The Way Home

Why are you staring at me like that? It's creeping me out.

Are you the researcher working for Doctor Bing? Please tell me how to get to the OSSS Secret Base.

Shhh! Not so loud!

I could get abducted by aliens at any moment. Don't draw attention to me!

I see... (Interesting choice of clothes for someone who doesn't want to be noticed.)

Staying here will get both of us abducted, no thanks to you. I'll help you on one condition: take me with you.

Fine by me. Where to?

I will guide you. Please board the OS3A Machine and escort me to the base.

You do have an OSSS Machine driving license right?

You won't be able to find the OSSS Secret Base without my help.

Welcome, welcome, to my humble abode! I am Doctor Bing! Thank you for escorting my researcher here!

What is this place?

Geez, you should learn some telephone etiquette!

The OSSS is a special Intelligence Organization within Omega Sector. Our mission is to collect intelligence about aliens and this is our base.

Excuse me? Intelligence about aliens? Why?

You know that scientists are being kidnapped, right? General Maestro views these kidnappings as an act of aggression and is preparing for a full-scale war. Unfortunately, we can't win against the aliens with our current technology...

Then let's flee!

There is ALWAYS a way...

Yes. There is a way. We must obtain the energy source for the Bing Machine-Alpha, which I'm developing as we speak. To run, it requires a substance called Crystanol, which we theoretically won't be able to develop for another 50 years...

I'm sensing there's a twist...

Indeed. If we build a Time Machine, we can travel to the future and obtain the Crystanol. Then we'll have a fully functional Bing Machine-Alpha and stand a chance against the aliens.

I'm sensing there's another twist...

Fiddling with science has fiddled with your mind. A Time Machine? HA!

No twist. We simply have to build a Time Machine. Easy enough. The researchers located in every town can lead you back to me whenever you wish.

Now, do you want to help build the Time Machine?

Come see me whenever you are ready!

Ah, but the aliens were listening in. I had no choice but to behave that way. I do apologize if I seemed brash.

Flee? Ha! To where? Outer space? Do you see the irony in that?

Ah, the youths of today have so little imagination. Great things are possible if you only believe...