Q: What are the names of the vessel located in the villus that lines the small intestine?

A: We sent three vessels down into your bowels, The Gotham, The Metropolis, and The Kandor. As you may have already guessed, many of our scientists are big fans of comic books. That's how we came up with the names for the vessels, and with the plan itself.

We shrunk three nuclear submarines down to microscopic size, inserted them into your bloodstream and sent them to into your digestive system in the hopes that they would be able to quickly find and destroy the cancer in your colon. There's no time for surgery or chemotherapy. Our plan was your only hope.

In retrospect, we probably should have asked your permission for this wildly dangerous, experimental procedure. But you looked so peaceful in your sleep. We didn't want to wake you. Your son gave us permission. I know he's only eight, but he was all excited for us to send these vessels into your body, especially once he heard the names. I guess he's a big fan of comic books as well. He even wanted to go along, in one of the vessels, in the Kandor. We decided to let him. Who could say no to that face?

Here's where things get a little, well, a little ... funny. Your boy, excited as he was, really had no place in a nuclear submarine, shrunken down to microscopic size. It seems he went a little ... bananas down there and started pulling on levers and pressing buttons. One thing led to another and all three vessels were destroyed.

The good news is that, before your son went mad and everyone died, they found and removed your cancer. Turns out there wasn't much at all. In fact, there was so little we easily could have removed it with surgery. But, since our men were already there, we figured we'd let them handle it. They were so excited to fire those microscopic missiles.

The bad news is that we were only able to shrink the vessels for 12 hours. Even though they have been destroyed, there is still a lot of scrap metal and bits of missile and chunks of people floating around your body. They will all return to normal size, in about half an hour.

Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go. We have to leave now and get very far away, very quickly. It has been a pleasure having you as a patient. Good-bye.

Don't bother to get up. You have been restrained.