"I don't believe I did that!" Mike said to Dr. Cooper one afternoon in the lab. He was holding two small metal bars that he had just fused together with his bare hands!
Mike took one from him that looked like copper and the other some kind of aluminum alloy.
"O.k., here goes nothing!" he sighed. He held them with their facing ends touching, and closed both his hands around the ends that met. As he presed on the metal lightly, a glow appeared around his hands for a few moments. When it disappeared, he closed his eyes, and leaned back on the table edge for a second. Then, he opened his hands. A single metal bar crashed to the floor! Cooper bent down to pick it up and studied it, in awe. He touched the fused section, and brought his finger back quickly, feeling the heat from it.
"How do you DO that?" he asked.
"I don't know," Mike honestly explained, "I just think about them melting together, and they DO it!"
"Are you getting tired, or would you like to try some more I have here?"
"I'm fine," the boy assured him. He rubbed his hands together rapidly. "I'm anxious to find out what else I can do. What's next, Doc?"
Dr. Cooper rummaged through a pile of assorted metal bars and what looked like junk on the table behind them. He found two bars that interested him, and gave them to his companion.
"If you can fuse these, I will certainly be amazed!"
Mike relaxed again, and was beginning to do as he was asked, when the sound of a man shouting made him jump and drop the metal.
"What the...." Dr. Cooper gasped. A technician ran in, calling for him.
"Dr. Cooper! There's been a special announcement on the radio, telling everyone to turn on their televisions to the Special Emergency Channel for an important message!" The man cried. "I've been telling everyone I can about it. It sounds like something really serious!"
"O.k., I'll be down to the cafeteria in a minute. Go on ahead. Thanks for letting me know."
"Yes, sir!" the man smiled, and left.
"Come on, people!" Dr. Cooper instructed his workers, "Let's all go and see what this is all about. Everyone meet me in the cafeteria!"