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Anyways, whats done is done. as you can tell, at least those of you who know the story of MKX, that we are getting very close to the end of this story. Just a friendly reminder, I said that I would be lightly following the storyline of MKX, not seriously though. Just using bits and pieces of it, using it more as of a guideline than anything else. Hope you all have been enjoying the story so far. Oh, and if anyone has any drawing requests, lemme know! I loooooove to draw! I've got a couple of pics uploaded on Deviantart. Go search for the name 'shadowninja117'…I know, what a lame ass name, right? I had severe writers block at the time, hahaha…anyways, go check it out. I reeeaaaaalllly fucked up on the chick though, I didn't even notice it though until I uploaded it. Anyways, go check it out, and if you want me to draw something for your own story or whatever, just let me know!
Moving on! Now that little announcement is out of the way, enjoy the story!
A Broken Man
Chapter 17
Fighting the Fallen
Naruto and Mileena walked inside the main chamber of the Jensei. They saw that D'Vorah was spitting some sort of web-like material all over Johnny Cage, trapping him. Meanwhile, Cassie Cage was witnessing Shinnok inside of the Jensei energy, contaminating it, and then absorbing it. Naruto and Mileena both watched as the Fallen Elder God literally transformed into some sort of monster. Shinnok glided down in front of Cassie and said to her, "This is what awaits those who oppose me…slow and excruciating death!"
He shot out a blast of energy at the daughter of Cage. Cassie rolled out of the way, just barley dodging the energy projectile. She began to pull out her pistol but was stopped by getting hit with another energy ray that corrupt Shinnok shot at her. With a loud yelp of pain, Cassie was blown back several feet. When she stopped rolling, she was on the ground face down and unmoving.
"Go check on her!" Naruto yelled at Mileena. She nodded and went to go complete her task, but was interrupted by D'Vorah who said to the half Edenian, "The forgotten Empress…"
Angered, Mileena pulled out her sais as she said, "You will remember me, insect!"
"Every time we pass your grave," D'Vorah retorted.
Mileena growled and said, "I will rip out your throat!"
Mileena tossed her sais at the insect queen, eager to get first blood. She was rewarded with a cry of pain that came from the Kytin (That's what D'Vorah is, right? Kytin?) D'Vorah was not expecting to be that fast, she definitely wasn't that quick before. D'Vorah looked back at the former Empress, a large gash across her cheek. She roared out in fury and threw her hands forward, and thousands upon thousands of insects flew out from her wrists, intending on devouring Mileena alive.
She was surprised to find that her insects slowly turned completely black, but were still moving around. She produced a few thousand more, but the same result happened. She could no longer feel any of her insects that she had just released, but right in front of her few at least ten thousand insects, if not more.
Mileena, feeling a new presence behind her, whipped around, her sais at the ready. She was surprised to find one of the people that had come to find Naruto. His hood covering most of his face save for his eyes, which were covered from thick sunglasses. The rest of his outfit comprised of a thick dark gray coat that covered everything but his feet. His arms were raised, and Mileena saw what seemed to be an endless stream of black insects coming from his sleeves and eating those from D'Vorah.
"Shino Aburame, at your service," he said stoically to Mileena. Then, from behind Shino, Hinata, Kiba, and Akamaru ran towards D'Vorah. Kiba yelled out, "Get the insect freak, Akamaru! Beast Man Clone! Fang Over Fang!"
The two large tornado-like attacks forced D'Vorah to jump in the air. Hinata then jumped up high in the air, intending on meeting her head on. D'Vorah thrust her arm forward, and a small jet of acid streamed out of her wrist and straight towards Hinata's face.
Hinata yelled out, "Kaiten!" and spun around, the protective blue chakra shield appearing and knocking the acid away as if it were nothing but harmless dirt. After the jutsu was complete, Hinata was still pretty high in the air, and then threw a kunai which struck true, directly in the insect queen's shoulder, rendering one of her arms useless.
"Agh!" D'Vorah cried out in pain. She began to fall down but then spread her insect wings and began to fly away from team 8 and Mileena.
"She's getting away!" Mileena yelled out.
"No she's not," Hinata said confidently while smirking. She brought up her hands together and yelled out, pumping chakra into the explosive tag that was wrapped around the handle of the kunai embedded in the insect-like woman's shoulder.
