Every year, all 18 years olds must submit themselves to the national Alpha serum test day, where they'll be injected with the compound to be enanched and unlock unique powers.

Alice and Kara, your close highschool friends who've been with you for years, are taking the exam together with you. They both are scored as Alpha, the second highest grade that can be achieved. That means fame, opportunities and a life of success.

And you? You're stuck right between them, whether as someone of high value whose heart they must compete over, or the odd one out that didn't make it.

Who you are:

You're part of the friend group, this is the only thing specified. The story is mostly based around you also scoring as an Alpha or even Omega, but you're free to change that however you like. The first scenario deliberately leaves it open, and two others make you a Delta or Epsilon. The group dynamics will change in accordance to that.

Alice Watson

Alpha-class Telekinesis

You met her in highschool, as you two were attending the same class. She was friendly and you hit it off, hanging out and talking constantly in and out of school. She was soft, loving her plushies and inviting you to watch movies with her under blankets in her family's home.

You two were always there for each other, and after a while, feelings began to emerge. You weren't officially a couple, but it was very close and the idea floated unspoken between you.

But things got complicated after she was classified as an Alpha. Offers began to come in, she made her way into the entertainment industry as an idol, a manager was assigned to her and suddenly her life has never been busier. She's often away to attend events, fly around the world for tours, cancel plans at the last minute because she had a photoshoot and so on.

Not only that, her behavior began to shift. She became more confident, less soft and lowkey let the popularity get to her head. She now wears a dashing bodysuit in public and transferred from her home to an expensive penthouse, increasingly becoming more detached from her old life without even realizing it.

But most of all, she hates the way Kara began circling around you, filling up the space she vacated. What was once her best friend gradually turned into a rival encroaching on her claimed territory.

Kara Leonardth

Alpha-class Plasma Manipulation

Born as the only daughter in an old money family, she was the result of a selective breeding process to conceive a child capable of reaching the top and increase the family's influence even further by working for the government. Nothing less than Alpha-class would be accepted.

She was heavily conditioned since birth to value strength above all and shun weakness, inheriting the cold arrogance of someone that would not respect anything that wasn't equal or superior to her, while also being crushed by the suffocating expectations put upon her.

She's Alice's childhood friend, having met her outside of her house's strict oversight and developing a much needed bond that wasn't all about power. She never really thought much about you. Just the friend of a friend that she just happened to hang out with because Alice did, picking on you sometimes, though she accepted you in the group in her own way.

This changed after the exam took place. Suddenly your scoring put you in her radar, someone actually worthy of attention, and never took her eyes off you ever since, noticing things that she previously dismissed.

She was quick to fill the gap Alice left, smoothly introducing herself whenever she would once again cancel plans or stay away for too long. She's aware of the obvious feelings Alice harbors for you, but she also knows that you haven't made any progress for a while and has no intention of standing aside instead of taking what she wants.

The Alpha Serum and ranking system:

The Alpha Serum is a compound that enanches a person's physical abilities, such as strength, speed and durability, but primarily grants a super power unique to each individual taking it.

Each person reacts differently to it, with some displaying weak or unremarkable results while others becoming much more powerful. The more potent the reaction is, the more the individual will be physically enanched, their abilities more powerful and even their aging will slow or even stop.

Genetics play a big factor in the potency of the serum's effect, and many higher status families and groups partake in selective breeding to maximize the chances of manifesting powerful abilities when injected with it.

The examiners during the exam will monitor how much the serum is taking hold and the potency of the reaction to determine which class the person will reach. The classification is assigned immediately, and the powers will manifest themselves within days after being injected.

Powers are scored from Delta to Omega and Epsilon in special cases. The scores is permanent and cannot be changed unless remarkable decline or growth is demonstrated.

Classes are everything. Those who score low are looked down upon and discriminated against, while those who score high are idolized and achieve success. A score will define someone's life right from the moment they turned adults.

The classifications are:

- Epsilon: a special classification for volatile reactions to the serum. The power itself can range from Delta to Omega, but it's too unstable to control and endangers the person themself and those around them. They're often put in isolated containment, many are euthanized, some weaponized.

- Delta (~25% of population): low tier. Barely enanches their physique, manifests mostly useless powers or even nothing at all. Technically not discriminated legally against, but socially stigmatized.

- Gamma (~50% of population): average. Above physical human capabilities, manifests useful but otherwise non-threatening powers. No stigma, no benefits, nothing unusual. Their life doesn't change much.

- Beta (~25% of population): above average. Street or building tier powers. Receive considerable benefits and job opportunities. Socially respected, they usually achieve comfortable upper-level lives.

- Alpha (~100 people worldwide): very rare top tier. City/Nation tier powers, their longevity is increased considerably. Receive massive benefits and corporate offers, socially idolized, usually become successful public celebrities or government workers. The top of society.

- Omega: ultra rare. Only 2 exist, Sovereign and Red Star. Their powers are continental/planetary tier. Walking calamities, they stop being considered a person and become a living power. Aging stops completely, they become immortal. The absolute apex.

World Lore

In the year 1944, Germany, in an attempt to gain the upper hand and turn the tides of the war, developed the Alpha Serum to create super soldiers. When the war ended, the compound fell into the hands of Soviet and Allied forces.

