"OK, what exactly am I looking for again?" Rodeny McKay asked as he scrolled over the main computer screen in the gate controlroom. Ever since coming back to Earth to defend it from a Wraith attack two days before things had been crazy on Atlantis. So close to Califonia made Rodney was to throw up, he liked Canda better, if only they could move the city like a boat just a little more north. But no go, everyone said they were staying where they were until they had more power. But even then things in the city alone had been crazy. Already the stargate was currently useless.

"Two nights ago after things had calmed down, one of the engine techies reported seeing blood on the floor in this area. I took a group down there to try and find out who was there, but found nothing." John Sheppard said, his eyes on the screen as he pointed to where one of the engine rooms were located. "keep looking for unknown lifesigns." It was then that Rodney went from scanning the city as a whole to isolating the engine area and scanning for unknowns there.

Three items came up, two of them moving, the third stationary. "What are those?" John asked seeing the three things. Two moving, appearing on the screen as being under the city in the water. "Are those what I think they are?" John asked seeing what came up on the screen, a pair of giant sea turtles.

"Sea Turtles, there's a egg laying area on the beach about two miles north of here, why?" Rodney said. Not that he liked turtles, he thought them the ugliest looking thing on the planet Earth, wahles were prettier

"OK, that explains two of the three" John said. "What is the third?" Rodney highlighted the not moving lifesign and a warning appeared. "Can you read that?"

"Uh huh." Rodney said.

"Uh huh? What to do mean "uh uh"?" Sheppard asked. When someone said "uh huh" it was either a good thing or a bad thing, and since living in the Pegasus galaxy for five years, any time anyone said "uh huh" things were bad, in a "oh god oh god we are all gonna die!" kind of way. At least that is how Rodney told it out.

"I think we have us a visitor, or worse" Rodney told Sheppard as he typed some commands before typing a few more. "Just give me a few minutes and I can try and get a floor by floor map of the area, and maybe some information of how this thing is. if it is a person." He said

"Meaning what exactly McKay?" John asked.

"Meaning it will take some time before I can.... uh oh." Rodney noticed something on the screen, the lifesign he had found with the warning on was flashing red, as if a sign of trouble.

"What is it?" John asked staring at the screen as Rodney brought up a 3D map of the area in question, it looked a lot like the Daedalus engine room. Then he recognized the warning, "We have us a injured unknown. Can you isolate that area?" Rodney nodded and got to work. "I'm gonna need Beckett to get a medical team ready, Teyla, find Woosley and tell him what's going on, even if you have to use a blasted cellphone if the radio does not work. I'm going to find out what uis going on in this city." John turned and took off.

Down in the engine room a single being laid tangled in wires, and looked as if they had been through a war. In which the woman had indeed been through. A long time fowards into the future, in fact. Dressed in scarlet, with a metallic purple cloak over her shoulders, and her left arm hanging limply tangled in wires. her legs looked the basic hamburger, all torn and bloody. She couldn't move, her arms and legs tangled in broken wires and cement from somewhere. Somewhere else. She blacked out again, but before doing so she took in everything around her, what just happened? With that last thought she blacked out, just as power was cut to a room not far away, and the hallway she was in became brighter as the transporter activated.

Sheppard exited the transporter, P90 at the ready. Beckett came out along with another medical team member and a gurney. "OK McKay we are on the floor, what way from the transporter?" John said into his radio. Looking first to his left then his right.

"Go to your left, you're right ontop of whomever is down there, the warning's flashing, saying that who ever the person is, if you don't help him, he dies." Rodney said over the radio before Teyla's voice broke in.

"John, be careful."

"Right." John said, thinking to himself how much he was looking forwards to dinner at the China Towns Golden Dragon Inn with Teyla that evening before turning a corner and stopping dead in his tracks, all thoughts of dinner gone when he saw what lay in the hallway. "BECKETT!!"

