In the dead of night, a mile from a snow-covered forest, six kids were found unconscious at the edge of a town, in the snow just past the forest. The one that was ahead of the rest was a tall, lean, well-defined build, fair-skinned boy who wore a grey jacket that said "Omni" in gold stitching and some dark jeans while the boy that was behind him had dark-toned skin that made him look like a part of the night sky fell to earth its self, he had on a thick dark green zip-up sweater that had "KID-GOD" also in gold embroidering, black white and green Jordans, decently long faded pink dreds with a blowout, and looked like he was taller and more muscular than the boy in front as well as having grey sweat pants, the other four were girls but surprisingly all of them had different colored hair, the one that looked to be the tallest had long straight blond hair and a long body like that of an athlete swimmer she had on faded blue jeans, uggs, and a brown pea coat, and a deep blue tight long-sleeve shirt underneath, the next girl was light-skinned, she had big beautiful curls in her hair, she was wearing a black and white varsity jacket with the name reading "Horizon Hights Death Kights" and the number 17, she also had on black leggings that were tight and hugged her lower body along with a pair of airforces and a black crop top, the next one had long slightly wavy bright red hair that looked like it was painted, she had on a brown leather jacket with a red flanel underneath, she had on a pair of black ripped jeans and black timbs, the last girl had short hair in the form of a pixybob cut and the tips of her hair were white and the rest was pitch black, she had on a sweater that was a few sizes too big she also had on some tight black jeans and black high top converse.

They were all found by a woman whose front right tire ended up blowing out and she had to pull over just a couple of miles outside of the town she called a local towing company to come to get her, but as she was inspecting her tire she shined her phone's flashlight and accidentally shined it on the children but she couldn't see them so she got closer and to get a better view and as she did she saw something that was quite unsettling. The six children were covered in dirt, soot, ashes, cuts, scratches, blood, and severe bruises. Some of them had small pools of blood around them. the woman instantly started freaking out and called as she was talking to the operator she realized that she recognized two of the girls, six months back a group of seven kids ended up going missing, and many people had thought that they were kidnapped as none of their things were taken and the only things missing where what they were wearing that day. The ambulance arrived twenty minutes later they were all rushed to the hospital. The woman ended up being taken to the police station and was questioned.

At the hospital 3, the kids were instantly taken to get surgery as they all had dangerous injuries that if not treated soon would become fatal or infected, soon after the first three went into surgery two more went when they discovered they had compound fractures one had it in their ribs as they feared that it could puncture their lung and the other was in the femur just next to the femoral artery. After many hours of intense surgery, they all came out in stable conditions. After four days they were all closely monitored and soon the only one who didn't go into surgery had awoken. It was the long blond hair, as she tried to sit up her entire body felt a shooting pain and she ended up falling back into bed soon after that a doctor came in to do her rounds sees that she's woken up, and quickly checks her to see if there are any auditory or visual problems as well as to check if she suffered any brain damage. As she got closer to the girl she pressed a button that elevated the bed so that the bed could mimic the girl sitting upright.

"Hey there, don't try to get up quickly. Can you tell me your name and the last thing you remember?"

The girl nearly heard anything the doctor said as the pain she felt was completely overpowering her other senses' so she asked the same question every person asks. 

"Where am I? Who are you, how did I get here? and where are my friends?" 

The Doctor knew that this was a serious conversation and tried her best to hide a small chuckle at the response she was about to give the girl.

"Well, that's a weird name. My name is Dr.Ariel Church and you are in Virgil Memorial Hospital, you were found about a mile away from the forest and two miles from the town, and off to the side of the road by some lady whose front tire blew out. You and your friends are lucky that you were found when you were if you were out there any longer most of you guys would have died if not from the cold and then from the loss of blood. Now, do you think you can tell your name and the last thing you remember?"

The girl was still in pain and her mind was racing but she barely managed to understand what the doctor had said.

"U-umm I-I'm...my name is A-a-Ashely Blankenship... Ashely Molly Blakenship the last thing I umm remember was b-being thrown then landing into the snow but I think-I... blacked out before I hit the snow"

She couldn't think straight and had trouble answering the doctor's questions as she could barely form a complete sentence. The only real thing that she could continually think of is where her friends were and then she asked again where they were as the doctor was flashing a light into her pupils to make sure they were dilating properly.

"Where are my friends?"

"I'm guessing you're talking about the other five people you were found with? Well, right now two of them are in the I.C.U., but the rest are still asleep and you're the first one awake out of all of them. Ok, now I'm going to need you to take a deep breath and let it out when I tell you to."

She did as the doctor requested.

"OK seems like everything is good, now I'm going to go get the detective and you should rest up."

before The Doctor left the blond girl quickly asked the doctor a question.

"W-w-wait before you leave. how long have I been here?"

And without even turning around or even stopping she answered.

"Four days."

A few minutes later Dr. Church had come back with a tall well-built young white man with a thick black beard and an even bigger smile.

"Hey, Ashely this man is Detective Valera and he is here to ask you a few questions. You don't need to worry about anything, I'll be here the entire time."

The doctor said with a reassuring smile. The detective started talking to her with a light midwest accent and a smooth voice.

"Hello, there young miss my name is like the Doctor just said I'm Detective Antonio Varela but you can just call me Detective Varela."

She nodded at the detective before speaking.

"My name is Ashely Molly Blankenship."

"Well, now that we have the introductions out of the way let's get to the matter at hand. Why were you and those other five kids we found out there? And why were you all beaten worse than the devil after Easter Sunday?"

Ashely was confused by the detective's depiction of how badly beaten they were, but she understood, what they meant.

"We were thrown out of the woods. The last thing I remember was feeling scared like something horrible was going to happen, I felt like I had butterflies in my lungs and a bottomless pit of horror in my stomach before I knew it I was being thrown out of the wood incredibly fast and I blacked out."

