Void (Part 2)

Quan Chi laughs hysterically as the dead minion revives himself from Kitana's attack. She begins to slaughter the multiple members of the brotherhood who attack her, but they keep reviving after each kill. Mileena continues to watch as she sits on Chan's back.

"Shouldn't you…be helping her?" Chan asked.

"We can't kill them; not permanently. However, if we can keep them dead long enough for Kitana to kill Quan Chi…"

"…we can win this fight," Kobra finished.

"We?" Quan Chi asked.

"You don't really believe we'd kill our comrade, do you?" Kobra asked. Kira looked at him with a serious expression. "Right Kira?" She continued to look at him seriously. One of Quan Chi's henchmen appeared behind him and attempted to slay him. However, Kobra counters the assassin with a flip kick, crushing their skull.

"I didn't join the Brotherhood for nothing, Kobra. We need to see this all the way through," Kira responded. She proceeded to walk towards him. However, she gets struck by Mileena's teleport kick.

"I'll make this quick." Mileena pulls out her Sais and prepares to pierce Kira on both sides of her head. Kira quickly dodges Mileena's attack.

"I'm not an amateur, Outworlder," Kira responded. She fires a purple energy blast at Mileena, but the blast gets swallowed into a portal and redirects itself towards Kira, knocking her back. She looks over and spots Chan reaching his hand towards Mileena. She knew exactly what happen.

"So, you're finally able to use your real powers now that the Tournament is over," Kira stated.

"I've been using my powers before this. A few forest fires never hurt. Plus, I gain a new power during the tournament."

Chan stated as he prepped a solar flare. However, his hand gets severed by an assassin. Chan yells in pain as he spots the infamous Sisterhood of Shadow: Sareena, Jataaka, and Kia. Jataaka licks Chan's blood from the sword and directs it towards him. Sareena held her long scythe and readied it behind her back. Kia held her deadly boomerangs in both of her hands. They trained their eyes on Chan and his company, preparing to finish them. Mileena is interested in their appearance.

"Three little girls have come out to play?" Mileena rhetorically asked.

"Mileena! You have wasted enough time. Face the other assassin's that are keeping Kitana from Quan Chi. Those three can handle this fight," Eva stated. "Don't forget, I require the blood of EVERY immortal here." Mileena looked at Eva, then the rookie assassins, then the Sisterhood.

"Fine. More for me." Mileena turns her attention to her sister who continues to use Sindel's power to enhance the strength and size of her fan's wind. She readies her Sais as she focuses on the positions of all the enemies.

"Don't forget; as long as you're in the attacking positions where you have different options of which to kill, I can do the rest of the work," Eva clarified. Mileena used her teleport kick to begin her attack. In turn, her attack harms multiple assassins. She then pierces one assassin and in turn, the other surround assassins receive deadly wounds out of nowhere.

"Thanks for the help, Sister. Make sure you keep our pets at bay," Kitana requested.

"I've been known to tame wild animals," Mileena responded in a provocative manner.

"The Step-Daughter of Shao Kahn. This should be fun," Quan Chi stated as he stood from his throne. He summons a skull and fires it at Kitana, who grabs the skull and crushes it. Quan Chi is slightly amused.

"You killed my Father…step-father, you fool—something I was already planning to do. Too bad for you, Eva placed a spell on his soul, preventing you from taking it. Instead, I have it. Combined with my Mother's power, you're pretty much already dead," Kitana stated.

"Once Shinnok returns…"

"Who cares about Shinnok?" she interrupted. Quan Chi simply looked at her.

"Eva already told me about the duplicate; the Amulet which has the power to imitate Shinnok's natural amulet. The difference is that it is much weaker than it's perceived to be. You don't really need Shinnok; you only desire his power," Kitana responded. Quan Chi laughed.

"It seems my secret isn't so secret. It matters not as Shinnok is an Elder Lord. This spell of yours will not work on him. And you cannot defeat his power let alone defeat me while I have his Amulet," Quan Chi bragged as he pointed to the Amulet on his belt. Kitana smirked and pulled out the poison vile of Queen Sindel. She drunk all of it and began to cough violently.

"It seems like we're taking on the same qualities, Mother," Kitana said to herself. Her power increased rapidly, causing fear to Quan Chi himself. He grew angry and decided to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Kitana.

Meanwhile, Knightwolf continues to slowly heal Shelia while also killing multiple assassins using her spirit arrows. Chan and Kobra go on the defensive as they prepare to face Sareena, Jataaka, and Kia.

