Mystery Science Theater En Masse

Special Episode 7: The Scar (Part Eleven)

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12. An Interesting Feeling

The Scar

A Mortal Kombat Fanfiction

A.N. Hey again guys, I realized something lately that kind of scared the poop out of me

If this story continues to grow in popularity then it might actually overtake my The Last Survivor story as my most popular story on fanfiction O.O That's a pretty big deal to me xD

Thank you again to everyone who reads, comments, favorites, or follows, you guys are awesome and you make writing this much easier to do. The Scar wouldn't exist if you guys weren't here showing your support and dedication to the fic. So I just wanted to let you know that I love all you guys, let's all just kind of have a moment of silence where we all put our hands in and just appreciate what we have.

All: *looking at a roasted chicken*
Mai: I want the first cut. The crispy skin is the best part.

Ok hands in! ...*whispers* You guys are awesome.

ALRIGHTY silence over x) ALSO other than that.

I STILL HAVEN'T EVEN BOUGHT MKX YET! I've been very tempted to and my friend has it so I can also play it with him but I've held out so far. I've already developed a new crush on one of the new girls in the game. (Won't say her name cuz that's kind of a spoiler xD, here's a hint: she's blonde ;D)

Jessie: It's Cassie.
Cassy: You rang?
Jessie: Not you. I don't think that he'd have a crush on a cat.

And i know if I play it it'll just draw me even further away from this one. So I'M HOLDING OUT!

For now...lol

Disclaimer: You are a very hurtful person and...I feel sorry for you.

Time to Hadouken dis bitch! ...Wait...wrong game.

Sonic: That's okay, some people think that hadoukens are in every fighting game.
Amy: Then what's Mr. Kusanagi's fire projectile called?
Sonic: A hadouken.
Emi: *horrified, says in a squeaky tone* He is going to roast you alive.

Combatants Chambers: Black Scar's Room

Keiko: Well, the "K" was nice while it lasted.
Amy: There was one job. One. Job. And the "K" couldn't stay.

"Dick." Kyle muttered under his breath. The side of his face had a pretty sizable bruise and he lightly touched his finger tips around it hoping to soothe the dull achy throbbing. "If me and Liu keep training like this, I'm gonna be in worse shape for the next fight." He continued to mumble to no one in particular as he finally reached the corridor to his room.

It was a rare sight seeing other fighters here as well, most Kyle recognized from their numerous line-ups. Or just from spotting them training all around the island, but at this point the thought of which ones he was going to have to fight only served to aggravate him more.

His body was long since done working for the day, after taking beating after beating from his teacher, all he wanted to do was rest. Once again he found that during supper he could hardly lift his utensils, and his feet were dragging the whole way back. The heavy armored vest felt like it weighed ten thousand pounds, and his weapons might as well have just been bricks.

James: Get to healing, Kiddo.

If anybody challenged him to Mortal Kombat, right now. He probably would've just flipped them off and kept on trucking.

Cassy: That would count as grounds for an automatic Fatality, right?
Amy: I don't know. Flipping the bird's not really a thing in response to a challenge.

Eventually reaching his room, Kyle fumbled around his pockets trying to fish out the key. Only when he managed to free it from its confines, Kyle placed his hand on the door handle and it opened on its own. Once again his door was unlocked despite the fact that he was sure about locking it earlier when he left to train with Liu Kang this morning.

"Does that mean..." Immediately his lazy, tired demeanor began to melt away and a mixture of nervousness and excitement started to bubble up in his stomach.

James: And his--
Mai: Stop.

Did the Princess actually come back again like she said she would?

Sonic: If she didn't, this chapter would've been over.

Kyle had been thinking about her all day before and even a little during his training, but after the severe beating began to set in, his thoughts on the Edenian woman drifted into the back of his mind temporarily. And in his tired state he actually forgotten about how she broke into his room yesterday. Now it seemed as if she had did it again.

Emi: I just realized something... breaking into someone's private quarters because you're in love with them? Doesn't that sound... creepy?
Jessie: Incredibly. Now switch the genders around. What would the audience's reaction be, then?
Emi: ...that it's only okay if he's "hot"?
Jessie: How about an audience where everyone's brains are working?
Emi: Well, in a normal situation, the cops would've been called.
Jessie: On Shang Tsung's island?
Emi: Well, he has a dojo and a mortgage, so... *shrugs*

Eagerly he stuffed the key back into his pants and pushed into the door, this time much less on guard then he was the previous night. He didn't even really think about whether or not it was somebody else who was seeking to murder him discreetly, the possibility of seeing Kitana again clouded his judgement.

