Ghost (Real name: unknown for now)
Role: CEO / Handler / Scientist
Origin: Escaped slavery in England as a child with Lucas. They were trafficked but managed to flee during a port exchange in Boston.
Personality: Calculated, stoic, observant. Often speaks in short, powerful phrases. Loyal but emotionally distant.
Skills: Master strategist, chemistry and biology genius, speaks 5+ languages.
Flaws: Trust issues, insomnia, haunted by guilt for those he couldn't save.
Motivation: To dismantle the systems that feed on vulnerable people, especially children.
Symbol: Wears a silver ring etched with a symbol from the slave ship they escaped.
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2. Lucas
Role: Engineer / Technician / Head of Research
Origin: Escaped with Ghost. Grew up fixing machines on ships and hiding in cargo crates. Built their first device at age 9—a lock jammer.
Personality: Sarcastic, playful but hides deep pain. A creative inventor who turns trash into tech.
Skills: Mechanical genius, explosive expert, builds drones, early hacking.
Flaws: Impulsive, sometimes drinks to forget, doesn't believe in love.
Motivation: Wants to build tech that frees the poor from dependency.
Symbol: Wears custom goggles on his head—made from old glass and copper wire.
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3. Zeke
Role: Head of Security / Trainer / Protection
Origin: Born in the Bronx. Parents were activists who were killed during a protest when he was 8. Raised himself in underground fight clubs.
Personality: Disciplined, quiet strength. Deep moral code. Fights like a warrior-monk.
Skills: Combat (hand-to-hand, weapons), training, parkour.
Flaws: Doesn't talk much. Struggles to forgive. Hates being called a "thug."
Motivation: Protects the team like family. Wants a better world for kids like him.
Symbol: Has a scarred tattoo across his chest—his only memory of his parents.
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4. Liyah
Role: Financial Adviser / Hacker / Accountant
Origin: Daughter of a Nigerian immigrant who was deported unjustly. Grew up in foster care, but always had a knack for math and breaking into systems.
Personality: Sharp-tongued, confident, style-savvy. Has a protective soft side she rarely shows.
Skills: Codebreaker, money laundering, crypto, financial markets.
Flaws: Distrusts authority. Can be reckless with money when emotional.
Motivation: Wants to control wealth to protect the powerless. Seeks justice for her dad.
Symbol: Keeps a torn dollar bill in her wallet—the last gift from her father.
Prologue: The Graveyard of Kings
The rain hit the rusted shells of cars like bullets—steady, cold, unforgiving.
In the heart of a forgotten scrapyard on the edge of the city, where twisted metal and oil-stained dirt formed a kingdom of the discarded, four souls stood around a fire built from broken chair legs and hollow dreams.
The safehouse wasn't much.
An old shipping container. Steel walls lined with scribbled plans, circuit boards, and crude maps of places people had long given up on.
But to them—it was home.
Their war room.
The beginning.
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Ghost, known only by that name, stood with his back to the others.
He stared through a cracked window at the skyline beyond the junk towers.
His breath fogged the glass, and in that fog, he could almost see it—the table.
A long, black, hand-carved table surrounded by shadows in tailored suits.
A table of elites.
Not born from money.
Not gifted by legacy.
Built from the ashes of the street.
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Behind him, Lucas tinkered with a power cell made from an old microwave and stolen defense tech. His fingers worked fast, always needing to move, always chasing the next invention that would prove they belonged in the room no one would ever invite them to.
Zeke sat sharpening a knife with slow, precise strokes. His shoulder was still wrapped in blood-st