Welcome back to another chapter.
Sorry for the delay, last weeks of school where hectic to say the least.
Review replies:
Beyogi: Why not? Daniel is one of the original members of SGC and he's been through hell and back, I think he deserves his own command but only way I can see that happening is if he enlists. He's from New York actually.
Well I've not seen anything that points to them building things like that anywhere, be maybe later if I find the place for that.
Chronus1326: I've got some plans for the aliens, which I presume are the Nakai, but even bigger plans for the berserk drones and their kind.
Happy reading.
Atlantis control room. Atlantis.
"Sheppard, report." O'Neill said over the comm
"Nothing to report. Plugged in the ZPMs and got the power back online. You should be able to dock Atlantis without a problem." Sheppards voice was heard back over the comm
"Ok, I'll be bringing her in as soon as Lucius give me the all clear." O'Neill responded
"We'll begin to look over the schematics and make out way to the dock." Sheppard replied
"Sounds good. See if you can get Atlantia's version of Lucius to help you." O'Neill replied
"Will do Sir. Sheppard out." Sheppard said
"Well the let's put her down then. Lucius how are we looking?" O'Neill said as he made his way to the control chair
Control Chair. Atlantis
"We're good to go. Lucilla told me that the problem was that her ZPMs where unplugged. Plugging the new ones in restored her back to working state." Lucius said standing behind the control chair when he arrived. "Looks like someone shut her down and then deleted every record from around that time."
"I take it Lucilla is the AI of Atlantia?" O'Neill said as he sat down in the chair and started to move Atlantis towards her place in Atlantia
"Yes. When we where alive she was something similar to what you'd call a wife to me. We always worked well together and she was good at managing many things at the same time, because of that she where chosen as the AI to use for Atlantia." Lucius said
"So she was a downloaded consciousness too?"
"Yes, every AI we used where a downloaded consciousness. But there where not that many of us, we didn't allow just anyone to become an AI, only the smartest and wisest where chosen to be downloaded, we couldn't risk a bad AI, because of that we also never programmed a single AI, overall there where less than a hundred AIs as well as several VIs which serve an AI as assistants within a certain area."
"So what you approved one every couple of million years?"
"Well, no. But most of us got tiered of the years and retired after a couple of million years. If you look at the total number over the years there's been around a thousand."
"How do you retire an AI?"
"Well you remove the power to the drive the AI is on, that way they go to sleep until the power is restored. We never delete an AI in case we need them again at a later time. At the end of the war, all of us where taken online to be able to coordinate the fleet over Earth against our enemy. Oh, how we fought, but to no use, in the end there where to many of them."
"How many ships did you have around Earth? Must have been a whole lot of ships if you had to use a thousand AIs."
"Well every AI could only handle a couple of ships or more depending on what level of concentration he or she had, thanks to the VIs who managed some weapons and shields we could increase the amount of ships a single AI could control by over 50% depending on the efficiency. But at the peak we had around twenty thousand ships around Earth. I myself only controlled ten or so since I had to manage Atlantis at the same time, but the oldest of us managed up to a hundred each at the same time, there was even this one who had been a general that controlled one tenth of the fleet by himself."
"Wow, he controlled over two thousand ships without help?"
"Yes, he didn't even want help from the VIs, said they where to stupid to be of any use."
"Five meters left sir." A technician shouted from a nearby console as Atlantis moved closer and closer to the dock
"Yea, I know." O'Neill replied to the technician "Guess we could use him, if we can get him out of retirement."
"Well, he where downloaded only a few years after me and I don't think he every retired, he was always controlling his own fleet and exploring new galaxies as well as going up against anyone who tried to fight us, I doubt that he retired when the war was over. It's more likely that he's out there somewhere protecting something or executing some plan that we set up at the end of the war."
"So where is he then?"
"I don't know. But he was never the subtle type, so it shouldn't be a problem to find him if you look for him. But judging from the things I've found in your reports it seems like he's no longer in this galaxy, otherwise he would most likely have aided you against the Ori and Goa'uld here in the Milky Way and the Wraith in Pegasus."
"Where could he be, do you know of any places left standing or any plans he could be working on?"
"I've got no idea. But I do know where the answer might be. The three locations the map showed where the last locations we held at the end of the war. I suggest you start to look there."
