Chapter Five
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN MORTAL KOMBAT OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS!
"Take it easy okay? I got you." said Takeda, helping up an injured Special Forces officer.
Cassie and her teammates were helping their injured and shaken up colleagues and friends. Johnny, Sonya and Kenshi were helping as well. The Black Dragons had really caused a lot of destruction. There were a lot of injured Special Forces officers. A few Special Forces officers had been killed by the Black Dragons. There were also a few dead bodies of some Black Dragon members. Medics were on the scene, helping people. Special Forces equipment, computers and security monitors had been damaged during the attack. There were pools of blood on the floor and blood smeared on the walls.
"Damn that Kano!" said Sonya, who angrily punched a wall. "I can't believe that scumbag got away!"
"I can't believe they were able to infiltrate Headquarters." said Jin. "I don't get it...we have maximum high security here. How could they possibly breach security?"
"I don't know." said Sonya. "But now Kano's on the loose again. Ugh...I should have been able to stop him."
"Hey..." said Johnny, who gently put his hand on her shoulder "...don't be so hard on yourself. You did everything you could to stop him."
Johnny looked at Cassie, who was a bit far from him. She and Jacqui were helping their injured colleagues.
"It sucks that Kano got away." said Johnny. "But the most important thing is that our daughter is alive and safe. We're alive and safe. Kenshi, Takeda, Jacqui and Jin are alive and safe. It could have been a whole lot worse Sonya."
Sonya looked at Cassie and gave a sigh of relief.
"You're right. It definitely could have been worse." said Sonya.
"We'll get that son of a bitch Kano." said Jin. "He and the Black Dragons aren't gonna get away with this."
Sonya nodded.
"We're going to beef up our security at Headquarters even more." said Sonya. We'll install heat sensors, infrared security. The Black Dragons have really advanced technology...but our technology is gonna destroy theirs. In the meantime, we are gonna go on a manhunt for Kano. We're gonna do everything we can to track him. And when we find him...we're going to take down that asshole and the rest of the Black Dragons."
Johnny and Jin nodded in agreement.
"There you go...nice and easy." said Cassie, helping her colleague Diane to walk. She and Jacqui were helping Diane towards a stretcher trolley. Diane cringed in pain as she slowly sat on the stretcher.
"Thanks guys." said Diane, who laid down and held her injured arm.
"No problem Diane." said Jacqui. "Feel better, okay?"
"I will. Thanks." said Diane as the medics wheeled her away.
"Yo Cassie!" said Russell, who went up to her and gave her a hug. "Thanks for saving my ass. If not for you, I would have been dead by now."
"You're welcome Russ." said Cassie, hugging him back. "Thank goodness I was at the right place at the right time."
Russell released the hug.
"Let me go and keep helping out. Those asshole Black Dragons really messed this place up." said Russell. "I'll see you ladies later."
Russell walked away. Cassie sighed.
"You okay?" Jacqui asked, putting her hand on her shoulder.
"No." said Cassie, who walked up to a desk and sat on top of it. Jacqui stood next to her and sighed.
"I know today was really rough...but even though the Black Dragons hurt us...the Special Forces is still standing. Special Forces are going to bounce back from this. Kano and the Black Dragons aren't gonna get away with what they did today."
Cassie sighed.
"It's not just the Black Dragons' attack that I'm upset about." said Cassie.
"What else is on your mind?"
"I was fighting a Black Dragon...I don't know his name...anyway I gave that idiot a seriously ass whooping. He used his cybernetic technology to trap me. I tried to escape but I couldn't. He came up to me with a gun...pointed the gun at my head...Jacqui, he was just aiming the gun at me, staring at me. He should have pulled the trigger. Then he pressed the gun on my head. I closed my eyes thinking I was a goner. I waited for a gunshot but...he didn't kill me. He released me and ran away. I wonder why?"
