Hot shot is five years old and lives with his parents Heatwave and Quickshadow. They live in Fort Worth Texas. They have a very happy life there. Hot shot soon is feel sick. His parents become worried when one morning he is feeling really bad. His parents take him right to Cook Children's hospital ER. There the doctors do all kinds of tests on Hot shot. There they discover Hot shot has choroid plexus carcinoma a type of brain tumor that is brain cancer. There Hot shot makes friends with four other kids his age with the same type of cancer. Hot shot becomes good friends with them. They decide to fight their cancer together and they are determined to win. (Humanized).