Virtualegend
by
White Lego Ninja
Author's Notes: So I really need to get a few things off of my chest.
First off: Wondering if I should just delete my stories as no one seems to caare enough to suggest ideas to move them forward. Believe me, I'd be moving them along myself, if not for trying to get a job-if only a part-time one, the possible 'BIG Move to Texas', and my Karate lessons. I expect at least 15 Reviews per story, (Save 'Test of Creativity' as I completed that one,) each with at least seven possibilities, by Halloween. That leaves you only 3 Months, so I suggest you 'Devoted' readers get cracking. (Ideas for a Barbie story, or Mortal Kombat/Barbie Crossover will be appreciated as well.)
Next up: I've been looking via my ReadUp Fan-Fiction Reader App, and I can't find ANY MK/Barbie stories. So, I suppose I'll be the one to write the very first.
It drives me crazy how I have this ever creative mind, yet can't do the slightest to think ideas up for my Fan-Fictions.
Won the Konquest mode in my Mortal Kombat: Armageddon game. So if I can figure out a way to keep track of the game story, I can probably start my Fan-Fiction with my Kreate a Fighter character as the Heroine.
Lastly, I'm sorry I had the last chapter end with the Heroes failing, but I'm way too anxious to get to the game. But since the idea came to me, and became the last chapter, here's a little something to, hopefully set you readers at ease for when we get inside the game. Enjoy.
Stage 10: Motherhood, and the Journey Begins
Alysa's Dream:
She was standing in a rickety stable, horses in each stall on either side. Across from her, a chubby man, well into his late forties, was standing there, looking nonplussed.
"This is who you are," he said. "Just look at yourself. See my likeness in yourself."
She turned to her left, but wasn't expecting a mirror to be there. Then part of her remembered she was asleep; Asleep in the Castle on the Moon. Still, she turned to look.
There, in the reflective steel siding on the wall, was a figure wearing boys jeans, a flannel shirt, and heavy boots that made the wearer's calves hurt, no! Scream for release from the pain!
End of Dream
She bolted awake, lunging forward to sit upright. She was cold, her skin felt cold to the touch, sweat covering her face, neck, chest, and back, her shoulders heaving up and down with every shaky gasp she took in.
She'd been haunted by the Black-hearted Western man again.
But the person she saw in the reflection; The male clothing, the chubby build, the face covered in-
Her painful reverie was interrupted by what sounded like a little baby cry, from inside the very room. The crib was right across from her bed. She'd been gazing right at it since she lunged forward from her nightmare!
She could contain it no longer. She rolled over onto her stomach, buried her face into her pillow, and cried. Sounding, oddly enough, very like the little toy girl that as of now needed her diaper changed, and some love from someone who would cuddle her.
Knock knock knock!
"Who is it?" Alysa called out between bouts of sobs.
The door opened and in glided her mother, Queen Serenity, followed by Alexis and Sonya.
"Darling? Are you all right?" Serenity asked as she took a seat by Alysa on the bed.
"We heard you scream from our rooms," said Sonya as Alexis gently changed Lindy, then picked her up, wraped her in a soft warm quilt, and cuddled the doll close, rocking her slowly.
"Come child, let's get the others," Serenity said.
Castle Throne Room/Dojo
The Heroes all gathered around and listened to Alysa's nightmare; The old man, the male figure in western clothing, the stable, the horses. By the end, every face, save perhaps those of Raiden and Nightwolf, had their mouth hanging wide open, and some even had tears forming in their eyes. Astral seemed almost furious that Alysa seemed to be fighting an enemy she couldn't even see, and was telling her such lies about herself, when she still needed to be part of the Virtualegend.
"Why does this villain torment you so?" Astral asked of Alysa.
"Forget that!" Hart practically screeched. "Why was that a boy she saw in the mirror?!"
"Hold on Alysa," Alexis soothed her, resting her arm around Alysa's shoulders. "We're all here for you." Jaden sat down on her other side.
"Game on Champ."
"Speaking of games," said Nightwolf, "Kombat Alert! There is word going about of a new Virtual-Reality game on the market."
"Could you find where it's being built?" Maria asked. Nightwolf nodded.
"They're building them in a broken down sewer system beneath the Shadow Dojo in Metro City. But word has spread that a copy was recently sold to the arcade."
"What are we waiting for? Let's get down there and find this thing!" Jimmy said, clenching his fists.
Hanger
The Heroes had loaded their Power Suits into the Moon Star Falcon and were getting ready to blast off back to Earth. This time though, the Defenders were tagging along.
"So how did you guys get to be in the Moon Castle?" Hart asked Stryker. Stryker grinned.
"After we defeated Shao Khan and his forces, it appeared to us that our work defending Earthrealm had been completed. But then, Jax and, especially Sonya, grew bored and complacent."
"Rather quickly too if I say so myself," Sub-zero added.
"So we came up here after getting Serenity's, 'Message', and helped her build her Sovereignty." Raiden finished.
Raiden, Kitana, and Nightwolf had been ordered by Serenity to stay behind and keep watch via the castle super computer. The others would go with the rest of the Heroes to Earth to find, win, and ultimately destroy the virtual game.
Onboard Moon Star Falcon
The trip had been made somewhat shorter than the usual 15 hours as the Heroes were in somewhat of a hurry. But on occasion Lindy would cry, and either Alysa, Alexis, Maria, Sonya or Saria would tend to her by cuddling her, giving her a bottle of milk, or changing her diaper.
"Those arms really make you stronger?" Hart asked Jax.
"Cybernetic strength enhancers that take what I've got, and they quadruple my muscle power," Jax answered. Hart watched as the aerial battle took place in the cartoon. [1]
Metro City Arcade
"We made it," Jimmy said as they entered. They gasped at what they saw. In the room was a number of chairs with red lining on the inside, what looked like visors on top of the head rests, and casings like the cockpit of a jet that rolled forward to open.
"I shall monitor the game from here, and keep watch should our enemies try attacking from the outside," said Sub-zero.
"Let us help you," said Billy. He and Marion had joined the others, on request that Jimmy had made to Queen Serenity before our Heroes had made their way to Earth. The rest of the group got into the pods and were strapped in with wrist straps, ankle straps, and the visors on the head rests.
"Initiating virtual upload now." Billy activated the control pannel. The cases closed and the room went dark, save the lights inside the pods, and the computer that Billy, Marion, and Sub-zero sat behind.
"Good luck my brother," Billy said as he stared at Jimmy's pod.
To Be Continued...
Author's Notes: So, our young Heroes enter the Virtual game at long last. What awaits them in their journey in Virtualand? Will there be the same legend in the game as they learned from Queen Serenity? And what do the Black-Hearted Westerners, whoever they might be,, want with Alysa? Lots of ideas for what to have happen in the story next, please.
[1] Hart and Jax were watching Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm Episode 2: Sting of the Scorpion via Hulu. The quote is from Jax in the movie: Moral Kombat: Annihilation.
Cheers!
White Lego Ninja