"What goes on?" Norris stormed.
"You are now on Earth Two," said Bronson. "And if you want to get back play it smart."
"Don't threaten me—who are these?"
"Three thugs from Earth Three."
"Oh fine," jeered Norris. "This sounds like a real game. Now look—"
"You look," snapped Bronson. He set the controls and snapped the button and the scene outside of the laboratory disappeared. In its place was a tall pillar of flame.
"That," said Bronson, "is the pillar of atomic flame at Alamogordo, caused on Earth Two by the original Manhattan Project experiment in Nineteen forty-five." He spun the dials once more, and the city of Washington was visible at a distance. Its pillar of flame roared high into the sky. "That's Earth Two, Washington," he snapped at Norris.
"But what can you do?" asked Norris, completely dumbfounded.
"I can fight back—now," said Bronson harshly. "And you can sit in a corner and figure out a means for a man to come to official quarters to tell of an extra-space invasion without being clapped in the nuthouse!"
He turned from Norris and adjusted the steering controls.