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I'm excited for this chapter because we all know how serious and... cold Sub-Zero can be, well I decided to have some fun with his character and how his chapter plays out! I love him to the point he would be in my top five favorite characters in Mortal Kombat. Even when we're done playing as him and the chapter still goes on, I'm looking forward to what you all think when I add in something! Enjoy!

xMK Warriorx: When I got that achievement, I laughed because of how funny it is! XD

MikuHatsuneLove: I thought of him when he directed western movies long ago, so that's how I got his name! I know how much you love Johnny so I made him said the pun!

Guest: I have not seen that, but I've heard of it and I'll check it out! I might reference that once I watch it!

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Sub-Zero: Earthrealm's Version of Elsa

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In the cold, two men were running up the stairs, panting. The sound of it was urgency to let their leader know something, but before they could make it up there, one of them said,

"The last one up there has to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and call out three people to do it!" The one on his right shook his head, still heading up the stairs.

"Phillip, that trend's been done for about a year now. Plus, we're already in the damn cold!" The one named Phillip shrugged, but agreed.

"Fair enough." As soon as the two got up the stairs, who they were trying to find wasn't sitting on his favorite chair. "Where is he?" Phillip asked. "We need to tell him about the intruders and down defenses." Sure enough, when they looked for their master, they found him moving, but in the most unusual way, and using his powers to the point it was making the two shiver.

"My power flurries through the air into the ground!" From afar, they heard a voice. One that doesn't sound great for singing, add to the fact that it's a man's voice too deep and sexy to sing that song. Sub-Zero... is singing? The two men's jaws dropped, witnessing what is happening. He's creating ice crystals that are turned to snowflakes, twirling, and of course, singing his heart out.

"Uhh, Grandmaster?" Phillip spoke out.

"My soul is spiraling—" the Lin Kuei clan member turned around with a surprised expression, one with fear. "No one heard that!" Sub-Zero yelled, throwing an ice ball to one of the guards. It caught him, and froze him on the spot, his pose somewhat funny with his tongue out and hands raised like he was being arrested.

"Phillip!" the other exclaimed, trying his best to thaw him. Sub-Zero realized what he done, and covered his mouth in regret.

"Oops! Sorry, but don't worry, he'll thaw in an hour. So... How can I help you, uhh...? Your name please? There are so many of you." The unfrozen man bowed slightly to respect Sub-Zero.

"It's Terrance, sir. Anyway, the forward defenses stand down as you commanded, Grandmaster, and there are four intruders." Sub-Zero smiled, caressing his beard with a pleased look on his face.

"It is time to entertain our guests," he replied. "Also, while we head out, please bring Phillip so that he won't be lost on what's happening." With a bow, Terrance grabbed hold of Phillip and as he follows the Grandmaster, he also struggled to bring him down, since his weight is a bit heavy. A couple more of them followed Sub-Zero, Terrance, and Phillip, sort of. They made their way outside the temple, and went down the small flight of stairs, but Terrance still struggled to get Phillip down, and when he finally made it, he panted and sighed of relief. The five head to the statue and honored it by praying to it.

Ironically, they have not seen the Special Forces team, who were hiding from the sides of the stairs with Cassie and Jacqui on one side, and Jin and Takeda on the other. The Shaolin warrior looked at Cassie, wondering if now's the good time, but she silently mouth, "No." Jin looked at them again, and did what he dreaded, leaving his spot.

"Do you want to build a snowman? Come let's go and play..." His voice was amazingly on-key, but it wasn't good enough for the plan Cassie came up with. She followed, glared at him, and said,

"Jin for God's sake!" Jacqui and Takeda followed them, being behind the two that went to the Grandmaster first.

"You are not welcome here," Sub-Zero said. "State your intentions, but I must say: that is a nice voice." Jin made a face at Cassie, since he got a compliment out of it, but Cassie disregarded that and said to Lin Kuei,

"Grandmaster, we need you to come with us. My name is Sergeant—" Lin Kuei ninjas appeared in large numbers, and surrounded the four. They stood close to each other while Sub-Zero stood up and looked at the blonde.

