Here it is! the longest chapter in the story, enjoy!
"What?" gasped Sonya, Liu Kang and everyone else who heard it. They were shocked to know something they never thought before, that sub-zero wasn't the one who killed his family,
"Liu Kang" shouted someone coming from Scorpion's army, it was Sareena holding a large book.
"Sareena? What are you doing here?" asked Liu Kang as she got closer to him,
"You were right" she replied "I can change this"
"Did you bring him?" asked Sonya pointing to Scorpion
"Yes, I convinced him to join us by telling him the truth"
"What truth?" both asked
"That Quan chi is the real murder of his clan and family"
They were shocked; they couldn't gasp or transmit any sound. Kitana and Ashrah, who got closer to them as they saw Sareena, were also petrified after hearing that dreadful information.
"But how did you bring him and his army of undead ninjas until here?" asked Sonya confused
"Well…it wasn't very difficult…."
Back in Shinnok's palace, hours earlier before the battle. Everyone had left, everyone except Sareena. She was looking to the horizon and saw in the distance, the huge horde of warriors along with Shinnok , who was leading them, entering an enormous portal.
"I guess I'm alone now" she mused. She turned around and saw the scripts, now molded into a book, above a stool. Sareena smiled to see that the book was still there, and took it.
She entered the palace's dungeon, where scorpion was locked. Luckily for her, no one was at the dungeon since they all left for the battle.
The silence of the dungeon made Sareena feel a bit awkward since normally that place also contained a torture chamber, where loud screams of agony could be heard. She finally found scorpion's cell. He was at the furthest corner, sitting on the floor with his head bowed.
"Scorpion!" she called him, but he didn't answer "I have something to tell you", the ninja still didn't answer
"There's something important you should know, it is something that has been veiled from-"
She was interrupted by a spear who almost hit her, and craved into the wall.
"It is not of my business whatever you carry " he grunted
"But it is about Quan chi!" contested Sareena
"If it is about going to stop him or Shinnok, I'd rather rot in this cell"
"No, it is about your clan and its true murder"
Scorpion looked to her serious and got closer to her
"What do you mean?" he hissed
"You have been fooled all this time about the real story of that horrendous tragedy; the person who killed your family was…" Sareena hesitated,
"Who was it? Tell me now!" demanded Scorpion
"…no other but Quan chi"
Scorpion widened his eyes, stepped back, and roared completely enraged.
"Wait!" I can change this" shouted Sareena "Join me and you'll be able to face him, and avenge your clan"
Scorpion paused for a moment, and then looked to her, "Get me out of here" he commented, she opened the cell door and he stepped outside.
"We need support" he said looking to the book, knowing that it was the scripts. He hold her hand, and suddenly an portal opened, they entered it and it disappeared.
They were still in the Netherrealm as Sareena looked around, but in a place she had never been before, a huge cemetery was in their front. Scorpion looked to her and the book, in which she knew what he was referring. The sorceress stepped forward, opened the book and looked at the resurrection spell. She began chanting the spell, and saw that clouds began to cover the ski, followed by bolts of lightning, she continued performing it and some green energy appeared in her hands, she looked to the graves and shot the energy into all of them.
The earth began to crumble, and as the lightings got intense, one hit a grave, and a hand rose from the ground, a man began to climb up from the tombstone, followed by several other undead men.
"We are ready" said Scorpion.
Sonya and the rest looked surprised, as they heard it right that Sareena had the book.
"And that's how he's joining us" concluded Sareena
"But how did you get the book?" asked Liu Kang "how come that Quan chi simply left the book alone?"
"Let's say that he keeps leaving things behind" she replied "but there's something important you guys need to know"
They looked to her curious
"The page that has the spell that broke Shinnok free, has also another powerful one which can literally destroy him"
"What's so different about this one from all the magic that can also destroy?" asked Kitana
"This one, once hit by it, the subject can never be resurrected or be brought back to this world, however it takes time to perform it, and we cannot let anyone to interfere, and most important of all, we need to distract Shinnok at all costs"
"Very Well" said Raiden who stood behind them unnoticed
Suddenly they heard drums coming from the enemy's fleet, and saw that Shinnok levitated into the ski, accompanied by Sindel.