"Who cares? The most important thing is that you're still alive." said Jacqui, who gave Cassie a hug. "I'm so sorry Cass...I had no idea that you were almost killed! I wasn't nearby...I was somewhere else fighting."
"You don't need to apologize Jacqui...it's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong." said Cassie, who hugged her back. They released their hug.
"I'm grateful that I'm alive, but I just don't get it. Why didn't he kill me? It's been bothering me and I can't stop thinking about it." said Cassie. "I mean...he's a piece of shit Black Dragon. He's one of the bad guys. He had me cornered. But yet...he let me go. It's so weird."
"Girl, like I said...the most important thing is that you're okay. Maybe you're just...really lucky." said Jacqui.
Cassie chuckled and smiled a little.
"Come on, let's keep helping the others." said Jacqui, who patted Cassie's knee.
Cassie got off the desk. She and Jacqui continued to walk around, assisting people.
Later that day...
Black Dragon Headquarters
"It's good to back home!" said Kano, stretching his arms in the air as he walked into the Black Dragon Headquarters.
"It's good to have you back boss." said Owen, who was walking with Kano. Wyatt and Norah were also walking next to Kano.
Kano looked around. Headquarters sure had changed in the year that he was locked up. But it had changed for the better. The Black Dragons had greatly improved their technology and cybernetics. Kano saw cybernetic armor in tall, cylinder glass tubes. There were all kinds of cybernetic equipment. Cybernetic body armors, cybernetic wristbands, jet packs, gauntlets, goggles and more. There were more computers and security monitors in Headquarters. Kano smirked.
"I see that we got a lot more technology here." Kano said.
"Yeah, we have improved our cybernetics. Made them even more formidable and advanced. The Special Forces...the rest of the world...they don't stand a chance against us Black Dragons." said Wyatt, smirking.
"Come on Wyatt, don't be modest...give yourself the credit you deserve. Wyatt here is the one that engineered most of these cybernetics. Reese and a few others also created all this stuff. But it was mostly Wyatt." said Norah, smirking.
Kano put his hand on Wyatt's shoulder.
"That's my boy. I didn't think you would be able to lead the Black Dragons in my absence." said Kano to Wyatt. "But I see that all my training has worked. I know without a doubt that you're gonna continue my legacy."
"T-thanks Kano." said Wyatt. Woah, his dad had complimented him twice today? Wyatt wasn't used to Kano being nice to him. However, he decided to enjoy the compliment because he didn't know if Kano would be nice to him ever again.
"We also have engineered deadlier weapons." said Wyatt. "Let me show you."
"Weapons...music to me ears." said Kano, smirking.
Wyatt, Norah and Owen escorted Kano to an electronic door. Wyatt went up to the scanner on the door and scanned his eye. The electronic door unlocked and they went inside. The room was huge and filled with all kinds of weapons. Kano smirked as he looked around. Kano picked up different weapons and admired them.
"Now that the Black Dragons are more powerful than ever..." said Kano, picking up a bazooka, "...we're gonna show no mercy. We are gonna unleash our power to the world. The Black Dragons are going to rule world. We're gonna conquer Earthrealm...then Outworld...shit, even the Netherrealm. The Black Dragons will be unstoppable. No one can stop us. The world is ours and we're gonna take it!"
Owen and Norah cheered after Kano's speech. Wyatt smirked.
"But first..." said Kano, "...first I have a score to settle. I'm gonna get revenge on that bitch Sonya, for locking me up like an animal in a zoo.
"What are you gonna do to her? Torture and kill her? Can I watch?" Owen asked, smirking evilly.
"Nah...going after Sonya would be too predictable won't it?" said Kano, walking out of the room. He went up to one of the computers and started typing on the holographic keyboard. "No, I am gonna stick it to Sonya where it hurts."
A picture of Cassie Cage then appeared on the computer screen. It was a profile of Cassie. The profile had a full body picture of her in her Special Forces uniform and also a picture of just her face. Her height, weight, blood type, date of birth, abilities, skills and other stats were on the profile. Wyatt's eyes went wide in shock.
