A boy of about fifteen with bright orange hair walked home from school
along a rainy street. His name was Ichigo Kurosaki, and he was a
Substitute Soul Reaper. Soul Reapers were spirits that helped ghosts
move on to the next world and destroyed creatures called Hollows.
He looked around to see that he appeared to be somewhere he didn't
recognise - the buildings alone were too tall and square to be part of
his small hometown.
"Where am I?" he asked himself. "How did I end up here?"
He heard a loud roar from above him. He touched a small pentagonal
badge on his belt and suddenly, his body collapsed to the ground as if
dead, while he emerged from it in his Soul Reaper form, now dressed in
a black kimono and carrying a large, strangely-shaped sword. He leapt
up to the top of the building to see that it wasn't a Hollow at all.
In fact, it appeared to be a huge green man in ripped purple shorts.
The green giant was attempting to hit another teenager wearing a straw
hat.
"HULK SMASH RUBBER MAN!" bellowed the green person.
"Rubber man?" said Ichigo. This was getting too weird for words.
He leapt towards the ground with the intention of hiding his body
somewhere, but on the way down something very fast and red collided
with him. Ichigo and the thing that hit him tumbled onto a nearby
rooftop. As Ichigo got to his feet, he got a clearer look at the
stranger - it appeared to be a man in hi-tech red and gold metal armour.
"What just hit me?" asked the armoured man. "Could it be those
invisible enemies I heard about?"
He turned to Ichigo (who was surprised at the man even being able to
see him)
"Who are you?" he asked. "Why have you come here?"
"I don't know how I got here", said Ichigo. "And I don't see how..."
He stopped when suddenly a man in a strange red and black full-body
outfit with a red mask with black circles around his eyes ran past,
shooting at another man running after him; a man with huge shoulders
and a large blond afro in a blue t-shirt and scruffy black trousers.
"...and it's probably YOUR fault I only get a cameo in this chapter!"
yelled the man in red and black as he ran between Ichigo and the
armoured man.
"I was about to say the same thing to you!" yelled the man with the
'fro as he passed.
"Ok... that was definitely weird", said Ichigo after the two strangers
had left, leaping across to another rooftop.
"Tell me about it", said the man in the red armour. "Anyway, I
recently recieved a transmission that a group of invisible people like
you defeated some friends of mine and destroyed a large portion of the
city".
"I had nothing to do with it", said Ichigo.
"I can't let you go until I'm sure", said the stranger, flying into
the air with some kind of jets in his hands and feet.
"Fine then", said Ichigo, rising into the air himself.

"Are you ok?" asked a boy in a blue jacket and white shirt with
strange purple, black and gold hair as he attempted to wake up
Ichigo's empty body. Around his neck hung a gold pyramid with a
stylised eye in the centre, and he had a strange device attached to
one arm. "Wake up!"
"It looks like your friend there is dead", said a voice. The boy
looked round to see a gigantic head with tiny arms and legs sitting in
an orange mechanical chair with a jet at the bottom.
"And you'll be next".
Suddenly, the boy's pyramid-shaped pendant began to glow. When it
stopped, he looked a little older and more serious.
"Your shiny pendant won't save you now! Psyonic Blaster!" said the
head, firing a beam of red energy from his head.
Suddenly, a strand of webbing stuck onto him and pulled him to the
side, out of the way of the beam. The webbing appeared to come from a
man in a red and blue outfit with a spider web-like pattern. The head
jetted into the air towards the stranger, but he shot another web out
and threw the strange being into a wall.
"Are you ok?" asked the stranger.
"I'm alright", said the boy with the pyramid pendant. "So who exactly
are you?"
"What?" cried the man in red and blue. "Don't tell me you've never
heard of me?"
The boy shook his head. "I'm not from around here".
The costumed man sighed. "I'm Spider-man", he said.
"Yugi Muto", he said. "I seem to have found myself in this city with
absolutely no idea how I got here".
"Can't help you there", said Spider-man.
"Perhaps I can", said an eerie voice behind them. Suddenly a giant
snake coiled round them as a pale-skinned man with long black hair and
purple marks under his eyes wearing plain grey garbs and a thick
purple rope belt tied in a large knot behind his back came into sight.
"My name is Orochimaru", he said. "And you two are my new test subjects"