So I posted a longer chapter for ya… and we will soon be meeting up with the rest of the seaQuest crew… not just lucas and dagwood, don't worry... miguel, tony and tim will be coming (i love them boys) and as always I don't own them, otherwise SQ would have been on DVD a long time ago and I would be in the Pegasus galaxy with Shep and the rest of them…. Hope ya like it… enjoy and review please…
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"Well, they look like subs," Lucas hoped to be in more awe with the way they were building up these jumpers.
"Trust me," John looked back at him, "It'll baffle your mind soon enough," opening the back of the jumper, Ford and the rest of the team entered the bay.
Lucas stepped inside and looked around, clearly not impressed. "This is a space ship?"
"You were expecting giant rockets?" Mckay rolled back.
Lucas wondered to the front, his eyes practically lit up at the sight of the controls, "okay, this is cool either way."
John, eyebrow, "Well, I'm glad we meet your approval."
Ford grinned like a kid at Christmas, "Just wait 'til you see her fly."
Major Lorne joined the back of the group, "Ah, Major," Sheppard addressed him. "This is Lucas Wolenczak and Dagwood. They are from Earth," Lorne's eyes went wide. "Their submarine went down, and we are going on a search for survivors. We are heading back out to M9A 137, Ford, Teyla and Dagwood will be with you in jumper two." He settled into the pilot chair as he explained.
"Yes sir," he said, after spending a year on Atlantis, and a while at the SGC before that, he was used to just going with it and not watching too many questions. Things don't always make sense.
Mckay stole the co-pilot, ignoring Lucas' obvious motions towards it. "Hey!"
"Grab a seat kid," McKay nudged him toward the chair behind Sheppard.
"I'm not a kid," Lucas shared irritated.
"Look," McKay shot back, "You're younger then Ford; you're a kid."
"How old are you?" Lucas turned and asked as Ford and the others left the jumper, heading for their own.
"Twenty five," he smirked back, then was gone.
Lucas turned back frustrated and annoyed.
"Rodney!" Dr. Zelenka's voice pierced though the air.
"What is it Radek?"
"You can not be serious about taking a jumper under water."
"They can handle it."
"How can you be sure."
"Because I am end of story." He turned to John "Are you ready yet?"
"Rodney!" Zelenka yelled again, McKay ignored him.
"Sheppard to control, Jumper One is ready to go."
"McKay are you sure the jumpers can handle this?" Weir asked.
"For the last time, yes, we will be fine."
There was a pause, "You have a go," Grodin's voice came back, "Good luck." Mckay could practically see Radek throwing his hands in the air and rolling his eyes.
Minutes later Jumper One broke though the Gate, with the second jumper a minute behind her.
"Alright, where we headin?"
"The SeaQuest was about twenty miles south, south east of the island, the mothership was right next to it."
"Sounds good, McKay, keep an eye on the scanner, look for any signs of a downed ship or maydays."
"Mothership," McKay said snidely, "sounds like something out of science fiction."
Sheppard pointed out the window off to the right, "Look a dolphin, must be your friend Darwin."
Craning his neck to see, "Yeah that's him," he grinned. "He's probably looking for the SeaQuest too."
"How do you keep a dolphin on a submarine exactly?" McKay watched Darwin dive back down.
"Captain Bridger designed the ship for one, there are aquatubes running throughout the ship. I also designed a vocorder to translate his clicks and whistles allowing us to communicate with him vocally."
"Really?" McKay perked up.
"The translations are basic, but it's far more efficient than hand signals."
"That's amazing, the way our brains function are so radically different."
"They think much more visually then we do. I also was working on a system to convert his sonar to create holoimages of his thoughts. Darwin was tentative to use it, so I only really got it to work once, but to see his thoughts as moving pictures was very cool."
"Not to barge into your little geek off here, but we should be close to the area your ship went down." Sheppard brought up the HUD, a 3D scan of the ocean's floor popped up.
"Already?"
"Well, we do have some horsepower in this thing… see anything?"
Mckay punched at the controls, changing to a metallurgical scan. "There," he pointed to the screen, "about a mile north, half a mile down, a beacon of shiny metal hope."
