Mortal Flame (Cassie Cage)

New Orders

After that fight, they all went back on the team's ship. They all were relaxing, then Cassie walked in the ship. She shoved past Jin as Johnny walked on. Cassie was obviously aggravated. Jin just looked at her like she grew a second head. He sat down as Cassie opened the weapons locker. "So other than that you enjoyed your visit?" Johnny asked as a joke. "I'm sure it was pretty cool." Jun said. "I like you kid." Johnny said. "The Lin Kuei shredded us." Cassie said and put her guns away. "You, maybe." Jin said cockily. "If I remember correctly, I basically burned you." Jun said while he played with a fireball in his hand and crushed it. Jin scoffed in response. "C'mon now. You're all winners in my book." Johnny said as Cassie sat down next to Jun. Then Johnny got a text and reached in his pocket. He put the phone away and walked to the computer. "New orders. From General Blade." He typed some things in. He read the orders. "Priority One: Outworlders. Here in Earthrealm." He read. "An invasion?" Takeda asked in surprise. "Couldn't be..." Jacqui denied. Johnny narrowed his eyes. "You're not afraid are you, mister Cage?" Jin teased. "Outworlders I can handle..." Johnny replied. Cassie walked out of the room in a huff. "What's her problem?" Jin asked. Jun rolled his eyes and followed Cassie. He looked everywhere. The bathrooms, bunks, even the cockpit. No Cassie. Then he found her. She was in the hall curled up against the wall. He walked over and leaned up to it with a foot on the wall and crossing his arms. She apparently didn't notice him. So he just kept staring forward. "Why is a pretty girl like you crying?" Jun asked rhetorically. Cassie put her head up in surprise and rubbed her eyes with her forearm. "No." She obviously lied. "You're not a very good liar." Jun commented. "So what? You gonna make fun of me? Laugh?" Cassie spat out. "Not even." Jun said. "I just wanted to see if you wanna talk about it." Jun said. "No." Cassie said. Jun got up and walked away. "Ok." He said. He barely took four steps before... "Wait." Cassie said. Jun paused. "Come back." Jun turned around and walked back. He leaned back and slid down it so he'd be seated next to Cassie. "I just.. I'm always trying to make my mom proud. She's the head of the Special Forces. She's the whole reason I joined. But you beat me like it was nothing. I'm starting to think I'll never make her proud." Cassie confessed. "Well, the only reason I'm so good is the fact that I was literally trained by assassins. It's really tough. I barely got through it. The point is... I did it to survive and because I want to. Follow your heart Cass." Jun said with a smile. However, Cassie's fell from her face. "I'm sorry. You don't like Cass?" Jun asked. "It's not that. I love it." She said. "It's just... Why do you care?" Jun looked up in thought. When he looked at Cassie, he smiled. "You remind me of me." He said. Cassie smiled right back. Then she surprised him by leaning her head on his shoulder. He smirked from an idea. Suddenly Cassie felt something from his shoulder. "Ooh. Warm." She commented. "Yeah. It's kinda my thing." Jun said. Then they noticed they were landing, so Jun got up and gave Cassie a hand up. But they couldn't stop looking at each other. Then they heard footsteps and leaned against the wall.