Despite Captain Jeremy Hanson's disdain for Cadet Avon Zadoorian, he has vowed to protect her. She is being hunted by Zarcon assassins and other assorted mercenaries. Avon is actually a Princess and the heir apparent to the Zarcon throne in a distant galaxy. Her entire life has been a lie. Avon was torn from her mother's stomach and discarded like trash. Her parents were killed just minutes later. Her aunt fled with her to the ship of the now General Jax Zadoorian, who helped the two refugees escape to Earth. The General raised Avon as his daughter, and her mother's twin sister pretended to be the hired help. Now, twenty years later, Avon's Emperor Grandfather is dead, and her uncle needs to present Avon's head on a pike to assume the throne of Zarcon. Avon and Jeremy are on the run from the Zarcon assassins. They have a military-controlled city, the slums, and a wasteland to transverse before they can escape Earth.