Except, what her mother doesn't know is that Phoenix has just been recruited to join the elite Alien Investigation and Removal agency, where she'll learn to fight dirty, track hard, and destroy the enemy. Her professional training will be rigorous and dangerous, and the fact that one of her instructors is Ryan Stone — the drop-dead gorgeous, nineteen-year-old agent she met in the woods that night — doesn't make things any easier.
Unrelated to the 2013 graphic novel.
Tropes present in this work:
- Alien Invasion: Happened long before the book started.
- Awesome Mc Coolname: Phoenix Germaine, Ryan Stone
- Cat Girl: Kitten, though strictly speaking she is an alien.
- Fantastic Drug: Onadyn, which was made for aliens who couldn't handle oxygen but humans abuse it to get high.
- Fantastic Racism: Against aliens or Outers.
- Government Agency of Fiction: Alien Investigation and Removal agency, or A.I.R.
- Humanoid Aliens: Most aliens described fall into this.
- Improbable Age: The agents are mostly under 20.
- Kidnapped by an Ally: The AIR school kidnaps Phoenix from school.
- The Masquerade: The public doesn't know the truth about predatory aliens.
- Military School / Spy School: The Alien Investigation and Removal agency school is a combination of the two.
- New Neo City: New Chicago
- Ray Gun: The trainees learn how to use one.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Quite a few of the students at A.I.R. are former criminals, such as Phoenix.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Eventually happens with Ryan and Phoenix.
- Teen Superspy: Phoenix becomes one of these.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: Probably closer to just being "The Future". Apparently aliens have been living among humans for 70 years.
