A/N: I'm a huge fan of the movieverse MK characters in general and Johnny and Sonya in particular. This is a followup fic to the rather disappointing Annihilation movie. It always struck me as slack that everyone else except Johnny got brought back to life at the end of that movie, so here I go to set things right!
I'm primarily a movie-MK fan. I have played the games a little but I'm not overly familiar with the backstories, so I'll be playing with histories as I see fit. Don't except updates too frequently, my life's hectic right now.
Mortal Kombat: Amends.
Prologue
The sound of distant cheering swirled around the edges of Johnny's dreams. They were strange dreams, full of flashes of colour and motion. And he could hear voices. Familiar voices. Some of the words he knew he had heard recently. Others were fainter, more distant, as though shouted from a far off clifftop and whipped in his general direction by an unknown wind.
There was Lui's angry shout. "Shang Tsung killed my brother!"
"You will be moving so fast, it will be as though you're not moving at all." That was Kitana's odd, not unpleasant accent.
"Do not underestimate the power of the human spirit!" A rough, angry voice he didn't recognize.
"Get o-ver here!" A bellowed voice like gravel and bones granting together he would never forget – Scorpion.
"Not to you." That was his own voice. The memory swirled around him comfortingly. He had been speaking to Sonya – oh, she was beautiful, her hair on fire in the glow of the sunset. He wouldn't have admitted it to anyone, but treasured those moments on the sun-drenched shoreline. It wasn't because of the decision he'd made, but for the simple time he'd spent at her side. Oh, his Sonya…
"Do I look like your secretary?" Her beautiful face passed in front of him, blurred, and was gone.
"See me, I believe in a fair fight. Ya know, one on one. Man to man." That was Kano's deep drawl. Although come to think of it, Johnny couldn't remember ever hearing him say that. Apart from his fight with Sonya – could that woman pack a helluva kick – he hadn't had much to do with the ruby-eyed criminal.
"Man, you got one dysfunctional family, you know that?" A deep voice, another he didn't know.
"Nobody told me why Johnny had to die." Sonya's voice was raw. Johnny felt a flash of confusion. Die? He wasn't dead. Was he?
"The essence of Mortal Kombat is not about death… but about life." Rayden's husky, rasping tones eased all the strange memories and images out of his head. Deep sleep rose up and Johnny felt himself relax into the darkness.