When Vic's cousin appears on Doc's doorstep, it's not long before the team is plunged into an adventure that will take them half way around the world on a mission of life and death. Vic's reaction to a strange alien mineral has made her the strongest being on Earth. It's also killing her. Her only hope lies underneath a Soviet labor camp deep in the Siberian wilderness. Driven by a need she cannot comprehend Vic leads the team into a war zone with the fate of the very planet on the line. Meanwhile, Doc and the rest have to try and save Vic without sparking a world war. and what about those Giant Robots?