Mortal Kombat: Kold Revenge

New York City – Eight years ago…

A family sits down for dinner and Shawn Kahn's troops kick down the apartment door. As the older brother watches men in armor grab his family and slam them into the ground, he jumps out of his seat in their defense. As a former gang member, the brother fights admirably and honorably. He kicks, flips, and dances around the less experienced thugs. He then uses his mastery of cold to freeze the onslaught of opponents as they walk through the door. But the young man is eventually overwhelmed.

As the thugs try to restrain the ferocious warrior to the ground a voice booms into the apartment. "Enough!"

A man dressed in a long, red sorcerer's robe slowly walks through the door. "It's been a while hasn't it?"

The sight of the sorcerer fills the man with rage and he continues to try and break free. "Why?! This is my family! They had nothing to do with it!"

"Oh they have everything to do with it. You already had a family. The Lin Kuei was your family and you abandoned them. Death before dishonor, Zero. You know that."

"I will not be controlled. I am not a puppet!"

"It doesn't matter. He brought us together and you turned your back on him…on us. You betrayed the alliance and now you must pay the price."

"Go to hell."

The sorcerer laughs as he slowly walks around the apartment passing several armored thugs. He looks around the room and sees a mother and father, as well as the young man, a little girl and two thirteen year old boys. He walks over to one of the boys that is being held to the ground and stands over him. He spots a packet of cigarettes in the boy's pocket and leans down to pick them up. "A boy your age smokes? These things will kill you."

The rage within the other thirteen year old boy grows so strong the sorcerer can begin to feel his anger. "What? Is this an acquaintance of yours? He doesn't look to be a member of the family. He must be a friend. Well then I guess he can be my friend too."

The sorcerer outstretches his arm over the boy he stole the cigarettes from and takes in a deep breath. He focuses his energy and a green glow flows out of the boy's body and enters into the sorcerer's hand. The other boy screams in anger as he watches his friend's soul slowly to slip away. After all life has completely left the child's body, the sorcerer smiles and looks back at the other boy. "Don't worry. I'll keep him safe for you."

The sorcerer laughs as he walks around the boy's corpse and continues around the apartment. The father of the family then looks up from the floor. "Whoever you are, we will do whatever you want and you can take anything we own. Just please, don't hurt us."

"I'm sorry, sir. But I just can't do that. Your son has done something which we cannot look away from. And now I have an old friend who would like to see him."

The sorcerer motions to the door and a man wearing yellow fighting armor and mask walks through the door. "Hello, Zero."

The young man gasps at the sight of an old foe he killed several nights before. "Ha…Hanzo?"

"No…not anymore."

"But…you're…I…"

The yellow warrior bends down beside him and stares with his white, pale eyes. "You what? Killed me? Yes, you did…in cold blood I might add. But Shane Tsung gave me life where you gave me death. He offered me redemption, but you know what I found upon my return. My family…my friends…everyone dead! It wasn't enough for you to kill me was it? You had to kill everyone around me."

"I don't know what the sorcerer has told you, Hanzo, but I didn't kill your family."

"Liar!"

The yellow warrior raises his hand to strike down but the young man flips back leaving an ice statue in his place. The ice from the statue flows onto the thugs holding it down and they too freeze in place.

The yellow warrior charges at the man and the two begin to fight. The sorcerer signals the rest of the thugs to stay away as both warriors move with amazing speed and attack with precision.

The man jumps back and readies his ice attack, but his opponent flings a dagger connected to a rope and hits him in the shoulder. The man lets out a scream and the yellow warrior smiles. "Not this time, snowman. Get over here."

The warrior then pulls on the rope and the man flies forward into his fist. The warrior pulls out the dagger as the young man falls to the ground. The other boy squirms away from the soldiers holding him down and runs to his brother's aid. "Nooooooo!"

The yellow warrior slices with his dagger and cuts up the eye of the young boy. The child falls to the floor as blood drips down his face. The yellow warrior then stands proud over the two brothers. "Pathetic."

The father tries with all his might to get up but the guards push him down harder into the ground. The sorcerer nods his head to the guards and one by one they fire single bullets into the other members of the family. First the father, then the mother and last the little girl.

The troops then pick up the limp body of the soulless boy and exit the room leaving just the yellow warrior, the sorcerer and the two wounded brothers along with the bodies of their family. The sorcerer turns to the yellow warrior as he walks out of the room. "Burn it. Show him the hell he sent you to, my spectre."

"As you wish, master."

The young boy looks up at the yellow warrior as he pulls off his mask revealing a skull. The skeleton head then turns to the younger boy and smiles. "Welcome to Outworld, little boy."

Flames shoot out of the skull's mouth and around the room as the boy watches his brother slowly burn to ash.

