They manage to get the mask into place and to tie up Ashka -- she will be dealt with -- Then Sun starts the Oracle and the huns are defeated.
With the mess sorted out - the alternate characters help their counterparts return to their own world -- they rescue sun and return back to The Land of the Dragonlord -- ready to fight.
The Two Joshes get entangled into the mess and the father helps them escape and they get the mask back fromt he crooked dealers- then Ashka double crosses them again - only this time fails.
They need Ashkas help - since the Jewlers she tried to sell the mask to stole it -- she is helpless -- they decide to work together to retrieve the mask. They almost fail but their alternate dad helps and all ends well.
Josh and his father maange to reescape the clutches of the Barbarian king who is trying to force Suns sister the princess to marry him.
The villagers run back into hiding underground - Kathy and meck decide it was their fault and try to stop the machines -- they try to destroy them.
The Machines are every where -- after befriending some nearby villagers and find them to be about the level of people who existed in the 1800s -- not very knowledgable with modern equipment -- their world was destroyed by a whole army of machines and they are trying to rebuild after 100 years of hiding underground. The awakened machines causes panick.
After trying to find out how to fix the boat -- they find themselves trapped in a world which appears just to have alot of blown up machine parts and such - thinking it might help scholar Meck attempts to fix one of the huge machines -- he is succesful but the Machine comes to life and starts trying to shoot every living thing in its path.
Scolar Meck and Kathy have to escape -- after coming up with a daring plan they manage to do it, only to end up in yet another parallel world.
Without the Oracle the barbarians get through the barrier and take over the Land Of the Dragonlord.
Kathy is very very upset about the idea of being injected and tries to run away.
The Adults decide to take turns at being Kathys Care giver - they also decide to inject her with the vaccine that will keep her a child forever.The same vaccine that keeps them alive, but makes them sterile.
Ashka finds out the secret of the computer and staels the Jade Mask -- here is when Ashka decides to take control of Suns World.
Josh escapes his captivity and goes to get help -- he makes it across the Dragonlords border and has to convince a few villagers that he is a water spirit.
The Land of the dragonlord is being invaded by a group of warriors and their family who are seeking shelter. Sun refuses them entry and calls his ""guard"" a huge computer image of a giant - that can shoots lasers! The Huns give up temporarily although they take Kathys Family Hostage.
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.