"It's...her." Wyatt thought to himself.
"We're going after Cassie Cage, daughter of Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage." said Kano, smirking. "That will show Sonya and her baby daddy not to fuck with Kano."
"Yeah!" cheered Norah.
Wyatt smiled uncomfortably. He stared at Cassie's face on the screen. He didn't understand it...why did he feel guilty?
"Oi, Wyatt." said Kano. "Did you just space out? Pay attention shithead."
"I was paying attention." said Wyatt.
"So, you're gonna help your old man get revenge, right?" Kano asked, smirking.
"Yeah. Yeah of course." said Wyatt.
"That's my boy!" said Kano.
Wyatt smiled a little. He didn't want to do this plan, but he wasn't going to tell Kano that. He didn't want Kano to slice or stab him with his dagger. He didn't want Kano to kick his ass. His father was nice to him today. He was going to enjoy Kano's niceness and not ruin it by pissing him off. He didn't want to hurt Cassie Cage, but he had no choice.
A few days later…
"Any signs of him?" said Cassie, talking to Jacqui through her earpiece. Cassie was holding her gun and cautiously walking through the docks. Special Forces had been tracking down Kano relentlessly since he escaped. They got Intel that Kano was spotted at the old docks. Sonya sent Cassie and her team to investigate.
"No signs of that shithead on my end." said Jacqui, who was in another part of the docks. "Jin, got a bird's eye view on him?"
Jin was on top of an abandoned building by the docks. He held his bow and arrow, ready to shoot Kano if he saw him. As much as he wanted to, Jin wasn't going to kill Kano...he was just going to hurt him.
"Guys I still don't think it was a good idea for us to split up." said Takeda.
"Hey it wasn't my dumb idea. Bossy Cassie was the one that insisted we should." said Jin.
"I'm the leader of this team so yeah I am bossy. Deal with it Jin." said Cassie.
"You're bossy even when we're not on missions!" said Jin.
"And that's a bad thing because...?" Cassie asked.
"Guys! Can we focus?" Jacqui said.
"Yeah Jin stop being a whiny cry baby. Splitting up is a good idea so we can cover more ground." said Cassie. "Now let's keep searching guys."
Cassie kept walking. She walked by some huge, old, rusty ships. Cassie gulped nervously as she strolled around. Cassie was a tough, brave woman. However, she couldn't help but feel a bit scared by these docks and ships. The ships reminded her of haunted pirate ships. She kept walking until she heard a loud BANG! noise by a ship. Cassie gasped and quickly turned to the sound of the noise. She aimed her gun but she didn't see anything. She went up to the ship. The door was open. Cassie gulped as she cautiously stepped inside the ship. The inside of the ship was even creepier than the outside. It was a bit dark. It was rusty and dirty with lots of cobwebs everywhere. She heard a loud bang noise again.
"Oh fuck me." Cassie said to herself, walking towards the sound.
The ship got even darker the further Cassie walked. She kept hearing banging and clanking noises. Cassie was terrified. She thought she was gonna pee her pants. Shit her pants even.
"There's no such thing as ghost pirates...they're no such things as ghost pirates..." Cassie said to herself. Yes, ghost pirates were one of Cassie's biggest fears. A fear that she refused to tell anyone. There was no way that Cassie would ever tell anyone that a tough, badass bitch like her was scared of ghost pirates. They didn't even exist for crying out loud. Then again she had met a four armed half dragon called Goro, demons and cyborgs so ghost pirates may exist...
"Am I seriously thinking of ghost pirates right now? Focus Cassie!" Cassie thought to herself.
The banging and clanging noises got louder and louder. They were coming from behind a door. Cassie took a deep breath as she approached the door. She kicked the door open and aimed her gun but she didn't see anybody or anything. She breathe a sigh of relief. She talked into her earpiece to see if her teammates had made any progress.
