The Crucible Command
Posted: 2006-08-05 08:45pm
This is my second attempt to do a crossover fanfic. I decided to jump right into the action instead of building up. It will be a DC/Marvel/nBSG/SW and eventually ST.
And if the prologue sucks, it is because I am no George Lucas.
And yes, I purposely screwed up most of the history for the purposes of the story.
Chapter O "Age of War"
Legends abound throughout history of beings that can do incredible feats well beyond the range of mortal abilities. Most of the modern world dismissed these concepts as pure fantasy, along with the idea of the lost continent of Atlantis or life on other worlds. But in the years following World War I, science made major leaps forward in understanding the human mind and body. Scientists discovered that humanity was on the verge of making a major leap up the evolutionary chain when the first specimens of Homo superior were discovered, more colloquially known as mutants. One man was even able to make life were there was none before, giving birth to the first modern superhero, the Human Torch. As more of these beings began to appear, inspiring normal humans with the greatest of all powers, intelligence and heart, joined ranks with the powered people to make the world a better place. Most of these heroes concentrated themselves in the United States, usually in the cities of Gotham, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But with dark clouds brewing over Europe, the heroes united to defend their homeland from all threats, creating the very first supergroup, the Justice Society of America. But the United States government, fearing the enemies overseas were growing to dangerous, began to produce weapons to defend the free world. Their greatest success came in 1940, with the empowering of the living embodiment of the American Ideal, Captain America. Other heroes then started to appear, a strange Atlantian in New York calling himself Namor and the Amazon Wonder Woman in Metropolis. But these were only the first of many yet to come.
By the beginning of the Second World War, most of the hidden powers of the world had begun to expose themselves to the world, albeit at a slow pace. Atlantis, Themyscria, Valhalla, and several non-terrestrial powers came to the decision that the outside world was better left in the hands of the Western Allies and formed a secret alliance to ensure that this would be the result of the world. Queen Hippolyta and Prince Namor actively aided Great Britain and France, even going so far as to commit troops to the ill-fated Battle for France. The Asgard, however, were only able to divert Axis forces into Norway, holding the Nazi war machine at bay and to prevent Soviet intervention. The Alien nations of Oa, Sh’iar, and New Genesis used whatever forces available to keep less scrupulous nations from aiding the Axis and seizing the strategic planet and enslaving the Terrans. The Kree, who failed to join the alliance, were wiped out by a combined force from Apocalypse and the Skrull Empire. In order to save what was left of their civilization, they did what the Kryptonians had failed to do decades before hand and sent their youngest to the still intact Allies, mostly New Genesis and the Allied Powers on Earth. They were to be cared for and trained by the local inhabitants and watched over by the Allies themselves while their forefathers threw themselves against the entire enemy force in a final suicidal gesture. Every last Kree gave their life in one final battle that wiped out the entirety of the Skrull civilization, preventing them from ever moving against anyone ever again.
This is not to say that the Axis was without help. Hitler managed to make contact with Darkside himself, who was taken aback by the evil human’s resemblance to himself. Hitler uses this alliance with a major alien power to force the Soviet Union and a paranoid Stalin to join the Axis powers, which forced the formation on the non-human Allies and their alliance with Great Britain and France. Spain barely remains neutral. Another secret power joins with Axis, believing that total control of Earth is the only way to secure their survival after being banished from their home world fro rebelling. The Cylons give Hitler access to powerful computers and missile technology, not to mention millions of drones and assault craft to maintain his control over Fortress Europe, that would allow the Nazi to hit anywhere on Earth with their soon to be developed fission bombs. The traitorous Loki even manages to sabotage the Asgard attempts to send their forces into Europe and almost leads the enemy forces into the main hall itself, but fails due to the timely arrival of the expedition under Thor to repel the assault, but he arrived too late to prevent the death of Odin at the hands of Darkside’s minions. The Japanese, who had helped form the core of the Axis, conquer island after island in the Pacific, using advanced air tactics and alien weapons to beat the British back into India and crush almost all resistance in China, final forcing the Flying Tigers to join up with the US retreat into India without the aid of the United States.
