Badlands.A large Providence convoy commanded by Six is transporting a case of unstable nanites through a desert. Rex, Bobo, and Noah are assigned the humiliating task of transporting the force's toilet paper on a beaten-up truck. When Rex and the others are separated from the convoy, it is attacked by a group of criminals led by an eccentric self-proclaimed anarchist, Gatlocke. Gatlocke realizes that the convoy was actually transporting the toilet paper as a ruse, and Rex's truck is the one with the actual nanites. Gatlocke and Rex encounter each other and battle, all while Rex tries to keep the nanites from going above sea level, as Six warned that doing so would make them "go off." Rex defeats Gatlocke and gives the nanites to Six, who reveals that they did "go off" - meaning that they deactivated.