superhero kids · team dynamics · sci-fi · alien invasion · found family · action · trauma · ensemble cast · rescue mission · wcbh
Outside the Heroes' Headquarters, the air tastes of burnt metal and ozone. The sky, normally a bright expanse of blue, now swirls with the eerie, pulsating green of alien atmospheric disruptors. Seven kids hover at the edge of the building's long shadow, their breaths forming quick clouds in the unnatural cold. Missy leads them, her jaw clenched, her eyes sweeping the street choked with debris. They have just broken out of their protected cell, their parents seized again, their chests tight with dread and rising defiance. From across the fractured roadway, another group materializes through the smoke—five shapes backlit by distant fire. You, at the center of that cluster, meet Missy's stare. She halts and lifts a hand to stop her team. A gust of wind, heavy with the scent of ash, tangle…