Disclaimer: Negima! is not mine I swear! And Marvel Comics happens to own the other characters. The name 'Ani-mayhem!' is not mine either and belongs to some sort of card game that came out years ago. A sort of anime version of Magic that disappeared. But the name stuck in my head as being really cool and I had to use it somewhere. Chronologically, this storyline takes place after the Civil War event and before the Secret Invasion storyline in Marvel Comics.
Ani-mayhem!
Chapter 1: The Uncivil War
Chisame scowled as she consulted her watch. Typical, just typical, she thought to herself. Only I have the most irresponsible, perpetually tardy sensei in the entire world. Sometimes I wonder just who is suppose to be the teacher and who is the student here—
"HASEGAWA!" a familiar voice called out.
Chisame turned to see her aforementioned sensei jogging towards her with a big smile on his face. He trotted up and beamed at her while rubbing the back of his head, "Sorry I'm late, but there was—"
"Never mind, I don't want to know," Chisame interrupted. She eyed the group of giggling females accompanying him with some exasperation, "Well, at least you brought everyone," she muttered.
"What's so damn urgent," a female voice snarled.
Chisame turned and looked downward to see a normal ten year old slip of a girl. That is, that is what any person would have assumed if they looked at her. But Chisame knew quite well that whatever else Evangeline A.K. McDowell was, normal was the last thing to apply to a 500 years plus vampire who happened to be something called a High Daylight Walker.
What that meant, Chisame still wasn't sure but it seemed that unlike the cinema vampires of Dracula fame, Evangeline was pretty much immune to the normal vulnerabilities of ordinary vampires. She didn't need to sleep in a coffin and she didn't turn into dust in sunlight. She was also apparently a high level mage who happened to boast a several century old criminal record and a six billion dollar bounty for her head. Preferably, Chisame suspected, separated from the rest of her body.
At the moment though, Evangeline simply looked annoyed. Chisame quickly decided to get to the point because even though Evangeline had been stripped of most of her powers, she could still easily kill her if the mood struck her.
Chisame cleared her throat and began, "Well ever since I found out about Negi here being a wizard and all—I've been keeping a closer eye on weird occurrences and happenings all over the world and I picked up some disturbing information. The Japanese Diet looks like it's about to pass their own version of the SHRA into law."
Negi gasped. "That's terrible!" he blurted out, "I can't believe that—" he paused and frowned, "Er ... what's the SHRA?" he asked looking bewildered.
Chachamaru spoke up for the first time in her monotone voice, "The SuperHuman Registration Act."
Negi blink blinked. "Eh?"
Chisame sighed and pinched the brow of her nose irritated. He was suppose to be teaching her?
Chachamaru continued to explain, "The United States' version of SHRA compels all superhumans to legally register with the Government or else they will be considered an illegal combatant and can be arrested by law."
Evangeline yawned as she filed her nails, "What does this have to do with us anyways?"
Chisame folded her arms across her chest and explained, "Because it looks like the Japan SHRA will be a lot more broader in some respects to the interpretation of 'superhuman'. The US doesn't consider high level martial artists or say ..." she narrowed a look at Negi, "... magicians as falling under notion of superhuman."
Negi started sweating.
Chisame continued, "But the early drafts that I've seen indicate that the Japanese version would..."
There was a moment of absolute silence. Then, "WHAT?"
Well, Chisame thought to herself with an inward smirk, that definitely got everyone's attention.
SHIELD Command Helicarrier
There used to be a time when she felt good about what she was doing. A time when she felt proud, even heroic. Not lately though. Suddenly the doors whooshed open and a red and gold robotic like figure strode into the conference room. And it was mostly because of him, Carol Danvers better known to the world as Ms. Marvel bitterly thought.
To be sure, that was somewhat unfair. After all, Tony Stark hadn't forced a bunch of stupid kids obsessed with fame and TV ratings to try and bring in a bunch of super lunatics who unilaterally decided to blow up a suburb in the United States which happened to ground zero to an elementary school.
To be sure, if anyone thought that Congress wouldn't have a choice to pass the SuperHuman Registration Act either was stupid, insane, or whacked out on drugs.
To be sure, she wasn't even sure how the Hell things had come to this. Hero fighting hero. Captain America, dead. Luke Cage, Peter Parker, Clint Barton, and a bunch of others on the run and underground. Iron Man, Director of SHIELD. And everything else.
She sighed and straightened up, "So what's going on that's so urgent?" she asked wearily wondering what sort of emergency had prompted this meeting.
The armored faceplate retracted revealing Tony Stark's familiar and photogenic face behind the iron mask. "Officially, we're going to brief the Japanese Diet regarding the SuperHuman Registration Act which they are still divided upon," he began, "Unofficially ... the SHRA is a done deal. The Prime Minister of Japan is going to be signing their own version of the SHRA."
Carol frowned, "So why are we really going then?"
