Bermuda 2
Dr Weir is in her office looking over some reports when
McKay suddenly bursts in, "Elizabeth there's something you
must see."
"What is it?" she said.
"Well
I was just was going over the data we downloaded from psr318 and
found a blueprint of the the buildings there when i made a startling
discovery. There's another room beneath the city. From what I
gather it was a hidden laboratory used for "hush, hush"
research.
"What kind?" dr weir asked.
"That I
don't know. that data is not there. It seems it was stored on
another computer system, which wasnt networked with the others. If we
can get back to the planet and find this room, maybe there's
something we can use."
Dr weir paused for a moment. "What
if the wraith are still there?"
"Then it's just that
much more important that we find this before they do if they haven't
already."
Moments later, Weir has call in the Atlantis team.
"I am giving this mission a go. You are to find this lab,
get all the data and whatever else you can recover. But at the first
sign of trouble, I want you all to get out immediately. Is that
understood?" Wier paused to make sure they had. "This
briefing over. Good luck."
Minutes later the gate is being
dialed and a wormhole is established. The team begins its journey to
the planet. When everyone reaches the other side, the gate shuts
down. The area is ravaged. Damage can be seen for miles as a result
of the last time they were here. Most of it appeared to be from the
wraith.
The team began to make their way to the ruins of the
city. Standing before the collapsed structure the building previously
had been, McKay said, "According to the plans the entrance to
the room should be near the main door."
The team begin to
dig through the rubble, looking for a hidden hatch or something.
Within a few minutes, Ford overturns a cabinet and can see what
appears to be handle. he calls for the others to help remove the
remaining debris from the door. It had been well hidden. It also was
controlled once by the computer systems. But now it could only be
opened manually. It took all the members to pull the door open.
Beneath the door is a long metal stair case, which leads to a
large hall. The walls appear to be some sort of reenforced steel,
which explained it remaining intact after the explosion. One by one
the team proceed down the stair case. Down the hall was a single
door.
Slowly, cautiously, they made their way down the hall and
arrived at the door. They could see a keypad of some sort.
"McKay
do you think you can access this pad to open the door?"
"I
don't know. Don't know how if there's any power."
"Well
lets see if I can use my skeleton key. Everyone stand back...,"
Sheppard aims his gun and fires. The keypad explodes into pieces. A
loud clicking noise is heard and Sheppard pushes on the door. It
swings open easily.
Inside the large room they can make out
computers and other machiness in corners. Just then, McKay is
confused by a small lit panel near of the door.
"How can
there be power here? The power generator was destroyed in the
explosion." Standing at the panel McKay begins to push buttons.
The room begins to light up. It was much larger than anyone thought.
Suddenly the wall begins to move.
"It's turning," Teyla
said.
When it had made a complete turn the wall revealed a long
wall of chamber like pods. Walking up to one, Sheppard saw there was
someone in the pod. McKay walked over and examined a small control
panel between two of the pods.
"If im reading this right,"
he said, "they are still alive in a sort of deep sleep. This
panel controls the pods."
"Can you revive them?"
Sheppard asked.
"Maybe. They have been in here awhile I
imagine. If I can open them, I don't know if they will live thru
the process. But we will soon see."
He begins to punch
buttons and lights on the pods begin flashing. The first pod beeps
and the door opens. Inside is a man. His blueish tinted skin begins
to change slowly back to the peach color of humans. He slowly opens
his eyes and stares in amazement at the team. Then he slowly speaks,
"Who are you? What's going on? Who are you people?"
"I'm
Major Sheppard, this is McKay, Teyla and Lieutenant Ford. We came
through the stargate."
Still a little groggy, the man
stumbled forward and caught his balance on a nearby table.
"My
name is Magnus Opeta. How long have we been asleep?" he asked.
"Oh, no. The others!" He ran over to McKay and began to
push buttons. The remaining pods began to open one by one. A female
occupies the second pod, the other two are male. The female opens her
eyes and slowly staggers out. She is surprised to see the sga team.
The male in the third pod moves forward out of the pod he took, a
little disoriented and also surprised to see the team. The male in
the last pod hadn't moved yet. Magnus moved to the pod. The man
isn't breathing.
"Quick, hand me the emergency cryo kit."
The female handed him a small box. When he had it open he took out a
very large needle like instrument and poked it into the sleeping mans
chest. Nothing happened for several minutes. Magnus tried to revive
the man. "No luck. Im afraid that's all I can do for him. I
don't know what happened. He should have been fine. We survived the
cryo process. I want to examine him as soon as possible to see what
happened once we get fully recovered." Magnus said.
"Who
are these people?" the female asked.
"They say they
came thru the ring. Or as one called it the stargate."
"Im
major Sheppard."
"I'm Allison Mason."
"This
is Teyla, McKay and Lieutenant Ford," Sheppard said.
"This
is Bryer, Timon and Magnus Opeta."
"We've already met
him," Sheppard said.
"Where are you from?" Allison
asked.
"Thru the stargate"
"I know that, I
mean planet."
"We currently live on Atlantis, but we
come from planet called Earth"
"Earth? oh my..."
