He scanned his telemetry.
Took a sip of his coffee.
Then looked back.
The portal arrived. As requested, in a cave.
Scans immediately started coming back.
"What in the world?" The arch was being slammed by water, and the systems had to compensate.
He started attempting to adjust the settings from there.
That's when he noticed it.
The portal's destination had been changed, just by a couple of digits.
But enough that the portal was not only in the wrong location--on a beach, under water--but about three hundred years earlier than it was supposed to be set up.
He spat out a curse.
Tapped a few more controls.
And sighed.
Comet came back into the room and sat on his hind legs, staring up at him. The ears flopped around his face.
"You sent a perfect portal to an underwater cave."
Comet merely started licking his paw.
He shook his head.
The higher-ups were going to find out about this.
Maybe Jorak should get his resume ready for new job applications because this may be the screw-up that gets him fired.
