In the war room, Shao Khan was marching in front of his army of tarkatans, shokans, and other soldiers.

"Now men, as of now there will be some changes!" Khan shouted. At this point he was no longer a nervous wreck of a man. With his head held high and chest puffed out, Shao Khan stood more poised and confident than before and this scared his troop.

"No longer will you steal money from me, vandalize my statues, take a dump on my throne, leave me to die to see a lover, or write 'Shao Khan Sucks' on my bedroom walls!" Shao Khan reminisced about how his troops had humiliated him. "My new rule starts today and I shall begin it by punishing those who have taken advantage of me".

All the troops started shaking in fear since Shao Khan didn't specify who he was talking about.

"Bring me Baraka!" Shao Khan demanded. All the soldiers decided in 1 second that their lives were more important than one so they gave up Baraka to the front of the group. Baraka saw the glare of Khan and dropped to his knees and put his hands together in a praying position.

"Please master don't kill me!" Baraka pleaded. "I-I-I'll give you back your money! All I need is some money and a trip to Vegas."

"SILENCE!" Khan shouted and Baraka stopped his pathetic pleading. "First you will repay me but not with money! As you all know, Kitana's starting a pathetic attempt at my life. Baraka you will go and kill her strike team or die trying. If you come back without killing that whore of my step-daughter and her puny friends I will rip your head off and have your body as barbeque! As for the rest of you, you will all give your lives to destroy her strike team and then we will destroy the evil power!"

After Shao mentioned 'evil power' all the warriors looked at eachother confused.

"The evil power is THE EDENIAN MONARCHY!" Khan yelled. After hearing this, all the soldiers said 'oh'.

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Back in the forest Kitana, Jade, Spider-Man, and Deadpool were walking through the forest. They seemed to be getting closer to Outworld and Khan's temple. Deadpool's constant talking and shooting was still driving Kitana nuts.

"Are we there, " Deadpool began before he looked at a tree. "BIRD!"

Deadpool shot a bird out of the tree branch and Kitana had it.

"DAMN IT DEADPOOL DO YOU HAVE TO SHOOT EVERYTHING!?" Kitana snapped.

"No one's ever asked me that before."

"I've been asking you that for 2 fucking days." Kitana yelled before they all heard rustling in the bushes. Deadpool pointed his gun at the bush.

"Don't even think about it," Kitana ordered and Deadpool groaned sadly. Spider-Man went over to the bush and pulled it off the ground and it turned out Baraka was hiding there.

"Baraka!" Kitana went for her fans but Baraka held out his hands in defense.

"Wait!" Baraka uncharacteristically pleaded. "You don't understand. Shao Khan's gone nuts! After hearing about Liu Kang's death he started getting his self-confidence got a boost and we're all living in hell right now. So if you don't mind I must kill you all now."

Baraka popped the blades from his arms and let out a battle cry. He charged at Spider-Man but he dodged to the left and Baraka lodged his blade into a tree.

"Look I've got nothing against you guys so can you just tell Khan you killed me and not tell him I ran off to Vegas with whatever money I stole from him?"

"Who said we're going to Shao Khan's place?" Spider-Man said.

"What!?" Kitana questioned.

"You told us that before Khan got his ass handed to him by your ex-pussy that he was the more powerful than the Hulk and Juggernaut's dick combined!" Spider-Man explained.

"If he's gotten his self-confidence back and went from a dickless monkey to a King Kong sized gorilla dick then forget it!" Deadpool added. "No money is worth my life and I doubt I'll have enough in me to see another friend die."

Kitana knew that if this ever happend she'd need a backup plan. So she walked up to Spider-Man, turned around, and started rubbing her butt against his crotch. She knew it worked when he started to shudder but Deadpool went up and pushed her away from his best friend.

"Dude I know you're the common sense guy and the one with a little more sanity but is some pussy really worth your life?" Deadpool strangely tried to put some sense into Spidey.

"I-I-I don't know Deadpool," Spider-Man stammered. "What would Jesus do?"

"I'd take the fucking pussy and the money!" a young man with white dyed hair, no taller than 5'6, wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts, holding a slurpee said as he walked by. The group all looked bewildered at what just happend.

"Well I guess that answers the question," Deadpool shrugged.

"Hey how'd you get here?" Spider-Man asked Baraka.

"Just take walk about 200 yards North. You'll find the portal and when you go through it you'll be right in front of the palace." Baraka directed and they all left, leaving Baraka behind still lodged on to the tree.

"Uh guys, could you help me out?" It was too late, they were all gone.