The year is 1988. Marvel's New Mutants, a team of young multi-ethnic super-heroes, has become quite popular. DC Comics, looking over its mostly-white starring line-up, decides that it was time for an Alternate Company Equivalent, just like the Global Guardians tried to be for the Uncanny X-Men. Thus came the Millennium Crisis Crossover. At the center of the story was a team of twelve special humans from all over the globe, chosen by the Guardians Of The Universe whose offspring would eventually come to replace them. Of course, like usual, the Guardians hadn't done their homework. One of the chosen (Terra), was already dead. Another was senile. Two more were killed by The Manhunters. And one more, Janwillem Kroef, was a racist South Afrikaaner who wanted nothing to do with having to team up