THE BEGINNING OF THE END
On Sehabo the Commander is on the bridge being informed by his guards of what just happened.
"The Humans infiltrated our ship, Commander." says one of the Guards.
The Commander stands with his back turned to the guards, facing out of the front of the ship with his hands behind his back.
"You allowed them to take my ship?." says the Commander.
"They were very fast, by the time we detect them it was too late." says the guard, "We tried to stop them, but they destroyed several of our ships before escaping." he adds.
"I do not care about your excuses." says the Commander, "Leave, I will deal with you later." he adds.
"There is something else, Commander. The Humans took the girl." says the Guard.
At this point the Commander turns around, brings his arms around to the front and walks over to the guard.
"What?!" shouts the Commander.
"The girl was taken from her cell." says the guard with his head lowered.
The Commander takes in a few deep angry breaths, then grabs the guard and throws him violently at the wall, the guards armour breaks apart and falls in to a pile on the floor.
"Arrggggh" screams the Commander, he walks back over by his seat, "Is the Vincular ready?" he asks.
"It is almost at the gate, Commander." replies a Verdain sat at the controls.
"Then I will meet them there." says the Commander and he walks out of the bridge, stepping on the broken armour on the floor as he goes.
Back on Atlantis, which has rejoined the slowly growing fleet of ships at the alpha site, O'Neill and his team have returned, Alisana lands the Verdain ship in the lower Jumper bay and everyone makes their way to the tower.
While Sheppard, Ronon and Mitchell head to the control room, O'Neill takes Alisana to be checked over by Keller in the infirmary, they walk inside and see Teal'c sitting up on the side of a bed.
"T." shouts O'Neill.
"O'Neill." replies Teal'c.
O'Neill gives him a friendly slap on the shoulder, "Good to see you buddy." he says.
"It is good to see you too, O'Neill." replies Teal'c.
"Hey doc, got a patient for you." says O'Neill as he points to Alisana.
"I'm fine." says Alisana.
"I'll be the judge of that." says Keller, "Come on, let's get you looked at." she adds and she gently guides Alisana over to a bed.
Teal'c sees a sad look on O'Neill, "Do not worry, she will be fine." he says.
"Lord knows what they did to her, Teal'c. How could they do that, she's like 16 years old, she's just a kid." says O'Neill as he sits next to Teal'c on the side of the bed looking over at Alisana.
"I should never have let them take her." adds O'Neill.
"It is not your fault O'Neill." replies Teal'c.
O'Neill looks at Teal'c, "I don't think we're going to win this one." he says, "I'm afraid of what's coming Teal'c." he adds.
Teal'c has a feeling of worry himself as he's never seen such fear in O'Neill's eyes before, he stands up and faces O'Neill.
"I am not ready to die, O'Neill. We have faced great enemies before, this one will be no different." says Teal'c, "However, if this is indeed the end, then we die together, fighting the enemy, with honour." he adds.
O'Neill jumps off the bed and grabs Teal'c in a manly hug, "Thank's Teal'c." he says.
Teal'c give O'Neill his traditional bow of respect, and a slight smile.
O'Neill goes over to Alisana's bed where she's being examined and patched up by Dr Keller, "How's our patient doc?" he asks.
"It's no as bad as it looks, she'll be fine." replies Keller with a reassuring smile, "I'll be right back." she adds and she goes off toward the medicine cabinet.
O'Neill moves around the bed and sits next to Alisana, "Are you ok?" he asks.
"Yeah." replies Alisana.
"Listen, err...I'm so sorry." says O'Neill.
"Jack..." says Alisana softly, she turns to face him with one hand on the bed, "It wasn't your fault. I didn't tell you who I was and I put everyone in danger. You should have left me there." she adds.
"Hey, there was no way in heck I was going to leave you in the hands of those...things." says O'Neill, "You're one of us now...you've got the uniform and everything." he says jokingly.
Alisana laughs a little, "Thank you for coming back for me." says Alisana.
O'Neill smiles at her, "Don't mention it, come here." he says and he gives her a hug.
Keller walks back over holding some pills and a small cup of water, "Am I interrupting something?" she says.
"No, we're err...we're good." says O'Neill.
"Take these, they'll help keep the swelling down." says Keller as she hands Alisana the pills and water.
Alisana takes them and hands the cup back to Keller, "Can I go?" she asks innocently.
"Yes you can go, but I want you to take it easy for a while." replies Keller.
"Thank you." replies Alisana as she gets to her feet and starts walking out.
O'Neill is a little surprised by her eagerness but happy she's alright, "Thanks doc." he says as he too gets to his feet and walks away, "Coming Teal'c?" he asks and together they all head to the control room.
As they enter the control room Raina spots Alisana and runs over to give her a hug, "I'm so glad you're safe." she says.
Teyla goes over and also gives her a hug, "Welcome back." she says.
Then Vala comes over to Alisana and for some reason gives her a tight squeezing motherly type hug holding Alisana's head in her chest, "Oooh..good to have you back." she says in a baby talk type manner.
"Thank's" says a slightly disturbed Alisana, she then smiles at Vala as she lets go.
Alisana looks over to Lya and Chaya and they share a gentle bow and a smile, then Raina holds Alisana's hand and takes her in to the briefing room to break the news about Jomar in private.
