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EvilTheLast: It was the only way I could work in the map of the Stargate network and they'll need it in the future as it's the only dedicated shipyard they have, the one under Atlantis is just a build hall for anything they need, so while ships can be created there it requires more time and resources than Chrona.
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Destiny.
15:12 29/10 2012
Three years had gone by since Destiny's crew had gone into stasis and on the day that marked the end of the three years Destiny begun to wake them up, one at a time, starting with Dr. Rush and Colonel Young. Stepping out of the pods they both looked around and saw the still broken pod, which Eli should have repaired. Fearing the worst they walked up to the pod and saw that it was empty. Despite hating the kid at times, Rush had taken a liking to him and now that he was gone he missed him. Young felt the same, but for other reasons, as he'd come to rely on Eli when he needed help with something and he'd get the job done. Also contrary to Rush he had no hidden agenda.
"I'm going to check the ship Colonel. See how she looks and what damage Eli could have caused while he was alive." Rush said motioning at a door.
"You do that, I'm going to wait until the rest of the crew comes out of stasis." Young replied.
"The ship probably knows that we two are in command and so it woke us up first so that we can help the others."
"Rush, take a look at this." Young said as he found the Kino that Eli had programed to return to them, taking it up and throwing it to Rush, but as soon as the Kino left his hand it stopped and hovered, taking the Kino again Young walked up to Rush and handed it to him.
"It's probably Eli's, he might have recorded something."
"Can you see if he did record something?"
"I'll take a look, but I bet he just complained about being left alone."
"He's a good kid Rush, don't act like you don't care about him."
Rush simply frowned and walked out of the room with the Kino in his hand on his way to the bridge, leaving Young to stand guard over the pods.
Bridge. Destiny. New Galaxy.
15:17 29/10 2012
Arriving on the bridge Rush sat down at a console and begun to look through the footage of the Kino and when he was done he was surprised, he knew Eli was a smart kid and at times brave, but this was not what he expected to find.
"Colonel, there's something you should see." Rush said over the radio.
"Can it wait? The first people are coming out of stasis at the moment." Young replied.
"It's the Kino, there was some footage in it, quite a lot actually and some of it should interest you."
"I'm on my way as soon as Scott is out and is ready to take over."
After half an hour Young walked in to the bridge.
"Ah, Colonel, good to see that you have the time to come here." Rush said sarcastically.
"Cut it Rush. Do you know anything about the small half domes that move around in the corridors?"
"That's something Eli mentioned in his recording, it appears to be some kind of cleaning bot, but there's some things that I think you'll find more interesting than that, Eli's found four more repair bots as well as the materials they use to make repairs and according to him we don't have to worry about using the bots, they don't use much and there's quite a lot of it."
"So you dragged me up here just to tell me that we can repair the ship? That could have waited until after everyone's awake."
"Just take a look at the footage Colonel." Rush said as he played the Kino footage recorded by Eli.
After seeing the footage there was a pause for a few minutes before the Colonel opened his mouth.
"Get me a rout to the section where Eli was last seen." Young said
"Sure, but with all due respect Colonel, three years is a little too long for him to have survived." Rush said
"Too long? Eli's barely a kid, he should have more than ten times that time." Young roared into Rush face.
"Fine, the corridor Eli talks about had been repaired so it should be simple to walk through it to get to that section, but don't expect to find anything but a corpse "Can you use the sensors to see if there's anything there at least?"
"Already did, there's nothing there, but I doubt the sensor could find a bile of bones… Hold on, this is interesting." Rush said as he begun to push buttons on the console.
"What is it?"
"Just before the power was supposed to run out, there was a power signature in the room similar to that of a stasis pod activating."
"So he found a stasis pod in the room?"
"He could have found a pod and I hope that's it, because otherwise we have company that we don't know about."
"Can you see if the pod has deactivated?"
"Yes, there should have been a similar energy signature then, but so far there's been nothing."
"Good, is there anything else? Otherwise I have to get back to Scott and see how the wake up process is going."
"There is, we will be recharging in a few days, thought you might want to know."
"A few days? I thought we would wake up after the ship had recharged?"
"Yes, after three years and when the ship had enough power, but here's the interesting part, this is the galaxy we were drifting to." Rush said as he brought up a map of the universe and zoomed in close to the center.
"And what's so interesting about this?"
"We're here." Rush said as he zoomed out and a line appeared between that galaxy and another even closer to the center of the universe.
"So we drifted a little further than we should have."
