Recounts the story of Gabriel Jones, a mixed-race boy born in London in 1997. He moves to Clacton-on-Sea with his mother in 2017 and becomes a junior reporter on the Frinton and Dovercourt Gazette. Tasked with interviewing an old man, 100 years old, living in a care home in Frinton, he meets John Cullen (see Acme Time Travel - Volume 1). John bequeaths Gabriel his old watch, stating that he doesn't need it anymore. John explains that the watch (which he has named Vicky) is in fact an artefact from the future . a device to assist people to travel through time and space. Although, as John explains, the watch's time/space teleport functionality appears to be somehow broken, it does have the functionality to help in other ways. For example, it cured John of his debilitating childhood illness, and it kept him fit and well sufficient to reach 100 years of age.

Gabriel accepts John's offer of his old watch (out of courtesy to the old man), but with little belief that owning a broken time/space teleport device will yield him much benefit.Whilst visiting John at the care home, Gabriel meets a young girl called Ginny. She is attracted to Gabriel, and seeing that he is inexperienced and shy, she arranges to meet up with him. They become friends. Gabriel tells Ginny of John's gift, explaining that Vicky kept John fit and well for all of these years. The watch (Vicky) explains to both Gabriel and Ginny that without Vicky's continuing support, John will shortly begin to suffer from catatonia and also from dementia (which Vicky has kept in abeyance for many years). Ginny fears that she will not be able to stand watching John deteriorate in such a way. Gabriel and Ginny both ask Vicky if it would be possible to somehow get to ACME (the space/time travel company that Vicky works for) to get some sort of similar device that could keep John from regressing.

Vicky explains that John has reached a point in his life where he would not wish it to be extended. As Vicky says, all of John's pleasures were in the past, particularly Mary, John's wife, who died from complications resulting from her own dementia. Ginny asks Vicky why she could not control Mary's dementia, as she did with John. Vicky explains that she could only control the health of the person who she is physically attached to. John and Mary knew this and made the deliberate choice for John to wear Vicky. Ginny considers this and suggests that Gabriel and herself try to help John, but not by getting him another device (to use in his old age), but by trying to get another device for Mary, to give to her just before her dementia sets in. Gabriel agrees with Ginny, but questions how they could do such a thing, given that Vicky's capacity to travel through time and space does not work. Vicky has an idea that may enable them to try to carry out their plan.