On the run from K.G.B. operatives, rogue C.I.A. agent Emmett Proudhawk is taking his young charge, Anastasia 'Stasi' Inyushin, to a boat waiting just off the docks of a Mendocino, California harbor. Under the docks, however, Emmett collapses from various wounds inflicted during his flight with Anastasia from the Siberian Project, a secret Soviet facility designed to study paranormal powers.

Using her own unique capabilities, Anastasia heals Emmett enough to get him moving again, though before they can get very far, the K.G.B. manages to catch up to them at last. Led by one Sergei Vladimiroff, the K.G.B. goons cornered Proudhawk and the girl right before they arrived at their destination, and Emmett is forced to use his special telepathic powers to save them both!

However, in his weakened state, Emmett's powers failed him. Luckily for Emmett and the girl, though, two other youngsters in Emmett's care were nearby, and (after eventually realizing what was going on), Tyrone Jessup and Kathy Ling unleashed their own special talents upon the foreign operatives, the end result being their being scattered about when the dock below them exploded!

As the four psionically gifted paranormals made their way to Emmett's current base of operations, the so-called Sanctuary (a home for runaway teens), Anastasia couldn't help but slip into her memories, and relive the chain of events that led up to that moment. How when she was a little girl, she had a way with plants, her life-granting energies being present even back then.

This naturally made the little Russian girl a target for the K.G.B.'s plots should they learn of Anastasia's abilities, so her parents smuggled her out of the Soviet Union, and left her in the care of her aunt and uncle, who lived in Kansas. However, they died in a freak accident some time later, and through diplomatic means, Sergei Vladimiroff managed to get Anastasia sent back to the U.S.S.R.

Of course, Anastasia's powers didn't become... quite so apparent... until after the White Event, at which point she became a full-blown healer, and of significant interest to the Siberian Project, a Cold War facility set up by the Russians to study and control paranormal abilities. Before they could learn too much, though, Emmett Proudhawk showed up to free her from the Project soon thereafter.

Noticing Anastasia's forlorn quiet, Emmett apologized for getting Stasi into this mess, since the Russians must have learned of her abilities due to a list he'd maintained while working for the C.I.A. You see, Emmett was charged with the job of being a sort of anti-Siberian Project, working to locate any instances of paranormal oddities in the American populace, and Stasi was one person he'd observed.

However, his list of humans with an exceptionally high E.S.P. quotient was leaked by a C.I.A. sellout, and shortly after the White Event, a bizarre astronomical occurrence that coincided with an extreme enhancement of his own 'persuasiveness', these people started disappearing. People like Stasi, who was nabbed by the K.G.B., and several others - some of which Emmett found dead.

Feeling responsible for the mess these kids were in (all of the people on Emmett's list were folks who took E.S.P. tests in high school), Emmett left the Agency to round them up before they could be found and killed by whoever had possession of his list. Emmett indeed rounded up four others besides Stasi, who he hid at the Sanctuary in San Francisco until he had them all safe.

Finishing his tale just as the four paranormals arrived at Sanctuary, Emmett took Stasi inside to meet the others, including Michael Crawley, who could detonate things with his psychokinetic power, and Wayne Tucker, a telepath with powers like Emmett's, only more powerful. Once they had all been introduced, Emmett decided to tell them why he collected them all together - because of a vision he'd had.

It was a dream about five rabbits who, alone, were no match for the wolves who hunted them. While a hawk protected these rabbits, it was eventually slain by the wolves, and the rabbits could only save themselves by gathering together, the sum of their individual essences merging to form a second, vastly more powerful hawk that drove the wolves off. This wasn't received too well by the kids.

At all. They pretty much threw a fit, though they did agree to 'sleep on it' at Emmett's suggestion. All except for Stasi, however, who felt her presence was endangering the rest of the group. Once everybody else went to sleep, she cut out to turn herself in to Vladimiroff, offering to do so once she got ahold of him on the telephone. Vladimiroff wasn't alone, however; he had Siberian Project company.

This company, taking the form of the so-called Mindwolf, then hatched a plan to collect all five of Proudhawk's teenage charges, since he was never able to locate the others in the past. Journeying to meet Stasi at the phone booth she called him from, Vladimiroff and Mindwolf found Stasi just as Proudhawk and the other teens he'd gathered did so, which led to a battle between Mindwolf and Emmett.

The Mindwolf proved more powerful than Emmett, however, due to the extreme punishment he went through to save Stasi from the Project in the first place, and Mindwolf's psionic power eventually killed the man. The teens then rallied to fight off the Soviets, but alone their powers weren't enough to take down the Russian psi - even if the foreign intelligence operatives were no match for them.

Remembering what Proudhawk had said, however, Wayne gathered the others around him and had them all concentrate on Emmett's medallion - after which time something incredible happened! You see, their powers combined to form the Psi-Hawk, a sort of psionic energy being that was part Emmett, and part... them. The power of the five youths combined was more than Mindwolf could take.

The villain was defeated rather handily by this construct of theirs, even if they weren't sure how they made it - and though they had absolutely no control over it. As it faded away in a shroud of mystery, the Psi-Hawk left the five psionic youths to fend for themselved; while the K.G.B. agents had fled or had been destroyed, the teens were miles from Sanctuary, and had to carry the dead Hawk home...