In the Black Dragon's warehouse, Kano supervises his cartel as they prepare to ship stolen robotics to an undisclosed location. However, Sonya Blade has infiltrated the warehouse and transmits her report to Jax.

Jax and Kano awake from the explosion while the gunfight between Stryker's men and the Black Dragon clan continues. Meanwhile, Sonya enters a security control room where she observes Kano running from Jax on a CCTV monitor and flees to find them.

After unsuccessfully trying to sell his reality television pilot pitch to a studio executive, Johnny Cage, an American action-hero movie star who has fallen on hard times, is recruited by Shang Tsung to fight in the upcoming Mortal Kombat tournament.

Beautiful, athletic and trained as highly skilled assassins, Kitana and Mileena have grown up thinking that they are sisters. However, Shao Kahn, Emperor of the Outworld, has tricked Shang Tsung into cloning Mileena as a Tarkatan clone of Kitana.

Despite Mileena's growing resentment towards Kitana, Shao Kahn uses them to destroy all who threaten his rule. However, when they come across King Jerrod on one of their missions, they finally learn the truth about their mother and father.

When Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of Earth, finds himself in a mental institution in the year 2011, his "delusions" are treated with an ECT machine and an ice pick. His only hope is escape is Blue, a beautiful yet insane fellow inmate.