"Ireland...." Kira said out loud.
"Good. Someplace decent." Kobra was already ready to go.
"Your wounds healed fast." seriously; how did massive gashes in the legs heal so fast?
"Quick clot."
"Quick clot?" she did not have time to argue. But everyone knows that quick clot would not restore range of motion and pain relief over the course of 8 hours.
She took a helicopter to the location of the dimensional abnormality.
Meanwhile Kabal went on a mission of his own, to England. Where he knew Mavado made money on the side training suicide bombers then selling them to various organizations looking to make a name for themselves. Kabal went after him without telling anyone. After all with his speed and intelligence he would not need backup.
Kobra made contact with Sonya Blade, posing as a British police officer working with Kira to find her father. Kira turned on the water works, telling a story that was not the far from the truth; Kano was missing and presumed "captured". She loved her father so much, she was willing plead guilty to weapons trafficking if Sonya would help her.
"Yeah and I'm sure he'll be grateful for you getting him arrested." Sonya said as she put Kira in to an interrogation room, not unlike the one she saw in the Middle East.
"If he's facing death then- MAYBE!" Kira said in a sweet, innocent voice. But Sonya wasn t buying it, so Kobra stepped in.
"Look: you have, in custody, the most wanted woman in the all of Europe. If nothing else, you can use her to cut a deal with Kano."
Kano would go to prison for his daughter's safe return? Not likely. Oh well, Sonya chose to just run with it; if Kira escaped Sonya would be in the same place as she always was. Sonya would just avoid putting Kira in the system until they had a definitive lock on Kano.
"What can you tell me?" Sonya asked before sending her to a holding cell.
"Black Dragon has intell that Kano almost died after his defeat to you, but was found by out world forces, and POSSIBLY turned over to Madavo." Was that too much information? Kira hoped gave enough for Sonya to help her, but not find him first.
"So it's Madavo that we need to locate?" Sonya locked up Kira and invited Kobra to come with her to the data room where they would see what info they could pull on the red dragon leader.
But little did they know; information would come in sooner than expected.
Following a trail of death, small time terrorism, racial and religious brutality, Kabal knew where Mavado's latest meeting would be. And he planned to crash it. Scaling the outside walls, as quiet as the wind, he made it to the inner ceiling, seated within the rafters of the decrepit building, he would hopefully go unnoticed.
6 people entered, followed by Mavado, appearing to be the thoughtful, respected teacher to the group of 3 women and 3 men (all seemingly under the age of 25.) Kabal watched and listened, taking in as much as he could. This was a class on the science of bomb making. Mavado was telling them about upcoming "projects" each with special meaning to the groups involved. And warnings of death if they told anyone of these assignments.
Well this seemed as a good of a time as any; Kabal now knew about a slew of potential terrorist operations, and organizations that Madavo did business with. And once he has Madavo begging for his life he could find out where Kano was as well. He jumped down from the rafters and with 1 quick swipe took out all 6 students. All 6 fell, choking on blood from slashed throats. Then snap.
That's all it felt like; snap, click, something so small. Before he could make a move on Mavado, Mavado had already shot out his breathing apparatus rendering it inoperable; and rendering Kabal minutes away from death.
"I really thought you were better than that." He said as he stepped on Kabal's chest, forcing out the last of his air before ripping off his mask. Madavo had made the gun especially for this moment and it worked surprisingly well. Kabal, with his lower body strength kicked up and managed to flip him on his back, forcing him in to a sleeper hold all while gasping for air. If he could get Madavo unconscious, he might have a chance. But it was not to be.
Mavado got free and pushed him down, "I hope you hear this before you die; the next time you- or rather one of your lackeys sees Kano..." he was trying to make this last line have some sort of impact, " let s just say ;he will be very VERY different." Oh well. So much for impact; Kabal was dead anyway. With that Mavado grabbed Kabal's hook swords; he won't be needing these. Just for fun he removed Kabal's mask, revealing his disfigured face.
From the battle so many years ago; his face had since then healed (well not "healed" he still looked like a freak, but the wounds were closed). Mavado had the perfect idea now. Someone would find the body; it was just a matter of time, so he slashed up Kabal's face using his own hook swords. That would certainly send a message. With that he made his exit.
Kabal had lost conciseness, but in the world between life and death he heard a voice. "Come ....back.... to... her..."
But why? He felt such warmth and comfort in this place; within the darkness, within the silence, he could finally rest. He did not see heaven, or hell, but he didn t; mind. He assumed it was because his life has been less then noble. But in actuality he was needed. "Be the hero she needs you to be." The voice came in clearer now, gripping at his heart. All at once he started to feel; pain in his lungs, blood, scar tissue, ----electricity?
Like a bolt of lightning he was slammed back in to his body. His eyes were open, but he could hear no sounds. He would later learn that Kenshi of all people (still working as a liaison to Sonya's squadron) brought him to her, in hopes that she could save him or at least extract brain wave information (Yes, Sonya had a way to take information from a dead brain).
Kabal saw doctors trying to sew his face back together (enough for him to able to breathe). Then he realized he could not close his eyes; chunks of skin and muscle tissue were missing. He wanted to scream, but there was no air in his lungs (and he couldn t move his jaw.)
Kobra knew he was there. Still playing a local cop he was asked to leave the premises, the reason; "they had a national security sensitive suspect in custody" (meaning only someone with a security clearance would be able to speak to him). Sonya said she would contact him if there was any useful information.
So Kobra would have to sneak back in.