They use a small helicopter to land atop the strange machine, glimpsing its complex inner workings before being forced to leave as the machine begins to move, and fly back to LabCentral. There, the possessed Dr. Eliot, who has lists of power stations and atom-bomb arsenals around the world, telepathically directs the machine, which has been named Kronos by the news media, to methodically attack power plants in Mexico, draining all their energy. In doing so Kronos grows larger with every energy-absorption episode, consuming more and more power as it moves, unhindered, from one power source to the next. Four Mexican Air Force fighter planes attack, but the ever-growing alien machine easily destroys them and continues on its energy-draining rampage.