Disclaimer: I don't own SGA. And I really don't want to be beaten up by Ronon. Or Teyla for that matter.

"Okay. This is the pilot episode, 'Rising'" Rodney pushed play and sat down

A puddle jumper is flying above something that could be either clouds or water. It is hard to tell

"They are opening with a puddle jumper. I'm going to like this tv series. By the way, how did they get the puddle jumper? Aren't the blueprints classified?"

"They have partial blueprints. President wanted it to be as real as possible. We can't risk people knowing about this place. Even if someone discovers anything classified, it will already be featured on the movie."

"Clever."

Atlantis comes into view and two ancients as well.

They look meaningfully at each other and the guy leaves.

"What was that all about?"

"Shut up, will you?"

Antarctica: Present day

The view goes into the research base and we can see people walking around, Peter working on a drone and so on.

"What? They have central heating in the middle of the ice? It was cold, we were all in fat jackets! Gosh people, get the facts right!"

Carson and Rodney are arguing about the ancient chair and about working with it. Carson walks off.

Elizabeth makes a sarcastic comment about Rodney not having the ATA gene.

"Wooo! Go Weir!"

"John I swear, If you are not going to shut up i'll..."

"Guys! Can you please both be quiet?"

"Sorry."

Daniel walks into the frame and tells Elizabeth and Rodney to follow.

They go into daniels lab, with screens that are running through gate addresses, but still daniel chooses the blackboard on which he shows them the gate address to Atlantis.

"wow. A dramatic scene. Who would've guessed?"

"Rodney..." Ronon almost got up before Teyla stopped him.

"Please guys. Stop it. We are here to watch a movie, not fight.

"Sorry. Again."

A helicopter flies over Antarctica and the names start running on the screen.

John and Jack talk about Antarctica. John tells Jack that he likes it there.

"Yeah, I did like it, until that stupid drone almost killed me! I still am scared to fly when I know that Carson is testing something in the chair. And for some reasons my flight schedule always seems to be at that time. Rodney, you don't happen to know anything about that?"

"Me?? Why would I know anything about it?" Rodney grinned at Sheppard

Rodney and Carson are walking to the chair again and Carson tells Rodney that he would break it.

"Oh no. He didn't break the chair. But he almost broke ME!"

"Get over it." Ronon rolled his eyes and continued to watch, interested as he had not seen any of this. Nor had Teyla.

Carson accidentally activates a drone, it shoots off, making stuff explode in the process.

Sheppard and Jack get informed too late and are forced to try and fly away from the weapon.

"I did fly good, didn't I?"

"Shut Up!" Everybody yelled at John for ruining the exiting moment.

Jack and Sheppard jump out of the plane as the drone shut off, stopping right before O'Neill.

"That was different." "for me? Not so much."

"Oh yeah, he escapes from an angry drone on daily basis. And by the way, I flew even better in real life."

Ford tells everyone that Jack and John are 7 minutes away from the base.

When they get there O'Neill follows Daniel to his lab and leaves Sheppard alone in the base.

In the lab they tell Jack about the Pegasus galaxy and that they need a ZPM to get there.

"You know that's actually the correct way to say it. ZedPM." Rodney looked at everyone as if waiting for them to nod their heads and agree.

"No It's not."

"Oh, yes it is."

"No. It's NOT."

"Yes, It IS!"

"McKay, Sheppard. Do we need to separate you two?"

"Sorry." And they continued watching.

Picture goes back to Sheppard who hears Beckett boast about the encounter with the drone and he confronts him about it. Suddenly Carson is not so tough anymore. Beckett tells him about stargate program.

Meanwhile Weir and Jackson manage to convince Jack to let them go to the Pegasus Galaxy.

While Beckett is explaining to John about the ATA gene, Sheppard pokes the Chair and decides to sit in it. It activates.

"Wow. Smart. Sit into a powerful chair that almost killed you" Ronon rolled his eyes and looked at Sheppard.

"In my defense I didn't think I'd have the gene. I thought the odds are very slim. But right now, I'm grateful that I did it."

Weir tells Jack that she wants John on her team. Sheppard in unsure, but O'Neill convinces him easily while they are flying back.

"I did no such thing! I wanted to go as soon as I heard they wanted me!"

"I didn't. I thought I had more career options in area 51. Boy, was I wrong..."

Simon is watching a recording by elizabeth explaining the Stargate and where she is going. He tries to call him, but soon realizes that her mobile operator doesn't cover other galaxies.