"I can't recover my hand," Chan stated silently.

"You could always steal a soul," Kobra stated.

"Who's? Kira?" Chan asked. Kobra looked at the ground.

"I know she's our friend. However, she made her choice," he responded.

"She's nothing like her name. We've worked to keep that from happening, remember? That's the reason Raiden allowed me to bring the two of you to the Shaolin temple." Chan looked at Kira. "Haven't you learned anything from Master Bo Rai Cho?" he asked. Kobra pulls him to the ground as Kia's boomerang narrowly collides with Chan's neck.

"Pay attention man! This is the Sisterhood. They were trained by Tesla's sister," Kobra stated. Chan was still slightly shocked, but he nodded.

"Fine, let's go!" he stated in excitement. He arose from the Ground activated his Yang Power. Kobra called upon the power of Yang as well.

"Just like we learned from back in Outworld. You do remember the move we used against Li Mei, right?" Kobra asked.

"Of course, I do."

He runs directly towards the Assassins and prepares to use a flying kick. Sareena prepares to slash him with her scythe. As soon as she swung her scythe, Chan goes through a portal and appears behind them. He then assaults all three of the assassins using a combination of one-handed punches and kicks, allowing him to keep up with them. He then created a dark sphere between them and escaped behind Kira through a portal. Kobra then fires a dark energy blast into the Dark Sphere causing it to make a huge explosion. The assassins narrowly dodged explosion by jumping in the air. Chan Charges up a powerful solar flare with his index and middle finger while going into his Yin mode.

"Crescent Flare!" Chan forces his index fingers towards the Assassins, firing the compact, yet powerful, flare at them. It curved just like a real flare and exploded into multiple smaller flares piercing the three assassins as well as some of the other Brotherhood assassins.

"Alright Chan—" Kobra gets blasted by a magic energy ball which knocks him back. It came from Kira, who also pinned Chan to the wall with her Butterfly knives wrapped around his neck.

"Don't make me kill you, Kira," Chan pleaded.

"You're not in that position to decide," she responded. "I want to know. Please answer honestly. Is the tournament really over?" Chan looked at her in confusion. He started to remember everything that occurred throughout the tournament.

His friends Johnny and Sonya winning, and losing, their matches. His battle with Rain. His dinner with Kitana and Shang Tsung. The death of Bi Han at the hands of Scorpion. The death of Tesla at the hands of Knightwolf. His death and revival at the hands of Knightwolf. The awakening of his Yin powers. His victory against Scorpion. And more importantly, his moments with Shelia. However, he goes back to remember one important thing. His death and revival at the hands of Knightwolf.

"No. It's only postponed until this is over," he responded.

"Good." Kira releases Chan from her grip as she looked towards the three assassins.

"There's no way to kill them, but I think I have a trick up my sleeve." Kira then looks towards Chan. "And you're the ace." Kobra punched Kira in the jaw, knocking her to the ground.

"You idiot! If you were going to join our side, why did you have to blast me?" he shouted. Kira arose from the ground quickly and punched Kobra back.

"You were the one who suggested he steal my soul idiot! You deserved it!" she shouted back.

"We don't have time for this now!" Chan shouted. He then looked up and saw Jataaka's blade headed straight for Kira's neck. He began to re-receive the vision he had of her death back on the boat. However, Kobra quickly grabbed Jataaka's blade with his bare hand. Jataaka was surprised.

"Padded gloves bound by Tesla's magic. It seems we know who her favorites were," Kobra stated. Chan then looked behind and say Sareena's scythe coming straight for their waist. However, Kira was able to guard against it using her foot on non-bladed part to keep it away.

"I was looking directly at you, Sareena," Kira stated. Kia's boomerang came directly towards Kira's forehead. Chan decided to quickly fire a flare in Sareena's face while Kira quickly moved her head causing Kia's boomerang to strike Jataaka's head, knocking her back. The three Earthrealmers then hid somewhere away from the assassins.

"We didn't even have this much trouble with his Lui Kang and Kung Lao," Kia stated.

"They seem to have a closer bond than those two. Kung Lao didn't get along very well with Lui Kang. His arrogance cost them both their lives. However, it seems this Chan character was able to take away the arrogance of Kobra and Kira in minutes. I'm actually impressed," Jataaka stated.

"There's only one way we can win this one," Sareena stated.

