answers to reviewers questions or statements:

Nick4Speed: Yeah.

Starlord Master: Yes Norman will appear in this.

FleetingSpectre: Her appearance for the last chapter was the one she has in MKX and Scorpion's Revenge. It's hard trying to describe some of the outfits they have in this franchise.

maxe03: Yes she did. It was magic. I said he has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Chronos500: Sonya will not have any sort of sexual thing with Peter in any shape or form. Too much of a fan of Cage and Blade.

I craft experiences: Probably one day. Kinda have that in the form of Follow You Anywhere story where Peter's gonna end up with Veronica.

Triton0501: I think it depends if Liu Kang hits Diana with everything he has right out the gate and doesn't hold back the entire time. Like if he was fighting against the likes of Shao Kahn or even Shinnok given Diana is in the same weight class as Raiden or Shao Kahn even.

BrotherofaStudio: Sindel will have her reasons for choosing Peter.

Harbinger of Kaos: I was gonna have her in it regardless of the revelation, her being evil just makes things a bit more interesting and gives me a few ideas.

Lilthug: I'll give him a look.

DireWolf96: There's plenty to come for both.

Jurassik-master: Eventually.

cosmicwarrior: Not sure yet.

Scifihorrorfan: Very likely.

CRUDEN: Oh yeah.

blazingphoenix123: Peter has a few tricks up his sleeve that he's keeping in reserve in the event his back is against the wall. But if you mean is he holding back the kind of power that'd allow him to take on Raiden or Shao Kahn in a straight up fight, than no. Kitana is under a lot of pressure, unfortunately her way of coping is through aggression, something she likely picked up on from her adoptive father.

Guest: Peter's sorcery's good, but it's not up to par with the likes of Shang Tsung or Quan Chi.

Hbarrera98: Kaine and Ben Reilly will not be appearing in this story. As for Mileena... I may be having a change of heart with her. Still deciding.

Maximess: We'll be seeing the likes of Black Canary soon if you wanna count her as a member of the Justice League still. But the likes of Green Lantern, the Flash or Superman? No, they wouldn't fit too well here in my opinion.

gunman: The one from Mortal Kombat 9, I already mentioned that a few chapters back. No I'm not adding anything from Scorpion's Revenge to this, no point since the tournament arc is about end in three chapters. No, Peter and certainly not Juri are ever going to join Earthrealm in any shape or form.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel, Mortal Kombat, DC or street Fighter characters seen, mentioned or used.

In the decades that Peter knew Shao Kahn back when he was simply Shao, a banished God of War from some long destroyed realm and another member of Onaga's royal court, the Blood Spider can safely admit to never seeing the man ever smile. The closest he's ever seen would be those smirks that oozed with over confidence or arrogance. Honestly Peter thought Shao was incapable of feeling any sort of positive emotion, let alone showing it in any way that wasn't because he felt or had proved himself superior in some way.

And yet Peter found exactly that as he wandered the halls towards the throne room where Shang Tsung was to hold the next few matches of the tournament. It was a image that emanated from a mystical crystal from some long forgotten realm that could project certain images that had been captured by it at some point in the past, similar to a Earthrealm camera Peter's been told. The image that Peter found was that of 'The' Shao Kahn actually displaying a genuine smile on his face with what looked to be a very young Kitana, possibly when she was five or six years old and what Peter recognized as Empress Sindel, Shao Kahn's late wife and former Queen of Peter's home realm of Edenia.

It was obvious the image was made before Sindel's suicide all those centuries ago.

Kitana looked adorable in her little blue and black dress with her face covered in a simple blue face mask that reached up past her nose. Sindel was beauty and sensuality made physical. Her goddess like body was dressed in a rather revealing purple and black dress that just stood at the line between modesty and scandalous. Her hair, pitch black with a few veins of white and grey along the edges, hung down to her hips with numerous jewels adorned throughout it.

Shao Kahn meanwhile...

