The story follows 15 year old Neal Hammington, after coming home one day to find that his mother had been murdered he moves in with his older sister Serenity in the small town of Centralville, PA. The day of the move in he meets a boy his age named Rick Nash, whom he becomes best friends with, after Neal finishes moving his stuff in his new room, Rick invites him to a park where they'll meet two of Rick's friends, Pearson Monrow and Daniel Railing, to do parkour. Neal becomes friends with these three boys for the first month of him living in Centralville, our four main characters go out to watch the meteor shower, they were amazed by the meteors, until one almost hits them. Neal was knocked out and taken home after the accident. He wakes up the next day to reach for his glasses to discover they were floating in mid air, it seems that the meteor gave him telepathic abilities. Neal wasn't the only one affected, Rick has super speed, Dan has super human strength, and Pearson can control fire. The four discover that they aren't the only ones with powers, when a man with the ability to walk through walls terrorizes the town, and kills a hand full of people, the four put on hoodies and sunglasses to hide their identities, and go to take the man the papers are calling the Southern Raider. The town finds out about these masked heroes, and call them the Heroic Force. The four decide to go on nightly patrols looking for other meteor infected people doing bad things, and regular criminals as a symbol of hope in this crime filled world.