Mortal Kombat; A Second Chance

~A/N~ Eno-on: So here we are again, for the 11 people who enjoy this story, I bring you No-one's newest chapter of our favourite Femme Fatal's story.

Eno-on: By the way any criticism for the story will be appreciated and possibly used in future chapters.

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~Chapter 4 Struggle Builds Kharacter~

Mileena grunted as she pushed her body up off the floor, before slowly lowering herself back down, repeating the process she could feel her arms ache in protest, ignoring it she went for another push up, with a pained yelp her arms gave out, leaving her drop hard against the floor, gasping she rolled over on to her back, trying to catch her breath.

Sitting up Mileena looked towards the door of her room, thinking over the last couple days of her recovery and how Dr Lewis had been acting differently around her, she knew the woman was stressed from what she had heard Earthrealm was at war with the Netherrealm, however Lewis had been treating her like she was made of glass.

Hearing the ever so slight creak of her door Mileena looked up to meet the eyes of Dr Lewis and Sonya Blade as they marched in, "Good morning Mileena" Lewis greeted gently "how are you feeling today?"

"Pent up" Mileena answered "I want to get of here"

"Are you willing to fight with us?" Sonya asked.

"I don't know" the Hybrid answered simply "I want to save Kitana that's all, if I have to fight with you, fine"

"Major Blade, she has only been recovering for little over a month" Lewis interjected harshly "that is hardly an appropriate question to ask"

"Doctor, we are at war" she replied sternly "not only would Mileena be able to help, you've stated how fast she has been recovering and she has expressed a strong desire to help" stepping forward, she offered a hand to help Mileena off the floor "We have to have to get you back in combat shape, so I'll have a practice match with you and see where you are"

"Okay" Mileena replied taking the blonde's hand and pulled herself to her feet "can I have my weapons back then?"

"Let's just see how you handle hand to hand first" Sonya answered "If you can be trusted you can have your sai"

Mileena panted heavily through her mask as she stared Sonya down, who looked unfazed by the fight they were having, with a yell Mileena charged in with a left hook, as Sonya ducked underneath it, Mileena smiled under mask, launching her right knee at the blonde's face.

Sonya caught Mileena's knee with one hand and grabbed her ankle with the other, taking the hybrid off balance Sonya kicked her other leg out from under her, Mileena let out tired grunt as she hit the floor.

"That's enough for now" Sonya said sternly.

"But I… can still..." Mileena wheezed, trying to get up.

"No that's enough" Sonya enforced "If you overwork your muscles it will do more harm to you in the long run, so rest and recover"

"Why am I so weak?" Mileena asked pitifully.

"You're not weak" the lieutenant replied "anyone else I know wouldn't be able to walk, let alone fight in your condition" walking over she offered a hand to the woman on the floor "Just take your time to get into fighting shape and train your mind in the meantime"

Mileena kept staring at the books placed in her room, someone dropped them off yesterday after her match with Sonya and put them on a foldable table in the corner, she didn't know they were about as they all looked the same to her, with dull covers and pages covered in text.

Standing from her bed, Mileena walked across her rather small room, only containing her bed pushed against into the back corner and a single foldable desk and chair, pulling the chair back she sat down looking a the books she was probably expected to study to 'Train her mind'.

Dr Lewis walked down the corridor looking down at her tablet, telling her to come down to the research lab and that it was important, stopping she scanned her ID card to unlock the door.

Stepping inside she walked over to the desk the analyst was hunched over, clearing her throat she caught their attention "Why did you call me down here Smith?"

"Ah, hello Allison I thought you might want to hear something I discovered about Mileena's blood sample" Smith answered "because her blood is unusual to say the least"

"What do you mean unusual?" Allison asked confused.

"Well I may need more regular blood samples to confirm my hypothesis" the researcher replied "but she has two types of white and red blood cells and this is just speculation but from what I can tell the two types are attacking each other"

"Wait what is your theory here?, her body is killing itself?"

"No from my research her DNA is semi-unstable" Smith answered "in the sense she go through some drastic appearance changes in the future"

"So you want me to keep an eye on her? And see if she'll agree to give… weekly blood samples?" the doctor asked.

"More like, every two weeks and not for very long" they answered "If my theory is correct it won't take long to find evidence to prove it, until then it's just a theory"

Dr Lewis nodded before turning to leave "We'll see, now if you'll excuse me I have to go"

Lewis stepped into Mileena's room only to jump as a book impacted the wall next to her, turning to where the book came from she saw Mileena clearly annoyed, glaring at the book she threw, like it had offended her personally.

"Are you okay Mileena?" Lewis asked, picking the book up off the floor, noting it was an introduction to martial arts.

"I'm fine!" Mileena huffed, still glaring at the book.

"Do you want to talk about it?" the doctor asked walking over to Mileena "You don't have to but I'll listen if you want" Mileena proceeded to mumble something Lewis couldn't hear, "I'm sorry could you repeat that, I didn't hear you"

"I said..." Mileena started an embarrassed blush covering her face "I can't... read it"

"Wait what" Lewis responded clearly shocked by this answer "you can't read, I thought you could"

"I can... just not this" Mileena replied "it's different in Outworld"

"Sorry, I'm not insulting you, I was just surprised" Lewis responded, holding out the discarded book "here I'll help you learn"

"...thank you"

"There's no shame in asking for help when you need it Mileena" Lewis smiled.

Mileena sprang back to her feet, rushing towards her opponent, she threw a left hook which was ducked under, smiling under her mask she flipped over her opponent, the moment her feet touched the floor she span around for a roundhouse kick, only to fall as she was swept off her remaining foot.

"You're getting better Mileena" Sonya said breathing heavily, offering a hand to the downed hybrid.

"I still need to get stronger" Mileena huffed, sitting up she looked at her hands "Why are we training unarmed?, shouldn't I be training with my sai?"

"I'm gonna be honest, a lot of people here are still weary around you" Sonya answered "but I'll try and get someone to help, in fact I might know someone"

~A/N~ Eno-on: So yeah finally done with another chapter, about time.

Eno-on: And so No-one continues with this interesting take on Mileena and her growth potential.