Chapter 2 Are you okay?
We had been in the city for at least 2 weeks; McKay had already got the gene from Beckett who had made a gene therapy to give the ATA gene to anyone who didn't have it.
Jinto said good morning to Weir as he ran past us.
"Good morning and be careful, I think we need to dedicate some recreational areas" Weir said, "Yes" Peter said as we kept walking.
"We certainly need to clear the hallway, get everything put away as soon as possible, and can we lose the 10,000 year old dead pants?" Weir said pointing.
"Of course. We're still in the process of making sure that everyone's been assigned living quarters. Major Sheppard seems to be taking his time Okaying enough space" Peter said.
"Well, the safety and security of this expedition are his" Weir didn't get to finish we heard Mckay said "ok ready".
Sheppard pushed McKay off another balcony right by the Stargate. "Whoa, did you see that?" Sheppard said looking up.
"Yeah, we did Major, why would you do that" I said running down the stairs with Peter and Weir.
"Look, Beckett's gene therapy worked. I was able to activate this. It's a personal shield acts like a protective skin and it must have inertial dampening features too, because i didn't feel a thing.
Watch this, hit me" McKay finished, Peter hit McKay and jumped back.
"Didn't have to swing so hard, and notice he didn't even hesitate" McKay went on.
"I'm still trying to understand, how you thought it was good ideas to test this device by having someone throw you off a balcony?" Dr. Weir said.
"Oh, believe me that am not the first thing we tried" McKay said, "I shot him, in the leg" Sheppard said shrugging off the looks we gave him. "I'm invulnerable" McKay said.
"Aren't you the one telling me how proper and careful scientific procdre must be a peered to" I said.
We dealt with that. I was headed back to my room; McKay hadn't been able to get the shield off. I was almost to my room when Major Sheppard came behind me and taped me on the shoulder.
"What the" I said turning around, "Hey, Where are you off to" Sheppard asked, "Major, I'm going to my room but before i do, mind telling me what you want" i asked, "John please and just wanted see you" he said smiling, "ok well John, i don't want to see you" i said taking off.
My whole life, I've walked away from things that could have got me into SGC a lot soon then when i got in. My parents had been a mess since my mom had got hooked on meth and started acting all crazy, every time someone in my life started acting stupid and crazy, I would say "Don't go and pull something like my mom". No one here on Atlantis knew anything about what had happened to me almost 3 years ago. I was in a good or what i thought was a good restionship with a guy named Tommy; he was two years old then me. About 6 months into the restionship, he started abusing me, when i finally had enough; i went to go break up with him.
He started getting all mad and started yelling, when i went to leave. He pulled my hair so i fell to the floor, then he started to beat me up, I was in a coma for 2 weeks before i woke up. He went to jail and they said he was going to stay for a long time, but i haven't been back to Denver, Colorado for 3 years now. I was walking back to my lab after getting some lunch and thinking over everything that has happened for the last 3 years.
We were up in the control room where peter was telling us about the self destruct.
"The self destruct system requires two separate codes. Now each code is unique and everyone here will be required to memorize their code" Peter said.
"Well don't bother giving me one, sorry" McKay said, I look over at the Major and he's trying to hold in a laugh
. "As far as we know, this gate is the only Stargate in the Pegasus galaxy that is capable of dialing earth, which would make it the last line of defense against the Wraith, if they're going to attack which we must consider a very real threat. We simply cannot let them gain control of this complex" Weir said.
"If both codes are properly entered the naquada generator will overload. It will take 30 seconds" Peter said.
"You sure it will do enough damage" I asked, "Ever seen a 20 kiloton nuclear explosion?" McKay asked looking up.
"I have, not up close, look i think we should tell Teyla what's going on here" Major Sheppard said as i nodded.
"At this moment we still don't know if it was one of the Athosians who tipped off your arrival to their planet" Weir said, "but i trust Teyla" Sheppard said.
"So do i. But Teyla trusts her people, if we tell her, she'll want to tell them, and I need more time to get to know them" Weir said looking at us.
Major Sheppard was telling the Athosians kids horror stories from earth even though they didn't really understand it.
"Well, they thought he was finally dead, but when they turned their backs to go, his cold dead eyes opened beneath his hockey mask and he rose up with his bloody knife" Sheppard said in a creepy voice. "What's a hockey mask?" Jinto asked.
