Gen. Landry was meeting with Rodney and the rest of the science and engineering department.
"Everyone here Rodney?" asked Gen. Landry.
"Zalenka, Brody, Novak, Lee, Parks, Volker, and where is Rush?" asked McKay.
"You know I haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. Has anyone else seen him?" asked Zalenka.
"Nobody has been yelling how stupid rest of the world is, so nope not seen him," replied Volker.
Landry shocked, "Wait someone has been missing from your department and nobody here missed him?"
Brody sighed, "You obviously haven't worked with him much have you?"
Landry over the radio, "I need a security team to do a search for Dr. Rush."
"How bad can he be that none of you reported him missing?" asked Landry.
Zalenka replied, "I would rather be stranded in a jumper lost in space, with Folger and Rodney for 6 months, than Rush at this meeting."
"That bad?" a shocked Landry.
"Make it a year," replied Brody.
"Let's get started. As you know McKay discovered the Z.P.M. Recharger, we need to place the mobile one someplace that has a lot of electrical storms. In order to take the continual charge that will be going through to this device, we need something that can sustain that level of energy flow. P4J-392" explained Landry.
"No, you're not thinking what I think you're thinking are you?" asked Rodney.
"What is P4J-392?" asked Parks.
"It won't fly, don't even think about it!" replied Rodney, "P4J-392 is a planet in the Pegasus galaxy that we found an Ancient City ship on. Only the central tower was still standing. Some people there had the Ancient gene and could use the chair to send out drones to attack the wraith when they tried to cull the planet. However, over time they used it, to establish a Royalty, and turned the drones on the villagers to threaten them. We activated the star drive to drain the Z.P.M. to prevent them from using it any further. We took the drones and the puddle jumpers there. The city ship is under substantial disrepair it could not possibly fly again." explained Rodney.
"Well Rodney if this is too much for you to even try to handle then maybe I'll see if Rush is up for the challenge," replied Landry.
Rodney glared, "Don't you even try to bait me into doing this by using Rush."
"From what I hear he's pretty intelligent, we'll see if he is up for taking on this task," replied Landry.
"Fine I'll take a look at it, and see what we can do!" exclaimed Rodney.
"Wait I saw this ship it's in horrible shape, there is no way it could fly!" Zalenka added.
"Look this is what we are asking, each of you will be assigned a PJ Team. I want you all to go there and investigate trying to find anything and everything you can about this ship. See if there is any way we can get it fly again, and bring it back here to the Milky Way. The people on the planet have already been evacuated. You all are the brightest minds in the Pegasus or Milky Way, surely you all can find a way to do this." explained Landry.
"We're going to need to conduct a complete examination of the ship checking for structural integrity. Then we'll see if we have any plan," explained Rodney.
Novak spoke up, "Do we even have three working Z.P.M.s to activate the star drive to fly it back here?"
"Currently nope, but I'm confident you all will come up with a solution. Dismissed," explained Landry.
Two days later, the entire Atlantis Science and Engineering teams are on P4J-392. Daedalus and Apollo were redirected to provide security over the planet, with the new Hyperspace Mark IX missiles they had been able to destroy entire fleets of Wraith ships.
"Rodney where do we even begin?" asked Zalenka.
"You take a team to study the structural integrity of the central spire. I want to know if it can survive takeoff from this planet or if it could survive a trip to the Milky Way without collapsing. Dr. Lee examine the Star Drive we were able to charge it up, but give it a complete review to see how functional it is. Brody and Volker take teams and start trying to find any structural integrity issues around the piers. Dr. Parks start investigating how much debris we have on top of the city that needs to be cleared away. Novak, you get the Naquadah Generators hooked up. I'm going to see how much of the Ancient database and the operating system is working." directed Rodney.
Novak and her team took three Naquadah Generators to the Z.P.M. Outlet Room. The three depleted Z.P.M.s had already been removed, the generators would be linked in a chain to provide power to the city. Removing the panel on the side of the platform Novak quickly found the conduit's she would attach the power source. Her team was setting up the generators and they quickly had them ready.
"This is Novak, everyone stand ready for the power to come online 3..2..1" over the radio as she flipped the switch to enable power.
"Turn the power off turn it off!" shouted Volker over the radio. Novak quickly turned the power back off.
Volker could be heard over the radio, "Give me a minute need to disconnect power on this one section it has a broken connection." After about 5 minutes, "We are good for power again."
"Stand ready for the power to come back online in 3..2..1" over the radio again as she flipped the switch to enable power.
Novak over the radio again, "We'll be monitoring power output here, and standing by if we need to turn the power off again."
Zalenka and his team were at the base of the central tower examining the structure for any damage. He found a couple of supports that would need to be braced. With power back on, he could see that there was some conduit that would need to be replaced as the current was in bad repair. The transport appeared not to be functioning. That would be a top priority to reach the upper sections of the spire.
