Upon exiting the room, Campbell shut down the payloader that was passing by with a freeze missile. His passenger then leaned out of the window with a flamethrower and proceeded to torch, setting the payloader ablaze. Quatro panned around for a line of sight on Cage's improvised tank. He was about to set out on a search when something exploded right on top of him.
The hoverbike skipped and skidded a good thirty yards from where he was, with him bouncing and scraping around in the small, sheltered driver's compartment. Lots of metal on metal, none of it forgiving. Through years of road skirmishes and hoverbike experience, Quatro managed to get his ride right side up. He was still facing the same way, but the different lateral positioning gave him a clear vantage point to the answer of what had hit him.
A black windowless van, one he noticed upon closer inspection was dotted with brown painted cockroach silhouettes, was parked up on the far end of the outer rim, near the base of one of the racetrack access ramps. High in the air and halfway between the two of them was another rat themed missile, and judging by the way it was flying, it was being manually piloted. Without warning, it stopped its unorthodox flight pattern and came speeding at Quatro like a bullet.
Quatro activated his armor ordinance prior to impact, but the explosion still knocked him around like a rag doll. He knew he wouldn't be able to withstand another one of those.
In a benevolent miracle of irony, Quatro looked up again and saw another vehicle approaching the van. Cage's tank-car. Just as the van launched off another rat rocket, the tank-car slowly started to roll over it. The rear was crushed and flattened, followed by the center which caused all of the missiles the van was carrying to explode, then finally the front. Cage started towards the sports car and the payloader, leaving the van a flat metal pancake behind him.
"Vermin destroyed. Four contestants left."
Invitation to Twisted Metal (2023)
Axel