Meet Scout Brooks, a freshman at Kings Town High School. He's socially awkward, lazy, and immediately falls into the nerd crowd, buddying up with fellow outcasts, Chuck Taylor and Phil Easton. All is not looking good for ol' Scout. That is, until he joins the AstroNogs—an after-school club run by the oddball astronomy teacher, Professor Ed Nog.

After an explosive first meeting, Scout finds himself named the latest member of the EIA—Earth’s Intergalactic Ambassadors. The group is a secret branch of the government led by Nog, and they’ve been involved in a cosmic feud with a race of robotic aliens from the Crab Nebula area. After a couple of unfortunate “mishaps”, Scout and a small team are sent to a faraway planet called Bethani, the home base of the robotic aliens. What was planned as a rescue mission soon turns into a battle for their lives.

Note: This legacy edition includes "The Freshman Intruder", an original flash fiction story set in the Scout Brooks universe. It was originally published in the now out-of-print collection, The Scout Brooks Saga’s Hidden World.