(chapter 0: prologue)

This is the story of the multiverse greatest, wildest, strangest, and more or less legendary heroes.

Somewhere in the far depths of the multiverse, lies a dimension that appears to be nothing more than a sea of sand that randomly formed shapes, like a bridge, a rabbit, a gun, etc. suddenly, sand rise from the sea and form a circular object in the air. A portal opens in the middle. Coming out of the portal is a mysterious entity. He had a humanoid body with white soulless eyes, he wore bronze helmet and armor, ripped cape and shorts, wields a staff, and his body seems to be made of the cosmos.

He lands on the sea and walks on it as if it was solid ground. An artificial intelligence (or A.I. for short) in the form of a small box robot with two arms, a single antenna and a purple optic eye, codename "X-PO", comes out and started scanning the sea of dimensions, his red scanner light turns green when he located something.

"Hey, I found the thing!" he said. Realizing that he sounded like a human being, he corrects himself and speaks like a robot. "Uh, I mean… anomaly located, master."

The mysterious entity, whose name is lord vortech, approached the area that X-PO was. He started to laughing maniacally. "Yes," he spoke in a raspy voice. "I found it."

"Um, 'you' found it?" X-PO said sarcastically.

"After all these years of searching, it really exists. Foundation prime." Vortech used his staff to reveal what was hidden beneath the seas. There were 20 images of certain objects. "This depicts the foundation elements, artifacts from the start of time, scattered across the multiverse, and only I can gather them in one place."

X-PO then interrupted him. "Um, just so you know, the foundation elements are the cornerstones of space and time, and if you do that it will collapse the ENTIER multiverse, so, they're kind of imported to the, um, entire multiverse, right? RIGHT?"

"Your services are no longer required." Said vortech.

"But the elements can't be safely harnessed! It's too dangerous! You'll destroy the whole multiverse!" X-PO began to warn him as a portal opened behind him as it sucks him up. "AND WHAT ABOUT THAT FIVE BUCKS YOU PROMISED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!..." he shouted as the portal sucked him into an unknown universe.

As the rift closed, lord vortech began to laugh evilly. "I will have them all! I will control their power! And I will make, the multiverse collide!" he said as he laughed before he cringed, he held onto his own body as well as dropping his staff as cracking sounds can be heard, before suddenly, one of his arms grew to ginormous size, then the other arm did the same before he transformed into a cosmic giant, even his clothes and armor grew to fit his new size.

"NO!" resisted lord vortech, who seemed to be fighting back the pain of his giant size. "I will not be, denied perfection!" he then suddenly shrank back to his regular size, picking both himself and his staff up, though he wobbled felt every cracking noise in his body, as he began to cough and splutter a bit.

"My dedicated to this work," he said as he began to cough. "Has taken its toll…" he spoke with concern, fearing what would happen. "Not for much longer can I freely, pass between the multiverse…"

"But, as luck would have it, there is another way to get them," he said with interest, as he turned to the world. "Since I'm going to be working here, I could use a base of some kind."

Soon, he raised both his arms and with all his power, a giant temple was beginning to take form, as construction of his palace continued, lord vortech smiled in glee.

"SOON! I will create the perfect utopia! And this time, they won't be around to stop me." Lord vortech declared as he began to laughed wickedly with pride, knowing that soon, the entire multiverse will be his playground, and with them gone, no one can stop him now.

Unknown to vortech, in the infinite space of the multiverse, a single pod-like ship was drifting in peace, until a flashing red light flared out as a screen show a map.

"WARNNING! WARNNING! Category 5 threat detected! Ship fuel only at 10 percent power, initiating code 1.7.8!"

A robotic voice said as a rift began to open as the pod flew in it.

To be continued.