hope on survival: The Destiny Chapter 1: The Destiny, a stargate: universe fanfic

hey everyone. It's me again with a new story. hope you like it

stargate universe isn't mine (obvious no?)

chapter 1: the puzzle

millions of years ago, somewhere in space, still unfamilair to human kind nowadays

"Everything always has a destiny. At least that is what mankind hopes for. Why else would we live in this universe? Maybe it's just that we need that hope to survive. When we lose all hope we always think we don't have a purpose. Never, not once, think this again because today is the day that we send a message for everyone and everything out there that we all have a destiny."

People applaused and balloons flew up to the sky. Children laughed and pets were enthousiastic. Everyone follow what happend. This was the day that there explorership was going to be launched into space and after a quick check at the spacestation it would travel through space sending information to them. It was a new project, first of it's kind, and if it worked they would start expending. Traveling to space for research and exploring planets would become reality.

"This is why our ship is named the Destiny. To our crew we only wish to say good luck and a safe trip." After said this the engines started and with a lot of power the ship started to ascend. Waves of heat struck the people but they weren't hurt by it. If even possible they became more enthousiastic and yelled and screamed. Their first huge ship had been send to space and had left with succes. This was the first step to what one day would become the most technological evoled race of the galaxy.

today the day, somewhere else in space, Eli's room

Old and damaged but still functioning the Destiny flew through space at the speed of light, yet not through hyperspace. The crew who once was abord didn't exist anymore but the ship could take care of itself. It didn't need anyone. But suddenly everything had changed and even the ship took notice of it. New people came abord the ship. Suddenly air and electricity was neccesary and this became the first priority of the Destiny. Every day was different for the ship and the people it carried and some people had more influence on those days then others. This meant that some things just happend because someone found something new or fun. This was one of these days.

Eli woke up at his normal pace. He watched his clock and realised it was morning. Not that it was very different from evenings. Only the clock could say how late it was because it was always the same outside. Slowly he sat up, rubbed his eyes and went to his bathroom with his clothes to dress. He preferred a shower but that meant he had to cross the ship to get to there and he didn't feel like doing that already. When he was dressed he took a look at the clock again. 8.00 it said. Way to early to go to the messroom. Nobody would be up except for Rush maybe or collonel Young. He didn't want to walk into either of them so he decided to stay in his room. Glancing through it, getting bored already (which was weird because he was on a alien spaceship), he saw his laptop. Not having anything to do he took it and started it up.

After a few moment the beginscreen lit up. Eli smiled as he saw that a message appeared. He had used his free time to make a sort of wifi-connection within the ship so that all crewmembers could chat with eachother with their laptops. The message was asking him if he accepted the connection. Ofcours Eli clicked on 'Yes'. He almost beamed when he saw everyone's name appearing with online or offline behind it. Only he and a few people he didn't know were online. 'So others use it too' Eli thought happily. Suddenly a chat came on his screem. someone called 'survivalshope' wanted to chat with him. Eli shrugged. 'oke why not' he thought.

survivalshope: up early?

mathboy: yep but you too

survivalshope: that happens a lot to me. I always have to take care of a lot.

mathboy: Like what?

survivalshope: like food, water and everything... basic things.

mathboy: guess I have to thank you then for my next breakfast.

survivalshope: haha, I guess so. I accept your thanks and you are welcome.

Eli smiled. this person was kind and optimistic and somehow he felt a little relief because of that. He was starting to think that he was the only one who was optimistic here on the ship. It was also possible that he only had that feeling because he was stuck between the fights of Rush and Young. He almost never talked to the rest of the crew except for cloë and this chat thing was going to be something good.

survivalshope: hé if you have some free time and you want to solve a puzzle then go to this link. I have used this connection to make a sort of website thing. Sort of word-like thing. But it can be fun.

mathboy: cool, thanks. I didn't think of making websites before. Maybe I should work that out further.

survivalshope: so you made it possible to chat. Now I have to thank you.

mathboy: yeah I guess. It was just a project I started in my free time. Guess it's kinda handy.

survivalshope: it sure is. anyway I have to get going. Stuff to do. oh yeah if your bored you should really take a look at the link. anyway, see you again

mathboy: oke i shall look at it. bye

After that survivalshope's account went to offline and Eli shook his head. Whoever this was he or she just had give him the perfect idea: A local internet-connection were everyone could make his or her pages. Curious of what survivalshope had made already he clicked the link. It was indeed a word document but one thing was different. There was a little box with 'your solution' in it. Eli started to read and got excited as he did. "Whoever can crack this code will recieve a royal prize." would make a perfect summary of the couple of sentenses that were written. Then the puzzle started. Eli read it.