"If by a little you mean several galaxies, then yes we drifted a little further."
"What are you saying?"
"When Eli activated the repair bots they must have repaired the connection to a primary power storage as well as several secondary power storages and they were all full, we have more than double the power storage we used to have, we can go months without recharging if we don't waste it."
"That's good, anything else?"
"Yes, this is the sensor data from the last time Destiny recharged, a few months ago." Rush said as he pulled up the sensor log.
Unknown system. Unknown Galaxy. Sensor Log.
02:45 09/07 2012
As Destiny's power was starting to run low she searched the data base for any stars that she could use and she'd found this system, consisting of only a brown dwarf and a single small planet, which once could have supported life, but now it's orbit had decayed so much that it was a pool of molten lava with atmospheric temperature being several thousand degrees warm. Having chosen this system Destiny changed her course, as she closed in on the system she sent out a subspace message when she detected control ships in the system, a few moments later she received five replies.
Dropping out of FTL inside the system's she angled towards the star and the ten control ships between her and the star, before approaching the ships. The moment the control ships detected Destiny they deployed drones. In return Destiny lowered her main weapon and powered up her anti fighter turrets in preparation of the drones, then she sent a set of coordinates through subspace and just as Destiny opened up with her turrets on the Drones four hyperspace window tore open behind the control ships and a fifth opened right next to Destiny. Emerging from the hyperspace windows was five command class ships, the moment they came through they opened fire, the four ships close to the control ships opened up with its main guns and ripped through six of the control ships and badly damaging the rest, the fifth ship close to Destiny didn't use its main guns due to the size of the drones and so it followed Destiny's lead and fired its turrets at the approaching drones.
As the drones from the destroyed ships were taken over by the remaining control ships something unexpected happened, instead they started to act up due to the amount of damage the control ships systems had taken, some started to fly around in complicated maneuvers but without any goal at all, others simply self-destructed and the rest turned on each other, attacking anything that moved, then a few seconds later the remaining control ships were taken out and the drones powered down.
The five command class ships moved of towards the edge of the system while Destiny recharged, they then recharged one by one until they were all fully powered and then they waited until Destiny could jump to FTL before the six ships split up, by jumping away, the command class ships by hyperspace and Destiny through FTL, each with their own set of coordinates.
Bridge. Destiny. Unknown Galaxy.
15:32 29/10 2012
Young was standing behind Rush, looking over his shoulder, in disbelief for almost a minute before speaking.
"Did I just see five copies of Destiny?" Young said
"No, I've compared those ships to Destiny, while they are similar to Destiny they are far better armed as far as I can tell plus they use hyperdrives and this is not the first time either, since we went to sleep the ships have arrived every time Destiny have recharged and the star have been blocked by control ships."
"Then I hope they continue to do their job." Young said before turning around and walking towards the exit of the bridge
"Colonel, I'm going to unlock the gate so we can dial out in case we need to, unless you have any good reason why I shouldn't."
"Leave the gate alone, at least until we can contact Earth."
"Then I will un-pack the stones and report to Earth."
"Fine, just don't do anything stupid." Young said as he exited the bridge and made his way to the stasis pods where people still were waking up.
Stasis Corridor. Destiny. Unknown Galaxy.
15:42 29/10 2012
Scott was standing in the corridor together with some marines and helped people out of the pods as they woke up, only a few was left inside the pods when Colonel Young returned from the bridge.
"How's it going Scott?" Young said
"Fine sir. Only a few to go."
"Good, then I'll take over here. Gather a team and radio Rush, he'll give you instructions on where to go."
"Yes Sir." Scott said after some hesitation, while Rush had saved the life of them a few times Scott still had a hard time trusting the man.
After motioning for three marines to follow him Scott walked out of the corridor and radioed Rush.
"Rush, Colonel Young said that you had a mission for us?" Scott said into the radio.
"Ah, I'll take it that he's told you what it's about?" Rush replied
"No, he did not."
"I can't tell you over the radio, but trust me on this, you need to get moving towards the front of the ship, radio me when you find a door with white letters, they should say SPACE, don't try to open the door it's locked down, but I'll get it open for you."
"Rush, we're the only ones with radios, no one else can listen in on what we say."
"I don't want to take that risk and neither does the Colonel."
"Fine, I'll get going." Scott said reluctantly as he and his marines moved of towards the front of the ship.
"Rush, we're here." Scott said as he found the door labeled SPACE.
