As Tiger gets to know her doppelganger Ty-Anne, Wolf acclimates to the NAG, and Josh wanders the desert. Josh is brought to the NAG and remanded to indentured servitude as a technology smasher.

Tiger uses Stu's fondness for her to help her track down Athena. Meanwhile, Josh is now a "Smasher" remanded to a labor camp, where the Pointed Circle comes after him. Wolf, vowing to improve the NAG, faces off against Supreme Overlord Vice.