Chapter 1: The Girl Who Fell
"Damn it, web-head! Don't you know when to quit?!" The criminal I was chasing, Herman Schultz, AKA The Shocker, angrily whined to me. I chased the felon into an alleyway and had him cornered. "No, Herman. No, I don't. Now, pretty please, hand over the jewels and I'll send you to prison with only a black eye." I tried to bargain with him in a teasing manner. "Like hell I will!" He tried to shoot me with his vibration gauntlets. Using spider-sense, I easily dodged and webbed up his gauntlets. "Sorry, Shocker. End of the line!" "Hmph. You really think I'm that stupid?" He was able to vibrate his gauntlets and remove the webbing. "What?" I backed up, stunned that he was able to remove the webs that easily. "End of the line, Spider-Chump." He readied his gauntlets and prepared to fire. I tried to gum up his gauntlets again, but my fluid was out. Just as he was about to fire, I heard a faint girl's voice yell, "Move, Move, Move!"
"Huh?" Me and Shocker said in unison as we were transfixed on the girl, who had lilac hair with white d-clips and a white jacket-like parka with a purple trimming who was accelerating towards us at breakneck speed. "Ow… what the hell…?" I heard Shocker groan in pain, but I was too interested in the girl who fell from the sky, who muttered, "Ow, that was a pretty rough landing. Now, where am I?"
She got up, lifting the burden from Shocker's back and causing him to sigh in relief. The girl looked at me from head to toe and asked me, "What's with the silly getup?" I was both confused and slightly offended by her insensitive question. "You're one to talk! You're not even wearing any pants!" I retorted. "Well, excuse me for dressing comfortable! And also, you're one to talk, buddy! You're wearing red and blue pajamas!" She shot back at me. "Well, you seem to have a flawless sense in decency, Ms. No-Pants!" I was starting to get fired up. "Yeah, well at least- hey, that guy's getting away!"
She took off after the Shocker. "Hey, wait! It's too dangerous!" I tried to chase after her, only to see her beating Shocker over the head with a wooden sword. "Hah! Take that!" She yelled as Shocker pleaded with me to tell her to stop. "Please, tell her to stop! I-I'll do anything! I'll go to jail quietly! Just tell her to stop!" I could see pure fear in his eyes as she beat his head in.
"Hey, kid! Stop!" I tried to shoot a web at the hand her sword was in, but I then remembered that my webbing was out. "Well, first time for everything!" I got a running start and tried to jump kick her, but she was able to block it with her sword, and it sent her flying into the side of a nearby electronics store. "I really hope they don't bill me for the damage. I can barely pay for rent and college textbooks as it is." I sighed.
As I jumped up onto a nearby roof, I heard her voice again, "Hey, buster! Get back here!" I peeked down and saw her climbing up the building using her wooden sword. "Oh, come on! What's that thing even made of?" I groaned in disbelief. She finally got to the roof, after about a minute or so. "Hah! Found you!" She exclaimed in a tied voice. "You look tired. Are you okay?" I asked, with a concerned tone in my voice. "Just… need… a little… rest…" She collapsed onto the roof, exhausted after climbing the building. "Well, so much for your spunk." I lifted her unconscious body up and headed to my apartment for some deserved R&R. "I don't think Shocker's going anywhere soon." I grinned a bit, but I didn't know why at the time.
Meanwhile, in a far-off dimension…
"So, NEPTUNE wandered into a different dimension, did she?" A girl with dark purple hair and eyes asked. "Yes, Kurome. When will you learn not to SAY THAT NAME AROUND ME?!" Another girl, shrouded in shadows, with only her crimson red eyes shining through, slammed her fist down on the throne, causing the video to receive static. "Ooh, I see I got under your skin there." Kurome taunted. "Enough, Kurome!" A woman, a witch-looking one, snapped at her. "Alright, I'll stop." She said in false surrender. "Now, what do we do about this dimension?" Arfoire asked. With a sinister grin, the red-eyed girl said, "We make contact."
