Next Chappy. I'VE GOT A BETA AT LAST! Hope you see the difference.
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Sheppard's, McKay's, Weir, Carson and Radek stood round the computer screen as the MALP went through the gate. The image of M17-986 filled the screen. Luckily the gate had survived the blast fine.
"The ruins are about 35 degrees right. Angle the camera" Sarah told the technician. The angle turned. The ruins came into view. What was left of them anyway. Smoke rose up from several places over the horizon.
Rodney looked at the screen "The wraith most of found the ruins and decided to make sure we didn't find anything there that we could use against them. Most likely they were in orbit at the time and picked up on the power surge. I doubt there's anything left that we could use."
Sarah walked away from the screen; everyone could clearly hear her erratic breathing and she had started to pace "We're screwed. I'm going to die by being torn apart on a molecule level."
Major Sheppard walked over to her and took her by her shoulders. He forced her to look directly at her. "Stay calm. We're going to get through this."
This didn't do much to calm her down, in fact it seem to make her more panicked and angry.
"CALM! You may not be able to grasp how screwed we are but unfortunately I don't have that luxury or lack of brain power!"
The Major tried to stare her down. "We'll find a way home, it's just going to take a little bit more time than we first thought."
"Time is something we don't have! We don't have time! Even if we did, creating pathways to other realities is a bit far out of my capabities. Even if and that's a big 'if' I could find a way to create a opening, the probability that it would open to our reality is impossible to even think about."
He grabbed the sides of her head and spoke clearly to her
"We'll figure this out. I promised I would always bring you home and he'd track me down if I broke that promise. We have twice your brain power here, which has to count for something. If you start having a panic attack, we're screwed cause I can't figure this out without you"
This seemed to do the trick and she had paused in her panicking and had started to take deep breaths.
"If I had the time, I may be able to recover enough of the machine to build another or at least get some sort of address out of it to tune my own mechanism to our reality but no one would be able to do all that in less than 2 days. I'm the best and if I can't do it, no one can. I doubt even the ancients could work that big a project in this time frame."
John new she was, she had saved his ass enough times not to trust her judgement. It was just that part of his brain that told him nothing was impossible, especially when it came to McKay. He just didn't want to die like this. Home but not home. He always hoped to go out in a bang, preferring saving the planet or something but to go like this? The worst part was that no one back home would even know what had happened to them. Ford and Peterson would have reported back when they didn't check in on schedule. One of the scientists may have been able to tell them what the machine was but for all anyone would ever know they would just be missing in action. There wouldn't be any rescue this time.
Sarah had finally calmed down from her original panic and seemed to have found something else to get annoyed at. She was glaring at her male double, who was looking awfully smug about something.
"I don't know why you're so smug. I seriously doubt you could get us home and theoretically, you're going to go through phasing shifting as well."
Rodney's smug only seemed to get bigger. Radek gave him a small glare and gave her a guilty look.
One of the largest grins Sheppard had ever seen on Rodney crossed his face.
"I have an idea round the temporal entropic cascade failure"
Finished that one. I'm writing this on holiday with little internet connection, so if any of my facts are wrong… well… tough. Thanks for the reviews, keep it up.