Ghost of Pancake\'s Past - pt2

Who: Justin and Potential
Where: Space
When: October 2108
Potential dragged Justin through space, surrounded of course by the temporal
forcefield to give them both enough air to breathe. Potential stopped and
theyboth hung in space.
"Remember this?" Potential asked, pointing to some blue spaceships.
Justin saw several hundred blue ships, each one a replica of the Blue Dwarf.
"Ahh…" He said. "There was an accident and lots of versions of the Blue Dwarf
from different parallel universes all showed up at the same place."
"An accident YOU caused." Potential said.
"Maybe."
Potential took them to the Blue Dwarf they had named Blue Dwarf #388.
"Oh yeah this is the one where everyone had no arms or legs!" Justin said,
watching a version of Captain Chrysler wobble around.
"Also…. I remember seeing that message written on the wall." He said. "…and it
got me into big trouble!"
Justin and Potential watched as they saw Callum, Lester and himself enter the
ship.
<snip>
This Blue Dwarf looked like the rest, although the first crewmember
they saw took them by surprise. It was Captain Jay Chrysler, but minus
any arms or legs. He seemed happy enough though, and wobbled along on
the bottom of his torso.
Callum explained what they had come for and the Captain let them board
the ship. They headed straight for the corridor where the P.E.N.I.S was.
As they walked, Justin thumbed the controls on his Psi-scanner. He
wanted to check for lifesigns, just to make sure they weren't taken by
surprise. Then he looked up and noticed something on the wall. It was
scribbled like graffiti. "Corridor of infinite perversions." Then
there was an arrow pointing in the direction they were going.
"Guys. Wait!" He called out.
"What is it?" Asked Lester, stopping to turn around. So did Callum.
Justin paused, and as he did so the door behind him closed quickly. As
did the door at the other end of the corridor.
They were trapped.
"What happened?"
"We're trapped!" Said Lester.
Justin moved his eyes left and right in fright. "Oh my god."
Callum walked over and pushed Justin in the shoulder. "Look what you
did now. You've got us trapped!"
"I didn't do it! I didn't do anything!"
<end snip>
Justin turned to Potential. "Those smegging words! That's stupid smegging
corridor, it got me into this mess! Just tell me, who wrote them?"
Potential said nothing. Time moved forward however and the other Blue Dwarf's
disappeared, leaving only one. Potential pulled Justin through the hull and onto
the Promenade. A large Hymenoptera was stomping around, destroying the place.
"That's Rosette!" Justin said. "This was only a few weeks ago."
Potential nodded. He pointed to Justin, who was peering out from a shop window.
"You're about to check in your pocket." He said.
"Oh?" Said Justin, and watched himself.
<snip>
Justin had been following Rosette closely ever since she had started attacking
people. He peered out from safety, his eyes bulging with the awe he felt for
her.
Also he had another agenda. He again picked out the note he'd been keeping in
his pocket. "You have potential" he read to himself, then plunged it back into
his trousers. "Yes I do!" he said certainly. He'd not spent much time into
wondering who had been sending him these messages, and why they were doing it.
If he did he'd realise he was being manipulated very well.
<end snip>
Justin looked at Potential. "Potential!" He said. "Was that a clue?"
Potential nodded, then took a notebook from his own pocket and wrote something
on it. Then he turned around the pad to show Justin.
"The corridor of Infinite perversions." Justin read aloud. "The handwriting is
the same!! It was you this whole time?"
Potential said nothing. But he grabbed Justin's hand and whisked him back to the
snow covered planet of the present.
"This is the mime planet." Justin said. "Wait. So you have been writing those
messages? Why?"
Potential said nothing.