Meanwhile, the shuttle flew towards the three planets. Everyone on board was silent as they flew. Garth sat in the pilot's chair as he flew the small ship. Lilly sat back in the passenger's seats.

Garth glanced over his shoulder back at the passengers for a second. "Hey, Salty, could you come up here for a sec? I need you to translate this spectrographic analysis for me."

Salty got up and looked over Garths shoulder at the screen. He groaned at what he saw.

"What?" asked Garth, fearing that he already knew the answer.

"The first planet is too hot. We'd be fried as soon as we stepped out of the shuttle. The second planet is too cold, unless you're a penguin. And the third planet… is toxic. We wouldn't be able to breath there."

"So in other words, we're screwed?" said Garth.

"Yup," sighed Salty.

Garth hung his head. They had nowhere to go. He didn't have the heart to tell everyone else, especially Lilly, but he knew they would find out soon enough.

Tony lay on the bed in his quarters. He had thought he and the rest of the people onboard would be dead by now. Not that he was complaining, although a part of him did want this to just be over with because waiting around for it to happen was probably the worst part.

All over the ship, everyone was doing things that they wanted to do before they died. Some were praying, some were just keeping each other company, some, like Humphrey and Kate, were even making love.

Tony looked down at his watch. He narrowed his eyes in confusion. They definitely should have been dead by now. The star's gravitational forces should have crushed the ship by now. Something didn't fit.

He got up and walked out of the room and started heading down to the observation deck. When he got there, Shakey and Janice were there cuddling in a chair, Janice on Shakey's lap. Tony paid them no mind as he walked over to the front of the room and gazed out the big window. They were right over the star, in a place that no object logically could exist on its own. Tony smiled and started laughing. He couldn't help it. He was so overwhelmed with sudden realization and relief; he just had to laugh happily.

Shakey and Janice looked over at him with confused expressions on their faces.

"What's he so happy about?" asked Janice.

"I think the old guy's finally lost it," said Shakey with a shrug.

Tony looked over at them, still smiling. "Not yet, I haven't," he said, having heard them. "We're going to live!"

"What?" they both said. "But what about the star?" asked Shakey. "We're flying into it."

"Yes," said Tony. "Because we're supposed to."

"But we're going to die!" said Janice.

Tony shook his head. "No, that would have happened by now. The shield is protecting us."

"But you said we were out of power," said Shakey.

"I thought we were, and I have never been more happy to have been wrong in my entire life." Tony took off back into the corridor. Shakey and Janice looked at each other and then followed him.

Outside the ship, several advanced solar energy collectors were emerging from the outer hull of the ship. They began absorbing the energy from the star.

As Tony, Shakey, and Janice hurried through the corridors of the ship, the light panels on the ceilings and walls suddenly began turning on again. People were coming out of their quarters in confusion, as the lights were turning on inside their rooms as well. Humphrey and Kate emerged from Humphrey's quarters ahead of them, both of them wrapped in bed sheets. They didn't appear to be wearing any clothes underneath.

"The lights just came back on in my room," said Humphrey.

Kate nodded beside him. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Stand by," said Tony as he hurried past them. Shakey and Janice took a moment to stare at Humphrey and Kate in amusement.

"You two might want to get some clothes on," said Shakey with a grin.

Janice giggled and the two of them continued on after Tony, leaving Humphrey and Kate to go back into the room and put their clothes back on.

Shakey and Janice followed Tony as he walked into the control room and began messing with a computer consol. As he had thought, the computers had power again as well. He looked at the screen and pressed a few buttons. Indeed, power was coming back all over the ship.

Suddenly Winston walked into the room. "What's going on?" he asked as all the lights in the room came back on.

"Destiny needed all its power reserves to protect itself," said Tony.

"Uh, guys?" said Shakey from over at another consol. He had a look of pure disbelief on his face. "We're inside the star!"

"What? That can't be right," said Winston.

"It is," said Tony.

"That's thousands of degrees," said Winston.

"I know," said Tony, still smiling broadly. "This is what Destiny intended from the moment it entered the star system."

"You mean it flew into a star on purpose?"

"Yes. The ship needed power, and it runs on solar power. The ship is powered by stars!" Winston could almost hear giddiness in Tony's voice. It was very weird coming from him.

Suddenly they all felt the ship lurch forward. Shakey looked at his consol. "The engines just came back online. We're flying away from the star."

"Power reserves now at one hundred percent," said Tony.

Suddenly Humphrey and Kate came hurrying into the room with their clothes back on. "What's going on?" Humphrey asked.

"We're not gonna die!" said Shakey.

"We aren't?" exclaimed Humphrey. "How?"

"We'll explain later," said Winston. "Right now we've got to call that shuttle back to the ship."

"I'm already on it," said Tony.