The Backbenchers
Uche and his six friends(Ja'afar, John, Atani, Victor, Yusuf, and Emmanuel) never planned to change the world. They were just ordinary Nigerian secondary school students—class clowns, last-minute assignment scramblers, the so-called backbenchers. But one late-night accident in the chemistry lab changes everything.
A mysterious case of glowing vials turns their group project into an explosion of destiny, gifting each of them unimaginable powers—gravity, speed, fire, matter, magic, Teleportation, and tech control. What should have been just another reckless mistake becomes the spark that rewrites the fate of humanity.
But powers aren’t free. With their new abilities comes a burden: strange enemies appear out of nowhere, hunting them for the vials they were never meant to touch. A shadowy stranger offers guidance, but he also warns them—the accident didn’t just affect them. It spread across the globe, awakening powers in countless others. Some rise as heroes, others descend into chaos.
Now the boys who were once overlooked as failures must become leaders. As factions form—the Vanguard, the Apex Syndicate, the Ghost Collective—the Backbenchers must train, fight, and survive in a world that blames them for the outbreak.
They didn’t choose to be heroes. They barely even chose to do their homework. But destiny has chosen them, and together, they’ll prove that even the most unlikely outcasts can become the greatest superheroes in history.
And somewhere in the shadows, a greater threat waits—one that could bring the entire world to its knees.
