Earth-1218. In the Marvel universe, that is the designation for our world. It is a place where superheroes and super powers don't exist. They only live within the pages of comic books, on the TV screen, or in movies. DC and Marvel rule the comic book lands and are known throughout the world. But what if the other universes existed? What if our world merely served as an original for multiple universes based on the comics we created? Could that mean that our world was just another place in the Marvel universe?
This is where our story takes place.
History is not altered. Everything in the past happened as recorded. However, during the early parts of the year 2014, everything started to change. For three hours, on January 23rd, the skies around the world turned dark. At first, it was just seen as something odd. However, as time kept going, it slowly started turning into panic. When news got out that this was a world wide phenomena, people started to claim that it was the end of the world. It was sort of strange, though. Despite the skies being dark, nothing else out of the ordinary was happening. Right before the darkness went away, a bright red light bathed the world, and then it was done.
The skies returned to normal, and it looked like nothing had changed. Electronics had not gone haywire, no missiles had been accidentally launched. As far as anyone could tell, nothing had changed. Of course, they were wrong. The red light that had covered Earth 1218 was interference from another universe. It was a ripple that had spread throughout the multiverse, originating in a place were superheroes very much existed. Somehow, it had triggered a hidden potential in the human race. There was a change at a genetic level in certain individuals.
It has been 6 months since that event, and the first mutants have started to make themselves public. How they have made themselves public varies greatly from each person. Some have started to use their power for evil, some for good, and some have made themselves into celebrities or turned themselves into lab rats for the government to study.
Our story takes place in San Francisco, a rather well known city on the west coast of the United States. There seems to be an oddly high concentration of mutants in this city. It had been noted as a strange similarity to idea of many heroes appearing in New York city in the Marvel Comics.
Speaking of the major comic companies, they seem to be running with the idea of real mutants. In fact, comics depicting fictional stories of the vigilantes that have showed up have started appearing in comic stores around the country. The public has tried branding the new mutants with names from comic books, based on the similarity of the new mutants' powers with existing comic book characters. Since the comic book companies own these names, they are using the publicity to make money.
So, now the new mutants of Earth-1218 are going to have to create their own path and figure out their own destinies. How will they fit into the world? Will they fit into the world? And what was the true origin of that red light that started all of this?