Disclaime: Okay, um... This is rather awkward. I know it's been a whole year since I last updated... And that this chapter is short- A lot shorter than I originally planned for... But, now that summer's here, I can finally work on these stories! So with that said: I don't own Digimon, or Doctor Who, but the characters, and the technology are all me unless otherwise stated, so DON'T SUE ME!!


"Outta' my way!" Shouted the tall woman, as she ran down one of the many corridors of the Hypnos building, a pair of consol work screens clutched in her hands.

"Move!" She shouted, as she barreled through a group of five or so researchers, two of whom where tossed over, as she came barreling through. She ignored their shouts of annoyance, as she kept running. As she turned a sharp corner, she came up to a set of large, metallic, double doors. She stopped dead, as a pair of guards rushed to block her.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but you can't go-"

"Stow it! I was told to report to the main control room for an emergency situation, now get out of my way!" She shouted. The guard held onto her left arm firmly, as she continued to make her demands.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but this section is restricted to level five accesses only!" Came the other guard, as he tried to hold her in place. When she realized that they weren't going to let her go on, she reached into her pocket, and searched for the one thing that would let her move forward. Then, she herd a familiar voice.

"What's going on here?" Asked a bearded man with slightly light-brown hair. The trio looked up to the man whom had addressed them.

"Mmm- Mister Shibumi! Sir, what are you doing here!?" Asked the first guard. She couldn't help but feel annoyed at the man for recognizing him first...- After all, she actually worked here! Shibumi gave a lop-sided half-smile as he noticed her.

"I was summoned by mister Yamaki... And I'm pretty sure Miss Riley there was too..." He said, while pointing to her. She glanced over to the guard, as a shocked look of sudden realization came over him.

"Sah- SORRY MA'AM! I DIDN'T REALIZE-"

"Forget it! Just make sure it doesn't happen again!" She said, slightly brushing off the hand of the other guard, as she gave her old friend a warning glance, before turning back to lift that the guards where protecting, while summoning it. As the guards calmed down a bit, Shibumi stepped up beside her, as he too waited in silence. There where a hundred-thousand things running through her head in that moment, just as the doors to the elevator parted.

"After you..." Said Shibumi, holding out an ushering hand into the car. Ignoring the gesture, the young chief systems operator took a large step in, swiftly followed by the ambiguous figure behind her, hitting both the 'door close' button, as well as the thumb-pad that would take them directly to the top floor, as he quickly spun around. As the doors closed behind them, Shibumi was the first to speak up.

"I can't believe it's come to this..." He said. Riley scuffed at the comment, looking up to the ceiling panel.

"She got here first, and I don't think that I could have done what she did, even with my clearance..." She said in an almost unnaturally calm voice. The older man looked back at her.

"Even so, I told you that we should have recalibrated the perception-filters after the whole D-Reaper incident..." He said. Riley shot him a deadly glare, as she reached out for the controls of the car, but stopped. She turned back to him, her face softening a little.

"It doesn't matter now; the damage is done... Now, what we need to do, is make sure that we can get them back safely..." She said, her eyes nearly glazing over as they stared into his own. Shibumi had known her long enough to know what that look meant. He had seen it too many times already... Especially at the end of the battle. He watched as she scanned down at the base of the lift.

"Life is nothing but a dream... A lucid dream." He said. Riley looked back up to him for a long moment, then as the car came to a near-stop, she allowed for a quick smile to spread out. As the doors began to part, Riley looked into their metal surfaces.

"Then what are waiting for, let's screw in this light bulb..." She said, as she stepped into the dimly-lit room. Shibumi watched her for a short moment, as a relieved grin made itself known.

"As you say... Captain."


"Grandma, what's going on!?" Asked Rika, as she watched her grandmother run around the hexagonal panel, hitting its controls with certain randomness. Several sparks erupted from it, as it's center pulsed with a brilliant green light.

"No... No! Please don't! Don't you recognize me old girl!?" Asked her grandmother, as she pulled out a small hammer, and slapped one of the consoles with it. Suddenly, the room stopped shaking as the center column stopped pumping. The metallic wine died, taking the lights throughout the room with it. Had the center column that stood atop of the consol lost it's glow, then the entire room would have been in a shroud of complete darkness. Rika grabbed onto one of the golden, stone-like pillar that forked as it connected from the floor to the ceiling, as she pulled herself back up.

