Plot
This is a broad overview of the plot. Certain decisions made by the player will alter details of specific events.
Superhero Robert Robertson III / Mecha Man attempts to locate his father's killer, the supervillain Elliot Connors / Shroud, but is lured into a trap by Shroud's gang, the Red Ring. Robert narrowly escapes, only to realize a bomb was placed on his mech suit. He survives, but the suit is heavily damaged and put out of commission. After announcing his retirement to the press and failing to stop a robbery on his own, Robert is approached by the superhero Mandy / Blonde Blazer, who proposes he works at the Torrance branch of the Superhero Dispatch Network (SDN) as a dispatcher in exchange for help repairing his suit. Having heavily indebted himself trying to maintain it, Robert accepts.
On his first day, he encounters his old friend Chase / Track Star, a retired speedster hero who, due to a side effect of his powers, appears 80-years-old at 39. Robert is then assigned to the Z-Team, a group of supervillains that SDN is working to reform via their Phoenix Program. However, its members do not take him seriously. He later gets into an argument with one of the Z-Team's members, Courtney / Invisigal, after she disobeys a direct order and allows a supervillain to escape. Blazer tasks Robert with cutting one of the Z-Team's members, Sonar or Coupé, to "send a message" and replace them with either SDN janitor Waterboy or Phenomaman, a former top hero and Blazer's ex-boyfriend. Sometime later, Robert grows closer to either Blazer or Invisigal and builds a rapport with the Z-Team.
Meanwhile, Robert rebuilds the Mecha Man suit with help from SDN technical specialist Royd, but fails to replicate its missing power source, the Astral Pulse. Invisigal and Royd eventually locate it, but she and Blazer disagree over how to retrieve it. Chase berates Invisigal for her criminal past, causing her to leave in an attempt to retrieve the Astral Pulse alone. With Robert's assistance, she evades the Red Ring and reaches the Astral Pulse, but is intercepted by Shroud, who seemingly steals it and incapacitates her. Chase uses his speed to rescue her before collapsing.
With Chase hospitalized, the majority of the Z-Team votes to cut Invisigal. She later admits to Robert that she was the one who planted the bomb, having previously worked for Shroud and the Red Ring before joining the Phoenix Program. Robert is later captured by Shroud and the cut Z-Team member. Shroud reveals Invisigal hid the Astral Pulse from both of them and tortures Robert in a failed attempt at locating it. Blazer rescues Robert, but the Red Ring launches an assault on Los Angeles.
As the Z-Team and SDN fight back, Shroud leads a Red Ring detachment in attacking SDN's Torrance call center. Royd captures Invisigal and retrieves the Astral Pulse, allowing Robert to join the fight as Mecha Man while Blazer gives her amulet, the source of her powers, to Chase to revive him and help them further. Robert, Chase, Blazer, and the Z-Team defeat the Red Ring, but Shroud takes Robert's dog Beef hostage, forcing Robert to surrender.
If the player decided to trust Invisigal throughout the series despite her actions, she will take a bullet for Robert, who beats Shroud into submission before either killing or sparing him. Invisigal is subsequently welcomed back into the Z-Team. If Robert killed Shroud, he is suspended pending an investigation, though Blazer and Chase do not hold it against him. If the player did not trust Invisigal however, she will kill Shroud, take his mask, and abandon Robert and the Z-Team.
Regardless of the choices made, the Red Ring is defeated and arrested, the cut Z-Team member is either forgiven or sent to prison, and the Z-Team is hailed as heroes while the Torrance branch undergoes repairs.