"your friend gives you his usb-stick but tells you it's coded. You can only enter the password once. If you fail to get it right the file will be deleted. There are four empty spaces. letters and numbers can be given as answer. There are a few tips: 1. your friend is a computerfreak. 2. he tells you it has something to do with his privat life. 3. He has no children but he does have a wife called Dian. 4. he tells you there's at least one number in it. 5. your friend is clever and wants to show you your not smart enough. 6. last but not least, he died when he wanted to give you this usb because it's containing information about a conspiricy."

Under everything stood a warning: "you can only try once, get it wrong and you will never see the real prize, only a picture of the destiny."

Eli grinned. This made it extra exciting. He read the tips again and started to make it even more realistic for him by making the clever friend Rush. Now Rush had found something that others may not know. He puts it on a usb stick and leaves it for him. He finds it and gets only one shot at it. oke so, Rush is clever so he won't use his name nor his wife's. So tip 3 falls away But it has have something to do with his privat life. Now he didn't know much more about him except for clue 1, he was a computerfreak. Their's also a number that has to be used.

The computer and the number. There were alot of numbers that could be used with a computer but whatever you made of it the computer would put it in it's memory in 1's and 0's. That were two numbers. Those two number were put behind eachoter in pears of 8 called a bit. 8 was the same as 2X2X2. but we were talking about a message or information which is probably bigger then just some bits. Probably kilobits. One kilobit was 1024 bits which was the same as 210. Now because tip 2 is most important information and we come across alot of 2's it's logical to say that 2 is the number. But being a computerfreak he probably used more then one number. This is way Eli went back to 1024. Almost everyone knew that one kilobit was that many bits but almost nobody knows that the computer sees 0 as a number too. It counts from 0 instead of 1 like humans do.

Slowly Eli went to the solution box. He clicked with his mouse and entered '1023'. Then he went to the 'ok' button and clicked. suddenly a new message appeared. 'Go to the database of the ship and select following file to see Destiny's launch' a couple of ancient symbols appeared. Eli stared at his screen. Was this really possible? There was only one way to find out. He stood up, set his laptop to stand-by and took it with him to the dataroom.

today the day, somewere in space, dataroom.

When Eli rushed into the dataroom he wasn't surprised to find Dr. Rush sitting there. He was working on the console in the middle of the room. Luckely that wasn't the console Eli needed. He really didn't feel like explaining that he was going to search for a file that someone, who he didn't know, had used as price for the solution of a puzzle. He was sure that Rush wouldn't let him near the console if he did. That's why he wanted to act as normal as possible.

"Goodmorning, you're up early" Eli said as cheery as always, or at least coming close to it.

Rush didn't react to it, like always. Eli shrugged and was happy that Rush bought it. Then he went to the console on the left. He took his laptop again and began searching the database.

After a couple of minutes Eli found what he was searching for. He opened the file and found only one document. He double clicked and suddenly the screen on the wall behind him lighted up. It had never worked before and he and Rush had always thought it was broken. Now it came to life and sended a image thought the room towards the middle of the room where Rush was standing. It formed a hologram. Both Eli as Rush ware shocked and stared at it. Rush glared at Eli.

"what have you done exactly?" Rush asked as he approched him.

"well, I found this file that looked promissing. I just clicked on it." Eli explained as he clapped his laptop shut.

"Isn't enough that everyone on this ship is doing exactly that. Why?" Rush said as he sighed. He sounded really tired.

Exactly at that point the batabase beebed and asked if the document should be played. Eli looked at Rush who shrugged put walked to the console and started typing on it. After a few moments Rush stepped away again.

"oke fine, go ahead." he said.

Eli nodded and pushed the play button.

"It's an audio-record."

