Chapter Two: The Rising
When Danica walked through the gate she couldn't help but be amazed. She'd never seen anything like it. Everyone was walking around examining their new home.
"This is amazing, huh?" Michelle asked walking down the stairs.
"I'll say! Can you believe the ancients used to live here? That's unreal." Danica said excitedly as she looked around.
"This place can sense those of us with the gene. Lights turn on when we walk into rooms and we can think doors open, it's pretty fun actually." Michelle said with a bit of a smile.
"I bet. I'm pretty jealous of everyone with the gene, I wasn't lucky enough to have it." Danica said with a shrug.
"It's not all that exciting, unless you like lights turning on when you walk in. So what do you say you and I go fine some quarters to call our own?" Michelle asked.
Danica nodded. "That sounds like a plan. I'm sure it's pretty cutthroat for the good ones already." She said with a bit of a laugh.
"Oh I have no doubt." Michelle agreed.
As they were walking towards the hall that they figured they'd start in they ran into Doctor Wier.
Danica opened her mouth to exchange a friendly hello, but Wier beat her to it.
"Lieutenant Carter, correct?" Weir asked her.
Danica nodded, rather shocked that with all the important people on the base Doctor Wier had remembered her name. "Yes, Ma'am." She replied quickly.
"If you go down this hall and then go into the second room on the left you'll be standing in your lab." Wier said with a friendly smile.
Danica's face shone. "I get my own lab, Ma'am?" She asked.
"You're one of my top scientist here, of course you do." Wier said.
"Thank you, Ma'am." Danica said still all smiles.
"You're welcome, now I've got to be off, so much to see, not enough time in the day." She said with a slight laugh as she walked off.
"So, you're multitalented? A scientist and a soldier. I'm impressed." Michelle said.
"It's nothing really, I'm only an anthropologist." She said.
"In what world is someone 'only and anthropologist'?" Michelle asked.
"My sister is not only a Lieutenant Colonel, but an astrophysicist as well." Danica said.
"Geese, you guys got lucky in the gene pool." Michelle said.
Danica just shrugged. "How about you? Do you come from a military family?" Danica asked.
Michelle shrugged uncomfortably. "Yea." She said simply.
Getting the hint that this wasn't a good topic, Danica quickly changed subjects. "Ah, I think this is my lab." She said walking into a room.
"Not too shabby, now if only we can find ourselves some quarters we'll be set." Michelle said.
"I bet if we continue down that hall we'll find some." Danica suggested.
"Well, let's go investigate." Michelle said walking into the hall. "Holy crap!" She said suddenly, her shock evident in her face.
"What is it?" Danica asked. She turned to see what Michelle was seeing and her heart nearly stopped. "Is that what I think it is?" She asked, stunned.
"We're under water." Michelle said her shocked expression turning into a smile.
"That's incredible!" Danica said. The two girls walked towards the balcony that was at the end of the hall, and joined the group of people that had already started crowding there.
"I've heard the shield holding the water back is failing." One woman said.
"Parts of the city are already flooded." Another answered.
"It makes sense, no one's, presumably, been here for thousands of years, I'm sure we've drained a considerable amount of power turning everything on." A man with a pony tail and an obvious attitude problem said.
"I don't see why anyone's worried. The best scientists in the world are here, I'm pretty sure they can figure out a way to fix it." Michelle said as if it were no big deal. "Let's go pick out our quarters." She said turning around.
Danica nodded and followed Michelle down the hall. As they walked they soon found out that open doors meant the room was available, and there weren't that many open doors left.
"Oh look at this! Two rooms right across from each other. Can't pass up that deal." Danica said looking into the room closest to her. "They're not too shabby either." She added.
Michelle looked into the room near her. "Not too shabby my ass. There are palaces compared to some of the places I've stayed in thanks to the good ol' armed services." She said.
"What do you say we call this home from now on?" Danica asked.
"Sounds like a plan." Michelle said. Suddenly the whole city began to shake. Danica and Michelle grabbed a hold of the doorframe to prevent themselves from falling.
"What's going on?" Danica asked looking around in hopes of finding a reason for the quake.
"Do you feel that?" Michelle asked.
"The elevator feeling?" Danica asked.
"I think we're rising." Michelle said shocked.
Both women turned to the window that they had just been standing by, and instead of seeing water they saw sunlight.
"We're on the surface!" Danica said excitedly.
"I told you someone would get it figured out." Michelle said with a shrug.