Challenger Children

The Challenger Children are a fictional group of Superior children published in Kratos' XD Comix. These characters were meant to represent the imagination of the average child. It consists of 10 Superior children who were part of 20 children who were in an experiment meant to create a substance to allow children to efficiently control their developing superpowers. The experiment went awry, but while it did work, it also had other side effects. The 20 children were given adult/child intelligence, allowing them to talk, fight, and coordinate. The problem: half of the majority became evil. While the evil 10 became the Conquest Children, the other 10 became the Challenger Children meant to protect Kratos from their evil rivals. It has both the cuteness and hilarious childhood charm of Rugrats and the actioness of, well, Marvel and DC comics. But it's main attraction is it's mystery. In every issue, it's been slowly reveiled that the Conquest Children have actually been corrupted by an evil Superior businessman named Dr. Insantino, who has a charasmatic personality and a british accent who had an abusive childhood from a drunk father and an imcompident mother, and adopted the Conquest Children to both give them the childhoods and love he never had, and to use them for evil and terrorism. It would be up to the Challangers to save their mind-warped bretheren from Insantino and give him the most unpleasant time-out of his life.

History

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Members

Turbo Child- A Superior 3-year-old lion cub who is the leader of the CC. He is an excellent fighter and is the only one in the group that is more adult. He has the powers of flight, invulnerability, heat-vision, and super-strength.
Diggs- A Superior 2-year-old mole who loves to play in the dirt and hates baths. When he even touches water, he gets angry and goes crazy. He is a fast digger, and takes his foes by surprise in the ground, and often makes traps in the ground for the bad guys. He has the ability of super-strength, X-ray vision, and has quick digging skills.
Watt Girl- A Superior 3-year-old coruro who is scared of the dark, and always has a night-light on when in the dark. Her favorite place to be is inside power lines where she could race through wires, and she's the one who keeps the power of the CC recharged. She can control electricity, and can travel through power lines.
Aqualicious- A Superior 1-year-old beaver who is a water-loving child and loves to swim. She loves it so much that she has a 9ft pool in her room. She is a skilled swimmer, known for dodging sharks, mines, and other underwater hazards. She has the ability to breath underwater, and can control the water around her.
Brawn Boy- A Superior 3-year-old baboon who doesn't speak, and is very curious. He can be very excited, but sometimes, he can get out of control and cause accidents. His powers include super-strength and super-endurance.
Pablo the Smart- A Superior 2-year-old chimpanzee child genius who is the brains of the team, and is an excellent inventor. He created the high-tech weapons, built all the vehicles, and designed the architecture of the entire CC hideout on his own. He always calls himself the smartest of the team, and he always has to be the one to tell the team about what it means being a baby, including burping, getting potty-trained, and other stuff. He has super-mentality, and he is also a telepath.
Zoomer- A Superior 2-year-old ostrich chick who loves to run and always likes to tease the others, but he does it good enough to not get them crying. He is the quickest, and also the laziest. He spends his time playing video games, reading comics, and eating junk food. But of all his lazy habits, he always gets his exercise. He has the ability of super-speed.
Invisichild- A Superior 2-year-old quoll who is extremely shy and doesn't like violence. She usually hides from danger, but mostly gains the courage to fight with her powers. She has the powers of telekinesis, force-field generation, and invisibility.
Elastro- A Superior 3-year-old vervet monkey who is a bit of a showoff and when fighting crime, he does a lot of amazing stunts that lead to him getting hurt 5% of the time. He is the strategist of the team, and thinks of attack plans and tactics all on his own. He has the ability of elasticity.
Thunderclap- A Superior 2-year-old guenon monkey who is hot-tempered, and constantly rushes into battles without thought and challenges Turbo Child's leadership. He is the only member of the team who uses a weapon, a sword. He doesn't mind too much about violence, and he's been known to cause serious injuries, especially when his powers come into the picture. He has the power to control the weather and the air.

