After the horrific events of 2013, Joe Stortion founds the Gifted Academy to prepare Gifted, and Yaro for the inevitable coming war against the devilish armies of The Red Hand. The year is now 2020, and Neil Bismuth has enlisted in the Academy. Rose Green, a Gifted, remains on Earth, willingly fulfilling her destiny. All the while, Cooper Gillian protects his colony on New Selamthia, preparing for a prophecy forebode by the dissolution of Jupiter's storm. The universe will never be the same.