"No, I can see were you're at and that's the wrong space door, the one you're looking for is further down the corridor and then it's somewhere in the middle of the left corridor."
"How about now." Scott said as he and his team had moved to the location Rush had said.
"That's it. Let me get that door for you." Rush said as he continued to try and override the door and after a few minutes he finally managed to get it open, in his mind he praised the young genius that had managed to lock down the door so hard that it had taken him over half an hour to unlock it and Eli hadn't even been on the bridge.
"We're through." Scott said as his team moved inside the corridor.
"Good, then make your way to the end of the corridor, there should be a door to the left and one to the right, take which every you want, they both lead to the same room, it's some sort of storage so don't touch any of the boxes."
"We're moving." Scott said as he and his team ran across the corridor, opened the door, split up with two people in each group and then they headed to the different doors.
Once there they waited until Scott gave the signal, when he did they opened the doors, tossed a flash-bang inside and moved inside with guns raised the moment it went of. On the inside they found nothing but crates and more crates, just as Rush had said.
"Scott, did you just flash-bang the storage room?" Rush said over the radio as he'd heard the bang over the radio.
"Yes, didn't realize how big this place is." Scott replied.
"Don't waste them, we've got too few and I doubt you'll find anything that will get affected by it either way."
"Copy t.." Scott said before turning to his left and firing of his weapon, as he stopped firing he and the marines walked up to the place Scott had been shooting at.
"Rush, do you happen to know how to fix one of the repair bots?" Scott said as he realized that he'd just slaughtered two of the repair bots.
"No and from what I know they can't fix each other either, don't tell me you've destroyed one."
"More like two."
"Two? Leave them and move to the right side of the room, there should be a door there, take a left on the other side of it and work your way to the tip of the ship." Rush said as he made a note for Brody and Volker to see if they could fix the repair bots, he then got out of the chair and made his way to the room where they where storing the communications stones.
"Scott here, can you tell us were to go next we're stuck, can't find a way to get any further forward." Scott said as he and his team was standing in front of the door where Eli had recorded his last message.
"I'm not at a terminal right now so I can't check, but have you found a console anywhere around there? That should be the most forward point." Rush replied as he approached his location.
"Yea, there's one right here, but there's also a door here so it can't be the most forward point."
"That's one door which we can't open, what you need to do is check if there's any sign of someone there, anything at all and then report back to Colonel Young."
"Who or what are we looking for?"
"Can't say that over the radio, but there could be someone or something there so be careful, it doesn't have to be new signs so be on the look out for anything."
"Fine, but when I get back we're going to have a talk."
"Just look there and Young will fill you in when you get back."
"Fine." Scott said as he turned of his radio and begun to search to area for any clue that someone had been there.
Stone Room. Destiny.
16:01 29/10 2012
Rush walked into the room with a briefcase in one hand and two handcuffs in the other, he walked up to the table and but the briefcase on the table, he opened it and removed the plate on which the stones was placed, next he took up a stone and placed it next to the plate, he then took one of the handcuffs and put it on his arm and the other end around the armrest of the chair, the other handcuff he put on the same armrest and the other end he held on to in his already locked up hand.
When he felt that the restrains was sitting properly he took the stone and held it above the plate before dropping it and locking his free hand into the second handcuff before the stone hit the plate, as the stone hit the plate he braced himself for the feeling of someone else's body, but it never came, frustrated he pulled out the key he'd hidden in his sleeve and unlocked one cuff, he then put the key back in place and tried again, but nothing happened so he removed the cuffs again and changed stone to the other one, then he tried again with the same result, Rush was not one to worry, but this made him worry, there was always someone on stone duty and there was supposed to be someone on stone duty now after three years waiting for them to return, he knew that even after three years General O'Neill wouldn't have forgotten them, he would probably be waiting for them personally at the stones, that meant that something had happened on Earth.
Getting out of the chair he threw everything back together back into the briefcase and ran out of the room, as he was getting close to the stasis pods, where he hopped that Colonel Young still was, he crashed into said Colonel, resulting in both of them ending up on the floor.
"Ah, Colonel, we've got some problems." Rush said.
"I know, Scott scraped two repair bots and because of those cleaning bots he can't even find footmarks in the dust."
"We've got worse things than a few broken repair bots and a clean ship, I can't establish a connection to Earth with the stones."
"Hm, keep this quiet until we're back our feet, I don't want the crew to panic Rush."
