The Gothic Detectives (Crossover)
Chpater 1:
Introductory Remarks
Cripto here. Everybody knows me as the tiger that rocks the house with Furry Fury, and everybody knows me as the superhero that's also a soldier, game show host, sometimes cowboy, entrepreneur (with the bowling package and assisting Jonathan J. Lionheartous with his Game Show Box), and a bunch of other things I can be. (The most recent one is the soldier part; although I'm actually serving in the intelligence units of the Kansas National Guard, I still carry a PHASR.)
The most frustrating thing about the superhero bit is people asking me why I had the "freak accident" that brought the canon characters to life. My most common answer is that it was just the stupid wish I unconciously made in my mind. It's as simple as that. It is true that my powers used to act without me telling them to act, but I have a theory that my inner thoughts of weird and random things I had been dreaming about (and I had dreamt about those things). What's to be noted here is that the supervillain Copycat, who wants to settle the score with me, has the ability to copy anyone's powers, so in my case he'd take the canon characters away if he so desired. Even if it got me a demerit on the system I had been placed on, the world had agreed that because it was used to seeing the canon characters, it was only fair that I brought them back if they had disappeared. They wouldn't cause a time paradox. Leo the Patriotic Lion's parallels, however, would, given the fact that history wasn't thrown out of whack by their arrivals, but instead fulfilled and going according to plan because they appeared.
Okay, so that's the long scoop on me, but what about the brief scoops on the other two? It'll take way less time to talk about them. I mention it because what started as a joke later became a joint effort between me, my friends, and the canon characters, in what was the latest detective case in the G-52 files. (The canon characters are allies to the G-52 organization, so any contributions they'd have to add ending criminal schemes go in our files.) The heavy metal and leather subculture also added to what was once the joke; because the three of us altogether have a collective nickname: the Gothic Detectives.
Stoker is the one you should be familiar with in regards to the canon characters, because he is the drummer for the Martian Freedom Fighters, the rock group starring the Biker Mice From Mars, and he started the whole Freedom Fighter movement on Mars as well as invented the Regenerator. As of right now, he's made a rechargeable one that has successfully terraformed Mars, so that's in the bag. He has two alter-egos, Super Stoker for a daytime profile (which came about when the green and yellow tetrahydrocarbons he used for his rechargeable Regenerator caused his superpowers to develop), and the one the public already knew about, which is his nighttime profile, Nightshift. (This one was the one where he used a mask and black disguise so that nobody would notice him, since the Martian population thought he turned traitor or otherwise didn't know what to think; the notable exception was Vinnie, who staunchly defended him during the period until it was made clear Stoker was still a hero. Leo the Patriotic Lion would later praise him for it.)
The third of the trio is wolf rocker David Satterfield, head of the Wolfpack, and the sure textbook definition of a furry heavy metal rock of the 70s and 80s, given the peak of his band's original success was in the era of big hair, super loud guitars, and crazy clothing. Due to CNG immortalization effects affecting him and the whole band, they are still to this day producing new songs for new albums, and newer compilation albums for those who prefer to have those.
Well, hope that gave you some background on what was to happen next.