Chapter 1 – Scorpion and Sub-Zero

When the vines threw them inside the hole, Scorpion tried his best to keep Sub-Zero safe. He was knocked unconscious by a brunch and was on a free fall before the yellow ninja could grab him. The way down turned hotter and hotter, until the red nucleus approached and Scorpion could no longer keep his eyes open.

They woke up on the cell they are right now: a cave-like room locked by brunch-made railings. Both well, aside from the wounds made on the fight with the branches, but no several injure that could stop them from trying to escape. However, their very attempts were unsuccessful. No matter if they were frozen to the breaking point or burnt to ashes, they branches would grow quicker than they were destroyed.

"How much time has it been?" Scorpion asks, trying one more time to burn the wood railings.

"I don't know. All our equipment has been damaged. Stop trying, it's useless," the cryomancer advises, "You'll only exhaust yourself."

"We need to get off this place and find the others, Liang. Cage, Takahashi and Briggs may not be as well as we are," Scorpion states.

"I know, but we already tried everything. We can't teleport, we can't burn or freeze those plants to death… We have nothing else to try," Sub-Zero sighs and sits down resting his head to the rock wall behind him.

"We're just gonna sit here and wait for death to come?"

"Sonya will bring the support, I trust her."

"So do I, but we can't leave her to do all the work."

"Hanzo, what else do you want us to do? It's not like we have a whole control panel to help Sonya come to us and release us. We have no food, no water, no means of communication, we can't exhaust ourselves to a dead point. Have some rest, I'm sure they're on their way to us."

Scorpion finally gives in and sits on the opposite wall. He closes his eyes for a moment, until both him and Liang hear something outside their cage. Roots are moving through the ground straight into their direction. They wrap around themselves making some kind of cocoon and as it opens, both of them are surprised to see a beautiful woman emerging from the inside.

"Hanzo Hasashi and Kuai Liang," she says with a mysterious smile, "Not so tough as I thought."

"Who are you and why do you keep us as your prisoners?" Hanzo demands.

"Oh, maybe a little tough," she chuckles, "I guess it doesn't matter for you to know my name now that you'll be with me forever… My name is Melantha, and I am the owner of this forest."

"Dark flower," Sub-Zero analyzes the meaning of her name.

"Very smart," she says, "The reasons why I keep you prisoners… well, I'm gonna have to list them. First, you enter my forest without my permission, then you attack my innocent plants that were just trying to defend themselves," Neither Liang nor Hanzo can tell if the revolt on her voice is genuine or feigned. As she talks, the roots and vines around her approach the cell "But the main reason is because I can deny my children fresh food and it has been long since I can't sprinkle my garden."

The branches enter the cell. Both Scorpion and Sub-Zero recede to the bottom of the room, being surrounded.

"You will soon find out that they get their fertilizer in a very easy way. You will feel them whether you want it or not" Melantha exclaims and reenters here root cocoon with a maniacal laughter.

"What do we do?" Hanzo asks, trying to set the roots on fire, but as soon as the burnt parts turn to ash their tips grow back.

"I don't know. Weren't you the active one just a minute ago?" Liang freezes a pile of branches, but they break the ice easily.

It does not take long until they wrap around their wrists and ankles, keeping them in place.

"What now?" Scorpion inquires.

Two new roots appear from the roof, each of them arranged with a large flower on the tip.

"Did you really have to ask?" Sub-Zero scoffs.

The roots approach and the flowers open. Scorpion and Sub-Zero can do nothing as the petals engulf their heads, obliging them to breath the pollen inside the flowers. The first breathe has no effect but as soon as the second one reaches their lungs, both of them are knocked unconscious.

Sub-Zero wakes up seeing Scorpion's face looking at him in concern.

"Hanzo…" he murmurs.

"Are you okay?" the other queries.

"A little dizzy," Liang raises his head to look at the cell they are still at. "What happened? How are we still alive?"

"I don't know," Scorpion shrugs, "It looks like the pollen wasn't poisonous."

"Then… what was it supposed to do?"

"I don't know, either. Did the plants hurt you?"

"No. You?"

"Neither. What was the plant food Melantha was talking about?"

"I don't know, but taking from the facts it is not blood."

Both of them just sit on the floor and think for a while. The rescue has not yet arrived and there is not much to do. The only thing bothering Sub-Zero is the temperature of the cell, which seems to be growing with each second.

"Anything wrong?" Hanzo inquires. He is aware of Liang's unquietness.

"Aren't you feeling hot?"

"Normally I don't care for hot temperatures."

