There's Good News, Bad News and Dark News

“All good point’s” said Holly ”But you’re forgetting one thing that out-weighs all of that”
“Which is?”
“No budget keeps Dean on Terra-Firma and out of the sky..I don’t need to tell you how much safer that makes it”
“We’re screwed…” Jay said
“There must be something we can do..” Dean said
<END SNIP>
"There is!" exclaimed Jay, "I'll explain later, but first, we need to hold a meeting of all the navigation department."
"No." said Dean, "First we need to fix this toastie machine."
"Point." said Jay
"A very valid one I felt" said Lt Thomas, reaching for a screwdriver. "It's just a loose circuit, shouldn't take too long..."
 
 
<1/2 an hour later>
"Oh, just a loose circuit he says." said Jay, half emerging from a maintenance hatch on the Raven. He looked as his arms, covered in grease, oil, and tomatos from certain ill-fated toasties. Dean crawled out after him.
"Look, I forgot about that ok? I forgot about the fact that we descided that hardwiring it into the Raven would be a good idea."
"And who's idea was that?" asked Jay, folding his arms and looking scarily like his wife.
"Yours." Dean put on a Jay accent as opposed to his Ionian drawl, "It'll be simpler in the long run, and it'll conserve energy."
Jay hit him.
Dean threw a wrench at Jay. The wrench bounced off Jay and hit the light switch. It was dark. Too dark.
"Jay." said Dean through the darkness.
"Yes?" said Jay back, through exactly the same patch of darkness.
"We've smegged up the emergency lights haven't we?"
"Yes."
"Smeg."
"Yes."
Dean sighed. "Right, well, back down into the bowels of the ship and we'll have to un-smeg them. Then we have to fix the toastie machine, then we can call a meeting."
"So." said Jay, "to recap. In the past 30 minutes all we acheived was to smeg up the lights and then turn them off."
"Well done us." said Dean, once again the sarcasm dripping from his voice, and forming a small metaphorical pool at his feet. He then slipped in this metaphorical pool and fell down into the hatchway from whence they had emerged.
"JAY?"
"Yes?" said Jay, again. He was getting quite good at it.
"Good news and bad news."
"What?"
"Good news! I found a torch!"
"Bad news?"
"I fell on it and broke it."
 
<TAG - I know it's not where we meant to get to but the post just... went there>
 
Dean "Whoops" Thomas