"Huh, Well can you tell me where you guys were for the past three months?"

As the detective asked that question he could visibly pale at it and she started getting extremely nervous and anxious, she was slightly shaking and had a cold sweat. the doctor notices that her heart rate started raising before The detective spoke again.

 "You know what you just woke up today let me give you a few days to get better before I ask you any more questions, ok?"

Ashely just nodded as the detective and the doctor left her room.

During the following week, all of the other kids had woken up but it took them another week before they were rested enough physically and mentally to be asked or answer any questions. Eventually, they were all cleared by doctors.

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Through the week they were all able to contact their families and they all came, as the families arrived it was a heartfelt reunion many were crying and many more were happy but there was one who could nearly show any emotion.

Despite the very touching and emotional reunion Detective Varela still had to question them and thus the reunion was cut short.

The first one to be interviewed was Ashely but both of her parents had gotten into a heated argument with the detective, as did some of the other parents, about how it was too soon for them to be questioned in the end, she agreed to the questioning and so did all of the other kids.

"Ok, This is Detective Antonio Varela, I am now going to start the interview process. Can you please state your full name and age for the record as well as the school you went to before the incident?"

He said this as he stared into her eyes with a reassuring look and smile

"Yes, My name is Ashely Molly Blankenship, I'm 16 years old, and I go to Horizon Heights Boarding School."

"Ok good, Now I'm going to start asking you questions about what happened In the past 3 months that you were missing. You can ask for this to stop at any time if you feel the need. With that out of the way what happened the day, you all went missing?"

"We had gotten out of school early that day, it was a half-day since it was Halloween. I and my other six friends went to our dorms to get ready since we were going to a party that night.

"You said that there were six more not including you?"

"Yes."

"Continue"

"As I said we were getting ready to go to a party and so we went to our dorms to get ready, we all lived around the same area of the school so we always walked together but that day Sara didn't walk with us she was supposed to stay, something about having wrestling practice and Ed stayed too as they were both on the team so we let them go the rest of us had left I was holding hands with my boyfriend and once we got to the girl's dorm he kissed me and he left as he and Christian had to keep walking to get to their dorms. The other two girls and I went to our dorms which were right across from each other and after around 2 hours Sara had come back but she was being carried by Ed, she had marks around her neck, and wrists, and Ed was covered in blood but it wasn't his own. In the 2 years, I had known him I'd never seen him not smile. He always had a smile that could make any bad feeling go away but when he walked in he barged in with a worried look, by that time my boyfriend and Christian had come back and we heard him come barging and going straight to her dorm and when he did he opened her door and took her straight to the person bathroom that every room has. We all walked out of our dorms to see what was happening and saw him turning on her shower and taking her clothes off. Cristian and Franklin both ran towards him to stop what they thought was a sexual assault but when they got on him they saw that he was covered in blood while they a-and it shocked them before he shoved them off and finished undressing her and put her in her shower. He got in shortly after with all of his clothes still on but he was more focused on getting cleaning her than anything else. He washed her then when he finished he brushed her hair and put her in the most comfortable clothes that he could find in her dresser... We all just stood there watching and when he was done he put her in her bed and covered her, he looked at us with such a sad smile but I think he was trying to convince himself with it."

"So that's what happened. Could you please say the full names of those that were with you and can you also try to give me a somewhat detailed description of them?"

"Yes... My boyfriend's Frank Sinatra Pierre, he's 6'7", has dark skin, he speaks english and french and is Haitian, next is Sara Kelso she has bright red hair, American, green eyes and fair skin she stood at a "mighty" 5'4" and is my best friend, she was also the girl Ed had taken to the doorms, after her we have Cristian Jordi Doyle, he's 6'3", blond hair blue eyes, his father's Irish, Russian mother, he was born in Germany and moved to America four years ago, he speaks russian, german, irish, and english fluently, After him was Sofia Taleggada, she's 5'7" with curly honey comb hair, her father is from England and her mother is from Equatorial Guinea where she lived for 9 years before moving to America, she speaks spanish, french, portuguese, and english, Then there's Matilda Muses she's the shortest and quietest on out of all of us, 5'0" she has short deep dark black hair with the tips white, her eyes are a beep bright blue color, she's a franco-american and can speak and write in English and franch fluently. Finally, Ed the "Tiny Giant" only Franklin knows what his actual name is but we know he likes to go by "J" or "Ed" standing at a "mighty" 5'5", He has nice wavey and curly black hair, he was the nicest out of all of us. He's the only one of us that was "really" overweight but he liked to say it was his "jelly belly" or "lonja loca". He's Mexican, fluent in nine languages: Spanish, French, English, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Korean. He had an obsession with being able to make everyone feel included so he learned multiple languages... at least that's what he told us."

During her friends' description, she composed herself more and became serious until she spoke about her friend "Ed" where she had become melancholic. The detective had noticed and so did a figure behind the two-way mirror.

"Ok, do you think you can continue or do you want to take a break?"

She sniffled a bit before responding with a fake smile.

"No, no it's ok I can keep going"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. I'm sure."

"Ok then, can you please tell me who Ed is?"

"Yeah, When we first met you told me that you found 5 other people and that crushed me to know that one of us was missing, then after a few days I was able to see the ones that you found me with and he was missing."

"Ok, I understand. Can you continue telling me what happened after Ed put Sara in her bed?"

"He sat beside her and just didn't move but we walked in.... then everything went to shit"

"How do you mean?"

