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A week has
passed since the neighborhood terrorists have been captured thanks to the Special Forces agents. Now peace has been brought
back to the neighborhood.
Jax said there at his desk in his office of the Special Forces base. He rubbed his eyes with
his face as he thought back on last week's events. He was glad to have captured the terrorizing gang and that the neighborhood
is safe. It was when he and the other agents realized that Alex was missing. He could've sent out his squads to search for
her, but Kenshi had insisted that he would go look for her and that he and the other agents should take care of the rest of
the business that was going on. Jax wanted to protest after a few seconds of thinking, but Kenshi was already on his way to
look for Alex.
Jax and Sonya sent their units back to the base to question all of the gang members arrested. Jax and
Sonya stayed behind and waited for Kenshi and Alex to return. After what seemed like a long time, Jax was just about to go
out to search when Sonya spotted Kenshi emerging from an alley nearby with Alex in his arms.
The two agents ran over
to them. "Alex," said Sonya. "Is she all right?"
Alex looked up at her. "I'm all right Sonya. I almost got killed,
but I'm all right."
"Damn," Jax replied. "Do you want to go to the hospital?"
"No, I'm fine, I just need some
rest," Alex insisted. She looked up at Kenshi. "Thanks for the ride."
"No problem," Kenshi answered and put Alex back
on her feet. Alex wobbled a little as soon as Kenshi let her go. He and Jax caught her before she fell.
"Yeah, you
do need some rest," Jax said. "What happened back there?"
"One of the men managed to grab my gun and he was just about
to kill me," Alex told them. She smiled. "Then Kenshi came and saved me just in him."
Jax and Sonya looked at each
other. Then Sonya turned back to Alex with a devilish grin. "Anything else happened back there?"
Kenshi and Alex both
immediately blushed. "Umm....." Kenshi said.
"We kind of kissed," Alex finished.
Jax grinned. "That's cool,
just don't show too much affections in front of White, he'll kill you both. Don't worry, you two aren't the only ones who
have affections for someone here." He turned to Sonya.
Sonya narrowed her eyes at him. "Are you talking about Johnny
Cage again?"
"Of course," Jax replied, his grin devilish. "Who else would I be talking about?"
"There's nothing
going on between us," Sonya insisted with a growl. "Besides, I haven't seen him since the last Mortal Kombat tournament."
"He's
probably looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'I'm beautiful' right now," Jax said with a laugh.
"Ha, ha," Sonya
replied sarcastically.
"Um," Alex said. "Shouldn't we be going back to the base?"
Jax laughed a little. "Hey!
It's my job to say that. Sure, let's go."
Jax smirked to himself from that thought. Then, present time came back to
him as he looked down at his paper work.
He leaned back in his chair and stretched out his metal arms back. 'I really
don't want to do this,' Jax thought. Then, he spotted a folder on the corner of his desk. He knew that it contained records
on the agents involved with the OIA including himself.
Out of boredom, Jax leaned forward, reached for the folder,
and brought it towards him. He opened the folder up and immediately saw a picture of him from five years ago, back when he
had hair on his head and a small mustache.
'I've got to get that picture changed,' Jax thought. He looked
at his profile. All that was needed was a change in his weight.
He flipped the page back and saw Sonya's picture, which
was recently updated. Then, he flipped the page again and saw Cyrax's picture. Not too much was revealed about him, like his
real name and origin, but he guessed that he's Asian since the Lin Kuei were Chinese assassins.
Jax decided to contact
Cyrax since he hasn't heard from him all day. He reached over to his radio and turned it on. "Jax to Cyrax, come in Cyrax."
A
second later, he heard a static voice say, "Cyrax here."
"How is the operation currently going?" Jax asked.
"It's
quiet where I am right now......too quiet," Cyrax said. "I just woke up from a nap, I'm in a forest right now."
"A
forest?" Jax said, one of his eyebrows arched up. "Isn't that the forest with the......."
"AH!" Cyrax cried out. "A
tree just yawned right in front of me!"
"Figured," Jax sighed. "Just stay away from them, they can whip you pretty
good with their branches."
"Thanks for the warning," Cyrax replied. "Well, I'm signing off now, I'll contact you in
a few hours. Cyrax signing out."
"Later." Jax placed his radio back on the desk. 'Too quiet, huh? That's not a
good thing.'
Jax returned to the records that were laying out in front of him. He picked them up again and flipped
the page. Alex's picture was there. He looked at her profiles. She grew up in Florida and was an only daughter of a military
General.
