Post by StA Staff on Sept 2, 2012 13:50:53 GMT -5
Norman Osborn changed the game.
In the span of a year, he worked his myriad political connections and contacts to place himself at the head of the world’s foremost powerful peacekeeping force, defaming and ousting Nick Fury as the head of SHIELD, taking his place at the top. Rebranding SHIELD as HAMMER, his next move was a series of damaging attacks from behind the scenes, attacks that vilified the nation's premier defenders, forcing The Avengers into hiding as fugitives from the law and adopting warped and twisted versions of the world’s heroes into his employ to enforce his new regime.
The Avengers Mansion was raided, forcing Earth's Mightiest into hiding. The Xavier Institute was destroyed, sending the mutant team of heroes westward to their Graymalkin base in California. Vigilante justice was met with ruthless and brutal retaliation, and the world seemed to go a little darker as Osborn's power grew.
Not content to abandon the fate of the world to a maniac like Osborn, the Avengers did what is is that they do best, and in a last ditch gambit, banded together and exposed Osborn and his heinous schemes to the world, mounting an assault on HAMMER's nerve center; the experimental super helicarrier "The Maelstrom" in an attempt to bring him in. With his plans exposed and his assembly of supervillains falling one by one to the assembled might of Earth's heroes, the deposed Osborn enlisted the help of long-time enemy of Earth and brother of its Asgardian Protector Thor: Loki; the God of Mischief.
It was through the help of this bent God of Chaos that Osborne and many of his league of evil escaped to lick their wounds. The Battle, though, was won. The Earth had been shown that Osborn's noble intentions had been just the opposite, and Avengers saw their names cleared.
It has been six months since that fateful day, and it is a brand new day for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. They are once again the Protectors and Defenders of the planet's innocent.
But Osborn is far from finished, and other sinister forces conspire to bring evil, greed, and villainy to the world.
Where do you fall in this mad dance between Heroism and Villainy? Choose a side. Fight for what you believe in. Find Something to Avenge.
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