Ancient Devices
Disclaimer: Oh, I want to, but I don't own anything!
Author's note: This is set during sg-1 season 8 and sga season 1. I hope you like and please review! The prologue bit will be explained later if you review and want me to write more.
Prologue
Celegorn raked his hand through his hair and took a deep breathe. Forcing his eyes open he picked up the laser and started to weld the two crystals together, fusing the power in them.
Sighing he looked at the wristband that was on the bench beside him. He clasped it in his hand tightly and whispered "Soon, my love, soon... but not yet," pausing he took in another struggled breathe and continued, as though someone was beside him "... nearly finished.. soon... soon no-one would share our fate... soon." And with his last breathe he managed to activate his final contraption, before falling dead to the floor.
Now
Brig. Gen Jack O'Neill was bored.
He'd had nothing to do for days now, with every mission going as planned, no enemies showing up for a fight and no new hostile planets being discovered. He'd even managed to finish all his paperwork.
Even finding new ways to annoy his officers had become boring, since either Carter, Daniel, Teal'c or Walter kept finding ways to throw it back in his face. He thought his ex-team might try something like that but he'd never suspected the gate technician to be so sly. Which brought him back to the fact that he was bored.
Very, very bored.
So when Sg-6 came back through the gate reporting, from an annual visit to the Alpha site, that the rebel Jaffa had found an Ancient device and brought it there, Jack decided to go along for a little inspection.
Pulling on the familiar gear in the locker room beside Teal'c and Daniel gave Jack a very strong sense of nostalgia. He was reminded of how much he missed their missions together, but there was nothing he could do about it now. Looking up he realized that Teal'c and Daniel were waiting for him. He was about to reprimand them when he remembered that he was CO of the SGC now and they were just being courteous. Or at least in Daniel's case – Jack wasn't really sure what Teal'c was thinking.
"Ok, let's go."
Meanwhile, in another galaxy...
Maj. John Sheppard stepped through the wormhole and was greeted by the site of six air men aiming machine guns at him.
"Relax boys, we're alright." He ordered.
"Major Sheppard?" asked Dr. Weir, walking down the stairs from the control room "Anything important to report?"
"No, Ma'am," He replied walking over to her "We met the locals, Teyla said hi to a few old friends, they got scared when we mentioned the wraith, asked us to leave politely and invited Teyla and her people back for tea whenever they were available."
"That's it?"
"Yes Ma'am. If you want any more details on them you'll have to ask Teyla, they didn't seem to like us."
"It was not that." Teyla said patiently.
"Oh no?" Sheppard asked curiously "Then what were you ladies talking so much about?"
A faint tinge of red coloured Teyla's cheeks, "Nothing important to the mission or its objective major." She said softly.
Sheppard raised his eyebrow, and Ford looked quickly between the two of them trying to hide his smirk, whilst Weir said quickly "Maybe you ought to explain what happened on the planet to me Teyla," she said "In my office."
Teyla visibly perked whilst McKay started muttering under his breath.
"Did you say something Rodney?" Weir asked as Teyla gave Sheppard a challenging stare, which he returned.
"No nothing Elizabeth" He said meekly.
"Alright then, Teyla come with me. Major, have you and your team get checked over in the infirmary – just in case –and report to the meeting room for your debrief in 2 hours."
"Yes ma'am." Sheppard and Ford chorused, and started to walk off.
"Was there something else, Rodney?" Elizabeth asked as the astrophysicist lingered behind.
"No, I was just wondering why it was 2 hours."
Weir, Sheppard, Ford and Teyla all exchanged glances.
"Well, it's just normally one hour, that's all." He said huffily and stalked off in the direction of the infirmary.
Sheppard shook his head and followed after him, along with Ford.
Weir sighed to herself and headed in the direction of her office, accompanied with Teyla.
The three male members of Sga-1 did as they were told and went to the infirmary, although all deemed it unnecessary. Ford and McKay were the only ones to voice this opinion as Sheppard was too busy wondering what had been said by Teyla and the natives on the planet, and what she was now relaying to Weir.
"Stop worrying, sir," Ford said, noticing Sheppard's silence in his and McKay's argument against Beckett's examination. "Teyla's fine."
"Huh? What?"
"You're just worried about Teyla; you needn't though I'm sure she's fine."
"Yes," McKay added "her and Elizabeth are probably just having a girl chat, that's all."
"That's what I'm worried about." Sheppard muttered to himself.
Half an hour later as Beckett was just finishing discharging them, Grodin turned up looking for McKay.
