Heart of Ice

Heart of Ice

Chapter Three: Revenge and Teleportation.

The heat of the Netherrealm was almost unbearable for Sub Zero, being a man who's main power is ice, heat never sat well with him. He began freezing the path were his feet landed in an attempt to cool himself off. His journey towards the island where he was told by Raiden he could locate Scorpion was about an hour and it mostly consisted of Sub Zero looking around the abyss that was Hell. This was his first time to the Netherrealm and it shook him slightly at all the mangled corpses either impaled in a gruesome fashion or laying face down in the lake of lava. As he approached the island he was met with a flash as a green spinning vortex began to open before him. Quan Chi stepped out of it with an uncomfortable smile on his face.

"What is your business here mortal?" Quan Chi said with a bit of venom in his voice.

Sub Zero stared at him for a second before responding

"I am here to challenge Scorpion for the murder of my brother!" He exclaimed with fury in his voice.

Quan Chi chuckled darkly. If Scorpion could kill this fool, he could have another soul to serve him and he could make another twisted creation like Noob Saibot. Sub Zero was still unaware of who Noob Saibot truly was.

"And so you shall." He purred.

He raised his hand and a green aura enveloped it. A burst of flame appeared in front of Sub Zero and Scorpion appeared before him.

"You again! Do you truly wish to die, fool?" Scorpion hissed.

"I bested you before Demon! I shall do so again!" He shouted back.

With that Sub Zero slid forward on ice towards Scorpion and struck him with a kick to the chest. Scorpion flew back and hit the ground with a thud. Scorpion shook his head and rounded on Sub Zero. In a flash, he disappeared in a burst of flames and reappeared behind Sub Zero and punched him several times to the face and body. Sub Zero stood his ground and prepared to block. As Scorpions fist connected with Sub Zero's hand, he immediately froze on the spot. Sub Zero took his advantage and hit Scorpion in the face with a deadly uppercut. Scorpion flew back and as he was in the air Sub Zero fired an ice ball in his direction. Scorpion froze as soon as the ice ball hit him and Sub Zero drew the Kori Blade, his sword of ice, and slashed him out of his ice prison. Scorpion recovered from the attack and dodged another ice ball that was launched at him. Scorpion retrieved the head of his spear with a flick of his wrist. He pushed his arm forward and the spear shot towards Sub Zero.

"Get over here!" Scorpion taunted.

The spear's aim was true and Sub Zero was hit in the shoulder. He felt it pierce his cuirass and he felt the cold steel go straight into his chest, the wound now bleeding openly. He was dragged forward by Scorpion who punched him twice and finished with a flaming uppercut. Sub Zero jumped straight back up when he hit the ground and cupped his hands together and he breathed deeply. A solid beam of ice sprang forth from his hands and within seconds connected with Scorpion. Scorpion froze deeply and as hard as he tried, he would not be able to escape from the ice. Sub Zero had a chance to finish him. Happy that Scorpion could not move, he walked towards him with his ice blade in hand ready to make the killing blow.

"For my brother!" He yelled.

Just as he brought his blade down, a green barrier prevented him from making the blow.

"Enough of this folly!" Quan Chi yelled "Die mortal!"

Sub Zero felt the ground beneath him disappear as he fell through Quan Chi's portal. He looked down to where he was falling. It was a gruesome pit of earthen spikes that were covered in blood and remains of victims. Realising he was going to die he thought one last thought as the spikes came closer by the second.

'I have failed my brother... and myself.' He thought solemnly.

Then something came that knocked him completely out of this train of thought. A bright purple flash engulfed him and he felt a very strange sensation as if he was being pulled from the Netherrealm by force. The flash disappeared as quickly as it came.

Before he knew it he slammed against a hard wooden floor and the moment he hit the ground he heard several ear piercing screams. He felt his conscious slipping away from him and he glanced around before he passed out from pain and shock to see who had screamed.

He wished he hadn't.

Before him stood a small, lavender horse.

"Are you okay?!" The small horse exclaimed.

The man of ice froze. It just spoke. The horse just spoke to him. He thought he was going mad! He managed two words before he slipped out of consciousness.

"What... The?" He questioned before he slammed against the floor unconscious.

Twilight looked back at her friends, each of them baring the same confused and worried faces. All they could do was stare at the creature on the floor in utter astoundentment. They had come over to Twilight's to see a portal spell that could be used to move between places without the strenious activity of teleporting. Instead of the purple portal she was hoping for she instead recieved very bright and very large purple sparks from the end of her horn. The moment the bright flash had subscided they heard a loud crash and a strange creature on the floor of the library. They could only watch as the creature attempted to stand up and looked in their direction. He muttered out two words before collapsing onto to floor.

"What... The?" The creature croaked out

There was a silence for a good minute as the ponies just stared in bewilderment at the creature laying on the library floor.

"W-What is that thing?" Rarity finally spoke up

"I-I'm not to sure girls." Twilight said, sounding completely out of her depth.

Applejack stepped forward to it and checked for breathing. She noticed a bleeding wound in his shoulder that was starting to pool on the floor. She leant forward up the ornate blue metal mask that was on the creatures face. She heard small breaths being made, she also saw how the creatures breath seemed to condense, even though it was fairly warm in the library. Applejack turned to her friends.

"It's still alive!" she gasped to them.