Chapter 7 (HPUK)

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**Kilare T'suna: Just in case you didn't see my reply in the private message I'll copy/paste it here: No, he's not. He's being more ruthless, pragmatic, and resolute but that's to secure Earthrealm. Harry supported Kotal Kahn's rule but he has to be reasonable too. Supporting the same loser over and over again, constantly ignoring the failings and poor cooperation isn't viable. Shifting Outworlds population away from unstable leadership is a wise albeit harsh measure; those people can legally immigrate and have a higher quality of life elsewhere. Alternatively, replacing Kotal with a wiser leader who can improve Outworld would be a good thing too.**

**In short, Harry hopes that Outworld/Kotal are viable, but he also plans for the possibility that they might not be. Butchering the Black Dragons was a harsh tactical decision to end the threat.**

*Yaw6113: Thank you.'*

**James Birdsong: I'm glad that you like.**

**Authors Note: This is the seventh and final chapter of this story and you'll all get to see just how overpowered Harry is.**

Twenty years had passed and Harry had spent it in study and training. The subject of his studies were the reason that this universe was so terrible compared to his own. This universe was so broken because of the many realms and the ambitious divinities and super-powerful beings. It was rather obvious in hindsight, but research was required to prove the theory with facts and evidence. It was a broken system with the Elder Gods keeping it going.

*"Shinnok has been freed and Kotal Kahn comes to Earthrealm with an army... he'll seek to save himself by offering up Cassie Cage and her team,"* Death spoke into Harry's mind.

"Thank you," Harry replied before suiting up.

Harry quickly teleported away and arrived near the Sky Temple, ready to head to reinforce it when he heard a plane. Harry sighed and guessed that it was Special Forces and they might need help, so he went to check on them.

Harry arrived just in time for Kotal to order his soldiers to attack the Special Forces... Harry telekinetically lifted all of Kotal's soldiers and disintegrated them.

"You know, Kotal. I'm getting tired of your weakness and melodrama. That's saying nothing of you working against the alliance by hindering the Special Forces." Harry said, revealing himself.

"I'm tired of Outworld being spat upon and Earthrealm twisting our alliance to suit them," Kotal replied angrily.

"Spit? What a waste of free low-quality lube! Outworld would get pissed on by us... but Outworld is clearly a lost cause and will require a more effective and long-term solution. You, however, won't live to see it." Harry said, further angering Kotal with every word. Harry took the Portal Stone and burned Kotal alive, absorbing his soul and taking Outworlds Kamidogu for himself.

"We need to get to the Sky Temple, Shinnok was freed by Quan Chi and is trying to corrupt the Jinsei," Cassie said, expertly ignoring her physical attraction to Harry.

"Then lead away, sexy," Harry replied, amusing Cassie and Jacqui.

Getting to the Sky Temple proved easy enough, but Bi-Han was standing guard.

"Okay. This is where we part ways. Bi-Han has some next level ninja senses and me fighting him will save you all some time by allowing you to take a direct route to the Jinsei." Harry said, before revealing himself to Bi-Han.

"Harry Potter," Bi-Han spoke in his rasping voice.

"Bibi," Harry returning mockingly. "You really to cut down to five packs a day. The demonic phone sex voice can't be working for your lady."

"You will suffer eternally in the Netherrealm for your mockery," Bi-Han said.

"Shouldn't we have dinner before we move into together?" Harry quipped.

"Get over here!" Bi-Han exclaimed, sending out a spear on a rope. Cassie and her team ran ahead while Bi-Han was distracted.

Harry caught it and smirked. "Scorpion rip-off." Harry pulled and then kicked Bi-Han into a nearby wall, but Bi-Han teleported behind Harry and tried attacking him. Harry grabbed him and destroyed him with a blast of holy fire. "Dumbass. Getting that close to me was not the answer... I literally have an over-powered spell for undead."

Shaking his head in disappointment, Harry followed after Cassie and her team.