'Yeesh, Shao Kahn looks like someone shoved a branch of thorn bark right up his ass and threw some salt in afterwards' Peter thought as he stared at Shao's image with a grimace 'Now that's a face not even his own mother could love'

Would probably explain why Shao was always mad, he never got enough love as a child because his smiles looked like a literal holocausts on his face.

"Should try the Havik method and carve it off if your gonna smile like that" Peter said with a chuckle.

"Carve what off?"

Peter blinked at the sound of Jade's voice and turned to see the emerald clad woman approaching him with a slight sway in her hips. She was sporting her face mask which did little to conceal the amusement in the deadly woman's eyes.

After staring at the woman for several seconds, Jade's words finally registered in Peter's mind and he cleared his throat as he returned his attention to the image of Outworld's royal family "Oh nothing, just a bit of an inside joke is all"

Jade hummed as she came to stand beside Peter and stare at the image of her emperor with a thoughtful look on her face. It showed her best friend standing by the Emperor's side with the Kahn's massive hand resting on little Kitana's back, and that of the late Sindel who stood beside her husband seemingly content with how her life had reached that point "They seem so happy in this image... like nothing could destroy them"

"I think this is the only time I've ever seen Shao Kahn actually smile" Peter said as he folded his arms across his chest "Have to say, I am not a fan. Bothers me more than a Kreeyan brothel run by a Tarkatan"

Jade's eyes flickered towards Peter and seemed to glow with laughter "Careful that the princess doesn't hear that, she may take it as some sort of offense and may try to kill you"

"And you won't?" Peter asked with amusement, Jade struck him as a very loyal follow of Shao Kahn, though more reserved than some of the Kahn's more fanatic servants.

"If my lord can brush off every insult thrown at him by his enemies, than I think I can refrain from being angered on his behalf" Jade said with a chuckle.

"The princess can be plenty angry for the both of you" Peter said.

"If you think her rage is terrifying, wait until you meet Skarlet" Jade stated "She almost worships Shao Kahn"

"One of his concubines?" Peter asked dryly.

"She's more of an un-official daughter that he took in not long after..." Jade trailed off as her eyes drifted towards Sindel's visage "After the Empress's death"

Peter hummed at this as he glanced at the image of Sindel in her prime "How did she die, if you don't mind me asking? I heard a few stories, but none of them ever seemed to make sense based off what I kne-... heard of her"

"...What did you hear?" Jade asked, her voice and expression, even if half covered, unreadable as she continued to stare at Sindel's image.

"That she killed herself" Peter answered plainly "Something traumatic happened and she couldn't bear living with what happened"

He refrained from mentioning that it was the death of Sindel's first husband Jerrod and the annexation of Edenia into Outworld that drove the late monarch to take her own life. As happy as she seemed to be in this image, it wasn't outside the realm of possibility she was simply faking it to avoid Shao Kahn's wrath being inflicted upon her and her child. However something told him that speaking of the late Empress in such a way wasn't something that Jade would be comfortable with... and Peter doubted she'd let him speak so casually about it as his obvious disrespect to Shao Kahn. Jade remained silent after Peter asked his question, her eyes glued to Sindel's light projected own.

Though they seemed to water, no tears fell.

"I remember they were trying to make a child" Jade said in a quiet voice "A heir to Shao Kahn's empire"

"What about Kitana?" Peter asked with a frown.

"The Emperor has largely based current Outworld society and customs off that of his native realm, particularly in regards to line of succession within a monarchy. Only a male may inherit the throne and rule in the event of the father's demise. It has since changed of course, but at the time, Shao Kahn seemed interested in preserving his legacy through a son"

Peter adopted a thoughtful look on his face as he imagined a little Shao Kahn running around. Part of him wanted to shiver in dread while the rest wanted to break out into a fit of laughter at the image. Though he doubted that laughing now would be wise, especially since Peter felt Jade was teetering on the edge of a less than amusing topic.

"What happened?" Peter asked after a few moments of heavy silence.

