Author's Note: Well here's the chapter you've all been waiting for, sorry for the wait but I simply haven't had time and although I try to get one chapter of at least one fic up a week sometimes – like last week – it simply isn't possible.

Going to have to skip the reviews this time, sorry but I simply haven't the time.

Please review... I'm almost at the 100 review landmark and I'm getting so desperate I'm on the verge of submitting my own anonymous reviews (only joking, I'm not quite that pitiful but the point still stands)

"For the record this plan, is; insane." Eli stated as he programmed the surviving maintenance robot, apparently the other had been destroyed by the explosion months ago.

"Not chickening out are we Eli?" Rush chuckled from behind him, as he continued to tap away at the console. "According to this -" There was a pause as Rush looked down at the modified data pad, a large number of it's circuitry exposed where Eli had soldered on a few extra components which he'd cannibalised from parts of Destiny's FTL modulator. "What are you actually going to call this thing?"

"Ted." Eli said after a while.

"Ted?" Rush was incredulous.

"Time-field extrapolation device." Eli explained as he got to his feet, wiping the dust from his knees as he finished rewiring the robot, tapping a few final commands into it's access panel before letting it trundle off into the ship.

"Well it's your device." Rush said simply, "Anyway, as I was saying, according to Ted there's a ribbon of near concurrent timefields running through these three corridors." He tapped the corridors on the screen for emphasis. Now if you look here, here and here, you've got time distortions that are running at a millionth of normal time. They're containing the explosion for now and should do so for another couple of years providing we don't spend too long in a slow distortion ourselves, but once they hit this corridor." The finger trailed across the map indicating one of the main corridors. "it'll cut the ship in half. From that point onwards we'll be stuck in one half of the ship as each reset the explosion will just refill it. So that's our deadline."

"Still waiting for this wonderful plan of yours." Eli remarked.

"We use the variances, if you look here the changes occur at the same time Destiny's power spikes. Now the change is always the same direction in any particular shift, now if we overlay the reset times with the distortions you'll see a direct path to the shield generators with hours to spare in all directions, then if we set Destiny's powercells to give off oscillating bursts this happens, a similar path to the FTL drive which has also been cut off from the explosion by the time shifts. Again hours of safety margin on the repairs. With the shields protecting from external time dilation and the FTL no longer causing internal dilation we should be able to just fly the ship out." Rush explained, a brief period on the lecture circuit having left it's mark.

Eli grinned, "Let's do it."

"How long have we got?" Rush asked as he reconnected the last of the circuitry before getting to work on the coding.

"Just under two hours." Eli replied, tapping at the screen. "We're cutting it fine."

"Almost done Eli. Just tell me if the dilations change." Rush said.

After another five minutes Rush stepped back from the console.

"Ok, begin the energy spikes."

They set off at a run through the corridors.

The two stood up from the FTL drive, the repairs finished.

Rush grinned his trademark 'not quite a scowl' "How long until time returns to-"

Dr. Nicholas Rush bolted upright, his face a silent, screaming rictus of terror as consciousness claimed him once more.

"What the-?"

Author's Note: And that's where I'll have to end it, sorry it's been so long since I updated but I'm afraid you can all expect even longer until the next update, A levels are just too much of a workload to write at the same time. So I probably won't update again until Christmas. Also sorry that it's so short. But I promise I'll get the average words back above 1000 words per chapter with the next update.