So, here is chapter 4. I will try and write chapter 5 as soon as I can, but the Half Term is coming to an end, which means that I will have to focus on my studies more. I'll do my best to update at the middle of the next week
Mitchell awoke with a headache. He saw all his men lying around him. Teal'c was already sitting up. As Mitchell started to get up Teal'c came over to help.
"Colonel Mitchell" he said in his usual voice "I am glad you are finally awake. I do not know what happened"
"Well, I think it might be connected to our new friend who abducted us"
As Mitchell got to his feet Sheppard started to move slowly. "What the hell happened" he said his voice feeling weak. Also his head hurt.
"Well" Mitchell said "I think the Lara character abducted us. I don't know what kind of stunner she used, but it was strong as hell. I'm not the only one with a headache am I?" he asked looking at the ones that had already awaked.
"No, you're not" Sheppard agreed.
"Indeed" Teal'c responded.
As the rest of the military men started to move Mitchell finally got to his feet and moved closer to the door of the room. The room was square, with few boxes at the far side of it. He moved closer to the door and tried to open it. The door beeped silently, but nothing happened.
"Hey, does anyone know how to open this thing?" he asked full of hope. All he got for response was confused looks from men who were just coming back to their senses.
Sheppard and Teal'c got up and moved to help him.
They tried to open the door manually, but nothing happened.
"I guess they are air tight" Sheppard finally announced. "So we're stuck. Anyone has any ideas?" he looked around the room "Anyone?" when he got nothing in response he moved closer to Mitchell and Teal'c. "We have to think of something."
"Hey, has anyone seen Jackson?" Mitchell asked when he didn't see his team mate.
"He is not with us" Teal'c said still looking around the room.
Mitchell and the others turned their backs to the door and looked at the two marines getting up. Jackson was nowhere to be seen.
"I guess our abductor took him" Sheppard said.
As he said it the door opened and Jackson walked in together with Lara.
"How many times do I have to say that I did not abduct you!" Lara exclaimed making them shift and look at the door. "I simply changed the place of our meeting".
"Then why did you stun us?" Sheppard asked touching his head.
"The loss of consciousness was a result of subspace beaming"
"You mean hyperspace" Mitchell said like stating the obvious.
"No" she said like just holding back "I mean subspace. It's faster than hyperspace, but it takes getting used to it. You haven't got til' that phase yet."
"Okay, let's just drop this subject. We have more important matters to attend" Daniel caught in between them. "She explained everything. Don't worry. We're safe. At least that's what I think" He said turning to Lara. She just nodded.
At that moment her PDA beeped. "We're here. The dark side of the moon. I'll go and prepare for beaming you down." She said and turned back to leave.
"Wait" Daniel said "Aren't you coming wit us?"
"You're kidding? Of course not. If I go down now I'll probably get arrested and interrogated. I'll let you explain everything first and then when it's safe I'll get myself there." She said and left.
Five minutes later Daniel, Mitchell, Sheppard and the others entered the bridge. Lara sat in her chair and looked at the holographic screen in front of the chair. "I'm ready to beam" she simply said. "Contact me when the air is clear" she said and gave Daniel an Ancient crystal. "Put this data in and it will open a secure channel."
"Okay" he said "I guess see you later." He managed to say before they were beamed away.
After a long and exhausting medical check up Daniel made it to the conference room. He then looked around the room to see Landry, Sheppard, some IOA representative and all that remained from the original SG-1 team sitting and chatting around. Well, everyone was chatting except for Teal'c who was at his usual and the IOA guy who sat uncomfortably waiting for the briefing to start. Since when did the IOA were present in so many meetings?
He cleared his throat and suddenly all the attention was focused on him. Not that he wasn't used to it, but this time was different. It really would have been much easier if Lara would have been here. She would have known all the small details, but apparently she felt quite paranoid with coming here now. So he started his presentation.
He told them the legend of Pandora's Box first. Just so the others would recall the myth. Then he started to tell the details Lara told him. How Pandora was a scientist and what The Box could do and what it really was. How it represented all the evils and what would it mean if the information would be correct.
"But how can you know that it is truth? We have never seen or heard about Pandora being connected to the Ancients" Landry seemed unconvinced with his theory.
"Well General, many ancient Earth stories have been real like"
Sheppard interrupted "Atlantis"
"Or Camelot" Mitchell continued.
"See," Daniel continued his point "There is a big chance that Pandora was actually an Ancient, and The Box a device" Daniel finished his thought.
"I see" Landry finally said breaking the silence that fell when Daniel stopped talking. "This sounds very intriguing, but can we trust the source? I mean is she really who she says she is?"
Daniel said with a confident voice "I believe she is telling the truth. I mean… the parts of the ship and the technique she used to control it was Ancient. She told me she had an old Ancient database that pre-dated Atlantis and she seemed to know the details of this matter very well. I think we can trust her."
General Landry seemed to rethink and go back to all details in his head. It wasn't the first time he had to make a tough decision to either trust or not in a complete stranger. The things that convinced him were that Dr. Jackson was feeling confident and the fact that Atlantis really needed those ZPM's. Also he was pretty sure that her intel on Pegasus was correct.
After a silence that felt like hours he made a decision. "Okay. Ask her down here. Say that we will not do anything to harm her and I will only talk to her. No interrogation." As he said the last two words he shot a warning look to Mr Jefferson, the IOA representative. "May I talk to you in my office?" he said to the man. "Everyone else dismissed. Dr. Jackson, as soon as she has past her medical check up, send her to my office please."
As Landry and all others stood up Daniel rushed out of the conference room and started to make his way to Bill Lee's office. As he approached it he took out the crystal from his pocket. Bill was sitting at his desk looking at his laptop with a coffee mug on the table.
Daniel approached him and handed the crystal. Bill took it and started to look for cables to connect it to his computer. As he did so, Daniel started to feel confident about this new ally. If he was right about her and everything would go as predicted, then in a very short time they would have three fully powered ZPM's and a new, much needed ally on their side.