Soldiers are on a mission to kill aliens on a distant planet to protect a mineral necessary and profitable for earth. The soldiers are injected with a drug to enhance their abilities, which has consequences when until the drug wears off.

Tanner Brooks has his reflexes artificially enhanced to win one last Octal tournament, which involves deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles. Afterward Tanner appears to be prematurely aging and will have to make a desperate decision.