"Hey guys, any updates?" Cassie asked.
"C-C-Cass-C-C-Cass-A-A-Are-Y-You-T-There?" said Jacqui, but the signal was very static.
"Jacqui? Jacqui it's Cassie, can you hear me?"
"H-H-ello-C-C-Cass-I-I-I-C-C-C-ant-H-H-Hear-Y-Y-You-V-Very-W-W-ell-"
"Shit, the signal in this ship is bad. Hold on Jacqui, I'm going outside to get a good signal." said Cassie about to walk out of the ship.
Cassie turned to walk out of the room, when she got kicked hard in the stomach. She got the wind knocked out of her. Before she could recover, she got punched in the face and then she felt a rough hand around her neck. Cassie was then raised in the air by her neck. She looked and saw who attacked her. It was Kano and he was smirking at her with his smug face.
"Hello Sonya Junior." said Kano.
"Let go of me you dipshit!" Cassie yelled.
"So feisty. Just like your mom." said Kano.
Cassie was about to attack, but Kano brought up his cybernetic gauntlet to her face. All of a sudden, the gauntlet released a puff of gas. Immediately, Cassie's eyes rolled backwards and then her eyes shut. She had passed out.
"Nighty night blondie." said Kano, laughing evilly. He put her on his shoulders and walked out of the ship.
2 hours later...
"Still no sign of her?" asked Jacqui, who ran up to Takeda and Jin.
"No. We've searched everywhere but we can't find her." said Jin, looking worried.
Right before Cassie was kidnapped, she tried talking to Jacqui but the signal was static. Jacqui tried to get in touch with Cassie again, but the signal was now gone. Jacqui was worried that she couldn't reach Cassie. She told Jin and Takeda and they decided to go look for her. They found Cassie's earpiece in the ship she was in. The earpiece was on the floor and it was a bit damaged. Kano had stepped on the fallen earpiece as he left the ship with unconscious Cassie.
Jacqui, Takeda and Jin continued to look for Cassie but apart from her earpiece, there were no signs of her. Cassie's friends had been looking for her for 2 hours. They tried calling her, texting her, but they got no response. They tried tracking the GPS on her phone, but they couldn't because her phone was either turned off or damaged. Jacqui, Takeda and Jin were all very worried about her.
"Where could she have gone?" Takeda asked with a worried look on his face.
"Kano must have gotten her." said Jin.
"Either Kano or one of those other Black Dragons." said Jacqui.
"Damn it! I knew we shouldn't have split up." said Takeda.
"We need to find her before Kano hurts her!" said Jacqui.
Just then, Jacqui's phone rang. She looked at the screen and saw that Sonya was calling her. Jacqui gulped nervously. She was going to have to tell Sonya that Cassie was missing. She also had to tell her that she was probably kidnapped by Kano. Jacqui felt bad that she had to worry Sonya, but Sonya had to know the truth. Jacqui slid her phone screen and answered the phone.
"Aunt Sonya...I mean, General Blade."
"Jacqui, what's the status of your mission? I've tried to get in touch with Sergeant Cage but I can't get a hold of her. Was Kano at the docks?" Sonya asked.
Jacqui sighed.
"Um...Ma'am...there's something I have to tell you..."
Black Dragon Headquarters…
Cassie groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. She looked around and saw that she was in a small room with a rusty, steel barred door, a concrete floor and walls. The room had no windows. Cassie felt very groggy and she had a headache. She was wondering where she was and what she was doing here. She then remembered Kano attacking her and then she got knocked out by some gas…
Cassie immediately went from groggy to alert. She got up, about to run. As soon as she shot up, she fell down on the concrete floor. Cassie saw that her legs had been tied up with cybernetic metal collars. A metallic chain attached the collars to each other. Cassie sat up and began trying to escape. She pulled and tugged hard at the chain, but it wouldn't budge. Cassie wasn't giving up though. She started looking around the room, trying to find something…anything that she could use to release the chain. Cassie couldn't see anything she could use as a tool.
