Cassie Cage/Synopsis

The story of Cassie Cage from Mortal Kombat.
==Early life==
Sometime after Shinnok's defeat, Johnny and Sonya give birth to Cassie. Her parents separated when her mother's increased work commitments caused her father to become irate as Sonya never bothered to live with Johnny and Cassie leading to a divorce.
==Mortal Kombat X comics==
In Johnny Cage's condo, Cassie makes her debut, going up against her friend Jacqui Briggs. The two girls engage in a verbal and physical sparring match until Cassie unexpectedly delivers her father's Shadow Kick, startling both of them. Cassie ignores Jacqui's observation that she damaged one of Johnny's medals and launches into a tirade about how strict her mother Sonya is.
Later on in the evening, Cassie brings Jacqui to a fight club for adults only. While Cassie is fearless and bravely rushes through the queue to the bouncer at the door, giving him money to let them in, Jacqui is anxious about being discovered. Cassie shows Jacqui a match between two ladies at the arena and expresses her belief that they can defeat them. As Cassie heads to the restroom to sign up, Jacqui follows her, terrified and telling her it's not mixed martial arts (MMA) but rather a deathmatch. Cassie stops to put on her gloves.
When an announcer verifies Jacqui's statements, Cassie loses her mind. Cassie then screams as the spotlight comes down on them and two bouncers seize the females. After being thrown into the cage, Cassie reacts by flipping off the spectators and claiming to be the best fighter there when the announcer makes light of her father's acting. When the speaker lists Cassie's opponent's victories and the cryomancer Frost shows up in front of her, she is taken aback. 
Frost is putting Cassie through a really rough time. As Cassie is ready to be finished by Frost, she manages to land a headbutt, sweep kick, and submission hold on her, choking her until she passes out. Cassie declines to finish Frost despite demands from the audience and announcer. In response to threats against Jacqui and Cassie, Cassie complies aggressively, putting her foot down on Frost's throat. Cassie apologizes in a regretful whisper. Before Cassie can finish her opponent, the ceiling of the club explodes.
Initially relieved, Cassie believes it's her mother, but she quickly becomes terrified and starts tugging Frost away from her in an attempt to flee when she spots two warriors brandishing swords and an axe on the crowd. When Jacqui catches up to her, the two girls escape outside with Frost. As they pause to collect their breath, Cassie answers questions from Jacqui and tells her that she almost killed Frost, which is why she wanted to save her. She then apologizes to Jacqui for bringing her to the club. The two warriors approach the girls, and Cassie yells for Jacqui to go once more after disclosing their connection to the Black Dragon. 
Cassie begs Jacqui for her phone as they sprint and acknowledges they won't be able to outrun their assailants by taking a picture of herself from behind. After that, Cassie and Jacqui are drawn into an Outworld gateway, and Cassie is able to let go of her phone right before she vanishes. It is revealed that Cassie and Jacqui are in Outworld, being led deeper into a jungle by Black Dragon troops with cloaks over their heads and their wrists bound with rope. Cassie attempts to break free by pretending to have a sprained ankle to gain the upper hand on a Black Dragon. Then, she kicks and headbutts the dragon in the groin, yelling for him to release her.
Before Cassie can make her getaway, Kano uses a single eye beam from his optic implant to render her unconscious. Another Black Dragon soldier carries Cassie's unconscious body, but he is slain and Cassie is left on the ground when Red Dragon forces under Mavado's command show up—they are after the girls. Amidst the intense argument between the Black and Red Dragon clans over who will possess them, Cassie and Jacqui are pretending to be unconscious. Cassie is shocked when Jacqui suggests that the clans run blind with their hands bound because she knows they will soon fight. Cassie and Jacqui get up when the two clans go to battle, with Cassie deciding to run.
