Hired by Amanda Sheridan to find her daughter and stop Moses Magnum, the man responsible for killing her grandfather, Luke travels to Tokyo, Japan to meet up with Amanda's daughter Samantha. Before he arrives, agent of Moses Magnum attack, but Luke arrives in time to fight them off. However Magnum himself arrives and knocks the two out with his knock out gas and takes them prisoner.
Moses takes them on a plane to his base located on the Japanese island of Katsyu Shima, where he hopes to uses Samantha's expertise to use a laser drill to bore into the Earth and take advantage of the mineral worth in the Earth's core. However, Samantha's research shows that to do so would cause all the fault lines along the Pacific Rim to collapse like dominoes. Along the way, Moses dumps Luke out of the plane.
