I gasped to wake up in the next morning, as I haven't forgotten about Kano. I turned to see Holly was fast asleep. I noticed that it was just us in the chamber. I had to tell him about the last night secret meeting Kano had.

"Holly? Captain Holly? Dad!" I gently shook Captain Holly and he woke up.

"What, what is it?" he quickly woke up and somewhat alarmed.

"Kano's gone." I told him.

"Why's that important, son?" he yawned and stretched.

"He's taking down the shield. That was protecting all of us. We must warn everyone!"

"What do you mean?" Holly questioned, as he's more awake. "We should be safe."

I shook my head. "No. Kano met with another warrior who is siding with Shang Tsung. And worst of all... Farid!"

Captain Holly stood slowly and surprised. "Impossible! He was defeated!"

My breathing became too rapidly. "I thought he was gone! Now that he's back!" I started to panic, but Holly attempts to calm me down. "I can't repeat from what happened in Efrafa nor in Watership Down! We have to tell everyone!"

He knew very well about my past experiences with Farid. We both endured the suffering by his hands. We both quickly discussed of informing everyone here that Kano is going rouge, and than restrain him. Perhaps the most important person to be told of this is Raiden. As soon we exited out of the chamber, we hurried to see anyone else is around and/or found Raiden by a acquaintance. When we arrived to the training arena, Liu Kang and Kung Lao, and Sonya and Jax, were present. They seem to be resuming training.

"Thomas, you're late." Liu Kang told me.

I nodded. "I understand, I apologize."

"However, it's a reasonable excuse." Captain Holly stood up for me.

"Where have you two been?" Sonya asked me.

"We just woke up." I answered. "Where's Kano?"

"No one has seen him, why?" Jax answered and than asked.

I looked around to see, if he's around. No sight of him means that he's not present. "Than we must quickly find him!"

"Find him?" Sonya surprised. "Why?"

"He's making a deal with one of Shang Tsung's fighters. He'll destroy the shield and allow Shang Tsung to enter, along with his fighters."

Liu Kang and Kung Lao were skeptical to take this warning serious. As for Jax and Sonya, they were not surprised. "We'll have to find him, before he destroys Raiden's shield."

I nodded and saw no sign of Cole nor Katie. "Where's Katie and Cole?"

"They were-"

Before Liu Kang could say anything, we come to notice the shield was disappearing. We were too late. Kano has destroyed the shield. The fear is becoming real when dark and black mists started to swirl the entry of the training arena.

"What is that?" Sonya questioned.

"It's him." I feared.

The first person to emerge from the mists... was Shang Tsung. One by one, more warriors were shown. The two we witnessed before by the time we arrived here: Mileena and Sub-Zero. The strong man with a hammer is unknown to me. However, the fourth, Kabal, was the one who spoke with Kano.

"That's the fighter. The one, who spoke to Kano last night!" I exclaimed.

You know, the problem with these new lightening stick... Out comes Kano. The obvious traitor. However, he was always a terrorist since the beginning. "...they just don't make them like they used to."

Sonya glared at him, as my fists were ready to strike upon Kano, as he smirks at the both of us. Holly's paw was than on my hand, to calm myself, before I gone wolf.

"What?" Kano questioned. "You didn't think you'd actually change me, did you?"

"Not really, but we're not surprised." I spoke up.

"So it was you eavesdropping last night." Kano figured it out. "An old friend of mine was right."

Another mist emerged and out came... the terrorist and rival enemy that I know well. Farid. His eyes have gone undead, yet all were black.

"Farid?!" I exclaimed.

He smiled. "It's a pleasure to see your face again... American soldier."

Shang Tsung lifted his hand up for silence. "The undoing of the prophecy has begun."

I started to remember something in my mind that he, but most of all Sub-Zero was after... Cole. "Cole."

FINISH THEM!


In a instant, the fighters engaged into combat. The strongest fighter swung Liu Kang with his battle hammer. With Kabal dashing off to battle the injured Liu Kang. The strongest turns upon another fighter... Jax. Sonya was about to charge at Kano, but Mileena attacked first. The two than proceeded on with the fighter. Kung Lao attempts to fight with Shang Tsung. I than turned to see Farid was heading towards me. I was about to ready to face him again, but it turned the opposite. Captain Holly intervened and the two battled each other. When I looked the other way, Kano gave me the first punched.

Easily, I was knocked to the ground. My head was facing towards Jax, as he was being beaten by the strongest fighter. I couldn't tell who he was, but as if he was a soldier. He easily tossed Jax to the side. The fighter than turned towards me. He was about to smash my head, but Kano's knife stopped him.

"Hey, he's mine!" Kano shouted.

It gave me an opportunity to get back up on my feet to engaged in combat with Kano. So far, I wasn't able to maneuver his attacks, especially his grabs. He than knocked me back onto the ground. I turned to see Captain Holly fighting Farid. He was gaining the upper hand, until one strike knocked Holly to the ground and tossed to a wall.

