Back at the refugee camp, Sonya walks through with her phone to her ear. A squad of S.F. soldiers walk just behind her.

"Thanks for the heads up, Sergeant. Stay with Kotal Kahn. We'll figure out next steps once I've got Kano locked down." Sonya says.

"Yes ma'am. Cage out." Cassie says before hanging up.

Sonya then stops and looks out to the Outworld refugees.

"He's still here. I can feel it." Sonya says to herself.

As she continues through the camp, she comes across two of her medics carrying a body bag on a stretcher.

"Report." Sonya asks.

"One of the refugees. Found her near the north perimeter." The medics inform.

Sonya then unzips the bag. It contains a young Outworld woman who looks far plainer than Li Mei. Further detracting from her looks is her slashed throat, and adding insult to injury, her tongue is sticking out through the open slit in her neck.

"That's one of Kano's "neckties"." Sonya says.

Her composure briefly drops, but she steels herself in short order and zips the body bag back up.

"Inform Li Mei. Tell her we're investigating." Sonya orders.

The medics walk off with the body bag.

Sonya then pulls out a talisman that acts as a communicator. An image of Raiden is projected on it.

"Raiden, what'd you find?" Sonya asks.

"Shinnok's Amulet has been stolen. Replaced by an exquisite duplicate." Raiden informs.

"Damn it." Sonya says to herself.

On the projection, Raiden looks to his left.

"Something is wrong. I will speak to you once I–" Raiden says before the projection fizzles out.

"Raiden? Raiden!" Sonya calls out on the talisman.

After a moment of contemplation, she puts the talisman in her back pocket while whirling around to address her soldiers.

"Lieutenant, I need you to take a team to Fort Charles. Check in with Raiden and report back." Sonya orders.

The soldiers march off. Johnny Cage chooses this moment to stroll up to Sonya.

"What's goin' on?" Johnny asks.

"What's your update from Colonel Flagg?" Sonya asks, ignoring his question.

"He said, "Why're you bothering me?" and I said, "Because my ex-wife is a pain in the--" Johnny says before Sonya holds a hand up to stop him and turns, walking away from him.

Johnny is quick to follow and intercept her.

"Where you goin'? You can't just walk away. I'm in this too." Johnny reminds.

"Not my decision. Thank your buddy, Secretary Blake." Sonya says coldly.

"THIS is what split us up in the first place. You disappear in your work. Never time for me and Cassie." Johnny says.

"I had responsibilities. Sorry you couldn't be the centre of attention." Sonya says.

Johnny bites back his retort, and delivers a carefully measured response.

"There was a time when you cared more about your family than your job... General." Johnny informs before walking off.

Sonya continues in the direction she was going.

Twenty years ago, in Quan Chi's fortress, Sonya and Johnny have reached the bottom of a large staircase, with a few S.F. soldiers in tow. While the soldiers have automatic rifles as firearms, Johnny and Sonya are only using pistols.

"Nope, no evil sorcerers in here." Johnny jokes.

"Would you get serious?" Sonya asks.

"Quan Chi needs to clean up his man-cave." Johnny says.

"S'cleaner than yours." Sonya replies.

"You're comparing me to Quan Chi?" Johnny asks.

"Only in terms of cleanliness." Sonya says.

They then continue further onto the bottom floor. A gigantic pool of dark fluid is the centrepiece of this area, complete with large jars containing embryos of failed experiments. Books and bottles filled with unknown substances dot the area, which is lit only by dark candles.

Johnny and Sonya walk over to the pool.

"What's this?" Johnny wonders.

He then kneels down as if to touch it.

"I wouldn't do that." Sonya suggests.

"Ah, come on, where's your sense of–" Johnny says before touching the pool.

As he touches it, the pool turns blood red and begins to swirl around, like a whirlpool.

"...adventure." Johnny finishes.

The fluid begins to rise at the centre, where the red is fullest. A portal then opens before them, prompting Sonya and Johnny to raise their pistols. Quan Chi exits from it, with Scorpion, Sub Zero and Jax in tow.

