Kuai Liang awakes in a dark, reinforced chamber, as his thoughts reverb around him, getting louder with each echo and then, suddenly dissipating. He has no feeling below his neck, as though he has no limbs or body at all.

His brain throbs and aches at the most basic of thoughts, as though his mental capacity is being siphoned by someone or something else. After several minutes of throbbing pain, something flashed before his eyes. Kuai Liang focused again, it was a coleseum, he was fighting to avenge... someone close to him.

His brain throbs violently, he grits his teeth to endure the pain. Kuai Liang attempts his preffered method of meditative breathing, but the same amount of air enters his lungs no matter how deep or shallow his breaths were. Kuai Liang lets out an irritated curse, an unusual habit for him.

Kuai Liang shuts his eyes in an attempt to help himself think, but even with his eyes shut he still sees the strange dotted patterns on the chamber he is stuck within. Perhaps the same mechanism that controls his breathing also controls his vision. A rumble startles Sub Zero out of his contemplation.

"Who is there?!" Kuai Liang demands angrily. His answer arrives quickly as his head slams against the metal enclosure, knocking him unconscious.