During the Cold War, the Soviet Union forms an organization called "Patriot".
They chose representatives of the different nationalities of the Union and experimented
on them to create a team of superheroes that would defend the motherland against any threat,
even supernatural ones. However, a mysterious explosion destroyed the lab with the experiments,
and all the superheroes plus the scientist that created them were never heard of again. In the
present day, the Russian army is testing new robots that would allow them to fight without
needing a human on the field thanks to their very advanced AI. The demonstration starts well,
but suddenly, the robots turn around and start attacking their own team's tanks and
helicopters. There's nothing human reflexes can do against them, and once all the vehicles have
been destroyed, the robots attack the building with all the generals and technicians, leaving
nobody alive. Once the smoke clears, it's revealed that the person behind this is Doctor Kuratov, one
of the scientists behind the Patriot project all those years ago. He's gained superpowers as well,
and now he can generate electricity and control machines, so he takes the robots away with him.
Sometime later, the Ministry of Defence holds a meeting to deal with the situation,
and it's finally revealed what happened during the Cold War. In 1940, Kuratov was in charge of the
innovative technologies department in the Patriot project. His main obsession was Module One,
a remote designed to control any motorized vehicle. The experiment was a failure,
and the project was shut down. Kuratov became extremely jealous of Viktor, whose own genetic
research impressed their higher-ups, and Kuratov decide to steal that research to conduct some
underground experiments of his own. His goal was to outperform Viktor and be recognized as a
great scientist too. Many humans became biological victims of his work, and Kuratov was arrested, but
he escaped anyway and hid in his genetics labs. The army decided to storm the lab, but Kuratov
had transformed the place into a bomb, causing a massive explosion. They had thought he died there,
but it turns out the chemicals released by the explosion altered his body and he became the
Module One experiment he was obsessed with. To defeat him, they'll need to find the superheroes
he made. Meanwhile Kuratov is sneaking inside one of the many army warehouses to steal all vehicles
and resources he can find. After the meeting, the Ministry of Defence decides they'll re-open
the Patriot organization under the charge of Major Larina. She announces their superhero team will be
called "The Guardians" and makes her people start researching any supernatural story they can find,
be through rumors, viral videos, or tabloids. Once they have enough information, they begin traveling
all over the place to find these superheroes, the first stop being in Armenia. In a hidden temple,
Ler is living as a hermit, trying to leave his old life behind. When Larina approaches him to
talk about the Patriot project, Ler shows off his rock-controlling powers in a threatening way. He
doesn't want anything to do with the Patriot project because they played with him to then
discard him, but he changes his mind when Larina informs him Kuratov is alive and Ler could get his
revenge. Next, they travel to Western Kazakhstan, where Khan is found meditating in the desert. When
the agents approach him in armed vehicles, Khan activates his ghost powers, which allow him to
move fast and undetected. He kills all the agents with his curved swords in seconds, and only stops
when he sees Ler, who convinces him to join him for revenge. Their next stop is northern Siberia,
where Arsus is living in a cabin in the woods. As soon as she sees soldiers approaching,
he transforms into his beast form and throws them all away, only calming down when he sees his old
friends Ler and Khan. Arsus wants revenge as well so he accepts to join. The final trip is to
Moscow, where Xenia has become a famous performer. She uses her powers to perform in a pool where she
becomes invisible underwater. One evening after a show, she finds Khan in her dressing room and
immediately attacks him, showing off her fighting skills. Khan uses his ghost powers to get out of
the fight and urges Xenia to remember her old friends, but Xenia refuses to listen. Ler shows
up as well and Xenia immediately attacks him too, starting yet another pointless fight that
Ler wins because he was the one that taught Xenia her moves. Arsus cuts in and explains to her that
they're all loners with superpowers who haven't aged in forty years, just like her. So even if she
doesn't remember them, she could join their cause to find out who did this to her. In the meantime,
Kuratov finishes creating his very own clone army to carry on his plan. The Guardians return to the
Patriot headquarters, where Xenia explains what happened to her. Her first real memory is from
1978, when doctors found her near Sevastopol. Nobody could identify her, and she only knows
her name thanks to an engraved ring she had with her. Doctors said her memories would come back
with time, but so far it hasn't happened. When Xenia noticed she didn't age, she knew other
people would notice too, so she decided to travel around. Her powers include invisibility in water,
thermo-resistant skin, and controlling her body's temperature in all conditions. At that moment,
Larina's team announces they've found Kuratov in a junkyard that he's using as his command center,
so they must use the element of surprise quickly before Kuratov sees them. When they arrive there,
Xenia is happy to see it's raining because she'll be able to become invisible, but they
also discover someone has jammed their signal and they can't communicate with headquarters.