"Mother…" sighed Kitana,
"What?" asked Ashrah surprised,
"She's my mother"
"But why would she try to kill us? I confronted her once, and she swore revenge upon me"
"It is not her way, she is under some mysterious spell, which corrupted her, made her evil"
"Corrupted you say… Well, this sword is known for purifying, maybe I can help that"
"Thank you, but try not to kill her"
Ashrah nodded.
Raiden and Shinnok stood in the middle of the battlefield, face-to-face.
"Well, Well, if it isn't the thunder god" he grinned
"I see you've escaped from your cell, Shinnok"
"Nothing could stop my desire of revenge, and now here I am, finally facing you"
"You may be free, but that doesn't make you stronger than I"
"We'll see about that"
The gods returned to their sides, and prepared for the moment
"ATTACK" shouted Shinnok, and the fleet began moving, as Raiden saw them moving, he also commanded them to move.
The two sides collided, the battle began.
Sonya couldn't count how many warriors she was hitting, it was like for every move she made, it was hitting someone else. Most of them were amateurs compared to her skills; she punched, kneed, kicked and performed several combos knocking them away.
Johnny Cage also didn't had any problems by hitting all of those monsters and warriors, but suddenly in his front, appeared Baraka, he faced him. The tarkatan began swinging his blades into him, but the actor was able to block them and push them away, then he quickly performed a green shadow uppercut. Baraka stood up, and tried slicing Johnny with his blades, but missed again, this time; Cage not only blocked him again, but performed several punches and kicks into the Tarkatan, and then grabbed him and threw him to the ground. Baraka didn't give up, he stood up and blocked Johnny's attack, this time he punched him twice in the torso and performed the blade spin. Cage, now hurt stood up, cleaned his glasses and went back to face the tarkatan, "Now I'm angry" said the actor.
For Jax's dismay, he faced the same person who once defeated him, and ripped off his limbs. Ermac looked to him and recognized him. The ninja shot several force balls into him, but he managed to dodge them and shot an energy wave afterwards. However Ermac avoided the attack and suddenly vanishes in a cloud of fire, when Jax began turning around to see where he did he go, he appeared behind him, trying to do an uppercut. Jax managed to walk away the minute he tried to punch him, and as the ninja finished teleporting, he quickly performed an ground pound. He now came closer to Ermac, who got confused due of the shaking, and punched him several times, and ended his move with a dash punch. Ermac felt into his knees and levitated, looking angry to him.
"You shouldn't have ripped my arms, you ninja freak" grunted Jax, "You may be strong, but we are many" said Ermac "Be ready to die!".
Kitana sliced her fan into several warriors, and just like Sonya, she didn't know how many she was actually hitting at. As she swung them, they were suddenly blocked. She looked to the front and saw that a pair of Sai detained them, and Mileena were holding it, pushing them forwards. Both girls moved away, still holding their weapons.
"I see you woke up, sister" said Mileena "did you have sweet dreams?" ,
"I was…" said Kitana sarcastically "until you came and tried to kill me"
"Why so fussy? I just wanted to pay a little visit; after all, you're my dear sister who needed my company"
"Don't play innocent with me; I know your real intentions, Mileena"
"Ooh, is that so? Let's see if you can guess THIS!"
Mileena shot a sai blast into Kitana, she quickly avoided them, however the tarkatan clone quickly performed a roll ball afterwards, hitting her. The princess quickly recovered, and as the evil clone tried to perform a back kick on her, she performed a fan lift. Mileena levitated helplessly into the air, and Kitana began kicking her in the stomach, then she swung her fans into her.
Mileena blocked her last movement, and stepped back, she then performed a teleport drop hitting Kitana, she then began punching her several times, she grabbed her and threw her into the ground. As Kitana recovered, she saw Mileena jumping into her, but before she could leap into her, she walked back and threw her fans into the tarkatan, and she got hit by it. Kitana performed a combo composed of punches and kicks, and afterwards performed a pretty kick.
As Kitana finished her last move. Mileena's scarf fell off, exposing her Tarkatan mouth, however the clone didn't stop there, and went back to fight her.
Cyrax, along with other warriors, were facing the cyborg army. They began shooting missile into their direction, and as he saw them getting closer, he quickly commanded all of those who accompanied him to evade them, in which they did.
"They are stronger than I expected" he thought, however, his thoughts were interrupted as he saw Sektor fighting another warrior, who was weaker than him. Cyrax interfered the fight by shooting an energy net, trapping Sektor, "I'll handle him, take care of the others" said Cyrax, the warrior nodded, and went to fight the regular cyborgs along his allies.
