If Decimation was Reversed, what would become of the SHRA

[Orin GA]

How would the Gov handle the share amount of meta humans that would suddenly pop up. I doubt they would be able to keep track of them all, and have to initiate more forceful ways to make meta humans comply. Project wide awake anybody?

[MAK15]

nah, launching sentinels would be a bad PR move, specially if they already spent all these man-houres trying to get the SHRA happening.
they'd proly still have the training, but since a bunch of the mutants wouldnt want to do it, they'd prolly become criminals in the process.

[myslead]

mutants used to be in the millions.

superheroes? in the hundreds.

[XPac]

How would the Gov handle the share amount of meta humans that would suddenly pop up. I doubt they would be able to keep track of them all, and have to initiate more forceful ways to make meta humans comply. Project wide awake anybody?

Sentials are a possibility if the heroes prove undermanned. But Project Wide Awake is somewhat less likely now that they use human pilots in Sentinals.

[oldscool]

i think the point that was made in the run up to civil war was that the SRA was only realy a practical solution since the decimation

so if wanda goes wibbly again or tony axidentaly pushed the button that activates his retcon satalite the SRA would be done for

[bulbasteve]

Well if it gets bad he could get back together with his brain trust and make another mutant cure.

[RhynoWoody]

How would the Gov handle the share amount of meta humans that would suddenly pop up. I doubt they would be able to keep track of them all, and have to initiate more forceful ways to make meta humans comply. Project wide awake anybody?

They could just enlist all the mutants into the intiative with all the other metahumans. It could be good PR for the mutants too...just spit balling.

[Psyco panda]

SHIELD: All mutants must register as part of the SHRA, or go to jail without trial!

Magneto: Hi.

SHIELD: AWwwwww ****.

**much carnage ensues.**

[DoctorDoom]

They'll go back to the classics soon enough...

[Magneto Rocks]

Simple enough. They'd say "THANK GOD we have the FSI!" and then expand the SHRA to all the new mutants. There'd be a new civil war, either radically smaller or radically larger, then at the end we'd hjave the exact same system but with much bigger threats to fight and much bigger teams in each state.

[Xanrn]

Come on 70% if not more of the mutants had freakin lame powers if they had had any powers at all and their mutation wasn't a massive long neck.

Thats why Sentinel's weren't a joke, because they can slaughter most Non X-men, Brotherhood Mutants..

[AnthonyJ]

If Decimation were reversed, administrative changes are probably needed, and you need a lot more enforcement teams, but depending on how it's structured, there's a fair chance you also can have more enforcement teams. It's not like recruiting mutants for such a team is forbidden, so you have a much larger talent pool to draw from.

[XPac]

In theory, the goverment wouldn't need to do anymore than what they've already done.

There's already a Mutant Registration in place. There's already Xavier's school, so they don't need a seperate training facility (at most they just have to expand it).

Unless another Stamford occurs, I'm not sure there's a need to add anything to what already exists.

I suppose if you're SHIELD you might want a draft aspect, but again that's more an issue of them wanting power than one of any practical need.

[RazzleDazzle]

SHIELD: All mutants must register as part of the SHRA, or go to jail without trial!

Magneto: Hi.

SHIELD: AWwwwww ****.



Well, that made me chuckle. Now only if this would happen.

[Adrian Tullberg]

SHIELD: All mutants must register as part of the SHRA, or go to jail without trial!

Magneto: Hi.

SHIELD: AWwwwww ****.

**much carnage ensues.**

Let's expand on that ..

***

They were hovering over the masses.

Carol Danvers, aka Ms. Marvel, was seeing the sea of...

... not humanity ...

... slowly filter into the holding area. Although she wasn't sure ‘holding area’ applied to an area the size of five football fields.

She looked towards Tony, about fifty yards away. "I think this should be handled different."

The brief change in modulation was the only hint of the multiple levels of encryption Stark was channeling their conversation through. "They didn't give us any choice."

"They didn't choose to be mutants. To loose their powers...”

"... and one day get them back. Plus every other mutant who should have had their powers kick in at puberty suddenly find themselves very different one morning."

"The majority don't want to use their powers as per the SHRA."

"Some of them did."

"Some, Tony."

"Did you see the reports of that guy in Sacramento? He was filleted."

"That guy beat and raped a depowered mutant girl along with four of his buddies. I'm not exactly convinced his death was a great loss."

"There's a thing called a criminal charge."

"There's a reality known as any investigation regarding a mutant victim is almost certainly stonewalled, delayed and ignored. And that's if the cop assigned to it actually gives a rat's ass." She'd learned a few unpleasant truths with the X-Men.

"Carol, I was instructed to make sure that the mutants either waved the flag as duly registered superhumans ... or make sure the problem goes away."

"Did they say that?"

"They always make sure they never say anything directly like that."

Carol looked down at the herded, frightened beings below. All different sizes and colours, the only common denominator being the inhibitor collars giving off a dull glow. Dotted around were loudspeakers blaring out the responsibilities and the benefits of registration.