"So you do have some knowledge of the sites after all?"
"Only what I have in my memory, before things get saved to files I keep them in my memory so it won't be lost. It's strange however, this knowledge should already have been saved to files a long time ago, it's as if someone implanted the knowledge after I was shutdown and locked it there so I would know these things when I needed to. Running diagnostics…. large parts of memory locked and encrypted, could indicate that there's more that I don't know that I know about."
"Well I guess we'd better get there then so we can figure this thing out."
"That would be advisable."
"Well let's start by securing Atlantia and then we can send a team to the sites."
There was a loud thud as Atlantis sat down and her engines turned off, the moment Atlantis touched down lights that looked like streetlights started to come online towards her from a tall tower at the edge of the one kilometer wide, flat area, that surrounded Atlantis.
"I highly doubt that she's got intruders within her halls."
"Well I won't take any chances."
"Then I suggest you get to that tower where your team are coming from. There should be something similar to my control room inside where you can check the sensors."
"Sir, the area's secure, no hostiles detected and Lucilla is saying there's nothing else here either. She's Lucius counterpart." Sheppard reported over the radio
"Good to hear. I know who Lucilla is; Lucius filled me in. Seems like they where a couple too." O'Neill responded
"Really? She didn't say anything about that."
"Well either way get to the control room and get us plugged in."
"Yes, sir."
Control Room. Atlantia.
"What've you got?" Sheppard said
"Well it looks like there's no more problems. Power is back up in this sector, but still down in the rest of the city, but I'm not detecting any broken cables. It could be the same thing as it was here; someone simply unplugged the ZPMs. If that's the case then we only need to find the old ones and plug them back in." McKay replied standing over a console
"Well then, can we get some lights so we can see, please?" Daniel asked
"Oh, sorry, forgot that. There we go." McKay replied, as he turned on the lights in the entire sector. "Power levels holding steady. Looks like there's several of the Ancient generators placed around the city as well as two plugged directly into the shield."
"That would explain why the place wasn't flooded over the years. Who ever removed the ZPMs probably didn't want to mess with something so advanced." Sheppard said
"Yes, but I doubt that's the reason they where left running. I've checked the schematics for the generators and there's an off switch that kills the generator. Whoever did this didn't want to flood or destroy the city, he simply wanted to hide the city from prying eyes and scanners" McKay said
"But doesn't the generators give of so much power that you can't hide them?" Daniel said
"Yes, but these are behind some kind of cloak. Scratch that, it's a pocket dimension like the one under Atlantis." McKay said
"That's smart, so I take it the ZPMs could be traced then since they where removed?" Sheppard said
"Yes, three of them give of enough power to be detected by any sensor." McKay said
"So someone wanted to hide her. See if you can find the ZPMs. I they're still here we won't have to go back and find more." Sheppard said
"That won't work, they only give of power when active." Daniel said. "But maybe that someone wanted to be able to turn the power back on, so they could be close by."
"Then the sensors should be able to find them by shape, if they're inside the powered section." McKay said as he run over to another console and pushed some buttons.
"That won't be necessary, now that you've found me there's no need to hide any more." Lucilla said as she appeared, she was wearing the regular Ancient clothing and had straight red hair.
The map McKay used to see which section was powered down and which where powered up began to shift and soon the map showed that the entire city where powered up again.
"How did you do that?" Daniel said
"I turned the power back on, there's a switch on the ZPM-hubs that can turn the power off. I ordered the replicators to turn the switch back on."
"So you shutdown your self? Why would you do that?"
"Well, waiting alone for many millions of years is not as fun as you'd think, but there's other reasons, but those you'll have to find for your self at our last resting place." Lucilla said
"Where's the last resting place then?" Sheppard said
"I don't know, but it's something that's in my routines, they tell me to say to you that you must go to our last resting place to find the answers your looking for."
"This sounds better and better." McKay said "A war the Ancients lost and an AI which tells us to find a graveyard of the Ancient."
"Shut it Rodney." Sheppard said "check the scanners for anything that shouldn't be down here. I don't like surprises."
"Fine." McKay muttered as he worked on the console. "Nothing here. Wait, there's something out there." He pointed towards the area between the tower and Atlantis. "Looks like some debris and a corpse."
"A corpse?" Daniel said
"Yes, or at least that's what it looks like from the sensors."
