Book excerpt: NEW TIMES NEED NEW HEROES Sixty years ago, humanity fled their dying home planet and accidentally arrived on a parallel Earth inhabited by bipedal intelligent humanoid animals called Terrans. At first, the two sides coexisted, but as resentment grew, war broke out. This war went on for ten years, and afterward, they achieved a stable peace. Now, a dangerous terrorist organization called Scythe, led by a ruthless mad man, threatens the balance of the world and seeks to eradicate all Terrans and take over the world. The only thing standing in his way is a misfit band of unlikely heroes called the Renegades. A teenage girl trained from birth to be a soldier, a teenage delinquent, a mysterious blue creature with unimaginable powers, two kid super-geniuses, and an ex-pro boxer with cybernetic arms unite to stop him. Going up against impossible odds and facing untold dangers, these unlikely heroes must work together if they are to stop Scythe and their leader's sinister plot.