When things go South Part 2

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“What would happen if the drive exploded in the time field?”
Of course no one had an answer to this, or any ideas on how to prevent it if it did happen, so they just left it at “Let's hope it doesn't happen.”
But, of course, it just did.
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The crew of the Blue Dwarf were gathered around on the beach, the artificial sun beginning to ease itself in the cycle of a simulated night. The sky was full of stars from unfamiliar constellations and the glow of bright nebulae in the vast distance. They were gathered in a wide semi circle around great bonfire, not far from which was a grill that had been churning out flame cooked food since early in the day, now it was nearing the evening time, and coals grew cooler. Out over the holographic ocean there was a vast expanse of nothing. Just the projection of a picturesque sun setting over perfectly blue sea.
Jay sat himself down in the sand near Cassandra, where she had been tanning herself the afternoon through, smiling to himself. She deserves a rest, he thought, we all do. He took a swig of his beer and offered her a drink. She gladly accepted, her sunglasses perched atop her head. “You seem to be enjoying yourself.” she said, with the pleased air of someone who had just slept after days of exhaustion. “It isn't every day we can actual 'live' without having to try and stay 'alive'.”
She handed him back the beer. “How about you? The Nanos still going?”
“A little, but they've just about run their course I think. It should be long before they're out of my system.”
They both looked out over the ocean and into the setting sun. “Beautiful, isn't it?”
“Yes, it is. Hard to believe it isn't legit.”
They stared off for a moment more, Jay let his thoughts drift a bit. Cassandra squinted into the sky. “What's that?” she asked, tapping Jay on the arm. “Hm?”
“That, there.”
She pointed towards a faint golden shimmer in the distance. “I don't kno-”
Suddenly they heard a sound like tearing paper to their right. Jay was instinctual climbing to his feet when a swirling yellow vortex appeared a few meters off the ground, and about 20 feet or so away “Get back!” he shouted, pulling Cassandra to her feet, and waving the other crew away. “That's a time fissure!” he said, “A tear in the fabric of reality... Anything could happen!”
Just then a bowl of cereal dropped from the portal and it vanished as quickly as it had appeared. “Like...cornflakes.” he frowned, just as puzzled as anyone would be if a bowl of cornflakes fell from the sky at them. Then, back over the ocean, they heard a sound like thunder. All turning to look, they saw another portal, the same in type, but much, much larger. “Oh no...”said White Wolf, “..and I was having such a good time..”
Out of the portal came a large, silver object, about half the size of a tour bus, that then proceeded to rip through the sky, leaving holographic distortion in it's wake. It looked like it was on fire until it crashed into the beach about 50 meters away, shaking the ground. “Whoever's armed, with me,” said Jay, checking his pistol. White Wolfe was the first to produce a weapon from his cheek pouch, before Jamie pulled out a pistol. Ransom stood up from inspecting the anomalous corn flakes and joined the party. Jaxx came bounding up with the words, “Like, dude that was totally, like gnarly! What just happened?”
“Let's find out.” said Cass, Jay held up his hand. “You stay here and look after Black.”
“And who says I need looking after?” Dr. Black said, already on her her feet, “I'm going with you.”
“Yeah, me too.” said Cassandra sharply. Jay simply sighed, knowing better than to argue at this point. “Fine,” he said, “but if whatever that thing that just fell through the wibbly things is dangerous, haul it back to the resort.”
Without another word they set off at a jogging pace towards the wreck. When they got within 20 meters they could vaguely see the shape of a man tumble out of sideways door way. He began looking about bewilderingly at his surrounding, nearly shout some panicked curse words before turning and kicking the wreckage. At once he reached down to garb at an injured foot and began hopping around on one leg, cursing more.
They got within twenty feet of him, pointing guns and flashlight at him. Now in the light, they could see he was wear a set of blue pajamas with reddish brown stripes down the sides, no shoes, and aside from a few scrapes, bruises and sooty bits, he was outwardly alright. The man turned to them. “Did you bloody see that!?” he asked, “Where the hell did the rest of the ship go?”
“Who are you?” Jay demanded. “I mean,” the man started again, “it was here a minuet ago! I lay down to go to sleep, the next thing I know I'm falling through a time vortex with no warning at all, and now my room is in a terrible state!”
“Who are you?” Jay asked again, a bit more aggressively, “Yes I heard you the first time!”
Jay looked back at him expectantly. “Well?”
“Well what?” the man asked. “Well, who are you??”
“South!” he exclaimed, “Dr. South! And this is my bloody ship!” he gave it another swift kick, instantly regretting it. “What kind of doctor?” asked Black. “Eh?”
“I said what kind of doctor are you?” she asked again, approaching him slowly as the dwarfers slightly lowered their weapons. “I'm a biologist.” he said, exasperated. “Oh,” she started, “Another useless doctor!”
“Hey!” said Ransom, before South cut in with “Well excuse me, Missy, but I also happen to be the ship's secondary medical officer!”
“Ah, yes the ship?” Said Wolf, “You mentioned a time vortex?”
“Yes,” said South, “It was a time ship, experimental research you know.”
“Time ship? Who operated it?” Jay demanded. “A university in the year 12,053,” South said, “but where's the rest of it?”
Ransom stepped towards him, keeping about an arms length away from South, who was still evidently in shock. He produced a small device from his pocket and started scanning South with it. “I'm no expert on time travel, or your ship,” he said, “but it appears to have detonated.”
“No smeg!” said South. “Probably inside a time displacement field” said White Wolf, stepping forward and sniffing South, “I can smell it on you.”
At the sight of the giant a-temporal hamster Dr. South was mesmerized, and began to walk forward towards him. “Oh my...” he said, “...you're beautiful!”
“What??” said Wolf, surprised and turning to Jay, “Is this guy a little weird to you?”
“No, no, not like that!” South started, “But you can talk! And you're huge!”
“Hey!”
“How long did it take your species to evolve like that?”
“I'm kinda one of a kind.”
“I can imagine—hang on!”
South scrambled back into his wrecked room and emerged with his leather satchel, pulling from it a pair of scanning spectacles that looked like opera glasses. He put them on and started to walk around Wolf. “Wow!” he exclaimed, “Incredible!”
“Dude, like is this guy just a little bit, like strange to anyone else?”
South turned to the new voice and say Jaxx, his jaw dropped at the GELF shark-man and he let out a low, slow whistle. He approached him easily as the crew now though he was likely harmless, just cooky, and lowered their weapons. “Human physical features,” he started, “, but your body temperature...and your teeth!”
He was obviously impressed. “You're a shark!” he exclaimed, “No-no-no, a GELF! An incredible GELF!” he smiled, “We have GELF in 12,0053, but they're all so subtle, no one can tell them apart from the rest of us.”
“If you like him you should see Phil drunk.” Jay said aloud. “Who?” asked South, glasses still on. Before Jay could respond South exclaimed “Reggie!” and turned to run to his room, stuffing the glasses back in his pocket. “Who?”
South was rummaging around in his room at this point. “Reggie,” he said, “he's my pet beetle. Blast, I can't find him!” his voice nearing panic. “Your pet what?”
South poked his upper half out of the room again. “My pet--” just then a small flash appeared from near the edge of the group as another small portal came and went. “--beetle!” he exclaimed happily, scrambling out and onto the ground, recognizing at once his familiar and beloved pet. “Where did you get off to, huh?” he said as he scooped Reggie off the ground and into his arms.

