After receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons... and dead bodies. As they try to piece together who--or what--could have decimated an entire operation, they realize that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken....

"To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the...

Elliott is grounded after having some trouble controlling his new super powers, but his punishment is short-lived when he's kidnapped by a band of teenage alien outlaws who believe he's the only one capable of destroying a planet-eating monster that's annihilating worlds.