Who are the Wunderkind?

Hard headed teens, meet the time stream.

This is most definitely not your run of the mill time travelers story. Got that? Okay, here we go. WUNDERKIND is our foray into a Manga-leaning teenage and young adult adventurism. The story unfolds 50 years into the future, to a climatically depleted Technocratic Earth that is stuck between renaissance and dystopia, depending on your location, social status, age, race and the size of your digital wallet. in 2075 America is fully recognized the world over as a diminished corporate entity. A faded influence, but overflowing with futurism and technology, which at this point in time is accepted as an extension of God. The logic extends from the idea that man created tech, and man is an extension of God.

Enter the Wunderkind, a group of modern hippiesque teens. Exceptional kids who roam the city on sentient Uni-Bikes, do not adhere to societal rules and their modern concept of God doesn’t have microchips. They’ve rejected the digital grid and so and they spend their days seeking any remnant of the Holy Grid, which is believed to be defunct after the age of Ultra-ism. A nearly expunged moment in history where certain humans could tap into the planet’s very aura and empower themselves. That’s where these kids run into a live remnant pocket of the Holy Grid beneath a dormant freight train tunnel on the West Side of Manhattan that could move them through time itself, but no further back than the 20th Century, which they subject to a series of “minor” tweaks.

Needless to say, if you take extremely idealistic teens who are at an impasse with their world and grant them the ability to play with the past, things are going to get more than fraught. Especially when they discover that they aren’t the only ones tweaking the timeline.