First off, yes it would technically be thirty-two hands clapping, I know. If it bothers you, picture all of them doing a group high five. I meant to post this yesterday, but I had to deal with some technical difficulties. Our winners are (listed n alphabetical order by creator):

Becky Blue Eyes~ Roxanne Reid

Nathan Johnson

Gordhanx~ Alicia/Lilly/Jade/Iris

KingOfStories01~ Junpei "Jun" Arthur Kirman

Lightning Assassin Phoenix~D'Leon 'Delo' Randers

Muamana~ Tommy Greene

Nearing Ice~ Ree Scathan

Nicolai Myles

perriwinkle14~ Meredith Falan

puppylover12~ Isabella "Izzy" Frost

Skippy1023~ Elizabeth "Liz" Kearney

SyxkeaXIV~ Kieran Altinger

thefourelementscombined~ Caleb Hardwood

theGirlNightwing~ Victoria DePetris

Waveslover~ Gladiolus Fleet

Jacob Lurra

Welcome to the team! Sorry to all of those who entered but weren't selected. Here's the first chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, aside from my own (see above).

The floorboards creaked as the girl trudged sleepily to her bed. She pulled a hair band out of her slightly curly, brown hair, and pulled on a well-worn Mickey Mouse t-shirt and some sweatpants. Then dropped, exhausted, onto her bed.

"Goodnight," came a shout from another room.

"Goodnight, Dad," the girl responded, just before falling asleep.

The house soon fell dark and silent. Light snores could be heard sighing out of one bedroom. No one was awake to hear the faint sound of an intruder moving through the halls nor see the shadow as they moved toward the girl's bed.

-Commercial-Break-Line-

"Ooph!" a boy with a long ponytail exclaimed as he hit the floor after being rudely shoved through the door.

"Klutz," hissed a girl wearing a short, red chiton over a black Kevlar shirt and black leggings. She effortlessly stretched out a pair of two white, feathered wings (matching the red wings decorating her mask); then half stepped-half flew over the boy sprawled in front of her.

The boy righted his blue domino mask, stood up, and brushed off his blue suit. "Hey! I was pushed!" Then patting his head, "Where's my hat?"

"Is this it?" the girl picked up a blue top hat.

He took the hat and, with a bow, dramatically replied, "Thank you."

"Hey, I don't know about you two, but I am just a little curious as to how we got here," another girl questioned as she stepped away from the door. Her face was completely hidden by a reflective mask. A bit of pale blonde hair covered one side of the mask, but oddly the rest of her hair was a deep brown.

"I was beginning to wonder the same thing," agreed a boy with white hair on the other side of the room. He pulled his off-white hooded cloak tighter over his light green costume and moved toward the small group.

"Whoa, where is everyone coming from? And wasn't the door over there?" the boy in the top hat indicated behind himself.

A boy wearing a black and red costume, complete with a red-trimmed black hood, tumbled into the room from another wall. "The door could be moving."

A yelp sounded from the other side of the room as a girl with familiar slightly curly brown hair, now wearing a blue mask with a black cape, shirt and pants, landed on the girl with wings. "You don't say." She growled, "And you, get off me!"

"Oh, gosh. I am so sorry," The brown haired girl apologized as she stood and quickly backed off. Just as suddenly, two more teenagers were propelled into the room.

One, a girl in a white tunic with a gold eagle on the chest and a gold and white domino mask looked around the room and asked, "Isn't it a little dark in here?"

The other, a girl in a long light blue dress with a white ribbon wrapped around her waist and tied at her hip looked down at herself and mumbled, "Why would I wear?" Shook her head glanced around and responded to the other girl, "It seems fine to me."

"How can you tell? Your mask covers your eyes," the girl in the white tunic responded. Sure enough, the girl in blue wore a delicate, but not at all transparent, white piece of fabric over her eyes and tied around the back of her head.

"Just because there is something over my eyes doesn't mean I can't see out of them," she retorted.

The boy in black and red chimed in, "Actually, it usually-," but was cut off as a girl in a vibrant, rainbow costume entered the room.

She angrily demanded, "Who is responsible for this? Where am I? Explain yourselves!"

"I'm fairly certain we all know as much as you do," claimed the boy with white hair.

A boy with silver headphones a black leather jacket walked into the room. The door noticeably slid to another wall and a boy dressed in black armor with a blue stone in the center of his chest surrounded by silver, flame-shaped plating stepped in. He lingered near the wall, almost like he was trying to fade into the background.

The boy in the leather jacket looked around at the room and commented, "Wow, there are a lot of people in here now. Do we all have powers?"

"Not all of us," a girl in a red leotard over black leggings zipped past him on a pair of red, purple, and white skates. Her dark red hair streamed out from under a black helmet with a red rocket painted onto the sides. "How many people are in here anyway?"

"Twelve," the girl with covered eyes immediately responded. "Wait, no, now thirteen, fourteen," she continued as two more boys entered the room. The first to enter was dressed all in brown, from his shoes to his hooded cloak.

Seeing the roomful of eyes he noted, "Well, this is a bit awkward."

The second boy was dressed primarily in black, with a slash of green cutting across his costume from his left shoulder to above his right hip. "How did I get here?" he asked.

"A lot of people have been asking that," the girl in the mirror mask observed. "We have yet to get any answers."

"Answers to what?" another girl asked as she entered the room. A silver diadem glittered in her white hair. The temperature in the room noticeably dropped as she crossed the room. As she reached the group the floor began to shake. A boy wearing a black bulletproof vest over a dark blue sleeveless shirt, a black fedora and cargo pants fell into the room just as the door disappeared.

"Sixteen, there are sixteen people here now," the girl with covered eyes finished counting.

A vicious, dark voice filled the room, "Welcome, to all of you. Let's play a little game shall we. Who can survive the longest?" Evil laughter echoed as thick walls slammed down around the teens.

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. For those of you finding this after the contest, but would like to submit a hero or villain, see my profile for the templates. Your character could be selected for season 2 (or this season for the villains)! Those of you with your OC's in this chapter, I promise to go into more detail on costumes, physical appearance, powers, personality, etc. later. The theme song is still in development. Happy New year!