"Hockey is a game, the guys skate round try to get a puck into the net. The goalies wear masks it's really scary" Sheppard said.
"Tell us more of this game" Jinto asked, "Can we play it" another kid asks.
"Actually, I don't really see any attraction, now football. Football is a real man's sport, but we'll save that for another time" Sheppard said.
"Yes, it's time for bed" Halling tells the kids, the kid's aww. "And remember tomorrow night kids, another tale called 'Nightmare on elm street'" Sheppard said. Teyla gets the kids the get up and leave.
Halling thanks the Major, "Hope i didn't scare em to much" Sheppard said, "I don't think so" I said, "Good" Sheppard said smiling.
Parents came and got their kids and took them back to their rooms, we were started walking with Teyla again. "Listen Teyla. Don't tell McKay what I said about Hockey not being a real man's sport because it's a Canadian thing. A little touchy about it." Sheppard said.
"I'm interested in hearing more about this football you say you love so much" Teyla said.
"Teyla, football is more for guys then girls" I said, "Don't tell her that, Alex" Sheppard said, "Why not? It's true Major" I asked.
"Listen i can do one better" Sheppard said walking off as we start following him.
We were watching a football game in a room with Teyla, McKay, and Ford. Sheppard passed the porncorn down to McKay. "Not me" McKay said with a sigh. "OH here it comes, watch this" Sheppard said pointing to the screen.
The commentator was talking then called the Hail Mary.
"Oh, that is beautiful, can you believe that?" Sheppard said, "Should I not" Teyla said.
"Well the defense didn't cover the receiver because he didn't think the quarter back could throw that far" Sheppard said, "They seem very happy" Teyla said.
"Well they just won one of the best games of all time against all odds" I said. Sheppard looked at me with a raised eyebrow, "Thought football was for guys not girls, Alex" he said.
"I said guys watch it more then girls do, but that doesn't mean I haven't seen this game before" I said.
"What your dad make you watch it" he said smiling. "More like my dad and my brother Jason" I said laughing
. "I guess i can start calling you one of the guys" Sheppard said moving away from my punch. We were talking when walked in.
"Hey what are you guys doing?" She asked, "I'm teaching Teyla how football's the corner stone of western civilization" Sheppard said looking back.
"And you didn't invite me" Weir said, "You like football?" I asked, "No, not really" Weir said as i laughed.
"Oh, come on. It's real, it's unpredictable, and it's full of passion and beer, hot dogs" Sheppard said, as weir takes popcorn from Ford. "Cheerleaders" McKay said.
"I just don't understand, you're allowed one personal Item and you chose this" Weir said as i nod in agreement.
"It's a metaphor. Don't you see this entire expedition is the biggest hail Mary in human history?" Sheppard said. "What's a hail Mary" Teyla asked.
"It's a play, you just saw it. It's a named after a prayer, see. There was this woman and her name was Mary and she. Did i tell you much i like Ferris wheels?" Sheppard said.
I get up to go get another soda but McKay put his foot out and i started falling. I tried to catch myself but it didn't work and then Sheppard jumped up and grapped me right before i hit the floor.
I didn't notice when everyone had left. "Wow, umm.. Thanks" I said trying to stand back up. "Hey are you ok?" Sheppard said still holding me.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let go of me major" I said, "Please call me John" Sheppard said.
"Fine, John let go" I said again trying to stand up. "No" he said leading down as he pressed his lips into mine. I kissed back knowing i shouldn't but couldn't resist his sexiness.
He pulls me up but not breaking the kiss, i warp my arms around his whist moving my hands up to his hair. As he backed me up into the wall, i grabbed his hair and ran my fingers through it.
He pulls back, "Maybe we should take this to my room" He says smiling. "Umm... Sure" I said still in shock, we walked to his room hand in hand when we got there, he opened the door but as soon as the door closed, he started kissing me.
An hour later we were lying in bed with our clothes back on. He was reading his book 'War and Peace' when someone started knocking on the door.
I jump up and run to the bathroom while John went to the door. "Major! Major!, Jinto's missing, I can't find him. I told him to be careful. Anything he touches can be dangerous" Halling said from the door, another little boy said "What if there are monsters here". "Don't worry, we'll find him" John said.
I waited until John came into the bathroom.
"Jinto is missing" he said acting like he was doing something. "I heard, should i wait and then come help you" I said.