He turned the page again and saw Kenshi's picture. He wasn't surprised that most of the facts only say 'unknown,'
even his age and origin like Cyrax. Jax guessed that by his complextion, he had to be in his mid- thirties.
He turned
the page one more time and saw Hsu Hao's profile. He was a Chinese man from the Chinese Secret Military. He was only here
to help the Special Forces eliminate the remaining members of the Black Dragon, but Sonya had insisted that he helped out
with the OIA for the current investigation of Outworld since he did well with their last investigation.
Jax shook his
head as he closed the folder. He still had a bad feeling about him.
***
Kenshi flipped through the channels
of the TV in the lounge with the remote control. He had just finished dinner at the cafeteria. He was surprised that he didn't
sense Alex there. Perhaps she had an early dinner or she will have dinner later.
He listened to the TV as he slowly
flipped through the channels. Nothing interesting was on and he shut the TV off. That's when he heard someone coming towards
him from behind.
"Who's there?" he asked, his head tilted towards the footsteps. A second later, he felt someone touch
his shoulders and the person sat next to him on the couch.
Kenshi smirked then. "Alex."
"Hey," Alex replied.
"Sorry I wasn't at dinner, I wasn't really hungry. Sonya said I would find you here."
"It's all right," Kenshi said.
He
felt Alex wrapping her arms around him sending chills up his spine. "How was your day?"
Kenshi shrugged. "A little
boring, there hasn't been much excitement all day." He grinned a little. "At least not until now."
"Ha, ha," Alex replied.
"We're
alone right now, right?" Kenshi asked.
"Yeah."
Kenshi put his hand on Alex's face. Then, he leaned towards her
and pressed his lips against hers. The kiss only lasted a few seconds before Alex pulled away. The two ended up lying back
on the couch with Alex's head on Kenshi's chest, their arms wrapped around each other.
"It feels like it's been a while
since our first kiss," Alex said. "But it's really only a week ago."
"Yeah," Kenshi agreed. He sighed, "I haven't really
been close to anyone since my parents deceased when I was a teenager."
Alex looked up at him. "Really?"
Kenshi
nodded. "I used to live in a country area, I was an only child. My father was a worker in a factory and mother stayed home
and took care of me until I was thirteen when she got a job at a small restaurant. They both died when I was seventeen and
I've been on my own ever since, wandering Europe and Asia. I've discovered about my ancestors along the way and I took up
sword fighting from there."
"I'm an only child too," Alex said. "I grew up in a small town in Florida. My father was
a General in a military so I never saw him that much. My mother owned a bakery shop near town. I was in college when my mother
died of cancer. I never really knew my father so I lived with my aunt for a while. I was twenty-seven when he died of a stroke.
I looked through his records and awards the day after the funeral and that's what encouraged me to join Special Forces. We
never had a real relationship, but somehow he inspired me to join."
"Things like that happen sometimes," Kenshi answered.
"Just by looking through my ancestors' past just made me want to become a swordsman."
"True," Alex agreed. They stayed
silent for a brief moment, just holding each other and listening to nothing but their rhythmic breathing.
Then, Kenshi
said, "Do you want to go in my room?"
"Sure," Alex answered after a few seconds.
They left the lounge and left
towards Kenshi's room. They talked a little more about family and life. The conversation ended when they began to make out.
Later that night, their love has consummated.
***
Late that night, Jax and Sonya walk down the hallway towards
their room to rest for the night.
"Cyrax should contact me any minute," Jax said.
That's when the radio went
off. "Cyrax to Jax, come in."
"Speak of the devil," Sonya said as Jax picked up his radio.
"Jax here."
"Hey,"
Cyrax said. "Well, I'm almost out of this scary forest, I can finally see a town coming up."
"What have you been doing?"
Jax asked. "You've been there since one o'clock Earth time."
"Actually, since midnight Earth time, so I've been there
for eleven hours. So I took a nap and ate, sue me," Cyrax laughed.
"As long as you're all right," Jax said.
"Yeah,
the scary trees haven't...what the...AAHHH!!! Get off of me! Get..." Suddenly, the radio was cut off.
"Cyrax!" Sonya
cried out.
"Cyrax, are you there?" Jax said into the radio. "Cyrax, this is Major Jax Briggs, are you all right? Cyrax?"
The
only reply coming from the radio was silence.
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