If you could steal from the past, would you? To the people of the Prime Order, this is more than speculation. Time travel is the ultimate survival tool, and the past has become an infinitely renewable resource. But what of these altered pasts? What do they become after the Prime Order is through with them? Dr. Elric Mercury, the father of time travel, is about to find out when he's kidnapped by a volatile dimension-jumper named Minnie. Of course, all this happens before he can even flip the switch on his first time machine.