*Action "But what if....?" Part 1

Who: Seymour, Dante, Efof and CK
Where: Engineering Control
When: As time slides are getting worse
The team stormed into Engineering control, where some busy Engineers
and Technicians were working to try and find the problem. Dante took
hold of Callum by the scruff of the neck to get his attention.
"Oi whats up?"
Seymour stepped forward. "We need to know what's going on with the
ship, there's time shifts everywhere. And time is changing around
us, Amber has already gone crazy because she saw a future that she
didn't want to see."
"We're working on it." Said Callum frantically. "I think it's a
problem with the Wormhole drive."
"How long will it take?" Asked Seymour.
"I'm not sure……" Said Callum, then Dante looked at him
sternly "….okay about 30 minutes?"
Efof started to help him as Dante guarded the door to Engineering
Control. Seymour tied a bandana around his head again and assumed
the role of `cool comando'.
Callum explained his plan to the Ffionian and showed him a remote
control in his hand. "Okay I've downloaded all the wormkhole's
drivers and software into this remote control, it will program,
configure and activate the wormhole drive from a range of 50 metres."
Efof stratched his genitals on his head in thought. "Why? What's
that for?"
Callum smiled. "We're going for a little walk!"
----Outside the Blue Dwarf-----
Callum and Efof were clad in space suits and walking towards the
very front of the Blue Dwarf, ready to walk up the thin elongated
ramscoops that stretched out from the nose of the vessel.
"Okay…" Explained Callum. "The wormhole drive uses these long
ramscoops as large power conduits…. "
Efof's face was blank.
"Okay Imagine them as large aeriels… for you TV."
Efof's face was blank. He pointed to himself. "Alien remember?"
Callum sighed. "that box with moving pictures on that you sit down
and watch all day."
Efof stuck his thumbs up. "Moving picture box thing, gotcha."
"Okay well these aerial need to be slightly tweaked because we're
going to do something different with the wormhole. These timeshifts
started when the wormhoile drive malfunctioned, it shifted us
slightly out of phase with normal time. So to make it right again we
have to use the wormhole drive to push us back into normal time."
Efof's face was still blank.
Callum sighed. "Just turn these emitters around, we're focussing the
drive energy at the ship, instead of in front of it."
As they did so, time shifted around them.
Efof looked back and almost fell off the ramscoop tip with
shock. "The Blue Dwarf, look at it! Its been wrecked."
Callum looked back at their vessel. It was nothing more than a
skeletan, completely transparent if it weren't for a few struts
holding the basic shape together. On their immediate right was a
space station, with many gangways leading to the skeletal ship.
"No, its not destroyed. It's being created!" Said Callum. "This is
back in time when the Blue Dwarf was being constructed, back in
Jupiter Construction Station." He looked at the ship in awe. It was
amazing that a thing of this size ever got made.
They finished their modifications and walked along one of the
gangplanks towards the station to admire their ship.
They noticed another person in a space suit climbing the hull a bit
further down the craft. "Hey! I have an Idea!" Said Callum. "Lets go
and talk to the people building it, we might be able to get them to
enlarge our quarters!"
As they moved closer to the person they had seen, the space-suited
person saw them and ran. "Why's he running?"
They ran up to where he had been, and found a device attached to the
Blue Dwarf's hull.
"It's a bomb!" Said Callum. "This can't have happened… or else the
Blue Dwarf would never have been made."
"Sabotage!" Said Efof dramatically.
"But who…..?" Said Callam before he was smacked in the head with a
spanner. He lost his footing and floated backwards through space,
luckily landing 50 metres away on a gangway from the space station.
Efof watched him fly off, and then he too was struck by an object.
Her floated off and Callum caught him.
The spacesuit clad villain jumped through space towards them. "It
must be one of those Space Pirates from a time slide, they wanted
the Wormhole Drive for themselves!"
"No," Said Efof as they got closer. "Its Amber!"
Amber held the large spanner high, ready to swipe again. The
absolute black could be seen in her eyes.
"Amber – you're trying to blow up the Blue Dwarf…. But why?" Said
Efof.
She spoke with bitterness and anger in her voice. "I saw myself… in
the future… YOU… you all hated me, I don't know what is happening to
me… but you …you lock me up for it! You put me in chains and treat
me like a criminal!"
"So you're going to stop the Blue Dwarf before it launches? That's
crazy! That would make the last 5 years pointless!" Said Callum.
"Plus…. You were born on the BD, doesn't that also mean you wont
exist?" Said Efof, trying to get his head around temporal physics.
"Its better than the future I saw for myself, all that pain…. And
this anger… this anger that I can't control!" The black in her eyes
seemed to glow.
Callum though for a split second and got the remote from his
pocket. "Well it wont work if we get back to normal time before the
bomb goes off!" He pressed the Wormhole remote and there was a loud
clack of energy. Every Blue Dwarf in every time frame shook, and was
dragged together by the wormhole drive.
They could see the swirling energy of the wormhole appear around the
blue Dwarf, sucking it back to the normal time.
"Run Efof run!" Said Callum. "We don't want to be left in this time!"
"No!" Shouted Amber. And removed her own remote from her pocket, the
remote for the bomb. She pressed it and Efof and Callum flew
backwards from the explosion.
The shell of the Blue Dwarf collapsed in flames, looking like the
historic ship the Hindenburg.
The explosion appeared inside of the swirling wormhole, and the
flames were spun and churned inside it.
"What have you done?" Shouted Callum. Even Amber felt a coldness in
her stomach, unsure of what would happen next.
The wormhole though, was still active. The wreckage was bent and
sucked inside it, as if it was creating a tear in space. Even the
space station they were on seemed to bend and be pulled towards the
wormhole, which now expanded.
They were pulled towards it. "Erm… is this good?" Asked Efof,
hanging onto a handrail.
As it grew larger, it grew stronger, and eventually all three of
them had to let go and were pulled through space towards the hole.
<OOC- to be continued>