Emma and Sheppard steps true the event horizon, together and Sheppard holds op is p90, as he looks around the room, and Emma looks around the room to. She cannot believe she might be standing in the lost city. The city, Jack almost lost his life for. The city,her and Daniel spend so many hours trying to find, andnow she might be there.
A man put his foot one, one of the steps and the light starts to come one all over the room.
"Who is doing that?" Elisabeth asks whit wonder all over her face.
"Security teams, any alien contact?" Sumner asks.
"Negative, sir "he hears Ford say in his ere piece.
"General O`neill." Elisabeth says whet s smile on her face "Atlantis base offers it greeting for the Pegasus galaxy. You may cut the to the gate." She tells him
and she looks down when she sees a bottle of champagne rolling true the gate, before the gat shout down.
Elisabeth walks up as McKay pulls a sheet away and the see what looks like a control panel.
"Doctor Weir, Colonel Sumner. Can you come down and, meet me please? We are three levels down from you." A voice said in Weir, ere.
"Right away." Elisabeth says.
Emma and Sheppard walked after Elisabeth and Sumner down the stairs. When they came around the corner, the saw Ford standing there talking to another military man.
"What you got, Ford." Sumner asked
"We only been able to secure a fraction of the place, it is huge. "But that is not what I wanted you to see sir." Ford said as he pointed at the window.
"So it might really be the lost city of Atlantis?" Elisabeth asked as she looked over Emma and the smiled at each other."
"I say, that is a good bet." Sumner tells them.
"Oh, my god." Elisabeth says as she walks up to the window, Elisabeth looks to the side when she feels someone stand beside her.
"Way the go Daniel." Emma says whet a smile, as she looks to at the deep blue ocean that is all around them
"We are underwater."Sheppard says as he looks over at McKay.
"I say we are under several hundred feet of ocean. If we cannot dial out! This could be a problem." McKay says, as he looks out of the window." That is
impressive, isn't it?"
"Beckett has found something you guys should see." Peter tells as he comes up behind them.
Emma walks in to the room with Sheppard by her side, and she sees what looks like a women talking.
"In hope of spreading new life in a galaxy, where there appeared to be none. Soon the new life grew and prospered." The woman says.
"This is amazing." Emma says as she looks over at Sheppard with a smile on her face, only to see he is already looking at her, tuning her head back to the hologram.
"It is a hologram." Beckett says." It recording loops, this is my second time through.
"What did we miss?" McKay asks.
"Not much." Beckett says.
"Exchange knowledge and friendship in a time, a thousand of world`s bore the fruit of life in this form." The hologram of the women said. Then one day our people set foot upon a dark world, where a terrible enemy slept. Never before have we encountered beings with powers that rivaled our own. In our overconfidence, we were unprepared and outnumbered. The enemy fed upon the defenseless human world`s. like a great scourge, until finally onlyAtlantis remained.
"I don't like, were this is going." Emma whispered to herself as she looked in wonder at the hologram of the ancient women.
"The city`s shield was powerful enough to withstand there terrible weapons, but here we were besieged for many years. In effort to save the last of our kind, we submerged our great city in to the ocean. The Atlantis stargate was the one and only link back to the earth from this galaxy, and those who remained usedit to return to that world that was once home. There the last survivors of Atlantis lived out the remainder of their lives .This city was left to slumber in hope thatour kind would one day return.
Beckett stands down as the hologram stops talking and he looked around at the others.
"So the story of Atlantis is true." McKay says." A great city, that sank in the ocean."
"It just didn't happen on earth." Beckett tells them.
"The ancient Greeks must have heard it from one of the surviving ancients." Emma says, as she walks closer to the platform.
"I just don't like the fact, they got their asses kicked." Sumner says.
"Lat hear it again." Beckett walks up to the platform, as a man walks in to the room and whisper something in to McKay's ere.
"Stop. Tune it off." McKay yells.
"Power levels throughout the city are dropping fast "
"What does that mean?" Elisabeth asks McKay.
"If we don't stop everything we are doing right now, we are dead." McKay says as he walks out the room fast and the others walk after him.
Sheppard stops walking when he sees Emma is not with him, he tunes around to find her still standing there looking at the platform, where the ancient women was.
"Hey. Are you okay?" Sheppard ask her whet soft voice.
"Yea I am fine. Just I am sorry Daniel is not here to see this. She tells him.
"Maybe one day." he tells her "We should go, find the others." He tells her, as he takes her hand in his.
