Sonya stayed by Kabal's side for the first few hours; partly because that was where the brain wave scanner was. She now had terrorist Intel that local law enforcement would find useful, (making her trip to Ireland validated). Also partly because she once considered him a friend. "Can you hear me?" She touched his hands. He was shivering.
"I'm sorry I can't authorize pain killers; we need you as lucid as possible." she walked around the room checking the data; the machines were continuing to make note of his thoughts.
"This is not because you allied yourself with my greatest enemy, or because you turned my daughter against me. It's just...." she was going to say, protocol or 'my job'. But she couldn t help but see what his brain was revealing about Kira-- and Kobra.
She just smiled. "I should have known..." she sent a message to the security to keep an eye out for Kobra, or anyone remotely matching his description.
He probably didn t mean to send out such incriminating information, but his mind was on focused on Kira.
"Sweet little Kira..." Sonya s voice was growing more frustrated, "You filled her head with lies all because HE told you to!" she slammed her hand against a wall. "I knew you when you were a good person; I knew you when you were .... When you were still you." She left the room before she could get too emotional.
Outside Kobra noticed that there were extra security guards with extra weaponry. First he needed to break out Kira. She was psycho enough to be of assistance. Then he would go after Kabal, hopefully he was still mobile enough to walk.
Using martial arts that some might consider to be "traditional" he plowed through several dozen guards. Clearly they were civilians assigned to Sonya's squadron, not military with any kind of weapons training. He picked up on of their "guns" wow, maybe they were military but Sonya never did a mandatory training session for these supernatural (possibly outworld) weapons. Kobra put it back down; he would not know how to use it either. But wait!
"Kira!" he said in a yell-whisper when he was close enough to her cell. He then slide her the weird gun.
She looked at him strangely, and then took apart the gun to get herself out of the cell.
"Why are you here?" she whispered.
"Kabal fought Madavo; he's here somewhere." he said, hoping she would know to hurry.
"Is he injured?"
"Most likely." Kobra wanted to say "yes! Or else he would be here." but they needed every second to hack in to the computer mainframe for any useful data, AND rescue Kabal.
"I'm going to lead you to the most useful part of the mainframe, and I will stand guard as YOU download anything you think might be helpful- we have NO time." Kobra said in a stern but professional manner hopefully this would not make her too pissed off.
Kira took the hint and obeyed orders. She hated being in the presence of her mom anyway. She also knew where to find Kabal; the brain scan room- the only place where Sonya would bring a high ranking (and or high security clearance) enemy combatant who was injured but still alive.
Kira finished downloading Sonya's info on Kano and other outworld activities using her remote drive to make sure that even if they are caught there would be nothing to take away.
"This way." she pulled Kobra to where they found Kabal's seemingly lifeless body hooked up to various machines. She touched his hacked up face and throat. The stitching reminded her of a poorly assembled quilt, or that guy -Jigsaw from the Punisher movie. Except here the blood was still visible; Kabal was still bleeding under the stitches.
Kobra was surprised to find that Sonya had repaired Kabal's respirator. She hated him but she didn t want him dead? Wow, Kobra was somewhat impressed. Or perhaps it was because she knew what Kabal meant to her daughter. That was still impressive, because realistically Sonya did not owe Kira or Kabal anything.
With his respirator back on the three fled to a forested area. Kabal was healthy enough to move at his usual super human speed, but as soon as they found a well hidden space to make camp he collapsed to his knees. There was blood leaking from his throat. He desperately needed antibiotics and something for the horrifyingly intense pain. Anyone else would have given in, but he would not allow himself to die- that would be pure weakness.
"Kira, sort these out," Kabal tossed her the 'emergency' bag. It contained various pills, injections and illegal drugs that he thought might be of use.
"Kobra I must speak to you." he pulled Kobra to the side, hopefully out of range of Kira."I must fake my own death."
Kobra figured this had something to do with Kira. If she thought he was dead she was loose her mind.
"But you must make sure," Kabal continued, "that she thinks it was at the hands of Mavado- NOT Sonya." It would be very easy to make that mistake, since it was Sonya who left him with without any medications while scanning his brain.
Kobra agreed to his plan; if nothing else he would enjoy watching Kira go to pieces.
Kira had some "food" (slightly worse than camping food) and water with her. She made a small hidden fire (just enough to keep warm,) inviting Kabal to sit with her. He laid down by her side, the warmth of the fire felt so good. "May I have some water?" he said in a noticeably weakened voice. His throat tasted strongly of blood and bile. She moved him so he rested his head on her lap; from a distance they looked like lovers.
She moved his mask enough to expose his (what was left of) mouth and carefully administered water to him. As the water hit his torn up throat the muscles spasmed. He coughed up blood and blood clots; clunky wetness spilling down his chest, it felt like his body was desinagrating. It was a scary amount of blood. On top of that his vision was going blurry because he still could not close his eyes.
Kira quickly have him in injection of morphine, and ecstasy, directly in to his artery, hoping it would relax the muscles and help with the pain.
"Dear child....." he could feel his mind starting to fade, he griped her hand to keep his focus, "I must tell you this quickly; Mavado has stolen my swords... promise you will return them to me."
"Of course." there was such fear in her voice. He could feel her heart beating as the stress of raw emotion compressed in her chest; she was close to tears but would never allow herself to be that vulnerable. However with her mental state would never be able to sleep through the night. Kabal went to sleep, with the faith that Kobra would know what to do.
After coming back with a dug up dead body, blankets, gas and firewood, Kobra did the last thing necessary for the plan to go off without a hitch- he shot a sleepy Kira full of tranquilizers. He was careful to keep his face covered; in case she was more awake then he gave her credit for.
When she was out cold he woke up Kabal who would then make his way back to the black dragon headquarters where he would receive better medical treatment. When he was gone Kobra quickly made what looked like a funeral pyre from a long forgotten age.
Kabal passed away last night. He said as she awoke to the smell of burning flesh.