Chapter 7: Shadow's Agenda
Shadow was not interested in helping the Earth warriors as he had his own ideas and plans for conquest, but he had no alternatives to go to but to support the Earth warriors for the time being. The black hedgehog along with Sub-Zero and Cyrax began to scout out a gulag owned by the Emperor himself where Shang Tsang was the main caretaker of the gulag in question.
"It seems the concentration camp is being heavily guarded" said Cyrax as he was using his x-ray night vision installed into his cybernetic technology to scan the area.
"Which is why I am prepared to use this up my sleeve" said Shadow referring about his chaos control powers.
Shadow then applied his chaos control powers and teleported himself along with Sub-Zero and Cyrax right into the concentration camp itself. A few guards noticed the trio but were quickly taken down by them.
"Split up, we'll cover more ground" said Shadow.
As the trio headed off in their own directions it was time for Shadow to put his rescue plans into action. The black hedgehog headed down toward a corridor that seemed heavily guarded where Lien-Da might be located as she was the key to the Dark Legion itself.
"So we have here an intruder" said a voice behind Shadow.
As the black hedgehog turns around he notices Reiko and a few guards with him.
"Stand aside" said Reiko to the guards, "I shall handle this one."
"Oh you have no idea who you're messing with" laughed Shadow as he was ready for a fight.
Reiko charged at the black hedgehog and delivered a few combos toward him, but Shadow ended up using his chaos control to dodge some oncoming ninja stars that were coming right at him, he appeared right behind Reiko and then pummeled him with combos. Reiko ended up recovering from the attack and charged at the black hedgehog delivering a few more combos at him sending the black hedgehog crashing right into the wall.
"I thought you were Mr. Tough Guy" laughed Reiko as he continued to mock Shadow as he got up.
"You have no idea what I can really do you fool" replied Shadow.
Shadow charged at Reiko delivering several good combos which Reiko ended up collapsing, as for the guards they ran off but ended up bumping into Sub-Zero and Cyrax who made quick work of the two guards.
"We heard fighting" said Sub-Zero as he came toward Shadow's aide.
"I didn't need help" said Shadow.
"Very good" said another voice it seemed like it was an average guard coming toward the trio but changed into Shang Tsang, "but you won't be able to handle me."
Shang Tsang fired a few fireballs at the trio knocking them all down, Shadow knew the only way to resolve the fight was to free Lien-Da and the other Dark Legionnaires from their cells. While Shang Tsang continued to attack Sub-Zero and Cyrax, Shadow used his chaos control to head toward a control panel where he knocked down a few guards before activating the switches to free the prisoners from their cells.
"About time you came" said Lien-Da.
"Let's take down this freak first before we go any forward" said Shadow referring to Shang Tsang.
Both Lien-Da and Shadow ended up ganging up on Shang Tsang straight from behind. Lien-Da ended up doing a sweep kick on Shang Tsang while Shadow ended up knocking him down. Some hi-tech handcuffs were placed on Shang Tsang in the hopes of using him as a bargaining chip against Shao Khan.
"I see where this is going" said Cyrax as he noticed the handcuffs around Shang Tsang's wrist.
"We should meet back with Raiden to report on this" said Sub-Zero.
"You two go and do that, I think I have another strategy in mind" said Shadow.
Meanwhile, Emperor Shao Khan was trying to get some information on what happened with a raid on one of his gulags that housed members of the Dark Legion. Quan Chi who was there with the Emperor knew he wasn't happy as Shang Tsang hadn't reported back to him yet.
"This is most disturbing" said Shao Khan to Quan Chi.
"But it is typical of his incompetence, he could have been captured by the Earth warriors" said Quan Chi.
"You go and investigate this matter why he is not responding to my calls" said Shao Khan.
As Quan Chi headed to investigate what happened with Shang Tsang, Reiko found himself in a cell next to Shang Tsang within the very gulag they originally housed the Dark Legion.
"You two will make perfect bargaining chips" said Lien-Da.
"For what purpose?" asked Reiko.
"You'll find out soon enough" laughed Lien-Da as she went off.
"I feel the Emperor isn't the only one after the Master Chaos Emerald" remarked Shang Tsang in the other cell.
"I can sense that as well" said Reiko.
Indeed both of Shao Khan's followers knew that the Emperor wasn't the only one after the amount of power the Master Chaos Emerald held indeed.