Prologue
252 years ago
Dr. Elizabeth Weir stood on the balcony overlooking the Embarkation Room, klaxons wailing, blocking most of the sound from the Control Room. The team was coming in with a wounded person and Beckett stood right at the bottom of the steps, waiting for the Jumper to emerge from the Stargate. Everyone seemed to be anxious.
The metal pod-like ship emerged from the water-like gel-like substance that was the event horizon. The jumper landed as the gate closed and the rear hatch opened and Beckett and the medics ran in and saw the bleeding Sheppard.
"Wha' the bloody hell happened?" Beckett asked, seeing Sheppard.
"The locals were armed and the Wraith came and they shot at a mirage which was right in front of Major Sheppard," Teyla stated.
"Remind me to never give them guns," McKay stated as the medics got the wounded Sheppard onto a gurney.
"Bloody hell," Beckett stated as he ran out of the jumper with the medics.
Dr. Weir walked into the infirmary and looked at Sheppard.
"I see you're back again after that bug incident," she stated, trying to joke.
"Beckett said I was lucky that the bullet missed my lung my centimeters," he stated weakly as he was attached to many machines and an IV.
"I just hope that your luck holds out when the Wraith come," Weir stated.
"Don't remind me."
"I think she just did," McKay stated, appearing behind Weir.
"I assume you came to cheer me up."
"Well, I needed to talk to Elizabeth."
Weir turned to look at her chief science advisor.
"Yes?"
"I think we may be in trouble. We got news that there is a Jumper on a planet that the Wraith might be stopping at on their way here."
"What kind of Jumper?" Sheppard asked.
"Yes, do tell," Weir stated.
"Well, Elizabeth, it appears to be the same Jumper that you was on."
"I don't remember being on a Jumper."
"Ah. I meant the other you."
"You mean that time traveling jumper?" Sheppard asked.
"Exactly. We know that the Wraith can't use it, but they could try to hot wire it, making it a risk to us. By getting to Earth through alternative means."
"And with Major Sheppard temporarily out of commission, you're going to need to fill in the gap for a co-pilot and with everyone with the gene off the base…" Weir was cut off by Beckett walking in.
"How's my patient doing?" Beckett asked and everyone in the room looked at him.
"Wha' did I do now?"
McKay, Beckett, Ford, and Teyla stood in the Embarkation Room, looking at the Stargate.
"Is it too late to get outta this?"
"For the last time Carson, yes, it is."
"I mean I dinnae volunteer fer this. I'm getting sick of being pressed into service."
"You volunteered by being the only one with the gene on the base before the Wraith gets there."
"But what if they get there before we do?"
"Then we're screwed, but let's focus on getting to that Jumper."
"I'd rather not. I could barely fly to the mainland and back without crashing."
"You're just going to be the co-pilot.
By then, the Stargate activated and Beckett looked worriedly at the three others.
"Time for us to go, unless you'd want to wind up as Wraith food," McKay stated, looking at Beckett.
"Tell me how it went," Beckett said, turning around to leave, but McKay turned him around, making him walk towards the Stargate.
"So are you telling me that you'd rather have all of Earth to be a smorgasbord for the Wraith then."
"Ok, let's just get this over with."
McKay stood panting on the top of a hill, while the others looked at him.
"That was just a wee hill."
"That was a mountain and you know it."
"Over in Scotland, that would be nothing."
"Remind me not to go visiting."
As they looked down, they saw the Puddle Jumper, resting in a meadow.
"It appears that someone has used it recently," Teyla stated.
"I'd be daft if that wasn't bloody apparent."
"Ok, let's take it to Atlantis then. I'm going end up having a heart attack if I ever go up another mountain."
"You're just bloody out of shape, Rodney."
"You're telling me," he stated, pulling out a powerbar.
"What are yeh doing?"
"Need to get my energy level up so that I can walk down this mountain," McKay stated, talking around the bit of the powerbar in his mouth.
Beckett only shook his head and started walking down the hill and Ford and Teyla followed him. It was then that the familiar shriek flowed upon the air and McKay turned around quickly and then started running as fast as he can.
"Dart!" he shouted, running to the Jumper as the others ran in before him.
"Bloody hell," Beckett stated as he decided to sit at the pilot's controls as he had to get the jumper cloaked before the Wraith came and McKay ran in and closed the hatch.
"We need to go now!"
"I know. I know. Hold yer horses! I cannae do everything yeh know!"
Just then the device in the cargo hold of the jumper activated itself and the scenery changed and the Jumper was tangled up in flora. The sun was setting.
"What did you just do?"
"I thought that I donae want to be where the Wraith are."
"I think you just activated the time travel device."
"Bloody hell."
"You can say that again."