Candi: "Maybe...but not everyone will think so! After all...I don't like to be a grouch like a lot of women are! I'm afraid I'd be too carefree with my children."

Laurie: "And that might come in handy. We have too many grouchy parents in the world, most of them because they don't deserve to be able to have children; and they know it! Get yourself checked out; you'll do fine!"

Julio: "Hey...aren't you that Denny Levens' lawyer whore?"



Candi: "What? Who do you think you are, sir? I'm not his lawyer; and I don't think he'd appreciate you treating his wife that way!"

Laurie braced herself for whatever happened next.

Julio: "Wife?"

Candi: "He does have the right to marry, does he not?"

Julio: "You? Hah! You're too good for him! Ditch that sucka!"

Candi: "That's not your call!"

Julio: "Denny's a dead duck, Missy! Just as soon as the chips are in place. It'd be a shame for you to go down with him!"

Candi didn't quite understand this threat; but Laurie's talk of Arfaas influencing the police was a clue. She wanted to say something, but figured it best if she and Laurie kept walking. This Gestapo mentality in Julio brought with it the invitation of the idea that anything the girls said beyond this point would only get them both in jail.



After Julio the officer left, the two decided take a shortcut between two homes where Viron gave way to Dirbine proper. But just as the two of them were ready to part ways, the phantom scream returned to Candi's ear! Something really evil was about to happen...



Before either girl could react, they were quickly blown away by the blast that befell them! A van had just crashed into the side of the house on their right, immediately exploding!



Laurie mustered her strength, getting up to observe her surroundings. But where was Candi? Everything around her was burning! The smell of oil and parts filled the already suspenseful atmosphere!



Amidst the blaze in front of her, Laurie saw what remained of the back end of the van sticking out of the side of the house. What had prompted this? The smell was very strong to her, consisting of a drug of some sort...but what? She remembered...Donald Quindely was a family man and a drug runner on the side! Was this his blue van? Hopefully, he didn't have his entire family in that van!



Battling her way past the blaze with the heat intensifying, Laurie approached as close as the scene would let her. There were children in the back, and they were burning to death as they panicked!

Laurie: "No!!!"

Part of Candi's jacket was included in the blaze! Had Laurie's friend, possibly pregnant, just gone up in smoke with the others?



Candi immediately left behind the old scene, hoping that Laurie wouldn't question her whereabouts. She immediately pulled out her mask and took off all but her emergency brown shirt underneath. Her prowl instincts were half-working and half-not, but just enough that she was able to get a lock on a car that was driving maniacally through the city.

The van had wiped out because the car had knocked it off the road. But what was the cause of the driver's haste?



Jumping on the roof of a house, Candi quickly assessed the direction and speed of the car. Would she be able to catch up with the driver?



Candi did her best to keep up, jumping rooftop after rooftop, but this guy was not giving up!



Candi: "Ouch!"



Herman Gressel was, to say the least, one of the best carjackers in town. But he had bitten off more than he could chew.

Herman: "Great! I just took out one of the biggest drug-runners in town, the boss is giving me half an hour to provide him a ride, and I've got some plant-like abomination following me! What else could go wrong?"



As he looked in the rear-view mirror, he gazed upon what he felt was unmistakably a girl flying through the air and preparing to land on the roof of his car!

Herman: "What the devil???"



Candi wasted no time getting out in front of the driver and ejecting her centilegs for grip!



Herman: "Holy cribs! Got off my windshield you....!!!"



Candi: "Stop this car!"

How could Herman match a large centipede trying to smash in his windshield and a plant-like thing chasing him through the ground?



Herman: "Not this time!!!"



He swerved the car around in what Candi believed was the most dramatic 225-degree spin ever! Desperately she tried to hold on to the sides of the car, maintaining her balance as she made for another offensive!



Herman: "Screw this! Goodbye, freak!!!"



Herman, drove the car another block or so, and then to Candi's dismay, he bailed out of the car at the last minute and tumbled! She jumped just in time to save herself, the car below smashing violently into the building she was standing on top of! Whoever this carjacker was, his desperation was now obvious.