Thank you for the lovely reviews, this takes place Apprx. 2 weeks before The Siege Part 1, Okay I went back and fixed Chakotay's name, forgive me, I haven't seen Voyager in a few years...
In that ocean. Wide eyed and deeper in your gaze, And bluer than the bright that's in the cave.
There is a city,Came out from you, Atlantis In ruins, sunken below the waves
But in the city, Where there is no one. What's the point of being free, eh? When there is nothing there to tie me down, Oh, no more here.
Coffee was her lifeblood. It had been all that had been sustaining her for the past few days. When AT-1 had come through the gate minus John, Rodney, and a puddle jumper, that's when it had begun.
"We were ambushed by some natives, we had to split up, Major Sheppard and Dr. McKay were going for the jumper," Ford had explained as a medical team took him and Teyla to Atlantis's infirmary.
"We waited," Teyla had begun to say but got hit with a terrible coughing fit.
"I need to treat them immediately," Dr, Beckett had insisted to Elizabeth as the other two were taken away.
She had visited them over the next few days at the infirmary; they were healing quickly but couldn't tell her anything else useful. Elizabeth hated it. She felt useless. Other Atlantis teams had searched the planet but there was simply nothing, no puddle jumper, no John, and no Rodney.
"Maybe they took the puddle jumper and dialed another planet," Gordin had suggested, but Elizabeth was doubtful, surely they would have dialed Atlantis by now if they were alright.
"John, Rodney, where did you go?" Elizabeth mumbled, Teyla and Ford had come back bruised and bleeding, she could only imagine what was happening to Major Sheppard and Dr. McKay.
John lay back in the bath tub, it felt good, two days had gone by now and everyone on Voyager had been friendly, kind, to him and even McKay. A woman named B'Elanna had been trying to explain Voyager's source of power known as a "warp core" to McKay and Tom had been showing him the many types of ships Voyager had in its shuttle bays.
"John?" McKay called entering John's guest quarters, McKay and knocking never were good friends.
John chose to ignore the scientist and closed his eyes, he wondered if Voyager would be stopping by Earth anytime soon, it had a nice crew, lots of power, and willing to accept new passengers. Not that all of Atlantis would be able to travel back and just leave the lost city unprotected, still it was a nice thought, a ship coming and just sending them home.
"Major?" McKay asked opening the bathroom door and peeking in, "Ah!" he quickly shut it.
"Jesus McKay!" John cried, "Can't a guy get any privacy?"
McKay didn't respond.
John rolled his eyes, climbed out of the tub and wrapped a towel around his waist.
"Look McKay," said John exiting the washroom and grabbing his Atlantis uniform of his unmade bed, "what was so important that it couldn't wait till after my bath?"
"The Borg," McKay said pulling out what the Voyager crew called a PADD, "these guys are worse than the Wraith."
"What do you mean?" John asked motioning for McKay to turn around while he put on his underwear and pants.
McKay turned his back, "The Borg assimilate people, and technology, they turn them into Borgs and use the information and extra man power to try and assimilate the galaxy."
John did up the fly on his pants and pulled on his uniform shirt, "Great," he sighed, "look I'm going to be optimistic and say that the Borg haven't found Atlantis yet."
"Yes, but," began McKay turning around as John slid his jacket on, "the Wraith weren't even a threat to Earth a year ago."
"You're right," John sighed, he hated when people brought that up.
"What?" McKay asked, "Did I hear you say I was right?"
John bit his lip.
"Come on say it again, I love it, like music to my ears," said Dr. McKay.
"You're a bastard," John said pushing past McKay, "now come on, let's get something to eat, I'm starving."
Rodney groaned, he couldn't stand Neelix and actually regretted mealtime.
"Now this is called Napizram," Neelix said giving the try to Dr. McKay, "I checked it out, no citrus fruit here," he said smiling, McKay just rolled his eyes and walked away.
"Don't worry," John reassured the alien, "he's like that to everyone."
"Really?" Neelix asked.
"You have to get used to it," John said taking his tray and sitting beside McKay, "you shouldn't be so hard on that guy."
"Why?" sneered McKay.
"He's trying to be your friend," John tried to explain poking at his food, "anyway, Capt Janeway said in a day we'll reach the planet, then we can dial up and go home, enjoy it while you can."
McKay nibbled at his food for a while, "Well I'll admit Voyager is a wonderful ship but I'd much rather be back in my lab."
"Hey," said B'Elanna coming up behind John and Rodney, "what's wrong?"
"No offence, but we kind of want to get back to our planet, our friends must be worried sick about us," John replied before Rodney could make any type of remark.
"We can't help you with the contacting of your friends, but I think our holodeck could help with the atmosphere," B'Elanna said, "come on I'll show you."
John declined, but Rodney (who was eager to see all of the technology Voyager had) took a few last bites of food and followed B'Elanna. John ate some more of his meal while reading the PADD McKay had left at the table. The Borg did sound like a race you didn't want to run into, and if they were looking for Atlantis, they'd better be prepared.
"Maybe I'm being paranoid," sighed John picking the PADD up and fingering it, "I didn't know about them yesterday, and they weren't a problem."
"Is this seat taken?"
John looked up from the PADD and at CMDR Chakotey who was gesturing to the seat across from him.
"It never can be said that the people on this ship aren't friendly," remarked John noticing the many empty seats in the mess hall, "no, have a seat."
Chakotay smiled and set his tray down, "what are you reading?"
"A file that McKay found on the Borg," John said, "we've never heard of them before, they don't sound very nice."
"They aren't," Chakotay replied bluntly, "so why are you interested in them now?"
"To be prepared," John responded smiling weakly, "we can't help it, I'm a military guy, McKay is a scientist, we're just curious."
Chakotay nodded, "You looking forward to getting home?"
