"It is I, my love."
"What the hell is going on?" Ranma put his hands on his hips. Slowly, Ukyo moved into the kitchen where the others were.
"Is it really you?" She walked over to him and stared into his eyes.
"Yes, Ukyo," the ninja smiled a little. "I've been in the depths of despair since you left, every day I hoped that you would return." He looked down at his feet. "I was hoping you'd come back to me and not follow him," Sub-Zero jabbed a finger toward Ranma.
"How sweet," Akane cooed.
"Um, sorry to break up the tender moment, but what do I have do with all this?" Ranma gestured wildly at the ninja.
"Have you not been listening to what he said?!?" Akane became furious with her fiancé.
"It's okay, I'll explain it to him, uh…" Sub-Zero was puzzled.
"Akane. Akane Tendo."
"Akane, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Sub-Zero," his gloved hand shook hers.
"Enough with the pleasantries and on with the story, iceman," Ranma cocked an eyebrow.
"Fine," he said in an agitated manner. He composed himself and continued, "A long time ago, in China…"
A young boy wearing a dark blue Chinese style shirt with black pants, and blue wrist wraps, stands opposite a young Ukyo in a small forest. They charge at each other and begin to spar. They go at it for a few minutes, equally matched.
"Ukyo Kuonji and I were the best of friends, we hung out together constantly in our hometown, as best friends do," he paused for a moment. "Then you came along."
Chibi Ranma jumps between the two, inadvertently kicking Sub-Zero into the nearby bushes. He introduces himself to Ukyo, who in turn acquaints herself with the boy. They walk off together, as Sub-Zero watches. He shakes his fist at Ranma and makes an attempt to get up and follow them. Genma tromps through the forest in pursuit of his son and steps on the youth's head. Sub-Zero wails in despair as they disappear into the sunset.
"I never saw her again. Of course, I had always known she was a girl, despite her best attempts to cover the truth, unlike other people," he glared at Ranma. "I had sworn to her, before you showed up, that she would one day be my bride. Ukyo agreed to the pledge. So, you can see why I am a little upset with you, Saotome."
"That still doesn't explain why you're in that getup."
"Will you be quiet for one minute!?!?, I'm getting to that!" The ninja snarled. "Anyway," he continued, in a normal tone. "After that initial meeting, Saotome and his father stole Ukyo's father's okonomiyaki cart and left town. She followed them. Of course, no one cared to tell me about the whole thing and I found out several weeks after they left. I searched for them for a full month,"
The young Sub-Zero wanders through the woods calling 'Ukyo'.
"I was forced to give up by my parents to go back to school. However, I ran away and followed in the footsteps of my older brother. I soon joined the ranks of the Lin Kuei ninja clan. I remained there for several years. During the course of a battle with a rival clan from Japan called the Shirai Ryu…"
Thousands of differently colored ninjas fight each other in a rocky valley. A yellow colored ninja attacks Sub-Zero from behind. He pitches him forward with a blow to the back of the neck. Sub-Zero collapses to the ground.
"Another helpless Lin Kuei dies by my hands," Scorpion said, ready to make the kill.
"Fortunately, I had recently began to master my ice abilities…"
Ready to break his neck, Scorpion lifts Sub-Zero by the head. Thinking quickly, the doomed ninja fires an ice blast into the face of his would-be murderer. Scorpion let go with a wordless howl as his head freezes over into a block of ice. Sub-Zero rolls to a crouching position. With tremendous force, he leaps into the air and roundhouses his opponent's face. The attack breaks Scorpion's frozen cranium into thousands of small pieces. The defeated warrior slumps to his knees and then thumps to the pebble-strewn ground.
"Since that moment, I have been hounded by him, in his quest for revenge. Unfortunately for me, my brother had also killed Scorpion, who in turn, came back and murdered him, or so we think. Scorpion was resurrected by a higher power we don't quite understand, and now walks the earth as a living ghost," he turned to Ranma. "It was pure coincidence that I ran into you and that other guy today when I was running from him. Oh, are you all right? I didn't mean to hurt you earlier if I did," Sub-Zero glanced at Kasumi.
"No harm done," she smiled. "I'm going to go get started on dinner," she went over to the fridge.
"It feels so weird to have you back Zero," Ukyo mentioned.
"I'm hoping that's a good thing, dearest Ukyo," he grinned faintly. The door leading outside was suddenly blown off its hinges, and it crashed to the ground.
"Prepare to die!" Scorpion bellowed from the doorway.