Season 1
Episode 0 — Graduation
In this inaugural (pilot) episode, the characters graduate from the Superhero Law Enforcement Academy and are assigned a routine patrol within their base city of Baton Rouge Louisiana.
The first thing they run into is a food riot at a local big box store. Since there’s a food shortage, situations like this aren’t rare. The party gets involved and ultimately comes up with a solution of using a bunch of land in the nearby cemetery to plant and grow vegetables to help feed the people of Baton Rouge. The Gardener, using his powers of plant growth, gives this process a head start and returns to these fields several times per week to help speed the process of growth along. The party also uses their connections to gain support from the city of Baton Rouge and get assigned other dis-used areas from the city to use in the same manner. This item makes the news feeds and other cities start mimicking the party’s idea.
Next, the party arrives in the business district and witnesses a purse snatching. A man, clad in black biker leathers and full-coverage helmet riding a small scooter knocks down a woman and after grabbing her purse, speeds away. The party attempts to give chase. Mortel and Gardener have a very hard time getting started and crash into a bus. Meanwhile, the rest of the party starts to chase down the thief and realize that this full-grown man is travelling far too fast on that tiny scooter to be legit.
Assuming that the thief may be a Metahuman, they do an image recognition on him and identify him as Motorhead, a mid-level D-List Supervillain who is an expert motorcyclist and has the power to turn any wheeled contrivance into another, usually much faster, much more advanced wheeled contrivance, usually to aid him in a career of larceny. The party does a good job at chasing Motorhead, but in the end, he manages to escape by ducking into in alley and descending into a sewer where he has a small collection of kids tricycles, presumably to facilitate further getaways.
The party continues to give chase, but winds up running a foul of a large albino alligator which they have to defeat, which they do, bringing this episode to a close.
Episode 1 — The Damascus Incident
Maintenance Technicians perform routine work on a nuclear missile. This kind of thing happens regularly and to ease the tension, this missile’s warhead had been removed months earlier. Upon arriving, everyone entered the silo and the work began. Unfortunately one of the Maintenance people used the wrong tool to remove a bolt and the bolt fell more than eight stories to the floor of the silo and on its way down, ricocheted off of a girder, hit the missile just right and caused a fuel leak the size of a garden hose.
Now, the team has a number of things to worry about: poisonous fumes are filling the missile silo. The fumes are both caustic and highly explosive. Movement within the silo is limited due to the threat of poisonous fumes contaminating safe compartments if the wrong door is opened. The fuel that’s leaking out of the first stage is causing a drop in pressure in that section of the missile and if left unresolved, the weight of the upper sections (the second stage and the warhead) will crush the first stage causing the missile to explode. To make things worse, the previous information on the status of the warhead is incorrect and it is still attached to the top of the missile. The cherry on top of this little crap sundae is that when called, Strategic Air Command tells the Silo to hold on while they talk over what to do and come up with a checklist for them to follow.
The Team takes things into their own hands and after some deliberation, brainstorming and conjuring a spirit or two for their take on the situation, the Team decides they must at least mitigate the fuel leak or things will get very bad, very fast. Since Strategic Air Command is no help, they turn to the Soviets. If anyone was going to know about the top secret specifications of a US nuclear missile it would be the Soviets. They call their mentor, The Sidewalk Surfer and have her put them in touch with a Russian Superhero team that might be able to help. A couple of minutes later, they get a call from a man known as The Hammer (one of the three Russian Bogatirs (a Superhero Team)) who sends them a slightly outdated copy of the plans for the Titan III missile that they have.
They consult the missile specs and get to work. They take a plate of steel, cut it to an appropriate size and bend just enough of a curve into it to fit like a glove on the inside of the missile’s fuel tank. Then they have The Gardener’s spirit companion take the metal plate into the Umbra, move it into the missile and then cross back over. The pressure of the outgoing fuel holds the plate in place and reduces the garden hose fuel leak to a drip, giving Strategic Air Command enough time to figure out how to get a team in there and fix the missile.
