Supers are persecuted. Into the woods one and another of them trickle, banding together. Two of these soon acquire new members, including Robin and Charles O'Connell, of the terrible House of Fayblood. The band decides to call themselves the Sea Riders, after their old leader Sea Horse.But the other O'Connells have superpowers too, and they are in no mind to be heros or even live in peaceful hiding. They want to be supervillains. They join a gang of supers and take it over, calling themselves the Dark Riders.All across the barren basalt hills of central Connecticut the war plays out, between the Sea Riders who really just want to let things be and the Dark Riders, who never rest in the ceaseless laboring for evil. And federal agents are snooping....