"Oh, crap..." She muttered, as she took a step back from the consol; staring at it in horror. As Rika watched her grandmother's reaction, she suddenly realized that they weren't inside the box anymore... In fact, it looked more like she was standing in the middle of a gold-colored Hypnos control room! A groggy, pain-filled moan sounded from behind her. She turned around, and noticed the group of her friends collapsed behind her. Ignoring them for the moment, she turned back to her grandmother, taking in a deep breath.

"Grandma, what the hell is going on here!?" She shouted as loud as she could. However, seemingly uninterested in the sound behind her, Rika's grandmother simply kept hurryingly worked the consol. Then for a brief moment, she slowed.

"...You shouldn't have followed me Rika." She said, slightly picking up her pace. Rika felt her legs move, as she herd the dispassion in her voice. As she got closer, she could hear the electronic hum emanating from the beneath the hexagonal consol finally fade. Never the less, she could still feel the slightest vibration reverberating through the grate beneath her.

"...That's right, take a little rest old girl, don't rush it..." Said her grandmother, as she stroked the edge of the consol. Stopping, Rika eyed her quizzically, as she watched her slowly rub the edge of the. Taking another step closer, she saw that several of the controls were blinking, almost in response to her touch.

"What is this thing!?" She asked. Her grandmother slowed to a stop; a wan smile tugging at her lips.

"This Rika is the SARDIT. This place- This is where me and your grandfather called home... When we first landed on Earth..." She said in a simple, almost sad tone. Rika however was taken aback by what she had just herd.

"Wait, just what the hell do you mean by "first landed"!?" She repeated, shouting loud enough that if there was anyone else inside the Sardit, then they would surely know that they weren't alone anymore. Her grandmother however didn't flinch in the slightest from her outburst, instead grasping a handle in front of her; she pushed it to the left, causing a small screen to pivot around the center consol until it was in front of her. Hitting another set of switches, the screen flickered to life, displaying a set of symbols and emblems that where unfamiliar to the teen.

"Hmm... There's no power to the temporal sensors. Where are we?" Asked her grandmother, to no one in particular. Rika was about ask what she meant by "temporal sensors", when she decided that asking her anything now, wouldn't really get her anywhere. So instead, she walked up, and leaned onto the consol beside her grandmother. As she looked into her face, she could see something that she had rarely ever seen... Pain, guilt, and fear.

"Grandma?" She said, noticing a single tear begin to fall. This took Rika by surprise, because the only time she could ever remember seeing her grandmother cry, was on the day that her grandfather had died. That night, so long ago... The night, when he disappeared...

"Ohhh, my head..." Came a slightly muffled moan from behind... The pair turned in shock, as they both suddenly remembered the group that had followed Rika inside of the gilded vessel.

"Renemon!" Shouted Rika, as she ran to her partner's side, grabbing her arm, as she helped her into a kneeling position.

"Rika... What happened? What- Where are we!?" She asked in confusion, as she glanced around the large, dim chamber. Rika took a long moment to think of what she should say to her friend, but every explanation that she thought of just didn't seem good enough.

"Are you alright?" Asked her grandmother as she crouched down in front of the pair. Renamon quickly jumped into a ridged pose, as she noticed the elder woman.

"Who are you!?" She asked suddenly. Rika felt every hair on the back of her neck stand on end, as she watched Renamon push herself into a rigid stance. Her grandmother on the other hand, just cracked a soft, wan smile.

"My name... That's something that I haven't really had to think about for such a long time..." She said, as she turned back to the main consol. Rika watched, as she calmly flipped several switches on the panel.

"That's not an answer!" Renamon shouted. Rika unconsciously tightened her grip, as her partner tried to leap at her grandmother. From the other side of the room, she could hear her grandmother, as she whispered several things under her breath.

"Your right, my name is Sora... Now, where did I leave that hyperspanner...?" She asked herself, calmly walking over to the only other door on the other side of the room. The pair watched, as she opened the door, and stared in awe at what they saw. Beyond the frame of the doorway, stretched an impossibly huge, circular walkway. The pair moved to the other side to get a closer look, as Sora moved out of their range of perception.

"Tha- That's... Impossible!" Stammered Renamon, as she stared into the open space. She followed the stretch railing all the way around to the other side, where she could just barely see the other side of the room. Lining the walls of the room, she could see countless doors set into the golden walls. The whole room glowed with a golden hue, even in the dim lighting of the battery lights. After what seemed like an eternity, Sora walked back into the room, closing the door behind her.

