Randal drove past the closed front gates and kept traveling north, pulling over a quarter mile later. There he released Sprite’s bugs, metal, spider looking devices, bodies smaller than a fist and several long legs. The bugs quickly vanished, heading the way the Special had just come from. Ran kicked the Rider Rocket back to life and continued up the long, dark road.

Eventually he took a left, heading toward the ocean through winding roads as he snaked his way up the cliffs. Then Ran slowed and turned off the paved road, driving up a nearly invisible, narrow dirt footpath.