Detroit Incident

Homelanders

Detroit Ironguard

The Detroit Incident, often referred to unofficially as the Detroit Massacre, the Red Storm, or 6/6, refers to the day that the superhero known as Rampage embodied his name and wreathed a swath of destruction in the city of Detroit. During the conflict, Rampage battled against MRF responders, the Detroit Ironguard superhero team, and Rampage's own teammates, the Homelanders. The aftermath saw a massive portion of Detroit's population wiped out, several superheroes dead, and a massive loss in trust of American superheroes and suspicion increasing of metahumans in general.

## Description

On June 6th, 2025, at approximately 10:12 AM, Arthur Frasier, AKA Rampage, murdered his wife, Miranda Holmes, and her lover, Adam Mordale, after discovering them together in an apartment bought and paid for by his salary. In his fury, Rampage caused a significant portion of the apartment complex to collapse, killing 28 of its staff and occupants.

Five minutes later, at 10:17 AM, a group of the MRF arrived with several armored vehicles equipped with sonic disruption cannons. They were reinforced by Beatdown and Doomstrike of the Detroit Ironguard. When ordered to stand down by Doomstrike, Rampage responded by angrily throwing a mass of rubble at him, which was dodged, only to kill two MRF officers. The sonic disruptors then opened fire, further enraging Rampage, causing him to engage the group. By 10:20 AM, all 24 MRF officers on site were dead, their vehicles destroyed, and Rampage was engaged with Beatdown and Doomstrike.

By 10:31, the full roster of the Ironguard had engaged Rampage or was attempting to relocate the civilians within the area. Calls had been sent out, asking for military aid and reinforcement from other superhero teams, the Homelanders foremost among them. At 10:34, Beatdown was dead, seized and ripped in half. The total death toll had risen to over one hundred.

At 10:42, Dispatch and Starforge arrived from California, where they had been combatting a series of forest fires. Attempts to talk down their teammate failed, and the pair attempted to restrain Rampage while the Ironguard fully devoted themselves to the evacuation efforts. At 10:46, Dispatch was critically injured when he was tripped a by a shockwave produced by a stomp from Rampage, during which time the hulking giant took a swipe at him that utterly obliterated his legs. Therafter, Starforge was forced completely onto the defensive, simply trying to keep himself and Dispatch alive.

By 10:49, a squadron of fighter jets arrived. With the immediate battle zone cleared of civilians, they opened fire, granting the superheroes a brief reprieve, enabling them to retreat. However, Rampage managed to destroy seven of the twelve plane squadron sent to oppose him, two of which he leapt upon and crashed into the buildings below, the latter of which brought him across the city and out of the evacuated zone.

At 11:07, Starforge reengaged, having moved Dispatch to safety, augmented by reinforcements from his teammates, Luster and Mystical, who had both arrived from saving an exploding oil rig. Mystical was unable to effectively bring his telepathic abilities to bear due to the regular I-17 he received and the psychic shielding he himself had constructed, but managed to briefly immobilize him, long enough for Luster to bombard him with several plasma blasts. This inflicted some of the first visible damage that Rampage had taken, heavily disorienting him, but as a more powerful attack was charged, Rampage managed to regain his mobility, batting the plasma ball aside and causing it to slam into the Renaissance Center 400 Tower, causing it to collapse. Mystical then focused on telekinetically slowing its fall, and Rampage broke free.

At 11:18 AM, Tempest arrived. He ordered his teammates to withdraw immediately, and devote themselves to removing as many civilians from the city as possible. Then, he engaged Rampage alone, and the fight began in earnest.

The sky went dark, and a vortex touched down upon the two combatants. Tempest employed his superior speed to rain numerous lightning-augmented blows upon his foe, attempting to beat him into submission, summoning a gale that lifted the both of them into the air. However, Rampage managed to get ahold of him, and bore them back to earth with an impact that registered an 8 on the Richter Scale, and left a crater where they landed. Things devolved into a brutal, desperate slugging match. Lightning flashed, so bright that those who looked directly at suffered lasting retinal damage, and left molten craters where they struck. The shockwaves of the blows caused nearby buildings to collapse, sending further tremors through the earth.

Eventually, Tempest took the upper hand, headlocking his foe and sending volt after volt of lightning directly into his skull. Rampage collapsed, seemingly beaten, and Tempest had the chance to kill him, and eliminate the threat he posed. But he hesitated. That hesitation gave the red titan the moment he needed to regenerate. The near death experience had driven him into an even more berserk fury, and he savagely pummeled his former friend, before throwing him across the city. As the dazed Tempest struggled up, levitating into the air in an attempt to gain some distance from his foe, the Renaissance Center 400 Tower came up to meet him.

It was 12:02 PM. The explosive impact of the skyscraper impacting Tempest's body obliterated the structure, sending innumerable fragments of metal and glass and concrete raining down upon Detroit and the surrounding countryside like meteors, ripping through more buildings, bringing them crashing down, and killing tens of thousands of people.

Strangely, with Tempest sent flying to land somewhere miles away, Rampage quickly departed the city, heading north into Canada. He would skirmish over the next few days with more American superheroes and the Canadian and American military, but eventually, on June 11th, they lost him in Ontario.

The total number of dead was calculated to be around 133,000 from the citizens of Detroit and the citizens of Ontario Canada.