Erron Black, the gunslinger who actually carried out their kidnapping, releases them from their confines as she is asking which way, offering to let them go if they agree to fight. Cassie battles the Red Dragon soldiers, but Jacqui decides to take on Erron instead. Cassie helps her friend get back up after Kano uses a single blow to knock Jacqui down in order to get the Portal Stone from Erron, all the while grabbing a rifle from one of the Black Dragon soldiers. Once Mavado uses his hookswords to take down the gunslinger after Kano abandons Black, Cassie draws the attention of the Red Dragon and they both open fire, taking out multiple Mavado soldiers but missing Mavado, thus using up all of their ammunition.
Mavado lunges towards the girls, ripping a wound in Cassie's arm with his hooksword. However, Cassie manages to kick his kneecap, shattering it, when Jacqui grabs onto him. As Jacqui yells at Cassie to finish Mavado, she takes up one of his swords. Cassie strikes Mavado's abdomen with a rising slash, causing his internal organs to spill out and killing him instantly. Even after Mavado is killed, Cassie and Jacqui are taken prisoner by the rest of his army, transported to Shang Tsung's island, and shown to Reiko along with the chaos cleric Havik, who serves as his spiritual advisor. 
As Havik talks with Skarlet about Cassie's heritage and untapped power, he shows her in Cassie, chained and disheveled in a prison cell on Shang Tsung's island. He notes that fighting will bring out Cassie's power and allow the chaos cleric to claim it for himself. After that, Cassie is taken to a different location and chained to the floor by Havik to watch while Skarlet hits Jacqui. To Cassie's dismay, Jacqui is rendered unconscious despite her calls for her friend to flee. When Cassie questions Havik about why he is torturing them, the cleric of chaos replies that it's because Johnny Cage is her father.
When Cassie taunts him by asking if he wants an autograph, Havik responds that he wants power—more precisely, the kind of power found in Johnny Cage's lineage, which gave him the ability to defeat Shinnok. Havik asks Cassie if Jacqui's life is meaningless because he knows that this power can be unleashed when those who possess it witness their loved ones in danger. Cassie begs Havik, pointing out that she does not have her father's power. Havik speculates that Cassie hasn't endured enough suffering to unlock it yet. After returning to her cell, Cassie hears footsteps outside the door and moves to face it. With a bang, the door opens, catching Cassie by the nose just before a boot slams into her jaw.
With her best friend's eyes glimmering red, Jacqui abruptly grabs Cassie and informs her that Skarlet will use the Blood Code to save them, shocking Cassie when she realizes it's her. When Skarlet shows up, Cassie declares her to be insane and tells Jacqui to hold her. Skarlet informs Cassie that her parents will arrive shortly, but her efforts are in vain. As Cassie begins to threaten Skarlet, Skarlet stabs her in the chest with a kamidogu, causing Cassie to scream and attain the Blood Code. 
Cassie attacked Sonya and Johnny when they arrived on the island, claiming it to be their new home while also claiming Reiko to be their new god. Despite Sonya's best efforts to talk sense into Cassie's head by reassuring her that she was only there to take her home, Cassie simply asked, "Which home?" before launching an assault on her mother. Despite being affected by the Blood Code, Sonya easily parried every attack from Cassie and knocked her to the ground. Cassie would see Mileena and the Tarkata arrive on the island during their fight. 
While Cassie keeps fighting her mother, she gets kicked and given an energy blast. But Cassie heals with the Blood Code corrupting her. Later, Cassie would see firsthand how the arrival of Raiden tainted by the Blood Code, as the thunder god single-handedly rendered all of the fighters in attendance helpless with a hail of blood-red lightning bolts. Cassie watches from Havik's side as Raiden attacks Mileena, Kotal Kahn, and her parents. Cassie joins Havik as the chaos cleric gets ready to perform the ritual that will elevate Reiko to godhood after Havik commands the Red Dragons to gather the fighters who are unconscious and bring them back to the throne room.
As part of the ritual, Reiko drinks some blood and Cassie stabs him with a Kamidogu. As Reiko celebrates his newfound godhood and consumes a hundred of Mileena and Kotal Kahn's forces as a tribute to himself, Cassie, Jacqui, and Raiden look on. Speaking jointly with Jacqui and Raiden, Cassie informs the general that the Blood Code only bestows power through suffering as Reiko's body starts to sew itself apart from the agony of starvation for tributes. Cassie watches as Havik tears Shinnok's amulet from his body, his plan comes to fruition, Reiko dies a horrible death. 
