Dib fell asleep in the chair where he sat, and jolted awake as a number of medical agents entered, clipboards in hand. Tak was just barely awake, but allowed them to prick her arms and run her over with X-ray wands. A nurse explained that she had already gone through an MRI and a CAT scan, but she would have to be moved again for something they were planning.

"And what is that?" Dib asked.
"We doubt the public would let us, but as of right now, the collective memory is being wiped," she clucked.
"The collective memory?"
The nurse started explaining it as if he was three. "We do have access to the supernatural here, Agent. The evidence is being destroyed by other means, like video and photos. But our other branches are making everyone forget they ever saw this thing," she patted the bed, indicating that Tak was the thing.
"And why is this required?" Dib felt a chill run down his spine.
"Because we aren't sure if the public will like what we're doing to their only legitimate alien," the woman said, and refused to say anymore.

Dib followed them as they led her down into a room that looked as if they were prepping for surgery. "No, no, no!" Dib said. "Is this some kind of autopsy? You're not cutting her up!" His voice rose to almost a shout, and a doctor placed his hand on his shoulder.
"My boy, this is a surgery of sorts, but I can assure you she won't be cut up."
Tak turned and beckoned Dib over with a hooked finger. "It's all right," she rasped, "I heard about it last night."
"What will they be doing?" Dib asked. "I have a right to know, seeing as I turned you in!"
Tak laughed as a mother does when her small child thinks they are being clever. "I don't want them to do it, child. I really wish that they wouldn't." A sudden look of panic crossed her face, as if she had realized for the first time what was to be done to her. "Help me," she rasped, almost inaudibly.

A nurse took Dib by the arm and led him out. "You can come by in a few hours, Agent, but you have no place here now."
As he was shoved out, Tak's voice rose to a scream. "Help me! My people have left me, and you have as well!"

Dib sat in Tak's unoccupied room for three hours. A nurse came in around the second hour and briefly explained what was happening. "Our specimen is very weak, you see, and we figured it a waste for it to die. What we're doing is implanting it with proteins and such, things that we have inside of us. We're making it immune to anything that may go wrong, so that its altered body chemistry allows it to survive our treatment better." She gave a sweet smile. "However, we do need it alive, that's for sure. Its kind, it sounds just fascinating, and we want to know about life outside this little planet of ours."
"I don't think her kind is something you really want to know about," Dib murmured truthfully.
"Oh, but its body is simply something of the likes of which we've never seen!" The nurse's hands flew into the air. "It's almost half robot, really. Fascinating, fascinating." She shook her head and smiled. "Really, it doesn't even appear to have reproductive organs. Fancy that, will you! Just one big super-organ and a heart!" Her eyes shone with the passion scientists and doctors get when given a hint of something new and different. "Yes, we'll pry the information we need from it and continue with our experiment."
"Experiment?" Dib echoed.
"Oh, nothing. But I will have to ask that you leave the Network for at least the next 14 days. You got us this creature, but we have the most rights over it now. Now leave us to what we do best, hmm?