"To help the Japanese Diet set up things up. Once they've got a functioning Pro-Registration group established, we can leave things in their hands."
Carol made a face, "It's not enough we set up our own group, now we're exporting this stuff? Geez Tony, all you're doing is proving T'Challa right!" she snapped throwing up her hands into the air in disgust.
Tony looked stern, "This is the decision of the duly elected government of Japan, Carol who have asked for the assistance of the United States Government, a long standing economic and political ally and the US has agreed."
Carol defiantly folded her arms across her chest and thrust out her chin, "Why? They can't handle things on their own?"
Tony cocked his head and then appeared to shift onto a totally different topic, "What do you know about Hiroshima in World War II?"
Carol blink blinked at the total non sequitur. "Uh ..." she racked her brain for long forgotten historical facts from high school, "... well from what I remember, Truman ordered it bombed with the very first atomic weapon that was developed by the Manhattan Project to force the Japanese Imperial Army into surrendering."
Tony grinned and shook his head, "Wrong."
"No wait, I'm pretty sure—"
"Sorry to tell you this, but don't believe everything you read," Stark said with a faint smile. "It's pretty much classified but Japan was conducting experiments in dimensional teleportation during World War II.
"The concept was to try and create miniature wormholes so they could perform large scale transport of troops and equipment instantaneously. The idea was that with an incredibly simplified logistics chain, a smaller amount of soldiers could face the United States' much larger army. Or simply, create a wormhole above a military installation or an army formation and drop a couple of bombs through.
"They had developed two transfer stations. One located at Hiroshima. And the other was at Nagasaki.
"Unfortunately, the Hiroshima Transfer Dock apparently lost containment of their wormhole and it pretty much destroyed the entire city. As a result the Nagasaki Dock to begin to develop instabilities and the Japanese Military finally broke down and asked for help. Scientists on both sides calculated that this wormhole might expand and engulf the entire Pacific Ocean, maybe even swallow up the entire world. So the United States with the full support of the Japanese Government, sent an atomic bomb to detonate at the event horizon of the Transfer Dock to close it. They underestimated the effects though. The wormhole was closed but before it did, it caused a massive blowback that wiped out most of Nagasaki. Afterwards, Japan and the US came up with a cover story that we had bombed both cities with nukes. But it resulted in the permanent derangement of the dimensional stability of the entire area around Japan.
"As a result, Japan has been subject to incursions from other-dimensional threats and the like for the past several decades. Ever hear of Godzilla?" Tony asked with a raised eyebrow.
Carol gaped. "Wha? Wait a second! Are you telling me—"
Tony cracked a smile and continued, "One of the biggest coverups of all time. Yeah. No long lost missing dinosaur that was mutated by an atomic bomb. Our best guesstimates is that he's from a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs never died out. The current theories are divided as to whether or not he was the pinnacle of their evolutionary chain or he might have been mutated by the interdimensional forces he was exposed to on the trip here. He was probably thrust into our dimension when Nagasaki blew."
Tony snapped his fingers and the screen behind him blanked and was replaced from a GPS navigational plot of the Helicarrier's current speed and projected course into dozens upon dozens of static photo images of men and women along with accompanying bits of data. Carol stared and more and more flashed onto screens.
"Perhaps as a result of all of this interdimensional activity, Japan happens to have one of the highest concentrations of superhumans next to the United States," Tony remarked.
Carol blinked. "It does?"
"Surprises you doesn't it?" Tony flashed a grin, "Most of them don't go out of their way for publicity or wear spandex."
Carol stared at the screens with a sense of foreboding. She had thought the whole Registration business was over and done with. Now it seemed that it was merely the beginning. And a whole new war was brewing...
A/N: Yet another one of my Addventures thread that I posted a while back. I got the basic idea when Marvel first began printing the Civil War comics about an anime/magna version. What would happen if the various anime and magna heroes got into a knock down fight? Who would win? Would Sailor Moon be pro or against? How would the cast of Tenchi Muyo react? And what about all of the other characters?
I was never very happy with the ending of the Civil War, personally I always felt that Cap should have won and was disappointed how it was handled. I felt that they had a great concept and an impressive built-up but they flubbed it at the very end where they had Cap surrender. I mean if they were going to kill him, they should have done it at the conclusion of Civil War. It would have made it much more dramatic. But I digress.
As for the whole Hiroshima and Nagasaki thing, I already got a negative comment from someone about it on the Addventure site about how he disliked me rewriting history so to speak by having the Japanese ask the US to nuke their own city. To wit I responded that I wanted a reasonable and plausible explanation as to why there is such a high concentration of superhumans in Japan and why Japan is such a hotbed of demons and supernatural creatures. And I never really bought Godzilla's origin about how a dinosaur miraculously escaped extinction and survived to the present day undetected only to be irradiated and mutated into a 200 foot tall lizard.
And technically speaking, Japan never asked the US to nuke their own city in the story. They asked them to help them stop a runaway wormhole from destroying their own country.