Mortal Kombat: Fire and Ice

Chapter 12

PAGE ONE

Caption: Inside the Lin Kuei temple. The gym

Panel 1:  Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Smoke are dressed in black sneakers, MMA shorts, black sleeveless shirts, and hand wraps-blue for Sub-Zero, gray for Smoke and black for Scorpion. Sub-Zero has black and blue shorts, Scorpion has black and yellow shorts, and Smoke has black and gray shorts. Sub-Zero puts on black and blue boxing gloves with a large Lin Kuei symbol on the front of the glove and begins striking a punching bag. He does a double jab followed by a right body hook and right low kick.  Scorpion is holding pads, as Smoke strikes,  wearing black and gray boxing gloves. He drills a jab, cross, hook, combination.  The gym has weight lifting equipment, long bags known as banana bags as usually seen in Muay Thai gyms, and machines.

Panel 2: Smoke removes his gloves and puts on the striking pads. Scorpion puts on his black and yellow gloves, and begins to strike, starting off with a jab, rear elbow and rear knee combination. After a few drills, he switches to a cross, left hook, right uppercut, right body kick combination.  Scorpion does one final repetition before heading to the bag, Sub-Zero goes to Smoke and parries a jab, firing back with a cross, left elbow, right knee. After a few reps, he switches to a jab, cross, left body hook and right leg kick. 

Panel 3: Smoke takes off the pads and puts on his gloves, heading to the bag. Scorpion puts on the pads. Sub-Zero starts off with right kicks, striking the pads 10 times. He then does 10 left kicks to the pads. He then switches to alternating kicks, with Scorpion turning the pads in the corresponding direction. Right, left, right, left. 

Panel 4: Scorpion and Sub-Zero switch. Scorpion does 10 kicks with each leg, then switches to the alternating kicks. All three finish their sessions and sit on the bench, drinking chocolate milkshake flavored protein shakes

Smoke: Fantastic work today 

Sub-Zero: Indeed.  The battle approaches soon

Scorpion:  It's been two weeks since Raiden informed us of his vision

Smoke: Do you all think our training has been sufficient enough?

Sub-Zero: Of course. Even though Hanzo and I have been training with Raiden for close to a year now, you are still training with a god as well. 

Scorpion: Just three days of training with Raiden and we already noticed a vast difference in our power and skill

Smoke: You are right. I just worry at times that it will not be enough. Sorcery is a powerful art to wield, and I sometimes wonder if they learned how to use it for their own gain

Scorpion: Quan Chi has many books containing different types of spells. The one we took was the one he valued most. It includes spells on things such as raising the dead, boosting your strength, and more. While it wouldn't surprise me if they knew these spells by heart, I still have confidence that all of the training we have done will overcome that.

Sub-Zero: I agree with Hanzo

Smoke: When this threat is neutralized, will you continue to train with Raiden?

Sub-Zero: Of course. There will always be new threats

Scorpion: Just because one threat is gone, doesn't mean you stop training. You keep getting stronger to keep protecting what matters most to you.

Smoke: That is true.  I will also continue to grow stronger.

Panel 5: The three of them get up and bow to each other. Scorpion teleports in a burst of flame

Smoke: So what's been going on with Kitana?

Sub-Zero: Nothing really

Smoke: Liar