"YES! I've been waiting to use this for a long time. It's been thousands of years. Finally, they'll get to witness…" The three Assassins put their blades together as they prepared to chant.

"DEATH REQUIEM!" Chan, Kira, and Kobra kept hiding as they heard the chant of the three assassins.

"It seems we've stirred them up to their boiling point. Any ideas on how we'll get out of this alive?" Kobra asked.

"Chan, you already know your job. Kobra, you follow-up when I give the signal. Not before! You have to trust me," Kira stated.

"Do I have a choice?" Kobra asked.

"Technically, you do," Chan responded.

"We just have to wait for them to use their Death Requiem technique on Chan. Then, we'll use our own Death Symphony to take them down," Kira initiated. Both Chan and Kobra nodded in agreement.

Chan comes out of hiding and rushes direct towards Jataaka. She and the other Assassin's take notice. Systematically, each of them attempts to strike Chan with their weapons. He counters each attack by using his portal-based skills to cause the Assassin's to nearly attack each other. The three assassins finally enter their setup for the Death Requiem.

"Right before the fall of the sun..." Kia places a minor cut to Chan right shoulder.

"Let the three of our visions be one…" Jataaka makes a minor cut onto Chan's chest.

"With all weapons trained and no place to run..." Sareena places a minor cut across Chan's back. The three assassins teleport right above Chan. They prepare to slam their weapons onto him.

"We make the Death Requiem!" The three assassins slammed their weapons onto Chan. Sareena stabs Chan in her shoulders with a pair of smaller scythes, Jataaka stabs Chan in his back with a katana, and Kia ruptures Chan's liver with her boomerang. Blood runs out of his mouth as he begins to bleed out.

"Foolish child. You've become the third person to fall to our Death Requiem," Jataaka stated.

"The first was our lovely teacher, Ashrah!" Kia stated.

"The second was the Lin Kuei Snow Queen, Frost!" Sareena stated. Shelia looked onto the three angrily.

"So, it was you three," Shelia stated after being fully revived. Suddenly, the three Assassins were struck by a power golden lightning bolt, causing them to be thrown away from Chan and become stunned. Shelia is surprised by the power of the Elder Lords as Chan's injuries begin to fully heal, including his missing hand. Shelia wastes no time as she activates her final charm, causing the final effects of Eva's reverse immortality spell. The Assassins and everyone else in the room were no longer immortal.

"Finish Them!" Shelia shouted. Kira and Kobra came out of hiding as they prepared to kill the three assassins. Chan directed his attention to Jataaka, Kira's to Sareena, and Kobra's to Kia.

"How come you didn't die? The Tournament is over!" Jataaka stated.

"Why am I being targeted? I'm only doing what I'm force to do. I never wanted to serve Quan Chi, but I didn't want to die," Sareena pleaded.

"We weren't born the way we are. We came up the same way you three were going to come up," Kia stated. The Earthrealm warriors weren't moved by their words.

"Everyone is given a choice. Regardless, the Tournament doesn't end until this mission does," Chan stated. He and his friends began their finishing moves. Chan summons a portal below Jataaka causing her to fall through quickly. However, he grabs her wrist with only her waist and below being beyond the portal. "Locse!" Chan then closes the portal, causing her body to be split in half.

"Hiya!" Kira spins and double slashes Sareena's throat and waist causing her to choke on her own blood. "Ya!" Kira then kicks Sareena in the chest causing her body to separate from her head and waist.

"YOU THREE CAN'T KILL—!" Kobra sticks his hand in Kia's mouth and rips her bottom jaw off. "You talk too much." He then pierces his fist through the opening of her mouth and exiting the back of her skull. All three of the assassins were officially dead.

"Rai!" Kitana swings both of her fans across each other. A powerful damaging whirlwind strikes Quan Chi. All of his Brotherhood Trainees were dead, just like his assassins.

"I just have to hold off a few more seconds," Quan Chi whispered. He continued to use his spell bursts against Kitana who guarded his attacks.

"All of your warriors are dead, Quan Chi. We've turned the tide of this battle. Once you die, Armageddon will be over," Kitana stated.

"Armageddon will disappear once Lord Shinnok arrives. I need his power to execute the plans we have for both Earthrealm and Outworld. Our solution will be beneficial for all of reality, for Shinnok, and, most importantly, for me!" Suddenly, Quan Chi grabs a hold to Shinnok's amulet and began to emit a powerful Aura from it. Eva grinned at the sight of the Amulet's power. Knightwolf was unfazed. Chan and gang were a bit fearful but prepared for the worst. Mileena covered her face with her arm.

