Table Of ContentThe True One
by AlphaWhiskeyFoxtrot
Category: Mortal Kombat
Language: English
Characters: Mileena, OC, Rain, Tanya
Status: In-Progress
Published: 2016-04-12 12:16:02
Updated: 2016-04-21 09:36:48
Packaged: 2016-04-27 19:18:30
Rating: M
Chapters: 3
Words: 13,848
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Summary: Alexander Adalmund is a Sergeant of UNEASED, a secret
organization formed by the UN to defend and protect Earthrealm from
any Inter-dimensional attacks. He accidentally enters Outworld by
unknown reason, and he met the Outworld rebel led by the ex-empress
Mileena. Will he come back in one piece, or will he get
worse?
1. Chapter 1
**"First Sight"**
It is a nice Saturday morning here in this remote village far from
the reach of the nearest civilization. The birds chirping, the sun is
high up in the sky, the wind blowing softly, kids playing on the dirt
road happily, this is just a perfect day. I'm now lazily sitting on
my chair on the porch of my house after I had a some bunny meat for
breakfast with some fresh milk I get from Uncle Mack's farm, he's
kinda rude to new peoples, but when you know and helped him, he could
be really helpful. Anyway, back to me who still lazily sitting on a
chair, my laziness stopped when my phone is ringing inside my pocket.
It's the chief of this village and the local chief of this branch of
the UNEASED,
"Sergeant, this is Chief. I have a task for you, I know today should
be your day off, but this is urgent, and I really need your help
right now. Meet me at the armory"
The call stopped immediately, and I head to the armory shortly after.
When I finally reach it and get inside, Chief is sitting on a chair
behind a desk where he usually sit there while planning for an attack
or something else, I approach him,
"What assignment is it sir?"
"Alright, this is a quite simple task. It's a retrieval mission. Now
here's the situation, I've sent a guy from the Viper squad named
Nimble to get some intel from a bandit camp, and last night, he sent
a distress call on his radio, saying he has been caught by those
bandits. Now I want you to get there, retrieve that intel, and get
him, alive if possible, if he didn't, bring his body to the cemetery
and bring the flash drive that he had directly to me. I also has
deployed some men from the Tiger squad to help you out, they're
already there and waiting for you. From their report, there is at
least 10 bandits in that area, here is the coordinate of the
location. Alright, that's it for the briefing, I'll be here while I
waiting for you"
"Yes, sir. I'll do my best"
I quickly take some equipment and weapon on the armory for this task,
I take a pistol, and several reserves magazines for my pistol. From
my experience since I became a Close Quarter Battle unit, I know this
shouldn't be too difficult, so I just grab the light weaponry,
especially with many of my encounters with bandits they has almost no
combat experience. Once I get all my equipment ready, I check the
coordinate Chief had gave me, it shows me a location pretty close to
the east of the village. And without wasting anymore time, I get
there on foot through the jungle. I finally reach the location the
Chief has told me, it's an abandoned farm with several large building
and some wrecked trucks. I crouch behind some bushes so that I won't
be spotted. Suddenly I heard some rustling coming from bushes near
me, I suppose it's must be the Tiger squad,
"Venom"
"Tiger"
Four men from the Tiger squad appears from behind the bushes with AK
as their weapons, and one of them approaches me, he had a black cap
with an AK-74 as his weapon.
"Sup, Sarge. How you doin'?"
"I'm ready as hell. So, what's the situation here?"
"At least ten bandits over there, mostly armed with pistols, but we
see two of them had shotguns with a decent shape. Three of them on
the front, two on the left, two on the right, and three on the back.
But we don't know how many of them is inside the building, so be
careful"
"And what about the plan?"
"We thought you had the plan. I mean you're the Venom, you're the
squad with the most frequent deployment, you should have a plan for
this"
"Alright, how about this? Two of you knock from the front with your
AK. Then when they're all distracted, another two of you hit from the
flanks, while I'll get inside, eliminate any resistance, and get
Nimble out, then we get out of here. If you want to wipe out all of
them it's your decision. So, what'd you say?"
