Time Jumpers Episode 3: A Small Navigation Error

The time jumpers have dived through a fissure in time in the Hollows of the satellite Gibbons’ Grotto, to avoid being swarmed by the Bugs. No one has ever gone through an Evans-Klein fissure before, and survived. Now Monthan Dringoth and three others find themselves boarding a derelict ship in a familiar time stream. It’s the same ship Dringoth commanded in an earlier battle against the Coethi. With a chance to clear his name and reputation from this previous encounter, Dringoth makes ready to re-fight the same battle, only there are differences.
One difference is another time jumper who came through the fissure with Dringoth. Vijay Surat knows Dringoth is a prima donna willing to risk everything to re-fight a battle that has already been fought, trying to change the outcome. Surat leads a mutiny against Dringoth’s crazy crashjump tactics, but he fails and after an aborted encounter with the Bugs again, the jumpers find themselves adrift in voidtime, having abandoned their battle-damaged ship.
Now the jumpers are alone and clad only in their hypersuits, cut off from all time streams, marooned in voidtime, in a seemingly hopeless situation. Their life support won’t last forever. They’re trapped. Dringoth has been through this before, after the First Battle of the Gauntlet. Now he has to devise strategies to keep his crew alive and their hopes up while he figures a way out of their predicament.
Any chance of being rescued lies in doing something no jumper has ever done before, something Time Guard regulations strictly prohibit, something temporal physics says should be impossible. But it seems to be their only hope.
Third episode in the Time Jumpers serial.