This is my first story, I'm not sure where this idea came from, but as I thought of it, any way read, review, give your opinion, enjoy!
Stargate Atlantis:Abandoned
Chapter 1: A Curious Enigma . . .
The Daedalus drops out of Hyper space, and makes a full stop near a ship, adrift in space. The ship looked in good condition, like it was new off the assembly line. No scarring from weapons fire.
On the bridge of the Daedalus, Dr. McKay wanders from one control panel to another, occasionally looking down at his tablet, taking readings and making adjustment.
"You were right, Dr. McKay, it's an Aurora Class Warship." Colonel Caldwell said.
Rodney stopped and looked at Steven.
"Hmm, 'you were right', now there are three wasted words." Rodney gloated.
"Life signs?" Caldwell asked.
"None." Major Marks replied.
"Can we beam in?" Colonel Sheppard asked.
"Of course we can beam in." Rodney announced, as he went back to work on his tablet PC. "The question is: what about life support? Is it functioning? and most importantly. . ." Rodney paused, suggesting what he was about to say maybe . . . or rather, was on the arrogant side. "How fast can I' get the ship operational?" Rodney asked.
"Remind me, why couldn't Colonel Carter come?" Another man, Major Lorne, asked.
"Because she is in command of Atlantis, Major." Colonel Caldwell replied. "She needs to remain there, unless she is needed else where."
"It's too bad." Colonel Sheppard said. "We could use a little bit less of an ego today."
Annoyed, McKay turned to the Colonel. "I can hear you."
Sheppard grinned. "Yes, Rodney, we know."
A bridge officer, was currently conducting a scan. "I'm reading functioning life support."
"Great." Sheppard said. "Now, let's go bag us an Ancient warship."
Onboard the Ancient Warship
A bright light fills the bridge and fades leaving Sheppard, McKay, Ronon and Major Lorne with his team. The first thing Rodney noticed was the inch of ice on everything, at which point Rodney started shivering.
"Not a fan of the cold, I take it." Sheppard commented as the Major Lorne's team deployed to secure the bridge.
"You wouldn't be saying that if you were ever trapped in a sinking jumper" Rodney said as he went for the life support systems console, he shivered and zipped up his jacket, then he pulled out his tablet computer.
"That's odd." Rodney said after most of the ice was removed from the screen he needed.
"What? Is the life support system all screwy? I could have told you that." Sheppard said.
"It's actually working . . . well, sort of. The Ice, or whatever caused the ice, crippled most of the primary systems." Rodney corrected.
"What?" Ronon asked.
"The lack of life support over ten thousand years didn't cause the ice, something else did." Rodney replied.
"I have a problem with what that 'something else' could be." Sheppard said.
"Which begs the question what is that 'something'?" Major Lorne asked.
"I don't know." Rodney said annoyed, then changed his tone to sound more enthusiastic. "But if we can figure it out, we'll have a new Ancient warship to use against the Wraith." Rodney said, then returned to work.
Rodney noticed a light, faintly blinking. Underneath it was a button. McKay pressed it.
There was all sorts of garbled, and incoherent chatter accompanied by shrill screams projected over the loud speakers. After a minute or two the chatter and screams stopped. Following it was static, then nothing.
Someone from Major Lorne's team called in. "Major Lorne, this is Captain Jenson, there's something down here."
"What was it, Captain?" Lorne asked.
"It looked like a skeleton . . . but it was floating." Captain Jenson
"Fall back to the bridge, no ghost hunts today." Major Lorne ordered.
"I have a big problem with what that 'something else' could be." Sheppard said.
Back on Atlantis
"We conducted a thorough search of the ship and found nothing." Major Lorne said.
"Unless you count all the Ice." Colonel Sheppard remarked. Rodney ignored the comment.
"And the ghosts, look, as far as I could tell all the secondary systems were fully operational." Rodney said. "And it would take some time to fix the primary systems."
"But?" Carter asked.
"It may take some time to completely defrost the ship." Rodney said.
"You mean remove an inch of ice from every inch of the warship." Sheppard said.
"And find out why the entire ship is encased in it." Zelenka added.
"As far as I can tell it was frozen the better part of ten-thousand years ago. Unless I'm wrong, any threat would have died off by now." Rodney rebutted.
"But you have been wrong before. Quite frequently." Zelenka reminded.
"Yes, thank you, Radek." Rodney snapped.
"I want to know for sure that the threat that neutralized the Ancients on that ship, is no longer exists." Carter said.
"I think I may actually have the solution." Rodney declared.
Everyone turned to Rodney, and he passed Carter a file.