"...Figures that would happen. Every time I put this thing in one place, Kunji always has to put it someplace else!" She said, as she walked back to the consol. Kneeling, she pulled off one of the lower panels from the center consol, and stuck the device that she had obviously retrieved from her little 'walk' into it's innards. Shaking off what was left of her feeling of awe; she walked over to her grandmother's side, and kneeled beside her.

"Okay, since your not going to give me any straight answers, can you at least tell me why you wanted to keep this thing from us so badly?" She asked. Seemingly unfazed by the question, her grandmother answered.

"The SARDIT, this is a technology that humanity shouldn't have... Not now, not yet. Your all still far too young to use it right." She said pulling the device from the mess of wiring, as a blue light began to shone through. Replacing the panel to its proper place, Sora moved back to where she had left her main screen.

"Damn, the temporal sensors aren't coming back on-line... But why? I fixed the thearon circuit, it should be working!" She said, as she looked down at the dim lights of the panel. Rika watched her, as she stared at the small switches. Just as she was going to try and pry off out of her deep thought abyss to help her get the rest of her friends out of the pile they where all in, she saw her grandmothers eyes widen...

"Grandma-"

"Maybe if I try..." She said, as she flipped a single switch, just below where the screen sat. The Sardit tilted violently, as the glass column at the consoles center once again, began to pump. Rika grasped for one of the golden pillars, as the lights in the room dimmed once again.

"HANG ON!!" Shouted her grandmother, as she too held onto the edge of the consol. She glanced over to her friends, and was thankful that there was a railing there holding them all relatively in one place. Holding on with all of her strength, Rika watched, as her grandmother desperately hit the switches on the board. Just as she about to shout something to her, the room jolted. She herd the clacking of metal on metal, just before she felt something hit her head. As her vision began to blur, the last thing she could see, was all of the lights, including the center column dieing out, shrouding the room in darkness...


"Sir! We've completed repairs to the main power distribution network!" Came a young woman out of seemingly nowhere. The young man who was working inside of one of the other disabled workstations looked back to the officer.

"Very good lieutenant..." Replied the officer, as he crawled back into the innards of the consol once again. The room that they were in was dark, with the only source of light being the giant, blue, pulsating cylinder above them, making it that much harder to see just what he was doing. If it wasn't for the fact that the young man was the one whom had designed, and built all the equipment around them, then he wouldn't have trusted anyone else to be poking around like he was.

"Sir, message from the bridge!" Came another officer, stumbling a bit as he ran into the bay. The young officer sighed, as he once again pulled himself out of the stations guts.

"Ensign, if your message has anything to do with my hourly progress report, then go back up to the bridge and tell the captain that if he asks again, then um gonna go up there, and shove it up his chair-deprived-"

"No sir! The captain needs you on the bridge for something!" Replied the officer. The young man eyed him suspiciously; not just because the young officer had a history of exacerbating things... Deciding to err on the safe side dropped the tool that he'd been using on top of the consol that he'd been working on.

"Fine... Lieutenant, just try ta get the gaiodine (Ja-eye-oh-dine) capacitors working again before the shroud fails, I really don't wanna get another lecture from the captain again." Said the young officer, and with that, walked out of the section. Making his way through the door, he grabbed on to one of the broken walls. The entire section beyond the engine room had lost gravity during their escape from the firestorm... The universe that they where currently in certainly was a strange one, but not any more then some of the other's that the ship had been too. After a few moments of navigating the weightless, darkened corridors, the young officer finally made it to the command center of the ship... Maneuvering himself, as he transitioned back to a gravitational pull, he landed on the deck grating of the bridge with a clank.

"Captain, you called for me?" He asked, grabbing the older man's attention. Walking around an ominous hole, where several wires that where being cut away form a smashed chair where protruding from, he walked over to the engineer.

"Lieutenant, I'm sorry to pull you away from your post, I know how much you hate it whenever your staff follows your own blue-prints when making repairs..." Said the captain, the young engineer on the other hand simply nodded in agreement, ignoring the comedic factor that he had undoubtedly intended.

"Yeah, I knew I should've actually written down how piece A fits into item B... They never give me peace otherwi-"

"Engineering to bridge; Chief, where having some trouble fixing the gaiodine relay circuits, I mean, the staff isn't that familiar with them, and we can't make heads or tails of their schematics." Came the lieutenant. The young engineer let his head drop in irritation, pinching the bridge of his nose as he reached out for the inlet wall comm.

"See what I mean..." He said, before pushing the switch on the panel.

