J3YWrites
In Archetype City, heroes don't rise-they're deployed.
When the age of uncontrolled vigilantes threatens to tear the city apart, billionaire visionary Caleb Vaughn unveils a solution: Eminent Solutions Group, a private firm that recruits, trains, and manages powered individuals with military precision and corporate polish. Its elite strike unit-the Hero Response Division (HRD)-exists to neutralize threats before chaos spreads.
To the public, HRD is safety personified.
To the city's leaders, they are a system that finally works.
But systems have blind spots.
When a new threat emerges-one that does not attack cities, topple buildings, or announce itself-the foundation of Eminent Response begins to crack. Mortis, an Emergent whose very presence turns survival into a diminishing probability, doesn't fight heroes. He outwaits them.
As HRD Alpha Unit faces an enemy immune to force, firepower, and strategy, cracks form within the team itself. A trusted protector becomes distant. A public favorite falters. Signals go unheard. And Caleb Vaughn is forced to confront a truth he buried long ago:
Control may organize power-but it cannot replace humanity.
As Mortis tightens his invisible grip on the city, HRD: Eminent Response becomes a battle not just for Archetype City's survival, but for the soul of what heroism is meant to be in a world ruled by systems, contracts, and fear of the uncontrollable.
Because when death can't be stopped...
...someone has to decide who gets to live with that knowledge.