After Joe Shimamura is involved in a severe car accident, mysterious men swiftly place his body into a counterfeit ambulance. He is taken to the Black Ghost headquarters, an organization that instigates human conflicts to profit from wars. It is at this location that Joe is reborn as the formidable Cyborg 009. Refusing to act as tools of destruction, 009 and the other cyborgs rebel and flee in order to live their lives in peace. Black Ghost, however, is not prepared to allow the cyborgs they had envisioned as their superweapons to leave without a struggle.