The team splits to attack from different spots, and Xenia walks in without a care. Unfortunately
the guards have special goggles that allow them to see Xenia's body temperature and they immediately
use special weapons to freeze her on the spot. Arsus and Khan use their powers to kill as many
guys as possible, however the guards are expecting this as well: when Khan stops moving, he's hit by
a paralyzing dart, and Arsus is captured by an unbreakable net. Inside the building, Ler uses a
special trick to create a mini earthquake before covering his whole body with rocks. After he's
done with the guards around him, Kuratov himself shows up, so Ler begins attacking him. His rocks
are merely tickles for Kuratov, who immediately overpowers Ler and breaks his back. Moments later,
Kuratov has Ler, Khan, and Arsus inside a force field cell and explains he had been
expecting them, so he armed his soldiers with the corresponding weapons. As the creator of their
powers, Kuratov always knew their weaknesses. He asks the Guardians to join him and gives them 24hs
to think about it, ignoring their claims that death would be preferable to working with him.
Arsus has a knife that he tries to use, but the force field stops him from moving. Afterward,
Kuratov gathers the tanks he stole to start his invasion. Soon the whole city becomes a warzone
and the news reports chaos everywhere, they also talk about a stolen space transmitter and the army
being completely useless against these attacks. It turns out Kuratov actually made a deal with a spy
in the army that got him access to the warehouses and the soldiers that protected his base,
and now he intends to use the space transmitter to start his Module-2 Project. The plan is to
connect the transmitter to the Ostankino Tower and the Federation Tower and send a signal to
the Russian satellite, which in return will allow him to control every other satellite and therefore
all technology on Earth. When Kuratov begins taking away the towers, his army spy complains
because he had been promised things wouldn't get out of control, but Kuratov just kills him.
Meanwhile Larina rescues Ler and takes him back to headquarters. While he recovers, Ler tells Larin
that when he passed out he had a vision of his daughter that reminded him of all the goods time
he had with her and his grandchildren. Ler never aged but his kids did, and while his grandchildren
left to travel the world, his daughter grew old and Ler had to watch her die. Sometime later,
Larina receives a visit from Viktor, Kuratov's old lab partner. Everyone thought he was dead,
so Viktor explains he's been hiding away all these years and only came out because he saw Kuratov on
the news and he knew they would need his help to stop him. Viktor immediately begins working
on healing Ler and gives Larina the location of Kuratov's secret lab to rescue the others. The
team quickly sneaks inside the lab, kills all the guards, and frees the Guardians by simply shooting
the keypad that kept the force field up. Khan feels so humiliated though that he just leaves the
team. While Kuratov continues to move the towers around the city, Larina has a chat with Arsus back
in headquarters. Arsus confesses he's worried about Xenia, who he has been watching over for
a long time. After their initial escape during the war, Arsus saw Xenia again eight years ago, but he
realized she didn't remember anything and decided to keep his distance. He also worries about his
transformations, which are getting wilder each day and make him afraid of possibly getting stuck in
the beast form forever. Larina promises they won't let that happen and that Viktor probably can find
a cure. Speaking of Viktor, he's in the secret lab studying Kuratov's clones when he's suddenly found
by Kuratov himself. Still mad over the results of their war experiments, Kuratov accuses Viktor
of betraying him to work alone and swears he'll make the world see who the real genius is. Then
he activates the traps in the lab, releasing a poisonous gas that kills Viktor. Afterward,
Kuratov goes to check on the installation of the space transmitter with the towers to get it
started. The activation of this powerful machine causes Patriot's system to finally detect and
understand Kuratov's plan. They send a bunch of fighter jets to stop him, but Kuratov simply makes
the army robots shoot them, causing the planes to crash all over the city. This is watched by Khan
from the top of a building, and Larina approaches him to see what's wrong. Khan confesses he used to
have a brother he idolized because of how good he was as a fighter, but with time, Khan realized he
became nothing but his brother's shadow and nobody believed in him. He accepted to be Kuratov's
guinea pig to become stronger, and when he gained his powers, he challenged his brother to a fight.