Emma looks down at their hands and she gives him a smile" Yea maybe ." she says as she looks back at the platform , as tunes around when she feel Sheppard tuck on her hand ,and the walks out of the room. Emma and Sheppard walks up the stairs, just in time to hear Beckett ask McKay to tell him it was not his fault.
"No." McKay tells him. "From what we been able to ascertain the city is powered by three zero point modules. Two are entirely depleted, and the third is
reaching maximum entropy. When it does, it will die to and nothing can reverse that."
"Tell me the bottom line." Sumner tells him.
"The force field that is holding the ocean back, it has collapsed to it`s minimum sustainable levels." McKay looks at all of them. He can see on their faces, they do not get what he is saying. So he walks op to a computer and point to a picture, of what looks like the inside of Atlantis." Look, you can see here and here." He point to the outside of the city.
"When the shield`s already has failed and the city is flooded."
"What if it fails completely?" Sheppard ask him.
"It is a matter of when, not if." McKay tells them.
"Elisabeth walks up to Sumner." Colonel Sumner, order your security teams to stop searching the city immediately." She tells him.
"That is not going to be good enough." McKay tells Elisabeth.
"How much time do we have?" Elisabeth asks him.
"It is hard to say, hours, maybe days, if we minimize power. " McKay tells her
"What about our own power generators?" Beckett asks.
"Our most advanced equations are coming up far too short." McKay tells them all
"So we need to find more zpm“s." Elisabeth asks McKay.
"How do we do that, when we can't search the city?" Sumner asks McKay feeling annoyed.
"If there was more here, we are able to detect them." McKay said as he pointed at the computer.
"Can we use the stargate?" Sumner asks.
"No there`s nowhere near enough power to open a wormhole back to earth." McKay tells Sumner.
"Maybe somewhere in this galaxy." Sheppard says aloud.
"Ha." McKay says as he looks over at Sheppard." That is relatively easy."
"Fortunately some ancient technology still uses good old-fashioned push bottoms, so we been able to access the stargate control. Systems and a library of
known gate addresses in the database. "McKay tells them.
"That is not all, look at this." Peter tells them and they all look up at the stargate, to see what looks like a shield over the event horizon.
"Just like iris back on earth." Sumner says.
McKay looks irritated at peter "Using power. Using power. Using power."
"Oh."
Peter pushes the bottom, the shield goes away, and Peter steps away from the controls.
"Colonel, assemble a team, we need a save place our better still another power source." Elisabeth tells him.
Sumner notes his head at her, as he puts his finger to his ere." Ford, gather a security team 1 and 2. He says as he walks away.
"I like you to go along." Elisabeth tells Sheppard
"Yes ma`am. "Sheppard tells her, he looks over at Emma before he walk after Sumner, and he can hear Emma ask what about her.
"You are staying here." Elisabeth tells her as she walks over to the controls paneled.
"Pick an address, start dialing."
McKay push a bottom, on the control paneled." Chevron one encoded."
Emma looks up at McKay whet a look of annoying all over her face." McKay just dial the dam thing." Emma tells him as she walks over to the balcony and looks down at the gate.
"I can take care of myself Elisabeth."
"I know you can look after yourself Emma." Elisabeth tells her, as she walks up and stands by her side.
"What did Jack say to you?" Emma asks, as her tune to Elisabeth, and foldet her arms over her chest.
"Emm-."
"The malp reads full viability and no immediate sign of activity around the stargate, but it is pitch black." Peter tells Sumner.
"Move out." Sumner yells to his man.
"I should go with them Elisabeth." Emma tells her, as she looks down at the gate, to see Sheppard looking back at them before he walk in to the event horizon.
THREE HOURS LATER
"How are we doing? Elisabeth asked as McKay as she walk over to him.
"Not good." He tells her.
"If we can just by ourselves another day, maybe we could-"
McKay looks over at Emma and tunes back to Elisabeth." The city is sacrificing part of itself in order to maintain these main areas, but failure is inevitable."
"Not in my wildest dream did I hope to find the lost city of the ancient, and we have no choice but to walk away from this."Elisabeth says as she looks at them both.
"Yes, in order to save it." McKay says.
"To save it for whom?" Emma asks McKay. "We don't have enough power, you said so yourself McKay. "We can't send a massage, as far as earth is concerned, we are just going to be missing, presumed lost." Emma yells at him, as she walks away down and sits on the stairs. "Daniel was right, this was a bad idea." Emma tells herself as she rubs her temples whet both hands.
"Emma is right Elisabeth. If we stay here, we are all as good as death." Emma tells her.
"We be back, we will find a powers source somewhere in the Pegasus." McKay tells her.
"We have yet to hear from Colonel Sumner. We got no idea what`s out there.
