Chapter 1
The MALP headed toward the event horizon. Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard turned from the Control Room balcony where he was watching the Gate and walked over to Rodney's console. "What kind of facility is this?" asked John.
"Some sort of research outpost. The database has very little information about it, other than it contained quite a few ZedPMs, and the place was apparently abandoned when the Ancients left for Earth," replied McKay.
Weir looked at Rodney with a smile on her face, "Well, sounds promising."
Chuck turned from his console to face Weir, "We have MALP telemetry. Environmental sensors indicate viable life support. Visuals coming in now."
"Put it on screen."
She, Rodney and John turned to look at a screen. The screen showed static but seconds later the image changed to show a deserted by clearly lit Ancient gateroom.
"Maybe it never *was* abandoned Rodney," said John.
"Could there still be Ancients running that gateroom?" asked Weir.
Rodney looked at Weir with an all-knowing look, "I highly doubt that, the database had it clearly marked as abandoned. The Ancients probably just left the lights on when they left."
"Whatever the case may be Rodney, there still might be ZedPMs on that planet."
Shortly afterwards, in the gateroom, stood John and his geared up team went through the wormhole. The team exited the wormhole. They stared around in disbelief as they realised that this planet's gateroom was almost an exact duplicate of Atlantis's gateroom.
Rodney took out the Life Signs Dedicator, "Hmm..."
"Are there people here Rodney?"asked Teyla.
"Can't tell, these high energy readings are interfering."
"So it's safe to assume that there are ZedPMs here," said Sheppard as he glanced around the gateroom.
"Yes, Captain Obvious."
Ronon just smirked and began to climb the stairs with his stunner held high. Rodney looked over at Ronon, "This place is abandoned you know."
"Doesn't mean that no one is here."