"Tonight...I'll come back tonight." Her voice played like a song in his mind, and he hoped that

Mai: ...one day, people would stop comparing voices to music.

soon he would be hearing it again rather then just listening to the memory of it. All the struggles of the day would be worth it if it meant that she was...

Sitting at the table, before the eternally burning fire once again. Was the woman in blue, she had come back like she promised.

Sonic: Uh-oh. Choppy sentence alert.

Once again she adorned those thigh high blue boots and long cloak, but since it was clipped closed at her chest the rest of her outfit still remained obstructed to him. Her mask was already removed and sitting on the table beside her crossed legs, and her hands sat patiently folded in her lap. Her eyes fixed on the light crackling flames before her.

Keiko: In case you've been hit on your head and got instant amnesia, here's another long-winded description.

Upon hearing his arrival though her gaze shifted towards the teen now standing in the hallway. He appeared in what looked like worse shape then the previous night, the side of his forehead was dark with bruises and his left cheek was bruised as well, the skin had split slightly making a cut as well.

Amy: We'd normally call out those "edgy" injuries... but this is Mortal Kombat. Par for the course there.

Kitana rose without hesitation, a hint of concern flashed amongst her features for the quickest moment. But only until she took a step closer to him and was able to get a better look at his newly formed wounds. They were all almost purely surface wounds and would do little damage to him long term, he was probably in a bit of pain from soreness but nothing that some water and rest couldn't cure.

James: What? And no healing sex?
Jessie: I don't think that's how that works.

"You came back." Kyle suddenly said and drew her attention away from the injuries back to him.

The Princess met his eyes with her own, "I told you I would, did I not?" A light contagious smile tugged at her lips which caused the boy to quickly imitate the show of happiness.

He nodded, "You did." Taking a few steps forward as well, but before he could get to close his 'battle scars' from the day decided to show their face again and prodded at his pained nerve endings. The dull twist in his ribs from Liu Kang's boot caused him to wince again. If he didn't walk in with a specific type of stiffness and rigidity in his side it throbbed without abandon. This only made his aggravation towards his teacher grow even stronger. It was practically like Liu was unintentionally cock blocking him.

Amy: What the...? Liu doesn't know that Kitana exists yet, you dummy!
Emi: And we're going two steps back. Granted, the word "unintentionally" was used.
Cassy: I swear, dude just has to bitch and moan about something every chapter now. *whines* He's hurting me! I can't get any pussy because of him! *normal voice* Oh, fuckin' shut up! If you didn't want to deal with the pain, then you shouldn't have entered, you pissbaby! You're fighting for the fate of Earthrealm, not your dick!
Mai: *tries not to laugh* Well.
Sonic: Starting to think that every character we've run into always wants to dish it out, but can't take it when it's served to them.
Amy: Sasha. Hepatitis S.
Sonic: *shudders* One of the worst examples...

Kitana caught onto his discomfort quickly and closed the distance between them to offer help. "Stop, you should sit." She went to place her arms behind his back and at his side but before she could he had already begun to move away towards his bags.

James: This is just making every dirty riff easy, huh?

Why he was still using those and not the supplied wooden trunk for his belongings yet, she didn't know. Perhaps he still hadn't settled in yet? The concept of why that would be the case confused her as every other fighter seemed to have no problem with adjusting to the island life.

"I will, I just...gotta take this vest off." He told her and already began working on unstrapping the cummerbund. But after puling apart the first bit of Velcro he turned his neck without moving his upper body to say to her, "I'm really glad you came back."

Keiko: Again, if she didn't arrive, then we wouldn't have a chapter.
Jessie: *flatly* Oh, I can't wait to read more of this shilling.

Originally she was going to step back and allow him to take off the armor alone, but when she saw that he was having a bit of trouble still, with both his still healing arm, new bruises, and the bulk of his outfit; she was very tempted to offer help again.

Amy: *removes the top portion of the semicolon* I think we know what else she wants to remove.
Mai: I don't know how I can deal with any more variants of the sentence known as "Kitana is horny".

However she didn't, this was another opportunity for to observe how well he handled post-combat injuries. So far aside from the obvious strain the pain caused he hadn't actually asked for help, and if he was removing his equipment on his own as well. Requesting for help was always a show of weakness, that's one of the lessons she was raised on. So if he could shake off a few minor injuries like this, she didn't need to assist him.

James: Minor. Minor... like a bloody giant gash in his arm, that's "minor".
Sonic: Well, we gotta keep saying it, man. It's minor in that universe.