"Yeah, wait about 5 minutes then come find me" he said kissing my cheek. I waited for 5 minutes like John said then i ran out and radio John to find out where he was. "go to the control room, Alex and I'll be there as soon as i can" he said closing the link.
"Can we use the sensors to locate him" I asked as i ran up the stairs.
"Alex didn't know you knew what was going on" Weir said. "Yeah, talked to Jo-Major Sheppard a little bit ago" I said sitting down next to McKay.
"We don't have nearly enough power to activate the whole city at one time" McKay said.
"Even if we could the sensors don't distinguish. Individuals" I said, the lights flicker.
"For all we know there could be shielded areas or a non functioning sensor. We're getting a pretty strange energy reading in one of the unexplored areas across the city" McKay said.
"Activate the communications system" Weir said. "Done" McKay said.
"Jinto, this is . If you can hear me please respond. Jinto, If you're lost, If you can't" Dr. Weir got uncut off as everything shut down.
"We're lost power" Peter said jumping up from the seat he was sitting in.
"No duh, Peter but why" I asked. "We've still got lights" McKay said.
Then all the power came back on. "Don't know why that happens" I said. As the gate shield activates Peter raised his hands "That wasn't me!" he yelled. Then the gate started dialing. "Shut it down now" Weir yells.
I look around and Weir speaks again "What the hells going on?" She said.
"I don't know" McKay said. "Nothing like this ever happened before" I said.
"We've only been here for a couple of days, this stuff is pretty old. It's that. or there really are ghost" McKay said.
When John radios us, I felt better. "Control room, this is Sheppard. Lights just went out" He said.
"Major, we're experiencing some technical malfunctions" Weir said.
"Couldn't it been something to do with the interfaces between our naquada generators and the city? Or that or the way we isolated some of the certains systems could be causing erroneous operations in the ancient programming" I said
. "Good thinking, Alex. I'll run a diagnostic on the power flow" Peter said as i smiled.
"Who wouldn't have thought you didn't believe in ghosts" Weir said.
" I never use to. but then I heard about thing called Wraiths, that could suck the life out of you with their hands. What the hell is that" McKay said.
", Alex" Teyla said. "Teyla, I'll be right there. Do what you can" Weir said then follows me to Teyla.
" this is marta" Teyla said. "Pleased to meet you" she said. "It's alright tell her what you saw" Teyla said, "A shadow" Marta said. "A Shadow?" I asked.
"The wraith project them make you see things that aren't there" Teyla said, "are you sure?" Weir asked as the girl nods.
"and yet I sense no Wraith here" Teyla said. "Teyla, have you ever been wrong about that?" I asked as Weir radios John.
"Major Sheppard, this is Weir. One of the athosians is claiming to have seen, what she's calling a shadow" Weir said. "She does not believe me?" marta asked. I started to say something when Weir said. "Teyla, says that she sense's no wraith here but I'm still concrened".
We were still trying to firgure out what was going on, when John showed up "I've secured access to control tower and living quarters" he said.
"Two more athosians reported seeing shadows" I said looking up. "Now see I don't get that, that means the wraith would be here" Sheppard said.
"you don't think so?" Weir asked. "I don't think they want to scare us. But when they decide to come, they're going to start blowing the crap out of this place with their ships" John said.
"So what the athosians are seeing things" I asked "Well, like Teyla said. It's a scary place for them" John said.
"Not just for them"McKay said. "Halling wishes to speak with Jinto" Teyla said.
I get up from my chair to go stand by John. "Jinto, if you can hear me, I'm not angry. I just want to know that you are safe, so if you are lost or hurt. stay where you are. Make some noise if you can. We will find you. Delay nu mae a tempo ah tei" Halling said.
"is that Latin?" John asked "It's ancient. Fathers of light of the ever lasting temple" I said. "It is a prayer to the Ancestors" Teyla said
"If you are angry that we have unrightfully inhabited your great city. We humbly apologize, we mean no harm. We will leave if it is your wish. But I will not go without my son" Halling said.
Then the lights go out and i jump as John takes my hand. then the lights come back on and he lets go but McKay had collapsed.
We were in the Infirmary. "He fainted" Beckett said. "Oh there's got to be a better word" McKay said.
"I'm pretty sure faint is the proper medical term" I said. "I passed out from, Manly Hunger" McKay said. "Well hang in there. , this is Sheppard. McKay's okay. he-uh-he fainted" John said as we walk out.