"Well then, McKay you're with me. Let's check out that corpse. Daniel could you and Teal'c see if there's something else here. I doubt that a corpse would show up alone." Sheppard ordered
"Sure, we'll look for more. But don't forget that I get to order you around now and not the other way around." Daniel said and pointed to his stars.
"Sorry."
Sheppard and McKay ran out of the room while Daniel went to a console and started to search the city section by section.
Buffer Area. Atlantia
Sheppard and McKay moved over the large open area between the towers and Atlantis towards the area where McKay had found the corpse.
"Over there, see that bump. That most be it." McKay said. "No life signs detected."
"I see it. Looks like a fighter of some sort." Sheppard answered.
"Yea. Oh, that's not good. Is it just me, or does that look like the Aliens who attacked us on the alternate Daedalus?" McKay said nervously
"Yea, that's one of their fighters alright and that skeleton could definitely be from one of the Aliens." Sheppard said, he then activated the radio. "Daniel, we found the corpse, it's not more than a skeleton. Have you read the reports from the time we found a Daedalus from another reality?"
"Yes, you encountered a race of cyborgs or at least users of implants, they where quite aggressive if I remember correctly." Daniel replied
"Well the debris is one of their fighters and I'd say the skeleton is one of them."
"Considering the fact that theirs plenty of electronics here I think they're cyborgs." McKay said.
"Ok. We've found nothing else in the city. So it should be safe to bring her topside." Daniel replied
"Topside, you mean above the water?" Sheppard said
"Yes, why not, we can have Atlantis cloak the entire city if we stretch it, and when we're above we'll let Atlantia cloak herself."
"That could work, but ask General O'Neill first"
"Yea, I'm going to do that."
"Good. We're going to poke around here some more. Sheppard out"
Sheppard went up to the fighter and started to look for a way to open it while McKay was following the wires inside the cyborg.
Control Room. Atlantis.
"Say that again. You want to bring us out of the water?" O'Neill said skeptically "It was hard enough to hide Atlantis, this place is way bigger."
"Sir, what he's suggesting could work. Atlantis could stretch her cloak with enough power, we'd only have a couple of minutes before we burn the emitters but I doubt that we need that long, and when an emitter is no longer needed it could take over as a cloak." Sam said
"No, we'll stay down here, at least until the city's been searched." O'Neill said.
"Come on Jack. This city is so huge that several billion people could live here without problem. It'll take years to search." Daniel complained
"Then it'll take several years if needed."
"Fine, but I've got another request then."
"And what would that be?" O'Neill said sarcastically
"Well, this place is huge. Could I maybe use a section of it as a new Area 51? That way I don't have to build a new facility and we could get started at once. And I think we could get some of the scientists to help with the search." Daniel said
"That I can allow you to do. Just don't take to much space for yourself."
"This place is so huge that even if I took as much space as Atlantis have you'd have a hard time noticing it."
"Fine, take the space you need and then some. Just don't make a mess."
"Thank you. I've already designated some space for our needs. Do you want me to reserve some nice quarters for you while I'm at it?"
"No. Don't do anything else until I get there. O'Neill out."
"One more thing Jack, Sheppard might have found the enemy the Ancients where fighting against. We've encountered them before, we just didn't know it."
"Well spit it out."
"It looks like it was the aliens from the alternate reality that Sheppard and his team found."
"The ones who crashed into the Daedalus?"
"Yes, they found a fighter and a skeleton."
"I'm sending in the marines. Have you found anything else?"
"Nothing else. The city is clean. It's as if someone wanted us to find the debris and skeleton."
"Hm. Well we just found parts of Lucius memory is locked and that parts unlock when certain conditions are met."
"We found something similar here. Lucilla have routines that told her to tell us that we need to go to their final resting place."
"I don't like this Daniel. See what you can find. I get the feeling that someone is playing with us."
"I'll see what I can do. But I've never heard of any graveyard of the Ancient."
"Well there might be something different in that database."
"I'm on it. Daniel out."
Over the following days puddle jumpers began to fly between Atlantis and Atlantia as well as the main land in preparation for the presidents visit as well as the equipment that Daniel requested for Area 51.
Jumper Bay. Atlantis.
