The first page of the story is merely a full-page splash detailing the many deaths of nine brave warriors; ninja assassin Shadow Yamoto falls from a Tokyo tower block, Jonathan Blade is felled by a deadly plague, Slash is stoned by a suspicious tribe, Jetta Maxx's acrobatic routine is sabotaged, RAX Coswell's cybernetics self-destruct, Xavier Pendragon is burnt at the stake, Larcen Tyler is executed by his crime boss, Midknight dies at the hands of a stake to the heart and Trident is crushed in the fall of Atlantis. Although all nine of them died in prejudiced ways, they are all from different times. Not for much longer...