"Maybe not to the screaming Ancients, but . . . When I was in College, I met this guy. Vince Riley, was the only one that scored as well as I did on the Mensa test, but he does specialize in the occult . . . If you want to know what happened, we need him."
"And by that you mean you want the chance to show him up." Sheppard said.
"You'd better believe I do." Rodney retorted.
"So he outscored you." Colonel Sheppard said.
Rodney made a face that implied his irritation and seemed to say "shut up"
"So you want us to bring in a civilian scientist that has no clearance to the Pegasus Galaxy, to unlock something that could be a greater threat than the Wraith?" Zelenka asked.
"Not in so many words, no." Rodney said, then noticed the looks of disapproval on everyone's face. "You all seem to want a second opinion. And besides, he knows all about classified. He was a Captain in the Air Force, and was recently offered a position at Area 51." Rodney advocated.
"How Recently, Rodney?" Sheppard asked.
"Two months ago." Rodney replied. "And like I said, he has done extensive work in the occult, and from the look of things, that's the kind of knowledge we need." Rodney added.
"I thought you knew everything." Ronon teased, emphasizing the word 'you'.
"Everything that matters." Rodney defended.
"So, when you blew up that solar system a couple years ago. That didn't really matter. Did it?" Sheppard teased.
"That well just never runs dry, does it?" Rodney replied in annoyance.
"Not really, no!" Sheppard said.
"Well pretty soon we will have a new Ancient Warship in our arsenal, then I will have the last laugh." Rodney gloated
"Then you get to talk yourself out of the pile you just stepped in." Sheppard said.
Carter closed her eyes in irritation, she knew where the ship was but she asked any way.
"McKay, where is the ship?" Carter asked
Rodney tried to stay quiet, but then announced. "In orbit."
"McKay, what were you thinking?" Carter chided.
"It has a cloak." Rodney defended.
Carter paused, drove out the desire to shoot McKay, then opened her eyes.
"I'll contact the I.O.A." Carter replied.
Carter got up, and dismissed the conference.
Dr. McKay's Lab
"McKay, what were you thinking, bringing an Ancient Warship here without authorization?" Zelenka asked. McKay started to answer, but was cut off. "I take that back."
"You're just jealous that I . . ." McKay stopped when he found something of interest on his Computer Tablet. "Oh. I found something in the sensor logs."
Zelenka, after hearing the excitement in Rodney's voice, came over and stood over the scientist's shoulder.
"What is it?"
McKay kept reading as if he didn't hear the question, then responded. "They were doing a reconnaissance mission. Apparently their long range senors picked up something near the coordinates where we found the warship."
"What was it?"
"I'm getting to that." McKay quickly said, a little annoyed. He looked it over again, and groaned. "Oh great."
"What?" Zelenka impatiently asked.
"They didn't find anything. No ships or anything. They tried to leave, but the engines didn't respond. They had power failure throughout the ship, with the exception of life support. People starting disappearing. They didn't know who they were dealing with and in order to save themselves, they ascended."
"I'm assuming the intruder was undetected by the sensors?" Zelenka asked.
"Actually, the sensors chose to ignore the intruder." McKay sarcastically replied. "The only thing we know is that the crew was disappearing and there was no energy signature. Which would rule out someone . . . or several people running through the ship with a few weapons."
"So if whatever caused the problems on the ship, is it possible that the problems still exist?" Zelenka asked.
Rodney rolled his eyes and scoffed at Zelenka's question. "It happened ten thousand years ago."
"But would it be possible?" Zelenka asked, again.
McKay only scoffed, but stopped midway. He thought for a moment, then slowly turned to Zelenka. "Now that I think about it, there is a possibility. That 'skeleton-ghost-thing' Captain Jenson reported."
Rodney noted a subtle beep from a nearby life-signs detector. And a life sign indicator just winked off.
"Oh, crap – it looks like it's happening here, too." Rodney said with dread.
"Congratulations, Rodney. You've killed us all." Zelenka said half seriously.
Two hours later in the mess.
Ronon sat impatiently in the mess. He was to be having lunch with Teyla, but she was late. After searching, and finding nothing, he called for Sheppard.
It wasn't until several minutes later until Sheppard finally showed up."You called?" He asked.
"Teyla was supposed to meet me here for lunch an hour ago." Ronon answered.
"Well, maybe she's late." Sheppard replied.
"I tried the radio, but nothing, I even went to her quarters." Ronon explained.
"We don't have any ships in range, other then the Ancient warship McKay parked in orbit. Did you contact the control room?" Sheppard suggested.
"She hasn't gone through the gate, and all of the jumpers are accounted for." Ronon said. Then paused, as if for effect. "She's nowhere in Atlantis."
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