"I don't know if we will," John sighed, Chakotay raised his eyebrow.
"Isn't that where we're taking you?" he asked.
"What?" John asked a confused look on his face, "Oh, no we're going to fly from the planet to our base, our home is actually very far away."
"So is ours," Chakotay replied, "we were pulled here by the caretaker, with our warp engines at warp 9.9 all the time, we still wouldn't get home for at least 70 years, so we explore planets along the way to keep things interesting."
John was impressed, they sounded exactly like the crew of Atlantis, stuck out somewhere, exploring, and a great possibility neither would be getting home.
"We were sent out here to explore by our government, we knew it was probably a one way trip, but still we hope to eventually be able to get enough power to get home one day," John replied.
They chatted for almost an hour about everything from the ship to their lives back home.
"So where exactly are you from?" Chakotay asked but was interrupted by his Comm. Badge.
"Commander Chakotay please report to the bridge,"
He taped his Comm. Badge.
"I'm on my way," then he looked at John and shrugged, "duty calls, a pleasure chatting with you," he held out his hand and John shook it.
"What is it?" Cmdr Chakotay asked walking onto the bridge.
"There appears to be a large amount of space debris in front of us," Harry reported.
"On screen," Chakotay ordered and on screen flicked the image of what looked like 3 destroyed ships.
John had tried exotic food before, so when Neelix said he'd have exotic food on his ship, he didn't know alien plants were on the menu. Chakotay's conversation had distracted him from the taste, but now he had no distractions. He looked around the mess hall and out the giant windows what he saw wasn't good.
"Borg?" Chakotay asked.
"It appears so," Seven reported.
"Commander, the ship appears to have been transmitting something when it was attacked," Tuvok added, "it appears to be a location of a planet."
"Which planet would it be?" Chakotay asked curiously.
Seven had a hunch, it was something that was new to her, her instincts were coming back, she didn't like it, but they were, and she had a very odd feeling about these ships. She walked over to Tuvok.
"Commander, these are the co ordinates for the planet Dr. McKay and Major Sheppard were from, but did not want us to take them to it directly," she told him, "I believe we should tell them."
Capt. Janeway walked onto the bridge followed by Dr. McKay and Major Sheppard.
"They say they know the origins of the debris," Capt. Janeway said, though she was not happy that they insisted to come to the bridge, "my god, are those ships?"
"Wraith darts," Major Sheppard told the bridge crew, "what did this?"
"The Borg," Seven remarked, "they also appear to have been transmitting the location of your world."
"That means the Borg would have it?" Dr. McKay half stated/half asked.
"Not good," remarked John, "how far are we from our planet? The real one, not where you were going to drop us off."
"Even at the speed the Borg are going, it will take them at least 4 days to reach the planet providing this attack happened in the last 24 hours," Tuvok reported.
"Nearest gate?" John asked.
"Pardon?" Tuvok asked.
"Our drop off," McKay responded.
"Alright Captain Janeway, can you take this ship as fast as you can to that planet?" John asked, "a lot of lives are at stake."
"Fine, but you are going to tell us what this is all about," Janeway responded, "briefing room."
"What is going on?" Janeway asked as the senior crew sat around the table.
"We are from a planet far away, in another galaxy," McKay began but was cut off by John.
"Look, we have technology on our base that these "Borg" can't have or the universe will fall to them," John intervened getting straight to the point.
"Why not use this technology to stop them?" Harry asked.
"We don't have a Z.P.M.," John said, this earned him strange looks from the crew.
"A Zero Point Module," McKay explained, "the point is we don't have enough power to power all of the weapons and shield that we have."
Janeway nodded, but Seven was not impressed, "The Borg has assimilated many forms of technology, why is yours so much…" she searched for the word.
"Better," interrupted B'Elanna.
"And does it have anything to do with your interesting genetic makeup?" the Doctor asked.
"What interesting genetic makeup?" Chakotay asked.
"When treating their injuries I noticed that you both have a gene that is not common, and appears to be implanted into Dr. McKay's DNA," the Doctor remarked.
"Major we need to tell them," Insisted McKay,
"Fine," sighed John, but McKay rambled on.
"Shall you tell them or should I?" John asked rubbing his forehead.
"Our technology is from an old civilization known as the Ancients," McKay began, he continued his lecture for almost an hour, careful to avoid mentioning Atlantis, since he didn't need to, he didn't.
"Interesting," remarked Tuvok every once in a while.
"Amazing," Janeway would add.
"The point is, if they get this technology it would be bad," said John.
"How bad?" Tom asked.
"Really bad," McKay and Sheppard replied simultaneously then glared at the other.
"That clears up a few things," Janeway said, "and Major Sheppard, Dr. McKay, if we can help you in anyway…"
"The offer is appreciated," John replied smiling weakly, "if you have any type of power source that we can interface with our base, it would be fantastic."
"When we get there we can try it out," added McKay.
"B'Elanna, Seven, I want you to find anything that could be used as a source of power and bring it forward by this time tomorrow, dismissed," said Capt. Janeway.
John and Rodney left the briefing room, both would never admit it, but they didn't need more aliens coming after Atlantis when the Wraith and Genii were more than enough.
"Doctor," Zelenka called running down the hall towards her.
"Dr. Zelenka, what is it?" She asked, she'd never seen the man this worked up.
"Sensor picked up two ships coming this way," Zelenka replied gasping for breath, her guess was that he'd been looking for her for sometime.
"You already told us the Wraith were coming," Dr. Weir responded, the fact that the Wraith were going to be there in 2 weeks was nerve wracking enough.
"They're not the Wraith," the Czech replied, "but I don't think they're any friendlier."
Elizabeth looked at Zelenka, "How long till they get here?"
"About 3 days,"