At this point Reggie recalled his little adventure in time, which was as follows:
As the time field overloaded Reggie was sucked through time and space, landing in back garden in England in 1927, where he was confronted with a small Yorkshire terrier. “Excuse me?” asked Reggie politely, “I'm afraid I'm a bit lost, I was wondering if you could...” he trailed off as the terrier just started to bark the words “Hey! Hey! Hey you! You're new here aren't you! Well lucky for you I know everyone around here! I can even get you the good kibble if you like!”
“That's nice, but I really just need direction, you see I was with this human on a--”
“Yes! Yes I can! And we can play and play and play! Don't you wanna play? Huh? Do ya?”
“Actually I just want to--”
“Of course ya do! And I've got a shiny new ball and everything!”
“if you could just tell me what year it is I could--”
“Yep! And if you want we can--”
“Oh sod it!” Reggie shouted before disappearing into another time fissure. “Hey! Where are you going?” asked the terrier. “Flippin' idiot.” said Reggie as he flew through space-time to the resort.

The beetle chirped back Klee Klee, which was beetle for “Don't ask.”, and crawled up onto Dr. South's shoulder. “Well,” said Wolf, “if your...beetle made it here My guess would be that the rest of your ship, and whatever crew were on board were sent forward in time and space along a similar trajectory, give or take a few centuries and light years.”
“Well at least that's some good news.” said South, “By the way, I wanted to ask, when and where exactly are we?”
The Dwarfers looked at each other then at the ground. “I think we'd better discuss this by the fire while we get you patched up.” said Jay, Ransom handing South a dressing gown and a pair of slippers that had tumbled out of his room. South put them on and they walked to fire. After a few moments walking you could hear him shout the words “Three million years!?!” into the distance.

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Sorry about the long intro, I just miss writing with you guys! Also, I hope the way I made him appear doesn't interfere with anyone's plans, I just got excited and went with it.
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