Mitchell quietly signals to Vala to remain where she is, he then slowly moves away from the corner and takes tiny steps down the corridor towards the shadow on the wall ahead.
As he gets further down the corridor he can hear the clanking sounds more clearly and he stops briefly after hearing a loud bang but continues forward, when he reaches the corner he pushes his back up against the wall and takes a breath, then he slowly peers around but is shocked at what he sees.
Looking around the corner he doesn't see the replicators that he was expecting to see, instead he sees a larger mechanical robot with three legs and a circular body cutting into a large rock that has penetrated the hull, then he suddenly freezes as the robots body spins around after detecting his presence, he flinches wanting to move back behind the wall but he finds himself frozen in fear as a beam of light shines on him from the robot and cycles up and down his body like a scanner.
The light from the robot goes out and its upper body spins back around as it continues to cut through the rock, Mitchell slowly moves himself back around the corner and breaths heavily with both panic and relief.
"Mitchell!" shouts Jack, as he, Vala and Teal'c come running down the corridor holding guns and kneel beside him, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah..." says Mitchell, he notices they aren't wearing their suits, "..where are your suits?" he asks.
"We managed to reactivate several of the ships systems." says Teal'c, helping Mitchell to his feet.
"Alisana got life support and gravity working again, you can take your suit off." says Jack.
Mitchell starts removing his suit, "Well it's not replicators, take a look around there."
Jack, Vala and Teal'c both stick their heads around the corner and see the robot, Jack steps out to get a better look, "What the heck is that thing."
"I don't know, but it scanned me with some kind of...scanner." says Mitchell.
"Ouch.." shouts Jack, jumping and turning around as another robot walks out from behind a panel in the wall and bashes in to his leg, he looks down and aims his gun at it.
"Wait, wait. Don't shoot." says Alisana over the radio.
"What, why not?" replies Jack.
"They're not hostile, they won't hurt you." says Alisana.
"Yeah, tell that to my ankle." says Jack.
"They're Urabo's." says Alisana.
"Ura-what?" asks Jack.
"Urabo's, they're worker bots designed to repair and maintain the ship, they won't harm us." says Alisana.
"Alright come on guys let's head back." says Jack.
"No Sam wants you to keep going and find the source of that energy signature, I have most of the systems working but the internal scanners aren't working so I can't determine where or what it is. Hold on I'll boost the radio signal." says Alisana.
"Sam, you reading me." says Jack.
"Loud and clear. I need you to keep going if you can." says Sam.
"This ship is giving me the willies." says Mitchell.
Jack looks concerned and unsure if they should continue, "Is it far?" he asks.
"It should be around there somewhere, I can't get an exact fix on it but it shouldn't be more than a few hundred meters ahead of your current position." says Sam.
"Alright, we'll give it a shot but if we don't find anything soon I'm heading back. Mitchell, you and Vala can go back if you want." says Jack.
"Nah I'll go with you." says Mitchell.
"Me too." says Vala.
Mitchell gives her a strange look, "I thought you were too tired?" he asks.
"I feel much better now after getting that suit off." says Vala, she pats him on the shoulder as she passes by and heads towards the robots and down the corridor, "Let's go boys."
Bridge
While the others continue to push forward in search of the energy source, Daniel and Alisana keep working on accessing the ships systems in an attempt to discover the ships purpose and how it ended up where it is now in its current condition.
"Can you watch the panel on the captains chair and let me know if it comes on." says Alisana, sat at a console at the front of the bridge.
"Sure." says Daniel, walking up to and sitting in the chair watching the display embedded in the arm rest, "So, who were they?" he asks, unable to contain his curiosity.
"Who?" says Alisana.
"The Beru. You said they helped your people evolve and they were a part of the alliance of races but in all the years we've been exploring the galaxy I've never heard of them or see any mention of them anywhere." says Daniel.
A lengthy silence goes by and she doesn't answer, "Alisana." says Daniel, feeling he's being ignored.
Alisana sighs, "Why do you want to know?" she asks.
"I'm just curious to find out who they were. Why do I get the feeling you're avoiding the question." says Daniel.
Alisana spins around in her seat and after a moment of silence she begins to tell him, "The Beru are like God's to my people, they were one of the first races in this galaxy along with the Nox, they were very advanced and much like the Ancients they liked to explore the galaxy and learn as much as they could about..everything.
While they were exploring they came to Vellusello, that's the name of my planet, the Furling home world. They made contact with my people but they were really young and primitive, like cave men. The Beru took it upon themselves to nurture us and teach us how to survive and build and evolve in to the people that we are today."
"Well surely that's a good thing, why didn't you want to tell me that?" says Daniel.
"Thousands of years before the alliance of races was even formed, the Beru had been infected some how with a virus that was slowly killing them and they weren't able to find a cure. When the alliance was formed the others worked with them and tried to find a cure but they also failed, then the virus got worse and it hit the Beru hard, within a few months their race went from a population of several million to just a few thousand." says Alisana, she stops and lowers her head with another sigh.
"Go on." says Daniel.
"As the virus got worse the Beru confined and quarantined themselves to their home world but some how the virus began to spread to other worlds in the galaxy and was infecting other populations. Unable to find a cure or halt the spread of the virus a decision had to be made on what action to take, a decision that would change us forever." says Alisana, wiping a single tear from her face.
Daniel stands from his chair and crouches in front of her handing her a handkerchief, "I'm sorry I pushed you." he says.
"No it's okay. I don't know why I'm getting upset, I wasn't even there." says Alisana, "After a lot of debate and discussion between the races they came to the painful decision that the only way to stop the virus and save the lives of billions was to eradicate it once and for all." she adds.
"You don't have to go on." says Daniel.
"No, you have a right to know. All those infected were taken to the Beru home world with the promise of a cure, but it was a lie, there was no cure. The others built a weapon, like a nuclear bomb, designed to consume and kill the virus but when the time came they couldn't bring themselves to use it. They came up with another plan to move the infected to a distant part of the galaxy away from any other populated worlds.
All the races agreed but one. They felt it wasn't good enough and that no matter where the infected were, the virus would some day return. So when the infected were gathered up and preparations were being made to move them across the galaxy, unknown and against the wishes of the others they fired the weapon and destroyed the planet and everyone on it." says Alisana.
Daniel can't believe any of the races would take such an action, "Who fired the weapon, who killed them?."
Alisana looks at him with a wet teary-eyed face, "We did.", referring to the Furlings.
Daniel got his answer but is in shock at what he heard, finding it hard to believe that the Furlings could have done such a thing, basically committing mass murder, he was about to ask her for more information when the console behind Alisana began to beep.
"That's it, we're in." says Alisana, turning back to the console.
