O'Neill points at the Novum "Sit" he says, and the Novum sit down "Are you going to tell us what all that was about?" asks O'Neill and the Novum lower their heads and don't say anything "Is it true, you're the Ancients children?" asks Daniel "Where did you come from?" asks Woolsey and the Novum remain silent "Look someone better start talking." shouts O'Neill while leaning across the table "How do you expect us to trust you if you don't tell us anything" says Sheppard.
The Novum remain silent "OK if you don't want to tell us what all that was about then tell us why the Verdain attacked the Nox and why are they attacking us?" asks O'Neill and gets no response "They're not talking, O'Neill" says Teal'c "Come on give us something" shouts O'Neill "I'll get them to talk" says Ronon as he starts walking towards them, and the Novum lift their heads and lean back in their chairs afraid.
"That is enough" shouts Teyla as she quickly stands up from her chair and Ronon stops walking and looks at Teyla "Can you not see they are scared and confused" says Teyla "They are just children." she shouts "We don't know anything about them apart from their names and they like hugging the Ancients." says O'Neill
"They did destroy the Verdain ship" says Swanson "They too possessed a Verdain ship and could have destroyed us themselves, yet they did not" says Teyla "What's your point?" replies O'Neill "They have not shown any threatening behavior towards us." shouts Teyla "Calmed down, Teyla" says Sheppard "No, Col. An Ancient stood right here in this very room and she trusted them, why shouldn't we. If you wish to continue interrogating these children like this then I will play no part in it." shouts Teyla while making forceful hand/finger gestures and she storms off out of the room.
"Teyla" shouts Sheppard as he follows her out. "She's right, Jack" says Daniel and O'Neill looks at him and takes an intake of breath "Yeah I know, Daniel" says O'Neill and he rubs his forehead "Listen, you look like a nice bunch of kids and I'm sorry if we scared you." says O'Neill.
"Let's take a break" says O'Neill and everyone apart from the Novum get up and start to head out of the room "Sgt, get these kids some food." says O'Neill to a guard at the door, then O'Neill looks at the Novum "Thank's for saving our asses back there." he says and Alisana slowly looks up "You're welcome" she says and they share a gentle smile at each other before O'Neill leaves the room.
Woolsey and Daniel are waiting in the corridor for O'Neill to come out and they all start slowly walking to the bridge "What are we going to do about them, General?" asks Woolsey "I'm not sure yet" replies O'Neill "Athar said they are their children, what do you think she meant by that?" asks Woolsey and O'Neill turns to Daniel "Thoughts?" he says "A few" replies Daniel, then the conversation goes quiet and O'Neill turns to Woolsey then back to Daniel "Yes, and?...care to share them with us?" says O'Neill.
They all stop walking "Well...they referred to Earth as Terra, which is what the Ancients called it, then they said the 3 races of the alliance and when Jack mentioned the Asgard they didn't know who they were." explains Daniel "Yeah, so?" questions O'Neill "They were also pretty scared of Athar when she appeared, like they'd never seen an ascended being before." replies Daniel "But...she said they are their children, how can that be if they've never seen an ascended being?" asks Woolsey "I don't know. They also asked to see the council of the races which hasn't existed for thousands of years like they expected it to be there. It's as if they believe they're still in 'Ancient' times." replies Daniel while shrugging his shoulders a little
"Are you saying they're from the past?" asks Woolsey "Time travel?" asks O'Neill "We've seen it before." replies Daniel "We have?" asks O'Neill "Yes, when the Daedalus encountered the Lantean ship in Pegasus, well not technically time travel but they were stuck on their ship for thousands of years. Don't you remember they took back Atlantis and you were almost killed during an Asuran attack?" says Daniel and O'Neill thinks for a second "Ah..yes" replies O'Neill.
Sheppard and Teyla walk down the corridor toward them "General" says Sheppard "Sheppard...Teyla." says O'Neill and Teyla looks at everyone "I want to apologize for my outburst" she says "No need, you were right." says O'Neill "It will not happen again." says Teyla "It's ok" says Woolsey.
