In Utangaville, Africa, it took two days...

In Spayerwood, Scotland, it happened overnight...

In a small German town, it worked immediately...

In each place, people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures who thrashed about wildly, uttering weird, half-human cries - and then died a hideous death. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. Was it a sudden epidemic, an unknown virus? But to the members of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, there could only be one answer: THRUSH had discovered a deadly new weapon for world conquest.