"Sheppard to Lorne."
"Lorne here."
"We have a possible crash site, just follow us."
"We're on your tail."
"Alright guys, hold on," and with that the jumpers splashed down into the water. The HUD became more reliable then the not so clear waters around them. It didn't take long for the SeaQuest to come into view.
She was broken into two pieces, snapped at the narrower section right behind the center circular segment. Her guts from the broken area littered the ground between the two pieces. Laying rolled slightly on her port side, it tore at Dagwood's heart to see her like this.
"I'm assuming that's her," Lorne said, "she defiantly looks like she was a beauty when she was moving."
"Yes," Dagwood agreed, "She is a real beauty… for a submarine."
McKay's voice came over the radio, "The lifesigns are gathered in two places, the front and back of the boat."
"Looks like the bridge and engineering," Lucas filled in.
Ford asked, "How exactly are we going to dock with the sub."
"Can the shields not hold the water back?" Teyla sat behind Aiden.
"But there's still no way to dock," Ford said back.
"And we didn't think of this earlier, why?" Sheppard's voice rang.
"Well I didn't see you bringing that point up," McKay almost barked back.
Lucas broke up the imminent bicker fight, "At least we know they are alive, there has to be a way to reach them."
Major Lorne had been scanning for any energy readings, "I'm not getting any signs of power, they are completely dead in the water, I doubt there is any way to communicate with them."
There was an audible snap from the radio, "Teyla's right."
She was confused, "I am sorry Doctor?"
"The shields, they would hold back the water."
"And," Sheppard wasn't seeing where this was going.
"Well, if they are capable of holding something out, then they should conceivably be able to hold something in."
"Hold what in?" Lorne asked.
"The SeaQuest…" Sheppard caught on.
"Whoa, is that even possible?" Lucas asked.
"There's a chance," McKay explained, "But only if we are able to join the two jumper's shields. We can't stretch one shield big enough to contain even the smaller portion of the ship. If we are able to unite the shields they should be able to extend far enough. If we divert enough power to the shielding there is a chance it would be strong though to hold the ship."
"Well," John stopped him, "Make it work."
"Yes, let me snap my fingers and I'll…"
"Just get to work will ya." As their voices came over the radio Ford turned to Lorne and just shook his head. He didn't think those two were capable of going on a mission with out going at it at least once… usually more.
McKay turned back to the controls, "It shouldn't be that difficult, each shield uses it's own magnetic frequency, if we override the controls and set them to the same wave length, they the shields should pop together like two bubbles combining into one if we are close enough."
"Pop together?" Lorne mouthed so the other jumper didn't hear him. All Ford could do was shrug.
"Major Lorne," McKay's voice calling him popped him back to attention. "If you could possibly tell me the frequency your shields are running on."
"I would love to, but I really have no clue where to find that." Lorne could practically see the physics rolling his eyes.
"On your sensors screen, it's in the bottom left window."
"Right, yeah…I knew that."
"Just tell me the setting."
"Hold up…126.894… that sound like what you need?"
"Yes…" he paused. "Okay, I matched our shield to yours, so when they connect they should form a large bubble."
"I still do not understand, how exactly is this going to assist us in reaching those in the SeaQuest?" Telya asked.
Sheppard spoke up before McKay, "He plans on lifting the ship out of the water, extending the shield around the SeaQuest and carrying it back to the shore where it will be easier to get into."
"Let us hope the shield is strong enough."
"Well let's get this party started," Lorne clapped his hands together.
"Yes please," Lucas finally got a word in from the other jumper.
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The jumpers flew to either side of the ship's front section. There were more life signs in the bow of the ship and Commander Ford and others on the bridge would be very handy in locating and rescuing the Captain and those on the mothership. Slowly they moved closer to each other, eventually ending up a very short distance above the hull. As they activated the shields, McKay and Ford pushed them to their limits, diverting power from everything save life support and the engines.
