Mortal Kombat Pt.3

Last time, Jacqui has beaten the crap out of Itami, humiliating him. And Scorpion now knows who's responsible for his family and clan's murder. And so… the plot thickens.

The EDF and JSDF, decided to send a force to the town of Italica, citing the strategic value in capturing Italica. Cassie, Jacqui, and Takahasi. Itami was coming along, want to restore his reputation among his peers, which greatly suffered due to his fight with Jacqui, much to the JSDF and EDF Special Forces' displeasure.

Meanwhile, Shino gets along with Jacqui and Cassie really well, namely due to Jacqui and Cassie being kickass female special forces operators. Shino became a good friend to Cassie and Jacqui, despite being having the lowest rank among them.

Meanwhile, while Scorpion was on his way to Italica, he encountered Rory, an apostle for Emrory. Now Rory, have heard of the Yellow-Cladded Warrior from liberated slaves, who describe him as a fire bender who justly to the downtrodden and ruthless to the wicked. Rory, seeing the Yellow-Cladded Warrior for the first time, sense the dark rage and pain within him, and so decided to fight him (don't ask why she decided to take such an action, instead of, I don't know, ask why he so angry on the inside).

Scorpion dismissed her, as he doesn't want to waste time in getting his vengeance quest, and that he didn't want to fight a child (even said child is over 900 years old).

But Rory, sensing that Scorpion wasn't willing to fight her, decided to force Scorpion to fight her and attacks Scorpion. They fought each other, and it was a long and grueling fight with Scorpion and Rory using every trick, technique, and tactic in their book in order to win the fight, with Rory having the obvious advantage with centuries of experience killing the scum of Falmart.

But Scorpion was able to 'defeat' Rory in combat, by performing an uppercut, sending Rory's head off from her body. This was only temporary, as Rory had healing factors similar to Scorpion, but before Rory can engage with Scorpion again, he disappears, deeply annoying Rory, both at Scorpion for running away and at herself for being so sloppy in trying to defeat him in combat.

And Scorpion continues to Italica.

Meanwhile, the EDF and JSDF arrived at Italica's gates, and the Rose Knights were hesitant to let them in, with the whole battle with the bandits and what not. But they let them in, as Italica is in need of defenders.

The EDF and JSDF, listen to Pina's plan of posting them to the defense of the North wall, but the EDF paying only lip service in accepting Pina's plan. They planned to have some EDF soldiers be posted on the North wall, while having the rest as being a strategic reserve (along with some JSDF soldiers who were annoyed with Itami's complicity with Pina), in case the bandits come from an unexpected angle of attack.

And when nightfall, surprise, surprise, the bandits attack from an unexpected angle of attack, surprising no-one but the Rose Knights themselves. The strategic reserve moves quickly to counter the bandits surprise attack.

The EDF, JSDF, citizens of Italica and the Rose Knights, fought in a desperate battle to the death with the bandits, though the EDF and JSDF performed better, due to better equipment, tactics, and technology.

And by sunrise, this is when the rest of the EDF and JSDF arrived, with Sonya and Johnny leading the charge. The EDF tore the bandit army a new one, balls being punched in, drones gunning down retreating bandits, etc. The bandits get annihilated, with many surrendering to the EDF and JSDF, because of their immense power.

Meanwhile, Scorpion was attacked by Bozes-led Rose Knights, and single-handily makes all of them dead, with their heavy armor being no match against his exceptional accuracy with his rope darts. And he continues to Italica, and it was night when he arrived.

And the battle of Italica was over, with the bandits being rounded up and placed in temporary holdings before having their asses being trialed under Italican law (with the JSDF and EDF assisting in the process). Some bandits were executed, a large majority being imprisoned, while some who are proven to be forced to work with the bandits, were often released with no additional punishment.

The Italicans give praise to the EDF and JSDF, who single-handily, save their town, much to the hidden anger of the Rose Knights, some of whom believed that the glory should have been theirs. They were stopped by Grey, who has more common sense than the Rose Knights have wealth.

In the dead of night, when everyone was in a deep sleep, Scorpion infiltrates into the Italican palace, and is immediately attacked by someone, who is shown to be Princess Pina, who was in the hall thinking of the implications of the treaty between Italica, the EDF and the JSDF, when Scorpion was spotted sneaking around.

Now, she should have called for guards, but she didn't, preferring to fighting Scorpion in one-on-one combat. This a big mistake.

Scorpion: One can learn from defeat.

