BOX: The Security Station

They walked into a small room filled with flat-screen monitors. One of them showed the lab in which Tim was in, but the person on the screen was no longer Tim. Instead, it was large-breasted woman with long blond hair and a killer figure. She looked confused, looking this way and that, probably trying to figure out where she was and maybe how to get out. "That's Tim," David said, pointing at the screen. "Well, I mean, it *was* Tim." Richard used the controls in front of him to point the camera towards the object as much as it could. "The object isn't glowing anymore. Maybe it's safe to go in there." "Do *you* want to take that chance?" David asked. "The object could just activate again at any time. I was in there for less than a minute the first time and looked what it did to me. If I would have stayed any longer, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now." "I see your point," Richard said. "But we have to do *something*."