Sometimes, there are things in life we cannot always explain. Ligaya, Milo, Amber, and Jesse have been friends their whole lives. Being founded on the basis that they all have two things in common; having superpowers and having no clue where they came from. With tensions rising in the friend group and threats emerging, Ligaya decides to take her friends on a summer roadtrip of a lifetime. Along the way, they learn about their history and their world, but most importantly, about themselves.
CONTENT WARNING: This story contains strong language, brief scenes of drug and alcohol usage, and mild violence. It deals with themes of mental illness, grief, trauma, human trafficking, gang activity, child abuse, and corruption. Read at your own risk.
My name is Des.
And I'm one of the most dangerous people on the planet.
I can save the world.
Or destroy it.
And the problem is, I don't know if it's my choice.
Destine Whiston (Des) is your average teen. She hates reading and homework and loves to play board games with her little sister and her adopted father, Andy, and go out for ice cream. But until one special morning ... she is no longer normal anymore.
Des finds out she is an ataxia, a person with abnormal superhuman abilities. She is thrust into a world of superpowers where she has to stay hidden away from the outside world and a corrupt government that wants her dead. She is torn away from her home and into a new world that she is barely beginning to process.
And just when she is getting used to her new normal ... she is told she is far from normal. She is the most powerful being who ever lived, and her purpose is to destroy the world.