The government has dispatched Amanda McKee, the technopath codenamed Livewire, to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value, were hidden at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada's strengths and weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure - a young girl who can talk to birds, A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow. To others, these are disappointments. To Livewire, they are secret weapons in need of a leader.