Chapter 4: Nightwolf's Spar
Nightwolf was rather unsure of Knuckles' ability to defend himself let alone if he could face Shao Khan and anyone of his followers. The Native American warrior took the first charge by firing an arrow at the Echidna who ended up getting hit by the arrow at first.
"You need training and fast if you are going to be able to face Shao Khan and his followers" said Nightwolf.
"You know a lot about my new foe" continued Knuckles.
"That's because we Earth warriors had fought him before, you Mobians have rarely seen someone like that in action" continued Nightwolf.
Nightwolf then continued to fire various arrows toward the Echidna, but Knuckles was able to dodge the oncoming arrows this time, the Echidna eventually managed to deliver a hard uppercut toward Nightwolf then pummeled him as he fell right onto the ground.
"A good start" said Nightwolf, "let's see if you can manage my combos."
Nightwolf then charged again toward Knuckles and pummeled the Echidna pretty good with a few combos, along with a round house kick sending the Echidna flying into the air and crashing on the ground.
"Ha, I am a good fighter and you're going to need to learn more skills if you want to defeat Shao Khan" said Nightwolf.
As the two continued to spar with each other, Sektor who was still searching for Shadow ended up noticing two beings in the distance whom were sparing. One of the beings was another target of Sektor's namely Knuckles who was the Guardian of the Master Chaos Emerald.
"We have no time to waste, we have found one of the other targets" said Sektor.
Sektor and the cybernetic ninjas ended up speeding up toward where the two were sparing with Nightwolf nor Knuckles realizing that they were being surrounded by Sektor and his cybernetic ninjas. Both Nightwolf and Knuckles ended up noticing the cybernetic ninjas and Sektor.
"You two are under arrest by the order of Shao Khan" said Sektor.
Sektor then orders his cybernetic ninja allies to attack both of them. Knuckles along with Nightwolf ended up fighting back at the cybernetic ninjas whom were coming toward them in waves. It was just then that Cyrax and Shadow who had ventured what they thought was a safe place thanks to Shadow's Chaos Control powers noticed the fight below.
"It sounds like they need our help" said Cyrax.
"Why should I help?" asked Shadow.
"Because if you do not and they find us, we'll be captured as well" continued Cyrax.
Shadow ended up barging into the scene using his chaos control powers smashing one of the cybernetic ninjas down while Cyrax entered the scene as well.
"So you have decided to show yourself once more" said Sektor to Cyrax, "I will enjoy beating you down."
Sektor ended up pummeling Cyrax down with a few combos, but Shadow along with Knuckles and Nightwolf tagged along to come to Cyrax's defense.
"You cannot defeat all three of us" said Nightwolf to Sektor.
Nightwolf charged by shooting arrows at Sektor, while Shadow ended up pummeling Sektor with fast punches with Knuckles doing the same as well. Sektor and the other remaining cybernetic ninjas had no other choice but to flee from the scene, Shadow would have to put off his rescue mission for the Dark Legion temporarily as he had to regroup with the Earth warriors, as for the other Earth warriors, Liu Kang along with Kung Lao were searching the forest where Freedom Fighter leaders like Sally had ventured through since Shao Khan's invasion. They were being followed by Reptile and Noob Sabiot as they were also searching for any victims as well.
"I think we're being followed" said Kung Lao to Liu Kang.
"How can you tell?" asked Liu Kang.
"Look it's so the obvious" said Kung Lao who sensed Reptile's presence.
"So you have managed to spot me have you?" asked Reptile as he showed up, "I was just following you two to find any more victims for the Emperor."
Reptile ended up charging at both the two warriors he ended up pummeling both Liu Kang and Kung Lao to the ground, as the two got up, Liu Kang fired some fireballs at Reptile, but Reptile ended up turning invisible and started to deliver several combos to Liu Kang, and tossed the warrior smashing him right toward Kung Lao. The fighting got the attention of Bunnie and Sally whom were in the forest with the other Freedom Fighters who had fled Shao Khan's wrath. Both Liu Kang and Kung Lao were getting pummeled by Reptile, yet another warrior Noob Sabiot was waiting in the shadows observing the trio fight among each other.
"Hurry we have to help them!" said Sally as she came into the scene with Bunnie.
As both of them joined to help out Liu Kang and Kung Lao, Sally ended up kicking Reptile down with Bunnie trying to smash Reptile with her robotic arm. As Reptile continued to fight Sally and Bunnie, both Liu Kang and Kung Lao recovered from Reptile's attacks and helped both of them out. As for Noob Sabiot he continued to remain in the shadows as he watched Reptile flee from the scene, for Noob himself he decided to continue to follow the four warriors and plan his attack accordingly unlike Reptile's sloppiness.