Andy Harrison was an average twelve year old boy, who lived in an ordinary small town, and led a mostly uneventful life, until an encounter with the school bullies started an extraordinary chain of events. Andy suddenly found himself in possession of an unusual machine which transported him to a strange new world, where with the help of a few interesting new friends Andy sets off on an epic adventure to save this strange world from the sinister forces bent on corrupting it, and maybe even find his way home in the process.