Disclaimer: I do not own Mortal Kombat in any form, not the games, not the series, not the comics, nothing.
Author's Note: This might serve as more of a filler chapter than anything, but I still consider it important because it'll lead into the next chapter's events. There's more M rated material coming up including a sex scene (or two, one isn't exactly consenting). **Trigger warning**... Read at your own risk.
Throwing her on the bed harshly, Sonya lets out a squeal as Johnny climbs on top of her, kissing his way down her jaw and latching onto her neck. She struggles to take off her clothes: first, her protective uniform jacket, then her plain white shirt, followed by her white tank top. They begin kissing again as both of them work on getting her bra off. Once the offending piece of clothing is off, she takes off his wife beater and runs her hand down his chest. She moans as he grabs a handful of her breasts and he groans as she runs her fingers up and down the length of his back. He begins to knead her ample C-cup breasts in his hands, pinching and rolling each pert nipple between his fingers. She moans deeply as she arcs her back towards him. He kisses his way down her chest and gathers a nipple in his mouth, suckling on it softly as he continues to pinch the other one with his fingers.
Running her hands through his hair, she moans his name softly. "Mmm, Johnny," she hisses when his fingers begin to dip lower. She helps him take off her pants, giving him the freedom to hook his fingers around the band of her underwear and pull down, exposing her to his hot hands. Drawn to her center like a magnet, Johnny begins to slowly circle a thumb around her sensitive nub. Inching his way back up her neck, he slips a finger inside as he nibbles and sucks on her neck. She guides his hand deeper, creating more friction by bucking her hips to match his rhythm.
Johnny stops his movements and watches in amusement as Sonya comes undone, trying to get him restarted by thrashing about wildly. "Relax, Sonya," he croons in her ear, licking the shell of her earlobe softly. She inhales sharply and he chuckles. He remembers it as her weak spot.
"You're not exactly moving fast enough," she breathes into his face.
"Always the patient one," he states sarcastically as he kisses her deeply, their tongues fighting for dominance. They pull away noisily and Johnny lowers himself, intent on replacing his fingers with his tongue. Johnny feels Sonya's heartbeat quicken in anticipation. He kisses the inside of her thighs, causing her to tense up. "Nervous?" he teases as he licks her once, slowly and deliberately.
"Shut up, John," she whimpers as she grabs his hair with her fists. He teases her clitoris with his tongue before sucking gently, eliciting a moan from her. "Oh, God Johnny," she wails, bucking her hips as she relishes in the delicious sensations. Johnny holds Sonya in place gently with his hands without missing a beat. After a few torturous minutes, he stops his movements and stares deeply into her eyes. "Why did you stop?" She asks thinly, trying to control her breathing.
"Because you can't be in charge all the time, baby," he answers as he slowly pumps two fingers in and out. Not bothering to correct him, she moans again as she gathers his silk sheets in her hands. He feels how close she is to her orgasm, so he continues to pump his fingers in and out of her while he noisily feasts on her. Shortly, her moans turn into high pitched whimpers. Wanting to finish her off with his fingers, he detaches his lips. "That's it honey, come for me," he coaches her as she grips the bed tighter. He crawls up to her neck and plants little kisses all over.
"Oh, fuck Johnny, yes!" She screams as she becomes unhinged, her body jolting furiously with the arrival of several violent orgasms. Her juices coat his digits, soaking them and making them sticky. When her convulsions settle down, she uses her strength to flip them both over. She hesitates for a brief moment, wondering how and when did he find the time to remove his sweatpants. Banishing a thought to the back of her head, she begins to rub her now sensitive clit against the tip of his penis. She changes her mind, slinking down his body until she comes face to face with his member. She tentatively begins to stroke him. Sonya is a little bit out of place, having been so swept up by work she hasn't had the time or opportunity to perform any sexual acts on another man.
Taking a deep breath, she circles the head of his penis with her tongue, waiting for some sort of sign of approval. She hears a low, guttural groan from him, almost begging her to continue. She licks her lips and takes his entire length down her throat slowly, making sure to keep her suction consistent. "Christ, Sonya," he moans.
Sonya gathers up her stoic confidence and begins bobbing her head up and down at various speeds, twisting her hand as she goes along. Johnny, surprised and excited over her performance, contemplates holding her head for guidance but quickly remembers her thoroughly disliking the feeling. Making an exception for the night, she eases his worries by using her other hand to bring his to her head. She whips out the barrette securing her long hair in place, letting the golden locks flow freely. Running his hands through her hair, he holds her head gently as she continues her ministrations. The sensations become more intense when she uses her other hand to give his testicles a massage. When she feels him approaching his orgasm, Sonya uses her hands to finish the job. He spills his seed all over her hands and face.
When she's done, she crawls back to him and they share a passionate kiss, rolling around the sheets. He finally gains the upper hand, pinning her wrists firmly to the bed. "Permission to enter, General?" he teases her, reminding each other of a conversation they shared the week before.
