ROCK 4: A Dustland Fairytale

"'I saw The Devil wrapping up his hands; he's getting ready for the showdown.' -A Dustland Fairytale, by The Killers"

Summary
On a highway an hour outside Las Vegas, Cecilia Citadel injects a vial of Eidolon and gains Fortune Teller (Original), an old-fashioned large fortune telling machine with an animatronic Cecilia puppet. It is heavy and needs to be moved manually. It produces the fortune "A STARVING MAN WON'T NOTICE A DIRTY PLATE" and when Harvey D. Godlove asks about his love life, says "ASK AGAIN LATER". Chris Masters determines two people can lift it safely, and Virginia Valentine notes that its unlikely non-Eidolon users can see it.

Virginia deals in as the Inhuman, becoming one with Only The Good Die Young and taking the form of a stained glass shadow with the faint outline of wings. Virginia can now refract light into beams. While determining that Virginia is still there, the group realizes that they are now all able to hear Chili (this is due to a change in the game rules). Virginia's clock dings and lights up as it reaches 70 hours, but the noise is attributed to Harvey's phone. Harvey pretends to turn it off at the group's request.

A red Sedan with a woman and a man inside it drives down the highway, stopping when Virginia generates an illusion of cop cars blocking the road. Harvey and Chris wander over to the car and pose as plain clothes police officers. As Chris moves to the other side of the car, he hears a knock from the car boot. Opening it with Ironspy, he finds a man bound and gagged. The woman inside the car shoots at Chris, and Harvey knocks her unconscious with Here It Goes Again. Chris unties and ungags the man from the car boot, and then zaps unconscious the other man who had been driving the car.

The man who had been bound asks why they were using Eidolons and introduces himself as Will Price, a member of the The Dead Pharaoh branch of The Dead Pharaoh. He does not know they are on the run and assumes they were sent by them to rescue him. Will explains he drove out to Salt Lake City to intimidate two people who owed money to the organization. They managed to knock him out and tie him up, driving him to Las Vegas for an unknown reason. Chris drags the two unconscious people into the desert and leaves them for dead.

Will Price is unable to call a taxi to take him back to Las Vegas, so he hitches a ride with the Alta Drive Jawbreakers in the Sedan until the next rest stop. They enter Arizona, the Gateway State and soon after pull up to a Pretzel Crate rest stop. Its distance from any other civilization is perplexing. Harvey, Chris, and Virginia get a table. Virginia bends light into an illusion of her normal self to sit at the table. Chili dives into a crate of pretzels, but is not fulfilled by what she eats.

Will meets them at the table and is frustrated that the phones out here are dead. Chris flags down a nearby waitress who explains that road construction accidentally cut the lines. Virginia's illusion fails, and is suspicious when no other customers notice. A tall older man in a black duster with a limp arm enters and sits down. Chris looks closely at the patrons and notices that they are following an animation routine - all except the man in the duster. Everyone moves to leave, but Chris gets shot at from a distant rocky outcropping outside.

Eidolon Battle
Chris Masters hides behind a booth, but the man in the duster moves behind him and launches a rib out of his mouth. Virginia goes outside and obscures the sniper's view with blinding light, but the sniper shoots again and hits the man in the duster. Lady Luck appears. The man in the duster collapses into the ground and his skeleton escapes his body. A waiter tells Will Price that the Alta Drive Jawbreakers are traitors to The Dead Pharaoh, so Will summons Take Me Out to join in.

Chris hides himself and Ironspy inside the bullet that shot the man in the duster. Take Me Out removes Harvey's skin, and in response Chili throws the rib she was chewing at him with [[Little Lies as Virginia blinds him with light. The waiter runs and hides. Harvey is at severe risk of losing all his fluids, so rips open the jugular man in the duster's boneless body with Here It Goes Again to shower in his blood. Blood also hits and dissolves the furniture and guests.

Will Price appears from behind Harvey and moves to attack him again with Take Me Out, this time removing his brain. Virginia takes temporary command of the Eidolon and diverts it to attack a nearby fake waitress instead. Chris, still inside the bullet in the man in the duster's body, launches it like a rail gun using Ironspy's electricity straight into Will. This knocks over Will and kills the man in the duster, and Harvey's skin returns. Will launches a final attack by biting the veins on his own wrist, causing a similar wound on Take Me Out. This cuts the wires that run down its wrist, and it starts spraying fluid that causes any organ it touches to turn intangible.

This also starts dissolving the restaurant, so the waiter summons Dustland Fairytale and turns all the dust into a giant dragon. Chili starts attacking the waiter, and Chris puts Ironspy inside Here It Goes Again. Harvey throws it through the dragon, and Chris discharges electricity from the pinball to force the dust to lose its form. The entire illusion fades and they're in an abandoned warehouse. Take Me Out is still spraying fluid, so Virginia shoots it with a laser, killing it and Will.

Appearances

 * Cecilia Citadel / Fortune Teller
 * Chili the Fox / Little Lies
 * Chris Masters / Ironspy
 * Dusty Collins / Dustland Fairytale (First & Last Appearance)
 * Harvey D. Godlove / Here It Goes Again
 * Josh and Emily Brown (First & Last Appearance)
 * Lady Luck / Poker Face
 * Mason Norman / Bones
 * Virginia Valentine / Only The Good Die Young
 * Will Price / Take Me Out (First Appearance)