"Don't worry about your rabbit fucker. You'll join him soon." Kano insulted, as his laser eye glows. He than fired his laser at me. At first I thought I was done, but my necklace activated a magic shield. It even blinded my opponent.

With that opportunity given, I was able to do a sweep kick and knocked him to the ground. Quickly, we both got back up on our feet. He than pulled out his knives. He began to charge at me. When he attempts to lunge his knives at me, I dodged his attacks very quickly. It was a feeling that I was moving faster than I normally would. He than was about stab me, but I grabbed his arm. He continues push his knife towards my chest, but with all my strength I was able to push his arm away and stabbed on his leg. After removing the knife from his leg, I was about to finish him. However, I stopped. I dropped the knife and gave him a roundhouse kick and knocked him out.

I looked down towards the training arena to see Holly was struggling from Farid. I was started to shrink a bit. When I got down in all fours, I gazed at my front paws. In a flash, I hopped quickly and gave Farid a powerful kick and knocked off the arena. I aided Captain Holly from the ground and noticed something different.

"Great Frith! Thomas, you did it!" he said with amazement.

Looking down, I noticed the two front paws. After looking behind where I could see my hind legs and my tail. "I'm a rabbit. I'm A RABBIT!" I cheered and did a cheerful binky. "I'M A RABBIT!"

In a split second, Kung Lao's hat landed on the center of the training arena. It started to spin. Seconds later, he came out of no where with a vampire flying looking fighter. He was on it's back. Where it was going for, it was going straight for the spinning hat. I closed my eyes to not get sick. It lasted for a few seconds and it stopped. The hat flew right back to Kung Lao and he caught it.

"Flawless Victory!" He commented on defeating his opponent.

I looked at myself to see some blood over my fur. I attempted to shake it off, and had a some success of removing the blood. We than heard anger not far. The three of us turned to see Shang Tsung furious over the loss of one of his fighters. I morphed back into my human form.

"Sub-Zero! Finish THEM!" Shang Tsung commanded.

The Lin Kuei ninja jumped into the arena, as he was preparing his cryomancer powers. I was in the middle between Kung Lao (on my left) and Captain Holly (on my right).

"Congratulations are in order to you, Thomas." Kung Lao commended my arcana and animality.

"Thank you... I just wished, I could have found it sooner." I thanked him, as we slowly walked back.

"Either way, son." Captain Holly spoke. "It's a honor and privilege to fight with you by my side."

I turned to Captain Holly. "Thanks... Dad." We both exchanged a smile, before we face our next opponent.


The fight was than interrupted from a flash of lightening. Behind us was Raiden. Apparently, Sub-Zero ceased the fighting to see what he was planning, while Kano was limping towards his new ally. Shang Tsung stood up from where he was sitting and walked onto the training pit. Raiden stood there in silence, until he summoned lightening. In a few seconds, lightening flashed over one of the entries to the training arena. Cole suddenly appeared before us.

"Cole!" I shouted with relief that he was alright.

"Impossible." Shang Tsung whispered.

"He has already have achieved his arcana, before his battle against Goro." he spoke, before turning to Sub-Zero. "After four thousand years, the Hashashi bloodline lives on... Bi-Han." Afterwards, Raiden summoned a series of lightening portals, for our allied fighters to regroup. The lightening portal came back down upon Cole.

"STOP HIM!" Shang Tsung quickly commanded Sub-Zero to prevent Cole from leaving.

Sub-Zero blasted Cole with some cryomancer powers and Cole fell back to the arena.

"Cole!" Captain Holly and I got in front of him to protect him. Sub-Zero was preparing for another assault. The both of us were ready to fight him, while Cole recovers. Out of nowhere, Kung Lao appeared and tossed his hat to stop the ninja's attack.

However, he wasn't prepared for Shang Tsung pulling him towards the sorcerer. "Your soul is mine!"

"NO!" Kung Lao screamed.

"Oh, no." I shook my head. The flashback came back upon Bigwig's soul being taken.

"Thomas, stop him!" Captain Holly shouted for me to wake up and stop the sorcerer. I noticed Kung Lao's soul was starting to come out from his mouth and absorbing to Shang Tsung.

My fright of the flashback had me froze. However, after Captain Holly shouted again. I woke up. I hurried in a nick of time to kick Shang Tsung to a wall and stopping Kung Lao's soul leaving. His soul was quickly coming back towards him and soon his strength was returned. In a mad dash, I aided him walking back towards Cole and Captain Holly, as the lightening portal coming back for us. Liu Kang showed up at the entry.

"Liu Kang, come on!" I called for him. He quickly jumped towards us, as the portal was ready to take the five of us. I turned at my left to see Farid climbing back up from the cliff. He aimed his handgun towards and fired two shots. The lightening blinded me that I couldn't have the time to react or see him firing, except... Bang. Bang!