The baby had grown now, shimmering as it grew. And as it grew, Destiny started to groan and it's bones creaked. The being who had walked through the Stargate slowed, not from intent; but due to the power of the infant "son" and the strength he had. The "father" looked older with each step, weaker.
It was as the "father" came into the infirmary that the "son" attacked him. The battle was intense and brief, equipment was thrown around, Greer, Park, and everyone else were pinned in the room, between the two beings fighting. Bolts of energy erupted from each being and then, all stopped.
The "father" collapsed and then, the body turned to ash; the "son" for a moment, looked victorious and started to look like he was going to ascend, when he too, collapsed and in a quick "fire" burned and was gone.
Destiny was old, very old and the battle inside her was too much. She fell out of FTL inside a solar system with a binary star at it's core. Her engines had given in, FTL was not possible anymore. Her mission, possibly over.
"Damn it. General, before you say anything, I don't think there's much we can do, atleast at the moment." Eli said, looking over at General Young.
"I know, the ship's old and it was bound to eventually happen." Young replied.
"We have good news though, three gates within range, all open to being dialled too." Eli responded.
"Okay, and how are our power reserves? How long can we use Destiny and her resources until we can't power her anymore?" Young asked all on the Bridge.
At that moment, down in the Infirmary, the chaos that had been moments ago, was gone. Lisa, Ronald and there baby, Rebecca, were all in good shape, shaken by the experience; but good still. TJ was okay and Rush just at the Infirmary entrance was as well.
Lisa was shaken, as to be expected, with just having been through child birth and then an unexpected second birth, of a being bent on destruction. Though she could rationalize it and Greer too, it was going to be a while before she could really say she was fine and back to normal.
The Infirmary was cleaned up and returned to "normal", so Lisa and Rebecca could stay there for a day or so, under TJ's watch. Also, with Specialist Ja'x from Hi'Ak, things in the Infirmary were generally working well. Ja'x as she liked to be called, was a Medic as well and where her knowledge of human anatomy failed, TJ filled in. The two had learned from each other so well that now, they were able to handle most issues, even surgeries, with little issue, whether Hi'Ak or human. General Young and Captain Gerani both knew that each wanted more medical staff and training; but things didn't look all that possible.
"Let me get in touch with Earth and appraise them of the situation with Destiny. Capt. Gerani, you're in charge. Let's get the three addresses scouted and determine the viability of them so we can start to work on our next moves." Young said, as he headed to the Communications room. On his way, he radioed both Rush and Wray to meet him there.
As General Young updated Homeworld Command and the SGC on the situation aboard Destiny, things aboard were recovering.
The maintenance robots were automatically dispatched to start repairing the hull of Destiny, to then allow the interior repairs to start. But though they could repair almost all the ship, without FTL working, Destiny's original mission was ended.
"Captain Gerani, I've determined we have about 6 months worth of power aboard ship, as the moment, as long as we disconnect Destiny from any attempts to automatically jump to FTL." Rush radioed Gerani.
"Thank you, Dr. Rush. I will have teams go and start initial exploration of the three available gate addresses our vicinity." Gerani replied.
"Fine, the power needed, even if we do regular connections, say once per week or maybe ever more often, shouldn't eat significantly into our power reserves." Rush replied.
"Good to know." Gerani replied.
"Captains Scott, James and Varro, please report to the gate room with your exploration teams." Gerani radioed the three team leads.
"Lt. Cmdr Ger, I know you want to be on the planet, I need you though to take a shuttle and do a close study of this systems star, take Volker and Wallace, as we need to determine, if/how we can get more power for Destiny from it, in our current situation." Gerani radioed.
"Confirmed sir. Mr. Wallace and Dr. Volker and I will head out shortly." Ger radioed.
Within 15 minutes, all four teams were ready, three to explore the gate addresses in range that were open, and the shuttle to head off on it's excursion.
"Lt. Park, start dialling up the addresses." Captain Gerani said, as she talked with Captains Scott, James and Varro.
"Teams, connect back in 12h to give us an update." Gerani continued.
The gate started it's dialling and within a minute, Scott's team was off, a Kino preceding them through the gate to initially confirm atmospheric and planetary information before they then stepped through.
Next was Varro's team, and finally James' one. With all safely through and starting their exploration, Lt. Cmdr Ger and the shuttle's team, left to do their exploration of the system's star.
"General Young, we weren't expecting you." The Sargeant in the Stones room replied as he confirmed Young's code.
"Get me Generals Telford, Carter and O'Neill, I will be in the board room, outside Telford's office." Young told the Sergeant, in a slightly exasperated tone (tired from everything that had gone on Destiny in the past hours and days).