Cassie and the other champions enslaved by the Blood Code observe as Havik unleashes the amulet's power on some Shokan scouts who were spying on them. When Havik uses the amulet to attack Queen Sheeva's ship, Cassie is on the beach and gives Jacqui a high five as the ship explodes. Going back to the island throne room, Cassie grabs one of the Kamidogu and stands over her mother who is bound. At Havik's command, Cassie also enslaves Sonya to the Blood Code by stabbing her. 
Havik is about to use Ermac's souls to charge Shinnok's amulet, enabling it to break through Raiden's cosmic barriers that defend the Netherrealm from invasion, just then Takeda Takahashi shows up and uses his new whips to cut off the chaos cleric's hand that is holding the amulet. At Havik's request, Cassie and Jacqui charge for Takeda while making fun of him for being raised by assassins. Using one of his whips, Takeda quickly captures Cassie and tosses her into Jacqui. He then puts the two girls in submission holds, knocking them out. Cassie wakes up as Havik is torturing Takeda with Shinnok's amulet. Erron Black, bringing D'Vorah and reinforcements from Outworld, shoots the relic out of Takeda's hand.
Havik makes Cassie fight the Outworld invaders, alongside Jacqui against the Tigar Shokan Kintaro, punching the Shokan champion in the groin and when Sonya joins Cassie and Jacqui after becoming possessed, Cassie assists Jacqui in putting a hold on Kintaro so Sonya can rip the Shokan champion's head off. When Cassie and everyone else under Havik's influence are freed from the Blood Code a short while later, she is startled to see her mother Sonya. Cassie stays close to her father and Jacqui as the assembled warriors form small groups, but her mother pulls her.
Cassie bows her head in shame as Sonya starts berating her for leaving the base without telling anyone. When Cassie calls Sonya by her rank, Sonya reminds Cassie that she is her mother and pulls her into an embrace, telling her that she loves her too much to lose her. With joy, Cassie gives Sonya a hug back and calls her mother to let her know she too loves her. While Cassie is telling Sonya about her death match, Kotal Kahn and Raiden show up to talk to Sonya. Cassie gladly heads back to her father and Jacqui, giving her mother a salute.
A week following Reiko's passing, Cassie watches Jacqui's reunion with her parents while she is with her parents. Johnny asks Cassie if she would like to go on a father-daughter retreat, but she says no, wanting to start spending more time with her mother on the base. Cassie then obediently obeys Sonya's request that she move out.
==Mortal Kombat X==
Under her mother's leadership as a general, Cassie rises to the rank of sergeant in the Special Forces, going on missions with Jacqui. Her father assembles a group that includes herself as the leader, Cassie's closest friend Jacqui Briggs, Kung Jin and Takeda Takahashi. Cassie and her group are assigned to the Lin Kuei temple for their first mission, which is to determine whether Sub-Zero is still an ally. Jin ignores her attempts to rally the group for a surprise attack and goes up to the Grandmaster while he and his men are meditating. Cassie tries to talk sense into Sub-Zero's head as they find themselves unexpectedly surrounded. Jin and the others launch an attack without Cassie's permission when he declines.
Sub-Zero defeats all four of them, and they are bound. Cassie warns him that he will get into trouble if he kills them. To their astonishment, he grants their request and releases them. When they see Johnny, they understand that the mission was just a ruse to see how well Sub-Zero could put their team together. He warns Cassie that while she and her allies have potential, they will not be successful if they do not begin to work together. After that, Sonya calls the group back to headquarters, where they run into Li Mei, the Outworld refugee leader.
