"Spontaneous Vacations"
When Chris crosses from
the sunny Texas landscape
to a moonlit field full of unicorns
between one step and the next
he doesn't panic, because
he knows what's going on.
The Tef is glitching again.
It does this sometimes;
Alex has explained it;
and while Chris doesn't
understand it, he does
know how to cope with it.
He takes out his emergency kit
and starts setting up camp in the dark.
Meanwhile, Alex will be figuring out
what caused the glitch -- which could be
anything from another alien invasion to
Schrodinger playing on the console again --
and which dimension Chris has landed in and
what they need to do to retrieve him.
His teammates will probably
get him back in a few hours.
If not, Chris has a plan:
in the morning, he will
check whether anyone has
tamed unicorns for riding.
That ought to be some fun.
When he first got involved with
Schrodinger's Heroes, these events
used to scare the skin off him, worrying
about whether he'd ever get home again
and how he should handle the chaotic mess.
Now he just views them as spontaneous vacations.