Checking the back of the van, he found a broken wrench and a screwdriver. "We'll need some more tools if we're going to keep the van," he said to Max, who nodded.

Worse than I thought, Kyle thought as he looked over the engine. Twenty minutes later he looked up and said, "Well, there's good news and bad news.”

"Good news first, please," Maria said.

"The good news is that we've just witnessed a miracle: the van making it to Colorado," he said.

"But what's wrong with it?" Max asked.

"How much time have we got?" Kyle replied. Then, before Max could reply, he said, "Well, just about all of the belts and hoses need to be replaced. I figure you could spruce them up with your powers. However, two of the pistons aren't working. Now, that could be a tune-up, but I would need a shop to be sure. 1 also have a bad feeling about the starter, and finally, the thing that stopped us cold is the timing chain. It's busted.”

"How bad is that?" Michael said.

"On a foreign car? This old? Out in the middle of nowhere? Pretty bad. Even if we could find the part, I would need a full shop and a few hours to put it in," he said.

"But now that you know what it is, can't we just zap it?" Maria said. "In case you haven't noticed, we've been driv- ing all night and all day. I'm hungry and tired.”

"I don't think it's going to be that simple," Max said.

"Compared with putting a windshield back together, this should be easy," Maria said.

"But they know what a windshield looks like," Kyle said.

"To rearrange molecules of something, we have to be able to see it in our minds, or have a sense of how it works.

I think I was engineered with an intuitive sense about how the body works, which is why I can heal people," Max said.

"Unfortunately, an old car is more complicated than a piece of glass," Kyle said.

"How long would it take for you to teach me everything I needed to know to understand all the repairs?" Max asked.