"Gardenview is to be shut down. Effective immediately." The judge cast their gavel down, ending the court meeting. Delilah couldn’t accept this loss. She couldn’t accept that all her years of work were abandoned in an underground facility run by a shady division. But she had no choice. She had to let them take it, otherwise she’d be arrested.

Urbanshade Hadal Division took over, testing on the toons, mutating them to uncanny proportions. Gardenview was moved under the surface with the rest of the operation. When the site was destroyed, the toons were freed. Rodger had been modified like all other toons, metal arms attached to his back and body the size of an actual person. He was one of the least hostile and most comprehensive towards expendables, his only cost being that they leave without the crystal that powered the site. He’d killed many stubborn people, who tried to take the crystal anyways.