"We can't wait; it is time to go, Elisabeth." McKay tells her.
Elisabeth looks from McKay to Emma, before she put her finger to her ere." Attention, all personnel, this is Weir. Stand by for immediate evacuation."
"Dial the gat." She tells McKay as she looks over at Emma.
Emma runs down the stairs, just in time to see Sheppard coming true the gate. She does not know why, but seeing that he is okay, it makes her feel a whole lot better.
"Step in folks."
"Major Sheppard, who are all these people?" Elisabeth ask as she comes down the stairs.
"Survivor from the settlement, we were attacked. Sumner and some our man was taken." Sheppard tells Elisabeth.
"What is going on?"
"We are in no position to help anyone right now." She tells him
"What is going on?" Sheppard ask as he looks around the room."
"We are about to abandon the city."
Sheppard, point back at the gate." Going back there is a really bad idea."
"Major, the shields are about to fail." She tells him "Do you have a better place for us to go?"
Sheppard tunes around and looks at a little boy " Jinto , do you have any other address we can gate to?"
"Yes, many." The little boy tells him.
"He is just a boy." Elisabeth tells Sheppard as she walks after them."
"I, am Jinto." The boys tell her.
"She is pleased to meet you." Sheppard says as the start to walk up the stairs, but the stop, when the room starts to shake. Sheppard moves his body over the boy to protect him. Sheppard looks down the stairs to see Emma and Elisabeth holding on to each other.
"I am dialing an adresse." Peter yells.
"No, Peter wait." Emma yells up at him.
"She is right." McKay yells.
"We are moving." Sheppard yells as his eyes locked whet Emma`s.
Emma and Elisabeth looks over at the window, to see there is light shining true it. Emma walks up the steps , as she moves slowly up to the window to look out and she smiles when she sees that they are on the surface of the ocean . Emma tunes her head, when she feels someone put their hand on the lower part of her back, and she sees Sheppard looking out of the window. Before she can say, anything sees the boy, coming in between them and he put his face to the window and Emma smiles down at the boy for a second, before she looks at Sheppard ,to find him once again looking at her, but this time she smiles back at him.
"We ate on the surface." Ford says as he claps Sheppard on the shoulder.
"I was hoping for another day." Elisabeth says aloud.
"Looks like you, just got a whole lots more." Emma tells her.
"Lat not waste it."Elisabeth tells them, as she walks over to the control room and looks at the computer screen McKay is standing by.
"The last of the zero point module is depleted." McKay tells them." But limited power has returned now, that our generator aren't trying to hold back an ocean."
"What about life-support?" Emma asks as her and Sheppard walks up to them.
"Systems are working, but the planet's atmosphere is breathable.
"Can our naquadan generators shield, for defensive purposes?"Sheppard asked McKay.
McKay tunes around to look at him." Not even close."
"On the surface without a shield? We are target practice." Sheppard tells him.
" I'm acutely aware of that, major, but thank you for the reinforcing it." McKay says whet annoyed look all over his face.
"McKay ." Emma says.
"When can you tell me, where the wraith took Colonel Sumner and the others?" Sheppard ask him.
"McKay looks over at Sheppard." even with the six-symbols, lieutenant Ford provided, there are still hundreds of permutations."
"720." Sheppard tells him as his rest his hands on the end of the p90 that is strap in front of his chest.
"Yes I know that, of course. I am just surprised you did." McKay tells him as he looks over at the others and McKay sees that Emma is smiling at him.
"What?" he ask her whet his hand on his hips.
"Take away the coordinates you can't get a lock on, and that is your one. Find it and when you do send a malp." Sheppard tells him.
"Major a word." Elisabeth tells Sheppard as she walks away.
Emma looks at Elisabeth and then at Sheppard, only to see them walking out some kind of door. Emma tunes back to McKay and to help him look true the database.
2 HOUES LATER
Emma sits down on a chair in what is new Elisabeth office and she is pissed. This is the second time, she was told she couldn't go off world to help get there people back. Emma looked down at her bag that was on the floor, beside the chair, she drummed her fingers on the arm of the chair for a moment. she bend down to take the bag and she puts it her lab. Emma smiled as she takes up a picture frame, and she runs her fingers over the faces there is on it. She remembers the day it was taking it. It was the day, she became a part of sg1, Daniel had his arm around her shoulder and Sam stood by her other side and behind them stood teal`c and jack.
"I know you are Mad, right now "Elisabeth tells her as she walks in the room and sit down at her chair.
" I was a part of sg1, for 5 years . Elisabeth." Emma says, as she lays the picture back down into the bag. "I have probably seen more action then anyone her."
