"Parallels, Part III"
Chain stood from his chair on the Bridge, as the crew was ready to go. "Alright let's begin. Set jump to the co-ordinates 380023. Engage."
Lieutenant Sev tapped at the helm. The very small, Nova-class starship Vitality arced in space and then jumped into a warp. They then dropped out back to normal space... in another universe.
Everyone was quiet for a moment.
"Looks the same..." Chain glanced on screen.
Engelina corroborated, "They usually do. This universe has already been discovered by my people."
"Captain! I'm reading a Thelvon pod on sensors," Devok from tactical called out.
Chain stood. "Follow it."
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The Vitality jumped to warp and sped through space. It dropped and approached a Thelvon pod. They hailed it.
The Vitality jumped to warp and sped through space. It dropped and approached a Thelvon pod. They hailed it.
"Drop your shields and disengage your engines. You're coming with us," Captain Chain ordered.
"Well, if it isn't the indomitable Constable Engelina. Recruited some outer-universers I see?" Road, the Thelvon fugitive, redirected from the view screen.
"You're under arrest, Road. Don't make this hard on yourself," Engelina deadpanned.
"The only difficulty here will be yours," the man replied as he tapped at his controls.
The small pod launched out static bands of energy which clamped onto the Vitality and then knocked it back. The Vitality then went spinning, as the pod jumped out of there and into another universe.
"Ugh!!" Chain got up. "He's got a quantum drive too!?"
Engelina got up as well. "Yes. That is how he escaped in the first place."
"Of course." As the ship was settling, Chain stumbled his way over to the helm. "Follow his jump."
Sev nodded. "Aye, sir."
The Vitality jumped out of existence to the next universe.
