Mortal Kombat
Author's Note: Hey, what's up, Fanfiction readers. I'm going to write a Fanfiction adaptation of Mortal Kombat 9 (2011). As you know, Mortal Kombat 9 is one of the best fighting games of all time and it is considered to be the best Mortal Kombat game. Don't get me wrong, Mortal Kombat's Story Mode is good and it inspired for many future fighting game story modes, such as Tekken 7 or the Injustice series, but let's be real, it has some major narrative flaws, due to the many retcons to the original timeline. For example, Why Mileena is created during MKII while it was clearly established in the previous games that she was raised alongside Kitana? Why Sub-Zero enters the tournament to avenge his brother's death rather than being sent to assassinate Shang Tsung? Why Sub-Zero is taken by the Lin Kuei and gets cyberized in the process? Why the Earthrealm warriors didn't attack Sindel first before she killed nearly all of them? And why Shao Kahn is the victor of Armageddon instead of Taven? That's a huge problem in the game's story. Many of important story arcs from the original game are suddenly thrown away and replaced with new, inferior ones.
To fix some of the issues found in the story, I have decided to keep most of the storylines from the original timeline, as it was handled much better than the new one, because time travel doesn't go backwards. I'm pretty sure Ed Boon and the writers didn't think about this when they wrote the story. However, the story mode does have its moments, such as Kitana and Liu Kang fighting each other during the first Mortal Kombat Tournament or the scene where Raiden defeats Shao Kahn at the end, but I think it could have been done better.
I will be taking some creative liberties of the game's story and IshyRose's Mortal Kombat (2008) will be used as an inspiration for this story. All credit goes to IshRose for writing such a great story. I intended to alter things seen in the story while keeping it somewhat faithful to the original MK9, making this version of MK9 a consistent retelling of MK1-3. So before we begin with the story, I have wrote a long prologue that recaps the series' story before MK9, from Mortal Kombat 1 to Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. This prologue would be similar to Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign prologue, as it narrates the franchise's complicated story. So, with that said, let's get into the prologue. I hope you enjoy this.
Disclaimer: I do not own Mortal Kombat or its characters. They belong to Ed Boon, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment and Netherrealm Studios.
Prologue
Recollection of Battle
A long time ago, there existed only the Elder Gods and the One Being. The One Being gained his power by draining it from the Elder Gods and consuming them in the process. Eventually, the Elder Gods set aside their differences and launched their attack on the One Being, using the six weapons known as the Kamidogu. The Kamidogu were split into six pieces and these pieces became the realms, among them were Earthrealm, Outworld, Edenia and Netherrealm.
Although the One Being was split into pieces, it's consciousness survived and would go to influence powerful individuals, causing greed, destruction and conquest. Centuries later, Shinnok, one of the Elder Gods, turned against his fellow Elder Gods and invaded Earthrealm. Raiden and the Elder Gods were able to stop Shinnok and imprison him in the Netherrealm. Others had followed in Shinnok's footsteps, such as emperor of Outworld, Shao Kahn, who planned in invading Earthrealm.
To prevent this, Raiden had to convince the Elder Gods to enact the Mortal Kombat tournament to defend Earthrealm and rallied its best fighters in the White Lotus Society. Shao Kahn had sent his sorcerer Shang Tsung to represent Outworld in the tournament, but he was defeated by the Great Kung Lao. The Great Kung Lao had kept his title as Champion for one generation before he was defeated and killed by Shang Tsung's pupil, the four-armed Shokan Goro.
For nine generations, the Mortal Kombat tournament was ruled by Goro, until the warrior monk, Liu Kang, faced Goro and defeated him in kombat, thus becoming the new Mortal Kombat Champion. Afterwards, Liu Kang confronted Shang Tsung and emerged victorious. With Shang Tsung's defeat, Earthrealm was saved.
