When things—dark things—begin to swoop and crawl from the pollution, the time for action is nigh. Desperation and underground technology offers the way, albeit a perilous one. Trenton Bonner is just the one to make the attempt. A lifetime of using his arms as legs give him the strength; losing everything dear provides the desire. Trenton is set to do whatever it takes to save his world. What he discovers beyond Terra, though, he could not have prepared for.