"I was thinking the same, but I've found something that I think can help, there's a planet nearby, we'll be in range in a few hours, we could stop by there and let the crew stretch their legs a bit."
"Wildlife?"
"None."
"Sounds like a good idea."
"Good, I'll get working on the gate, Eli might have locked it down even tighter than the door I had to open for Scott."
"I'll be on the bridge, everyone's out of their pods and except for some nausea and headache everyone's fine." Young said as he walked past Rush and headed for the bridge, Rush turned around and followed behind the Colonel down the corridor and then they went their separate ways.
Bridge. Destiny.
16:10 29/10 2012
Colonel Young walked into the bridge to find Volker, Brody and Greer manning the consoles just as he'd asked them to.
"How are we doing?" Young said as he sat down in the captain's chair.
"Weapons are online and working to one hundred percent and so are the shields." Greer said.
"Sensors and FTL are working as they should." Volker said.
"Life-support and other internal systems are working as they should, but the gate is unresponsive." Brody said.
"Rush is trying to get the gate back online, Eli locked it down so no one would be able to dial in." Young said
"So where is Eli then? If he locked it he should be able to unlock it with ease." Greer said.
"What I'm about to tell you is not common knowledge and neither should it be, so keep it secret. Myself, Rush and Eli was that last to go into stasis, but there was only two pods left that worked, in the end Eli was the one who was going to attempt to fix it, he had two weeks from the time we went into stasis to the time when the ship would run out of power and shut down life-support.
As you know Scott took a team of marines away, I told you that he was going to secure the ship, what he really did do was search for Eli, they didn't find any traces of him but Rush did find an energy signature which is similar to that of a stasis pod activating, which means that either Eli found a pod or we have guests, unfortunately the pod is behind a door which we have no clue of how to open, this means that as long as we don't find out anything that points to it being someone else we assume that it's Eli."
"But there's a chance that the kid could have survived?" Greer said
"Yes, but for the moment we've got more pressing issues than finding Eli, or what's left of him."
"More bad news?" Volker guessed
"Yes, Rush tried to use the stones, but we can't establish a connection. This is also a secret so don't tell anyone else, at all."
"I'll make sure they don't sir." Greer said.
"What, you're going to shoot us if we talk?" Brody said with a smile.
"I might just do that." Greer said with an expression so cold that the two scientists lost their smiles; they knew he'd do it without hesitating.
Gate Room. Destiny.
19:54 29/10 2012
A few hours had gone by and the expedition had gathered in the gate room on the order of Colonel Young, who was standing on top of the balcony.
"Today we've awoken after three years in stasis, I understand that some of you have a light headache or are a bit nauseous, Rush has found a planet where we can stretch our legs, anyone who want to can walk through the gate to the planet and take a stroll." Young said and as his words begun to sink in almost everyone started to smile, finally a planet and solid earth under their feet, "Rush can you please dial the planet?"
"Dialing." Rush replied from one of the consoles as he removed the last lock on the gate and just as he was about to dial the gate begun to spin. "Incoming wormhole"
"Get everyone out of here." Young screamed to Greer who had already begun to push people out of the room.
The moment the event horizon snapped into place nothing happened and nothing the second after that, after five minutes, when everyone had been out of the room for a while and the military personal had set up a defense around the gate, a lone human wearing a black armor suite stepped through, two seconds later two more came through and then two more bringing the total to five.
Laying on the floor of the balcony Young aimed his UMP .45 towards the head of the first person, carefully aiming as he lined up his shot, as he fired of a short burst he quickly changed target expecting his target to drop dead on the spot, but instead his target simply flinched when the bullets hit it's face and in response it drew a gun and aimed it his way, even thought it had been looking the other way, behind the first the two in the middle removed objects from their backs, one placed a black box on the floor, which Young had no idea what it was, the second on the other hand Young knew all to well of, a ZPM, taking the ZPM the second person pressed it against the top of the box and it was sucked inside and around the black clad group a shield formed.
Abandoning his cover Young ran down the staircase on his right and slid in behind the cover of some boxes, the moment he tok of down the stairs the rest of the military personnel looked out of cover and opened fire on the newly arrived, in return their foes raised two pistols each, one in each hand, and returned fire, looking out of cover Young saw Scott getting hit with two projectiles in the right shoulder and collapse, Young raised his gun and fired at the enemies within the shield but all the bullets did was create ripples and then they fell to the floor.
