Kano had been defeated in a
battle with Special Forces agent Sonya Blade during Shao Kahn's
invasion of Earth realm. Shao Kahn incarcerated Kano for this
failure, but later hastily promoted him to General when he
prevented the Emperor's assassination at the hands of the Shokan
warrior known as Sheeva. With the merging of Earth realm and
Outworld not yet complete, Shao Kahn ordered Kano to portal back
to the last remnants of Outworld to gather more troops for the
final push against the Earth realm opposition.
Kano and Sonya had fought before. Although
Kano was humiliated by his defeat at her hands so many years
ago, this time the outcome would be different...
Kano had stolen Quan Chi's amulet at the
request of Shang Tsung. With the amulet in his possession, Kano
came to the realization that he was now in total control of the
revived undefeatable army. Rather than hand the amulet and the
army over to Shang Tsung, Kano kept them for himself, and used
the army to ambush Sonya, ending their long rivalry once and for
all.