A MONTH LATER - FLESH PITS
"You speak loudly of achievement but I have yet seen you make progress!" Reiko snapped at Noob Saibot in their latest meeting, "Another month passes in which I had to sleep with that monstrosity," the Outworld general complained as usual, referring to his relationship with the Kahness.
"May I remind you that patience is how we perform," Havik cautioned trying to keep his accomplices at bay. "Your blood will reign, I assure you but you cannot tell me you enjoyed not the pleasures of skin."
It is not that Noob Saibot could not relate to Reiko on that account of pity but how Mileena manages to lay with Goro, Baraka, Reiko and Rain is beyond the wraith's own comprehension. But seriously the Shao Kahn wannabe should just get his favourite helmet of the former emperor, slap it on the kahness and stop his whining. Or perhaps he did try that and it did not help since her teeth were still exposed. Truthfully, it did amuse the wraith that Reiko spends his days being miserable and pretending as if he loved the half tarkatan.
"My contact can be convinced, it will not be done overnight," the black ninja folded his arms, there was strange sense of pride mentioning her in that moment.
"You rather focus on getting your genitals wet with your earthrealm whore instead of what you promised to deliver!" Reiko yelled, gripping Noob Saibot's collar.
"Careful how you speak of my contact," the spectre found himself defending his Tengu companion. He did nothing of the sort of sleeping with her, as far as he felt about her, she was pure in comparison to himself.
"Is it that much easier to put it in then that you would become so incapable and fallen for you little plaything?" Reiko hissed.
Noob Saibot was just about ready to punch out all of Reiko teeth for the man's behaviour. However, Havik and Scarlett separated the two disputing men. Havik then spoke to calm the situation, "Gentlemen, we aim for a much larger grand prize. Forget not that."
Reiko straightens himself and Noob Saibot brushes his collar as if to wipe off filth from his armour and then said, "Not all must sell their own body to make progress." And left with that.
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EARTHREALM
The meeting cut early and Noob Saibot left returning to the camp. He shortly warped himself at the lake, of course ironically the same lake he had masturbated at and found his Tengu companion there, afterall, they agreed to meet.
"Ah you are here, Mmmmm…we may not be able to meet at the campgrounds for a while. Your brother is awake from his coma, I will be paying some attention to speed his recovery," she said to the spectre. She can tell by the look of the wraith's eyes thathe was displeased and she added her warning, "Do not hurt him….if you do, I will not let it go so easily."
"I care not for him, we are not brothers," Noob Saibot rolled his eyes.
"That is fact; he is cuter and kinder than your are," she scoffed at him. Was that her odd way of teasing?
"Irrelevant," he folded his arms and replied in a tone that suggested nothing she can will change his mind.
Her eyes went half lidded at him to expressed annoyance and then she shifted them back to her usual alert look, "Alright…That was not how I envisioned staring my day with you, on the reset, I have something to ask you," she said shifting gears and becoming somewhat shy as she walked up him.
"Name it," he said, shifting his weight on one of his feet, relieved to be here instead of that bore of a meeting, at least Kremnine was a little spontaneous.
"Before, you once said you and I met in the void….I had suspected that is where I…go. But…I do not recall being in it. I cannot help notice inconsistencies in timing for me to be alive again, sometimes the gaps are in days or months. I did the math, Shao Kahn's invasion was 5.5 years ago, I was only alive for about 3 years time across that span. As I understood it, no entities should exist in the void so I am unclear on why I respawn when it is dire…Tell me, is the other me there any different?"
"Only in the slightest," he admitted, the core personality of Kremnine was consistent but there was something slightly off.
"Mmmm….I was studying the void after you spoke to me about it, it is where one can see all events unfolding amongst the realms….to see that much must change one's perspective on worldly matters," she said and then had to ask, "Does she have any messages she would have wanted to give me?"
"To keep Kenshi at an arm's length," Noob Saibot sneered.
"Noted," she nodded obediently.
"And that all you will need is I," he randomly threw in.
"Hahaha! I do not believe that one for a second," the Tengu then laughed and reached out an held his hand which made the spectre twitch in the eye. "In light that I may be a different kind of person somewhere else and in that place alone does encourage me to cherish the things I care for here…and hold on to them, just a little tighter." She said and squeezed the spectre's hand.
Noob Saibot's eyes went wide with that last statement. Though the supposed romantic moment was quashed suddenly when Kremnine's head exploded in front of him covering him with blood and bits of brain. As her body fell, her attacker from behind was a sinisterly smirking Reiko holding onto to the now blood covered hammer of Shao Kahn's. Noob Saibot immediately connected the dots that he was followed.
Reiko laughed with malice, "She had a pretty face I have to admit. Still want to sleep with her now?"
