Young Heroes of Oculus Issue 1

## Overview

The first issue of the Young Heroes of Oculus series of comics.

## Synopsis

Dr. Terry Tenure was attacked in their office at the University of Oculus, and was knocked unconscious and taken by two men in suits with sunglasses. This also smashed a picture of The Friends of Oculus from 1969. Later that night, there was a disruption in the Junipero District at the Kaplan Street Superhuman Evaluation Lab, as a group of grunts broke into the lab.

However, as they did, the team of young superheroes interrupted them, causing one to call for help from the Steel Soldier, their boss. He attempted to attack Rain but was instead hacked by Kurt and TAS, who were able to shut him down long enough for Grey to try to analyze him. The Steel Soldier became enraged, and started smashing away the walls of nearby buildings, and stepped on Grey, who was able to avoid being directly crushed, but was stuck under his talon.

Grey called out for someone to stop him, and Kurt jumped into action, climbing up the mech and breaking the cockpit to reveal the Steel Soldier’s pilot inside. Meanwhile, Rain easily dispatched all of the grunts, grabbing hold of their intended target, a vial of blood and two files.

Ohea transformed into a smaller mech, mimicking the Steel Soldier, and lifted up the Soldier’s boot so Grey could escape. In retaliation, the Steel Soldier grabbed innocent civilians from a nearby building, to try to convince Kurt to back off. Instead, Grey grappled up to the mech’s hand and freed the civilians, allowing Kurt to attack the Soldier’s pilot, and throw him from the cockpit.

Grey caught the pilot and threw him onto a nearby roof, attempting to subdue him. Unfortunately, he managed to press a button that he had on him, which primed the mech to explode. To stop that, Rain jumped on top of Ohea, mimicking their powers, and the two of them began to disrupt it while Kurt hacked it to shut it down.

With the mech deactivated and the grunts defeated, the team regrouped on the roof and revealed the pilot to be Anthony Howard, the CEO of Division, Inc., a weapons manufacturer. They also found that he had been trying to steal the blood of Beck Horton, a teenager with power negation superpowers. When pushed to explain, Grey was able to find out that Howard’s plan was to force government official superheroes to no longer have powers so that he could sell his weapons to them. They also discovered that this lab had been asked to look into the existence of superhumans who could travel between Oculus and Orgjrra, but had had no luck.

They left when the cops began to show up, then regrouped at the base. Rain called Hunter, who praised them for their success, but also said he had to work late and wouldn’t be there that night. Kurt and Ohea had a conversation where Ohea helped support Kurt, as he was feeling pretty down about people getting hurt during the fight. Grey was also feeling down, and Rain helped encourage them and their concerns about not being powerful enough.

Ohea took Kurt home, and when Kurt walked in, his mother was still awake, and after a terrible lie from Kurt, she suggested he have his new friends over sometime. Grey bussed home, and found their older brother Caleb up, waiting for them. Caleb, frustrated that they were still being a superhero, tried to push them to not be, which only made them angry.

Meanwhile, back at base, Ohea and Rain stayed up late, being awoken by a telephone call in the morning from Jessica Josephs-Grace, who reluctantly asked them to go get some files from a bunker in the University of Oculus, which they agreed to. While Jessica was convinced that the government would not be able to know where the bunker is, it was immediately shown that, around the same time, someone was instructing a person in a leopard-print costume to go to the same room and grab those files.