Before we begin, I wanna make my history with Mortal Kombat clear. I've only ever known MK9, MKX, and MK11. So, my fic may not be fully faithful to the source material. I just use what I know from the games (+the intros, they're a lot of fun) and try to write the best I can. I may make up my own rules and twist a few things, based on what I've seen.
This story will revolve around MK11 characters only. As much as I want to include Takeda, Kenshi, and maybe even Ferra/Torr, I wanna give this story an MK11 feeling. Anyways, enjoy.
Also, bear in mind that this is "BASED on MK11", as in I am taking heavy inspiration from Mortal Kombat 11, not necessarily basing it on its story mode. This is an AU of some kind, just based on MK11.
Leave a review, if you like. Feedback is always appreciated.
Commander Cassie Cage arrives at the Tank Garage Bunker of Special Forces Desert Command, where two dozen soldiers - plus Sergeant Jacqueline Briggs - are lined up. Cassie's mother, General Sonya Blade, was present, waiting for her to speak to the troops. The soldiers salute as soon as she walked in, as did Sonya. Cassie stands firm in front of the troops and salutes back. If she was being honest with herself, this feels good. To stand in front of the crowd instead of being among the crowd, as Commander, it's a good feeling. A responsibility, of course, but the Cage in Cassie can't help but enjoy it.
"At ease," she said.
The soldiers stopped saluting and stood straight.
"We just got a report from our scouts. The Black Dragon have been sighted near the old Cyber Lin Kuei factory. Kano is there as well," Cassie informed. "We move now, we can stop them once and for all. So, unless you want some tough pre-flight exercise, get your butts in those helicopters, now. Move!"
The soldiers rushed to the helicopters, all the while making sure they're well-armed for the mission. Cassie walks alongside Jacqui and Sonya out of the bunker.
"Letting all that power go to your head, huh, Cassie?" Jacqui criticzed.
"It's Commander to you, Specialist Briggs," Cassie said authoritatively. "But, hey, I am my father's daughter."
"Too much," Sonya muttered.
"And whose fault is that?" Cassie replied.
"Cassie," Sonya said apologetically.
"Sorry. Sorry. Inappropriate tone, I know," Cassie apologized.
"Great job back there, though," said Sonya. "You just gotta work on the authoritativeness in tone and maturity in delivery on your speeches."
"I thought I sounded authoritative enough," said Cassie.
"Well, work on your speeches later. Black Dragon first," said Jacqui.
"I just wish Dad was here. I'm sure he'd like to get back at Kano for that bridge thing," said Cassie.
"He's still busy with Ninja Mime VII," said Sonya.
"Maybe he can finally shine in one on his own," said Cassie. "'Cause let's admit it. I was the reason the franchise got its big boost."
"Co-starring in the fifth and sixth installment with your dad, definitely the highest point of the franchise," Jacqui admitted.
"Don't tell you watch your father's movies during slumber parties," Sonya reacted.
"Only the kid-friendly stuff," Cassie said.
Cassie, Jacqui, and Sonya get into their helicopter and fly off to the Cyber Lin Kuei factory. The Black Dragon don't know that they've been found, so they're hoping a surprise attack will finally put an end to them. Plus, Sonya can finally settle her score with Kano once and for all. Jacqui only wishes her father was here, but he's still at the farm. He's welcome to return, but he needs some time to grieve his wife Vera's death.
At the old Cyber Lin Kuei factory, a shootout begins between Special Forces and the Black Dragon. The plan was to get into the factory and stop the Black Dragon from doing whatever it is they're doing in there. Sonya keeps Kano and some of his mercenaries occupied outside, giving time for Cassie and Jacqui to slip into the unguarded entrance on the other side of the factory undetected, along with half a dozen soldiers. They quietly sneak through the corridors on their way to the main lab.
"We're in, General," Cassie reported.
"Good," said Sonya. "We'll keep Kano occupied out here.
"Kano can't just be using this as a secret base, can he?" Jacqui asked.
"It makes killing machines. $50 says he's using it create robots or robot suits for the Black Dragon," Cassie guessed.
Cassie peers around the corner and sees two Black Dragon thugs guarding the gate to the main lab. Cassie signals her team to stop as she thinks. She gives Jacqui a signal. Jacqui nods in response.
Jacqui fires a plasma blast that attracts the attention of the two thugs. The two decided to check out where it came from, slowly approaching Cassie's position with their fingers on their guns' triggers. Listening to their footsteps carefully, Cassie waits for the right time to attack. When the two thugs were close enough, Cassie makes her move.
She sends her drone out and blinds them with a green flash. The drone hits Thug #1 below the belt and bonks Thug #2 on the top of the head. Cassie rolls out of her hiding spot and knocks out Thug #1 with a jumping spin kick to the face. She punches Thug #2 in the face three times, knees him in the stomach, and then orders her drone to hit him in the head again, knocking him out.
"Good job, Emma," Cassie said the drone, petting it.
"Cass, you're talking to a drone," Jacqui said.
