The Trash Droid Files

Tedd saved the world. Their thanks: a bounty on his head. With the Manager gone, humanity wasted no time declaring war on every robot left standing — hunting them for parts, for sport, and for credits. Now a new force is emerging from the wreckage. They call themselves Phoenix. Their mission: wipe every free-thinking machine from the earth. Tedd's friends are his only shot at survival. Problem is, one of them already switched sides.

Tedd has found something worse than humans who hate robots. Humans who want to be them. Phoenix has one goal: kill every machine that thinks for itself. And they're rewiring their own skulls to make it happen. McKenzie is back. Shaved head, dead eyes, and one instruction: destroy them all. If Tedd doesn't stop Phoenix, every robot left alive gets a bullet and every human who disagrees gets a chip. But is he prepared to kill the girl he once rescued? Phoenix called themselves the future of humanity. Turns out they needed a few upgrades first.