**Action** "Thank God forTemporal Anomalies!"

Who: Callum Kochanski
Where: One of the Hymenoptera ships
When: After being teleported aboard
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"Oh my God, I've been transported to a Hymenoptera ship!" He said.
Dotted around the floor were several transparent boils that he could
look down through as if they were windows. He looked through to see
the destroyed city of London below him moving away very fast.
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More people were transported into the same room as Callum. He was
tapped on the shoulder and turned around to see Jack looking back at
him.
"So we meet again!" Said Jack with an evil grin.
Callum scoffed him. "Yes, last time you tried to kill me… now it
looks like we're BOTH going to be killed! So the deal wit the
Hymenoptera turned out to be not so good after all?"
"Okay enough sarcasm. We weren't to know that they'd do this."
"They're ALIEN KILLINGT MACHINES!!!"
"Well we'll know for next time." Said Jack.
"THERES NOT GOING TO BE A NEXT TIME!" Said Callum.
The room was really starting to get crowded now as more people were
beamed in. People started pushing against them. Callum stepped on
someone's toe and turned around to apologise. "Keats!" he said,
recognising him.
"What's going on?"
"We've been kidnapped, the usual."
"Oh."
Callum felt something hit his ankle and looked down to see a
skutter. "Isn't that that MK.6 thing?" He said as the skutter zoomed
off between people's legs.
Through the densely packed crowd he though he caught sight of Keto
and Cerebrum just beaming in. Mark McJohn pushed into him
accidentally and recognised him.
The sound of the beaming was becoming more and more regular. Three
people were pushed out of the way dramatically and Dante appeared,
followed by his man-servant Seymour. "What's going on here?" he
said. "Heeeeeey, I recognise you guys… from the Blue… Blue…"
"Bloue Dwarf, YES I REMEMBER!" Said Semyour, as if he suddenly had a
mental breakthrough.
"I knew I was better than this!" He said looking at his shabby
clothes. "I knew I was better than ALL of you! Especially YOU!" He
pointed an accusing finger at Dante, who lifted an eyebrow for a
second, before slapping him.
Each of them went through the crowd finding other members of the
Blue Dwarf crew. "Smith! Jenny! Coffey! McJohn! Severn! Python!
Captain Alota!"
"Don't forget me!" Said Chris Harris, jumping out of the crowd with
a grin on his face.
Another guy walked up. "Hello my name's Frank Cumberland…"
"Are you on Blue Dwarf too?"
"No… but…"
"Well sod off, we're having a reunion here!" said Seymour.
"I think the entire crew is here." Said Dante. The crew gathered
together and Callum explained what had happened. But then stopped to
think.
"But hold on… this doesn't make sense, we're in a completely
different timeline. How come you all have memories of the Blue
Dwarf?"
People thought for a few minutes but couldn't explain.
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Who: Jay, Efof and Dean
Where: In 2 Space Eagles, following the Hymenoptera ship
When: Same time
Jay and Dean's Space Eagles fired pot shots at the massive
Hymenoptera ship as it sailed over the United Kingdom, beaming
people onto it.
"It doesn't look like we're making a dent!" Said Dean to Jay over
the radio.
Efof sighed, watching the ship through the cockpit window. "He's
right. They haven't even fired anything back- its as if we're just
like insects to it. Quite ironic really!"
"Copy that Dean… any -" Said Jay but was cut off by Efof.
"They're getting away! They're flying out of the atmosphere!" Efof
pointed excitedly as the ship escaped. "Follow them, follow them!"
Efof jumped up and down on his chair excitedly.
The two Space Eagles followed the ship out of the Earth's orbit and
towards Jupiter.
"Okay now what shall we do?" Jay asked as a rhetorical question.
Deans voice came over the radio. "They're heading straight past the
Jupiter Shipyards, is there anything there we could use?"
Jay thought for a moment.
