Mortal Kombat; A Second Chance

~A/N~ Eno-on: Happy Holidays everyone, hopefully No-one keeps his word and uploads this on Christmas eve or I'm gonna look very stupid.

Eno-on: Last chapter he started to show Mileena's potential and we had an interesting conversation with Sonya about getting help so lets see where that leads us shall we.

"Speech" 'Thought' "Read Text"

Disclaimer: I don't own ~"Mortal Kombat"~
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~Chapter 5 Personal Konnections~

Mileena was in her room doing push ups but her mind kept going back to previous conversations with Dr Lewis, "There's no shame in asking for help when you need it Mileena" the words echoed in her head "Easy now, don't push yourself too hard" Mileena stopped her push ups the memories distracting her "Do you want to talk about it?, you don't have to but I'll listen" these words hit Mileena hard emotionally as she hugged her knees "Are you okay Mileena?"

Mileena involuntarily choked back a sob as tears pooled in her eyes 'Why am I crying?' she thought as the tears started to fall 'I'm not hurt and I'm not sad' she buried her face as much as she could in her knees, her as body shook from her sobs.


Dr Lewis often wondered what each day would be like when she came to talk with Mileena, however none of her imaginings could have prepared her for when she opened the door to her room and saw Mileena curled into a ball on the floor crying.

Dropping her professionalism she rushed across the room and embraced the crying girl in a hug, she noticed that Mileena stiffened at the physical contact but continued to stroke her hair and whisper reassurances to her.

Slowly Mileena stopped shaking and relaxed in Allison' grip, the doctor sighed as her breathing evened "What's wrong Mileena?" she asked as gently as she could.

"I don't know" she answered, the tears still flowing "I just started crying and I don't understand why"

"Well don't worry about it for now, okay?" Lewis responded calmly "when you find an answer let me know and we'll talk about it"

"Thank you" she mumbled, looking down at the floor "… will you help me read?"

"Sure"


Mileena stood in the training room she was directed to for her regular practice, looking around at empty space around her, she was confused as normally Sonya was waiting for her ready for physical training, deciding to at least warm up in preparation if there was going to be any training.

The hybrid started a leisurely jog around the outer wall of the room, trying to keep an even pace and not ware herself out too quickly, she thought back to one of the books Lewis helped her read "Count your breathing, if your breaths are shorter than two seconds you're pushing too hard" keeping the countdown in her head until she started to tire, slowing down she remembered the next step "At the end of run, walk at a casual pace with your hands behind your head"

Catching her breath back, she never noticed someone enter the room "You've already got a head start on your exercise" Sonya's voice called out, startling the hybrid and causing her to stumble.

"Oh you're here, who's this?" Mileena asked realizing she wasn't alone.

"This is Kenshi, who's agreed to help with training" Sonya answered, holding out a black case "You might need these"

Reaching out and taking the offered case, she opened it to reveal her sai, Mileena stared down at the familiar weapons, carefully running her hand down them like old friends before staring back to the military woman "Thank you" she said in a quiet but grateful tone.

Surprised at both the response and tone, Sonya stared at her in shock before nodding "You're welcome Mileena, now Kenshi will be training with you today"

Turning towards the sword wielder, Mileena raised an eyebrow at his appearance "You're blind?"

"Yes, however do not dismiss me as incapable" he responded calmly, taking a couple steps away from the hybrid "Now whenever you're ready?"

Understanding exactly what he meant, Mileena drew her sai from the case before handing the now empty case back to Sonya, gripping the familiar hilts of her weapons she walked forward, taking a deep breath.

Mileena moved forwards, left sai pointed ahead for a straight stab, Kenshi quickly drew his katana smacking her wrist with the flat of his blade, following the momentum of her hand heading toward the floor, she flipped intending to bring an axe kick down on her opponent's head.

Soundlessly Kenshi leaned back slightly letting the attack harmlessly miss him, he then launched his free hand forwards catching the still airborne Mileena with a palm strike.

She gasped as the air was knocked out of her lungs and hit the floor with a hard thud, slowly she rolled over and got back to her feet "H-how did you?" she choked out breathless.