Relationships

Allies

The Stand-Lone Kidz (Formerly the Conquest Children)- They are what the Conquest Children became when he went to a new leaf. They gave themselves new hero names, and gained their own comic book series. They never bothered to join the Challenger Children because of them still having negative qualities and for what they've done in the past. They moved to Zorba City where they made their new hideout in a sea cave which provides big enough spaces to accommodate their baby nature and their superhero needs, with the architecture designed by Brainstorm. The Challenger Children appear in their comics only 50% of the time.
Dr. Sanitaide- A Superior sheep who is responsible for the creation of the Challenger and Conquest Children. He is the creator of Pedokinea, the serum that was meant to allow baby Superiors to accurately control their developing powers, but Dr. Insantino injected a drug into the serum that caused the lab accident that created the super babies. The ones affected by the drug were the Conquest Children, and when Sanitaide discovers that Insantino stole a substance that could make the drug that makes the Conquest Children permanently evil, he got help from the Challenger Children and they took down Insantino and reformed the Conquest Children. Sanitaide now serves as a fatherly figure to the Challenger Children. His powers include super-mentality and electrical manipulation.
Katren Kittrina- A 25-year-old bobcat who was born with a rare condition that kept her from growing, leaving her to stay the rest of her life looking like a kitten. She is the sister of Bad Kitten who has been trying her best to help him with little success. She eventually helps the Challenger Children and The Stand-Lone Kidz battle her brother and defeat him. She has since earned the affection of the 20 kids with her determined, calm, and sassy personality, and her striking body (Which is pretty hot for baby standards). While she's trapped in a kitten's body, she and her body are still matured. Her powers include super-strength, super-agility, wallcrawling, teleportation, telekinesis, and invisibility.
Victorians (Rarely)- The Challenger Children first met the Victorians when they were dragged into their battle with Ursina, who had tried to trick them into fighting the Victorians with her knack of holographic illusions as a minor favor from Dr. Insantino. Since they defeated her, the two teams became great allies.
Titaneers (Fictional versions)- The Challenger Children have little knowledge of the Titaneers, or where they live. All they know is that they're well-praised heroes who hide in complete secrecy after Grinchgrog Carnavan framed them for a crime they didn't commit. They don't meet the Titaneers until one issue where they accidentally bump into each other while battling their enemy Master Hecatomb, whom they honorably help them defeat.