Cyrax performed an uppercut, punching Sektor away. The cyborg lifted up and performed a rocket punch, but Cyrax blocked the attack and grabbed, he threw him into the ground, and as the cyborg stood up. Cyrax began punching him, he kneed him afterwards, and sliced him with his buzzsaw.
Sektor began moving faster towards Cyrax, before he could defend himself, Sektor punched him in the stomach, then twice on the face. Sektor performed a back kick, and then, from his flamethrowers implanted on his arm, he threw flames on him. Cyrax quickly put out the fire, and Sektor, once again tried to attack with a back kick, but Cyrax evaded the attack, and performed a reverse kick.
"What are you doing?" shouted Sonya to Sareena, which was evading any confrontation
"They can't see the book" she replied "I have to keep it hidden until the end"
"How are you going to do this?" said Li Mei, who was also in the area "They're to- Look out!"
She shouted when a dragon flew by and breathed fire at the area, they evaded it, but the dragon was flying back to them. Sareena looked to the dragon, and saw a person mounted on it, and realized that he controlled the dragon's actions. She had an idea in how she could hide herself from the battle.
"Both of you, keep going!" she said to Sonya and Li Mei "I'll know what to do"
"Fujin!" she called the wind god, who was in the area levitated, summoning tornados which were blasting enemies away
"Yes" he replied back
"Throw me into that dragon"
He grabbed her and with his wind powers, tossed her into the dragon. Sareena posed into a flying kick position, and as she was about to land on the dragon, she knocked out the mounted warrior, and landed on its place. She quickly got control of the dragon and commanded to fly around. She saw the battlefield, the Shokans and centaurs were confronting the Onis, Sheeva was jumping and landing in several Onis, crushing them, and at the same time, beating several other warriors with her four hands.
She also saw that her allies were fighting against other enemies, she saw Kai facing Reptile, Frost facing Skarlet, and Kenshi facing Noob Saibot.
Suddenly she saw Jarek and Kira, along with other warriors, running into Sonya's direction, she quickly commanded the dragon to fly closer, and as it did, she made him breath fire into the enemies, in which Jarek and Kira evaded the fire.
"Watch it, Moron!" screamed Jarek believing that it was one of them controlled the dragon, but then he saw that it Sareena who controlled the dragon.
"That sneaky bitch" he grunted
"I knew there was something fishy about her" commented Kira, she looked around and saw both Sonya and Li Mei
"Well,well,well, look who got here! If it isn't Ms. Police officer" grinned Kira "Do you still desperately want Kano? You have to pass against me!"
"And me!" said Jarek
"Two against one? Wow! You guys really know how to play fair" said Sonya ironically
"Not anymore Sonya, I'll help" said Li Mei but was stopped by Sonya "Don't worry, I'll handle them both"
"Shall we begin?" said Kira
And so it did, Sonya faced both Kira and Jarek, but they underestimated her. Since it wasn't her first battle against more than one enemy. She was experienced, and quickly avoided Kira's first attack, then punched Jarek several times, and as Kira tried to hit back, she blocked her move, and hit her several times with a combination of punches and kicks, as Jarek was going to do a back kick, Sonya blocked his leg, grabbed it, and threw him into Kira.
"Now I've had it!" said Kira angrily, who took her dragon teeth and ran into Sonya, but she not only blocked her attacks again, but she shot three energy rings into Kira, and performed a cart-wheel afterwards. She had knocked her out, and as Jarek, consumed by rage, was going to attack her, she quickly performed a bicycle kick into him, and an air kick afterwards. She defeated both of them and rushed back to Li Mei.
"She mounted a dragon" said Li Mei surprised,
"Now that's what I call clever" said Sonya, and took her back to the battle.
Sareena looked down and saw that they were safe. She continued flying around, and making the dragon breathe fire into the enemies. Suddenly, she felt something had climbed on the creature. As she looked back, she only saw hair covering her, trapping her whole body. As she struggled to get free, she saw Sindel, and realized that her hair was wrapping her, and it began to tighten harder, suffocating Sareena.
