Ok well here is the forth chapter – have not updated in a while as I have been really busy but better late then never huh? 

Ok hope you enjoy it

Lots of love

Arien XxX

Chapter four – Disaster Strikes

Zimsky winced as Beth whacked her computer screen for the third time, whilst swearing profusely at it. After a couple more minutes of assault on the delicate machine he had helped design he turned to her.

"Will you desist!"

"Huh?" replied Beth looking at him blankly.

"Stop hitting the damned computer, it took me ages to come up with that design" Zimsky clarified.

"Well maybe you should have designed it a little better because it's broken" Beth shot back.

"My design is perfect I'll have you know!" argued Zimsky.

Drawn by the argument Bec came over to see what was going on. "Hey, Beth, What's up?" She queried before kneeling down and taking a look at the computer.

"It's broken" replied Beth

"Here let me have a look" said Bec. She pressed a few buttons and nothing happened. "Hmmm" she murmured, before hitting the screen.

"Don't do that, for Gods sake" said Zimsky, now genuinely annoyed. He walked over and knelt down on the other side of Beth. He looked at the computer for a few seconds, pressed a few buttons and then frowned.

"The wiring in the main control must have come loose. Beth, come with me." Beth groaned before getting up and following Zimsky through the ship. Zimsky opened the panelling covering the wiring for the main control then grabbed a tool box. He fiddled around with a few screws, and wobbled some wires before turning to Beth.

"Can you hold this please?" He handed her a rubber coated wire. Beth took it from him and he reached in between the wiring to grab another cable. He wiggled that as well before taking the wire off of Beth and reconnecting it. He replaced the panel before lighting a cigarette and heading back to the main compartment. He switched on the computer and it burst back to life. "Well that was easy" he said smugly as in Beth's direction cigarette still in mouth if he had just carried out some amazing feat. Beth merely nodded before sitting back down and proceeding to check over the predictions program.

Half an hour later of sitting and checking everything was in order, Beth had finished. She looked over towards the front of the ship. Iverson was driving by himself and Bec and Josh were whispering to each other over in a corner and giggling. Beth grinned, all those two ever did when their attention wasn't needed was flirt. They so needed to get together, she thought to herself. Turning her attention away from them she started to search for something, with a triumphant smile she pulled out her c d player. She put in her headphones on, selected her Lordi album and turned the volume right up, closing her eyes she leant back and relaxed for a while since everything seemed to be going to plan and she was not needed at this moment in time.

Zimsky was staring quite solidly at Beth when Braz caught him.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you it's rude to stare?" Braz questioned him.

Zimsky would have blushed if he hadn't schooled himself quite so well in the art of looking like he didn't care about anyone or anything. He did not say anything but frowned when Braz gave him a meaningful look. Looking back at Beth then back at Braz again he shook his head and turned his attention back to his computer screen.

Beth finally got bored with her music and turned it off. "I'm just gonna go check on some stuff" she announced in a business like manner before getting up and heading into the compartment behind the crew. She walked all the way to living quarters before sitting down at the table and taking out some paper and writing down a few equations. She had received a brainwave a second ago to do with her predictions program and wanted to get the equation sorted properly before programming it into the computer. Beth chewed on her lower lip, a look of intense concentration on her features. Suddenly Bec's voice came through on the comms to her.

"Beth, get back in here now, were going to have a bumpy ride".

"Why?" Beth replied starting to get up

"Because we are about to fall into a rather large hole" came Iverson's voice.

"Its too late for" she caught Josh's voice before the whole ship lurched forward violently and she smashed into the wall in front of her, table following with a screech, her forehead violently coming into contact with the corner of a unit. It seemed like an eternity that the ship was falling, when all of a sudden it crash landed, throwing Beth forcefully back into a pile of upturned chairs. The heavy metal table which had been next to her on the wall during the crash landed solidly on her. The ship shook for a few more seconds before coming to a halt. Beth groaned sickly before passing out.

Back in the control room Bec started to look over everyone's vitals, whilst asking to see if everyone was ok. She looked at Beth's and immediately called out to her through the comms. "Beth? Beth are you ok?" "She looked up at the others worriedly. "Shit" cursed Zimsky, his voice thick with concern before jumping out of his seat and rushing off to find out where Beth was. Braz and Josh got up too, followed closely by Bec and they all hurried off in the same direction.

"Beth" Zimsky called out. "Beth where are you?" Beth who had come round at this point was unable to do anything but cough, the weight of the table making it impossible for her to breathe. Luckily Zimsky caught the sound and headed in its general direction. He arrived in living quarters took one look at Beth and his survival mode kicked in. He grimaced as he yanked with all his might pulling the heavy table off of Beth and spraining his wrist in the process. Beth sucked in air greedily as the pressure was released from her chest. She went to sit up, but she felt a hand on her shoulder pushing her back down. She swore at the pain in her head before passing out again. Braz at this point ran in followed by Josh and Bec.

"Medi bay" said Bec immediately.

Zimsky looked up at her and nodded. "We need to check her ribs first" he said, pulling Beth's T-Shirt up and running his fingers down each of her ribs.

"Ok, their fine" he conceded. "Let's go." Zimsky picked up Beth and handed her across the pile of furniture to Braz and he and Bec took off towards the medical bay.

Zimsky stood with the help of Josh, avoiding putting pressure on his injured wrist and they followed closely behind.