Episode 2 — Tabula Rasa
At the end of the morning briefing, the Sidewalk Surfer tells the Team that they’re being assigned a case. This was a 911 call that local cops need to turn over to the superheroes. A dead body was found on the other side of town. Initial investigation found that it was a woman who had been pregnant, but had given birth probably sometime within the last 12-15 hours. The child is missing. With the inception of the GMA Part Three, any crimes involving minors, especially kidnappings, falls under the Global Jurisdiction; i.e. Superheroes.
The team started investigating and ultimately figured out that the dead woman found today was one of three victims. All three victims were found in various places and in various states. After a little bit of investigation, the team figured out that all three women share the same obstetrician. A background check on the obstetrician, a Dr. Ian Clare, shows that he is an obstetrician only by secondary profession. He took that position after the bug invasion because it was needed and he could fulfill the duties. His primary focus, however, is genetics and has numerous published papers on the topic of eugenics and was working on gene-splicing in order to build a more resilient human race. His hope was to help humanity withstand the harsh biological events that have a tendency to occur on earth.
The team figured out what properties Clare owned and went to the most likely (secluded) location with a group of police. They ultimately stormed the castle, found Dr. Clare in the basement laboratory filled with pregnant women who were in various states of sedation. They initiated combat with Clare and ultimately arose victorious, putting Doctor Clare’s plan to use the children to advance his eugenics research to an end.
Episode 3 — Cram-Bone
The team was patroling as usual when they heard a disturbance from a nearby, and very expensive, neighborhood. The disturbance was in the form of several automated, rapid fire machine guns all shooting at the same time, followed by an explosion. The team swung around and made for the very expensive estate where the gunfire came from. A quick database check confirmed that the estate was owned by a local gangster-rapper named Cram-Bone.
There, on the corners of the estate’s main building, were four, 50-caliber sentry guns and one, very destroyed pizza-delivery vehicle from Mafia-controlled Uncle Enzo’s Pizza and Restaurant Company.
The team had to enter on foot, due to the entire main structure being covered by a security shield. They made it to the front door, entered and started looking around. Thunderbird had to wait at the front door, since he could only enter a home if invited in.
Unhappy about having to stand on the front steps, he could only monitor the unfolding situation. This is when his sensor equipment alerted him to there being a very slight increase in background radiation, a moderate localized increase in Radon and fluctuating temperatures within the building, all of which are considered suspicious for properties of this type.
Inside, the team discovered the drugged out rapper waving around a gun, the Pizza delivery guy dead on the floor and what appeared to be Cram-Bone’s manager trying to calm him down. Seeing members of the Gulf Coast Guardians in his home, however, spooked Cram-Bone, resulting in the rapper shooting his manager, trying to shoot one or more members of the team and, unbeknownst to the team, triggering an internal security measure.
Back at the front door, Thunderbird noticed that the back of the foyer had a slide-away wall which started to move aside, exposing a ten-foot-tall aquarium with a large robotic dog inside. As the aquarium plexiglass started to rise, releasing the water, Thunderbird’s sensor equipment registered a strong radiologic warning.
A quick battle ensued with the rapper, which he lost, leaving the team to deal with the robotic dog sentry. The team did a quick database search and identified the robotic dog to be a decade-old soviet robot sentry that should have been destroyed in 1975 due to its power plant utilizing a one-kilogram slug of polonium in an industrial radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Possessing such a robot is in clear violation of U.N. General Order 145, labeling Cram-Bone as an international Terrorist and making him subject to an un-appealable lifetime scentence of incarseration in The Pit.
The dog, still acting on it’s last orders, to protect the house, continued to attack some of the party while the others searched the unconscious form of the rapper for the fob that would allow them to take control of the robot. The fob was found and the team was able to end the combat.
The last item on the to-do list was to diffuse the situation with Uncle Enzo’s. Having been informed of the driver’s death, Baton Rouge police rolls out every available police officer to the rapper’s home in an effort to keep the man alive.
Uncle Enzo’s, having heard of their driver’s death through “back channels”, dispatched a hit squad to the rapper’s property.
The team acted as diplomats in this situation and described how Cram-Bone was to be delivered to The Pit within a few hours so no retaliatory action would need to occur… here.
Well versed in subtext, Uncle Enzo’s Soldiers left the area peacefully, undoubtedly already planning the rapper’s demise in prison.