Team Mutant Ninja Clan

The three of them steadily walked down the dark and mysterious hall, only looking back a few times to here the echoing of foot steps or the sound of laughter. Naruto began to shiver as it began to become cold as they continued on, Johnny and Leo felt it as well but shaked it off. As they walked for another good three minutes a foul odor could be tasted as well as smelled, it was the scent of death.

“Oh boy, I knew I shouldn’t have come.” This is what ran through Naruto’s mind as they came to a stop.

“Leo, what’s up?” Johnny Cage asked wondering why they came to a stop.

“We move with caution from here.” Leonardo said with a straight face.

“What’s going on?” Johnny asked.

“Traps.” Leo quickly replied.

“Traps, how do you know there are traps down here?” Naruto asked.

Leo pointed ahead where the twilight of the moon could be seen peering through the cracks in the wall. A body could be seen with arrows deep within someone’s body.

“I guess we know what happened to Michelangelo’s opponent.” Johnny Cage replied as he looked over at the corpse.

“I have a better idea, why don’t I just use my shadow clone technique to see what’s up ahead.” Naruto suggested.

“No, I don’t want you to use any of your moves using chakra, we could be being watched.” Leo responded.

Johnny just stood there not knowing a word about what they were talking about. The three of them moved with extreme caution as they slowly made their way down the hall. They ducked as they came as they came within inches of the light peeking through the cracks assuming it was what triggered off the traps. After about another minute, they came to a point where they had to choose between three paths. One path was a dark hall with dust flowing everywhere, the path in the middle was pitch dark with the sound of water dripping, the path to the right was lit with torches guiding their way.

“I think it’s safe to say we’ll go to this path.” Leonardo said as they walked into the hall lighten up with torches.

Leo felt his feet beginning to become sore but ignored this as they continued on. Soon the three of them could begin to here the sounds of voices, this told them they were getting closer to their destination. But when they came to the end of the hall they saw no one in sight, only what appeared to be a large cave with torches each few yards away.

“Are you kidding me, where the hell did Shang Tsung run off to?!” Naruto yelled in frustration.

“Keep your voice down, we don’t want to broadcast to him that we are here.” Leonardo said as he looked down at his tracking device.

“He’s not to far from here, it seems like he’s not on the move anymore.” Leonardo said as he looked up from his device.

“What are we waiting for, let’s hurry before he does begin to journey off.” Johnny Cage said.

Naruto shrugged in agreement as the three of them marched on. As they pressed on they came to a new room, there were stairs leading down into another room. And down there was Shang Tsung and a few others. The three of them quickly hid behind some crates nearby.

“So we found him, now what?” Naruto asked.

“We listen, I want to know what their up to.” Leonardo replied.

Naruto peaked around the barrow to see who was down there besides Shang Tsung. He noticed a guy who was all geared up with a red patch over one of his eyes, he was known as Kano. He then looked over to the corner of the room to see a human looking creature that is bald with razor sharp teeth standing up against the wall with his arms crossed, his name is Baraka. The last thing Naruto saw left him breathless, a creature standing at nearly eight feet with four arms stood the former champion of Mortal Kombat, Prince Goro. Naruto just sat there wide eyed as they began a conversation.

“I hope you three are for this tournament.” Shang Tsung said.

“I laugh at that, preparations aren’t needed against such creatons such as the humans.” Baraka barked.

“Couldn’t agree more, the only ones we have to worry about is Liu Kang’s little group.” Kano added in.

“Don’t get so confident, we have ourselves a new threat, I want you to be extremely careful of him.” Shang Tsung said.

“Someone new, who?” Baraka asked.

“Judging from what I viewed from the distance, I saw some guy who could fight with four swords at the same time.” Kano said.

“Impressive.” Baraka replied.

“Just stay alert of that Uchiha kid, Sasuke.” Shang Tsung said.

“Sasuke.” Naruto whispered.

Naruto didn’t expect them to say Sasuke, he expected to here Leonardo or someone he had never heard of.

“Sasuke, yes I heard people talking about that guy as I walked down the hall.” Goro said.

“Did anyone see you?” Shang Tsung asked.

“No, I heard voices echoing through the wall.” Goro replied.

“Good we want to keep everything concealed.” Shang Tsung said.

“What is so special about that kid?” Baraka asked.

“He’s has great athletic ability and sharpness of the mind. I took a gaze into his soul, he’s filled with darkness, one which craves power to become elite above others.” Shang Tsung said.

“He’ll be nothing, it’s Liu Kang we need to be worried about.” Goro replied.

“Don’t get careless, were this close to merging all the realms.” Shang Tsung said.

“I heard you had a scuffle with some green creature earlier.” Baraka said.

“Yes his name is Leonardo, he’ll be nothing to worry much about especially Michelangelo and Naruto.” Shang Tsung added.

“Um, so how good is this Leo?” Kano asked.

“He’s got skill, but is weak minded. He should make it to at least round three.” Shang Tsung said.

“How about that Michelangelo and Naruto guy?” Kano asked.

“Let’s just say I’m surprised their still both in, they will be eliminated by this next round I’m quite sure of it.” Shang Tsung said.

This makes Naruto’s fist’s clench as he begins to get angered. He feels a hand go on his shoulder as he looks over to see Leonardo.

“Don’t let them discourage you, they no nothing about you and your abilities. Now you know why I didn’t want you to use any chakra attacks.” Leonardo said.

“Even without this chakra stuff you guy’s are talking about they have taken an eye to your Sasuke friend.” Johnny Cage said.

Suddenly they here foot steps walk past the barrels going down to the stairs.

“Master Shang Tsung there is intruders up in the main hall.” A guy wearing a ninja suite informs.

“Let us check it out.” Shang Tsung said as they run up past the barrels.

