In Outworld, but I will be able to transport us near enough to her.

They all depart the throne room. The scene cuts away to Shao Kahn's armoury.

Apparently Raiden was unable to teleport them where he wanted to go.

JOHNNY CAGE: Maybe you could try for even nearer next time? Where are we?

RAIDEN: I will inform you the instant I know.

Jax tries fiddling with his wrist-comm.

JAX: Wish this damn tracking device worked in here.

JOHNNY CAGE: This is just like my movie "Time Smashers". We were goin'

around in ti--

JAX: Give it a rest, will ya? Makin' my ears hurt.

JOHNNY CAGE: So what's the deal with you and Sonya, anyway? She's smokin'

hot!

JAX: It's not like that. I'm her C.O.

JOHNNY CAGE: Honey like that, under my command? Oh I'd be so--

JAX: You'll wanna stop talking now.

JOHNNY CAGE: ...But if it's not like that, then you won't mind if I--

JAX: That's it! Time somebody shut you the hell up!

They fight. Jax shows next to no restraint while beating the crap out of

Johnny. After a while he has the movie star beaten and on the floor.

JAX: How you like that, Mr. A-List?

RAIDEN: Enough! Jackson Briggs, you will restrain yourself.

JAX: Yeah well, I--

Raiden stops him with a raise of his hand.

RAIDEN: Someone approaches.

JAX: Good. Maybe somebody else needs their ass whooped.

He walks up to the newcomer, Jade.

JAX: You lookin' for somethin'?

JADE: The Armoury is restricted. You will leave now.

JAX: Gonna have to ask nicer than that.

They fight. Jax shows that he's an equal-opportunist when it comes to

fighting and doesn't hold back on the Edenian woman. Eventually Jade is put

down for the count as well.

JAX: Wrong place, wrong time, lady.

Johnny approaches Jax, rubbing the back of his bruised head.

JOHNNY CAGE: Feel better?

JAX: Uh, listen, Cage, I--

JOHNNY CAGE: Don't worry about it. Guess we know where we are now, thanks to

her.

RAIDEN: Yes. And where we must go.

JAX: Let's do it.

They take off, leaving Johnny alone.

JOHNNY CAGE: Uh, um--

JAX: C'mon, Cage.

The scene then cuts to several octagon dice with unknown symbols rolling on

the floor. Several guards of an unidentified Outworld species are playing a

game in the Dead Pool area. Sonya is tied up nearby and being guarded by

Sheeva.

SONYA: What is it with you Shokan and underground cesspools?

SHEEVA: If you had not dishonoured yourself by attempting escape, we would

not be here in this sewer.

Jax, Raiden and Cage show up at the other end of the pool.

JOHNNY CAGE: Sonya!

Everyone turns around and notices them.

SHEEVA: Guards! Stop them!

JAX: So much for the surprise attack...

The door behind them slams shut. Jax charges forward, ducks some swipes from

a guard with a two edged mace, grabs the weapon and clobbers him with it.

The guard falls into the pool and is dissolved into nothing but blood within

seconds. Jax throws down the mace and leaps over the remaining guards. Cage

and Raiden charge from behind and engage them while Jax faces down Sheeva.

SHEEVA: She is the emperor's property, human.

JAX: She's nobody's property.

They fight. Like all Shokan, Sheeva is powerful and possesses magical

abilities, but Jax is not about to let that stop him. Through sheer brute

force he manages to overpower Sheeva and leave her unconscious.

JAX: I guess extra arms don't make a difference.

He walks over to Sonya.

SONYA: You sure have a way with women.

JAX: You know me. I'm a class act.

He picks her off the hook she's on and cuts her restraints with a knife.

SONYA: Thanks. What took you so long?

Cage and Raiden walk up to them.

JOHNNY CAGE: He was busy hitting me in the face.

Jax and Sonya exchange smiles at this. Something then perks up on her wrist

communicator.

SONYA: That's weird. I've got two sets of readings, heavy tech signals,

both of 'em.

RAIDEN: Technology... Then they cannot be of Outworld. We need to confront

the source of each signal. We might discover the one whose victory I must