Dr. Lee was in the auxiliary control room, just getting started on running diagnostics on the stardrive.
McKay and his team entered the control room, "Transports are not working, and I'm not going to climb that many stairs today."
"Don't blame you, Zalenka going to work on the transport?" asked Lee.
"Yes, now let's see what I can tell about the ancient database and the operating system from here." McKay plugging his tablet into the computer system.
"Hmm looks like this ship crashed here about eleven thousand years ago. Appears the ship was en route to a new planet when the stardrive failed, causing it to crash here." explained McKay.
"So the stardrive failed causing it to crash. Well I guess they didn't fix that problem," replied Lee.
Meanwhile, Dr. Parks and her team were working out how much dirt an debris had accumulated over the city ship. It appears to have formed valleys between the piers. About a foot of dirt across the top of the structure. Several trees were growing up across the top.
"Daedalus, this is Dr. Parks," she spoke over the radio.
"We read you Dr. Parks," replied Gen. Caldwell.
Dr. Parks, "Can you lock on to the trees and dirt around the pier in front of me an use the transport beam to remove it?"
"Give us a second." replied Gen. Caldwell, a few seconds later, "Where would you like us to put it?"
"Find a valley or open area and beam it there," replied Dr. Parks. The section in front of her suddenly disappeared. "Excellent Daedalus! Can you do that over the rest of the ship?"
"Clear your team and make sure nobody is on the surface and we'll clear the debris," replied Gen. Caldwell.
"Everyone stay inside and we'll be getting the debris taken care of quickly." replied Dr. Parks, turning to her team "Inside to help Zalenka."
"We're going to beam any fallen tower structures to a nearby field for spare parts," replied Gen. Caldwell.
Volker and Brody had split their teams up so that each pier had someone going down it. As each pier had a main hallway that the power conduits ran down. Brody was walking down the southeast pier when he found the crack.
Brody over the radio, "The entire southeast pier is broken off about 50 meters from the central spire. I'm looking at a ten-foot gap between the pier and the central section of the ship."
Over the next few hours, everyone was getting a good sense of what all was broken. At the end of the day, everyone met back in the auxiliary control room.
McKay started, "The database and the operating system seem to be intact. I ran a number of diagnostics Life Support appears to be working, and the control chair diagnostics seem to be working. However, the transport system seems to be offline entirely."
"The central spire appears to be stable. We have a few spots that will require some additional bracing, but otherwise, it appears to be stable," replied Zalenka.
"Good news thanks to the Daedalus we have cleared the debris off the top of the city, so it is clear to launch," explained Dr. Parks.
Novak added, "Power levels appear to be running stable. Not showing a large drain at this time on the reactors."
"The southeast pier is broken off, we may be able to reattach it with parts from some of the towers that had collapsed," explained Brody.
"Several of the piers have significant holes in the hull. If the shield is stable then it shouldn't be an issue, however, if the shield fails, large sections will be vented," replied Volker.
Dr. Lee explained, "The stardrive has some issues, I'm still running diagnostics to determine what has failed, but as Rodney discovered that's how the ship crashed here in the first place."
"Alright first things first, I'll work with Lee to see if we can figure out the stardrive. If it's not working then we are not taking this ship anywhere. Brody and Dr. Parks start looking at the shield emitters, if that isn't working we're not going anywhere with the stardrive. Zalenka take Volker and Novak and try to get the transports working if we have to climb the steps up the central spire, we'll never get this off the ground." directed McKay.
Back on Earth, Gen. O'Neill is having a meeting with Vala.
"O'Neill, did I do something wrong? Or is this about Daniel and me?" asked Vala.
O'Neill smiling, "I need someone with your particular talents."
"My talents really? What's the scam?" asked Vala.
"No scam, this is good ole fashion piracy," explained O'Neill.
"Piracy who's ship do you want me to steal?" asked Vala.
"An Asgard ship." grinned O'Neill.
"O'Neill the Asgard blew up all of their stuff," explained Vala.
O'Neill shaking his head, "No they didn't. At least one Asgard survived and I know the general area where he is at, and I need you to find where exactly he is hiding and get on board his ship."
"Who?" asked Vala.
"Loki there is no way he blew himself up, he hid, and I'm sure he is somewhere around Earth here, trying to find a way to fix their genetic issue," explained O'Neill.
"This is one of your hunches?" asked Vala.
"Yup!" replied O'Neill.
Vala nodding, "Normally I'd say you were nuts, but I've heard about your hunches. I'm going to need the Odyssey."
"Nope, your getting a Goa'uld cargo ship, I've had Asgard sensors installed to help you," explained O'Neill.
"OK I'll need the Asgard Transporter installed as well," explained Vala.
"Not a chance while there is gold left in Fort Knox," explained O'Neill.
Vala shrugging, "How am I supposed to get on board their ship then?"
"Your the pirate, not me," explained O'Neill.