Mina is having the busiest summer ever.

Superhero training takes up a lot of time. Between discovering more about their super suits and Guardians, making sure no one accidentally slips and outs themselves as being a Warden, and figuring out how to properly pep talk her team - she barely has time to worry about finding the Lenian base where ex-Warden Capri is hiding, before another robot-monster is sent to Hurst. If that wasn't enough going on, her parents are home. Now she's dodging their questioning and counting down the minutes until they leave on top of everything else.

Capri is on unusually good terms with the Lenians.

They're willing to help craft another attack on the city, all they ask is a little more say in the planning. A reasonable request, as long as she can hold her temper. She needs a way to root out the imposter Wardens and take back Outrider. That requires someone in Hurst doing exactly as she commands, lucky for her the engineers have a solution.

Henrie isn't having a good time at all.

There is a voice in her head she doesn't recognize and monsters plaguing her dreams. She's found herself enlisted on the wrong side of the fight and barely keeping it together. While she has the training to hold her own against the Wardens, she's not sure how many more hits she can take.