"Granted. Under one condition," she pants as he rubs the tip over her opening.
"Yeah?" he inquires, dropping a smooch to her neck, "what's that?"
"Don't hold back," she answers him breathlessly.
He thrusts upwards burying himself to the hilt. "I wouldn't dream of it," he replies as she wraps her legs around his hips.
The nightmare keeps replaying itself in her head, no matter how hard Cassie tries to shake it out. Nothing in her training had prepared her for a situation like this, not even Kurdistan. The horrible things she saw during her bid in the Iraqi region made her physically and emotionally sick. That was nothing compared to the monster existing within the Black Dragon leader. Hell, her mother was barely prepared for him. Another image flashes through her mind, forcing her to shut her eyes. It doesn't block it out though, and Cassie's forced to relive the ordeal through her own head.
Kano crawled on top of her, squeezing his way through her thighs with his knees. Cassie tried to scream but he held her mouth shut. She tried to thrash and kick him off but was unsuccessful yet again. As a last resort, she scratched his face. That only made him angrier as he delivered two punches to her face. She spilled tears and blood from her face, almost positive her nose was broken. He held her throat as he roughly yanked her cargo pants down her waist and bunched them up around her knees. Please, by the Elder Gods, don't let him do this to me, she thought as she tried to kick him off. He yanked down his pants and held up one of her legs. "Fighting makes this worse, princess," he taunted her as he forced himself in. She wailed for her parents as he continued to work through her roughly. She tried using her hands but he held them both in place, grunting as he thrust into her roughly. "Yer parent ain't gonna save ya," he tells her as he begins moving faster and faster.
Cassie curls up into a tight ball and begins to weep, sobs wracking through her entire sore body. Kano violated her in the most degrading way possible. She holds herself tightly, trying to remove the muscle memory feeling of his hands all over her. She feels what those women in the camps felt and she hates it. She hates herself for even drawing attention to her person with her side mission. That's what this is about anyway, she thinks to herself. I was getting close and he didn't like it. She has no way of contacting anyone and curses herself for encrypting her own files. She could use some of Takeda's telepathic powers to beg someone to find her. Just then, another image flashes through her mind. She closes her eyes again, not bothering to fight the memory off.
After what felt like hours, he let out one last grunt before removing himself from her body. She was a fighter, that one, but he managed to break her resolve after the first few minutes of their struggle. She lied there, catatonic and numb as he pulled up his pants. He bent down to her level and smirked, obviously pleased with his work. "There, there," he said, patting her cheek. She winced. "Don't fret. I think you've learned yer lesson now, eh?" He stood up again and left her alone to her thoughts.
The door opens and Cassie's heartbeat hastens. She'd rather be dead than deal with him again. She closes her eyes, pretending to be asleep. Whoever entered the room set something down, metal hitting the floor with a clink. She opens one eye to see a metal tray with food lying on the floor. It isn't much: a spoonful of string beans, a pathetic slice of chicken, and a bread roll. There is a thin piece of paper sticking out of the tray. Then the person speaks to her, "Read the note, then eat it."
She opens her other eye to see a masked man staring at her with... remorse? "Poison," she mutters as she closes her eyes once more. She wouldn't be surprised if Kano tried to poison her on top of everything else. Goddamn animal, she thinks bitterly.
"Not poisoned," he responds to her. She squints at him. "Read, then eat the note. Trust me." She scoffs indignantly. Sensing her mistrust in him, the man pulls out a flip phone and shoves it under her nose. "Don't let him find this. I'll be back to collect. Read, then eat," he repeats once more before he stands up.
"Name?" she manages to croak out, hoping the mysterious man would hear her. He does, and he turns back to her.
"Yuri," he says before leaving her.
After a few moments of hesitation, Cassie unwraps her arms from her body to touch the phone gingerly. She latches onto it and flips it open, seeing it's actually a high tech internet enabled phone complete with a full QWERTY keyboard. She then looks at the note and reads it: "I know about you, Cassandra. GMHH speaks highly of you. Use this to communicate. Then destroy the evidence. Y.O"
Oh. Without further hesitation, Cassie balls up the note and stuffs it into her mouth, surprised it dissolves upon hitting her tongue. She navigates her way through the phone to find the internet. Not wanting to draw too much attention to her contacts, she composes a quick message to her mother on Friendships. She then opens a chat window with Jacqui.
CassieCage: 145939N1030614E. EncrypOnComp. NIOW.
Hoping Jacqui works through her message, she logs off, careful not to leave her digital imprint on this mysterious stranger's phone.
Rather than the birds chirping their sweet morning songs, a few beeps startle the two lovebirds awake. Rolling over in bed, Sonya grabs her phone and looks briefly at the notification she has just received on the home screen. She closes her eyes, emotionally drained and at a loss for thoughts. Unaware of her mental suffering, Johnny strokes her cheek softly, mesmerized by her beauty. He's about to say something along those lines when she suddenly bursts into tears. Startled, he sits up and stares at her. "I've failed my own daughter!" she cries.