"That's sounds like a plan"
"Alright, are you ready for this?"
"Yeah, we are"
"Lock and load, and get to your positions"
After that, we quickly spreading out and hide behind trees, and after
a while, two of the Tiger's men open fire to the front gate of the
farm. The bandits quickly open fire at them, and as I expected, many
of the bandits coming to the front gate and helping another bandit to
fight the Tigers. And when those bandits are busy firing the Tigers,
two of the Tigers moving undetected to the sides, ready to attack on
their flanks.
Meanwhile, I get to the farmhouse to check if Nimble is there, and
when I get there, I open the back door, and then search the house
with my knife and pistol out, so when I encounter a bandit, I won't
just become a shooting target. I check every single corner of the
farmhouse but I finds nothing but broken furniture and a dirty toilet
filled with foul things, and it's stinks as a carcass! I quickly get
out of the house and hide behind a wrecked truck so that I won't
become a target in this firefight. I quickly running from one cover
to another into the barn, and when I reach the barn, I run around to
the back and enters the barn.
When I enters the backside of the barn, I welcomed by the bandits
firing at me, luckily I had enough time to take cover behind an old
tractor. Now my heart start beating faster and distribute adrenaline
all over to my muscles and brain. I notices a stack of crates on the
side of the barn, I think it has some more cover than that tractor,
and swiftly I jumped behind that stack of crates. Those bandits still
shooting at me with their pistols, I slowly moving to another stack
of crates quite close to the previous one, and then I move behind a
barrel, they seems to notice that I already switch place behind this
barrel. And when they keep putting suppressing fire at the crates
where I were hide, I quickly stood up, aiming my pistol, and shoot
all of them with high precision, thanks to the shooting exercise I
always do every week. It takes all of the bullets of my pistol mag to
take them down.
Once I'm sure that they won't be able to attacks me, I start to
search every single corner of the barn. I didn't find him, and I'm
start questioning myself "Does he's K.I.A.?". But when I look up, I
find him tied up and hanged on the ceiling, luckily those bandits
didn't tied those ropes on his neck. I quickly get upstairs, and
climb the wooden support of the barn roof where the rope that tied
Nimble is. Slowly but surely, I get closer to him, and when I finally
reach him, I cut the rope with my knife and drop him to the ground
below. After I get down and get to him, I open up his ties, he's
still alive although he's beaten, but I think he's still can
fight.
"Thanks for rescuing me, Sarge. I don't know how to thank you"
"It doesn't matter. Do you had those intel?"
"Yeah, yeah, I got it"
"Can you walk?"
"Yeah, I still can, but they took all of my guns and ammo"
After hearing his statement, I took one of the bandits pistol
alongside with several mags, and bring it to him.
"Here, use this. Might not be as good as your weapons before, but
it's still better than nothing"
"Okay, thanks. Now can we get back to our village? I don't want to
stay any longer here"
"Yeah, that's the idea. Now follow me, the Tigers already waiting for
us"
"Alright, and be careful. I don't want either you or me gets home
with a bullet inside our body"
"I'm a Venom, remember? I had through a lot of situation like this.
Okay, follow me, and stay low"
We slowly gets out of the barn from the backside, and I took the same
path as I used before. The gun fight is still engaged between the
Tigers and the bandits. Now there's only two of the bandits on the
front gate from what I see. These bandits seems to have more
experience than the rest of the bandits, they know when to take cover
and when to return fire. Luckily they didn't seems to notices us, so
we can get past them with ease. We finally reach a safe place within
the trees, pretty far from the firefight, I check on all the wounds
he had on his body and gave him some first aid with the medical
equipment I carry with me.
"Alright, that's enough to make you last a couple more
days"
"Thanks, Sarge. I don't know what I'd become if you didn't rescue
me"
"Sure thing. Now, where is the flash drive with the intel?"
