When looking for "exclusive information" on the whereabouts of his next target, Decker, Spike finds himself in the midst of a bar fight. While beating the crap out of a trio of dirt bag bounty hunters, Spike makes friends with a trucker named VT, AKA the "Heavy Metal Queen." Faye encounters and misses their target and Jet gives Spike a call to go after the guy.

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     One of VT's friends is hit by Spike's bounty head and VT receives a lead on where Decker is heading. She calls Spike who realizes that VT is in great danger because their target is hauling heavy explosives into the Linus Mines, an asteroid with unstable reactors. Spike and Faye head out to the mines only to find that their bounty head is dead. The three narrowly escape the collapsing mines.