Despite the fact that she felt off watching him move while he was hurt, she didn't like it but again. Weakness is something any good fighter should never show.

Within a minute he released the hold that his vest on on his torso and lifted the weighty vest over his head to plop it on the floor besides his backpack. And it was at this moment that he noticed that his black shirt was also not looking so good, it had been drenched in sweat from the severe conditioning he had gone through early and several droplets of blood/water also dampened it throughout the day.

Emi: ...it's a black shirt. Did it go through the wash a thousand times before that? Or is his blood a glowing neon red?
Cassy: Inquiring minds gotta know this stuff.
Sonic: Nah. I don't need paragraphs describing blood.
Cassy: I do.

So without thinking he decided to remove it too and put on a different one. Whether he was aware that Kitana was still behind him watching the whole process, or if he was simply too tired to care was unknown.

Besides the Princess wasn't some dim witted maid girl who fawned over the site of a man's body,

Keiko: ...this entire fic says otherwise.
Amy: *sarcastically* What? There were no paragraphs upon paragraphs of endless shilling! You all hit your heads and imagined that!

she had seen plenty of men baring their chests to the world before, and also the fact that there was another well formed bruise on the inside of his rib cage served to kill any mood that may have surfaced from his disrobing. So rather than stare like a typical ditsy girl,

James: Oh, fuck me. Now we're doing this "she's not like the other girls" bollocks?
Mai: James is very British and very angry. Par for the course.
James: I'm so very British that I'll kick anyone who denies that there's a "u" in "colour" and "flavour".

she calmly remained quiet as he took out the only white shirt he brought with him and donned it over himself. Right away he looked as if a massive weight had been lifted off of his shoulders and he was moving better. He twisted his upper body stretching out and testing his tense muscles limits.

Cassy: *flatly* Hawt.
Jessie: *flatly* I'm swooning.

"I love this thing, but it can be a real pain in the ass sometimes." He suddenly spoke nudging the vest with his boot, then giving his attention back to the Princess. "Sorry about that, it was a long day today."

Kitana waved her hand dismissing it, "There's no need for apologies. You are a combatant in this tournament, I would be confused if you arrived back here every night looking untouched."

Emi: And so would we.

Kyle re-approached the Edenian woman and she lead him back to the table they sat the night before. Once again each reprised their seats as well and it might as well have been like a day hadn't even gone by. "If I may ask, how did you receive those wounds?"

Sonic: Um... by getting his butt kicked?

The question caused Kyle to grimace, that was definitely not going to be his preferred topic of the night. And as the images of Liu's fist crashing into his point of view repeatedly blinked into his mind, he seriously considered putting together a bullshit story about being challenged to a fight.

Emi: Just say that you... fell down the stairs.
Sonic, Amy: ...
Emi: Did I say something wrong?
Amy: I know that you didn't mean it, but you accidentally reminded the two of us about that awful fic.
Emi: Oh, no! I'm so sorry!
Sonic: Don't... worry about it... *shudders*

But of course seeing as how she was a warrior Princess on this island she would probably see through him very easily,

Keiko: ...like his head.
Jessie: The one on his shoulders or the one between his legs?
Keiko: ...the former, you horny woman...
Jessie: Whoa, now. I have standards.

and he didn't want her to brand him as a liar so the bitter truth seemed like the only way out. Perhaps with just a little sugar coating though.

Amy: And then make the dough and place your favorite fruit filling inside...
Mai: We're baking a person? Count me out.

"I was training with my mentor." He said casually leaving the monks name out of it, "There isn't much time between tournament fights to prepare too much so, any error in training is met with...well,"

James: It's met with the audience listening to his endless pissing.

He paused and pointed to the dark colored mark on his cheek, "Punishment." Although technically speaking, the training was the punishment. Since Liu was trying to teach him to absorb pain better, every time he winced or cried out made the next hit even harder. It sucked.

Cassy: And the people he offed in the past didn't get any second or third chances, so...

Kitana very slightly leaned her head to the side, again examining the damage. "It must have been a day of many errors than?" She teased him, he wondered just exactly how many bruises and scratches he had now. Since he hadn't yet looked in a mirror there was no way of him knowing the amount.

Sonic: And we better not have paragraphs dealing with that, either!

"Well I might have performed better if a certain someone hadn't kept me up all night before." He answered with a sly smirk pretending to blame her for today's escapades. He was clearly joking as this probably would've happened regardless of whether or not she came to his room. They had begun to play this game the previous night but only a little since they ran out of time. Lightly teasing each other with playful jabs, still testing the waters of what this strange relationship they were forming was. Neither knew yet, but with a little bit more time they both hoped to find out.