"In that, by the looks of it you've been connecting the dots of what happened three and a half months ago but what you didn't know is that we were magically transported somewhere. I don't know where we were sent but I know that it was a research facility, we appeared in a closed-off room, where I saw them measuring pigs' blood in graduated cylinders and they had math formulas using Latin written on whiteboards they were scientists but they were also doing rituals. Soon after we got there, we saw people wearing dress clothes and researchers applauding a celebrating. but Ed he just turned to look at the glass and started slamming his shoulder against the door trying to break it but it didn't budge then gas started coming into th room and then I blacked out. I don't know how long I was out for but when I woke up I was naked strapped to a table that was partially submerged in water, I woke up when I heard screams."

the Detective had noticed that she was shaking at this point so he turned his head towards the two-way mirror with a concerned look only to hear the voice of a woman that held authority in it and commanded action when heard.

"That's enough for today you can leave now Ms.Blankenship an officer is waiting for you right outside the door to escort you to your parents."

Ashely stood up trying her best not to break down or let the untameable ocean hiding behind her eyes flow out like an uncontrollable stream but she somehow managed to give a simple nod before leaving.

After she left Detective Varela stormed into the room that was behind the two-way mirror only to be met with the only thing that could get an even worse reaction out of them than some random person dismissing their questioning. I was a Superhero, she was wearing a mask that covered all but her hair and a tight presumably bulletproof red with white highlights and accents on the suit, and at the sight, Detective Varela's blood boiled until it spilled over not being able to be contained any longer exploding in one singular sentence that combined into a statement and a question.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!?!?!?!?!?"

He shouted so loud and with so much anger that you wouldn't believe he was mile mannered and hardly ever angry at anything. His posture showed that he was pissed as well as his left hand was bald into a tight fist that made his knuckles white, right hand raised in an accusatory fashion, knees bent slightly and all his weight on the balls of his heels ready to lung at the hero and nock them the fuck out. He was only calmed somewhat by the chief.

"Varela Shut the hell up and I'll explain so just calm down and stop fucking shouting in my precinct!"

After he calmed down a little more the Hero, detective, and chief all went to his office.

"Varela this is "Mind Ramp" she's from the "Brotherhood Batallion" and she came with a partner to see if they could help. They found massive trace amounts of thaumaturgic residue."

On hearing where the hero came from, he was even more disillusioned. 

"Oh, come on the fucking Brotherhood Batallion? Are you shitting me? What are they going to do?"

By this point, Mind Ramp was beyond pissed and she spoke without thinking.

"Well first of all, if you haven't gathered I'm a telepath meaning I read fucking minds and can manipulate them second the Brotherhood is a government-sanctioned superhero team meaning that I also have extensive government backing which means that I have even more training than special government agents. In short, shut the fuck up and let your boss finish talking before you say some more stupid shit or I'll trap you in a mental loop of the crappiest most monotonous day you've ever had for the rest of your life."

Both the chief and detective were stunned but the detective decided to heed her words and stay quiet.

"Like she said shut the fuck up and listen up she and her partner are here on request from the President so my hands are tied and I'm handing over the case to them as it is literally above our pay grade and out of our league. So I don't want to hear you're bitching about this. besides you have another more important case that's sitting on your desk now get the hell out and close the damn door when you leave and you sit your ass down."

The chief pointed at the detective, then the door, and then at Mind Ramp to sit at the chair in front of their desk as she was standing. They both did as he asked.

"Now you. Tell me exactly what you saw in that girl's mind because I know for a fact that you went in."

"Like you told the detective it's above your pay grade but I promise you I'm doing you a favor by not telling you. Now I'm going to need the address of every single one of those kids because I'm taking them with me back to the brotherhood."

The chief just grunted and just waved their hand as a gesture of understanding and acceptance.

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Another week had passed and now at this time, all six children were at the front gates of the Head Quarters of the Brotherhood Battalion and with an astonishing look that they all had as they entered only to be met by the stern faces of 18 other figures that stopped them in their tracks half were in costume and the other half were in streetwear. Despite the kind nature of Mind Ramp and her partner whose name is "The Iconic Mystic" they could hardly feel any comfort as they see faces that made them feel unwelcome and invited trepidation into their minds. The first person to speak was Mind ramp

"All get the hell out of the way. I brought them here for a reason so stop looking  you all have a shit stick up your asses and get a move on!"

As she said this The Iconic Mystic spoke up as well

"Demon Hands and Glitch Mob Get your asses over here right now because you both owe me 600 and have to do my chores for the rest of the year"

Two people out from the stone-faced gallery of heroes walked forward both looking completely defeated. The first one was demon hands suggested by how the red scales ran from their forearms to their hands as he reached into his jeans to pull out his wallet and then another man walked behind him though he was much younger they saw as he tried and when he hit the ground it was like he was a glass cup shattering on the floor he multiplied into a dozen of himself before getting back up and fusing back into one. They both walked in front of The Iconic Mystic.

"Both of you help the kids get to the guest room and don't ask questions we'll answer them all during the afternoon briefing."

they both groaned but did as they were told and were bombarded by questions from the kids. The lines asking the most questions were Cristian, Sofia, Frank, and Ashely while Matilda and Sara stayed quiet and in the back.

How big is this place? How many heroes are here? What's your power? How old are you? do you get paid? how much do you get paid? Do you guys have a kitchen or any food? 

Those were the only questions the heroes could manage to understand as the teens talked over themselves and it all sounded like a bunch of white noise to them. Glitch Mob finally spoke just as they had gotten near the guest rooms.

"It's big and maybe you'll get a tour while you're here. I don't know how many heroes there are in total, but more than 30 of us are here. My power is that I can glitch through reality and multiply myself, that's the summarized version. I'm 21. Yes, I get paid and it's kinda mean to ask how much someone earns. Now here are your rooms they're pretty big but between these six rooms choose the one each of you will be using while you're here. We'll be waiting here for you guys to get settled in to take you back so you don't get lost. We'll take you guys to get some food when you're done."