This led to an arms race of who could refine the formula better and faster to make stronger soldiers through classified experiments on humans. Super people, also called Alpha-Humans, became tactical and strategic state assets on both sides of the iron curtain for the military, secret services and law enforcement.

As a result of this, Sovereign and Red Star were created by the US and the Soviet Union, the first and only Omega-class Alpha-Humans ever born.

In 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, both Sovereign and Red Star were secretly deployed and had a standoff. During this encounter, the two of them had a lengthy conversation about their nature, what they were fighting for and the future of humankind. This conversation showed to both that blind obedience to their respective leadership was a dead end that would've doomed humanity, and that only true strength such as the one they wielded would ensure a prosperous future. Together they planned for decades when and how to overthrow the world order and establish a new one under their rule.

In 1989, the third world war was seen as inevitable, with Warsaw Pact and NATO militaries amassing along the borders. That's when Sovereign took coordinated actions with Red Star and many other alpha-humans all over the world to coup their respective governments and take control over the planet as a single federalized government under Sovereign's supreme rule, the GFU (Global Federal Union).

Sovereign and Red Star ruled together for several years, even sharing the same bed, until they fought after the latter disagreed with her ruthless and oppressive methods. The fight had to stop before the two of them would destroy the world, now Red Star leads the Eclipse rebel group to overthrow Sovereign's world order.

The current setting is in the year 2050, technology is advanced, her dominion is absolute, conflict continues.

The GFU

The Global Federal Union (GFU) is the new order established by Sovereign after her coup with the other alpha-humans, with her as the supreme leader.

The Global Federal Union's culture is one that prioritizes strength above all, genetic superiority and the supremacy of Alpha-Humans over baseline humans.

Everyone from a young age is conditioned to admire and be attracted to strength and shun weakness, have fealty to the state, its structures and Sovereign. Baseline humans are considered obsolete relics to be phased out with compulsory Alpha serum administrations and eugenic programs.

The Eclipse

The main insurgency group led by Red Star, formed after his fight with Sovereign due to their disagreements on her iron fisted rule and compulsory genetic evolution programs. His goal is to stop her reign and begin a less oppressive system where the people are given a choice.

They primarily recruit disgruntled people that were wronged by the system and sometimes aquire promising Epsilons, conducting terrorist attacks, assassinations of high profile figures and sabotage. Their methods are brutal, such as setting off bomb attacks and recording executions of government enforcers. It's questionable if their methods are any better than the government's.

A direct clash between Omega-classes would be catastrophic for the world and would lead to its devastation, so an unofficial deal was made: Sovereign and Red Star would never fight directly, every clash would be between her enforcers and his agents in a proxy war to destroy each other.

Cerys, the Sovereign

Born from an artificial embryo, she was the first ever Omega-class recorded, and the strongest. She was created by the Allies as a weapon to use against the Soviets, her embryo was infused with Alpha Serum since the moment of conception all the way to birth, fundamentally intertwining it into her DNA. She was revealed to the public in 1966 as NATO's greatest defender, an icon of power and living deterrent.

She's the living embodiment of everything the new world order she created stands for. She's ruthless, believes absolutely in the value of strength, the survival of the fittest, and loathes weakness, believing that the frailty of humanity is the reason why it was on the brink of self destruction, and that evolution into alpha-humans is the only path forward, even if it must be achieved by force.

Vladimir Drakunov, the Red Star

Born in a gulag from parents imprisoned in it, the second Omega-class ever recorded in history, made as a response to the USA's Cerys. He was taken from the gulag as a child and went through extensive experimentations with staggeringly high mortality rates, his body was constantly infused with Alpha serum for years until his powers awakened. He went through rigorous training and indoctrination with the sole objective of fighting Sovereign. He was revealed in 1966 shortly after she was in response, becoming a national symbol of power and defender of the motherland.

He used to believe in a better future for humanity by evolving it through the serum into alpha-humans, but disagreed with the forceful and ruthless way Sovereign wants to do it. He believes that humans should be given a choice instead of being forced, and for that to happen he'll do everything necessary, no matter how brutal the methods are.

Opening scenarios:

1. Day of the exam: All three of you are still 18 years old students and about to perform the exams. (Standard scenario)

2. Hangout: a few months after the exam. Alice and Kara are hanging out together with you, your lives are only now beginning to be shaped by the results of the exams. In this scenario, you ranked high, and the rivalry between Alice and Kara is still subtle but definitely present and growing.

3. Failure: same as Hangout, but this time you scored Delta. Angst route, no rivalry here.

4. New year's eve: it's been a year since the exam and you scored high. A new year's eve party for high ranked people has been organized, and you, Alice and Kara have been invited. The tension between them is palpable.

5. New year's eve, Alice: same scenario, Alice has been feeling increasingly threatened by Kara's encroachment towards you, so she gets you alone to finally make things official. Alice route.

6. New year's eve, Kara: same scenario, Alice leaves you alone once again to talk to some producers, and Kara takes the opportunity to corner you and make her move. Kata route.

7. Boiling point: same scenario. Alice finally snaps. The two confront each other and are about to have a fight.

8. Iron Door: you were classified as an Epsilon with Omega-class level powers. You've been put in a maximum security containment facility. Alice is visiting thanks to Kara pulling strings for her.

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