When Hadley Hambrick first shows up on campus, her appearance causes quite a stir. After all, she's the first earthling ever admitted to Helios High, a magnet school located in a remote sector of the galaxy. Not everyone agrees with the idea, including the enigmatic school principal. Remanded to detention, she meets a group of students unlike any she's encountered before. There's the hulking reptilian with an eating disorder, a cybernetic jock with buyer's remorse, the mind probing honor student, and an exotic girl with a mysterious past. These five misfits will need to set aside their differences if they have any chance of saving the galaxy...or at least earning extra credit.