Smiley giggled, popping into a corner of the room as a bouncy ball.  "Sure," she said.  "Aliens, huh?  Let me see what I can do about that."  The entire wall disappeared into a sequence of binary, numbers collapsing away to reveal more floating numbers way off in the distance, presumably the very edge of the mostly empty area that was being generated in the node.  Smiley may not be fantastic at hacking, but she still had all sorts of knowledge about coding, and over the ball's head, various code swirled as she concentrated.<br/><br/>The area that appeared was pretty much stock, a 1950s version of what looked to be an alien chamber downloaded off the Matrix.  It was very dark, with various computer screens belting out rapid text in an incomprehensible language.  Yet from deep within as she worked, a deep, gurgling laugh leapt forward, with tentacles reaching out from within without warning or mercy.