"You wish for adventure? You shall have it." Quan Chi says.

The soldiers then run up and aim their weapons.

"Fire!" Sonya orders.

They, Sonya and Johnny cut loose. Quan Chi chants in the Netherrealm tongue and conjures up a wall of green skulls that block all the bullets from hitting him and his revenants.

As they stop firing, Sub Zero shoots off an ice blast that freezes the soldiers solid.

"I have no need of your soldiers. But you and Mister Cage will serve me well, once you are dead." Quan Chi says as all four of them then charge into battle.

Sub Zero and Jax go for Johnny, leaving Sonya with Scorpion and Quan Chi. She blocks their attacks and kicks Scorpion away, then kicks Quan Chi in the midsection and knocks him down with an axe-kick.

Johnny kicks Jax away, lands a solid punch across Sub Zero's face before downing him with a roundhouse kick. He backflips away from Jax's attacks as Sonya rushes towards Scorpion with some punches. He blocks them all and lands one of his on Sonya, but she punches him right back, kicks him in the stomach and smashes him across the face with a forearm. He staggers back, but doesn't fall.

"Dunno when to quit, do ya?" Sonya asks.

They then fight. As formidable a foe as the hellspawn ninja is, Sonya's training and advanced weaponry keep her in the fight long enough for her to take the battle to Scorpion. After a fierce brawl, she leaves him unconscious on the floor.

"Not as tough as you look." Sonya says.

Sonya then begins fighting with Sub Zero next. She blocks several of his strikes, but eventually she gets elbowed in the face. She ducks under a roundhouse kick and fights back with a superman punch as Sub Zero turns round, but he blocks it.

Johnny meanwhile continues to fight with Jax. He takes a kick to the side, but strikes the revenant in the face with a superman punch. He follows through with a clothesline, slamming Jax to the ground by his neck. From a seated position, Johnny pounds Jax in the face once more, knocking him out. Johnny Cage lets off a brief laugh of triumph before rushing over to Sonya.

Sonya manages to punch Sub Zero twice in the face and knocks him down with a spin kick to the stomach just as Johnny makes it to her. They nod together and walk toward Quan Chi, who's picking himself off the floor. Unbeknownst to them, Jax wakes up and rises to his feet. Sonya and Johnny both get into fighting stances.

"Quan Chi, you've lost." Sonya says.

"A delay, Miss Blade. The inevitable still beckons." Quan Chi informs.

Jax then manages to sneak up on Johnny and he ends up plunging a dagger into Johnny's back so fiercely that it ends up bursting through his chest with a massive spout of blood.

"Johnny!" Sonya calls out.

As she turns to try and help, Quan Chi punches Sonya across the face, staggering her backwards. Jax then pulls out the dagger and Johnny crumples to the floor, still breathing. The dark fluids of the pool begin to rise in a crimson red whirlpool. A creature of Netherrealm flesh begins to emerge from the pool, and this creature is the undead image of Johnny Cage, slowly being given form.

Sonya blocks several strikes from Quan Chi before punching him in the stomach and kneeing him in the face. She follows through with a right hand strike that sends the sorcerer down to the floor out cold. Desperately, she rushes over to the dying Johnny, who is writhing on the floor as he continues to lose blood.

"You won't be dead for long." Jax informs.

Sonya then grapples Jax around the waist and throws him to the ground. He rises and gets into a fighting stance.

"This will not happen!" Sonya says.

They then fight. Fueled by desperation and heroic willpower, Sonya battles with a determination like never before. It proves just enough to defeat the undead Jax and leave him out on the ground.

"I'm sorry, Jax." Sonya says.

She then rushes over to Johnny's side, who is still alive, but barely.

"I'll get you out of here. You'll be fine." Sonya assures.

"Dunno. Blood's... s'posed to be... on the inside..." Johnny weakly says.

The revenant of Johnny is gradually rising from the pool of sorcery, constantly being enriched by its magic. A flash of lightning then strikes in the fortress, and the God of Thunder teleports into the fray.

