Hitchhikers
Summary: It was a normal day aboard the Destiny. That is until a power spike and two life signs appear in a recently pressurized room. Crossover with SG-1. Set after Justice. AU.
Disclaimer: Don't own Stargate. I own David though.
Pairings: Eli/Gin, OC/Adria.
Eli Wallace sighed as he rubbed his eyes. "What time is it?" He muttered to Brody.
Brody glanced at his watch. "Late. Or early depending on how you look at it." Brody looked up from his watch at Eli. "You should get some sleep. You've been at this all day." Eli appeared to not hear him as he continued pushing buttons. "Eli? Everything alright?"
Eli stopped randomly pushing buttons. "No." He didn't want to look at Brody.
"Is it about Rush?"
Eli was quiet for a minute before answering. "I think I'll be the only person that'll miss him."
Brody opened his mouth to say something, anything that would inspire Eli but nothing came. It was true, many people probably wouldn't mourn Rush given the fact that it was he that stranded them on this ship in the first place. "It'll be alright, Eli." He came over and patted the young man on the shoulder. He moved towards the door. "Since you're staying, want some water?"
Eli nodded. "Sure." The corner of his mouth turned up into a small grin. "With a twist of lemon."
Brody smiled. "That's more like it. Be right back."
Eli glanced back at the console. "Okay." Eli felt the ship slow as it dropped out of FTL. "Hmm." Eli glanced up at the countdown clock but it didn't light up. "Okay…" Eli went over and tapped the clock with his finger but nothing happened. "Weird." The console Eli had been working at suddenly beeped. Eli quickly went back to the console. A graph appeared on the screen, it looked like an EKG to Eli. The line suddenly spiked then quickly went back to a straight line, it spiked again as Brody came back.
"Hey, the ship stopped."
Eli didn't look up as he started pushing buttons, trying to figure out what had happened. "Yeah, take a look." Brody went over to his console as Eli sent the graph over to his console. "Whoa. Power spike."
Eli nodded. "Yeah, two of them."
Brody tapped a few buttons. "And it looks like it came from one of the rooms we recently pressurized."
"What'd we got?" Eli nearly jumped into the air as Colonel Young along with Scott and Greer appeared behind him.
Brody didn't even break stride. "Some kind of power spike, Colonel. In one of the storage rooms we just pressurized."
Young went over to Brody's console and looked at the screen. "Anything in that room we might've switched on?"
Eli quietly snorted. "Yeah, maybe we left the toaster plugged in."
Young glanced over at Eli before glancing back at Brody's screen. "Alright, Scott. You and Greer"
"Whoa." Eli quietly exclaimed.
"What?"
"Someone is trying to open the door from that side of room."
Young looked from Eli to Brody. "Do we have any personnel in that room?"
Brody shook his head. "No. Not that I'm aware of. We've got a couple of hitchhikers, Colonel."
"Oh!" Eli exclaimed, getting everyone's attention. "I love that movie! Why didn't I put that on my list? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
"Now's not the time, Eli." Greer's rough voice spoke up from the door.
Scott walked over to Young. "What should we do, sir?"
Eli spoke before Young could. "Ah. That someone in that room? They just got the door open."
Young walked to Eli's console. "I thought you said they were trying to open the door?"
Eli shrugged. "I guess they got through."
Young unclipped his radio. "I need a security team at…" He spoke as he, Scott and Greer left the room.
Brody appeared next to Eli. "What do you think?"
Eli shook his head. "I hope they're friendly."
Meanwhile…
Chloe Armstrong walked along the same corridor where the power spike came from. Not that she was going to investigate but because she was simply going for a walk and she didn't bring a radio. As she was about to go around a corner, she heard voices she didn't recognize. Chloe stopped short and listened. She could tell it was a man and a woman talking.
The man spoke up. "I thought this was the right way." He sounded tired and annoyed.
The woman spoke. "I thought there were only subtle changes every time we stepped through."
'Stepped through? What does that mean?' Chloe thought. She moved closer to the corner.
The man spoke again. "Yeah, usually but this seems to be a big change. You noticed that one door panel? The one with the red panel? It wasn't like that in the last two."
The two continued to talk as Chloe listened. She noted that the man spoke like Eli or Scott, using slang and a mild profanity or two. The woman sounded more elegant than her male counterpart. Chloe risked a peek around the corner. The two had their backs to Chloe. The first thing Chloe noticed about them were their weapons. The man had a rifle strapped to his back with accessories on it that Chloe didn't recognize. The woman didn't have a rifle like then man but she had a pistol strapped to her right thigh. Chloe took note of the clothes as well. Both of them wore uniforms like Matt, she saw the familiar patch for their expedition and another that she didn't recognize on their arms.
The young man had dark brown rakish hair and when he turned his head slightly, she could see what looked like a goatee. The woman had flowing raven black hair tied into a loose ponytail. That's when Chloe felt a hand on her shoulder. Chloe spun around with a small gasp.
Matt stood behind her with several soldiers behind him, weapons raised. "Chloe, get out of the way. He whispered. Chloe looked down and saw that he had his sidearm drawn, his finger on the trigger guard.
Chloe put her hand on the gun, pushing it down. "Wait, Matt." She said a quiet whisper. "They're not dangerous. They're just…."
"Just what?"
"Lost."
Chloe saw a flash of movement as Greer moved past her, he stood at the same spot she did moments ago. He spoke quietly into his radio. "In position, Colonel."
Chloe tried to reach for Greer but Matt held her back. "Greer, please. They haven't done anything." Greer wasn't listening. If he was, it didn't look like it. "Don't hurt them."
Greer stepped forward when suddenly a hand came down on the barrel of his rifle, pushing towards the ground. The young man came around the corner. "Yeah, Greer, don't hurt us."
Greer dropped his rifle and brought up his fist to strike the young man but he was one step ahead of Greer. The young man stepped back and redirected Greer's fist into the wall next to them. Greer didn't even flinch as he tried to backhand the young man but he quickly stepped back again. Greer's momentum carried him into a 180. The young man grabbed Greer by the straps of his vest and pulled him to the ground. Greer swung his right arm but the young man caught it, he slowly crouched down and placed his knee on Greer's throat.
"Now, Greer," The young man said slowly. "if you don't behave, I'm going to have to knock you out. And I would feel horrible about that. So, what do ya say?"
Greer glared at the man with an intense look.
The young man looked up at Matt and pointed to Greer's face. "I'm gonna take that as a no."
