"Captain's voice log, 2354, mission day 75. Day 245, year 4056.

We finally pushed into the zone where the 'Astragalus' recorded the anomaly. So far we only found empty space. I was always sceptic about the Astragalus' reports and everything seems to support the theory this was all a big hoax and our mission a wild goose chase..."

"Cap? Need you on the bridge now. Eve registers an extensive asteroid field. And... oh my god!"

Captain Bernadette switched off the voice log and hopped out of her chair. "I'm coming up!" She said, racing out of her cabin and down the hall to the bridge. Eve sat in the pilot's chair, steering the ship to avoid asteroids while a stressed looking Ollie sat next to her, running calculations on a screenpad.

"What is it, Ollie? The asteroids don't seem that bad." Bernadette crossed her arms.

"It's not just the asteroids, Captain. It's that." He pointed out the window to an area of black space.

"What exactly am I supposed to be seeing? There's nothing there."

"Precisely. Captain, there are no stars in that sector. I'm afraid it might be a black hole-- or worse."

"Worse?"
"It could be a wormhole, sending us through space or time or both." Ollie shook.

"Then why don't we turn this ship around? Eve?"

The pilot's knuckles were purple where they gripped the steering wheel. "I can't. It's too strong."

"So we're going through a wormhole?" The Captain asked. "No doubt about it?"

"There's absolutely nothing we can do." Eve said.

"Great." The captain sighed. "How long until collision."

"It's pulling us in faster than the speed of sound. Maybe fifteen seconds?" Ollie looked at the captain. "But there's a thirty-seven percent chance we'll survive the journey!"

Bernadette stared at the approaching darkness. "If we don't survive... or even if we do, I'd just like you guys to know that you're a great crew, and that you deserve--"

The darkness engulfed the ship, and in a blink, the crew lost consciousness.

----

The ship soared through a field of habited asteroids, past hotels and mines and suburbs. At first, Captain Bernadette thought she was back home, in the Kuiper belt. Then she remembered that the last place she was was 19 million light years away from the Kuiper belt, on the edge of the known universe. And then she remembered the wormhole.

"Ollie? Eve?" She shook her crew awake.

"We're alive?" Ollie asked, pulling up his screenpad. "And in the Kuiper belt?"

Eve got up and turned the ship off of autopilot. "Cap, didn't you grow up here?"

"I did, actually. We should touch down at the cafe and figure out why we ended up here."

Bernadette gave Eve the coordinates and soon they were at a little cafe.

"May I take your order?" A girl, maybe eight, asked. "I recommend the double Ovantro Lattes."

"I know, those are delicious!" Bernadette smiled.

"You've been here before?" The girl asked. "I don't remember seeing you."

"I grew up here, on a farming asteroid about three AU out from here."

"How do you farm on an asteroid? We have to get everything shipped in."

"You terraform it, obviously." Bernadette was suspicious. "Everyone knows that."

"I didn't. I've never heard of terraforming."

Ollie spoke up. "Say, what year is it?"

"3870." She said in a mocking tone. "Everyone knows that."

"Oh no." Bernadette said. "We've got to go." She gathered her crew.

"Three double Ovantro Lattes to go." Ollie added. "I've heard too much about those not to try them."

"No Ollie." Bernadette said. "We've got to get back to the ship before I run into one of my ancestors and destroy the timeline."

He sighed, but followed them back to the ship.

----

"We've got to get out of her and back to our time." The captain paced in the bridge. " I don't know how, or what we've got to do, but we have to get back."

"Do you see a wormhole near here?" Ollie sighed. "There aren't any."

"Well then, do you know any way to get to our proper time?" Bernadette put her hands on her hips, hoping the scientist had an answer.

"No. Nothing safe or proven."

"Well then, is there anything unsafe and experimental?" There was desperation in the captain's voice.

"No." Ollie looked at the ship's control panel. "Actually, maybe..."

----

"FASTER, EVE!" Ollie shouted over the roar of the engines. "WE'VE GOT TO BREAK THE SPEED OF LIGHT AT EXACTLY WHERE WE ENTERED THIS TIME, OR WHO KNOWS WHEN WE'LL END UP."

"Don't worry, Ollie." Eve said, quieter. "The caffeine from the lattes in our engines should provide the boost we need to make it to light speed. Just tell me when. Cap?"

Bernadette concentrated out the window. "Not yet. Wait for it..."

"FASTER!"
"Wait for it..."

"FASTER!"
"We're almost at the speed of light!"

"FASTER!"

"And.... NOW!"

Eve hit the button and the ship jumped through the newly created wormhole towards another time.

----

The ship soared away from the wormhole, shattering asteroids with its speed. Eve slowed it down. They were headed back to civilization, after all.

Ollie sipped his double Ovantro Latte. It was delicious, but not as good as the relief of being back in his own time.

Bernadette sat in her cabin.

"Captain's voice log, 2355, mission day 75. Day 245, year 4056.

After a great ordeal, we have returned from the Kuiper belt circa 3870. Our crew has just completed the longest and most complicated coffee run of all time."

The captain slurped her latte and smiled.