"Foolish traitor" said Sindel "Did you really believe you could defeat Shinnok?" she laughed, "Now you'll see what happens when someone steps in our way". The long hair began to tighten more, causing Sareena to barely breath. However, all of the sudden, a sword passes through the hair, cutting it. Sareena was released, and began recovering. Sindel who was surprised, looked back to see who did intervene, and saw Ashrah holding her Kriss.
"Get away from her!" she argued
"How dare you interfere my fight" said Sindel
"That doesn't deserve to be named as a fight; you simply sneaked from behind and attacked by surprise"
"Surprise? Hehehe, I have a big surprise for you,THIS"
Sindel performed her Yell into Ashrah, stunning her, and performed an uppercut, knocking her out of the dragon
Sindel laughed villainously, and as she looked down to see if she fell dead, for her dismay, she saw Ashrah flying, rushing into her, in which she grabbed her away from the dragon.
Ashrah tossed her into the sky, but Sindel also knew levitation, and so stood still in the air.
"Your abilities impress me, Ashrah"
"Enough talking, let's get this over"
Sindel began attacking as fast as she could, but Ashrah could block her attacks, surprising her. Ashrah suddenly performed a Nature's torpedo, which knocked Sindel away. Sindel whipped her hair into Ashrah, and continued doing so. However, Ashrah avoided one hit, and took her Kriss, blocking the hair's attacks.
Kitana saw from the ground the two of them fighting in the air.
"mother" she sighed. But she was interrupted as Mileena swung her Sai near her. She quickly blocked it, and hold her Fans pressing the Sai.
"Mommy can't break up or fight, Sis', it's up to us" said Mileena trying to push the Fans away.
Kitana glared at her, and moved the fans slicing Mileena in the chest; she then kicked her in the face, and swung her fan into the Tarkatan repeatedly.
"Let me tell you something for once and all" says Kitana as she hit her.
"You're!" she punches her in the face
"Not!" She performs a back kick
"My!" she kicks her in the stomach
"Sister!" she ends her move with an Uppercut, knocking Mileena out.
The Tarkatan fell unconscious on the floor, concluding their fight.
Kitana rushed near where Ashrah and Sindel were fighting, and saw that it was a tough combat.
Ashrah had the upper hand, she performed a huge combo into Sindel. As she finished her combo, she took the Kriss, which began to glow bright, and sliced through Sindel's chest. Instead of blood, a red mist came out, which burst away from Sindel's body. The Sorceress fell into the floor, unconsciously.
"Mother!" cried Kitana, and got closer to her. She kneeled and lifted her head. She began moving her lips, and slowly opened her eyes.
"W-what happened?" she spoke softly "K-Kitana? Is that y-you?" she frowned. Kitana nodded
"You were under a curse, Shao Kahn had corrupted you", Kitana helped her stand up.
Sindel looked around surprised to see that they were in a battlefield. Kitana quickly explained her everything that happened, and both went back to battle the enemies that were left. As they went on, Kitana realized that Ashrah wasn't around, wondering what happened to her after she broke the curse that held her mother.
Johnny cage had finally defeated Baraka, and saw that Fujin was blasting enemies away with his wind powers.
"Hey! Why don't you blow them all away at once!" shouted Johnny
"I can do this, but it will take some time, and I cannot be interrupted" replied the god
"I'll cover you!" said Johnny, and the wind god began chanting a spell and gathering wind in his hands.
Ermac had controlled Jax through his telekinetic force, he levitated him and smashed him twice at the ground. He stood up and even being injured, he walked back to his confrontation.
"Give up human, it is impossible for you to triumph over us" said the ninja.
"You may swing me around, smash me at the floor, or even rip my limbs off" hesitated Jax, "But I'll never, ever, give up a fight!"
Ermac glared to Jax "Very well, mortal, you have sealed your faith; you will die under our hands!"
Ermac performs and teleport punch, hitting Jax, then he quickly shot force balls into him. Jax got hit by two of them, but he managed two avoid the following ones. He rushed into Ermac by doing a dash fist, in which he grabbed him, threw him up, and then grabbed him by the face, and slammed him into the floor. The Red ninja began trying to attack back, but Jax blocked his attack, and grabs him.
"Gotcha!" said Jax and began punching him several times; however, Jax punched him so much that suddenly, when he punched him again, his fist went through Ermac's head. Jax had killed him, but as he stepped back, Ermac's body began to tremble; a green light began to shine from it. It burst into several souls, in which due of the force impact, pushed Jax away. The souls scattered through the sky, making Jax conclude that Ermac was no more.