"Normally I don't even feel hot temperatures, there's ice coming out of my body," Sub-Zero points out, "Something is wrong with me," he lifts up and starts walking around the room, breathing hard as he feels it hotter and hotter.

"Hey, calm down," Hanzo raises up as well, trying to talk face to face to his friend.

"I think it was the pollen," Sub-Zero looks at his hands. The ice still smokes its way out of his limbs, then why the hell he keeps feeling this hot?

"Stop for a while," Scorpion holds him by the shoulder, "Being on a physical rush won't diminish your body temperature."

Relief runs through Liang's body the moment Hanzo's hand touch him. He stops walking and rests for a while staring at his friends eyes. Scorpion does stare back at him and sees everything rushing through Sub-Zero's blue eyes. Desperation, fear, things he never saw his friend showing before.

"It's okay. It is gone," Liang breathes.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, thank you."

Hanzo takes his hands of and it is like hell for Kuai Liang again. His skin burns once more and he grunts in protest, what makes Hanzo hold his shoulders again.

"What is wrong with us?" Sub-Zero asks.

"I don't know, but since I woke up I have this awful migraine and it was gone the moment I touched you."

"The heat is gone as soon as your hands touch me… Whatever those plants did, we need to be connected to cut the effect."

"So I can't release you," Scorpion slips his hands through Sub-Zero's arms until he reaches for his hands, "What is she planning?"

"I don't know, but thank you," Sub-Zero pulls Scorpion by the hand so they can sit back. "Sonya needs to arrive quickly. This pollen may have more serious effects."

"Don't worry about it," Hanzo states, "No matter what effects it brings, I'll be here. None of them will harm you," he grants.

Liang looks back at him surprised with the words, but something inside makes him feel good for hearing them.

"Thank you… again…" he says, not breaking eye contact with Hanzo. Before he can control himself, he is leaning in to kiss his friend, but the yellow ninja backs off at the first contact of their lips

"What are you…?"

"Sorry. I don't know what happened to me," he kicks the ground with his ankle and looks up.

"No problem…" Hanzo leads a hand to his bearded chin and makes him look into his eyes, "It didn't feel bad. I would do it again."

Sub-Zero smiles and leans in once more. This time they kiss with passion, sucking on each other's lips and biting softly on the start. Liang sticks his tongue out into Hanzo's mouth and he grabs it with his lips, sucking with pleasure. It arouses both of them on the point that Liang leaves a low moan escape his mouth. They break apart for a moment, to look at each other's eyes and both smile. Were their eyes always pink? They don't remember, but Hanzo thinks they match Liang's face perfectly as well as Sub-Zero thinks that he is beautiful with those eyes.

They kiss again, this time, Liang moves to stay over Hanzo's legs, sitting on his thighs with bent knees around them. Scorpion's hand go bold and press to Sub-Zero's thighs, making their way until to his lower back.

"Touch me, Hanzo," Liang murmurs on his mouth, "If touching me is the only way you can keep that hell away from me, then touch me in every possible way."

"As you wish."

Hanzo finally gains the courage to move his hands down to Sub-Zero's ass, pressing his cheeks protected by his pants. He feels the need to tear the fabric apart and feels his friend's skin on his hands, how the muscle would tense under his palms but he is too busy feeling Sub-Zero's beard scratch on his neck as the blue ninja kisses the space right under his ear.

Sub-Zero's hands are smarter than his and start undoing his vest while he stands still, hazed by the sensation. When Hanzo awakes, he decides their clothes are simply on the way, so it is a matter of time, until both of them have nothing but their skin to wear. Sub-Zero takes his seat back, fractioning his hard member to Scorpion's while they kiss, and Hanzo finally fulfills his desire to feel the blue ninja's buttocks tense into his grip.

"They're cold," he comments.

"Make them warm," Sub-Zero pleads, shutting him up with one more kiss.

Hanzo takes the hint and raises his hand a little before lowering full speed into the white soft skin, causing the strong snap sound to echo through the prison. Sub-Zero stops kissing him and looks at him with a devilish smile before biting his lower lip. Scorpion kiss him again and this time more hungrily, as he keeps the spank on his friends ass, each slap congratulated by a moan from Liang.

He stops only when he feels the soft skin warm under his touch, this moment, he tries and spins Liang so he is laying on the floor, Hanzo between his legs. The yellow ninja kisses his neck, making him moan more, and keeps kissing and licking his skin from the shoulder to his chest. Sub-Zero's nipples are just like the rest of his body: cold. Hanzo takes his time sucking on each little bud, until he feels them warming up. It's ironic how he is touching Liang to keep the heat away, but is warming him himself.