"Welcome mister President." O'Neill said as he saluted
"Thank you general. But please call me Henry." The president replied. "It's good to finally see the place. I heard that you got some more room to manage."
"Very well then, Henry. Yes, we've got enough room to hold several billion people without problem. Also Daniel have decided to build Area 51 within the halls of Atlantia." O'Neill said
"I saw it from above as my jumper came in for landing. It's huge, I'll send some more men your way to help with the exploration of this beast."
"Thank you. We really could use that help, it'll take us years to search the place."
"Well, say how many men you want and I'll give them to you. I want this entire city searched and ready for people in six months."
"Six months sir? That's a bit tight. Why the rush?"
"We know that the Ancient built things to last and this city is big enough to take the entire air force, Marine Corps, navy and the army. You see, I've always had this crazy idea of bringing our armed forces back together, but we've never had a place big enough before, but this city is built like it was meant for us to use it as a joint base."
"So you're going to bring everyone onto this base? What about secrecy? Someone will leak what we're up to."
"No, not everyone. I was thinking of starting with the Pentagon and Homeworld Command and then moving part of each command here, then slowly dragging more and more here until every commanding officer is posted here."
"Sir, with all due respect. How are we going to make sure no one leaks what we do, about Aliens, spaceships and that stuff?"
"I hear you've not been on the main land in a long time."
"No, sir."
"Well, it all started when Atlantis came back. A huge fireball landing outside of San Francisco, people where running for their lives, scientists predicted tsunamis over a hundred meters, but nothing came, then a photo of the Wraith and Atlantis taken with a satellite leaked. People started to put the pieces together, some of the once that put those pieces together worked for us and they had even more parts of the puzzle, pieces of tech that private firms researched, an image a marine had smuggled back from the siege and other things. In the end many people where convinced that we where hiding the existence of Aliens.
But that's not the worst part; someone managed to salvage a wraith dart before we got to it. They took it to the media."
"Ok, so they got a wraith, big deal. Just call it a fake."
"Wasn't that easy, someone felt the pressure and leaked some information on the Asgard, the Tollan and a couple of other Allies. But that wasn't the end of it, more and more people felt the pressure and more and more information leaked out to the public. So in the end we decided not to deny or confirm it and also not care too much about the leaks but instead control the leaks, we're getting closer and closer to disclosure, but it'll still take some time before everything is disclosed and the public know everything."
"Shit, that's not good."
"Well we knew that we'd have to disclose it sooner or later, we might as well do it now when we're at peace, if we were still at war with the Goa'uld people might panic."
"True sir, but I thought we'd have more time to prepare for it."
"Don't worry about it. You take care of Atlantia and everything out here and I'll take care of the public. I'm hereby putting you in command of Atlantia with orders to manage the city and prepare it for the commanders of our armed forces."
"Yes sir. I'll get it done."
"Good. Oh you might want to know that the organization that will overlook the SGC instead of the IOA will be called ACT, Atlantis Committee Treaty, they'll be stationed in Atlantis and Atlantia. That way they'll be able to get a better look inside the organization, but this time everyone will be ex-military personnel so they should understand things better than the IOA did."
"Very well, I hope that they have more between their ears than the IOA did."
"I hope that too. But enough talk, show me around the place."
"Happy to sir." O'Neill said as he turned around and motioned for the nearby transporter booth.
The two men moved towards the transporter booth where they moved of into Atlantis as O'Neill gave president Henry Hayes a tour of Atlantis and the small section of Atlantia that they'd explored and that Daniel had sett up Area 51 in.
Jumper One. Above the Atlantic Ocean.
A few weeks had past since the president had visited Atlantis.
Daniel had managed to retrieve most of the libraries for Lucius with only a few left to go.
At the moment three jumpers where on they way to the meteor sites marked on the hologram in episode one.
"Jumper Two and Three report in." O'Neill said over the radio
"Sheppard here, Jumper Two is on the move. ETA, two hours." Sheppard replied over the radio
"Beckett here, Jumper Three is on the move. ETA, two and a half hours." Beckett replied
"Copy that. Our ETA is three hours. Jumper One out." O'Neill said over the radio.
Two hours later Jumper Two arrived at meteor site two.
"Sheppard here. We're at the crater, cloaked and waiting for orders."
