Summary

Matt crept through the gardens of Paradise. He came to the holoport room, intending to call Esperanza and ask her about the Scorpion Star. However, he unexpectedly found El Bicho/the bug, sitting in front of the screen. The little boy's hand had basically melted from trying to use the holoport screen. Dr. Rivas had told him to go and open the holoport screen, promising a trip to the Scorpion Star in return. With the boy’s hand being too small for the scanner to fully recognize, it melted his hand in the process.

The lockdown had been changed; that the entire country was open. Matt closed the borders immediately. Leaving the boy in the holoport room, he fled the hospital. The old man's voice whispered to him all along. Inside the main hospital he saw a line of nurses and doctors dressed...