Once mutants had been declared enemy combatants under the SHRA, the hotlines had run at full capacity of people informing on the names and locations of mutants. It didn't take long to run most of the frightened, untrained but still defiant mutants up.

Carol glanced at the detachment of SHIELD operatives keeping an eagle eye on the captives and a finger on the trigger. "There has to be a better way than herding a large percentage of a vastly discriminated minority into a camp."

"They've been fed on anti-registration propaganda since Xavier."

"It doesn't help when you prove the propaganda right."

Stark looked at Carol. "Can I count on you Danvers?"

"Wha ... I ..."

"Can I count on you?"

"Wh ... yes, you can, Tony, I just ..."

"Then shut up and do your job."

Stark turned away from her and shut off his link.

Carol looked down at the captives below. Tony could be a complete ...

... the mutants were slowing their progress.

Looking at her.

No, past her.

Carol turned...

... the garish red and purple, a deliberate testimony to blood and vivid injury. The flowing cape. The red helmet.

Carol hit the alarm on her communicator.

"ALERT! Red alert!"

"Scramble, scramble-"

"Magneto! Initiate -"

Stark was right next to her, far enough from Carol to force Magneto to divert visual attention between the two, yet close enough to back her up. "Erik Lensherr! You are under-"

Psychologists stated that gesturing while using powers, although the process not requiring arm movement was purely an affectation. A habit.

However, Magneto, not even looking at Tony, raising his hand and idly drawing his fingers inward to his palm, was using it more as a dramatic statement.

The Extremis 'Virus' rebuilt Tony Stark's body to store the inner control undersheath of his armour inside his body, as well as directly link it to his brain and nervous system.

By the time Magneto was performing his artistic motion, the superconducting and structural metals outside and within Stark's body were tearing away and through his flesh.

Carol could still hear the screaming as the twitching red-and-gold figure fell towards the ground.

Suddenly, the pre-recorded messages on the loudspeakers stopped. And a more strident voice replaced them.

"Brothers! Sisters!"

The SHIELD personnel suddenly found their weapons, armour, equipment stripped away, and none too gently. Carol could hear a bone breaking even from her altitude.

"Once again the humans have offered us their jealousy! Their hate! Their fear!"

Carol gathered strength, and pushed herself towards Magneto, gathering all her power in one supersonic blow-

"They demand you show your gifts! Obey their whims! March under their banners and their laws and their unwavering contempt!"

- and bounced off a sphere of pure force.

"When you demanded the dignity that you deserve, they herded you into the slaughterhouse like cattle!"

Carol slowed her wild veering, and turned around for another attack. Okay, this guy had deflected attacks by Thor. Think differently Danvers, try to absorb his energy...

"The humans struck at you when you were weakest, and when you defended yourselves, they gave you the back of their hand and their brands on our necks!"

The sound of thousands of inhibitor collars tearing apart sounded like gunshots.

"I offer you, without reserve, your freedom!"

Carol approached...

"However, I ask ... I beg of you, your help."

... and the hardest metal object in the area slammed into the side of her head.

More exactly, the comatose body of Stark.

The two of them slammed into the muddy ground, turned to a swamp by thousands of feet.

Carol looked up, at the sea of once downtrodden, now hopeful, worshipful faces.

"The humans will come for us. They have learned a new trick these days; the comfort of the collaborator. You will be offered safety, and a role to play in fighting and murdering the men, women and children ... all standing beside you."

They looked at each other, at their children, huddled, frightened.

"They will offer words of praise while whispering behind your back, spitting in your food. They will even provide a warm, comfortable kennel."

The downtrodden fear was replaced by a growing righteous anger.

Magneto had waited.

He had waited until a large number of mutants were herded into the one spot, then showed up like the cavalry and saved them all.

Now the Brotherhood of Mutants, once a small terrorist group with a little sideline in mercenary work, was now a full fledged and fanatically motivated army and it was all thanks to the Super Human Registration Act.

"Will you allow yourselves to be leashed? And scrabble for the scraps in your cage?"

Magneto's voice took on a low, vicious edge.

"Or will you run with the wolves?"

Carol struggled to get up, with Tony's limp body.

She almost made it.

[Vaal]

That... is the most beautiful thing I've ever read *tear*

[Morw]

The the end of the story:

From a room nearby tony wacthed on a screen as yet another of his remotecontrole Iroman suite was destroyed. He pushed a button and Carol was teleported out. he was not going to loose a freind but for mangento? well it was loong overdue. The man claimed he was for the mutants and against any form of Nazism yet he behavied very much like the nazi when it come to belife on who was the "übermench" yes it was a hard blow he was about to deal. He pressed the button and the bomb went off. finlay the world would be safe from mad menn like Magneto. The mutants where all people who had been on the danger list, all of them had atlest one confrimed kill on their repsheet. Did they really think he would put innocnet mutants in the room with hardcore killer? That would only turn the innoncent into killers in trainning. The innocnet had a much more comfetbol stay, and most of them had just singed the registration and moved home anyway.

[Adrian Tullberg]

That... is the most beautiful thing I've ever read *tear*


Thank you very much, I'll be here all week - try the veal ...