"Oh Lord Above" Beckett said seeing waht John was. A woman, no older then Teyla in age, laid tangled up in broken cement, twisted wires and metal. Carson wasted no time in getting the woman onto the gurney and was on his own radio getting the OR ready for use. It was possibly the first time John heard Beckett swear. "I'll get her back to the infirmary."

"Right, I'll see if there is anyone else down here in need of help, Rodney, you see anyone else?" Sheppard said. Up in the control room Rodney shook his head. "No, nothing else, just the person you found, and you found the right noew too, the LSI shows the person about to flatline." He reported.

"The person is a she Rodney." John said leading the way back to the transporter. He allowed Beckett to go first before he himself went in.

"Really?" Rodney asked, sounding as if he was struck with total confusion. "You are sure its a woman?" How could a woman get to Atlantis without them knowing?

"Long hair, slender build, lighter skin tone then Teyla, covered in blood and almost dead, clearly female to me." John said as he entered the Observation Room. "Beckett's got her in the OR now, get down here, both of you." He stood at the rail looking down int othe room as the woman was wheeled in under the lights.

"Right." Rodney and Teyla both followed Sheppard as he headed for the observation window looking down on the OR.

"You think she will make it?" Teyla asked. She stared at the woman, how did John make the assement that the woman Carson was working on was like her?

"If she does, we made it to her at the right time." John said, having a feeling in his gut that he knew he would not like life when this woman woke up, if she did.

"Considering the amount of blood she lost, and is on her, that's a big if" Rodney said, trying to sound as tactful as he could, which was pretty much zero tact at all.

"Yes, there is that, but something tells me I know her from somewhere." John said. He keyed the radio, "Any ideas Doc?"

"None yet Col, we are getting her stablized now and set up the x-ray Dr Biro" Carson said getting to work almost instantly. The woman was hooked up to the IV Drip. the other doctors in the room began getting busy. Carson got to work doing what he was best at, keeping people alive.

Two hours later Carson came to Woosleys office, Sheppard had to tell Woosley what he and Rodney had found on the LSI screen and who they thought it was. John had thought at first he met the woman once before in college, but could not place her to anybody he knew back then. Teyla did not like the fact that John somehow knew the woman to begin with. It was bad enough she had gone through his bout with Nacy two years before. "Where do you think this woman is from?" Woosley asked.

"Don't know, she just appeared on the LSI a few hours ago, before that some of the engine crew downstairs found blood on the walls and floor near where I found her." John said, Rodney nodded when Woosley looked his way as if asking for confirmation, that was when Carson entered.

"Well, I have good news and bad news" Carson said.

"At least we have some news, what is it?" Richard asked.

"The woman is stable, but she's lost a lot of blood. She's asleep now, but there is something about her that I can't help but wonder about." Carson said.

"What's the bad news?" John asked.

"She's lost so much blood I don't know if she'll make it, she's dressed in the most odd way I have ever seen, she was through a lot. It takes a lot of power for a woman to be tangled in cement wires and rebar." Carson said

"OK, that is not exactly bad news." John said, "That is more like confusing news. What could tangle a woman that is in such bad shape in a broken building?"

"Aye. If only we knew" Carson agreed, everything was confusing, the woman was asleep and fixed up as best he was able given the supplies he had. But then would that be enough? Possibly not, but he hoped it was.

"OK, here's the deal, until she wakes up, keep an eye on her and find out everything you can of where she came from, I want that stuff she was tangled in analized soon as possible. I want to find out where she came from and what is going on." Woosley said, "I'll file a full report when this is over, find out what you can, we need all the information we can get."

"Right, you heard the man peoples lets go." John said, Rodney nodded and headed for a computer hooked up to the database, "Looks like dinner's going to have to wait, again." John remarked before motioning for Teyla to go with him to the engines below the city to where the woman had been tangled in the broken cement and wiring. Which was confusing because as far as John knew, no where in Atlantis was there cement, or open wiring, far as he could tell, Atlantis ran soley on crystals, and otherwise, he wasn't even sure if there was an actual engine in the city, but there was, a stardrive that reminded him a lot of one of those Star Wars ships he had a model of in his room.