The Waysiders have stolen a train and a supply of T-ENG from the Carpetbaggers in Central City, apparently right before NEVEC's Task Force First Descent infiltrates Central City, and are headed to their settlement in the west desert with the few men they have remaining with them, which is half of what they originally had. They are then attacked by Red Eye which Deer Spring thinks shouldn't be possible, due to the fact that they are not carrying a large enough supply of T-ENG to attract a Category G Akrid. ZVATTO's team holds off Red Eye by desperately firing their weapons into the Red Eye's maw and also dumping the T-ENG stolen from the Carpetbaggers while T-ENG is transferred to a pair of GAN-36's. The Waysiders dump the very last of their T-ENG into the Red Eye's maw and take off just in