"I told you not to dismiss me" He chided "now, again"

Tightening her grip she dashed forwards towards the swordsman, as he raised his guard Mileena dropped down, sliding across the floor to sweep his legs out from under him, Kenshi in response gave a small hop, dodging above her attack he slashed his katana downwards, seeing this Mileena thrust her sai upwards catching the blade between the prongs.

"Good" the blind man complemented before pushing against her guard making her stumble back, he then planted a knee in her stomach, staggering her enough to free his sword, next he slammed the hilt into her temple.

Mileena fell back clutching her head, letting out low growls of pain, glaring at the blind man.

"You should calm down" he admonished "unfocused anger will only cost you" he lightly touched his blindfold for emphasis "When you fight for your life, you must use everything at your disposal"

Mileena pondered his points, she waited in rising to her feet once more, closing her eyes for a moment of concentration she felt a spark inside herself, jolted back to reality.

"Mileena what was that?" Sonya said clearly shocked "You literally just glowed pink for a second"

"I don't know, I just felt this spark inside me" she answered placing a hand on her chest.

"It felt like sorcery to me" chimed in Kenshi drawing attention "a similar kind of feeling I have with my telepathy and telekinesis"

"Can you teach me?" she asked in a hopeful tone.

"I don't know" he answered plainly "the only advice I can give, is to meditate and clear your mind"

"Thanks Kenshi" said Sonya firmly "we'll have to figure this out as we go, for now however Mileena I need you to come with me"


Following the blonde down corridor Mileena grew more confused as she'd never been in the area she was currently in, Sonya stopped at a particular door.

"Mileena welcome to the firing range" she said stepping inside "I'm going to teach you how to use a gun, but you need to know I'm sticking my neck out for you"

The hybrid was shocked at this "Why?" she mumbled, clenching her fists.

"Why what?"

"Why are you 'sticking your neck out for me'?" she asked, trembling slightly.

"Because 1) if you're trained you can help us" she answered "and 2) you clearly need help"

Mileena froze at the second statement, unable to process that she was being helped because she needed it, "Thank you" she responded.

"You're welcome, now come here" she guided the inexperienced girl to the booth, picking up some earmuffs and safety goggles "You may want to put these on first"

Mileena complied, doing as instructed before turning to her temporary instructor, only to see a pistol being presented to her "Here, this is a 9mm standard issue firearm, you grip it like so"

Copying the example given she held the grip tightly, listening carefully given to her she disabled the safety before pointing it at the target a distance away, she almost pulled the trigger before Sonya warned her about the noise, adjusting the provided earmuffs and pulled the trigger, only to miss the target.

"Okay readjust and try again" doing as instructed she stared down the gun barrel and fired again, grazing the edge of the target this time, Mileena continued with the process steadily getting closer to the center of the target, she only stopped when the gun clicked.

"Okay that means you've used all of your ammunition" Sonya stated "you need to eject the current magazine and replace it with a new one" the blonde then proceeded to give a demonstration on how to do so.

Copying what she saw the other woman do, Mileena reloaded and took aim once more, she repeated the task slowly but surely improving her aim with the firearm given to her, when she finally hit the target center she cheered, surprising the military officer next to her, brushing this off Sonya congratulated her on hitting the target.


Sitting in her room Mileena was thinking back to the training session she had today with Kenshi, remembering the spark she felt earlier, she felt incredible and powerful, like she could take on the world, shaking her head to dismiss that thought she closed and tried searching for this inner magic she might have.

"I'm coming Kitana"


~A/N~ Eno-on: A gift chapter for all the readers and what the f*** are you doing now?

No-one: I figured the best way for Mileena to show obvious improvement in the story would be to unlock her latent magic, and you only see it once MK9's story cutscenes.

Eno-on: So your saying see never used it in this timeline, then what about that bit on the beach with Jade?

No-one: This time she simply jumped down from the ship wreak, and before you ask in this chapter Mileena dosen't know how to react to kindness because as far as we know, she has not been shown any.

Eno-on: So what will happen now?, with Mileena's story from here I mean.

No-one: This was the Final chapter in the R&R section so next time we dive into MKX properly.