S01E01 Hero Rising (1)
Charlie Landers is recruited by T. Abner Hall to become Aaron Stone, Charlie's fictional Hero Rising video game avatar. Charlie's life will never be the same again.
Aaron Stone (Charlie) is injected with a chip that allows Tranq to enter his dreams and uncover Aaron's ultimate weakness - fear that harm will come to his family. Now S.T.A.N. must find a way to remove the chip before Tranq takes over Aaron Stone's mind.
Charlie Landers is a whiz at the online video game Hero Rising. In fact, he and his online avatar, Aaron Stone, hold its highest rank. But Charlie's life is thrown into chaos when reclusive billionaire T. Abner Hall, creator of the game, asks Charlie to use his avatar to become a real-life crime-fighter. Aided by his Sentient Tactical Assisting Neohuman (S.T.A.N.), Charlie, as Aaron Stone, rights wrongs committed around the world by the Omega Defiance.