Y2K Attacks

The January 1st 2000 attacks alternately known as the Y2K attacks was Multiple terrorist attacks planned and organized by the Mutant Supremist Leader Erik Lehnsher known as Magneto.

## Event

On January 1st in the early morning hours while many of the world was celebrating the new year and the new Millennium Several mutants attacked large crowds of gathered people in a planned and well organized attack. The Attacks were carried out by members of group called Brotherhood of Mutants led by the Mutant known as Magneto.

The Main attack was conducted as Magneto made his world broadcast over every major news stations in the world, declaring that Mutant kind which up to this point was very marginalized and persecuted and vilified for just living was done being victimized by Humans, While Magneto spoke a Mutant named Francisco Milan with the help of another mutant named Garabed Bashur used a device Bashur had created to connect Milan to every single Computer in the world, Milan began to systematically shut down major systems that could do massive damage to the world, Milan began first by bringing down Planes and damaging power systems including trying to overload Nuclear power plants, Milan in the end brought down 198 planes and caused major but repairable damage to the infrastructure of most major countries before Milan was overwhelmed by the machine and died. The death's credited to his part in the attacks are substantial even though his actions took only seconds, the result was 548,298 deaths and 2,489,259 injury's .

New York City(Times square)-Mutant Gerold Falks entered Times square celebrations and at exactly 12:58 began to use his mutant power to expose large area around him to poison gas. Within minutes the entire area was exposed and 103,567 people were killed and 36,257 injured from the poison before Gerold Falks was put down by Superman

San Diego-The Mutant Mikhail Garnoff(AKA Concussion) attacked downtown gathering using his Concussive blasts which resulted in 26 buildings being damaged and 11,287 being killed and 8,591 injured before Garnoff passed out from his attack and died due to falling debris.

San Francisco (Bay area)- Wendy Sharman, Sharman would prior to the attack energize her powers using the local power station's and attacking the Bay area devastating the local power grid and killing 5,423 people and injuring 12,745 during the attack before dying from the drain on her body.

Metropolis-The Daily Bugle was attacked by a Mutant by the name Joshua Prezell whom had the ability to create a Poison gas from the sweat glands in his body, he killed 1,816 people before being stopped by Superman.

Sydney, Australia-During the Celebrations Byron Calley (AKA Burner) began his attack on the outskirts of the large gathering and used his mutant power to set preplaced highly flammable materials to cause a large ring of fire that trapped a large group of people killing 2,746 people and injuring 6,492 people. Calley escaped and was on the run for nearly 2 weeks before being caught by local police and with Superman's help was arrested and detained.

Bangkok, Thailand-The Mutant known only as Fever Pitch attacked the Celebrations by bursting into flames in nearly the center of the gathering killing 1,258 people and injuring 8,439. Fever Pitch escaped in the chaos but was later caught in a man hunt and killed.

Dubai, Arab Emirates-During the Dubai celebrations Jason Wyngarde (AKA Mastermind) used his mutant ability to create Illusions to cause mass hysteria that resulted in 12,854 deaths and 876 injuries. Wyngarde was never caught and is still currently on the run for his crimes.

Paris, France-This attack was committed by a 12-year-old boy named Bailey Hoskins, Hoskins it appears to not have been a willing person in this plan, Hoskins Mother has stated and claimed that her son was kidnapped two days prior to the attacks which police reports confirm he had gone missing, it is believed Hoskins was forced to commit this attack with threats to harm his parents if he did not. 67,543 people were killed while 119,573 were injured in the attack.

Moscow Russia-This attack was foiled before any deaths could happen due to the intervention of Winter Guard, Nekra Sinclair was taken into custody.

## Aftermath

Shortly after the incident, Most Governments around the globe created contingencies for anymore large-scale attacks like this again, many governments formed organizations to help stop any further attack's especially against Mutants.

The Organization known as SHIELD was organized to be a part of United Nation's and now served officially as a intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.