But his victory was short lived as he and his comrades found themselves lured into the Outworld to compete in a second tournament. Liu Kang defeated Shao Kahn and saved Earthrealm once more. However, little did they know that the tournament was merely a diversion. A scheme devised by the dark Emperor to break the rules set forth by the Elder Gods and witness the reincarnation of his former Queen Sindel on Earthrealm.
This act gave Shao Kahn the power to step through the dimensional gates and reclaim his queen, thus enabling him to finally seize the Earth. With Earthrealm merged with Outworld, Shao Kahn was able to strip the billions of the souls of Earthrealm's inhabitants. Only a few were spared, as their souls were protected by Raiden, and were chosen as the warriors of Earthrealm.
Eventually, Liu Kang confronted Shao Kahn and face him in Mortal Kombat, and Sindel was freed from Kahn´s grasp. With his final defeat, Earthrealm was saved once more and Edenia regained its independence from Outworld and Sindel regained her rightful place on the throne, vowing to rebuild her realm.
After the defeat of Shao Kahn, Shinnok has managed to escape from the Netherrealm with help from the sorcerer Quan Chi, and was seeking vengeance against the Elder Gods who banished him. In his plan, he conquered the realm of Edenia, as part of his scheme to launch his attack on the Heavens as an audacious act of vengeance, murdering several of the Elder Gods and many of the lesser gods for his suffering in the Netherrealm and to finally end the war.
Fujin and Raiden escaped to Earthrealm and rallied the Earthrealm warriors to the Netherrealm Invasion. During the battle, Shinnok faced against Raiden and defeated him, trapping him inside the Jinsei Chamber, but Liu Kang fought against Shinnok and Quan Chi and freed Raiden, allowing him to defeat Shinnok and banish him back to the Netherrealm.
Years later, A new threat came in the form of the Deadly Alliance. Quan Chi, having escaped from the Netherrealm, unlocked the secret of the ancient runestone, including the existence of the Dragon King's army. He approached Shang Tsung with an offer to join forces. Together with their combined strengths, they plotted to overpower their two foes who could one day prevent their total domination of ruling the realms, Shao Kahn and Liu Kang. However, the Shao Kahn they killed was a clone and the real Shao Kahn went into hiding.
With their enemies out of the way, Quan Chi used his amulet to open the Soulnado, a portal to the Heavens through which Shang Tsung summoned the souls of countless warriors to animate the army of the Dragon King. They planned to invade Earthrealm with the army. In order to protect Earthrealm once again, Raiden forfeited his seat as an Elder God and rallied the Earthrealm warriors to stop this impending threat.
Their attack against the sorcerers was a faliure and Raiden´s warriors were killed during the attack. Raiden fought Quan Chi and Shang Tsung alone, but was ultimately defeated by their combined power. Shang Tsung and Quan Chi´s victory was short lived as they quickly turned on each other and fought to gain control of the Dragon King's army.
Quan Chi emerged victorious, but his victory was short lived, as the Dragon King, Onaga, returned to Outworld. Before his death at the hands of Shao Kahn, Onaga wished to live forever; using the last dragon egg, his followers formed a spell that would transfer his body into the tiny dragon inside and with it, be granted eternal life. Centuries later, the egg Onaga was imprisoned in hatched. He resumed his physical form by merging with the Saurian warrior Syzoth, also known as Reptile.
Quan Chi, Shang Tsung and Raiden attempted to stop Onaga, but quickly the Dragon King was making his advance towards them. Realizing that they were unable to defeat the Dragon King even with their combined power, Raiden released all of his godly essence to destroy the Dragon King, sacrificing his life. Unfortunately, his sacrifice was in vain as the explosion had little effect on the Dragon King who was now in possession of Shinnok's amulet. There was only one person who could stop this threat; his name was Shujinko.
