All over the ship, people were freaking out from the blackout. Humphrey, Shakey, and Salty were all in what had been deemed the conference room on the ship for now, talking to Winston.

"Tony was right," said Shakey. "Everything but life support is down."

"And how long will that hold out?" asked Winston.

"We don't know?" said Salty.

Winston sighed. "So any ideas for solutions?"

Both Salty and Shakey shook their heads. "We're pretty much dead," said Salty.

Winston looked at Humphrey, who was rubbing the back of his head. "Humphrey?"

"Well," said Humphrey, putting his hand down and standing up straight, "I put a Kino into search mode and sent it into unexplored areas of the ship looking for a console that might still have power. So far, nothing. Also, I was trying to see if there was a way to integrate the shuttle's power into the ship, but that's a long shot at best."

"So you're doing something about this," said Winston.

"Yeah," Humphrey said with a shrug.

Winston looked back at Shakey and Salty. "Well, why don't you two get your heads out of your asses and help him, since he's actually doing something useful."

Shakey and Salty were stunned if not insulted. "Yeah, right, we'll get right on that," said Shakey. They turned and headed out of the room.

Humphrey was about to follow when Winston spoke. "Humphrey."

Humphrey turned and looked back at him.

"Keep up the good work," Winston said.

Humphrey nodded. "Thanks." Then he continued out into the corridor.

A few minutes after they had left, Garth came hurrying into the room.

"Sir, I have some good news," he said.

"Good, I could use some," said Winston. "What is it?"

"The ship is drifting towards a solar system and some of the planets might be inhabitable."

Winston smiled. "That is good news."

He went with Garth to the shuttle they were working on. If any of the planets were inhabitable, they could get people off the ship with the shuttle and go to the planet. At least that way they might survive.

When they reached the shuttle, Tony, Eve, and Hutch were already there.

"An aerobraking maneuver," said Tony as they walked in. Winston soon saw what he was talking about when he saw the big, blue gas giant planet looming ahead of them through the transparent metal windshield of the shuttle.

"You mean we're gonna slingshot around that planet?" asked Winston.

"That's what it looks like," said Tony.

"We should come out of slingshot somewhere in the system," said Hutch.

"Where there are habitable planets," said Winston with a smile.

"Knock on wood," said Eve as she crossed her arms.

"We'll, we shouldn't get our hopes up," said Tony. "We don't even know if those planets are inhabitable yet. Never the less, I believe that this trajectory was no accident. The ship new it was going to loose power, and so it set us on the appropriate coarse to safety before it went dead."

"Well, we'll know once we pass this giant," said Winston.

"That will be in like…" Garth looked at his watch, "about seven minutes."

"Just so you all know," said Tony, "there is going to be some severe turbulence when we hit the atmosphere. Make sure every body knows and tell them how to keep themselves safe when we do."

"Yes, sir," said Garth.

"Come on, Lilly," Humphrey urged her as they ran through the corridors together towards the observation room to watch as the ship passed through the outer atmosphere of the gas giant.

"I'm coming," said Lilly.

"Well, we don't have much time. Trust me, you don't want to miss this," he said. As soon as he and his friends had heard about this, they had rushed off to see it, but Humphrey had went to find Lilly first so that she could see it too.

Humphrey and Lilly had always been good friends. They had recently become even closer during both of their relationships' problems, his and Kate's break up, and her and Garth's separation. Not that they were actually in a relationship, contrary to some other people's beliefs, they were just best friends, and were always there for eachother when they needed them.

They ran into the room. There were a lot of other people already there. Apparently they had all had the same idea they had had.

The giant blue planet loomed before them. Lilly gasped when she saw the sight. "Humphrey, it's beautiful."

Humphrey grinned and they walked up nearer to the front of the room towards the window.

The ship started to shake as it started to enter the atmosphere of the planet. "All right, everyone, this is it!" shouted a solder. "Everyone sit down away from the walls so nobody ends up with any broken bones."

Everyone sat down on the floor. It was a good thing to, because the ship was starting to shake more violently by the second. The ship sped up to incredible speeds as it was hurled around the planet by the gravitational pull combined with the centrifugal force.

After what seemed like an eternity, the shaking decreased and then came to an end as the ship came out of the slingshot and zoomed away from the planet. This was when Humphrey suddenly noticed that Lilly, who was sitting next to him, had wrapped her arms around him out of fear during the ride, causing him to blush a little. He, along with a few others, began laughing a little from the post thrill of the experience.

"Whoa!" exclaimed Winston back in the cockpit of the shuttle. "Hell of a ride, huh?"

Eve and Tony chuckled at that.

"Now," said Tony, becoming serious, "let's find these planets." He began looking at the navigational computer in front of him. Suddenly his expression turned grim. "Oh, no."

"What is it?" asked Winston.

"Our trajectory has changed… for the worst."

"What do you mean?" demanded Eve. She and Winston both looked over Tony's shoulders to see the screen. What they saw was in fact the worst possible thing they could imagine. The ship was now on a collision course for the star at the center of the solar system.