Well here is chapter one and sorry guys but this computer I'm on does NOT have a spellcheck, and I still have no Beta. ;_; I won't have my notebook back until the 17th since the LCD screen is in for repairs. So please bare in with me until I can get SOMEONE to help me Beta this.
CHAPTER 1
When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door.-Darth Traya
John Sheappard boredly stared out the Deadulas viewpoint down at the planet they had come to fetch some of their people off of after a malfunction with the Stargates DHD on the planet. McKay and a few other of the local brains were down their tending to the problem trying to see if it could be repaired, but that was the last thing they needed was for the Wraith to show up and be stuck on the planet with a ton of buggers and be unable to escapse.
"Colonel Caldwell we are getting reports there is something moving towards us, we are detecting a slight energy reading, but our scanners are barely detecting it." One of the women stated pulling Caldwell from his musing to move over and look at whatever it was their ships scans had detected.
"Is it Wraith?" He asked looking down at the small spot on the screen that seemed to be fading in and out.
"Whatever it is sir it seems to be nearly depleted of power. I highly doubt it is Wraith though." The woman continued to type in commands.
"Put on sublight engines and head forward I want to see whatever this energy reading is." Caldwell ordered moving over to John who was already looking out into space for whatever was moving towards them.
"You know, every time I'm with you Colonel we always seem to find mysterious things floating in space." Sheapprd half joked, but serious at the same time as he said this.
Caldwell nodded his head in agreement, "Let's just hope whatever it is, isn't anything dangerous this time. I really don't feel like chasing you or someone else around Atlantis while you attempt to kill each other."
"Hey, I did technically have the nice guy, Weir had the crazy woman." John pointed out.
"Nice or not. That entire ordeal was a nightmare." Caldwell grumbled.
"Sir, the energy reading is getting slightly stronger now, we should be coming up to it any moment now." The woman replied entering in some information at her data terminal.
John and Caldwell began to stare intently ahead and soon the item in question came into view. It was a ship and it looked like it had seen better days. The outside of it looked like it had gone through hell. Panels we're missing on the sides, it looked like it had been in a battle at one point. However it was the design that had John and Caldwell staring at it.
The ship looked like a replica of the Millieum Falcon seen in Star Wars that Han Solo used. It was like a dream come true to see a ship build like this. "I wonder if she can still fly." John mused more to himself then anything else.
"If it can still work or be repaired, that ship would be of use to you guys in Atlantis." Caldwell knew it was rough for them to only have Puddle Jumpers and no ships of their own with hyperdrive capabilities on them.
"I'm sure if we lock McKay inside he will fix it." John grinned, but he wondered what the low energy reading was on the ship. More then likely the thing might have had a bit of juice still in it.
"I want the ship beamed down onto the planet. Its too big to fit into our docking day with the F-302.S, once its been beamed down to the planet I want a team of men beamed down to head inside and investigate the ship." Caldwell ordered and looked over at Sheappard, giving him a look that said he was going to be leading.
"all right. I'm going to have Rohan and five other Marines come with me." John nodded to his giant friend who seemed to be more then happy to join John as they left the control room to prepare to be beamed down to the planet shortly with some other.
"Dr. McKay, Deadulas has just asked for all members to meet by the Stargate, they have discovered something drifting near the planet and are beaming it down. Its apparently a ship." One of the women informed him.
Rodney looked up from what he was doing slightly annoyed to be disturbed from his work and would have snapped at the woman for bothering him, but when he heard they had discovered a ship drifting near the planet and were beaming it down he wondered what kind of ship. "Right," He drawled and tapped his headset ordering all his science team to report to the area around the Stargate and wait with them until the ship was delivered onto the planet.
"Rodney, what is going on?" Zelenkia asked as he came moving over to him.
"Apparently that low energy reading we picked up awhile ago was a ship drifting in space, the Deadulas is beaming it down to the planet shortly, but what kind they didn't say." He replied looking up from his data pad and saw everyone was where they should be and nodded to the military woman to give the go ahead.
"Colonel Caldwell, the area is now emptied you may beam the ship down." The woman stated into her own headset.
All of Rodneys science team stood by in silence as a large object was beamed down to the planet and the expression on some of the peoples faces was priceless as they stared at the ship. It truly did look like something you would see out of the Star Wars universe.
"Incredible, it looks like the Millieum Falcon." Zelnkia said in awe as he and a few others began to inch closer to the ship itching to touch it and inspect it over.
"Actually it reminds me of the ship in the games I used to play. The Ebon Hawk from Knight's Of The Old Republic I and II. The ship belonged to Darth Revan and then later on in game two the ship became the Jedi Exiles." One of the younger scientists said coming up to stand beside Zelenkia.
