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The Shadow And The Kat	By : KMac Category: X-men Comics > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 7237 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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THE SHADOW AND THE KAT

DISCLAIMER: For the most part, these aren’t my characters, they belong to Marvel. Only their dilemmas are mine.

Introduction: What IF…?

What if Captain America never disappeared?

This story is based on a real published "What If" [*] in the comics, but from there it diverges sharply into fan-fic zone.

History:

The Red Skull took Cap’s place right after WWII. The real Captain floated in his block of ice, while the world changed around him. As “Captain America”, lionized as a hero by the grateful Allies, the Skull gradually but inexorably turned America and its allies into a fascist regime. After the war, the women working in the factories went back home, and domestic life drifted into a Ward and June Cleaver mode, and then calcified.

Changes that began in the 1950’s were derailed. Rock and Roll died stillborn when it was harshly suppressed as an obscene art form. The Civil Rights movement abandoned the Dream when the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was found dead, supposedly killed by a whore in a sleazy motel.

The Skull, now the U.S. president, declined to spend American lives in Korea, and later, in Vietnam. Instead he appropriated the idea of Shield from Sergeant Fury, using the concept of the Shield Cap carried in WW2 as a protective organization.

He built a Shield loyal to him, and backed it with the best technology, paid for by the money not wasted in Asian wars, creating a private army that outclassed anything in the world. The peace movement never happened, nor the sexual revolution. Without help of Roe V. Wade and the Pill, free sex was too risky. Domestic life for women and children never really advanced past the role of legal chattels, and in some cases slipped even further backwards.

When the mutants started appearing, they were treated worse than society was already treating the Jews and people of color. Mutants were considered sub-human, and to be eliminated with prejudice. Xavier gathered his X-men, and Shield surrounded the mansion and burned it to the ground. Only Scott and Jean survived the carnage. Magneto took them in, for in this world, his wildest paranoia was, if anything, naively optimistic.

Most mutants who were discovered were killed. All who were left alive were sterilized. Some had their services sold as labor by the government. Some of the pretty ones were assigned to the personal harems of the wealthy elite of Shield, which was now the worldwide military government. The unlucky few considered malleable enough to program and dangerous enough to be useful as killers were sent to the Heli-Carrier, where they were trained to be Hounds: hunters of mutants, and political assassins.

Reed Richards and his friends were prevented from attempting their launch and were never exposed to the cosmic rays. With no civilian nuclear programs there were no gamma ray experiments, and no radioactive spiders. Peter Parker was reportedly killed in a meeting of the underground that was tipped off to the authorities. Tony Stark became a member of Shield’s elite as a young man, becoming a protégé of Steve Rodgers, a.k.a. the Skull, who now was President-For-Life. Tony used his influence to force a marriage with Janet van Dyne, after having her scientist boyfriend, Hank Pym, killed.

Shield laid siege to Greenwich for weeks, and took credit for the death of Doctor Strange. They suppressed rumored sightings of demons causing an implosion of the mansion. Thor was also attacked by the demons. Backed to the foot of Bifrost, Thor turned to shatter the bridge to prevent the invasion of Asgard, just before the Neutron bomb strike at the site of battle ended the life of the son of Odin as well as his foes.

The real Steve Rodgers was eventually found in his icy tomb but he wasn’t thawed. He slumbered in a Shield laboratory where the Skull’s scientist tried to pry the secrets of the Super Soldier Formula from his very flesh and blood.

Most of the Marvel Heroes died before they made an impact, or never had a chance to become a hero. And dread Mephisto laughed on his throne at a world turned to hate…

[A/N: The inspirations were "What If" Volume II, #28-#29]

This story is undergoing a front to back revision. A while back a corruption of the text occurred that added odd spaces to the story, making it much longer (x4!) and almost unreadable. Firstly I've corrected the formatting, and done a thorough edit. Secondly, I've begun working on the sequel again. And lastly, I've made a Deviant Art account that I will be posting illustrations on. I'm not the best artist, but I hope to get the ideas across.
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