Scorpion saw Quan chi in the distance. He began running into their direction, but he got stopped by Kobra, who stood in his way.
"You're not going anywhere, ninja! Especially not to Quan chi, you have to face me first!" said Kobra, who did a fatal mistake. Scorpion rage to face the sorcerer was so big, that he beat the crap out of him just to get him out of the way. Kobra was severely injured, lying on the floor.
"Stay away…" said Scorpion angrily, but for his dismay other fighters ran into him, it was Kano, Reiko and Tanya, only infuriating him more. But before they could get closer to him, Kano got hit by Sonya's energy rings, Li Mei performed her flying furry into Reiko, which she knocked him away from scorpion's distance. And Sheeva , who felt from the sky, lands near Tanya quickly grabbing her and tossing her into the ground.
"Well handle them" said Li Mei, scorpion nodded an kept going.
"I'm finally facing you, Kano" said Sonya
"Well Hello Baby. Did you miss me?" he said grinning
"Cut the crap, Kano. Let's get this over"
Kano began throwing one of his knives, but Sonya managed to avoid them. However the moment she evaded it, he had performed a Kano ball, which hit her,. But she quickly recovered an as he tried tohit her, she blocked him, and began kicking him several times, then she performs an uppercut which send him to the ground.
Kano stood up, then lunged into Sonya, but she manages to block him, and punches him in the stomach, then performed a Leg grab, smashing Kano into the ground.
"You've gotten better by the years, babe" said Kano recovering "I wish we could share our fighting knowledge to become the mightiest fighters of all times"
Sonya, not fooled by his talking, only looked sarcastically to him, she sighed and shook her head, "In your wettest dreams"
Kano Glared at her, "So be it!" he grunted, and jumped into Sonya. He punched her twice in the stomach and in the head, and then he repeatedly performed a Kano ball, sending Sonya to the ground. She quickly stood, and as he tried to attack her again by swinging his knife into her, she blocked and performed a combo made of several punches and kicks, then ending it with a cart-wheel.
Li Mei and Reiko clashed into each other, he tried to swing his hammer into her but she avoided, and as he lifted up the hammer, presumably to strike her in the head, She kicks him in the stomach and performs a Carnival spin into him.
Reiko, full of anger, lunged into her punching her twice in the face, and then with the hammer, hit her in the stomach.
Li Mei recovered slowly, while still on the floor;
"he, he, he, you really think you can beat me, don't you? You bitchy rebel"
Li Mei frowned and in blink, she moved he body and performed a leg sweep, which made him fall in the ground.
She stood up and looked down to him, "As a matter of fact, I do"
Sheeva tried once again to stomp Tanya from the air, but the sorceress made to evade her attack and as she landed, shot a fire ball into her, then attacked her by an air kick. Sheeva shook her head, and as Tanya tried to hit her with an back kick, she blocked her feet with her upper right hand, and with the lower ones, punched her in the stomach, then with the upper hands, punched her in the face, and shot an fireball into Tanya, holding her off.
Tanya avoided other fireballs shot by Sheeva, and as she got closer to her, she performed a human cannon drill, Sheeva got hit by it, but she quickly advanced into her and tried to attack her, but Tanya avoided and moved away.
"Let's see how skilled you are" said Tanya and surrounded herself with a flaming haze, disappearing.
Sheeva, who was already familiar with fighters that had invisibility powers, only waited, "You really thought that I never saw this before" she smirked and performed an ground pound which made Tanya, who was about to attack her, visible and get knocked back. Sheeva quickly lunged into her, grabbed Tanya with her lower arms, and repeatedly hit her in the face with her upper hands, smacking her to the ground.
"Would you like me to go easy on you now?" said Sheeva
Tanya stood up and glared at her.
Cyrax was still facing Sektor, but he had the upper hand. He performed a combo into the cyborg; he struck Sektor in the head with a bomb, causing it to detonate in his head, bouncing the cyborg away.
Sektor's body began to writhe, as a result of a malfunction in Sektor's mechanism from the damage taken. The Cyborg suddenly reset, and stood up. His past memories had been activated and he recognized Cyrax
"Cyrax" he grunted "You've failed to prove yourself to the Lin Kuei, especially by rejecting the Cyber initiative".
