He draws two throwing knives from his belt, one in each hand and adjusts his stance. It feels eerily predatorial, but Tommy ignores the familiar tingle at the back of his neck and focuses on the targets in front of him. “Again,” his mentor snaps, arms crossed and eyes tracking his every move. Tommy wanted to be one of them, so now he must do the same. All the heroes in the League went through the same thing, survived it and came out the other side on top. Some part of Tommy recognizes the dehumanization of it all, but he never expected to get this far in the first place so he doesn’t dwell on it. He’ll be surprised if that many make it to the end of the month. Eight of his classmates are already gone. Since it’s fifty-fifty he’ll get through the next two weeks, he hasn’t been given an official name yet, instead addressed by his number out of the original twenty. He’s already survived the first two weeks of intensive training-mornings in classes on each hero, villain and criminal gang of L’Manberg, past and present, and every regulation put in place by the Heroes Committee afternoons in training rooms with mentors, learning to wield weapons and harness powers evenings in interrogation rooms, broken down again and again until almost anything can be withstood nights in a stiff bed with no more than a thin sheet to keep warm, the number of empty beds in the dorm ticking up as recruits drop out of the program (he tries not to wonder how many of them were by choice). The first time Tommy meets The Syndicate, he’s a new recruit, still in the probationary period of his hero apprenticeship.

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