We were walking out of the infirmary when the lights went out. "get behind me" John said pulling my arm.
I fall behind him as i grab his belt. he puts up his P-90, we walk slowly and then there is a loud buzz.
John aims his gun at the blob, we step away and the shadow moves past us and it passes peter.
"Not the phatoms the Wraith make you see but I can see how the athosians would be confused" I said in the control room, "What did it look like?" Weir said. " it looked like a.." John said moving his hand.
"Darkness, it surrouned the Naquada Generator and started to grow.
Like it was feeding off the energy" I said, "when you shut it down the whole, whatever it was just went away" John said.
"If this thing feeds on energy we could be in big trouble and when i say we, i mean you because I won't be around for much longer" McKay said.
"So we need to figure out exactly what it is and what to do about it" Weir said.
"Well we know its attracted to engery" peter said. "how about shutting down the Generators" I said.
"Well people also give off heat energy. but no, granted it's negligible compared to that of the Naquada Generator but you take away this things only other obvious sourse of food and" McKay said.
"You're saying it could come after us?" I asked.
"Well I only know one thing for sure and that is that flying darkness that needs energy can only be very very bad" McKay said.
"Ok. We keep the power on. Groden, Alex figure out way to detect it and in the mean time Major. Establish a constant suverillance at all the generators. If one of them is targeted, we'll shut it down remotely. And hopefully we can keep this thing busy until we can figure out a way to get rid of it." she says as she hits the communicator.
"Attention everyone this is Weir, for the time being we need you all to remain in your quarters until otherwise instructed. If you see anything out of the ord-" Weir almost finshed.
"Hello? Can you hear me? Can anyone hear me?" someone said, "Jinto?" John said. "Major Sheppard!" Jinto said. "Are you ok?" I asked, "I'm scared" he said.
"Where are you?" John asked, "I don't know" he said.
"Jinto start from the beginning, tell us how you got to where you are" Weir said.
"I was in the hall outside my quarters" Jinto said, we went to his quarters "Where did you go next" John asked "I can't remember" Jinto said.
"he's used to the forest. Being able to see the stars at night" Teyla said. "I found a small room filled with boxes from Earth" Jinto said, "No boxes" I said "They are here with me" Jinto said.
"So what we're looking at is a nice closet" McKay said, "This is definitely not a closet. Did the Panel start to glow when you stepped inside" John asked.
"Yes" Jinto said. "did you touch it" John asked "Yes" he said again, "What exactly?" John asked. "I don't remember" Jinto said, "Before he disappeared we got an unsual energy reading, from this area, wait, wait, wait. no no no noo" McKay said as the door closed.
We were standing there waiting then John radioed us, "We've got Jinto. He's ok." John said.
Me and Peter were in the control room and we finally got figure out how to treck the entity.
"As far as I can tell there is only one entity, now the bright blue spots are the active naqada Generators. This blob is our entity, it was just a matter of calibrating the sensors. Your idea is work, so far We've been able to anticipate it's approach to the active generators and shut them off remotely. Here watch. Got it running in cricles" I said simling up at Weir then at Peter.
"Good Job" said, "Thanks" Peter said.
"I hope we're not making this thing mad" Weir said sighing, "Peter, its heading toward Ltd Ford" I said as peter radioed Ford, "Ltd, this is . I'm tracking the entity heading your way.
You might want to get out of the hall you're standing in" Peter said. "Roger that" he said, then he radioed us again "This is ford, a bulkhead just blocked our way. There's no panel on the wall to open it, that we can see" Ford said. "Roger that" I said.
"McKay" Weir said, "We didn't touch anything. It could be the entity causing random malfunctions. The proximity to that large an energy disturbance could cause the ancient technology to-to go haywire" McKay said over the radio.
"I found a door on the east side they can go to" I said, "Ltd double back and try the door on the east side" Weir said, "Its not won't open either" Ford said. "Pull open console in the wall" McKay said, "What next?" Ford asked "I'm not sure what do you see?" I asked.
"Three crystals" ford said, " Take out the middle one put the tops one down" I said.
"This door opens, go I'll be right behind you, not working" Ford said. "Ford, use the middle one to bridge the other two" I said, "You sure about this?" Ford asked me, "Not exactly" I said. "Man down. I need a medical team" the marine that Ford was with said over radio.
Beckett got Ford in the infirmary and me, Weir, and John went down there to see how he was.
