Chapter 23: Battle For Time

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Back on the shoreline, Kharon's flagships have almost reached land. Waiting for them is the remaining Netherrealm army, and the oni demons roar in anticipation and charge the shoreline. The ships continue forward, not decelerating in the slightest.

Kharon: BRACE FOR IMPACT!

The flagship touches down on the shore without issue. A boarding plank is lowered as the Netherrealm army reaches the ships. Before the demons can climb up it, Sub-Zero slides down, using his ice powers to freeze the ground beneath him and the demons below him. He lands on the shoreline and uses an ice axe to chop a frozen demon into shattered remains, then immediately decapitates another one. Scorpion teleports from the ship deck in a burst of flame, coming out in the midst of the army as Hanzo joins, sending several oni into the air in flames. He punches down one oni, then rips the heart out of another. The ship containing the Special Forces crashes into a dock, smashing it into a splintered ruin as Mileena, past Mileena, and Luna all charge in together and uses their symbiotes to kill all the oni's in their way. With a loud cheer the vanguard ran down the boarding plank. Three soldiers on deck chuck grenades at the army, which blow up and kill several demons in one go. More demons charge as Cassie, Jacqui and the younger Jax zipline down to the shore. The Oni charging them are cut into bloodied strips by the firepower of Jax's assault rifle, Jacqui's wrist cannons and Cassie's pistols. Another ship crashes onto the shoreline, and Kung Lao and the Shaolin monks all acrobatically leap off the ship, landing expertly on the ship's large oars on its starboard side. They ran across the oars and touched down on the ground to face the Netherrealm army. Kung Lao drops an oni with a jumping spinkick, drops another with a punch and roundhouse kick, and a third with a snap kick. The Netherrealm army also charged the last ship touching on land. On that ship, Kitana lifts a hand containing her bladed fans into the air. With a loud cry she points with her fan to the army and leaps ashore, joined immediately by Baraka, Sheeva and Jade, and a second later followed by the soldiers, Tarkatan and Shokan, who they all command. The Outworld army pump themselves up with chants as the Netherrealm army charges toward them, and with one final cry they all run forward, joining battle. Kitana blocks a blow from a spiked club with her blades, throwing the weapon aside and cutting into the demon who wielded it. She knocks it down with a jumping high kick as Sheeva charges two demons, grabs their heads and bashes them together, knocking them down in a spray of blood, before backhanding another charging demon aside with her two right hands. Back at the Special Forces boat, Cassie, Jacqui and Jax cut down countless demons approaching them with their gunfire, but it seems like they will soon be overwhelmed. But above them on the boat, the elder Jax stands on the edge of the bow. He leaps off, his fist charging with energy. Just as the Netherrealm army is about to swarm over them, Jax lands on the pier deck and smashes his fist into the ground. The resulting shockwave blasts the entire front ranks backward several feet, clearing the area. Jax looks back toward his daughter.

Jacqui: This mean you're back?

Jax: This means I'm sorry, Jacqui. And hell yeah, I'm back.

Jacqui immediately hugs her dad, to the delight of Cassie and the younger Jax. The moment is quickly broken though as the Netherrealm army finishes regrouping and charges once again. Cassie and Jacqui open fire once again, while both Jax's begin punching and kicking down every demon that steps too close to them. Even so, countless more demons make their way forward. But all of them fail to notice a disturbance in the clouds above. The clouds swirl toward what appears to be an orange glow in the sky. The light soon becomes bright enough that both Jax's, Jacqui, Cassie, the two Mileena's, Luna and even the Netherrealm army look up to the sky in shock and wonder. At the center of the red vortex is Y/N/Venom with wings, smirking. On a balcony of Kronika's Keep, the revenants Liu Kang, Kitana and Kung Lao also watch this spectacle, flanked by two demons. As the clouds turn and swirl around him, Y/N/Venom torpedos down into the center of the Netherrealm army guarding the gates to Kronika's Keep. The impact he causes on landing is akin to a symbiote nuclear explosion, with the entire area surrounded by white for a few moments. When the smoke clears, Y/N/Venom stands alone. The Netherrealm army in the field is simply gone, vaporized into nothingness. Only a small defensive force of Netherrealm oni survived to defend the gate, while a large number still wait within the Keep itself. Behind Y/N/Venom, the gathered army of heroes all cheered the display of Y/N/Venom's power and charge forward toward the gate of the Keep. With the Earthrealm and Outworld armies approaching behind him, Y/N/Venom strides toward the gates, his arm beginning to crackling with orange energy. The remnant of demons roars in defiance and charges, to which Y/N/Venom responds by blasting orange lightning from his hand. The electricity catches one demon and then immediately chains to the others around it. Within moments, all the demons have been fatally electrocuted. Y/N/Venom walks up to the gates, with all the heroes following after.

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