Thanks again, wow, I really need to start watching Voyager again, anyway I hope you enjoy, in the next few chapters things might get kinda confusing...
Note: I know the seats in the puddle jumper are hard, I've been in that thing, they look more comfortable than they feel.
Atlantis
Feeling water falls Come down on me Love in the waves So deep
and free
It's a world of love Your love to me Back to this world
Deep like the sea
The darkness The sea The love…
Atlantis
Two days, two days until they may have to put up with an attack from a race they don't know anything about, and with no source of power, Atlantis was a sitting duck. Elizabeth was ready to scream, they were short a puddle jumper, but no sense worrying about that because they were also short a pilot, and a scientist…god, things were not going well.
"There it is," McKay said looking out the mess hall window; they were having their last breakfast on Voyager before embarking in an hour.
"Yeah," mumbled John, a bunch of the Voyager crew was coming with them of course to help power Atlantis up, Capt. Janeway wanted to see the base, Seven was needed for tactical advantage, B'Elanna understood the power thingy more than everyone else and Tom had somehow convinced Capt. Janeway that he could take over flying if John got lightheaded, not knowing that you needed the gene to fly the thing.
"I wonder what Elizabeth will say when we bring all these people back," sighed Rodney actually eating his food. Today's dish was called Rennurratsemoh, or something like that, and was a bit more edible than the food the night before.
"She'll be fine when we get there," replied John, and then grumbled, "She'll chew me out later."
"Pardon?" McKay asked.
"Never mind," replied John, "let's just go."
McKay followed John towards the shuttle bay, on the bright side, things couldn't get any worse.
"Tom, can you at least open the door?" B'Elanna asked, she was frustrated, she was tried of standing and had, had very little sleep because she had to work a later shift than normal, "I want to sit down."
"I don't know how," Tom defended, "they just had to touch it and the door opened, I don't know if they did anything special."
"It is indeed a remarkable vessel," Seven replied circling the puddle jumper and running her fingers along the outside.
"You guys ready?" John asked entering the shuttle bay with McKay following closely.
"Ready when you are," Capt. Janeway replied, "is this from the Ancients as well?"
"Yeah," John replied as the hatch opened and he walked into the puddle jumper and sat down on the hard grey pilot seat while McKay took the co-pilot seat and the others sat in the back keeping their heads down so they didn't ram their heads into the storage units.
"Everyone comfy?" Tom asked lightheartedly, this earning him a smack on the arm from B'Elanna.
"No," Seven responded, "I find the conditions quite…small."
"We don't want you fooling around with the controls," McKay remarked as the shuttle bay doors opened at the puddle jumper flew out into space.
"Major Sheppard, may I ask how you are going to get us to your planet if we are still so far away?" Capt Janeway asked curiously.
"We'll gate there, alight McKay, dial us up," ordered Major Sheppard as McKay punched in Atlantis's gate address and the Stargate that was almost black because of lack of light burst to life with the whooshing sound and bright blue event horizon that only a Stargate could produce.
"What the hell?" B'Elanna asked peering out the front at the gate.
"You're going to fly us into that thing?" Tom exclaimed.
"You'll be a little disoriented on the other side if it's your first time," McKay explained as the puddle jumper was enveloped by the event horizon.
"Incoming traveler," Grodin reported.
"Who?" Elizabeth asked warily, she hadn't slept in days.
"It appears to be Major Sheppard's code,"
"Lower it," she barked quickly and there was a quiet buzz as the force field was lowered and the puddle jumper came through to rest in the middle of the gate room, she ran towards it to greet them.
John stepped out with McKay and four other people she didn't know.
"Major," she warned, "you know the rules…" she got cut off by Sheppard.
"They're hear to help," he explained.
"Incase you haven't noticed, in a few days, we're going to be getting some company, and I'm not talking Wraith either," McKay said so quickly it almost sounded like one word.
