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Energy Storm is set in the real world with an alternate history that's mostly similar to the real world. Barack Obama was the previous president in the RP world, but the current president is David Forrester rather then Donald Trump. In the world of Energy Storm David Forrester managed to nab the republican nomination for president rather then Trump, but similarly to him he has no prior political experience & comes from a multi billionare background. His family owns the Forrester Corporation, a multi billion dollar biotech company that's had some previous association with controversy one most notable one being key partners & funding sources for the opioid epidemic/crisis. The Energy Storm occured on February 2, 2018 and caused energy beams to rain down on North America. These destructive beams of raw energy devastated parts of the country, taking the lives of 10 million American Citizens throughout the course of the few hours of the day they occured.

Soon after the country was gripped by a second disaster, that of the Energy Plague. The Plague has about the same symptoms as Covid-19 in the real world, leading to millions of Americans falling ill. Federal & State Governments implemented measures across the country to halt the spread of the virus including mask mandates & quarantines. Jonah Hanes, the director of Liberty transfered to Liberty's California office to investigate rumors of altered humans joining the Salzaras Cartel. Due to the enregy plague America's borders closed blocking people from leaving & entering the country to prevent the spread of the plague. This had an unintended effect of dealing a major blow to the illegal drug business, further restricting drug traffickers brining drugs ino the country. The Salzaras Cartel remained un-effected by the closing of the borders due to recruiting & using superhumans to aid them with getting drugs into the country, making them a powerhouse among the other cartels who could no longer get drugs into the USA with the border closures.

Jonah also investigated video messages from the masked revolutionary Reaper who encouraged altered humans to unite & work against the United States to fight against their oppression. He also studied Benny Stein a popular talk show host who'd gained an immense following for his intense unwavering negative view towards the altered. Anya is an undercover Russian FSS agent who infilitrated the United States Intelligence Community & is working as a leading field agent in Liberty directly under Director Hanes. SHe feigned having information about Shade, a notorious altered human killer who was waging a one man vigilante war against organized violent crime in California, specifically in San Francisco, Oakland & LA. Shade's real identity is that of Jace Williams a youtuber running a financial consultation business. Due to a bloody past with many of his family being killed by thugs he's devoted the use of his powers to murdering violent criminals like the ones who killed his loved ones. He ran into Anya who was masquerading under the alias as a US Agent Jennifer Donovan & struck an alliance with her. Jace offering to help her Russian employers in exchange for money & intel on Liberty the black ops group in charge of monitoring & policing Altered Humans in the United States.

Thomas is a native american & another person who the plague converted into an altered human. He moved to San Francisco where he'd already gotten a job & place to stay. Before long he would up in the midst of a battle between two masked altered one with super strength & the other with ice manipulation. With no choice he exposed his own powers to the ice-user named Xavier in effort to rescue him from a brutal death at super strong vigilante, who unlike Shade was hunting & killing all manner of crooks for crimes even petty ones. The Authorities managed to capture the ice wielding thief named Xavier, and transported him to a hospital in custody. While the extra strong vigilante & Thomas both managed to escape without any further connection or investigation from law enforcement.

Another altered named Amelia Mendez with the power of artistic animation, meaning she can draw things into existence used her power generously to generate food & supplies for nearby charities & people at FEMA camps who lost their homes in the eneergy storm. Another girl with powers named Alexis was using her powers of luck manipulation to get herself a hefty amount of cash in Las Vegas, but had built up a bad reputation as a suspected cheater at many casino's in Vegas. The President, David Forrester made an announcement that his older brother Nathan Forrester's company Forrester Corporation had devised a blood test that could determine if people were regular or altered. As such the Government had purchased the technology further enriching the Forrester Family & made blood testing mandatory for all americans. A declaration was made that all people must submit to testing within a week, and after seven days anybody found to be an altered who didn't submit to the test prior to the deadline would be commiting a felony & could be arrested by law enforcement. He also deployed the national guard to all fifty states to help forrester corporation scientists & local law enforcement administer the tests on a national scale.

