Running a team of crime-fighting superheroes is a complicated business, especially when your mum's not allowed to know that you're doing it. But Murph Cooper is making it work - he's a schoolkid by day and a member of the top-secret Heroes' Alliance by night. Not that anyone at The School seems to care. Most of Murph's teachers and classmates still believe that unless you have a proper superpower you can't be a real hero. But his achievements have caught the attention of at least one person. Far away in a maximum security prison, the world's most notorious supervillain, Magpie, has just broken a 30-year silence. Magpie's special power is draining heroes of their capabilities and taking them for his own. And his first words are, 'Bring Kid Normal to me'.