I DO NOT OWN MORTAL KOMBAT, OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY. THEY ARE THE PROPERTY OF MIDWAY.
Most people in New York City would have said it was a Monday in July like any other; hot and hectic. People were rushing to work, groaning in traffic, and generally being unpleasant with each other. They didn't know that in just a little under an hour, their whole existence would be erased from the planet, and the only proof that they had existed in the first place would be left in their abandoned homes. The only people who would live to tell of them, would be those who were unfortunate enough to be spared, and live through events the of the upcoming days.
It would be nice to be able to say that the government had no idea what was coming, but they had been warned. They were warned by both Sonya Blade and Jackson "Jax" Briggs, both of whom has proudly served in the United States Special Forces for years. It was a long and complicated story, and one that would hardly be believable to most who heard it. The story went that the Earth was a Realm (Earthrealm), and that they were in severe danger of being invaded by another realm (one called Outworld), and that if this happened defeat was inevitable, so it would be the best course of action to be prepared for invasion.
Needless to say they did not believe this story, in fact they laughed in both of their faces. Sonya Blade couldn't really blame them, she would have had a very similar reaction. Except she herself had been held captive in Outworld, and had seen firsthand what madness they were capable of. The Emperor Shao Kahn was on a crusade to conquer as many realms as he could, and the Earthrealm had been his most recent target. Earthrealm had almost fallen once, but the Shaolin warrior Liu Kang had pulled through for his realm, and became the champion of Mortal Kombat. Sonya Blade had hardly forgotten her time in Outworld, as she had been held captive by most evil men imaginable.
Shao Kahn himself was a formidable enemy, but he was served by some of the toughest warriors imaginable. There was the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung, and several other warriors who Sonya had seen coming in and out of the Outworld dungeon. She had served her time in Outworld with Kano, which made the experience all the worse. Kano and Sonya had a very troubled history, and she almost had him in her clutches when he escaped. She knew that he went back to Outworld, but she did not know what fate had befallen him there. Sonya had always hoped she would be the one to get Kano, because he had murdered her partner years ago, and her partner had also happened to have been her fiancé. Since that fateful day Sonya had been determined that she would be the one to kill Kano, and that was also her main motivation for entering the Mortal Kombat tournament in the first place.
She was captured shortly after that, and only released when her friends had rescued her. Liu Kang defeated Shao Kahn, and Kung Lao, Sub-Zero, Jax, Johnny Cage, and Princess Kitana had freed her from prison. It didn't go well for them though, and Johnny Cage was caught by Shao Kahn's guards as they escaped the realm. Sonya felt severe guilt at the death of her good friend Johnny Cage, and couldn't help but feel a little bit of responsibility for his death. They all agreed that Shao Kahn would not let such a humiliating defeat stand, and that their realm was in danger of more of his trickery. The Protector of Earthrealm, Raiden, had told them to warn their government. Raiden was on the lookout for any more warriors who could be of assistance to them when Shao Kahn invaded. They were all ordered to stay within the United States, so that they could band together when the time came. They were each located in a different part of New York city, and they all knew where to rendezvous when the time came. The thing was, when would that time be?