The shields crackled aqua blue as they coalesced around the jumpers and the SeaQuest. Slowly they ascended a few meters testing the shield strength. Took a bit more from the engines with all the extra weight, but it held. After a lengthy trip to the surface, they broke out of the water. Without the pressure from the water, the engines had a much easier time heading back to the mainland. A trip that took a few minutes on the way out, took close to half an hour. The sub creaked as they set it down on the beach, rolling under its own weight, finally resting at a twenty five degree angle.
Lucas raced from the jumper to the front of the ship as soon as the back hatch was opened. Dagwood soon caught up with him, the rest following behind. Suddenly stopping, Lucas seemed to locate what he was looking for.
"What is it?" McKay asked.
"Probably the easiest way to get in, the aquatube hatch that should lead to the bridge." He felt along the outside crease.
"Is there an emergency release?" Ford asked.
"Not an actual one, not on the outside of the ship," he seemed to locate the spot he was looking for, although it looked exactly like any other part of the ship. "Colonel, do you have a knife?"
"Yeah," he reached behind him and unsheathed him utility knife, "here."
"Thanks," he started cutting though the hull, the others were amazed that something that looked so solid, was actually soft and rubbery, it still took much hacking and sawing to get though the extremely tough and thick skin, but after a few minutes Lucas opened a wound large enough to get his hand though. "Under the bio-hull though, I should be able to short circuit and release the clamps, allowing us to pry the hatch open." McKay grimaced at the sight of the thick, dark blue goo seeping out of the cut-though tube and over the teenager's hand.
The ship towered over them, luckily, they were still able to reach the tube. If the ship had rolled anymore, it would be laying on top of the aquatube opening. Next Lucas proceeded to puncture a hold though the middle of the door, again expanding it to fit a hand. "Dagwood, give me a hand," he rushed to Lucas' side. "I've cut the wires, I need you to try and pull the door open."
"mmmkay." He reached into the hole in the skin with both hands, looking for something to grab hold of inside.
"That door looks heavy, do ya want some help," Sheppard stepped forward.
Lucas smirked back, "Prolly not…" he got a small kind of satisfaction that they were left out of this plot and in the dark the same way they seemed to leave him out on the jumpers.
Dagwood planted his feet and braced himself. It took a few minutes of pulling and Major Lorne thought the veins in Dagwood's neck were going to pop, but eventually it creaked open. As soon as it was open far enough for his fingers to fit though, he used that has leverage to pull, then push the hatch fully open. While he did this, water came pouring out, causing everyone else stepped back. Soon the only thing left was a dark and empty tunnel.
Sheppard handed Lucas a flashlight, "Lead the way. McKay, Teyla, Lorne, stay here, we'll call you when we find anything or we need you."
"Why do we have t…"
"Rodney… just do it." John stated.
"Fine," McKay spat, "I didn't really want to go skipping down a dark wet tunnel anyway."
Sheppard rolled his eyes and crawled in after Lucas and Dagwood who had already disappeared. Once inside, he pulled out his Life Signs Detector, "I'm going to assume the crew that I'm seeing on this thing are coming from the bridge."
"What?" Lucas turned around.
"We have this cool little thingy that detects life signs," he held the detector out.
"Way cool." He took it from the Colonel's hand. It took a minute to get the orientation right. "Yeah, that looks like the bridge. It's not much further from here, but we will have a steep climb."
"It works for you?"
"Why wouldn't it?" he gave it back.
"Another long story, I'll tell ya later."
Ford was behind Sheppard, "How can you tell where you're going down here, it all looks the same?"
Lucas started moving again, "Most of these tubes follow along the corridors of the ship. I don't know how Darwin and Tony knows where he's going down here."
"Sounds reassuring," John said, slightly confused.
As they neared the top of the incline there was a light, "That should the bridge." Lucas slipped again, Dagwood grabbed his shirt, even though he hadn't lost his footing. "Thanks."
The glass on the dome was fogged over, Dagwood and Lucas couldn't see out. They tried to wedge and push the dome open, suddenly it was opened from the outside. Commander Ford was standing on the other side.
"Lucas?"
"Commander." He grinned back. "Good ta see you too."
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well the third part is already up... so read on... and don't forget to review... helps bring on a part 4