In the short distance, the kunai exploded. D'Vorah cries were heard in the large cloud of smoke that appeared in the air away from them and watched as she dropped from the ceiling of the Jensei chamber.
"She's mine!" Mileena yelled out as she ran towards her prey. She could smell the blood, and it was driving her crazy. That, and coupled with the rage and hate that she felt for the pitiful creature that existed that had betrayed her, really didn't make for a good mix for the Kytin woman.
D'Vorah saw the half tarkatan and half Edenian running up to her and fast. She tried to raise her arm to launch some more acid or at least one of her stingers in a last ditch effort to impale her enemy, but was too slow as she felt the sai that Mileena had quickly thrown stab her hand and stake it into the concrete ground of the Jensei chamber. With her other arm missing, she tried to use her other stinger as a second hand to push her self away, but was tool late as she saw Mileena jump and land right above her.
D'Vorah was officially scared as she watched the construct born of Shang Shung remove her mask and bare her fangs at her. Her claws elongated, and before she knew it, her world exploded in pain as Mileena started clawing and ripping her midsection into pieces and eating it. It had happened so quick that D'Vorah didn't even register the pain at first until it all flooded her mind at once. She screamed in both pain and horror and tried to push herself away. By the time she had ripped her hand free of the sai, she was backing only the top half of her body away from the lower half that was still being devoured by Mileena. She looked one last time at Mileena's face.
What she saw last would haunt her in the afterlife. Mileena's unmasked face, drenched in her blue-ish blood, snarled as she slowly said to the dying Kytin, "Trrraaiiiiitooorrrrrr…..". then, she went back to eating her lower half, and D'Vorah breathed her last.
Mileena, having her fill, stood up and turned around to face team eight and said to them, "Tasty!"
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Tsunade, Sakura, and Hanabi ran up to Johnny Cage and immediately began removing all of the orange web-like material off of him. Once enough of it was off, Tsunade began healing him as best as she could, as quickly as she could. She could feel multiple insects inside of him and was absolutely disgusted at the nasty creature that had done this. She focused her chakra to to act as both as an incredibly powerful healing factor and also as an incredibly deadly chakra wave for the insects burrowed inside of him. The insects, once hit with the chakra wave, were simply erased from existence. No blood, no guts, no nothing. Just here one moment, gone the next. At the same time, that same chakra wave would heal any and all damaged tissue. Sakura, meanwhile, was restoring his strength. Hanabi, using her byakugan, tore away at the weakest and most vulnerable points of the webbed trap.
Within a few minutes, Johnny Cage was freed from the 'Charlie's Angels' as he thought. He looked up and saw Tsunade's bust and said, "Whooaaaa…can I touch your boobs miss angel?"
Tsunade developed a tick mark on her forehead and delivered a brutal knock out punch to Mr. Cage. His head hit the ground as he went to the realm of unconsciousness.
"Lady Tsunade!" Hanabi yelled out in surprise, "You just hit the patient! Unnecessarily hard!"
Tsunade smacked the back of the unconscious man's head and said, "He'll be fine."
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"Join me, young one," Corrupt Shinnok said as he looked down at Naruto, "I can sense all of your pain…your hatred…your fears…your WORST fear-being alone!"
Corrupt Shinnok walked slowly forward towards Naruto and said calmly, "I wage war on the Elder Gods. They have ruled over everything since the beginning of time. And yet, they involve themselves in only the events that would possibly guarantee them power. While they let the ones like you suffer…alone. Join me, Naruto Uzumaki, and get your vengeance upon all of those who have done you wrong your entire life! you do not need to go around unsatisfied. Your vengeance can be claimed! I know you want it…I can literally feel it inside of you, trying to get it out. Join me, and claim what is yours!"
Naruto just sat down in front of the monster and closed his eyes and folded his armored hands in his lap.
"I understand, you need a moment to think about it. It is a large portion of your life to relinquish, but I promise you that you will not regret! Are you not tired of the pain that constantly attacks your very heart! How you struggle with your pain every moment of every day! It's not really that hard of a choice to make. Come with me, and defeat these ones who…I can sense them…these are some of the people that you have known for your entire life, correct? Why do you work with them at all? They stood by and watched while you suffered! Suffered, and did so ALONE! RISE, AND TAKE YOUR VENGEANCE AT MY SIDE!"
