Poisoned by Snakebite and on the verge of death, Aric's only hope is Randy Cartier! Will she be able to get the X-O armor back online in time?

Orb Industry holdings in New Orleans are under attack and Aric is called to investigate. But in New Orleans the night belongs to the Shadowman, and things are sure to get dangerous in the Big Easy when Shadowman villains Ishmael and Blister set these two heroes against each other!

Aric has returned to South America to track down the killers of a native tribe, but he's about to be reunited with the Skammrs and facing their familiar sauroid foe! And can Randy keep herself and her friends alive when the venomous assassin Snakebite comes calling?

Toyo Harada has provided Aric with the location of an alien gathering, and Aric means to make the most of it! Meanwhile, Earth is in the grips of a worldwide disaster and the assassin Snakebite is on the hunt for Randy Cartier! Guest starring the Armorines and H.A.R.D. Corps!

As Randy discovers the secrets of Shanahara, Aric travels abroad for some much-needed soul searching! Yet Aric will realize that evil has no borders, sending him on a deadly adventure that may also be his last!

When an assassin breaks three psychotic harbingers out of a Harada correctional facility, Aric resolves to recapture them. But he'll find himself at a considerable disadvantage when the mind of Paul Bouvier tries to take over the X-O armor!

Aric struggles to come to term with the loss of the X-O Manowar armor. But he'll find hope when an ally journeys to the depths of the Solar System and discovers a latent seed that could regrow the Manowar armor. But the seed will not germinate without a blood sacrifice. Will Aric or one of his friends pay the ultimate price so that X-O Manowar can live again?

Who is Krollos? And why has he infiltrated Orb Industries? Aric will have to survive the onslaught of this deadly new foe and his mysterious technology if he hopes to find out! Meanwhile, the past comes back to haunt Randy when death stalks her old comrades-in-arms--the Wolfbridge Goup--at the memorial service of the fallen Paul Bouvier.

The battle continues as the Armorines take the fight to Omen Ranch! But what will the consequences be when the connection between the Armorines and H.A.R.D. Corps are revealed?

Can even the X-O Manowar armor survive a hit from a Polaris missile? Randy and Ninjak better hope so, otherwise they'll stand no chance of surviving terrorist Helena Wolfbridge and her psychotic trio of harbinger lackeys.