Alexis was worried about her twin sister whom she feared might easily comply with these blood tests & returned home to San Francisco to check on her concerned that her sister might have also gotten powers from the energy plague. Sanzhar a journalist with metal manipulation was living at home with his family and was currently struggling in his career. Alexis flew out to San Francisco and upon searching for her twin learned that she'd adopted the alias Angel. Not only that but apparently she'd built up a reputation as a sort of under-ground medic/healer for those who could't afford or visit traditional medical facilities & doctors. Marcus was another altered human wth molecular acceleration who worked for Liberty, a military veteran who conducted missions to eliminate dangerous altered who used their powers for illicit funds & violence.

On top of the Blood Tests, the Forrester Administration went a step farther & enacted the Emergency Altered Act in conjunction with congress. These were a set of laws that implemented restrictive measures to altered humans such as a national curfew, banning the use of powers in public, making it illegal to be at certain locations such as schools & banning them from certain occupations/professions including law enforcement, the legal field, medical field & educational/teaching field. These led to protests erupting around the country from minority communities who felt these new laws would be used to enact racist practices against people of color who weren't even altered humans. Floyd Banker an empath was another altered human who was living in San Francisco, and working with Rita Salzaras, the sister of Hector Salzaras head of the Salzaras Cartel. As a result he was flush with drugs to sell including marijuana, cocaine & prescription pills. Aside from his illegal ventures with the Salzaras he ran a marketing & media company called PlugRich Media. As a consequence of his power he'd picked up horrific precognitive dreams from a semi consistent sexual fling he'd had with a girl named Luna who was plagued with future visions of death & other horrific events.

The most alarming set of visions he had was of modern civilization itself being wiped out in a series of violent explosions a year after the Energy Storm in February of 2019. The only clues he'd acquired from the vision was that it had something to do with something called Operation KIVA. While watching the news with Rita Salzaras, he learned CyberCorp a billionare tech conglomerate & main rival to the Forrester Corporation was planning to unveil Project KIVA to the public in a matter of months or sooner. Aside from the nightmarish visions he was primarily using his powers to help his criminal & legal business endevours as well as play harsh pranks on people he didn't like. He ended up going out for drinks with one of his friends Darius at TAP/Taste of Paradise, a joint strip club & bar. Whilst there they became aware of the Forrester Administration's new measures including the blood tests & Emergency Altered Act. His evening was interrupted by a confrontation with Lionel, a powerful gang leader who'd gained the power to cover his skin in organic metal coating. With his powers him & his gang had began extorting several legitimate business's in San Francisco & Oakland for protection from them & other criminal groups including those working with altered as well.

Floyd used his own power to emulate Lionel's power & fought him to a stale-mate, but ultimately Lionel was stronger then him with his own innate powers. Thanks to some quick thinking and help from Darius he managed to escape TAP after a brutal showdown in the club, From there he sought out Rita who was irate that he came straight to her residence after the battle, but ultimately decided he'd have to get a better grasp on his powers to survive another encounter with Lionel & went as far as to suggest they kill him before he takes their lives. Alexis made headway on tracking down her sister Angel and went to a local populated FEMA Camp where t was rumored that Angel resided. Marcus the killer Liberty agent also made his way to the same camp in search for Angel as she was on his list to be terminated.

Another altered named Jason Koravil also mulled about in the city of San Francisco, using his powers to read the minds of others & weed out racists & other undesirable people. With his alternate split personality Justice he used his powers to trigger accidents to harm, maim & kill others he felt didn't belong in civilized society. Aside from his judgement killings Jason Koravil was a therapist with his own practice who started & managed a secret altered support group with help from his girlfriend Saiyu whom had the power to control emotions. He sought to use the support group as a means to locate & recruit altered humans to an organized resistance against government oppression of their kind. To this end he also went to the FEMA Camp Amalia, Alexis & Marcus went too. He visited 2-3 times a week to deliver supplies & to use his mental powers to find altered to join him just like he did with the support group. THere he ran into Marcus who made a public showcase of his abilities to get the attention of everyone in the camp to accelerate his search for Angel, whilst at the same time he decided to quit Liberty after the passing of Forrester's emergency act. He decided to finish wiping out the altered human criminals on the list Liberty gave him, but added President David Forrester to that list as well having contempt for him after the passing of his discriminatory emergency altered act.