"Fuck." said Cassie in frustration.
She looked at the barred door.
"I guess I can try using those bars." She said to herself. Cassie crawled up to the barred door. She laid on her back and raised her legs. She started rubbing the chain against one of the bars. It was a very uncomfortable position, but she had to do what she had to do to escape. She hoped the friction between the bars and the chain would cause the chain to eventually break. Just then, she heard footsteps. She moved away from the door and looked to see who was approaching.
Kano and Wyatt came up to the door. Kano smirked at Cassie while Wyatt stared at her. Cassie recognized Wyatt…the Black Dragon that spared her life.
"It's him." Cassie thought to herself as she stared at Wyatt.
"Ah! Sleeping Beauty is wide awake now!" said Kano.
"Let me out of here pink eye!" Cassie yelled at Kano.
"Cassie love…why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Kano asked, smirking. "Don't ya wanna stay and get acquainted with Uncle Kano and the Black Dragons?"
"I got a better idea 'Uncle Kano'…how about I shove that knife of yours up your ass?" said Cassie.
Kano laughed.
"HAHAHA! You are one funny girl blondie." said Kano.
"Yeah I'm a fucking riot. Now get me the fuck out of here!" said Cassie.
"You're staying put blondie. I might let you go. But piss me off…" said Kano, coming closer to the door, "…and I'll rip your heart out and cut your body up into little pieces."
Cassie stared angrily at Kano.
"Don't provoke me love. Don't make me kill you. You're such a beautiful girl. It would be such a shame to kill a beauty like you." Kano smirked and put his hand on Cassie's cheek.
"Get your disgusting hands off me shithead!" Cassie yelled. She smacked Kano's hand away. As soon as she did that, volts of electricity electrocuted her.
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" Cassie screamed, falling to the ground in pain.
Wyatt had a look of concern on his face as he saw Cassie groaning in pain.
"Hahaha!" Kano chuckled. "See those collars on your legs? If you try to attack me or any of my Black Dragons, those collars will release a surge of electricity on ya."
Cassie, slowly sat up, panting in pain.
"When I was locked up, I had shock collars. Wasn't fun. But it sure is fun to see you get shocked though. HAHAHA!" said Kano.
"Fucking asshole!" said Cassie, giving Kano an angry glare.
"Ah, come on love, don't frown your beautiful face. Shit, you really are so beautiful. You're so sexy and hot with a nice set of tits…just like your mom."
"Kano!" scolded Wyatt. "Come on, don't disrespect her and her mom like that."
"Did that guy just defend me and my mom?" Cassie thought to herself.
Kano looked at Wyatt and scoffed.
"And why do you care eh? Are you getting soft on me?" Kano asked. He punched Wyatt in the face.
Wyatt wiped his mouth. He clenched his jaw and glared angrily at Kano.
"Little shithead." said Kano. Kano looked at Cassie and smirked. "Where are me manners? Cassie, this little softie is my son, Wyatt. Wyatt, this is Cassie."
Wyatt and Cassie stared at each other.
"If her parents and I didn't hate each other, maybe you two could have had a playdate eh?" said Kano, laughing.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Why would you punch your own son?!" Cassie exclaimed.
"Because sometimes Wyatt says and does stupid shit and needs a good beat down." said Kano, smirking.
Cassie scoffed in disgust.
"Well, this has been a fun chat, but we have to go. We have business to take care of. Enjoy your stay blondie!" said Kano, walking away.
"You're not gonna get away with this Kano!" Cassie yelled.
Kano and Wyatt walked away.
"I'm gonna get out of here! And when I do, I'm going to kick your ass! You hear me asshole!" Cassie screamed in anger. She punched the bars. She then leaned her back against the bars and slid to the floor.
"Ah fuck me." Cassie said to herself in frustration.