A New Beginning

"Okay, lets start over. Explain to me exactly how you caused seven of the twenty-one reactor cores to go offline." Matt said, rubbing his eyes in frustration. He didn't know what was worse, dealing with Willard, or dealing with the aftermath of his capture.

"That's what I was trying to tell you. I was just doing my experiment, when suddenly, the prototype dark matter collector overloaded causing a feedback loop. The system couldn't handle the sudden power drain as it just happened to coincide with the initiation of the engines.

"It's not my fault! The engine team didn't stick to their schedule! It clearly says they would initiate the engines exactly at sixteen-hundred hours." The doctor flailed his arms on the other side of the metal table while explaining.