As he finished speaking Sara and Matilda just chose the two doors closest to them and walked in only being in the room long enough to see what each of the rooms had to offer which was a massive room with its bathroom and toiletries, a king-size bed, a desk, 2 wardrobes, a large walk-in closet, a flatscreen T.V. mounted in the wall across from the bed, and ample room to just walk around the room. after five minutes, all the teens had chosen a room to settle in and come back out. As they stood there they all walked back to the entrance and passed it then they saw a sprawling gym with nothing but the best equipment and even some that they'd never seen but when they passed that they saw a cafeteria where a few heroes were eating. Demon Hands took them towards a man with a gentle smile and a chef's hat.

"Hey chef, what do you have for us today?"

"For Glitch Bitch and your punk ass I got jack shit. You still owe me for that poker game two weeks ago Now, what the hell else do you want"

He said with a gentle smile leaving the teens somewhat unsettled.

"Love you too chef. We need you to make something for these kids that are going to be staying with us for a while. Guys this is Chef Hiro Oda the Head Chef For the Brotherhood. Now introduce yourselves."

"My name is Ashely"

"I Am Frank"

"Mine's Sofia"

"Names Cristian"

"Hi I'm Matilda"

"I'm Sara"

"Well, it's nice to meet you all now what the fuck do you want to eat."

The chef said with a genuine smile as if it was normal and without skipping a beat Frank responded.

"What do you have?"

"Anything you want."

"Anything?"

"Fuck yeah! From traditional American to "exquisite" and "foreign" foods"

After hearing that Sofia immediately jumped in.

"I want a triple bacon cheeseburger with a pickle on the side and another deep-fried pickle with it, with both french fries and onion rings."

"Okie Dokie what about the rest of you not-so-little shits?"

Throughout this entire conversation, not a single beat was missed until now. Ashely was the one who spoke after around a minute.

"I'd like to have a chicken cordon blue with a side of cream of broccoli soup"

After she spoke Frank, Ashely, Matilda, and Christian said what they wanted in that order.

"I'd like Puerto Rican-styled Mofongo"

"I'd like Escargot"

"Can I have a Californian Roll with a four-piece Crab Rngoo?"

"I want Beef Stroganoff."

"Alright, what about you red?"

Everyone looked at Sara since she was the only one who didn't say anything.

"I'll have some chicken tenders with some fries and hot sauce on the side"

This was the first time that Sara had spoken since she had woken up and it was evident that she was uncomfortable just being around people or even just speaking. Her eyes were covered by her hair, she wore a jacket she was found in with a pair of sweatpants and slides. Frank had noticed that it was Ed's jacket but he kept that to himself. She just fixed the hoodie on her head and looked back down. They all went to take a seat and waited for their food.

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At this time Mind Ramp and The Iconic Mystic were in a room full of other heroes being briefed about what they had found on their mission.

"Mind Ramp tell me what you found out about those kids that made you bring them here?"

Said a woman in an all-black suit with a hole in its chest showing ample cleavage, you could see her muscles through her suit that wrapped itself around her body almost airtight. I hugged her curves accentuating her beauty beyond what it already was but her jawline was so sharp it looked like it could cut the air itself and her gaze so penetrating it burrowed a hole through wherever it landed. Her hair, light blue when seen at first but when exposed to the moonlight looks almost platinum, and her violet eyes that paired beautifully with her pale skin reminded one of the moon's light. it shines when a full moon is out on a cloudless night. This one singular woman is considered one of the strongest beings in the world and the de facto leader of The Brotherhood Batallion.

"We found extreme amounts of thaumaturgic energies 3 miles deep in the forest, 1 mile out of the forest, and surrounding each-and-every single one of these kids. We also found that there was a portal that was opened up 2 miles deep into the forest with substantial blood in the area and most of it was not human. I was also able to get into one of the kids' minds and they have a trauma barrier. The mind I went into was that of the girl called Ashely Molly Blankenship. The wall in her mind was weak and had holes that I was able to look through and saw small glimpses of the Infinitum Collective. They were exposed to experiments and were both genetically and magically modified by them."

Everyone in the room was serious at the simple mention of the Infinitum Collective. The Collective itself wasn't an evil organization, but they were far from any semblance of being "good". The only way you could describe them is by their Modo and Motis Operandi; "We stray further from God each day only to see what they will not show.". They do not care if what they do is seen as bad by them they just want to push the boundaries of knowledge. They saw what they could do and asked themselves the question of if they should and they didn't care, their only focus is what they can do, how many times they can do it, and to who they can do it too. They have no shortage of finances and resources as they are backed by some of the world's most powerful and influential people. they can't be found as they have the help of other superpowered people who leave no trace behind. These people Scientifically study magic and magically study science, they summon demons, monsters, and eldritch horrors and use them as guinea pigs for experiments that range from brutally skin-crawling to seeing the effects of transplanting organs from a demon and monster into a human. Needless to say, they are a priority to the Brotherhood Batallion and many other hero organizations, militaries, and governments.

"Do you know what kind of experiments were done on them?"

A hero wearing a blue and black costume showed a symbol of many swords in a circle going outwards. The Iconic Mystic was the one who spoke up.

"Royal Blue wait until we're done to ask questions, but no, we have no clue. I wasn't with her when she was with the kids and when I did meet up with them they either didn't remember what happened to them in those three months or only had flashes of it. Mind Ramp and I were able to go into the heads of all of these kids while we were coming back and were able to see glimpses of what experiments they were exposed to. We already have a detailed report of what we saw, it should be on your devices if you look at them. What we were able to see was that these kids have abilities, Although we can't be sure what specific abilities they have until we run tests on them, I think we should wait before that, help them process what happened, build a mental dam and slowly let the memories of what happened to them out so they won't be overwhelmed by them if their mental wall collapsed, and also guide and teach them about and how to use their abilities."

