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Still no Beta, so please bare with me guys!
Also feedback would be great to help me out a little, I've got chapter 3 written, but I'm not posting it for a little. Enjoy this chapter, sorry they've been short, but they'll get longer later on.
Chapter 2
I imagine there are worse deaths, worse pain, but if there are, I do not know them. I was the only living thing remaining on the planet of Katarr... and my life, my agony was a flicker in the darkness that was the planet. –Visas Marr
"You got me." John said moving further inside the small bathroom and placed a hand on the door that kept the woman in place. "She looks young from what I can see." He announced allowing his eyes to dip a little further trying to skint inside to see just how big her girls were.
"Captain Kirk out of the way, and thanks for stating the obvious." Rodney pulled John out of his way so he could find something to plug his tablet into. He didn't care he was standing so close to a naked woman, he had a perfectly good looking girlfriend he was content with.
Teyla smiled and led John out of the room so Rodney could work, "Come Colonel Sheppard, let's keep looking around this ship to see what else we can find of interest." She coxed.
"Can't blame him for wanting to stay…" Ronon started, but silenced himself at the look Teyla shot him and he knew better then to argue with the woman.
"I was just looking…"
"Looking or peeping?" Teyla's brow rose.
"Neaither…" John said trying to get away from his female team mate because he knew Teyla would wipe the floor with him.
Rodney was glad to have them out of his hair and began to punch in a few commands on his tablet as his eyes looked over the very crudely made device wondering how she had thoguht to rig this thing up in the shower of all places but it was genius. Appently she must have set the life support systems or something to go off after a certain period of time to save as much power as possible to sustain her life and used the coldness of space to chill her longer. Saving power and allowing this device to keep powered. Well that was how he guessed they had done it. However their was a code apprently needed to unseal her and he was slowly entering in the combanations in to try and ger her out of her ice box before it killed her or the power ran out completely.
The ships logs we're useless to him until he could get to Atlantis to translate them and if this woman would actually live he wanted her to help him translate whatever the language was she knew. That was if she spoke English, otherwise he was screwed. "I guess this might be the code…" He mused eyeing over the symbols he asumed we're numbers and to the keypay that was near the handle of the door to relase this woman from her cryo-shower.
"Hmm, Cryo-Shower. Has a nice ring to it." Rodney mused.
"Maybe McKay was right about that hyperdrive blowing up, check at the damange over here." John said moving over where a series of pipes we're. Some of them had large chunks blown out of them, or had cobusted from the overload.
"It must have been an scare to the woman to have so much go wrong. I wonder how long she's been frozen inside that thing." Teyla moved around the debris on the floor careful to not step on anything that had falleen down.
"I'm sure it was, but you got to admit using the shower as her little cryo-unit was some quick thinking." John moved his light over by some Fallen pipes and noticed something under the clutter.
"What did you find?" Ronon asked moving over to see what Sheppard had discovered.
"I'm not sure, help me move some of these pipes off to the side." John ordered starting to move some of the clutter away.
The two men worked on moving the pipes carefully to the floor until their prize was uncovered and they found themselves looking at a broken droid. Their was a number on it calling the unit T3-M4. With Ronons help they manged to pull the broken droid out of the rubble and into the center of the room to get a better look at it.
"What is it?" Teyla asked as she moved closer for a better look.
"Looks like a robot of some kind. Looks pretty neat." John said looking it over.
"Maybe this thing was the cause of the ships problems?" Ronon asked looking at the thing in a bored way.
"Who knows, all I know is this is a rather nice find. I wonder if I can get Rodney to fix it." John stood back up making a mental note to have it taken with them when they left.
"I'm most certain Dr. McKay will find a way to make it work again. After all he does have a way with fixing broken old devices." Teyla said as she moved past the men to continue looking around the ship for anything else out of place.
"Ah-Ha! I got it!" Rodney's cheerful voiced echoed back to the two men who we're nearest to Rodney and shared an amused glance with one another.
"I'll go see what the resident evil genius found, you go check out things with Teyla." John ordered moving back towards Rodney.
"Just make sure he doesn't try to blow us up or get stuck in another of those time traveling ships." Ronon called behind him, not quite fond of their last adventure onboard that Daedalus that had taken them to multiple realties, before McKay figured out a way to get them back.
"Whatcha find McKay?" John asked leaning on the doorframe looking over to see what Rodney was doing.
"I found the sequence to release her, but we might want a medical team standing by on Daedalus to beam her aboard right away, as there is no telling how she will react once I release her." Rodney said tapping away on his tablet.
"Gotcha." He taped his head set, "Daedalus this is Sheppard, please have a medical team standing by, we found someone." He drawled in a bored tone.