"We've found a new Ancients' laboratory, Doctor and one of the devices is emitting a strange energy reading that Dr. Zelenka would like you to investigate."
"Alright, Alright, I'm coming." McKay muttered and pulling on his jacket he followed Grodin out of the room.
"Shall we go to sir?" Ford asked.
"Might as well, got nothing better to do." Sheppard replied.
"We could always go find Teyla." Ford teased.
"Let's go lieutenant." John ordered.
On the Alpha Site
"What is it?" Jack asked, bending over to examine the device closer.
"Err, careful sir." One of the scientists muttered.
Jack shot them a look, and Sam had to muffle her giggle.
"It's what we believe to be an Ascension device, sir," she managed to say "It has qualities of energy manipulation and sub space quantum timings."
Jack straightened and gave her a look.
"We believe that this device may have helped some of the Ancients to Ascend." Daniel said quickly.
"All you gotta say," Jack muttered to himself making Sam smile, before raising his voice and addressing the room "Any idea how it works?"
"Well, we think that it transfers one type of energy based object, or even being, into another type of energy, that's why there's an energy manipulation component in it. Also, the sub space –"
a scientist offered eagerly.
"What's it need to power it?" Jack interrupted.
"We think a ZPM, however there are energy components that suggest that it could run on its own power once activated." Sam said.
"How does it activate?"
"We don't know," Daniel said "Listen, Jack, Sam needs to study this and I want to get on with the translation of the text that came with it –"
"What's the diamond thing for?" Jack asked as he stepped forward to touch it.
"We don't kn - SIR!" Sam yelled as Jack was enveloped in a bright white light and then dropped to the floor.
At the exact same time in Atlantis ...
"So what's it do?" John asked looking at the device.
"I don't know, I haven't had time to study it yet." McKay said
"No need to get huffy McKay," Sheppard said whilst Ford grinned "Just asking a question."
"Well I don't have the answer yet." McKay replied.
"The answer to what, Rodney?" Elizabeth asked as she and Teyla walked in the room.
"Enjoy you're chat?" Sheppard asked Teyla as she walked over to stand next to him.
"Yes, it was very... refreshing." Teyla stated.
Ford and Sheppard exchanged glances – McKay was too preoccupied with the machine – and John asked "Are you alright? Nothing's wrong is it?"
Teyla smiled at the edge of concern to Sheppard's voice and Weir replied "Everything's fine, Major. Now if you wouldn't mind concentrating... ?"
Sheppard gave Teyla one last look before turning his attention to McKay.
"So far as I've been able to tell this device has both energy manipulation and sub space quantum timing properties. Now individually, these are two very risky and powerful elements, but combined together..." Rodney trailed off and then started again "I think this device might have been used to help some of the Ancients to ascend."
"Wow." Elizabeth said.
"I do not understand."Teyla stated.
"Well, The Ancients, at some point, decided they got tired of living like this – in bodies – so they 'evolved' to a higher state of being, living as pure energy." Sheppard explained.
"I see." Teyla replied.
"I wonder what the diamond things are for?" Ford asked, lightly tracing one.
"I thought they might have been a sort of activation switch but it hasn't turned on yet, so –"McKay said.
John reached out to touch one as lightly as Ford had down, whilst McKay said this.
"Major!" Teyla cried, as a bright white light enveloped him and he dropped to the floor.
Some plane somewhere
"Ahhh, oh that's gonna hurt in the morning." Jack said as he sat up rubbing his head. looking around him he realized that he wasn't on the Alpha site anymore.
The place where he was was like a long corridor, plain and grey only it had a faint glow to it. In fact everywhere he looked there was a faint glow. He was even faintly glowing himself.
Hearing a moan come from behind him, Jack turned round and froze.
Sitting behind him was Major John Sheppard.
"I must be hallucinating." Sheppard muttered once he saw O'Neill.
"If you are then I definitely am," O'Neill replied "where are we? I remember being on the Alpha site, not some glowing place."
"Well I was on Atlantis. In some lab with the others and I touched that device thingy –"
"What device?" Jack said sharply.
"Some device that a scientist found. It was quadrilateral, with some round thing on top and then another cylinder thing on top of that although it was all joined together, and –"
"It was gold, with emerald diamonds on each of the four big sides. " Jack finished for him "I think we both touched the same thing."
"Ok, but where are we? And why are we here?" Sheppard asked, looking around him again.
"I don't know, and I don't like it."
HeHeHe. Well tell me what you think and if I should write more or not. If so I'll be as quick as I possibly can and if not I'll go back to my 'drawing pad'.