Present Day

"You ready for this, Sonya?"

"Jax, I've been ready for this since I started tracking this asshole. Let's do it."

Inside a van, Jackson Briggs and Sonya Blade, as well as many of their fellow SWAT members, prepare for a raid on a warehouse owned by Shawn Kahn. Inside the warehouse is John Kano, a mercenary Blade has been tracking ever since he murdered her former partner years before. She checks the ammo in her clip and then jams it into her gun. "You ready to go, big man?"

"As ready as I'll ever be."

The two lead the way out of the van and to the giant garage door of the warehouse. Sonya signals a fellow officer, Kurtis Stryker, to set up C4 on the door. After the charge is set everyone takes a step back and Stryker pulls the trigger. The door blows open and all the officers run into the giant warehouse shooting.

The members of the Black Dragon gang quickly grab all the weapons they can and return fire. Sonya sees Sam Jarek, one of Kano's henchmen, and quickly charges after him firing. Jarek pulls out a sword and easily deflects the bullets.

After she runs out of ammo, Sonya throws her gun up and Jarek watches it fly through the warehouse. She then jumps and flies through the air before nailing Jarek in the face with a kick. As Jarek hits the ground he looks to his side and sees Kano on the far end of the warehouse. "Kano! Get out! Blade is here!"

Sonya looks to her side and locks eyes with Kano. He immediately drops the money in his hands and takes off to the back of the warehouse. Sonya pulls a pistol from her belt and chases after him. "Stop!"

Kano heads out the back door and runs down the side alley, but stops when he comes to a gigantic fence in his path. "Aw shit."

He then lowers his head at the sound of Sonya's voice. "End of the line, Kano. Hands up and no more running."

Kano slowly lifts his hands up over his head. "I don't think so, bitch."

In one swift motion, he turns around and throws several small knives at her. Sonya instinctively dives out of the way and fires several shots. The first two bullets wiz by Kano's head, but the third connects with his upper cheek. Kano lets out a scream and flies back into the fence. He then rolls around on the ground screaming and holding his eye.

Sonya slowly stands as Jax joins her to look at Kano rolling in pain. "I see you had yourself some target practice. You want me to call him an ambulance?"

"No. Let the bastard bleed then book him. Bring him to the station before the hospital, got it?"

"Yes, ma'am."

Sonya walks back into the warehouse and a small grin grows across her face as Kano continues to scream.

Inside the main room of the police precinct, Sonya falls back in her chair and takes a long deserved sigh. She sulks down into the seat and her relaxation is broken by someone standing in front of her desk. "Excuse me miss, do you know where I can find Chief Raiden?"

Sonya looks up and at the young man in his late twenties. The boy stands tall and proud, but his obvious nervousness shows through. Sonya looks him up and down and leans back into her chair. "And you are?"

"Detective Lou Kang. Just transferred from Chicago. You know I…."

"Yeah that's real nice, kid. I'm sure you have a great story but I'm really not in the mood. The Chief's office is…"

Sonya's cut off by a loud booming voice from the other end of the room. "Detective Kang! I see you've arrived. I'm Chief Raiden. Nice to meet you."

Lou extends his arm and handshakes the Chief. "It's on honor to work for this precinct, sir."

"Well it's an honor to have you. You come highly recommended by Chief Fujin."

"Thank you."

"We need all the help we can get. It's a war zone out there. I see you've met Officer Blade. I hope she's been friendly."

Sonya continues to lean back in her chair with her hands behind her head. "You know me, Chief. I'm just being myself."

The attention of the three turns to a voice from behind them. "Yes, Sonya. That's what he's afraid of."

Standing before them is a large man wearing a hat covering his eyes. Raiden walks around the table and shakes his hand. "Ahh. You're just in time. Lou, I'd like you to meet Ken Lao, you're new partner. Ken, this is Lou Kang. He just transferred from Chicago."

Lou extends his hand eager to greet his new partner and Ken slowly accepts the handshake. The moment is broken by a voice familiar to Sonya across the room. "It's good to see you again, baby. I'll give you a call later."

All of them turn and see Kano being escorted out of the precinct with a bandage covering his eye. The gang leader winks with the other eye as he blows a kiss to Sonya and walks out of the room. Sonya immediately stands up and turns toward Raiden. "Where the hell is he going?!"

"He made bail."

"You have got to be kidding me?!"

"No. I'm afraid not."

"This is bullshit!"

Sonya storms out of the room and Raiden turns to Jax sitting at his desk nearby. "Go calm her down, will ya?"

"Yes, sir"

Jax runs out of the room to chase Sonya down. Ken then turns to Lou and motions towards the door. "Come on. Let's go for a ride, kid."