2 The world gone to hell pt.1

The scene opens in a cave adorned with stone statues. The camera pans down to show various human-like figures, who are in fact the Elder Gods. Johnny Cage begins a narration.

"Millions of years ago, Shinnok, one of the Elder Gods, turned on his fellow deities and invaded the Earthrealm."

The camera finishes it's pan down, revealing Shinnok cowering before five of the Elder Gods, who's statues tower over him. The scene cuts toa shot of a chain, and the camera pans up to show Shinnok imprisoned in them amongst stone depictions of hellish scenery.

"Raiden and the Elder Gods stopped Shinnok. Locked him up in the Netherrealm."

The shot fades into another, a slow pan over a stone warhammer that reveals Outworld's most notorious emperor.

"Others followed in Shinnok's footsteps, like Outworld's emperor Shao Kahn, who was obsessed with conquering Earthrealm."

Cut to a shot of a Raiden statue, poised to fight, with the Mortal Kombat's iconic dragon logo behind him. On opposite sides of the logo stand statues of Goro and Shang Tsung.

"So Raiden convinced the Elder Gods to enact the Mortal Kombat tournament as a way to even the odds... give Earthrealm a chance."

The camera pans past Raiden to center on the logo itself, then it fades into a shot of Kano dueling Sonya, before circling around a depiction of Johnny facing three Tarkatans at once.

"For generations, Shao Kahn followed the Elder Gods' rules. The war moved to the arena, where he sent his toughest fighters to challenge Raiden's greatest defenders in Mortal Kombat."

The camera pans over to Liu Kang punching a hole in Shao Kahn's chest, with the background noise of the fight sounding out over Johnny's narration.

"Two years ago, we beat him."

In the background noise, Liu Kang's final blow of the bout is heard, as is Shao Kahn's death scream.

"But Shao Kahn wasn't ready to lose."

Cut to another shot of statues, this one showing Tarkatans attacking Earthrealm's military forces. The screams and sounds of slaughter are once again heard in the background.

"He violated the rules of Mortal Kombat and invaded Earthrealm."

Fade into a deception of some of the fallen bodies of the Forces of Light - Liu Kang, Kitana, Kung Lao and Jax laying broken on the ground.

"Most of Earth's defenders - our friends - were killed. Turned into evil undead warriors."

Fade into the statue of Shao Kahn, now ensnared and being bitten by dragon serpents - the Elder Gods incorporeal form. His mighty Warhammer falls to his side and out of frame. The statue begins to crumble into pieces.

"Despite the odds, we stopped Shao Kahn's invasion. As punishment, the Elder Gods destroyed him."

As the camera pans up to his face, we hear one last cry of defeat from Kahn as his statue completely falls apart. The camera cuts to and circles around another statue, this one holding a familiar-looking amulet with an emerald at its center.

"We thought the long nightmare was over. But it turns out that Shinnok had been manipulating events."

The camera finishes panning up to Shinnok's face and shows a statue of Quan Chi over his shoulder.

"Shao Kahn's invasion, his death... all part of Shinnok's plan to escape the Netherrealm and resume his war on the Elder Gods."

The camera slowly zooms into Shinnok's face, and the statue's eyes begin to glow with unholy fire, turning from red to yellow and finally white. As they do so, the screen fades to white as well. It fades into an Earthrealm city in Japan devastated by war. A dead soldier falls on his front, an ugly gaping hole where his face should be. Others run past his body, and suddenly a large flying beast that resembles a gargoyle grabs one of these soldiers, lifts him into the air, and drops him. Another soldier is tackled into the concrete by a demon moving almost too fast to see. Several other soldiers meet the same fate. One soldier pauses long enough to open fire at the flying beasts with his assault rifle. He gains nothing for his efforts except the ire of one beast who lands on a nearby overturned car. As he turns to it, the hell beast lets out an unholy roar of terror and grabs the now-screaming soldier by his head, tearing it off his body. As the beast drops his head from its toes and roams the evening sky, it is shot by high-powered bullets from a helicopter's gatling gun. The monster squeals and falls dead to the ground below as several helicopters fly towards the screen. Inside the helicopter, Sonya Blade is co-piloting. Johnny Cage walks up to her seat and leans on both it and the seat of the pilot's, staring into the world beyond the windscreen. The pilot speaks

"Destination dead ahead."

Johnny quips for some humor

"Set 'er down nice and easy for me."

"Don't I always?"

"If by "always" you mean "not once"."

They both share a chuckle at this comment. Cage looks over to Sonya. He is worried she didn't try to shut him up or jump in he asks

"Major?"

Sonya looks at him, then rises from her seat. She strides to the back of the helicopter where six other soldiers are taking their seats. Also, among them is the blind swordsman known only as Kenshi, who remains standing. Johnny looks on in admiration as Sonya walks up to her men. She turns around and flashes him a smile, and he walks up to join them. She has a command of authority in her voice

"Alright, you have the rendezvous coordinates. The far edge of the forest. From there, we access the portal to Raiden's Sky temple."

Johnny adds wheatear as comedy or being helpful

"Where there's an angry former Elder God and his devils waiting for us."

One soldier seated among them doesn't appear to quite believe what he's hearing or what's happening around him. He says shaking his head

"Gods, portals, flying demons..."

Johnny adds if not for a sense of comedy while eyeing Kenshi

"Blind guys with magic swords..."

Kenshi turns in his direction at this. Which scares the ever-living shit out of a few people and remarks

"The world has changed. For the worse, if we do not expel Shinnok from Raiden's temple. He means to poison Earthrealm's life force – the Jinsei."

Sonya says in a commanding tone

"And we're not gonna let that happen."

Johnny smiles adding

"Kenshi and I appreciate the Major allowing us to join you. We're happy to help kick Shinnok's bony ass back to the Netherrealm."