As a child, Shujinko was tricked by Onaga to gather all six Kamidogu, and for decades, Shujinko learned the abilities of various kombatants in his quest. Upon completing his quest, he planned on presenting them to the Elder Gods. It was then that Onaga revealed the truth about the quest and took the Kamidogu for himself. Onaga revived the previously deceased warriors as his pawns and used them and a newly-forged alliance with the Tarkatan horde preventing Edenia's army from interfering with his plans.
Upon learning that Shujinko had foolishly unleashed the Dragon King, Raiden, now corrupted from his encounter with Onaga and tainted with Onaga's dark magic, decided he was going to punish those who placed Earthrealm in harm's way, starting with Shujinko. Raiden attempted to slay Shujinko for his errors, but was defeated. Shujinko then rallied the remaining warriors against him and in a moment absorbed their combined fighting power. He then shattered each of the six Kamidogu and defeated Onaga with the combined powers of all the warriors. Liu Kang´s spirit freed all of his friends from Onaga's control with the help of Ermac.
However, this victory would not last, as the realms drew near into Armageddon, the final conflict between the Forces of Light and Forces of Darkness. The entity, Blaze, sounded the call to awaken the participants of the quest set forth by his creators Argus and Delia. Centuries before the Mortal Kombat tournament, Delia had predicted that the warriors would one day grow too powerful and numerous and their intensifying Kombat would bring upon the destruction of all the realms, bringing about the Apocalypse. For this reason, Argus had a pyramid constructed underground at the crater, while Delia created Blaze. They also had their sons, Taven and Daegon, put into suspended sleep when the time came.
Centuries later, Taven finally awoke from his slumber, only to discover that his intended contest against Daegon had gone completely wrong. During this time, Quan Chi assembled the Forces of Darkness, such as Shao Kahn, Shinnok, Onaga and Shang Tsung, to claim the prize. Raiden struck a deal with Shao Kahn and agreeing to let the Emperor of Outworld conquer and rule all other realms, so long as Earthrealm was left alone. In return, Raiden agreed to hunt and eliminate Taven for Kahn, so that he could claim Blaze's godlike power for himself. Raiden confronted Taven as the evil warlords escaped to Edenia, but he was defeated.
Shinnok alerted the many combatants to the prize at the top of the Pyramid of Argus, telling them that whoever obtained this power would be granted godlike power. The Forces of Darkness united in order to claim this power, whilst the Forces of Light united in order to either stop evil or claim the power for themselves for their own ends. As Taven made his way to the ruins, he encountered Blaze who revealed the true nature of this quest: to either use the power to destroy all of the Mortal Kombat warriors, or simply strip them of their power. Daegon revealed that it was he who had killed their parents over the prize and both brothers fought within the ruins with tremendous ferocity. Eventually, Taven was victorious and killed Daegon to avenge his parents' deaths.
However, the Battle of Armageddon had begun. The Forces of Light and Darkness fought in a gigantic battle, and during the battle, the warriors clashing within the crater were suddenly stopped as the huge pyramid placed by Argus millennia earlier rose from the ground, with Blaze, now empowered and huge in size, waiting at the top. The warriors began to make their way to the top, fighting amongst themselves and turning on each other in order to claim the prize. Taven took his sword and made his way into the crater himself, in order to defeat Blaze. Eventually, Taven fought his way to the top of the pyramid and managed to kill Blaze.
The energy released by Blaze's death passed through Taven, transforming him into a full god. The surge of power then passed through the armor that was given to him by Delia and passed into every kombatant. Though this energy was to have one of two outcomes on them, death or annulment of their powers, a third, unforeseen outcome resulted. Instead of nullifying the kombatants' power, it made them stronger than before. They all ended up killing each other, except for Raiden, Shao Kahn and Taven. Shao Kahn came to the top of the pyramid and mortally wounded Taven. In his last breath, Taven told Raiden to defeat Shao Kahn himself. After Taven's death, Raiden engaged in a final battle with Shao Kahn to decide the fate of Earthrealm, but was defeated and mortally wounded.