Harry arrived just in time to see Cassie take down Shinnok. Harry helped get Raiden into the Jinsei while Cassie checked on her father... Harry also formed a circle of holy fire for Raiden to detox within. Once the Jinsei was purified and Shinnok was in his weaker form, Raiden was led into the circle to detox.

In short order, Johnny was healed and surrounded by his family, and Sonya led more Special Forces into the chamber.

"What about Shinnok?" Johnny asked.

"If we imprison him like the Elder Gods have previously then he'll just keep coming back... and Shinnok is sadly unkillable, but there are fates worse than death and immortality is often a curse." Harry formed a blade of holy fire and cut off Shinnok's head... his arms and legs, and then Harry cut the legs in half at the knees. "If we separate him into pieces, however, his servants will be forced to complete the meat puzzle to restore their master. And I'll be quite creative with my hiding places and methods. That torso will go into the Sea of Blood in the Netherrealm, it's bottomless and is suppose to even be inescapable. It should insure that Shinnok is never restored."

"Isn't that extreme?"

"No. I tried doing that to myself once, but I regenerated too fast. Besides, Shinnok has probably killed billions and he feels no remorse. I'm doing nothing to him that I haven't considered doing to myself."

"Why would you do that to yourself?" Cassie asked in shock.

"I got tired of living. Immortality can be a blessing or a curse, or both. It really varies." Harry replied. Cassie clearly didn't know how old Harry was or that much about his past.

"Where's Skarlet?" Johnny asked.

"Dead," Harry replied.

"How?" Sonya asked sympathetically.

"Tried murdering me for my growing power like I half-expected her to eventually try doing," Harry replied.

"Then why would you date her?" Sonya asked in exasperation.

"You mean besides the awesome, hours long, bed breaking sex with a woman who only wanted my seed on her or in her?" Harry quipped in amusement, causing Johnny to laugh and interesting Cassie.

"How did she not end up pregnant?" Cassie asked, figuring that her father would have recruited Harry's children into the team if he had any.

"Magic," Harry replied with humor. "I can cast a spell to make myself temporarily sterile."

"Harry... please don't try seducing my daughter," Johnny griped, amusing Sonya and Cassie.

"No promises," Harry returned, winking at Cassie.

"You're old enough to be her great-great-great grandfather. Don't make me kick your ass." Johnny said in annoyance.

"You do realize that I've built up an *immunity* to green energy being used on me, right? And that I can also use it?" Harry asked with a hint of warning.

"Why didn't you kick Shinnok's ass then?" Johnny taunted.

"I was well on my way to doing that years ago until he opted to imprison me with Raiden and Fujin instead. That would have been horrible. Both are dudes and neither of them has a sense of humor or personality to speak of." That amused Johnny and Cassie.

"It's true... about him being capable of beating Shinnok," Raiden added from where he was still detoxing from Shinnok's power.

"And your sense of humor and personality," Harry corrected. "Seriously, dude. Make a joke some time." Raiden was not amused. "Anyway. Shinnok was chopped up and will be scattered across the universe."

"The Elder Gods-"

"Can go fuck themselves. They had plenty of chances to deal with Shinnok permanently and now we need to try our own solutions. This solution should be permanent." Harry said, before conjuring boxes for the body parts and then warding and enchanting them. "Have fun explaining that to them!"

Harry teleported away with Shinnok's mutilated body and his amulet.

Shinnok's torso went into the Sea of Blood in a weighted box that was enchanted to unliftable and couldn't be affected by magical, psychic, or divine powers. His left upper leg was hidden in a cave in Edenia under a Fidelius Charm and other heavy wards. His right upper leg was transfigured into sand, an exhausting act, and scattered across the deserts and beaches of Earth. His lower left leg was transfigured into water and spread over several planets and realms. Soon, it would be damn near impossible to restore Shinnok and Harry cut out his tongue and eyes too.

It took him days to scatter Shinnok across the universe, but it was done.