"You demand my cooperation. Yet you are cut off. What will you do?" The sergeant looked at her teammates, gulping to get a lump out of her throat due to what she's about to say.

"Okay, you three, it's time for our A cappella," Cassie stated.

They stayed in their positions, took deep breaths, and Jacqui started to vocalize the song with an "ah". Takeda harmonized with a beat, and then Jin did what Jacqui is doing, but making it sound low. The last was Cassie, and when the time came, she opened her eyes and looked nervously at the Grandmaster, but her voice was the opposite.

"The window is open, so's that door, I didn't know they did that anymore, who knew we owned—"

"It is too late for singing. It was ruined when Johnny Yong Bosch sang off-key," Sub-Zero declared. Jin looked offended and fired back,

"That's not my name! And you said my voice was nice!" The Lin Kuei member laughed, crossing his arms.

"It's called, 'sarcasm'." When he gave a signal with his hand, that's when the ninjas started to attack the four, but Sub-Zero went to Cassie, now in kombat. He threw an ice ball at her, but the blonde luckily blocked it. "Cassandra Cage. You lead this group, but they do not follow your voice. What would your mother do?"

"Stop singing like a pussy and take you down!" she replied with determination. For a first hit, the Grandmaster used his Ice Slide, and Cassie slipped. She used her guns to get some long range damage done, then coming in for a somersault kick. Sub-Zero kept on using his sliding ability, pissing off the squad leader. "Dude, stop spamming your Ice Slide!"

"But it's fun!" he replied. With a groan, the blonde tried to run to him, but once again, he was sliding, and with that, Cassie was down. He looked down at her, and said in a serious tone, "You are more like your mother than you think."

From behind, Takeda tried to attack him with a rolling kick, but the Lin Kuei member was too smart to know that and countered it, fighting back until he froze himself. Takeda did a flip kick, shattering the ice. The Asian's eyes widen from what he just did.

"Fatality?" he asked curiously. He looked around, and what he got was what he tried to do against the Grandmaster, but unlike earlier, he was successful. Sub-Zero kicked Takeda on his back, landing in a cool way, but got back up as soon as it was done. Takeda slowly got up, weary from that surprise attack.

"Your powers should have showed my plans, Takahashi Takeda. No doubt Kenshi taught you how to use them. Then again, how did he even knock up someone when he's blind?" Straightening himself for a fight, Takeda replied,

"My father taught me a lot, Grandmaster, and I'm not going to comment on that question."

"Let us see." Sub-Zero started the fight with his ice hammer, and it almost hit the Shirai-Ryu warrior, but he used his ronin sword from the ground and it rose up from below, hitting the Grandmaster. It impressed him, but not well enough. He would use his X-ray, but last time he did that on someone, it nearly killed him. Seriously, squishing one's stomach juices, making the blood and fluid freeze into a giant spear, and stabbing someone in the eye is a threat. That's why Sub-Zero uses his ex-special attacks to get more damage and to do more combos. Using that strategy, it helped make the fight against the Takahashi family member easy, and when Takeda was exhausted, he fainted. Sub-Zero grinned and said to the fallen telepathy user,

"You are not your father. Not yet, unless you go blind like him."

It was now Jacqui's turn. When her uppercut came into play, the Grandmaster suspected that and dodged it in a fashionable way. The African-American groaned, clenching her fists in preparation for a fight.

"Dammit... I can never punch someone in the face, but the balls are out of the question..." she said to herself, but Sub-Zero heard due to his surprised expression.

"Okay...? Either way, that was quite an entrance, Jacqueline Briggs," he replied regardless.

"Specialist Briggs." The Grandmaster immaturely rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Fine, Specialist Briggs. Military decorum is important in your family." Since the cue to not face one another in kombat is in play, the two started their fight off in a quick pace, and then Jacqui managed to punch on the side of his abdomen, making the Lin Kuei clan member clutch onto it, and then the specialist elbowed him on his back shoulder with great force. Sub-Zero backed away and looked at the woman who has the advantage.

