Carter turns to Lya "How many of the Novum were taken?" she asks, Lya stares at the table for a moment then looks back up toward Carter, "All of them." she replies.
As Lya gets up to join Chaya and the Novum, it falls completely silent and emotions of sadness, disbelief and understanding fill the room. Everyone glances around at each other unsure of what to say, Teyla, Carter, Vala and McKay are visibly shedding tears.
Daniel sees Vala crying and changes seats to sit by her "Vala." he says and Vala sniffles "Oh Daniel" she says as she leans in and puts her head on his shoulder, Daniel puts his arm around her for comfort.
Sheppard sees McKay crying a little and goes over to him and nudges his arm "What's wrong with you?" he asks "What!" replies McKay "Pull yourself together." says Sheppard "Did you not just hear that." wails McKay while rubbing his face.
O'Neill gently interrupts Lya, Chaya and the Novum "Erm..Chaya, is it?" asks O'Neill and she looks over "I take it these are.." says O'Neill "The ones who were taken." replies Chaya "Sorry. Could you sit down for a minute please." requests O'Neill and the Novum return to their seats and Chaya and Lya remain standing in the middle of the room.
O'Neill still trying to take it all in sits up straight in his seat "How do you know all this?" he asks "What do you mean?" replies Chaya "Well, you said this happened when you first came to this galaxy, but Ancients ascended millions of years after that didn't they?" asks O'Neill who then turns to face Daniel for verification.
Vala sits back up and Daniel removes his arm from around her "That's right, you wouldn't have been born then, how do you know?" asks Daniel "As a child I was told of the Novum and it was sad even then, but when we ascended, certain memories and emotions are shared between our people and I remember the events and feel the emotions our people felt as if I was there." explains Chaya. "The Nox are also told of the Novum as children, to ensure they are never forgotten. In fact all of the Nox have spent many thousands of years trying to connect with the universe in an attempt to discover the fate of the Novum." says Lya.
Mitchell leans forward and points to the Novum "Where have they been, and why did they only come back now?" he asks, Chaya and Lya look towards the Novum and Raina starts explaining...
The Verdain referred to the place they took us as Intrius, it was completely dark, there was only one planet and no stars.
They landed the carrier on the planets surface and told us not to worry and that we would be going home soon, they told us we would be a part of the greatest race in the universe. They locked us in the carrier for days and when they finally returned they were dressed in black armour and they began taking small groups of us outside and they continued to do this for weeks, but none of the groups that were taken returned and they just kept taking more and more.
When I was taken outside in one of the groups, we were taken inside a large structure and as we were walking through the halls we went passed large doorways and I could see inside. They were constructing ships, hundreds of them in every room we passed, and it was very strange because they Verdains numbers had grown.
I quickly realized that the Verdain were converting us to their cause and using us to build their army, we were lead in to a brightly lit room and chained to a wall. They began taking people from our group to a large chamber at the end of the room and we could see what was happening to them.
As they stood in the middle of a glass chamber they were surrounded by bright light and a few moments later the light faded and all that remained was some strange orange energy, a suit of black armour rose from below and the orange energy entered it, then the armour came alive and left the chamber, I immediately knew that was how they were converting us.
I panicked and knew I had to get out of there, I managed to break free from my chains and free the others, only Jomar and Alisana were left. We snook passed the Verdain and after finding a way out we made our way towards the carrier but it was guarded by Verdain so we made our way around and away from the structure.
For a few weeks we evaded the search parties sent out to find us and we found a place to hide and come up with a plan to rescue the others. We came up with a plan and put it in motion, we allowed ourselves to be seen by one of the search parties who chased us through the rocky landscape, although it was extremely difficult at first, we eventually overpowered them and took their armour.
We were shocked when we removed the armour and saw nothing inside, still we had to go ahead and we put on the armour and headed back to the carrier. As we were returning we saw that the carrier ship had been destroyed and thought it was too late, thinking they may still be some of our people remaining in the structure we headed inside.
When we got inside it was quiet and we didn't see any Verdain or our people, we found a command console in one the rooms and that's when we discovered their plans, they were planning to take all their ships back with them and use the fade to wipe out everything.
Then the ground started shaking and a loud rumbling sound could be heard throughout the structure, we made our way towards the large ship rooms and that's when we saw it. The ship rooms had opened up in to one big room and at the end was the same energy field that they took the carrier through, we arrived to see almost all the ships were gone and the back end of what appeared to be a massive ship was disappearing through the field.
We knew we had to try and stop them and warn our people but we needed a ship, we saw a few remaining smaller ships so we took one and headed through the energy field. When we came out the other side we didn't see any other ships so we decided to head for home to warn the council and alert our people.
From our perspective, we were only gone a few months, I realise now that time must work differently in Intrius. All our families, our friends, they're all gone.
O'Neill opens his mouth ready to say something but he appears unsure of exactly what to say "I'm sorry." he eventually says. "We are your family, we will never allow that to happen again." says Lya then she turns to Chaya "What are the others doing?" asks Lya "They are refusing to interfere." replies Chaya "You must take me to them." says Lya.
As Chaya turns around, the briefing room doors open and everyone starts making their way out "So...we're done then?" asks O'Neill with his head darting about.
Chaya and Lya stop near the control consoles, they turn and face everyone. "Are you leaving again?" asks Raina, Chaya walks to the Novum "For a short while, but we will return I promise. We must gather our people." replies Chaya in a reassuring tone of voice "Ok" says Raina, Chaya turns back and walks over to Lya.
"Mr Woolsey, O'Neill. Where we are going we will not be able to help you until our return" says Lya "Where are you off too?" replies O'Neill "To convince the others to help." replies Chaya. Lya looks at the Novum and then back at O'Neill and Woolsey "Can we trust them in your care until our return?" asks Lya, then O'Neill looks over at the Novum and gives them a gentle smile "You bet, we'll take care of them." says O'Neill "They're safe with us." says Woolsey.
McKay walks around to the console behind Chaya and Lya "Excuse me, sorry, sorry." he says as he passes by, Chaya turns around and smiles at McKay "Dr McKay" she says "Erm..Y..Yes" replies McKay with a slightly worried look on his face. Chaya places her hand on the console McKay is standing at and instantly repairs all the damaged systems and power conduits, "There, Atlantis is repaired." says Chaya "Really?!" replies McKay who turns away from Chaya to check his laptop.
"We must go." says Lya, Chaya looks at Sheppard and they share a smile, then Lya and Chaya face each other and hold hands, then in a burst of light they're gone.