Chapter 7
"So Carter did ya find it?" Cameron asked as he, Daniel and Teal'c entered the main building.
"Nothing yet, sir" Carter replied.
"Okay Sheppard you take Daniel and Teal'c and continue searching the complex while Carter and I start looking for the ZPM," Cameron said in a somewhat less hostile tone then what he'd usually used when talking to Sheppard.
"Yes, sir…let's try this central corridor," Sheppard suggested turning face to Daniel and Teal'c. The trio started down the central corridor its design was of a similar fashion to the Atlantis corridors. The main corridor opened into a large room that looked to be a laboratory or test facility of some kind filled with beds, display screens, and shelf's holding a variety of machines and as usual everything in the room instantly lit up expect for one section of the room towards the back.
"That's odd," Sheppard said looking at the inactive section of the room.
"This does not happen often?" Teal'c asked as he began searching the room with Jackson.
"No everything usually activates when I enter a room…guess I should check it out," Sheppard said and started towards that section to see what it was.
"Use extreme caution Colonel," Teal'c said remembering the team's previous encounters with Ancient technology.
"Yeah, yeah I know the drill," Sheppard as he reached the inactive part of the room but still nothing happened.
"Well this is different," Sheppard said more to himself then to the others in the room. I wonder what this part of the room is for its obvious meant to be activated by an individual's touch not any person with the gene that happens to enter the room. Reaching forward to touch the blank screen in front of him…the screen instantly activated as did the rest of the dark section of the 'lab'. The display instantly started flashing:
'Dormata ATA deprehensio
Machinus strenuous
ATA strenuous coepi'
"What the heck?" Sheppard asked in confusion as he saw the display screen flashing text. The next moment Sheppard was engulfed in a bright white light and then collapsed unconscious to the floor.
"Sheppard," both Daniel and Teal'c called out as they saw Sheppard being engulfed by the light and collapsing to the floor and ran over to him.
"Cameron we got a problem, Sheppard just activated a piece of Ancient technology and was engulfed by some sort of light then collapsed unconscious," Daniel reported over the radio to Cameron.
"Okay we found the ZPM so were on our way let's meet up at the entrance and head for the gate." Cameron replied over the radio to Daniel.
"Okay see ya in a few minutes," Daniel said and then closed the channel.
"Teal'c give me a hand here," Daniel said knelling to Sheppard taking right arm while Teal'c took hold of Sheppard's left arm and the two haled him up and then started for the door.
A few minutes later the three meet up with Cameron and Carter in the main lobby of the building.
"We have to get him back to the SGC now," Carter said taking in Sheppard's condition he had started sweating openly and labored breathing.
"Unscheduled off world activation! Closing the Iris!" Sergeant Harriman called out as the gate began spinning and as the last chevron locked into place General Landry appeared by his side.
"Who is it?" Landry asked.
"SG-1, sir" Harriman said as the IDC was verified.
"Open the iris," Landry ordered.
The iris gracefully slide open revealing the familiar blue event horizon of the Stargate and SG-1 appeared on the ramp with Daniel and Teal'c still carrying Sheppard.
"We need a medical team!" Cameron called out from the top of the ramp as the event horizon disappeared and the Stargate deactivated.
A few moments later a medical team burst into the gate room to collect Sheppard.
"Let's get him on the gurney then down to the med lab," Doctor Lam said to the people around her.
A few hours later SG-1 and General Landry entered the medical bay to check on Sheppard.
"How is he?" Landry asked his daughter.
"I don't really know all I can tell you is that he's in a coma right now and his DNA is somehow rearranging itself." Lam said in disbelief.
"What do you mean by rearranging itself?" Colonel Carter asked.
"It appears that parts of his DNA are being activated," Lam said in pure amazement looking at the chart in her hands.
Atlantis
Rodney, Teyla and Ronon in the command center of Atlantis waiting for the gate to finish dialing. As the last chevron lit up the gate activated and the familiar blue light was cast through the gateroom.
"Time to go," Elizabeth said from her computer sending the monthly files and her emails.
"Yeah let's go." Rodney said picking up the travel bag next to him.
The three after collecting their bags walked down the stairs and into the event horizon. The travel between the two galaxies took only seconds and the trio appeared in the SGC gate room seconds after stepping through the Atlantis gate. The gate shut down behind the three of them and they walked down the ramp to be greeted by General Landry and Sergeant Harriman.
"Welcome to Earth," Landry said mostly Teyla and Ronon while shaking McKay's hand.
"There's something you all should see after we take you to your quarters." Landry said and gestured for the Sergeant to lead the way.
The trip up to Level 19 took a few minutes but final the group arrived and Sergeant Harriman showed the three guests to their rooms. After dropping off their belongings in their rooms they joined General Landry at the elevator.
"So General you said that we needed to see something what is it?" Rodney asked in the cramped elevator as it descended back to Level 28.
"Not so much what but whom SG-1 on their last mission encountered ruins constructed by the Ancient while they were there the team discovered a ZPM. But Colonel activated a piece of technology while he was in some sort of lab." Landry recounted the events of SG-1's previous mission.
Teyla stood there in the elevator motionlessly listening the General's story while a million thoughts raced through her mind about John and how he was, if he was alright and so on.
Finally the elevator came to a stop and opened to Level 28.
"If you'll follow me I'll show you to the medical bay and Sergeant you're dismissed," Landry said leading the way to the med bay.
"Yes, sir" Harriman said and went off towards the gateroom.
"Doctor how's he doing today?" Landry asked as the four entered the medical bay.
"His DNA has finally stopped changing and he should be out of his coma soon. But the thing I find most interesting is that dozens of repressed Ancient genes have now been activated. He's more Ancient then human now it's really quite interesting what the device did now that we've had time to study it. From what I've read so far after he turned on the device it scanned him, saw that he had the gene but also repressed Ancient genes so the device simply turned on those repressed genes. But it took his body sometime to turned them on and adjust to the changes they made." Lam said in pure awe and fascination.
"But he is alright?" Teyla questioned the doctor in front of her she really didn't care about whatever the doctor had just said all she wanted to know was that John was going to be alright.
"Yes he's going to be fine, though he's going to have to learn to control his new abilities," Lam said and pulled up a scanned of Sheppard's brain on the computer screen before continuing.
"His brain activity has shot through the roof since that machine activated his dormant genes," Lam reported more of their guests sake then the General's since he'd already heard this from the last report.
"May we see him?" Teyla asked wanting to be able to judge for herself if he was truly okay.
TBC
