Chapter 1, Second Earth (1, pp. 1-4); Chapter 2, Second Earth (2, pp. 5-17); Chapter 3, Veelox (1, pp. 18-23); Chapter 4, Veelox (2, pp. 24-28) Summary

In Chapter 1 Bobby Pendragon, Mark Dimond, Courtney Chetwynde, and Gunny Van Dyke watch as a ring that Bobby wears produces a holographic head of a girl, Aja Killian. Aja lives in a parallel world known as Veelox. Bobby and the others are in a fairly normal dimension known as Second Earth. Aja tells Bobby that her world is in grave danger from a demon called Saint Dane and wants him to travel to the dimension as quickly as possible. Bobby agrees. He and Gunny, a six-foot-three African American, take a limousine that had been waiting for them to the Bronx and an abandoned subway station. From there they can...