But it was Efof that came out with the statement: "That's where the
Blue Dwarf was blown up!"
Jay turned to him in the cockpit. "So, how does that help us?"
"Urm… I don't know."
Efof skulked down in his chair. As he moved his hand up to scratch
his head he noticed something odd. He waved his hand on front of him
and it trailed through the air, as if in slow motion. "erm… this is
wierd!"
Jay looked at him. "What the…?" Then his brain clicked as to what it
is. "There must be a temporal anomaly nearby!"
"Well this is near where the Blue Dwarf blew up four years ago…
maybe that has something to do with it?"
"A normal explosion shouldn't create a temporal anomaly" said Jay,
now finding it hard to see with blurred vision.
"Well it wasn't a normal explosion as such… it was an explosion
within a time slide, while also trying to activate the wormhole
drive! Would that cause a temporal anomaly?"
"Erm… yeah that'll do it." Said Jay.
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Who: The Blue Dwarf crew
Where: On the Hymenoptera ship
Mark McJohn scratched his head and almost put his hand through
it. "Uuurgh what's going on?" He said in shock.
Seymour looked at his hand and moved it in front of his face, it
trailed and moved in slow motion.
"This is slightly odd!" Said Jack.
Seymour looked at his clothes, the filthy clothes he had been
wearing were fading to the good clothes he would wear on the Blue
Dwarf, and then back again.
"Good clothes… bad clothes… good clothes… bad clothes!"
Amber, who had been quiet and moody on the edge of the group saw
Rufus fade in and out next to her.
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Who: Jay, Efof and Dean
Where: In 2 Space Eagles, following the Hymenoptera ship
When: Same time
As they flew closer to Mars, they had almost caught up with the
Hymenoptera ship in front.
"Look at that!" Said Efof pointing ahead to a swirling anomaly in
space. "That's at the exact place that the Blue Dwarf was blown up!"
"And the Hymenoptera ship is just about to fly straight past it."
Said Jay.
"What are you going to do?" Asked Efof.
"The only thing I can do from this distance." Jay pressed a button
on his comm. Radio. "Jay to Dean, prepare to fire at that anomaly!"
Both Space Eagles fired a volley of pulse lasers into the special
anomaly as the Hymenoptera ship flew past.
The anomaly squirmed and expanded in all directions, quickly enough
to completely engulf the vast Hymenoptera ship into it.
Efof, Jay and Dean uttered shouts of delight, which soon turned to
terror as they realised the anomaly was still growing.
Dean and Jay turned their Space Eagles around, but it was too late,
the swirling mass grew larger and overtook them, sucking them inside.
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When: 8th March 2105
Where: The JMC Blue Dwarf
The JMC Blue Dwarf hung motionless near the Jupiter Shipyards. There
were no sign of Hymenoptera attacks anywhere in the system.
The lights in the Blue Dwarf flickered then came online due to
emergency power.
The crew one by one groggily awoke, with vague memories of the last
few weeks in an alternate timeline, but with more confusion of what
had really happened.
On the Drive room, Captain Alota picked herself up off the floor and
activated the flashing video communication system which was
flashing. The happy but concerned face of a Jupiter Station
Technician appeared on the monitor.
"Captain Alota, this is Captain Jim Nickets of the Jupiter Station
repair and recovery squad. Is everything alright?"
Alota rubbed her eyes. "I'm. I'm not too sure. I think so."
"Your ship has been in a state of temporal flux for the last few
weeks. You must have used your wormhole drive to jump into the
system, but the Blue Dwarf has been fading between dimensions… we
couldn't' do anything until now. Do you want us to tow you back to
Jupiter Station for repairs?"
"Erm… well thank you captain. We will take you up on that offer, I
think my crew have just gone through something traumatic and we
could do with a few weeks of R+R!"
The repair ship flew close to the Blue Dwarf, attached grapples, and
towed the massive Blue mining ship to Jupiter station.