"Yeah, I got it. Just let me check my backpack for a second"
"Okay, I'm going to tell the Tigers that I've got you already"
While he is checking his backpack for the flash drive, I get to the
Tigers to tell them that I already got Nimble. But when I got there,
they already finishes off the bandits entirely, and now they're
walking to the village. Unfortunately I can't tell them because
they're too far away for my voice to get inside their ears. I decide
to return to Nimble now, and when I get there, he is standing with a
flash drive and a bit of cash on his hand.
"Here is the flash drive with the intel inside it. And have some
cash. It's the only thing I could give you right now"
"Wow, thanks. This would be really helpful"
"It should be me who have to thank you. Without you I might never see
my girlfriend anymore. I'll go to the village now"
With the flash drive in my hand a bundle of extra cash in my hand, I
quickly get to the armory where Chief is waiting for me and this
flash drive. After roughly fifteen minutes of walking through the
jungle, I finally arrive at the armory. Inside, Chief is now sitting
behind a desk with his laptop along with a couple of other guys from
the Tiger and Viper squad. I get closer to them, and put the flash
drive on the table near the laptop.
"Here you go, Chief. It's the flash drive you ask me to retrieve. And
also, Nimble is alive, and he should be here right now"
"Thank you, Sergeant. Now let's see what those bandits are
planning"
Chief put the flash drive to his laptop, then he connect the laptop
into a projector, and now the projector shows us the bigger screen
than the laptop. At first it shows us some kind of files inside the
flash drive, but when Chief opens an image of a map, it's makes me
interested. There, I can see red and black dots which indicates the
bandits and pirates camps. I'm so surprised when I know that our
village is surrounded by those bandits and pirates like sugar inside
an ant lair. But one particular sign caught my eyes, it's different
than any others, and it's quite close to the village.
"What's that symbol right there? Close to our village?"
"Well, I don't know what it is. Since there is no legends on this
map"
"Huh. It's quite odd that this symbol is the only one on this
map"
"It is. If you want to check it out, you're welcome to"
"Nah, it's probably just a stain from a drink or something. I won't
bother checking it"
"Well, Sergeant. Your help is enough for now, you may have your day
off back"
"Thanks, Chief"
I leave Chief along with the two guys to inspect the intel.
Meanwhile, I walk myself to Wobbegong's Bar. It's serve as both bar
and restaurant at this village, they get most of their ingredients
from the hunters and fisherman of this village. The owner and chef of
the restaurant, Marco, is the best chef in the village, although I
could cook something more than just grenades, but his cooking is far
more better than mine. And now I entered the bar and there is some
peoples inside the bar that either eating something or drink some
liquors, some of them waves at me when they sees me, and I wave back
in response. I proceed to sit in one of the table, close to the
window where the wind could blow and cool down my body within this
tropical climate where the sun shine directly above my head. I looked
outside of the window, looking at peoples walking and kids playing
cheerfully, a sight I rarely seen when I was still living in the
city. Suddenly, without I expected, Meat comes to me with a textbook
on his hand.
"Hey there, sarge. Wassup?"
"Hey Marc, I'm hungry and thirsty"
"I thought you could cook your own food, buddy"
"I could, but I want to eat your cooking"
"Heh, alright, Sarge. Anyway, what'd you want to eat?"
"You know, just like the usual"
"You got it, S. Hey, do you mind if I eat my breakfast here with you?
I have something to talk about"
"Sure thing, but after I had my food on the table"
"Heheh, okay, just wait a couple of minutes"
"Alright, but don't put any chili on it, okay"
After that, he left and head to the kitchen directly and starts to
cook my meal. Meanwhile, as I wait for the food to come, I take out
my phone and start to browse the internet. Although internet does
reaching up to here, but it's speed is so slow that even the slowest
snail could be faster than the internet speed here. I'm trying to get
any information about some mechanism that I would need for my
homemade combat gauntlet. I start this project a couple of months
ago, it's nearly complete, nearly, the only thing I need to work on
is the mechanism that could triggered the shield to developed like
flower, and some paint job.
