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Superheroes against the NecroNazis
Hitler's necromancers have raised an army of the dead and the damned. His "scientific" charnel houses have created dark arts to craft ubermensch out of living and dead tissues, and together with the vicious rocket powers of Werner von Braun he is well on his way to conquering Europe, and then the world.
Already France, one of the great powers, has fallen. Of course, there is the dashing and debonair Resistance, a swashbuckling group of thieves, spies and expatriates who take pleasure in operating under the very noses of their oppressors. But can they long stand alone?
The Faerie armies that rose to the aid of Britain (in honor of the long-ago pacts) and the steadfast RAF are doing their best, but soon the full force of the enemy must fall upon them. The Russians with their dark sorcery cannot be called upon (or, perhaps, even trusted) to help ... not with Hitler pressing the land war against them as well. There is only one bastion of democracy that remains with the power and the determination to defend all that is right and good.
American know-how and Yankee ingenuity have cracked the super soldier serum ... well, mostly. America's newest, greatest, weapons are still very much in their testing phases, and the serums have a disconcerting tendency toward creating unexpected abilities that fit only awkwardly into a theater of war. Nonetheless, recruits for all branches are clamoring to be given the arms and the powers to take the fight Over There. But with Rommel massing his mummy tank divisions in North Africa, and der fuerher's dreaded Sea Wolves striking with near-impunity against the shipping lanes, will America's heroes be deployed in time?
And what of the rumors that the Japanese have, with their conquest of the Chinese mainland, finally gained the resources and ancient tablets necessary to unlock the ultimate human potential for martial arts? Do they really have fighters that can skip over the surface of the ocean and tear apart battleships with their bare hands? How can any force hope to stand against such powers? And if they have such powers, will they not turn their eyes toward America's amber waves of grain, across the Pacific?
There are those who say that America's contributions lay not primarily in warfare (though war, of course, is becoming inevitable) but in our ingenuity and our daring, pioneering spirit. From across the globe, those with extraordinary (and often disturbing) powers have gathered loosely under the auspices of the United States Navy. This band of multi-national misfits have been striking blows for democracy in unexpected places like the pyramids of Giza, the mountains of Tibet, and even the ancient cities of Antarctica. They argue that small forces of spectacularly trained men and women can do what whole armies cannot. But will the government really listen to a group of undiscplined ne'er-do-wells? Or will Washington decide to take the safer, more cautious path?
What happens ... next week?
