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You are Ben Hargreeves, and you are no normal sixteen-year-old.
Adopted at birth by an eccentric billionaire, you and your siblings have been told all your lives that you're extraordinary. (Between your robot mother and chimpanzee butler and gruesome stomach tentacles, you can't exactly disagree.) You were raised for a higher purpose, one that matters more than your own happiness: to save the world.
Your earliest memories are of martial arts drills, electrodes taped to your chest, laps around the courtyard until you passed out in the hot sun. Before you learned to read, you were taught how to kill. And twice a week, you and your siblings head out the door to fight crime, wondering each time if you'll come back alive.
But on the other hand, you get to be a superhero. Isn't that what every teenager dreams of?
It's all in a day's work at...
