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In a world much like our own, but vastly different, superpowers aren't restricted to comic book characters or the result of special effects on a television show. Superpowers, be they accidental mutations, magically invoked, or alien birthrights, are real. Individuals with extraordinary gifts walk among the everyday citizens, hidden by day, caped crusaders when trouble calls. Like the Avengers or Justice League of our comics, this world's heroes banded together to oppose the increasing threat of those who used their powers for ill. They called themselves The Wardens, their organisation dedicated to doing good in the world.

These heroes have done more for this world than any other, their victories celebrated globally. Yet, perhaps their greatest achievements are those which have gone largely unnoticed by the general public. Some of these heroes would claim that what makes them proudest is the mentoring and training of the next generation of heroes, who will be able to continue on the legacy they've began. It is these young heroes who hold our focus, the youths with budding dreams of saving lives and putting their talents to good use. Though many have learned skills from their individual mentors, or merely taught themselves, a select few of the brightest and most talented have been selected by the leaders of The Wardens to form a new team. First forming a year ago, but with new members still arriving, they've named themselves The New Guardians, (preferable to the Junior Wardens) and it is the hope of the older generation that these new heroes might learn to work together.

Their base is an underground bunker just outside of New York, where money allows the young team the privacy required to train. It's small, yet the equipment is all state of the art, and the teleportation posts allow the New Guardians and their Warden mentors to travel freely to the base from special locations around the world. The Shadow, an enigmatic hero in black and one of the founders of The Wardens, helps to fund the base and ensure that all members from across the globe have easy access to the facilities. For those young members with no secret identities to return to, the base acts as their home. With bedrooms, a fully-stocked kitchen, and movie room, there are times when those with homes find themselves hesitant to leave.

There's more, in the past month many of the New Guardian's members have received an all-expenses paid scholarship to the prestigious Ascot Academy, thanks to the Leeds Foundation, a charity set up by Leona Leeds thirty years ago, and now run by her son Francis Leeds, CEO of Leeds enterprise and the man behind the Shadow. He wanted to ensure that every one of the young team received a quality education, and perhaps it was a safe guard too, so that the young heroes could be protected better should things go awry. The Academy is a normal school, with average, non-hero students, and the classes cover all the usual American curriculum. There, they'll receive the best education money can buy, before returning to their base to hone their crime fighting skills. Of course, with The Shadow's secret identity unknown to all save his young prodigy, the other members must merely thank their luck that sees their entire schooling and college years paid for, even if they might hold some suspicions that their mentors helped set the scholarship up. Certainly, the fact that the school is merely a half hour drive from their secret base is clue enough.

Between the Academy's everyday lessons and the training set by The Wardens out of school hours at their base, there's certainly little time to spare with idleness among the new team. Yet, every so often they'll be given missions; covert operations, undercover assignments that allow them to test their skills. A lot of these operations utilise the fact that they're young, able to blend in and draw less attention than their adult mentors. They're also less recognisable, but still pack a solid punch. However, practice time might be coming to a quick end, with deadly threats approaching. Some of the older heroes have been disappearing, and no one knows why. The members of The Wardens investigate the disappearances, telling their younger accomplices to focus on their training and studies, yet in the end, it might be the students who must save the teachers.

This is a private roleplay between myself and faceclaim, therefore we won't be taking any
reservations. Feel free to read along though.