Short Story Battle

My first short story is one of political intrigue, and my primary characters are based on superheroes from both DC and Marvel comics. I have changed the names because A: I don’t own any of said characters I want to use and B: while it’s a fan fiction of sorts Batman lives in DCU and Iron Man lives in Marvel-U, so they would never meet, but here in Marauder-U very similar characters histories happened in the same relm so its just easier to change the names. This story isn’t really about their characters anyway so its not that important anyway. Now that that’s out of the way…… Rise of the Caped Oligarchy An indefinite time ago in a far far away dimension, was a world who’s history was very much like ours….except it had Superheroes. In the earlier chapters of the world’s history extraordinary beings weather honestly human or not did exist but they stayed under the radar for most of history not wanting to draw upon themselves a raciest hatred for who they are. Until one day Uberman arrived on the scene. He was the first superhuman to come up with the idea to where a cape and create an alter-ego This idea was later adopted by even non-meta-humans after Uberman started the trend. Dragonman being the first who was just a wealthy individual driven for justice like no else that he focused his every thought and aspect of his life in such away that it would put Sherlock Holmes orderliness to shame. The Iron Dynamo was non-meta-human superhero. He was a incredible inventor and a genius although he was not driven like the Dragonman. That is until the day he was captured by terrorist and was forced to create a suite that made obsolete near all conventional military weapons. He did the hero thing in private with it for while but the Government eventually figured out who he was and pressured him in a public hearing to hand over the designs and start making the armor for them. Many just remember his words as some cocky stubborn when he refused but if any had been paying attention they would have seen how the following statement foreshadowed the fundamental shift starting to take place in society. “I know you want it but you cant have it because it is mine, but hey I did you all a big favor. I just successfully privatized world peace!” The Capes of course never consciously fought to undermine their governments, they fought to protect the status quo, to uphold the law. But This all changed after the incident. After the invasion. The Invasion of earth was 2 part. Part one a shapeshifting race called the Sleslak had covertly infiltrated and replaced normal humans at near every level of society’s infrastructure. The President had been replaced by a Sleslak, so had the majority of congress, the judicial system, police on local and national levels, media newscasters, wallstreet ceo’s. When they revealed themselves society began to break into chaos as they prepared to go to war with what was left of earth with only the caped heroes standing in there way who they were unable to replace. The caped heros defeated the Sleaslak but there was a second part to the invasion even they did Sleslak had not seen coming. There whole operation was masterminded by another alien with almost Godlike powers; Omegaside. After the Sleslak had eliminated earths leaders of any kind and put a strain on the caped heroes Omegaside was prepared to conquer earth. He was stronger than almost every hero on the planet and all failed to stop him….except for the Uberman. He matched Omegaside blow for blow and in the end they both died, the surviving heroes forever remembering Ubermans sacrifice. With no human world leaders the Heroes had to do something fast to restore order to the chaos. Dragonman and Iron Dynamo steped up. Dragonman had for some years before the invasion began to establish Dragonman inc. an organization where he trains, funds, and commands capes all around the world wearing his logo. They were at the ready to replace some of societies lost infrastructure after the invasion was over. Iron Dynamo meanwhile had been funding and heading what he called ‘the initiative’ where he was training superhumans everywhere to make them part of teams of 5 to that each state would have as its own set of heroes. Between Iron Dynamos Initiative and Dragonman Inc the heroes where able to keep society from falling apart filling in for the needs of all the lost infrastructure. While the normal humans had every reason to be grateful for that turn of events, from then on unless you had superpowers or enough raw intellect and talent to pull off being a caped crime fighter, you would never advance to positions of political power or influence in the future, for all infrastructure was provided by the Global network of superhuman leagues. Any who gained the ability to take the power from them, became one of them in the gaining. Thus Democracy had fallen…..and in its ashes rose the Superhero Oligarchy.