CHAPTER 6 After countless days of suffering, Joe awoke in a sunny room.CHAPTER 6 After countless days of suffering, Joe awoke in a sunny room. He was agonizingly stiff, swollen, and sore. He couldn't find a part of his body that didn't hurt. Dr. van Damme and several other persons stood around looking at him. Joe tried to move and discovered that his entire body was restrained. "Well it looks like our surprise is ready to be unwrapped," said Dr. van Damme." Joe's torso and legs were released. He discovered that his hands were surrounded by some type of box, his feet were in casts, and he had no feeling or freedom of movement in his extremities. "Dr. Morgan would you describe for us please your modifications to the subject." An elderly doctor came forward. "Thank you Dr. van Damme. This is a procedure we have been working on at the request of another branch of our organization. We have been able to alter the subjects fingerprints." The assembled onlookers showed great interest. "Do go on Doctor." "Well using computer controlled lasers at an oblique angle we were able to eradicate the center of the original print. An electron gun was used to, I guess burn would be the best term, a pattern onto the finger. The resultant scarring is regulated, and becomes indistinguishable from the loops and whorls of a natural print. With a sufficiently sophisticated program you can not only change someone's prints, but give him another person's." Understanding the possibilities inherent in this, the crowd murmured it's approval. Another doctor was working on releasing Joe's feet from their confinement. At Dr. van Damme's cue he explained what he had done. "What you are looking at gentlemen represents a turning point in reconstructive bone surgery. I have actually accomplished two feats here, if you'll pardon the pun. I have taken the subjects feet and rebuilt them to Dr. van Damme's specifications. What were a man's size ten wide are now a perfect woman's size eight medium. |