As much as Noob Saibot is ready to kill Reiko, he realized that Kremnine's death meant one thing; she is back at the void with full knowledge of how he is deliberately pretending to be a changed man in front of her.
"You fool! You have no idea what you have done!" He hollered at Reiko. The two men fought without regard for where they are which is in pretty close proximity to the Sky Temple. Civilians appeared to have heard the fighting and some panic spread in the camp. Within moments, Raiden and Fujin appeared to engage the mess.
Noob Saibot may have appeared to have the last laugh by a mile, focused on beating Reiko to no ends, even ignoring Raiden and Fuijin. While the two Gods first were trying to intercept, they soon realized this was a personal vendetta. Eventually, with enough wounds, Reiko made a coward's run for it. The wraith was not satisfied by that yet, not by a long shot and was ready to chase that moronic Outworlder down.
At the same moment, Raiden noted Kremnine's headless body and became enraged with anger, "She spoke kind words to the likes of you, more than you should deserve and you do this to her?! Is that how you wraiths thank others when they offer kindness?"
"That was not me!" Noob Saibot tried to explain and some how a flash appeared before him saying the same thing before Scorpion killed him back then in the Netherrealm during the first Mortal Kombat. He felt helpless that instant.
Much like Scorpion who refused to be reasoned with, Raiden displayed the same rage, shooting so much lighting into the spectre that he evaporated into nothing.
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THE VOID
"Well here you are," Kremnine's voice can be overheard above the spectre who just appeared but was curled up on the floor from the jolt of electrical pain he still felt. He turned and looked up and she was sitting on a large branch of one of the trees in the void. "I see you have been busy pretending to get on my good side…or…back side."
"That is not what you think…" Noob Saibot looked up at her but it was look he was looking up at a goddess in his mind. Now that he has seen her in the void and on earthrealm enough times, he can tell that this Kremnine does look slightly younger as he can see she still had some baby fat in the cheeks.
"Did you know? That while you and Havik scheme to use Reiko, the same can be said that Reiko and Havoc also scheme together to use you?"
He stayed quiet, how did she know? And yet, it is clearly a possible situation.
"You are already being voted out of your little party as we speak. Though Havik prefers your company over, you cannot blame the Chaosrealmer, it in his blood to betray. I believe you were once familiar with that strategy when Shang Tsung double hired Scorpion and you as Sub-Zero to seek Shinook's amulet? Erm…that is how I heard of that story from Raiden." She looked up past the horizon where she is causally looking at the sights of the other realms above her.
"Rae…." He started to speak but was interrupted and he realized he lacked control of this current situation.
"I purpose another solution for you…" she then looked down at him surprising the wraith. "It will take some time for it to play out, somewhere around 10 years because it involves the Outworld rebellion but the results will be the same, a 99.5% chance to result in Reiko and Havik's permanent death. There….are some sacrifices though andI cannot guess who will be on the short end but I am not pleased about the truth of the Kamidogus. I want that changed, because I n my mind, Raiden did not fix anything after capturing Shinook in there."
"You are supporting me?" He asked although it is not clear how far she will be willing to.
"Mmmmm…here is the thing…when you are here and looking down at those alive and dead, you realize a great many things about the way the world operates and its many truths," she smiled though it was not as innocent as she normally would have made it look, "I simply had no way prior to act out being unable to carry out any action back in earthrealm."
He was in a slight disbelief, she had a completely different moral alignment here. She blinked for a second wondering if she should admit something to him, "Do not get me wrong, I am not a force of evil, but in being here…I think….there is something genuinely wrong with me…my moral compass does not always work, which leaves me to think….what should I do to you? What can I do here that can reflect back to satisfy the other me."
"You must allow me to explain!" He said sounding a little desperate, perhaps reflecting on how no one seems to let him explain anything.
"I am done talking for now, you can go ahead," she leaned back against the bark and folded her arm.
"The moments we spent is genuine. Not…at first, but overtime, this turned into a game. A game I did not mind playing as long as I can. I had chances to simply kill you for sport or worse but I did not take them. You wormed your way into a part of my existence, one that I will not give up," Noob Saibot admitted and noticed she sat back up.
"I could be wrong…but who is manipulating who here?" She raised an eyebrow and jumped down from the tree in front of him while putting her hands on her hips.
Was he going to answer it in an honest moment?...he wondered…either way this Kremnine has an ability to see beyond what he can so the truth for him is going to come out either way. He is going to say it!
"You have no idea what you have done to me!" Noob said said as he shook with anger. "Your consistent harassment of me has troubled my thoughts, it is as if… as if….I am mistaking that you and I have been romantically involved!"
After a moment of silence, she continued to give him blank half lidded stare and he had the opportunity to calm down. Then she spoke. "There is no mistaking," she said as she leaned forward a the hips a little looking up at his face which was full of uncertainty, "We are in a romance, are we not?"
A/N: lemony time next chapter!