They find out from her that Li Mei's village was destroyed because Mileena possesses Shinnok's amulet but is unable to control its power. Sonya dispatches Cassie and her team to Outworld in order to have Kotal Kahn verify that Li Mei's account is accurate. The group is "greeted" by Earthrealm mercenary Erron Black, who works for Kotal Kahn. When he presses them to explain what they are doing, Cassie responds that they are Raiden's emissaries bearing his official seal. Jin persuades Erron to spare them and bring them to Kotal Kahn even though Erron does not believe them. They come upon an upcoming execution of a bread thief while traveling.
When Jin steps in, a brawl breaks out between the Outworlders and the team. Once Jin defeats Erron Black as well as Ferra and Torr, D'Vorah shows up and requests that they hold off while she goes to get the emperor. Jin responds angrily, saying that not all thieves are irredeemable because he was once a thief, to Cassie's demand that he explain why he would risk everything for a bread thief. Cassie tells Kotal Kahn about Mileena having the amulet and the Outworld refugees when he gets there. The emperor starts to worry, though, that they might be siding with the rebel commander. Jin then requests a game to clear the team of all charges. When Jin accepts, Kotal Kahn wins the bout. They then agree to cooperate in order to put an end to Mileena's uprising.
After that, Cassie gets a call from Sonya, who has just learned something from questioning Kano. Mileena is located in the Kuatan Jungle, with numerous Tarkatan soldiers encircling her. D'Vorah advises that she break into the camp covertly in order to take the amulet while Kotal Kahn gets ready for an assault. Then, after Cassie persists that she accompany the Kytinn, D'vorah initially objects, but Kotal Kahn grants it because of his obligation to her team.
Cassie and D'Vorah sneak into the rebel camp during the fighting and ambush Rain. Acknowledging that Mileena would be hurt each time she used Shinnok's amulet and eventually die, Rain admits that he gave her the advice to do so. He intends to seize the throne for himself after both sides have fallen. Afterwards, Tanya ambushes Cassie and knocks her unconscious, leaving D'Vorah to battle and eliminate both Edenians by herself. Cassie intervenes just as she is about to kill them, and they proceed into the main tent. To Cassie's disgust, D'Vorah uses her insects to unlock the lock on the chest that holds the amulet. But when Mileena shows up, the Kytinn fights her, leaving Cassie to handle the lock.
Mileena is defeated by D'Vorah and carried to Kotal Kahn. As D'Vorah uses her flesh-eating parasites to kill Mileena, Cassie and her group look on in horror. Then, ready to return to Earthrealm with the amulet, they are apprehended by Kotal Kahn, who claims he does not trust them with the amulet and intends to use them as bait for Raiden. While confined inside a ship, the four of them divulge a little bit about who they are. Being Sonya's daughter is difficult for Cassie, who admits that she constantly feels like a lesser Cage.
When an Osh-Tekk approaches to throw them some food, Takeda uses telepathy to overwhelm the guard's senses, knocking him out cold. He then takes the keys to liberate himself and his allies. They spy on Reptile, Ermac, and Erron Black while they flee, and they discover that D'Vorah has betrayed Kotal Kahn by stealing Shinnok's amulet. Then, this time as a team, they take on Kotal Kahn's goons. The four of them flee before their adversaries have a chance to heal after Takeda defeats them all. They get in touch with Kenshi in the jungle, telling him that D'Vorah is headed for the Sea of Blood. 
Jax surmises that the Kytinn is en route to rendezvous with Quan Chi in order to liberate Shinnok from his amulet while he is in the Netherrealm. Even though D'Vorah is still being pursued by the four of them, her trail goes cold. Cassie later tells her mother that they will attempt to capture the Kytinn after Quan Chi is taken by Jax, but Sonya tells her that they are out of time and instructs her team to return to Earthrealm so they can reorganize and redeploy. However, when they get back, they discover Johnny gone, Quan Chi beheaded, and everyone battered to the ground. Asking her mother where her father is, Cassie runs to her. 