Liang moan as Hanzo keeps going down on his belly until he reaches his groin and takes hold of his aching cock. He is so hard that the simple touch sends him almost over the edge. The Shirai Ryu kisses Sub-Zero's inner thighs on both sides before mouthing his testicles. Sub-Zero moans loudly at the contact and as Hanzo starts sucking slowly, he can't hold himself and comes on his friend's hand.

Hanzo looks up with a smile.

Sub-Zero stays hard, despite his newly done orgasm, and Scorpion has no problem with it. He keeps sucking his balls and finally goes to lick the shaft he held on. Neither of them realizes as the small moss starts growing under them, and Scorpion cleans the sperm on his hands onto it.

He engulfs Sub-Zero cock, causing the Lin Kuei to restart his moaning. Scorpion's mouth is so hot and humid that Liang cannot help but thrust into it. Hanzo takes it off of his mouth coughing.

"Sorry," Sub-Zero supports himself on his elbows to look at him.

"No problem," Scorpion looks up with a smile.

"Let me make it up to you," he opens space for Hanzo to lay down on his back and starts making the same process, starting with kissing and then going to his neck. He does something Hanzo has not done: chewing on his ear. Scorpion struggles under him with a grunt of approval.

Sub-Zero then goes down to his nipples trying to give the same attention that he had, but it does not seem to apply the same effect. Maybe Scorpion is just no so sensitive to nipple play. However, he does react when Liang's tongue slips over his navel. Maybe it is just tickling, but the Lin Kuei plays a little more before reaching to his friend's cock. It is pulsing and warm and Sub-Zero cannot wait to put it in his mouth and feel the taste.

He would not say sublime, but it does taste pretty good. That makes him think why they never tried this before with each other and why are they trying now? The answer is nowhere in his mid to be found and it does not matter anyway. He feels Hanzo's hand in his short hair and then the hot liquid in his mouth. He has no trouble with it, does not taste bad, but once Scorpion's over with coming, he takes the cock out of his mouth and spits the content on the sheet of moss.

"That was good," Hanzo admits.

"You're still up for what I see," Sub-Zero points his rock solid member.

"I can do more than this certainly."

Sub-Zero chuckles before kissing him hungrily. Maybe Hanzo will still taste himself on his mouth; this thoughts excite the Lin Kuei a lot.

"Get over here," says Hanzo, getting up and giving room for Liang to lay, "On your stomach."

The blue ninja obeys and feels Hanzo laying over him, their bodies fitting together perfectly, touching each other in every possible way just like Sub-Zero pleaded in the beginning. Hanzo's cock slips in between his buttocks and he tries buckling up to acquire some friction at a more intimate area. Scorpions kisses his nape while he does so, leaving him to work alone for a while.

Hanzo then starts trailing kisses down his spine feeling the cold skin on his lips. Even after all the things they did, it is not warm, maybe less cold but no warm. When he reaches for Liang's tailbone, the blue ninja unleashes a gasp, hinting Scorpion to give an experimental bite on the place. Sub-Zero moans in response buckles his hips for one more try and Hanzo obliges giving a little more attention to that point before going down to the cleft of Sub-Zero's ass.

Both of them have a thought when Scorpion's hands grab Sub-Zero's cheeks to pull them apart. They are sure they never have been with another man; Hanzo is sure he never probed someone's ass before; Liang is sure no one ever touched his ass before, and even if they do not have any reason to keep going neither why they are doing this, they just want it so bad.

Scorpion gives a slow lick on it. It tastes reasonably good… Well, not actually, just does not taste bad either and Liang's gasp when he does so turns him on even more. The Lin Kuei brings his hands to Hanzo's head and pulls it closer while pushes his ass into it, forcing the yellow ninja to lick and suck the way he likes and it is not a problem for Scorpion to do so. He bites the sensitive skin while feeling the muscle buttocks smashing his face in between them and Sub-Zero's moans are more than a reward for his acts. He also takes his time to bite on the flesh of Sub-Zero's round ass leaving red marks over the bright pink skin, which is the only part of his body now warmed by the earlier spank, it never occurred to him that his friend's ass could be so beautiful.

"Do it, Hanzo," Liang begs, raising his lower body on his knees "Please, don't take it any longer."

"Are you sure?"

"As the sky is blue."

