Traveling to the Fourth Dimension

The light beamed through the window onto Jess.  Or at least she thought she was Jess.  Everything in the laboratory in which she was created was based on electronics and hardware, not names.  No one really cared if you were named Jess or Bob or #4379.   For Jess, the whole world consisted of electricity and circuitry.  She was a small beetle, but she was entirely electronic.  The electronic creatures in the laboratory had been created from substances found in outer space.  Mathonog and Soseph had made them to study the substances and see if they could put them to good use.  Jess was no different.

Jess did not have the faintest idea why, but she sensed something very bad was going to happen today.  Then she remembered: it was the testing day for her.  Today they were going to be experimenting with her.  Not many survived test day.  Then they came.

Mathonog sat down.  He had given up waiting for Soseph.  He was currently trying to get his robot-dog away from his computer but he decided it was best to just turn it off and destroy it.  It was very tiring work and he needed some rest.  Before he went to sleep he went over to turn off his computer.  Just as he was about to turn it off, a holo-message appeared.  It showed Soseph.

“I found the Shattering Device,” Soseph said without uttering a single greeting, as usual.  He continued, “I tried it out but there was still one thing standing in our way, and that thing is a human named Martin Parnes.  I am sure that will not be a problem, but--  The REAL problem is that he is invading our territory.  That would not be so bad by itself.  We would just have to find him and destroy all entrances to the fourth dimension, or any other dimension he may have found a warp to.  The big problem is that he seems to have brought every single Earthling with him!  Visit my ship as soon as possible so we can figure out a plan.  End of transmission.”

Mathonog sat down, exhausted.  He decided then that he was way too tired, and it would have to wait.  He sat down on his lounger and drifted off to sleep.

They strapped Jess down to a wall.  They were robots also, but they had been created to perform experiments, not to be experimented on.  The electronic screwdriver came closer and closer to Jess’ face.  Jess could not stand it any longer.  She felt as if she was going to burst.  She wondered why, if she was created to be experimented on, they had to give her a brain.  Why did she have to feel life so fully before she had it torn away from her?

The screwdriver just barely touched Jess’ skin and it turned white with heat.  The robot holding the screwdriver started to melt from the heat that was radiating from Jess.  The second robot saw what was happening, and did not want to get close to Jess.  It walked away to tell Mathonog that they had a very big problem.  When Mathonog came back and stopped at the testing table, there was no bug to be found.  There was just a great, big, hole melted in the window.  Once the robot had explained what Jess had done to the other robot, Mathonog could not believe his ears.  The material these robots were made out of was supposed to be fire-proof!  It melted?  With a creature like that out in space, who knows what it could do?