Redemption
The door of one of the stasis chambers opened and from it, Dr Rush and then another one opened releasing Col young, Rush rose to his knees while still delusional of the experience he had in the stasis chamber for a long time so was young but being a military personnel, young is able to hold on to his footing but bends low to Give a hand to rush helping him to stand on his feet.
Young: how long have we been asleep?
He says while looking at the banks of stasis chambers which are still open then he notices the broken stasis chamber,
Young: Rush? (Rush looks at him still liking delusional) Isn't that the stasis chamber we left Eli to fix?
Rush, Rises up and moves a few steps to where the chamber is, It's …Its Empty it hasn't even been fixed.
Young: Eli! Damn you! What could have happened?
Rush: there is only one way to find out.
He rushes past colonel young the camera pans from the top of the console and moves down to see Rush hurrying towards a console and young for the first time running after him. Rush types at the console then smiles and soon the smile fades away. He then turns to colonel young.
Colonel young: What have you found out?
Rush: We may have a problem but first let us meet Eli, he is on the chair
Young: what?
Rush: we have no time let's get to him according to what I just went through in the system, Eli has been on the chair for close to a year. He is still alive though.
Immediately after concluding saying that rush leaves the room and heads down a corridor with Young tagging along
Young: what was the problem?
Rush is about to answer when the ship is rocked violently but that soon come to pass.
Rush: it seems our path took us very close to an unchartered singularity in our path. We are trapped around a black hole.
Young pauses for some time then follows rush who has now entered the chair room.
Young: you mean a black hole… this cannot be good.
Then young looks at the chair with Eli seated in it around him a system that used to be in the infirmary is connected to his veins. While rush is already in the control consoles.
Rush: yes it is not. But let as get him out of the chair first. It seems he prepared himself well for this. But he is barely registering, let me get him out. Or on a second though, let us get TJ.
Young: Now?
Rush: (stops and stares at young) yes now, it's not every day we get to save somebody but when we do we ought to try our best. (Rush then pauses then adds) We may also need Chloe, broody and Volker to assist us in getting off this mess, add parker too. We may need as many ideas in this as possible, we may not have a long time before we enter the Swartz radius. He then types something in the console.
Young: What about the power?
Rush: we haven't left the galaxy yet so there is plenty of fuel in our car (and presses a button in the console).
In the stasis banks, we find that TJ is already out and Chloe is still bending with his nose bleed and broody helping Volker to his feet.
Volker: did we make it?
Young in the comm.: TJ come to the chair room we need you urgently, (then he pauses) the same applies also to Volker, Broody, Chloe and Dr Parker.
Broody: I guess we are about to find out.
They talk as they are leaving the room while Volker helped parker who is still blind. Then the scene fades and the chair room comes into view, Chloe has a pad to wipe off the blood from the nose as she stares at the chair. While TJ is examining Eli,
TJ: he is alive, but I have no idea how much damage his organs may have undertaken during the long connection to the machine. Rush, you may get him out but I'll need your help Chloe incase if he goes to shock, ill need you to assist me in making him lie down and prep him for an ERG. Rush taps on the console and the spurs retract and clamps unhook leaving eli drooling immediately as anticipated, he enters into shock, chloe and TJ lift him off the chair and lay him on the groung and then chloe unbuttons Eli's Shirt then TJ places the charge plates on his chest and activates them. Immediately Eli gets out of shock then starts murmuring, everyone is making noise and chloe shushs them, immediately attention is focused on what he says next,
Eli: ….She's near….. We…..we ne…ed to get to..Her…. (he faints)
As soon as he faints, another vigorous vibration shakes the ship.
Parker: what was that? Are we under attack?
Rush: Aaah! About that, finally why I called you here? We may have gotten our self into bigger trouble than we could afford.
The scene fades then opens up in the bridge,
Volker: how far are we from entering the swatz radius?
Broody: three maybe for parsecs but that at our rate, we will be in it in two to three days every time we spin around the singularity we are getting closer to it.
Young Rush and Chloe enter and from the argument it seems that they have a hot argument
Chloe: but why should Eli say that?
