Samir Nashwari is a high school student living in Wilmington, North Carolina in the summer of 2025. Olivia "Olly" Vasquez is helping her mother raise her two younger brothers in a parched Las Vegas, Nevada. Both of their lives are overturned by dramatic political upheaval in the United States, what becomes a new civil war. Five years later, Samir and Olly are both leaders of Special Operations military units. Samir fights for the Republicans as a Mako, a Navy SEAL-like amphibious commando. Olly fights for the Democrats as a Phantom, a technologically invisible sniper. Having never met before, their fates are intertwined when it's discovered that the founding documents of the Old United States have been stolen from the Democratic capital, Washington, DC. As the two heroes separately strive to unravel the mystery, they interact with their spirited teams to uncover a conspiracy involving not just America, but the entire world as they know it.