He entered the launch bay unobtrusively and efficiently decked Lieutenant Hayes. "You're not ready for my job, bucko, but you can sort things out with the imposter. Not my problem," he breathed over the still form. The shuttlepod was the goal.

He'd impersonate himself to get launch clearance. No one would question his claim that Archer wanted the pod checked out, not at this time of the morning, not if they wanted to escape punishment detail. The "truth" would dawn too late. The nav logs should get him back to the wormhole and a new career in a new universe.