"Hey guys, what's that big round thing floating in space out there?" John asks. "Is that normal?" He feels stupid when he realizes no one is in the Command with him so he pretends he was talking to Pilot. "…Pilot?"
"It appears to be…a big round thing, Commander Crichton," Pilot answers.
"Well obviously, I know that much," John says. "Anything else you wanna tell me?"
"There is another object floating nearby. Would you like me to bring them onto Moya?" Pilot replies.
John thinks about it for a second. "You know what Pilot, let's not," he decides. "Every time we mess with random strange things like that stuff goes horribly wrong. Just leave it."
"It is too late, Commander," Pilot tells him. "The others are already towing the big round thing onboard."
John sighs dramatically loud in frustration. "Those greedy little buttheads, they can't keep their hands off of anything they set their eyes upon."
John heads down to the cargo bay. He finds everyone surrounding the big round thing, which is now inside Moya.
"Guys, why…just…why?" John says, joining them in studying the thing.
"Why not?" Chiana replies.
"Because we don't know what this thing is, or what it might do!" John says, grabbing the hand that was about to poke the strange object and backing Chiana away from it. Far away.
"I hope it's a weapon," Aeryn says.
"No Aeryn, that's exactly what we hope it's not." John moves Aeryn to what he thinks might be a safe distance away. He grabs Chiana before she can return to the thing and moves her to stand next to Aeryn. "Just stay there."
"I wonder how much it's worth," Rygel says, getting too close to it for John's comfort. He pushes Rygel's throne sled to the other side of the room. "Hey!" Rygel exclaims.
"Yeah!" Chiana bounces past John again. "We could get rich!"
Rygel drives his throne over in front of the thing to admire the size of the big round object, imagining a pile of money in its place.
"No Chiana, don't touch it!" John shouts as he's struggling to drag Aeryn away. "What is wrong with you people!"
Chiana pokes the side of the big round thing. "See Crichton, you're worrying over nothing."
Ten seconds later a blast of blue…stuff shoots out of the large hole in the middle of the big round thing. Rygel is engulfed in it and is no longer there when the blue stuff retreats back to the round thing, the center of which is now filled with a liquid looking blue substance.
Jool is screaming from a distance. "It incinerated him!"
"So it is a weapon," Aeryn says.
"Chiana, get away from it!" John yells. She listens for once, it's a miracle!
Four people with guns walk out of the center of the big round thing and then the blue stuff they came out of disappears.
"Oh crap," John says. He puts his best effort into restraining Aeryn but ends up on the floor anyway. She has her pulse pistol aimed at the four intruders.
They look like humans, John thinks. But they're probably Sebaceans. Just what we need.
Aeryn is shouting at them to drop their weapons, Chiana is crying and unsure if she should be more afraid of the newcomers or Aeryn, and Jool is screaming her head off while hiding behind a big container.
The four intruders slowly put their guns on the ground and raise their hands. John studies them more closely from his place on the floor. "You're wearing glasses!" he randomly blurts out, pointing.
"Uhm yeesss…" Daniel says, confused.
"Sebaceans don't wear glasses, you're humans!" John jumps up and tries to get Aeryn to lower her gun. "Aeryn, chill, they dropped their weapons. They're humans!"
Aeryn cautiously approaches one and looks at him closely. "I should've known you'd all look exactly the same."
"Uh, hey there, I'm Colonel Cameron Mitchell," says the one that looks disturbingly like John. "Do you mind telling us where we are?"
"I'm still trying to figure that out," John replies. He gestures to the big round thing. "Can that thing take us back to Earth?"
"Yah," Cam says, still confused.
"Aeryn, did you hear that?!" John says excitedly. "I can finally go home!" He grabs her and starts whirling her around. She prods him off with her gun.
Pilot interrupts John's little celebration. "We are being approached by Scorpius' Command Carrier!"
"Frell," Aeryn says.
"He wishes to speak to you," Pilot says.
"Well okay, but be prepared to starburst the microt I tell you," John says.
Scorpius appears on a screen. "I have no idea why I agreed to talk to you, Scorpy, so you better make it snappy before I change my mind," John says angrily.
"I want the stargate, Crichton," Scorpius says.
"I don't have no stargate, what are you talking about," John replies.
"Shut up, I can see it right over there," says someone else who comes into view on the screen. One of the newcomers says, "Ba'al!" in a surprised whisper.
"We will take it by force if necessary," Scorpius says menacingly.
"First you'll have to catch us," John says. "Pilot, starburst!"
The ship lurches dramatically. The new arrivals are caught off guard and go tumbling across the cargo bay. Once it's done John goes over to them.
"I want to talk to you guys," he says. "Please, can you make this thing take me back to Earth?"
"Yeah, just let me…" Daniel says. He stops and studies the big round thing. "All the symbols have been worn off. That would make it pretty much impossible to dial it manually." He looks around. "Do you have a DHD?"
"Huh?" John asks.
"Dial home device. Is there one here?"
John turns to the others. "You guys didn't get that other thing floating out there in space?"
Chiana looks away sheepishly. "We were gonna go back for it…"
"Great. That means Scorpius has it," John says.
On Scorpius' Command Cruiser
"I can't believe you let them get away," Ba'al says, frustrated.
"Would you have me destroy their ship and the wormhole technology along with it?" Scorpius shoots back. "At least we got the Dialing device."
"Dial home device," Ba'al corrects him. "Which is useless without the stargate. You should've got here faster before anyone else could find it!"
"You should be grateful that my Marauder was here when you came through the stargate into space," Scorpius says. "Look, arguing will get us nowhere."
"I agree," Ba'al says. "We will just have to find them and take the stargate back."