Back in the SGC people are gathering in the gateroom with their stuff. McKay connects the ZPM. Weir has a speech about the expedition. Daniel tells O'Neill that he still has time to go. O'Neill still won't let him go. They dial the gate and send the MALP through.

"I think it was one of the most exiting days in my life."

"Oh yeah... You look really exited!" Rodney nudged sheppard and continued watching.

MALP goes through and soon people follow.

Sheppard asks Ford if it hurts, he answers yes and jumps through.

"They make it look like it is the first time I had heard or seen the thing. They explained it to me pretty nice before. Though I was still worried that I could be rematerialized wrong on the other side. Like having my ear where my nose is supposed to be."

" I told you that it was impossible."

"No. You told me a lot of scientific crap. Didn't understand half of it."

"Well, It's not my fault you failed science."

Everybody comes through, the lights go on and security teams go to explore the immediate area.

They watch as the last person and a bottle of champagne come through.

"Why didn't that ever happen? I haven't tasted champagne in like 5 years!"

"Quit whining. I offered you some just last week, on my birthday. Its your fault you didn't take it!"

"It looked like water. I tell you Athosians can't make real good champagne. No offense Teyla."

"None taken, please can we go back to watching?"

Teams are exploring and some scientists find the puddle jumpers. They realize that they are underwater. They watch the hologram telling them about th history of Atlantis. McKay finds out that the ZPMs are almost depleted and they need a new one before their time runs out. Sheppard suggests that they could go to another planet and look for ZPMs.

"See? It's ALWAYS the genius who has to save others."

"Hey! I was the one who came up with the idea of going to other planets to look for place to settle in and maybe find some ZPMs.!"

Rodney dials an address and they send a MALP. Colonel Sumners team goes and finds a dark planet with some kids.

"Athosia. I don't know how many times we have told the kids to not play in the dark."

Kids' father introduces himself and they follow him to the village. One of the kids tells Sheppard about the Wraith. They meet Teyla and she invites them to morning tea. Sumner wants to check out the ancestor city. Teyla shows Sheppard to the caves.

Back in Atlantis Rodney tells Elizabeth that if they don't find a ZPM soon, they are screwed.

In the caves Sheppard finds Teylas lost necklace. They look at the cave drawings and Teyla explains John about the Wraith.

Gate activates and Wraith darts come through.

"Gosh, I hate these darts. Such annoying things."

"You're telling me. I still remember too well the time Cadman was stuck in my head. Believe me, you can't hate them more than I do."

"I had to fly the thing once!"

"Big deal, I had to repair it."

"Can we just agree, that we all hate them and move on?"

"Sorry." Ronon and Teyla rolled their eyes and concentrated on the show.

There is a fight and some team members get scooped up. Teyla tells John that the Wraith make you see things and they should fire at the ships. Sheppard tells it to Sumner and he relays it to other members of the team. There Is much shooting and explosions and Teyla gets scooped up by the dart. Sheppard orders Ford to remember the symbols. Sheppard sees a moving hand. A lone hand.

"Whoa!!! What is this? I know that Wraith are tough, but I don't think they are THAT tough." Sheppard looked at the TV with disgust, as did the others.

"Yeah, a bit over the top, don't you think?"

"A bit?"

Back in Atlantis Peter shows Elizabeth how parts of the shield are failing. Weir orders personnel to evacuate, but before they can dial out, Sheppard dials in and takes the remaining villagers with him.

"Nice timing."

"How come that there aren't more Athosians with him? This show makes It look like three quarters of our population died." Teyla was looking at the screen with one eyebrow raised.

"Guess they ran out of actors. But don't worry, It's just a movie." Teyla smiled at John and resumed watching.

Sheppard asks Jinto if there are some other worlds they could gate to but before he can dial, Atlantis starts rising from the bottom of the sea. Atlantis surfaces and everybody rushes to look out of the window. They start arranging their stuff and Rodney explains that their last ZPM is depleted.

"No shields in the middle of a deserted planet? Scaaary."

"Hey, we didn't know that it was deserted. It could've been a Wraith planet for all we knew."

"But it wasn't."

"We know that now."

Sheppard tells Rodney that he wants to go and find colonel Sumner and the others but Rodney tells him that even though Ford remembered 6 symbols there could be hundreds of permutations.

"Tell me John, would you really know that there are 720 different ways to arrange those six symbols?" McKay turned to look at Sheppard

"Well... You know..."

"No I don't know."

"You know.."

"Tell me. Did you or did you not know that?"

"Fine. I didn't know it! You happy now?"