Naruto opened his eyes, revealing that he had gone into Sage Mode. He slowly stood up and said, "Everything you just said is true. But…"
He suddenly lunged forward and hit Corrupt Shinnok in the chest, making him stumble back a bit. Naruto continued saying, "Vengeance isn't the way to go about solving it."
Corrupt Shinnok stood up straight and laughed and said, "Hahahahahaha…..that was a very strong hit, young one. This is your last chance, join me…" Corrupt Shinnok raised his hand as it started glowing with and extreme amount of power, "…or die."
"Fuck you," Naruto said simply as he threw a kunai with an explosive tag on it at Shinnok. Shinnok released his power, hitting the kunai. The result was a large blast of smoke and fire. Once the dust cleared, Shinnok looked around to find his target. He heard crackling behind him and dodged at the last second as Sasuke Uchiha ran right past him, his Chidori missing by mere inches. Shinnok swatted Sasuke back like he was a fly and laughed as he said, "Such fools…weak and pathetic! Don't you have anything better than this?! Hahahahaha!..."
He had to dodge to the side once more as Kakashi plunged downwards, his own Lightning Blade attack missing by an inch or two. His attack hit the ground and rocks and sparks of lightning flew everywhere, knocking Shinnok back, right into the hands of Naruto. Naruto jumped and spun multiple times in the air and landed a brutal flip kick to Shinnok's back, sending him flying back into Sasuke's Chidori. His arm struck through Shinnok's chest, his chidori still sparkling with life. Corrupt Shinnok looked down at the arm sticking out of his chest and began to laugh.
"Hahahaha…is this all you have? I'm sure you can do better. I am Shinnok! An Elder God! You are fool if you think this can stop me!"
Shinnok grabbed Sasuke from behind him and threw him away like a ragdoll. Sasuke hit the wall and a large crunch was heard and he winced in pain before he fell to the floor. He was about to get up, but Shinnok in a burst of speed ran and stomped on Sasuke's back, forcing him back down. He then raised one of his hands up and a large orange-yellow colored energy spear formed in his hand and he yelled out, "Goodbye, you worthless human!"
He thrust the spear down and it pierced Sasuke's back. The energy spear continued through his body and pierced through the tough cement floor of the Jensei chamber underneath him. Sasuke screamed out in pain and then lay down, life less.
Corrupt Shinnok laughed victoriously but was then surprised as the body beneath his foot transformed into Naruto, which then began to glow a bright white. Shinnok looked at Naruto, who was standing right next to Sasuke. Naruto had luckily replaced Sasuke with an explosive clone, which proceeded to explode, causing a tremendous blast that blew Corrupt Shinnok into the wall of the chamber.
As he stood up, he stared at the three men of team seven and charged at them with blazing speed, way too fast for a monster his size. Naruto was expecting this, however, and charged forward as well to meet him halfway. Right before he connected his fist to Shinnok's jaw, he realized that even Sage Mode was not strong enough by itself to defeat this thing. So, he did what he did during the Fourth Great Ninja War five years ago: he added his Kyuubi chakra into the mix.
Shinnok saw, in slow motion, the ninja's eyes change from a yellow with a toad-like iris in the center to more of a cross shaped form, and a sudden huge burst of power surrounded him, giving him the look of him wearing some sort of trench coat, and watched as his fist connected with his own jaw. He was powerful, he had the energy of the Jensei within him, there was no way that this one little kid could hurt the likes of an Elder God.
How wrong he was.
He felt the monstrous amount of raw power through the single punch that cracked his mutated jaw as he was launched back into the wall. He also watched as Naruto, faster than he was before, charge and slam a rasengan into his chest as well. Corrupt Shinnok's blood, now which looked more like magma than blood, spill and spray everywhere from the jutsu. Shinnok screamed in pain. He was glad that he had absorbed the Earth's main energy source, because if not then he probably, more than likely, would have been defeated by this extremely powerful jutsu.
Corrupt Shinnok shakily grabbed the hand that held the jutsu and threw Naruto away into the wall next to him and quickly got up to kick him in the face before he could connect though, Kakashi had run up and swept the one leg Shinnok was standing on. As Shinnok fell, Sasuke extended his chidori like a lightning sword (Like he did when he first stabbed Orochimaru) that forced him back up against the wall. Shinnok had the electrical blade between his palms and was struggling to keep it from penetrating him through the throat. Naruto, during this time, had gotten up and summoned two clones. Naruto held out one hand as one clone stabilized the chakra as the other began to spin the chakra quickly.