Hanzo Hasashi informs Cassie that Johnny has been taken prisoner by the Shinnok that has been brought back to life and is being transported to the Sky Temple as Sonya begins to lose consciousness. Cassie and her group make their way to the Sky Temple as the last standing protectors of Earthrealm. They witness the sky turning red abruptly as a result of Shinnok tainting the Jinsei. Cassie tries in vain to fix the ship after Jacqui lands it. Then Kotal Kahn shows up, thinking they have joined forces with D'Vorah, and attacks them. They can ambush the Outworld army when the team withdraws into the woods. Kotal Kahn is informed by Jacqui that Shinnok is tainting Earthrealm's life force and that he ought to join them.
However, the emperor declines, thinking that by cultivating favor with Shinnok, he can fortify Outworld's defenses. The Outworld army then surrounds Cassie's group, but Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei come to their aid out of nowhere. The Grandmaster drives Kotal Kahn back to Outworld while praising the four of them for sticking together in the face of overwhelming odds and permitting them to proceed to the Sky Temple. After reaching the temple, the group spies on D'Vorah and the revenants and discovers that Shinnok intends to attack the Heavens in order to vanquish the Elder Gods following his conquest of Earthrealm. Cassie and her group get ready to launch a surprise attack because they know they don't have much time left.
However, when Takeda trips over a rock and hangs there for eternity, their cover is blown. While Jacqui attempts to assist him, Cassie and Jin fight Sindel and Kitana, respectively. The former Edenian queen promises to kill Cassie in order for her to join them, boasting that she can kill Sonya's friends in the blink of an eye. After turning down her offer, Cassie overcomes Sindel. Jin is knocked out by Kitana, and Cassie fights her alongside Takeda and Jacqui, but the princess injures her allies. In order to stop Kitana from killing anyone, she defeats her. The other revenants notice her and Jin as they assist their comrades.
Takeda and Jacqui encourage the others to move forward and give them some extra time. Cassie obeys, despite her concern for her friends, and she and Jin make their way to the Jinsei Chamber. Within, they discover Raiden defeated and restrained, the corrupted Shinnok within Earthrealm's infected life-force, and D'Vorah torturing Johnny with her flesh-eating insects. After Cassie and Jin engage the Kytinn in combat, the archer is rendered unconscious, leaving the soldier to take down D'Vorah by himself. Then she runs to her father and tries to free him, but before he passes out, he tells her to get Shinnok and says he loves her. 
The Elder God then descends from the Jinsei with the intention of murdering Johnny and Cassie. Cassie tries her hardest to combat Shinnok, but she is quickly knocked down and has to watch as Shinnok torments Johnny. Furious, Cassie uses her inherited abilities to defend herself from Shinnok's blow. She overcomes the fallen Elder God and makes him unconscious with her newly acquired strength. They free Raiden and assist him in reaching the Jinsei, where they watch as he restores Earthrealm's life force, after Jin recovers and reunites with Cassie. Then they bring him back out, and Jin tends to the Elder God while Cassie runs to her father. The family is joyfully reunited when Sonya later arrives with the Special Forces and joins with her daughter and Johnny. 
==Mortal Kombat 11==
Sonya promotes Cassie to Commander after she defeats Shinnok. To stop a war between the Netherrealm and Earthrealm, Raiden and Sonya lead an assault on Liu Kang’s and Kitana’s castle. Cassie defeats Revenant Kitana and Revenant Kabal. The Revenant Liu Kang buries her Sonya and her soldiers beneath the debris during the ambush. Cassie tries to help her, but before Sonya sets off the detonator, Sonya tells her to go. Her mother lost her life in the process of helping them escape the Netherrealm and successfully destroy the temple.
The following day, Johnny Cage, Jax, and Sonya's past selves return to Earthrealm as a result of Kronika's time-quake. However, Dark Raiden vanishes from the world. She explained to Raiden how he changed after his arrival on Earthrealm in the past. When young Sonya finds out that her future self was recently killed in combat, she verbally lashes out at Cassie for leaving her mother behind. Cassie responds by saying that she only followed her mother's instructions. The Cyber Initiative attacks Cassie, Sonya, and the Special Forces with help from Kano and his past self. When the older Johnny discovers Cassie, who is hurt but still alive, she tells him that Sonya has been taken prisoner.