"It's good to have you back, General." says Woolsey.
"Sir." says Carter with a smile.
"Yes. It's good to be back." replies O'Neill, "Colonel." he adds.
"Hi Sir, I was just telling McKay here how his hyperdrive modifications almost got us all killed." says Sheppard.
"What?, Don't blame me. I warned about the hyperdrive before you left." moans McKay.
Sheppard smirks, "Relax Rodney, I'm kidding." he says.
"Any luck with that Oeveo gizmo?" asks O'Neill.
"Err yes sir." says Carter and she goes over to her laptop, she brings up the large display.
"This is a simulation of how the device works, Sir. As you can see it creates an energy pulse that shifts whatever object it's pointed at out of our normal reality." explains Carter, "The object is still there, we just can't see or interact with it." she adds.
McKay gets up and adds his bit, "The amount of power needed to use the device is enormous, lucky for us it just happens to be powered by what I believe is an early version of ZPM." says McKay proudly.
"Fascinating. But again I ask you...how does this help us?" asks O'Neill.
McKay and Carter look at eachother, McKay doesn't have an answer so looks at the floor and Carter bites her lip for a moment, "We don't know Sir." says Carter.
O'Neill makes a puzzled nodding motion, "Keep working on it." he says.
"Yes Sir." replies Carter.
Raina comes out of the briefing room leaving Alisana behind sat at the table, Ronon looks in and then back at Raina, "Is she ok?" he asks concerned.
"She just wants to be alone for a minute." replies Raina.
"How are you doing?" asks O'Neill.
"You know...I'm as good as can be. No I'm good, thank you." replies Raina.
O'Neill smiles and taps her on the shoulder, "If you need anything, just let us know ok." he says.
Alisana is sat in the briefing room slightly sprawled across the table, one arm held out on the table with her head resting on it, in the other hand she holds the other crystal Carter and McKay had, just staring and thinking about Jomar.
"I'm going to miss you, Jomar." she whispers to herself, "Wish you were here." she says.
Everyone is in the control room talking quietly out of respect so not to disturb Alisana.
Daniel is leaning against the railing with his arms crossed thinking to himself.
"I still don't understand." says Daniel as he breaks the silence in the room.
"Daniel?." says O'Neill.
"About Alisana." says Daniel.
"What about her?" asks Woolsey.
Despite them talking quietly, Alisana hears them talking about her so she puts the crystal down, gets up and slowly walks toward the doors.
As she gets to the doors she hears a jingling sound behind her and sees a faint green light on the back of the door, she looks behind her but sees nothing, she then continues walking out of the briefing room.
"Alisana is a Furling right?." says Daniel.
"Right." says O'Neill.
"Well from what they've told us, when the Verdain attacked the alliance of races they transported all the Novum children on to their ship, but Alisana isn't a Novum...so why was she on the ship?" asks Daniel.
"Why don't you ask me." says Alisana, walking towards everyone.
They didn't realise she was there, "Alisana, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk about you behind your back." says Daniel.
"It's ok, Daniel." says Alisana.
"It's pretty stupid really, I got myself in to it. Since I was little I've always been fascinated by technology, I use to sneak around the research labs and play with the devices our people were making just so I could learn more." says Alisana, "I just have a passion for technology, like General Carter." she adds.
"The carrier ship that the Verdain hijacked was the latest in our fleet, it was built using all our most recent technology and I couldn't resist checking it out. When no one was looking I snook on board the carrier to take a look around and I was in the engine room when I felt it taking off, I couldn't leave because I knew I would get caught and be in a lot of trouble, then the rebels took over the carrier and filled it with the Novum." explains Alisana.
"You were trapped." says Carter.
"Yes. I knew the rebels hated our people and I was afraid of what they would do if they caught me, so I hid amongst the others and just kept quiet." says Alisana.
Alisana looks at Raina, "I didn't want to lie to you." she says.
"You did the right thing." replies Raina, "It doesn't matter where you come from, or that you're not a Novum. I'll always be your friend." she adds.
"May be you should use the Stargate from now on." says Carter with a smile.
Both Raina and Alisana giggle at Carters comment, then Alisana remembers something.
"Stargate." says Alisana and she runs over to McKay, "What's the closet Stargate to Sehabo?" she asks in an urgent tone.
McKay gets on his laptop and takes a look at the address list, "P3X-504" says McKay, "But we haven't been there yet." he adds.
"Dial it." says Alisana, "Quickly." she adds.
McKay looks at Woolsey and O'Neill for orders on what to do.
"Alisana, what's going on?" asks O'Neill.
"Jack, the Commander used us on his shit to activate the Vincula device, but he needs to move it to a Stargate in order to use it. There is no Stargate on Sehabo so he'll be taking it to the closest one." says Alisana.
"What's a Vincula device?" asks Carter.
Alisana is growing inpatient, "I don't have time to explain, he's going to use it to Fade other worlds." says Alisana, "You have to stop him by dialling the gate before he can dial out." she shouts.
"Dial it up." orders Woolsey.
McKay rushes over to the dialling console and quickly dials P3X-504, a few tense seconds go by and the gate creates an active connection.
Alisana lets out a sigh of relief, "That means he hasn't got there yet." she says.