Before he could yell "Hey, I'm no burglar!" thinking he'd activated a new kind of alarm system, a terrible humming surrounded Mike that almost caused him to black out. He was forced to cover his ears, but nothing helped. Deciding to try and relax, he put his arms down to his sides. As he did so, colored light particles engulfed him and seemed to penetrate his entire being.
Mike could then neither speak nor see. He felt completely paralyzed and terribly ill. A ripping pain shot through him beginning at his stomach, then, mercifully, consciousness left him. Jeanie, who had been standing near the control panel, watching it, and, Mike's almost every move, screamed as loudly as she could and covered her mouth in shock as her new friend disappeared before her very eyes.
"Dr. Cooper! Dr. Cooper!" Jeanie screamed as she joined her friends in the other protective room.
"Yeah, we know!" Cooper gulped, now busy with the panel since it had begun to cool down a bit. "There's somebody coming through the thing! What happened? Who in the hell is it, a man from outer space or something? That area was clear when I left it. Of all the...." He gently but quickly adjusted the stabilizer. The colored particles appeared on the receiving station but with the outline of a person sketched into them, then faded.
 "Jesus!" Cooper swore, fighting desperately to solidify the particles back into who or what they were supposed to be.
After tense moments everyone in the room sighed in relief as the form brightened to clarify almost perfectly the body of Mike Montaine on the exact beam circle he'd left on the other transporting station. He faded one second more.
"Who in the hell IS that?" Cooper yelled.
"It's the new janitor, sir," Jeanie stammered, shaking all over beside him. "his name is Mike Montaine."
Cooper's lips formed a perfect 'o' as he pieced the name and his earlier conversation with McCree together. Mike then fully materialized on the platform. The lights, noise and particles vanished as quickly as they'd come. The boy had disappeared in the process of falling in a faint. His eyes were still open, and his pupils rolled up into his head. He fell forward like he weighed a ton, completely missing the steps. He fell off the platform, his face smashing into the concrete floor below.
"Oh, no!" Cooper gasped. He ran out from behind the glass room and bent down to check the boy's pulse. He looked up at the others rushing to help; "And I think I've killed him!"
"I'll call the clinic, sir!" Jeanie managed to say as she ran to the phone, in tears.
Dr. Cooper bravely choked back a sob as he knelt by Mike's pale form. It seemed the entire future lay on the floor beside him.