"To prove what? " He contested "That I'm not submissive? I don't care what the faction's plans are; neither you nor them, can force me to surrender my freedom to such a vile experiment"
Suddenly, as they were going to fight, a strong blast came to their attention, a huge Tornado had formed in the area, and many warriors were being sucked by it. Cyrax crouched to the ground, trying to evade the tornado, but he realized that the tornado, for some odd reason, wasn't taking him, and for his surprise, Sektor got taken by it. He realized that the warriors getting taken by it were their enemies, and he saw all of them getting taken
Fujin's spell had worked; he had summoned a tornado, which was taking all the enemies away. Other ones saw the immense danger and began retreating. The Allies also thought that the tornado would take them consecutively,
The tornado had interrupted the fights that Sonya, Li mei and Sheeva were part of. The lieutenant saw how Kano had suddenly being taken by the tornado, and quickly realized that the tornado was "artificial",
"I'll be baaaack!" screamed Reiko as getting taken by the tornado, but Li Mei could barely see him.
Liu Kang, which only faced warriors and monsters, got lost in the tornado, which covered the area making him barely see the surroundings. It should have been really bad luck for him, because as he kept walking, he came face-to-face with Quan Chi. It was bizarre to see that he didn't get sucked by the tornado as his comrades did.
"We meet again, Liu Kang" said the sorcerer "Sadly for you, this time, fighting is not a choice"
"You do not intimidate me, Quan chi"
"But I will soon, when I'll be about to kill you"
"Liu Kang!" shouted Kitana entering the area, accompanied of Sonya and Kenshi.
"Well, if it isn't one of the souls who came back from the dead" said Quan chi looking to her "I don't know what kind of powerful magic resurrected you, but you won't escape this time"
"Wrong guess, Quan chi" interfered Sonya "Magic didn't bring her back, Science did"
"I'll handle you all later, after I happily kill your mate here"
Quan chi and Liu Kang started the fight. The Sorcerer teleported up in the sky, then quickly appeared above the shaolin fighter. H dropped himself into Liu Kang, trying to stomp him, but Liu Kang avoided, and as the sorcerer landed on the floor, he kicked the sorcerer in the stomach then on the head. Liu Kang performed a flying kick into the sorcerer, knocking him away.
Quan chi became angry, and as Liu Kang began attacking him, he blocked his attacks and performed a combo into the young warrior. He then shot a skull ball into him, and as Liu Kang tried to attack by punching him, Quan chi quickly summoned a skeleton, in which the shaolin warrior hit it instead of him.
The sorcerer quickly got closer to Liu Kang, and performed a nasty combo, punching and kicking the shaolin warrior multiple times.
Liu Kang was lying on the floor really injured, the sorcerer walked slowly to him, believing that he was doomed.
"Not so lucky now…" grinned Quan chi "the thunder god can't help you now, Liu Kang"
"Liu! No!" screamed Kitana who saw the fight the whole time
"Any last words?" smirked the sorcerer as he lifted his hand, which had absorbed green energy power
Suddenly, Quan chi was struck by something in the back
"GET OVER HERE!"
Scorpion had arrived on the scene, and threw his spear into Quan chi from behind. He pulled the Sorcerer, who got pierced by his spear, near him, and performed several attacks into the necromancer. He did everything imaginable, and the sorcerer couldn't fight back due of his speed. Scorpion then grabbed him by the neck and hold him in midair, slowly suffocating him.
"You despicable liar!" said scorpion in rage "You will die for your sins"
The Sorcerer was getting suffocated, but then Scorpion ripped his heart out and squeezed it. Quan chi cries in pain, and before the sorcerer could stop breathing, a fire emerged from the ground, burning him alive; it surrounded them, changing its color to blue.
Sonya Kitana, who was helping Liu Kang to stand up, and rest were shocked to see that, then all soldiers of scorpion's clan, suddenly opened their boned jaws and roared, they rushed into the flame making it bigger. All of them had joined the huge blue, and it swirled through the tornado and burst away. The tornado suddenly faded, stopping the wind storm.
They looked around and saw that everybody was there, however something was really missing at that moment.
"Guys…" said Sonya "Where's Raiden?"
They looked to each other and saw that he wasn't between them.
"Hey! Look!" said Frost pointing to the sky
They saw two comets flying through the sky, and it was moving in a tremendous speed, they clashed at a moment, then distanced from each other.