Rush: He loved her, understand, these are something's that cling forever, but you should ask someone who knows like me or Young here for that matter
Young seemingly not willing to be drawn to the argument, changes the topic, well we are dead anyway, as you said it yourself sunlight can help us get off the well but in the process drain all the power we have on the other hand if we sit around and argue, pretty soon we will find ourselves being the first SG personnel to fly into one of that. (he gestures to an area void of starlight) . Ok why don't you do as she suggests anyway we have no clue what that kid has been doing all this time. That's an order
Rush : I'm not military personnel to obey your orders but any way I don't see any harm in doing it we may as well call our blue friends to join the dance. He moves Volker off a terminal then types soothing while Volker, Chloe and broody look on.
Rush: Aaah! The kid had something after all, I am receiving a encrypted subspace communication from an ancient ship mush larger than destiny and it wants us to confirm something,(he reads some ancient text from the console which is actually the message the other ship sent th)..Its a repair ship. Good,
Parker: A repair ship?
Rush: yes, I myself was beginning to wonder why the ancients could avoid considering such a vessel but it seems they did consider it. Now we better make a plan of escaping from this monsters grip.
TJ who also happened to be in the room already turns the attention of everyone as she steps closer to the console rush and the rest are on.
Young: Tj how is our young man
TJ: Eli is stable, We may need everyone here so that incase this thing gets awry, we may die knowing the circumstances that lead to it.
Chloe: Rush, can you check this, I think I am not reading this right it seems we have a gas giant which is also falling towards the singularity ahead of our part what can we do.
Rush: I think we may be lucky but we have to act now? Col Young , I want you to assist Chloe in flying the ship, we will be giving you coordinates that will be optimized to allow us to swing out of this two body problem. Broody, Volker and Parker come with me. Chloe, you may want to lower the bridge as there is considerable debris around that super giant. with that Chloe taps the consoles while rush leads off the scientists.
Parker: I could do this but without my eyes, its kind of difficult,
Rush: I know that but you still have you brain right, just visualize the problem and tell us exactly how low we should fly and what the best path is,
Volker: the masses of the two bodies are out Rush, the Jovian is 0.2 Solar masses while the Black hole is just over 1600 solar masses, 1652 to be exact.
Parker, we first of all ought to neutralize the pull of the larger body just enough for us to be falling towards this gas giant, then take a low orbit just above the atmospheric resistance threshold and fly around all the way around until we will be inclined to a tangent of the black hole and the planetary path at an angle of 45, at sufficient speed, we will be able to escape the gravitation well of both objects.
Gate room, everyone is already in place, the information of the misfortune that has befallen the ship and the current attempt to rescue it is being communicated.
Young: and lastly, Greer, James, TJ, should anything go wrong, don't hesitate to dial out. That's an order, get as many civilians as possible out of the ship as possible and don't worry about us until everyone else is gone. That is an order (he then turns to Greer) Greer doesn't disappoint me. Good luck
TJ : we will dial away as ordered sir, good luck to you too
Young leaves the gate room and heads towards the bridge, as the camera picks from inside the bridge,
Young: How are we doing?
Chloe: I've got the calculations rush sent to us ( she stares at those who are now also on the bridge). It's a lot trickier than last time and You sir haven't been experienced in this as much as Scott is, that is why ill ask for you to make Scott to be my assistant.
Young: Ok
Rush: turbulence this time round will be much higher than we have ever encountered, Volker, map out a part with least debris for our maneuver and Broody, help dr Parker get a seat…
As soon as he finishes talking the first set of turbulent rock the ship, then another, then the camera fades to how an external image of destiny as it plows through the upper atmosphere of the gas giant leaving in its tail a white turbulence cloud shortly we see a tiny part of the gas giant being drawn off like a comma then magnifying it on its tip, is destiny racing away from the black hole and the captured planet we get a glimpse of the black hole system and a tiny dot grows larger and larger to show it was actually destiny approaching the camera while leaving the black hole system until it flies just past the view
In the bridge: The turbulence continues as the ship now plows through gas cycling the black hole and soon the turbulence reduces until its no more,
Parker: Have we made it?
Rush:Yes doc We have made it
Chloe:The clock just came online so do the Ftl drives, Jumbing in nine…eigth …seven….six…five…four…..three …..two…one
We see the transition effect on vision as destiny jumps
Lee: So where do we get the other ship