Sorcerers Daughter (MK9 - MK11)

Chapter 2: Kotal Kahn

The camera cuts to a close up of Kotal.

KOTAL KAHN: For years you escaped my justice. Sucked dry the bounty of Outworld's people. Today, your debt is paid.

KOLLECTOR: Kill me, Kotal, and you lose profit.

KOTAL KAHN: You mistake me for Shao Kahn.

He rises from his throne and walks toward the captive.

KOTAL KAHN: I do not inflict bandits upon the poor.

KOLLECTOR: Shao Kahn approved! His word was law!

Kotal gestures to his left. The soldier standing there immediately brings him his blade. Kotal holds it in both hands, preparing a killing strike.

KOTAL KAHN: Your master is dead, and so is his "law". Never again will Outworld suffer from his corruption.

Kotal lifts his blade above his head as the crowd grow more wild. Before he can deliver the fatal blow, an earthquake begins to
erupt around the Koliseum. The stone statues bearing Kotal's likeness break apart and fall to the ground. Rips in time begin to
tear into the structure itself.

Back in Earthrealm, Cassie is sleeping on a makeshift bed in the medical room of the Special Forces base. She suddenly awakens
as the room's walls begin to distort with the time rips. She, Johnny, Jacqui and Raiden all look around in horror, and a sandstorm begins to form inside the room.

In Kronika's keep, Liu Kang and Kitana can barely keep on their feet as Kronika manipulates the sands in her hourglass through the magic generated from her hands. The sand in the glass begins to flow upward in reverse.

The sandstorm has now almost completely engulfed the medical room, and even Raiden is having trouble standing straight. The storm
eventually turns into three tornados, and Johnny squints as he tries to look into them. His eyes widen in shock as he sees three
figures begin to emerge from the tornadoes.

One of those figures is himself, looking 25 years younger.

Another is Jax, also younger.

The third is Sonya, and she looks just as youthful as the other two.

The tornadoes die down once the figures are fully formed, and the sandstorm subsides as well. Young Johnny and Old Johnny walk
up to each other, as Cassie walks up to Sonya and Jax to Jacqui. Everyone is in such disbelief that they can't find the words to speak.

RAIDEN: By the Elder Gods!

As everyone turns in Raiden's direction, a tornado of sand gathers around the Thunder God, but unlike the others, this one is reducing him to dust. The process is over in seconds, and Raiden fades out of existence before he can say anything else. Only Shinnok's amulet remains, and it clatters to the floor.

Back in Outworld, a sandstorm has erupted in the Koliseum, sending the crowd and even some soldiers into a panic. Kotal Kahn
is distracted by the spectacle, but Kollector keeps calm. He notices that one of the soldiers pinning him in place has taken his grip off the pole he was holding.

Without hesitation, Kollector seizes the chance given to him. He ducks low and swipes to his left, both unbalancing the other soldiers and striking them with their own poles. They are all
sent sprawling to the ground. Kollector focuses on one of them and impales the poor man straight through the chest with one of
the sharpened poles. As the soldier screams in agony, Kollector pivots the pole upwards, dragging the soldier down it and right into Kollector's hands.

Grinning sadistically, Kollector takes the keys to the neck brace from the soldier's belt and undoes the lock keeping the brace together. He shakes it off as the now-dead soldier crumples to the ground, still impaled on the pole.