The world is divided into three groups: those who use their powers for good, those who use their powers for evil, and those who don't have power at all - the Others.

The Academy, an elite training school for, accepts only the best of the best - the best people with the best powers. Living together in teams, the students hone their skills via one on one training and mock battles to prepare them for eventual careers in government and with the Superpower Protection and Monitoring (or SPM) Force, the officers charged with keeping the peace, policing the powers, and making sure the Others stay in the lower levels where they belong.

It's at this training institute that an unlikely, partially unwilling, and frankly quite inept group of boys is thrown together to take on whatever is thrown at them, be that the other students, conspiracy from the top, or even each other.