Sometimes, when the seas rise, the ground quakes, the air burns, and fire falls from the sky, everyday heroes rise to save the world. Astrophysicists said the rogue asteroid would miss Earth by the narrowest of margins. They couldn't destroy it; any attempt would break it into hundreds of state-sized chunks rocketing toward Earth. People around the globe waited to see if they were right, preparing for meteor storms, record tides, or catastrophic weather. Some people hid in bunkers. Others knelt in places of worship for marathon prayer sessions. On the roof of a small hospital's roof in Central New Jersey, a group of friends met to watch the pretty lights from the tallest building in town. None of them were ready for an orbital bombardment targeting any building larger than a few stories, inflicting severe anemia on all but a handful of people in the world, but giving that handful, including a group of friends on a small hospital’s roof, the power to save the world. *** What to Expect: Ensemble cast; every hero on the team gets some POV time, each with their own 'voice'.Catastrophes both large and small.Occasional (possibly frequent) gallows humor, the type First Responders are prone to.Everyday Heroes getting Super Powers, and not always ones that mesh well with their Everyday Hero Vocations.