A/N: Not really a new chapter, just a little something I wrote up.


A shot of New York City appears on screen.

We slowly fade into Stryker sitting across from Kabal in an interrogation room. "He's back, isn't he?" Stryker asks.

A shot of Anarky, fully costumed, his long coat waving in the wind, standing on top of a building. He just stares at Deacon City, where flames engulf the city.

A voiceover of Kabal during the previous shot. "He was talking with someone…"

Revolver pulls out his namesake and opens fire onto a group of men. He gives it a twirl before holstering it.

"Talking about a plan with Kano."

Kano, now with his cybernetic eye, laughs loudly as he sits seated around a feast.

"It's all set and ready to move."

A group shot of the three villains above, Kano in a chair leaning back, Anarky seated in front of him observing a map of New York, and Revolver motioning towards a point on it.

"Something's going down."

Johnny Cage looked over a bottle of whisky and plainly stated, "Tonight's gonna suck, isn't it?"

Stryker drives off the road into a ditch, totaling his vehicle.

Kabal jumps out of an exploding window, his trench coat tails catching fire.

Johnny and Sonya are back to back, surrounded by four cyborgs. The cyborgs' arms were morphed into guns and aimed at the surrendering duo.

A deep voice stated, "None of you seem to get it."

Revolver moved past Kano who sneered in his direction.

"You are fighting a losing battle."

Kano stabs a knife through Johnny's hand, just as Sonya tackles him away. The knife is still in Johnny's hand.

"You cannot win."

Sonya snapped a mook's arm, causing him to scream.

"You will all die."

Anarky, holding a bloodied crowbar, crouched next to a beaten, bloodied, but still conscious Kabal, who was lying on the floor. One of his mask's lenses were broken, and his revealed eye had a look of utter hatred in it.

Stryker stood among the rubble of a burning Deacon City. The bodies of his family and friends lay around him. He falls on his knees, clutching his head before letting loose a skyward scream.

In a different shot, Stryker sat down next to Johnny, who had his sunglasses laid to the side. "You realize that this is going to kill us, right?"

Johnny was silent for a few seconds before slipping on his sunglasses, and replying with a smirk on his face, "I got nothing better to do tonight."

Title flashes on the screen.

Mortal Kombat.

Slowly, blood leaks down the screen to form the subtitle.

Finality.

Several cyborgs circle Raiden. He gives an unimpressed look at them before he disappears in a bolt of lighting. He reappears behind two, ripping off both their heads in one clean swipe. The two bodies fall to the floor. The remaining three cyborgs just stare at Raiden, who asks, "Who's next?"

Cut to black.


A/N: All but one of these scenes are going to be in the story.

Spino, out.