However Khan lost control and killed his brother without meaning to. Larina offers her sympathies,
but also reminds him the city needs him. Once all the Guardians are back together and well, Larina
announces they've made new suits and weapons for them that fit their powers. Arsus gets a cannon
with a targeting system that connects directly to his nervous system and picks targets based on
where his aggression is focused. When he starts to transform into full beast mode, the cannon
then switches to fully automatic. Khan's new suit protects him from all kinds of physical damage,
including bullets, blades, and tranquilizer darts. On the spinal area they installed a
harpoon and reinforced rope. For Ler, they made a suit that gives him access to rocks all the time,
and a special whip that transforms his telekinetic ability to control rocks into electromagnetic
impulses. Lastly, Xenia gets a suit that allows her to become invisible whenever she chooses,
and she can make any object invisible with her by just touching it. The team begins training
with their new weapons, and although there are some mishaps at first, with enough practice
they gain full control and are ready to rumble. Kuratov is currently charging the towers to send
the signal with a beam, so Patriot has an hour to do something. The team makes a plan to dismantle
the tower's force field, after which they must escape as quickly as possible because the whole
Moscow City Complex will be destroyed by rocket launchers. Ler sneaks into Kuratov's work area by
using the subway tunnels, where he easily beats up all the guards with his new whip. Arsus and Xenia
take on the guards on the streets, a fight that starts easy for them until more guards arrive.
Xenia has to hide, but Arsus allows his body to go full beast mode and finishes the fight without
issues. Then Xenia rides Arsus to meet with Ler at the mall, where Arsus' size causes some trouble in
the elevator. Khan approaches the tower by plane, and this time pilot is ready to dodge the attacks
coming from the army AIs. However he's having difficulty getting the plane close enough to
jump. Arsus, Ler, and Xenia reach the mall roof and begin crossing one of the many iron bars that
are holding Kuratov's tower up to access it. Guards open fire on them from a parallel bar,
making Arsus slip. Ler activates his whip to make a shield, but he doesn't know for
how long he'll be able to keep it up. Khan wants to help and decides to jump anyway,
making up for the long distance by connecting a grapple line to the tower, which allows him
to reach the bar with the guards and slice it to make the men fall. Meanwhile at Kuratov's lab,
Larina finds Viktor who still has a few minutes of life left. He tells Larina
that he discovered the Guardians possess the ability to transfer their power to one another,
and this merging increases their strength. That's why Kuratove had disabled Ler, since he was afraid
those powers could split Earth in a half. This transference of energy is difficult to control,
so they have to avoid making any wrong moves or it'll kill them. The Guardians enter the tower
and after knocking out a few guards, they find the generator. The guys discuss options to disable it,
but Xenia just goes for it and grabs it to short-circuit it with her body heat. It hurts
her terribly, but it also manages to shut down the force field around the top of the tower, and
Arsus catches Xenia right before she falls. With the field down, the army wants to start bombing,
but Larina asks them to wait so that the Guardians can get their revenge. The Guardians go to the top
of the tower to fight Kuratov, but things don't go well. With his power, he easily disables Arsus'
cannon and Ler's whip, and his strength takes care of Khan. Xenia dodges him just in time
and touches Ler to make him invisible, this way he can use his whip again. Kuratov gets
captured by the whip and Khan tries to kill him with his blades, but Kuratov is too strong and
simply frees himself with a shockwave, pushing everyone back. Next Kuratov goes after Xenia,
causing Arsus to leave his cannon behind and enter full beast mode without caring about the
consequences. Unfortunately Kuratov is still strong enough to knock him out with one hit.
The army announces they can't wait anymore and sends their vehicles to blow up the area. As
soon as Khan sees a plane flying by, he connects his grapple line to it, then he connects all the
Guardians to the line so they can be taken away. Kuratov notices this and uses his powers to make
the plane lose control, prompting Khan to cut the line and release all the Guardians in the river
before the plane crashes. At that moment the army finally launches its missiles, but Kuratov laughs
and makes them explode in the sky before they can even reach him. As Kuratov finally begins making
contact with the satellite, Larina meets with the Guardians by the river and tells them what she
learned from Viktor. The Guardians decide to take the risk and concentrate all their power on Ler,
who charges a blast of energy that he shoots at the tower, instantly destroying it and all the
buildings that surround it. It also causes Kuratov to fall to his doom. The newscasts
report the city has been saved, but nobody knows the cause of this supposed terrorist attack and
they're waiting for the Defense Minister to hold a press conference later. They also think it was
the armed forces that saved the day with some secret weapon. Efforts to rebuild are getting
started as well. Larina thanks the Guardians for their help, but the Guardians announce they're
going back to their boring lives, especially Xenia, who has remembered the source of her ring.
However they promise they'll come if big trouble happens again. Before they leave, Larina tells
them they found more Guardians. Sometime later in the middle of the night, two men stop a van
from which Larina comes out. She quickly fights them, and once they're under her threat, she
makes them confess they were sent by someone named "Ferrum". Hearing this name leaves Larina worried.