"your stating the obvious again" Rush said as he pushed the play button again and listened to it again. "what's more importantis how you got to this file."

"Why's that?"

"Because you just closed your laptop so I couldn't see what you were searching for. Is this one of those secret missions of Young again!?"

"If it was I couldn't say but no it's not."

"Then how did you find this file. Nobody uses these consoles exept for you and me. This could be a security risk."

Eli knew that Rush was making sense and that's why he opened up his laptop and showed him the worddocument. Rush took a look at it and snorted.

"that's supposed to be difficult? anyway who send you this."

"someone who had chatted with me"

"who?"

"I only now he or she called himself/herself 'survivalshope'."

"and you just do what this person tells you too! You don't even know him or her."

"..."

"Eli this is serious!"

"yes i know! i"m not an idiot you know"

after this is stayed quiet for a while. Rush read the document again while Eli stared into space, angerly. He knew that he had done something risky. He had reacted on an impuls. He blamed his curiousity. He just... he hadn't thought of the possible consecences. 'maybe i'm an idiot after all' Eli thought as he waited for Rush to say something. He waited for that but it didn't happen. 'I guess I have to make the first move'

"I'm sorry. I should have thought about the consequences of my actions." Eli said after he sighed.

"Yes you should." Rush answered.

"... Did you found out who could have written this?"

"not yet but there are a few clues. Like the fact that this isn't a difficult puzzle like it had to be so this person isn't too smart. Then there's also the fact that this person could search the database without being disturbed or noticed. this person had probably a high rang because he could get to here and without questions. Then there's also the fact that the consulationprize is a picture of the Destiny while the only footage of the ship is the video the kino send us before it was out of reach. Whoever this is, he or she is involved in alot." Rush answered as his eyes were glued to the ship. "best way to find out is a second chat."

Eli nodded and Rush gave him the laptop. Eli opened up the chatapplication. He was surprised that survivalshope was online while a half hour ago he/she had said that there were things that he/she needed to do. Eli looked at Rush who nodded. Eli opened up a chatwindow.

mathboy: yeah there...tried your link.

survivalshope: and? what did you think? difficult or easy?

mathboy: kinda easy. (Rush shook his head at the language)

survivalshope: says the one who made this whole application. Ofcours it's easy for you.

mathboy: guess so yeah. Anyway I was thinking we should introduce ourselves to eachother.

survivalshope: don't like the privicy?

mathboy: if we are going to chat more we need to know more about eachoter, no?

survivalshope: guess so but one condition.

mathboy: yeah?

survivalshope: you go first :)

mathboy: fine. I am Eli wallace.

survivalshope: thought so already. If you really are then prove it.

mathboy: what? why?

survivalshope: because if it's really you I tell you everything.

Eli looked at Rush again who was frowning.

"Is it just me or is this conversation kind of weird"

"I believe you have a fan."Rush answered and then chuckled at the idea.

"I have? wait, you're making fun of me." Eli rolled his eyes

"again you're stating the obvious" Rush said with a sigh.

"what should I do?"

"prove it I guess." Rush answered as if he didn't care.

Eli sighed again. This wasn't the morning he wanted to have right now. He rather got to the messhal and eat his proteinsoup and do some research afterwards. If he had know this all whould he have made the puzzle? He knew in the back of his mind that he would. Curiousity is a big pain in the ass sometimes.

mathboy: oke but how?
survivalshope: 'rolling eyes here'

mathboy: oke oke fine. I am 22 years old. My mother is sick and my father left her. I had two pets before, one dog and a fish. Fish didn't survive the attack of the dog. I was smartest of my class. I like world of warcraft, puzzles and braintraining... what more do you need to know?

survivalshope: picture by webcam.

mathboy: really?

survivalshope: yeah really.

Eli made a quick picture of himself in the dataroom. Luckely you didn't see Rush standing aside him. Eli sended the picture to survivalshope.

survivalshope: Oke you pass. :)

mathboy: lucky me

survivalshope: I have many names and have lived for a long time. My name to you is Destiny.

oh... a cliffhanger, I'm bad.

I hope you enjoyed the story. Te things about Eli... I'm not really sure if I got it all right but I guess he would like world of warcraft.

anyway, please review. The more I get, the faster I write a new chapter, I promis :)