'Hi guys! I'm back' Random Author stepped out of reality onto the bridge.

'About time! You have no idea how hard it is to get 200 bed sheets!' Archer could just be heard from beneath the pile. You wouldn't of thought that 200 sheets would fit on the bridge but somehow he managed it.

'So, now you need to knot them all together into 2 giant tow ropes, each 100 sheets long.'

'Tow ropes! But you could have just asked for some cable! We do have that somewhere ya know.' It was hard to hear Travis from beneath all those sheets, but the sarcasm came through loud and clear.

'What ever! Just get knotting!' Once again Random disappeared back into reality to do some actual work.

'Hey! I REALLY wish she wouldn't keep doing that!' With that Archer set the crew to work knotting the bed sheets and took Porthos for a walk round the ship, muttering about cheese.

Several hours later... 'IIIIIIIIIIIIII'm baaack!' Trip jumped, cradling his hairdryer as Random appeared behind him.

'You can't have it!'

'I already told you, I don't want your hairdryer, anyway, what are you doing here? I thought I'd given you to Shrekster to play with.'

'I ran away, she kept making me crawl into small spaces and run around in the rain. I think I caught a cold. Aaaachoooo!'

'Did you say a cold?' Phlox appeared as if by magic.

'No! Aaachoo!' Trip sneezed again.

'You have a cold! Yippee! I've been dying to try out my new electromagnetic jellyfish! Down to sickbay with you! Go on. Can't have you infecting the rest of the crew.' Saying this, Phlox grabbed Trip by the collar and dragged him kicking and screaming off to Sickbay.

'So Captain, got those tow ropes sorted?' Apearing behind Archer, Random made everyone on the Bridge jump, including Porthos (although he was begging for cheese, not suprised)

'Ummm yeah. Gimme a minute would ya?' He turned back to the game only to realise that he had just been eaten by a large yellow alien blob. 'Aww damn it! I was just about to beat Malcolm's high score!'

'Sorry.' Random grinned, not sorry at all. 'So the tow ropes?'

'Oh yeah. They're on the floor in storage bay 3.'

'Good good! Now you gotta tie them to shuttle pods and start towing.'

'That it?'

'Not really but it's a start! Ciao!' She vanished again.

'Why does she always do that?'


A/N: You made it all the way to chapter 4! Congratulations. Have a cookie! TBC.