Sorcerers Daughter (MK9 - MK11)

Chapter 8: Sonya Blade

In the center of the cage - filled with broken bottles, used bed mattresses and other assorted junk - Sonya sits up and tries to get her bearings. A voice chimes in over the loudspeakers:

Y. KANO: Rise and shine, Sonya.

Sonya gets back to her feet. She looks down at her arms and finds that she's no longer wearing her wrist gauntlets.

SONYA: Wha...?

Y. KANO: Yeah, you won't be needing that stuff, love.

She looks up to the top of the cage, which is covered by patches of razorwire. Both Young and Old Kano look down at her from a
makeshift stage.

Y. KANO: One thing we Black Dragon know, there's no fun in a fair fight.

A heavy door opens offscreen and a newcomer makes their way through the crowd, who all step away from them. The newcomer is Kabal - the unburnt young Kabal from another timeline. He looks up to the stage that both Kano's are on.

KABAL: So Sonya's the skank who burns me?

O. KANO: Oh, she more than burns you, Kabal. She goes black-ops on your arse. Shocks, knives, the bloody works. Patched you back
together meself. Well, most of you.

Kabal's eyes narrow in anger and he clenches his fists in rage.

KABAL: She's dead.

The crowd around him start cheering encouragement. Young Kano looks over to his older self.

Y. KANO: Miss Law and Order really does that to him?

O. KANO: Nah. But now he's motivated.

Both Kanos smirk in an identical fashion. Below them, two Black Dragon goons open the cage door. Upon spotting the open door, Sonya immediately turns and makes a run for it, but she is bowled over as Kabal charges her with his super speed. Evidently, whichever timeline this Kabal is from, he had the speed even
before being burned by Kintaro and healed by Lily Tsung's magic. Sonya picks herself up as Kabal slides to a halt in front of her.

KABAL: Hope you're ready for some pre-emptive vengeance.

SONYA: What the hell are you talking about, Kabal?

KABAL: You, torturing me to get dirt on the Black Dragon.

They fight. Augmented with Black Dragon technology and weapons, this version of Kabal is no less deadly then his revenant counterpart, and Sonya is at a further disadvantage without
her wrist gauntlets. But she still has years of Special Forces training and fighting experience, and Sonya calls on everything
she's learned to take the fight back to Kabal. After a brutal exchange, she finally leaves the Black Dragon lackey down and out.

SONYA: Don't believe every rumour you hear.

She looks out toward the crowd around her.

SONYA: I'm done entertaining you clowns!

She turns toward both the Kano's overlooking her.

SONYA: Get in here, you cowards!

Across the bar, two more goons drag in a semi-conscious person.

Y. KANO: Tempting, love. But we think our next contender is a beaut.

Sonya looks over to the cage door and to the person the goons are dragging in. She recognises him immediately.

SONYA: Shit.

The door is opened and the goons chuck the young Johnny Cage into the arena, to the cheers of the crowd around them. Sonya
immediately runs past Johnny and through the open door, but she is quickly grabbed by the goons and shoved back into the cage. They slam the door on her again, and despite her best efforts she is unable to force it open. She then turns back to the badly beaten Johnny and helps him to his feet.