"Copy that. Scan the area and get me some intel." O'Neill relied
"Copy that." Sheppard said. McKay who where siting in the co-pilot seat started to scan the area. A few minutes later he got a result.
"O'Neill, I found something, this crater is not from a meteor impact, it's an impact crater from a weapon." McKay reported over the radio.
"From a weapon?" O'Neill replied over the radio
"Yes, looks that way, it's not natural but not carved out either and there's small amounts of elements that can be created by high powered energy weapons."
"That's bad. Beckett see what you find when you get to your site."
"Preliminary results from the scans Zelenka's been running points to the same elements here." Beckett reported
"Crap. We're still to far out to get any readings. Be careful when you go inside. McKay stay close to Sheppard and the marines. Same goes for you Beckett and Zelenka, stay with Teal'c."
"I'll keep them safe." Teal'c said
"Same here." Sheppard answered
"Good. Then you've got a green light. Search for anything down there, there must be a reason why someone took a shoot at these places."
Another couple of minutes passed by as Jumper One and Three continued towards their targets.
"Zelenka, are you there yet?" McKay said
"Soon a couple of more seconds. You know China's really beautiful."
"Well when you get there check for if you've got similar results to these."
"Yes, I've got something similar to that. What is that? Some sort of energy field?"
"Yes, it's the reading I got from what looks like a force field that covers a door."
"Hm, well then I guess there's one down here to. Any more help to find it?"
"Our was under the lake."
"Really? There's a lake here too. We'll check it out, might be the same here too."
"You do that, we're moving inside the structure."
Meteor Site Two. Quebec. Canada
The jumper moved through the force field towards the door on the other side.
When the jumper was on the other side of the field a door shut behind them and the door in front of them opened.
The jumper moved inside and the door shut behind them and again a door in front of them opened, this time there was another force field, on the other side was complete darkness
"Must be some kind of air lock in case the force fields shutdown." McKay said
"Maybe, either way we need to find what's down here." Sheppard replied
"True. Can you take us down to the right; sensors indicate a console about two meters to the right of the door."
"Hold on." Sheppard replied before turning the jumper towards the right and moving forwards and down, the jumper set down a few meters further away. The rear hatch opened and the eight soldiers in the back rushed outside and took up defensive formation around the rear, McKay and Sheppard exited the jumper and looked around.
"It should be just over there." McKay said. He turned on his flashlight and pointed it in that direction. In the light his flashlight cast a lone console could be seen. McKay moved of in the direction of the console and the soldiers formed a ring around him and Sheppard.
"Take it easy guys. I doubt there's anything down here. Can't you feel how old the air here is, I'm surprised there's still oxygen left inside." McKay said
"I'm sorry. General O'Neill's orders. We're to keep you and the Colonel safe at all cost." The leader of the soldiers answered
"Well relax. It's not like we'll encounter any Wraith or Goa'uld down here."
"You can never be to careful."
"Fine. Let's see what we have here." McKay said as the group reached the console and McKay started to press some buttons. After a while a humming was heard and the screen of the console flickered to life, a couple of more presses and the lights in the room come online. The group turned around and saw a huge room filled with ships of very different types, there where seed ships and Auroras, cruisers and jumpers and some other designs that where new to the group, one of the new designs look like Destiny but it was slimmer and there where weapon mounted all over the ship, another design looked like a jumper but it was thinner and was equally packet with weapons, there where no hatch or door to enter the ship and also no window on the front.
"That must be some kind of design for Destiny that the Ancients discarded for some reason and that must be some kind of remote controlled jumper, probably also a discarded design." McKay said looking out over the ocean of ships.
"I doubt that's a discarded design, I can see at least five ships of that design further in and those jumpers looks more like combat drones." Sheppard said
"Really, then are they early seed ship designs that they changed maybe? Yea, you could be right about the jumpers."
"Or some kind of escort maybe?" Sheppard guessed
"That might be it. We know they where at war at the time of their extinction, maybe they sent some help along with Destiny."
"Whatever they used these ships for back in the days, they're our now. See if you can run some diagnostics on them to see which of them work and which we need to repair before we can use them."
"I'm on it."
"Soldiers watch him. I'm going back to the jumper to see if I can radio O'Neill about our findings." Sheppard ordered the soldiers.
"Yes, sir." The leader of the soldiers said.
