Mortal Kombat is a franchise that is known for not shying away from violence and gore.
It’s even caused multiple controversies over the years because of it.
So naturally, a series filled with gruesome and bloodthirsty characters would lend itself
as great inspiration for a scary story or two.
Today, we’re counting down a handful of those with our scariest Mortal Kombat Creepy
Pastas list.
Lets jump right in.
The Demonic Possessed Mortal Kombat Cartridge This story follows a boy named Jake who played
the second Mortal Kombat game on the Super NES for the first time.
Having played other games in the series before, and having played MK 2 on an emulator, he
was excited to see what the console game was like, and purchased it online for a sweet
15 bucks.
It was a Red SNES, something he had never seen before, but after some research, had
found that there had never been a red version of the console released in the USA, or anywhere
else internationally.
Thinking he was an idiot for buying a fake SNES, he found himself pleasantly surprised
the package at his house when it arrived a few days later.
A mailman had shown up at his door, wearing a dark red uniform with a strange look in
his eye.
Something was very unsettling about this individual.
He hadn’t the package to the gamer, who signed for it, and then oddly lingered for
a few seconds in silence before departing.
Something didn’t feel right about that guy.
The gamer ignored it though, went inside and ripped open the box.
This fake red SNES was actually pretty cool.
So screw it, he thought, he plugged it into his tv and decided to give it a go.
He started the game, playing as his favourite, Sub Zero.
Match after match after match was more grueling than he remembered.
He had played for what felt like hours when he started to realize a faint screeching noise
was coming out of his television.
The matches got more difficult, more brutal, and even more gorey.
How could this be?
Perhaps the cartridge was a fake, too.
And all of a sudden, a bright light blinded him, and he fell backwards onto the floor.
He couldn’t move.
From the corner of his vision, he saw the box that that console was sent in.
A letter had now appeared.
He crawled over with all of his strength across the room to pick it up and read it.
“I am sorry if I ruined your life.
This game console and MK 2 could kill you.
It killed my older brother joe.
Play at your own risk.”
The gamer, still feeling incapacitated, crawled across the room again and yanked the power
cord out of the SNES.
The console returned to it’s regular colour.
Confused by the experience, he set it on fire out in his backyard, and hasn’t played a
Mortal Kombat game since.
Mortal Kombat.exe This creepy pasta is about a gamer who one
day was surfing the web for emulators when they found a game called Mortal Kombat.exe.
The game took up 2GB of memory; something that our protagonist thought was promising,
since they had never played an MK game that took up that much space before.
So it had to be great, right?
Anyway, the game took over four hours to download.
And when it finished was when things started to get a little weird.
When the gamer hit the Run button, their laptop burst into static noise, and went entirely
black.
After a few tries, they managed to turn their laptop back on.
Thinking their computer just crashed because of the download, they opened the game to try
it out.
No music played as it opened, only a game mode selection appeared.
Arcade, Versus, Practice, Options and Exit.
So they clicked on Arcade.
That’s when the music appeared, the typical Mortal Kombat theme, blasting through their
speakers.
Since it was a tad overbearing, they hit mute.
A total of 276 characters were available, containing multiple versions of every single
fighter that had appeared in an MK game before.
The gamer chose the Mortal Kombat Trilogy version of Chameleon.
It got even better; there was 500 stages to choose from.
They went with their favourite, the Mortal Combat 1 pit.
That’s when the weirdest thing happened.
Shao Khan’s voice came out of their computer saying “Good Choice.”
How was that possible when they had muted it?
Thinking their laptop was simply struggling with the game, they continued, and ended up
fighting Hydro.
Towards the end of the match, after being quite successful, Shao Khan’s voice echoed
through the computer again with FINISH HIM.
But what was strange was a list of names came up on their screen; all friends of the gamer’s.
Thinking this was some weird meta feature of the game’s, they selected one of them,
their pal Jordan.
Then another text prompt appeared with a choice of Fatalities, with a list of numbers to choose
from but no explanation next to them, along with an option that read Stage Fatality.
So our protagonist chose Stage Fatality.
Chameleon completely obliterated Hydro, causing him to drop into the stage’s pit, spikes
impaling him.
CHAMELEON WINS!
FATALITY!
Then all of a sudden, loud pops burst through the computers’ speakers, and the game shut
down, returning to the computer’s desktop.
An error appeared that read MortalKombat.exe is not responding.
Frustrated, our protagonist shut off their computer for the night, giving up.
The next day at school, they looked for their pal Jordan to tell them about what had happened,
and crack a joke that they had selected his name.
But Jordan never showed up.
Our protagonist would later find out that Jordan’s mother found him in his room the
previous night, with massive holes scattered throughout his body as if he had been impaled
multiple times.
Mortal Kombat 2 The Haunted This creepy pasta tells the tale of a gamer
who had skipped out on class one day, and found himself at a flea market, where he thought
he had hit the jackpot; a very old Super Nintendo was up for grabs.
It was missing the reset button, but it had two controllers and Mortal Kombat 2.
Mortal Kombat 2 was his favourite game growing up, and he couldn’t wait to give it another
go.
When he went to buy it, the woman at the flea market said he could just have it for free;
others had purchased it before, and when they tried to take the Mortal Kombat cartridge
out, they realized it was stuck, so they returned the system.
Our protagonist gave the cartridge a tug; it was true, it was stuck in there real good.
But he shrugged it off; MK2 was the game he really wanted to play anyway, so he took the
SNES home with him.
Upon returning home, he plugged the SNES in and turned it on.
Strangely enough, only a black screen appeared and a faint hum emitted from the system.
That’s when his phone rang; an unknown number.
He answered it.
There was only silence on the other end.
The gamer hung up and returned his attention to the SNES.
The game’s music then poured out of his televisions’ speakers.
The game went straight to the menu, skipping over the familiar dev logos he had seen time
and time again in the past when previously playing.
Thinking nothing of it, he decided he would set the game to the highest difficulty to
see if he still had all of his old skills.
But when he was skimming through the difficulty levels, he found one that was higher than
Very Hard.
Something called Realistic.
He had never heard of this before.
He selected it, and the game cut to black for about 30 seconds before text in Japanese
that he couldn’t read appeared on the screen.
Flickers of images scattered the screen, all of mutilated bodies and individuals who had
no eyes with fear stricken faces.
The character select popped up.
The gamer chose his favourite, Sub Zero, and upon selecting him, a blood curdling scream
echoed out of his speakers.
Each character he fought died within one round, rather than carrying on to the best two out
of three.
Every time he defeated someone and a new fighter showed up, the previous fighter’s body would
remain on the ground.
Eventually, after a handful of matches, the gamer had accumulated a collection of corpses.
Sub Zero was starting to look tired.
After a particularly difficult fight with Reptile and an almost near-loss with Shao
Khan, Sub Zero looked as if he were about to collapse.
As each match went on, the sky would turn redder, and spikes appeared in the background,
with the heads of his previous foes impaled upon them.
Then, out of nowhere, a child appeared on the screen.
He was pale, his eye sockets empty except for the blood that trickled out of them.
More text appeared in Japanese that the gamer could not read.
Then, out of nowhere, the child pulled out a knife, got close to Sub Zero and slit open
his arms.
As if the gamer was spiritually tied to Sub Zero, he felt an immense amount of pain in
his own arms, dropping his controller onto the floor.
He managed to gather control and smashed the SNES to pieces just as the pale child leapt
into the air with his knife towards Sub Zero.
There we have it friends!
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