Number Seven //Book Three// - Dark Matter - COMPLETED

Isn't That a Paradox?

Everyone is knocked out

The Android is the first to power back up

"Android, what just happened?" Two gasps awake

"Unknown." Android says. "I was temporarily offline."

"Yeah, you're not the only one." Two says. "I think I passed out."

"Are the girls okay?" Two asks

Five groans, sitting up

"Yeah, I'm fine." Five groans. "Sort of."

She looks over to see Seven still passed out

"Sev's still out." Five says, worried

"I'm afraid how this will affect her head." Android says. "If that blast knocked--"

Seven gasps awake

"She's okay!" Five exclaims through the comms

"Good." Two says, relieved

Seven grabs her earbuds that had shot off with the blast. She puts them back on

"Six, do you read?" Two asks

"Yeah." Six groans. "This is Six, I'm reading you."

Seven turns her head in confusion, taking her earbuds out and looking at them

"Hey, you alright?" Two asks

"What the hell was that?" Six asks

Seven puts her earbuds back in

Five helps Seven up off the floor

"I've run an analysis." Android says. "The ship was hit with some kind of electromagnetic pulse."

"Are we under attack?" Two asks

Seven's earbuds aren't working. She hears only English but she stays quiet

"Negative." Android says. "I believe the pulse emanated from the Blink Drive."

"Please don't tell me you turned that thing on again." Three groans. "I thought we talked about this."

"We didn't turn it on." Five tells him. "We were just running a diagnostic."

"It would appear the Drive self-initiated." Android says

"How is that possible?" Six asks

"Theoretically..." Android starts. "It's not."

Five and Seven share a look

***

Three and Two are the last ones into the bridge

"Where are we?" Three asks

"I'm not sure." Android says. "The navigational computer is having trouble fixing our position because the stars appear to be out of alignment."

"Was the computer damaged by the pulse?" Two asks

"I double checked the system." Five says. "Seems fine."

"I found something." Android says. She goes over to the screen and brings up an image. "This is a magnified image of the nearest star, approximately half a lightyear away. Mass and spectrographic analysis show it to be an exact match for Pollux."

"We were just in the Pollux system." Two says

"That's correct." Android says

"So we just traveled half a lightyear away?" Six asks