I honestly forgot how good this chapter was (other than having more Kenshi in there :3), but the revenants being onscreen is really something. My darling Kitana fighting against the heroes makes me sad, but I hope she and the others can still be saved. And I just want to say thank you all again for the support with the reviews, follows, and favorites. I'm glad that I'm able to make you laugh. ^_^
MikuHatsuneLove: I think Luke Skywalker and Takeda have some similarities to one another: dead mother, unknown father until the truth's revealed, trained by a master. I just had to. :D
xMK Warriorx: I hope you're okay! XD I'm glad you're loving it!
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Jax: Ex-Revenant Wrestler
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The four made it out to safety from the Outworlders. Back at the jungle, they stood frozen, waiting for an indication on when to do something.
"Takeda, your line," Cassie said. Takeda looked alarmed and went into position, starting the scene.
"We're all in one piece," Takeda said. "No one seems to be tailing us."
"Have you been able to determine where D'Vorah was headed?" his dad asked through the phone.
"We think she's headed for the Sea of Blood," Takeda replied, while Jin in the background jumped and grasped onto the flowered vine, swinging. The blonde looked at the Shaolin warrior and revealed a confused expression. He just continued on since he has no lines whatsoever in the jungle.
"Ew!" Jax's voice called out, surprising his daughter.
"Dad?" Jacqui called out. She head to Cassie and Takeda, listening in to her father's next words.
"She's coming here. To Quan Chi. There's a secret portal near the Sea of Blood. Quan Chi had it built when we were gettin' ready to invade Outworld."
"Dad, what are you doing? Are you finally coming out of retirement?" his daughter asked.
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Now in the Netherrealm, Jax is shown in his awesome outfit, along with Kenshi walking with him, talking on the phone in speaker mode. The people around them were busy preparing for Quan Chi and the others.
"Well now who's being overprotective?" Jax teasingly asked.
"I know you think you have things to make up for, but—"
"I'm doing this for Sonya," Jax elaborated. She's family. Hell, that's where your middle name came from, Jacqui."
"That's why I'm worried," Jacqui replied, her voice shaking a bit.
"Because I named you after my best friend?"
"No, Dad!"
"I'll be fine. You stay safe y'hear?"
"You stay safe too," Jacqui said."I love you. Briggs out."
"Briggs out," Jax replied, hanging up the phone.
"Feeling better? Or worse?" Kenshi asked with that handsome smile of his.
"Not sure. Maybe both," the ex-revenant replied, letting out a quiet laugh. Kenshi chuckled, placing his hand on Jax's cybernetic arm.
"They'll be fine."
"Question is, will I be..." The two dads continue to walk forward, observing the positions the soldiers are being placed at, while some are running to theirs, or chatting. Ironically, some even have the nerve to pick up one of the skulls and do puppets with them. Kenshi and Jax ignored that, since they have bigger problems to deal with.
"We have good crossfire position," Kenshi stated. "By why is it Quan Chi travels by conventional means?" A woman with black and white hair, black and red attire appeared in front of them, just in time to answer that question.
"He seems unable to fully use his magic," she answered. "He's been running out of Woolay Juice than when I was... in his service..." Despite his blindfold, Kenshi raised an eyebrow at her.
"Sareena's dead on," Jax replied. "The Woolay Juice is like his alcohol. He also doesn't have Shinnok as a power source, but he's still Quan Chi." The blind swordsman nodded, instructing Jax to hide behind the rock where he and Sareena went to.
"I realize you agreed to guide and observe," he said to Jax. "But you are welcome to assume any role you wish, even being a dancer if it's done right."
"I'm too rusty," Jax corrected. "I don't wanna jeopardize the mission, even if I had to do the Carlton dance."
"He approaches," Sareena warned. Kenshi and Jax got down behind the rock, watching what's yet to come. They looked on to see the demon steeds taking Quan Chi and his revenants towards them, and what's weird enough, Kabal and Stryker were holding a sign that says, "Woolay motherfuckers! Netherrealm Revenants will win the game!" Jax's eyes narrowed in confusion, reminding him of high school football. It was creative, but strange.
The soldiers headed into their positions with their weapons prepared. Jax glared at the sorcerer who gave him a life worse than death. When their steeds are coming closer, Kenshi waited until they were in a position where they can get them.
"Now!" he commanded. The soldiers fired their weapons, some bullets entering the steeds, but it wasn't affecting them as much. Quan Chi and his revenants stopped their steeds, and one of the soldier's weapon's fire a huge bullet, and it Kung Lao's steed, so he fell, but got up immediately. Sindel got off her ride and took cover, releasing a purple energy blast, and it hit one of the soldiers, knocking him out and dropping his weapon.
Stryker earned a head shot, taking down one of the soldiers. The ones with the powerful weapon took down Quan Chi's demonic steed, killing it and making the sorcerer fall down. Liu Kang got off of his and went to aid him, while Kabal defended them, heading towards the two soldiers in front of him. He got out his two hooked swords and aimed for their heads, but missed. He headed back and got the job done. Kenshi decided to stop him, getting up from the boulder.
"Shit... I'm getting too old for this," Jax realized.
