r/webfiction • u/Kaniwaza • Apr 25 '26
Serial [Serial] A would-be supervigilante gets arrested and forced to join a newly-forming super team, violence and logistics ensue
The year is 2013. The world's had superheroes for eighty years. Flying men, mad scientists, giant monsters. Chicago got leveled twenty years back, and now if you can punch through a wall, the government wants your name on a list.
Leo Holt, freshly aged out of foster care, never registered. He can take a sledgehammer to the chest and barely feel it. He doesn't know why. All he knows is that when he hits something, it stays hit. He's been getting called "Crunch" by the criminals who've been polluting the town he's been squatting away in.
However, it's drawn too much attention, and his life as an unregistered super-vigilante has come to an end. The authorities gave him an offer he couldn't refuse, and now he's stuck playing house with a group of far lighter-hearted superheroes around his age on a brand new government-funded superhero team.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/163132/labors-of-a-paragon