"God damn Mystic, that's a lot but why should we help them to that extent and not let other professionals handle them?"

Said another heroine in an all-white costume that was in the shape of a unitard that covered everything except their legs which were exposed revealing tan skin called Amara 12. Before anyone else could speak the heroin with violet eyes spoke again with a stern and commanding voice.

"Is there anything else you have to report?"

Instantly The Iconic Mystic blurted something out that slightly shocked the other heroes in the room.

"There's another one"

"Another what?"

"There's another person that was taken with them, ma'am."

This intrigued the leader so she leaned forward to pay closer attention,

"Explain."

"Well due to my sensitivity to magic, I can see whether someone has simply been exposed to it or radiates it and I can also see the specific signature of the magic. Think of it as a fingerprint that every person gives off if they use it they give off magic. Each one of these kids gives off not only extreme but also a unique signature of magic and we found a seventh signature that was so many times stronger than the other ones. It made my knees weak just by sensing it and when we went into the minds of those kids we saw little flashes of another kid, which means that another kid also survived the experiments and is much stronger."

"Well, where is he?"

"We found a dimensional anomaly, so we think either he willingly or he was forcefully teleported or the (worse option) he was sent to another dimension. We do not I repeat do not know if it's another reality entirely or a pocket dimension."

"Ok, if you had had to put the amount of thaumaturgic energy released by all seven of these kids into perspective what would you compare them to?"

"Just by what a single one of the six kids we have... I'd say all of them could probably have enough energy to power to make the Tsar Bomba look like a firecracker. We also have reason to believe that these kids are developing abilities,"

"Ok, then how do we make sure that doesn't happen?"

At this comment, The Iconic Mystic put his face in his hands in an irritated fashion before looking back up at the hero known as Brain Tease.

"Are you fucking stupid or have you just not been paying attention to this entire conversation? Everything we've been talking about is why we brought and need to help these kids. Honestly, you are such a dumbass you make me feel like God is real and he made you just to show everyone that a monkey can be so retarded that they can succeed. And don't get me wrong you're a decent hero but at the same time a port-a-potty is also a decent place to take a seat."

And without missing a beat Brain Tease rebutted.

"Still mad that I'm sleeping with your dad huh?"

"OK!!! That's enough. We will most definitely unpack that at a later date but now. Get back to the goddamn point!"

Afterward, everyone was quiet mainly because of how awkward that was but also because they made the Captian shout.

"That was all we had."

"So in summary we have 6 kids that were experimented on, most likely tortured by not only one of the most elusive but also dangerous organizations that we know of, and each of these kids if handled incorrectly could be a major threat. Am I missing anything?"

".....There's a missing kid who's probably stronger than the other six."

"...God fucking damnit..."

The leader of the heroes said as she put her face in her hands before taking a deep breath and with her hands still on her face she dismissed everyone.

"Everyone please leave. We'll talk again at the morning debrief tomorrow, for now just do your rounds and patrol and as for the kids we'll do whatever we can to help them, and if there's any news about The Infinitum Collective let me know."

"What about the missing kid?"

"I want to know everything about this kid. What he looks like, his name, age, and what kind of person he is."

"Y-Yes, ma'am."

as they left she leaned back in her chair took a deep breath and sighed out a single word in frustration

"Fuck."

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Over the following weeks, the six teens had gotten used to now living in the headquarters of the Brotherhood Batallion. While at the H.Q. They had quickly developed a routine. Every day at 7:00 a.m. they would already be awake and eating at 9:00 a.m. they'd go to a pseudo-therapy session with Mind-Ramp and multiple high-class neuro linguists, doctors, and therapists to help them remember and get through the events and trauma that they'd "experienced" (For lack of a better word.) this lasted until around noon then they would go to the cafeteria and eat they would then be allowed to rest for an hour before going to the infirmary to be physically tested as well as having their blood tested to see if they exhibit any abnormalities(which they all ended up showing.), afterward they were allowed to do whatever they wanted as long as they stayed in HQ. They were allowed to use the training facilities and weight room and received encrypted laptops/smartphones to contact family and still do school work.

The first to show signs was Frank. Due to how Frank "awakened" his power, the others were monitored more closely and set up as many precautions as they could to make sure a similar event wouldn't be able to occur.

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During one of the "therapy" sessions, Frank had linked minds with Mind-Ramp and during the session, the "wall" that was put up in his mind broke, he remembered everything. From the moment that he and his friends had suddenly appeared in front of all those doctors at the collective to when and why he was sent flying through the air and as it all came back to him like a hurricane that had little care for the damage it was causing to him and as it just flooded and came down on him Mind-Ramp, who was trying her hardest to at least put up some sort of barrier or at least protect his mind in any way she could, received whiplash and was forcefully pushed out of his mind with so much force it almost made her pass out. After she was pushed out everyone in the room received a psychic push back making everyone pass out as they couldn't handle it. Franks's mind was screaming in everyone else's and the area of his effect was increasing by the second. Things in the room started floating and being crushed, and the couch that Frank was on was flattened. He couldn't stop so Mind-Ramp did the only thing she could and with all her might barely shut his mind down leaving him unconscious.

This event caused many questions to be asked, but it also had some sort of domino effect on the other kids, all of them started awakening unique abilities one after the other.

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We now turn our attention to the missing child, the one who saved the others, We find him running through a forest. The forest was strange, the trees were either too thick to be normal or grew in strange ways that didn't make sense, the ground itself was moving, and the air was thick and dense like he was breathing through a thick wet rag, and the gravity was so strong he could nearly stand with his almost broken body.