"Raiden!" Sonya calls out.

"I must reverse his spell." Raiden says.

Raiden then begins chanting in an ancient tongue, lightning coursing through his hands as he does so. He then shoots it at the forming revenant. The lightning begins blasting the magicks away, and the creature begins to descend back into the liquid it was spawned from.

"It's working!" Sonya says.

Quan Chi, however, has risen to his feet in the midst of all this.

"You cannot save him." Quan Chi says.

He then fires a green flaming skull at Raiden. It catches him in the chest and disrupts his attack. Immediately, the revenant Johnny begins to rise from the pool again.

"You're weak, Thunder God. Johnny Cage is mine." Quan Chi says.

"No. He's MINE." Sonya says before rising to her feet. "Save him!" Sonya orders the thunder god as she walks toward Quan Chi. "I've got this son of a bitch!" Sonya says angrily.

They then fight. Her desperation now replaced with anger, Sonya beats the living tar out of Quan Chi. Completely taken aback, the Netherrealm sorcerer can do little against her furious assault, and in short order he's soon down on the ground on all fours, defeated at her hands.

"That wasn't even CLOSE to what you deserve." Sonya says.

As Quan Chi gasps for breath, Sonya looks over to Raiden. The revenant of Johnny is still being blasted down by the Thunder God, but it refuses to finally sink down into the dark fluid.

"Sonya Blade! The link with Quan Chi is not completely severed!" Raiden informs.

"Not a problem." Sonya assures.

As Quan Chi looks up into her eyes, Sonya methodically and repeatedly punches him in the face. After several blows, she cuts loose with a knee to the chin. He falls flat on his back and weakly raises a hand upwards. Sonya has none of it and slaps the hand away, before repeatedly stomping on his head. Finally, she walks over to his lower body and carefully parts his legs.

"No!" Quan Chi begs but his plea is ignored.

Sonya then delivers one final stomp to his Netherrealm jewels, making sure to give them a good twist with her boot. The pain is finally enough to render Quan Chi unconscious.

With Quan Chi down, Raiden is finally able to blast the half-formed revenant back down into the flesh pool. It explodes with a demonic fury, it's energies passing through the entire area of the fortress. Sub Zero, Scorpion and Jax are all caught by the blast, and the effect it has on them is startling, their flesh is restored to a normal hue, and their eyes no longer glow with a yellow-white light. Sonya is amazed at what she sees, they are all restored to their human forms.

Raiden then kneels over Johnny and begins another chant. He directs his energy (a blue light, not his regular lightning blasts) at Johnny's torso wound. Sonya walks over to them.

"The others are restored to the living. By coupling Quan Chi's dark magicks to my own, I was able to restore their souls." Raiden explains.

He then finishes his healing spell on Johnny. Sonya bends over his body, her hands on his chest.

"Is he gonna make it?" Sonya asks.

"Haven't I told you? He's a god." Johnny replies.

Johnny then sits up, much to Sonya's delight.

"You scared the shit outta me." Sonya says.

"And they said I couldn't do horror films." Johnny jokes.

The flash of a portal illuminates both of their faces briefly. They turn around to find Quan Chi has escaped through one.

"He's gone?! How did he--?" Sonya asks before being cut off.

"We gotta go after him." Johnny says.

He tries to rise fully, even though he's still groggy, but Sonya stops him.

"He can wait. Right now we need to get you and the others back to Earthrealm." Sonya says.

She then puts a hand on his shoulder. Johnny stops arguing, and they both share smiles at one another.

Meanwhile in the present day at the refugee camp, several of the Outworld refugees are waiting in line.

"Why is it taking so long?" One of the refugees asked.

An S.F. Soldier is sitting at a table taking everyone's names.

"Name?" The soldier asks.

"Re'em Adu Kaire." Re'em says.

"Thanks. All right, second line on your left." The Soldier says.

Li Mei, Sonya, Manado and Kenshi are overseeing all of the refugees being screened.

"You seem to know this "Kano" intimately." Li Mei says.

