The Adventures of Kid Combat Volume One: Curse of the Red Beryl

CRACK! BOOM! Fireworks explode all around a small girl. SAMANTHA, 13, races between the blasts on an all-terrain vehicle piloted by her friend, CONNOR – code named Gears. Behind them, the men chasing never see the bursts of light coming and crash into neighboring trees.

As SAMANTHA escapes, she clutches onto the prize that she has stolen from Jones’s mansion – an ancient book of text named The Book of Darkness. With it, Samantha and her group of DEFENDERS hope to decipher what mysterious activities Jones is planning and save the town from his evil ways.

The next day, KYLE CHRISTENSEN moves to his new home of Elmcrest. Kyle is a typical thirteen-year-old boy with an attitude about everything and has not yet found his calling in life. He is a genius who can figure out anything in the blink of an eye and gets bored at school fast. His father, PETER, recently agreeing to work for Jones, warns Kyle that this opportunity is a great one and not to do anything that could spoil their future.

While Peter settles in to his new job, Artie Jones reveals to him the reason he has been hired and shows him the secret that lies beneath the mansion. The two travel down six hundred feet to a cave whose walls are lined with an ancient scripture embedded into it. Peter learns that his primary job is to decipher the ancient script so Jones can find the RED BERYL – the rarest of the precious gems – and a link to the power of the gods – as foretold in The Book of Darkness. Jones demands Peter stay at the mansion until his work is complete or never see his family again.

As Kyle tries to fit into his new home, he stumbles upon Samantha and her group of friends. In the back of a Curio Shop filled with strange wonders, Kyle meets the rest of Samantha’s crew. Gears – the computer expert, an oddball set of adrenaline junkie, always bickering with each other set of twins named Rocket and Wedge, and finally their mentor, Charlie Thompson, the old man that runs the shop and guides the group. Together, they show Kyle that Jones is not all what he seems. Since Kyle’s dad moved their family to work for Jones, he begins to worry about his dad’s safety.

Once Peter goes missing, at the hand of Jones, Kyle rises to the challenge and enlists Samantha and her friends to help rescue his father. As Kyle and the Defenders make a charge on Jones’s Mansion, the heart of the story is the rescue of Peter and the rise of Kyle fulfilling his destiny of becoming Kid Combat…the last legend in the Book of Darkness.