| Prelude |
| In a world where those with power try to dominate those without, there are bound to be heroes. These heroes receive different levels of respect, different amounts of credit for their sacrifice, and none are as well loved in New York City as the mysterious team of super-powered warriors simply called Glory. In Styre, those who develop strange powers with their puberty are outcasts. Constant violence and horror is brought to those individuals who openly live their lives as PEOAs (People with Extra Ordinary Abilities). Glory has managed to avoid this by simply never saying that they are PEOAs, and never joining the advocate group formed to protect these individuals, the EOAA. So Glory continues it's mission of hope and justice, free of the conflict caused by the ignorant fools who cannot accept those who aren't exactly like themselves. Glory lives and trains in a highly fortified compound on a man-made island in the Hudson River, off of Manhattan. The six members do not try to hide their identities, and are celebrities in their own right. When their leader, a charismatic man named Ian Church and his wife Cassandra (also known as Loca) had their son, Robert, they received nearly three thousand cards from well-wishers. Later, when members Wesley Emerson and his wife Joyce (a.k.a. Porsha) welcomed their daughter Anita, she got almost as much attention as little Robert did. As the two children grew up they were closely watched for the first sign of power beyond that of the average. From an early age the angelica 'Nita showed powers over the forces of wind and rain. Her abilities were nurtured, amplified, encouraged. She blossomed under the care of her parents, and the other two members of Glory, Jasmine Hunter and Lane Clay. (Hunter and Oxyman, respectively). By the tender age of eight, she was dubbed "The Tempest" and allowed to help her parents if she had her homework done. Life was wholly different for young Bobby. His father was one of the strongest super-heroes ever, and great expectations were laid for him as well. Nearly everyday he was tested for the slightest hint of the hidden strength that surely laid beneath the surface. By age six, he was an accomplished shot with handguns, shotguns, bows, crossbows, nearly everything. He showed great dexterity, speed, and focus. But he showed no super-abilities. His mother worried constantly, watching her husband push their son, never even letting the thought that Bobby wouldn't manifest powers enter his head. Bobby and Nita were the first children born in the second generation of PEOAs, so very little was known about the inheirtablity of the EOA traits. Some children of PEOA parents had the same powers as one parent, some had some combination of their parents' abilities, some had entirely new powers. Yet, there were few, very few, like Bobby, that didn't seem to have any powers at all. And, as Cassandra soon found, none of the children who lacked ability at birth had ever expressed anything out of the range of normal human capacity later in life. Ian would not accept the possibility that his son could be just a normal boy. He kept insisting that it would happen. Finally, when Bobby turned thirteen and had a massive growth spurt that left him at nearly six feet tall, the truth could no longer be avoided. Ian was so disillusioned that he got his son a fake name, enrolled him in High School, and refused to train him further. "You have to prepare for a life of a normal human. You should be glad," he would say whenever his son asked to train, or asked why he had to start regular high school. Bobby didn't know what to think. While it was true that he had no EOA, he was far from just your average teenage boy. He knew how kill people with his bare hands in less than twelve seconds, he could shoot a pinpoint target at 100 meters, he could built or defuse even the most complex of explosives. He realized that he would never be just a "normal human" his father just couldn't see that. He would have had a hard time dealing with this huge change in his life if it weren't for Nita. She was his constant friend and supporter. She still trained with him, and didn't hold back, because she knew she didn't need to. Somewhere around this time, Glory went on a mission to a POF testing lab. In the course of the mission our fine heroes found themselves backed into a corner and out of luck. Suddenly a burst of energy took out the guards closing in on them. They saw a small boy, who looked no older than twelve standing in the doorway. He mumbled something and then collapsed. Loca picked up his frail, scarred body and brought him back to Glory Headquarters. When he awoke, he told them that he could not remember anything of his past, nor how long he had been held captive by the POF. The only clue he had to his identity was a dream where he was called Chris by an unknown woman. Ian Church dubbed him "Tremor" and started training him as soon as he was strong enough. This would have been doubly hard on Bobby, except Chris was such a friendly guy. Instead of a bitter rivalry developing between the two boys, they became close friends. As Glory ran into more teens that needed help, the team's junior division expanded. A high speed chase of a super-villan was quickly ended by a small girl named Kit Franklin, who joined up under the code name "Hard Rock." In another POF testing lab, they recovered a dark haired boy with incredible powers over darkness named Shane Foster. He moved in and became "Dead Wish". Over the span of a couple years, Bobby led a double life, both that of any other teen, High School, homework, friends with dull middle-class parents, and that of a teenage vigilante, training, enemies, constant danger. In this time, he found he was very much in love with his lifelong friend, Nita, but could not find the right way to tell her. He also became increasingly frustrated in his father's refusal to let him fight too. These are the state of affairs when our story starts, just after Bobby's fifteenth birthday...... |