Sheppard went back to the jumper and sat down in the pilot seat.
"This is Jumper Two reporting in. We found what looks like a hangar, but bigger, there are hundreds of ships here, some are of know designs and some are new. I also think I just saw a Supergate at the other end of the hangar, but it's hard to say from this distance." Sheppard reported
"That's good to hear. We could use them against the Wraith when the time for that battle comes. Beckett, Zelenka and Teal'c are having some problems, it appears that the entrance was blocked by some rocks, they're excavating the place right now, but it's slow going with drones."
"Sir, we found what looks like combat jumpers among the ships, remote controlled, I think there's some weapons that could be of use to Becketts team."
"Well see if you can find one that works and send it to them. I hope it has a cloak."
"Yes sir. We'll get one working and send it to them."
"Good."
"General. If I may interrupt, I know of the jumper type that you've found. They're indeed combat drones, if they can turn the transmitter back on I can remote control one of the ships to Becketts team and have it help them." Lucius said as he appeared on the jumper's screen "And might I also suggest that you start to use the wrist mounted communicator. It's working in subspace and projects a hologram of the one you're speaking with if you want to. It's a major improvement over this type of conversation."
"You heard the man Sheppard. Fix the transmitter." O'Neill said. "Lucius can you please save your suggestions on our equipment until after the mission?"
"I'll get McKay on it right away." Sheppard said
"Very well, I'll save my suggestions until later." Lucius said as he disappeared from the screen.
"Beckett you hear that? We're sending you help to deal with the rocks." O'Neill said
"Yes we hear you, the drones don't really help much, they only make small holes and there's to few of them to make a difference." Beckett replied
"Well keep going. We've just arrived at our location and we're going inside now. O'Neill out"
Sheppard got out of the jumper and walked up to Rodney.
"See if you can get the transmitter online, Beckett's group got stuck and Lucius wants to take one of the combat jumpers to help them, but he needs then transmitter back online to do that." Sheppard said
"Transmitter… Hm, let's see there we go, should be online now." McKay said, as he said that one of the combat jumpers took of, cloaked and made it's way outside.
Crater One. Siljan. Sweden
Jumper One moved through the force field like Jumper Two had done and then through the air lock. They set down, find a console and turned the lights back on.
"Looks like some kind of labs." Daniel said
"Yea, could be." O'Neill replied "Ok, form up into pairs, search the labs for anything that works." He then said as he turned to the soldiers
"Yes sir." The soldiers said as they moved out two and two and started to search the place, after them came O'Neill and Daniel who went of together.
The first console they found was dead and so were the next and the one after that.
"Looks like the place's a dead end." Daniel said disappointed.
"Yes, they must have destroyed the equipment when they where losing the war." O'Neill replied
"Sir, we've found a working console." A soldier screamed from the other side of the room.
Daniel and O'Neill made their way to the console and when they got there Daniel started to work on the console.
"Jack, there's four video files here." Daniel said
"Play them." O'Neill said
"Playing file one"
[In ancient]
"We've just managed to create a black gate from a new material, it seems to be able to detect all frequencies of an active wormhole, natural or artificial, with this we hope to transport our entire civilization far away from here and escape this enemy.
It seems like the material is leaking some kind of background radiation, nothing mayor and it wont be affecting the operation of the gate."
"Playing file two"
[In ancient]
"If you're seeing this then at least one of our plans are still in motion, I can't tell you anymore. But prepare yourself, a storm is coming and it can't be stopped, we tried and we failed, the enemy is to numerous to count, for every ship we destroy they have thousands waiting to take it's place, it's like a plague. For now at least we've been able to keep Earth's location a secret and so we're safe here.
We barely manage to build ships to replace the once lost, it's fortunately that we've got AIs manning the ships or there would be none of us left to fight them."
"Playing file three"
[In ancient]
"Whatever you do, don't use the black gate until the time's right or as a last resort.
We used one of them and the radiation levels spiked; I've never seen anything like it in my thousands of years alive. It seems like our enemy can track it. They retreated immediately, but they soon regrouped and they're on there way here and to the gate we dialed right now, the radiation must have passed through the gate, we're pulling back all of our available ships to defend Earth from them."
