This chapter may be short, but I think you may be pleased . . . I hope!


Stargate Atlantis: The Day After

Chapter 1 - Something odd, indeed.

The Daedalus zipped through hyper space towards Earth.

Colonel Sheppard entered the mess, and sat down quietly, Rodney didn't notice him, as he was occupied. Rodney seemed anxious as he was pouring over some data, he obviously killing time with something that seemed important.

An airman walked in with a flash drive.

"Dr. McKay, this is the information you requested on the hyper drive diagnostic." the airman said handing Rodney the small device.

Taking it, Rodney plugged it in and began to compare the data. Rodney noticed something odd. "Hello, my pretty." Rodney said.

"You find something?" Colonel Sheppard asked.

Rodney wasn't expecting the comment, and nearly his tablet.

Wheeling around, Rodney asked "When did you come in?"

"Ten minutes ago, just before that airman walked in." Sheppard said, the returned to his original question. "You find something?"

"I think so, there was a huge power spike as we left the Pegasus galaxy." Rodney said.

"And that's bad right?" Sheppard asked.

"Well, I don't know. It could be anything from a ship to a black hole. But these energy readings are off the scale." Rodney prattled, he seemed freaked, and yet intrigued.

"All hands, this is the bridge, prepare to drop out of hyper space." Steven Caldwell advised. "Colonel Sheppard, have your team report to the bridge." Steven added.

"Come on Rodney, you can play with your toys when you chores are done." Colonel Sheppard said, Rodney gathered a few small things that were important to his diagnostic, and followed Sheppard out of the room.

Several seconds later and the Daedalus emerged from a hyper space window.


As the ship decelerated they viewed the blue marble floating in a sea of darkness trapped like some many stars in the distance.

Colonel Sheppard ad Dr. McKay arrived on the bridge, and yet their arrival seemed to go unnoticed.

"Well, check it again." Steven ordered, something was on his mind.

"Nothing, sir." Marks responded.

But then Steven looked in McKay's direction, finally they were being noticed.

"Dr. McKay, there seems to be a problem with some of Daedalus' systems, we can't contact Stargate Command, and our sensors are giving us some disturbing readings." Caldwell said.

About this time Jennifer Keller, Teyla, and Ronon entered the bridge.

"What is going on?" Teyla asked in reference to the confusion.

But Rodney didn't hear the question. "Well, let me see." Rodney said moving towards the panel for the sensors. But after examining the system for twenty minutes, he was unable to find any reason why the crew was unable to contact the SGC. Rodney looked at Marks. "What was wrong with the sensors?"

Marks looked at Caldwell, then back at Rodney. "Sensors detect a couple hundred thousand life signs on the planet." Marks said.

"I don't know about you, but the last time I checked, Earth's population was a hefty 6.4 billion." Caldwell said.


Any theories? Ideas? Chapter 2 is coming soon-ish.