Enemies

Conquest Children (Formerly)- The Conquest Children were in the same labs that created the Challenger Children. Because of Dr. Insantino injecting a drug that affects the part of the brain responsible for aggression and evil, the Pedokinea serum reacted violently to it, which exploded when the substance was injected in the babies. The Conquest Children were the ones affected by the drug, and they were adopted by Insantino to not only give him the love he longed for since he was a child, but to commit acts of evil.
Dr. Insantino- A Superior bald uakari who has a British accent, a charismatic personality, and a tragic backstory. His parents were abusive to him, and he moved onto being part of the science lab and got signed up to be part of Project: Child's Play, which would introduce the Pedokinea serum. But he was kicked out when he was discovered to have created a drug that was too dangerous to be added to the serum, to which he assured would double the payload. The scientists had no idea what the drug would do, but Insantino knew that because of this, they wouldn't be aware of what would happen when he secretly added the drug into the serum when it was being tested on the 20 babies. The reaction caused an explosion, and it created the Challenger and Conquest Children. He captured the Conquest Children during a battle with their hero brethren, and adopted them to give him the love that he never had as a child, and to commit acts of evil on Kratos. It isn't until he tries to steal a substance from the labs that would make his evil drug permanent that he was discovered and stopped, leaving the Conquest Children reformed. Since then, Insantino swore revenge. His powers include super-agility, super-endurance, telekinesis, and omnilingualism.
Bogeymenace- A Superior black panther who started out to be an entertainer for Mimzy World, the same theme park where the Challenger Children battled the Trickery Twins. When their battle caused damage to his attraction, he was fired for not being able to pay back the damages, and he swore revenge on the Challenger Children ever since. He was then told the location of their hideout by Insantino, and immediately injected himself with new superpowers and put up a terrifying fight with them. Their final battle ended up in Mimzy World, where they were able to defeat him and send him to jail. His powers include super-agility, super-endurance, self-detonation, invisibility, ghosting powers, intangibility, and memory manipulation.
Pacifier- A Superior 16-year-old Pacific loon who once worked in the same lab that created the Challenger Children. 16 years ago, she was originally a scientist who made a device called a Youth Probe that was meant to do the job that the Pedokinea would do years later. But she was actually creating it to turn all the scientists into 6-year-olds so she can enslave them into helping her take over the corporation, then all of Kratos. Once the conspiracy was discovered, Grotch fought her for the Probe, and when she tried to use it against him, it malfunctioned and turned her into a newborn chick, whereas Grotch thought she was dead. Since then, she waited 16 years to get revenge, gained an internship in the same lab with no one recognizing her, and managed to re-create the Probe, giving it a new design, and disguised it's true purpose by designing it to make things younger and fresher, calling it the Refresher. When her plan was ready, she turned the entire lab into babies. She turned the Challenger Children into adults, and because they were not used to having grown-up bodies yet, they lost their comfortable fighting skills. It isn't until they get help from the Stand-Lone Kidz that they are able to return to their young ages, and defeat Pacifier, sending her to jail. Her powers include super-agility, teleportation, telekinesis, and force-field generation.
Youthenasia- A Superior aardwolf who was known for being sentenced to death for child slavery until he escaped before the sentence could be carried out. He aimed to get revenge on the child who ratted on him, and that child was the mother of Turbo Child and Dura Child. He set a trap for the Stand-Lone Kidz and threatened to blow Dura Child's mother up with an exploding slavery collar if they didn't cooperate. They were forbidden to tell anyone, including the Challenger Children. While he hoped that their forced actions would ruin their reputations as heroes, the Challenger Children had already been in on it after hearing it on the news. Unfortunately, they were caught by the collar's alarm system while trying to free the mother, and Youthenasia has them all captured. But they manage to escape and fight him, only for Youthenasia to try and kill their mother. Unfortunately, when the Challenger Children removed the collar from the mother, they had it sabotaged, rendering the collar unable to be detonated. Angry, he tries to kill her himself, only for him to get a heart attack and die. His powers included super-strength, super-longitivity, super-endurance, super-flight, X-ray vision, and heat vision.
Thaddeus the Toymaker- A Superior Uganda mangabey toy inventor who was well-known by the Stand-Lone Kidz, but not as much as the Challenger Children. But some rumors have went around that he has been committing acts of evil with the toys he makes. Of course, nobody, not even the authorities, believed them. Some have even been sent to insane asylums because of these claims. But the Stand-Lone Kidz, at first not believing these claims, find something off with a crime scene where a kid is blamed for the murder of a babysitter, which they find that the design of the toy he kept didn't match the toy's original design, and comes alive to try and kill the kids. They eventually find out that Toymaker has implanted a special military chip in millions of toys all over Kratos, and has made a satellite to turn all the toys into invading killing machines that overwhelm even the Stand-Lone Kids and the Challenger Children. Toymaker was intending to use these toys to enslave all of Kratos after it attempted to shut down his company for stealing designs from other toys. He had all the agents killed, relocated his company, and plotted to take over Kratos. Fortunately, the Stand-Lone Kidz and Challenger Children are able to shut down his toy machines, confront TT, and send him to jail. However, he escapes several times, plotting more schemes, making more menacing toy machines, and even got his hands on a reality-manipulating energy to turn Kratos into a dystopian world where he was never stopped, and he rules with his stronger and unstoppable toy army. He has entire armies of toys, his main ones being Sentinel-like toy soldiers called Sentries, which come in multiple versions. His powers include super-strength, super-mentality, telekinesis, merging, psychometry, and heat vision.
Bad Kitten- A Superior 30-year-old bobcat who was born with a condition that kept him from maturing, remaining the appearance of a bobcat kitten until the day he dies. Because of this, he has been bullied for it, and his oppression lead to him becoming a supervillain who studied gymnastics and martial arts. He has proven to be one of the skilled and toughest villains the Challenger Children and the Stand-Lone Kidz have ever faced. When he first appeared, he gained control of Sanitary Techs and re-created the Pedokinea serum, turning both the Challenger Children and the Stand-Lone Kidz back into their normal baby selves. He stole all the machinery in their hideouts and used them to create his own robotic suit to make him bigger and he planned to make all of Kratos' inhabitants his size and allow him to dominate them. Luckily, his kind-hearted sister, Katren Kittrina, who has the same condition her brother does, is able to bring the 20 heroes back, and help them stop BK. She has since become the object of the 20 kids' affection. Bad Kitten still appears and devises more evil plans for the 2 teams to defeat, especially with Katren's help. His powers include super-strength, super-agility, wallcrawling, teleportation, telekinesis, and invisibility.