"She miscarried..." Jade said as she reached up to rub her damp eyes with the back of her hand "Again and again they tried and each attempt was met with failure. Eventually, I suppose that it broke something within the empress and she... she..."

Jade refused to continue and Peter let the matter drop.

'I suppose that'd do it for someone' Peter thought as he glanced back at the family portrait.

"After her death, Kitana was made heir apparent to the Empire and our lord never took another wife again" Jade said with a shuddering breath "He barely even indulges in the royal concubines he kept from the days of Onaga"

"I hope he got rid of some of them" Peter in attempt to brighten the mood between the two "Some of those women hailed from the days of Corvus Kahn and looked every bit the age"

Jade managed a small mile under her mask at the thought of Royal Concubines being a bunch of ancient women "The ones that I've seen and been with are young, so I suppose he did"

"Or it was just a powerful glamour spell" Peter said with a hum "Could've in reality been lying with a woman old enough to remember a time when Shinnok himself was still amongst the Elder Gods. I suppose I'll need to ask Shang Tsung, they were neighbors growing up if I recall correctly"

This caused Jade to chuckle "Assuming he can even remember that far back. With his addled mind, it's a miracle he even remembers to dress himself before leaving his chambers"

"Now that's a sight I didn't need to think of, Shang Tsung's old ass walking around" Peter said with a shiver "Thank you for that"

"My pleasure..." Jade said with a slight purr at the word 'pleasure'.

"Is it weird that I like how you said pleasure?" Peter asked with grin.

"Would it be weird that I'm pleased you do?" Jade countered.

"No" Peter answered with a chuckle as he took a quick look around before leaning in towards Jade "Just don't tell Kitana. Wouldn't want her to be jealous now, would we?"

"Jealous of what?" Jade asked with mock innocence "We are simply talking with one another, nothing more... yet"

Peter quirked a brow at the last word "Is that right?"

"Perhaps" Jade said with amusement in her voice "I'm sure she will forgive me if things progress to actions beyond our control"

"Maybe, maybe not" Peter said with a amused grin and a shake of his head before a small frown began to form on his face as he caught the image of Shao Kahn in the corner of his eye.

Despite Raiden and even Mistress Death's less than transparent warnings on his plans to kill Shao Kahn in the event the semi immortal ruler of Outworld double crosses him, he was more than prepared to follow through with it. The Kahn and Peter made an agreement and it will be honored, even if Peter has to hold a knife to the bastards neck to get it out of him. Minutes passed as Jade and Peter continued to stare at the light projected image of what was once the Outworld Royal Family, before tragedy tore it apart. The silence seemed to finally get to Jade as she turned towards Peter and crossed her arms under her breasts and leaned against the wall.

"Do you have any idea of who you shall be facing today?" the green cladded assassin asked.

"No, but given how few Earthrealms have made it to this point, and the only other realm tasking part in this being Netherrealm with Scorpion and Quan Chi, I can hazard a guess" Peter answered as he glanced at Jade "What about you?"

"I'm to aid Kitana against the Shaolin monk known as Liu Kang this evening. Perhaps by myself if the Princess's legs haven't fully healed" Jade revealed.

Peter couldn't help but snicker at this "I really did a number on her, hmm?"

"Indeed" Jade said with her eyes crinkling in amusement while a smile no doubt grew under her face mask "And leaving that Amazon with such a sore face and all tussled like you did, shame on you"

"Jealous?" Peter asked with a snort.

"More of... curious" Jade said as her eyes flickered over Peter's armored form "Very curious..."

"Careful Jade..." Peter warned with a teasing grin under his own mask "Few can experience what I have to offer fully and remain unbroken because of it"

"If anyone is to break, it'll be you" Jade said in a low, voice as she kicked herself off the wall and stepped right up to Peter and looked him dead in the eye, as if the mask's lenses that covered them were never there "Few have been able to keep pace with me at my best"

"A first time for everything" Peter said.