Shinnok thrust his hands to the side quickly, allowing the chakra blade go through his hands and penetrating the wall beside him. He then could feel the massive amount of chakra building up and also heard the whirling and humming noise not to far from himself. He looked over at Naruto and saw what looked like a large pure-white shuriken spinning faster than the eye could see. The absolute power that radiated off of him actually terrified the corrupted Elder God.
"You have terrorized the world long enough you son of a bitch," Naruto said to him. "You have attacked my friends and my girlfriend. I don't even know what other horrible crimes you have committed. Elder God or not, you will die here and now."
Naruto through the jutsu at the corrupted Shinnok. "Wind Style: RASENSHURIKEN!"
Sasuke grabbed Kakashi and they both suddenly disappeared, replaced with a rock. Corrupted Shinnok threw his mutated hand forward and shot his own energy beam at it, but it was demolished instantly against the condensed power that was wizzing right towards him. Shinnok couldn't stop it, so he brought both hands forward to try and manually stop its pursuit. How bad idea that was, he would soon find out.
The jutsu slammed into him like a wreckingball, and it knocked him through the Jensei chamber wall and onto the balcony outside. The rasenshuriken suddenly shrunk to a tiny size and then exploded, blowing off Shinnok's arm in the process.
Screaming in agony, Shinnok fell to the ground. He then quickly stood up and, filled with pain and rage, charged at the blonde haired ninja walking out of the newly created hole through the wall. Naruto, his Kyuubi/Sage cloak still surrounding him, ducked underneath the hook from the Elder god and uppercutted him.
"You honestly think that you can defeat me?" Naruto asked Sagely. "I fought alongside Sasuke against Madara and Kaguya. They could literally destroy the world if they wanted too without too much trouble. We defeated them. I can tell you are powerful within your own right, but compared to them, its like the difference between fighting a dog and fighting an elephant. You stand no chance, Shinnok. Give up now, or die."
Corrupt Shinnok stood and laughed, saying "Do you even know who I AM, boy!? I am Shinnok! I CANNOT be killed, and even if I could, you, a little young child, would not be the one to do it! Hahahaha….you are full of yourself, full of the dreams and lies that you have been told your entire pathetic human life!"
"Say that to Kurama," Naruto said. He then turned back towards where Kakashi and Sasuke were and said, "Make sure everyone gets out of here alright! I'll take care of this piece of shit."
Sasuke nodded and, grabbing Kakashi, teleported once again.
Naruto looked back at Corrupt Shinnok and said, "Prepare to die you jackass."
He then charged forward with a burst of speed and drop kicked Shinnok square in the chest, sending him flying back. Before he even began his descent, Naruto ran forward and delivered a brutal uppercut that once again cracked his jaw, and sent the Fallen Elder God over the balcony and into the clouds of the sky below the Sky Temple.
As Shinnok screamed on his descent to the ground from the sky, Naruto said to him under his breath, "I'm not done with you yet bastard."
Naruto then ran towards the edge of the balcony and jumped off as well and then dived straight towards his target. Shinnok saw the ninja flying towards him and took comfort in knowing that the young one was actually foolish enough to try to finish him off in the sky, because the truth of the matter was that he was going to end up as nothing but a splatter of blood and gore on the ground thousands of feet below them.
It was then that he saw the ninja bring his hands together as if he were praying and yelled out.
"HuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Shinnok DEFINITELY did not expect a giant golden energy sprout out of him and slowly transform into a giant golden fox with nine tails. It then roared at him with such fury and power that Shinnok didn't think that even all of the Elder Gods combined could take it down.
"RRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!"
Shinnok was blown back by the sheer force of the soundwave. He was then propelled to the ground even faster because of it. A few minutes later, Shinnok hit the ground with such tremendous force that it caused a small shockwave to appear on the ground, uprooting a few trees in the forests surrounding them. Shinnok then looked up painfully to see a huge golden fist descend upon him, and he felt such an enormous amount of pain from being pushed into the ground from the Biju's chakra fist.
However, Naruto stopped as a thought, a foreign thought from someone else, entered his mind.
