Fire and Ice (MK9 - MK11)

Chapter 1: Johnny Cage

Inside the helicopter, Sonya Blade is co-piloting. The movie star of the title chapter walks up to her seat and leans on both it and the seat of the pilot's, staring into the world beyond the windscreen.

PILOT: Destination dead ahead.

JOHNNY: Set 'er down nice and easy for me.

PILOT: Don't I always?

JOHNNY: If by "always" you mean "not once".

They both share a chuckle at this comment. Cage looks over to Sonya.

JOHNNY: Major?

Sonya looks to him, then rises from her seat. She strides to the back of the helicopter where six other soldiers are taking their seats. Also among them is the blind swordsman known only as Kenshi, who remains standing. Johnny looks on in admiration as Sonya walks up to her men.

She turns round and flashes him a smile, and he walks up to join them.

SONYA: Alright, you have the rendezvous coordinates. Far edge of the forest. From there, we access the portal to Raiden's sky temple.

JOHNNY: Where there's an angry former Elder God and his devils waiting for us.

One soldier seated among them doesn't appear to quite believe what he's hearing.

SOLDIER: Gods, portals, flying demons...

JOHNNY: (Looking at Kenshi) Blind guys with magic swords...

Kenshi turns in his direction at this.

KENSHI: The world has changed. For the worse if we do not expel Shinnok from Raiden's temple. He means to poison Earthrealm's life force - the Jinsei.

SONYA: And we're not gonna let that happen.

JOHNNY: Kenshi and I appreciate the Major allowing us to join you. We're happy to help kick Shinnok's bony ass back to the Netherrealm.

The muffled sound of explosions outside of the helicopter gets everyone's attention. Johnny, Sonya and Kenshi race back to the front of the chopper in time to witness one of the helicopters in front of theirs catch fire. Sonya quickly takes the co-pilot seat again. As a fireball races to the left of their chopper, the helicopter on fire crashes into the ground, utterly destroying it. Another fireball explodes on the side of another chopper in front of them.

JOHNNY: (To the pilot) You gotta land this thing!

As the second chopper on fire crashes and explodes, the windshield suddenly shatters as a kunai attached to a chain bursts through and impales itself in the face of the pilot.

JOHNNY: Shit!

The pilot barely has time to let out a cry of agony before he is dragged back through the windshield, breaking it apart on his side. In the co-pilot's seat, Sonya desperately tries to keep the helicopter from crashing. As Cage looks on in concern, a sound at the back of the chopper grabs his and Kenshi's attention. As they turn around, the soldiers also look up to find someone else standing right in front of them, as if he'd just teleported there.

That person is the ninja spectre known as Scorpion.

Before the soldiers can react, Scorpion kicks two of them in the chest, then knocks out the one in front of him with a straight right hand. He elbows the one behind him for another one hit knockout, then draws his sword in the same motion and decapitates the next two soldiers in front of him. The hellspawn buries his sword in the face of the fifth soldier, then draws his second sword and backhands it through the belly of the sixth soldier. He slips the two swords back into their sheaths as the final two soldiers fall dead, all in the space of about six seconds.