Swanson comes over the com "General O'Neill, you're needed on the bridge" she says, "Now what" says O'Neill and they quickly walk to the bridge.
"What is it?" asks O'Neill as he enters the bridge "O'Neill, Atlantis received a message from the Medronans." says Teal'c "What's the message?" asks O'Neill "O'Neill." replies Teal'c..."What?" replies a confused O'Neill.
Woolsey gets on the radio "Zelenka this is Woolsey, I understand you received a message from the Medronans?" he asks "Yes" replies Zelenka "What did it say?" asks Woolsey listening carefully "Just O'Neill. The gate activated and we received the Medronans IDC and a message just said O
Neill." says Zelenka and O'Neill still looks confused "Why did they dial Atlantis" wonders O'Neill and Daniel turns to him "They didn't, they would have dialed Earth but because Atlantis is here their gate would have picked up the connection." he says.
"Is that all the message said?" asks O'Neill "Yes, General. The gate activated, we received the message and the gate went offline" says Zelenka "Dial them back and ask them what they want" says O'Neill "Er we tried that...we couldn't make a connection." says Zelenka "That's odd" says Daniel.
"Swanson..." says O'Neill who is interrupted by Swanson who knows what he's going to say "Sorry Sir we can't, we're still making repairs and the drives are offline. It's going to take us a couple of days at least, we're in no condition to go anywhere right now." she says and shrugs her arms in a sorry gesture then walks away to check on her crews progress.
Woolsey steps forward "We can take Atlantis" he says "Can it fly?" replies O'Neill "Zelenka what is the condition of Atlantis" asks Woolsey "We have a few malfunctioning power conduits which is causing problems but we're working on it." replies Zelenka "Is the hyperdrive working?" asks Woolsey "I'm sorry it's not, we can't use any of our primary systems until we solve the power problem, we're barely keeping the shields online. I'm sorry." replies Zelenka "How long will the repairs take?" asks Woolsey "A few hours maybe, probably a little faster if we had Rodney's help." says Zelenka.
O'Neill rubs his forehead again "Ok Swanson, lock on to Carter and McKay's locators and beam them both and us to Atlantis." says O'Neill "Yes Sir" replies Swanson "Jack, what about them?" asks Daniel as he points to a security monitor showing the secure room with the Novum inside "What about them" says O'Neill "Well...we can't just leave them here." replies Daniel "We should keep them close." says Teyla.
"Woolsey?" says O'Neill "It's your call General" replies Woolsey "Ok we'll take them with us." says O'Neill.
They arrive on Atlantis inside the control room "Welcome back" says Zelenka "Thank you, what's the progress of the repairs?" asks Woolsey but before Zelenka can respond..."What the hell?" moans McKay as he comes up the stairs with Carter "You could have warned us before beaming us up" moans McKay "There was no time Rodney" says Sheppard "Yeah but I was in the bathroom." says McKay while fastening his belt and Carter is walking behind him biting her lip trying not to laugh.
"Sir" says Carter as she stands by O'Neill "Carter, welcome aboard" says O'Neill "Thank you sir, do you want to brief me on what's going on, Sir?" asks Carter "Well we got attacked by the Verdain who almost destroyed the Alliance and Atlantis, then these 3 came out of nowhere and saved our asses, then we got a message from Medrona and that's where we're heading...eventually." says O'Neill "The Medronans, really?. What did they want?" asks Carter "Not a clue, but we can't get there using the gate so we're flying there...if Zelenka and McKay ever get this thing moving." says O'Neill.
"So where's Cam and Vala?" asks Carter and O'Neill looks at her secretively "On a hunt." he replies "A hunt Sir?" asks Carter "A hunt." replies O'Neill "Right. Well I'm gunna go see if I can help McKay." says Carter and she walks off.
"What's this...where's all the power gone?" moans McKay "We were in a fight with a Verdain ship, it drained our shields and several power conduits were damaged." says Zelenka "What?" says McKay "We don't have time, Rodney" shouts Sheppard "Dr McKay, we need to get the engines online as soon as possible, that's your priority." says Woolsey "Fine. I leave you people alone for 5 minutes" moans McKay under his breath, then he leaves to sort out the power problem.