Twenty years ago, five year old Gina Garcia was taken from a city orphanage by scientists and given a cocktail of experimental drugs. Instead of achieving the desired result, Gina got very sick. Wanting to wash their hands of the whole ordeal, the scientists drive Gina upstate and leave her at a surrender site in front of a hospital.
She has a rough upbringing, only knowing snippets of what happened to her, but the memories of those medical tests are burned in her brain. Things get weird when Gina hits puberty and suddenly discovers that she has developed superpowers. She has the ability to disappear for a period of time (though it drains her) as well as force the scariest thoughts to manifest themselves in any person she touches skin to skin. Confused, Gina cannot wait for the day to head back to Zenith and find out who tested her and why they did it.
Meanwhile, in Zenith the bottom 99% of the population have rallied against billionaire Mayor Charles Frye's plan to tear down the working class Founder's Square neighborhood and put up high priced condos. The movement has struck a larger chord though – the have-nots are sick of the haves – and the city is a powder keg ready to explode.
Then a match blows into town.
Gina Garcia's arrival doesn't cause a blip on the radar, but her alter-ego “Adelita” makes major waves. While her ultimate goal is to find out who was responsible for experimenting on her, her brash actions and amazing powers begin to draw the interest of everyone in Zenith. First and foremost is the growing political movement soon to be known as “The Terror”. The 99% are protesting the corruption stemming from City Hall but the rabble need a figurehead. In Adelita, they see someone who can take the protest to the next level.
Adelita has also caught the attention of the 1% - specifically Mayor Frye. He has enemies all around him – some seen and some not – but none have the power to derail his plans faster than this folk hero. Especially if she finds out Frye is directly connected to her experiment. In response, he leans on his team to use the serum that gave Gina her powers and create an “ally for the cause”. The new “superman” is tasked with keeping the status quo and stopping Adelita from whipping up public support. Frye needs to win back the community and what better way than creating the ultimate force for good. Sure, he has ulterior motives but it doesn't matter how the job gets done, only that it gets done.
What follows is the battle for the hearts and minds of the people of Zenith, the fight between Adelita and her new super-foe and Gina's quest to discover who wronged her and her plan to destroy them.
She has a rough upbringing, only knowing snippets of what happened to her, but the memories of those medical tests are burned in her brain. Things get weird when Gina hits puberty and suddenly discovers that she has developed superpowers. She has the ability to disappear for a period of time (though it drains her) as well as force the scariest thoughts to manifest themselves in any person she touches skin to skin. Confused, Gina cannot wait for the day to head back to Zenith and find out who tested her and why they did it.
Meanwhile, in Zenith the bottom 99% of the population have rallied against billionaire Mayor Charles Frye's plan to tear down the working class Founder's Square neighborhood and put up high priced condos. The movement has struck a larger chord though – the have-nots are sick of the haves – and the city is a powder keg ready to explode.
Then a match blows into town.
Gina Garcia's arrival doesn't cause a blip on the radar, but her alter-ego “Adelita” makes major waves. While her ultimate goal is to find out who was responsible for experimenting on her, her brash actions and amazing powers begin to draw the interest of everyone in Zenith. First and foremost is the growing political movement soon to be known as “The Terror”. The 99% are protesting the corruption stemming from City Hall but the rabble need a figurehead. In Adelita, they see someone who can take the protest to the next level.
Adelita has also caught the attention of the 1% - specifically Mayor Frye. He has enemies all around him – some seen and some not – but none have the power to derail his plans faster than this folk hero. Especially if she finds out Frye is directly connected to her experiment. In response, he leans on his team to use the serum that gave Gina her powers and create an “ally for the cause”. The new “superman” is tasked with keeping the status quo and stopping Adelita from whipping up public support. Frye needs to win back the community and what better way than creating the ultimate force for good. Sure, he has ulterior motives but it doesn't matter how the job gets done, only that it gets done.
What follows is the battle for the hearts and minds of the people of Zenith, the fight between Adelita and her new super-foe and Gina's quest to discover who wronged her and her plan to destroy them.
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