Finally I find a document about how to make and operates it, along
with numbers and the formula. Unfortunately, I had an mental obstacle
that prevent me from using this formula... I hate math... Yes, I hate
math, because I'm so suck at it. Back then when I was still in public
high school, from the entire students in the class, I'm the one of
several who fail in math... And also in biology, chemical, physics,
basically anything that has advanced math calculation on it. Even
though I can't do the advanced math, but I know the engineers around
here who can do these calculation for me, of course with a
price.
Finally, after quite a while of browsing, Meat comes with the food
and he puts it on the table, and he proceed to put his on the table
and sit on the same table as I. At first, we didn't spoke a word when
we're eating. But when we finishes and completely rid off both of our
meal, Meat starts the conversation.
"So, what'd you say about your breakfast?"
"Like always, good as hell!"
"Thanks. Although many of the Task Force guys did come here to eat or
drink, but... You are the only one person I could trust"
"Well, I didn't expect you to put your trust on me... I mean in some
occasion, I may not done what I promise to do. Like what happened a
couple of weeks ago, someone makes me promised that I would bring her
necklace back. But when I was crossing the river, that necklace fell
into the river, and I have no chance of retrieving it"
"But, dude. You're a Sergeant and also the leader of the Venoms.
They're trusted their life to you"
"You got a point right there... Anyway, enough of the chit-chat.
What're you want to talk?"
"Look, S. You have done a lot of things for me. And I... I can't even
repay those..."
"Hey, you don't need to thanks me. I do it for free"
"I totally appreciate it... But I can't live on my life before I
repay your acts..."
"Okay, okay, I'll take whatever you offers me"
"So, I had ordered some canned goods and liquors from the BM, and I
also exclusively ordered some new military equipment and weapon just
for you"
"Really? Wow, thanks a lot. How much does those cost?"
"You don't have to think about it. I already take care of it"
"So... Uh, where could I get these 'rewards'?"
"They're delivers it via a plane. The plane with your rewards would
land on the airfield about... Fifteen minutes from now. And it should
be inside one of those crates... Now, because you're going to the
airfield, would you also take those goods here?"
"Sure thing, I'll use the Bull squad cargo truck to get those
goods"
As soon as I pays the food and borrows the truck key from one of the
Bull squad member, I quickly drive through the jungle into the
airfield. Although this World War II era Japanese airfield is quite
old, but it's still in good shape. Except for the towers and hangars,
which still needed quite a bit of repairs because of the rusting
steels, rotting support beams, and a lot of bushes and wild plants
growing inside the hangars. Those plants is an easy matters, but
those rotten and rusty metals, those need some serious treatment.
Luckily the engineers and workers on our village melted the planes
that parked inside the hangar, and making those into some
construction metals.
Long story short, I've get all of the crates of goods, and I put
those inside the truck and return back to the bar. After I put all
the crates on the backside of the bar, me and Meat starts to opens
the crates one after another. Until I open one crate, at first I
thought it just filled with liquors or canned goods. But when I
finally can see what's inside, I can't get my eyes from what I see.
Inside, there is one SIG-553 along with six magazines, a bullet proof
vest, a pair of new high quality combat boots, and a pair of knee
pads.
"Whoa! Is this what you're said as my reward?"
"Ah, you finally found it. Yes, yes it is, it's all your reward for
your help"
"Damn! These are some military grade stuffs here! Thanks a lot, man.
I always want new boots since the boots that I wear right now is more
like rotten leather than boots"
"You're welcome. And if you don't mind, would you help me put these
goods onto the storage?"
