Stargate Universe Season 3
Cold. Bone chilling cold. That's all colonel young could feel even as hot air rushed over him. After what felt like a lifetime the door slowly hissed open and he fell out of his pod. Onto a shivering Nicholas Rush. "How's the ship?" The colonel asked him. "Iv'e just got out of the bloody stasis pod like you! what makes ye think I know anything more than yoursel'?"
"Well go find out!" The colonel shouted at the doctor. Around him people were continuing to stagger out of their pods, as he carried on looking around. However, there was one figure who wasn't shivering, wasn't panicking, heck was hardly moving. "Eli, what the hell happened, didn't you go into stasis?"
As the colonel watched, Eli seemed to have aged decades. It was only noticeable when he looked up. "I didn't fix the pod." He stated. At that as Eli started to stand up, the colonel noticed just how thin he was. "The ship's about to finish recharging now, Destiny says that she won't jump until we have enough supplies from the planet in this system. I rebuilt the second shuttle and repaired a helluva lot of the ships systems." The colonal regarded him for a moment. "I thought there wasn't enough power for you to keep life support running for more than a couple of weeks!" He spluttered. Eli grimaced. "There wasn't, for three years it was a race against time for me to repair a system, shut another down or increase the efficiency of the FTL in order to balance out the power requirements. It wasn't till a year into the trip that I discovered a reserve power generator. Oh, by the way, I figured out how to increase our power storage back to its original designed capacity, so all we have to do is dump the waste material that has collected in the tanks by deploying the collectors while we're flying through empty space."
"Eli that's incredible, how long were we in stasis?" said Young. "Three years, two months and nine days" replied Eli, tiredly. "Colonal young, there's something ye need to see!" Came rushes excited voice. The colonel limped over to the control interface console where rush was seated and pretended to be able to read ancient. "What have we got?"
"The ships a lot further into this galaxy then we should be. Also numerous hull breaches have been repaired, and systems are coming online that we didn't even know we have." He paused. "For instance, there's a pumping system which seems to lead to large storage tanks on the lower part of the ship. What they hold I don't know yet but it's worth checking out."
"OK, everybody listen up." Boomed young. When he was sure he had everybody's undivided attention, he continued. "Brody, Vulker get to the bridge, find out more about our status, TJ, Chloe get down to the infirmary and begin checks to make sure everybody came out of stasis in one piece. Wray, Varro get down to the stone lab and contact Earth. Scott, Barns assemble teams and take the shuttle's down to the planet to search for supplies.
Greer assemble two man teams to go and do a sweep of the ship, report anything unusual to me as soon as you find it." As the people scattered to their various tasks, Rush and Young walked over to Eli, who all this time had just been sitting there staring into space. "Eli, we need to talk." The colonel looked as Eli gave a wary grin and slowly
stumbled up, he couldn't help but notice how the boy seemed to favour his right leg, as though it hurt too much to put to carry his weight.
"What the hell happened?" Demanded Young.