After World War III, areas that had sustained direct nuclear strikes were left as uncharted, contaminated wastelands. These dead zones became breeding grounds for vicious, man-eating monsters. When giant bat-men started terrorizing the Dakota Territory, Blade and the Force tracked them to the heart of a dead zone. And though the beasts were the deadliest foes they'd ever encountered, the Force would destroy the bat-men — or die in the infernal depths that had spawned them.