A long-winded Author's Note
One thing I love more than anything else is time. Contrary to popular belief it is not linear, though we still try to apply linear measurement to it. We are able to go backwards through it with our memories and forwards through our imagination. I will find all imaginative ways I can to use time and Red Dwarf. I believe that they are the perfect counterparts.
For those who give a crap, when I came up with this story, I actually started doodling in a notepad in comic book form. I was gonna post this on my own website, but I don't have the money to post a website and me drawings really suck. All I can do is stick figures.
This is still a work in progress, so I need a lot of input. If you've got it, please review. My life depends on whether or not I can give a good read to people.
My thanks go out to Stan Lee, without him I would never have come up with the perfect beginning.
I would also like to thank Grant and Naylor for coming up with Dave Lister, the Cat, Holy, Kryten, and of course the most hilarious Arnold Rimmer. These are their characters, not mine (albeit I wish they were).
Al references to Rush Valley County and the people/things within it are completely of my creation. Any duplication and I will be forced to bite your face off.
On that note I give you: Accidents Happen
Enjoy,
Sena Kathryn Schneider
Prologue
McClellan Proving Grounds
Rush County, Utah August 23, 2002
It had been nearly ten years since U.S. President Bill Clinton had closed down the once-busy government facility. When the last G.I.s had left the grounds, the U.S. government turned the deed over to Rush Valley City. Most of the land was turned into an industrial park, but there were still a few white-elephant buildings, the ones that were too dilapidated and too full of asbestos to tear down or refurbish. Those were the ones that were left alone for time to decay them.
One of the aforementioned buildings was a storage facility. Most of the old bombs that once occupied it have been removed and shipped to the nearby Dugway Proving Grounds facility to be incinerated in a properly-controlled environment, but there were still some that were left there for the purpose of which they served was somehow lost and/or forgotten. The U.S. government is as well organised as any other, for it is run by human beings and therefore forty-times as fallible. That's what happens when you have too many cooks in the ruddy kitchen.
When you have so-and-so in charge of making the notes, such-and-such in charge of filing the notes and Joe-Bloke-the-common-folk in charge of posting those notes, some info is bound to get lost. It isn't any wonder as to why several gadgets that were tested were forgotten about in this once-useful facility. Many machines that could be lethal were left behind just for the sole reason that no-one could figure out how to turn the blasted things on. That is where they will remain, in a derelict grave for some poor, unsuspecting git - who may be desperate for shelter - to stumble across.