Back on the shuttle, the crew was sitting around as they headed towards the frozen planet, as it seemed the least deadly. They all knew that the Destiny must have been destroyed by now, and all of the people who had stayed behind were dead.

"Alright," said Garth to the passengers, trying to keep an assuring voice. "I'm gonna orbit the planet a bit until I find a suitable landing spot, before we go down there."

He began to work the controls when a familiar voice suddenly came up on the comm. speakers. "This is Winston, come in."

Everyone looked up in surprise. It was impossible. It was Winston's voice, but it couldn't be. Winston was dead, but the voice spoke again.

"Destiny to shuttle. This is Winston, come in."

Garth quickly pressed the comm. button. "This is Garth. Sir, how the hell…"

"There's no time for that now, Garth. You need to get your asses back to the ship, pronto."

Everyone in the shuttle shouted in delight and amazement. They had no idea how the Destiny had survived, but they sure were glad it had.

"Look, there it is!" shouted Lilly as she pointed out one of the windows. Indeed, the Destiny was there, flying away from the star, its main thrusters working again.

Garth happily responded to Winston, "Yes, sir! Garth, out. Alright, everybody, here we go!" Garth began putting in an intercept course for the Destiny into the shuttle's navigation computer. Then he frowned, as for some reason, the computer was rejecting the course. "Salty, I need you're help again," he called.

Salty walked up to him again. "What is it?"

"I don't know. Take a look."

Salty looked at the computer screen. He frowned. "Uh oh," he said.

"Why are you saying "uh oh"?" asked Garth, becoming worried.

"Destiny is accelerating away from us. We can't catch up to them before they jump into F.T.L."

Back on the Destiny, everyone was waiting for the shuttle when they heard Garth's voice on the Comm. "Guy's, we have a problem."

Everyone immediately became concerned. "What is it?" asked Winston.

"The shuttle can't catch up with you. Destiny is accelerating too fast. We're gonna fall short if we try to reach you."

Everyone practically groaned. It just seemed to be one problem after another.

Tony thought for a moment. "You're on full power, right?" he asked Garth.

"Yes, the throttle's at maximum, but it's just not fast enough."

"Can we slow the Destiny down?" asked Kate.

"No," said Tony, shaking his head. "We don't have any control over navigation or propulsion yet." Tony thought as hard as he could for a solution. He soon came up with one that might work. "Garth, I want you to turn and head directly towards the planet. We'll send you an exact course in a moment."

"No, we can't do that!" said Garth. "The planet is a dead, frozen rock. We wouldn't be able to survive…"

"Just do what I say, Garth! That's an order! We don't have much time."

Confused, Garth obeyed the order and started turning the shuttle back towards the planet.

After he did that, Tony continued explaining his plan. "I believe that if the shuttle slingshots around the planet, it will give the shuttle just enough speed to reach us in time. It should put it right in our path."

Now Garth understood. "Alright," he said. "Just send us the course and speed."

"One moment," said Tony, as he began doing the calculations on his computer consol.

"I got it!" said Humphrey suddenly after several seconds. He was working over at another computer consol. "I have the calculations."

'What?' thought Tony to himself. 'I know the boy is smart, but he can't be that fast.' Tony hurried over to Humphrey's consol. Sure enough, Humphrey had a list of navigational calculations plotted out on the screen. "Humphrey, there are a lot of variables here," he told him. "Are you absolutely sure you've got it right?"

Humphrey looked at him with a grin. "I'm Math Boy, remember? Send it to them."

Tony gave a nod. "Okay, Math Boy." He took Humphrey's calculations and sent them to the shuttle's navigation computer.

"I hope this works," said Winston, hoping desperately to have Eve and Lilly back with him.

On the shuttle, Garth received the calculations and punched them in. "All right, everybody, hang on tight," he said as the shuttle began to move into an aerobraking maneuver around the planet. The shuttle shook as it flew around the planet at breakneck speed, like the Destiny had done before with the gas giant. In a couple minutes they came out of the slingshot maneuver, flying out in front of the Destiny.

"Okay, we're only gonna get one shot at this," muttered Garth as he worked the maneuvering thrusters to bring them into position in front of the Destiny. Everyone was practically gathered up behind his chair, watching anxiously as he tried to line them up with the Destiny's docking hatch.

No pressure, huh?

The Destiny seemed to be growing larger behind them as it quickly approached the small craft. "It's coming up pretty fast on us!" said Claw as she looked out the back window.

"I know, I know!" said Garth in annoyance, trying hard to concentrate. "Would you just let me fly this thing?"

They all felt the shuttle rumble as its bottom bumped the hull of the ship. Garth shut down the main engines and the shuttle shook hard as it slammed back into the docking hatch. Fortunately, there was no damage, and the docking clamps engaged.

"We made it!" Garth sighed with relief and sat back in his chair as the rest of the passengers began cheering. Lilly ran up and wrapped her arms around him, kissing him on the cheek. Unfortunately for him, Eve then did the same thing.

"Well done," said Winston, back in the Destiny's control room. Everyone else there was also breathing sighs of relief. "Well done."

Suddenly there was a loud whirring noise as the ship jumped back into F.T.L.

Humphrey and Kate looked at each other. "I guess we're going to live," Kate said with a smile.

Humphrey smiled back. "Yeah," he said with a nod. He had many thoughts going through his head right then. One of them being that Kate might get pregnant because of what they had just done a few hours ago. But if she did, Humphrey vowed that he would be the best father he could be.

Shakey spoke. "Hey, since the ship is back at full power now, do you think we have enough power to dial the stargate back home?"

Tony thought for a moment and then looked at him. "Maybe," he answered. "It's possible."

A/N: Okay, I'm done with this story. This is as far as I'm going with it. I hope you liked it. But if any of you other authors would like to take up this story and keep writing it yourself, contact me and I'll send you the necessary information. Just remember to include that this story was originally mine.