[b]"Fascinating," The N1-L3 transmitted. [b]"I do believe that we've traveled forward in time. Man, I wish that I'd had more sensors engaged to record the event. I mean, let's see, you'd have to, what, scrunch spacetime up really hard to make it seem like we're traveling really fast for a bit. Or something. But, wait, I didn't record a gravity shift. And it appears to have affected all of us... travelers. So it's both very focused and widespread. I'd say whatever did this is a good chance of being what we're looking for."[/b] It paused for a moment, computers crunching. [b]"Although, honestly, whatever caused [i]this[/i] event seems less powerful than whatever caused the high-definition resolution event. I mean, whatever did [i]that[/i] affected the entire universe."[/b]

Did it actually affect all the travelers, though? What about the group that went to Death Mountain? Happily, one of the instruments provided back in the LOK orbiter was a telescope, and swinging that around revealed some people going up a path with a broken gate. The N1-L3 recognized Samus and Link, at any rate. They were making their way up a volcano, past some rolling boulders (hard to tell precisely what they were made of from this distance). It looked like they had a ways to go.

[b]"...oh. I'm an idiot,"[/b] the N1-L3 transmitted. [b]"I'm gonna be distracted for a bit, guys. Just, you know, knock if you need me."[/b]

Presumeably the game had you go into the caldera of the volcano. The N1-L3 vaguely remembered something about a fire temple. Obviously that would be in the molten volcano center. The path to get up there would be long and annoying (inevitably there would be some part involving twisting underground pathways), but the thing was probably wide open from the sky. 

And, hey. 

He was a rocket.

At the last second, he realized that he'd never actually fired the block A rockets, and didn't the real-life N1's all explode spectacularly, or something? But goddamnit, he was a rocket, and he was going to launch. He started a mental countdown. Well, not so mental.

[b]"30 секунд до пуска,"[/b] the N1-L3 unintentionally transmitted. Meanwhile, it ran through a mental checklist in its head. [i](Fuel? Go. Flight Computer? Go. Tracking?)[/i] The LK lander rotated so its telescope could track the main rocket. [i](Go. Mechanical? Go. Network? Well. Sure, Go. I'm a go for launch!)[/i]

[b]"10 секунд до пуска."[/b] the N1-L3 transmitted. [b]"Запуск ракеты. Пять, четыре, три, два, один, пуск."[/b]

Fuel and oxidizer rushed noisily into thirty NK-15 engines. Metallic pops and bangs echoed around the rocket. With great joy, the engines lit. A massive wall of smoke rushed out from the base of the body, glowing from the incendiary fury happening at the base of the thing. Slowly, the rocket began to lift from the ground. The sound generated by the rockets was phenomenal, easily heard from a great distance. So, too, was the plume of burning incandescent burning rocket fuel visible for miles.