
by mulberry57
Every Outlier has a choice Accept the oversight of the Agency, surrender their identities to the registry and their bodies to the microchips designed to restrain their mysterious powers. Their only chance at a normality, but it is a life allowed to continue only at the Agency's whims. One tainted by a looming dread, that the Agency might come for them anyway. A punishment suffered for the crime of existence. The alternative? The Underground. A ghost of a city built beneath Haven, itself a metropolis born from the skeleton of the past. But it is no simple paradise. It is a land of survivors, where the cost of freedom is the ever present threat of death and the guaranteed of hardship. Since their inception, the Crews have protected the Underground. A force of Outliers trained in the use of their talents, they fiercely guard the secrets of the Underground’s existence and rescue their brethren in Haven from their hunters. When the Agency commences an operation that threatens every Outlier in both Haven and the Underground, the Crews finds themselves in the centre of an unimaginable conspiracy. One with roots that extend hundreds of years into the past, back to the formation of both the Agency and the Underground.
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