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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8523332" data-attributes="member: 30538">Kids UnlimitedAn organization established in June of 2021 to provide training and support to young adolescent superpowers, sponsored by the Bethany Ryan Trust. It has its origins in a conversation between the True Believer and Exelion in January of that year. (From Exelion's perspective, it took place in January of 2018.) She was a bit startled to find the elder statesman of the superpower community waiting for her outside her apartment, but agreed to hear him out when he stated that she was his only real peer in the field of mentoring young superheroes. (As True has often wondered whether she is actually getting through to the Minor League, that statement was both startling and immensely satisfying.)The essence of the conversation was that, while the Futurian Academy and the Minor League had both done well in training late adolescent superpowers to take up a socially responsible role, whether as a hero or as a law-abiding citizen, neither group were doing quite as well as they could. This could be demonstrated by the way that half of the Minor League had been offered the opportunity to study at the Academy but turned it down, and by events ranging from the Megawatt episode to the death of Kyoseki to the recent formation of Project Mayhem. What seemed to be needed, they agreed, was a way to start training superpowers at an even younger age, but the Academy could not afford to open a middle school division, and True found it difficult enough to look after the pupils she already had.So what was needed was an organization that they would be able to monitor but would be operated by a group of trustworthy employees. The two of them contacted entrepreneurial adventurer Max Ryan, who happened to be in Philadelphia at the time. (The coincidence made True give Exelion a rather skeptical glance, to which he only smiled serenely.) Intrigued by the possibilities, and hopeful that these young heroes might be helpful in his own long-term quest, Ryan agreed to sponsor and staff the organization, turning to some of his allies in Argus Security to vet its employees. (All three of them realized that this meant that Argus would be slipping a handler for the new group in, and accepted this as necessary.)In the months leading up to the formal establishment of the Bethany Ryan School for Accelerated Studies, set to open in August, a total of seven young superpowers, ranging in age from twelve to fourteen, have been discovered and recruited to attend the facility, located in Columbus, Ohio. Of these, four have been approved for field work, with the others still requiring practice to use their powers in a safe manner. In addition to them, the school will have an additional eighty non-superpower students, including many children and dependents of Argus personnel. (This was added at the insistence of the True Believer, who argued that her greatest problem with the Academy's program was that it failed to adequately educate its students about living in a world where most of the populace does not have superpowers.) Of course, there are still two months before the school doors open, and anything could happen between now and then ...</blockquote>

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