The Earth Allies were only able to hold the Nazi war machine at bay until the critical date of December 8, 1941. The United States, after the mauling of their fleet at Pearl Harbor, commit themselves totally to the utter defeat of the Axis. While not able to fully commit their ground, air, and sea forces until spring of the next year, they do send their own special weapons to aid the Amazons and the Atlantians to defending the Allies and breaking the blockade of Valhalla. They commit their own superheroes into the fray, led by the seemingly invincible Captain America and the newly formed Justice Society of America. Captain America takes command of the Invaders, a force of British and American supertroops and metahumans. They single-handedly crush the blockade around Valhalla and with the aid of the sympathetic Thor, the new King of the Asgard. They help Patton and Montgomery capture Rommel himself in North Africa. Union Jack commands the first wave of troops into Italy while the Human Torch and Namor cut off the German retreat into Central Europe, destroying German morale with the massive war walkers and battleships of Atlantis. In the Pacific, the Japanese are forced to abandon island and island as Wonder Woman and a brigade of Amazons back up Admiral Nimitz and General Macarthur along with Major Mapleleaf and Green Lantern. The ETA, ExtraTerrestrial Allies, finally cutoff the Germans totally from the forces of the Cylons and Apocalypse, which would eventually force Darkside to reconsider his position on Earth and even his withdrawal from Earth. The aliens kept any large ships from getting into Earth space and prevented Basestars from bombarding Earth.
By 1944, the Allied forces under General Eisenhower and Queen Hippolyta, now called Wonder Woman by most of the Allied nations after a comment made by President Roosevelt, launch Operation Overlord, the massive campaign to free Europe and begin to liberate France. While Monty and Patton attack at Normandy, Generals Bradley and Clark assault the Balkans and liberate Greece with the aid of the now redeploy Amazons while the Atlantians aid Macarthur in his return to the Philippines. The Japanese unleash genetically engineered monster as they loose ground and the island territories to confound Admiral Spreauance and the marines under his command. But even this only delays the advance on the United States back across the Pacific.
These victories by the Allies did not mean that the war was anywhere near close to bringing an end to the war. Hitler still controlled the USSR and had eliminated Stalin after a failed coup that had killed Goring, Himmler, Gourbles, and Admiral Raider. Hitler used Cylon shock troopers to maintain his control in the occupied nations and was preparing his final trump card against the Allies, a fusion bomb and a way to deliver them. However, due to actions taken by the JSA and the Invaders, the plot to destroy the Allies was delayed by six months after several key facilities were destroyed.
By 1945, the Axis seemed doomed. General Zhukov managed to rally the Russian resistance in northern Russia and was close to liberating Moscow with the aid of Asgard and Allied forces. France was fully liberated by February and northern Italy by early March. The last actual free parts of the Soviet Union that had rebelled after the death of Stalin were beginning to advance against the Nazis. Premier Khrushchev, commanding from the new Soviet Capital of Volgograd, defeated wave after wave of Nazi and Cylon forces using advanced tanks and tough determination. The new Russian government established itself in the north and east and firmly committed itself to freeing it’s people and avenging the millions of dead Russians that Hitler and Stalin had murdered in their mad schemes for world, and even galactic, conquest. The new Soviet Union in the south committed itself to the survival of communism and had held off the Nazi advance into the Middle East and Central Asia after rising up against Stalin in 1942 and barely holding by using chemical weapons and savage guerilla tactics to bleed the Nazis and Cylons for every inch of ground.
To counter the Allied counterassaults, the Nazis began Operation Dresden. Allied high command was desperate for information as the Nazis appeared to pour almost all of their resources into this final plan. The Soviet/Russian offensive ground to a halt at the Russo/Polish border and Patton’s push failed to make any real headway into Germany. Brandley and Hippolyta’s forces were forced to slug it out with the remainder of the Cylon’s troops in Austria, even after Darkside, who had taken command in the east in 1944, abandoned Earth to continue his search for the Anti-Life Equation. Hitler had come to realize that at best, the German Army could only hold the Allies at bay, so Dresden proceeded as the last hope of the Third Reich for victory. Thus Hitler, continuing his march into utter madness, prepared to launch a series of suicidal attacks against the Allied Armies to buy time for his new secret weapon. Field Marshal von Rundstedt commanded the attack against General Patton while Field Marshal Yodel did his best to stem the arrival of the Russian juggernaut in Europe. Both plans met with massive casualities and only held off the Allies by one month. But this did not matter the crazed Hitler. He had failed to carry out the final solution after the Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Flash Liberate the death camps and captured most of the SS officers responsible for the atrocities in the camps, along with most of those who had sent the orders down the chain. Hitler would not go down life his commanders. He, even with his dark world that he had created shattered around him, would strike at the very heart of the Allies and force their utter destruction. Hitler had been building up his nuclear forces for a full year and had been unable to deploy them for fear of his own health and that his vision for the planet would be lost. However, the results of Dresden had finally given him the ways and means to destroy the Allied powers and strike at the alien enemy with near impunity.
Our story begins as the Allies begin Operation Dropkick in early April of 1945, an assault on a secret Nazi fortress in the North Atlantic. American, British, Free French, Russian, Amazonian, and Atlantian forces mass themselves to take out the new superweapon at Hitler’s disposal, one that could change the course of the war in a single week. Tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of ships, thousands of planes, and hundreds of superheroes would smash this threat to freedom, whatever the cost, and then finally bring down the Nazis and their allies all across the planet…
And if the prologue sucks, it is because I am no George Lucas.