"Hah. Just as I thought. They got you all wrong. You are way dumber than in that movie."

"How do you know? Maybe I knew that number because I tried all combinations out on a paper?"

"To come to think of it, You probably did. It sounds just like you."

"Can we please continue? I want to see the episode."

John and Elizabeth talk about not leaving people behind. Sheppard insists on going to the rescue mission, but Elizabeth refuses to let them go unless they know something about their enemy.

Meanwhile People who got scooped up by the wraith are in a cell and Sumner is irritated about the fact that one of those people could have tipped them off.

"Gosh Sumner. You are locked up together. The least you could do is to be nice to them and try to work together." Sheppard rolled his eyes with frustration, but shut up quickly after seeing Ronon stare at him.

The Wraith come and take one of the Athosians for feeding.

In Atlantis Rodney sends a MALP to the only address they could get a lock on. It turns out to be a space gate and Rodney realizes that the ships they found are for traveling through Stargate

"The happiest day of my li... OUCH!!" Sheppard was holding his stomach and Ronon was rubbing his knuckles.

"Would you shut up already?"

"Yea, sure." John was still trying to catch his breath

Carson was cutting the Wraith hand they found and told Elizabeth about the amazing regenerating cells and that the owner was very, very old.

Elizabeth and Rodney go to the jumper bay and Sheppard demonstrates the cloak and finally convinces Elizabeth to mount a rescue operation.

Team is all ready to go in the ship and John decides to call it the puddle jumper instead of the gateship

"I still think that Gateship would have been a better name."

"And I still think you are wrong. Specially because we are still officially calling it the puddle jumper, so there. I win."

the jumper goes through the gate and Sheppard starts to get the hang of it. He also finds out that thinking about a Turkey sandwich won't work. Neither does any other flavor.

"The funny thing is that I don't even like Turkey sandwiches. I think I have mentioned it in my mission reports about hundred times already."

"Oh yeah? Guess what? We don't care."

"Oh thank you very much! So car.. OUU! Would you please stop hitting me? my hand is all nu.. OUCH! Great. There goes the other hand..." Sheppard threw his hands in the air but then saw Ronon turn his way "Okay, okay I'll take the hint..."

Back in the Wraith ship they take colonel Sumner for feeding. The jumper is approaching the planet. Sheppard orders to establish a perimeter and goes looking for Sumner.

In the hive Sumner is taken to the Queen. Sheppard finds the prisoners and orders the others to make a diversion while he is looking for Sumner and Ford is busting the prisoners out.

"Wow. I look COOL out there pleasedon'thitmeRonon."

"Shut up and I may spare you."

"Shutting up."

The Queen interrogates Sumner and she tells him that the wraith eat humans.

"What's with the lecture about food? Usually the Wraith just feed on a person. It's quicker and they get all the information the need."

"Well, they needed something to fill up the time."

The Queen feeds on Sumner and tries to get the information needed. Sheppard finally locates Sumner but when faced with decision he kills Sumner instead of the Queen. Another Wraith sneaks up on John and Stuns him. Sheppard is taken to the Queen. John takes one of the guards weapons and stabs the Queen with it effectively killing her.

"I just realized that almost every wraith queen out there has red hair. I wonder why." John was trying to keep the atmosphere light even though Ronon, Rodney and Teyla tensed at the sight of Sheppard killing Sumner. It was one of the stories they knew about, but had never heard.

"Is that how it happened?" Teylas voice was soft, trying not to irritate him or bring back any bad memories.

"Basically yes. They have done a great work rewriting our mission reports. But can we go back to watching? I really don't want to get hit again." Johns eyes were fixated on the screen and others realized that he still wasn't ready to talk about it. They didn't know if he'll ever be ready to talk about it. Only time will show that.

The Queen warns that if she dies the others will wake. After she is dead they see hundreds of wraith waking up above their head and decide to hightail it out of there. Everybody runs to the jumper and Sheppard flies to the gate only to find an armada of darts guarding the gate.

Sheppard manages to ditch the darts with some great flying. Finally back in Atlantis they were having a party. Elizabeth assigns Sheppard to the head position of SGA1.

"Well that was interesting. We will watch the next episode tomorrow, right?"

"Yup, tomorrow at the same time. Don't miss it!" With those words every member of SGA1 went to their quarters. Probably for some sleep.

And that is exactly what I should do. Wow. Writing this was harder than I thought. But It's done. It finally is done. I really do hope that you guys like it. Review and If I get at least one positive review I will make the next episode, which is Hide and Seek as you all very well know. So Review!