At 34, you're about to throw the last punch to Shang Tsung when it all starts all over again. Liu Kang restarted the timeline at that moment.

You find yourself in a poor small town at age 19. You're coming home from a hard day's work to care for your ailing elderly mother, unaware that Liu Kang is always watching to test whether you're as good a fighter here as you were on the other timeline.

You enter your house and hear strange noises, but you think it must be your mother.