He was covered in worn-out bandages and fresh cuts and bruises. He had a dirty pair of green medical pants, he sprinted for at least 30 minutes but the more he ran the more otherworldly everything seemed he had on a pair of boots that he had stolen when he escaped from the collective, so he didn't realize until he tripped that even the strange purple grass was dangerous as the moment he hit the ground it punctured his skin that had been made harder enough to be shot point-blank by an anti-tank rifle due to the experiments.

He stood up trying to catch his breath only to look around and what he saw was unexplainable. The sky had incomprehensible geometric shapes that folded into themselves in ways that made his brain freeze then melt and liquefy all before becoming solid again. He hadn't known how much time had passed but by the time his mind came back to him the sky had changed again but this time it was clear and had a color that he couldn't describe. The moon above him was cracked but then the sky changed again now these things that looked like tiny beads floating high in the air started expanding and turning into massive spheres that then quickly contracted into rod-like objects that completely covered the sky and all at once they shot down to the like a barrage each striking the ground with more force than a 240mm Howitzer M1 exposing the opaque dirt almost like they were trying to purposely hit him. It was like he was in a massive storm, but it'd rip him apart like wet toilet paper if the rain even touched him.

His body was barely able to handle the pressure exerted on it by this planet, but he did everything to run as fast as he could. He barely made it under a strange tree when hundreds of the rods mistified the tree instantly but just as fast as the tree was destroyed it put itself back together around the rods turning the tree even more massive as if it used the rods as nutrients to grow thicker and stranger then it's roots shot up sending the boy flying across the sky exposing him to the rods. The higher he flew into the sky the thicker the atmosphere felt... no not felt it was thicker and it felt like he was drowning and like hundreds of gallons of the ocean were slamming and crashing against his body. then finally when he reached his highest point in the sky his body slowed he felt a searing and sharp pain hit his back. It was one of the rods and he turned down to see where it came from only to see thousands of the rods flying toward him.

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11 months had passed since the children had awakened their abilities and in that time, they were put through extremely rigorous physical and mental training. Their schedule had become a way of life now, they became closer with the members of the brotherhood and had even gone on missions with some of the members. The kids learned to properly work together with other heroes from different teams and nations. Frank had the most strict training due to the nature of his power, Sofia was the one who fastest accommodated their new lifestyle and she embraced everything about it, especially all the perks that they received like a weekly allowance of $10,000.00 and the fact that they had many "safe houses" in many countries and a secret teleporter to reach those locations. Christain became close to Glitch Mob as the powers he manifested were similar abilities to each other. Matilda was personally trained by The Iconic Mystic as she showed signs of thaumaturgic inclination that then quickly turned into groundbreaking potential, Ashely delve completely into training her abilities as she was able to control nature in the broadest sense even being able to talk and control plants and animals and control fire, earth, water, and air. Sara only ever did one thing and that was training, she found out her abilities were super speed and size-shifting from microscopic to 200' tall, Her body had changed to be able to withstand her powers. She trained tirelessly even when she was tired after a mission she had also become cold and quiet only talking when necessary.

The months passed and the kids came into their own, choosing Superhero names for themselves Christian chose "Omni", Frank went with "KID-GOD", Sara became "Ground-Zero", Ashely's hero name was "Gaia", Matilda chose "Witness", and Sofia got her name chosen for her by the public "Brilliance" due in part to how she creates and manipulates all forms of "light" and also because of how beautiful she is.

One day there was an emergency in Mexico that needed the help of many heroes, a portal opened in which a massive being came out and he started causing as much damage as he could while the heroes of Mexico put up one hell of a fight the monster systematically took them all out and so a distress signal was sent out to all the heroes for help and many answered from the outback to Canada they all came to help even those that only deal with street-level crimes to heros who can blitz planets but there was a problem that they found out a little too late the behemoth of a creature had appeared on Mexico's biggest mountain "Pico de Orizaba" and that mountain was a stratovolcano whose gasses had been building up for decades and due to the fighting, it was agitating the volcano. They needed to subdue the monster soon and find a way to prevent the volcano from erupting.

When the Brotherhood Battalion arrived they were met by the leader of the Australian superhero team "Outbackgaurdians", "Scavenger"

"Right then we're fucked if this keeps going the way it is. I'm here to fill you in. That creature came out of a portal around an hour ago and started fucking everything up that it saw. We've got all the injured heros to a safe location and are now treating them with heros that have healing abilities but we need to put cunt thing down soon or shits 'bout to be a lot worse."

As he finished speaking the was a loud boom.

"What the hell was that" questioned Sophia.

"That was the sound of a top tire hero getting his head firmly planted into the side of the mountain."

Replied Frank as he flew into the sky just before rocketing off to the monster with all the heros of the Brotherhood Battalion.

Mind-Ramp, Brain Tease, and Frank created a mental communications network for all the heros in the Battalion so that they can all communicate no matter what while at the same time the Iconic Mystic and Matilda cast a spell on Demon Hands, Glitch Mob, Sara, and Christian to make them 10 times stronger, faster, and more durable.  Ashely started trying to freeze the monster or at least slow it down while Sofia, Royal Blue, The Battalion captain, and Amara12 all attacked the monster. It worked at first but after they had made some headway it started to shrug almost everything off then the captain started to realize something terrifying. The more damage the monster took the bigger and stronger it got when her team got there the monster was big to be sure standing at an easy 8 feet tall but now it was at least twice that and it looked like it had grown bigger arms and legs then as soon as she was going to say something it had caught Sofia and had slammed her so hard against the ground it not only created a crater but the sound everyone heard was the sound her bones breaking. The captain and Sara screamed out in unison.

Many of the heroes stopped in their tracks after hearing that sound. To many of them, it was like a sudden realization hit them that this entire time they were fighting this creature it was just using them as its warm-up before it started to fight.