Sheppard is suprised by her reaction. "What you've heard
of it?"
"Of course," replies Allison, "it's
where I'm from."
The team stares in amazement.
"How
did you get here?" asked McKay.
"Well, one of the
inhabitants of this planets experiments with the Bermuda Triangle. I
was aboard a luxury liner called the Queen Lady. We entered the
Triangle and ended up here. I was just a vacationing scientist. There
were about 132 of us stranded here. I joined the scientist here,
trying to find a way to reverse the process they used. I tried to
make it so they could send and receive, but all of our attempts
failed. The rest of the passengers lived out their lives here.
"Yes,
we know that part," Sheppard said.
"But what happened
to everyone? Why the cryo tubes?" McKay asked.
"Well,
the population started dying out. Unexplained deaths, a plague of
some sort we think, caused death by aging the body. Even the youngest
of their kind looked to be a hundred," Allison said.
"Sounds
like the wraith," McKay noted, barely loud enough that the
others heard.
"The wraith? What's that?" Magnus
asked.
"You don't know the wraith?" asked Sheppard
"No," Allison took back the conversation from Magnus,
"we thought it was a plague."
"Well the wraith are
sort of a plague. They suck the life out of anything that they find
alive," said Sheppard. "It's weird that you were having
bodies aged, but no sign of wraith. They always make there presence
known."
"So why the chambers?" asked McKay.
"We
four went in cryo to preserve what was left of our people."
"How long were we in there Magnus?" Allison asked.
According to the readings, 854 years."
"Wow, what a
long nap," said Sheppard.
"How's the surface?"
asked Bryer
"Well," McKay replied, "it's a bit
messy now."
"What do you mean?" Magnus asked.
"It's kind of in ruins." Sheppard said.
"How?"
asked Allison.
"Well, when we visited this planet the first
time, the wraith arrived unexpectedly. We had to keep them from
getting the generator and beam device so we blew it up. We didn't
know at the time that there were survivors here," Sheppard said.
"So my world is gone," Magnus said. "Were all
that's left."
"Yes, I'm afraid so," McKay
responded.
"Well I guess there's no need to continue our
work."
"What exactly were you doing? I mean what was
the purpose of the device?"
"It was used to bring life
from earths oceans here to study, to see if was compatible for our
oceans. You see, our oceans were dying and we needed to replenish the
life in it somehow."
"Why earth?" Sheppard asked.
"Earth wasn't really supposed to be a specific target. A
problem with the device is that it only reached to your galaxy, and
Earth happened to be the only similar planet with life. It was just
luck that your oceans were a perfect match for ours. The only problem
was, every time we used it, it caused your ships and planes to get
caught and arrive here. We had no way of preventing that. We tried
using a shield around the test area, but that made things worse. We
finally ended the project after many of you humans were trapped here.
They salvaged what supplies they could from there ships and planes to
live on, and joined our community. As Allison said, we were working
on trying to get everyone back to earth but had no luck. The project
was ended when we had to concentrate on the plague."
"Well,"
Sheppard said, "you're all welcome to come back to Atlantis
with us."
"Thank you," Magnus said.
"Everything
we know here is gone," Allison said. "I would love to see
Atlantis. How about you bryer?"
"Yeah, sure," he
said.
"Well then its settled. We all go back then. But first
we need to bury Tomak. That was his name," Allison said
indicating the dead man.
As they were loading Tomak's body into a
metal box Allison ran a red beam over his body, then puts it away.
They carry the box out the door and to the surface. Outside the three
from the Old world are saddened by what is left of their once
wonderful city. It is now mere rubble. They buried Tomak on the
outskirts and a few words were said. Finally the three remaining
joined with the sga team to gate back to Atlantis.
Sheppard
radios ahead letting weir know that they have company, then one by
one they step into the wormhole. When they reach Atlantis the gate
closes. Dr Weir is there to welcome the new arrivals and inform the
team of their debriefing in 30mins.
"I'd like for the new
arrivals to report to the infirmary for check up. It's something all
visitors do. Regulations. Sheppard mentioned a plague and we just
want to make sure it wasn't carried by any of you."
"We
understand," Magnus said. "Half an hour later the team was
meeting with Weir, telling her what info they have learned.
"Well,
Rodney, is the power source the same as the earlier one?" Dr
Weir asked.
"Yes," McKay said.
"Will it work
on Atantis?" Dr Weir asked.
"I believe I can make it
compatible with Atlantis technology. I need to make several
adjustments from this new data I have, but we should have full
running power soon."
"Good. Get what you need, people
and all," said Dr Weir. "In the mean time, lets make our
guest comfortable. Debriefing over, you're all dismissed."
As
the team was leaving, Magnus, Bryer and Allison entered.
"I
take it your Dr Weir?" Magnus said.
"Yes, I am."
"You're much lovelier than I imagined."
"Thanks.
You're all welcome to anything we can provide you to make your stay
as comfortable as can be.
"Thank you Dr," said Allison.
"I hear you're sending a team back to our planet to
retrieve our power generator," said Magnus.