"I'm a little busy up here lieutenant... Can't you just call Lieutenant Martin for help?" He asked.

"You sent him to Auxiliary control to help stabilize the secondary nuclear core..." She responded. The engineer cursed under his breath, as again, he let his head droop in defeat.

Sigh..."Fine. Just connect the fourth, fifth, ninth and twelfth isodine relays directly into the main sub-processor, and lock it down till I get back." He said, and not waiting for an answer, he closed the channel. The engineer heard a low chuckle emanate from in front of him. He cocked his head, to catch the captain cracking a slight grin at his subordinate.

"What's so funny?" He asked.

"You... And your lack of patients toward your assistant engineer." Replied the captain. The younger officer cocked his head in the other direction, eyeing one of the repair teams, as they effected repairs to the captains command chair.

"Lieutenant Cho's been working in engineering since before the Raven launched almost eight months ago... She should be navigating my schematics in her sleep by now!" He said, as his annoyance became more evident.

"Then maybe you should consider retraining her." Replied the captain. The engineer snorted at his superior's suggestion, ignoring what little humor the captain had obviously intended for it.

"To be honest, she's not worth the trouble..." He said, picking up an unfamiliar tool, and proceeding to repair the exposed circuitry of an exposed, burnt-out panel.

"Don't get me wrong sir, she's got a brilliant mind, and is a great officer, but honestly, she's clumsy with the tools, and she has no sense of direction... She even once got lost while navigating deck three! To be honest, she'd make the perfect quantum theorist..." Finished the engineer, running the tool over one final circuit, allowing power to flow through it once again, causing the set of work stations sitting to it's right to flicker back to life. He grinned to himself lightly for a moment, as he stopped the low buzzing that his tool was making, and turned back to his captain.

"So," He stopped, as he sorted through his busy mind for what the captain had originally asked him to come there for. But, the only possible answer that he could come up with, were those damn hourly progress reports...

"Ya know, um sorry, but you didn't just call me up here so that I could complain about how much you hell you put my life's work through, did ja?" He asked, annoyance seeping into his voice. The captain on the other hand, laughed at his reaction.

"Ha ha ha... Alright, ya got me commander, but in my defense, you went off on that little rant all on your own!" The captain replied. The Chief dropped his head, once again pinching the bridge of his nose, as he realized that he was right. He had gone off and done that by himself! He glanced over to the first officer's station, where his predecessor had once worked, and sincerely wished that she was still alive, just so that he didn't have to put up with his captains incisive persona.

"Fine! Since there's nothing else up here that's worth my time, um headin' back to engineering before Cho-"

"Captain," Called out another officer from the other side of the small room. The young engineer shot the one whom had interrupted him daggers, as the captain turned casually towards him.

"Yes ensign, what is it?" He asked calmly, his demeanor changing only in the slightest, but still seeming quite amused. The Chief wasn't fooled for a second by his captain's seemingly upbeat demeanor... In the time that he had spent as the ships acting first officer, he had learned how to tell the differences in his commanding officers endless list of moods. Which is probably why he knew exactly how much the captain was on edge...?

"Sir, I think the sensor arrays are malfunctioning..." Replied the ensign.

"WHAT!?" Shouted the engineer, rushing to the consol, and pushing the ensign out of the way, as he began checking over those particular systems.

"That's impossible, I supervised the repairs of that system mysel-" The Chief froze. Every crewman on the bridge stopped to see why.

"Chief? Lieutenant commander Markus Feek, what is it?" Asked the captain, worry prevalent in his voice. Slowly, commander Feek turned in away from the station, staring blankly into the distance...

"Sir... The sensors have detected the remnants of a quantum rift in the temporal vortex... I've got a lock- A weak lock... On a TARDIS-class Time Capsule." Said, the commander, a slight chuckle escaping from his throat, as he turned back to the captain. The frown of annoyance spreading into a wide, toothy grin.

"Where is it now?" Asked the captain, rushing to the station to see the scans for himself. The look on commander Feek's face soured, as he made his way for the exit.

"I'll be in the shuttle bay when you need me..." Said the commander, as he stopped at the door. The captain looked away from the monitored, a slight grin spreading across the rough surface of his face.

"No. Chief, I want you to Tech Lab One... I think it's time we broke in that new interplexing transponder..." Came the captain, not turning from the consol as told his engineer what he needed to do. Commander Feek didn't need his face to see the smile that he knew had to be going full blast... After all, they may have just found their way out.