"Never played those games, heard they were good." Zelenkia stated.
"As interesting as all this is, I'm picking up the energy readings much better now. Whatever it is inside that ship its almost out of power. The energy readings keep dipping and spiking." Rodney stated to his colleague.
Before anyone could ask Rodney more information John, Rohan, Teyla, and four marines were beamed down to the planet fully armed. Rodney looked up from the tablet in his hands and noticed his teammates now on the planet and moved to ask the question if he could go and peak inside and got the gesture to grab his gear and hurry it up.
While the Marines and Rohan worked on pulling the hatch down on the bottom of the ship John moved over to Rodney who was almost done getting ready to join his team mates. "So McKay, if the ship is fixable what do you think of us adding it to our collection?" John grinned.
"It can be but from the looks of it that things going to need a huge makeover. I really want to see what's inside that ship before the power depletes completely it has maybe a week left of power from my current calculations." Fixing his vest he moved with John over to the ship where their was a loud bang!
Rohan looked very proud of himself for having destroyed parts of the ships door to open it and John and Rodney could only exchange a glance at one another knowing if their friend had it his way the ship would be blown to bits. .Nice work Chewie, but now McKays going ot have to fix the door later.. John pat Rodneys shoulder and moved to join the others who were already climbing inside the ship.
"And by the time I fix it, you'll have it blown up." Rodney muttered under his breath, irritated with just how many ancient based ships he'd fix to only seen wrecked two weeks later.
"Oh come on McKay, its not my fault when we get our hands on a good ship and the Wraith or someone else force us to blow it up." Sheappard drawled in lazy tone as he was helped inside of the ship, McKay not that far behind him as the Marines helped him inside.
"Yes, but if I fix this ship up, you are NOT allowed to use it without my permission and their will be no blowing it up!" McKay pulled out his tablet from within his coat and looked around the area they had walked into. It looked like a small loading area where they now currently stood inside of the ship. Their was two ways to go right or left from the looks of it considering the ship was round.
"Rodney, Teyla, Rohan, your with me on the right, Marines you take left." Shepherd ordered, raising his P-90 as he proceeded into the rest of the ship, leaving the Marines too their own devices.
The hallways weren't large but you had plenty of room room to move around in-case of a fight. "I wonder what made these marks. It looks at if whatever hit the walls here melted it instantly." Rodney stated, running his fingers of the old marks that had been made so long ago when the Exile was attacked unexpectedly by Visas Marr who had waited for her and the rest of her crew to return inside the Ebon Hawk.
"Who knows, lets worry about that later and keep looking." John ordered moving inside further until they came into a more open center where it was a little more cozy looking then the rest of the ship.
Teyla looked around carefully noticing panels ripped off the walls and various things laying around in complete and utter disarray. Whatever had happened here it looked like it had been a major problem for those onboard. "It would appear Colonel Shepherd that their was a..glinch in the systems?" Teyla bent down to pick something that looked like a tool, but it was one she had never seen before and turned it around in her hands curiously.
"Or those marks McKay spotted on the wall were from a fight." Rohan added looking around more himself at chattered and broken parts.
"Who knows, do you got anything McKay?" John looked over to Rodney who had found a place to plug in and was trying to access the ships logs, but what he found made his brows draw downwards.
"Well it's not Ancient, but it looks like a butchered version of it. The ship doesn't have much power left in it maybe three days worth at least, but I'm getting strong energy readings over this way." He said pointing towards another hallway on the ship, as he unplugged his tablet leading the way.
"Did you happen to discover what was wrong with the ship Dr. McKay?" Teyla asked as she followed along behind John.
"That I haven't figured out yet, but from the outside structural damage it looks like the Hyperdrive might have blown out completely which is possible." Rodney stated as he turned towards what might have passed for a medical bay and near it another door which he moved towards. He plugged his tablet back into a wall and found the energy reading was peaking up behind the closed door. He entered a few commands and got the door to open, but had to have Shepherd and Rohan open it.
Pulling the door the rest of the way open John noticed a blue glow now in the room of what was apparently the bathroom. At the far end was a very crudely built Cryostatis chamber made out of the shower and in it was a figure perfectly preserved sleeping.
The rest of John Shepherd team stood their looking over the mans shoulder as their eyes locked on the woman in her frozen prison. "Why is it were the only team that finds the people frozen people?" Rohan questioned somewhat in annoyance as he wondered what ancestors they pissed off on a daily basis to leave them with these kinds of finds.
TBC...
