StormWolf
03-14-2011, 09:44 PM
The superhero and mutant community has had its free reign for a while. Masked vigilantes patrol the streets night and day, protecting the American people from threats too great for the average law enforcement to handle. For years, there were no complaints as the gifted youth of the country took up the mantle of super hero and defended their peers from danger, but that all changed on the day of the Stanford Disaster. On that fateful day, the course of history would forever be altered as a nation turned on their protectors, dividing them and calling for blood.
On a warm day at the end of summer, school was back in session and a new season of "The Young Avengers" was premiering live on air. The whole concept of the reality television show was to follow the lives of five young heroes as they fought crime around the United States. In the city of Stanford, California, the hit reality TV show would shock the world and the superhero community as the Young Avengers attempted to take on a lair of A-class super villains, one of them being Nitro. Nitro is a psychopath and a terrorist with the power to turn solid matter in to an explosive force, depending on its size. Nitro attempted to flee the scene, but one of the Young Avengers smashed him in to a school bus that was parked next to Stanford Elementary School. With a malicious grin, Nitro detonated the school bus, causing a massive explosion that engulfed the school and the surrounding neighborhood. The whole nation watched in horror as the camera crew was devoured by the blast, then static took over as the connection was obliterated.
Immediately, the Superhero community moved in to action, mounting rescues and assistance with local law enforcement. The infatuation with the masked vigilante was over. Nearly a thousand people died in the blast - adults, elderly, and children. The superhuman community was made a scapegoat as the people of America called for the Registration of super humans, demanding that they be held accountable and open to scrutiny like all the other law enforcers of the nation. Within months, the bill passed; the day of the hero was coming to an end.
S.H.I.E.L.D. mandated that all heroes register themselves with the government and surrender their secret identities, becoming public servants, becoming a new breed of police. While some thought it was a brilliant idea, others thought that having full reign over the super human population would give the government too much power. Those who refused the Registration went down two possible paths: they either joined the Secret Defenders, becoming outlaw vigilantes, acting outside the law to preserve it. Then there were those who joined the Brotherhood, leaguing with those who were once enemies to get back at the government and the people that drove them in to such a life.
Now, those who were once friends and comrades turn against one another, the Fantastic Force and S.H.I.E.L.D. hunting down rogue heroes and villains while trying to region the trust and favor of the people. With the infighting and chaos of the Civil War, crime has flourished and spread, infecting the streets like a hyper-aggressive cancer. There can only be one victor in this war. Who will it be?
On a warm day at the end of summer, school was back in session and a new season of "The Young Avengers" was premiering live on air. The whole concept of the reality television show was to follow the lives of five young heroes as they fought crime around the United States. In the city of Stanford, California, the hit reality TV show would shock the world and the superhero community as the Young Avengers attempted to take on a lair of A-class super villains, one of them being Nitro. Nitro is a psychopath and a terrorist with the power to turn solid matter in to an explosive force, depending on its size. Nitro attempted to flee the scene, but one of the Young Avengers smashed him in to a school bus that was parked next to Stanford Elementary School. With a malicious grin, Nitro detonated the school bus, causing a massive explosion that engulfed the school and the surrounding neighborhood. The whole nation watched in horror as the camera crew was devoured by the blast, then static took over as the connection was obliterated.
Immediately, the Superhero community moved in to action, mounting rescues and assistance with local law enforcement. The infatuation with the masked vigilante was over. Nearly a thousand people died in the blast - adults, elderly, and children. The superhuman community was made a scapegoat as the people of America called for the Registration of super humans, demanding that they be held accountable and open to scrutiny like all the other law enforcers of the nation. Within months, the bill passed; the day of the hero was coming to an end.
S.H.I.E.L.D. mandated that all heroes register themselves with the government and surrender their secret identities, becoming public servants, becoming a new breed of police. While some thought it was a brilliant idea, others thought that having full reign over the super human population would give the government too much power. Those who refused the Registration went down two possible paths: they either joined the Secret Defenders, becoming outlaw vigilantes, acting outside the law to preserve it. Then there were those who joined the Brotherhood, leaguing with those who were once enemies to get back at the government and the people that drove them in to such a life.
Now, those who were once friends and comrades turn against one another, the Fantastic Force and S.H.I.E.L.D. hunting down rogue heroes and villains while trying to region the trust and favor of the people. With the infighting and chaos of the Civil War, crime has flourished and spread, infecting the streets like a hyper-aggressive cancer. There can only be one victor in this war. Who will it be?