Chapter 2

"Colonel Sheppard welcome to the SGC!" General Landry called out from the Control Room as the gate deactivated behind John Sheppard.

"Yes sir," John replied as he walked down the ramp and a man entered the gate room.

"Sir if you'll come with me I'll show you to your quarters," Sergeant Harriman said.

"Lead the way Sergeant," John said and followed the man out of the gate room. Stopping at the elevator the two waited for the doors to open.

"Sir here is all the papers you'll need and your ID card to enter the base," Harriman said and handed him a folder filled with the fore mentioned materials.

"Thank you," John said accepting the folder as the elevator doors opened and the two stepped in.

"Your quarters are on Level 26 sir," Harriman said pressing the button labeled 26 and the doors obediently closed.

The ride up took only a few moments and then the doors parted to reveal Level 26. The two men exited the elevator and walked down the corridor, to the left and stopped at the third door on the right.

"These are your new quarter's sir," Harriman said opening the door and motioned for him to enter.

"If you have any questions you can ask General Landry in a few moments," Harriman said.

"Thank you you've been very helpful Sergeant I can find my way back to the Gate Room," John said depositing his things in the room and left for the Gate Room.

On Atlantis the remaining three members of AT-1 were in the Conference Room waiting for Major Lorne and Doctor Weir.

"You know it still doesn't make any sense about the Colonel's reassignment," Rodney said to his teammates.

"I agree he is needed more on Atlantis than on Earth is he not?" Teyla asked still feeling the raw pain at his departure twenty minutes ago.

"You're right…so that means either the military is sick of Sheppard running the Military on Atlantis or someone really doesn't want him here for some reason. The question is why though?" Rodney said.

"So we've found the, why to this problem but we still need who, and a how." Ronon said contributing to the conversation with a valid observation.

"I' am more then willing to devote time to get to the bottom of this if you two are?" Teyla stated and shot a questioning glance to the two men sitting with her.

"I'm in," Rodney said.

"Me too," Ronon said.

"Morning everyone," Dr. Weir said entering the room followed by Major Lorne.

"Everyone you already know Major Lorne he'll be taking command of the team and is being promoted to Lt. Colonel." Dr. Weir said introducing their new leader.

"I hope you'll all come to trust my command as much as you trusted Colonel Sheppard's," Colonel Lorne said.

"I never really trusted John's command as much as I trusted him," Teyla said standing from her seat.

"I didn't really trust the man's command but followed him because I trusted him too," Ronon said standing from his seat and walked out the door followed by Teyla leaving Doctor McKay with Weir and Lorne.

"I should really should be getting back to my lab," McKay said quickly stood and walked from the room in the direction Ronon and Teyla had taken.

"Well that could have gone better," Lorne said to Weir.

"Well they just lost John and you expect them to welcome you into their circle with open arms," Weir said sarcastically and then she too left the room.

The three veteran members of AT-1 were gathered together in Rodney's lab discussing their plan of action.

"Where will we start?" Teyla asked.

"We'll start researching Caldwell he's the most likely one to have it out for Sheppard. The man worked for the Trust so we know that he has the connection to make Sheppard leave Atlantis. But this reassignment had to have been approved by the International Committee." Rodney said and then stopped to think and let his friends process the information.

"Getting the order itself would be easy because the Air Force wasn't to keen on keeping Sheppard in command of the Atlantis Military assets. That means that he or who ever did this had to have blackmailed enough of the council to get the order approved." Rodney said finishing his theory.

"But where does this leave us?" Teyla asked because just having a theory didn't do John any good when they had no one to apply it too.

"We look at what Caldwell's been doing, who he contacted while on Earth and what he did there?" Rodney said.

"I started this after we learned of Sheppard's reassignment and I compiled everything that I could find on Caldwell. It did require that I hack into the Daedalus's mainframe but you know since I am a genius it-" Rodney stated but was cut off as he began to get sided-tracked.

"Rodney please," Teyla asked not wanting to hear him brag about how smart he was.

"Fine the data's over there and I divided the it into three groups: Caldwell's service record before Atlantis and getting Command of Daedalus, His records after coming to Atlantis, and what he's been up to on Earth. Teyla you take the records for after coming too Atlantis, Ronon you take his service records and I'll see what our dear Colonel has been up to while on Earth." Rodney said and the three got to work.

A/N: I know it's a little shorter then the first chapter but trust me the next will be longer.