Pina: Who do think you are? Some kind of teacher?

Scorpion: But one can also learn from pain.

Scorpion easily defeats Pina, breaking a few of her bones in the process. Somehow, he figures who she is and questioned Pina of where the capital of the Saderan Empire. Pina at first refused to cooperate with Scorpion. After some more failed attempts to give the information willingly out of Pina, this when Scorpion uses his fire controlling skills to torture Pina. Not his finest moment.

As Pina was being slightly burnt by Scorpion when Itami finds Scorpion and Pina, who woke up to investigate the sounds of fighting. Itami finds Scorpion and Pina, assumes that Scorpion is trying to kill Pina, and so tried to interfere. He pulls out his pistol, but his hand was cut off by Scorpion's rope dart before his entire body was split in half by the same rope dart.

Pina, seeing the Yellow-Cladded Demon, easily murdering one of the Men in Green so effortlessly, realized that this demon will kill her in the most painful manners that she can possibly fear, and she told him where the Saderan capital is.

Scorpion teleports out of Italica, leaving Pina broken and the bleeding corpse of Itami. When members of the EDF and JSDF stumble into the bloodied hallway early in the morning, they were shocked at the gory death that Itami had been given and the torture of Pina.

And there, they found Rory in the hallway. Rory just so happens to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Soon, the EDF and JSDF soldiers gave chase, with Rory running from them, with the EDF and JSDF believing that Rory torture Pina and murdered Itami. Rory was also chased by EDF drones and JSDF helicopters. Soon, Rory falls into a one-way street. She was cornered by the EDF and JSDF.

And when an animal or person gets cornered or feels threatened, they lash out, because they have nothing to lose. Rory attacks with, killing dozens of EDF and JSDF soldiers indiscriminately, until Sonya and Cassie, manages to defeat Rory in battle and capture her.

Her weapon was confiscated, though only Jax with his bionic arms was able to lift the weapon, due to the weight of the weapon.

And Rory was taken in and was interrogated by the EDF and JSDF, and she was accused of torturing Princess Pina murdering Itami. Rory denied the accusations, stating that she doesn't torture people and only murders those who justly deserve death. And she also stated that she was following a yellow-cladded warrior and arrived in the room just as the warrior left and just as the EDF and the JSDF arrived.

Some of the EDF realized who she was talking about, but assumed that it may be another assassin that happens to wear yellow clothing.

And Pina, said nothing about who tortured her, fearing that the Yellow-Cladded Demon will come back to finish the job if he had ever found out that Pina had talked to the men in green. She later dies from the injuries that she sustained from her torture.

This is when the Rose Knights, attempt to take over the city, blaming the EDF, the JSDF and the Italicans for causing the death of Pina. Grey tried to stop them, but they refused to listen to his common sense. They killed many Italicans, before the EDF and JSDF defeated them in battle, with Johnny giving many of the male Rose Knights, something that hurts (use your imagination).

Now, remaining the Rose Knights get the parading they should have deserved, in chains, with the angry Italicans throwing rotten fruit and shout uncouth names at them, disgusted that the Rose Knights became like the bandits. Myrui was furious that the Rose Knight, and now believed that the JSDF and EDF are the best options for Italica's future, signing an economic and defense treaty with the EDF and JSDF.

The Rose Knights, were thrown in the same holdings as the bandits. Grey was the only one Rose Knight that wasn't fully arrested, but he was placed under house arrest. He slowly became bitterly disillusioned by the Saderan Empire, believing that they send he, his battle companions, and his leader, to their deaths.

Meanwhile Liu Kaing appeared in front of Scorpion, who was heading to the Saderan capital. Liu Kaing was no in a good mood with Scorpion, being very pissed that Scorpion uses his abilities gifted by Liu Kaing, to murder and torture several innocent people.

And he threatens to take away Scorpion's demi-god abilities if continues to miss use his abilities. Scorpion was annoyed that Liu Kaing was interfering in his quest for vengeance, but Liu Kaing said he will interfere if he ever tried to attack innocent people. Liu Kaing told Scorpion, that he was aware that Zoral, Diabo and Molt, but said that they need to stand trial for the crimes.

Scorpion angrily said they deserve nothing but death. Liu Kaing knew that Scorpion would say that, and told him that if Scorpion manages to capture them, and give them and himself over to the JSDF and EDF, explaining what happened in Italica, Liu Kaing will revive the entirety of Scorpion's family and clan.

Scorpion thought for a second, before reluctantly agreeing to said proposal.