How it should have been
Author: Pajus
I would like to thank Rosehawk for her betaing and support. Without her, this story would be full of spelling errors. Thank you.
Outcast
"What is this human trying to do?" The Replicator asked himself when Colonel Sheppard stabbed a knife-like thing into his side. "He has to know it won't hurt me and after I kill him, I will have all the neutronium in the world to repair myself."
"Apollo, this is Sheppard: Now." Everything in the Replicator's vision began getting brighter and then turned completely white. A second later, his vision began returning to normal and the Replicator could see himself being in low orbit above Earth. The knife must have been a tracking device for the Asgard beam transporter, but there was no time for such thoughts now. Earth's gravity began applying its force on the Replicator the moment the he rematerialized.
The Replicator's motion was being accelerated from a still stand by thirty feet per square second, but that didn't bother him much. His creator equipped him with a knowledge of physics that allowed him to calculate what was about to happen.
Two minutes after his re materialization, the Replicator began feeling the atmosphere decreasing his acceleration, as he hit the ozone layer protecting Earth from the most dangerous part of solar radiation.
The atmospheric friction he was exposed to created a fair amount of heat on the Replicator's surface, but the cold of ozone was enough to protect him from overheating. It took him only about twenty seconds to fall through the ozone layer and reach the lower stratosphere, where the atmosphere began to rapidly increase its density.
The Replicator tried to maneuver his body in a way that would expose as great a surface of his body as possible to the decelerating force of friction. His velocity reached its high point in an altitude of 150,000 feet. On that point the Replicator was falling at a rate of almost 5,000 feet per second.
Now it was time to maneuver again. The Replicator reshaped his body into a dart-like object, that the air would still slow down, but not as much as before. He needed his velocity to be way lower than it was, but the friction was creating more heat than he could survive without damage. The plan worked and the Replicator safely reached the troposphere.
In an altitude of 15,000 feet, the Replicator reshaped himself again to give himself the look of a skydiver trying to enjoy himself as much as he could by slowing his fall down.
After nearly seven minutes of falling, the Replicator hit the ground somewhere in Nebraska at a velocity of 130 feet per second – lethal for humans, but perfectly safe for Replicators. He would find himself the storage house with neutronium and restore himself after the damage he had sustained from human firearms and the impact of the fall. Then, he will have his revenge...
AN: Calculation was made for a Replicator the size and weight of a human. Initial altitude of the fall was 600,000 ft.