"Itami!" Kenshi yelled. Sento glowed blue and it pushed Kabal out of his steed. The telekinetic swordsman went to face off against him, while Liu Kang picked up Quan Chi and carried him to a place for recovery.
"Geez, you are heavy for a sorcerer," the revenant Champion said.
"It's probably the feast we had before we got here," Quan Chi replied, groaning from his supposed injuries. The soldiers came in closer to them, and Liu released a dark fire energy ball at them, hitting them and striking them out like bowling pins. Liu helped Quan Chi up and with Lao, they walked casually away like none of this is happening.
"Hi Jax," Lao said to him as they passed the boulder. Apparently, they didn't know that he's not a revenant anymore. Jax glared at them, and ran to them. The fallen Shaolin warrior stayed while the Champion and sorcerer kept on going. "Do not interfere Jackson Briggs. Go back into hiding."
"Hiding. Guess I have been," Jax replied, grabbing Lao and saying his unforgettable catchphrase. He punched him in the face and it made him flew back. Using his hat as a projectile, the revenant used an ex-special to make it go forwards and backwards. Unfortunately for him, there were hellhounds in the Netherrealm, and three went to chase after it, making the revenant irritated, so he ran to the hounds. Since that gave him a shockingly easy win, Jax "That knocked some of my rust off, and all I did was grab him."
Somewhere in the same battlefield, Liu and Quan Chi were hiding behind a boulder for cover, while the fallen Champion threw a dark fireball at the soldiers shooting at them. With them out of the way, they ran to a bridge, but Jax was behind them, while grabbing a gun and was ready to shoot at them, but Sindel's scream was so loud, it hurt him and dropped his weapon. He rolled until he was at the edge, the bottom holding nothing but lava. Jax looked down, which he really shouldn't, but he cling to dear life.
Sindel looked at the poor man, and laughed gracefully. She stepped on his hand with her boot, and Jax groaned, trying to hang on. The Edenian twisted her foot to make him fall, and when she tried to step on it again, Jax grabbed her leg, and Sindel fell, but she used her elastic hair to grab onto a pointy stonewall, while she grasped onto the ledge. As much as it pains Sindel, she lifted herself and Jax up and back on the ground.
"Welcome home, Jackson Briggs," Sindel said, her arms wide open. She was certainly not going to get a hug from Jax, if that's what she's aiming for.
"This hell is not my home," he fired back. "Plus, you sound like you belong in a screamo band."
"Then why be fool enough to return?"
"I got a family to protect."
"Quan Chi reunited me with my family. He will do the same for you." Well... Her daughter is the only family, so she should just say daughter, but regardless, the two entered into kombat. She grabbed Jax with her hair, and whipped him back and forth. Then again, it reminded her of that song, which fits her. Energy balls came out of her mouth, which was strange, but for her screaming ability, an argument would be invalid.
Jax had enough, so he grabbed Sindel and threw her side to side like what she did, but Jax almost did a brutality on her, and killing a revenant wouldn't solve anything. With a kick to the face, the revenant landed on the floor, groaning.
"Quan Chi's not helping you." He ran back to Kenshi, who is still fighting Kabal, and Sareena, who is faced against Kitana. The demon did a couple of aerial kicks, but the princess dodged them, punching Sareena.
"It is possible to escape Quan Chi, Kitana," Sareena explained. "I can aid you as Bi-Han aided me."
"You became too familiar with Bi-Han," Kitana retorted. "Allowed emotion to corrupt you."
"Emotion freed me!" Sareena responded, punching Kitana's mask. She retaliated by spinning with her bladed fans, but the demon avoided the attack with a back flip. She tried to kick the princess, but Kitana grabbed her foot, however, Sareena used her other foot and that hit her. She got up, but was hit by Kitana, who walked up to her casually, getting ready to kill her.
"I don't understand, Kitana," Jax said, eating popcorn, which is understandable because Sareena tried to reach out to Kitana, which is kind of entertaining to watch, but... where the hell did he get it? He continued, munching on the snack, while Kitana turned around to see him walking up the two. "I hate the things I did here. But you enjoy being a revenant."
"It suits me," Kitana confessed. "I am a victim no longer." She ran towards Jax, who finished his popcorn and threw the bag away to the lava lake. Kitana jumped above the former revenant, but she was greeted with a fist to her face, dazing her a bit while walking backwards.
"Yeah, I know what you mean... But this ain't the way to assert yourself." Using his move called Gotcha, he punched Kitana in the face and abdomen, and she flew back. Getting back up quickly, she was in a stance and didn't move, her fans were stretched. Guessing that she's frozen, Jax went to her to grab her, but she disappeared and landed on him, stabbing him a few times and heading back with a flip. Note to self, Jax, just hit her with a sweep or jump kick/punch.
If only his arms could be projectile reflectors, since Kitana has a habit to throw her fans, and since they can come back to her, it makes it impossible for the spamming to stop. Man, every enemy just loves doing that. If there's a will, there's a way, and Jax used that phrase to help him defeat the Edenian princess. With an enhanced grab, he made small earthquakes to make her stumble from the shaking ground. With his energy blaster, he took Kitana down, watching her collapse.
