"Yeah, we know. Look, this is the best explanation we could come up with for how you got here. And it wasn't a superball. It was metal."
"Oh, metal. Why didn't you say so in the fiwst place! You know, I had a metal supewball once. It didn't wowk vewy good, so I stuck it on the King of Town's ice cweam and he thought it was a chewwy and ate it."
"Well I think- wait, what! I don't remember that ever happening!"
"Yeah, me eithew. I think I just made that up. So, you stawt this thing up, the metal thing conducticates the enewgies and does something weiwd, and I just walk at it same as befowe?
"Uh, basically…" Mike turned briefly to Matt. "Is it just me, or is he actually acting smarter than usual?"
Matt shrugged. "'Nother side effect?"
"Okay, so what do I do to get it wowking."
"Well, why not start by turning this thing on. I'm guessing you stand right in front… there. Now don't move." Matt plugged in the computer and hit the power button. Everyone froze, waiting.
"Nothing is happening, Mike. I think you bwoke it again."
"Shhh… you hear that?" Mike listened eagerly.
"Yeah… what is it?" Matt glanced around the room to find the noise's source.
"I don't heaw nothing." Homestar walked closer to the computer and listened. This time he could hear a faint whine. Oh, wait… it sounds like it's coming fwom the computew scween." Homestar stuck his hand out and tapped the monitor. The surface of the glass rippled like water. "Cool! Huh-?" Suddenly Homestar was yanked forward through the monitor. There was a rush of wind and a faint concussion of air. Matt and Mike were soon left staring at an empty desk. Homestar Runner was gone, and so was the computer.
"Well, let's go see if the site's back up. I think we did it!" Matt slapped Mike on the back and hurried into an adjacent office.
As Matt and Mike left the room and shut the door, a small metal ball rolled off of the desk and into the trash can.