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Hello True Believers!

I'd like to present to you a little something I've just cooked up. After a cool chat with some of the guys around here about our own versions of heroic teams from alternative universes, I've decided to join the theme and create my own ones. After talking with the guys, I've decided to share it with the rest of you guys and hear what you think.

This Earth is called AlternEarth, where the heroes are given brand new origins, and even some major changes. The first introductions comes from my version of Earth's Mightiest Heroes: The Avengers

CAPTAIN AMERICA / Steve Rogers - Age: 28

Steve was a Captain from a Special Ops Unit called Tier 1, specialized on covert missions during the Middle East Conflict. During a mission of recon in Afghanistan, his entire platoon was ambushed by insurgents with high-tech weaponry. The entire platoon was killed, most of them were blown apart literally, only Rogers managed to stay alive long enough to send a distress signal. Once the reinforcents arrived, it was too late, Rogers died. However, once all the bodies were retrieved, a special government agency called S.H.I.E.L.D. ordered to give the body of Rogers to them for a highly classified project. The project was named "Super Soldier Army", where discharged soldiers and even those who became crippled or severely injured would return to the battlefield with an even higher resistance, but they decided to use the body of Rogers, since he was the only soldier in the entire platoon to pass the physical tests at maximum capacity and they hoped that, if the formula is successful enough to revive a dead soldier in prime shape, the possibilities for living soldiers would be astonishing.

After administrating a very concentrated formula and the used of a high charge of vitarays, there was no response, but after a few minutes, a few heartbeats were heard, and minor movement was seen, even though ROgers was highly sedated to make sure there were no sudden shocks. The project was a success, but once the results were shown, the President ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to shut down the "Super Soldier Project". If that information fell in the worng hands, the consequences would be enormously disastrous, but that didn't stop the results to become eventually public.

Rogers woke up three days after the project, with his wounds fully healed. but surprised that he's alive once again. With a new lease on life, S.H.I.E.L.D. gives Rogers a honorable discharge with a presidential condecoration, but Rogers declines, due to his high sense of patriotism and desire to help his country. During that conversation, a terrorist cell invades the S.H.I.E.L.D. base Rogers was stationed. Many agents were killed but surprisingly, Rogers held on his own against many members, disarming them without killing them but fully incapacitating them long enough for backup to arrive. This impressed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Phil Coulson who inmediately confered to the President for the need of people to deal with these and even higher threats to the World. Thus, Rogers became the first of a new project. The project was to assemble a team of high-powered people in order to become a team ready to protect Earth from any threat. Rogers inmediately accepted on the condition of him supervising the project, making him the official leader. With a new suit, supervised by Rogers himself, he adopts the codename "Captain America" to command this new team of heroes. The name of the project is..."The Avengers".

''Powers and Abilities: He has the same powers and abilities as the Earth-616 Steve Rogers. The major difference is his Shield: Instead of the round shield, he uses a badge shaped shield, but once he throws it, it become an energy beam that attacks the target and bounces back to Rogers, retaking its physical shape.''

IRON LASER (<- Credits to The Next X-Man for the name...it does sound cooler than Iron Man) / Tony Stark - Age: 30

Tony was the founder, acting CEO and spokesman of Stark Industries, one of the largest electronic conglomerates in the world. His fortune doubles Sony and Panasonic combined, and even once in a while lends money to Bill Gates. He's a genius in the electronic and scientific field, with one of the most ambitious projects: A free clean energy providing arc reactor. His reactor would power an entire city of the size of New York for ten years, giving him the nickname "Scientist Supreme". However, tragedy would come when one of his rivals, engineer Justin Hammer, sabotaged his project for the unveiling day. Once Tony activated the arc, it was going out of control, with its power increasing by the second and all the computers were shutting down, so the only way to stop the reactor was through a manual shutdown. Tony alerted the crew and inmeadiately ordered them to evacuate the facilities. Tony faced the challenge of walking towards the unstable reactor where the shutdown switch was installed, but once he flipped the switch, a miscalculation of Stark came up: Instead of shutting down, it condensed as a poweful energy beam towards the sky, however, part of that energy went dispersed around the room and blasted Tony, making him an energy being that absorbed the remaining power of the reactor. Tony became pure energy, but in order to protect the city, he decided to lock himself within the arc reactor, so no one would become endangered.