"I know you. I have seen you in action remember?" Elisabeth says whit a smile.
"Oh, you talking about the time, I almost shot McKay." Emma asks her.
"You know I read your file?"
"Of course, you did "
" you were almost on killed on px3-888. Hator, taking over Stargate command. The time you can Daniel gat stuck on the other earth ."
" Daniel saved me on Kelowna and he died because of it, and what happened whet Daniel , it is-"
"Daniel?" Elisabeth says whet a raced eye brown.
"I did tell you about the time, Maybourne took us to planet, where he transported him and Jack to." Emma made a hand quote whet her fingers "Paradise. Or the time Daniel gat stuck in the other world ."
"Yes you did-"
"I was still married to Steve on the other earth." Emma says .
" I am sorry, Emma , I didn't mean to-"
"I know Elisabeth.-" Emma stops talking when they hear the gate starting up, and the both get out of there chairs and walks in to the control room , to see
what is going on.
"Do we have an identification code?" Elisabeth asks.
Emma runs down the stairs, when she hears McKay tell Elisabeth it is Fords Identification code. But she stops running when she sees a blast coming true the event horizon, and she jumps out of the way.
"Elisabeth." McKay yells as he ducks he head as more blast hits the room .
"Give them a few more seconds!." She yells.
Emma looks over at the gat when she hears the sound of a jumper and she hears Elisabeth telling McKay to close the gate.
"Emma, are you okay?" Elisabeth her as she runs down the stairs to get to her.
"I am fine."
"No you are not." Elisabeth tells her as she touch Emma forehead." You are bleeding." Elisabeth put her finger to her ere , and tells Beckett that he is need in the gat room .
Emma moves her fingers to her head for a second, and when she looks at her fingers, she sees blood."I am fine , Elisabeth."
"Elisabeth, I`m here, who need medical at-. " Beckett sees Emma looking down at her bloody hand.
"Okay lass, lets have a look at you." Beckett says, as she moves her head a little so he can see better.
"It fine Beckett."
"You can call me Carson." He tells her whet a smile.
Emma smiles up at him." You are Scottish right?"
"AY, and you lass."Carson asks as removes some of the blood, from her forehead.
"Danish. Ah." that hurts .
"Ahh, a Danish girl." Carson looked at her with a smile on his face." You will be fine Lass, just come find me if you starts to get a headache." He tells her as he tunes around.
"Hey Carson?"
"Yes." He says as he tunes to look at her.
"My friend calls me Emma."
"Emma." He smiled and walked out of the gate room.
LATER THAT NIGHT
Emma is standing on the balcony looking out at the ocean, when she hears Ford tells someone this is home now. She tunes around to sees Sheppard and when he sees her looking at them, he gives her a little smile.
"I guess it is." he says as he walk up and standby her.
"I am thing about putting a house there." Ford says as he points out over the ocean.
"Major, lieutenant, Emma," Elisabeth calls out there names, and the tune around to find Elisabeth holding four cups in her hands.
"I thought this occasion merited opening this, Compliments of general O`Neill." She says as she give each of them a cup.
"Cheers." She says, as she takes a sip of the glass.
Cheers the all say, as the drink of their cups.
"You did good John." Elisabeth tells him
"I don't know about that." He tells her whet a seriously look on his face.
"There was no way; you could have saved Colonel Sumner." Elisabeth tells him.
"I have to live whet it." He tells her. "I am beginning to think you were right." He says. "I have made things much worse; I haven't made us many friends out there.
Emma is about to say something to Sheppard, when the boy Jinto runs up to her and takes her hand." Emma come, meet my father." He says as he drags her away from the others.
The women named Teyla looks over at Jinto and then back at the Major."I agree major Sheppard." Teyla tells him as she walks up to him and put her hand on his shoulder, and Sheppard looks over at Ford and he just smiles, so he looks back at her and she put her other hand on his other shoulder and she bows her head and he does the same.
"You have earned both my friendship and that of my people and whet our help you will get many more." She tells him as she looks around the room. Sheppard looks around the room and his eyes stops where Emma is standing laughing whit a man and Jinto. Sheppard can't help but smile, when he sees Emma run after the boy and his friends, and for the first time in a long time, he thinks, that maybe this could be home.
In a corner away from them, McKay and Carson are standing eating, as the look over at Sheppard and teyla.
"How come I can find friend like that." Carson asks.
"You need to get out more." McKay tells him.
Carson looks at him." We are in another galaxy, how much more out cant you get."
McKay sniffs to the chicken he is eating" Is there lemon in this?" He ask as he walks away .
