Gloyd was asleep in a cave-like room. He began to sweat in his sleep and moving his head left to right.

He was dreaming about him racing in the Random Roster Race. All those stunts and explosions in the races.

He woke up and was breathing loudly. As he placed a hand on his chest, he felt something hard and metal on his chest. His chest was covered with some papered Band-Aid. Gloyd rips it off quickly until he finds a circular object made of copper wire, connected to his chest. The object was connected to a car battery and Gloyd began to move.

"No, no, no"

Gloyd heard someone in the room as well. He turned to his left and spots Bearded Papa

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Papa said

"What the hell did you do to me?" said Gloyd

"What I did? What I did is to save your life". Papa started explaining everything to Gloyd. "I removed all the shrapnel I could, but there's a lot left, and it's headed into your atrial septum. Here, want to see? I have a souvenir. Take a look."

Bearded Papa throws a glass jar at Gloyd and Gloyd catches it. Gloyd looks in the jar and sees pieces in it.

"I've seen many wounds like that in my village" said Bearded Papa. "We call them the walking dead because it takes about a week for the barbs to reach the vital organs.

"Well then, what is this?" Gloyd asked

"That is an electromagnet, hooked up to a car battery, and it's keeping the shrapnel from entering your heart."

Gloyd puts the jar to the side, looks around and spots a survallence camera.

"That's right" said Bearded Papa. "Smile."

"Bearded Papa, what happened back then?" Gloyd asked

The metal doors in the room started to bang and opened. Coming in the room were five men with guns that belong to Gloyd. One of the men, named Abu, stepped forward and spoke in a different language. But Bearded Papa translated for Gloyd.

"He says, 'Welcome, Gloyd Orangeboar, one of the racers in Sugar Rush here in the real world in the history of America.'"

"Okay, what else?" said Gloyd

Bearded Papa began translating for Gloyd. "He wants you to build the missile. The Jericho missile"

Bearded Papa showed Gloyd the photo of the missile. Then, Gloyd said his answer.

"Alright. I'll build it, if you tell where the hell am I"

Abu snapped his fingers and two men puts a bag over Gloyd's head. They took Gloyd to the outside of the cave and they took off the bag Gloyd had on his head, which almost made him blind.

Then, he looks around and sees a bunch of men with a lot of weapons that seem familiar to Gloyd. As Gloyd was walking with Bearded Papa and Abu. Abu began to speak to Bearded Papa and Gloyd and Bearded Papa translated for Gloyd.

"He wants to know what you think." said Bearded Papa

"I think you got a lot of my weapons." Gloyd replied

"He even says they have everything you need to build the Jericho missile and he wants you to make the list of materials. He also says for you to start working immediately, and when you're done, he will set you free"

(A half hour later)

Gloyd and Bearded Papa were inside their cave room, talking.

"I'm sure they're looking for you, Gloyd" said Bearded Papa. "But they will never find you in these mountains. But look, what you just saw,that is your legacy, life's work, in the hands of those that how you want to go out? Is this the last act of defiance? Or are you going to do something about it?

"Why should I do anything?" said Gloyd. "They're going to kill me, you, either way. And if they don't,I'll probably be dead in a week."

"Well, then, this is a very important week for you, isn't it?" said Bearded Papa

All of the team of men brought weapons and suppilies for Gloyd.

"If this is going to be my work station, I want it well-lit. I want these up." Gloyd announced. "I need welding gear. I don't care if it's acetylene or propane. I need a soldering station. I need helmets. I'm gonna need goggles. I would like a smelting cup. I need two sets of precision tools."

Gloyd began taking apart one side of a misslie.

"How many languages do you speak?" Gloyd asked Bearded Papa

"A lot" Bearded Papa replied. "But apparently, not enough for this place. They speak Arabic, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Mongolian, Farsi, Russian."

"Who are these people?" Gloyd asked

"They are your loyal customers. They call themselves the Ten Rings."

Gloyd went to the other side and started working.

"You know, we might be more productive if you include me in the planning process." said Bearded Papa

Gloyd took out a huge part and went to the table to take some of it apart.

"Okay, we don't need this." Gloyd said as he threw an object behind him

Gloyd uses his tweezers to pick out a piece of palladium.

"What is that?" Bearded Papa asked

"That's palladium, 0.15 grams. We need at least 1.6, so why don't you go break down the other 11?"

Gloyd then was molding some soil and then placed a small cup in it.

The cup was placed aboved the fire and Bearded Papa used a long pair of pilers to carry and hold the cup.

"Careful." Said Gloyd. "Careful, we only get one shot at this."

"Relax." Said Bearded Papa. "I have steady hands. Why do you think you're still alive?"

Bearded Papa then pours the hot water into a small bowl. After a few minutes later, Gloyd takes out a circular ring and places it on a circular glass with twizzers. Then, he began to solder copper wires around a circular tube.

After a couple of long minutes, a bright light was shown on the working table.

"That doesn't look like a Jericho missile." Said Bearded Papa

"That's because it's a miniaturized arc reactor." Gloyd replied. "I got a big one powering my factory at home. It should keep the shrapnel out of my heart."

"But what could it generate?" Bearded Papa asked

"If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second."

"That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes."

"Yeah. Or something big for 15 minutes."

Gloyd and Bearded Papa gather around under a light and Gloyd was flatning some papers.

"This is our ticket out of here." Gloyd said

"What is it?" Bearded Papa asked

"Flatten them out and look."

At the papers were flatten, it shows a diagram of a human-sized armor.

"Oh, wow. Impressive." said Bearded Papa

The Ten Rings see on the survaillence monitors that Gloyd has the miniaturized arc reactor installed on his chest. They also see that Gloyd may be working on the misslie wrong. But then their leader, Raza, sees that Gloyd and Bearded Papa are working on something different.

The men entered the room as Gloyd and Bearded Papa stopped working and they both placed their hands behind their head. Walking forward was Raza and he was staring at Gloyd.

"Relax." Raza answered

Gloyd and Bearded Papa put their hands down. Raza walked up to Gloyd and looks at Gloyd's arc reactor chest as he started to talk.

"The bow and arrow once was the pinnacle of weapons technology. It allowed the great Genghis Khan to rule from the Pacific to the Ukraine. An empire twice the size of Alexander the Great and four times the size of the Roman Empire. But today, whoever holds the latest Intelligence weapons rules these lands. And soon, it will be my turn."

Then, Raza spoke to Bearded Papa in a different language. Bearded Papa was telling Raza that they were working. As Raza was walking towards the fire, two men held him down and Bearded Papa got on his knees. Raza holds a piece of burning coal with a medium-sized pliers. The two men put Bearded Papa's head down and Raza told him to tell the truth about what Gloyd and Bearded Papa were doing. But Gloyd walked up to him but all of the other men stopped him and he did.

"I need him." Gloyd said. "Good assistant."

Raza dropped the pliers down, along with the burning coal and faced at Gloyd.

"You have till tomorrow to assemble my missile."

With that final request that Raza said, he and his group of men left the room.