After recovering from his kombat and hiding of Shinnok's body parts, Harry was approached by Death.

"It's time, Hadrian," Death said.

"Time for what? Tool Time? Morphing time? Miller time? Am I gonna be a daddy again?"

"Are you done?" Death asked in amusement.

"Sure."

"It's time for you to kill Blaze," Death said. "It will be very difficult. Your strongest abilities are fire related and he's a fire elemental. And he is the strongest being in existence barring Titan's like myself. Anyway, I will teleport you there. Have fun. Don't die... or be tortured due to your inability to die." Death teleported Harry away and then left with a smile on his face.

When Harry arrived, he was almost instantly attacked, being hit with lava. Thankfully absorbing Tremor's soul gave him immunity to heat and the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Harry used water first; shooting streams of water at Blaze, conjuring a geyser below Blaze and causing Blaze to appear in front of him, snapping his arm and then doing reverse roundhouse kick to Blaze's face; damaging his skull and then sending him flying to the other side of the room. Harry kept up the attack, lifting Blaze up, flipping him upside down, and sending lightning bolts and spears made of green energy until he fell onto the ground.

Harry levitated Blaze with his telekinetic powers and slammed him into the ground headfirst, breaking his skull, spine, and neck. Harry followed it up by constantly striking Blaze with lightning and spears made of green energy.

Blaze teleported behind Harry and hit him with an uppercut and began barraging a fleeing Harry with fire balls.

"That hurt, fire crotch!" Harry said in annoyance.

Harry flew at Blaze in a blur, head first, and then flipped and used a bicycle kick infused with green energy, halting that attack when Blaze tried grabbing him and then sending a massive orb of lightning at him. Harry could tell that Blaze was close to being dead and only needed one last push.

"Time to test that new fatality!"

Harry snarled as he formed two scythes made out of pure death energy and vanished, appearing behind Blaze and cutting an X into his back... Harry combined the two scythes into one with a spearhead and then drove it through the center of the X and through Blaze's spine and extracted the scythe by cutting Blaze in half.

Harry's one wish?

It was to have another family to love and be loved by and to hopefully spend eternity with.

But the power?

Oh the power had no compare. Words could not even begin to truly describe it.

The Elder Gods were nothing compared to him now and all of his previous powers were augmented to an omnipotent level; unlimited control over fire, water, weather, lightning, magic, green energy, earth, sun light, time, and blood magik.

"Impressive, Hadrian," Death said from nearby. "I even struggled to hide the evidence of your victory from the Elder Gods and my fellow Titans." Death hadn't expected Harry to defeat Blaze that quickly or on the same day that he started.

"Why would you want me to have this kind of power?" Harry asked in confusion. "I get that you want me to kill a major threat, but isn't this overkill?"

"No, it is not. My daughter Kronika has reset the timeline many times in an attempt to preserve her flawed view of balance which Shinnok was important too. Constant death and destruction with no peace for the mortals. I couldn't stop her without preparation. A war between us would erase multiple universes and would cause fluctuations within our domains; undead, resurrections, people failing to die, or for Kronika there could be people displaced from time, unregulated time travel, and chronal loops among other events."

"Kronika arrogantly interfered with the domains of other Titans and they were all too willing to aid me in her defeat and humbling, or her demise. Your home universe was expertly guided outside of her influence and those people from it are mildly resistant to her powers, but as my champion you are far more resistant than they are. With your new level of power you will be completely immune to her time powers, can deal her fatal blows, easily overcome her psychic abilities, and her limited pyrokinetic abilities." Death paused as Harry digested all of that. "She will soon begin her plot to reset the timeline to one where the villains thrive."

"And you want me to defeat or kill her before that happens?"

"Yes, but she won't accept that she is wrong and you will be forced to kill her," Death replied, with regret in his tone.

Harry nodded, but he didn't fully trust Death after these manipulations of his. "What about the Elder Gods?"