Once word of the accident spread out, it reached the ears of Director Coulson and Captain America. Coulson called the asistance of Tony's father Howard Stark, a retired weapons manufacturer who once worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. for a special defense project: The Iron Armor. The Iron Armor was an automatized suit of armor, capable of fighiting in battle and save thousands of soldiers lives, but the project was cancelled when Howard couldn't find a suitable energy source for the suit. Seeing Tony's accomplishment, and amazed for his determination to help, Howard made some modifications to his project to build a suit of armor resistant enough to contain Tony within. Once the suit was done, Tony left the reactor to finally regain some freedom inside his new suit, however, he became unhappy with being "trapped inside a can" and unable to help people. That was until Rogers talked with the genius about the Avengers project. Tony refused to become a weapon, but Rogers calmed Tony's fears with the argument that while his arc reactor will provide energy to the people, he now holds energy to protect them from any harm and trusts that he's wise enough to employ it properly, making Tony accept Rogers' offer to join the Avengers.

Powers and Abilities: ''His armor (codenamed Iron Armor Mk I) contains the pure energy that is Tony Stark. Through the armor, Tony can fire energy beams from his palms or his chest (which becomes the Unibeam). The suit also utilizes a small portion of Tony's energy to allow him to fly with one burst of power. However, his power is limited. The more he fires energy, the more he becomes exhausted, since he's bursting out energy, saving only 20% to keep him alive for a few days until he can be recharged. That's why he must be continously recharged with energy from the same arc reactor that created him.''

THOR / Thor Odinsson - Age: Unknown (appears as 25 years old)

Thor is the God of Thunder of Nordic Mythology. The very real God from the Viking legends, who had unparalelled adventures. During a journey in the Einherjar, Thor and his crew hits a massive snow storm. Refusing to surrender, Thor journeys forward, only to find out that the storm was caused by Ice Giants being manipulated by his brother Loki, who wants to remove Thor from his plans to conquer Asgard. The brothers battle out in the middle of the storm, but Loki gains the upperhand by blinding Thor with a light spell, making him fall to the ice cold water where he freezes. Hundreds of years later, Thor is found and revived by the European United Council (Europe's version of S.H.I.E.L.D.) who also heard of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "Super Soldier Army" Project and wanted to replicate Thor's blood to create their own. Refusing to become a puppet, Thor escapes but finds himself in awe with this new modern world before him. He treats the humans as peasants and desires to return to Asgard, but in the process he's found by Ikol, one of Loki's descendants who plans to finally destroy Thor, finishing the work his predecessor started.

Once S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered about Thor, Rogers proposed Coulson to offer Thor a spot in the Avengers project to provide an International integration to the team, but once Director Coulson agrees, they hear of a massive battle in Lillehammer, Norway. Thor and Ikol's army of Ice Giants went forward the God of Thunder, but the timely intervention of Captain America prevented Thor's ambush and premature death, however, Thor was ungrateful, telling Rogers that he could've handled the giants by himself. Ikol prepares a major snow storm, just like the one Thor faced off before he got frozen so he can finally defeat him, even if in the process he kills the people of the norwegian city. The day arrived and Thor was ready to fight, but the full force of the Ikol's Giants are too much for Thor. Rogers once again intervenes, but he leaves the battle in order to protect the civilians caught in the storm. Seeing Rogers' selfless desire to help make Thor the error of his ways and also ejects the battle to protect the people. Ikol prepares to finish Thor, but Coulson arrives with a special weapon for Thor: His enchanted mace Mjolnir, which was separated from him when he fell into the sea. With Mjolnir in his hands, Thor regained his entire God power, summoning a powerful lightining storm to finish the Ice Giants and beating Ikol.

