Toasty and Kid Thunder looked on as the smoke cleared, but what they saw changed their life forever!…But not really. The undead warrior gleamed in the darkness, or at least his watch did. Scorpion, although still wearing his signature mask, was clad in a grey business suit, holding a suitcase.
"Where am I? This is not my layer's office!" He bellowed loudly. Toasty stared with wide eyes. "Scor-Scorpion?" He stuttered. Stood in silence glaring into Toasty's eyes as he repeated his question, "Where am I?". Kid Thunder stared with wide eyes, and Toasty stepped forward. "You are in the safety of the fire temple and I am Toasty, the spirit of fire and your chosen protector." Toasty said giving a quick, traditional bow.
"That's nice. Now can I go home?" Scorpion said quickly in his gruff voice, as he checked his watch. "Is that a Rolex?" Kid Thunder said as he eyed the watch, hungrily. "Yes it is." Scorpion replied as he pulled down his sleeve to hide it. "May I please ask… What the hell happened to you!?!" Toasty exclaimed, shocked that his proud undead warrior was dressed like a over-paid, labor unionized car salesmen.
Scorpion sighed. "This is the 2000's… you can't just hunt down your enemy and kill them and their whole family anymore, without legitimate documentation. Revenge is in the form of paper work. I'm now an undead warrior of the court of law." He said nonchalantly.
"But what about Quan Chi? What about killing him for slaughtering your family and reviving your ninja clan?" Toasty questioned. "I've already filed several lawsuits against Mr. Chi, and sent him into finical hell. On top of that, I had investigators reopen my murder file and I'm now gaining compensation from the Lin Kuei." Scorpion admitted. "yeah, life is pretty good…or death, whatever you call this." He added, nodding his head slightly.
Toasty stood astounded. "How could this have happened?" He moaned as his gaze fell to the floor. "It's simple." Said scorpion. "You can't really expect much pay for assassinations, not with today's forensic science. Everyone has normal jobs now. Look at Cyrax, he works part-time in my layer's office as fax machine." He finished.
"So this means… you're not going to help us with your kick-ass moves and shiny spear thingy?" Kid Thunder whimpered. "Well…no. I have to get back to my place and freshen up before my next court date." Scorpion said. Kid Thunder walked up and patted Scorpion on the back. "Well if you ever change your mind, just contact us. We really do need help." He said with a plastic smile.
Scorpion raised an eyebrow and in a puff of smoke the undead court warrior vanished. "He's not even a ninja anymore and the guy's still as stiff as a board when it comes to personality." Kid Thunder said as he smiled and walked back over to Toasty. "What could have possibly happened to him?" Asked Toasty with great concern.
"Well, you heard him, no one can survive on their old paychecks alone, everyone is getting modern jobs now." Kid Thunder replied. "No no no! We are only weeks away from Armageddon, and in the original future they were tearing each other apart." Toasty said as he covered his face, and grit his teeth. "Something's wrong" He added.
"Oh well. Maybe this is the way that we were meant to stop Armageddon." Kid Thunder said leaning against a stone column. "Oh you're just happy because you stole Scorpion's watch" Toasty said with slight annoyance. Kid Thunder lifted up his sleeve with a smirk.
"Hellz yeah."
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TO BE CONTINUED
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(Some love for my reviewer)
To Superman K: Thanks for reading the story so far, I really hope you're still enjoying it. Your stories are awesome! Raiden has a baby now, It's so cute! But I don't want to babysit...ever.
