Kuro confront Mileena about his failure only to have his ass saved by his father was a surprise.
Several hours have passed. Kuro was scared shitless out of his pants. He failed his father more failed Mileena, he wasn't sure what he was going to say.
NO ONE TOLD HIM THE MUSEUM CAME TO LIFE AT NIGHT!
Kuro made his way to the Tarkatan war camp. As he approached the tent of Mileena, sweating from his forehead nervous knowing fully he may die, but he was going to die with dignity damm it!
"Your majesty," Kuro introduces himself bowing before Mileena.
"What is it?" Mileena growled in the middle of eating a dead animal. Her sharp teeth on full displace as they tore through the flesh like a hot knife through butter. She cleaned herself with a napkin, licking all the blood from around her face. "I assume all went well?" She asked hoping Kuro completed the task she sent out.
"Well, you see about that..." Kuro hesitated not knowing what he could say. What was he supposed to say? He failed so hard he knew the punishment was death. "Unfortunately we ran into some complications..." He trailed off only delaying the enviable of his demise.
"What kind of trouble?" Mileena grew impatient. She looked at Kuro with sharp eyes for any response. "If you came here without the Tablet..." she slammed her fist on the table. "I will have Tanya personally chop your head off and have it as on a spike to make an example of what when you fail me!" She raised her voice in a more menacing tone, not making light of the threat she just made. Kuro could tell she was deadly serious, the crazy look in her cat-eyes said it all.
"Don't a hair on your little head," A familiar called out from beyond the tent. Emerged his own father Kano with the DemiGod Rain. In toe with them was the Amulet of Shinnok, his father raised his hand to reveal the artifact.
Mileena raised her brows in curiosity, not quite believing what she was seeing. "A surprised to be sure but a welcomed one." Was all she could stay, at this point completely forgetting the Tablet.
"Indeed," Rain joined in on the conversation just as smug as always. "The Black Dragon has reaped a far better prize than any army ever could. This could obliterate any would-be army that stands in our way." He finished as Rain grabbed the Amulet from Kano.
"Son," Kano looked towards Kuro. "If you don't mind stepping out with your old man for a minute will ya? I'm sure you must a lot of questions." Kuro grabbed Kuro by the shoulders and dragged him out of the tend away from the preening easy of Mileena and her counselors.
When they walked out Kuro only had one thing on his mind: what the hell was all this for?
"So would mind telling me what the hell is going on?" Kuro now more puzzle as to what his father was playing at.
"Well you see son, it was all part of my master plan," Kano explained with a big smile on his face. Like he just outsmarted everyone here looking around making sure so one was eavesdropping on the conversation. Kano leaned in closer to his son anyway.
"Wait that means..." Kuro finally all the pieces together: This was never about the Tablet but rather the Amulet. "You set me up to fail. You were the one who gave vague information on purpose so our probability of success would be lower..."
"The whole deal was never about the Tablet," Kano replied with an arrogant tone. "It was as all about the Amulet of Shinnok," Kano explained with a subtle tone in his voice like this always the deal.
"What wait where's Tremor?" Kuro asked not even noticed he not here until now. "And what about all your best men? They're in special forces custody. What about me?" Kuro had a bunch of questions he needs answered now.
"Well, you see I needed the special forces to send their big guns over to the Museum. The only way they would ever do that is if we gave them juicy targets, for the greater good of the mission I had to let a few eggs crack." He laughed off the capture of people that looked up to him, no doubt lost his trust after events from tonight. "I also needed to get a bomb from the dream realm to be able to shut off all security measures. Tremor well..." Kano trailed off. "He started to become rebellious and starting boasting about become top dog. Now we can't have that can we?" Kano looked at his son with glee. "So I left behind as behind as fodder. Probably dead by now."
Kuro could now personally believed how heartless cruel his father was. Abandoning his men for his gain.
"As for my boy..." kano pulled out a knife putting it close to his skin like a razor shaving. "Have proven yourself a survivor. So I have a more important task for ya." Kano handed over portal stones to his son.
"I want you to return to Earthrealm and run the black dragon for him in the meanwhile. I have a feeling I'm gonna be a stick in Outworld and reap the rewards. Got it?" Kano asked his son.
For the first time, his father had never given him such huge responsibility but he wasn't going to disappoint his father.
"Will do-dad," Kuro assured his father.
Sorry for late post. Don't worry the final will come later today.