Chapter 51
Spanner's Fate
"Well now it seems you've made up for any foolish misconduct before you arrived here."
"Yea I guess your right." Spanners answered. "But what do I do now. Can I possibly find my way home throughout all the infinite universes that lay out there."
"I don't think it's going to be as hard as it looks," Ace said with a smile.
"How's that Ms. Ace mum?" Questioned Kryten.
"Not to take away any of the evil that my dark doppleganger seemed to have had in ample supple. But from what I've pieced together he seemed to be quite a clever chap."
"How do you figure that my old vomit bucket? Rimmer asked.
"Actually Arn, it was you that clued me in. When you explained his plan for taking over the cosmos. Dimension by dimension."
"Vaguely."
"Well for the nasty fiend to make this plan a reality he would have to be able to get he and his troops to and from a specific dimension. Regularly. It wouldn't work if he get his troops back. Some kind of homing devise
I did find these before his base self-destructed." Ace pulled
three computer discs from her breast pocket. "It seems that he was on his way to cataloging the whole of the dimensional cosmos. With the help of a
Time Sled fitted with one of these homing devices."
"How's that going to help old dog food faces ugly twin brother get home?"
Questioned the feline.
"If we're able to analyze the data on these discs we should be able to
calculate the last dimension Spanners' ship occupied."
"You talking about my dimension." Spanners said eagerly, a grin breaking for his face.
"And with that homing device, we should be able to use the data to guide his ship back to his home dimension," finished Lister.
"Ms. Ace Mum," Kryten asked pointing to Jim and Bexly both within the
makeshift stasis booth. "Is there any information on those discs
to help aid our Mr. Lister get his boys back to their rightful dimension?"
"Too early to know yet Krytus old friend. But when we get back up to the small rouge one I'm sure the lot of us will be able to sauce it out.
Sound like a water tight scheme to you chaps?"
All seemed to think so.