The monster was then blitzed by a Sara that had grown 80 feet and she drop-kicked it sending it flying she then ran to Sophia and quickly ran away to try to get her to one of the heroes with healing abilities, Royal Blue was the first to go after the monster while it was still disoriented. He was followed by many other heroes. His actions brought everyone else back to their senses. Frank picked up a hero named "Incorruptibilis" Their powers made them incorruptible in the broadest sense making their body immune to any sort of damage whether it be physical or other, Ashely set him ablaze while Iconic Mystic and Matilda cast many multilayered spells on her to make them more resistant to any forms of friction, make them stronger, envelop them in lightning, make the fire more concentrated and burn hotter, and Christan opened a portal 20 feet above the monster and like a shooting-star, Frank shot her through the portal making her slam into the beast. That attack was followed quickly by many other heroes but the hero that really dealt a massive blow was Royal Blue as his power was that of total reign over one of the fundamental forces of the universe, Gravity, The moniker he had chosen for himself was not just some feeble title that he had believed would be cool, NO, he chose it for the fact that he is the King of one of the four fundamental forces of the universe. This is not to say that there haven't been other beings that could manipulate gravity but when the king himself Demands something his loyal subjects must obey him and gravity itself is his most loyal subject, so the moment when Incorruptibils came down onto the creature like a force of nature that's when he struck. Royal Blue covered his fists with his power making the gravitational impact that he could dish out many times stronger and he hit that creature with a powerful uppercut sending flying into the air, while it was in the air he manipulated gravity to prevent it from coming back down.

"Everyone clear out I don't know how long I can keep that thing up there but I'm going to try to take it away from here to avoid any more chance of activating this volcano. A quarter of you stay here and help where you can, whether stopping this rock from exploding or helping treat and move those of us that were injured."

And he did as he said. He pushed the monster away but the monster did something unexpected. The creature used its immense strength to clap as hard as it could to create a boom that was so loud it caused "Royal Blue" to lose concentration and he dropped the monster as a reaction, "The Captain" started to glow, her hair set aflame into a lavender fire then she bolted towards the monster and slammed into it with enough force that it caused a massive shockwave but despite the amount of power, she was using to fight the monster not only did it kept up with her blow for blow as it grew stronger in proportion to how much damage it had received but no matter how much damage or how many times "The Captain" put the monster into the ground it kept on getting up and it was stronger each time. While this was happening other heroes were moving the injured out of there but a few started noticing that the portal that the monster had come through was still there and loud thuds were coming from it, a Japanese heroine known as "Rising Sun" got closer to investigate, she saw that there was a small crack at the center of the portal but before she could properly react the portal exploded sending her crashing into "Brain Tease" making him fall out of the sky crash into a member of the "Outbackgurdinas" but as the people were trying to figure out what happened many turned and saw where the Japanese hero came from only to see a man with long hair and a thick beard standing there in black kilt drenched in blood with black leather bandage wrapping around their hands, arms, and legs. He just stared before another massive shock was heard, it was the leader of the Brotherhood Battalion she had been sent flying back up the mountain by the monster but she was caught by the bloodied man without saying a word and he put her down but the monster had gone straight after her and while other heros tried to get in its way they didn't stand much of a chance but once it'd gotten close enough to the Captain and the blood-covered man to recognize him it tried to slow down but it was too late as its momentum kept it going forward but in an instant, it had become a cloud of misty blood and there was nothing left. The absolute MONSTER that had just torn through 7 superhero teams with some of the most powerful beings was all but atomized in an instant by some blood-covered stranger. The man turned to see if the person who came flying at him was ok but as he turned he saw that many heroes had closed in on and surrounded him and all he did was ask a single-word question.

"Where?"

His voice was deep yet smooth and it also sounded like it was trying to hold tears back. The only one close enough out of the kids was Ashely and she could only react in one way.

"Holy shit."

Those two words reverberated throughout the mental communications network.

All of the heroes were able to quickly arrive at where she was and all tried asking her what was wrong but she couldn't speak. Her jaw was agape, she was too shocked to do anything else and in turn, everyone just stared at the blood-drenched man. Amara12 was the first to speak and what she said was the same question on everyone's mind.

"Who the fuck even is that?"

Ashely started mouthing something but it was like her words were being caught in her throat that was until she saw Frank then she shouted with all the air in her lungs.

"FRANK IT'S ED!!!!!!"

Frank had barely processed what she had just said when the strange man appeared in front of Ashely. It was like he had teleported in front of her and all the heroes around her, none of them were able to react in time before he put his hand in the air and struggled to speak.

     Her body froze. The heroes that were next to her got into a defensive stance but it didn't matter as they knew that none of them were strong enough to do anything to him and those that are strong enough to do something were evacuating the injured. The man cleared his through and spoke again but this time he didn't feel intimidating, more like he was scared and desperately wanting a specific answer.

"Did it stop spinning? The world. Is it still now?"

The person that they thought was Ed then melted and morphed into something like a black liquid then became a puddle and from the puddle, a single bubble started floating out of them and suddenly popped.

The moment that the black bubble popped a literal memory flooded into the minds of all those that were near enough to see the bubble pop. The information they'd received was that of the world where the missing child was. This wasn't just information that forced itself into their minds it was like a little recording that Ed had left and they were watching as if the being that melted into the black puddle showed them its memories. It showed the boy covered in bruises and cuts, he was completely covered in dirt but he was smiling while talking to this thing he went on while ripping up the now tattered hospital-like clothing turning the pants and shirt into makeshift shorts and crop top. For those who did recognize the boy, they noticed that he was now taller than they remembered and he seemed to have put on quite the muscle mass and lost weight.

