All Avius wants is a quiet trip home. Instead he's kidnapped by a secretive group of industrialists. The ransom...secrets and technologies no earthly person could possess. But when his furious guardian arrives not with gifts, but a chilling apocalyptic ultimatum, Avius has vanished! Now all that stands between Earth and Doomsday is a small ragtag group of Avius' new friends. How can they do the impossible...before it's too late?