**Action** - "Impounded in Null space"

Who: Acting-Captain Phil, Seymour and Alandra
Where: Phil's Office
When: Just before the Fools Gold crashed
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Alandra glared, "Don't get any about me, I'm going out with Peter..."
Alandra suddenly blurted, she immediately covered her mouth, a shocked
look appearing on her face. "You weren't supposed to know that"
Alandra quickly said. While both Phil and Seymour were looking at her
with shock on their faces....
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Seymour scratched the back of his head.
"Erm… Miss, I… um, well… who's Peter?"
Phil looked equally as blank.
Alandra rolled her eyes. She'd just bared her soul and they didn't
even care.
"Okay, so back to the point!" Said Phil, seeing the conversation going
offtrack and doing his best Captain impression.
"Listen, I've been involved with the SCTP before, and they are pretty
ruthless. If they decide that we're committing a time offence…"
"Which we are." Said Seymour.
"Thanks." Said Phil sarcastically.
"Well we are! We're selfishly altering the timeline for our own benefits."
"For the benefit of the human race!" Said Phil.
"Exactly, for OUR benefit!" said Seymour. Then started to question
what his own point really was.
Phil shook his head and continued. "Anyway, if they think we are, then
they'll stop at nothing, they'll probably wipe us from time altogether."
Phil was distracted by Mike Gostuk radioing him from the Drive Room.
"Sir, the JMC Fools Gold has just landed… crashed in Landing bay three."
Phil picked up his wall phone.
"Thanks Mike, what about Amber and Jay?"
"We picked up their escape pods a few minutes ago."
"Okay good! Now tell Johnny B Goode, or Dean, or Kara, or whoever's at
the helm to turn the ship around and put some distance between us and
the Hymenoptera, and especially as far away from that temporal
disturbance you scanned earlier. I want to be clear to jump out of the
sector within the hour."
"Ok sir!"
Phil put down the phone and turned back to Seymour and Alandra.
"Well, mission accomplished. We've saved Earth. All we have to do now
is make sure the SCTP don't undue all our work!"
The ship suddenly rocked and Alandra fell into Phil's arms.
Seymour tripped and fell, but before hitting the floor suddenly
realised he was falling in slow motion.
"Whhhhhaaaaaaattttssssss gggggooooooiiiiinnnnnggggg ooooonnnnn?"
Seymour said slowly. Time appeared to be slowing down his words.
Phil reached for his two-way radio with the Drive Room.
"Mmmmmiiiiikkkkkeeeeee. Rrrrreeeepppppoooooorrrtttt!"
"wweeee'rrrrreeee uuuunnnndddeeeerrrr aaaattttaaaaccccckkkkk
sssssiiiiirrrrrr. Aaaaaa SSSSCCCCCCTTTTTPPPPPPPP sssshhhhiiiiiipppppp
jjjuuuuuussssssttttt dddeeeeccccllllooooaaaakkkeeeedddd.
Tttthhhheeeeyyy hhhiiittt uuusss wwwiiiittthhh aaaaa
tttteeeeemmmppppooorrrraaaaalllll wwwweeeeaaaapppooooonnn."
They very very slowly made their way to the Drive Room.
On the way, Phil rang Jack Febuggure, the ship's defence officer.
"JJJJaaaaacccckkk!!! FFFFIIIIIRRRREEEEE aaaaaalllllllll
ttttuuurrrrreeettttttttsssss!"
Who: Phil Febuggure, Drive Room staff
Where: Drive room
When:
By the time they got to the Drive Room, time seemed to have got back
to normal.
Although Phil walked in to a perfectly still room. The busy Drive-Room
crew were stood around, paused. They looked like they'd been frozen to
the spot.
But one woman stood in the middle of the room.
Phil recognised her uniform. STCP.
She turned to look at him. "So. The infamous Phil Febuggure." She
said powerfully. Her hair was long and blonde, in fact it seemed to
shimmer like a slowed-down waterfall. Obviously she was from some
distant future where time could be manipulated for such trivial matters.
She checked her clipboard. "I've got everything there is to know about
you on this file. Got it from a race called the `Archivers' you know."
Phil folded his arms.
"Why are you on my ship. And what have you done to my crew?"
"Ah, don't worry. They're just paused."
She urged Phil to sit, but he stayed standing. The woman finally
introduced herself.
"I'm Dawn Keebals, Space Corps Temporal Police. She held out her hand
to shake it."
Phil wasn't so sure he could trust her so stood back.
"Mister Febuggure, you should be glad. Normally when we find people
messing with the timeline we instantly erase them from time. But this
is a special case. We're going to need a while to decide your fate."
"But by changing the timeline we saved millions!" Phil said.
"And that will be held into account." Said the woman.
"But?"
"But we need a few moments to decide." Said the woman. "So we're
impounding you and your crew in `Null' space until further notice."
She pressed a button on her communicator and the Blue Dwarf
disappeared from normal time in a flash.
From the perspective of the Hymenoptera fleet outside and any other
observer, they would have seen the Blue Dwarf vanish. But from Phil's
position on the bridge, all he saw was the view outside of the window
change colour from black to white.
"The stars… space… its turned white?"
The woman grinned. "Yes don't worry. Its because we've just towed you
to our impound area in Null space. You now don't exist in normal time.
Just wait here until we decide what should be done with you."
"How long?!" Said Phil.
The woman known as Dawn grinned again "Remember, Time is relative!"
She walked past him and out of the drive room, but as she disappeared
completely, turned to say "Oh, and the normal laws of physics and time
don't apply here. So don't worry if things are a little bizarre."
She disappeared and the crew started moving again.
Alandra and Seymour ran in behind Phil. "What's going on? Why is space
all white?"
"Apparently we've been impounded in Null space!" said Phil. "Where the
normal laws of physics don't apply."
"That explains it then." Said Seymour.
"Explains what?"
"Why you've turned into a dancing tortoise, and why I've got a cocker
spaniel for a leg."
<Tag to anyone! Normality doesn't apply anymore, so ANYTHING can happen!>