"Yeah, yeah, sure thing"
And so, I help Marco to get all of his goods on the storage. After
that, I decide to play PS3 on my house. I keep changing from one game
to another as I makes the day passes and the night takes over. When
the night is covers the entire village in darkness and the dim light
of the moon shines the village from above, I stops playing because my
eyes feels quite tired, yet I'm not sleepy, so I decide to take a
bath. Once I've done cleaning myself, I put on my black jacket with
my forest camo cargo pants, it is basically my assault outfit, and
after I put on my outfit, I put on the body armor, boots and knee
pads I get as my reward from Meat today. I also get my STG-90 and put
all the mags on the pouches of my kevlar vest. And I also uses my
prototype handmade combat gauntlet which I designed and made by
myself. And I don't forget to wear my gas mask I acquired when I was
a soldier of exchange and were sent to Pripyat. I really feel like a
heavily armored soldier. Suddenly, when I'm busy staring at the
equipment I use, I receive a message on my phone. It said "Hey, dude.
It's your turn for the guarding the airfield, remember? I already
wait here for like a decade", it's from my bestfriend David, he
always remind me when I forgot about something. And I reply his
message, "Kay, on the way". After I reply his text, I quickly headed
to the airfield eastern guard tower. I finally reaches the guard
tower after about 10 minutes of driving with the quad bike I borrowed
from the Tigers. I quickly climbs up the guard tower once I reached
the airfield. Turns out I'm the only one who guarding in this
tower.
Hours past by and nothing interesting happens beside than loud sound
of crickets from the ground below me and bats that flies above my
head. I'm now sitting on a chair that someone already put on this
tower, I could see that none of the guys that guarding the tower is
awake by now except me. I about to fall asleep when suddenly I see
some kind of blueish light come from the forest quite far to the
east. I remembered when Chief opens the map file of the intel, I see
a unique symbol on the map quite far to the east of the village that
has no other. In curiosity, I leave my post and descending down to
the ground. When I finally on the ground level, I still could see
some glimpse of those blueish light through the dense forest. I start
to walk towards the light. My thought filled with speculations, could
it be alien? Could it be supernatural happenings? Could it be a
portal to another world? Could it be an undercover government
research? My mind just keep speculating of what is happening and what
is awaits for me when I reaches those lights.
When I finally can see the true form of those lights, I can't take
away my eyes from what I see right now. The light I was seeing was
actually a part of what seems to be an inter-dimensional portal from
what I see and read on wikipedia. Fueled with curiosity, I fearlessly
walks into the portal. It's quite odd because when I see the ground
below, it's nothing but darkness, yet I can walks on it like I walk
on solid ground. I keep walking forward as I see some light at the
end of this portal.
Finally I could get out of that portal, and now I completely has no
idea of where I am now. This place however, looks very similiar to
the jungle of my village. But I can't tell anything more, because
it's night time and I can barely see anything except some lights of
campfires quite far from where I stand right now. I know how
dangerous the jungle at night is, and I don't know whether those
peoples that lit the campfire is friendly or hostile. I decide to
approach the light slowly and I try to keep my profile as low as
possible yet still had enough speed to reach those lights. After a
while of walking in crouching stance, I finally see what it is around
those campfires. It's some kind of a camp, a large camp with a lot of
campfires on the inside. I decide to get closer of the camp, and hide
behind a stack of crates. I finally could see some peoples in this
camp, however these peoples, didn't seems to be humans. They had what
seems to be crocodile like teeth on their mouth, no lips, and there's
some kind of metal blade sticking out of their forearm, completely
fitting the description of Tarkatan. Now I'm really both confused and
afraid, because from here, far away from any of those, they already
pretty scary, and cool at the same time to be honest. I keep hiding
behind these crates since one of those Tarkatans are staring right to
where I hide. I keep my profile low and try to not make any noise, I
try to leave the place where I hide and head back to the portal where
I were come. But when I turn around, a Tarkata stand right before me,
both of us startled, but before I take my STG-90, blades coming out
from his arm. He raise both of his arm and tries to strike me, but
thanks to my reflex, I block his strike with my rifle, but then he
kicks me into the camp. He shout out a language I didn't understand,
and in a blink of an eye, the whole Tarkatans in the camp surrounds
me. All of their blades is out, ready to turns me into pieces of
meat. I keep pointing my rifle at them, and I keep spinning to make
sure no Tarkatan are charging me behind.