"My thoughts exactly" Jade agreed with a giggle as she backed away and turned with a slight sway in her hips. Peter watched her go for a few moments before the woman stopped and looked over her shoulder at him, her eyes lit with amusement "We best hurry, less Shang Tsung begin without us"

"And my mood is killed for thinking of the elderly glare he sports, thank you again" Peter said with a sigh and a shake of his head as he followed after the chuckling woman.

...

Today's set of matches were to be held within the throne room of Shang Tsung.

On one side of Shang Tsung's throne stood Earthrealm's remaining defenders in the forms of Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, a large dark skinned Earthrealmer that Peter's never seen but was dressed and armed in a similar fashion to Sonya Blade and the last remaining Shaolin monk, Liu Kang. There was also Raiden himself who was flanked by Diana of Themyscira and the warrior shaman known as Nightwolf.

On the other side of the throne stood Outworld and the Netherealm's fighters in the forms of Kitana, Quan Chi and his spectre Scorpion. Jade and Peter quietly took their places beside Kitana while Shang Tsung entered with two masked men as his escort. The elderly sorcerer's eyes dragged across the various kombatants as he slowly made his way to the small stair case that led up to his throne. Once the sorcerer was seated, he loudly cleared his throat as he announced the first match.

"Today's matches begin with the Blood Spider of Onaga!" Shang Tsung proclaimed.

"Spectacular..." Peter muttered as he stepped away from Jade and approached the center of the large room.

"His opponents shall be Johnny Cage and... Sonya Blade!"

Sonya made a face at having to be paired with the child like actor while Johnny seemed excited to be fighting alongside what he considered was the most attractive woman at this entire event. True he's noticed the likes of Kitana and Jade but even he could tell that they were women to best give a wide berth to.

"This should be fun" Peter said as he watched Johnny and Sonya step out and take their places across from him.

"Hope your ready to get caged!" Johnny said as he adjusted his sunglasses before popping his knuckles.

"So long as your ready to get tied up" Peter responded as he pointed towards the spider shaped symbol on his chest "You know, cause I make webs like a spider"

"I feel like you should say 'step into my parlor little fly'" Jonny hummed as he adopted a 'thinking pose'.

"Oooh that's a good one" Peter nodded in agreement.

"And why we're on that, what are you called the Blood Spider?" Johnny asked as he gestured towards Peter's attire "I mean, I'm not seeing much blood red"

"It's more of alluding to the fact that I kill a lot of people that I'm metaphorically drenched in it" Peter revealed with a shrug.

"Ah, the name's more based on the reputation than your actual appearance" Johnny said with a look of realization "Huh, gotta try that angle for my next movie"

"Is it another Ninja Mime movie?" Peter asked excitedly "Big fan of the first and it's spinoff, Obsidian Samurai"

Johnny responded with a shake of the head "It's set in the same universe actually, sorta like a shared universe which seem to be the rage now, but-"

"OH MY GOD WILL YOU BOTH SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY?!" Sonya snapped with annoyance towards both kombatants "Can either of you just keep your damn mouths shut for a single damn minute? Is it really that hard or are you so full of yourselves that you can't stand to not hear your voice?!"

"Oooh, snappy" Peter snickered as he pointed towards Kitana "I think you two would make good friends"

Jade had to hold back a laugh as she felt the air around her longtime friend grow as cold as a tundra while her eyes were like razors.

"Are you mad that we're not including you in the banter?" Johnny said in a apologetic tone that was ruined by the grin on his face "We can add you in, make our little duette a threesome"

Peter began to nod before Johnny's words registered in his mind and he shot the man a startled look "Wait, what?"

Johnny frowned at Peter's response before he realized what he implied "Wait, no not that kind of threesome!"

"What other kind is there!?" Peter asked incredulously.

"Well there's-" Johnny began before he was pushed aside by an angered Sonya as she rushed towards Peter.

