An award-winning graphic novel in the 2021 Hollywood Book Meet Dark Cloud, a young woman who comes from a traumatic past that she can't afford to remember, leaving her on high alert and trusting of no one. The sole exception is Ricardo de Castile, the wizard-like engineer who dresses as a Franciscan monk to hide his true specialty and is the creator of the combat robot that has Dark Cloud's back. Originally designed as a prototype doomsday weapon by the Federal Government, the combat robot, now renamed Klaatu, has been reprogrammed by Ricardo to fight as part of a team alongside the daughter he should have had in the first Dark Cloud. Normally she would prefer to hide from the world as it has become, but when she finds out her militaristic neighbor, General Stone, has acquired a nuke, Dark Cloud's love for the land will not let her stand idly by. Welcome to the Future West...