Fortunately, Cassie's reasonably familiar with the possibility of time travel, having heard about Raiden's intervention from his future self during Shao Kahn's invasion. She certainly hopes she doesn't ever have to deal with anything that temporally confusing over the course of her work.

"Educated guess on my part. I know that his mom...your mom, too, I guess...had invented a time machine, to try and save the past from suffering the same fate as the shitty timeline he comes from. Thought it might have something to do with that."