Suddenly the two comets rushed into their direction. They flew above them, and Liu Kang could see, in matter of slow motion, that those two comets were actually Raiden and Shinnok fighting, the comets moved away from them, dashing into the sky.
"That was Raiden!" said Liu,
"What?" asked Johnny confused,
"The comets! They are actually Raiden and Shinnok fighting, they…. That's it!"
"What are you talking about?" demanded Cage
"Listen, we need to get them closer to us so that Sareena can perform the spell into Shinnok, all we need is to keep him distracted while she chant it"
"I'm over here" said Sareena landing with her dragon "that plan would actually work, if Shinnok doesn't notice that I have the book"
"He'll be busy facing Raiden, if anything happens, we interfere to keep him distracted" said Jax
"But how are we going to make them stay close to us" asked Johnny,
They looked to each other, and as Sonya looked around, she noticed the magic bracelet that Raiden gave to them, "the bracelet!" said Sonya "We can use to call Raiden to come here"
Liu Kang smiled and moved his arm closer to him and talked to the bracelet "Raiden, if you can listen to me, we know how to stop Shinnok, and we need you to lure him into here"
They waited and looked to the sky if the comets were still there, and for their surprise, they saw them bolting into their directions.
In a matter of seconds, both gods appeared fighting each other.
Shinnok and Raiden were fighting at an enormous speed. Each of them were using their powers as attacks. But suddenly, Shinnok attacked Raiden several times, hitting him. Then he summons two huge Skeletal hands from the ground, which grabbed Raiden tightly.
"Ha ha ha! At last revenge is mine!" said Shinnok with pride "And now you-", Shinnok got interrupted by a fireball shot by Liu Kang.
"Foolish mortal! How dare you interfere my battle" grunted the god
"What? Are you angry over an defenseless human?" said Liu Kang provoking him
Shinnok, angered by his teasing, shoots an energy ball into him, but he avoids it, and as Liu Kang moved away, Shinnok gets struck by an ice blast shot by Frost. The god lunges into her, but gets hit by Johnny's shadow kick. The god turned to him, and tries to hit him, but Cage avoids his attack, and afterwards, Shinnok gets hit by two of Sonya's energy rings, The god gets then hit by Cyrax buzzsaw coming from one direction, Li Mei's nova blast from another one, Kenshi's Telekinetic slash from left, Kitana's Fan toss from right, and Kai's renegade kick from behind.
The sorcerer then got hit by Liu Kang's bicycle kick. He stands up, and lunges into the shaolin warrior and as he grabbed him. Liu Kang screamed "Now!"
Sareena, who was back with her dragon flying around, shoots the spell she chanted into Shinnok. A force pushed the warriors away, and the God began writhing, trembling, and a lighting started to cover the body, and at the same time, light began shining from him,
"Noooooo…." Screamed the god, as it gets taken by the force. He gets rushed high into the sky and suddenly, a huge light burst in the sky. Shinnok had been defeated for good.
"He's….. Dead!" whispered Johnny Cage
The silence was broken when all the warriors cheered their victory.
"We did it Johnny!" cheered Sonya
"Yeah!" he answered
"Thanks to Sareena," said Liu Kang "Shinnok has been finally stopped"
Sareena, who came down from the dragon, felt happy to have done the right thing
"It is good to have things getting back to what they were once" said Sindel,
People looked shocked to see her, since they still thought that she was evil
"Don't worry guys" intervened Kitana "She got free from the curse, Ashrah broke it"
"Wait a minute, where is she?" asked Sonya
They looked around and saw lights coming from the sky. From those lights, they saw her coming down. Now completely purified, Ashrah's eyes were glowing bright.
"I am free now" she said in her mystic voice "Thanks to you, Liu Kang, I've completely purified myself, now the elder gods have taken me to join all those who got their souls purified, to walk anonymously among the realms, to then decide in which to stay, and become a guardian of it, I've come back to thank you and do one last thing"
Ashrah walked towards Sareena, took her Kriss and gave it to her
Sareena looked surprised to the sword, which shortly glowed when she held it
"You have proven that the good in you is strong" said Ashrah "take this sword, and begin your quest to purify yourself, so that one day you will join us"
Sareena smiled and nodded. Ashrah walked away and began levitating "good bye" she said and by a light force coming from the sky, she magically disappeared into the lights, presumably ascending into the heavens.