Young saw as one of the enemies turned to face him and he just managed to push of against the crates with his hand when the projectiles hit the place he'd been standing in, one projectile hit the box on which he'd placed his hand when he'd pushed of and as it exploded it let out it's energy on the box and some of it transferred into his hand and arm which he lost control of, feeling this he realized that they were shooting with stunners and just had time to feel relief before three projectiles found their way to his chest and he blacked out.
Gate Room. Destiny.
21:14 29/10 2012
Young woke up and felt his body returning to his control, opening his eyes he saw the rest of the military personnel on the floor around him, then a familiar face came into view above him.
"Hello Rush." Young said.
"Come on." Rush said as he helped Colonel Young onto his feet.
"They got you too?"
"Nope, the military was the only once that took fire."
"So you surrender. You've got any idea who these people are?"
"I can answer that question." One of the black clad men said from the balcony as he retracted his helmet.
"General O'Neill." Young said as he recognized the man.
"That's me, we've come to bring you people home, if you want to leave, otherwise you'll stay and continue Destiny's mission." O'Neill said as he walked down the staircase.
"Sir, with all due respect, we've got more power than before but we've got nowhere near enough power to dial Earth from here."
"We've taken care of that part, but before we can bring you home there's some cargo we've got to get of this ship, Daniel's on his way with it right now and I think he's found something that you'll want to see."
"The Colonel is right, you'd need several ZPMs to dial the gate to Earth." Rush said.
"I've got it ok? Trust me." O'Neill said with a broad smile.
At that moment Daniel came through the door followed by ninety nine stasis pods laying on anti gravity sleds and on both sides of the sleds marines wearing Atlas armor was walking, one by one the pods entered the room, as the rest of the military personnel woke up with Rush trying to keep them calm, when the room was full Daniel walked up to the console and unlocked a hidden program, chose an address and dialed it and to both Young's and Rush's surprise it connected to the nine chevron address and the pods went through one by one until the last one had gone through, then the gate closed.
When Young turned around from the gate he saw something move inside the corridor the pods had come from and after a few seconds he recognized the once heavy kid, now just as fit as anyone else on the ship, after his brain recognized Eli it took another second before he reacted, moving fast he meet Eli halfway down the corridor and gave him a huge hug.
"We thought we'd lost you." Young whispered into Eli's ear.
"I'm fine." Eli whispered back.
Letting go of Eli Young walked back with the young man to O'Neill.
"So this is what Daniel found?" Young said
"Yes, we found him in the front section of the ship, the code to that place is something you shouldn't have been able to figure out." Daniel said.
"Well I did." Eli said
"Now I've got a thigh schedule so if you could come with me Colonel I'd appreciate it, the rest of the crew will get their chance to go back to Earth but right now I need to brief you on some of the changes that Earth and SGC has gone through, Daniel will take care of that as well as any other explanation you need." O'Neill said as he motioned towards Daniel who dialed the gate to Earth.
Stepping up to the gate O'Neill waited for Young and Daniel to join him and then he stepped through with Daniel right behind him and Young one second after that, as Young stepped through a tear rolled down his cheek and as he disappeared through the gate it feel to the floor.
THE END.
That's it people, Destiny's crew is back and kicking once again.
What do you think of the new thing with timestamps in the beginning of each section? Good or Bad? It's there to help you understand when it takes place and to help me when I write later Episodes.
For those of you that want to know what armor type the main cast uses, here is a list.
Sam-Assault
Jack-Assault
Sheppard-Assault
Ronon-Infiltrator
Teyla-Assault
Teal'c-Heavy
Mitchell-Heavy
Jackson-Sniper
Weir-Civilian
Beckett-Medic
Keller-Medic
McKay-Science
Zelenka-Science
The three new types (Civilian, Medic and Science) are as follow:
Civilian: Strong shields, great agility and speed, no armor at all, only basic combat aids, made to help civilian personnel escape.
Medic: Good shields, quite agile, bellow average armor, medical capabilities, mainly uses pistols for protection, can repair any damaged Atlas armors and heal the occupant of the armor, can also heal anyone without Atlas armor, limited to simple wounds and other easy injuries, can be used in surgery to help stabilize movements.
Science: Almost the same as the standard Atlas armors, differences are sensors that are more sensitive and an increased amount of nanites in exchange for armor, can repair most things with the help of the nanites, main weapons are pistol or SMG.
Until next time take care.
A/N:I'm going away for a week so no never Episodes during that time.
As always any suggestions are greatly appreciated and I'll try to work them in if I can.
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