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	Since the dawn of time, various members of mankind have been gifted and cursed by the gods with special powers. These men and women with special abilities are what are known as [i]Metahumans[/i], humans who possess various abilities, powers and attributes that set them apart from other people. Throughout history, many metahumans tapped into gifts, and have used them for both good and evil. Some metahumans have shown up in many holy books to this day, and even a few of them have created religions of their own. However, most metahumans weren't as fortunate, as many societies either saw them as demons or witches, and either cast them out at best or killed them all at worst. Since then, metahumans barely have made appearances in history, and when they did, it was often dismissed as myths or folklore. However, the first recorded sightings of metahumans were that in World War I, where several metahumans on either side had turned the tide of battle, using their abilities to either aid their comrades or destroy their enemies. When World War I ended, the various goverments of the world did what they could to research this phenomena, and dig up what they can about them.

	However, metahumans didn't become a household name until World War II. When World War II broke out, metahumans from all parts of Europe (including Nazi Germany itself) banded together and helped the Allies fight back against the Nazi Regime. However, while many of the metahumans fighting on the side of the Allies were natural metahumans, the Third Reich had been researching and have been trying to develop their own metahumans as part of the "Master Race" agenda ever since the late 1930s. Many of these metahuman experiments were fielded into battle, and while they were proven to be effective in combat, they died quickly as a result of weakened immune systems and structural degradation. The experiments continued, and the Nazis started rounding up every natural metahuman they could find, putting them in concentration camps in order to help speed up the metahuman projects. Several metahumans escaped from the camps, freed a few more, and worked together to form a resistance. The resistance was soon called the [i]Machtgebunden Allianz[/i], and while the Allies and Russians started to close in on Berlin, the Machtgebunden Allianz gathered enough strength to launch guerrilla-styled attacks all across Nazi Germany, freeing metahumans and humans alike from the control of the genocidal and tyrannical regime. Within years, the Germans have surrendered, and the war ended. While the nightmare was over, those in the Machtgebunden Allianz remembered it all, and together, they vowed to never allow nightmares like that to happen again.

	In 1947, the Machtgebunden Allianz formed into what's now known as the Powerbound Alliance, an alliance a metahumans from all around the world. While the Nuremberg trials took place, the Powerbound Alliance helped with reconstruction efforts, and while most of them helped out the people who lived through the war and searched for other metahumans who survived the Nazi Regime's experiments and torture, some members of the Powerbound Alliance went on a hunt for the Nazi Officers and Scientists that were involved in these horrifying experiments, and depending on the role they played, they were either killed/tortured on the spot or brought to Allied officials. Since then, the Powerbound Alliance has grown over the years, and in 1954, they moved to Costa Rica, where they set up their base in a small abandoned town that had evacuated long ago from a volcanic eruption. Since then, they have been building up their first headquarters and began relations with the locals and the government.

	As the Powerbound Alliance started sinking their feet into Costa Rica, both the Soviets and Americans have discovered the Nazi's metahuman experiments and began replicating their own. However, with a collision of power over time, as well as with the beginning of the nuclear arms race, it opened the doors to the Metahuman Cold War. While some proxy wars were fought in the form of low-intensity conflicts in Korea and later on Vietnam, most of the fights happened in between metahumans in various places all around the world. While it appeared to be two sides metahumans who freely chose their allegiance on their own (as what the propaganda on both sides make it out to be), most of them were actually experiments that were improved from the Nazis and fielded by both the Soviets and Americans. Fights between metahumans were quite the spectacle, though they were quite catastrophic, often killing and injuring civilians as well as causing destruction to untold amounts of property. As a result, many towns, cities and other locations became abandoned from the said fights, as well as the effects that the various metahuman powers had on the surrounding area. With changes in leadership came changes in policy over time for both sides, different methods and different types of metahumans were developed by both the Americans and Soviets, creating all sorts of metahumans. However, it all ended in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Since then, things were a little different.