"If you know my father, then you must know me. Did you come to my high school prom to be the DJ?" Sub-Zero raised an eyebrow at her for the last question, but he responded,

"We share a dark chapter in our histories." Like every other battle, Sub-Zero has the winning streak, but then he lost in the second round due to the fact that the specialist wouldn't stop using her weapons. When the Lin Kuei member fell down, groaning from the pain, he got back up again.

"That's why you're losing!" Jacqui taunted Sub-Zero, pointing at weapons on her arms. The older man sighed, getting irritated by the reason.

"Yeah, because you kept using your arm gun... thingy!" If spamming was what she would do, then he would do that like he did to Cassie, but in all respect, he was having fun sliding. So at a faraway distance, he blocked Jacqui's ammo and used the time to throw an ice ball at her when she was reloading ammo into her arm weapon. She froze on the spot so he dashed forward, leaving some ice trails on the ground. He grabbed her and broke her out of her frozen prison, and Jacqui flew back.

With a shout, she ran to him, but unfortunately didn't see the ice puddle and fell. Sub-Zero really wanted to do the X-ray move on her so badly, but killing isn't in his book. So to finish it off, he summoned his ice hammer to knock her up from the ground, and then slid to her direction to chip off a few more damage. With one more grab, he froze her and punches the cold out of her, making the Grandmaster win the fight.

In all honesty, he should be tired, but he's too badass for that. He looked at the specialist, and said to her,

"Do not judge yourself harshly, Specialist Briggs." He turned around and while the ninjas and Special Forces squad was still fighting, he started to walk towards the temple. "Now I shall go have some cookies and milk to heal up—"

Unfortunately, Jacqui got up and started to beat the shit out of him, making Sub-Zero feel dizzy. He got down on his knee, and when Jacqui was about to finish him, a ninja spared Sub-Zero, fighting against the specialist. All he wanted was a glass of milk and warm chocolate chip cookies, nothing more. But since a fight is still going on, Jin went to Sub-Zero after stopping a Lin Kuei ninja.

Jin aimed to kick at him, but Sub-Zero got himself together and used his hands to block them. Delivering punches, Jin blocked them, but was unlucky when Sub-Zero punched him in the stomach and then the face.

"A feint, one that almost made me vomited. Well done," Jin stated, his staff appearing into his hand.

"Kung Jin," the Grandmaster spoke up, saying his actual name unlike earlier. "You rally your companions and should not act like an arrogant bitch to your superiors." Jin's eyes lowered due to his words, but he said regardless,

"That was a little too much, but I will..." Sub-Zero smiled from his honesty, but then Jin had to add, "...when I meet one!" When the fight commenced, the color of the arrows changed, making Sub-Zero astounded, especially when the arrows turned blue. When Jin aimed the arrow and it missed, the Lin Kuei leader grabbed the Shaolin warrior and freeze and punched him back.

Much to his dismay, the color changed back to white, making Sub-Zero frown like a child missing his favorite toy, but he got serious and defeated Jin with a slam to the ground with his ice hammer.

"It's obvious that singing isn't for you, along with having that false bravado," the Grandmaster acknowledged. With his words spoken, Jin's hands were moved to his back and tied, and he was taken to where the other three are: on their knees and waiting for him to join. When he was put down beside Cassie, and the ninjas moved out of their space, Takeda looked at him and asked,

"Any ideas?"

"Sub-Zero, let's talk," Cassie intervened from her comrade's question. Instead, he shook his head, since saying that the singing opportunity has passed.

"Got a new plan, Cage?" Jin asked. Cassie scoffed and refused to look at him.

"Could have gone with the old one instead of going solo, Jin," Jacqui replied, tilting her head to look at him.

"You're gonna catch hell if you kill us," the leader stated, hoping that it would give the Grandmaster an idea. He walked up closer to them, and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I suppose so," he replied. He looked at one of the men. "Chuo! Dangjin!" One of the men nodded, and with a knife, he released the four's hands, and their reaction changed from worry to surprise.

