- Kung Lao: Come on, Siro, anybody would've had trouble out there today.
- Siro: Anybody?
- Kung Lao: What, you mean me?
- Siro: Oh, you heard them, "Mortal Kombat champion".
- Kung Lao: Believe me, I lost plenty of fights while I was training.
- Siro: Now, what happened to me, it wasn't training.
- Kung Lao: Maybe training's the problem. If you don't want to lose any more fights, why didn't you work harder?
- Siro: You watch it, Kung Lao. I haven't exactly been sitting on my ass all these years.
- Kung Lao: You work hard. Maybe you just need a little more focus. Concentration. Fighting's as much thinking as it is doing.
- Siro: All your focus and concentration didn't help save Jen, did it?
- Kung Lao: Damn you, Siro. Even if you ever learn to ask someone for help, don't bother calling me.
- Siro: Don't worry. I don't need your help.
- Taja: I heard the fight. Why the hell didn't you call for me? God, Siro, are you ever going to learn? Come on, let's go. Who knows what else is down here.
- Siro: Do you feel anything?
- Taja: Yeah. Fear, panic, loathing...
- Siro: No, I mean in your body.
- Taja: What?
- Siro: *You're* the one who killed the two warriors. Did their powers go into you? Are you're stronger like Kiri said?
- Taja: Of course not. It was all crock.
- Siro: Those were for real. Are you sure you don't feel anything?
- Taja: Yeah, I feel weak-kneed from being scared out of my mind. Now, come on, let's go.
- Raiden: Okay. There's a story in here somewhere.
- Kung Lao: We got into it yesterday?
- Raiden: Into it?
- Kung Lao: He did something stupid.
- Raiden: Great. I love it. Tell me.
- Kung Lao: He was attacked by four men, and instead of calling for help, he almost gets himself killed.
- Raiden: Almost? What a pity. Oh, nothing against Siro, it's just that, um, stories are always better when someone gets killed.
- Noob Saibot: A new trifle of yours.
- Kiri: As I said, we have no secrets.
- Noob Saibot: It was you that sent the two guards that killed the general's guards.
- Kiri: Who else?
- Noob Saibot: And if Shao Kahn learns you've betrayed him...
- Kiri: But I haven't. The Emperor has given me a task, one that we can complete together.
- Noob Saibot: You still serve him even though he has banished me from Outworld and forced me to live in that black hell?
- Kiri: He does tolerate failure. Nor do I.
- Noob Saibot: I have never failed you.
- Kiri: On the contrary, you have served me well... in many ways.
- Ankha: Who hasn't served you?
- Kiri: Now, now, he is an old friend. Who I need now. That is why I sent the mortals to defeat the warriors guarding you.
- Noob Saibot: I have traded one prison for another. The Emperor will kill me if I try to return to my realm.
- Kiri: No. Earn his favor, return a hero.
- Noob Saibot: How so?
- Kiri: Kill one man and Shao Kahn will be in your debt.
- Noob Saibot: A mortal?
- Kiri: Yes.
- Noob Saibot: Done.
- Kiri: Do not underestimate your challenges. Others have failed.
- Noob Saibot: No human is my equal.
- Kiri: Hmm. Few of any realm are.
- Noob Saibot: What is his name?
- Kiri: Kung Lao. When he is dead... perhaps we can celebrate.
- Siro: What the hell were you doing down there?
- Kung Lao: Us? We were looking for you.
- Taja: When you disappeared, I thought for sure you'd run off half-cocked again.
- Siro: What? Do you think I'm nuts? Both of you guys screaming at me about my stupid pride, telling me not to be afraid to ask for help. When I realized Kiri was behind this, I went back to the Trading Post, so the three of us could go after that thing. Hey. I learned my lesson.
- Kung Lao: Did you say you know him? You know this thing?
- Rayden: His name's Noob Saibot He's from a distant realm.
- Taja: Isn't everyone nowadays?
- Rayden: Shao Kahn banished him. Even I didn't know he was in Earthrealm.
- Siro: What is he?
- Rayden: A ninja, with amazing powers.
- Taja: Correction, a dead ninja.
- Rayden: You're certain of that?
- Taja: Well, he has to be. He blew up in flames. Nothing could survive that.
- Rayden: Pray you're right.