Chapter 2: Wrong way
Lister was going through the checks with Kryten for taking off in the starbug, while Cat was sulking. Cat came through into the drive room of the starbug.
"right what do you want me to do" cat said, Kryten and Lister regarded him with surprise.
"do you really want to help cat, or are you just offering to help to sabotage the trip" Lister said.
"I actually was offering to help, but your suggestion sounds better" cat replied pressing a few buttons on the console. At that point Kryten rushed forward and moved the cat out of the drive room.
"I've put him to sleep, mister Lister, and it appears that he hasn't done any damage to starbug" Kryten said sitting down next to Lister at the console.
"right then pre-flight checks completed we're ready to go" Lister said initiating the take-off sequence.
"I've set the course mister Lister sir"
"switching to auto-pilot, let's go and check on cat Kryten"
"Hey cat wake up man" Lister said poking cat "what did you sent him to sleep with Kryten, he's well out of it"
"um, excuse me guys" holly said appearing on screen.
"not now holly, Krytens knocked cat out"
"but it's important"
"not the right time holly, what did you do to him Kryten?"
"well sir, I put him to sleep with a new blend of chloroform that I mixed up under mister Rimmers instruction sir"
"well get him out of it Kryten"
"I would sir, but there are two problems with that plan sir, you see, two of the ingredient mister Rimmer said I should use don't have a known antidote and secondly starbug has a very limited medical supply kit so even if I knew the ingredients to use in an antidote I couldn't make it as we don't have any on board"
"well what do we do then"
"I suggest sir that we wait it out"
"well I suggest that you listen to what I've got to say"
"is anything you've got to say holly going to help us wake up cat ?"
"well no Lister-"
"then it can wait holly! We need to wake cat up"
"but it's very important"
"NOT now holly" Lister said agitated.
"Mister Lister sir, I'm going to try to wake cat up with this injection, it's a long shot but it could work"
"fine do it Kryten" Kryten proceeded to inject the cat.
"well have you got any other ideas Kryten that didn't seem to work"
"right you are going to listen to me right now ok!"
"alright holly calm down, what is it" Lister said patronisingly.
"well your heading in the wrong direction, and straight for a collision with a comet"
"that cant be right holly, the starbug would have told us that when we input the course" Kryten said whilst he and Lister walked back into the drive room.
"well you are and you've got exactly 2 minutes and 37 seconds to change course to avoid collision"
"the computer says that there is nothing in our path holly"
"well that computer is wrong Kryten!"
"alright holly calm down I'm switching starbug to manual control"
"1 minute 54 seconds left"
"right holly, I've turned starbug around and am heading back in the direction we came from, Kryten this is weird the console says red dwarf is in the other direction but I'm sure we came this way"
"your heading back to red dwarf now so your console is wrong" holly said.
"Cat must have tampered with it before I removed him from this room sir" Kryten said.
"damn right I did captain chloroform, I don't want that Smeg head Rimmer back, I mean look at his dress sense" Cat said.
"well, I've fixed the problem and we're back on course to get mister Rimmer, so there" Kryten said to cat.
"do we have to?" cat said.
"yes" Kryten said. Cat left the drive room to sulk again.
