Sit down because some not that complicated stuff is gonna hit you like a train.
There is an alien planet which holds a race of snake people. The basic ruler of this planet is the Prophet. One Prophet decided to send a radioactive element down to earth (by random selection) for jokes and laughs.
She sent it down to the governments with the message basically to have fun. The element was dispersed and we are taken to America where six young children have been basically forced into volunteering to be tested and injected with the chemical.
They are basically mutated and develop powers. Eventually, the world ran out of the element and facilities were shut down. These volunteers went on to have children, and surprise! The powers are genetic.
When a powered individual, later named a mercenary, has a child, the powers leave the parent and begin showing in the child after a traumatic experience. Sometimes the power is exactly like the parent’s, but sometimes it is slightly different. The gene has been named the self preservation gene.
Task Force Six takes place a couple generations afterwards. The world has basically forgotten about the while ordeal, but the governments monitor the powered individuals closely and try to keep them hidden.
There is a cult that has tried to get the same results as the element without the element itself, which ran out long ago. The results were less than perfect, resulting in mutilated bodies and no powers to be seen. These cult members who were mutated decide to use these mutations to their advantage and form ANARCHY, the group which is the main antagonist of Task Force Six.
Fast forward to after the apocalypse, when Immortal takes place. The Prophet who sent the element down also came up with a prophecy basically glueing humanity to earth for all eternity.
Mercenaries make up over half the population, all of them with powers. They use these powers to complete jobs for money. The Prophet is bored with Earth and sends her best Deity to spice things up and try to destroy earth. She doesn’t tell this Deity that what she asks is impossible. That is the plot of Immortal.
Thank you for reading, sorry it was kinda long.