Mortal Kombat 4 «Firefox Original»

The monk was Liu Kang. He didn’t sense the horror coiling behind the pagoda—only the familiar sting of wind and duty. Shinnok raised a skeletal hand. The earth split. From the fissure rose Jarek , a Black Dragon thug with a cybernetic snarl, and Reiko , a general whose hunger for power had eaten his humanity.

Liu Kang spun, fists aflame. The first fireball met Jarek’s chest, sending him skidding into a stone lion. Reiko came next, wielding a crescent-bladed staff, his movements too fluid, too ancient. They traded blows until the courtyard became a mosaic of blood and shattered cobblestone. Mortal Kombat 4

But Shinnok had not come to brawl. He had come to break the rules. The monk was Liu Kang

The screen goes dark. Then, in green pixelated letters: The earth split

“This realm,” he whispered, watching a lone Shaolin monk train in the rain, “will be my new Netherrealm.”