Rayden

Current Battle: Rayden vs. Mileena

Alignment: Earth

Special Moves Body Torpedo - (r, m, 3, 4, opponent is knocked back and falls, user lands at ranged distance if blocked) Lightning Toss - (r, h, 4, 2) Shock Grab - (h, m, 5, 2, opponent falls) Teleport - counts as movement, user is moved to hand-to-hand with opponent and gets +1 speed on next action, requires one tech point to use.	Starting Weapon: Hammer
	Kounter Move: Shock Grab

Rayden is better known as the god of thunder. Long ago, Rayden was one of the gods responsible for imprisoning Shinnok in the Netherrealm. Afterward, he took on the responsibility of protecting the Earth realm to atone for the civilization he destoryed during the battle. When Shao Kahn challenged the Earth, Rayden helped the Earth warriors fight him in Mortal Kombat. He took his mortal form to compete in the Shaolin tournament, but played only a support role as Liu Kang won the tournament. When Shang Tsung began luring Earth warriors into Outworld, Rayden traveled there after them. He competed in Shao Kahn's tournament, not knowing why Kahn was holding that event and wanting to keep a close eye on him. Little did Rayden know that this was exactly what Kahn wanted. The thunder god was unprepared when Shao Kahn resurrected Sindel and opened the portals to the Earth realm. With the Earth realm merging with Outworld, Rayden had lost his dominion there. Not content to stand by and watch the Earth warriors fight Kahn's armies alone, Rayden gave up his own immortality and fought as a mortal, for the first time being vulnerable to death. He was nearly killed during the invasion, but was crucial in Shao Kahn's defeat. After Kahn is driven out of the Earth realm, the elder gods restore Rayden's immortality. Rayden begins helping to rebuild the Earth, but soon realizes that there is one important thing now missing, Shinnok's amulet. Rayden immediately begins his search for the amulet. He knows that if he doesn't find it before Quan Chi, the results will be disasterous. He tracks the amulet to a shrine somewhere in Edenia, but when he arrives there, he finds the amulet gone. At that moment his fears are confirmed, the amulet is now in the possession of Shinnok. Shortly afterward, Shinnok escapes from the Netherrealm and begins his assault against the gods. The fight doesn't go well, and the losses are heavy. In a final attempt to end the fighting and protect the Earth realm from Shinnok, Rayden declares a Mortal Kombat. What Rayden didn't expect was that by a technicality Shao Kahn would enter the tournament as well. If Rayden and the Earth warriors can defeat Shinnok and Shao Kahn, the Earth will be safe and both will be banished back to their realms. But if they fail, the Earth will be quickly overrun by one evil, or another.