A few seconds later a large stone wall begins to close behind them.

“That’s our way out of here.” Leo said as he got to his feet.

Johnny Cage tripped as his shades fell off forcing him to go back, this delay made the stone wall shut.

“Why didn’t you guy’s go without me?” Johnny asked.

“We came together, we leave together.” Leonardo said.

“What is so important about your shades anyway?” Naruto asked in frustration.

“If we had left without them there would be evidence we were here.” Leo replied to his question.

The three of them walked down the stairs as they looked around. There was a large table with chairs, to the left skeletons hanging on chains. To there surprise to the upper right corner of the room there was a room leading out of the room.

“What a lucky break, I guess we will get out of here.” Naruto said as excitement grew in his voice.

“Freeze!” Someone said from behind them. “And put your hands in the air.” The voice added.

Naruto, Johnny, and Leonardo did as they were told.

“Now I want to know what you guys and your master Shang Tsung are up to.” The voice said.

“We aren’t with him.” Johnny said.

“Who do you take me for, a dumb mutt?” The voice asked.

“I don’t know who you are, but I can assure you we don’t work for Shang Tsung.” Leonardo said.

A moment of silence goes by.

“Alright then you can put your hands down and turn around slowly.” The voice said.

They did so and turned around to face an anthropomorphic fox creature holding out what appeared to be a laser gun.

“I’m assuming you’re the intruder.” Leonardo said.

“Intruder, I used stealth coming in here.” The fox replied.

“Same here.” Naruto said.

“So if you guy’s aren’t working for Shang Tsung, then what are you three doing here?” The fox asked.

“Finding out what they are up to, and we didn’t get to much info as we had hoped.” Leonardo replied.

“I see, so what are your names.” The fox creature said as he put down his blaster.

“I’m Naruto Uzumaki.” Naruto said proudly.

“I’m Leonardo, and that’s Johnny Cage.” Leo pointed out.

“Nice to meet you all, I am Fox Mccloud.” The fox said.

“So do you know another way out of here Fox?” Naruto asked.

“Yah follow me.” Fox said as they began to walk down the dark tunnel.

“So are you here alone?” Johnny asked as they walked down the misty hall.

“I’m actually here with a friend, his name is Link.” Fox replied.

“Is he also a fox?” Naruto asked.

“No, actually he’s more similar to you, just with longer ears.” Fox said in a friendly manner.

“This place sure is big.” Naruto said.

“Yah no kidding, I still haven’t figured out all the routes for this place.” Fox said as they continued on.

By the time they had finally found there way out of the underground temple they made camp in the forest and went to sleep. Hours later Leonardo awoke to see Naruto and Fox standing up talking. Leo slowly sat up and whipped the sleep from his eyes.

“Well looks like Leo is up, guess we better wake Johnny.” Fox said.

“What time is it?” Leo asked as he stood to his feet.

“4:58 a.m.” Fox Mccloud replied.

“Yah we better get going.” Leo said as he waked over and shook Johnny awake.

After he awoke they began there journey back to the tournament grounds. They made it back within the next thirty minutes and to their surprise they found the schedule for round two of the tournament.

“Just as I thought, new fighters have been added to the list.” Leo said.

“Yah and all of our names are scattered around.” Naruto said as he saw his name wasn’t in the same place.

Naruto then looked on the list to check out a few of the match up’s.

-Fox Mccloud VS Sektor

-Reptile VS Naruto

-Sasuke Uchiha VS Mileena

-Raphael VS Baraka

-Nightwolf VS Michelangelo

-Kano VS Leonardo

-Itachi Uchiha VS Rain

-Tony VS Neji

-Zerela VS Casey Jones

“Zerela.” Naruto said in anger as he remembered back to his first night going to New York City.

Naruto didn’t bother looking at any of the other matches after seeing that. Suddenly the four of them heard foot steps behind them and turned around to see Shang Tsung.

“I’ve been looking for the two of you, where have you been?” Shang Tsung asked as he walked up to Fox and Naruto.

“Um, well.” Fox said as he tried to think up a story.

“Actually we were looking for you.” Leonardo said.

“Well I was busy finding an intruder.” Shang Tsung said.

“Did you find them?” Naruto asked as his legs began to shake hoping he didn’t catch onto them.

“Actually it was one guy, we took care of it.” Shang Tsung said.

“Where is the intruder now?” Leo asked.

“It’s been taken care of. You two come with me, if you two would like to be spectator follow as well.” Shang Tsung said.

Shang Tsung led them to a small cave which had a large crystal ball in the middle of the room. There waiting was an android looking robot with red on, his name was Sektor along with someone in a green ninja uniform known as Reptile. Shang Tsung instructed them to stand beside their opponent.

“What’s with the crystal ball?” Leonardo asked.

“It allows me to transport the fighters to any battle grounds of my choosing.” Shang Tsung replied.

“In that case you should transport me and Reptile to a beach.” Naruto suggested with Shang Tsung ignoring him.

Within seconds Fox, Sektor, Naruto, and Reptile were transported out of the room as electricity formed around the crystal ball.

Naruto looked around at his surroundings, it was clear he was not on a beach. He and Reptile were on a long square platform with acid boiling at the side down about a yard. Naruto gulped at this. There were also chains hanging over off of their little stage.

It was a whole different scenario for Fox and Sektor, they had been transported to a cave with torches around them to light their arena. ‘Oh great another cave.’ Is what went through Fox’s mind as he looked at their fighting area. Out of nowhere they could here Shang Tsung’s voice as he began to speak.

“Round 1, Fight!” He yelled.

Sektor charged Fox as Reptile charged towards Naruto for the 2nd round of Mortal Kombat begins.

“Sektor and Reptile better win.” Shang Tsung said to himself.

To Be Continued