"Are we in any danger here?" Beckett asked, "I wish I could tell you" I said, "How's ford" John asked.
"Looks like he was hit by lightening" Beckett said, "He's going to be okay?" I asked, "He's a tough kid" Beckett said as we walked over there.
"Sir" the marine said, "hey" John said. "Would tell this guy there was nothing he could do" Ford said, "There is nothing you could of done" John said with a smile. "I could have tried to pull him out, sir" the marine said.
"Yeah then we'd both look like this" ford said, "Oh you don't look so bad" I said.
" says your going to be back to pretty boy in no time" John said.
I wasn't going to go down to the room with John and but John asked me to so i didn't think i could say no.
"Apparently it's also an elevator" I said, "Really?" McKay asked "We can stop taking the stairs everywhere" Weir said.
" Oh how nice for you all" McKay said. "So, what have you got?" I asked, "Well believe it or not. Jinto didn't touch anything of any consequence other then that." McKay said pointed at something, "Has it's own power source like the jumpers" McKay said.
"What is it" Weir asked, "Well it's some sort of containment vessel for the engery creature" McKay said.
"Let me guess, Jinto released it" I said, "Well it seems that way. As I suggested, the entity's what's been causing most of our technical problems, now it was captured for observations. The ancients were resarching a sentient" McKay said.
"Really?" Weir asked, "What exactly is a sentient?" John asked.
"Well at some point in their ecolution the ancients reached a..advanced state of being where they were able to rid themselves of their physicals bodies and rise to a higher plane of existence. One in which they-they live as pure energy. I know it sounds ridiculous, but-but this is the first indication that their may have been evolutionarty intervention to get there" I said.
"A little gene therapy of their own huh?" John said.
"Well I haven't read all the notes but what i do know is that the entity is energy. It feeds on energy forces. Lucky, I mean the more it feeds the bigger it gets, the bigger it gets, the more charged it becomes and the more deadly it will be" McKay said.
"Is it intelligent?" Weir asked.
"Well according to the research it is sentient but, if-if you're thinking about trying to talk to it, You'd have more luck with a great white shark. This thing is going to suck the power out of our generatprs amd then it will kill us all" McKay said.
"Alright, what do we do about it?" I asked, "The energy's been trapped in here since before the ancients abandoned the city" McKay said, "I know I'd be pissed" John said.
"And hungry. But the point is, this device was design to attract it, capture it and hold it for observation. There's still a chance we may be able to get it back inside. I'm just going to be need a little more time to figure out how" McKay said.
"It's not falling for the same tricks anymore" I said, "How smart is this thing?" John asked. " Rodney?" I asked.
"I don't know, but this is much simpler than I thought. It's kind of like a mouse trap. This button here causes the device to emit an energy signature that attracts the creature. This one shuts it in, the only downside is someone's acually gonna have to be here to press the buttons" McKay said, John looked at me, then weir.
"I'll do it" John said, "Ok" McKay said then goes to walk off, "Wait a minute, Rodney. You're still wearing the shield, is there a chance that if something went wrong that would protect you" Weir asked.
Then the sheild fell off McKay's chest, he grabs a power bar and he starts eatting it.
"I had a feeling" said, "What do you mean? Had a feeling about what?, You think I wanted to to come off just now? You think I'm scared? I'm not scared i'll stay, I'll do this" McKay said.
"No, that's okay you might faint again" John said, "Well it's just not working anymore, see it doesn't work on you either" McKay said.
"I just meant that it wasn't going to let you die" Weir said. "Well it is just a coincidence that it happened to stop working now. I need a drink" McKay said.
"Major, can I talk to you" I asked, "Sure, lets go" John said as we walk over out of ear range.
"What's up, Alex" he asked, "be careful, John and if and when you get though this, I think we need to talk about what happened between us" I said.
"I will be careful, don't worry. I'll talk to you as soon as this thing is done" he said kissing my hand.
We went up to the control room, "So the shield device just came off by itself?" peter asked, "Yeah, just stopped working. He even tried it on Sheppard" I said, "It wouldn't work on Sheppard" peter said.
"Why not?" I asked, "McKay didn't tell you guys, the text we were studying says the shield imprints on the wearer, If we're right, it wouldn't work on anyone else" peter said.
Then McKay walked in and of couse hes eatting, "we ready?" Mckay said as me and peter sit down.
"You do realize that when we shut everything down, we're going to lose the sensors, we're not going to be able to track it" I said, "We have security personnel posted round the living quarters.
