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It all began with an obscure president and his interest in demonology

 The Paranormal Research Organization formed by the very paranoid President Clancy Amherst (in 1899). 
Set to investigate the '''Clemency Society''', PRO revealed extra-dimensional forces at work within the socialite club. The Society built its main building on the summit of Mt. Concord on the outskirts of Concordia, a major port in Northern California. Anthropological findings suggest the Oct'ma tribe practised ritual human sacrifice to a unnamed god. This god seems to spontaneously come into the Oct'ma mythos circa 1860. The primarily polytheistic culture suddenly becomes monotheistic, with greater emphasis on retribution on spiritual misgivings through blood offerings. The tribe is feared for its great increase in ferocity and takes over an area covering Northern California to Washington. The tribe mysteriously vanishes in 1876.

'''Doctor Clive Journey''' and his brother, '''Jack''', and his girlfriend, '''Rose Goslin''', along with Haitian bodyguard Guadelupe Gonzalez '''Gibraltar''' discovered an advanced extra-terrestrial vessel beneath the surface of the mysterious Oreich Isles off the coast of Concordia. Exposure to alien bacteria in the vessel causing the team to go in to shock, only to be saved by a increasingly mighty Gibraltar. The entire team experiences a strange transformation. Rose possesses augmented pigment dilation and bioluminescence, creating intense flare-like effects. Jack metabolism greatly increased, augmenting his ground speed ten fold. Doctor Journey's own cerebral capacities are maximized. Something is released from the ship, a dark something that gives psi-sensitives the world over nightmares for months.

The government quickly steps in to take control over its resources. P.R.O. is renamed '''Prometheus''', after the Titan who gave fire to humanity. Not many people remember that Prometheus has spent every day since being constantly tortured.

Prometheus organizes the first Hero team ('''Courage Allied''') to go across seas to fight the Nazi menace ''in 1941''. England's paranormal research organization, '''Group 9''', meets Courage with several champions: the '''Beadle''', '''Barrister''', '''Dawn Treader''', and '''the Draconian'''. The French vigilante '''Le Jongleur''' joins as well as German defector '''Iron Cross'''.

''In 1943'', the '''Sunset Platoon''', a much more controversial team fights the Japanese threat, led by '''Sarge Siege''' and his sidekick '''Kid Caliber'''. Meanwhile, '''Manpower''' and the '''Silver Spectre''' keep a watch on America's insides, ravaged by parasites like Madam Mephisto and the Insider. 

It was by pure coincidence that Hitler's boldest attack occured two months before D-Day.
'''The Twilight Circle''', a collection of mystics and seers that served as Hitler's occult yes-men until ''1944'', had finally collected the six relics of the Dundensaark (Thunder Lord), a Teutonic champion born on rage and lightning. The final three relics had been delivered by '''Hansi Efimovivh''', a german aristocrat with an affinity for archaeology. Efimovich provided her own castle for the ritual space. The six relics where all mounted on a white-blonde, blue eyed Aryan of Hitler's own choosing (Historians would later squabble over the details of this man's identity before the transformation, whether he served in the german storm troopers or was one of Hitler's personal, promiscuous servants). Lightning crashed in upon the summoning of the Dundensaark, colliding with the chosen specimen, corruscating off his body in wicked jagged waves.

After the ceremony the lad of no more than twenty looked as if he were fifty or more, scars lanced over his face and he powerfully stood at eight feet in height, long white-silk hair constantly flowing around him. He was the Nazi Ubermensch.

Called '''Blitzkrieg''' by Hitler and the german people, the warrior of Mass Destruction challenged the entirety of Courage Allied to a battle in the French Countryside. Bundists had managed to get the challenge across the airwaves at home and most of the Allies morale hinged on the one fight. Blitzkrieg quickly killed six of the Couragers (Barrister, Dawn Treader, the Liberty Eagle, Le Jongleur, the Fighting Yank, and Iron Cross) and severely injured the rest. It was only through a combined effort of the Aquarian, the Draconian, and Gibraltar that Blitzkrieg was driven off. The Allies spirits wer crushed. So Hitler, in his growing insanity, launched his main superweapon at the American metropolis of North Point. The Journeyman (Clive Journey) had intercepted communinque that purported the attack and had secretly returned to America, uniting with the Sunset Platoon and '''Steadfast''' (the Government-sponsored vigilante team patrolling america for signs of treachery). Using a device of his own design, the Journeyman lured the overpowering Blitzkrieg into a subharmonic dimension destabilizer field creating a rift into a twixt-dimensional limbo sucking both the Journeyman and Blitzkrieg into an abyssal portal. Almost all of Steadfast was eliminated, except for the Silver Spectre and Midnight Man. Many America saw it as a loss: The Germans had attacked from over seas, the national protectors were gone, and America's First Hero (as the Journeyman had been billed) had been consigned to a fate worse than death to many Americans, all in an attempt to save them.

The European Theatre of War was drawing its curtain after D-Day, but the Pacific still badly needed aid. The Sunset Platoon had deconstructed from the inside, as the Army's attempt at creating posthumans had driven one member of the team crazy. '''Pillbox''', the bombshelle, had undergone severe magnetic "rewriting" and had learn to take metal from the air and form it into bullets, as well as deflect incoming metal-based attacks. However, her adrenal glan had mutated from her magnetic origin, causing her to have significant violent flashbacks to daily battles, which led to the death of Sarge Siege, '''Cindercone''', the '''Freedom Ringer''', '''Mon Tiki''', and a severely wounded '''Feral''' (whose regenerative capacities took care of). Kid Caliber, whose reflexes bordered on the precognitive was able to dispatch of Pillbox. However the Americans were left without a team of propaganda heroes to deal with the Japanese threat. Thus the remaining American Courage Allies were transfered: Jack Quick, the '''Torch of Freedom''', Gibraltar, the Aquarian, and the Iron American. However even these champions were not enough and America dropped the bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, much to the dismay of the world.