"Yes,"
said Dr Weir. "Is that ok?"
"That's ok,"
Magnus said, "we have no use for it anymore. And anything we can
contribute to thank you we gladly will."
Later on in another
room, Allison is studying some data on a small laptop and suddenly
stands up and rushes off. She makes her way to Magnus. "I have
to tell you something! Tomak didn't die from the cryo process. He
was poisoned."
"What?"
"I did a bio
readout before he was buried. According to the readout he had a toxic
poison in his system. The moment air touched his body, the poison
reacted by killing him."
"But how?"
"I
don't know."
Elsewhere on the base an unknown personal
is walking down a hall when he comes upon a body. It is aged. He runs
to a radio and calls for a security team. Moments later, in the
infirmary the lifeless body is lying on a table under Becketts knife.
Dr Weir is standing nearby.
"We have a wraith on the base,"
Dr Weir said.
"Yes. Defiantly. This isn't no plague."
"But how?"
"I don't know."
"Alert
the team on the planet to be on the lookout for a wraith. I want
security sweeps of the city," Weir tells Ford.
"Yes
ma'am."
Hours later, the base is being swept for the wraith.
Later, Ford reports back to Dr Weir. "We haven't found any
sign of the wraith yet, but we're still looking."
"Good.
Keep looking."
Later again the team has assembled in the
briefing room.
"We have a wraith on the base," Dr Weir
said. "I don't know how he got here, but we've got to find
him."
Allison, Magnus and Bryer are sitting in on the
meeting. Dr weir said, "McKay has made contact and said he needs
help with extracting some of the components of the generator.
Bryer
stood up and said, "I'll go back and help.
"Ok. You
leave soon. Meeting over."
Moments later, Bryer is sent back
to his planet.
On the Atlantis, dr beckett comes rushing into the
command center.
"Dr Weir, there's something you need to
see." He punches some keys on a nearby computer bringing up a
screen.
"What am I looking at here?"
"The test
results from the three from the planet."
"Yeah, so? I
thought they checked out."
"Ok, they did, but not all
test were back. Two of them are human but one's not."
"What
do you mean?"
"Its wraith dna."
"What?
How?
"I don't know. Whose back on that planet?"
"Bryer is. He's helping remove the generator."
Back
on the planet, as Sheppard, Ford and several other men with guns come
in McKay steps away from Bryer.
McKay asked "Why?"
"Just do it," Bryson commands.
Just then Allison
and Magnus show up.
"What's going on?" Allison asked.
"Your friend bryer has some explaining to do," Sheppard
answered.
"What you mean?"
"He's a wraith.
But he doesn't appear to be."
McKay moves away quickly.
Magnus asked, "What's he talking about?"
Bryer
then had an evil grin on his face. "You fool. I wanted your
experiments. I was going to use it to find a new feeding grounds for
my people.
"What I want to know is how you look human."
said Sheppard.
"Well that was most painful, to look as you
humans. I had myself made up to be like you. But I still had the
feeding hungers. There was no plague. It was me! I led you all to
believe it was to cover myself up while I stole your work."
Allison burst in, "Did you kill Tomak?"
"Yes,
I did. I poisoned him. I should have taken care of you two, but I
needed you to complete the project. Now it doesn't look like that
will happen. The attack that happened to you earlier was my doing. I
had set up an alarm signal to send out once the power above was
activated. I was supposed to awaken, but something went wrong. I
didn't wake up."
"What? I don't understand. This isn't
a normal wraith attack. They usally attack in groups. No secrets,"
said McKay.
"Very true, but I'm not with the others. I was
exiled for my beliefs that we could progress more with science than
with our current ways. I did manage to get a few rebel wraiths to
follow me. They were to join me once I had the technology to show
them we could conquer more. If I could take earth then I'd be ruler.
But that's all over now." He pulls from his pocket a small
device. "If I cant have the device, no one will."
Just
as he pushes, Sheppard yells, "Everyone down!"
But
Magnus leaped across the room onto Bryer. An explosion rocks the
room. After the blast Sheppard and the others get to their feet.
"Is
everyone ok?"
Everyone said "yes" while Allison
looks over and sees Bryer. Well, what was left of him. Beside him is
Magnus. She rushes over. "Magnus, no!"
His barely alive
eyes looked at her as he forced out his words. "I'm sorry you
were stuck here. But remember I love you."
Allison began to
cry as he closed his eyes and passed on.
McKay walked over to
what was left of the generator.
"No! We cant use it
anymore."
"I'm sorry," Sheppard said. "We can
still search. We will find something else.
"I guess im
alone," Allison said quietly.
"No, you're not,"
McKay said. "You now have us as your new family."
"Yes,"
she said.
Later on the team gathered around a grave. It was for
Magnus he was the last of his people, a race now dead, and Allison
was back with her kind once again. The team began to leave.
"One
last piece of unfinished business," Sheppard said. He pushes a
switch and a loud thunderous boom fills the air. The last remaining
technology is gone with the last of the people. Sheppard is the last
through the gate. Now Atlantis has a new member.