"At least we have some warning. Teyla told the Athosians children that lighting a candle would help protect them" Weir said as she lights a candle.
"And you're doing it because" McKay asked, "It's going to get dark in here" Weir said, "hmm" McKay said turning on his flashlight.
"Okay, Major go ahead, Now" Weir said. "Its coming" John said over the radio, we were all anxious and McKay was stuffing his face as always.
"Think we're going to need a bigger vessel" John said, "Size doesn't matter" McKay said "That's a myth" John said.
"It will fit. The device traps the creature in Subspace. You just need to wait til its all around the containment vessel" McKay said, "keep coming" John said.
My heart was racing, I wanted to scream at John to tell him to run and get out of there while he could. I knew that I couldn't get to him in time but a part of me wanted to be there with him.
"Son of a bitch" John said, "what happened?" I asked, "Damn thing took one look at it and went away. It's a lot smarter than we thought" John said, it was daytime so we didn't really need the light.
"We need to know right now where it is" Weir said, "We need to turn the power on to use the sensors" I said. "You can't do that" McKay said, "Do it, just the operations tower" Weir said "What now?" John said as he walked in. "It's headed this way" I said simling at him, "Because you turned the power back on" McKay said.
"We can't go on like this" Weir said, "Do you think its wants to be here?" Teyla asked, "What do you mean" i asked her.
"Its been trapped here for thousands of years. Alone" Teyla said, "It's not alone anymore" Weir reminded her.
"it doesn't think on that level. It thinks about eating that's it" McKay said, "well you would know" John said.
"If we stay it will kill us" Teyla said looking at us, "Not unless we kill it first" I said, "Well I don't see how" McKay said. "Then either we must go or it must. Maybe it wants to go, If we open the stargate" Teyla said.
We were standing in the gateroom, I wanted to talk to John about what happened between us so bad but knew this wasn't the time or the place.
Why did i ever sleep with him, your stupid. I can't believe i'm falling for him, I mean come on i'm in a differnt qalaxy.
"Alex, you okay?" John said waving his hand in front of my face, "sorry, i was thinking" I said. "This is a bad idea" McKay said, "You said that already" Weir said "Well it's worth saying again" McKay said.
"Its coming" Teyla said from the control room, "An open stargate is a huge power source this thing is smart, It knew enough not to get trapped in the ancient containment vessel again.
"How much do you think it's going to follow a naquada generator though a wormhole" McKay said, "You got a better idea?" John asked.
"Good luck" McKay said running off, "you okay?" I asked. All John did was nod, "Its almost here" Peter said, " Do you have an adress?" Weir asked "m4x-337, Barren wasteland" I said. "Dail it" Weir order. McKay starts dailing, "That was good thinking" Weir said as Teyla nods.
"It's not going anywhere" McKay said, "Can't see if the malp got though" Weir said, "The entity could have drained the battery" I said.
"It could be feeding off the generator, off the Stargate. This is disaster" McKay said, "Shut it down" Weir said.
McKay hits the shut off button but nothing happens, and he keeps pushing it. I push him out of the way and hit the button as hard as i could, "I can't" I said.
"the consoles are dead" peter said, "there must be something we can do" Weir said.
" We don't know if the malp is still down there. Its possible the entity will still go through the gate once it's depleted the energy in the Naquada generator on the Malp" peter said.
"Or it could just continue to feed of the Gates energy" I said, I was standing next to John now and our hands were behind our back, he grabbed my hand as like he was trying to say it would be okay.
"McKay" John yelled as McKay runs down the stairs to the entity.
"Rodney, what the hell are you doing" I yelled, we didn't know what he was doing but then the entity was going out of the gate and when it was all gone. I looked down and McKay was laying down on the floor.
"McKay?" Weir asked, "It must have been drained by the entity" I said, as i grabbed the shield off.
"Medical team to the gateroom" John said into his radio. "He's not burnt, he's breathing. McKay? McKay?" Weir said.
McKays eyes open, "What happened?" he asks, "you did it" Weir says as i smile, "I did?" McKay said.
"it went though the gate" I said, "you must have passed out" John said. "Oh, thanks for no saying the other thing" McKay said.
"That was a hail mary" John said standing up and pointing to McKay. We all simle and the medical team runs it and we knew McKay was in good hands. "Thank you, take your time. Man down" McKay said.