"Not the word I'd use, but yes. I chased him for years until he escaped to Outworld after Shinnok's invasion." Sonya explains.

"Why would he return now?" Kenshi asks.

"Probably to escape Outworld's justice. I mean, Kotal Kahn would have killed him if Tanya didn't save him." Manado says.

"All that matters is he's..." Sonya says before she trails off as she then spots the same Outworld woman who was in the body bag earlier, now not sporting Kano's "necktie".

A brief flicker on the holographic face confirms her suspicions; it's Kano in a high-tech disguise.

"...caught. Gotcha." Sonya says.

She discreetly thumbs over to Kenshi, who moves off to the side. Sonya walks directly toward the disguised Kano. Seeing her coming, he cuts away from the line he's in, but is intercepted by Kenshi.

"Are you lost?" Kenshi asks.

He then turns around, but Sonya bars his way. Seeing that there's nowhere to run, Kano disengages his disguise and reveals himself, causing several refugees to backpedal in shock.

"'Ello, love! Been a while!" Kano greets.

"Not long enough." Sonya says

She then opens up a call on her communicator.

"This is General Blade. I need MPs to my location immediately." Sonya orders before hanging up to confront Kano.

"Aww, let's keep this between friends. A trade! Info for freedom." Kano offers.

She then gets into a fighting stance.

"I don't negotiate with scumbags." Sonya says.

"Well then, if mother won't play nice, maybe daughter will." Kano says.

"If you ever–" Sonya says before being cut off.

"Back off, and all's well. Piss me off, and Cassie's gonna meet Uncle Kano." Kano warns.

"I swear to God I'll kill you!" Sonya says, gritting her teeth.

They then fight. Kano proves to be every bit as tough as he was in all of his previous fights with Sonya, and that's not even counting all of the cybernetics he's upgraded his body with. But Sonya has tricks of her own she brings to the forefront, and after an epic battle, she once again manages to leave Kano down and defeated.

"No. I'm not done with you." Sonya says.

She strides over to Kano and knocks him flat on his back with a kick to the face. She then mounts him and punches him twice in the face, before wrapping her hands around his throat. Kano is unable to pry her arms away.

"Alright! Alright! Get off me!" Kano says, gasping for air.

Sonya is in no mood to stop, even with Kano gasping for breath. Johnny pushes his way through the crowd.

"Sonya, ease up!" Johnny says as he then tries to grab her, but she pushes him away and keeps on strangling Kano.

"You kill me... never find... amulet!" Kano struggles to say.

The MPs arrive as well, and point their guns directly at Kano. Johnny immediately motions for them to stop. They do, but keep their guns trained on him. Johnny desperately looks over to his ex-wife.

"Sonya, we need that info." Johnny says.

She ignores him. Kano's gasps become more and more desperate.

"Sonya... don't make this another thing you'll regret." Johnny says.

"Let go of him Sonya." Manado says.

She growls angrily, but it looks like Johnny and Manado finally got through to her. She then let's go and Kano drops back to the ground, taking in deep breaths of air.

"Talk!" Sonya demands.

As Sonya interrogates Kano, li Mei approaches Manado.

"General Manado, I never got the chance to thank you for saving us all." Li Mei says.

"Your welcome. After all, it is duty to protect anyone in danger." Manado says.

"I know it is not the best time for this, but I would like to ask a favor from you." Li Mei says.

"What is it that you ask, Li Mei?" Manado asks.

"I would like you to train me in the ways of kombat." Li Mei says.

"You... want me to train you?" Manado asks, surprised.

"Yes General. I understand it is a lot to ask for, but I wish to aid in protecting Outworld." Li Mei says.

Manado thinks for a moment.

"Very well, Li Mei. I will teach you the ways of kombat. Tomorrow, meet me in the forest down south." Manado says.

"Thank you, Manado." Li Mei says.

She then surprises him by bringing him in for a hug. Manado remains motionless as Li Mei releases her hug a moment later and walks off, leaving Manado stunned of the events that have just occurred.

"Zaveer's going to have a field day with this one." Manado realizes.