"This isn't good," Kitana stated. However, nothing happened. The spell ended. Even Quan Chi was confused.

"Where…where's Shinnok?" Quan Chi questioned himself.

"Do you remember how Shelia survived Shinnok's Amulet Blast years ago?" Knightwolf asked. Quan Chi's eyes widen as he reflected on the Amulet.

"How? I've had the real amulet since that day," Quan Chi stated. He heard Shelia clearing her throat. He looked at his throne and noticed her sitting in it while stroking Shinnok's Real Amulet.

"I'm in possession of Shinnok's sacred amulet. Years ago, I delivered to you an exact duplicate of the duplicate while I retained the Original. I was even able to fool Raiden," Shelia stated. She then replayed her words in her head as she believed she heard similar words from someone else before.

"Use it if you want. Even Eva can't harness its power without feeling the Dire Consequences," Quan Chi stated.

"You're right. Only an Elder Lord can withstand its power," Shelia stated. She then tossed the Amulet to Kitana, who directed it towards Quan Chi.

"It seems like bad luck that Sindel's Soul is bound to me. Once I use her power to activate this Amulet, you'll be finished, and Armageddon will cease," Kitana responded.

"You could kill me, but you can't stop Shinnok from escaping the NetherRealm. There are more ways for him to return. I see this as a glorious death," Quan Chi stated as he grinned.

"Oh, I didn't say I was going to use the amulet to kill you," Kitana stated. "You're not even worthy. However…" Kitana slices both of Quan Chi's hands with her fans. He screamed in agony as he looked at his stubs. Kitana hops onto Quan Chi, causing him to fall to the ground. She raises her fans while sitting on top of him. "You can think about what you did to my Father!" Kitana stabs her fans into Quan Chi's Skull, instantly killing him.

"Lovely," Mileena commented.

"Yes! With him gone and Shang Tsung Elderly, I am now, without a doubt, the greatest Sorcerer in the world!" Eva began to laugh hysterically as she points towards Quan Chi's body.

"I hope your revenge was sweet enough, because we have a ritual to end," Chan stated. Kitana rose from the ground and cleaned the blood from her fans.

"Of course." Kitana used her mother's power to use Shinnok's amulet. She attempts to use the spell reversal, but she proves to be unable to withstand the power as it starts to damage her arm.

"How? My mother was an Elder Lord. Even her powers aren't saving me," Kitana stated.

"Perhaps I can supply you with the souls you need to keep you alive," Knightwolf suggested as she help Kitana's arm. She began to send souls into Kitana's body to keep her alive as Kitana uses the spell once again. Knightwolf begins to easily get weakened by the Amulet's power as well. Eva places her hand bound with the glove of blessings to help unleash its power. However, the spell does nothing. Everyone in the room gets a flash-forward of their own deaths.

"No…it can't be," Kira stated as she stared at the ground in horror.

"So…there's no stopping Armageddon then." Chan looked down sadly. Everyone around was also devastated. Shelia looked saddened by everything that was going on. Kira was crying in Kobra's arms. Knightwolf felt pity for them all. Kitana felt saddened that she couldn't give Mileena the life she desired. Mileena patiently waited for it all to be over. Eva attempted to come up with every alternative possibility to prevent Armageddon. Shelia couldn't take it anymore as she walked up to Eva.

"I can stop it," Shelia stated.

"What?" Chan asked unconsciously.

"This needs to happen. We can't allow something as dangerous as this to occur. Yes, you all can't sacrifice yourselves to prevent Armageddon, but I can," she responded.

"How? Kitana, Eva, and Knightwolf couldn't even do it with their combined power," Chan stated.

"Kitana's very strength from her mother has caused her to gain immense power that reaches the Level of an Elder Lord. Same with Eva, same with Knightwolf. I'm not immortal, but…" Shelia took the Amulet from Eva and placed it on top of a magic circle on the ground below them.

"What are you doing?!" Eva asked.

"This place is known as the Thought Realm. This is the place between space, time, and reality. Quan Chi wasn't just bringing Shinnok back; he was moving him forward from another time," Shelia explained.

"What are you talking about? You mean they did what Raiden did?" Chan asked.

"Not quite. Instead of moving back in time, they moved forward, something that we should be doing ourselves," Shelia stated.

"That's not guaranteed to work," Knightwolf stated.

"Quan Chi was already moving time forward. We came to stop him from doing so," Kitana stated.

