Light and Dark.
Their presence in the world is ever consistent and inarguable. However, there was a time when this presence was so substantial that both Light and Dark took physical forms. These manifestations were known as "Orbs". When found—and after considerable exposure to—these Orbs could give humans incredible power.
Though there was one issue that those who wished to harness the power of the Orbs faced; the Orbs were incredibly selective. Specifically, they were only able to be captured and used by those younger than the age of 20; adolescents.
For adults, the changes to them are merely spiritual. Light Orbs, Akari, give a boost in morale and fighting spirit. Dark Orbs, Yami, give a greater advantage when fighting enemies, causing confusion and fear. For teenagers, there is a physical change. They can be granted an increase in physical ability and develop special talents if exposed to an Orb. Strangely, children when exposed will experience a different change than that the other two. The abilities they gain are on a separate caliber than that of the talents they could receive if Exposed as teens. However, a majority of children can not physically handle the powers that the Orbs have to offer so many encounters children have with the Orbs are fatal.
The desire for these Orbs was strong and many would do whatever it took to get their hands on either of the types. Since adults could not wield the power themselves, they set to using children to help accomplish their goals. Some planned on helping others, others planned on helping themselves.
It was clear that something needed to be done to help contain the chaos that would ensue from the presence of the Orbs, so adults set up schools with the purpose to teach the teens who desired to learn more of the Orbs the secrets and the proper safety precautions. These schools would choose a select few students to go on Excavations to find and capture Orbs for their school or funded organization. It was outlawed to get younger children involved in the business of Excavating. They would be taught the dangers and basic facts about the Akari and Yami in elementary and junior high school, but the option to further study the Orbs would not be available until high school.
But just because it was outlawed does not mean the rules were not defiled. There are many cases of young children having been purposely exposed to different sub-species of either Akari or Yami.
There is one infamous, and rather controversial, case in which an organization secretly disregarded the laws set to protect the children and instead exposed them to a dangerously high level of Radiance, the energy given off by the Akari Orbs.
Teiko Technology, publicly known as one of the world's leading technologically advanced industries, conducted unorthodox experiments on children to further study the effects of the Orbs. It is unknown exactly how many, but countless children lost their lives due to Teiko's heinous crimes.
Miraculously, there were seven individual experiments that were reportedly successful in exposing the children of similar ages to Radiance. Thusly, they were known as the Generation of Miracles.
There was little to no information regarding the children who underwent these experiments. No relatives were known, no names were known, not even what they looked like could be confirmed for certain. Only the names of each individual color of Radiance they were exposed to was able to be pulled out of the encrypted files of Teiko, once the company fell. So the colors became the children's names.
Murasaki, Hai, Midori, Momo, Ao, Ki, and Aka.
Once Teiko's underhanded experiments were exposed, the Generation of Miracles were able to break away from the fetters of Teiko Technology and seemingly vanished. Though their location was unknown, the Generation of Miracles were not gone. There were many reported sightings of members of the Generation of Miracles together, though there were only ever five members seen together at a time. Originally, Aka, Midori, Ao, Murasaki, and Hai were known as the primary team, but eventually Hai disappeared and was replaced by Ki. It is unknown what became of Momo, though it is speculated that Momo was more so a strategist rather than an Excavator and helped the team from the sidelines.
To this day, there was no team that was as successful as they were at Excavations. By using their unmatchable powers, the Miracles captured and did away with the Orbs, and in turn saved many children from a fate that, at best, would have matched their own.
Though soon enough, by the time the children reached high school age, they split up and went on their own paths. It is speculated that they joined schools and Excavation teams of their own.
There was a strange rumor however, that there was another successful experiment, a single case in which an individual child survived the exposure to Shade, the usually harmful, and in most cases fatal, energy given off by Yami Orbs. This individual's existence was confirmed to be true by past employees of Teiko, but many do not know of their name.
The Generation of Miracles state that there were always six of them on a team for an Excavation, but only five were ever seen.
Could there possibly have been a phantom sixth member of the Generation of Miracles that the world has not seen?
Author: Hello and welcome to my first KuroBas story, as well as my first story on this account! I had some problems with my old email so I can no longer access my old FF account. I'm basically starting from scratch here with this account, but that's okay! My interests have changed and such. KNB is also my fav anime as well as show, I've watched it twice in the past couple of years and every now and then I go back a re-rewatch certain episodes.
So I had the idea for the GoM being essentially superhumans for a little while and I really wanted to experiment with that idea, and thus this story was born! I wanted to adapt the KNB series as a whole and I wasn't sure how to do it because how do you make basketball players crime fighters? I also didn't want to do the traditional superhero route because you lose the team dynamic and that'd also mean I'd have to make the teams that they played evil which I didn't want to do (at least not to all the teams) and so I came up with this dumb idea. XD
If you couldn't tell, the Orbs are symbolic of basketballs and the ideals that are reflected in the series and I'll further get into how the powers work when this story really gets into gear, but I'm still working things out myself…
Right now, the plan is to adapt the original storyline into this AU. I'm also not too sure what the rating will be, but I'm just going to leave it at Teen for now, just to be safe. It may or may not go up, but don't expect anything too explicit. The rating may only go up because of violence, but we'll see...
Please review! Also, if you have any questions or ideas, please don't be afraid to send them my way!