Chapter 6: Get Over Here!

*Dead Forest, Earthrealm*

A cold chill passed the already-frozen dead forests. The Lin-Kuei Grandmaster stood, with ice formations around him. A distance away, trees burned, with a warrior clad in yellow in the epicenter. He called, "Sub-Zero!"

"Will there ever be peace between us, Scorpion?"

"Not in this or any other universe!"

"FIGHT!"

They charged into each other. Scorpion issued the first srike, with a knee to the gut of his 23-year adversary. Sub-Zero struck back with a punch from the right, and then the left. Scorpion caught the second one and tried to dislocate his arm. Sub-Zero responded with several punches to his side and two kicks. Scorpion again caught his limb, (in this case the right leg) and again tried the dislocation method. The ice warrior followed up with three kicks to the chest, the last of which sent the demon flying back a few feet. He allowed him to get up, and followed through with four punches to the chest and a freeze blast. The ice shattered around Scorpion as he was thrown back further, and through a burned tree stump. The cold one leapt at his age-old combatant, only to be met with a flaming uppercut. To counter, he sent a charged ice blast. The demon dodged, and sent him back further. Sub-zero grabbed a tree branch and froze it, slamming it into his face. On the second contact, it shattered. To regain the momentum, Scorpion performed a flaming backflip-kick. The grandmaster soared into the air, but landed steadily on his feet. He slid with the ice at Scorpion, but he had teleported in fire, flanking him. When coming out of the fiery transport, he had gained speed, which he used to deliver a kick to his opponent's side, breaking a couple ribs. He followed up with a swift kick to the right knee, dislocating the knee bone. With the other leg he had, Sub-zero spun around and planted his left foot in his head. The ice ninja grabbed a tree branch and swung twice, each time his feet scored a hit on his head. When he came down, a short sword of ice formed in his hand. He moved in to stab, but the revenant grabbed his forearm and sent his knee into the blade-wielder's gut. They then traded blows until Scorpion whirled around and sent his boot into his kombatant's chin. Sub-zero fell back, as his adversary leaped into the air. He then pulled out his two signature weapons: Rope Dart #1 and Rope Dart #2. They traveled into the Lin-Kuei's chest, ad Scorpion sent him in an arc in the air over him, into the snow. Sub-zero landed on the ground back shoulders-first, and the impact knocked off his half-mask. He got up weakly as the Rope Darts snaked back into the folds of Scorpion's gear.

"FINISH HIM!"

One Rope Dart streaked through the air, seeking Sub-zero's head. In a way, he was glad that this was over. This was kind of getting old. He closed his eyes, ready for the end.

The weapon landed. But there was no skull pierced. Sub-zero was not dead, but they weren't at the dead forest anymore. They were in Earthrealm, but it wasn't' the same. But it appeared that they weren't alone in their displacement. Nightwolf and Jax were present. Also there was Cyrax, Sektor, and Cyber Smoke: the three parts of the Triborg entity. In front of them was a very complicated device that was emanating a dying glow.

"Location unknown. Seek information." Sektor ordered. "Proposing temporary truce to others."

"I ally with no one, especially not the Lin-Kuei!" Scorpion yelled, teleporting away in fire. He found himself slamming his boot into the head of Smoke. With him out of the way, he engaged the other two cyborgs.

"Eliminate revenant threat." Sektor threw a nearby wrench into Scorpion's head, stunning him. Cyrax grabbed him, allowing his comrade to throw several punches into his gut. Scorpion replied by slamming their heads together and sending a flurry of punches to the cyber warriors on his left and his right. Cyrax then caught him in a green binary net of energy. He launched a saw blade into him, pinning the demon to the ground until it rolled away. Scorpion uppercutted the yellow cyborg with fire, sending him over to a wall. The red cyborg fired a rocket at the demon while he was distracted. But the revenant caught the projectile and returned it to sender.

"Man beats machine any day. And the machine wastes my time!"

"You are not a man, not anymore." Nightwolf told Scorpion without a tremble in his voice. "You are a demon that I do not fear."

"You will. Get over here!" Nightwolf caught the dart midair, and pulled back, but Scorpion was sent elsewhere. He popped back up in another room. It seemed that he had used a flaming teleport without thinking where he wanted to go. He turned around to see:

CHIK-CHAK. The barrel of an Argus shotgun stared him in the face. "Who the hell are you, and what the hell are you doing here?"

"I am Scorpion, and I am not entirely sure, but you will feel my sting!"

"Not with this in your face, I won't." BLAM! She lowered the Argus, to find no body, but flames and smoke. "I didn't load this with incendiaries. How the hell did that happen?"

"It didn't." He slammed a pipe into her head, then took her weapon and hit her face with the butt of the gun. She fell to the ground, unconscious. "Be glad it wasn't a bigger sting."

"This is Outrider. Comms check." she advised.

Ruin was the first to report in. "Gotta keep up. Check."

"This is Spectre. Check."

"Communications system check acknowledged." Reaper… well… acknowledged.

Prophet came in. "Check. Also, when you can, you should see something I found."

"This is Nomad. Me and Seraph have deactivated the P.A.W.S. If we can, we should take them to the mothership for reprogramming."

Outrider awaited the response of Battery, but it did not come. "Battery, do you copy? Battery! Reaper. Ruin. Find out what happened to Battery, ASAP!"

It was at that moment that Scorpion realized: he had screwed up. He hid the military personnel he had knocked out behind cover, and vanished. Just as he did, the duo busted through, eyes peeled.

"Multiple heat signatures detected. One is the average body temperature of a human. Another exceeds 200 degrees Celsius, thus is not a human."

Fire appeared in front of them, revealing a golden-clad warrior. "So, you say I am not human? I was, but neither are you, cyborg!"

"Prophet, we found what came out of your science experiment. He looks pissed, though."

"I am not angry, I am vengeance! And you will take me to this so called 'prophet', whether you want to or not!"

"Nobody gives me orders except my CO, and I haven't worked for him in a long time!" He pulled out a gravity spike, arming himself for a fight. "You may scare some people with those swords of yours, but a melee expert is easy to take down when you are trained well enough with this thing. Now are you gonna come peacefully, or am I going to have to ask nicely?" The gravity spike primed, ready to detonate on something.

"You don't scare me! Get over here!" The rope dart flung forward, catching Ruin's cybernetic legs and propelling him to Scorpion. Ruin was prepared, and activated the spike on impact. Another fight had begun again, which caught the attention of a certain war deity, Ares.

*Int-*

"Mortal Kombat! DODODODODODODODODODODODO! Mortal Kombat!"

*Rly, bruh?*