	In that time, the Powerbound Alliance have created such a large home base in Costa Rica it would rival that of largest military bases in either the US or the USSR. Costa Rica's cities and towns have also received massive upgrades, and while various metahumans helped the locals with their crops and industrial output, it brought lots of revenue to the country, and thus has brought lots of people out of poverty. The Powerbound Alliance has also fought lots of criminals who tried to take advantage of the country and people, and soon enough the crime rate in Costa Rica dropped to a significant degree. By the time the Cold War ended, Costa Rica is one of the most advanced countries in all of Central and South America, and their influence spread over Latin America in a positive way. However, before the Cold War ended, the Powerbound Alliance learned of Suddam Hussein and the gas attacks he carried out against ethnic minorities in the country, mainly in order to suppress dissent. The Powerbound Alliance got involved, and before all-out war broke out, the band of metahumans tore apart the entirety of Hussein's administration, killing and arresting various individuals responsible for the war crimes carried out in Iraq. While the the chain of command was carried over to various Iraqis and Kurds who were against Saddam Hussein, the Powerbound Alliance got the pleasure of capturing Suddam Hussein and give him a public execution, to the pleasure of many people in the country. At that point, in the course of several months, Kurdistan became an independent country, and Iraq transitioned to a new democratic state. At that point, the Powerbound Alliance set up operations in Kurdistan, and repeated the same process that they had with Costa Rica.

	After the Cold War ended, things ended up quite different. Many metahumans soon went on to live normal lives with other humans, and others simply formed their own groups and started crime sprees all over the world. They were stopped of course by the various metahumans that were still on the side of the West after the cold war. At this point, technology advanced, the internet was invented, many nations started with diplomatic trade agreements (now that most of them were free and independent), and things looked great. However, metahumans used their powers to form their own factions, and some of them have risen to power in various nations, including that of Colombia. The Sudanese Government started committing genodice against dissenting groups of people in their country, and while many parts of the world got better, some others got much worse. Conflicts and infighting broke out. At this point, with operations in both Costa Rica and Kurdistan, the Powerbound Alliance soon became a household name as it participated in operations all around the world, either toppling oppressive regimes, defeating terrorist organizations or defeating metahuman crime groups all around the world. Beforehand, the Powerbound Alliance formed what is known as the Special Tasks Coalition, a military group consisting of both metahumans and normal humans, created in order to fight tyrannical regimes, terrorist groups and other such evils that rest around the world. However, many of these conflicts have left lots of destruction and pain in their wake, and most of the non-violent Powerbound Members formed their own group known as the Heroes Without Capes, and helped rebuild the destruction left behind from conflicts of past, and helped feed the hungry and shelter the homeless all around the world. Volunteers from all over the world flocked to the Powerbound Alliance to join both organizations, and soon enough the Powerbound Alliance became a very powerful Non-Government Organization. And by 2024, the Powerbound Alliance has thousands of elite personnel within the ranks of the Special Tasks Coalition, tens of thousands within the Heroes Without Capes group operating all around the world, with resources that rival that of various nations, and several academies and schools with the mission to teach and safeguard metahumans from all across the planet.

	However, things have gone a bit wrong when 2024 started. A new terrorist organization by an unknown name has shown up from Iran, and is standing on the borders of Kurdistan and Iraq, firing at the Kurdish and Iraqi troops stationed there. There were several strange events happening all across the world, and the Russians and Americans have shown up to cover it all up. And worst yet, a powerful member of the 32nd STC Platoon has disappeared from the face of the Earth, with no leads, no clues, and no trace. All of this could spell disaster, and the Powerbound Alliance is scrambling to act. However, the headmaster of the Powerbound Academy in the United States, Cyprian Udina, pitched the idea to use a class of his students to help solve these problems for a grade. Considering their options, the Powerbound Alliance agreed on the condition that the class of students are to be accompanied by several members of the Powerbound Alliance, as well as the STC. 

	[i]And so the adventure begins with our new heroes...[/i]