The Blood Spider quirked his head to the side slightly as he watched the blonde woman close the distance between them with a surprising amount of speed before he sidestepped a kick aimed for his head. Sonya's eyes narrowed as she sent another kick towards Peter that he easily sidestepped as well before he blocked a punch to his side and another aimed for his head. With a slight push, Peter sent Sonya stumbling back before she let out a huff and drew a small wire from one of her wrist gauntlets.

"You gonna show me how to make knots like some kind of sailor person?" Peter asked

"I'm gonna cut your head off with it jackass" Sonya said as she rushed Peter again.

Peter stepped back as Sonya tried to lasso the thin line of metal around his head before he shot a line of webbing at her chest and yanked him towards her. Sonya let out a yelp of surprise before Peter caught her by the throat and lifted her into the air before slamming her back into the ground. The blonde soldier let out a groan before she spat at Peter, hitting him in the chest with a thick glob of saliva.

"Well that was rather under-" Peter began before he suddenly bent backwards to dodge a kick thrown at him by Johnny Cage.

The actor scowled at the miss before he brought his foot down in attempt to land his heel on Peter's head, but the dark cladded Edenian reached up and grabbed the approaching foot by the heel before he righted himself up and slammed the startled human into the ground, right next to Sonya.

"Scratch that, that was rude" Peter said with a shake of his head "Tsk, tsk, tsk mister Cage"

"Call me Johnny..." the actor said as he hopped back up while Sonya slowly rose to her feet, her eyes narrowed in frustration "Mister Cage was my father"

"Okay... Miss Cage" Peter snickered, causing Johnny to scowl.

"Oh it's so on Spider-man!" Johnny said before he attempted his signature 'Shadow Kick' on the black clad assassin.

"What'd you call me?" Peter said with confusion as he brought his arms up to block Johnny's kick.

He was a bit surprised with how much force was behind the blow, it felt like he just blocked a kick from a Kyteen. He pushed Johnny back and was about to follow through with his own attack when he suddenly raised his hand up close to his throat to stop Sonya's metal wire from completely wrapping around his neck. Peter winced as the wire dug into the small spacing between the armor around his fingers and drew a small amount of blood. Sonya let out a growl as she hopped on to peter's back, digging one of her knees in between his shoulder blades as she kept pulling back with the wire.

"Nothing smart to say now huh?" Sonya asked through gritted teeth as she used a combination of her body's weight and her own physical strength to try and pull the wire back.

"Give me a minute..." Peter said before he felt a kick to the chest by Johnny "OW!"

"YEAH, tag team!" Johnny said as he held his hands up in a boxing motion and began to send a series of jabs towards Peter's torso. Some were blocked by Peter's remaining free arm, but one arm against two along with two legs wasn't a very feasible strategy.

To many, it looked as though Peter might be in trouble as he kept receiving a series of quick but powerful blows to his body while he resisted being strangled by Sonya's wire. But Peter himself, he was relatively comfortable all things considered. His suit absorbed most of the impacts from Johnny's blows to the point all Peter was feeling was a sort of pressure more than anything else and for the wire wrapped around his hands, aside from the slight sting from where it cut into his skin, it wasn't too bad. Still, it wasn't smart for him to stay in this position for too long. Realistically all Johnny had to do was grab the hand that had the wire on it, pull forward which in turn would allow the wire to dig deeper into Peter's fingers, and possibly sever some of them completely, and he'd be in a much more precarious situation.

'And re-growing fingers is a bitch in of itself' Peter thought as he made a side glance over his shoulder towards Sonya when he felt her lighten her pull on him.

He thought that she was simply getting tired but that thought was quickly thrown out the window when he saw that she was in reality reaching for a knife she had strapped to her vest.

"Okay, play time over" Peter said as he grabbed a fist from Johnny that was aimed for his throat and pulled the man forward and slammed his own head into the actors with enough force to shatter the sunglasses on the man's face and send him stumbling back.

With Johnny incapacitated, albeit temporarily, Peter reached behind him with his free hand and grabbed Sonya by one of her wrists and pulled her forward and slammed his head back into her's. Sonya let out a pained groan as she fell back and on to the ground clutching her face while Peter idly unwrapped the wire from around his bloodied fingers.

