The Six Sacred Stones saw Jack West Jr. and his team of international soldiers begin their quest to rebuild the mythical 'Machine' before the arrival of the 'Dark Star, a zero-point field that will wipe out all life on Earth.

In order to complete the Machine, West had to locate six oblong diamonds known as 'the pillars' and place them in six underground Vertices at their allotted times.

Zahir al Abbas (Pooh Bear) is travelling to Israel to rescue his friend, Ben Cohen (Stretch) from the Mossad who have placed a $16 million bounty on his head for betraying them at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Seven Ancient Wonders.

The Fourth Pillar was in the possession of the British royal family and was handed to Pooh Bear, Stretch and the Twins in an attempt to lay it.

The Fourth Pillar's Reward is Life, its function is not determined in the book, but is possibly the ability to bring people back from the dead.

Jack manages to steal Switchblade's Maghook, a gas-propelled grappling hook with magnetic capabilities, from its holster and fires it into the wall of the abyss.

Leaving Switchblade to fall to his eventual death, Jack rescues Alby from the Second Vertex and reunites with his team at Little McDonald Island.

Jack and Alby reunite with Wizard, Zoe, Lily and Sky Monster and meet new additions Ono and Dr. Diane Cassidy, both rescued from the Neetha tribe.

It is here that the team decides that Lily and Alby will return to Perth to remain safe, whilst the soldiers continue the search for the Pillars and Vertices.

Finding Pooh Bear, Jack and his team infiltrate a top-secret Mossad weapons-testing facility in Israel which they believe is where Stretch is being held.

Hidden away in a bunker on the premises, Stretch is found suspended in a tank of formaldehyde - preserved as a living trophy for the pleasure of Mordechai Muniz, former 'Old Master' of the Mossad.

Successfully rescuing their ally, the team escapes and returns to Sea Ranger's Zanzibar base and begins conducting research into the Machine, considering the fact that they now have a 3-month period before the next Pillar is due to be placed.

With the exception of the final Pillar, they must be placed during a 'Titanic Rising' - a cosmic event that involves the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and its moon Titan (hence the name), so to allow a small portion of energy from the Dark Star to make contact with Earth.

She explains that she only studied the lost tribe due to her own research into the Machine, the Pillars and the Dark Sun, and that her reference point was the 'Rhyme of the Warriors', a prophecy found on a tablet discovered near the Sphinx.

By corroborating the rhyme with a carving from Karakorum in Mongolia and a text written by Laozi, Cassidy has discerned the identities of four of the five Warriors: Moses, Jesus Christ, Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte.

This bay on the north island of Hokkaido, deduced by the Scottish twins Lachlan and Julius Adamson, is believed to be the location for the Third Vertex.

Evidence of a maze being built to safeguard the Pillar was found in correspondences between Genghis and the Shogun, as well as the gift of a petrified dinosaur egg that was inscribed with the location of the Vertex entrances.

Farewelling Wizard, Jack and the others leave through a secret escape tunnel - not before taking with them the shield of Genghis, on which is the map to the Vertices inscribed.

As the events at Khan's arsenal played out, Pooh Bear, Stretch and the Twins discovered the location of Rameses II's Basin.

On the dry land exposed by the receding waters of an oncoming tsunami, Rapier, in possession of the Philosopher's stone, is pinned down by the Japanese.

Jack, Zoe and Lily, arriving in a small aircraft launched from the Halicarnassus, rescue Rapier and enter the Vertex along with Wolf and his team.

Instead of killing Jack and Zoe, Wolf realises that Lily knows the safe route through the maze and the two parties come to an uneasy truce.

Carnivore, as it appears, has been watching the events unfold around the world from his remote satellite station, and is revealed to be the inspiration behind Mordechai Muniz's 'living trophies', as he is the creator of the method.

Cassidy, at this point, is revealed to be his chief researcher, and he unveils his other prisoners to Jack - Astro, Scimitar, Vulture, Alby and Lois, Sky Monster, Zoe and Lily, Wolf, Rapier, Paul Robertson, the Neetha Warlock, Tank, Sheik Anzar al Abbas, Mao and his family.

Jack, Lily and Iolanthe head to Israel, where they locate the Tomb of Jesus Christ, the bearer of the sixth and final pillar, in a salt mine near Ein Aradhim.

With his team wounded and unable to carry on, Jack substitutes a Jeep for his front landing gear and takes off for the final Vertex alone.

As Wolf and Mao arrive at Easter Island on the Chinese aircraft carriers amidst the massive storms caused by the approach of the Dark Sun, they find they are too late - Carnivore is already at the final Vertex.

Teetering over the edge of a funnel-shaped room containing the Vertex, Jack drives the broken Halicarnassus down the slope towards Carnivore, bypassing Wolf and Mao who are navigating the traps along the funnel's path, crashing into the wall of the balcony overlooking the precipice and the abyss.

Jack, seeing this, knocks it over the edge into the abyss, and as Wolf desperately tries to save the Pillar, the Halicarnassus, rocked from its resting place during Lily's rampage, falls on to the balcony.

Jack and Lily return to Carnivore's Siberian lair to free their friends, only to find they have already been released by Pooh Bear, Stretch, Sky Monster and the Twins.