A Twist in Time: Finale
Intracellular
Scene 6 - Aorta
Silence....
A calming aura surrounds your vehicle as you go up an incline at a slow pace - the noise of the incline is unheard as you just hear the arterial walls moving the blood vessels along. Your command center comes back online to break the silence.
"Ok folks, we are in the aorta now the superhighway for red blood cells entering the heart - one of the most powerful arteries in the body - we should be safe"
The relief can be felt throughout the probe.
You continue to climb in the aorta - at a narrow incline, but enough to feel the force of going up - and you see the blood cells traveling next to you.
"Locking onto the cardiac cells"
"Excellent - can you power up the ATP extract for the Mito?"
"Powering up"
*Screech*
Your vehicle comes to a stop at the top of the incline.
"What was that?"
"Not again"
"What is it now?
"Have we hit plaque in the artery?"
"It appears to be that way, let me just make sur-"
As the control room is trying to figure out how to get out of the plaque, you vehicle begins to crest over the incline.
"Oh gosh - it's redirecting you, can we override this?"
"Working on it"
"There's no time, they are already going down the wrong path"
Your vehicle makes a right turn and then begins the roller coaster portion of the attraction.
The music swells up..
After taking a dive to the right, you soar down a vein and towards the internal organs of the body.
"Rotation at 5 inches per sec"
"They are swirling down to the Spleen"
"In the trabecular artery"
"Hang on folks"
You glide around the trabecular artery and into the red pulp of the spleen. You pass through the central artery and into the radial artery - the swirling vessels surrounding you as you begin a sharp turn down into the open circulation and into the liver.
Intracellular
Scene 7 - Interior Organs
In the liver - you soar around the portal triad of the bile duct, hepatic portal vein and hepatic portal artery - you race around the sinusoids and continue to a lymph node where you are picked up at the hilum - and glide your way to the medulla and the medullary sinus.
"They are in the lymph node Dr."
"Is there anything close by? Try and guide them towards the stomach - if we can bypass that we can hit the central nervous system - that's the only way we can get them to the heart before they run out of fuel. "
"Locking onto the stomach"
You then burst out of the lymph node and out the efferent lymphatic vessel - towards the gastric pit of the stomach.
"Woo - just missed it"
"Look at all that bile - wouldn't want to be down there in the stomach acid"
"We're near the spine Dr."
"Give it all you got!"
The vehicles pause and prepare for the neuron in the CNS to fire.
"Hang on!"
You rocket from 0-35 in 2.3 seconds and fly forward through the nervous system and directly into the heart, where the brakes are pumped and you slow down on the approach.
In the grand finale scene - a giant 30 ft Animatronic heart is beating at a steady pace in front of you as you circle around and see the damaged cells. Another transition and you enter the intracellular cardiac cells and see the inactive mitochondria.
Intracellular
Scene 8 - Heart Finale
There it is - apply the ATP"
The doctors make the proper adjustments and fire in the ATP to purify the mitochondria and jump-start it to get it working again.
"Mission successful - let's get you out of there!"
You ride the beat of the heart out and into the artery, out and back through the layers of skin...you see a blinding white light and some colors around you as you burst out and back into the research lab.
"Wow - you made it! Fantastic work team. That was more than we thought, but you can never underestimate the human body, but you can also never underestimate -- human willpower - thank you for your courage today on this mission."
After disembarking from the probe, you proceed out of the unload area and back into the lobby atrium where there is a memorabilia stand and clothing section with themed shirts, magnets, pins, and more themed to Intracellular.