The Timeless Void
July 22nd, 1841
(For those of you who ask how a timeless void could have a set date like this, I ask you to quietly sit down and inflict pain upon yourselves for reading too much into this. Thank you.)
The ghost of Leonardo DaVinci, one of history's greatest scientist, sensed a...disturbance. Someone had corruped the very ideals of natural science to its core, and now all of humanity was in peril. But without a living being to sing for the restoration of his spirit, he could do nothing about it...
But then, throughout the timless nothingness, he heard a voice. Although, it was a horrible one, with vocal keys completely out of tune, and the rythm of the very apparently erstatz song was completely lacking in flow. Nevertheless, it was a voice, singing for his revival. From what he could hear, the singer wanted him to build giant mechanical robot fighting machines, because he thought it would "be cool." Da Vinci shrugged a cosmic shrug. He would take what he could get.
Da Vinci's spirit surged forth from the netherworld, and set his eyes upon the singer. He was wearing a large had that covered much of his face, a full length trench coat, and boots. Da Vinci asked him his name, to which the man replied that he would prefer not to be known. He then disappeared into the fog, never to be seen again...
Now that he had been resurrected, the spirit of Da Vinci could see first hand the disturbance he had felt. He watched in horror from his omnipotent perch as Zombie Napoleon and his legions of mindslaves ravaged the Northern Italian foothills. Seeing this, Da Vinci realized that those monsters had to be stopped.
Using his spirit-powers, Leonardo conjured up several thousand machine parts, the likes of which could never have been found on the world market. Fused with powerful steam engines and steel, mechanical monstrosities began to take shape. By the next morning, the Robo-Vinci army had been assembled...