Arandia quickly recovered from the blast, noticing that her men had been defeated. It was too late to grab Kitana back, she wasn't anywhere near her now. She cursed under her breath, looking to see what caused her to fumble so clumsily.

She looked up, just to witness Edward declare, "You won't get away with this."

She narrowed her eyes. She had a fishy inclination that something was wrong... but she had no idea her former slaves had somehow broken free. "It's not too late, you know!" She exclaimed, defiantly. "I'll get what I want, yet." Then she disappeared into the portal, her henchmen following her once they realized what was going on. Then it closed behind them, leaving no trace.

Sonya folded her arms, annoyed. "Great... Now she's gone."

"We know where she went. Come on." Edward turned back from where they came from, and it was then that Sonya noticed where that strange red light came from, and her mouth dropped slightly open. He noticed her reluctance. "If you want, Alexander and I can do this alone. You can return to your friends if you'd like, maybe it would be better that way..."

"No..." she sighed, sounding slightly bewildered. "I'm going to help you finish this. But..."

"But what?" Edward walked over to her. "Is something wrong?"

"Sonya!" They looked over to see Jax running towards them. He stopped just short of them. "What's going on?"

Edward heard her sigh before replying. "Jax... I need to go. I don't know when I'll be back, but you guys can deal with stuff without me, can't you?"

"Yeah, but... what's going on? Where have you been? I've looked everywhere for you. All over this damned island. It's like you disappeared..."

"I can't explain. But I need you," She looked at Kitana and the rest of them. "All of you, to leave this up to me. Okay? Just forget about this island, and about that woman you saw. And don't worry about me, I'll be fine." She turned to leave with Edward, Cammy and Alexander following.

"I don't know what you're doing, but Kitana was almost killed today. What if that woman tries to come back? You can't just expect us to do nothing about it!" It was Lui-Kang who spoke.

"Go ahead, we'll catch up." Edward and Sonya stopped where they were, and Cammy and Alexander nodded, continuing towards the portal that was a few yards away, hidden in the surrounding trees.

"I don't expect you to do nothing about it. You don't understand who that woman is, or what's happening. It would be best if you just stayed away from it. Stay away from this island, and she'll stay away from you." Sonya tried explaining. "I have to go. I'm sorry." She quickly turned from them and together she and Edward ran towards the trees, disappearing from sight.

"SONYA!" He sighed, realizing he was being ignored. He wanted to run after her... he had no idea what the heck she was even talking about. "She can't just expect us to not worry about where she is..." He sighed, running a hand over his brow. "I don't get it..."

"Come on, Jax." Stryker had approached him from behind, and now put a hand on his shoulder. "We'll deal with this later. Raiden needs us to return. It looks as if she's save, that's all that matters. Let's go."

He took one last look towards the trees where Sonya disappeared moments before, and then followed Stryker back to the others.