part i

The media calls them superheroes. Their friends call them a bunch of freeloading tossers who need to get a job.

For these five young superbeings, fighting crime was never part of the picture. Why make a living when you can use your power to facilitate petty theft? Once known as Team Colossus, they're now happily redundant, branded as the Colossal Screw-Ups.

But when a shadowy stranger bursts into their flat with a gun and an unexplainable vendetta, their days of larceny have ended. There's a war on. The time for daytime television and microwave dinners is over.

{Written 2014.}