The history Channel The Endbringer wars.
Sergent Michael Pelps PRT
You know his name was almost Prometheus, and when you think about it, well it made sense as a name the titan who stole fire from the gods to give it to humanity. It had pathos, it had a kind of image, it was also harder to pronounce and that may have had a factor in why it never took off.
-sigh-
You see the defection was big, I mean really big, and the PRT, government and PR spent months fighting over what his name would be. Even after settling on Prometheus people still fought it. Well, in the special district the egg heads wanted to name their project and since he looked like a robot and could manipulate wood among other things, people called it project Ironwood.
-pause as the sergeant gets a drink of water-
So he gives us information that we have 3 days before Lyon is attacked, you see he had hacked the Endbringer's communication network. We had to tell the french about the upcoming attack, I mean you can't not say anything. So we sent a file and on the top of it was project Ironwood. Now a lot of us figured that the french would screw this up, politics you know?
-Chuckles-
Thing is we were wrong, you see the leadership of France figured that if the attack didn't happen, then they would simply blame the americans and that would be that, but if the attack did happen and everyone were evacuated then they would get credit for saving the people of Lyon. So they got everyone they could the fuck out of there, there were a couple of stragglers, idiots there always are some, but for the most part, about 90% of the population of Lyon got out of there.
First couple days we thought it might be bullshit, you know, then on the third day Behemoth comes right on schedule, going right for the nuclear plant as predicted, so of course he's there you know, and the french start telling their capes that Ironwood is on our side and not to hurt him.
- He smirks-
It stuck, Ironwood I mean, so the first battle, well woody told us he was a medic and that he didn't have a lot of fighting experence and honestly that first battle? Well he got his ass kicked, I mean it wasn't exactly even close Behemoth just wreaked his sh... um stuff. Thing was though, while Behemoth was busy just handing Ironwood his ass, the rest of us were preparing, getting ready to put the hurt on him and when we were ready we unleashed hell.
-Pause and wistful smile-
You know before Ironwood defected we all had theories about why the Endbringers were atttacking us. Some thought they were here to conquer us, to punish us for our sins, I think we all wanted the war to mean something. A few guys hit on the truth, Howard Stern was one of them. Asked what if the endbringers are just well jerks? Finding out that the truth was that simple, that the Endbringers were simply jerks? It made a lot of people mad. I mean really mad, Woody got some of that hate.
-He frowns-
Which wasn't fair to Woody, because I mean crap, you can't pick your family can you? So we're good and ready and we unleash hell on Behemoth, and honestly that SOB deserved it. I mean after all the cities he wreaked, all the people he killed for fun? Suddenly Behemoth notices that we exist and gets ready to wreak us. Woody see's that and tackles him to the ground, fell right on his face. Which starts the beating again, Woody took it, kept Behemoth from wiping us out while we wittled him down. Eventually Behemoth just leaves, as Endbringer battles go it was pretty clean Lyon lost a a couple dozen city blocks but no civilians died and most of us survived.
Woody looked like hell but he got up and patched up each and every single one of us, the ones who lived, some people got incinerated and their was nothing he could do for them. We felt pretty good about ourselves, the world came together, human, parahuman endbringer and the good guys won. We all knew it wasn't over by a long shot, we knew that there were 18 more of these assholes coming but we had stopped freaking out, stopped our whining. We knew that they were not invincible, that they had been defeated before.
For the first time in a long time we had hope.
The song "Hopes and Dreams save the world" plays