Taking control of a tank to combat the Cyber Lin Kuei, Johnny sets out to save her. The Black Dragon has the past Sonya and Johnny in its grasp, and all the Special Forces can do is watch. Luckily, as their plane takes off, Cassie installs a tracker on it. But, Kano had equipped Sektor with a nuclear bomb, which he detonates as he leaves. Raiden arrives just in time to save them, teleporting them to the Shirai Ryu fire gardens just before the explosion. After that, Cassie commands the Special Forces to go save the past versions of Johnny and Sonya from the Black Dragon.
After Cassie and Johnny are treated by a medical team, Johnny extends an invitation to Sonya for dinner in appreciation for saving his life. However, before the three can get away, Geras shows up to confront Sonya and informs her that Kronika sent him to exact revenge on Shinnok for Shinnok's loss to Cassie Cage. Cassie defeats him by ramming him with a forklift, pinning him to a garage door, and then, just for good measure, setting off a grenade. Sonya expresses her regret to Cassie and says it was incorrect of her to hold Cassie responsible for the older Sonya's passing. Geras starts to regenerate as the two embrace, validating Liu Kang and Kung Lao's warning about him and compelling the three to leave right away. 
Cassie informs Raiden that Kronika has her crown as they return to the Fire Garden. Raiden informs her that he is unable to withstand Shinnok's amulet's evil power. When Cassie, Jacqui, and the younger Jax approach Raiden a short while later, he has visions of other timelines in which he fought Liu Kang. He quickly gives up the amulet and informs Cassie and Liu Kang, who are both perplexed, that he has discovered that Kronika has been forcing them to battle in each timeline, with Liu Kang dying in each. 
A combined Earthrealm and Outworld task force assaults Kronika's keep with Kharon’s help. Like the rest of the others in the assault, she succumbs to the temporal reversion because of Kronika's hourglass, resulting in her perishing as Kronika resets time to the beginning.
===Aftermath===
Cassie is shown giving enduring looks to the younger versions of Johnny and Sonya. Thanks to Shang Tsung, Nightwolf and Fujin altering the timeline after being sent back by Liu Kang to obtain Kronika’s crown, a different set of circumstances play out for her. 
They wait for Sheeva and her Shokan army while Jacqui, Nightwolf, both Jax's, and the Special Forces get ready for their last stand at Kronika's Keep. The Shokans, who swore allegiance to Shao Kahn and Sindel, attacked the Special Forces as the portal opened. After that, Cassie was defeated by either Shao Kahn or Sindel and taken prisoner, along with Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade and is never seen again. Though she perishes once again as Liu Kang resets the timeline.
==Fractured Timeline==
According to Liu Kang, a multiverse was created by the battle for the hourglass. As a result different people got its powers and shaped their own timelines as they wished.
In one timeline Cassie used her control of the hourglass to set the timeline back to almost how it should have been. She just removed the Remnant Liu Kang and Kitana from existence to ensure Sonya didn't die. To top it off, Cassie had her parents happily retired and enjoying their lives.
versions of Liu Kang and Kitana; erasing Sonya's death. She also had Johnny be happily retired with Sonya, feeling both her parents had done enough; sharing beer and a barbeque with them.
In another timeline, Sonya made Cassie a god like herself along with Johnny, Jax and Jaqui; ensuring their family could stay together. Cassie advocated for her father to be part of their pantheon, unaware Sonya used it as excuse; she missed Johnny too.
In yet another, Kano ruled and had a gladiator cage pit where Sonya and Cassie were out against each other. Cassie and her mother were forced the humiliation of fighting in bikinis. At least Kano decided to rewrite things again and leave everything just slightly better.
In a fourth, Cassie had an unhappy childhood due to young Johnny screwing up way worse due to his ego never being tempered by Sonya. Thankfully he rewrite things again to make things slightly different by joining Sonya in adventuring.
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