Kitana's eyes halfheartedly rolled, "Here, let me look." She leaned forward in her seat and reached out forward towards his face. The chairs were decently close so that their legs were only inches apart from touching, but they were well within arms reach.

Without thinking Kyle leaned forward as he saw her move putting his face within closer grasp for her, was he really already that comfortable with her?

Cassy: Duh. We already know what's gonna happen.
Jessie: Yeah, the suspense really goes away if we knew about this before the story even started.

Too late now though because in that brief moment of thought her fingertips had already made contact with his skin. Kitana was infatuated with this human,

Amy: Stealing a line from Axl here. You misspelled "obsessed".

and wanted to know more. She knew humans bodies were more fragile and brittle then Edenian, they aged quickly and broke under little to no effort unless they were brought up to be stronger. But until now, Kitana had never touched a human body in an 'exploratory' manner before. She had fought some humans, "Including that blonde..."

James: Oh, get the fuck over it, you whiny piss stain.
Amy: She keeps going on with that obsession, too. We might as well have a Kitana/Sonya pairing instead!
James: I'd rather read that.
Mai: Axl would cut in front of you to read it.

and other humanoid creatures in her trials of Mortal Kombat. But as in touching someone in a tender way like now, this was a first.

Cassy: Even though it should be Liu freakin' Kang.

It was a bit odd at how the flesh twitched almost un-noticeably then relaxed under her hand.

Jessie: Holy shit, we're already at third base?

Kyle froze in place, it had been a while since a girl,

James: She's fuckin' 10,000 years old, you bloody cocksplat!
Sonic: Pfft!
Emi: He's 16. She's 10,000. Yet she's the "girl". *pushes glasses up* Pardon me?

especially one as attractive as Kitana had touched him like this. There wasn't anything even genuinely romantic about the contact, it was more like she was curious.

Keiko: So she's horny. Just come out and say it, because it's true.

How she lightly traced along where the area of the bruising was and along his unblemished areas of skin. Her eyes followed her and as it reached his jawline and cupped it.

His skin was soft until she got there and felt the scruff began to prickle her palm. It was a strange combination but she liked the feeling of it, despite that he was of young age she could see he was not far off from growing into a man.

Mai: Even though he doesn't act like one.

The glimpse of of build certainly attested to that, the trim dip of his back showed at least several years of work put into it.

Jessie: Again... this fic... is sexualizing a teenager.
Emi: We're getting arrested. Mr. Antonov is not going to bail us out of jail, is he?
Cassy: He would. But with all the stuff that we've read over the last few years, I'm surprised that our brains haven't turned into mush yet.

Kyle felt the jump of discomfort when she first grazed against him but then relaxed as her palm maneuvered around his face. The tips of her digits almost tickled him for a moment but her skin was so soft and soothing against him. He instinctively leaned into the touch even though it pressed his bruise deeper onto her, it was strange, but he liked it a lot.

Eventually her eyes looked away from the path of her hand and up to his big brown orbs.

All: *flatly* What.
Sonic: We're now in purple prose territory.

Now it was her turn to freeze, she had been so quick to want to examine him closer that she didn't actually take notice to the complete closeness.

Amy: "Examine" him? He's supposed to be a love interest, not a body that's been prepped for an autopsy!

Adding to the list of firsts she's experienced the last couple of days, something began to swell in the pit of her stomach. Just how he was looking at her seemed to turn her belly upside down, despite the cuts and marks he was a handsome young man.

Jessie: Show, don't tell.
Mai: *lightly chuckles*

And in that second she lost focus.

James: Yeah, the character shilling will do that to you.

It got quiet all despite the crackling in the hearth, "It was worth it." Without warning Kyle suddenly said, Kitana blinked at the surprise of it. "Getting no sleep, and having a day filled with fighting. It was worth it getting to see you again." Kitana then found it very hard to look at him and quickly pulled her hand back, looking towards her lap. She never wished that she was still wearing her mask more than now, because her lips on reflex pulled until she was grinning and felt a pleasant heat in her cheeks.

Keiko: The first person to say "and in her loins" gets a smack upside the head.
Jessie: Better smack yourself, then.
Keiko: *makes a face*

It was an interesting feeling,

Sonic: And a title drop!

but it caused this strange bashfulness that made her feel embarrassed. This was definitely not the Princess Kitana she was raised to be. Kyle breathed out a small laugh, "We have to stop meeting like this. You having to sneak into my room, and me being in need of medical attention."

