While Rhodes can’t see the forest for the trees as far as the mysterious not-pilot currently wreaking havoc on the timelines of a number of metaverses, he does have a personal request for the team. While the Reliance heads back
to Hope Colony, ostensibly for some R&R, he asks that a team jump into avatars into one particular metaverse to fix what’s going wrong. As an additional incentive, he notes that this mission would release Jonomox as having fulfilled
the terms of his parole. The team agrees to go.
Hopping in, it seems the metaverse is a world of anthropomorphic animals. Jonomox is a good boy, Vector is a mutt hungry for attention, Paul is a hawk with a keen interest in the law, and John Stone is the son of the Dogfather
himself. The Corleybone Family is under attack, and the pilots must help their avatars survive the mob war that is brewing.