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This is more like a collection of plot ideas, rather than a cohesive storyline. Please bear with me...
Ultimate Prophecy, Part 1
* A subway car moves at high speed beneath a prefecture outside metropolitan Tokyo. Suddenly, an ominous red mist passes through it, as passengers start coughing and throwing up, before falling to the ground. Patterns begin to appear in the gas -- fractals, psychedelia -- leaving massacred bodies in its wake. One commuter, foaming at the mouth, whispers "Thanatos", before hitting the floor.
The automated train arrives at its destination, like a morgue on railway tracks. The blank eye of one casualty is matched with...
* The shape of a microbe bacteria, under the microscope of young Reed Richards. He is at work in his laboratory inside the Baxter Institute, in New York City. The intercom buzzes incessantly, distrupting his concentration. He sticks his head out the door -- literally -- to find Sue and Johnny Storm running through the hallways at top speed. "Ross needs us, pronto. Emergency."
In a briefing room, Gen. Ross explains that colleagues in Japan have detected a possible N-Zone breach in Tokyo, several minutes before the deadly subway attack. They don't have any time to pack their bags -- they're headed for Japan to investigate.
* At the site of the massacre, Detective Takitane, a sullen professional forensics expert, is baffled by the cause of the passengers' deaths -- "Something right out of the X-Files". He worries that the government will send in "the freaks" to finish off the job for him.
A flustered young cop runs up to him. He has been patrolling the disused subway tunnels nearby, and there's something he NEEDS to see.
* Elsewhere in the city, mutant rights activist Shiro Yoshida looks out from a window, in his small, cramped apartment filled with legal petitions, briefing papers, and civic awards. Outside, a crowd of TV reporters wait patiently and diligently. He puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it... using his finger. "Baka!"
He switches on the television, to watch the ongoing report being filmed outside his building. The journalist mentions that Shiro has been investigated by local authorities, in connection with a series of recent fire-bomb/arson attacks against properties run by the Japanese Defense Department. The report mentions that Shiro has been outspoken about his opposition to the formation of the Big Hero 6, a team of super-heroes, who are the Japanese equivalent of the various international super-soldier programs.
* At JFK International Airport, Kitty Pride excitedly makes a verbal list of all the places she wants to visit in Tokyo -- the Imperial Palace, Shibuya Kei, Roppongi Hills, maybe even buy a gift for Ali and Ororo in the boutiques of Harajuku. Bobby Drake just looks on, feigning interest in his girlfriend's Japan-o-philia. He reminds her of the *real* purpose of their little trip -- so that Wolverine can repay a favor to his "old buddy", Shiro.
* Not far away, Wolverine sits at an airport bar. He is wearing an eye-patch. An inquisitive bar-tender asks him why he's wearing it. Wolvie just snarls menacingly.
* In the tunnels beneath Tokyo, in an unused part of the subway line, Detective Takitane inspects the bodies of seven dead Thannites -- members of a cult inspired by the strange, fictional novels of a reclusive, death-obsessed author, who uses the pen-name, Thanatos. The cult has grown in recent years, but their members are largely over-worked professionals looking for a sense of meaning in their lives. Much of their activities have been conducted in private, but nothing illegal has been reported, thus far... until now.
Takitane heads back towards the massacre site, to piece it all together.
* After he leaves, Sue un-cloaks the Fantasic Four (and their Fantasticar) -- they had been hiding nearby, throughout Detective Takitane's entire assessment of the situation. Ben Grimm is baffled why a "buncha yuppie goths" would be able to summon a creature from the N-Zone. Reed has some possible explanations -- "applied M-theory, orbifolding, superstring manipulation... there are plenty of ways to breach the N-Zone... The real mystery is what kind of technology they used to do it." Sue has one guess, but she thinks Reed won't like it...
* Back at the massacre site, Detective Takitane arrives to find Big Hero 6 about to make their grand, anime-inspired entrance (complete with speed lines and opening-credit-style captions).
The basic idea is that while other government-controlled super-groups like the Union are kept away from public eye as much as possible, Big Hero 6 are media-friendly, larger-than-life heroes in the classic Kirby-esque mold.
As such, they're fairly useless in the current situation, because they were trained to deal with bright, costumed super-freaks, not forensics investigations involving supernatural overtones.
Their leader is Silver Samurai, who has a special battle armor (similar to the Union and Cap). Like his 616 counterpart, he also wields a katana blade charged with some kind of energy. (It's left deliberately ambiguous whether SS has super-powers that charge the sword, or whether it's just a gimmicked/tricked-out weapon.)
* In a secluded cottage outside Tokyo, the author known as Thanatos awaits his unwanted 'baby' -- the death-entity responsible for the subway massacre. In fact, he never intended to inspire a cult, let alone unleash such a monstrosity upon the world-- he merely imagined the death-entity to be the embodiment of modern Japan's dehumanizing consumer society. Just as he prepares to slit his wrists in shame, the death-creature appears in his mirror as a Sadako-like young girl...
