Raiden returns to Earthrealm, now a mortal, and gather the realm's forces to join the tournament. Raiden also asks to be allowed to participate in the tournament as a contestant, in exchange for his immortality. Raiden and Shao Kahn appear in front of the Elder Gods and ask to declare a new tournament. Kuai Liang manages to escape but Smoke is left behind, being initiated by the cyborgs.

He shows Cyrax and Sektor, who were declared missing, now in cybernetic form, ready to transform the duo into one of them. In the Lin Kuei's temple, the grandmaster orders Kuai Liang and Smoke to capture Scorpion under the contract of an unnamed employer. Shinnok explains that the key Scorpion obtained in the island has bound with his soul, and asks him to enter Earthrealm to open the Temple of Elements and bring the artifact that it protects.

Scorpion returns to the Netherrealm after the collapse of Shang Tsung's Island and is received by Shinnok. Shao Kahn arrives and asks Raiden to go to the Elder Gods with him asking for a new tournament that will end the endless cycles of brutality, Raiden agrees. Kung Lao, Curtis Stryker, Jax Briggs, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Liu Kang and Raiden form Earthrealm's resistance and manage to counter Outworld's offensive. Years later, after the conclusion of the Mortal Kombat tournament, Shao Kahn throws Outworld's forces against Earthrealm, accompained by Kitana, Kintaro, Reiko, Jade and Baraka. A couple is attacked and killed by tarkatans, only for Raiden to appear and save the couple's child, at her last grasp, the mother names the boy 'Liu Kang'.

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