Naruto, its me, Ino! I'm connecting to you from your chakra signature! Geez, and you wonder why its so easy to find you, your chakra signatures so strong I can easily read it from a few miles away! Anyway, I'm connecting you to Raiden mentally, he says he has to tell you something very important regarding this Shink guy or whatever his name is! Get ready, here it comes!
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Nar…to…..Re…..Remove….A…..let…Remove….Amulet!...Drain…..power!...
That's it Naruto, the guy just passed out, whatever he just told you, follow through! Ino out!
The golden chakra fist lifted and Naruto/Kurama saw a completely dazed Shinnok. Kurama, using two of his claws, reached down and removed the Amulet from his center. It gave way instantly, sending more magma-like blood spraying everywhere. The energy instantly drained from the Fallen elder God and dissipated, returning to the Jensei chamber. Shinnok then was returned to his regular self, but unconscious. Kurama smiled as he dissipated as well leaving Naruto in his regular form in the air as he descended to the ground as well.
Naruto landed gracefully as a ninja should. He then walked slowly forward as he drew his sword from the sheath on his back. When he finally reached the still downed monster of a god, he put the tip of his blade at the jugular of the god's throat and said, "You are a sick bastard. For everything you have done, you will die."
Just then, a flash of lightning appeared next to Naruto and Raiden emerged, although still wounded, much better now that he had just cleansed the Jensei, and it had healed him for the most part. He saw the state that Shinnok was in and said to Shinnok, "It is as I told you before, Shinnok, we have defeated you before and imprisoned you in the Netherrealm. We shall do so again this time as well."
"No," Naruto immediately disagreed. "Clearly, that's not going to work, because he got out last time. We need to do something that will completely make him unable to break free again."
"How so," Raiden asked him, "He is a Fallen Elder God, but an Elder God still, he cannot be killed."
"Then we do the next best thing," Naruto said. With one quick swipe, the head of Shinnok was separated from his body. Blood sprayed and stained the grass as Shinnok let out one final yelp of pain before he passed out. Naruto reached down and grabbed the severed head and tossed it to Raiden and said, "Here. Imprison that piece of garbage. Even if someone does free it again, all they'll get is a severed head, and a severed head is practically useless. Wait a second…"
Naruto walked to Raiden and grabbed a kunai, then proceeded to remove the tongue rom the elder God's skull, then cut out his eyes and ears. Lastly, he wrapped an explosive tag on the handle of the kunai and channeled a large amount of chakra into it, then stabbed Shinnok's severed forehead with the kunai. The blade was buried deep into the brain, with only the handle and the tag wrapped around it showing.
"He cant talk, hear, or see shit now," Naruto said to the Thunder God. "and, if someone other than you does try to free the damned Elder God, I rigged the explosive tag to make a huge explosion to kill not only the one trying to free him, but also clearly obliterating Shinnok for good. He's not getting his hands on anything ever again."
Raiden bowed low to Naruto and said, "Thank you very much, Naruto Uzumaki. Both Earthrealm and myself owe you a great debt."
"Don't worry about it," Naruto said to Raiden, "Just make sure that Mileena is made Kahnum of Outworld again, I can rule alongside her, and everything will be good to go. See you later Raiden."
Naruto then vanished with a puff of smoke. Raiden looked down at the mutilated head that was rigged with Narutos kunai bomb and thought, "Now to pay the Netherrealm a visit."
He created a thick brown bag and stuffed the severed head into it, then raised his hand into the air. A flash of lightning later, and Earthrealm's protector vanished, transporting himself to the Netherrealm to visit a couple of old friends.
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A/N: hey guys, hoped you enjoyed the story. Just to warn you all, the next chapter will most likely be the last for this story, not quite sure yet, but it is definitely very close to the end. I really don't see any more than two more chapters to this story before its done, but we'll see. I said that with my last story, and I had forgotten a very big part of the end for some reason, causing me to release a new bonus chapter for it, so maybe something like that will happen again, idk, but I'm really working on making the next chapter, maybe another two, the last ones for this story, and then on to the next one! Seriously, keep those ideas for new stories coming, the more ideas you give me, the more stories you'll have! Not that I don't have my own, but like I said, it keeps the creative juices flowing. Anyways, you all know what to do, read, review, PM, whatever you want! Until next time, Roku out.