"Do I want to even know?" Came Caldwells voice.
"It's a woman, sir."
"That doesn't tell me much Colonel, medical team is standing by and ready when you are." Caldwell stated as he let the channel close.
"Well McKay, start the sequence so she can get let out of that thing." John said making a gesture to the slumbering and frozen woman.
"I'm working on it, these things take time I'll have you know Colonel."
"And here you were bitching this morning about not making it back in time for that hot date with Dr. Keller." He smirked.
Rodney paused for a moment and realized John was right, their wasn't anyway he'd be back in time now, even if he did Jennifer and Carson would be tending to this woman around the clock. "Har-har at least I HAVE a girlfriend." He said smugly.
"No need to get hostile Rodney." John held his hands up in defense.
"Yes, yes you over there...He pointed near the door.
"Woof." John obeyed moving to the door.
"Good boy, now stay and catch her just in case she falls out. I'm starting the sequence to release her. I'm not sure just how much juice it's going to take to release her but maybe a good chunk of it." Rodney began to enter a few more commands.
As the last key was struck a loud hiss followed as the door sprang open and cool air rushed out past the men to great them chilling them slightly. As the thick cold air rolled away the two men we're able to make out the figure of the woman better and John cursed moving forward quickly grabbing the very naked body that fell forward and picked her up bridle style allowing Rodney to drape his jacket over her to preserve her modesty.
However what surprised the two men next even more were two teal eyes that none of them had ever seen a human have looking up at John. A trembling hand moved forward brushing his face just barely with her fingertips.
"Atton." The single word was easy to make out despite how horse her voice sounded.
That was all she said though as her hand dropped from John's face hanging limply as her eyes rolled up into her head, they didn't waste much time as Rodney gave the order to have them beamed aboard the ship with their guest who John quickly placed on the bed prepared for her jumping out of the way as the medical team began to go to work on the woman o bring her back.
"No pulse!" Roared one of the doctors.
Rodney and John backed away near the door watching as the phibiulators we're bought out to try and revive the woman they had just discovered, but at John stood their with Rodney he found himself wondering why she had called him Atton. The only Atton he knew of was his very, very great Grandfather Atton Sheppard, who apparently died in a drowning, but no body was ever found or so the stories went in his family, and he was quite certain that wasn't the Atton she was referring to.
"Grandma, who's that?" A younger John Sheppard asked eagerly pointing to the very old photo album picture of a very charming man.
"Him? Why that's your great, great, great grandfather Atton Sheppard. He was a wealthy man apparently and married a nice young woman, but he apparently went out one morning to go fishing, and a bad storm came in later the day and when his wife went to call him home, all she found was his gear to fish with, no body was ever found. Poor thing probably drowned." His grandma stated looking at the photo and at John.
"What is it grandma?" He cocked his head to the side curiously.
"You look like him a little, bit strange, but the women will surely adore you when you get older." His grandmother smiled.
John grinned remembering that little talk with his grandmother so long ago, she had been one of the best things in his life aside from his father who could hardly have given a damn about him and his brother.
"We got a pulse!" The nurse announced, brining John out of his thoughts.
"Well that's a relief." Rodney said.
"Yeh, no kidding." John turned around, but not before sparring one last glance at the woman before he left with Rodney to inform Caldwell of their find.
"I got the data on that ship Sheppard." Rodney spoke as they walked towards the bridge.
"Yeh, so what did you find?"
"That ships 5000 years old, maybe a little more, but by all accounts that thing should have run out of power a long time ago." Rodney noticed John stop and look at him and held up the tablet to show him. "Right here, it took a little, time but this text is a butchered version of ancient text."
"So, you think she's maybe an ancient?"
"Maybe, but I doubt she is, but what I'm worried about is HOW that ship of hers was able to stay powered for that long of a time. It's not like the ancient ships we've come across before."
"Good point, I wonder if we can somehow get it taken back to Atlantis, that ship. It's a pity to leave it here to rot." John pointed out.
"Already on that, we might be able to fit it in halves into the Daedalus, but either way, major systems we're damaged quite badly to the ship and it needs a whole gutting and system replacements."
"Okay, I get it. It. broken and needs new parts." John waved his hand.
"Yes, and if I'm fixing it you are NOT using it to fly off and destroy in some big space battle. Got that?" Rodney huffed.
"Woof."
Rodney smirked, "Good boy. I might even give you a treat, but I'm fresh out of them." Rodney said as he moved away. John laughed shaking his head and moved after Rodney to give the full report to Caldwell about the ship and the woman as well.
TBC...