"Here's Johnny!" Cage yelled as he did something that took Peter back a bit.

The famed Hollywood actor formed a orb of energy roughly half the size of a ball in his hands before he threw it towards the Blood Spider. The orb of energy moved faster than Peter expected and was just narrowly able to side step it. Peter glance down at his armor to see that it was partially burnt if the faint heat he could feel was anything to go by.

'Now that's unexpected' Peter thought as he turned back to see Johnny rushing towards him with a very faint, almost un-seeable glow of green energy around his body 'Best not get hit by that head on. Rather not see what it feels like directly'

Though it did explain why Johnny's attacks seem to have more power than they should for an Earthrealmer.

"Time for my all time special!" Johnny said as he leaped into the air and sent a spinning kick towards Peter only for the Edenian to grab him by the ankle and slam him down into Sonya... again.

"So of a bitch" Sonya groaned out in pain as Johnny laid on top of her.

"I get that a lot..." Johnny said with a pained laugh before he and Sonya both heard an odd sound.

TWIP!

TWIP!

TWIP!

TWIP!

TWIP!

TWIP!

TWIP!

With each 'twip' Johnny and Sonya found themselves covered in more and more webbing by Peter.

"You know, this reminds me of this horror movie I was in once" Johnny said with far too much calm in his voice as he and Sonya were practically glued to the floor in a massive cocoon like mass of web.

"Get me out of this shit!" Sonya snapped as she found Johnny being pressed tighter and tighter against her.

"You know, this isn't so bad, being tied up to Sergeant Hottie here" Johnny said with a chuckle as he did his best to glance up at Peter "Thanks man, this actually makes up for the five hundred dollar glasses you just broke"

"Uh, your welcome?" Peter said with some confusion, he wasn't used to people thanking him for tying them up.

Especially since the webbing he was using was slowly draining the life out of them and will kill them if they aren't out of it in the next ten minutes. He wouldn't leave them in there that long, but well most people aren't all that okay with just being tied up by another man like a fly in a insect in a spider's web.

"Fuck... you!" Sonya snarled as she tried to move but found her body being webbed down with Johnny's own body and weight bearing down on her making it almost next to impossible to just breath.

"Anytime anywhere baby" Johnny said with a wink thrown towards Sonya that was somewhat ruined by the swelling starting to build on his brow from Peter's headbutt.

"You guys are weird" Peter said with a shake of his head before he looked towards Shang Tsung "Oi, I won! Call it"

Shang Tsung's face morphed into a scowl of anger before he bit out "The Blood Spider wins..."

"I cherish how happy you are for my victory for the glory of Outworld" Peter said dryly as he turned to leave before he heard a very loud and very annoyed 'ahem'.

Peter stopped and turned to see Sonya glaring at him with an expectant look on her face while Johnny was mouthing 'keep going, we're good'. Peter was just about to turn and leave regardless when Sonya shifted and Johnny's face changed from content and happy to in pain.

"Ow, ow, ow, okay let us up please!" he groaned as Sonya shifted again and he hissed as something metal pressed against his ribcage.

"Alright, alright, alright… hang on a second" Peter said as he reached down and tore the webbing off of Sonya and a saddened Johnny.

The actor let out a sigh of relief, much as he liked being pressed up against 'Sergeant Hottie', having her gauntlet pressing into his ribs wasn't very comfortable. Sonya seemed more than happy to be out of the webbing as she stood up and brushed herself down before she shot a glare towards Johnny. The actor grinned nervously before it morphed into a look of pain as Sonya's foot moved in a blur and connected with his groin. Peter winced at the impact while Johnny let out a pained squeal while Sonya huffed as she all but stomped away.

Peter watched her go for a moment before he glanced at Johnny cupping his injury before offering him a hand.

"So, any plans for a Ninja Mime sequel?"

...

And done.

Next chapter, Peter vs Quan Chi and Jade and Kitana vs Liu Kang...