With the threat eradicated, Thor learns the true value of life and nobility, which makes him desire to join forces with Rogers' and accepting his proposal to join the Avengers, much to the dismay of the European United Council, but Coulson tells them that they're still allowed to observe the Avengers project, since they're interested in a few projects the Europeans have in their hands.

''Powers and Abilities: He has the same powers as the Earth-616 Thor but the main difference is Mjolnir. Instead of a hammer, Mjolnir is a spiked mace whose handle can be split with an enchanted chain that allows Thor to increase the rate of damage during an attack. The mace also has a variation of the "worthy" spell. If anybody unworthy lifts Mjolnir, the spikes from the mace will enter the sphere, making Mjolnir an ordinary hammer (with a lot less damage power)''

HAWKEYE / Christina Barton - Age: 20

Christina was an ordinary young girl, with a passion for archery and a heart of gold. She was an expert archer, becoming the captain of the U.S. Olympic Archery Team, winning the gold medal in the recent summer olympic games, but jealousy sparks when one of her teammates, Johanna Morse, attacks Christina making her go blind. With her archery dreams shattered, she fell into a depression. Her father, Clint, was one of the most influential senators in the U.S. with strong links in the White House, strong enough to grant permission to a surgical procedureto restore Christina's sight. Christina would recieve the miracle of sight again, but this time, it came with a bonus. Turns out that her father also has strong links with a secret organization called Spectre, who enhanced his daughter's sight 300% better than the ordinary human being. In matter of days, Christina's sight was fully restored and she returned to archery, but her aiming became incredibly better, with perfect accuracy in every shot. Even she was surprised to see so many consecutive shots and talked to her father about it, but during the conversation, Senator Clint was visited by agents of Spectre who wanted him to return the favor by approving contracts for a special nuclear project in Washington D.C. Since he is one of the advocates of green energy, he refused the contract, but didn't realized the men were expert assassins who tried to murder Clint. Christina sensed the danger and tried to help her father, and single handledly defeated the assassins with her marksmanship.

Now knowing the truth about her eye surgery, she decided to retire from the archery team to avoid suspicions, but felt heartbroken that her father kept it from her, even though it was a decision made out of love for his daughter. Christina tries to find a purpose in life, and while visiting a grocery store, she bumps into a group of burglars who assaulted the store. Christina chased them and thanks to some improvised objects from the street combined with her marksmanship and immaculate aiming, she defeated the group. Happy for this development, she returned home and apologized to her father, telling him that he gave her a new dream...being a hero. Clint was reluctant about it, but realized that he caused it, and knowing how stubborn his daughter is, she'll stay firm on her decision, so he calls an old close friend who's none other than S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Phil Coulson. Coulson confides Steve Rogers about Christina and seeing her potential, agrees to let ther join the Avengers, on the condition that she must recieve proper training, provided by Rogers himself.

Powers and Abilities: She has the same abilites as the Ultimate Hawkeye

SPIDER-MAN / Peter Parker - Age: 16

Peter was a prodigy student from the Midtown High School, bound to a science scholarship from Empire State University. He was the pride of the Parker family, and even refused to jump ahead into college, but his parents declined, thinking Peter needs to also enjoy the life of a teenager. One of Peter's greatest discoveries was a key element in Spider's DNA that allowed him to work on a potential cure for many diseases. Peter spent months on this project and he was ready to present it in a special science fair sponsored by Stark Industries. Peter decides to perform the test on a human person, and irresponsibly decided to perform it on himself so he can gain immunity from any disease, however, the system didn't granted anything to Peter, and it was discovered that the machine was sabotaged by a group of bullies as part of a prank to Peter. The next day, Peter discovered he developed the abilities of a spider, like crawling to walls and ceilings, a spider-sense that warns him from danger and even organic webbing. He discovered that the accident imprinted the spider's DNA into himself, fusing both genetic forms into his body.