"That was easy," Cassie said. Then to their own surprise, a whistle came from afar, one that was near the temple. It was Johnny Cage, who was waving at the four. The four stood up and looked at one another, confused on what just happened.

"So this was all a..." Jacqui trailed.

"A training exercise," Sub-Zero finished. Cassie looked disappointed, and responds to that,

"Damn... I should have seen it."

"You and your friends show much promise, especially in that A cappella, Cassandra Cage. However, until you function as one, you will fall short."

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Back at the headquarters, they were getting settled, while some were shivering from the cold. When Cassie entered the room, she bumped into Jin on purpose.

"Hey! He said that our singing was good!" the Shaolin acknowledged. The blonde squad leader ignored him, placing her pistols in a storage closet where there are more of her pistols.

"Sooo, did you have fun?" Johnny asked the four. "He told me that your singing was nice and pretty."

"The Lin Kuei shredded us like cheese," Cassie replied to her father's question. Johnny licked his lips, since he loves that dairy treat.

"You maybe," Jin affirmed.

"I've seen plenty of footprints on your ass, too," Jacqui fired back.

"Why were you looking at my ass?" Jin asked while his eyebrow rose in confusion.

"Come on, now," Johnny stepped in, hoping to cool things down. "You are all winners in my book. Now that I think about it, you need to read it when all of this is over." After his kind words, his phone vibrated and got it from his pants pocket. He looked at it and it means serious business. "New orders. From General Blade." He went to the computer and typed in a few words, and then observed what he's witnessing on the screen. "Priority One: Outworlders in Earthrealm."

"An invasion?" Takeda asked.

"Couldn't be..." Jacqui trailed. The Shaolin warrior looked at their leader's dad with a sneaky grin.

"You're not afraid, are you, Mr. Cage?" Jin asked cockily.

"Outworlders I can handle... if they don't have four arms or keep using their projectiles over and over and kill someone in an instant," Johnny stated.

After some awkward silences and random singing, the crew finally made it back to their campsite. A lot of people were there, but none other stood out than a sexy middle aged man who sports a Japanese inspired coat-like uniform. He smiles at the military plane landing, even though he had some people ask if he was able to see what's in front of him. Nothing's really different about Kenshi, except that he has the same damn blindfold for twenty years and... well... he's older.

The five got out of the plane and noticed him standing there, and Johnny went beside him. Surprisingly, ever since his sword Sento glow blue, Johnny has been nice to Kenshi, which is good, but the actor still thinks to this day that it is still a light saber.

"When did they show up?" the actor asked the blind swordsman.

"The portal opened by the docks about a few hours ago. There were so many Outworlders; most of them were scared when they saw me. It might have been my beard I won't shave off for some reason. They are refugees from the Outworld civil war."

"It must be bad that they risked coming to Earthrealm," Jin replied. Johnny and Kenshi looked at the four.

"Somehow we forgot you were behind us," Kenshi said honestly, motioning his hand. "After you." As soon as he said that, everyone went before Kenshi, and when his son was about to pass him, he placed his hand on his shoulder, and said to him telepathically, "Do not dwell on your encounter with the Lin Kuei, son."

"Pretty hard not to," Takeda thought in reply to his father. They exchanged smiles and followed the others, heading into a room with more technology. A familiar person, who for some reason looked like she didn't age at all, but has grown a lot of hair, noticed them and gave the blind swordsman a small smile.

"Thanks, Kenshi," she said aloud. "Could you and Mr. Cage join us?" she asked towards Johnny and Cassie, who were talking about movies at the wrong time. Cassie's mother sat down on the corner of the table, looking at her daughter. "Sergeant Cage. You and your team as you were." She crossed her arms and looked away from them, which gave them shocked reactions. Father and daughter said nothing, so Cassie went to stand beside her teammates.

"This is Li Mei," Raiden said, appearing out of nowhere, and pointing at the woman sitting down. "She seeks asylum—"

"Whoa, Gramps, when did you show up?" Johnny asked. Raiden crossed his arms and his piercing bright blue eyes stared back at Johnny.

"How do you not see a seven-foot tall god wearing a straw hat?" Raiden asked. The actor shrugged as a response.