"You're free to kill them all and replace them. Rule the universe if you wish, you can't do any worse than the Elder Gods have. We Titans are pretty laid back but Kronika has really pissed us all off with her obsessive and flawed views of balance and her arrogantly interfering in our domains without fearing any reprisal. She's reversed death, uncreated life, hindered potential, and caused trillions to suffer and then rewound to start it over again. I don't sanction my daughters death lightly... I didn't essentially adopt you and then allow you to mutate into a Demi-Titan over the course of centuries because I needed a new hobby."

"You are here to save the universe and you wanted a way off your home Earth. Apart from blessing you when you united the Hallows and choosing you to wield them, helping you come to this universe, and mildly influencing your growth you have lived a largely free life. Smart move on not pursuing Sonya Blade though, she's married to her work. That daughter of hers is far more open to having a happy marriage, however."

"I'll fight Kronika," Harry said, eager to put the threat down.

"Feel free to absorb her soul and add her power to your own. You can always bless another with it later." Death said.

Harry nodded and Death teleported Harry into Kronika's Keep.

Harry's fight with Kronika was laughably one-sided due to his own power and his resistance to her powers. Harry absorbed her soul and began slowly taking her powers.

"Well done, Hadrian," Death spoke, teleporting into the Keep. "The Keep and Hourglass are both yours now. As is the title Titan of Time or God of Time if you wish. You could be a god of many domains to be honest."

"I'll probably go with God of Time, let you Titan's have your isolation and secrecy that you want. The Elder Gods will have to go though. They're part of a broken system. Outworld will require some new leadership and I'll see if Sindel and Kitana are willing to welcome those of Edenian descent into Edenia. I'll try having the races make their own way and evolve while protecting them from the threats that they can't face."

"An excellent idea. The Elder Gods are too detached and ineffective."

"Yeah. Any invasion of a realm without winning ten of the Mortal Kombat tournament will be met with the immediate destruction of the invading army, death of those behind its deployment and their allies, the heavy punishment of the loss of one merged realm, and an investigation to purge sympathizers from the invading world."

Harry would slaughter all the Elder Gods in a mere ten minutes and then absorb their souls and drain their magic. The power he wielded now was intoxicating, but Harry held on and he suppressed those dangerous thoughts with Occlumency. Harry refused to become drunk on power, become arrogant, and cause his own demise out of stupidity.

Raiden and Fujin submitted to Harry out of both fear and the hope that his plans would benefit Earthrealm.

Outworld would be penalized with losing one merged realm for Kotal Kahn's attack upon Earthrealm; the Arnyek Islands, and Sindel and Kitana would accept many more people of Edenian descent who wanted to emigrate from Outworld. Fujin would be made the Protector of Outworld until a replacement could be found and trained by him.

Earthrealm would prosper under the protection of the Special Forces and Harry, and Cassie Cage would eventually agree to date Harry... they would fall in love and marry within three years. Cassie would be made an Elder Goddess of Battle and her parents would have their youth restored and they would both be made immortals. Cassie would give birth to their first child one year later.

Argus would be replaced with Liu Kang as Protector of Edenia for his numerous failures and Sindel would finally agree with Kitana and Liu Kang's relationship... Liu Kang being a Fire God and Protector of Edenia would be major selling point. They could spend thousands of years together and their heirs would be half-god.

The universe was secured and though threats arose and Mortal Kombat tournaments still occurred, they were generally ended quickly and Earthrealm and Edenia were extremely well-defended. The one other invasion of Earthrealm was punished with the loss of a merged realm and the annihilation of another corrupt Kahn's entire powerbase.

Harry brought peace through his actions and with Cassie had an immortal family that he wouldn't suffer the loss off... resurrection, immortality, and extreme power was quite handy for that. The Titan's would maintain their isolation and Harry would rule unchallenged for eternity, much as the Elder Gods did, but without a Shinnok to hinder him.

Harry had no regrets and he would happily do it all over again.