The Ranch

The Ranch is a US Military Base, mainly used for testing.

Description
The ranch is next to a pine forest at the bottom of a cliff in Carmel Valley. It's rectangular in shape, with towers at all four corners. Most of the Ranch, including General Gwendolyn DiMarco's office and most of the testing facilities are underground. The workers' bedrooms, which are a lot like hotel rooms, are on the ground or first floor, next to the usually empty parking lot.

Appearances
Monster

Dekka is escorted to the Ranch. She gets to sleep in a bedroom opposite the parking lot, where she finds out that it is bugged. A few days later, when three soldiers break in, simulating gunfire, Dekka morphs for the first time and accidentally kills them, plus her cat, Edith Windsor.

Dekka gets disobedient, so Tom Peaks freezes her hands in concrete and is put in a cell for testing. Dr. Park helps her escape when she gets taken away by nurses. She runs away into a different testing facility, where she finds sentient heads of children aged 10-16, including Lashawn Wilkins. Thomas Peaks sends Carl Pullings after her. Carl charges at Dekka in his morph, but instead of killing her, he begs for death. Dekka kills him with her shredding ability, then escapes. Armo takes down a helicopter and joins Dekka.

Villain

In Villain, Gwendolyn DiMarco - who is now a General - moves her office underground so she could get closer to the testing facilities and because she didn't like Tom Peaks's office. Mike Atwell comes in and talks to her about the FBI's Ten Most Wanted and their powers.

Later in the book, Shade Darby, Cruz Rojas, and Malik Tenerife infiltrate the building. Malik uses his power, causing all the Ranch members and some of their mutants to suffer indescribable pain. Shade then ran in and filmed what they were doing in there. When she got to the control room, she opened all the cells. Most of the mutants ran away instantly, but some wanted revenge and attacked all the guards as well as destroying most of the building.