Her smile grew at his sense of humor,

All: ...
Cassy: *flatly* Ow, my sides.
Amy: Well, to be fair, he was snarking at the situation a bit, considering that they met in private twice already. I get that. But... the shilling, oh, the shilling...

but it also made an idea form in her head too. "Would you...like to see me more? Perhaps not at the same time as tonight but," Eventually she found the strength to look back up at him, this was so strange.

Sonic: Uh... one of the strongest fighters in that universe has to find strength. Okay. That makes sense. *scratches his head* I don't get it.
Emi: Love makes you stupid, Sonic.
Sonic: Nah, love's giving her a lobotomy here.

She never got like this, but in the current situation Kitana was losing her strong demeanor. Something about him, how he looked at her like that, made her feel weak.

Mai: Wrong. Wording. Here.
Amy: Yeah, women's knees sure turn into jelly when they meet Blandy McBlanderson.

"Sometime while the sun is up. If there is somewhere you would like to meet on the island, I could come find you."

Both of them at this point were smiling shy, but genuine smiles as Kyle replied, "Yes."

Cassy: Who wants to bet that a sex scene's coming after that?
James: Who wants to bet that I'll poke my eyes out?
Keiko: That sounds more like a blessing.

A.N. HEY LOOK WHOSE NOT DEAD! :DDDD

So no excuses, all I can say is THE POWER OF MY FANS COMPELLED ME AND I NEEDED TO UPDATE. (To the person who sent me that pm, you know who you are xD)

Mai: *as she fans herself* Wasn't me.

I wrote this chapter in a day, not gonna lie. Like literally, maybe a few hours went into this and in typical DEATHBLADE STYLE FASHION! It's rushed, the ending is cut off and it's unedited ;D sorry guys, I'm ashamed.

Emi: Again, never admit that you rushed it. We'll end up knowing the quality of the writing.
Jessie: ...what quality?
Emi: Stop it, Miss Baxter.
Jessie: Okay, okay, it's still better than "Crescent Variation".
James: That's a pretty low bar to jump over, Jess.
Sonic: "Outcast Saga"?
Amy: That abomination that you called "Sexism: The Fanfic"? Still too low.

Literally inspiration to write came and went like nobodies business and I really can't explain what happened or why I disappeared for so long. Everybody give a thank you to deathwing17 for pestering me, it was mainly his messages and especially his most recent one that kicked me back into gear. Again, I apologize to all of you for being gone so long.

All: Meh.
Keiko: Doesn't really bother us. You have a life, we have lives... stuff happens.

Next chapter will be a direct continuation of this one since it's suppose to go on longer, so this scene with Kyle and Kitana is actually not over just yet, there's a little bit more to be had before we move on. So look out for that, and hey next chapter will be even longer because of it. It was gonna be long anyways but now it will increase in length by like another one to two thousand words. And yes I know that this chapter is very similar to the last one where Kitana and Kyle first met, that was the idea though. It's suppose to be like they never left the room and just kept talking.

Cassy: Copy and paste, copy and paste...
Mai: Old habits die hard.

Also I've decided to prevent random acts of vanishing again, if I don't update when I say I will I'm gonna regularly post on my profile every month stating how far into the chapter I am so you guys won't be in the dark for so long. I feel really bad about what happened and it won't happen again, especially since I have an xbox one now and can get Mortal Kombat XL when it comes out. ^.^

Thanks guys though for standing by me and being so patient while I got back on my feet with this story, I NEVER LEFT IT btw, again I will state I WILL NEVER EEEEEEEEEEVVERRRRRRRRRR ABANDON THIS STORY. The only reason these stories will die is if I literally die, and if in the event that happens, my sister has my fanfiction password and she'll log on here and post it, so I have a plan in case I die in some type of spontaneous accident lol.

Sonic: Whoa! That's thinking way ahead!
Amy: Someone is definitely dedicated to their craft!
James: Look, I know that I've been the harshest one when it comes to this fic. But... we don't want you to die, mate.

Okay well thanks for reading everyone, review for next chapter HYPE! And I'll see ya next time!

Next Chapter: Keeping With The Pace

Emi: Hype? I'm supposed to be excited?
Jessie: Be excited for the fact that only one switch was needed so far. Fic's not as bad as we thought.
Sonic: It's still... sort of bad.
Mai: Stack this fic with the ones that you've personally dealt with, Sonic. How bad is this fic now?
Sonic: Well... I don't have the urge to jump out of a window, so it could be worse.
Amy: Mr. Kusanagi's still annoyed at us for that, right?
Sonic: I... uh... yeah, Ames.

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