"Playing file four"
[In ancient]
"They're here, our losses are heavy, Atlantis and Atlantia where barely able to escape under the surface of the ocean before their shields failed. We finally sent Destiny, the seed ships and their escort on their way with the black gate in her cargo hold. We lost several thousand ships just to buy them time to get out of the solar system. The gate we dialed was lost thirty minutes ago and the ships from that battle is on their way here as I..." an alarm goes of and the Ancient turns away.
"What is that? They're following Destiny? Well then we might just make it." the Ancient turns back with a relaxed face.
"It's as we thought, they can detect the radiation the gate emits, I've calculated that the radiation will be back at normal levels within a couple of million years. So hopefully they'll lose Destiny before our plan starts to come together.
We'll be going into stasis to try to outlive our enemies patience, thought we fear they're machines and so they might never get tired of waiting, that's one of the reasons why we're going to seed a lesser form of ourselves on the planet and hope that they'll lose interest because of that, they seem to specifically target very advanced races, it wasn't more then two hundred years ago that the Asgard accepted defeat and fled to a galaxy they call Ida, it's a totally empty galaxy which the enemy has already searched, hopefully this will keep them safe, I fear they might never recover, before that the Sekkari and Gadmeer where defeated. The other reason that we seed our lesser form is so that when the time comes they'll find and awaken us, with any luck you're the ones we seeded, we've left clues around the galaxy for you to find and learn from, if you're unable to wake us up contact the Asgard in Ida through their white gate, they took it with them and so you should be able to contact them wherever they are. The address is written on the wall behind you, take it and go there even if you don't need to, they can help you and us in this fight.
This is Commodus signing of"
"Wow." Was all Daniel managed to a say.
"Yea, wow." O'Neill said. "Guess the enemy was the plague that wiped them out."
"Probably. But he said that… wait how did you understand all that?"
"Gift from Lucius, he left a few things when he removed knowledge of the libraries."
"Oh, I see. He can do that?"
"Yea, either that or he putt it back in when he had downloaded everything."
"Well I've got to admit that it's been easier and easier to understand Ancient and I even managed understand McKay when he started to go all sciency on me. You think Lucius left some piece in me too?"
"Probably. It could have been the only way he felt he could reward you for helping."
"True. Well, I guess we can get out of here now and go back to Atlantia."
"Yes, I doubt that we'll find anything else here. We'll send a couple of jumpers with soldiers and science personnel."
Daniel and O'Neill returned to the jumper and the soldiers followed behind them, when everyone was inside O'Neill piloted the jumper out of the labs, out of the lake and back towards Atlantis.
Crater Three. Zhejiang. China
Beckett was sitting in the pilot seat controlling the drones that he used to excavate the entrance.
"Lucius here. The drone will be there in a few seconds. Might I suggest that you get out of its way so I can help you?" Lucis was heard over the radio
"I hear you, moving away now. I'm going to call back the drones." Beckett replied as he moved the jumper away from the rocks and ordered the drones to return to the jumper. The drones returned and sat down in their respective places in the racks and after a few more seconds the combat jumper arrived and started to fire at the rocks, it only took the combat jumper a few seconds to clear the rocks.
"Thank you Lucius." Beckett said
"Happy to help. I'll escort you inside while I'm here."
"Ok, feels good to have back up."
The both jumpers moved of towards the entrance and entered just like the other two jumpers had done at their sites, once inside Becketts jumper touched down while the other hovered above, the hovering jumper then turned on searchlights and started to sweep the area. Beckett, Zelenka and Teal'c exited the jumper and went over to the console.
"I'll see what I can do here." Zelenka said as he got to work on the console. "Wait this can't be, they shouldn't work this long."
"What is it?" Beckett said as came up and looked over Zelenka's shoulder.
"This room is filled with thousands of them."
THE END
Hehe, I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger, well not really, but still.
What do you think that they found down in Crater Three?
As always, please review.
What do you want to see happening in the next episodes?
Pegasus maybe?
Some new tech?
A new enemy?
There's no bad ideas, put please be specific.
The next episodes will be based entirely on what you people want, unless it conflicts with the bigger plan, so if I get nothing you'll get a couple of empty A4 to read in return.
The last section might be a bit sloppy, that's because I wrote it around 03:00 in the morning, hope you don't mind the sloppiness.
Update: Tried to re-form the format of the story.
Re-wrote parts of the chapter and polished some things.