Hanzo obliges and positions himself to align his cock to Liang's entrance, who also stays on all four. It is not as cold as the rest of his body. Maybe it was the time Scorpion past warming it with his tongue or maybe it is Sub-Zero's anxiety, who knows or who cares? They have no lube but oddly Hanzo feels his cock slipping inside Liang easily. He pushes inch by inch carefully.

Liang needs to catch his breath. It really hurts. They should have used fingers, damn…

"Am I harming you?"

"No… Not actually, it's just really big," Liang looks over his shoulder and crooks his mouth in a smirk. Hanzo comprehends his message and pushes a little slower.

It does feels less painful when Hanzo is slow, but it also feels boring, unexciting. When he sense his friend's pubic hair touching his ass he let's out a shaky breath. His cock is softened by now.

"Take your time," Hanzo advises.

And Liang does. It will not stop hurting, he realizes, the best that can happen is to feel more comfortable and that pain starts mixing with some pleasure.

"Move," he commands and Hanzo obliges.

The friction is indescribable and somewhat stimulant, making blood pump to his cock once again. Scorpion makes it slow and gentle, thrusting with care not to hurt him and this is good, but not good enough for what he realizes.

"Harder, please," Liang demands.

"No need to ask again," Hanzo says as he buckles his hips more concisely to collide with his friend's.

The rhythm built up sends Sub-Zero's cock to the pulsing point again, though he thinks something is missing. His thought are lost somewhere inside his brain when Hanzo shifts the position to support himself only by a knee and foot. This causes his cock to go further inside Liang and right to direction of his prostate. When the shock occurs, Sub-Zero gasps. This is something new and definitely good, he wants more.

And Hanzo gives it to him for a long while in this position. It is not constant and this makes it even better, because the friction is good by itself but becomes better when the nerves inside are touched.

The position starts being uncomfortable for both of them. Their knees ache, so Sub-Zero shifts to lay on his back and raises his legs to support them on Scorpion's shoulders as he kneels between them. The new penetration is less painful but yet uncomfortable as it passes the ring of muscles.

"How do you feel?" Scorpion asks.

"Not bad… I feel it like, right here," he jokes, pointing his chest. Hanzo moves Liang's legs to wrap around his own waist and pull himself forward to kiss again. The movements are shorter this way, but feel somewhat tighter. Liang bites his lip on the kiss arousing him even more and stimulating to quicken the pace.

Sub-Zero's cock is trapped between their bodies, gaining some friction from their abdomens but Hanzo feels like he needs more. He forces himself backwards, starting to make longer thrusts while fisting the Lin Kuei's cock.

Kuai Liang groans and moans from pain, from pleasure and mostly for the knowledge that his friend is the one giving it all to him. He cannot warn Hanzo when his orgasm approaches. The overwhelming sensation reduces his vocabulary to whiny swearing until he feels his own sperm spurting over his stomach.

Liang's ass clenches unceasingly while he comes, this makes Hanzo's go to heaven. He doesn't know he has to take it off – he never been with a man before, just a reminder – and that makes Liang's sensitive burst through his throat as moans that only give him the stimulation he needs to come, filling his friends insides with his semen. His body shivers and exhaustion hits them both.

Hanzo retracts himself and lays beside Liang. Both their hands still firmly gripping each other's.

"That was one wonderful touch," Liang jokes.

"We can do this again later, can't we?"

"Maybe," Sub-Zero shifts in his position. The pain in his intimate areas cannot let him know if he will be able to repeat this anytime soon.

They do not talk about anything else, just lay there and sleep, over the sheets of moss. None of them realizes the amount of branches and vines, which spread across the room while they were in "activity". The plants make their way to clean Sub-Zero's belly and their way inside his ass to collect the portion inside. Melantha appears with a sheepish grin on the cell door.

"I told you, you will feed them, wether you want or not," she walks away satisfied with the scene, as the plants follow her anywhere she goes. "What?" she asks one of the root, "More visitants? Let's see who's stepping in our garden this time."

...

"It's not easy, Major," the soldier informs Sonya. Everything is there. Their wrist-coms, Sento, Sub-Zero's and Scorpion's swords as well as Jax's weapons, but there no signal of a fight anywhere, the ground is perfectly straight, no trees harmed, anything.

"Keep looking," Sonya orders, "We'll find our way to them, no matter how much time it'll take."

The soldier salutes and goes to his group while the Major looks around. She feels observed but shakes the feeling away.

For now.

Well… I wanted Sub-Zero and Scorpion to be the romantic part of the story. It ends here. Sorry about anyone who thought about Kenshi cuddling with Johnny Cage or Jax. This is not what's going to happen.