Safety is an Illusion. The Path to Freedom is Hidden. Will They Find The Way?Jack wanted nothing more than to have a normal Christmas vacation filled with sledding, hot chocolate, and snowball fights. Instead, he's been given a major social studies project, and worse yet - he and his best friends, the Santos brothers, have been put in a group with his arch-nemesis, that know-it-all Susie Jefferson!But something's been nagging at him for the past year. Jack has been haunted by the memory of a time when he was carried away into an ominous future where he witnessed perilous times through the eyes of a young man named Niko Monroe.After nearly a year of wondering if he would ever know the next step in Niko's journey, Jack notices a strange new marking on the treasure map that had taken him to the future State of Ariel, and is quickly rushed away to the beginning of a new era, where newly elected President Julius Arrigo is set to give Niko and the Faithful their freedom.Just when Niko thought he and his companions had gained their freedom, they are hidden away in secret locations and held captive as the nation riots, while a threat from the north looms over Ariel.Niko and the Faithful Six must make it through the northwestern corridor to find the Maiden, a mysterious ally to the Faithful, who has a plan to expose Arrigo's malicious plans and tell the world the truth about the Faithful.