Another altered & ex military veteran named Karagoz also a resident of San Francisco was infuriated by the new anti altered laws passed by the Government. He used his powers to violently murder members of the national guard deployed help administer the blood tests, as well as scientists & others working at the center taking on the codename Silver Flame. His super powered murder spree caught the attention of Michelle, a woman with the power to create clones who was waltzing about and happened to run into the blood testing center as Karagoz murdered everyone working there. Anya made a positive impression on Jonah Hanes who was suspisious of her as well as others working for Liberty trying to weed out infiltrators. She presented him Shade's mask but regrettably informed him that SHADE escaped. Still her effectiveness put Jonah's fears about her to rest & raised his trust in her, although his dedication to his wife Amelia & family made him immune to her attempted seductive tactics to reel him in closer.

Jonah told her to focus on hunting Marcus who defected from Liberty & allowed his racism to show as he explained his anger that Marcus had fled & betrayed Liberty. Anya agreed to prioritize hunting down Marcus, but ended up kidnapping & torturing Dr. Scott a scientist working for the US to study the altered human phenomenon. Dr. Scott refused to divulge information leading to her Russian superiors to order her to kill him as she couldn't obtain any worthwhile intel from him. Jason allowed his other personality Justice to take control of him to handle the confrontation with Marcus who proved to have little patience for anyone who didn't have information about Angel. Justice was taking the reigns for Jason's body more & more as of late, as Jason wasn't able to handle being violent to others with his main personality. He used his powers to track down Angel & provide a mental image to Marcus in exchange for posing an inquiry to him about joining forces with his resistance finding Marcus's powers to be a useful asset to his operation.

Next the story brought in Dean Rivers, a black SFPD{{San Francisco Police Department}} Narcotics Officer who was stumped at how drugs were flowing into the country again with the border closed. He worked closely with his partner & fellow officer Lisa in the investigation, with them deducing that altered humans were the cause of this sudden influx of drugs getting into the country with thet closed borders. Another case that had caught & held Dean's attention was a string of missing women, mostly of ethnic backgrounds that seemed to begin occurring shortly after the energy plague began spreading through the country.  After solidifying his alliance with the russian spy Anya Jace decided to take a break from his vigilante activities. He sought to meet up with his girlfriend Nikita who worked at a hair salon ran by her mother in downtown San Francisco. He learned that Lionel had successfully extorted her & fueled with rage he sought to hunt Lionel down as Shade unaware that Lionel also had altered powers.

At the local jail a girl named Lori Martinez was being held with extra security, as she had the power of optic beams. A week prior she was a promising nursing student who attempted use her powers to murder her fiance & the woman she'd found having sex with him in their shared apartment. Liberty had scheduled a transport of her to their secret maximum security prison for altered humans, and the FBI sent an Agent Mayas to conduct a thorough investigation of her before she was picked up. Agent Mayas turned out to be the alias of a murderous altered human with shape-shifter named Adora in disguise. As Mayas she revealed her parents had put up their home as collateral to get Lori released and only because the two people she attempted to kill had survived her laser beams & the Forrester's harsh measures hadn't been in a effect yet when she conducted her vengeful attack fueled by her fiancee's betrayal of her trust.