"Whoa, hey," he says as he gathers her in his arms and holds and rocks her gently. "Where'd that come from?"
Without a word, she shows him her phone. He stares in disbelief at the message, which is simple but effective.
CassieCage: Sparrow. NIOW. Love you Eagle and Dove.
Sonya may have misinterpreted the message as a goodbye note from her daughter, but Johnny knows exactly what his little princess meant. "She's a smart kid," Johnny says as he continues to hold Sonya. She looks up at him, silently probing. He sighs. She's going to kill him, but she needs to know. "I may or may not have sent our daughter to do some side work."
She musters a glare at him but fails because of her hiccups and sniffs. "Explain," she states.
The Week Before
Springing apart, Johnny sat on his ex-wife's computer while the General herself walked around her office. There was a knock on the door, followed by a feminine voice who calls out, "General Blade?"
Just then, Sonya's phone rang. Not wanting to answer the phone in his presence, she answered with a curt, "General Blade. Hold." She crossed over to the door and opened it to see her daughter with her knuckles poised over the door again. She gently pushes past her while she began to speak on the phone again.
Mystified by her Commanding Officer's behavior, she turned around to leave before hearing her dad call out to her. "Come in, kiddo."
Cassie walked into the office and saw her dad with a look of fierce determination on his face. She pointedly chose to ignore the blossoming red splotch on his neck and said, "You needed me, Dad?"
He looked up and beckoned her to the computer. She complied and stood over his shoulder. "See, I was thinking. Shinnok's amulet should have been kept safe and sound, right?" She nodded in agreement, waiting for him to continue. "Only a natural born Earthrealmer would've had even an ounce of opportunity to breach the security procedures needed to guard it, right?"
Cassie nodded again, realizing where her dad was going with his train of thought. "Kano. He was the one who stole the amulet and replaced it with the duplicate," she told him.
"Exactly. So it's his fault this whole deal started. I don't know if your mother connected the dots yet, but I definitely did." Cassie rolled her eyes and silently cursed Kano for his involvement. "I get the feeling Kano isn't too happy with Sonya for her tactics at getting him to confess, so he could be planning to retaliate. Thing is, I'm not sure if he's waiting out here. He may be waiting for an opportunity to strike in Outworld. Here's where I need that beautiful brain of yours."
Cassie smirked. "Lemme guess. You want me to see if he's struck a deal for mercy with Kotal?" she asked him.
He snickered. "You really are a smart kid, you know that?" he told her as he patted her shoulder. She beamed at him. "Let's have this stay between you and me for the time being, huh? I'm just slowly getting out of the dog house with your mother."
She frowned. "I… I don't want to hide this from her, Dad," she told him.
"We won't be hiding it," he reassured her. She gave him a pointed look. "Okay. We'll only tell her under two conditions. Either a) one of us finds a break, or b) one of us becomes endangered. Deal, Sergeant?" He held out a hand for his daughter to shake in good faith.
"Deal, daddy-o," she agreed. "But… what would happen if the latter comes to fruition?"
Johnny stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I doubt it'll come to that, but you've got a point, kiddo. Hmm, I'll need a code name. Let me be the Eagle and you be the Sparrow. And your mother can be the Dove. We'll keep the message short; something like listing coordinates so we stay under the radar."
"Provided that he's not hiding out in Outworld," she decided. She turned to leave before throwing in, "Doubt the Blade'll want to be called a dove."
Finishing up his story, Johnny pleads his case, "She probably did something to get his attention in some way. Probably got close to his location. Now she's paying for it in spades and it's entirely my fault. You can hate me later, you can even kill me, but you gotta help me find her first." Sonya gets up and walks over to his dresser to get a shirt from his drawer. "Where are you going?" he asks her when he sees her leave the room. He struggles to put on his sweatpants and follow her down the hall.
He locates her in Cassie's room as she tries to boot up their daughter's computer. "Dammit!" she screams as she bangs the keyboard with her fists. "What the hell did Jacqui do to get online?" she wonders to herself. Johnny sees Cassie's computer is locked with a security clearance. After a thought, Sonya types something again, and the computer screen shakes, denying access.
"Wait!" Johnny says before Sonya is about to put in another password guess. "She encrypted her computer access for a reason. There's something on there she didn't want a lot of people to know. If you guess the password wrong five times in a row, everything will be deleted," he tells her calmly.
"How can you be so calm at a time like this, John?!" she yells at him in frustration.
"One of us has to stay calm Sonya. Trust me. I got her into this mess somehow. Please, let me call Jacqui. We're both hopeless when it comes to stuff like this." He coaxes Sonya out of the seat and stares at Cassie's computer. "We'll figure this out, princess," he sighs.
A/N: I did not enjoy writing what happened to Cassie in this chapter just so it's clear to everyone. Any questions that this chapter has raised will be answered in the next one, I promise. Reviews and thoughts are always welcome as per usual.