A few hours passed. After all the solders had gathered back into the gate room, Winston came walking in along side Eve, using a makeshift cane made out of a metal pipe for support. He had been informed of the situation. The ships seemed to be secure, however they had only managed to explore a fraction of it. There was still a lot more of the ship that they hadn't seen yet.
"Colonel," Hutch addressed him as he came into the room.
"At ease," said Winston. "Get everyone ready. Were going to try to dial the gate back home."
"Yes, sir."
"Destiny," said Tony. He, Humphrey, and a few other people including Salty, Reba, and Janice were working in the control room, still looking through the ships computers and trying to find out a way to control the ship. So far, the ship just seemed to be flying on autopilot. To where, he had no idea.
"Destiny what?" asked Humphrey.
"It's the ships name," said Tony. "I've also fond out that the people who built this ship were never here. They launched it unmanned, planning to use the stargate to get here one day, but they never did for some reason."
"Sir, I think I've got it," Scar said to Winston back in the gate room. He was at a computer consol trying to dial the nine-chevron address back to their home galaxy. "It wasn't even that hard to find. It's right here in the list of addresses."
"You're sure," said Winston.
"Yes, sir."
"Then start dialing."
"But Tony said…"
"I don't care what Tony said. Dial the address now."
Back in the control room, Tony suddenly saw a massive power drain in the gate room on the computer screen.
"Oh, no," he said.
"What is it?" asked Humphrey.
"Some moron is dialing the gate!" Tony shouted as he ran out of the room. Humphrey, Salty, Reba, and Janice followed.
The gate was almost done dialing by the time they got to the gate room.
"Winston!" said Tony. "What are you doing?"
"We're dialing home," said Winston plainly.
"You're making a mistake," said Tony.
"Well, Scar thinks he's found the address for home."
"That's not the point," said Tony. "All you're doing is wasting valuable power. We barely have enough power as it is. This ship simply doesn't have the capability to dial that far."
"What?" said Winston in shock. "Why am I just now hearing about this?"
"I only just found out recently, Winston."
"Ninth chevron encoded…" announced Scar. "… It won't lock."
Suddenly the lights began flickering on and off.
"That's because the ship doesn't have enough power," shouted Tony angrily. "Shut it off!"
Scar powered down the stargate. The lights stopped flickering.
"Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if people would stop wasting power so we can get some valuable work done." And with that, Tony stormed out of the room. Everyone watched him leave.
"Alright," said Winston. "Spread the word. Inform everyone to stop using any of the electrical devices until we have a better idea of what our power is."
"Yes, sir," said Hutch.
Meanwhile, Garth was exploring an interesting discovery he had made. He was sitting in the pilot's chair inside one of two shuttlecrafts docked to the ship. The other shuttlecraft he had found was open to space, and so sealed off, but this one appeared to be intact.
Hutch and Candu suddenly walked in. "Whoa," they both said at the same time.
"Pretty neat isn't it," said Garth as he spun around in the chair to face them.
"You think you can fly this thing?" asked Hutch.
"I can fly a Death Glider. This thing should be a piece of cake," said Garth. "So, you think they'll be able to get the ship working and get us home?"
"I don't know, man," said Hutch. "We're pretty freaking far from home."
"Well they better," growled Candu. "You know, this is all your old man's fault, Garth."
"Hey, watch what you say about my dad," said Garth, becoming angry.
"Why? He's the one who got us into this shit," said Candu.
"I have to agree with him," said Hutch. "Face it, your father screwed us all."
"Hey!" said Garth, standing up. "We were all trying to get here in the first place."
"Not like this," said Candu. "We're not prepared."
"Well, complaining about it now isn't gonna do us or anybody else any good," said Garth. "So man up and just deal with it."
Candu growled and stormed out of the shuttle.
Garth sighed and looked at Hutch. "So you want to help me figure out how to fly this ship? We should also get Humphrey or one of the others down here to help us translate this language. It took me forever just to figure out how to turn this thing on."
Hutch grinned.
Winston walked into where Tony was standing over a computer consol.
"Garth found a shuttle," said Winston. "He's checking it out. Seeing if it's flyable. Everyone else is holding off on the electricity like you said."
"Good," said Tony.
"Look, I know how much this mission means to you," said Winston, "but I think you've gotten so deep into it that you're forgetting why we even wanted to come here in the first place. It was so we could learn secrets that might give us an edge against the Earth Alliance."
"I know why we're here," said Tony.
"Look, Tony, if we are going to be stuck on this ship for a while, then we are going to have to work on our communication."
"All I ask is that you check with me before giving orders."
"Check with you? It doesn't work like that. We are both leaders here, so we need to work together and we need to be on the same page. I need to know what you know, and vice versa."
"Fine. Whatever," growled Tony, impatiently. "Are we done now? I'm very busy."
"As long as you got the message," said Winston. He turned and started walking out of the room.
Suddenly, all the lights flickered and went out, and a low hum was heard as the ship's systems powered down. There was a loud whirring noise as the ship came out of F.T.L. They looked around them. Their was barely enough light to see.
"Did you do that, Tony?" asked Winston.
Tony glared at him angrily. "No, you idiot. But I do know what's happening. We're out of power. Completely out of power."
"There must be emergency reserves somewhere," said Winston.
"Don't you get it, Winston? The reserves are gone! All of our power is gone! And it's entirely your fault!"
"My fault?" exclaimed Winston angrily.
"Yes! It was you who gave the order to try and dial Earth! That alone cost us too much power, not to mention all the other people going around, pushing every button they can find!" Tony started heading out of the room in a rage.
"Where are you going?" demanded Winston.
Tony turned around. "Well, I guess I'm going nowhere, along with the rest of us." He then turned back around and continued heading away down the corridor.