Peter tried to take advantage of his new powers by applying to join Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling, but the day of his debut on PPV, he was fired for using excessive force on his opponent. This caught the eye of a group of mobsters who wanted to take Spider-Man, as Peter called himself on the show, as their enforcer. Their leader sent a group to Peter's house to capture him, but fortunately he managed to escape, yet he was unable to save his family who got murdered by the group as a warning message to Spider-Man. Wanting revenge, he chased the mobster until their lair where he single handledly defeated the group, until a much larger crew arrived on the scene surrounding Peter. The leader was ready to kill him but the timely intervention of Captain America, who also saw the show and found potential in Peter, arrived to defeat the group. After a talk with Peter about his fears and the pain of losing his family, Steve confides in him that he has a great talent that can beused for good and his family would be proud of him. Peter asks Steve why he came to look for him and Rogers explains his intentions to recruit him to the Avengers, where he can use responsibly his new powers and prevent things like the one that happened to his family to occur, which Peter accepts, even though Coulson has second thoughts about Peter, but Rogers reassures that this is his team and he trusts him

Powers and Abilities: He has the same powers and abilities as the Earth-616 Peter Parker after the events of The Other

MS. MARVEL / Kah-Rehl a.k.a. Carol Danvers - Age: 26

Kah-Rehl was a Commander from a Kree Scout Team who went towards to Earth for purposes of scientific research, but her ship was suddendly assaulted by a group of Skrull renegades, causing her to crash land the ship into the Nevada desert. She was the only survivor of the crash and she was found by a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guided by rookie agent Jessica Drew. Kah-Rehl was held under surveillance from S.H.I.E.L.D. until further analysis can be done, but her powers manifested and managed to escape. She wandered for days in the city until she was found once again by Jessica. Jess tried to send her back to S.H.I.E.L.D. but she was surrounded by a group of thugs. Still being a rookie, and on her civilian guise, she wasn't able to fend for herself properly until Kah-Rehl intervened and saved her life. Grateful for what she did, she decided not to send her back into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, but instead allowed her to live with her as her roommate. In order to help her to adapt into this world, she asked for help from a hacker friend to create a new identity for her, giving her the name "Carol Danvers". Carol became grateful for everything Jessica did to her, developing a secret attraction to her, since Kree men are mostly arrogants and annoying and she found herself more confortable with Jess.

Carol found herself adapting very well to Earth's lifestlye, but one day heading home, she found Jessica's abusive boyfriend assaulting her. She tried to defend her, but after he punched her, her powers manifested again, shooting a powerful photon blast that sent him flying across the apaartment to the highway. Fearing some repercussions from her superiors, Jessica and Carol escape, but they were eventually found by S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Phil Coulson. Coulson interrogated Jessica who tried to protect Carol, while she was analyzed by a crew of S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists led by Tony Stark. Seeing Jessica's determination to protect her first good friend and Carol's desire to stay on Earth and help in any way she can, Coulson consults with Steve Rogers. Coulson decides not to punish or suspend Jessica on the condition of never speaking of this encounter to anyone which she quickly agrees. As for Carol, she's allowed to stayon Earth and live with Jessica on the condition to join the Avengers, as requested by Steve Rogers himself.

''Powers and Abilities: She has the same powers and abilities as the Earth-616 Carol Danvers, but there are two differences. The first one is that Earth's atmosphere weakens her powers, reducing their level considerably, but still are highly powerful by Earth's standards, in other words, she's powerful on Earth, but on her homeplanet of Kree, her power increases by 300%. The second difference is her energy absorbing power which allows her to create force fields to protect her allies. The more energy she absorbs, the larger and resistant the force field is''

These are the founding members of The Avengers (from AlternEarth), a group of heroes ready to protect the planet from any kind of threat. Maybe in the future I'll add my versions of the X-Men and many secondary characters

P.S.: If the weekend doesn't go heavy, I'll work on the Photoshop for visual references for my team