Hero.com is a series of superhero novels by English screenwriter, graphic novelist, and author Andy Briggs.
While surfing the internet, they discover the Hero.com website which features nameless icons in a variety of superhero poses.
[3] This series follows school bully Jake Hunter who discovers he has the ability to download villainous superpowers from the internet, leading to a scheme for world domination.
Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily are just average kids—until they stumble upon a website called "Hero.com" that allows them to download powers that turn them into superheroes.
Now the heroes must band together and use their newly acquired skills—from super-strength to invisibility—to not only rescue their mom, but also doing the typical superhero activities like fighting evil and trying to save the world from total destruction.
Archfiends Basilisk and the Worm have thought of a plan so cunning it will strike fear into the heart of the bravest superhero.
Combining their dastardly skills, they will infect Hero.com with a virus potent enough to cripple it and ultimately end in the destruction of the Hero HQ.
And when Pete is kidnapped and cryogenically frozen by the vile villains, things start going from bad to worse, which can cause their friendships to be torn apart soon.
In the titanic struggle that will follow, friendships will be tested and superhero powers and trusts are strained to the limit as time runs out for the world .
Toby just wants to be a hero and stop the fiendish, schizophrenic cyborg, Nanomite, from turning all life into a synthesized world.
His sister has gone AWOL, his friend is obsessed with correcting his best mate who is a villain and a new, annoying, pair of downloaders are stealing all the limelight.
School bully Jake Hunter receives a mysterious email inviting him to join a scheme for world domination.
And that could just be a step too far ... 'Council of Evil' is the first book in the action packed new anti-series 'VILLAIN.NET' - the perfect antidote to the series 'HERO.COM', also by screenwriter Andy Briggs.
Now he is an extraordinary schoolboy with a dark side, a bad attitude and an addiction to the villainous powers he can download from the website.
With the mightiest of superpowers almost within his grasp, being betrayed by almost every person he knows, Jake Hunter is on the edge of true villainous greatness, defeating most of the Council of Evil with ease.