A female assistant to an American technician was sent to support her boss at the Ngumba Industrial Zone, in the Angola-Zaire border region, in 1979. A volunteer with a medical NGO, she was sponsored by the technician's corporation under the pretense of giving aid to people suffering from a disease, but was actually there to observe the test subjects of Skull Face's vocal cord parasites. It is implied that part of the reason why she ended up agreeing to observe the test subjects was because she was the only member of her NGO besides her immediate superior who could speak English. After the industrial zone's facility burned to the ground, the assistant and technician were taken hostage by the private force Rogue Coyote.