It had started in 1976 in the United States when the President of that time signed the Rightman-Deleon Bill, creating an agency with people from two federal agencies to investigate the threat of superpowered people in American society. Mutants were among those on the list, though mainly it was those whose powers had come through radiation or similar "hazmat" problems that were considered the potential threat at that point.
The agency investigated and kept most of their findings to themselves through the next two administrations. Finally, they announced their results in a series of closed door meetings in Congress, the Senate, and finally the Executive Branch.
The killings began immediately thereafter. Hero, villain, or just a shopkeeper who had some superpower. It didn't matter. They were on the list.
In 1998 a newspaper blew the cover off the story, their goverment having gone quietly into the business of eliminating these individuals for a variety of reasons.
In the meantime, villains had gone elsewhere. Many of those who were heroes had tried to stay and help or fight till the last. Many had done just that.
They were dead, these heroes of the West. One by one they'd been picked off. Sometimes they managed to take some of their attackers with them. Sometimes they didn't even know it was coming.
However, in this case Genma Saotome was not only wearing a lab coat - he was cackling maniacally as he threw Ranma into some sort of vat of something that had biohazard labels and signs up everywhere.
Ranma had a bare instant where he was flailing arms and legs, thinking oddly enough that this was not a great improvement over the Nekoken training, and not realizing that he was in a:
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