"that was impressive" said Johnny Cage,
"And there's more to come" smiled Liu Kang and took the orb containing their allies' souls form his pocket.
"let's do this" said Liu Kang
"I have the resurrection spell, Liu Kang "said Sareena and showed him the book
"But won't they become zombies like Scorpion's clan?" asked Li Mei
"That was a different resurrection spell from the same section" explained Sareena "this one is full resurrection, they'll be living humans again"
Liu Kang broke the orb and several souls scattered around; Sareena began to chant the spell, and a bright light energy appeared from her hands, from the sky, some light covered bodies appeared this time, several of them appeared, they descended into the ground, the lights vanished.
It was their resurrected allies; Kung Lao, Smoke, Kabal, Jade, Stryker, Nightwolf, and Sub-zero.
"Kitana?" said Jade still confused of what happened,
"Jade!" cheered the princess who ran and hugged her.
The other ones got closer to their comrades and greeted them,
"Oh!" thought Johnny cage as he saw sub-zero "Hey sub!" he called him "there's someone who wants to see you".
He took the ninja and went to Frost, who hadn't see him yet.
"Frost!" said Sub-zero
She looked skeptic to him, since she didn't recognize him because he was still a cyborg
"It is me, sub-zero" he said "the Lin Kuei had ambushed me and turned into a cyborg"
Frost thought of Cyrax, who had told about the Lin Kuei's gruesome experiments, and how he got turned into a cyborg, due of the faction's new "initiatives"
"Master sub-zero!" she recognized him and bowed
"I am so sorry Frost that I had to suddenly leave our training, due of the tournament, it wasn't my intention to leave, but now I can train you to be a grand master"
Johnny, whose jaws dropped to realize that they weren't a couple as he originally thought, came closer to them
"I don't think that's necessary, Sub" said Johnny "Frost had shown that she can handle her ice powers with an ease"
"Is this true?" asked Sub-zero surprised
Frost looked to Cage, realizing that he was helping her, and nodded back
"Well, I guess your training is complete, you're now officially a grand ninja" said the cyborg
"Thank you master" said the female ninja relieved, she looked to Cage and nodded, "Thanks" she whispered, the actor smirked.
"Oh! Sub –zero" called Sareena "If you want, there is a spell in this book that can turn you back"
"Do it!" said the ninja.
Raiden congratulated them of defeating Shinnok, however, the god still don't what to do with the book.
"the book?" said Liu Kang looking to it, which Sareena was holding "I've got a better idea"
Sareena knew what he was going to, and stayed on her position. She threw the book up in the air, and Liu kang shot an fireball into it, causing the book to burn into ashes. "Now there won't be any more wars because of it" concluded the Shaolin monk.
"We are free now from the oppressing regime "said Sheeva "and it's all thanks to you, Sonya"
"We wouldn't have made it without you" said Li Mei "We are forever in your debt" and then, they and all the Outworld warriors bowed to her, the rebel humans, the Shokans, Centaurs and Tarkatans.
"Well" said Sheeva "We need a ruler, Sindel, your majesty, you could be our ruler"
"No" answered Sindel "that is not necessary, I am from Edenia, and that's the realm I belong to"
"But what about us?" asked a centaur,
"It is time for not one to rule this land, but the people instead shall rule it" intervened Kitana "this is your home, in which you fought for stay here and to be free of any oppressive force. All species are equal; none is superior than other in any way. To represent this enormous land, not one person should do it, but a group instead, each member from a different region, different species, regardless if it is a men, women, youngster, elder, warrior, peasant, aristocrat, monarch or any other class"
The warriors looked to each other and agreed with what Kitana said. The others were impressed with the woman's words of dealing such a difficult issue.
Kobra, who incredibly did not get taken by the tornado, was still injured and dragging on the floor, trying to walk away. His view of the horizon was cut when a boot stood in his front, he looked up and saw Sonya and Jax, with his arm crossed.
"Kobra dear" beamed Sonya as she crouched and got closer to his head "you're under arrest". The black dragon member only moaned and his head felt on the floor, fatigued.
Later that day, it was time to leave; Raiden summoned a portal, which sent Sonya and Johnny back to Earthrealm. At last it was finally over.
It's not over yet!
