Weird Science

You run your hands through your hair. "This is so overwhelming" You mutter. "I feel like I need to be a rocket scientist to take it all in."

Benny and June look at each other a moment. "I... might be able to help you there." Benny said, moving towards what you?ve come to think of as 'his' door. You follow him a couple of steps and then turn back to look at your virtual aunt.

"Oh I know what you're thinking. There will be time enough for my old relics later."

"Are you sure, Auntie?"

"Positive." She said firmly. "And for the love of God, drop all that auntie nonsense. Just call me June."

"Okay... June." You manage a smile as Benny gestures you towards the door. A few brief security measures later you entered your uncle's legacy.

Despite his scatterbrained appearance, your uncle's side of the vault is almost obsessively organized. "We have robotics over there," He commented gesturing as you walk down the central aisle. "Chemistry there, nanotechnology there, oh you'll figure it all out in short order. What you need is there." He pointed straight ahead. "Neuroscience. The brain is all about electricity and synapses. I found a way to rewrite the way the brain works!"

You can't help but smile at your uncle's infectious glee as he strides over to a laptop computer connected to what appears to be an old style bonnet hair dryer. "No offense, Benny, but it looks ridiculous."

Benny beamed. "I know, and I thought you'd say that. Hell, I can't help thinking that and I built the damn thing but the proof is in the pudding. Tell me something you'd like to know, and I can program it into your brain."

"All right." You say after some thought. "The Japanese language."

"Jolly good!" Benny nodded at the computer and lines of text filled the screen, an eerie reminder that the man before is not your uncle, merely an extension of the computer that wears his face. The both of you peer at the display screen but you can only make out a handful of words here and there. "Right then, lad. Take a seat."

You glance up at Benny and seat yourself warily in the chair. A moment later the bonnet settles over your head and you hear a low hum coming from the device as a buzzing fills your skull.

The device hums down and the bonnet rises up allowing you to stagger out of the chair. "So then, did it work?" Benny asked as you grab one of the old multilingual science journals that were stacked about. Flipping to a Japanese article you read it aloud once in flawless Japanese and again in perfectly translated English. "So then, let's down to brass tacks. Since I can do quite anything to your brain with this device... what do you want me to do?"