"Move one step closer... And I won't hesitate to make your head a
trophy!"
After that, they tries to charge me, but before they do it, I shots
my rifle to the sky. The loud noise of the gunshot spread across the
jungle and echoing in the distance. All of those Tarkatans are
stunned and slowly step back, while I now aiming at them with my
rifle, ready to shoot them. Suddenly, two women and a man appears
from the crowd. One woman wears gold and black outfit, and she has
tan skin and shoulder-long hair. While the other woman wears pink
suit with black leggings and she wears a veil to cover a part of her
face. And the man wears purple and black outfit that reveals his
front upper body. The woman with pink suit seems to be upset and
looking at me aggressively.
"What are these noises! And what are you creature? What are you doing
here?"
"I'm not a creature! I'm a person!"
"So, you're a person? Then why are you here? Are you a spy? An
assassin sent to kill me? Or what?"
"I'm not a spy nor an assassin. I'm just get lost here. Now tell me
where am I and how can I get back home!"
"Don't get too angry there. Now get to sleep..."
"What?"
Soon after, someone hit the back of my head hard. I fall down to the
ground and shortly after I pass out. I have no idea what are they
going to do towards me or where they're going to take me. But one
thing for sure... I will survive and I will return to my village in
one piece.
2. Chapter 2
"Reveal Yourself"
Everything is dark. Everything is silent. Yet I can feel my own
being. I can feel the cool morning air and the warm sunlight. I can
feel that now I'm sitting. And I can feel pain at the back of my
head. I slowly open my eyes, at first everything is blurry, but I
slowly regain my full sight back. I found myself locked in a cage or
something. "What the... Where am I?", it's the first words coming out
my mouth after I pass out. When I look to my sides, I see several
other peoples. They didn't seems to be from my place though. They
only wears black leggings with no top, a helmet with skull mask, and
badly made gloves. They look at me oddly, maybe because I still wear
the gas mask. I ignore them and I try to find where my weapons and
gears at. And in front of me, is a crate, and on top of it, is my
weapons and my gears. Two Tarkatans comes and checking at my stuffs,
and one of them take the StG-90 I recently get as a reward, he checks
at it like a baby gets a new toy. "Hey, don't touch my stuffs", I try
to alert them, because they seems don't know anything about my guns,
and I'm sure I haven't put the safety on. Those Tarkatans just looked
at me like they didn't give a damn, and they just keep looking and
touching all of my stuffs upon that crate. Suddenly, a voice tells
them to go away, although I didn't understand the language, but I
know this voice, this is the voice of the woman in pink that talk to
me last night. The Tarkatans get away, and shortly after, the woman
in pink appears before me. She gets closer to me, and when she is
right outside the cage, she crouches. There is something odd with
her, her eyes isn't like any person I've met, her pupils is long and
slender like feline eyes, and the color of her eyes is orange, or
yellow, it's quite odd, yet it's somehow beautiful. She looks at my
being before she said "So, who are you, hmm? Are you, an assassin
sent by the usurper to kill me? Or are you a spy, sent to locate this
campsite and tells that false emperor so he can attacks me and my
army? Or are you something else?"
"I have told you, I'm no one. I'm not an assassin, nor a spy. I'm
just lost here, okay?" I reply her.
"So you lost? How did you get here at the first place?" the woman
said.
"I was guarding at a tower on an airfield, then I saw some light at
the jungle, I follows it and turns out it's some kind of portal, I
get into then suddenly I'm here. I want to get back but one of your
Tarkatan stops me and get me inside this camp" I said to reply
her.
"Guarding? Are you a soldier?" she asks.
