Sean was sitting in his room writing a fanfic, when he was suddenly transported to a place of utter darkness. Nothing could be seen, not even his own body.
"Where the hell am I?" he asked.
"You are both nowhere and everywhere at once. That is the only answer I can give."
"Who are you?"
"I do not know."
"You don't know? How could you not know?"
"I just am. I do not question my existance."
"Why are we here?"
"You are here to play a game. Call it... an emmersive game of chess."
"What about you?"
"I'm here to explain the rules."
"Ok."
"Rule #1: you only get seven fighters."
"Fighters?"
"We will get to that soon enough. Rule #2: they can not come from the same place. Rule #3: you must have one male and one female. Rule #4: you may not choose the same fighter as your opponent."
"Who gets to choose first?"
"It will be simultaneous. Rule #5: you and your opponent can not attack each other. Rule #6 no immortal beings. You and your opponent will each choose seven fighters. They can come from any where, but as earlier stated you can not pick two from the same dimension. By dimension I mean every book, movie, game, comic, etc. as well as your own dimension. You have access to all fictional characters as well as any human that has ever existed. If you or your opponent die, the game is over. You will not be revived. The only way to win is to kill your opponent. However as you can not do this yourself, you must choose fighters that can. You are allowed to attack and/or kill your opponents fighters. Do you have any questions?"
"How long do I have to choose?"
"As long as you want."
"What happens if one of my fighters falls in battle?"
"Then you have lost a fighter."
"And each comic, show, movie, etc. is it's own dimension?"
"Correct."
After what would have been a week, had time flowed in that place, Mike chose his team.
"I've chosen." he told the voice.
"I know. Tell me, who are your fighters?"
"How come you know I chose, but you don't know who I chose?"
"I do know, but I wish for you to tell me."
"Ok, here goes:
Nancy from Read or Die the movie
Detective Spooner from I-Robot
Nightcrawler from X-Men the animated series
Ron Stoppable from Kim Possible
The Atom from Justice League Unlimited
Crystabar from Blood of Tarrian
Glenn from Chrono Trigger."
"I enjoyed talking to you and listening to your thoughts. I wish we could talk more, but it is time for you to fight in a war."
"A war, but I thought you said it was a chess..." Sean started before he blacked out.