And yes, I purposely screwed up most of the history for the purposes of the story.
Chapter O "Age of War"
Legends abound throughout history of beings that can do incredible feats well beyond the range of mortal abilities. Most of the modern world dismissed these concepts as pure fantasy, along with the idea of the lost continent of Atlantis or life on other worlds. But in the years following World War I, science made major leaps forward in understanding the human mind and body. Scientists discovered that humanity was on the verge of making a major leap up the evolutionary chain when the first specimens of Homo superior were discovered, more colloquially known as mutants. One man was even able to make life were there was none before, giving birth to the first modern superhero, the Human Torch. As more of these beings began to appear, inspiring normal humans with the greatest of all powers, intelligence and heart, joined ranks with the powered people to make the world a better place. Most of these heroes concentrated themselves in the United States, usually in the cities of Gotham, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But with dark clouds brewing over Europe, the heroes united to defend their homeland from all threats, creating the very first supergroup, the Justice Society of America. But the United States government, fearing the enemies overseas were growing to dangerous, began to produce weapons to defend the free world. Their greatest success came in 1940, with the empowering of the living embodiment of the American Ideal, Captain America. Other heroes then started to appear, a strange Atlantian in New York calling himself Namor and the Amazon Wonder Woman in Metropolis. But these were only the first of many yet to come.
By the beginning of the Second World War, most of the hidden powers of the world had begun to expose themselves to the world, albeit at a slow pace. Atlantis, Themyscria, Valhalla, and several non-terrestrial powers came to the decision that the outside world was better left in the hands of the Western Allies and formed a secret alliance to ensure that this would be the result of the world. Queen Hippolyta and Prince Namor actively aided Great Britain and France, even going so far as to commit troops to the ill-fated Battle for France. The Asgard, however, were only able to divert Axis forces into Norway, holding the Nazi war machine at bay and to prevent Soviet intervention. The Alien nations of Oa, Sh’iar, and New Genesis used whatever forces available to keep less scrupulous nations from aiding the Axis and seizing the strategic planet and enslaving the Terrans. The Kree, who failed to join the alliance, were wiped out by a combined force from Apocalypse and the Skrull Empire. In order to save what was left of their civilization, they did what the Kryptonians had failed to do decades before hand and sent their youngest to the still intact Allies, mostly New Genesis and the Allied Powers on Earth. They were to be cared for and trained by the local inhabitants and watched over by the Allies themselves while their forefathers threw themselves against the entire enemy force in a final suicidal gesture. Every last Kree gave their life in one final battle that wiped out the entirety of the Skrull civilization, preventing them from ever moving against anyone ever again.
This is not to say that the Axis was without help. Hitler managed to make contact with Darkside himself, who was taken aback by the evil human’s resemblance to himself. Hitler uses this alliance with a major alien power to force the Soviet Union and a paranoid Stalin to join the Axis powers, which forced the formation on the non-human Allies and their alliance with Great Britain and France. Spain barely remains neutral. Another secret power joins with Axis, believing that total control of Earth is the only way to secure their survival after being banished from their home world fro rebelling. The Cylons give Hitler access to powerful computers and missile technology, not to mention millions of drones and assault craft to maintain his control over Fortress Europe, that would allow the Nazi to hit anywhere on Earth with their soon to be developed fission bombs. The traitorous Loki even manages to sabotage the Asgard attempts to send their forces into Europe and almost leads the enemy forces into the main hall itself, but fails due to the timely arrival of the expedition under Thor to repel the assault, but he arrived too late to prevent the death of Odin at the hands of Darkside’s minions. The Japanese, who had helped form the core of the Axis, conquer island after island in the Pacific, using advanced air tactics and alien weapons to beat the British back into India and crush almost all resistance in China, final forcing the Flying Tigers to join up with the US retreat into India without the aid of the United States.
The Earth Allies were only able to hold the Nazi war machine at bay until the critical date of December 8, 1941. The United States, after the mauling of their fleet at Pearl Harbor, commit themselves totally to the utter defeat of the Axis. While not able to fully commit their ground, air, and sea forces until spring of the next year, they do send their own special weapons to aid the Amazons and the Atlantians to defending the Allies and breaking the blockade of Valhalla. They commit their own superheroes into the fray, led by the seemingly invincible Captain America and the newly formed Justice Society of America. Captain America takes command of the Invaders, a force of British and American supertroops and metahumans. They single-handedly crush the blockade around Valhalla and with the aid of the sympathetic Thor, the new King of the Asgard. They help Patton and Montgomery capture Rommel himself in North Africa. Union Jack commands the first wave of troops into Italy while the Human Torch and Namor cut off the German retreat into Central Europe, destroying German morale with the massive war walkers and battleships of Atlantis. In the Pacific, the Japanese are forced to abandon island and island as Wonder Woman and a brigade of Amazons back up Admiral Nimitz and General Macarthur along with Major Mapleleaf and Green Lantern. The ETA, ExtraTerrestrial Allies, finally cutoff the Germans totally from the forces of the Cylons and Apocalypse, which would eventually force Darkside to reconsider his position on Earth and even his withdrawal from Earth. The aliens kept any large ships from getting into Earth space and prevented Basestars from bombarding Earth.
