A/N: Hi guys, I missed you so much! I have been working on this story for quite some time now, and I really think this could become a great FanFic. Anyway, I hope this prelude isn't too boring; otherwise you might be turned off from the plot. Oopsies, my bad, but this chapter had to be written. Thank you so much for your patience.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, blah blah blah.

Warning/You should probably know: there will be no pairings, Yaoi or Yuri. It will NOT be OC based, I just need them to tell the story. And it's probably AU, literally.

Chapter One: Portal Malfunctions

Ordinary; that's all she wanted to be. Special Assistant Julia Gregory craved normalcy. She craved hanging out with her girlfriends late at night at McDonalds, gorging on the chips after watching Transformers at the cinemas.

She craved the aches in her legs during a morning run, with an ordinary dog at her heels, pissing at everything in sight.

She craved worrying about minute things; when she must bring in the laundry; if she has enough ingredients for dinner that night; did she have enough money to pay the monthly bills.

No. What she was worrying about was her superior; Senior Professor Haymen. Professor Haymen was considered a nut-case with more than a few screws loose. Many would assume him crazy by the way his wild brown hair that stuck up in all places, but it was his "scientific" theories that put his sanity at risk. He believed that worlds exist next to each other; dimensions. Each living side-by-side, without any of them knowing it.

Julia was also worried about his military-funded experiments. Professor Haymen was attempting to create portals to the other dimensions. She was worried about the many set-backs and malfunctions, as well as the pressure from the military to succeed.

Julia was currently standing at the back of a poorly lit laboratory, clutching her clipboard tightly, trying not to flinch away from the harsh light the gateway was shedding. The gateway was shaped as a large triangle, pointing downwards, with stairs that narrow all the way to the centre. The frame was thick, with multi-coloured cables intertwining with the core of the Beast.

Beast was the name christened to the device by Professor Haymen. Julia should've seen the signs of insanity then.

Running through the veins of Beast was the core to the machine: Crobatiman. Many years ago, Professor Haymen discovered a liquid mineral that had many properties, with those properties still being discovered today. But, so far, Professor Haymen believed this mysterious glowing blue Crobatiman the key ingredient to inter-dimension travel.

As the same shade of blue swirled in the middle of Beast, Julia saw flashes of her very recent life appear in her mind; the Minister for Defence's threat to cut the funding, the death of her mother after a series of heart attacks, discovering chewing gum under her desk, and, the flash before she blacked out was of her trying to warn the professor of a malfunction, right before he pulled the switch.

The energy collecting in the centre of Beast was generating rapidly; too rapidly, the Professor realised. 'That must've been the malfunction. A leak in the flow of Crobatiman.' He was knocked out after a piece of flying debris hit him upside the head. He collapsed face down, his glasses cracked in the left lens.

The laboratory was located underneath the many industrial buildings in Sydney, Australia. Beast was sucking so much energy from the underground power cables that it caused most of Sydney to go into a blackout, which was truly black from it being 9:56 pm.

However, as someone wise once said, what comes up must go down. In other words, the energy being collected must go somewhere.

If observed from the front, one would see the twitchy blue light being condensed into a small sphere, no bigger than a twenty cent piece, then released in a compacted Jetstream in a straight line towards the wall.

But, if you saw this same occurrence from a wing view, and saw the meter distance between wall and Beast, you would have seen the energy gather, then … disappear?

The energy was passing through non-existent space.

Impossible.

It truly was a shame for both Professor and Special Assistant to miss the miracle performed before their unconscious forms. They would have seen great flashes of light that appeared thrice, and the three gruesome, broken, bloody bodies that hurled and crunched against the shelve-laden cement wall, with the electronics scattered all over the barely alive … whatever they were. After all, they were from a different dimension, who knows if they were even human?

One of the forms groaned before silence fell over the laboratory like a blanket

Julia was the first to wake. Still dazed, she first didn't notice the wrecked wall across Beast, which was still in perfect working order. The only thought in her mind was the professor's wellbeing. Shuffling over to him, she crouched down, and rolled him over gently. "Professor, Professor, wake up, wake up, wake up, please …" he stirred, but slumped back down again, snoring softly.

Julia was relieved, and stood back up, stretching a little.

That's when she noticed everything; the damage, and the pools of blood that leaked out of the motionless piles of flesh that rested against the wall.

The flesh was breathing.

Obviously not thinking, Julia ran over to them, discarding her troublesome high-heels, and cleared off any debris piled on top of the … people? It was hard to tell, there was so much blood.

Too much blood actually, Julia vomited, adding to the putrid fumes that floated in the lab.

Now, there was only one light working at the time, and it was at the opposite side of the room, so Julia wasn't quite sure that she was seeing correctly, but, apparently, they were people; one girl and two boys.

They didn't look older than twenty, and all of them were wearing light coloured cloaks, now blood-stained, covering most of their bodies, black sandals, each with a different design and metal plates tied around their heads in various ways.

Julia had enough. Unable to stand the gruesome sight, she ran to the wall phone, and dialled three digits. "Hello? Bree? Get me Adderbull, now!" a pause, and then, "yeah, we did it."

A/N: I know, I know, this was an incredibly boring chapter, but it HAD to be put out there. In the next chapter, you will see who actually flew through the portal, how, where, and WHEN.

Ahh, I'm a sucker for mature characters. heh heh heh.

Love, the elusive Ochibi-chan

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