Chapter Sixteen
Ten Thousand Years Later
Year Two of the Expedition, 1621 hours(Atlantis Base Time)
The energy crystal fell from her hand and landed on the floor with a loud ping. It bounced and skidded a few centimeteres before coming to a complete stop on the frost covered floor. Her hands were beginning to shake from the chilled air inside the ancient vessel. Swenson quickly bent down and picked up the energy crystal and put it back in its slot. The console remained dark as she closed its insides. She looked at the console for a moment, then pressed several buttons. It remained dark as she pressed another button on the console.
"Whats taking so long, doctor?"
She pressed another button then turned frowning toward Kurt, "Either this console was damaged badly by the crash or theres no power coming to it anymore."
Kurt looked over at Yanson who was now switching his shoulders with Lee on it. "Okay, you get down to engineering and try to power it up. Me and Yanson are gonna go and try to find the medical bay." Kurt paused while talking, he tapped his hand on his sidearm. "Be sure to keep this out at all times. We can't afford to lose you to a Wraith."
"Well its comforting to know that you care," she said smiling.
"Well," said Kurt looking at her smiling. "Me and Yanson don't really know how to fix the gate," replied Kurt.
Swenson smiled and shook her head. "And for a second, I thought you cared," she said with a chuckle as she began to walk down a corridor.
Kurt smiled and began to walk in the other direction, his feet crunched slightly under the frosty floor plates. Behind him walked Yanson carrying Lee, they both walked down the dark cold corridor. Debris was strewn everywhere as they walked, they stumbled onto a few skeletons scattered around the hallways. Each had bad injuries that had smashed several of their bones, moments before death.
They continued walking down the corridor until they reached the end of the hallway. They took a left and continued walking down the ships hallway. Kurt stepped over a large beam that had collapsed in the hallway and continued walking. Wires hung from the ceiling and metal was twisted into random directions. Kurt looked up past the fallen beam and into the deck above them, the ceiling was frost covered just like the ceiling of the deck they were on. The hand of an ancient skeleton stuck out from one side of the hole, it was twisted and several fingers were missing from the old skeleton
Kurt exhaled and looked back down the corridor, his flashlight barely lit up the fairly large corridor. The wall was frost covered and a light shade of grey from fires that had burned here. Kurt continued walking down the corridor as the sound of wind slamming up against the hull of the old space craft. It sent a large creaking sound through the metal walls. They both continued walking down the frosty corridor.
"Sir, this ship looks and sounds, like its really beat up. I think salvaging it is out of the question," said Yanson behind him. His voice echoed down the metal hallway.
Kurt nodded and turned down another hallway, he held his P-90 with one hand using the flashlight to scan the hallway ahead. He continued forward and stepped up and onto a large fallen section of the wall. He walked forward with his gun at the ready, he scanned it back and forth on the wall ahead of him. His standard issue military boots clunked loudly as he walked on the heavy metal section of wall. He walked forward and jumped down off the fallen wall and scanned the hallway up ahead with his guns flashlight.
His flashlight beam sweeped back and forth, it disappeared as the entire corridor lit up. The lights on the ceiling flickered to life and the corridor was fully illuminated by them. Kurt looked up ahead at the hallway ahead of them, it was empty and curved up ahead. He reached down and grabbed his radio, turning it on as he did. "Swenson, did you do that?"
The radio was quiet for a few seconds until the calm voice of the doctor broke through the silence, "I think so. I'm in their engine room and I think I managed to get power to most sections of the ship with their batteries."
Kurt frowned and looked at Yanson. "How do they still have power after so long?"
"I don't know. Most ancient devices seem to be able to keep a charge for a long time, so whats different about this ships power battery?"
Kurt shook his head, "alright. Have you found any schematics yet?"
"I think I have. The schematic shows the ships medical bay to be in the forward compartments on the deck above the one we entered on."
"Alright, meet us there as quick as you can," said Kurt feeling a bit releaved at finding a way to help Lee. Maybe he wouldn't lose another man after all, he thought to himself quietly as they began to walk again in the other direction.
Kurt crouched down and picked up the small device from the ground. He looked at the round metal machine for a second, then looked over at Swenson. "What do you suppose this is?"
"Well since were in the medical bay, I assume its something to do with medicine," said Yanson as he layed Lee down on the floor. He pushed a skeleton on the floor away with his boot and looked back up at Kurt.
"No, you think? Thanks for stating the obvious," replied Kurt.
"I'm just saying, sir," he replied with a smile.
Kurt looked from the large man to the doctor, she nodded and took the device from his hand. She looked at it closely before it lit up and lights began to blink different colors on its outside. The bottom of the device glowed yellow and a slight haze could be seen coming from the light. She looked back up at Kurt with a surprised look on her face. "I don't know why it turned on."
"Maybe its reading your thoughts and knows that Lees hurt," said Kurt looking at Lee on the floor. "It doesn't matter, just see if it will work on him."
Doctor Swenson walked over to the where Lee lay on the ground. He was slowly blinking his eyes, and looked up at her as she bent down beside him. She removed the large red stained bandage and brought the device up. She held the device over his bloody leg and the wound began to glow. The skin around the large hole began to seal up and the wound slowly started to close. A small amount of blood leaked out though the sealing wound and pooled on the floor. The wound closed and the device stopped glowing in her hand.
"I can't believe that actually worked," she said looking up at them. "Like the probability of that being used for that was like almost nothing."
"Well, believe it," said Yanson who moved over to Lees side and slowly helped the man to his feet. Lee swayed slightly before finally coming to a steady stance and giving a nod to Yanson.