By 1944, the Allied forces under General Eisenhower and Queen Hippolyta, now called Wonder Woman by most of the Allied nations after a comment made by President Roosevelt, launch Operation Overlord, the massive campaign to free Europe and begin to liberate France. While Monty and Patton attack at Normandy, Generals Bradley and Clark assault the Balkans and liberate Greece with the aid of the now redeploy Amazons while the Atlantians aid Macarthur in his return to the Philippines. The Japanese unleash genetically engineered monster as they loose ground and the island territories to confound Admiral Spreauance and the marines under his command. But even this only delays the advance on the United States back across the Pacific.
These victories by the Allies did not mean that the war was anywhere near close to bringing an end to the war. Hitler still controlled the USSR and had eliminated Stalin after a failed coup that had killed Goring, Himmler, Gourbles, and Admiral Raider. Hitler used Cylon shock troopers to maintain his control in the occupied nations and was preparing his final trump card against the Allies, a fusion bomb and a way to deliver them. However, due to actions taken by the JSA and the Invaders, the plot to destroy the Allies was delayed by six months after several key facilities were destroyed.
By 1945, the Axis seemed doomed. General Zhukov managed to rally the Russian resistance in northern Russia and was close to liberating Moscow with the aid of Asgard and Allied forces. France was fully liberated by February and northern Italy by early March. The last actual free parts of the Soviet Union that had rebelled after the death of Stalin were beginning to advance against the Nazis. Premier Khrushchev, commanding from the new Soviet Capital of Volgograd, defeated wave after wave of Nazi and Cylon forces using advanced tanks and tough determination. The new Russian government established itself in the north and east and firmly committed itself to freeing it’s people and avenging the millions of dead Russians that Hitler and Stalin had murdered in their mad schemes for world, and even galactic, conquest. The new Soviet Union in the south committed itself to the survival of communism and had held off the Nazi advance into the Middle East and Central Asia after rising up against Stalin in 1942 and barely holding by using chemical weapons and savage guerilla tactics to bleed the Nazis and Cylons for every inch of ground.
To counter the Allied counterassaults, the Nazis began Operation Dresden. Allied high command was desperate for information as the Nazis appeared to pour almost all of their resources into this final plan. The Soviet/Russian offensive ground to a halt at the Russo/Polish border and Patton’s push failed to make any real headway into Germany. Brandley and Hippolyta’s forces were forced to slug it out with the remainder of the Cylon’s troops in Austria, even after Darkside, who had taken command in the east in 1944, abandoned Earth to continue his search for the Anti-Life Equation. Hitler had come to realize that at best, the German Army could only hold the Allies at bay, so Dresden proceeded as the last hope of the Third Reich for victory. Thus Hitler, continuing his march into utter madness, prepared to launch a series of suicidal attacks against the Allied Armies to buy time for his new secret weapon. Field Marshal von Rundstedt commanded the attack against General Patton while Field Marshal Yodel did his best to stem the arrival of the Russian juggernaut in Europe. Both plans met with massive casualities and only held off the Allies by one month. But this did not matter the crazed Hitler. He had failed to carry out the final solution after the Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Flash Liberate the death camps and captured most of the SS officers responsible for the atrocities in the camps, along with most of those who had sent the orders down the chain. Hitler would not go down life his commanders. He, even with his dark world that he had created shattered around him, would strike at the very heart of the Allies and force their utter destruction. Hitler had been building up his nuclear forces for a full year and had been unable to deploy them for fear of his own health and that his vision for the planet would be lost. However, the results of Dresden had finally given him the ways and means to destroy the Allied powers and strike at the alien enemy with near impunity.
Our story begins as the Allies begin Operation Dropkick in early April of 1945, an assault on a secret Nazi fortress in the North Atlantic. American, British, Free French, Russian, Amazonian, and Atlantian forces mass themselves to take out the new superweapon at Hitler’s disposal, one that could change the course of the war in a single week. Tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of ships, thousands of planes, and hundreds of superheroes would smash this threat to freedom, whatever the cost, and then finally bring down the Nazis and their allies all across the planet…