"Our village, Sun-Do, was the epicenter of a fierce battle," the Outworlder said. "We barely escaped with our lives."

"Such is war," Johnny replied nonchalantly. Sonya looked at him and glared. "I mean, no offense, but... You Outworlders live for that, right?" Li Mei shook her head, but that doesn't mean necessarily no.

"This was different. The rebels and Mileena had a weapon unlike any other. Entire battalions were erased. It was not honorable, not kombat."

"Tell me more about the weapon," Raiden said. Li Mei looked at the Thunder God and continued,

"A talisman made of gold, and it was with a center jewel. Mileena wields its crimson energy without precision. And then... strange music would play."

"Well that's good then," Cassie replied. "If it plays music, then it's bound for a party—"

"Not now, Sergeant Cage," Sonya scolded. Cassie frowned in response.

"It is enough that she possesses it," Li Mei stated. "It turns the tides in Mileena's favor. Our emperor grows desperate from this and this absurd rumor. Those in the middle pay the price."

"If this 'talisman' is what I suspect it to be, we all may pay a price," Raiden replied.

"We talking about Shinnok's amulet?" Jin asked out of the blue.

"No shit!" everyone replied, except for Raiden, Sonya, and Li Mei. Sonya opposed nonetheless to the Thunder God.

"It couldn't be. The base, vault, and your wardings? S-F, Shaolin... No way anyone can get past all that..." Raiden uncrossed his arms and replied to Sonya,

"I must be certain." He walked out, while Sonya looked at him leave and placed her hands on her hips. To make her more pissed, Johnny said to break the silence,

"Well, this is cozy." With a more threatening glare to him from his ex, Li Mei looked at the tension between the two, and calmly said to the actor,

"You remind me of an Earthrealmer who crossed over with us. He also found humor in everything."

"Handsome guy, right?" Johnny asked with a small grin.

"Idiot, I said he was an Earthrealmer, but one of his eyes... glowed red." When Johnny got the hint at the end of Li Mei's sentenced, he looked concernedly at Sonya.

"Who does she mean?" Jin asked Jacqui. Of course she wouldn't know because only the two former lovers and Kenshi know.

"Kenshi, continue with Li Mei," Sonya commanded. "I'm going to the refugee camp. Gotta get his ass before he finds a way out." Johnny started to follow her by replying,

"I'll go with." The long braided woman looked at the actor.

"Go get an update on camp security from Colonel Flagg."

"Why?"

"You dick, did I stutter?" Cassie wanted this to stop, so she stepped up towards them, but her father motioned his hand for her to stay put. Then he walked out to do what his ex said. To make matters worse, Sonya glared at him again for no reason.

"Are we with you?" Cassie asked carefully. Her mother looked at her as soon as her glare was gone.

"No. I need to confirm with Kotal Kahn that Li-Mei's story is true. You and your team are going to Outworld." After giving Cassie and her team orders, Sonya marched out of the room.

"So... why is your mom pissed at your dad?" Takeda asked Cassie. She sighed, but replied back,

"I think she's still mad at him for snoring at night while they would sleep on the same bed."

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I think to make it easier, I'll upload the next chapters later in the day (like 6-7 P.M. central time or something like that) so I can have more time to continue making them during daytime, since I have work Monday through Thursday. Then again, my schedule can be hectic due to playing MKX and other games. :P So if you have this story on watch, then it shouldn't be a problem.

And another thing, spamming is the most annoying thing when playing online. That's why I would play as Kitana (Royal Storm) or Kenshi (Balanced or Kenjutsu) to reflect attacks like that, especially for Jacqui's and Jin's attacks.

It's fun when you figured out who voices who in the game, like Jin being voiced by Lelouch from Code Geass, and now Artemis from Sailor Moon, and Sub-Zero being voiced by... Reptile and Bo' Rai Cho. XD Either way, what do you think of this somewhat musical chapter? Please leave a review, and if you haven't already followed and favorited this story, go ahead! It helps me with my motivation!

I'll see you in the next chapter! :)