Adora ended up absorbing Lori's power & life-force, before taking her form. Upon doing that she murdered the guards nearby & elsewhere in the hallway before flying out a self created hole in the roof. Descending in the streets below still in Lori's form she declared war on humanity claiming to be motivated & enraged by the Forrester Administration's new anti altered policies. The main one which she attributed to her anger was that the emergency act declared that altered humans weren't a protected class. During the midst of this chaos, another altered human named Cynthia Ortiz was making her self at home in San Francisco. She was Hector Salzaras lover, and had powers that allowed her to manipulate the memories & minds of others making her a valuable asset as well as being a pro with technology. Her primary assistant Jessica divulged to her that she'd accidentally exposed her being an altered to a man who was dating a woman in the Salzaras Cartel. She also tried to reason with Cynthia to get an Altered ID License rather then one that hid her altered status which she'd easily acquired due to her powers.

This infuriated Cynthia & led to her having Jessica executed. With the chatty secretary dead she contacted Hector to let him know she'd confirmed his suspicion that someone was stealing drugs from them. She resolved to continue her investigation into the matter & uncover who was behind the thefts. Anya working on her own accord set up a meeting with Marcus whom she'd formed a somewhat close personal relationship with during their combined tenure in Liberty. Marcus agreed to meet with her at Botanical Guardian but planned to stay on guard in case she had plans of betraying him to Liberty. Setting aside the information Jason delivered to him about Angel, Marcus left the premise not wanting to run into law enforcement as his scuffle with Jason had no doubt alerted the authorities as both of them had used their powers in the open at the FEMA Camp.

Jace ended up burying money he'd confiscated from a group of violent coke dealers he'd murdered earlier before meeting with Anya in the backyard area of Nikita's mother's salon. His attention was drawn outside where a nine foot mutant monster with sharp claws was on a rampage outside killing civilians and fighting off soldiers & cops called to fight. Donning his SHADE gear he ordered Nikita & her mother to escape while he went outside to fight the creature who put up a fight despite his super strength. As the battle raged on the creature briefly pulled off his mask & almost killed him. Thanks to the timely intervention of the metal bending journalist Sanzhar Jace was able to get his bearings & re-mask himself before re-joining the fight against the monster now with help from Sanzhar.

Meanwhile Adora decided to use one of her most potent acquired abilities of mass control & turned herself into a giant towering at 200 feet. Still in Lori's guise she put her power to use as well as others she stole to go on a violent relentless rampage in downtown San Francsico murdering thousands without a care while shouting about humans being inferior to altered humans. A bystander altered human named Eric King with the power to tamper with time stepped in to play his hand at slowing down Adora's rampage but ultimately proved useless and fled himself to escape her rampage. She made her way to the hospital where Lori's fiancee & cheater were, killing them then demolishing the entire hospital among other structures without mercy. The police & national guard worked together to evacuate people from the area to allow the air force to deploy & take down the giant woman without worrying about civilian casualties in the process.

Michelle used her power to confront Karagoz, trying to lecture him about the consequence of indiscriminately murdering soldiers & thers enforcing the laws against altered. She pleaded with him to stop trying to explain that his actions would only lead to the Government passing more restrictive measures directed at their freedom. Karagoz was unphased using his own powers to threaten Michelle, but offering her once chance to flee as she too was altered. Michelle realizing she wasn't getting through to him took that opportunity & retreated feeling her clones were no match for his powerful flames. Marcus passed by Adora's rampage as Lori on his way to Botanical Guardian & added her to the list as well as Forrester viewing her as a monster who would lead to more negative laws being made against Altered. He went to meet Anya downtown, who offered him a place with her Russian employers. Despite betraying Liberty Marcus had only left because of his morals & refusal to support Liberty any longer after Forrester's passing of the Altered Act. He refused to join Anya not wanting to be a traitor to the nation due to his patriotism & military back-ground. He used his powers to flee after denouncing Anya, who was infuriated that Marcus wouldn't join & reported the incident to the Russian FSS.

