

"This is not over stranger! We will avenge this dishonorable humiliation!" the mystic forewarned and escape via portal with the mutant carrying the bounty hunter by his shoulders.

Titus stood up and was surprised by the mystic's power. That wasn't the powers of the Warp he saw but a complete force he never saw before.

"Who was that man in the green eyes? And that mutant? Who were those?" Titus asked.

"I guess you beat the shit out of Kotal Kahn too, and that cowboy."

"Kotal Kahn?"

"He's the new Emperor of Outworld."

So in just 6 hours, Sonya and Jax told him everything regarding what happened before he came here to Earthrealm.

"He said something about an amulet? What was he looking for."

The group that Johnny Cage formed told him that and he began to understand. He started to respect these people for fighting on against a dangerous threat in what they called Mortal Kombat, which Kenshi, Scorpion and Sub-Zero told him that it was a challenge to the death where two warriors would start fighting each other until the one of the two warriors die. They also said that it was used by the Elder Gods to maintain order throughout the realms, but Titus didn't ask who were the Elder Gods, as if he "knew" them already.

So on and so forth, the ex-Captain of the Ultramarine's 2nd Company began working for Special Forces to defend Earthrealm in the best way possible. This was, technically, Holy Terra before the time of the Imperium and the Emperor.


Sorry it took me so long, again, but I'll continue with what spare time I have. DUN FERGET TA R&R, YA GITZ!