Disclaimer: not one character used here is mine.

The three of us entered the ship. It looked much the same as before. All of the seats were still there, the walls were still in one piece, and even the door could shut itself behind us without any problem. There was nothing that showed us we crashed, as we had been told. What was different was the cockpit. I remember when I first saw it, there was a robot, bolted there. That robot was gone. In its place was a different kind of robot. One with a human face, with one complete arm, while its left arm was missing a hand. But instead of a hand, it seemed to have a tube attached to it, which was connected to the ship's controls. It didn't have any legs, but it had some kind of rotating mechanism, which meant that the robot could turn to look at us if it wanted to. The only reason I have kept referring to him as "it" by now, was because it took me a while to notice it wasn't a robot I was looking at, but a friend of mine.
"Murphy?" my female companion, who knew him best, cried, "What have they done to you?"
"What I asked them to, Saya." Murphy replied, "I knew that with my incomplete body, I'd only be keeping you back. But now that I'm connected to the ship, I can be of more use to you."
"Don't you feel vulnerable at all?" Saya asked him.
My other companion laughed: "Since when do you care about other people?"
Saya turned her head to him: "I don't. I just don't understand why he would want to put himself in this position."
Merlin kept smiling: "Why can't you just admit you do care?"
Saya drew her sword out: "Do you want to live to become thirty?"
It was funny to see those two argue with each other. Merlin, being of roughly my age, was always smiling, even at the more dangerous times, which always clashed with Saya, who looked like she was younger than me, but acts like she's so much older.
"This ship has lasers." Murphy answered Saya's question, "And should anyone somehow find their way in, I always have this."
Murphy raised his fist, which showed us he was wearing that belt-gun we picked up in an earlier world. This seemed to calm Saya down, as she put her sword back. This time, I could see where she hid it. She was carrying a tube on her shoulder. The same type that most artists use to carry around their artworks. Clever, I thought to myself.
"Also, you may be interested in these." Murphy said, as he pointed at something at the bottom of the windshield.
The three of us came closer to look. There were three things that looked like tubes, along with three pairs of dark goggles.
"If you put these in your ears, and those on your heads, you can be my eyes and ears on every world we visit." Murphy explained.
Saya looked at them. She put one small cylinder in her ear, and the goggles on her eyes.
"I can't see anything with this." she complained.
"You can always just wear them around your neck." Murphy suggested, "The effect should be the same."
As suggested, Saya pulled the goggles down, so to wear them around her neck. Merlin and I followed her example. Or at least, Merlin wore the goggles around his neck. I put them on my eyes, just to see. I didn't see anything unusual, until I felt some kind of dial around one goggle. I turned it, and suddenly everything looked green. I remember seeing this before. It's called night-vision. I turned the dial again, and suddenly, where Merlin once stood, stood now something red, while everything else was blue. This was heat-vision, which showed me all the warm spots. It looked neat, until I saw that where Saya stood, there was something blue. I already knew she was different from us in many ways, but suddenly knowing she doesn't have a body-heat, somehow terrified me more than anything else. I switched off the heat-vision, and took off the goggles, only to see Saya's less than pleased face.
"You better take a seat now." Murphy suggested.
"Where are we going?" Merlin asked.
"Your timer..." Murphy pointed at me, "... has all of its last locations in its memory banks. Its last location was the world where you found Mondas."
"Before that, it was Narnia." Merlin said, then pointed at me, "Where we found you."
"Then one of the worlds it visited before Narnia, must be your home." Murphy continued.
If only that were true. I don't know what that world was, but it wasn't home. But even if it was, we'd only find one ship, filled with dead bodies. No way did I want to go back there. Shivering, I shook my head wildly.
"What no?" Murphy asked.
"Looks like he's afraid to go back to any of those worlds." Saya said.
"Very well. We won't go there." Murphy agreed, "I'll just open a portal, and see where we end up."

As soon as Murphy said that, I ran to take a seat. I sat down and fastened my seatbelt. Soon enough, Saya and Merlin did the same thing. When all three of us were ready, Murphy started up the ship. Slowly, we started hovering over the ground. Through the windshield, we could see the friends we made in this world, waving at us. Well, many of them did, while others simply nodded. The ship flew up a little higher, until we couldn't see people, trees or buildings anymore.
"Hold tight for high speed." Murphy spoke, after which we felt ourselves being thrust forward, into the sky.
"Why are you flying so high?" Merlin asked.
"I don't want to risk us hitting anything when we enter a different world." Murphy explained.
"But what if we crash again?" Merlin further questioned.
"Last time, we were in an unstable wormhole." Murphy explained, "It won't happen again."
At the same time as he said that, only a black sky with white dots could be seen through the windshield. This told me we were in space. Whatever Murphy did this time, it caused a portal to open in front of us. With that thing there, he flew closer to it. Soon enough, we were in that weird space again. Where we were everywhere and nowhere at the same time, where everything had all the colors we can think of, and yet bear no colors at all. Still, unlike earlier times I was in this, I was actually sitting in a comfortable chair, and the artificial gravity of the ship made the entire trip more pleasant than before. And this time, when we arrived in a new world, I was surprised to see how short our trip was this time.
"So... where are we now?" Merlin asked.
"I'm not picking up any radio signal from the planet." Murphy answered.
"Radio signal?" Merlin didn't know what that was.
"Remember those things we had to put into our ears?" Saya explained to him.
"Yes." Merlin replied, "They are like those earpieces we used before, aren't they? So we can talk to Murphy without him actually being near us?"
"Indeed." Saya replied, "But in order for it to do that, it needs to send out a signal for Murphy to receive."
"I see." Merlin replied.
"Since you're not familiar with our technologies, I am guessing you don't have many advanced machines in your world." Murphy spoke.
"Not like this, no." Merlin replied.
"So if a planet has the technology to send out signals, it means an advanced civilization is living there." Murphy further explained.
"But you're not receiving anything?" Merlin asked.
"So either they're not advanced, or humans don't exist here." Murphy explained.
"A world where humans don't exist." I couldn't be sure, but it almost looked like Saya was smiling.
"Wait, I am picking something up." Murphy sounded startled.
After a few seconds, he said: "It's gone."
"What does that mean?" Merlin asked.
"It means we have a place to check out." Murphy replied.