Registered mutant 2099, Chad Channing, is a mild-mannered high school student at Baxter High. He takes his mutant-gene supression pills every morning and his parents couldn't be more proud of him. With the mutant threat neutrailized, the world is a safer place -- crime is down, a Sentinel is on every corner, and life is pretty much perfect. But all that changes when Chad finds a secret basement located under the Baxter Building that houses the living brain of rebel leader Reed Richards.