"Don't make me flash-blind you, soldier," Cassie warned.
As soon as the doors open, Cassie and her fellow soldiers run in guns blazing. The Black Dragon thugs fire back. Cassie engages one thug up-close and knocks him out with a roundhouse kick to the head. She fires three precision shots at two thugs, killing them immediately. One thug tried to attack her from the right, but she kicks him in the neck and shoots him in the chest.
Jacqui fires at the Black Dragon thugs with an army rifle, only to run out of ammo. She uses her gauntlets, firing bullet after bullet, blast after blast to take out the thugs. She kicks one thug down before spreading her arms to blast at two thugs coming at her from opposite sides. She no-look-blasts one thug behind her before attacking another thug with a two-footed kick. She makes sure he stays down with an axe kick to the back of the head. She barely dodges gunfire from two thugs and fires two plasma blasts at them, knocking them out.
"Jacqui!" Cassie called. "Take out the..."
Cassie was interrupted when a blur knocked her across the room. That blur is none other than the masked Black Dragon with two hook swords as weapons, a.k.a. Kabal.
"Sorry, darling, but I can't let you finish us," said Kabal.
"Kabal," Cassie said with contempt. "What's wrong with you? You gave up crime to become a good, honest cop. Why work with the Black Dragon again?"
"I don't expect you to understand," said Kabal, sounding emotionally hurt.
"Or you're just afraid that no one will accept you 'cause you're butt-ugly," Cassie insulted.
"Okay, that's just hurtful," Kabal replied, offended.
"Come with us, Kabal," Cassie pleaded. "You fought with my parents against Shao Kahn. You can fight for good again."
"Sorry, kid, but a job's a job," Kabal said apologetically.
"Then it's butt-whooping time," said Cassie.
Cassie dodges Kabal's first few swings before doing a sweep kick, tripping him. It's a cheap move, but there's no cheap moves in a life-or-death battle. Kabal gets up and takes another swing, slashing Cassie's left arm. Cassie counters by punching Kabal in the face twice before spin-kicking him down. Kabal runs circles around her, dazing her. He digs both hook swords through her left leg and throws her across the room. He speeds towards her again, only for Cassie to roll out of the way before she could get stabbed.
Despite the injured leg, Cassie gets up and summons her drone (which she named "Emma"). She fights Kabal up-close as she thinks of the drone's next move. She dodges Kabal's swings and then flip-kicks him in the jaw. She uses her two hands to boost herself at him and kicks him in the chest. Kabal races around her and punches her in the face multiple times. She even whacks her in the face with his hook sword. He kicks her in the stomach, runs to her behind, and shoulder-bumps her hard to the ground.
Kabal throws one hook sword at Cassie, but she dodges it. She takes the hook sword for herself and fights Kabal in what is basically a sword fight. He was fast and she was barely able to block his swings. When they get caught in a lock, Cassie sends a command to her drone. The drone hits Kabal in the back of the head. Cassie stabs Kabal on the shoulder and then kicks him down hard with... a Shadow Kick.
"Oh, yeah. That's right. I can conjure my Green Glow any time I want now," said Cassie.
"Cassie!" Sonya called. "If you and your team are done in there, we need help out here. Kano's taken out a third of my unit. I can handle One-Eyed Willy himself, but the rest need assistance."
Jacqui had just knocked out that last Black Dragon thug standing with an elbow to the back of the head.
"You men stay here and shut down this factory. Destroy everything," Cassie ordered. "Jacqui, come withe me."
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While Kano's goons are still shooting at the Special Forces' soldiers, Sonya and Kano were locked in hand-to-hand combat. Sonya was winning. She ducks and doges Kano's punches while landing some good punches to his face. She does a spinning split kick and knocks him down. Kano picks up a nearby shovel and tries to hit her with it, but she blasts it out his hands with an energy blast from her wrist gauntlets.
Kano fires a laser beam from his bionic eye, but Sonya tumbles out of the way. She keeps running as Kano keeps firing laser at her. She fires an energy blast at him, but he dodges it.
"This is our last dance, love," said Kano.
"My thoughts exactly," said Sonya.
Sonya and Kano continue to trade punches and kicks. Sonya was winning 'cause she was moving and attacking faster. That was until he cheap-shot her with a laser blast to the shoulder. While she cries in pain, Kano punches her to the ground. He picks up his gun and aims it at her.
"Sorry it has to end like this, love," said Kano.
Unexpectedly, Kano gets kicked in the back hard, sending him tumbling across a couple dozen feet. That kick came from Cassie, who was glowing green. She helps her injured mother back up.
"Only glows when you see someone you love in danger, huh?" Sonya commented.
"You'd be surprised," Cassie said, not mentioning her fight with Kabal.
Kano tries to get up, only to get kicked in his "area" by Cassie. Kano grunts, whines, and cries in pain as he drops to his knees with his hands on his pained area.
"Stay down, creep," Cassie growled as she aimed her two guns at him.
"Oh, come on, Cassie. Be a good girl to your Uncle Kano," said Kano.
