#doomsdayplotdrop

[doomsdayrising-rp]

2025. The state of the world is bleak. The hero teams of yesterday have been forced into early retirement by the Magistrate, a paramilitary group that has slowly sunk their claws into the United Nations and taken over. Vigilantism is outlawed, period. No exceptions, no wiggle room or gray areas, no forgiveness. No masks, not at all, not allowed. Those that dare continue to act struggle to maintain some sense of balance, with the more public-facing Justice League and Avengers forced into hiding with the ‘shoot on sight, bring in dead or alive’ clause that has recently been enacted, and the villains of today are taking full advantage. The struggle is unlike anything the hero teams could have ever predicted, and they find their hands are quite literally tied in a way they never could have seen coming.

2045. The state of the world is worse. The world has been ravaged by the Anti-Life Equation, and there is no longer much hope of any future at all. More than half of the population was overtaken by the first blast of the Anti-Life Equation, and despite technological advances to block the tech portion of the techno-organic virus, the infected are spreading the virus like wildfire with the Earth fully overtaken by the flames. One solution is left: flee the Earth, leave their home planet behind with what is remaining of humanity seeking refuge on another planet…with the hope that the Anti-Life Equation will continue to ravage the Earth and not spread upwards, outwards, looking to claim life behind the Earth’s atmosphere. And with the fear that it will.

Two Young Avengers manage the….very unlikely, the improbable. Not quite the impossible, but they might claim such for the clout. Morgan Stark (armed with her father’s stolen suit and filled to the brim with Tony Stark’s genius, audaciousness and so much moxie) blasts herself into the past after years of trying, has escaped the dark and gloomy reality of 2045, having put her father’s theories and physics to the test and finally found success. Billy Kaplan launches himself into the year of 2025, serving as Prince Consort of the Kree-Skrull Alliance with concerns for not just Earth but the universe and space as a whole. Both come to the year 2025 separately, but with the same warning: with the Magistrate takeover and the world’s heroes having gone underground, the Anti-Life Equation returns to haunt them and will take over.

The dregs of the Justice League meet at the Watchtower - a risky move, though the only way to meet without drawing the eyes of the Magistrate. The Flash, with the use of his cosmic treadmill, is able to confirm the horrors that have been brought to their attention regarding the future: in 2045, the Earth is lost and humanity is fleeing the planet in a desperate attempt at survival. Left with few other options, the Justice League extends an invitation to the remnants of the other super teams to their Watchtower to assemble a game plan.

The meeting goes poorly.

The Avengers and the Justice League are still at odds, fingers pointed in both directions and slewing blame back and forth. The Titans, the primary forward-facing hero team, are exhausted and out of resources. The Birds of Prey take some of their load, though operate more quietly, more covertly, to stay off of the Magistrate’s radar. There is only one solution, though none are happy to come to the same consensus: the Justice League and the Avengers must come out of retirement, bear some of the load in the fight against the Magistrate, and they must work together. Multiple teams must become one to stand any chance against the Magistrate, and they are working against the clock to prevent a very real disaster that is looming overhead.

Divide and conquer. The X-Men have primarily taken to Genosha, which remains free of the Magistrate’s hands and influence, and agree to look into formulating a potential vaccine against the virus that will ransack their planet. Oracle with the Birds of Prey will tackle the technological portion of the virus and look for preventative measures.  The Avengers and the Justice League will come out of retirement, re-join the fight, and work against the Magistrate and work to destroy the paramilitary’s hold on the UN.

The Hall of Justice has been abandoned for nearly two years, and the Avengers Tower soon followed. Titans Tower was forcibly taken from the Titans within the last few months. This leaves…the Watchtower as the only safe space for the heroes to confer and work. And there is uproar. Sharing resources and people and conferring together as a team is one matter. Sharing space that has long since belonged to the Justice League is another. The Avengers blame the Justice League for their poor handling of Darkseid in the first place, and the Justice League blame the Avengers for Tony Stark’s snap bringing the Anti-Life Equation back into their reality. Despite too-hot tempers, bitter ends and beyond sour grapes it is agreed: the Watchtower will become the new base for all super teams, effective immediately. Agreement does not mean acceptance. The warring reinstated super teams may be sharing space, but they are far from sharing the opinion of enjoying it. The other individuals and super teams are left to serve as a buffer…if they don’t already have opinions leaning one way or the other regarding the civil war on the Watchtower that may only add fuel to the fire.