Rafael was a marijuana dealer & a drunk who resided at his shared apartment with two others including his best friend Dave. As they partook in alcohol & marijuana consumption they felt tremors from Adora's nearby rampage. When police came to the residence o warn them to evacuate, they were at first fearful that they were being raided for dealing drugs. Upon learning the situation the two friends fled the apartment, where outside Rafael was hit by a speeding car trying to escape Adora's rampage dowtown. To his drunken surprise Rafael was unharmed, but this led to Dave outing his friend as an altered. Putting him in the same category as the giant woman murdering people downtown he was consumed with fear of his own friend & fled abandoning him causing Rafael intense sadness.

Another woman Olivia was also in San Francisco for college, and her father Jack the head of the CIA was determined to get her to leave due to all the altered violence taking place in the city. Olivia refused denouncing her father as paranoid & declaring her safety as she was far from Adora's murderous rampage downtown. Meanwhile Jonah had went to the hospital earlier before Adora destroyed it to interrogate the ice manipulating thief Xavier who was kept under heavy sedation. Upon learning he was a drug addict he offered him an injection of his drug of choice for intel about the incident that led to his arrest. THere he learned more about the super strong altered & that the native american Thomas who saved his life had powers as well. Jonah slipped Xavier drugs which he took and overdosed from as Jonah had spiked the dose. He was picked up by one of his altered liberty agents a psycholgist named Karlina who took him back to headquarters. There he ran into Nathan Forrester, who revealed to him that one of their plans had took a turn for the worst. It turned out Jonah & Nathan had fabricated both the story & identity of Reaper, to use him as a means to paint the altered as more dangerous than they were. The problem being that someone had actually taken on Reaper's identity & was releasing messages that encouraged violent rebellion against the US Government whereas the ones they had released had only instructed altered to protest and complain but not actually resort to violent measures.

With Sanzhar's help Jace finally managed to murder the mutant monster using his powers to raise the strength of an RPG missile to finish the beast off. The Military & Police tried to arrest them despite saving lives, forcing them to flee in Jace's jeep. They had to use their powers against the lawmen to escape into the woods. There Jace fled to a nearby second safehouse he had allowing Sanzhar to accompany him for saving his life. Sanzhar trashed his phone's sim card fearing the law identifying him & coming after his family. The two started a friendship & began bonding over their altered status & how it affected their lives & professions, whilst Jace confessed his reasons for being Shade to him.

Jonah ordered his field agent Angela to flee Adora's attack downtown, forcing her to take to the sewers to escape. His secretary and trusted agent Patricia presented evidence that the liberty agent Austin Green was working with the enemy. Jonah went to interrogate him learning Green was working with Adora, the source of her multiple powers & that Green had accidentally helped her get more powers. In a rage Jonah murdered Green & intimidated agents guarding the cells to support his lies that he killed Green in self defense. The U.S Navy & Air-force operated together to launch a joint counter-attack on Adora, involving Sergent Gonzalez from the Navy who had the power of teleportation. Gonzalez used his powers to teleport Adora away from downtown San Francisco to the ocean nearby a war-ship hoping to gun her down. Thanks to Adora's ability to fly this plan failed, and ended with her capsizing the ship slaughtering several soldiers. She flew back to San Francisco, overpowered the jets deployed by the air-force & murdered additional thousands of people before returning to regular size & fleeing the scene.

Floyd ended up visiting Amelia the artistic animator whom he already had a personal & business relationship with. Seeking money outside of what Lionel knew to avoid extortion he sought out her graphic talents to aid him into going into the business of selling doctored altered registration ID's. While there they both uncovered each other's powers leading to further bonding & even sleeping together. Dave, Rafael's roommate who fled from him earlier after witnessing his powers ended up kidnapped by a deranged scientist. The scientist was animal's as a conduit to try to transfer altered powers to caucasian individuals motivated to not let minorities outshine his own race in raw power. 

Cybercorp Headquarters made a demonstration of new robotic warmachine it had developed called the XP9. In light of Adora's tragic attack the CEO Norman Chaplin had taken advantage to secure a joint military/law enforcement contract for his machines overriding President Forrester who was against it due to his family business being their main competitor.