Marcus shouted over the comms from the back of the shuttle. “We can’t,” Josh responded. “We’re locked out. The whole facility is on lock down.” “Then bypass the auto-flight system, you idiots!” “You can’t bypass the auto-flight system, Marcus!” Loki argued. “It’s hardwired into the ship’s flight systems.” “Not if someone un-hardwired it! Just flip the damn bypass switch, under the starboard console, all the way to the outboard edge. It’s a lockset switch. Just pull the toggle down and then flip it forward.” Josh felt along the underside of his console, running his hand until he felt the switch. He pulled the toggle switch down, disengaging the toggle’s locking mechanism, and then flipped the switch forward. The flashing red display stopped flashing and suddenly changed to ‘Auto-flight Disengaged’. “That’s it! It worked!” “Of course it worked,” Marcus muttered. “How the hell did you know about that?” Loki asked as he fired up the engines.