"It wasn't Quan Chi and the Brotherhood who were bound to cause Armageddon. Can't you see? It was us who were causing Armageddon," Shelia confirmed. "Chan's mastery of Yin and Yang, Sindel's soul inside of Kitana, Eva's ability to fabricate truth, Knightwolf's many souls, and my power to turn anything into a weapon of magic."

"There are people in this universe who are more powerful than us," Kira stated.

"Many of them died recently," Kobra added.

"Of course, they did. Raiden, Shao Kahn, Fujin, Kung Lao, and Lui Kang. These deaths were Quan Chi's way of delaying Armageddon, as even he knew that he wouldn't be able to stop the time spell. The Death of the Brotherhood means nothing as long as we still exist in this timespan."

"If we jump forward, what will happen to Earth and Outworld? How far will we jump forward?" Chan asked.

"That…is for the spell to decide. However, time will continue on as if we never existed during these years."

"Fine, we have no time to waste," Kira stated.

"Only the few required will be going. The rest of you must stay here," Shelia stated.

"Why can't we? You really expect us to wait for who knows how long just to see Chan again?" Kira asked.

"This isn't a game. I can't guarantee that the rest of you will make it out alive. These four and I can't die yet," Shelia stated. Kitana wasted no time hugging her sister Mileena.

"Make sure you look after Outworld while I'm gone. And remember, no matter what goes on in Outworld…" Kitana becomes silent and she releases her grip from Mileena and stands on the circle.

"I can see why Chan befriended the two of you," Knightwolf stated as she grabbed onto Shelia's arm.

"Make sure you two continue to protect Earthrealm. They need you two," Chan stated as he began to stand on the circle as well.

"You can't be leaving us! You can't do this to us again!" Kira shouted. She ran to Chan and grabbed his arm. Kobra looked disappointed. Chan reflected on what could happen while he's away.

"Kira," he stated. He smiled as Kira returned one. "You...do not belong here," he told her. Kira was heartbroken by Chan's response and looks at him angrily as Eva forces her into a portal Outside of the Thought room along with Mileena and Kobra. Chan was saddened by what his final words to Kira were, but he knows this was something he needed to do. The five of them begin to use their power to activate Shinnok's amulet. One by one, they all begin to get sucked inside of the amulet. The Thought Room begins to cave in upon itself as the process continues. Shelia and Chan end up being the last two left.

"Shelia…" Chan began. She looked at him and smiled as she began to fade away.

"You're welcome," she responded as they both vanished.

*Sometime in the Future*

"Major; we have the target in sight." A female blonde soldier began looking through her binoculars spotting a group of Red Dragon Members. Behind her were an African American woman and a Japanese Shirai Ryu member.

"We should be going after them," the SR warrior stated.

"Takeda! Keep yourself together. This is only for practice," Sonya stated over the radio.

"I know. My pops said we'd go after them after my training is complete. It's just…my mother…" Suddenly, a hand landed on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, momma Jacqui's right behind you," the woman joked.

"Alright, now all you three need to do is report back to the previous checkpoint and wait for my next command," Sonya stated. "And Cassie…stay safe."

"I will Mom…err…Major," Cassie responded. She and the other two began to head back, but they are interrupted by a mysterious portal that appears in front of them. An exhausted Chan falls to the ground on his back.

"Isn't that…?" Takeda began.

"If it is, we're in trouble," Cassie stated as she pointed her gun at Chan. He looked at Cassie in shock.

"Sonya? You look…younger than before," he said. Cassie was slightly confused.

"Lui Kang, don't…move," Cassie commanded. Jacqui and Takeda got closer and inspected the Shaolin.

"You're not Sonya, are you?" Chan stated rhetorically. "She knows I'm not Lui Kang."

"Then who are you?" Jacqui asked.

"My name is Chan. I used to fight with your mother in the 10th Tournament along with Johnny? I traveled to the future," he stated. "I thought Earthrealm was merged with Outworld due to an agreement?"

"The Reiko Accords?"

"The…what? Where's Kitana? She was just with me. So was Frost. Mileena. Eva. Knightwolf," he stated.

"Are you…are you sure you traveled in time?" Cassie asked.

"He's delusional and dangerous. We can't be here with him," Takeda stated.

"How long has it been since that tournament?" Chan asked. Cassie, Jacqui, and Takeda looked at each other and returned their attention to Chan.

"Well…" Cassie began.

End of Redemption: MK