"I gotta believe there's hope for you," Jax said to the revenant. He went to find Kenshi and Sareena, while coming across soldiers carrying others were are severely injured or dead. "Mother o' God..." he let out, surprised by all of this. He found the two, and a random soldier, at the rock they were hiding behind.
"We've lost many," Kenshi said. "The rest are wounded."
"And our 'friends'?" Jax asked.
"The tide turned against them," Sareena answered. "They left."
"How you two doin'?" Kenshi nodded, giving him a positive answer, but his injuries say otherwise.
"I'm fine..." Kenshi grunted, his right calf severed. Jax looked at it and replied,
"That's what I thought." Jax turned around, but Sareena asked him,
"Where are you going?"
"Gonna smack that sorcerer's ass," he responded with a glare.
"Alone?" Kenshi asked with concern.
"You'll be killed!" the demon said worriedly. Jax looked at the woman calmly and replied,
"Wouldn't be the first time." The group from Outworld came to Sareena and Kenshi, yelling out their signature words. "Guys, this isn't the right time, and how did you get here?"
"Uh... Internet," one of them replied. Jax shook his head, heading to Quan Chi's fortress alone. He walks a lonely road, the only road that he has ever known.
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Back at Quan Chi's fortress, Liu Kang tried to give the sorcerer some medicine, but the latter pushed him away, moaning from the pain. Why is Quan Chi a little bitch in this game? He got beaten up by Sonya twenty-so years ago, and now he won't take some medicine that the fallen Champion found in the fortress.
"Quan Chi, you need to drink this to feel better!" Liu stated, leaning the bottle close the Quan Chi's lips. He shook his head, and Liu smacked his forehead and sighed. "Tell me this then: In your weakened state, is it possible for you to release Shinnok?"
"I am more than capable," Quan Chi replied.
"If you are more than capable, then why won't you drink this damn medicine? It'll help you!" Like an immature child, the sorcerer rolled his eyes.
"There's no Woolay in it." Liu sighed, shaking his head and placing the medicine on the table behind Quan Chi.
"You had enough Woolay. Anyway, what about D'Vorah? Are you certain she is capable?"
"She will bring the amulet to me. I tricked her into thinking that I will sleep with her, but she's already a mom." He and Liu shivered. If the Kytinn were here, then the bees would kill them in rage.
"And I'll be waitin' for her," Jax said from behind. The two gave him disgusted looks.
"You want to sleep with D'Vorah?!" Quan Chi asked Jax.
"No! That's disgusting! I'm a married man, fool!" Jax walked up to Liu, and when he did, the camera turned to full screen again, which can only mean one thing.
"So you return to Raiden?" Liu asked. Talking in a quick time event actually makes this one rather awesome! Normally it would be just grunts and all that jazz, but this is something. "The fool followed fool." That was a bad insult, which made Jax laugh, but he almost got hit with Liu's fireball attack.
"Raiden did his best," Jax countered, continuing to walk towards the Champion. "He saved Earthrealm."
"He murdered me!" Another one was launched towards Jax, but he ducked, glaring at Liu's response.
"That isn't true!" Rinse and repeating, Liu would throw, Jax would dodge.
"You were not there! He stole everything from me!" When the ex-revenant pushed the fireball away from him, Quan Chi's eyes widen so much, it was funny more than surprising to see.
"Fool! He ships you and Kitana! Consider that a blessing!"
"You did not deserve to rejoin us," Liu replied. From an awesome camera angle, Jax glared. Three more times it happens, and when the last one ended, Jax clenched his fist, prepared to teach his fallen comrade a lesson. "Instead you will learn... There are worse things than death."
The fighting commenced, and out of all the fireballs Liu released, the one he threw finally hit Jax. It didn't hurt as much so it wasn't too bad. However, Jax fell for the same trick like with Kitana, when Liu used a parry attack. Then he started to use his bicycle kick, but his voice from earlier games didn't come out, which was sad. Despite not wanting to face against him, Jax has to stop him, and when he defeated the Shaolin warrior, he said with sympathy.
"I wish I could help you, Liu Kang." With no remorse decorated on his face, he went to Quan Chi, anger rising from the hell he's been through, thanks to the sorcerer.
"Jax... There is no need for hostility—"
"Just stop talking," Jax replied, uppercutting Quan Chi, making him fly up and hit his head against the skull wall, and when he landed back to the ground, he stayed there, unconscious. "Who knew? Revenge is sweet!" Jax got his phone out and called Kenshi's numbers on speed dial. "Kenshi. I got 'im."
"Excellent work," Kenshi replied.
"I'm staying here. D'Vorah's on her way. You need to get Quan Chi to Sonya. She'll make him spill his guts." Indeed he will, since the albino sorcerer won't know what will get him.
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It's nice once in a while to have a bit shorter chapters, but I like how this went. I also kinda considered this to be a tribute for Father's Day since Jax is Jacqui's dad, so that should be something. :P Other than that, I hope you enjoy this! I promise that the next one will be a bit longer. I cannot wait to do Scorpion's chapter! As the summary said, Sub-Zero invites him to a fabulous tea party! :D