"Don't make me pull this trigger," said Cassie.
Meanwhile, Jacqui is taking care of Kano's goons. She stuns them with her plasma blasts and even attacked one thug with four rapid kicks to the stomach. She jumps, squeezes one thug's head between her knees, and slams his head to the ground. She quickly blasts bullets at two thugs about to shoot her. Jacqui wrestles the last thug's gun away from him before knocking him out with a plasma-powered punch.
"All good here, Commander," Jacqui reported.
"Kano's down," Cassie replied.
"About damn time," said Sonya.
Before Sonya could arrest Kano, a black wisp zooms in and drags Kano into some sort of black portal.
"What the..."
"General! Commander!" A soldier shouted through the comm-link. "Our men are falling. There's..."
The soldier suddenly stated screaming in pain, frightening Cassie, Jacqui, and Sonya.
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Cassie, Jacqui, and Sonya rush inside the factory. They arrived at the main lab only to find that all the soldiers inside are frozen and shattered to pieces. The last soldier in the room was just frozen from head to toe by none other than...
"Frost," Sonya snarled.
"Nice to meet you, General," Frost replied.
"I think you mean, ice to see ya," Cassie joked.
"Cassie," Jacqui scolded.
Frost fires an ice beam at the three soldiers, forcing the three of them to jump out of the way. Jacqui was about to land a plasma-powered punch, but Frost interrupts her by slashing her gauntlet with a long ice spike. Sonya lands a few good kicks, but Frost grabs her leg and freezes it before knocking her back with an ice-powered punch.
Cassie strikes with a Shadow Kick and then strikes her in the head with a front-flip kick. Frost fires an ice beam from her chest, but Cassie dodges it. Frost coats her hands with two long ice spikes. She tries to slice Cassie up, but she jumps and flips over and under her swings. Cassie shadow-chops one of the spikes in half before kicking Frost in the face. Cassie charges at Frost, but runs into an ice barrier created by Frost. She freezes Cassie's mid-section and punches her repeatedly in the face. Frost finishes with an even stronger punch. Cassie flips herself back on her feet and then shoots Frost in the shoulders and knees. Cassie "goes green" and kicks Frost down with force.
"Impressive, but I'm not even giving it my best," said Frost.
"What are you doing here, Frost?" asked Cassie.
Frost approaches the unconscious Kabal and says, "Not yet, Ms. Chosen One."
The black wisp that took Kano away took Frost and Kabal away through a black portal.
"One guess on who that was," said Sonya.
"Noob Saibot," Cassie guessed.
The three can only look at the frozen and shattered bodies of their fallen comrades as they wonder why Frost and Noob Saibot would be helping the Black Dragon. Frost is an exiled Lin Kuei warrior who seeks to overthrow Sub-Zero, while Noob Saibot is a revenant without a master.
Cassie suddenly chuckled, causing Jacqui and Sonya to glare at her.
"Sorry," Cassie apologized. "It's just..." She tries to suppress her giggle. "Noob? What kind of a name is that? Did Quan Chi actually think that was scary?"
At the Black Dragon Fight Club, the place was mostly empty, apart from a few customers and Kano's friends. Those "friends" happen to be not just Kabal, Frost, and Noob Saibot but also the bloodthirsty Skarlet, the disgusting D'Vorah, and the grabby Kollector. Right now, Skarlet is draining blood from one of the customers, absorbing the red body liquid through her skin like a parasite. After she was done, the customer dropped dead. He was nothing but a lifeless husk.
"Oy, Skarlet! Stop eating my customers!" Kano yelled.
"He bugged me," Skarlet replied bluntly.
"I thought that was her job," Frost said, gesturing to D'Vorah.
"If This One bugs you, I will gladly put you out of your misery," D'Vorah replied nastily.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, no fighting. At least, if you are, then take in the cage," said Kano. "We're all friends here, aren't we?"
Noob Saibot teleports in front of Kano's face, startling and scaring him.
"I only agreed to this alliance because we share a common goal. The deaths of Raiden's puppets," said Noob.
Kano wanted to laugh at Noob's gravelly voice, but the terror in it, plus the scary look on his "face", prevented him. If Noob wanted to strike fear into him, he succeeded.
"We'd be lucky if Special Forces don't destroy the factory," said Frost. "I need more Cybers for the new Lin Kuei."
"Why don't we just attack them one by one?" asked Kollector. "Our combined might ensures our victory."
"Because it's foolish to underestimate our enemies, you vile creature," said Skarlet.
"This One is only here to ensure the Kytinn's survival. Do not double-cross me," D'Vorah warned.
"You seem to be an expert of that yourself, D'Vorah," Skarlet commented.
Skarlet leaves the building. On her way out, she fiddles with some blood. For some reason, she forms a shape out of the blood. It was similar to the Lin Kuei's symbol. The sight of this symbol affected her somehow.
This first chapter was mostly a test for me. Whenever introducing myself to a new archive, I always use a first chapter as a test run. Please tell me what you think. I would really appreciate it.