Ava is on edge about the Union of Arms Sponsorship Trials, where a mech team can either rise to the top and get noticed, or slide to the bottom for the rest of their career. Ava, Lukas, and Kiwi have been training for weeks, but as the contest heats up, Ava’s fainting episodes return, and she finds herself targeted by the Outlander Radical in both the material world and on the astral plane. Now Ava must resist the Void, or be consumed by it forever.