Love & War 4

Chapter 32: Blood and Fire

Back at the Kang temple...

"You killed my clan... to provoke me? You signed your own death warrant, Havik!

Scorpion broke Havik's neck. Unknown to him, however, Havik breaks his own neck (As was the casein MK Deception where he breaks his neck and contorts his own body to rejuvenate health). Havik has a way of mutilating his own body in ways a human body is never supposed to. It seems like he has no soul and still breathes even in death."We're not finished yet, Hanzo."

Uh-oh.

"You're holding back all that fire but you're afraid to get burned."

Hanzo got kicked through a wall.

"Why not let the fire take you? Why be a mortal when you could be an agent of chaos? Raiden is my puppet. Outworld is eating itself alive. Your clan is dust in the wind. Your apprentice is one slip away from becoming my slave."

"I'm sorry, Hanzo," said Takeda. It looked like Shujinko defeated him. "I wasn't ready for him."

"It's not your fault. You've made your point, Havik. Stop playing games. What do you really want?"

"Friendship?" Are you serious? "Together, blood and fire will liberate the realms from order. No more gods in command... only us. I only ever wanted Takeda as leverage. Surrender to yuor nature and the boy is yours. Keep him, kill him, I don't care...

"Hanzo, please..."

"This isn't a choice, Hanzo!" Havik punched him in the face. "Scorpion's fire protects him, even if you wants to die, Scorpion won't let you. You couldn't make it this far without burning hotter and hotter."

He continued assaulting and taunting Hanzo.

"How far must I push? How close to death before Scorpion takes over?'

"All the way..."

"I was hoping you'd say that."

Havik has him in a headlock.

"Takeda," he said. "You always have a choice."

"Thus spoke Hanzo Hasashi."

Havik punched him so hard it felt like his lungs were collapsing.

"HANZO!"

"Come, Takeda. Witness firsthand the rebirth of Scorpion."

"Hanzo, please come back. Tell me what to do."

"He can't say much when both his lungs collapsed. There's fire in you too, Takeda. Maybe you can join our cause."

"I'd rather die than serve you."

"That can be arranged."

"I hope Hanzo lets the hellfire take over. I hope you all burn!"

"Takeda," Hanzo is barely alive. "Run..."

"Shirai Ryu don't run, they fight. How many times have you... Please, Hanzo... FIGHT!"

"Here comes the fireworks..." But Hanzo is dead. "...or maybe not. Where's Scorpion?"

"There was no Scorpion. Hanzo made his own decisions. Even when he served Quan Chi, he chose death. You'll never control him."

"hm. Then he was a agent of chaos. Leave, Takeda, unless you wish to join your master."

Takeda left soon after, guitly he wasn't strong enough.

Back to Shang Tsung's island...

"Scout, fan out into the forest," said Kotal. "Form a perimeter along the cliff and the treeline."

"Never thought we be here again," said Johnny.

"I was starting to worry you might not make it." It was Reiko, accompanied by Skarlet and Evil Tanya. "If I had a daughter if she were kidnapped, I would have been here days ago. Perhaps you're not fit to be parents."

"GET FUCKED, REIKO!" Johnny yelled.

"Your war is with me, Reiko," said Kotal. What do you gain from inciting conflict in Earthrealm?"

"I do not seek conflict, I see to conquer. To merge our realms as Shao Kahn envisioned. Under one rule. My rule!"

"Here they are, girls. Better late than never," said Skarlet.

"Princess?" Sonya and Johnny were shocked to see the girls corrupted by the Blood Code. Chris and Tanya arrived.

"Well, well, well, Tanya," her twin said, surprised to see her after 20 years.

"YOU!"

Evil Tanya jumps towards her.

"How have you grown, sister."

"I am not your sister!" Tanya said with fire burning within her. "I never had a brother or a sister, let alone a twin. You were born from Shinnok's corruption that dwelled within me for years."

"Perhaps we can talk elsewhere. I wouldn't want this handsome gentleman right here to see your broken body strewn throughout this island."

"So you're the one Tanya was talking about," Chris said.

"Indeed I am," she said, walking seductively toward him. He backed away.

"Once I kill this bitch, I will kill that wife of yours and your daughter..."

"Melody..." he said in a whisper.

"And then, you will be mine!"

As soon as she said this, Tanya tackles her twin. "You disgusting slut! You ever think of killing Chris' family, I swear on my life, that I will kill you dead!"

"I know a perfect place," said her twin. "...where you, my twin, will meet your death..."

Both of them disappeared from sight.

"Chris."

Reiko calls his name. "I see you remember me?"

"I do..."