Oh man, this was hard to write. Next update as soon as possible.
Stones pushed off the street as Johnny rushed up the street with the jeep. Sonya nervously jammed on the front seat and Jax, worried about the sudden panic of his best friend, takes the whole back seat bench. "Hurry up, Johnny. Please, I don't feel so good." She was trembling all over her body. Johnny put his hand on her leg. "Please Babe, calm down. I always go as fast as I can. You'd better tell me your trouble. I'll tell you this: We get there now, tearing the poor kids out of their sleep, and Cassie is the first one to smack you face so hard that you will circle the orbit at least three times." She breathed. Perhaps he was exceptionally right after all. It's just a legend, a stupid coincidence. And why should it affect her daughter? She swallowed hard. Her daughter. With the blond hair and the bubblegum.
Sonya didn't know what to think when they reached the parking lot. It was gloomy outside, the rain and the storm had fallen. Johnny was about to turn off his headlights as something caught his attention. There was something on the edge of the light cone. It was a hand, blood-stained. "Oh Shit, what's that?" He whispered in horror. A painful groan penetrated through the slightly open window. Immediately, all adults jumped out of the car and hurried to the source of the voice. 15 meters away from the base, wedged between the undergrowth and the fuse box lay an injured man. He stretched out his bloody hand, and pressed his other one firmly on the stream of blood that spilled from a huge flesh wound across his chest. It was Kung Jin.
"By the Gods! Jin. What happened to you?" Johnny ran to him and knelt at the side of his student. Together with his wife and Jax, they were able to raise the young Shaolin into a sitting position and lean him against a rock. He was severely injured and had pain, but well approachable. "Jax, call the heli immediately! Jin must be given medical attention as soon as possible!" Sonya cried as Kung Jin was able to retell the story: "I have been attacked. He came out of nowhere when I just wanted to see the fuse. Gave me a blow against the head.." Jin pointed to a large hematoma on his temple. "... and then he stabbed! Cut through my chest!" Johnny looked at him firmly. "Did you recognize the invader?" Jin shook his head.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Cage. It was too dark. After he had hurt me, he suddenly turned away from me and penetrated our base. Then I fainted." He began to breathe heavily and coughed. "Takeda, Jacqui, Cassie! I don't know if something happened to them!" Sonya jumped up. "Johnny, help Kung Jin! I will look for the others! Jax, you're coming with me, fast!" Jax had already returned from his emergency call. In a few minutes rescue would be there. They hurried to the entrance of the base. Sudden sickness came over her. Sonya knew something terrible had happened. The doorplane was torn, the light flickered weakly. But worst of all was the metallic smell of freshly shed blood. They lost no time, brushed their guns, and entered the tent. Sonya's breath stopped and she had to put her hands in front of her mouth not to scream. The room was devastated, broken pieces of planks and glass lay on the ground. Bloody footprints adorned the floor, not only that, but also the furniture, the computer. Everything was full of blood. The base looked like a slaughterhouse. A young woman laid face down a few meters in front of them, the body covered with bleeding wounds.
"Jacqui, NO!" Jax dropped his weapons and rushed to the side of his daughter. Before Sonya could react, she noticed another body from the corner of her eye, kinked next to a stack of boxes. Takeda! She hurried at once to the young man. Apart from a few bad cuts on the arms and a squat on his forehead, he seemed less badly injured. Takeda was unconscious, but his heart beat and he breathed. Sonya gently put him in the recovery position. The doctor would take care of him right away. She went to Jax's side. He knelt on the ground, holding Jacqui in his heavy metal arms. He cried. "Jax ..?" Sonya suspected the worst. He sobbed. "It's ok, Sonya. She's alive!" Jacqui was badly wounded, especially on the neck and back. Her right arm was completely twisted, but she breathed and she saw that her eyes were moving. "Jacqui. Who did this to you?" Sonya whispered. She did not answer but stared further into the void, still completely shocked. Fear overcame Sonya like ice water as she stood up again to search for Cassie. She could be so hurt as their friends, or maybe worse. Sonya could feel the tears rising in her but she pulled herself together and continued her search when a blood trace caught her attention. It looked like someone was being dragged across the floor. Horrified, she followed the trail.
And then she found her. The wounded body lay stretched on the stomach, a sheet over the head, and in a blood pool. He was so disfigured that Sonya only realized at the second blink that it was Cassie. "No. Please, NO!" She went to her knees next to her daughter. Violent sobs came over her and then Sonya let her tears flow. They ran hot over her cheek and dripped onto Cassie's back. She was overcome by her self-hatred. All these years, she had neglected Cassie because of her, only work to protect her. And now, when she finally gets along again with her little girl, she was cold-blooded slaughtered. Her father's words came upon in her mind. "Protect her when it's time again in 40 years." She hadn't taken it seriously. And now she paid the price. It was all over. "Cassie?" She wiped her eyes and saw Johnny behind her. His face paled as he saw his daughter lying in her own blood. He pulled Sonya up and pressed her tightly. She felt his tears on her cheek.
"I am so sorry. I should have prevented it.." she whispered. Johnny kissed her, very gently on the cheek. "It's not your fault, honey. We could not have prevented it ..." She began to cry again. "I never thought my own daughter would just di" She couldn't finish the word. The two silenced when they heard a gargled sound, emanating from Cassie's apparently lifeless body. Johnny looked at her, aghast. "Did you hear it, too?" With trembling fingers, he stretched out his hand to her bloody chest, after a few seconds at her neck. Johnny's face brightened. "Sonya. She lives! I feel her pulse! Cassie is alive!" Relief came over her. "My baby is alive!" She rubbed her tears from her face and tried to tear herself together. Cassie might have survived but she was the most heavily wounded of them all. Her wounds still bled profusely and she floated in mortal danger. An engine noise sounded. The helicopter was finally there. Several helpers stormed into the tent and went to take care of Jacqui and Takeda's worst wounds and to carry them on a stretcher. Three helpers hurried at the side of Johnny and Sonya. "General. Please take a step aside, we will take over!" Sonya let them do their work. She grabbed Cassie's blood-stained hand. "Be strong, my little bumblebee. Please don't leave me." she quietly thought. Johnny hugged her briefly.
"She'll make it. She's the Cage with the Blade, never forget that." he whispered. "Ok, on my command. One. Two. Three!" The helpers carefully turned her on the back, so they can lift the young woman on the stretcher. She also had suffered terrible injuries on her abdomen which had to be treated immediately. Still the sheet was hanging over her head and a young assistant pulled it down. The older paramedics held their breath, the younger one screamed and Johnny threw up behind them. Sonya's blood froze in her veins as she gazed at her daughter's rigid, impassive eyes. She did not want to believe that her child was now also one of the victims of Leatherface's brutal attacks.
Because where once was her beautiful face, she looked only at the naked flesh on her skull.