Ultimate Prophecy, Part 1
* A subway car moves at high speed beneath a prefecture outside metropolitan Tokyo. Suddenly, an ominous red mist passes through it, as passengers start coughing and throwing up, before falling to the ground. Patterns begin to appear in the gas -- fractals, psychedelia -- leaving massacred bodies in its wake. One commuter, foaming at the mouth, whispers "Thanatos", before hitting the floor.
The automated train arrives at its destination, like a morgue on railway tracks. The blank eye of one casualty is matched with...
* The shape of a microbe bacteria, under the microscope of young Reed Richards. He is at work in his laboratory inside the Baxter Institute, in New York City. The intercom buzzes incessantly, distrupting his concentration. He sticks his head out the door -- literally -- to find Sue and Johnny Storm running through the hallways at top speed. "Ross needs us, pronto. Emergency."
In a briefing room, Gen. Ross explains that colleagues in Japan have detected a possible N-Zone breach in Tokyo, several minutes before the deadly subway attack. They don't have any time to pack their bags -- they're headed for Japan to investigate.
* At the site of the massacre, Detective Takitane, a sullen professional forensics expert, is baffled by the cause of the passengers' deaths -- "Something right out of the X-Files". He worries that the government will send in "the freaks" to finish off the job for him.
A flustered young cop runs up to him. He has been patrolling the disused subway tunnels nearby, and there's something he NEEDS to see.
* Elsewhere in the city, mutant rights activist Shiro Yoshida looks out from a window, in his small, cramped apartment filled with legal petitions, briefing papers, and civic awards. Outside, a crowd of TV reporters wait patiently and diligently. He puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it... using his finger. "Baka!"
He switches on the television, to watch the ongoing report being filmed outside his building. The journalist mentions that Shiro has been investigated by local authorities, in connection with a series of recent fire-bomb/arson attacks against properties run by the Japanese Defense Department. The report mentions that Shiro has been outspoken about his opposition to the formation of the Big Hero 6, a team of super-heroes, who are the Japanese equivalent of the various international super-soldier programs.
* At JFK International Airport, Kitty Pride excitedly makes a verbal list of all the places she wants to visit in Tokyo -- the Imperial Palace, Shibuya Kei, Roppongi Hills, maybe even buy a gift for Ali and Ororo in the boutiques of Harajuku. Bobby Drake just looks on, feigning interest in his girlfriend's Japan-o-philia. He reminds her of the *real* purpose of their little trip -- so that Wolverine can repay a favor to his "old buddy", Shiro.
* Not far away, Wolverine sits at an airport bar. He is wearing an eye-patch. An inquisitive bar-tender asks him why he's wearing it. Wolvie just snarls menacingly.
* In the tunnels beneath Tokyo, in an unused part of the subway line, Detective Takitane inspects the bodies of seven dead Thannites -- members of a cult inspired by the strange, fictional novels of a reclusive, death-obsessed author, who uses the pen-name, Thanatos. The cult has grown in recent years, but their members are largely over-worked professionals looking for a sense of meaning in their lives. Much of their activities have been conducted in private, but nothing illegal has been reported, thus far... until now.
Takitane heads back towards the massacre site, to piece it all together.
* After he leaves, Sue un-cloaks the Fantasic Four (and their Fantasticar) -- they had been hiding nearby, throughout Detective Takitane's entire assessment of the situation. Ben Grimm is baffled why a "buncha yuppie goths" would be able to summon a creature from the N-Zone. Reed has some possible explanations -- "applied M-theory, orbifolding, superstring manipulation... there are plenty of ways to breach the N-Zone... The real mystery is what kind of technology they used to do it." Sue has one guess, but she thinks Reed won't like it...
* Back at the massacre site, Detective Takitane arrives to find Big Hero 6 about to make their grand, anime-inspired entrance (complete with speed lines and opening-credit-style captions).
The basic idea is that while other government-controlled super-groups like the Union are kept away from public eye as much as possible, Big Hero 6 are media-friendly, larger-than-life heroes in the classic Kirby-esque mold.
As such, they're fairly useless in the current situation, because they were trained to deal with bright, costumed super-freaks, not forensics investigations involving supernatural overtones.
Their leader is Silver Samurai, who has a special battle armor (similar to the Union and Cap). Like his 616 counterpart, he also wields a katana blade charged with some kind of energy. (It's left deliberately ambiguous whether SS has super-powers that charge the sword, or whether it's just a gimmicked/tricked-out weapon.)
* In a secluded cottage outside Tokyo, the author known as Thanatos awaits his unwanted 'baby' -- the death-entity responsible for the subway massacre. In fact, he never intended to inspire a cult, let alone unleash such a monstrosity upon the world-- he merely imagined the death-entity to be the embodiment of modern Japan's dehumanizing consumer society. Just as he prepares to slit his wrists in shame, the death-creature appears in his mirror as a Sadako-like young girl...
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