Quan-Chi is hired by Shao Kahn to kill Shang Tsung. First he sends his three slaves to kill him, but they fail. Kung Lao, Siro, and Taja all try to track Shang Tsungs path in the forest by the location of his dead bodies. At first they think its random and hes just walking aimlessly through the forest killing people. Siro and Taja go out to look for him, and they find his camp. They are almost killed by a flying spiked tree trunk but Siro saves her. Quan-Chi has another plan, and thats to disguise himself as Siro, while Meeka disguises herself as Taja. Together they will pretend to be Kung Laos friends while, Kung Lao brings Shang Tsung to them. Kung Lao is weird ed out by his friends behavior, because he catches them in bed together, and they dont seem to care about trying to track Shang Tsung anymore. The real Siro and Taja are being held captive by Quan-Chi. After tricking one of the slaves, they escape and head back to the trading post. Kung Lao meets up with them, and Raiden and the others fill Kung Lao in on whats happened. Shang Tsung pretends to be both one of Quan-Chis slaves and Quan-Chi himself and tries to attack Shao Kahn. Shao Kahn thinks he is now a traitor and banishes him to the mines. Shang Tsung morphs back and laughs because he now has pitted Shao Kahn against Quan-Chi. Shang goes back on earth, to fight Quan-Chi, and then he escapes. Quan-Chi meets with Vorpax to plead his alliance to Kreeya.