The Super Squad is the premier team of heroes in Super City, the ones people turn to in their darkest hour. And the hero the team turns to has always been captain Awesome. Five years earlier the Super Squad, and Awesome, had their greatest triumph with the final defeat of the Sinister Seven. Afterwards, it faced its greatest crisis, something which might have torn the team apart and has loomed over them like a specter since. Now a new villain has arrived in Super City who knows what happened after the Seven were defeated, knows the secret Awesome has tried to keep, and knows how to pull down the highest of them all.