"You know I only went to school because I promised my mom that I'd buy a house of gold just for her. I really wanted to be a fashion designer and make my own brand of clothing, it was going to be comfortable and casual clothing that can be used anywhere. My mom's aunt used to be a fashion designer so whenever I would go to Mexico she would take the time to teach me figure drawing, and how to stitch and sew. She used to let me make little things like handkerchiefs and a denim suit vest..."

He had sat there quietly for only 5 seconds but in those 5 seconds, it was obvious that he was trying his hardest to hold back tears at the very edge of breaking down before he started laughing and stood up.

"Hehe *sniffles* That's enough of that It's getting late and we still haven't eaten have we? Let's go"

Suddenly a horrifyingly deep roar was heard before the boy responded with one of his own as he ran in the direction of the roar.

The memory abruptly ended and left those who experienced it shocked and unable to understand what had just happened. The heroes stood around for 5 minutes before Royal Blue spoke up.

"Ch-Check on the captain! We need to get her to a hospital she's wheezing I think she has a punctured lung and has many broken bones."

"What the fuck was that!?"

"Who the fuck was that!?"

"What just happened!?"

Many of the heroes were at a loss but those that were able to get themselves together helped Royal Blue stabilize The Captain. A few heroes set up a quarantine area around the black puddle.

The young heroes who recognized the boy in the memories were too shocked to do anything. They just saw a friend that they thought was dead. They saw someone they thought sacrificed themselves for them. They blamed themselves for a year and a half for what they thought was the death of one of their closest friends only to find out that he was in an alien place and all alone.

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"SSSSKKKKRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

A blood-chilling monstrous screech came from a creature, not an animal but a creature it was dying, and in front of it was the chilling sight of Ed breathing heavily and his eyes covered by what seemed to be an old dirty, oily, and dirty piece of cloth. He'd grown much from the moment he'd gotten to this alien world and in that time he survived. He became a creature that could not be killed easily. He was baptized by the non-euclidean of this world and christened with new blood. The experiments that the Infinitum Collective changed him on a subatomic level.

He stood in front of this massive creature that was letting out death cries but all Ed did was start setting up a fire, he grabbed purple leaves that had black branches and set them in a pile, he then got some strange white-looking fruits and squeezed them over the branches before using a dried piece of bark to scoop up some weird red liquid that he used to pour onto the branches and they set ablaze. Ed turned and thought to himself as he put his hand in the form of a chop.

"I miss fried chicken, anime, my friends, and my mom. God, I miss cooking for her."

 He used his hand to cleave the head off of this creature. the head alone was half the size of a full-grown adult and twice as wide. He proceeded to butcher this massive creature. This massive creature was the same as the one that had almost wiped out the heroes back home but was 7 times bigger. He "cleaned" it, drained its blood, skinned it, butchered it, cleaned the intestines, and then cooked all of it over an open fire. When he finished eating it he sat looking at the air where triangular super thin and flexible glass-like raindrops were falling so he let one fall on his hand and when it did his entire arm turned onto the substance of that rain before turning back into his arm. This made him smile whenever he could perfectly reconstruct his atomic structure into different things and turn it back perfectly. He got up after a while and started walking, he walked past some other creatures like a turtle that swam in the sky eating the pterodactyl-sized birds that flew in the sky with them. There were many more creatures like the one he called the boomplermurk which was 140 feet long worm that could pop up from the ground and swallow trees whole and make a bloop sound whenever it would pop up. Ed had been eaten by one once so he atomized it. He walked and reached a familiar place, the place where he first arrived.

"Ok you musty bitch let's get one thing straight, today I'm going home and I don't care what I have to do to get there, but when I do I'm going to take the nicest bed I can find and sleep in it."

He raised his hands to the air, and his muscles began tensing showing the incredible definition of his body, the air around him began to shift in one direction then it quickly changed until it had become a torrent just around him. His body began to look as though it was shrinking and if you were to pay very close attention to the directions of the winds one would see a thins line starting to form around them, but slowly he shrank and shrank becoming smaller and skinnier until he himself just started to fall away like ashes from paper and as he disappeared the thin line became thicker just enough to be seen clearly and as the spun around going faster and faster the lines became rings and they stated to glow before strikes of lightning started hitting the center of the air. At first, it was just one strike followed by another and another and each strike lasted longer than the previous one until the lightning strikes were just one continuous current, after about a minute the center of the lighting began to open to reveal a sort of portal, one just like the heroes had encountered, as it appeared the intensity of the lighting increased before the sound of breaking glass was heard and then everything stopped, no more lightning, no more winds, no more rings only the cracked portal but even that soon closed and when it did there was nothing left Ed didn't return.

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6 years after the Mexico incident.

{Accessing entry log IC-6-7-M322

{Access Denied... Must have W-E clearance to access entry log.]

This was a message that Sara had become frustratingly accustomed to seeing the same message pop over and over again over the past few years. She used to spend hours at the terminal just hoping for the chance that she would one day finally find out what the battalion had done with the black sludge.

After the events of what happened in Mexico, the entire superpowered community had been stirred into a frenzy, and a rumor had spread about what really happened, how "The Captain" took out a creature that not even entire teams of heroes could deal with. The blood of the creature was able to amplify their powers to an extreme and while many of the heroes had stepped out and spoken about how the rumor was wrong it still spread causing many supervillains to solely target heroes that were either there or anyone who is associated with The Brotherhood Battalion leading to a sharp decline in not just members of the Battalion but also heroes overall and a increase in hero deaths as multiple villains and villain groups normally fighting low tier heroes started to receive backing from higher tier villains either financially or personally.

Despite the frustrating notification, Sara was highly optimistic, today she was going to finally receive the clearance that she would need to get the information she wanted.

Sara, we need you to check something for us, There's a 4