DATE: 2007-10-29 CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET TIME: 18:24 hours

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Millions of people are trapped in the dark mists of the SPIRAL ZONE and become transformed into Zoners with lifeless yellow eyes and strange red patches of Zone Bacteria growing on their faces. Because they have no will to resist, Overlord makes them his slave army.

To help him, Overlord recruits a small group of evil villains to be his captains. Code named Black Widows, they are the most dangerous criminals ever known.

Thanks to another one of Overlord's inventions, the Widow Maker, the Black Widows are immune to the hypnotic effects of the Zone. However, due to prolonged exposure to the Zone, their eyes have turned yellow and their bodies are covered in Zone Bacteria.

Their Evil Goal: Destroy the forces of good selected to fight them and conquer the world by bringing everyone under their control with the Zone-producing Generators.

To accomplish this, Overlord has created vehicles and weapons that give them awesome power in and out of the SPIRAL ZONE. Some of these are detailed in the following reports.

From the world's military, the finest soldiers are selected and equipped with special vehicles, armor (coated with a rare element, Neutron-90, that provides complete immunity to the Zone), and weapons to fight Overlord and his evil Widows. They are code named the Zone Riders, Earth's Most Powerful Soldiers.

Their mission: Search out and destroy the Zone-producing Generators, rescue innocent people trapped in the SPIRAL ZONE and capture Overlord and his Black Widows - before they cover the other half of the Earth with the SPIRAL ZONE.

Each has special talents and equipment. Each is brave beyond compare. Only the Zone Riders can hope to defeat Overlord and save the world from sure disaster........ in the battle for the SPIRAL ZONE.

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