As the maximum security holding facility known as the Slingshot skyrockets towards the sun, Parminder, Pharos, and Viin must find a way to halt the ship's launch... or suffer a fiery end! This issue also recounts the tale of Pharos' great and terrible uprising against his planet's evil king - but not everything is as it seems. The sequence of events that Pharos set in motion may be what ultimately destroys him.