Elizabeth sighed, if these people could help, then they were welcome, she held out her hand, "I'm Dr. Elizabeth Weir,"
"Capt. Kathryn Janeway," Capt. Janeway responded shaking her hand, "that's quite the device and this is quite the place you have here, maybe it would be able to aid Voyager in getting home."
"Perhaps," Elizabeth said smiling weakly, "welcome," she said gesturing to the city.
"So that's a gate, what do you call your base?" Tom asked as Seven looked around the gate room.
"It seems familiar," Seven remarked.
"Your people were looking for it, it should," grumbled McKay as he pushed his way towards his lab.
"What does that mean?" Seven asked tilting her head to the side.
"He means to say, welcome to Atlantis," Sheppard said spreading his arms out, the Voyager's crew eyes went wide.
"The lost city," Tom gasped as Seven scanned the gate room. Capt. Janeway looked around in awe, and B'Elanna apparently had never heard the legend.
"What's Atlantis?"
Elizabeth studied John as Tom tried to explain to B'Elanna the legend of Atlantis, something was different, "Major, where are your weapons?"
"My…"he began, then it donned on him, when he'd awoken, his weapons had not been there, he'd been so overwhelmed with everything, he'd forgotten them, "damn it."
"We had to confiscate them," Capt. Janeway explained, "we didn't know if he'd be violent."
"Understandable," replied Elizabeth, "alright everyone, briefing room in two hours, and make sure to bring McKay…can I offer you a tour?"
The Voyager crew agreed and Elizabeth showed them around explaining to them what had happened when they found it submerged, and what had happened since then.
"Where are you from?" Elizabeth asked as they stopped near the cafeteria.
"We're from a planet far from here known as Earth," Capt Janeway replied, Elizabeth's eyes bulged.
"Earth?" she asked immediately regaining her composure, "how…interesting, um…excuse me I'll be right back," Elizabeth ran off to find Major Sheppard, this could be a problem…
Elizabeth sat in her office with AT-1, they were taking the news differently than they had expected…
"They're from Earth?" McKay asked in shock, "I…we…"
"Our Earth?" Sheppard asked, "I don't know, that seems like a stretch."
"She told me herself John," Elizabeth insisted.
"So what does this mean?" McKay asked, "Are they from the future? Alternate reality?"
"Either one is quite possible," sighed Elizabeth shaking her head, she didn't know how General Hammond used to put up with this type of stuff, SG-1 got into more trouble than AT-1 one ever did, but AT-1 seemed to attract less trouble, but in bigger sizes, "stupid SG-1" she muttered.
"So what do we do?" Ford asked, "do we let them help us? Or do we let Atlantis fall?"
"Either way we lose," McKay pointed out.
"Aren't you Mr. Sunshine?" Sheppard grumbled.
"If they are from an alternate reality, which seems unlikely because they have heard of Atlantis before and the Borg are in our universe too, nothing has changed that can't be fixed by sending them back, but if they're from the future, we've seriously screwed up the timeline," McKay explained biting the inside of his cheek.
"Any ideas people?" Elizabeth asked opening her hands.
"Even if it does screw up the timeline, the safety of Atlantis and the people on it is our responsibility, I say we don't tell them," suggested John, "get the help we need."
"That seems unwise, Major," Teyla pointed out, "these people do not deserve to be left in the dark."
"We've messed it up enough," Ford remarked, "what's a little more?"
"Alright, unless we have too, we won't tell them where we are from," Elizabeth said, "but McKay, I want you and Zelenka to find a way to get them back to the future, or other reality before we mess things up even more."
"So what are we working on? Alternate reality or future?" McKay asked shifting his weight back and forth.
"Both," Elizabeth said, "Sheppard, attend to our guests, Ford, Teyla, for heaven's sake take it easy, you're still pretty badly beaten up."
They all nodded and filed out of Dr. Weir's office, two days left. She couldn't think about that right now, Sheppard was right, Atlantis's crew was her main priority right now, she just hoped she had her priorities straight…
